This guy's walking down the street when he sees a man stepping out of a parked van.

And the man says, I have ten penguins in the back of this van, and I was on my way to take them to the zoo, but I ran out of gas.

I'm curious if I gave you $20, would you take them to the zoo for me?

The guy said, yeah, that'll be all right.

I'll do that.

A few days later, the man with the van was driving along the same street and saw this same guy walking down the street

with all them penguins walking behind him and he stopped and he says hey man i thought that uh

i thought i gave you twenty dollars to take them to the zoo the guy says yeah we did that we had a

great time as a matter of fact we had such a good time that I figured today I'd take them bowling. Hi, friends, this is Otis Gibbs, and you're listening to Thanks for Giving a Dam.

I'm sitting here in my living room in East Nashville on a beautiful, beautiful day.

This is a personal journal. This is a bit of an experiment. I like to say right up front that I

haven't the slightest idea what I'm doing, but I decided to do it anyway. And this show was

founded with the idea that there are only two people in art that matter. There's a creative

individual and the

person experiencing it. Everything else is an artificial filter. This is a way for me to share

things with you guys without any filters whatsoever. My guess this week is Mack Wiseman.

Mac is a singer and a songwriter and a guitar player and he's a bona fide legend.

He's been voted into the Bluegrass Hall of Fame and the Country Music Hall of Fame.

You can find out everything you need to know about Mac at macwiseman.com.

Max had such a long, wonderful career.

He's been playing music professionally for over 70 years.

It's a long time. And he was one of the founding members of the Country Music Association, back when

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