Produced by the iLab at WBWR Boston.

The universe has good news for the lost, lonely, and heart sick.

Dear sugars is here speaking straight into your ears.

I'm Steve Almond. I'm Cheryl Stray.

Yes, is this sugar?

Oh dear, someone won't you please?

Shabbat of sweetness with me?

I check my mailbox every day

for an issue of using my will.

Oh!

Hi Steve.

Hi Cheryl.

So here we are Steve tonight at Revolution Hall in Portland, Oregon.

And we do these live shows maybe once a year so we always love it because it's so wonderful to see you all.

When we are in the studio making the podcast, I always think like is anyone even listening?

But then everywhere we go people will come up to me in the grocery store and say,

I was in the next aisle and I heard you and I recognized your voice from the VOD guys.

Yes, I do not have that experience.

But interestingly people will occasionally walk up to me at a bus depot or a down in the mouth diner and they'll say,

are you Steve Almond?

And I'll say, yes I am and they'll say, do you think Cheryl Stray would blur my book?

So as our listeners know, we almost always have a topic or a theme.

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