We've lost another great one.

John Prime died this week at the age of 73,

from complications from COVID-19.

He leaves a big hole.

Growing up, John told me,

I loved having buddies and I loved time alone.

But when he became a father, he said,

it brought my feet right to the ground.

It just made me feel so much more comfortable in the world.

And when I asked him about the song

off his latest album called, When I Get to Heaven,

he told me it wasn't about dying.

It started as a little song.

He'd sing to himself when he was making a cocktail

at Happy Hour.

And he'd start thinking about cigarettes,

which he'd long ago quit after bouts with cancer.

He told me, I thought, where can I smoke a cigarette?

And I thought, heaven, there couldn't be any cancer

in heaven.

Why would people want to go there if there was cancer?

Let's listen back to that episode with John Prime.

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