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This is Studio 360.

I'm Kurt Aniston, and I'm sitting on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.

This first level of garden.

This is Thomas Jefferson's vegetable garden.

I like to have the roasted chicken base.

Very well done.

Editing is all about timing.

I try to get a little bit away from the actual subject.

You must get sick of your own voice, right?

Studio 360.

It's good. Anderson.

Today on Studio 360, we are looking at country music, past, present, and future.

In my Nebraska childhood, I had a soft spot for country music, partly because my parents so disapproved.

Later, at college and afterward, my fandom continued,

partly because the Eastern elite didn't get it or disapproved.

And it's interesting that so much great country music was always performed by women.

Patsy Klein, Loretta Lynn, Tammy Wynette, and Dolly Parton, whom I once drove for hours to see.

How interestingly unlike rock music that was, where women were largely excluded from superstardom.

And mainstream country remained female-friendly that way into the 1990s with gigantic stars like Shania Twain.

And Faith Hill.

This kiss, this kiss.

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