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Do you like your gravy thick and rich and loaded with creamy mushrooms?

If no one was looking, would you chug the whole gravy boat?

Chug, chug, chug, chug.

Stay tuned. Here comes Mr. Chug-a-, Chug, Chug! Stay tuned.

Here comes Mr. Chugg-A-Lug himself, Eric,

my Texas.

Hey, folks, in 2019, I interviewed the great Mark Helprin for Socrates in the city.

This is a special encore presentation in joy. Welcome. I am so excited to be here tonight,

and it's going to, this is going to freak me out because I haven't been out here before.

Now as I'm looking out in the audience, I'm seeing people that I know, some dear, dear old

friends and a number of former friends that I don't want to be here. Thank you for coming.

There are a number of special guests in the audience. This is kind of funny. I was told my friend

Martha Linder is here from Lakeland, Florida, and she told me that Colonel Sussingham is going to be there,

and I thought, who the heck is Colonel Sussingham? And then Mark Helperin introduced me to him.

He was a test pilot for the F-16s, is that right?

The chief test pilot for the F-16s.

Defining the envelope, not like the... The chief test pilot for the F-16s.

Defining the envelope, not like those other test pilots.

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