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I am Mary Gasson.

And I am Carol Marco.

It's back with a slightly raspy voice today, but I like to say it sounds like I only smoke a few cigarettes a day instead of

a few packs. It's good. I think it's like it's Kathleen Turner-esque. Exactly. That's what we're

going for here. I like it. Oh, I did want to tell at the beginning of the show that I did see

Robert Ralekeen in Colorado last night, who was a Kerrville, Texas. That's his hometown.

He sent his kids when they were children to Camp Mystic, so it was a heavier concert than

Kelly and I had anticipated. But in the style of what you might expect of a cowboy poet, he was

very stoic. And the event raised money for folks in Texas. He did the job well,

was a beautiful concert, beautiful music. And I sort of admired the, the stoicism of it. You could tell

he was, he had shades on the whole time. I think it's had a, it's a tough time for everybody and for people who are

even closer to it, just unimaginable stuff. So I appreciated his hard work. I have to note,

I loved your episode with Kelly. I really enjoyed it. You know, my little dirty secret is I don't,

I don't really listen to podcasts. Well, welcome to ours.

So the fact that I really liked it made me think, like, wow, should I be listening to more podcasts?

There you go.

I also downloaded some Robert Earl Keene music.

Excellent.

I really didn't know it before.

I started with The Road Goes On Forever and got into a bunch of other stuff.

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