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a Hello, hi, it's me, Katie.

It's the podcast. Welcome back. It's February. One month into the year. How you doing? How are you feeling? What's new?

We have a guest today, James McCray, the author, the poet, the artist, the hilarious meme artist, the friend of mine who I talked to several times a week about music, the friend who sent me the new Sufyan album on the day it came out and subsequently listened to a plethora of my thoughts and feelings related to that and someone who

gets as excited as I do about the new Wax-A-Catchy album and the person who has given me my

education on Bob Dylan and made me a playlist during the pandemic, which was a real honor and a privilege.

James McCray, in addition to being my dear friend is a brilliant writer and he has his third book

coming out this week, if you're listening to this, the week it comes out.

And I was lucky enough to get to read it early.

I'm not even going to say more because this episode you're about to listen to is me revealing to James how much I truly loved the book and really got a lot from it.

And I say this in the episode, but he incorporates so many stories about excellent authors and musicians and filmmakers and artists that have influenced us and him in

particular and I learned so much and I also learned so much about my friend and about

creativity and applicable skills and habits that I'm going to be thinking about for a while.

So I highly suggest getting yourself a hard copy of this new book.

James, if you're not already familiar with him, which you probably are, he's been on the show

before.

We did something, I think in 2021, where we both

came with our favorite albums of the year, our most listened to music of the year and talked

about that. And he'll come back again, I hope, many times, and maybe we'll talk about music again.

But this time, it's a real deep dive into this book that he just wrote,

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