Hello, everyone.

Like a lot of you this week, I am thinking about the tremendous director Peter Buck

Donovitch who we lost this week at the age of 82.

And I'll think about how grateful I am that we got to speak to Peter when we did our episode

on the last picture show.

It was a conversation that I really treasured.

I thought it was like fascinating to talk to him about his life, about his career.

I really appreciate him taking the time to talk to us as we were embarking on our project to go through

all of the films on the AFI Top 100 list.

So because of that, we thought it was right and good to bring that episode of the last picture show out of the vault.

So we can all listen to it again this week.

Our conversation here actually took place exactly two years ago this month.

And I don't know, I just want to say personally for me, it meant a lot for Peter to take the time to come and to be so open.

And I mean, this is a guy who's asked a lot of questions about his life.

And he had always made every single conversation sound interesting and revelatory.

And there's a gazillion podcasts out there that I also want to point you to listen to.

And along with the great one on polyplata, it gives you a very full and complicated picture of Bogdanovich.

There's also the plot thickens by TCM, another big effort.

Please, I'm glad that Peter Bogdanovich lived long enough to see the world of podcasts and to see his own career analyzed with, you know, I think kind of the,

the honest, maybe sometimes brutal lens that he would have respected.

So raise a glass to Peter.

You can even make it like a home ground Texas beer if you want an honor of the last picture show and have a listen.

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