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a personal journal podcast with geoff little in nashville, tennessee i recorded this in summer 2016 during a solo road trip on my cell phone driving towards knoxville, tn, on i-40.  it is not studio-quality sound, but it struck me as pretty decent — you will note i keep turning the car stereo up and down (!) i hesitated to put this out 2 yrs ago because i was a bit angry at points during it.  does the world need more anger?  i even had this thought during the obama administration!  occasionally, here, i bristle into flat negativy and a brief judge-fest.  ah, well. today (sept 1, 2018) is this album’s 30-year anniversary.  wow.  so. somebody’s gotta do something (ahem).  i met smitty once at the 1991 nba all-star game weekend in miami, florida.  he was leading a small, public chapel service in a tucked-away ballroom on i think the sunday morning of the weekend.  i was 15 years old and with my dad, a friend, and brother aaron.  it wasn’t that well attended, maybe 50 folks.  not many seemed to realize a mega-star keyboardist and singer was playing for them.  good thing  i was there to give him the prayer service applause he didn’t know he needed. the story gets weirder — michael jordan’s mom quietly sat by herself in the back during the hour-long service.  i knew her face from a wheaties commercial (i think that was the one).  i quietly said hello to her after the service — and that she was really good on the tv ad.  she was so humble about it.  when someone else bent down and said to her in pas*ing, “nice to see you here, mrs. a clip of me performing a character, lipreader guy, at a club the pond in franklin, tn (brad sativa was host).  this was last may. i was one of a handful of bucket list performers between more established local acts. i write standup material and enjoy performing that, but have the most fun when i can be a nut on my own terms. this guy was some sort of dweebed out single dad. a field recording of the stand-up set of geoff little at the wild goose festival (hot springs, nc) from july 14, 2017.