and so whenever i'm with people -- we just lost a great texas musician johnny gimbel, he was the greatest story teller i ever met. he was a barber in the army. his stories about barbering alone let alone his stories about bob wills and willie nelson and lyle lovett and the old west and he was a great man. had told myself 20 years ago i was going to go down to dripping springs and i was going to sit there and get johnny gimbel to talk to me and i was going to write his biography and i didn't do it and i will regret that for the rest of my days. musicians are wonderful story tellers because they don't have much money. and they have to travel around and make their way by the grace of other people. they have to learn to live on the hospitality and the kindness of strangers just as tennessee williams said. and this makes them beautiful story tellers. we really need to let them talk more on "a prairie home companion." thank you for reminding me. i will try to do that in the future. >> two interesting questions from the audience and i will let you decide which one you want to answer. one questio