always a pleasure to have tim janis in the studio with us. tim, let's talk a little bit about your involvement with public television because even when you had like, what, 4 or 5 members of the ensemble--you're up to 12 or 14 now--but even when you were very small starting out, you were supporting public television. why? >> well, you know, as a child i grew up watching public television. it was really influential, and i think, you know, parents and other people can all say that their children, when they see something that inspires them, they kind of gravitate toward that. so as a child, when i was watching public television, i got inspired to do music, so now as an adult, i look back and i say, you know, that played an important part in my life, and i want to reach out and do something i can to help support public television so it'll be there for our children. >> but you also support a lot of other very worthwhile things that come up in life that really touch the lives of so many people, and you're there to help them. how did that start? >> we

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