Ray used to Do Drugs!

So I know you've got a short day.

We each have some responsibilities later today.

But I know we haven't been together in a while.

I did want to tell you that I listened to your interview with the spaceman, and it was great.

Now, obviously, his nickname is well-earned.

He's out there.

He's a different cat.

when he's talking about the clouds rolling in and how he's digging it.

And

he

mentions that there could be a little THC.

Yeah.

It's, it's a very sort of seventies mindset too, right? Like I didn't live that, but my mom embodied so much of that, that Cheech and Chong, look at those clouds, man.

Like, That vibe, like, it's just such a, I don't know, it's such a comfortable vibe to me because it seems such a safe, hippie-ish, kind of cool spot to be.

And he definitely, definitely is that hippie guy.

I don't think he answered one actual question, but he spoke the whole time.

Yeah, and it's funny because I'm... intimately familiar with where he is.

I spent a lot of time as a kid in northern Vermont, about an hour north of Burlington, just south of the Canadian border, in Lamar County, and he was talking about Crafts Ferry, which I think is in Lamar County.

I know for a fact I went to a fit, and he probably would have liked this, and I went to the Crafts Ferry Fiddler's Contest.

I mean, this is summer of 1980.

I'm probably a 19-year-old kid, and I'm not going to tell you I'm Jerry Garcia, and I've done You know, I've done LSD hundreds of times, but I did it a handful, and one happened to be at that Fiddler's Contest, and I still can remember, Triz, and I ventured off, and I was walking through these enormous, or at least they seemed enormous to me, shrubs that were coming to life and kind of talking, and

I

don't know if I was gone.

Somehow I made it back.

Somebody found me, or I found them, but I couldn't tell you if I was gone for one hour or ten hours.