Michael Perry's Voice Mail

Episode #300: What is This Thing?


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Howdy folks:

Welcome to Michael Perry’s Voice Mail, episode 300. This one’s available to free and paid subscribers alike. Click the player above to listen.

As we hit 300 episodes I figured it was time to look back and talk about how and why this Voice Mail came to be (including the “unfortunately…” story), why I might be stuck in New York City, the advantages of being a paid subscriber, why all and any subscribers—paying or not—are welcome, what I mean when I say “value-added,” why I listen to the business news more closely than I do to politicians and publicists, and above all…

…above all…

…above all I will continue to sit down to this microphone once a week and do the very best I can to give you a little oasis of quiet, thoughtful, goofy, relaxed reflection.

Sincerely,Mike

MARGINALIA

(Annotations from books Mike is reading, or annotations related to the episode)

Most of the time when you hear me in a Voice Mail episode, it was recorded right here in my little room above the garage…

…but sometimes when I’m on the road or a family trip, I gotta make do. This was a closet somewhere in Montana.

Sometimes I have to negotiate access.

This was the face I made the time the Voice Mail link we sent to everyone didn’t work.

Notes toward an early episode:

The very first marginalia entry:

Marginal entries are a conversation between you, me, and the author in question.

OK. There’s the overview. Next week, back to regular programming. Thank you for looking and listening.

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