(Laughing) Yes sir. The Hall Of Fame has the Million Mile Reflections exhibit that has been renewed until Sept ember 4th. What-what kind of things do they have in this exhibit that people can see. They came out to the house with some of the curators and people in charge of procuring this stuff and putting it together. We just gave them the run of the place - like “this is where this is stored, this is where that is stored, this is where the pictures are and this is our stuff hanging on the wall that we've kept - anything that you want you take it, ya know? Whatever you find that is hanging on the wall, if it’s in one of the storage places or whatever, its yours, just take it. So we just let them go at it, and they took, Michael, what I consider to be a good cross-section of my personal life and my professional life. They got some stuff in the house, they got something that I was really surprised that they took. I collect walking canes and have for a lot of years, and I have a pretty good collec- tion of 'em. I got a case I store 'em in and it holds a whole bunch of them, and they took that. I never thought about them coming in and taking that cane case, it just never struck me that there would be any interest in that, ya know or whatever, but some of the things they took kinda surprised me. They took, I guess what they thought would best show my life, my personal life and my professional life and I think they did a good job in doing it.
Cool. I Look forward to getting up there to see that. There is so much going on right now for you, the one thing I'm really looking forward to your book Never Look at the Empty Seats that is coming out in October, How long did it take you to write this
book? I've been writing on that thing, Michael, for about 20 years or so, I imagine. But the hard part about the whole thing was I wrote and rewrote and tried to put things in it that were interesting. You can get carried away with
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your family tree or some part of your career that's not interesting to anybody else, and put a bunch of stuff in it nobody cares about. So I kinda purged it of that a couple of times and I kept writing, but I could not find a place to pause it or to end it because my career was ongoing. I was still doing things that were in- teresting I was still having exciting things happen, and I just couldn't find a place to pause it and then when I found out I was going to be inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame, I thought what a great place to pause it.
Yeah The next day after I was inducted I sat down and wrote the ending while it was still fresh in my mind. Then I just I just back wrote from there to where I was, which I was pretty far along the line. I went back and grabbed the pieces that I had written and put them all to-
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