Hey! If you're gonna be in or around New York City in the middle of December, I hope you show up at our annual, traditional, really cool "Year-End Concert". (This year's theater is just a little smaller than Merkin Concert Hall, so you can get tickets right now, right here, today! A little further down the page.) Talkin' about it on a brand new installment of "I Love the Company" today. But, FIRST!!!

What a great time I had yesterday at The Central Park Boathouse, hangin' out with all the good people of The Tug McGraw Foundation's and the runners who took on the NYC Marathon. It's cool to even be around that much human energy. It's tangible. It's exciting. It's.... it's New York!

Seriously... met a really remarkable bunch of people last night. Some of the runners on Team McGraw are brain cancer survivors. But, every member RAN A DAMNED MARATHON to help another human being. And, I always find that to be irrefutable evidence of what Abraham Lincoln called "the better angels of our nature".

For example, I met these guys last night. Jim McKeon's a reeeealll Bruce Springsteen fan - so I hadda crank out "Thunder Road" on one guitar! Jim's son was the reason he got so behind the people of Team McGraw.

"My inspiration is my eight-year-old son Jimmy, who almost three years ago was diagnosed with a brain tumor. That's what I hate the most about this disease; it attacks children - innocent kids who have never experienced the joys or ordinary struggle or life itself."

And Jeff McMahon is just a really cool guy, a good, good man... (And, the keyboard player for country-star Tim McGraw's band)... who came up with the whole idea of the "Team" for the marathon.

. "It does get challenging sometimes, finding time to train in the midst of a concert tour... but I've seen the pain and the wreckage of this disease firsthand. That makes it easy - knowing that I'm running for Hannah, for Jeannie. This is so much bigger than me."

Y'know what?

Jeff is a fine artist in his own right. I'm playin' one of his tracks on the podcast "I Love the Company" today.

Of course it was a real ordeal for me to run the marathon and then play the gig. But, y'know... we do what we can.

The guitar makes it tougher.

Um, no.

I ran one marathon in my life. I ran it really, really well... and I will never run another!!!!!!

26.2 miles

No.

The next marathon I enter will be a Dozing Marathon. That's one I'm in training for now. I start out my dozing 2 or 3 hours a day. Then work my way up to about 8 hours or 10 hours a day. My goal is to be able to sleep for the entire 26.2 hours.

It takes dedication. But, I think I can do it.

It'll get me ready for "The YEAR-END CONCERT"!!!

Believe it or not, it's only 6 weeks from tonight! Listen, this coming week I'm gonna send out another big email blast about that gig. So... here's a heads-up just for you if you're reading this homepage today.

The tickets are on sale already, and you can get yours by clicking on this poster and getting them online at The JCC Theater website.

Or if you'd rather get them from an actual human being, you can call the BOX OFFICE directly: 646-505-5708

Okay!!!

Here's the brand new episode of ILTC!

Just click on the logo, plug in your headphones, jam in your earbuds or turn on your speakers and listen.(You can always subscribe to the show and get it automatically by hitting that itunes button over there.)

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Musical guests on today's ILTC: A guy I met at this past weekend's marathon event - Jeff McMahon. And a NYC woman I found on the Podsafe Music Network - Jill Stevenson. (Click on their photos to visit their websites, find out more about them, where they're playing, and how to get their music.)

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At the beginning of the coming week, I'm gonna have a brand new episode of "Where's the Voice" so, use the phone numbers further down the page and be heard! you can respond to this.. um... this... this show. (Alright! Call it a "rant" if you want. But, the show is called "Where's the VOICE"!)

Click on the logo!!!

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Musical guests on this show: Dan O'Connor and Katherine Archer (Click on their photos to visit their websites, find out more about them, where they're playing, and how to get their music.)

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Okay, after you listen to the podcasts...

PICK UP THE PHONE! Here are those phone numbers.

Anywhere in North America:

646-224-8162

Internationally:

+44 845 280 6622

You can use these phone numbers... just to say "Hey" if you feel like it. Or, use them to leave a comment for either if these two podcasts!

Man!

That's a lot for one day.

I hope you call your friends and make plans to hang with me on December 17th!