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I heard this story and I don't know if you got tired of hearing this story. I heard it about three or four times. You tell me if this is true. As a kid in your home, uh, with your, is it your grandparents? No, my parents. Your parents? The grand, both of them was there too, though? Yeah, yeah. You, you would, uh, take loose wire out of the screen window screen door. Yes, sir. And with those wires, you constructed your own guitar and a box, a cigar box. I don't know. Well, you couldn't f it, cuz you'd break it all. All I could do was just strum, do this. And I first started with a rubber band at my ear and anything I heard that would make noise was, was, was pleasing to my ears. And, uh, what, how old were you? Four, five years old. Um, somewhere around there. Four, five, six, seven years old with the rubber bands in the screen. Why? What? This is a lovely thing. So at that age, uh, you knew what you wanted to do. You knew about music and you, it's your whole life. That's a wonderful thing. Thank you. And, and did they kept saying that the, the, when, when the house would fill up with insects because you had ruin the screen door, that they had a conference and they said, "Well, maybe we better get the kid a guitar." Is that so we could said, "Go easy now." Did that happen as well? No, they couldn't afford to get. Today, you know, we didn't. We, uh, then go get this guy every Christmas and he had an acoustic get time. Would, uh, they would have a gallon of wine and, uh, a case of beer at everybody's house and it would go from house to house till everybody fall out drunk. And then I would get to get his guitar and try to figure out what this. You get to Chicago somehow, is that right? And then President Clinton told this, this story about you in a sandwich. What was that? You in a salami sandwich? You're in Chicago and you're just at the end. It's, there's nowhere else to go. It hasn't worked so far. Is that ring a bell? Yes, sir. What was that? Well, it used to have the pay phone. And if you had a dime, call your phone, which I left with my mother, the dime would come back. And I tried to borrow a dime and the guy say, "I'm not going to give you a dime if you feed a a hungry dog, he won't hunt." Yeah. So he wouldn't allow me to dime. And somebody called Muddy after told this. First, let me play the song by one of the late great guitar players, guitar slam. And I play things I used to do. And somebody says, "No way you could be hungry and play like that." But then nobody know who I was. And so they call Muddy. And before I left Louisiana, they say, "Be careful that, cuz you can get mugged." And I didn't know they call Muddy the Mud. So he came up and slapped me. My ears was ranging. And they said, "That's the Mud." I said, "Oh my God, I'm getting mugged." But you went, you, he gave you a sandwich and said, "Here, let me give you the salami sandwich. You're not going back to Louisiana." Was that what it was? That's exactly what he said. And when he, when I, when he, when I found out he was Muddy Waters, I told him, and I wasn't hungry. I said, "If you Muddy Waters, I'm full." Mhm. And I meant that, you know, cuz that's who I went there to do this, watch them play.