Soul Train is an American music-dance television program which aired from October 2, 1971, to March 27, 2006. In its 35-year history, the show primarily featured performances by R&B, soul, dance/pop, and hip hop artists, although funk, jazz, disco, and gospel artists also appeared. The series was created by Don Cornelius, who also served as its first host and executive producer. They were known for their line dances.
Don Matthews
January 2021
Flippant, Comic, and Serious 
Well, that was fun! Almost couldn’t stop watching and listening…. and… movin’ ‘n’ groovin’!
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You’re still standing Ed? (think I remember your name right) Wondered if you’d fallen off the planet’s edge?
Those Soul Train lines were something……
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Yep. Ed. C’est moi! I live on the planet’s edge and ponder infinity continuously. 🙂
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Nice to know you’re still around. I like people who ponder the infinite. I.m not a flat earther myself but careful you don’t fall off.
Serious now. Scientific American hosted a talk. Googled it. What got me is they scripted all the um’s, uh’s. What’s goin’ on here Ed?
‘This is Scientific American’s Science Talk, posted on March 27, 2020. I’m Steve Mirsky. I’m going to let my guest introduce himself in a moment, because he does a better job than I could.
‘So I’m Michael Marshall and I’m the project director of the good thinking society, which is a charity based in the UK. Uh, the whole purpose of our charity is to promote science to challenge pseudoscience. So we’ll do work, uh, to forward science education.’
Maybe I should be, err, more scientific, um, in my communications with you uh?
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Good grief. I am so sadly spotty in my attentions to you and your work, Don. Um… not sure what to say, um, about that.
I recently read a book (true story!) titled “Um…” it was about transcribers who have to include everything a speaker says – mostly government types. It also explored the reasons why we have these hesitations in our speech and whether it is something should or should not train ourselves to avoid.
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