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Deb/Madame B statement: I am an American who left America. (Frankly that will probably be the most interesting thing about me to most of your listeners). I am a teacher a pastry chef a cat lover a FOREVER Chicage girl and Bob Newhart lover. Links to Madame B: @madame.b.in.paris Inside the Episode with Mitch "The connections between any two individuals are ultimately matters of mystery and should remain so. By that I of course do not mean that we shouldn't have basic facts of how people meet and know others; I mean that the bonds and relations among people have a specialness that can never be reduced to a single source, cause or purpose. I mean I could give very linear facts some of which are made clear on this particular episode. That I knew filmmaker Anna Biller who in turn happened to know one Madame B. Of the guests I have known on the show I believe this might be one of the only few I have only met online and long distance. Sometimes one fact about a person - in the case the love for Bob Newhart - can go an awfully long way. And with any shared interest it has to be the right shared interest. But in all seriousness, this guest is absolutely brilliant in more than one sense. She has sometime close to an absolute understanding of aesthetics as well as, in ways I had not originally known in human psychology a field she briefly considered making a full profession. She had on more than one occasion asked me why I am always the host. Also that I should have a regular advice column on the podcast, "Ask A Dandy", an idea that, though interesting doesn't exactly work for now since this isn't a fashion or lifestyle podcast at all. So instead we came up with this. I thought it would be fun to do half hour episodes and link them; on each we would take turns being the guest and host respectively. Even though I have traveled the world myself, but mostly in the 1990s, not so much in the past twenty years I must say, I am always in awe with those who seem to travel with freedom, one reason I loved having Smriti Shankar as one of our guests. I think moving from one apartment to another in the same city is a trauma and an ordeal, from one state to another more intense and still haven't gotten over that as it was only over two years ago. Deb of course moved to France. Sometimes I think she has more wisdom than most. In Madame B's case she moved to France and married a Frenchman, and not only that had already lived in Germany for a period! She is someone who is clearly not afraid to travel. I think it is important, especially in a rather youthful genre like the podcast, to break it up once in a while, not only for variety, but also that humans need different forms what each unique form can deliver or do. I enjoyed speaking with Deb; her high intelligence makes for world class conversation and I think it might be nice for a return engagement at a later date." --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mitch-hampton/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/mitch-hampton/support