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Cathy Gottsch, Ray County Museum director, returns to the podcast studio at the Richmond News/Excelsior Springs Standard offices in Richmond, Mo. Topics she discusses with co-hosts Micah Dillman and Shawn Roney include Halloween, ancestry and recent events staged by the museum.

Notes:

• The name of the Los Lobos album Shawn was trying remember is, indeed, "La Pistola y El Corazon," released in 1988.
• Retired singer Linda Ronstadt has confirmed Mexican ancestry.
• Research shows that Czechs and other European groups also settled in Mexico during the 1800s and are responsible in part for the polka influence on Mexican popular music.
• "Finding Your Roots" was the TV program on which singer-songwriter Roseanne Cash appeared and learned there was no Cherokee heritage in her family line, not "Who Do You Think You Are?"
• The boxing champion Shawn's paternal grandfather fought might've been a flyweight champion, rather than a bantamweight or featherweight champion.
• The U.S. government shutdown ended a few days after the recording of this episode.

Credits:

• Hosts: Micah Dillman and Shawn Roney
• Producers: Sharon Donat, Miranda Jamison, Shawn Roney
• Sales director: Sharon Donat
• Editing: Shawn Roney
• Music credits: "Main Theme from 'The Nun Disappears,' an Imaginary Film by Alfred J. Hermann," composed by Shawn Roney; "Last Rites for Emily D's Mind, Loop No. 1," composed by Shawn Roney; "We Gather Together," traditional, arranged by Shawn Roney; "Archangel Chamuel Appears to the Lonely During the Holidays," composed by Shawn Roney. All songs performed by a solo incarnation of the music collective Sacred & Secular and used by permission of Mo-Mutt Music.
• Audio cleanup provided by Auphonic. Mastering provided by LANDR.