In turn, I considered it my duty to introduce my generation to this link to the Toots Shor era (his story about a drinking contest he witnessed between Shor and Jackie Gleason was one of his classics).
The prequels take place a year earlier and introduce key characters in "Life's a Witch, " which tells thestory of Hadley Bishop, a teenage descendant of a woman executed during the Salem witch trials.
Which led naturally to them talking about living out in the weather, which gave Crisp a chance to introduce a bit of his own story about SERE school and survival training.