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Longtime readers of Jambands.com may be familiar with conservative author/pundit Ann Coulter’s interest in the Grateful Dead. So it should come as no surprise (ok, it’s still kind of surprising) that Coulter stopped by Sirius XM to discuss her love of the band and talk about her favorite tunes from the Dead catalog.

Coulter recently shared her thoughts for the Insight channel’s upcoming Sit Down With Alfred and Chris special. According to the Sirius XM Blog, Coulter stated:

Loose Lucy was one that I particularly liked … Althea … they’re almost all Jerry songs… I have a bunch of the Sugar Magnolias, Fire on the Mountain. I dated a taper for a while, so I have an excellent collection of tapes, including Mickey Hart rapping Fire on the Mountain, which is so cool… And I have to do something about all those tapes. That’s something you guys can help me with because I think if I don’t get them transferred to a computer, they could disintegrate. I mean I guess you can get all this stuff on the Internet now, but it’s such a nice collection of tapes I have. Also, when I preserved them it’s very un-Dead like because it’s not preserving the concert exactly as it was played. I really just like to cut the space sections out. That’s when I’d go to the bathroom, get a hot dog.

Coulter also discussed the “libertarian” nature of the Grateful Dead, drug use, the parking lot scene and more during the special, which will air in full at noon on Saturday, June 13.