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made it through 2021, another very strange year.

But I hope that that strange year had more good times than bad times for you.

Making this podcast would definitely go into the good column for me,

and I know that Krista makes feels exactly the same about that.

And speaking of Chris, I give him a lot of credit for all that he does in hosting this podcast.

He makes it seem pretty effortless most of the time, but getting

songwriters to open up about their songs isn't always the easiest thing in the world to do.

A lot of times, what makes the song great is the real emotion behind it and I always

appreciate people putting their hearts out there like that.

There have been countless times over the course of this podcast where I've learned

something about what someone was going through when they wrote a song and then I related to it and then I

ended up loving a song way more than I already did in the first place. I'm sure some of you probably felt that same way too along

the way. We've had an amazing run of guests over the

course of 83 episodes so far. There's been some laughs, there's been some tears,

and there's been a whole lot of learning. I picked a few clips from the past year to revisit. I could have easily

went through and picked five clips from every episode, but instead I just chose a few moments

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