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This is episode 244. We're recording on Thursday

January 18th. I'm Rebecca Shinsky here with Jeff O'Neill and we're coming to you

from bookriot.com. She's still giving me Garth Brooks anecdotes. Even

off off air. She's got a. Look he's very wise it's

going to take years this is one of those deals where we're going to be hearing how

many are there going to be there's going to be four more of them and I think it's like

one a year so it's like one a year so.

It's like someone getting into the wheel of time but of country music.

You really have to start at the beginning and you have to know like you know what kind of stitches he

likes on his hats and all you know it's I did learn that his first name is not

Garth it's Troil it's Troil I looked that up recently I looked it up because my brother and sister-in-law were

over and I don't I think Garth Brooks came on the playlist that we had gone and

I was like I was suddenly I was like what kind of a name is Garth like it's not even

Gartholomew like it's not short or anything there's it's like did someone get Gareth wrong like what what is that and so we

Wikipedia yeah he was born way

before Wayne's world. Yeah and and we're like and and my sister was like

Garth isn't even it's his middle name like what he chose to go by

Garth as his first name is Troy I'm like what it's like did was there some sort of

typing error at the hospital like what are these names do you know you probably

I don't know I don't know wait that's not there's a 5,000 there's a 5,000 volume

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