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Hey guys, welcome to episode 248 of Hillbilly Horror Stories. I'm Jerry. And I'm Tracy. Tracy, you have Tille here. I do.

Tille and Purple, you look like a peacock. Well, I'll take that as a compliment.

Okay. All right, so we have a cool show tonight. Obviously before we get started, we want to thank all of our military and civil servants all over the world, don't wonder which country you represent. Thank you for all of your hard work and keeping us all safe.

Amen, brother. We fight for you guys every day and we just appreciate you guys so much and we just hope you all know that.

We also want to make sure that everyone knows that if you're struggling, if you're having trouble dealing with some situations that might be going on with your life right now, that we are there for you.

If you want to reach us personally, you can. If you want to lean on our group, remember it's Hillbilly Horror Stories group on Facebook. And you have about 5,000 people. What's 5100 now?

That's awesome.

That are willing to jump in and give you the support you might be looking for. The important thing to remember, and I just had a conversation with somebody yesterday is once again, never listen to your brain when your brain tells you that you are a burden to people.

You are not a burden. That's just your mind playing a nasty trick on you.

That's so true. You know, just reach out to all of us and we'll be sure to help you if we can. We'll have a listening, which is always a good thing.

But if you would rather talk to the suicide hotline, you can call them at 1-800-273-8255 or you can text them at 7-4-1-7-4-1.

I'm sure we would normally wait till the other announcements to announce some of these things, but I wanted to mention this one up front. We lost a listener a couple of months ago and we just found out about it.

One of our first listeners, one of the first people to every contact us and way back in the early days, he was telling us how much he liked the show and he was giving us show ideas. He offered to do research for us.

Super, super nice guy. I lived out in Oklahoma.

So many of you write us and it's just the way life is that sometimes you'll talk to somebody for two, three, four months and then you just kind of lose contact with us.

Robert was like that for a couple of years. We heard from Robert a lot and the last two years, not quite as much. Like I said, life gets busy. It's nobody's fault.

We had a listener that went back and listened to one of our old shows and it was so strange. She said, hey, I want to find out if Robert Burton lived in Oklahoma.

She's like, I think I know who that is. It was Annie, a matter of fact, I don't know what Annie wrote us.

And then I went back and looked and sure enough he was from Oklahoma and she informed us that he passed away. That's so sad. Yeah, we were, you know, like I said, we didn't know Robert on a personal level, but like so many other listeners we've had enough contact over the years or we consider everybody family and to us as was losing a family member.

Yeah, rest in peace, brother. So I just want to get that out. As usual, the episode is brought to you about L.U. Kateko hot sauce.

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