Sleuth Hounds, have you ever considered creating your own podcast? Have you been inspired by

listing some of your favorites and thought, I'd love to try this out on my own, whether it's a true

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our podcast, we knew

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already using Buzzsprout to get their message out to the world. Now it's time for the world to hear what you have to say. When I was small,

I used to look at my brother and think he had his life together. You see, he was almost 10 years

older than me. So when I was eight, he was nearly 18. So I saw a grown up when I looked at him.

He went to the army when I was in fourth grade. He was a grown-up.

When he got out of the army, I was a junior in high school, and he still was a grown-up in my eyes.

Now, as a quote-unquote grown-up of 31 years old, I know my brother wasn't really a grown-up at all when he came home at the age of 27.

He left the military and struggled to find work. I didn't really think

anything of that at 17, but now at 31, I wonder how stress he must have been behind that smile and

booming laughter. He wasn't really a grown-up after all, but someone just on the cusp of being a

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