Welcome back. I'm Ashley, your hostess for The Sharp End.

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Okay, and finally, I am extremely proud to announce a sponsor that I am very, very passionate about.

I've worked for this school for seven years.

The Colorado Outard Round School has decided to sponsor the Sharpen

for the remainder of the 2017 year.

So I have to say, these three sponsors have really helped me to continue making these podcasts.

I spend about 30 hours making each podcast that comes out every first of the month

And the point of my show is to educate you

The point of me putting in all this work is really truly because I want to help minimize the

incidents that we have out there and if this is how I can do it then I'm happy to.

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