Welcome to the Fish Strong Podcast! Disrupting fishing entertainment as you know it, prepare

to laugh, prepare to get to know fishing legends in a whole new and unfiltered way, and on

occasion, you might even learn a thing or two about fishing. Here are your hosts, Joe

and Luke Simons. Hello, Salt Strong and Fish Strong Nation, Joe Simons back, 2019, and this

is a really, really special episode. Not only is this one of the first episodes in 2019,

but it's also our 75th episode, 75, and the guy I have on has probably one of the fastest

growing podcasts in the fishing world, and so I'm sure he's going to relate to this,

like this first 10 or 15, Tom, we're brutal, and I saw like zero momentum, and not only did we

think about giving up, we literally gave up for many months, we did not produce one just because

we didn't see it working, and we happened to go back and look at our analytics, and Liz

Ben and we're like, well, holy smokes, like, we're actually, like, more people are downloading

this thing, even though we're not producing it, and so we finally came back to it, and before

I introduce Tom here, the other exciting pieces, Tom is the first guy to be invited back

for a second time, so you are the first ever, I guess, guest, special guest, special, special

guest to come back to us, so Mr. Tom Rowland, what's up brother?

Man, thanks, I'm doing great. Looking forward to an awesome 2019. It's always a good time

of the year right now, you know, you just have so much hope and anticipation, and you know,

just kind of looking forward to next year, 2018 was great, 2019, I hope is going to be better

for all of us. But I appreciate you being invited back, I didn't realize I would be the first

one invited back, I had no idea, I listened to your podcast, I think it's great, you're going to

look to a great job, and yes, I can definitely sympathize, empathize with the first 15 or 20,

just, you know, I don't really know necessarily anything about podcasting, I enjoyed podcast,

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