Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy, oh boy, oh boy, oh boy,

Bob, Bob, Bob Bob, Bob, Bob, Bob,

OK, enough.

Hey folks, welcome to the Harland Highway.

And if you're a little confused by the label on this

podcast you'll see it says the Harlan Highway Podcast number one. Unbelievable, you're like, wait a minute, I thought we were on like,

show like 450 or something like that. Well, here's the deal of all because I read your letters and listen to your voicemails, I've been

getting over the last, you know, year and a half, maybe even longer. People people are like hey Harlan where are episodes 1 through 42 where

are where are the where are the the early podcasts of the Harlan Highway? Where did it all start?

And why aren't they in the archives? Why can't we hear them? I missed those. And you're absolutely right pavement pounders. What happened is, you know, when you're first getting an entity up and running like a podcast there's a lot of new things to deal with there's a lot of

technology there's a lot of you know letting things settle into place and in all the

excitement and all the work that's being done and in all the

podcasting that's been done you know we were so busy moving forward that we were

never able to get the first like you know the first early podcast back up there and enter them into the archives.

What happened is they just played once and then they were gone. And so I guess hardcore fans of the of the podcast here like well dude we want to

hear the early stuff so I hear you and what I want to do is obviously I don't want to play 42 podcasts in a row,

because then you're listening to vintage stuff for like, that'll be like like three four or five months worth of

crap so what I'm gonna do is from here on out I'm gonna sprinkle in every now and

then I'll drop in one of the early episodes so that eventually you're all caught up.

And so I thought today we would start with episode number one,

the very first Harland Highway Podcast, and I haven't heard it since the day I did it.

So let me just preface this by saying, you'll probably hear some older references you'll probably

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