I'd like to start out by thanking you guys for all the nice emails and all the comments that you've been leaving on iTunes and for telling your friends and helping spread the word about

this show, it's really helping the show grow fast and the audience is picking up really quickly,

and I appreciate it because it's all because of you, so thank you. And I promise that if you

would send in emails and post comments on iTunes, that I would read some of them on the air.

So here goes.

This is from Pig Farmer Jr.

I've listened to two episodes back to back and I cannot recommend this enough.

It's real people discussing life.

It's two friends having a conversation that you get to ease drop on, only more interesting.

It's much better than most of the crap on the internet, and while that isn't saying a lot,

it's sure saying something.

Even pig farmers like to hear Otis and his friends talking about what's real.

Thanks, Otis.

Thank you, Pig Farmer Jr., and a sincere thank you to everyone who's been helping spread the word.

Thank you. who's been helping spread the word. Hi, friends. This is Otis Gibbs, and you're listening to Thanks for Giving a Dam.

I'm sitting here in my hotel room in Newcastle, England.

Played a sold-out show last night in Newcastle and played a sold-out show the night before in Glasgow, Scotland. So the tour's off to a great start. This is a

personal journal. This is a bit of an experiment. I like to say right up front that I haven't the

slightest idea what I'm doing, but I decided to do it anyway.

And the show was founded with the idea that there are only two people in art that matter.

There's the creative individual and the person experiencing it.

And everything else is an artificial filter.

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