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Okay, this is a first. Will you talk about what's happening around this table right now?

Yes, but before I do, I need to read something. I'm not sure I can get through it, but I'm going

to read something. This is a song. It says, I can still find Wiley's house. I can't even get to the

second one, riding on my bike with eyes closed. I could name every girl that he took out and from

my memory dial his house phone. Can you take me back when we were just kids who weren't scared of

getting older? Because no one knows you like they know you and no one probably ever will. You can

grow up, make new ones, but truth is there's nothing like old friends because you can't make old

friends. And I've got some good friends now, but I've never seen their parents back porch.

I wouldn't change how things turned out, but there's no one in this time zone. This is an

R.A. Joel who knows what in-line skates are. I don't know what we would substitute for that.

Anyway, it goes on and on and it is a song called Old Friends by Ben Rector and I cannot even

believe that I have four of my oldest friends in the room right now. My favorite people on the

planet. And we have been talking about this episode for months and just so honored and excited

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