About 17 or 18 years ago, I was ice fishing with some buddies of mine up in northern Indiana.

And I'm going to tell this story, but I have to preface it by saying

the ice fishing code of conduct demands that I omit the names of anyone involved. It's a code that I take

seriously, and I only mention any of this as a cautionary tale. But we were on our way back from

ice fishing, and we saw this little cafe and had a sign out front that said

pumpkin spice coffee and we thought what the hell we might as well give that a try where we walked in

and we sat down everything spiraled downhill from there and i remember us sitting around this table

me and my buddies and we're drinking that crap. Just tasted terrible. And at one

point, one of the guys started talking about his feelings. And I thought to myself, dear God,

what in the hell have we become? And I swore to myself at that very moment, if I could just get

back in the truck and head on home, I'd never drink anything but black coffee again. Hi, friends, this is Otis Gibbs, and you're listening to Thanks for Giving a damn.

I'm sitting here in my living

room in East Nashville. 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 this show was founded with the idea that there are only two people in art that matter.

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

And everything else is an artificial filter.

This is a way for me to share things with you guys without any filters whatsoever.

My guest this week is Roger Allen Wade.

Roger is a singer and a songwriter, and he and his cousin Johnny Knoxville

co-host the big-ass happy family Jubilee on Sirius XM Radio's Outlaw Country. You can find out

everything you need to know about Roger at Facebook.com slash Roger Allen Wade music.

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