Hey, everybody, real quick, before we start today's episode, I want to tell you about another

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Maybe you do. Maybe I'm wrong. This is a podcast called Burning Daylight. It's hosted by a friend of

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cowboy shit. It's about inappropriate jokes, which I could say the kind of joke, but today's

episode of Finding Freedom, you know, I want to keep the explicit label off of it. So I'll let you

imagine what kind of jokes I'm talking about. But it's entertainment. And it's a podcast for the working cowboy and for those who want to know more about what it's like to be a cowboy.

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Check this podcast out.

Burning Daylight, you will not regret it. I know I do. Check this podcast out. Burn in daylight. You will not regret it.

We are born free. And we will die free. The time in between, though, that's complicated.

In that time, governments, institutions, and our egos will limit our ability to find true freedom

in this life. These are real stories of real people overcoming the odds, persevering injustice,

and unlocking their potential. Welcome to Finding Freedom. Here's your host, John Oterman.

All right, my guests today on Finding Freedom is Ross Benish.

He's an author, a journalist, and a research analyst.

He wrote a book recently here that just came out recently, I should say.

He probably wrote it over the past year or so.

But it's called Rural Rebellion,

How Nebraska Became a Republican Stronghold. And just to point out, I think the things from this

book, and I think Ross would agree, apply to a lot more than Nebraska and really apply to the

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