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Now let's get you to your podcast.

Okay. podcast. Where's Fielder?

He's gone to the dogs.

Welcome to the Gone to the Dogs podcast.

Steve Fielder, your host, with you one more time.

Through the miracle of Al Gore's internet,

we're able to come to you out there into your devices,

be it your cell phone or your computer at home or whatever you choose to listen with. And today, have a great guest, a young

man that I just met, have not actually had the opportunity to shake his hand, but I look forward to doing that soon.

And he came to me with a couple of questions through, I believe, Messenger on Facebook

and piqued my interest.

And I said, man, that will make a good podcast and a good conversation

for a podcast.

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