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Now let's get you to your podcast.

Okay. Now let's get you to your podcast. Where's Fielder?

He's gone to the dogs welcome once again friends to the gone to the dogs

hey it's that busy time of the year new year wow a empty slate laying before us here and how will we fill it?

That's always the question at this time of year.

And I've never been one for New Year's resolutions because I rarely was able to keep

them.

But anyway, one of the things that I resolved to do in the new year for this podcast is to bring as many interesting folks as I can to the microphone.

I know that sometimes you guys probably get tired of listening to me bat my gums here every week.

But today is a great way to start this thing off.

I think this will be our first podcast in the new year.

And I reached out to a longtime friend.

He and I go back several years and someone that I've always enjoyed spending time with.

And that's my good friend, Fred Bright, from the great state of Georgia.

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