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Now let's get you to your podcast.

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

He's gone to the dogs. He's gone to the dogs.

Hey, welcome, everybody.

This is Steve Fielder coming at you one more time on the Gone to the Dogs podcast.

This is just a bunch of coon hunters around here talking dogs. That's all this podcast is.

It isn't fancy. It isn't high tech. It isn't cutting edge. It isn't trendy. And it isn't the

bomb. It's just a coon hunters podcast. And I've got two, four real coon hunters as the late timothy ball would say

these are ragged legged coon hunters meaning that they wore out several sets of carhart overalls

and and hip boots to get where they are maybe they have maybe they maybe they have, and I just made that up.

But anyway, I am really excited today, as I usually am, when I get a mic in front of me,

to bring a couple of guys here that I've known, got to know really both these guys just within

the last year.

And it's been about that long,

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