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Where's Fielder?

He's gone to the dogs.

On a cold, wintry night on the west coast of Florida.

Somehow that just doesn't go together, those two things.

I'm Steve Fielder with the Gone to the Dogs podcast, experiencing a little wintertime down here in paradise.

No snow.

Friends have been texting me this week and saying, how much snow did you get, Steve?

And they're kind of trying to rub it in, I know.

But no snow down where I am.

I'm about three and a half hours after you cross the Florida line to get down to this area in Pascoe County.

But by way of Alexander Graham Bell's invention, and then thank God for Al Gore,

who invented the Internet, you know, we are able to reach out to a longtime friend, good buddy,

met him back in my AK no UKC days way back there

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