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Now let's get you to your podcast.

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

He's gone to the Dogs.

Welcome, friends, to the Gone to the Dogs podcast.

One more time.

This is Steve Fielder, your host, coming to you.

Very glad to have a fellow on the show today that I've wanted to contact for quite a long time and

just, you know, there's a lot of coon hunters around the country and we don't get to some of them

as quickly as we'd like to, but man, we've got this guy lassoed here today and we're going to spend about all hour or however

long we need to i'm with shian cummings from seneca missouri how you doing man doing good

how are you speed i'm doing good for an old man i really really am. I can't complain and the Lord's been good to me.

Let me see this many years and make a whole lot of friends over the years due to my work.

And so I'm just really glad to be able to talk to you. and I tell you what really kind of sparked

me and got me off the off the couch I guess you'd say to to give you a call was the

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