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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 to the gone to the dogs podcast how privileged i am today i have a guess that i am just

chomping at the bit that's your hint right there there to bring to the microphone in just a few minutes.

But before I do, I just wanted to mention the people that make this podcast possible.

And that's, of course, my good friend, Buddy Woodbury and jason duby out in uh organ and

washington state respectfully uh respectively i guess the word is um you know that make this

possible every week we really do appreciate them and there's a new sponsor with the with the w supply group

the alpha dog nutrition and glad to have them aboard us as well so anyway we get the bills paid

there before we get started but today we're going to going to have an interesting podcast, I am sure, because we've got a very interesting guy that's going to share his time with us.

As this podcast is airing, it is the 1st of July.

If you can imagine that, that we've progressed already halfway through the calendar year.

It just seems like to me the years just go by like a picket fence, you know, on a highway.

But I believe on Thursday of this week will be the 4th of July, the birthday that we celebrate of our country.

I'm a very patriotic guy.

I know our guest is as well.

And, you know, it's just such a privilege to be born in the USA and to have been raised here.

And as I think of my guest from the great state of Texas, I remember back in my UKC days

when we started the hunt there in college station, Texas,

and we had rodeo parades, and we had all the things.

We had a soldier back from Desert Storm, and I realized that just this week, as I'm

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