Hi folks, Jack Spirico here.

Today you are listening to an episode of TSP Rewind.

Commercial-free versions of past episodes.

Podcasts blasts from the past.

I put these up when I can't do a show due to professional commitments or rare vacations.

These podcasts will appear in standard iTunes, Stitcher, and other feeds,

but will be titled TSP Rewind Episodes and numbered accordingly.

And today, folks, we are rewinding back to September the 13th, 2016.

This was originally episode 1869.

It was called Growing Up in the Florida Swamps and the Pennsylvania Woods.

This became one of my favorite episodes, and it ended up being one of the audience's

favorite episodes, and I kind of felt like I was taking a little bit of a gamble when I did

it, because it's just the story of how I grew up in two very different locations, but in

very much the same way.

The swamps of Florida and the Pennsylvania woods.

It's about fishing and hunting and young kids doing stupid things at a time when you could do a

stupid thing, and the main correction you got came from life.

I don't want to add too much to the new intro on this one, so I'll just kind of leave it there.

I'll just let you all know the reason I am doing this rewind today is because we are receiving our new puppy. And

so Bellamy, we'll call her Bell for short, Dorothy's new Sable Shepherd from Joel and Wendy

over at Fortress Canine. By the time you're hearing this, she will be here getting introduced

to the

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