You are listening to the HP Outdoors Waterfile Podcast, episode 18. This week on the show we continue our duck profile segment and feature the ringneck.

And we also take a look back at the year 2014, talk about some of the highlights and the low lights and we look forward to 2015.

Welcome to the show.

We'd like to wish everyone out there listening a Merry Christmas

and a Happy New Year. Joining me on the show as always is my co-host Dan Hirschkudan.

How are you?

I'm actually battling quite the little chest congestion and I

apologize in advance for any hacking that I might be doing throughout the

entire podcast. So until today I've sounded like jaw roll with a really

really deep voice so at least it's coming back a little bit to my normal

scratchy womanly voice. So here it is.

Outstanding. Well, I'm glad to hear that you are at least on the mend a little bit.

So we got an interesting show coming up this week.

It is episode 18 of the podcast and it's pretty much going to be our 2014 year and review show.

And we'll talk a little bit about sort of how this podcast

sort of came to be talk about some of our favorite moments of the show that we've

covered so far and then we'll take a few minutes and we'll sort of preview what we're

going to get into in 2015 and you know talk about some of the things that we got

coming up that we hope you guys will enjoy moving forward.

So a couple things sort of administratively here to kind of cover.

If you haven't been listening to the last couple of episodes, we've got our listener survey available on our website and

our Facebook page basically an opportunity for all you guys to give us a little bit of

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