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bringing you stories that matter every weekday. Listen wherever you get your podcasts. I Oh Yeah Hello and welcome back to Cold Leader. I'm your cult leader, Spencer Henry, and it's Friday,

which means this is a little leader, our casual weekly catch-up, where I share some of the

stories that you all send to me. If you have a story you'd like to share with the cult, send it on

over, that email is going to be, okay, write this down. Grab your pen. Spencer at coltleader.com

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How's it going, babes? Happy Friday. We made it through the week, and my old ass wasn't sure if I would.

I just got home from Des Moines, Iowa, and let me tell you, it rocked my world. Okay, it kicked my ass. It popped my corn.

My fiancé invited me with some of his friends to this music festival, and it's called

Hintraland in Iowa. And we had such an amazing time. Turns out a lot of you live there. It was so

cool because the festival is kind of in the middle of nowhere-ish. It's next to this little town

called St. Charles. And actually, when we were

driving there, we drove through another town called St. Mary's, and they have this big, beautiful

cemetery. And we didn't have time any of the days to, like, stop and go roam around. But I did

see quite a few cemeteries actually when we were out there really pretty.

And actually, I was looking up things about the city as I do.

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