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Hello, friends, and welcome to the show.

Greg Kokel here, show a stand-a-reason.

I'm your host, have been for, what is my 35th year of doing this?

75?

Started 2000.

No, 1990.

I guess it is.

It's a long time.

I was doing it under other auspices, working for the Crawford Broadcasting Network,

instead of for stand-of-reason, but I've been doing this particular format for a long time.

Anyway, glad to be here and glad to be back here. I'm back in the saddle again, and you're thinking, wait, if you were just here last week? No, I wasn't. I actually have not been sitting in this chair for four weeks because I was in northern Wisconsin for most of the month of May.

Supposedly, you know, rusticating, relaxing, and having a vacation with my brother Dave, who I fish with,

and my wife was up for 10 days at the front end of it, and then came back, and it turns out

that I had an event right in the middle of that time and was gone for four days, Saturday morning, to Thursday night late. By the time I got

back to Wisconsin, the event was in El Paso, Texas. It was wonderful, great people, and I was

there with Alan Schleeman, and it's rare that we get to work the same events together other than reality.

Although a couple of months ago I was in Nashville with Tim.

What a great treat to be with both of those guys under those circumstances,

but only had like five vacation days in three weeks because all the work that I had to do.

And nevertheless, I'm glad to be back in the seat here. I always put shows in the can in advance so that I don't leave you as orphans

as it were. I love it, though, when others can fill in for me, like Jay Warner Wallace or other members of my team.

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