Welcome to the Salt Strong podcast, Disrupting Fishing Entertainment as you know it.

Prepare to laugh.

Prepare to get to know fishing legends in a whole new and unfiltered way.

And on occasion, you might even learn a thing or two about fishing.

Here's your host, Joe Simons, like diamonds.

Are you a politician, a prosecutor, or a preacher?

Hey, everybody, Joe Simon's like diamonds back again.

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I'm pumped to be back in 2026.

Thanks to all of you who

emailed texted reached out asking about unchurched and what happened in the beginning of the year

I did take a little sabbatical if you uh if you will a lot of these are recorded a little bit in

advance and I even have to submit them in advance so so I'm not actually recording them, you know, on Sunday mornings anymore.

I did way back in the day.

But these are all kind of done, let's just say a week ahead of time in general.

You know, by time they get submitted, recorded, and kind of edited, because, you know, I will have a guy go through and just take out any long breaks or if there's any areas where the mic gets too hot, et cetera.

So just know that I did take a little time off there during the holidays.

And it was really good.

I had a blast, just kind of unwinding, unplugging.

We went up to Georgia two different times over Christmas and New Year's.

And, yeah, it was good.

We're an area up there in the farmhouse with no TV, no Wi-Fi, just everyone's outside,

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