This fishing, it's in my soul.

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.

Today is the day after my death.

Hey everybody, Joe Simons.

Like Diamonds, Salt Strong on Church.

I'm doing a little office cleanup here.

And I came across some of my notes from the book Fishing for Happiness.

That was a book that I worked on for many, many, many years.

If you've read it, thank you for all the awesome feedback and reviews on Amazon, et cetera.

If you haven't definitely picked up a copy.

The long story short is I was going through just a tough time in life.

And in a sentence, you know, is a, is a youngster, you know, you know, from 12 to let's just say 20.

You know, you have these dreams and these visions of what your life is going to look like when you're an adult.

And how awesome it's going to be when you have a job and you can afford to, you know, buy stuff like cars and toys in your own house and all that.

And so here I am now, you know, in, in my late 20s, early 30s.

And I had my own house.

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