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Hello friends and neighbors, we are back. It's the Bitter Southerner

podcast from Georgia Public Broadcasting and the magazine I edit The

Bitter Southerner. I'm Chuck Reese I'm your host and I'm happy to welcome you to season two of our

podcast. This is episode one. We're so happy to be back with all y'all for a

second season and I am excited about this one.

We've got 10 episodes lined up for you scheduled for release every two weeks until we finish up in

March and we hope you're thirsty for them. every two weeks until we finish up in March.

And we hope you're thirsty for them.

We heard a lot of nice things from y'all about season one.

And a lot of good suggestions, I hope you'll hear

being addressed as we play out season two.

And one person in particular wrote a review of season one on Apple

podcast that said, and I quote, there's a lyrical quality to it

a poetry in the sound of the native tongue that mesmerizes me

I feel like I'm on somebody's porch

Listening to them tell me about what really matters in life.

Now I was surprised by that. I really was because, and not just because someone, you know, seemed to actually like the way I in particular talk, I was surprised because all of us who speak in a southern twang or draw, of which there are many varieties,

often encounter a completely different reaction,

which normally goes like,

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