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Speaker 1: Hey, guys, we had a technical difficulty, so it'll be

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Speaker 1: a slight delay on getting episode seven out. It'll be

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Speaker 1: in your ears later today or tomorrow, and in the

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Speaker 1: meantime I get to talk directly to you. You guys

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Speaker 1: are the greatest. We went from one hundred thousand downloads

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Speaker 1: a week ago to one hundred and fifty nine thousand

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Speaker 1: on Friday. It's amazing that we've connected so powerfully with

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Speaker 1: people all over the country. A Mommy blogger wrote that

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Speaker 1: we'd opened her eyes to how we spend our whole

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Speaker 1: lives doing right, paying taxes, living the life we think

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Speaker 1: we're supposed to live. And for what sing it? Sister,

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Speaker 1: you sound like Momo? And episode one, why do you

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Speaker 1: do what you do? At the other end of the

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Speaker 1: audience was a voicemail from a guy who had been

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Speaker 1: riding the rails for thirty years. After the Comfort Offensive,

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Speaker 1: he questioned if, at the age of fifty two, it

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Speaker 1: was too late for him to get off the rails.

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Speaker 1: My description of moving into the barn made him think

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Speaker 1: that maybe he could do it. My wish to you, buddy,

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Speaker 1: is that you find your own barn. As a writer.

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Speaker 1: There's no bigger compliment than the ones that you guys

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Speaker 1: are leaving me. That's the goal, to get people to

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Speaker 1: forget about me and to rethink their lives, to see

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Speaker 1: things differently like I have ever since I entered the

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Speaker 1: City of the Rails. I know all of you out

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Speaker 1: there have a lot to say, so leave us a

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Speaker 1: message after this. There's only three episodes left. The time

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Speaker 1: is now and we've got no operators standing by. Talk

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Speaker 1: as long as you want. The number is seven oh

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Speaker 1: seven six five three three three nine. Also just wanted

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Speaker 1: to give a tip of the hat to all the

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Speaker 1: travelers out there who've shared their stories with me. I

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Speaker 1: know you guys don't like to talk about this, but

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Speaker 1: once you get going, there are a few greater storytellers.

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Speaker 1: Thank you for trusting me to tell yours. A lot

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Speaker 1: of people have told us how much they love the

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Speaker 1: music me too, So we've got a treat for you.

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Speaker 1: I'm sharing my playlist of modern hobo music. The link

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Speaker 1: will be in the show notes, and it starts out

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Speaker 1: with one of my favorites, Whiskey by Tahan Street Corner Thieves.

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Speaker 1: Also check out this Van is Your Van by Black

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Speaker 1: Death All Stars. The only song I've ever heard about

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Speaker 1: Google's plus Driver Pool by Tim Barry, a song about

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Speaker 1: leaving with the line I'm better for every day I'm gone.

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Speaker 1: But back to episode seven. It's a Wild One, a

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Speaker 1: buddy comedy set on the border in Olpasso in the

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Speaker 1: world of the rail Cops. I bet you didn't know

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Speaker 1: that the rail cops are not like other security guards.

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Speaker 1: They have full police powers, but they're answerable only to

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Speaker 1: the railroad. Imagine if Facebook had its own militia, one

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Speaker 1: that could arrest you and throw you in jail. Ladies

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Speaker 1: and gentlemen, let me introduce you to the rail cops.

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Speaker 1: Stay with us. We'll be back shortly in the City

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Speaker 1: of the Rails like a warrants, Hey, Texas, swear that

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Speaker 1: flag warrants Texas, and I ain't going back again. They

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Speaker 1: foundy under a brain when my dog and a bottle