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Hey, guys, we had a technical difficulty, so

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it'll be a slight delay on getting episode seven

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out. It'll be in your ears later today

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or tomorrow, and in the meantime

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I get to talk directly to you.

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You guys are the greatest. We went from one

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hundred thousand downloads a week ago to one hundred

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and fifty nine thousand on Friday. It's

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amazing that we've connected so powerfully with people

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all over the country. A Mommy

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blogger wrote that we'd opened her eyes to how

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we spend our whole lives doing right, paying

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taxes, living the life we think we're supposed

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to live. And for what sing

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it? Sister, you sound like Momo?

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And episode one, why do you do

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what you do? At the other

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end of the audience was a voicemail from a guy who

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had been riding the rails for thirty years. After

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the Comfort Offensive, he questioned if,

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at the age of fifty two, it was

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too late for him to get off the rails. My

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description of moving into the barn made him

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think that maybe he could do it. My

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wish to you, buddy, is that you find your own

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barn. As

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a writer. There's no bigger compliment than the ones

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that you guys are leaving me. That's the goal,

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to get people to forget about me and to

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rethink their lives, to see things

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differently like I have ever since I

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entered the City of the Rails. I

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know all of you out there have a lot to say, so

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leave us a message after this. There's

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only three episodes left. The time

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is now and we've got no operators standing

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by. Talk as long as you want. The

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number is seven oh seven six five three

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three three nine. Also

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just wanted to give a tip of the hat to all the travelers

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out there who've shared their stories with me. I

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

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

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Thank you for trusting me to tell yours. A

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lot of people have told us how much they love the music

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me too, So we've got a treat for

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you. I'm sharing my playlist of modern

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hobo music. The link will be in the show notes,

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and it starts out with one of my favorites, Whiskey

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by Tahan Street Corner Thieves. Also

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check out this Van is Your Van by Black

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Death All Stars. The only song I've

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ever heard about Google's plus

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Driver Pool by Tim Barry,

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a song about leaving with the line

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I'm better for every day I'm gone. But

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back to episode seven. It's a Wild

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One, a buddy comedy set on the border

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in Olpasso in the world of the rail Cops.

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I bet you didn't know that the rail cops are

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not like other security guards. They

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have full police powers, but they're answerable

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only to the railroad. Imagine if

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Facebook had its own militia, one that could

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arrest you and throw you in jail. Ladies

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and gentlemen, let me introduce you to the

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rail cops. Stay with us.

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We'll be back shortly in the City

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of the Rails like a warrants,

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Hey, Texas, swear

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that flag

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warrants Texas,

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and I ain't going back again. They

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foundy under a brain when my dog

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and a bottle