Canton

Y'all, you're not gonna believe this.

I am coming to you live with an audience of podcast listeners in Canton, Georgia.

Good morning, girls.

Woo! Oh, we are here.

But on Wednesday...

I get to be with a live gathering of podcast listeners in Georgia, in Canton, Georgia.

Do you remember last week I made the announcement about this? Well, I have a bunch of people that signed up.

Thank you so much for having me.

Okay.

We are in Canton, Georgia for this one, which is a suburb about 45 minutes north of Atlanta.

It's close to the big city, but it still has a very charming small town feel.

The downtown has one of those squares with a gazebo in the middle.

I mean, almost Alabama.

From Canton, Georgia.

From-

Canton, Georgia.

We got Colin Williams on.

Packed to connection.

They treated Alexander with respect, treated everyone that was in the meeting with respect.

And that's what you expect from your government to begin with, right? After we left the White House, the following Sunday, this was on a Thursday, the following Sunday, I'm at my home in Canton, Georgia, and I get a phone call from Paul Ellis and some other people from the State Department.

Can you meet us at the Starbucks? I'm thinking they're in Washington, D.C.

No. They'd flown down to Canton, Georgia to go to the Starbucks so that we could have a meeting and sit there with... with them to strategize out what was going to be done and how it can be done in order to get George out and what we needed to do.

So that shows a lot on how the administration prioritized the release of George as well as all the other hostages.

And I'll say this, too.

Yeah, let's do less.

From Canton, Georgia, Jonathan writes, Hi, Tom and Don.

I have a brief comment and a question.

First, a comment.

So we have been in business since 2008.

We did our first bed sheet fundraiser in 2009 here at Teasley Middle School in Canton, Georgia.

And that was actually the very first bed sheet fundraiser done in this country.

Wow.

The Atlanta Braves will honor local first responders on the field at Truist Park tonight ahead of the Braves-Phillies game.

And tomorrow, the 9/11 Heroes Run 5K race in Atlanta begins at Grant Park at 9:11 AM, and the Georgia National Cemetery in Canton will host Carry the Loads National Day of Service and Remembrance.

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That's what Georgia has to work with in its first year of the federal government's Rural Health Transformation program, President Trump's grant funding effort to bolster rural health capacity.