Hello and welcome to the Slow Home Podcast. This is the podcast all about slow living in a fast-paced world.

And my name is Brooke McCallory. Thank you very much for joining us today.

My name is Ben McCallory and welcome to episode 205 of this very fine podcast.

We're very fine. We're very fine. Very fine indeed.

Particularly today where I talk to Dr. Monty Badami.

Okay, so yes, you talk to Dr. Monty Badami.

I do not.

Tell me a bit about Monty.

Where did you meet him?

Okay, so Monty is, he's an anthropologist, he's a celebrant. He's a kung fu instructor. Maybe not kung fu, but he's a some sort of martial arts instructor. He's a, he's training to be a army officer in the Reserve Army Corps.

Okay.

He's been a bouncer.

There's not much that Monty hasn't done.

Okay.

So Monty is fascinating and a multi potentialite, obviously.

He is.

He definitely is.

And, well, I met Monty at Dr. Arn Rubenstein's camp that I did earlier this year.

And you interviewed Dr. Arna last year.

Back in episode 91, I interviewed.

So this is like a nice little follow-up.

So this is along the lines of that sort of right of passage and, like a community type building and that's why this

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