Good morning, everybody. Welcome to another episode of Hock Blogger Mornings. I am Brian Nemhauser.

You can find me on YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, pretty much everywhere at HockBlogger. And the reviews on Apple Podcasts have been rolling in.

Really, really appreciate those. So if you have a second, give us a five-star review there.

We'd greatly appreciate it.

I think we're almost at 500 reviews,

which would be a really cool milestone to hit.

And part of the way we've gotten there is amazing guests like our good friend,

Griff Sturgeon, over from the Seattle Overload Podcast.

One of the podcasts that I check out occasionally, great information there, always something

to learn.

And Griff, I got to know, man, when it starts raining, like it's raining now, does that

make you more or less likely to get out there for a hike?

Rain is no object for me.

Okay.

It's the wind that gets me, though, because that really freaks me out in the woods when

tree limbs start falling and trees start falling right over the trail.

That's when I tap out.

Yeah, you really don't know where those are going to come from.

And they're not necessarily

going to be in sight when it happens. So that's probably wisdom there. Do you think that the animals,

like the forest creatures are like sweet, it's raining. Those stupid humans aren't going to be

tromping around. Do you see more animals out there when you're you're hiking in the rain you know i don't

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