Are we, yes, where are we here?

Why are we here not entirely clear?

We are misfits, thrust into existence by random chance,

with no hints at all as to how we're supposed to make sense of it all it's immensely

bizarre here we are

hello everybody and welcome to the here we are podcast I am former stand-up

comedian and maybe stand-up comedian again when that occupation exists in the future and more importantly for you

guys science enthusiasts and host of this wonderful podcast here we are I'm a little biased because it's my

podcast but each week on the podcast I interview typically in academics someone in the scientific fields about their research.

This week I have the second surgeon ever on the podcast. I think this is going to be around episode 315

something like that David and you're the second surgeon that I've ever had on the

first surgeon actually did a surgery on me so that so

for whatever that's worth. Can I ask what kind of surgery? Absolutely I had I jumped off something so by the way let me finish introducing you

author of the book do you really need spine surgery David Hanscom and I'm going and I'm going to let you like kind of fully introduce yourself in your background.

Quickly, I have a boy, you know what? I was going to say I hope to not annoy my listeners with this story again too much, but I don't think I've told it in a while, and I'm sure I have a lot of new listeners.

It was actually the week before I was supposed to record my first

Here We Are podcast which would have been recorded in June of 2015. I was out hiking, jumped off something that was a bit too

high, had barefoot running shoes on two, not good for jumping and I broke both of my heels.

Oh boy.

One of them exploded.

I had a foot surgery, which they were reluctant to even do,

as it was pretty complicated.

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