Hey folks, welcome to the Adventure Sports podcast. I'm your host Mason. Today's episode is, you know,

I'm going to get into that, but first I want to mention, at least, you know, acknowledge the fact

I haven't been consistent lately with the show.

If you've been listening to this show for nearly the last 10 years we've been going,

you'll notice lately has been really tough for me to be consistent.

And I apologize.

I just haven't been able to figure that out with my new schedule and family and whatnot. But if you don't know, I transitioned

my career about a month ago to full-time conservation work. I was in the startup world and, you know,

working for a fast-growing company. And I had the opportunity to jump into something I really am

passionate about, which is protecting

Florida, which is where I live, the state of Florida. It's such a beautiful, unique place

and trying to get as much of it protected as possible because so much of it has immense

development pressure. Everyone's trying to pave this state, and it's so beautiful.

And so what's neat is that we're so closely aligned with my heart and what I want to do.

And it's an adventure. I was out for the last seven, eight days. I was down in the Everglades

in an area called Big Cyprus, up in a Panther Preserve,

exploring some of the biggest wilderness areas east of the Mississippi River here in the United States,

making a film, a documentary film, which is going to come out in the spring.

I'll definitely keep you all posted.

We're probably going to have some guests on this show from that experience

I already was telling some people we've got to have you on the adventure support's podcast so

the work is very much aligned with what I do here on the podcast and what we talk about and it is

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