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Now here's John and Tex.

Hey, Power Athlete Nation.

Welcome to another episode of Power Athlete Radio, where we take questions and we give answers.

We typically do this through our hotline, which if you're interested in leaving us a question on the hotline, you can reach out at 929-464-464-0. 929-ing-ing. Zero. Yeah, just call up, leave us a message, you can drop us a text. I did hear a rumor that they will accept some smoke signals. So if you know how to work one of those, you're gonna need a wet wet blanket and a big fire and you can send a smoke signals. So, but we're going to deviate slightly for episode 520 because we have Dr. Madzannis here. Hey, Doc. How you doing? Pretty good, John. Thanks for having me here again. Okay. And I'm joined by my co-host, Mr. Chris McQuoken, aka Tex. Howdy.

That's when you tagline. Oh, howdy. Why aren't there two howdies? Howdy-howdy, howdy? Like, O'Boy-Hoy. Or Howdy-Duty? Well, then I'd be calling you duty. I don't think that's very appropriate, John. Oh. Well, I mean, wasn't that one? Like, oh, howdy duty?

Wasn't that a puppet?

No idea.

Maybe it's before all of our times. Nevertheless, Dr. Zanis reached out to some of his colleagues and pulled a couple questions and brought them to us. And so we're going to ask and answer some of those. So what do you got, Doc? Well, this is the second one I'm doing now. So I am feeling a little bit like Alex Trebek from Jeopardy. Can I take communication for 100, please? Oh, I like it. Yeah. So this question is on communication. So what is the current state of communication and why is there so much fear around speaking your mind? Big question.

Yeah, that is a big question.

Finally question, too.

Communication how?

Using our platform to share our thoughts and feelings?

I think there's a lot of...

In the office?

I think there's a lot of unconventional communication happening today

that we've never seen in the past.

I mean, think about podcasts. Think about social media. I mean, as we were kind of talking, like,

what did this thing look like pre-social media? You know, if you were an NFL player, ESPN and the

ticker at the bottom was like, you know, the end all be all, but now you have situations where, you know,

players are, you know, providing information and there's, you know, endless amounts of pages

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