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Welcome to the 2023 year interview for Power Athlete Radio.

This is an interesting one seeing this is probably the first time I've ever done just a solo podcast

with me and a camera it's always been with guests or you know Chris or Luke or whoever was here

interviewing me for these reviews so kind of a interesting breakthrough and a little odd

I've seen Mark Riptoe and I've seen a bunch of people do this.

And while it never seemed good or bad, it seemed like a function of the state of where we are.

So, 2023 has been an interesting year, to say the least, a tumultuous year.

A lot of changes.

But we've had some incredible high points at Power Athlete.

Obviously, one of them being Power Athlete Radio, being able to go to the Olympia, get Jim Wendler on, you know, having Sean G.

And Victor and the guys from Six Blades on.

I did two epic podcasts with Mark Ripto, who was always a good guest.

And I was also featured on Mike Sorelli's Everyday Warrior podcast as a, I guess you could say, a repeat guest, a co-host,

which allowed me to experience and access some really interesting people, one of which was Dr. Dan

Ingle, which we'll get

into a little bit later. I also traveled up to Montana to Dandy Stump's podcast cleared hot

and just had interesting travels, a fun time reconnecting, and just getting to talk about stuff

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