So we try to live our lives now where it's like we, whenever we have an opportunity, we try to help as much as we can because we know someday we're going to need some help.

And that's been a in an instant forever.

And Ryan's story is just such an amazing example of that. And when I say life can change forever,

I don't mean good or bad necessarily. It's kind of up to you what you decide to do with these

changes and these pivotal moments. But for Ryan, when he encountered a goose, he didn't realize it, but his piloting days and even his

mountaineering days were going to be behind him from that moment forward, but his full-time

sailing days were ahead of him.

You're going to have to listen to the episode to find out why.

But before we jump into it, I wanted to let you know that we are actually relaunching our Patreon page today.

New and improved, we've made a whole new set of tiers, a whole new set of rewards and incentives for you to go and support us.

You know, we've got everything from a couple bucks a month all the way up to 20, 30 bucks a month,

and all of those tiers have different benefits to them.

Biggest of all, ad-free episodes. Yes, we have tiers now that have ad-free episodes.

So if you'd like to hear these episodes without any ads, without any extras, go to our

Patreon page, support us on a monthly basis, and there is a tier that will

allow every episode to be ad-free. You know, for the folks that have been supporting the show,

this is just a thank you. I know that I haven't been super active on Patreon, but that doesn't

mean I don't appreciate the help. This is a very grassroots community, and every bit of

support goes honestly a really long way to cover our bills.

So if you'd like to support the Adventure Sports podcast, go to our show notes. There's a link in there

and you'll be able to sign up and help us on a monthly basis. And for everyone that has been

helping us for years now, thank you so much from the bottom of our hearts. We're excited to see the

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