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Hey, welcome to another episode of Power Athlete Radio.

I'm joined by my good friend Mr. Ben Skutnik, aka Dr. Skutnik.

I like the attire, the sweater over the collared shirt.

Where's the tweed jacket?

You know, it's at the dry cleaners right now. All four of them, all four of my tweed jackets are

there. I wasn't prepared. So when you got your PhD, did they almost measure you, like kind of like

when they do to the masters and they put on the yellow jacket? Did they hand you your like tweed jacket?

Yeah, well, they take us up into the ivory tower and we look upon all the peons down there.

And then it's like, yeah, like the Masters golf tournament.

They put your Tweed jacket on.

And yeah.

Dude, I, that's a perfect segment into today's conversation.

One of the reasons I had, or I wanted to have been on the podcast we had them on recently.

But now that you have like, you know, the doctor in front of your name, it swings a big axe.

But what I really wanted to discuss and something that has been kind of ingraining on me like like digging on me after our judd uh john

kind of clip podcast that kind of went a viral and you know like i don't know if you've noticed

it has like 300 000 views i'm still getting comments on it it's got like five or 600 comments

which is great engagement but i think the one thing that was deceptively clear, almost to the point of depression,

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