Hey folks, welcome to the adventure sports podcast. I'm your host, Mason. As a reminder, we have the Adventure Grant, the 2023 Adventure Grant is going in our show notes.

There's a link to a Google form.

We're looking to give $1,000 to somebody, $500 to someone else, and $250 to a third person,

plus all the gear that's going to come on with it.

We've got a handful of merchandise

items, gear items for these adventures as well. So this is the first time in two years. We've done

an adventure grant. We've done two before this that were always awesome. So we're super happy to

bring this idea back. And if you have an adventure this year that you want to do,

please apply. We're looking for folks that this is going to make a big difference with their trip

and also folks that are focused on building community, making the world a better place,

which is totally up to you how you're doing that. But we're really

looking for that in this grant. So yeah, please apply. Or if you know someone that's going to do an

adventure this year, please have them apply. But more details in the show notes. This episode is a

long time coming. I talked to Ben. Gosh, he was first on the podcast or scheduled back in September.

And we had to cancel a number of times.

It was a long, it was just, it's been such a slog getting this episode out because the first one we recorded, I lost his episode.

The card and the hard drive that I had to save on corrupted, and I completely

lost it, and it was such a bummer. I lost a handful of episodes. So I'm slowly getting those people

to re-record Ben being one of them, but what was cool is not long after Ben and I recorded back in

September, we got to meet up. I went to the brewery at Athletic Brewing

in Connecticut. Ben lives close by and swung by, and we got to meet, and he's awesome. And now he's

one of the ambassadors over at Athletic Brewing, helping spread the word about athletic all around,

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