I have a cold. It's the first cold I've had in three years. And you might wonder, how do you know?

Like, do you really keep a cold calendar of how many colds or when you have colds and yeah I do.

That's something Mark 2016. Well I'm a germaphobe you know this I don't like if if

Alex comes in sick. She gets sent home. Yeah, right? Yeah. Which probably

frightened you the first time. It did. I remember like it was like one of my

first days. Yeah. And I had gotten a cold and

I came in anyway yeah and you you kicked me out of the office

right well I but I said hey we'll let you make up the hours, but get the hell out of here.

I don't want somebody with a cold around me.

Which is funny because your predecessor, Jesse, on her first day working for me, came in sick as hell, and I was like,

you need to go home.

And she says, no, I'll be okay. And I had to then explain to her I don't care about you.

I don't care how you're going to do. I don't want you to brave your way or gut your way or man up through the

thing. Just I want you to go, I'm worried about me getting sick. So, and I probably hopefully

said that to you. Like if you decided you were going to be like oh no I'll tough it out not around me you won't you go tough it out at home. I don't want you anywhere near me and so I've had a cold now and then again

the reason I know it's the first one in over three years is because I remember the

last time I got a cold is my friend Travis jumped in my pickup with me to drive up to

Missoula to do an Orvis show. I was speaking at an Orous event and oh God I'm going to send him a bill

a bill for even mentioning their name I'm sending them a bill is do what about 1500

fifteen hundred dollars to the oervis corporation for me mentioning their name right here and if you're listening right now

make sure to email Tom Rosenbauer over at Orvis and let him know he owes me

$1,500. Anyway I was going up to an Orarvis event, and Travis, I see him the day before and he's like,

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