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Now you just need to get some glasses and shave your head and start talking to my vegetables, dude.

Anyway, Ben, thanks for coming, man.

I hope you're feeling better.

I heard you, you got, what was it, Giardy or something like that?

And hopefully you were out in the crazy out in the wilderness drinking swamp water

or something, I'm not sure.

Yeah. Well, I thought it was just pristine creek water and i had i handmade a water filter and wound up getting beaver fever you know when you sent that email i had thought back because

i just did a race in in san die a while ago. And there was a couple

stretches in the middle where they had a pretty long, long break between aid stations. And I kind

of undercalculated how much water to bring. And I found myself filling one of my bottles up in a creek.

And it's like high desert. So it's probably not super safe to be drinking out of that stuff. But I was,

I took a risk. And luckily, I came out of it with no issues, but I could have ended up like you, I guess, and gotten some Giardia, but at least that probably would have taken up back after the race and not during it.

Yeah, well, I had two weekends in a row where I was out in the wilderness. One was a bow hunting competition and the other one was the survival course. And so I don't know what, you know, because that's stuff you can sit dormant for a while. So I don't know what either way it sucked. Well, hopefully you're back, you're back to full speed so we can we can get some good information for you. Hey, Ben, just, you know, most people, I would assume, have kind of heard of you, but can you just give us a quick background, like five minutes summary of your kind of background

for people that may not have heard about you before?

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