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for coming on and making time for the show.

I appreciate the opportunity to talk to you guys.

I've been a big fan of both of you for a while now.

Good to hear.

We've had a lot of fun with the show, so it's been fun to hear from people about how they've been listening to it and stuff like that.

And then like yourself, we found some pretty cool guests through it too. Yeah, yeah, exactly. Hey, Rob, welcome. I appreciate it. You know,

you know, so thanks for the service. I mean, I know exactly, you know, I was I was over there in

Afghanistan and, you know, I took care of guys like you and I got to tell you, man, it's this

tremendous seeing you where you've come from that from that hey let's get a little background going man and then we're going to get into it because just where are you from telling me about you know let's talk about when you're a little bit younger you know just did you did you do sports because obviously now you're just crushing it on on marathons and all that stuff but when you were younger you know say high school before you got into marines and stuff like that what kind of uh

uh what kind of stuff did you do yeah you know growing up in terms of sports i i played uh played

baseball and soccer like all the way until ninth grade.

And then I kind of had a late growth spurt.

So in ninth grade, I was only about, I think I was 88 pounds in ninth grade.

So I kind of fell behind on the physical aspects of, you know, the sports that I was trying to do.

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