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All right, Zach, we're just going to start recording here, I guess, just in a second here, Zach, you're ready to go? We're good. All right, so we've got Dr. Anthony Chafee here up from the Pacific Northwest, if I'm not mistaken. You'll think you told me you're up in Seattle, if I'm there. Is that correct? Yeah, that's right. That's right.

And you are, you have some interesting stuff to talk about.

So tell us a little bit about your, you're just kind of your background a little bit for the people that aren't familiar with who you are. I know you got some interesting stuff. You played some high level rugby. You're still playing rugby. And, you know, as you know, I had some experience with that sport, kind of similar to what you did.

And then also you spent some time.

I know you talked to me on the other day on the phone about being overseas, doing some medical mission type stuff. So let's talk a little bit about your background, a little bit of that stuff. And then we'll get into some of the more other topics we might want to discuss. Yeah, well, you know, I grew up in the Seattle area and started playing rugby from an early age got very much

into it and I was all-American in high school and things like that and and as the rugby was very

amateur here in America is only just starting to get into the realm of professionalism people

like myself that wanted to play at a higher level, like yourself, exactly, went overseas.

So I went over to England, played over there for a few years.

And, you know, at that time, I got interested in the medical schools in that area,

had friends that were in medical school there that also played rugby.

And they, you know, talked me into that.

So when it was time to go to medical school, I went over to the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland,

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