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the running public.com and check out our offerings. Before we even get going here, I feel like

I need to give you your flowers as the most stunning transformation of maybe any

fitness person I've ever met in my personal life. Because when I first met you, you were a 16 or 17-year-old

vegan ultra runner. And this past month, you posted screenshots of people online calling you out for having too

crazy of a physique that you can't possibly be natty.

I don't know anyone in my world who has gone from one pole to the other pole without

alienating either side along the way.

So despite not probably loving being

accused of taking performance enhancing drugs, it's also the single greatest compliment an athlete

could ever receive. But to go from Ultra Runner to this guy's too shredded and too jacked, that's

something that is new to me. So congratulations.

Thank you. Yeah. It's, uh, you know, it only took 15 years of like hard work. And,

you know, that's what so many people don't, don't see. Um, and I think it's such a small

fraction of people that like don't realize what's possible. Um, but it's always sad to me that

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