You know, Jim's beloved by the sport, and so anytime you try and poke the goat, you're going to have people immediately, you know, upset about it.

If he goes out there and rips, you know, a course record, goes crazy and goes sub 14 and wins, then I'm going to always wonder, wasn't he fit enough to get into the race under normal qualifying standards?

I've got this contract offer from Hoka and this contract offer from

say Solomon or on or some of these other brands that are kind of in that top space. Do I take the

Hoka sponsor because I know if I need to get into Western States or UTMB on some sort of a

sponsorship exemption, I've got that sort of perk built into my contract.

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All right, Brian, thanks for coming on the show. Yeah, you bet, man. I appreciate the opportunity

to come on and, you know, expose some of my hot takes, I think, to a new audience and to your

platform. And so I think we've got some topics lined up today that, yeah, they're going to be fun to unpack with you. And I think it's interesting because, you know,

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