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the running public.com and check out our offerings. You're in the northeast, Ryan? Is that

what I caught up on? I am in just outside of Washington.

Okay.

I suppose you guys, do you guys deal with snow that sticks year-round and year-round, all winter or no?

Not all winter.

Like right now we're 40-ish degrees, there's nothing on the ground.

But we already had a couple snowstorms, and it lasted

for seven or eight days. So you guys didn't start recording before I got here, I'm assuming.

Nope. Okay. We waited for you. Thank you. Got the preliminaries out of the way, though. We're set. We're

ready to hit the ground around here, Kirk. So you know how this conversation came to be, Ryan?

From what I understand I spoke with one of our physical health and wellness VPs.

And then I chatted with Rich and he kind of made that connection.

Yeah.

Yeah, Rich has been keeping us in the loop and he sent your story situation over, and I was like, we got to talk to this guy. And then I went and looked you up and watched videos, are you doing the thing? And heard your story. And I was like, man, we can draw a lot probably from Ryan. So I was like, yeah, we got to talk. That's awesome. I love it. Yeah. Even though you don't run,

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