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Hey folks, it's bengreenfilled and I'd like to welcome you to week three

in which my podcast sidekick Brock is still off exploring Europe somewhere. Probably I don't know

in some salt mine off the coast of Portugal or maybe off catching sardines in Norway. I don't know.

But either way, I once again am here relegated to having to sit around with yet another

amazing special guest. And I'm going to introduce my guest to you in just a second. But before I do,

I want to remind you that something I've talked about before in the podcast is the fact that

I go to the sauna and I go to the sauna about once a week and sometimes in the winter when

it's cold here in the frozen tune drove, Spokane, Washington, I'll go twice a week and I'll get this

huge pile of magazines and journals that I subscribe to, like ESPN and Fast Company and

Mother Earth News is another one that I read. Sometimes I'll even grab a book that I don't mind

destroying and I settle in for like a good 30 to 45 minutes of a sweat session in the sauna.

And usually it's after about 25 minutes that gets really tough in my heart rate and my core

temperature start to go up and I eventually get so hot that I have to stop reading and just start

like staring at the wall and doing deep meditative breathing to sit things out for as long as I can.

And sometimes I'll pretend I'm like in some kind of a Native American sweat lodge or like some

some prisoner of war tossed into a heat torture chamber even though I'm really in the in the YMCA

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