Hi this is Hope.

This is Karim.

Hi this is Katie from Washington DC and you're a l'anome

athlete radio. Hello this is Matt Frazier with the No Meat

Athlete radio podcast episode 16. I am not joined today by my co-host Doug

Hey Doug and I had a little bit of a scheduling issue today, but we recorded most of this episode a few days ago.

It's an interview and I'll talk about that in just a minute.

But in other news, and what I like to blame is the real reason why Doug is not here is that Doug's getting married this weekend.

So if you are a fan of Doug or no Doug, check them out at rock freakrunner.com or on

on Twitter, on Twitter you can find them at Rock Freak Runner.

And just give them a little congrats.

Tell them you enjoy listening to them on No-Meed athlete radio and give them any sort of words of wisdom you might have about the next phase.

I'll just leave it at that.

So I mentioned an interview and our guest today is Gene Bauer, the co-founder of Farm Sanctuary.

Most people probably already know Gene as the founder of Farm Sanctuary because they do a great job of marketing in what I think is a way that's not super high pressure the way some other animal advocacy organizations are and that

fits in very well with kind of what I like to do and the way I like to spread this

message with no meat athlete so I was excited to have Gene on for that reason, but besides that, and this might be the bigger reason, is that Gene is himself a no-made athlete.

And just this past July, the same week that I ran my my first 100 Myler, Gene completed his first Iron Man Triathlon.

And actually back in 2012 when we had a No Meat Athlete group run the Rock and Roll USA marathon and half marathon in DC and we did a big dinner and kind of training thing with it.

Gene joined us for unexpectedly for the dinner of that which was really a cool surprise. I just had happened to be talking to some of the farm sanctuary people a few days before that they mentioned that Jean was running this marathon for his first one and we just thought wow what a perfect combination that would be

so worked out really well he was awesome he ended up running that race

I think he broke 330 maybe 325 in the marathon beat pretty much everyone

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