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Welcome to Quarry. Hey Quiro's editor Valerie here. This week we have a really special chat with the

paraglider Galen Kirkpatrick.

She's such a delight and the conversation is honestly really moving.

I hope you like listening to this episode as much as I did. Enjoy.

I've been feeling wrong,

but I'm still holding on,

darling I know, I know it's careless.

I always have guests introduce themselves. Would you introduce yourself?

Yeah, hi, my name is Galen and I'm a paraglider pilot, the current US national champion of paragliding.

And I'm a comedian, sort of a clown of sorts,

and I don't know, I've just done a lot of different things.

What? What?

Okay.

What? I guess what is my main question, but I certainly looked up like some photos of you and some like footage in anticipation of this interview because I

like if like if you said paragliding I do like I have heard of that it's not like I don't know that exists but I wouldn't have been I've I've no idea

what you're talking about in terms of being a pilot in terms of being a national champion I don't really understand what the competition circuit looks like.

I don't really know how somebody would get into this.

So that's my series of questions.

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