What's happening, guys. Thank you for tuning in to the Start Today podcast. I'm your host, Chris Cavalini. And today I'm here with my co-host, live and in person, Rick Schaff. Rick, what's happening?

Hey, everybody. Good to be here. And, uh, oh, sorry to cut you off there. Thanks for joining us all.

Yeah. And, uh, filling in for, uh, Matt, who is on vacation, a much earned vacation, uh, is

Brain, who's an audio engineer and an all-around model American

brain. What's up?

Man, it's a pleasure to be here. Happy to be here. Let's do it.

It's good to have you here. Rick, what's been happening?

What's been happening? I went to Cuba, discovered capitalism really works.

And I'm glad to be back I got paralyzed coming

back with some kind of bacteria oof but that's kind of over now and here we are

here we are yeah I made it so obviously Memorial Day was a few days ago yeah and I

don't I don't know if you're aware of this but a little tradition that we have

at nutrition solutions I mean ever since this company really started I don't know if you're aware of this, but a little tradition that we have at Nutrition Solutions.

I mean, ever since this company really started to develop a culture and, you know, build the

ecosystem that it currently has, one of the things that I committed to do is basically have the

team work every Memorial Day, just as a way to, you know,

honor the troops that obviously pay the ultimate sacrifice.

That number is, uh, you know, north of 674,000, 675,000 real people that obviously, you know,

met their maker fighting to, uh, give us all the freedoms and,

and endless opportunity that we have here. So I thought that, you know, it was only fitting

for us to come in and, you know, not just come in and check the box, but come in and just

go harder than any other normal day to pay tribute to them. And, uh, it was pretty cool because this Memorial Day, a few days

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