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for the How to Hunt Deer podcast. I'm your host Dan Johnson.

And we got another host sitting across from me digitally, Mr. Jason Tibido. Is it Mr. Jason today?

No, actually today is the first day of landscaping for the year for me. That a boy. I'm taking the

teaching shirt off and I'm getting the knuckles dirty.

Back to the dirty fingernails and landscaping.

Yeah.

And I'll be honest with you, dude.

Last year I was in really good shape when I went into work because just the way we were set up,

you know, I was able to run on the treadmill

and stuff. But like this year, I ran on Saturday, and I'll be honest with you, it was outside.

It was the slowest time I've probably ran in about four years. And I'm not, I mean, I'm not,

like, overweight, like there, but I just, like, capacity-wise in my lungs and stamina.

I don't know if it's just from everything else or what, but man, I was not feeling it.

Yeah.

I'm in the same boat as you.

I've been struggling with a knee issue.

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