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It's perfect for beach season how to survive a shark attack I'm going to hand things off to former host Charles Doeig and we'll see

you here next week. I just kind of just gotten out of the hospital and my hands in this like crazy

cast, my legs and like a crazy cast and there's this guy on the elevator

we'll call him Chad because he was he was kind of a bro and Chad has like a cast on his risk.

And so his friend asked him, oh, how did you get that?

And he goes, oh, I was attacked by a shark.

And I was like, oh, no way, me too.

And then both of them just looked terrified

and like realized I wasn't kidding.

Welcome to how to.

I'm Charles Stewart.

If you're anything like me, this is the time of year when you go to the beach and you surf and you swim and you hang out in the water.

And my wife, while we're in the ocean, she loves to mention to me how much she likes the movie Jaws, which I point out to her every single time

is a totally messed up thing to say

while we're in the ocean.

But at the same time, it's not like I really need to be worried about a shark attack, right? I mean, how likely is it that I will be attacked by a shark?

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