Hey everyone, Finn here, and this is our annual state of the single track episode.

We published this typically every January, and it's funny.

I went back to relisten to our 2024 episode that was recorded last January

and went back into our RSS feed and then couldn't find it and went back to our

our platform where all of our content gets disseminated, Buzz Sprout, and found that the

episode was just sitting there unpublished. So I put all sorts of TLC into this episode dedicated to how

2023 turned out and what we were going to do for 2024 and just forgot to hit the publish

button. So that explains the two-year gap between episodes, not intentional, just, I don't know.

Anyways, we're here. And these are always interesting because I, I don't know. Anyways, we're here and these are always interesting because I, like I said,

I do one solo episode a year. It is even more bizarre not to have a guest here or a Brett or a Leah

or a Jeff, you know, to riff with. So if it's a little awkward, you can chalk it up to that.

But sort of to set the ambiance here, it's 5.58 a.m. in Salt Lake City. I am here for a 24-hour

stretch. I just got back from two weeks on the East Coast, a week visiting my family in the portland main area

they live in cape elizabeth if you're familiar and then visiting my wife's family they are based

in the bare mountain area of the hudson river valley so two uh just really cool places to hang out um you

know that area of main coastal know, it's more of a

road running experience, but then going back to my wife's place, my her childhood home,

that running is, it's amazing. I, you know, I was thinking when I first landed there,

this would have been like 10 days ago,

and I hopped on the AT, ran from, it would have been like seven lakes drive to the Bear Mountain Bridge.

I could not believe how technical that train was.

Like I had been there in 2014.

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