Alright, buckle up. This is going to be a long run episode of me and Brendan Lennard, also known as semi-rad, and a lot of you already know about him, and guess what?

I really didn't. I got a book at a fun run at our Turk Chicago called I Hate Running in You Can Too, and I read it and thought it was awesome.

And then at the end, it said, additional resources 10 Jack Miles, and I thought, how did they list us as additional resource?

And I looked into the guy, and it turns out that he's also sober, and we had a lot in common.

So then I went and read his book to prepare for this podcast, which I seldom do, but I'm glad I did, and it's called 60 meters from 60 meters to anywhere.

And it's kind of his life story, and the whole while I was like, holy shit, this guy, we have so much in common, and I can't wait to talk to him.

Anyway, so I've gone down this honey hole of semi-rad, which is semi-rad.com. I'll put it in the show notes. There's weekly emails that he sends out, he's got merchandise, he's got books, he makes these funny charts, he's made YouTube videos, he made a video of running 100 miles for REI.

The guy's really, really interesting, and he gives a lot of content to the running world, and the thing I'm pissed about is that I didn't discover all of this a long time ago, which I guess I, you know, it's my bad.

But anyway, when you get done listening to this, if you feel the same way, I urge you to go to semi-rad.com support and become a patron of them, because you guys might not know this,

but a little bit of patronage goes a long way, and it's really how a lot of these creators sustain themselves.

So if you can afford a couple extra bucks, I promise you, if you follow this guy, he will make you laugh, he will make you think, and you'll be glad that you didn't.

So go to semi-rad.com, subscribe to the newsletter, become a patron, I'm telling you, just do it, just do it if you can.

This episode's also brought to you by our friends at Dry Seats and Path Projects, which we will talk about, I'll take a break in the middle and talk about it.

But yeah, this was really cool. This was a really cool discussion, and I really like this guy, and I think you will too.

And he's coming here, we talk about in the episode, he's coming here October 28th to do a event, watch for that event, because I want you all to come, we're going to pack the fuckin' arterics.

So here's me in Brennan Leonard, semi-rad.

Hey Scott, Brennan, how are you?

I'm good, how are you?

I'm a little frustrated with myself, because I feel like I should have discovered all of this stuff long before I scheduled an interview with you, as it often happens, I start looking up people, and I'm like, why am I not friends with this guy? Holy shit!

Right, well, I mean, I don't know if you should be so hard on yourself, I don't really know.

Well, so I have the Bears Don't Care book, somebody sent that to me, sitting on my to-do read.

And then I also have the book about the charts, and then I did this run for Arteric Chicago, we did like a group run, and they gave everybody a copy of the I Hate Running book.

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