Hey everybody this is going to be an interview between me and a person that I've been friends with for a really long time named Mike Lennon

Whom I've never had a conversation with because he is completely deaf

I didn't know that the first time I met him or became

acquainted with him on Facebook. He became part of our running group and eventually I

started going on trips with him and running in races with him and you know

know next thing you know he's one of my closest friends and 100% death so it

presents a lot of obstacles because I don't I don't do sign language and you know

so I don't understand what he's saying sometimes and you

know sometimes we have to communicate via the internet and things like that but you

know it's been fascinating I've always wanted to do this I always wanted to sit down

and hear his story you know unimpeded by you know the barriers of

communication so what we're doing is we're doing a phone relay interview with a sign language

guy I might have to reset it a few times throughout, but he does the sign language and then the guy

relates it to me and so obviously it's not his voice, but these are definitely going to be

his words.

So this is going to be Mike Glennon. And this episode is sponsored by Health IQ. Health IQ has

spent the last few years negotiating lower rates on life insurance for runners

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that's health IQ.com slash jun-k and without further ado here's Mike Lennon I'm trying to drink now. I'm not.

I'm going to make my little.

Tell him drunk things. And jump my life.

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