Good morning. Happy Monday. These are short little interviews called

Meet the Nation Mondays where we interview somebody that listens to this podcast

just a listener to get to know them a little bit better. And today we are

interviewing Nick Costa. And here we go.

I'm sorry. The person you were trying to reach has a voicemail box that has not been

set up yet. Please try your call again later. Hi, is this Nick? Oh, I just called

a second ago. And it said the person has not set up a voicemail yet. So I

thought I was getting blown off. Oh, no. Sorry about that. No, outstanding. No,

it's good. All right. So we're today we are calling Nick Costa. Where are you

located, Nick? Costa. Yeah. Syracuse, New York. All right. And what do you do for

work out there in New York? So I'm a middle school social studies teacher eighth

grade. When does that kick off today? I'm actually it's a good day for me to do

those actually if they're spring break here in New York. So actually picked a good

day for it. Oh, so you're not, you're not mentally preparing for talking to kids this

morning yet. No, no. That's good. That could get aggressive at like seven in the morning.

Like questions from the weekend because you might not be caught up and ready to go. And

then they might hit you with some knowledge that you don't have. Correct. Yeah. You're

usually find a way to do that. Yeah. Is that upstate in New York? Do you consider that

upstate? Syracuse. Yeah. Yeah. We're like middle of the state. Yeah. Okay. We're some like five

hours of from New York City. Okay. All right. Why don't you tell me a little bit about your running?

Like how'd you get into it? You know, how'd you start where? Yeah. Today kind of give me the

two minute lecture about your life and running. Yeah. So 2017 I started with running. I never

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