Hey, welcome to... Sorry.

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Hey, welcome to 59 degrees north with Andy Shell.

Hey, hey, hey, welcome back to the 59 degrees north sailing podcast.

This is Andy here again.

Special episode this week.

I'm going to start trying to do this once a week.

I got this idea from Tim Ferriss.

If you're into podcasts and into kind of stuff,

check out the Tim Ferriss show. He started it maybe several weeks ago and has about 10, 15 episodes

out. But he does an episode a week with a guest once a week. And then on the end of the week,

on Friday, he reads an essay about some topic that he's passionate about or whatever.

And it's just a short episode. He calls him In Between Asodes, which I think the name is kind of dumb, but whatever. But anyway, they're really cool. So I'm going to try and do the same thing. Try and do two podcasts a week now, one with a guest and one with a little essay that I read at the end of the week. So if you'd like this, please let me know.

Email me, Andy at 5 end of the week. So if you like this, please let me know.

Email me, Andy at 59-north.com, or check me out on Twitter at 59 North Sailing. If you don't like it, let me know as well. If nobody likes these things, I'll stop doing them. But I think

they're pretty interesting. It's either fun stories that I have to tell like it is today, or

it'll just be sort of ideas I have on different sailing topics, opinions I have, basically. And

hopefully, some of those will stir things up, some of those will get you thinking, but whatever.

So this is the first week we'll be doing this. This is a story from Sweden a couple years ago. Actually, the kind of

the course of my experience here in Sweden and how that evolves. Some of you may have read this

on my blog, but many of you hopefully haven't. It's a good one, and I hope you enjoy it. Thanks for

listening.

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