What's up guys? Welcome to the Start Today podcast. I'm your host, Chris Cavalini. Today, we have a tremendous episode for you. And I know I always say something in that nature, right?

I always say that in the buildup.

We're going to have a good episode, partly because it's always fucking true.

But beyond that, today, I'm going to share with you guys a story that I've never told publicly.

I've been waiting three and a half years to talk about this.

And beyond the fact that I've never talked about it

publicly, there's only a handful of people who actually have heard, not even the whole story,

but bits and pieces of about what we're about to talk about today. But before we do that,

before we get into all that, I want to introduce you guys to my co-host my boy rick shapp rick

what's happening hey everybody it's saturday and we're ready to tear it up and uh chris is right man

this is like a subject we've talked about in the past but i never got all the details and i

wasn't time man that was always curious and the reason I didn't get the details,

because it was a fucking tornado and you were in it or a hurricane or whatever the hell,

earthquake, like all the things combined together. And you were sitting in it. So I never really

got a chance to sit you down and take you aside and talk to you because you had to get through

it, man. Yeah. Yeah, you know, I found, you know, throughout life through, I've, I've encountered a lot

of adversity. I've, I've dealt with a lot of struggle. I've been faced with a tremendous

amount of hardship. And, you know, what I have found to be most effective as far as being able

to navigate through those situations and through those

you know tough times is you know getting through it doing your best to keep a positive attitude

a positive outlook and keeping your game face on not letting the outside world really be aware

of what is happening because you you know, that's a,

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