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Management may maintain positions in the securities discussed in this podcast. Ben, did you know

that the human heart beats 100,000 times a day? What if I said yes, would that change this anecdote?

No, I did not know that. Well, now you know, and I have been taking my healthcare seriously

lately. My couch to 5K is going pretty well. I'm not going to lie.

I think the pandemic, it's kind of done two opposite directions to people. Some people

got a little lazy because it was easy to get lazy, and they went one way and they probably

gained the COVID-15 or whatever it's called. And other people decided, okay, I'm going to use this

as an opportunity to get healthy. But wouldn't you say that the biggest reason you've had

a more healthy lifestyle is because you're working from home now? Isn't that an unintended

consequence for you that you had more time and energy to do that? There's no doubt. But I will say

that I've slipped a little bit. My eating's got an out of control. We were out to dinner Thursday

night. I mean, you saw what went on. My eating's got an out of hand. But my health, like my fitness,

has absolutely picked up. So for example, Ben, I went to my Verizon store today, my local Verizon store,

and I ran home, phoneless, no phone, no airpods. I don't know why that's relevant to the story,

but I ran home, and I ran ran. Not like a jog. I ran. All right, it's not as impressive as I

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