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Hey Jason not bad that was one try I am at optimal

caffeination I believe it's a fine balance isn't it? Totally. Yeah I'm excited for the show too.

I mean what I can't believe we were able to finally pull this off you know this obviously the

if you've if you've seen the title for episode 249 you know what you're in store for and

it's it was just a thrill for us and it's been literally like a year and a half in the

making right because we talked about doing this last year when Kristen was made her first attempt on the

on the 14 peaks but I'm jumping ahead how are you doing? I'm doing really well yeah I mean

kind of running on the high of just having talked with Kristen like we just got off the line with her. Yeah. And then you and I were just catching up about some like dive logistics for a vacation coming up. So I've got a kind of like a lot of good things on my mind right now.

The chat was super fun and we'll get to it in just a few minutes.

That'll be most of the episode today.

But yeah, things have been really good on my end.

I'm home for I think at least the next few days before going back up to the cottage

kind of endlessly rearranging my office and trying to decide about little bits of kid I ordered some

speakers so if I like them we'll talk about those in a future like some desktop monitors

Which I hope mean I could edit the show occasionally without headphones. Oh wow nice that's kind of all I was up to you know that over the last two weeks or so I was at the cottage for almost all of it which was really nice and we did a ton of snorkeling like I talked about on the last episode and yeah other than that just getting some kit together for a vacation.

We're taking a break.

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