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Hello and Cara Santa Maria, and Jane Novella.

Hey guys.

Evan is out this week as we said Evan just had his surgery yesterday and apparently everything

went well he is recovering.

I can't wait to find out if he gets stronger.

Yeah, that kind of blew my mind when he said, you know, that after they do the surgery, like because of mechanically what's changed, that he actually might be a little stronger like that's that's not it's not that he's going to be physically stronger is that the connection of the ligament to the bone

mechanical advantage right he'll'll have a more mechanical advantage.

No, I just think it's going to be a tighter connection between the ligament and the bone.

Yeah, like it's going to be less likely to snap like it did this. Yeah, right.

Which is a good thing. Well, we got to ask him because I'm not a hundred percent sure. Yeah, don't listen to me. What do I know? But.

We're not a fricking surgeon. You know, but how's it going to make his muscle stronger?

It's just going to the connection.

Yeah, but the muscle, the pure muscle itself won't, you know, wouldn't be stronger.

But if you...

He's gonna need rehab.

Yeah, yeah, I'm just talking about...

I'm just saying that muscle strength isn't purely dependent on the muscle.

The attachment point also can confer a mechanical advantage lower.

You don't think that it's a evolved or optimal mechanical advantage already.

And you don't think that like muscle strength is not a significant difference, that like muscle strength overrides that if that makes

sense yeah like even if somebody else had that mechanical advantage would you even

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