You know him, you love him, you admire his calves and his biceps daily on his YouTube

channel and his Instagram account, Jacques, in the garden.

But how much do you really know about this mysterious Bulgarian garden hermit?

You hear his laughs, you see his straw hat, but what lurks beneath?

In today's episode here on the podcast, we're going to be doing a spooky spicy, ask me

anything episode for Jacques.

So where should we start Jacques?

What should people know about you that they don't know?

What's a surprising fact?

A surprising fact is that I actually have my master's in geology, my undergrad in geology,

and I quit my PhD in geology to do gardening full-time, so it's a pretty interesting little

icebreaker.

It basically went all the way in Takademia and then pulled myself all the way out because

it just wasn't doing it for me and it sparked the joy that being outside, like you think

a geologist would, does, but it turns out you just sit in the lab most of the day.

Looking at rocks and stalagmites, geodes, all the goodies, I still like those things,

but crystallization, all that kind of stuff.

So it just can't do it forever.

What's the weirdest thing back in your old and life that you studied?

The weirdest thing that I studied, I don't know if the weirdest, but like the most esteric

thing that I studied was the ancient magnetic field 1.4 billion years ago in Wyoming, which

at that time wasn't where Wyoming was because it was 1.4 billion years of motion of the

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