Hey, everybody, before we get started, this is my last week as the host of the outside podcast.

I'm moving on.

Even though I love making this show, and we had a whole season of stories lined up and ready to go.

Basically, there have been some seismic shifts at outside lately, and as part of those changes, the podcast is going to evolve.

I'm heading the mic over to Patty O'Connell, the producer for this week's episode, who happens to be

one of my favorite voices in the outside universe. Don't get me wrong, I am sad about this change.

I was raised reading outside and getting the chance to launch and run a narrative

storytelling podcast from my favorite magazine and then leave to work on a different massive project

for two years and then come back and host and produce the show with a budget that allowed us to do it

right for the last 18 months. Well, it's all been a very challenging and stressful dream come true.

So I'm glad it's Patty I was hanging over. I can't say exactly how things are going to change,

but knowing Patty, it'll probably be pretty fun. So I'm leaving you in his big, goofy hands.

Thank you, everyone who has listened over the years.

I hope we can figure out a way to continue the conversation somewhere else.

This is the outside podcast.

Do you find yourself lacking humility?

Too good at every new sport you pick up.

Do people call you the natural?

Do people not call you that, but deep down somewhere you feel like they should?

Do you recognize this as a problem? A sign of an inflated ego that you would like to uninflate in order to be a better person, but you just can't seem to figure out how to do that.

If this is you, let me recommend surfing. Surfing is a sport consisting entirely of

movements you would never do in any other context. Using muscles, it is almost impossible to train

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