Steve, this is Thursday, but it's going out Friday.

We're pre-recorded this one, so I'll be early, but on time as this is released and say,

Happy Birthday.

I appreciate it, man.

Getting, like we talked about the day, getting older, but don't feel like it, man.

Still young and spry.

Hopefully, I wonder how long that lasts.

Well, especially lately, you said how you've been you know hiking and riding and you've just feel like a physical specimen right now

so it's a good thing man turning 36 but feeling like you're you know a good place yeah i was always like

uh i remember you know in my late 20s early 30 30s, when I was like really, really rocking shape.

And I was always proud, right?

Like I'm a way better shape now than when I was 20 years old.

Like I could kick my 20 year old ass like hiking up a hill or something like that.

So that's a good thing to say better than the opposite of, you know, getting older and fatter and slower as you get to get up there

right for sure man cool well we have some listener questions today and then also some questions that came up from an email that went out earlier this week through exo and an article that I had did on my rifle build and some follow-up

questions on that, which we'll get to. But let's tackle this pack question first. This guy wrote

in and says he just purchased a $4,800 and previously he's had some K2 packs.

He said one thing he has always noticed and wondered about is why XO bags are narrow at the bottom.

He talked about his sleeping bag, and he puts it in a stuff sack, and it kind of barely

fits in the bottom of the bag because it's narrow.

So he's wondering, what is the reasoning for that?

Yeah, it's all about weight distribution. We talk all the time about, you know, having,

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