Are you ready? Are you ready for our 10-minute walk together? Thank you for joining me and welcome to walking is fitness.

This is a podcast of action as together we walk for 10 minutes, holding each other accountable for keeping our commitment to fitness.

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Hi, I'm Dave, and today, if you are listening to Walking as Fitness on the day that this episode is released, this is a very special day.

It's an anniversary of a specific event at a specific time in a specific place.

And I'm going to take you back 39 years ago. I was working at a radio station in Baltimore.

The call letters, W-A-Y-E. And on this particular day, January 7,

1983, we had a visitor at the radio station, excuse me, and I saw the visitor for the first time,

sort of a pseudo meeting.

As I was walking, as I was walking down steps, the radio station was on the second floor of a building on North Charles Street, 334 North Charles Street in Baltimore.

It's actually a really fun studio and radio station layout.

But I digress.

And I was walking down the steps.

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