Hello everyone and welcome to Ben Coomba Radio. So you're here with me Tom. I'm the usual co-host but as I mentioned last week

I'm covering for Ben Wies on paternity leave which means I get to play it and talk to people that I want to talk to which is really cool

And today is no exception today. I have I'll consider you as I suppose a friend at this point John

I think we're close friends now. I think once once you've run a marathon with someone you become close friends

It's a bond. But yeah, it's share struggling

No, I have my friend John Clarkies or John welcome to the show. Well, thank you very much for having me on

Yeah, it's very very welcome, man. I'm really looking forward to this chat. I'm glad that you and you agreed to come on

I've got a little bit of feedback. Is that coming through from your end or mine? Oh

I can't hear anything my end that way it will hope that it's gone

So yeah, thank you very much for being part of this John. It's amazing to have you on how about we introduce yourself to the audience

Yeah, it's always an awkward kind of give you a resume moment, isn't it? I suppose

Well, who who on my I suppose most people probably would know who I am at present based on my

Exercises in stupidity with my charity challenges

But aside from that multiple business owner Jim owner

coach of ten years father partner

Rugby player

Giu-Gitsu practitioner

The list goes on really so depends which one of those rabbit hollies you want to go down?

But yeah, Jack of all trades master of knowledge what some may describe me as and I probably agree with them

That's fantastic. I mean, I would see you're not far off being a master in some in fairness

But well, I'm sure we'll get to that. So what I thought we could do is we could do like a star wars and we'll start in the middle

And then we'll come towards the end and then we'll loop back to the beginning. So what I thought will be an interesting place to start is

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