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You're listening to How to Bea Bea Better Human.

I'm your host Chris Duffy. This week we've got a

compilation of some of our favorite moments from previous episodes of the show.

One of the cool things about the fact that we've gotten to talk to so many people

over the years of doing the show is that the producers and I have started to find some themes that come up again and again and again in these interviews.

And one of the themes that comes up a lot is how powerful and important it is to find a way to

connect with nature. Now as I've talked about a lot on this show I am a city boy I

grew up in a small apartment in a big building in a huge city. We did not have a

front yard, we did not have a backyard. If I wanted to touch grass I was going to

a park and I was going to be touching grass that a lot of other people had

already touched before me. But you know what? That didn't make it any less

special to be laying out on that lawn or to be looking out at the river or to be walking in the

shade of a tree.

And while my family did live in that big city,

we still managed to get out into nature,

whether that was visiting friends or hiking or camping,

being surrounded by a pine forest or jumping into a lake, or the one time that we saw a moose in a bog.

Those are memories that stand out so vividly in my mind.

There are times when I felt small in the best way. I was in awe.

And also at the same time I was smelling smells that were not just hot garbage and pee. So you know there were

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