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2022 USTFCCCA LIVE podcast: Jake Wilks-Firefly Recovery · The Gill Athletics Track and Field Connections Podcast

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  Can you believe it's one week away?
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  You've been enjoying reviews of last year's 2022 Gill Athletics
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  Connections podcast live in Denver, Co at the USTF CCCA
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  convention. And now we're one week away.
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  That's right, next Monday at 5:30 PM Denver time.
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  We're doing it again live. Join us the URL.
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  Is down in the link, so you can catch us on YouTube next Monday.
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  We're live here in Denver, Co at the 2022 USTFCCA Track and field
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  Convention. We're past time.
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  We said five to seven, mountain Standard Time, 6 to 8 out there
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  in the Central time or in my home, my home time zone.
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  Shout out to the CST and looks like we're kind of getting on
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  the end here. I don't know that we have many
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  people left here, so maybe we're going to wrap this up as I don't
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  see anybody kind of chomping at the bit to join us.
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  I'm gonna give just a couple of minutes here, a couple seconds
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  maybe. Maybe it'll be very long here
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  and we'll see if anybody joins us.
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  Wow. To sit in the hot seat here for
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  the Gaelic Connections podcast live recording.
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  First time ever live recording of the Gaelic Connections
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  podcast here in Denver, Co USTFCC CA/2022 as we wait for
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  our next victim here in the hot seat.
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  Hey, check me out on Twitter at Mike Cunningham just like it
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  sounds. No spaces, no dashes.
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  MIKECUNNINGH AM I'm hot man. I'm always on Twitter, man.
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  That's where you can always catch me.
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  Of course you can always text me on my cell phone 217898. 3038
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  And of course you can check out everything that we make and
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  manufacture right here in the great USA in Champaign, IL at
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  gillathletics.com, on Twitter, we're at Gill Athletics and I
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  think on Instagram we're at Gill Athletics or maybe Gill
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  Athletics 1918. Not real sure.
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  Hey guys. All right, we're getting ready
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  here for our next guest. I knew I had at least one more
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  person that would sit in the hot seat for us today.
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  Here, man. Put your headphones on.
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  Scoot on out. We're doing an airplane style,
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  man. I know you ain't shot.
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  Nice. Introduce yourself to our
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  audience here. How you doing?
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  I'm Jake Wilks. I'm the national director here
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  for Firefly Recovery. We are recovery device mainly
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  used to keep the legs fresh. It's pretty important to track
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  and field. So tell me what does that mean?
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  What is fire? Is it a?
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  Is it a treadmill? Is it a drink?
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  What is Firefly? So Firefly is a wearable
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  technology. It is basically an enemy S
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  device, which is a STEM. It was actually developed as a
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  medical device. The medical version is called
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  the Gecko. Yep.
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  And Firefly is just the over the counter version of the
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  technology. But the technology is actually
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  developed to displace compression boots in the surgery
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  centers. So a lot of times when patients
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  have little shimby surgery, they sit home with.
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  SCD sleeves or IPC sleeves, which are just pneumatic
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  compression classes. They're sitting home with those
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  devices because it's going to help prevent blood clots and
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  reduce swelling post surgery. The issue in the medical space
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  is that most people don't want to be stuck in compression boots
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  for 24 hours post surgery. So our device was developed to
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  help provide a better patient friendly option that was more
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  wearable on the go, easy to use. The science behind is basically
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  by stimulating what's called the coronial nerve, that nerve
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  starts at the top of the hips, goes down to the toes, right?
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  Right. When you comfortably stimulate
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  that nerve, it causes your foot to flutter or to dance.
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  So you start getting this little foot tick.
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  And that foot tick, the mechanic of moving your foot actually
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  moves blood back to the heart, similar to walking.
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  So clinical research shows that by stimulating the coronial
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  nerve. With our technology, it's called
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  the on pulse, basically the patent on the stem that runs the
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  fire climb together. When you stimulate that nerve,
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  it actually increases low extremity blood flow from hip to
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  toe by 400% compared to compression which is 117.
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  And I'll assume that blood flow is pretty important for track
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  and field. Athletes, blood flow is good.
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  I mean, I. Asked the real easy softball
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  questions here. Blood flow is the key.
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  Well, sleeping nutrition obviously, which hopefully.
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  Your college athletes know that they usually don't.
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  I'm. Sure, they know that there's no
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  way in doing, you know. The good thing you know about
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  this technology that we have in, you know, I played running back
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  in college, so. Under what school I was.
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  At Sanford University, go Bulldogs, No.
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  No, not go Bulldogs. No, no Bulldogs I.
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  Went to Troy University. Oh, OK.
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  I thought we have the greatest robber reads.
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  It's not that we don't be real frank with you, but but you
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  know, being in the same state, not being Alvin Wolver.
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  So, OK. Do you have any children?
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  I have a six month old what did? Boy or girl?
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  It's a boy. What did you name him?
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  His name is Cayman, OK? Yeah, so I have a just turned 12
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  year old. Guess what his name is?
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  Troy. Troy Yeah.
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  Yeah. So I feel like I'm the better
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  alum for my school. I'm just saying.
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  I can't name my son Sanford. I guess you could Sam Ford and
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  your last name. Sanford Wilkes.
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  Dude, that actually pretty good, doesn't it?
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  Hey, it's not too late. You say six months old.
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  Well, yeah, no, you can change that.
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  I'm sure we'll have enough after we're done here.
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  Call call Mom. Let's get that done.
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  But no, Stanford grade school, honestly.
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  And really, you know you played football right back there.
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  Really great football team and maybe maybe the maybe the most
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  beautiful campus. It is an amazing.
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  An amazing campus. Amazing professors, amazing
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  sports. Had a great time there.
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  Loved it. Our track and field programs
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  obviously really got it and you know, it's been fun.
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  Now a lot of the same for sports.
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  Use my technology so it's fun. To get back.
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  So tell me more about that Dick, you said your technology how are
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  you our technology. Yeah sure.
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  Sure. How are you and the company?
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  Where how did Mum be joined and? Yes, I was employee number one
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  four years ago. So our founder actually brought
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  the medical version of the technology.
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  To the US and became the sole distributor for the Gecko.
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  Anthony Gentheds, our founder. He's been in the medical
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  distribution space for about 20-7 years.
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  He's the one that kind of found the need for more wearable
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  portable option for his patients because they were complaining so
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  much about wearing compression post surgery.
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  So our technology is about the size of a wristwatch.
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  So I was. Going to have.
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  I'm trying to get a visual here. It's basically looks like a
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  sticker that you put right around the knee.
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  That stem will stimulate the nerve and that's what creates
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  the systemic blood flow. So instead of passively, if
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  anybody's familiar with compression, usually that's
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  norm. Detect recovery pump in your
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  body. Any type of compression booth
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  that's massaging and squeezing that blood to get that
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  lymphatic. You're actually putting action
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  into it. We're actively in dynamically
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  moving blood using your bodies on the candidates, so the main
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  way we're being used by our athletes is when you're flying
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  and you're traveling on buses. These are really easy devices.
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  You can pack 50 pairs in a duffel bag and your whole team
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  can, you know, have their own unit.
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  On so it's wearable. Is it reusable or is it like a
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  like bandage? You get a box, yeah.
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  It's reusable, so it's got an adhesive gel.
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  You just take that on and off the baggage treatment.
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  Most of our athletes will wear it for about 1 to 4 hours
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  because our technology is patented for the nervous system.
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  Unlike other traditional muscle stems, you don't have to worry
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  about muscle to fatigue. Remember, stimulate the muscle.
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  Group. So it's a really easy, you know.
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  I guess going back to an athlete's.
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  It's an effortless recovery tool that you can use on the go.
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  You don't have to be sitting in a booth or sitting in a chair.
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  You can actually. Be mobile you can be doing.
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  Things So a lot of our track and field programs, especially NCA.
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  I know Dustin Williams at BYU, a good friend of mine.
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  They're big. Believers in it, Texas a couple
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  of years. He's a.
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  Great deal, amazing guy, but a couple of great programs have
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  really found. Tremendous benefit and having on
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  the go tool that athletes can utilize in and outside of the
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  athletic training room cuz I think there's a need for
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  athletes recovering more than just one treatment a.
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  Week in the. 18 room so especially for runners that are
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  always fatigued. Just an easy quick.
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  Way to flush the the body and get reoctionated that's.
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  Cool. So besides being here at the
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  USTCCC convention, people can go go see the booth, maybe even get
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  to try it out. We're for our listeners and this
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  is going to be on podcast throughout the year 2023.
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  Where can people find out more about Firefly?
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  Yeah, our website is very good resource.
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  It's just www.recoveryfirefly.com.
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  Recoveryfirefly.com. Our Instagram page is a
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  fantastic resource. Most of the Instagram page is
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  filled with, you know, our athletes and our athletic.
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  Trainers and our sports teams that also provide a lot of good
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  applications of use and provide a good visual.
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  Cuz I know when you're just listening to a podcast it's sure
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  to picture what it's like. But visually, if you go to our
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  website or Instagram, it's pretty simple to find.
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  Then my e-mail, if anyone wants to contact me directly, is Jake
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  at recovery Firefly dot. Com, recovery, Firefly, all one
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  word. No dashes, dots, all that kind
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  of stuff. Super easy.
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  Thanks for doing that, by the way.
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  Recovery firefly.com. That's right.
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  I love it, brother. Man, thanks for being on the
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  show today. We end everyone with the selfies
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  and even you, man. We got to get the selfie and get
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  it in. Awesome.
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  Jake, thanks a lot so much for being here, man.
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  I appreciate you so much. Appreciate you.
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  Good luck with the rest of the show.
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  Thank you. Yes, Sir.
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  That sounds like a great resource there.
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  Recovery, firefly.com and I like that and so maybe check it out.
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  Maybe it's something for your athletes and maybe maybe not, I
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  don't know. But you should check it out cuz
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  you owe yourself and you owe your athletes to know everything
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  that's available out there to you.
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