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And so thank you, Clarence.

And then, of course, Dr. Barry Baines is our medical advisor, keeps us honest.

He crosses the T's and dots the I's when it comes to some of the medical issues, whereby Clarence and I come at it with a public health hat,

Barry provides the medical hat for our show.

So thank you to you as well, Barry.

So today, Dr. Steve Kopecky.

Steve and I go back a ways.

When I headed up the cardiovascular unit at the Minnesota Department of Health,

Steve was the chair of our committee, our statewide committee on addressing cardiovascular disease and was a wonderful, wonderful chair.

And we've maintained contact since then.

He's a great colleague and friend.

He's a consultant and chair of education in the division of preventive cardiology at Mayo Clinic.

in Rochester, Minnesota.

Serves as the director of Familial Hypocholesterolemia Statin Intolerance Clinic, which is also a particular subject that we might want to talk about somewhere down the line.

You know, statin intolerance addressing cholesterol issues.

Has been at the Mayo Clinic since 1989, so he's a fixture there.

But he's a wonderful speaker, has done a lot of writing, books, publications, and is a true expert in cardiovascular disease.

So when the new blood pressure guidelines came out, what's it been, about a month or so, a little over a month?

I said, okay, in my mind I asked, is this going to provide –

provide us all with a little bit more confusion um and uh and therefore let's make sure that we don't get confused and we address all the aspects of blood pressure and so nobody is better at it than um than steve so steve thank you thanks for thanks for having me yeah yeah it's