Three two one. Oh my goodness good morning good afternoon. Whatever it is for you I hope you're having a fantastic day. My name is Zach Schomler.

It's a Strong Opinion Sports episode.

Oh, great question.

Three hundred 58, I believe.

I want to be very, very clear up front.

This will probably be the most scattered episode you've ever listened to of Strong

Opinion Sports for a detailed reason. But I want to say first of all, it's an episode all

all about the NHL playoffs, round one.

I recorded it on Tuesday.

Had two awesome guests, my buddy Austin Cram, had Nathan Shields on.

We talked for, I think, two hours about hockey between the two conversations.

Lovely time, lovely people.

I recorded it on Tuesday.

I'm recording this at 1129 AM Pacific Coast Timem. Pacific Coast time zone

Pacific Coast time west coast time on Thursday and I was gonna put this out Tuesday night or Wednesday

and we had

technical difficulties we had I'll be honest I'm in the middle of moving I'm just

slammed and then also I've had really really big problems in that personal life

with some extended family that is just really toxic and causing problem after problem after problem for both me and my fiance and it's been a miserable week and I even there's a moment in middle of the show where I go to dinner I come back and I think I cussed like four times on the show because I was so I just was loose and tired and happy to be talking to a friend and not dealing with this extended family drama anymore.

So let me just tell you, there's a weird cut

midway through my Austin conversation,

then we get back into the conversation.

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