Hello, hello, hello, good morning, good afternoon.

Whatever it is for you, I hope you're having a fantastic day.

My name is Zach Schamler.

This is Strong Appendix Sports episode 412.

Unique special episode, something very different than I normally do.

It's an episode entirely dedicated to Man in the Arena episode one, the Tom Brady documentary.

It is 3.51 in the morning as I record.

I took a little nap.

I'm behind honestly on content this week but I I wanted to give this episode or guess this television show the series the man in the arena

the special attention that I think it deserves.

I wish I'd done this with the last dance,

to be totally honest.

You know, hey, you learn, you move on, you evolve,

and I want to every week do an episode specially dedicated to this show because I love Tom Brady

he's my favorite athlete of all time he's a cultural icon and I think this show deserves it

it's kind of it's the kind of stuff like, you know, in theory, if I could do an episode breaking down

the TV show Survivor every week, that'd be really cool too.

That's not ever going to happen in my career. But here is an opportunity to break down a TV show I really like once a week and it sounds fun. Welcome and I have one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine and a half pages of notes here. I don't know how long

this is going to be. I really don't. It could be, I would guess it's not going to be crazy long, but I want to meander, take my time, and just make a long form piece where I, you know, I just talk about a show I like and really enjoyed.

The man in the arena is something I've been looking forward to

for so long.

And the reason why I love Tom Brady is because

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