Okay, 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 Schamler.

This is Strong Opinion Sports episode 457.

Been kind of a weird week.

I want to first tell you something. I don't know how to properly explain what I'm

witnessing and what I'm hearing. I am pretty confident. I'm 99.9%

confident you cannot hear what's happening in the background outside my apartment.

But there's an Asian market around the corner and there's a guy like banging a drum, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang,

and then symbols and I'm very confused.

It seems like they're allowing him to play drums in their establishment.

I don't know, is it like Chinese New Year I missed that, the memo on it, is there some holiday?

I don't know, but I don't know but I don't know I don't know why

there's a guy like literally I sat down a hit record and immediately a guy started banging

out a drum and I was like what why is that allowed I don't it's of throwing me off. I'm doing the best I can to hang with it. I'm pretty sure you can't hear so I'm just going to keep going anyway. It's just kind of funny like, why is that happening? And what's the reason? Is there even a reason? I don't know. It's been kind of a weird week.

You know, February 8 was the anniversary of my brother's death. It's been six years and

dang man that it really threw me off. I fight it really hard every year.

Every year I'm like, ah, it's not going to affect me.

I'm going to do something fun and I, it threw me off for about a whole day.

I've also been working on a lot of stuff this week,

like predictions versus reality for next week.

I've got a really cool episode planned with a guy I love who does worse take, Quincy,

and I am just kind of it's been weird because the

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