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, this is Strong Opinion Sports episode 485.

I want to start today by just saying that

I want to encourage everyone to make sure the people you really care about in your life.

Know you love them, know they're cared for, send a text or a message to a friend of yours that you really care about today or maybe just go see them in person give them a phone call whatever it takes whatever kind of reaching out you want to do reach out to somebody you love today somebody you care about.

This week I lost a childhood friend, a guy I played sports with growing up, he died. And it hit pretty hard for me. It was awful.

Death is terrible and I just want to

encourage everyone to make sure the people that you care about know they are

loved and reach out of people. Go talk to them.

Also, I figure like why not ask this question?

Does anyone, someone, I do read the comments on YouTube

especially, and when you put stuff out into the world enough people

listen someone's bound to respond with a helpful tip I've been really having I'd never had panic attacks before in my life until this month

and it's happened multiple times and I've been really struggling with managing stress levels

and like a pit in my stomach.

I just I get really tense and I'm really having a hard time.

If anyone has a routine for how they manage stress any like a little tip or trick or is there like a song you

listen to is there like a little rhythm you guys have does anyone have a thing

they do and they're feeling really stressed out that helps them relax briefly like you

know I will sit at my desk and work and

something will happen and it's tense up and then I need to go take a break and I

haven't figured out what the optimal way to calm down is if anyone has any

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