Oh my goodness, good morning, good afternoon.

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

My name is Zach Schombler, this is Strong Opinion Sports, episode 543 welcome in hope you're doing very very well

look I want to I want to share a personal note here to start the show

then we'll jump in I put a message on page on and said thank you to everybody.

I want to be clear I've got an amazing job talking about sports is incredible.

And I have the perspective now of someone who has done other stuff than that.

You know, I did HVAC for a couple months and I was in crawl spaces every day in attics when it's 90 degrees outside putting in refrigerant lines and

braising metal and cutting sheet metal and building these transitions from

like a furnace to you know central heating I enjoyed it it was tough I got my

license in a month and a half I'm very proud of that but I have perspective and I've

done other jobs and I want to acknowledge how great this job is and a luck I am to be here.

And it's not very often people get a first opportunity to do their dream job, let alone

a second chance. And we're at the end of our first week

back it's Friday it's the fourth show the week and I'm I'm very grateful I got off the

phone this morning with a call. Looks like we got a big sponsor for August.

It'll take like, you know, three months until they pay me, but look, we're headed in a really good direction.

And in the meantime, I'm eating rice and spicy

and mayo every day doing the best I can to just keep the lights on

till we can make it until things kick in

and go into gear and football season starts.

But my gosh, it's good to be back and we're going to talk about a

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