Oh my goodness. Good morning. Good afternoon. Whatever it is for you, I hope you're having a

fantastic day. My name is Zach Schommeler. This is Strong Opinion Sports episode 690 and joining me as

my good friend, Nathan. Nathan, how are you? I'm doing great. I'm excited to be back. You know, we had the holidays.

I had a little bit of a sickness there, kind of lost my voice and lost the air to my lungs.

But we're on the up and we're excited to be back. He's back from playing hooky guys. You know,

he says he was sick. Oh my God. I watched that Oregon playoff game and I was like, of course Nathan's going to call it sick.

Like, uh-huh. Sick. Sure. More like depressed and sad.

Depressed and sad certainly didn't help the sickness. But for those of you that don't know what viral-induced asthma is, when you get sick, you get asthma, essentially, or your

asthmatic symptoms flare up. I haven't had a flare up like this since high school. I'm in there.

Like weas and like Spong when he needs water. Yeah, it was brutal. So, you know, went into

urgent care, got a prescription, got some inhalers to help kick it. But it was, I mean, it was brutal. So, you know, went to urgent care. I got a prescription, uh, got some

inhalers to help kick it. But it was, I mean, I was talking like this every single time I had to

breathe. So if I was on the show, I would not have been able to deliver for you guys. Um,

I wish I could have been there live reacting in the moment to Oregon for you all.

You know, I wanted to take that one on the chin for you guys.

But I'm back now.

We're ready to rock.

I, uh, we, this is a weirdest thing to respond to this with, but I'm, you know, I'm,

I'm dating an ER nurse.

And, uh, I'm so glad you went to the right place that you don't know how many people go to the ER when it's

really not an emergency like they just need to go to urgent care instead and it's like you

I don't know if you were aware you did good there but as a person dating an air nurse way to go to

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