Good morning, everybody.

Welcome to another episode of HockBlogger Mornings.

I'm Brian Mhouser.

You can find me and all that we do here on YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, at HockBlogger.

Of course, you can get the audio version on Apple Podcast, Spotify, wherever you like to get it,

or the ad-free version on patreon.com slash hawk blogger.

Somehow, some way, this is the number one Seahawks podcast on the planet

for the number one football team on the planet, the Seattle Seahawks.

And we have a really fun show this morning.

We're going to have a guest on here who we've talked about a fair amount,

but we've never had the chance to actually talk to.

And my preference is always to have the conversation live.

And finally, we're able to get the man the myth, Ben Solac from ESPN on the show,

father of two children under the age of two.

So let's be gentle.

Let's be gentle with Ben Solac because

God knows if you're a parent, two under two is real work. Ben, how are you doing this morning?

Well, thanks for asking. Now, it's the bomb. You don't sleep very much, but it really is the bomb.

Yeah, yeah. Well, you know, every little milestone is a celebration and that's not just their development,

but the longer they sleep, the more they do themselves, all that's coming up. So it's actually

my son's birthday is 25th, so a little bit different age range, but he can rent a car now. So that's

a big day. I was telling my younger brother that.

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