What's up everybody? My name is Zach Schallmer. This is strong opinion sports for Monday, October 30th. I am so gosh dang excited for today's show.

To understand why it matters so much to me, you have to understand the story of today's show.

I hate college. I absolutely hate school.

School is killing me. I hate it. I have four papers due this week and I have writers blocked in all of them.

You know I spent my whole weekend this weekend, Halloween weekend,

writing papers trying to get everything done for school this week.

And the truth is I didn't finish my show prep last night.

So I'm in classes and meetings from 8 a.m. until 4 p.m. today and I get out of my classes at 4 p.m.

And I found myself at 4.30 with no show, no prep, all my prep wasn't done, and I'm I'm depressed I'm really like I'm hating

school I don't want to be here really struggling like just why am I doing this

and then I sat down to start writing the show and it just all was it just poured out of me

and that's when I realized how much I love doing this. This is my favorite thing at

college. Doing strong opinion sports is what I love to do and it's why I'm here.

It turned my whole day around. I got to talk

about what I love to do. I got to write about a ton of stuff. And here's where it gets even better.

I was so pissed because I normally record the show at 11 o'clock. I record the show at 11 a.m. try to get it out by 5.

I'm recording the show right now at 10.03 p.m. and I'm sure everyone in my hall hates me.

I feel bad, but it is what it is. There's no way they're trying to sleep. It's 10 o'clock.

The NFL trade deadline happened. It's coming up tomorrow. So all this thing, all these

trades have been happening all day and I'm pushing the show back later and

later and as a result of pushing the show back later I can talk about all the

things that happened on all the trades that went on today. I'm really really

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