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I am Brian Nemhouser.

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So it is the final Blue Friday of this season.

There are no more games left to be played after the one that happens this weekend.

And it's a treat.

It's an absolute treat to spend this morning with Mike Sando, who's been with us every single Friday during the season of the athletic and Dave Bowling of the Spokesman Review, who has very kindly joined us for this playoff run.

Mike, first of all, start with you. How are you holding up?

My voice is barely holding on, but how's your week treating you?

Really good, but there is kind of a weird tiredness that comes into this.

It's hard to explain.

I get this at the Combine, too, and neither one of the weeks is like your most demanding work week or for me, it's not like,

it doesn't compare to like, you know, working a real job or, or, but it drains you in a weird way.

Like there's certain points along these weeks where you just crash out. And it's like, yeah,

I've had some long days, but I have longer days like other times of the year. It's just weird at these events. And so there will always be a time during Super Bowl week where you're on those 6 a.m. buses or whatever to go out to the hotels. And as you get to later in the week, there's fewer and fewer people there, you know,

because people just, you hit kind of a wall.

And even today, Brian, you know, we were going to do this all in person. And you were like, hey, I'm going to stay back at the hotel. Isn't that kind of a weird thing? Because it's not like this is the most taxing. I mean, we got a great week. You know, we're staying in a nice hotel room. You know, it's I'm not working like longer hours that I normally would, but you, by the end of the week, you do, it does kind of try you out in a weird way. So, uh, that's, when we first got on, Dave's like, geez, Sandel, you look a little haggard. I, well, I wasn't I didn't even drink anything last night. I just kind of feel a little haggard this morning, You know, and you you can't explain it. It's just a some of these events are like that. They're really fun, but they do make you tired. You know, it's the opposite for bowling. He looks 10 years younger after this week. What's that about, Dave? Adrenaline, baby. I love it.

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