We are live.

That's what it says.

We being, this is Todd Zola, not Jeff Erickson.

Jeff is traveling home from Las Vegas from the company outing, which one of these years I'll go back to.

And my special guest has, you folks have talked to him before on the Thursday industry pod,

but he's been begging me to have him on as a guest. And that's,

that's the one and only Ian Khan. Ian dressed up for the occasion. I'm wearing the lightest t-shirt

I can find. I'm sure you can afford air conditioning. I can't. No, you know what it is. I just

finished working and I was going to go with my family and do something and the plans changed and you

were kind enough to move things forward so I can do things a little bit later that need to be done.

Listen, Todd Zola, getting an opportunity to spend 45 minutes to an hour to speak with

the Hall of Famer himself, Todd Zola is, is an honor and a pleasure. And look, I, actually, I don't know if you and I, we've been on shows together. We've done radio shows together, but I don't think you and I have ever just shared a podcast like this. No, we've, we've, we've had you on as a guest with Clay or Jeff or whoever. I'm usually the sidekick. I'm the, I'm the Ed McMahon of Roto Wire and wherever, you know, I've enjoyed. I've been, I've enjoyed being the sidekick first with Jason Gray and then with Larr. I've kind of done pretty well as a sidekick. Yeah. But yeah, I like me. They're giving me the opportunity to to be the man for a day. You're the man. You're the man today. You're the man tomorrow. You're going to be on with Justin Mason, right, tomorrow? Yeah, doing the two start pitchers. And Justin has a little something else to talk about. Are you doing pot-upilusa? You know, I'm not. And I owe Justin a phone call to see if he, this weekend is a challenging weekend for me.

But if he needs someone to pinch it early Saturday morning.

So I'll reach out to Justin as soon as this is over.

Justin Mason, truly a gentleman and just a good all-around fellow.

The latest recipient of the Laram Michaels Award, matter of fact, Justin.

Yeah, which you received in year one, I believe.

You were the first recipient, then our friend Rick Wolf number two.

Yeah, and yeah, the tout board will get together and decide on the fourth.

It's going to be nice that we could finally say hi to each other live, knock on wood.

In March, we have. The hall of famers haven't gotten together

you know pianosky we haven't learned the you know he and i haven't learned the secret

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