Good morning, everybody. Welcome to another episode of HockBlogger Mornings. I'm Brian

Emhazer. You can find me and this show all over the place. YouTube, TikTok, Instagram,

Spotify, at HockBlogger. In fact, I keep getting a wave of messages, DMs from people that are getting their Spotify wrapped and their YouTube

wrapped saying that they are the number one fan of the show, which is really, really humbling,

honestly. Someone has watched 602 of our videos this year on YouTube, which is wild. And I think they're probably going to want to

watch this one as well because our guest, E.J. Snyder's back from bootleg football, man. And E.J.,

I can only imagine, if I'm getting those many messages, how many you and your buddy Brett are

getting? We're getting quite a few. And you're correct. Humbling is the only response, I think, to all that.

I, you know, typically take one of the top ones that comes in early and, you know, say,

hey, are you better than George here?

He's got, you know, this many hours or this many videos or whatever else.

And then people respond to that and it kind of becomes a game.

And it sort of fills itself.

But yeah, somebody watched 462 of our videos this year.

And we only have 510.

So that is that is crazy.

It's it's really amazing.

I mean, you get people from all over the world and you get people.

And I think that's that is part of why we do this, right? It's to be able to, you know, it's an

isolating world. And, you know, you're finding people that connect on a subject that hopefully

doesn't really matter that much, but matters enough that we could talk about it and have some fun with it.

And, you know, this particular division this year, the NFC West is so worth talking about.

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