What's up everybody and welcome to episode 155 of the Talking Chop podcast.

I am your host, Brad Rowland.

It is a fine Tuesday evening here in Atlanta and joining me for the first time in a while, I will say.

The great Eric Cole.

What's up, man?

Yeah, I think Brad had some sort of like court order against me coming on the podcast.

I'm not really sure what the deal was.

But, you know, my people talk to his people.

And, you know, it seems like we're good now.

Yeah, we've bridged the gap.

Yeah, candidly, I've recorded a couple of late night episodes recently, which usually lends itself to Mr. Coleman, who happens to live three hours behind us.

And then I had Zach Dillard, so blame him.

I have no problem to blaming Zach. That's not a problem at all.

And plus, you know, for those of us who have to get up super early in the morning and have kids and things like that, I appreciate, you know, not having to be up super, super late, even though I would

happily do it for you. My schedule, I'm looking forward to my schedule being back to normal again.

I know, you know, for those of those of you, it might be new listeners. I do have a day job still,

but I also have about four different semi- full-time writing jobs all put together,

which is, I guess the benefits of not being married with children. I have a little bit more time,

but even then I don't have time to do everything that I do. So it's been a little bit crazy,

and it's not going to get any less crazy for the next couple of weeks with March Madness coming.

So our apologies on the, I guess,

inconsistency of the scheduling on the podcast. At some point, very soon, we'll get back to our normal Sunday night rotation, but for now it's Tuesday, and next week's going to be probably

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