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Thank you. our discretion advised. Please enjoy. Episode 39, and I'll just say that I was really proud of that Bobby Ryan interview that we did that came out the other day and got a lot of great feedback on it.

So I think that's, if you haven't heard it, go check it out because, you know, we always

beg for athletes to be more honest and candid with their situations and their stories.

And I think Bobby Ryan excelled in that department when he was on with us.

So I greatly appreciate everybody for their feedback,

but not only that for Bobby Ryan for coming on and telling us his story,

because it doesn't sound like he had an easy go there.

And there's a younger life, but not only that with the rehab and the alcoholism.

So good on him.

Yeah. A lot of, a lot of, uh, adversity that he had to navigate through right from a very,

very young age, you know, I, I can't imagine what he had to go through when he was, you know,

moved halfway across the country to, you know, get away from his father.

He had to change his name.

And, and to be able to become one of the best players of his age group all the way through,

get drafted extremely high in the OHL.

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