Good morning, everybody. Welcome to another episode of HawkBlogger Mornings. I am Brian M. Hauser. You can find me and all of these shows everywhere you look at HawkBlogger, YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, Apple, podcast, Spotify, all the places. And this is such a fun week.

This is such a fun week.

The best two teams in football by almost any measure clash down in Los Angeles.

And I'd bring a very special guest, a first-time guest onto the show.

One of my favorite podcasts to listen to, the athletic football show added a big heavy hitter.

Dave Hellman to the cast this year.

And this is our first time getting to talk to Dave

after talking to Robert and Derek.

It just felt right to bring Dave on board for this game.

How are you doing, Dave?

I'm wonderful, Brian.

Thanks for having me on, dude.

And thanks for the intro.

Yeah, it's been, I guess I joined the show in July.

And I was a long time listener and fan myself.

So it's been kind of surreal to be part of it. And I hope I'm living up to the standard of

such a good podcast. So thank you. Yeah, you've been a great addition. I think it's, I think the

combination of personalities is awesome and the football passion and different expertise and different

perspectives has been great. And, uh, for folks that don't know, you know, how you

got into what you've got into,

what's the Dave Hellman story?

Yeah, it's, I got here,

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