Welcome to On The Bench. I am your host for this episode, Brendan Sonone, joined by Chris

Sney, Zach Blossin, gentlemen, Jeff gentlemen. Oh boy. Happy 4th July. Bang bang. It's the 3rd of July.

People listening don't know that unless they're listening to it on the 3rd of July. But fireworks nonetheless have

started already in the land of Florida State before we get to the fireworks of the month and

recruiting, which seems to be red hot right now. I'm going to make a lot of 4th of July summer puns.

If you can't tell, a little bit of house cleaning. First off, I want to give a thank you to everyone who's signed up.

With Knowles 24-7 in June, it was a promo heavy month and had a lot of, a lot of interest. I think we finished on the top 5 in the network

and subs are right around there. So thank you to everyone who's given us a chance, people who upgraded their

partnerships to annual people who are long time subscribers who have some of our praises. We appreciate your patronage.

We might patronize you sometimes if you're hand-wringing in June when we're telling you to chill out until July.

Nonetheless, we do appreciate the patronage and you guys giving us a chance.

Let's see. I want to give you guys a heads up though we'll have it on the bench later this week with FSU GM Derek Ray.

I sat down with him one on one for about 30 minutes and frankly, it could have been like a two to three hour long podcast

with just all the questions and information I'm trying to gather on team building, roster building, but Derek was insightful about the general

workings of that. And then finally, more planning purposes.

July is going to have ebbs and flows. We'll try to have you pretty well, pretty well situated with content here in July, especially here on on the bench in Knowles 24-7,

but it's going to be busy start to the month and then the end of the month will have ACC kickoff media days, which means

it's going to be free season camps right around the corner. So there may be some dog days in the middle of July, but hopefully not a ton.

Finally, a shout out to Chattanooga whiskey, the sponsor of our podcast, killing it in the bourbon world, rye world, special blends, like any type of whiskey.

You can imagine they are trying their hand at it and they're doing an amazing job. The 111 is one of the best values that you can get out there as a cast strength whiskey for sub $50.

You can find their bottle and bond highly recommend that as well. So Chattanooga whiskey doing a great job. And then also sponsoring what will be an in depth, buyers to known later on this podcast.

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