Hello, everyone. Welcome on into the Wolverine podcast. Here it is Thursday, July 17th, Anthony Broom here with Chris Ballas.

Clayton Safie, I believe as we record this, is on the golf course somewhere. It seems like if he's not with us, he's on the golf course somewhere.

So good for Clayton to get out there and hit the links a little bit. I've only been out once this here myself.

Chris, welcome back. We, uh, between vacations and I was gone for two weeks, I feel like I haven't seen you in a while. So I know back here. Man, your beard's gotten longer. Congratulations on the honeymoon. I hope it was everything. I hope my $5 that I gave you for your wedding went a long way over there. I don't know what the exchange rates are now, but, hey, it was fun to watch it online and see everything that you guys did. Well deserved. I hope you had a really nice time. Yeah, it was great. You know, for those, I guess I didn't post a ton, but I did a week in Germany, then we did a week in the UK. Saw a little bit of everything over there.

So we stayed in Frankfurt but took trains to Cologne, took trains to Heidelberg, Mines,

we stayed in Munich for a few days, went tousch Weinstein and Linderhof castles.

It was incredible.

Then we spent the week in London and London is London.

That felt a lot like being over here.

So that was a lot of fun, but still working on some jet lag.

I picked up a little bit of a travel cold on my way back, so bear with me there. But I also did a lot of reading while we were, you know, a lot of these trains we took were an hour or a couple hours or the, you know, the day trips we took to the castles were literally an entire day on a bus. So read, you know, thumb through a lot of these national football

previews had the Phil Steel preview with me. Finally got my hands on our preview, which was nice.

I came home to a stack of those. Those went out. So shout out to everyone who got their Michigan

football preview magazines from us. And I guess given that a quick housekeeping note here, Monday,

we will be at the champion circle, golf outing doing a live stream at 1 p.m. So that will be our

Monday show. We're going to have a rotating kind of casting characters coming through like we did

last year. So that's going to be our Monday show.

But that comes, and I won't be going this year, but you guys will head out to Big Ten Media

Days in Vegas.

So it's here.

This is the last show we'll do before Big Ten Media Days.

So I thought that would be a good time for us to look at, you know, kind of our final takeaways on what we think about some

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