Okay, three, two, one, oh my goodness, good morning, good morning, good afternoon,

whatever it is for you, I hope you're having a fantastic game. My name is Zach Schomler this is strong opinion sports thank you so very much

for tuning in today's Tuesday December 31st it is the last episode of the

year man I have a painful message to share at the beginning of the show,

but that intro, it just tires me up.

It's like it's hard to not get excited doing that.

It's the best way to start any part.

To me, like it just gets me excited. I love it so much

I want to be very open and honest about something. I have not been making as much content as I would like to recently

I've been really struggling and I don't want to take a break you know a lot of people

I take two weeks off and I don't want to I just need to go at my own pace for those

of you who are unaware and unfamiliar you know first of all I have an amazing life I have an amazing life. I have an amazing job. I love what I'm doing so much.

My life is awesome and I'm headed in a good direction that I feel great about.

I'm struggling in my personal life. I through a breakup it's been really hard the

last month and it's been messing with my head and so I just want to be very clear I love my life

I love my job I'll be myself again soon but right now I'm just going through the grieving process

I'm doing the best I can and you know the creative process is normally one that's really

slow it's slower than I it's it takes a lot of patience and I hate it. But it's it's even

harder to be creative and the creative process is even slower when you're

emotionally drained and I've just felt that way a lot recently and so I will be back to normal soon.

I just want to be very clear.

I just need to go at my own pace right now.

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