Charles Barclay texting saying, hey, if you need a goalie, I'm available on the chief.

That would be fun to watch. I'd watch that.

Welcome to 32 Thoughts, The Interview Podcast,

presented as always by the GMC Sierra elevation.

I'm Jeff Merrick.

Monday afternoon, Elliot and I had a chance to catch up with

NHL Utah owner Ryan Smith. Yes that's right

the headline machine. He's young, he's energetic, he's enthusiastic,

and while there are skeptics if the NHL can actually work in Utah,

Smith, as you're about to hear, has zero doubt.

You know, last June, Elliot and I sat down with him and he told us quote

We're here and we're ready to go and less than a year later

Ryan and his wife slash business partner Ashley are about to test that

Here's Ryan Smith on 32 thoughts the podcast. Ryan if I told you last June when we first spoke here on this

podcast that within 12 months you would be the owner of an

n-HL franchise you would have said what and welcome to the podcast again by the

way. Yeah welcome man it's good to be here.

Look, I probably would have said that that's the way it was supposed to be in the way that we planned it, but reality is like, that's not right.

No, I think timing is everything on all of this with sports and with business

and everything else and like sometimes timing

works out sometimes it doesn't I'm still kind of waking up going all right we're

doing this so so we're doing this.

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