Good morning, everybody. Welcome to another episode of HockBlogger Mornings. I am Brian Mhouser. You can find us on all the places YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, at HockBlogger. Give us a five-star review on Apple Podcast, Spotify, wherever you listen to the podcast, would greatly appreciate that.

It all helps bring more people into the community to enjoy guests like the guys we have today.

The Man the Myth, Mike Sando at Sando NFL of The Athletic, the only one who's truly employed of the three of us.

And Dave Bowling, the award-winning author and columnist who graces us with his presence

and with his pearly white goatee.

How are you doing this morning, fellas?

Great.

Good to be here.

Really?

How do you not love this time of year yeah right i mean this is why

we live here i get up early just to have more time in the day to do stuff uh what's we were

just talking with mike before the show started about breakfast um and and mike and i seem like we have a similar breakfast go-to.

I'm curious, Dave. What's your... Thank you for that license, by the way. I'll just finish this up.

Go, you guys go ahead. Please do. I think, you know, you might have some of it on your lip there.

Key element. I got one of those, no, espresso, you know, whatever they call them, Virtua or something.

And man, oh, it is sweet.

That's what does it for you, huh?

It's really good.

Yeah.

Breakfast, yeah, you know, it changes.

It changes. You're not, okay, okay. So you're not a creature of habit. Breakfast, yeah, you know, it changes. It changes.

You're not, okay, okay, so you're not a creature of habit. Like, I, I literally have the same thing for breakfast every day, every day. And it's been that way for, like, I'll go through different breakfast, but I stick with whatever I do for like a year.

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