Good morning, everybody. Welcome to another episode of HockBlogger Mornings. I'm Brian

Emhazer. You can find me and everything we do on YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, ad hoc

blogger. You can also find our audio editions on Apple Podcast, Spotify, wherever you get your audio pods, and

you can get ad free at patreon.com slash hawkblogger. And this episode, like all episodes,

brought to you by prize picks. It is a Seahawks Saturday, joined by my good pal, Jeff Simmons,

not in his normal abode. He's often work in Florida. He's

stateside. And it sounds like you've been having a pretty active work week, man. How are you doing?

I'm all right. I've never been to Orlando before. And I've only driven past it like years ago as a kid

when we drove to Florida at one point of my life but this is I

had no idea what I was in for here one of our listeners actually gave me a couple tips he's a

regular here and it's actually helped but I thought it was going to be a nice chill week by the pool

and all these people I work with who do like the equivalent of my job are all here and they're

getting together from dinner we were at the Orlando Magic game last night. Went to a Tampa Bay Lightning game on Wednesday. It's been a lot of long nights out. There's a couple sports bars near the hotel. I haven't gotten to sleep and relax I thought I was getting, but it's been a fun week, man. Orlando is not my favorite place. I'm a big Florida guy. You make fun of me about that. It feels like a different. It feels like a different. If you're here for Disney, I get it. But there's a cheerleading contest for like 12-year-old girls that arrive. It is weird to be here. Like, I went down for breakfast this morning. They were being quiet quiet. There was like 100 families down there. I'm like, my eyes popped out in my head. The hotel people were like, what the hell is going on here? Apparently it's like this every week. There's some convention or contest or. Yeah. Well, I mean, it's funny when you get into those situations and you're like, Your normal day to day, you know, maybe you don't have as vibrant of a social life.

Maybe you get into those situations and you're like your normal day to day,

you know, maybe you don't have as vibrant of a social life. Maybe you get these ideas in your head that, man, it would be fun if we, if we go out more and do more things. And then you have a week like that. And you're like, you know, my couch sounds pretty good right about now. Yeah. Yeah. I only came down with one guy from my company who lives in a different equivalent

a different,

equivalent to a different state. We, we've met a couple times on Zoom and stuff, but he's a 60-year-old

guy and he's been like pouring drinks for me at the pool every day. He wants to go to the bar

every night. And yeah, I'm kind of excited to get back to my usual routine of just going through my

ceops content on youtube on my couch or listen to all my podcasts but it's kind of a dead time now but

yeah it's a bit of a busier week than i was thinking well i'm glad you can be with us and it's

going to be a fun episode because we've got plenty to talk about but brady

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