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All right. Hello, and welcome back to another episode of the Chase Thomas Podcast from Still,

the A for mention Chase Thomas Comtee live from Knoxville, Tennessee, Everything School, HQ.

Joining me, old friend now, because he's a multi-time guest so he's an old friend fan run radio

Fox Sports Knoxville's Russell Smith this is kind of a prelude to Russell jumping on the drive here

on fan run radio three to six here momentarily but Russell this is this is kind of a warm up for you

how are you yeah it's good man it's it's like taking batting practice before you. You know, got to make sure that swing is nice and level, hit a couple of dingers, go back, get changed, pre-game meal, go out there and do the thing, right? There you go. I mean, you've got a great radio voice, too. So do you do, like, do you protect it? Are you a big green tea guy? Do you do things to make sure that you're locked and loaded and you never have the scratchy throat or any kind of issues of that nature?

Yeah, man, I freak out about it all the time. People give me heck because I'm a wuss. Like if I know somebody's got a cold or something, I would just avoid them. Like, I'm having a cold or any sort of post-nasal drip. Because you get better over, like, it's normal. Like, you get better after three or four days. But doing a radio show, like, it will affect you for like at least two weeks is what I've found. It's just three hours of talking as long. So, yeah,

I tried to, I tried to keep it. I tried to keep it good. But this is a rough time of year, too,

with all the pollen and everything, I'm just constantly like clearing my throat and everything.

I know it sounds nasty. But when you got that microphone open in front of you for three out,

like I don't know how I listen to like the big national guys and everything and you never hear them call for clear their throat I don't know how they do it like I'm constantly like that kind of thing so yeah man it's it's tough but it's it's all part of the gig I suppose yeah no. Like, I'm a nerd with everything. I just like to, we were talking before. You're like you said I seem like a dot the T's cross my eyes. Or wait, dot my eyes cross my T's. That's it. And that's correct. But also, it's like I do a lot of, like, researching so I was like in my 20 I was like all right

how do I protect my voice long term what are some different things and I remember I listened to a

radio guy talking about like no dairy like he was just like dairy messes up your voice and like

mess it up your uh just the um I don't know the imbalance like you can you'll start coughing stuff up and like i i'm a believer that once you turn 30 and you're you move forward dairy becomes really hard in the body like dairy's like dairy is important when you're younger i'm an almond milk guy i've been an almond milk guy for years now um made the transition i can't quit cheese i'm like charlie kelly from always sunny in that. Like cheese is still going to be in the in the Rolodex.

But I don't know, little things like that.

I'm a green tea guy.

I'm definitely someone who's conscientious of voice stuff to try and keep doing the best shape possible.

Yeah, because I'm the same way.

I love dairy though, man.

I've done the almond thing. But I love cereal with a little bit of milk last night.

Me and the 10-year-old went through.

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