Welcome to On the Bench. I'm your host for this episode, Brendan Sonone. I'm definitely

not hungover at all after a long night of watching the draft and being in Chattanooga.

And yes, I will go to the sponsor of this podcast, Chattanooga Whiskey, to check out their

distillery today. I'm really looking forward to it. I'll see their main distillery, then

I'll go to their experimental distillery as well. Chattanooga Whiskey does an amazing

job with their rise, their high-ry bourbon. They have an entry-level bourbon. They do experimental

bourbons. They do all sorts of cool stuff. We really love this sponsorship, catching a lot

of people onto it and turning them onto it. And yeah, it's been a great relationship

so far. I can't wait to check it out in person and become more hungover. Yay! Speaking

of hangovers, fellas, you mostly hungover from the last week? No. Clear minds, clear

hearts. Can't lose. All right. Let's get into it. Chris was not in the middle of that,

like, like some of us were. But Chris was like handling a lot of the, um, helping us

like, writes in the stories, which are super helpful. Sorry, I don't know. My mic is like

connected, right? It kind of sucks, but it's fine. We press along. This is like a rapid

reaction podcast and instant reaction. Is it fixed now? Yeah, sure. It's good that we're

doing this now. You sound fine, Zach. Just keep going. I was just trying to praise Chris

for helping us get like a lot of the pre-writes done for all of this, you know, changes in

this storyline. And we're talking about the Josh Farmer saga, obviously. But yeah, I

felt like Brendan kind of passed me the baton after he drove up to Atlanta yesterday and

then eventually to Chattanooga. And it was an emotional baton. Just back and forth, back

and forth. I don't know if I appreciate it or not, but it was a cool experience, I guess,

to be kind of knowing the ins and outs of it. So what Zach is alluding to is the Josh

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