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Welcome to the athletic football show.

I'm Robert Mays.

Joining me today.

It's my good friend Nate Tyson.

How you doing, buddy?

I am doing very well. I just drop my water and now we are doing even better after I picked it up. So, no, I'm doing very well. I got a board game in the mail and I'm so excited. I was showing Bellar before the show. Anyone that's played the game, tick the ride, it's a legacy board game, which is that one game will affect the next game and change the rules. So you have to play it with like the same group multiple times. I am stoked is a good word for it. I am beyond stoked. I might start holding tryouts on who the three people I'm going to play it with are. One is my wife. So two people, I guess, are the tryouts. How do you decide? How do you, how do you land on the other participants? I don't know. I don't want to say because some of those people listen to this pod. So I don't know which episodes they listen to either. So here we go. So I, I, because my mom is one of them. I'm not sure.

So yeah, but I'm very excited to play it because they did one for this game called Pandemic, which. I own that game. I've never played it before, but I have it at my house. It's great. It's a co-op game. You know, so everyone's on the same team. It's a very fun game. but they did a legacy version of that.

So it's like one game,

like your character can freaking like die.

And like you write on the board,

you rip cards. But they did a legacy version of that. So it's like one game, like your character can freaking like die.

And like you write on the board, you rip cards up, you make up rules and stuff like that. But it's like you're a game. So very excited for that. Thank you for letting me nerd out for a minute. I'm so happy. I'm so happy for you. I'm so thrilled. Can you see how giddy I am? It's the time of year.

It was a lot of family time.

So I assume there's a lot of board game opportunity time,

which is probably the best stretch of the calendar for you.

So I'm very happy for you, buddy.

We've got some fun stuff on tap this week in the NFL.

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