A blog about me and why I'm blogging

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So I realized today that this probaly should been my first blog, but it wasn't. So here we go.

My name is Garrett. I am a 36 year old straight male. I have a fiance. I have kids. I live in a town of 600 people in Iowa. I also grew up in Iowa. I am a huge Hawkeye fan, especially football. I am also a huge Cubs fan. My grandparents grew up in Chicago and my grandma cried after Game 7 of 2016. The Cubs runs deep. I also cheer for the Bears and Raiders. One AFC one NFC. I don't care about NFL near as much as college but still follow. I dont give a shit about NBA, and hockey is really off/on again, currently off. I def lean right as far as politics but am going to stay way from politics as far as blogging goes.  (Exemption: when politicians are idiots regardless of party. I reserve the right to make fun of anyone.) I also enjoy Busch Light and Jack Daniels. I also rely on Barstool Sports for most of my news and spend too much time listening to them on Sirius XM and reading their blogs.

That's enough about me.  Now for why I'm doing this. People at Barstool Sports were talking about making content or the lack thereof. There was a particular person who tweeted about lack of content from a specific intern. I replied on the Twitter thread that I could do two blogs a day while working 9 hours at my job. (I'm an essential employee.) So that's why, for the forseeable future, I will be posting 2 blogs a day here and tweeting them out. In conclusion, as always, stay home as much as you can, wash your hands, and listen to anything following the words "The CDC recommends" because I cannot wait for the black and gold to take the field in September. 

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