And we're back here on The Michigan Insider on the Big 1050 WTCA online at the big 1050.com.

And it is time for our Inside the Huddle segment with our good friend Michael Spath here on the show.

And Mike, good morning. How are you?

Doing great, Ira.

It's, I don't know, does it feel like rivalry weak to you?

Because it doesn't really feel like it to me.

Maybe that's just because one of the programs is down in the dumps

and has little expectations for this game.

But it certainly has not had the sort of energy around rivalry week that I'm used to.

That's pretty bold.

I think you're sitting at home, aren't you, near Sparty?

I am sitting near Sparty.

Actually, I just went upstairs to her home office, so she's downstairs with the kids.

But that's how I can feel it, because internally, in our own house, you know, normally there's some razzing.

My wife by this point in the week has already busted out a Michigan State shirt or she's put one of the kids in a Michigan State shirt to tease me a little bit.

And there's been none of that this week.

It's been eerily quiet in my house.

Yeah, Mike.

I was, it doesn't have the same kind of satisfaction right now.

The, the lack of, I don't know, it's not even, it's not even a lack of confidence.

It's the lack of, I don't know, the, the lack of presence. I mean, the, the lack of faith. The, the lack of, I don't know, the lack of presence.

I mean, the lack of faith, the lack of, they don't have any belief in, to me,

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