Before we start, Bruce and I just wanted to say thank you to our friends at Trader Joe's who are back as our presenting sponsor again for 2019.

Stu, not just the place where I get my favorite dessert that awesome hold the cones, a little mini ice cream cones that you and I have talked about.

But it's good because it's something where we shop every week and to have them part of the audible we couldn't be

happier. They've been with us since we started this back up in August of 2017.

They've been a great supporter of ours. Thank you Trader Joe's. Welcome to the audible. I'm Stuart Mandel. Joined as always by Bruce Feldman. We are in downtown San Jose on the Friday before the national championship game.

I think it's pretty sweet here, Stu. I know it's gotten a bad rap, but...

Well we'll talk about that. We here here with our special guest you can

catch him on the AP top 25 podcast his own podcast that we've both appeared on

our friend Ralph Russo hey Hey guys, very up.

Should I actually hold the microphone?

We're going to pass the microphone around.

Okay.

So in that case where you pass something around before.

Wow, that's, you're making...

I was going to say you really jump into conclusions there or making big assumptions, but you're probably right.

Oh, come on. I've been stories about your old hair. So, so, so yes, thank you very much for having me. I like San Jose too, even though it seems to be getting a bit of a bad rap. Might not be the best place to play this particular game, but San Jose is fine.

Yeah, I think it's different. And I think the question is, you have two teams that are about as far away both geographically and probably

I don't know what you took just persona wise then in Clemson culturally yeah and sourally, maybe. Yeah.

And so, but that's okay, because look, I think it's a great one versus two match-up and it's a different

venue and it's different for everybody.

Look, I think we all liked Tampa because it hadn't been there before.

And I granted Tampa is much

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