Oh yeah. Welcome to the latest edition of the audible. I am Bruce Feldman. I'm flying solo here today, but that's a good thing as you guys all know the

presenting sponsor of the audible is Trader Joe's it's only the best grocery store

in the world so without further ado as I, no stew on the podcast today. I believe he went on a vacation

heli skiing. My sources are correct in this case. But I'm going to be joined today by actually two of my former colleagues from my Espian days, both guys with

Georgia Ties and Georgia Roots, one guy who now lives there.

The other guy grew up there and that is the esteem Ted Miller. Ted, thanks

for joining me on the audible today.

Thanks for having me, Bruce.

All right, so Ted, I have not been shy about saying this. You were like one of my favorite writers that I've ever worked with.

For those who don't know, and if you don't, you probably not listen to this podcast anyway.

But Ted was ESPN.com's go-to guy on the pack 12 for a long time. He had a really unique voice. P.

P. on the Pac 12 for a long time. He had a really unique voice in part because I think because

of his personality but also because Ted was a very successful columnist in

Seattle for a while.

Ted, for the people who haven't, no, you worked Freius Penn for a while and then no longer

do, before we get into what you're doing now, I did want to ask you, do you miss the writing part of it?

Well, I like writing. What I'm doing now involves a lot of writing. It's different and I'm enjoying that too.

But that was, you know, that was why I got into sports writing in the first place I applied for a job at a

newspaper and their opening was in sports so I didn't apply for a sports writing job

they just asked me if I was interested.

So, yeah, you know, I miss it some.

I mean, it's, it's, there's certainly plenty of things to be irreverent

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