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podcasts. Oh yeah Welcome to the audible. I'm Stuart Mandel.

Joined as always by Bruce Feldman. Happy to be back home on a Monday morning after a very hectic travel weekend.

At least for me, Bruce, you at least stayed somewhat close to home.

I did.

We had USC at Stanford, so that was a manageable trip. I have to ask because I saw pictures

of a look like a monsoon in the state of Texas. As our listeners know by now

you are not a very good driver please tell me that's your

that's everybody's opinion please tell me that Max Olson took the wheel on this

trip now I did the majority of the driving. It was my rental car. I will say there was one moment where we were in track, it was going smoothly and then suddenly there's a backup and you slam on the brakes.

And this rental car I had, I've never had this kind before,

and I actually don't remember what it was, maybe a Kia.

It like had one of those things where the brake,

or it just like does it itself.

It took over.

It was really, it was like the car was possessed for a minute there, but no, look, I got us there in one piece. It actually, for this double header that we did, it couldn't have worked out any better all the way around.

First of all, the Houston game was such a blowout by halftime that we just left and not risk

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