Thursday morning, November 21st, 2019, the beating the book podcast, it's Gil Alexander, it is the Megapod.

Very excited.

Back in the saddle, glad to be alive. And as always on the show, and I'll introduce them all at once because they've been so good filling in on a numbers game on Veson for me. Mike Palm, Todd Wishnev, and also our rotating guest today happens to be producer number five, Jeff Parley. So hello to everybody. Mike, thank you for reigning Todd in the last three days.

I'm not sure I've been successful at it, although I did make an effort.

Well, an effort is all we can really ask for.

You guys were, honestly, you guys were great.

You were wonderful.

I listened to as much of it as I can, but the reviews on Twitter seem to be all spectacular.

It's an important component of Todd being rained can, but the reviews on Twitter seem to be all spectacular.

It's important component of Todd being reigned in, Gil.

And you know this from experiences.

His lack of show prep sort of reigns himself in.

Oh, lack of show prep.

The willingness and almost happy to use the show as a vehicle to get people to research for him.

Todd, what am I missing?

Look, I like crowdsourcing.

I don't think there's anything wrong with that.

And I don't think there's anybody who does more show prep than me when I watch 8 billion games.

Mike just likes to take snarky comments at me, snarky shots at me.

You know, it's unbelievable.

Now, the question is, is will you have a show when you come back on Monday because he did 14 hours of NHL this morning?

That was an interesting programming choice, but that's wonderful. You guys had Matthew Barnaby on, so you, that's nothing wrong. That's a great guest, right? Matthew Bonabee. A lot of people thought it was great, Gil.

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