Welcome to the Audible presented by Trader Joe's.

I'm Stuart Mandel, joined as always by Bruce Feldman.

We were not together for last week's episode, Bruce, because you were knee-deep in the

Combine, and I know that's like a 24-7 job for you there.

I want to, I want you to share some of your takeaways from the Combine, but first and foremost,

I heard you were a firsthand witness to the Starbucks confrontation heard around the world.

Yeah, I can't say I was there for the whole thing.

I walked up.

So for people who haven't up in, first of all, Indianapolis, great city for conventions

and great for the combine because there are sky bridges and it's just like you can do,

as you said, it's like it's an event where what happens on the

on the field and the workout stuff is one thing, but it's like in terms of for the job,

you're running into people, you're, you have meetings, you see people out at bars at restaurants.

It's just a group, it's like the perfect event for networking and football.

So at some point I go upstairs. So there's in the JW Marriott, which is pretty much where

if somebody is staying somewhere, they're probably staying at the JW. And the second floor

of the JW has, it's basically the connection to the to the rest of the sky

bridges but right there in prime position is a Starbucks it's like an open it's like a

Starbucks without walls and so you know our former colleague Bo Wolf did an amazing piece about

the combine by just staking out that Starbucks all day long.

And so you pass by it probably maybe even a half dozen times a day, but at least three or four.

And I go up by there and I see my former coworker Jeremy Fowler who now works for ESPN.

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