Welcome back into the CEC podcast, everybody.

It is Thursday, November 30th the morning of.

Mike Rutherford here in Louisville, Kentucky, Danny Sennard.

I mean, I don't even, we've been talking,

we've been trying to get this set up.

I don't even know where you are.

Just a hotel lobby somewhere.

What's going on?

Yeah, I'm in Richmond, Virginia, fun times. But, yeah, little technical difficulties

this morning. It's kind of been a, I mean, since Saturday, not a whole lot is gone right.

So I'm hoping that the tide starts to change here for this Saturday. I'm very excited still,

even with the result last Saturday, but I'm not going to lie. That's a tough one to get over.

Yeah, when we last spoke, the world was a little bit brighter place. The air smelled a little bit sweeter. The jokes

were a little bit funnier. The food tasted a little bit better. Everything was better the last time

we had a podcast. Since then, we have had to all just eat this shit sandwich that is a football

loss to Kentucky in the game where Louisville was

expected to win. It was bad. I know that we're recording this on Thursday. If we'd recorded this

on like Saturday or Sunday, I think it'd be like the reverse emergency podcast effect. We do the

emergency podcast when something great happens so we can capture

the euphoria. We don't want to lose the moment. If we had captured the moment on Saturday,

Sunday, or even really on Monday, I think it would be even worse than talking about this is going

to be the four days, the five days have kind of made it sting a little bit less. But man, this is this is one that

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