Hello and welcome to the Audible presented by Trader Joe's.

I'm Ralph Russo from The Athletic, and both Stu and Bruce are gone.

Stu's on vacation.

Bruce had some technical difficulties arise.

So I had to dip it. So two things. First of all,

my plan to take over the show is really coming into form right now. Just the diabolical plot when I got,

when they brought me on, is absolutely coming into play here. Secondly, dipped into the bullpen

today and brought on my colleague,

Justin Williams, to get me through most of the show. Justin, thank you so much for joining us today.

I appreciate you having me. Always happy to be Stu's filling, and I'll take a little,

take a little credit for being Bruce's filling today, too, I guess. I mean, if you want to, again, like we can, you know, I can let you in here. We can take over the world, Justin, if you want. Like, again, my diabolical plot here, you know, first I got in their good graces, they invited me on the show. And in another year, it could just be you and me right i mean i don't i don't know it just if you

want to be my partner in crime look i don't i don't want to be when stew gets home i don't want to be

you know like sitting on his couch and have him have him go into a rage as we know stew can often do

so i'm just i'm just here to help just here to water his plants until he gets back okay all right

you're not just we're not going to quite squat on his podcast,

Bruce and Stu's podcast IP just yet. All right. One of the reasons why, you know, I reached out to

Justin first is, first of all, we'll get to the mailbag later in the show. We're going to talk a little

bit about

nostalgia for 90s college football because the athletic is doing a great series on 90s nostalgia

starting this week. But of course, it wouldn't be a show without talking about Brendan Sorsby,

which made me think that maybe Justin would be a good guy to got had

Vaughn because he's covered it for us at the athletic as well as anybody in the country.

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