Hey, it's the distraction. I'm David Roth. Drew is on vacation. He is tan as a nut, body

surfing, swimming with and speaking to dolphins. So it's just me. Oh, and there's other people.

Sorry, there's other people on the podcast as well. Tom Lay, the editor in chief of Defectored.com

is co-hosting with me. Hello. How's it going, man? Everything all right?

Yeah, everything's good. I'm excited to make my return to the podcast, do my annual

appearance where you replace Drew with two of the most taciturned people you can think of.

Yeah, that's what it's about. People, we get letters, you know, emails, physical letters,

too much talking on the podcast people. So we need more space. Quiet it down once a year, please.

Let it let it breathe. Can you give this podcast some sort of powerful orbit to it? And the answer

is yes, we're doing it. Lindsey Adler of the Wall Street Journalist here to administer the

chill pill to the podcast. Hi, Lindsey. How are you? Hi guys, I'm good. Good. Nice

house there. I don't know. They're catching the vibe. I don't know that I was a little bit caught

off guard by the word chill. Yeah, that's not the right word for any of us, I guess. But we do

speak slowly sometimes or I speak very fast. But in a way that conveys, I think that I would

rather not be speaking at all. Yeah. And I think that that's that's kind of the secret of it.

So I'm glad that you are all here. We can begin the podcast whenever you'd like is everybody okay

with doing that great. Okay, cool. Eric's going to count us down from five. Then we're going to

all start recording just kidding. We've been recording all the time. So we're going to talk about

baseball because it's August and there's not a lot of other sports that I know about that we can

talk about. But I want to just start with a non baseball topic. It's extremely hot and extremely

humid and you are both dog owners. And I always feel kind of sorry for dogs, less sorry for dog owners,

but sorry for both during the summertime because dogs, you know, are hot as hell during this period.

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