What's up everybody? This is Stick to Football Bleacher Reports, NFL Draft Podcast.

I'm Matt Miller, lead NFL Draft writer at BR, and joining me tonight, my boy, Melo, and Melo people are

used to hearing another name when I do that

on the show that comes out Friday morning.

Usually we didn't always let Dan come on.

There were a lot of times I would totally forget the intro.

I'm until like oh shit he's sitting here. Well you kind of make it all about yourself for a while, but this is the first time that we've recorded on a Thursday night post-Ban Basil. It is, and if you are a person that only listens to the show that comes on on Friday morning

A thank you B you should be listening to the other stuff and C obviously we have something that we have to address at the top of the show

That is very important to us two weeks ago tonight, our good friend, our co-host, our bartender,

even though it was a shitty one.

Dan Basel passed away unexpectedly, sudden illness and 34 years old left behind two kids

we're trying to help out with a go fund me you can find on all of our Twitter

pages you can search Dan Bales on Memorial Fund on Go Fund Me, share it, donate, anything you can do, definitely

help us out. But we're in a weird spot because we are two weeks out and we went through the

grieving as a motherfucker. And I motherfucker and I went through and I'm not I

I don't ever want to brag about grieving I may have broken both hands

yeah we deal with it differently. Right. Definitely found out. I ran into a concrete wall. You have been

funny about it and just isolated myself for a long time. I had to be pulled away from a casket visitation but we're in healthy places now

where we may joke about things yeah we've been making some inappropriate jokes but you know what he would have wanted right

yeah I mean for God's sake the last time we did this show we literally ended it joking

about Dan Dine we joked about buying a Ouija board. Yeah, in which I don't know if you're on board. I'm I kind of am still an option. We miss him. We're going to do our best to continue this show in a way that would honor him and

unfortunately that does mean some segments have to go with Dan to the grave.

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