Oh, yeah. Welcome to the Audible presented by Trader Joe's. I'm Stuart Mandel, joined as always by Bruce Feldman and as promised our special guest the newest

member of the athletics national college football team as of Monday.

Formerly of the AP, Ralph Russo, we are going to give him a hearty welcome.

And then the three of us are going to do our September superlatives.

We're going to go through the first month-ish

of the season, I guess five weeks,

and give out some awards.

So first off, Ralph, welcome.

Hi guys, it's really great to now be,

go from being just your friends and colleagues in a sense,

because we work in the same space,

to now being true teammates.

It's an honor and a privilege to be on board with the athletic.

And I just want to say, like, listen, I had an amazing run at the AP.

That is one, that is the just about the pinnacle of

journalism in many ways they've gave me a lot of great opportunities.

So we would have taken a lot.

I found something a coach.

I'm right?

It's not like a coach taking a new job.

It was going to take a lot to get me out of that place.

And the athletic was just about the only place I would have come to.

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