The bear is with us for his weekly sit-out.

I don't know if he thought he agreed to this or not, but he joins us every single week,

usually on Wednesdays, but he's doing it on a Friday today.

And I think he's in Champaign, Illinois, big new kickoff, has Illinois and Ohio State.

Hello, Bear.

Hello, good morning.

You're back in the lovely University of Illinois Hotel and Conference Center here.

Lovely.

I did not think that I would be making the two-hour trek from Indianapolis to champagne twice in three weeks.

But here I am.

We're a good conference center.

You just know that there's going to be a lot of activity there.

Even if the room won't be great, there'll be a lot of activity.

Minimalist hotel.

People don't realize champagne's in the middle of nowhere, dude.

You're in the middle of nowhere dude you're in the middle of nowhere

right now you you really are it's uh it's it's a it's a it's a hike from chicago and it's a

hike from it's yeah i just like to fly to an easier airport like well why the hell do i want to

oh hair and get with traffic getting the hell out of there to get down here. I can just straight shot across from Indy.

Next, I'm flying to O'Hare later today.

I mean, Chicago Marathon going on.

Jesus, what am I doing?

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