Welcome to the Audible presented by Trader Joe's. I'm Stuart Mandel, joined, as always by Bruce Feldman. We are going to take a little bit of a break from the buy-sell hold game. Don't worry. We have not forgotten the Big 12.

Bruce, a couple things we want to get to today. But first, notice you're getting this episode in your feed a day earlier than you've probably been used to this off season. That's because it's August. The season is almost here.

So this is when we

switch to our twice a week schedule. And you can expect those episodes to hit your feed this month

on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Also the coaches poll, the preseason coach's poll came out. We want to

dive into that as well. But first, we were recording this on Monday and Monday,

happened to be a big day of the year. Bruce's calendar. It's the freaks list. I know it's a lot of

work. How are you feeling to see it up there finally? I feel good. I'm kind of honestly drained

because I feel like this is, especially for like the last three weeks, it becomes seven days a week

and I don't know, it's something I'm like kind of picking at morning tonight.

So I don't want to make it out like it's not brain surgery and it's not like I'm doing

heavy lifting.

But at the same time, it's just constantly trying to check in with people

to get updates, to get whatever, kind of staying after people. So much of it is dependent on

strength coaches and the guys I've talked to. But to get towards the finish line, and you always

feel like you're going to leave a few people out.

And then it's just sorting it out. How do you get to this year's 101? How do you decide who's

29 and who's 55 and who's 80? Like there's no, obviously no science behind it. But it's a fun project to work on because there's just a lot

of guys I find out about that maybe I've heard of, but I didn't realize who they, you know,

what they've become or, you know, who the coaches really, it's just a really good window into a lot

of these programs because of the conversations you end up having with a lot of coaches.

So I know you've been doing it for 20 years, but there might be people listening right now who are like, what is the freaks list?

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