Welcome to the show.

It's Budweiser's Weekday Sportsbeat with Irish Breakdown.com, and we are kicking at old school today. We had a good old-fashioned radio conflict. So we are not, obviously, if you see my background, you've become used to over the last couple of months, seeing the big sports radio

WSBT banner in the background.

And I've been in the radio studio.

But there is a South Bend Cubs baseball game going on tonight because they were suspended in

the fourth inning of their game last night.

And it is starting at 5.30 p.m. Eastern time.

And that means we couldn't do anything in the studio.

So Jesse and I said, you know what? Let's just go back to our roots. And so that's where we are.

We are on the good old YouTube channel doing it live. And of course, on the podcast platform as well, Irish Breakdown podcast platform.

Salty Virginia Peanut says he welcomes the return, if only for a day, to the podcast-only

format.

Phil's old school.

I assume there will be no commercial breaks.

That's right.

No commercials, no mercy from this show tonight.

How are you tonight, Jesse?

I'm doing pretty good. I just realized that this is my first show since uh the loss that that occurred on on sunday evening i know um i've been pretty

it's like a weird time in the year right now you know we're about to transition to fall i don't know if

that has you know i've been

feeling kind of crappy today between my head and stomach but hoping i'll feel better uh also

legs feel like cinder blocks i've been running a mile per day so that hasn't been pretty fun man i got to

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