You're listening to Irish Illustrated Insider from Irish Illustrated, Tim Freester and Tim O'Malley

with Pete Sampson from the Athletic.

It's March 1st.

Just a reminder, our next podcast will be next Tuesday, March 9th.

Well, we want to talk about Nordane football and we'll end this segment with Nordane basketball, but we have to start with the tragic news of the passing of Lewis

Nick's the third. We all have, you just, all you have to do is go on Twitter, Pete Sampson from the

athletic road extensively talking to teammates and coaches. And I think everybody

that was ever around Lewis Nix just wants to tell Lewis Nicks stories because Tim, as you

wrote today, he was just naturally funny and he was a lot of fun to be around. He was. He was,

I mean, you know, someone asks you,

who do you enjoy covering most and you start going through your head? But Lewis Nix pops up in

everybody's mind somewhere along the lines. He's, it's hard to be a naturally funny person,

the way he was. I mean, there's, as you said, there's stories all over the internet,

look at any writer, they have something from him. from them i just he i always thought he put people at ease too like just you would sit down and you knew something was coming out

of his mouth but it was going to be good nature kind of he's always cordial good nature and

even if he's kind of ripping on something it's in a funny playful way and i i just feel

terribly for his obviously his family that's a, not many people get this outpouring of emotion when they hear for someone

that, you know, we didn't know.

We just met him.

We just met him.

Yeah.

And I think it's interesting.

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