We're back! We're back! It's distraction! I'm true! That's wrong! I'm wrong! How you doing?

Hey man, how's it going? How was your vacation? Good! How was your vacation?

It was pretty good. Good talk. It was... Mine wasn't fully a vacation. We ended... I went to Maine, but it was mainly to like do tasks in a sun and law stiley.

So I carried some stuff around for a while. Which was good I think. I needed to do that.

Alright, but at least Maine was involved so we can have a brief Maine discourse. And we can say, oh Maine, that's a state.

Terrific! Yeah. Rocky coasts, older men and overalls. Everything that you look for in a vacation destination, they've got it.

Just an absolutely deathly time on the sports calendar. Maybe my favorite time on the sports calendar.

So it's a perfect time to talk about carrying heavy shit from one place to another in Maine.

Because that is about as sporty as it gets. But thankfully Roth, we have a guest this week in our guest.

Good, thank goodness. That's all I had. It's late senior writer Ben Mathesoli. I'm Ben, how are you?

I'm good, hey guys, I'm out here in Colorado, which is kind of the main of the central Rockies I think, maybe? I don't know.

No, I think that's generally understood to be. Most people call it that. It's on the license plate. Not wrong.

I don't agree, because Colorado is too cool. It needs to be more, shouldn't it be a more remote part of the Rockies that gets the main credit?

Do the Rockies stretch into Alberta? Shouldn't the shitty part of Alberta be the main of the Rockies?

It's disrespectful to Maine. And it's inaccurate. I don't mind being distracted.

I think Colorado is part of Maine has a Colorado vibe, and then a lot of Maine has an Idaho vibe.

And you never know when you're going to cross from one end to the other. But that's something wrong with it.

There's plenty of nice things to recommend about both. You just got to be careful when you're in Idaho, because everybody's armed.

Anyway, Ben, we're actually somehow against all odds going to talk about sports this week. Because this was the week.

I can't believe that it's such a good time to talk about college football. But it is Ben, because UCLA and USC are joining the, and now they are joining the big 10 this week.

Ben, you're a very public Michigan fan. So I want to ask you right off the bat. Are you happy that the big 10 is set to expand into the Pacific?

Or are you a traditional star? Are you concerned? Are you mostly concerned that that's two more losses on Michigan's schedule for you?

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