Yeah, it feels great to be off zoom. Oh, you look better. Damn your head's back to a normal size. Good morning. Oh, hey, good morning. Whoa, your head's big. Holy cow. You know what?

You know what? I felt like in zoom. I feel like General Zod trapped in that square that voted through space and Superman.

Well done. Well done. Some of the highlights are low lights as the case may be of Wednesday's PFT live. It's Thursday and Miles Simmons is here. Not only did he get up extremely early Pacific time, but he's doing it on a Thursday, whereas in the off season, it's more often for him to do it on a Friday.

Good morning, Miles. How are you? I'm good, Mike, but if you remember last week, I was also here on a Thursday as Sims did three days during the week. So, you know, I am used to I don't remember that.

I got sick over the weekend, and it operated as a hard reset on my brain. Apparently so, and there are a lot of things going on in that brain.

All delete of my brain. Yeah, I guess so, man. Yeah, well, we're another Thursday close to the death. How about that?

Oh, trust me. I'm well aware of it. After everything that's gone on in the course of the last seven days, or perhaps the last, I don't know, 11 hours, but people say that we are their respite from reality, from the stresses of day to day modern life.

For me, some days, this to our window is the same thing. It is nice. It is so nice to spend the next 100 and 19 minutes with you, Miles, and you anyone out there watching or listening, whether it's on peacock series XM85 sky sports action, although you'll see it later than now or podcast, which obviously you listen to later than now, but it's nice for me. I need this today.

I need this two hours to balance my life a little bit after recent events. Let's just leave it at that. And good morning.

That's that's about the nicest thing you've ever said to me. So I really appreciate that, you know, you actually want to do this show with me this morning.

Remember this day in various ways because I showed up six minutes before airtime because of yesterday's snafu.

It's the only time I will be that early until the day after the next snafu, which was contributed to by my not tardiness because the show hadn't started yet when I sat down, but nevertheless.

I'm feeling good today just to be here for now 118 minutes or maybe 117 in county. A couple of points real quick, though.

Okay. First of all, as I was mentioning earlier about people watching or listening, one thing I've learned in the aftermath of my illness on Monday, which caused me to miss a show for the first time in a very long time, if not ever in the morning, although I did have a walkoff one day because my stomach was

bothering me and I just couldn't continue and actually at about 15 to seven Eastern this morning, I was starting to feel the same way, but it's passed for now.

I have learned that people consume the show on a daily basis, but they don't watch it that same day.

For the folks in the UK, because they watch it and listen to it for entertainment purposes, educational purposes, it's not as pressing to them to be on top of the news, like maybe an American NFL fan would be because we're inundated with the most current events in the NFL.

Yesterday's show is stale today. Tuesday's show is rotted fish today. For a lot of the folks I'm learning in the UK, they are watching all of it, consuming all of it, but they may be a few days behind.

So the stream of emails that began on Monday, the where are you? Where's the show? Why isn't it posted? Where are the podcasts? What's wrong with you? What are the technical issues you're dealing with now?

Those have continued into this very morning because people are still in the process of catching up and still discovering that I wasn't here on Monday and there wasn't a show on Monday. So I'm still receiving and for some stupid reason, responding to every email that comes in about it.

I don't, I don't mean it. Let's not, I appreciate you, all of you out there that you're excluded from this one. I was I appreciate you for that. I appreciate you out there to watch the show and feel compelled to contact me via email, even though it does become a little bit of a drain on my time. It's not individually all that difficult to do it. But when you take individually and you multiply it by an order of magnitude or two or three, it becomes a little more cumbersome. But long story, bearable. If that.

There's a lot of folks out there who don't watch the show every day, but watch every show. And that's kind of news to me after all these years of doing it that that many people watch every show, but not on the day or the day after. But several days later, they're still catching up on the show. By the way, one last thing.

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