Welcome to the Audible, presented by Trader Joe's.

I'm Stuart Mandel, joined as always by Bruce Feldman.

Hey, Bruce, thanks for, I guess I should really thank Max Olson for pinch hitting last week.

I do want to clarify one thing.

I was not on vacation.

I was out of pocket for one day while traveling to the East Coast, and that just happened to be the one day that you could record.

So we just couldn't quite match up our schedules there.

My actual leaving the country thing is a few weeks away.

By the way, so while you're away, I ended up doing Andy Staples podcast.

And in the beginning, it's the first time I've ever appeared on our podcast with our podcast,

cultural Ari Wasserman.

And Andy's podcast does something where it's like it's all, you know, you can watch it if you want to.

And so I referenced being glad to be on with Ari, who's, if anybody is watched Andy's podcast, knows he's an interesting character.

And to see the look on his face when I said, they suggested that he was blackballed from the

audible and not my doing.

Oh, my God.

He just looked so crushed and disappointed in you.

I know I did clarify, but just have fun with him.

There was a, I know there was a time there before he became a regular on Andy's show that he

did have the

reason he reacted that way is that for whatever reason I swear it wasn't intentional we

either hadn't had him on in a while or maybe ever and he actually started to believe that we

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