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Welcome to the athletic football show.

I'm Robert Mays.

Joining me today is the Athletic Senior NFL insider, Danora Rucini. Diana, how are you? So much better than the last time I saw you. I was hanging on by a thread. We were, right? We were on very little sleep. We were caffeinated. We were at that point where you're so retired and so caffeinated that nothing's even working and you're just kind of getting through it.

And I'm shocked that our voices lasted, but they did.

So I am now rested.

I'm refueled.

I'm like back at the gym.

I'm back in my routine.

So it's like it's coming together perfectly.

As we know, it's it's getting busy.

I allowed myself to be a real piece of shit last weekend.

Like, I was horizontal for most of it. I ate like absolute garbage, just whatever was in front of me.

There was a lot of delivery happening. I gave myself till Monday. And then I actually started putting

vegetables back in my body, got back on the Peloton. So I'm slowly working my way up back to where I was, but it's going to take at least a little bit longer. Yeah, you know, I got the boys at the house and I basically just went on their nap schedule. So it was like the 41 year old, the two year old one-year-old all napping throughout the day. And my husband

was stuck just dealing with any. He actually, to his credit, he didn't say a word. Like, you know, usually your partner kind of nagsy about it and like, hey, we really doing it. He knew I was done. I'm excited to meet this man because he seems like an absolute saint. Everything I've ever heard about him. It just seems like he's one of the top shelf human beings you could ever come across.

Yeah, I married a really, he seems like an absolute saint. Everything I've ever heard about him, it just seems like he's

one of the top shelf human beings you could ever come across. Yeah, I married a really good soul. He's, you know, I've shared this a lot. He's very grumpy. Like his vibe is not us. Like, like, we're pretty cheerful people. Like, Kevin's kind of grumpy all the time, but his heart's really big, I guess.

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