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Welcome back, one and all. It's John Adrola. This is the damage report. I'm technically in a shed, but I'm at least here. So get off my back about it, everybody. But I'm very glad to be here to discuss the news. And we have a special treat to start off the week this week. J.R. is out being supportive of his son who apparently is some sort of baseball

prodigy or something like that. So they're going to be going for the gold. But here covering the

news is me and Luke Beasley returns. Luke, how's it going? John, we're just talking before the break.

I feel like I'm very grateful for the job we get to

do. And usually I'm pretty pumped about getting back to work on Mondays. This weekend,

though, I had one of those sunbathe by the pool, relax with family, some martinis, many, many martinis.

And then this was a rare Monday where I felt like I'm sure many people feel each Monday,

which was, do I really need to?

Can I not just sustain that many more days?

And then got to open up the news cycle to a very orange and inflated and swollen

and sickly looking president that reminded me of exactly what we get to focus on for our job

that's funny i'm trying to fix my audio apparently it was low uh i didn't know where that sentence

was going to end so i thought you were going to say this very sickly and swollen John and Earl. And I was like, damn, Luke is getting way too comfortable on my show. Now, you look good.

Look. Well, man, we'll see. I got a little bit of sun. I played golf this weekend. But anyway, everybody let me know if my volume sounds better.

I reformatted my computer because it was destroyed.

But if this isn't working, maybe on the other side of it, we can fix it.

But anyway, I'm glad to have you here.

I am also glad about the job that I get to do.

I complain all of the time, but obviously it's, you know, they say go a little higher. Okay, it sounds so loud in my ear.

Is that better? I can't tell if I'm doing anything.

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