The Welcome to On the bench, this is Brennan Sonone.

I got Josh Newburgh with me, and as we continue our Meet the Beat series,

we have a very special guest, a close friend of mine,

someone who's been kicking ass, covering not just FSU, but let's see Miami

He, writing columns, like he's done a ton of different things over his career.

It's me saying that in a very nice way that my guest here

Tom De Angelo the Palm Beach Post is is old. Hi Tom. I was just gonna say

time to say I'm old.

Is this your- Yeah well, John the- well, I can, actually if you have any, if you want to compare this to the Spanish flu

pandemic, we're going through, I can help you out.

Some perspective.

You go. Did you, did you blog about that back in 1917.

I did. I did. I just I couldn't I couldn't figure out how to face time.

That was just kind of just starting.

So I did not know idea.

One of my favorite dynamics of, like when Tom was regularly covering FSU,

he would come up to the press conferences and stuff and he would

always ask me for like help with technology, like technological stuff, like how to read CFB stats and

he was always amazed at it and and Tom's ability to continue to

adapt I think is is why he's still like finding ways to be creative and unique and

and break news which is why we have him on on the podcast here but like it's also

time you're amazement with technology like I had you on the podcast what last year

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