Hey it's Bill Simmons. We're not just reacting to the NBA playoffs on my

podcast. We're also doing on the Ringer NBA show and the

mismatch podcast. They are coming after some of these NBA playoff games. Check

it out Monday, Wednesday, and Friday

nights on the Ringer Podcast Network. All right,

guys, we are doing something we don't normally do. We're starting off with a three-man team today.

So we've got, we've got the COVID crew here in Nashville, me and Jesse, and then we've got we've got the COVID crew here in Nashville me and Jesse and then we got Healthy Uncle Mitch from

Bullpen LA. People don't know that you have COVID now

Since the last episode you were healthy. That's right. Now this is the COVID crew.

Let me just address this right now. Boston is the problem.

Jesse has done all he can to infect everybody this side of the Mississippi he's doing a good job of it

so that's it so yeah I don't you're your intro how are you I don't think that's fair but whatever I'm

wonderful it's a good it's a good Thursday morning. Yeah, so Mitch joined us before got up at seven o'clock his time and we butchered the audio and couldn't use it

So there you go anything for you guys. Well, we appreciate it. We don't want to take up too much your time.

Mitch, I am honestly, we just kind of had one kind of general topic on the board for today.

You know, I'm sure you see as much garbage as we do, a lot of doom and gloom lately.

How are you feeling about the hobby?

Do you, do you see that? Have you gotten the same sense that we have of a lot of people

saying doom and gloom?

The problem right now is the prices that are coming out from

Benini from Tops with the dynamic pricing, Tops now working with that, cutting distributors and the idea of fanatics coming in, they've raised up prices and people are kind of sick and tired of paying so much money for a secondary priced product. I mean there's a bunch of products that just don't

need to be this high. So you feel that wax is overpriced right now is the

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