Welcome back to the latest edition of the Audible, presented by Trader Joe's.

I'm Bruce Feldman, joined as always by my colleague from the Athletic, Stuart Mandel.

We are taping this right before we both head to Arizona for the Fiesta Bowl.

Stu, you've been a jet setter.

You took a little quick vacation around Christmas to Hawaii.

I feel like you were tempting the travel gods by going back and forth.

Well, thank goodness I wasn't booked on Southwest.

That has been quite the...

But you were.

You and I both were on South West.

Oh, no, no. I mean, from Hawaii.

We weren't...

There are Southwest flights to Hawaii, but we were not on that.

We were on Hawaiian Airlines.

But yeah, I mean, I've already rescheduled my Fiesta Bowl travel.

You've decided to drive, correct?

Yes, I will do the almost six-hour drive with my family who's planning

on coming with me. So fortunately, that's not too, you know, like, that's a, you know,

I think other people have major issues traveling and have been stranded and all that. And I feel

for them, our issues are not that. So I think, you know, as we get back into this now, all of a sudden, it's almost here,

not just the playoff, but I feel like the bigger name bowls are all going to just kind of come in a flurry now.

Yeah, it's so this happens every year, but basically the bowls start so early

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