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And always appreciate you tuning in, especially in years like this,

which have not been very good for anybody and anybody's health.

So it's a therapy Tuesday session for you guys.

And as Nikki Jabal of my guest tonight asked me before he went on, who's providing the

therapy for us?

So I don't know.

I don't.

We catch a lot, you know, you're going to catch a lot of bullets, stray bullets from,

from doing all this,

but it doesn't get easy for a beat report. And Nikki, let's start there. So we got four weeks.

Because this is not us, John. It's not about us. But listen, I want people to feel our pain, too.

Because it is important. By the way, you can read Nikki in the Washington Post. You can read my work on ESPN.com.

There you go.

But it is right now, it is about us.

So for the next five weeks, as a beat reporter, in a situation like this, what are the challenges?

Yes, not great.

Not great.

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