Hi, welcome to the podcast. I am Joe Posnansky with me is Michael sure Michael welcome.

Thank you for having me Joe. You're welcome by the way there are two things that need to be said right up front one.

This is an emergency podcast I think this fully qualifies as an emergency

podcast we had to get this out there it's an emergency it's a complete emergency and the second thing that we need to tell people right up front is

you're playing hurt you're playing you're playing through yes well this is what happens when there's an emergency is you gotta overcome your physical ailments I

I have a sinus infection and I apologize to all of you out there for having to listen to my slightly nasally voice I'm going to try to hit the mute button when I cough

but a couple coughs might sneak through like sneak through the defenses I'm just saying you doing this podcast

Joe Montana coming back from the flu and it's Jordan and Kevin Winslow and Kevin and the

Jordan flu game it's the it's who was it who played on the Super Bowl in a broken leg Jack young

right you know it's a thing at that level I would say right it's like it seems that way to me I mean at least certainly I

mean look I always thought that Joe Montana thing was you know he had a cold then you played through it he

then whatever but this to do this like do a podcast where you're feeling second down incredible I don't like to use the

term hero and but like sometimes it's called for sometimes you have to do it sometimes you just have to go yeah I

did I this is her heroic thing I'm doing and I don't want to make a big deal out of it but but yeah I deserve all of

your gratitude and praise and by you all I mean though nation at large the nation at large absolute look this is this

this didn't become America's number one sports podcast by accident it got here it got here because of

dedication through the heroic acts the problem with this with this I have this so the by symptoms are

essentially like you know classic head full of concrete stuff he knows running those and then also this

cough it's settled into my chest I have this cough and the problem is is that what triggers it is laughter

when I laugh I cough and so like this is for a person who enjoys to laugh and enjoys comedy writing like this is a

huge issue for me this is a huge issue this is I don't I don't enjoy the feeling that I'm currently having which

is like please whatever happens don't laugh don't laugh yeah that's not the best all right so in order so in order to avoid laughter

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