Welcome to the Audible, presented by Greater Joe's.

I'm Stuart Mandel, joined by Bruce Feldman in these very, very unusual times.

Bruce, it's fortunate that our sponsor is actually one of the few places left in America that you can actually go into right now.

Trader Joe's open, ready for business, ready for you to go stock up on groceries.

But other than that, how are you? So here in the Bay Area, we are in a mandated stay-at-home

order. I don't know that L.A. has done that quite yet, but from what you've told me, you're

basically doing it anyway. Yeah. They're just trying to be safe. You know You know, it's just basically my family and, you know, when you go out, you know, it's made it a little different as, you know, user doesn't rain here. We've had rain most of the week that we've been, we've been basically hunkered down. And so the times, the sun's come out, you know, my family's gone out and you see other

families out and everybody's, you know, kind of kept their distance. And it's, you know, we're just

paying attention. I don't think anybody knows where this is headed. You know, obviously there's,

you know, scientists have made some, some statements and predictions and

projections and we've certainly, you know, seen the track that Italy is on and, and where

the U.S. has been, I don't know if it's two weeks behind and that's daunting. But at the same time,

we're, we're, we cover college football. So it's like, you know, we're still

working on that. So it's a, it's a, it's just a surreal time, I think. You know, we're all

coping with it differently, I guess. We're all shut down and we just don't know. I mean, it's definitely

bizarre to be working for a sports site right now when there's no sports. Now, I got to give a lot

of credit to our colleagues who cover college football. If you go on the app, you would not know

that there isn't college football going on. People are still writing. Great

stories. A lot of it is related to COVID-19 and how teams are dealing with it. But not just that.

Umi and Andy started back up our group text on today on Thursday. Most exciting player we've ever

covered. We're going to come back about once or twice a week for as long as this goes on,

talking about kind of evergreen topics like that.

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