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I'm your host, Mitch Light, joined by Ari Wasserman, our National College football recruiter, and Ari actually, I believe, at home today, been traveling all around the Southeast, managed to squeeze a vacation in during this month. I miss you. Welcome, Ari. How are you doing, buddy? That's what you got wrong, Mitch. I managed to squeeze work into my vacation month. Okay. You got it wrong. But listen, guys, it's been a long layover. We all know the score. It's been a while since Stars Matter was here. And I can't tell you how excited I am to be back with you guys. And I know the people who, you know, became attached to Stars Matter are going to be relieved that we're back. And just seeing all your wonderful faces is really great. And I'm excited for a new season of covering this stuff with you guys. And, uh, you know, that'll be the nicest, the most sentimental I'll be for a while. But just want you to, I value all three of you and so happy to be back. Sounds good. Also got Mani Navarro here. Mani obviously covers Miami for us and recruiting. He's been very busy in South Florida

covering his beat and I believe covering a much improved soccer team, his daughter soccer team,

only lost two to one the other day. Is that true, man? Yes, yes. We're not one in three. I think

we've been outscored 13 to three in our last three games, but it's improvement.

It was only two to one last game. That's all you can hope for is improvement.

You might need to make a change at defensive coordinator. And then we got Grace Rainer here.

Grace covers recruiting for us, college football reporter.

Grace has a fun story out today that we're going to talk about about coaches and headsets.

And she's been very busy prepping for the fall covering both recruiting and some of the

biggest games in the southeast.

Now from her new home base, the pride of Virginia.

Grace Rainer.

How's it going, Grace?

It's going good.

It's good to be back with you guys.

See your faces again.

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