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

I'm Stuart Mandel, joined as always by Bruce Feldman and joined for the second time in the last couple months,

the man who was sure to remind us that he had never been on the Audible before that, our colleague Max Olson.

Unband.

I appreciate it, guys. It's great to see your, uh, your smiling faces on this

Wednesday morning. Max is our transfer portal guru. And so we want to talk to him about a really

interesting story he put up on the athletic on Tuesday about a kid who is stuck in the portal.

And Max, first, I want to just assure you that unlike

the Andy Staples show, you will not have to consume any fast food sandwiches live on the air

for this podcast. We're much more conventional. So you're saying we will not pause in the middle

of this podcast and I won't have to go to McDonald's to go pick up multiple fish sandwiches to

finish out the podcast.

I didn't realize that happened that you, the going to, that wasn't preplanned.

Buddy, it was a long day.

No, that was not preplanned.

No, we want to talk about this story.

It's really interesting story.

Chris Mull, a all conference linebacker at UAB, goes in the transport.

I'll let you take it from there.

Yeah, Chris Mole, you know, is a guy that I've kept an eye on.

You know, I kind of have my, in tracking the portal and in doing our rankings of the best

available players in the portal.

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