Welcome back to the latest edition of the Audible presented by Trader Joe's.

I'm Bruce Feldman, joined by my colleagues from the athletic, Ralph Rousseau, who's here,

Stu Mandel, not here. I think I know what that's about. Ralph, first of all, nice of you to join us.

As Stu told me over the weekend, he's a little bit old to be one of these dog ate my

homework kind of people, isn't he? So you were away and then all of a sudden there was some

kind of technical difficulties. I don't know if it was day drinking. That's technical difficulties. Please explain

yourself. Yeah. So I've been gone a bunch because I've been on an assignment. I've been

covering basketball. So that was an excused absence. Last week was not an excused absence.

Last week were technical difficulties involving. So you know where I was last week, Bruce?

At a bar? I was, no, I was time traveling. I was in 1998. I went four days with no internet

connection in our apartment in New York City. And I'm not going to bore you with why it took

that long and why we had that situation.

But it was just like being thrown into a time machine.

And like all of a sudden, like, what do I do if I can't have, get on the internet?

Especially me because my TV comes through the internet.

I don't have cable.

So I don't know.

I was living kind of a Quaker's life

for a couple of days. I was trying to read some books, listen to a bunch of podcasts because I

could do that off my cellular. So yeah, I just, I fell down a rabbit hole for a few days. I am back.

The issue with my apartment is not 100% fixed, but I think it will be fine.

It was, yeah, it's, it just kind of ruined what was supposed to be a kind of a cool weekend for me.

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