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

I'm Bruce Feldman, joined by my colleagues from the Athletic

Stuart Mandel and Ralph Russo. It is week one. We just had an interesting week zero. We're going to get into all of that and what we're so

much excited about for this week. But a little window into the new Audible. Now we're on video.

And I got to say for the last 20 minutes,

as we were trying to figure out technology,

man, Stu's not a big profanity guy,

but I think that took a big test in the last 20 minutes, Ralph.

Between Stu's camera angle,

my headphones and some audio issues, yeah.

I mean, you know, the scheduled 1.30 Eastern kickoff got pushed back a little bit.

We're going to have to add an extra 15 minutes in for getting everything set up.

I would hope as we get more used to this, it'll come quicker, but this is only our second,

to be fair, our second episode of video.

Guys, I got a lot of positive feedback from people about our first three-person episode.

Cool.

I didn't, but I didn't get negative feedback. Let me rephrase that. I don't, I don't, I didn't, I didn't necessarily come across a bunch of positive feedback, but I also didn't necessarily get a bunch of negative feedback. Mostly, I will say, like generally speaking, there was a lot of enthusiasm when we made the announcement that I was coming on.

And that made me feel very good.

So thank you, everybody, for saying, oh, this seems like a great addition, or we really are excited to have you on the show as well.

So, again, thank you to Stu and Bruce for inviting me and allowing me to be a part of this.

And again, a thank you to those of you who have been a rather

enthusiastic about my entry into the show. Ralph's going to class the place up, Sue. And it needs

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