Welcome to the Shamrock.

I'm Pete Samson back from a Mexican vacation.

He's Matt Fortuna back from the National Championship game.

I'm not, I was going to say, I'm not sure which of us had more fun at our destination,

but you had better weather.

I had way better weather.

I have better weather in Chicago right now, I think, than I had at Los Angeles for the

national title game crazy enough.

I watched, uh, I watched the semis from a condo overlooking Pacific Ocean, but I only got the ESBN

and Vivo broadcast.

So I think a lot got lost in translation.

I was watching Noah Ruggles Shank a 50-yard field goal to put Georgia in the national

championship game.

What time was that right at the new year like it was for the East Coasters?

It was, yeah, it was just before New Year.

I think Porto Viroirto is on central time.

But yeah, I think it was a few Pacificos in at that point.

But now we both snap back to reality here as I was watching snowflakes come down on South Bend as I was walking my dog around the lakes at Notre Dame, the Santorini of Northern Indiana, as many people call it.

Got to see our dear friend in Los Angeles.

Reminded him of that every turn.

Super. I think since our last podcast, we spent a lot of time, I think our last podcast was

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