Bryan Curtis

Thank you.

Thank you so much.

You're very, very good.

One of the things, the anecdotes, you start with an opening anecdote about a play in which he has to find a player that wasn't on his sheet, I believe, and he has to, in real time, talk about the game, get his iPad, get a note from his iPad, look at the iPad, and figure out the name.

And I'm over here watching this, and I'm like, oh, I don't even see him break a sweat throughout the whole time.

His preparation is something that really takes him over the top.

And you see it right now because Mike Breen was talking.

I read the GQ article that Howard motherfucking Beck wrote back when he had a Q&A with Mike Breen.

And one of the things that they were talking about was just how hard it is to talk during blowouts or talk during dead time.

And Mike Tirico has had a couple of times where it was dead moments.

And instead of just having a dead air, he's actually giving you he's giving you anecdotes.

He's giving you I think it was during the challenge during the Minnesota Timberwolves San Antonio Spurs series where there was a challenge on Wimby or a challenge to see whether it was an upgraded for a flagrant foul or his elbow on Nas Reed.

And you, Tirico is setting the scene.

He's telling you, Oh, this might not be good for the Spurs.

And he's giving you a play by play of what's supposed to happen next.

And there's not a lot of guys that can do that.

First of all, for one sport, but he could do it for like three or four or five different sports.

And I, I I'm, I'm saying all this to just say, I'm really glad to have him back, Joe.

Why is that, Brian?

Why is that, Brian?