Dave Dameshek

See, thank you.

That's right.

See, it could always be worse.

that's the one that when it, when it starts going here, there's no hiding that you can't really, uh, can't really put the salt and pepper, uh, that little, uh, pepper shaker thing that I use.

It's like magic, Steve Smith.

You can't believe how much it feels that.

Okay.

Listen, we're not talking about me.

I want to talk about you and I want to start here and I'm not trying to you with this one, but where are you on a scale of one to 10, 10 being most vexed

Let's say.

Frustrated, angry, you know, put out by this.

That you're not in the Hall of Fame yet with the gold jacket and all of that.

Scale of one to ten.

No jive.

The no jive policy remains.

Boy, a heavy Steve Smith, and I appreciate the candor and, as always, the unvarnished honesty.

And, yeah, you know, I'm an extra layer of what you're describing is my entire professional life is now devoted to the passive experience of talking about the deeds of other people out there.

The distraction that is pro football, and it is our most prominent distraction out there in society, is exactly what you said.

It's greatest gift.

is that, you know, it's late August and it's back to school time and you're bummed out if you're an 11-year-old, except that you're like, at least football's coming with it.