We're back! We're back! It's a distraction! I'm drooled! That's wrong! How you doing, Rob?

Good dude, how are things? I've actually had an intervening gig of the week because my parents

got COVID and my sister and her family finally got COVID. So COVID finished its head count

and got pretty much everyone in my family. They're all like, no, they were hospitalized or anything

like that. But they all had the usual, ah, got me. Like I remember when I got it, I felt like I'd

lost a video game. Like at the final boss. I was like, oh, oh, it was almost there! But then I

did. Yeah, I'm glad that they're not really going through it health-wise. My parents had it

again fairly recently and it's just tough like knowing that old people you care about aren't well

and that you can't really do anything about it. About two years of trying to figure out how to

feel about this shit. My parents, this was the second time they'd had it and it's still, you know,

a bummer, it sucks. But you know, maybe maybe another two years will figure out a good response.

Well, like not to the, not to the spread of the disease. We're not going to respond to that.

But to know about it. Definitely not. Like, definitely, my parents were at the age where like,

if they get the flu, I'm like a little on edge. Like, you know, like, you know, they, I'm just like,

like anything. It's like, oh, then, you know, like, I got, I got, should I come up? Do I need to come

up? You know, stuff like that. Hey, our guest this week is Bloomberg, opinion columnist,

Matt Levine, the only business columnist on earth who's worth a shit. Hi, Matt!

Hi, thanks for having me. Oh, look at that. Does that deep, rich,

luscious voice coming in my head? That's what I sound like. I know it's not true.

But I think it would be nice if it were. We're big fans, man. Thank you for coming on the podcast.

Yeah. You, so Matt, I'm going to preface this with a little bit of gross praise, but like,

back at Dead Spin when I worked there and Tommy Craig was the boss. I said to him, like, I,

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