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Ah, yeah, that was good.

Easily the most fun I've had watching a USA game since we paddled Panama,

Orlando back in early 2022. Greg, how you doing?

Bells, I'm doing great. Fun. Fun is just fun, isn't it? And the one thing that I really think that the Pachitino hire has done is, well, it's done a lot of things, but one thing it has definitely

done.

I think more people are allowing themselves to have fun when we beat a bad team.

I think that's true.

A bad team that maybe wasn't even trying that hard.

But you don't have to care.

Like, you don't have to care that they're bad. You can just be like, it was fun to see our, our boys do that and not be like,

but what does it mean or what's the big takeaway?

Or will we,

will we be able to beat Columbia in a knockout match?

And then find yourself not getting to the knockout match to play Columbia.

So this is just,

this was just fun.

It's,

we got some fun kids out there and they're doing some fun things.

Yeah. And interesting, and interesting things too. So.

I do kind of want to take all the wet blankets and throw them in the washing machine, maybe throw some lemon scented detergent in there and then, and then dry them and make them all cozy.

But I mean, we should probably acknowledge right off the bat.

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