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Don't you talk about my husband. Don't talk about him. I am Justin Varyer joining me today.

Corkside Rob Mahoney himself. I mean, as your podcast husband, I'm just flattered.

You would defend me like that. Always, man. Always. And that's it today. It's just Rob and I doing a little two-man game.

His favorite type of game. As we know.

We're not going to go deep into the politics of Corkside Carons and why they are for some reason

Corkside, amid a pandemic in Atlanta. Instead, we are going to focus on the future.

Specifically, what's ahead in a month here? It is rumor-monger season officially this week.

We're going to kick it off by talking about five questions that we're thinking as we barrel

toward March 25th. We will get into that right after this.

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All right, so there's two big dates this week that makes this one an important one on the trade

calendar. Today, February 2nd, players cannot be traded and reflipped again. You can only trade

guys once you can't trade on a Boston and then two weeks later, trade them to Chicago.

And then on Saturday, this is probably the bigger day is when the player signed over the off season

can officially be traded. This is when you see front offices and specifically podcasts,

earmark these two dates or their abouts in order to start talking about trades in order,

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