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These are a little different around these parts, and I'll explain more about that in a couple of minutes,

but we're in this thing together here in the Magic Radio Box, literally, living in the Magic Radio Box, which is, I believe, a coronavirus-free environment.

So I'm excited about that.

But this was supposed to be a bracket-buster edition.

I don't know if you know about this, but the NCAA men's basketball tournament would have

wrapped up its first weekend of activity,

and we would be regaling you with amazing tales of how wonderful we are for picking games in the NCAA tournament.

There'd be a couple of studding upsets.

We'd be, say, how could Coach Kay's Duke team have lost the first weekend of the NCAA tournament?

Is it time for him to retire?

And as Tom iso washed up at Michigan State?

These are the kind of things that on a normal, a normal Sunday night into a Monday, we would be discussing.

But obviously, I think the spoiler alerts is out there. Things are not normal.

So instead, we get to talk about some random football conversation that I'm not going to

lie to you, would not make the show if things were going the way they were supposed

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