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Sam Brandt, my producer Brian Neal. It'll be a Brant's Rance edition. I'm in Florida this week. I was in Florida last week. I'm in Florida next week for the Super Bowl. It's a nice time to sort of steal away to Florida a few times during January on the East Coast. But last week or two weeks ago, it was teaching a course in Miami. Next week, of course, Super Bowl. This week, my mother lives down in Florida for the winter, as a lot of older people do. We live on the East Coast. She's in Washington, D.C., in the same house that I grew up in. But when my dad passed a few years ago, we tried to get her down here. And first, it was a week.

Then it was a month. And now she's here for three months. So it's nice to spend a couple days

seeing her looking out the window at Palm Trees. Nice way to record my podcast. Let me tell you how

I watch the championship games. You know that I'm part of VaynerSports now, Gary Vee, the wonderful entrepreneur, the serial

entrepreneur that has so much following social media and seems to capture digitally the

attention of so many young people.

They are good enough to get me some appearances, some branding, some corporate stuff.

The reason I went with VaynerSports is because I can help them on the sports side and I hope I am.

A lot of clients to look out for this year.

I'll be talking about them for VaynerSports.

But also they can help me on the branding side and speeches.

I want to do more than academic speaking, and they've done that.

So anyway, here's what happened with the championship games.

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