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My name is Dan Hansis, and I'm coming to you from a city filled with heroes in bunkers, Mark Sessler, Chris Wesleying, and Greg Rosethal. What is up, boys?

Hey, Dan. What a time to be alive. What an incredible time to be alive.

I got a pep in my step, and I feel like everybody should because, man, it doesn't get

any better than this.

Well, I mean, there's a lot going on in the world where that might disagree.

But I do admit, even as a Patriots fan, like a day this momentous

in NFL history, like, I'm loving it. I don't know. I still like it. Oh, please, Greg. I'm with you.

I feel like we're beyond a thousand episodes at some point in this show. And have we ever had a news lineup equal to what

we're about to get into today? It feels totally surreal some of the bullet points we will

explore. What do you mean, oh, please? Because Dan, I've been pretty consistent on this podcast of

how I was hoping it might end in in New England and that the last thing I

wanted was an ugly ending and to me this is about as close to a non-ugly ending as they were

going to get. There's no injury. There's no dramatic fall off. There's not a ton of backbiting.

Clearly, he's not, like, thrilled.

And as a closet bucks fan for a while, like, it's a fun landing spot where you can still

root on Tom Brady, like no one's feelings are.

Well, let me just say this.

And I wish all fans could be the way you are. According to many people in New England, this is one of the darkest days in the city's history in terms of pro sports from what we're hearing from some outlets. Erica barely got out of bed this morning. And I, you know, I just say let's, I would say just let's hit pause in terms of saying

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