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Today we have Ishawn Threw of The Washington Post on.

He has been our global politics informant before. And today we're going to talk a little bit about if Saudi Arabia could buy an NHL team.

Or exactly what is the plan for when they're buying all the players from world soccer?

And if it could happen in the NBA, it's a really interesting conversation.

And I always really appreciate Ishawn's worldview, which is his newsletter that you should subscribe to.

Just saying.

On top of that, Greg and I talk about the Eric Carlson trade and Alabama boat fight

and a bunch of other stuff.

So without further ado, here's Mark Messier.

Hi, everybody.

It's Mark Messier, and you're listening to Blue Shirts Breakaway, the Bush's breakaway.

I am your host, Ryan Mead. I'm here with my co-host, Ray Kaplan, and we are going Alabama Riverboat Fighting.

Which was your favorite name? Michael B. Phelps.

That's that. Scoobo Goodying Jr. or Aquaman.

They're all good. The whole video is just fantastic fantastic if anybody hasn't um if anybody's into this

sort of thing there's really not a lot going on on twitter these days but last week some uh some person

fell down a slide and then i saw a million articles on some person it was a cop and law enforcement

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