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My name is Scott Bertram.

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My tag team partner standing by as always.

Jeff Blair.

Jeff, how are you?

Doing fine.

Very excited to be taping this episode, Scott.

I mean, you know how long a road it's been for us to put this together with.

How many guests did we have lined up that dropped out at the last moment for like weird mysterious reasons

that have never been fully explained was it one guest two guests now it was three guests but now

we finally lined up this promising young man i think the people are going to like him i hear a lot of good

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