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I'm What's up everybody and welcome to episode 165 on the Talking Chop podcast.

I am your host, Brad Rowland. It is Sunday evening and returning after a

long hiatus, a frequent guest to the program, Joe Lucia is here. What's up, man?

How you doing, Brad? Thanks for having me back. It's my pleasure, sir. It's been too long,

and I thought it was a good time. It's, it's Mother's Day. Nothing's going on in your life today. Nothing about your soccer team or Game of Thrones or whatever else is going on.

It's been a slow day for everybody, I'm sure.

And it works out well because it's a West Coast road trip, and I'm on the West Coast now.

So I actually got to see some of these games. Yeah, I mean, I know, uh, you know, our frequent co-host, Scott Coleman was in the

building, I believe yesterday and today. Um, I got to watch, probably it's kind of funny. I think I

watch more Braves baseball than normal this week because I'm often up. I'm still on the East Coast,

of course, but I'm often up very late covering things and working on websites

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