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Pepsi Max, Dirsty for more. What's up everybody and welcome to episode 184 of the Talking Chop podcast.

I'm your host, Brad Rowland.

It is Sunday evening, September

the 15th, about two weeks. Yes, two weeks until the end of the regular season and joining me to

commemorate this occasion and look ahead to the future and look back to the past and all that

fun stuff that we normally do on the podcast. Eric Cole is here. What's up, man? What's going on, buddy?

I'm glad to be back on.

And, you know, we could talk about some really kind of fun sort of looking to the future

stuff without feeling it's too much of a jinx.

Yeah, I mean, we're almost there.

You know, I've gotten some pretty funny, lighthearted response to me on the last couple of podcasts, like kind of refusing to declare it over.

And I still will not declare it over.

Nope, I won't do it.

I refuse, Eric.

I'm an Atlanta sports fan.

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