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Subscribe now. What's up everybody and welcome to episode 221 of the Talking Chop podcast.

I am your host, Brad Rowland.

And unlike last night's emergency episode, there are other people on the call with me,

which I'm sure everyone is excited about, including myself.

And I am joined by both frequent slash regular co-hosts.

Eric Cole and Scott Coleman are both here.

And gentlemen, it's nice to be here.

It is.

I'm glad we have some baseball to talk about.

I know it seems like just yesterday we were joking that we're going to have to do

like a favorite movies podcast or something like that.

So we have some real-life baseball to talk about. So it should be a lot of fun. Yeah, people are spared from the top

ten favorite places to go out to eat during a pandemic type list shows. They're spared all

of that. I'm really excited to talk to baseball, like actual baseball with you guys. It was

kind of a strange day yesterday because this kind of felt like a weird ending

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