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Subscribe now. What's up everybody and welcome to episode 242 of the Talking Chop podcast.

I am your host, Brad Rowland, it is Sunday evening in our usual time slot and joining me as often.

The great Eric Cole is here.

Hello, sir.

Hey, man, what's going on?

You know, a nice slow sports weekend for me.

Nothing going on in the world as the NFL is back

college football is back the NBA is still happening the NHL still happening and baseball

oh yeah tennis all kinds of stuff in soccer yeah it's kind of a content overload right like

it's unreal there's all these things and it's like and like within each sphere like you know

there's like the specter of COVID's over all of them in different ways.

Like some games aren't happening yet or aren't going to happen, but there's still other parts of the conference that are happening.

You know, it's really kind of bizarre.

Yeah, it's wild.

Take it all in.

They've kind of paid us back for all of the absolute dead zone that was.

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