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Subscribe now. What's up everybody and welcome to episode 243 of the Talking Chop podcast. I am your host,

Brad Rowland. It is Sunday evening, and I am joined as often by the world's most famous Indianapolis

Colts fan, Scott Coleman. Hello, sir. Hey, Brad, good to be on. It's been a couple weeks.

A lot to talk about it. It's pretty crazy that we have reached the final

week of the regular season. I don't know about you, but it feels like just yesterday the Braves

were in New York, but facing Jacob de Grom on opening day. And the fact that we're here,

everyone kind of knew with this shortened 60 game season, it was going to go by quick. But

really pretty amazing that in a week's time,

we will be done with a regular season, and hopefully the Braves are able to finish up on a strong

note. Yeah, it is truly bizarre. It did fly by in a good way, I think, just the fact that you

kind of get lost in the baseball season, and that's better than where we were a few months ago

in the non-sporting landscape that we had. So yeah, it's a bit bizarre, but I would say that's

definitely the top-line thought of this podcast is that one week to go, the Braves are in a great

position, which we'll come back to later on in the podcast. But yeah, just we're almost there.

The playoffs are coming. In fact, before I delve into a rant about

my Atlanta Falcons on a day in which your Indianapolis Colts won comfortably. I was going to say,

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