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sevenrooms.com. Seven Rooms. Make Magic. Make money. What's up everybody and welcome to episode 260 of the Talking Chop podcast. I am your host,

Brad Rowland. It has been almost exactly one week since our last podcast and since the end of the Atlanta Braves season in

2020 and with a bit of perspective after a week a little bit of time to catch our breath we are back

and it's the gang's all here today I am joined by both Eric Cole and Scott Coleman hello gentlemen

and welcome back to the show after a week-long hiatus.

It has been really weird not being on podcast, at least with not being on a podcast with you, Brad,

because like every other day for, what, three weeks or so? And then doing the previews with both

you guys, like, it's been weird not being on the podcast for a week. Yeah, yeah, it is. It's interesting. I think all fans are probably a little

different for once your team goes out, what your level of interest is. And obviously, as you said,

it's been a week exactly since we last saw the Braves. And I don't know about you all. I've caught

some of the World Series. I caught the end of game four, which was just insanity. But yeah, good to be on.

Lots of good stuff to talk about, a lot of reflection and a lot to look ahead on as well.

Yeah, we are recording this at our typical time slot, but as we referred to earlier, we basically

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