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Seven Rooms, make magic, make money. What's going on, everybody? This is Eric Cole, and this is, by my count, episode 264 of the Talking Chop podcast. You may realize that this is not Brad Roland queuing up this episode because we're doing a little bit of an emergency podcast. And unfortunately, it couldn't have come at a worst week for Brad.

He is in the midst of draft coverage, getting ready for the draft night with the Hawks

and amidst a bunch of news going on with the NBA as well.

But we wanted to get you guys some content regarding a signing that came through today

and joining me to talk about that signing is a guy I don't actually get the talk of two

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