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Seven Rooms. Make Magic. Make money. What is up, everybody, and welcome to episode 298 of the Talking Chop podcast.

I am your host, Brad Rowland.

I am not in my normal recording setup, so my apologies for the sound, but I am on the road

for work and graciously joining me

this evening and by the way because this trade deadline season we should say it is Sunday

it is 7.22 p.m. Eastern time as we're recording this so keep that in mind that Scott Coleman is here

hello sir. Hey Brad yeah absolutely guaranteed that as soon as this gets posted the Braves will have a rumor or make a trade.

Who knows what the next week or so will hold for this team, but good to be on with you and hope everybody out there is doing okay.

Yeah, for sure.

And, you know, the bar is a little bit higher this week for emergency podcast because I am on the road.

But I'll do

this here at the top of the podcast you've probably seen this on your podcast feed but if you

haven't I've done some voiceovers at the beginning of these to explain them but we have

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