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And today, well, I had a different podcast plan, but things have changed, as I'm sure you know.

So I had Matthew Parris from the Washington Times, Sam 40 from the Washington Post,

and Pete Haley from NBC Sports Washington on Thursday morning we taped the show,

talking a little bit about ownership, kind of how we saw things going, and it's the way it's happened.

Also then talking about, you know, the draft, the roster, this thing, that thing, but more on the field stuff.

I'm going to play that when we're through with this ownership situation.

And so that'll probably be next week.

But today, I wanted to give you the latest on the Josh Harris bid.

And I think you know a lot right already, but I wanted to give you more details and things that you need to know moving forward.

So let's start with the bottom line. The bottom line is that the Josh Harris bid of $6.05 billion

is right now it was the deal that was agreed upon. However, they are entered into a,

they are not in an exclusive phase in terms of negotiation. So it's,

it's a non-exclusive situation, which means that somebody else conceivably could still enter

the bidding if they came in. Let's say tomorrow, Steve Apostolopoulos comes in with $7 billion.

Well, there you go. Because it's not exclusive, they can still do that. However, the deal has been

agreed upon. It's just not finalized. I have to, I have to emphasize that because it means that

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