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Back, second hour of the show.

It's been a busy one.

Nicole joined us earlier.

Some very interesting news about the Big Ten

SBC. We go to the Zoom for the first time today and Adrian is up next. Hello, Adrian.

Hello. I loved, um, every time Nicole's on, I am absolutely flabbergasted by how amazing she is.

So the first question is, is Tony Petiti like an evil genius? Because if he kind

of has this reputation of being very, you know, guarded or particular or limited in his media

access, that sort of kind of is making Sankey be the face of this and then it's making him sort

of become the favorite person

to pommel if we don't like the results. So I kind of is impressed to hear that, not surprised,

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