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Right now I hope you're following us on Twitter and on YouTube and on Facebook. We've been putting up videos. I won the rider cup. I protected it for

for America against British Roger Sherman. That video is up. You can see nephew Kyle cadding for us in the background. Kevin Clark's worst picks ever worst picks to the year worst picks to the world. We keep changing the title but he makes terrible picks every week on the NFL

and more and then professor Roger does master sports. I think we're doing that one every week to give us a little lesson on a college football pro football usually behavior of fans or players or culture or whatever.

We're cranking out more and more videos. Everything is leading up to NBA preview Paloza, which I think is going to be October 15th the day of the season starts. We've been

filming and creating a whole bunch of stuff for that day. It's going to be the biggest video day we've ever had. I am in a couple of the videos. We have some great ideas.

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Where Ryan Rousseau's new show dual threat. Hey, Joe Buck on this week talking about all things football and Larry Wilmer, a new podcast this week.

We have a new rewatchables that we're taping today and then that is going to run I think on Tuesday. Let's just say we were dazed and a little bit confused for this one.

So that's happening and then coming up. We're going to talk a little bit about the Jimmy Butler trade saga with Kevin O'Connor and then my old friend John Pidanis from Real World Challenge fam. He's here as well.

First project.

Kevin O'Connor, aka Kevin Obama aka Kevin O'Blood up Chris Vernon also turning Chris Vernon. You can hear him on the ringer NBA shake. Meet him on the ringer.com. You can see him on NBA preview.

That's coming up on October 15th. I was ready to do the emergency trade podcast for Jimmy Butler. I've been on call the last 48 hours. I've been on call mentally. I told nephew Kyle like dope booze as much as you usually do from four o'clock on. Like try to try to stay cool.

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