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I'm your host Zach Harper.

We got Josh Houston. we got Jay King.

We got Andrew Schleck producing, and we have a hell of a show. But before that, are you subscribed to The Athletic? You should be best coverage of sports on the internet. Or you subscribe to The Bounce. You should be. It's a free newsletter. It's one of the few things we do that's free, just like this podcast. make sure you sign up for that

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excellent free products. Uh, guys, we are, we're heading into the final quarter of the season.

Things are shaping up nicely. Jay can't stop writing about wins because the Celtics refuse to lose.

But before we get into a couple of fun games, we're going to play.

We're going to play gut check.

We're going to play Plant Your Flag, two of our favorites, except gut check we've never played

before.

It's going to really bother Jay.

I feel like this is something Jay is not going to like when it comes to the game.

Got checked.

You could copy and paste that intro for almost any game.

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