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Welcome everybody to your favorite day of the week.

I'm Antonier one.

I am joined by two guys whose names I have butchered

for the last 90% of the podcast that I have that I have appeared with them

Adam Mattis who is the usual co-host in Sam Amick who was kind enough to just let me

roll with with how it went but Sam first off and first and

foremost thank you very much for hopping on as we get ready for probably one of your

busiest times of the year right it is busy for sure and

and listen Anthony year when I'm really happy to hear well done no I I mean, the answer to your question is yes.

It's funny, and this is kind of exciting and different from a professional standpoint, you know, since I changed platforms a couple months ago,

going from USA Today to the athletic, I'm curious to see like it's going to be a different version

of busy at the trade deadline. It's not necessarily, know at the trade deadline it's not necessarily you know at

my old job it was a little more straight ahead where because it was a mainstream

media platform where you had two NBA writers myself and Jeff Zilgett, you know, you kind of, you always

had to confirm the big news independently.

You always had to stay on top of as many things as possible,

even if you weren't breaking it or you weren't,

you just kind of had to make sure that you had your reporting

on your USA Today stories.

This is a different type of challenge where you know we have

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