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All right guys Thursday evening edition.

A little bit different this week.

Jesse is not here.

We both had some class and some stuff to take care of this week.

I'm out of town, I'm actually in Florida.

So solo show, it's to be a little shorter because quite

frankly I don't I can't think of many people who want to you want to listen to

for like an hour hour 20 like we normally do solo and I don't think I'm on that list so yeah we'll keep it short

it has been the busiest week in sports actually I say I'm solo Ronica is here Ronic say hello people want to

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