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Hello, welcome the HOOC Collective Podcast.

We talk about the NBA, which we're doing in August,

which means we pre-recorded this.

So I hope you enjoy it.

Joining us from Northern California, not disclosing where exactly is in Northern California

for reasons that only he knows is Tim Bontem's.

Hello, everybody.

Joining us from somewhere in Northern Texas.

You okay with that, Van McMead.

All right. I'm joining you from Eastern Nebraska. All right. Last year, can I get a howdy partners in? Oh, I'm sorry.

Yeah, howdy partners. By the way, I know exactly where Bon Temps is. I had a few dozen beers

at that exact location last August. A few dozen,

Bontemps?

I was there multiple nights.

He knows how to drink.

Bontem,

hey, have you broken out the fireball?

Bontempt tends to break out the fireball when he's out at the lake.

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