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And if you heard like a little bit of like nose breathing or something into the mic before the music started,

it's because our pal Jeff Simmons has mastered making some sort of noise right before the,

right before the video starts, like the little

intro starts to play. I think some of you enjoyed a word that I will not repeat before one

of our last episodes. So yeah, Jeff, you've nailed, like, it's, you don't even necessarily

know when I'm clicking start, but you've, you've nailed your timing. How are you doing this morning, bud? It's a better intro than last week for me, but maybe it's like, maybe it's, I'm all wearing all black. Maybe it's like my Darth Vader impression. I don't know. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. Maybe they know like the Twitter cop is coming and like I'm trying to warn everyone. this is right. This is right. We are going to do Twitter patrol today. And I know people are excited about that. We'll welcome in our Twitter patrolman a little bit later. But, you know, we've talked a lot about the schedule. I don't think we're going to talk much about schedule today. I've like scheduled out to some extent.

Maybe it'll come up anyway. But you and I did a show last week that I think we both really were enjoying and honestly had, I think it was maybe we did 90 minutes. I can't remember. We still had a lot more to

talk about. And it was really looking back at 2025 and some of the things that had our attention,

things that we paid attention to, and a lot of them were team specific. We went through a lot of

like the general lessons, but you and I were like, let's finish this a little bit. And so today,

we're going to talk a little bit more about 2025.

And before we do that, Jeff, anything else just, like, got your attention this week that you think we should be talking about?

Not particularly.

Like, this week was so scheduled dominant with all the leaks and all the content coming back and all

like the release videos it's been nice to kind of get ready for the 2026 season but there's

just been so much chatter on the schedule and the one thing I actually found pretty interesting is

I know you follow these guys pretty closely but Lindsay Rhodes and Sumer Sports actually a study. I can't remember the guy's name right now. He was on their draft podcast. He's a pretty interesting guy. They did a study actually saying that like the rest differential isn't a big factor. It hasn't proved out. And I was listening to them talk about it earlier this morning. And I saw our favorite buddy in San Francisco going the other way.

He said it's the only thing you should look at in the schedule.

So it's really interesting to see, like, since I think they did the CBA in 2020,

they've actually, and this is like next level stuff.

But I don't know, I found it pretty interesting seeing like the guys at sumer

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