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My friend from ESPN Bill Barnwell Bill how are you doing?

Sheal you have many friends from ESPN. I'm not your sole ESPN friend.

That's true. That's true. I do have many friends.

I love ESPN former former contributor and just many people here have love for you.

I appreciate that very much. I'm excited to have Bill. I know with Bill on I can go any direction I want.

We can go playoffs. We can go postseason awards. We can go look ahead to the off season.

That's what we're going to do. Basically on the show for the next few weeks.

It'll be a little mix of a little bit of everything because there's a lot going on.

It's not just the playoff. Bill what I did I just came up with five questions that I sent to you.

I just thought what are five questions on my mind that I want to know what Bill thinks about here.

I sent them to you. We haven't discussed our answers how we feel about it.

We're just going to get to those and then we'll get to a couple listener, listener emails at the end. How does that sound?

It's good. My concern with this is there's I would say at least three people who come to mind.

It's you, Meena and Greg Rosenball where when I have to do something like this, I have to have two answers to every question

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