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Ah, yes, off the heels of Jesse's birthday, our balloon budget is wiped out, and it's too bad because I really wanted a celebratory show tonight.

Where were you two years ago?

We celebrate the two-year anniversary of the Alliance.

That's the day you remember.

We got quotes such as, it's about trust.

We've looked each other in the eye.

We've made an agreement that from the ACC

commissioner, quote, there is no signed contract. There's an agreement among three gentlemen.

I wouldn't negotiate the sale of a used toaster on that flimsy of a statement, but that is what

the ACC and the Big Ten and the PAC 12, sorry if you're listening on podcast, moment of silence there, obligatory.

When we talk about the alliance that was formed two years ago and since then,

just a mushroom cloud over the entire sport.

We are jam-packed.

We are high atop.

A surprisingly cool downtown Nashville, Tennessee.

The high may have hit triple digits today, but we're cool in here.

More on that in a second.

We've got Team Scoop tonight.

I've got just basically same old, same old from the NCAA, but we have to call these

average people out because if you call average people out, sometimes they get spooked,

and average people, when spooked, sometimes change their modus operandi. Fingers crossed on that front.

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