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com slash bleeding green You are inside the QB factory where our magical development dust make dreams come true.

I am your host Michael Kist and this is all of course brought to you by

SB Nation and Bleeding Green Nation. This is episode 13 of the QB2 factory and as always I am

joined by QB1 in our hearts and our minds. Mark Schofield. Mark, how you

doing brother? I'm doing well buddy. It's nice to be here for Lucky Number 13.

Always a pleasure to see your shiny and happy face on a Friday morning.

They're going to say shiny head. I wasn't going to shoddy head, but since you opened that door, I mean,

Yeah. But we do start with most of the ways

we start the show by opening a historical door.

And now Michael, I am a fan of all things D-Day,

okay, all things D-Day. And it did not know that about you.

Yeah. What would give me that impression? I have no idea. And maybe it's the fact that over my left shoulder is Han my grandfather's D-Day pin. But I do want to begin here because many people remember General Dwight D Eisenhower and the letter he wrote to the troops before D day began,

which began, you are about to embark upon the great crusade

towards which we have striven these many months.

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