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All right, a very special episode today.

It's the townies, the third annual, very special, best and worst and mostly worst of the year.

We've got Lucas Shaw from Bloomberg, who is here at the Ringer headquarters.

I know. I wore my, my Laker sweater just for Bill.

I didn't think he'd be here, but we needed to bring a little...

Oh, Bill doesn't come to.

We needed to bring a little L.A. energy.

He does come to the office.

But he is not here.

You did bring your Kobe sweater, which is nice.

We are recording this a little in advance,

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