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Major plot twist. Ooh, plot twist.

Hang on. Monday. Tell me about it i'm like my caffeine hasn't kicked in yet major plot twist this past weekend when it comes to our college football bet so our college football bet is this we have to

we had to choose teams that we thought we're going to have the worst records. So you want your team to go

over for the season.

And if you

have the winningest team,

that means you're going to be the one singing

the national anthem at a little league game.

E! E! E! This is not real

This is English

The what

So para how may we have.

Yeah.

I was like, once she started singing, I'm like, that is, I recognize Maya Rudolph on S&L.

So maybe we're running out of, maybe we're running out of bad national anthems.

I was about to say it's getting to the point where we're running out of bad national anthems.

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