Good morning, everyone, and welcome to the Early Edge. We are brought to you by

Bed-MGM, the sports book born in Vegas. It is a very special day today. I'm dressed up for

the occasion, but let's see how we did yesterday before

we bring in the birthday boy and the stars of the show. We go five and one, coming off 12 and

six, coming off six and one. That's Kobe Bryant, 24 and 8 over the last three recap screens. It was

824 just two days ago. So very, very fitting.

824 being the date, not the win loss. We have been absolutely crushing it over the last three

recap screens after a rocky last week, at least at the beginning of the week. A shout out to

buckets, 2 and 0. A shout out to Mike McClure. Shout out to Bruce Marshall. We got another pick from him coming up.

But ladies and gentlemen, the chat is buzzing because we have a birthday boy in the house and we got to bring in him and the rest of the stars of the show.

It is a packed house. We got Mark Buckholz in here. We got Ian Lights out. We got Texas Joel, Justin Bowman and confetti.

Because Larry McKenzie and Amags, it bucket's birthday the most beloved early edge member we've ever had buckets how you doing

happy birthday not don't don't build me up like that the most well that's not no it's not thank you everyone

for the birthday wishes i am 31 i. I consider myself old now. I'm

old man buckets, so I've got to kind of switch some things up and just reinvent myself a bit here, see ya.

Old man buckets. Very, very interesting take there. It is your birthday, says Ben Woodenstein here.

Larry, how are you doing today? I'm doing great. It was nice to see buckets get a little choked up, show some emotion. I just wanted to know, what does he have planned for today? That's a great question. So today, I'm just doing a quiet little dinner with friends. Friday, I am wanting to get over my biggest fear. So Friday afternoon, I'm going skydiving. So we'll see how that goes. Are you serious? I, yeah, no, full. This is I, I want to do something big for 31 because 31 kind of wigs me out for some reason. So I'm going to try skydiving out and just see how that goes. And you're calling yourself old man buckets. Now you're going to jump out of a plane.

With someone. Well, the thing, we'll see. We'll see how it goes. I'm nervous. Are we worried buckets that we're not going to follow through on this? And like, no shame if you don't, but are you like all in like you're not scared? You're just going to I've like, I'm all in. I'm either I'm all in or I'm losing the deposit I already put down.

So I'm trying to like financially force myself to do this a little bit.

So many birthday messages in. I'm either I'm all in or I'm losing the deposit I already put down. So I'm trying to like financially force myself to do this a little bit.

So many birthday messages in the chat.

Mackenzie, are you a little disappointed that you weren't invited to the friends gathering today for his birthday?

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