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Speaker 1: All right, let's talk some basketball. So one of my

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Speaker 1: all I have for tonight. As always, as sincerely appreciate

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Speaker 1: you guys for supporting the show. Like I said, we

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Speaker 1: got a mail bag coming out tomorrow. After the mail bag,

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Speaker 1: we'll get into the series previous stuff starting next week

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Speaker 1: on Monday, I want to talk a little bit more

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Speaker 1: mail bag tomorrow. The volume