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Greetings my peeps and welcome to the all things basketball podcast with your boy GD.

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In this episode I'll be doing week 10 and week 11 recap.

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I'll give you both of the players of the week for both weeks.

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Also we'll talk about Ricky Rubio retiring guys.

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So Shaquille O'Neal gets his honor from the Orlando Magic.

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Dremont Green is back guys.

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Reinstated so we'll talk about that as well.

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A few injury bits of news and a few other things as well.

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So just sit back relax and enjoy the show.

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Okay guys it's your boy GD back with all things basketball with GD Podcasts.

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And what I'm going to do in this episode I'm going to combine week 10 and week 11 because

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it wasn't real heavy heavy on the news.

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Seems like week 12 is going to look like it's going to be a heavy news one.

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So while I'll do I'll just combine with this one and then we'll do week 12.

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So yeah so that's how we do it.

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Once again folks you take a look inside it's producing on the fly so that's how we're

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going to do it.

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So let's get right into it shall we.

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So we're going to start with players of the week and we'll do that for two weeks now so

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you have week 10 and week 11.

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So let's get into it.

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The players of the week for the East Tyrese Holly Burton who has been playing fantastic

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guys he's been balling and that seems to continue with this honor that he's getting now.

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His team went three and oh they beat Houston at Houston they beat Chicago at Chicago with

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Holly Burton getting a 20 assist game and then they beat the Knicks and in that game

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he had 23 assists which tied a franchise record.

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So Tyrese Holly Burton putting up historical numbers for the Indiana Pacers.

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For the week he averaged 25.3 points per game.

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Get this 17.7 assists.

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And man this decision.

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And then 4.7 rebounds and Louis was stealing a half per game.

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He shot it from the field nearly 51 percent over 41 percent from three point range and

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he only took seven free throws for the week guys and he made five of those.

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So Tyrese Holly Burton balling right about now.

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And then the other player for the West is shy Gilchis Alexander.

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Guys you know I've been singing his praises for the longest time he's having the MVP campaign.

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This team went four and oh for the week and they beat the likes of the Minnesota Timberwolves

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my Knicks.

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So both guys beat my Knicks for the week to get the honor go figure.

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And then the Denver Nuggets and the Brooklyn Nets.

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Here's the numbers he put up for the week.

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33 and a half points per game.

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Five and a half assists.

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Five point three rebounds a steal and a half and a block per game is what he produced.

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He shot it from the field get this guys 62.3 percent from the field.

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Wow.

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Outstanding.

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Shot it five for 13 from three so you know he doesn't take a lot of threes guys.

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And then from the free throw line out of 35 attempts he only missed two so fantastic week

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for shy Gilchis Alexander who again I say MVP candidate for sure I have him at least

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top three if not maybe even squeezing it to the second spot.

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That's how well he's playing guys.

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And then we'll look at week 11 week 11 we have players for the week.

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Our Perun Sengun who's been playing fantastic for the Houston Rockets at center.

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His team with three and one for the week.

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He averaged 24 points per game seven rebounds four and a half assists and a steal and a

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half per game shooting it from the field 51.4 percent and from the free throw line of 32

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attempts he only missed six so our Perun Sengun.

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Hey listen he's making himself a case for making the All-Star team.

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He's making a strong case guys that's the type of year he's having and given the way

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Houston is playing like to see some representation at the All-Star game so we'll see what happens

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there.

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And then for the East my guy Jaylen Brunson for the New York Knicks the team went four

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and 0 for the week beating Minnesota Chicago they went to Philadelphia blew them out and

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at Washington as well.

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For the week Jaylen Brunson averaged 27.3 points per game 9.3 assists and 3.3 rebounds for

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him.

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He shot it nearly 47 percent he had the one bad game where he was horrendous from the field

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which kind of lowered that field goal percentage where he had a five for 23 game which kind

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of soiled it but nonetheless nearly 47 percent from the field over 37 percent from three

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and guys he was perfect from the free throw line for the week 18 for 18 so Jaylen Brunson

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need I say he's doing Jaylen Brunson type things guys having the All-Star caliper season much

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like last season let's see if he gets the nod this go round we'll see Jaylen Brunson

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the catalyst for my New York Knicks.

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Alright so that's your players for the week let us move on to other news Ricky Rubio's

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retiring guys he's played 12 seasons in the league came in the league during that 2009

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draft he was drafted fifth overall that's the same draft that we saw other point guards

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that later got picked in that draft guys like Steph Curry drew Holiday Jeff Teague and Adarin

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Collison all in that same draft but Ricky Rubio retiring guys he was drafted out of

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Spain played in Spain so he's an international player he had stints with the Minnesota Timberwolves

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who that's the team who drafted him and actually they reacquired him later on in this career

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also he had stints with the Utah Jazz the Phoenix Suns and as of late the Cleveland Cavaliers

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the thing with him he's had a couple of torn ACLs that he's had to deal with so he's saying you

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know what that's it for me so kudos to Ricky Rubio a solid career nothing ground shaking

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he did make a all rookie team that's about the size of it for his career 10.8 points per game

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7.4 assist he averaged over four rebounds nearly two steals per game he averaged guys

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that's pretty impressive was always pretty bad from the field 38.8 percent overall for his career

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definitely not what you want to see 32.4 percent from three and actually he got better from three

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later in his career because earlier in it he not so good and 84.3 percent from the Frito line so

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Ricky Rubio hanging up his sneakers and calling it a day so we salute you Ricky Rubio

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so let us move on to other news and actually this is big time news here guys

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Dremont Green your putty in mind reinstated after being suspended for 12 games so it ends up being

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guys a 12 game suspension barring what happens as far as his game preparation and ramping up to

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actually playing games so whatever that is add on this 12 games with it in the 12 games

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the gold state warriors went seven and five so you know it's not what you want to see that's for

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sure I mean at least it wasn't 500 or below but still valuable time missed by Dremont Green

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and during his time away he did meet with a counselor as well as joint meetings with league reps

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the gold state warriors organization and also the the players union as well we're all in on the

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meeting and those meetings actually will continue throughout the season so he will stay plugged in

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in that regard and I imagine he'll still see some sort of counseling as a side as the season goes on

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as well so looks like Dremont will be back guys what happens with him we'll see of course we know

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he can't keep his mouth shut so he'll talk about what he went through and I'll be here to talk about

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it so we'll see what happens there so Dremont Green coming back guys after a 12 game suspension

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which will probably be more with him being ramped up for play moving on guys the Orlando magic

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are to retire Shaquille O'Neal's jersey his number 32 jersey will hang in the rafters

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that will take place February 13th against the Oklahoma City Thunder and guys he will be the

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first player in franchise history to have his jersey hanging in the rafters Shaquille O'Neal

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came into the league 1992 course first overall pick and one of those overall picks that has

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panned out in them some highly regarded as one of the top five centers ever you can arrange it

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however you want to arrange it so far but he's in that conversation guys you want to say top three

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it's he's in that conversation for most as well so Shaquille O'Neal getting his honor due

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doing big things after basketball of course with the inside the NBA guys on TNT businesses all

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over the place so Shaquille O'Neal also with podcasting his voice is everywhere so Shaquille O'Neal

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ganging his honor due him and rightfully so let's talk about injury Chris Paul of the

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gold state warriors fractures his hand in a 113-107 win versus the Detroit Pistons that happened in

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the third quarter about 608 to go in that quarter he fractures his hand so big blow to the warriors

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but it kind of coincides with Dreymon's return so hopefully they'll be able to

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write the ship until his return I'll have a diagnosis as far as how long they expect to miss

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him but expect at least a month guys that I would say when you fracture your hand at least a month

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he'll be out and guys returning from injury Zach Levine has made his return back for the

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Chicago Bulls he missed 17 games with that combination of the foot in the shoulder that kept him out

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and then also Nikola Vusovic also he's back now he missed five games with that groin injury

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and Andre Drummond filled in for him very well but both guys are back and they came back to the

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lineup for Chicago and they ended up beating the Charlotte Hornets on January 5th 104 to 91 so

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a triumphant return for both of those guys and we'll see how Chicago does going forward

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a couple more items and then we're done guys the Indiana Pacers they have a 50 assist game

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which is a franchise record and they did that against Atlanta in a 150 to 116 game guys

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Therese Holly Burton he had 18 himself but the team as a whole sets a franchise record

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again I spoke about the Indiana Pacers and what they're doing this season what they're doing is

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substantial guys what Rick Carlisle has those guys doing I'm really in disbelief because

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Rick Carlisle is more of a button-down guy he likes his team to play hard-nosed defense and

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keep the score low so for them to be going off offensively like this again that's a mark of

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a good coach knowing his personnel and saying look I got a cater to the personnel that's in front of

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me so Indiana Pacers and kudos to Rick Carlisle and that organization there and then the final thing

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I'll talk about is the Brooklyn Nets they were fined for violating the player participation

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policy for sitting four players who could have actually played in a 144 to 122 loss to the

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Milwaukee Bucks and those players that sat were Nick Claxton Spencer Denwitte Cameron Johnson

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and Dorian Finney Smith so the league looked into it and said look these guys were available

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they were ready to go so how come they didn't play but my thinking is this is the Brooklyn Nets I mean

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I expect that from like maybe a great pop of itch to kind of rest guys like that maybe Steve Kerr

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and that organization there the Lakers perhaps well not so much this season even like guys

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have been playing Anthony Davis he's been available just about all season long so for the Brooklyn Nets

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to get fined like this and get pulled out like this is a bit of a surprise to be honest with you

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but that just tells you the league is taking this load management stuff seriously so kudos to the

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league for looking into this and saying look these guys could have played man definitely kudos to the

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league for pointing this out and this is just a lesson to other teams listen the load management

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thing it's hurting our game it's hurting folks spending their hard-earned money coming to the

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game to find out that these guys are sitting for this reason or that reason and not really a

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injury reason so this is the right thing to do for the league I give the league credit in that regard

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so with that said that's it guys that's it for this episode like I said I was it was going to be nice

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and short it is so I just thank you for listening as always plenty of more content coming guys I'm

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back on it so week 12 it's going to be jam packed guys the way I'm looking at it it's probably going

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to be a two-parter that's the way it's going to go you got Martin Luther King day coming and that's

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a big slate of games there so we'll cover that also your all-star voting we'll cover that as well

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play a spotlight should be coming on the way if not this month definitely next month I like doing

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it for black history month so we'll have something in line for that haven't thought of the lineup as

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of yet but I have a few ideas so we'll see all right guys so with that said that's it for this

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episode so thanks guys for listening as always it's much appreciated your listenership is welcome

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and appreciated always all right guys with that said we'll talk soon take care hello my peeps thank

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