Behind The Scenes: Thought Crimes

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Welcome to Behind The Scenes!

We are in-between post season college meets so it’s a lunch time joy ride today. We’ll talk about the latest news, life and answer your questions. Including stories about what we would have missed had we only done college online; spy stories as told by Jessica’s Berlin stationed spy father; explaining all the bars deductions, skills and code debates, a listener asks if the era of OU over; how to fix the SEC Championships 9th team out debacle and more.

This is our weekly Behind The Scenes Q&A episode. We will go live  (right here, on this page) Friday, March 28th at 12:00 PM Pacific/3:00pm Eastern. Login to reveal the show below.

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