Locked On Jayhawks - Daily Podcast On Kansas Jayhawks Football & Basketball - ELIGIBILITY BATTLE: Kansas Jayhawks Star Melvin Council Jr. FIGHTS NCAA for Critical Extra Season

Starting point is 00:00:00 Melvin Council is taking to the courts to try to win his eligibility and get another year. We're going to be joined by Henry Greenstein to help break this down a little bit more and if he has a chance to be eligible for KU Hoops. You are Locked on Jayhawks, your daily podcast on the Kansas Jayhawks, part of the Locked on Podcast Network, your team every day. What's going on? Derek Johnson here with Henry Greenstein. and today's episode brought to you by Kalshi for a limited time, download the app, use code locked on to get up to $500 in bonus credits when you trade $25. And joined again by Henry Greenstein from the Lawrence Journal World, KUsports.com. We're going to talk Melvin Council.

Starting point is 00:00:47 We're going to talk Jayhawks, the TBT team that is ongoing and now in the championship game for the alumni regional. And we'll talk a little on some of the other sports like baseball, volleyball, and some of those other sports that could have a bright season in front of them for KU. So Henry, thank you again for joining the show here. And I tried to on yesterday's episode kind of summarize the events for Melvin Council and where we're at right now. I think you did a much more gallant job than I could do in your article on the Lawrence Sternal world at KU Sports.com. So if you could, what is kind of the baseline summary?

Starting point is 00:01:27 What is the basis here for Melvin Council trying to get an extra season of college hoops? Well, thank you for saying I did a good job, Derek. I thought you did quite nicely in your format. And it's always hard when you, you know, when I came upon this and saw it was a 37 page document, I was like, oh, dear, this is going to be a challenge. But I will try the best idea. While you got into sports journalism, right, to read a bunch of legal things. Exactly.

Starting point is 00:01:50 Every time I do a search for court records, it's just like invigorating and makes me love my job even more. No, but I actually did do the search because I saw that TikTok of Melvin in a suit. And I was like, he probably filed something. And that's how I ended up writing the story. So in essence, as we know, Melvin Council has already played five years of college basketball. The first two at Monroe College, which was then a junior college. It's actually become a university since he was there. But first two at a junior college, one at Wagner, one at St. Bonaventure, and now one at Kansas.

Starting point is 00:02:25 Five years, two at a Juko, three at an NCAA Division I institution. The way he was able to play at KU in the first place is that in December of 2024, the NCAA issued the blanket waiver, the Pavia waiver, people now call it a lot, saying if you used to play at a Juko and the 2024 to 2025 athletic season would be your last, you get one more year. Importantly, that's one more regardless of how long you were in junior college. So now, as the NCAA starts to transition to a new eligibility model, as people are trying to make the most they can of the past system, we're starting to see some people, Melvin now among them, be like, all right, well, if you were willing to give me one year back for my one year, you should be able to give me one year back for my second year, too. Now, it's interesting because the main rush of lawsuits we're seeing right now is from guys who came in in 2022, guys and guys. women because it's also happening with women's athletes too, but people who came in in 2022 and played four straight years and are saying it's not fair that the five-year rule is applying only to people after me. I should get a fifth year too. Melvin Council is not like that.

Starting point is 00:03:40 I went on a radio show last week and I said, honestly, I think Trey White would have a better case for a fifth year than Melvin Council, not to say that he's doing that. It doesn't seem like he'll need to because he did so well in the summer week. So it's a little interesting. that we're also getting, it's kind of like the NCAA is being attacked on multiple fronts through the courts. But, you know, when you have a case saying my junior college years shouldn't count, you kind of have to justify why. Counsel's reasoning is if the, by preventing him from playing a fourth year at a Division I University, the NCAA is breaching its contract with member institutions of which counsel is a third party beneficiary, which is why he is standing to sue in that realm.

Starting point is 00:04:23 And then the one you referred to as legalese in your last episode, tortious interference with a business relationship basically means counsel says the NCAA is preventing him from signing contracts, whether that's improving his vision for a professional contract, a revenue sharing deal with KU, NIL deals with other businesses, and so on. So those are the two torts with which he's suing, the NCAA. And, you know, this prompts the question. well, if it was so important to you to spend four years at a NCAA university, why didn't you just do it in the first place? And this is something that comes up a lot in these cases, like a justification as to why someone was forced to do something that was kind of off the beaten path.

Starting point is 00:05:11 You know, if you look at Dean Miller's eligibility lawsuit right now, which I think you mentioned, he's trying to get paid $300,000 to play for UCF, his is, well, it was the pandemic. I wasn't able to get recruited well enough because of the pandemic in California, so I was forced to go to a junior college. Melvin has kind of an unusual situation, which is that in 2019 when he was in high school, he was charged with rape and sexual abuse. According to the lawsuit and Melvin signed affidavit, those charges were later dismissed. As you'll see if you look at my article, I had done a bit of reporting on this case a year ago when I first learned about it after Melvin committed to KU, because there's an article about it from the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle from when it first happened. And in the course of that reporting, I ended up getting statements saying from various parties like Melvin is exonerated.

Starting point is 00:06:08 The district attorney who had brought the charges against him said basically he's a fine young man with a bright future and so on. Bill Self said in the statement there were serious mistakes made in the case. And so in that case, like obviously he doesn't have anything still pending against him. He doesn't have a criminal record. But man, it's a bold move to bring that up as your course of action to try to get eligibility. I'll be interested to see if it works. So do you have, I mean, I don't know how much like this isn't like sports center where you can flip it on and be like, oh, here's his lawyers, here's his attorneys.

Starting point is 00:06:44 Like what are they grading his hires of attorneys or something like? I don't know. Do you have any sense from whether it's talking to different people or just kind of looking into this of A, like, does he have an all-star team representing him and or B? Like, I don't know. Do you have any sense of like what percentage you would put on him being able to win this case? Well, it's interesting because, you know, and this isn't like to degrade the people who has representing him, but he doesn't have one of these big name Twitter attorneys that you always. always hear about. Like the ones who are pursuing, and no offense to those guys either, but the ones who are pursuing this rash of five-year lawsuits, the ones who you always see tweeting about their cases and tweeting disparities, things about the NCAA, it's not those kinds of people. He has a local Lawrence attorney, Terrence J. Campbell of Barmer Emerson, and then he has like a whole five or six

Starting point is 00:07:40 people from a, well, it's a New Jersey based law firm, but the Philadelphia office of Archer and Griner. And they actually sent me a statement yesterday basically saying, you know, our posting speaks for itself. We'll have no further comment. But they were like, can you please include this in the article, which I just thought was funny? Can you please include our statement saying we don't have anything to say? Which I did. I didn't put it in there. So I don't know.

Starting point is 00:08:08 I'm guessing, you know, Philadelphia base is kind of northeastern, closer to where he's from. And then Lawrence is kind of the boots on the ground, help him out here in Douglas County. for me, I just continue to see this as a really difficult hill for Melvin to get over that to my knowledge, the NCAA has, has, you know, not had to go back on its thing of only one extra year for Juko people, regardless of how many years they played in junior college. If Melvin wins in this case, there will probably be more copycat lawsuits from other people who played in multiple years at Jukos. I'm not saying it won't happen because, you know, the way we see it these days, there are no rules.

Starting point is 00:08:46 anything's possible. As long as you get a friendly judge, we'll see how friendly the judges here in Douglas County proved to be to Melbourne Council. But it feels like a little bit of a long shot to me just because it's not part of this wave of the five-year thing lawsuits. This is asking the NCAA or asking the judges here in Douglas County to do something that really hasn't been a popular were sort of decision for their peers to make across the country. Well, I guess my big confusion is why is one year of Juco basically being waved away here for all these kids, but for, you know, if somebody else played a year of Juco that wasn't in the year that was kind of the part of the Pavia, Pavia case, why is that not dispelled?

Starting point is 00:09:33 Or why, why is one year of Juko seen as, hey, that prevented you for making NIL money, but two years didn't? So that's where I'm a little confused in this and how it wouldn't just be, hey, if the NCAA said the one year or the court, whatever, you know, that the case came down with, then what would make it any different picking the second one? Yeah, I'm sure. I'm sure Terrence J. Campbell will be saying just that in Douglas County court at a time very soon. Because, you know, I say very soon because there's the lawsuit, but they're also trying to get a temporary injunction. So there's, you know, two things proceeding as part of the same deal. and obviously it's a tight timeline because the semester is about to start. But yes, I think that's the central point in his favor.

Starting point is 00:10:15 It's the same central point in the favor of the five-year people, unequal treatment. Like, just because I happen to be born a year earlier or later, I'm now being treated differently than other people for no particular reason. I think that's probably the strongest argument the council has in his favor. It's just that I don't necessarily see the tide, for whatever reason, the tide of jurisprudence does not seem to be a crashing out in that direction. And you mentioned the timeline that complicates things here. Obviously, you do think this is going to be kind of a quicker resolution? Well, at least to the injunction, I think they need quick action.

Starting point is 00:10:53 The overall lawsuit could unfold over a greater timeline. And that's why it's important that as part of the terms of the lawsuit, counsel also has numerous provisions that are like, if this ends up getting retracted, you can't take like retroactive action against me or KU in this case. It's basically, I think he refers to it as the rule of restitution in the lawsuit. The idea that if this gets reversed, like neither counsel nor nor the institution that chooses to employ him will have to deal with consequences as a result. That's a very key element of this as well. Obviously, at this point in the offseason, it's difficult to introduce a new element of instability to your team's basketball roster.

Starting point is 00:11:36 And there's kind of an on-court element to that, too, which I'm sure we can talk about. But yeah, I imagine that's why. I mean, if you look through the lawsuit, it's not just like make me eligible. It's like 10 different ballpoints of can't take revenge in this way. Can't have like there's a million different ways in which council is essentially asking if this gets undone for whatever reason, please don't be mean to me afterward. Okay. I have a couple more questions.

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Starting point is 00:13:32 Thanks you for joining us here on Locked-On-On-J-Hawks, joined by Henry Greenstein. I'm Derek Johnson here. A couple more questions to wrap. up the whole Melvin Council situation here. The on-court impact, as you kind of alluded to at the end of our first segment there. Do you see this being one that, I don't know, like, is it dire for KU to get it done? Is it something that you think would have realistic questions? Where do you kind of lie on the, how counsel would impact the current roster?

Starting point is 00:14:04 I think it's a great unknown because frankly, when you look at Melvin Counsel's career, he's never been a non-heavy usage player. And I think that to some extent, he would have to take a little bit of a backseat if he were on this year's Kansas basketball roster. You know, do I think that it's of the utmost importance that they do it? Not necessarily, but I always felt

Starting point is 00:14:25 that they could have used another potential ball handler. You know, the way I was justifying it to myself is, well, it's not just Kinney and Blyden who can bring the ball up, Tyron Stokes, if his best skill might be, is passing. he'll probably be a point forward plenty of the time. So if counsel doesn't end up making it onto the roster, I'd expect Stokes to take on an increased role in ball handling, even from his forward spot.

Starting point is 00:14:50 But, you know, the question becomes when so much of counsel's value last year was that he could play 39 minutes and not get tired and make all those high-impact plays at the end of the game when everyone else was, how will that transfer to not playing that significant of a role in comparison. What kind of impact can it have on the development of two young players in Taylin Kinney and Leroyd Blyden if they have to split time with this guy who's, you know, an established player, already kind of a star from last year, will command a certain level of

Starting point is 00:15:24 playing time. I just think it could be really interesting and potentially have a lot of repercussions. I feel like Kinney is a very high potential player, but I also think he needs the ball in his hands a lot and he needs a lot of time on the floor in order to develop to the level of being a collegiate Bill Self-Calber point guard. My concern is to what extent will counsel take that away from him. Then if you have counsel and Kinney on the floor at the same time,

Starting point is 00:15:49 well then potentially your best shooter on the entire team is off the floor in favor of someone who, you know, NC State game makes them look a lot better in terms of his overall three-point shooting record. So, you know, it's a really interesting wild card and kind of like I was saying, you always have just a little bit of concern about adding someone at this late stage of the summer, but it does seem like whatever is going to happen, KU's going to find a way to fill out its roster, whether it's with counsel, whether it's

Starting point is 00:16:16 with Mahilo Mushakicich, who is a big topic of discussion not long ago, or a Javon Bardwell reclassification. Any one of those will improve the outlook of this year's team, I feel, but they'll also introduce other complications that may be Bill Selvin and his staff, and counsel or whoever it is as fellow players will have to account for as the days and weeks go on. I'm glad you brought up Musich, because that was going to be my next question. Who do you think is more likely to be eligible for Kansas? Counsel or Musich? Okay.

Starting point is 00:16:52 That's an interesting question because it's kind of asking whether I have more confidence in the NCAA's apparatus or the legal apparatus. I honestly have to lean a little bit toward Muschich, which is hard for me to say because I, by the way, I think that it's a shit when the S has the thing over it, but I could be wrong. I know everyone else has been saying Musikicch. I'm not going to hold against everyone. I don't pronounce Serbian very well. But I would give him a little bit of an edge. The five-year clock isn't in place yet.

Starting point is 00:17:24 He has played for a lot of different professional teams dating back to 2018. But we've seen, you know, keeping in mind, he's operating under the flawed old system. that flawed old system has allowed plenty of 24-year-olds to come and play domestically. Obviously, that needs to get done soon, too. But where I sit now, the exceptional nature of counsel's case, while it could be held as something in his favor that it's unusual, it also makes me think it might be too out there for it to ultimately work out for him. So I'd give Moosh to get to like a slight edge.

Starting point is 00:17:58 But it sounds like you're below 50% on either one individually. Correct. Okay. All right. Let's get to a little TBT and some other sports. This is locked on Jayhawks. Today's episode of the show is brought to you by Indeed sponsor jobs. When workplace chaos hits and you need the right hire, Indeed sponsor jobs helps you connect and with employers who have all the needs like the right skills, certifications and locations. So less time gets spent searching and more time gets spent finding the right fit. People are finding quality hires on Indeed right now. And the minute I've been talking to you, companies like yours made 27 hires on Indeed, according to Indeed data worldwide. Think about how some, you know, late minute ads for some of these different teams across the country. I always think of like Marvin Bagley being a late reclassify ad for Duke in the year they go to the lead eight.

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Starting point is 00:19:40 Have you ever seen anything like you saw in that win against the aftershocks between it being six on six, the off court fanfare, the, I don't know, Frank Mason starting, whatever it was, like three of 19 and making a couple shots? Was that one of the more wild games you've ever covered in any level of basketball? Absolutely. And you never expect to get something like that when you're heading out to a TBT game, especially in terms of the off-court violence. But yes, it definitely took me by surprise.

Starting point is 00:20:10 I think that it's really unfortunate, especially, you know, when a bunch of people get ejected in the middle of a game, especially when it's not for anything especially violent, and both teams are reduced to six people. It's like, ooh, fun, interesting. This will be really cool to see how it unfold. And, you know, as Sharon said afterward, they thought their six were better than the afterstock six.

Starting point is 00:20:33 that proved to be the case. And it was, it was definitely fun to see Zeke Mayo kind of take over. And then Frank hit those back-to-back threes on consecutive Jayhawks' hoops possessions to ultimately claim it in the Elam. But then, what ensued after the final whistle was very grim. You know,

Starting point is 00:20:51 you've got their social media manager staying overnight in the emergency room with a broken nose because Marcus King pushed Jacob Hanna into her. Keene, as we're speaking, has recently been suspended. indefinitely from TBT and then had to put up a statement apologizing for his conduct. On the one hand, you could say for something like TBT, all publicity is good publicity. On the other hand, this organization that tries to be like a fun diversionary basketball tournament at a time when nothing else is going on is not very well equipped to handle crisis situations. As my fellow reporters and I learned last night when they canceled the press conference,

Starting point is 00:21:33 and shoot us away from the locker rooms as we were trying to talk to people. So, yeah, unlike anything else I've experienced, and in some respects, I hope not to experience it again anytime soon. I was kind of hoping one of the teams was going to get down to four men and we were going to see four on five, like power play basketball. But, you know, it's been cool to watch the M&M backcourt of Mayo and Mason. Hannah's played very well and stuff. And now you get La Familia, which is the Kentucky alumni.

Starting point is 00:22:05 And it's a team that's won this event before, I believe. And they've got former pros on their roster. They've got some really good players on this team. And kind of taking an early look at that game, what stood out to you? Yeah, La Familia really hasn't been around that long. They're an even newer team than KU's. I think they made the final four in their first year, 2024, which is impressive. You know, Archie Goodwin's only played in two of their games so far,

Starting point is 00:22:31 but he's averaging 26 points. He just had 30 when they beat the Syracuse alumni team. For me, going into it, I kind of expected Willie Colley Stein was going to be the headliner as someone who played seven seasons of the NBA or whatever it is. And he's been a valuable piece. And it'll be tough for the KU alumni to deal with him because they don't have the biggest or best big men. But Goodwin's been the one doing a lot of the scoring.

Starting point is 00:22:55 And they also have a guy whose name escapes me at this precise moment from Maryland and Marquette, who's average. averaging like 14 points a game for them. So they did a good job with their... Darryl Morsell. Yeah, exactly. Thank you. So they did a good job with their non-alumni acquisitions, just as the KU team did with Jacob Hanna, who, by the way, it's fun to see him gaining recognition from KU fans. He plays so hard. He's a great athlete. His defense on Keene last night. Keene, you know, beyond what happened, is a guy who averaged 30 points a game in college at Central Michigan and was the TBT MVP last year. It was really

Starting point is 00:23:31 impressive to see what Hannah did. For me, this game against Swap Familia is going to come down to the big man. I just mentioned Willie Colley Stein. That's a threat to have to contend with. It's not, you know, he's not that old. He's not that far. He's only a couple years removed from the NBA. And as great as it has been to see Mayo and Mason, especially Mayo, who seems to have improved by leaps and bounds, even in just a year in terms of his driving and his defense, as great as it's been to see them do what they've done, it was getting back towards. ISO ball territory at the end of the game on Monday. And I just feel like you have to integrate the inside presence a little bit more to avoid getting one-dimensional, especially against a team that has

Starting point is 00:24:16 good guards like Lafamilla does as well. So I'll be keeping my eye on Carlton Bragg and Andrew Orr and, you know, also to some extent, Billy Preston, who likes to dribble around and take mid-range shots, but he might sometimes be better served at being in the pain a bit more. I think the paint is where this game will ultimately be decided, even with all success that Mayo's had shooting from the outside. Meanwhile, you've been posting a lot of good content on some of the other sports over at Kusports.com. And I'm curious with KU baseball losing some key players, retooling with some other nice additions from the non-D1 level, especially. Who do you think winds up having the better season this upcoming year? KU baseball or KU soccer, who also made the, what, Sweet 16 this past season?

Starting point is 00:25:00 They did. I was just talking to someone about this. I think KU Soccer is going to be really interesting this year because they lost their two forwards. Lexi Watts and Sage Wines. Watts graduated. She was incredible for her entire career. Wimes transferred to West Virginia. And while they return a lot of experience, you know, Nate Lee said to me recently, in the midfielder duo of having Grigorsky and Langfelder, they're in as good a situation as anyone in the conference. Grigorski scored double-digitig goals last year as a sophomore. She'll be great. But the striker position is a big question. And when you think about the style that KU soccer play, it's all about pressure. That's their whole thing. That's how they got the game-winning penalty in the Big 12 championship game in 2024 by forcing a mistake with the forwards pressure. So can Jocelyn Harrima, Jordan Rowan, Faith Johnston, Hannah Palmer, they have a Kansas State transfer they got in the spring, Hannah Palmer, and Nora, Jaccomen, or anyone else that they've added, can they supplement the production? I have some questions about their goal scoring potential.

Starting point is 00:26:06 All that being said, I think that KU baseball with more continuity than it usually has, plus maybe a higher overall caliber of offseason addition than usually has, will be poised to have a slightly better season in the soccer team. I don't think that necessarily equates to getting to host a regional and super regional again because it took a lot of luck for KU to get there in terms of how other results played out. but I would give the baseball team an edge in terms of the overall quality of its season. Okay, same question for KU softball, who's coming off a tournament appearance, or KU volleyball, who builds year two of the Matt Ulmer era but lost a lot of players to the transfer portal.

Starting point is 00:26:43 Yeah, I almost feel like that was year zero for Omer, and this is year one, when you look at how young the roster is. They're going to be relying so heavily on freshmen this year, which means there's a wide range of outcomes. Taylor Stanley is a top 10 recruit in the country, I think, in her class. She's from Overwin Park. She's going to be really, really good on the right side. The left side is a bit more of a question for me because, you know, I think there, I think Tessa Dodd is going to be over there, but she's been a right side hitter at the high school and club levels.

Starting point is 00:27:12 They've got a couple other pieces, Grace Nelson coming back. Having said all that, I feel like the volleyball program is maybe, maybe has like a high baseline than softball. So I think even if they're not quite as good as they were last year and softball is as good or better than they were last year, I still think volleyball is likely to have a slightly better result just because of the trajectories of those programs. I feel like softball is still building up. That said, the softball transfer portal, like they have not been major players in the transfer portal. They got four really good infielders and they needed them with Cripe and Bagshaw graduating. So I'm bullish on them, but I think volleyball. ball has a better final results just because that's where the program's at right now. All right. Last question here. If you had to build a Mount Rushmore of current KU athletes for the 2026 to 2027 calendar year, who's going on that list coming into the season? Who are who are projected to be, I guess, the four best athletes for KU this upcoming season, any sport. I really like this. Does it have to be based on accomplishments they've already had or should I

Starting point is 00:28:21 include like Tyron Stokes or something? You know, that. That's where the list becomes yours. You can project this out any way you want. I'm going to do it based on past accomplishments. I don't think you can, you know, it would be like someone gets elected president and they're immediately put on Mount Rushmore. That's true. So I don't think I can do Tyron Stokes or someone like that.

Starting point is 00:28:43 So, all right, I'm going to try to do this quickly. I think one person who comes to mind is Emma Gemmutei from track and field. She won a big 12 titles and two. event that she had to do like within an hour and two minutes of each other that's pretty impressive she's from kenya i think next year will be her last year although it's a little bit fuzzy with track eligibility sometimes um add the five and five now just to make it a little more complicated on you yeah exactly although i don't know if she benefited from that because she's also older even though it's really hard to find track athlete's birth dates i won't dwell on this too much um i'm gonna

Starting point is 00:29:18 say uh she unly the diver she's been really good an all american diver probably like the best athlete at KU in proportion to how little she gets talked about. So she probably belongs on there. I'll just keep the women sports rolling. The problem is, like, is Samaya Nichols or Julia Davis a better choice for this? I only want to pick one of them. I think based on last year, it would be Nichols, but if you're projecting out another year, maybe it would be Davis.

Starting point is 00:29:47 I don't know. I got to go with Davis. I think she'll be one of the best players in the country, which is crazy to say, because Samaya Nichols might be a first round WNBates draft thickness. next year, even though she now gets a fifth year because of the five-year thing. So that's three spots, and I devoted all of them to women's sports. I wonder what I'll do for the last one. Oh, my gosh. It's tough to think about because there's, I feel like I kind of got the first three that I wanted to include. Who immediately jumps to mind for you as the next, like I could see a case

Starting point is 00:30:19 for Gregorski. I could see a case for one of the returning baseball players. I feel like football and basketball, there's too many unknowns for any of those to be on. Yeah, if you're if you're not going to include Stokes, then you can't do that. I think baseball, it gets difficult because you run into, okay, well, who would be the pick? Do you go with like a gusto, Mungarieta? I'd probably lean that way, but could you go with like Bodie Ray? Could you go with, I don't know, maybe even like a Mason Cook with another year forward? Could you go with Cade Baldridge or something?

Starting point is 00:30:51 I'd probably lean Mungarietta if you were going baseball. and then, I don't know, could you go somebody with golf? Could you go? Oh, one more quick thought. Ella Boyer might not be a bad one. In the same kind of realm as Jolia. I'm just looking at the sports to make sure I'm not forget. Oh, oh, I didn't even mention the pole vaulters.

Starting point is 00:31:11 All those men's pole vaulters who are among the best in the country, that might be a good pick too. It just goes to show KU Athletics is in a very good place right now. There we go. There we go. Well, cool to get some unharolded names up. out on the show as well here. Well, Henry, I appreciate the time as always, man.

Starting point is 00:31:27 Where can everybody find all your work right now? Yep. Kusports.com, LJWorld.com, the Lawrence Runner World Print Edition, and follow me on Twitter at Henry Greenstein. Thanks for having me, Derek. All right, that's Henry Greenstein, and that'll do it for this locked-on Jayhawks. We'll see you next time. We'll do a Keanu Dawes player preview tomorrow.

Starting point is 00:31:44 See you then on L-OJ.

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