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Fanatics Fest Day 2 Recap - Anthony Recker and Interviews WIth Sports Fanatics From Across the Country · OneLegUpAlex Sports

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  Speaker 1: Here's your host, Alex Derek.
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  Speaker 2: Well, it is Day three of fanatics Best coming up.
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  Speaker 3: But before we do that, I want to take you
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  Speaker 3: back to day two, where Gabby and I got to
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  Speaker 3: meet a few different folks along the way, one being
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  Speaker 3: the CEO of Fanatics, Michael Rubin, who was unavailable to
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  Speaker 3: comment at the moment about this amazing festival, but just
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  Speaker 3: then to meet Michael was great. But I want to
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  Speaker 3: start out with my interview from someone who came from down,
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  Speaker 3: down the down, then from up from down the Turnpike,
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  Speaker 3: took the Jersey Turnpike up to New York to the
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  Speaker 3: Javit Center. It's the Philly sports guy, Jamie. And here's
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  Speaker 3: what Jamie and I had to talk about at the Javitz.
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  Speaker 2: Yesterday, the boards guy all day.
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  Speaker 1: Down to there.
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  Speaker 4: You know what, I'm here just see everybody, all the
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  Speaker 4: all the people that are here, like all the good
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  Speaker 4: name for what.
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  Speaker 3: It's amazing, but just the fans too, Like everybody here, this.
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  Speaker 2: Is where we all get to celebrate sports.
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  Speaker 1: Now.
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  Speaker 2: I'm just really.
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  Speaker 1: Excited just to be here.
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  Speaker 2: In general.
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  Speaker 3: I know you're from PHILLID that doesn't know you can
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  Speaker 3: dress up and everybody columns that's exactly correct.
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  Speaker 2: Whatever about jersey I'm wearing, it's the face you see.
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  Speaker 5: All right, Well, you're the rest of your latest podcast.
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  Speaker 1: I appreciate, Thank you so much.
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  Speaker 2: Well, it's amazing.
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  Speaker 3: Apparently the Philly sports guy and I share the same
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  Speaker 3: birthday October twentieth, and he's a big Ego fan. And
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  Speaker 3: guess what the Giants and Eagles take on, you know,
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  Speaker 3: take on each other on our birthday ten twenty twenty
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  Speaker 3: twenty four.
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  Speaker 2: It it's gonna be a game not to miss. It's
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  Speaker 2: sparkly to return and all that. But to catch up
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  Speaker 2: with him now for a finas best was special.
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  Speaker 3: I also want to, speaking of giants, talk to you
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  Speaker 3: about my interview with one ad. You actually wore a
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  Speaker 3: full out Yes, that's right, a full out Giants apron.
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  Speaker 3: So of course I had to ask him if he
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  Speaker 3: thought the Giants were gonna cook.
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  Speaker 2: As the kids say this year, it's not a giant aron.
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  Speaker 1: Here at one thing. We going through a views youngthing,
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  Speaker 1: maybe wanting something special. A lot of people in Dolly
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  Speaker 1: nothing they survive.
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  Speaker 4: Is he gonna be gin?
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  Speaker 1: Don't you think it's?
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  Speaker 4: Harry?
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  Speaker 1: What's gonna think?
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  Speaker 6: I think you might come through half waken and didn't
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  Speaker 6: somebody's gonna pick.
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  Speaker 1: Up the red awesome how with her?
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  Speaker 4: BENI A time?
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  Speaker 2: Awesome?
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  Speaker 1: All right, an awesome time. Here's my first time coming.
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  Speaker 1: I hope you come back next time. Awesome than you.
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  Speaker 3: Actually everybody's first time, right. This is the first ever
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  Speaker 3: Fanatics Best in NYC, and we do the Giants cook
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  Speaker 3: this year. I just thought, you want to get two perspectives,
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  Speaker 3: Eagles the Giants perspective. And then and then I caught
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  Speaker 3: up with another special human interest story because I want
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  Speaker 3: to meet I wanted to meet Laura. Okay, Laura is
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  Speaker 3: an avid Barry Sanders fan. And on that note, and
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  Speaker 3: on that note, Barry Sanders, I now get to see
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  Speaker 3: him or shook his hand. But I did get a
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  Speaker 3: picture of him from Afar and that was pretty special.
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  Speaker 3: That's a moment to see Dion Sanders.
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  Speaker 2: But avid fan. Laura talked to me about again to meet.
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  Speaker 3: Barry Sanders and listened to her excitement of meeting really
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  Speaker 3: one of her heroes and icons and legends Barry Sanders.
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  Speaker 2: Here is Laura from Denver. Take a listen to this.
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  Speaker 1: Wait I game he tender. I am embarrass Anders.
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  Speaker 5: I did a photograph autograph A gree amazing house is
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  Speaker 5: absolutely amazing.
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  Speaker 1: We talk about this pot talk. He is chilling. He
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  Speaker 1: is chilled.
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  Speaker 5: When I got the photograft woked up, He's like, hey,
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  Speaker 5: number twenty who around him? And I said, I signed
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  Speaker 5: Detroit wore the animal draft And he's like, God, that
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  Speaker 5: was a great experience of seven hundred thousand people. And
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  Speaker 5: I said, okay, I'll see at the autographs.
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  Speaker 1: He's like, all right, I'll see you there. I was
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  Speaker 1: first in light and I woke up. I dropped his
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  Speaker 1: Brookie card Danyllen, whoa wow. We signed it and he said,
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  Speaker 1: but I also have your pogal jersey and I said,
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  Speaker 1: you gave it late.
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  Speaker 5: I said, you are in my pile's open or I
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  Speaker 5: was born.
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  Speaker 1: I'm Michigan at great Or to Detroit R. Sanders. He's
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  Speaker 1: liked you ever go to a game of Silveradome. I'm like, oh, yes, summer. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: it doesn't resist anymore. It just as sistem sim He
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  Speaker 1: brought it up and then he's like, I'm gonna check
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  Speaker 1: this one. This is what I Yes, I am in there.
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  Speaker 6: Oh I do feel like we're American.
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  Speaker 4: I can't have that.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, it did but it also gave a history of
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  Speaker 1: alliance where we were all like, yeah, we don't, we don't.
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  Speaker 1: But we're at right now as Lions fans people, We're like, okay,
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  Speaker 1: I'm here like that car.
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  Speaker 2: It was Amy last year.
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  Speaker 1: You see that. I'm like, I'm thinking we've learned a
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  Speaker 1: lot of.
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  Speaker 4: Look out all right.
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  Speaker 1: There, but that tray really haven't worked out both sides.
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  Speaker 1: That no, mack up. But I know a lot of
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  Speaker 1: the black fans, a lot of them working for the hole. Yea,
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  Speaker 1: that they worked out for both people. I agree, I agree,
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  Speaker 1: I know there's a look. A lot of Lions fans
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  Speaker 1: are like Popete. I'm like, I'm not a hater. You've
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  Speaker 1: seen your team so long. I'm saying, it's just not acting.
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  Speaker 1: You turned that trade.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: Everybody's like, hey, you know on he loves Detroit to
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  Speaker 1: no end, and I'm brout a boy, bold out to
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  Speaker 1: the whole three.
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  Speaker 3: One last question before you you didn't plant of New
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  Speaker 3: York for Do you wish this guy would expand on
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  Speaker 3: the others?
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  Speaker 1: Yes, said yes, I know. The next liston Ella, I'm like, well, la, great,
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  Speaker 1: what about temper? Where are we going next day? Where
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  Speaker 1: fill your next this is awesome, A la great.
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  Speaker 2: I will be there.
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  Speaker 1: What's the next week, what's the next week?
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  Speaker 2: Because I will at.
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  Speaker 1: Tag Michael Romans and say, okay, the.
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  Speaker 5: Definite day anything is what they found out and these
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  Speaker 5: probably it's only day two when they have one more day.
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  Speaker 1: What they found out is you have an audience.
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  Speaker 3: Boom, you have an audience and fanatics. Fest has drawn
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  Speaker 3: thousands of sports fans. Thanks Laura for joining me, and
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  Speaker 3: former athletes as well. And you know, I basically have
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  Speaker 3: two people helping me on site produces is my fiancee
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  Speaker 3: Gabby and the nifting on of them pointed out that
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  Speaker 3: standing right in the MLB exhibition and installation if you
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  Speaker 3: want activation, I guess they call it was one Anthony Record.
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  Speaker 2: I remember him. He was on the match for a
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  Speaker 2: few years here.
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  Speaker 3: And uh, take a listen to what Anthony Record and
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  Speaker 3: I discussed at the MLB Ballpark installation at the Javit
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  Speaker 3: Center at the exprest.
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  Speaker 1: Be like here, Oh, it's been great.
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  Speaker 4: I mean the amount of people.
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  Speaker 6: Here, it's obviously a Hugervan Juste. Major League Baseball represented
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  Speaker 6: so well.
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  Speaker 1: It is really cool.
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  Speaker 6: There is so much going on, there's a lot to do,
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  Speaker 6: it seems like a really fun time. I know the players,
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  Speaker 6: and I'll be loving to get back to the community
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  Speaker 6: as well.
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  Speaker 4: Exactly.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, you know we come here going to be say
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  Speaker 6: the people's under autograss.
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  Speaker 2: Always fun.
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  Speaker 6: But now are we getting today in the day to day? Yeah,
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  Speaker 6: I came here today, I'm actually doing the Met's game
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  Speaker 6: tomorrow and rogo.
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  Speaker 1: That experience like with the best when you were on Williams.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, he's great.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, obviously getting to playing the best saving in
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  Speaker 6: the world. He's one of the best fans in the world.
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  Speaker 6: Was uh finding the three best years of my.
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  Speaker 2: Career for sure.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I've really got a due about the Yankeets retirement
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  Speaker 3: with these guys, but you know, fill your garment.
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  Speaker 1: But how he rose fix two years in Regulo.
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  Speaker 2: You called a lot of your games, didn't Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: He called probably all of them.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think he takes a day off. So how
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  Speaker 1: he's the best.
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  Speaker 2: Love that guy.
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  Speaker 1: You have to work with him once or twice too
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  Speaker 1: post playing for it.
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  Speaker 6: So that was really cool, kind of an honor for me.
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  Speaker 6: I mean just he's such a great historian of sports
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  Speaker 6: in general, but of course baseball as well.
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  Speaker 5: You can learn so much from that guy.
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  Speaker 6: I'm asking people with Bubble League and around the league,
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  Speaker 6: what's your predict on.
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  Speaker 3: The metal they're gonna hold on here and the kind
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  Speaker 3: of spot they seem to.
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  Speaker 6: Be running out of the seed from that nice run
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  Speaker 6: they went on. They really have to start making it
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  Speaker 6: up because they have a tougher schedule down the stretch.
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  Speaker 1: So maybe that'll help wake him up a little bit.
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  Speaker 4: Noybody had to play a little better now as part
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  Speaker 4: of all of this, you want to see this happen.
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  Speaker 2: Year after year, right, that's what this.
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  Speaker 3: Is really cool?
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  Speaker 1: Well, this is something for I mean next year. No,
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  Speaker 1: I know about it, what it is.
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  Speaker 6: I'll my kids here have a really good time.
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  Speaker 1: It was awesome today. Thanks, thank you.
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  Speaker 3: All right, that was Anthony Recker And thanks Anthony. Thanks
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  Speaker 3: Nathan for you know, pushing me to go talk to him,
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  Speaker 3: and why not I have a little chat with him
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  Speaker 3: now the others Uh, there were a couple of other
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  Speaker 3: conversations I had, But one interesting thing was the NBA
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  Speaker 3: Social Justice Coalition is partnering with a nonpartisan political group
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  Speaker 3: pouted by Michelle Obama about voting and actually they were
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  Speaker 3: out there yesterday making sure people were registered to vote
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  Speaker 3: in twenty twenty four.
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  Speaker 2: Take a listen to this.
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  Speaker 3: Expression are interesting and then it is an election here
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  Speaker 3: and we're kind of reminded about here.
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  Speaker 2: At the NBA Social Justice Collection.
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  Speaker 3: You know, Gabriella and Gabriella, you and you're your organizations
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  Speaker 3: worn over.
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  Speaker 2: Here in Mariage to vote.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, I have when We All Vote, which is Michelle
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  Speaker 4: Obama's non partisan initiative, just making sure that people are
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  Speaker 4: educated and registers of bone and that they feel a
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  Speaker 4: power to.
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  Speaker 1: Go off to the How cord is is that we
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  Speaker 1: just realized that life is we all smort.
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  Speaker 2: I feel like we said that's a sun story. You know,
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  Speaker 2: life is so beyond.
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  Speaker 4: Sports, and I think that voting is something that can
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  Speaker 4: brings long better. That we can agree that motor as
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  Speaker 4: it affects all.
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  Speaker 1: Aspects of why sometimes there's still importation. So you have
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  Speaker 1: few people to both sides of the album sporting the coalition.
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  Speaker 6: Right, we do.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, we want to make sure that we're engaging all
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  Speaker 4: types of people just to make sure that they are registering.
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  Speaker 1: The most were the different organizations. It's fourteen league were Beage.
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  Speaker 1: I gotta ask you big, we're in the eighteen as
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  Speaker 1: Antonio Spurs.
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  Speaker 2: Are you o there?
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  Speaker 1: No, I actually grow up Oklahoma.
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  Speaker 3: But lets well.
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  Speaker 1: Before they have the thunders. Oh wow, Well thanks for
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  Speaker 1: joining me.
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  Speaker 2: Said, there we go a little bit of uh.
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  Speaker 3: Civics going on at Fanatics best as well, and then
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  Speaker 3: there's other one and I promise play all on my podcast,
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  Speaker 3: so why not?
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  Speaker 6: Uh?
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  Speaker 2: Jake Asman he runs this Jets podcast. Now I got
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  Speaker 2: to catch up with him just outside the.
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  Speaker 3: WFN radio installation. Here's my compination with Jake Asman.
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  Speaker 1: I'm there with Jake Gasman. You got a Jets podcast
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  Speaker 1: going on. First of all, it's like being a fanatics fustiness.
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  Speaker 1: It's been awesome. It's it's cool to have an event
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  Speaker 1: like this. It's basically Comic Conference sports right, and.
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  Speaker 6: The turnout it's been awesome when there's.
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  Speaker 1: So many cool thing as a look at it. See,
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  Speaker 1: So it's been awesome being here.
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  Speaker 2: We are now a couple weeks lain for Rogers.
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  Speaker 1: I can't believe it. What are your thoughts on this team?
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  Speaker 6: Are?
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  Speaker 1: Is the healthy Rogers the answer?
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  Speaker 5: What else do they need to do this year?
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  Speaker 1: Well?
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  Speaker 3: Look to mean a healthy Ryders Cerebruary right to see
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  Speaker 3: what seven games last year with the first quarterback situation
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  Speaker 3: in the league.
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  Speaker 1: So he would think if he's out.
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  Speaker 6: There, what I mean, that's say he plays a fortun
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  Speaker 6: or fifty, Right, You're gonna have a teams in all those.
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  Speaker 1: Games if you have a real backup quarterback in Tyrod Taylor.
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  Speaker 1: So goperm he does get hurt again, I feel like
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  Speaker 1: you have a go the CNN solution that can give
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  Speaker 1: you a game. So I'm very excited.
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  Speaker 3: And one last thing when people turn to your show,
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  Speaker 3: what can they expect when they tu on hardcourt? Jen
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  Speaker 3: Bain talking about the state of the team calling and
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  Speaker 3: how it is steady palls.
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  Speaker 1: We're crazy as mediax's.
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  Speaker 6: I'd like to call my listeners and just having a fun,
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  Speaker 6: fun times.
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  Speaker 1: Here's that going on the hot Seaton is salad on
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  Speaker 1: the hot seat.
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  Speaker 2: This hyar Awa.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I know though he's in his fourth year, they
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  Speaker 1: haven't had a winning season.
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  Speaker 2: Game.
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  Speaker 1: You're bringing Ammon Riders to go nine to eight and
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  Speaker 1: miss the playoffs.
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  Speaker 5: Nay, they gotta they're gonna They're gonna be a playoff
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  Speaker 5: team and going round And if he.
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  Speaker 3: Does that, I'll be back all right, Well day, thanks
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  Speaker 3: so much.
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  Speaker 1: We're gonna follow you now. All right, my fays, and
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  Speaker 1: thanks for having me.
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  Speaker 3: There you go. My day two with Gabby at Fanatics
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  Speaker 3: Best twenty twenty four. It was a lot that we
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  Speaker 3: almost got trampled because KD and Aunt.
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  Speaker 2: We're actually at the NBA courts. Jake all run and
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  Speaker 2: right past us.
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  Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, it's been chaos, almost like a circus
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  Speaker 3: like atmosphere at Fanatics Past twenty twenty four. Also a
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  Speaker 3: shout out to CGC Cards for their great meet and
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  Speaker 3: greet with Joe Girardi yesterday, the manager of the Yankees,
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  Speaker 3: and of course he and the whole team will be
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  Speaker 3: honored at Old Timer's Day next week. But man, that
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  Speaker 3: meet and greet was was part of the experience of
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  Speaker 3: Fanatics Best, and thank you to them for allowing us
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  Speaker 3: to see Joe and get an autograph and get a
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  Speaker 3: picture with him, and to be picture with three managers,
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  Speaker 3: all three managers since nineteen ninety six tour Girardi and Boone.
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  Speaker 2: Is a true honor and it's a story twenty four
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  Speaker 2: years in.
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  Speaker 3: The making, really, since we met mister steimn Render in
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  Speaker 3: September of two thousand on Old Timer's Day two thousand.
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  Speaker 3: So how about that.
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  Speaker 2: The one major complaint, if.
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  Speaker 3: I may just say this here, is the bathrooms were
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  Speaker 3: not accessible to people with disabilities, and I think that
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  Speaker 3: has to change for fax Best moving forward.
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  Speaker 2: Just a PSA there to whoever bax Best might listen to.
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  Speaker 3: This accessible bathrooms is so important for the disable Fan
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  Speaker 3: two experience. They have the ADA line, they have the
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  Speaker 3: you can cut the line, you have your disability, blah
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  Speaker 3: blah blah blah. If someone cannot do a daily basic
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  Speaker 3: function of going to the bathroom at an event, that is.
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  Speaker 2: Just awful.
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  Speaker 3: So I want to put that out there that you know,
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  Speaker 3: whenever they choose a venue, always make sure that bathrooms
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  Speaker 3: are accessible people with disabilities. On that note, I'm Alex
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  Speaker 3: Garrett and we'll see what happens. Day three, Have Express
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  Speaker 3: twenty twenty four. It's a ranger's day have been Expressed
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  Speaker 3: and we'll see who we run into. It seems like
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  Speaker 3: anybody in everbody of course, Jake Paul, Mike Tyson press
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  Speaker 3: conference and even NBA Commissioner Adam Silver will be in
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  Speaker 3: attendance today.
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  Speaker 2: It's not sure to be interesting. Talk to you soon
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  Speaker 2: on
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  Speaker 3: The Alex Garrett podcast Network for NAX Past twenty twenty
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  Speaker 3: four recap for Day two