Transcript

08/07/26 - Hour 3 · The Huddle

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Speaker 1: Rise at this time. If we didn't have these hours,
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Speaker 1: what time would you guys get up with young children?
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Speaker 1: You're you're a little bit earlier. You earlier, you go
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Speaker 1: to bed earlier. Now you probably go to bed right
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Speaker 1: when the kids go to bed. Yeah, i'd like to
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Speaker 1: say that we we end up hanging out for a
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Speaker 1: good hour and a half two hours, But generally speaking,
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Speaker 1: that's me falling asleep with the phone onto my face
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Speaker 1: as I'm just doom scrolling throughout that and reading box scores. Uh,
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Speaker 1: probably around six thirty seven o'clock. This would be right
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Speaker 1: around the normal time. But again, back in the day
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Speaker 1: that I would like to think about, Drew, I wouldn't
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Speaker 1: be waking up until the Cracker nine ten thirty, during
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Speaker 1: the during the post game and the night when I
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Speaker 1: was working the night show. That that ten to thirty
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Speaker 1: wake up was something that I was definitely in for. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I went to I would say seven, just like William
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Speaker 1: over here. But when I would get uh, in my
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Speaker 1: younger days, when I was working different shifts staying up late,
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Speaker 1: I was a night owl man. So you know, it
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Speaker 1: was like, you know, it was midnight, the grobber would
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Speaker 1: come on, you know, listen a little less Crossteen, you know,
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Speaker 1: and goodness no, I would stay up late and then
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Speaker 1: get up later. But of course I was working later too,
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Speaker 1: so it just depended on that, the shift and the lifestyle.
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Speaker 1: It's kind of in your DNA because so many years
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Speaker 1: I spent working basically second shift and getting off work
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Speaker 1: at eleven or midnight. Then you get once one and
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Speaker 1: say so, and then I was like, you know, get
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Speaker 1: up at nine thirty ten, guy, nine thirty ish.
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Speaker 2: Uh.
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Speaker 1: But then you know, as age creeps in that it's
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Speaker 1: harder to sleep later, and I don't stay up till two.
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Speaker 1: Left of my own devices, I'm usually like midnight and
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Speaker 1: it's bet at midnight up by seven thirty. That's good, Yeah,
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Speaker 1: because if I most of the time, if if I
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Speaker 1: have nothing to do, I will make sure I will
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Speaker 1: probably watch the last out of whatever West Coast game is,
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Speaker 1: or like during the NBA into the winter, it's a
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Speaker 1: lot easier to stay up. I'm usually enjoying some of
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Speaker 1: the last ends of the West Coast games. But now
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Speaker 1: there's not gonna be as much reason to have to
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Speaker 1: stay up and watch those LA Lakers. Now that my
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Speaker 1: boy Lebron's gonna be playing on this Space coast time.
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Speaker 1: It's gonna fit into this schedule even a little bit more.
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Speaker 1: That's true. Uh, there's still some good ball to be
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Speaker 1: played on the West Coast, but you're right, it's gonna be.
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Speaker 1: You'll be force fed the Sixers a lot. How many
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Speaker 1: What team do you think will have the most nationally
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Speaker 1: televised games? Do you think the Lakers are the Sixers?
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Speaker 1: I think the Sixers are going to lead the NBA
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Speaker 1: Sixers this year and national televised ESPN games. I would
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Speaker 1: think so too. But the Knicks might be up there too, though.
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Speaker 1: I mean I would think that they just won the title.
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Speaker 1: That still is Oh, that's right, the New York Nick
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Speaker 1: World champion, New York Knicks might have something to say
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Speaker 1: about that. That's right. I kind of forgot about that
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Speaker 1: they didn't win it all. I would think Miami to listen.
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Speaker 1: There's a lot of storylines in the East, and I
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Speaker 1: think we're gonna ones we get closer to this. Obviously,
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Speaker 1: we're a ways away from the NBA. Even though I
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Speaker 1: saw Tyler Hero, I was gonna say, but I just
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Speaker 1: watched my boy Tyler Hero checking out his new digs
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Speaker 1: that his new corner lockers through the practice facility. He
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Speaker 1: was talking about, you know, I used to be at
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Speaker 1: the Cousins Center every once in a while, but now
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Speaker 1: still here this eleven is no. I was fired up.
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Speaker 1: Come on now let's go Kyler hero, come on with
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Speaker 1: Witnell zone. Why can open this? Can helpen the locker?
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Speaker 1: He opened the Dzuka bubblegum. Armons like, is that free
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Speaker 1: or does he have to pay? Nas? He no, I
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Speaker 1: enjoyed that Bazuka. You know they saw the comics in
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Speaker 1: that and that was good to see. Yeah, this is
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Speaker 1: a new look Bucks team, obviously, but there's a lot
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Speaker 1: of storylines in the NBA. We know, the East pretty loaded,
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Speaker 1: so that'll be interesting as we matriculate along, but obviously
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Speaker 1: with a lot to talk about before then. But Armon
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Speaker 1: just uttered a sentence right before we came on the air,
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Speaker 1: all right, roll it? What is that was? That? Caught
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Speaker 1: us both like, oh, that Aces Fever game was wild?
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Speaker 1: Well it was on the network. We were watching the
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Speaker 1: highlights for running and I'm like, this was a wild game. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I was definitely anticipating when Army was staying up late
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Speaker 1: to watch out time. Yeah, beat the Fever eighty six
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Speaker 1: eighty four in overtime, like fantastic finishes in games that
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Speaker 1: to most are meaningless. Well, the Panthers beat the Cardinals
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Speaker 1: thirty three to thirty of the Hall of Fame game.
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Speaker 1: Hold on, fantastic finish, fantastic finish aces fever season. I mean,
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Speaker 1: come on, a couple of buzzer beaters last year, thrillers.
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Speaker 1: It was awesome. I mean there was a lot of
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Speaker 1: good finishes across sports last night. Yeah, that Red Sox game,
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Speaker 1: though Red Sox White Sox might take the case. Fortunately
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Speaker 1: that well, that one drums coming back to beat them.
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Speaker 1: The Cubs, I mean they were down to their last
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Speaker 1: strike when Bregman hits the two run shot in the
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Speaker 1: Knights to be able to tie it up, Like what
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Speaker 1: is gouy? I'm sure they feel the same way about
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Speaker 1: us right now, but it's like are they ever gonna lose? Like,
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Speaker 1: give me a break, there is I don't know what
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Speaker 1: your girl Breeze doing on the on the freak outs
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Speaker 1: on Instagram. I wouldn't, but does she does she see
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Speaker 1: the Cubs having a little bit of double magic as
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Speaker 1: of las, I mean they have been winning. So there's
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Speaker 1: a male guy that does this sitting and watching the
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Speaker 1: Cubs and reacting that for some reason has been popping
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Speaker 1: on my algorithm. I'm a boy, Bone. It might be
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Speaker 1: the phone or something Bacon so fake, like you guys,
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Speaker 1: why do you guys? Harvin? We used to have you
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Speaker 1: miked up watching Packers games doing that five years ago.
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Speaker 1: But you were People knew that was a little more authentic.
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Speaker 1: That was authentic. So why is yours authentic and this
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Speaker 1: guy's isn't. By Bone's been doing in it for a
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Speaker 1: long time. I was watching Bone do some freakouts back
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Speaker 1: on like the early earlier Facebook days. He was He's
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Speaker 1: been doing this for a while in his bedroom. He
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Speaker 1: hadn't been doing it just when the filters came on
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Speaker 1: to ig, but is feeling it's just a feeling. Maybe
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Speaker 1: it wasn't. I can't say I've thought though to sit
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Speaker 1: in front of the camera and record my record my
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Speaker 1: full reaction. I also don't sit into that uncomfortable chair
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Speaker 1: to watch the game. Who's sitting in the computer chair
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Speaker 1: to watch the game? I still sitting the recliner watching
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Speaker 1: the couch. Yeah, or standing because he's showing up for
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Speaker 1: every pitch. Billy, He's into everything's sure, I need I
5:37
Speaker 1: probably should be more into it. Yeah, but who knows,
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Speaker 1: but Clark free throws with seven seconds to go with
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Speaker 1: a three point leading regulation. Wow, they both rimmed out.
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Speaker 1: Damn And we really we missed an absolute banger last
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Speaker 1: night in the w n b A. I mean it
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Speaker 1: let off Good Morning America. So and people are watching. Well,
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Speaker 1: those are two of the biggest team's gold right, I mean,
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Speaker 1: obviously the aces are really good and I fever have
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Speaker 1: a lot of storylines for one reason. Yeah, yeah, they're
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Speaker 1: they're they're leaning into it. I should totally be watching.
6:06
Speaker 1: Well yeah, else his baseball. We watched the swell watch.
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Speaker 1: I told John, why would anybody watch the w n
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Speaker 1: B A. Well, if you got action on it, I
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Speaker 1: want to say, I watch Russian you know, Hili or whatever.
6:18
Speaker 1: I never watched the Weather Channel that much until COVID,
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Speaker 1: when that was the only thing that you could bet on.
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Speaker 1: The over has been smacking all year for the w
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Speaker 1: n b A. Actually, if you've been looking at some numbers,
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Speaker 1: I don't we have. By the way, Jamiir Gibs, I
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Speaker 1: haven't on cue. Jamiir Gibbs got his deal, Yeah, instantly,
6:32
Speaker 1: right on, right, on Q after Beeon can tell his
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Speaker 1: grand kids he was the highest paid player in league
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Speaker 1: history for like running back for like a week or
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Speaker 1: like three days actually was yeah, I was gonna say
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Speaker 1: it was. It was like three or four days. He Gibbs.
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Speaker 1: Out of those guys that sign over the last couple
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Speaker 1: of days, Jonathan Taylor got his money, uh, and then
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Speaker 1: Bejon Robinson and Jamiir Gibbs. He's definitely the one that's
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Speaker 1: had the most work right, Like, it feels like he's
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Speaker 1: had the most carries. Robinson has taken a took a
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Speaker 1: huge load life last year in out pause in Atlanta
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Speaker 1: and touched the ball a ton. But Gibbs, I mean
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Speaker 1: he's now the guy there when when they get rid
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Speaker 1: of Montgomery, he's gonna have a ton of touches this year. Yep. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: And the Packers were the only team to really shut
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Speaker 1: him down last year. Is it suddenly cool to be
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Speaker 1: a running back again? It kind of feels like it
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Speaker 1: might be good on the first and fifteenth Now yeah,
7:21
Speaker 1: it's it's getting a little bit better. But it's also
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Speaker 1: like because of some of the difference. I mean, if
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Speaker 1: you're looking at three years, fifty million dollars is what
7:31
Speaker 1: they're kind of put up there for Jonathan Taylor's number.
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Speaker 1: Three years fifty seven is some of what these deals are.
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Speaker 1: That's what Jayden Reid signed for, right, Like I mean
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Speaker 1: that that's a potential third wide receiver, second to third
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Speaker 1: wide receiver signing for that money. And it's that those
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Speaker 1: are the best three running backs probably in football and
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Speaker 1: not bad, but for a team in a salary cap sport,
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Speaker 1: you're looking for value to give the guy the ball
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Speaker 1: just about as much as more than anybody else on
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Speaker 1: the football team. You would think that they would be
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Speaker 1: one of the more important players and have to go
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Speaker 1: back into Football Reference or spot track or whatever, but
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Speaker 1: did Emmett Smith was Did he ever make more than
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Speaker 1: Michael Irvin? Was Emmett Smith like Aikman was obviously, you know,
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Speaker 1: but in that generation running backs had more value or
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Speaker 1: more oh had way moregnificant significance. Yes, and and a
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Speaker 1: lot of it. I understand the thought of that they
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Speaker 1: would be somewhat replaceable later into their careers, but for
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Speaker 1: their second contracts, that's where I think the market is
8:28
Speaker 1: definitely correcting on it. And like as a wise man
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Speaker 1: once said, you don't need to run the football to
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Speaker 1: win in the NFL, you need the well, you need
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Speaker 1: to run the football when you're ahead. Yes, right, so
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Speaker 1: that's when you that's when those guys get their values
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Speaker 1: when you're ahead in games, trying to drain the clock
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Speaker 1: because otherwise, do winning teams still throw the ball fifty
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Speaker 1: times a game? No? Isn't usually like the losing bad
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Speaker 1: teams that throw the ball that much. Yeah, I was
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Speaker 1: gonna say, it's it's much closer to h to a
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Speaker 1: fifty to fifty split and and Drew. That's like why
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Speaker 1: you look at Kansas City, they have the best quarterback
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Speaker 1: on the planet and what was their big free agent
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Speaker 1: acquisition this year, Kenneth Walker, who was the Super Bowl MVP,
9:06
Speaker 1: to try to take it but didn't. We we were
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Speaker 1: talking about this went with Wayne. They've loosened the the
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Speaker 1: rules and made it as as rule friendly and passer
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Speaker 1: friendly as they can. But then the defenses are adjusting
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Speaker 1: to that, right a little bit. Yeah, so they're adjusting
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Speaker 1: to that, and then then there's like, Okay, we need
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Speaker 1: to run the ball more. And Wayne was talking about
9:30
Speaker 1: our little chalk talk up at Lambeau on Tuesday about
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Speaker 1: how now you want a safety in the slot, and
9:35
Speaker 1: you want, you know, you want bigger guys at the
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Speaker 1: line just better. They're running more. And we talked about
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Speaker 1: the value of Tucker Craft. When he went down. It
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Speaker 1: hurts the Packers because of the offensive weapon, but also
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Speaker 1: hard him in the running game because he's a really
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Speaker 1: good blocker. He's one of those one of the guys
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Speaker 1: that you were able to dual threat for you, yes,
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Speaker 1: because he can he can road grade and he can
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Speaker 1: also get out and beat a linebacker and and catch
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Speaker 1: the ball and also can help an offensive line that
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Speaker 1: was by the half look a little bit better when
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Speaker 1: you can get a little bit of a push outside
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Speaker 1: and run behind that gues So defenses are adjusting to
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Speaker 1: that and everything ebbs and flows. Man, it really does.
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Speaker 1: But to your point, though, is these guys are been
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Speaker 1: getting these big deals, are making third wide receiver money,
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Speaker 1: and it's like crazy. A couple of years ago, when
10:18
Speaker 1: the Packers signed Josh Jacobs, it was Jacob signs with
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Speaker 1: Green Bay. The Ravens signed Derrick Henry, and Saquon Barkley
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Speaker 1: went to the Eagles. They all happened probably within three
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Speaker 1: or four days of each other, and all of them
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Speaker 1: were top of the market money. Teams are looking around like, well,
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Speaker 1: why are you paying these running backs these second contracts?
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Speaker 1: But those are all smart organizations. Howie Roseman is widely
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Speaker 1: regarded as like the best GM in football, the Packers
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Speaker 1: widely regarded as one of the smarter teams in football,
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Speaker 1: and the Ravens have been in that same boat. And
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Speaker 1: I think some of it was just the market inefficiency
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Speaker 1: of it. So these numbers might surprise you during their
10:53
Speaker 1: three championship years. Now, Emmett wins MVP in ninety three,
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Speaker 1: so a little bit different. But he made seven million
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Speaker 1: in ninety three, where Michael Irvin made one point twenty five. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: those were a big number. The salary caps started in
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Speaker 1: ninety four. So I found the ninety four cap table
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Speaker 1: and it was aikman the cap it was three point two.
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Speaker 1: Emmett was three point two, and then Michael Irvin was
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Speaker 1: down at one point two. Yeah, and in all cash
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Speaker 1: every year the the next three years, in ninety four,
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Speaker 1: ninety five, ninety six, two point two, two point four
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Speaker 1: and eleven and a half. When Emmett held out and
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Speaker 1: Mike waited for his five and a half million dollars
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Speaker 1: paid a ninety five but only made one one point
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Speaker 1: two those years career earnings. This is gonna be uh
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Speaker 1: staggering sixty one million for EMMITTT. Smith compared to just
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Speaker 1: seventeen point eight for Michael Irvin. Yeah, it was different,
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Speaker 1: I mean different era. Now that's one of the best
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Speaker 1: players of the generation. And now there'll be guys that
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Speaker 1: are having a sh quarter of his stats that are
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Speaker 1: making nearly that much money in one contract. And when
11:54
Speaker 1: Emmit held out, they went on two and then they
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Speaker 1: came back, so that helped him a lot. I remember that.
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Speaker 1: Then they had to win again. So we've been talking
12:01
Speaker 1: about baby brother, Michaelafleur's debut last night, right, so got
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Speaker 1: under that prism. Though the number three overall pick didn't
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Speaker 1: play last night, no Jo Jeremia love suit up. Not
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Speaker 1: that he's hurt or anything, but they because of the
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Speaker 1: Hall of Fame game, they got the extra preseason game,
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Speaker 1: and he's going to get his right they got a
12:21
Speaker 1: fourth don't they get a fourth preseason game for playing
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Speaker 1: this early? And they were and they were griping. Apparently
12:25
Speaker 1: he was griping to the rest of the staff that
12:28
Speaker 1: he was upset that he wasn't playing then he wasn't
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Speaker 1: going to get a look, so and they put up
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Speaker 1: thirty points without him and talking about the way that
12:34
Speaker 1: you know, when was the last time a running back
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Speaker 1: was taken that high? You you're the draft guy, it's
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Speaker 1: been a while, right, it would have been Barkley. Barkley
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Speaker 1: was four, he goes three and what was gent six? Five?
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Speaker 1: Five was five? And I'm thinking of Zeke. He would
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Speaker 1: have been in the top four as well. Okay, somewhere
12:54
Speaker 1: there's always there's been one in the mix there, but
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Speaker 1: he's definitely been the highest in quite some time. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: that's why thought. But it's generally like one in the
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Speaker 1: top ten, yes, about one in the top in the
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Speaker 1: top ten for most years, and it's just a matter
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Speaker 1: of where they fall and the needs. But yeah, the
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Speaker 1: Cardinals didn't have him, didn't get to see him last night, No,
13:12
Speaker 1: but they did get to see Carson Beck, and uh
13:14
Speaker 1: it wasn't full Chris Collinsworth mid season form gushion about
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Speaker 1: Pat Mahomes, but first drive Carson Beck. Hass he finishes.
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Speaker 1: These numbers are pretty damn good. Fifteen of nineteen for
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Speaker 1: a buck eighty eight and a touchdown. The guy behind
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Speaker 1: him ends up nine for ten, but you could hear
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Speaker 1: collins Worth in the midst like, oh, I don't know mine,
13:33
Speaker 1: like Jacoby Brissette, Gardner Minshaw. Here's a guy went to
13:37
Speaker 1: the National final game a year ago, had a girlfriend
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Speaker 1: who was famous online, a cavender Gwinn had it all
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Speaker 1: blow up in his face and look at him now
13:47
Speaker 1: they're all excited there in Arizona. I can't say that
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Speaker 1: I wouldn't want to see more of Carson. Wait, is
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Speaker 1: that collins Worth or is that grooted with him? Like
13:56
Speaker 1: it's like it's like a mix of collins Worth. That
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Speaker 1: was good, Thank you, thank you. That's another I forgot
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Speaker 1: about that. Influencers, athletes, couples, athlete couples, We talked to
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Speaker 1: you and remember I mean he got like he had
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Speaker 1: lamb based in on him there for a while. She
14:11
Speaker 1: had that video of saying that she broke up with him,
14:14
Speaker 1: not because he cheated on her, because he's like him.
14:17
Speaker 1: It's like because of like the person the personality he's
14:20
Speaker 1: like assuming he's like an nobody likes him. Oh yeah,
14:23
Speaker 1: that was crazy, and he had lambo stolen. He went
14:26
Speaker 1: to his birthday party. He really did callahan teammates yeah. Uh,
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Speaker 1: Jerema I did not play now for a first year
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Speaker 1: coach like Michael fleur Is the four preseason games. Uh,
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Speaker 1: it helps, right, doesn't it. That's an asset for him
14:46
Speaker 1: and the staff and the foundation. Laying it Yeah, laying
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Speaker 1: it in that might end up being a benefit. I
14:51
Speaker 1: think both teams. I mean Carolina last year, people acted
14:55
Speaker 1: like it was the worst loss on the Packers calendar.
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Speaker 1: We all know where that one was. Well, ravens On
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Speaker 1: was the most embarrassing ones was Carolina ended up being
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Speaker 1: a decent football team. I mean, I know they won
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Speaker 1: the worst division in football at eight and nine, but
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Speaker 1: second year they went from in Canallas' first year, a
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Speaker 1: two win club to an eight win team and a
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Speaker 1: division title team. AJ Dillon scoring the first touchdown of
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Speaker 1: the NFL preseason I did not have on my being
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Speaker 1: he is. I think the mayor of dor County was
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Speaker 1: going to get himself in there, but he found himself
15:26
Speaker 1: in the next football that the nation will watch from
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Speaker 1: the NFL will be Packers and Steelers and Aaron Rodgers
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Speaker 1: and Aaron Rodgers and Mike McCarthy taking on the Green
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Speaker 1: Bay Packers. Oh my goodness. Maybe the recap we do
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Speaker 1: the last Packers, Rogers and McCarthy game for the pregames.
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Speaker 1: Maybe that's the cheers that we should do to celebrate.
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Speaker 1: It's gonna be crazy to see them. So that's that uniform.
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Speaker 1: Coming up next Thursday, we'll have you know, the whole boat.
15:53
Speaker 1: We'll have Packers preview, Packers Packers ot and just like
15:57
Speaker 1: we thought it would be Aaron Rodgers against Iron Drones,
16:02
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers against Kyle McCourt, just like just like dreamed
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Speaker 1: of it, just like we dreamed of Billy. We need
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Speaker 1: a Current Electric superhero of the day from where I
16:15
Speaker 1: and Frank are friends from Current Electric. Yeah, and I
16:18
Speaker 1: got a couple of ideas here and now I need
16:19
Speaker 1: you to be able to work through it. In my mind, right,
16:22
Speaker 1: Chelsea Gray had a phenomenal buzzer beater last night. Could
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Speaker 1: be the case. It's definitely not going to give it
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Speaker 1: to PCA, who scores the winning run for the for
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Speaker 1: the copies. We very much could give it to Caleb
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Speaker 1: Durbin there for his one, but I want to give
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Speaker 1: it to Pablo Torre, who apparently as the only guy
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Speaker 1: doing real journalism manymore, especially on a story in the
16:40
Speaker 1: NBA that continues to roll underneath everybody else other than
16:45
Speaker 1: the Pablo Torre finds Out podcast drew this uh. According
16:50
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16:53
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17:16
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17:21
Speaker 1: Tore interviewed in this and he alleged that the sponsorship
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17:28
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17:32
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17:36
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17:40
Speaker 1: and you're right, the only one reporting is so interesting
17:43
Speaker 1: to hear the like Daktronics, and you mentioned the Jumbo
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17:47
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17:51
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17:54
Speaker 1: interesting to hear that, And like Daktronics is like this
17:56
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17:59
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18:02
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18:19
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18:24
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18:27
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18:30
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18:35
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18:37
Speaker 1: Pablo's reporting is so impactful that ESPN couldn't even ignore it.
18:41
Speaker 1: They ran a non byline story just recapping everything that
18:44
Speaker 1: he did, basically kind of like an ap type. It
18:46
Speaker 1: just says the it just says ESPN on it. It's
18:49
Speaker 1: almost like a like a yes, like a stringer version right. Yes,
18:52
Speaker 1: it's like ESPN like you could have where's hello, Shams?
18:55
Speaker 1: Is he on vacation or like where are your guys
18:58
Speaker 1: that you're in lunch? Where right now? Because big story
19:04
Speaker 1: right well, and they even cite Pablo Torre as former
19:08
Speaker 1: ESPN contributor Pablo tore reported on his podcast finds Out
19:12
Speaker 1: like he is right now the only guy that's doing
19:15
Speaker 1: the hardest core of hardcore journal. Is it's phenomenal. Oh,
19:21
Speaker 1: it's amazing, and I don't I'm glad that he is
19:25
Speaker 1: still getting this now. Is he with the Metal Arc?
19:27
Speaker 1: Is he with the Levattard grouping? So he's kind of
19:29
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19:34
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19:37
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19:41
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19:44
Speaker 1: all four completely different like genres are brush ups. I
19:47
Speaker 1: hope it's profitable and it gives him a little stardom
19:50
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19:52
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19:54
Speaker 1: Does that make sense? Yeah? But again, like, what what's
19:57
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20:08
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20:15
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20:17
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20:39
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20:42
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20:45
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20:48
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20:53
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20:56
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20:59
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21:02
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21:04
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21:45
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21:48
Speaker 1: break the tape strong as we always do on Friday.
21:51
Speaker 1: It's our our commitment to serve. Yeah, we definitely would
21:54
Speaker 1: never uh whichever pap out early Arman playing a little
21:57
Speaker 1: new kids on the block there the summertime. You know,
22:00
Speaker 1: I got my songs rolling. I mean, I'm going to
22:02
Speaker 1: take advantage on my birthday. Hey, go ahead, Billy. I uh,
22:06
Speaker 1: speaking of new Kids on the Block. I don't know
22:09
Speaker 1: when you were in Las Vegas a couple of months ago,
22:12
Speaker 1: if you had noticed this part the new Kids on
22:15
Speaker 1: the Block Drew have their little residency rolling through at
22:18
Speaker 1: Park MGM. At Park MGM. What I did not realize
22:22
Speaker 1: was how hard and how firm the I believe they
22:26
Speaker 1: call themselves the Blackheads. Yeah, because yeah, everyone, they got
22:29
Speaker 1: their fan base they had. They lined up down the
22:33
Speaker 1: strip down in alley throughout the whole day, standing out
22:38
Speaker 1: in blistering one hundred and ten degree heat, These hundreds
22:43
Speaker 1: of people waiting in the middle of the day to
22:46
Speaker 1: get like a glimpse of the new Kids on the
22:49
Speaker 1: Block exhibit they had rolling over by the Park MGM.
22:53
Speaker 1: And I thought I thought they were giving away money.
22:55
Speaker 1: I thought they were actually giving away money. For how
22:58
Speaker 1: long these people were standing out here, which is like
23:00
Speaker 1: the smallest little mister. No, it was like to walk
23:03
Speaker 1: around like the new Kids on the Block. Hall of Fame.
23:06
Speaker 1: Never underestimate the desire and the power of soccer moms,
23:10
Speaker 1: oh my god, and nostalgia creeping in. This is the
23:14
Speaker 1: era now, and I think it started. The energy started
23:17
Speaker 1: with the Sphere shows for Backstreet Boys. They were super popular.
23:22
Speaker 1: And the Backstreet Boys shows have been so popular because
23:26
Speaker 1: they're tapping into the nostalgia of like you said, the
23:28
Speaker 1: soccer moms now that have some disposed maybe they're older,
23:32
Speaker 1: and that's basically the same thing for New Kids on
23:34
Speaker 1: the Block, maybe actually a couple of years older, where
23:36
Speaker 1: now they can do the same thing. So the momentum
23:39
Speaker 1: for that is popping up. So I think those acts
23:41
Speaker 1: are all going to have a second guy. I was
23:43
Speaker 1: flabbergast how many people were now. I was also like
23:46
Speaker 1: you said, new Kids on the Block could take older.
23:48
Speaker 1: For me, Backstreet Boys were a way bigger deal than
23:51
Speaker 1: New Kids on the Block, bigger deal, and I think
23:53
Speaker 1: they were. They came after so TRL and all those
23:57
Speaker 1: things happened, so they were it was like back Street
23:59
Speaker 1: Boys in sync. Danny would go New Kids on the Block,
24:02
Speaker 1: I guess like a step below correct, yes, but it's
24:05
Speaker 1: it is hard to compare because Backstreet Boys were kind
24:08
Speaker 1: of I'm sorry, new Kids on the Block were kind
24:10
Speaker 1: of like late eighties, early nineties, and they didn't have
24:12
Speaker 1: the power of media yet that you had with TRL
24:15
Speaker 1: and I was impressed. Well, you're right Backstreet Boys number one.
24:17
Speaker 1: So that's why they're in the sphere and not in
24:19
Speaker 1: Dolby Live at Park m JM. Not that that's somebody
24:22
Speaker 1: sneer at. I'm just saying like there's a there's a
24:24
Speaker 1: difference there. But yeah, obviously you saw the people came
24:27
Speaker 1: out though, Billy. I saw the footage of those lines. Dude,
24:30
Speaker 1: I had, you know, I'm telling you, I just had.
24:32
Speaker 1: I had never seen it before. I'm walking by over
24:37
Speaker 1: in that little corridor of the strip, hundreds of people
24:40
Speaker 1: standing out, lining up, like, what on earth are they doing?
24:44
Speaker 1: Is this is this secret pizza? Did they move? What
24:47
Speaker 1: happened here? And instead, no, it was they had they
24:50
Speaker 1: were looking at some kind of outfit that one of
24:52
Speaker 1: them wore and one of their concerts in two thousand
24:55
Speaker 1: and four really impressive stock. Druwie would always say, you
24:58
Speaker 1: can never question the culture. You never know what that's it.
25:01
Speaker 1: You know, culture is not wrong, and that people in
25:03
Speaker 1: the culture will tell you culture is it just is
25:06
Speaker 1: it flows like a river I just think it is.
25:08
Speaker 1: I just love that. Never underestimate the power of soccer
25:11
Speaker 1: modes because there were a lot of a lot of them,
25:13
Speaker 1: a lot of them really quick. I want to say thanks.
25:16
Speaker 1: I know a lot of you have said happy birthday
25:18
Speaker 1: to me on the YouTube with comments. You can always
25:19
Speaker 1: watch us on the video stream YouTube x, Facebook, Twitter
25:22
Speaker 1: and of course the Nicoli. A lot of contalk and
25:24
Speaker 1: text line up. I don't get back to all you.
25:26
Speaker 1: Thank you very much, appreciate that. I just wanted to
25:28
Speaker 1: say that, all right, Yeah, it's well, its armer's birthday.
25:31
Speaker 1: To take a victory lap even though you don't want to.
25:33
Speaker 1: You should, Yes, you should. You should, like Maggie and
25:35
Speaker 1: George said, have that absolute best day ever only film
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Speaker 1: Happy Birthday Homeboy Hope. It's everything you wanted to be.
25:42
Speaker 1: Thank you guys, appreciate it. Lizzie louish you a happy birthday.
25:46
Speaker 1: Love hearing your voice. Yeah, I don't know if she's
25:48
Speaker 1: a bot. On the text line, I responded, I think
25:51
Speaker 1: you're a bot, but thanks anyway, Lizzie Lou, I mean
25:56
Speaker 1: disrespect our listeners like that. I thought that was only
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Speaker 1: served for blue collar workers like I do that. I'm
26:04
Speaker 1: just trying to get my filter of what's real and
26:05
Speaker 1: what's not on in the these days. And I don't
26:07
Speaker 1: know she had the the emojis and stuff. I don't know.
26:10
Speaker 1: One of my favorites was from O. G Non or
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Speaker 1: Georgian in Rapids. Thank you Army for the last five
26:15
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26:18
Speaker 1: all the listeners. Happy birthday. You are very appreciable. Thank you.
26:22
Speaker 1: I appreciate you. I do get paid to be here,
26:24
Speaker 1: so don't give you, Okay, I do.
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26:29
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26:38
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26:43
Speaker 1: But it looked like some of the old Magnificent Seven
26:46
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29:19
Speaker 1: I take both plays. Last two Wait a sweet sixty.
29:22
Speaker 1: That's all. It's all, he said, after not making the tournament,
29:26
Speaker 1: you're gonna scoff at the Sweet sixteen. It's a good result.
29:30
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna scoff at it. But if we're hoping
29:31
Speaker 1: and wishing and dreaming, can't I have higher dreams than that? Well,
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Speaker 1: how much, be happy for one. Fine, I'll be grateful
29:55
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29:58
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30:00
Speaker 1: That never happened, but I thought it could a couple
30:01
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30:05
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30:07
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30:09
Speaker 1: the buses down the street When it takes five hours
30:12
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30:15
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30:17
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30:20
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30:22
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30:25
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30:26
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30:45
Speaker 1: I have to know, Billy, did you watch the Uker, Doc.
30:47
Speaker 1: Did you went to it? I went yesterday and uh, dude,
30:51
Speaker 1: I had more tears than I than I care to admit.
30:53
Speaker 1: But it was phenomenally well done, the visuals and how
30:59
Speaker 1: they framed it up. I mean, I don't want to
31:01
Speaker 1: spoil it, but you should go and see it for yourself.
31:04
Speaker 1: But that last moment, we all know how Game three
31:06
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31:10
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31:15
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31:19
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31:21
Speaker 1: And that was that was the toughest walk out, the
31:24
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31:27
Speaker 1: funny as I'm listening and watching it and never wanting
31:31
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31:35
Speaker 1: like my parents' minivan and we drive around on Sundays
31:39
Speaker 1: as they look at all these beautiful lakefront properties that
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31:44
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31:47
Speaker 1: shaped Billy in the back, just asking him to turn
31:49
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31:51
Speaker 1: talking In the fifth inning and it was nostalgia overload
31:55
Speaker 1: and it was it was incredible, incredible piece of theater.
32:00
Speaker 1: And to Jeff Levering and Lane Grindle, hey man, kudos
32:04
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32:08
Speaker 1: the personality, what they knew that he had gone through
32:11
Speaker 1: in that last year. It's uh, it's incredibly moving and
32:14
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32:18
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32:21
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32:25
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32:27
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Speaker 1: lot if ahead to just both link on the do
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Speaker 1: it well. A seventy three year old Drew, retired substitute
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Speaker 1: teacher named Lewis Kalb had the opportunity to put twenty
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Speaker 1: two thousand dollars in twenty two ten dollars twenty twenty
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Speaker 1: ten to call a play for the akron Zips. No,
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Speaker 1: not to call it play for the akron Zips even
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Speaker 1: closer to but to call in a half inning of
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Speaker 1: radio play by play of his favorite Philadelphia Phillies. This
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Speaker 1: seventy three year old substitute teacher on Wednesday night lived
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Speaker 1: out his dream in a ten to four Phillies l
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Speaker 1: after winning the bid in the Phillies fantastic auction to
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Speaker 1: call the top of the third inning in a game.
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Speaker 1: Now he's a lifelong broadcaster at herd. He grew up
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Speaker 1: dreaming of being on the mic, they said, auditioned for
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Speaker 1: the Sixers decades ago, and his voice youth games as
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Speaker 1: the voice of the Medford Lakes, oh Okay and the
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Speaker 1: Phillies celebrated the iconic performance. But you got to hear
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Speaker 1: it to believe it. This is Lewis calling and opening
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Speaker 1: up his Top of the third inning broadcast.
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Speaker 3: So welcome Lewis Kolb from Netford Lakes, New Jersey. He
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Speaker 3: is our Phillies Fantastic auction winner. He outbid the competition
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Speaker 3: to spend an inning and do some play by play
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Speaker 3: in the booth, and Lewis welcome, glad to have you here.
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Speaker 2: Thank you Scunn. It's a thrill the pe here. It's
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Speaker 2: a life flowing dream to be in the Phillies broadcast booth.
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Speaker 2: So here we go, Painter. But the first pitch to
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Speaker 2: our teage that's in there for strike went CoV fills
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Speaker 2: with two at the bottom of the second to take
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Speaker 2: the lead. As we start at the top of the third,
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Speaker 2: Painter delivers its bounced foul.
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Speaker 1: Now this goes on for six and a half minutes.
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Speaker 1: We can tap through it and go like somewhere into
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Speaker 1: the meat of it. This is again seventy three years old.
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Speaker 1: The street you can tell he's done this, but I
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Speaker 1: mean chip off the old block, Lewis, What do you
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Speaker 1: got for us here in the top of the third.
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Speaker 2: Upstairs A little bit high and outside. Yeah, I can't
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Speaker 2: even know it.
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Speaker 1: He's good to it. He knows what he's doing. Or
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Speaker 1: for batter in.
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Speaker 2: The Nationals Batty order.
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Speaker 3: Now he just took the books and excuse me, I
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Speaker 3: got you guys found down on fair line.
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Speaker 1: Now, if you're one of the broadcasters that's sitting in
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Speaker 1: there saying, hey, can this hitting end pretty quick? So
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Speaker 1: my man doesn't make it look too easy. Anybody can
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Speaker 1: do this job just sitting up there, walks in. Now
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Speaker 1: it doesn't sound full Pat Hughes esque Arman, But does
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Speaker 1: have you hit it? Drew? He's got he's got the tone,
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Speaker 1: he's got the pace. Tambery. Yeah. Absolutely. People were saying
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Speaker 1: that we had to have been getting punked. There's no way.
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Speaker 1: This is the guy's first time on ninety four w IP.
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Speaker 1: But he gets the call. He had a couple of
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Speaker 1: minor slip ups. Scott and Larry, the guys on w
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Speaker 1: IP continue to talk about it all night long. But
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Speaker 1: seventy three years old, what are you gonna do with that?
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Speaker 1: Twenty two grand? Am I gonna go to Aruba? Am
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Speaker 1: I gonna go take the family on some kind of
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Speaker 1: beautiful Disney cruise? No? You know, what Grandpa's gonna do.
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Speaker 1: He's gonna do what he's always wanted to do and
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Speaker 1: sit on w IP and they're gonna have to put
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Speaker 1: me on the air. And know how good I am.
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Speaker 1: I love it for Lewis And you said he had
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Speaker 1: some sense before and this is his lifelong dream and
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Speaker 1: this is deeper than that. He wanted to tell himself.
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Speaker 1: He wanted to prove to himself that he was good
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Speaker 1: enough to do this. It probably ate him up his
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Speaker 1: whole life that he's doing something else. But he's like,
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Speaker 1: you know what, I've always wanted him. I good enough?
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Speaker 1: Could I do this? I you know, could I be
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Speaker 1: a broadcaster from major league team? And he said, I'm
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Speaker 1: gonna find out. I'm gonna find out if I'm good enough.
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Speaker 1: And he paid it and he said that was the
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Speaker 1: price he can pay. So now I feel like I
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Speaker 1: have the peace of mind to know I was good
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Speaker 1: enough to do it and I prove it to the world.
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Speaker 1: And that's the Maybe that's the way he's looking at
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Speaker 1: this thing. And that's pretty cool. I mean, man, that
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Speaker 1: was good, just an awesome, awesome time to be able
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Speaker 1: to hear.
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Speaker 2: And I've been a substitute teacher in recent years for
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Speaker 2: Nita School and Lakerland. There's a pitch that's lying short stop,
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Speaker 2: a face hit for killing, and he and Rachel's Hurst
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Speaker 2: space safe flame with the one.
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Speaker 1: It's good a little too much of the you know, ah,
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Speaker 1: like maybe he's laid it out a little thick there,
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Speaker 1: and that's that's his natural kind of I'm not here
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Speaker 1: to critique of. I don't know. I haven't listened to
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Speaker 1: a lot of Medford blanks. I don't know if that
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Speaker 1: is the whole kind of his gym or if I
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Speaker 1: don't know. Maybe his heart was beating out of his
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Speaker 1: damned chet, but he kept the energy correct though he
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Speaker 1: came correct. It was so good he sounded fantastic. So
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Speaker 1: next time that you're waking and bacon and thinking about
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Speaker 1: how much you'd pay to live out your dream, just
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Speaker 1: put that price tag on it. Drew twenty two tho
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Speaker 1: ten dollars. That's what the price was for one loo
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Speaker 1: seventy three year old Lewis. A lot of guys do that.
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Speaker 1: I'm sure this is for charity too, and a lot
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Speaker 1: of guys do that, Like, you know, some people want
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Speaker 1: to try the World Series of Poker once and they
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Speaker 1: plumped down whatever it is, ten or twenty grand, you
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Speaker 1: know what I mean. So they're going back to the lot.
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Speaker 1: They're going to the live live table of the World
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Speaker 1: Series of Poker. Have you tapped in on the final
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Speaker 1: table at all on it? I haven't. I haven't that time.
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Speaker 1: I haven't seen it, or you know, I wish I did.
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Speaker 1: I wish I have drew. I I wanted to because
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Speaker 1: I wanted to see how they were doing it and
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Speaker 1: if it worked out as well as it used to.
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Speaker 1: Live cards is a hard thing to playing on a
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Speaker 1: launching on TV. There'd be a lot of folding and
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Speaker 1: a lot of lame hand sitting right there, no question,
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Speaker 1: or a lot of the corporation ended up catching something
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Speaker 1: else for sure, for sure. And that's wow, and what
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Speaker 1: a thing to auction off, I mean, genius. I think
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Speaker 1: the Packers are putting out their streaming Family Night tonight
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Speaker 1: on the Packers at and Packers dot com. Maybe that's
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Speaker 1: the next one you get. You get one drive with
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Speaker 1: Wayne and Larry and they both Wow, that'd be pretty epic.
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Speaker 1: Auction would be to produce it. You know, live in
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Speaker 1: the dream. But we've been living the dream because we
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Speaker 1: get paid to do this hanging out with Arman on
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Speaker 1: his birthday. Happy Birthday, Enjoy and hope everybody has a
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Speaker 1: great weekend. So much going on, with plenty to unpack
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Speaker 1: when we reconvene on Monday at five am. Brewers, Twins,
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Speaker 1: Packer's Family Night, that whole thing at It's game week.
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Speaker 1: We've got Rogers and McCarthy reunion coming up. We'll see
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Speaker 1: you Monday at five am.