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Reacting to NBA Opening Week · The Craig Way Show

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  Speaker 1: It's the Craig Way Show with a voice of the
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  Speaker 1: Texas Longhorns and Hall of Fame Broadcasting Craig Wack rolling
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  Speaker 1: on here on a Thursday afternoon. A reminder coming up
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  Speaker 1: at six o'clock a basketball preview edition of Longhorn Weekly
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  Speaker 1: with Rodney Terry. That's coming up at six o'clock live
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  Speaker 1: here on the Zone from Pluckers the West Campus location, Austin.
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  Speaker 1: All Right, I'm gonna go back to the NBA. We
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  Speaker 1: had Bill Schoning on earlier talking about tonight's season opener
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  Speaker 1: for the Spurs in Dallas taking on the Mavericks, and
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  Speaker 1: we did address some of the games last night a
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  Speaker 1: little bit, but but we have not addressed the fact
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  Speaker 1: that your team, the Oklahoma City Thunder is playing Nuggets.
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  Speaker 1: Quite the opener there between OKAC and Denver tonight up
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  Speaker 1: in the Mile Hight City.
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  Speaker 2: And how things have changed, Craig, I mean two years
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  Speaker 2: ago in this matchup, you're like, man, can hope we
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  Speaker 2: can okay see can keep within fifteen? And then last
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  Speaker 2: season now this year, I know Denver's favorite one and
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  Speaker 2: a half. I think okay See wins this basketball game.
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  Speaker 2: But super excited for this season that's been a lot
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  Speaker 2: of fun watching the NBA this year. And you know,
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  Speaker 2: I have not been this excited for my team since
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  Speaker 2: probably twenty sixteen season, maybe maybe twenty twenty when we
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  Speaker 2: had Chris Paul and Dennis Shrewder and Shay was a
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  Speaker 2: young buck, but excited to start. And of course you're
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  Speaker 2: Dallas Mavericks. We're opening the season this well, they'll be
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  Speaker 2: the first game on TNT. And then what T and
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  Speaker 2: T must have like, ESPN must be pissed because TNT's
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  Speaker 2: double headers this week had been so much better than
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  Speaker 2: what ESPN had last night.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it was. It was rather unimpressed of last night.
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  Speaker 1: Here's here's the other thing that strikes me about tonight's schedule.
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  Speaker 1: And again we visited with Bill about this, about the
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  Speaker 1: Spurs and the Mavericks, and we talked about last night's games.
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  Speaker 1: But but with regard to tonight's game, the leak's wasting
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  Speaker 1: no time and jumping in with some back to backs yea.
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  Speaker 1: And and you know we we'd heard all the stuff
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  Speaker 1: about him beat how he wasn't going to play in
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  Speaker 1: the first three games, so he's not going to be
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  Speaker 1: in action tonight at Toronto when they played. When the
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  Speaker 1: Sixers play the Raptors, UH, the defending champion Celtics, who
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  Speaker 1: looked the part of the defending champions when they smacked around.
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  Speaker 1: The Knicks play at Washington tonight. Minnesota is playing at Sacramento. Now,
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  Speaker 1: those were the games Boston played on Tuesday. Minnesota played
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  Speaker 1: on Tuesday, so there's a little more. But they do
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  Speaker 1: have to travel, so Boston and Washington tonight. I hadn't
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  Speaker 1: asked you much about the Wizards even.
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  Speaker 2: Need to bring that up to you. About the Kings though,
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  Speaker 2: fun team. I mean they're you know, the roster they've built,
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  Speaker 2: there's the playing team I like. I liked Domas Sabonis.
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  Speaker 2: You know, he started off with ok C, so you know,
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  Speaker 2: I have a place in my heart for him. I
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  Speaker 2: like dearon Fox. You know. I always think back to
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  Speaker 2: what he did the loonzo ball in the in the
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  Speaker 2: NCAA Tournament against USLA when he was with Kentucky. But
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  Speaker 2: this is a basketball team that is just peak peak
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  Speaker 2: playing team right there with the with trying to think
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  Speaker 2: of who is the Atlanta Hawks in the Eastern Conference
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  Speaker 2: where now they'll win more games than the Hawks, But
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  Speaker 2: it's a King's roster that I think has a ceiling.
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  Speaker 2: But they're a fun team, you know. You know they
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  Speaker 2: added to Marta Rozen this year. I don't think that's
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  Speaker 2: going to move in the needle too much for me,
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  Speaker 2: but hey like the beam.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah yeah. So so anyway, those are those are ones
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  Speaker 1: that are going in tonight and then they jump back
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  Speaker 1: into it pretty quickly, like on Friday Night. Four teams
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  Speaker 1: that all saw action last night, well several that saw
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  Speaker 1: action last like Detroit to Cleveland, Charlotte at Atlanta. I
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  Speaker 1: mentioned Philadelphia, Toronto, and Brooklyn at Orlando Orlando. I thought
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  Speaker 1: looked pretty good and there went over the heat. But
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  Speaker 1: I think we expect that if Pabo Bankaro is playing,
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  Speaker 1: because he looks like a special player.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, thirty three and eleven last night, magic again. You know,
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  Speaker 2: I kind of they're on that same Okac trajectory where
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  Speaker 2: you know, a couple of years ago they went from
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  Speaker 2: twenty wins to like thirty and then last year I
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  Speaker 2: think forty seven. Can they get the fifty? So we
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  Speaker 2: saw what okay Seed did this past year. Benk Carol,
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  Speaker 2: you know, he's he's he's on a he's gonna be
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  Speaker 2: a fantastic player and then for Brooklyn, a team that
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  Speaker 2: obviously is tanking four first round draft picks. Perhaps we
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  Speaker 2: talked about it yesterday. It's the Cam Thomas Show, thirty
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  Speaker 2: six points the other night. He's gonna take about forty
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  Speaker 2: shots perg ging at this rate. So I feel bad
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  Speaker 2: for Eddie Orn and Nets fans.
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  Speaker 1: They have to give him more work to do the
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  Speaker 1: you know, but and yet for all of that, Now,
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  Speaker 1: again I let you weigh it in its proper metric.
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  Speaker 1: But they played Atlanta really tough. He ended up losing
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  Speaker 1: what one ten, one oh six last night. And I
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  Speaker 1: watched some of that game because I have the league
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  Speaker 1: pass package, so I did watch some of that game
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  Speaker 1: between or between Brooklyn and Atlanta, and the Hawks did win.
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  Speaker 1: And now I get Charlotte and and that's going to
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  Speaker 1: be on Friday, but tomorrow. But Charlotte had some moments
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  Speaker 1: last night.
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  Speaker 2: They did LaMelo Ball, who might be one of the
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  Speaker 2: best stat patters in the league this rate thirty four
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  Speaker 2: to eight and eleven. But you know, they'd beat a
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  Speaker 2: young Rockets team.
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  Speaker 1: Speaking of Rockets, way, now, I thought you were excited
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  Speaker 1: about the Rockets.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean they had a couple of pieces, so
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  Speaker 2: it's going to take some time for them to kind
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  Speaker 2: of get all that chemistry worked out. But you know,
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  Speaker 2: just opening night and I bought Charlotte's going to be
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  Speaker 2: a tanking team. But then of this season and they'll
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  Speaker 2: be lucky to get twenty five thirty wins.
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  Speaker 1: I think, Okay, great. Are you prepared to say the
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  Speaker 1: same thing about Detroit again?
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  Speaker 2: I think so.
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  Speaker 1: But I'll tell you one thing about Detroit, Kay Cunningham,
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  Speaker 1: he looked good. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: No, I like I said yesterday, I like the players
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  Speaker 2: on their roster, Jay and Ivy finally getting some minutes
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  Speaker 2: in this game. Jalen Durn, I'm a big Durn fan.
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  Speaker 2: And then Ron Holland, the former Texas commit. You know,
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  Speaker 2: he came in yesterday six points in his rooky debut
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  Speaker 2: O three. You know, he will be curious to see
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  Speaker 2: how it works out for him because obviously in high school,
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  Speaker 2: you know, he was a number one option and then
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  Speaker 2: you go play in the G League where the entire
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  Speaker 2: team is just built around you. And now you get
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  Speaker 2: to Detroit where you're the you know, you're coming off
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  Speaker 2: the bench, you're kind of the sixth man. So we'll
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  Speaker 2: see what the adjustment is like for Ron Holland, but
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  Speaker 2: he's he obviously has a high ceiling, so we're fun
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  Speaker 2: to watch out he plays out this season. But the
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  Speaker 2: Pistons have a fun roster and that looked like they
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  Speaker 2: were headed in the right direction after getting rid of
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  Speaker 2: many Williams and a lot of their Troy Reaver as well.
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  Speaker 1: Let me ask you, so I hadn't hadn't asked you
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  Speaker 1: this yet, how are you managing this brave new world
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  Speaker 1: of how you consume your professional sports? Like, for example,
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  Speaker 1: tonight obviously is Rams Vikings, and anybody's wanting to watch
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  Speaker 1: Rams Vikings, you better be watching an Amazon or you
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  Speaker 1: better have an Amazon subscription or watching it at somebody's
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  Speaker 1: place who has that, or in a sports bar where
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  Speaker 1: they have it on that sort of thing. If you're
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  Speaker 1: watching high school footall I you can watch Vista Ridge
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  Speaker 1: and manor playing on KBVO which gonna happen in the week. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: there's that. But to the to the other pro sports,
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  Speaker 1: pro basketball, pro hockey as well, and you're a big
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  Speaker 1: Stars fan and they've gone that victory app route nice
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  Speaker 1: and so has that been an easy ease in for
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  Speaker 1: you on that? Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: For the Stars, Yeah, for sure, NBA. You know my
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  Speaker 2: team's okay. See, so I haven't purchased league past yet
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  Speaker 2: this season. I'm still thinking about it. You know, if
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  Speaker 2: anyone wants to share and split the price with me,
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  Speaker 2: please hurt me up.
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  Speaker 1: I would love to but these and watch. We'll pick
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  Speaker 1: a night when the thunder are playing or whatever, and
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  Speaker 1: you can do it. Jason hearing the roof off for
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  Speaker 1: okay see.
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  Speaker 2: But you know, of course, I'm like many other people
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  Speaker 2: have the million subscriptions Peacock, Amazon Prime, Yes, Ben Plus
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  Speaker 2: and uh we are we are a red zone household.
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  Speaker 2: We are not something ticket. We are a red zone. Yeah, household.
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  Speaker 2: Shout out Scott Hansen.
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  Speaker 1: So he's become a bit of a celebrity, hadn't he
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  Speaker 1: he yes, yes, yes he has.
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  Speaker 2: I felt like the star in many cast. You know,
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  Speaker 2: usually Peyton or Eli is the star, depending on the guests,
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  Speaker 2: you know, it might be different, but it felt like
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  Speaker 2: we were watching the Hanson cast with Peyton and Eli
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  Speaker 2: as the guest.
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  Speaker 1: He just jumped right in and did that update it
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  Speaker 1: was just golden and did update on the other game,
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  Speaker 1: and when it came back to him later, he really
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  Speaker 1: didn't have anything. Yeah, it's seven to six. Nothing, nothing
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  Speaker 1: much else has happened. It was a fumble and yeah
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  Speaker 1: it was good to good to it. Now I've seen
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  Speaker 1: him in commercials like for Home Depot and a couple
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  Speaker 1: other things or something.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, with Dak Prescott.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so his star is on the rise. Not the
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  Speaker 1: cowboy star, but his star is a bit on the rise.
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  Speaker 2: All right, when we too, like now like announcers are
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  Speaker 2: kind of getting popular, Craig again, Yeah, waiting for your
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  Speaker 2: nil deal with you know, some law firm and something.
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  Speaker 1: I wouldn't wait too long other than the ones that
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  Speaker 1: we're getting these days here on this station. So we'll
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  Speaker 1: continue with that. We'll be back to wrap up today's
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  Speaker 1: edition of the program here on sports Radio AM thirteen
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