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Wrestler Bill Goldberg Shares Classic NASCAR Stories! · Kenny Wallace Media

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  You know, I've got two older brothers who grew.
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  They're 16 and 18 years older than me.
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  As a kid. They were my idols.
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  I wanted to follow in their footsteps.
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  They grew up in Oklahoma. The Selman brothers and the
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  Goldberg brothers are the only brother family that had three
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  all State lineman, all State players, you know, in their
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  family and so. But my brothers went to
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  University of Minnesota and Oklahoma was like in in the top
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  three when I was coming out. But the last place I wanted to
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  go was an hour and a half from my house, and so I wanted to go
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  where nobody knew who I was. I wanted to be able to make a
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  name for myself. That's a song.
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  Just don't let me sing it. That's all I can say.
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  But, but I mean, I just wanted to start fresh.
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  It's kind of like my son, right? My son is in following in my
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  footsteps. So he wanted to go somewhere.
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  He didn't want to go to Georgia. He didn't want to go to Texas
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  because it was right where we live.
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  He wanted to go somewhere we can make a name for himself.
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  So he signed with Deon Sanders at the University of.
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  Colorado. And in two months, he'll be
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  kicking butt as a. Neon Dion.
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  Yes, Sir. Neon and I played together.
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  So I could be wrong, but they say you're billed from.
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  Are you from Dawsonville? Did you know that, Dawsonville?
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  Georgia, There's two awesome bills from Dawsonville.
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  Tell me about this. Well, I'll start off by saying
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  Ernie Elliott. I used to live 15 minutes from
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  the shop. Right.
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  Are you kidding? Me.
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  I've blown up many a race car on their on their runway.
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  Well, the thing of it is. Well, the thing of it is was
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  had. To do.
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  That so Ernie. At one point Ernie built 10
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  Cobras right? The the, the, the kit car Cobra.
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  So he did a deal with this place called Unique Motor Cars.
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  They put ten Cup motors in 10 kit cars that weighs like 2000
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  lbs. And you know what?
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  Are you guys pushing 750 with no limiter 809?
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  100 at that time, at that time, right now we're making we can
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  make about 950 horsepower. That tells you how much
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  innovation. But yeah, you're right.
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  Yeah, but so I went up and and and to test, I went up to kind
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  of test the car. And so I drove up to Blairsville
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  and Bill takes me a ride for a ride in his cobra.
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  Come on. Bill and Chase was four years
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  old and he's sitting on the hump in between the two of us and I
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  am. I have my hands embedded in the
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  dash, 'cause I'm terrified, and Chase is laughing.
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  At four years old. Fool at four years old, so I
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  knew this kid was going to be 1/2 of a NASCAR driver.
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  And coming from that family, how could you be anything?
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  But unbelievable. OK, so we're a little bit older
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  right now, but what do you think, Goldberg, if Kenny gets
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  Ric Flair and I get you tag team match?
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  Oh dude, What? You have no chance.
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  And here's here's another bit of information that you guys will
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  find interesting. Ric Flair went to the University
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  of Minnesota. Come on, Yeah.
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  Ric Flair was my brother's roommate at the University of
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  Minnesota. Man, all kinds of stuff.
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  I got into the wrestling. Business and I grew up in St.
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  Louis, MO. Every Sunday, wrestling at the
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  Chase. My guy was Harley Race.
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  You know, Pat O'Connor Speaking of wrestling.
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  So I understand that your signature move was the spear
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  move. Yes, Sir.
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  OK, now don't. Don't hurt me, Kenny.
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  Kenny's signature move is the string dance.
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  What is this? What is this spear move?
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  You guys know what the spear is, right?
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  Would. Would it hurt me?
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  Do you think? Don't do it.
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  Do you think Kenny really wanted I?
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  Mean. No, no.
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  Don't do it. Don't do.
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  It so I'll I'll make it easy for you.
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  A spear is nothing more than a football tackle.
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  Oh, I I did my first match. It was a dark match down in
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  Florida and I don't know, there were probably 20 people in the
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  crowd. And right before I go, right
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  before I go out the the, the, the guy run on the show says
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  what's your finishing move? And I'm like, what's that?
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  I don't have. He goes well when you when you
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  win the match, it's got to be a, you know, a signature deal.
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  And so I get in the ring and I wrestle a guy named Manny
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  Fernandez. Manny.
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  And I look across the ring at Manny before they ring the bell.
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  And I said, Manny, do you trust me?
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  He says yes. Pardon my French, but I said OK,
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  when it comes time, tuck your chin, spread your legs and kiss
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  your ass goodbye. That's kind of like Bristol.
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  And I and I all I did was I did a football tackle.
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  That's what I've done my entire life.
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  I go to the back after the match.
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  Everybody's mouths are open, their jaws are on the floor.
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  They say whatever you do, do that every time.
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  I'm like, this is an easy day at work.
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  I do this. I did this for a living.
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  So I just, I I thought it was a very simple move.
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  It was very impactful and it's one that I don't know, 7 out of
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  10 times they don't get hurt. So you.
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  Saw you saw this being a Georgia boy, you saw this sport come
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  from the back roads of the Southeast now to the forefront.
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  What do you think about the evolution of NASCAR 'cause you
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  had a front seat? Yeah, Evolution of NASCAR is
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  unbelievable because the first time I came to Bristol Motor
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  Speedway, I wasn't even a wrestler.
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  I wasn't even an NFL player. I was just a kid that graduated
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  from from University of Georgia and I'm.
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  I find myself in the infield on top of a hauler trying to
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  decipher what this person next to me is saying for the past
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  hour. And I hold on, hold on.
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  And I did and I did this. I did this in the fan zone and
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  everybody guessed it, but it was a current driver.
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  And who was it? I spoke.
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  No, not current now, but current at the time.
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  He raced with you. So I I I spent an hour with him
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  and I must have understood 3 words.
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  Yeah. Who was it?
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  Dale Earnhardt. Earnhardt's my man Sterling.
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  Sterling. Sterling is Warburton.
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  Oh. What?
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  Oh my God. I had no idea.
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  What the hell he? Was saying, Oh my God, you spent
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  time with the ward Burton. Oh my God, yeah.
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  Before I even knew what NASCAR was, I'm on the hauler and he's
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  trying to explain everything to me.
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  And all I do is this the whole. Anyways, I did.
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  Ward, Dale. Do your born impression well,
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  the NB and a Pontiac running real good all day long.
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  That's a good one, because I didn't understand a damn thing.
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  You just said Ward. We should have known.
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  Ward, what happened to you here at Darlington?
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  Well, the NB and a Pontiac bursting of flames.
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  And let me tell you something. This Kenny Wallace ain't worth a
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  dial. But here's here's the deal.
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  Here's the deal. You asked me a question.
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  You asked me a question about the evolution in NASCAR.
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  The evolution in NASCAR is in Y'all's hands.
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  Yes. OK, because as long as we have
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  the fans, technology's going to do its thing, the drivers are
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  going to do their thing. But the reality is you guys make
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  this sport. So as long as you continue to do
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  what you have been doing, especially here at Bristol Motor
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  Speedway, this sport will always be at the forefront of what we
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  do in America. Goldberg, we got to send you
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  off, brother. No hold.
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  On I want to stay. One more, OK.
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  Please, please forgive me, Director.
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  I thought I was saving you from getting body slammed, Kenny, is
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  what I was actually. Trying to do I have to ask this
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  There is so much to you. You were in the NFLA football
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  player, a wrestler, and I see you in major motion pictures so
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  far. Out of those three things, Bill,
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  what do you like the most? What do I like the most?
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  You're a chameleon. You do everything.
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  I like playing football. That was a dream.
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  Of football. That was all right.
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  That's the onus for everything it started.
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  Out. Thank you for answering that.
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  Thank you for asking, but the reality is, you know, everything
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  that I've been able to accomplish throughout the years
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  gives me a voice. You guys know it, and it's a
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  very powerful voice. Yeah.
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  And to be able to make it to where I've made it and be able
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  to use that for something positive.
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  Working with kids, treating people the way I want to be
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  treated and working with our military.
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  That's my life now. Love it.
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  That is my life. Other than this little boy
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  behind me going to Colorado and his beautiful mother, Gaetz
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  Goldberg. Where you at?
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  Get up here, kid. We.
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  Just got look at this kid, hey. Come on everybody.
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  How you doing? Brother, you're going all right
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  for Neon. Dion another generation?
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  I bet he'll inspire you. Congratulations.
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  Gaetz Goldberg has been here at Bristol for 15 years.
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  He was a little baby when I first brought him, so he's
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  growing up with you guys. So thank you very much.
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  Big. Round of applause guys.
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  Thank you to The Goldbergs. You look good.
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  You'll be stout. Thanks.
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  Brother, thank you guys. Have a wonderful day and treat
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  my buddies with respect up here. What a man.
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  What a man.