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ONELEGUPALEX MEDIA’s 2026 FANATICSFEST RECAP recorded 7-31-26 · OneLegUpAlex Sports

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  Speaker 1: All right.
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  Speaker 2: Well, as some of you may know by now yours
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  Speaker 2: truly a few weeks ago, competed at Fanatics Fest twenty
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  Speaker 2: twenty six, and the whole weekend was a little different
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  Speaker 2: than the past because normally I go to panels and
• 0:19
  Speaker 2: get to different things, and this year really we were
• 0:23
  Speaker 2: stationed at the Dick Sporting Goods activation. We were walking
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  Speaker 2: around as an athlete on the Thursday, we were closing
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  Speaker 2: ceremonies on the Sunday Saturday, got to meet Kat. So
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  Speaker 2: the audio isn't as much of sometimes as I have. However, however,
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  Speaker 2: I do have some awesome moments where I caught up
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  Speaker 2: with the pop Queen Sharon, who had this incredible Nix
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  Speaker 2: Exit Nicks a costume who should have gotten number one
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  Speaker 2: fan The World Cup kid was cool though, and then
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  Speaker 2: you had Tyrone Tracy Jr. And uh, I'll just give
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  Speaker 2: you some more fights and sounds from Fanatics Fest twenty
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  Speaker 2: twenty six, see literally a book.
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  Speaker 3: About the next time.
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  Speaker 4: I know right here we are fanatics.
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  Speaker 1: Well, now we have something to celebrate to exactly why
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  Speaker 1: is that fause weekend?
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  Speaker 5: How tight are you?
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  Speaker 1: I'm excited? I kind of want to see you playing
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  Speaker 1: in these athletes.
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  Speaker 6: As you know, Tom Brady is the defending champ.
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  Speaker 4: I know you.
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  Speaker 1: So you've gotta be you gotta go. You've got to
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  Speaker 1: get over the hump up, man. And I'm being anything
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  Speaker 1: gonna you aren't in it right now? Man, this is
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  Speaker 1: gonna be so fun.
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  Speaker 6: How grady is it gonna be to be on.
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  Speaker 1: The same feel with some.
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  Speaker 2: Of the most like you?
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  Speaker 6: More nervous all right?
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  Speaker 7: Just for some people want nerves just becomes used to.
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  Speaker 6: I think.
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  Speaker 3: What you are, your brother.
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  Speaker 6: We're starting out showing you at this time coaching.
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  Speaker 2: Here we go.
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  Speaker 4: Are you excited for this or what?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm a little nervous.
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  Speaker 8: Thanks.
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  Speaker 4: We just saw he saw Josh Hart.
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  Speaker 6: He told me to go right down there, and I did.
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  Speaker 6: I just asked Josh Hard to be part of the entrance.
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  Speaker 6: He said, no, look like you wanted to.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know about me. Did tell me why you
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  Speaker 4: applied to be part of this today?
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  Speaker 5: I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: Like last year I saw this thing and then I'd
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  Speaker 1: fight it was the last week of school and then
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  Speaker 1: so much nonsense going on that I was a blee application.
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  Speaker 6: So this year I kind of if you're.
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  Speaker 4: Playing chair at the wald an hour or I don't know.
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  Speaker 9: I don't only mentioned it today where you are now
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  Speaker 9: doing Fanatics hard, very hard.
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  Speaker 2: And actually coach mccarton got very emotional in the Fanatics video.
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  Speaker 2: Won't talk about that in a second as well. But
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  Speaker 2: let's move on to I didn't think I get much
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  Speaker 2: more Friday after my competition, so let's move on to
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  Speaker 2: uh the Saturday. Cause Friday, I met Carlos Beltram but
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  Speaker 2: could not grab him for a quick second, but it
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  Speaker 2: was great to meet him anyway. But Saturday I followed
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  Speaker 2: up with David Adams because they welcomed carl Anthony Towns
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  Speaker 2: to Fanatics Fests, to their booth of Fanatics Fists. And
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  Speaker 2: here's what they had to say about seeing Tat pull
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  Speaker 2: up to the David Adams Trading card station.
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  Speaker 9: All right, I'm there with Will from Javid Adams.
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  Speaker 6: You talked to Carson town Yes, way is that right?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah?
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  Speaker 5: It was definitely a sial moment, obviously bringing the.
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  Speaker 3: Championship to New York with the crew there was was
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  Speaker 3: in front of ble.
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  Speaker 4: So yeah, it was an awesome What did he pick?
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  Speaker 6: I didn't get to see if.
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  Speaker 4: From the bar, so he was actually doing a trade
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  Speaker 4: up challenge. He poved Connor Kurman, Colman Auto and Games.
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  Speaker 3: For an Albert Pools.
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  Speaker 4: Dynasty match on on that we had so pretty good spot.
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  Speaker 4: I think he definitely got the better of the value.
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  Speaker 4: But that's okay. We're helping him out and you know,
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  Speaker 4: look at what.
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  Speaker 9: He did for New York and obviously and he's getting
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  Speaker 9: into the cart space up to see so that's awesome,
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  Speaker 9: all right. I love that you guys are right around
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  Speaker 9: the corner from here. So what eventually you guys got
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  Speaker 9: coming out of?
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  Speaker 10: So we do with toun So we have trade nights in.
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  Speaker 7: Store once a month. We're also always by in Shop
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  Speaker 7: twenty four seven whenever we're.
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  Speaker 4: Hoping we are by.
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  Speaker 9: We've got live breaking goalie on a little bit of
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  Speaker 9: everything to be honest.
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  Speaker 2: With living all right, thanks so much for joining in
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  Speaker 2: the willing of Abolexpedia.
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  Speaker 9: Thank you and have fun.
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  Speaker 4: So I've spent these guys in here for what four hours?
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  Speaker 4: Four hour? Have you seen so far?
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  Speaker 2: We've seen eighties, We've seen any We see it like
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  Speaker 2: everybody had us here got a flag justin Gains you
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  Speaker 2: hold everybody, DJ Callan are your all four day Wow,
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  Speaker 2: we're out of just today.
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  Speaker 3: But we made the hole. We did a Walker Faviord.
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  Speaker 3: You come here, come to Walker Favord.
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  Speaker 4: Don't leave that.
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  Speaker 6: Fis Works had a media today.
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  Speaker 10: There you go.
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  Speaker 6: Thanks guys, No, we can pet it.
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  Speaker 9: Just a few days ago, how'd you feel like you
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  Speaker 9: got pas losson?
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  Speaker 6: It was awesome you did it and you know in
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  Speaker 6: the same group.
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  Speaker 4: I loved it.
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  Speaker 6: Would you say it?
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  Speaker 4: Because again I didn't make it that. I would do
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  Speaker 4: it again, say tomorrow every day of the week.
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  Speaker 2: Now, what's your goal?
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  Speaker 5: Now?
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  Speaker 4: How what's your old band about?
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  Speaker 11: As a fan?
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  Speaker 4: Ad just lead a fan like everybody else is hanging out,
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  Speaker 4: love and love it. Well, it was over here.
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  Speaker 2: It's too good in the now. Here's another special moment
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  Speaker 2: that happened because, as you might see on my Facebook
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  Speaker 2: and Instagram Alex Danton, when I see one, I met
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  Speaker 2: Joe Montana about thirty something years ago. My dad would
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  Speaker 2: be to a target in New Jersey and Montana knelt
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  Speaker 2: down on one knee. You know, it's a great picture.
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  Speaker 2: My mom saved it. But when I saw him at
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  Speaker 2: fanax Fast a couple of years in ago, I had
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  Speaker 2: to put aside the media badge from it and become
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  Speaker 2: a fan and I invested in getting that picture with
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  Speaker 2: Joe Montana to run it back. That was pretty special
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  Speaker 2: and he did kind of remember that from years ago.
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  Speaker 2: But then my buddy Ryan said, you know, I'm gonna
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  Speaker 2: be getting him designed some memorabili. I said, all right,
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  Speaker 2: I can come up with you and I'll get some footage.
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  Speaker 2: So here's my guy, my buddy Ryan Bagano talking to
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  Speaker 2: Joe Matana and shaking the legend's hand, telling me and
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  Speaker 2: he got his jersey sign and a handshake with Joe Montana,
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  Speaker 2: which I'm sure Ryan will not forget. Now. Remember in
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty four, my buddy Caleb and I we did
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  Speaker 2: a whole video outside of the Lord, inside of the Japets.
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  Speaker 2: He was checked out a Yankee gear. How about this?
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  Speaker 2: Two years later, we found each other in the media
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  Speaker 2: room with Hector Bosham and Latino Sports official breaking down
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  Speaker 2: what that experience has been like after that express Latino
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  Speaker 2: Sports Official in the house, Hector Caleb, that's how the
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  Speaker 2: last few.
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  Speaker 3: Days been to oh man, it's been a lot of fun. Man,
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  Speaker 3: it's been a lot of fun seeing a lot of
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  Speaker 3: you know, old faces, new faces, meet new people. You know,
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  Speaker 3: it's next day today, So that's why we all mixed out.
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  Speaker 3: And it's been a lot of fun. Man, it's been
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  Speaker 3: a lot of fun. It's been so tiring. When you
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  Speaker 3: first started this, I thought it was a picture that's
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  Speaker 3: by a poet.
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  Speaker 2: That's how fun? How big was that Keys in New
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  Speaker 2: York event? Today?
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  Speaker 3: I a man, I mean, you know, it's I wish
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  Speaker 3: O g was here. It was his birthday yesterday. But
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  Speaker 3: I mean it was great to see the guys late
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  Speaker 3: birthday Oji yues, sir. It's it's nice to see the guys,
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  Speaker 3: you know, like interacting and how they are with each other,
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  Speaker 3: and we get to have a get a glimpse of that,
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  Speaker 3: you know. But it's just keeping the celebration going, you know.
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  Speaker 2: And how can we is that this?
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  Speaker 6: This is the summer of the next twenties.
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  Speaker 2: Really, eighty people haven't wanted the fifty something?
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  Speaker 6: Ye twenty twenty six is the summer of the New
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  Speaker 6: York leagues?
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  Speaker 10: All right?
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  Speaker 2: Well, Cale, do you guys have incredible content and of
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  Speaker 2: course the interviews after all the signing by Julian. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: what a team guys, come.
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  Speaker 9: Going on here?
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  Speaker 6: I appreciate what do we've bet for day?
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  Speaker 4: For tomorrow?
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  Speaker 3: We can't we. I mean, there's a watch party for
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  Speaker 3: free for really, I'm got to look at the schedule
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  Speaker 3: because things have been popping up. That's how fan that.
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  Speaker 4: It's best.
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  Speaker 3: They can just pop up out of nowhere. It might
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  Speaker 3: have some lasting LA prizes, but we're gonna it's it's
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  Speaker 3: day full.
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  Speaker 9: This is like a continuation the first year I had
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  Speaker 9: you employee from the breaker all about that.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, who circle moment. What I'm gonna say is with
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  Speaker 3: Dave Footsmart, there's a fifty fifty chance I'm either.
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  Speaker 5: In the hospital trying to recover or you guys are
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  Speaker 5: can get an invite for my weight because.
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  Speaker 2: Oh my god. All right, well we all got to
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  Speaker 2: power through.
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  Speaker 6: One more day, one more day, let's get it.
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  Speaker 4: Let's go met And Saturday, I was.
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  Speaker 2: Spent with my friend Lindsay's earla, and you got to
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  Speaker 2: hear excited she was to meet with Tyrone Tracy, who
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  Speaker 2: she's in the room before at the Lindsay Sports Flash.
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  Speaker 2: And you can just tell Lindsay and him are close,
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  Speaker 2: and you can also tell how much Tyrone, uh, you know,
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  Speaker 2: really likes her and I love seeing her and all that.
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  Speaker 2: And then after he was done at the GLD Shop
• 9:47
  Speaker 2: activation of the Mitchell and Neess Fanatics exhibit. He was
• 9:54
  Speaker 2: able to pull be pulled aside and gave me a
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  Speaker 2: couple of minutes on what Giant fans can expect as
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  Speaker 2: they're in training camp right now. It West Virginia. I'm
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  Speaker 2: here with.
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  Speaker 6: Tyrone Jersey at the Mitchel and Santa anaclete.
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  Speaker 3: Whats like the only fans after today?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean is it's dope, man, It's really dopey.
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  Speaker 6: Said I'm I'm I'm, I'm a man at the community.
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  Speaker 6: I'm never gonna hear anybody's super super dope to see
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  Speaker 6: that day.
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  Speaker 4: They have things support me. They enjoying the mass.
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  Speaker 3: But crazy thing is like I score it enjoying them
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  Speaker 3: as well.
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  Speaker 1: They enjoying me.
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  Speaker 3: All right, the energy around Jamal, alright about it?
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  Speaker 4: How are you feeling about it?
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  Speaker 5: I'm good, I'm good.
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  Speaker 9: I feel good.
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  Speaker 3: Man, A dude to do with a tight ship. But
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  Speaker 3: at the same time, I.
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  Speaker 2: Don't move like a tight ship.
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  Speaker 3: You want someone that detail and I'm excited.
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  Speaker 2: I'm excited of the season, all right, I'm changing it
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  Speaker 2: from all right.
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  Speaker 1: It allowed, it allowed the Giants, my whole team ready
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  Speaker 1: to see you know what New York allow what happens
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  Speaker 1: when we.
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  Speaker 6: Win, so it really just likes to fire on to us.
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  Speaker 1: Now we want to win and do like a Nicklas
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  Speaker 1: winning a man.
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  Speaker 3: All right, Taylor's thanks so much appreciation.
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  Speaker 2: Now, before we moved to Sunday, if you didn't see
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  Speaker 2: it already yet, CBS Saturday Morn, John Elliott kind enough
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  Speaker 2: to put me on the air with him from Javits.
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  Speaker 2: What do you got summer Saturday.
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  Speaker 5: People want to do stuff, they want to have fun.
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  Speaker 5: You just have to be really smart this afternoon, have
• 11:16
  Speaker 5: the rain gear ready, and then have your plans flexible.
• 11:19
  Speaker 5: I have flexible plans because I just met Alex Garrett.
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  Speaker 5: First off, how many CBS two folks have you met
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  Speaker 5: within the year.
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  Speaker 9: I met Otis, I met you, I met Lennie Quinn,
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  Speaker 9: I marched with them in the Irish American Day Parade.
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  Speaker 9: And then I also just met Steve Overmyer a couple
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  Speaker 9: of days ago as well.
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  Speaker 5: So it's the more than a trifecta. All right, Alex,
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  Speaker 5: I'm gonna put you on the spot. You were born
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  Speaker 5: with one leg, right, Yeah, So I was born with.
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  Speaker 9: One leg and I've been an adaptive athlete since I
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  Speaker 9: was three years old. My dad started me in pewee
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  Speaker 9: races when I was really young, and then we translated
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  Speaker 9: it into the Games for the Physically.
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  Speaker 2: Challenged in Long Island, and then now I took all.
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  Speaker 9: Of that and competed in the Fanatics Games, becoming the
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  Speaker 9: first adaptive athlete to do so.
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  Speaker 2: And that was yesterday. It was thursday. I competed.
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  Speaker 5: How did you do? You know?
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  Speaker 2: I did okay. For the first time, I did okay.
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna definitely reapply and do it again.
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  Speaker 9: But to compete against Tom Brady and all these guys,
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  Speaker 9: it's an honor to do that.
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  Speaker 5: So I'm gonna just you know, I want to talk
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  Speaker 5: about you because so you're more than just a fan.
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  Speaker 2: You're doing it, You're an athlete. I am doing it.
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  Speaker 2: I've been running since I was three years old.
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  Speaker 9: I've been doing like paseball stuff on the side, like
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  Speaker 9: I've been in sports my whole life. So to come
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  Speaker 9: here and be able to compete, what's really a great honor.
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  Speaker 9: And I'm very just I'm very happy, I guess I
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  Speaker 9: feel very happy to do this and very thankful to
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  Speaker 9: be able to do this.
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  Speaker 2: To Michael Ruben, President and AX and all of them
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  Speaker 2: to be able to do that.
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  Speaker 9: And I come here as meeting now to cover and
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  Speaker 9: do what you're doing today, which is get the fans' perspective.
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  Speaker 9: I saw kids waiting on the line to meet these
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  Speaker 9: guys for four hours yesterday.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, I love that guy, you know, I love
• 12:50
  Speaker 5: it's the dads with the kids real quickly because I'm
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  Speaker 5: are you on social media?
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  Speaker 1: I am?
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  Speaker 5: And where is it where some kid is watching right now?
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  Speaker 5: Somebody's seeing a challenge look at this guy? Where can
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  Speaker 5: they find you on social media?
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  Speaker 2: Alex g n y c one, Alex g nyc one.
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  Speaker 5: Good looks you man? Thanks forty two seconds ago. I'll
• 13:13
  Speaker 5: give your best to Lannie, Steve and otis awesome all right,
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  Speaker 5: so I know Lonnie's gonna be watching this. Want to
• 13:19
  Speaker 5: make sure that you are. Alex just rolled by what
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  Speaker 5: happened on your social media since you were last seen
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  Speaker 5: on Channel two where.
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  Speaker 9: While someone said God bless you, a great scene you
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  Speaker 9: on CBS Saturday Mornings and then I got fifty followers,
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  Speaker 9: so thanks to you, it's blown up today.
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  Speaker 5: What's your handle again.
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  Speaker 9: Alex g nyc one, Alex g n yc one, Who
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  Speaker 9: are these people all?
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  Speaker 2: Right, this is my friend Lindsay's Earlis.
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  Speaker 9: She's Lindsay's Earlist, Sports Flash and our media Nitthan and
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  Speaker 9: I met and Sasha as well.
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  Speaker 2: So so Vince was.
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  Speaker 5: Saying, hey, you should watch this guy. I didn't get
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  Speaker 5: to see you. So you're very agile, can I see?
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  Speaker 6: I mean, how do you.
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  Speaker 3: Okay?
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  Speaker 5: So this is a young man who was born without
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  Speaker 5: la he now competes, but he's also a media guy.
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  Speaker 5: Can you imagine navigating with that in the busy city streets. Wow,
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  Speaker 5: so some kid is watching right now? What do you
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  Speaker 5: tell a kid who may have a disability or maybe
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  Speaker 5: hasn't had an accident?
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  Speaker 9: Well, I want to talk to the kids on the parents.
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  Speaker 9: Don't let your kid be restrained just because they have
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  Speaker 9: a disability. Get your kid out there, get your kid active,
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  Speaker 9: and for the kids. You know, I started podcast adapting
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  Speaker 9: with Alex Garrett as well because I want people to
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  Speaker 9: know it's okay.
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  Speaker 2: You can get through anything in life. So that's where
• 14:33
  Speaker 2: we're at here. You'd dynamite, thank you turned into the
• 14:35
  Speaker 2: Alex Show. We'll just tell you now on Sunday, what
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  Speaker 2: is the closing ceremonies? And here's how this fanatics athlete,
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  Speaker 2: This competitor, yours truly something specials just about to happen
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  Speaker 2: to all the fan competitors and for all the fan
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  Speaker 2: competitors thanks to the winner, Justin Bieber.
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  Speaker 11: There are fifty fans that all competed in the Bananas Games.
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  Speaker 11: And he literally just called my partner producers, Michael Ryder.
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  Speaker 11: He said, last year, Tom Brady gave every fan to compete.
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  Speaker 4: At five Brand. So everything was thinking, every.
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  Speaker 11: All fifty people next year got five brand who competed
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  Speaker 11: in the Bananas Games.
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  Speaker 6: Now, so before we actually played the next message, here's
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  Speaker 6: what he said.
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  Speaker 11: He said, I can kick the shit out of Tom
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  Speaker 11: in every game, and you can game five brand.
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  Speaker 6: I want to give ten.
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  Speaker 11: Thousand dollars to every single.
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  Speaker 8: Fan compete in the games.
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  Speaker 2: There's I know, I have thought I had to stop recording.
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  Speaker 2: I was kind of a disbelief. I'm very thankful to
• 15:55
  Speaker 2: Justin and Bangled, the fanatics and Michael Ruben who made
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  Speaker 2: that announcement. And I'll play the video toward the end
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  Speaker 2: because I still got a couple of audio bites I
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  Speaker 2: want to play. But that was the moment that life
• 16:09
  Speaker 2: felt like I was about to just get even better
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  Speaker 2: and you know, to ranked ninety fifth, it means I
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  Speaker 2: didn't finish last, which is which is a big deal.
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  Speaker 2: And I went out and did it. And Fanatics, unbeknownst
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  Speaker 2: to me, as I'm competing, had those announcers recognized this.
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  Speaker 10: And compete in the Fanatics games. By the way, at
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  Speaker 10: the Baseball station, you're what you're watching through. That's Alex Garrett,
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  Speaker 10: who is one of our futured fans.
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  Speaker 7: He was born with one leg, right, this is this
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  Speaker 7: is somebody who is a lifelong sports obsessive and he's about.
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  Speaker 6: Or for four Fanatics as well. He last year he
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  Speaker 6: noticed there wasn't an adaptive athlete in the Fanatics games, so.
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  Speaker 7: He decided to be the first. Here's Alex Garrett on
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  Speaker 7: the mound throwing a pitch. This is a guy that
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  Speaker 7: is the definition of resilience changing who gets to a
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  Speaker 7: lot of fans carry him on. H I think it's
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  Speaker 7: just a good reminder that.
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  Speaker 3: This is for everyone.
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  Speaker 1: Now.
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  Speaker 2: I got the thing Ryan Pagano for capturing that audio
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  Speaker 2: on the Thursday and to hear that, like I I
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  Speaker 2: was working at to an athlete, that meant so much
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  Speaker 2: by the brand that I've been promoting with you here
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  Speaker 2: at one like a Ballex media for so long, it
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  Speaker 2: it meant so much. We also on that Saturday, by
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  Speaker 2: the way, met rbl Reese. On the Friday, met Carlos Beltran.
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  Speaker 2: On the Sunday met Brian Burns up the Giants. So
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  Speaker 2: things in Dick Sporting Goods for making these athletes available
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  Speaker 2: to meet, these meet the fans and of course Kat
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  Speaker 2: as well. Pretty special. There have three more of those
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  Speaker 2: starting five to meet of that Nick's championship team. We'll
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  Speaker 2: see if it gets done and when. But I want
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  Speaker 2: to give you a couple more interviews and then the
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  Speaker 2: Finas recap video from those that did compete in the
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  Speaker 2: Finas Games twenty six all fifty of US FAY you
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  Speaker 6: Weeks ago, All Star Village and MLB all for a week.
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  Speaker 9: What a visit between you had.
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  Speaker 8: Julie Enjoy Yeah, really tired, man, I'm just trying to
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  Speaker 8: get through it.
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  Speaker 3: You know, we have the World Cup Final to Dallas
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  Speaker 3: and kind of top of us all Fan Addison.
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  Speaker 6: All Star was.
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  Speaker 8: Crazy with all the celebrities we saw from both areas.
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  Speaker 8: Like it's really through a lot, but it's too fun
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  Speaker 8: and like a lot of stuff too close to like
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  Speaker 8: clips and the interviews, so I know you've had just
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  Speaker 8: a good one as I have over the side and
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  Speaker 8: competing this year was so fun, So yeah, I wish
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  Speaker 8: I could have saw it.
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  Speaker 9: But man, that was so busy.
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  Speaker 2: Oh it's a busy weekend. Who'd you get an interview
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  Speaker 2: at top?
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  Speaker 8: Hopefully once you got as Wells and Cred Carr enjoying
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  Speaker 8: the show.
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  Speaker 6: Wells is a good buddy of mine.
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  Speaker 4: Carden.
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  Speaker 3: It's my first time to wing it. It's a little
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  Speaker 3: bit seper to get some because like how a slad is,
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  Speaker 3: But I try.
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  Speaker 9: My best throughout pre week your best and you got
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  Speaker 9: Cody Blander point one MVP and play how blow is that?
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  Speaker 9: That was sick?
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  Speaker 8: It was a short one, but what happened We got
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  Speaker 6: Mem rights to the Yankees Stans.
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  Speaker 3: I'm still gonna get cam.
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  Speaker 9: We're going on cam.
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  Speaker 3: Into forty yearns.
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  Speaker 2: All right, Julian, one more thing when the second.
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  Speaker 4: Part of the year, and what do the ags do here?
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  Speaker 2: I've got to get some batts.
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  Speaker 2: Far, We'll see what happens.
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  Speaker 4: How about how together.
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  Speaker 6: I experience.
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  Speaker 2: And of course, you know, as I think about it,
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  Speaker 2: listening to all this, I think about how one of
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  Speaker 2: the memories I'll always take away is that Joe West,
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  Speaker 2: a former mlb umpire, a legendary mlb umpire, ruled the
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  Speaker 2: strike for me in the competition. I don't want to
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  Speaker 2: thank my mom for capturing this audio. She ventured with
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: me the whole eight stations we were at, taking video
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  Speaker 2: and audio and pictures. I want to thank mom for
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: being there by my side through all of that and
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: in adulthood seeing me compete and sort of carrying on
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: as my dad had always been there to see me compete.
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: I love that mom able to see me compete now
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  Speaker 2: in adulthood.
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  Speaker 6: A little more more with real.
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  Speaker 4: I come, where are you gonna want? Chuck? Make your chance?
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  Speaker 2: Oh no?
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  Speaker 6: And then Shaun's hands.
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  Speaker 4: We don't want that.
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  Speaker 2: Second shot by number.
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  Speaker 6: Two in it a little off like that?
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  Speaker 1: Like that, like it?
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  Speaker 3: I hold the third shot, new.
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  Speaker 6: that back right, No shoe, say now shoe, no problem?
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  Speaker 4: Were shut?
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  Speaker 6: Remember we talk about a million dollar price. Always show
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  Speaker 6: I don't sit out like, come on, shut you don't
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  Speaker 6: even have a shoe.
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  Speaker 4: Shut up.
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  Speaker 6: We love to see you. Know what's happy is bringing
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  Speaker 6: the cold wall life wins.
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  Speaker 10: It is away. Come on.
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  Speaker 11: Nice and easy and shot some.
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  Speaker 6: Little up to them, makes some notes for.
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  Speaker 2: Love the energy, all the eight stations, and man do
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  Speaker 2: I want to compete next year? But here was I
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  Speaker 2: believe as many fan competitor as submitted the video with
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  Speaker 2: Justin Bieber and us thanking him and thinking fanatics for
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  Speaker 2: this opportunity that truly feels like it's life ones in
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  Speaker 2: a lifetime.
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  Speaker 8: I will be delawat in ten thousand dollars to all
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  Speaker 8: the things, to participants who were up aguest as Jo
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  Speaker 8: Pens Dolls.
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  Speaker 6: Thank you, Justin Dik you Fanetic games fests.
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  Speaker 2: I want to say thank you to fanatics, to Michael Rubin,
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  Speaker 2: this message is for Justin Bieber Yo, Justin.
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  Speaker 6: What's good brother man.
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  Speaker 7: Hi, Justin your generosity the ten thousand dollars that you
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  Speaker 7: gave each of us really appreciate.
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  Speaker 5: First of all, congratulations dominant performance.
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  Speaker 2: It was fun to watch.
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  Speaker 10: Thank you from the bottom of my heart for your
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  Speaker 10: kindness and generosity.
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  Speaker 6: I still couldn't believed that he was true and donated
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  Speaker 6: ten thousand dollars, which is.
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  Speaker 2: Really just amazing. He didn't have to do that, and
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  Speaker 2: you know, give us all that money.
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  Speaker 1: I got two kids that just graduated college, and now
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  Speaker 1: I'm able to put some money over that.
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  Speaker 2: So what this tenk mean is to me is a
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  Speaker 2: little bit of security, a little bit of a fresh start.
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  Speaker 9: My dad was a major Cup fan, and so now
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  Speaker 9: I feel like I have real possibility thanks to the
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  Speaker 9: ten k to.
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  Speaker 2: Get to Chicago. I was really saving them for a car.
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  Speaker 8: I'm helping it turns itself into a family vacation for
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  Speaker 8: my wife and my nine year old daughter.
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  Speaker 6: The money, I think, I'm happy to go to my tuition.
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  Speaker 10: I go to a Delphi, so it's paying nice chalking
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  Speaker 10: my tuition for the year.
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  Speaker 2: I just want to say thank you so much for
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: your generosity because now I'm able to get my daughter
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  Speaker 2: at Dork that she's always wanted.
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  Speaker 9: I'm actually getting married August twenty ninth this year.
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  Speaker 3: I know, you know, wedding's arts.
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  Speaker 10: Visit by kids and a little little point on the way.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm the six kids and it means a lot
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  Speaker 2: to us.
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  Speaker 9: With me, I just want to say thank you fanatics.
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: I want to say thank you justin Bieberking and I
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  Speaker 1: hope that.
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: Hopefully I can thank you in person one day. Man,
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: thank you and how special it was to get to
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  Speaker 2: hear that announcement with my buddy Shane Walsh, who I've
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  Speaker 2: known since sixth grade. And this is how we entered
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  Speaker 2: Finace mess on Sunday.
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  Speaker 4: There we are, we.
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  Speaker 6: Say, thirty four, but you're ready for it.
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  Speaker 4: I'm ready, buddy, Here we go.
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: So I want to thank my mom for being there
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  Speaker 2: at every station we had when we competed that Thursday,
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: my stepdad Vic for supporting us, all throughout my dad
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: who got me into athletics at a very young age
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: at three years old, and of course all my friends
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: and family that have supported us along this journey. I
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: really do believe this Fanatics Past twenty twenty six was
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: just another incredible chapter in the life of one link
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  Speaker 2: of Alex Media and may continue to go from there.
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: So thanks for listening and a reminder that once I
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: was off the field, I went back into my Finax
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  Speaker 2: Creator mode, so I can find my link to the
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: Fanatics Creator portal that I have set up. Thanks to
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: Wade Tonkin and Michael Rubin for allowing me to continue
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: to promote a brand I fell in love with four
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: years ago and continue to grow with. So check out
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  Speaker 2: my Finax Creator portal in the link below, and that
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  Speaker 2: is my twenty twenty six Fanacs frest recap.