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Speaker 1: It's say hello to our first guest of twenty twenty six.

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Speaker 2: Our next guest is a legend of the courts ranks

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Speaker 2: world number one by the Association of Tennis Professionals. He's

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Speaker 2: won four of the major tennis opens.

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Speaker 3: He's done it. Please welcome to the show.

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Speaker 4: Tennis champion Jim car Hey, honey, good morning, and Mite

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Speaker 4: may I just joined the chorus of birthday wishers. Greetings forty.

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Speaker 3: I believe it.

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Speaker 4: I don't think you look a day over thirty nine plus.

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Speaker 5: Thank you day. Well, this is going to get really

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Speaker 5: old quickly.

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Speaker 6: Thank you. I've been very spot for my thirty ninth birthday,

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Speaker 6: including the boys.

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Speaker 5: Rolling in a bunch of forty balloons.

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Speaker 3: Yes, this is just tuned in nature.

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Speaker 4: To let me crash now.

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Speaker 7: Jim, I know you as he's one of the nicest

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Speaker 7: blokes I've ever worked with. By the way, part of

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Speaker 7: the Nines Austrain Open coverage. But also what on you

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Speaker 7: doing in an ouberates jacket?

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Speaker 4: Well, I mean, come on, guys, isn't it fairly obvious?

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Speaker 4: This was my destiny. I think it's it was a

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Speaker 4: natural fit for me, honestly, like the Uber eats, people

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Speaker 4: came to me and you know last year and and

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Speaker 4: put this script out and I was like, how in

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Speaker 4: the world had we not thought of this? Nose?

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Speaker 7: Right?

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Speaker 6: And if you haven't seen it, I guarantee you will

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Speaker 6: because it's playing a lot at the Australian Open.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, here's a little taste.

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Speaker 7: Jim Kre's new career decision did take us by surprise.

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Speaker 1: Hut.

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Speaker 5: I think how career was.

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Speaker 2: Jim Courier.

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Speaker 4: Bengal nailed it.

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Speaker 5: It's so good.

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Speaker 4: Well, Todd Woodbridge is the star of the ad though.

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Speaker 4: Todd's just incredible.

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Speaker 1: LOGI winner.

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Speaker 5: Everywhere, isn't it this time of year? Are you an

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Speaker 5: Oberts kind of guy?

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Speaker 4: Though?

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Speaker 5: I like because tennis players are pretty fit and healthy.

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Speaker 5: What's on your What do you go through?

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Speaker 1: Oh?

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Speaker 4: I do a lot of Mexican food. Yeah, yeah, I've

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Speaker 4: got a couple of Mexican restaurants here in Melbourne. I've

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Speaker 4: already hit up Fonder pretty strong, get a little burrito

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Speaker 4: ball action.

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Speaker 5: Yeah yeah, yeah, they're good strong.

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Speaker 1: Let's talk tennis. What a turnout even last week and

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Speaker 1: the AO hadn't officially even started, so.

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Speaker 3: They could they called that week zero. I think the

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Speaker 3: AFL have.

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Speaker 7: That they were calling it weak zero and you're right, Jase,

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Speaker 7: because there were gym there were exhibition matches. It was

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Speaker 7: a one point slam and opening ceremony. Is this the

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Speaker 7: way of the future.

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Speaker 4: It definitely is the way of the future if you

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Speaker 4: think about it, then these are these are the playoffs

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Speaker 4: for tennis, right. This is when our non core tennis

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Speaker 4: fans come in and you bring them in and you

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Speaker 4: hope that then they stick and go see other tennis tournaments.

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Speaker 4: Besides this, this is a chance to really open the

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Speaker 4: floodgates and look, honestly, the Australian Open has grown so

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Speaker 4: much during the two weeks when tennis is underway with

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Speaker 4: the main draws, been tough to get tickets for a

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Speaker 6: Now, you know, you hear the tennis players come here

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Speaker 6: every year and they go, oh, this is our face,

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Speaker 6: this is our favorite Grand Slam.

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Speaker 5: Like do you say that everywhere you go? Or is

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Speaker 5: the estray and Open really the best?

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Speaker 4: I think I think it is their favorite because first

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Speaker 4: of all, they come in fresh right, and second of all,

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Speaker 4: the facilities are just ridiculous. I mean, you're five minutes

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Speaker 4: from your hotel, like you're in New York City. You

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Speaker 4: It could be an hour and a half. You don't

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Speaker 4: have like the inconveniences don't exist here. So it's been awesome.

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Speaker 1: Did you retire two thousand, right? And you know how

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Speaker 1: like what technology and stuff? Yeah, these kids these days,

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Speaker 1: they try totally different ways. How do you reckon? You

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Speaker 1: go out there now against the top players?

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Speaker 4: Well, I think I'd go okay, but I don't think

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Speaker 4: i'd like my chances much against Center and Alcoraz, to

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Speaker 4: be honest, those guys are so so good, so strong,

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Speaker 4: and they just don't have any weaknesses.

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Speaker 7: Are they sort of those two unbeatable at the moment.

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Speaker 7: I know one of them has to beat the other

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Speaker 7: sort of they're the ones to beat.

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Speaker 4: This is as close to as it's felt in men's

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Speaker 4: tennis to back when Federer Nadal broke away from the

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Speaker 4: pack about twenty years ago, before Djokovic really became who

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Speaker 4: he is today, it just felt like it was inevitable

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Speaker 4: that you were going to see them in the finals.

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Speaker 4: And that's what it feels like. They'll lose at times.

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Speaker 4: They no one's perfect, but their skill set and there

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Speaker 4: is just so different.

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Speaker 5: But more about Djokovic. Can he could he win the

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Speaker 5: Australian Open.

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Speaker 4: He could, He certainly could. But his biggest obstacle besides

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Speaker 4: those guys is his own body. You know, they got

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Speaker 4: thirty eight, he's almost your almost funny.

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Speaker 6: You see these athletes and when people are like, oh,

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Speaker 6: you know they're getting really old and he's thirty eight.

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Speaker 1: Oh we missed out window. Clinton Novak was on the

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Speaker 1: nose a few years back during COVID times and stuff.

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Speaker 1: I feel like the country's got around him now yeah.

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Speaker 4: I mean I think look time heals a lot of

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Speaker 4: the wounds right, and Novak has been I think it

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Speaker 4: seems fun he's been gracious.

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Speaker 5: I think funny.

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Speaker 4: You'd love him. I mean, he is super smart and

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Speaker 4: he's interested and he's interesting.

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Speaker 3: No, that sleep smart.

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Speaker 7: They don't have much in coming there.

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Speaker 6: Now, what about the Aussies. Have we got any chances

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Speaker 6: with our Australian tennis plays? Who's our best shot?

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Speaker 4: Well, first of all, you've got a young female player

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Speaker 4: she still needs some time, but she's one to keep

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Speaker 4: Dimenar's number six in the world, six in the world.

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Speaker 5: Amazing.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, the demon's incredible. It's hard to keep your eyes

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Speaker 4: all over the court. He's an Alcoraz's quarterfinal, so he's

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Speaker 4: going to have to do some hard yards to get

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Speaker 4: Semis is the next step up. But I think, I mean,

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Speaker 4: he's definitely good enough to do that and maybe go beyond.

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Speaker 3: Hey one more, I want to ask you about Jim

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Speaker 3: because we were talking about sort of older players. Lauren

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Speaker 3: and Venus Williams was in action yesterday.

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Speaker 7: Was she She's here forty five years in the double

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Speaker 7: still she's playing singles. So she was given a wildcard

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Speaker 7: for the Australian Open singles, which is a little bit

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Speaker 7: controversial because people like, let's let's reward the younger generation,

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Speaker 7: Let's let's sort of nurture the stars of tomorrow, bring

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Speaker 7: the Williams sisters back anytime.

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Speaker 3: Out of Mummy.

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Speaker 7: I mean she showed, she showed last night why she

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Speaker 4: Yeah, she barely last She lost six to four and

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Speaker 4: a third and she was up for love in the

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Speaker 4: third set against the quality player. Just just couldn't close

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Speaker 4: the door. But she's forty five years old, still competitive.

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Speaker 5: That's amazing. So who is the woman to be?

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Speaker 7: Does it?

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Speaker 5: Soblenka?

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Speaker 4: It is what do you love about I used to

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Speaker 4: be thirteen or no?

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Speaker 1: No, it's not just that she just seems she seems

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Speaker 5: And she's still boring though. Ye, she's a bit boring.

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Speaker 3: And you know what, very sad.

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Speaker 5: And I said this a lot in sports.

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Speaker 6: I love the characters that bring so much entertainment to

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Speaker 5: That's why we love.

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Speaker 6: Nick Kurrioss when he plays with cockon Arkus in the doubles. Like,

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Speaker 6: the characters bring so much to the sport. And I

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Speaker 6: think we we had it a whole era of these

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Speaker 6: legends and now there's like some characters coming back into

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Speaker 6: the game and it brings so much excitement.

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Speaker 4: And I've got a new one for you. Also to

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Speaker 4: add into the mix. There's a guy named Sasha Public

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Speaker 4: who's he's number ten in the world. He was number

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Speaker 4: eighty in the world this time last year. And he's

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Speaker 4: got a lot of curios in him as far as

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Speaker 4: his mercurial nature on the court, his shot making, his unpredictability. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: he's fun. Okay, I love that Greek stallion. You're the

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Speaker 4: hot sportspas.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I like Bearristina too. But he's pulled out. He's

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Speaker 5: good to he said that on radio.

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Speaker 3: Hasn't see that.

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Speaker 5: What did I say?

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Speaker 3: He withdrew? He withdrew.

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Speaker 4: I'm not sure you can say that.

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Speaker 3: You can tournament, Please pass, Please pass my best onto

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Speaker 3: t J. I miss dearly.

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Speaker 4: Yesterday, did you?

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Speaker 1: Yeah?

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Speaker 3: Yeah? What did you do?

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Speaker 4: But we're just catching up on life, tucking country music,

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Speaker 4: which is.

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Speaker 3: His big thing. He loves the country guy.

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Speaker 1: You're lie Jim Curry John Us on the air this morning.

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Speaker 3: We'll let you go.

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Speaker 1: We know you've got some deliveries to do. Definitely did

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Speaker 1: We will see you on the telecast. Thanks for popping in.

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Speaker 1: This morning mate.

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Speaker 4: You see me on an Eat Bake, you know.

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Speaker 3: Who it is.

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Speaker 1: It is just on a quarter past seven.

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Speaker 4: Lauren wake up feeling good following them on the socials