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Speaker 2: We are joined by Monica Ricks from the Bloomberg newsroom

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Speaker 2: in New York City and investors racing for big losses

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Speaker 2: perhaps today on Wall Street.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Tom, this warren in the Middle East is really

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Speaker 3: rattling global markets right now, and oil prices specifically are skyrocketing.

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Speaker 3: Brent crude trading at about eighty dollars a barrel this morning. Diesel,

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Speaker 3: so safer assets like gold are in demand right now.

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Speaker 3: That's trading at about fifty four hundred dollars. And Ounce

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Speaker 3: should also mention airlines, including United American and Delta, along

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Speaker 1: Defense and energy shares are up. Meanwhile, Apple apparently taking

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Speaker 1: a big hit today. Why is that?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, All Magnificent seven stocks are down, Tesla, Amazon, and

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Speaker 3: Vidia Meta among them two. Apple stock is down mostly

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Speaker 3: over shipping at inflation concerns at this point, but the

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Speaker 3: stock could bounce back this week with Apple's latest product

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Speaker 3: launch it's gotten new iPhones debuting in the fall, and

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Speaker 1: All right, And the numbers with the futures this morning, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: they are not looking too hot right now.

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Speaker 3: DOW futures down five hundred and fourteen points, NAZAC futures

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Speaker 3: points from Bloomberg. I'm Monica Ricks on News Radio seven

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Speaker 2: Alrighty, good morning, good morning, good morning. Open lines from

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Speaker 2: now until late thirty whatever's on your mind five one

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Speaker 1: Love to hear from you.

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Speaker 2: And then coming up at eight thirty five will be

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Speaker 2: have been. And we'll get to your phone calls. Here

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Speaker 2: especially the liberal media. Here's why The New York Times

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Speaker 2: had its obituary on Ayatola Kamani over the weekend. And

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Speaker 2: long robes and silver beard, Ayatola Kamani cast himself as

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Speaker 2: magnanimous aloofness running the country from a perch above the

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Speaker 2: joustling of daily politics. This was the New York Times

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Speaker 2: obituary on a man who was directly responsible for tens

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Speaker 2: of thousands of deaths through terror, including most recently killing

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Speaker 2: And that's the oh bit from the New York Times.

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Speaker 2: I mean, you gotta be kidding me. And needless to say,

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Speaker 2: with Brian in Eastgate. Brian, what's happening, young man? Good morning?

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Speaker 4: I'm by your age, but thanks for the saying young man.

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Speaker 4: But hey, Tom, so this is going to be kind

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Speaker 4: To give the family of I can't remember the guy's

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Speaker 4: Okay, So I think it was about a week and

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Speaker 5: I'm a huge Reds fan, and I am also a

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Speaker 5: fantasy baseball fan, but a different perspective on spring training. Okay,

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Speaker 5: if you're a top tier pitcher, you should be able

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Speaker 1: You throughout the whole year.

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Speaker 2: Well, you know, the one guy that that I could

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Speaker 1: You've been.

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Speaker 2: Well, that's a voice of Kenny Albert, who better than

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Speaker 1: Quite yet?

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Speaker 1: How have you sort of processed that? Have you at all?

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Speaker 8: that was certainly unscripted. The players skating over and getting

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Speaker 8: the kids and bringing them out. You know, we had

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Speaker 8: no idea that would happen. So it was emotional for everybody.

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Speaker 2: We're visiting McKenny Albert back from Milan, where I think

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Speaker 2: you called what twenty four games in eighteen days at

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Speaker 2: the Olympics something like that. Now, I read an article

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Speaker 2: where you had received almost you know, hours immediately at

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Speaker 2: the end of the men's game, close to five hundred

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Speaker 2: text messages.

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Speaker 1: Is that right?

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Speaker 8: It is, But there's a bit of an asterisk that

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Speaker 8: that was the number on my phone, you know, where

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Speaker 8: the text show up. But some of them were you know,

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Speaker 8: for example, at chain with my family, there might have

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Speaker 8: been thirty texts.

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Speaker 1: So okay, but you know what I'm saying here, come

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Speaker 1: on now.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, probably about I would say two hundred of different people,

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Speaker 8: maybe a little more. And I was really blown away.

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Speaker 8: I mean, you know how it is during during a

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Speaker 8: big game. Excuse me, I'm still feeling the remnants of

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Speaker 8: a lot of these twenty four games, but you've done

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Speaker 8: championship games in college football, NFL playoff games, baseball playoff games.

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Speaker 8: You had the unbelievable call of the Jeter play in

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Speaker 8: Oakland and the Steve Bartman game, among many others. So,

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Speaker 8: and I guess you know, texting wasn't as prevalent back then, right,

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Speaker 8: cell phones were just in infancy. But when you had

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Speaker 8: some of those big games, you know, I'm sure you're

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Speaker 8: hurt from a lot of people, whether it was right

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Speaker 8: away or the next day. But I was just blown

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Speaker 8: away by the amount of people who checked in. You know,

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Speaker 8: most of them I know and have my number, but

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Speaker 8: some others that went out of their way to get it.

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Speaker 8: I mean, I'll give you an example, and I said

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Speaker 8: this in that article, but I've never met Kirk herb Street.

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Speaker 8: You know, I've watched them for years and I've been

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Speaker 8: ahead of his work, and he took the time to

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Speaker 8: set meet to send me a direct message on Twitter

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Speaker 8: after one of the games, I think it was the

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Speaker 8: quarterfinal game against Sweden. And there were several others who

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Speaker 8: didn't necessarily have my number who were so nice to

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Speaker 8: reach out, and it really you know, I wanted to

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Speaker 8: get back to everybody, and it took some time. The

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Speaker 8: game ended about five o'clock local in Milan in the afternoon,

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Speaker 8: and we stuck around for a while and then had

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Speaker 8: our first dinner as a crew. All of us had meeting,

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Speaker 8: a real dinner in about fifteen days working. We had

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Speaker 8: a nine to ten pm game every night, and some

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Speaker 8: days we had a four to forty game at a

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Speaker 8: nine to ten game. We had seven double headers, so

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Speaker 8: dinner during the semi final day on the Friday between games,

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Speaker 8: we had about twenty minutes because we had to go

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Speaker 8: meet with Mike Sullivan, the US head coach. The Canada

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Speaker 8: game ended at seven to ten. We had a meeting

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Speaker 8: with the coach at seven forty five, and then we

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Speaker 8: had a head up to the booth for the nine

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Speaker 8: ten starts. So you know, I was telling a couple

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Speaker 8: of people that true story. Our dinner between the two

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Speaker 8: semifinals was basically some pasta, playing pasta in a plastic tray,

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Speaker 8: eating it with a wooden four, cleaning against the wall

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Speaker 8: in the press area for about seven minutes in between

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Speaker 8: those two games.

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Speaker 2: I'm not surprised by that in the least bit. Not

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Speaker 2: in the least bit. You know, you talked about Kirk

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Speaker 2: kurb Street. Of course he makes his home here in Cincinnati,

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Speaker 2: Native Ohio.

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Speaker 8: Guy.

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Speaker 1: I also read where you heard from Joe Torri.

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Speaker 8: I did, And you know, I don't know him that well.

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Speaker 8: You know, I had several meetings with him when he

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Speaker 8: was a manager, and have probably conversed with him ten

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Speaker 8: or twelve times through the years, but always quick and

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Speaker 8: very cordial. But he's one of those He didn't have

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Speaker 8: my number. I didn't have his number certainly, and we

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Speaker 8: do have some mutual friends. And the fact that he

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Speaker 8: went out of his way. I was really blown away

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Speaker 8: by that one. Like I said, we know each other

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Speaker 8: a little bit, but did not have each other's phone numbers.

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Speaker 8: So the fact that a he thought about testing and

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Speaker 8: then b went out of his way to ask a

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Speaker 8: mutual friend for my number, it was just just so

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Speaker 8: nice on his.

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Speaker 1: Part, you know, Kenny, I'm just I'm so excited for you.

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Speaker 2: You mentioned you and I we go back to a

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Speaker 2: long long time, and we were two of the original

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Speaker 2: announcers on Fox when that began in nineteen ninety four.

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Speaker 2: You're still going strong there in the NFL and Major

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Speaker 2: League baseball you call the NHL, and I'm just so

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Speaker 2: you know, look, all of us can get bogged down.

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Speaker 2: I don't want to speak for you, but there have

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Speaker 2: been times in my life where you're thinking, geez, you know,

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Speaker 2: I'd like to be the number one guy at wherever

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Speaker 2: fill in the blank. And hey, look the older I

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Speaker 2: got and I realized that, you know, there ain't nothing

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Speaker 2: wrong with being the number two guy, maybe the number

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Speaker 2: one guy in a certain sport, whatever it might be.

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Speaker 2: But I'm just so excited for you and your family to.

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Speaker 1: Be able to.

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Speaker 2: Add to a long long list of incredible career accomplishments.

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Speaker 2: But this one is just so above and beyond the

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Speaker 2: normal game winning call, even of a playoff game in

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Speaker 2: the United States in any sport. And so I thank

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Speaker 2: you for your time today, and I'm really excited for you.

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Speaker 2: Congratulations and man, you were sensational.

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Speaker 8: Well, Tom, I really appreciate it. Thanks so much for

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Speaker 8: having me on. And I tell the story often and

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Speaker 8: I have to send you a copy of my book,

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Speaker 8: which I'll be certain to do this week. Came out

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Speaker 8: two years ago, but I tell the story in there

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Speaker 8: about our early days at Fox when we all auditioned

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Speaker 8: back in ninety four, and I'm just so proud the

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Speaker 8: four of us, you, Joe Buck, Kevin Harlan and myself.

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Speaker 8: You know, we were all pretty young at the time

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Speaker 8: and to get that opportunity and just just thrilled thirty

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Speaker 8: two years later to be a part of that class

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Speaker 8: with the three of you. Uh, you know, congratulations on

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Speaker 8: everything that you've done. And I've been following your son's

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Speaker 8: career a little bit, so uh good luck to him

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Speaker 8: and uh hope to uh hope to hear and see

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Speaker 8: a lot of him in the future for sure.

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Speaker 2: Kenny, all the best, my friend, take care of yourself

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Speaker 2: and thank you for your time. Thanks Tom, you too,

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Speaker 2: all right, Kenny Albert boy, what a delight to have

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Speaker 2: him on the program here today