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Speaker 1: Saturday afternoon, It's Xavier Saint John's two thirty at Centas.

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Speaker 1: What a day will be for my next guest, a

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Speaker 1: Xavier legend, twenty twelve grad an elite clutch player who

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Speaker 1: led Xavier help lead Xavier to four NCAA tournament births,

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Speaker 1: three sweet sixteens. He is seventh on the school's all

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Speaker 1: time scoring list. He is third in assist He is

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Speaker 1: number one in career free throw percentage, and his number

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Speaker 1: fifty two will be retired on Saturday. We'll hang permanently

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Speaker 1: in the Centas Center, joining ten existing banners from more

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Speaker 1: on that, Let's go straight to the source and welcome

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Speaker 1: in to Holloway. To Lance Bacallister, how are you.

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Speaker 2: I'm fine, Thanks for having mey.

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Speaker 1: Man, congratulations. I'm sure as this gets closer, it's sinking

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Speaker 1: in more and more. What does all this mean to you?

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Speaker 2: Well, you know, it's just a great honor from my

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Speaker 2: basketball you know, being able to get my jersey retired,

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Speaker 2: my alma mater is definitely a blessing for you know,

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Speaker 2: myself and my family.

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Speaker 1: To what are you as you look back at your career,

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Speaker 1: what are you most proud of? Or what do you

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Speaker 1: hope people. How do you hope people remember you as

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Speaker 1: a musketoer.

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Speaker 2: You know, when I got to Vivier, we talked about

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Speaker 2: the standard. We talked about the standard for winning. So,

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Speaker 2: you know, I'm just really proud that I was able

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Speaker 2: to be able to go to the NCAA tournament, you know,

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Speaker 2: four years in a row. Every year I was there,

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Speaker 2: you know, three three sweet sixteens. You know, my freshman, sophomore,

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Speaker 2: and senior year we made it to the sweet sixteam.

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Speaker 2: You know, I lost five points every time we went,

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Speaker 2: so we played close games. I'm just want to be

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Speaker 2: remembered to be a winner, and you know, just that's

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Speaker 2: really what I'm proud of, just being able to win

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Speaker 2: those games over the course of those four seasons.

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Speaker 1: I think when people think of you, they think of

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Speaker 1: someone who loved pressure moments when the game was on

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Speaker 1: the line. Is that something you thrived on?

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Speaker 2: So yeah, I think it became a thing. So you know,

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Speaker 2: I fed into it, like all right, I guess people

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Speaker 2: expect me to have the ball in these situations, so

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Speaker 2: let me just go because let me just be a

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Speaker 2: part of the show.

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Speaker 1: Basically, some may have forgotten you originally signed with Indiana

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Speaker 1: kind of take us through what unfolded and how it

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Speaker 1: led you to Xavier.

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Speaker 2: Well, I was. I came to Cincinnati, Ohio to go

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Speaker 2: to Harmony Community School, which is now defunct. You know,

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Speaker 2: I went there to go to prep school to do

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Speaker 2: my senior year because I needed to improve my grades

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Speaker 2: and get the ACT score. So just being in Cincinnati,

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Speaker 2: I was around in the program because you know Book

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Speaker 2: Richardson that was with Coach Miller at Xavier in Arizona.

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Speaker 2: Book was you coach from the New York Gauchos. So

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Speaker 2: just being around there, you know, living in Cincinnati, I

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Speaker 2: was able to see how good the program was. You know,

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Speaker 2: I didn't know much about it being from New York.

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Speaker 2: But I actually signed a letter of intent with with

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Speaker 2: in Sebruary, so I was forced to decommit. And from

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Speaker 2: basically February to April, I was a free agent trying

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Speaker 2: to pick a new school, and you know, Coach Miller

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Speaker 2: started to recruit me with the help of Book who

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Speaker 2: was then I wound up taking Xavier University.

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Speaker 1: Man that classic saying. Things happened for a reason. I mean,

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Speaker 1: think of it. I mean it had to have turned

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Speaker 1: out pretty much perfectly for you. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a blessing, you know. I was. I was

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Speaker 2: now you're going to Xavier Bro. So I was like,

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Speaker 2: all right, But it worked out perfectly for me. I

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Speaker 2: a great career.

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Speaker 1: Look ahead to Saturday for us, well, I assume you'll

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Speaker 1: have a few family and friends on hand.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you know that is pretty bad now. So you know,

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Speaker 2: I think the original list was about like sixty of

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Speaker 2: So we'll see how it works out because of you know,

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Speaker 1: I understand. Miami coach Travis Steele is hoping to be there.

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Speaker 1: Tell listeners about your connection and relationship with Travis.

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Speaker 2: Well, I've had Coach Steel and he was I think

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Speaker 2: he was a graduate assistant at NAYU. That's when I

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Speaker 2: first met him. But you know, once I got to Xavier,

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Speaker 2: you know, it was just we had a connection between us.

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Speaker 2: Just you know, he was very instrumental in my skill

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Speaker 2: development Isaavia. You know, he spent a lot of time

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Speaker 2: You know, we were in this group and you know,

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Speaker 2: we just spent a lot of time together. He was

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Speaker 2: very diligent with me, very loving with me while I

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Speaker 2: was there, and I just you know, really appreciated Coach still,

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Speaker 2: you know a lot.

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Speaker 1: To What did somebody like sister rose Ane Fleming mean

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Speaker 1: to you and your time at Xavier.

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Speaker 2: Well, she was everything because you know, you know, I

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Speaker 2: heard all these stories about how easy college was, you know,

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Speaker 2: academically before you get there and you know that we

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Speaker 2: don't really have to do much. But you know, I

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Speaker 2: got a rude awakening my first two days there. I

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Speaker 2: had like a book to read and I didn't do it.

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Speaker 2: So It's like Friday in the summertime in July and

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Speaker 2: she came to my dorm. I'm like, you know, sister,

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Speaker 2: She's like, no, you got to come to my office

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Speaker 2: and read this book and you're not going nowhere until

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Speaker 2: you're done. So really, really quick, I learned, like, now, sister,

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Speaker 1: Good Yeah too, Holloway check it in. He'll happy. Is

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Speaker 1: number fifty two retired on Saturday at CENTA senters that

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Speaker 1: take on Saint John's give me an idea of you

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Speaker 1: have so many moments in your career from Kansas State.

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Speaker 1: I was taking of the Purdue game today. Is there

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Speaker 1: that that comes to mind when when I talk about

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Speaker 1: your finest moments.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I would have to say my sophomore year of

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Speaker 2: I think that would be year Lance Stevenson was that Cincinnati, Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 2: and you know Deyontay Vaughn. You know, it was a

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Speaker 2: great I remember that game.

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Speaker 1: Do you still keep in touch with some of your teammates.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I keep in touch with all of my teammates

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Speaker 2: for the most part. You know, we always, uh, you know,

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Speaker 2: reach out to each other. You know, we were a family.

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Speaker 2: You know, as we're older, we realized how important we

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Speaker 2: once we get older, you know, we realize how much

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Speaker 2: we miss each other, and we talk as much as

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Speaker 1: I was looking today at all the places you have

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Speaker 1: played since your Xavier days were done, and I'd love

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Speaker 1: to see a map with a little dot of everywhere

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Speaker 1: you have played. You loved the game of basketball. Give

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Speaker 1: listeners an idea all the different parts of the world

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Speaker 1: you've played basketball together. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Well, starting my first job was in Turkey in twenty twelve.

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Speaker 2: Then from Turkey I went to Belgium. From Belgium, I

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Speaker 2: went to Puerto Rico, then in Venezuela, then Mexico, then Italy,

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Speaker 2: Israel three times, Lithuania once, Puerto Rico six times, Turkey

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Speaker 2: three times, yeah, Lithuania, South Korea, Egypt, Nicaragua, Dominican Republic.

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Speaker 2: So I probably played in about maybe twelve thirteen countries. Man, Yeah,

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Speaker 2: I played a lot of basketball, if I have, since,

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Speaker 2: I played a lot of basketball in different places since

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Speaker 2: I last put that Zavy uniform on.

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Speaker 1: Man too, you got to write a book my travels

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Speaker 1: around the world hooping.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's been a lot. I know, it's been so

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Speaker 2: many countries over these last you know, thirteen years.

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Speaker 1: Now you are I think you're what thirty? Are you

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Speaker 1: thirty six years old? Now?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm thirty thirty six?

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Speaker 1: Now are you? Are you still hooping or are you

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Speaker 1: onto other things?

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Speaker 2: Now? I'm still well. I ruptured my achilles in July,

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Speaker 2: so I'm in New York where my doctors and all

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Speaker 2: that rich trying to rehab. So I'm gonna see how

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Speaker 2: I feel, and then another four or five months. I'm

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Speaker 2: played on playing about fifteen years pro so I'm at thirteen.

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Speaker 2: So I'm gonna see if I could recover and get

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Speaker 2: about two more years then and then uh then get

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Speaker 2: onto other things. But now I'm currently like working at

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Speaker 2: a school. I'm teaching at a high school in Long

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Speaker 1: Excellent, excellent. Last question, do you keep up with this

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Speaker 1: edition of the Musketeers? Do you still follow the Musketeers?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? Come on, how could I not. I'm gonna always

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Speaker 2: follow the Musketids. We gotta we got a row deal

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Speaker 1: Omaha.

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Speaker 2: But you know that's the part of me. I gotta

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Speaker 2: I gotta follow the Musketears.

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Speaker 1: Hey, I'm I'm really happy for you for what's gonna

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Speaker 1: come on Saturday. Congrats on a hell of a career,

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Speaker 1: and enjoy Saturday with friends and family.

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Speaker 2: All right, all right, thank you very much. Good to

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Speaker 2: hear from you, guys. Enjoy your night.

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Speaker 1: All right, you as well too. Holloway checking in too,

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