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Speaker 1: It's Night Side with Dan Ray w BZO.

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Speaker 2: Well, thank you very much, Al Griffin.

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Speaker 3: As we move it into ten o'clock hour, there's some

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Speaker 3: other sports going on tonight, but we're going to talk

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Speaker 3: about a different sport, a sport that has come on

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Speaker 3: the American scene with a great deal of vigor in

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Speaker 3: the last few years, and it's pickleball, and specifically we're

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Speaker 3: going to talk about a professional pickleball league, a senior

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Speaker 3: professional pickleball league, with a professional pickleball team in Boston

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Speaker 3: called the Boston Dragons. And we're delighted to be owned by,

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Speaker 3: to be joined by not only one of the players

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Speaker 3: on the Boston Dragons, but the owner of the Boston

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Speaker 3: Dragons senior pickleball team, Boston based team, Michael to Michael,

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Speaker 3: welcome back Tonight's Eide. We did a brief interview with

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Speaker 3: you within the last week or two, but I wanted

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Speaker 3: to give people an opportunity tonight to talk with you

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Speaker 3: about the sport and about what you hope you will

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Speaker 3: be able to bring to this sport through through its

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Speaker 3: identification with Boston.

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Speaker 2: Good evening, sir, how are you tonight?

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Speaker 4: How are you great?

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Speaker 2: You know, as I talked with you this afternoon.

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Speaker 3: I came to realize you have had a very interesting

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Speaker 3: career path yea, and I want you to explain it

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Speaker 3: a little bit. You have been a certified financial planner.

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Speaker 3: That's really your professional career. But in addition to that,

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Speaker 3: you now have developed a following and a resume as

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Speaker 3: an actor in several movies and actually are becoming someone

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Speaker 3: who can make a living being an actor. But you're

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Speaker 3: also a pickleball player, and you decided that it would

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Speaker 3: be great to own a Boston pickleball team, which you

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Speaker 3: now own. You're a player on the team as well.

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Speaker 3: You are a renaissance man. Michael toe Well, I am.

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Speaker 4: I am fifty so over all over in fifty. So

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Speaker 4: it's been a lot career and.

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Speaker 2: I tell you have accomplished quite a bit.

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Speaker 3: Let's talk about you start off as a financial planner,

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Speaker 3: which you know, you certified financial planner. Are you still

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Speaker 3: doing that or have you put that on the back burner?

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Speaker 3: Tell us, tell us a little bit about yourself, and

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Speaker 3: then I want to get to the to the story

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Speaker 3: at hand, which is the birth of a new league

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Speaker 3: and the birth of a team.

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Speaker 2: And who knows where this is going to go.

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Speaker 4: Sure, yes, so I was. I was a stock broker

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Speaker 4: with UBSP level for many years and opened up my

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Speaker 4: own practice and Brookline. I still have it now a

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Speaker 5: But you know, it's I've been doing that for since

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Speaker 5: I was.

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Speaker 4: Twenty, you know, twenty one, twenty two. I started right

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Speaker 4: out of college, and I've been in this career for

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Speaker 4: thirty years. Probably about twenty years ago when the when

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Speaker 4: movies started coming into Boston, you know, with the Maschustt

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Speaker 4: tax credit. Sure, you know, big moves started to come

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Speaker 4: in and I asked to do to be an extra

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Speaker 4: in the movie that are part of Martin Scorsese, Matt Damon,

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Speaker 4: it was so exciting and I used to act as

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Speaker 4: a kid, and so I'm like, so all these movies

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Speaker 4: started coming in, and it started with extra work. But

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Speaker 4: then you know, I slowly started getting in and moving in,

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Speaker 4: getting to you know, a few like a few lines

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Speaker 4: But I so I'm like, all right, I wanted to

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Speaker 4: fill this other side of me that I've wanted to

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Speaker 4: So I started to go into New York and started

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Speaker 4: to make these drives and to you know, Boston out

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Speaker 4: with my assistant kind of patching them in, but I

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Speaker 4: it changed the audition process. Instead of going into an office,

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Speaker 4: that opened it up to people all over the country.

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Speaker 4: And really it's focused in on who was the best

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Speaker 4: from the LA office. And that what kind of brought

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Speaker 4: me to some of my large roles as a serious

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Speaker 4: regular a show called City on Fire on Apple TV,

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Speaker 4: and I was on Landman and Linus, the Taylor Sheridan shows.

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Speaker 3: You know, looking at your list of credits, and it's

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Speaker 3: a big list. You started in two thousand and seven,

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Speaker 3: You've worked literally every year with a variety of shows,

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Speaker 3: and I'm impressed. I had not looked at this list

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Speaker 3: before today, and this you've you're doing well. I mean

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Speaker 3: like forty seven different productions, which that's pretty good.

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Speaker 4: You know, yeah, thank you, thank you.

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Speaker 3: I guess I know how difficult it is. I had

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Speaker 3: one role in a movie called Reversal of Fortune, and

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Speaker 3: no one else has ever come back to me looking

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Speaker 3: for me to make a and I haven't gone and auditioned.

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Speaker 3: I do with this thing here on radio, and I

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Speaker 3: similar spirit with you in terms of I like adventure

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Speaker 3: and all of that, and now your big adventure is pickleball.

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Speaker 3: How long have you been playing pickleball? And give me

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Speaker 3: a quick biography on pickleball. How long has it been around?

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Speaker 3: I think you said to me it's been around longer

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and actually it started the nineteen sixties. I think

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Speaker 4: sixty year anniversary of the founder of pickleball. However, though,

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Speaker 4: so pickleball started really picking up, and it is now

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Speaker 4: the fastest growing sport in the country. It's one of

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Speaker 4: from a hotel in for Florida at the Pickleball World

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Speaker 4: Cup where there's seventy two countries open and the Senior Division,

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Speaker 4: which is fifty plus that are competing. It's I mean,

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Speaker 4: there are thousands of literally thousands of people here and

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Speaker 4: it was it's crazy. I just kind of came in.

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Speaker 4: We played, We played tomorrow and Sunday. But the sport

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Speaker 2: When you say we.

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Speaker 3: Play, are you down there playing with a partner or

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Speaker 3: are you down there in your capacity as a member

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Speaker 3: of the Boston Dragons.

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Speaker 2: Is the Dragons in this competition?

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Speaker 4: I know? So this is all different countries coming into play.

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Speaker 4: I'm actually representing. I'm on Team China. I'm Chinese American

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Speaker 4: so I am. I am playing with you know, with

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Speaker 4: with Team China, with a lot of my friends all

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Speaker 4: over We're all in a lot of these other teams,

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Speaker 4: and so it's it's a lot of fun.

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Speaker 3: Okay, well we haven't even touched on the Boston Dragons,

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Speaker 3: so let me take a break. When we got back,

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Speaker 3: I want to talk about the Dragons. I want to

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Speaker 3: talk about where they where they have come. You know

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Speaker 3: when I say where are you at this point in

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Speaker 3: that the team I know exists, there's a roster, there's

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Speaker 3: a website. I've looked at it. That's very impressive. But

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Speaker 3: then the question, of course is going to be where

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Speaker 3: Seeingior Pickleball, the Boston Dragons, You have sponsors. I mean,

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Speaker 3: this is the real deal. This is not some fly

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Speaker 3: I know that I myself a couple of years ago

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Speaker 3: not just the World Series, just just not the NFL

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Speaker 3: I think that's what you're. Uh, You're you're, you're, you're

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Speaker 3: it from you. I'm looking where I think you should go,

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Speaker 3: but you've got to tell me what's possible.

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Speaker 2: My guest is Michael Toe. He's the owner of the

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Speaker 2: Boston Dragons.

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Speaker 3: Obviously an interesting guy, has quite a resume as an actor,

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Speaker 3: also happens to be a certified financial planner, and in

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Speaker 3: the meantime has come up and developed a skill at pickleball.

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Speaker 3: And uh is the owner of the Boston Dragons. So look,

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Speaker 3: we'll be back if you I'd like to ask a question.

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Speaker 3: If you're a pickleball player and you're as enthused about

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Speaker 3: it as Michael Toe is, feel free six one, seven, two, five, four,

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Speaker 3: I intend to talk about this until eleven, and at

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Speaker 3: eleven we will go to the twentieth hour, and in

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Speaker 3: the twentieth hour we will have a Halloween themed twentieth Hour.

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Speaker 3: I don't know who we've ever had a well, I

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Speaker 3: guess we probably in nineteen years have had Halloween on

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Speaker 3: a Friday night, We're gonna take advantage of that.

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Speaker 2: Tonight. Back on night Side, Light the lines up right

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Speaker 2: after this.

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Speaker 1: You're on Night Side with Dan Ray on w b Z,

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Speaker 1: Boston's news radio.

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Speaker 3: My guest is Michael Toe. He's the owner of the

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Speaker 3: Boston Dragons. It's a professional pickleball team, a senior pickleball league.

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Speaker 3: How long has the league been around, Michael?

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Speaker 4: This is our inaugural year. OK, it's it started out.

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Speaker 4: We had our first we Are Combine in Richmond, Virginia.

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Speaker 4: We had hundreds of players try out to turn to

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Speaker 4: be on a team and it was a great event

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Speaker 4: and we end up having and we had our first

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Speaker 4: event in Indianapolis in September. We have twelve teams in

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Speaker 4: the league and the United States Legends Pickaball League the

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Speaker 4: USLPL fourteen players on a team, so we have and

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Speaker 4: it's been, it's been. It's a ride. We just came

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Speaker 4: back from Philadelphia for our second event a few weeks ago,

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Speaker 4: and then we go to Baltimore in the first week

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Speaker 4: of December. So we're kind of right now in the

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Speaker 3: My guest is the owner of the Boston Dragons, the

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Speaker 3: to phone calls. Our first call is from one of

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Speaker 3: your rival owners, Ron, who owns I guess the New

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Speaker 2: Ron. Welcome to night Side. How are you?

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Speaker 6: Thanks for having me?

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Speaker 3: It would be great if we get the New York

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Speaker 2: You go right ahead. You're on with with Michael Toe.

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Speaker 6: Oh, it's a pleasure to be here. And uh and

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Speaker 3: So, so tell me a little bit about about your team.

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Speaker 3: How'd you get involved in this? Ron?

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Speaker 3: I guess you guys had a calm and you had

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Speaker 3: Now, by the way, both all the teams have a

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Speaker 4: any age over fifty. So it spreads out the age

436
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Speaker 4: range too, rather than just being a league of you know,

437
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Speaker 4: if it's fifty over you probably you probably have a

438
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Speaker 4: primarily young fifty kind of league.

439
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Speaker 3: Like to see the golfer, you know, everybody who's winning,

440
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Speaker 3: it's fifty one and fifty two because they can still hit.

441
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Speaker 2: The ball three hundred yards.

442
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Speaker 4: So that's right.

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Speaker 3: So do you have is it, you know, two men

444
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Speaker 3: competing in men's events two other guys?

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Speaker 2: When when this when you guys are playing?

446
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Speaker 3: Or can you have a mixed doubles team or is

447
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Speaker 3: there a mixed double element of it? Obviously in tennis,

448
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Speaker 3: mixed doubles is is a traditional element as well as

449
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Speaker 3: you know, women's doubles and men's doubles.

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Speaker 2: How does this work?

451
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Speaker 4: Well, that's the exciting part of it. And i'ron I

452
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Speaker 4: think can attest to this as well. They're in tennis,

453
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Speaker 4: it's primarily singles with pick a ball. It's primarily doubles.

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Speaker 4: And the thing about it's not just right, it's not

455
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Speaker 4: just we don't want type of doubles. It's gender doubles.

456
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Speaker 4: So we have men's uh you know, two men against

457
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Speaker 4: two women, I mean two men against two men, and

458
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Speaker 4: then uh, the women have their matches and then we

459
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Speaker 4: have mixed matches, so a man and a woman versus

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Speaker 4: a man and woman. So uh, it's a pretty it's

461
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Speaker 4: it's they're in they're different games. A men's game is

462
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Speaker 4: different than a women's game, and a mixed game is

463
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Speaker 4: different than than gender games. So it's it's really kind

464
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Speaker 4: of all and this is all within the torment we had.

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Speaker 4: We had the Boston Dragons play against the the the

466
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Speaker 4: New York Ballers, and that was that was part of

467
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Speaker 4: a rivalry that that kind of was, you know, that's

468
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Speaker 4: kind of fallowing a tradition of Boston New York teams.

469
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Speaker 4: And and unfortunately the Boston team came, we came a

470
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Speaker 4: little bit short, a little bit short, uh, and I

471
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Speaker 4: had to uh do a bit of a payoff a

472
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Speaker 4: bet with with Ron here. But but but that's only right.

473
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Speaker 3: Unlike found out football, Betty is a looted amongst the

474
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Speaker 3: owners and the players of pickleball.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, we had a we had a private, private, well

476
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Speaker 4: not too private. It was on social media that that

477
00:25:15,680 --> 00:25:20,000
Speaker 4: the losing team at where the gear and and pose

478
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Speaker 4: with gear. So so unfortunately I had to put on

479
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Speaker 4: a New York Okay.

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Speaker 3: No, I'm joking with you, because obviously you're getting this

481
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Speaker 3: thing off the ground.

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Speaker 2: Ron, how was it that you came to own the

483
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Speaker 2: New York team?

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Speaker 3: Michael has told us a little bit about since you're

485
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Speaker 3: kind of have to call in what is your background

486
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Speaker 3: that you were able to purchase a franchise.

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Speaker 6: One of my friends is one of the other owners

488
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Speaker 6: of the Del Rays, and she told me about the league.

489
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Speaker 6: And I haven't played competitive team sports since college tennis.

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Speaker 6: And who would have thought at the age of fifty one,

491
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Speaker 6: I would not only be able to get a wonderful team,

492
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Speaker 6: but to also compete. And uh, it's it's been, it's

493
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Speaker 6: been a dream.

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Speaker 2: What college do you play tennis?

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Speaker 6: Binghamton University in New York.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I know what Binghamton is. Yankees used to have

497
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Speaker 3: a farm team out there many years ago. All right, gentlemen,

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Speaker 3: I thank you very much for well, not gentlemen, I'm good. Ron.

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Speaker 3: We're gonna thank you for calling in. Uh and Michael

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Speaker 3: say right there, we got other phone calls.

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Speaker 6: All right, thanks for having us.

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Speaker 2: You're very welcome. Tom, Thanks Ron, thank.

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Speaker 6: You, Michael, and congrats on all the accolades.

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Speaker 2: Well we'll have a good night.

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Speaker 3: Thank you, Thank you, Ron, appreciate it. Let me go

506
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Speaker 3: to David in Ohio. David in Ohio, David, welcome. Are

507
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Speaker 3: you involved in the league as well?

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Speaker 5: Well? Interestingly enough, you and I have actually met and

509
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Speaker 5: part of the reason you're talking to Michael tonight is

510
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Speaker 5: because you and I are connected to one another. And

511
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Speaker 5: I'm connected to Mike through the Legends Pickleball League because

512
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Speaker 5: my wife Pam plays in the league on another team

513
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Speaker 5: against Michael.

514
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Speaker 2: So how have you and I met? David? Did you

515
00:27:02,880 --> 00:27:04,040
Speaker 2: do prison time with me?

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Speaker 4: You know what?

517
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Speaker 5: No comment?

518
00:27:09,520 --> 00:27:10,240
Speaker 2: No, no comment?

519
00:27:10,720 --> 00:27:12,719
Speaker 5: And I met you and I met in the doctor

520
00:27:12,760 --> 00:27:14,880
Speaker 5: Al Frankie's office a number of years ago.

521
00:27:15,240 --> 00:27:16,440
Speaker 2: I have a mutual friend.

522
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Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, And I bought I bought the whole concept

523
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Speaker 5: of prolo therapy to him in the Boston area and

524
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Speaker 5: I've been there a couple of times and we've met

525
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Speaker 5: and Al's a great friend. And as you may know,

526
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Speaker 5: Al is currently the title sponsor of the Boston Dragons.

527
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Speaker 3: Okay, I I want to turn over my I want

528
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Speaker 3: to turn over my wife to you.

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Speaker 5: So you have the opportunity to speak to a former

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Speaker 5: collegiate player. When she graduated college from Flagler University in

531
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Speaker 5: Saint Augustine, Pam's ranked first United States in both singles

532
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Speaker 5: and doubles. It was a few years ago, but she's

533
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Speaker 5: one of those plus sixty players for the d m

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Speaker 5: V Picklers out of the District, Maryland and VIRGINI. This

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Speaker 5: is Pam Lippy. This is my friend indirectly through doctor Frankie,

536
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Speaker 5: whom she's known for ever since we've been married. This

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Speaker 5: is Dan Ray night side baby.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, Hi Jan and Hi Michael, Hi Pam Bam.

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Speaker 2: Were you a tennis player in college? Did your husband say?

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Speaker 4: Well?

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Speaker 7: Not only was I a tennis player in college, I

542
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Speaker 7: still am a tennis player.

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Speaker 8: Whoa Okay, the most famous tennis women tennis players that

544
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Speaker 8: I've ever known are Nancy Ritchie, Cliff Ritchie's sister.

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Speaker 2: She's in the Hall of Fame.

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Speaker 3: Uh. And I once hit with Barbara Potter, who was

547
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Speaker 3: a great player in the eighties. I think she was

548
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Speaker 3: ranked number ten in the world and she just blew

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Speaker 3: me away. I mean this amazing, The respect that I

550
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Speaker 3: have for phebale athletes having played, played, tried to play.

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Speaker 2: It's I know. If you remember Barbara Potter, she was out.

552
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Speaker 3: Of Connecticut, uh, and she was an awesome, big left

553
00:29:06,320 --> 00:29:09,680
Speaker 3: handed tennis player, and she could she could hit the

554
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Speaker 3: ball so it goes right, so close left, an unbelievable experience.

555
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Speaker 2: So I stand in awe of women tennis players.

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Speaker 4: I want you to know that and actually again a

557
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Speaker 4: lot of the a lot of players, as Pam, you

558
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Speaker 4: admit that you're still playing tennis, but a lot of

559
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Speaker 4: people are switching from tennis over to to pick a ball,

560
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Speaker 4: and it's Pam is one of those ones who can

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Speaker 4: do both. To me, it's hard. I've kind of put

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Speaker 4: up the put uh hung up the rackets, uh you know,

563
00:29:36,120 --> 00:29:39,400
Speaker 4: uh years ago, and it's it's all pickaball now. But

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Speaker 4: but we have a lot of people who are now

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Speaker 4: coming in who are pro tennis. As my sister's a

566
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Speaker 4: was a pro test player on the tour and she

567
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Speaker 4: she's a pro pickaball player now as well, not a senior.

568
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Speaker 4: But there are people Von Lindel, Andre Agassi, you remember

569
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Speaker 4: those names, Max, lend All, They're all they've all come

570
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Speaker 4: over into into pro P.

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Speaker 2: I did realize Lendel and Legacy. Half wow.

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Speaker 3: I'll tell you, Michael told you you may be onto

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Speaker 3: something here. Let me tell you, well, we got to

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Speaker 3: take a break, David, thanks so much for calling in, Pam.

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Speaker 3: Pleasure to meet you. And probably at some point I'll

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Speaker 3: bump into you guys up here in Boston sometimes through

577
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Speaker 3: our mutual friends and uh great to uh great, great,

578
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Speaker 3: to meet both of you. We have a lot of

579
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Speaker 3: listeners in Ohio, believe it or not, so feel free

580
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Speaker 3: to tune into night'st any night from all HIV.

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Speaker 7: Thank you, great show, and Michael, I'll see you in

582
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Speaker 7: our showdown in Baltimore.

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Speaker 4: That's right, Pam, we'll get ready.

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Speaker 2: Okay, players are very polite here. I like that. Thanks guys,

585
00:30:47,360 --> 00:30:49,920
Speaker 2: we talk, we'll talk. So thanks, Thanks David, Thanks Pat.

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Speaker 2: I appreciate it very much. Have a great night.

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Speaker 4: Thank you.

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Speaker 2: All right, this is wonderful. We got a bunch of calls.

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Speaker 2: Let's keep rolling. Michael.

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Speaker 3: We got to take a final break here, one final

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Speaker 3: commercial break, but I got coming up up Jennifer in Boston.

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Speaker 3: I got Sienna in Boston and uh te ha or

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Speaker 3: t h t t yaw uh from Denham. We'll be

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Speaker 3: back on Nightside right after this. We'll finish it up

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00:31:12,280 --> 00:31:13,120
Speaker 3: right after the break.

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Speaker 1: It's night Side with Dan Ray, Boston's News Radio.

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Speaker 3: All right, here we go. We have we four lines.

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Speaker 3: I'm gonna try to get everybody in. Won't be easy,

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Speaker 3: but let's start with Jennifer and Boston. Hey Jennifer, welcome,

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Speaker 3: how are you tonight? You're on with Michael toe.

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Speaker 7: Hi Dan Hi, Michael, this is Jennifer Jenna Metti. I'm

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Speaker 7: a SAG actor and any film producer, and my question

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Speaker 7: for you, Michael is have you considered doing a film

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Speaker 7: on pickleball, especially a comedy and what are your upcoming

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Speaker 7: projects acting projects that you're working on.

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Speaker 4: Thanks Jennifer. So it's actually we're actually I would love

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Speaker 4: to be in a pickaball movie. The only thing is

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Speaker 4: it's and there have been there, there's a there's a

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Speaker 4: new Benseller one, but I because it's a new sport,

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Speaker 4: I think they it's one of those ones where they're

611
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Speaker 4: they're taking people who are not necessary players in it

612
00:32:07,840 --> 00:32:11,440
Speaker 4: and so so so my skill there doesn't really translate

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Speaker 4: over into into being a caster. However, we are actually

614
00:32:15,440 --> 00:32:19,800
Speaker 4: doing a documentary and I'm doing a documentary with my

615
00:32:20,040 --> 00:32:22,640
Speaker 4: uh my producing partner while we're doing the team. So

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Speaker 4: we're doing a documentary called Making the Boston Dragons, and

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Speaker 4: so we're documenting uh it's it's it's combining my my

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Speaker 4: film side and and you know, having a cast and

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Speaker 4: crew and director and sound people and videographers and all

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Speaker 4: the stuff that's happening with making a team, which is

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Speaker 4: which is way more complicated and stressful, but but awesome

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Speaker 4: and great and fun at the same time.

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Speaker 3: We have Tea on the line. Uh, she's the next caller,

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Speaker 3: so we're going to be able to talk with her

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Speaker 3: about that. I know she's involved in this project with you.

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Speaker 4: Yes, Jennifer, Yes, but thank you, Jennifer.

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Speaker 2: Thanks for calling in. Jennifer, appreciate your time, Thank you,

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Speaker 2: Thank you. Good.

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Speaker 3: Now let me go to Taya, who actually I believe

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Speaker 3: is involved in the documentary with you.

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Speaker 2: Heya, you're on with Michael Toe.

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Speaker 9: I am here, and I am very excited to talk

633
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Speaker 9: a little bit about this short form documentary series. Mike

634
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Speaker 9: is a really good friend of mine. I've been producing

635
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Speaker 9: videos with him for many years now. The footage that

636
00:33:31,880 --> 00:33:36,160
Speaker 9: we're getting is quite exhilarating. You get to see some

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Speaker 9: very very interesting perspectives of age and playing pickleball and

638
00:33:44,880 --> 00:33:52,240
Speaker 9: athleticism and all of the very complicated routines and all

639
00:33:52,240 --> 00:33:55,440
Speaker 9: the expectations there are from building a team like this.

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Speaker 9: Mike is doing an amazing job, and I'm just really

641
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Speaker 9: proud to work with him.

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Speaker 3: How will you How will you market? I'll tell you,

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Speaker 3: how will you market this? This film is this sort

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Speaker 3: of something going to go to different film festivals or

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Speaker 3: do you hope that you can get it on I

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Speaker 3: don't know, ESPN or one of the one of the

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Speaker 3: sports channels.

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Speaker 9: I've made hundreds of documentaries, and there's usually a marketing

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Speaker 9: strategy for any any of this kind of work. The

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Speaker 9: difference in this case is that we're not only developing

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Speaker 9: it as we you know, as Mike is building the team,

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Speaker 9: but we're we're creating a new sort of genre of

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Speaker 9: short form documentary uh and uh series. So we're not

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Speaker 9: quite sure yet where it will fit. But what we

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Speaker 9: do know is that the drama of the the story

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Speaker 9: is very compelling, so I think we'll be able to

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Speaker 9: find that market once we get closer to finishing uh

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Speaker 9: the most of the filming.

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Speaker 4: Well that's great, actually I could so the great thing

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Speaker 4: about it. Tea is is my partner, but he's he's

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Speaker 4: uh my producer, part he is an Emmy award winning

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Speaker 4: editor and so he we have a great team involved,

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Speaker 4: uh you know, making this. But what what I found

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Speaker 4: really interesting so far is not just that not just

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Speaker 4: the pickleball sports piece, but it's actually all the human

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Speaker 4: stories behind it. So some people, I mean the people

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Speaker 4: you know all my Yeah, I mean that the people

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Speaker 4: on my team, that there are people who are doctors,

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Speaker 4: who are entrepreneurs. One of one of my team, my

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Speaker 4: my team captain was the one of the founders of

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Speaker 4: Constant Contact. I have my managers Tabda who used to

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Speaker 4: be a dragon back in back in Ducks for Duxbury Days.

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Speaker 4: You know. There there's a there are pro tennis players

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Speaker 4: as a captain on my team. You know, business owners,

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Speaker 4: you know. Uh, it's people all watched life with every

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Speaker 4: very different stories who have now come together because of this,

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Speaker 4: because of this sport that we all love and are

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Speaker 4: playing at. It's such a high level and it's really

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00:36:08,719 --> 00:36:11,120
Speaker 4: you know, it's really been our passion. It's it's it's

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Speaker 4: changed and and helped helped our lives in so many

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Speaker 4: different ways. And I think that's the part that Tay

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Speaker 4: and I are seeing, uh in in the documents the

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Speaker 4: footage that we've seen so far, as the great human

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Speaker 4: interest stories behind the sport of this awesome sport of pick. Oh.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, the theat the.

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Speaker 3: Great stories and sports are not not not the box

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Speaker 3: scores or even the game reports, but they're the backstories

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Speaker 3: the player who perseveres and uh, and and somehow prevails. Hey,

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Speaker 3: I got a couple of other calls. I'd just like

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Speaker 3: to give them a quick minute. Do me a favor

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Speaker 3: when you when you get this and you're going to,

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Speaker 3: you know, show the documentary somewhere, let me know and

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Speaker 3: I'll have you on and we'll get you some publicity

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Speaker 3: on it.

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Speaker 9: Okay, you got it.

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Speaker 2: Sounds great, Tell you, thank you very much, appreciate it.

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Speaker 2: Let me keep going here.

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Speaker 3: I want to try to accommodate Sienna and Jody do

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Speaker 3: your next on nightsig go.

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Speaker 6: Right ahead, Hi, Hi, Hi, I just have a.

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Speaker 10: Question for Michael. Right ahead, Yeah, I And I know

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Speaker 10: he's he's not only is he a senior pro Pagaball

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Speaker 10: player and a team owner, he's also an actor and

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Speaker 10: a financial player and even a fall They're like, I

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Speaker 10: just wonder how you can balance all these different things

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Speaker 10: like in your day.

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Speaker 2: That's great, it's a great question. Go ahead, Michael.

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Speaker 4: Well this is coming from uh from someone himself with

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Speaker 4: my daughter, and it's you know, when you have when

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Speaker 4: you have so many things going on, it is it

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Speaker 4: is it is tough because you know, I do have

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Speaker 4: a family and I do have you know, I do

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Speaker 4: have daughters, and and sometimes sometimes it's tough when you

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Speaker 4: have all these kind of passions. But what I've always

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Speaker 4: tried to do is kind of actually incorporated my family

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Speaker 4: with it into this. So so now in terms of

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Speaker 4: pickle ball, my wife plays, she's down with me here

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Speaker 4: in fort Lydale, and in my movie areas, I've always

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Speaker 4: brought my daughters in to be involved, whether or not

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Speaker 4: it's being helping me with producing something or joining me

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Speaker 4: in a play that we have in or you know.

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Speaker 4: So to me, it's it's the combination of of the

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Speaker 4: passions that I have and kind of bringing you know,

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Speaker 4: bring my family and integrating them with me.

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Speaker 2: How many daughters do you have, Michael, I have.

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Speaker 4: I have three. And unfortunately this is a whole another thing.

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Speaker 4: But my oldest passed away a few years ago. She

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Speaker 4: was at nineteen. But pickleball, thank you. But but pickleball

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Speaker 4: has been what really has saved our family in many ways.

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Speaker 4: It's been a place that we've been able to go

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Speaker 4: to heal and to work with grief, and and it's

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Speaker 4: really been a saver. And this is actually a lot

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Speaker 4: of stories like that when you when you hear pickleball,

734
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Speaker 4: because you know, if you're you know, when we were

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Speaker 4: dealing with the loss, you know, three years ago. It

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Speaker 4: was one of those things when we played, when I

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Speaker 4: jumped on the court and pick a ball while I'm

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Speaker 4: still grieving, I could. I had to focus on the ball.

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Speaker 4: If I went anywhere else, I would get I would

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Speaker 4: get hit.

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Speaker 2: You know, understand Sianna.

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Speaker 3: We're flat out a time, so I'll give you your

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Speaker 3: dad back and thanks, thanks so much for calling.

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Speaker 9: Yeah, of course, Michael, gotta.

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Speaker 2: Let you go.

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Speaker 3: If folks want to get more information on the Boston Dragons,

747
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Speaker 3: what's the website? How can they find you?

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Speaker 4: The best way to find us is on Instagram or Facebook.

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Speaker 4: Boston can look up to Boston Dragons. You can find myself,

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Speaker 4: Michael Toe. You can kind of see all our you know,

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00:39:32,960 --> 00:39:35,719
Speaker 4: kind of events and you know, you know, our our

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00:39:35,840 --> 00:39:38,320
Speaker 4: training facilities at leven Oh or you see our players

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00:39:38,400 --> 00:39:41,000
Speaker 4: like Lauren Charles and Randy Park. You'll see all the

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Speaker 4: footage and videos there. And Dan, thank you so much

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Speaker 4: for having me.

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Speaker 3: Very welcome, Judy, welcome, Michael, best of luck, keep in touch. Okay,

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Speaker 3: thank you so much. We're gonna wrap the week and

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Speaker 3: wrap the evening here in the twentieth Hour. Come up,

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Speaker 3: it's going to be Halloween themed. I'll explain it on

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Speaker 3: the other side of the eleven o'clock News