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Speaker 1: The following takes place between eight pm and nine pm.

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Speaker 2: All right, let's do this eight eight seven hundred WLWRNL

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Speaker 2: Carrier Sports Talk presented by Kelsey Chevrolet. I'm Lance Pacallister. Man,

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Speaker 2: I'm fired up to talk with our next guest. What

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Speaker 2: an amazing and cool story. My next guest is a

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Speaker 2: Sharonville native. He's twenty one. He's headed to Milan, Italy

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Speaker 2: to represent the US as a member of the US

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Speaker 2: Freestyle ski team. Think think skis like down a slope,

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Speaker 2: flying off a ramp, twisting and twirling and flipping multiple

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Speaker 2: times and then sticking the landing makes me nerver. Just

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Speaker 2: saying that, let's go straight to him and welcome him

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Speaker 2: in before he leaves for the Olympics. What a treat

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Speaker 2: to welcome in, Connor current Connor, Lance Pacallister, how are you?

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Speaker 3: I'm doing awesome? How are you?

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Speaker 4: I am fantastic? Man, congratulates.

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Speaker 3: What is it?

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Speaker 2: I mean the obvious question? What does it mean to

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Speaker 2: be going to Italy to represent your country?

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Speaker 3: Oh? Man, It's an honor. I've dreamed of my whole

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Speaker 3: life for this, And.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm just excited to go represent team USA at

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Speaker 5: the Games.

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Speaker 2: Boy and the and the fact and you you probably

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Speaker 2: reflect on this and in these times, the hours, the commitment,

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Speaker 2: the sacrifice, the number of times you probably had to

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Speaker 2: move to get it all to this point in your life.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, for sure.

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Speaker 5: I've moved two times now solely for competing in my sport,

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Speaker 5: freestyle aerials, and it's been an incredible journey, made some

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Speaker 5: really good friends along the way, and it's a lot

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Speaker 5: of hard work.

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Speaker 2: I think I'm going to make your dad the assistant

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Speaker 2: producer of my show tonight because we were trading text

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Speaker 2: back and forth this morning and he had a whole

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Speaker 2: bunch of information. Is it true that he was and

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Speaker 2: he was a former ski instructor? He was teaching you

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Speaker 2: at age.

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Speaker 4: Two to ski?

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Speaker 3: Yep, that's right right.

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Speaker 5: We have a small hill in our backyard and he

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Speaker 5: got me on skis when I was two years old and.

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Speaker 3: The rest is history.

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Speaker 4: Oh man, all right?

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Speaker 2: The other question, And the more I watched you do

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Speaker 2: these moves, the more nervous I got. Why aerials? What

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Speaker 2: led you to this aspect of all of this?

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Speaker 3: I think I liked you know how terrifying it was.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I've always been a skier, Like my dad said,

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Speaker 5: and I also did gymnastics for a little bit, and

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Speaker 5: I always like slipping around and skiing around, so I said,

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Speaker 5: why not do both? I love that's what kind of

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Speaker 5: led me here.

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Speaker 2: I love that we're talking with Connor current tonight. He's

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Speaker 2: headed to the Olympics. So I know you spent time

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Speaker 2: at at Perfect North.

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Speaker 3: Correct, that is correct?

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Speaker 2: How cool is How cool is that place? How helpful

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Speaker 2: was that along the way?

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Speaker 3: Very extremely helpful.

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Speaker 5: We have two more guys also from Perfect North Slopes

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Speaker 5: that are going to be at the Games, and it's

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Speaker 4: You mentioned tumbling in gymnastics.

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Speaker 2: I want to ask you about both, because I understand

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Speaker 2: you were doing the trampoline and tumbling at Queens City Gymnastics.

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Speaker 4: Tell me about that.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, so that's what kind of helped, you know, jump

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Speaker 5: start my ariels career. I learned a lot training there,

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Speaker 5: learned how to do backflips and double backflips and all

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Speaker 3: And I did that for about two and a.

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Speaker 5: Half three ish years before finally moving out here to

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Speaker 2: Man oh Man, I was my wife was a gymnast,

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Speaker 2: and I was asking here about the former elite US gymnast.

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Speaker 2: Amy Shearho's from Cincinnati and you got to train with

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Speaker 2: her for a point. What was that, like, how important

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Speaker 5: I would say that was probably the most important part

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Speaker 3: I would show up at her.

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Speaker 5: Gym CGA, Cincinnati Gymnastics Academy to the yeah, one to

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's what I heard. She she she wouldn't go

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, Amy, Yeah, she's tough. She's tough for sure.

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Speaker 5: But I'm thankful for the opportunity that she gave me,

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Speaker 4: I was.

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Speaker 2: I was watching some videos earlier today and I saw

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Speaker 2: So take us through for those wondering, like how you

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Speaker 2: do all how you practice all these with so much

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Speaker 5: Yeah, exactly, So we hit the same like size jumps

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Speaker 5: on artificial snow into a pool and we replicate what

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Speaker 3: If that makes sense.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, all right.

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Speaker 2: How how often do you how often do you get

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Speaker 4: Are you in town much?

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Speaker 5: I'm not really I would say four to five times

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Speaker 5: a year. I can get out for a weekend to

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Speaker 5: as much as I can, but it's usually never more

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Speaker 5: than a week and yeah, with not very much.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, as we get this close to it, how mentally

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Speaker 2: and physically, how do you feel right now?

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Speaker 5: Mentally I'm feeling pretty good and physically I'm in the

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Speaker 5: best physical shape I've been in my whole life, So

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Speaker 5: feeling pretty good about that as well.

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Speaker 3: So it should be a should be a fun competition.

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Speaker 4: When do you leave?

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Speaker 3: We leave the fourth so in two days.

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Speaker 2: And I assume the opening ceremonies are Friday. Are you

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Speaker 2: walking in the opening ceremonies?

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Speaker 3: Yes, sir, I will be there.

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Speaker 2: Oh man, I mean I like the hair standing up

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Speaker 2: on my arms just thinking about that. I mean you

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Speaker 2: you got to just be blown away with excitement for that.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm a little bit in shock still.

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Speaker 3: It all doesn't feel real, but you know it should

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Speaker 3: be fun. It should be a very good experience. And

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Speaker 3: I'm excited is.

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Speaker 2: Your I understand your family's gonna get to go. How

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Speaker 2: cool is that? How important is that for you?

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Speaker 3: It means the world to me.

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Speaker 5: They've been my number one supporter since day one, and

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Speaker 5: really excited to have them come watch me at the games.

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Speaker 2: Hey, I can't imagine how crazy your life is right

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Speaker 2: now and how busy you are. And I had a

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Speaker 2: listener to the show Mo Shaw who passed along an

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Speaker 2: email and dropped your name and said, hey, you should

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Speaker 2: dad to you now, it means a great deal that

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Speaker 2: you took time out to uh to talk tonight. I'm

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Speaker 2: really happy for you and your family. Best of luck,

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Speaker 2: enjoy this and I hope I can bug you when

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Speaker 2: you get back after all this is over and done

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Speaker 2: and we can talk about that and talk about a

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Speaker 2: metal how's that sound.

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Speaker 3: That sounds awesome? All right?

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Speaker 2: For having me, you got it, You're the man. Best

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Speaker 2: of luck, have a safe trip and enjoy this all.

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Speaker 3: Right, Yes, sir, I will thank you.

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Speaker 4: There you go. Connor Kurr and what just an amazing story.

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Speaker 2: He's twenty one and he's going to the Olympics as

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Speaker 2: part of the US freestyle ski team. In those areas,

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Speaker 2: I mean, I'm watching, I'm like how I mean, I like,

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Speaker 2: and I have no idea where you where you are

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Speaker 4: And he doesn't.

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Speaker 2: And again, thank you to mo Shaw who first reached

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Speaker 2: out with the email, and then.

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Speaker 4: He got me in touch with his dad John.

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Speaker 2: Shout out to John, and we probably text back and

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Speaker 2: forth like eight text this morning because I said to him,

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Speaker 2: we're trying to line up a time, and I said,

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Speaker 2: the last thing I want to do is like bug him.

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Speaker 2: I said, if he's got ten minutes, I'd love to

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Speaker 2: want to wait until after he's back, that would be great.

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Speaker 2: And he gave me a time and I said, by

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Speaker 2: like boom boom, boom boom, we're texting back and forth

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Speaker 2: and he says, and then there's this, and then there's this,

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Speaker 2: and then there's this like you're the assistant producer tonight

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Speaker 2: he's telling me about putting foam styrofoam on his skis

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Speaker 2: when he was two to help him out of the

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Speaker 2: learning process and just had a blasketting ready for it.

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Speaker 2: And man for all he Connor has gone through. And

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Speaker 2: the again, the hours and the commit it's the classic

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Speaker 2: Olympic story. The hour is the commitment, the sacrifice and

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Speaker 2: everything that goes into it for the opportunity to represent

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Speaker 2: your country in Milan.

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Speaker 4: Very excited for it.

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Speaker 3: Uh.

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Speaker 2: And if you if you are inclined to like MO

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Speaker 2: did I always say this and I mean it.

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Speaker 4: This is the evidence.

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Speaker 2: If you have a topic or a guest, an idea

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Speaker 2: for the show, absolutely email me. I'm always looking for

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Speaker 2: different stuff Lance at lancemacallister dot com.

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Speaker 4: Give me, give me a topic, give me a guest.

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Speaker 2: It's much easier if you give me contact information about

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Speaker 2: that that guest or I'm just looking for angles on

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Speaker 2: something different and uh and something we can kind of

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Speaker 2: kick around. So thank you again to to Mo. When

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Speaker 2: we come back. Oh, I saw a stat about a

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Speaker 2: local product, no local product who played high school basketball here,

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Speaker 2: who's starting college and now is doing something unbelievable in

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Speaker 2: the NBA. I will give you that and more as

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Speaker 2: we continue with RNL Carrier or Sports Talk, presented by

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Speaker 2: Kelsey Chevrolet seven hundred WLW