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Speaker 1: It's a thirty here, fifty five krcity talk station. Something

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Speaker 1: German must be going on strekk or putting on the

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Speaker 1: German bumper music. Oh, that's right, putting Cincinnati on the

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Speaker 1: global Matt, Welcome to the fifty five KRSE Morning Show.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back, I should say, Mike Kisel from one of

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Speaker 1: those German guys. Just search those German guys on Facebook.

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Speaker 1: You'll run into them and all the German stuff that

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Speaker 1: they're all about. And Ben Hoffman, executive director of the

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Speaker 1: Cincinnati Regional Sports Commission, joining the morning show today to

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Speaker 1: talk about the twenty twenty five US National Steinholding Championship.

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Speaker 1: Welcome gentlemen, it's great to have you on the show today.

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Speaker 1: Sarah Good Good, Margan here, Thomas begets enen Ikaba, I.

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Speaker 2: Can't see it, definitely, Man, thanks for having us on.

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Speaker 2: I appreciate it.

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Speaker 3: It's always good to get with you and talk about

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Speaker 3: a little bit in German heritage.

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Speaker 2: And like you said, this is more special than the Olympics.

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Speaker 2: It is.

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Speaker 1: Who needs the NC two A of the Olympics. It

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Speaker 1: costs a whole lot of money. You left with a

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Speaker 1: bunch of complexes. You paid for that. No one uses anymore.

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Speaker 1: And this does not require much beyond I guess just

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Speaker 1: some space and some beer steins and of course the

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Speaker 1: This actually is a difficult, difficult, challenging thing specifically. Okay,

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Speaker 1: let's talk about first the US Steinholding Association. Is that's

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Speaker 1: actually a thing and it exists. Is this a global organization?

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Speaker 2: It's a national here to the United States.

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Speaker 1: Okay, hence the name.

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Speaker 2: Yep, So those German guys started with them.

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Speaker 3: In twenty twenty one, we did the original State of

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Speaker 3: Ohio Championship.

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Speaker 2: We've run it ever since then. Now you know, we've

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Speaker 2: kind of moved around venue to venue.

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Speaker 3: The last two years we've been down at the beautiful

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Speaker 3: multi million dollar more Line Longerhouse facility with Greg Hartman,

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Speaker 3: and he really helps us put.

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Speaker 2: On a show. It's fantastic. Well, and then we got

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Speaker 1: Are you team double them again this year for the event?

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Speaker 2: Correct? Correct?

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Speaker 3: We did the state championship twenty twenty four, twenty twenty five,

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Speaker 3: and then we put our hat in the ring because

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Speaker 3: there are other states that wanted the national championship, but well,

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Speaker 3: and we were fortunate enough to land that here to

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Speaker 3: bring that to the Cincinnati and Ben Huffman was a big.

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Speaker 2: Part of that with the Cincinnati Regional Sports Commission.

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Speaker 1: Appreciate Ben your work on that. And of course, did

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Speaker 1: our German heritage have anything to do with or a

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Speaker 1: lot to do with our getting this championship here this

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that to a degree, it does. I mean, you know,

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Speaker 3: they look at everything, you know, Willie and I and

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Speaker 3: the German guys, and then obviously with Greg, you know,

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Speaker 3: we've really done a good job putting on the state championship.

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Speaker 3: So coupled that with the German heritage here in Cincinnati,

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Speaker 3: I mean, you know, it's kind of a win win,

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Speaker 3: and how can you go into place else?

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Speaker 2: All? Right?

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Speaker 1: Now, how does this competition work? It's taking place again

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Speaker 1: at the Morelinehouse on Saturday the twenty second. Are the

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Speaker 1: Is this a team sport? Is it an individual sport?

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Speaker 1: Are the different components of that? Are people still able

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Speaker 1: to participate? Let's get all the details of how this

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Speaker 1: actually works. I guess what does the event? Let's start

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Speaker 2: Okay, so.

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Speaker 3: We've had state championships all across the United States.

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Speaker 2: There's fifteen states that compete in this and they've.

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Speaker 3: Had people that you know qualified to compete at the

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Speaker 3: state level and then the winners of the state competitions

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Speaker 3: then proceed to come here for the national championship. So

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Speaker 3: this is an individual sport. We have a women's division

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Speaker 3: the inaugural national championship to us seine Holding.

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Speaker 2: This is the first one they've done, so it's kind

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Speaker 2: of a big deal that we got at it as well.

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Speaker 1: Oh that's awesome.

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Speaker 2: Whoever wins that. Yeah, men and women, they get.

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Speaker 3: Bragging rights as national championship trophies and each the men and.

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Speaker 2: The women first place is four thousand dollars.

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Speaker 1: Oh cool, So boiling this down. If we show up

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Speaker 1: are you guys gonna have T shirts for this event

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Speaker 1: the first Super Bowl of Steinholding.

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Speaker 2: We do have T shirts available.

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Speaker 3: We also have a commemorative glass leader steins, as well

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Speaker 2: And coffee cups. So if you're not a beer drinker

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Speaker 2: or prefer coffee, we also have the US Going Holding

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Speaker 2: National Championship Coffee months as well.

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Speaker 1: All Right, so as I understand the wheat, the chaff

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Speaker 1: has already been separated ro out. This isn't something someone

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Speaker 1: second you've got all the players there. Has this event

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Speaker 1: made it over to the sportsbook betting sites.

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Speaker 4: Yet, fellas No, not quite.

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Speaker 1: I expect to see it there though. Hold on, I'll

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Speaker 1: tell you because it is my version of the final

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Speaker 1: day of the week. Since I'm taking some vacation time,

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Speaker 1: I like to talk about this fun event. I would

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Speaker 1: to find out. Actually what the competition involves is where

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Speaker 1: a world record for this kind of thing? Let's pause?

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Speaker 1: If you guys don't mind them, want to bring it

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Speaker 1: right Ben, You've read about it in Obscure sor Sports Quarterly,

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Speaker 1: you watch it on the OCHO or of course talking

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Speaker 1: about the Steinholding events and coming up on the twenty

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Speaker 1: second of this month, the first Super Bowl of Steinholding,

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Speaker 1: the twenty twenty five US National steinholding championships joining me

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Speaker 1: to talk about this. One of those Germans guys you

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Speaker 1: can find them on Facebook, Mike Heisel and Ben Huffman,

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Speaker 1: who's the executive director of the cincinn Regional Sports Commission.

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Speaker 1: They've all teamed up along with some other folks like,

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Speaker 1: for example, the more Line House and since ant Chris

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Speaker 1: Kindlemark to do this championship, which we're all going to

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Speaker 1: want to attend. Before we can break down the events

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Speaker 1: the twenty second, guys, I got to ask, is there

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Speaker 1: first a regulation? It has to be a regulation sort

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Speaker 1: of size weight stein?

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Speaker 2: Correct? Correct?

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Speaker 3: This your typical one leader glass dimpled stein, so those

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Speaker 2: It's five pounds.

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Speaker 3: So if your listeners aren't familiar with this, I know

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Speaker 2: You have to.

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Speaker 3: You're like, you have the leader stein sitting in front

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Speaker 3: They have to stand upright, pick up the beer steining

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Speaker 3: straight out. They're not allowed it been back.

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Speaker 2: They you know, can't move the stein.

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Speaker 3: It has to be you know, pretty much arm straight

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Speaker 3: holding that leader of beer steined out. One interesting thing

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Speaker 3: about this is Kim Planner has won the state championship

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Speaker 3: here in Ohio the past five years that we've done it.

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Speaker 2: He also won this year, and he is qualified.

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Speaker 3: He's representing he's from Cincinnati here and he's representing more

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Speaker 2: So come down and cheer Kim.

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Speaker 3: On and hopefully he can bring him the national championship

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Speaker 1: Well do you And I hate to put you on

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Speaker 1: the spot, but I got to ask because I'm looking

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Speaker 1: at what is described, at least in terms of the

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Speaker 1: artificial intelligence response. I got on Google the US record,

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Speaker 1: what is his steinholding time? Do you recall by anybody chance,

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Speaker 1: Kim usually.

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Speaker 2: Goes between nine and twelve minutes.

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Speaker 3: They've had some people in Texas go for as long

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Speaker 3: as you know, twenty twenty four minutes. But with the

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Speaker 3: really care about form. So the US Stineholding Association's pretty

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Speaker 1: That's great that they have these kind of rules. It

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Speaker 1: just cracks me up, guys, it really does. Now there

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Speaker 1: are there are steinholding or actually stein caring events, and

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Speaker 1: I noted that at least online they say the Guinness

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Speaker 1: and you mentioned they're five pounds each. Twenty nine steins

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Speaker 1: And that's a carrying. I just can't imagine that because

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Speaker 1: bunched up steins. That's that can't be easy, but neither

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Speaker 1: Walk my listeners through what they're going to be able

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Speaker 3: So we are going to have the FC Byron match

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Speaker 3: on from you know, SC Byron's Munich soccer team.

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Speaker 2: We're going to have that in the fest tent.

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Speaker 3: Greg is putting up a huge festent like we said

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Speaker 3: this takes place during the opening weekend of Cincinnati Chris Kenelmark.

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Speaker 2: So I mean that's an event in and of itself that.

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Speaker 3: You don't want to miss because they have German booze

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Speaker 3: You know, come down to your Christmas shopping and enjoy

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Speaker 3: the stein Otle. But we have the Byron Match starting

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Speaker 3: at nine point thirty. We also have a riverfront volts March,

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Speaker 3: and volts March is just a leisurely walk. You can

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Speaker 3: sign up to do that. It's five dollars per person

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Speaker 3: to walk. It's about like a five k on that.

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Speaker 3: Then noon to two we had the Byron Games. We

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Speaker 2: Going to do that afterward. If your listeners would like

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Speaker 4: This is great.

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Speaker 3: There before noon, there's three events. It's a beer decko flip,

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Speaker 2: Well, we're going to do it as a team event,

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Speaker 2: and then we have that Hommer slogging that's where there's

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Speaker 2: nail into the stump. Few of us hits wins that.

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Speaker 2: And then we also have a team steinholding, so you

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Speaker 3: Bit of a taste of it, being it's a team sport,

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Speaker 3: you know, the one person goes as long.

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Speaker 2: As they can with the stein.

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Speaker 3: When they're done, they set it down and their teammate

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Speaker 3: the winner of that will get bragging rights for the

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Speaker 2: Then after that, two to three we have a ceremonial

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Speaker 4: Yeah, thank you so much so. The Cincinna Sports Commission

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's great, and that's actually a good tie in

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Speaker 4: We've actually locked it in. We've locked it in for

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