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Speaker 1: And that email said the following, there are certain sports

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Speaker 1: imagine another voice replacing. Well, my first guest tonight attended

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Speaker 1: dating back to nineteen eighty six. What a treat to

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Speaker 1: welcome in, Herb Bauer. Herb blance McAllister, how are you.

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Speaker 2: Lance? I'm doing great. Thanks for having me is It

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Speaker 2: is so cool to catch up with you.

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Speaker 1: Congratulations on one whale of a heck of a run.

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Speaker 1: And I did not know until today. I was reading

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Speaker 1: a story about you from fifteen years ago on musketeermadness

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Speaker 1: dot com and I did not know your start traces

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Speaker 1: back to the Cincinnati Slammers. Fill me in on that.

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Speaker 2: That's right. I was a student at Xavier, living in Oakley,

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Speaker 2: or al Michaels what have you. And was a huge

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Speaker 2: minor leagues. So I saw an article in the Inquire

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Speaker 2: little bit about me, and you know, I said, I'm

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Speaker 2: and sell tickets. We'll work around your schedule and you know,

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Speaker 2: give you an hourly rate and you know, give you

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Speaker 2: as it turned out, at the day before they were

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Speaker 2: Whoever they thought they had for PA must have canceled.

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Speaker 2: I didn't ask any questions, but the general manager, Bill Miller,

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Speaker 2: And I said, sure, I can do. So he gave me.

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Speaker 2: He gave me a couple of commercial reads to to

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Speaker 2: you know, the read to him I did. I guess

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Speaker 2: he thought it was okay, and he's like, you're on

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Speaker 2: Pistons game. I had never done a PA game in

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Speaker 1: And from there, the legendary tom iSER I understand hired you.

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Speaker 1: And the rest they say is history.

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Speaker 2: Exactly correct, exactly correct.

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Speaker 1: Your your signature white shirt in the blue tie combo.

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Speaker 2: You have stuck with it.

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Speaker 1: Tell me about that and your loyalty to that in

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Speaker 2: Well, I don't think I ever. I don't think I

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Speaker 2: of course, and it just kind of stuck, and people

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Speaker 1: It's my understanding. And I learned this today as well,

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Speaker 1: in Paul Summer Camp he once gave you some pretty

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Speaker 2: He did right when I when I first got the

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Speaker 1: Heard one of my biggest fears, stressful things in doing

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Speaker 2: Years, Lance, I tell everybody I'm no linguist. That's before

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Speaker 1: Has there been a moment over the years, a sore throat,

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Speaker 1: I was spinning through my head from Schmidfield House to

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Speaker 1: Is is there a game or a performance that stands

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Speaker 2: You know, there's there's a lot of them. I'm a

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Speaker 2: probably would have won the national championship. And Xavier quite frankly,

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Speaker 2: And you know, that was an incredible, incredible game. You know,

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Speaker 2: forget that twenty sixteen when Xavier knocked off Villanova when

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Speaker 1: I mentioned the email I got this morning and again

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Speaker 1: in the context of telling me more about you. How

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Speaker 1: when you hear something like that after forty years, how does.

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Speaker 2: It make you feel? Makes me feel good?

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Speaker 1: It's a heck of a run up A little bit,

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Speaker 1: I mean four, I appreciate decades. What a run herb.

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Speaker 2: Thanks, Lance, appreciate it.

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Speaker 1: I can't tell you how cool this is that we

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Speaker 1: to tom iSER and he hooked me up with you,

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Speaker 1: and you were kind enough to come on. Thank you

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Speaker 1: so much for sharing the moments and memories and and

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Speaker 1: and not that I feel like I'm speaking for all

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Speaker 2: I really appreciate it. Thanks very much, lamps Herb, take

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Speaker 2: care YouTube. All right, there you go.

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Speaker 1: Forty years forty years nineteen eighty six, reached the bottom.

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Speaker 2: I love stories like that.

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Speaker 1: In the Cincinnati Slammers and doing the Boston Celtics as.

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Speaker 2: A game is his first time. Unreal.

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Speaker 1: All right, let's get this bottom of the hour and

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Speaker 1: then we'll get into some college basketball. RNL Carrier Sports

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Speaker 1: Talk presented by Kelsey Chevalet seven hundred WLW