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Speaker 1: This is Tony Pike Cincy three sixty about Cincinnati. From Cincinnati.

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Speaker 1: This is ESPN fifteen thirty Cincinnati Sports Station.

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Speaker 2: Welcome back to our.

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Speaker 3: Three underway since he three sixty ESPN fifteen thirty Cincinnati

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Speaker 3: Sports Station. Let's do so and talk some Bearcats with

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Speaker 3: the man covering the squad for Bearcat Journal dot Com.

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Speaker 3: Our good friend Keegan Nickoson joining us right now.

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Speaker 2: Hello Kegan, Hello Tony.

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Speaker 1: How are you doing, Keegan?

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Speaker 2: I'm doing great. How's your week going?

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Speaker 1: It's going excellent. I mean, I don't know how much

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Speaker 1: better it can get. Got to see Dan Skillings play

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Speaker 1: basketball in person yesterday.

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Speaker 3: I watched Dan Skillings play yesterday and I thought to myself,

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Speaker 3: that's the same Dan Skillings I watched pretty much every

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Speaker 3: game at UC. Did some good stuff, did some bad stuff,

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Speaker 3: did some stuff that makes you want.

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Speaker 1: To pull your hair out. Yeah, the baseline and up

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Speaker 1: and underlaps haven't really left his arsenal. So it was

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Speaker 1: good to see that.

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Speaker 3: Nope, I want to talk about last night as a whole,

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Speaker 3: because no one would have faulted this team. You go

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Speaker 3: out and you lose to the number one ranked team

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Speaker 3: in the country in Arizona and then you rebound from that.

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Speaker 3: I thought Saturday night against Arizona State was one of

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Speaker 3: the worst Big Twelve performances of the year for this team,

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Speaker 3: and I thought it came into question really the first

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Speaker 3: time about effort and the attention to detail that we've

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Speaker 3: seen more from this team. They've lost games, they've lost

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Speaker 3: in heartbreaking fashion, but it seemed like the effort was

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Speaker 3: always there. It didn't feel like it was there Saturday night.

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Speaker 3: Did you feel like they rebounded well from that last night?

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Speaker 1: Yeah? I do, And I think I would also rebound

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Speaker 1: well if I got to get out of whatever weather

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Speaker 1: we had to suffer through this weekend and be in

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Speaker 1: Arizona for a few days. So maybe that kind of

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Speaker 1: caused the reset for him, which is good to see.

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Speaker 1: But I think it was just kind of being able

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Speaker 1: I think it was it was a big thing for it,

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Speaker 1: and just being able to play with good effort, play

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Speaker 1: with good intensity, and play up to the brain of

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Speaker 1: basketball that you wanted to. And it's also it helps

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Speaker 1: that they're playing a team who is also struggling, and

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Speaker 1: it was kind of like two teams who you're one

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Speaker 1: year and kind of just like pushing it in and

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Speaker 1: being done. But it's Yeah, it was an interesting one.

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Speaker 1: It was kind of a it was a pretty boring

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Speaker 1: game when all things considered. There wasn't a lot that happened,

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Speaker 1: and it was kind of similar to iOS States, where

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Speaker 1: you see got out to lead and they were able

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Speaker 1: to make the necessary place to sustain it and kind

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Speaker 3: One of the things we have seen is the continued

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Speaker 3: emergence of Bob A. Miller another Monster Game eighteen point

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Speaker 3: seventeen rebounds. What do you see from his game that

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Speaker 3: is lending itself to more success that we're seeing because

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Speaker 3: I think early on we saw flashes of it. Now

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Speaker 3: I feel like we see it at a much more

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Speaker 3: consistent level for bobon Miller.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, he's making it look easy and it's not as

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Speaker 1: easy as it looks for what he's doing, especially on rebounding.

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Speaker 1: I don't think that he expected his role on Cincinnati

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Speaker 1: the most aggressive and most talented scorer on the team.

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Speaker 1: But you're just seeing him take the ball and get

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Speaker 1: to the rim, and he's either getting good shots or

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Speaker 1: he's getting found and going to the line, and his

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Speaker 1: also missed two bunnies that usually you see him may

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Speaker 1: kind of floaters around the rim. So he was close

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Speaker 1: And at this point in the season, I'm kind of like, Okay,

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Speaker 1: But he's having just so much success getting to the rim,

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Speaker 3: Gigsell James had a big night, Mustapha cham had a

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Speaker 3: big night. Is there something too? And we'll get to

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Speaker 3: the reason why in just a moment. Is there something

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Speaker 3: you do shrink down the rotation a little bit. Last

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Speaker 3: night they had to do so because of injury and sickness,

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Speaker 3: but all five starters play over twenty eight minutes. Creasa

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Speaker 3: double figures in minutes, and I think you see more

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Speaker 3: consistency from a guy like Ggsel James. Is there something

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Speaker 3: to be said in your opinion about cutting the rotation

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Speaker 1: I think there is. I think it's just easier to

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Speaker 1: James's and Dada Thomas's home and road splits are there's

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Speaker 1: a pretty big disparity there. Like I think Gisesel is

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Speaker 1: like I think day Day was averaging something around twelve

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Speaker 1: kind of just seeing that disparity, which is not too

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Speaker 1: super rare in the game of college basketball, but you're

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Speaker 1: kind of seeing those two key scores struggle playing in

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Speaker 1: was definitely a big reason. But the short name of

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Speaker 1: the rotation, it makes it easier to get in the flow,

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Speaker 1: minutes to come and get rest. But Giesel was great,

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Speaker 1: and he had five threes, most since he had at

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Speaker 1: he had a total of five threes. So it was

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Speaker 1: kind of just a little bit of a coming out

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Speaker 1: the arc. But you've just got to see consistency from him,

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Speaker 1: and like it doesn't have to be seventeen or points

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Speaker 1: or whatever it was every night, but it's got to

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Speaker 1: you're seeing him struggle kind of every other game, and

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Speaker 1: that's just not something that Cincinnati can rely on.

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Speaker 3: Dayda Thomas Now, he had eight points last night and

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Speaker 3: he's been strong. I mean, he had nineteen in the

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Speaker 3: to the state of Arizona Keegan and came back with

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Speaker 3: two points total over what fifty nine minutes of gameplay?

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Speaker 3: Is there concern with you around day A Thomas. I

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Speaker 3: feel like as a veteran on this team, he's one

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Speaker 3: of the guys you should know what you're getting on

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Speaker 3: a nightly basis, And it just doesn't seem like it's

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Speaker 1: Not really part of it, because I don't know where

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Speaker 1: else you turn to, Like he's either got to figure

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Speaker 1: say he's such a good offensive player, and he is,

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Speaker 1: and he's one of Cincinnati's best offensive players when he's on.

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Speaker 1: Like his job and his main job is still to

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Speaker 1: shut down the opposing team's best player. And West had

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Speaker 1: said it. I think it was after the last home

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Speaker 1: So maybe that cut up to him in Arizona. You're

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Speaker 1: you don't often see guys play thirty minutes and not score,

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Speaker 1: especially when you've been a good score for the rest

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Speaker 1: for the year. And that's kind of just like it

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Speaker 1: paints a picture of why the team is struggling so

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Speaker 1: much because good teams like that does not happen. Teams

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Speaker 1: for the top four or five teams in their conference,

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Speaker 1: your best players. That just doesn't happen. And it seems

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Speaker 1: like it's happening with Mustafa cham every now and then,

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Speaker 1: layered issue of just not having consistency and scoring and

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Speaker 3: Last night, shorthanded Shanna Bibe was in a boot and

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Speaker 3: on crutches since her Harris was sick. Do we know

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Speaker 3: much about Bibe's injury and what the short term or

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Speaker 3: long term looks like on his impact playing games.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think Wes said last night that he's expected

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Speaker 1: is understandable, but it's definitely a unique situation because he

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Speaker 1: then he plays three minutes against Arizona State. It didn't

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Speaker 1: look like there was some massive play where he was hobbled.

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Speaker 1: I think the only thing I saw is Terry mentioned

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Speaker 1: he's expected to be out for an exploded period of time.

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Speaker 1: And then since your Harris was just an illness, so

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Speaker 1: I would expect him to be able to go. West

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Speaker 1: But Yeah, as much as I'll criticize Wes and like

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Speaker 1: I'll talk about how like he has issues coaching and

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Speaker 1: he hasn't kind of lived up the expectations, he has

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Speaker 1: had some really really tough injury luck and it doesn't

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Speaker 1: had to deal with more than most college basketball coaches

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Speaker 3: If it is going to get turned around, and I

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Speaker 3: do see the schedule will lighten up a little bit

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Speaker 3: after Saturday, West Virginia u c F at home at

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Speaker 3: Kansas State. You taugh at home. It's Houston. It's the

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Speaker 3: hurdle that Houston has been. They've not beat Houston since

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Speaker 3: John Brandon was the coach in February of twenty twenty.

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Speaker 3: This team is also not one outside of Fifth Third Arena.

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Speaker 3: The Houston game here, it was up for grabs in

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Speaker 3: the final few minutes, and you see just went away

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Speaker 1: Like this guy's six five sixty four. He's running a

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Speaker 1: But with both of those guys, I mean, they were

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Speaker 3: Have you allowed yourself to stop your Indiana Hoosiers national

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Speaker 1: Absolutely not. And you know, is there a worst school

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Speaker 3: I saw you last night with some of the other

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Speaker 1: Absolutely not. I had some ethical morality with I.

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Speaker 3: Just didn't know. I was making sure I didn't. I

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Speaker 3: Doesn't you know what that is? No, absolutely not. You

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Speaker 1: Keegan.

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Speaker 3: They beat Houston on the road Saturday, they win the

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Speaker 1: That that that's a great spend, thank you, that's a

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Speaker 1: great living on the bubble. That's the song of Wes

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Speaker 1: Miers somethinatic.

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Speaker 3: When Wes is back next year, it'll be because of

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Speaker 2: Mark my words.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely.

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Speaker 3: What's the easiest way to follow along with your coverage

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Speaker 3: if people want to follow along with what's going on

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Speaker 2: I'm sorry, dot Com.

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Speaker 1: Thanks.

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Speaker 3: I thought Kegan was gonna hit us with the eat

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Speaker 3: because when we come back, you know, last year Jay

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Speaker 3: Usa won the Royal Rumble.

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Speaker 2: I kind of forgot that Yat was a yeah.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: I should say expert, although last year he was horrendous

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Speaker 3: I'm wondering if he's I wonder if he's like trying

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Speaker 2: Us right, just to throw us off the scent, throw

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Speaker 3: Interesting, and that's what we'll sift through next for a

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Speaker 3: Royal Rumble preview with our guy, Rick Uchino on ESPN

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Speaker 2: Now here's your chair