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Speaker 1: for listening on the Home of the Bengals ESPN fifteen

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Speaker 1: thirty Cincinnati Sports Station. Of course, what everyone wants to

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Speaker 1: know now, Austin, will we back up? Is Verizon back up?

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Speaker 1: The answer is no, Oh gosh.

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Speaker 2: But because Paul Fritchner is you.

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Speaker 1: Mean the rebound rundown.

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Speaker 2: Yes, he's resourceful, he's focused. What was it, Duke Tobin

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Speaker 2: said last week, Focus, strain and finish. Yeah, Paul has

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Speaker 2: found someone on the T Mobile network. Oh wow, which

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Speaker 2: I don't know. If you know those Billy Bob Thornton commercials,

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Speaker 2: I think we're supposed to ask him you you won't

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Speaker 2: believe where I'm at or something like. I don't know.

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Speaker 2: Paul found somebody with a T Mobile phone and he's

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Speaker 2: borrowing their phone. That's how badly he wants to be

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Speaker 2: since three sixty and he's with us now, Hi, Paul Fellas.

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Speaker 3: I think I'm just gonna have to keep these answers

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Speaker 3: short so that Big Verizon can't keep me down. They

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Speaker 3: can't mute me. This is just one word answers for

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Speaker 1: Tol What do you know that that they want to

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Speaker 1: take away. Someone out there doesn't want you to mention

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Speaker 1: something on air today. Is it that the Red Hawks

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Speaker 1: in Miami are eighteen and zero and they're still unranked?

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Speaker 1: Is it something that Xavier has unlocked? What is it

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Speaker 1: that you know that we don't now?

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Speaker 3: I think the Associated Press is purposely muting any kind

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Speaker 3: are doing to Miami right now and not putting them

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Speaker 3: hit the nail on the head with that one. Tony,

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Speaker 3: this is disgusting.

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Speaker 1: Has has this last hour plus? Are you? Are you

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Speaker 1: contemplating a switch from Verizon? Are you looking to maybe

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Speaker 1: add a second phone to your arsenal? What does the

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Speaker 1: future look like for Paul and Verizon?

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Speaker 3: Well, I was debating going into Kroger and getting like

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Speaker 2: I have to ask Paul, Who's whose phone are you borrowing?

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Speaker 3: So I'm at lunch right now with Connor Onion who

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Speaker 3: has the FS one call with Xavier tonight. So we're

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Speaker 3: sitting here at lunch and Austin's texting me and everything.

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Speaker 3: The weird thing was, I had service until you would

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Speaker 3: I'd see your call and then it would go to SOS.

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Speaker 3: And I said, Connor cand of just borrow your phone

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Speaker 3: real quick. Wow. Yeah, sure, what a guy.

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Speaker 1: Shout out to Connor for his help and making this happen.

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Speaker 1: Let's dive into some basketball here, Paul. Let's start with

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Speaker 1: the RedHawks moving to eighteen and oh last night, and

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Speaker 1: people they want to chop down the schedule that's not

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Speaker 1: to their own doin. It's not like Miami didn't try

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Speaker 3: Yeah, And you know, I remember talking to Travis Steele

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Speaker 1: Thank you here rank them. What is it about this team?

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Speaker 1: Miami's next opportunity to move to nineteen and zero comes

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Speaker 1: other news, local college basketball Paul These Xavier Musketeers in

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Speaker 3: Yeah, the biggest thing that you're watching the rest of

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Speaker 1: When things are going well for Xavier and you look

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Speaker 3: Yeah, they're shooting the three well, and I think that's

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Speaker 3: And you know, they've also assisted on a lot of

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Speaker 1: When when you look at Richard Patino and again it's

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think The most intriguing thing to me about

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Speaker 1: The opponent tonight sad Mada's Butler Bulldogs and interesting start

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Speaker 1: little bit shorthanded. What is the biggest key for Xavier

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I have to rebound the ball. Like I said,

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Speaker 3: He's a great player. Finley Bizjack is back. He can

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Speaker 1: Just the importance of tonight. Agan, you mentioned it's a

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Speaker 3: Yeah, The Rebound Rundown. It's an audio only show with

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Speaker 3: Every single day is Kentucky, Louisville. Short podcast for morning CA.

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Speaker 3: time I'm on here, Tony, I can call in audio only.

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Speaker 1: Paul, you're the man to tell me. Connor reappreciate him

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Speaker 2: Thanks, Connor, I got you.

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Speaker 2: That was fitting, isn't it? It is?

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Speaker 1: Uh Sincy three sixty Peppers play plenty more to go?

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