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Speaker 1: Welcome into the Lounge. This is the best lounge episode

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Speaker 1: that we've ever take. Yeah, well the bar is low,

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Speaker 1: little bit better than that. But we've got I don't know,

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Speaker 1: at least find a couple of hundred. We're here in

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Speaker 1: uh London. We've been talking about this for a really

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Speaker 1: long time. We've wanted to do a Lounge live in London.

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Speaker 1: We were at the Admiralty. We're saying that right now,

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Speaker 1: I think so, yeah said all right, good, we all

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Speaker 1: have cold drinks in front of us and we're doing

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Speaker 1: a live episode of the Lounge podcast. Is something we've

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Speaker 1: been really excited about for a really long time. So

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Speaker 1: thank you to everybody that's here. Um, and we've got

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Speaker 1: a ne collective bunch. We've got people from London, We've

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Speaker 1: got people from Baltimore, else, Italy, Italy, Scotland, Scotland. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: so we got people from all over. So thank you

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Speaker 1: so much for you guys being here. Now. Have I

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Speaker 1: slept for a solid four hours on the way over?

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Speaker 1: Uh so, yeah, I'm kind of hurting a little bit.

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Speaker 1: I'm not gonna lie. This is the first time I relaxed.

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Speaker 1: You see, here's the thing. Everybody in the room that

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Speaker 1: you can know Garrett has had it really nice. He's

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Speaker 1: staying downtown. You know, he's bar hopping. He took the

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Speaker 1: London bus store around today. I just got in went

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Speaker 1: to practice and this is my first beer of the trip.

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Speaker 1: So ers all here, Yeah, unfortunately, not pumpkin beer. Raise

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Speaker 1: your hand if you've had pumpkin beer in this room

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Speaker 1: less than half? What about half? About half? Alright? Nice?

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Speaker 1: So Frank, he's one of three. Come here, all right, Frank,

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Speaker 1: take to Mike. Frank, you're being called the center stage. No, no, no,

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Speaker 1: pumpkin pie, not pumpkin beer. I'm from Europe. We have

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Speaker 1: actual beer. Like, we don't need the pumpkin You can

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Speaker 1: take the pumpkin pie and take a sick here and

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Speaker 1: exactly exactly. So what's your story? What's my story? I um?

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Speaker 1: I watched My first football game was the Ravens Giants

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Speaker 1: Super Bowl. Okay. I asked my dad to record it

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Speaker 1: because there was a night in the Netherlands, and after

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Speaker 1: that I just kept in touch with the Ravens. Has

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Speaker 1: been sixteen years now and there are three Dutch Baltimore

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Speaker 1: Ravens fans. Yes, and it's it's it's three of us

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Speaker 1: and the other two guys are flying in today. I've

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Speaker 1: never met them in person, so we're gonna meet in London.

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Speaker 1: Um And my girlfriend she hates the fact that I

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Speaker 1: stay up all these nights and have Antonio Brown ruining

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Speaker 1: Christmas and all that stuff. So when when she saw

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Speaker 1: I don't want to sit next to you and have

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Speaker 1: that moment when they actually play in London and you're

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Speaker 1: She booted you out. Oh she didn't come with all, right, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: she's even going through this in this with me. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: So so the other two fans, the other two Dutch

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Speaker 1: fans are on their way. You're gonna meet him for

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Speaker 1: the first time ever. And how did you get into

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Speaker 1: contact with them originally? How do you guys? We have

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Speaker 1: a Sport America community in the Netherlands. We played fantasy

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Speaker 1: in touch through Twitter and we tend to live completely

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Speaker 1: separate ways of the country. But when the Ravens came over.

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Speaker 1: It was clear that we had to had to meet up.

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Speaker 1: So that's what's gonna happen this weekend. Yeah, all right,

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Speaker 1: so who else? Who else? Raised your hand? If you're

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Speaker 1: from outside of the states, all right, let's pass the

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Speaker 1: mic around to some of these people. We only hear

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Speaker 1: some of these other stories. Also, are these are two

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Speaker 1: Sam and this is my older brother Tom. Yeah, so

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Speaker 1: we I got into I think the first season I

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Speaker 1: hill quickly. But our dads from Baltimore, so we've we've

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Speaker 1: So the Ravens that the ones really to follow. And

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Speaker 1: are you guys able to watch every game from here? Like,

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Speaker 1: did you have like a commit a group of raven

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Speaker 1: stames that you watched games with? Um? Well, I tried

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Speaker 1: to try and watch the highlights. Yeah. Yeah, it's mostly

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Speaker 1: and who's better called David Ruth Kevin Hogan and what's

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Speaker 1: he doing right? Right? So did you pick more players

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Speaker 1: My first year watching was two thousand fourteen, and we

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Speaker 1: had a start calling them up here, first seven round?

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Speaker 1: Have you ever gotten the first round pick? Right? Not

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Speaker 1: a first round? But I hate Keith winning bringing the

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Speaker 1: what has been like this week for you? Guys both

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Speaker 1: of rag fans have been something really cool to see.

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Speaker 1: I've definitely seen. I've definitely seen a lot. Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: think it's it's the weird thing is I think the

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Speaker 1: Ravens are like a weirdly English team, like underdog. No

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Speaker 1: one really likes us, no one talks about us, but

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Speaker 1: seems like it is that smash mouth like brand of football.

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Speaker 1: Ravens brand of football is closest to like that's like

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Speaker 1: just running down your throat, smash it all the time.

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Speaker 1: You get, but we're gonna keep doing it. Well, luckily

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Speaker 1: somebody from Scotland every year and like, how did you

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Speaker 1: become a Ravens fan. I've been on Baltimore fun all

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Speaker 1: my days. Yeah, quite young, but um I was a

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Speaker 1: here we go. It's being really awesome. I kind of

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Speaker 1: A team. Why I've been promised to go across there? Well?

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Speaker 1: Kids hopping? All right, Well, we've got to read this.

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Speaker 1: Papa John's saying, got it? Who here is? You guys

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Speaker 1: been to Papa people and from Baltimore, from the States

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Speaker 1: have been Papa John's obviously, probably haven't heard of it.

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Speaker 1: Papa John's here alright, Papa John's globe. I didn't know that,

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Speaker 1: all right, so I got it. Yeah, this is what

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Speaker 1: we knew. Oh, you got a text coming in now

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Speaker 1: and screwing everything up. It's from Benjamin Watson. I'm sorry,

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Speaker 1: I'm just there. You go. Yeah, I know a few players,

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Speaker 1: you know. Yeah, Texas, Why are you the worst Ravens

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Speaker 1: reporter I've ever do? Who are ye? I'm gonna respond

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Speaker 1: with who do this? Who? All right? You can order

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Speaker 1: the Ravens Flock Special all season long. You get a

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Speaker 1: large specially pizza. I love how everybody's paying attention and

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Speaker 1: uh large two topping pizza with promo code Ravens Flock

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Speaker 1: at Papa John's dot com or the day after every

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Speaker 1: Ravens win, so you can get sixteen of these nineteen

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Speaker 1: nineteen including playoffs. You get fifty percent off regular menu

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Speaker 1: priced online orders with promo code Ravens fifty at Papa

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Speaker 1: John's dot com. There we go. We gotta pay the

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Speaker 1: bills to pay the bills? Does work in the UK? Yeah? Doesn't?

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Speaker 1: This guy is amazing he's paying or bill sport. It's

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Speaker 1: if you're gonna have a tailgate in Britain or anywhere else,

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Speaker 1: what does it look like to me? It's with my daughter,

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Speaker 1: Papa John's on occasion. Okay, because they've just moved into

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Speaker 1: so we've talked to a lot of the guys. We

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Speaker 1: You know, I know the guys are dominating the conversation,

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Speaker 1: from Pasadena, Okay, County, Maryland. That's a trip. Well, thank

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Speaker 1: you for coming over, die Hard Ravens fan. I have

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Speaker 1: a woman cave in my house. It is a woman's cave.

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Speaker 1: the woman's cave? You name it? I had. My walls

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Speaker 1: a Raven's carater have about six televisions down there. I

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Speaker 1: I know I'm coming for the bye weekend watch games, yes, so,

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Speaker 1: I mean the walls are purple. My walls are purple

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Speaker 1: nice big picture on the back where my toilet sits

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Speaker 1: of Ben Roethlisberger getting sacked by some This is behind

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Speaker 1: they're saying okay, all right, who else? Who else? Here's

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Speaker 1: from the Baltimore area. What's your name? Hi? My name

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Speaker 1: is Kathy. I'm from Arnold, Maryland in holders. Since the beginning,

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Speaker 1: Nice and I went to two Super Bowls. Who were

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Speaker 1: just excited to be able to travel and support the team.

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Speaker 1: I like to travel and he's the huge fans. It works,

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Speaker 1: you guys, been to London before the first trip. First trip. Nice.

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Speaker 1: won't sleep till we get home. I like it. I

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Speaker 1: like it. That's awesome. So so what where do you

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Speaker 1: five of you guys sit together. Looks like we get

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Speaker 1: the Super Bowl in New Orleans. Yes, and they're all going,

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Speaker 1: that's great, funny story about that. So we're in the

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