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Speaker 1: exciting addition, a winning edition of Quite Franklin with coach

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Speaker 1: James Franklin and myself Arrington. We will be talking Thanksgiving.

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Speaker 1: You'll be interested to hear what his favorite dessert is.

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Speaker 1: You'll be interested to hear what my favorite dessert is.

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Speaker 1: We'll talk about it. Health report of course heading into

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Speaker 1: this game, well, we did a rapid fire of certain things.

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Speaker 1: You'll be able to hear that as well. And what

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Speaker 1: does the coach think about the team heading into this

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Speaker 1: final regular season game? You'll get all that in this

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Speaker 1: edition of Quite Franklin. Buckle up here we go three

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Speaker 1: to one. Let's do it Thanksgiving Thanksgiving weekend. What's thankful for? Man?

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Speaker 2: Well, obviously goes without saying, but I'm thankful for my family,

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Speaker 2: my wife and two daughters.

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Speaker 3: I don't know when it happened, but they grew up.

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Speaker 3: You know, I got here, their little teeny things, and.

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Speaker 2: My oldest is about to go to culinary school is

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Speaker 2: what she's going to do. So I'm very very thankful

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Speaker 2: for them. And then you know, I'm thankful for my

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Speaker 2: my Penn State family. You know, the guys in the

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Speaker 2: the staff that we've been able to put together.

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Speaker 3: And you know those.

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Speaker 2: Things, those things is you know what I spend sixteen seventeen,

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Speaker 2: those are the things that are important to me.

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Speaker 1: Okay, culinary school. Before I get touch on the other

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Speaker 1: thing you're thankful for. What's she is she cooking for?

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Speaker 1: Is she cooking for Thanksgiving? Is she the one that's

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Speaker 1: the is she the main one? Or is it Mama?

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Speaker 3: No, it's it's mom.

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Speaker 2: She she is she could cook a lot of things

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Speaker 4: But she she mainly likes to do pastries and desserts

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Speaker 4: that kind of stuff. Okay, okay, all right, okay, So

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Speaker 4: something going to be off the chain. I'm a dessert guy,

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Speaker 4: like I'm going for So I got a plug at

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Speaker 4: at Mastros and and one of the chef's main chefs,

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Speaker 4: and I'm trying to get an apple.

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Speaker 1: What what are they called the cakes they have at Mastros.

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Speaker 1: I'm blanking on it right now, but it's an apple one. Anyways,

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Speaker 1: they're they're known for it. It's gonna pop into my head.

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Speaker 3: We don't have one of them in state college. I

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Speaker 1: Yeah, we gotta do better. We gotta do better, all right. Anyway.

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Speaker 1: I like desserts though, and I'm trying to get this this.

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Speaker 3: Top two desserts if you had, If you had desserts.

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Speaker 1: Upside down pineapple upside down cake is super super high

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Speaker 1: Number two A close number two, but should be one

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Speaker 1: A is banana pudding. That's my My mom made it

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Speaker 1: and the way she did it it was very unique.

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Speaker 1: Passed it on to my wife. She might do it

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Speaker 3: And whoa, whoa. But watch yourself.

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Speaker 1: I told you, I'm old man. I just keep it

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Speaker 1: all the way real man. I shoot from the hip. Mama,

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Speaker 1: I'm sorry, yeah, might Trish might have you on that

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Speaker 2: Man?

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Speaker 1: What are you in?

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Speaker 2: Well, that's why I was asking. I'm a huge and

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Speaker 2: a huge sweet potato pie guy. Okay, tato ply Thanksgiving Christmas,

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Speaker 3: Very often, but I love it.

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Speaker 2: No, My wife when she first made it the first time,

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Speaker 2: You know, last week had four of my former guys

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Speaker 1: You gotta be able to delegate. I mean, that's just

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Speaker 2: you know this is what we need to do moving forward.

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Speaker 3: Here here the things are important.

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Speaker 2: I think the emotion that Drew has had this year

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Speaker 1: Undefeated on the road heading into a big weekend, we

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Speaker 1: You have taken care of the little things, coach, and

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Speaker 1: I'm LeVar Arrington. That was coach Franklin. This is quite Franklin.

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