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Speaker 1: I got Big my God, DJ Fluka in the car. DJ.

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Speaker 1: You was walking with this after the game. And that's

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Speaker 1: how we doing the like room you left over this song. Hey, hey, hey,

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Speaker 1: Where does that energy come from? Man? It just come

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Speaker 1: the game. Man. But I just love football, to be

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Speaker 1: and Man, all of a sudden, we hear the Detroit

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Speaker 1: Lions signed this guy by the name of Snacks, and

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Speaker 1: Can you please explain what that was all about? Man?

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Speaker 1: So we were we're sitting that bat all game. Me

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Speaker 1: really we really don't really have that much fun. You know,

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Speaker 1: they only call our name. It's like when we have

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