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Speaker 1: Bill, Good morning, Hey Greg, how's it going. It's going great.

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Speaker 1: How are you today? Good? Good? Yeah, Raider Roll, Well,

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Speaker 1: good opportunity for us to get better this week, and

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Speaker 1: you know we're looking forward to having another productive week. Listen,

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Speaker 1: your affinity for radio interviews is renowned, so I for

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Speaker 1: one am at delighted that you're going to be joining

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Speaker 1: us this season. Yeah. Well, it's good. Good to be

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Speaker 1: on early start today. Some good energy here, so good

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Speaker 1: to go, high energy on the program. I'm often critics Bill,

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Speaker 1: I'm often criticized for my energy. Maybe you can give

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Speaker 1: me some motivational words later on. Okay. Um, and of course,

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Speaker 1: you know, Wiggy, you're very familiar with Jermaine Wiggins and

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Speaker 1: uh in his career here. Yeah, absolutely, you know Jermaine

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Speaker 1: all of Canton or I'm sure he's in Canton like

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Speaker 1: all the other players are. They have played in the league,

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Speaker 1: and you know, his contributions to the league are are

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Speaker 1: noted in Canton as they as everyone's are. Um. So

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Speaker 1: that they recognize all the players that have played, no

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Speaker 1: everybody's there. There. It's just not a button, but there

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Speaker 1: definitely there. They have a you know, you go on

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Speaker 1: were happy with Whiggie's questions the way did him love

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Speaker 1: we've ever had. But he you know, maximized what he

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Speaker 1: So he's declared himself to be the greatest athlete ever

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Speaker 1: say that push you in a pretty high athletic class

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Speaker 1: right there. It's not everybody can say that they've competed

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Speaker 1: at those levels. So he's looking to get a new

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Speaker 1: Patriot's tattoo. Will send you the drawing of it before

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Speaker 1: he gets it put on his body. I can't wait

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Speaker 1: to see that one. It's coming. All right, Bill, have

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Speaker 1: a great week. Okay, we'll talk to you next. All right, great,

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Speaker 1: thanks a lot, Okay, okay, all right, there you have

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