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Speaker 4: Coming up next week two, I'm really excited. I just

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Speaker 4: want to mention I'm going to be at Syracuse speaking

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Speaker 4: to the students at New House. Really looking forward to that.

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Speaker 4: A couple of my mentees are still in school there,

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Speaker 4: so they're excited that I'm going to make it to

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Speaker 4: and pizza kind of meet and greet with them students,

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Speaker 4: and then the next day I'll do like a fireside chat.

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Speaker 5: And talk for an hour with the New House students.

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Speaker 5: It's it's really it's three things.

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Speaker 4: It's versatility, right, and that's the big point is that

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Speaker 4: you got to be versatile.

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Speaker 5: You know. For me in my career forty years.

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Speaker 4: The reason that's lasted forty years is I've changed when

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Speaker 4: things have changed, and a lot of people that I

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Speaker 4: know who were in the business with me when we

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Speaker 4: started became dinosaurs. H I'm not doing this. I'm not

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Speaker 4: doing social I don't I don't want to do this.

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Speaker 4: I don't want to do that, right, you know, you

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Speaker 4: find yourself not working, not relevant. It's hard to be

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Speaker 4: relevant forty years after the fact, I don't care what

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Speaker 4: make sure that you you have a legacy. What is

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Speaker 4: your legacy? What are you working towards? It is not

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Speaker 4: just you, and I always remember that it's never just

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Speaker 5: Right.

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Speaker 6: If you're versatile, you can have the longevity, which would

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Speaker 6: then last to a legacy. But your last point, you said,

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Speaker 6: I think we're in a weird era where everything is

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Speaker 6: Oh yeah, I forgot. I gotta give back, spend time

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Speaker 5: I think people are missing the boat.

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Speaker 6: I really do, because that's what we're in this era

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Speaker 6: Me me me me As opposed to Yes, you gotta

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Speaker 4: And it's not just for like accolades or doing it

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Speaker 5: It's not because I'm going to tell you this.

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Speaker 5: So it's not a Johnny come Lately, Oh Rob.

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Speaker 4: Trying to know this has always been a part of

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Speaker 5: And I just think people should think about that, no

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Speaker 6: We all need that, and I think people will be

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Speaker 6: shocked how much people need it around them, like that,

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Speaker 6: just that kid in your neighborhood who like, man, if

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Speaker 5: Just spend a little time with people. You'd be shocked

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Speaker 4: Gamble grew up in my neighborhood and he's a lot

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Speaker 4: younger than me. Grew up in my neighborhood and every

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Speaker 5: So he kept going, why do you have that's this

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Speaker 4: He grew up in the neighborhood, grew up down the

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Speaker 4: And that's how we connected. That's with doubt, all right,

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Speaker 5: More blame. I'm trying to do God's work. That's all right.

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Speaker 6: completed it at that point, boy, you Deacon, Deacon, doctor Parker,

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Speaker 6: at that point, Reverend Poker, Reverend what are we talking

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Speaker 5: Hall is Loujah? What we got? Kawhi Leonard?

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Speaker 6: Uh, Kawhi Leonard obviously has had interesting what do we

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Speaker 6: go from uh, the scandals, the investing, to having an

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Speaker 5: And this is what Kawhi had to say.

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Speaker 6: He was asked, you know where they were and to

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Speaker 6: we were having when they asked Lebron this last week

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Speaker 6: But what's weird is, if anything, the Clippers right now,

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Speaker 6: they've had the best record in the NBA since December,

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Speaker 6: But that's to me, what happens with Kawhi has to

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Speaker 6: benefit with Kawhi Rob is that he because we don't

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Speaker 6: That's to his benefit because a lot of the stuff

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Speaker 6: this player, I want this plane, I want that I'm

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Speaker 6: taking money, allegedly taking money from fake accounts. It kind

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Speaker 4: Yeah, the whole not playing and not you know what

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Speaker 6: That, got a little bit then, But I don't think

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Speaker 6: it's to the point I'm saying, is the other big nic.

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Speaker 4: They just asked him. It ain't like they asked Lebron

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Speaker 8: You know what I mean?

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Speaker 4: Like they just traded two big pieces from their team,

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Speaker 4: and I think it's a different conversation when that happens

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Speaker 4: compared to Lebron having Luca, who's been an All All

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Speaker 5: A six year career. Do you know what I mean?

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Speaker 4: Like, Like, that's why I think it's different. And Lebron

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Speaker 4: is supposed to be he says he's a goat, so

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Speaker 4: him paired with Luca has no chance. I think that's

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Speaker 4: why in that comparison to Kawhi, it's just a little

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Speaker 4: different because they just traded away.

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Speaker 6: Zubach is a really good players. They had him, they

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Speaker 6: got rid of a bunch of guys. I mean, if

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Speaker 6: Ingram's an All Star, Randalls an All Star, just had

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Speaker 4: But you get my point, Like it's just a little different,

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Speaker 4: And I get it. Kawhi is not that boisterous. He's

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Speaker 4: not He's not out there. You're right, And that's the

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Speaker 4: benefit of him why I'm saying.

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Speaker 6: I think he can get away with stuff that just

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Speaker 6: he's healthy, he's arguably top three player in the league.

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Speaker 5: A healthy Kawhi.

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Speaker 6: If you if I told you he's giving you seventy

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Speaker 4: He did win twice, he did win two finals MVP.

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Speaker 4: Think it's only if he hadn't won you might feel

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Speaker 6: You don't know what he was more so more so

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Speaker 5: You know?

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Speaker 6: Is he is he the second best player of this

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Speaker 5: Or is it step? Is he above a step? Like?

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Speaker 6: It would have been really interesting with him had he

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Speaker 6: I forgot how good he was because you didn't get

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Speaker 5: Right three one three oh one, am my god? Give

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Speaker 5: three one three okay? So eight seven seven ninety nine

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Speaker 4: Eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox eight seven seven

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Speaker 5: That is funny.

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Speaker 4: Why doesn't Kawhi get the same level of smoke for

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Speaker 4: Let's kick it off with Jordan and DC. What's up Jordan?

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Speaker 4: You're on the Odd Couple? Fox Sports Radio? What's up, Buddy?

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Speaker 9: Oh Hey, Rob Kelvin, how you guys doing?

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Speaker 5: What's up? Jordan good Man? Thank you?

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Speaker 9: That's what's up?

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Speaker 10: Hey?

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Speaker 9: Before I go, I just wanted to tell you Rob,

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Speaker 9: you know I was fortunate enough a couple of years

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Speaker 9: that at Syracuse. That's a that's a beautiful campus.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, man, it really is.

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Speaker 4: And uh Wes Whiteside, who runs a program up there.

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Speaker 5: He does a great job. And I'm you know Wes,

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Speaker 5: Yeah you read.

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Speaker 9: I spoke to him. I suck to him at this

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Speaker 4: And you noticed because Wes uh I was his substitute

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Speaker 5: Yeah, so wow, wow he came here right last year? Yea,

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Speaker 5: you got my man?

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Speaker 9: Oh yeah about Kawhi, I think he kind of crafted

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Speaker 7: You know.

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Speaker 5: Give him credit, I don't say this.

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Speaker 4: I give him credit for not going to the Lakers

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Speaker 4: From the standpoint, that would been an easy route and

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Speaker 6: More, at that point, he was firing for best player

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Speaker 11: No, I mean it was widely reported that he was

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Speaker 4: Just admit that Chris got it wrong. It wasn't just

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Speaker 4: Chris got it wrong. It wasn't just Chris. Chris got

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Speaker 4: it wrong.

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Speaker 3: Say it.

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Speaker 11: So he got it wrong, okays Haynes. So did Boche,

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Speaker 11: So did win Worst.

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Speaker 5: I didn't get it.

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Speaker 4: I got the video. I was on the undisputed You

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Speaker 4: want to see the video. I said, yeah, I said

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Speaker 4: he was going to the Clippers. And they pooh poohed

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Speaker 4: because you know about.

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Speaker 6: Did you investigated and find out something we didn't know?

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Speaker 8: Huh?

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Speaker 5: Did you know? Did you aspire for information? I don't know.

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Speaker 5: Maybe I got a cut.

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Speaker 6: I'm just saying, man, rob if you keep it on

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Speaker 6: the low gie for two million, there you go. Oh

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Speaker 6: the timeline, Robbie, that nice little car he had for

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Speaker 4: The math is math, and yeah, but they took it

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Speaker 4: from me. Now, all right, Will in Wisconsin. You're on

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Speaker 4: the couple of Fox Sports Radio. What's up, Will?

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Speaker 12: What's up?

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Speaker 11: What's up?

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Speaker 3: Kill?

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Speaker 5: What up?

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Speaker 8: Will?

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Speaker 2: Oh?

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Speaker 12: Nothing much, just enjoying two big regional news uh uh

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Speaker 12: news stories here today between the Bears and the United Center.

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Speaker 12: Will be solving TC and hughes drinks at non alcohol

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Speaker 12: not sporting a bit. So it's been you know, a

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Speaker 7: Man.

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Speaker 5: Oh we already know him. And last call, we're gonna

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Speaker 5: talk about that Bears thing. I gotta I gotta theory

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Speaker 5: because I kind of see what they're trying to do.

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Speaker 5: I got a theory. Okay, I'm interesting and.

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Speaker 12: Talking about, you know, sort of things that we're looking

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Speaker 12: to move a needle in another direction. Kawhi Leonard his

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Speaker 12: he's always been a key rotational piece. I mean, you

442
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Speaker 12: know the finals that they had, you know, with Tim

443
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Speaker 12: Duncan's last finals there in the Spurs and then going

444
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Speaker 12: out to you know where to join a team with

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Speaker 12: Fred van Vliet, Pascal Siakam and a few nice other

446
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Speaker 12: key players to get a championship up there, uh in

447
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Speaker 12: in Toronto, you know, in the aftermath of some serious

448
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Speaker 12: injuries to that to that Warriors team. I know it's

449
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Speaker 12: not you know, Vision's history, but seriously, you know he

450
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Speaker 12: was able to get two championships, but as far as

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Speaker 12: being that guy, uh, and there's really not even a

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Speaker 12: comp I mean even between himself and like KD. Right,

453
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Speaker 12: if KD said, hey, I don't think the team is

454
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Speaker 12: very good, we look at it like, oh, you know,

455
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Speaker 12: KD is you know, somewhat driving towards excellent. TOAHI saying

456
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Speaker 12: you know a similar thing, he's like, you know, well,

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Speaker 12: you know, this guy doesn't really contribute except for you know,

458
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Speaker 12: when he's available, so it's not really looked at with

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Speaker 12: the same weight.

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Speaker 5: All Right, I appreciate it.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I just said you mentioned he's kind of quietly

462
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Speaker 6: went about things, so you don't often necessarily ridicule him

463
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Speaker 6: because you don't see him kind of out of the

464
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Speaker 6: I don't even know he is.

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Speaker 5: It still goes down as the greatest laugh of all.

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Speaker 5: Oh and it's not even close. It's not right. It

467
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Speaker 5: doesn't miss.

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Speaker 6: It's because again to the point, Rob, we didn't never

469
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Speaker 6: we never heard him talk. He had two rings and

470
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Speaker 6: we never heard him talk to that moment, and you're like, oh,

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Speaker 6: that's what he sounds like. Wait, Oh, that's what he

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Speaker 6: lasts like, and that's what made it great.

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Speaker 3: Be sure to catch live editions of The Odd Couple

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Speaker 3: with Rob Parker and Kelvin Washington weekdays at seven pm Eastern,

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Speaker 3: four pm Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio app.

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Speaker 6: On a Fucky Flashback Friday, Joy Now ah Man, Hunter

477
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Speaker 6: Patterson covered the Pistons for The Athletic Hunter.

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Speaker 5: What's up, Bro?

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Speaker 2: Not much? How are y'all?

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Speaker 5: We're doing great.

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Speaker 4: I'm very proud of Hunter Patterson, one of my former students,

482
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Speaker 4: a mentee, and he's doing great things.

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Speaker 6: That told you, I'm not letting you claim him first.

484
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Speaker 6: I told you he need to know you know he did.

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Speaker 6: He admitted, he said it was me.

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Speaker 8: No, he did not.

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Speaker 5: Hunter on three, who wasn't don't do that.

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Speaker 2: Don't fold it, Kevin, he almost got me. He almost

489
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Speaker 2: got me. But y'all, y'all have both been extremely impactful

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Speaker 2: on my journey. So I'm grateful for both the officers.

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Speaker 6: Shout out to you, Bro, doing great things. Yes, Rob

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Speaker 6: says the Pistons are getting out the first round. Tell

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Speaker 6: him he's crazy.

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Speaker 5: I said what, No, I wouldn't.

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Speaker 4: No, no, no, I'm just saying like, I get where

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Speaker 4: they are, what's happening this season, which has been tremendous.

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Speaker 5: The East is a little different this year. That's all

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Speaker 5: I'm saying.

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Speaker 4: Is Boston without Tatum, Halliburton, not in Indiana, Janni's not

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Speaker 4: in Milwaukee, like like different East. And it's not to

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Speaker 4: take anything away from the Pistons. That's why when they

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Speaker 4: had the I think when they had the straw poll

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Speaker 4: about m VP and Kate only got one first place vote,

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Speaker 4: I think that they do look at the Western Conference

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Speaker 4: to eat and they take a little away because some

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Speaker 4: of the best players have been hurt this year.

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Speaker 5: Is that off the wall.

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Speaker 2: That's not off the wall. I personally I would have

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Speaker 2: k three right now.

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Speaker 5: That's what they have on That's what they have them.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I put him still behind Jokis and say just

512
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Speaker 2: because those two are extremely dynamic. They Yokis is leading

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Speaker 2: the league in rebounds and assists, although Ka has more

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Speaker 2: total assists than him so far. But I think just

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Speaker 2: all things considered, k kind of spearheading the turnaround over

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Speaker 2: the last couple of years. He's playing both sides of

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Speaker 2: the ball. He's on pace for a career best and

518
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Speaker 2: we I mean I could be here all day talking

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Speaker 2: about his career best but assists plus minus, offensive rating,

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Speaker 2: defensive rating, steels blocks like, he's been extremely impactful, and

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Speaker 2: I think he's easily the I mean, I don't want

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Speaker 2: to overdo it, but I think he is the best

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Speaker 2: point guard in the East for sure.

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Speaker 6: Staying with the Pistons for I don't know, the last

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Speaker 6: two years, the turnaround, your Key Cunningham, your top pick.

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Speaker 6: Can you come right in and the team struggled, you

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Speaker 6: lose twenty seventh straight.

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Speaker 5: How great has it been for them?

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Speaker 6: That that mental the mindset to stay focused And maybe

530
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Speaker 6: it's come to coaching Jamie Bickerstaff.

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Speaker 5: What has he been like it meant to this team.

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Speaker 2: I think he's meant everything. He embraces them for who

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Speaker 2: they are. I think he doesn't really try to change

534
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Speaker 2: any one person on the team, like he just tries

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Speaker 2: to play into their strength as much as possible. And

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Speaker 2: when I first got here, I was talking to Kid

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Speaker 2: about that losing streak for a story I was working

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Speaker 2: on last year, And it sounds counterintuitive, but he was

539
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Speaker 2: like man during that losing streak, It just made me

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Speaker 2: more sure of myself and the conviction he has to

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Speaker 2: feel that way while essentially being the laugh of stock

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Speaker 2: the league. It's kind of why he feels he's in

543
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Speaker 2: the position that he always was meant to be now

544
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Speaker 2: as as an All Star starter, likely going to be

545
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Speaker 2: a first team All NBA players. So to answer your question,

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Speaker 2: I think jav he's really changed the closer here and

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Speaker 2: he just embraces the team for who they are and

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Speaker 2: it aligns with how the city approaches a lot of

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Speaker 2: things as well.

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Speaker 4: I want to give him credit, but I also think

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Speaker 4: that Manti Williams, there's no way that team should have

552
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Speaker 4: lost twenty seven games in a row in the NBA

553
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Speaker 4: like mine at all, Like like that is a that

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Speaker 4: is a mark against Monti Williams, not about the players

555
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Speaker 4: because something didn't didn't. There's too many bad teams in

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Speaker 4: the NBA we're watching to right now for you to.

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Speaker 5: Be able to go through that kind of a stretch.

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Speaker 4: You get what I'm saying, Like like they with Ky Cunningham, you.

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Speaker 5: Lose twenty like like it just didn't make any sense.

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Speaker 4: I don't think many really wanted to be there, and

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Speaker 4: that was the problem that he came because he just

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Speaker 4: took the money and he really I don't think his

563
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Speaker 4: heart was really in it. Let me switch over to

564
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Speaker 4: just a city we already know. The city went crazy

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Speaker 4: for the Lions, thought they were air Mark for the

566
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Speaker 4: Super Bowl. I think that shit has sailed, But now

567
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Speaker 4: the excitement to me seems to be moving towards the Pistons.

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Speaker 4: Just what's the city like and where do people realistically

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Speaker 4: think that they can be.

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Speaker 2: The city's been really alive, I think, just as much

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Speaker 2: as you can be with as much snow. But Kane

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Speaker 2: and the Pistons are giving the city a lot of hope,

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Speaker 2: I think for competitive playoff basketball. I don't know if

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Speaker 2: anyone is considering them a lot to get to the

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Speaker 2: finals and win the finals or anything like that. I

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Speaker 2: think people are kind of dis enjoying them exceeding expectations

577
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Speaker 2: for two seasons in a row, and I expect them

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Speaker 2: to be really competitive. I think they'll get out of

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Speaker 2: the first round this year, but I'm not putting any

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Speaker 2: extremely lofty expectations on them since they didn't win a

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Speaker 2: series last year.

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Speaker 6: Here is Hunter Patterson with the athletic cover and the

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Speaker 6: Detroit Pistons. One of the things I do like and Rob,

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Speaker 6: you were there all those years is that the Pistons

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Speaker 6: were in Palace Auber Hills.

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Speaker 5: They're in Auburn Hills and it's just a different feel.

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Speaker 6: And although those teams were all the Detroit Basketball Pistons

588
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Speaker 6: are great, it was so doubt this era they have

589
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Speaker 6: really embraced the city. Both the city has embraced the

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Speaker 6: players in the team. They're downtown now and it seems

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Speaker 6: to be something where they feel like it's a change

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Speaker 6: in the culture in the city versus just oh, we

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Speaker 6: got a team, like they're embracing the city, the city's

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Speaker 6: embracing the players.

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Speaker 3: Am I wrong?

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Speaker 5: Because I'm not back that way all the time?

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Speaker 2: All the games. The games are a ton of fun.

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Speaker 2: I mean, I think the team has kind of like

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Speaker 2: that blue collar mentality that the city has. The team

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Speaker 2: is just kind of given in the city. Is sins

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Speaker 2: a pride where it's like, Okay, we've been pretty bad

602
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Speaker 2: for the last handful of years and now like we're

603
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Speaker 2: going in the games expecting to win. There if the

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Speaker 2: Pistons go on kind of a cold streat throughout the game,

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Speaker 2: like the fans are critical and they're not like holding

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Speaker 2: back on their frustration because they haven't expectations of winning.

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Speaker 5: Now, that's a good point. Yeah, And.

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Speaker 4: I know that they're trying to replicate the two thousand

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Speaker 4: and four in the building, you know, at Little Caesars.

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Speaker 5: How was that? How was that being the received?

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Speaker 8: Yeah?

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Speaker 4: Received by fans? Are they embracing that? Do they think

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Speaker 4: they need to carve out their own kind of niche?

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Speaker 4: And I know Mason is such a great PA announcer

615
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Speaker 4: and PERI the two thousand and four and I've told

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Speaker 4: the story a million times to Kelvin like Ja and

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Speaker 4: Donde back in the day with covered to the NBA Finals.

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Speaker 4: We're sitting there all the writers, you know, before the playoff,

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Speaker 4: before a finals game, and he gets up to go

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Speaker 4: all out to the court and I'm like, where you going?

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Speaker 4: You know, it's still like ten minutes before the game starts.

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Speaker 4: He's like, I want to go. Hear Mason's do the intros?

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Speaker 4: And I was like, here's a longtime NBA guy who

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Speaker 4: cares about the intros And I just wonder about that.

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Speaker 5: Are people enjoying that?

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Speaker 4: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: Mason? I mean, y'all obviously, no, he's a legend. He

628
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Speaker 2: still he has like his go to catch phrases. Detroit

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Speaker 2: basketball is obviously the most famous one. He has the

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Speaker 2: Pistons basketball going back down the floor, and the fans

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Speaker 2: are really receptive to the way he engages with the crowd.

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Speaker 2: And I think this rendition of the Pistons is kind

633
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Speaker 2: of like the Dogtown is what they call themselves. That's

634
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Speaker 2: Stu Isaia Stuart, Jalen, durn, Ron holland Paul Reed. They

635
00:29:53,520 --> 00:29:56,200
Speaker 2: joke with the Starr that he's like two, nice to

636
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Speaker 2: be in the dogtown, but he fished the mold. And

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Speaker 2: I think that's kind of where their head is. Like,

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00:30:03,960 --> 00:30:06,240
Speaker 2: obviously it was bad boys going to work, and now

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Speaker 2: this group of Pistons kind of considered themselves like the

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Speaker 2: Dogtown Pistons.

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Speaker 5: Hey, last one for me? Who's the nemesis?

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00:30:14,560 --> 00:30:17,680
Speaker 6: They've they've obviously had the Knicks numbers, but ultimately playoffs matter.

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Speaker 5: But who's the team?

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Speaker 8: You say?

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Speaker 5: Hey, you know.

646
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Speaker 6: Is Charlotte is a sneaky little Charlotte team?

647
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Speaker 5: Is has Umbo? Who's the team?

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Speaker 8: You say?

649
00:30:27,480 --> 00:30:29,360
Speaker 6: I know they've been playing well, but what were the postseason?

650
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Speaker 6: This could be a tough one.

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Speaker 2: I think, just because of how how the series went

652
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Speaker 2: last year. Is still the Knicks because the Pistons had

653
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Speaker 2: the Knicks number in the regular season last year, and

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Speaker 2: the Knicks were still able to win in six games.

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Speaker 2: Jalen Brunton had the moment where I'll never forget, like

656
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Speaker 2: he got left to right on the saar, he lost

657
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Speaker 2: the sar and he sunk the three pointer and just

658
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Speaker 2: all of little Casons was just dejected.

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Speaker 5: Shot.

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Speaker 10: It was.

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Speaker 2: It was amazing like it gott to give got to

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Speaker 2: give credit to Brunson on that one. But I think

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Speaker 2: until they get past the Knicks, and you see it

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Speaker 2: in the approach over there three games that they played

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Speaker 2: this year, they blew them out each time. They won't

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Speaker 2: say that they get up for the games against the Knicks,

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Speaker 2: but based on how they play, it seems they do.

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Speaker 2: And I think that's all because they still want to

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Speaker 2: kind of get their get back from last postseason for sure.

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Speaker 6: All right, hey, hudder Man, we appreciate it. Thank you,

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Speaker 6: keep doing great work.

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Speaker 2: Yes, sir, I appreciate you all.

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Speaker 5: Yes, keep it up. My man will talk soon.

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Speaker 2: Sounds good.

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Speaker 4: All right, when's the last time Kelvin text you look

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Speaker 4: at this dude?

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Speaker 7: Right there you go?

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Speaker 5: You know what? There you go, there you go, there

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Speaker 5: you go. That's all I want you to know.

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Speaker 6: You to thank you in fourteen years, honor right now,

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Speaker 6: but sixteen thanks.

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Speaker 5: Appreciate it all right, appreciate.

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Speaker 6: You, no doubt I got you one down. That was

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Speaker 6: the moment I wish. I wanted somebody to call you

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Speaker 6: and tell you, Rob up and mean to tell you.

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Speaker 6: Betweenty five years this is your son. I want you

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Speaker 6: to have some kids right there? What did you have

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Speaker 6: some kids?

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Speaker 3: Hey?

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Speaker 6: Last Call eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox eight

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Speaker 6: seven seven ninety nine on Fox Last Call, it is

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Speaker 6: your chance to get in on the Odd Couple.

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Speaker 5: Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 3: It's last call time on the Odd Couple. If you

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Speaker 3: had a take and couldn't get in a whole show,

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Speaker 3: here's your chan you call your point call us eight

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Speaker 3: seven seven ninety nine on Fox. Hurry up, Robin Kelvin,

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Speaker 3: gotta get out of here. Be sure to catch live

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Speaker 3: editions of The Odd Couple with Rob Parker and Kelvin

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Speaker 3: Washington weekdays at seven pm Eastern, four pm Pacific on

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Speaker 3: Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio app.

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Speaker 5: You know what she was right, Alex.

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Speaker 6: Howse, Fox Sports Radio. It's The Odd Couple, Rob Parker,

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Speaker 6: Kelvin Washington. One more time for us on this Funky

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Speaker 6: Flashback Friday. Thanks to Hunter Patterson for joining the show, Robs,

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Speaker 6: Ryan Field Mente for.

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Speaker 5: Joining, Rick Buker for joining as well. Rob's menty can't

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Speaker 5: hear you. I don't know why I can't hear you.

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Speaker 5: Oh there we go, say it again, I said, Rob's menty,

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Speaker 5: Rick Buker, r Bert.

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Speaker 6: Wait a minute, Rick never mind said no, no, no, I know,

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Speaker 6: but I saw so.

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Speaker 5: I'll tell you off the air. I'll tell you off

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Speaker 5: the air.

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Speaker 6: But yeah, shouts to everybody who joined the show, Robs.

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Speaker 8: Rot last time on the Ondcomet.

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Speaker 4: Oh that's right, Rocky in South Carolina. You're on the

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Speaker 4: Odd Couple Fox Sports Radio. The last caller here on

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Speaker 4: the Odd Couple Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 10: Happy Funky Flashback Friday. And before I get into my comments,

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Speaker 10: you know, I'm an old really, I'm a rockout dude.

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Speaker 10: But back in the day we could funk it out

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Speaker 10: too in the locker rooms. Sister slegs. We're family, always played.

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Speaker 4: We Family nineteen seventy nine Pittsburgh Pirates championship team that

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Speaker 4: was there.

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Speaker 5: We are family. Nice.

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Speaker 10: We had we had the Commodoores, the Isley Brothers, the

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Speaker 10: Elements are Winding fire Rink Jane why we had it

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Speaker 10: all going Okay, So, so I you know I love

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Speaker 10: all genres. Rob, I'm actually calling my first question, and

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Speaker 10: this is more career and your Detroit roots, and so

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Speaker 10: I'm kind of curious, did you start like with you

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Speaker 10: with the Free Press, like with the paper, or when

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Speaker 10: you got going in your journalism career.

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Speaker 5: I got there.

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Speaker 4: I had worked in New York already for five years,

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Speaker 4: and I worked in Cincinnati for two so and I

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Speaker 4: started in Wilkesbury, so I had eight years when I

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Speaker 4: showed up in Detroit, but I wound up working there

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Speaker 4: for twenty years.

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Speaker 5: And I started with the newspapers.

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Speaker 4: I worked for the Free Press, first did radio television.

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Speaker 5: And then worked for the news and then the other stations.

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Speaker 4: So I spent a long time I'm very, very thankful

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Speaker 4: for my twenty years in Detroit, and it was the

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Speaker 4: place that really gave me that platform that I you know,

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Speaker 4: for my career.

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Speaker 5: Like so, I'm always thankful. I was tired of him. Yeah,

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Speaker 5: oh you.

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Speaker 4: And my ex wife, who after we got divorce, was like,

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Speaker 4: I can't take it away Atbury Rocky, what I'll seeing

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Speaker 4: my mug.

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Speaker 5: So she was actually that's a good point. Yes, she

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Speaker 5: said she hated it. She told me that my wife

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Speaker 5: she had turn on Spectrum every day right there and there.

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Speaker 4: So, yes, Rocky did. De Troit was definitely a big

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Speaker 4: part of my career.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, thank you.

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Speaker 6: I was tired of seeing you every time I turn

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Speaker 6: on the TV. They turn on the radio everywhere. Then

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Speaker 6: then you was out on the streets too, see you

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Speaker 6: in the streets.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, back in the day, those were the good old days.

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Speaker 4: I was young, fun, great weekend ahead. I'm going to

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Speaker 4: a comedy club performing. I need that Kawhi laugh in

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Speaker 4: order to perform. Just make sure you bring Manti you

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Speaker 4: good Manzi. She's always gonna laugh for you. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 4: that said nothing. I'm you know, I said, I'm going

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Speaker 4: to Syracuse on Monday night, So I'm gonna take it

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Speaker 4: easy this weekend.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm gonna try to get out. We got a

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Speaker 6: birthday party. Shout out to my nephew, Julian, Happy birthday

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Speaker 6: to him. We'll have this party tomorrow and after that, man,

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Speaker 6: I might try to sneak out get.

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Speaker 4: A little all the birthdays in cupcake? How many cupcakes

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Speaker 4: you're gonna eat?

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Speaker 6: It slowed down a little bit, thank God, because I'm

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Speaker 6: fighting for my life. But uh, looking forward a little

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Speaker 6: relaxation too, man, So enjoy your weekend. We'll be right

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Speaker 6: back at it on Monday. Show boys the O Couple

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Speaker 6: on Fox Sports Radio, The.

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Speaker 4: Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon is coming up next.

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Speaker 3: I never miss your radio show.

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Speaker 8: I never hear it, so I never miss it. Did

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Speaker 8: you hear that