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Speaker 1: Welcome to the favorite. It's from the Volume podcast Network

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Speaker 1: Massive Massive Show. It's time to enter the Thursday Thunderdome.

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Speaker 1: On today's show, our special guests will compete alongside my

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Speaker 1: co host, my bff, my companion Professional Sports Better Simon Hunter,

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Speaker 1: in an epic test of wagers and wits that's quickly

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Speaker 1: made this show the most celebrated tangentially sports betting related

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Speaker 1: audio program since the advent of the recorded voice, Simon,

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Speaker 1: Before I get to our guests, how are you any

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Speaker 1: burner cars that you're leaving in parking lots? And he

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Speaker 1: bags of cash you're taken anywhere? What's going on? I

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Speaker 1: could be Man, it's gonna be a weird chat in

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Speaker 1: like a couple of years. You know. I'm gonna be

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Speaker 1: talking to like future wife. Hopefully she's gonna say how

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Speaker 1: do you make all your money? And it's not gonna

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Speaker 1: because of the action networker sports betting. It's gonna because

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Speaker 1: some meme stock and some meme crypto currency. Because I'm

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Speaker 1: one of those people that bought AMC all the way

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Speaker 1: back in January, and I bought BlackBerry back in January. Chad,

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Speaker 1: I'm flushed. Your boy is flushed, right, now nothing makes sense.

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Speaker 1: You know, my greatest wish for you is to find love.

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Speaker 1: You know, I'm a huge fan of love and I

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Speaker 1: want you to experience that. And if it happens from

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Speaker 1: this podcast, all the better. Simon a man who needs

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Speaker 1: no introduction, Your first challenger, a powerhouse in the sports

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Speaker 1: world as the CEO of Harris Blitzer Sports Entertainment, which

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Speaker 1: owns and operates the Advancing Philadelphia seventy and the New

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Speaker 1: Jersey Devils. Let me just say this. He's got a book,

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Speaker 1: a new book called Be Where Your Feet Are. Seven

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Speaker 1: Principles to keep you present, grounded, and thriving. It's got

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Speaker 1: insights and lessons from millions of people, not millions, but many,

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Speaker 1: many people that hear, millions of people, influential people in

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Speaker 1: business and sports, personalities, athletes, multiple NBA commissioners, award winning filmmakers.

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Speaker 1: Let me say this before we actually let Scott O'Neill

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Speaker 1: speak after he's been spoken to, Because he is an

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Speaker 1: incredibly admired executive in sports. I have had the pleasure

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Speaker 1: of hearing him speak on panels and also moderating a

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Speaker 1: panel that he's on. For anybody who aspires to go

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Speaker 1: the sports space, the sports business space. Like nobody says

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Speaker 1: anything on these things except for one person, Scott O'Neill,

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Speaker 1: who you will walk away from a panel after listening

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Speaker 1: to him speak. I've heard him speak in massive rooms

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Speaker 1: and on zooms and he will give you something to

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Speaker 1: take away that feels real and authentic, and you're like,

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Speaker 1: all right, that's a guy who gets it. Scott, Welcome

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Speaker 1: to the Thunderdome. Thank you, it's good to be here.

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Speaker 1: Big Mad Max fan forever it's worth loves thunder Dome

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Speaker 1: back in the day. I appreciate those nice words. I

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Speaker 1: think you guys feel this way too. I mean, we're

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Speaker 1: the luckiest people in the world. I mean to get

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Speaker 1: to do what we do every day and make a

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Speaker 1: living doing this. It beats a stick in the eyes,

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Speaker 1: I like to say, and it certainly beats working for

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Speaker 1: a living. So the fact that I'm not savvy enough

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Speaker 1: not to leave any real nuggets on the table, that's

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Speaker 1: something I'm working on. I appreciate this platform and I'm

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Speaker 1: I'm ready to go. Let's go. You are, no doubt

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Speaker 1: a man, it was too big to be joining us

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Speaker 1: for this, But We're happy to have you. Uh the

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Speaker 1: second the second competitor today, not close to big enough

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Speaker 1: to be on this podcast, but we're still in. Let's go, Uh,

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Speaker 1: senior writer, one of the best connected journalists covering the

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Speaker 1: NBA today, A kid because I care, A renowned gambler

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Speaker 1: of second quarterlines, also loves to play team totals. Primary

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Speaker 1: nemesis of Fred Van bleets Mr Matt Moore, How are you, buddy?

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Speaker 1: Thanks for having me on me excited to be on

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Speaker 1: with you guys. Even if I can only barely reach

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Speaker 1: Here's how we're going to play this game today, folks. Uh.

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Speaker 1: Two kinds of questions will be answered. First, traditional trivia

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Speaker 1: questions about sports, sports, betting, the world at large. Second,

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Speaker 1: completely subjective and totally assinine, open ended questions that I

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Speaker 1: alone will judge truth be told, I almost always root

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Speaker 1: for Simon to intimate points. Uh. You must not only

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Speaker 1: answer these trivia questions correctly, you also must convince me

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Speaker 1: that your responses to these prompts are better than the

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Speaker 1: responses from your opponents, specifically Simon Part one epic fails. Scott,

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Speaker 1: You're a big time player in the sports business world,

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Speaker 1: and The Wall Street Journal recently wrote about you. In

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Speaker 1: their article about you, you are credited with the quote

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Speaker 1: failure is the best teacher. It's just not a fun teacher.

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Speaker 1: As representatives of the sports betting community we here at

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Speaker 1: the Favorites Podcast couldn't agree more. Enormous embarrassing failures are

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Speaker 1: stitched into the very fabric of sports gambling. So let's

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Speaker 1: take a look at some of the infamous failures a

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Speaker 1: k A. Incredible teachable moments in sports history Simon Forty

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Speaker 1: two years ago, the Chicago White Sox ran a promotion

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Speaker 1: and game cancelation art was arguably the franchise's lowest moment

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Speaker 1: The entire disastrous stunt led Bay local rock dj began

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Speaker 1: and I was there at that game this go. You

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Speaker 1: it very well. But what's also interesting is the Bags

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Speaker 1: like it became the backlash against disco, and what happened

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Speaker 1: the Beach's Barry give reference. Early is always critical of

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Speaker 1: and now together as authors, we are recognizing greatness. Chad

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Speaker 1: Milman wrote a book. It's sometimes difficult as authors to

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Speaker 1: you noticed that, honestly, Scott, Sometimes it's difficult as an

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Speaker 1: of benevolently Matt. After in the New York Mets released

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Speaker 1: All Right, here we go Part one prompt. Now that

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Speaker 1: have you turn the lens to yourselves. Please give me

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Speaker 1: resulted an abject failure. Then tell me the lesson you learned.

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Speaker 1: The contestant whose lesson proves the most timeless and invaluable

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Speaker 1: to our listeners will be declared the winner. I mean, Scott,

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Speaker 1: I'm going to pander. But it's actually also my answer.

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Speaker 1: It's Daryl Morey. It's absolutely Darrell Morey. The deal that

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Speaker 1: he pulled with Tracy McGrady to the Knicks, getting James Harden,

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Speaker 1: then getting value in every deal that he made throughout

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Speaker 1: that time, the the level, and also just having talked

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Speaker 1: to Darryl about his approach to negotiating, like there were

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Speaker 1: players that played great, and so many executives make the

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Speaker 1: mistake of getting emotionally attached to their players, which there's

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Speaker 1: ups and downs to both sides of that equation. But

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Speaker 1: he did such a good job of never overpaying for

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Speaker 1: players that were role players and then committing to the

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Speaker 1: players that were really worth it. Darryll got leverage on

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Speaker 1: every talking to other NBA sections stole him like like,

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Speaker 1: I mean, it's easy to get up here. Everybody knows

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Speaker 1: where the real town is. But when you bring t. J.

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Speaker 1: McConnell in to this league, don't get me a little

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Speaker 1: Robert Covington, little sprinkle a little cub cub on you,

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Speaker 1: you know, or find it Isaiah Cannon to drop a

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Speaker 1: cannonball on you. You know. My money's on Sam Hickey.

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Speaker 1: I don't feel like you are answering the spirit of

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Speaker 1: the question, which is was he a great negotiator? Is

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Speaker 1: he who would get on a on a four year

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Speaker 1: man deal? Yeah? He invented the four year Mindy Okay, alright, Simon.

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Speaker 1: So I feel like this guy is the least talked

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Speaker 1: about GM ever and he's by far the greatest GM ever.

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Speaker 1: And that's the Epstein. The guy literally turned Boston into winners,

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Speaker 1: and then with the Chicago the Cubs. The Cubs won

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Speaker 1: a World Serious people forget the Cubs actually won a

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Speaker 1: World Series. So if I was gonna send if the Devil,

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Speaker 1: I didn't negotiate with someone, I'd sent THEO because you'll

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Speaker 1: have of all the numbers and everything he needs to

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Speaker 1: get the best deal out of the Devil. Holy crap.

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Speaker 1: I think. I think there's three grade which I think

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Speaker 1: Matt hit it on the nail on the head when

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Speaker 1: he said, like, all three of these guys are emotionless.

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Speaker 1: All three of these guys like discount relationships and that's hard.

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Speaker 1: I think that's the hardest thing. I think all three

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Speaker 1: of these guys have in common. I think I hit

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Speaker 1: the ball, hit the nail on the head. Listen. Thanks.

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Speaker 1: I love Darryl Morey. I think he's a total genius.

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Speaker 1: And I think the way he won in Houston and

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Speaker 1: now the way this Sixers team is advancing, which is

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Speaker 1: an entirely different style of play, a style of play

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Speaker 1: that Darryl will you know, you could argue when he

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Speaker 1: was in Houston was pioneering sort of the the idea

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Speaker 1: of efficiency around three pointers and having a different style

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Speaker 1: of play in Philly. Love him great, Sam Hanky, huge fan.

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Speaker 1: Feel like he does not get nearly enough credit. Obviously,

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Speaker 1: it becomes sort of mocked for the process um and

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Speaker 1: not getting to sort of see how that team develops

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Speaker 1: over time. But come on, guys, Simon wins this round

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Speaker 1: like theo Epstein, what he did in Boston, what he

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Speaker 1: did in Chicago, as a Cubs fan, as a guy

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Speaker 1: who across from my current view, I'm looking at a

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Speaker 1: W flag and my ticket from the World Series in

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Speaker 1: two thousands sixteen. He fought ace, he found a way

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Speaker 1: to pander and gameless. Simon shameless, shameless, totally shameless. Matt Mitchell,

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Speaker 1: what is our score right now? Right now, Matt Moore

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Speaker 1: has three points, Scott on Nils two. It's it possible

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Speaker 1: that Simon has four, Scott has two and Matt has three.

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Speaker 1: This is amazing. I'm still gonna lose though. That's the

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Speaker 1: worst part. You know, like I'm in last, but have

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Speaker 1: a lot of momentum. You do, You have a lot

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Speaker 1: of momentum. I feel like you have a lot of

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Speaker 1: goodwill more than anything. All Right, here we go Part three.

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Speaker 1: Philly's Finest. The city of Philadelphia has long been known

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Speaker 1: for its diehard sports fans and is now becoming a

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Speaker 1: booming market for had sports gamblers as well. So let's

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Speaker 1: check your knowledge regarding the city of brotherly love, Scott,

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Speaker 1: whether you choose to see it as sad or beautiful.

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Speaker 1: One of Philadelphia's most beloved icons is Rocky Balboa, the

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Speaker 1: entirely fictional boxer portrayed by Sylvester Saloon. The original Rocky

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Speaker 1: and its many sequels are ingrained in pop culture, including

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Speaker 1: the popularization of this nickname Rockies Equestrian inspired ringside moniker

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Speaker 1: Italian style. Very nice. I mean, look, this is well.

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Speaker 1: You need a little help. You're in the last place

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Speaker 1: right now, Simon. This franchise boasts two championships and the

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Speaker 1: longest tenure in all of professional athletics. They've sported the

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Speaker 1: same name in the same city since the late eighteen hundreds.

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Speaker 1: The Phillies Boom matt In the two thousand one NBA Finals,

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Speaker 1: two teams met unexpectedly. While this Western Conference team was

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Speaker 1: plus one eighty to win it all that season, the

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Speaker 1: underdog opponent was nine to one just to win the

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Speaker 1: Eastern Conference name the combatants in the two thousand one

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Speaker 1: NBA Finals Lakers sixers. Nice. As someone whose son will

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Speaker 1: soon be living in the fighting city of Philadelphia, I'm

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Speaker 1: a huge, huge fan of the city. Great, great, great chat.

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Speaker 1: Here here's the well bought out. But I was I

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Speaker 1: just need the second part to really engage. I didn't

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Speaker 1: have anything else there, and my kids going to Drexel

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Speaker 1: in the fall. That's kind of it. I'm just congrats

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Speaker 1: on raising a child. Here we go. With enough this

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Speaker 1: is the prompt. With enough drama, a team can win

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Speaker 1: a championship and watch its players elevate from beloved athletes

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Speaker 1: to long term municipal heroes. Oh this is good. Imagine

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Speaker 1: you could dramatically win a championship for any team, and

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Speaker 1: assume your goal is to become a city's beloved, adopted son,

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Speaker 1: held in the highest esteem for generations to come. What

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Speaker 1: team would you select, in what dramatic way would you

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Speaker 1: win a championship? And in what way would you take advantage?

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Speaker 1: For example, to clear it all up, Matt Mitchell, our producer,

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Speaker 1: uh he scores all five of the Buffalo Bills touchdowns

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Speaker 1: in a Super Bowl victory, plus the sixty yard game

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Speaker 1: winning field goal of time expires. He take advantage of

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Speaker 1: this by having the American side of Niagara Falls renamed

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Speaker 1: in his honor, So at least it's nothing too grandiose.

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Speaker 1: Matt Moore, Detroit Lions overtime kickoff return. They name a

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Speaker 1: truck after me, a Matt Truck. Today. Dan Campbell, new

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Speaker 1: coach of the Detroit Lions, showed up to his press

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Speaker 1: conference wearing an f one helmet because he is the

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Speaker 1: Grand Marshal of Detroit Grand Prix Scott. Your answer, I

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Speaker 1: am the goalie for the Leafs. Uh we go four

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Speaker 1: four four, just like Moses predicted. But in Toronto they

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Speaker 1: renamed Scotia Bank Arena the Scotts Bank Arena. Yeah that

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Speaker 1: is great. Well, those are two loser franchises and you

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Speaker 1: guys are coming through in a big, big way. Simon,

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Speaker 1: you're up. Can't compete. Yeah, they're too good. I was

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Speaker 1: just gonna go with like the Jets, and I basically

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Speaker 1: was gonna go a quarterback. Can Now the more I

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Speaker 1: think about I think I would go d ND the quarterback,

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Speaker 1: and the other team would in the Super Bowl be

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Speaker 1: running the ball, running the offensive lineman's but and they'll fumble.

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Speaker 1: I'll scoop it up. I'll running for a touchdown and

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Speaker 1: it'll be the reverse of the butt fumble. I'll save

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Speaker 1: the Jets history. I think it's funny that very inadvertently

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Speaker 1: you pooped in your pants playing football in the first round,

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Speaker 1: and in the third round you're winning a game involving

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Speaker 1: the tushy. The buff bubo. Man, it's all I when

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Speaker 1: I think of the Jets now I don't think a

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00:30:58,000 --> 00:31:00,000
Speaker 1: name of anymore. All I think of is the bubb fumble.

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Speaker 1: It's it's a it's a dark days for the Jets.

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Speaker 1: Let me tell you something. Scott's gonna win this round.

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Speaker 1: The idea of getting an arena, the being in goal,

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Speaker 1: which is the most exciting position to play in the

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Speaker 1: most exciting playoffs in all the sports. Uh, and it

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Speaker 1: being the Leafs, which their tragedy for the playoffs is

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00:31:16,200 --> 00:31:20,920
Speaker 1: becoming comical and also a meme of international proportions because

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Speaker 1: it's spreading from Canada to the U S. Here we

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Speaker 1: go into the final round. The score, Matt Moore, you

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Speaker 1: have four, Scott O'Neil u f four. Simon Hunter you

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Speaker 1: have five. I know exactly how this is gonna go. Okay, okay.

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Speaker 1: The topic in the grand finale is NBA anthems. First,

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Speaker 1: close your eyes, close your eyes, very high tech. Hold

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Speaker 1: up your fingers with your wager amounts. So Scott and

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Speaker 1: Matt you can each wager up to four points. Simon

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Speaker 1: you will wager up to five points. Here we go,

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Speaker 1: all right. In then seventies, the Philadelphia seventies Sixers commissioned

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Speaker 1: a theme song entitled here Come the Sixers, which became

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Speaker 1: a favorite in the city and was played frequently enough

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Speaker 1: through their run to the NBA Championship in The song

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Speaker 1: fell out of favor for decades, but was recently resuscitated,

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Speaker 1: thanks in part to our guests and author of Be

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Speaker 1: Where Your Feet Are seventy s CEO Scott O'Neill, and

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Speaker 1: can now be heard in the arena after home victories.

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Speaker 1: One of the songs writers drew inspiration for the songs

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Speaker 1: catchy rhythm and simple lyrics from this classic children's show

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Speaker 1: after watching an episode with his daughter on the local

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Speaker 1: public broadcasting station. What is the classic children's show that

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Speaker 1: inspired the songs? Rhythm and lyrics? Back Everybody, Welco seventy

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Speaker 1: six Stop everybody, Pladelphia secondy sixes, Ada on the right

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Speaker 1: stand the bench number one Pelphia team by one five

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Speaker 1: sixers eight seventy sixes one to five sixes. Scott O'Neil,

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Speaker 1: author sports executive. You were up first. Okay, I'm not

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Speaker 1: too sure of this, but my my instincts are telling

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Speaker 1: my good is time. It's sesme Street. How which did

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Speaker 1: you wager? Four? He went all in? He is correct.

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Speaker 1: O'Neil now has eight points. Wow. Matt Moore. Matt Moore,

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Speaker 1: what is your answer? I said, reading Rainbow. Oh no,

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Speaker 1: what how many points did you wager Matt Moore? Oh no,

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Speaker 1: Now Matt has zero points. That pushed them all in,

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Speaker 1: which I appreciate. You followed your own advice after whizzing

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Speaker 1: on Moses Malone. You went all in. You shot your

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Speaker 1: shot like Moses Malone. It didn't work out. Simon Hunter,

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Speaker 1: you are up next. This is stressing me out, and

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Speaker 1: I'm not sure why. I'm feeling like competitive are flowing.

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Speaker 1: I'll tell you right now. It's a chance to be

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Speaker 1: the champion of the Thunderdome. Let me break it on

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Speaker 1: the fourth wall here, Chad says he's trying to help me.

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Speaker 1: I have yet to in this show. We've been doing

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Speaker 1: it now for about four months. I have yet to win.

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Speaker 1: I come in here every Thursday and I lose. And man,

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Speaker 1: it feels good because this question, like you said, what

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Speaker 1: was it nineteen seventy nine, so it's twenty one years

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Speaker 1: before I was born. That's me Street. I got it.

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Speaker 1: I released all five points. I finally won all. I

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Speaker 1: want to welcome to the thunder Dome, dude, Simon Hunter,

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Speaker 1: I'm blast in Tupac as we speak, California. Oh my god,

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Speaker 1: I am so excited for you. I'm sad for Scott

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Speaker 1: because I feel like he he really played well and

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Speaker 1: all are learning though happens when we fail, that's true,

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Speaker 1: and you know what, at the top of the show,

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Speaker 1: failure is not always a fun, teacher, but in this case,

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Speaker 1: I think you can argue it was. It was very

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Speaker 1: fun teacher, Simon Hunter. Congratulations on your first win in

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Speaker 1: the thunder Dome. The book is be where your Feet

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Speaker 1: our seven principles to keep you present, grounded, and thriving.

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Speaker 1: Congrats on the book. That's super exciting to write a book.

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Speaker 1: It is super exciting to have it published. You are

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Speaker 1: now a author, unparalleled and executive unparalleled. Well done. I appreciate.

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Speaker 1: I'd love to have and you guy all want to

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Speaker 1: come down to a game. Let me know. Matt Moore,

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Speaker 1: Action Network Senior Writer Analyst extraordinariy. You are on everything

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Speaker 1: we do and you are so appreciated and valued by

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Speaker 1: me and everybody in the Action Network universe. I'm sorry

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Speaker 1: this one didn't work out, but you will have other

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Speaker 1: chances again next time. Scott, listen, I gotta take my

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Speaker 1: kid to Drexel. I'll come down, We'll go to Vettery.

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Speaker 1: We'll see I would it. Simon, you can come to

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Speaker 1: you're in the area. Thank you. Uh. This has been

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