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Speaker 1: Pittsburgh Trend Twins. I had a tough time with that, Mario.

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Speaker 1: Am you over there? That is that? I'm sorry, I'm sorry,

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Speaker 1: I'm not seeing too well. Is that papl Burrey over there?

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Speaker 1: Ah ship, I am Jack? That is Miles. I am

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Speaker 1: recording live from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. By didn't play for them.

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Speaker 1: I don't know, man, that's Plenty. I'm like, I'm just

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Speaker 1: going back into my old hockey mind and I'm like, no,

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Speaker 1: yagerm you Sydney Cross kid, those are the Those are

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Speaker 1: the great Penguin Penguins. Anyways, let's stay on the sports tip.

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Speaker 1: I'm talking about Serena Williams because she has announced that

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Speaker 1: she's most likely going to retire after the US open Um,

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Speaker 1: bringing to an end the greatest sports career in the

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Speaker 1: history of American sports. Twenty three Grand Slam singles titles,

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Speaker 1: the most in the open era. Yeah, I mean yeah,

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Speaker 1: I'd say that seventy three singles titles two pretty good record. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I think one of the most dominant athletes of my

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Speaker 1: time witnessing it, just like overall, mover and Shaker always

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Speaker 1: you know, doing what's right, doing what's best, And I

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Speaker 1: hope she has a wonderful career in retirement, just laying down, relaxing, maxing,

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Speaker 1: all cool and people. Yeah, when a couple of guys

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Speaker 1: who are up to no good, hopefully that part doesn't happen.

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Speaker 1: Well she got in one little fight, the people who

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Speaker 1: are up to no good would get scared. Yeah, and

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Speaker 1: then you'll be like, now you must leave bel air, right, Okay,

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Speaker 1: thank you. By the way, you are hearing a landline

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Speaker 1: that is not your imagination. I'm recording this from my

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Speaker 1: in laws. They still possess a landline that is very active.

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Speaker 1: So just you know, we're not gonna We're not gonna

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Speaker 1: edit it out. You're just gonna keep it after to

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Speaker 1: remember days gone by when land lines were a thing.

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Speaker 1: But I think what's a good thing though about this

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Speaker 1: retirement announcement is the way she described it, because she

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Speaker 1: just described it as like I will evolve away from tennis. Hell, yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's like some fucking like this is my final form,

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Speaker 1: Like Serena Williams the dominant athlete, and like Mover and

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Speaker 1: Shaker was one dimension, I am now the lord of

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Speaker 1: your all reality. I'm like Okay that appropriately, Doctor Manhattan asked, like,

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Speaker 1: you know, just like that's all she's been on the

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Speaker 1: whole time, Bread and Doctor Manhattan this and go live

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Speaker 1: on a different planet and be like right, yeah, um damn,

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Speaker 1: they're persistent as well. Uh, civil war is trending. We're

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Speaker 1: putting that number two. Yeah, because civil war is always trending.

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Speaker 1: Let's be honest, I mean, to be honest, the civil

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Speaker 1: war war concern pitives especially I think have been at

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Speaker 1: war since the Civil Rights Act, like since the battle

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Speaker 1: for civil rights in the sixties, and they're like, this

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Speaker 1: is a war and will always be at war. But

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Speaker 1: ever since the Trump raid, uh you know occurred, the

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Speaker 1: and like Twitter and ship like that has gone up.

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Speaker 1: As you know, I think a lot of maga people

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Speaker 1: look in horror as they see that the Feds can

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Speaker 1: knock on your door, sometimes even Donald Trump's, although they

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Speaker 1: did it when he was not there. Rum they did

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Speaker 1: that very specifically. Yeah, the consequences of actions or something

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Speaker 1: that is seems seems like they're not willing to well,

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Speaker 1: we'll dig into it more. And I think, yeah, it's

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Speaker 1: it's it's worth noting for anybody who's like that's the

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Speaker 1: like when they eventually get power again, they're gonna go

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Speaker 1: all in on this thing where it's like anyone who

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Speaker 1: enemy and we'll go to jail. And I don't care

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Speaker 1: if we have to get rid of the FBI, the army,

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Speaker 1: whatever on our way there. They're early already laying the

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Speaker 1: groundwork to like kill us, like they're they're doing the groomership,

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Speaker 1: like you know, the most extreme language that you could

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Speaker 1: possibly have. The if you vote for Biden, you are

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Speaker 1: quick to be very upset. Um. I want to read

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Speaker 1: one tweet from Dan McCoy who tweeted Scott Adams, one

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Speaker 1: of our favorite right wing people of the Yeah, he tweeted,

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Speaker 1: I will allow my government forty eight hours to explain itself,

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Speaker 1: and then Dan McCoy wrote, and then I will continue

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Speaker 1: allowing successive periods of forty eight hours. And definitely because

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Speaker 1: I'm just the in cel who right, Gilbert. Um, But

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Speaker 1: that's that's what I'm hoping this all this it's activated

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Speaker 1: it's really nice to see the people who out themselves

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Speaker 1: and he's coming back as a heel like the latter

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Speaker 1: form of Hulk Hogan. I mean, you know strange Bedfellows.

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Speaker 1: You know, when it's like, yeah, they don't investigate me,

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Speaker 1: crew comes out in full force. Uh, speaking of they

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Speaker 1: don't investigate me crew. Uh. Fred Savage has been booted

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Speaker 1: from the Wonder Year's reboot for what what's being described

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Speaker 1: It seems like in this Hollywood Reporter article, it's like

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Speaker 1: they said this one alleged uh erratic behavior is was

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Speaker 1: and it led to six women on the crew to

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Speaker 1: report savage to HR, which resulted in a swift investigation.

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Speaker 1: Quote to their credit, I was contacted with and within hours,

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Speaker 1: one woman tells the Hollywood Reporter, an investigation started immediately

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Speaker 1: and he was barred from set. Yeah. So is he

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Speaker 1: basic runner. That's right. He his second career was as

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Speaker 1: That's what's going on there. And I was like, I

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Speaker 1: had no idea there was a fucking Wonder Years reboot.

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Speaker 1: Oh wait, wasn't this one like the one where like

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Speaker 1: yeah it was. It was a very popular bus ad

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Speaker 1: that seventies eighties? What are we really talking about? Fifties six? Anyways,

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Speaker 1: we're back and Lamont Dozer is ending. Yeah, yeah, that's

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Speaker 1: I mean, if anybody who has listened to I don't know,

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Speaker 1: any music ever in America, you've probably heard a track

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Speaker 1: from like the legendary songwriting trio of Holland Doze or Holland.

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Speaker 1: These people are responsible for some of the greatest songs

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Speaker 1: like of all time. They were like just cranking out

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Speaker 1: hits from Motown, Like I don't know, have you heard

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Speaker 1: a song baby Love? Or come see about Me? Or

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Speaker 1: how Sweet it is to be Loved by you? Heat Wave, Uh,

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Speaker 1: nowhere to run? Uh? Like honestly, there's like you can

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Speaker 1: I think it's just yeah, sad time for for music lovers.

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Speaker 1: clean the funk up. Um, I've heard of all those

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Speaker 1: take me to church? So uh that's where I'm um.

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Speaker 1: But you know their work, you know their work. Ben

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Speaker 1: Simmons is trending. Uh, this is this feels like people

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Speaker 1: This is so in NBA news. We probably won't be

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Speaker 1: I really feel like, my man, I hope you can

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Speaker 1: But like, it's wild to just see how quickly, you know,

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Speaker 1: and like this expectation of like, well, they can do

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Speaker 1: a bunch of people constantly being toxic towards them. It's

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Speaker 1: When is it not? Folks? Bring it home, father, Oh

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Speaker 1: Just don't think that you can make everybody believe that

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