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Speaker 1: We have a very very very special guest joining us,

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Speaker 1: Jason Adam, one of the Padres top relievers and really

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Speaker 1: one of the top relievers in all of baseball. He

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Speaker 1: is joining us here from his hotel Verbon, Cincinnati. Jason,

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Speaker 1: thank you so much for joining us today. It's great

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Speaker 1: to see you.

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Speaker 2: Great seeing you guys. Thanks for having me on.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, my leisure.

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Speaker 1: So we've got two you know again, We've got a

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Speaker 1: three time All Star closer here in Heath Bell, one

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Speaker 1: of the best relievers in baseball, and Jason Adam. This

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Speaker 1: show is definitely getting locked down today. Jason, I want

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Speaker 1: to start first and foremost. The Padres bullpen has been

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Speaker 1: fantastic all season long. Every unit, you guys have been

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Speaker 1: one of the best in Major League Baseball start to finish,

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Speaker 1: and you've really been at the center of that. You

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Speaker 1: have the lowest DRA of any reliever in the Padres bullpen,

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Speaker 1: and not only do you have the most appearances of

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Speaker 1: anyone on the Padres, you lead major League Baseball and appearances.

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Speaker 1: You've really had a tremendous season so far from a

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Speaker 1: unit perspective. What has been the key to your guys' success?

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Speaker 1: Would you say this year.

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Speaker 2: Man, I mean so much.

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Speaker 3: It's such a special group to be a part of.

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Speaker 3: I think just like to encompass the whole bullpen. Though

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Speaker 3: there was an outing, I left the bases loaded. I

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Speaker 3: pitched terribly bases loaded. Suarez came in so we had

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Speaker 3: to do one and a third.

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Speaker 2: For the save. He bailed me out. So I was

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Speaker 2: talking to him in the pen next day.

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Speaker 3: I was like, brother, I was like, sorry to make

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Speaker 3: it come in early, like I sucked, and he goes, hey,

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Speaker 3: cover and move, man, and so like that's kind of

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Speaker 3: our motto is cover and move. And I think that's

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Speaker 3: just that's all we're trying to do when Chill calls

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Speaker 2: We're trying to get the job done.

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Speaker 4: Yeah. I got two questions for you.

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Speaker 5: One, what do you guys do down the bullpen nowadays

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Speaker 5: to have fun with each other? Is there any other

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Speaker 5: quirks that you guys down there. Certain people have rituals

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Speaker 5: like certain piece of candy or drink certain kind of

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: The I mean, yes, we're all it's a weird group.

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Speaker 3: I mean I think that's universal. The bulpit's always a

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Speaker 3: group of weird guys. We don't have a ton of

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Speaker 3: it's hidden. I know a lot of the guys like

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Speaker 3: to have competitions smashing red Bull can see who can

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Speaker 3: you know, get the most precise circle.

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Speaker 2: But no, it's just a fun group.

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Speaker 3: It's you don't talk a ton of baseball the first

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Speaker 3: few innings and then you start walking it in.

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Speaker 4: Do you guys go down in that tunnel still?

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Speaker 2: Yes, Oh yeah, yeah, that's that's the best spot.

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Speaker 3: I mean, it's so bad under there, but it's it's

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Speaker 3: really yeah, it's I don't know what's wrong, but yeah,

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Speaker 3: it stinks.

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Speaker 1: Clarify what what are we talking about here?

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Speaker 3: Just to clarify, Like there's a little like seating underneath

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Speaker 5: And in my day you could watch the game down

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Speaker 5: there at like field level at the dirt.

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Speaker 4: Now they move the fences in you can't.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but yeah to.

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Speaker 5: A red Bull fridge down there used to be a couch, TV, yeah, bathroom.

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Speaker 2: Yep, yeah, that's it.

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Speaker 3: We still got all that which you can't you can't

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Speaker 5: So then here's the other question, do you guys ever

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Speaker 4: Because you know, I just hit.

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Speaker 2: I beg every day.

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Speaker 3: I'm like please, yeah, but no, apparently I hold I

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Speaker 3: held no authority in that situation I have.

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Speaker 2: They won't even let me touch it.

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Speaker 5: But spring training, they won't let you guys take VP

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Speaker 2: Up, like nothing. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: I got to take VP a couple of times with

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Speaker 5: But now, my most exciting part of every spring training

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Speaker 4: Yeah, used it?

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Speaker 2: Yeah exactly, Yeah, yeah, you for sure never used it.

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Speaker 2: But it's it's all about what could be, you know, Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely, Jason, I want to talk about, you know, weird

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Speaker 3: I played a couple of times and got embarrassed, so

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Speaker 2: Man, I can't pick if I pick one of those

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Speaker 4: Upset, who's the top three, who's the time?

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Speaker 3: I think, uh Morehane's pretty good at it, Estrada is

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Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, there you go. Three of the four

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Speaker 1: big horses there. They're out great and crushing red bull cans.

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Speaker 2: So that's all that matters.

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Speaker 4: It gives you.

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Speaker 2: It's right.

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Speaker 1: Aslee Jason, you talk about interesting bullpen rituals, asking what

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Speaker 1: I want to ask about yours? You do somersaults in

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Speaker 1: of the more unique ones. I know you mentioned when

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Speaker 4: Sata like what is this, dude, this is really weird.

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Speaker 1: When did that start? How did that start? That's certainly

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so that start, I guess last season was the

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Speaker 3: stemmed to the previous off season. I was talking with

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Speaker 3: So I did it all off season and I felt great,

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Speaker 2: So I just was like, you know what this looks.

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Speaker 3: It was a lot easier in Tampa because we had

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Speaker 5: I thought, maybe you saw them at the park. At

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Speaker 5: the park, I could do that.

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Speaker 2: And I.

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Speaker 4: Absolutely yeah.

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Speaker 1: No, I mean, hey, whatever works, and clearly it's been

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Speaker 1: little bit. I don't know if people really appreciate just

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Speaker 1: how much perseverance you've had to show throughout your career

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Speaker 1: to get to this point. You had four elbow surgeries

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Speaker 3: Yes, yeah, one hundred percent, and not necessarily the physical toll.

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Speaker 3: The weird that with the missing the two and a

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Speaker 3: You're not going to see a game for over a year.

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Speaker 3: For me, it was like, hey, you're just gonna rest

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Speaker 3: two more months, two more months and we just kept stacking.

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Speaker 3: So in some ways that was hard, obviously because I

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Speaker 2: Out for a while, because if it upfront they would

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Speaker 4: But uh, you know, w Yeah, now I'm.

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Speaker 3: Putting that off as long as I can. But I

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Speaker 3: peace about it. Still a piece about it, and it's

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Speaker 3: a conversation we revisit every year because.

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Speaker 2: I love this game.

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Speaker 3: I love playing, but yeah, it's you have to evaluate

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Speaker 3: always what's best for you and your family, and right

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Speaker 3: now this is definitely seems to be what's best for us,

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Speaker 1: Just to follow up on that, having that experiences, how

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Speaker 1: has that shaped your perspective on being a major league

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Speaker 5: This is?

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Speaker 1: How has this shaped your perspective of the game.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that, I mean, you kind of hit it on

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Speaker 3: the head. It changed everything for my view, and it's

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Speaker 3: made the game a lot more fun. I mean, if

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Speaker 3: I go I go out there every night saying this

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Speaker 2: A touch of baseball? Is that the most likely thing?

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Speaker 4: No?

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Speaker 2: But you know, you never know you could take it.

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Speaker 3: I'm always like I could take a comeback or off

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Speaker 3: the throat and be done, you know, like it's just

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Speaker 3: like it. So it's a it's a fleeting game, but

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Speaker 3: I love it and I love getting a play. So

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Speaker 3: it brings some of the child like joy back and

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Speaker 2: You play a little harder, work a little harder because you.

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Speaker 3: Want to really want to enjoy and maximize on the

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Speaker 5: So what a little quirks or what do you do

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Speaker 3: of Jason, we're playing the Reds today.

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Speaker 2: Like, just joking with me, but where Cincinnati?

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Speaker 3: When I'm there, when I'm in, when i'm at the field,

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Speaker 4: And if what's your favor what's your favorite bullpen for?

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Speaker 5: Did you know in fact, that you didn't know about

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Speaker 1: Absolutely, Jason, it's been almost a calendar year now that

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Yeah, it's it's an awesome, awesome group, I think. Uh,

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Speaker 3: You know, we're not we don't want to mess with you.

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Speaker 2: On the game plan NonStop.

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Speaker 1: You know, a lot of people don't realize this is

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I think San Diego does that to a lot

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Speaker 5: So really quick, last question for me is do you

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Speaker 3: What he's always he's always working. I mean, I honestly,

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Speaker 2: As good as we should from top to bottom.

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Speaker 5: I feel like you're ahead of the game already.

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Speaker 3: But honestly, I feel great about the team we have

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Speaker 1: Jason, I know you got to a head to the

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Speaker 1: Mentioned having a feeling that Aj Preller would acquire you.

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Speaker 1: I want to go back fifteen years. You're in high

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think he just showed.

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Speaker 3: but I got those two. It was them too, that

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Speaker 3: were he was around all the time, keeping in touch.

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Speaker 3: And now I know that's like now I know he's

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Speaker 3: just he.

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Speaker 2: Is always working. He's like he's incredible.

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Speaker 3: So like I now I know like maybe he was

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Speaker 2: But at the time, we would guess and we're kind

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Speaker 3: It's like I think it's going to be Texas, you know,

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Speaker 3: like it just it just seemed like that was the fit.

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Speaker 3: Then obviously I got to go to Kansas City which

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Speaker 3: was awesome and love that, but uh yeah, and then

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Speaker 3: just in the fact that he, I mean, he scouts

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Speaker 3: how many people every year? And then when I ran

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Speaker 3: into him that many years later, or when I ran

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Speaker 3: into him in seventeen, whenever seventeen, when I was back

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Speaker 3: I'm like, God, You're like that was like eight years ago,

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Speaker 3: but uh yeah, his mind is sharp.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely, Hey, he wanted you in twenty ten, then he

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Speaker 1: signed you in twenty seventeen, he brought you back twenty four,

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Speaker 1: so clearly.

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Speaker 2: Fourteen years later we made it happen.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely all right, Well, Jason, thank you so so much

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Speaker 1: for your time. We really really appreciate it. Congratulations on

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Speaker 1: the great season you're having, and we look forward to

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Speaker 1: seeing what's to come.

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Speaker 2: Thank you, guys, thanks for having me on