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Speaker 1: How have you been enjoying the broadcast stuff like Year two?

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Speaker 1: How do you like it? You see a future here? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: I want to be the best broadcast. No, not really,

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Speaker 1: a few things. Yeah, and we'll get you back on

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Speaker 1: up to the third member. Friend of the lounge, four friend.

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Speaker 1: Yes see, if you get on seat, Cliff, I don't know,

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Speaker 1: you got a long way to go. I think that's

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Speaker 1: Danna said it best, he's a poor man's hayden Hurst's anyway,

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Speaker 1: good stuff and as always, you can reach us at

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Speaker 1: the Lounge at Ravens dot NFL dot net. We need

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Speaker 1: more emails ratings to actually there's people have been sending

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Speaker 1: in some ratings, so we'll read it rating next week.

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Speaker 1: But we need some more ratings and reviews. Yeah, some

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Speaker 1: five Obviously we don't read anything on the five stars,

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Speaker 1: So sending some of those five star ratings and reviews

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Speaker 1: and we're going to read a couple of them next week. Nice. Anyway,

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