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Speaker 1: And welcome everyone to another episode of Orlando Magic Pod Squad,

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Speaker 1: this one featuring Magic second year Guard Anthony Black and

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Speaker 1: Have a great night, and drive safe. We catch up

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Speaker 1: with Magic second year man Anthony Black, and he discusses

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Speaker 1: how much he's grown from his rookie season till now

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Speaker 1: year number two.

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Speaker 3: What are the.

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Speaker 2: Areas that he's improved. What is his mindset when he's.

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Speaker 1: Out there on the floor, especially getting into the paint

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Speaker 1: and wreaking havoc on opposing defenses and then on the

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Speaker 1: defensive end. He is a one man wrecking crew. And

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Speaker 1: we get into his career assists Night nine assists against

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Speaker 1: the Phoenix Suns the other night. How good can this

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Speaker 1: Magic team be? We break it all down with Magic

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Speaker 1: Guard Anthony Black on this edition of Magic Pod Squad.

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Speaker 2: Those fawns long enough, they're Orlando Magic.

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Speaker 4: This is Cole Anthony, Missus Jennings Suggs This is Paulo

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Speaker 4: Man Carroll the Orlando Magic and you're listening to the

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Speaker 4: Pod Squad.

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Speaker 2: And welcome Ember one to another episode of Orlando Magic

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Speaker 2: Pod Squad. Dante Marcatelli, Jake Chapman, George Gallante, and Magic's

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Speaker 2: second year man Anthony Black kind enough to join us

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Speaker 2: and ab I already got a start. We've done a

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Speaker 2: lot of these things over the last ten or twelve years,

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Speaker 2: and normally the camera, the phone is sideways, there's no light.

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Speaker 2: Look at your setup. You got it right, you got

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Speaker 2: to you got your own laptop. It looks like you

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Speaker 2: got a great setup there.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, man, trying to be professional, trying to be well.

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Speaker 2: Looks good. We appreciate that. So, first of all, how

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Speaker 2: are you feeling here? We go into just just getting

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Speaker 2: started into the season, but it feels like we've just

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Speaker 2: finished a five game road trip right back out on

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Speaker 2: the road. You is it the time of year? Do

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Speaker 2: you know what time zone you're in? Do you know

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Speaker 2: what day it is? Any of that stuff.

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Speaker 4: I was definitely feeling like, I don't know they answered

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Speaker 4: any of those questions, But uh, feeling good man. You know,

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Speaker 4: we're playing good balls, so it's always fun. Going on

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Speaker 4: the road, you know, on the streak. So yes, it's good,

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Speaker 4: good trip, good home stands, So definitely feeling good.

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Speaker 2: Well, let's start about Let's start with how your team

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Speaker 2: is playing right now. Maybe we'll get into last night

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Speaker 2: and everything that you guys did, but six consecutive wins

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Speaker 2: when you think back to to Pollo going down and

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Speaker 2: you guys were trying to know a couple of games

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Speaker 2: it took, which is natural to kind of figure things out.

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Speaker 2: Would you have thought you'd get on a roll like this?

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Speaker 2: What what what do you explain for for how great

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Speaker 2: you guys are playing right now?

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Speaker 3: Uh?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean that's just obviously that's a big adjustment

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Speaker 4: to find a rhythm as it is, so uh, I mean,

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Speaker 3: But you know, I think I think we did a

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Speaker 4: Finding our rhythm and kind of disidentifying what we wanted

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Speaker 4: just the last six games, we hold our teams under

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Speaker 5: Yeah, you're definitely getting stops in at elite level. Dante

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Speaker 5: found the stat after the Phoenix Sam last night. He

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Speaker 5: that we have? We're the first team since twenty eighteen

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Speaker 5: which is which is crazy.

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Speaker 2: I didn't think it would be.

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Speaker 5: I knew it was the first Orlando team hasn't done

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Speaker 3: That mean to you guys?

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Speaker 5: Is that something you really hang your hat on?

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Speaker 1: Uh?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean it's just just shows how special we

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Speaker 3: Just kind of do what they do. So yeah, so far,

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Speaker 3: we've done a good job disrupting teams for sure.

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Speaker 6: Maybe your pressure on the ball is something that's been

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Speaker 6: How would you describe your approach defensively? How does Anthony

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Speaker 6: Black describe Anthony Black the defender? Are there like a

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Speaker 6: few buzzwords you try to keep in mind as you're

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Speaker 6: out there? Probably just I'll say, really just a playmaker

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Speaker 6: a lot of people use really that word too much

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Speaker 6: on defense. But just like I said, having just rim

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Speaker 3: At the rim.

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Speaker 4: So personally, that's knowing I have Ji and Mo behind

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Speaker 3: I'm just trying to make plays and get into the

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Speaker 3: our momentum phase, stuff like that.

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Speaker 2: Coming off a game. At the time of this recording,

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Speaker 2: we're in Los Angeles, so you're coming off a career

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Speaker 2: you know, to be more of a playmaker, to get

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Speaker 2: you're very comfortable doing. Uh take us through that. Last night.

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Speaker 2: I think you tied your career high in the first half.

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Speaker 2: He's Brian, that's the first step, right, So how what

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Speaker 2: have you found? What what is your goal? What do

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean I think, uh it's been simplified for me,

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Speaker 4: for the coaches really a lot of the time when

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Speaker 3: Whatever, obviously I have Mo rolling, our go go rolling.

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Speaker 4: But also is is Jonathan Iiser kind of came down

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Speaker 4: just makes it not simple, but a lot more simple,

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Speaker 4: uh for me making reads. You know, I could just

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Speaker 4: think score first and then Uh. Those two dudes are

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Speaker 4: right Uh They're just in the right position. So uh yeah,

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Speaker 4: I'm just gonna I don't know till I keep getting

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Speaker 2: Do we need to update the You guys were Green

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Speaker 2: I think we need to update that now, right.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know. I don't know. I don't know

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Speaker 3: what's going on with that this year, man, I don't know.

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Speaker 3: We got split up a little bit, our group got

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Speaker 5: The Green Goblins is definitely I think that's a year

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Speaker 5: that's in the past, right, We're moving We're moving past

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Speaker 5: the Green Goblins, I think, Abe, what about what about

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Speaker 5: your transition just from last year to this year? What

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Speaker 5: what did what have you learned? What have you incorporated

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Speaker 5: you know, rookie year, even even rookie year to Summer

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Speaker 5: League to now, like the steps what have you learned

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Speaker 4: Really just how to pick my spots and and be aggressive.

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Speaker 4: That's still what I'm trying to learn and figure out,

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Speaker 4: you know as the game flows on. But uh, I

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Speaker 4: don't know. I think just my mentality changed, uh, and

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Speaker 4: I just started thinking a.

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Speaker 3: Lot more about getting downhill.

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Speaker 4: So uh, that's definitely where I guess the progress and

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Speaker 4: steps forward are coming. Just just working on physicality, reading

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Speaker 5: After that is anybody in your year though, telling you

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Speaker 5: telling you these things as we go. I mean, is

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Speaker 5: there is there one coach or a group of coaches.

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Speaker 4: Or I mean me and Randy we work a lot

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Speaker 4: on uh just manipulation inside the three point line, uh,

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Speaker 4: definitely we've been working on that a lot. It's definitely

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Speaker 4: I mean it's just testament to m for sure, helping

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Speaker 6: Of along tho the same lines mostly always talks about

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Speaker 6: It seems to all of us that we're watching that

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Speaker 6: happen for you. What are some like examples of that?

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Speaker 6: Is it the snapshot when you sort of get into

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Speaker 3: Can you kind of describe that a little bit?

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Speaker 4: Uh? Yeah, I mean really just as a point guys

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Speaker 4: So uh, what I'm trying to keep continuing to do,

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Speaker 4: So that's making it that's making it easier to make

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Speaker 4: my reads off of that. You know, I'm just attacking,

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Speaker 4: just thinking about getting to my floater all the way

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Speaker 4: and just kind of the way I've been playing, I think,

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Speaker 4: is what was doing that?

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Speaker 6: And is that is that an adjustment for you to

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Speaker 6: think score first? Because you come off your game is

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Speaker 6: so unselfish, it's sort of naturally do you kind of

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Speaker 4: I mean, honestly, it's just kind of based upon like

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Speaker 4: what I'm being asked to do, or you know, I

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Speaker 4: feel like the team kind of wants me to do,

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Speaker 4: because if you look at it in college, it was

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Speaker 4: I guess I was probably scored first, honestly, but I mean, yeah,

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Speaker 4: it's just kind of just finding my.

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Speaker 3: Spots and just slowly slowly figuring out as we go

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Speaker 3: on game by game.

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Speaker 2: It's interesting, Anthony, I'm looking at this for sophomores. So second,

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Speaker 2: your players in the league, your third among them all

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Speaker 2: sophomores and assists four point three assists per games, your

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Speaker 2: fourth in blocks per game among softomores, and the first

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Speaker 2: three are Wemby Chet and Derek Lively. Those are the

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Speaker 2: first three being then it's you, Anthony Black, who plays

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Speaker 2: the guard position. I mean, that's crazy among guards in

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Speaker 2: overall the entire NBA. Your eighth in blocks. So tell

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Speaker 2: us what goes into to your bill. Obviously you have

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Speaker 4: I think I think just trying not to honestly, just

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Speaker 4: playing with my hands up. I think I fall into

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Speaker 5: Dude, you're saying, just do everything you were told, Like

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Speaker 2: Told you when you were seven? Anyone else's fundamental anth Nobody,

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Speaker 2: nobody in the NBA wants to defend anymore, right, Nobody

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Speaker 1: Is that right?

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Speaker 5: Right?

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Speaker 3: What?

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Speaker 2: How unique is that? And how fun is that to

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Speaker 3: Part of It's super unique, you know, And it's super fun.

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Speaker 3: And uh, I think it's rare.

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Speaker 3: So it's like, if they're playing defense, we all.

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Speaker 5: Well, Franz is playing a lot of offense too, right now,

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Speaker 4: Yeah, just Franz was singing a step up, you know. Uh,

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Speaker 3: So uh, yeah, he's just he's playing.

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Speaker 4: A really good ball for us, and he's doing everything

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Speaker 3: Maybe tell me about your later.

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Speaker 6: What is coach Moseley meant to you or in your

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Speaker 4: Like you said, again, that's to buy into kind of

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Speaker 2: I asked you a couple of days ago, a couple

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Speaker 2: not nothing that nobody tried anything out your whole childhood.

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Speaker 4: No, just ab kind of stuck. Honestly, that was my nickname.

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Speaker 2: Well, yea, they make Goga Bitase calls himself the Georgian Beast.

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Speaker 2: Right, I think there's nothing wrong with that. What went

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Speaker 3: Uh, I was glad. I was this guy who didn't

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Speaker 5: Runs hot, right, right, Abe, Goga runs hot sometimes when

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Speaker 3: Yeah, every once in a while. He's just a competitor.

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Speaker 4: So I think it's actually a good aspect for our team. So,

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Speaker 5: I think my favorite, my favorite Goga moment so far

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Speaker 3: I said, you gotta rip the headband if you're gonna

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Speaker 4: Move right, be like that sometimes though, sometimes you just

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Speaker 1: Man.

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Speaker 2: What is what is? He added? Though you've seen it,

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Speaker 4: Uh, just having that ass to him, kind of just

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Speaker 3: It's just kind of like an ass.

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Speaker 4: He has that, uh that you kind of just understand,

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Speaker 4: he's been huge to our success, you know. And uh,

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Speaker 2: Sere and Jacob Diamond. He's eating into that Jacob Diamond budget.

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Speaker 2: I didn't realize that with the Jerseys. Let's yeah.

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Speaker 5: He to get told every now and again to pull

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Speaker 5: it back, you get He's like, I only got so

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Speaker 2: We can throw it real quick at or one more

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Speaker 2: We're gonna have some fun going outside of your outside

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Speaker 2: and I'm and I'm we're making the comment on air,

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Speaker 2: where where is there a weakness?

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Speaker 3: Where is the other?

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Speaker 2: Where is Phoenix supposed to go to get a bucket?

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Speaker 2: With you guys out there? All right? Did you feel

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean you definitely feel it, you know.

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Speaker 4: Uh, just mean for me personally, I feel it just

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Speaker 3: Which because of how bid they are defensively, it's just

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Speaker 4: There, like, come on, y'all, let's go on a run,

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Speaker 4: Let's try to get three four stops in a row,

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Speaker 3: And uh yeah, I mean, like I said, we have

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Speaker 2: Better cleaning at home, Anthony, how much fun is that?

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Speaker 2: You're seven? And oh we ever lost at home since March?

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Speaker 2: For crying out loud? Yeah, Like, what is what goes

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Speaker 2: into playing that other than the chicken sandwiches? What crows

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Speaker 3: I mean just the fans bring a great energy.

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Speaker 4: That's uh it's just like a contagious energy flowing around

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Speaker 3: It's easy to get on the run, easy to game.

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Speaker 4: And then I'm playing in front of your home crowds,

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Speaker 2: Go ahead, I'll just say, Jake, tell Anthony what you

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Speaker 2: a good one. I don't know why he didn't know

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Speaker 2: as the pickers. He goes, oh, wait till you see

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Speaker 2: So Jake, go ahead, I'll let you tell him what

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Speaker 6: Last year, well, I watched a lot of Arkansas that year,

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Speaker 6: you accentuated them. And it's the way you play with

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Speaker 3: So I think that's also what coach Moseley loves about you.

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Speaker 6: But we talked about it a little bit, just the

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Speaker 3: Seen it all.

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Speaker 6: How much does he help you on that end, knowing

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Speaker 4: Oh yeah, he's been huge for us, you know, on

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Speaker 4: I haven't won two championships. He knows what it takes

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Speaker 4: and uh, just the type of sacrifice you have to

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Speaker 4: make to get there. So uh, we're definitely listening to

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Speaker 4: everything he says and he's been He's been a big

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Speaker 4: help for us for sure.

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Speaker 2: What can you tell us about your friend Jared McCain.

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Speaker 2: You guys played on that UA team team in Tijuana.

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Speaker 2: He's he won the gold medal. He is on some

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Speaker 2: kind of a role right now. Did you see this

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Speaker 2: coming this early for him? What can you tell us

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Speaker 2: about Jared?

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Speaker 3: Uh?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, uh, even before that, I played Jared

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Speaker 4: in high school and he got he had a pretty

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Speaker 4: good game.

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Speaker 3: So I like this game from then on.

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Speaker 4: You know, I've been a big believer in Jared McCain

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Speaker 4: since ever since that game. But uh, this is shot

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Speaker 4: making is what kind of say rates him. You know,

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Speaker 4: he's able to shoot in the midder ange, shoot the three,

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Speaker 4: get to the rim, and he's just a competitor. He competes.

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Speaker 4: You know a lot of people might not see it

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Speaker 4: just from the outside looking in, but once they're around

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Speaker 4: him enough, maybe.

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Speaker 3: Play with him like he's he's a dog. So uh,

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Speaker 3: I'm super happy for him.

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Speaker 4: Uh. I didn't know what was gonna look like coming

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Speaker 4: into Philly. You know, he's playing with with a lot

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Speaker 4: of grins, so uh, I don't know, it's just I

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Speaker 4: guess I'm glad you got his opportunity.

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Speaker 2: Uh.

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Speaker 3: And he's just making the most out of it. So

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Speaker 3: he does it with a smile on his face. He's

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Speaker 3: a killer with a smile on his face the entire time. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: that's that's him. That's just him.

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Speaker 5: Uh.

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Speaker 4: I think that's part of what makes him just such

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Speaker 4: a good players, just his personality and uh yeah, just

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Speaker 4: he doesn't care. He's just he's happy to be out

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Speaker 4: there and and he's getting me buckets too, So yeah,

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Speaker 4: he's good.

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Speaker 2: Arkansas is three and one. Ab Okay, you got coach Cal?

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Speaker 1: All right?

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Speaker 2: Did you have you met coach Cal? I'm sure he

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Speaker 2: tried to recruit you somewhere along the way. Do you

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Speaker 2: know much about him? And what's the word having him

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Speaker 2: on campus?

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Speaker 1: Now?

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Speaker 4: We've had conversations, but obviously he's very busy obviously option Steward,

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Speaker 4: but a lot of excitement around campus from everything I've

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Speaker 4: seen and heard. You know, obviously, they're three and one,

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Speaker 4: so off to a good start, and it looks like

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Speaker 4: it's just gonna keep going, you know, for years and years.

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Speaker 4: That comes is the recruits are committing. The whole state

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Speaker 4: of Arkansas is watching. So I don't know, it's just

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Speaker 4: it looks like a good thing for Arkansas basketball for straight.

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Speaker 3: All right, could deal.

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Speaker 2: Well, we'll leave it with this. Ay, be let every

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Speaker 2: let Magic fans know what they can expect here. You

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Speaker 2: guys have rattled off six in a row. I imagine

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Speaker 2: you go game by game, right, you're not looking at

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Speaker 2: the whole schedule, but sixty six in a row.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, just sixty sixth straight, seventy record.

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Speaker 2: Just let everybody know what the mentality is right now.

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Speaker 2: Game in, game out, you guys feel your you guys

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Speaker 2: feel you can win every night. And and then when

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Speaker 2: you add Powlo to this mix, what is it going

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Speaker 2: to look like? Uh?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, first and foremost, we feel like we

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Speaker 3: go win every game.

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Speaker 1: Uh.

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Speaker 4: You know, we played in big games with the best

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Speaker 4: down to the wire, one closed games, lost close games,

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Speaker 4: so we're always confident in that. But you know, uh,

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Speaker 4: I think now it's just a good time for us

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Speaker 4: to grow, and uh you know that's what we're.

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Speaker 3: Doing right now. We're growing, we're winning games throughout the process.

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Speaker 3: So uh, it's just been great.

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Speaker 4: And you know, when Pete comes back, we'll be we'll

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Speaker 4: be flowing in rhythm and adding him should just be seamless.

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Speaker 3: Uh with a player like that, So uh yeah, we're.

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Speaker 4: Gonna try to get it going and just keeps stringing

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Speaker 4: off wins until that time and go from there.

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Speaker 3: For sure.

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Speaker 2: It's been a lot of fun. Now, George, now you

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Speaker 2: can tell us when piece coming back. That was the

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Speaker 2: time where you can give us the dick. No, no,

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Speaker 2: we don't have that.

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Speaker 3: No weight.

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Speaker 2: You guys got that one cutting out and I cut

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Speaker 2: out there.

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Speaker 3: We'll be trying again to that.

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Speaker 2: Anthony, Thank you very much. It's always great to catch up.

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Speaker 2: I appreciate you giving up some of your valuable time here.

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Speaker 2: Let's keep this thing rolling. Let's go get one in

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Speaker 2: the new into it dome and take down the clippers tomorrow.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, please do it. Man, appreciate you. I having all right,

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Speaker 3: you got it. Thanks.

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Speaker 2: That'll do it for this edition of Magic Pod Squad

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Speaker 2: with Anthony Black