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Speaker 1: What were your thoughts on playing in Mexico. First of all,

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Speaker 1: it was great.

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Speaker 2: It's a great experience to get outside the world.

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Speaker 1: And in this world. Do you know what we do it?

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Speaker 2: I thought it was one of the biggest moments of

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Speaker 2: my career, believe it or not. I mean one hundred

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Speaker 2: and ninety five, two hundred games, but the way Stadios

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Speaker 2: Decca and the Mexican people reacted to that flag, I

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Speaker 2: got goosebumps under here. I mean, it was absolutely in Fuego.

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Speaker 3: We're about to come into the biggest arena in Latin America,

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Speaker 3: and I think established that got really brought it that day.

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Speaker 1: Janni's green.

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Speaker 3: SONA, is this actually happening? An NFL professional game is

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Speaker 3: being played here?

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Speaker 1: One that counts. It actually happened.

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Speaker 4: It definitely counted, and it will always stand as NFL history.

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Speaker 5: An amazing scene, flashbulbs popping for the first ever National

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Speaker 5: Football League regular season game abroad.

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Speaker 4: That's right, Never before had an NFL regular season game

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Speaker 4: been played outside the United States. This is Cardinals Folk

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Speaker 4: Tales presented by seventy two sold where we go in

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Speaker 4: depth into Cardinals history, all time, anecdotes through the personal

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Speaker 4: recollections and memories of those who lived in it was.

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Speaker 1: In freaking incredible.

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Speaker 5: It was the birth of international football for the NFL.

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Speaker 4: One time in Mexico, that time when the Cardinals turned

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Speaker 4: a home game into the first ever NFL regululer season

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Speaker 4: contest played on international soil. My name is Paul calBC

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Speaker 4: and I was part of the Cardinals radio broadcast team

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Speaker 4: that day, along with analyst Ron Wolfley and longtime voice

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Speaker 4: of the Cardinals Dave Pash.

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Speaker 5: October two, two thousand and five, the Cardinals again make

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Speaker 5: history as they take on the San Francisco forty nine

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Speaker 5: ers from Estadio as Teca in Mexico City.

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Speaker 4: Estadio as Teco built is Mexico's mythical temple. One of

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Speaker 4: the world's most revered stadiums, it has hosted World Cup

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Speaker 4: finals and has wowed everyone from Pele to the Pope.

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Speaker 5: The atmosphere pretty unbelievable. Die hard football fans here, even

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Speaker 5: if some of these folks have never seen an NFL

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Speaker 5: game on television, they are into it.

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Speaker 4: Before we get to that day in that stadium, realize

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Speaker 4: that it all started years earlier with the advent of

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Speaker 4: the Cardinals new stadium.

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Speaker 1: Team owner Michael Bidwell.

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Speaker 6: The largest population of NFL fans outside the United States

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Speaker 6: is actually Mexico City, and so I looked at it,

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Speaker 6: and I went to Commissioner tag Leboo, and I said, look,

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Speaker 6: we've got one season left at Sun Devil Stadium. We're

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Speaker 6: happy to give up a game, especially if it's an

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Speaker 6: early game, and play a home game regular season. It

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Speaker 6: had never been done in regular season, and so we

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Speaker 6: looked at this idea of taking it international.

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Speaker 5: It's time now for the Mexican and American national anthems.

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Speaker 5: He got no sand again.

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Speaker 3: As a kid, you would see it a lot, right,

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Speaker 3: you would see it on TV, and sometimes you would say,

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Speaker 3: one day, I want to walk that field.

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Speaker 5: I was there.

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Speaker 3: I was walking it with my Cardinals.

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Speaker 4: That's the voice of Orlando Canto, the first Mexican born

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Speaker 4: non kicker to play in the NFL. He was an

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Speaker 4: offensive lineman for that two thousand and five Cardinals team.

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Speaker 4: And as big as Orlando is in person, he's a

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Speaker 4: giant the measurables of an NFL old lineman six' five

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Speaker 4: three sixty, plus his persona is bigger In.

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Speaker 5: Mexico Dave Pash rolando's a great story AND i think

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Speaker 5: you Know rolando in a lot of. Ways for a

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Speaker 5: lot of, people there probably was a symbol of, hope, like,

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Speaker 5: Hey rolando's playing pro. Football you KNOW i can play pro.

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Speaker 5: FOOTBALL i can break. Round rolando represents a lot for many.

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Speaker 7: PEOPLE i mean the fact that this guy the first

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Speaker 7: actual national to come From mexico and not be a.

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Speaker 5: Kicker we saw a lot Of orlando cant two jersey's

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Speaker 5: being sold and a lot of people buying.

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Speaker 6: It we had some real stars at the, time and

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Speaker 6: they're getting off the, bus walking right through The mexican,

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Speaker 6: press and then all of a, Sudden orlando came, too

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Speaker 6: and they just swarm on. Him they didn't know who

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Speaker 6: some of these other guys were that were just walking past.

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Speaker 5: Him i'm surprised they didn't have him like on a,

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Speaker 5: throne carrying him. AROUND i, mean he was like a,

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Speaker 5: legend and for good reason for making The Arizona cardinal.

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Speaker 5: Team BUT i just remember everybody talked About, rolando, like,

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Speaker 5: oh do you Know. Rolando do you Know Rolando. Cantu,

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Speaker 5: YES i, KNOW i, Know rolando can't. To they weren't

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Speaker 5: concerned with a Young Larry fitzgerald or you, know they

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Speaker 5: just wanted to know if we Knew.

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Speaker 4: Rolando for those of us who are on that, trip

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Speaker 4: there Was, rolando cantwo and everyone else was a.

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Speaker 1: Sidekick even.

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Speaker 4: Fits but that goes back to nineteen ninety six when

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Speaker 4: as a, Kid rolando attended The American, bowl a series

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Speaker 4: of PRESEASON nfl games held outside THE, us including when

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Speaker 4: The chiefs And cowboys met in his Native, Monterey. Mexico

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Speaker 4: but this wasn't any preseason, game and the, fans they knew.

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Speaker 7: It that.

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Speaker 3: Day the fans were. Different they were hungry to be

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Speaker 3: a part of something. Unique and the unique part about

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Speaker 3: it was this was a regular season. Game this game

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Speaker 3: was going to. Count it wasn't An American, bowl it

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Speaker 3: wasn't an exhibition. Game this game was going to be

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Speaker 3: remembered in the history of. Books and if you got

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Speaker 3: to take it to go to a statistate, gap you're

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Speaker 4: History speaking of the PREVIOUS nfl record for attendance for

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Speaker 4: a regular season game was when The rams played The

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Speaker 4: niners at The La coliseum in nineteen fifty seven in

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Speaker 4: front of one hundred two thou three hundred and sixty eight.

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Speaker 4: Fans but, again this was a staudio As teca an

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Speaker 4: eighth wonder of the.

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Speaker 7: WORLD A Stadio aztecca just. MAMMU i, mean that's the

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Speaker 7: first thing THAT i. Think when you walk in, here you,

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Speaker 7: know you just cannot believe the roads go on and

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Speaker 8: On SO i come out of the locker room for

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Speaker 8: the first time AND i look up and my jaw

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Speaker 8: hits the. GROUND i could not believe how big this building. Was,

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Speaker 8: basically picture the biggest stadium you've ever been, in and

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Speaker 8: then add an upper deck to. It WHEN i looked,

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Speaker 4: High that's Jim. O, mahundra longtime producer of The Arizona

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Speaker 4: cardinals radio, network and true that.

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Speaker 1: Personally i've been in Ann.

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Speaker 4: Arbor i've been on the field For Michigan Notre dame

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Speaker 4: one hundred thousand.

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Speaker 1: Fans but A stadio As. Teca it's.

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Speaker 4: Bigger its capacity is one hundred twenty thousand, plus and

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Speaker 4: as Owner Michael bidwell, notes that might be the more

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Speaker 6: Figure their, suites they didn't count the number of people

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Speaker 6: they didn't sell. Tickets it was just you can invite

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Speaker 6: had no idea how many people were in those suites

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Speaker 6: and the. Number they believe that's a low estimate of

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Speaker 6: think there might have been another fifteen or twenty thousand

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Speaker 4: Counted what was interesting is that reports had tickets sold

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Speaker 4: there was a huge late surgeon interest and a massive

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Speaker 4: attendance was officially listed as a NEW nfl.

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Speaker 5: Record we have one hundred, three four hundred and sixty

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Speaker 5: seven on, hand AN nfl regular season.

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Speaker 1: Record, wow how about that for a.

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Speaker 2: NUMBER i wish everybody can feel what one hundred thousand

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Speaker 2: people feel like on the. Field like you're on the

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Speaker 2: field and one hundred thousand people are watching.

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Speaker 9: You it's just.

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Speaker 1: Different. Man that's Former cardinals Safety Robert.

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Speaker 4: Griffith all the players knew the fans were going to

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Speaker 4: be a. Factor El, grande Former Pro bowl pass rusher Bertram.

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Speaker 9: Berry it really was a different energy where the fans

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Speaker 9: were going nuts the entire, time whether something good happened

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Speaker 9: for us or something bad happened for. US i just

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Speaker 9: remember the crowd just yelling no matter, what they just

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Speaker 9: wanted to see us go out there and.

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Speaker 5: PLAY i just remember being allowed the entire game in

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Speaker 5: a good. Way that people were so excited that there

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Speaker 5: was AN nfl game going. On in a general, sense

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Speaker 5: they were just rooting for something big to. Happen every.

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Speaker 5: Play it felt like a big. Party it felt like

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Speaker 5: a big party the people that.

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Speaker 3: Were just hungry to be a part of that first

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Speaker 3: regular season, Game i'll say THE.

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Speaker 4: Us and that's where the game planning went beyond the

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Speaker 4: field and into the. Stands who could capture the? Fans

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Speaker 4: and that became a game of who could capture the?

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Speaker 2: Flag going through my, MIND i was just more who

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Speaker 2: are The mexican people going.

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Speaker 1: To cheer for?

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Speaker 4: Again who would turn over one hundred thousand fans into

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Speaker 4: their twelfth? Man that was the, question and The cardinals

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Speaker 4: had an. Answer start the game by playing flag, football

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Speaker 4: if you.

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Speaker 2: WILL i had a dream THAT i had a flag

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Speaker 2: and there was a. Flag THEN i kept seeing This

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Speaker 2: mexican flag in my dream.

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Speaker 1: Just spoke to.

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Speaker 3: Me you.

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Speaker 2: KNOW i just felt like it was just something that

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Speaker 10: Appropriate That's robert's, idea and it was brought to, me

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Speaker 10: AND i searched out my contact at the staven to

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Speaker 4: Flag That's Anthony, edwards former director of player of programs

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Speaker 4: that do everything man for The, cardinals and a Former cardinals.

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Speaker 4: Receiver at this, point the teams were already into their

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Speaker 4: pregame war. Months the game hadn't, started but the clock was.

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Speaker 1: Ticking robert's, like, hey we need to get a. Flag

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Speaker 1: we need a.

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Speaker 10: FLAG i need to get The mexico flag BECAUSE i

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Speaker 10: thought he was when his first a. Flag i'm, LIKE, usa, no, no,

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Speaker 10: no, No mexico, flag you, Know AND i, said hold, on

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Speaker 10: let me see WHAT i could. Do so HERE i

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Speaker 10: we can locate a flag somewhere close for him to

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Speaker 10: run out with and, so and it just. Happened we

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Speaker 10: were able to get that. Flag it was.

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Speaker 4: There, yeah let's just say The cardinals clock management traveled

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Speaker 4: that day. Internationally don't you love it when a plan comes.

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Speaker 2: Together when we were in that tunnel right before we

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Speaker 2: went out to the, game and he unrolls this flag

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Speaker 2: and it was on like a broomstick handle and literally

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Speaker 2: gave it to me maybe ten seconds BEFORE i ran.

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Speaker 3: Out ONCE i Knew robert was going to grab that,

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Speaker 3: flag we just kind of nodded, heads shook hands and

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Speaker 3: said go go bro because there's gonna be.

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Speaker 5: Big what a great Scene Robert griffith with The mexican

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Speaker 5: national flag waving it and racing out of the. Field

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Speaker 5: that was.

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Speaker 3: Awesome robert bursting out of that tunnel with that. FLAG

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Speaker 3: i think it just ignited the whole place. Up it

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Speaker 3: was A it was a brilliant, move to be honest with,

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Speaker 3: YOU i think the fans saw this as the first

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Speaker 3: impression of The Arizona.

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Speaker 7: Cardinals all of a, Sudden Robert griffin the gums right

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Speaker 7: out of that, hat waving The mexican.

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Speaker 1: Flag that really was a great. Touch here of the

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Speaker 3: Crazy it was.

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Speaker 10: Loud it was so. Loud that place was unbelievably.

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Speaker 2: LOUD i go out with the flag AND i just

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Speaker 3: Magnetized once he ran, out that was kind of, like

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Speaker 3: you know, What, mexico The cardinals are. Here let's Canals

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Speaker 2: Flag quite, honestly after the, flag you, KNOW i can

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Speaker 1: Win, maybe but that's not the.

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Speaker 4: Way the game started with The niners defense scoring two quick.

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Speaker 5: Touchdowns the count turns and hands for ship running right

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Speaker 1: Balls there's are the twenty and it's picked up by

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Speaker 5: Ers Karreck johnson running near side forty fifty big chaste

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Speaker 5: by the. Count josh won't get him thirty twenty ten

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Speaker 9: Francisco if you do recall they jumped out ON us

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Speaker 9: fourteen to nothing before we ever took the, field it

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Speaker 9: HERE i, mean how did we get to fourteen and?

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Speaker 4: Nothing and that's where The cards started their, comeback led

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Speaker 4: by second year Receiver Larry fitzgerald doing Signature larry things

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Speaker 5: And one of the seventeen to count back to throw

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Speaker 5: up took Down Resona Larry fitzgerald for the second of the.

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Speaker 4: Year Dave fashion injecting a little local flavor into the.

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Speaker 4: Call fourteen to twelve nine ers of the, half but

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Speaker 4: second Half Toto rojo all. Red as the tide turned

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Speaker 9: I felt like as we started to take control of the,

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Speaker 4: And eventually The cardinals won the. Game in, fact it

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Speaker 4: wasn't that, close as The niners never scored, again The

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Speaker 4: cardinals defense pitching a, shutout feeding off one hundred thousand plus.

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Speaker 4: Fans as we reported from the, sideline you know a

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Speaker 4: lot of people in a lot of talk that The

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Speaker 4: cardinals gave up home field advantage to come down here

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Speaker 4: To Mexico.

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Speaker 1: City but the.

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Speaker 4: Fans on this end of the stadium as loud as

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Speaker 4: we have heard. Them the fans also love card Skicker Neil. Rackers,

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Speaker 4: first Because mexico is a soccer crazy nation and they love.

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Speaker 4: Anyone it puts the foot into Football. Americano forty three

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Speaker 4: yard attempt For Neil, rackers who's four for four.

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Speaker 1: Tonight the snap the Spot.

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Speaker 5: Rackers kick is. Up it's got the leg and it is.

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Speaker 7: Good, Yeah neil's.

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Speaker 1: All fired up right.

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Speaker 7: Now the camera went down on and they looked like you,

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Speaker 4: Game rackers at a career high six field. Goals now

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Speaker 4: that's the season where Remember rackers hit forty of forty

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Speaker 1: In an All pro.

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Speaker 4: Campaign thing Is rackers might have traded all that for

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Speaker 4: a shot at a seventy yard fueld, goal which he

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Speaker 4: wanted and definitely thought was doable In Mexico city where

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Speaker 4: the ball flies because remember it's two thousand feet higher Than,

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Speaker 4: denver over seventy seven hundred feet in. Elevation these guys.

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Speaker 1: Are gassed on The cardinals.

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Speaker 4: Sideline it's so bad that the Mascot Big, red who

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Speaker 4: Tonight Paja. Rojo, okay he came up to me a

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Speaker 4: halftime and said he was wiped out physically from the. Elevation,

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Speaker 4: okay it's hitting everybody out. Here final score thirty one to,

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Speaker 4: fourteen as The cardinals savored the win and soaked in the.

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Speaker 5: Scene The cardinals win in the first EVER nfl regular

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Speaker 5: season game In Mexico city beating The San francisco forty nine.

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Speaker 4: Ers but before The cardinals would leave the, field the

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Speaker 9: Too somebody on the sideline had. It and being one

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Speaker 9: afforded some, liberties and so they gave me the freedom

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Speaker 9: to go and take the. Flag AND i Know griff

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Speaker 9: But griff beat me to.

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Speaker 3: It B train gives me the flag AND i take it,

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Speaker 3: was very really, Cool and SO i have the flag

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Speaker 3: INTERVIEWS i would wave the flag Like robert liked B

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Speaker 3: was it was a special. MOMENT i THINK i will

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Speaker 5: That on the farest, Side bertrand there is hamed off

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Speaker 5: The mexican flag In romando cant a native Of, Monterey.

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Speaker 3: MEXICO i think that day everybody felt the part of

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Speaker 3: The Arizona cardinals because of the.

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Speaker 4: Flag by the, way to this, day no one knows

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Speaker 4: where the flag. Went it was in The cardinals locker

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Speaker 4: room and, vanished never seen. Again so although The cardinals

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Speaker 4: didn't bring back the, flag they definitely brought back a.

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Speaker 1: Buzz it was palpable around town and in the locker.

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Speaker 7: Mexico it was.

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Speaker 11: Great it's the great experience to get outside the world

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Speaker 4: Dude, see it was a big, buzz, Right but that

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Speaker 4: was then and kwon bolten With Robert tate in his

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Speaker 1: City this is Now Robert griffin to this day on

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Speaker 1: how he brought home much more than just a. Victory

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Speaker 1: this has nothing to do with. Football this is the

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Speaker 1: way The mexican fans made me.

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Speaker 2: Feel And i've never had an experience like that in my.

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Speaker 2: Life AND i like WHEN i say they were screaming at,

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Speaker 2: me AND i felt LIKE i could levitate off the.

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Speaker 2: Ground i'm telling.

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Speaker 4: Truth and it wasn't Just cardinals players who had their passports.

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Speaker 4: Stamp you could say that for the ENTIRE.

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Speaker 9: Nfl to know that the sport took a big step

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Speaker 9: THAT i take great pride in.

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Speaker 7: THAT i love this.

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Speaker 9: GAME i love what the game did for. ME i

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Speaker 9: love the competition aspect of. IT i loved the brutality of.

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Speaker 9: IT i love everything about, football and to be able

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Speaker 9: to grow the sport in that, way to take it,

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Speaker 9: somewhere even though they had had preseason games there, before

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Speaker 9: but to have one that actually counted and got the

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Speaker 9: attention that it, GOT i was very proud of.

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Speaker 5: It If josh mccount takes the football and runs off

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Speaker 5: with it and he gives it To Michael bidwell over

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Speaker 5: on the far, side And i'd say a very classy

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Speaker 6: McCollum we try to be trailblazers and we want to

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Speaker 6: be at the front of. Innovation you know what can

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Speaker 6: but we think is really good for the game and

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Speaker 4: In and sure, enough the FIRST nfl regular season game

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Speaker 4: played outside The United, states which set a record for

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Speaker 4: the largest crowd ever to attend AN nfl regular season,

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Speaker 4: game was an international venture that has now turned into

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Speaker 4: an annual.

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Speaker 3: Affair we're cemented in history In american football history In

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Speaker 3: mexico because of that.

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Speaker 4: Game and that's one time In mexico for producer Jim O,

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Speaker 4: Mahundro I'm Paul. Calvic we hope you enjoyed this edition

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Speaker 4: Of Cardinals', foketales presented by seventy Two souls