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Speaker 1: This is like the unofficial halfway point of the Major

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Speaker 1: League Baseball season, fourth of July, and you start talking

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Speaker 1: about the MVP race Aaron Judge in the American League,

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Speaker 1: not that Cole Raley isn't there as well. For the Mariners,

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Speaker 1: Martin who is what two more home runs today? Got

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Speaker 1: thirty five, Judge has thirty two. But Judge is batting

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Speaker 1: three sixty something, you know, and having an unbelievable year.

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Speaker 1: So it's not just home runs, you know, he's also

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Speaker 1: just Kyle Riley is pounding the ball up thirty five

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Speaker 1: Could he get the forty or almost which is incredible.

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Speaker 1: But anyway, I want to talk about the sho hal

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Speaker 1: Tani and the National League MVP, and there was a

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Speaker 1: recent poll done and when it came to the American

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Speaker 1: League MVP MLB experts, there were forty three of the

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Speaker 1: Martin and thirty five gave Aaron Judge the first place vote.

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Speaker 1: Thirty five of the forty three. When it came to

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Speaker 1: the American League Show, hey, actually got thirty nine of

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Speaker 1: he's having that type of season. And what I mean

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Speaker 1: by that is last year was so incredible. He batted

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Speaker 1: Nobody had ever done that, knocked in one hundred and

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Speaker 1: going to get it every year. Remember last year he

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Speaker 1: the fifty stolen bases is the one that added a

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Speaker 1: because now this year he's pitching. Because he pitches and

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Speaker 1: batting two eighty four fifty six RBIs. RBIs are down,

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Speaker 5: He also is the best player in the National League

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Speaker 5: Okay, But the back of the lineup, the seven eight

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Speaker 1: That means that most of his home runs are solo

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Speaker 5: Got how many I've said thirty a bunch of times

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Speaker 4: He's on pace, toy hit what fifty seven home runs?

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Speaker 4: If he has fifty seven home runs and hits.

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Speaker 1: Because he was three ten last year, he doesn't have

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Speaker 5: Am I looking at Pete Carl Armstrong, Kyle Tucker? But

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Speaker 5: I'm cubs, I'm not looking at you one of those

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Speaker 4: Yeah, well if. But also it's the most valuable player

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Speaker 5: Jan Soda was a mystery man for the first what

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Speaker 5: that's why El Tany is far and away the NL favorite.

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Speaker 4: It's a lack of competition.

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Speaker 1: I think that because he pitches and hits, people just

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Speaker 2: His numbers from year to year. Was it good as good,

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Speaker 4: That's what I'm saying. He's not beating against himself for MVP.

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Speaker 5: It's not is this show heal Tony's best year is

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Speaker 4: But I'll give you a valuable player in the National League.

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Speaker 1: But I'll give you a perfect example. What year wasn't

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Speaker 1: Michael Jordan the MVP in the NBA. I mean his

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Speaker 1: numbers couldn't have been more consistent, And that's all I'm saying.

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Speaker 5: So I think Guy's got it wrong, like the same

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Speaker 5: reason I think Lebron having the numbers of MVPs he

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Speaker 4: I think Guy's got it wrong.

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Speaker 2: You think Lebron should have how many?

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Speaker 5: I think for the last when Lebron was not the

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Speaker 5: there you got it. I would say I think guys

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Speaker 2: See that's what I'm saying. That's what I'm saying.

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Speaker 1: In those situations, great players, Michael didn't win it every

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Speaker 1: And that's what I'm trying to say is with the show, Hey,

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Speaker 1: it doesn't matter what anybody else is doing, or if

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Speaker 1: his numbers are as good as it was the year before. Whatever,

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Speaker 1: They look at it and tell me if I'm wrong

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Speaker 1: eight seven seven ninety nine Fox.

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Speaker 2: But I just get the feeling like it doesn't matter

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Speaker 1: He pitches, he hits, he's gonna get my vote for

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Speaker 1: I don't think that's fair to the rest of the players.

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Speaker 1: What he does, he get hurt if he doesn't pitch well,

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Speaker 1: say he loses a few games, he gets knocked the round.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, you think that if he plays worse than he

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Speaker 5: But if his offense is is like if he's leading

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Speaker 5: the National League in several offensive categories and the other

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Speaker 5: people in consideration aren't close, He's got like thirteen more

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Speaker 5: then I don't think his pitching would quantify in that counting.

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Speaker 4: But he's the hitting still.

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Speaker 5: Should and right now, even if he decided never to

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Speaker 1: I'd be I think if he doesn't pitch, that people

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Speaker 1: think as long as he pitches, he'll always be his

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Speaker 2: I don't I don't think it should be like that.

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Speaker 1: I think you should look at every year individually and

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Speaker 1: not We understand he's a great player, and and if

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Speaker 1: argument is, is it just a foregone conclusion? You know

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Speaker 1: two things and nobody else does that, And is that fair?

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Speaker 1: There's nobody else doing that, So is he automatically the MVP?

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Speaker 5: He's clearing the bases, He's cleared the base is nearly

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Speaker 4: Is it fair? Shay? I know?

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Speaker 2: Is it thinks it's fair? Right Shoe? He should be

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Speaker 4: Two eighty six with runners on.

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Speaker 4: What's up, Richard?

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Speaker 6: What's up? Guys? Thanks for taking my call. Yes, sir, Rob,

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Speaker 7: Giving him the MVP.

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Speaker 4: Call, guy, No, probably, thank you. You're right.

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Speaker 2: Regardless of the number.

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Speaker 1: Uh, Poppy in San Diego, you're on the odd couple

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Speaker 4: Poppy?

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Speaker 9: My man and I'm Blacker. Thank you. I ain't here

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Speaker 9: You know, I wanted to talk on baseball tonight. Give

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Speaker 9: it's a great game that's gonna happen tonight in La.

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Speaker 9: You're probably gonna watch the Dodgers against the Astra. Yes,

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Speaker 9: It's gonna get crazy. Well, Tani's gonna hit a home

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Speaker 5: What Parker, I just got to ask you this, Will

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Speaker 11: I got to tune out anytime. It just suit me

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Speaker 11: Because he had a fifty to fifty year last year.

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Speaker 11: It's like it's like pairing, Like it's like saying, oh,

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Speaker 2: We're gonna gona.

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Speaker 11: We're gonna go to this Yiannis quote from like four

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Speaker 11: Do do you think do you think it was a

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Speaker 4: Well?

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Speaker 11: I did good, I had I had good time. I

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Speaker 2: It does, yes, because the magic is there. The magic

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Speaker 5: It doesn't feel good last year because last year he

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Speaker 4: Balls and strikes exactly. Last year, pitching was not a reality,

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Speaker 5: He's in the rotation. Start he started with three games.

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Speaker 5: He's gonna start a.

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Speaker 2: How many he pitched there, dish.

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Speaker 5: They're working on him back, they're working in back pitch.

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Speaker 4: This is this is wrong.

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Speaker 2: How many and he's come on four or six.

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Speaker 5: Anyway, that's six or four more than he had last year.

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Speaker 4: And as a and it makes a ton of sense.

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Speaker 5: If you just asked on his face, how many stolen

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Speaker 5: bases would you like your starting pitcher to have?

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Speaker 4: The answer would be none.

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Speaker 2: Right now, he's pitched in three games. He will be

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Speaker 2: put that he wasn't pitching.

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Speaker 4: He will be pitching as things progressed. But as I said.

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Speaker 11: Before, in four innings pitch he has three strikeouts.

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Speaker 1: Not even one strikeout an inning. That's not good. He

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Speaker 1: just got back Ron. I'm just kidding.

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Speaker 5: He's hitting one on one on the gun with thirty

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Speaker 5: home runs.

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Speaker 4: What are we doing? All right? Uh, look at this show.

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Speaker 4: I'm sick of Lebron and Schoeotoni. I'm done.

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Speaker 5: Dana Scott, the Arizona Republic Suns rider will come bring

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Speaker 5: some sense and levity to this radio show.

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Speaker 4: Do we discussed the disaster that is in Phoenix, But

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Speaker 4: first steve the sacred to the baseball scoreboard.

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Speaker 12: The Padres have tied it up and home against Texas

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Speaker 12: to two in the bottom of the sixth inning. The

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Speaker 12: Toronto Blue Jays have won five in a row. There's

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Speaker 12: still cordless at home against the Angels. Bottom of the fifth.

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Speaker 12: Detroit goes to the fifth with a two to one lead.

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Speaker 12: At Cleveland, the Guardians have lost seven in a row.

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Speaker 12: Brewers lead five to three at Miami bottom of the fifth,

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Speaker 12: Orioles up three to nothing at the Braves in the

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Speaker 12: top of the fifth inning. Among the day games on

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Speaker 12: the holiday, at Seattle, the Mariners shutout Pittsburgh six nothing.

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Speaker 12: Cal Raley with two home runs. He has thirty five

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Speaker 12: homers seventy four RBIs. The Cubs hit eight home runs,

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Speaker 12: a franchise record at Wrigley till eleven three was the

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Speaker 12: final over the rival Cardinals. Eight homers for the Cubs

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Speaker 12: just three hits for the Cardinals. Cubs pitcher Jamison Tyne

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Speaker 12: goes on the injured lists strain calf the problem. Cubs

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Speaker 12: have won four straight. Minnesota beat Tampa Bay four to

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Speaker 12: three on a solo homer in the bottom of the

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Speaker 12: ninth Harrison Baders second home run of the day. The

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Speaker 12: Mets are second in the NLA is just a half

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Speaker 12: game behind the Phillies, who lost at home, nine to

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Speaker 12: six to Cincinnati. The Mets at home beat the Yankees

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Speaker 12: six to five despite Aaron Judge's thirty second home run

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Speaker 12: of the season. The Yanks plays pitcher Clerk Schmidt on

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Speaker 12: the I with a sore forearm. Reliever Luke Weaver took

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Speaker 12: the loss, allowing a two run homer in the seventh

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Speaker 12: to Jeff McNeil. Yankees have lost five in a row.

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Speaker 12: The wnbas off Caitlin Clark will miss a fifth straight

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Speaker 12: game Saturday with a groin injury. She still hasn't gone

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Speaker 12: full speed in practice. The NBA's Las Vegas Summer League

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Speaker 12: starts next week July tenth to twentieth. Carlos Alcarez advanced

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Speaker 12: to the fourth round at Wimbledon, as did number five

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Speaker 12: Taylor Fritz of the US and number ten Ben Shelton

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Speaker 12: of the US Women's number one Arena Sabalanca won today,

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Speaker 12: but number six Madison Keys lost and unseated Naomi Osaka

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Speaker 12: was eliminated, and US Men's soccer plays the Gold Cup

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Speaker 12: final Sunday against Mexico on Fox TV from Houston.

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Speaker 2: Back to you, all right, thanks appreciate it.

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Speaker 1: It is the odd couple on a funky Flashback Friday.

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Speaker 2: Yes, we're live on the fourth of July.

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Speaker 1: Rob Parker and Martin Weiss here on the Odd Couple

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Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio. Now, let's welcome in Dana Scott from

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Speaker 1: the Arizona republ Look, one of the Sun's writers who

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Speaker 1: covers the team, and Dana say hello to Martin and

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Speaker 1: welcome to the Odd Couple.

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Speaker 2: How are you great.

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Speaker 7: It's good to talk with you, guys. Martin, it's been

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Speaker 7: a minute right fourth of July. Happy fourth of July,

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Speaker 7: and hope all as well with you guys, no doubt.

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Speaker 2: Let's go right here.

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Speaker 1: First thing off the bat, Bradley Beal What is the

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Speaker 1: deal with him? Last year, of course, or at the

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Speaker 1: trade deadline he nicks the trade.

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Speaker 2: He didn't want to go.

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Speaker 1: He's one of two players that have a no trade clause,

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Speaker 1: him and Lebron. I don't know what they were doing

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Speaker 1: in Washington, but he has a no trade clause.

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Speaker 2: And what are the Sons going to do with Bradley Beal?

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Speaker 7: Well, let's see if they could possibly trade him. Nobody

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Speaker 7: wants them. Nobody wants to trade for a guy that's

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Speaker 7: over one hundred and ten million who hasn't played at

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Speaker 7: the sixty games since the twenty twenty one Senior so

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Speaker 7: and also he's thirty two years old. So when you

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Speaker 7: have that fast and a guy that you probably he's

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Speaker 7: still doing great. I mean this past season when he's healthy.

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Speaker 7: But he's only played fifty three games in each of

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Speaker 7: the last two seasons. So the market is just not

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Speaker 7: there for him. They tried to field offers from the Bucks,

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Speaker 7: the Bulls, and everybody was like nope, nope, nope, nope, nope.

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Speaker 7: And so you know, the Sun's like man full de

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Speaker 7: Rap would say, they lose because they got the deal.

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Speaker 7: Street lose, right, So it's just they can't get anywhere

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Speaker 7: with him. So now they're trying to work out a

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Speaker 7: buyout and they're talking with him.

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Speaker 1: Why would he take a buyout? Why in the world

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Speaker 1: would he Nobody really wants him. Why would he take

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Speaker 1: a buyout and give up money? I think it would

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Speaker 1: be crazy.

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Speaker 7: If there's another team that he wants to go to

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Speaker 7: that are willing to take him, like say the Miami

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Speaker 7: he are if the Clippers, I don't see the Clippers happen.

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Speaker 7: They only have five million left in their mid level

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Speaker 7: exception after signing Brook Lopez. You know, the other day,

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Speaker 7: so I see if the Heat he actually wanted to

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Speaker 7: go to the Heat first. Before he left Washington for Venix,

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Speaker 7: he wanted to he was thinking about maybe Miami or Milwaukee,

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Speaker 7: so to go back to where he might want to

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Speaker 7: be in a place that could use him. And also,

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Speaker 7: the Sons have a glut of scooting guards.

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Speaker 6: Now.

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Speaker 7: They got Jalen Green, and that's Kevin Durant trade. Jalen

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Speaker 7: Green showed thirty three million next season. Kevin, I mean,

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Speaker 7: Devin Booker is the constant. He's not gonna leave. And

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Speaker 7: so when you have Bradley Beal, you got this possible

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Speaker 7: three guard offense. There was a fit issue three shooting

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Speaker 7: guards that started in an offense. No, it's not gonna happen.

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Speaker 7: So that's why it's just like all right. He probably realized,

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Speaker 7: if I'm not gonna fit, I still want my money.

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Speaker 7: If you're gonna buy me out, then I'm gonna make sure,

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Speaker 7: like a players want in terms of a buyout, to

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Speaker 7: make sure that there's another team lined up that wants

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Speaker 7: him to make back the money that he's losing out on.

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Speaker 7: But that's where they're at right now.

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Speaker 4: Dan is the idea.

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Speaker 5: Dana Scott Arizona Republic Suns writer joining the odd couple.

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Speaker 5: Is it an idea that the concept of just buying

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Speaker 5: like conceptually the idea of buying out Bradley Beal, to me,

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Speaker 5: seems like a change in ownership's position that they've had

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Speaker 5: for what the forty eight or twenty four months that

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Speaker 5: Ishbia's owned the team, and that is gonna be We're

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Speaker 5: gonna spend.

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Speaker 4: We're gonna spend. We're going full steam ahead.

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Speaker 5: Now I agree with the concept we have to figure

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Speaker 5: out something, but that was not what he was saying

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Speaker 5: prior to what feels like right now? Do you feel

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Speaker 5: like the idea of potentially buying out Bradley Beal is

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Speaker 5: an admission, not necessarily saying out loud, but in that

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Speaker 5: mission by action by Matt Ishbi is saying we may

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Speaker 5: not be having the best course of action to plan here.

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Speaker 7: Well, yeah, they realize that they screwed up from the

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Speaker 7: get you know, getting brad Bill no trade class.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, but everybody lie for a while, but everybody knew

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Speaker 1: it when they made that trade.

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Speaker 4: It will allow except this is the first step, right.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean you got a guy that you traded

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Speaker 7: for that's worth a quarter of a billion dollars and

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Speaker 7: a no trade cluse. I mean an he's stupid.

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Speaker 13: So like.

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Speaker 7: Kevin de rant trade, I understand you want to go

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Speaker 7: all in and win a championship. The windows short given

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Speaker 7: his agent the time was thirty four uh, coming from Brooklyn,

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Speaker 7: so you understand that you pair him with Devin Booker

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Speaker 7: and as a twosome they were great. Kevin and Devin

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Speaker 7: Show were great for those two years, and Bradley Beal

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Speaker 7: coming along, the contract didn't sit and the position wise

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Speaker 7: it didn't fit with two shooting guards, and they're trying

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Speaker 7: to basically put Bill in as a point guard, as

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Speaker 7: a point of attack defender when he wasn't really a

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Speaker 7: great defender to begin with, even though you know he

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Speaker 7: he was decent in Washington, but he was the guy.

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Speaker 7: That's why he got that money in Washington because the

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Speaker 7: salary cap went up at the time in twenty twenty

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Speaker 7: two and he basically had to get paid because he

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Speaker 7: was the only guy left after John Wall fell off

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Speaker 7: the match. So that's good.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I wanted to ask about you mentioned KD and

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Speaker 1: just where people are happy he's gone sad because I

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Speaker 1: know him and Devin Booker and people were excited about

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Speaker 1: it and thought they were going to do something. I

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Speaker 1: thought it was very disappointing those guys together, and then

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Speaker 1: obviously they added Bradley Beal just to me the Sons.

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Speaker 1: Nothing really came together obviously, and Durant of course got

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Speaker 1: hurt as well. But where people are people in Phoenix

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Speaker 1: happy that they've moved on or they said that they gave.

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Speaker 7: Up on Durant, Well it's a loss either way. You're

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Speaker 7: taking one of the greatest players of all time and

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Speaker 7: moving on from him within two years. I mean that

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Speaker 7: is a massive, massive defeat in itself. You know, you

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Speaker 7: take on a guy who basically could give you great

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Speaker 7: value in attracting other guys to come. But of course

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Speaker 7: with this new CBA or that's been in place for

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Speaker 7: two years now, rather you can't do anything past the

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Speaker 7: second apron after taking on Deal's contract. I mean, those

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Speaker 7: three guys alone made up one hundred and fifty millions,

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Speaker 7: and you can only sign vet minimum players after getting

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Speaker 7: those three guys together. So they had to basically since

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Speaker 7: they couldn't trade Deal at the trade deadline February, They're like,

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Speaker 7: all right, well we got to basically trade the guy

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Speaker 7: who is willing to go and do something, even though

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Speaker 7: Kevin really didn't want to go. They did it behind

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Speaker 7: his back and now they then they realized, Okay, he's

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Speaker 7: finding out that we're trading him or trying to feel

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Speaker 7: trade behind his back to get Jimmy Butler. And he's like,

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Speaker 7: okay to the superstar that you don't do that. He's

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Speaker 7: basically like, all right, you're going to get rid of me.

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Speaker 7: Let's wait till that for the season. He's real professional

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Speaker 7: about it. And then they worked it us together. Now

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Speaker 7: it's the feel, the feeling of feeling up the Phoenix fans.

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Speaker 7: Sorry for that literation that basically is online. He can't

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Speaker 7: leave Twitter alone. Even told me, I wake up early

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Speaker 7: and I'm driven by Twitter. And so you're corresponding to

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Speaker 7: these random people and you're basically like, you know, fighting

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Speaker 7: upstream and answering everything to the media, says and he's

645
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Speaker 7: always been sensitive. We've got these conversations.

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Speaker 2: The most sensitive of all time, right.

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Speaker 7: So these things are that people are happy that they

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Speaker 7: don't have to deal with anymore. I mean, I got

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Speaker 7: friends who cover the Suns that Devin showed up in

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Speaker 7: their DMS pre rating them for what they said about

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Speaker 7: his performance and you know, everything regarding the Suns or

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Speaker 7: whatever in the trades that they get him. So it

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Speaker 7: just got ridiculous after a while. But I just feel

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Speaker 7: like there's a side of Phoenix that knows that they

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Speaker 7: the fans, know that they are ultimately defeated having one

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Speaker 7: of the greatest players of all time come to Phoenix

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Speaker 7: after for ten years they couldn't get anybody other than

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Speaker 7: drafting Devin Booker to come and play or maybe Chris

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Speaker 7: Paul and then having to get rid of him for

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Speaker 7: bradley Field, and now they're looking to wave and stretch

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Speaker 7: bradley Field for five years against the cap when it's possible.

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Speaker 7: It's tough to do because they're already both to fifty

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Speaker 7: percent up to the cap, which you can't do that

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Speaker 7: in the CBO.

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Speaker 4: Now, let me ask you one last question. Uh, you

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Speaker 4: talked about the addition of Chris Paul. I heard somebody

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Speaker 4: say this yesterday. I wish I remembered who it was,

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Speaker 4: but they.

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Speaker 5: Said the Phoenix Suns haven't been the same since DeAndre

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Speaker 5: Ayton left, and I was like, you know what, that's true,

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Speaker 5: but I don't think he had much to do with it, right, Like,

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Speaker 5: what do you think will give the impact of DeAndre

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Speaker 5: eighton on the Lakers, Because I say he disappeared from

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Speaker 5: the NBA the moment that Jann has blocked his shot

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Speaker 5: in the finals.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, well people can say that of the optics of it,

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Speaker 7: but they really have him been the same since they

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Speaker 7: traded Chris Paul away. Now Chris Paul, He's still a

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Speaker 7: very valuable point guard. He was sixth in the league

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Speaker 7: and assists with the Spurs this past season as the starter.

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Speaker 7: So wherever he goes next, he wants to be a star.

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Speaker 7: If they do wave and stretch Bradley Beal and take

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Speaker 7: him off of their guaranteed contract list, that opens up

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Speaker 7: a rockter spot where Paul could come back and be

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Speaker 7: their starter as a continent point guard that they need

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Speaker 7: because they have five shooting guards right now and Devin Booker,

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Speaker 7: Jalen Green, Bradley Beal, Grayson Allen and one yeah, Dylan Brooks.

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Speaker 7: There you go. So but they have a lot of

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Speaker 7: length behind them, so if they have Chris Paul, he

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Speaker 7: could work with that length and Mark Williams and Malawatch

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Speaker 7: who they just drafted at number ten from the Kevin

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Speaker 7: Durant trade in Houston, and they also have there are

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Speaker 7: other big Nick Richards who started for them this season,

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Speaker 7: so they obviously need somebody to basically do those pick

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Speaker 7: and rolls. They could do point Book again, but Book

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Speaker 7: point Book tends to get injured every December ever since

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Speaker 7: twenty nineteen, so one they won nineteen games that the

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Speaker 7: nineteen seasons at twenty eighteen nineteen seasons, So there could

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Speaker 7: be some possible fit for Chris Paul if the Clippers

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Speaker 7: don't take them, or if they do, off rim of

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Speaker 7: that minimum so they can keep some of that mid

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Speaker 7: level exception money they have left the five million.

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Speaker 1: All right, His name is Dana Scott from the Arizona Republic.

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Speaker 1: My buddy, man, we appreciate you joining us here on

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Speaker 1: the Odd Couple Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 2: Enjoy the fourth of July to rest with the family.

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Speaker 7: Hey, my guys, I appreciate you. Thanks for having me on,

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Speaker 7: no doubt.

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Speaker 1: All right, coming up next, it is the speech of

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Speaker 1: the speech of the greatest speech.

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Speaker 2: In sports, is it not.

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Speaker 1: I think it is The Odd Couple's coming up, Rob

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Speaker 1: Parker Martin Weise on a funky Flashback Friday right here

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Speaker 1: on Fox Sports Radio stick and stay America.

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Speaker 3: Fox Sports Radio has the best sports talk lineup in

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Speaker 3: the nation. Catch all of our shows at Foxsports Radio

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Speaker 3: dot com and within the iHeartRadio app. Search FSR to

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Speaker 3: listen live.

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Speaker 1: It is the Odd Couple on a funky flashback Friday,

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Speaker 1: fourth of July and yes we are live, Rob Parker

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Speaker 1: Martin Weiss, the Odd Couple Martin In for Kelvin Washington.

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Speaker 1: He'll be back on Monday. And today, July fourth is

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Speaker 1: a special day in sports.

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Speaker 2: From the standpoint Martin Weiss.

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Speaker 1: That it was the day that Louke Gerrig, of course,

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Speaker 1: one of the all time great baseball players, played for

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Speaker 1: the Yankees and was the Iron Horse. That was his nickname,

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Speaker 1: the Iron Horse. The numbers and the stats and everything

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Speaker 1: that Luke Gregg was just incredible lifetime batting average. Can

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Speaker 1: I give it to you ready? Do they have his

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Speaker 1: runners and scoring position? No, I'm just kidding.

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Speaker 2: What is it about at three three?

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Speaker 1: That's not bad play for the Yankees from nineteen twenty

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Speaker 1: three to nineteen thirty nine, But on this day and

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Speaker 1: won six World Series with the Yankees. But on this

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Speaker 1: day he gave one of the most famous speeches in

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Speaker 1: sports history.

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Speaker 2: Let's take a listen. July fourth, and Lou Garrick.

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Speaker 13: For the past two weeks you've been reading about a

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Speaker 13: bad rag. Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on

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Speaker 13: the face.

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Speaker 1: Of the earth.

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Speaker 13: Theory that i might have been given a bad break,

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Speaker 13: but I've got an awful lot to.

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Speaker 4: Live for, thank you.

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Speaker 6: So.

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Speaker 1: Lou Gerrig Martin had als which they called lou Garrigg's disease.

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Speaker 1: I mean it was named after him, and he never

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Speaker 1: played again and retired in nineteen thirty at age thirty six.

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Speaker 1: But that U that sound of him saying that he's

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Speaker 1: the luckiest man on earth always resonated. I don't know, right,

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Speaker 1: it's one of those you know, you're way younger than me,

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Speaker 1: but did you had you heard that for years?

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Speaker 5: Or my mom got me a CD of the greatest

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Speaker 5: radio calls of all time and I was on one

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Speaker 5: of them.

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Speaker 4: You know, it's the echo of it, just the old

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Speaker 4: time I'm the luckiest man the history, you know? Do

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Speaker 4: you get that? And it's just old time radio? Especially

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Speaker 4: for a radio nerd like me, it's awesome.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, those uh, yeah, it's one of those moments. I

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Speaker 2: don't know.

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Speaker 1: I was trying to think of some other you know,

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Speaker 1: when people said stuff, we were joking about Lebron saying,

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Speaker 1: give me my damn respect. You remember that one sure

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Speaker 1: after they won the championship. That was twenty twenty, right,

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Speaker 1: it had to have been, Yeah, that was twenty twenty.

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Speaker 1: What'd you think of that when Lebron made his big thing,

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Speaker 1: you know, like because it was weird, like you shouldn't

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Speaker 1: have to ask for it, you know, like it was like, well,

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Speaker 1: now give me my damn respect. And he grabbed his

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Speaker 1: satchel or whatever that was and walked out.

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Speaker 4: Give him his respect.

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Speaker 2: I feel like you have to ask for it.

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Speaker 1: The king you don't ask for I told you only

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Speaker 1: recognize one king in the United States, and that's Burger

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Speaker 1: King Kings.

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Speaker 5: The most impactful Fourth of July speech, though, to me,

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Speaker 5: was mankind. That word should have a new meaning for

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Speaker 5: all of us today, because we can't be consumed by

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Speaker 5: our petty differences anymore. We will be united in our

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Speaker 5: common interest. Perhaps it is fate that today is the

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Speaker 5: fourth of July, you will once again be fighting for

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Speaker 5: our freedom, not from tyranny, not from oppressure or for persecution,

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Speaker 5: but from annihilation. We are fighting for our right to

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Speaker 5: live to exist. That should we win, the day, the

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Speaker 5: fourth of Dely.

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Speaker 4: Will no longer be known as American.

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Speaker 5: Holiday, but as a day when the world declared in

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Speaker 5: one voice, we will not go quietly into the night.

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Speaker 5: We will not vanish without a fight. We are going

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Speaker 5: to live on. We are going to survive. Today we

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Speaker 5: celebrate our independence. That's from the President of the United States.

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Speaker 5: Right before Will Smith flew up in that plane and

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Speaker 5: told those aliens stop shooting that green stuff at me.

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Speaker 5: He went in there, handled business, and as a result,

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Speaker 5: today we have the freedoms that we have in this country,

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Speaker 5: no alien oppression.

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Speaker 4: Thank you very much.

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Speaker 2: I'll still take lou Garrick. Okay, very nice. Nice, that

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Speaker 2: was beautiful nice. Yeah, you know you put a little

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Speaker 2: effort in. Okay, I'll still take uh lu Garrick any day.

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Speaker 4: I know the problem. The movie came out in the nineties.

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Speaker 2: I doubt I doubt.

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Speaker 5: Independence Day came out sixties. Broke and Marilyn, I'm gonna

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Speaker 5: say this to.

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Speaker 1: You, you guys, keep it up, you, but I wish

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Speaker 1: that you get to live to be my age.

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Speaker 4: Experiences stuffy.

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Speaker 2: Also all I'm saying, so you go ahead.

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Speaker 1: And do your little I'm young and your old kind

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Speaker 1: of uh bandwagon go ahead.

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Speaker 2: I'm just telling.

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Speaker 1: You you you can only wish I.

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Speaker 4: Am the I do.

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Speaker 1: Man, you get here, I want you to know I

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Speaker 1: know I have.

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Speaker 2: I'm very happy where I'm at in my life.

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Speaker 1: All right, Final hour of the program coming up, Fox

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