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Speaker 1: Cleveland Brown's Daily brought to you by Bally Bed Coming

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Speaker 1: soon to Ohio on ESPN Cleveland. Welcome back to Cleveland

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Speaker 1: Brown's Daily, brought to you by Bally Bed And Oh

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Speaker 1: my goodness, folks, this is what we've been waiting for.

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Speaker 1: The main event. Early in the show, we are joined

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Speaker 1: by number three, six nine, number seventy three, the Hap.

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Speaker 1: Oh Thomas, what a night, what a moment, incredible, great

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Speaker 1: maroon suit. It looks fantastic. What's it light dude, It's official.

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Speaker 1: The hop. We had our crystal ball up. We said

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Speaker 1: he's gonna be a hop. This is into the question

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Speaker 1: and now you are first ballot Hall of Famer Joe Thomas. Congratsman,

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Speaker 1: So happy for you, so deserving. Couldn't be just all

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Speaker 1: the good fields off the fields are over the moon

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Speaker 1: right now, I'm feeling so many things, a touch hungover

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Speaker 1: after about three hours of sleep. The celebration is ongoing,

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Speaker 1: which is so exciting. It is just the front end

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Speaker 1: of many months of celebration because it's been a lifetime

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Speaker 1: of dedication and hard work to the craft of football,

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Speaker 1: and I'm just so overjoyed to be able to be

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Speaker 1: here in Arizona to be officially named a Hall of

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Speaker 1: Famer and then to be able to come home for

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Speaker 1: that home game and can't know, ohil this summer and

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Speaker 1: celebrate with all the Browns fans. Let's go can'ton is

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Speaker 1: going to be absolutely rocking. All right, Let's go back

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Speaker 1: a little bit, because the world found out last night.

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Speaker 1: You knew a little bit before that. What was that

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Speaker 1: moment like, and I know you will share with me

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Speaker 1: just some special stuff with your son kind of being

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Speaker 1: the one to tell you. What was that like? Take

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Speaker 1: everybody through it? It was incredible. Um. I felt going

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Speaker 1: wasn't sweating it out, Like I knew that it was

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Speaker 1: going to be tough to keep me out and so

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Speaker 1: if they would have sat me down and said, hey,

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Speaker 1: like I wouldn't have been overly surprised. However, the way

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Speaker 1: job of setting it up. She uh did a great

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Speaker 1: job keeping the secret, and she told me that we

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Speaker 1: were going to go out to dinner with the neighbors,

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Speaker 1: have some drinks. It was a Friday night. Kids got

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Speaker 1: like good time for you. Yeah, yeah, good cop, bad cop.

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Speaker 1: militaristically because we got four kids and fall was crazy

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Speaker 1: So I'm not ready because I had worked out that afternoon,

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Speaker 1: Like when we were living in Westlake, it was so weird.

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Speaker 1: So special, so special. All right, So talk a little

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Speaker 1: Make it happen. Let's go. Well. Congratulations, Love you, man,

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