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Speaker 1: Hey, we've got Red's rookie slug Or south Stewart joining

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Speaker 1: us right now, Sally got Scottie Brown, Air Kratz and

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Speaker 1: Todd Father Sal Great to have you on the show.

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Speaker 1: First ball and welcome to the show. Has the first

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Speaker 1: couple of weeks going for you?

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Speaker 2: Good good, Thank you guys for having me. By the way,

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Speaker 2: it's awesome. Thank you.

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Speaker 3: It's been pretty great, honestly. Finally, a couple of days ago,

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Speaker 3: I finally kind of relaxed a second and realized that

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Speaker 3: it was kind of like a reality. But it's been great, honestly.

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Speaker 3: The guys in the clubhouse have been awesome with me,

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Speaker 3: so and it's exciting. We're making a playoff push so

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Speaker 3: right where right where we want to be?

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Speaker 4: All right, So you're comfortable?

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Speaker 5: Now, does that mean you're sitting on the couches because

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Speaker 5: I didn't sit on the couch so I retired.

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Speaker 3: Oh no, I know the rules. I faced my locker

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Speaker 3: and I sit in my chair, So I know the rules.

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Speaker 4: Does anybody give you a hard time?

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Speaker 5: What I was talking about was the fact that rookies

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Speaker 5: normally are not supposed to sit on the couch feel comfortable,

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Speaker 5: and when a dude feels comfortable. I mean I was,

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Speaker 5: I was guilty of this. Dude feels God. Rookie comes up,

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Speaker 5: I'm like, oh, I'll roll I'll roll something over for

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Speaker 5: him to put their feet up on, and I'll be like, hey,

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Speaker 5: do you want Peterborough jelly?

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Speaker 4: What what do you want? And deliver it to them.

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Speaker 4: But has anybody giving you a hard time?

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Speaker 6: Nah?

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Speaker 2: Na, if it is, it's just allid jokes and stuff.

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Speaker 2: But sure, nah, it's still a great It's sen a

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Speaker 2: great time. And I'm all for that too.

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Speaker 3: I mean, I got you got to earn your stripes

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Speaker 3: when when you make I mean anything you did in

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Speaker 3: the minor leagues that's kind of just in the in

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Speaker 3: the past now and uh now it's kind of just

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Speaker 3: you got. I gotta re earn everything I've I've kind

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Speaker 2: So I love it. I kind of love that aspect

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Speaker 3: All these guys have been in the league and they're

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Speaker 3: not gonna let just a young guy come in here

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Speaker 2: So I like it for sure.

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Speaker 6: Who have you like kind of flocked to a little

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Speaker 6: bit on this ball club? And you know, a veteran guy,

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Speaker 6: or there's somebody who you know who's your locker mats, Like,

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Speaker 6: is there somebody that you know, your conversations with that

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, honestly, Steve has been great with me.

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Speaker 3: Trevy's been great, Austin Hayes, Ellie is great, Espina. I mean,

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Speaker 3: I can go on and on. Honestly, They've everyone's kind

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Speaker 3: of like kind of looked out for me. But we

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Speaker 3: O had picked me for his group for.

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Speaker 2: One of the Young Buck things that we do, So he's.

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Speaker 3: Been great with me. But nah, honestly, I mean they've

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Speaker 3: all been great with me. I can really kind of

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Speaker 3: Nick he's from Miami.

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Speaker 2: He takes care of me. So honestly, man, I can

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Speaker 2: go on and on.

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Speaker 4: For sure.

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Speaker 6: You're talking about Martinez. He's a base but I play

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Speaker 6: with him in the Olympics. We had a good time.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Have you been out and about in Cincinnati yet?

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Speaker 6: Have you gone any good restaurants or anything yet?

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Speaker 2: Maybe Jeff Rupert, Yeah, Yeah, Ruby's Ruby. That place is awesome. Honestly,

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Speaker 3: But yeah, I mean I kind of I haven't really

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Speaker 3: kind of been with them. But maybe when I head back,

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Speaker 2: But I don't really do much, honestly.

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Speaker 3: I kind of just go to the field and then

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Speaker 2: So I don't really do too much, all right.

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Speaker 5: So I'm not sure how this is gonna go. So

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Speaker 5: I'm gonna call for a video of your home run

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Speaker 5: to center field in San Diego. I'm not sure who

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Speaker 5: tell me what you the motion because I saw this

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Speaker 5: tell me what happens right.

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Speaker 4: Here? Were you?

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Speaker 5: Were you showing your boy Manny, what you've been, what

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Speaker 4: Here were you showing them? Were you showing them the

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Speaker 4: rolex that he bought you?

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Speaker 2: Yeah?

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Speaker 3: So, Manny, honestly, he's literally my big brother. I talked

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Speaker 3: and we had a little story. I mean, I mean

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Speaker 3: minor leagues. When you make it, don't worry about the Rolex.

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Speaker 3: I'm gonna get you one. And the first day I

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Speaker 2: I definitely didn't forget, and then yeah, got me this.

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Speaker 3: So I thought it was just a I thought it'd

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Speaker 3: be funny if when I passed by, I let him know, like, hey,

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Speaker 3: I still rock the chador, you know. But yeah, he's

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Speaker 2: So it was a good time. Something I will never

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Speaker 4: That's big.

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Speaker 5: That's big league awareness by you to be going around

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Speaker 5: to hit a dinger off of Michael King dead center

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Speaker 5: I appreciate, I appreciate you making me feel comfortable. But man,

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Speaker 5: sometimes some of the stuff he's done. Can you tell

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Speaker 5: dude who's really not like your connection just goes back

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Speaker 5: a long ways. But gifted a dude a Rolex for

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Speaker 5: when he makes the big leagues, that's big time. So

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Speaker 5: tell us something about Manny that maybe people don't know.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, honestly, if if you feel like that's

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Speaker 2: He's an amazing person, an amazing teammate.

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Speaker 3: He he looks after everybody, and he's someone that when

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Speaker 3: when he knows someone's a good person. He I mean,

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Speaker 3: he's he does everything behind the scenes. Look at his foundations.

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Speaker 3: He's always looking after people. He's a great teammate, locker room.

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Speaker 2: He's he's I mean he's a leader. Look at what

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Speaker 3: I mean, I can go on and on. He's such

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Speaker 2: So honestly, for me, he's family to me and he'll

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Speaker 1: Time for your weekly Arena Club segment where we see

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Speaker 1: what AJ pulls from a slab pack and here we

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Speaker 1: go pull Emerald pack this week. AJ looking for something big.

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Speaker 4: Always, I'm always looking for the big thing that's big.

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Speaker 1: Thanks got big money, big money, baby. We've got a

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Speaker 1: tops card from this Emerald pack. Estimated value three hundred bucks.

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Speaker 1: You could sell it back for two seventy So I

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Speaker 1: feel like you are into more of the current players.

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Speaker 1: Would that be accurate?

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Speaker 4: Like you am?

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Speaker 1: I sure might have a Robbin you out, I have

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Speaker 4: So I mean I have some older vinton'shier players. Bob Gibson.

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Speaker 5: So I know I disagree Scott, But Dave Winfield for

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Speaker 6: Tell me a little bit about yourself, man, because you

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Speaker 6: know you new guy comes in. You know, give me

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Speaker 6: some hobbies. What you like to do in the off season,

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Speaker 6: you know, talk to us. I know you're a Miami guy.

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Speaker 6: Yonder lines on my boy many my boys, Well, like

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Speaker 4: Like give us a little bit man.

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Speaker 6: What you like to eat, what you like to do,

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Speaker 3: Yeah, honestly, in the off season, I kind of just

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Speaker 2: Honestly, so I don't do much hang.

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Speaker 3: Out with my girlfriend, and and yeah, it's pretty much it.

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Speaker 2: I just kind of spend a lot of family time.

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Speaker 3: Usually in the season, we have a we have a

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Speaker 2: So when I'm back home, that's pretty much all I do.

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Speaker 5: Wait, wait, wait, it's not gonna change. Like, you're not

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Speaker 5: making eight different plans. You're a big leaguer. I get it.

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Speaker 5: Your coffee is still a little bit hot, your first

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Speaker 4: But you're a big leaguer. Now, nothing's gonna change. You're

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Speaker 4: not gonna take like a trip or nothing. You're just

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Speaker 2: Yeah. I don't change just because what I like, just

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Speaker 2: because I made it.

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Speaker 3: I mean, I haven't done anything. And even if I

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Speaker 3: do that, I won't change who I am. That's not me.

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Speaker 2: I go to church and I watch football. It's pretty

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Speaker 2: much all I do.

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Speaker 5: All right, Well, what happens if the Reds do this thing,

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Speaker 5: some people are hating, but I would assume the feeling

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Speaker 5: I know you've never been in a Pennant race in

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Speaker 5: the big leagues, but tell me what you're hearing from

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Speaker 5: Yeah, as a padre, but you were getting caught up

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Speaker 4: That's that's big time. Yeah, that is big time. That

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Speaker 5: Yeah, Oh I get it. I'm taking I'm gonna take

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Speaker 5: And I'm telling this story as a secondhand. I don't

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Speaker 4: Prazinski. His son Austin Goes went to first academy. Did

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Speaker 5: And they beat you guys your senior year in high school.

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Speaker 5: You know, you're a first rounder, now you're a big leaguer.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, first academy. I mean, I don't forget, I don't forget.

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Speaker 2: But he can rag on me. They won, and I

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Speaker 3: I kind of just got him play and whatever happens happened.

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Speaker 3: I mean, they people like, we've come to realize and

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Speaker 5: So I don't know what's gonna happen in your career.

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Speaker 5: Maybe you might lose some of that hair, but keep

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Speaker 2: I hope I could keep it for a while. I

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Speaker 4: You got plenty. You're good. You're good.

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Speaker 1: But that's a great answer for me to tell Aja

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Speaker 4: Sure sound was happy for Austin. Austin got a dub.

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Speaker 4: You know it seems it seemed very genuine.

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Speaker 5: I mean, proved me wrong, soal, but it's genuine that

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Speaker 4: I'm gonna watch a few more Reds here. Yeah, sounds of.

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Speaker 1: The show now, So everything's good.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's the plan.

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Speaker 3: I mean, you played a win and everything works out,

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Speaker 4: All right.

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Speaker 1: Well, Sala, this was awesome man, great getting to know you.

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Speaker 2: Thank you guys, thanks for having me