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Speaker 1: Little sports is your forete. I try you know, that's

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Speaker 1: Like I remember coming up in high school, like my

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Speaker 1: career ended earlier I knew. I was like, all right,

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Speaker 1: in June. I thoroughly believe it was the hangover here.

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Speaker 1: And to be quite honest with you, that's not a

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Speaker 1: knock on Mike. I think it's even more impressive if

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Speaker 1: you did a drunk Yeah yeah, but you're gonna come,

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Speaker 1: I mean you might catch win it is and be

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Speaker 1: like you you ain't catching win drums on the tequila. Look, man,

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Speaker 1: Vegas was a forty five minute flight from the crazy

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Speaker 1: Scotty drunk more than him than night Dennis du drunk

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Speaker 1: but look, I know them yellow eyes. You ain't getting

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Speaker 1: So I'm not alone and this we're not alone. We

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Speaker 1: are a party of three. It was the hangover game

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Speaker 1: and that was more impressive than the fluid Man. You

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Speaker 1: heard it here first, Michaels trunk. We're gonna put it

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Speaker 1: you stopped and look to Mike credit, he dropped forty

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Speaker 1: was drunk because he hugs Scott. It didn't after watching

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Speaker 1: that's the documentary. You want to the Detroit Pistons before

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Speaker 1: Vancouver Grizzly. Yeah, now you're doing Ecstasy and half Time. Look,

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Speaker 1: that flu game. That flu game. Drunk game had me

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Speaker 1: believe and I was like, you know what, I drink gatorade. Look,

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Speaker 1: And y'all just highlighting just so many parts of our community,

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