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Speaker 1: Hey, we're excited to have A's rookie Nick Kurtz joining

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Speaker 1: the show right now. Nick, great to have you on here.

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Speaker 1: Congrats on a great year so far. Still work to do.

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Speaker 1: First off, want to say hello, and do you feel

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Speaker 1: like a rookie because you don't look like a rookie, dude,

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Speaker 1: but do you feel like a rookie in the bigs?

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Speaker 2: Yeah?

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Speaker 3: I still think there's a little bit more time for

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Speaker 3: me to feel this way, but not for too much longer.

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Speaker 2: I hope.

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Speaker 1: Okay, good, good, Well, I want to start here just

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Speaker 1: because it's fresh. How was the trade deadline? You're someone

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Speaker 1: that comes in as a rookie, obviously you don't have

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Speaker 1: to be worried about being traded, but how is it

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Speaker 1: just to be amongst you know, players over the last

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Speaker 1: few days, are people checking their phones just to see

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Speaker 1: what's going on because every team makes a trade at

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Speaker 1: the deadline, so somebody in the clubhouse is going to

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Speaker 1: be hugging their teammates goodbye.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it was weird.

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Speaker 3: You know, this is the first time I've kind of

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Speaker 3: experienced the trade deadline at all, and then let alone

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Speaker 3: in the big leagues, So seeing that kind of go down,

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Speaker 3: seeing the moves made and then you know, seeing Mason

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Speaker 3: JP and Meggi goh, it hurts to see. But at

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Speaker 3: the end of the day, we know it's a business,

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Speaker 3: so we all understand it. But there's a great guys

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Speaker 3: and you know we wish them the best.

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Speaker 5: Nick How does it feel? I have two questions for you.

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Speaker 6: First one, how does it feel to be the second

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Speaker 6: most amish guy on a show?

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Speaker 5: Okay from Lancaster.

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Speaker 6: Right, you have the nickname big Amish, but the guy

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Speaker 6: with his hat on backwards, the other guy in his

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Speaker 6: hat on backwards, is actually amish. So how does it

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Speaker 6: feel even though your nickname is big Amish, Crats is

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Speaker 6: actually the one that has done the churning of the

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Speaker 6: all that stuff.

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Speaker 2: So this might be the.

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Speaker 6: First time in your life you're the second most amish

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's that's definitely a new one. I haven't really

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Speaker 2: Nice nice. We always try to We always try to

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Speaker 2: get the we always try to get the facts right.

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Speaker 2: Where did you grow up in Lancaster?

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Speaker 3: So it was right in Leancster County, it was. I

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Speaker 3: County went to manhatt township in school district area.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so you went to Mannheim. First of all, I'm

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Speaker 2: not Amish. Second of all, AJ looks more homish than

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Speaker 2: both of us. Thirdly, we know AJ is turning tons

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Speaker 2: That's not how it churned butter.

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Speaker 6: Now that we got the facts straight, now I have

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Speaker 6: to ask him the real question. How does it feel

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Speaker 6: as a rookie to have the greatest game You're going

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Speaker 6: to have your career six for six almost five homers.

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Speaker 6: Missed it by a foot, like this was one of

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Speaker 6: the greatest. I said, it was the greatest game I've

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Speaker 6: ever seen by a hitter. So you in your rookie

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Speaker 6: year had I mean, if you can top this game,

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Speaker 6: I will salute you for the rest of my life.

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Speaker 6: But you six for six, four homers, like six runs

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Speaker 6: RBIs everything.

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Speaker 5: The greatest game of all time was in your rookie year.

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Speaker 4: Congratulations, Yeah, thank you.

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Speaker 3: It's God, it's still when people say that, it doesn't

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Speaker 4: That kind of actually did it.

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Speaker 3: It was a weird feeling throughout the whole game that

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Speaker 3: You know, I feel like a lot of luck has

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Speaker 4: But thank you, Yeah, luck, what luck?

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Speaker 2: There ain't no luck, dude. You got six sits.

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Speaker 5: And four homers in this ball right here.

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Speaker 2: You missed the other one.

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Speaker 6: You missed by like a foot where You're like, dude,

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Speaker 6: if you would have got five homers, think about you'd

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Speaker 7: I think it already did some of this stuff.

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Speaker 8: I'm sure it probably did. But like, dude, that's not luck.

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Speaker 8: That's like the greatest game I've ever seen. If I

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Speaker 6: In a game ship for hopea kits, it for crats,

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Speaker 6: that's a month's worth of hits.

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Speaker 8: I mean, six hits in a game, I'd barely got

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I guess maybe in a little bit LESSU but

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Speaker 3: they still got throw it where you look, and you said,

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Speaker 3: I got to make good swings on it. But when

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Speaker 3: that's kind of the way baseball works in my opinion.

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Speaker 2: Yeah I don't. I don't get six hits in VP.

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Speaker 2: But the real questions, now, okay, we got to ask

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Speaker 2: the really tough questions. What's tougher the big leagues or

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Speaker 4: The big leagues for sure?

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Speaker 2: Yeah you sure? Are you sure? Because I mean we're

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Speaker 2: you know, it's just it's luck. Some of this is

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, I think the coaching staff and kind

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Speaker 5: What was it like playing for Tom Walter?

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Speaker 2: I know him.

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Speaker 6: He's a great guy. So he's he's he's awesome, He's

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Speaker 4: Yeah, he's awesome. You know, like you said, great guy.

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Speaker 3: You know, donated you know when I first committed there,

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Speaker 1: So your last season in college ball, I think, did

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Speaker 7: Did you have an injury early in the season.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I struggled early and then got hurt for like

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Speaker 1: Came back okay, and then you raked. I mean you

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Speaker 1: I'm going to the d a as I'm happy. Or did

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Speaker 1: you look back, like to the first three teams? Are

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Speaker 5: You know?

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Speaker 1: Like there's even some guys I think Bregman right whears

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Speaker 1: I felt like I was the best hitter in college

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Speaker 3: Apparently not really, you know, I did feel like I

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Speaker 3: but I didn't really show it. My junior year started

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Speaker 3: whatever happened. So I kind of just put on perspective

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Speaker 4: Is what it was meant to be.

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Speaker 5: Dude, you had a twelve hundred ops your junior year, almost.

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Speaker 7: Thirteen twenty two homers.

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Speaker 6: I mean, it wasn't that big of a struggle bus

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Speaker 6: hit three zh six Sorry, but your slug was seven

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Speaker 5: Like what kind of struggle bus were you on? Like

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Speaker 5: you have unreal expectations if that's what you're looking for.

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Speaker 7: And he led the he led NTAA and walks too.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, this is we're talking Barry bondstep.

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Speaker 3: So when I got back from the injury, then I

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Speaker 3: after I got back and I hit like fourteen homers

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Speaker 7: That's a heater, for real, that is a real heater.

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Speaker 2: You're so you're sitting there, you're sitting there right now,

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Speaker 2: and you're essentially taking Jacob's Rookie of the Year award

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Speaker 2: you have to sing a duo.

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Speaker 3: No, we have not. We haven't talked about much. A

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Speaker 3: He's got a little injury right now, so he's on

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Speaker 3: make another run for it, kind of like I did.

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Speaker 3: the year. I mean, whoever gets it gets it's it's

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Speaker 2: What have you seen in the big leagues in the

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Speaker 2: sense that everyone says, well, anybody can get hot in

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Speaker 2: the big leagues, and I'm not going to say you're hot.

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna say you're just good and you can really hit.

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Speaker 2: What have you seen them making adjustments that you've now

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Speaker 2: had to make adjustments because I know Jacob went through

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Speaker 2: trying to play through the fractured forearm. But what adjustments

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Speaker 2: have you seen the league make against you that you've

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Speaker 2: been like, I'll counter that and make this adjustment.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, there's been a few. When I first got up,

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Speaker 7: Or is it most of what you're just observing yourself

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Speaker 3: Both are hitting our hitting coach Darren Bush, you know,

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Speaker 4: You know, what they're gonna do.

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Speaker 2: All right, Well, we can see that baseball is easy

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Speaker 2: What's your thing? Are you a gamer? You a hunter?

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Speaker 5: So cow milker milk, I don't know.

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Speaker 2: Hey, aj aj milk chickens. So there's that.

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Speaker 4: A big gamer.

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Speaker 3: That's what I spend most of my time doing off

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Speaker 2: All right, What are you into? What you what's on

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Speaker 3: Mostly Call of Duty? That's kind of the game I play.

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Speaker 4: New game recently. It's called Ready or Not, which has

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Speaker 3: It's like you and your friends like are on a

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Speaker 4: But mostly those two.

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Speaker 6: All right, So you're playing Call of Duty and Ready

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Speaker 5: What number are they on now?

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Speaker 6: Because this was like the first one was and it

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Speaker 6: I had six it to the game. You can't kill

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Speaker 5: So like, what number are they on now?

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Speaker 3: So no, I think like The biggest part of the

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Speaker 2: You get noticed when you go out in Sacramento. Do

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Speaker 3: Not really, honestly, not really and Tahoe over all Star

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Speaker 7: Yeah, a little profile. You can do your thing, live

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Speaker 1: But on the celeb side, you know, AJ and sometimes

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Speaker 3: I think the most famous was Barstool Big Kent reached

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Speaker 6: All right, Nick, I have to tell you a story.

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Speaker 6: So Big Cat he's in Chicago. He's based in Chicago. Okay,

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Speaker 6: we did the NASCAR race in Chicago last year. Big

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Speaker 5: They're like, there, come meet him. He was great, But

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Speaker 5: Had no idea who he was.

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Speaker 7: I could not identify.

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Speaker 6: I could have never So that's cool that he reached

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we might do something in the future, but it

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Speaker 5: Up, how do you get your number? How do you

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Speaker 3: Something with my agency, they have a contact with him

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Speaker 4: Be sure how that went down? Just kinda happen.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, all right. I'm always I'm always looking for I'm

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Speaker 2: Or would you do it next year if they asked you.

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Speaker 4: Be pretty cool. And I mean, after watching rook too

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Speaker 5: Nice.

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Speaker 6: All right, last one before we go, I asked him,

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Speaker 6: I asked your manager. I played with your manager. Okay,

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Speaker 6: he's got the old school. Remember the Japan team that

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Speaker 5: That's Mark Kotsay host.

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Speaker 3: He never really mentioned it until you said that, and

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Speaker 4: Well he doesn't. This is very true.

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Speaker 5: He didn't really have an answer.

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Speaker 7: It's just it's almost like a you know, fidget spinner.

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Speaker 7: It's like something you do. You just keep doing this right?

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Speaker 7: Interesting? Well, Nick, this was awesome man, Hope you had fun.

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Speaker 7: Great to have you on. Keep crushing it really fun

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Speaker 7: watching you play this year.

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Speaker 4: Awesome, Thank you guys,