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I played today with a ton of
gratitude and appreciation for the opportunity to do

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this. I'm really glad I get
to do it again tomorrow. And I'm

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going to remind myself on a dog
and I'm ready for this moment. A

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great maccoma binding himself. He's a
dog eating every morning like Danny, Me,

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Kevin and JJ do in the morning. Two blinks, one bark,

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Grab the car keys. It's a
dirty down beat. On Wednesday, April

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seventeenth, twenty and twenty four,
we're doing it. We're doing at six

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to ten am. We're doing it
without Kevin Turner this morning, and we'll

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get to the adventures in keV oh
here. Momentarily, I kind of feel

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like an empty nester. I know, right the parents that are just kind

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of staying together for their kids and
then they go to college and they look

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at each other and go, you
know what, I really don't like you

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plant at the watch, look at
them. I know some people who I

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think are in that category. Man
like done. How often does that happen?

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I think it happens a ton like
within a year of nothing either not

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eighteenth birthday or departure from home.
Some dude. I know people that have

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gone through this, and some of
them will wait until their kids get through

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college because the stress of a divorce. They don't want that kind of influencing

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their emotions while they're trying to get
a degree. Right. But if you're

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already like at each other and you're
like, you know, this is a

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ticking time bomb anyway, and they
leave the house, I guess you maybe

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kind of loosely start the proceedings.
Yeah, like if the kid's gone,

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then you just don't even talk.
Maybe, uh, and look, you've

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leap in the kids rooms. Yeah, you created your own space, and

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you've got your own distractions, and
you know, find ways to just kind

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of avoid each other, and then
you have to have the hard discussion I

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guess. I mean, hell,
none of my relationships ever made it eighteen

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years, yeah, to ever get
to that point. But it's a bizarre

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dynamic, man, the empty nester
theory. But I just imagine waiting looking

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at the calendar, waiting to go
I'm like, all right, we're free.

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You know what's funny though, when
you like say that, I'm sure

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you've seen these things too, and
you've heard this described by the kids that

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go through this, they get mad
at their parents for waiting. Really yeah,

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yeah, like, why would you
sacrifice your happiness? I could have

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handled this because the parents, in
their minds, it's like, well,

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we need to stay together for the
kids and provide the stability and supportability and

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all of that. But the kids
are like, no, I knew you

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guys hated each other since I was
five. It didn't help me for you

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to stay together. Yeah, but
when you're kids fourteen or fifteen, remember,

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you know, don't you always see
that they get a divorce and then

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the kids crying? Is it my
fault? Wait, you don't love each

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other anymore. But then when you're
saying when they're eighteen or nineteen, then

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they're suddenly I suppose little geniuses And
I knew I could have handled this.

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That's true, you know, like
it flipped pretty quickly somewhere around seventeen or

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sixteen. Yeah, maybe we all
just belong alone. Maybe maybe you're we're

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lone wolves. Mikey, Like,
once you start something, the clock just

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starts ticking on its inevitable demise.
What time is it? Six o four

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in the morning, Good morning,
everybody, This is the downbeat you have.

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JJ Jackson here. Hi, JJ, Good morning boys. How are

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we doing good? How are y'all
silly? Good man? Pretty good?

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Pretty good? No, it's all
good man. Kevin is. It's funny

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how this thing works, Like you
never know how personalities work. And Kevin

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is, uh, he does kind
of hold this thing together. You know,

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he's more than the glues. Yeah, Kevin for a dude named Kevin.

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But I mean he comes up with
all the stuff. He thinks about

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it. Twenty four to seven,
we think about it, you know,

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twenty seven, twenty two seven maybe, But yeah, Kevin holds this thing

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together. He's always got stuff,
got stuff on the side burner and back

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burner and all this, and he's
just good at it. Man born for

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this. Dan and I probably weren't
born for this. We're Charlatan's. But

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Kevin is, Kevin is solid.
It's kind of incredible that Kevin grew up

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and knew from an early age that
this is what he wanted to do.

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Yeah. I never ever, even
when I was offered the job at the

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Ticket, I still was like,
why would you do this? Really?

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I have no experience, nor do
I have any real interest in doing this

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for a living, Like, don't
worry about it. We'll train you.

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All right. I know we've talked
about this, but you just did songs

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and then they thought they were so
funny or good or call it you called

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in as the pizza delivery man,
would it pizza Danny? Okay, So

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this is a long time ago.
So I got hired over there in March

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of ninety nine just to do like
a weekend show with our program director,

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just to kind of test the waters
and see how it would go. Why

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but because yeah, so leading up
to that for the years prior, because

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the station only been on the air
about four and a half years at that

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but maybe five years at that point. And after about a year of it

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being on the air, I finally
succumbed and started listening full time, kind

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of fell in love with, you
know, Mike and Greg in the afternoons,

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and found I felt a connection to
that show. They loved baseball.

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I loved baseball like I was a
hardcore baseball nerd at the time. And

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once they kind of flipped their switch
and started talking more about their personal lives

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and being more loose with their content, not just being so hard hitting sports,

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it connected with an audience and I
loved it, so, you know,

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me being a musician, I thought
I was kind of funny until I

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met you. For years and I
would send them different like okay, send

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to the segment called facts Fodder,
which was basically email us funny content,

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and I would send them factxes every
day, so we had a fax machine

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at the restaurant that I worked at, and it would be like a top

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ten list or just jokes, anything, yeah, just some kind of bit.

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And then I would I would record
on my little track recorder at home

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wacky songs and theme songs for their
guests and send them cassettes of this stuff

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and they would use it and they
liked it. And I would call in

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on occasion and do you know,
voices and whatnot, kind of like a

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total very on a small scale of
want to be Gordo got it was theme

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songs for guests. That really kind
of because that's something that especially back then,

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shows didn't have or maybe didn't even
think about. Well, that's the

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thing about those is like anything else, maybe like a joke or a top

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ten list or a specialty song,
it's kind of a one off you never

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hear it again. But the theme
songs when you have a recurring guest every

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week, Rusty Greer Can Hitchcock.
That's all. It's something that becomes kind

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of like ingrained. Yeah, it's
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show. And then they Kat and
Bruce because it was the PD, no,

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it was the producer of the Hardline
and the PD of the station at

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the time. It's like, hey, why don't we go have lunch?

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We like you, And I've develop
a rapport with Mike and Greg and Madam

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Kat and Korby. Yeah, yeah, remotes, But I was social with

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Krby outside of the station briefly,
you know, for you know, we

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go to shows together and smoke weed
and stuff, and we met for lunch

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and hit it off, and they're
like, dudehy don't you when did you

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come work? Like doing what?
Why? Why? Why would you do

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this to yourselves? And you know, they put me on the air with

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Jeff and we did a weekend show
for about I don't know four six months.

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Position came open on the a nighttime
show with the I guess it was

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with Mark Followell and Doug Anderson,
the voice of the Mavericks now was their

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producer. And I was like,
I don't know how to do this.

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We'll show you and I still haven't
learned. That's just so great about Kevin

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and bring it back to keV Oh
ye, dude, he's a he's great

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on the air, he's a wonderful
host. But he would be the best

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producer like anybody he if he wanted
to be a producer in radio, he

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could produce the highest level radio program. Yeah, forever, forever. He's

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just wired that way. But Yeah, and then you know, the hardline

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position came open. Interviewed for that
with Mike and Greg, which was bizarre.

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He was sitting across a table from
Cat. Yeah. Cat went to

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Kansas City to PD up there and
then that position became open. Was he

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an aspiring host? I guess at
that time because he was a cat never

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had designs on that, but he
was a producer. And then he would

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do a weekend show with you.
I think the only reasonally, at least

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for me, that's you know,
that was my trajectory. I think,

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honestly, the only reason that he
did that show with me was to kind

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of h for lack of a better
Yeah, test or train, but give

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me some experience. You know,
he was young too, and the trip

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is in this thing. You don't
know what your trajectory is, and a

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lot of people don't. I don't
think I ever was like, oh,

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I should be a radio host with
my life right, Just something you do

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and you enjoy and you're like,
I'm okay at this And if that's if

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you're a producer, that's why it's
perfect there because the producer like you get

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on air, you get that experience, but there's not the pressure or whatever

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of being a host and the content
you don't need to know at all.

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But that's how you do it.
You just keep going. And then then

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a weekend show, like you said, so he was a producer weekend show

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and then for some the next step
would be trying to become a host.

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Yeah, but then yeah, he
went to Kansas City and I took the

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job with the Hardline. And that
interview was funny, sitting across the table

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from Mike and Greg and Greg kind
of running the interview welcome in. No,

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it was a show, what are
you going to do for us?

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I don't know, man, I
don't know. I really don't know.

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Show opens. I guess we need
everything. Really a lot of that,

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and Korbia just started working for him
as well, So we kind of started

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with that show together and I'll be
damned, twenty some odd years and then

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run they said, yeah, let's
do it. Yeah, and you were

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you were delivering pizza still er.
No, No, I was working.

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I mean I'd taken the night.
I was producing nights from seven to ten,

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so you would follow well and Doug
okay, okay, and the Followell

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went on to greater, greater things. He took the MAVs job. He

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was doing radio at first, then
moved to TV so that that show dissolved.

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He probably always had aspirations that dude, that guy's been dialed in since

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he was a little kid. Yeah, yeah, and now he's been the

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MAVs play by play guy for how
forever and he's so good. He's the

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best in the business. Olympics and
he does FC Dallas and everything he does

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is he does perfectly. I kind
of love the way he looks at this

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because I really do believe that Mark
loves the MAVs so much, loves Dallas

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so much. And I don't know
what kind of offers he's entertained or gotten

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from maybe a larger scope like national, But why wouldn't people be recruiting him

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from big networks because he's he's excellent. He's an elite broadcast. I wonder.

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I bet they have and we probably
just don't know about it. And

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I bet he's just happy when he
does the other stuff. He does soccer,

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he does Olympics, you know.
But as far as like, we

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want you to be the voice of
the NBA, we want you to be

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on the second or third string on
T and T or NBC or whoever's running

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these national games. I bet he's
had some phone calls and just says,

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you know what, I love the
grind, I love working with the guys

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I work with. I love my
crew, and I love this team,

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and I'm happy in Dallas. I
don't want to do this. How much

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harder it is too, I mean, because he is just he doesn't I'm

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sure he still does tons of preps, certainly on the opposition, but he

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knows the Mavericks back and forth.
But if you do national right, yeah,

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that's why I do. Like.
Oh, even those NBNTNT guys who

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kind of admittedly I haven't watched too
much of this team, you know,

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like because of how Chuck and Shack
are, they can get away with the

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honesty, and it works for them, and it works better than any it's

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worked for anyone else in basketball because
they're the best at it. But most

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people can't admit I don't really watch
these guys, you know. That's like,

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oh my god, how dare you? Yeah, So for follow up

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to do that, and at the
level that he does it for the MAVs,

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I imagine it's probably daunting for him
to think, Wait, I can't

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know every team any we're close to
how I know this team? No,

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not to the level that he knows
the MAVs. But I promise you he

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knows as much as anybody else about
every other player, every other team,

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every other organization in the league.
Yeah, and probably beyond that. His

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knowledge, his ability to retain knowledge
is insane. Yeah, that's a gift

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right there too. You know that
works for a lot of people. In

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radio. I don't have it that
good. I've got some random crap in

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there. But Mark knows so much
about so many things like that. Dude

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will talk wrestling with you. Yeah, he loved it back in the day.

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He keeps up on it. Now
he never brings it up, you

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know, because it doesn't apply.
But yeah, he is good at everything

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he does. I told you,
mom, buddy with Dave Ben's who was

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the Timberwolves guy for ten years,
the play by play guy, and how

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it works. Like he got to
do the Olympics and they're like, we

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need someone to do the Olympics.
I don't know a couple of Olympics ago

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and he wasn't going. It was
where they were doing it remotely, you

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know, from some home base here
in the States, and he's like,

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of course you want to add the
Olympics to your resume. And he's like,

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what am I gonna be doing?
And they gave him fencing and synchronized

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swimming, and he's like, I'm
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you're a professional. You're gonna you
know, you gonna be good at

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this. Think about you or even
follow up with that matter, Oh my

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god, but follow up could do
it, and he could probably do it

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tomorrow because they gave he had a
color guy, you know, like he

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has some legend of synchronized swimming.
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is kind of handle the ins and
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not enough to sound like a dumb
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know, the play by flay guy
And he said, know what he's doing,

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but imagine calling fencing or synchronized but
like, what the I know what

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they all think about having to learn
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Yeah, I wouldn't even know where
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I streamed some of the events and
he sounded amazing. It's an apronunciation

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of the names. Just little things
like that. But so play by play

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is a skill that I guess can
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to anything. I bet there's an
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bet there's an element of uh,
the same skill set or muscle that actors

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have that can, like really really
good actors can take on different roles that

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are dissimilar, yeah, and be
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there's something kind of akin to that
where you I don't want to say they're

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faking it, but in a way, yeah, if you don't grow up

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watching fencing or having a love of
synchronized swimming, and you've got a week

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or two to crash course and retain
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it sound like you've been doing this
your whole life. Yeah, that is

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a skill that I, number one, I do not possess. It's a

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skill that I do not want.
It sounds torturous play by play, Yes,

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but but there are some people many
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and they could. I'm not claiming
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I could never do that talk for
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a lot of it's just the formatics
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formatics, and I think if you
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in the same shell where it's like
you just have to kind of get in

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set the stage, say what's happening, and then once the event starts,

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you lean on your color man and
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have to learn the basics and the
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sponsoring and the outs. I mean, it's it's less daunting when you put

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it into kind of a visible shell. And I think follow l for instance,

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or Dave Ben's is just so good
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down. So Yes, essentially you
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event. I think. Yeah,
but don't you sound like kind of a

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fraud if you you know, fumble
on some term or misuse something, and

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the people that are actually watching this
stuff. You know what, maybe that's

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the thing for the Olympics. You've
got a lot of day trippers that know

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nothing about fencing. Anyway, you're
gonna have this tiny minute percentage of hardcores

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that are tuning in that might detect
this guy didn't know what he's talking about.

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Among people watching Olympic fencing. Right, let's say there's one hundred probably

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what eighty five are just watching the
Olympics and like, oh yeah, I

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like fencing. I have a collection
of swords. Honey, you like Game

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of Thrones. There's swords on TV, honey, get in here. They're

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sword fighting in the Olympic. You
know. So maybe at fifteen that are

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like in deo fencing, and then
you have one that's family or friends of

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the people competing. As long as
that not too many of that fifteen are

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on Twitter, Yeah, yelling exposing
you for not knowing what you're doing.

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You're fine. And then the rest
of them don't care. No one cares.

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They're like, these guys know what
they're talking about. Yeah, that's

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true. That's one way to look
at it. Nice Perry, I don't

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even know what that is. Did
you just look that up? Now?

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I play Sea Thieves. It's a
sword fighting based okay, pirate game.

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Are you still playing that? Yeah? It's fun, yes really still Yeah,

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it never ends, I know,
but for me, for video games,

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I'd get to a point where,
okay, I can have nothing really

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new happening. It's changed, it's
changed since your days. It's an open,

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beautiful world and you could have a
pirate ship full of treasure and booty,

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and some other ship out of nowhere
just comes and start firing cannons at

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you and you got to fight them
off or run. Really fun. Yeah,

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my days ended with PS one's Medal
of Honor pretty much began. I

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love it. Someone said Danny was
the brody of the ticket, And I'll

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tell you this brody absolutely could be
a radio show host. And you're right.

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Start in with just lobbing grenades or
contributing a little bit here and there,

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and then yes, it does take
one of us saying Jesus, this

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guy's good. He's funny. You
know he could do this, and he

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probably doesn't think he could at all, and he still gets nervous when he

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comes in here. But the listener
wouldn't really know it because you carry yourself

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with you know, a little bit
of BS confidence. I that's the thing

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about Brody. Brody could come in
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Brody is he is so quick on
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a faster speed than mine does.
Like I have to kind of pause and

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be mindful and think about the things
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I'll it's like trying to run the
hurdles. But yeah, he would be

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phenomenal in this, and he probably
doesn't know it. He's a natural or

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believe us. And that's why I
did. I was trying, been trying.

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You can get him a weekend show, and you know how that goes.

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Because I feel like, if that's
what he wants to try, why

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not give him the opportunity to do
it. But that's clearly out of my

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hands. We got a blot to
do today. In spite of our sweet

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Cavio being abroad. He is making
his first trip to Europe. It's good

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for him. I was talking to
Malcolm's mom about this and it's like,

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look, I got I got some
actual work to do. Eight So I'm

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gonna I'll be up a little later
than normal. And and she's like,

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what's going on. I'm like,
well, Kevio had to go to Well,

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he's gone vacation for nine days I
believe, is it seven days,

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eight days, something like that.
But it's his first soiree to across the

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Atlantic, and I don't know if
he made it. It's gotten off to

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a questionable start. Oh I would
even say, poor start. Are you

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going through our text messages? No, I have his flight information in front

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of me. So it's KEVEO and
Roxy were going. They're going to Italy

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and they're supposed to leave it seven
twenty five last night, pre standard how

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they do it, you know,
get in a plane, settle in cocktail,

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maybe something to eat out cold,
wake up. In his case,

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Barcelona seven twenty five departure. And
they didn't end up leaving till eleven o'clock,

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so three and a half hour delay. They had him on the plane,

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they took him off the plane.
He was texting us. He's like,

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I think, so he's getting canceled. I think I'm screwed. So

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they were supposed to land about an
hour ago, maybe something like that,

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maybe land right now, and they
are in air and they still have three

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hours to go. So we'd love
to be able to report that Kevin is

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safely on Terra Firma, but we
cannot. We cannot do that. So

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they were supposed to board in the
middle of the first NBA game last night

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yeap, which we watched. I
started the second one, went to sleep

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YEP, got up prep for the
show, and we're almost done with our

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first segment and he's still got three
more hours to go. Yeah, go,

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oh my god. They will arrive
four hours and thirteen minutes late.

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The poor best, but the other
the worst part is that it's Barcelona.

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He's got a connecting flight to Milan. Well, that's obviously of the middle.

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So what are they going to do. I don't know how many flights

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a day from Barcelona to Milan are
there. It's probably not a rare flight,

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so they're gonna get on whatever one
they got. It works American,

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He's not on American airlines. I
mean, the worst case is you spend

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the night in Barcelona and waiting for
the next day. I guess, but

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I don't know how that's going to
affect is Dave Matthews's playing. I did

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look that up. The Dave Show
is on the nineteenth, so today's the

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seventeenth. Yeah, that's just a
little puddle jumper from there to Yeah,

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it's hour and forty minutes or so. Okay, so a real plane.

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But I think he might be getting
his Lake Como portion of the trip chopped

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out, which I was very excited
for. I think Roxy surprising with around

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a golf on some cool Italian course
that I think they may not be able

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to pull off now. And the
truth is they still have two hours and

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forty nine minutes, So fingers crossed
on them even, you know, making

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it over all that ice cold water. As he was keeping us in the

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loop last night on our text thread, all I could think about was poor

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Roxy trying to manage this. This
sweet boy just freaking out over his vacation.

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Is this this is a picture of
him. Look his little plane over

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the coldest part. He might be
over the deepest portion of the Atlantic right

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now, this instant and the coldest
and the most shark oldest. Yes,

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so last night is touching his laminated
sheet of her shark identification that I gave

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him. That's so brilliant. So
at eight forty we get the text boarded

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for an hour. Pilot said,
in forty years of doing this, he's

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never seen this problem. Very vague. Another pilot sitting af he roes back,

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he's telling everyone that it could be
a lie. I don't know what.

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That's a bad dead heading pilot who's
sitting behind the pastors saying a lie.

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Wait what huh? And he goes, this may be the death plane.

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Let's see now. He says,
okay, And this is at nine

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oh four, twenty five minutes later. Kicked us off the plane a minute

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later, gonna miss the connecting flight
to Barcelona. Whole trip ruined. And

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I'm even trying to be nice at
this point, right, like, no

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ruined. Oh you know what.
The first thing off the menu now is

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golf, he said, golf is
out. Yeah, it's over a fiery

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crash into the Atlantic. Feels like
a good thing for that dude who's already

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anxious about all this. And then
we got a light out. Oh we

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have a delay. Get off the
plane. That does not calm the nerves.

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But then one minute later he goes, okay, I'm back, So

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I guess they no he was messing
with us, that he was that scared.

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I think, oh, okay,
well off he went at about eleven

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pm last night, Our sweet Kevin, he is uh somewhere approaching northern Portugal

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and northwest Spain right now. He's
got a couple hours left, Sweet Kevin,

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let just try calling him on the
plane. Yeah, all right,

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we gotta fund show. Got all
sorts of goodies for you this morning.

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We're gonna talk MAVs with our boy, Kevin Gray. He's your pre and

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postgame show host right here on ninety
seven, won the Freak. He's gonna

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join us in studio because my pants
are getting a little wild. And I

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did watch these play ins last night, got me fired up for playoff basketball.

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And I also don't know that any
team I saw yesterday SAMs maybe the

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Kings belongs on the same hardwood as
our fighting MAVs. And then also maybe

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are we losing it in the other
direction. I need Kevin Gray to yeah,

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to offer a measured, measured response
to this, because between that and

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the MVP discussion, I mean,
yes, is this real or are we

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just the most myopic homers in the
world. That's a great question. Yeah,

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because I think they should run to
Luca and hand him the MVP and

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then we'll see you the Nuggets in
the Western Conference Finals. We're doing that

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at nine o'clock. We got all
the other staples of the show. Sports

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at seven coming up in just at
an half an hour, and uh,

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we got some movies. We saw
Lights, Camera a Holes returns at eight

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o'clock. I know, JJ saw
a League of Ungentlemanly Warfare. Is definitely

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not the title, but what is
it. It's the Ministry Ministry. He

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wasn't even close. No, I
got the Ungentlemanly w oh. I thought

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it was just called the Ministry.
It's a long title, long time.

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Yeah, it's a difficult title.
She saw that, And Danny, you

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saw Civil War, Civil War,
And uh, I know it's a little

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late, but Oscar nom Zone of
Interest. Okay, there's a couple of

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uplifting films. It's going to be
a feel good edition in Lights. I've

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been rocking three Body Problem on Netflix. Okay, and I have thoughts as

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well. We'll do that at eight
o'clock. But coming up next, it

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is the most important thing in the
world. Is there an elephant on the

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loose in your neighborhood? That's next
in ninety seven on the Free