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This is the Don Lemon show with this to got podcast. Mike Ryan just said to me, I have an unreal amount of sweat under my armpits right now, is it yours?

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Is it because you're scared or you're scared of everything that's happening around here? Are you scared that I'm going to start with politics? What happens if I volunteer? If I violate corporate policy today? Like what ends up? How does that end up working?

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I don't know if this is just residual stuff from the Brown Steelers game yesterday or if all the emotions are getting to me. But yeah, it's waterworks under these pits, maybe. All right.

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So there it is. Mike Ryan's armpits are crying because it is our last day at ESPN. I think we should start in the most cliche sports talk way possible by doing a stat of the day. I think that we should do something. You're you're asking me. It's the short one, Mike. We don't short. Well, because this is an emotional day for us. And, of course, it's going to end up being the short stat of the day.

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It's just, you know, maybe. What about the long one, though? Well, sure, we got a lot to pack in today. A lot to pack in today.

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I mean, if there's ever a time. But what do you mean if there's ever a time when we've got a lot to. It's an emotional day for us here today. We can't just eat up, show that thing is too long. We can't play the long version of the stat of the day.

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It's just on ESPN Radio. For eight years, we've kept alluding to the fact that there's a longer version of the sad of the day. We always opt to play the shorter version and, you know, maybe tie up loose ends. I'd like to hear the long version we got to play, but we got to play the lottery fever.

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OK, never. No, let's go. I mean, we got a lot of money, so you guys have to be kidding me.

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We got to get to weekend observations. We got to get to all our sponsors. We're got to say goodbye to Christine Lisi, who is going to be happy today because of her bills doing what they did to the Dolphins, but has also promised to be an Italian crier. Today, we do not have time. Are you guys joking? Like people are expecting a fireworks show from us? They are expecting us to go out in a blaze of energy and glory.

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The number of texts I've gotten today, Dan, take the high road. I only keep getting. It's like it's trending on my phone. It's like Highroad, most of them for me.

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And you guys are suggesting that today, of all days, we play the long stat of the day when for how many years all we've ever played, I think. Have we ever played the long side of the bed? No.

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No, we don't. Not even at the beginning.

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We've never played it. I was just joshing you guys. I thought you were getting ridiculous. Just joking around here. Do I mean, it's an emotional.

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You do it really the fire guy is going to really do what consequences are there for you if you get in trouble? Some real just rehire you.

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I've started enough fires. Chris Coady. It's about enough out of you. Let's get crazy. Come on. Seriously, we just have a lot to get to on today's show.

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Guys, it's a goodbye to an ESPN audience. It grew to love and or hate us simultaneously.

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It's a football Monday. I mean, this is crazy what you guys are.

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You just have like eight of Rick Springfield's favorite. Is this true? Still been on hold throughout the holidays, just waiting to get.

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Well, we got to do that. What else do we have to clean up today? Well, it's Monday. That means it's weekend observations already.

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I think we've run out of time for funniest thing from the sports weekend is today and we've got to say our goodbyes. We also have to tell people where they can find us beginning tomorrow because these ESPN platforms matter. They're big. We go off all of the ESPN platforms today. We will be gone. We'll be erased from the ESPN, from ESPN and history from from all things ESPN. We got to tell people where they can get us at 12:00, 1:00 Eastern.

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Is that is that. Well, four o'clock is when everything just gets purged. Everything like I think I just sent Mike something with so many lawyer words in it. And I'm like, Mike, what's going to happen here? Are they just going to come in and just rush in and take all of the equipment out of here?

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Remember that scene in E.T. when government finds out that there's an extraterrestrial living in a house and then all these people in suits and they just, er, walk the entire home? I think that's what's supposed to happen at four o'clock today.

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OK, so we'll see if we can get on the air tomorrow. We are attempting in order, we're attempting to do this on our own. These Disney platforms are helpful. These what are you laughing at Mike. You got I can barely see you because you're almost drowning from the amount of tears pouring from your armpits, perhaps an oversight by us to try this on our own.

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It's a bit overrated now put it on the pole gear Lieberthal show is a bit overrated. I think it is a movie is too old to be referencing at this point. Right? Like for a young person to be referencing. Do you think there are a lot of people in the audience who don't even know what we're talking about when it comes to eat eat the ride, by the way?

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Oh, that's such a great escape from the sun and a hot summer day at the theme park. You know, you're going to be in that fake forest. Spoiler alert. It's a fake forest. You know, you're going to be in that fake forest for like half an hour, just riding around on that bicycle in the air conditioner. I couldn't even tell you what it is that happens on that ride. But I know I'm going to get a little bit of a C also, I think contractually and you can look this up, I think Spielberg has that right there forever, like until the end of the world, that ride has to be there.

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And he makes like thirty million.

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Oh, I, I've read so many phrases that are in perpetuity throughout the universe. I've read that so much recently. I have to pay to go on that ride now. Right. Yeah.

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Do you ever fight for that. Etsi there's one prime seat on that eight ride, the one that has the eat in front of you. You fight for that seat. I know you do.

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I've never had that seat, but I do wonder how it knows my name. I have to tell them my name. And the thing is, is that it kind of holds up the line so sometimes they don't get my name and I'm like, is he saying yeah. No he's not saying well, he's just saying whatever mishmash of letters they put together, it's like going to Starbucks. Right? It's like when you tell the bus at Starbucks, Hey, this is my name.

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They just make up whatever it is that they want your name to be. That's what happens at that eat line.

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Billy, we don't have time for your game. I'm sorry, but real quick, Mike, tell people where they can find us real quick after today, ESPN. Plus, we're going to be gone ESPN app. We're going to be gone.

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Yeah, we're all just going to gloss over the fact that you thinks Universal Studios is a Disney Park. Anyways, ESPN called my. OK, so, look, I know a lot of new ears are probably listening to us curious as to what they might do today. But you might be surprised to find out that we've already put in like a day's work. There's a local power and a big city, which is a digital only exclusive hour. And you can find that on the Dan Libertador show with Sucrets feed.

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And we will continue to put shows out there this week on that very same feed. So go ahead and subscribe.

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Now, if they're older shows you want to get around to, if you want to make sure you keep today's show because it's a little ambiguous as to when those shows might disappear from your phone, download those shows to your phone because they'll say there, if you're curious what Dan is going to say today, what he's going to say is the long version of the stat of the day is no.

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They got a new online on our last day. All right. We don't have a lot of room today.

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We've been getting squeezed for a while around here. I didn't think we'd ever have room. We've never have had room for the long version, the introduction of State of the Day. But I've got a good start of the day today. Let's go. Start of the day.

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Start of the day in this year. State of the day. Start of the day. Start of the day. In this spot of the day. Start of the day. Start of the day. And this is part of the day. Start of the day. Start of the day. It is the start of the day.

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It's going to go on clothing. Miami, based on their free speech. Come. Hey, people listen to play, they believe it is time to go on a journey. I would take a plane from this plane. I mean, is it just me or is it warm in here? But let me do it on fire and find out some room for fire burning due to fire and fire. I don't think that that's why I love that fire. I love that.

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Oh, man, I felt that I think that I think that golf club. No, that you got to give it to me again. Please come.

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Come out. Oh. They can kiss my old Cuban ass of de de de de de de de de de de de de de de de de de de de de de de de de de de de de de de de de de de de de de de de de de de de de de. And this is state of the day. You know who did this? Get up way up the hill back. That's how you got ahead this morning. You can make this man down to this him out double check your victor.

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Oh, boy. My boy. He just got rid of Washington, D.C..

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Oh, you won't take this will be your method man one time for you. Yeah, it's the start of the day. You have to start the day to see the Stephen King novel. Don't get carried away. I borrowed a lot from Poppy while I was passing the man. What happened in the case? It's the start of the day. You have to start the day long and the numbers don't lie. That's all that matters today. Shout the poppy cause he probably wasn't making this day in my day with Dolphin.

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Must have been to catch it today. I got to start of the day, right off the bat, off the bat, kicking down in the hall, and that got to stay here because just drop the facts on the deck. No. What stands out for you is your let me see you back. By the time I got time for that famous single thing, you better run. Get back on track. Hey, no, no, no news in Tennessee.

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And this is part of the day starting today. It's the sign of the day. It's a sign of. I wanted to see No. A traditional like no, is this too much? No, no, no, it's some. Version of the standard Matsuri. Version of the standard can make a stop at just tunes on its.

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Matt Hasselbeck was struck by lightning twice similar to The Sun is in the Hall of Fame for roller derby one or one two five billion chicken wings get even on average Super Bowl Sunday at six hundred twenty five million wings chickens.

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Nineteen forty three, the Steelers and the Eagles lost so many players to service in World War Two, the teams combined, and they called it the Stiegel downgrade, that undersea gambling, is there a good or bad? Michael Phelps is the longest golfer ever made on camera at one hundred fifty nine feet deep in the Harlem Globetrotters. Originally from Chicago, known as the Saveloy Big Five. And that ain't no Jack. Joe Biden, his last name is actually pronounced Griezmann, but a marketing guy at Notre Dame got him to change it.

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The Nice with Joe came in second that year to Jim Plunkett. And not only the run, who would have thunk it? Stylez bell rang. Financial matters are not that this affects your little. He really wasn't a very busy guy like little crazy to me. Shareholders says. What's the most touchdowns got the most to gain in six? And you have. It might make sense for the girl at. And Fran was saying, how long has it been?

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Oh, my God, look what we see here, our original Jeanne hit them with something sexy, Kenny.

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Scott. War wins above replacement. We're talking Fiji TV critic David Harris, but Ben Babbette regression to the mean. Strikes the box and carries. Who's your MVP, how many times have they done it? Ben, how many ways has it been done to go down in your story? They gave. The day stat of the day. I told you it was too long, now we don't even have time to give a start of the day, we, I told you, was too long.

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We don't have time for that today.

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Nothing in life is free.

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Time for some at the start of the day is my favorite color is black.

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Wow. Oh, you see that? Mm hmm. I thought it was your second favorite. Don Lemon, Tart Stewart's disgusting stew Godse yep, this incident, Lilibeth, our show with these two guys on ESPN Radio, all gassed on the Dan Leadbeater Joe appear via the Goodyear Hotline, helping you discover the road ahead.

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So Goodyear Goodyear shows up after a bad year, Goodyear shows and sponsors our hotline on our very last day is still time for me to get free tires.

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I mean, that there is not free. There is not time for anything around here today. Our time is done at ESPN in, I don't know, fewer than 90 minutes. A reminder again, we will continue to tell you, because we keep getting the question if we disappear from your ESPN app, ESPN. Plus, there's a guy out there wearing the guy out there is holding up signs. We can't see it here in the studio because they've turned our televisions off.

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But I am told there is someone funny outside. If you still watch us on ESPN television, that is something that goes away today. So if you want our stuff, you need to get it wherever it is. You download podcast with your Devices and Friends Network, the Dan Talk Show with Strugar. It's going to tell you a few more times because this platform is a mighty one and we are jumping off a cliff at about noon Eastern.

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Now, this here is going to be bittersweet because this cruel woman, this woman, yeah, she she must be very happy today because her parting gesture here for us at ESPN is to have the bills knocked the Dolphins out of the playoffs.

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They they started Josh Allen at wide receivers so he wouldn't get the loss on his resume yesterday. And then they didn't lose. They scored fifty points. And Christine Lacy, this must be a bittersweet day for you. Let's give her the kazoos, please, I.

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I was not sad about yesterday, and finally, Faade is one of the oldest words in the English language. Speaking of a couple of old farts, too bad to you.

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That's good work you're doing. Christine. Christine, that's important work. You're doing OK.

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I know you're going to Miss Greenberg's not going to let you do that.

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I know Michael will not let me do that. You should just take shots at us. You should. You should. Can you do that? Just leave us like a lingering smell in the bathroom on Greenberg's show. Just take shots at us during your update for Mike Greenberg going forward. Thank you, Christine. We will check in with you a couple of more times today. Mike are okay. My turn off the AC or something.

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Hey, hey, hey, hey. It's bad over here. There is nothing walking around here. I mean, my garage car and I have no access but crazy. Let me get your tires anyway.

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Let me explain to you what is happening around here so that you guys understand. OK, we have is that Bob, with the miners helmet, he is holding the whole thing afloat. And Mike, Brian is saying if this jump off the cliff does indeed succeed, they succeed. Bob, the engineer with the miners helmet, is going to be on the cover of Forbes in two years. But for right now, we have no idea whether we're going to be able to get on the air tomorrow, whether we're going to.

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So I'm sitting here telling you to download all these devices and stuff, but I'm not totally sure that we're going to get to you tomorrow. Why Forbes?

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I'm missing like three keys to get in the joint.

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I'm going to call listeners tomorrow personally and just do a private show on which phone you'll have to pay for my cameo.

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I got student on Cameo tomorrow.

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He plans on defeating Cameo that that is a greed that has no precedent. It opens the floodgates. Are you are you even going to wait until tomorrow? Are you going to try and sneak in? I mean, what are they going to do to you if you do it after we leave the air at New High Roedad?

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I am going to wait until midnight tonight, but I'll be up at midnight at 12:00 or 1:00 a.m.. Oh, yeah, my first Gabbi. It's all I got right now.

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It's the only source of income in your arsenal right now.

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Providing the funds clear, by the way, still waiting on a buyout. So I, you know, lose it. I'm going to be patient. OK, yes. The only the only way that guy has to make money right now is cameo in fraud and theft. We've got to see you got thirty four thirty coming up here. We've got funniest thing from the sports weekend. We got weekend observations, all that.

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How are we going to do that? I mean, it's out of the day really. But was going to.

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Don Lemon tart, I feel like I've been framed. Still got a dead giveaway, this incident live at our show. Were there still guides on ESPN Radio?

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The final Stuckert weekend observations on ESPN Radio are coming in about 15 minutes. I got to think some people for that long stat of the day tell me if I forget anybody. Kenny G. Trick, Daddy, Luther Campbell, May Day, go. Eric Garcia. Who were the listeners that put something together for us in the middle of that yeti?

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And we also had Method Man who self-identified there. You forgot your dad.

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My dad was also in there clearly on a zoom from far away because we couldn't get the audio right. And that's with Disney resources. So we will see how this ends up going tomorrow. We will continue to tell you today, forgive me for the redundancy, but a lot of people are asking because this is all very awkward, because we're saying this emotional goodbye. And for many of you, we're just going to be here again tomorrow if. Bob ends up on the cover of Forbes in two years, Bob with his miner's helmet, the engineer, but we plan on being here tomorrow and trying to give you a little something.

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Tomorrow, we will see if that happens. But so that, you know, Lieberthal and Friends Network the podcast Feed The Dan Liotard Show Wittstock at South Beach Sessions Mystery Kraatz to poverty. You need to get all of them on your devices because what's going to end up happening here is today we are going to be erased like we are going to be gone. It's not just that we're not going to appear on anything on ESPN tomorrow. Everything we did today is going to evaporate like cotton candy at the end of today.

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I've got no idea how long today's episodes are going to stay on your feed. So if you're subscribed, as soon as you get those notifications, when they post, download those episodes directly to your phone so you can continue to listen to them.

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I think by ESPN, email address is no longer active. I saw a guy lurking outside thinking about taking our tiles in here and the microphone. Yes, there are people lurking around here trying to take their stuff back.

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Thanks to Andrew Streator as well, who helped with the song The Listener Community. And I probably you know, I'm going to try not to get any more emotional than I already did in the big suite, which you can download. It's the digital only hour. But the community around this show is unlike anything that has ever existed in sports radio. Jim Rome a long time ago would be the only thing that is close. But the creative community around this show who appreciates different and appreciate something that is sarcastic and mocking and fun and competes to be more clever than the next man or woman.

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Is a thing to behold because many of you produce the show with us and for us, you produce a lot of the funny around what it is that we're doing. And one of the reasons that we know we could leave as mighty a platform as ESPN because there's not anything like ESPN anywhere in American sports. It doesn't exist. The fact that we know that we can leave that because we know the army that stands at attention at our back saluting Stewart, who's running the cameo, who's leading the entire army.

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Toivo one tonight I rode over to over the cameo.

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It is a deeply moving thing for us. It gives us permission to do this nonsense the way that we do it. And it has given us rewards to do this nonsense, the way that we do it. And we know how you support it because of how loud and passionate you are. So I cannot articulate for you, even having worked with words for a living all my life. And all of this is built upon words when ESPN was hiring writers all over the place because man got if you know the history.

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Of this network, the Sports Century series was one of the early presidents of ESPN before he was the president of ESPN, was discovering, hey, sportswriters are good talking for free on television and documentaries. He parlayed sports century, parlays that into president of ESPN. And now, because Stephen A. Smith is the goat, I believe he's Stephen A. Smith agent. I believe that. I think that's what happened there, if I'm not mistaken. But then you saw what blossomed from there in terms of 34 30s.

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And the idea that sportswriters talking on your television is something that I don't know if it was the golden era of ESPN, because I imagine the 90s were probably the golden era of ESPN was the 90s, but the 30 for 30 years and the content creation within that, it it was spawned by writers, by writers coming in here and doing journalistic work.

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And what I would say to you is, even having worked with words for a living all my life, I simply cannot articulate to you the amount of gratitude that I have for the people who listen to this show and support it with a fervor that has never been seen in sports radio, because it is crazy to me what it is that you allowed us to build and ESPN helped ESPN got us to you. But the stickiness when we arrived on your doorstep is something that emboldens us.

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It is something I was hired here to, not specifically specifically for a culture change. Culture change. Eight or nine fire starters were hired to see if they could move the big corporate mountain. And the audience that believes in this show allowed what you see now on NFL live is allowed. That is allowed. And by the way, while we're at it, if Riddick if he gets a job in the NFL, right. Mina Kimes needs to be considered for his position.

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Let's go ESPN. Let's let's show some onions and hire Mina Kimes for a position right there on your Monday Night Football telecast, because she's as good as anyone that you have in the history of this network, talking about football and combining personality with football.

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No doubt that be great or hire her to be your GM. I mean, one of the other.

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Which job do you think Nina prefers? Put her on the podium today.

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Show which job would mean a times rather have general manager of a football team or analyst on Monday Night Football Scouts. Are you going to get are you going to get emotional during your final weekend observations here?

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No, I'm not. I'm just just count the minutes.

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I'm still Toilolo one highroad. Yeah, you do. You know, what I wrote is I'm not you, you know, I'm taking it. All right. I don't think you are.

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