Jimuel Pacquiao Jr & NFL Week 13 Preview | Ep #119

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Speaker 2: Let me say I have picks coming up. There's three games Thanksgiving Thursday and a Black Friday game, so we'll get in the mix, so we'll make some money Thanksgiving, and don't forget try everyone's dessert. So you don't want to leave anyone's wife or girlfriend Sadam.

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Speaker 1: Yes, yes, yes, and as we get ready for Week thirteen of the NFL. But we're also big fight fans, really big fight fans, and we have a guest.

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Speaker 2: He's a legend in the making. You're gonna know about him if you don't already. Jim Well, Pakia, what's going on, my friends? How are you good?

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Speaker 3: Good?

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Speaker 1: Good?

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Speaker 3: Doing good?

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Speaker 1: Welcome to all right man, Jim Well pakiaw versus Brandon Lallely ESPN plus five pm Pacific time, the co main event making his pro debut Saturday night. That's a lot of pressure, man, pro debut, A lot of pressure and excitement for anybody. How much more pressure for you when you have that legendary name behind you.

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Speaker 3: Oh man, it's definitely there.

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Speaker 4: But you know, I just try to doing that stuff out as much as I can, and you know, I have a really good team behind me, and uh yeah, we're just doing our pace and yeah, we're excited now.

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Speaker 2: A lot of times you hear from people who have, you know, famous parents, they either encourage or discourage. Did Dad tell you you know you don't want to get involved in boxing or was he encouraging along the way?

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Speaker 4: Oh no, at first see my parents really try to get me away from boxing, but I still ended up boxing. So but now that they changed, they support me now fully. And uh yeah, my dad has been the one giving me pointers and tips and stuff like that.

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Speaker 3: So yeah, it's really cool.

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Speaker 1: It's in the blood. What were they trying to get you to do aside from boxing?

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Speaker 4: Basically, you know, just the normal thing, you know, like stay in school, finish college and all that stuff.

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Speaker 3: But yeah, but I can't. I couldn't stay away.

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Speaker 1: Man. Were you just kicking so much ass in school and they're like, all right, do it in the ring now? Were you getting in fights at the playground? Were you that kind of kid?

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Speaker 4: No, it was more because I got invited to train, and yeah, most of it was just in the gym, man, Like I fell in love with the sport I started and stuff like that, fell in love with it and yeah, here am you know?

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Speaker 2: Interestingly enough, if you're the son of many pakia, are there kids that want to fuck with you just because they're like, yo, let me test his skills. He's a pokyo.

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Speaker 4: Actually yeah, yeah, you know there'd be people like, oh, let's let's like spar a little bit, you know, move around and then yeah, things can get heated, you know times.

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Speaker 3: But yeah, I love.

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Speaker 2: It watching your mom ringside during one of your dad's big fights. Yo, she had me panicking. How is mom watching her son fight? Oh?

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Speaker 4: Oh man, she's she gets emotional, you know, like I think she's only been to like one of my amateur fights.

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Speaker 3: And she was Yeah, she was not well watching.

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Speaker 1: But you know who gives you more anxiety? Her or your dad?

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Speaker 4: Uh No, My dad's actually on the commerce side. You know, it's just my mom all the time. He's really concerned. You know, I was making sure like oh did you do this?

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Speaker 3: Did you do that? Like oh what if this happens and stuff like that.

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Speaker 4: But yeah, but for the most part, my dad's just you know, quiet, and he gives me tips and stuff on what to do.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, now we're gonna talk about the fight and everything. But speaking of your dad growing up, I mean he's many pac man pakia, he's your father. How intimidating was he when it came to reprimanding you?

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Speaker 4: Actually, he's actually a really like chilled at you know. Yeah, if we got in trouble, it was mostly my mom doing all the talking and stuff like that.

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Speaker 3: But uh yeah, he's he's actually a really chill, chill dat.

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Speaker 1: Now. We've seen, you know, with famous dads in boxing, we've seen it work as a disadvantage sometimes because you grow up and and you're not really fighting out of poverty or fighting at you know, for your life essentially, like like Julio say Sar Chavez Junior, how does it work as an advantage to you?

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Speaker 3: Uh? Well, you know, it's it's it's nice to have like somebody.

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Speaker 4: Like my dad who's there because the reason why he's like supportive now is because he sees me you don't working all the time, always going to the gym, and uh yeah, I guess it's a it's a good thing that he's there because he is a legend and you know, I could learn a lot from him.

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Speaker 3: He's there to guide me and stuff like that.

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Speaker 1: So it keeps you on your toes essentially.

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Speaker 2: Yes, yes, and Freddy Roach of course, Oh yeah, talk about an asset with Freddie Roach.

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Speaker 3: Huh yeah, yeah, it's good too.

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Speaker 4: You know, I see coach Freddy here, he's here every day, man respect to him. And yeah, it's I'm happy, you know, I'm happy to be here.

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Speaker 3: And yeah, I'm ready to.

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Speaker 2: Go, Jim, Well, let me let me talk about dad life for a second. You became a dad recently.

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Speaker 1: Huh uh huh yeah, yeah, congratulations.

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Speaker 2: How was balancing How is balancing diaper changes and being a dad to a newborn while training for your pro debut? You try to is this like a balancing act or what?

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Speaker 3: Well?

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Speaker 4: Right now, it's it's mostly my my wife doing the taking care of the baby. So you know, I'm very lucky to have her, and her family is also very supportive, you know, helping us out with a baby, you know, just to get me through this fight week. And yeah, when I come back, I'll be I'll be happy.

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Speaker 1: Well that makes Manny a grandpa. How how have your parents adjusted to being grandparents? Uh?

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Speaker 4: They were, they were really excited. My mom and dad were both very happy. You know, before my my wife gave birth. They were they kept acting like, oh is it coming now? Is it coming house?

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Speaker 3: So they were they were really excited.

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Speaker 2: What does many want to be called? What's his grandpa name?

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Speaker 3: I actually don't know. I haven't asked that. I guess I gotta ask him that.

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Speaker 1: Grandparents little name? What did you call your grandparents? It's probably gonna be the same thing.

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Speaker 4: No, maybe, oh yeah, probably probably yeah, yeah, because I called them by the Filipino word for grandpa.

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Speaker 2: So which is why? Which is what?

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Speaker 3: No, it's a lolo and Lola and Lola.

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Speaker 2: Let me let me ask you this. We just passed the anniversary of the movie Rocky making its debut. What would you say your favorite boxing movie of all time is? If you had to rank some of the famous boxing movies, the Creeds, the Rockies, what's u what's your favorite?

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Speaker 3: Hmm, it's a good one. Uh yeah, probably Rocky, you know the one with Drago Rocky for It eighty four. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Now we're getting to know Jim well, Pakia excited for your pro debut this weekend. Do you have a karaoke song in your back pocket? Because we've seen you know, your family do this plenty of times. Do you have a go to song and celebration?

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Speaker 3: I actually no, no, I don't know you at all that. Yeah, I don't do all. My dad loves to do that, but.

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Speaker 1: Not you sing.

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Speaker 3: No, no, no, I don't think.

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Speaker 1: Hey, are you a trash talking kind of guy?

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Speaker 3: Man?

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Speaker 1: Like when we think about this fight, like Brandon Lally is your pro debut? Are you a trash talker. I know you have respect obviously for your opponent, and your father always did, but do you buy into the trash talking? Like what are we going to see here? Man?

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Speaker 4: No, No, that's not me at all, you know, Okay, I model myself towards my dad. You know, he's always humble and quiet. He lets his fists do the talking, So I try to be the same way.

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Speaker 2: Let me ask you this. In the boxing world, we're seeing sort of a hybrid of like you know, legit boxing and some of these like specl fights. You're gonna be watching the Jake Paul and Anthony Joshua next month?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, if it's box thing, if it's any type of fighting, I do love to watch, So I'm gonna be watching for sure.

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Speaker 2: You think you think he has a chance against aj Anthony Joshua, Jake Paul? What do you think?

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Speaker 3: Zero? Zero? For sure?

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Speaker 2: Agreed?

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Speaker 1: Agreed? And speaking of future fights, because then I want to talk about your fight too in the preparation. But there's a few future fights in the works. Your many Pakiao promotions December sixth, you got pit Bull Cruise and Lamont Roach. Who do you got on that card? That's a good fight.

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Speaker 4: I'm supporting our guy, of course. You know Cruse, he's tough, he's strong, and yeah.

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Speaker 2: We've seen him battle in person.

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Speaker 1: He's unbelieving Pole Cruise is great and I'm rooting for him too. Uh but Vermont roach man. He fought real, he fought tank, real tough. So I think it's gonna be a battle. You got You're gonna be at the fight, I imagine, Right, how's it for you?

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Speaker 3: I don't know yet. We'll see because you know, I do have a newborn, so that's true. I'll be there at the fight. But yeah, you watch.

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Speaker 1: Your whole childhood has probably been just going to fights and going to fights all the time, I imagine, right, So you don't really need to go to all these fights.

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Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, growing up, Yeah, every time, my dad thought we'd always be watching you know, pay per view and stuff like that.

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Speaker 1: Was that nerve wracking for you as a kid or was that just everyday life?

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Speaker 4: Oh no, Yeah, Like as we got closer, it's it's definitely nerve wracking, especially on the day of the fight.

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Speaker 3: You know, the nerves are there.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, And I got to ask you about this since we're talking about Jake Paul and the Mott Roach and Pitt poll Cruise. A lot of rumors about your dad, Manny and Floyd Mayweather too, a lot of you know, you're on social media. You have a big presence on social media in.

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Speaker 2: Ways rus that you're concerned about dad fighting again. Is that true?

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Speaker 3: Yeah?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean he's turning forty seven this December, so you know, like I love him and I've been watching him ever since, and like, you know, I don't really want him to take any more punishment. You know, He's accomplished a lot, and I think his eighth division record is unbreakable, so he's already done everything, you know.

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Speaker 1: But he looked so good against Mario Barrios. Dude, I watched stuff. I was in Mexico watching that fight. You know, I was on vacation. I had to watch your dad's fight. I'm like, you know what vacation, kuwait I watched. He looked really good. Now I hear Barrios is fighting Ryan Garcia. Maybe I don't even know, but he looked really good. You wanted to end like that? If you had your choice?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, if it was up to me, I would I wouldn't want him to find anymore. But you know, if he does decide to take one more, then you know I'm here to support him.

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Speaker 1: That's great. Man. Now got to talk about your preparation. You got the great Freddie Roach, as Rich said in your corner, and I want to know how that relationship works. He's seen you grow up, so how is it working with him? And I want to know how ready you are for this pro debut?

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Speaker 4: Man?

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Speaker 3: We're ready, man, you.

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Speaker 4: Know, we've been working really hard and been in the gym and uh, yeah, it's nice to see coach Freddy on a day to day basis, you know. And there's a lot of good coaches here too in the Wall card and a lot of good fighters.

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Speaker 3: You know.

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Speaker 4: I try to listen to them, especially the pro They give me advice and stuff like that. So yeah, we're one hundred percent ready.

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Speaker 2: Now where you are now making the pro debut? What's what's so? What's what's the goal for you? Jim?

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Speaker 1: Well?

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Speaker 2: Is it a couple of years from now your name is in the mix in your division? Like now we're gonna say like you're gonna be the guy we're watching on pay per views or what is that? Like the couple of year down the line. Goal is that where you're looking at it.

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Speaker 4: I mean you know that that's that's the goal. You know, you're trying to take this as far as you can go. And yeah, but we me and my team, you know, we we like to take it, uh, fight by fight, So we'll see, we'll see in the future.

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Speaker 1: Well again, fight by fight, one step, one punch, one round at a time. As Rocky said, what is the dream fight for you? Though? Like, who's got that belt that you want? Who do you see yourself in the ring with? You got to see it to get it right, You got to visualize it. So who's that guy that you would really like to get that dream fight when you're ready? Of course, when the time is right, who would you want to get in the ring?

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Speaker 4: Waight?

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Speaker 2: Uh?

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Speaker 4: I'm not really sure, you know, because because of the weight, you know, I'm figuring out like what's the perfect weight class for me and then stuff like that. So uh yeah, well we'll have to see, we'll see. I love that championship picture though, is.

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Speaker 2: There a Is that an underrated part of boxing? Finding exactly where you as a boxer fits weight wise, because you see some guys they'll go up in weight class, but then they'll struggle with power. You see a guy go down weight class, you know, and and he's and he feels like, you know what it.

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Speaker 1: Is, he's a new dad. So he's got all those kiddy snacks lying around. Yeah, he's probably all those kiddy snacks.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, but that but that's a big part of, right, figuring out just the right weight for you to dominate that right huh.

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Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, because of course you want to be like in a in a weight where you're comfortable, you know, you're not too drained.

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Speaker 3: You want to be strong fight night. So yeah, we're trying to figure that out.

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Speaker 1: I know you're not like if you follow your dad's sort of footprint, you're not a addiction kind of guy. But are we going for that? It's your pro debut though on a knockout?

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Speaker 2: What state?

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Speaker 3: Yeah?

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Speaker 1: What sort of statement are we looking forward to this Saturday?

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Speaker 3: You know, of course, just just a duve man.

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Speaker 4: You know, if the knockout comes, it comes, But yeah, we're we're gonna get the win for sure.

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Speaker 1: And U, I'm really excited to see this footwork. I hear a lot about your footwork and your dad's influence on the footwork. You've got some dancing moves. How do you get how do you keep this footwork?

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Speaker 2: And check?

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Speaker 4: Oh, it's just repetition, man, like practice every single day in the gym, you know. And every time we talk to my dad he'd remind me like constantly. So yeah, it's just every day repetition, you know.

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Speaker 3: Practice.

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Speaker 2: Well, we're pumped to check you out. Temecula, California, Pachanga right, yeah, Pachanga Resort and Temecula Saturday Night, November twenty ninth, ESPN Plus got plans now on the west him well, pop yeah, versus louly Man, wishing you the best, dude.

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Speaker 3: Thank you, brother, thank you, thank you, appreciate it.

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Speaker 1: Of course we'll be rooting for you. Thanks again. Into Jim Well pakiaw Yeah, really excited man. You know everywhere that dude must go and he drops his ID or a credit card, pug.

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Speaker 2: You any relation? Yes, my dad, that's my dad.

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Speaker 1: How crazy is that? But can be real exciting to see where his career goes. So thanks again. That's this Saturday, and now it's time for your picks dude Week thirteen.

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Speaker 2: Already, let's go all right, let's start with the Lions Packers. Now. I hate to say this, Detroit, but sorry, Lions back to losing on Turkey Day before they beat the Bears last year on Thanksgiving. You know, the Lions had lost seven Thanksgiving games in a row. And I don't know if they did not impress me much when they almost lost the Jamis Winston and the Giants last week. So I don't know if Packers could take a nice little lead over the Lions with a win here. So I'm going Packers' money line. Detroit's favored by a couple. It's of course in Detroit, but I'm going Green Bay Packers money line locked that one, alright, Well, gobble now, how about the We're America's team now? Last week we thought, ooh, could the Colts beat the Chiefs and knock my Homes and Kelsey out of the playoff picture. Yeah, not so fast. They're not going down without a fight. So the Cowboys they've been playing better. Listen, they beat the Eagles last week. But I like the Chiefs in Dallas, But again, are they America's team now? Kelsey and you know Swift will be there right, So I like the Chiefs winning by a field goal? Another straight bet that's your middle of the day game when everyone's eating all their fig fifth fix. And I do like the Chiefs to go to seven and five and then that'll be part of that Oh they're gonna make the playoffs conversation. I think it's good for football, even though we have Chiefs fatigue. Chiefs win. They beat the Cowboys. Now for a little teaser, bet, this is the yo. We're for real. They're for real. These teams are legit. One in five. That was the Ravens record. One in five. They are now six and five and they're playing the Bengals. Who I mean, Joe Burrow could be back, but that doesn't even matter. I like the Bengals taking that from minus seven to minus one. So the Bengals continue to dominate the last month and a half, they'll be seven and five and in first place. Sorry Aaron Rodgers and that Black Friday game, which is gonna be awesome. The Eagles coming off a loss, I don't know if they lose again, but the Bears getting twelve and a half in a teaser, take that from six and a half to twelve and a half, and I think even if the Eagles beat the Bears, I don't think it's by more than ten points, So lock it in Bears plus twelve and a half Ravens minus one in a you know they're for real teaser bet so for real for real, and a spot you say it every week screenshot it. Those are some winning bets right there.

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Speaker 1: All right, sweet picks?

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Speaker 4: Great?

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Speaker 1: No Week thirteen, man, can't wait, So enjoy your turkey ass. Enjoy the Fixin's the best part. Don't you have some rules?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? First of all, when people come over your house, you have to try a little sliver, a little piece of everyone's cake or pie or dessert, because you know, want some guy having to go home with his wife or girlfriend and she's like, no, what tried my dessert? So out of courtesy, you try everything on the table.

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Speaker 1: You know I'm half Italian, right, you know what we call that in a dae call that a piece of each? Yeah, P S of V P A p c V. So enjoy a piece of each and don't starve yourself. People always make that mistake too.

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Speaker 2: Don't don't be like I'm gonna save it for Thanksgiving dinner, No, because then you'll feel like shit and be blowd oh.

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Speaker 1: And wake up nice and early this year and catch the parade. Big surprises, riches in the Thanksgiving Parade this year.

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Speaker 2: Do you guys, brand new face in the parade this Thanksgiving morning?

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Speaker 3: It's rich the friendly streamer turn larger.

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Speaker 4: Than life balloon floating high above sixth Avenue.

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Speaker 3: Look at that oversized head. You can can see that neatly trimmed beard from blocks away.

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Speaker 2: Come bad, I'm famous.

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Speaker 1: The only mistake is they didn't put flip flops on thanks next year.

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Speaker 2: Now, well, I have a great Thanksgiving, thanks great Black Friday and Cyber Monday. We'll see you.

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Speaker 1: Have you there to Davy, see you in the Oval Promised Land, right

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Speaker 4: H