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Albany Firebirds President Jef Levack gives an update on the Albany Firebirds and AFL
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Episode Transcript

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It's Lavak and Guz on ninety fiveto nine Fox Sports Radio. My god,
good, gout of money. That'sJem Thevax Music. He's here.
He's here in the four o'clock hour. We told you after the top four
to four, even on a gameday, there he is. Hello,
Levac, I'm here, I ampresent, I am accounted for. I

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am trying to breathe. It's beena day, brother, already, You've
been busy. Huh, Well,we will get to those questions you thought.
Don't disconnect. I got questions aboutthe Firebirds. I know you probably
don't want to look at social mediaand listen. You've got a lot to
tap in the last forty eight hours. I will say this though, if
you are a Firebird fan or aCapitol Region sports fan, Flock University was

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awesome last night. You guys havehad some great additions to the show.
That was arguably the best episode ofthe season. If you were a Capitol
region sports fan, you guys didit right with Coach where with you with
Mike Korda. I would like tosay this though, Uh, I did
catch someone swearing on Flock University lastnight. That's the first time someone sworn
on the show, so I hadto edit that out. I don't know

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who wants to be called somebody sworeIt was not you, okay, so
it was Mike, Mike. Mikedid swear during the show, So yeah,
I did. I did edit that. No, no, no,
it's okay. And uh you yourhesitation. I caught it very quick because
when you caught audio long enough,the shapes you really see shapes. I'm

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like, something wrong with that shape, And it was Levac being like,
uh, oh could So Mike's swearingwas cut out. But let's talk about
Flock Universe. I'm gonna kind oflet you be the floor of take us
through how you knew you were goingto handle that show and the dynamic of
why even Mike the owner of theteam, for those who don't know Mike
Korda, why Mike was on theshow last night? All right? Yeah,

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So when the show started, orwhen I started setting up for the
show, the XFL, the XFL, the n yeah, don too,
whoever is there except yeah, whenit started, we were still going to
be on the NFL network. Andit turns out, like I don't know,

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like at five, a little afterfive, Mike was on a call,
and there was the decision again becausethere's still whatever happened, like a
last like check of some of theseother markets, they pulled back again.
So I had no idea that wasthe case. You know. Mike texted

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me and then he saw that thatkind of flustered me. I was.
I was not expecting that because Ihad had several conversations and every conversation I
had was how great Ralph Bow andChris who do all of our stuff here,
and how great they are. Solike, I was flustered, and
it shook me. And you know, like usually during a show, it

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takes a lot to actually like youknow, push me off my page.
And I was, I don't meanto interrupt you. I just there's two
things that you and I know whatyou're talking about. Just have to clarify
a few things there. We'll goback to what you mean by check up
and check on markets. But RalphBow and Chris, for those who don't
know, those are the people whoend up the production for Fireword Games.
Yeah, they're called the company calledMyriad that everything comes out of MVP arena

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like Siana Games, Firewalls Games,Firebird Games. If it starts here,
those guys in some way, shapeor form are a part of it.
And you mentioned check out on themarket thing. That was the term you
used like a minute ago. Iwould assume again every market's different. But
when you brought up production after,there's a lot that goes into an NFL
network quality broadcast, So maybe that'sbeen some of these things. Again,

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Mike would know that answer better thanI would, But I think it's safe
to say, if we're talking aboutproduction, are teams able to make it
happen in twenty twenty four? Idon't know the answer to that. Like
you said, you're worried about albody. You can't figure out what other markets
are doing when it comes to production. They're probably worried about players on the
field and marketing and fan That's whatI would assume. If we're talking about
a media broadcast and media companies withoutside people, it's like, hey,

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can you actually do this? AndI don't know, Like some people would
assume that when it comes to mediathat a partner would help with that,
that's not twenty twenty four. Letme repeat that, like a lot of
these broadcasters are not technically out ofhouse, and I know that's a little
confusing, like it's in a housefed through a medium, right, Like
I don't know how many people actuallyknow that though, who don't work in

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media for a living. It's it'son levels like it's what level do we
need to participate? You know?And so like when and this is I
wasn't obviously you know, I LeeHunting and Trell Games who run the league,
like they they don't call me forthese kinds of things. But when
they were negotiating with the NFL network, I believe it was on a level

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of if we send a truck,which will you know, your people will
plug it into plug it into thetruck. You've got three or four cameras
per location. If we send thattruck, we'll be able to broadcast you
yup, be up, good togo. Well, that truck called some
places and they were ready, youknow. And and again it's this isn't
a knock on them, because theway you're explaining to people, you got

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to think about it. Some ofthese new owners who stepped into this league.
You know, the AFL is thebig dog, but it's the new
dog. It's it's brand new.Some of these owners they haven't done that
before. And and you don't necessarilyknow what you don't know. That's the
first three or four years of medoing this stuff, the amount of times
I walked into a room and went, I don't know what I don't know,

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so please tell me what we gotto do here? That that was
that That's been my life. Soit's been you know, it's been a
little bit of a challenge. I'ma little upset about it all because again,
we're ready, We're more than ready. But I also understand that,
you know, we can't be.We can't be every game that they showed
they got. If they're gonna showthe AFL, they have to show the

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AFL. I think this is goingto cause some shakeups. I think there's
gonna be you know, a littleroad to Nazareth call at some point in
the next week and we'll see whathappens. But ultimately, the best way
to watch a Firebirds games at MVPArena. So we got tickets, come
come watch the game. Yeah,and there's been talked across the guy.
I believe it was the Billions owner. It talked about that's on the commissioner,

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that's on the league. Just talkingabout again in general of the NFL
Network. They do a lot ofother markets like you do a Coach the
Show, by the way, FlockUniversity here, that full entire episode.
It will replay this Saturday nine atten o'clock, So Mike Cord will be
on there, swear Bug freedmight cortacoach Way or talking about a bunch of
stuff, previewing the game, recapin the game, talking about the league
in more so, and that's goingto replay this Saturday for that preview.

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And there's some schedule changes as well. Some teams have been moving around and
everything else. I think that basicallycovers everything until you and I can actually
break down tonight's game as much aswe can. Is there anything I'm missing
before we can actually talk about theopponent that's the Nashville Cats inside Envprenia that
you would like to address the there. I call it the state of the
Union from President Levac. Listen,it's my whole, my whole goal.

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Everything I do is about providing forand taking care of all of them.
You know. That's what's up.So the Firebirds are self sustained, you
know what I mean? We verymuch like what the AFL is planning.
We very much want to maybe bea part of making it work. But
no matter what we know with thisownership group of Mike Korda and the Gelcher

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and Richie says that this team ishere. So just everybody who's worried about
whatever they're worried about, just trustme, do what I do. Focus
on us. We're gonna bring anotherchampionship home and we're trying to do it
every year. I am hyped fortonight. I think tonight's going to be
really exciting for Capitol or Egian sportsfans because this is a Nashville market that's

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produced other professional sports teams in thepast. They've got national people working within
the franchise. If you don't knowJeff Fisher, of course from our coach
of the Titans, coach of theRams, he's associated with this franchise,
Eli Gold for people like me whodo broadcasting for a living in the former
voice of the Labama Crimson Tide.I believe he's gonna be in at tendance
tonight for the radio call. Fromwhat I've been told so and Nashville's good

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right next to you? Oh allright? Should I call it Eli mister
Gold? Oh? You know,I don't know if I'm allowed to say
me out during note stiff, Okay, I won't sniff mister gold. Uh,
Nashville did it right, Levac.Like I know, a lot of
people give a lot of praise toAlby nationally and Orlando nationally, but Nashville
was in a spot where it wasyear one, they had not been around

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for a while, they were gonnabe a part of this and everything that
came from the Cats franchise has beenpretty impressive, and not just the things
that go on around the game andthe names we just mentioned, but proud
of the field. This is agood team they've established already. Yeah,
it's you know, it's one ofthose deals where the way they jumped into

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it, you kind of you kindof weren't sure what they were gonna be.
But when you've got like the JeffFishers in the world, and you
know, a market like Nashville,you know they're gonna they're gonna put a
good foot forward and uh, it'sgonna be interesting tonight. The the one
thing I did here is I'm notsure if they've they really dove into the
whole iron man substitutions. So that'swhere we could see some some very interesting

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differences of turnovers some things. Ithink that's where our advantage is because we've
been playing Iron Man for so long, so it's gonna be it's gonna be
interesting. Very talented teams, butOrlando's very talented. So I think I
think we're gonna do just find something. Wait a second, way to second,
Hang on, we got it.You've just given me a storyline for

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the pregame broadcast that I had somenotes here in credit to Andrew Santillo is
a great broadcast partner. He sentme some of his notes. Somehow my
notes haven't gotten to him. Usuallyin my notes are like hieroglyphics on a
computer, sheet of paper and pen. So you just told me that Nashville
has not adjusted to Iron Man.Are you saying that the roster you believe

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is not built for that, orthey weren't following the rules, or you
think there's an advantage in this game? What what do you mean by that?
As Drew Ski like to say,Brian Horse, Okay, go ahead,
yeah, yeah, more experience thanit. Okay, we're more experience.
Okay, So I think again,it's new. You know, it's
something you're not it's it's it's thesubstitutions are very difficult to maintain, and

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there's going to be substitutions officials watching, So it's, you know, it's
a benefit of ours. We've we'vewe were trial by fire back in twenty
two, you know, when wewent into the Iron Man rules and if
you remember, we lost what thefirst three games as we tried to figure
it all out and get it together, and now here we are, so

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we feel good about it. It's, you know, if I'm sure they
learned a lot last week, butI think that's going to be an advantage
for us. Speaking about advantages,the Capital region sports scene locally is packed
over the next three days. ThePatroons played yesterday. We're going to talk
to some Patroons coming up later inthe show. Our guy, the Closer,
Brian Marianno, was going to joinus to talk about the Patroons and

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the Derby and more. We know, CNN, you already in the Cross
are doing well. We know thefire Wolves are in action Friday and then
sunny and Sunday inside MVP Arena.You probably don't have the answer to this
before it happens. This is probablya better question for tomorrow. But does
it almost feel like it's a reallygood benefit for the Firebirds and your fan
base and the people in the fivewo ain't that this game is happening on

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a Thursday night where it's almost theisland to standalone. Hey, it's really
a summer weekend, one of themost exciting weekends nationally in sports. You
get a Thursday night game to getyour weekend going and get go into a
Friday. Yeah, it does.It's definitely, you know it. I
think that if we were, ifwe were on NFL network, I think
it's one of those things where it'skind of like a coming out party across

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the country. I think they getto see what we're really all about.
But the fact that we're not,and you know, there is the stream
I have to look into wear it'sstreaming. I don't even I haven't even
done that because I just want everyoneto come here and see this game.
But I think there's there is somethingabout this this Thursday night showcase moment.

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You know, everybody's every kind oflike already cheating on the weekend. They
already want to have a little bit, a little bit of fun. I
think you're gonna see a good agood house, a good attendance, and
I think it's gonna be pretty prettyfun. I listen, if we get
half the people we had last weekand they have all they have the same
they bring that same intensity, thatsame energy, this place is gonna be

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rocking again, and we're gonna We'regonna listen. We're the crown jewel of
the AFL. Whether they know itor not yet, We're gonna teach each
one of them every time they walkthrough that atrium. So we are the
crown jewel. And the more peoplewho come in here and get this place
rocking, the more that no onecan even debate it. So yeah,
I think we are in a greatspot, showcase spot, and I'm hoping

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everybody improves me right, And don'tforget, first fifteen hundred through doors gets
a free Albany Firebirds Morocca that youcan use to shake during the Deuces Deuce
and you and just you know,just just to make the other team uncomfortable.
I'm all about it. In honorof Deuce de Mayo and the Deuce
for Marco Rosco. I had TacoTuesday leftovers. So that's how I am.

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That's how I app Yes, that'syeah. I see how you get
down. You know you're in there, you're helping out, you're joining the
team. That's eight o'clock kickoff,by the way, tonight inside MVP arena.
I all feel bad for you.I feel bad for you because this
should have been the Tom Guyslowski experienceon the NFL network. Are you okay
because this this was your chance?I am more than okay. I'm just

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fined. I'm good. Andrew Santillo, I'm sure. I don't want to
speak for him, but he's finetoo. It was just a weird couple
hours because I saw it on Twitter, and in that moment I was not
even mad or discouraged or anything likethat. I felt like a professional athlete
because like you've heard the stories beforeof like an athlete saying they found out
they got traded on Twitter, andI'm like, oh my gosh, I

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found out the games, not onthe NFL network, on Twitter. I
think I'm in the NBA, Likethis must feel how NBA guys feel and
they get traded. So of coursenobody else would think that but me.
But my first reaction like, wow, this is kind of cool. Now
I know the pow or of socialmedia. Now, I just found out
the information, so I'm not discouraged. I'm okay. I will be just
fine. I've had quite the daylike you have. It is a busy

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time for both of us. Souh, we'll make it work. We'll
be just fine. Oh no,I'm listening. I'm not worried about me.
I'm you know, listen. Ican't breathe as of my allergies and
whatever the hell else is going onwith me. But aside from that,
I'm ready to go. Just gotta. I bought a new ball inflator.
I'm just gonna use out the puffoxygen and my lugs during the game,
just because you're in the office rightnow. And I'm sure this has no

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type of swing, but I'm gonnapublicly ask for this at some point.
Let's say it is the NFL network. Let's say whatever it is. I
know what's on a network. Iloved having the comments on YouTube, and
I know that like no play byplay people get that, or color commentators
get that. It doesn't happen formost traditional media broadcasts. It was a
lot of fun seeing instant reaction fromfans during a game, during a broadcast.

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It was so unique and different sothat anyone asked me, guys,
what do you think about that?Can we bring back the comments? We
got a few comments on social duringthe game which were wildly positive from the
opposing fan base. So there's mytwo cents that nobody wanted about the broadcast.
Let's bring back wild YouTube comments duringit. Uh listen, you know
me, I like it. Iwhen I was out with I was out

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with COVID a couple of years back. I just went into there and started
playing with the other fans too.It's it's a it's it's fun. It's
a good way to interact. Thefans of Arena football are rabbit, bro
they are rabbits. So uh,just be careful because when you call them
out, you can't always just putthem back in. They they're they're out.
They're gonna keep coming for it.They're absolutely insane. But let's do
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Levac and Guz on ninety five nineFox Sports Radio. Fuck God, good
out of money. That's Jem ThevaxMusic. He's here. He's here in
the four o'clock hour. We toldyou after the top four to four,
even on a game day, therehe is. Hello, Lavac. Yeah,
I'm here, I am present,I am accounted for. I am

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trying to breathe. It's been aday, brother, You've been busy.
Huh, Well, we will getto those questions you thought. Don't disconnect.
I got a questions about the Firebirds. I know you probably don't want
to look at social media and listen. You've got a lot to tap in
the last forty eight hours. Iwill say this though, if you were
a Firebird fan or a Capitol Reagionsports fan, Flock University was awesome last

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night. You guys have had somegreat additions to the show. That was
arguably the best episode of the season. If you were a Capitol region sports
fan, you guys did it rightwith Coach where with you with Mike Korda.
I would like to say this though, I did catch someone swearing on
Flock University last night. That's thefirst time someone sworn on the show,
so I had to edit that out. I don't know who wants to be

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called. Somebody swore to me itwas not you, okay, so it
was Mike, Mike. Mike didswear during the show. So yeah,
I did edit that. No,no, no, it's okay, and
you your hesitation. I caught itvery quick because when you cut audio long
enough, the shapes you really seeshapes, and I, oh, something

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wrong with that shape, and itwas Levac being like, uh oh,
so Mike swearing was cut out.But let's talk about flock un reiverson I'm
gonna kind of let you be thefloor of take us through how you knew
you were gonna handle that show andthe dynamic of why even Mike the owner
of the team for those who don'tknow Mike Khorda, why Mike was on
the show last night? All right? Yeah, so when the show started,

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or when I started setting up forthe show, the XFL, the
XFL, the nfah then too,whoever, I expl yeah, when it
started, we were still going tobe on the NFL network. And it
turns out, like I don't know, like at five, a little after
five, Mike was on a call, and there was the decision again because

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there's still whatever happened, like alast like check of some of these other
markets, they pulled back again.So I had no idea that was the
case. You know. Mike textedme and then he saw that that kind
of flustered me. I was.I was not expecting that because I had
had several conversations, and every conversationI had was how great Ralph Bow and

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Chris who do all of our stuffhere, and how great they are,
So like, I was flustered,and it shook me, you know,
like usually during a show, ittakes a lot to actually, like,
you know, push me off mypage. Hey, And I was,
I don't mean to interrupt you.I just there's two things there that you
and I know what you're talking about. Just have to clarify a few things
there. We'll go back to whatyou mean by check up and check on
markets. But Ralph Bow and Chris, for those who know, no,

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those are the people who end upthe production for Fireword games. Yeah,
they're called the company called Myriad.Everything comes out of MVP Arena like Sianna
Games, Firewalls Games, Firebird games. If it starts here, those guys,
in some way, shape or formare a part of it, and
you mentioned check out on the marketthing. That was the term you used
like a minute ago. I wouldassume again, every markets different. But

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when you brought up production after,there's a lot that goes into an NFL
network quality broadcast, So maybe that'sbeen some of these things. Again,
Mike would know that answer better thanI would. But I think it's safe
to say, if we're talking aboutproduction, are teams able to make it
happen in twenty twenty four. Idon't know the answer to that. Like
you said, you're worried about albody. You can't figure out what other markets
you're doing when it comes to production. They're probably worried about players on the

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field and marketing and fan That's whatI would assume. If we're talking about
a media broadcast and media companies withoutside people, it's like, hey,
can you actually do this? AndI don't know, Like some people would
assume that when it comes to mediathat a partner would help with that,
that's not twenty twenty four. Letme repeat that, like a lot of
these broadcasts are not technically out ofhouse, and I know that's a little

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confusing, like it's in a housefed through a medium, right, Like
I don't know how many people actuallyknow that though, who don't work in
media for a living. It's it'sside levels, right, it's what level
do we need to participate? Youknow? Like when and this is I
wasn't obviously you know, I LeeHunting and Traill Games who run the league,

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like they they don't call me forthese kinds of things. But when
they were negotiating with the NFL network, I believe it was on a level
of if we send a truck,which will you know, your people will
plug it into plug into the truck. You've got three or four cameras per
location. If we send that truck, we'll be able to broadcast you yupp
good to go. Well, thattruck called some places and they weren't ready,

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you know. And and again it'sthis isn't a knock on them,
because the way you're explaining it topeople, you got to think about it.
Some of these new owners who steppedinto this league. You know,
the AFL is the big dog,but it's the new dog. It's it's
brand new. Some of these owners, they haven't done that before. And
and you don't necessarily know what youdon't know that's the first three or four
years of me doing this stuff.The amount of times I walked into a

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room and went, I don't knowwhat I don't know, so please tell
me what we got to do here? That that was That That's been my
life. So it's been you know, it's been a little bit of a
challenge. I'm a little upset aboutit all because again, we're ready,
We're more than ready. But Ialso understand that, you know, we
can't be. We can't be everygame that they show they got it.

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If they're going to show the AFL, they have to show the AFL.
I think this is going to causesome shakeups. I think there's gonna be
you know, a little road inNazareth call at some point in the next
week and we'll see what happens.But ultimately, the best way to watch
a Firebirds game is that MVP arena. So we got tickets, come come
watch the game. Yeah, andthere's been talks across the guy. I
believe it was the Billions owner ittalked about. That's on the commissioner,

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that's on the league. Just talkingabout again in general, the NFL network,
they do a lot of other marketslike you do a coach the show,
by the way, flock University herethat full entire episode. It will
replay this Saturday nine at ten o'clock, So Mike Cord will be on their
swear bug free might corta coach wayor talking about a bunch of stuff,
previewing the game, recap in thegame, talking about the league in more
so, And that's going to replaythis Saturday for that preview. Uh And

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there's some schedule changes as well.Some teams have been moving around and everything
else. I think that basically coverseverything until you and I can actually break
down tonight's game as much as wecan. Is there anything I'm missing before
we can actually talk about the opponentthat's the Nashville Cats inside Envy Pernia that
you would like to address the there. I call it the state of the
Union from President Levac. Listen,it's my whole, my whole goal.

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Everything I do is about providing forand taking care of Albany. You know,
it's always Alvany. That's that's what'sup. So the Firebirds are self
sustained, you know what I mean. We we we very much like what
the AFL is planning. We verymuch want to maybe be a part of
making it work. But no matterwhat we know, with this ownership group

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of Mike Korda, Andy Gelcher andand Richie says that this this team is
here. So just everybody who's worriedabout whatever they're worried about, just trust
me, do what I do.Focus on us. We're gonna bring another
championship home and we're trying to doit every year. I am hyped for
tonight. I think tonight's gonna bereally exciting for capital or region sports fans

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because this is a Nashville market that'sproduced other professional sports teams in the past.
They've got national people working within thefranchise. If you don't know Jeff
Fisher, of course from our coachof the Titans, coach of the Rams,
he's associated with this franchise. EliGold for people like me who do
broadcasting for a living in the formervoice of the Alabama Crimson Tide. I

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believe he's gonna be in a Tendanstonight for the radio call. From what
I've been told so and Nashville's goodright next to you? Oh all right?
Should I call it Eli mister Gold? Oh? You know, I
don't know if I'm allowed to seemeal during note stiff, Okay, I
want sniff, mister gold h Nashvilledid it right, Levac. Like,
I know a lot of people giveyou a lot of praise to Alby nationally

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and Orlando nationally, but Nashville wasin a spot where it was year one,
they had not been around for awhile. They were gonna be a
part of this and everything that camefrom the Cats franchise has been pretty impressive.
And not just the things that goon around the game and the things
we just mentioned, but product ofthe field. This is a good team
they've established already. Yeah, it'syou know, it's one of those deals

(26:15):
where the way they jumped into it, you kind of you kind of weren't
sure what they were gonna be.But when you've got like the Jeff Fishers
in the world, and you know, a market like Nashville, you know
they're gonna they're gonna put a goodfoot forward and uh, it's gonna be
interesting tonight. The the one thingI did here is I'm not sure if
they they really dove into the wholeiron man substitutions. So that's where we

(26:38):
could see some some very interesting uhdifferences of turnovers, some things. I
think that's where our advantage is becausewe've been playing Ironman for so long,
so it's gonna be it's gonna beinteresting. Very talented teams, but Orlando's
very talented. So I think,uh, I think we're gonna do just
fine tonight. Wait a second,wait a second, hang on, we

(26:59):
got it. You've just given mea storyline for the pregame broadcast that I
had some notes here in credit toAndrew Santillo is a great broadcast partner.
He sent me some of his notes. Somehow my notes haven't gotten to him.
Usually my notes are like hieroglyphics ona computer sheet of paper and pen.
So you just told me that Nashvillehas not adjusted to Iron Man.

(27:19):
Are you saying that the roster youbelieve is not built for that, or
they weren't following the rules, oryou think there was an advantage in this
game? What what do you meanby that? As Drew Ski, you
would like to say, bride WayneHorse. Okay, go ahead, yeah,
yeah, more experience than it.Okay, we're more experience. Okay,
So I think again, it's new. You know, it's something you're
not it's it's it's the substitutions arevery difficult to maintain, and there's going

(27:45):
to be substitutions officials watching, Soit's, you know, it's a benefit
of ours. We've we've we weretrial by fire back in twenty two,
you know, when we went intothe iron Man rules and if you remember,
we lost what the first three gamesas we tried to figure it all
out and get it together, andnow here we are, so we feel
good about it. It's, youknow, if I'm sure they learned a

(28:10):
lot last week, but I thinkthat's gonna be an advantage for us.
Speaking about advantages, the Capitol regionsports scene locally is packed over the next
three days. The Patroons played yesterday. We're gonna talk to some Patroons coming
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We know, CNN, you alreadylacrosse are doing well. We know the
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(28:34):
You probably don't have the answer tothis before it happens. This is probably
a better question for tomorrow. Butdoes it almost feel like it's a really
good benefit for the Firebirds and yourfan base and the people in the five
What ain't that this game is happeningon a Thursday night where it's almost the
island the standalone. Hey, it'sreally a summer weekend, one of the
most exciting weekends nationally in sports.You get a Thursday night game to get

(28:56):
your weekend going and geld go intoa Friday. Yeah, it's it's definitely,
you know it. I think thatif we were, if we were
on NFL network, I think it'sone of those things where it's kind of
like a coming out party across thecountry. I think they get to see
what we're really all about. Butthe fact that we're not, and you
know, there there is the streamI have to look into where it's streaming.

(29:17):
I don't even think. I haven'teven done that because I just want
everyone to come here and see thisgame. But I think there's there is
something about this this Thursday night showcasemoment. You know, everybody's every kind
of like already cheating on the weekend. They already want to have a little
bit, a little bit of fun. I think you're gonna see a good
a good house, a good attendance, and I think it's gonna be pretty

(29:40):
pretty fun. I listen, ifwe get half the people we had last
week and they have all they havethe same they bring that same intensity,
that same energy, this place isgonna be rocking again, and we're gonna
We're gonna listen. We're the crownjewel of the a f L. Whether
they know it or not yet,We're gonna teach each one of them every
time they walked through that atrium.So we are the crown jewel. And

(30:03):
the more people who come in hereand get this place rocking, the more
that no one can even debate it. So yeah, I think we are
in a great spot, showcase spot, and I'm hoping everybody approves me.
Right, don't forget, first fifteenhundred through the doors gets a free Albany
Firebers Morocca that you can use toshake during the Deuces Deuice Deuce and you
and just you know, just justto make the other team uncomfortable, I'm

(30:26):
all about it. In honor ofDeuce de Mayo and the Deuce for Marko
Rosco. I had Taco Tuesday leftovers, so that's how I am. That's
how Yes, that's yeah. Isee how you get down. You know
you're in there, you're helping out, you're joining the team. That's eight
o'clock kickoff, by the way,tonight inside MVP Arena. I'll feel bad
for you. I feel bad foryou because this should have been the Tom

(30:47):
Goslowski experience on the NFL network.Are you okay because this this was your
chance? I am more than okay. I'm just fined. I'm good.
Andrew Stantilo, I'm sure. Idon't want to speak for him, but
he's fine too. It was justa weird couple hours because I saw it
on Twitter, and in that momentI was not even mad or discouraged or
anything like that. I felt likea professional athlete, because, like you've

(31:11):
heard the stories before, off likean athlete saying they found out they got
traded on Twitter, and I'm like, oh my gosh, I found out
the games, not on the NFLnetwork, on Twitter. I think I'm
in the NBA, Like this mustfeel how NBA guys feel and they get
traded. So of course nobody elsewould think that but me. But my
first reaction like wow, this iskind of cool. Now. I know
the power of social media. Now, I just found out the information,

(31:32):
so I'm not discouraged. I'm okay. I will be just fine. I've
had quite the day like you have. It is a busy time for both
of us. So uh, we'llmake it work. We'll be just fine.
Oh no, I'm listening. I'mnot worried about me. I'm you
know, listen. I can't breatheas of my allergies and whatever the hell
else is going on with me.But aside from that, I'm ready to
go. Just I got to Ibought a new ballingflavor. I'm just gonna
use out the puff oxygen and mylugs during the game, just because you're

(31:56):
in the office right now. AndI'm sure this has no type of swing,
but I'm gonna publicly ask for thisat some point. Let's say it
is the NFL network. Let's saywhatever it is. I know what's on
a network. I loved having thecomments on YouTube, and I know that
like no play by play people getthat, or color commentators get that.
It doesn't happen for most traditional mediabroadcasts. It was a lot of fun

(32:16):
seeing instant reaction from fans during agame during a broadcast. It was so
unique and different. So if anyoneasked me, guys, what do you
think about that? Can we bringback the comments. We got a few
comments on social during the game whichwere wildly positive from the opposing fan base.
So there's my two cents that nobodywanted about the broadcast. Let's bring
back wild YouTube comments during it.Listen, you know me, I like

(32:39):
it. When I was out withI was out with COVID a couple of
years back. I just went intothere and started playing with the other fans
too. It's a it's it's fun. It's a good way to interact.
The fans of Arena Football are rabbit, bro They are rabbits, So just
be careful because when you call themout, you can't always just put them
back in there. They're out.They're gonna keep coming for it. They're

(33:00):
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(34:47):
knows? Make it? Have youhang a little bit longer to preview games
six tonight with the Nixon the Sixerscoming up? All right, maybe similar
conversations just so you know, alllet's do it. It's Fox Sports ninety
five, nine eighty, It's Lavacand guz on ninety five nine Fox Sports
Radio. My god, good countof money. That's Jeff Levax music.

(35:08):
He's here. He's here in thefour o'clock hour. We told you after
the top four to four, evenon a game day, there he is.
Hello, Levac, I'm here,I am present, I am accounted
for. I am trying to breathe. It's been a day, bro already,
you've been busy. Huh, Well, we will get to those questions

(35:30):
you thought. Don't disconnect. Igot questions about the Firebirds. I know
you probably don't want to look atsocial media and listen. You've got a
lot to tap in the last fortyeight hours. I will say this though,
if you are a Firebird fan ora Capitol Region sports fan, Flock
University was awesome last night. Youguys have had some great additions to the
show. That was arguably the bestepisode of the season. If you were

(35:51):
a Capitol region sports fan, youguys did it right with Coach where with
you with Mike Korda. I wouldlike to say this though, Uh,
I did catch someone swearing on FlockUniversity last night. That's the first time
someone sworn on the show, soI had to edit that out. I
don't know who wants to be calledsomebody swore to me it was not you,

(36:12):
Okay, so it was Mike.Mike. Mike did swear during the
show, So yeah, I did. I did edit that. No,
no, no, it's okay,and uh you your hesitation. I caught
it very quick because when you cutaudio long enough, the shapes you really
see shapes. I'm like, somethingwrong with that shape. And it was
Levac being like, uh oh,so Mike's swearing was cut out. But

(36:36):
let's talk about flock univers I'm gonakind of let you be the floor of
take us through how you knew youwere going to handle that show and the
dynamic of why even Mike the ownerof the team for those who don't know
Mike Korda, why Mike was onthe show last night? All right?
Yeah, so when the show started, or when I started setting up for
the show, the XFL, theXFL, the NF yeah, done too.

(36:59):
Whoever, except yeah, when itstarted, we were still going to
be on the NFL network. Andit turns out like I don't know,
like at five, a little afterfive, Mike was on a call and
there was the decision again because there'sstill whatever happened like a last like check

(37:22):
of some of these other markets,they pulled back again. So I had
no idea that was the case.You know. Mike texted me and then
he saw that that kind of flusteredme. I was. I was not
expecting that because I had had severalconversations, and every conversation I had was

(37:44):
how great Ralph Bow and Chris whodo all of our stuff here, and
how great they are. So like, I was flustered, and it shook
me. And you know, likeusually during a show, it takes a
lot to actually, like you know, push me off my page. And
I was, I don't mean tointerrupt you. I just there's two things
there that you and I know whatyou're talking about. Just have to clarify
a few things there. We'll goback to what you mean by check up

(38:04):
and check on markets. But RalphBow and Chris, for those who don't
know, those are the people whoend up the production for Fireword Games.
Yeah, it's called the company calledMyriad. Everything comes out of MVP Arena
like Sianna Games, Firewalls Games,Firebird games. If it starts here.
Those guys, in some way,shape or form, are a part of
it, and you mentioned check outon the market thing. That was the

(38:25):
term you used like a minute ago. I would assume again, every market's
different. But when you brought upproduction after, there's a lot that goes
into an NFL network quality broadcast,So maybe that's been some of these things.
Again, Mike would know that answerbetter than I would. But I
think it's safe to say, ifwe're talking about production, are teams able
to make it happen in twenty twentyfour. I don't know the answer to

(38:45):
that. Like you said, you'reworried about albody. You can't figure out
what other markets are doing when itcomes to production. They're probably worried about
players on the field and marketing andfan That's what I would assume. If
we're talking about a media broadcast andmedia companies with outside people, it's like,
hey, can you actually do this? And I don't know, Like
some people would assume that when itcomes to media that a partner would help

(39:07):
with that, that's not twenty twentyfour. Let me repeat that, like
a lot of these broadcasters are nottechnically out of house, and I know
that's a little confusing, like it'sin a house fed through a medium right,
Like, I don't know how manypeople actually know that though, who
don't work in media for a living. It's it's on levels like it's what
level do we need to participate?You know? And so like when and

(39:31):
this is I wasn't obviously you know, I Lee Hunton and Trull Games who
run the league, like they theydon't call me for these kind of things.
But when they were negotiating with theNFL network, I believe it was
on a level of if we senda truck, which will you know,
your people will plug it into plugit into the truck. You've got three

(39:51):
or four cameras per location. Ifwe send that truck, we'll be able
to broadcast you yup, up,good to go. Well, that truck
called some places and they weren't ready, you know. And and again it's
this isn't a knock on them,because the way you're explaining to people,
you got to think about it.Some of these new owners who stepped into
this league. You know, theAFL is the big dog, but it's
the new dog. It's it's brandnew. Some of these owners, they

(40:13):
haven't done that before. And andyou don't necessarily know what you don't know
that's the first three or four yearsof me doing this stuff. The amount
of times I walked into a roomand went, I don't know what I
don't know, so please tell mewhat we got to do here? That
that was That That's been my life. So it's been you know, it's

(40:34):
been a little bit of a challenge. I'm a little upset about it all
because again, we're ready, We'remore than ready. But I also understand
that, you know, we can'tbe. We can't be every game that
they show they got if they're gonnashow the AFL, they have to show
the AFL. I think this isgoing to cause some shakeups. I think
there's gonna be you know, alittle road to Nazareth call at some point

(40:54):
in the next week and we'll seewhat happens. But ultimately, the best
way to watch a Firewards game isat MVP Arena. So we got tickets,
come come watch the game. Yeah, and there's been talked across the
guy. I believe it was theBillions owner it talked about. That's on
the commissioner, that's on the league. Just talking about again in general of
the NFL network. They do alot of other markets like you do a

(41:15):
coach the show, by the way, flock University here that full entire episode.
It will replay this Saturday nine atten o'clock, so Mike Cord will
be on their swear bug, freedmightcourt a coach way or talking about a
bunch of stuff preview in the game, recap in the game, talking about
the league in more so, Andthat's going to replay this Saturday for that
preview, And there's some schedule changesas well. Some teams have been moving
around and everything else. I thinkthat basically covers everything until you and I

(41:37):
can actually break down tonight's game asmuch as we can. Is there anything
I'm missing before we can actually talkabout the opponent that's the Nashville Cats inside
MVPERIA that you would like to addressthe there. I call it the state
of the Union from President Levac.Listen, it's my whole goal. Everything
I do is about providing for andtaking care of all of the know,

(42:00):
it's all evolving me. That's what'sup. So the Firebirds are self sustained,
you know what I mean. Wevery much like what the AFL is
planning. We very much want tomaybe be a part of making it work.
But no matter what we know withthis ownership group of Mike Korda,
Andy Gelcher, and Richie says thatthis team is here. So just everybody

(42:23):
who's worried about whatever they're worried about, just trust me, do what I
do. Focus on us. We'regonna bring another championship home and we're trying
to do it every year. Iam hyped for tonight. I think tonight's
going to be really exciting for capitolor region sports fans because this is a
Nashville market that's produced other professional sportsteams in the past. They've got national

(42:46):
people working within the franchise. Ifyou don't know Jeff Fisher, of course,
from our coach of the Titans,coach of the Rams. He's associated
with this franchise, Eli Gold forpeople like me who do broadcasting for a
living in the former voice the AlabamaCrimson Tide. I believe he's gonna be
in at tendance tonight for the radiocall from what I've been told so and
Nashville's good right next to you?Oh all right? Should I call it

(43:08):
Eli mister Gold? Oh? Youknow, I don't know if I'm allowed
to say meal during note Stiff Okay, I want sniff aster gold. Uh,
Nashville did it right, Levac.Like I know, a lot of
people give you a lot of praiseto Alby nationally and Orlando nationally, but
Nashville was in a spot where itwas year one, they had not been
around for a while, they weregonna be a part of this and everything

(43:30):
that came from the Cats franchise hasbeen pretty impressive, and not just the
things that go on around the gameand the things we just mentioned, but
proud of in the field. Thisis a good team they've established already.
Yeah, it's you know, it'sone of those deals where the way they
jumped into it, you kind ofyou kind of weren't sure what they were

(43:50):
gonna be. But when you've gotlike the Jeff Fishers in the world,
and you know, a market likeNashville, you know they're gonna they're gonna
put a good foot forward, anduh, it's gonna be interesting tonight.
The the one thing I did hereis I'm not sure if they they really
dove into the whole iron man substitutions. So that's where we could see some
some very interesting differences of turnovers somethings. I think that's where our advantage

(44:15):
is because we've been playing Iron Manfor so long, so it's gonna be
it's gonna be interesting. Very talentedteams, but Orlando's very talented. So
I think, uh, I thinkwe're gonna do just find something. Wait
a second, wait a second,hang on, we got it. You've
just given me a storyline for thepregame broadcast that I had some notes here
in credit to Andrew Santillo is agreat broadcast partner. He sent me some

(44:37):
of his notes. Somehow my noteshaven't gotten to him. Used in my
notes are like hieroglyphics on a computer, sheet of paper and pen. So
you just told me that Nashville hasnot adjusted to Iron Man. Are you
saying that the roster you believe isnot built for that, or they weren't
following the rules, or you thinkthere was an advantage in this game?

(44:57):
What what do you mean by that? As Drew would like to say,
Brian win horse, Okay, goahead, yeah, yeah, more experience
than it. Okay, we're moreexperience. Okay, So I think again,
it's new. You know, it'ssomething you're not it's it's it's the
substitutions are very difficult to maintain andthere's going to be substitutions officials watching,
so it's you know, it's abenefit of ours. We've we've we were

(45:22):
trial by fire back in twenty two, you know when we went into the
Iron Man rules and if you remember, we lost what the first three games
as we tried to figure it allout and get it together, and now
here we are, so we feelgood about it. It's you know,
if I'm sure they learned a lotlast week, but I think that's going

(45:42):
to be an advantage for us.Speaking about advantages, the Capital region sports
scene locally is packed over the nextthree days. The Patroons played yesterday.
We're going to talk some Patroons comingup later in the show. Our guy,
the Closer, Brian Marianna, wasgoing to join us to talk about
the Patroons and the derby and more. We know CNN, you already on
the Cross are doing well. Weknow the fire Wolves are in action Friday
and then Sunday and Sunday inside MVParena. You probably don't have the answer

(46:06):
to this before it happens. Thisis probably a better question for tomorrow.
But does it almost feel like it'sa really good benefit for the Firebirds and
your fan base and the people inthe five will ain't that this game is
happening on a Thursday night where it'salmost the island to standalone. Hey,
it's really a summer weekend, oneof the most exciting weekends nationally in sports.
You get a Thursday night game toget your weekend going and get go

(46:27):
into a Friday. Yeah, itdoes. It's definitely. You know,
I think that if we were,if we were on NFL network, I
think it's one of those things whereit's kind of like a coming out party
across the country. I think theyget to see what we're really all about.
But the fact that we're not,and you know, there is the
stream I have to look into wearit's streaming. I don't even I haven't

(46:49):
even done that because I just wanteveryone to come here and see this game.
But I think there's there is somethingabout this this Thursday night showcase moment.
You know, everybody's everybody kind oflike already cheating on the weekend.
They already want to have a littlebit, a little bit of fun.
I think you're gonna see a gooda good house, a good attendance,
and I think it's gonna be prettypretty fun. I listen, if we

(47:13):
get half the people we had lastweek and they have all they have the
same they bring that same intensity,that same energy, this place is gonna
be rocking again. And we're gonnawe're gonna listen. We're the crown jewel
of the AFL. Whether they knowit or not yet, We're gonna teach
each one of them every time theywalk through that atrium. So we are
the crown jewel. And the morepeople who come in here and get this

(47:35):
place rocking, the more that noone can even debate it. So yeah,
I think we are in a greatspot, showcase spot, and I'm
hoping everybody approves me. Right,And don't forget, first fifteen hundred through
the doors gets a free Albany FirebirdsMorocca that you can use to shake during
the DEUCESU, Deuce and you andjust you know, just just to make
the other team uncomfortable. I'm allabout it in honor of Deuce de Mayo

(47:58):
and the Deuce for Marko Rosco.I had Taco Tuesday leftovers. So that's
how I am. That's how Yes, that's yeah, I see how you
get down. You know you're inthere, you're helping out, you're joining
the team. That's eight o'clock kickoff, by the way, tonight inside MVP
Arena, and all feel bad foryou. I feel bad for you because
this should have been the Tom Goyslowskiexperience on the NFL network. Are you

(48:21):
okay because this this was your chance? I am more than okay. I'm
just fined. I'm good. AndrewStantilo, I'm sure. I don't want
to speak for him, but he'sfine too. It was just a weird
couple hours because I saw it onTwitter, and in that moment I was
not even mad or discouraged or anythinglike that. I felt like a professional
athlete, because, like you've heardthe stories before, off like an athlete

(48:43):
saying they found out they got tradedon Twitter, and I'm like, oh
my gosh, I found out thegames, not on the NFL network,
on Twitter. I think I'm inthe NBA, Like this must feel how
NBA guys feel and they get traded. So of course nobody else would think
that but me. But my firstreaction like, wow, this is kind
of cool. Now I know thepower of social media. Now I just
found out the information, so I'mnot discouraged. I'm okay, I will

(49:05):
be just fine. I've had quitethe day like you have. It is
a busy time for both of us. So uh, we'll make it work.
We'll be just fine. Oh no, I'm listening. I'm not worried
about me. I'm you know,listen. I can't breathe as of my
allergies and whatever the hell else isgoing on with me. But aside from
that, I'm ready to go.Just gotta. I bought a new balling
player. I'm just gonna use outthe puff oxygen and my lugs during the
game, just because you're in theoffice right now, and I'm sure this

(49:28):
has no type of swing, butI'm gonna publicly ask for this at some
point. Let's say it is theNFL network. Let's say whatever it is.
I know what's on a network.I loved having the comments on YouTube,
and I know that like no playby play people get that, or
color commentators get that. It doesn'thappen for most traditional media broadcasts. It
was a lot of fun seeing instantreaction from fans during a game during a

(49:50):
broadcast. It was so unique anddifferent. So if anyone asks me,
guys, what do you think aboutthat. Can we bring back the comments.
We got a few comments on socialduring the game which were wildly po
from the opposing fan base. Sothere's my two cents that nobody wanted about
the broadcast. Let's bring back wildYouTube comments during it. Uh listen,
you know me, I like it. I when I was out with I

(50:13):
was out with COVID a couple ofyears back. I just went into there
and started playing with the other fanstoo. It's it's a it's it's fun.
It's a good way to interact.The fans of Arena football are rabbit,
bro they are rabbits. So uh, just be careful because when you
call them out, you can't alwaysjust put them back in the They're they're
out. They're gonna keep coming forit. They're absolutely insane. But let's
do this because we're supporting local people. I want you to tell us about

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All right, I've got the winners. Hang on, hold, let's do
the play of the night. Iknow you're busy, but let's get a
play of the day out of you. How about that one? You for
play the day? And then whoknows? Making have you hang a little
bit longer to preview games six tonightwith the Nix and the Sixers coming up?
All right, maybe similar conversations justso you know. All right,
let's do It's Fox Sports ninety nineeighty. It's Lovack and guys on the

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Voice of the Capitol Regions Sports FanFox Sports ninety five nine and nine eighty.
Ah lave Ack and guys. Soit's it's almost like Lavac or guys
lately. I apologize, guys.I promise me around a little bit more
tomorrow. I maybe not a lotmore because I'm very tired already and we're
just probing at game time yet,but I'll be around more. You are

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in the GT toys too, that'stoys with a Z. I am in
the h the presidential offices here atMVP Arena. And uh, before we
get into the play of the day, was it even fun watching hoops last
night? No? No, Theanswer is no. Here's the problem with

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what happened last night, and thisis play of the day. I think
more often, I think we wantthis to happen more often than not,
but it rarely does. So mytwo plays yesterday were Mavericks with the points,
Celtics with the points. So Ihit that one last night for plus
two ten. All right, cool? Like fourteen and a half was the
spread for the Celtics, and Ithought, okay, Mavericks on the road

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favored by three and a half ina game five toss up game, that
number is a little odd. Ibet the number rather than this storyline,
which is something I think I'm gonnaalways go back to every single time of
look at the number rather than thestoryline. This is the number one thing
I've learned on wagering. Now,I think I would be better. I
think Ryan can look at our numbers, be like guys. Numbers wise,
they're not as good as you thinkyou are, but mentally, mentally,

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I've got the leg up where thisstory lines. Of best example I can
give you the last twelve months isthe Eagles and the Jets that Levac sniffed
out two weeks before it happened.When the Jets flat out beat the Eagles,
you knew that line was gonna besomething odd, something weird. The
Joe public, I think it's theterm that you've used, is gonna hop
on that game and roll with thestoryline, and the Jets went out right.

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Every year, I'll guarantee you this, It's happened the Bears, the
Cardinals, the Panthers, the Texans. There's like four or five years in
a row where the Cardinals was theteam last year. The worst projected team
in the NFL usually covers Week onebecause everyone's wagering against them. So that
was an example last night of blowoutwell, you gotta think the Heat can

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stay in it. Well, theClippers are at home and they're gonna get
players back. This should be theClippers game. This should be the Heat
game, not the case. Sothat's why I'm happy that I want.
But back to the original point.When you run away with a win like
that, cool, you get tocash your ticket, everyone's happy selfishly,
get's great. But when a gameis such a blowout and so over the

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top and you have no storylines totake away from it, it doesn't make
our jobb easier. When you havea thirty point victory for the Mavericks and
you've got a bath thirty four pointwin for the Celtics, we could talk
about a team dominating, doing great, But there you go. It's like
the double selfish answer. Yes,I'm selfish that I cashed the ticket and
complaining, but also more so thatwe can't do probably a whole segment on

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Mavericks or Celtics because it was suchblowouts. Yeah, and you know me,
I want I want the Celtics towork a little bit. It's it
is. It is interesting though,because what did we said at one and
a half? They lose for thefor the playoffs before the conference finals,
before the conference finals, so they'velost one, which I was kind of

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shocked that he did come out andplush with them mouth one time, but
like the way they played since,it's almost like you want to remove a
loss, Like he's like, youknow what, you played well enough,
we're gonna forget that ever happened?Here, here you go, come here.
I just man, that's it was. I didn't really watch much last
night, you know I do.I like watching Dallas play well, Don't

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get me wrong. It's weird thatnow Kyrie's far away. I like him,
but like, yeah, it was. It was. It was utter
domination. There was never a pointwhere I was like, oh, this
is gonna be a fun night ofbasketball, and I'm hoping for more of
the same tonight. Let's go next. I'm sorry. Was that allowed?
You get root for the Knicks?That's allowed? Is that? Is that
a little tease? Do you wantto go first for our play in the

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day thanks to Mohawks? Ever?Really you teased it going into the segment
that maybe here coming up, we'regonna talk about the sixers in the Knicks
later on, But it seems asif you want to do it right now,
not a pin straight parlay because theYankees are in some afternoon action or
we're earlier a few hours ago.Yep, and uh yeah, So I'm
hoping I can see this. I'mtaking the NIXT plus three. I'm taking

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over thirty three and a half pointsfor Jalen Brunson. I'm taking over fourteen
and a half points for Josh Hartand under thirty and a half for Joel
mb It's the nixt kicker parlay.Ooh see, you got the pins right,
parlay. The knicks KICKA K IC K A. So the cardinal

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can spell it right on social media? Is that how you're spelling it?
Let's threw it up, nerds.I isn't it a P? No,
it's pterodactyl. It starts with aP. Isn't there usually is it H
that comes before a K? Sometimesthat's silent? Jehovah. I would be
really happy if you spelled it withH K. All right, so that's
your play. What would you saythat paid? By the way, did

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you do the math on that?Oh? You want? Oh you want
to know? Now? Hold on? Okay, all right, well you
cough just do it? All right, that's quick plus eight forty and I
have a boost, so it's actuallyplus one ninety two. I thought that
was gonna sit closer to five anda half to six to one. You
got that to eight to one,ten to one on a boost. Yes,

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actually, can you? I knowthis is an another podcast that it's
to be annoyed by it. Canyou just give me those plays again?
What more? All right? Nextplus three? Okay, Brunson over thirty
three and a half. Okay,Art over fourteen and a half? Right,
embad under thirty and a half andhe can get eight to one pay
out on that ten to one witha boost. Gosh, that is nice,

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Okay, all right, Gosh,when you have a good parlay like
that, it makes me reconsider mybet. Uh. I'm still gonna go
with my bet, though. Sohere's what happened. I am inspired today
by somebody. Somebody did something todaythat made me want to pick this game.
And I've been so off on almostevery game in this series. I
think I've fired off three bets maybetwo on this series alone in hockey,

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and it's the Bruins and the mapleLeafs. And this is a nice advice
will be offered in a career here. So when you're out of a live
broadcast our hopefully our guy Matt Woodsis somewhere listening to this. What Lavack
and I have learned is that you'vegot to be careful if, like your
producer, keeps your mic on,because there's a button on the board called
Q cue that a lot of producerswill remember that like Q is how a

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producer hears you on site, butthe microphone is how people hear you on
the ear. So without looking atthe board, you can't tell the difference
because you just hear audio coming backto a studio. So and I've also
learned that like when you hit what'scalled talkback on this thing, that if
you're on site, it might comethrough the speakers. So don't say anything
stupid or don't insult anybody there becausethey could probably hear you while you're there

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coming through the speakers. You andI have had producers do that before.
But what happened was Doug. BecauseI was working RADIOTHONICGA and Radiothon Back Tomorrow
w G Y nine to five,the River going on great stuff for the
Almbedy Medical Center, I could hearDoug in the background who is a huge
Boston Bruin fan, just toasting hisBruins. Oh man, I don't know

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if I'm gonna stay up tonight.I know the Bruins are gonna lose.
They're gonna choke. I can't stepand watch the Bruins. I can't watch.
He's a Bruin fan. That ishis number one team. He's a
Red Sox fan, but his son'sinto hockey. He's a Bruin fan.
And all he was doing was roastingthe Bruins. His negativity is making me
reconsider so he follows that team muchcloser than I do. The game is

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in Toronto, so I'm taking themaple leafs one more time. I'm gonna
take the maple leafs there plus oneoh five. They're at home. A
win forces a game seven. Butthe reason I'm taking this is because of
Doug's negativity. They didn't say onthe air, but left his microphone on
while I had him in Q andwas toasting the Boston Bruins. How did

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Gus hear me? Because your micwas on, Doug, That's how I
could hear you. So I amtaking the maple leafs because of your odd
negativity around your favorite team. That'sfantastic. That's like the truth though,
you know, like that's like theinside scoop of like if someone doesn't want
to say something truthful on the air, they'll just assume their MIC's off,
which it was. So I getthe true Dougman that one. Yeah,

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there's not a lot to be happyout in Boston. I mean, let's
be honest. You, first ofall, you live in Boston. Second
of all, the Bruins are ajokeyboy. The Red Sox have a nice
pitching staff. That's what you haveright now. That's it. That's what
you have when you live in Boston. So enjoy that. Boston. It's
not great right now. New Englandmight be on the rise. I don't
think kan Terre can hear you.I know he's a big Boston fans too.
The Red Soxs are playing a littlebit better. But boy, if

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the Bruins choke it again back toback years, ugh, but it would
be in It would be intriguing,it would be interesting. I love Game
seven, say everybody else, itwould make me happy. I would definitely.
I would definitely not hate that.So that's that is always fun for
me. But you don't mean.Man, I gotta get I gotta get
focused on the Nashville Cats. Yeah, yeah, I got. You know,
just just his NFL network is inhere. It doesn't mean the game

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don't happen. Oh well, you'llbe happy about this. I know we
talked to little Cats and Firebirds.You'll be happy with this question. I
believe all right. The Oriels andYankees battled earlier this afternoon. They've been
battling throughout the series. Our wagersout there, you ready for this tonight?
In Major League Baseball, there's onlyone game in the evening that I
think has a true impact on theseason. That's Guardians and Astros. The

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Astros absolutely stink this season. They'redone. It looks like it's finally over.
Does this series have an impact onwho you think is the best team
in the American League? Like,if Cleveland goes out and smacks around Houston,
who's been the best team in theAmerican League close to a decade now,
If they smacked around Houston tonight,do we have to start talking about
the loser of this series? Baltimoreand New York being second behind the Guardians

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already in May. I mean Baltimoreprobably is behind them. Yeah, you
know, regardless of that's what's goingon earlier today or anything, you know,
but no, it's yeah, youknow, Baltimore's just be happy to
be invited, you know. Butuh, it's gonna be the Yankey's when

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it's all said and done. Wejust we're just waiting for Coal to get
back. That's all leave for Cole. I should know better. I honestly,
you think after all these years,I wouldn't know better. I saw
that question. I saw the answerjust coming. Looking at your face,
you look like a hitter in baseball, like your eyes lit up with the
dumb question I asked about, wheredo I put the Cleveland Guardians in the

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spot? Good? Gosh, likeMilwaukee's I know, Milwaukee's fighting with people.
We think the Dodgers are supposed tobe good. We understand that every
year. It's the same thing withthe Dodgers game. In a great regular
season, Cleveland is the surprise ofthe American League. Even if okay,
so let's say they smack around Houston. Great, let's say they do it,
They're gonna be in the same spotthat probably the Twins were. And
right now, that's a split series, right now between the squads. So

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I should have known better to tryto go with the guardian question. All
right, I've learned my lesson you. You will, You'll learn one day,
you will, but not today.All right, Jad, I gotta
you know, dude, I gottado this game. No, I got
one more segment. All right,here's what we're gonna do. We're gonna
break early here, probably a littlebit before five o'clock, so I can

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grab I want to hear your takeon the Knicks. I want to hear
your take on the six Ers Gamesix because we're gonna air it right here
on Fox Sports ninety five nine nineeighty. You talked about your wager already.
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