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Allstate Representative
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Don Hahn
This is the Don Hahn and Rosenberg podcast.
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Peter Rosenberg
That sounds like heaven to me.
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Don Hahn
Listen live weekday afternoon starting at 3 on 8 80, ESPN, the ESPN New York app, and your smart speakers. So are we at a point now? Like, I need to understand this because you. I had a flashback and it wasn't a good one. It was a very bad memory. I'm just going to be open and honest with everybody listening because I had. I, I made reference to my devastating career ending, life changing injury from college on the air one time with D. Pietro and he did the same thing Peter did by mocking it as if, why are you making it, why are you making it seem it's any significance to anything that happens in professional sports? And it's. First of all, Rick was a professional athlete. So I just took that as a. Okay, I just got put in my place. But the fact that Peter did it and like Peter, like, the most you sweat is at a buffet. I don't understand how you could possibly then turn something like that against me when all I was doing was just sort of sharing something. I was very vulnerable. That was a very devastating part of my life experience. And instead you were like, well, you were never going to be a pro athlete, so it's okay that you ripped your knee to shreds and couldn't finish college.
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Rick DiPietro
I didn't say that either.
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Don Hahn
You know, that's a lot.
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Rick DiPietro
I know right now. Now I know it's a sense.
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Don Hahn
No, no, no. I've learned now to never, ever associate anything from my pathetic athletic career to anything that happens in real sports.
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Rick DiPietro
No. So I get the answer either, because I think it's a valid thing to say. You experienced an injury, so it's reasonable.
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Don Hahn
And all it was was the, the pain of watching it. I. You, you have to understand, when you go, when you have an injury like that, everybody listening who has been through something where they were playing a sport and their knee twisted or buckled in a way that you just, the minute you heard the pop, felt the pop, it's not Something you get over. Like I see people and ever I see a knee injury, I almost. My stomach turns, it flips. Like I get nauseous because you know what that feels like. So that's all I was trying to share. Not. Hey, you know, one time, you know I wasn't giving you an Uncle Rico, right? That wasn't what I was trying to do there, Don.
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Rick DiPietro
Don. Did he give you any heirs of Uncle Rico or.
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Peter Rosenberg
No, no, I understood what he was talking about.
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Don Hahn
Well, there's a reason why Peter felt the need to, you know, to make sure that I was put in my place, baby was put back in the corner. My bad. I was never a real.
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Rick DiPietro
No, that's not. Hold on. Two things can be true. Number one, your situation. I totally believe that's.
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Don Hahn
Can't even pronounce Concordia properly. I mean it's a real college man, it mattered.
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Rick DiPietro
We love Concordia and I'm. And that situation legitimately sucks. And yes, there's a difference between people who have been through a true athletic injury and those who have it. So it's a reasonable thing to compare. The problem was you opened the door for such an easy and effective joke that I just had to do so.
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Peter Rosenberg
Don, sometimes you have to.
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Rick DiPietro
I'm aware.
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Don Hahn
But this is moments after you were just such a great friend about something that I'd stumbled over like cross referencing songs.
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Rick DiPietro
But that was more important, Alan, because your music credibility on the show. That's something that over time can really build something. Your athletic career is not building any further from where we are. It's over. There's no going forward with that.
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Don Hahn
You know, as long as I PR every day. Like that's really the matter.
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Rick DiPietro
You know what it all time, baby.
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Don Hahn
It's all about gains.
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Rick DiPietro
It's all about the gains. Your career is not over.
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Don Hahn
And for you it's about gains too, but in a different way.
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Rick DiPietro
What a bad insensitive. You know what it's Don, it's not enough to be. It's not enough to be tall, thin and handsome. You know, a virile man. That's not enough. He has to also have a glorious. You know his pulk high football days that he still has to relive.
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Don Hahn
Yes. Oh man. Anyways, how about this for a great sports debate is like, you know, we always do this thing is which sport is harder to play? Well, how about this from Travis Hunter, you know, a guy who could go number one. He can go top three in the NFL draft. Who has played in college on both sides of the football as a Cornerback as a wide receiver, something he liked to do in the NFL. And he had this to say about how difficult it is to do what he does or wants to do in the NFL versus, say, someone like Shohei Ohtani, who is not only a great pitcher, but also a massive home run hitter. Listen to this. Probably me, what I do in football, because it's a lot on your body. You know, Tony, he's a great player, but you gotta do a lot of your football.
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Peter Rosenberg
Hmm.
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Don Hahn
It's harder to do what he wants to do versus what Ohtani does, which a lot of people say hitting a baseball in major league baseball is probably the hardest thing to do in all of sports. That's what some people say. Now, Chad Ochocinko, which, by the way, get the drop ready. I did see him today in the green room. I was on get up. He was gonna be on first date, drop. Great conversation and all that stuff. He's. He's a wonderful gentleman, great to talk to.
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Rick DiPietro
Lovely man.
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Don Hahn
He on first take had this to say about what Travis Hunter said, the two most difficult things in life are hitting the baseball and keeping a woman happy. Long term. The two most difficult things in life. Hear me very. Can't argue with the second one.
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Peter Rosenberg
Well, listen, I know that's something baseball fans and people that cover baseball because Ted Williams one time said he hit a round bat with a round ball and hit it square and all that stuff, you know, but it's their skill sets, right?
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Don Hahn
Do you agree or disagree? Is hitting a baseball the hardest thing to do?
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Peter Rosenberg
I don't know. Because if you have that skill set, like if you have the hand eye coordination to be able to do that. All right, Then obviously you don't have to necessarily be physically fit. You don't have to go to the gym. You don't have to necessarily be of weight to be able to do that. We've seen all different shapes and sizes be able to do that.
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Don Hahn
Yeah.
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Peter Rosenberg
Now, to be a corner and a wide receiver, similar skill sets, right? You gotta have to have speed. You have to have. You'd like to have good hands, even though it's weight more necessary as a wide receiver than the cornerback. But that's. Not everybody can do that. You're going to have to be a certain size, you have to be a certain speed in order to do that. So that really brings it down to, like, the number of people that can play wide receiver and corner well to hit a baseball. There's different varietals of bodies and people that can do that. So I think the higher percentage is to hit the baseball than it is to be able to play both of those positions. Right. Wide receiver, being able to catch a football while keeping your feet in bounds, to me is a very unique skill set that's really, really difficult to do at any level. To do that right where. So that explains that part of it, but where he kind of loses me. Now Ohtani is able to pitch at a high level, which also different body types have been able to do that. But to excel as a corner and a wide receiver, I would think most wide receivers might be able to go out there and do a decent to, maybe, maybe, maybe below average job of being a corner and vice versa. Not every hitter, you know, Aaron Judge isn't going to go out there and throw a 95 mile per hour fastball and strike somebody out.
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Caller
Mm.
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Peter Rosenberg
So that's where he loses me. Because it's not like, oh, I can hit and run or I can hit and catch. No, he can hit and pitch. There's nothing like that. Nothing like that.
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Allstate Representative
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Peter Rosenberg
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Don Hahn
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Peter Rosenberg
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Don Hahn
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Peter Rosenberg
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Don Hahn
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Don Hahn
You get yours@samsung.com compatible with select apps. Requires Google Gemini account. Results may vary based on input. Check responses for accuracy. I think it's fair. I do. I agree with, with Don because if it was not, I'm not even gonna say if it was easy. I'm gonna say if it was possible to do like more people would do it and be at the level that Ohtani is at. So what he's doing does feel like the hardest thing to do in sports. But you have to include both of it. Like, it's not like, oh, hitting a baseball's the hardest thing. That's one of it. But then like you just said, Don, to throw it 95 miles an hour and to place it where you want to. Right. And to have it move and all those things that come with it, like that's, that's, that's ridiculous amount of athleticism and, and just physical ability.
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Peter Rosenberg
And in my opinion, and I could be wrong about this, I mean, maybe a doctor or a scientist can correct me, the skill set to hit a baseball is way different than a skill set to throw a pitch. I don't see any similarities in the two things. Just because I can hit doesn't mean I can pitch and vice versa.
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Don Hahn
Yeah.
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Peter Rosenberg
Where some of the skill sets as a wide receiver do apply to a.
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Rick DiPietro
Corner, well, more the opposite. Even though if you're a great, if you're a great corner, running a route is not that hard. You can do it. Now the reverse, I think is harder because if you've always been a receiver and you're always used to doing that, backpedaling, turning, like all of those things, I could see it being really hard to adapt. Although Troy Brown did it.
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Don Hahn
No, look, it's, it's like Don said, both have unique things about them. I do think the ability to catch a football while getting pushed, while running as fast as you can, while making sure that when I land I got to get two toes down. Like, that's still pretty. It's remarkably incredible to do and then to just flip it. And now I'm running backwards, trying to defend it with the same type of thing. The hand fighting, staying with the. With somebody that can hit me harder than I can hit him and all that stuff. Like, it's incredibly hard to do. But I don't know if, like, I can't say that that is harder than what Ohtani's doing. I, I don't know if I could say that, because it. In the same game. It's pretty remarkable. I don't know any other sport, though. I've always said what hockey players do is also one of the rare things in sports, because not only is it the agility, the speed, the hand eye coordination, the physicality, you're also doing it on a pair of steak knives attached to your feet. Like you're doing it on skates, which is the hardest skill possible. Like, start with that ability to just skate and then add all the other things to it and then do it at the highest level. That's incredibly difficult to do as well. But I don't know if it, you know, I would put that third.
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Peter Rosenberg
I think I just. I just marvel at anybody that can do multiple things at that level. Like, I was blown away that Dion was able to play baseball and football. Bo Jackson, football, Brian Jordan, baseball. Like, that just blows me away. Danny Ainge being able, Able to play baseball and basketball.
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Don Hahn
Right?
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Peter Rosenberg
Yeah. Was it. Tom Glavin was drafted higher than Luke Robitaille in the NHL and played like I.
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Don Hahn
That was a goalie, right? I believe he's a goalie. Wasn't Glavin a goalie?
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Peter Rosenberg
I don't think so. I thought he was a goal. I don't think. I mean, I could be wrong about it. I thought he was. I thought he was a skater. Yeah, but, but, but, but just to be. Because it's hard enough to play one sport, you know, be able to play two at that kind of level. Because usually, you know, when you play, you know, especially baseball, it's because you. Why do you think a lot of guys from California and Florida make it to the major leagues because they can play baseball all year round? You know, these guys didn't even think about the other sport while they were excelling at the other. And that. It just really blows me away. But I always kind of push back on Michael just because it made for good radio. But just the whole. Oh, the hardest thing to do is hit a baseball. There's a lot of things that are really hard to do in professional sports. Really hard.
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Don Hahn
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Don Hahn
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Don Hahn
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Don Hahn
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Rick DiPietro
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Don Hahn
Thanks for listening to the Don Hahn and Rosenberg podcast.
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Rick DiPietro
I didn't listen to anything you just said.
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Don Hahn
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Peter Rosenberg
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Don Hahn
Oh, there you go. Okay, you guys both have have daughters and I'm here to tell you that as they get older, this is what happens. So Gracie's doesn't have volleyball tonight and Stephanie's with Cali at hockey tryouts which. Yes. The day after championship game. Yep. We have charts for next year. That's how we do it. So. So she's. This is literally the conversation we are having because she wants to get dinner after the show. Wants to go with dinner. I said, okay, what do you want? I said, what are you. What were you hoping for? She said, I don't know. What do you want? I said, what were you thinking? She said, I don't know. What do you want? This is what we're doing about dinner. This is what girls do. And then when you choose something. No, I don't want that. We're going to go through this for a good half hour and then the nickname is going to stop.
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Peter Rosenberg
I don't know if it's a woman thing or a wife thing, but that's like the bane of my existence is the drive home. What do you want for dinner? I don't know. What do you want? I'll make like four suggestions.
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Don Hahn
Nope. No, I don't know.
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Peter Rosenberg
Yeah, and then. And then I'll get. So.
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Don Hahn
Yeah, it's. It's what you wanted. Well, that's what you wanted. Oh, God.
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Peter Rosenberg
Well, what do you want? I'm like, I just laid out and I'll do this too. Listen, I. Give me. Give me a piece of wood. I'll eat it. I'm hungry. All right, Those are the options. I'm basically panning the world. Put whatever.
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Don Hahn
Yeah, they want to go, but they don't know where. And then you go and then you're there and it's like, you order stuff and it's like, yeah, I'm just gonna get a salad. What are you just gonna sell it for? Well, you're the one that wanted to go here. Oh, well. What? Somebody had to make a decision, and.
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Peter Rosenberg
I'm revealing too much here. But I'm on a roll. My head explodes. Then I'll get. We'll decide what to have.
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Don Hahn
We'll go.
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Peter Rosenberg
In the drive home, you know, I was really in the mood for such.
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Rick DiPietro
No, no.
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Peter Rosenberg
Why didn't you say something? Well, you know, I. You. You said no, no, I said you.
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Don Hahn
Wanted to go here, so I just thought that's.
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Peter Rosenberg
I said wood.
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Rick DiPietro
I thought you said spider, which tells you everything.
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Peter Rosenberg
Let's go anywhere. We can go. We can go vegan, anything. You could have. You could have driven me anywhere and I would have eaten it. The world was your oyster. Yeah, but because I didn't read the mind, I'm a bad guy.
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Don Hahn
You're a bad guy. And this is. We're gonna go through this now. My 16 year old and I are gonna go through this until we figure out what we want. And even then, like, it'll just be a back and forth and back and forth of. Of every type of food known to man.
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Rick DiPietro
Where do you think you end up landing?
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Don Hahn
It's a great question. I don't know, honestly, because I have. I haven't. I've only been texting. I have not talked to her today in person, so I don't know where she's at. I got to see where this is going. But it's. This is. This is what happened. So you guys both again. Peter, it's going to be a while for you. But. But, Don, in, you know, four to five years, this will be it. This will be it for you. Alex in Brooklyn. Alex, hello. Yeah.
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Caller
Oh, hey, guys. First time, long time. I have the perfect example that exemplifies the difference between boys and girls. My son. I used to make his lunch every day for seven years straight. He literally ate a salami sandwich, a bottle of water, and a bag of chips.
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Don Hahn
Every day.
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Caller
Seven years straight. Didn't even have to ask him.
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Don Hahn
No.
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Caller
My daughter, I asked her at night. Nya, what do you want for lunch tomorrow? I want to pack everything, so when we get up in the morning, we just keep it moving. Do you want me to make you Mac and cheese? I don't know. Do you want a ham sandwich? I don't know.
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Don Hahn
Yeah.
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Caller
Do you want me to make you raviolis? I don't know. I'm like, nya, can you just tell me what you want? So when we wake up, we could just keep going. I don't know what I want. And you know what I figured out that she doesn't real. She realizes when she wakes up in the morning, she might feel that she wanted something else, but she locked herself into the Mac and cheese. And so in her head, I. Yeah.
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Peter Rosenberg
The best advice I got when I first had kids, you're. You're in good shape. Until they get opinions. Once they get opinions, you're done.
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Rick DiPietro
Well, I've really been told that the. Once the word no kicks in, things really start to change.
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Peter Rosenberg
Give me a piece of wood. I'll eat it. We're in a hurry. Gotta dress the kids for school. We're running late.
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Don Hahn
Yeah.
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Peter Rosenberg
And Nancy will go, marco, which pants do you want? I'm like, why are you asking? Just give him the pants and put them on. But now it's gonna be a whole 30 minute. I'm not sure. Once they get opinions, Peter. So take advantage of it, because my kids have all kinds of opinions.
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Don Hahn
All right, so how about this?
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Rick DiPietro
I love the no opinions right now.
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Don Hahn
It's really good. So how about you guys. Help me out here. What should I do? We got a minute left here. What do you think? And I'll. When I go. When I go see Gracie, I'm gonna say, this is what the guy said. What am I doing?
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Rick DiPietro
What are you in the mood for?
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Don Hahn
I'm. I'm open for anything. I just want to eat.
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Peter Rosenberg
So give me a piece of wood, I'll eat it.
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Rick DiPietro
What's your favorite place that you could choose?
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Don Hahn
I love Mateos. It's time.
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Allstate Representative
That's it.
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Peter Rosenberg
Done.
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Rick DiPietro
Let's go.
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Don Hahn
That's it. Lock that in.
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Rick DiPietro
Lock it in.
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Don Hahn
I'm gonna miss probably the first half of the Nick game.
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Rick DiPietro
It's fine.
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Don Hahn
That's.
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Peter Rosenberg
Cat's not playing.
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Rick DiPietro
I told you the story. That's the story for the first half.
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Peter Rosenberg
You're good.
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Don Hahn
Yeah. All right, well, that's good. You know, you're right. Get back in time for the. For the second half.
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Peter Rosenberg
Catch you up at the halftime, settle.
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Don Hahn
In, and Gracie's happy, right? Isn't that what it's all about? Making your daughter happy? All right, I promise you we won't end up at Mateo's, because, you know, that's how it's gonna go. Anyways, I promise you we will be back tomorrow for sure and have more of this hilarity and everything else. So, guys, see you tomorrow. Thanks for listening to the Don Hahn and Rosenberg podcast. I don't want to know how the sausage is made, man. I just want to know. It's good. Hear more of Don Allen and Peter, weekday afternoon starting at 3 on 8 80, ESPN, the ESPN New York app, and your smart speakers.
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Allstate Representative
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