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he's on his way in to the main studio here. We will have a friend of the show.

We do not have guests on the show.

I was told years ago by a program director, when you do an overnight show, you do not have

guests. You're on overnights. So we will not have a guest. We will have a friend of the show,

a good man, a guy who played in the Super Bowl. He's lived the life, and I've told him this to his face, so I'm not talking about his back.

He's lived the life, like so many of these NFL players want to live.

There's a lot of debate about Rob Grancowski retiring if Gronkowski retires from the Patriots after the Super Bowl.

The assumption is he's going to go into acting.

He's going to go down that road and professional wrestling.

And if he had about 10% of the career of Fred Dreyer has had in Hollywood,

Gronk would be lucky because it doesn't usually work out this way.

Fred Dreyer is very fortunate.

He's good at what he does and he was able to cross over to Hollywood.

He's still working.

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