All right, welcome in.

Welcome back.

Thanks hanging out with us.

It's the Jim Day podcast named after that nerd Jim Day.

Look who we have here today.

Obviously, I love all the Reds, but when you're a local dude and your

Cincinnati Red, we love that anymore, right, people?

The Pride of Northern Kentucky.

Mr. Luke Maley, how you doing?

I'm doing well. I'm doing well. I'm cheating the system, getting all this love and praise

being the local kid, but I'll take it.

No, that is not cheating the system at all. Is it a local kid done well?

I mean, they're not just giving you a gift spot in Major League Baseball. You've got to earn

such things. And it's tougher to stick than it is to get

there. At least I think so. I have a question for you. I have many questions for you,

obviously, but this team, there are, it's probably not, like you say, oh, who's the leader of the team?

They're not going to say one guy. It's going to be a few guys, but you're definitely one of those few guys.

And some might say you're the guy.

Now, and I mean this with all, I mean, I mean this in the most positive way.

A guy in your position, how the heck did this happen?

And maybe that's why I shy away from it so much, because I really don't know. Yeah, you do shy away from it, but it's real. No, I'm serious.

They're drawn to you. You speak with authority. You lead all the meetings mostly. You lead the stuff

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