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Speaker 1: Good Modern Melbourne. This is number one hundred. You are

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Speaker 1: on the air with Jason Lauren Clint here as well.

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Speaker 1: Just gone seventeen past seven as we do it thanks

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Speaker 1: to Matra Shell already express.

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Speaker 2: We've got an eighteen year old from Frankston who has

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Speaker 2: been doing the media rounds in America.

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Speaker 1: America.

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Speaker 3: This has gone viral. It's gone virus as much as

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Speaker 3: Taylor Swift new album has gone viral. This has gone

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Speaker 3: viral in America.

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Speaker 2: Really beautiful moment.

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Speaker 3: So who's the kid?

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Speaker 2: His name is Archie Wilson. He's gone to America to

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Speaker 2: play American football as a rookie for Nebraska. So is

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Speaker 2: that college football?

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Speaker 4: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: College college football.

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Speaker 3: When I was in the States, I could not believe haw.

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Speaker 4: Yes.

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Speaker 3: And some of the college football stadiums are bigger than

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Speaker 3: the actual NFL stadium.

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Speaker 2: Yes, and that's where the Aussies are going to cut

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Speaker 2: their teeth before they well in the hope of being

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Speaker 2: drafted into the NFL. Obviously, And Archie is the latest

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Speaker 2: Australian to go over there chasing a dream.

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Speaker 4: Now.

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Speaker 2: He fronted the media eighteen years ok. Can you imagine

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Speaker 2: tender and sweet and eighteen having to do a press.

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Speaker 2: This is a press conference, and he was asked a

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Speaker 2: question about homesickness and how important family is to him,

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Speaker 2: obviously back in Frankston where he grew up. And this

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Speaker 2: is his beautiful response, which is, if you don't cry,

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Speaker 2: there might be something wrong with you.

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Speaker 5: Which you all mentioned your family and how close you

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Speaker 5: are to them. You're living all the way across the

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Speaker 5: world from them. Are you eighteen nineteen or how old

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Speaker 5: are you like being the first time you're away from them?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, thats hard, I mean, I'm sorry. Oh yeah, I

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Speaker 4: love it a lot. Yeah I have. I've got two

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Speaker 4: little brothers and a mom and dad. Yeah, that's the

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Speaker 4: tough part about being here. I love them a lot

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Speaker 4: and I miss them, but it's a I mean, they

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Speaker 4: know this is what's best for me, and it's let's go.

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Speaker 4: I can still talk to them plenty of the phone,

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Speaker 4: and they're coming here to see the first first few games,

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Speaker 4: so I'm looking forward to that.

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Speaker 2: What a beautiful and the parents of that beautiful young

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Speaker 2: man join us now, Lee and Jessica, morning morning.

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Speaker 3: Have we stopped crying yet?

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Speaker 6: He just got us a little bit there.

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Speaker 7: When you play the audio, I.

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Speaker 3: Mean to us, that's Okay, you're strangers, but we've just

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Speaker 3: all fallen in love with your family.

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Speaker 6: He's he's made a lot of tears over the last

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Speaker 6: day or so across the work.

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Speaker 2: How and Jessica, how proud are you in this moment

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Speaker 2: of your boy, not because there of anything he's done

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Speaker 2: on the football field, but because of just his beautiful

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Speaker 2: heart that the world has just has just embraced your son.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, very very He's a basis of seeing that little

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Speaker 6: stippet and what they're experiencing is he's a special kid,

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Speaker 6: extremely focused, but very polite and friendly and obviously emotional,

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Speaker 6: you know, but and that sort of emotion transpires onto

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Speaker 6: his sport and he's he gives one hundred percent of

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Speaker 6: ahead everything he does and even even he's crying, you know,

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Speaker 6: it's quite yeah, but super proud but happy. Like it's

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Speaker 6: obviously that was a hard moment, but there's so many

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Speaker 6: good things going on with this journey that it kind

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Speaker 6: of well balanced up.

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Speaker 1: So most eighteen year olds can be scumbags, guys, Let's

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Speaker 1: be honest, Like, what what a little legend? Hey were

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Speaker 1: you guys watching the press conference live? What did someone

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Speaker 1: see me the clip?

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Speaker 6: We woke up to it, Yeah, because it was like

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Speaker 6: late mill of the night here.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Oh god, you would have been a mess watching

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Speaker 1: it live.

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Speaker 6: Well there's yeah, just watched it on a walk by yourself,

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Speaker 6: and I watched it with the two boys when I

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Speaker 6: got up, and yeah, we we we got we had

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Speaker 6: a big family hugen. Then obviously it was an emotional

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Speaker 6: and then and gathered legs, so it sort of it

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Speaker 6: keeps it going.

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Speaker 3: Guys, how long has he been over there? Because I

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Speaker 3: imagine as a parent, saying goodbye to your eighteen year

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Speaker 3: old son and wishing him all the best and sending

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Speaker 3: him to America to follow his dreams was difficult for

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Speaker 3: you as well? How long has it been since you've

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Speaker 3: seen each other?

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Speaker 7: So we all flew over together as a family the

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Speaker 7: first weekend in June and stayed there for three days

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Speaker 7: with him, and then we flew back and he stayed

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Speaker 7: there pretty much training every day since. So it's been

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Speaker 7: just over two months, just over two Yeah, who.

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Speaker 3: Was more emotional? Were you more emotional leaving him there

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Speaker 3: or him saying goodbye to you?

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Speaker 5: I think it was all.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, we tried, we tried to keep it together because

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Speaker 6: he's some of his coaches and obviously the driver who

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Speaker 6: was taking us to the airport was there, so I

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Speaker 6: kind of stuck around the back of one of the

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Speaker 6: cars and he he came around and found me and

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Speaker 6: we kind of we had a bit of a breakdown,

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Speaker 6: but it's well, it's but he's in such good hands

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Speaker 6: with the people there, and that's why they took us

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Speaker 6: over there, obviously to see the facility, meet everyone and

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Speaker 6: know that, know that where he's going to stay, because

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Speaker 6: they realized how big a deal it is.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, how much do you miss him?

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Speaker 6: A lot?

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Speaker 7: A lot, to be honest, But I message him before

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Speaker 7: I go to bed every night. I message him, and

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Speaker 7: I wake up in the morning and.

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Speaker 6: We chat most days.

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Speaker 7: Have just discussed what he's done to the day. So

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Speaker 7: we probably talk now more more than when he was

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Speaker 7: in the bedroom next to us.

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Speaker 3: And so, what, you're going to go and watch his

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Speaker 3: first game of college football? Is that right?

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Speaker 7: Yeah, that's true.

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Speaker 3: When's that.

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Speaker 6: Two weeks the twenty eighth of Orbit.

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Speaker 7: Our head stadium.

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Speaker 3: Have you watched much college football? It is like enormous.

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Speaker 3: My American friends get more into college football than they

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Speaker 3: do into the NFL.

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Speaker 2: It's unbelievable we are now.

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Speaker 6: Look a year and a half ago, we hadn't. I didn't,

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Speaker 6: I had I think I even watched the game. And

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Speaker 6: then now it's kind of a rall in.

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Speaker 2: I just saw a clip and your boy is on

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Speaker 2: the US version of the Today Show. Yeah, what's that like?

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Speaker 2: Because your world spinning?

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Speaker 6: I've had We've had that much American media contacting over

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Speaker 6: I was up. I was up till two thirty doing

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Speaker 6: something just for a just for like a little local

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Speaker 6: show thing. I guess, just just we're just trying to

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Speaker 6: be good people and everyone wants to talk about it,

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Speaker 6: so we're happy to try and give it a little

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Speaker 6: you know what we can.

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Speaker 1: You know, le Jess, you are good people. You brought

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Speaker 1: up an amazing son. You should be very proud to.

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Speaker 2: Start to the top. Yeah, hey, thanks for joining us

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Speaker 2: this morning.

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Speaker 3: Son from Frankston is the name we all need to watch.

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Speaker 3: I wonder what do you think it like? Do you

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Speaker 3: think he's like missing Mum's cooking, Jess? Is there something

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Speaker 3: in particular besides like the love and affect? Is it

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Speaker 3: Mum's cooking?

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Speaker 4: Is it dad?

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Speaker 3: Is it Dad doing the washing?

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Speaker 2: What is it you love?

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Speaker 6: He loves that five cook steak. We do our weekends

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Speaker 6: cooking big bait. Boy. But but he's got such a

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Speaker 6: great facility over there with the cooking he's got, they've got,

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Speaker 6: they've got thirteen chefs to prepare food for the break.

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Speaker 2: There you goes, I'm happy to come down.

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Speaker 1: I'll I'll take his seat at the dinner time.

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Speaker 3: Mom and Dad's home cooking.

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Speaker 1: Of course, it does good luck for the first game

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Speaker 1: in a couple of weeks, we'll all be watching.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, can I ask you Jason is a father of

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Speaker 2: three boys. I mean that must I was thinking about

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Speaker 2: at the start.

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Speaker 1: I was just like, God, you remember when your kid

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Speaker 1: just says in passing, I love you da you know,

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Speaker 1: and you hold on to that.

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Speaker 3: Lauren, wake up feeling good on the socials.