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Speaker 1: We're talking famous names, and the reason being we were

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Speaker 1: told Todd Woodbridge is coming in. However it wasn't the

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Speaker 1: Todd Woodbridge we expect.

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Speaker 2: This is actually my twenty first Australian Open. I started

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Speaker 2: as a ball kid in two thousand and five. He's

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Speaker 2: outside Woodbridge and there are two Todd Woodbridges here and

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Speaker 2: can often be confused. He calls me the younger, better

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Speaker 2: looking version, but I don't know about that.

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Speaker 1: Fresh from the set of Tipping Point he joined us.

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Speaker 3: Now top wood Bridge.

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Speaker 4: Wow, this is confusing for us Todd Woodbridge today.

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Speaker 3: Guys.

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Speaker 2: Thanks having me not to be confused with twenty two

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Speaker 2: times Grand Slam champion. But here I am.

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Speaker 5: Yeah. So were you named after Todd wood Are you

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Speaker 5: related to Todd Woodbridge? Were you named after him or

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Speaker 5: you just happened to have the name Todd Woodbridge?

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Speaker 3: Not related?

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Speaker 2: I did look on Wikipedia one of his first Grand

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Speaker 2: Slam in ninety one and I was born in ninety one.

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Speaker 3: So maybe your mom and.

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Speaker 5: Dad about the horn for Todd or maybe his Grand

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Speaker 5: Slam win is what got them in the mood exactly.

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Speaker 3: Well, no comment on that, but you are a tennis

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Speaker 3: Tennis is in the blood.

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Speaker 6: As is the Australian Open explained to us what you

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Speaker 6: do each and every January.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, I'm full time at Tennis Australia as a match

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Speaker 2: operations lead, so I'm responsible for delivering the field of

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Speaker 2: play and all aspects on that and yeah, everything that

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Speaker 2: happens on the court to get the play ready for matches.

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Speaker 3: Right, So I was in the condition of the court correct, Yeah, So.

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Speaker 2: The court surface itself and then the court services teams

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Speaker 2: which looks after the like the player services on court,

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Speaker 2: the balls, the drinks and the thousand the ice.

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Speaker 3: Now you met Todd many times. Yeah, yeah, because it's

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Speaker 3: pretty funny.

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Speaker 4: It's very funny.

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Speaker 5: There's something fishy about the Australian Open because I remember

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Speaker 5: working on the coverage and I met the guy who

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Speaker 5: was called the Keeper of the Cups or something, so

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Speaker 5: he looked after the trophies until they were presented to

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Speaker 5: the winners, and I kid, you're not His name was Nadal.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, really that was his first name. And I was like,

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Speaker 4: that's funny. He's like, no, that's actually my name. I'm like, no,

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Speaker 4: it's not. People say to you all the time, that's

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Speaker 4: not your real name. Todd would Bridge.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, there's definitely been a few cases of you know,

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Speaker 2: mistaken identity. I was once received like the players allowance

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Speaker 2: in terms of the food, and that is that is

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Speaker 2: thirteen year old Todd receiving players allowance of food. King

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Speaker 2: of the kids, of the handing out big ms, handing

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Speaker 2: out chocolate bars.

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Speaker 4: They take it off. They let you have it.

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Speaker 3: Now, they let me have it.

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Speaker 2: The supervisors were in on it. They were getting free

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Speaker 2: stuff too, so smart.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, so there's a lot of I love what happens

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Speaker 6: beneath the in the bowls of Melbourne Park or a secrets,

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Speaker 6: you know, interaction with players, you know who are some

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Speaker 6: of your favorites.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, a little bit of interaction with players. Really love

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Speaker 2: how relaxed these younger champions are coming up, like al

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Speaker 2: KaAZ and the Sin are very relaxed. Tight obviously dealt

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Speaker 2: with the champions of the past like Djokovic, Feder more

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Speaker 2: your serious types. But I'm enjoying to see the younger

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Speaker 2: generation how relaxed they are.

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Speaker 1: I do love seeing footage online of when like the

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Speaker 1: big A grade players are refused entricks, they don't have

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Speaker 1: the pass.

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Speaker 3: Sometimes the security don't know who they are.

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Speaker 4: They're very strict.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Federer is here this year and usually he just

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Speaker 2: walks in with his aura, so he doesn't need a past.

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Speaker 3: That's nice. Yeah, and he was fine again this year. Fine,

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Speaker 3: he's not playing Roger. I mean he still looked good

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Speaker 4: Be fair, Yeah, play he did that, didn't Yeah?

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Speaker 3: I could I ask you a technical question about the

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Speaker 3: courts here we go.

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Speaker 6: So you hear on the commentary about how fast a

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Speaker 3: What is the science behind that.

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Speaker 2: I'm not an expert, but it's all sorts of weather

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Speaker 2: factors as well as the paint itself, the acrylic paint.

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Speaker 3: So starting with the courts, they all painted the same way.

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Speaker 4: They're meant to be the same to the outside.

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Speaker 3: They meant to all be the same pace, all.

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Speaker 2: Meant to be the same consistency, which is hard with

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Speaker 2: indoor and outdoor courts. But typically the US Open is

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Speaker 2: the fastest court on the tour, which is okay, we

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Speaker 2: try to go, we go, try and go fast as well,

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Speaker 2: but not as fast as US. But yeah, it's more

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Speaker 2: in the paint, in the acrylics and how the weather

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Speaker 2: plays in on that.

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Speaker 5: So we have a day like the other day where

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Speaker 5: it was forty five degrees here in Melbourne. How hot

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Speaker 5: does it get on that court?

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Speaker 2: We had a reading at seventy two degrees with one

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Speaker 4: Games degrees that if you touched it.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah. Our message, get in fred sauna. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Our message one of my supervisors to bring a dozen

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Speaker 2: eggs and we're going to egg and bacon off.

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Speaker 3: That old onisode slow Cooks.

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Speaker 4: You know what's funny.

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Speaker 5: When I worked at the Australian Open on those really

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Speaker 5: hot days, would always go, let's crack an egg and

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Speaker 5: see if it cracks, and the Australian Open would be.

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Speaker 4: Like, you're not allowed to do that. We were never

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Speaker 4: allowed to.

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Speaker 5: All the things they didn't want us to cover, They

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Speaker 5: never wanted us to do the crack an egg and

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Speaker 5: show people how hot it is.

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Speaker 3: Two degrees of all.

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Speaker 1: The things, as well as as painting the courts net measuring.

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Speaker 1: You need to make sure it's the exact right height

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Speaker 1: every court absolutely yep.

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Speaker 3: What else? Water stocks water well.

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Speaker 2: Part of my remit is the eliminating single use from

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Speaker 2: the player environment. So I was part of the team

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Speaker 2: that got rid of one hundred thousand plastic water bottles

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Speaker 2: in one year, which is great.

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Speaker 3: So now they're in the cap.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we ordered I think it was twenty twenty three

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Speaker 2: we ordered ninety six thousand plastic water bottles, and then

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Speaker 2: twenty twenty four we went to eight hundred.

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Speaker 4: Wow. And so they're all on a straight open water bottles.

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Speaker 3: Correct, all on AO refillable water.

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Speaker 5: They got the old front greens down there or right,

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Speaker 5: we deal with the water drops. But better I have

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Speaker 5: a share in water drop.

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Speaker 3: I think he does. He's got to share in a

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Speaker 3: lot of things, including uniclo.

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Speaker 4: Oh yeah, I know he's Niclet.

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Speaker 3: We're both models.

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Speaker 4: Is he getting a clip of it when I buy

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Speaker 4: a T shirt?

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Speaker 1: You ever thought about rolling out of bubbler? Look at

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Speaker 1: the old school days.

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Speaker 4: They've got them.

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Speaker 3: They've got them on center court for the players.

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Speaker 2: Look we try and go a bit more professional. Right, Hey, hey,

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Speaker 2: we got next year we will put it out there

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Speaker 2: and see what lands.

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Speaker 3: I'll play this bloody tape back next year. Okay, Todd,

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Speaker 3: Now what's your favorite drop zone?

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Speaker 4: Always drop zone for? Thanks Todd um?

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Speaker 6: Yeah?

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Speaker 3: Is that a question?

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Speaker 6: Well?

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Speaker 3: Is it a golf term? Because I think Todd still owes.

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Speaker 2: Me around and at Royal Melbourne.

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Speaker 3: Oh that's what I'm here to collect.

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Speaker 1: Okay, really you guys make a little bit.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, I think given all the references over the years,

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Speaker 2: I think I think maybe he owes me one.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, you deserve that.

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Speaker 3: You know what will hit him up next time he's on.

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Speaker 3: Appreciate it.

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Speaker 4: You have a child, will you know the musty favorite

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Speaker 4: tennis player?

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Speaker 3: Look, definitely not a second.

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Speaker 2: I know the pain it's caused me, so I wouldn't

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Speaker 2: put my child.

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Speaker 1: Todd Woodbridge Junior joining us on the end this morning. Hey,

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Speaker 1: cheers are coming in, Todd.

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Speaker 3: I appreciate it. Thanks for time. Chase and Lauren.

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Speaker 5: Lauren wake up feeling good following them on the socials