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Speaker 1: Welcome to Cracking this morning, a presentation of the Kraken

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Speaker 1: Audio Network, Ken Sports Radio ninety three point three kjr FM.

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Speaker 1: Here's Mike Benton.

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Speaker 2: Moore game road trip on the Horizon. Can the Kraken

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Speaker 2: get rolling? Taking on the winged Wheel? Welcome to Cracking

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Speaker 2: this morning. On a Tuesday, November eighteenth, Mike Benton with

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Speaker 2: you and the Cracking today take on the Detroit Red

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Speaker 2: Wings in their first matchup of the season, a four

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Speaker 2: pm puk drop from Little Caesar's Arena. Ever it fits you,

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Speaker 2: al Kiniski on the call, I'll join you three thirty

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Speaker 2: from Network Central for your pregame show, served up by

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Speaker 2: Union Craken Audio Network. Well the Crack and picking up

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Speaker 2: steam right now eighteen points and to off the pace in.

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Speaker 3: The Pacific Division carried.

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Speaker 2: Right now by the Young and the Red Hot Anaheim Ducks.

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Speaker 2: At this point we have won seven of ten and

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Speaker 2: the Crack and trying to keep pace and a season

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Speaker 2: where they have been turning plenty of heads with a

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Speaker 2: pace as tied for their best start in franchise history.

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Speaker 2: Only the other time they match that twenty twenty two

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Speaker 2: to twenty three, with an output of twenty three points

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Speaker 2: in the first eighteen games, and doing all of this

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Speaker 2: with a lineup in a.

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Speaker 3: State of flux.

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Speaker 2: We will hear from kracken Center, Freddie Gaudreau, back off

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Speaker 2: ir and get you set for this evening's game with

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Speaker 2: a friend of ours from the TV side, Alison Lucan,

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Speaker 2: part of the Krack and Hockey Network for pregame, intermission,

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Speaker 2: postgame or handiwork of course, also on Seattlecraken dot com.

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Speaker 3: She'll join us here in just a bit.

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Speaker 2: Before we get to Freddie Gudreaux and Alison, here's an

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Speaker 2: audio flashbag too last Saturday with a Kraken facing San

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Speaker 2: Jose and matchup number two, previous meeting resulting in a

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Speaker 2: six to one loss and the Kraken looking to deliver

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Speaker 2: some payback.

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Speaker 3: Seattle Back Games.

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Speaker 4: Chandler Stevenson right.

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Speaker 3: Circle center, Fame.

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Speaker 5: Saden Schwartz the back door tap it after Chandler Stevenson

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Speaker 5: went around John Clayberg. Schwartz finishes the play one nothing

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Speaker 5: cracket eleven forty six to play in the first on.

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Speaker 6: Right outlet pass by Alexiak through the neutral zone, cross

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Speaker 6: lights Jenner. Stevenson has a full head of steam going

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Speaker 6: down that right side. He's a left hand and shot.

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Speaker 6: He puts it over the far side of the ice.

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Speaker 6: Worre Schwartz is driving hard than that. Easy tap him one.

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Speaker 3: Up and cracking.

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Speaker 5: Santos eight sets up the buck on the left side.

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Speaker 5: Here's Eklim near side.

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Speaker 7: Cello Brede gook save by.

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Speaker 3: Carlower Bye, oh my, hi wow, but ears on the

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Speaker 3: goal line. Marshmi down low. He sends it up top

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Speaker 7: Right side shot stop the big cat. Adam Larsen all

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Speaker 5: Three fifty five left here in the second it's a

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Speaker 5: two to one Seattle lead.

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Speaker 6: Well, fantastic offense is on pressure by Seattle Maddy Beer.

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Speaker 6: Maddy paneers with some spectacular work below the goal line.

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Speaker 6: He gets it out to Adam Larson from Marchman and

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Speaker 6: Larson steps into a shot, beating the Delkhavic top shelf, his.

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Speaker 3: First of the season.

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Speaker 7: Two one cracker back to the near side, cracking get

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Speaker 5: Stevenson left side tobe it it fur circle.

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Speaker 8: EJ don't town.

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Speaker 3: He's gone.

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Speaker 5: Ellie Golvin in now points and six of his last.

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Speaker 3: Nine to cracking.

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Speaker 5: Go back to back up up.

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Speaker 6: Pair three one a great Son exit from the cracking

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Speaker 6: end of the ice, out the chandler Stevenson. He's got

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Speaker 6: Ellie Tovenan on the scene path one timer. This is

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Speaker 6: three to one cracking.

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Speaker 7: Now al celebrity, he'll shoot that one blocked.

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Speaker 5: In front at of Larsit down to one meat.

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Speaker 3: Ryan Lingert slaps it up the board, Seattle.

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Speaker 9: Toward the.

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Speaker 5: Jaden Schwartz has got two and the Seattle.

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Speaker 7: With three twenty nine to play in regulation.

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Speaker 6: Well, there's that hard work I talked about. This time

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Speaker 6: it's Ryan Lingered in the corner going to battle and

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Speaker 2: Pretty impressive all things considered. Matt Murray was starting goaltender,

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Speaker 2: for his prognosis. The Philip grow Bauer played his best

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Speaker 2: when the cracket needed him the most, turning in a

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Speaker 2: making his return to the lineup in that game, and

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Speaker 2: in Detroit.

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Speaker 4: Got back into it on Saturday night and had five

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Speaker 4: different penalty kills going on, how'd that feel for you?

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Speaker 4: Being out there again?

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Speaker 10: Felt really good to be with that team again.

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Speaker 3: You know.

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Speaker 10: It's uh, I don't know.

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Speaker 8: Sometimes in the season you get into momentum and just

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Speaker 8: really cherish it even more and it makes you realize

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Speaker 8: how special it is to play all key every day

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Speaker 10: So, uh yeah, it gave me.

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Speaker 8: Even a bigger sense of wanting to save her, save

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Speaker 8: it all, and it was it was fun to be there.

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Speaker 4: And overall, obviously first p K, you guys like to

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Speaker 10: Yeah, it's adjustments for sure. Every time.

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Speaker 8: Every day you're trying to get better, trying to tweak stuff.

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Speaker 8: There's a that goal we gave up there is you know,

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Speaker 8: it's again it's just adjustment, learning from it, and that's

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Speaker 8: all you got to keep moving forward with with everything basically,

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Speaker 4: You and Tie obviously not only kill penalties together. You've

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Speaker 4: you may have others. I mean when you have to

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Speaker 8: Uh, you don't really say I want you to do

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Speaker 8: it's just more about Yeah, it's about just staying together,

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Speaker 10: It's been awesome.

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Speaker 8: He brings he brings it every night and he's extremely

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Speaker 4: So but yeah, I know it wasn't much fun to watch,

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Speaker 4: the guys played while you while you were out really good.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, you know, it was fun to watch. It wasn't

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Speaker 8: a it's a fun group. It's really fun to be

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Speaker 6: When you're out, are you are you in film?

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Speaker 3: Are you around the guys as much?

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Speaker 6: What's that process like for you when you're not playing.

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Speaker 8: No, it was just more about getting myself back in

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Speaker 8: watching it on my own. But no, there wasn't. I mean, yeah,

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Speaker 8: we were. We were actually involved in like team meetings.

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Speaker 8: But when the team's at home, we were involved in

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Speaker 10: Yeah, pretty pretty.

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Speaker 6: Do you look at the schedule in chunks or are

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Speaker 6: you more of a game to game guy? And depending

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Speaker 6: of goals for this trip or goals.

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Speaker 8: For tomorrow night. You know, the my wife and my mom,

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Speaker 8: they know my schedule more than me, to be honest,

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Speaker 8: that's just the truth. I I'm just a day to

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Speaker 8: The reality is you get one game to focus on

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Speaker 8: and is the next one. And that's that's about it

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Speaker 3: So what are your personal goals going to the game

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Speaker 8: Just the details, you know, it's I pride myself in

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Speaker 8: it was a month for me, Like I said, you're

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Speaker 2: Joining us now on Cracking this morning. Alison lu Can,

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Speaker 2: great friend of ours. She tells a great story. As usual,

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Speaker 2: I'm back to bez always by the numbers. You can

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Speaker 2: see her of course Crack and Hockey Network pregame in

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Speaker 2: emissions postgame as well her handywork at seattlecrackin dot com.

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Speaker 2: Also one through of the Too Many Men podcast are

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Speaker 2: Hello to Sarah and Shana as well, Alison, A hearty

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Speaker 2: hello to you as well. Thank you for a few minutes.

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Speaker 2: But I mean, what a way to finish off the

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Speaker 2: homestand against San Jose. How'd you feel about these guys

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Speaker 2: walking out of the building after Saturday.

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Speaker 9: Well, first and foremost, thanks for having me, Mike, I

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Speaker 9: appreciate it. Yeah, there's a lot to like about this

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Speaker 9: specifically of the start of the game when San Jose

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Speaker 9: once again tried to do what I thought they did

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Speaker 9: to this team a week ago, where they set the tone,

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Speaker 9: they set the pace, and the Kraken righted the ship

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Speaker 9: and started playing crack and hockey instead. And then Matt

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Speaker 9: response to that adversity with just an absolutely stellar performance,

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Speaker 9: and then that stellar performance is what saves them at

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Speaker 9: the start of the second period when they were basically

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Speaker 9: getting shelled for the first two to three minutes. So

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Speaker 9: seeing those lessons, learning from them, This just continues to

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Speaker 9: be a theme for me under head coach Lane Lambert

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Speaker 9: that this group is buying in. They want to get

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Speaker 9: address the areas that they need to as quickly as possible.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I love you touch on the goaltending part here

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Speaker 2: because this was so important I think for this last

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Speaker 2: week and in context, Joey to Cord could be back

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Speaker 3: Of action, we'll see.

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Speaker 3: Great stuff, Allison.

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