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Speaker 2: the stealing of this statue of Saint Patrick, okay, which

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Speaker 1: Awesome, awesome stuff. I would imagine that something like this

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Speaker 2: Yeah. It honestly, as soon as the parade is steps

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Speaker 2: But you're right, it takes, you know, it takes six

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Speaker 1: You mentioned making it better each and every year. You

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Speaker 2: You know, this this parade was at one point one

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Speaker 1: When you think of a parade, I think at different

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we're gonna have about right now, we're looking about

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Speaker 2: So the whole the parade is downtown at the banks

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's it's so rewarding from a parade standpoint to

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Speaker 1: To have you made this yars announcement yet or is that?

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Speaker 2: Well, it's funny you asked that because I have a

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Speaker 1: Wow? Yeah, absolutely, let's go. Let's do it.

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Speaker 2: And just to be clear, we have verified with your

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Speaker 2: Anything else is uh, you'll you will be leading all

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Speaker 1: Well, I'm I am extremely, extremely thankful. We shouldn't make

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Speaker 2: We've got him twice one.

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Speaker 1: Per year is good. This will be good for the

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Speaker 1: rest of the year. Chris, Honestly, that's awesome. I am

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Speaker 1: uh I mean, honestly, you you run the names of

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Speaker 1: That is Chris Shalty. This is since he three to sixty.

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Speaker 1: Thanks a lot. Austin. Now I should have known because

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