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Speaker 1: Ian Rapaport your report Power by Chevron, the human Energy

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Speaker 1: ever cleaner energy rap Hey. You know watching Twitter today

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Speaker 1: and it felt like the common narrative out of all

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Speaker 1: the Beat reporters on all the owners down here at

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Speaker 1: the owner's meetings was the owners are looking forward to

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Speaker 1: this eighteenth game.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think the owners are. Now you know how

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Speaker 2: it happens. When it happens, I think we'll see. But

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Speaker 2: you know, what you've sort of seen now is interesting

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Speaker 2: public posturing, and I get it, Like that's sort of

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Speaker 2: what this is about, right you You sort of say

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Speaker 2: what you want publicly and then when it comes down

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Speaker 2: to negotiating, you do the best you can to negotiate

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Speaker 2: the best deal. I think the players are positioning themselves now,

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Speaker 2: especially like we don't need this, So if you want

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Speaker 2: us to have an eight team game, you're going to

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Speaker 2: have to pay for it. The owners are like people

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Speaker 2: like football, it's never enough, so why would we not

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Speaker 2: have an eight team game? And that's you know, my

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Speaker 2: guess is it does happen. But I do think it's

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Speaker 2: going to have to be negotiated, and I think it's

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Speaker 2: going to have to be a big topic, and you know,

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Speaker 2: I don't know that it's going to be maybe as

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Speaker 2: quickly as we thought, especially with the union kind of

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Speaker 2: just catching his breath with a new executive director over

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Speaker 2: the course of the last couple of weeks.

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Speaker 3: Ben, Do you have breaking news on something just real quick? Here?

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Speaker 1: Is that the the NFL allows teams to designate if

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Speaker 1: they got an international game, they're allowed to designate two

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Speaker 1: opponents they prefer not to face, and the forty nine

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Speaker 1: ers have put the Broncos as one of the teams

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Speaker 1: they prefer not to play.

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Speaker 3: Okay, all right, a little bit of breaking news. So

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Speaker 3: we're back back to your fund. Yeah, that will be fun.

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Speaker 2: School when you're like I can't reckon, I can't request

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Speaker 2: a friend to be in my second grade class, but

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Speaker 2: I can say who I do not want to be

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Speaker 2: with me.

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Speaker 3: I'm I'm not going on recess. They're not in the

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Speaker 3: MySpace topic.

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Speaker 2: That's hilarious, but a great thing.

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Speaker 4: Hey, I know this this is a ways off, but uh,

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Speaker 4: maybe look into your crystal ball. So another game. I

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Speaker 4: think we all agree that's what the owners would like

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Speaker 4: to do. Well, what I mean, will there be an

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Speaker 4: extra player or two added? Will there be I mean,

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Speaker 4: when this is all said and done, what does it

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Speaker 4: look like.

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Speaker 2: I don't know that you'll I don't know that you'll

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Speaker 2: need an extra player because what the NFL has done,

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Speaker 2: I think really well over the last couple of years

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Speaker 2: is open up the roster flexibility, so like you can

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Speaker 2: bring up several people from practice squads. You can. You know,

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Speaker 2: teams have taken more and more caution when it comes

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Speaker 2: to injured players because there's more on the practice squad.

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Speaker 2: You have veterans on practice squads, like I think. You know,

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Speaker 2: players are healthier, kickoffs are healthier, like I think. One

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Speaker 2: reason the eighteenth game makes so much sense is because

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Speaker 2: you've gotten to a point where, you know, help wise,

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Speaker 2: the league is in a good place. So I think,

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Speaker 2: you know, could you add another like your shirt? You could,

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Speaker 2: obviously you could, but I don't know that you need

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Speaker 2: need to, especially with most teams. You know, keeping a

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Speaker 2: third quarterback that's like a real guy under contract, like

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Speaker 2: you know, that has helped me dismanageable as well.

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Speaker 5: Hey, Ian George Peyton today talking about JK. Dobbins and

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Speaker 5: how important he is to this team and how great

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Speaker 5: he is in the locker room, and he mentioned that

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Speaker 5: his injury last year was.

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Speaker 3: A freak injury.

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Speaker 5: He insinuated that they're happy with the running back room.

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Speaker 5: A lot of fans and a lot of speculation that

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Speaker 5: it'd be nice if the Broncos could go out and

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Speaker 5: get another running back to add to this room. Do

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Speaker 5: you think they're going to do that in the draft

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Speaker 5: or maybe still sign somebody.

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Speaker 2: That makes sense to me? No, there's other guys in

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Speaker 2: free agency. There are some you know, there's the Austin

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Speaker 2: Echelers of the world. There's Najie Harris, I mean that

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Speaker 2: sort of level. But like, you know, is that going

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Speaker 2: to be better than someone they might give him the

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Speaker 2: third or fourth round of the draft, like not necessarily.

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Speaker 2: You know, it's interesting to me because like, had the

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Speaker 2: Broncos signed Travis etn or Hm as he is, I

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Speaker 2: think everybody would have been excited. So they did and

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Speaker 2: he went to the Saints, and so they signed their

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Speaker 2: next best option, which is JK.

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Speaker 3: Dobbins.

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Speaker 2: So that to me is more like I know, it's

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Speaker 2: not an outside free agent, but it kind of is

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Speaker 2: because it's that level of like high priced, big time

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Speaker 2: running back free agent. So like to me, I felt

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Speaker 2: like they handled kind of like one of their big holes,

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Speaker 2: you know what I mean. And I don't know that

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Speaker 2: they need You always have a commentary back, You have

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Speaker 2: McLoughlin back, like you got some guys you can always add.

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Speaker 2: I just don't know that they need I don't think

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Speaker 2: that they need one as much as maybe some fans.

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Speaker 1: Think that totally wrap the forward at repsheet on Twitter.

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Speaker 1: In the the NFL rolled out kind of the announcement

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Speaker 1: about the the National Flag Football League to put a

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Speaker 1: thirty two million dollar investment in all that kind of stuff,

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Speaker 1: gear it up for a twenty twenty eight sort of launch.

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Speaker 1: As we look at this thing, is this going to

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Speaker 1: be a spring type league or he's going to be

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Speaker 1: privately on franchises?

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Speaker 3: What do we know about this thing so far?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think we're still sort of an infancy. But

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Speaker 2: you know, here's what I know. The NFL is behind it,

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Speaker 2: and some of the biggest voices and faces in the

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Speaker 2: NFL are behind it, star players, big time owners, a

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Speaker 2: lot of investments, So, like, you know, is it going

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Speaker 2: to succeed? I don't know, but it's got a good

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Speaker 2: chance because when the NFL gets behind something, when they

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Speaker 2: put it on TV, you know, obviously you have sort

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Speaker 2: of the NFL media engine pushing things like generally, that

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Speaker 2: means this thing has got a real chance to be good. So,

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Speaker 2: you know, I don't know, but I know that five

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Speaker 2: football seems to be the fastest growing supports. That's what

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Speaker 2: it feels like to me, for boys and for girls

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Speaker 2: and for men and for women. I kind of love

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Speaker 2: it myself. I'm looking forward to seeing where this goes.

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Speaker 4: So last question for me is the owners meeting is underway.

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Speaker 4: What couple of things do you think will be sort

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Speaker 4: of what we remember coming out of this particular owner's

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Speaker 4: meeting when it's done.

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Speaker 2: You know, I don't know that there's a go to

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Speaker 2: rules change them, and you know, skirmish with the referees

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Speaker 3: You know.

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Speaker 2: I don't know that there'll be a big thing. Is year.

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Speaker 2: It seems relative required, there's no tush push, there's no

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Speaker 2: crazy rules change. You know. I think this is where

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Speaker 2: the league kind of has wanted to get to, where

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Speaker 2: it's like steady, just really good. A lot of interest,

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Speaker 2: a lot of reporters, a lot of discussions, a lot

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Speaker 2: of talk from all the gms and coaches, but like

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Speaker 2: not a lot of like earth shaking news because reality is,

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Speaker 2: you get to this point in the year and like

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Speaker 2: this is kind of where it should be with most

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Speaker 2: of the issues essentially resolved and gearing up for the draft.

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Speaker 5: Ian one more question about flag football. Were you surprised

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Speaker 5: and do you think the league was embarrassed that the

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Speaker 5: NFL All Star team out there butts kicked by the

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Speaker 5: USA team. It's kind of to me was like a

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Speaker 5: UFC champion getting knocked out by Jake Paul in a way.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, it's embarrassing.

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Speaker 2: So I don't want to speak for the league, but

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Speaker 2: I personally kind of liked it because like, these are

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Speaker 2: great flag football players, and to me, it would cheapen

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Speaker 2: the sport a little bit if like the NFL guys

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Speaker 2: could just come in and must be really good and

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Speaker 2: no big deal, and then you're like, all right, well

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Speaker 2: you are watching like the guys who can be like,

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Speaker 2: you know, this is a different sport. It's real, it's

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Speaker 2: a big time. It's impressive. I kind of loved it,

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Speaker 2: and it really made me wonder, like as the gear

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Speaker 2: for the Olympics, like, are we sure that it's just

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Speaker 2: going to be our best NFL players playing or is

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Speaker 2: it going to be our best five players playing? So

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Speaker 2: I don't know. I thought it was I thought the

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Speaker 2: whole thing was really cool and I was surprised but

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Speaker 2: very very interested.

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Speaker 1: You and me appreciate the time as always take care

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Speaker 1: of the forward to talk.

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Speaker 2: Do you get so for it to take care of guys?

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Speaker 3: Absolutely,