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Speaker 1: Good morning, James morning. How are you all right? How

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Speaker 1: about you doing okay? Thanks? Do you sit at home

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Speaker 1: and sit in Steward? Do you try to not think

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Speaker 1: about what just happened last night? I mean it's tough,

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Speaker 1: definitely tough Lossum I said, we didn't play our best football.

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Speaker 1: Obviously we know we could have played better. But I

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Speaker 1: gotta move forward. Still got three games and you gotta

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Speaker 1: trying to finish the season now strong. Not trying to

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Speaker 1: get you in trouble with anything about the refs, but

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Speaker 1: just in the game where there are multiple plays. You know,

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Speaker 1: I think every game there's probably one where you say

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Speaker 1: I probably should have been the other way we got

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Speaker 1: We gotta move on from it. But when it's multiple plays,

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Speaker 1: including a scoring play, how do you guys kind of

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Speaker 1: just move on to the next play? No one that

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Speaker 1: you probably you know they probably screwed something up. A man,

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Speaker 1: it could be tough, but you gotta be able to

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Speaker 1: move forward. It happens sometimes in football. You just gotta

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Speaker 1: be at them, make enough plays and do whatever you

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Speaker 1: can to try and win the football game. Sometimes things

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Speaker 1: are gonna go your way. He's gotta figure things out.

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Speaker 1: We've been talking a lot sort of about the inefficiencies

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Speaker 1: of the offense, and I'm just wondering, at this point

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Speaker 1: in the year, how frustrating that is and where you

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Speaker 1: see the light at the end of this tunnel. I

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Speaker 1: think we all know we're capable of doing it. I

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Speaker 1: think it's just all about us going out there and

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Speaker 1: doing it consistently each and every drive. Just playing complimentary

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Speaker 1: football with the defensive special teams. They've been playing good

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Speaker 1: for us all year long. We've had our spots, but

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Speaker 1: I think we just had to be more consistent. And

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Speaker 1: can you point to anything in particular or is it

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Speaker 1: different every week? You talk about consistency, but it's there

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Speaker 1: something you say, Man, if we were doing this better,

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Speaker 1: we'd be okay, honestly, we could do everything better. Honestly,

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Speaker 1: it's not just one thing and running the football, running

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Speaker 1: the football, you know, running rounds better, giving Tom more

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Speaker 1: time in the pocket, communic game betters, it's a little

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Speaker 1: bit of everything. We just gotta go out there and

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Speaker 1: do it. What's it like in a huddle when they

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Speaker 1: call the play that you're going to be throwing it.

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Speaker 1: What's going through your head at that point? Make the

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Speaker 1: right decision and throw a good ball. It was a

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Speaker 1: great play call by Josh to kind of start the

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Speaker 1: series off and that we needed that type of play

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Speaker 1: to kind of get the drive going. Is there any

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Speaker 1: thought to like take the glove off or you used

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Speaker 1: to throwing the glove off, like you're it's easy for

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Speaker 1: me to throw the par I've got a little hands.

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Speaker 1: So what's your history with with that in terms of

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Speaker 1: both in practice? How much have you thrown? Do you

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Speaker 1: usually hit it or if there been some ugly ducks

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Speaker 1: I can throw. I always play been confident throwing the football.

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Speaker 1: So they let me do it. I'll go out there

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Speaker 1: and execute it. You get a little excited when you

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Speaker 1: hear the call. You're a little excited and nervously right, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean all you can do is throw it. You

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Speaker 1: gotta make sure he catches it, right, Yeah, So how

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Speaker 1: does that work? Do they at practice take all the

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Speaker 1: running backs. They're like, all right, you're all gonna throw it.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna see we're gonna eliminate some guys right away

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Speaker 1: from this or like how did they know that you

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Speaker 1: could throw? I think they just know. Yeah, they see it,

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Speaker 1: like this guy's got this guy, this guy, guy, you're

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Speaker 1: there all right, he enough looking for that opportunity a

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Speaker 1: little more often. It sounds like wow, yeah, uh, you

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Speaker 1: talked about needing to execute more on the offense. Is

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Speaker 1: like if we can just get a drive or a

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Speaker 1: why haven't you been able? I think it's starting off

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Speaker 1: to drive well, good drive starters, and then you just

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Speaker 1: consistently make good plays, maybe get a chunk play here

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Speaker 1: and there, and then you score. Then everybody has confidence.

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Speaker 1: You come back out there, have a good another, good

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Speaker 1: drive starters, just trying to do things well over and

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Speaker 1: over and over again. And then we played good teams.

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Speaker 1: You just had to be able to do that. One

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Speaker 1: guy we haven't seen at all is Damian Harris. How's

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Speaker 1: he looking practice week to week? Does he look like

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Speaker 1: he could play in this league? He's working hard, obviously.

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Speaker 1: I mean it's not easy to be in a position

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Speaker 1: he's in. I was in the same spot pretty much

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Speaker 1: the exact same spot. It's him my rookie year. He

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Speaker 1: just gotta practice hard, hit the way it's hard, stay

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Speaker 1: in condition because you honestly never know, with injuries and

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Speaker 1: your numbers are gonna get called. So he's been working

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Speaker 1: hard and like I said, if it's opportunity every possessiself

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Speaker 1: this year, I know he'll be ready to go. Coming

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Speaker 1: off the field at halftime, the crowd was booing, you

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Speaker 1: guys pretty good, something that has not happened much throughout

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Speaker 1: your entire career. What were you thinking when you heard that?

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Speaker 1: I mean, obviously we just know we had to play better.

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Speaker 1: I mean, they're into the games as much as we are,

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Speaker 1: and obviously we weren't playing well. So that just comes

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Speaker 1: with sports, I mean, and he just gotta The fans

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Speaker 1: have their their way of assuring their emotions. Bill emphasized

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Speaker 1: to us in his postgame press rooms a couple of

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Speaker 1: times that he was proud of the fight, and I

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Speaker 1: think he used the phrase that that fight to the

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Speaker 1: finish will serve you well moving forward. But from my perspective,

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Speaker 1: I almost assume you guys are going to fight to

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Speaker 1: the finish, that that's been proven over the years. But

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Speaker 1: do you believe in that any any moral victories even

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Speaker 1: though you didn't get the real victory. I think we

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Speaker 1: all know no matter what the scores of the game,

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Speaker 1: we have guys in the locker room, we're going to compete,

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Speaker 1: whether we're down twenty one up twenty one down seven.

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Speaker 1: I think everybody's gonna fight. And I said, when you're

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Speaker 1: playing in tough football games like that, sometimes, I mean,

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Speaker 1: some guys can get discouraged, but our team does and

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Speaker 1: we're gonna keep fighting to do whatever we can to

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Speaker 1: put ourselves in position to win the game. I thought

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Speaker 1: everybody did the best they could to put our team

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Speaker 1: in position to do that. Does that leadership start at

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Speaker 1: the quarterback position, it's everywhere. I think everybody in our

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Speaker 1: if we execute enough, we can put sales. I'm sensing

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Speaker 1: to win the football game. Everybody's kind of vocal on

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Speaker 1: the sideline, trying to keep everybody in the right mindset

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Speaker 1: and knowing that one player could change the game. Defense

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Speaker 1: can get a turnover or block punt like we had

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Speaker 1: and then boom, we're right back in. And so it's

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Speaker 1: gotta be out there and confident at every moment. Last year,

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Speaker 1: there's two shootouts against Kansas City regular season and postseason.

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Speaker 1: This one a lower scoring game, very aggressive on defense.

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Speaker 1: What's different about them defensively from last year to this year.

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Speaker 1: I may have a different coordinator, and I mean they

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Speaker 1: have different ways of trying to stop us and things

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Speaker 1: a little bit. I'm not gonna see too much of

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Speaker 1: the same stuff. They're gonna kind of let things roll.

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Speaker 1: So it's all about reading stuff out after the ball

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Speaker 1: snapped and going out their execution. You're obviously a leader

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Speaker 1: in the running back room, a captain on this football team,

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Speaker 1: and you have a guy next to you and Sony Michelle,

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Speaker 1: who was a big reason you guys won a Super

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Speaker 1: Bowl a year ago. Scuffling a little bit, I think

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Speaker 1: get five carries for eight yards, didn't play a ton.

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Speaker 1: Is he a guy that you reach out to as

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Speaker 1: a leader. Does he need that pad on the back?

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Speaker 1: How does he deal with this that's going on? I mean,

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Speaker 1: he's he's a good football player. Um, Like I said,

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Speaker 1: he might not have had success out there on Sunday

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Speaker 1: and whatnot, but it's not completely all his fault. He's

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Speaker 1: running hard. I mean sometimes us is running backs not

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Speaker 1: reading things right and sometimes just not finishing blocks things

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Speaker 1: that nature. Like I said, it's just a combination to everything.

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Speaker 1: And when we go down, we have to throw the

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Speaker 1: ball a little bit more. So that kind of me

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Speaker 1: kind of could be the reason why he wasn't in

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Speaker 1: there as much so. But he's confident in his abilities,

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Speaker 1: and I know that guy. He's he works extremely hard

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Speaker 1: and he never gets down with himself, and he's always

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Speaker 1: has a positive mindset. So I mean he's gonna keep

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Speaker 1: working in. I mean those big games going to come.

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Speaker 1: On the telecast yesterday, they showed a photo of Tom

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Speaker 1: Brady paying off his bet and having to stand as

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Speaker 1: part of the Ohio thing. Did you have a bet

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Speaker 1: for the Ohio State game this weekend? I did not.

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Speaker 1: I did not. Lacking confidence, I'm not a better I say,

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Speaker 1: halftime though, you look good? Yeah, just the second half

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Speaker 1: was him. Yeah, I got away played a dirty trick

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Speaker 1: on him. Second. Let's tell well, we appreciate the time

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Speaker 1: as always. Can I ask real quick, can you go

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Speaker 1: buy sweet feet? And I see on Instagram a lot

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Speaker 1: of shoes. Um, I just happened to look down. Um

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Speaker 1: are those purple snow boots? No, they're not purple, They're okay,

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Speaker 1: the light, I thought you were wearing purple snow boots

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Speaker 1: in here. I was gonna say, wow, you really just

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Speaker 1: go a fashion extreme. You won't even purple many bears

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Speaker 1: of shoes? Do you have too many? Is there such

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Speaker 1: a thing as too many? James? Thank you, we appreciate it. No, bro,