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Speaker 1: it's gonna go. Obviously Gettleman is going through chemotherapy too.

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Speaker 1: Has that brought you you too? Even I mean obviously

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Speaker 1: for you guys even closer, it helps, you know, we

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Speaker 1: you know, it is what it is. We just gotta

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Speaker 1: And yeah, I have a couple more treatments left. Uh

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Speaker 1: I've had a scan, Uh I'm sharing Hackensack probably about

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Speaker 1: But the next treatment, I'll go down, do the treatment,

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Speaker 1: then I'll come right now. If coach came to you,

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Speaker 1: to you tomorrow, he said, I'd like, say, kick off

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Speaker 1: But thank god, it's pretty simple with huge. You said

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Speaker 1: You know, you just never know. You know, these these

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Speaker 1: People talk about the altitude, and it's it's more Paul

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Speaker 1: And how anxious for you? Now, I've never thought my mind.

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