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Speaker 1: smarts are playing your position about another violent position obviously,

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Speaker 1: looking at stuff on film. Um, just you know, keys

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Speaker 1: Last year you had the first year jitters a little nervous,

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Speaker 1: Last year. We saw what he did people, He raised

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