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Speaker 1: I'm fond. I have a fondness in my heart for

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Speaker 1: the academies. I was I had my appointment to the

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Speaker 1: But um, that was a little detail they left out

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Speaker 1: So that being said, I'll take your questions planned for Thursday.

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Speaker 1: Have you figured out whether the stories are gonna play

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Speaker 1: how much that we haven't We haven't discussed it with

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Speaker 1: happening here in the next forty eight hours. How do

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Speaker 1: we'll just see how it plays out from here. You

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