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Speaker 1: Welcome to this League Uncut rule of twenty four hour

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Speaker 1: NBA News.

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Speaker 2: This's you, Chris Haynes.

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Speaker 1: It's so time, work's time, it's some time. This League

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Speaker 1: Uncut is underway and on fire. This should be a

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Speaker 3: Hey everyone, We've got a special edition of This League

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Speaker 3: Uncut for you today. Chris Haynes and me Mark Stein

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Speaker 3: joined by Nick's forward Julius Randall. We talk about Randall's

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Speaker 3: bid for a third All Star appearance as a Nick,

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Speaker 3: the impact of the Ognna Nobe trade in New York.

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Speaker 3: We also, of course talk about left handedness, one of

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Speaker 3: my favorite subjects. We caught up with Julius last Friday

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Speaker 3: on the day after the Knicks loss in Dallas, his hometown,

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Speaker 3: but he and rebounded sufficiently by that point. We might

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Speaker 3: have even gotten a Tom Thibodeaux impression out of mister Randall.

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Speaker 3: Great visit with him here, Let's get right to it.

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Speaker 4: Yes, indeed, another special edition of This League Uncut featuring

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Speaker 4: Mark Stein and myself, Chris Haynes. Very special guests, very

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Speaker 4: special guests, and first time he's coming on on this podcast,

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Speaker 4: and I want to welcome him in New York. Knicks

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Speaker 4: star Ford Julius Randall and he's in line to make

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Speaker 4: another All Star appearance this year. This All Star Game

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Speaker 4: will be in Indianapolis this year, and the Knicks having

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Speaker 4: a tremendous season. They made a big mid season trade

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Speaker 4: and look like they're about to pick up a little

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Speaker 4: bit more steam. But Julius, man, thank you man for

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Speaker 4: coming on, brother, And I know you took a it

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Speaker 4: was a tough loss last night. So how y'all holding up?

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Speaker 5: Man?

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Speaker 6: It's good, It's good, Chris. You know how to season go. Man,

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Speaker 6: it's eighty two games. It's ups and downs. You know,

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Speaker 6: you win games you shouldn't, lose some you shouldn't, but

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Speaker 6: you know, just gotta stay even.

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Speaker 4: But yes, sir as, I'm always I want to get

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Speaker 4: into some hoops chat. Definitely, there was something I always

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Speaker 4: wanted to ask you. I never got to ask you this.

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Speaker 4: When people ask me who's one of the most underappreciated

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Speaker 4: players in the game, you first one comes to mind.

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Speaker 4: The reason I say this is because I feel like

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Speaker 4: your game. Your game gets criticized so much because you

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Speaker 4: have a skill set that if you put your skill

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Speaker 4: set on somebody else that's six ' nine, but they

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Speaker 4: might be two hundred pounds. Nobody will say anything but

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Speaker 4: the fact that you you can play inside outside, and

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Speaker 4: you know you're physically you know, physical wise, you're probably

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Speaker 4: more physical imposing than most players we have in this league.

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Speaker 4: I think that people think that you should just play

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Speaker 4: that way all the time when you have an overall

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Speaker 4: skill set. So when people are trying to critique your game, like,

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Speaker 4: is that something you like? Do you feel like you're

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Speaker 4: unfairly criticized? But just how you know, how you do

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Speaker 4: play the game. I mean, I mean, criticism is just

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Speaker 4: a part of you know what I mean. I think

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Speaker 4: for me, I'm just under a different microscope being here

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Speaker 4: playing for the Knicks. You know, being in New York,

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Speaker 4: the microscope is just way different, you know what I mean.

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Speaker 4: I've been with the Lakers, but that was like start

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Speaker 4: So I was just funny. I was talking to one

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Speaker 4: can have a great game, you can have a bad game.

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Speaker 6: He's like, you still don't get critiquedos that you could

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Speaker 6: Like I think for me, I don't focus on the man,

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Speaker 6: to be honest with you, Chris, Like I always focus

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Speaker 6: development is what I look at. You know, when I

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Speaker 6: I've developed that, you know, So that was the critique.

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Speaker 6: It's funny that was the critique when I first got

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Speaker 6: what I mean. It's now you shoot too many threes

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Speaker 4: Yeah, And I just think that's just that's why I

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Speaker 4: Like who doesn't want to be somebody who could bring

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Speaker 5: It's like they criticized for making the right place.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, for sure, I'm glad you brought that up, because

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Speaker 3: I'm actually curious about this. I've lived myself in Dallas

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Speaker 3: Dallas is supposedly a big place. But I gotta say,

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Speaker 3: I came here from LA and I don't know. I

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Speaker 3: but it's a small place. It seems like in Dallas

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Speaker 3: all the time that never happened in La. You grew

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Speaker 6: It's a lot brighter just based off of the simple

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Speaker 6: fact that, like our fans living out every game, you

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Speaker 6: I got to Kentucky, one of the things Coach Kyle says,

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Speaker 6: every game you play here, you know, it's gonna be

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Speaker 6: the super Bowl for the other team, you know what

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Speaker 6: I mean, Just the competition level on what it brings

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Speaker 6: Especially I remember being an opposing player going into the

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Speaker 5: You're on the opposing team, you know what I mean.

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Speaker 6: So it's like you got that aspect of it, but

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Speaker 5: They want to win every game.

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Speaker 6: They hungry, you know, they just got the hunger here

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Speaker 6: and why So it's I mean, that's that's just really

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Speaker 3: Can anything prepare you for that? Or do you basically

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Speaker 6: I mean, I don't know, I can't speak for anybody else,

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Speaker 5: And I think.

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Speaker 6: Based off of like who your person like, what your

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Speaker 5: You know.

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Speaker 6: I've been in the garden and got booged, you know.

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Speaker 6: And I've been in the garden and got MVP checks,

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Speaker 6: you know. But for me, it's not about either one

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Speaker 5: For me, that just reminds me to focus on the process,

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Speaker 6: Daily grind, what I'm putting into it every day even more,

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Speaker 4: And your game is taken off since becoming a New

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Speaker 4: and you know, I know you want to add to

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Speaker 2: What does it mean for you Julius too?

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Speaker 4: Again, I would probably say most people probably don't flourish

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Speaker 4: off you found yourself. You found yourself there. What would

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Speaker 4: it mean to you to get another All Star spot

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Speaker 5: It's great, you know.

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Speaker 6: For me, this is all when it comes to that,

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Speaker 6: that's all about career and that's that's a legacy.

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Speaker 5: But more importantly, just.

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Speaker 6: You know, when I had the opportunity five summers ago

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Speaker 6: you know, I wanted to you know, establish myself as.

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Speaker 5: You know, one of the great Knicks. You know.

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Speaker 6: I wanted to be a part of that tradition and

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Speaker 6: just you know, for establishes that, which is great. But

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Speaker 6: ultimately that's not what it's about for me, you know.

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Speaker 6: I mean it's for me that's you know a part

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Speaker 6: I enjoyed. I enjoyed. My son he probably enjoyed more

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Speaker 2: You can make it.

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Speaker 4: I'm looking at you guys, as you know, you guys's

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Speaker 2: I mean you're a win.

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Speaker 4: I mean, yeah, you're a win away from you know,

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Speaker 4: You Jalen Brunson, are definitely taking this team to another level.

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Speaker 4: And then you just picked up og and know me

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Speaker 4: think there's a bona fide case why the Knicks should

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Speaker 2: Is there a reason why that shouldn't be the case.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean feel like that should have been the

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Speaker 6: Uh, to be honest, like JB was hooping last year,

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Speaker 6: definitely like I feel like it definitely should and could

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Speaker 6: we just go out every night, I think even more

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Speaker 6: than last year. Like me and JB, like we bring

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Speaker 6: you know, I know that I got somebody that you know,

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Speaker 6: to help us get wins. You know, that's the most

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Speaker 6: important thing, you know for us both getting the leaders

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Speaker 6: can't be slacking on your shit. You gotta be working,

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Speaker 6: putting the time in. We both like in a sense

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Speaker 3: That was a miss on my part that I didn't

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Speaker 6: I mean, it's just one of those things that never

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Speaker 3: So I love to champion the lefties because there every year,

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Speaker 3: I do it like the All Star Game. Two in

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Speaker 3: But you know, I like to I liked in it.

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Speaker 3: Every August is International left Handers Day, so on International

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Speaker 2: Who you got bonus?

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Speaker 3: The two guys from the Knicks, Zion James harden All

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Speaker 4: Hold on you as you asked the wrong questions. Ask him,

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Speaker 2: Just making sure no I talked.

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Speaker 4: I talked about when you brought up growing up around

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Speaker 4: Uh who was that for you? Who was that guy that.

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Speaker 2: You were saying? Man, he he put me on the

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Speaker 4: Since you offered it. Give me both, Give me both. Man,

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Speaker 4: It's all a learned experience.

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Speaker 6: I had some great bets. I had some great bets.

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Speaker 5: It's going fast, and.

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Speaker 6: I look up, now I'm in year ten, you know

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Speaker 6: FAF I had the bad ones. Gonna talk about the

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Speaker 5: That make you not take this so serious all the time.

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Speaker 5: Technically like I'm a fat now, but he o g

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Speaker 3: So the trade has obviously been great for you guys.

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Speaker 6: I mean it's really just opened things up, to be honest,

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Speaker 4: Jus, can you give me your best Tom Thibodeau impression

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Speaker 5: He'd be like, Man, what the fucker we doing? What

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Speaker 3: Man, I was so lucky last night I had. I

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I love to. I love too because yeah, he

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Speaker 2: Well, Julius, I'm going to let you go. Stan Do

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Speaker 3: Stun Well, I just wanted to ask one last thing

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Speaker 6: Yeah, accurate, very accurate. Like I said, you guys asked

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Speaker 5: So I definitely think I'm more comfortable than I ever had.

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Speaker 4: That's what's up. Well, Juliet, I appreciate you brought much

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Speaker 4: success moving forward. Man, I hope to see you and

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Speaker 2: You want that bad as soon as you want that bad.

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Speaker 2: You didn't come in last. You didn't come in last.

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Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah, that was the last of entry, right, what what, Julie.

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Speaker 2: I appreciate you, brother, my success man. Thank you for

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Speaker 2: coming on. Man.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, thanks for the time. Thanks Tomil.

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Speaker 2: I appreciate y'all.

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