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Speaker 1: Pladies and gentlemen, Welcome to another episode of The Bus

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Speaker 1: with the Boys Spring Tour. We are sitting here with

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Speaker 1: Coach Kelly, Coach Electrostack to have you on. But first

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Speaker 2: EV's for everyone. Yeah, I'm everywhere everywhere. You're into EV's.

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Speaker 2: I have an EV you're going green.

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Speaker 3: I have an EV. I don't know if I'm green.

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Speaker 3: But these evs man, they can move. They came out

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Speaker 3: of traffic.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, there's no question. Way what a pleasure is that good?

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Speaker 2: It is appreciate. It's been awesome.

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Speaker 4: Your staff everyone, we've we've been talking about it. Super accommodating.

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Speaker 2: Well, they're scared of you guys, whole.

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Speaker 4: Afraid of schools might not be then if that's how

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Speaker 4: it works, that if if all the places as far

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Speaker 4: as accommodation goes, I would give number one in Nebraska because.

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Speaker 1: I don't know what it is this year.

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Speaker 4: This year we've known Nebraska, Michigan. Yeah, we went to

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Speaker 4: Tennessee because they're in the backyard. We've gotten to know

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Speaker 4: South Carolina a little bit. But this year we kind

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Speaker 4: of like stepped out and tried to going to new

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Speaker 4: schools and everything like that. But your guys, is like

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Speaker 4: the accommodation, how the hospitality here is othern hospitality.

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Speaker 3: If we didn't do it that way it listen, we'd

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Speaker 3: be thrown out of the South.

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Speaker 2: Yes, question, I agree.

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Speaker 1: Louisiana isn't really like Louisiana is its own entity. Like

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Speaker 1: there's the South and there's Florida and.

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Speaker 2: Louisiana own country. Yeah, no doubt. What was the.

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Speaker 1: Experience like getting acclimated to here being in Notre Dame for.

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Speaker 3: So long, Well, it was definitely a change, but it

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Speaker 3: was it was a great change for me in a

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Speaker 3: sense of you know, you're in you know, you're in

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Speaker 3: the Midwest. You know it's certainly Notre Dame was a

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Speaker 3: great experience, But this is so much different relative to

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Speaker 3: the day to day. As you can see, I'm a

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Speaker 3: lot more relaxed. I don't have my tie on today.

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Speaker 3: It's just a relaxed, comfortable environment. And you know, it's

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Speaker 3: about people, it's about food, it's about football, and at

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Speaker 3: the time in my career, this was just a great

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Speaker 4: What you've been at Cincinnati, Notre Dame now LSU as

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Speaker 4: a head coach. What stuck out about this job that

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Speaker 4: made you leave Notre Dame in the middle of playoff implications?

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Speaker 4: Obviously when you left that was a monster story. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: you kind of talk about that a little bit.

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Speaker 3: Well, I think that's overblown a little bit. We weren't

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Speaker 3: where we were going to be in terms of that.

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Speaker 3: But that's neither here nor there. I think what's most

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Speaker 3: important was LSU and the leadership Scott Woodward. I had

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Speaker 3: known Scott for quite some time, familiar with him, certainly

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Speaker 3: wanting to be in the SEC look guys to to

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Speaker 3: hear I know, but look, I mean you're talking about

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Speaker 3: Saban and smart, and you know, the great teams in

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Speaker 3: to a university that had slipped from its standards, you know,

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Speaker 4: Well made it the most difficult leaving Notre Dame, and

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Speaker 3: Other players, it's the players, you know, It's always about,

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Speaker 3: that's always the most difficult because, look, you never leave

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Speaker 3: on your term. It's always somebody else that dictates the timeline.

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Speaker 3: I don't dictate the timeline. It's it's the other school.

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Speaker 3: It's the other university that dictates timeline. So you never

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Speaker 3: And so that's what makes it difficult. And every stop

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Speaker 3: along the way that I've left, it's never been a

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Speaker 1: Talk about the development of football in high school in

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Speaker 1: the South, because it seems like programs like Alabama, programs

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Speaker 2: Always like, what are they feeding them? What's going on?

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Speaker 3: Lack of distractions, right, you know, they're not sitting in

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Speaker 3: They're outside playing for the most part, and you know,

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Speaker 3: it's something that you know they can do year round.

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Speaker 3: The weather obviously has a lot to do with it,

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Speaker 3: really good feeder systems relative to you know, colleges that

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Speaker 3: lot of state universities that have that. Right, maybe Ohio

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Speaker 3: State and LSU benefit the most from in state where

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Speaker 3: I want to go play for the buck guys I

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Speaker 2: And because of that, it makes for really good recruiter.

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Speaker 4: You do feel it walking around, like when we were

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Speaker 4: walking around and seeing Mike the Tiger and then kind

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Speaker 4: you just feel everybody walk around, kids are on field trips,

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Speaker 4: like it just feels like people live for sports at LSU.

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Speaker 3: And look, I mean, and it couldn't probably come together

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Speaker 3: any better. Right Our baseball team's number one in the country,

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Speaker 3: I mean, it is about not just one sport here.

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Speaker 3: It's all of those sports are looking to win championships

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Speaker 3: and you can feel it, and look, the bar is high,

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Speaker 3: you know, and because of that, I think it brings

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Speaker 1: Yeah, obviously keeping the players in Louisiana. Everybody from Louisiana

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, I don't know that it so I'll

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Speaker 3: the first two weeks when I took the job, how's

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Speaker 3: he going to adapt to the culture? How's he going

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Speaker 3: to adapt? So what is culture? Culture is standards, you know,

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Speaker 3: a way of life. And to me, what you had

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Speaker 3: the foods. I love the food. I'm originally from Massachusetts.

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Speaker 3: here it was great to get back to that kind

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Speaker 3: really just about, you know, being comfortable with the standards,

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Speaker 3: and the standards are about excellence, and I think that

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Speaker 4: Having a little fun and talking about getting acclimated to

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Speaker 4: the culture. In that first couple of weeks, we again

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Speaker 4: having fun. In those first couple weeks, you went to

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Speaker 4: a basketball game, the accent is family. How much fun

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Speaker 4: you try to fake an accent to say fames?

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Speaker 3: Oh, I mean, who would, Like, that's the stupidest thing

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Speaker 2: I think I would try to do that.

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Speaker 1: Would I would try to do it every single day.

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Speaker 3: When you have a Boston accent, I mean, and you're

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Speaker 3: you're going to be all messed up anyway, And and

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Speaker 3: I think I have a bit of a strange accent anyway,

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Speaker 3: So add another one.

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Speaker 2: I think it's it's it's crazy anyway.

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Speaker 1: So so you're claiming we routed the system a little bit,

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Speaker 1: you're thrown off. I mean a lot of people from

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Speaker 1: it too. We people in Nashville, they start talking Southern

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Speaker 2: I started people, and you start hearing family.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean it's almost like that's natural, that's how

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Speaker 3: you say it. And I'm just trying to be like

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Speaker 3: everybody else. And then throw your boss that accent in

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Speaker 3: there too, And heck, I couldn't tell you what's coming

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Speaker 1: Little boss ocasion, Yeah, little boss, Yeah, You've had so

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Speaker 1: much success as a head coach. I remember twenty twelve,

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Speaker 1: there's a lot of talk and speculation about you leaving

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Speaker 1: Notre Dame and going to the NFL, and you decided

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Speaker 1: not to do that. What came into that decision making

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Speaker 1: of wanting to stay in the college football.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think it was the decentralization of the pro game,

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Speaker 3: like the old kind of Bill Parcells quote, you know,

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Speaker 3: the time that I would have been going, I would

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Speaker 3: have been not handling the roster. I would not have

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Speaker 3: been the GM. I would have been simply the football coach.

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Speaker 3: And I've been used to handling the scholarships and making

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Speaker 3: when you go to the NFL, you lose a lot

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Speaker 3: of that control. And not that I'm a control freak,

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Speaker 3: as much as I just felt like I had all

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Speaker 3: to give all that up, and I just wasn't ready

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Speaker 1: Do you think there's ever a time you see yourself

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Speaker 1: becoming an NFL head coach?

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Speaker 2: No, I'm all in, yeah, this is it.

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Speaker 3: I love what I do because I've refound the if

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Speaker 3: that's a word, the relationships with the players, and I

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Speaker 3: enjoy that too much. And you know, not being a

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Speaker 3: to sit in those long meetings, so I can be downstairs,

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Speaker 3: I could be in the training room, I can eat

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Speaker 3: with the guys, and it just allows you that opportunity

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Speaker 3: to be with the players more.

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Speaker 4: What does that scalability look like? Because you could be

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Speaker 4: a head coach who's very invested in offense or defense

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Speaker 4: or everything else, and when you've kind of scaled yourself

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Speaker 4: to surround yourself with these minds around you, like, what

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Speaker 4: does that look like?

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Speaker 2: Fix football?

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Speaker 3: I mean, fix the issues that the coordinators need help with.

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Speaker 3: I've been on both sides of the ball. I've been

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Speaker 3: It's got to be Yeah, I don't know that the

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Speaker 2: Know, I got seven on seven to do.

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Speaker 3: I've got to script these you know, plays and team

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Speaker 3: so that was trying to find that niche early on

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Speaker 1: When these guys from high school are coming into college.

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Speaker 1: What are the pillars that you stand on as far

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Speaker 3: Yeah, consistency and approach in terms of of the day

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Speaker 3: And really working on what are those things that will

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Speaker 4: I know. We have to let you go here soon

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Speaker 4: because you're about to go to a sports a sports

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Speaker 3: Yeah, So my job is to put together in this

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Speaker 3: building a high performance team for our student athletes, right,

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Speaker 3: But we want it to be collaborative, right, We want

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Speaker 3: that delivery system for human performance, and sometimes they're all

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Speaker 1: I love that which We appreciate your time. Thanks, amazing facility.

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Speaker 1: Everything is top nauseating. We are in the hospitality.

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Speaker 3: Is great to spend some time with you guys. We

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Speaker 3: look forward to seeing it in the fall.

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Speaker 4: Ye yes, we would love that to a night game,

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Speaker 2: It lives up to the hype. I'm going to tell

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Speaker 2: you that we can. We can just let you know

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Speaker 2: we're in.

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Speaker 1: You made a big mistake offering that.

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Speaker 2: Thanks guys,