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Speaker 1: the Volume. Happy Monday, everybody. I hope all if you

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Speaker 1: Also coverage of the Eastern Conference Finals. Here. Hoops Tonight

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Speaker 1: is brought to you by Chase Freedom Unlimited. How do

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Speaker 1: you cash back? Well? The unbroken uh never before happened?

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Speaker 1: Come back from three to zero series that we were

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Speaker 1: all kind of expecting to a certain extent, tonight did

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Speaker 1: not come to fruition as the Miami Heat punk the

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Speaker 1: Boston Celtics on their home floor to advance to the

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Speaker 1: NBA Finals. Got a bunch of stuff I want to

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Speaker 1: dive into. I want to dive into the confidence dynamic

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Speaker 1: that I think led to Miami's big night tonight, which

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Speaker 1: I think is super interesting and is informative as we

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Speaker 1: look forward into future seasons. I want to talk about

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Speaker 1: the job that Eric Spolstra did to throw Boston off schematically.

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Speaker 1: I want to look a little bit forward to the finals.

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Speaker 1: We're not gonna do too deep of a dive because

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Speaker 1: I will be doing a full finals preview tomorrow morning.

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Speaker 1: And then at the end, we're gonna talk a little

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Speaker 1: bit about the Boston Celtics and what went wrong for them,

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Speaker 1: and if you're a Celtics fan, I have a much

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Speaker 1: less gloom and doom type of approach to this situation.

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Speaker 1: I actually am pretty optimistic about their future. So we'll

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Speaker 1: talk a little bit about them as well. You guys

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Speaker 1: you get your podcasts. Under Hoops tonight, So confidence in

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Speaker 1: big games, you know, there's a there was almost like

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Speaker 1: a we got nothing to lose type of dynamic taking

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Speaker 1: place in the previous three games, right, like all of

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Speaker 1: the damage so to speak, to the reputations of the

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Speaker 1: players involved, to the reputation of the coach involved, and

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Speaker 1: all of the negative Celtics sentiment was already there after

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Speaker 1: Game three when you go down three to zero, right,

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Speaker 1: so it's like, you know, Marcus Martin, Jalen Brown, like,

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Speaker 1: don't let us win one? Okay, you got one? Okay,

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Speaker 1: then you want a home game. And then even then

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Speaker 1: in game six, it's still kind of enoughing to lose

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Speaker 1: type of situation. The spread is closer, right, Like I think,

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Speaker 1: in Game seven, suddenly that dynamic shifts. Suddenly you are

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Speaker 1: the favorite. You're a eight point favorite. After Game five,

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Speaker 1: Miami still favored to win the series at that point.

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Speaker 1: It's a totally different dynamic going into this Game seven.

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Speaker 1: And you guys all probably notice. And there's gonna be

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Speaker 1: and I don't want to underplay it because it certainly

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Speaker 1: I think that even if Jason Tatum had not sprained

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Speaker 1: Because regardless of what was going on with Jason Tatum,

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Speaker 1: a giant gap in how comfortable Miami felt under the

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Speaker 1: And I think that that trickles down the roster. When

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Speaker 1: Jimmy Butler is your best defender. You could put him

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Speaker 1: Experience won this series. Jimmy Butler and him being the

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Speaker 1: is so many things that go beyond talent. And Boston

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Speaker 1: the clear right side of the floor. That's what they do,

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Speaker 1: and Miami in a big situation will just spam that.

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Speaker 1: They'll just run it every time down the floor, and

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Speaker 1: they know that they're going to get a pretty high

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Speaker 1: quality shot in every single one of those situations, or

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Speaker 1: at least a shot that Jimmy Butler's capable of making.

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Speaker 1: Right with Boston, you know, you'd have a three four

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Speaker 1: possession sequence like they did in that first half in

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Speaker 1: Game six where Tatum's working. But then they get into

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Speaker 1: the fourth quarter and then they just cease to do

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Speaker 1: that for whatever reason. You know, Jason Tatum doesn't feel

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Speaker 1: comfortable doing the same thing over and over and over

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Speaker 1: again from a specific spot on the floor. And you know,

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Speaker 1: as we look forward with Boston, there's gonna be a

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Speaker 1: lot of talk about, oh, we need to get them

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Speaker 1: a better guard. It's like, well, you got Malcolm Brogden

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Speaker 1: last year, and yeah, obviously he got hurt in this series,

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Speaker 1: but it didn't seem to solve that specific problem with

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Speaker 1: their execution. You know, Derek White's another good guard. I mean,

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Speaker 1: you don't have the resources to get a superstar point guard, right, So, like,

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Speaker 1: at a certain point, the ceiling of the Celtics is

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Speaker 1: directly tied to Jason Tatum's development. You know, at this point,

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Speaker 1: he's one hundred percent a live dribble guy. He's a

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Speaker 1: live dribble above the break, pick and roll iso try

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Speaker 1: to create a pull up jump shot or get all

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Speaker 1: the way to the rim for a layup. That's all

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Speaker 1: he can do. And he's capable of going down to

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Speaker 1: the post and making some plays there, but he needs

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Speaker 1: to get to the point where he can ad like

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Speaker 1: comfortably sit down on the left block against a smaller

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Speaker 1: defender and go seven eight possessions in a row, just

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Speaker 1: either drawn that second defender to get the defense into

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Speaker 1: rotation or getting closer to the rim for a higher

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Speaker 1: quality shot. That's the next step for him offensive versatility.

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Speaker 1: He's turned himself into a very efficient offensive engine from

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Speaker 1: the standpoint of spamming that high pick and roll stuff.

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Speaker 1: But that is inherently one of the lower value plays

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Speaker 1: in the NBA playoffs. Why long jump shots off the dribble,

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Speaker 1: And I don't mean the short ones like Jimmy Butler's

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Speaker 1: taking in the post. I mean long jump shots off

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Speaker 1: the dribble in the NBA playoffs twenty four six footers.

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Speaker 1: Those are extremely difficult to make when you are fatigued

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Speaker 1: and you don't have the lift in your legs to

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Speaker 1: get up into that shot, and when everything you're doing

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Speaker 1: off the dribble is a or everything you're doing attacking

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Speaker 1: to the basket is a live dribble from twenty six feet,

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Speaker 1: there's so much time for help defense to come over.

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Speaker 1: There's a repeated rotation that the defense can make to

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Speaker 1: kind of to solve any compromising that takes place. It's

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Speaker 1: too easy to guard. And that's why unless you're just

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Speaker 1: the otherworldly best shooter, playmaker, ball handler in the league,

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Speaker 1: like Steph Curry, you can't spam high pick and roll

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Speaker 1: the way that Jason Tatum does in these settings, especially

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Speaker 1: in these rock fight games. These bigger, stronger forwards, the

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Speaker 1: ones that are really good, the Kawhi's, the Jimmy Butler's,

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Speaker 1: the Lebron's. What do they do. They get a matchup

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Speaker 1: they like and they take them close to the basket

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Speaker 1: with their back to the basket so they can protect

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Speaker 1: the basketball, and they go to short ten to twelve

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Speaker 1: foot shots in the lane or in the short corner

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Speaker 1: that they can make it an extremely high percentage. That's

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Speaker 1: what Lebron did this entire playoff run. It's what Jimmy

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Speaker 1: Butler did this entire playoff run. That's what the best

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Speaker 1: big wings in the league do. And that's what Jason

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Speaker 1: Tatum has to add over the course of the next

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Speaker 1: few seasons. He needs to add a reliable back to

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Speaker 1: the basket bully ball game because he's damn strong, and

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Speaker 1: he's damn big, and he's an underrated playmaker and he's

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Speaker 1: got great touch and if he polishes that stuff up,

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Speaker 1: he's gonna start thriving in these types of games. We're like,

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Speaker 1: as we look forward for Boston, that's their only hope,

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Speaker 1: you know, with Jaylen Brown and look, they're in a

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Speaker 1: tough position because with the way the CBA is structured.

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Speaker 1: He's gonna make way too much money, you know. But

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Speaker 1: at the end of the day, like yes, Jalen Brown

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Speaker 1: completely crumbled in this series, completely lost confidence. His ball

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Speaker 1: handling is a real problem. All of that is true,

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Speaker 1: But he's a lot better than he looked. He was

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Speaker 1: a hell of a lot better just last year in

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Speaker 1: the playoff run when they were two wins away from

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Speaker 1: the title. Jalen Brown is still a top fifteen to

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Speaker 1: twenty player in this league, which means he deserves a

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Speaker 1: max contract, and you certainly have no method to replace

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Speaker 1: him with comparable players in the trade market. You're gonna

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Speaker 1: get seventy five cents on the dollar if you do so, so,

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Speaker 1: as unfortunate as it is, you have to resign him.

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Speaker 1: That's the best path forward for Boston is pay everybody,

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Speaker 1: go forward and hope that Jason Tatum over the coming

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Speaker 1: years develops into that offensive engine that can thrive in

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Speaker 1: these late playoff situations. It didn't really come back to

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Speaker 1: bite them until the Golden State Warriors series last year.

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Speaker 1: Bit them a little bit earlier this year, but that's

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Speaker 1: the big problem, not ancillary ball handling, not aggregate ball handling,

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Speaker 1: the top end ball handling. They need Jason Tatum to

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Speaker 1: take that next step. We will talk a hell of

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Speaker 1: a lot more about Boston over the course of this offseason.

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Speaker 1: Like I said, We're gonna talk a lot about the

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Speaker 1: NBA Finals over the course of the next few days.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna be going our season preview tomorrow in the morning,

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Speaker 1: Tomorrow afternoon doing an episode with live our resident Nuggets

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Speaker 1: fan here at the Volume did a bunch of work

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Speaker 1: with her last year, so you guys who have been

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Speaker 1: following the show probably remember her. And then on Wednesday,

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Speaker 1: we're gonna go with the Nerd Sash guys and do

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Speaker 1: another deep dive into the finals. So we're gonna have

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Speaker 1: a ton of stuff covering the NBA Finals over the

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Speaker 1: course of the next two days, and then, like usually,

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Speaker 1: be going live after Game one on Thursday. As always,

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Speaker 1: I sincerely appreciate you guys supporting the show and I

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Speaker 1: will see you tomorrow morning. The Volume