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Speaker 1: Welcome to playmakers. Everyone. I'm your host, Hayley Ellwood, and

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Speaker 1: we are continuing our Women's History Month series with our

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Speaker 1: very special guest today, Monique Boone. Monique is the varsity

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Speaker 1: defensive line coach and assistant varsity offensive line coach at

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Speaker 1: Hawthorne High School here in LA. She is the first

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Speaker 1: woman to coach at Hawthorne, she's the first female coach

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Speaker 1: in their school district, and she's also coming off attending

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Speaker 1: the NFL Women's Careers in Football Form. She's here to

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Speaker 1: talk about all of that, So let's get to it.

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Speaker 1: Let's welcome in Monique Boone. Monique, Coach Boone, how are you?

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Speaker 1: Thank you for coming on. I'm great, thank you for

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Speaker 1: having me. I'm excited. So yeah, yeah, hey. It is

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Speaker 1: so exciting to talk to women who are coaching, and

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Speaker 1: we will get to that in a little bit. But

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Speaker 1: the magnitude of everything. You are the first woman to

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Speaker 1: coach at Hawthorne High School, You're the first woman to

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Speaker 1: coach in their school district. What does that mean to you?

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Speaker 1: For me? Honestly, it's such an honor um right now

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Speaker 1: and at this point a little surreal because I am

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Speaker 1: the first one. But I'm you know, I was thinking,

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Speaker 1: you know, for athletic directors and for other clubs out there,

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Speaker 1: from high school to NCAA to NFL, it widens the

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Speaker 1: pool so much of who they can look for in coaching,

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Speaker 1: and that women have been out here playing and learning

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Speaker 1: the game so much that they can feel a lot

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Speaker 1: comfortable saying Okay, I want to add a woman to

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Speaker 1: my staff to get a different perspective, which I hear

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Speaker 1: a lot from hiring coaches and things like that they

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Speaker 1: want something new, something different on their on their squad. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and I think we hear that all the time diversity inclusion. Look,

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Speaker 1: teams are usually microcosms of society, and now they're reflecting

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Speaker 1: in other areas, specifically with gender. Where did your love

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Speaker 1: of football really come from? Uh? You know, growing up,

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Speaker 1: I lived in Detroit, my dad and I would go

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Speaker 1: to the Lions games. And total side note hearing from

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Speaker 1: brought me back to childhood and I was like, here's

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Speaker 1: she you know. I know she wasn't owning at the time,

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Speaker 1: but still her family was. But anyway too. From childhood,

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Speaker 1: my dad was a running back in Hampton university. So

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Speaker 1: football has always been a part of the family and

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Speaker 1: been more of a fan perspective. So then when I

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Speaker 1: was able to play myself and be a player, that

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Speaker 1: it changed my outlook of I want to have football

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Speaker 1: always in my life and I want to continue to

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Speaker 1: grow in this sport. Why was playing the game? Why

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Speaker 1: was being a player so important to you? Because not

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Speaker 1: everyone goes that route, but you look at someone like

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Speaker 1: Sam Rappaport at the league office, she certainly did, But

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Speaker 1: for you personally, why was it important to do that?

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Speaker 1: It was important to me. I had just moved to

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Speaker 1: southern California fifteen years ago, okay, and I didn't have

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Speaker 1: a home yet. I had lived on the East Coast

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Speaker 1: my entire life, and when I found football, when I

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Speaker 1: found tryouts and was able to find a team to

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Speaker 1: And for me now, my goal is to kind of

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Speaker 1: create that same experience for women future men also at

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Speaker 1: this point, to say when you step on the field

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Speaker 1: that it's home to you, that it's such a comfortable

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Speaker 1: feeling that you can't wait to out there and be

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Speaker 1: out there. What positions did you play? So so I

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Speaker 1: started as a defensive end and defensive tackle. That was

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Speaker 1: specifically left guard on the offensive line, so I am

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Speaker 1: in the trenches, offensive line, defensive line. That's home for me.

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Speaker 1: That is home, and hey, that's what you are coaching

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Speaker 1: at Hawthorne. I actually caught up with their head coach,

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Speaker 1: Corey Thudford, and he said that what sets you apart

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Speaker 1: is your football IQ and that really hiring you was

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Speaker 1: one of the easiest decisions he had to make. What

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Speaker 1: was that interview process, like why did you want to

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Speaker 1: get into coaching? So, for I've been playing football for

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Speaker 1: the last twelve years, and football it's a wear and

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Speaker 1: tear on the body that there's no escaping that, especially

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Speaker 1: So for the hiring process for Hawthorne, my head coach

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Speaker 1: and so when coach that fird the head coach, asked

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Speaker 1: called and he sent me a text and he was like, Hey,

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Speaker 1: a half of talking football. That's all we did. It

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Speaker 1: was just talk offensive line. We talked insight, run off, tackle, swings,

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Speaker 1: different plays, power, so and so forth. Hour and a

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Speaker 1: Did you get a call shortly afterwards? Did you did

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Speaker 1: you leave thinking you had it nailed? Uh? No, he

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Speaker 1: told me. At the end of it. Yeah, there was

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Speaker 1: no He you know, my head coach and offensive line coach.

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Speaker 1: He talked me up and hyped me up, and he

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Speaker 1: and so coached that firm. Was like, I needed to

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Speaker 1: know for myself if you were real, and he was like,

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Speaker 1: you were real, and you and you have a clear vision.

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Speaker 1: You fit into what Hawthorne is trying to do. Um,

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Speaker 1: Hawthorne is building culture, building, bringing back a foundation of

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Speaker 1: football back to the high school. And he's like, that's

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Speaker 1: who you exemplify. This is how you You're reflecting what

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Speaker 1: we want for Hawthorne. When you talk about coach Bedford,

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Speaker 1: you talk about your former head coach now all thought

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Speaker 1: offensive line coach there. We hear a lot about men

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Speaker 1: to bring women on. But what can you say about

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Speaker 1: I think for them sci specifically um that they had

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Speaker 1: they saw women actually play. They saw I mean our

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Speaker 1: also coached Thatford. Seeing that film it I believe what

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Speaker 1: I've said before, It gave a comfort of knowing that

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Speaker 1: men are respecting the game, women are learning the game,

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Speaker 1: and that for say, working with high schoolers at this point,

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Speaker 1: you come into into a space where you're just learning,

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Speaker 1: and for high school they're just learning. And so I

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Speaker 1: in the game, playing in playoffs, to championships, so on

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Speaker 1: and so forth. I think that's a really good perspective

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Speaker 1: particularly with women with girls flag, they're starting it younger.

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Speaker 1: They're getting more girls involved at a younger age now.

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Speaker 1: But what is maybe some advice you have for women

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Speaker 1: a role on a sideline. Honestly, I would start finding

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Speaker 1: a mentor finding someone that you look up to. It

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Speaker 1: could be a head coach, it could be an assistant

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Speaker 1: but still see you as a partner in football. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: when it comes to qualities of a good coach, that's

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Speaker 1: something that doesn't have a gender assigned to it. But

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Speaker 1: what are some good qualities that maybe you've seen in

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Speaker 1: For me, it's consistency. It's about a coach that meets

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Speaker 1: I in college, I was a lacrosse player. I was

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Speaker 1: D three, I was lacrosse goalie, All Star, and many

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Speaker 1: years in a row conference. Yeah, so lots of legacy here.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, So consistency meeting players where they are and

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Speaker 1: well you mentioned that word mentorship before. Is that also

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Speaker 1: I try to in a way partner with my players

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Speaker 1: and partner with other coaches. I also have played internationally,

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Speaker 1: several I have several mentors that there are women coaches,

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Speaker 1: they've been coaching playing for twenty five years plus. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: So that's they helped me find my love of coaching

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Speaker 1: that's very cool. So you were recently coming off of

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Speaker 1: the fifth annual forum. We were talking offline and I

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Speaker 1: was saying, I attended day one just from the back end,

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Speaker 1: was so excited. I did when I saw someone from

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Speaker 1: high school level. But just what was it like to

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Speaker 1: I saw it as a networking football boot camp. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: like you know, there's forty women that were selected and

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Speaker 1: invited to the event. You were, It's five hours each day,

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Speaker 1: and it's you're meeting so many people from owners to

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Speaker 1: like and football operations so and so forth. So you're

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Speaker 1: meeting so many people that you're just like, Okay, I

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Speaker 1: I literally have like twenty pages of notes from the forum,

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Speaker 1: and it was it was an experience that I can't

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Speaker 1: really describe in words because it's definitely put me in

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Speaker 1: a place where wow, like it's so much bigger like here,

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Speaker 1: I coach in Hawthorn, but it's so much bigger and

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Speaker 1: I want to be a part of that. I think

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Speaker 1: it was really cool. I actually had Vanessa Hutchinson on

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Speaker 1: You specifically asked Bill Belichick and Mike Vrabel to break

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Speaker 1: it down. Well, it kind of in a way. For

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Speaker 1: a great coach out of Oberlin, Alex Hannah. She had

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Speaker 1: actually started talking about the XS and those and started

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Speaker 1: let's go further and let's talk of film and talk

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Speaker 1: we improve on what we already are doing. That's pretty cool.

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Speaker 1: Why would you recommend the forum to women for future

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Speaker 1: sessions who might want to be part of it? Honestly,

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Speaker 1: it's a chance to because most people, we don't have

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Speaker 1: it's hard to find time to just say I'm going

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Speaker 1: learned so much about football, like more about football operations

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Speaker 1: It's and with the excitement, hopefully it's helping the boys

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Speaker 1: we are. Now what do we do with it? Absolutely,

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Speaker 1: what do we do with it now? Well, in and

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Speaker 1: the Hawthorne football program as well as Hawthorne getting back

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Speaker 1: Los Angeles Chargers Impact Fund we'll be making a one

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Speaker 1: thousand dollars donation to the Hawthorne football That's amazing. Congrats

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Speaker 1: on doing just such. Yeah, some really really amazing things.

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Speaker 1: We're so proud. It's so great to connect with you.

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Speaker 1: And thanks for coming on as well. No, thank you

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