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Speaker 1: receivers to be great. It's gonna take everybody. In order

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Speaker 1: for Jared to be great. It's gonna take everybody, like

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Speaker 1: everybody plays a part and have to have their hind

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Speaker 1: And that's what that's why we're headed. He is Antoine

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Speaker 1: Randall l. That was a great little twenty minutes with him. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: we'll see you guys next time. Even