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Speaker 2: Can you tell us a little bit about your journey

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Speaker 2: and what it's like to be your your your all

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Speaker 2: different stops that you made from college man.

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Speaker 3: Worst can't EXPLAIND like Worst came and describe it. You know,

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Speaker 3: I came a long way. It's it's just a blessing

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Speaker 3: to be in this building. You know, I come from

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Speaker 3: from a small town and during North Carolina. You know,

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Speaker 3: with opportunities like this are you know, are are slim,

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Speaker 3: so you know, I really think, you know, it's a blessing,

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Speaker 3: you uh, and I'm just glad to be here, you know,

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Speaker 3: with all the stops, you know, you know, I just think,

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Speaker 3: you know, I fell in the right place here in

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Speaker 3: New York. So you know, I'm just blessed, you know,

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Speaker 3: to be able to be in this, you know, great tradition,

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Speaker 3: great building.

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Speaker 1: What was your what was your Saturday like? Did you

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Speaker 1: expect to get drafted? Rising of the College Boys or

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Speaker 1: Saturday like? Where?

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Speaker 3: Well, yeah, I expected to get drafted, I think, you know, Uh,

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Speaker 3: you just just nervous, you know, you know, it's been

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Speaker 3: a it's been a long time coming. You know, it's

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Speaker 3: something I've dreamed about, you know, since I was little,

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Speaker 3: you know, but I knew the time was coming, you.

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Speaker 1: Know, I just I just dim don't when so were

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Speaker 1: the giants and team that show an interest in you

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Speaker 1: or going into the driving to the other that they

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Speaker 1: like you. No, I didn't know. I didn't know any

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Speaker 1: of that. Did what in particular do you wanna learn

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Speaker 1: from Dexter Larns? Say that again?

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Speaker 2: W what in particular do you wanna learn from Dexter Wanes?

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Speaker 1: Uh?

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Speaker 3: Particularly, I'm just here just to you know, learn learn

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Speaker 3: every day. Not necessarily just him, but you know, just

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Speaker 3: with all the guys, the coaches, you know, coaching staff.

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Speaker 1: You know, I'm just here to work. I'm just here

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Speaker 1: to uh.

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Speaker 3: You know, soaking all the information I can you know

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Speaker 3: from anyone, you know, any of the vests or I'm

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Speaker 3: just here to learn.

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Speaker 2: Did you what if anything you do know about extra

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Speaker 2: Larrence or letter Willims?

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Speaker 1: We said?

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Speaker 2: I said, what if anything you know about textra Larrence

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Speaker 2: or letter WIBs? Those are like the two you know,

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Speaker 2: veterans to in in that.

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Speaker 1: Dept a line particular.

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Speaker 3: I really don't know too much about it. And like

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Speaker 3: I said, you know, I just came here, you know,

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Speaker 3: ready for rookie me in the camp. You know, I'm

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Speaker 3: just blessed to be here. Uh.

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Speaker 1: You know, I met coach j Dlon coach.

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Speaker 3: You know, I'm just ready to learn from him, his

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Speaker 3: coaching style and you know that's a lot me for

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Speaker 3: you talk.

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Speaker 1: The traditional getting coach drab. What was that initial kind

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Speaker 1: of conversation trying you guys had or.

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Speaker 3: Talk about Uh No, we just we're just learning, you know,

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Speaker 3: learning how he how he wants things. You know, coaching style.

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Speaker 3: You know it's a different coature style, but you know,

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Speaker 3: you know, just learning just how he wants things. You know,

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Speaker 3: he's a great coach, got a long history in this league.

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Speaker 3: You know, I'm just blessed to be a part in

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Speaker 3: on his room. So you talked about your journey from

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Speaker 3: different schools to where you're now.

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Speaker 1: Did you ever move the faith? So let's see stop

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Speaker 1: number two as oppost to where you're not. Did you

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Speaker 1: ever think of as a possible? Uh?

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Speaker 3: Nah, I didn't never lose faith, you know, I believe

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Speaker 3: in God and uh and everything like that. And you know,

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Speaker 3: I just kept going, you know, I I just knew

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Speaker 3: that I just couldn't stop. You know, I got I

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Speaker 3: got a little daughter at home, and you know she

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Speaker 3: means the worst to me, and you know, I just

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Speaker 3: think me stopping and wanting up there.

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Speaker 1: So I just felt like, you know, I just keep going.

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Speaker 1: That's all I was thinking about.

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Speaker 2: Like Jah Joe Shane, the general manager said when he

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Speaker 2: walked onto the field you know at Oregon, and.

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Speaker 1: He said, you were easy to spot. You know your

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Speaker 1: your size? Did did?

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Speaker 2: Is that something that you got a lot from scouts

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Speaker 2: that you know they were they liked your size?

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Speaker 1: Uh? Nah, not really.

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Speaker 3: Uh A lot of them watch my film and you

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Speaker 3: know they like, you know, what what what I bring

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Speaker 3: into the run game and stuff like that. But other

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Speaker 3: than that, Nah, I didn't really hear at the other

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Speaker 3: day you uh are.

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Speaker 1: You w what do you what you do you think?

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Speaker 1: Three twenty six? Is that your list? That is that

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Speaker 1: I'm around through twenty three twenty? Yeah? Is that? Is

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Speaker 1: that less than you were or more than you were?

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Speaker 2: What you know from like you know this time last

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Speaker 2: year or when you played d you know last year.

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Speaker 1: Uh? Yeah, it's a more or less? More or less?

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Speaker 2: And what if they want you to get down?

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Speaker 1: Do you feel better this way?

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Speaker 2: I mean, you know, big guys, you know, sometimes they

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Speaker 2: go up, sometimes they go down.

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Speaker 1: Nah, I feel like I'm I'm good at this way.

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Speaker 1: What did you learn at at at community college? Man?

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Speaker 1: And that that can be a humbling thing to go

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Speaker 1: go down? What what did you learn in that year there?

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Speaker 3: That's definitely a humble experience, you know, just coming from

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Speaker 3: you know, a d one and then just being out there,

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Speaker 3: you know, not having all the resources, not having all

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Speaker 3: the you know, the help that you usually get at

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Speaker 3: you know, at uh D ones. It really taught me

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Speaker 3: a lot, you know, helped me be the man on

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Speaker 3: the other day. And you know, I just can't appreciate,

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Speaker 3: you know, being out there, how.

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Speaker 2: How difficultes to have to make to fly into a

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Speaker 2: new place, you know, meet new teammates, meet new coaches,

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Speaker 2: go on to new practice field, you know, be the

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Speaker 2: facility that you probably don't know which way's left and

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Speaker 2: which way's right.

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Speaker 1: I mean, it's kind of like my journey.

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Speaker 3: You know, I've been I've been different places I've been to,

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Speaker 3: you know, different colleges, and and I had to meet

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Speaker 3: new people in new facilities, you know, new coaches.

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Speaker 1: So you know, just just all a part of my journey.

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Speaker 1: So what what if you or or good I just

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Speaker 1: saw on that aspect for your journey. I guess when

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Speaker 1: you go into a new place, what have.

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Speaker 2: You learned those experiences that may translates to now going

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Speaker 2: into pros?

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Speaker 1: What do you take with each of your stops? You know,

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Speaker 1: each each part was a part of my journey.

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Speaker 3: And like I just feel like, uh, you know, I

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Speaker 3: just learned to just never stop, you know, n never

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Speaker 3: you know, get you down on myself, you know, just

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Speaker 3: keep going, you know, keep you know, keep pursuing on.

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Speaker 1: You know, all the adversity I went through.

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Speaker 3: Uh, I just think just stay humble and and and

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Speaker 3: just keep on the lot.

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Speaker 1: Doesn't matter. Ah you wind up an odd or even

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Speaker 1: no position, or do you just line up, doesn't matter

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Speaker 1: what front you in. Uh Nah.

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Speaker 3: I mean I'm gonna here to play play football. You know,

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Speaker 3: we haven't really talked too much about that.

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Speaker 1: You know.

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Speaker 3: I'm'a sare it for a Rockie Minnie camp? And that's

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Speaker 3: why I'm all, you know, that's all I'm here for.

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Speaker 1: Right now? What were you doing when you're heard the

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Speaker 1: word you're being inspected? Man? I was spea'ss Man. It's

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Speaker 1: a dream country.

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Speaker 3: I mean, I think that's for everyone, and it's just

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Speaker 3: a dream Country. I'm glad I got the call or

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Speaker 3: I was with my family, so it was definitely a

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Speaker 3: special moment.

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Speaker 1: Are you down in North Carolina? Uh?

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Speaker 3: Yes, sir, really like on one with your just what

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Speaker 3: what is the I I can't even make the last

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Speaker 3: part of your catch you there, that your faith be

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Speaker 3: bigger than.

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Speaker 1: Your chamic fear, A fear up fear. I'm sorry, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: the wind fall.

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Speaker 2: You the kind of guy, that's what the big guys,

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Speaker 2: you know, offensive, defensive line. Do you kind of think, well,

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Speaker 2: it really starts when you put the pants on. You know,

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Speaker 2: obviously this is a start and that's important, But do

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Speaker 2: you like the next phase?

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Speaker 1: In the next phase?

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Speaker 3: And I'm all about right now, but I don't really

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Speaker 3: think too much in the future. Just here it right now,

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Speaker 3: in the present, right