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Speaker 1: Welcome everyone to this edition of Amy and TJ, where

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Speaker 1: the Amy is back in the Amy and DJ.

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Speaker 2: Wow.

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Speaker 3: I've been gone.

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Speaker 1: I've been missing the podcasting, but I listened. I was

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Speaker 1: an avid listener while I was gone. You did a

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Speaker 1: great job.

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Speaker 2: I was an avid worker while you were gone.

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Speaker 1: I know I felt I felt a little guilty about

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Speaker 1: being gone and not pitching in. However, I was sweating

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Speaker 1: and actually into significant manual labor getting my daughter upstairs

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Speaker 1: into her new home in Boulder, Colorado at college. And

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Speaker 1: it just so happened to be the two hottest days

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Speaker 1: of the year in Boulder. It was about ninety five.

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Speaker 1: And you know, when you're in the Milehouse mile High City,

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Speaker 1: or at least nearby, the sun is even more strong,

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Speaker 1: like it's stronger actually than it is somewhere here on.

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Speaker 3: The East Coast.

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Speaker 1: So yes, I'm so sorry. I appreciate you holding down

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Speaker 1: the floor. Sorry for one for not being a partner,

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Speaker 1: a podcast partner.

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Speaker 3: The last two days.

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Speaker 2: Stop stop Is that for real?

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Speaker 3: Oh my god?

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Speaker 1: Yes, I absolutely suffered from Okay.

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Speaker 2: Then I am sorry for not being a good life

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Speaker 2: partner because I wasn't there as you were moving at

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Speaker 2: least in school So does that sound just to you

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Speaker 2: as ridiculous as it sounds to me when you're telling

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Speaker 1: This is one actually great partners respect where each person

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Speaker 1: needs to be and we are actually we divided and conquered. Yes,

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Speaker 1: and sometimes you have to do that when you're a couple.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, And you know I felt it this this week, right,

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Speaker 2: this is our recovery run. And we debated, folks, will

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Speaker 2: be honest with you all, we're like, get we got like,

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Speaker 2: we're such failures this week at doing what we're encouraging

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Speaker 2: people to do, which is to make sure you make time,

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Speaker 2: make sure you take a beat, make sure you recover,

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Speaker 2: make sure you check in is another way to put that.

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Speaker 2: And we failed at it so much as we that

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Speaker 2: we were debating that you were sitting at the table

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Speaker 2: almost pounding the table. What can we tell them?

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Speaker 1: Yes, like, we're here on Saturdays to not only inspire

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Speaker 1: folks who are listening to prioritize not just themselves individually,

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Speaker 1: but also themselves as a couple. Just we have to

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Speaker 1: take these moments, even as parents, especially as parents, to

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Speaker 1: make time for the primary relationship, the relationship you have

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Speaker 1: with your partner. And the relationship you have with yourself.

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Speaker 1: This week, as everyone listening who has busy lives, which

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Speaker 1: I'm sure most of you do, it was almost it

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Speaker 1: was nearly impossible to do that because we went from

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Speaker 1: moving or helping move out my oldest daughter, Ava, who's

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Speaker 1: twenty two, into her big girl apartment in Brooklyn, and

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Speaker 1: TJ was an amazing partner doing all of that. We'll

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Speaker 1: get into that in a second, to then celebrating TJ's

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Speaker 1: forty eighth birthday, which was incredible to me, then heading

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Speaker 1: to Boulder to get daughter number two settled in her

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Speaker 1: So yes, it has been one of those weeks, folks.

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Speaker 1: But I have to say, TJ, this was part of

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Speaker 1: the recovery that I feel like we did succeed at

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Speaker 1: because although we were apart for a couple of days,

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Speaker 1: which is highly unusual in a lot of ways, I

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Speaker 1: felt even closer to you. Why I was hoping you

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Speaker 1: one time with my daughter and you actually were focused

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Speaker 1: on someone on time with your daughter, So that was

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Speaker 1: really cool. But during all of that time apart, you

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Speaker 1: and I have to give you total credit.

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Speaker 3: You were you had.

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Speaker 1: You had some incredibly kind and loving and sweet and

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Speaker 1: beautiful text that you sent to me that made me

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Speaker 1: feel even closer to you, things that maybe we wouldn't

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Speaker 1: say for whatever reason, face to face or if we've

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Speaker 1: just spent twenty four to seven together, that you were

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Speaker 1: able to express in a way that I was able

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Speaker 1: to read and take in. Like, there were several times

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Speaker 1: I got texts from you where tears actually swelled up

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Speaker 2: So yeah, well, I'm sorry. I didn't. I didn't mean

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Speaker 1: Good tears, tears of joy, tiers of connection and closeness

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Speaker 1: about just what we because your birthday unfortunately landed in

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Speaker 1: so that's chaos, and it was nice to have we

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Speaker 2: Moves landed in the middle of my birth That's true.

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Speaker 3: What that might be a better way to put.

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Speaker 2: It put it. That was a bad plan on their part,

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Speaker 2: those two girls of selfish as hell. It annoys me.

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Speaker 2: Let me just get this out, knock.

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Speaker 1: But we were actually we we took a I guess

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Speaker 1: you could call it a Staycasian because we were trying

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Speaker 1: your birthday with Sabine.

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Speaker 3: But also I had be close to.

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Speaker 1: morning after your birthday. So it did take some planning.

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Speaker 1: But maybe we can give ourselves some credit on a

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Speaker 1: Recovery Run episode where we're talking about prioritizing that sort

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Speaker 3: Even if it was a text. So it doesn't have

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Speaker 1: Some grand gesture or some major thing that you do

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Speaker 1: partner know you're thinking about them. That can almost be

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Speaker 1: as beautiful as some major trip or some major something else.

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Speaker 2: You know that makes sense, And I know what you're saying.

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Speaker 2: We haven't completely talked about this, but I it's not

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Speaker 2: I don't want to go with the absence makes the

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Speaker 2: what it highlighted for me this week. Wow, I haven't talked,

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Speaker 2: I have thought about this. I think I was walking

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Speaker 2: you are and how valuable a partner is, because when

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Speaker 2: That's not the way it should be. But I think

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Speaker 1: Oh, I missed you terribly, and not just for your

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Speaker 2: All of that. So the thing you were missing there

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Speaker 2: such partners day in day out, and then when you're

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Speaker 2: for this and this and this and this. You just

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Speaker 2: because I am feeling and I am appreciating her. I

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Speaker 2: am wanting her to feel me. I was. I absolutely

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Speaker 2: wanted to be there. Our schedules ended up being as

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Speaker 1: You had parenting to do. I had parenting to do.

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Speaker 1: And this is something that look a lot of folks

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Speaker 3: I mean, parents everywhere know what this is.

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Speaker 1: I was just thinking about parents who had so I

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Speaker 1: In full disclosure, I never encouraged my kids to be

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Speaker 2: That was the most selfish thing I've ever heard you.

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Speaker 1: It was I was like, you should be in theater

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Speaker 1: No, I would not encourage hockey. Do you know what

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Speaker 1: I've heard from other people. So yes, I was being

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Speaker 3: But no, I do think that there are.

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Speaker 1: And it's one thing to feel your partner's absence, but

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Speaker 2: this week, one of the daily podcast news podcasts that

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Speaker 2: we do every single day. We know this thing inside

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Speaker 2: You can depend on that being there. But that is

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Speaker 2: your role, right.

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Speaker 1: It just so happens that we've kind of you do

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Speaker 1: the top of the show where you and you do

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Speaker 1: the teases. You're really good at going to break and

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Speaker 3: I don't have to think about it.

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Speaker 1: I usually end up putting in the reads and who

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Speaker 1: reads what I organize, what's the top story, what's the kicker?

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Speaker 1: And that's maybe newspeaker for people who don't know, and

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Speaker 1: and so you shouldn't have to beat yourself up. In fact,

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Speaker 1: I listened to all the podcasts that you did in

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Speaker 1: And so I can't wait to let everyone hear what

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Speaker 1: to this Saturday edition of Morning Run.

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Speaker 3: We call it our recovery Run.

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Speaker 1: It's August twenty third, and yeah, we are recovering from

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Speaker 1: The truth is I was trying to take in New

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Speaker 2: You can I do this once every two weeks. Maybe

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Speaker 1: But I'm getting there already. Well, I still just like

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Speaker 1: The funny thing is I get adjusted and then they

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Speaker 2: That was so soon.

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Speaker 1: It is transition and change is hard. And look, this

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Speaker 3: Just a note.

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Speaker 1: All you have to say is I love you period,

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Speaker 2: So take that with you, folks, At least as a

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Speaker 2: I didn't know, babe, we've spend so much time together

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Speaker 1: Break where you get a break, when are you coming back?

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Speaker 2: Because even when you're in the shower, I have free

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Speaker 2: And this week was what it was. It was. It

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Speaker 2: Oh my god, it was so much going on, and

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and happy birthday baby. How does forty eight feel?

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Speaker 2: Man? I am freaking out that I am getting older

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Speaker 2: and feeling younger. That's a good thing, it's yeah, but

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Speaker 2: it's that doesn't make sense to me. I am getting

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Speaker 2: probably forty I feel like I'm actually Benjamin buttoning this

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Speaker 3: That's awesome.

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Speaker 1: And I think relationships. It doesn't have to be with

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Speaker 1: everything else falls into place. I really believe that. Well, anyway,

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Speaker 1: we hope you all have a wonderful rest of your weekend.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for running with us on this Saturday morning recovery run.

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Speaker 1: I'm Amy Roebok, finally alongside my partner TJ. Holmes.

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Speaker 3: Thanks for listening.

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Speaker 1: Everybody,