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Speaker 1: Is the plan. Everything's no, It's just it's just we're

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Speaker 1: So it's um, he's doing everything that he possibly can,

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Speaker 1: and but we're just we're just being a little more conservative.

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Speaker 1: I'm not putting him in a day to day status,

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Speaker 1: information before last year, but likely on that same kind

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