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Speaker 1: Hi, everybody, Welcome to another edition of Packers Unscripted from

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Speaker 1: Packers dot Com. I am Mike Spofford, joined as always

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Speaker 1: by my trusted colleague Western hot Kowitz. Were coming to

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Speaker 1: you from socially distant locations at lambeau Field and West

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Speaker 1: last Sunday night, the snow was falling, It was gathering

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Speaker 1: on lambeau Field. The hash marks were brushed off. It

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Speaker 1: was a classic post Christmas winter December game at lambeau Field,

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Speaker 1: and oh, by the way, the Packers put together probably

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Speaker 1: their best performance on both sides of the ball on

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Speaker 1: the season in dismantling a ten win Tennessee Titans Team

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Speaker 1: four team. Mike, I have to make this point before

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Speaker 1: we even jump into this game. You mentioned this was

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Speaker 1: the best, most complete performance you wrote about it for

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Speaker 1: Packers dot Com, and you're right about that. This was

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Speaker 1: also the quintessential Green Bay Packers December football game. Using

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Speaker 1: the elements to their advantage. I was trying to think

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Speaker 1: of the last game that where it just seemed like

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Speaker 1: the Packers were able to use the home field advantage

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Speaker 1: to their betterment, to their advantage, and and and being

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Speaker 1: able to take advantage of the snow falling, the conditions,

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Speaker 1: the way they ran the ball thirty seven times or

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Speaker 1: whatever ended up being, and it was just it was

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Speaker 1: everything you wanted it to be. In defensively, they embraced

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Speaker 1: those elements. Well, everything that worked for Green Bay's offense

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Speaker 1: also worked for the defense. In this matchup, the green

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Speaker 1: Bay Packers come up with a dominating win. You look

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Speaker 1: at the performance of aj Dylan breaking out when everybody

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Speaker 1: was focused on Derrick Henry. Here comes the rookie second

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Speaker 1: round pick gets inserted in the game, which Jamal Williams

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Speaker 1: already down with the thigh injury. Then Aaron Jones is

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Speaker 1: dealing with a lower body injury. Jones is able to return,

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Speaker 1: but they really wrote Allen and he stepped up to

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Speaker 1: the challenge. And before we go any farther with anything else,

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Speaker 1: DeVante Adams three more touchdowns towards this season total seventeen

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Speaker 1: now on the season, one off the franchise record pays

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Speaker 1: of Sterling Sharp also within I believe four catches now,

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Speaker 1: correct me if I'm wrong on that. As far as

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Speaker 1: breaking the single season mark, Davante Adams is as good

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Speaker 1: as they get. Yeah. Absolutely, We've got a lot of

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Speaker 1: ground to cover in this show. I you raised an

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Speaker 1: interesting thing though about a late season game where the

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Speaker 1: Packers really took advantage of the elements and while the

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Speaker 1: opponents sort of looked out of its element the way

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Speaker 1: Tennessee did in that game. And the one that comes

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Speaker 1: to mind was during the run the table in frankly,

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Speaker 1: when the Houston Texans, not a great Houston Texans team

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Speaker 1: almost dysfunctional. Now Tennessee wasn't quite like that, but the

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Speaker 1: Packers jumped on them. Ninety did nothing three straight touchdowns

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Speaker 1: to open the game. The defense had an interception in there,

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Speaker 1: with Darnell Savage getting one to set up a score.

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Speaker 1: Packers were in command of this game, and even when

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Speaker 1: Tennessee got the double up, the touchdown before halftime, the

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Speaker 1: touchdown right after halftime, suddenly nineteen to zero becomes nineteen

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Speaker 1: to fourteen and it's a one score game. The Packers

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Speaker 1: answered Aaron Jones busts off a big run. Got a

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Speaker 1: little lucky because they missed the call there on stepping

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Speaker 1: a touchdown, We're back up by two scores, stayed in

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Speaker 1: that that response against a good team in the second

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Speaker 1: That was a big positive sign, I think for this

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Speaker 1: Packers team, because we've seen in other games where it's

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Speaker 1: been harder, it's taken longer to stem the tide and

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Speaker 1: get the momentum back in Green Bay's favor. The Packers

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Speaker 1: did it right away in the third quarter in this one,

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Speaker 1: and that's a really good sign heading in the playoffs. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's one of the most overlooked fifty nine yard runs

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Speaker 1: you're gonna find when you and everything else that happened

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Speaker 1: these other accolades. Oh, by the way, Aaron Jones at

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Speaker 1: a time in which the Packers really needed a response,

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Speaker 1: This was where they actually got to go in again

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Speaker 1: And just to mention this as well, with Aaron Jones

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Speaker 1: that's the type of production you're looking for. And when

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Speaker 1: all eyes are on Derrick Henry and you're able to

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Speaker 1: hold him underneath the hundred yards rushing in a yeoman's

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Speaker 1: effort by the entire your defense, the front, the defensive front,

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Speaker 1: the linebackers, uh, the safeties are playing as well as

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Speaker 1: they have all season. Uh. That really set the tone

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Speaker 1: biggest compliment you can give a defense, it isn't necessarily

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Speaker 1: just looking at, okay, two hundred and sixty total yards

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Speaker 1: going to play the Titans learn from your performance. I

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Speaker 1: think like Petton in that unit provided some glimpses into

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Speaker 1: what it's gonna take to hold off the Titans in

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Speaker 1: the long run. They're not always going to be playing

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Speaker 1: in the snow. But you saw exactly how much their

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Speaker 1: offense is predicated on the play action, and when they

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Speaker 1: for the Titans a little bit. That's one thing to

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Speaker 1: NFL's highest scoring offense in the Lambau Field on Sunday night. Yeah, absolutely.

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Speaker 1: I mean, the Packers held the top scoring offense in

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Speaker 1: they really didn't have much of a downfield passing game.

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Speaker 1: I think a lot of that was because Derrick Henry

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Speaker 1: But Henry had twenty three carries for nine yards. Only

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Speaker 1: five of those twenty three carries did he gain more

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Speaker 1: But it also just shows the effort that the Packers

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Speaker 1: part of it doesn't change it. The effort all across

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Speaker 1: very unlikely. We're gonna sack Ryan Tannell eight times, and

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Speaker 1: that with. No it was going to be a hard work,

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Speaker 1: and everybody executed what their assignment was supposed to be.

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Speaker 1: You can have the best plan in the world, Mike

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Speaker 1: and Mike Petton drew up a heck of a one

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Speaker 1: These guys were jacked up about this. They were excited

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Speaker 1: that's set up Darnielle Savage's first interception, Preston Smith doing

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Speaker 1: out rush Derrick Henry heading into this one, but that's

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Speaker 1: exactly what he did. When Dylan started to get the

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Speaker 1: Now West heading into the playoffs, the Packers suddenly have

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Speaker 1: It's either I wish we had like a little graphic

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Speaker 1: the you're the expert on this. I just sit here.

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Speaker 1: I'm the fan. I just watch. That's okay. But the

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Speaker 1: that's really the situation the Packers have been in for

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Speaker 1: hasn't changed. The Packers have won the first two. If

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Speaker 1: The other intrigue that's thrown into this here with this

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Speaker 1: If the Bears beat the Packers, they get into the playoffs.

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Speaker 1: except the Rams now don't have their starting quarterbacks, so

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Speaker 1: I don't think the Bears are gonna put a whole

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Speaker 1: for their playoff lives. You and I were walking out

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Speaker 1: it is interesting how there are so many intriguing like

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Speaker 1: like just one Okay Packers versus Bears two thousand thirteen

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Speaker 1: winner take off for the NFC North. There aren't any

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Speaker 1: of There aren't a lot of those matchups, and that's

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Speaker 1: what makes this game so compelling. The number of layers

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Speaker 1: the fact that Mitchell Robinski has had has had some

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Speaker 1: to exercise. The fact that green Bay the last big

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Speaker 1: carey they gave up was against David Montgomery last month.

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Speaker 1: How Khalil Mack has been affected in this, the fact

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Speaker 1: these teams. There are a lot of storylines to follow,

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Speaker 1: Mike jeff Wilson, what he did last week against that

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Speaker 1: Seattle defense. It's very possible that the Forts find a

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Speaker 1: way to win that and their season on a high note.

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Speaker 1: But the green Bay Packers want to win this game.

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Speaker 1: They are not going to be looking at what happens there.

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Speaker 1: They if they feel like they're gonna be a team

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Speaker 1: that wins the Super Bowl that can contend to add

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Speaker 1: another Lombardi Trophy to this stadium. They want to beat

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Speaker 1: the Chicago Bears regardless of that. So it's gonna be

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Speaker 1: a great matchup. I think it's gonna be a fun week.

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Speaker 1: In the fact that you and I are gonna be

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Speaker 1: gonna see it on television. What this matchup means for

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Speaker 1: both of these teams Green Bay look in the lockdown

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Speaker 1: that number one in the Chicago Bears rising themselves from

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Speaker 1: the dead a little bit to maybe pay make a

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Speaker 1: playoff push. Yeah, the Bears trying to become just the

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Speaker 1: third team since the seventy NFL a f L merger

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Speaker 1: to have a six game losing streak during a season

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Speaker 1: and still make the playoffs. Only two other teams have

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Speaker 1: done at the nineteen seventies Cincinnati Bengals and the two

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Speaker 1: thousand and fourteen Carolina Panthers. So we'll have a lot

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Speaker 1: more to talk about with regard to the Bears later

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Speaker 1: this week and this whole playoffs scenario, West. You know,

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Speaker 1: the Seahawks game, the Cardinals, Rams game that impacts Packers

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Speaker 1: Bears and all that. All those games are gonna be

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Speaker 1: going on at the same time. That's how the NFL

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Speaker 1: has set it up. So it'll be you and I

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Speaker 1: doing the scoreboard, watching the players on the field, not

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Speaker 1: quite sure how much they'll be able to pay attention.

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Speaker 1: But with that we will sign off on this edition

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Speaker 1: of Packers Unscripted. Be sure to follow all of our

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Speaker 1: coverage of the team all week long on Packers dot

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Speaker 1: com for West, I Am Mike. Thanks for tuning in everybody.

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Speaker 1: We'll see you next time. M