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Speaker 1: it's it's a great um, it's a great opportunity and um,

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Speaker 1: And um, you know, Scar does a great job of

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Speaker 1: been pretty pretten, pretty impressive. Joe's done a great job

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Speaker 1: So you know, it's been impressive to see what he's done.

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Speaker 1: good football, and that's really what matters going forward. You know,

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