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Speaker 1: doing great. That was a huge relief when you know,

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Speaker 1: Chris now it's just we're gonna keep getting better news.

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Speaker 1: It kind of puts it, you know, it put it

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Speaker 1: But it also kind of got allowed us to kind

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Speaker 1: We love this game. We want to continue to be

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Speaker 1: around it. UM keep obviously still thinking about him every

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Speaker 1: hoping he'll be on the sideline potentially this weekend. You know,

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Speaker 1: I don't know if that's possible. But again, I think

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Speaker 1: about those guys all the time, and and it's been

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Speaker 1: a good We've had those good conversations and checking in

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Speaker 1: each other because I have a bunch of friends in

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Speaker 1: that building. A thank you, guys, Thank you