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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Lounge presented by Draft Kings. I'm Cassie

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Speaker 1: Cherigo and today I am joined by Andrew Vorhies.

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Speaker 2: Thanks for being here with.

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Speaker 3: Me today, absolutely thanks for having me on.

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Speaker 1: So we're a few weeks away from the NFL drafts

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Speaker 1: and this time last year, your story was one of

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Speaker 1: the most talked about stories come out of the Combine

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Speaker 1: for fans that don't know you. Torir acl during drills

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Speaker 1: last year at the Combine and then kind of famously

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Speaker 1: at this point return the next day gutted out thirty

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Speaker 1: eight bench press reps. It was the most of anyone

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Speaker 1: last year at the Combine going into the Combine as

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Speaker 1: offensive lineman. Did you ever expect to become this sort

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Speaker 1: of viral sensation coming out of it? Yeah.

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Speaker 3: No, took me by surprise, just as it did everyone else.

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Speaker 3: So unfortunately it was because something bad that happened. But

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Speaker 3: I was glad to make something good happen out of it,

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Speaker 3: and I think it's going to make me a better player,

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Speaker 3: just knowing that I've gone through that adversity and just

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Speaker 3: having kind of like all the support and stuff from

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Speaker 3: previous players and fans and friends, and I mean the

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Speaker 3: list goes on and on. So the support throughout that

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Speaker 3: entire tragic process, if you will, Could it have been

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Speaker 3: any better if that makes any sense?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, totally, that's awesome.

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Speaker 1: Was there anyone in particularly like jumped outy like, oh,

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Speaker 1: this is really cool that I heard from this person

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean two people, so, like the more popular

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Speaker 3: one for the listeners is like JJ Watt, But personally

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Speaker 3: for myself, Tony Basselli he was a gold jacket player

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Speaker 3: in the NFL and he was a fellow USC trojan,

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Speaker 3: So hearing from him, just knowing that we kind of

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Speaker 3: had shared some similar background in the sense that we

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Speaker 3: both played at the same university together, that was pretty

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Speaker 3: cool for me, just because he's left such a significant

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Speaker 3: impact there in southern California and as well as in

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Speaker 3: the National Football League, So that was pretty cool for me.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's aweso.

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Speaker 1: It's gonna be like, a'd be cool to kind of

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Speaker 1: follow in his footsteps in that way.

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Speaker 3: Absolutely.

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Speaker 1: When you came out of the combine, then what was

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Speaker 1: kind of your mindset going into the draft? Obviously it

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Speaker 1: wasn't it didn't go the way you wanted it to go,

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Speaker 1: So how did you kind of approach that.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. So I think surgery was at the end of

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Speaker 3: March and the draft was towards the end of April,

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Speaker 3: and obviously a lot changed. I was not expecting to

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Speaker 3: get hurt throughout the process, but the reality was I did.

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Speaker 3: And I don't know, like really, going into it, I

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Speaker 3: wasn't sure what was going to happen, right, You kind

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Speaker 3: of you have expectations going into it healthy and then

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Speaker 3: something like this happens, right, and it's just your life

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Speaker 3: completely changes. So I was just taking it day by

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Speaker 3: trying to make the best out of the opportunity that

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Speaker 3: the day, the event happened, the injury happened, right, and

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Speaker 3: it was all about how I was going to respond,

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Speaker 3: And I felt like I had a great response, and

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Speaker 3: that really set me up to propel me throughout the

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Speaker 3: rest of last year, and once I kind of started

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Speaker 3: again through the recovery process, right, just really allowed me

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Speaker 3: to accelerate and stuff. So I'm in a good position

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Speaker 3: right now, and like I've been telling everybody, my family

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Speaker 3: and friends, I'm just scratching off the days waiting for

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Speaker 3: football to start back up, and I joined the team,

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Speaker 3: So I'm really looking forward to it.

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Speaker 1: I think a lot of fans share the sentiment of

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Speaker 1: scratching off the days until we're back at football, for sure.

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Speaker 1: The kind of the first thing on the calendar coming

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Speaker 1: now we know that the Ravens end up trading back

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Speaker 1: into the seventh round to select you after Eric Tacosta

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Speaker 1: Kun already had his end of the season draft press conference.

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Speaker 1: Were you aware that the Ravens like were seemingly done

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Speaker 1: at that point? What was kind of your mindset as

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Speaker 1: you know the seventh round is rolling on?

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Speaker 3: Yeah? So I mean before I was selected, right, I

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Speaker 3: came around and I was still on the boards. Uh selfishly,

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Speaker 3: And you know, I mean now looking back after all

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Speaker 3: it was pretty cool, especially now I'm a part of

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Speaker 3: know the history of it a little bit now, still

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Speaker 2: So what has the last year been like for you?

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Speaker 1: Not being able to be on the practice field obviously

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Speaker 1: not on the game field either. Coming in as a

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Speaker 2: What has that been like for you?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so a lot of people have kind of said

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Speaker 3: it's like a red shirt year, and it really was.

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Speaker 3: So have the opportunity to sit in throughout all of

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Speaker 3: our meetings, pretty much do everything except for actually put

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Speaker 3: But so I got to learn football from some amazing players.

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Speaker 3: We have an incredible offensive line room, incredible coach, incredible

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Speaker 3: got to really absorb and learn football from a different lens, right,

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Speaker 3: being that I wasn't actually on the field and doing

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Speaker 3: I've got to be really close with all the Strint coaches.

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Speaker 3: They're a great group, have total belief in everything that

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Speaker 1: Was it ever a question for you that you were

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I didn't even consider it as an

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Speaker 3: I just I wanted to be around and I want

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Speaker 1: Did you still feel like you were able to kind

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Speaker 1: just like that bonding of that first year for you.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean our room specifically right with you know,

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Speaker 3: Kevin Zeitler's not here anymore, but you just talk about

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Speaker 3: importance of kind of creating a brotherhood, especially in the

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Speaker 3: buying into kind of the brotherhood mentality was awesome. So yeah,

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Speaker 3: I felt every bit of part of the bond in

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Speaker 1: This is a fun locker room this year. I feel like,

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Speaker 1: did that feel like that for you coming out of college.

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Speaker 1: I think it's always a different kind of perspective for guys,

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Speaker 1: you don't have that like college atmosphere, But to me,

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Speaker 1: like this locker room this season kind of seems like

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, just like you said, coming out of college,

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Speaker 3: you just don't know what to expect. You're dealing with

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Speaker 2: Yeah, different times in their life.

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Speaker 3: Absolutely different seasons for sure. But yeah, no, it felt

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Speaker 1: Yeah, did not being able to step out on the

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Speaker 1: you kind of handle that throughout the year.

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Speaker 3: It was definitely a bomber, especially like when camp rolled

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Speaker 3: having the right headspace going into training camp, being that

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Speaker 3: I missed football more than ever right now, which is

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Speaker 3: I'll use it. I'll harness that. Yeah, he'll propel me

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Speaker 1: Who did you kind of lean on in that time

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Speaker 1: you talked about from like the spring to training camp

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Speaker 1: to kind of help you get in that right head space.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I contribute a lot of that to my wife, Samantha.

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Speaker 3: She really helped me out through all that. She's been

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Speaker 3: there with me now for we've been married for six years,

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Speaker 3: so we got married young in college, so she's been

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Speaker 3: nothing but uplifting and encouraging through all the ups and downs,

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Speaker 3: the ebbs and flows, if you will, but specifically through

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Speaker 3: my ACL injury at the combine. She really was my

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Speaker 3: just proud of her commitment to supporting me throughout my journey.

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Speaker 2: That's awesome. I love that. Props to her.

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Speaker 1: We appreciate that she's there for you in that way.

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Speaker 1: That's incredible. Thank you for listening to the We are

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Speaker 1: You mentioned Kevinzeitler, and obviously he's departed from the Ravens.

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Speaker 1: There's a few pieces from your group that have left.

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Speaker 1: So what are your kind of goals going into the

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Speaker 1: season knowing that there is a lot of opportunity in

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Speaker 3: Yeah, obviously I'm aware with the opportunity that lies ahead

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Speaker 3: of me. But at the end of the day, right

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Speaker 3: have to go and have to earn a job. Everyone

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Speaker 1: This week at league meetings, coach Harball kind of talked

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Speaker 3: Learned a lot about just details and a little saying

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Speaker 2: Absolutely.

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Speaker 1: I love watching him at practices. He's one of the

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm anxious, going back to what I said earlier,

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Speaker 2: A while, Yeah, for sure.

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Speaker 1: So outside of this incredible story, you know, you've had

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Speaker 3: I just want the raven fan base to know that

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Speaker 2: That's awesome.

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Speaker 3: It's continued not only through Baltimore, but kind of through

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Speaker 2: It is really good, really good. This is free pub

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Speaker 3: Yeah, So curating the list, is it what my college

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Speaker 3: track it all on Apple Maps, Okay, and I just

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Speaker 2: Everywhere you give like a rating, like a score for no.

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Speaker 3: I just kind of have places I have been, places

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Speaker 1: And I feel like Baltimore, like low key, is a

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Speaker 2: There's a lot of good restaurants.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, totally in your history buff two? Is that right?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a little bit of a silver lining this year.

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Speaker 1: All Right, Andrew, this has been awesome. I really think

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Speaker 2: So we haven't gotten to hear from you a lot

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Speaker 1: Year, so we're excited for you for this off season

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Speaker 3: Yeah, thank you again and I'm looking forward to it

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Speaker 3: Yep, awesome,