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Speaker 1: Welcome back to the Press Pass podcast.

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Speaker 2: Is Cassie Chergo and it's Monday, August twenty fifth. The

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Speaker 2: Ravens just wrapped up practice and head coach John Harball

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Speaker 2: addressed the media.

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Speaker 3: Okay, good to see everybody. Sure, appreciate you being here.

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Speaker 3: Beautiful day, beautiful setting, and a good, hard, tough football practice.

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Speaker 3: Appreciate the guys coming out and practice and the way

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Speaker 3: they did. And you know, we're kind of twofold. We're

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Speaker 3: working our way toward the final decisions and then also

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Speaker 3: working our way toward the start of the season. So

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Speaker 3: that's our kind of dual path right now. Happy with

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Speaker 3: the guys. I thought they really got out and got

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Speaker 3: after it today. See some extra guys running over there

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Speaker 3: doing some extra which is impressive. So I like the

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Speaker 3: way our guys work. I think that's that's kind of

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Speaker 3: how it's supposed to be and this is a hard

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Speaker 3: working group. We did have a couple of injuries. We

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Speaker 3: had Xavier had his Brokes clavicle, so he'll be out

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Speaker 3: for a while. And Dayton Wade had you have surgery

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Speaker 3: on his chest ribs, so he'll be out for a while.

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Speaker 3: So those two, those are the two injuries. You have.

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Speaker 3: All the other injuries are stuff that we we really

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Speaker 3: expect everybody to be back practicing next week. If they're

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Speaker 3: not practicing right now, we expect them to be practicing

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Speaker 3: next week at this point, What question do you have

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Speaker 3: that's all those guys well, I mean Zavier likely is

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Speaker 2: So as you said, Lamar, we'll be back out. They're

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Speaker 2: practicing today. How do you look for you?

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Speaker 3: I thought he looked good. You know, it's a good practice.

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Speaker 3: It's a lot going on. There's a lot of mental

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Speaker 3: work obviously for the quarterback here at this point in time,

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Speaker 3: so he's working through that, trying to.

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Speaker 2: Get it right.

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Speaker 3: We had a full day, have a full work day tomorrow,

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Speaker 3: another full work day on Wednesday. Then they'll get four

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Speaker 3: days away and then we'll be back Monday in the

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Speaker 3: game week.

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Speaker 1: You do you get all the way into the bills

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Speaker 1: at this point in this week or is it still

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Speaker 1: sort of your next week is cutting.

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Speaker 2: Your normal game week.

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Speaker 3: Then we get into the bills. Now you know the

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Speaker 3: bills and you know, even some other stuff too, you know,

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Speaker 3: for other upcoming games. Will start working on things on.

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Speaker 2: The you know, the roster deadline obviously, looming.

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Speaker 1: If you guys in your mind have it set or

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Speaker 1: is it's still kind of working through some of those

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Speaker 1: final spots.

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Speaker 2: And how much does special teams way into those Last week.

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Speaker 3: Well, start with the last part. Special teams will weigh in.

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Speaker 3: I mean, you know, we talked about that last week.

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Speaker 3: The roles are very important and you've got to play

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Speaker 3: at a high level, especially with the new kickoff kickoff

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Speaker 1: What was the rest of the question, If you've kind

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Speaker 3: I as admire the guys that can like remember all

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Speaker 3: three questions and then kind of go back through it.

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Speaker 3: You know, it's so impressive, the multi multi layered questions.

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Speaker 3: Gott to keep it simple for me. But was that

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Speaker 3: question again? We're pretty much we pretty much haven't made up.

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Speaker 3: We do pretty much have it made up. But things

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Speaker 3: can change, you know, and there's there's calls going back

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Speaker 3: and forth. I'm sure with Eric and the and the

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Speaker 3: scouts and for us and the football side, you just

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Speaker 3: you lock in on the football. And that's what we

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Speaker 3: told the guys today. You know, we had we had

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Speaker 3: and they'll be looking for their next opportunity as well.

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Speaker 3: And they're good guys, and they worked hard and they

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Speaker 3: showed that they have a future in the league somehow,

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Speaker 3: some ways got to keep growing as players. And then

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Speaker 3: the rest of the guys here too, the same thing.

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Speaker 3: It's there's a little anxiety, but they didn't let it

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Speaker 3: doing it because you don't know what's going to happen.

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Speaker 3: It's there's the fifty three, there's starting jobs, there's special

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Speaker 3: teams jobs, there's a fifty three man roster, there's a

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Speaker 3: do that, good things can happen for you down there.

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Speaker 4: Some years where you guys have made a trade literally

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Speaker 4: the day of the deadline, cup roster cut down.

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Speaker 2: Do you discuss that with there now? Do you sense

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Speaker 3: Well, I just know there's a lot of conversations going on.

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Speaker 3: I think when you know, and the Hill kind of

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Speaker 3: apprise me of where it's at, and he has. But

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Speaker 3: when something gets to be serious and then become serious,

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Speaker 3: you know, and usually it does work its way to

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Speaker 3: that's kind of where we're heading tomorrow.

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Speaker 2: Some of these guys might make the roster. But the

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Speaker 2: undrafted guys, I mean, especially this last preseason game really

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Speaker 4: What do you think has allowed Eric and the team

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Speaker 4: to kind of bring in guys of that caliber for year?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, I think we have a really good system.

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Speaker 3: We have great scouts. Eric's obviously a great leader, been

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Speaker 3: doing it here for a long time, had a lot

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Speaker 3: of success with the undrafted free agency, and we had

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Speaker 3: we had guys who were tryal guys that are are

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Speaker 3: and that doesn't always happen. And I'm sure there are

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Speaker 3: guys that condition to make the team that other other

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Speaker 3: You know, it shows you how deep we dig. I

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Speaker 3: think we have a really good system that has been built,

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Speaker 3: built with deep foundations, you know here, and we operate

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Speaker 3: in a really high level. I also think that we

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Speaker 3: work hard, you know, we develop our players. We bring

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Speaker 3: develop them because we think if you sign with the Ravens,

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Speaker 3: you know, you should get you should get coached, and

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Speaker 3: you should get every opportunity to to have to have

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Speaker 3: And when you do that, it's not just the fact

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Speaker 3: helps you bring in guys next year, for sure, because

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Speaker 3: if I'm an agent, I want to send them to

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Speaker 3: a chance. But it also makes you camp better. And

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Speaker 3: when your camps better top to bottom, you have better

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Speaker 3: Lamar's and those guys they get better practice too because

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Speaker 3: they're going against better, better players, who are better prepared,

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Speaker 3: just I think in the end it makes your whole

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Speaker 3: team better. God, that was a Was that a pretty

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Speaker 3: good answer? Yeah? Pretty deep.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I just have a sun of it on the

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Speaker 2: on Jay year.

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Speaker 1: First you expect him to be one of those guys

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Speaker 1: that would be back next week.

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Speaker 2: I do. And secondly, when he's missed.

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Speaker 1: That much time, what's the concern or however you want.

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Speaker 2: To put it, you know, being able to ramp him

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Speaker 3: Yeah, well, he's been working hard as far as all

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Speaker 3: he's been locked away in there. It's a nice place,

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Speaker 3: And they're doing that, they're doing what they need to do.

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Speaker 3: You get him ready for that. But yeah, practice is important,

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Speaker 3: Johnas Humble one of the guys that's banged up in

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Speaker 3: You brought him in at the very beginning of free agency.

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Speaker 2: How important you anticipate him being for special teams, know

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Speaker 2: when you did lose a couple of the veteran linebackers

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yea, humblets he's going to make the team.

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Speaker 3: You know, he's going to be a big part of

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Speaker 3: I know you don't like.

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Speaker 5: Comparison questions out but as far as the level look

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Speaker 5: death it all, it looked different this year Washington threes

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Speaker 5: it was better than it's I can recall maybe since

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Speaker 3: And it's hard to remember. I mean, you know, we've

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Speaker 3: we've we've had a lot of good preseasons. You might

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Speaker 3: good observation. Certainly better than last year for sure, you know,

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Speaker 3: just to make it if we're going to make a

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Speaker 3: direct comparison, I feel like we're a lot better place

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Speaker 3: goes deeper, more guys playing at a high level, for sure,

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Speaker 3: I'll definitely see that, and I think that's a good thing.

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Speaker 3: You know, hey, where we're at now, So it's all

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Speaker 3: this point. And I know you never say never, but

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Speaker 3: at this point, do you see any position group where

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Speaker 3: you would think you might be looking for guys who

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Speaker 3: are available after other teams do cut downs? Yeah, I

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Speaker 3: don't think we're scouring. I mean that I know that

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Speaker 3: I would be hard pressed for me to think that

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Speaker 3: know what opportunity you might present itself. For sure, how.

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Speaker 4: Much like how much joy do you get out of

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Speaker 4: telling some of these guys that they've made the team?

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Speaker 4: I'm talking about, you know, like undrafted free agents and

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Speaker 4: guys that may have not been given much of a

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Speaker 3: In so much joy I mean, I mean, the whole

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Speaker 3: thing is emotional, The whole thing is incredibly meaningful. Walking

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Speaker 3: not great. I'm like, man, I bet you played great. Man,

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Speaker 3: they're they're exactly right.

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Speaker 2: Doesn't get any easy to tell you guys, man.

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Speaker 3: No, it gets harder, Mike, It gets harder. You know,

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Speaker 3: it gets harder. You get yeh, I'm heading toward Grandpa

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Speaker 3: you know, and that's a tough conversation. But then the

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Speaker 3: give me a phone number and say, hey, let's keep

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Speaker 3: in touch, and let's keep in touch. All good, All right, thanks.

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