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Speaker 1: That's good, good seal. Yeah, the situation just sort of

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Speaker 1: and you know, I haven't really talked to Christian exactly

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Speaker 1: I don't know where he is and that whole process

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Speaker 1: and you know, each situation is different, you know, and

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Speaker 1: things like that. So I'm not gonna speak to that,

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Speaker 1: but you know, when it the time comes, you know,

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna talk to him, you know, And because obviously

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Speaker 1: it's it's not a knee, it's not a shoulder, you know,

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Speaker 1: have gone through it to play football, and you know,

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Speaker 1: so it would be a chance we can sit out

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Speaker 1: forward to that and just kind of letting him, you know,

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Speaker 1: get settled, like to kind of go through something that's

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Speaker 1: not your traditional injury. Yeah, it's it's definitely different, you know.

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Speaker 1: And that was you know, I can remember, you know,

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Speaker 1: and it happened, I kind of got cleared, and then

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Speaker 1: a week later, COVID happened, and everyone's freaking out obviously

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Speaker 1: know it's uh, you know, it's definitely scary. I'm glad

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Speaker 1: you know, but it is different and in each case

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Speaker 1: I said, I look forward to talking to him and

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Speaker 1: any advice, you know, because it's something I've gone through

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Speaker 1: And you know, it's just got to get healthy and

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Speaker 1: gratitude because, like I said, you know, it was you know,

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Speaker 1: But just trust your doctors and everything else like that,

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