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Speaker 1: It's throwback Thursday. Luka Doncic passes Magic Johnson on a

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Speaker 1: select list, Zach Lavine did something that Michael Jordan was

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Speaker 1: the last to do, and Trey Young did something his idol,

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Speaker 1: Steve Nash used to do all the time, although Tray

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Speaker 1: didn't really like it much. Hey, I'm Tasmelis and this

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Speaker 1: is what you need to know in the NBA for Thursday,

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Speaker 1: February eleventh. Let's start with Hawks MAVs because the ESPN doubleheader.

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Speaker 1: It was a good one and the Hawks free agent

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Speaker 1: to be John Collins looked like he was gonna win

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Speaker 1: this game for the Atlanta Hawks. They were riding his back.

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Speaker 1: He had thirty three points, getting whatever he wanted inside,

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Speaker 1: especially because Chris Topsporzingis was in foul trouble. But this

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Speaker 1: Atlanta Hawks team, same story all season long. They just

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Speaker 1: can't close teams out. They're up by nine going into

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Speaker 1: the fourth, but their perimeter defense was lacking in that core.

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Speaker 1: I'll make some excuses for them later. But Tim Hardaway Junior,

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Speaker 1: the former Hawk, got hot, Jalen Brunson was torching Trey

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Speaker 1: Young a little bit, and Luka Doncic choreographed it all

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Speaker 1: and It came down to the final play, Hawks down one,

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Speaker 1: three point seven seconds remaining, Atlanta inbounding. Trey Young gonna

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Speaker 1: get the ball right, No, he plays decoy a nice

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Speaker 1: play by Lloyd Pierce. He sets a downscreen on Willie

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Speaker 1: cauley Stein. So John Collins looks like he has a

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Speaker 1: free lane to the basket where Kevin Herder should inbound

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Speaker 1: it to him for a huge value jam that could

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Speaker 1: be the game winner, but Kevin Hurd decides not to

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Speaker 1: go to him. Tim Hardway was kind of helping on

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Speaker 1: the backside, but I think if it was in the

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Speaker 1: right place, John Collins would have been the only one

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Speaker 1: to be able to grab it. They go to Danilo Gallinari.

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Speaker 1: He gets a decent look, but he misses. Now. Trey Young,

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Speaker 1: after setting that pick, gets up fuming, goes right at

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Speaker 1: the referee and showed him that he's got a blodo.

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Speaker 1: He knows and was pissed that he didn't get the

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Speaker 1: call on a screen. I'm not sure how you would

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Speaker 1: get a call on that play. And his favorite player

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Speaker 1: growing up, Steve Nash love getting a bloody nose. He

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Speaker 1: loved getting a bloody anything. That bloody nos is a

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Speaker 1: Badge of Honor Tray Young, you set a pick on

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Speaker 1: a seven footer, you're gonna get hit. Willie Caley Stein

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Speaker 1: no ill intentions on that one. Now, I will say

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Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter, if the Hawks had Chris done,

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Speaker 1: even Rajon Rondo, I think that would have helped out

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Speaker 1: mainly Chris done. That would have helped out a lot

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Speaker 1: on the MAVs perimeter defense. They're lacking in that department,

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Speaker 1: and it would be nice to get those guys that

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Speaker 1: they signed in the off season to play. Bogdan Bogdanovic

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Speaker 1: also out for the Hawks. Now, Luka Doncic is now

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Speaker 1: second on the list for most triple doubles before the

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Speaker 1: age of twenty three, passing Magic Johnson and trailing only

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Speaker 1: Oscar Robertson. Okay, do you think I'm reaching with some

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Speaker 1: of these comparisons most triple doubles under the age of

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Speaker 1: twenty three? Well, I could have reached even more because

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Speaker 1: the Lakers and lebron played in three consecutive games for

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Speaker 1: the first time since nineteen ninety one in the days

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Speaker 1: of Magic Johnson. Although Magic Johnson wasn't technically playing, he

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Speaker 1: was out due to contracting the HIV virus. Saw. I

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Speaker 1: couldn't make that comparison. There's some integrity here on what

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Speaker 1: you need to know. But Lebron is seriously toying with

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Speaker 1: us LA took on Okac and the Thunder didn't even

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Speaker 1: have Shay Gilgess Alexander. They're All Star hopeful, but it

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Speaker 1: still went to overtime. The King had the game tying

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Speaker 1: three with twenty seconds left to send it to overtime.

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Speaker 1: The guy's a three poinn shooter now. And then when

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Speaker 1: OKC tried to inbound it to attempt a game winning

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Speaker 1: shot at the end of the period, Lebron made a deflection.

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Speaker 1: Although he saved it from going out of bounds. That

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Speaker 1: could have ended very badly for the Lakers. It didn't.

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Speaker 1: Lakers win twenty five points and seven assists for Lebron.

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Speaker 1: I think he just likes playing in overtime games. Fourth

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Speaker 1: straight OT game coming up on Friday. You heard it

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Speaker 1: here first. The Toronto Raptors continue their climb in the

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Speaker 1: Eastern Conference. Yes they do. They're six in the conference

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Speaker 1: despite having a sub five hundred record after beating Washington.

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Speaker 1: The conference standings in the East are crazy. They will

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Speaker 1: be the one team that rises from that parody though

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Speaker 1: their team ball cannot be stopped. They're getting something from

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Speaker 1: everybody that's too much for the Wizards to handle. With

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Speaker 1: It was a twenty two point win, but it was

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Speaker 1: kind of closer than it appeared. Can you have a

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Speaker 1: moral victory when you get beat by twenty two because

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Speaker 1: the Wizards they need those very badly. They're as healthy

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Speaker 1: as they're gonna get this season. They gave up one

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Speaker 1: hundred and thirty seven points. They're now at six and sixteen.

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Speaker 1: They've got fifty games left in this shortened season. They've

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Speaker 1: got to go thirty and twenty to get to five hundred.

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Speaker 1: That's not gonna happen. Something has got to change, a

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Speaker 1: major trade, maybe a coaching change. Russell Westbrook in this

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Speaker 1: game wanted to note this with only his second dunk

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Speaker 1: of the season, surprising, he's a layup man. He had

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Speaker 1: twenty three points and five turnovers. Maybe they can trade

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Speaker 1: somebody to the Raptors for Kyle Lowry because Kyle Lowry

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Speaker 1: has reportedly put his Toronto home up for sale. It's

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Speaker 1: reportedly listed at five point three million dollars. I don't

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Speaker 1: know anyone rich enough to even get a walk through

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Speaker 1: for that house. Maybe my former boss is at the

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Speaker 1: score Levi's hit me up and let's get to that

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Speaker 1: second game of the ESPN doubleheader. Jannis Atta kumpo oh

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Speaker 1: Janis had it going forty seven points by the way

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Speaker 1: of euro step In allie upin in mid range jump shooting.

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Speaker 1: The Bucks did a good job of getting him going

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Speaker 1: downhill at DeAndre Aiden, who has left out on an

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Speaker 1: island a lot of the time. But the Bucks didn't

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Speaker 1: have Drew Holliday in their back court, opening it up

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Speaker 1: for Chris Paul and Devin Booker, who combined for fifty

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Speaker 1: eight points. I loved me some Bryn Forbes, but he

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Speaker 1: ain't Drew Holiday defensively. Despite Jannis's forty seven points, this

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Speaker 1: game came down to the final shot, and it was

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Speaker 1: in Jannis's hands the game of the ball well be

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Speaker 1: on the three point line. Looked like he had that

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Speaker 1: Bucks lose, snapping a five game win streak. Pelicans Bulls,

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Speaker 1: Speaking of points, Zach Levine was the story, even though

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Speaker 1: the Bulls moved it around for a season high thirty

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Speaker 1: six assists doesn't matter unless you have bucket makers to

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Speaker 1: clinch those assists. Lavine had forty six points, rising way

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Speaker 1: up on nine made threes. He is the first Bulls

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Speaker 1: player to score one hundred and twenty in a three

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Speaker 1: game span since Michael Jordan in nineteen ninety seven. Jordan

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Speaker 1: didn't do it in nineteen ninety eight. Huh Slacker Kobe

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Speaker 1: White also had eight threes for the Bulls, first teammates

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Speaker 1: in NBA history to each make at least eight threes

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Speaker 1: in a game, surprising The Splash Brothers didn't do that.

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Speaker 1: Clippers Wolves Karl Anthony Town's returned to the lineup. He

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Speaker 1: had missed thirteen games with COVID nineteen. He said he

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Speaker 1: had a lot of scary nights where his vitals weren't good.

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Speaker 1: He was not one of those that had had an

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Speaker 1: his mom, Jackie to COVID nineteen complications last year. The

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Speaker 1: Clippers got the win, town scored some points. That doesn't

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Speaker 1: matter is the first time in a month he played

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Speaker 1: basketball with any contact, So good to see him back

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Speaker 1: on the floor. A few more games Indye Brooklyn. Brooklyn

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Speaker 1: decided to play some defense against a solid team in Indiana.

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Speaker 1: Of course they're going to get up for it. Indy

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Speaker 1: only scored thirty points in the first half. Brooklyn snapped

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Speaker 1: a three game losing streak. Kevin Durant back on Saturday

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Speaker 1: as they go to Golden State. Hello this game on ABC,

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Speaker 1: Nuggets beat Cleveland in a route. Grizzlies Hornets Memphis is

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Speaker 1: Kyle Anderson. It was a strange site. Hit four consecutive

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Speaker 1: shots for the Grizzlies in the third quarter, all from

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Speaker 1: the same spot in the corner. Bang bang, bang bang.

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Speaker 1: Charlotte could not recover from that. Some news quickly remember

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Speaker 1: how the MAVs weren't playing the national anthem before a games. Well,

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Speaker 1: that has changed. The day after the athletic report, the

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Speaker 1: NBA issued a statement quote with NBA teams now in

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Speaker 1: the process of welcoming fans back to their arenas, all

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Speaker 1: teams will play the national anthem in keeping with long

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Speaker 1: standing league policy. Mark Cuban said the MAVs will play

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Speaker 1: the anthem. Part of his statement was quote, going forward,

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Speaker 1: our hope is that people will take the same passion

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Speaker 1: they have for this issue and apply the same amount

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Speaker 1: of energy to listen to those who feel differently from them.

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Speaker 1: Only then we can move forward and have courageous conversations

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Speaker 1: that move this country forward and find what unites us

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Speaker 1: here here, here's hoping to you having some courageous conversations today.

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Speaker 1: I will be back on Friday to give the news

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