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Speaker 1: to check that box, if you will. And uh, as

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Speaker 1: the Home of the Cowboys Wood five three The Fan. Stephen, Uh,

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Speaker 1: more team mystery we wanted to ask you about. We've

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Speaker 1: been trying to figure out a couple of weeks ago.

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Speaker 1: You had to emphatically shut a door so someone wouldn't

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Speaker 1: conversation elsewhere. Yeah, it wasn't you that had to be

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Speaker 1: told to go elsewhere? Was it? It was not? I

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Speaker 1: But noways I wasn't involved in the hitting the desk

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Speaker 1: We'll keep looking, We'll keep looking into it, Steve, this

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Speaker 1: is a good good time for the buye or this

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Speaker 1: the buye week today? I think we're good with where

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Speaker 1: I think it's as good as any and we'll take

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Speaker 1: advantage of this. And I know Michael do a great

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Speaker 1: competitive Vikings team. We obviously have the most respect for

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Speaker 1: for coach Zimmer and know that they're going to be

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Speaker 1: a handful as well when we travel up there to

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Speaker 1: play the Vikings. Thank you very much for the time, Stephen.

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Speaker 1: We love talking with you every Monday, and we'll catch

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Speaker 1: up with you again down the road. Sounds great, guys,