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Speaker 1: Health president and CEO. Has been in that Rolsin's twenty fourteen.

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Speaker 1: He led the planning, financing, and construction of the Oshan

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Speaker 1: Children's Hospital, Kalida. Of course a proud partner the Bills

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Speaker 1: title spart So for one Bills Drave Live, We're happy

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Speaker 1: to have Jody Lemeo on the line with us right now. Hi.

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Speaker 1: Jody's John Murphy and Steve Tasker in Buffalo. Hey, guys,

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Speaker 1: how are you doing? Hanging in there doing great? Thanks

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Speaker 1: for coming on, Jody. I know there's a lot of

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Speaker 1: stuff to talk about. But I saw this little note

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Speaker 1: is not serious at all. You you were an intern

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Speaker 1: that right? It's true? Yeah, that is true. That was

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Speaker 1: that was nineties. Steve was there too, so that was

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Speaker 1: when it was. It was going into the fall of

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Speaker 1: ninety It was the JD. Williams Harwell Gardner draft. I

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Speaker 1: got great memories from that, working with late great miss

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Speaker 1: who's who back then, and Jim and the boys and

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Speaker 1: all and Steve and yeah, I was a young little guy,

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Speaker 1: a lot more hair, much thinner. You know. You know

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Speaker 1: what I'm talking about, right, I know that's a great

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Speaker 1: time to be around it. Well, you pre draft? Is

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Speaker 1: that when you were doing your internship? Was it before they?

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Speaker 1: Actually I actually was pre draft and I was I worked.

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Speaker 1: I actually worked the draft room and Murph, I don't

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Speaker 1: know if you remember this. I think Steve by The

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Speaker 1: moving them as people were being picked. But the really

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Speaker 1: kind of cool thing for back then, what was I

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Speaker 1: we can blame you about them, but but you don't

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Speaker 1: I'll tell you that's a bridge. I'm coming. And now

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Speaker 1: I think it's really important, you know, for all of

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Speaker 1: The DAM CEO of Kalida Health. Hey, Jody, I've heard

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