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Speaker 1: Good Man? Good? Yes, JJ. So you're you're familiar with

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Speaker 1: It's not just one or two guys. You know, if

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Speaker 1: and can really take us to where we want to go. Well,

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Speaker 1: fans are going to want to go to US Bank

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Speaker 1: get gritty in the infown, and have a lot of

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Speaker 1: fun heading into week one and so on and so forth.

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