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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Person Behind the Pads podcast, a chat

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Speaker 1: with a Colts player about life on the grid iron.

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Person Behind the Pads podcast, a new

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Speaker 1: Colts podcast series in which we talk to players about

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Speaker 1: life outside of football. We talk about everything, family, food, friends,

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Speaker 1: growing up, the only rule no football questions. And our

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Speaker 1: guest this week, wide Receiver. I don't even know if

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Speaker 1: I can say by position Wide receiver, Michael Pittmanjunior, because

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Speaker 1: we're not supposed to talk about fotball, so from this

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Speaker 1: point on, just Michael Pittman Junior. It's so great to

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Speaker 1: have you, thanks to taking the time is to down

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Speaker 1: with us. Hey, Yes, Now this time of year, a

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Speaker 1: lot of people will see out in front of the complex.

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Speaker 1: There's a huge pond, there's little golf course. You're probably

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Speaker 1: one of the guys who most frequently takes a little

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Speaker 1: time maybe in the afternoon to go out there, do

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Speaker 1: a little bit of phishing, maybe get with the guys

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Speaker 1: and play golf. But most recently we have multiple reports

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Speaker 1: that you've taken advantage of seeing other guys out there

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Speaker 1: on the golf course and when you're maybe pulling out

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Speaker 1: of the parking lot, they get into the backswing and

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Speaker 1: you don't just honk the horn of your pickup truck,

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Speaker 1: you actually have a very unique sound of your truck.

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Speaker 2: Yes, so I do have a six horn train horn kit.

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Speaker 2: I think it's like the like Nightmare horn blasters kit.

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Speaker 2: And I like to have fun with it, you know,

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Speaker 2: you know, like I try to catch guys walking in

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Speaker 2: and out, and I mean it works probably ninety percent

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Speaker 2: of the time. I mean, I mean guys will drop

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Speaker 2: their phones, will drop with the halv of their hands,

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Speaker 2: and uh, it's pretty funny.

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Speaker 1: What initially inspired you to outfit? You have a large

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Speaker 1: pickup truck, like you are tough to mess but to

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Speaker 1: add to it, you know, the emphasis of being able

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Speaker 1: to throw down the train horn sound on command.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, you know, honestly, I don't know why

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Speaker 2: I got it because it's so obnoxious that like I

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Speaker 2: don't ever really use it unless.

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Speaker 3: I'm here, So like, I have it really just to

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Speaker 1: Is there anything that other guys because a lot of

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Speaker 1: guys will customize their cars and different things, is there

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Speaker 1: anything that anyone else has that you kind of were like,

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Speaker 1: oh man, that's kind of something cool that maybe I

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Speaker 1: would want to add onto my car at some point

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Speaker 1: in time or on a particular you know, vehicle at

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Speaker 2: So I think Matt Pryor last year he had a

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Speaker 2: super tall ram truck, and that's kind of what inspired

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Speaker 2: me to build my big truck, is like, because I mean, like,

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Speaker 2: I've always liked trucks, but I've never thought of putting

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Speaker 2: an eight inch lift on it and thirty seven inch

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Speaker 2: about that. And then I was like, hey, like I

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Speaker 2: I got my truck, and then three months later I

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Speaker 1: I don't think that most people would think like, oh,

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Speaker 1: illustrate a little bit about who you are because you

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Speaker 1: do have such a passion for being outdoors. I feel

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Speaker 1: of like Midwestern like fishing, being outdoors, all of that.

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Speaker 1: What is it so much that initially piqued your interests,

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Speaker 1: particularly in fishing and just being outdoors as much as possible.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I say it started with my grandfather. So my

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Speaker 2: From when we were five years old, we would break

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Speaker 2: and we'd run down there and we'd fish the lake,

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Speaker 2: and then they'd drive down and they'd like yell at us, like, well,

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Speaker 2: we'd do it again the next day. And we were

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Speaker 2: just some sneaky kids. And once I got older, we

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Speaker 2: So I started fishing the beach. I started spearfishing, which

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Speaker 2: been a slippery slope from there. Now. I hunt every

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Speaker 2: had an absolute blast. I mean up on the Holliakala Mountain.

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Speaker 2: If I'm saying that right, you know, like like I'm

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Speaker 2: And then I mean, you're hunting up there, it's clouds,

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Speaker 3: You're on top of a mountain. It was awesome.

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Speaker 1: How cathartic and therapeutic is that to have that escape,

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Speaker 2: You, absolutely And I think that's why I'm so drawn

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Speaker 2: to it, because it's one thing that it's challenging enough

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Speaker 2: you're not thinking about anything else. And having a job

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Speaker 2: like this where it can get stressful because one just

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Speaker 2: the stress of the job, stress of the media, stress

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Speaker 3: There's just a lot of stressors. So it's good to have.

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Speaker 2: Something that you can become immersed in and you're not

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Speaker 2: worrying about that for the time that you're doing it.

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Speaker 1: So far, What is the proudest catch or your proudest

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I'm not much of a trophy hunter,

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Speaker 2: Like I don't really post anything on social media for

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Speaker 2: that reason because I don't do it for other people.

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Speaker 2: But I'd say my best catch, well, it's really fishing.

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Speaker 2: I caught a four hundred pound Pacific marlin in Kawhii

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Speaker 2: my biggest catch. But then my biggest fail is I

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Speaker 2: was hunting white tailed deer here in Indiana and I

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Speaker 2: Was through these trees, and I just got so excited

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Speaker 2: don't like to shoot doze because then I gotta go

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Speaker 2: like I will sometimes, but I'd rather just just buck hunt.

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Speaker 1: It's one of those things though, where the misses make

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Speaker 1: you appreciate the ones that you get later on, right,

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Speaker 1: you can get a little bit better. You learn from

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Speaker 1: all of those experiences. Well, another skill that you have

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Speaker 1: picked up in a different aspect you and your family.

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Speaker 1: You have horses now and your wife is pregnant expecting

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Speaker 1: your second child, your first son this spring, so you've

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Speaker 1: had to literally take the reins of working the horse

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Speaker 1: and doing all of that. What have you had to

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Speaker 2: Yeah, So my wife has had horses since she was three,

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Speaker 2: so she's always wanted them, but we never got into

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna buy her a horse, And then we figured

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Speaker 2: out which one we wanted. We drove to Ohio and

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Speaker 2: then we saw him and his name is Hank, which

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Speaker 2: is her horse, and he's a very well trained horse.

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Speaker 2: She can't ride him right now because she is pregnant,

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Speaker 2: right I don't want her to fall off or anything.

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Speaker 2: But I've been learning to be cause like I can

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Speaker 2: back in college, she kind of got me into it

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Speaker 2: because that's like her thing, like she loves horses and stuff.

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Speaker 2: So I tried it out because it's her thing and

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Speaker 2: I wanted to try to get into it too, and

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Speaker 2: I was I was okay. I wasn't great by any means.

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Speaker 2: I got to ride an off track Thoroughbread and for

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Speaker 2: those of you that know horses, those are pretty hot

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Speaker 2: blooded and they want to keep their head up and

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Speaker 2: the horse. I just had this lunge rope and a stick,

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Speaker 2: and then you step in front of him, make him

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Speaker 2: I'm learning every single day. I'm slowly becoming a horseman.

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Speaker 1: In a sense, a cult and a horseman. Yes, now

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Speaker 1: you mentioned Keana has ridden horses her entire life. Miila's

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Speaker 1: almost two, yes, is she of age to start riding yet?

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Speaker 2: So we have put her on Hank, but just kind

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Speaker 2: she'll sit on him for like thirty minutes and then

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Speaker 3: Off and she's crying.

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Speaker 2: She's like no, like I want to ride Hank, and

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Speaker 2: she's like Hank, Hank, Hank. And I'm like, honey, Hank,

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Speaker 2: you know, like Hank is tied, he needs water, and

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Speaker 2: like she's like, no, I don't want to ride him.

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Speaker 2: I'm like all right, well, and then we'll just take

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Speaker 2: her off. She's crying, but she's getting better, like every day,

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Speaker 2: and she just likes to pet them and just be

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Speaker 2: the same time, because she'll just try and run up

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Speaker 2: to the horse and horses are very powerful. So we're

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Speaker 2: trying to teach her that horses can be nice, but

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Speaker 2: they are also unpredictable because they are animals. So we're

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Speaker 2: teaching her the fine line. But it's hard to teach

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Speaker 2: a almost two year old anything, of.

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Speaker 1: Course, but we're especially when she's tempted with a horse exactly.

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Speaker 1: You got married during your rookie season, welcome to your

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Speaker 1: daughter that off season. You have your son coming this

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Speaker 1: spring summer time May June. And one of the things

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Speaker 1: you talked about a few weeks ago was the added

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Speaker 1: motivation of being a father. Absolutely, how much have you

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Speaker 1: enjoyed sharing some of these interests with your daughter and

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Speaker 1: how much you looking forward to being able to do

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Speaker 1: these sun do these things also with your son.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so we actually had a major landmark. So my

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Speaker 2: daughter caught her first fish by herself. I think this

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Speaker 2: I just try to get them to do as much

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Speaker 2: what I love. So I figured that they might like

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Speaker 1: Are you breaking news right here on the podcast for

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well here, everybody in my family knows that, like,

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Speaker 2: our main goal is six kids, but we're just taking

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Speaker 1: Well go for any you mentioned Philip, any advice that

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Speaker 2: No, but I actually should hit them back up because

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Speaker 1: You're gonna welcome your son, You're gonna hunt, you're gonna fish,

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Speaker 1: Now, so that sounds incredible. Well, when you get back

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Speaker 1: I am sure no doubt you will get the fishing

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Speaker 1: thank you so much for the time.

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Speaker 3: Thank you guys,