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Speaker 1: What's up, Chase? What's going on? Mike? A long time

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Speaker 1: to see It's great to see you again. Great to

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Speaker 1: see you two. Welcome back. Thank you. It's really great

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Speaker 1: to be back. Do you have a good day yesterday?

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Speaker 1: I had a great day. It was just Zeus and

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Speaker 1: macaroni and cheese. I'll tell you what. That was something

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Speaker 1: Evans mac and cheese. So first time I think we've

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Speaker 1: I could be wrong on that, but just take us

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Speaker 1: through sort of how you got yourself through the setback,

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Speaker 1: how that exactly looks is something that you know, people

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Speaker 1: But I personally feel that, you know, I feel I

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