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Speaker 1: But again, we're not gonna We're not gonna hand anybody anything.

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Speaker 1: We want them to come in, compete, work hard, and

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Speaker 1: you know, again we want to see progress. I've said

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Speaker 1: that since day one, and you know, I think this

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Speaker 1: will lead us to that