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Speaker 1: Hey, everybody. Chris Hayrey with you on the Chargers Training

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Speaker 1: Camp Podcast. Today. I'm joined by the preseason television voice

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Speaker 1: of the Chargers, Spirodidas Spirow, and I look ahead to

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Speaker 1: Sunday's first preseason game at StubHub Center and discuss his

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Speaker 1: of the Los Angeles Chargers, Dean Spanos. All right, it's

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Speaker 1: a new chapter in Chargers football, and today we have

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Speaker 1: chairman of the Los Angeles Chargers, Dean Spanos. Dean, how

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Speaker 1: are you, sir? I'm doing great, Thank you, Dean. I

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Speaker 1: want to begin with these last two weeks here at

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Speaker 1: The people that have come out have been so gracious,

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Speaker 1: So it's something that really helps get us started for

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Speaker 1: I have to tell you now we're working on parallel

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Speaker 1: How much are you looking forward to getting this thing

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Speaker 1: how you doing, Chris good to being your third straight

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