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Speaker 1: I always love leading it off with ivan, good morning, girlfriend,

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Speaker 1: how are you doing doing well? For you? Good afternoon?

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Speaker 1: As you say, I'm sorry, I guess it is. I

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Speaker 1: We're not going cold turkey. Brandon was ready to go in.

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Speaker 1: He has been practicing at that spot. He knew what

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Speaker 1: So we were slowly geared for it. The young guys,

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Speaker 1: some of the stuff that James was doing. Well, we'll

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Speaker 1: throw it at him this week and see what sticks

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Speaker 1: in practice, See what you can handle. Thank you, you

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Speaker 1: got abate without Mike, rais fab I met. Go ahead, Mike.

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Speaker 1: I just love being like a fly on the wall

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Speaker 1: between you and Karen. I'st true, Gems. I've been a

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Speaker 1: long time, long time. What's up he got for me?

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Speaker 1: we should do a podcast. That would be one boy girl.

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Speaker 1: He'll always have. I spent twenty years with a young guy.

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