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Speaker 1: And now we walcome in one of the newest members

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Speaker 1: of the Giants, fullback Patrick o'cord.

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Speaker 2: Patrick, what's going on man?

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Speaker 3: Welcome aboard, Thank you glad to be here.

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Speaker 2: So why did you pick the Giants?

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Speaker 3: I picked the Giants because it felt like the right

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Speaker 3: fit for me. It felt like it was close to home.

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Speaker 3: I'm from Massachusetts. Coach Harbaugh has been here. He's been

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Speaker 3: my coach the last nine years. He hired almost half

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Speaker 3: of all the coaches that I know and worked with.

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Speaker 3: And just you know, seeing this team last year and

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Speaker 3: just seeing how much fun they were having, and I

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Speaker 3: felt like I want to be a part of it,

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Speaker 3: and I feel like I can help this team. And

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Speaker 3: now I'm here, so and.

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Speaker 1: So many your teammates are joining you, and guys on offense,

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Speaker 1: special teams, defense. What is it about John Harbaugh that

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Speaker 1: makes players that he previously coached want to follow him

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Speaker 1: and continue to be coached by him.

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Speaker 3: I think the way he believes in you and how

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Speaker 3: he's loyal to you. You know, for me, I was

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Speaker 3: undrafted deep defensive lineman out of the University of Maine.

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Speaker 3: He gave me the opportunity to play fullback, opportunity to

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Speaker 3: play both sides of the ball in my first couple

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Speaker 3: of years and continue to believe in me and still

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Speaker 3: believes in me. So he's you know, I don't know

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Speaker 3: where my career would be without him. So as soon

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Speaker 3: as he wanted me here, I was all for it.

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Speaker 3: And I joked around with him. I said, I said,

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Speaker 3: if you were coaching a Pop Warner football team, you

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Speaker 3: know I'm in there, So I'm interested. So I'm just

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Speaker 3: just grateful and just honored that he still believes in

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Speaker 3: me and still wants me.

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Speaker 1: I'm not surely that the parents would want you to

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Speaker 1: play against their Pop Warner because it's just for the record, right,

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Speaker 1: tell the fans of the story about how you went

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Speaker 1: from defense to fullback. How did that transformation happen? Was

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Speaker 1: it your idea? Was it somebody else's idea?

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Speaker 2: How that are?

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Speaker 3: It's kind of a long story, but like to break

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Speaker 3: it down quickly. So it was rookie, rookie, rookie year,

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Speaker 3: first week. OTA's you know, I'm doing my thing playing

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Speaker 3: d line, thinking like all right, I'm making some plays.

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Speaker 3: Coaches are noticing me, you know, on drafted out of Maine,

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Speaker 3: and they asked me to get a rep a fullback,

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Speaker 3: and I'm like, yeah, sure, I'll do that. Like I'll

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Speaker 3: do anything to try to make the team. I'll hand

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Speaker 3: out waters to guys that that means I'm gonna be

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Speaker 3: on the team. And I had one rep. I did well,

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Speaker 3: and I did the right thing. Right after the REP,

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Speaker 3: I stood right next to co Charbaugh and I started

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Speaker 3: kind of chirping in his ear, like you know, he

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Speaker 3: was like, huh that was that was pretty good. I'm like, yeah, thanks,

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Speaker 3: I'm like I used to play in high school. And

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Speaker 3: I think that kind of got like, oh okay, like

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Speaker 3: he's done it before, maybe like maybe this is a

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Speaker 3: natural fit form. And it kind of just from there

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Speaker 3: just kind of snowball if I started to get a

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Speaker 3: little bit more, started to do some tight end stuff,

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Speaker 3: still playing D line, and then it was preseason, you know,

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Speaker 3: just strictly D line and you know, I'm trying to

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Speaker 3: make a defensive lineman. You know, I'm trying to That's

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Speaker 3: what I'm here for. And then second week, the second

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Speaker 3: preseason game, they gave me some plays to know. It

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Speaker 3: was like, you know, just some basic plays like me

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Speaker 3: leading up on a linebacker or meet in line blocking

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Speaker 3: down on a d ND and we're in Miami and

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Speaker 3: probably had like five or eight snaps on offense, and

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Speaker 3: I'm blocking out while it's happening, just because you know,

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Speaker 3: it's an NFL game. I'm playing offense. I didn't play offense

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Speaker 3: in college, and I'm just pancaking guys like I'm just

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Speaker 3: like just absolutely annihilating people and that. From there on out,

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Speaker 3: I just started getting more reps, getting more comfortable. As

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Speaker 3: soon as as soon as camp ended, I made the team,

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Speaker 3: switched my number to forty two. I was obviously ninety

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Speaker 3: one playing defense, and then just fully with the offense,

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Speaker 3: learning from them and playing both sides, got an extension,

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Speaker 3: made a Pro Bowl, and just just fullback.

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Speaker 1: Since then, now you're a guy that obviously played on

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Speaker 1: the line of scrimmage as a defensive tackle right as

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Speaker 1: a fullback, though, do you like being on the line

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Speaker 1: kind of as that tight end type of thing or

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Speaker 1: do you like kind of getting that run start from

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Speaker 1: the backfield to give you the chance to quote you

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Speaker 1: annihilate people.

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Speaker 3: Right, It doesn't really matter where I line up, to

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Speaker 3: be honest, It's just wherever I can be to make

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Speaker 3: an impact. That's all I met. That's all I care about.

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Speaker 3: But yeah, I mean it's nice when I, you know,

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Speaker 3: full sprinting and I get to just lay everything into

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Speaker 3: a defensive end. That's a lot of fun. But it

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Speaker 3: doesn't really matter. Put me wherever you want me.

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Speaker 2: Do you like the pancake Pat Moniker?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think it's I think it's pretty good. Yeah. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: it's like a play on my name. It started out,

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Speaker 3: you know, it's actually again my rookie year, and OTAs

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Speaker 3: is just you know, I thought I was doing my

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Speaker 3: me Project Pat, and I'm like project Pat. They called

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Speaker 3: me a project. Like, I don't I don't understand what

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Speaker 3: this nickname is.

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Speaker 2: You have like an experiment of something.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, And I just but I liked it because it

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Speaker 3: gave me a name, you know, it gave me a

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Speaker 3: name in the locker room. Guys kind of knew me,

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Speaker 3: and from there on out it just kind of just

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Speaker 3: started getting nicknames. I think it was Lamar who gave

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Speaker 3: me pancake Pat, because I think it's my fourth year.

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Speaker 3: Fourth year, that's when I was really starting to pancake

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Speaker 3: guys and that name stuck, and then I got an extension.

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Speaker 3: It was paid Pat, and then Pro Bowls it was

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Speaker 3: Pro Bowl Pat, and then I had like pizza commercials,

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Speaker 3: its Pizza Pat. So it's just like just a bunch

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Speaker 3: of nicknames. But you can it's called me Pat.

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Speaker 2: But well, i'll tell you what.

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Speaker 1: You're in New Jersey now, you can be Pizza Pat

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Speaker 1: if you want, because there's all sorts of pizza in

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Speaker 1: New Jersey.

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Speaker 2: Now, do you like the silver dollars?

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Speaker 1: Do you like the law the like flat big pancakes,

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Speaker 1: like griddle cakes?

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Speaker 2: What's your pancake preference?

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Speaker 3: I mean it doesn't really matter.

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Speaker 2: No, No, it doesn't. Cakes are good.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think it's just regular, just regular original pancakes.

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Speaker 3: I guess nothing too crazy.

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Speaker 1: That sounds good. Yeah, Now that you're here, what are

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Speaker 1: to hit? That's your kind of bucket listen in New

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Speaker 3: I think I think I need help with this one.

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Speaker 3: You know, I'm from Massachusetts, but only in New York

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Speaker 3: a couple of times. I mean, there's so much the city

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Speaker 3: has to offer. I really don't even know where to begin.

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Speaker 3: I mean, I have you know, I was close with

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Speaker 3: Jermaine Luminar built in the same drive class, so I'm

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Speaker 3: definitely gonna be asking him for a lot of help. Obviously.

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Speaker 3: I know there's this great shows, there's other sports teams

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Speaker 3: probably need some help with that.

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Speaker 1: Are you in the tight tight end room generally speaking,

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Speaker 1: or are you in the running back room end room?

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Speaker 3: Just because I do so much with the tight ends

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Speaker 3: and the running back room, like I it just doesn't

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Speaker 3: make sense for what I'm being asked to It makes

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Speaker 3: more sense to being there.

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Speaker 1: Are you one of these guys that lobbies for touches

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Speaker 1: and a lot of these we want to get.

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Speaker 3: Hit, actually prefer not to get the ball out much? Really? Yes,

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Speaker 3: Why because I think other players or are going to

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Speaker 3: I am a big guy, physical guy and you know,

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Speaker 3: give me the ball great, like, I'll do whatever I

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Speaker 3: have to do with it. But I think blocking for

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Speaker 3: can be that physical presence, I think that's more important

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Speaker 3: for me and at the end of the day of

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Speaker 3: a bone every once in a while, and I'll throw

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Speaker 3: a dog a bone, but I'm not gonna. I could

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Speaker 3: care less if I don't get a single touch or

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Speaker 3: like a target all year. Last year I had one target,

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Speaker 3: one catch the last drive of the season, and I

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Speaker 3: was completely fine with that.

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Speaker 1: Why A and B would you consider being like the

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Speaker 1: George Kittle of full backs where you guys have like

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Speaker 1: the full back school, and like, what would you guys

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Speaker 2: Would you just like just hate people all day? Like that?

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Speaker 2: Would that work?

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Speaker 3: I mean you probably, yeah, you probably try to just

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Speaker 3: just work on your block and I guess Allen and

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Speaker 3: some handoffs and stuff like that. But yeah, I think

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Speaker 3: I definitely think they're starting to see a resurgence and

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Speaker 3: be that standard. I'm I'm trying to show teams why

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Speaker 1: That welcome Aboard, Appreciate the time, Thank you appreciate that

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Speaker 1: required one of the newest members in the New York

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