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Summer Report: Lapel Basketball with Kevin Cherry (Co-Host: Grant Shouse; Podcast No. 315.2) · The Central Indiana Sports Report

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  [SPEAKER_01]: What you are listening to now is the Central Indiana Sports Report podcast number three hundred and fifteen point two.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Our boys basketball summary port with the lapel bulldogs and head coach Kevin Cherry, tow hosted by Grant Chance.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: You're listening to the central Indiana Sports Report with your host, Greg Mendel.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Most of the time, Grant, if a team is a team in six and loses a pair of thousand point scores that you're think, oh no, next year might be six and eight team.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: But that is certainly not the case for LePel coming off a disappointing into last season for sure, but so much promise with this young roster.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, and Coach Cherry talked about how this summer, they went twenty six and five.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: They played just over thirty games this summer.
• 0:54
  [SPEAKER_03]: And that's what I mean, that's a lot of games.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: That's about as many as you'd be playing in a regular season if you go deep into the state tournament.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: They have a lot of newcomers that you'll hear about, you'll hear Coach Cherry talk about, but he's doing a fantastic job within this year.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: And they're going to be a team to look out for.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: And they beefed up their schedule, you know, going to be playing Anderson, like they always do, Liberty Christian.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: Pendleton Heights and then, you know, talking about, you know, adding Lafayette Jeff to the schedule this next season as well.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: So it's gonna be, it's gonna be a good year for Lapelle and, you know, I heard a coach say the other day that, you know, hand out championships in the summer, but if you do, then you'd probably hand one out to this Lapelle team.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: It's a great, great way of putting it.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Here's our earlier conversation with Coach Jerry.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Welcome back to the Central Indiana Sports Report, Lappelle head coach Kevin Terry and coach.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I know you have a lot of big shoes to fill on that program.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: What have you seen from this summer?
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Well, we just finished our June season, if you will.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: The Tuesday night pack leg where you play to every Tuesday night, two games.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: And I have to tell you Greg, and all the years I've been coaching this this month, the June has probably been
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  [SPEAKER_02]: The most pleasing for a lot of different reasons that I'm sure we'll talk about.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: But it was a very successful month for us as a program.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: And I think it set us up nicely for this upcoming season.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: Go to what was the most pleasing about this summer for you as a team?
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Good question, Greg.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Well, OK.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: So we're going to have five seniors that return to our program next year.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: And we've had kids in our program that have just been buying their time.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: for their opportunity to contribute and a varsity level.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Now, they've contributed every day in practice and our coaching staff.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: We've seen that every day for the last two to three years in some of these kids.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: It's just, you know, we've had some really good players in front of them.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: But the five seniors that we've got coming back, Tyler Cash, has had a fantastic June.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: And when it comes to shooting the basketball, he shoots it every bit as high as
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  [SPEAKER_02]: as some of the most elite shooters that I have an opportunity to coach.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: He's had a fantastic summer.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Quinn Wilkins comes back and again, he shoots the ball at a very high level and he's now playing Barcy basketball.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: This will be his third.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: It's fight of the genetics, right?
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, that came from you, not me.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Luke Jones comes back and started last year, Devon Craig comes back as last year and then we've got some juniors that will put around them.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: I think, you know, when it's all said and done, we may surprise some people from our, you know, we lose two one thousand point scores and for you to say, hey, I think we got chance to be ever been as good as we were last year.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: You know, that doesn't normally go hand in hand, but I think that is the case.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: Who is the most impressive team you guys played this summer?
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  [SPEAKER_03]: Park Heritage.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Man, they're really good.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: We played Westfield too, and I shouldn't say,
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  [SPEAKER_02]: I mean Westfield, I knew Westfield was going to be extremely good, but we just have never crossed paths with park heritage with them being in southern Indiana, right?
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  [SPEAKER_02]: And we played them up at the T-One camp and we actually, we were fortunate enough to beat them once and they beat us in the championship game at T-One, but they are really good.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: They have great size.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Their guard play is really elite and they were, they have a very nice team and I would think they have a good chance of starting the season, ranked number one in class two at
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  [SPEAKER_03]: There were some of the newcomers for you guys that have made strides over the month of June.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Liam Coe, who's going to be a sophomore for us.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Man, he's going to be a really, really nice player before his career's over.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: And I think he does a fantastic job now, really unselfish.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: He's got a body, he plays football also.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: So physically, he's able to handle the basketball under some pressure and take contact and finish at the rim.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Not like a lot of sophomore, it's just because physically he's pretty ready.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: So he was been a nice surprise.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: We have a kid that's going to come back out and he's played with us this summer.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: His name's Reed Hamilton.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: He'll be a junior, but he plays football as a track athlete.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: And he brought a little edge to him this summer, especially on the defensive end, that was a pleasant surprise.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: You know, a kid takes a year off and then comes back, you're thinking, well, has he lost a step or, you know, what's this going to be?
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  [SPEAKER_02]: He didn't really lose anything so we're excited to get read back and see what see how he can help us at the varsity level.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: But I think we'll have ten kids at the varsity level that'll be able to help us on any given night.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, you're going to have some tough decisions to make roster wise and play time wise.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Well, our motto this summer was it's just all gas no breaks and I know that sounds cliche, but
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  [SPEAKER_02]: We want to use that depth of our advantage.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: I mean, if we grab it, we've got to be able to take advantage of that.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: And so we think over, of course, the thirty two minutes, you know, if we can apply pressure at a high level and where that other team down that that may be an advantage for us.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: And certainly this summer, that was the case.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: We played, this is crazy to me when I was thinking about we played thirty one games.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: It's a little bit misleading because we got thirteen at D one over at that team camp.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: And then we had nine at Finlay at that team camp.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: then the Tuesday night league and then we hosted our own shootout, but we were twenty six and five over those three one games.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Wow.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: And it was apparent to me that you get, it's summer and conditioning isn't the same, but we get to the second half of those games.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: And we're still running and doing the things that we want to do and those other teams just, you know, sometimes physically, they're conditioning could not keep up.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: And that's that changed throughout the season and whatnot.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: It really opened my eyes and I've never been a guy that plays tin guys in a rotation.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: So I'm gonna have to probably be a better coach and try to figure that out.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: But we've got that as an advantage and I want to certainly try to find a way to maximize that advantage.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: I'd say it was a fun summer and one of the reasons we did do those team camps and try to play a few more games and we typically do is those seniors that are coming to Tyler Cash and Drew Abelos and another senior.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: They really haven't seen varsity minutes.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: per se.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: And so I thought it was important to get them out and get them more game-like minutes if you will this summer.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: And so that was one of the other reasons we played probably more games than we should have honestly, but that's what we did.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: Coach, talk about your schedule next season.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: Who are some of the new opponents that you've picked up or is it just going to be the same teams that you've played here in the last few years?
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  [SPEAKER_02]: No, our schedule
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  [SPEAKER_02]: It's going to change actually quite a bit.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: It's funny.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: I mean, every year, I don't know why teams drop us.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: These are good matchups that we should, we should play every year, but for whatever reason, some schools elected to drop us.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: So we picked up, we're going to pick up Lafayette Jeff with Coach Barnais are being a lapel guy.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: They came to our sheet out and we actually played them, but so they're going to be added to our schedule.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Yorktown's added to our schedule.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: Are you going to be going over to Lafayette Jeff or are they going to come here?
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Those details are still being worked out.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Okay.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: We'd like to host them just from a balancing of our schedule standpoint.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: But I don't know exactly how that's going to play out.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Okay.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Anderson comes back onto our schedule.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: Of course, things are changing quite a bit because there's no Madison County tournament anymore.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, that's.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: And you know, that's for us, that's I see both sides of that issue.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: There's there's some schools that that
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  [SPEAKER_02]: didn't see any value in that anymore.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: And they have their reasons for that.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: And that's fine for us not being in a conference.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: It was something that our guys could look forward to in season versus having a conference championship or playing for throughout the season.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: So I hated to see us kind of forced to get out of that.
• 9:35
  [SPEAKER_02]: But that's just the way that played out because they stopped having that.
• 9:43
  [SPEAKER_02]: One of the cool ideas that I came up with, and I don't come up with many good ideas, but I thought this was a pretty good idea.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: It was Liberty Christian is going to come onto our schedule this year.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: And I thought, you know, having a double header with Pelton Heights, Anderson, Liberty Christian, the Pell, would be a pretty cool thing for the county.
• 10:03
  [SPEAKER_02]: If we could have that event evolved, and three to the four schools, I won't call anybody out, but three to the four schools have thought that that's a good idea.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: So if we can get that fourth from the come on board,
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Maybe that'll end up happening as well.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Gotcha.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Name names coach.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: I'm sworn to secrecy.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: All right.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Well, thank you so much for spending some time with us always appreciate it.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And I look forward to working with you in this upcoming season.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Sounds like it's going to be a good one.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Well, cautiously optimistic.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And thank you so much to Coach Cherry for joining the Central Indiana Sports Report.
• 10:41
  [SPEAKER_01]: to grant for helping me out with all of these summer reports.
• 10:44
  [SPEAKER_01]: If you haven't heard, we did about eight of them.
• 10:46
  [SPEAKER_01]: I think was eight.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Go back and find those.
• 10:49
  [SPEAKER_01]: Pretty easy to find.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Eight does a huge favor and help a spread of word.
• 10:53
  [SPEAKER_01]: The word about this info in the end is four to four and share with you from the family.
• 11:01
  [SPEAKER_01]: Since joining a sports report is a product delighted you knew it.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Kind of, Susie.