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Ernest Jones IV: "It's Good To Be Playing Football Again" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Good, good, How are y'all. Yeah, it's part about being
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  Speaker 1: back on the fields.
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  Speaker 2: For uh, being around the guys, m being around the
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  Speaker 2: guys making plays.
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  Speaker 1: We have a lot of fun. So it's good to
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  Speaker 1: be playing football again. Seems like you guys are making
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  Speaker 1: a players.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I think I think a lot of guys
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  Speaker 2: here we love the game. We love to come out
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  Speaker 2: here and practice. We love to compete. You know, it's
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  Speaker 2: a little hotter than what we're used to today, but guys
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  Speaker 2: are out here grinding, man, doing what we love to do.
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  Speaker 2: So it's easy, you know, to do this job when
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  Speaker 2: you love it.
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  Speaker 1: Friends outside of the sacs go on talk long protect
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  Speaker 1: Oh it's super fun. Uh.
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  Speaker 2: You get a lot of crap if you let some
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  Speaker 2: go in the end zone. So you know, it's a
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  Speaker 2: we we try best not to let those guys get
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  Speaker 2: in the end zone, so we can you know, have
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  Speaker 2: the the the crap talk on our side.
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  Speaker 1: But know this home court is to establish that mindset
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  Speaker 1: and not let the other guys get in the end
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  Speaker 1: end zone now and how we play just have to
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  Speaker 1: do the regular season at first year. Yeah, I think
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  Speaker 1: it's something that we've already established.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, we we don't we you know, we this
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  Speaker 2: is new year obviously, but a lot of guys are
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  Speaker 2: coming back.
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  Speaker 1: So the standard is a standard. That's something that we've said.
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  Speaker 2: You know, you just got to remind everyone and then
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  Speaker 2: you go on about, you know, the business as usual.
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  Speaker 1: As a natural leader. With the standard being the standard?
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  Speaker 2: Was there some of the new guys, with rookies free agents.
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  Speaker 1: Coming in, how do you balance that with trying to
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  Speaker 1: allow them to be themselves and and play the way
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  Speaker 1: they're cable to play.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I'm not sure if there's an absolute balance.
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  Speaker 1: I think, you know, to to.
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  Speaker 2: Play here, to be successful, you have to you know,
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  Speaker 2: kind of get with the program and John and all
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  Speaker 2: the guys. They do a good job drafting. We don't
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  Speaker 2: have any character problems with guys. So it's honestly easy.
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  Speaker 2: Those guys come in, they see how we work, they
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  Speaker 2: see how we roll, and they just you know, falling
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  Speaker 2: on If.
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  Speaker 1: You guys won Super Bowl last year, there just the
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  Speaker 1: rams wasn't necessarily after you guys a standard. Do you
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  Speaker 1: think more about how you finish the season or even
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  Speaker 1: about those games?
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  Speaker 2: Oh? The games for sure, Yeah, I don't. I don't
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  Speaker 2: remember much of the Super Bowl for other reasons. But yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I mean you think about the games that you honestly lost,
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  Speaker 2: the plays that you know that were bad.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, that's that's kind of how you you know,
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  Speaker 1: go about that.
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  Speaker 2: For the guys that are coming back, how much as
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  Speaker 2: you're antenna up for a place to see, making sure
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  Speaker 2: that they don't think they've got it made.
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  Speaker 1: They've done it there there, they've arrived. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: For me, I mean, I I've been here, like you know,
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  Speaker 2: my second time doing this, so I'm definitely aware of
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  Speaker 2: that complacency, can you know, set in and that you know,
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  Speaker 2: when dogs get hungry, they they kind of let the
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  Speaker 2: lay down. But we don't have any of those dogs.
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  Speaker 2: Those people here we we we're gonna, we're gonna grind.
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  Speaker 1: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: You can see the urgency and everybody and the way
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  Speaker 2: we're working. So I think we're working towards, you know,
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  Speaker 2: just being a better team and getting to that point.
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  Speaker 1: Again, what's your early impression of Vice face.
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  Speaker 2: He's good, he's good man, mature for his age. You
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  Speaker 2: could tell. You don't get too many words out of him,
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  Speaker 2: but he's working. He got me today, man, he did
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  Speaker 2: it at a hell of a route on me today.
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  Speaker 1: So he's good man. I think he's gonna help us.
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  Speaker 2: He's he's doing everything right and he's got a great
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  Speaker 2: group of backs in front of him that's kind of
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  Speaker 2: teaching him in the way. Yeah, time, he had a career.
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  Speaker 1: Everything that happened. Honestly, No, you know, I'm kind of
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  Speaker 1: living in it now.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I haven't really had a chance to kind
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  Speaker 2: of reflect on that because I don't want to, you know,
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  Speaker 2: get complacent. I don't want to be dwelling on things
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  Speaker 2: that happened in the past. I'm you know, I'm worried
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  Speaker 2: about it right now. And how can I, you know,
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  Speaker 2: help this defense, help this team be one of the
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  Speaker 2: best once again.
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  Speaker 1: So that's kind of what I'm thinking on. So one
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  Speaker 1: new face on the team, Dante Fowler. I mean, you
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  Speaker 1: guys are already have such a solid, great defense, but adding
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  Speaker 1: a veteran voice like that, what does that add to
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  Speaker 1: the defense? I mean, I think that's everything.
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  Speaker 2: You know, the way he comes in, he works, he works,
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  Speaker 2: and I think from a football aspect, like what he's
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  Speaker 2: gonna bring to that room pass rush wise, Lord, Like
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  Speaker 2: he's he's able to get off the rock. He has
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  Speaker 2: so many moves in his bag, and it's only gonna
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  Speaker 2: make the guys around him better.
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  Speaker 1: He had a talent like that challenge talent already talented.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, those guys love those sacks down there,
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  Speaker 2: so you got to figure out how you're gonna div
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  Speaker 2: it that up. But that's on the coaches and you
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  Speaker 2: know those guys. One thing about it, we're a good, connected,
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  Speaker 2: close group and in that room, everybody wants to see,
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  Speaker 2: you know, everybody be successful and eat.
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  Speaker 1: So I don't think it'll be a problem at all.
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  Speaker 1: You notice the boom mics and everything from Heart Knocks
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  Speaker 1: and all that, or sorry, you notice like the boom
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  Speaker 1: mikes and everything from Hart Knox and all that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, we notice him, Yeah, for sure, there everywhere.
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  Speaker 2: But honestly, I think we enjoying it honestly, Like, you know,
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  Speaker 2: you get a chance to see what we're really about,
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  Speaker 2: not you know what you know, may see in the media.
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  Speaker 2: You get a you know, a close personal relationship with
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  Speaker 2: some guys. So honestly, we've been loving having hard Knocks around.
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  Speaker 1: Do you feel like you ever have to feel to
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  Speaker 1: yourself like watch what you say. Well, they're taking care
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  Speaker 1: of us.
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  Speaker 2: If we say anything, they'll make sure they watch it
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  Speaker 2: and make sure they don't get out so they Our
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  Speaker 2: guys have been doing a great job taking care of that.
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  Speaker 1: Jay, Wait when you.
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  Speaker 2: Mentioned what we're all about the world seeing that, Like,
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  Speaker 2: how would you kind of define what that is?
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  Speaker 1: What the program is here that has made you guys
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  Speaker 1: special and it's separate.
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  Speaker 2: In the seas Yeah, no matter the circumstances, it won't work,
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  Speaker 2: no matter what the outside noise is. All we care
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  Speaker 2: about who's in this building, who's putting on cleats, who's
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  Speaker 2: working towards the greater cause for the Seahawks. And once
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  Speaker 2: you have that, I mean it's hard for you. You know,
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  Speaker 2: it's hard to honestly be beat.
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  Speaker 1: I really earned being. You know, it's the talent is
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  Speaker 1: so like you and that means separated for you. Is
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  Speaker 1: that to separate? I'm sorry? Could you say that again?
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  Speaker 1: Is not to separate all the ability to be in
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  Speaker 1: the moment, not get a place.
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  Speaker 2: No, for sure, I think I think we have several
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  Speaker 2: things that separate us from a lot of teams. But
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  Speaker 2: that's one of them. Man, guys are just focused on
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  Speaker 2: the now. What can we do to be better? We
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  Speaker 2: know that personal and you know success comes from just
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  Speaker 2: how good the team goes. So we're all looking forward to,
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  Speaker 2: you know, having our own success. But if this team's
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  Speaker 2: flying and going in the right direction, you know you'll
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  Speaker 2: have your success as well.
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  Speaker 1: And it's going back to the comments, say a last
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  Speaker 1: years and sure and everything like that, it seemed like
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  Speaker 1: that kind of gotten to the fans, like even more
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  Speaker 1: so behind you and everything going to the bath you
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  Speaker 1: haven't kind of felt that kind of that and everything to.
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  Speaker 2: Nah, that means everything, honestly, Like it's a little different
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  Speaker 2: from me now going places everybody knows. I used to
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  Speaker 2: could go everywhere. Now it's kind of difficult. My wife
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  Speaker 2: gets a little mad because I don't want to go
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  Speaker 2: anywhere now. But now everybody kind of knows who I am,
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  Speaker 2: they know my face, and it's always the speech. It's
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  Speaker 2: always let's take a picture with with the birds finger up.
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  Speaker 2: So it's been fun. It's been fun, though, good.
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  Speaker 1: Thank y'all so much.