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Seg 4 - WBB Show w Geno Auriemma Jan 14 · Coaches Corner

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  Speaker 1: Put her down here and she's like killing all of
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  Speaker 1: them because she's the best athlete on the team. And
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  Speaker 1: next thing you know, she's our starting center.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and uh gino, we're talking at.
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  Speaker 1: Her foot wasn't on the line in the Olympics, France
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  Speaker 1: would have won the gold medal and the US was
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  Speaker 1: in deep doo doo losing the gold medal.
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  Speaker 3: She made a shot at the buzzer, but her foot
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  Speaker 3: was on the line. She played for France.
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  Speaker 2: We're talking about Gabby Williams.
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  Speaker 4: By the way, Gabby, we're talking about players that made
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  Speaker 4: massive jumps freshman a sophomore year.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, unbelieve athlete.
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  Speaker 4: Probably the two best athletes to ever play here on
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  Speaker 4: Maya and Gabby pure athletic.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. Man, we've had some good ones. Yeah, we've had
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  Speaker 3: some good ones.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 4: So last Friday, every week lear Field through College Sports Now,
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  Speaker 4: which is their podcast channel, and my son Rob does
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  Speaker 4: a podcast with Megan Gower who went to Yukon for
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  Speaker 4: her hoop stats.
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  Speaker 2: They get very exotic with stats.
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  Speaker 4: They do a podcast and like the last five or
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  Speaker 4: six weeks, they've picked for various programs across the country,
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  Speaker 4: a starting five and a sub well then you get
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  Speaker 4: to Yukon. Well, you can't just pick a starting five
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  Speaker 4: and a sub. You've got to go ten deep each side.
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  Speaker 4: So they do it. They did a draft. Megan got
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  Speaker 4: the first pick, Rob gets the next two, and so
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  Speaker 4: on and so forth. Now there are some names that
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  Speaker 4: won't be on this list. You're going to scratch. Might
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  Speaker 4: scratch youright because some of them are just popular picks. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: Megan's team, Sue Swin, Stewie which was the first pick, Fie, Rebecca,
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  Speaker 4: those are the starters, Carrie Bascom, clean I Musquet, Lewis,
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  Speaker 4: Carol Walters, Gabby and Nika. There are some sentimental value
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  Speaker 4: to some of the draft picks. Those are her ten
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  Speaker 4: Rob's teams. Rob's team, now he picked second and third,
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  Speaker 4: so he had De and Maya. He picked Page, Nakeisha
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  Speaker 4: and Tina as his starting five.
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  Speaker 3: That's a good team.
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  Speaker 2: And then you've got anyway he picks it.
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  Speaker 4: Now, he picks Sarah Strong because Sarah Strong, Genrizzotti, Steph
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  Speaker 4: and Renee. That's a pretty good ten there. Now Sarah
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  Speaker 4: Strong and Sarah Strong on that list. Now, mind you,
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  Speaker 4: there's no Shay, there's no Mariah, there's no Morgan talk no,
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  Speaker 4: Tamika Williams, No, As Jones, and those would be obvious
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  Speaker 4: picks too. It's fun to do, but there's so many
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  Speaker 4: good players that you have, and there's always going to
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  Speaker 4: be an argument, why isn't this player on list?
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  Speaker 2: Why isn't that player on the list.
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  Speaker 4: It just proves that how ridiculously good you've been over
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  Speaker 4: the last thirty years.
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  Speaker 3: I know, I know it's hard, you know, because.
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  Speaker 1: Everybody has their favorites, right, everybody has their favorite players,
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  Speaker 1: and I.
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  Speaker 3: Have my favorite players. I mean, I think we all do.
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  Speaker 1: I just read a story today that, contrary to popular opinion,
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  Speaker 1: when parents say, well, it's like asking me who my
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  Speaker 1: favorite child is, contrary to public popular opinion, it's been
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  Speaker 1: proven that parents do have their favorite child.
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  Speaker 2: I've got one because I only got one.
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  Speaker 1: Well, okay, all right, so this idea like, don't ask
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  Speaker 1: me to pick up on my kids, because, like you know, now,
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  Speaker 1: they do they have.
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  Speaker 3: A favorite child. All right.
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  Speaker 1: So coaches the same way. I have my favorite players.
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  Speaker 1: They're not all necessarily the absolute best players, but they're
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  Speaker 1: my favorite players that I've coached or that I really
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  Speaker 1: really appreciated, like who they were as people, the impact
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  Speaker 1: they left on me. You know, the team and everything.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm sure everybody has that, and.
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  Speaker 3: That's why it's hard.
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  Speaker 1: On most universities, you can pick seven guys like that
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  Speaker 1: over the course of their program's history.
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  Speaker 3: You can't do that Yukon.
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  Speaker 1: And that's if you could do that at Yukon, then
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  Speaker 1: you wouldn't have twelve banners. So in order to have
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  Speaker 1: twelve banners, you have to have a problem picking the
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  Speaker 1: top five players in Yukon history.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, top ten, you.
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  Speaker 2: Well, top five is pretty easy.
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  Speaker 1: Right, according to most people. So somebody would tell you.
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  Speaker 4: Sue de Maya Stewie, I probably throw Tina as my
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  Speaker 4: starting five.
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  Speaker 3: That's pretty good. Yeah, that's really good.
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  Speaker 2: They've done. They've done all right for them.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, yeah, that team would be hard to play against.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, not now because they're old, but back then, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: back then they would be hard to play against.
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  Speaker 2: That's the thing.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, Like like somebody like when when Megan picked Rebecca,
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  Speaker 4: Rob said, well, she may not be the greatest player
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  Speaker 4: at Ukon, but probably the most important player.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, along with.
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  Speaker 2: The keisha because they got the ball rolling.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, it's and the game. You know, the
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  Speaker 1: game has changed so much. You know, it's like, uh,
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  Speaker 1: is Babe Bruce still the greatest baseball player of all time? Well,
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  Speaker 1: he was until the last two years. Now you know,
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  Speaker 1: Otani's the best player that ever lived. Well, how can
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  Speaker 1: you say that? Well, because what he's doing has never
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  Speaker 1: been done before. So the guys played in the past
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  Speaker 1: were generational players that did things that had never been
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  Speaker 1: done before. And it lasts a long time until all
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  Speaker 1: of a sudden a time arrives when you can say,
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  Speaker 1: no one's ever done this. You know, if Stewie hadn't
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  Speaker 1: won four in a row, if she hadn't been MVP
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  Speaker 1: at a Final Four four years in a row and
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  Speaker 1: only did it twice, would everybody still say, Wow, Stewie's
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  Speaker 1: the greatest college basketball player of all time?
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  Speaker 3: Which you can say that because of what she did.
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  Speaker 2: I love Stewie, but I think even Stewe would agree.
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  Speaker 4: I think Mariah should have been the MVP of in
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  Speaker 4: fifteen of the Final Four.
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  Speaker 3: That just you know, thinking, that's what I'm saying. Everybody's
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  Speaker 3: got their favorite player, Stewey.
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  Speaker 1: And you know that's the way it goes. And I
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  Speaker 1: was saying this earlier today, and I hope you're listening
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  Speaker 1: to Stewie because and I said to her, I said,
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  Speaker 1: you are the biggest con artist in the history of
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  Speaker 1: like college basketball, Olympic basketball. You know, to win a
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  Speaker 1: gold medal in the Olympics, you have to win pool
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  Speaker 1: play and then metal play. So first you eliminate all
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  Speaker 1: the other teams and then you get down to quarters,
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  Speaker 1: semis finals. Well, during all the pool play, I think
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  Speaker 1: Stewie was just there for the meal, money and lunch
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  Speaker 1: and dinner because she didn't do.
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  Speaker 2: Live radio show.
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  Speaker 1: Tuck and all those other guys did all the work.
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  Speaker 1: So I hope she's listening. I hope the dumb Stewart,
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  Speaker 1: I hope she's listening. And then as soon as the
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  Speaker 1: metal round started, Stewie just became superwoman and they wanted
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  Speaker 1: to go metal. And the most valuable player of this
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  Speaker 1: year's tournament, Bretty hones Stewart.
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  Speaker 4: You know what that sounds like twenty thirteen because your
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  Speaker 4: freshman year. That freshman year, Stewie had her ups and downs.
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  Speaker 4: Morgan was the most consistent start exactly.
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  Speaker 1: And I had that conversation with Stewie as we went
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  Speaker 1: into postseason. I said, Stewie, we have six weekends. This
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  Speaker 1: is just like USA basketball, man. There's only six games left.
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  Speaker 1: That's it, six not six months now.
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  Speaker 4: She didn't even play the first game in the thirteen
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  Speaker 4: tournament because she was at an ankle injury, but she final.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, only six games?
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  Speaker 1: Do we just like you did a USA basketball right
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  Speaker 1: and you know the rest is history.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, took care of Notre Dame in twenty thirteen. That
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  Speaker 4: was kind of her coming out party. I mean, she
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  Speaker 4: was good in the NCAA tournament, but that Notre Dame game. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: all right, we'll come back with Gino. We're going to
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  Speaker 4: get into why we're here tonight with all these wonderful people.
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  Speaker 4: We're going to talk about his organization is Charity. Twenty
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  Speaker 4: five years. They've raised a ton of money for the
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  Speaker 4: Connecticut Children's Hospital, Yes Medical Center. Okay, all right, back
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  Speaker 4: with Gino a minute on the Yukon Women's Basketball Coaches
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  Speaker 4: Show on Learfield.
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  Speaker 2: Stay with us,