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Shai Gilgeous-Alexander Reacts to Winning 2025 NBA MVP _ Inside the NBA · Bleacher Report

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  Speaker 1: Yes, Gay, Ernie Johnson here with Shaq and Charles and
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  Speaker 1: Kenny and Draymond Green, and we congratulate your number one.
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  Speaker 2: Nice going, very happy for you. Thank you so much,
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  Speaker 2: appreciate it, fellas. So, who was with you when you
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  Speaker 2: got the news?
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  Speaker 3: My teammates behind me, my family, my wife, my son,
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  Speaker 3: my brother, my close ones. Yeah, the group of people that.
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  Speaker 2: Help me get here.
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  Speaker 1: Look, you've finished fifth, before you finished second last year.
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  Speaker 1: How much did you actually think about it when it
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  Speaker 1: came down and everybody's talking about, all, well, it's one
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  Speaker 1: two with you and the Joker? How much did you
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  Speaker 1: allow yourself to think about the possibility of being the MVP.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you try so hard throughout the season to like
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  Speaker 3: not think about it and just worry about playing basketball
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  Speaker 3: and getting better and trying to win games. But as
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  Speaker 3: a competitor and as a kid dreaming about the game,
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  Speaker 3: it's always in the backyard mind.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm very thankful to be this.
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  Speaker 3: Side of the I guess the ballot, but none of.
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  Speaker 2: It's possible without the guys behind me.
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  Speaker 3: The amount of games we won in the fashion that
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  Speaker 3: we won the games is so impressive, and it's probably
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  Speaker 3: the main reason why I get the award, So without them,
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  Speaker 3: it's it's not possible.
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  Speaker 4: Shane shack Here, I took a lot of flak last
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  Speaker 4: year for saying you should have won it last year,
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  Speaker 4: and I felt you got robbed last year. So thing
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  Speaker 4: that I said that, did you have some animosity towards
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  Speaker 4: the voters last year and say, you know, I'm gonna
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  Speaker 4: show the world that I'm the greatest player in the NBA.
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  Speaker 3: To be honest with you, I used it as motivation.
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  Speaker 3: There's voters every year that will never change. And last
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  Speaker 3: year all it meant that all it meant was that
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  Speaker 3: more people thought I should have won than than should
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  Speaker 3: have won. And this year I wanted to change the
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  Speaker 3: narrative and have it flipped. And I think I did
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  Speaker 3: a good job of that and that's why I get
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  Speaker 3: the award.
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  Speaker 5: Shane Draight, my congratulations just one naxt year. I should
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  Speaker 5: a couple of years ago. You've been there since twenty
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  Speaker 5: nineteen trade. You came there from the Clippers, and a
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  Speaker 5: couple of years ago it started to seem that you
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  Speaker 5: had turned that corner and was becoming a twenty eight
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  Speaker 5: to thirty nine thirty at night guy, and the team
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  Speaker 5: was still kind of coming along, and there started to
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  Speaker 5: be a little chatter on like, man, is it time
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  Speaker 5: for Shay to force his way out of there, force
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  Speaker 5: himself to a situation where he could compete at for
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  Speaker 5: a championship level. Never heard an inkling that come from you.
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  Speaker 5: You embraced it the entire time. Just talk to me
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  Speaker 5: about that journey of growing with drafting guys, growing with guys,
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  Speaker 5: and then you kind of being the old head there
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  Speaker 5: and showing your guys.
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  Speaker 2: The way to go and finally getting to this point. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I always like to focus on the things that I
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  Speaker 3: can control, and I think that's how I got to
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  Speaker 3: this point. So all the chit chatter and what's going
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  Speaker 3: on in the league I.
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  Speaker 2: Have no control over.
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  Speaker 3: So I just try to keep my head down, work
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  Speaker 3: super hard, and the guys around me do the same thing,
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  Speaker 3: and it made it easy to grow, easy to get
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  Speaker 3: to this point because of that. I think that mentality
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  Speaker 3: is going to help.
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  Speaker 2: Us keep growing in the future.
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  Speaker 6: Or Shay number one, congratulations, man, you guys have had
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  Speaker 6: a fibular season. Your depth on your team is incredible.
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  Speaker 6: I watched that game last night. Who the hell is
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  Speaker 6: number thirty four? Who came out there? And start kicking.
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  Speaker 6: But last night, because I didn't see him a lot.
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  Speaker 6: I didn't see him a lot against Denver, and all
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  Speaker 6: of a sudden, I says, man, that number thirty four,
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  Speaker 6: I ain't seen him, and he had flat out balling. Hey, hey, man, hey,
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  Speaker 6: he was flat out balling. Man.
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  Speaker 2: I just tell him. I was like, man, they how
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  Speaker 2: do coach? How does coach?
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  Speaker 6: Cause coaching had something to do with your coaches? Fan say,
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  Speaker 6: how do he keep your guys so sharp? Because if
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  Speaker 6: you're not playing, but when they call your number, you're ready.
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  Speaker 2: How does coach keep him and the.
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  Speaker 6: Rest of the guys who didn't play a lot against
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  Speaker 6: Denver and all of a sudden in the biggest game
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  Speaker 6: of the season, he come in and he fled out balling.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, coach does a really good job of that, Like
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  Speaker 3: the first meaning every year he comes in and he says,
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  Speaker 3: nobody gets stuck with the lineups to change all the time.
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  Speaker 3: Sometimes you're gonna play, sometimes you're gonna not. You're not
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  Speaker 3: gonna not play, And he's upfront with guys, and when
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  Speaker 3: he does that, it gives guys a slate and they
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  Speaker 3: understand what's the come for rest of the season and
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  Speaker 3: we have no choice but to be ready.
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  Speaker 2: And we know that all across the board. No matter
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  Speaker 2: who you are, we uh just control.
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  Speaker 3: We can control k works every day whether he's playing
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  Speaker 3: or not, and when the time comes, he's ready for it.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 7: Firstly, congratulations shake a great award. You know, we got
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  Speaker 7: two guys who've actually won the award up here with
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  Speaker 7: with Shaquille and and and Charles, and then myself and
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  Speaker 7: Draymond have been teammates for guys who've won that award.
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  Speaker 7: And as a teammate, you know, we always felt that
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  Speaker 7: that we were part of that. As you see your
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  Speaker 7: guys behind you, you know, in this journey, when you
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  Speaker 7: look back, you there's probably two or three guys that
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  Speaker 7: you go, man, they've seen the best and they've seen
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  Speaker 7: the worst. And even it's funny because Shay, when when
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  Speaker 7: a chem Olajron won the award, he made us take
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  Speaker 7: the award and hold it for him. And so who
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  Speaker 7: are those guys that have seen you at your best
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  Speaker 7: and your worst that has.
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  Speaker 2: Gone through this journey.
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  Speaker 7: Some of the guys are new and some of the
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  Speaker 7: guys have been there for a longer time.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, to start, I'm gonna have to say Lou like Lou.
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  Speaker 3: Lou was with me my first year in Okay. See,
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  Speaker 3: so the last six years he was on the team
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  Speaker 3: when we were winning ten games this season to twenty
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  Speaker 3: five games, to forty to now sixty eight seventy. He's
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  Speaker 3: seen the best vision of me, the worst version of me,
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  Speaker 3: the pissed off vision of me, the happy vision of me.
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  Speaker 3: We've been through thicking thing in the NBA, and to
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  Speaker 3: have him on the journey has been special.
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  Speaker 2: Last thing, s g A.
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  Speaker 1: Would you be interested in knowing the uh the tally
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  Speaker 1: and how this and how this went.
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  Speaker 2: With a with a vote count? Can I can I
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  Speaker 2: ask question?
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  Speaker 1: Hold on one second, I'm gonna I'm I've got an
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  Speaker 1: important question for Lou Dort No Chuckster, Yeah, go ahead, Shane,
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  Speaker 1: one hundred, one hundred hundred voters. You got seventy one
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  Speaker 1: first place votes to twenty nine for Joker and then
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  Speaker 1: second place votes. You just reversed those numbers. But the
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  Speaker 1: final tally nine thirteen to seven eighty seven. So it
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  Speaker 1: was believed to be supposed to be one of the
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  Speaker 1: closest of all time, but that is not the way
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  Speaker 1: it turned out.
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  Speaker 2: Now, do you have a question for lou Dort. Yes, Shay,
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  Speaker 2: I saw this stat.
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  Speaker 6: Loud Dart has never made All defensive team.
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  Speaker 2: That's crazy.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, we're gonna, yeah, we're gonna have to change that
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  Speaker 3: pretty soon.
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  Speaker 2: I said a couple of weeks ago.
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  Speaker 6: He's the best perima to defender in the NBA. He's
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  Speaker 6: the best the perm And when I saw that stat,
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  Speaker 6: I said, this, dude, they never made All deficive team.
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  Speaker 6: That's one of the worst stats I've ever seen.
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  Speaker 2: Man.
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  Speaker 6: So you tell that young guy congratulations and keep doing
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  Speaker 6: this thing.
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  Speaker 2: I will. I will for sure.
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  Speaker 3: Without him, we're not the defense we are and we
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  Speaker 3: all know that the proof is in the pudding and
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  Speaker 3: he'll get what he deserves pretty soon until ken Rich Williams,
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  Speaker 3: we know who we is.
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  Speaker 2: And the last thing, the last thing.
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  Speaker 1: Look, we've seen a million postgame interviews with you guys
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  Speaker 1: this year, and it's never been this edate. It's never
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  Speaker 1: been this quiet. These guys are usually all over you.
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  Speaker 1: Is this the way it was when you heard the
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  Speaker 1: word too?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, they're keeping it tamed right now, but we'll go
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  Speaker 3: up here in.
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  Speaker 1: A few minutes, a few minutes, shake Giljess, Alexander, happy
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  Speaker 1: for you, grad
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  Speaker 2: Congratulations in the finals,