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Brent Venables Speaks Out about the Oklahoma Sooners Offensive Struggles · Sooner or Later Sports

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  Speaker 1: So Brent Venables has been on a tour of talking
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  Speaker 1: about what the problem is here at Oklahoma and what
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  Speaker 1: needs to be fixed. And it's really, he's been just
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  Speaker 1: diving in on the offense. He talked about it Sunday
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  Speaker 1: on his coach's show. He talked about it Monday on
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  Speaker 1: his other coach's show. BV's kind of pointing out, hey,
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  Speaker 1: I'll get your stuff together. There's a couple of clips
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  Speaker 1: that he mentioned and I want to talk about because
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  Speaker 1: he's 100% right. The opportunities were there. They could have
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  Speaker 1: closed on a lot of things, just didn't execute. Let
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  Speaker 1: me show you what I mean. Before we do that,
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  Speaker 1: bonus lineups if you win. So BV has been, like
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  Speaker 1: I said, he's been on a little bit of a
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  Speaker 1: tour last few days. He's been doing his coaches shows
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  Speaker 1: and everything. He'll do his press conference later today. I'm
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  Speaker 1: gonna miss it, but I'll rewatch it and we'll talk
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  Speaker 1: about and react to it hopefully later this evening. when
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  Speaker 1: I'm back in my hotel room. But the problems are glaring,
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  Speaker 1: and the problems are actually very simple. First, he talked
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  Speaker 1: about kind of how things started off in the game,
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  Speaker 1: some of the things that they could have done to
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  Speaker 1: have been a little bit more successful. This is what
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  Speaker 1: he said.
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  Speaker 2: Disappointed. You know, we didn't play winning football, particularly on offense.
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  Speaker 2: Didn't do the things that we needed to do. Um,
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  Speaker 2: when we had an opportunity on defense to keep them
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  Speaker 2: out of the end zone after a late turnover and, uh,
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  Speaker 2: had opportunity, had guys there, we just didn't make the play. And, uh, they,
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  Speaker 2: their average field position was the 30 where at the 19,
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  Speaker 2: they put five punts, uh, inside the 15 yard line,
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  Speaker 2: two at the one, one at the 10, one at
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  Speaker 2: the 12 and one at the 15. And so offensively,
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  Speaker 2: we're felt like we were always working upstream. We, uh,
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  Speaker 2: Had some early down success running the football, got away
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  Speaker 2: from that. Part of that is some of the play
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  Speaker 2: action and some of the passing game that we had
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  Speaker 2: structured and called in the first half in particular. We
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  Speaker 2: didn't make the layups. There's lots of layups there, some
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  Speaker 2: easy access throws that helps the offense stay on schedule
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  Speaker 2: so you can have good balance in what you're doing.
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  Speaker 2: And we can't miss those layups. You're playing against anybody,
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  Speaker 2: let alone good teams on the road. You know, offensive
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  Speaker 2: football is very rhythmatic. And, you know, we didn't take
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  Speaker 2: what was there. And that's frustrating. That's the frustrating part.
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  Speaker 2: It's one thing if they got you covered up and
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  Speaker 2: our play designs aren't there. And, you know, they're just
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  Speaker 2: better than you. And that certainly wasn't the case. But
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  Speaker 2: You know, we got away from some early down success
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  Speaker 2: in the balance that you gotta have to, again, stay
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  Speaker 2: on schedule to move the chains and some things that
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  Speaker 2: we did early in the second half where we had
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  Speaker 2: a couple of the 90 yard drives to start the
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  Speaker 2: second half and score the touchdown, score the field goal
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  Speaker 2: to start the second half. We just gotta be much
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  Speaker 2: more efficient and stay ahead of the chains.
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  Speaker 1: Now, of course, as BV being the person that he is,
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  Speaker 1: He talked about his defense and how they should have
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  Speaker 1: done a better job of eliminating some of the bad
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  Speaker 1: field positioning. But that shouldn't matter when you have a
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  Speaker 1: team that's built like this that can score on offense. Heck,
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  Speaker 1: they went on two 90-yard drives to score. This should
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  Speaker 1: be something that's consistent. This should be something that should
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  Speaker 1: happen on a regular basis. And this is something that
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  Speaker 1: needs to be fixed. Oklahoma's got to figure this out.
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  Speaker 1: they want to see success long term, if they want
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  Speaker 1: to get this. Now, I know they're going to say, well,
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  Speaker 1: it's John Mateer. He's the quarterback. It'll never be fixed.
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  Speaker 1: I've got a rebuttal to that very quickly. We'll talk
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  Speaker 1: about that in a minute. But they've got to stick
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  Speaker 1: to what works and go execute on their game. Stop
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  Speaker 1: changing your game plan to fit a particular team because
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  Speaker 1: somebody else did something. If it ain't fitting into your
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  Speaker 1: unless that team you're playing against is really good at
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  Speaker 1: stopping what you're best at. Nah, don't want to hear it.
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  Speaker 1: Don't want to hear it at all. Let me explain
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  Speaker 1: what I mean because I also want to play what
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  Speaker 1: Brent Venable said about how simple it is to fix
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  Speaker 1: some of these problems. Before we continue, shout out to
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  Speaker 1: So this is what BV was talking about, like how
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  Speaker 1: simple it is to really do what they need to
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  Speaker 1: do to win games. Take a listen.
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  Speaker 2: What did you feel like changed for you in the
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  Speaker 2: fourth quarter? Yeah, just same thing. We missed some throws. Decision-making,
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  Speaker 2: taking what's there, throwing the ball on time. You just
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  Speaker 2: can't manufacture additional opportunities. So when the opportunities are there,
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  Speaker 2: you got to strike. And you got to execute and
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  Speaker 2: you got to see it for what it is. And
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  Speaker 2: so we were I think we were over four on
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  Speaker 2: third downs in the fourth quarter, a couple of them late.
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  Speaker 2: And I had a couple of holding penalties late when
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  Speaker 2: it's a throw fast and a blitz fast and everything else.
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  Speaker 2: But just again, lost the rhythm because we don't. Take
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  Speaker 2: advantage of the opportunities that are there. At the end
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  Speaker 2: of the day, it's not any more complicated than that.
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  Speaker 1: And again, I know exactly what you're going to say.
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  Speaker 1: John Materi. Bro, we've seen him do it. I think
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  Speaker 1: that's the problem, and that's what makes it frustrating for me,
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  Speaker 1: is that it's not like a situation where we're asking
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  Speaker 1: him to do something he's never done before. We literally
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  Speaker 1: watched him do that against Michigan last year. We watched
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  Speaker 1: him do it against Auburn last year. We watched it
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  Speaker 1: in games where he found ways to win the game
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  Speaker 1: by just going out there and playing ball. We watched
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  Speaker 1: against Tennessee. He was layering passes. We saw him get
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  Speaker 1: calm against Missouri. We've seen him do it so much,
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  Speaker 1: and that's what makes it frustrating. And then from there,
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  Speaker 1: this year, if you start your season off running 12
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  Speaker 1: personnel and you see a lot of success, why not
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  Speaker 1: do it? Example, in this game against Michigan, guess where
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  Speaker 1: we saw the most success? You guessed it, 12 personnel.
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  Speaker 1: And I understand you have to mix it up. You
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  Speaker 1: can't do the same thing over and over and over.
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  Speaker 1: But in a lot of situations, just do the same
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  Speaker 1: thing over and over until they stop it. Make them
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  Speaker 1: tell you you can't do it. Because the best part
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  Speaker 1: about all this is that your tight ends were successful.
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  Speaker 1: The one thing that you did succeed in this offseason
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  Speaker 1: was getting tight ends that could be effective and look
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  Speaker 1: at them go. Hayden Hanson blocking his tail off. Rocky
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  Speaker 1: Beers blocking his tail off and making some stupid catches.
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  Speaker 1: There was one play that Hayden Hanson could have had
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  Speaker 1: on a little screen, but You know, the defense was
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  Speaker 1: disruptive on it. But you had big plays. Rocky made
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  Speaker 1: multiple big plays in this game. So leverage them. Take advantage.
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  Speaker 1: So to me, it's more Ben than even John. Like,
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  Speaker 1: John has his problems. Like, he had a touchdown run
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  Speaker 1: that he could have taken. That QB counter, and I've
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  Speaker 1: said this numerous times, run more QB counter type stuff.
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  Speaker 1: Run more things in that scheme, in that type of,
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  Speaker 1: in that, just in that category. to make the defense
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  Speaker 1: respect him and the running backs. That's what Michigan did.
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  Speaker 1: Michigan said, you know what, Bryce, you can just run
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  Speaker 1: the ball, dog. I know you don't like running, but
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  Speaker 1: you're going to run it. So we're going to take
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  Speaker 1: you to the ball and you're going to run. And
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  Speaker 1: what did Bryce do? Run the ball. Saw success running
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  Speaker 1: the ball. So you got to take advantage of that.
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  Speaker 1: That's the only thing you can do. If you want
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  Speaker 1: to see success long term, you have to do that.
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  Speaker 1: And I like that BV is pointing it out. I'm
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  Speaker 1: glad that BV has decided that he's going to Look
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  Speaker 1: at that, pay attention to it, and really talk about
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  Speaker 1: it because that's what's most important. I'm glad that BV
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  Speaker 1: is taking the approach of, yeah, we struggled here, and
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  Speaker 1: this is what we need to do to fix it.
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  Speaker 1: So do more of that, BV. Be more real that way.
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  Speaker 1: Let me know what y'all think. Hop in the comments.
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  Speaker 1: I want to hear your thoughts. Brent Venables did go in,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm pretty happy that he did say what he said.
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  Speaker 1: I'm glad that he's up front because that was the
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  Speaker 1: light version of the coaches show. He actually was talking, talking,
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  Speaker 1: and I get a chance to really grab that. We'll
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  Speaker 1: talk about that after the presser. So definitely want to
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  Speaker 1: about some of the good stuff. I think we so
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  Speaker 1: much negativity going around. Let's lean into some good stuff. Um,
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  Speaker 1: We'll do a video on that a little bit later.
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  Speaker 1: So we'll talk soon. Peace.