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Football Friday Previews: Elwood at Alexandria with Pete Gast (Co-Host- Michelle Garmon; 2.19.10) · The Central Indiana Sports Report

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  [SPEAKER_02]: Welcome high school football fans of the Central Indian Sports Report for our football Friday preview.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Y'all would panthers at the Alexandria Tigers and Michelle we heard from Alexandria head coach Pete Gastos Tigers have looked really good there two weeks.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah they have you know.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: that they, that they beat shared in last week.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And even that it was, um, it wasn't close.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I, I'm not, I wasn't surprised because I knew, I like, but with that offense, they're passing attack, especially with the receivers they have and with Brady Gast, you know, the experience he has senior and he's just smart kid.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I knew they would put a lot.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I knew they could put points on the
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  [SPEAKER_01]: It didn't surprise me.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I thought they would win, you know, maybe three, four touchdowns, but putting up the numbers they did against Shared.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And I believe that game was on the road.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And I think that's what makes that even more impressive.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Shared and doesn't get blown out at home very often.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And not granted.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: It's a new era.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: You know, Coach Wright is not there anymore, um, so take that with what you want, but Alexandria, they're just they're cooking in its home coming for its home coming for the Tigers this week and, um, you know, kids are going to be fired up and, uh, I really feel sorry for, uh, I feel sorry for Coach Morales, um, and I would, uh, you know, at least they get open the season.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: with a win and take on a team that they can, you know, they compete with, because, you know, I think that I think truly, I think there's only one other team on their schedule and Blackford, possibly that they're going to be able to compete with this season.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: They just don't have the experience.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And, um,
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  [SPEAKER_01]: They're very vanilla and on offense and, you know, when you play at the level that they play in, and then the conference they play in with the coaches they have of the other schools, you know, they're going to shut down the vanilla teams.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I feel sorry for Coach Melos and his kids.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I just hope that those kids keep plugging away and working hard so that maybe eventually they can change the tide and get football trending back in the right direction over there.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Michelle, this is the opening weekend of the CIC and you and I will have all the results on our football Friday scoreboard show and we will talk to several coaches maybe even coach Gast who we are going to hear from right now.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Welcome back to the central Indiana Sports Report, Alexandra ahead coach Pete Gastos, Tigers are too an old coach.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: I know you had expectations coming into the season, but awfully nice to see it come to fruition in the first couple of weeks.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, we really couldn't ask for a better non-conference.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: Result, you know, both Westell and Sheridan, you know, I feel like just like physical, strong football teams and we handled that and we're able to make big plays and you know, start off well this year.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Coach, I like, I notice where your practice shirts this year have finished on the back.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And I understand, and I get that, and do you see a...
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  [SPEAKER_01]: your kids, your team being more focused each week than maybe in the past, as far as focused in understanding when you guys tell them that, okay, we may have beaten Sheridan the score that we did, but here's still some of our mistakes that we need to get clean up if we want to challenge for the Central Indiana Conference.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, definitely, definitely.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: I feel
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  [SPEAKER_03]: Uh, yeah, we're always going to make the stakes.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: We strive to clean those up.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: Um, we want to be really consistent with how hard we play.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: We don't want to let up and have lapses.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: We don't want to start a game where we're not ready to go with the kickoff.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: And I'll send you down seven.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, we want to play hard all the time.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: But let them guys out there that.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: are going to go hard as they can, as long as they can, and then, you know, that that theme finish obviously works throughout the course of a play or a game, but it ties in with your, you know,
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  [SPEAKER_03]: be there in the sectional and compete the one a sectional championship and we've haven't finished those tasks the past few years so that's kind of where that slogan came from.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And I know the one thing because I'm very familiar with Sheridan because I usually see him play every year when they play tri-centrums for years they also play titan and for you to beat Sheridan like you did that means you guys probably meet you on the battle with trenches and you pretty much dominated line of skirmish both ways so I'd say you're
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Pretty pleased with how your blind play has been so far.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: You know, I'm going to start with the defensive side of the ball.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: We've got a lot of kids in that front, seven, eight kids that are, you know, four years in the program, three years in the program, juniors who
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  [SPEAKER_03]: You know, spending time working hard in the weight room and, you know, our, we don't want to get pushed around by a team that's just physically bigger than us.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: And we kind of have that group.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: We've got that group that can battle in the trenches and does a good job in the weight room.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: So, you know, we're kind of hanging our hat on that defensive side of the ball.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: And that regard our offensive line.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: right now are starting group is just two juniors and three sophomores.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: So we're young, but we really like those five kids.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: They're athletic.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: They're smart and got some size up there as well.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: So I feel like that off to line, you know, better times are ahead.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: Just the more we get reps and get experience.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: That group's going to gel and really just continue to get better for the season.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And your son is having a, I mean, he's off to phenomenal start as well.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: He is and he's, you know, he's a hard worker.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: It's got a really accurate.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: You know, the ability to get the ball in tight places at the right time, you know, but I've got to also credit his, you know, just his work ethic and his desire to be as best he can.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: He's got a lot of weapons around him.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: He's really blessed to have, you know, four really solid receivers and a good running back back there and makes it.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: I mean, he'd be the first to admit that makes his job a lot easier.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: All right, good.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: You mentioned that it was a great non-conference now.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: The conference begins.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: It starts at home on Friday against Elwood.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: And I don't want to just breeze by Elwood here, but the conference, you know, through the non-conference schedule has just looked so good, especially those four teams in Grant County and yourself.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, you know, it's going to be a heck of a season as far as just each week's going to be a battle.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: You know, Ellen, we are not ever going to just take teams like that lightly.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: We don't want to set ourselves up for failure.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: We weeks like this, we just kind of focus on ourselves.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: You know, and you talked about making mistakes and cleaning up errors.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: That's our focus this week is to, you know, just play our game, get our game better.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: And if we do that, we'll like the results.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: But then you're right after, after, oh, wood, boy, we got East Brookfall, but this is so awful.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: You call it by Oak Hill.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: And they're going to be a time to catch a breath.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: We're going to have to be on top of our game.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Coach, I bet you're really happy that you scored over 100 points this season.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: I bet you're even more happy that you gave up 8 points in the
• 9:46
  [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, you know, it's, it's going to come down.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: You know, we're talking about finish and we're talking about winning a championship, you know, either in a conference or a section and come down to our defense performing.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: We're going to get that night.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: You know, things aren't clickin', maybe the weather's not cooperating.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: And we want to hang our hat on, stopin' people and not let them score and find a ways to win that regard too.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: But no, the offense, we just have the ability and any time to hit a big one.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: I know our coaches and I.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: I think one of the things we're impressed about Brady at quarterback Brady Gast is when he gets out of the pocket, he just does a great job of keeping his eyes down the field and he probably throws
• 10:32
  [SPEAKER_03]: Just as well, if not better on the run as he does in the pocket, and you know, you never can account for that as a defensive coach when the kid gets out of the pocket and all of a sudden those routes get broken off in different directions and we kind of make a routine off of those plays and it's one of those things where, you know, that formula of hitting big plays and playing tough defense, you know, could take us a long way if we can just keep getting better.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Coach tell me a little bit about Will Rowland and how valuable he is on both sides of the ball to your team.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: I think Will is a super valuable kid.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: He's a two time team captain voted by his teammates.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: Just outstanding young man.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: He's a leader in a lot of the church-related functions at our school and excellent GPA.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: But then out on a football field, he just flips a switch.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: He's one of those kids.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: He's a nice kid away from the field.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: And he's on the field, look out because he's physical.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: You know, he's everything you want in a linebacker, but then on offense, he's got hands and good route running ability.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: You know, along with the ability to like stick his nose in there and block and so forth.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: So kids like will, we got to love them.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: They're just so valuable and they just do a lot of things for you on both sides of the ball.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: And on top of that before I, in my, in my answer, he's an excellent long snapper.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: I feel like if he wanted to go play beyond high school, you know, there's a lot of places out there where we're taking a kid.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: that can run and tackle like him and is a very above average long snapper.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: All right, Michelle, you kind of spoiled a little and begin, but this one's pretty obvious.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Your prediction on the Alexandria L would end.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Wow.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Unfortunately, it is obvious.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I, it's homecoming, like I said, at Alexandria, I expected this game to start the second half under the opening clock.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I really, I believe that, you know, it will.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Hey, last year was competitive for a half, I'm sure.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I know, and that was last year, and this is this year, and you know, and I talked about it, I talked about it with Coach Gas, and then interview, you know, Alexandria's got one
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  [SPEAKER_01]: and it's because they have been good, but they have been unable to finish and especially come the sexual.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And I think that this is a group that is laser focused.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And I believe they know that
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  [SPEAKER_01]: They just have something, you know, they're all a mission.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: They would like to win their, their second CIC championship in three years, you know, they want to win a sectional.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And let's face it.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Not only is that CIC tough with, you know, four, five teams competing for the championship, that sectional.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, you take, I mean, that sectional is going to be a bear.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, it's going to, it might be as hard, it's going to be as hard
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  [SPEAKER_01]: is the conference for the Tigers, no doubt.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Eastern, Tipton, East Brook.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: They can be really, really good this year and not win any championships.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: That's how tough they're sexual and conferences.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Thank you so much, Michelle.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: As always, always appreciate it.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Always my pleasure.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: And I love Susie.