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Where Will They Play? · The Craig Way Show

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  Speaker 1: All right, thanks again Gene Watson, our MLB insider joining
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  Speaker 1: us here on the program. I want to go back
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  Speaker 1: there's one other baseball and I want to go back
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  Speaker 1: to it before we jump back into football. And that's
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  Speaker 1: this thing that I had to get Jane's thoughts on this,
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  Speaker 1: this new Vegas stadium that is in the planning stages
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  Speaker 1: for the A's. Again, this came out today because there's
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  Speaker 1: been a lot of questions about, you know, when the
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  Speaker 1: A's were leaving Oakland, and all we really knew for
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  Speaker 1: sure was that there was a plan where they were
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  Speaker 1: talking about a planning to be in Las Vegas, and
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  Speaker 1: then we're going to play at least two seasons, probably
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  Speaker 1: three in Sacramento and by the way, share the dates
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  Speaker 1: with the ball club with the river Cats there, who
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  Speaker 1: have the first call on dates there in Pacific Coast
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  Speaker 1: League scheduling. So the A's are kind of, you know,
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  Speaker 1: taking the back seat off of that deal. But it
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  Speaker 1: did become official today that the owner, John Fisher and
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  Speaker 1: the family says it's going to invest one million dollars
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  Speaker 1: into the construction of this ballpark in Vegas, and US
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  Speaker 1: Bank and Goldman Sachs will offer a three hundred million
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  Speaker 1: dollars loan. According to club executive Sandy Dean, it was
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  Speaker 1: the Las Vegas Stadium Authority Board had a special meeting
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  Speaker 1: and he appeared before that.
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  Speaker 2: He said that four letters, I guess the letters of credit,
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  Speaker 2: things like that, will be.
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  Speaker 1: Presented at the December December fifth authority meeting, asserting construction
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  Speaker 1: details and that financing will be in place. Final approvals
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  Speaker 1: are expected to be made at that meeting to allow
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  Speaker 1: construction of a one point five billion dollars thirty three
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  Speaker 1: thousand seat domed ballpark. They said, just thirty three thousand.
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  Speaker 1: You know, some of these newer ballparks are not built cavernously.
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  Speaker 1: They've figured in thirty five to forty thousand.
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  Speaker 2: This is plenty.
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  Speaker 1: I think PNC Park, which is one of my favorites
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  Speaker 1: in Pittsburgh's thirty seven thousand, you know, Family's thirty fourth.
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  Speaker 1: Of course that's an older ballpark. But even some of
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  Speaker 1: the newer ballparks are not over about forty thousand. The
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  Speaker 1: Rangers Ballpark Globe Life will seat fifty They can cram
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  Speaker 1: it in there like for a World Series game last year.
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  Speaker 1: But anyway, Sandy Dean, who as we mentioned, is the
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  Speaker 1: club executive told said today told the board, we feel
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  Speaker 1: like we're on the right path and it will become
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  Speaker 1: clear in the months ahead. Construction is expected to begin
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  Speaker 1: in the spring, with a targeted opening before the twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty eight season. As much as three hundred and eighty
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  Speaker 1: million in public funding will go into building this stadium.
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  Speaker 1: It's going to be on the strip where Tropic Cannon,
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  Speaker 1: where the recently demolished Tropic Canna stood.
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  Speaker 2: They stayed at the Tropic Cannon before hotel.
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  Speaker 1: That's the Long Horn Basketball team already had their plans
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  Speaker 1: for a different hotel before the demolition of that. Since
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  Speaker 1: Texas will be out there Sunday night, the A's are
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  Speaker 1: going to have to play at least the next three
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  Speaker 1: seasons in West Sacramento, California. Twenty five, twenty six, and
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  Speaker 1: twenty seven, the team did announce. How about this, The
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  Speaker 1: team announced it's going to play sixty six to oh
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  Speaker 1: sixty of its eighty one home games next season at night.
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  Speaker 1: Eleven of the day games will be held in April
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  Speaker 1: and May. Why you ask it's hot in Sacramento, it's Inland.
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  Speaker 1: It's not right here on the coach. You don't get
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  Speaker 1: that that marine layer. You don't get that cool ocean breeze.
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  Speaker 1: You see, they're hoping to mitigate concerns about playing in
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  Speaker 1: the extreme heat. The city experienced its hottest twenty day
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  Speaker 1: stretch on record earlier this summer. Temperatures averaged one oh
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  Speaker 1: three point eight from June twenty third to July twelfth.
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  Speaker 3: Question Professor, Yeah, so they're concerned about heat, but they're
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  Speaker 3: moving to the desert in Vegas.
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  Speaker 2: How's that work?
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  Speaker 1: Well, it's good. Well, yeah, it's a dumb it's a done.
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  Speaker 1: Which is an outdoor ballpark at Sacramento that they're dealing with. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: well look at Phoenix. You know they play it. They
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  Speaker 1: play it. What's the name of the ballpark? They're Chase Field.
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  Speaker 1: I thought the d Backs play.
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  Speaker 3: I thought you're going to say they're playing all these
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  Speaker 3: night games because they know people are gonna want to
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  Speaker 3: watch them primetime. People are gonna want to watch that
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  Speaker 3: seven oh five first pitch.
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  Speaker 2: We're talking about the A's that think anybody wants to
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  Speaker 2: see them in prime time? All right?
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  Speaker 1: Uh, and you heard Gene Watsons are going to play
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  Speaker 1: on natural grass in Sacramento, So they're going to do that.
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  Speaker 1: The sixty night home games would tie the sixty eight
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  Speaker 1: Athletics the first year in Oakland for the most in
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  Speaker 1: a season in franchise history. And they're going to share
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  Speaker 1: Sutter Health Park with the Triple A of the Giants.
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  Speaker 1: The Sacramento river Cats, Major League Baseball Minor League Baseball
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  Speaker 1: have worked together to ensure that Boat teams will not
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  Speaker 1: play at home on the same day.
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  Speaker 2: Well, yeah, that's probably a good idea.
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  Speaker 1: So they're done after fifty seven years in Oakland, and
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  Speaker 1: we knew they would be done after fifty seven years.
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  Speaker 1: So now it looks like they've got a plan anyway
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  Speaker 1: to be put in place for the coming days in
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  Speaker 1: Sacramento and then on in the Las Vegas.
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  Speaker 3: Can I tell you my genius plan with the A's,
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  Speaker 3: You have a genius plan. I have a genius plan.
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  Speaker 3: You know how retro stuff is really popular. People like
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  Speaker 3: the stuff from twenty thirty years ago, a vintage. I'm
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  Speaker 3: gonna go buy all the stuff that goes on clearance,
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  Speaker 3: all the A's Oakland Athletics gear that's on clearance. I'm
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  Speaker 3: gonna buy it all up, put it in boxes, make
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  Speaker 3: sure that the moths don't get to it, and then
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  Speaker 3: in twenty years.
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna pop it out. My kids are gonna love it. Yeah, yeah, sure,
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  Speaker 2: there's the way to do it.
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  Speaker 1: Our man, Mike Hardball Heart said, the A sold out
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  Speaker 1: their season tickets for Sacramento today, So that's that's already done.
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  Speaker 1: So the fans are excited about that, all right. So
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  Speaker 1: there's that, all right. A couple of NFL notes. All right,
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  Speaker 1: So the Texans play tonight. They're playing the Jets. You're,
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  Speaker 1: by nature of Vikings fan, right, I am? Sadly?
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  Speaker 2: Do you feel what that Ramas went over the Vikings
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  Speaker 2: last week?
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  Speaker 3: I think if they don't, if they call a face mask,
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  Speaker 3: where another win in the column?
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  Speaker 1: I kill?
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  Speaker 2: You're not?
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  Speaker 3: Oh yes we are.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, all right, let's play your game for a moment, cowboy. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: if they call the face mask, the score is still
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  Speaker 1: twenty eight twenty Los Angeles. The ball was moved out
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  Speaker 1: to the twenty yard line, their own twenty yard line,
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  Speaker 1: where they've got to go eighty yards in a minute
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  Speaker 1: and fifteen seconds with no timeouts, score a touchdown, and
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  Speaker 1: get a two point conversion just to tie it.
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  Speaker 2: Where do you find a win out of all of that?
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  Speaker 3: Who's the best receiver?
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  Speaker 2: In football, Justin Jefferson.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and they clamm down on him after the first half.
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  Speaker 3: And here's what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 2: I think I got him on my fantasy Jamie's going.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, he's great. He sells jerseys if you give him
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  Speaker 3: that opportunity to make a play.
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  Speaker 2: Think about this.
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  Speaker 3: Last year they were down thirty three to zero to
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  Speaker 3: the Indiapolis Colts, who brought them back. Justin Jefferson, I'm
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  Speaker 3: telling you, in that situation, if they can get that
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  Speaker 3: call momentums on our side, I know a lot of
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  Speaker 3: people don't believe in Uncle Moe.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, because they're eighty yards away a minute fifteen to
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  Speaker 1: go with no timeouts.
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  Speaker 2: This is why. And they hadn't scored a touchdown since
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  Speaker 2: the second quarter.
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  Speaker 3: My bread lime, my Thanksgiving is better than everybody else is.
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  Speaker 3: I am my Uncle bo In. I bring Uncle momentum in.
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  Speaker 3: You do that, we win that game. If they call
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  Speaker 3: that face mask round.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, they're gonna go eighty yards in a minute in
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  Speaker 1: seventy five seconds with no timeouts when they had not
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  Speaker 1: even scored a touchdown since the second quarter. They're gonna
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  Speaker 1: get a touchdown and the two pointer to tie it,
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  Speaker 1: and then win it in overtime.
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  Speaker 2: That's your point.
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  Speaker 3: We'll never know because we have three blind mice.
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  Speaker 2: I guess we'll never know.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, we'll be back the wrap of the hour here
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