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Could Carnell Tate And Jeremiah Smith Be On The Verge Of Breakout Seasons? · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  the regular feature for our members at bucke Huddle dot com'rare to be talking about
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  a few of the little bullet points from that column on today's show. Tony,
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  I know, I know. It's twenty twenty four. We know what
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  that means. It is the year of the tight end at Ohio State.
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  So we got to start with Will Kasmerrick. And there have been a lot
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  of very high profile editions for the Buckeyes through the transfer portal Pasmeric I think
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  is the one where, you know, if you were going to like ask
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  people to list them, that would be the one where people would get through
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  the first you know, four or five and then be you know, thinking
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  about, okay, who else was there? He would probably be one of
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  the ones that came after the sort of the long pause and the head scratch.
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  But he also feels like he might be someone who has a real significant
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  impact on this year's team. Yeah, the guy who's listed at six poust
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  six two hundred and sixty pounds by Ohio State right now and obviously bigger than
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  your normal tight end, your typical tight end. Haven't had somebody this this
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  size in a while. But it's not just the size, it's the physicality.
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  I had somebody tell me that speaking with one of the Ohio State assistant
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  coaches on defense called him a tank with bad intentions. And that's kind of
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  what you'd like to hear from an offense. Where last year physicality was maybe
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  lacking at times, this year you have you lose cached over, but you
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  have somebody like g Scott. We know about Will Coin's americ can come in
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  and be that that running game tight end if you want. He's had over
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  twenty catches twenty catches or more in each of his two seasons at Ohio University.
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  But it's the physicality that Ohio State likes and that has really caught the
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  defensive coaches. And they don't even have pads on yet, so this is
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  this is workouts, this is you know, drills and things like that.
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  So just wait, I guess until the pads actually go on, and I
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  won't be surprised and you shouldn't be surprised to hear more and more about him
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  and the way he plays. Yeah, he feels like this is not you
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  know, this is not the one that the guy that's necessarily going to get
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  the profile on college game day. But he might be the guy who makes
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  that one block that makes the big play. You know, you go by
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  through Ohio State history, Braxton Miller on the fourth down play against Michigan State
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  in the twenty thirteen Big Ten Championship game. Boy, he needed one block
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  and you didn't get it, and that was the difference between playing for a
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  national championship and not. And you know that he could be the guy who
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  make that kind of play that you know, like the Evan Spencer block there.
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  He got two guys on the ezekiel La eighty five yard run against Alabama.
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  Sometimes it's just that one block that's sort of lost, except you know,
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  unless the people really want to kind of dive into it. That can
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  make a really really big difference in a season. So we'll keep an eye
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  on wil Kasmrick throughout the spring. Definitely a name that I think is going
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  to get more attention as the spring and the season go along. Next up,
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  we got to talk about the center battle, and Ohio State has two
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  guys who I think some people view as you know, well, yeah,
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  but kind of guys where Yeah, Carson Hinsman, he played last season.
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  He was a red shirt freshman starter for Ohio State. Yeah, but the
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  end of the season. And Seth McLaughlin, who was a year starter at
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  Alabama. Obviously, you know Nick Saban does not play crappy football players,
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  and you know, so Seth mclachan a multi year starter there, you kind
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  of know what you're getting there. And then he still is a yeahbut kind
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  of player for a lot of people. So you know, when you look
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  at those two guys, Tony, I think you were writing about the fact
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  that they're you know, some encouraging signs in both of them. McLaughlin in
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  particular was super intriguing to me because of a team that was going after him
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  in the portal that never goes after anyone in the portal. Yeah, Clemson
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  was interested in bringing him in and Dabo Sweeney famously does not use the portal,
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  has used it just twice once to bring back a quarterback, Hunter Johnson,
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  I believe, who was a five star kid that transferred out of Clemson,
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  went to Northwestern four a year or two and then came back. And
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  then the quarterback that they brought in a year or two ago was the great
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  grandson of Bear Bryant, which Dabo played at Alabama and so he has that
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  connection. So the two guys that he's brought in the portal both at connections.
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  Basically, this was just a need for a player, a very good
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  player, and so it's interesting to me that Dabbo was willing to go back
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  on that and to go after this this player seth McLaughlin. But also,
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  you know, the Carson Hinsman thing, the response that the coaches have talked
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  about with him, reminds me of the Corey Linsley situation, who was I
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  believe part of the two thousand and nine class red shirted, did not play
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  in tent and didn't didn't play much as a backup guard in ten and eleven,
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  and yet he basically goes through this off season of you know, just
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  reforming himself, reforging himself and is the surprise starter at center for Ohio State
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  for two years under Urban Meyer. When Urban was getting there, you figure
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  he is going to run some people out of here. And Corey Linsley was
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  one of those guys that decided to change his mind about everything and really bought
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  in. And Carson Hinsman, after getting benched for the bowl game, the
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  Cotton Bowl against Missouri, you thought, well, maybe he might not be
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  too happy, especially when they're bringing in a center with starting experience, But
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  he has turned that thing around. And I won't say bought in because he
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  started twelve games for Ohio State last year as a center as a resident red
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  shirt freshman, but he has taken the happenstance the situation positively and progressed.
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  And so that competition I think will be good for obviously both of them before
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  the team as well. And as we keep saying on every show we do
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  Tom, the situation on the offensive line is so much better now than it
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  was a year ago, and having a competition like this is a good problem
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  to have. Yeah, exactly. There were times last year where it was,
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  well, do they have anyone who can play fill in the bank blank
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  position? And this year you're looking at the center position and thinking, yeah,
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  they've got two guys who could play there. Is that definitely qualifies as
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  a good problem to have. Another good problem to have is, well,
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  you have the top recruit in the overall class of twenty twenty four and he's
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  immediately making incredibly positive impressions on pretty much everyone around the program. That would
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  be Jeremiah Smith, as a name that I think Ohio State fans have been
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  kind of eagerly anticipating seeing him finally get on campus. He is now on
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  campus. And you're not just hearing good things from Jeremiah Smith from the people
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  who are always going to kind of say positive things and be supportive of the
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  young guys. You're hearing stuff, positive stuff about Jeremiah Smith from the people
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  who are generally going to shoot you pretty straight if something's going well or not
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  going well. And it sounds like with Jeremiah Smith, yeah, early returns
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  our things are going real well. Yeah. And we always talk about Denzel
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  Burke being the guy the arbiter of truth when it comes to Ohio State football,
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  and he's already said, came out and said it a couple weeks ago
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  that he thinks Jeremiah Smith has a pretty good chance to be the next great
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  Ohio State receiver. And when you ask anybody, whether it's coach or player,
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  about him, and it's almost gotten to meme territory at this point,
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  but you just hear like he's a freak. You know, he does everything
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  well and and so you try to be cautious. But if nobody else is
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  going to be cautious, you know, then you start to buy in.
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  Now there are still only so many throws, only so many passes for the
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  the Ohio State receivers. But when everybody you talk to, and it's some
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  of it is you, you sift through the oh, you know, all
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  of the coach speak or the players speak, where everybody's good, everybody's just
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  trying their best. When when players are like, no, he is a
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  freak. This is different. When they when they tell you things are different,
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  you have to kind of start to believe them. So, yeah,
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  I think we're obviously everybody's excited to see more and more of him, but
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  we've got no indication that from anybody. Hey, calm down, like that's
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  not happened now. I think we should just because it's that's safer for everybody.
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  You know, let's go to the speed limit here. But everybody else
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  is just you know, kind of gassing you up. What do you when
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  you ask about him? Yeah, and that's exactly, and that's you know
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  that that's sometimes you get give people who get you know, hyped up,
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  and it's like okay, maybe when it's so consistent, it's like okay,
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  at some point, this really means something, and we have you know,
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  we have had people on our board talk about at Bheadle dot com talking about,
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  you know, is this the greatest player in decades? This is the
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  greatest player in you know, forty years, And it's like, maybe let's
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  let's see like one snap during a real game before we make that kind of
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  leap. But it feels like, yeah, gonna be pretty good, going
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  to make some kind of an impact this year. And then now it's a
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  matter of just how big of an impact is that going to be. You
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  don't want to get too far out of over your skis, but people are
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  always excited by the new shiny thing. He's definitely the new shiny thing this
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  year, but Tony, as you wrote, there's always a new shiny thing.
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  Don't forget about last year's new shiny thing. Carnell Tait. We were
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  hearing a lot of the same stuff from Cardil Tate last year, had a
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  really solid freshman year. Now poised to take a much bigger role, and
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  it feels like he's getting a little bit lost in all the other talk that's
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  going on the spring. Yeah, poor guy, What was your favorite moment
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  of the Carnel Tate Golden Boy era. But we talked about denzil Burg.
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  Denzel Burke at the Cotton Bowl last year said Carnel Tate is going to be
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  the next great Ohio State receiver and at this point there's no reason to doubt
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  denzil Burg. Mecca Abuka has said he's been ready since he was in high
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  school to be a starting wide receiver for at Ohio State. Talked to Marvin
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  Harrison last August when he said that Carnel Tate at that point was where Marvin
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  was heading into a sophomore season. So basically Carnel Tate a year ahead of
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  Marvin Harrison. So when you have those people saying those things, that means
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  something to me. And I think watching Carnel Tate last year as we did,
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  you could see there some things there, But there are again only so
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  many opportunities and so many, so many snaps. This year, Marvin Harrison
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  is out of the picture, Julian Fleming is out of the picture, Xavier
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  Johnson is out of the picture. This is going to be a Mecca Buka.
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  This is gonna be Carnel Tate. Those are your top two guys,
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  and don't forget, like on your way, don't don't lose the uh the
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  tape for the trees. I'm not sure exactly the way that that analogy goes,
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  But while you're going googly on Jeremiah Smith, don't forget to focus a
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  little bit on Carnel Tait. Yeah, I'm sorry, I can't. I
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  cannot pull anything clever out for you at this moment. I am very very
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  sorry. You should have given me a heads up. I apologize. But
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