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DK Metcalf: "This Game Will Be Good To Build On For Next Year" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Happy New Year. You know that it's not what you
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  Speaker 1: were looking for on Sunday, But how do you view
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  Speaker 1: this GA.
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  Speaker 2: Last game against the Rams?
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  Speaker 1: View it as just one more t one more chance
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  Speaker 1: for this team to just go out and put a
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  Speaker 1: finished product on the field, try to get coach uh
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  Speaker 1: McDonald to ten wins in his first season. I mean
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  Speaker 1: a lot of guys have personal goals and sentence to hit,
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  Speaker 1: so I think a lot of people have different reasons
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  Speaker 1: to play for. But you know, just to beat the
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  Speaker 1: Rams in the final game would be a sweet taste
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  Speaker 1: in our mouth.
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  Speaker 2: Do do people outside of the team maybe like underestimate
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  Speaker 2: just how important the the pride part of it and
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  Speaker 2: the internal motivation, the competitiveess that like. I think maybe
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  Speaker 2: somethings like, oh they're the class, they don't care anymore
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  Speaker 2: it is.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, I will say just being in the NFL,
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  Speaker 1: there's a lot of competitive guys in the in this league,
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  Speaker 1: and especially on this team. So I mean, I wouldn't
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  Speaker 1: expect anything less than for us to go out there
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  Speaker 1: and play like we're still you know, fighting to get
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  Speaker 1: in the playoffs. I think he just sends a message
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  Speaker 1: to you know, the opposing team that you know what
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  Speaker 1: type identity that this team will have moving forward. So
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  Speaker 1: now I don't think people are gonna, you know, just
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  Speaker 1: lay down and just accept not making it to the
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  Speaker 1: playoffs and just think this last week is gonna be
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  Speaker 1: a cakewalk.
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  Speaker 3: Now, when you look at numbers in the wide receiver room,
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  Speaker 3: Tyler Lockett st don't necessarily jump off the page. But
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  Speaker 3: how does he show up in big ways in that group?
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  Speaker 1: Just by his personality. He's been the og here, the
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  Speaker 1: the VETU now been there for ten years and you know,
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  Speaker 1: no better person I think since I've been here to
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  Speaker 1: represent this organization better than him. Uh, just by the
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  Speaker 1: way he cares himself, the way he works hard, the
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  Speaker 1: way he never just lets a situation get to him.
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  Speaker 1: He's always getting open on the field whenever we're going
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  Speaker 1: back watching film. So man, just grateful to have spent
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  Speaker 1: time with him, Grateful to have spent six years with
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  Speaker 1: him and just learn from him. A great player, great person,
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  Speaker 1: great friend in my opinion. So yeah, he's he's done
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  Speaker 1: everything the right way and he's a a Hall of
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  Speaker 1: famer in my book, on and off the field.
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  Speaker 3: Do he give you to ask you a lot about Jackson?
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  Speaker 3: This year? He could end up breaking Tyler's record for
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  Speaker 3: most of the perceptions in the season. This this leek
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  Speaker 3: just kind of what have you made it? As you're
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  Speaker 3: being able to possibly do that and and having Tyler
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  Speaker 3: around potentially worth the happens week too.
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  Speaker 1: I mean it's just like a passing of the torch
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  Speaker 1: in my opinion. Like I said, Locke's been a great teammate,
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  Speaker 1: uh to jack since you know, day one, and I
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  Speaker 1: don't think that's that's uh changed. And you know, speaking
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  Speaker 1: on Jackson's season, Uh, He's got a great season, rightfully,
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  Speaker 1: so uh, he's he's worked his butt off to get
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  Speaker 1: to this point, to continue his success throughout this whole year.
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  Speaker 1: And I think it's just difficult to not listen to
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  Speaker 1: the outside noise, you know, if the s success he's
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  Speaker 1: had this season, he hasn't let it get to him.
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  Speaker 1: He still comes in here every day, tries to work hard,
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  Speaker 1: tries to you know, see how he can you know
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  Speaker 1: he get even better, uh you know for the next
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  Speaker 1: game or next season. So uh, just kudos to both
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  Speaker 1: of those guys, one being uh the Kguvett, who you
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  Speaker 1: know doesn't let anything phase them. And then you know,
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  Speaker 1: a rising start in this league that everybody has got
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  Speaker 1: to see this year and you know for years to come.
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  Speaker 2: Obviously you have one last game to add to the
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  Speaker 2: offensive numbers or everything like that. But how do you
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  Speaker 2: sort of look at this us, the offense as a
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  Speaker 2: whole for for this year, what you guys have done.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, we've we got a chance to get to
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  Speaker 1: ten wins. You know in this league, every win isn't
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  Speaker 1: gonna be pretty. Isn't supposed to be pretty. Uh, you
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  Speaker 1: got great players on both sides of the ball. But
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  Speaker 1: I think just that way we fought through adversity, I
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  Speaker 1: think it's just something to build on for next season.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, this was a lot of our first
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  Speaker 1: years together and you know everything we can just build
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  Speaker 1: on for next year and uh, you know, come back stronger,
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  Speaker 1: fix our mistakes and just be better for next year. Tah,
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  Speaker 1: what is it? Uh?
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  Speaker 2: Is the private part of the game, going back to
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  Speaker 2: talking about earlier, is that your.
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  Speaker 1: Motivation for this game? My motivation for this game? Yes,
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  Speaker 1: I mean I'm a competitive person. I don't like losing, period,
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, I'm I'm not trying to lose. You you
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  Speaker 1: sort of toushed on this.
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  Speaker 2: But is there even more sense of like building the
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  Speaker 2: future when it's as first year coach and you guys
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  Speaker 2: are building top not of like every win matters just
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  Speaker 2: cause of what it can meet him for next year.
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  Speaker 1: Correct. Uh, And this is all of our resume, but
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  Speaker 1: especially his resume. So he's not trying to go out
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  Speaker 1: on a on a loss or a l you know,
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  Speaker 1: you're trying to win every game. If they if they
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  Speaker 1: keep scoring, then you know he's he's trying to win.
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  Speaker 1: So that's the mentality coach has, and uh, you know
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  Speaker 1: that's the mentality all his players have. So yeah, it's
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  Speaker 1: just good to build on for next year. Like like
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  Speaker 1: we all said, it's his first year. You know, we
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  Speaker 1: we have a learning curve. He has things he's gonna
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  Speaker 1: carry over into next year. Things he's not. So I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I just I think it's just you know, a good
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  Speaker 1: year of good first year for everybody in the building.
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  Speaker 2: Some of the people that are.
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  Speaker 1: New, uh for you, like teammates or coaches you mentioned
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  Speaker 1: fighting to adversity.
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  Speaker 2: Where'd you learn about some of the new people in
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  Speaker 2: terms of the adversity this year?
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  Speaker 3: Uh?
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  Speaker 1: I will speak SPS specifically on Ernest Jones, Uh, just
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  Speaker 1: playing against him for the past couple of years, and
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  Speaker 1: then for him to be on the team. You know,
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  Speaker 1: it's a very different perspective, you know, on Sunday than
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  Speaker 1: spending every day uh down year, uh with the person
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  Speaker 1: and you know, just seeing him on the fields, see
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  Speaker 1: how he works, how he carries himself. I was mad
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  Speaker 1: at him, uh, you know, going against him, but now
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  Speaker 1: I just get to know him as a person and
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  Speaker 1: not just the football player. And that I'm just speaking
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  Speaker 1: on everybody that's new, but him specifically, just their mentality.
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  Speaker 1: They they came here and fit right into the competitive
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  Speaker 1: atmosphere that we tried to build here. And yeah, I
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  Speaker 1: think coach has done a great job with bringing in
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  Speaker 1: players that fit that mold and like I said, man
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  Speaker 1: that we can only build you know, from here on out.
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  Speaker 2: Come in and he's still a really young come in
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  Speaker 2: and become a leader right away and just sort of
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  Speaker 2: in the middle of the season to take over like
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  Speaker 2: he did.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it doesn't surprise me the way he acts
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  Speaker 1: because I know he he mentioned Bobby has had a big,
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  Speaker 1: you know impact on his career just one year in LA.
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  Speaker 2: So uh.
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  Speaker 1: They have some similar similarities with how they play the game,
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  Speaker 1: how they watched them, how they're always trying to get better.
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  Speaker 1: I know it was a past early in the year
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  Speaker 1: when we were at practice and the ball just barely
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  Speaker 1: got over his head when he tried to jump intip
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  Speaker 1: the ball and he he came down and he screamed like,
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  Speaker 1: I gotta make that play. So like that's just the
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  Speaker 1: type of person he is. He he wants to be
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  Speaker 1: better for the team, not just only for himself.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. Are you ever surprised though that he's still only
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  Speaker 3: twenty five years old, just with the way that he
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  Speaker 3: carries himself and all that.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, sir, there's a lot of great young players in
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  Speaker 1: this league, and I think the league is in great
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  Speaker 1: hands with with talent, uh you know, moving forward. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: but no, it doesn't surprise me because you know, there's
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  Speaker 1: a lot of great young guys who want to be
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  Speaker 1: great early, and you know they they hit the learning
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  Speaker 1: curve early and you know, get around that that uh
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  Speaker 1: you know, rookie slump of making a mistake here there,
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  Speaker 1: and they learn from it and don't make the same
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  Speaker 1: mistake twice.
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  Speaker 3: There.
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  Speaker 1: He else, Like I said,