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Devon Witherspoon: "We're Chasing To Be The No. 1 Defense" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: What'd up though.
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  Speaker 2: It's been if uh an opposing player asked you what
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  Speaker 2: it's like to be in Seattle, what the culture is
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  Speaker 2: like here in that locker room, how would you describe it?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. I just say it's different.
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  Speaker 3: Uh you already you know you're kind of far away
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  Speaker 3: from everybody, But our coaching that lot of room is like.
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  Speaker 1: We just stayed together. It's a brotherhood in there. You know,
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  Speaker 1: we have fun and we kicked with each other.
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  Speaker 2: So is any different this year than it was last year?
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  Speaker 3: I think we just becoming a lot closer this year,
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  Speaker 3: and then we just continue to build on what we
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  Speaker 3: did last year.
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  Speaker 2: So speaking of fun, you come out to that, you're dancing,
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  Speaker 2: You're bringing energy out there, You're treating the jots pretty sercotusly.
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  Speaker 2: Just your thoughts of bringing that energy out there.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm just being me every day. That's all that is.
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  Speaker 1: Aquand Dad. My teammates expect me to be myself, So
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  Speaker 1: that's why I'm gonna.
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  Speaker 2: Be How much different does this feel last year?
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  Speaker 1: Year?
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  Speaker 2: Y'all learning their defense, so we staff always.
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  Speaker 1: Coming to be How much difference does it del Uh? Different?
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  Speaker 1: I wanna say it's different.
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  Speaker 3: I just think we were getting a little bit more
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  Speaker 3: better with the the coverages in the system that coach
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  Speaker 3: might run it. Now we just tryna add our own
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  Speaker 3: little flavor to it so we can just disguise it
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  Speaker 3: al how we want to now because we already know
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  Speaker 3: the calls and and how we gonna adjust.
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  Speaker 1: So is we getting better with the coverage?
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  Speaker 2: Is that familiarity with the playbook now so you can
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  Speaker 2: play faster?
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  Speaker 1: Is that why that is? Now?
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  Speaker 3: Did you getting better?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah? We just tryna build on what we did last year.
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  Speaker 2: So and then it turns up the practices and is
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  Speaker 2: this Jared said that there's some attention at it from
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  Speaker 2: the coaches that they're, you know, trying to get you
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  Speaker 2: guys to move faster.
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  Speaker 1: Do you noticing that or not? Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: I mean we just got to practice that at a
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  Speaker 3: high tempo sometimes, you know, so we could be in
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  Speaker 3: shape when the season come so we.
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  Speaker 1: Can we ain't have to rotate guys and you need
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  Speaker 1: if we do, we gonna be ready. So yeah, then
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  Speaker 1: you told us last year the one of your first
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  Speaker 1: got goals was to play Diverget what what about this year?
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  Speaker 1: What do you want to do this?
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  Speaker 3: Uh? Now, we just gotta build on, we tryna make
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  Speaker 3: the playoffs and then we just tryna continue to go
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  Speaker 3: from there.
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  Speaker 2: So when you look at the TV you got right
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  Speaker 2: now on offensive defense, what what what makes it confident
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  Speaker 2: that you could be a little sick and do you make.
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  Speaker 1: The playoffs or go about what you're going to fast?
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  Speaker 3: Us being together and just we we set the standard
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  Speaker 3: for ourselves and then we all we hold everybody to it.
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  Speaker 1: So I believe every one of those guys in.
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  Speaker 3: The locker room know what we're trying to do and
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  Speaker 3: know what we're trying to build, and I think everybody's
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  Speaker 3: buying in.
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  Speaker 1: So what's your first impressions of min War you getting
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  Speaker 1: to know?
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  Speaker 3: And yeah, Nit, that's my boy. He got a lot
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  Speaker 3: of he had a lot to learn. But yeah, I
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  Speaker 3: think he gonna be real good for us, Like he
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  Speaker 3: gonna obviously his size and his speed, but his ball knowledge,
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  Speaker 3: Like he a smart kid. So I think he gonna
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  Speaker 3: catch on to this defense very easy. And then once
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  Speaker 3: he do it, once he get comfortable doing it, I
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  Speaker 3: think is busicly gonna there's no limit for him.
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  Speaker 2: So aside from having this playbook for a second year,
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  Speaker 2: how much does it benefit you that there's a lot
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  Speaker 2: of continuity in the secondary year three for you having
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  Speaker 2: Julian there.
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  Speaker 1: Kobe there, uh, Josh job now back for a second season.
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  Speaker 3: How much does that continuity help with the coverages and
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  Speaker 3: being able to play faster with this Yeah, we could rotate,
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  Speaker 3: We can line up anywhere, and then we could play
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  Speaker 3: any coverage with those guys, like you know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 1: Like, like I said, we just been on what we
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  Speaker 1: did last year.
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  Speaker 3: We know the playbook now, so now we just add
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  Speaker 3: little flavor to it so that those guys who were.
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  Speaker 2: Thirtieth in the league and yards loved per game two
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  Speaker 2: years ago jumped up the fourteenth last year. What is
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  Speaker 2: the potential for the Steam this year or goals or
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  Speaker 2: top five, top ten?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, definitely got to build on. We chasing them to
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  Speaker 3: be the number one defense in the league. So that's
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  Speaker 3: what it's going.
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  Speaker 2: What does it mean that's earily in your career already
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  Speaker 2: be ranked most of the top see offs Copie pig.
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  Speaker 3: Uh, It mean mean a lot to me. It's a
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  Speaker 3: very honorable thing. But now I'm just trying to continue
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  Speaker 3: to build. Like I say, it was only after two years,
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  Speaker 3: so it's a lot. I still have a lot to
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  Speaker 3: prove and a lot to do. So I'm just trying
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  Speaker 3: to build on that.
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  Speaker 1: Definitely.
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  Speaker 2: When you hear that, uh some Vegas as you guys
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  Speaker 2: it's seven seven eight wins. Uh, what do you guys
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  Speaker 2: think about that?
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  Speaker 3: When you hear about in the longer, we'll pay attention
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  Speaker 3: to what Vegas talking about. We just worry about what
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  Speaker 3: we got in him on, got going on in our building.
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  Speaker 3: They gonna make, They gonna do whatever they got to do,
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  Speaker 3: and we gonna do what we got to do so
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  Speaker 3: they could say whatever they want.
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  Speaker 1: What was there your persons about the seven film? About
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  Speaker 1: filming for that lacking game? And how does that maybe
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  Speaker 1: if we're the same for what you're seeing now?
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  Speaker 3: For you know, he got his strengths, he got his weaknesses,
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  Speaker 3: like every quarterback. Now he's on our team. I just
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  Speaker 3: he's gonna go out there and make a lot of
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  Speaker 3: plays for us. So we put out a lot of
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  Speaker 3: trust him and I believe he gonna deliver him So
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  Speaker 3: and so sim more questions.
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  Speaker 1: With Cooper Cup Do you see him with the dog
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  Speaker 1: and at year him every day?
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  Speaker 2: What's happening?
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  Speaker 1: Uh?
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  Speaker 3: That Ah, that's different. Just to get the line up
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  Speaker 3: and play against him, and just to see him every
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  Speaker 3: day in practice. The way he can run routes and
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  Speaker 3: make everything look the same, it's just it's a lot
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  Speaker 3: it's a good diversity. And then you got Jacks on
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  Speaker 3: the other side. I think that's just gonna be help
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  Speaker 3: us a lot, way a lot better at corner.
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  Speaker 1: So having go Glad against Kooper? What makes him a
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  Speaker 1: challenge to cover as as he's going?
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  Speaker 3: Uh, just like he can run any route like and
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  Speaker 3: then he make all his routes look the same. So
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  Speaker 3: it's like you can't really get a tell on what
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  Speaker 3: he gonna do.
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  Speaker 1: So do you mean I you mean on the break
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  Speaker 1: or what do you mean both?
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  Speaker 2: Making him up the same coming.
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  Speaker 3: Out off the ball, Yeah, coming off the ball, the stems,
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  Speaker 3: the uh, the way he gonna run the route, it's
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  Speaker 3: just everything looks the same.
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  Speaker 1: So that's gonna make him a great receiver. So uh uh.
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  Speaker 1: Last year as a blisterer, how do you feel like
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  Speaker 1: he's taped right in there? How do you what's your
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  Speaker 1: sense of how much or how little you're gonna get
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  Speaker 1: us to Coppol This year?
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  Speaker 3: I think I blittered really well it Last year. I
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  Speaker 3: just think teams had a a good beat on when
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  Speaker 3: I was coming to blit. So it's like, so it's
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  Speaker 3: a hard thing. Like once you sow a t show
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  Speaker 3: something on tape, I mean, all these teams gonna catch
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  Speaker 3: a beat on it and then they gonna game plan
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  Speaker 3: you for it.
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  Speaker 1: So that's just the legal we end.
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  Speaker 3: So this year, I just think I don't know how
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  Speaker 3: a coach might gonna use me, but I just know
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  Speaker 3: whatever he need me to do, i'm'a do it.
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  Speaker 1: And how do you what what do you feel like
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  Speaker 1: teams have to beat?
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  Speaker 2: Like?
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  Speaker 1: How do you be counter at? Uh? I just gotta
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  Speaker 1: play football. That's all that is. Anything else thinks good, Thanks,
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  Speaker 1: you appreciate it, I hear