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at the Tabernardiy on the line JT for three?

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Speaker 1: I know I had to do a really long read

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Speaker 2: Hey, man, you just tell me when and win and

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I'll be there. You know what I'm saying. You know

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I You know that I've never shied away from from

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I think that's the way the world needs to be

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amen And so you know, I've shared about my struggles

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with my weights, and but you know I can tell

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you that I'm on the right track. I'm under three

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hundred and eighty pounds now for probably you know, only

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the second time this year. My goals to be three

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seventy five by the end of the week. And so

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you know, little by little, but I you know I will.

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I will take all the help you can give me.

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Then you know me, and you know part of being

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christ Like you also have to accept help. And and

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I know that I need it. So gosh darn it,

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let's set it up and let's do a journey of

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of losing weight. I would love to do that, love it.

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Speaker 1: It's more than that too. There's there's other things that

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they do. So I think you'll be impressed. At least

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get the blood work done and we can see kind

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of what they think we should do.

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Speaker 3: So JG.

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Speaker 1: Let's break down this victory. What stood out to you?

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Speaker 4: What did you love?

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Speaker 1: It's the good, the bad, the beautiful, and the ugly.

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Speaker 2: Well, let's go with the good, right. I think the

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good I would say is Keba Katum. Okay, let's go

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with Kepa. The way that he played that sequence band

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of the pullback dunk and the hen of the block

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and that my guy does a salute. Uh my goodness, gracious,

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you know that that was incredible. The reason why I

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Speaker 5: Good is because Keba last year nothing more of a

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complementary player in terms of a rebounding and blocking and

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Speaker 2: That his teammates are you know, just just helping and

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he's more of a role player right now. I'm not

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saying that, you know, b Yu is gonna throw the

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ball to him and say, hey, go get us a bucket.

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very very much count on him on having a level

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of consistency of Ay, I need to rebound, I need

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to block, but I also need to make sure that

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to get everything done. And so to me, the good

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of the game yesterday is gonna go to Keba.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, definitely, that's the good of the game. JT.

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Speaker 6: Run up the three man weaver here with the people.

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What were something that you feel like they need to

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work on? Obviously, I feel like people are nitpicking JT.

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like that, to not shoot well from the field, to

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miss a couple of free throws. Look, it's the first

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game that got it done. You saw aj take over

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down the stretch, you saw Rob do that. But there's

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still some fans nitpicking from your standpoint, what's something coming

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out of this game that they need to work on?

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Speaker 4: Because I do agree with some people.

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Speaker 6: If you blow a lead like that in the second

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half in conference play, you're gonna get beat by fifteen.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, and so I would say that the bad,

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the beautiful. I will probably say that the bad is

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exactly what you said, is the fact that the lead

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was lost. You know, there was about a five minute

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span over there that it was Robert Wright, it was Baker,

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on the bench guys, right, I think there are a

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few things that need to happen. For instance, I was

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he did because Baker came in and knocked down at

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three was doing great, but he pulled him out right

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after that, and I'm like, my gosh, you're shore. He's

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you know, just knocked down a shooter and a shot

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do that, obviously, and so but then Mahilo missed quite

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a bit of open shots, you know what I mean,

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shooter for this year, maybe even Tyler. I think. Once

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go with Tyler to see what he could get from him.

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honestly is not the bench because by U has probably

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one of the best big three in the country. And

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so you know, if the good is keV, the bad,

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the same time effort, and you know, through the one

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of them cannot be on acord for longer than a

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TV timeout. That's probably my bad run.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I agree with you.

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Speaker 6: When I was looking at it, I was looking like,

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are all three of them on the benches at all?

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That's not that's not doable. Like I think they exposed

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a little bit seeing some Dawson Baker or Rob right, Like,

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when you're that good offensively and maybe the defense is

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one of your weaknesses, not all of them, and shots

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aren't falling, I feel like teams can attack that.

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Speaker 4: But can we just go back to Kaba?

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Speaker 6: He was great defensively, like that was the good But

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and we discussed this yesterday on when you because you

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do a great job every time. Guys, if you want

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to give a plug for JT after every home game,

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most likely after he does his space this thing, please

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join on his Twitter. It's a great time to join him.

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Eric Mika did it yesterday and I had a phenomenal job.

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It's a good time to join. But the way Cable

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was sealing, they teach that in the pros. That's a

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professional thing to do. He did everything. I felt like

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that you needed to down the stretch to win the game,

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and that's the type of player you need, JT. I

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feel like to get to the elite to win a

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Final four, and I just got to give And I

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and that staff and Chris liked the tweet that I

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put out too, because the development of this man has

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been phenomenal. Like I know, AJ is gonna get the

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hype Richie Rob, but Kabacada, a big part of their

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success is going to be built around number thirteen.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and you know, I will say this, you know,

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if the good was Keba, if the bad was you know,

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yesterday BYU shot thirty nine percent from from from the field,

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twenty nine percent from the three point line, sixty six

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percent out of the free throw line. I mean, you

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per seven from the charity stripe.

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Speaker 4: That can't happen.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that man could have had The man could have

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had twenty five points on a college debut, and my goodness, gracious,

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right now, he had only one. BUYU won the game.

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the numbers and the way that you know, buy you

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left a lot of points on the floor by missing shots.

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offensive rebounds too much, right, I think that if you

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give up you know, five, between five and ten offensive

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rebounds already, think that's a lot. Five is the you know,

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anything more than five is atrocious. Seventeen offensive rebounds, it

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is just it is just not okay, it is just

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not It is just not a good a good situation.

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And so to me, those are the two uglies you

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know that that I saw in the game, and so

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those things just cannot happen.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I agree with you, those two things definitely cannot happen.

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they need of two to go down in Villanova. And

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I think you and I we've talked about it all

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off season, seeing what AJ did. They're like BYU and

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people been raving and waiting for a player like ag

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to take over the ball game. He did that, seeing

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He'll come together the chemistry will come along. But the broadcast, Jtam,

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go back to the Alamo Bowl football and I'm sortching

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topics and still you know, basketball season and football season,

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but they would they were raving about prime Colorado. And

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this was the first time I've heard of broadcast since

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covering BYU and being a student there, or I heard

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pretty much all of it, Taylor towards BYU, AJ De

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Bonce and Kevin Young.

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Speaker 2: Well, and I will say this, you know, if the

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of the broadcast is he's all about by U, right,

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and so now are their business motives for him to

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being about by U with the collectives and and il

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and you know all of the things that the reasons

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why he chose by U. And that's totally fine, right,

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That's okay. Now, AJ being the big BYU guy and

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and becoming one of us right again. There, to me,

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the most masterful thing that that Tom Holmo and Brian

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Santiago have done is maintaining that high level of of

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commitment to the things that matter most with the church

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standards and so on. But I think it's very interesting.

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Aj is the type of player that by U has

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never ever had ever and for AJ to be performing

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at the level that he is as a freshman, I mean, Ron,

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that was his first collegiate game, right now, I completely

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understand that people say, well, but they're now getting paid

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in this and then I'm like, that's fine even if

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this is a pro league, because let's be realistic, college

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basketball now it is a professional league. He still is

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the first time that he's playing at that level. Right

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and again, Villanova, you're not playing against you know, Booboo

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State University, Central College, you know, of of the Woods,

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maybe a blue blood because of how you know, how

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consistent they had they had been under J Wright and

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such and so Aj is, you know, he is there

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is an incredible hype around him, and nonetheless he is

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better than advertised, and he keeps getting better and he

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keeps delivering, and what an amazing thing it is to

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see him play.

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Speaker 7: Cougar Nations should be, should be should feel lucky that

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we all get to watch him play up and close,

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live and as often as we will do by him

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being a BYU Cougar.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, AJ again, I said nothing against Jimmer, and the

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landscape has changed right in college basketball. While we talked

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about Jimmer had to play all four years. You know,

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it's a different era now. If you do everything in

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a year that adds up to it with the hype,

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with how much you're paying you one season does equivalate

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to that because if you don't do it, then you

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get ripped. So I think all of that's fair, that's

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on the table, and I think he will. What I

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saw yesterday, I'm like, dude, if you scored twenty one

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points and they all were missing bunnies, for crying out loud,

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but if AJ miss four bunnies, which you mean to

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be add that's another eight points.

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Speaker 4: So there you go.

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Speaker 6: You give him about almost thirty and he missed five

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free throws like bro could almost drop forty his first game.

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Speaker 2: If you go back and look at it and Ron

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something there is something that you alluded as soon as

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as soon as we started a conversation, and I want

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to touch on that, and I want to be the

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one that touches that, you know, just because obviously you

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have to try to be as neutral as you can.

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And I don't care what people say about me. Here's

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the thing. Run the amount of people criticizing Robert right

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or saying, hey, he needs to do this, he needs

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to do that, the ball needs to move. There were

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multiple times on where Robert initiated something fasketball to aj

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Org Ritchie and those guys extra pass to the corner

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for a wide open Kadeem, a wide open canard, you know,

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and it was just a beautiful ball movement right a Baker.

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The three point shot that he made, he was wide open.

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Defeats that Mahilo. We have a lot of extra passes

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as well, and so b Yu will get there right

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by you will very much get to where they need

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to be. The other thing that I think it's it's

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unfair is to say, well, Robert Ride needs to fast

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first point guard. Well, then sounds like you're asking Robert

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Right to become a different player than he is. Sounds

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like you're asking Robert Cope different persons because that's not

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his game. Okay. He is a scoring, attacking point guard

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and that's okay, right and so and and you talk

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about missing bunnies, Rubbert Right missed a whole lot of them. However,

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big However, here when he came time to deliver, and

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when he came time to execute and get the job done.

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At the end of the game, A j and Robert

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Wright were doing the snake screen attack where right after

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the screen that Keva sat and he was a fantastic

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screen Robert would get in front of the defender and

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and he would almost guide him right, keep him on

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his back. And so, to me, it was a great game.

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It was a very great first game. Probably the only

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negative things I can say about this game is I

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would say Kevin Young rotations. I did not like it,

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but I understand what he's coming from, right, I don't.

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I don't like it. I didn't like it, but I

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definitely understand his motives and understand why he did it.

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Shooting was atrocious, and so was offensive rebounding, giving up

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so all inough byus want to know coming home to

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play a game on Saturday. That should be a very

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exciting game and uh, you know, eager to see what

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this team is going to do next.

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Speaker 4: I agree with you. Let's finish up on a couple

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of things.

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Speaker 6: As we have Jonathan tavinar are esp and the fan

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college basketball analyst. You can also catch JT when he helps

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out with bou TV basketball pre half and postgame show.

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They take care of all of that down there in

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the great building of BYU broadcast. JT, you mentioned a

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game on Saturday, holy Cross. I want to turn my

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attention to what do you want to see on Saturday

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from this team? Obviously holy Cross not the formidable opponent

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that Villanova is, but instill the game still the vision

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on opponents that you need to pay attention to.

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Speaker 4: What do they need to correct?

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Speaker 6: What do you what would you like to see maybe

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from some of the other guys outside of aj Rob

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and Richard, even from them going into this Saturday.

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Speaker 8: I would like to see, in all honesty, a few

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metrics that I would like to see is less than

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five offensive rebounds giving up right, I think that would

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be a very that.

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Speaker 2: Would be something.

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Speaker 8: And then one thing that I would love to continue

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to see is BUYU only had four turnovers, which is incredible.

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Speaker 2: Right, they took care of the ball. They were very good,

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They were very efficient doing that.

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Speaker 3: And so I would say that what I would like

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to see is improve overall shootings. Right, I would say,

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shoot above fifty percent from the field, above forty percent

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from three, shoot above seventy you know, seventy five percent

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from the free zone line.

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Speaker 2: I mean, listen, Ron, We're not asking much, right I.

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Speaker 3: You know, it's as my father in law says, you know,

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these are these are free you know, free shots for

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crying out right, And so it's to me it's something

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that they have to do.

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Speaker 2: Those would be the metrics. Star And obviously to win, you.

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Speaker 3: Don't want to have a Boise State situation where you

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lose you know to Boo Boo State college, you know,

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community college.

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Speaker 2: Uh, and you don't want to have that situation.

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Speaker 4: And uh.

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Speaker 3: And then but the metrics I would say is, you know,

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shooting above fifty percent from the field, above forty percent

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from three, above seventy five percent from the free throw line,

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no more than five offensive rebounds, and you know, keep

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turning overs under ten and I think if BUYU does that,

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you know, you start seeing the the developing and uh

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and you know, the improvement from a team that is

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going to be the talk, not the talk to the town, uh,

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mister Ron Weaver the third, but the talk of the country.

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And aj is an international superstar at this point. We

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have to we have to call a spade a spade.

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In my gosh, you know, he is an asa spades.

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What a phenomenal player, the way he moves Robert right,

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you know, we all bet I get a custom that

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we're only going to see him in Pro Bowl also

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for just one year. And you know, lots of lots

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of lots of great things happening for YU basketball right

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now and BYU football coming up with a massive game

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in Lubbock, and you know, just a great time to

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be a Cougar fans.

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Speaker 6: Definitely a great time to be a Cougar fans. Saturday

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is going to be great for all fans. You got

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b YU kicking off at ten am and Mountain eleven

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am Central for those that will be in Lubbock. Number

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eight b YU football taking on number eight numbers excuse me,

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number nine Texas Tech. Number eight BOU Basketball in action

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on Saturday. All happened on November eighth. Just realize that too.

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Tip off for the Holy Cross game will be at

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seven pm Mountain to excuse me, Mountain Standard time. And

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now that game is going to be tipped off on

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ESPN Plus. You can catch it there. B YU according

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to the matchup Predictor, ninety eight point eight favorite to

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win this game. According to esp Analytics, I believe what

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JT says. If you limited turnovers, you shoot above this amount,

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you limit offensive rebounds, definitely bo He's come out not

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only with the dub, but a twenty point victory.

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Speaker 4: Be a good opportunity to bounce back. JT.

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Speaker 6: Before I let you go, what's the best way We

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here at ESPN, the fan and the listeners can support you.

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Speaker 4: What you're doing, how you do it?

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Speaker 3: Hey, today is election day and so a lot of

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different places election day. Yeah, so get out and vote.

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Speaker 2: Have your voice being heard.

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Speaker 3: You know. Ever since I became an American citizen, voting

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is probably one of the greatest blessings that I get

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to enjoy. And I did.

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Speaker 2: I went now, I voted.

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Speaker 3: I had a couple of options, a couple of different

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elections that I needed to give my input and I did,

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and you know, I hope that my candidates win. But

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if they don't, you respect the democratic process. So get

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out and vote, guys, and execute your civic duty.

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Speaker 4: Hey, you heard JT.

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Speaker 6: Look at the end of the day, one thing I

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will say is that, hey, we all have to go vote.

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If you want to change something, if you want to

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have your opinion and voice heard, then the way to

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do that is to go vote. Don't not vote regardless,

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fine parties on both sides, scenes that you're like, look

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at the policies, Look where you align, don't align with

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people aligned with where you want to and how you

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feel about issues that need to be fixed and going

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that way. And it is election day, so please go vote.

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Like JT said, JT, we'll catch up with your brother

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next week.

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Speaker 3: Once to be all you plays Holy Cross always in

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November tenth at Megaplex Valley Fair. Guys, tune in at

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twelve pm for your chance to win four pack of tickets. Again,

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you gotta tune in at twelve pm for your chance

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to win a four pack of tickets.

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Speaker 4: Now you see me, now you don't.

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Speaker 6: It's coming to theaters and esp and the Fan has

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you is giving you an opportunity to win four pack

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of tickets to the advanced and it's gonna happen November

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tenth at the Megaplex n Valley Fair.

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Speaker 4: Guys, we'll go to break. Don't go anywhere it's still

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allowed to get to.

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Speaker 6: On a Tuesday, November fourth edition of Cougar Sports, here

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are one of three nine and ninety eight three ESPN

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