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and welcome back to our NASA social

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first ever virtual version all right i'm

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yves lamothe and happy happy to be back

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with you guys here happy Memorial Day

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once again and today we're going to give

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portal right before we launch into deep

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space how it really goes down today with

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how are you I'm doing fantastic thank

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you so much for being with us here today

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social lead here at Kennedy Space Center

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global NASA social next up we're taking

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where the first woman in the next man

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the comments section and it may be

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woman to the moon that's definitely

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worthy of a high-five so folks let's go

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hey everyone we're at launch complex 39b

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with me I have a Regina Spellman the

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senior project manager of the pad Regina

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exploration ground systems program and

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construction basically getting all the

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refurbish yes at this bed even though

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she looks great she's over 52 years old

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this pad is the original pad that was

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sister pad just south of us complex 39a

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was built first and this pad was

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two years later in 1967 Apollo 10

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launched from here in May of 1969 which

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is bright before Apollo 11 launch two

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following July did the dress rehearsal

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refurbishment because we are right here

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these towers were the first construction

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branch off and we have two legs

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protective buildings and they're there

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that's actually what we'll take all the

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about that yeah so I kind of dug this

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base architectures go in and out of

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psionic factions right so in Apollo

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tower and the vehicle was stacked on

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the shuttle pad is a massive structures

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more access platforms and then when you

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we're writing history and it's fun to go

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that migrated onto our society

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everyone's so dedicated and so bright

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family with me Regina how are you I'm

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it thank you so much for being here

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especially on Memorial Day

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it's raining so maybe not but this got

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how old the launch pad 39b is and what

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vehicles have lifted off from there so

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if you look at her today you'd almost

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one of our goals in in modernizing

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launch complex 39b

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was to make her able to be used for

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multi users everything that we designed

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was optimized for SLS because it will be

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the most powerful rocket but it's also

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but it will be able to launch anything

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that Americans are flying today all the

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infrastructure that we have out there

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will connect up to a mobile launcher so

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our commercial partners we just need to

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bring their own mobile launcher and and

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and they will have their own unique

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asset connections to their vehicle but

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because of the clean pad architecture

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that we have without all that having a

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large structure out there you could

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launch any vehicle off of that awesome

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Thank You Regina we have one more

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question here from Laurie she wants to

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know what do you suggest we as teachers

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can do to inspire our students about

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STEM our steam careers well that's a

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great question I tell you I grew up in

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Indiana and if you would tell me that

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when you grow up you're going to be

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working on a launch complex some a

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launch pad for returning for putting the

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first woman on the moon and the next man

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I would never believed you

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I think what's important is for you know

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they say just to see me

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and when they see you know similar

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examples of people that are doing the

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things and and to put themselves in that

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situation it's just so make it that they

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understand that there are no limits um

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you know to what they can do I think we

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emphasize a lot of Science and

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Technology and math but I also think and

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I have a young son myself and one of the

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things I strive to work with him on is

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also communication it's a big part of

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what we do and so I think it's it to

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really be able to challenge some of

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these to take on to some of these really

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challenging problems you have to be able

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to communicate and work together because

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so much of what we do depends on a team

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and a very diverse team and it's

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important to be able to bring in the

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best and the brightest of everyone to

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work together to accomplish some of

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these very lofty goals that we have

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ahead of us it's so refreshing to just

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to hear you speak and in the way you you

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can definitely you know inspire folks to

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do to go off and do and do great things

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so I want to ask what does this launch

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mean to you I mean we are at the

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forefront of you know returning into

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deep space exploration launching

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American astronaut on American Rockets

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in the United States all what what does

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all of this mean to you

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so it's it's funny I think most people

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that know me would if I say that I don't

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have words to express it they wouldn't

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they would kind of laugh because I'm

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never short for words

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but it is really really tough to put

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into words how much that's going to mean

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to all of us there's been a tremendous

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amount of work that's gone into this and

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not just here at Kennedy but across the

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agency to get ready for SLS Orion and

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for us to do this next launch and for us

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you know to really go beyond what we've

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done before I go back to the Abraham

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Lincoln quote when he says you know the

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best way to predict the future is to

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create it and you know we have the honor

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everyday of coming out here and working

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where the generations before us in the

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Apollo program and the shuttle program

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and the tremendous things that they

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achieved and we're just taking that to

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the next step further and I'm really

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trying to open the you know writing the

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chapter of in the next for human

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spaceflight

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so being

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this is a such a historic moment what do

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you think you'll be on Wednesday for the

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launch as close as I can get and then I

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definitely want to have my son there and

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I want him to see it because we haven't

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been we haven't put Americans in space

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on American Rockets since he was born

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and it's important for them to that to

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be a part of their normal gotcha do you

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have time for maybe one more question

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sure so somebody else wants to know from

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the audience

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we're 39 a and B built at the same time

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so they were built as part of the same

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effort but they were built staggered so

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launch complex 39a was completed two

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years prior to 39 B and they're

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originally there were plans to build

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more pads but based on the the launch

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manifest and everything they were able

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to accomplish their goals with just the

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two launch complexes okay and and so one

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last question for your agent is there a

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reason why the pad is at the location

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that it is now because of the beautiful

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view of the ocean of course it's really

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important to be away from crowded areas

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and you know the safety of the public is

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one of our number-one goals and so

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because we are on the on the coast we

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are able to launch away from public

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areas I don't think anybody would want a

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rocket going over Disneyworld so being

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on the coast being away from populated

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areas and also you know being away from

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you know air traffic and that sort of

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things have been isolated so that's

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that's the reason why we're out there

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that and no one wants to live there with

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all the mosquitoes now so Regina thank

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you so much for being here with us and

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sharing your knowledge and your passion

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even if it's it's it's very hard to to

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not miss your your passion that you have

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for everything that you do and and here

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we have with us a woman who's doing

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great things for NASA as we prepare to

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send you know prepare ourselves to send

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women back to our Sen women period to

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the moon so thank you again for joining

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us and answering all the questions guys

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please um stay tuned for the next shows

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that we have coming up at one o'clock we

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have if you interested in being a space

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farmer it's a show that you definitely

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don't want to miss we're gonna talk

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about veggies and plants growing them in

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space that's gonna be at one o'clock so

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please come back join us Stephanie thank

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you for for being here with us

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I mean I'm surrounded by talent here

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right and it's all about it's all about

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the women and and please guys once again