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And it's an"},{"speaker":"Peaches","startTime":3744.45,"endTime":3747.48,"body":"honor to have you on it really"},{"speaker":"Peaches","startTime":3744.45,"endTime":3747.48,"body":"is and I hope that we can do it"},{"speaker":"Peaches","startTime":3747.48,"endTime":3752.79,"body":"again in the future. And if I"},{"speaker":"Peaches","startTime":3747.48,"endTime":3752.79,"body":"don't see you before you rolled"},{"speaker":"Peaches","startTime":3752.79,"endTime":3757.44,"body":"out I'll definitely talk to you"},{"speaker":"Peaches","startTime":3752.79,"endTime":3757.44,"body":"but congratulations on you know"},{"speaker":"Peaches","startTime":3757.44,"endTime":3760.77,"body":"being the SOCOM, CSL and on your"},{"speaker":"Peaches","startTime":3757.44,"endTime":3760.77,"body":"future retirement."},{"speaker":"Chief Smith","startTime":3761.4,"endTime":3763.74,"body":"And being old is"},{"speaker":"Chief Smith","startTime":3761.4,"endTime":3763.74,"body":"what you're telling me. Right?"},{"speaker":"Unknown","startTime":3763.769,"endTime":3764.819,"body":"I think what he said"},{"speaker":"Unknown","startTime":3763.769,"endTime":3764.819,"body":"everybody,"},{"speaker":"Aaron","startTime":3764.82,"endTime":3767.22,"body":"everybody had a right to"},{"speaker":"Aaron","startTime":3764.82,"endTime":3767.22,"body":"you. I can't believe"},{"speaker":"Unknown","startTime":3767.22,"endTime":3770.91,"body":"it. Pre Desert Storm"},{"speaker":"Unknown","startTime":3767.22,"endTime":3770.91,"body":"kind of says it all, doesn't it?"},{"speaker":"Unknown","startTime":3770.94,"endTime":3772.11,"body":"I know that doesn't"},{"speaker":"Chief Smith","startTime":3773.46,"endTime":3776.49,"body":"sound right."},{"speaker":"Chief Smith","startTime":3773.46,"endTime":3776.49,"body":"There's a standard that I'm"},{"speaker":"Chief Smith","startTime":3776.49,"endTime":3778.65,"body":"getting rid of you right. So but"},{"speaker":"Peaches","startTime":3778.68,"endTime":3780.72,"body":"yeah. So"},{"speaker":"Unknown","startTime":3784.11,"endTime":3784.77,"body":"yeah, that's right."},{"speaker":"Peaches","startTime":3787.11,"endTime":3788.34,"body":"All right, everybody."},{"speaker":"Peaches","startTime":3787.11,"endTime":3788.34,"body":"Thanks for tuning in. We"},{"speaker":"Peaches","startTime":3788.34,"endTime":3790.47,"body":"appreciate it. Thanks."}]}