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Speaker 2: And that's that's the recipe in college sports right now

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Speaker 1: Really, really well do they? I mean, what would you

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Speaker 2: No, I think what i'd heard about her proved to

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Speaker 1: name of the guy who got the goal. Starts with

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Speaker 1: a Z, but I can't pronounce it. But you know what,

430
00:21:44,240 --> 00:21:46,240
Speaker 1: and they did as you say, they had the extra skater,

431
00:21:46,280 --> 00:21:48,800
Speaker 1: they had removed their goaltender. Yeah, so it's a brand

432
00:21:48,800 --> 00:21:50,439
Speaker 1: new ball game. I don't think I'm on a text

433
00:21:50,480 --> 00:21:53,800
Speaker 1: garn right now. I wouldn't. I think it might be shattered. Yeah,

434
00:21:54,480 --> 00:21:57,280
Speaker 1: if you did it or not, that's very, very true. Yeah,

435
00:21:57,280 --> 00:22:00,000
Speaker 1: that was a quick ass shot. That was a nice

436
00:22:00,160 --> 00:22:03,560
Speaker 1: This is the side I want to see. Oh, Jill,

437
00:22:03,840 --> 00:22:08,960
Speaker 1: that's beautifully done in the corner over his right gate. Yeah,

438
00:22:09,240 --> 00:22:11,560
Speaker 1: just too as you're facing the goal to the left.

439
00:22:12,200 --> 00:22:14,320
Speaker 1: It's just in the left corner. I mean he got

440
00:22:14,320 --> 00:22:17,840
Speaker 1: that into the littlest spot, the only spot that was

441
00:22:17,880 --> 00:22:24,240
Speaker 1: not covered by goalie guy. So now possibility of another

442
00:22:24,240 --> 00:22:27,840
Speaker 1: OT game. Yeah, and that would be I think the

443
00:22:27,880 --> 00:22:31,800
Speaker 1: third one today because that was you know, Canada's comeback.

444
00:22:31,840 --> 00:22:34,720
Speaker 1: They scored the time goal with like I think about

445
00:22:34,760 --> 00:22:37,840
Speaker 1: three minutes to go on a deflection and then they

446
00:22:37,880 --> 00:22:42,000
Speaker 1: want it in OT. So there you have it. Now,

447
00:22:42,320 --> 00:22:44,720
Speaker 1: three overtime once it happens is three on three. The

448
00:22:44,840 --> 00:22:47,040
Speaker 1: rules I'm told are a little different in that it's

449
00:22:47,040 --> 00:22:51,720
Speaker 1: slightly easier to sub in in in Olympic Hockey three

450
00:22:51,800 --> 00:22:53,800
Speaker 1: on three than it is the National Hockey League, but

451
00:22:53,840 --> 00:22:58,680
Speaker 1: still nevertheless it's it's three on three. I'm one of

452
00:22:58,720 --> 00:23:01,040
Speaker 1: the things he's talked about, yes, oh what I didn't

453
00:23:01,080 --> 00:23:04,280
Speaker 1: even finish. Yeah, on the gambling part, if you've got

454
00:23:04,280 --> 00:23:08,040
Speaker 1: that kind of relationship, I don't think gamblers are interested

455
00:23:08,520 --> 00:23:11,320
Speaker 1: in having to calculate. Let's see, is Danny Ainge going

456
00:23:11,400 --> 00:23:14,240
Speaker 1: to make a phone call to tell his head coach

457
00:23:14,320 --> 00:23:17,120
Speaker 1: to pull his two best players going into the fourth

458
00:23:17,160 --> 00:23:19,960
Speaker 1: quarter of a game? I mean, I don't even know

459
00:23:20,000 --> 00:23:23,080
Speaker 1: how you on that level. Leaving aside the moral side

460
00:23:23,080 --> 00:23:26,879
Speaker 1: of it, from a business standpoint, how does that possibly play?

461
00:23:27,400 --> 00:23:29,399
Speaker 1: You can't have it both ways. If you want to

462
00:23:29,440 --> 00:23:31,440
Speaker 1: have that closer relationship and make that kind of money

463
00:23:31,440 --> 00:23:34,520
Speaker 1: on gambling, then that's another reason to think to me

464
00:23:34,760 --> 00:23:36,800
Speaker 1: that you can't be as cavalier about this as Mark

465
00:23:36,840 --> 00:23:37,560
Speaker 1: Cuban tends to be.

466
00:23:37,680 --> 00:23:40,399
Speaker 2: Well, the other thing that he's kind of talked about,

467
00:23:40,440 --> 00:23:43,120
Speaker 2: and you reference some of it that fans don't care

468
00:23:43,160 --> 00:23:45,639
Speaker 2: as much about the tanking as much as they care

469
00:23:45,680 --> 00:23:47,560
Speaker 2: about how expensive it is to go to games.

470
00:23:47,640 --> 00:23:49,440
Speaker 1: Yeah, right, Well, I don't.

471
00:23:49,240 --> 00:23:53,080
Speaker 2: Think we're fixing that right like we're not. I don't

472
00:23:53,080 --> 00:23:55,680
Speaker 2: see a big ground swell for price cuts. Certainly we've

473
00:23:55,720 --> 00:23:58,000
Speaker 2: talked about the price increases here at the Wolves now

474
00:23:58,000 --> 00:23:59,639
Speaker 2: exactly as we said at the front end, they've been

475
00:23:59,760 --> 00:24:03,880
Speaker 2: very quote unquote affordable relative to other NBA teams. Yeah,

476
00:24:04,080 --> 00:24:07,520
Speaker 2: Mark's right about that, But that doesn't mean like two

477
00:24:07,600 --> 00:24:08,600
Speaker 2: things could be true at once.

478
00:24:09,440 --> 00:24:11,959
Speaker 1: That's what I was gonna say. They care about both

479
00:24:12,040 --> 00:24:16,359
Speaker 1: to maybe different fans, to different degrees, but they don't.

480
00:24:16,400 --> 00:24:18,400
Speaker 1: It's the idea that you can only care about one

481
00:24:18,480 --> 00:24:21,320
Speaker 1: is nonsense. I think they care about both. I mean

482
00:24:21,520 --> 00:24:23,639
Speaker 1: if you go back to the time we were sitting

483
00:24:23,640 --> 00:24:25,960
Speaker 1: next to each other the Mark Madson game, which we've

484
00:24:26,000 --> 00:24:28,719
Speaker 1: discussed the seven three pointers, and we had people stopping

485
00:24:28,800 --> 00:24:32,120
Speaker 1: by who are longtime fans who aren't stupid about knowing. Well,

486
00:24:32,320 --> 00:24:33,960
Speaker 1: you know, I want to have more Lotto balls because

487
00:24:33,960 --> 00:24:35,639
Speaker 1: I want to have a better chance to get a

488
00:24:35,640 --> 00:24:40,640
Speaker 1: good player. But let's face it, if you're talking about

489
00:24:41,040 --> 00:24:44,840
Speaker 1: the third, fourth, fifth, most year, that pick shouldn't be

490
00:24:44,840 --> 00:24:47,280
Speaker 1: as coveted as it's tended to be, right, and those

491
00:24:47,320 --> 00:24:50,480
Speaker 1: fans don't like the feeling of it. They don't like

492
00:24:50,600 --> 00:24:55,000
Speaker 1: the laughing, stockish nature of what you seem to be

493
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Speaker 1: conveying when you are that brazen and and that irresponse

494
00:25:00,240 --> 00:25:02,720
Speaker 1: about your how you know what your form of tanking is?

495
00:25:03,080 --> 00:25:07,200
Speaker 2: No, And like I said, Mark Cuban is a former owner,

496
00:25:07,880 --> 00:25:10,800
Speaker 2: principal owner. He might maybe coming back in at some point.

497
00:25:10,880 --> 00:25:12,879
Speaker 2: It sounds like he wants to get back in in

498
00:25:12,920 --> 00:25:15,159
Speaker 2: some form or fashion. Is he going to be the

499
00:25:15,160 --> 00:25:17,280
Speaker 2: owner that says, guys, we got to get our prices down.

500
00:25:18,000 --> 00:25:19,880
Speaker 2: We got we gotta get we got to control these

501
00:25:19,880 --> 00:25:21,560
Speaker 2: prices a little bit. When, by the way, the player

502
00:25:21,680 --> 00:25:23,840
Speaker 2: salaries are continuing to go up and up and up.

503
00:25:23,960 --> 00:25:27,440
Speaker 2: And I'm not even saying that's wrong, but the we're

504
00:25:27,480 --> 00:25:30,160
Speaker 2: going we need to get costs under control for families.

505
00:25:30,200 --> 00:25:32,199
Speaker 2: That seems a little precious because I don't see that

506
00:25:32,280 --> 00:25:33,760
Speaker 2: happening anytime soon.

507
00:25:33,880 --> 00:25:38,359
Speaker 1: Uh. This is from Texeter Brandt USA playing prevent defense

508
00:25:38,400 --> 00:25:40,560
Speaker 1: and zero four check last five minutes. Best defense is

509
00:25:40,600 --> 00:25:43,000
Speaker 1: a good offense, which is exactly what Pat Mcatty told us.

510
00:25:43,040 --> 00:25:45,480
Speaker 1: You just period two and three, four shots on goal

511
00:25:45,520 --> 00:25:47,600
Speaker 1: of that period, Yeah, not good enough. The idea that

512
00:25:47,800 --> 00:25:49,280
Speaker 1: we just got to protect it. Now, it's all we

513
00:25:49,320 --> 00:25:52,240
Speaker 1: have to do, generally, bite you in the rear end.

514
00:25:52,240 --> 00:25:54,560
Speaker 1: And it sounds like that approach, whether it was intended

515
00:25:54,680 --> 00:25:57,680
Speaker 1: or not, has contributed to the fact that we now

516
00:25:57,720 --> 00:25:59,920
Speaker 1: in a tie game, do we had ot? Is it over? Yeah?

517
00:26:00,160 --> 00:26:03,439
Speaker 1: It will be overtime here, so a short break and

518
00:26:03,480 --> 00:26:06,040
Speaker 1: then if it's still tied, that's it. There's only one

519
00:26:06,040 --> 00:26:09,480
Speaker 1: overtime period and then it goes to the shootout, right, yeah,

520
00:26:09,480 --> 00:26:12,000
Speaker 1: which you can have the same over and over again.

521
00:26:12,200 --> 00:26:14,520
Speaker 1: You remember, Yeah, I don't remember that. Tj Oshi did

522
00:26:14,520 --> 00:26:17,560
Speaker 1: it for us. Yeah, one year, like ten fifteen years ago.

523
00:26:17,600 --> 00:26:18,200
Speaker 1: It was crazy.

524
00:26:18,240 --> 00:26:24,280
Speaker 2: It's amazing. Where else were we just update from Blakemore?

525
00:26:24,960 --> 00:26:27,920
Speaker 2: I said, are you okay? That's what I'm worried about.

526
00:26:27,960 --> 00:26:29,560
Speaker 2: You know, I don't want him distracted. I'll get to

527
00:26:29,640 --> 00:26:31,520
Speaker 2: the game. It'll be fine. I'll be a little rush,

528
00:26:31,600 --> 00:26:37,200
Speaker 2: but that's fine. And he writes on one hundred, How

529
00:26:37,200 --> 00:26:39,440
Speaker 2: does that help me? That's one hundred and where?

530
00:26:39,520 --> 00:26:41,840
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean to go. It's a long way. Yeah,

531
00:26:41,960 --> 00:26:45,160
Speaker 1: park place? Are you one hundred and forty, which is

532
00:26:45,280 --> 00:26:47,920
Speaker 1: very different? Are you? Are you actually on American Boulevard?

533
00:26:48,000 --> 00:26:50,920
Speaker 1: Do you know I can answer it for you. He's

534
00:26:50,960 --> 00:26:53,840
Speaker 1: not close on one hundred. Yeah, that's why he was vague. Yeah,

535
00:26:53,880 --> 00:26:56,240
Speaker 1: and he was closer, he would have said he wants

536
00:26:56,280 --> 00:26:59,280
Speaker 1: you to think, oh, one hundred, he's really close. He's

537
00:26:59,320 --> 00:27:02,199
Speaker 1: afraid to say it. So we'll go. I'll just go

538
00:27:02,240 --> 00:27:04,040
Speaker 1: am on one hundred now as it is. I just

539
00:27:04,119 --> 00:27:05,600
Speaker 1: you know, it's just off four ninety four. So I

540
00:27:05,600 --> 00:27:07,639
Speaker 1: still got a ways to get here. But that might

541
00:27:07,680 --> 00:27:08,960
Speaker 1: well be the case. All right, do you want to

542
00:27:08,960 --> 00:27:10,720
Speaker 1: break now or go to forty two? Go to forty zwo,

543
00:27:10,720 --> 00:27:15,960
Speaker 1: I will go to forty two. Well, ot has now started. Oh,

544
00:27:15,960 --> 00:27:17,919
Speaker 1: by the way, somebody else brought up last time we

545
00:27:17,920 --> 00:27:20,439
Speaker 1: talked about this tanking thing. NBA should go to the

546
00:27:20,480 --> 00:27:25,359
Speaker 1: relegation system. Never gonna happen the way the business model

547
00:27:25,440 --> 00:27:28,760
Speaker 1: is set up in the NBA. Right, you can't. It's

548
00:27:28,800 --> 00:27:31,000
Speaker 1: just not gonna work. You. You you're not gonna be

549
00:27:31,000 --> 00:27:34,200
Speaker 1: able to tell a billionaire it's gonna cost you five

550
00:27:34,240 --> 00:27:36,960
Speaker 1: billion dollars to get in the league, and there's a

551
00:27:37,040 --> 00:27:39,000
Speaker 1: chance we're gonna relegate you that. No one's gonna go

552
00:27:39,040 --> 00:27:40,880
Speaker 1: for that. There's there's just no there's too much money

553
00:27:40,920 --> 00:27:44,439
Speaker 1: at stake. It sounds good in theory, but and I

554
00:27:44,520 --> 00:27:46,480
Speaker 1: understand it's a system that a lot of people believe

555
00:27:46,520 --> 00:27:49,840
Speaker 1: in across the pond, but it ain't gonna happen. And

556
00:27:49,960 --> 00:27:52,680
Speaker 1: this is nerve racking. Man, I know, three on three

557
00:27:52,880 --> 00:27:56,639
Speaker 1: is nerve racking. I mean, this is it, this is you.

558
00:27:56,880 --> 00:28:01,240
Speaker 1: You're losing it. You're it's over decent shot on goal,

559
00:28:01,400 --> 00:28:06,880
Speaker 1: they're smothered by the Sweden goalie. And I can't. By

560
00:28:06,920 --> 00:28:10,840
Speaker 1: the way, yeah, Gus Buss, Yeah, that's he's still in Milan. Now,

561
00:28:12,320 --> 00:28:13,720
Speaker 1: we haven't traded it, and I think he's got a

562
00:28:13,720 --> 00:28:15,439
Speaker 1: no trade, doesn't he or does he have teams he

563
00:28:15,440 --> 00:28:20,399
Speaker 1: can be I think he may have. Yeah, I'm not sure. Also,

564
00:28:21,960 --> 00:28:27,639
Speaker 1: did you read this? Not surprising, but I think further

565
00:28:27,720 --> 00:28:32,320
Speaker 1: evidence that if you are a Timberwolves fan, you have

566
00:28:32,440 --> 00:28:36,040
Speaker 1: reason to be encouraged about the future of the organization.

567
00:28:36,720 --> 00:28:40,520
Speaker 1: Is this about possible relocation? Yes? Yeah. Most league executives

568
00:28:40,560 --> 00:28:42,880
Speaker 1: believe that the Timberwolves should be moved to the Eastern

569
00:28:42,920 --> 00:28:47,080
Speaker 1: Conference for future expansion. Minnesota's geographical location, along with the

570
00:28:47,080 --> 00:28:50,080
Speaker 1: presence of a star player like Anthony Edwards, seems to

571
00:28:50,080 --> 00:28:55,360
Speaker 1: be the most logical strategy. Yeah, I think there's every

572
00:28:55,400 --> 00:29:00,480
Speaker 1: reason to believe that the in this course is something

573
00:29:00,520 --> 00:29:04,320
Speaker 1: that the Wolves franchise have lobbied for a long long time.

574
00:29:04,880 --> 00:29:09,240
Speaker 1: Exactly right, Yeah, there's every reasonable I mean there's almost

575
00:29:09,320 --> 00:29:11,480
Speaker 1: no other way around it. One could say that that's

576
00:29:11,520 --> 00:29:16,120
Speaker 1: that's what's going to take place. Ohoy, and that means

577
00:29:16,160 --> 00:29:19,440
Speaker 1: a lot less travel. Yep, that means better tip times

578
00:29:19,440 --> 00:29:23,959
Speaker 1: that for US. I think people still perceive the East,

579
00:29:24,040 --> 00:29:26,240
Speaker 1: even though some teams are emerging, as still a very

580
00:29:27,640 --> 00:29:32,560
Speaker 1: a more inviting conference to give any team, any good team,

581
00:29:32,600 --> 00:29:37,640
Speaker 1: a better chance to make significant runs to the NBA playoffs,

582
00:29:38,240 --> 00:29:41,320
Speaker 1: and then you know, you could sort of get reinquated

583
00:29:42,560 --> 00:29:46,320
Speaker 1: Antony Ant could with Cat. That would be great, kind

584
00:29:46,320 --> 00:29:48,040
Speaker 1: of nice, unless well, Kat could be traded by then,

585
00:29:48,080 --> 00:29:50,320
Speaker 1: because I still think the Knicks. There's a lot of

586
00:29:50,400 --> 00:29:51,880
Speaker 1: rumors that Knicks are going to try to go after

587
00:29:52,480 --> 00:29:53,320
Speaker 1: Giannis in the office.

588
00:29:53,400 --> 00:29:55,880
Speaker 2: Oh that's true. Yeah, like they did. All right, here

589
00:29:55,960 --> 00:29:59,040
Speaker 2: we go. USA has the puck. I might not be

590
00:29:59,080 --> 00:30:00,640
Speaker 2: doing the game to night, but the way Blake Moore

591
00:30:00,680 --> 00:30:02,240
Speaker 2: has just parked one hundred, he said.

592
00:30:02,080 --> 00:30:05,960
Speaker 1: Should it? Oh, all the puck got loose? Is it loose? Yeah?

593
00:30:06,040 --> 00:30:09,560
Speaker 1: But they were able to able to freeze it. Yeah,

594
00:30:09,600 --> 00:30:12,400
Speaker 1: this is how do you know? How does we can't

595
00:30:12,400 --> 00:30:14,880
Speaker 1: do it? Judge from Chicago checks in, can we have

596
00:30:14,920 --> 00:30:17,920
Speaker 1: a live listening? We would if we could. I'm well

597
00:30:17,920 --> 00:30:20,960
Speaker 1: aware that between the two of us are hockey play

598
00:30:21,000 --> 00:30:23,520
Speaker 1: by play Yours is better than mine, but neither one

599
00:30:23,600 --> 00:30:26,280
Speaker 1: is all that good. I wouldn't say, I'm so it's

600
00:30:26,400 --> 00:30:28,760
Speaker 1: unfortunately all the players I don't. Yeah, well that's part

601
00:30:28,800 --> 00:30:31,000
Speaker 1: of the problem too, even on the Hockey Ambassador, I

602
00:30:31,040 --> 00:30:33,560
Speaker 1: still don't know more players from the late sixties and

603
00:30:33,560 --> 00:30:39,240
Speaker 1: early seventies. But yeah, you're well, maybe they might they

604
00:30:39,320 --> 00:30:41,120
Speaker 1: call the game tonight at the barn, and a chance

605
00:30:41,160 --> 00:30:44,760
Speaker 1: they'll call it. I don't know. That's pretty unusual. Yeah,

606
00:30:44,800 --> 00:30:48,520
Speaker 1: it's very yeah, very unusual. Although the unfortunate part for

607
00:30:48,560 --> 00:30:51,840
Speaker 1: the club is less chance of a good walk up

608
00:30:51,880 --> 00:30:55,240
Speaker 1: totally right, your walk up totally is people especially people

609
00:30:55,240 --> 00:30:56,400
Speaker 1: say oh, they can watch it on TV.

610
00:30:56,600 --> 00:30:58,840
Speaker 2: I talked to someone earlier that it lost like half

611
00:30:58,840 --> 00:31:00,080
Speaker 2: their group in the last.

612
00:31:00,320 --> 00:31:04,680
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's all surprising because it still seems to be

613
00:31:05,080 --> 00:31:06,920
Speaker 1: how do we know how long this is going to go?

614
00:31:07,080 --> 00:31:14,400
Speaker 2: I don't. I mean the winter weather advisories until nine o'clock. Yeah,

615
00:31:14,400 --> 00:31:15,880
Speaker 2: and snow's expected tonight.

616
00:31:16,040 --> 00:31:19,760
Speaker 1: Oh man, another good save. We are getting the best

617
00:31:19,880 --> 00:31:22,600
Speaker 1: of the that was Hughes. We are getting the best

618
00:31:22,600 --> 00:31:25,120
Speaker 1: of the pressure in the OT I think the last

619
00:31:25,120 --> 00:31:28,000
Speaker 1: two or three minutes. But we're just not scoring, you know,

620
00:31:28,080 --> 00:31:32,280
Speaker 1: the and and and Sweden's getting some very good goaltending

621
00:31:32,320 --> 00:31:34,560
Speaker 1: as well. So we're at seven twenty to go in

622
00:31:34,600 --> 00:31:40,120
Speaker 1: the OT USA Sweden quarterfinal game. Canada already in. They

623
00:31:40,480 --> 00:31:44,840
Speaker 1: needed overtime. Uh, it's really following a very very similar

624
00:31:45,360 --> 00:31:48,520
Speaker 1: pattern for Canada that it did for Sweden. Sweden is,

625
00:31:48,560 --> 00:31:51,400
Speaker 1: of course, its goal even later than Canada did in

626
00:31:51,440 --> 00:31:54,240
Speaker 1: the third period minute to go, minute and change to

627
00:31:54,320 --> 00:31:57,520
Speaker 1: go to tie things up, and now we're sitting there

628
00:31:58,280 --> 00:32:03,280
Speaker 1: in the overtime period. It's fine if you go slow

629
00:32:03,320 --> 00:32:06,520
Speaker 1: and leave space. Famous last words that I don't think anybody. Yeah,

630
00:32:06,920 --> 00:32:08,800
Speaker 1: people actually believe it, you know what I'm saying. It'd

631
00:32:08,840 --> 00:32:10,959
Speaker 1: be great if people would do that. Yeah, it just

632
00:32:10,960 --> 00:32:14,560
Speaker 1: doesn't happen often enough. I've never seen how about this one.

633
00:32:14,600 --> 00:32:18,120
Speaker 1: I've never seen Rhodes this icy and I'm sixty nine

634
00:32:18,200 --> 00:32:22,239
Speaker 1: years old. Geez, that's doom and gloom for it. I know.

635
00:32:23,880 --> 00:32:27,320
Speaker 1: I have a fix for tanking in the NBA. For

636
00:32:27,360 --> 00:32:29,600
Speaker 1: the drafts, send all the sixteen teams to make the

637
00:32:29,600 --> 00:32:31,760
Speaker 1: playoffs in the order of how they finished in the playoffs,

638
00:32:31,800 --> 00:32:34,120
Speaker 1: as usual for the four team teams that did not

639
00:32:34,120 --> 00:32:36,760
Speaker 1: make the playoffs have a lottery pool with even number balls.

640
00:32:36,760 --> 00:32:38,800
Speaker 1: In other words, all fourteen teams had the exact same

641
00:32:38,880 --> 00:32:45,280
Speaker 1: chance at the number at Oh, that was a They

642
00:32:45,360 --> 00:32:49,320
Speaker 1: just won. USA just got it. There we go. Was

643
00:32:49,360 --> 00:32:52,040
Speaker 1: it hughesy? I was looking at something else too. I

644
00:32:52,080 --> 00:32:54,440
Speaker 1: was looking to trying to read this. USA does win

645
00:32:54,480 --> 00:32:58,840
Speaker 1: it six minutes and change in ot you're seeing the

646
00:32:58,920 --> 00:33:02,280
Speaker 1: thrill of victory on the ice among the US players,

647
00:33:02,280 --> 00:33:06,600
Speaker 1: and you are seeing clearly on the bench the agony

648
00:33:06,600 --> 00:33:10,080
Speaker 1: of defeat. Coach has already gone for this feeds no

649
00:33:10,320 --> 00:33:12,240
Speaker 1: question about it. Let's see, it.

650
00:33:12,320 --> 00:33:14,120
Speaker 2: Was a hughes that looks like that scored. I think

651
00:33:14,160 --> 00:33:15,840
Speaker 2: it was our guy. Was it our user? Was it

652
00:33:15,880 --> 00:33:16,240
Speaker 2: his brother?

653
00:33:16,360 --> 00:33:19,000
Speaker 1: That's the question. I don't know. They look alike. It's

654
00:33:19,120 --> 00:33:22,600
Speaker 1: problem makes sense. I guess that does make sense. Sweden

655
00:33:22,600 --> 00:33:28,120
Speaker 1: goaltenders still in net on one knee, devastated now finally

656
00:33:29,680 --> 00:33:31,800
Speaker 1: gets up. By the way, if you were watching the

657
00:33:32,040 --> 00:33:36,800
Speaker 1: r guy Quinn r Quinnesota. How about that if you

658
00:33:36,880 --> 00:33:40,720
Speaker 1: saw it more closely than we did, explain what happened

659
00:33:40,720 --> 00:33:43,520
Speaker 1: on the game winner Brat Shawn Brian Kafan text line

660
00:33:43,920 --> 00:33:46,760
Speaker 1: six four six eight.

661
00:33:46,840 --> 00:33:49,040
Speaker 2: Well it was two Minnesota Wild players, Matt Boldy and

662
00:33:49,080 --> 00:33:49,520
Speaker 2: Quinn Hughes.

663
00:33:50,040 --> 00:33:53,280
Speaker 1: A great state of high right We're we're in the mix.

664
00:33:55,120 --> 00:33:58,600
Speaker 1: I mean we're right in it right now. More agony

665
00:33:58,600 --> 00:34:02,760
Speaker 1: of defeat from Swedish Sweden fans in the crowd, us

666
00:34:02,880 --> 00:34:06,840
Speaker 1: A flag unfurled, and there's your game. I still haven't

667
00:34:06,840 --> 00:34:08,759
Speaker 1: seen the game winner right now. We're just getting all

668
00:34:08,800 --> 00:34:10,800
Speaker 1: the shots of the thrill of victory. Oh those sweets

669
00:34:10,800 --> 00:34:12,799
Speaker 1: doesn't look at the agony of defeat. Well, Sweeze never

670
00:34:12,840 --> 00:34:15,480
Speaker 1: look happy. I mean, just to be honest about it.

671
00:34:16,000 --> 00:34:18,719
Speaker 1: You know, the phlegmatic Swedes, as they were once called

672
00:34:18,760 --> 00:34:21,440
Speaker 1: by a former North Stars coach. You had to apologize

673
00:34:21,440 --> 00:34:24,239
Speaker 1: like twenty five times for it got into big trouble. Right,

674
00:34:24,280 --> 00:34:26,120
Speaker 1: here's the play you want to try to describe it? Yeah,

675
00:34:26,160 --> 00:34:28,399
Speaker 1: so Boldi they're just doing the little cycle. Boldie gets

676
00:34:28,440 --> 00:34:29,920
Speaker 1: it to Hughes, it, brings it back middle and just

677
00:34:29,960 --> 00:34:34,200
Speaker 1: snipe left side straight on right, yep, past the goaltender

678
00:34:35,239 --> 00:34:37,360
Speaker 1: just kind of turned back. Oh, it's like kind of

679
00:34:37,360 --> 00:34:39,319
Speaker 1: in the middle. Wasn't as low as I originally thought.

680
00:34:39,360 --> 00:34:45,280
Speaker 1: Glove side right past the goalie. Goalie with the glove

681
00:34:45,320 --> 00:34:48,440
Speaker 1: for it, and mit Whift basically yep. But there was

682
00:34:48,480 --> 00:34:50,800
Speaker 1: some juice on that on that shot, some heat from Hughesy.

683
00:34:50,880 --> 00:34:53,600
Speaker 1: There's no question. So what you want to talk about relief?

684
00:34:54,719 --> 00:34:57,680
Speaker 1: I mean that's it. Are you Are you celebrating? Are

685
00:34:57,680 --> 00:35:00,400
Speaker 1: you just relieved? Yes, because there's I got to be

686
00:35:00,640 --> 00:35:05,640
Speaker 1: so much tension given what's at stake. If you're Billy Garren,

687
00:35:05,840 --> 00:35:08,880
Speaker 1: especially right the decisions you made, you say, I'm doubling

688
00:35:08,960 --> 00:35:10,959
Speaker 1: down on it. I'm doing it my way. I don't

689
00:35:10,960 --> 00:35:13,520
Speaker 1: care about whether I have the best players. I care

690
00:35:13,560 --> 00:35:16,200
Speaker 1: about the mix. But he's got a no deep down.

691
00:35:16,239 --> 00:35:18,319
Speaker 1: If he doesn't even make it to the semis, he's

692
00:35:18,320 --> 00:35:20,319
Speaker 1: got a problem on his hands. And you get in

693
00:35:20,480 --> 00:35:24,359
Speaker 1: a one goal situation as they did, and Louis warned

694
00:35:24,440 --> 00:35:28,280
Speaker 1: us said yesterday you could tell Sweden was plucky. Sweden

695
00:35:28,360 --> 00:35:31,640
Speaker 1: was legit and was not going to be an easy

696
00:35:31,719 --> 00:35:34,960
Speaker 1: out at all. And it turned out the checks weren't

697
00:35:34,960 --> 00:35:36,880
Speaker 1: an easy out either, even though Canada I think had

698
00:35:36,920 --> 00:35:39,920
Speaker 1: just beaten them five to zerl earlier in the tournament.

699
00:35:40,000 --> 00:35:46,360
Speaker 1: So US does indeed advance in a rather nerve racking fashion.

700
00:35:46,400 --> 00:35:51,040
Speaker 1: So we played Slovakia Friday at two o'clock, I mean

701
00:35:51,120 --> 00:35:57,120
Speaker 1: Central Canada Finland one versus four is the earlier game.

702
00:35:57,160 --> 00:36:00,360
Speaker 1: That's a nine to forty Central time game on Friday.

703
00:36:01,040 --> 00:36:03,799
Speaker 1: With the gold medal game. I'm assuming it's Sunday. Isn't

704
00:36:03,880 --> 00:36:06,759
Speaker 1: usually on Sunday. It's Sunday morning at like seven. I

705
00:36:06,840 --> 00:36:08,680
Speaker 1: want to say, our time is what I heard today?

706
00:36:08,760 --> 00:36:10,759
Speaker 1: So there you have it, all right? Should I break?

707
00:36:10,840 --> 00:36:15,680
Speaker 1: Let's do it? Yep? And you're still here and blakemore somewhere,

708
00:36:15,719 --> 00:36:19,919
Speaker 1: still on one hundred and not even close. Apparently it's

709
00:36:20,080 --> 00:36:35,960
Speaker 1: that kind of afternoon here in the Twin Cities. Quinn

710
00:36:36,000 --> 00:36:41,960
Speaker 1: Hughes from Matt Boldie, and the US has advanced to

711
00:36:42,160 --> 00:36:46,920
Speaker 1: the men's Olympics semi final round. We're writing in it guardsy,

712
00:36:48,239 --> 00:36:49,279
Speaker 1: it's our world.

713
00:36:49,280 --> 00:36:53,920
Speaker 3: Maybe that's a what's the word for it, no omen

714
00:36:54,440 --> 00:36:57,320
Speaker 3: harminger of things to come, that this might be the

715
00:36:57,400 --> 00:37:00,560
Speaker 3: year that we actually extend past the first first round.

716
00:37:00,640 --> 00:37:02,719
Speaker 1: First they'll get in and then pass the first round.

717
00:37:02,719 --> 00:37:05,200
Speaker 2: We've got plenty of stars. There's no question, enough stars

718
00:37:05,239 --> 00:37:07,280
Speaker 2: and enough juice to do it. So it sounds like you're.

719
00:37:07,160 --> 00:37:09,719
Speaker 1: Going to have to bail out of necessity here pretty soon,

720
00:37:09,760 --> 00:37:13,800
Speaker 1: even though Blake Moore is still stuck and the horror

721
00:37:13,840 --> 00:37:16,040
Speaker 1: storys stories. I know, I keep getting text from you,

722
00:37:16,080 --> 00:37:19,879
Speaker 1: continue to come in. You know, I'm trying to again,

723
00:37:19,920 --> 00:37:22,880
Speaker 1: it must be again, the the perfect storm of the

724
00:37:22,880 --> 00:37:25,759
Speaker 1: timing of it. We kind of got used to it

725
00:37:25,880 --> 00:37:29,120
Speaker 1: not being this, you know, snowy for a while, you know,

726
00:37:29,200 --> 00:37:33,680
Speaker 1: relative calm in that regard the fact that when it

727
00:37:33,760 --> 00:37:36,520
Speaker 1: hits this quickly, I'm assuming that's difficult for the plow.

728
00:37:36,680 --> 00:37:38,640
Speaker 1: Now I don't know how the plows get anywhere right now,

729
00:37:38,680 --> 00:37:42,440
Speaker 1: because every road is gridlock, right, you can't surface roads gridlock,

730
00:37:42,640 --> 00:37:49,480
Speaker 1: ye highways gridlock spinouts pretty much everywhere. Now, this feels

731
00:37:49,520 --> 00:37:51,680
Speaker 1: like a bit of an exaggeration, doesn't it. This is

732
00:37:51,719 --> 00:37:55,520
Speaker 1: shades of October nineteen ninety one out there, man, We

733
00:37:55,600 --> 00:37:57,000
Speaker 1: have a ways to go before it's that.

734
00:37:57,239 --> 00:38:00,160
Speaker 2: Yeah, we're looking at like three to five inches accumulatetion

735
00:38:00,239 --> 00:38:03,560
Speaker 2: according to the National Leather Service, maybe yeah, three to seven.

736
00:38:03,880 --> 00:38:10,319
Speaker 1: Is it Quinnesota or is it QS A QS a

737
00:38:10,520 --> 00:38:23,920
Speaker 1: that's from Duke in Victoria. No play by play for JG.

738
00:38:24,840 --> 00:38:29,440
Speaker 1: Brett on roads that are Ice, Billy Saved by Hughes,

739
00:38:29,840 --> 00:38:35,560
Speaker 1: Wolves and five. Uh yeah, if you're just joining us again,

740
00:38:35,719 --> 00:38:42,000
Speaker 1: US advances and next round is the Semis and that

741
00:38:42,040 --> 00:38:45,960
Speaker 1: will be right during our show on Friday. Right, Women's

742
00:38:46,040 --> 00:38:49,839
Speaker 1: gold Medal game is tomorrow also during not starting during

743
00:38:49,840 --> 00:38:51,560
Speaker 1: our show, but it'll still be going during our show,

744
00:38:51,560 --> 00:38:54,120
Speaker 1: will it not the Women's Final? I think doesn't it

745
00:38:54,120 --> 00:38:56,440
Speaker 1: start like at one? Yeah, it would be. I guess

746
00:38:57,280 --> 00:38:59,880
Speaker 1: why isn't Abbott filling in for JG? Do you hear

747
00:38:59,880 --> 00:39:03,120
Speaker 1: you had to do that on Saturday? No, he had

748
00:39:03,160 --> 00:39:05,399
Speaker 1: to fell in because Blake Moore basically had some type

749
00:39:05,400 --> 00:39:08,240
Speaker 1: of stomach problem. It's like an infection. Seriously.

750
00:39:08,280 --> 00:39:09,680
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't want to laugh back because he was

751
00:39:09,760 --> 00:39:13,920
Speaker 2: he was beating up pretty good. And I was driving somewhere. Oh,

752
00:39:13,960 --> 00:39:15,760
Speaker 2: I was driving to the you to drop off some equipment,

753
00:39:15,880 --> 00:39:19,759
Speaker 2: and I hear Davy throw it to Abbot for some

754
00:39:19,880 --> 00:39:23,400
Speaker 2: high level Wolves talk and I had to call him

755
00:39:23,400 --> 00:39:25,319
Speaker 2: and go, what's going on? Abbott had to jump in

756
00:39:25,400 --> 00:39:28,840
Speaker 2: for Blake Moore. Billy G is probably in a good mood.

757
00:39:28,920 --> 00:39:30,120
Speaker 2: Rights Clayton from Rochester.

758
00:39:30,520 --> 00:39:32,400
Speaker 1: Now might be the time to ask him again for

759
00:39:32,440 --> 00:39:35,400
Speaker 1: that USA hoodie. Oh yeah, it's a good point. We could.

760
00:39:35,719 --> 00:39:37,359
Speaker 1: That's a really really good point. I didnt even thought

761
00:39:37,360 --> 00:39:39,120
Speaker 1: of him getting a Kessler update too, to see how

762
00:39:39,440 --> 00:39:41,839
Speaker 1: I said. I mean, I feel bad because you said

763
00:39:41,880 --> 00:39:43,879
Speaker 1: he's already on the way. He's been on the way

764
00:39:43,880 --> 00:39:47,399
Speaker 1: for a while. So because he leaves time, Yeah, he's

765
00:39:47,520 --> 00:39:50,720
Speaker 1: he's he's taping almost his anal ast Chipskogins and stuff

766
00:39:50,760 --> 00:39:55,279
Speaker 1: like that. Yes, exactly, although nobody's in Skogin's deal women's game.

767
00:39:56,000 --> 00:39:58,399
Speaker 1: Somebody's saying twelve ten is that I thought it was later?

768
00:39:58,440 --> 00:40:00,520
Speaker 1: But maybe right? Yeah, I don't know. I don't have

769
00:40:00,560 --> 00:40:02,960
Speaker 1: it pulled up. We'll discuss that. How about a Russo

770
00:40:03,040 --> 00:40:04,520
Speaker 1: recap of the gold medal game. I don't think we

771
00:40:04,520 --> 00:40:06,840
Speaker 1: have a chance because right now he's hitting you know,

772
00:40:06,880 --> 00:40:08,080
Speaker 1: the mix zone.

773
00:40:07,960 --> 00:40:10,000
Speaker 2: Well again, and then he'll be like embedded in the

774
00:40:10,080 --> 00:40:12,320
Speaker 2: team party room, you know, to get the because he's Russo,

775
00:40:12,320 --> 00:40:13,960
Speaker 2: he's going to write the best story on it, which

776
00:40:14,000 --> 00:40:16,440
Speaker 2: is what he does, which is why we like him.

777
00:40:16,760 --> 00:40:18,920
Speaker 2: So you know he's going to be up all night

778
00:40:19,000 --> 00:40:21,880
Speaker 2: getting the right flavor as a good columnist and reporter

779
00:40:21,920 --> 00:40:22,279
Speaker 2: would do.

780
00:40:22,880 --> 00:40:24,880
Speaker 1: Dan, I left Brooklyn Park at three to five, and

781
00:40:24,920 --> 00:40:27,960
Speaker 1: I'm just crossing the Minnesota River Bridge on seventy seven

782
00:40:28,560 --> 00:40:31,600
Speaker 1: en route to Rosemont at rose Mount, and I still

783
00:40:31,640 --> 00:40:35,960
Speaker 1: have a minimum of thirty minutes left. This is brutal

784
00:40:36,080 --> 00:40:40,200
Speaker 1: geez Alan and Afton wrights and the pantheon of Blakemore

785
00:40:40,280 --> 00:40:44,320
Speaker 1: swings and misses. Which is worse missing the Petera dumb

786
00:40:44,320 --> 00:40:48,640
Speaker 1: button or being laid in causing guards You to miss

787
00:40:49,040 --> 00:40:53,480
Speaker 1: a home game broadcast against the tenth ranked team in

788
00:40:53,520 --> 00:40:56,560
Speaker 1: the country, the biggest game we've had since you've been

789
00:40:56,600 --> 00:41:00,960
Speaker 1: covering the he's broadcasting. They're games correctest game we've had

790
00:41:01,000 --> 00:41:03,359
Speaker 1: in ten to fifteen years. You can't even make that up.

791
00:41:04,200 --> 00:41:06,719
Speaker 1: I'll just say this the conversation I just had with him,

792
00:41:07,000 --> 00:41:11,000
Speaker 1: we needed the Petera dump button. But I told him,

793
00:41:11,000 --> 00:41:12,720
Speaker 1: I said, I get it, you're stuck, but we can't.

794
00:41:13,000 --> 00:41:15,359
Speaker 1: I can't be reaching out at four thirty going, are

795
00:41:15,360 --> 00:41:17,319
Speaker 1: you gonna make it like we need to know right

796
00:41:17,360 --> 00:41:20,799
Speaker 1: at three forty feet it's messy, But then we might

797
00:41:20,800 --> 00:41:22,680
Speaker 1: have been able to get a backup there. That's true.

798
00:41:22,760 --> 00:41:26,080
Speaker 2: That's a good point. Like obviously you can't control the roads,

799
00:41:26,120 --> 00:41:27,680
Speaker 2: but just to be city, do you think we can

800
00:41:27,719 --> 00:41:30,040
Speaker 2: get common back here to He still might be here.

801
00:41:30,120 --> 00:41:32,560
Speaker 2: Nick is Common still here? I mean he used to

802
00:41:32,640 --> 00:41:34,120
Speaker 2: run the board. He knows how to do it. It's

803
00:41:34,120 --> 00:41:36,560
Speaker 2: just a couple of buttons. Yeah, it's not that difficult.

804
00:41:36,800 --> 00:41:38,960
Speaker 2: I wish I could do it. I mean, then it

805
00:41:39,000 --> 00:41:40,880
Speaker 2: would just I just make it easy for people. Everybody

806
00:41:40,880 --> 00:41:42,480
Speaker 2: can go home and just do a one man operation.

807
00:41:42,800 --> 00:41:44,480
Speaker 2: I love the sound of my own voice anyway, So

808
00:41:44,480 --> 00:41:48,040
Speaker 2: what's the difference. Falness is offering his help. He's blocks

809
00:41:48,040 --> 00:41:51,600
Speaker 2: away like that would have been a great example. He

810
00:41:51,640 --> 00:41:53,279
Speaker 2: could have texted Fallness an hour ago.

811
00:41:53,400 --> 00:41:57,640
Speaker 1: That's false on There's no way Falness means it. He's

812
00:41:57,719 --> 00:42:00,600
Speaker 1: just pretending because he wants to make all you know,

813
00:42:00,680 --> 00:42:03,360
Speaker 1: Fallen is willing to help. Not chance in hell you

814
00:42:03,400 --> 00:42:05,560
Speaker 1: would have gotten He's actually pretty helpful. He might he says,

815
00:42:05,640 --> 00:42:08,720
Speaker 1: unlike Brett, my tummy doesn't hurt. That's what he just wrote.

816
00:42:08,800 --> 00:42:17,760
Speaker 1: Four Brett's under siege. Uh, Guardsian, I'm sorry you're dealing

817
00:42:17,800 --> 00:42:19,600
Speaker 1: with the new generation. We are the same age. The

818
00:42:19,600 --> 00:42:23,319
Speaker 1: new generation is irresponsible and lacks accountability. Poor Blake Moore,

819
00:42:23,360 --> 00:42:26,040
Speaker 1: he's got and he's a good one. Absolutely no chance.

820
00:42:26,600 --> 00:42:30,720
Speaker 1: Uh what else do we have here? I got parking lots,

821
00:42:30,800 --> 00:42:33,320
Speaker 1: I got yeah, keep the We might as well do

822
00:42:33,400 --> 00:42:35,759
Speaker 1: weather radio. I mean that that's pretty much seems to

823
00:42:36,000 --> 00:42:39,120
Speaker 1: be the way. That's the mood everybody is in at

824
00:42:39,120 --> 00:42:43,239
Speaker 1: this point. I can see three four four and the

825
00:42:43,320 --> 00:42:47,279
Speaker 1: sign's saying it's a thirty minute drive. Three ninety four

826
00:42:47,320 --> 00:42:49,279
Speaker 1: from four ninety four, and signs are saying it is

827
00:42:49,320 --> 00:42:54,840
Speaker 1: still a thirty minute drive. Twins beers for a buck.

828
00:42:55,719 --> 00:42:59,840
Speaker 1: Blake Moore is out there on one hundred. Stuck Kessie.

829
00:43:00,000 --> 00:43:04,000
Speaker 1: He's crushing man. Come on right when I get to

830
00:43:04,040 --> 00:43:08,800
Speaker 1: the punchline. Kessie's crushing for babes in his old farm

831
00:43:08,920 --> 00:43:15,080
Speaker 1: truck Holves five. That's just too good. By the way,

832
00:43:15,120 --> 00:43:18,040
Speaker 1: speaking of Olympics, do you have the sounder? Can you

833
00:43:18,040 --> 00:43:23,520
Speaker 1: find it? Because it is apropos for reasons other than

834
00:43:23,560 --> 00:43:40,960
Speaker 1: the hockey never more apropos than it is today. How

835
00:43:41,000 --> 00:43:49,000
Speaker 1: about Mikaylas Schiffrin getting the last word having the last word?

836
00:43:49,080 --> 00:43:54,360
Speaker 1: I watched it live today on the slalom. She's the

837
00:43:54,920 --> 00:44:00,080
Speaker 1: last skater for the second run, skater skier for the

838
00:44:00,080 --> 00:44:05,400
Speaker 1: second run, and she crosses the finish line with a

839
00:44:05,480 --> 00:44:14,040
Speaker 1: margin of one point five seconds over second place. She dominated,

840
00:44:14,520 --> 00:44:19,680
Speaker 1: She absolutely ran, our skied one of the best slaloms

841
00:44:20,239 --> 00:44:25,000
Speaker 1: of her career, and so all the remember this now.

842
00:44:26,080 --> 00:44:32,960
Speaker 1: So she gets the gold. Twelve years between Schiffrin's slalom goals,

843
00:44:33,000 --> 00:44:37,680
Speaker 1: that's the largest gap ever between individual gold medals in

844
00:44:37,760 --> 00:44:40,920
Speaker 1: the same event. At the Winter Olympics, she gets her

845
00:44:40,960 --> 00:44:43,600
Speaker 1: third goal of her career. She is now head of

846
00:44:43,680 --> 00:44:47,920
Speaker 1: every other skier in US alpine history. And you know

847
00:44:47,960 --> 00:44:52,200
Speaker 1: we laid out earlier in the Games, how devastating it

848
00:44:52,239 --> 00:44:56,799
Speaker 1: had been for her. She's in the combined event. That's

849
00:44:56,840 --> 00:44:59,560
Speaker 1: where a slalom and a downhill skier each skis one

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Speaker 1: run Breezy Johnson, who of course won the downhill right

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Speaker 1: instead of our gown. She's basically hands the gold to

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Speaker 1: shifferent first place performance. Schiffrin only needed to finish in

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Speaker 1: the top thirteen on her run to clinch the gold. Instead,

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Speaker 1: her worst slalom finish in more than ten years, she

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Speaker 1: finishes fifteenth, and that means the US is out on

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Speaker 1: that event of being in the metal stand at all.

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Speaker 1: They missed the gold, the silver, and the bronze. Then

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Speaker 1: she's in the giant slalom. She finishes eleventh, even though

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Speaker 1: she'd been dominant in the World Cup standings during the

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Speaker 1: regular season, so she's down to this. She was down

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Speaker 1: basically this event, and it was a It was a

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Speaker 1: beautiful watch, I have to say, great weather, sun out,

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Speaker 1: sun gleaming, and she looked in control, determined, almost Jedi

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Speaker 1: knightlike all the way down the hill or the mountain.

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Speaker 1: And she ends up finishing with the gold. And again,

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Speaker 1: you know, we talked about all how these stories work

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Speaker 1: in the Olympics, right, thriller, victory, agony of defeat, all

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Speaker 1: of them add to the texture and the richness of

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Speaker 1: this stuff. Correct, And there's then the angle that she represents,

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Speaker 1: which is historically decorated skier us is best ever quite frankly,

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Speaker 1: and with a number of ups and downs over the

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Speaker 1: course of her career and looking like, well, this was

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Speaker 1: going to be another disaster for her, and we find

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Speaker 1: out once again the athletes themselves, for better or for worse,

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Speaker 1: for thriller victory or agony defeat, they always have the

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Speaker 1: last word. And her last word was I'm not going

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Speaker 1: going to happen again. I'm not going to lose, and

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Speaker 1: she did not even come close to losing, so that

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Speaker 1: that kind of set the standard for a very entertaining

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Speaker 1: day at the Olympics. Like I said, the hot and

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Speaker 1: the men's hockey start to finish has been terrific, not

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Speaker 1: just involving the US game, Canada game, Finland's comeback, I

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Speaker 1: mean just several games will have been extremely well, either

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Speaker 1: well played or close or very exciting as as well.

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Speaker 1: Do I break here, keep going, No, you gotta break.

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Speaker 1: I do have to break. I will break. Well, I'm

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Speaker 1: going to road, You're going to hit the road.

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Speaker 2: And then promotions, guy Nick is going to hang out

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Speaker 2: with you perfect till Brett gets your Kessler's about fifteen

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Speaker 2: minutes away.

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Speaker 1: Okay, it all works. Have fun tonight and see I'll

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Speaker 1: be listening. Thank you. That's guards the back in just

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Speaker 1: a minute. Don't forget Kessler in about thirty