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Speaker 1: Welcome to Good Game with Sarah Spain, where we're a

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Speaker 2: It's Wednesday, June fourth.

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Speaker 1: Than on today's show, we're skipping the need to Know

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Speaker 1: and heading right into our chat with the Kansas City

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Speaker 1: currents Izzy Rodriguez from before the international break. We talk

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Speaker 1: about the transition from college ball to the NWSL, the

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Speaker 1: secret to the current success, training against Temushawinga, and turning

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Speaker 1: her dog Daisy into art. And stay tuned after the

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Speaker 1: interview for some very special breaking news courtesy of the Sports.

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Speaker 2: Bras Jenny Wynn. That's all coming up right after this

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Speaker 2: joining us now.

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Speaker 1: She's a left back for the Kansas City the Current

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Speaker 1: of the NWSL. A former Ohio State Buckeye and Big

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Speaker 1: Ten defender of the Year in twenty twenty, she was

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Speaker 1: awarded the Big Ten Medal of Honor in twenty twenty two,

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Speaker 1: becoming only the second Ohio State women's soccer player to

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Speaker 2: It's Izzy Rodriguez.

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Speaker 3: Hi, IZI, Hi, how are you doing? Thanks for having me.

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Speaker 2: I'm good, Thanks for coming on.

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Speaker 1: I have to start out by telling you that one

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Speaker 1: of my very best friends played soccer at Ohio State,

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Speaker 1: So shout out to my girl Kylie. Do you guys

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Speaker 1: still say how firm thy friendship? Is that what you

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Speaker 1: Buckeye say to each other?

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Speaker 2: Still?

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Speaker 3: For sure?

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Speaker 4: We have our Carmen Ohio at the end of all

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Speaker 4: of our games that we would sway to and that's

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Speaker 2: All right perfect.

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Speaker 1: I actually went to a game a couple of years

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Speaker 1: ago with her, but time is a flat circle, and

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Speaker 1: I have no idea whether it was when you were there,

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Speaker 1: Ohio State was a blast.

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Speaker 2: She actually took me back and we went to a

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Speaker 1: We went to a football game, and I guess the

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Speaker 1: equipment manager there is still the same as when she played.

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Speaker 1: So we took us into the football locker room and

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Speaker 1: the buck Eyes football game.

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Speaker 3: Wow, that sounds incredible.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, shout out the equipment guy. And also he must

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Speaker 2: Yes, is he?

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Speaker 1: I asked your teammate, Kayla Sharples, who is a friend

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Speaker 1: Ohio State roots, and she said that sometimes teammates give

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Speaker 2: So who's your biggest rival in the locker room who's

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Speaker 4: I have to say it has to be sometimes the

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Speaker 4: I think we're always giving to each other some crap.

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Speaker 4: And I'm still being able to have those little rivalries.

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Speaker 1: Do you have other buck eyes that support you in

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Speaker 3: I got Michelle Prince.

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Speaker 4: We missed each other by a year, but all of

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Speaker 1: Okay, so are we talking like you have to fold

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Speaker 2: Yep. We love talking to players about their journaling.

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Speaker 3: But yeah, I've switched to that the iPad. I really

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Speaker 4: Everything's in one spot, really easy to go back and

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Speaker 3: But me, I feel you completely.

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Speaker 2: We have a sickness. It's a couple. You couldn't use

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Speaker 1: So when you were at Ohio State, you were a captain,

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Speaker 3: I think it it's obviously really hard.

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Speaker 4: I think on the field and off the field, you're

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Speaker 4: And I think that's what made it so appealing to

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Speaker 4: But the change it was definitely hard, but I think

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Speaker 3: And then being a.

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Speaker 2: Totally.

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Speaker 1: Did you have your dog Daisy, who I can hear

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Speaker 4: She was just I was laughing because I gave her

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Speaker 3: She was just chugging water after that, So that was

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Speaker 2: Yes, it's the only downfall of the peanut butter trick.

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Speaker 4: I love having around and I think now our team

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Speaker 4: Her boyfriend will watch Daisy from you sometimes. Her dogs

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Speaker 3: Use that when we're away but amazing. It's great that

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Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, I mean that sounds like exactly what Kansas

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Speaker 2: They're always thinking of everything.

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Speaker 1: They're kind of known for setting the bar when it

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Speaker 1: comes to facilities and resources and the amazing stadium.

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Speaker 2: What's the coolest perk or maybe like most.

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Speaker 4: Oh gosh, the stadium in general is just incredible.

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Speaker 4: I was just walking around there, like not for a game,

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Speaker 4: cool food that's here. Obviously we don't really get too

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Speaker 4: just the setup of it all, like it feels like

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Speaker 2: But you've got an in, you've got the plug, you

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Speaker 4: Yes, it's incredible. I think that's awesome for them. I'm

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Speaker 3: And we've done it in some cool ways this year

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Speaker 1: We got to take a quick break when we come

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Speaker 1: You know, last year there was such an incredible storyline

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Speaker 3: I think it's a little bit of both.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I think Low hit it right on the head

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Speaker 4: one more and I think I've seen that improvement in

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Speaker 4: my game. But it's really nice to have that because

449
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Speaker 4: he's been at that level, like you said, and he

450
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Speaker 4: has those experiences and having that opinion and that way

451
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Speaker 4: of just like he knows I can do it, and

452
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Speaker 4: just pushing me to get there, I think is super important.

453
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Speaker 4: And he definitely loves being able to develop players, and

454
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Speaker 4: I think you see that on this team. This team

455
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Speaker 4: is really developing individually but all together as well.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's fun to watch it really is.

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Speaker 1: It's also fun the celebrity fans that y'all have the

458
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Speaker 1: owners and the fans. Is there anybody that's popped up

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Speaker 1: at the stadium that you've like, or maybe a practice

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Speaker 1: even that you're like kind of freaking out about.

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Speaker 4: I actually, Jason Sadaikas was just had our game recently

462
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Speaker 4: and I had just finished rewatching ted Lasso, and it

463
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Speaker 4: was so cool. I got to shake his hand at

464
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Speaker 4: the end of the game, and I was so excited

465
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Speaker 4: for it. Little fangirl moment, but it was so cool.

466
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Speaker 4: I think having those opportunities and they're so happy to

467
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Speaker 4: be there, which is incredible. You're like us, really you're excited,

468
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Speaker 4: So that's super cool. I think we had Anthony Hill too,

469
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Speaker 4: from Gray's Anatomy. If you're a Grays Anatomy fan, that

470
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Speaker 4: was super fun. He comes to a lot of games.

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Speaker 4: But I think in general, we just have whether they're

472
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Speaker 4: celebrities or just the everyday fan, everyone's so happy to

473
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Speaker 4: be there. So it's a nice, definitely environment to be

474
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Speaker 4: a part of, and everyone really embraces the culture in

475
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Speaker 4: Kansas City.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, we just got to get Tata. We got to

477
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Speaker 1: get Tata and Travis. Yes, And I mean it's everyone

478
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Speaker 1: with the team already knows it. I know you know

479
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Speaker 1: the owners, Angie Angie and Chris Long. I talked to Chris,

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Speaker 1: I did an interview with him at that same live

481
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Speaker 1: show at the NWSL, and I was like, what's happening.

482
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Speaker 2: He's like, we're trying. Okay, everybody knows we're trying. So

483
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Speaker 2: maybe this is the year.

484
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Speaker 3: You know.

485
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Speaker 1: I mentioned your dog Daisy earlier and Kayla Sharples did

486
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Speaker 1: give me one more piece of intel. She said that

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Speaker 1: you have AI created images of Daisy hung up in

488
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Speaker 1: your bathroom with the towel wrapped around her head or

489
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Speaker 1: in a tub with rubber ducks.

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Speaker 2: I need to know more about this.

491
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Speaker 4: So I haven't used chat GPT since about a week ago.

492
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Speaker 4: When I decided to try this out. I saw I

493
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Speaker 4: turned on TikTok of people creating these images of their dogs,

494
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Speaker 4: and I don't know what if it was me also

495
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Speaker 4: baby not wanting to use chat GPT and give away information,

496
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Speaker 4: who knows. But I was like, let's jump on the bandwagon.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, no, I'm the same. I've never used it.

498
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Speaker 4: Yes, So I jumped on the bandwagon and had it

499
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Speaker 4: create these images of Daisy and a bath in on

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Speaker 4: the toilet of the newspaper and they are the funniest

501
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Speaker 4: things I think I've ever seen. My Grandma still thinks

502
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Speaker 4: they're real pictures of her, even though I explain.

503
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Speaker 3: That they're not. But it's great. She loves it. She

504
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Speaker 3: texts me all the time.

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Speaker 4: And now I printed them out and hung them up

506
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Speaker 4: in the bathroom, so they're they're funny.

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Speaker 3: I highly recommend doing it if you have a pet.

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Speaker 4: They're amazing, so funny, and every time I go to

509
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Speaker 4: the bathroom now I'm just smiling.

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Speaker 1: I actually have three dogs, and I have to tell

511
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Speaker 1: you that you talking about that is the first time

512
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Speaker 1: I've ever actually had a real pull to use chatjept.

513
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Speaker 1: I'm like, anti ai anti, like the environmental cost of

514
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Speaker 1: training it, and don't use this and don't try to.

515
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Speaker 1: I'm like, but I do want to see my dog

516
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Speaker 1: taking it dump reading a newspaper.

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Speaker 3: So it's so funny.

518
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Speaker 4: I always trained a beer poster of her, and I

519
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Speaker 4: feel like I need to get that one printed as well.

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Speaker 1: Framed, frame it, frame that shit, at least make it

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Speaker 1: worth it. Okay, final question for you. We're in the

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Speaker 1: middle of the international break, so do you have any

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Speaker 1: big plans? Do you get to actually do things outside

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Speaker 1: of soccer? Or the folks staying back, just regular practices.

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Speaker 3: We usually just have a lot of regular practices.

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Speaker 4: But we did get a few days off earlier in

527
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Speaker 4: the week and then this weekend and.

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Speaker 3: The people here are going to have a little barbecue.

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Speaker 3: I think, hang out, enjoy the weekend.

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Speaker 4: We get some good weather, so yeah, I think, just

531
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Speaker 4: some fun stuff outside of soccer and enjoying that. Maybe

532
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Speaker 4: try some new restaurants around here, but usually it's kind

533
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Speaker 4: of everyday schedule. Maybe just an extra off day here

534
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Speaker 4: and there.

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Speaker 2: Nice.

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Speaker 1: I do love that you all want to hang together

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Speaker 1: in your free time though. It's part of that connection

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Speaker 1: you talked about earlier. And also like for us older

539
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Speaker 1: folk who would give anything to have our schedule be

540
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Speaker 1: practicing with our teammates, hanging out in the locker room

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Speaker 1: playing games again, like, that's just the best time.

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Speaker 2: So I'm glad.

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Speaker 1: You're glad you're soaking it up and hopefully bringing Daisy

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Speaker 1: with you everywhere.

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Speaker 4: For sure, she's kind of terrified of people, so I

546
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Speaker 4: have to pick and choose.

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Speaker 2: But we'll work on that. Yes, we'll work on that.

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Speaker 2: Thank you so much for the time. We appreciate it.

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Speaker 3: Thank you so much for having me it is great.

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Speaker 1: Thanks again to Izzy for taking the time. We got

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Speaker 1: to take another break when we come back. Breaking News.

552
00:22:34,520 --> 00:22:36,200
Speaker 2: Joining us here again on the show.

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Speaker 1: She's a former chef turned bar opener and game changer,

554
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Speaker 1: founder of the sports Bra and Portland, Oregon. She's inspired

555
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Speaker 1: a handful of women's sports bars across the country to

556
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Speaker 1: pop up and is in the process of opening sports

557
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Speaker 1: Bra franchises in other cities, which is why she's back

558
00:22:52,480 --> 00:22:53,159
Speaker 1: with us again.

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Speaker 2: Today.

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Speaker 1: It's Jenny Wynn with a big sports Bra announcement.

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Speaker 2: Jenny, nice to see you again.

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Speaker 5: Hey Sarah, that's great to be here. Thanks for having me.

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Speaker 2: All right.

564
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Speaker 1: I'm so excited to get to be the first to

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Speaker 1: ask you the important question.

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Speaker 2: What is the big breaking news.

567
00:23:08,200 --> 00:23:10,960
Speaker 5: Big huge breaking news, Sarah. And you're the first person

568
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Speaker 5: that I've talked to about this, is that we have

569
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Speaker 5: got our next franchise cities and we're about to announce him.

570
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Speaker 5: We're so excited.

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Speaker 1: And so I see Chicago on then Chicago, and then

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Speaker 1: another in Chicago, and then a fourth in Chicago.

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Speaker 2: Am I right?

574
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Speaker 5: Oh my gosh, I wish I wish that for you

575
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Speaker 5: and for me. Unfortunately, Chicago is not part of the

576
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Speaker 5: what we're calling the starting five Portland being let's sake,

577
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Speaker 5: Guard Guard Yep, yep. And then we've got Saint Louis, Indianapolis, Boston,

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Speaker 5: and Las Vegas.

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Speaker 1: Wow, Vegas, Baby Vegas, let's go. I need to hear

580
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Speaker 1: how you decided on this starting five. Tell me some

581
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Speaker 1: of what went into it and how you knew you

582
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Speaker 1: would have a great audience and a bunch of fans

583
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Speaker 1: that were clamoring for their own sports Bra in those places.

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Speaker 5: I mean, honestly, Once, once we announced we were franchising,

585
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Speaker 5: we got a lot of feedback from folks from all over,

586
00:24:14,600 --> 00:24:18,880
Speaker 5: including across the globe, and then when we opened up

587
00:24:18,960 --> 00:24:22,159
Speaker 5: the franchising website, we saw a ton of influx. So

588
00:24:22,200 --> 00:24:26,119
Speaker 5: we actually have been interviewing and talking to dozens and

589
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Speaker 5: dozens and dozens of people from all over the country,

590
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Speaker 5: from very small towns to very large metropolitan cities. And

591
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Speaker 5: for us, it's really about picking the right people who

592
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Speaker 5: are embedded in their communities, who understand authentic brand of

593
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Speaker 5: the sports Bra, and who can really drive this vision

594
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Speaker 5: and this mission to their communities and create these spaces

595
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Speaker 5: and of course uplift women and girls sports.

596
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Speaker 1: So when you came on the first time you actually

597
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Speaker 1: mentioned that there was this website that people could had

598
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Speaker 1: to if they were interested in franchising, fill out some

599
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Speaker 1: forms and so tell us a little bit more about

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Speaker 1: I am not super familiar with how franchising works in

601
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Speaker 1: any capacity, not to mention something like a bar, but

602
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Speaker 1: I remember that Alexis Ohanian was investing and there was

603
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Speaker 1: this talk about wanting to expand. So when you talk

604
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Speaker 1: about interviewing people and finding the right fit, what components

605
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Speaker 1: have to show up, whether that's do they already have

606
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Speaker 1: to have a space, do they already have to have

607
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Speaker 1: a liquor license, or do they just have to be

608
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Speaker 1: someone that you want to work with?

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Speaker 2: And then you start from zero and ramp up from there.

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Speaker 5: I mean, I think that every franchise or has a

611
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Speaker 5: different approach, and we got a lot of feedback from

612
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Speaker 5: other franchisors, consultants, other CEOs, and really we had to

613
00:25:38,320 --> 00:25:40,480
Speaker 5: kind of find our own lane because the sports pre

614
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Speaker 5: us something super unique and it doesn't really fit in

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Speaker 5: a category like a typical food and beverage category, or

616
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Speaker 5: even like any other kind of merchandising category. So what

617
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Speaker 5: we did was we kind of were looking for the

618
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Speaker 5: big three and we kind of called it like a

619
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Speaker 5: bit of the Unicorn effect, where we're looking for somebody

620
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Speaker 5: who totally understands and gets what the BRA about mission value,

621
00:26:01,480 --> 00:26:04,800
Speaker 5: aligned like all in on women's sports, and kind of

622
00:26:04,880 --> 00:26:08,520
Speaker 5: creating these spaces for communities. That's number one. Number two

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Speaker 5: is somebody who has food and beverage experience. Usually there

624
00:26:13,200 --> 00:26:16,920
Speaker 5: was a couple or a partnership where somebody would bring

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Speaker 5: one and the other person would bring the other. And

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Speaker 5: then the third key element is financial stability. So the

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Speaker 5: finances to do it and some of these finances to

628
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Speaker 5: do it require getting loans, require some crowdfunding, require this,

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Speaker 5: that and the other thing, and for most franchisors, that's

630
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Speaker 5: not really the typical method. But because the Sports Bra

631
00:26:36,040 --> 00:26:37,879
Speaker 5: was built like that and it really helped to create

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Speaker 5: a community around each city, people wanted to be more

633
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Speaker 5: and more a part of what we were building here,

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Speaker 5: and so we felt that was a really good way

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Speaker 5: to really attract and create this bond with a space

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Speaker 5: so it doesn't just feel like a bar restaurant, which

637
00:26:53,720 --> 00:26:56,080
Speaker 5: I don't think it would anyway. But so we were

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Speaker 5: looking kind of for the big three.

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Speaker 1: I love that is there going to be like a

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00:27:01,000 --> 00:27:07,159
Speaker 1: sports Bra handbook slash franchise guide book, wherein it's like,

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Speaker 1: you know, absolutely no wave inside the premises, or you

642
00:27:11,320 --> 00:27:14,000
Speaker 1: know you must do ex or y during Pride month,

643
00:27:14,200 --> 00:27:17,479
Speaker 1: or you know certain athletes are you know, held up

644
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Speaker 1: as gods and if they come in, they obviously drink

645
00:27:19,440 --> 00:27:20,120
Speaker 1: an eat for free.

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00:27:20,160 --> 00:27:21,280
Speaker 2: Like what are they?

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Speaker 1: I want to help put together this guide book because

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Speaker 1: I feel like it would just be rules for living.

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00:27:26,480 --> 00:27:29,080
Speaker 5: There for sure, is what we're calling a playbook. It

650
00:27:29,200 --> 00:27:32,000
Speaker 5: is over two hundred and fifty pages long. It's ridiculous.

651
00:27:32,040 --> 00:27:34,560
Speaker 5: A lot of it is kind of food and beverage focused.

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Speaker 5: A lot of it has to do with how you

653
00:27:36,040 --> 00:27:39,720
Speaker 5: treat your employees, how you treat your team. Some of

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00:27:39,760 --> 00:27:43,119
Speaker 5: it is proprietary stuff about the sports Bra in general,

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Speaker 5: Like a lot of our recipes will be proprietary, so

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Speaker 5: our menu will be repeated in most capacities across the country.

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Speaker 5: We'll leave a little wiggle room for folks to have

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Speaker 5: like a chef or owner flair in there, or regional

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00:27:57,960 --> 00:28:02,760
Speaker 5: flare to really connect. So there's proprietary information in there.

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Speaker 5: There's stuff about decor and who they can order from.

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Speaker 5: You know, here we try to promote and support women

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00:28:10,359 --> 00:28:16,200
Speaker 5: owned small businesses. So there are you know, sections around

663
00:28:16,760 --> 00:28:19,040
Speaker 5: like the vendors that and the partnerships that we love

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Speaker 5: to have. There's also sections around like sponsorship's fundraising, because

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Speaker 5: there's a lot of things that we do inside the

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Speaker 5: sports brad that is like kind of sports adjacent.

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Speaker 1: Right well, and I imagine there might be a page

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Speaker 1: that's called like deal breakers and it's like, we do

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Speaker 1: not work with these companies, these people, We do not

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Speaker 1: take this money because that's you know, so much of

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Speaker 1: the women's sports space and what makes it special is

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Speaker 1: a willingness and a desire to protect against joining other

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Speaker 1: people and working with the wrong folks or you know,

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Speaker 1: promoting or investing or helping people who we think are

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Speaker 1: doing it wrong. So it feels like there would be

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Speaker 1: a little bit of a nudge, like you said, to

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Speaker 1: make sure to partner with the right people, use the

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Speaker 1: right sponsors, all that stuff.

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Speaker 5: Yeah. Absolutely, I feel like there's less about like deal

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Speaker 5: breakers and more like open ended so that we can

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Speaker 5: have conversations. And that's why this kind of interviewing process

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Speaker 5: and speaking to so many people is really important because

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Speaker 5: we get to kind of take a deep dive into

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Speaker 5: who they are, you know that we meet them and

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Speaker 5: talk to them in person and just spend a lot

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Speaker 5: of time with them honestly through zoom calls and visits

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Speaker 5: before we take the final handshake.

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Speaker 1: So this is obviously the big announcement because it's on

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Speaker 1: good game with Sarah Spain and there is nothing bigger

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Speaker 1: than that.

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Speaker 2: Obviously, I imagine you might have some other things planned.

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Speaker 1: So what else do you have planned for letting folks

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Speaker 1: know that their cities were selected and the sports Bras

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Speaker 1: coming to them.

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Speaker 5: Well, thanks to your help, Sarah, we were able to

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Speaker 5: connect with some really amazing, like legendary, iconic athletes to

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Speaker 5: help announce some of the locations that we're opening up

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Speaker 5: for the sports Bra. And it has just been such

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Speaker 5: a joy to have the community, fans, athletes, and everyone

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Speaker 5: else support the sports Bra as much as they have

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Speaker 5: in just the last three years. And we're really looking

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Speaker 5: forward to this next step.

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Speaker 1: So we know that Indye, Boston and Vegas have at

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Speaker 1: least one professional women's team, if not more. Give us

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Speaker 1: some insight into Saint Louis doesn't have its own WNBA

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Speaker 1: NWSL PWHL team. How did Saint Louis end up getting

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Speaker 1: a sports bra.

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Speaker 5: I think that's a fantastic question. So we got a

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Speaker 5: lot of feedback from all types of cities and small towns,

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Speaker 5: and the way we see it is that there is

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Speaker 5: a community for the sports bra literally everywhere. So it

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Speaker 5: was a lot about looking at the demographics, talking to

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Speaker 5: the folks and seeing what kind of connections they had

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Speaker 5: with the community and what the community was speaking to them.

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Speaker 5: They are lifelongers in Saint Louis, or at least twenty

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Speaker 5: years plus, and they mentioned a deep passion for sports,

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Speaker 5: both men's and women's sports, and there are a couple

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Speaker 5: teams there that have massive followings. And there's also the

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Speaker 5: kind of feelings that women's professional sports are expanding to

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Speaker 5: other markets at a pretty get a faster clip than

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Speaker 5: it ever has and Saint Louis is right there in

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Speaker 5: the thick of possibly getting some teams and so being

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Speaker 5: on kind of the forefront of that is also just

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Speaker 5: as important as feeding into these like bigger cities that

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Speaker 5: already have established fandom.

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Speaker 2: That's really true.

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Speaker 1: And you know, as a Chicaguan we have a bit

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Speaker 1: of a rivalry with Saint Louis, not as cities, of course,

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Speaker 1: because that's not a competition. But of course you know, Cubs, Cardinals,

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Speaker 1: et cetera. And so it is in my bones deeply

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Speaker 1: to hate Saint Louis. And I know when you first

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Speaker 1: told me Saint Louis, I was like, they don't have

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Speaker 1: any teams, how are they in the mix here? This

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Speaker 1: doesn't make any sense, But I love your explanation, and

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Speaker 1: I do think there are cities where there is nowhere

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Speaker 1: to gather because there aren't teams. There isn't that existing

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Speaker 1: space for the folks who are like us who love

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Speaker 1: women's sports to get together. And so to create that

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Speaker 1: for people in a place that doesn't have teams is

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Speaker 1: somehow even more meaningful and more necessary than a place

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Speaker 1: that has a couple of different professional teams, where going

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Speaker 1: to that stadium or watching them at a bar, you know,

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Speaker 1: in away games is already you know, built into the community.

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Speaker 1: So you really get to be the first step in

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Speaker 1: making a city somewhere that feels like it's ready for

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Speaker 1: those pro women's teams. So I'll give it to you

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Speaker 1: on that one, and I'll try to be nice to

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Speaker 1: the presumably good people of Saint Louis, and maybe I'll

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Speaker 1: even go visit because it's close by while I'm waiting

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Speaker 1: for Chicago.

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Speaker 5: That's it. That's it. You heard it here first. Sarah's

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Speaker 5: given a shout out to Saint Louis.

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Speaker 2: I will step foot in Saint Louis. When are you

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Speaker 2: expecting these to be open?

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Speaker 1: When can folks actually go through the doors of the

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Speaker 1: first sports bra franchises.

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Speaker 5: That's a great question. So we right now we're looking

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Speaker 5: at hopefully having all four of them open by the

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Speaker 5: end of next year, and they could be anywhere on

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Speaker 5: the spectrum. I know that a couple of them have

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Speaker 5: sites that they are looking at already. I know a

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Speaker 5: couple of them are open to any spot. And so

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Speaker 5: some of them could be starting from the ground up,

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Speaker 5: and some of them could be second generation locations. They

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Speaker 5: may have connections with like already existing bars and restaurants

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Speaker 5: that are looking to kind of convert into something else.

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Speaker 5: So the speed of it is really dependent on their

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Speaker 5: connections the city. Also, because permitting building, I think there's

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Speaker 5: a lot of uncertainty around some construction and permitting right now,

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Speaker 5: So what used to take six to nine months can

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Speaker 5: take anywhere from nine to twelve months depending on and

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Speaker 5: that's from a ground up, so what we're hoping, what

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Speaker 5: we're looking for is to have these locations all up

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Speaker 5: and running by the end of next year. But really

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Speaker 5: what we're talking about when we're making this announcement is

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Speaker 5: that we've found folks in these cities. We haven't found

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Speaker 5: their locations, not necessarily yet. Some of them are further

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Speaker 5: along than others.

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Speaker 1: And in the meantime, while we're waiting for that, anything

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Speaker 1: you want to shout out, that's how happening at the

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Speaker 1: og Sports Bra, anything coming up, anything people who are

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Speaker 1: going to be in the Portland area might want to

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Speaker 1: schedule around.

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Speaker 5: Absolutely, I mean right now, it's like softballs Mania up

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Speaker 5: in here, right, So that's huge, And you know, shout

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Speaker 5: out to National Pride Month. In Portland, we celebrate Pride

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Speaker 5: in July, so we get kind of two full on

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Speaker 5: months of hardcore partying for Pride and we have our

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Speaker 5: fourth annual Pride Block party again this July on Sunday,

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Speaker 5: July twentieth, and it's going to be bigger and better

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Speaker 5: than ever. So we haven't made that announcement yet, so

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Speaker 5: there's a.

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Speaker 2: Double way for yet. So that's out.

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Speaker 5: There and more information will be coming.

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Speaker 2: Soon, all right, So July and Portland. That sounds nice.

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Speaker 5: It's gonna be hot. It's gonna be hot. It's been

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Speaker 5: it's been warm already.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I'll take it. It's been cold in Chicago. It

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Speaker 1: doesn't feel like spring yet. So if I have to

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Speaker 1: get my ass out to Portland and party for pride

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Speaker 1: and get some sun, I'm in.

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Speaker 5: All June, all July.

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Speaker 2: Sarah, that's right. I love two months of it.

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Speaker 1: I mean, honestly, if you're a good game with Sarah Spain,

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Speaker 1: we celebrate pride year round. We don't like to be

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Speaker 1: limited to just one month, but we are willing to

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Speaker 1: focus our partying efforts and apply our party PhD to

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Speaker 1: a specific month set of months if necessary.

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Speaker 5: I love that.

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Speaker 2: Well, thanks for giving us your announcement.

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Speaker 1: We are so excited and I'm really, actually genuinely interested

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Speaker 1: to see how folks take the original OG concept, sprinkle

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Speaker 1: a little of the local flair, carry on your culinary mastery,

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Speaker 1: and then introduce some local stuff on that end to

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Speaker 1: And really, I think it'd be really fun to learn

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Speaker 1: about the history of women's sports in some different cities

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Speaker 1: by virtue of the people who kind of take the

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Speaker 1: reins from you and build something where they are, including

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Speaker 1: places like Saint Louis where maybe.

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Speaker 2: There's a lot more to it than we're aware of.

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Speaker 2: You just never know.

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Speaker 5: Absolutely, I'm super excited as well. All right, thanks Jenny,

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Speaker 5: Thanks Sarah.

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Speaker 2: Thanks again to Jenny for breaking that news with us.

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Speaker 1: We can't wait to do a good game with Sarah

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Speaker 1: Spain nationwide too. Were at all sports Bra locations, Tell

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Speaker 1: You can follow them at the sports Bra PDX on Instagram.

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Speaker 2: Have you guys seen this review?

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Speaker 1: If I didn't feel old before, you little figures are

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Speaker 1: triggering trend came via the NWSL Chicago Stars. Some members

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Speaker 1: but y'all, there were way too many players who gave

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