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

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Speaker 1: a second battle of Hogwarts to oust all the transphobes.

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Speaker 1: On today's show, we'll be talking with Black Rosie Media's

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Speaker 1: Erica Ayala and USA Today's Lindsay Schnell about their experience

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Speaker 1: covering the Paris Olympics, USA Basketball's eighth straight gold and

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Speaker 1: their favorite behind the scenes moments, Plus badass cyclists, candid letters,

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Speaker 1: and our latest invitation for all of you to join

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Speaker 2: It's all coming up right after this.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back, my little orange slices. Here's what you need

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Speaker 1: to know today in cycling, the Tour de France fem

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Speaker 1: hit the hills the Netherlands. Puck Petersha outsprinted defending tour

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Speaker 1: champ Demivoloring to win stage four, but Bollering still leads

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Speaker 1: the overall competition and show where the yellow jersey for

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Speaker 1: stage five today thanks to her twenty two second lead

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Speaker 1: over the rest of the field.

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Speaker 2: Oh and guess what, Kristin Faulkner.

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Speaker 1: You remember that US athlete who just won two gold

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Speaker 1: medals in Paris even though she only started cycling a

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Speaker 1: overall standings.

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Speaker 2: Pretty cool.

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Speaker 1: In tennis, Naomi Osaka lost to Ashlan Krueger in the

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Speaker 1: second round of qualifying for the Cincinnati Open. After the match,

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Speaker 1: Osaka posted on social media that she still doesn't feel

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Speaker 1: her maternity break. The four time Grand Slam champ wrote quote,

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Speaker 1: it's a strange feeling missing balls. I shouldn't miss hitting

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Speaker 1: to tell myself, it's fine, you're doing great. Just get

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Speaker 1: though Internally I hear myself screaming, what the hell is happening.

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Speaker 1: Osaka concluded her note by saying, quote, see you in

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Speaker 1: New York. While her current ranking isn't high enough to

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Speaker 2: Time US Open champ.

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Speaker 1: We got a little follow up to our coverage of

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Speaker 2: Harry Potter, author JK.

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Speaker 1: Rowling and ex owner Elon Musk were both named in

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Speaker 1: acts of aggravated cyber HARASSMENTUOTE directed towards Khalif, who won

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Speaker 1: gold in Paris during the Olympics. Rolling wrote or reshared

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Speaker 1: misinformation and abusive messages about Khalif in dozens of posts

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Speaker 1: on x previously known as Twitter. In one message to

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Speaker 1: a photo of Khalif, accusing the Algerian boxer of being

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Speaker 1: a man who was quote enjoying the distress of a

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Speaker 1: woman he's just punched in the head unquote. Mosque meanwhile

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Speaker 1: reshared a post from US swimmer Riley Gaines that read

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Speaker 1: quote men don't belong in women's sports and added absolutely

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Speaker 1: Back In twenty twenty three, in response to a hypothetical

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Speaker 1: misgendering someone with prison time, Rowling said she'd quote happily

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Speaker 1: do two years end quote as shaneid Naomi said on Twitter,

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Speaker 1: prove it, bitch. In the NWSL some injury news, Zambia's

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Speaker 1: Grace Chando was set to join the Orlando Pride following

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Speaker 2: According to the Pride, she ruptured her right quad.

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Speaker 1: Tendon while with Zambia at the Olympics, While the details

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Speaker 1: Orlando general manager Hailey Carter tweeted, quote, so disappointed for Grace,

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Speaker 1: inadequate medical and performance resources, mismanaged loads, day long travel

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Speaker 1: Totally unacceptable end quote. In basketball, the Dallas Wings announced

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Speaker 1: on Wednesday that Satu Sabi, Matti, Segrist, and Jalen Brown

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Speaker 1: last season's most improved player, Honoree has missed the entire

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty four season so far due to a shoulder injury.

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Speaker 1: She made her competitive return at the Olympics, competing with

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Speaker 1: the German team and averaged eighteen point eight points and

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Speaker 1: that got released. With three players set to return to

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Speaker 1: the roster, the Wings had to release both Odyssey Sims

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Speaker 1: start to the season. Sims and Billings are now free

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Speaker 1: agents who can sign with any team, and it's possible

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Speaker 1: both following a ten day waiting period. As a reminder,

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Speaker 1: the twenty twenty four WNBA season resumes tonight. Six teams

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Speaker 1: are in action. Will include that schedule in the show notes.

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Speaker 1: Coming up, We're going to talk to two reporters that

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Speaker 1: were getting all the juicy behind the scenes with Team

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Speaker 1: out of their reporting was a retweet of journalist Roger Sherman,

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Speaker 1: and he found out something incredible about the French athletes

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Speaker 1: Roger said, quote, Hold up, I've just learned that when

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Speaker 1: people win silver medals in France they call them vice champions.

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Speaker 1: Okay, from now on, can we all agree that we're

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Speaker 1: calling the runner up to anything a vice champion? Why

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Speaker 1: do we only say that for like presidents, like vice president?

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Speaker 1: Why don't we say vice champions?

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Speaker 1: and Erica Iola join us next for group.

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Speaker 2: Chat stick around. Welcome back.

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Speaker 1: It's time for another group chat where we take the

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Speaker 2: And bring it to the airwaves.

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Speaker 1: Joining us now, We've got a multimedia sports journalist at

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Speaker 1: New York liberty fan who's one of the best sources

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Speaker 1: for all things liberty on the Gotta Get Up podcast,

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Speaker 1: where you could sometimes hear our very own producer misch.

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Speaker 1: It's a conception a podcast throttle slash quintuple anyway, Welcome

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Speaker 1: Erica Ayala.

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Speaker 2: What an intro.

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Speaker 3: Thanks for having me, Sarah.

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Speaker 1: We're also joined by an enterprise reporter at USA Today

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Speaker 1: the pod for life for doing this last minute.

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Speaker 2: It's Lindsay Schnell. What's up, Lindsay, Thank you so much.

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Speaker 4: I wondered how you were going to follow up introduce

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Speaker 1: Yeah, something tells me for that pink and green volunteer hat,

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Speaker 1: you never found. But Brianna Stewart got one. I can't

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Speaker 1: imagine what kind of credentials she had to show in

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Speaker 2: She's got him. She's got him in speeds. So we

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Speaker 1: You both had a front row seat to all the

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Speaker 2: So Erica, let's start with you.

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Speaker 1: What's unique and different about covering a team in the Olympics.

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Speaker 2: Can you be specific? So essentially you can't get any video?

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Speaker 2: Is that audio too? You can't record audio.

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Speaker 3: Even we can record audio, but we cannot do any video.

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Speaker 3: There are even areas where we cannot take still photos

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Speaker 3: Lindsay knows, I have invested in some telescoping tripods so

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Speaker 2: What else felt different to you about covering a team

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Speaker 4: They were passionate about how knowledgeable they were at different things.

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Speaker 4: I've had quite a few people ask me like, what's

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Speaker 4: your favorite thing you covered at the Olympics, and I said, well, obviously,

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Speaker 4: like I love women's basketball, it's my favorite sport. But

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Speaker 4: I felt this type of pride about my country, Like

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Speaker 4: it's just different in America, like I don't. And I

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Speaker 2: They knew right away.

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Speaker 1: Either way, Yeah, I mean, it was a incredibly stressful finish,

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Speaker 1: Let's get into some of that because there is some stuff.

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Speaker 3: to manage a lot of the talent. Cheryl is given

441
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Speaker 3: a team, she does not recruit that team actively, she

442
00:20:50,760 --> 00:20:54,840
Speaker 3: does not select that team actively, and she has been,

443
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Speaker 3: you know, an assistant coach in the system and more

444
00:20:58,280 --> 00:21:00,800
Speaker 3: often than not. Team USA is going to rely on

445
00:21:00,840 --> 00:21:03,840
Speaker 3: the TMUSA system and that does require, as we have

446
00:21:03,960 --> 00:21:07,760
Speaker 3: even heard Sue Bird say, asking players to get uncomfortable

447
00:21:08,040 --> 00:21:10,280
Speaker 3: and maybe not go to what is their bread and

448
00:21:10,320 --> 00:21:13,160
Speaker 3: butter when they are with their WNBA teams or even

449
00:21:13,200 --> 00:21:16,600
Speaker 3: playing overseas. So I think overall, I think she did

450
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Speaker 3: a pretty solid job. I think that people are focused

451
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Speaker 3: on the coaching and the rotations because of how close

452
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Speaker 3: of a gold medal match it was, But in my estimation,

453
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Speaker 3: that speaks more to the competition level in women's basketball

454
00:21:31,080 --> 00:21:35,679
Speaker 3: at international tournaments than anything specific. In my estimation, although

455
00:21:35,680 --> 00:21:38,879
Speaker 3: I think there are certainly questions, and Cheryl addressed a

456
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Speaker 3: lot of those, including needing and trying to find and

457
00:21:42,880 --> 00:21:46,760
Speaker 3: ultimately not finding time for jeweloids, I would say about

458
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Speaker 3: a BB plus, I don't think it's the end of

459
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Speaker 3: the world.

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Speaker 4: What about you, lindsay, I would say A see and

461
00:21:53,480 --> 00:21:57,879
Speaker 4: me that feels generous. And I say that because jewelvoid

462
00:21:58,000 --> 00:22:02,040
Speaker 4: is like a really interesting example the actor the semi finals,

463
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Speaker 4: we were talking to Cheryl in the mixzone about the

464
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Speaker 4: play of Jackie Young, who I think Jackie just really

465
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Speaker 4: blossomed at the Olympics. I'm really excited to see what

466
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Speaker 4: she does when she comes back to the w and unprompted,

467
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Speaker 4: no one else had brought up Jeweloid's name, Cheryl said,

468
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Speaker 4: we cannot win a gold medal without Jeweloid, and then

469
00:22:20,520 --> 00:22:23,840
Speaker 4: she never put her in the game. Also, you know

470
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Speaker 4: when they were throwing the ball out of bound so

471
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Speaker 4: much in the first half against France. I don't think

472
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Speaker 4: that anyone expects Diana Ross to step on the floor

473
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Speaker 4: and score thirty points, but she is a steadying presence.

474
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Speaker 4: So many young players have talked about how they just

475
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Speaker 4: feel better with her on the floor. And Cheryl had

476
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Speaker 4: told us when we were in Leal during pool play

477
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Speaker 4: that Diana usually called most of the plays. She recognized

478
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Speaker 4: what the defense was doing before the other players and

479
00:22:52,920 --> 00:22:55,919
Speaker 4: also the coaching staff. So and I just thought to

480
00:22:56,000 --> 00:22:58,600
Speaker 4: not put I mean, Diana's the goat, you know. I

481
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Speaker 4: think we all think that about WNBA. Certainly she is

482
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Speaker 4: of USA basketball. It's not so I'll put her in

483
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Speaker 4: the game at all. And I agree that France was very,

484
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Speaker 4: very good, and I thought from day one that they

485
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Speaker 4: could give the US a game. And I don't think

486
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Speaker 4: that to Erica's point, I don't think that France keeping

487
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Speaker 4: it close was a knock on Cheryl. I think that

488
00:23:22,840 --> 00:23:25,840
Speaker 4: that is a talented team and the crowd was insane,

489
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Speaker 4: But I was I thought her rotations were weird.

490
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Speaker 2: There were some questions.

491
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Speaker 1: Yeah, at least they still came out on top. That

492
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Speaker 1: takes a little pressure off any criticism that she gets. Lindsay,

493
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Speaker 1: I quickly wanted to ask you. Tweeted about how Becky

494
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Speaker 1: Hammond's the no brainer next coach for the Olympic team,

495
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Speaker 1: in no small part because the outsized factor that the

496
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Speaker 1: Aces played in winning gold. It totally checks out due

497
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Speaker 1: to her abilities and how much she's beloved. But I

498
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Speaker 1: wonder how you reconciled Deerica Hanby's lawsuit and criticism of

499
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Speaker 1: Becky Hammond when considering her for that job.

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Speaker 4: That's a great question, you know, And to be honest,

501
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Speaker 4: I hadn't thought about that. I had thought purely about

502
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Speaker 4: I think Becky is the best coach in the w NBA,

503
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Speaker 4: and I don't think it's much of a contest from

504
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Speaker 4: an x's and o's standpoint. It would be interesting to

505
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Speaker 4: ask Dereka now how she feels when she has been around.

506
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Speaker 4: I wondered about that during this trip, you know that

507
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Speaker 4: she was going to be back around the Aces. But

508
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Speaker 4: I talked to her a little bit after the three

509
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Speaker 4: on three press conference, and she was telling me how

510
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Speaker 4: excited Amaya was to see everyone. That she was excited

511
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Speaker 4: to see everyone. So that is that's a good question.

512
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Speaker 4: I mean, all of the Aces have said that they

513
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Speaker 4: didn't have a problem, like basically said like Dereka was

514
00:24:40,440 --> 00:24:44,440
Speaker 4: not giving an accurate representation of what their locker room

515
00:24:45,000 --> 00:24:47,840
Speaker 4: was like. So I'm not sure that we are ever

516
00:24:47,880 --> 00:24:49,800
Speaker 4: going to know the truth if we weren't in there.

517
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Speaker 4: But that's a that's a really good question. That's a

518
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Speaker 4: good point something.

519
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Speaker 1: To keep looking at as Derek's lawsuit, you know, continues

520
00:24:56,840 --> 00:24:58,720
Speaker 1: and seeing seeing the outcome of what we find because

521
00:24:58,760 --> 00:25:01,439
Speaker 1: of it really quick, did you guys pick up on

522
00:25:01,440 --> 00:25:03,199
Speaker 1: any tidbits that didn't make it to the public and

523
00:25:03,200 --> 00:25:05,240
Speaker 1: maybe you couldn't take a still shot or video of

524
00:25:05,280 --> 00:25:09,560
Speaker 1: whether it was fun friendship moments or inscriptions on players shoes,

525
00:25:09,600 --> 00:25:14,639
Speaker 1: pregame rituals, sportsmanship in its usual meaning, or otherwise.

526
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Speaker 4: One thing that I just I want to say, because

527
00:25:18,359 --> 00:25:21,840
Speaker 4: I don't know how many people witness this and we

528
00:25:21,920 --> 00:25:25,200
Speaker 4: wrote about it a little bit. But after the US

529
00:25:25,280 --> 00:25:28,359
Speaker 4: beat Australia in the SEMIS, Lauren Jackson and Britney Griner

530
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Speaker 4: shared a very, very long emotional hug in the mix.

531
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Speaker 4: Soone I ran over and talked to Lauren about it,

532
00:25:34,600 --> 00:25:37,479
Speaker 4: and she had tears in her eyes talking about how

533
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Speaker 4: much she loves Beg and she followed that and that

534
00:25:40,280 --> 00:25:42,880
Speaker 4: was something I was really struck by the whole tournament,

535
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Speaker 4: whether it was during pool play or the metal rounds,

536
00:25:46,440 --> 00:25:48,720
Speaker 4: the way that so many players went up and talked

537
00:25:48,720 --> 00:25:51,080
Speaker 4: to Beg and hugged her, And you know, it was

538
00:25:51,200 --> 00:25:53,760
Speaker 4: very clear that what she went through was something that

539
00:25:53,880 --> 00:25:57,040
Speaker 4: everyone in the women's basketball community felt and was paying

540
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Speaker 4: attention to. It wasn't just her teammate and her colleagues

541
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Speaker 4: in the WNBA who were fighting to get her back.

542
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Speaker 1: Yeah, that was such a beautiful moment seeing her on

543
00:26:07,160 --> 00:26:11,960
Speaker 1: the podium, seeing her get emotional and representing the USA.

544
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Speaker 1: She said that was so powerful for her in such

545
00:26:14,960 --> 00:26:16,720
Speaker 1: an important moment to put that jersey back on.

546
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Speaker 2: So very cool to watch.

547
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Speaker 1: It will be also interesting to watch how these players

548
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Speaker 1: come back to the w for the second half of

549
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Speaker 1: the season. Will they be energized by their win will

550
00:26:25,480 --> 00:26:27,800
Speaker 1: they be exhausted because they didn't get a break. Will

551
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Speaker 1: some of them have picked up pieces from their play

552
00:26:30,840 --> 00:26:33,399
Speaker 1: in Paris and gotten better as a result of getting

553
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Speaker 1: to play alongside some of these other greats. Like, there's

554
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Speaker 1: a lot of good storylines for these Olympic players as

555
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Speaker 1: we as we get ready for this exciting second half

556
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Speaker 1: of the w season.

557
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Speaker 2: Lindsay quickly.

558
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Speaker 1: You also cover track for these games, and I'm wondering

559
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Speaker 1: if you had any fun stories or what the biggest

560
00:26:46,720 --> 00:26:48,000
Speaker 1: takeaway from your time there was.

561
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Speaker 4: And I think the incredible thing is just you know,

562
00:26:51,520 --> 00:26:53,960
Speaker 4: when Alison Felix retired a few years agough, it was

563
00:26:54,000 --> 00:26:56,399
Speaker 4: like who's going to be the new Golden Girl? And

564
00:26:56,480 --> 00:27:00,520
Speaker 4: it's not just about Allison's longevity and success the sport,

565
00:27:00,560 --> 00:27:02,200
Speaker 4: but it was about her willingness.

566
00:27:02,800 --> 00:27:03,920
Speaker 2: She would play ball.

567
00:27:03,880 --> 00:27:07,080
Speaker 4: On any question that the media wanted to ask her.

568
00:27:07,160 --> 00:27:09,320
Speaker 4: And I think that that is a sport that's really

569
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Speaker 4: desperate for superstars. And Sydney McLaughlin Lebron is an obvious

570
00:27:14,280 --> 00:27:16,359
Speaker 4: choice because every time she steps on the track, she

571
00:27:16,359 --> 00:27:19,520
Speaker 4: sets a new world record. It's ridiculous, but she is

572
00:27:19,760 --> 00:27:24,040
Speaker 4: a little media shy. For Gabby Thomas to going to Paris,

573
00:27:24,320 --> 00:27:27,919
Speaker 4: lots of expectations, lots of pressure and walk away with

574
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Speaker 4: three gold medals. I think is incredible. She will be

575
00:27:31,240 --> 00:27:35,119
Speaker 4: in LA again prevented, She's healthy, and I think Jesus

576
00:27:35,160 --> 00:27:37,879
Speaker 4: exactly the exactly what the sport needed.

577
00:27:38,359 --> 00:27:38,639
Speaker 2: Yeah.

578
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Speaker 1: I love watching Gabby Thomas and her backstory is thrilling

579
00:27:42,119 --> 00:27:44,919
Speaker 1: and her futures is incredible. I'm excited to see her

580
00:27:45,040 --> 00:27:48,040
Speaker 1: race at that new event that Alexis o'hanian is putting

581
00:27:48,040 --> 00:27:49,800
Speaker 1: on to where he's going to have like a DJ

582
00:27:49,920 --> 00:27:52,760
Speaker 1: in the airfield and really try to make track cool

583
00:27:53,040 --> 00:27:55,359
Speaker 1: and an event to attend in a way that's kind

584
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Speaker 1: of different from some of the other meats.

585
00:27:56,680 --> 00:27:57,760
Speaker 2: So that'll be fun.

586
00:27:58,280 --> 00:28:02,320
Speaker 1: Speaking of athletes from other sports not just basketball. Before

587
00:28:02,359 --> 00:28:05,200
Speaker 1: we go, we have to do our group chat tradition,

588
00:28:05,320 --> 00:28:09,240
Speaker 1: which is on another edition of Fight Me. So these

589
00:28:09,280 --> 00:28:12,280
Speaker 1: are the rules. You're each the coach of a three

590
00:28:12,320 --> 00:28:16,120
Speaker 1: on three basketball team. What three female Olympic athletes from

591
00:28:16,160 --> 00:28:19,719
Speaker 1: any sport other than basketball from this Olympics would you

592
00:28:19,760 --> 00:28:21,440
Speaker 1: pick to compete in a game of three on three

593
00:28:21,520 --> 00:28:25,119
Speaker 1: with a million dollars on the line, and you, as coach,

594
00:28:25,119 --> 00:28:26,840
Speaker 1: get a cut. I'm gonna go first, I'm going to

595
00:28:26,880 --> 00:28:28,240
Speaker 1: give you a second to think about it while I

596
00:28:28,320 --> 00:28:32,440
Speaker 1: give you my list. Okay, I've got Anna Hall because

597
00:28:32,480 --> 00:28:36,880
Speaker 1: I'm a heptathlete and I'm a total track stan who

598
00:28:36,880 --> 00:28:39,080
Speaker 1: believes that anyone who could do the heptathlon at the

599
00:28:39,120 --> 00:28:42,720
Speaker 1: Olympic level is probably very skilled at any sport. You

600
00:28:42,720 --> 00:28:45,240
Speaker 1: got to run, jump, throw. She can play basketball. I

601
00:28:45,240 --> 00:28:47,440
Speaker 1: don't know if she's ever played basketball. I'm just convinced

602
00:28:47,480 --> 00:28:48,400
Speaker 1: that she'd be good at it.

603
00:28:48,800 --> 00:28:51,680
Speaker 2: She can do everything else, right, why not? Why couldn't she?

604
00:28:52,000 --> 00:28:54,680
Speaker 1: Maggie Stephens from waterpolo, we had her on before she

605
00:28:54,800 --> 00:28:57,120
Speaker 1: left for the Olympics, and in helping us understand the

606
00:28:57,160 --> 00:28:59,760
Speaker 1: sport better, she very specifically said how some of the

607
00:28:59,880 --> 00:29:03,520
Speaker 1: las were similar to basketball. If she can shoot like

608
00:29:03,600 --> 00:29:07,080
Speaker 1: that while submerged in water, I guarantee she's got a

609
00:29:07,080 --> 00:29:10,440
Speaker 1: silky sweet jay when she's not unencumbered by the waves.

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00:29:10,960 --> 00:29:14,840
Speaker 1: And then, finally, a listener, I know for a fact

611
00:29:15,280 --> 00:29:18,360
Speaker 1: that the USA brickwall goalie in that soccer team has

612
00:29:18,400 --> 00:29:21,680
Speaker 1: a basketball background. In fact, I've seen her absolutely crush

613
00:29:21,760 --> 00:29:25,160
Speaker 1: people in a game of Knockout. And also she got

614
00:29:25,200 --> 00:29:27,840
Speaker 1: that dog in her A lissen there on the block,

615
00:29:28,160 --> 00:29:30,320
Speaker 1: like nobody is touching her. I think all of those

616
00:29:30,400 --> 00:29:32,840
Speaker 1: ladies are at least five to eleven. Maybe Maggie's slightly shorter,

617
00:29:33,120 --> 00:29:36,080
Speaker 1: But I got height, I got a diversity of skills.

618
00:29:37,160 --> 00:29:38,760
Speaker 2: Fight me who you got, Erica?

619
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Speaker 3: I mean, listen, I don't know. I hear what you're

620
00:29:41,280 --> 00:29:44,480
Speaker 3: saying about a Lissenair, and I feel like we also

621
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Speaker 3: got a you know, the Chicago in h is done

622
00:29:48,480 --> 00:29:51,040
Speaker 3: red Stars. But that was a game of knockout. That

623
00:29:51,160 --> 00:29:53,280
Speaker 3: was a game of knockout at the New York Liberty

624
00:29:53,280 --> 00:29:57,040
Speaker 3: Practice Facility, if I'm not mistaken, And and Alyssa did

625
00:29:57,080 --> 00:29:57,440
Speaker 3: not win.

626
00:29:57,760 --> 00:30:01,520
Speaker 1: But she she didn't win because yeah, but that was

627
00:30:01,560 --> 00:30:04,920
Speaker 1: because the rules of knot are messed up and it

628
00:30:04,960 --> 00:30:06,840
Speaker 1: was not her fault, but the person in front of

629
00:30:06,880 --> 00:30:09,480
Speaker 1: her continued to miss and then when she yeah, I

630
00:30:09,520 --> 00:30:11,760
Speaker 1: mean there was listen, if it was an actual game

631
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Speaker 1: of basketball, my money is on Nair for sure.

632
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Speaker 3: Fair enough, Well, I'm taking Rose level just because she's

633
00:30:18,360 --> 00:30:19,360
Speaker 3: gonna get bodied.

634
00:30:19,640 --> 00:30:21,440
Speaker 2: Nayor's gonna knock her into tomorrow.

635
00:30:21,680 --> 00:30:24,160
Speaker 3: Okay, well we'll take We'll take that to the free

636
00:30:24,200 --> 00:30:27,240
Speaker 3: throw line, thank you very much. So I'm taking Rose Level.

637
00:30:27,320 --> 00:30:29,600
Speaker 3: Who could obviously shoot free throws. So we're doing it.

638
00:30:29,800 --> 00:30:32,360
Speaker 3: I'm going with Simone Biles. I forget what image I

639
00:30:32,400 --> 00:30:36,920
Speaker 3: saw of what her actual like, how many like Nils?

640
00:30:37,000 --> 00:30:40,360
Speaker 2: Yeah, I just saw she could just saw it with Yeah,

641
00:30:40,560 --> 00:30:41,120
Speaker 2: I'm like.

642
00:30:41,480 --> 00:30:44,400
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm like, yep, we're taking that. And so I

643
00:30:44,440 --> 00:30:46,760
Speaker 3: have absolutely no size on my team. But as I said,

644
00:30:46,800 --> 00:30:47,880
Speaker 3: I'm five four and a half.

645
00:30:47,720 --> 00:30:48,280
Speaker 4: On a good day.

646
00:30:48,400 --> 00:30:50,200
Speaker 2: So are we surprised? Probably not.

647
00:30:51,120 --> 00:30:55,280
Speaker 3: So I'm going to take the Brazilian gold medal duo

648
00:30:55,480 --> 00:30:58,480
Speaker 3: of Patricia and do the and do the uh to

649
00:30:58,640 --> 00:31:01,800
Speaker 3: round out my or for three x three.

650
00:31:02,280 --> 00:31:04,480
Speaker 1: No, it's not three x three basketball, it's just oh,

651
00:31:04,680 --> 00:31:05,400
Speaker 1: just three.

652
00:31:05,400 --> 00:31:06,600
Speaker 3: So don't get I don't get a sub.

653
00:31:06,960 --> 00:31:09,719
Speaker 1: If you want to make that Brazilian duo one player,

654
00:31:09,760 --> 00:31:11,880
Speaker 1: I will allow it because they are sort of inextricable.

655
00:31:12,080 --> 00:31:13,960
Speaker 3: Okay, fantastic, they're joined at the hip.

656
00:31:14,000 --> 00:31:17,400
Speaker 2: We're taking good and see who you got, Okay.

657
00:31:17,480 --> 00:31:21,960
Speaker 4: I also have some US women's national team representation with

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Speaker 4: my girl Sophia Smith, who told me, you know, she

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Speaker 4: but wonder, as a PAC twelve girl, what could have

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Speaker 4: been if this point guard from Colorado had stuck with

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Speaker 4: that sports. I'm taking her, and then I've got Ashley

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Speaker 4: Johnson from water polo, the best bowlie in the world.

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Speaker 4: I'm taking she can play some defense in three M

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Speaker 4: three and then there's no question Avery Skinner from USA Volleyball.

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Speaker 4: That girl can get up. She is intimidating when she

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Speaker 4: goes for a kill. I'm guessing it's gonna be the

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Speaker 4: same thing when she goes for a rebound or an

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a good one.

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Speaker 1: I was actually thinking I needed to get some volleyball

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Speaker 1: in there, but she's only six to one. Interestingly, I

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Speaker 1: was thinking, if I go volleyball, I'm just taking like

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Speaker 1: the tallest person, and that person would be in charge

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Speaker 1: of blocking Simone Biles shot no matter how me h,

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Speaker 1: she can jump.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, where she's shooting from is going to be a problem.

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Speaker 4: Remember remember in women's volleyball, how what Texas won. It

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Speaker 4: was all about Maddie Skinner from the back row. Well, Resice,

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Speaker 4: you learn not from her sister Avery, because Abray was

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Speaker 4: coming up from a back row and their beats and

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Speaker 4: I phone win over Brazil.

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Speaker 2: So six ' one, it's just the number let's good intel.

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Speaker 1: All right, we're gonna take this out to the streets

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Speaker 1: and they're gonna tell us who they got to. Ladies,

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Speaker 1: of your trip to Paris. We're grateful that we are

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Speaker 1: not nearly as jet lagged as either of you. Except

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Speaker 2: Many thanks to Erica and Lindsay for joining us today.

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Speaker 1: We got to take another quick break, but we'll see

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Speaker 1: on the flip side.

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Speaker 2: Welcome back, slices.

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