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Speaker 1: Welcome to a good game with Sarah Spain, where our

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Speaker 1: unrivaled draft process remains undefeated. Year one Phantom had the

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Speaker 1: on today's show we'll do one final big Citrus Olympic roundup,

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Speaker 1: our top ten moments, travel takeaways and more. And though

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Speaker 1: We've got a Paralympic preview for you, but it's coming

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Speaker 1: to you tomorrow. Because we app so long about our

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Speaker 1: Plus the War of Wispy Things playing on glass and

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Speaker 1: a North American battle for supremacy, it's all coming up

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Speaker 1: right after this welcome back slices. Here's what you need

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Speaker 1: to know today. Let's start with Unrivaled where Phantom BC

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Speaker 1: and Missed BC tip off tonight in the Season two

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Speaker 1: Championship game, or as producer Alex calls it, the Battle

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Speaker 1: of Semi Transparency. Both teams clinch their spots thanks to

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Speaker 1: electric performances in Monday semi finals, which were played in

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Speaker 1: negotiations dragon more on that in a moment. In the

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Speaker 1: first Unrivaled semifinal, the top ranked Phantom held off Final

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Speaker 1: tonight's championship game, which will be played back at Unrivaled

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Speaker 1: game tips off at nine thirty Eastern on True TV

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Speaker 1: and TNT to College Hoops, where conference tournaments are officially underway.

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Speaker 1: The SEC tournament, which came off today, is the only

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Speaker 1: the Men's and women's Big Twelve attorneys Perfect You know,

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Speaker 1: Sports bra in Portland. It's part of the bar More

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Speaker 1: College Hoops. On Monday, Rutgers fired coach Cokies Washington after

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Speaker 1: I'm so excited to be able to wrap up these

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Speaker 3: It was wild, Sarah. I think I don't know if

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Speaker 3: not necessarily the most viewer friendly. This is one where

433
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Speaker 3: we only realized that she had won go because we

434
00:21:00,600 --> 00:21:02,679
Speaker 3: were peeking our heads around the fence to see the

435
00:21:02,680 --> 00:21:06,360
Speaker 3: little green box, and so then getting to watch kind

436
00:21:06,359 --> 00:21:09,639
Speaker 3: of the replay to see her reaction, to see the

437
00:21:09,720 --> 00:21:13,520
Speaker 3: video of her husband signing to her son, that's mommy

438
00:21:13,600 --> 00:21:15,960
Speaker 3: when she was getting her gold medal. Despite the fact

439
00:21:15,960 --> 00:21:18,000
Speaker 3: that I love being at the Olympics right, there are

440
00:21:18,040 --> 00:21:20,480
Speaker 3: some limitations which are you cannot see all of the

441
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Speaker 3: things that a TV crew can see and point cameras

442
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Speaker 3: on at the same time, and so it was very

443
00:21:25,600 --> 00:21:27,679
Speaker 3: cool to see that moment both in person but then

444
00:21:27,720 --> 00:21:29,760
Speaker 3: be able to kind of relive it in a new way.

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Speaker 3: Number Four the sheer number of times that we ran

446
00:21:33,520 --> 00:21:37,080
Speaker 3: into Sophia Kirkby. I think this is almost in mind.

447
00:21:38,240 --> 00:21:41,240
Speaker 3: We've ran into her so many times that literally walking

448
00:21:41,240 --> 00:21:43,439
Speaker 3: around at home now, I'm like, is that Sofia? Like

449
00:21:43,520 --> 00:21:44,120
Speaker 3: it might be.

450
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Speaker 1: She's actually back in Europe on dates again, So if

451
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Speaker 1: you haven't kept following up with her, I don't know

452
00:21:50,080 --> 00:21:52,879
Speaker 1: what y'all are doing. But the Instagram content didn't end

453
00:21:52,880 --> 00:21:54,880
Speaker 1: when the Olympics did. She is still going on dates

454
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Speaker 1: and I'm pretty sure it's the guy that we saw

455
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Speaker 1: her at the restaurant with on Valentine's Day because he

456
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Speaker 1: was the one living in the UK, and I think

457
00:22:01,040 --> 00:22:02,639
Speaker 1: she flew out to do a little more hang in

458
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Speaker 1: with that guy. So good for it.

459
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Speaker 3: I love the investigative work, Sarah.

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Speaker 1: Yes, the important things.

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Speaker 3: Number five Mikayla shifferent, conquering her fear a word that

462
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Speaker 3: she used, and winning gold. You know, I hinted at

463
00:22:17,880 --> 00:22:20,159
Speaker 3: this a lot during the Olympics, but I think a

464
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Speaker 3: lot about how we discussed narrative and who's allowed to

465
00:22:24,800 --> 00:22:27,880
Speaker 3: create their own narrative, whether that's the media or an athlete.

466
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Speaker 3: And I think when Mikayla, I have often worried about

467
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Speaker 3: her not being able to have the last word and

468
00:22:33,359 --> 00:22:35,679
Speaker 3: be able to say whether she's happy or satisfied or

469
00:22:35,680 --> 00:22:38,240
Speaker 3: disappointed or not with something. And so to be able

470
00:22:38,280 --> 00:22:41,159
Speaker 3: to see her both be satisfied with her skiing and

471
00:22:41,320 --> 00:22:44,320
Speaker 3: also with the metal result was really satisfying.

472
00:22:44,840 --> 00:22:46,919
Speaker 1: And I also think with Mikayla, she's kind of like

473
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Speaker 1: Eileen Goo esque sometimes in the media, where it feels

474
00:22:49,320 --> 00:22:52,120
Speaker 1: like she's saying the right thing and she has her

475
00:22:52,359 --> 00:22:56,200
Speaker 1: talking points ready. But when she talked about being afraid

476
00:22:56,240 --> 00:22:58,800
Speaker 1: of winning because it would mean winning without her father

477
00:22:58,880 --> 00:23:01,919
Speaker 1: for the first time, it felt so genuine and so

478
00:23:02,200 --> 00:23:06,440
Speaker 1: vulnerable and raw, and it made me remember maybe sometimes

479
00:23:06,480 --> 00:23:09,399
Speaker 1: to not necessarily judge people who seem like they're able

480
00:23:09,440 --> 00:23:12,840
Speaker 1: to so eloquently express themselves and believe that to be

481
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Speaker 1: false or fake, instead to just like take it at

482
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Speaker 1: face value that sometimes people are like the reporter literally

483
00:23:19,640 --> 00:23:21,480
Speaker 1: asked Eleen Goo, it seems like you don't think before

484
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Speaker 1: speaking what's going on, and she was able to, like

485
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Speaker 1: without taking a pause. You know, some people take a

486
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Speaker 1: beat before they talk, and other people are able to

487
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Speaker 1: kind of spit it out right away. And I think

488
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Speaker 1: that moment from Mikayla reminded me that she is probably

489
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Speaker 1: a pretty authentic person. She just is also pretty well

490
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Speaker 1: media trained.

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Speaker 3: I think too. You know, we talk about like mental

492
00:23:41,720 --> 00:23:44,440
Speaker 3: pressure as if it's this one concept, and I think

493
00:23:44,480 --> 00:23:47,280
Speaker 3: Mikayla really shined a light on it's not just about

494
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Speaker 3: having big expectations on yourself. I think her acknowledging the

495
00:23:51,040 --> 00:23:52,600
Speaker 3: fear of winning without someone.

496
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Speaker 1: Yeah, you're a whole person and all those things are

497
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Speaker 1: part of it.

498
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Speaker 3: Yeah, So I hope moving forward, like as we incorporate

499
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Speaker 3: conversations about like the mental side of things, we also

500
00:24:01,480 --> 00:24:05,480
Speaker 3: give athlete space to express what exactly the mental side

501
00:24:05,480 --> 00:24:06,320
Speaker 3: of it means for them.

502
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Speaker 4: Yeah.

503
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Speaker 1: We talked to Jessica Bartley about that. She's trying to

504
00:24:09,640 --> 00:24:12,800
Speaker 1: be the USOPC psych person and talk to them about

505
00:24:12,840 --> 00:24:17,880
Speaker 1: nerves for competition, but she also is like, you might

506
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Speaker 1: be bringing a breakup or a yeah, tragedy or something else,

507
00:24:21,520 --> 00:24:22,720
Speaker 1: and we have to be able to hold.

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Speaker 3: All those things at once, all right. Number six the

509
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Speaker 3: women's halfpipe competition, won by South Korea's Troy Gown and

510
00:24:30,400 --> 00:24:33,000
Speaker 3: Chloe Kim taking silver. That was, of course, after Choi

511
00:24:33,080 --> 00:24:36,119
Speaker 3: had fallen hard on run number one. We thought for

512
00:24:36,119 --> 00:24:39,640
Speaker 3: a while she might not even be continuing. And yet

513
00:24:40,000 --> 00:24:42,360
Speaker 3: what I think is going to stick with me is

514
00:24:42,560 --> 00:24:46,879
Speaker 3: Maddie Mastro's comments after losing and what she's kind of

515
00:24:46,880 --> 00:24:49,720
Speaker 3: described as a nightmare of a final after she tried

516
00:24:49,760 --> 00:24:52,280
Speaker 3: to land the same trick one of her solid most

517
00:24:52,320 --> 00:24:55,040
Speaker 3: go to tricks in each of her three runs and

518
00:24:55,119 --> 00:24:59,040
Speaker 3: felt every single time. And we kind of got a

519
00:24:59,080 --> 00:25:02,520
Speaker 3: heads up from the press, like, guys, like, Maddie's really sad.

520
00:25:02,920 --> 00:25:06,320
Speaker 3: And then she came over and it was one of

521
00:25:06,359 --> 00:25:10,800
Speaker 3: those moments where I so appreciated her vulnerability, her sharing

522
00:25:10,840 --> 00:25:13,080
Speaker 3: her sadness with us, because it gave me such a

523
00:25:13,119 --> 00:25:15,680
Speaker 3: better sense of how much it meant to her, how

524
00:25:15,720 --> 00:25:19,879
Speaker 3: disappointed she was, and it stuck with me, you know,

525
00:25:19,920 --> 00:25:24,240
Speaker 3: and especially her line talking about visualizing quote in my head.

526
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Speaker 3: I did my run and landed in a bunch of

527
00:25:25,920 --> 00:25:28,159
Speaker 3: fucking times, guys, and it was fucking sick. And I'm

528
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Speaker 3: over there on the podium right now. That's the reality

529
00:25:30,520 --> 00:25:32,760
Speaker 3: that my had made and I'm still a believer in that,

530
00:25:32,880 --> 00:25:35,159
Speaker 3: just because it didn't work this time, It's worked before

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Speaker 3: end quote. And I just I love that so much.

532
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Speaker 1: And she's competed since the Olympics and been on the

533
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Speaker 1: podium yes Pop and Champagne, and that kind of broke

534
00:25:42,800 --> 00:25:44,159
Speaker 1: my heart a little because I'm like, damn it, I

535
00:25:44,160 --> 00:25:46,280
Speaker 1: wish you'd done that at the Olympics, but I'm also

536
00:25:46,280 --> 00:25:48,720
Speaker 1: so glad you found your way back to winning.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. Number seven women's hockey, and specifically the pregame concourse

538
00:25:55,200 --> 00:25:57,919
Speaker 3: walk Sarah. So to set the stage for this, we

539
00:25:57,960 --> 00:26:00,879
Speaker 3: had to record part of that day's episodist kind of

540
00:26:00,920 --> 00:26:03,359
Speaker 3: before the gold medal game, after the bronze medal game.

541
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Speaker 3: But then once we were done, we went downstairs and

542
00:26:05,720 --> 00:26:07,520
Speaker 3: we did two laps of the concourse and it was

543
00:26:07,520 --> 00:26:09,520
Speaker 3: all these American fans and Canadian fans, and we were

544
00:26:09,560 --> 00:26:12,680
Speaker 3: kept running into people, including Brittany Bow running in and

545
00:26:14,480 --> 00:26:16,600
Speaker 3: I just wish I could have frozen that moment in

546
00:26:16,680 --> 00:26:20,040
Speaker 3: time for a little bit longer. I think about how

547
00:26:20,280 --> 00:26:22,720
Speaker 3: we talk about the games and especially the results of

548
00:26:22,760 --> 00:26:27,320
Speaker 3: the games for so long, and yet that pregame moment

549
00:26:27,400 --> 00:26:30,479
Speaker 3: where everything was still possible and people had all this

550
00:26:30,600 --> 00:26:34,000
Speaker 3: belief and joy. I just I loved every moment of it.

551
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Speaker 3: I felt like I was with my people right. Everyone

552
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Speaker 3: who was there cares about women's hockey and especially the

553
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Speaker 3: US Canada rivalry.

554
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it was a blessed and I felt like I

555
00:26:43,320 --> 00:26:47,919
Speaker 2: was with my people while endlessly refreshing Blue Sky during

556
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Speaker 2: that game.

557
00:26:49,240 --> 00:26:52,280
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was for sure.

558
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Speaker 3: And as an aside related to women's hockey, I'm so

559
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Speaker 3: happy that we got a full circle moment on Day

560
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Speaker 3: minus once here I'm so sorry, but seeing the poster

561
00:27:02,560 --> 00:27:05,160
Speaker 3: of the Canadian women's hockey team in the athlete village

562
00:27:05,480 --> 00:27:08,600
Speaker 3: and I remember seeing it being like, that's weird, yikes,

563
00:27:08,760 --> 00:27:11,520
Speaker 3: don't like that, and then you asking Kelly Panic about

564
00:27:11,520 --> 00:27:14,000
Speaker 3: it during your interview and her calling it free bulletin

565
00:27:14,040 --> 00:27:17,360
Speaker 3: board material. I just I love that, all right. Number

566
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Speaker 3: eight for me was definitely the figure skating Gala. I

567
00:27:19,600 --> 00:27:21,480
Speaker 3: didn't feel like I went into it with like high

568
00:27:21,480 --> 00:27:23,560
Speaker 3: hopes or expectations because I was like, oh, there's not

569
00:27:23,600 --> 00:27:25,719
Speaker 3: a metal on the line, so like, who cares? And

570
00:27:25,760 --> 00:27:28,000
Speaker 3: I think part of that attitude comes from the fact

571
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Speaker 3: that I'm jaded, like in some ways, I think the

572
00:27:30,480 --> 00:27:32,719
Speaker 3: Olympics ruined me. When you get used to working on

573
00:27:32,760 --> 00:27:36,399
Speaker 3: sports where everything comes down to such small margins and

574
00:27:36,720 --> 00:27:40,080
Speaker 3: singular moments, and then it's only every four years, and

575
00:27:40,160 --> 00:27:44,120
Speaker 3: so the figures getting galla though complete opposite, right, there's

576
00:27:44,600 --> 00:27:47,639
Speaker 3: no pressure, it's just for fun, and it made me

577
00:27:47,720 --> 00:27:51,000
Speaker 3: realize all of the untapped potential that's still left in

578
00:27:51,040 --> 00:27:54,480
Speaker 3: sports if you just like let creative and athletic people

579
00:27:54,560 --> 00:27:56,879
Speaker 3: do fun things, Like the results that come out of

580
00:27:56,920 --> 00:27:59,520
Speaker 3: it are so great. And so I truly wish every

581
00:27:59,560 --> 00:28:01,639
Speaker 3: sport can go on its own Gala journey because I

582
00:28:01,640 --> 00:28:03,760
Speaker 3: think we would come to some really fun conclusions.

583
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Speaker 2: Well, I think that's what we saw with Elsloo. I

584
00:28:06,680 --> 00:28:12,840
Speaker 2: think that she gave that Gala level creativity and freedom

585
00:28:13,119 --> 00:28:15,960
Speaker 2: in her skate, and that's what won her the gold medal.

586
00:28:16,400 --> 00:28:20,720
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's so true. Number nine, the kindness

587
00:28:20,720 --> 00:28:23,560
Speaker 3: of people, whether it's the fans or the press officers,

588
00:28:23,800 --> 00:28:26,600
Speaker 3: and also especially the volunteers. Like I've always heard about

589
00:28:26,600 --> 00:28:28,439
Speaker 3: the number of volunteers that it takes to make the

590
00:28:28,440 --> 00:28:31,480
Speaker 3: Olympics happen, and as somebody that's like pretty pro labor,

591
00:28:31,600 --> 00:28:33,960
Speaker 3: like the idea that the Olympics rely on volunteers is

592
00:28:34,080 --> 00:28:38,120
Speaker 3: kind of up. And yet also these are people that

593
00:28:38,240 --> 00:28:42,880
Speaker 3: are living their own Olympic dream, yeah, and are just

594
00:28:43,120 --> 00:28:47,200
Speaker 3: genuinely happy to be part of this gigantic spectacle. Just

595
00:28:47,320 --> 00:28:49,600
Speaker 3: very thankful for them. And then number ten, just a

596
00:28:49,600 --> 00:28:51,320
Speaker 3: couple of the quiet moments that we were able to

597
00:28:51,360 --> 00:28:55,440
Speaker 3: share together, Sarah, because obviously the Olympics are loud and

598
00:28:55,520 --> 00:28:57,880
Speaker 3: there's all these cameras, and yet we had a couple

599
00:28:57,960 --> 00:28:59,680
Speaker 3: of cool moments where it felt like it was like

600
00:28:59,840 --> 00:29:02,800
Speaker 3: just the two of us in this huge space where

601
00:29:02,840 --> 00:29:05,240
Speaker 3: history had happened, whether it was watching the moon rise

602
00:29:05,280 --> 00:29:08,080
Speaker 3: through the Olympic rings after the opening ceremony, it was

603
00:29:08,120 --> 00:29:10,920
Speaker 3: this really cool moment where they were tearing everything down

604
00:29:10,920 --> 00:29:12,040
Speaker 3: and all of a sudden we looked up and the

605
00:29:12,040 --> 00:29:14,280
Speaker 3: Olympic Rings were still there and it was just the

606
00:29:14,320 --> 00:29:17,200
Speaker 3: moon rising, and you know, there weren't any photographers that

607
00:29:17,240 --> 00:29:19,320
Speaker 3: were still around. They had all packed up and gone home.

608
00:29:19,680 --> 00:29:21,680
Speaker 3: And the same thing after the women's halfpipe where we

609
00:29:21,720 --> 00:29:23,640
Speaker 3: went to the bottom of the half pipe, there were

610
00:29:23,680 --> 00:29:26,920
Speaker 3: no fans. Everyone else had left, and I was like,

611
00:29:26,960 --> 00:29:30,120
Speaker 3: we have this giant thing to ourselves that history just

612
00:29:30,160 --> 00:29:32,560
Speaker 3: got made on. And I just enjoyed being able to

613
00:29:32,600 --> 00:29:35,200
Speaker 3: appreciate those those quieter moments.

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00:29:35,600 --> 00:29:38,600
Speaker 1: Yeah, I noticed you didn't mention our romantic Valentine's dinner though.

615
00:29:38,680 --> 00:29:40,719
Speaker 1: That was a nice quiet moment between the two of us.

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00:29:40,800 --> 00:29:42,840
Speaker 3: That was a very nice quiet moment. And my favorite

617
00:29:42,840 --> 00:29:45,880
Speaker 3: part of that moment actually was when they build us

618
00:29:45,920 --> 00:29:48,280
Speaker 3: for it. At the end, they got something wrong and

619
00:29:48,360 --> 00:29:51,400
Speaker 3: the woman was like, sorry, my manager's so drunk right now.

620
00:29:51,600 --> 00:29:54,040
Speaker 1: Yeah, he was having the time of his life. They

621
00:29:54,120 --> 00:29:56,280
Speaker 1: charged us for like three things out of eight, and

622
00:29:56,320 --> 00:29:57,920
Speaker 1: we were like, ah, we should tell them, and then

623
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Speaker 1: she came over. She's like, I'm so sorry, I have

624
00:29:59,680 --> 00:30:02,200
Speaker 1: a new and I'm like, you still forgot a couple things.

625
00:30:02,280 --> 00:30:04,080
Speaker 1: And then by the end he was just like, water's

626
00:30:04,120 --> 00:30:07,000
Speaker 1: on me. I'm drunk. How about water for you? Sarah

627
00:30:07,040 --> 00:30:08,720
Speaker 1: exactly exactly, but.

628
00:30:08,720 --> 00:30:10,560
Speaker 3: I did it. She had our Valentine's dinner and my

629
00:30:10,600 --> 00:30:11,240
Speaker 3: birthday dinner.

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Speaker 1: Sarah, yeah, very much. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, and since

631
00:30:14,480 --> 00:30:16,640
Speaker 1: you mentioned it, we did start keeping a list of

632
00:30:16,680 --> 00:30:18,959
Speaker 1: thank yous and we were delinquent and keeping up with it,

633
00:30:19,040 --> 00:30:20,920
Speaker 1: but just so that we get at least the ones

634
00:30:20,960 --> 00:30:24,840
Speaker 1: we remember out three Giuseppes. They carried luggage, they got

635
00:30:24,880 --> 00:30:27,040
Speaker 1: us coffee. There were multiple Duseppees across the course of

636
00:30:27,080 --> 00:30:29,719
Speaker 1: Italy that helped us. Sylvia who made us sandwiches at

637
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Speaker 1: the hotel in Valdadetro when everything was closed, Paula for

638
00:30:33,400 --> 00:30:36,240
Speaker 1: escorting Alex to the right staircase at the opening ceremony.

639
00:30:36,760 --> 00:30:39,959
Speaker 1: The owner at Cador Hotel in valve Cordore, Erica, who

640
00:30:40,000 --> 00:30:42,360
Speaker 1: I'm like obsessed with, and her husband, and the pizza

641
00:30:42,400 --> 00:30:45,920
Speaker 1: man there because that guy could toss a pizza. There

642
00:30:45,920 --> 00:30:48,120
Speaker 1: are so many others, although, like you said, the comms people,

643
00:30:48,200 --> 00:30:50,840
Speaker 1: the volunteers, all those people deserve our thanks as well.

644
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Speaker 3: But to all the Giuseppes, to.

645
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Speaker 1: All the Giuseppees we've known and loved all Right, Bianca,

646
00:30:57,560 --> 00:31:00,320
Speaker 1: you were back here holding it down. Do you have any

647
00:31:00,400 --> 00:31:02,160
Speaker 1: questions for us? Is there anything else we need to

648
00:31:02,160 --> 00:31:04,640
Speaker 1: do to wrap up our great Olympic adventure?

649
00:31:05,360 --> 00:31:05,520
Speaker 3: Well?

650
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Speaker 2: That was so great to hear, even though it was

651
00:31:07,520 --> 00:31:10,680
Speaker 2: just what seven ten days ago. I feel like you

652
00:31:10,760 --> 00:31:14,120
Speaker 2: all reminded me of moments that I had even forgotten.

653
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Speaker 2: So that was I loved hearing your top moments. I

654
00:31:18,360 --> 00:31:23,360
Speaker 2: will note no engagement. No engagement in that top twenty.

655
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Speaker 1: Yeah, we weren't there for that for any of those

656
00:31:26,080 --> 00:31:30,600
Speaker 1: Breezies or Hillary, true, but we enjoyed watching them from afar,

657
00:31:30,960 --> 00:31:31,960
Speaker 1: as did I.

658
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Speaker 3: I also appreciated. I'm not necessarily always Jimmy Fallon's biggest fan,

659
00:31:36,040 --> 00:31:37,920
Speaker 3: but he did point out when Hillary Apps on his

660
00:31:38,000 --> 00:31:41,320
Speaker 3: show that she proposed to Brittany while standing over a grate.

661
00:31:41,920 --> 00:31:44,080
Speaker 1: Yeah, how did I not see that? Nobody had picked

662
00:31:44,080 --> 00:31:44,640
Speaker 1: that up before?

663
00:31:44,680 --> 00:31:46,920
Speaker 3: I feel like, what a risky move.

664
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Speaker 1: Since you brought that up, I want to point out

665
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Speaker 1: my friend Katie Donovan, who used to work at Sports

666
00:31:51,440 --> 00:31:53,600
Speaker 1: Innovation Lab, and it's just like amazing. I think she's

667
00:31:53,600 --> 00:31:56,920
Speaker 1: at the WNBA now, she said after posting that fallon

668
00:31:57,040 --> 00:32:00,200
Speaker 1: thing with the two Hughes brothers and Hillary Knight. We'll

669
00:32:00,240 --> 00:32:02,600
Speaker 1: never get the apology that we want from the Hughes brothers,

670
00:32:02,720 --> 00:32:05,200
Speaker 1: so instead I'm reveling in the poetic justice of them

671
00:32:05,200 --> 00:32:07,360
Speaker 1: being on a media tour with Knight and Keller and

672
00:32:07,400 --> 00:32:10,400
Speaker 1: other women and hearing on repeat how much louder the

673
00:32:10,480 --> 00:32:13,640
Speaker 1: crowds are screaming for these women as every aspect of

674
00:32:13,680 --> 00:32:16,360
Speaker 1: their talent and life is celebrated. And I was thinking

675
00:32:16,440 --> 00:32:18,520
Speaker 1: the same thing, like not only the joy everyone had

676
00:32:18,520 --> 00:32:20,840
Speaker 1: for her, but like Jimmy holding up the proposal and

677
00:32:20,840 --> 00:32:23,720
Speaker 1: everyone losing their minds about it, like it just it's

678
00:32:23,760 --> 00:32:25,600
Speaker 1: the victory lap we need, even if the men will

679
00:32:25,640 --> 00:32:28,000
Speaker 1: never actually own up being pieces of crust.

680
00:32:28,200 --> 00:32:31,080
Speaker 3: Also like Hillary sitting in her sparkly black suit and

681
00:32:31,160 --> 00:32:32,720
Speaker 3: they look like they're in the equivalent of like T

682
00:32:32,880 --> 00:32:35,720
Speaker 3: shirts and Jack obviously Sill has his teeth not I'm like,

683
00:32:35,960 --> 00:32:37,000
Speaker 3: paints a better picture.

684
00:32:37,040 --> 00:32:39,800
Speaker 1: You can't yeah that tooth.

685
00:32:39,840 --> 00:32:41,440
Speaker 2: I feel like at this point they're holding out on

686
00:32:41,480 --> 00:32:43,160
Speaker 2: purpose for getting that fixed.

687
00:32:43,240 --> 00:32:45,160
Speaker 1: But it's going to be a big job. It's like

688
00:32:45,280 --> 00:32:47,520
Speaker 1: one full tooth and like part of two others. So

689
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Speaker 1: it's good to do.

690
00:32:49,080 --> 00:32:53,320
Speaker 2: No thanks, Okay, I do have questions for you too, So, Sarah,

691
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Speaker 2: You've kind of touched on this, but I'm really curious

692
00:32:56,040 --> 00:32:59,360
Speaker 2: because you have been to all of the games in

693
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Speaker 2: all of the sports throughout your career, and you've spoken

694
00:33:02,560 --> 00:33:06,320
Speaker 2: with athletes before and after their biggest moments. Was this

695
00:33:06,680 --> 00:33:07,840
Speaker 2: any different than that?

696
00:33:08,360 --> 00:33:08,719
Speaker 3: If so?

697
00:33:09,040 --> 00:33:13,400
Speaker 2: How I'm just really curious about the specific Olympic flavor

698
00:33:13,680 --> 00:33:14,360
Speaker 2: that this brought.

699
00:33:15,160 --> 00:33:16,600
Speaker 1: I think the thing that would stand out to me

700
00:33:16,640 --> 00:33:19,120
Speaker 1: the most is how disparate the experience is depending on

701
00:33:19,200 --> 00:33:21,640
Speaker 1: what you're covering and who you're talking to, Because there

702
00:33:21,680 --> 00:33:24,160
Speaker 1: are certain moments that feel like the end of a

703
00:33:24,240 --> 00:33:27,560
Speaker 1: major professional sports league in the States, like Mikayla Schiffrin,

704
00:33:27,880 --> 00:33:30,680
Speaker 1: as I'm getting pushed further and further away, trying to

705
00:33:30,760 --> 00:33:32,800
Speaker 1: keep my arm in the mix because so many people

706
00:33:32,840 --> 00:33:35,479
Speaker 1: want to talk to her. That feels like trying to

707
00:33:35,960 --> 00:33:38,920
Speaker 1: be in a locker room or a clubhouse or a

708
00:33:38,960 --> 00:33:42,440
Speaker 1: space like that after a huge game in professional sports here,

709
00:33:42,840 --> 00:33:45,200
Speaker 1: and then other moments where you're talking to someone who

710
00:33:45,320 --> 00:33:47,120
Speaker 1: just won a gold medal, and there's like four of you,

711
00:33:47,760 --> 00:33:50,120
Speaker 1: and the four of you are getting this intimate conversation

712
00:33:50,240 --> 00:33:52,360
Speaker 1: with someone that just achieved something that they spent their

713
00:33:52,520 --> 00:33:55,760
Speaker 1: entire life working toward, and how special that was to

714
00:33:55,840 --> 00:33:58,400
Speaker 1: be the people who got to share that story and

715
00:33:58,440 --> 00:34:01,360
Speaker 1: bring it back and who got enough access to like

716
00:34:01,880 --> 00:34:04,000
Speaker 1: just go back and forth and have a conversation with

717
00:34:04,040 --> 00:34:06,560
Speaker 1: someone instead of some of them are press conferences where

718
00:34:06,560 --> 00:34:08,000
Speaker 1: you have to raise your hand and ask a question

719
00:34:08,000 --> 00:34:10,320
Speaker 1: in front of a whole big room and everyone's tracking

720
00:34:10,360 --> 00:34:13,359
Speaker 1: it versus those one on ones. So in some ways

721
00:34:13,440 --> 00:34:16,040
Speaker 1: very similar and in other ways very different. I certainly

722
00:34:16,040 --> 00:34:18,279
Speaker 1: have never stood four or three hours on the side

723
00:34:18,280 --> 00:34:21,000
Speaker 1: of a mountain waiting for someone to talk to me.

724
00:34:21,640 --> 00:34:22,080
Speaker 1: I was the.

725
00:34:22,040 --> 00:34:25,680
Speaker 2: First, Oh, that's great, okay, and then Alex, for you,

726
00:34:26,120 --> 00:34:29,320
Speaker 2: I apologize in advance because I suppose that this actually

727
00:34:29,360 --> 00:34:33,160
Speaker 2: is not about you but about somebody else where.

728
00:34:33,920 --> 00:34:37,320
Speaker 3: Was norma, Oh God, where was norma?

729
00:34:37,560 --> 00:34:40,239
Speaker 1: Great question? I thought the same thing throughout, But I

730
00:34:40,320 --> 00:34:42,520
Speaker 1: was like, she's got a plan. I'm not gonna I'm

731
00:34:42,520 --> 00:34:44,319
Speaker 1: not gonna interrupt the plan. Or maybe she didn't have

732
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Speaker 1: a plan.

733
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Speaker 2: I hate to put something else on your plate, because

734
00:34:47,360 --> 00:34:51,920
Speaker 2: as Sarah, as Sarah noted, you planned this whole trip,

735
00:34:52,160 --> 00:34:55,440
Speaker 2: you were responsible for every waking minute of those seventeen

736
00:34:55,480 --> 00:35:00,000
Speaker 2: hour days. And still I was waiting with baited breath

737
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Speaker 2: for Norma the Nome.

738
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Speaker 3: Okay, I do have some photos of Norma that haven't

739
00:35:03,320 --> 00:35:05,520
Speaker 3: yet made it out, so I will make sure that happens,

740
00:35:05,600 --> 00:35:08,560
Speaker 3: Thank you, Bianca. But great, you know. I think what

741
00:35:08,600 --> 00:35:11,480
Speaker 3: I'll say is this. When I started the project originally

742
00:35:11,520 --> 00:35:15,160
Speaker 3: with Naomi the Nome rip to the Grand Canyon, A

743
00:35:15,200 --> 00:35:16,920
Speaker 3: big reason why I did that was because I was

744
00:35:16,960 --> 00:35:19,279
Speaker 3: traveling alone. I was by myself, and it was a

745
00:35:19,280 --> 00:35:21,200
Speaker 3: way for me at the end of a long work

746
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Speaker 3: day to force myself to get out of my hotel

747
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Speaker 3: and go on a little adventure and find something cool

748
00:35:27,360 --> 00:35:30,439
Speaker 3: that I could photograph my Nome in front of. And

749
00:35:30,719 --> 00:35:34,719
Speaker 3: I haven't felt like I have needed that as much recently,

750
00:35:34,920 --> 00:35:36,399
Speaker 3: and I think part of that was just being able

751
00:35:36,440 --> 00:35:38,840
Speaker 3: to see all of the cool stuff, and it felt

752
00:35:38,880 --> 00:35:40,880
Speaker 3: like distracting if I was trying to take a photo

753
00:35:41,000 --> 00:35:43,960
Speaker 3: of Norma in front of somebody snowboarding or skiing.

754
00:35:44,880 --> 00:35:48,520
Speaker 2: That is a really much more beautiful answer than I

755
00:35:48,560 --> 00:35:49,840
Speaker 2: was expecting it, because it's.

756
00:35:49,680 --> 00:35:53,560
Speaker 1: Almost like, Sarah was your your tall gnome. Yeah, I

757
00:35:53,680 --> 00:35:56,880
Speaker 1: was your giant nome. No beard, yeah, no beard, yeah no.

758
00:35:56,920 --> 00:35:58,040
Speaker 1: I have to take care of that every once in

759
00:35:58,040 --> 00:35:59,759
Speaker 1: a while with those chin whiskers. They get more and

760
00:35:59,800 --> 00:36:01,680
Speaker 1: more the older you get. Ladies, just be ready for it.

761
00:36:02,600 --> 00:36:04,560
Speaker 2: And then for the both of you. You know, you've

762
00:36:04,560 --> 00:36:07,240
Speaker 2: worked together very closely now for a while, but traveling

763
00:36:07,239 --> 00:36:11,640
Speaker 2: together internationally for three plus weeks is a different beast.

764
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Speaker 2: So what did you learn about each other during your

765
00:36:15,000 --> 00:36:18,000
Speaker 2: travels through Italy? Sarah, let's start with you. What did

766
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Speaker 2: you learn about Alex?

767
00:36:19,239 --> 00:36:20,920
Speaker 1: Let me first just say that since I've been home,

768
00:36:20,960 --> 00:36:23,440
Speaker 1: people have marveled at the fact that we spent almost

769
00:36:23,480 --> 00:36:26,640
Speaker 1: every minute together, like sixteen to seventeen hours a day,

770
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Speaker 1: and I was like, it went great, we got along great,

771
00:36:29,160 --> 00:36:32,040
Speaker 1: Like it was surprisingly And my one friend was like, man,

772
00:36:32,080 --> 00:36:33,759
Speaker 1: if you did that with like your husband, I'm like,

773
00:36:33,800 --> 00:36:36,440
Speaker 1: oh no, I couldn't. Not for three straight weeks sixteen

774
00:36:36,440 --> 00:36:41,200
Speaker 1: hours a day. So thinks I learned about Alex. I

775
00:36:41,239 --> 00:36:43,920
Speaker 1: started out thinking she was a camel, but I decided

776
00:36:43,960 --> 00:36:47,360
Speaker 1: she's actually more like a machine. But then I landed

777
00:36:47,400 --> 00:36:52,400
Speaker 1: on potentially like a mechanical camel. She doesn't need to eat, drink, pea,

778
00:36:52,840 --> 00:36:56,520
Speaker 1: or sleep, which is remarkable. That's not true. She does

779
00:36:56,560 --> 00:36:57,360
Speaker 1: occasionally need.

780
00:36:57,239 --> 00:36:59,120
Speaker 3: To sleep, sometimes pass an alarm.

781
00:36:59,480 --> 00:37:01,719
Speaker 1: I was just saying she sets multiple alarms, and still

782
00:37:01,800 --> 00:37:04,040
Speaker 1: that doesn't always get the job done. But pinkfully, it

783
00:37:04,120 --> 00:37:07,719
Speaker 1: was never too important when she overslept. But yeah, she's

784
00:37:07,760 --> 00:37:10,160
Speaker 1: a mechanical camel who never gets tired or needs to

785
00:37:10,200 --> 00:37:12,520
Speaker 1: rest and doesn't drink enough water frankly, and that should

786
00:37:12,520 --> 00:37:14,360
Speaker 1: be something you and your doctor should consult about. But

787
00:37:14,960 --> 00:37:21,120
Speaker 1: she she's got a very simple palette. She loves margherita pizza.

788
00:37:21,400 --> 00:37:24,920
Speaker 1: She loves a simple pasta. The only gelato flavor she

789
00:37:24,960 --> 00:37:29,040
Speaker 1: gets is called yogurt, which I had literally never heard of,

790
00:37:29,320 --> 00:37:33,080
Speaker 1: and tastes like pinkberry. It's fine, it's good. It tastes

791
00:37:33,080 --> 00:37:36,000
Speaker 1: like pinkberry. But there's literally every flavor you could ever

792
00:37:36,040 --> 00:37:39,240
Speaker 1: imagine with, like giant chunks of strawberry or cookies of creamer.

793
00:37:39,280 --> 00:37:41,760
Speaker 1: He's one of amazing things. And she just gets yogurt.

794
00:37:42,200 --> 00:37:45,440
Speaker 3: Is the flavor yogurt or is it frozen yogurt?

795
00:37:45,520 --> 00:37:47,520
Speaker 1: No, it's the flavors called yogurt.

796
00:37:47,560 --> 00:37:50,000
Speaker 3: Oh my God, but you can't get it in the US.

797
00:37:50,160 --> 00:37:50,520
Speaker 3: That's why.

798
00:37:50,640 --> 00:37:55,000
Speaker 1: Yeah, pinkberry, you can at pinkberry.

799
00:37:55,040 --> 00:37:57,200
Speaker 3: It's not as good as pinkberry. And point me to

800
00:37:57,280 --> 00:37:57,799
Speaker 3: a pink berry.

801
00:37:58,000 --> 00:37:59,960
Speaker 1: Meant you meant pinkberry is not as good as that.

802
00:38:00,080 --> 00:38:01,120
Speaker 1: I hope.

803
00:38:01,320 --> 00:38:04,200
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I didn't get that. Oh boy good.

804
00:38:05,560 --> 00:38:08,239
Speaker 1: Alex has a great memory for names and people, which

805
00:38:08,280 --> 00:38:10,880
Speaker 1: is great and very useful in her job. And she

806
00:38:10,920 --> 00:38:13,239
Speaker 1: has an endless supply of leggings with side.

807
00:38:12,960 --> 00:38:14,000
Speaker 3: Pockets, Yes I do.

808
00:38:14,440 --> 00:38:16,719
Speaker 1: She does not own a pair of hard pants, just

809
00:38:16,800 --> 00:38:20,360
Speaker 1: an endless stream of leggings with side pockets. And I

810
00:38:20,440 --> 00:38:21,880
Speaker 1: think those are the things. I think a lot of

811
00:38:21,880 --> 00:38:23,719
Speaker 1: other things I knew about Alex, but those were the

812
00:38:23,719 --> 00:38:25,160
Speaker 1: important things I learned on the strip.

813
00:38:25,520 --> 00:38:28,480
Speaker 3: I think it was Stephen Colbert April of twenty twenty,

814
00:38:28,560 --> 00:38:31,000
Speaker 3: being like, it's going to be hard to get back

815
00:38:31,000 --> 00:38:33,239
Speaker 3: into hard pant mode when all of this ends. And

816
00:38:33,280 --> 00:38:35,799
Speaker 3: I just never really did you never did? I never did.

817
00:38:35,800 --> 00:38:37,759
Speaker 3: I did bring jeans with me. I could have not

818
00:38:37,840 --> 00:38:39,600
Speaker 3: brought jeans with me, though it would have saved me

819
00:38:39,640 --> 00:38:42,120
Speaker 3: some space in my luggage.

820
00:38:41,840 --> 00:38:44,600
Speaker 2: The outfits would not have changed despite it, whether jeans

821
00:38:44,600 --> 00:38:45,640
Speaker 2: were in the suitcase or not.

822
00:38:45,800 --> 00:38:48,320
Speaker 3: Yes, I'm glad that you learned so much from me,

823
00:38:48,400 --> 00:38:52,240
Speaker 3: both about the athletes and about my dietary preferences.

824
00:38:52,400 --> 00:38:54,400
Speaker 2: And what did you learn about Sarah?

825
00:38:54,719 --> 00:38:56,520
Speaker 3: I feel the same way. Sarah got a couple of

826
00:38:56,520 --> 00:38:59,080
Speaker 3: friends that were like, so, how's it going with Sarah,

827
00:38:59,160 --> 00:39:04,279
Speaker 3: And I'm like, it'st wait, it's great. I learned that

828
00:39:04,320 --> 00:39:06,719
Speaker 3: you can be patient, and I hope that you also

829
00:39:06,800 --> 00:39:08,400
Speaker 3: learned that you can be patient, because I know that

830
00:39:08,440 --> 00:39:10,359
Speaker 3: you don't necessarily always think of yourself as the most

831
00:39:10,400 --> 00:39:12,840
Speaker 3: patient person. But the Olympics require a whole lot of

832
00:39:12,920 --> 00:39:15,720
Speaker 3: hurry up and wait, and that was great.

833
00:39:16,440 --> 00:39:18,840
Speaker 1: Yeah. I think I joke about it, but when it's required,

834
00:39:18,840 --> 00:39:20,879
Speaker 1: it's actually not that hard for me. It's more when

835
00:39:21,080 --> 00:39:23,200
Speaker 1: if patience is required because someone else is being a

836
00:39:23,280 --> 00:39:27,279
Speaker 1: dumb ass, then I have no patience. If it's just

837
00:39:27,320 --> 00:39:28,880
Speaker 1: part of the job, I'm totally fine with it.

838
00:39:29,239 --> 00:39:32,759
Speaker 3: Yeah that makes sense. Uh. You would die in a

839
00:39:32,800 --> 00:39:34,800
Speaker 3: desert before drinking sparkling water?

840
00:39:35,360 --> 00:39:39,400
Speaker 1: Yes? Fully, I hate it so much it hurts you

841
00:39:39,719 --> 00:39:43,160
Speaker 1: or it hurts I can't even I'm literally ted lasso

842
00:39:43,320 --> 00:39:46,120
Speaker 1: Like if I accidentally take a sip, oh my god,

843
00:39:46,239 --> 00:39:47,960
Speaker 1: spit it everywhere. I hate it so much.

844
00:39:48,200 --> 00:39:50,960
Speaker 3: But it's not just carbonation, because you do like fanta

845
00:39:51,080 --> 00:39:51,720
Speaker 3: orange Fanta.

846
00:39:51,760 --> 00:39:52,680
Speaker 1: I love orange Fanta.

847
00:39:53,160 --> 00:39:55,680
Speaker 3: Yeah, wild to me. A lot of these are drink related,

848
00:39:55,680 --> 00:40:00,239
Speaker 3: also bianca. What Sarah's goch you coffee or or what

849
00:40:00,280 --> 00:40:00,880
Speaker 3: would you say?

850
00:40:01,280 --> 00:40:02,120
Speaker 1: Perhaps a latta?

851
00:40:02,360 --> 00:40:04,360
Speaker 3: Okay, well you don't order those in Italy because you

852
00:40:04,520 --> 00:40:05,400
Speaker 3: just get hot milk.

853
00:40:05,960 --> 00:40:11,360
Speaker 2: Yeah, oh, Sar, I do remember, Sarah, you were unhappy

854
00:40:11,400 --> 00:40:14,440
Speaker 2: with the volume of liquids that you were getting when

855
00:40:14,480 --> 00:40:15,479
Speaker 2: you first stat ordering.

856
00:40:15,640 --> 00:40:16,360
Speaker 1: Yes, I fix that.

857
00:40:16,960 --> 00:40:19,480
Speaker 3: Sarah kind of strikes me as having the personality of

858
00:40:19,600 --> 00:40:24,080
Speaker 3: like a black coffee person. Oh and no, she doesn't

859
00:40:24,160 --> 00:40:26,560
Speaker 3: like coffee that tastes like coffee, and so she would

860
00:40:26,560 --> 00:40:29,600
Speaker 3: sometimes order a hot chocolate and an espresso and then

861
00:40:29,600 --> 00:40:32,239
Speaker 3: combine them because the people selling it literally did not

862
00:40:32,360 --> 00:40:33,800
Speaker 3: know that you could put them together.

863
00:40:33,960 --> 00:40:37,359
Speaker 1: Yes, I'm a moocha girl amocha because I didn't drink

864
00:40:37,360 --> 00:40:40,120
Speaker 1: coffee for my entire life until COVID, and so I'm

865
00:40:40,200 --> 00:40:43,640
Speaker 1: still slowly forcing myself into enjoying it. But I quit

866
00:40:43,680 --> 00:40:46,759
Speaker 1: soda except for orange fantas when I'm on vacation. So

867
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Speaker 1: the only way to get coffee is coffee so I

868
00:40:48,760 --> 00:40:50,239
Speaker 1: just have to power through, but I hate it so

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Speaker 1: much that I have to put chocolate in it. Wow, Alex,

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Speaker 1: do you are you a coffee drinker?

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Speaker 3: Yes? And I also am somebody that doesn't like coffee

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Speaker 3: that tastes like coffee. I just feel like that it's

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Speaker 3: my personality a little bit better, like people would make

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Speaker 3: that assumption about me automatically.

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Speaker 2: Well, here I am thinking that the blats at the

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Speaker 2: opening ceremony were the best part the Italian coffee machines,

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Speaker 2: and I'm with people who don't like coffee.

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Speaker 1: What is this?

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Speaker 3: I know it's bad.

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Speaker 1: We need it, though we need it bad, we did

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Speaker 1: need it.

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Speaker 3: Bet. I learned that Sarah sleeps with three pillows, preferably

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Speaker 3: not under her head but supporting her body. Yep. And

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Speaker 3: then finally, Sarah's love of dogs is so wonderful and

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Speaker 3: so genuine. And I felt for you every single time

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Speaker 3: that we would go buy an outdoor one and you

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Speaker 3: couldn't pet it. And I was a little surprised that

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Speaker 3: you drew the line I'm not gonna lie. I thought

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Speaker 3: maybe after day five of seeing that dog, you would say, Okay,

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Speaker 3: today's that I am to pet you.

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Speaker 1: But no, you're not supposed to. You're just you just

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Speaker 1: never know. You're not supposed to pet dogs without asking

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Speaker 1: their owner or knowing for sure that they want to

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Speaker 1: be pet or that they're safe to be pet. But

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Speaker 1: I did ask plenty of people to pet their dogs,

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Speaker 1: and I did have a feeling that Alex at some

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Speaker 1: point would notice that I'm physically incapable of passing a

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Speaker 1: dog without saying hi buddy. And that's what I say

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Speaker 1: every time, Hi buddy, Hi buddy.

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Speaker 3: That's my final fact, Sarah, can't pass a dog with

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Speaker 3: that saying Hi buddy.

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Speaker 1: That's right, Sarah.

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Speaker 2: You put on social media at some point a photo

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Speaker 2: of a dog and you wrote, I swear this dog

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Speaker 2: just said chow to me. And I laughed out loud, yes,

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Speaker 2: because I couldn't tell that that was true.

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Speaker 1: The most Italian dog ever.

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Speaker 3: Also, in Italy, people definitely bring their dogs inside restaurants

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Speaker 3: like they must not have the same health code.

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Speaker 1: And I appreciated it.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yep, yep.

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Speaker 1: Oh, well that was great.

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Speaker 2: I'm so glad you guys had such a good time

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Speaker 2: and we were all the beneficiaries of it.

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Speaker 1: Oh thanks, Well, that was fun. And also I'm now

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Speaker 1: I'm a little sad because that means that it's officially over,

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Speaker 1: except for I do have a handful more photos and

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Speaker 1: videos to share on social media because the content never ends.

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Speaker 1: So not quite done with our Olympics conversations yet, and

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Speaker 1: of course the Paralympics, which you'll hear all about tomorrow.

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Speaker 1: For now, we got to take another break when we

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Speaker 1: come back. You're so wise, like a miniature Buddha with

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Speaker 1: halo ring hair stick ground. Welcome back Slices. We always

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Speaker 1: love to hear from you, so hit us up on email.

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Speaker 1: Good game at Wondermedia network dot com. We'll leave us

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Speaker 1: a voicemail at eight seven two two oh four fifty

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Speaker 1: seventy like this slice who called in with a very

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Speaker 1: sweet message.

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Speaker 5: Hi, I am calling to say that I just saw

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Speaker 5: the Aaron Frankel interview and I'm so excited to see

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Speaker 5: that you interviewed her. My name is Ario Finkle from

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Speaker 5: Rhode Island. So I think it's cool that she's Aaron

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Speaker 5: Frankel playing for the Boston team and we're both well,

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Speaker 5: I'm five to two, she's five to five. She's still

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Speaker 5: taller than me, but I don't know, it's still cool

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Speaker 5: to have someone with a similar connection or background to

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Speaker 5: me on the world stage at the Olympics. So yeah,

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Speaker 5: that's it. Bye.

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Speaker 1: You know what, that is cool and it's also cool

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Speaker 1: that you called in to tell us thanks for listening

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Speaker 1: and slice Ariel. Don't forget to subscribe, rate and review, folks.

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Speaker 1: It's really easy. Watch twenty year old Alissa Lou continuing

943
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Speaker 1: to teach us lessons well after the Olympics are over

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Speaker 1: rating forty years of wisdom in twenty years of life review.

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Speaker 1: The amount of profound content I've seen come out of

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Speaker 1: Alissa Loo's Olympic journey has been mind blowing. She truly

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Speaker 1: turned her golden moment into something so much more, and

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Speaker 1: at a time when a lot of folks seem like

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Speaker 1: they needed to hear her perspective on life. From a

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Speaker 1: mem I saw of her spinning over the Milan courteena

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Speaker 1: logo that said, if I send you this, get in loser,

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Speaker 1: We're healing our inner child. To a video entitled Hustle

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Speaker 1: culture is Dead, Alyssa Lou killed it. To Jessica Valenti's

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Speaker 1: substack subhead quote watching a young woman be free was

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Speaker 1: the joy I didn't know I needed. End quote. I

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Speaker 1: mean There's the clip of her I that's what I'm

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Speaker 1: talking about line that has spun around the world and

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Speaker 1: back multiple times. There's teammate Amber Glenn's post of the

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Speaker 1: two of them captioned they hate to see two woke

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Speaker 1: bitches winning, which is truly a rallying cry for the times.

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Speaker 1: There's that mural of Alyssa in Oakland. Y'all never has

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Speaker 1: a portrait of a figure skater gone so hard and

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Speaker 1: Tanya Harding does still exist. So many people are just

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Speaker 1: creating content that's inspired by Alyssa's attitude and her look,

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Speaker 1: and her vibes and her joy, and even weeks after

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Speaker 1: winning gold, Alyssa herself is still dropping gems of wisdom.

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Speaker 1: On the Today Show, lou said, quote people ask me

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Speaker 1: all the time, what would you say to your younger self?

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Speaker 1: Like nothing, she's got it, she'll figure it out, she'll

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Speaker 1: go through it, and like I don't want to mess

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Speaker 1: that up. Damn. Alyssa lewis freaking Yoda. All right, y'all,

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Speaker 1: now it's your turn rate and review. Thanks for listening,

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Speaker 1: See you tomorrow. Good game, Jizzeppe's Good Game, Italy that

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Speaker 1: weird look we got when we tried ordering chocolate in

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Speaker 1: our coffee the first time. Oh and the sticker that

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Speaker 1: said please no sugar in my coffee that I got

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Speaker 1: handed when Alex asked from sugar in her cappuccino. Good

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Speaker 1: Game with Sarah Spain is an iHeart women's sports production

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Speaker 1: you get your podcasts. Production by Wonder Media Network, our

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Speaker 1: producers are Alex Azzi and Bianca Hillier. Our executive producers

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Speaker 1: are Christina Everett, Jesse Katz, Jenny Kaplan and Emily Rudder.

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Speaker 1: Our editors are Emily Rudder, Lucy Jones, Britney Martinez and

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Speaker 1: Gianna Palmer. Production assistants from Avery Loftus and I'm Your

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Speaker 1: Host Sarah Spain