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Speaker 1: Welcome to Good Game with Sarah Spain, where we cried

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Speaker 1: a little baby tear watching Sam Coffee tuck her new Man's.

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Speaker 2: City kit in tour shorts. We're gonna miss that.

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Speaker 1: It's Friday, January sixteenth, and on today's show, Let's do

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Speaker 1: That Hockey, we're talking the Women's bean Pot Tournament and

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Speaker 1: hockey at the upcoming Winter Olympics. On Wednesday, I caught

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Speaker 1: up with Alessia Beckler of Northeastern University and Team Switzerland

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Speaker 1: and twin sisters Lily and Luisa Welke of BU and

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Speaker 1: Team Germany one day after Bu's upset over Northeastern in

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Speaker 1: the semi finals of the bean Pot Tournament. We discussed

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Speaker 1: transitioning from their home countries to playing and living in

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Speaker 1: the States, the moment they found out they made the

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Speaker 1: rosters for next month's Milan Courtina Olympics, and the record

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Speaker 1: that organizers are hoping to break it next week's bean

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Speaker 1: Pot Championship game in Boston, plus screeving with a grievance.

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Speaker 1: There's drama down under and the second installment of the

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Speaker 1: Friday Fat Tofiigo.

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

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Speaker 1: Here's what you need to know today. Let's start with

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Speaker 1: the NWSL. On yesterday's show, we told you that the

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Speaker 1: NWSLPA had officially filed aggrievance with the league following the

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Speaker 1: creation and implementation of the new High Impact Player Rule.

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Speaker 1: Well shortly after we finished recording, the NWSL responded, issuing

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Speaker 1: a statement to multiple media outlets that said, in part, quote,

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Speaker 1: we disagree with the nwslpa's assertions challenging the NWSL's ability

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Speaker 1: to implement the HIP rule. The NWSL has fully complied

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Speaker 1: with the CBA and federal law, and we will defend

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Speaker 1: those positions in our collectively bargained grievance process end quote.

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Speaker 1: As you heard in yesterday's interview with PA executive director

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Speaker 2: Take more.

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Speaker 1: NWSL. The twenty twenty six season schedule was unveiled on Thursday,

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Speaker 1: and the league's fourteen returning clubs and two new expansion sides,

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Speaker 1: Boston and Denver, will compete in two hundred and forty

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Speaker 1: six matches during the nine month season, which begins in

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Speaker 1: March and wraps up in November. The first match of

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Speaker 1: the new season kicks off March thirteenth, with last year's

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Speaker 1: runner up Washington Spirit hosting the Portland Thorns. The opening

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Speaker 1: weekend is also headlined by Boston Legacy FC's home opener

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Speaker 1: and inaugural game. Saturday, March fourteenth at Gillette Stadium, home

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Speaker 1: to the NFL's new England Patriots expansion side. Boston will

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Speaker 1: host the twenty twenty five NWSL Champs Gotham FC.

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Speaker 2: In that one.

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Speaker 1: Denver sum At FC won't host their first home game

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Speaker 1: the NWSL regular season will pause for nearly all of

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Speaker 1: which will be hosted by the United States, Mexico, and Canada.

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Speaker 1: The decision was made because seven of the league's sixteen

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Speaker 1: isn't pausing completely. The summer break will be marked by

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Speaker 1: the return of the Challenge Cup, the annual match between

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Speaker 1: the NWSL champ and the NWSL shield winner from the

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Speaker 1: previous season. This year's Cup will be held on June

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Speaker 1: twenty sixth, and a neutral site Columbus, Ohio with Shield

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Speaker 1: winners the current taken on the champs GOTAM FC, per

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Speaker 1: reporting from the Equalizer of the initial schedule footprint, called

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Speaker 1: for the Challenge Cup to be held February twenty first

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Speaker 1: citing their trip to London at the end of the

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Speaker 1: We're starting to think that the challenge part of the

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Speaker 1: and how it works. The NWSL regular season will conclude

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Speaker 1: with the return of Decision Day on Sunday, November first,

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Speaker 1: same time, promising a chaotic conclusion to the season. The

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Speaker 1: Championship host city has not yet been announced, but the

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Speaker 1: game will be played Saturday, November twenty first. We'll link

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Speaker 1: The Orlando Pride has named Caitlin Carducci as the club's

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Speaker 1: new general manager and vice president of soccer Operations. Carducci

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Speaker 1: players are down under at the first Grand Slam of

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Speaker 1: in the show notes. World number one Arena Sablenka is

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Speaker 1: two egos Fiontech will be fighting to earn her career

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Speaker 1: Open is the final Grand Slam the Polish pro needs

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Speaker 1: the Adelaide International Final today. You remember we mentioned in

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Speaker 1: gone on to win the Australian Open Women's singles title.

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Speaker 1: all get behind the PWHL, enjoying its strongest attendance month

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Speaker 1: in history so far this January, welcoming more than one

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Speaker 1: the third annual Battle on Bay Street this Saturday, Scepters

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Speaker 1: notes to pro Vibes where there are two love games

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Speaker 1: on the calendar this weekend. Tonight at seven eastern, top

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Speaker 1: ranked Madison welcomes Nebraska to Wisconsin. Madison bested Salt Lake

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Speaker 1: Atlanta at six Eastern. To Basketball, where Unrivaled second season

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Speaker 2: First full week of play three and zero.

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Speaker 1: ROSEBC sit at the top of the standings, powered by

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Speaker 1: Chelsea Gray, who's averaging thirty one point seven points a

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Speaker 1: seven thirty eastern, Lace's BC take on Phantom BC, followed

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Speaker 1: and last Friday's games averaged even less. Unrivaled CEO Alex

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Speaker 1: the best women's basketball players in the world. Leagues aren't

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Speaker 1: The early season games have been thrilling to college hoops.

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Speaker 1: On Sunday, Iowa State. We'll play Oklahoma State at one PM.

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Speaker 1: reports say the LSU Senior plans to drop a new

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Speaker 1: Puma Player exclusive sneaker next month. The shoe is a

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Speaker 1: They've got a Friday Saturday doubleheader against unranked Saint Thomas.

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Speaker 1: as Chicago sky point guard Courtney van der Slute will

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Speaker 1: They're a pair of senior hockey players for Boston University,

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Speaker 1: Hi ladies, thanks for joining.

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Speaker 3: Us, Hi, Hi, thanks for having us.

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Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, I'm already loving this, this twins thing,

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Speaker 2: Okay, So, I love how you got started.

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Speaker 1: You wanted to play tennis, but the camp was full

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Speaker 1: Now here you are playing for Boston University and getting

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Speaker 2: I want to go back to being kids.

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Speaker 1: And Lily, I want to know what's the best part

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Speaker 3: I think she can always be honest with me, and

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Speaker 3: Make sure everybody knew how different we are. We never

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Speaker 2: What about crushes? Have you ever had a crush on

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Speaker 1: Okay, Lily, this might be a tough question, and maybe

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so five years ago, we both weren't really on

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Speaker 1: What do your parents do at these games? How do

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Speaker 1: So for our listeners who are excited to watch you

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Speaker 3: It's a hard one, but I think I don't know.

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Speaker 3: and that also goes with traveling and just trying new things.

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Speaker 2: Do you, either of you tend to a lot.

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Speaker 1: And do you think that you'll be crying when you

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Speaker 1: first take the ice at the Olympics or hear the

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Speaker 1: national anthem or anything like that.

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Speaker 4: I mean, oh no, I think we're boys. Don't really

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Speaker 4: tend to cry.

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Speaker 3: No, I'm not a big cry but I might have

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Speaker 3: some tears in my eyes.

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Speaker 2: Okay, so Lily might shed a tear. Luisa's hold and strong.

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Speaker 4: I think, so it's gonna be Lily.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, how very German of you. Okay, very stoic. Well.

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Speaker 1: Bu is going to be going for its first bean

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Speaker 1: Pot title since twenty nineteen, taking on Harvard next week.

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Speaker 1: So good luck in the championship and thanks for joining us.

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Speaker 1: My producer Alex and I will be out in Italy

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Speaker 1: covering the Olympics, so I look forward to hopefully getting

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Speaker 1: to see you play.

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Speaker 4: Thank you so much. Thank you.

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Speaker 1: Thanks again to Lily and Louisa for hanging out with us.

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Speaker 1: I also caught up with Northeastern and Team Switzerland player

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Speaker 1: Alessia Beckler to.

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Speaker 2: Take a listen joining us now.

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Speaker 1: She's a defender on the Northeastern ice hockey team. She's

463
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Speaker 1: suited up for the Swiss national team for the last

464
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Speaker 1: four World champion and was recently named the Team Switzerland

465
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Speaker 1: roster for the upcoming Milan Cortina Games.

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Speaker 2: It's Alessi a Beckler. Thanks for joining us.

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Speaker 5: Hello everybody, Thank you so much for having me.

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Speaker 1: You're a freshman at Northeastern, so I'm wondering how your

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Speaker 1: first year of college in America.

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Speaker 2: Has been going.

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Speaker 5: It's been quite an adjustment, especially in the beginning living

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Speaker 5: in a different country. It's not always easy, but now

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Speaker 5: I kind of found my routine and yeah, It's been

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Speaker 5: big improvement from this start, and it's great.

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Speaker 1: How does the level of hockey that you're playing compared

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Speaker 1: to what you saw playing professionally in Switzerland?

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Speaker 5: It's definitely more competitive here. There are many more skilled

478
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Speaker 5: players and every team has a lot of depths, at

479
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Speaker 5: least like three to four good lines, and compared to

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Speaker 5: back home, we also had a bunch of really good

481
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Speaker 5: and highly skilled players, but only like one to two

482
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Speaker 5: lines per teams, so that's definitely a big difference.

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Speaker 1: I was in Switzerland a couple of years ago and

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Speaker 1: I marveled at the Italian, French, German all the languages

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Speaker 1: being spoken. Am I guessing correctly that your native language

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Speaker 1: is German?

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Speaker 5: Yes, my native language is German, although I had French

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Speaker 5: and Italian in school as well. The only national language

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Speaker 5: I did not have was Romance, which I have no

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Speaker 5: clue about.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so now you're up to four languages. That is

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Speaker 1: incredibly impressive.

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Speaker 2: Wow. Let's talk about the bean Pot.

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Speaker 1: Northeastern won the event the last three years running, and

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Speaker 1: as a freshman, this is your first time playing in it.

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Speaker 1: So what did your teammates tell you about why the

497
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Speaker 1: bean Pot is so special?

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Speaker 5: They told us quite a bit about it. It's definitely

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Speaker 5: different than just Hockey East regular season, and they said,

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Speaker 5: or they told us that this school really values it.

501
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Speaker 5: A lot of students show up, and I think just

502
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Speaker 5: the support from the school in general is so special

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Speaker 5: and makes this tournament even cooler to play in.

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Speaker 2: I guess your team entered as the favorites.

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Speaker 1: Northeastern is ranked sixth in the country, the only ranked

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Speaker 1: team out of all of the four competing teams.

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Speaker 2: But you fell to be you in the semi final

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Speaker 2: on Tuesday. What do you think went wrong in that game?

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Speaker 5: It was definitely a disappointing loss. We really gave it,

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Speaker 5: are All. But yeah, a hockey game, it doesn't matter

511
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Speaker 5: if you're ranked or not. In the end, you just

512
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Speaker 5: have to win it. And sometimes you just come up

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Speaker 5: short and you can't win those important games. But I

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Speaker 5: still think we as a team, we really fought to

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Speaker 5: the end and we gave it are All.

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Speaker 1: You've got a game coming up next week, the third

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Speaker 1: place game at TD Garden, which holds nineteen thousand plus

518
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Speaker 1: fans and organizers of the bean Pot are hoping to

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Speaker 1: fill the place. So do you get more nervous or

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Speaker 1: more excited when you think about playing in front of

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Speaker 1: such a big crowd.

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Speaker 5: I think it's always super exciting if a lot of

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Speaker 5: people show up to watch your hockey game. I also

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Speaker 5: see it as an opportunity to show young girls what

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Speaker 5: they can be capable of and that women can play

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Speaker 5: in front of big crowds too, And especially although it's

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Speaker 5: only the game for the third place, I still think

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Speaker 5: there's a lot on the line and we really want

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Speaker 5: to win against DC.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you've got a bit of a tune up here

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Speaker 1: in terms of playing in front of a big crowd

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Speaker 1: that I'll get you ready for the Olympic Games, where

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Speaker 1: you're also going to have a lot of pressure and

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Speaker 1: excitement and play in front of big crowds. What did

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Speaker 1: it feel like for you to get the call that

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Speaker 1: you made the Swiss roster.

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Speaker 5: I was actually in the midst of a team lift.

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Speaker 5: We had a workoup, and I saw it Our national

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Speaker 5: team coach tried to call me, and I knew that

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Speaker 5: he was going to call me on that day if

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Speaker 5: I would make the team. So I called back and

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Speaker 5: I went outside of our weightlifting room and I saw

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Speaker 5: my teammates look through the glass and Yeah, I was

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Speaker 5: just smiling all the time, so they immediately knew and

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Speaker 5: after the call and that everybody was super happy and

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Speaker 5: it was awesome. I mean, I've been working towards this

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Speaker 5: for such a long time, so it was just a.

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Speaker 2: Lot of emotions in one moment and not too far

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Speaker 2: from home.

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Speaker 1: So do you expect a lot of family and friends

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Speaker 1: will make it over to Italy to watch you?

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Speaker 5: Yes, it's definitely great that it's close to home. My

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Speaker 5: parents are going to be there. One of my best

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Speaker 5: friends said that she was going to come and watch,

555
00:27:53,880 --> 00:27:57,359
Speaker 5: and maybe even my brother. So this is going to

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Speaker 5: be awesome. And I think in general a lot of

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Speaker 5: Swiss people will have the opportunity to come watch sports

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Speaker 5: events in Italy because by train it's only like three hours.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, my producer, Alex and I are going to be

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Speaker 1: out there, so we'll get the chance to hopefully watch

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Speaker 1: you play. I'm wondering for our listeners who will be

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Speaker 1: watching you on television, what do you want them to

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Speaker 1: know about you as a hockey player.

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Speaker 5: I'm maybe not the most spectacular player to watch, but

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Speaker 5: I try to be a very reliable player and yeah,

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Speaker 5: doing my job on the ice and as a defenseman

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Speaker 5: that's mostly preventing goals. So yeah, maybe not always shown

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Speaker 5: up on the scoring sheet, but still trying to contribute.

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Speaker 2: What do you want them to know about you as

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Speaker 2: a person.

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Speaker 5: I'm just very grateful and thankful to get the opportunity

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Speaker 5: to go and play in the Olympic Games. It's something

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Speaker 5: that I've been working towards for a long time, kind

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Speaker 5: of a life long dream since I saw the Swiss

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Speaker 5: national team win bronze in twenty fourteen and ever since. Yeah,

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Speaker 5: I really wanted this to become true for myself too,

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Speaker 5: So I'm just very grateful and thankful to get the opportunity.

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Speaker 2: Are you a crier?

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Speaker 1: Do you think when you first take the ice, or

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Speaker 1: hear the national anthem, or any moment in the opening ceremony,

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Speaker 1: do you think you'll probably be crying?

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Speaker 5: Usually I don't cry. I mean the first time I

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Speaker 5: cried because of joy was when I got the call

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Speaker 5: that I made the roster for the Olympics. But I'll

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Speaker 5: definitely be smiling. Usually I'm a big I always have

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Speaker 5: a big smile on my face, So that's how I

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Speaker 5: show my gratefulness.

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Speaker 2: I love it. I love it.

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Speaker 1: Well, good luck in the bean pot game next week

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Speaker 1: and good luck in the Olympics.

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Speaker 2: We look forward to watching you out there.

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Speaker 5: Thank you so much for having me.

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Speaker 1: Thanks again, do We'll ask you for taking the time

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

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Speaker 1: The Winter Olympics are one week closer, which means the

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Speaker 1: return of the Friday Fata Figo Say it with Me

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Speaker 1: Fa to Figo, ben Tornado, Speci Drancha. As we continue

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Speaker 1: to ramp up for our trip to the Milan Cortina Games,

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Speaker 1: it's time for another edition of our weekly segment Friday

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Speaker 1: Fa Tofigo, which loosely translates by me to Friday fun Facts. Today,

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Speaker 1: with exactly three weeks until the opening ceremony on February sixth,

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Speaker 1: we're gonna reveal a little bit more about the specific

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Speaker 1: journey producer Alex and I will be taking at the

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty six Games, starting with a look at the

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Speaker 1: three regions will be visiting and which events will be covering.

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Speaker 1: We'll start with Milano, population one point four million, a

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Speaker 1: global capital of design, fashion and finance, home to the

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Speaker 1: Duomo Leonardo da Vinci's The Last Supper, the famed opera

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Speaker 1: house La Scala, and Women's Olympic ice hockey, which gets

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Speaker 1: going before the Olympic cauldron is even lit. We'll start

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Speaker 1: our journey at the Milano Row Ice rink, watching USA

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Speaker 1: versus Chechia and Finland versus Canada in group play games.

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Speaker 1: Now it sounds like that rink is much closer to

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Speaker 1: completion than the Olympics other hockey venue, Milan Saint de Julia.

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Speaker 1: You might remember earlier this week we told you about

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Speaker 1: how organizers are scrambling to ensure that construction there is

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Speaker 1: done in time for competition. In those first few days

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Speaker 1: in Milan, Alex and I are also going to cover

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Speaker 1: figure skating and hopefully find our way into the opening

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Speaker 1: ceremony at San Sero Olympic Stadium. Seats are limited and

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Speaker 1: everyone wants to be there for Mariah Carey Andrea Buccelli,

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Speaker 1: an Italian pop star Laura Pausini Fato Figo. Back in

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Speaker 1: my early twenties, when I was out in La doing

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Speaker 1: acting in comedy, I auditioned for and earned a small

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Speaker 1: part in a Laura Pausini music video, one of three

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Speaker 1: music videos I'm in, which I believe qualifies me as

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Speaker 1: a video vixen.

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Speaker 2: And when I was in Milan a year or two later.

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Speaker 2: Dropping the fact that I'd.

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Speaker 1: Met Laura was like saying I was BFF with Britney spears.

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Speaker 1: The Italians went nuts. So I hope we make it

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Speaker 1: into the ceremony to see her. I can have a

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Speaker 1: little reunion of sorts, you know, from thousands of seats away.

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Speaker 1: So we'll start in Milan and then Sunday, February eighth

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Speaker 1: is when the whole planes, trains and automobiles of it

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Speaker 1: all begins. For me and Alex, we'll take a train

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Speaker 1: and then two buses, a journey where naively optimistic will

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Speaker 1: take about four hours total to get to Lavigno, a

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Speaker 1: ski resort town in the Alps near the Swiss border,

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Speaker 1: population sixty eight hundred elevation nearly six thousand feet.

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Speaker 2: Average high temperature.

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Speaker 1: In February twenty three degrees, lows around four degrees, so

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Speaker 1: you bet your ass will be packing gloves, hats, handwarmers,

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Speaker 1: heated vests and more. We'll be there to cover snowboard,

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Speaker 1: big air and snowboard, halfpipe, free ski, slope style and moguls.

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Speaker 1: Don't worry, we'll explain the particulars of all of those

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Speaker 1: events in a future fa Tofigo nicknamed Little Tibet, Lavigno

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Speaker 1: is a duty free town, hello shopping and has fun

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Speaker 1: spots like Mikey's Disco Club and a little chalet called

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Speaker 1: Lattee de chiap Bechep, located right on the ski run,

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Speaker 1: where we can warm up with a bombardino, a popular

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Speaker 1: Italian winter cocktail made from hot egg licore and brandy,

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Speaker 1: topped with whipp cream and cinnamon.

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Speaker 2: I'm in next.

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Speaker 1: We're going to make the trek from Lavigno to Courtina,

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Speaker 1: a roughly ten hour trip that, as I'm recording these words,

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Speaker 1: Alex is telling me might be closer to forteen hours.

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Speaker 1: It involves at least three buses, two trains, and a

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Speaker 1: whole lot of mountains.

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Speaker 1: Now might actually be a good time to remind you

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Speaker 2: I have to believe getting.

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Speaker 1: To Courtina will be worth the effort a luxury ski

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