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

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Speaker 1: need to learn how to order the right kind of

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Speaker 1: today's show, we're coming to the village and we're doing

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Speaker 1: that hockey. On Thursday and Milan producer Alex and I

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Speaker 1: every Olympics, the condom supply. Then we made our way

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Speaker 1: to the Milano Row Hockey Rink to watch USA Hockey

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Speaker 1: Low Lights included Jade Vance and Marco Rubio being seated

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Speaker 1: media areat Milano Road to give you all the behind

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Speaker 1: the scenes from the village and the ice today. Plus

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Speaker 1: only took one day to find our Olympic mantra. It's

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Speaker 1: all coming up right after this chow slices. Here's what

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Speaker 1: you need to know today. We're starting, of course, in Milaw,

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Speaker 1: where the Olympic Hockey Tournament is officially underway. Competition kicked

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Speaker 1: birds to one bozoom, bozoom Racacoka. If we're keeping score

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Speaker 1: based on team goal songs, Hailey Skamura led the US

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Speaker 1: The game has been rescheduled to next week on February twelfth,

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Speaker 1: which is one day before the quarterfinal round begins. We

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Speaker 1: underdog's team, Italy took full advantage of the home crowd

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Speaker 1: To the slope or the weight room, where Lindsay Vaughn

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Speaker 1: On Thursday, Vaughn posted an Instagram video for doing some

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Speaker 1: when all four matches between top twenty five teams went down,

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Speaker 1: Yeah. I didn't know you were such a good sleeper either,

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Speaker 4: tournament and you know, plotter way through it.

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Speaker 1: So I don't know. To me, that's a door that's

434
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Speaker 1: just slightly a jar. There wasn't like an absolutely no way,

435
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Speaker 1: how no, this is it?

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Speaker 3: No.

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Speaker 2: I mean I think knowing when the end is I

438
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Speaker 2: would be so bad at it. And I'm so happy

439
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Speaker 2: that the PWHL now exists where you can end your

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Speaker 2: national team career and continue playing.

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Speaker 4: Right.

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Speaker 2: That's something that we used to see with soccer players

443
00:20:47,920 --> 00:20:51,360
Speaker 2: was once their Olympic career was done, their career was done.

444
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Speaker 2: And so that also though, adds a lot of wear

445
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Speaker 2: and tear on the body when you're playing. Yeah, so

446
00:20:58,040 --> 00:21:00,280
Speaker 2: many months out of the year that you know, when

447
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Speaker 2: you had the Olympics before, it was much more limited

448
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Speaker 2: in terms.

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Speaker 1: Of what you were doing. Speaking of the PWHL, we

450
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Speaker 1: actually asked Hillary Knight what it was like having her

451
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Speaker 1: Seattle teammate Anetta Teova on the Czech team and playing

452
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Speaker 1: against her, and here's what she had to say.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, you never want to play against teammates,

454
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Speaker 4: but yeah, I honestly, it's just when we're in USA,

455
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Speaker 4: it's go time. So just focusing on our group and

456
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Speaker 4: pro season put a pause.

457
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Speaker 1: On that trash talk. Then yeah, no, I'm not really

458
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Speaker 1: good at trash talk. So Hillary Knight can't talk trash

459
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Speaker 1: after all these years, that's an important part of your game,

460
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Speaker 1: Like you could just leave the trash talking to the

461
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Speaker 1: side and focus only on your skating and goal scoring.

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Speaker 2: I'm curious to hear what her opponents would say if

463
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Speaker 2: they agree with that assessment.

464
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Speaker 1: Oh so you think maybe she's just she's lying about

465
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Speaker 1: being sneaky behind the scenes, a little trash talker. I

466
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Speaker 1: don't know.

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Speaker 2: I just don't think that you can play hockey for

468
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Speaker 2: so long and not you know, have a couple of

469
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Speaker 2: lines that are ready to go.

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Speaker 1: Some go Tosa. She's no Marina Maybury, but you know

471
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Speaker 1: a little bit more sound we got after the game

472
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Speaker 1: in the mixed zone where all the players and coaches

473
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Speaker 1: came through. The head coach for the Ottawa Charge, Karla

474
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Speaker 1: McLoud was there, and you remember we've talked about her

475
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Speaker 1: on the show before. She's the one that is actually

476
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Speaker 1: currently battling cancer while trying to coach Ottawa and also

477
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Speaker 1: lead this check team. And I just really enjoyed that

478
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Speaker 1: the one time the camera focused real close on her

479
00:22:15,880 --> 00:22:17,840
Speaker 1: face during the game, she was pissed about a call

480
00:22:17,880 --> 00:22:21,239
Speaker 1: and she kept just saying that's crap, that's crap, and

481
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Speaker 1: you could read her lips. So I asked her if

482
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Speaker 1: that was her go to word when she's mad about something.

483
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Speaker 1: Here's what she had to say. My mom will be proud.

484
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Speaker 1: At least I'm not cursing. No, it's usually it's unbelievable

485
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Speaker 1: because I can drop your voice of that one. I guess, Alex,

486
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Speaker 1: there is no age where you stop worrying about what

487
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Speaker 1: your mom thinks of your swearing. I mean, I think

488
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Speaker 1: of what my mom thinks of everything I do. So

489
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Speaker 1: my parents know I have a sailor's mouth, so they

490
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Speaker 1: would be shocked if I stopped swearing. Ever, they'd be like,

491
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Speaker 1: are you okay? Everything all right? We also got a

492
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Speaker 1: chance to talk to Layla Edwards. You might recall we've

493
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Speaker 1: mentioned that she is the first black player to suit

494
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Speaker 1: up for the US women's hockey team at the Olympics.

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Speaker 1: Here's what she said. Yeah, it means a lot. I

496
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Speaker 1: think I take a lot of pride in it, and

497
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Speaker 1: I'm just going to embrace it because representation matters, you know,

498
00:23:05,400 --> 00:23:07,960
Speaker 1: no matter how uncomfortable it can be. It's for the

499
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Speaker 1: next generation. I love that, and I'm excited to see

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Speaker 1: the impact that she could have, especially if the US

501
00:23:13,280 --> 00:23:15,200
Speaker 1: has a long run in these games and she plays

502
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Speaker 1: a big role. She got her first point in the

503
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Speaker 1: Olympics in today's game, but there could be a really

504
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Speaker 1: long lasting impact on what hockey looks like going forward

505
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Speaker 1: because of Leila Edwards and her influence.

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Speaker 2: I mean, to me, I just think she's going to

507
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Speaker 2: be a generational player with this team. She is a

508
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Speaker 2: player that has been in the youth pipeline for a while,

509
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Speaker 2: finally made her senior debut a couple of years ago.

510
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Speaker 2: I say finally as if it was long awaited. She's

511
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Speaker 2: still in college, but I think this could be the

512
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Speaker 2: first of four five Olympics for her. You know, don't

513
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Speaker 2: want to jinx or don't want to put pressure on her,

514
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Speaker 2: but to me, that's the type of player that she

515
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Speaker 2: has quickly become within this program.

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Speaker 1: One less positive from this game that we saw was

517
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Speaker 1: Alex getting a peek into the chech training set up.

518
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Speaker 2: And what did you see, Alex, Well, it was a

519
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Speaker 2: shopping cart with the letters CZ, which I have to

520
00:24:07,160 --> 00:24:07,840
Speaker 2: think stand for.

521
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Speaker 1: It was coming off the ice.

522
00:24:09,640 --> 00:24:12,040
Speaker 2: Was coming like away from the ice, like around the corner,

523
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Speaker 2: and it had orange slices. Oh yeah, orange slices, And

524
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Speaker 2: I was like, I hope these are on their way

525
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Speaker 2: to the locker room further between period snack. I wish

526
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Speaker 2: I had a source who could get me confirmation of that.

527
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Speaker 1: But I believe it, and I would like to believe

528
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Speaker 1: that Team Check would be huge fans of good game

529
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Speaker 1: with Sarah Spain, and that they would all be slices

530
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Speaker 1: if they only knew we existed, yes, and all spoke

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Speaker 1: English and were interested in primarily American women's sports. If

532
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Speaker 1: all those things are checked off, then they are absolutely

533
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Speaker 1: soon to be slices.

534
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Speaker 2: But listen, there is another reality here where the US

535
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Speaker 2: had a shopping cart also fully slices on it as well.

536
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Speaker 1: What a dream we can dream allan that one we

537
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Speaker 1: can get some confirmation on.

538
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Speaker 2: So who'se mom cut them up?

539
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Speaker 1: Though, that's a big question. Let's remember next time to

540
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Speaker 1: ask about their orange slice allocation. Okay, so that was

541
00:25:02,800 --> 00:25:06,359
Speaker 1: all the wonderful, amazing fun stuff about the game. Here's

542
00:25:06,359 --> 00:25:10,560
Speaker 1: what wasn't so great. We had barely sat down. We

543
00:25:10,560 --> 00:25:12,679
Speaker 1: were just a few minutes into the first period of

544
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Speaker 1: the game. When all of a sudden there's tons of

545
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Speaker 1: commotion a few rows below us. So the setup is

546
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Speaker 1: essentially that there are a couple rows of long tables

547
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Speaker 1: for media, and those are the folks that are set

548
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Speaker 1: up with computers and monitors that ever replays and things

549
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Speaker 1: like that. And then there's a couple rows mostly vertically

550
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Speaker 1: with a couple seats a piece that the rest of

551
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Speaker 1: the media are sitting in. And then to the left

552
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Speaker 1: of that there's this wide open area that when we

553
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Speaker 1: first got there, we were like, oh, can we just

554
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Speaker 1: sit over there? And they were like nope, and we're like, okay,

555
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Speaker 1: So we sit over to the right, and a few

556
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Speaker 1: minutes in the first period.

557
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Speaker 2: That area, you know, why beyond time?

558
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Speaker 1: Why beyond time? Twelve minutes into the first period, that

559
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Speaker 1: area suddenly is a wash with large men in suits

560
00:26:00,080 --> 00:26:05,520
Speaker 1: with earpieces, and here comes jd Vance carrying a child

561
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Speaker 1: and a bunch of the security, and eventually Marco Rubio

562
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Speaker 1: and I presume his wife, I'm not as familiar with her,

563
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Speaker 1: and eventually also Tilman Fertita, who is one of the

564
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Speaker 1: owners of the mnba's Houston Rockets and the US ambassador

565
00:26:18,760 --> 00:26:23,000
Speaker 1: to Italy, and the Lamaru twins, famed for their exploits

566
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Speaker 1: as US women's hockey players in their gold medal winning game,

567
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Speaker 1: the Spinerama, Oops, I did it again. If you haven't

568
00:26:29,040 --> 00:26:32,640
Speaker 1: seen it, google it. It's incredible. Now more known for

569
00:26:33,040 --> 00:26:37,080
Speaker 1: problematic opinions on things like trans people in sports, and

570
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Speaker 1: they are a guess a part of the presidential delegation

571
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Speaker 1: chosen by Donald Trump to represent the US at the

572
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Speaker 1: opening ceremony tomorrow, along with Marco Rubio and JD. Vance.

573
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Speaker 1: Ah so proud, so proud. Anyway, when I see JD

574
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Speaker 1: Vance's eyeliner face, I literally feel ill, like a.

575
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Speaker 2: Basilisk can looked you in the eye and death was

576
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Speaker 2: awaiting you on the other side.

577
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Speaker 1: I said that to you that I feel like I

578
00:27:00,800 --> 00:27:03,440
Speaker 1: just looked at a demon, like the devil, and I

579
00:27:03,480 --> 00:27:06,280
Speaker 1: don't even believe in that, but like my body felt

580
00:27:06,359 --> 00:27:10,600
Speaker 1: like when you have been spooked and you have a

581
00:27:10,600 --> 00:27:13,199
Speaker 1: little tingle that feels like, ooh, something's out right, or

582
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Speaker 1: like when you get in a situation and you feel like, oh,

583
00:27:15,760 --> 00:27:18,600
Speaker 1: some the energy's bad, something could go wrong here, or

584
00:27:18,600 --> 00:27:20,560
Speaker 1: maybe I should get out of here. Something's dangerous, or

585
00:27:20,600 --> 00:27:22,800
Speaker 1: this doesn't feel right. That's what my body felt like,

586
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Speaker 1: and I was in no way prepared to see him.

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Speaker 5: No.

588
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Speaker 2: I think there's so much that I hate about what

589
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Speaker 2: is happening in the United States.

590
00:27:31,680 --> 00:27:34,720
Speaker 1: Right now, and yet when you hear about it in.

591
00:27:34,640 --> 00:27:38,639
Speaker 2: The news, it feels like it's so far away. And

592
00:27:38,720 --> 00:27:41,720
Speaker 2: when you are instead ten feet away from a person

593
00:27:41,760 --> 00:27:44,760
Speaker 2: who is having an impact on the horrible things that

594
00:27:44,800 --> 00:27:48,760
Speaker 2: are happening to people, m hm, it feels, I don't

595
00:27:48,760 --> 00:27:49,360
Speaker 2: want to say.

596
00:27:49,160 --> 00:27:51,119
Speaker 1: More real, feels surreal to me.

597
00:27:51,240 --> 00:27:55,160
Speaker 2: It feels surreal, and it feels like you're a human,

598
00:27:55,600 --> 00:27:58,040
Speaker 2: You're human, and yet you are allowing these things to happen.

599
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Speaker 1: Yes, that's exactly how I was feeling like. Just this morning,

600
00:28:02,119 --> 00:28:05,040
Speaker 1: I swiped past a story on my Instagram that said

601
00:28:05,119 --> 00:28:08,800
Speaker 1: jd Vance refuses to apologize for lies about Alex. Pretty

602
00:28:08,960 --> 00:28:14,640
Speaker 1: like this human being allegedly with demon energy is slandering

603
00:28:14,720 --> 00:28:18,000
Speaker 1: a dead man who was shot in the back while

604
00:28:18,040 --> 00:28:20,919
Speaker 1: helping a woman who was not fighting and was not

605
00:28:21,000 --> 00:28:24,960
Speaker 1: dangerous and at the very least deserves not to be

606
00:28:25,040 --> 00:28:29,080
Speaker 1: slandered in his death, but more much more so, deserved

607
00:28:29,160 --> 00:28:31,520
Speaker 1: much more than that. But the idea that that person

608
00:28:31,640 --> 00:28:35,159
Speaker 1: that was right there is responsible for so many of

609
00:28:35,200 --> 00:28:42,520
Speaker 1: the foulest and most unempathetic, uncaring, inhumane behaviors from anyone

610
00:28:42,520 --> 00:28:45,400
Speaker 1: in recent history. Was so disgusting to me, and it

611
00:28:45,480 --> 00:28:48,760
Speaker 1: did make it both surreal and more real, the idea

612
00:28:48,800 --> 00:28:51,320
Speaker 1: that just like just that dude right there has caused

613
00:28:51,600 --> 00:28:57,040
Speaker 1: so much pain and terror and awfulness, and it made

614
00:28:57,040 --> 00:29:01,040
Speaker 1: me so angry, and not just because his Secret Service

615
00:29:01,280 --> 00:29:04,960
Speaker 1: we're blocking half of the the ice like we're trying

616
00:29:04,960 --> 00:29:07,960
Speaker 1: to watch a hockey game. You ruined it by drawing

617
00:29:08,000 --> 00:29:10,959
Speaker 1: a ton of attention and then having thirty eight million

618
00:29:11,000 --> 00:29:13,520
Speaker 1: Secret Service people surrounding you at all times, blocking every

619
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Speaker 1: single angle.

620
00:29:14,240 --> 00:29:18,520
Speaker 2: The delegation includes over sixty cars. Sixty cars.

621
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Speaker 1: I wish you could see my face right now. Also

622
00:29:21,080 --> 00:29:23,840
Speaker 1: noteworthy thing from being there in person was there was

623
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Speaker 1: a row of photographers that varied anywhere from two to

624
00:29:26,760 --> 00:29:29,160
Speaker 1: about six right in front of us in the press

625
00:29:29,160 --> 00:29:32,240
Speaker 1: area down against the ice, and when the game started,

626
00:29:32,280 --> 00:29:34,160
Speaker 1: they were taking pictures of the hockey.

627
00:29:34,520 --> 00:29:36,400
Speaker 2: I would say for the first twelve minutes. For the

628
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Speaker 2: game first twelve minutes they were taking accurate.

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Speaker 1: Number twelve minutes, they were taking pictures of the Olympians

630
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Speaker 1: who had worked their entire lives to be out on

631
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Speaker 1: that ice competing and for the rest of the game

632
00:29:47,560 --> 00:29:50,719
Speaker 1: until Jade Vans and Marco Ruby and company and everybody

633
00:29:50,800 --> 00:29:53,440
Speaker 1: left with half of the third period remaining to play.

634
00:29:53,600 --> 00:29:55,960
Speaker 1: They left early, they got there late. That entire time,

635
00:29:56,000 --> 00:29:59,560
Speaker 1: the photographers were turned backs to the ice, not watching

636
00:29:59,600 --> 00:30:03,200
Speaker 1: the action and taking pictures of the presidential delegation god

637
00:30:03,240 --> 00:30:05,440
Speaker 1: doing god knows what, eating an apple, shoving a donut

638
00:30:05,440 --> 00:30:08,520
Speaker 1: in their mouth, like cheering, being excited for a goal.

639
00:30:08,600 --> 00:30:11,280
Speaker 1: We don't know, because they never showed it on the

640
00:30:11,320 --> 00:30:12,560
Speaker 1: screen at the event.

641
00:30:12,800 --> 00:30:16,440
Speaker 2: So a little bit of like backstory on how Olympic

642
00:30:16,480 --> 00:30:18,560
Speaker 2: broadcasts work, just because I think it could be interesting

643
00:30:18,560 --> 00:30:21,200
Speaker 2: and relevant to folks. But basically, there is this group

644
00:30:21,280 --> 00:30:25,280
Speaker 2: called OBS Olympic Broadcasting Services and they do what is

645
00:30:25,320 --> 00:30:27,800
Speaker 2: called the World Feed. And so the world feed is

646
00:30:27,840 --> 00:30:31,360
Speaker 2: basically like if you are tuning in in Italy or

647
00:30:31,520 --> 00:30:35,280
Speaker 2: China or Canada or wherever it is, that is the

648
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Speaker 2: feed that you are getting unless your national rights holder,

649
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Speaker 2: so that would be NBC in the United States. NBC

650
00:30:43,000 --> 00:30:45,920
Speaker 2: could take the world feed for something and at their

651
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Speaker 2: own commentary, or they could also use their own cameras,

652
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Speaker 2: and so the world feed, I think is also the

653
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Speaker 2: one that was playing in the venue, and it was

654
00:30:54,760 --> 00:30:56,800
Speaker 2: explained kind of that they're not going to put a

655
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Speaker 2: politician up because it's not somebody who necessarily known to

656
00:31:01,200 --> 00:31:01,720
Speaker 2: the world.

657
00:31:01,920 --> 00:31:05,800
Speaker 1: They might put someone like Donald Trump, right, They basically decide,

658
00:31:05,880 --> 00:31:08,360
Speaker 1: is this person that we're showing someone everyone in the

659
00:31:08,400 --> 00:31:12,360
Speaker 1: world would recognize or not? Sorry jd Vance and Marco Rubio.

660
00:31:12,520 --> 00:31:15,240
Speaker 2: But the result, too, was that there was no opportunity

661
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Speaker 2: for the crowd to react to the person that was

662
00:31:18,320 --> 00:31:21,720
Speaker 2: in the building because he was never up on the stage.

663
00:31:21,800 --> 00:31:25,520
Speaker 1: Except I contend when they left, yes, that I heard

664
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Speaker 1: a dull booing from just one section across the ice.

665
00:31:29,520 --> 00:31:32,360
Speaker 1: I will not say with one hundred percent certainty that

666
00:31:32,360 --> 00:31:34,840
Speaker 1: that was what was happening, But to me, I heard booing,

667
00:31:35,160 --> 00:31:37,240
Speaker 1: and it was when they were leaving, and it was

668
00:31:37,320 --> 00:31:39,280
Speaker 1: just from one area, so I think those people had

669
00:31:39,320 --> 00:31:42,959
Speaker 1: probably spotted them. But yeah, and not only that, but

670
00:31:43,000 --> 00:31:46,120
Speaker 1: the players. So what was interesting in the mixed zone,

671
00:31:46,240 --> 00:31:49,520
Speaker 1: They're coming right off the ice. It's literally still in

672
00:31:49,520 --> 00:31:52,240
Speaker 1: their uniforms since skates. They have not gone anywhere except

673
00:31:52,280 --> 00:31:53,800
Speaker 1: for straight from the ice to where we're meeting and

674
00:31:53,840 --> 00:31:55,960
Speaker 1: talking to them, and a number of them were asked

675
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Speaker 1: about JD Vance and Marco Rubio being in the crowd,

676
00:31:59,200 --> 00:32:02,080
Speaker 1: and every one, to a person said I didn't know that,

677
00:32:02,640 --> 00:32:06,440
Speaker 1: and some were more direct in their response. Others, I think,

678
00:32:06,480 --> 00:32:09,120
Speaker 1: played it a little bit cool and maybe avoided saying

679
00:32:09,120 --> 00:32:11,160
Speaker 1: whether they were excited to hear that or not. Here's

680
00:32:11,200 --> 00:32:14,200
Speaker 1: Kendall coin Schofield, for instance, answering, you know whether she

681
00:32:14,280 --> 00:32:17,480
Speaker 1: saw JD Vance. I had no idea they're here. I'm sorry,

682
00:32:17,680 --> 00:32:18,680
Speaker 1: no locker room visit.

683
00:32:19,720 --> 00:32:22,640
Speaker 3: No. I saw my son after Waven, after the game,

684
00:32:22,640 --> 00:32:24,680
Speaker 3: and that was that was where my eyes were locked

685
00:32:24,640 --> 00:32:27,360
Speaker 3: too afterwards. But you know, we're we're in the game

686
00:32:27,400 --> 00:32:29,160
Speaker 3: when we're there, and so I think our focus was,

687
00:32:30,240 --> 00:32:32,640
Speaker 3: you know, was on the ice.

688
00:32:32,880 --> 00:32:36,040
Speaker 1: Yeah, frankly, not a bad answer if you don't have

689
00:32:36,080 --> 00:32:38,280
Speaker 1: anything good to say, is our focus was on the ice.

690
00:32:38,600 --> 00:32:40,840
Speaker 1: The head coach for the US Women, John Rablueski, who

691
00:32:40,840 --> 00:32:44,360
Speaker 1: they just called Robo, had this to say about politicians

692
00:32:44,360 --> 00:32:47,680
Speaker 1: in the crowd. I was not aware of that either.

693
00:32:47,960 --> 00:32:48,520
Speaker 1: That's awesome.

694
00:32:48,640 --> 00:32:52,800
Speaker 6: I love love our government representation, that we're that everybody's

695
00:32:52,840 --> 00:32:54,320
Speaker 6: pulling for us and everybody back home.

696
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Speaker 1: It's awesome. Hmmmmm. Awesome is a word awesome is a word.

697
00:32:59,200 --> 00:33:01,480
Speaker 2: I want the word a few minutes later to describe

698
00:33:01,520 --> 00:33:04,680
Speaker 2: starting goalie Aaron Frankel, and I would say erin Frankel

699
00:33:04,760 --> 00:33:05,480
Speaker 2: was awesome today.

700
00:33:05,680 --> 00:33:09,080
Speaker 1: It's a versatile word. Then I wonder if any of

701
00:33:09,160 --> 00:33:12,480
Speaker 1: the coaches were given direction from communications about the best

702
00:33:12,480 --> 00:33:14,959
Speaker 1: way to handle it, like wow, it's just great to

703
00:33:15,000 --> 00:33:17,320
Speaker 1: know that we matter and that they want to come

704
00:33:17,360 --> 00:33:19,600
Speaker 1: and support us. Like that sounded like that, but it

705
00:33:19,640 --> 00:33:23,000
Speaker 1: did sound like a genuine enthusiasm. I would say it

706
00:33:23,040 --> 00:33:25,240
Speaker 1: was a genuine it. I want to play one last

707
00:33:25,280 --> 00:33:27,680
Speaker 1: one because Taylor Heisie was also asked about this, and

708
00:33:27,720 --> 00:33:30,840
Speaker 1: this one is one of those situations where I imagine

709
00:33:30,840 --> 00:33:34,040
Speaker 1: if it gets put into a written piece, the language

710
00:33:34,040 --> 00:33:38,480
Speaker 1: that she used would sound enthusiastic, and it felt to

711
00:33:38,560 --> 00:33:42,240
Speaker 1: me in the moment that it was a little more guarded.

712
00:33:43,200 --> 00:33:45,800
Speaker 1: It was sort of like she wanted to couch the

713
00:33:46,240 --> 00:33:49,880
Speaker 1: way she said by inserting the Italian president in the

714
00:33:49,920 --> 00:33:53,720
Speaker 1: conversation as just a general it's great how important the

715
00:33:53,760 --> 00:33:56,960
Speaker 1: Olympics are that even presidents of countries are paying attention.

716
00:33:58,200 --> 00:34:01,640
Speaker 1: Can't speak for her, pretend to know what she meant,

717
00:34:01,640 --> 00:34:03,920
Speaker 1: but you can listen to what she said and see

718
00:34:03,960 --> 00:34:07,000
Speaker 1: how you hear it. I had no idea, didn't know that.

719
00:34:07,040 --> 00:34:09,279
Speaker 4: Now I do. I guess it doesn't change the way

720
00:34:09,320 --> 00:34:11,520
Speaker 4: I play, But regardless, that's that's pretty cool that he's here.

721
00:34:11,800 --> 00:34:13,920
Speaker 4: I didn't know the president of Italy. I don't know

722
00:34:13,960 --> 00:34:16,000
Speaker 4: if he was here, but he was at Athletes Village today,

723
00:34:16,040 --> 00:34:18,520
Speaker 4: so very very cool. It just kind of puts things

724
00:34:18,520 --> 00:34:21,200
Speaker 4: into perspective of, you know, kind of why we're here

725
00:34:21,239 --> 00:34:23,319
Speaker 4: and who is able to be in the stands. It's

726
00:34:23,320 --> 00:34:26,000
Speaker 4: super fun. So just an honor, absolutely and excited to

727
00:34:26,000 --> 00:34:26,680
Speaker 4: be out here and playing.

728
00:34:27,600 --> 00:34:29,839
Speaker 1: So yeah, was she talking about how it was an

729
00:34:29,880 --> 00:34:32,200
Speaker 1: honor to play in front of J d Vance or

730
00:34:32,280 --> 00:34:35,200
Speaker 1: was she saying that, you know, having presidents and important

731
00:34:35,200 --> 00:34:37,120
Speaker 1: people and the audience puts into perspective what you're doing,

732
00:34:37,120 --> 00:34:39,040
Speaker 1: and then it's an honor to be a part of

733
00:34:39,040 --> 00:34:40,920
Speaker 1: something that big Churi's out. Yeah.

734
00:34:41,200 --> 00:34:44,680
Speaker 2: I just keep going back to the fact that to

735
00:34:44,760 --> 00:34:48,120
Speaker 2: be so close to somebody who's making such horrible decisions,

736
00:34:48,160 --> 00:34:50,040
Speaker 2: not how I would have responded to it.

737
00:34:50,160 --> 00:34:51,880
Speaker 1: Not how I would have responded either. I sent the

738
00:34:51,880 --> 00:34:53,680
Speaker 1: photo to a bunch of my friends and family and

739
00:34:53,680 --> 00:34:56,960
Speaker 1: they were like, what did you yell? And I was like, nothing, but.

740
00:34:56,920 --> 00:34:58,640
Speaker 2: You don't want to get about saying down in front

741
00:34:58,680 --> 00:34:59,280
Speaker 2: of she did.

742
00:34:59,160 --> 00:35:01,319
Speaker 1: Want to help down to the Secret Service. But when

743
00:35:01,320 --> 00:35:04,319
Speaker 1: I tell you, I have never been dealt such a

744
00:35:04,320 --> 00:35:07,600
Speaker 1: withering glance as I was by those security men. And

745
00:35:07,640 --> 00:35:09,120
Speaker 1: I was a little worried that maybe one of them

746
00:35:09,160 --> 00:35:11,400
Speaker 1: saw my tweet that said I just threw up in

747
00:35:11,440 --> 00:35:14,400
Speaker 1: my mouth. It wasn't a tweaks. I'm not on Twitter anymore,

748
00:35:14,520 --> 00:35:16,520
Speaker 1: my blue sky, my skeet, my skeet that said I

749
00:35:16,560 --> 00:35:18,080
Speaker 1: just threw up in my mouth when it's on JD.

750
00:35:18,280 --> 00:35:19,799
Speaker 1: I was like, what if they read that, I'm about

751
00:35:19,840 --> 00:35:22,800
Speaker 1: to get tackled and thrown out of this country. I

752
00:35:22,840 --> 00:35:25,720
Speaker 1: think they still a free speech in Italy. I don't know. Okay,

753
00:35:25,760 --> 00:35:27,480
Speaker 1: one last sound bite because we did like what coach

754
00:35:27,560 --> 00:35:29,840
Speaker 1: Robo had to say about the team rallying around to

755
00:35:29,920 --> 00:35:32,680
Speaker 1: Hillary Knight's last Olympics. Here's what he said.

756
00:35:32,920 --> 00:35:35,879
Speaker 6: You want to surround Hillary and company with the right

757
00:35:35,880 --> 00:35:38,640
Speaker 6: players to get to get her that medal at the

758
00:35:38,719 --> 00:35:40,719
Speaker 6: end of all this. That's a big part of our

759
00:35:40,800 --> 00:35:43,359
Speaker 6: motivation as a staff and how we picked this team

760
00:35:43,880 --> 00:35:46,759
Speaker 6: is to end her legacy the right way.

761
00:35:47,520 --> 00:35:50,200
Speaker 1: You know, sometimes coaches and teams don't say that out loud.

762
00:35:50,239 --> 00:35:52,120
Speaker 1: They're all feeling it, but they don't name it, and

763
00:35:52,160 --> 00:35:54,080
Speaker 1: so it's kind of cool that they're all like, yeah,

764
00:35:54,080 --> 00:35:56,160
Speaker 1: we're not you know, we're not messing around here. We're

765
00:35:56,160 --> 00:35:58,960
Speaker 1: going to make sure that Hillary Knight's final Olympics, allegedly

766
00:35:59,080 --> 00:36:01,160
Speaker 1: door is a Jar, goes out with gold.

767
00:36:01,239 --> 00:36:04,520
Speaker 2: I mean, hey, I'm gonna say it. Fifth Olympics, only

768
00:36:04,520 --> 00:36:07,840
Speaker 2: one gold medal, twenty percent to leave with only twenty

769
00:36:07,840 --> 00:36:11,280
Speaker 2: percent gold, that'd be pretty shitty, Alex.

770
00:36:11,840 --> 00:36:14,320
Speaker 1: Come on, you're scoffing at three silver medals.

771
00:36:14,440 --> 00:36:16,120
Speaker 2: I am scoffing at three silver medals.

772
00:36:16,239 --> 00:36:18,960
Speaker 1: I am wow, glad you're not my mom, Alex, and

773
00:36:19,000 --> 00:36:22,680
Speaker 1: would just be constantly disappointing you. Honey, you only had

774
00:36:22,840 --> 00:36:26,600
Speaker 1: one gold medal and three silvers. You're not allowed back

775
00:36:26,600 --> 00:36:29,359
Speaker 1: in this house. Listen. I have high standards.

776
00:36:29,640 --> 00:36:31,480
Speaker 2: I was a kid who I would come home with

777
00:36:31,520 --> 00:36:33,959
Speaker 2: a ninety nine percent on a math test and I'd

778
00:36:34,120 --> 00:36:36,080
Speaker 2: proclaim it and my dad would be like, so, what

779
00:36:36,160 --> 00:36:37,040
Speaker 2: did you get wrong?

780
00:36:37,400 --> 00:36:40,600
Speaker 1: So ninety nine percent runs in the family. I see

781
00:36:40,600 --> 00:36:43,080
Speaker 1: where you get it. Yeah. Also, I've never gotten less

782
00:36:43,080 --> 00:36:45,359
Speaker 1: than one hundred, so I couldn't possibly understand what it's

783
00:36:45,400 --> 00:36:50,360
Speaker 1: like to have high expectations and standards. Just kidding, Okay, Bianco,

784
00:36:50,440 --> 00:36:53,319
Speaker 1: We're kind of curious back home in the States what

785
00:36:53,360 --> 00:36:57,000
Speaker 1: it was like for you, because they actually will show

786
00:36:57,239 --> 00:36:59,880
Speaker 1: folks like jd Vance and Marco on gut TV. Right,

787
00:37:00,080 --> 00:37:03,080
Speaker 1: so you were watching the NBC feed, were they prominently featured?

788
00:37:03,440 --> 00:37:06,800
Speaker 5: They showed them a couple of times, and I started

789
00:37:06,840 --> 00:37:09,239
Speaker 5: actually looking for you two in the stands because I

790
00:37:09,320 --> 00:37:11,520
Speaker 5: knew from your post on Blue Sky that you were

791
00:37:11,640 --> 00:37:15,319
Speaker 5: very close to them. But no, they didn't go on

792
00:37:15,360 --> 00:37:17,879
Speaker 5: and on about it with the commentary, but they did

793
00:37:17,880 --> 00:37:19,280
Speaker 5: show their faces a few times.

794
00:37:19,360 --> 00:37:21,680
Speaker 1: Okay, what else did we miss on the broadcast?

795
00:37:22,000 --> 00:37:25,319
Speaker 5: Well, I was wondering from you guys, what was the

796
00:37:25,440 --> 00:37:28,640
Speaker 5: vibe of the crowd, because I heard you guys just

797
00:37:28,680 --> 00:37:30,799
Speaker 5: say and a couple of players say it was a

798
00:37:30,840 --> 00:37:34,240
Speaker 5: packed house. But I did not get that vibe from

799
00:37:34,560 --> 00:37:38,600
Speaker 5: watching the game. They were, I mean, rightfully so showing

800
00:37:38,680 --> 00:37:41,719
Speaker 5: the rink most of the time, but I think being

801
00:37:41,719 --> 00:37:45,680
Speaker 5: so used to PWHL games now of seeing so many

802
00:37:45,719 --> 00:37:48,720
Speaker 5: fans in the stands and crowd shots.

803
00:37:48,719 --> 00:37:51,040
Speaker 1: It was pretty subdued. I was missing a bit of that. Yeah,

804
00:37:51,080 --> 00:37:53,480
Speaker 1: it was. It was full pretty much, but it was

805
00:37:53,520 --> 00:37:56,040
Speaker 1: pretty subdued. And it's a small venue and it's just

806
00:37:56,040 --> 00:37:59,600
Speaker 1: a temporary venue. It's like a conference center that they

807
00:37:59,680 --> 00:38:01,960
Speaker 1: built to nice rink in. Yeah, I mean, there was

808
00:38:02,040 --> 00:38:05,040
Speaker 1: nothing wrong with it. I did notice that the crowd

809
00:38:05,239 --> 00:38:09,399
Speaker 1: wasn't super crazed. There was a guy in a zip

810
00:38:09,520 --> 00:38:12,600
Speaker 1: up American flag pajama set that was pretty enthusiastic, and

811
00:38:12,600 --> 00:38:14,480
Speaker 1: a friend next to him was also getting into it.

812
00:38:14,520 --> 00:38:17,200
Speaker 1: But I think the crowd was just like they were

813
00:38:17,200 --> 00:38:19,759
Speaker 1: in their opening round as well. They were warming up

814
00:38:19,880 --> 00:38:23,120
Speaker 1: for the metal matches or maybe even for something. It's

815
00:38:23,160 --> 00:38:26,080
Speaker 1: an interesting game because it does have an impact on

816
00:38:26,920 --> 00:38:29,719
Speaker 1: who you'll play in the elimination rounds, but there is

817
00:38:29,840 --> 00:38:34,520
Speaker 1: no chance of elimination. The stakes are lowered than almost

818
00:38:34,520 --> 00:38:38,239
Speaker 1: anything else you'll be watching in the Olympics because you're

819
00:38:38,239 --> 00:38:40,520
Speaker 1: not winning a medal as a result of what you do.

820
00:38:40,719 --> 00:38:42,600
Speaker 1: So I think that probably impacted it. But I did

821
00:38:42,640 --> 00:38:44,920
Speaker 1: think it was like a relatively quiet crowd.

822
00:38:45,200 --> 00:38:48,760
Speaker 2: I agree with that, And I think two Unlike at

823
00:38:48,920 --> 00:38:52,239
Speaker 2: professional venues everywhere where the crowd is literally up on

824
00:38:52,320 --> 00:38:55,200
Speaker 2: the glass, that is not a possibility here. There is

825
00:38:55,239 --> 00:38:58,960
Speaker 2: like a big moat basically between the ice and the stands,

826
00:38:58,960 --> 00:39:03,239
Speaker 2: and the stands are scaffold like metal scaffolding where you're like,

827
00:39:03,360 --> 00:39:05,800
Speaker 2: who put this up and did they bolt it securely?

828
00:39:06,080 --> 00:39:08,640
Speaker 1: Yeah? I mean the final stare if you're coming down

829
00:39:08,680 --> 00:39:10,520
Speaker 1: from the like three or four floors of stairs to

830
00:39:10,560 --> 00:39:14,000
Speaker 1: get up to the hastily put together media area, was

831
00:39:14,040 --> 00:39:17,480
Speaker 1: already broken. I'm like, day one, first game, already have

832
00:39:17,520 --> 00:39:19,120
Speaker 1: a broken stare at the end. I did tell the

833
00:39:19,160 --> 00:39:20,800
Speaker 1: woman because I was like, someone's gonna eat shit and

834
00:39:20,840 --> 00:39:24,120
Speaker 1: try to see them. But yeah, it was uh, definitely

835
00:39:24,200 --> 00:39:25,640
Speaker 1: a temporary.

836
00:39:25,360 --> 00:39:28,640
Speaker 2: Yeah, I know, but I think the moat, for lack

837
00:39:28,680 --> 00:39:30,920
Speaker 2: of a better term, like had the impact of the

838
00:39:30,960 --> 00:39:33,960
Speaker 2: crowd was away and so like there wasn't any banging

839
00:39:34,000 --> 00:39:35,360
Speaker 2: on the glass or anything like that.

840
00:39:35,440 --> 00:39:38,600
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, that feels like it could make a significant

841
00:39:38,640 --> 00:39:39,840
Speaker 5: impact for the players.

842
00:39:40,000 --> 00:39:40,120
Speaker 6: Well.

843
00:39:40,160 --> 00:39:42,520
Speaker 2: It was interesting because like their most recent Olympic experience

844
00:39:42,600 --> 00:39:46,800
Speaker 2: was in Beijing, where it was there was no one empty. True,

845
00:39:46,840 --> 00:39:49,600
Speaker 2: but then they've had the p WHL since, so there

846
00:39:49,600 --> 00:39:51,080
Speaker 2: have been a lot of folks in the stands. But

847
00:39:51,120 --> 00:39:53,560
Speaker 2: I'd say that even for them, people were kind of

848
00:39:53,600 --> 00:39:55,440
Speaker 2: comparing it to Beijing. But I would say, compared to

849
00:39:55,480 --> 00:39:56,520
Speaker 2: p WHL it was.

850
00:39:56,719 --> 00:39:58,960
Speaker 1: Yeah, kendo Quin Schofield has asked about it, and I

851
00:39:58,960 --> 00:40:01,960
Speaker 1: think she seemed a little confused at first about the

852
00:40:02,000 --> 00:40:04,120
Speaker 1: idea of like, wasn't it so great to have a crowd?

853
00:40:04,200 --> 00:40:06,160
Speaker 1: I mean, because the crowd wasn't that great? But then

854
00:40:06,200 --> 00:40:08,440
Speaker 1: when she was reminded that the person asking the question

855
00:40:08,520 --> 00:40:11,160
Speaker 1: meant in relation to Beijing, She's like, oh, well, yeah, yeah,

856
00:40:11,160 --> 00:40:14,080
Speaker 1: I mean having people there is great. But again, I

857
00:40:14,120 --> 00:40:16,560
Speaker 1: think she was probably used to Minnesota frost game, where

858
00:40:16,600 --> 00:40:19,120
Speaker 1: people are losing their minds, and that wasn't the case today.

859
00:40:19,400 --> 00:40:21,239
Speaker 5: Yeah, okay, I want to let you guys know about

860
00:40:21,239 --> 00:40:22,640
Speaker 5: two other things from the broadcast.

861
00:40:22,880 --> 00:40:24,680
Speaker 1: You were just talking about how you.

862
00:40:24,840 --> 00:40:27,799
Speaker 5: Doubt that Hillary Knight doesn't know how to trash talk,

863
00:40:27,840 --> 00:40:30,000
Speaker 5: and I will say that she was miked up for

864
00:40:30,080 --> 00:40:33,880
Speaker 5: this game, and there was no trash talking picked up

865
00:40:33,960 --> 00:40:36,440
Speaker 5: on the mic, So at least for this game we

866
00:40:36,560 --> 00:40:37,319
Speaker 5: can believe her.

867
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Speaker 1: Wait, was she miked for how much of it?

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Speaker 5: They led us to believe that she was micd the

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Speaker 5: whole time? They did not play the you know, it

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Speaker 5: wasn't a constant rolling tape of her. That's never whatever

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Speaker 5: she was saying, but we definitely heard some let's goes

872
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Speaker 5: and you know that kind of thing. No trash talking

873
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Speaker 5: for a time.

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Speaker 1: I'll teach her a lesson before the gold medal game.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, maybe that was because she was miked up.

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Speaker 1: Perhaps maybe she was on her best behavior. Okay.

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Speaker 5: And then also friend of the show, Angela Rigueiro, was

878
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Speaker 5: calling the game. We had her on the show a

879
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Speaker 5: couple of weeks ago. At this point, she was in

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Speaker 5: a studio away from the ranks. She told us would

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Speaker 5: be the case, and she shared this little tidbit probably

882
00:41:15,280 --> 00:41:18,960
Speaker 5: came from an Olympic researcher Alex shut out, but she

883
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Speaker 5: said that Megan Keller has given up the locker room

884
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Speaker 5: DJ role to Tessa Janikey. And then Janek said that

885
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Speaker 5: she stuck with throwbacks for her first time in the

886
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Speaker 5: role as to not mess with people's mojo.

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Speaker 1: So, okay, I love hearing stuff like that. Yeah, that's

888
00:41:36,560 --> 00:41:38,440
Speaker 1: a nice through line. Like she's like, I'm going to

889
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Speaker 1: be taking over as DJ and will start to play

890
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Speaker 1: all my jams, but for now, I want to ease

891
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Speaker 1: you in by letting you know that I know what

892
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Speaker 1: the olds like, know what you're used to. Meanwhile, the

893
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Speaker 1: olds are Keller's twenty nine. There's something an eight year

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Speaker 1: different when he is twenty one, but still as someone

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Speaker 1: who has occasionally gone to a party of someone a

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Speaker 1: decade younger and been like, I don't know any of

897
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Speaker 1: this shit. Probably a good idea for her to start

898
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Speaker 1: with something everybody might get behind.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, that's a follow up question. If you are able

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Speaker 5: to talk to her, what is considered a throat? Oh, no,

901
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Speaker 5: I don't want to turn of the century or not.

902
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Speaker 1: No, I don't think I can handle it. When Hillary

903
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Speaker 1: Knight's the old gal getting put out to pasture at

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Speaker 1: thirty six, I don't know if I what the twenty

905
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Speaker 1: one year old thinks as a throwback? All right, Bank

906
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Speaker 1: anything else that you noticed, either from the broadcast or

907
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Speaker 1: from our stories so far from Italy.

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Speaker 5: I will say that I have been googling what a

909
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Speaker 5: diaphragm is?

910
00:42:34,920 --> 00:42:37,080
Speaker 1: Oh, what a cute little lesbian.

911
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Speaker 5: Dental dam and contraception engaisha, What a diaphragm contraception engaig.

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00:42:44,640 --> 00:42:49,240
Speaker 1: Shit, that's really cute that you know, so things would

913
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Speaker 1: need and maybe not otherwise.

914
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Speaker 2: I mean, it also just makes me a little bit

915
00:42:53,320 --> 00:42:55,040
Speaker 2: sad for sex education in the US.

916
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Speaker 5: Which or you know, Bianca, true public school has really

917
00:42:58,400 --> 00:43:01,160
Speaker 5: failed me in that area, I suppose, but I thought

918
00:43:01,239 --> 00:43:04,120
Speaker 5: it was so inclusive that they were, you know, providing

919
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Speaker 5: different things.

920
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Speaker 1: But they weren't.

921
00:43:05,719 --> 00:43:08,000
Speaker 5: So please keep an eye out for other.

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Speaker 1: I'm going to return to the athlete village with one goal,

923
00:43:11,120 --> 00:43:12,800
Speaker 1: and that is to find out if they have dental

924
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Speaker 1: dams anyway, Thank you, Sarah. That's a mission. That's a

925
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Speaker 1: mission for me to our first mission, Alex Wholesome. Anything else, Bianco,

926
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna leave it there, Okay. I don't think we

927
00:43:24,160 --> 00:43:26,640
Speaker 1: can go from dental dams to the note that you

928
00:43:26,680 --> 00:43:28,759
Speaker 1: put in the dock, which is go go squeeze on

929
00:43:28,800 --> 00:43:31,840
Speaker 1: the USA bench. I don't know if that's a transition

930
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Speaker 1: any of us are willing to make, so we might

931
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Speaker 1: have to just leave it there. Thank you, Bianka, thank you.

932
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Speaker 1: Thanks all right, we got to take a break when

933
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Speaker 1: we come back. Be an enterer, not a lever. God damn,

934
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Speaker 1: we can't get away from these phrases. Welcome back, slices.

935
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Speaker 1: We love that you're listening, but we want you to

936
00:43:55,160 --> 00:43:56,719
Speaker 1: get in the game every day too. So here's our

937
00:43:56,719 --> 00:43:59,120
Speaker 1: good game play of the day. Watch the games on

938
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Speaker 1: TV this weekend, so you can help producer bank and

939
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Speaker 1: keep us up to date on what we might be

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Speaker 1: missing out here. Shout out to my friend Patrick Sandusky.

941
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Speaker 1: He's an Olympics vet, and he told me there's always

942
00:44:07,239 --> 00:44:09,920
Speaker 1: stuff that they focus on during the American broadcast that

943
00:44:09,960 --> 00:44:13,120
Speaker 1: folks who are actually at the Games are totally oblivious to.

944
00:44:13,520 --> 00:44:15,360
Speaker 1: One year, people kept asking him if he'd met at

945
00:44:15,400 --> 00:44:18,000
Speaker 1: particular athletes sisters yet, because they'd gotten so much screen

946
00:44:18,080 --> 00:44:20,839
Speaker 1: time for being like great hype women, and he was like,

947
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Speaker 1: I have no idea what you're talking about.

948
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Speaker 2: It's sad that I think I actually know what sisters

949
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Speaker 2: you're talking about based on that.

950
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Speaker 1: Yeah, And so we could be out here in our

951
00:44:28,560 --> 00:44:30,520
Speaker 1: little bubble and have no idea what y'all are excited

952
00:44:30,520 --> 00:44:32,719
Speaker 1: about back there. So help us out if there's a

953
00:44:32,760 --> 00:44:35,120
Speaker 1: sister we should find in the stands or a pasta

954
00:44:35,160 --> 00:44:39,560
Speaker 1: dish that they're highlighting. Clock in and get to work slices. Oh,

955
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Speaker 1: and speaking a slice work, I want to thank everyone

956
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Speaker 1: for chiming in on our national Girls and Women in

957
00:44:43,360 --> 00:44:46,000
Speaker 1: Sports Day app with swin Cash. We got so many

958
00:44:46,040 --> 00:44:48,879
Speaker 1: great comments, tons of feedback on that one, including Anna

959
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Speaker 1: w writing in part quote. I have a future opportunity

960
00:44:52,040 --> 00:44:54,080
Speaker 1: for Swin that I'm putting out in the ether. I

961
00:44:54,120 --> 00:44:57,239
Speaker 1: think that the WNBA should create a CFO position and

962
00:44:57,280 --> 00:45:00,000
Speaker 1: slide Kathy Engelbert into it. I think she's really moved

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Speaker 1: the W forward financially, and I don't think she should

964
00:45:01,920 --> 00:45:04,240
Speaker 1: be tossed aside, but she no longer has the respect

965
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Speaker 1: of the players, and based on numerous comments, she lacks

966
00:45:07,000 --> 00:45:09,279
Speaker 1: the people's skills necessary to do the job of commissioner.

967
00:45:09,680 --> 00:45:11,880
Speaker 1: I'm putting it out there that Swin Cash should be

968
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Speaker 1: the next commissioner of the WNBA. Swin has it all

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00:45:14,760 --> 00:45:18,200
Speaker 1: pro basketball experience, a deep executive level resume, respect of

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00:45:18,239 --> 00:45:21,080
Speaker 1: both players and longtime fans, a big, big heart, and

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Speaker 1: an activist spirit. She is the right person for the

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Speaker 1: W at this time and going forward. End quote. I

973
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Speaker 1: think that's a brilliant idea, not just because I think

974
00:45:29,640 --> 00:45:32,480
Speaker 1: Swin would be a fantastic commissioner, but it certainly addresses

975
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Speaker 1: the questions I have about Kathy's future as a leader

976
00:45:35,120 --> 00:45:39,040
Speaker 1: post CBA negotiations. We all remember and Afisa Callier's statement

977
00:45:39,040 --> 00:45:41,640
Speaker 1: about Kathy at the end of the w season, so

978
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Speaker 1: I don't know if she can even stick around as

979
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Speaker 1: a CFO, but it's definitely more believable than her continuing

980
00:45:46,440 --> 00:45:48,800
Speaker 1: hon as commission And I do like the idea of

981
00:45:48,840 --> 00:45:50,880
Speaker 1: a commissioner that maybe doesn't have to be the business

982
00:45:50,880 --> 00:45:53,279
Speaker 1: person and is more the connection to the players. It

983
00:45:53,320 --> 00:45:57,040
Speaker 1: feels necessary, especially at this moment in the WNBA. We

984
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Speaker 1: always love to hear from you, so hit us up

985
00:45:58,600 --> 00:46:01,360
Speaker 1: on email. Good game at Wonder Media or leave us

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Speaker 1: and don't forget to subscribe rate and review slices. It's

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Speaker 1: really easy. Watch our favorite sign of many so far

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Speaker 1: at the games, rating five out of five stars for

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Speaker 1: honesty review. There are signs everywhere Milan on the walls,

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Speaker 1: on the floor, on the metrostop, TVs, this way to

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Speaker 1: the ice hockey rink. Go over here for credentials. But

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00:46:24,280 --> 00:46:27,439
Speaker 1: one sign stood out to us. As we wandered around

994
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Speaker 1: the athlete village. We spotted a sign on the door

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Speaker 1: heading into something called the I and I Allotment Office,

996
00:46:32,560 --> 00:46:36,680
Speaker 1: which apparently handles inventory and inspection and housing allotments. Now

997
00:46:36,719 --> 00:46:41,480
Speaker 1: this sign was a sign after our hockey was so

998
00:46:41,600 --> 00:46:46,360
Speaker 1: rudely interrupted by fascists. It became clear. This sign is

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00:46:46,480 --> 00:46:50,360
Speaker 1: our new mantra for the games. It read, every person

1000
00:46:50,440 --> 00:46:53,080
Speaker 1: has the power to make us more happy. Some do

1001
00:46:53,200 --> 00:46:58,120
Speaker 1: it simply by entering this room, others by leaving the room.

1002
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Speaker 1: And I will tell you the stench of evil lifted

1003
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Speaker 1: when the presidential delegation left the hockey game super early,

1004
00:47:04,440 --> 00:47:08,239
Speaker 1: of course, and they proved the science point less fascists,

1005
00:47:08,400 --> 00:47:11,040
Speaker 1: more happiness. So that's all work to be an enterer

1006
00:47:11,080 --> 00:47:13,200
Speaker 1: and not a lever when it comes to happiness. Now

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

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Speaker 1: Good Game, Team USA for opening with the win. Good

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Speaker 1: game not wearing a coat the entire day at the

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Speaker 1: Winter Olympics, you security surrounded fascists spoiling a good hockey game.

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Speaker 1: producers are Alex Asi 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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