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

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Speaker 1: whenever you and your favorite teammate get together for the

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Speaker 1: little action below the hogline, they always manage to find

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Speaker 1: the button in your house. It's Wednesday, February eighteenth, and

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Speaker 1: we're coming to from the green room in the Media Center,

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Speaker 1: where podium athletes are held ahead of their press conferences.

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Speaker 2: Alex, what did you meddle in today?

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Speaker 3: Curling?

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Speaker 1: Watching excellent? I meddled in holding my pee for five

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Speaker 1: straight hours.

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Speaker 4: Woo.

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Speaker 1: On today's show, we'll take you onto the curling sheet,

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Speaker 1: introduce you to the Peterson sisters, and share our biggest

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Speaker 1: takeaways from our first ever live curling experience, plus poles,

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Speaker 1: pockets and rock journals. We investigated your missions and mission accomplished,

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Speaker 1: y'all for real this time. That's all coming up right

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Speaker 1: after this chaws Laces. Here's what you need to know today.

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Speaker 1: Let's start with curling. Following an unexpected loss to Italy

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Speaker 1: on Monday, US Team Peterson bounced back on Tuesday with

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Speaker 1: a ten to three win over Denmark. The Danes conceded

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Speaker 1: the final two ends aka rounds after the US recorded

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Speaker 1: four points in the eighth end to take an essentially

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Speaker 1: insurmountable lead. Team USA's record now stands at five and

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Speaker 1: two and they're tied for second in the standings with

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Speaker 1: two round robin games, remaining in a great position to

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Speaker 1: be one of the top four teams that move on

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Speaker 1: to the semifinals. Alex and I were in Courtina Curling

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Speaker 1: Center for this one, so we have plenty more to

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Speaker 1: say and audio from supersisters Tabitha and Tara Peterson. We'll

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Speaker 1: share that later in the show. To speed skating and

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Speaker 1: the team pursuit at the Milano speed Skating Stadium on Tuesday.

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Speaker 1: In the semifinals, Team USA featuring Georgia Berklan, Britney Bow

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Speaker 1: That loss put them in the bronze medal race, where

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Speaker 1: they trailed Japan from start to finish, settling for Canada

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Speaker 1: defeated Netherlands for gold, successfully defending their result from four

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Speaker 1: years ago in Beijing. To freestyle skiing Big Air, where

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Speaker 1: Eileen Goo was unable to defend her twenty twenty two title,

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Speaker 1: settling for silver as Canada's Megan Oldham took gold, and

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Speaker 1: Italy won its first Olympic freestyle skiing medal with Flora

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Speaker 1: Tabinelli's bronze finish. With five medals, Goo ties Canadian Mikhale

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Speaker 1: Kingsbury's record for the most Olympic medals in freestyle skiing,

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Speaker 1: and she still got one more event here in Milan, Cortina.

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Speaker 1: Interesting note, Goo told Olympics dot COM's Andrew Binner that

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Speaker 1: she had to learn new tricks just days before this

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Speaker 1: competition since winning the Olympic title in Beijing. Now, as

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Speaker 1: much as the Stanford student slash model, slash spokesperson slash

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Speaker 1: her short program to like a prayer, getting a video

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Speaker 1: More Olympics and a few events to have on your

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Speaker 1: women's team sprint, an event in which Americans Jesse Diggins

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Speaker 1: schedule also features the final women's outline skiing event of

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Speaker 1: the Games, the slalom. American Mikayla Schiffrin is, of course,

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Speaker 1: One of the factors influencing that decision was the fact

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Speaker 1: Competing and at the Olympics, and wrote on Instagram quote,

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Speaker 2: It's been a hell of a ride.

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Speaker 1: Thank you to my teammates for making long months away

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Speaker 1: Now you might remember Page is majoring in biomedical engineering

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Speaker 2: Her current Instagram.

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Speaker 1: Profile note reads quote NARP life equals biokem all nighter. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: welcome to the real world, Page, the world of non

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Speaker 2: Good luck with the next chapter.

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Speaker 1: Hopefully you listened to yesterday's show and heard that we

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Speaker 1: experienced our first in person viewing of a friend of

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Speaker 1: the Show winning gold. Monday night in Mono Bob's Alana

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Speaker 1: lot of friends oft the Show competing for gold when

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Speaker 1: the US and Canada meet again in the gold medal

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Speaker 1: hockey game. While we've been bouncing around Cortina watching events

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Speaker 1: Sports Leslie Ryder wrote, I am extremely close to rewatching

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Speaker 2: But this isn't surprising to either of us.

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Speaker 1: Really, It just doesn't feel like the work has been

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Speaker 3: talk about my experience doing hockey research for NBC, because

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Speaker 4: And for me, any of these athletes, they care.

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Speaker 4: It's never about Oh.

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Speaker 2: For the last three seasons.

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Speaker 2: Now.

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Speaker 1: I appreciated her helping. I like to know when something's

441
00:20:24,800 --> 00:20:28,480
Speaker 1: not that impressive, but also, folks, I don't care. I

442
00:20:28,880 --> 00:20:33,360
Speaker 1: a newbie, found it extremely thrilling and impressive and honestly,

443
00:20:33,680 --> 00:20:36,159
Speaker 1: how nice after all these years playing and working in

444
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Speaker 1: sports to get to enjoy a complete beginner's mindset and

445
00:20:39,480 --> 00:20:42,560
Speaker 1: experience the kind of awe that frankly is really only

446
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Speaker 1: afforded to those who are totally uninformed, I e.

447
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Speaker 6: Me.

448
00:20:47,080 --> 00:20:49,960
Speaker 1: I also learned to love curling because it offers the rare,

449
00:20:50,119 --> 00:20:53,280
Speaker 1: slow mo big moment in sports. You know, a goal,

450
00:20:53,359 --> 00:20:55,879
Speaker 1: a dunk, a tackle, a jump, Like most things in

451
00:20:55,920 --> 00:20:59,439
Speaker 1: sports are fast and dramatic, but a perfectly curled and

452
00:20:59,480 --> 00:21:05,720
Speaker 1: swept stone slowly sliding into place, the suspense is intoxicating.

453
00:21:06,280 --> 00:21:09,240
Speaker 1: It was exactly what people told me my first curling

454
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Speaker 1: experience in person, and now I'm fully hooked. Did you

455
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Speaker 1: love it as much as I did, Alex.

456
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Speaker 4: Oh, I absolutely did.

457
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Speaker 3: It was so fun to be in that venue. I

458
00:21:17,119 --> 00:21:19,280
Speaker 3: think actually one of my favorite venues of the game

459
00:21:19,359 --> 00:21:22,399
Speaker 3: so far, especially just because it felt really intimate. I

460
00:21:22,440 --> 00:21:25,320
Speaker 3: think I would excel at curling, if only because I

461
00:21:25,359 --> 00:21:28,280
Speaker 3: am honest to a fault sometimes, Like I think back

462
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Speaker 3: to when I played field hockey and the ball would

463
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Speaker 3: hit my feet, which it's not allowed to do in

464
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Speaker 3: field hockey, and I would I would not necessarily tell

465
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Speaker 3: on myself, but I would make it obvious that I

466
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Speaker 3: knew it had hit my feet and I should have

467
00:21:39,359 --> 00:21:42,399
Speaker 3: gotten so much better, just like nah, like let it go.

468
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Speaker 3: So I think I would excel at that part. One

469
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Speaker 3: of the things that enchanted me the most was watching

470
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Speaker 3: the athletes warm up. I had just never thought about

471
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Speaker 3: warming up for curling, and the fact that they like

472
00:21:54,160 --> 00:21:58,159
Speaker 3: take turns. There's like this announcer that comes and says like, oh,

473
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Speaker 3: it's part one of warm up. Part two.

474
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Speaker 1: Part one is like calisthenics and stretching. Two was more

475
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Speaker 1: like recreating the actual action.

476
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Speaker 2: You'll be doing. They are in a deep lunge.

477
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Speaker 1: I want to just say that curling has sort of

478
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Speaker 1: gotten like a wrap for like the thing we could

479
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Speaker 1: all do in the Olympics, and certainly it's more relatable

480
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Speaker 1: than slope style or like big air, but they're doing stuff.

481
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Speaker 2: It's not easy for sure.

482
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Speaker 3: And Sarah, while we're talking about the deep lunge, I

483
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Speaker 3: would like to maybe return to a segment that we

484
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Speaker 3: call did.

485
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Speaker 2: You see what I see?

486
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Speaker 1: Okay, Yeah, this is where we're like we want to

487
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Speaker 1: say something, but like we're not sure if we're allowed.

488
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Speaker 2: To say anything.

489
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Speaker 1: So like just between us and all the girls, gays

490
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Speaker 1: and days listening, like that's where we're gonna keep this.

491
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Speaker 3: So did you think some of the likings that they

492
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Speaker 3: were wearing were kind of see through?

493
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Speaker 2: Oh my god, I didn't notice, Alex youperv. Oh my god. Okay,

494
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Speaker 2: I just I noticed it.

495
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Speaker 3: Because they were lunging right in front of me and

496
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Speaker 3: I wasn't trying to look at it, but once I

497
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Speaker 3: saw it, I kind of couldn't unsee it.

498
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Speaker 1: Okay, I don't blame you, because I did notice a

499
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Speaker 1: lot of ass. I wasn't looking for ass I wasn't

500
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Speaker 1: admiring the ass. It was just where we were sitting.

501
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Speaker 2: Ment. I was looking at a lot of ass, but

502
00:23:12,880 --> 00:23:15,159
Speaker 2: I didn't see any sea through pants.

503
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Speaker 1: Maybe it was like those Lululemon leggings that were famously

504
00:23:18,520 --> 00:23:20,800
Speaker 1: recalled a couple of years ago because everybody could see

505
00:23:20,800 --> 00:23:24,959
Speaker 1: their thongs through them. I don't think Lula Lemons an

506
00:23:24,960 --> 00:23:28,000
Speaker 1: official sponsor of curling, and I didn't see through any pants,

507
00:23:28,040 --> 00:23:29,080
Speaker 1: But I'm glad you saw that out.

508
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Speaker 4: All right, Let's move on to the real stuff.

509
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Speaker 3: And by that I mean the snacks that the teams

510
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Speaker 3: had at the end of round five, where there was

511
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Speaker 3: like a little break and Denmark was right in front

512
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Speaker 3: of us, and I just loved seeing them eat some slices.

513
00:23:41,800 --> 00:23:44,640
Speaker 2: Yeah, peach gummies. Mm hm.

514
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Speaker 1: There was a licorice thing that was happening, and I

515
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Speaker 1: could tell immediately just by a quick zoom din shot

516
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Speaker 1: that it was a licorice based food. But then an

517
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Speaker 1: actual Dane on Blue Sky informed me that the bottom

518
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Speaker 1: layer of gummy candy was unquestionably sugar salted licorice pringles

519
00:24:02,320 --> 00:24:06,159
Speaker 1: from Arabo with a picture of Honestly they look terrible,

520
00:24:06,560 --> 00:24:09,360
Speaker 1: but good, you know, good for the Danes. They look

521
00:24:09,400 --> 00:24:11,800
Speaker 1: kind of like a pretzel made of black licorice.

522
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Speaker 3: H couldn't be me, and it couldn't be the US either,

523
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Speaker 3: and you'll hear from them in just a few minutes.

524
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Speaker 3: In addition to the warm ups, it was fascinating because

525
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Speaker 3: we also got to see what happened after the athletes

526
00:24:22,760 --> 00:24:27,160
Speaker 3: left the ice, and that included ice resurfacing, which featured,

527
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Speaker 3: in addition to the pebble man, who's a little bit

528
00:24:29,440 --> 00:24:34,439
Speaker 3: famous at this point, also this process called rocking the ice,

529
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Speaker 3: in which they put all sixteen rocks stones from each sheet,

530
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Speaker 3: eight yellow and eate red, into these little wooden boxes

531
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Speaker 3: and they dragged them across the ice and it apparently

532
00:24:46,640 --> 00:24:49,720
Speaker 3: helps kind of make the surface flush again.

533
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Speaker 4: And I just had no idea that was part of

534
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Speaker 4: the sport.

535
00:24:52,760 --> 00:24:55,120
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was almost like a little piece of like luggage,

536
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Speaker 1: or like stones on a leash, or maybe like a

537
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Speaker 1: cute little wooden.

538
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Speaker 2: Purse full of stone.

539
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Speaker 1: My thinking on it was basically in curling, you have

540
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Speaker 1: the competition equipment and the ice resurfacer in one like,

541
00:25:06,960 --> 00:25:08,480
Speaker 1: get you a stone that can do both?

542
00:25:08,800 --> 00:25:09,520
Speaker 2: Yes, they do.

543
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Speaker 3: And then my final thought was thank god the fans

544
00:25:12,920 --> 00:25:15,680
Speaker 3: were smarter than us, at least in their understanding of curling,

545
00:25:15,760 --> 00:25:18,800
Speaker 3: because it was really cool to hear them react. And

546
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Speaker 3: I certainly am not the point in my curling journey

547
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Speaker 3: that I would be able to be as confident in

548
00:25:24,200 --> 00:25:26,040
Speaker 3: my cheering to know that what I had just seen

549
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Speaker 3: was as good as they made it sound.

550
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and there weren't that many screens either, so we

551
00:25:30,680 --> 00:25:33,399
Speaker 1: were trying to follow along to the action far away,

552
00:25:33,880 --> 00:25:35,800
Speaker 1: and at that point it was really just reading the

553
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Speaker 1: athletes and the fans to see if they were happy

554
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Speaker 1: or not.

555
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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's honestly been a theme of these games, is

556
00:25:41,160 --> 00:25:43,840
Speaker 3: not enough screens and venues. We heard it from Hillary

557
00:25:43,920 --> 00:25:46,200
Speaker 3: night at hockey, where she's used to seeing a JumboTron

558
00:25:46,320 --> 00:25:50,080
Speaker 3: so that she can rewatch plays. Same thing with the

559
00:25:50,200 --> 00:25:54,280
Speaker 3: opening ceremony to the opening ceremony Bob's led and skeleton. Yeah,

560
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Speaker 3: it's hard to see what's happening sometimes.

561
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Speaker 1: And something else we talked about briefly was that, just

562
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Speaker 1: like strategy of sports, don't know as well, and how

563
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Speaker 1: interesting it is to evolve in your journey of a

564
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Speaker 1: sport to how much you understand what they're doing versus

565
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Speaker 1: how much you're like, oh, actually, not sure what's happening here,

566
00:26:09,080 --> 00:26:09,920
Speaker 1: and I want to learn more.

567
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I think of it all the time.

568
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Speaker 3: I mean, I've never been an ex's and o's person

569
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Speaker 3: as a reporter, and yet I often find that the

570
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Speaker 3: more that I learn about a sport, the less confidently

571
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Speaker 3: I ever assert my belief about what the athlete or

572
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Speaker 3: coach's intention was, because you just never know what somebody

573
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Speaker 3: is trying to do in the moment. I mean, I

574
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Speaker 3: guess some people know if you are a sport expert,

575
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Speaker 3: but I don't know. I get frustrated sometimes, like listening

576
00:26:34,400 --> 00:26:36,399
Speaker 3: to fans being like shoot the puck or like do

577
00:26:36,480 --> 00:26:38,520
Speaker 3: this or do that, and I'm like, you literally know nothing,

578
00:26:38,680 --> 00:26:40,960
Speaker 3: and yet you are so boldly confident in this moment

579
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Speaker 3: of thinking that you know what they should be doing,

580
00:26:42,760 --> 00:26:44,760
Speaker 3: despite never having been to one of their practices.

581
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Speaker 1: I feel like that a lot with people on social

582
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Speaker 1: media who criticize coaches and decision making. It's not that

583
00:26:51,440 --> 00:26:54,080
Speaker 1: I think they're always right, but I'm like, who am I,

584
00:26:54,400 --> 00:26:56,240
Speaker 1: no matter how long I've covered a sport to say

585
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Speaker 1: that I know better than one of the like thirty

586
00:26:58,640 --> 00:27:00,800
Speaker 1: two people hired to do this job in our nation.

587
00:27:01,800 --> 00:27:04,200
Speaker 1: After the game sometimes I will criticize after everything is

588
00:27:04,200 --> 00:27:06,040
Speaker 1: said and done, but in the moment, to your point,

589
00:27:06,080 --> 00:27:08,880
Speaker 1: a lot of times we don't know what the strategy is. Well,

590
00:27:08,880 --> 00:27:10,960
Speaker 1: I'm glad you liked it as much as I did, Alex,

591
00:27:11,000 --> 00:27:12,600
Speaker 1: And it was actually really fun to get to talk

592
00:27:12,640 --> 00:27:15,480
Speaker 1: to the Peterson sisters, Tabitha and Tara, both of whom

593
00:27:15,520 --> 00:27:17,880
Speaker 1: are competing in their second Olympics here, but both are

594
00:27:18,040 --> 00:27:18,600
Speaker 1: competing in.

595
00:27:18,560 --> 00:27:19,680
Speaker 2: Their first as moms.

596
00:27:20,160 --> 00:27:22,119
Speaker 1: They each gave birth to their first child in twenty

597
00:27:22,160 --> 00:27:25,040
Speaker 1: twenty four, so we chatted with them after and Tabitha

598
00:27:25,119 --> 00:27:27,480
Speaker 1: answers the first question before Tara jumps.

599
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Speaker 2: In on question two. Take a listen.

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Speaker 1: How has the overall competition compared to expectations coming in?

601
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Speaker 5: I'd say it's right about what I thought.

602
00:27:35,960 --> 00:27:40,480
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, we know all these teams are so tough

603
00:27:40,520 --> 00:27:42,280
Speaker 6: and you have to bring your best against them, and.

604
00:27:43,800 --> 00:27:45,520
Speaker 5: Yeah, we just take it game by game.

605
00:27:46,040 --> 00:27:47,840
Speaker 1: I'm not a huge curling expert, but I know there

606
00:27:47,880 --> 00:27:49,520
Speaker 1: was a late qualification that.

607
00:27:49,480 --> 00:27:52,679
Speaker 2: Was required from y'all. How did that impact at all

608
00:27:52,720 --> 00:27:55,000
Speaker 2: your mindset as you were heading into the games.

609
00:27:55,280 --> 00:27:57,760
Speaker 7: Yeah, I think because of that, we had to start

610
00:27:57,760 --> 00:28:00,200
Speaker 7: our season a bit sooner and we were in a

611
00:28:00,280 --> 00:28:05,359
Speaker 7: much more like game ready mindset, just because in the

612
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Speaker 7: previous one we had qualified and you had months right

613
00:28:08,200 --> 00:28:10,359
Speaker 7: to prepare for, whereas we had to be at our

614
00:28:10,400 --> 00:28:12,480
Speaker 7: A game in December and then stay at your A

615
00:28:12,600 --> 00:28:12,960
Speaker 7: game now.

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Speaker 2: So I think it's actually been very beneficial for us.

617
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Speaker 2: Do you feel any different competing as moms.

618
00:28:18,200 --> 00:28:21,320
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure, different, just more mature.

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Speaker 7: It's it's not life or death out there, it's it's

620
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Speaker 7: a game. Obviously, we're here to win, like we've put

621
00:28:26,840 --> 00:28:29,159
Speaker 7: so much time and effort in all the people that

622
00:28:29,160 --> 00:28:31,800
Speaker 7: have helped us get here. But it's also like you

623
00:28:32,080 --> 00:28:34,360
Speaker 7: can just play more relaxed because you know that there

624
00:28:34,400 --> 00:28:35,879
Speaker 7: is more to it than.

625
00:28:35,840 --> 00:28:38,840
Speaker 2: Just the game perspective. Are they here the kid over?

626
00:28:38,920 --> 00:28:39,080
Speaker 7: Yes?

627
00:28:39,520 --> 00:28:41,400
Speaker 2: And how much have they gone to actually come watch?

628
00:28:41,960 --> 00:28:42,080
Speaker 1: Oh?

629
00:28:42,160 --> 00:28:42,760
Speaker 5: Yeah game.

630
00:28:43,120 --> 00:28:45,480
Speaker 7: My child's been at every single game or it's just

631
00:28:45,520 --> 00:28:47,479
Speaker 7: got got here so the last two games.

632
00:28:47,520 --> 00:28:49,480
Speaker 6: But it's really fun to just look up there and

633
00:28:49,520 --> 00:28:51,120
Speaker 6: try to find her and see her and it.

634
00:28:51,240 --> 00:28:53,080
Speaker 5: Just yeah, it just makes you feel good.

635
00:28:53,400 --> 00:28:53,719
Speaker 2: All right.

636
00:28:53,760 --> 00:28:55,840
Speaker 3: This is Alex cutting back in here for a second,

637
00:28:56,120 --> 00:28:58,120
Speaker 3: and I want to just share that. As we were

638
00:28:58,160 --> 00:29:00,720
Speaker 3: getting ready to chat with Tara, and Tabitha in the

639
00:29:00,760 --> 00:29:04,120
Speaker 3: mixed zone. Friend of the show, Nicole Hasey, who curled

640
00:29:04,120 --> 00:29:06,560
Speaker 3: for two years, news to me, Nicole. She sent me

641
00:29:06,600 --> 00:29:09,960
Speaker 3: a text telling us that curlers are known to keep

642
00:29:10,080 --> 00:29:13,960
Speaker 3: quote unquote rock journals to keep track of how each

643
00:29:14,120 --> 00:29:17,600
Speaker 3: rock is different. So with that context, let's get back

644
00:29:17,600 --> 00:29:20,720
Speaker 3: to the Petersons. A friend that curls asked, do you

645
00:29:20,880 --> 00:29:22,880
Speaker 3: keep a rock journal through tournaments?

646
00:29:23,640 --> 00:29:26,960
Speaker 6: Yeah, if the player does, like, we leave it to

647
00:29:27,000 --> 00:29:28,280
Speaker 6: our coaches to handle that.

648
00:29:28,480 --> 00:29:31,600
Speaker 5: But yeah, so every team has journals, whether it's on

649
00:29:31,640 --> 00:29:32,520
Speaker 5: the rocks, on the the.

650
00:29:32,480 --> 00:29:36,640
Speaker 6: Shape of the sheet, writing down goals and things you

651
00:29:36,880 --> 00:29:38,800
Speaker 6: recognized from previous game to bring forward.

652
00:29:38,920 --> 00:29:40,320
Speaker 5: Just yeah, we write it all down.

653
00:29:40,520 --> 00:29:42,920
Speaker 3: And that's like literally the specific rock of like stone

654
00:29:42,960 --> 00:29:44,080
Speaker 3: two on this sheet.

655
00:29:44,200 --> 00:29:47,160
Speaker 5: Correct, Yes, as every stone kind of has their own.

656
00:29:47,080 --> 00:29:49,120
Speaker 3: Quarks sometimes, and do they stand them down?

657
00:29:49,280 --> 00:29:52,080
Speaker 7: Yeah, so last night they just sand so the quirks

658
00:29:52,080 --> 00:29:54,080
Speaker 7: that maybe you thought before they might be different now

659
00:29:54,080 --> 00:29:56,040
Speaker 7: that they've been sanded, and the.

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Speaker 2: Stones are actually labeled one.

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Speaker 5: Two, three four, Yeah. Yeah, And that's how you know

662
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Speaker 5: CD and one two three four and red and.

663
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Speaker 1: Yellow and they behave differently because it's made from like

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Speaker 1: a granite manufactured to be got it. And then the

665
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Speaker 1: stopwatches that you have allow you to keep track of

666
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Speaker 1: the time of the stone and how it changes over

667
00:30:13,120 --> 00:30:14,960
Speaker 1: the course of the competition as the ice changes.

668
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Speaker 5: Yeah, yep, that's more of a tool to judge the speeds.

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Speaker 2: Of the rocks. Love that.

670
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Speaker 1: What a fun story too, the sisters competing together here.

671
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Speaker 1: I really hope their success carries on through the end

672
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Speaker 1: of the round robin and into the semis and hopefully

673
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Speaker 1: the finals. When it comes to experiencing and enjoying curling

674
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Speaker 1: in person for the first time, Alex, I think it's

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Speaker 1: safe to say mission definitely accomplished.

676
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Speaker 3: I think we should probably get a banner printed with

677
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Speaker 3: those words.

678
00:30:38,000 --> 00:30:39,720
Speaker 2: Put it on a boat. Let's do it.

679
00:30:40,360 --> 00:30:42,160
Speaker 1: But speaking of missions, we need to get to some

680
00:30:42,200 --> 00:30:44,440
Speaker 1: of the missions that you the slices have been sending

681
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Speaker 1: us on.

682
00:30:45,280 --> 00:30:54,600
Speaker 2: So stick around. Let's move through these fairly.

683
00:30:54,360 --> 00:30:57,120
Speaker 1: Quickly out but get them the answers they're looking for.

684
00:30:57,520 --> 00:31:00,480
Speaker 1: Ruth Frobe asked watching Women's Big Air Scheme, why the

685
00:31:00,480 --> 00:31:01,600
Speaker 1: hell do they have poles?

686
00:31:01,880 --> 00:31:03,520
Speaker 2: They just go off the jumps and do the tricks.

687
00:31:03,560 --> 00:31:06,320
Speaker 1: Poles seem like extra baggage and an accident waiting to happen.

688
00:31:06,600 --> 00:31:14,360
Speaker 3: No, Alex Well shout out to Sarah's Olympic Shirpa Shirpa,

689
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Speaker 3: and by that I mean Alys Ronik, who we asked

690
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Speaker 3: about this back when we were still in Lavigno, and

691
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Speaker 3: she basically said that in recent years free skiers have

692
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Speaker 3: been skiing with poles in the sports governing body has

693
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Speaker 3: been essentially encouraging the practice. And so then I decided, Okay,

694
00:31:30,000 --> 00:31:31,480
Speaker 3: I want to look it up and see, like where

695
00:31:31,520 --> 00:31:34,880
Speaker 3: exactly that is written in the rules, and the language

696
00:31:34,960 --> 00:31:38,880
Speaker 3: that fis the governing body uses is wild and it's

697
00:31:38,920 --> 00:31:41,280
Speaker 3: basically as close to a mandate as you can get

698
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Speaker 3: from the rule book. Quote an athlete who chooses to

699
00:31:45,280 --> 00:31:49,000
Speaker 3: compete without poles will be scored accordingly and will receive

700
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Speaker 3: a score in the crash range.

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Speaker 4: End quote.

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Speaker 3: I am just obsessed with the idea of being like,

703
00:31:56,360 --> 00:31:58,320
Speaker 3: we're not going to ban you from using this, but

704
00:31:58,640 --> 00:32:01,000
Speaker 3: just be prepared to crash with that actually crashing.

705
00:32:01,280 --> 00:32:01,520
Speaker 2: Yeah.

706
00:32:01,600 --> 00:32:04,440
Speaker 1: Basically, they're like, we want you to use poles first

707
00:32:04,440 --> 00:32:07,000
Speaker 1: because it increases the difficulty of tricks, and secondly because

708
00:32:07,040 --> 00:32:09,280
Speaker 1: it looks like skiing, and when we think of skiing,

709
00:32:09,320 --> 00:32:12,240
Speaker 1: we think of skiing having poles. You don't want poles,

710
00:32:12,440 --> 00:32:14,560
Speaker 1: Go get a snowboard, right, and so they're like, we

711
00:32:14,600 --> 00:32:16,440
Speaker 1: wanted to a authentic we want it to be harder,

712
00:32:16,480 --> 00:32:19,240
Speaker 1: So go ahead and try it without poles.

713
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Speaker 2: And we'll give you a scores if you crashed, which's

714
00:32:21,880 --> 00:32:22,840
Speaker 2: sensive enough for me.

715
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Speaker 1: We also talked to Alyssa about the question we got

716
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Speaker 1: about clothing in the halfpipe, Basically, why are these athletes

717
00:32:30,520 --> 00:32:34,440
Speaker 1: competing in baggy pants with jackets with hoods on them?

718
00:32:34,640 --> 00:32:36,760
Speaker 1: Wouldn't we be able to see the tricks better and

719
00:32:36,800 --> 00:32:38,880
Speaker 1: wouldn't they be able to perform them more cleanly if

720
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Speaker 1: they were wearing like a skin suit or even just

721
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Speaker 1: something less bulky. And Alyssa's answer was exactly what we

722
00:32:45,160 --> 00:32:48,480
Speaker 1: thought but almost couldn't believe, which is like, it looks cool.

723
00:32:48,960 --> 00:32:52,680
Speaker 1: They look like what they'd be snowboarding in at their

724
00:32:52,760 --> 00:32:55,560
Speaker 1: favorite location back home. They look like they're out with

725
00:32:55,600 --> 00:32:59,360
Speaker 1: their friends. They look rad, and they care about looking rad.

726
00:32:59,600 --> 00:33:01,680
Speaker 1: And if you tried to convince them to look less

727
00:33:01,760 --> 00:33:04,760
Speaker 1: rad in pursuit of something aesthetically more pleasing or even

728
00:33:04,800 --> 00:33:07,240
Speaker 1: maybe a little bit more effective, they would tell you no,

729
00:33:07,480 --> 00:33:09,120
Speaker 1: she said. Of course, if it's warm out they might

730
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Speaker 1: do it in a T shirt instead, but that would

731
00:33:11,200 --> 00:33:11,720
Speaker 1: still look.

732
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Speaker 2: Rad to them.

733
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Speaker 1: They would never compete in something that looked like a uniform,

734
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Speaker 1: even if it would make them maybe a little bit

735
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Speaker 1: more impressive looking when they did those tricks.

736
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Speaker 3: It reminds me a little bit of how some athletes

737
00:33:23,320 --> 00:33:26,520
Speaker 3: will compete in earrings even though they're competing in a

738
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Speaker 3: sport that goes to the hundredth of a second, and

739
00:33:28,640 --> 00:33:30,520
Speaker 3: you're like, you could say it a little bit of.

740
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Speaker 1: Time, crazy long hair down to your butt that might

741
00:33:34,720 --> 00:33:38,680
Speaker 1: get pulled or tugged or accidentally snagged, it's still like

742
00:33:38,840 --> 00:33:40,480
Speaker 1: it's part of your life and the rest of your life.

743
00:33:40,520 --> 00:33:42,040
Speaker 1: Maybe you want that hair, so you're like, I'm in

744
00:33:42,040 --> 00:33:43,560
Speaker 1: a rocket or you think you look good with it,

745
00:33:44,000 --> 00:33:45,840
Speaker 1: and it's find that balance. I guess, how can I

746
00:33:45,840 --> 00:33:48,240
Speaker 1: look as rad as possible and still compete well. And

747
00:33:48,320 --> 00:33:51,160
Speaker 1: relating to that, you asked a great question about all

748
00:33:51,160 --> 00:33:52,959
Speaker 1: the pockets that they have and if they're putting them

749
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Speaker 1: to use while competing.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely, I mean we've all seen athletes like sneak

751
00:33:58,040 --> 00:34:00,400
Speaker 3: a quick glance at their phone while they're out at

752
00:34:00,440 --> 00:34:04,040
Speaker 3: the Olympics, and it made me curious, though like, are

753
00:34:04,040 --> 00:34:07,120
Speaker 3: they actually competing with their phones in their pocket?

754
00:34:07,640 --> 00:34:09,320
Speaker 4: And we asked a couple of folks.

755
00:34:09,120 --> 00:34:11,760
Speaker 3: From US Ski and Snowbird who were at snowboard halfpipe

756
00:34:11,800 --> 00:34:15,520
Speaker 3: finals with us, and they estimated that ninety five percent

757
00:34:15,560 --> 00:34:18,719
Speaker 3: of athletes compete with their phone in their pocket and

758
00:34:18,880 --> 00:34:21,719
Speaker 3: the reason is actually mostly due to music. Most of

759
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Speaker 3: them are using Bluetooth headphones to listen to music while

760
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Speaker 3: doing their run. And the halfpick is really long, y'all. Like,

761
00:34:28,640 --> 00:34:30,920
Speaker 3: I don't know if it totally gets that across on TV,

762
00:34:31,160 --> 00:34:33,800
Speaker 3: but the bluetooth signal would essentially be gone by the

763
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Speaker 3: end of their run.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, hey, if you need to get that

765
00:34:36,880 --> 00:34:39,680
Speaker 1: music to pump you up, I guess it's just wild

766
00:34:39,719 --> 00:34:41,640
Speaker 1: to think about your phone weighing you down.

767
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Speaker 2: While you're trying to do those tricks.

768
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Speaker 1: All right, Moving on, Tony on Blue Sky asks who

769
00:34:45,560 --> 00:34:48,480
Speaker 1: operates the drones? Are the sliding drones pre program that

770
00:34:48,520 --> 00:34:51,560
Speaker 1: looks very challenging to fly, So we kind of mentioned

771
00:34:51,560 --> 00:34:54,520
Speaker 1: this earlier. I talked about the FPV drones, which are

772
00:34:54,520 --> 00:34:57,279
Speaker 1: new here the first person view. I actually on Blue

773
00:34:57,280 --> 00:34:59,239
Speaker 1: Sky posted a behind the scenes video of the guy

774
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Speaker 1: operating the dri own at the Sliding Center chasing the

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00:35:01,719 --> 00:35:05,040
Speaker 1: athletes down part way through, and we did talk about

776
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Speaker 1: Lindsay Schnell's article in The Athletic about all the drones

777
00:35:08,320 --> 00:35:10,000
Speaker 1: the training, how some of them are athletes in the

778
00:35:10,080 --> 00:35:13,160
Speaker 1: very same events themselves, so they understand the competition and

779
00:35:13,200 --> 00:35:13,799
Speaker 1: everything else.

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00:35:14,160 --> 00:35:16,080
Speaker 2: But yeah, I mean, the drones have been a really

781
00:35:16,120 --> 00:35:16,680
Speaker 2: cool part of this.

782
00:35:17,080 --> 00:35:20,880
Speaker 3: Absolutely, And shout out to Sophia Kirkby. We mentioned in

783
00:35:20,960 --> 00:35:23,719
Speaker 3: yesterday's episode that we ended up watching Monabob with her,

784
00:35:24,400 --> 00:35:26,840
Speaker 3: but she said that when they did their test event

785
00:35:26,960 --> 00:35:30,480
Speaker 3: last year, they actually had the drone operators on site

786
00:35:30,520 --> 00:35:34,720
Speaker 3: for it, and they at the Cortina Sliding Center and

787
00:35:35,000 --> 00:35:38,399
Speaker 3: they asked the athletes afterwards, hey, did this bother you?

788
00:35:38,560 --> 00:35:40,839
Speaker 3: Was it annoying? Could you hear them? And she said

789
00:35:40,840 --> 00:35:43,280
Speaker 3: that basically the consensus from the athletes.

790
00:35:42,960 --> 00:35:45,120
Speaker 2: Was Nope, no problem.

791
00:35:45,239 --> 00:35:48,000
Speaker 1: Like I'm hurtling down a sheet of ice at you know,

792
00:35:48,040 --> 00:35:49,279
Speaker 1: eighty five miles per hour.

793
00:35:49,560 --> 00:35:51,560
Speaker 2: Nope, didn't hear it. Didn't hear it.

794
00:35:51,640 --> 00:35:54,000
Speaker 3: Yeah, so I'm happy to hear that they consulted with

795
00:35:54,040 --> 00:35:55,879
Speaker 3: athletes about it though, because it's one of those things

796
00:35:55,920 --> 00:35:58,719
Speaker 3: where it's like it does change the playing.

797
00:35:58,440 --> 00:36:00,400
Speaker 1: Field and the folks we talked to in venue and

798
00:36:00,400 --> 00:36:02,560
Speaker 1: the different skiing and snowboard events also said it didn't

799
00:36:02,560 --> 00:36:06,000
Speaker 1: bug them. So Lindsay Kenyon on Blue Sky asked, do

800
00:36:06,040 --> 00:36:09,600
Speaker 1: the curling participants followed the traditional curling etiquette that winners

801
00:36:09,640 --> 00:36:12,160
Speaker 1: by the losers a round of drinks.

802
00:36:11,600 --> 00:36:12,680
Speaker 2: At the Olympics.

803
00:36:13,320 --> 00:36:16,600
Speaker 1: So we actually asked about this after curling, and here's

804
00:36:16,600 --> 00:36:17,959
Speaker 1: what Tabatha Peterson had to say.

805
00:36:18,239 --> 00:36:21,399
Speaker 5: Not at the Olympics here, especially because the village is.

806
00:36:23,640 --> 00:36:27,879
Speaker 7: There's an na corona that's just still dry.

807
00:36:27,920 --> 00:36:28,200
Speaker 3: But no.

808
00:36:28,400 --> 00:36:33,200
Speaker 6: In other competitions, Yes, the normal world Curling Tour events

809
00:36:33,239 --> 00:36:36,560
Speaker 6: that usually happens, and the Grand Slams. I don't know

810
00:36:36,600 --> 00:36:38,640
Speaker 6: if people have heard of those, but those are very

811
00:36:38,680 --> 00:36:41,880
Speaker 6: fun and you'll hang out in what's called the patch

812
00:36:41,920 --> 00:36:45,319
Speaker 6: after with some teams or fans can mingle with the

813
00:36:45,360 --> 00:36:47,360
Speaker 6: teams and stuff like that. So yes, there are a

814
00:36:47,400 --> 00:36:49,560
Speaker 6: lot of instances where we do try to keep the

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Speaker 6: fun part of it alive.

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Speaker 1: I'm kind of bummed about that, and I've bummed that

817
00:36:54,040 --> 00:36:57,320
Speaker 1: whichever person we heard in a previous episode that said

818
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Speaker 1: that he was so excited there was beer in the

819
00:36:58,960 --> 00:37:02,240
Speaker 1: Olympic village either didn't realize he was drinking Corona Zero

820
00:37:02,480 --> 00:37:05,439
Speaker 1: and that it was non alcoholic beer or had had

821
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Speaker 1: his own brought in, because that's the second time we've

822
00:37:08,600 --> 00:37:10,640
Speaker 1: now been told that it's a dry athletes village.

823
00:37:10,719 --> 00:37:14,000
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, both in Lavigno and in Quartienas.

824
00:37:13,560 --> 00:37:14,200
Speaker 2: And in Milan.

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00:37:14,760 --> 00:37:16,560
Speaker 1: You know, I'm sure they're able to find it if

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00:37:16,560 --> 00:37:18,840
Speaker 1: they want it, and it is a nice opportunity for

827
00:37:18,880 --> 00:37:21,719
Speaker 1: Corona Zero, who we've now mentioned eight billion times here

828
00:37:21,840 --> 00:37:25,000
Speaker 1: with their plant adoptions and their cute chalets, to get

829
00:37:25,000 --> 00:37:28,000
Speaker 1: in the plug for the na beers. All right, from

830
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Speaker 1: Panda with Cookie, who writes, I would like to see

831
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Speaker 1: a metric ton of photos of the luj Bob sed

832
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Speaker 1: tracks from every angle.

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Speaker 2: Inside.

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Speaker 1: You get the shots from the track, but I'm interested

835
00:37:36,080 --> 00:37:39,840
Speaker 1: in the interior construction. It looks wooden and claustrophobic. Is

836
00:37:39,880 --> 00:37:42,000
Speaker 1: there room for spectators in those turns? Or are the

837
00:37:42,040 --> 00:37:45,120
Speaker 1: platforms all at the finish? So you might have heard

838
00:37:45,160 --> 00:37:47,640
Speaker 1: in a previous episode that Alex and I treked from

839
00:37:47,680 --> 00:37:51,120
Speaker 1: the bottom to the top walking. Now for the monobob finals,

840
00:37:51,120 --> 00:37:53,400
Speaker 1: we took the shuttle up, which was very nice. We

841
00:37:53,440 --> 00:37:55,480
Speaker 1: did walk down again, so we've seen both up and down.

842
00:37:55,520 --> 00:37:58,040
Speaker 1: A couple times, all the different angles at the different curves,

843
00:37:58,040 --> 00:38:00,279
Speaker 1: and you can absolutely see it's just a very quick

844
00:38:00,280 --> 00:38:02,120
Speaker 1: blink and you'll miss it as they go by. But

845
00:38:02,160 --> 00:38:04,239
Speaker 1: you can see the plywood that they didn't paint over.

846
00:38:04,600 --> 00:38:07,760
Speaker 1: You can see that it's done. But I would imagine

847
00:38:07,760 --> 00:38:10,040
Speaker 1: maybe in the future they might paint it a little bit,

848
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Speaker 1: make it a little fancier.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so there are stands at both the top and

850
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Speaker 3: the bottom, but they seem disappointing. You know. It was

851
00:38:16,560 --> 00:38:19,960
Speaker 3: interesting when we started watching the monobob with Sophia. I

852
00:38:19,960 --> 00:38:22,080
Speaker 3: think she was even surprised a little bit, like you

853
00:38:22,120 --> 00:38:24,600
Speaker 3: can't really see anything right here, and like there's only

854
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Speaker 3: one screen.

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00:38:25,800 --> 00:38:27,239
Speaker 4: They're disappearing immediately.

856
00:38:27,320 --> 00:38:29,560
Speaker 3: So I was happy to at least have a fellow

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Speaker 3: sliding sport expert confirm that this was not necessarily the

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Speaker 3: normal viewing experience.

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00:38:35,080 --> 00:38:38,680
Speaker 1: Not the best spectator sport. But I mean claustrophobic. I

860
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Speaker 1: think that's part of the job when you're competing in

861
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Speaker 1: a venue that's basically like one of those pneumonic tubes

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00:38:45,000 --> 00:38:46,240
Speaker 1: from old schooled banks.

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Speaker 2: And I'm so sad to all of you have no

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Speaker 2: idea what I'm talking about. I'm not sad for you.

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Speaker 1: I know, I'm sad for myself that I'm old enough.

866
00:38:53,120 --> 00:38:55,239
Speaker 1: But back in the day, you would like literally drive

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00:38:55,320 --> 00:38:58,040
Speaker 1: up to a bank and this tube would have a

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00:38:58,080 --> 00:39:00,960
Speaker 1: little container inside and this Neuman device would like shoot

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00:39:00,960 --> 00:39:03,080
Speaker 1: it up towards you and you could put like money in,

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00:39:03,200 --> 00:39:05,080
Speaker 1: or a cart in, or a receding and then it

871
00:39:05,080 --> 00:39:05,840
Speaker 1: would come back to you.

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00:39:06,560 --> 00:39:09,040
Speaker 2: Anyway, google it, look it up, you young people.

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Speaker 1: That's what it's like though, so I imagine it's not

874
00:39:11,400 --> 00:39:13,000
Speaker 1: claustrophobic to them because they're used to it.

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00:39:13,280 --> 00:39:16,080
Speaker 3: And the other thing that I truly did not appreciate

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00:39:16,160 --> 00:39:19,279
Speaker 3: until seeing the sliding venue for myself is that some

877
00:39:19,320 --> 00:39:23,040
Speaker 3: of the curves are basically like think about a bathtub

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Speaker 3: and the water is in the bathtub, and then imagine

879
00:39:25,560 --> 00:39:29,000
Speaker 3: that the bathtub water freezes and then you turn it

880
00:39:29,200 --> 00:39:31,560
Speaker 3: ninety degrees and it's on its side.

881
00:39:31,680 --> 00:39:34,040
Speaker 4: And so the athlete is it's.

882
00:39:33,920 --> 00:39:37,040
Speaker 3: Like the carnival ride where you're like stuck to the

883
00:39:37,120 --> 00:39:38,560
Speaker 3: side of the thing as it spins.

884
00:39:38,680 --> 00:39:41,520
Speaker 2: Yeah, gravitational pull sort of like, yeah.

885
00:39:41,280 --> 00:39:43,759
Speaker 3: The g forces are keeping them, you know, at the

886
00:39:43,760 --> 00:39:47,080
Speaker 3: bottom of the curve, but they are sideways. And so

887
00:39:48,080 --> 00:39:51,000
Speaker 3: to realize like that the bottom of the curve is

888
00:39:51,040 --> 00:39:54,400
Speaker 3: not on the ground. Is a weird yeah, a weird thing.

889
00:39:54,360 --> 00:39:56,000
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, And it was cool to see that

890
00:39:56,000 --> 00:39:57,560
Speaker 1: from some of the angles along the way as we

891
00:39:57,600 --> 00:39:59,920
Speaker 1: came up or down. All Right, you put yourself on

892
00:40:00,080 --> 00:40:02,680
Speaker 1: self appointed mission. You sent yourself on a mission, Alex,

893
00:40:02,719 --> 00:40:04,520
Speaker 1: to find out about alpine skiing radios.

894
00:40:04,520 --> 00:40:06,799
Speaker 2: So tell us a little bit about this, all right.

895
00:40:06,880 --> 00:40:09,279
Speaker 3: So I covered alpine skiing for a while, and I

896
00:40:09,320 --> 00:40:12,319
Speaker 3: was always aware that athletes were sending messages once they

897
00:40:12,320 --> 00:40:14,319
Speaker 3: finished the course back up to the start to let

898
00:40:14,400 --> 00:40:16,880
Speaker 3: them know about conditions. And it's essentially things like what

899
00:40:17,000 --> 00:40:19,000
Speaker 3: is the light like, what is the snow like? Are

900
00:40:19,000 --> 00:40:21,080
Speaker 3: there any specific parts of the course that you should

901
00:40:21,080 --> 00:40:23,799
Speaker 3: look out for? And it's not a new thing that

902
00:40:23,880 --> 00:40:28,080
Speaker 3: you see those radio messages on the TV during the broadcast,

903
00:40:28,200 --> 00:40:29,799
Speaker 3: but I do think this is the first time I've

904
00:40:29,800 --> 00:40:33,280
Speaker 3: at least seen them transcribed. And it also made me curious,

905
00:40:33,520 --> 00:40:38,320
Speaker 3: like it's twenty twenty six, why are we still using radios? Also,

906
00:40:39,160 --> 00:40:41,760
Speaker 3: radios are public in a way that you know, WhatsApp

907
00:40:41,920 --> 00:40:44,680
Speaker 3: or some other type of voice memo isn't. And also

908
00:40:44,719 --> 00:40:47,520
Speaker 3: the radios are extremely crackly, like it's hard to understand

909
00:40:47,560 --> 00:40:49,880
Speaker 3: what these skiers are saying to one another. And so

910
00:40:49,960 --> 00:40:52,480
Speaker 3: I really wanted to know why are they using radios

911
00:40:52,719 --> 00:40:56,160
Speaker 3: versus some other type of communication, and also are they

912
00:40:56,239 --> 00:40:59,520
Speaker 3: hearing what the other countries are providing. So when we

913
00:40:59,560 --> 00:41:01,640
Speaker 3: had Paul Molton on the show last week, once we

914
00:41:01,680 --> 00:41:04,960
Speaker 3: wrapped with the interview, I asked her about her experience

915
00:41:05,440 --> 00:41:07,359
Speaker 3: with the radios and this is what she had to say.

916
00:41:07,719 --> 00:41:10,239
Speaker 8: So, we have like multiple coaches that go down the hill,

917
00:41:10,320 --> 00:41:13,200
Speaker 8: so we have like three coaches for a technical race.

918
00:41:13,200 --> 00:41:15,600
Speaker 8: We have three coaches on the hill, and so you

919
00:41:15,680 --> 00:41:19,080
Speaker 8: have people covering different sections of the hill. And everyone

920
00:41:19,120 --> 00:41:21,600
Speaker 8: has their own radio channels, so like we're not sharing

921
00:41:21,680 --> 00:41:25,200
Speaker 8: radio channels with different countries, Like we're all on our

922
00:41:25,239 --> 00:41:28,880
Speaker 8: own frequency, and so Austria is only hearing Austria, Germany

923
00:41:28,960 --> 00:41:31,160
Speaker 8: is only hearing Germany, and they're all obviously in the

924
00:41:31,239 --> 00:41:34,239
Speaker 8: respective languages. And yeah, so the US radio channels we

925
00:41:34,360 --> 00:41:36,960
Speaker 8: have our very own, so it's like only the US

926
00:41:37,000 --> 00:41:40,719
Speaker 8: coaches talking to the US athletes and technicians. It's quite

927
00:41:40,760 --> 00:41:42,840
Speaker 8: effective actually to use the radio. But we also in

928
00:41:42,880 --> 00:41:45,560
Speaker 8: the finish line. Once an athlete crosses the finish line,

929
00:41:45,880 --> 00:41:48,160
Speaker 8: it does go down to a WhatsApp audio message and

930
00:41:48,520 --> 00:41:50,440
Speaker 8: athletes are there getting it on the audio message or

931
00:41:50,440 --> 00:41:52,640
Speaker 8: on the radio talking to athletes that are at the

932
00:41:52,640 --> 00:41:55,800
Speaker 8: top still to talk about techniques now feel of course

933
00:41:55,800 --> 00:41:56,759
Speaker 8: that anything like that.

934
00:41:57,080 --> 00:41:59,560
Speaker 3: So it was news to me that athletes couldn't actually

935
00:41:59,560 --> 00:42:01,920
Speaker 3: hear other countries. I always thought that they were kind

936
00:42:01,960 --> 00:42:04,000
Speaker 3: of just on an open channel and everyone was getting

937
00:42:04,040 --> 00:42:06,800
Speaker 3: access from everyone. But she wasn't able to answer my

938
00:42:06,920 --> 00:42:09,200
Speaker 3: question of Okay, well, how is that then ending up

939
00:42:09,200 --> 00:42:11,560
Speaker 3: on TV? So this is a two part mission, y'all

940
00:42:11,560 --> 00:42:14,439
Speaker 3: that I set myself on. I asked my friend Lauren,

941
00:42:14,480 --> 00:42:17,919
Speaker 3: who works for NBC, and she basically said that at

942
00:42:17,960 --> 00:42:22,040
Speaker 3: these games, those radio transmissions are going to OBS, which

943
00:42:22,080 --> 00:42:24,520
Speaker 3: is Olympic Broadcasting Services, and they are the ones that

944
00:42:24,560 --> 00:42:26,880
Speaker 3: provide the world feed that goes out to everyone, and

945
00:42:26,960 --> 00:42:31,000
Speaker 3: they are basically curating the information that is then going

946
00:42:31,040 --> 00:42:35,840
Speaker 3: out on TV. And so they're being somewhat selective in

947
00:42:35,880 --> 00:42:38,279
Speaker 3: what is included and what isn't in terms of like

948
00:42:38,320 --> 00:42:41,239
Speaker 3: how much it's giving away. I think with an eye

949
00:42:41,239 --> 00:42:42,759
Speaker 3: towards the fact that they don't want to be giving

950
00:42:42,760 --> 00:42:45,840
Speaker 3: away huge secrets while they also want to be providing

951
00:42:45,960 --> 00:42:48,360
Speaker 3: viewers with some type of additional information.

952
00:42:49,080 --> 00:42:51,360
Speaker 1: Yeah, and also as interesting as Lauren mentioned that the

953
00:42:51,440 --> 00:42:54,200
Speaker 1: US shares their radio with who was in Norway.

954
00:42:54,320 --> 00:42:54,760
Speaker 2: Norway.

955
00:42:54,840 --> 00:42:56,919
Speaker 1: Yeah, so they trained together a lot, They work together

956
00:42:56,960 --> 00:42:58,840
Speaker 1: a lot, so they sort of share each other's secrets

957
00:42:58,840 --> 00:43:02,040
Speaker 1: and tips about going down various courses, which was cool

958
00:43:02,040 --> 00:43:02,640
Speaker 1: to know as well.

959
00:43:02,719 --> 00:43:04,160
Speaker 4: Yeah, I remember that used to happened too.

960
00:43:04,239 --> 00:43:06,800
Speaker 3: There was a skier from Lichtenstein and she always partnered

961
00:43:06,880 --> 00:43:09,279
Speaker 3: up with the Swiss athletes because there wasn't anyone else

962
00:43:09,320 --> 00:43:11,040
Speaker 3: from our country that she could send messages too.

963
00:43:11,400 --> 00:43:14,920
Speaker 1: I always love saying Lichtenstein. We were really close to

964
00:43:14,960 --> 00:43:16,239
Speaker 1: Liechtenstein the other day and I.

965
00:43:16,160 --> 00:43:17,879
Speaker 2: Saw it on the map. I was a good Lichtenstein.

966
00:43:18,280 --> 00:43:20,560
Speaker 2: I don't know. It makes me laugh every time. All right.

967
00:43:20,680 --> 00:43:23,040
Speaker 1: Our last mission for today, Sidney Bauer via Blue Sky

968
00:43:23,120 --> 00:43:25,640
Speaker 1: Curious what the atmosphere is in smaller towns like lavignho

969
00:43:25,760 --> 00:43:26,360
Speaker 1: versus Milan.

970
00:43:26,600 --> 00:43:28,640
Speaker 2: We definitely talked about this, so we'll just sort.

971
00:43:28,440 --> 00:43:32,879
Speaker 1: Of remind everyone that Milan doesn't feel that Olympic Sea

972
00:43:32,960 --> 00:43:35,040
Speaker 1: unless you're at the venues. There's a lot of folks

973
00:43:35,120 --> 00:43:38,120
Speaker 1: just going about everyday life, and there's certainly signage and

974
00:43:38,280 --> 00:43:40,640
Speaker 1: moments and spaces where it's very clear the Olympics are

975
00:43:40,680 --> 00:43:42,640
Speaker 1: being hosted, but it's a big, old city with a

976
00:43:42,680 --> 00:43:45,360
Speaker 1: lot going on. Lavino is very small, a lot of

977
00:43:45,360 --> 00:43:48,719
Speaker 1: friends and family, and we learned that it's like two

978
00:43:48,800 --> 00:43:51,080
Speaker 1: thousand dollars to get a parking pass in Lavinho because

979
00:43:51,080 --> 00:43:52,839
Speaker 1: they're trying to keep cars out of there, so they're

980
00:43:52,840 --> 00:43:54,520
Speaker 1: really trying to prevent a lot of traffic in and out.

981
00:43:54,520 --> 00:43:58,080
Speaker 1: And when we got our car service from Lavigno to Courtina,

982
00:43:58,440 --> 00:44:00,680
Speaker 1: there was also a lot of different things blocked off,

983
00:44:00,680 --> 00:44:02,840
Speaker 1: so we had to take a real roundabout ass route

984
00:44:02,840 --> 00:44:04,840
Speaker 1: to get to Courtina because of the way they were

985
00:44:04,880 --> 00:44:07,840
Speaker 1: trying to keep people out of that area. And then,

986
00:44:08,480 --> 00:44:11,000
Speaker 1: I mean, Cortina to me is the best spirit of

987
00:44:11,040 --> 00:44:13,960
Speaker 1: the game space so far. It feels like they knew

988
00:44:13,960 --> 00:44:16,080
Speaker 1: how to host fifty years ago, they know how to

989
00:44:16,080 --> 00:44:18,120
Speaker 1: host this time. They've carried the spirit of the games

990
00:44:18,160 --> 00:44:21,120
Speaker 1: maybe throughout that entire time. And it's a combination of

991
00:44:21,200 --> 00:44:26,680
Speaker 1: small enough to feel accessible and ski village, fancy pants

992
00:44:26,840 --> 00:44:30,160
Speaker 1: resort town enough to fit the vibe and profile of

993
00:44:30,200 --> 00:44:34,200
Speaker 1: the Winter Olympics, but also like bigger than Lavigno, enough

994
00:44:34,239 --> 00:44:36,160
Speaker 1: to host a whole lot of people that are here

995
00:44:36,200 --> 00:44:36,560
Speaker 1: to watch.

996
00:44:36,880 --> 00:44:39,800
Speaker 3: Yeah, I agree with that assessment entirely. I will say

997
00:44:40,200 --> 00:44:44,400
Speaker 3: Cortina has more souvenirs still in stock than Lavigno.

998
00:44:45,440 --> 00:44:46,160
Speaker 2: They do.

999
00:44:46,520 --> 00:44:48,640
Speaker 1: They've got a lot of the Olympic souvenirs. We went

1000
00:44:48,680 --> 00:44:51,399
Speaker 1: into one store and found all sorts of new kind

1001
00:44:51,440 --> 00:44:53,759
Speaker 1: of like Olympic emerch that we hadn't seen elsewhere. And

1002
00:44:53,800 --> 00:44:55,520
Speaker 1: another fun thing about that place. It was like a

1003
00:44:55,560 --> 00:44:58,920
Speaker 1: five story co op. It had a grocery store, it

1004
00:44:59,000 --> 00:45:01,799
Speaker 1: had a bookstore, it had a home goods store, It

1005
00:45:01,840 --> 00:45:04,560
Speaker 1: had a cat and dog section, there was a shoe store.

1006
00:45:04,560 --> 00:45:04,640
Speaker 5: Like.

1007
00:45:04,680 --> 00:45:06,000
Speaker 2: This place was enormous.

1008
00:45:06,400 --> 00:45:08,399
Speaker 1: But one cool thing was as I was checking out,

1009
00:45:08,440 --> 00:45:10,680
Speaker 1: there was an athlete next to me signing a poster.

1010
00:45:11,040 --> 00:45:12,920
Speaker 1: And the women that worked at the store had this

1011
00:45:13,000 --> 00:45:15,960
Speaker 1: gorgeous poster of Cortina, and every time an athlete came

1012
00:45:16,000 --> 00:45:18,040
Speaker 1: through and checked out, they would have them sign near

1013
00:45:18,120 --> 00:45:20,520
Speaker 1: the venue they competed at with their country. And this

1014
00:45:20,560 --> 00:45:23,200
Speaker 1: happened to be a Czech skeleton athlete who you had

1015
00:45:23,200 --> 00:45:24,319
Speaker 1: like a weird connection to too.

1016
00:45:24,480 --> 00:45:28,400
Speaker 3: Yes, my friend's friend is this skeleton athlete's coach?

1017
00:45:28,520 --> 00:45:29,120
Speaker 2: Yeah?

1018
00:45:29,360 --> 00:45:31,920
Speaker 1: No, my best friend's brothers sister said they saw Ferris

1019
00:45:31,960 --> 00:45:35,200
Speaker 1: pass on the thirty one Flavors Room. Anyway, Sorry, deep

1020
00:45:35,239 --> 00:45:37,080
Speaker 1: cut again, Paris Peeler's day off. If you haven't seen it,

1021
00:45:37,120 --> 00:45:38,560
Speaker 1: what are you doing with your life?

1022
00:45:39,040 --> 00:45:42,080
Speaker 2: Anyway? It was really fun to walk around the stores.

1023
00:45:42,160 --> 00:45:45,080
Speaker 1: There's eight million different kinds of sweaters that say Cortina,

1024
00:45:45,640 --> 00:45:47,880
Speaker 1: some of them have skiers, some of them to say Courtina.

1025
00:45:48,040 --> 00:45:49,440
Speaker 1: But it was reminding me of when you go to

1026
00:45:49,560 --> 00:45:52,720
Speaker 1: like any resort in America and you get your like veil, your.

1027
00:45:52,600 --> 00:45:55,240
Speaker 2: Aspen or whatever. So of course I bought one because

1028
00:45:55,239 --> 00:45:56,279
Speaker 2: I'm a sucker for that shit.

1029
00:45:56,480 --> 00:45:58,719
Speaker 4: Yours is the cutest of all the na It.

1030
00:45:58,640 --> 00:46:00,280
Speaker 2: Was totsa doorbs, I can't wait here.

1031
00:46:01,320 --> 00:46:03,240
Speaker 1: But also there was an artist that we came across

1032
00:46:03,239 --> 00:46:04,600
Speaker 1: on the street, and I have to tell you I

1033
00:46:04,680 --> 00:46:07,920
Speaker 1: was extremely tempted to buy his work, but I was

1034
00:46:07,960 --> 00:46:10,320
Speaker 1: not sure how to get home without it getting ruined.

1035
00:46:10,600 --> 00:46:12,400
Speaker 2: I already have a lot of souvenirs.

1036
00:46:11,880 --> 00:46:14,880
Speaker 1: To bring back, but this is his seventeenth Olympic Games,

1037
00:46:15,640 --> 00:46:19,560
Speaker 1: and he goes and draws the towns, the villages, the athletes.

1038
00:46:20,040 --> 00:46:20,879
Speaker 2: Beautiful work.

1039
00:46:20,920 --> 00:46:23,239
Speaker 1: I'll post it in one of my recaps of being

1040
00:46:23,280 --> 00:46:26,239
Speaker 1: in Courtina. But just stories like that the little on

1041
00:46:26,280 --> 00:46:29,120
Speaker 1: the ground stuff we've seen so much of here in Courtina.

1042
00:46:29,200 --> 00:46:31,640
Speaker 1: I feel like, whether it's the athletes and teams wandering

1043
00:46:31,680 --> 00:46:34,480
Speaker 1: around capturing content of what they're doing, whether it was

1044
00:46:34,600 --> 00:46:37,160
Speaker 1: what we talked about with Peekaboo street sharing sweaters and

1045
00:46:37,200 --> 00:46:40,200
Speaker 1: swapping pins and everything else, that's the stuff that's been

1046
00:46:40,239 --> 00:46:43,279
Speaker 1: really special for me in my first Olympics is the

1047
00:46:43,360 --> 00:46:45,480
Speaker 1: on the ground and the behind the scenes. So I

1048
00:46:45,520 --> 00:46:47,359
Speaker 1: really hope we're doing a good job of bringing that

1049
00:46:47,400 --> 00:46:49,520
Speaker 1: to y'all, not just with the missions, but with the

1050
00:46:49,560 --> 00:46:53,680
Speaker 1: content we're posting on Blue Sky and Instagram and everywhere else,

1051
00:46:53,760 --> 00:46:56,440
Speaker 1: Because to me, that's the difference between just watching it

1052
00:46:56,480 --> 00:46:58,680
Speaker 1: on TV and being here is in tears the venue,

1053
00:46:58,680 --> 00:47:01,279
Speaker 1: here's the athlete, here's the competition, a score, But how

1054
00:47:01,280 --> 00:47:01,919
Speaker 1: did you get there?

1055
00:47:02,080 --> 00:47:04,239
Speaker 2: What did the fan area look like? What did you buy?

1056
00:47:04,280 --> 00:47:05,240
Speaker 2: And all that other stuff.

1057
00:47:05,520 --> 00:47:07,080
Speaker 4: How many meals have you eaten today?

1058
00:47:08,080 --> 00:47:10,759
Speaker 2: Zero? Zero? And it's your birthday.

1059
00:47:11,760 --> 00:47:14,720
Speaker 1: We need to have a good, big old birthday dinner.

1060
00:47:14,760 --> 00:47:16,680
Speaker 1: We need to put the feedback on, as my friend

1061
00:47:16,760 --> 00:47:21,480
Speaker 1: Kara says, and really really do a big one tonight.

1062
00:47:21,280 --> 00:47:24,480
Speaker 3: As long as it includes cake of some sort.

1063
00:47:24,640 --> 00:47:26,560
Speaker 2: Okay, I thought you were gonna say Margarita pizza.

1064
00:47:27,080 --> 00:47:28,279
Speaker 3: It might include that too.

1065
00:47:28,880 --> 00:47:30,560
Speaker 1: I already have a segment planned for the end of

1066
00:47:30,600 --> 00:47:32,759
Speaker 1: our trip. That's what we learned about each other after

1067
00:47:32,840 --> 00:47:35,560
Speaker 1: three weeks of traveling together, and one is that Alex

1068
00:47:35,680 --> 00:47:39,560
Speaker 1: could and would be happiest solely on margarita pizzas. I'm

1069
00:47:39,560 --> 00:47:41,959
Speaker 1: gonna save the rest of the facts for that segment. Okay,

1070
00:47:42,000 --> 00:47:43,799
Speaker 1: we got to take a break when we come back.

1071
00:47:43,840 --> 00:47:45,120
Speaker 2: You moonwalk and son of a.

1072
00:47:45,040 --> 00:47:47,880
Speaker 1: Bitch, you old sailor, you stick around.

1073
00:47:53,680 --> 00:47:54,719
Speaker 2: Welcome back slices.

1074
00:47:54,800 --> 00:47:56,120
Speaker 1: We love that you're listening, but we want you to

1075
00:47:56,120 --> 00:47:57,799
Speaker 1: get in the game every day too. So here's our

1076
00:47:57,800 --> 00:48:00,720
Speaker 1: good game play of the day. Send us your final missions.

1077
00:48:00,760 --> 00:48:02,880
Speaker 1: Today is our last day in Cortina, and then we're

1078
00:48:02,920 --> 00:48:04,879
Speaker 1: headed back to Milan tomorrow where we're planned to take

1079
00:48:04,880 --> 00:48:08,160
Speaker 1: in the hockey Metal matches, some long track speed skating,

1080
00:48:08,200 --> 00:48:10,160
Speaker 1: and hopefully some short track speed skating.

1081
00:48:10,200 --> 00:48:10,399
Speaker 2: Two.

1082
00:48:10,560 --> 00:48:14,360
Speaker 1: So send us those burning questions, especially about those events.

1083
00:48:14,800 --> 00:48:16,520
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1084
00:48:16,600 --> 00:48:19,080
Speaker 1: up on email Good game at Wondermedia network dot com

1085
00:48:19,239 --> 00:48:21,279
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1086
00:48:21,320 --> 00:48:24,279
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1087
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1088
00:48:29,080 --> 00:48:30,960
Speaker 1: aren't the only people at the Olympics who are great

1089
00:48:31,000 --> 00:48:34,480
Speaker 1: at what they do. Rating one hundred percent of people

1090
00:48:34,680 --> 00:48:38,400
Speaker 1: who are tops in their field review from the ski

1091
00:48:38,480 --> 00:48:41,680
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1092
00:48:41,719 --> 00:48:45,360
Speaker 1: necks and torsos in the game, the sliding sport camera operators.

1093
00:48:45,680 --> 00:48:46,319
Speaker 2: We're seeing some.

1094
00:48:46,280 --> 00:48:49,120
Speaker 1: Of the most talented staffers in the world work these games.

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Speaker 1: And that includes a man who's gone viral that we

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Speaker 1: got to see in action in person today at the

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Speaker 1: Curling Center, the pebbling Dude, the Michael Jackson of Missing

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Speaker 1: the head ice technician for Curling Moonwalk, and Mark Callen.

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Speaker 2: He is beauty, he is grace.

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Speaker 1: He is allegedly getting a buttload of media requests due

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Speaker 1: to his elegant, unique approach to pebbling the ice. We'll

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Speaker 1: link to my videos of him and also a story

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Speaker 1: about him getting the ice ready to go for curling competitions. Also,

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Speaker 1: by the way, as it relates to Mark the Moonwalker.

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Speaker 1: One last mission, David Bonowitz asked us on Blue Sky quote, sincerely, curious,

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Speaker 1: I know venue design is highly specialized, but for maintenance

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Speaker 1: like this, does each Olympics recruit and train locally or

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Speaker 1: do they hire from an established worldwide community of professionals?

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Speaker 1: Thanks David Well, like the Piston bully guy we met

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Speaker 1: who came in from Germany or the Irish man who's

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Speaker 1: been written about keeping the slopes perfect in Bormeo. It's

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Speaker 1: about grabbing the best of the best worldwide for the

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Speaker 1: biggest jobs, and then they also train folks locally for

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Speaker 1: some of the other ones. All right, now it's your turn, y'all,

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Speaker 1: rate and review. Thanks for listening, See you tomorrow. Good Game,

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Speaker 1: Team Peterson, Good Game Page Jones. You seeing a Tina

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Speaker 1: mascot plushy on display but not being able to buy it.

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Speaker 2: They're sold out everywhere.

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

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

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Speaker 1: producers 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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