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

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Speaker 1: our bumps, sets and spikes. Love pro Volleyball Season two

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Speaker 1: has arrived. It's Wednesday, January seventh, and on today's show,

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Speaker 1: we'll be skipping the need to know and getting straight

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Speaker 1: to my conversation with Love president Rosie Spalding and player

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Speaker 1: Jordan Poulter. Now, longtime listeners will recall that Rosie and

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Speaker 1: Jordan joined us this time last year to preview Season

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Speaker 1: one of Love, part of last year's New Year, New

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Speaker 1: League series. Now, with season two getting underway today, Rosie

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Speaker 1: and Jordan joined us on Monday to discuss the biggest

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Speaker 1: takeaways from year one, their goals for season two, and

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Speaker 1: the long term vision for the league. That conversation's coming

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Speaker 1: up right after this, coming back to the show for

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Speaker 1: a second appearance. She's the president of Love pro Volleyball.

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Speaker 1: Prior to working with Love, she held leadership roles with

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Speaker 1: Super Bowl fifty, Rugby, World Cup Seven's and the thirty

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Speaker 1: fourth America's Cup, and architected league building strategies for properties

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Speaker 1: including Sale GP, World Rugby and USA Rugby.

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Speaker 2: She's Brittish. It's Rosie Spalding. Hi Rosie.

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Speaker 3: Hi, Hi, great to see you, Thanks for having us on.

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Speaker 2: Thanks for coming back.

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Speaker 1: Also returning to the show, she's a member of the

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Speaker 1: US women's national volleyball team and Olympic gold and silver medalist,

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Speaker 1: named best setter of the Tokyo Olympics. She was a

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Speaker 1: two time All American in college, was named the Big

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Speaker 1: Ten Center of the Year in her senior season, and

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Speaker 2: She's a founding athlete for.

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Speaker 1: League one Volleyball and is set to play her second

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Speaker 1: season for Love Salt Lake City. If you follow her

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Speaker 1: on Instagram, you know she knows how to have a

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Speaker 1: good time.

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Speaker 2: It's Jordan Poulter.

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Speaker 4: Hi, Jordan, Hi, Sarah, thanks for the introduction.

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Speaker 2: Well, thanks for coming back on the show.

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Speaker 1: You two joined us last year right around this time

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Speaker 1: to preview the inaugural season of Love Pro Volleyball for our.

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Speaker 2: New year, New League's Love one oh one episode, which

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Speaker 1: We got one season in the books, We're about to

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Speaker 1: embark on season two, and we're talking to you too

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Speaker 1: on Monday, with the season officially getting underwun Wednesday, twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty five, Champs Love Austin hosting Love Nebraska. So I

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Speaker 1: want to talk about what was and what will be

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Speaker 2: Rosie.

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Speaker 1: Let's start with some of the biggest lessons you feel

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Speaker 1: like you learned in season one.

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Speaker 3: Well, we learned so much, which is the great thing

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Speaker 3: But I think one thing was for sure we put

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Speaker 3: the highest quality of volleyball on the court, and in

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Speaker 3: coaches and our staffs, and the parity across the teams

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Speaker 3: Great commercial partner interest. I think we started the league.

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Speaker 3: feedback loop going on what do we want to improve

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Speaker 3: one of the key aspects was provide sort of appointment

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Speaker 3: USA Network we'll be doing that, which we're really excited about.

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Speaker 2: That we thought that was going to be good.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, I think you earned a lot of good

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Speaker 1: I want to get to that new kind of schedule

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Speaker 2: So let's start with you, Jordan, Roses and thorns.

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Speaker 4: Roses.

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Speaker 2: Rosie roses and thorns.

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Speaker 4: Can I have a couple of roses.

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Speaker 3: I think I've touched on a couple of them, but

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Speaker 1: So some of the changes for season two include a

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Speaker 1: You know, the pro volleyball landscape in America is getting

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Speaker 4: And so for me at the time, I think aligning with.

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Speaker 1: How do you viewed the competition with MLV specifically? I

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Speaker 1: I mean, it makes sense for young athletes and families

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Speaker 3: But it's always been our intent to introduce these ownership groups,

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Speaker 1: Six teams for season two of Love, but expansion has

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty seven. You're adding La Minnesota, San Francisco. You know, Jordan,

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Speaker 4: It's an investment in the league as a whole.

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Speaker 1: Okay, So then when we see Jordan Larson as part

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Speaker 3: Yeah, So we have a number of athletes that have

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Speaker 3: So all of the sports side of the league stays

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think early in leagues like this, it's easy

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Speaker 1: We're running out of time here. I wanted to ask

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Speaker 1: you quickly, Jordan Sell, Folks who didn't get in on

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Speaker 1: season one, on season two, what did they miss out on?

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Speaker 2: What's happening this year?

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Speaker 1: What should you what should our listeners know about getting

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Speaker 1: into and becoming a fan of either your Salt Lake

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Speaker 5: don't know, I think just even seeing the caliber of

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Speaker 5: athletes that we have I've one retained from each of

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Speaker 5: the teams in season one to season two and then

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Speaker 5: I think, make every night and every match that much

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Speaker 5: regular season were the ones that were in the finals.

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Speaker 5: So no, I would just encourage them. If you're bored,

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Speaker 5: and even if you're not bored, check out volleyball. It's

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Speaker 5: a really it's a fun, fast paced sport. You know,

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Speaker 5: if you have young kids. I think it's something that

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Speaker 5: kids can easily be entertained by it. There's not a

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Speaker 5: lot of dead time, and yeah, we're excited.

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Speaker 1: I think we've seen across the country from college volleyball

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Speaker 1: and up, how people are becoming more and more obsessed

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Speaker 1: with what a great watch it is on television and

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Speaker 1: you can really see the quality of play, whether you

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Speaker 2: It's an enjoyable watch either way.

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Speaker 1: Rosie help our listeners dive in season two where can

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Speaker 1: they watch and buy tickets and merch and everything else.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I say, if you really want to experience it,

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Speaker 3: and if you can, please come to a match, because

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Speaker 3: that's they can't beat that just being there right up

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Speaker 3: close and you're watching these pros. It's incredible experience. So

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Speaker 3: lovb dot com for tickets for all of our games

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Speaker 3: and then tune into USA Network. So on Wednesday nights,

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Speaker 3: we'll be on USA Network starting this coming Wednesday, and

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Speaker 3: then we also have ESPN coverage, so you can find

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Speaker 3: the details of that coverage on our website. As well,

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Speaker 3: so lovb dot com.

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Speaker 1: Love lovb nott the other one dot com for all

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Speaker 1: the different merch schedules, where to watch, when to watch,

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Speaker 1: and a lot of athlete driven content and other stuff

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Speaker 1: to get.

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Speaker 2: To know the players and the teams.

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Speaker 1: Love two oh one, Love Season two kicking off. Thank

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Speaker 1: you so much for joining us and forgiving.

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Speaker 2: Us some time.

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Speaker 3: Thank you for the opportunity.

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Speaker 4: Thanks Sarah, appreciate it.

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Speaker 1: Thanks again to Rosie and Jordan for taking the time

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Speaker 1: We got to take another break when we were duping

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Speaker 1: the Doppelganger.

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Speaker 2: Welcome back slices.

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

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Speaker 1: get in the game every day too, So here's our

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Speaker 1: It's easy watch Caitlin Clark lookalike Orley aka Fakeland Clark

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Speaker 1: to Caitlyn Clark in the past, and she even showed

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Speaker 1: up at some games and events in Clark's Jersey to

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Speaker 1: look absolutely identical, except with Caitlin Clark's face instead of Orley's.

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Speaker 1: We'll link to the video in the show notes. It's

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Speaker 1: pretty funny stuff. Now it's your turn. Rate and review.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for listening, See you tomorrow. Good game, Rosie, good game, Jordan.

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Speaker 1: much that damn ball hurts, and then you head home.

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Speaker 2: With giant welts on your forearms.

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