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Speaker 1: Welcome to good game with Sarah Spain, where we wish

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Speaker 1: Come mon, it's cool right See It's Tuesday, November nineteenth.

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Speaker 1: Today we're talking to Washington Spirit midfielder Croyd Bethune about

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Speaker 1: her incredible debut season, how she stays positive during injury rehab,

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Speaker 1: taking herself on bowling dates and a safe place for

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Speaker 1: her Olympic gold medal, plus travel trinkets and turkey time.

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Speaker 1: It's all coming up next. Welcome back Slices, niche has

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Speaker 2: Thank you so much, Sarah and NWSL Soccer News. The

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Speaker 2: Washington Spirit and the Orlando Pride have punched their tickets

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Speaker 2: to the league final in Kansas City. The Spirit advanced

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Speaker 2: in comeback fashion yet again on their home field Saturday,

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Speaker 2: Gotham FC's Estere Gonzalez put a header home off across

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Speaker 2: The Spirit converted on their first three, and goalkeeper Aubrey

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Speaker 2: on Sunday, the Pride in the Kansas City Current put

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Speaker 2: Orlando's Hayley McCutcheon answered in the forty first to tie

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Speaker 2: Laser of a strike into the bottom left corner that

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Speaker 1: The goal she.

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Speaker 2: We'll link to the highlight in the show notes, MARTA's

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Speaker 2: Orlando took the dub three to two. The NWSL final

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Speaker 2: at CPKC Stadium in Kansas City at eight pm Eastern.

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Speaker 2: Sarah and I will be there and we hope to

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Speaker 2: see some use license there too.

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Speaker 1: DMV stand up. We about to get another one maybe elsewhere.

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Speaker 2: In pro soccer news, we want to say a huge

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Speaker 2: congratulations to west Ham FC midfielder Christy Lewis and Chelsea

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Speaker 2: FC forward Sam Kerr, who announced.

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Speaker 2: The two posted a collajah photos to Instagram in which

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Speaker 2: The caption reads quote mwis her baby coming twenty twenty five.

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Speaker 1: End quote footy and gay shit. Gotta love it. Congrats y'all.

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Speaker 2: In golf news, Nellie Korda is back in her first

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Speaker 2: She won the Anica on Sunday. Corda trailed entering the

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Speaker 2: nineteen ninety. In tennis News, the second semifinal of the

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Speaker 2: Billy Jean King Cup is today. It'll be Great Britain

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Speaker 2: upsetting the US in its opener. The winner of today's

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Speaker 2: In WNBA News, the twenty twenty five draft lottery took

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Speaker 2: a lot of change. They've got a new GM and

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Speaker 2: arique A Gumbuwale was pumped about the lottery win, posting

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Speaker 2: Will the Wings select projected number one overall? Pick Page

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Speaker 1: On April fourteenth, more WNBA news.

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Speaker 2: The Women's Basketball Hall of Fame announced it's twenty twenty

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Speaker 2: Sue Bird, Sylvia Fowls, Cappy Pond Dexter, and Elena Beard

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Speaker 2: Phoenix Mercury, and Finals MVP. Congratulations to these living legends.

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Speaker 2: I am so so grateful I got to grow up

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Speaker 2: watching y'all hoop. In college Hoops News, Yukon head coach

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Speaker 2: the one thousand, two hundred and sixteenth of his career

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Speaker 2: the winningest coach in NCAA college basketball history on Wednesday

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Speaker 1: Dickinson. Thanks me. We gotta take a break when we

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Speaker 1: come back. It's Kroy Bethune. We caught up with her

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Speaker 1: She's an Olympic gold medalist, an attacking midfielder for the

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Speaker 1: What's up, KROI?

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Speaker 3: Hey, how are you?

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Speaker 1: I'm good? First, congrats on an absolutely incredible rookie season,

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Speaker 1: That's unreal. Did you have specific goals that you wrote

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Speaker 3: I mean I'm strong and like believing in myself, in

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Speaker 3: From my parents. My dad actually wrote this out. If

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Speaker 3: Your actions become habits. Habits become character. Character becomes destiny.

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Speaker 3: All is thought, that is all. That's actually my screen saver. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: What are the feelings? Nerves, excitement, joy.

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Speaker 1: Is there a US Women's national team player in particular

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Speaker 3: So Lindsay actually reached out to me before the Olympics

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Speaker 1: Emma Hayes spoke about her, her leadership is quite clear.

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Speaker 1: Was that hard for you guys on the team to

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Speaker 1: It's so hard watching ACL tears across soccer landscape, and

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Speaker 1: On, keep studying. That's where all the money should be

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Speaker 1: That's right. You tore orr meniscus while throwing out the

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Speaker 3: So? I have a dog named Cush. He's an American

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Speaker 3: Yes, this is my first dog on my own.

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Speaker 1: Pities are the best snugglers. My little Pity Banks is

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Speaker 1: this high draft pick, high expectations. You blow all of

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Speaker 1: them out of the water. You're winning Rookie of the month,

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Speaker 1: Rookie of the month, Rookie of the month. How has

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Speaker 1: it been sort of adjusting to being a professional soccer

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Speaker 1: supportive and also you know, trying to get theirs and

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Speaker 1: have their own success.

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Speaker 3: I feel like adjusting has been great. I feel like

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Speaker 3: I've been prepared for this moment for a couple of

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Speaker 3: years now, Like I mentioned, staying another year. Also the

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Speaker 3: coaches and staff. I've been surrounded with college, but a

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Speaker 3: lot of the rookies are already knew, whether that's national

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Speaker 3: team camps or how I used to play at Concord

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Speaker 3: with or playing against teammates like Heather and Courtney at Utah.

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Speaker 3: So we're not new to each other, which is great.

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Speaker 3: And also since there's a lot of us, it's kind

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Speaker 3: of like we have our own little rookie families. So

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Speaker 3: we've been getting through the rookie year with each other,

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Speaker 3: which has been amazing. I just like how welcoming everyone is.

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Speaker 3: It just feels really comfortable and no one being judgy

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Speaker 3: or jealous or any of that. So I feel like

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Speaker 3: this class has honestly been amazing and always.

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Speaker 1: This is going to be a tough season to top,

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Speaker 1: even with the jury, Like, other than staying healthy, of course,

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Speaker 1: we're going to want that, but I trust you also

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Speaker 1: have some other big plans for next year. Do you

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Speaker 1: have any goals you want to share?

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Speaker 3: Of course, health of course, And then I'll just say,

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Speaker 3: topping what I did this year, I just want to

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Speaker 3: continue to build off of each layer.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, what's your status for when you actually can hopefully

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Speaker 1: start just getting back to full speed practices and everything else,

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Speaker 1: hopefully before preseason.

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Speaker 3: I mean, I feel like God had another injury in

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Speaker 3: my plan in my journey, and since he did, I

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Speaker 3: feel like the timing was kind of perfect. I have preseason,

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Speaker 3: which gives me a little bit of extra time to

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Speaker 3: get ready for season, so I feel like I'll be ready.

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Speaker 1: Before Okay, before I let you go, we need to

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Speaker 1: do a speed round the all time soccer player men's

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Speaker 1: or women's that you most admire.

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Speaker 3: Women's we have Marta Tobin of course, and I'll say

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Speaker 3: Megan in there as well.

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Speaker 1: Nice top three nice.

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Speaker 3: And then men's messy Ronaldinho honestly, all the Brazilian and

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Speaker 3: Ronaldo Valdo.

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Speaker 1: All those yep, current player in the NWSL that you

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Speaker 1: look to you and you aspire to be.

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Speaker 3: Like a great question. Honestly, I'd have to go back

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Speaker 3: to now. I just have so much respect for her

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Speaker 3: and just thinking about like back in the day there

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Speaker 3: was a lot of comparison to us, and I definitely

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Speaker 3: see it. So I have a lot of respect for

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Speaker 3: as a person and a player.

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Speaker 1: NWSL player from another team you'd most want to play with.

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Speaker 3: I wanted to play with Ashley Sanchez such to say, but.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, NWSL player from another team you hate to play.

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Speaker 3: Against either, so Smith or Nay.

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Speaker 1: I was gonna say, Naomy Germa is a good answer

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Speaker 1: for anyone who just is like she makes it so

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Speaker 1: tough back there.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, Nay and I have gone to a bunch

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Speaker 3: of camps together. But also just playing against her at

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Speaker 3: Stanford each year, it was like she's like that is

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Speaker 3: really good.

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Speaker 1: Okay. Owner of the Spirit, Michelle Kang is known for

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Speaker 1: her over the top fits. Do you have a favorite

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Speaker 1: Michelle Kang fit?

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Speaker 3: I do. I can't remember exactly what, but I know

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Speaker 3: she had on this like either white or cream dress

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Speaker 3: and some like really high heels and I was like, Michelle,

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Speaker 3: you look great.

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Speaker 1: Probably had a cape too. She's got a lot of kiss.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, she does. For her to like walk on the

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Speaker 3: field with the grass and just look unfazed. It's really,

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Speaker 3: it's unbelievable.

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Speaker 1: She really, yes, how do you do it? She has

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Speaker 1: a very intimidating energy. It's like a little bit of

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Speaker 1: like Big Dick energy times like Devil Wears Prada and

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Speaker 1: a wind Tour energy.

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Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, it's kind of.

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Speaker 1: Terrifying to be honest, at least for me. Croy. We've

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Speaker 1: had so much fun talking to you. You are such

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Speaker 1: a professional already at just twenty three years old, both

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Speaker 1: in the way you carry yourself and in your game,

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Speaker 1: and we are dying to see how high that ceiling

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Speaker 1: is for you. Because this season was so much fun,

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Speaker 1: We're thinking about your health and we're so excited for

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Speaker 1: when you're back. Thanks so much for giving us some time.

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Speaker 3: Thank you, thank you for having me. You're amazing a

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Speaker 3: lot of fun.

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Speaker 1: Thanks again De Croix for the time, and congrats on

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Speaker 1: all the success. Can't wait to see you back out

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Speaker 1: on the pitch. We gotta pay the bills. BRB, You're back,

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Speaker 1: so are we, So slices. I booked a few days

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Speaker 1: of VAK with the hubby in Spain over the weekend

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Speaker 1: before work started. And whenever we travel to a new

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Speaker 1: country together, we buy a Christmas ornament to add to

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Speaker 1: our tree. So every year when we decorate, we get

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Speaker 1: to remember all the places that we've been together. It's

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Speaker 1: my favorite tradition. So I'm wondering for our good gameplay

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Speaker 1: of the day. Do you collect anything when you travel? Magnets, keychains, bowls.

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Speaker 1: We would love to see the fruits of your travels,

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Speaker 1: so send us a pick, tell us about it. Our

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Speaker 1: email is good game at wondermedianetwork dot com or leave

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Speaker 1: and review. It's easy. Watch when you're the perfect amount

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Speaker 1: of tipsy to crush at the bowling lanes. Rating ten

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Speaker 1: out of ten strikes review. You're not sobern off to

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Speaker 1: stress about it, but you're not so drunk that your

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Speaker 1: aim is off. You're right in the middle, just like

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Speaker 1: the balls you're tossing right down Main Street, hitting the

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Speaker 1: pocket between the one and the three pins. Turkey time, baby,

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