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

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Speaker 1: Gallantine's Day by remembering the wise words of Leslie Nope

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Speaker 1: hoose before bros uteruses, before deuterus'es ovaries, before brovaries. It's Friday,

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Speaker 1: February thirteenth, Happy Gallantine's Day, from our home away from home,

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Speaker 1: the office at the Burton House in Lavigno. At this point,

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Speaker 1: I basically consider Burton and all the amazing folks here

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Speaker 1: are unofficial sponsor. They rule. On today's show, we'll be

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Speaker 1: hearing from Team USA's newly minted Olympic bronze medalist, Paula Moltzen,

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Speaker 1: who made the podium in the alpine skiing team combined event.

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Speaker 1: Earlier this week, we talked about the nerves she felt

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Speaker 1: racing second in a two person event and making sure

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Speaker 1: to capitalize on her teammate's great run, the relief she

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Speaker 1: feels ahead of her other events having already secured an

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Speaker 1: Olympic medal, and how her boyfriend turned ski tech turned

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Speaker 1: husband keeps her ready to race. And in honor of

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Speaker 1: today's date, we're also drawing a little inspiration from the

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Speaker 1: aforementioned Leslie Nope Amy Poehler's character in Parks and rec

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Speaker 1: who created Gallantine's Day during season two of the show.

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Speaker 1: A holiday for quote ladies to celebrate ladies sounds like

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Speaker 1: just our kind of thing. This is friendship, not gay shit,

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Speaker 1: So no wink wink gal pals here. Instead, we just

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Speaker 1: asked some of our favorite women in the sports world

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Speaker 1: to celebrate the teammates, coaches, and other beloved sportscals in

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Speaker 1: their lives. Plus a serious shakeup in the NWSL, a

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Speaker 1: mother son duo making history, and this podcast is a

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Speaker 1: time machine step on in. It's all coming out right

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Speaker 1: after this welcome back slices. We're recording most of this

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Speaker 1: show ahead of Thursday night's halfpipe final, So let's begin

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Speaker 1: by throwing this to the wiser, more beautiful Alex and

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Speaker 1: Sarah of the future for our reactions, straight from Lavigno

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Speaker 1: Snowpark Whyser A more beautiful future, Sarah and Alex here,

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Speaker 1: and we're standing at the bottom of a now very

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Speaker 1: empty halfpipe. The seats that the fans were all on

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Speaker 1: are actually made of snow. We couldn't see them before,

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Speaker 1: but now we're almost entirely all alone. Year after what

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Speaker 1: was a thrilling in some ways disappointing, but really really

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Speaker 1: impressive competition that had twists and turns that I don't

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Speaker 1: think anybody expected. Chloe Kim was in first after the

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Speaker 1: other Americans, they weren't really in the mix. Be Kim

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Speaker 1: wasn't a factor. And then Mattie Mastro tried to do

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Speaker 1: her signature double crippler. She was the first woman ever

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Speaker 1: She tried to do that for her first big trick

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Speaker 3: Even though Mattie struggled. One thing that I loved seeing

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Speaker 1: She was greeted by Miles Garrett, her boyfriend, who plays

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Speaker 1: Snoop Dog, who was also here watching Snoop Also, his

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Speaker 1: a scene here of people, many of them wearing Chloe

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Speaker 5: Okay, we go beart, they go bear. I'm trilingual, so

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Speaker 1: You have to put down this run. That second run,

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Speaker 5: So initially my coach was like, you have two options.

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Speaker 5: You can do your first run bigger and better. All admit,

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Speaker 1: Is that the run the run? Your second run, is

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Speaker 5: you know, I've landed that run a few times, not

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Speaker 5: maybe me in an alternate universe could have done it.

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Speaker 7: Bro, how do you just assess yourself in this moment.

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Speaker 5: Oh my gosh, I'm so thrilled.

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Speaker 1: in honor of US goalie Aaron Frankel. She's got an

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Speaker 1: entire Instagram page at Paine by Romain dedicated to rating

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Speaker 1: Be sure to scroll down far enough to get to

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Speaker 1: the Caesar Wiener. All right, zooming out for the Olympics

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Speaker 1: for a sec, we go to soccer. The NWSL's Casey

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Speaker 1: Current announced two major trades on Wednesday, sending midfielder Claire

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Speaker 1: to the Current. Separately, midfielder Kroi Bethune is leaving the

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Speaker 1: at just seventeen years old. On Instagram on Wednesday, she wrote, quote,

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Speaker 1: coming into a new environment at just seventeen years old

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Speaker 1: was beyond scary, but I never doubted the love, trust

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Speaker 1: You've become part of my family and I'll cherish that forever.

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Speaker 1: End quote Now Bethune NWSL midfielder and Rookie of the

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Speaker 1: Year in twenty twenty four shared a statement about joining

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Speaker 1: the current reading quote, it is an honor to represent

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Speaker 1: a club that exemplifies relentless energy, togetherness and a world

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Speaker 1: class commitment to elevating women's sports. It's Teal time, cac

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Speaker 1: Babe end quote. The transfers are the second and third

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Speaker 1: highest in league history for intra league deals. The overall

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Speaker 1: record was set last year when Gotham FC paid one

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Speaker 1: point twenty five million to the NC Courage for Jadenshaw.

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Speaker 1: These are absolutely wild developments. Honestly, it's hard to imagine

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Speaker 1: Trinity Rodman doing all those TikTok dances without Bethune, and

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Speaker 1: it's terrifying for opponents to imagine Kroy and two time

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Speaker 1: MVP Temushawinga on the attack for KC toops where USA

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Speaker 1: Basketball has announced a roster and coaching staff for an

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Speaker 1: upcoming twenty twenty six Feeble Women's World Cup qualifying tournament.

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Speaker 1: Big names returning to the senior national team, including twenty

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Speaker 1: Then there are the rookies, Paige Beckers, Sonya Citron, Caitlin Clark,

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Speaker 1: Kiki Eriefen, and Angel Reese, who will all make their

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Speaker 1: in San Juan, Puerto Rico from March eleventh to seventeenth,

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Speaker 1: and the twenty twenty six FEEB World Cup will be

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Speaker 1: in Berlin in September. To college hoops, We've got a

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Speaker 1: big game on Saturday, with number three South Carolina traveling

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Speaker 1: to number six LSU. The game, which tips off at

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Speaker 1: South Carolina has history on its side, as it's been

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Speaker 1: more than ten years since LSU defeated the Game Cocks.

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Speaker 1: Moving on to a business of sports story, and one

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Speaker 1: we've been keeping an eye on it for the last

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Speaker 1: couple of days relating to Casey Wasserman, head of the

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Speaker 1: Wasserman Talent Agency. On Wednesday, a soccer legend, Abby Wombach,

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Speaker 1: announced that she's leaving the agency after the recent release

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Speaker 1: of Epstein files showed that the founder, Casey Wasserman had

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Speaker 1: exchanged a series of flirtatious emails with Gelane Maxwell, a

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Speaker 1: longtime associate of Jeffrey Epstein. Several artists, including Chapel Rohne,

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Speaker 1: have also announced their departure from the Wasserman agency, but

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Speaker 1: Wambach was the first athlete to do so. In a

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Speaker 1: post on Instagram, Wombach wrote, quote, I read Casey Wasserman's

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Speaker 1: correspondences in the Epstein files. I know what I know,

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Speaker 1: and I'm following my gut and my values. I will

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Speaker 1: not participate in any business arrangement under his leadership. She continued,

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Speaker 1: Casey should resign. He should leave so more people like

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Speaker 1: me don't have to. I am unclear of my next steps.

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Speaker 1: That's okay with me. I just know where I can't

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Speaker 1: be end quote. Wasserman has a loaded roster of current

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Speaker 1: and retired athletes, including Paige Becker's, Alex Morgan, Dinah Tarassi,

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Speaker 1: Ashlyn Harris, Hillary Knight, Britney Griner, Brianna Stewart, and Sophia Wilson.

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Speaker 1: And it's worth noting that Casey Wasserman has been a

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Speaker 1: the he of the LA twenty eight Olympic Committee. There

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Speaker 1: and other stories about those who are supporting him staying on.

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Speaker 1: We'll keep you updated as we learn more about all this.

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Speaker 1: We'll let you know if any other athletes follow Womback's lead,

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Speaker 1: and in the meantime, we'll put a New York Times

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Speaker 1: story about the client departures in the show notes. All right,

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

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Speaker 1: Bronze medalist at these Olympic Games. Paula Moltzen joining us now.

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Speaker 1: She's an alpine skier who specializes in slalom and giant slalom,

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Speaker 1: A two time Olympian, two time World Championship medalist, and

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Speaker 1: an NCAA title winner at the University of Vermont. She's

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Speaker 1: a Minnesota native. And oh yeah, she won an Olympic

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Speaker 1: bronze medal this week and the team combined, it's Paula Moltsen. Hi, Paula, Hello,

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Speaker 1: I see you're wearing the medal. What are the chances

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Speaker 1: you're taking it off anytime soon?

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Speaker 6: Very slim? I have been sleeping with it the last

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Speaker 6: two nights. It's still not really seeing. I'm still processly

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Speaker 6: seeing a lot.

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Speaker 1: Of it amazing. Let's start with the medal, because you

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Speaker 1: won that with your teammate Jackie Wiles. It's an event

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Speaker 1: in which one athlete Jackie in this case, skis a

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Speaker 1: downhill run, and then the other you ski as slalom run,

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Speaker 1: and the team with the fastest combined time is the winner.

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Speaker 1: Your team was in fourth after Jackie's downhill run. So

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Speaker 1: what were your nerves like heading into the slalom knowing

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Speaker 6: I was actually, I think more nervous watching Jackie race

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Speaker 6: than I was actually in my own start. I felt

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Speaker 6: really confident in how I've been skiing, and so it

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Speaker 6: was I wasn't worried about my ski. I was more

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Speaker 6: nervous watching Jackie come down the hill. She's really strong

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Speaker 6: and really athletic, and she had some really great saves

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Speaker 6: down the run, and I freaked out the whole time.

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Speaker 6: But once she was across the finish line, I was

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Speaker 6: confident that we'd be able to make a push for

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Speaker 6: a medal.

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Speaker 1: There was an incredible other American duo in that competition,

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Speaker 1: and when you're maybe the second best or the expected

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Speaker 1: to finish second best of the two American teams. Does

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Speaker 1: that impact you at all when you're watching, like Breezy

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Speaker 1: Johnson finished first in the first part of the event

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Speaker 1: or prepping for yours, do you consider the finishes of

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Speaker 1: your teammates at all?

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Speaker 6: Definitely. I mean, Brizzie had a phenomenal downhill race individually

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Speaker 6: and then in the team event as well, she was leading.

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Speaker 6: And so as we know, MICHAELA is the best in

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Speaker 6: the world, the goat, she's got all the titles, she's

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Speaker 6: got the top speed. And so when you're sitting in

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Speaker 6: third place and that last team to go is you're

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Speaker 6: a very own teammate who is the best in the world,

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Speaker 6: you don't really expect to beat them because they're sort

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Speaker 6: of the unbeatable. And so I think Jackie and I

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Speaker 6: as we were waiting for MICHAELA to come down, we're like,

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Speaker 6: all right, we've already got fourth, Like it's okay. We're

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Speaker 6: still so proud of each other, like it's super bittersweet,

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Speaker 6: but it's okay, Like we're proud for our teammates too.

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Speaker 6: And then as MICHAELA was coming down and the splits

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Speaker 6: were turning red Jackie and I kind of looked at

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Speaker 6: each other and we're like, I guess we kind of

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Speaker 6: just need a miracle. And when MICHAELA crossed and fourth,

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Speaker 6: it was Yeah, it's a tough moment to celebrate yourself

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Speaker 6: but also feel for teammates in hold space for both.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely, and it's something a lot of Team USA athletes

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Speaker 1: are going through here because there are some really stacked

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Speaker 1: and loaded events where you're trying to be happy for yourself,

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Speaker 1: and Breezy had that exact same moment watching Lindsay vonn

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Speaker 1: crash right and trying to enjoy her own gold medal effort.

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Speaker 1: What are the differences for you between the nerves and

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Speaker 1: a team event and individual I think in a team

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Speaker 1: event they're way exaggerated.

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Speaker 6: You have somebody else on your back while you're like

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Speaker 6: carrying down the hill, and then in an individual event,

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Speaker 6: you're just skiing for yourself. If you make a mistake

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Speaker 6: or something goes wrong, really the only person that you're

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Speaker 6: letting down is yourself. But that team event, it's just

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Speaker 6: like so intense that you have, like the pressure of something.

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Speaker 6: There's never pressure from them, but you feel it internally.

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Speaker 1: You're going to be competing in two more events at

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Speaker 1: these Winter Olympics, slalom and giant slalom. Does that metal

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Speaker 1: win impact at all how you're preparing for the other ones.

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Speaker 6: We're lucky enough that this slalom event and the team

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Speaker 6: combined is on the exact same hill as the slalom

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Speaker 6: for the Olympic medal race, and so just the exposure

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Speaker 6: to the race hill is something that's really beneficial for

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Speaker 6: me personally. And to get some time and some confidence

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Speaker 6: on that hill felt really good, and I think honestly,

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Speaker 6: moving forward through the rest of the Olympics, I feel

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Speaker 6: maybe like a sense of relief that I have an

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Speaker 6: Olympic medal and now I can hopefully just go ski

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Speaker 6: a bit more free and ski for myself and not

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Speaker 6: have the pressure of coming home with an Olympic medal.

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Speaker 1: You know, it's interesting. We were just listening to an

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Speaker 1: athlete from Italy who had gone through incredible injury leading

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Speaker 1: up to these games, and she said she didn't have

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Speaker 1: huge expectations. She was just like my brother and I

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Speaker 1: were talking and I was like, I'm just gonna have fun.

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Speaker 1: I'm going to ski really freely and see what happens.

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Speaker 1: And she ended up winning an event that she was

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Speaker 1: not favored for. So I think that kind of freedom

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Speaker 1: as you're racing might just be the key to even

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Speaker 1: more medals for you, No, Jinx.

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Speaker 6: I hope so Federica bringing in it is a big

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Speaker 6: inspiration for me, so I'm hoping to follow her lead.

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Speaker 6: She is icon of this sport and has like so

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Speaker 6: much tenacity and grit and resilience. It was impressive to

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Speaker 6: watch today.

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Speaker 1: And talk about good games for her sh she's the

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Speaker 1: flag bearer, and then she goes on to win a

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Speaker 1: surprise gold, like just incredible, so fun. You've been enjoying

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Speaker 1: the best success of your career this season, finishing on

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Speaker 1: the World Cup podium four times so far. How has

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Speaker 1: maybe the pressure that you put on yourself with these Olympics.

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Speaker 6: I'm not feeling so much pressure just yet. I'm sure

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Speaker 6: it will come, but I do feel as though my

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Speaker 6: that success into this season. So to be able to

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Speaker 6: continue building every single race and find success in both

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Speaker 6: lom and Giant slom is also It's kind of like

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Speaker 6: a relief as well, that I can just like focus

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Speaker 6: normal is going to be good enough on any given day.

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Speaker 1: These winter sports have so many ups and downs, whether

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Speaker 1: it's injuries or just the crashouts and the level of

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Speaker 1: consistency that's so hard to keep, and You've had a

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Speaker 1: lot of ups and downs in your career. When you

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Speaker 1: were twenty, you became the first US woman to win

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Speaker 1: a slalom title at the World Junior Championships. A year later,

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Speaker 1: you lost your spot on the US team. Struggling on

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Speaker 1: the World Cup circuit, you ended up taking what's considered

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Speaker 1: sort of a step down in the world of skiing,

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Speaker 1: competing at the NCAA level for the University of Vermont.

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Speaker 1: When you go back to that moment when you lost

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Speaker 1: your spot and you're thinking, let me try to find

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Speaker 1: success at the collegiate level, did you have any expectations

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Speaker 1: of what the future might look like.

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Speaker 6: No, I kind of fell out of love with ski

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Speaker 6: racing in that moment when I was not asked back

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Speaker 6: to the US ski team. I didn't really know if

648
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Speaker 6: I really loved ski racing that much. It wasn't really

649
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Speaker 6: my identifying characteristic of myself anymore. I went to college

650
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Speaker 6: and found the love for ski racing again, and found

651
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Speaker 6: the love of team and the support that comes with

652
00:31:41,360 --> 00:31:45,200
Speaker 6: a collegiate team. And I think that college was at

653
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Speaker 6: the time, I think, really not my plan A. But

654
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Speaker 6: I'm always grateful for when I look back on it,

655
00:31:50,760 --> 00:31:53,360
Speaker 6: Grateful for all the experiences, all the people met, the

656
00:31:53,440 --> 00:31:56,000
Speaker 6: NCAA titles, and it's just the community that has taken

657
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Speaker 6: me in through the college experience, and.

658
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Speaker 1: That's such a great lesson for so many people. I

659
00:32:00,160 --> 00:32:02,440
Speaker 1: think a lot of folks think if your trajectory doesn't

660
00:32:02,480 --> 00:32:05,080
Speaker 1: just continue to go straight up, then that's a sign

661
00:32:05,080 --> 00:32:06,560
Speaker 1: that maybe you don't have it in you or you

662
00:32:06,600 --> 00:32:09,479
Speaker 1: aren't destined for greatness. But there are so many paths

663
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Speaker 1: that people take, and sometimes it is something like the

664
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Speaker 1: you know, congeniality of a collegiate team to remind you

665
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Speaker 1: of why you were there and get you back on

666
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Speaker 1: track for the kind of incredible success you're having now,

667
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Speaker 1: which is so great. You rejoined the national team in

668
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Speaker 1: twenty eighteen, How different was it when you returned with

669
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Speaker 1: the mindset that you had from Vermont?

670
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Speaker 6: Yeah, my entire mentality in the approach to skiing change.

671
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Speaker 6: When I came back to the USK team, I'd finished

672
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Speaker 6: three years in college and I was coming back to

673
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Speaker 6: the USK team with my then boyfriend who also works

674
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Speaker 6: as my technician, and so I was coming back to

675
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Speaker 6: the USK team with a type of support I'd never

676
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Speaker 6: had before. When you come up through the USC team

677
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Speaker 6: sometimes there is so many girls trying to make it

678
00:32:48,640 --> 00:32:51,680
Speaker 6: that the support isn't spread evenly. So to come back

679
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Speaker 6: to the USC team with the support of the person

680
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Speaker 6: that you love the most and that they're always going

681
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Speaker 6: to be there to fight for you was.

682
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Speaker 1: Yeah.

683
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Speaker 6: I felt like I wasn't a really good mentor and

684
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Speaker 6: like found a place that I could work from and

685
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Speaker 6: build from. And that is something I'm like so so

686
00:33:05,640 --> 00:33:08,040
Speaker 6: proud of to have done, is to come back and

687
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Speaker 6: like found a new version of myself as professional athlete.

688
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Speaker 8: Yeah.

689
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Speaker 1: And you know what's fascinating about that is there's this

690
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Speaker 1: identity aspect of being an athlete that a lot of people,

691
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Speaker 1: when they're done with college sports or maybe when they

692
00:33:18,560 --> 00:33:21,360
Speaker 1: retire as a pro, struggle with who am I If

693
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Speaker 1: I'm not this kind of athlete? And you kind of

694
00:33:24,480 --> 00:33:26,440
Speaker 1: had to find that for yourself after you lost your

695
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Speaker 1: spot on the team. So how did having to find

696
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Speaker 1: it early impact how you now see your identity even

697
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Speaker 1: as you're back to being an Olympic medalist skier.

698
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Speaker 6: I mostly see the growth, right. I see who I

699
00:33:38,640 --> 00:33:42,320
Speaker 6: was as a young athlete and how she approached everyday life,

700
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Speaker 6: how she approached training, And then I see myself now

701
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Speaker 6: and the different intensities they bring to different things, and

702
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Speaker 6: the outlook I have. When I was young, my whole

703
00:33:51,360 --> 00:33:54,000
Speaker 6: life revolved around skiing and that I like, all I

704
00:33:54,040 --> 00:33:56,200
Speaker 6: wanted to do is be an Olympic ski racer. And

705
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Speaker 6: then when I went to college, I got perspective on

706
00:33:58,720 --> 00:34:00,960
Speaker 6: life that there was so much more to the world

707
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Speaker 6: than just ski racing. And so I've taken that mentality

708
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Speaker 6: back to the World Cup and I have that now

709
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Speaker 6: that if things aren't always going the way I want them,

710
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Speaker 6: that there's many other options for me in the future.

711
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Speaker 6: And I still feel that way even with an Olympic

712
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Speaker 6: metal that ski racing is not everything. There's more life afterwards.

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Speaker 1: Well, part of life is love. And you mentioned your

714
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Speaker 1: husband Ryan. You met him in twenty twenty two. He

715
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Speaker 1: was your ski tech. Is he still your ski tech

716
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Speaker 1: and did he prep the skis that you won that medal?

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Speaker 2: On?

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Speaker 9: You?

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Speaker 6: Correct?

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Speaker 5: You?

721
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Speaker 6: We've been together since twenty and thirteen, not twenty twenty two.

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Speaker 6: We started ditting in high school.

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Speaker 1: You married him in twenty twenty two, exactly, so, but

724
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Speaker 1: he oh sorry.

725
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Speaker 6: I was clarified that he was my boyfriend before he

726
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Speaker 6: was my ski technician, because if he goes the other way,

727
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Speaker 6: it doesn't it doesn't sound so good.

728
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Speaker 1: But yes, fair enough, good clarification.

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Speaker 6: He is still my husband and he's still my ski technician.

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Speaker 6: He is definitely the only person that has touched my

731
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Speaker 6: skis or tuned my skis or prepared them for any race,

732
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Speaker 6: and so I wouldn't trust anybody else to do it.

733
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Speaker 6: And so yeah, he was the one who did it.

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Speaker 1: What exactly does a ski tech do? Take us through it?

735
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Speaker 6: This is complicated. I feel like there's like no layman's

736
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Speaker 6: terms in this. Okay, So we as athletes on alpine

737
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Speaker 6: skiing have anywhere between like forty to sixty skis depending

738
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Speaker 6: two disciplines, and so for me, I probably carry around

739
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Speaker 6: like twenty ish pairs of Salm skis and he goes

740
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Speaker 6: through like they come out of the plastic wrap and

741
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Speaker 6: you have to prepare them, which takes hours on end,

742
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Speaker 6: and then on the night before race he waxes them

743
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Speaker 6: and then sharpens the edges. But it has to be

744
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Speaker 6: done really precisely because in an outdoor sport, the surface

745
00:35:35,760 --> 00:35:38,839
Speaker 6: is not always the same. So I'm like, maybe, like

746
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Speaker 6: hockey or figure skating, the ice is probably relatively similar

747
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Speaker 6: in a certain rage, whereas on any given day in

748
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Speaker 6: ski racing you could have slush all the way to

749
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Speaker 6: like sheet ice. So he's always in touch with what

750
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Speaker 6: the surface is like, and so that is what he's

751
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Speaker 6: mostly in charge is making sure the edges are perfectly prepared.

752
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Speaker 1: What an incredible combo you two are, then, and how

753
00:35:59,440 --> 00:36:01,279
Speaker 1: nice it is to have complete and full trust in

754
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Speaker 1: the person that's setting you up for these big races.

755
00:36:04,600 --> 00:36:07,880
Speaker 1: You recently started sharing your journey and pursuing fertility treatment,

756
00:36:08,239 --> 00:36:11,080
Speaker 1: and it's funny because I was reading about this and thinking, like, God,

757
00:36:11,120 --> 00:36:13,080
Speaker 1: she must be, you know, pushing forty or something, and

758
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Speaker 1: I'm like, oh my gosh, thirty one right and having

759
00:36:16,360 --> 00:36:18,440
Speaker 1: to think about this so early, But it's so true.

760
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Speaker 1: How did you decide this was something that you needed

761
00:36:20,680 --> 00:36:22,560
Speaker 1: to kind of think about at this point in your life.

762
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Speaker 6: I have always really loved kids, and my siblings have kids,

763
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Speaker 6: and I've just been always aware of the fact that

764
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Speaker 6: I wanted to have a family in the future. And

765
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Speaker 6: I am thirty one, which is not that old, but

766
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Speaker 6: it's also not that young, and I've been thinking about

767
00:36:37,280 --> 00:36:39,840
Speaker 6: fertility and thinking about freezing my eggs for a couple

768
00:36:39,840 --> 00:36:43,280
Speaker 6: of years now. I didn't really know the whole process

769
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Speaker 6: of it all. And then I got in touch with

770
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Speaker 6: a family friend who actually owns the clinic that is

771
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Speaker 6: now my partner, and we just talked about options. She

772
00:36:51,160 --> 00:36:53,680
Speaker 6: laid it all out there, and then we kind of

773
00:36:53,760 --> 00:36:56,560
Speaker 6: decided that this partnership was meant to be that I

774
00:36:56,640 --> 00:37:01,279
Speaker 6: was a great resource to use to help spread the

775
00:37:01,320 --> 00:37:03,480
Speaker 6: information and knowledge of what is out there when it

776
00:37:03,480 --> 00:37:06,000
Speaker 6: comes to fertility and when you need to start thinking

777
00:37:06,000 --> 00:37:07,920
Speaker 6: about it and what the process is going to look like.

778
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Speaker 6: And for me, I'm super grateful because I'm going to

779
00:37:11,040 --> 00:37:13,120
Speaker 6: be able to share my process of going through it

780
00:37:13,160 --> 00:37:15,000
Speaker 6: when I go to do it this spring.

781
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, it's it's wild how Yeah, thirty one

782
00:37:18,920 --> 00:37:20,759
Speaker 1: is pretty young, but you know, my sister had her

783
00:37:20,760 --> 00:37:24,120
Speaker 1: first kid at thirty five, and it was a geriatric pregnancy, oh,

784
00:37:24,120 --> 00:37:26,920
Speaker 1: which is such a mean term, but you're all have

785
00:37:27,000 --> 00:37:31,040
Speaker 1: to start thinking about it early. Yeah. I also I'm

786
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Speaker 1: happy for you that if you do end up having kids,

787
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Speaker 1: it sounds like your husband will be an expert at

788
00:37:36,960 --> 00:37:39,880
Speaker 1: every little detail from the diapers to the field. Like

789
00:37:39,960 --> 00:37:42,880
Speaker 1: this guy knows his you know his role and how

790
00:37:42,920 --> 00:37:44,719
Speaker 1: to step in when he's needed. So I love that.

791
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Speaker 1: You Know, we talked about Mikayla Shiffrin earlier, and you've

792
00:37:47,880 --> 00:37:50,799
Speaker 1: shared a lot of podiums with her. It's clear there's

793
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Speaker 1: a lot of support among US athletes, And I wonder

794
00:37:52,920 --> 00:37:56,600
Speaker 1: from your perspective, training, watching, traveling, all the stuff that

795
00:37:56,640 --> 00:37:58,720
Speaker 1: you guys do together, what do you think has allowed

796
00:37:58,760 --> 00:38:01,200
Speaker 1: Mikayla to be so dominant over such a long period

797
00:38:01,239 --> 00:38:02,040
Speaker 1: of time in this sport.

798
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Speaker 6: Oh Man, that's a good question. I think she It's

799
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Speaker 6: like so cliche to say hard work, but I do

800
00:38:08,200 --> 00:38:11,760
Speaker 6: think she is always the athlete putting in the extra

801
00:38:11,960 --> 00:38:15,120
Speaker 6: the extra mile, the extra inch, going for the extra run.

802
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Speaker 6: But I also think she's really strategic on how she

803
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Speaker 6: does that.

804
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Speaker 1: All.

805
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Speaker 6: She's built this team around her that supports her in

806
00:38:21,080 --> 00:38:24,279
Speaker 6: every aspect of her life, and she is able to

807
00:38:24,360 --> 00:38:28,400
Speaker 6: just like, utilize every ounce of energy everybody else is

808
00:38:28,440 --> 00:38:31,080
Speaker 6: willing to give her to make the best situation for her.

809
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Speaker 6: She's got a lot of grit. She's gone through some

810
00:38:34,520 --> 00:38:37,400
Speaker 6: hardships in her personal life, and I think, yeah, I

811
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Speaker 6: don't know what makes her exactly the best, but she's

812
00:38:40,480 --> 00:38:43,359
Speaker 6: definitely got a lot of hard work, tenacity, and she's

813
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Speaker 6: really willing to go the extra mile.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's really hard to be consistent. We've sent that

815
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Speaker 1: across these games. Some of the favorites have gone down

816
00:38:52,520 --> 00:38:56,479
Speaker 1: just because of snow conditions or tough courses. And it's

817
00:38:56,520 --> 00:38:59,799
Speaker 1: just impressive to watch her, and so impressive to watch you.

818
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Speaker 1: You won your metal and look for more. So thanks

819
00:39:02,680 --> 00:39:04,520
Speaker 1: so much for giving us some time during these very

820
00:39:04,520 --> 00:39:09,160
Speaker 1: busy games. Thank you so much for having me. Thanks

821
00:39:09,200 --> 00:39:11,320
Speaker 1: again to Paula for hanging out with us mid games.

822
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Speaker 1: We have to take another break when we come back.

823
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Speaker 1: Let's remember what's important in life. Friends, Waffles, work or

824
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Speaker 1: Waffle's friend's work doesn't matter, but work is third. It's

825
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Speaker 1: Gallentine's Day. Next chow slice is Let's take a quick

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Speaker 1: break from Olympic madness to celebrate the friendships and mentorships

827
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Speaker 1: that make women's sports so special, it's time for a

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Speaker 1: Gallantine's Day extravaganza. We asked a handful of our fellow

829
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Speaker 1: hosts here on iHeart Women's Sports and a couple other

830
00:39:45,080 --> 00:39:47,600
Speaker 1: friends of the show to read letters to their friends

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Speaker 1: in the sports world. Let's start with the fellow hosts.

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Speaker 1: First up is Mel Reid, a former pro golfer on

833
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Speaker 1: the LPGA Tour and the Ladies European Tour, now a

834
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Speaker 1: co host of the podcast Quiet Please with Mel and Kira.

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Speaker 8: Hey, I'll read, and I'm sending a Galantine's Day letter

836
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Speaker 8: to my friend, my Bezie, my sister Brian Laux. We

837
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Speaker 8: started out our careers together on the Ladies' European Tour

838
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Speaker 8: before I moved to the LPGA. We first met when

839
00:40:13,719 --> 00:40:15,680
Speaker 8: we were about eleven or twelve and a junior golfer

840
00:40:15,719 --> 00:40:18,520
Speaker 8: them and first time we played together. We were busies

841
00:40:19,120 --> 00:40:21,799
Speaker 8: and sisters for life. And I think the most cool

842
00:40:21,800 --> 00:40:25,120
Speaker 8: thing about our friendship is that Nani do. We get

843
00:40:25,120 --> 00:40:27,719
Speaker 8: into absolute chaos together and have a lot of fun,

844
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Speaker 8: but we also grow with each other. She pushes me,

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Speaker 8: I push her, and that's what you want in a

846
00:40:32,440 --> 00:40:35,680
Speaker 8: best mate. So I'm very thankful for Brian and I

847
00:40:35,760 --> 00:40:36,359
Speaker 8: love her to death.

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Speaker 1: Next up, a former longtime US women's national team player

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Speaker 1: and two time World Cup winner, now host of the

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Speaker 1: podcast Wide Open with Ashland Harris. Who you got, Ashlan?

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Speaker 4: Hi, It's Ashlyn Harris sending a Gallantines letter to every

852
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Speaker 4: female athlete leading the way right now. I can't imagine

853
00:40:54,200 --> 00:40:57,759
Speaker 4: what the future of women's sports would be like without you.

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Speaker 4: You're all my Gallantines because I'm grateful for the work

855
00:41:01,160 --> 00:41:03,960
Speaker 4: and how you pave the way for younger girls everywhere

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Speaker 4: to dream bigger. Happy Gallentine's Day everyone.

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Speaker 1: Our next host fits that description, Ashlyn. Trailblazing motorsport driver

858
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Speaker 1: Katherine Legg hosted the pod Throttle Therapy.

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Speaker 9: Hey, it's Katherine Legg, and I am sending a Gallentine's

860
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Speaker 9: Day letter to my friends. I couldn't pick one, so

861
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Speaker 9: I picked two. I've got Christina Nielsen and Kara Kristolik,

862
00:41:26,080 --> 00:41:29,040
Speaker 9: who are two of my best friends in the entire universe,

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Speaker 9: and I cannot imagine what being in racing would have

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Speaker 9: been like without either of them. I always look back

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Speaker 9: on how much fun we've all had together, and I've

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Speaker 9: had so many teammates and what so many people throughout

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Speaker 9: different iterations of the sport, but I can do it

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Speaker 9: without you. My favorite things about them is how pure

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Speaker 9: their heart is and how much we are all cheerleaders

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Speaker 9: for each other. And I know that when we're old

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Speaker 9: and gray, we will be racing our mobility scooters together

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Speaker 9: in the retirement home. So happy Galentine's Day, y'all.

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Speaker 1: Oh my god, I love the scooters. That's definitely going

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Speaker 1: to be me and my friends too, yes, ma'am. Next,

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Speaker 1: the Yonce of Softball dropped us a line. It's former

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Speaker 1: pro softball player AJ Andrews, host of the pod dropping

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Speaker 1: Diamonds with AJ Andrews.

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Speaker 10: Hey, Hey, it's AJ Andrews sitting a Gallentine's Day letter

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Speaker 10: to my sister, Aliyah Andrews aka ayor Aliyah. It's missed

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Speaker 10: no flies on herself, and I am so proud of

881
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Speaker 10: all the things you've been able to accomplish, Aliyah.

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Speaker 1: Can't forget that.

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Speaker 2: You know.

884
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Speaker 10: I taught you everything you know, but I'm glad you

885
00:42:41,239 --> 00:42:43,880
Speaker 10: actually listened and took some of the chips and tricks

886
00:42:43,920 --> 00:42:46,360
Speaker 10: I gave you and went out and shut it down

887
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Speaker 10: in the outfield. On the field when you're up the plate.

888
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Speaker 10: No one is faster, no one is stronger, no one

889
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Speaker 10: makes the better catches than you do, and nobody's prettier.

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Speaker 10: The prettiest thing I ever did see. Love you so

891
00:42:58,120 --> 00:43:02,000
Speaker 10: so much, Happy Gallan times, and keep teaching us a

892
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Speaker 10: thing or three when it comes to being a no

893
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Speaker 10: fly zone Outylader, I love you.

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Speaker 4: God.

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Speaker 1: That was the cutest, the cutest little sissies. Speaking of softball,

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Speaker 1: former Bruins coach who won eleven national championships as a

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Speaker 1: player and coach at UCLA, Sue EnQuest, she's also my

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Speaker 1: personal life coach.

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Speaker 11: Hi, this is Sue Enquist, former softball coach at UCLA,

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Speaker 11: Happy Gallentine's Day, to head basketball coach Corey Close. Corey,

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Speaker 11: thanks for everything you're doing is sport. You're a great

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Speaker 11: leader and a great impactor.

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Speaker 2: Love you.

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Speaker 1: Love that. And speaking of Corey Close, she's in the

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Speaker 1: middle of an eighteen game win streak at UCLA. Here's

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Speaker 1: the head women's basketball coach sending in a letter shouting

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Speaker 1: out her own college teammate.

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Speaker 12: Hi, it's Corey Close sending a letter to my friend

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Speaker 12: Barbara Jean bj Beanie. I can't imagine what playing at

910
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Speaker 12: UCSB would have been like without you, Barbie Cakes. Ever

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Speaker 12: since we played together, you brought the best out in me,

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Speaker 12: whether it be how competitive you were, whether it be

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Speaker 12: the example you set, whether it be the kindness that

914
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Speaker 12: you showed. I was different because you were my teammate.

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Speaker 12: All these years later, I remember how much fun we

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Speaker 12: had off the court, but on the court, I remember

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Speaker 12: our wristbands. I had an IA for inner arrogance and

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Speaker 12: you had an OA for outer arrogance. I just want

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Speaker 12: to tell you that I will never forget all that

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Speaker 12: you taught me, the example that you've shown, and how

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Speaker 12: kind you have been, and how faithful you have been

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Speaker 12: in our friendship all these years later, but it's all

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Speaker 12: started back then. My favorite thing about you is how

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Speaker 12: much you have the balance of being deeply competitive but

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Speaker 12: also deeply caring, and you know how to show up

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Speaker 12: for your friends.

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Speaker 1: Ooh, I love those wristbands. Io Oa. You gotta have

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Speaker 1: a little bit of it to be great, that's for sure.

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Speaker 1: Speaking of great, we also heard from Diana mathieson, legendary

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Speaker 1: Canadian national soccer team player and now the co founder

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Speaker 1: of the Northern Super League. HI.

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Speaker 13: It's Diana mathieson sending a letter to my f friend

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Speaker 13: Kate Berness, an incredible sports media personality up here in Canada. Kate,

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Speaker 13: Happy Gallantines. Thank you for being such an incredible friend

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Speaker 13: and colleague and mentor, not just to me, but to

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Speaker 13: my wife Anastasia. Thanks for all your words of wisdom

937
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Speaker 13: and being an incredible cat babysitter.

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Speaker 1: I hope you're.

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Speaker 13: Having a wonderful Gallantines filled with friends and laughter and

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Speaker 13: a delicious glass of red wine, just the way you

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Speaker 13: like it. Happy Galentines.

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Speaker 1: Cute. Speaking of tremendous media personalities, let's hear from former

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Speaker 1: college hooper turned DESPN star Monica McNutt.

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Speaker 14: Hey, y'all, it's Monica McNutt, and I'm giving my good

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Speaker 14: Gallentine's Day shout out to one miss Maria Taylor, who

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Speaker 14: I'm sure you saw make history at the Super Bowl

947
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Speaker 14: and is also now in Milan with NBC for the

948
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Speaker 14: Winter Olympics. But before all that, when she was patrolling

949
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Speaker 14: the sidelines for SEC football for College Game Day at ESPN,

950
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Speaker 14: when she was hosting the women's NCAA tournament, before women's

951
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Speaker 14: sports was getting the love that it is much deserving of,

952
00:46:01,560 --> 00:46:03,480
Speaker 14: but it was not as popular as it is today.

953
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Speaker 14: She was one of the ones that made us all

954
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Speaker 14: aspire to be her teammate and her colleague.

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Speaker 1: She put a face on what we could be.

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Speaker 14: And so now I'm thrilled to see so many of

957
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Speaker 14: my friends and colleagues in the space black women taking

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Speaker 14: up space. Bully, but truly, Maria Taylor was one of

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Speaker 14: the trailblazers and I am personally forever grateful for that.

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Speaker 1: No doubt, Maria is having a moment right now. And

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Speaker 1: did y'all see that sparkly overall skirt combo with the

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Speaker 1: PROTATAI the other night? Obsessed? Speaking of obsessed, let's close

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Speaker 1: out this Galentine's Day with a favorite trailblazer who is

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Speaker 1: constantly lifting up other women, Former pro cyclist, friend of

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Speaker 1: the show and author, Katherine Bertine.

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Speaker 7: Hi, this is Catherine Berutine, sending a letter in Gallantine

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Speaker 7: to my friend and shiro Katherine Switzer, the first woman

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Speaker 7: to officially run the Boston Marathon. And had she not

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Speaker 7: done that in nineteen sixty seven, I don't know where

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Speaker 7: we would be in women's running or women's sports today. Catherine,

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Speaker 7: thank you for showing up, for standing up, and for

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Speaker 7: putting people in their place, especially those who actually tried

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Speaker 7: to take you out of the race that day in

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Speaker 7: nineteen sixty seven. Your example is something beautiful that still

975
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Speaker 7: stands today and always will. So thank you for paving

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Speaker 7: the way for so many of us. You are amazing,

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Speaker 7: You're awesome, and I love you dearly.

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Speaker 1: Hah. Finally, a quick little Gallentine's letter of our own

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Speaker 1: to best friends Jamel Hill and Carry Champion, two of

980
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Speaker 1: my former colleagues at ESPN who are now colleagues here

981
00:47:35,080 --> 00:47:38,600
Speaker 1: at Iheartwomen's Sports. Go check out their new show, Flagrant

982
00:47:38,680 --> 00:47:42,880
Speaker 1: and Funny, with new episodes every Monday, Wednesday and Friday slices.

983
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Speaker 1: We love that you're listening, but we want you to

984
00:47:44,280 --> 00:47:45,960
Speaker 1: get in the game every day too, So here's our

985
00:47:46,000 --> 00:47:48,560
Speaker 1: good game play of the day. Keep sending us your

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Speaker 1: questions and missions, like Sarah Ment, who wrote in to

987
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Speaker 1: ask about unlucky number thirteen, which seemed to be an

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Speaker 1: appropriate question for us to answer this Friday the thirteenth.

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Speaker 1: Sarah writes, quote, I have been glued to the Olympics,

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Speaker 1: as I usually am, and I noticed that the number

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Speaker 1: thirteen seems to be really bad luck for skiers, apart

992
00:48:06,239 --> 00:48:10,040
Speaker 1: from just generally superstitiously being bad luck. Case in point,

993
00:48:10,200 --> 00:48:12,319
Speaker 1: when Lindsay Vonn crashed the other day. She was wearing

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Speaker 1: bib number thirteen. She crashed thirteen seconds into her run.

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Speaker 1: Then I was watching a Pekaboo Street documentary produced by

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Speaker 1: Lindsay Vaughn on the Olympics channel. And remember that horrible

997
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Speaker 1: crash Pekaboo had one month after the ninety eight Nagano Olympics,

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Speaker 1: she broke her femur. It happened on March thirteenth, nineteen

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Speaker 1: ninety eight. Then I was watching this year's men's Super

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Speaker 1: g just tonight. Yeah, I know Dick skiing, and it

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Speaker 1: was Italian Dominique Paris's turn. I turned to my girlfriend

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Speaker 1: and I said, look, he's wearing bib number thirteen. I

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Speaker 1: hope he makes it down. Okay, Then he too crashed

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Speaker 1: end quote. Sarah goes on to note that in cycling,

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Speaker 1: if you get thirteen as your race number, you turn

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Speaker 1: it upside down to ward off any bad juju, and

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Speaker 1: she's wondering if maybe skiers should do the same. All right,

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Speaker 1: so what's the deal with the number thirteen in winter sports?

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Speaker 1: I'm sure you've got an answer, Alex.

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Speaker 3: Well, the first thing I think of is that athletes

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00:49:04,040 --> 00:49:06,400
Speaker 3: so often they talk about you have to control the

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Speaker 3: controllables and let everything else slide, and too me, number

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00:49:09,640 --> 00:49:12,600
Speaker 3: thirteen is something that even if you have other little

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Speaker 3: things that you need to do to make sure you're prepared,

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Speaker 3: you just don't want to spend any mental energy on it.

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Speaker 3: The other thing when it comes to alpine skiing specifically,

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Speaker 3: is that in the speed events of downhill and super

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Speaker 3: g the best athletes in the world wear bibbs six

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Speaker 3: through fifteen, and the idea is that the top ten

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Speaker 3: athletes entering the games have earned the right to get

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Speaker 3: a preferential start number, and starting in this range allows

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Speaker 3: them to see a few athletes ski before them while

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Speaker 3: still getting on the course before it gets too beaten up.

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Speaker 3: So for most athletes, if it means being in that

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Speaker 3: six through fifteen range, you'll happily take number thirteen. And then, finally,

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Speaker 3: because we're at the Olympics and there are plenty of

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Speaker 3: other countries involved, let's just remember that the number thirteen

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Speaker 3: is only considered unlucky by some cultures, and pretty much

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Speaker 3: only by Western nations. In the meantime, number four is

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Speaker 3: considered very unlucky in most of ab and in Italy,

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Speaker 3: number seventeen is actually unlucky, So it'd be tough for

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Speaker 3: international sporting bodies to skip quote unquote unlucky numbers, because

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Speaker 3: then they'd have to start asking who gets to define

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Speaker 3: what is considered unlucky.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Can you imagine the chaos before the race if

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Speaker 1: it was like, excuse me, I can't have four, eight,

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Speaker 1: twenty two and thirty nine? Oh yeah, me over here,

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Speaker 1: I don't want seventeen nineteen o five. Honestly, if I'm

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Speaker 1: an athlete and I get handed number thirteen, I'm just

1040
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Speaker 1: channeling my girl t Swift and considering it extra super

1041
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Speaker 1: duper lucky, that would be my plan. Thanks for the question, Sarah,

1042
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Speaker 1: appreciate it all right. We've got some final slice work today.

1043
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Speaker 1: In addition to those missions, we want send a Galentine's

1044
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Speaker 1: Day note to the best gallon your life today, or

1045
00:50:43,280 --> 00:50:46,680
Speaker 1: maybe a Happy Palatine's Day for your non binary bestie.

1046
00:50:46,800 --> 00:50:48,919
Speaker 1: It is always worth taking a moment to let people

1047
00:50:48,960 --> 00:50:52,040
Speaker 1: know how much you love them, So on that note,

1048
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Speaker 1: I'm just going to take a quick moment to say

1049
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Speaker 1: an early Happy Valentine's Day to my husband Brad, whose

1050
00:50:58,080 --> 00:51:02,319
Speaker 1: real government name is Valandie, no joke, So just a

1051
00:51:02,320 --> 00:51:05,239
Speaker 1: little extra special day in our household since it's his day,

1052
00:51:05,719 --> 00:51:08,640
Speaker 1: and it's our first Valentine's Day apart, and this trip

1053
00:51:08,680 --> 00:51:10,640
Speaker 1: will be the longest we've been apart since we started

1054
00:51:10,719 --> 00:51:14,120
Speaker 1: dating seventeen years ago. So I love you, I miss you.

1055
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Speaker 1: Please give the pups all of my Valentine snuggles, and

1056
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Speaker 1: I hope you enjoy the little Valentine's Day scavenger hunt

1057
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Speaker 1: I set up for you in the house. You'll get

1058
00:51:21,640 --> 00:51:24,759
Speaker 1: your instructions tomorrow morning. We always love to hear from

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00:51:24,760 --> 00:51:26,640
Speaker 1: you slices, so hit us up on email good game

1060
00:51:26,680 --> 00:51:29,360
Speaker 1: at Wondermedia neetwork dot com or leave us a voicemail

1061
00:51:29,400 --> 00:51:32,520
Speaker 1: at eight seven two two four fifty seventy and don't

1062
00:51:32,520 --> 00:51:35,200
Speaker 1: forget to subscribe a rate and review. It's so easy.

1063
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Speaker 1: Watch drone cameras at the Milan Cortina Games, rating five

1064
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Speaker 1: out of five perfect shots review. The sound of the

1065
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Speaker 1: drones coming through some of the event broadcasts is more

1066
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Speaker 1: than worth the angles they're getting on These Olympic athletes

1067
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Speaker 1: watching the Super g the luge, the Big Air, the halfpipe,

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Speaker 1: and a bunch of other thrilling events via drone has

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Speaker 1: made them feel even faster, higher, scarier, and cooler than ever.

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Speaker 1: Friend of the show, Lindsay Schnell, who's been stationed in

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Speaker 1: Cortina all games to cover the sliding sports, wrote a

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Speaker 1: great story for The Athletic about the drones, specifically the

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Speaker 1: first person view FPV drones like the ones that you've

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Speaker 1: seen speeding down the luge course now. Schnell reports that

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Speaker 1: all the FPV drones are operated by individuals not on cables,

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Speaker 1: and for instance, the pilot of the ski jumping drone

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Speaker 1: athletes personally. There's a ton of great info in her story,

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Speaker 1: so we'll link to it in the show notes, and

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Speaker 1: hopefully we'll get to see Lindsay in person soon because

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Speaker 1: Alex and I are headed to Cortina today. All right, now,

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Speaker 1: it's your turn, slices, rate and review. It really helps

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Speaker 1: the show. Thanks for listening, See you next week. Good game, Paula,

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Speaker 1: of netflixers really could have used their favorite comfort show

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Speaker 1: throughout the rest of the pandemic. Good Game with Sarah

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