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Speaker 1: Sophie. As someone who's school did not make the Unstably

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Speaker 3: You just work so fricking hard every year, and like

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Speaker 1: But that's why supports you are beautiful. Yeah, you can't

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Speaker 1: like this. Here's how it works. We're looking at a

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Speaker 1: You know what I mean. It's just some people something's

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Speaker 3: I definitely cannot do that.

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Speaker 1: real time.

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Speaker 3: Number two powerful hotel shower. I absolutely love that, but

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Speaker 3: I'm going to add on to it. I prefer when

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Speaker 3: there's a door on the shower because I like my

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Speaker 3: showers like steamy hot.

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Speaker 2: I don't want to be cold, and like having to

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Speaker 2: be under the hot water because it's cold. So that's

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Speaker 2: that's kind of a must on mine.

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Speaker 1: Are you going to sneak in good products help love

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Speaker 1: a good champoo Kendash body wash, Yes, so you don't have.

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Speaker 3: To use that, and like take up space when you

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Speaker 3: are traveling, so that is a must. And then my

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Speaker 3: number one a massive king bed. Oh all by yourself.

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Speaker 1: So if you walk into a room and there's two queens.

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Speaker 2: I can do it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: And honestly, if I have two queen beds, then I'm

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Speaker 3: going to put my luggage on one of them, sleep

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Speaker 3: on the other.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: And like if I'm traveling with like Lindsay, my sister

464
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Speaker 3: or someone, we actually sleep in the same queen bed,

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Speaker 3: we do a luggage bed and like we sleep in

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Speaker 3: the other one.

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Speaker 2: But you know, nothing's like a.

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Speaker 3: Good cozy king bed with good pillows, a good like

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Speaker 3: sheet cover.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, that's a must.

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Speaker 1: More aligned you and I than I thought we'd be. Actually,

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Speaker 1: that's fine.

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Speaker 3: A good bathroobe that's on there. I almost put that

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Speaker 3: in my top five.

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Speaker 1: Okay, guys, we are so excited to have Joel McHale

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Speaker 1: on the podcast. We're gonna talk to him about his

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Speaker 1: love for Washington, sports, love traveling with family, places he's

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Speaker 1: always wanted to go that he's never been to. And

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Speaker 1: this is timed up perfectly with the March madness excitement.

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Speaker 1: People are chriss crossing all over the country to go

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Speaker 1: watch their favorite team. So let's talk to Joel about it.

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Speaker 4: Oh my gosh, welcome to the Bond the Marriotte Bunvoy

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Speaker 4: Show Me Something podcast. I will be your guest.

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Speaker 1: Well, oh, then she just did it for us the NCAA.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, are for some reason way back here.

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Speaker 2: I'll kiss this one.

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Speaker 1: I did it all right. Well no, it's just a

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Speaker 1: beautiful set. Now it's even more pretty. But do you

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Speaker 1: prefer to go by actor, comedian, host, former U dub

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Speaker 1: football player.

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Speaker 4: If you could include that every time you introduce me,

492
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Speaker 4: I will, that would be great, all of them.

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Speaker 1: But in all seriousness, thank you for coming.

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Speaker 4: It was great to run across the frozen tundrum that

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Speaker 4: became Indianapolis in the last two days.

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Speaker 1: In honor of our two extra guests. These trophies real quick.

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Speaker 1: It is one of the most anticipated events of the year.

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Speaker 4: As we all know, it's so many teams to keep

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Speaker 4: tract of. Yeah, so I love that first moment. Like

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Speaker 4: this weekend, it's one of my favorite weekends because it's

501
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Speaker 4: just happening all the time everywhere. You can't walk outside

502
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Speaker 4: your house, but they're like, what's happening over there, Oh,

503
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Speaker 4: there's a NCAA Tournament's happening in your neighbor's house right now.

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Speaker 4: It's great because it's just it's such a perfect design

505
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Speaker 4: to get it all making sure there's all sorts of

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Speaker 4: teams that are screwed out of yeah being there and

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Speaker 4: some shouldn't be there all that round.

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Speaker 1: No, I think the perfect design comment actually is a

509
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Speaker 1: beautiful way to put it, because it is like the original, pure,

510
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Speaker 1: single elimination big tournament in all of sports that now

511
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Speaker 1: college football is kind of trying to like work their

512
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Speaker 1: way into it, but like everything is always changed, March

513
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Speaker 1: madness pure.

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Speaker 3: But I think that's why people look forward to it

515
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Speaker 3: because they know exactly what they're going to get.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but like also it's a disaster at the same time.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I love that. What's got your attention coming out

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Speaker 1: of selection Sunday Men's or women's vibes Cities.

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Speaker 3: I think I'm clearly a big SEC fan, and I

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Speaker 3: feel like we on the men's side have a ton

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Speaker 3: of teams that are going to be in it.

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Speaker 2: Shout out to Zoo, I'm surprised we got in, but

523
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Speaker 2: we got in. Come on, maybe cinerlar story a little bit.

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Speaker 2: Thank you.

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Speaker 3: Women's side, I feel like it's a little different because

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Speaker 3: if your sixteen seed is barely ever going to be

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Speaker 3: anything higher than like an eight, I don't know, And.

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Speaker 2: So I don't know about the women. I don't know

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Speaker 2: who I want to win there.

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Speaker 4: But let's just go within the University of Washington's Dogs

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Speaker 4: Go Dogs.

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Speaker 2: Is that who you have one in it?

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Speaker 4: Yes, we've actually.

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Speaker 1: Been talking a lot about how being loyal.

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Speaker 4: Know how important being was if we're paid, if my

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Speaker 4: school is in it, then yeah.

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Speaker 3: I didn't know that you were a tight end, like

538
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Speaker 3: you played college ball like football.

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Speaker 4: I have constantly tell people, but yeah, because not us,

540
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Speaker 4: because people.

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Speaker 2: Don't know tight end is like you're a big boy.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, but I didn't play. I was awesome at practicing

543
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Speaker 4: and making the defense feel terrific about how they were doing.

544
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Speaker 4: I would just burst out crying and we're like, why

545
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Speaker 4: would you do that?

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Speaker 1: That hurts so much.

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Speaker 4: I was very large.

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Speaker 1: At the time, growing up in Washington. Did you ever

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Speaker 1: consider any other school?

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Speaker 4: I applied to Santa Clara because they had an acting

551
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Speaker 4: program in Santa Clara in the tournament for the first

552
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Speaker 4: time in thirty years. Proud Canadian and he So I

553
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Speaker 4: applied to a few schools on the West coast, nowhere

554
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Speaker 4: else and like the University of San Francisco they used

555
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Speaker 4: to have a really great basketball program and now they're back.

556
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Speaker 4: But it was just growing up was like you dub

557
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Speaker 4: or yeah or and I just kind of was like,

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Speaker 4: that's where I want to go. And I was recruited

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Speaker 4: to row at you Dub.

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Speaker 3: Out of all like the colleges, campuses and fan bases

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Speaker 3: that you've either played in front of or visited, what

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Speaker 3: is one that you think people should add to their

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Speaker 3: travel list.

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Speaker 4: The University of Washington that you really have you it

565
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Speaker 4: is the most beautiful setting for a game. The tailgate

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Speaker 4: is boats boats.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, sale gate.

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Speaker 4: So you yeah, sale gate ups.

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Speaker 1: It's pretty crazy And.

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Speaker 4: If you all show you the photos, it's I did

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Speaker 4: not know that I do.

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Speaker 1: I would like to give you Dub a shout out

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Speaker 1: in the sense I think a lot of major universities

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Speaker 1: that are in big cities don't actually get very good

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Speaker 1: fandom just because there's so much other stuff going on.

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Speaker 1: But the University of Washington in Seattle, I feel like,

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Speaker 1: despite being in a map said metropolitan area with so

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Speaker 1: much else going on, still gets much, much, much love.

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Speaker 3: I love that those things in our ways we can't know,

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Speaker 3: we can't, but it's.

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Speaker 4: Through Where is Sophie? Oh, right through the window? You know,

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Speaker 4: I get it get I like the first.

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Speaker 1: Oh, this is yes, this is that horrifies me.

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Speaker 4: Look yeah, people over there.

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Speaker 1: Going, oh god, this is good. This is good.

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Speaker 4: We've come to the point in your podcast where we

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Speaker 4: have to return the trophies to their beloved table. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: we did it.

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Speaker 1: This is good.

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Speaker 3: How far would you travel for your team to go

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Speaker 3: watch in person?

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Speaker 2: Front row popcorn?

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Speaker 1: Yeah you dubbed Final four? Would you go?

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Speaker 4: How far go to Mars?

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Speaker 2: Would you really?

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Speaker 4: Yeah? Great?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I'll travel endlessly.

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Speaker 4: Yeah I do. I am gone. I have all the

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Speaker 4: miles and uh no, if if you dub was in

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Speaker 4: the Final four, I would go.

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Speaker 1: Were you as you go? When they played Michigan in Houston.

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Speaker 4: I did not. I was working at the time, so

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Speaker 4: I couldn't get out of work. There's been a number

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Speaker 4: of things like that where I'm like.

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Speaker 1: Oh, but your job.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, like with animal Control when it's going we're doing

607
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Speaker 4: sixteen narrow days and it's so I'll zip down to

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Speaker 4: Seattle for maybe at night, but it's exhausting.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, in your lifetime, what's the deepest the Huskies have

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Speaker 1: made it in the tournament?

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Speaker 4: In my lifetime? That left shrimp got them to the

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Speaker 4: elite eight.

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Speaker 2: Clearly, you travel a lot.

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Speaker 4: I do a lot of travel, which is great.

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Speaker 3: Hotels, planes, no buses, trains, walking trains, RVs.

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Speaker 1: Bike, swimming, trains.

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Speaker 4: Can you usually stay on the train, canoe. Yes, I'm

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Speaker 4: in a lot of hotels and a lot of it's

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Speaker 4: a lot.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: And you host the SPS, which is like around.

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Speaker 4: I hosted the SP's. That was super fun.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that that's a big deal.

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Speaker 4: That was extremely nerve wracking and wonderful. And so when

625
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Speaker 4: you walked out, you see you see all the it's

626
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Speaker 4: like some weird wax museum of your favorite athletes, and

627
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Speaker 4: you're like, oh, everybody's here, and as you know, they

628
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Speaker 4: really want that's super competitive. They're they're pissed if they're

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Speaker 4: not winning. What city was that in? Los Angeles? That

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Speaker 4: was in l a Yeah, that was a good That

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Speaker 4: was a good one.

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Speaker 1: When you're traveling on the road and obviously we all

633
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Speaker 1: know how exhausting that that can be. Do you feel like,

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Speaker 1: because you're traveling in a city that you don't always

635
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Speaker 1: get to spend time in that you're you owe the

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Speaker 1: city a little night out to go to a restaurant,

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Speaker 1: go like find a drink somewhere and kind of experience it.

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Speaker 4: Or you feel like I owe the city the city?

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Speaker 1: I love that.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I love like the second I got here from

641
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Speaker 4: looking at coffee shops and eater and I'm like, what's

642
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Speaker 4: what's happening here? And I went for a walk last night.

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Speaker 1: That's crazy.

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Speaker 4: I almost froze to death. It was I was almost lost. Yes,

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Speaker 4: they would have just never seen it.

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Speaker 1: Were you tour bussing or you fly?

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Speaker 4: I fly, I'm not like for chser level.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, but you're not just a commute like you do

649
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Speaker 1: so much other stuff.

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Speaker 3: I don't tell us what you're doing. Do you have

651
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Speaker 3: like three great shows like like what are you doing

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Speaker 3: right now?

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Speaker 2: For? Sorry?

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Speaker 4: What the heck? Cream seven just came out? What's your role?

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Speaker 1: Are you abowing to tell us?

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Speaker 4: Yeah? It came out two weeks ago, so that cat's

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Speaker 4: out of the back. Okay, I play a cat in

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Speaker 4: the back?

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Speaker 1: Good?

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Speaker 4: Uh? No, I played Campbell's husband. But you're watching Animal Control, right, guys?

661
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Speaker 4: Absolutely on Fox and you work with three animals. We

662
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Speaker 4: do Netflix, Hulu is.

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Speaker 1: There a person's job that like has to fly in

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Speaker 1: and they're in charge of how you interact.

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Speaker 4: With They're locally based in Vancouver and they have a

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Speaker 4: lot of exotic and non exotic animals. The only time

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Speaker 4: I was really scared was when I got on top

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Speaker 4: of a It's a young camel named Mayhem from Calgary.

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Speaker 4: The cambell's name was Mayhem, and I was like, why

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Speaker 4: isn't camel named Mayhem? Yeah, no saddle And they're like, hey,

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Speaker 4: if he takes off, just hold on. But just to

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Speaker 4: know he's having a good time.

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Speaker 1: You ran to Calgary. I have rocks.

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Speaker 4: Calgary is great. Calgary rocks really good French food in

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Speaker 4: Calgary because all those French we are up there.

676
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Speaker 1: Has a lot of French influence. They do more than

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Speaker 1: we do.

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Speaker 4: I would agree. They got an entire part of their

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Speaker 4: country that speaks French.

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Speaker 1: Do you have time to travel internationally?

681
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Speaker 4: I tried to as i'd love to, and sometimes for

682
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Speaker 4: work it is overseas, which is great. But I'm just

683
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Speaker 4: about to take the family on Saturday to Japan, the best.

684
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Speaker 4: I've been there once and I was like, I got

685
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Speaker 4: to get back here as soon as I came.

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Speaker 1: I feel like it's such a cliche to talk about

687
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Speaker 1: how cool Japan is, but it is so awesome. What's

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Speaker 1: your schedule, Like, what are you guys hitting?

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Speaker 4: We're doing Tokyo, yeah, five days, and then Kyoto for

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Speaker 4: another five and we're going to Mount Fuji, so we're

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Speaker 4: doing a lot of tourist things. But I'm like, great,

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Speaker 4: we haven't seen it before, so let's go. Yeah, that's

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Speaker 4: the best trip you'd ever take. I'm very excited. I'm

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Speaker 4: going to eat like its career.

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Speaker 1: And then read real quick. You're born in Rome, Born

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Speaker 1: in Rome. What were your parents doing? I don't know.

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Speaker 4: They were My dad was everyone's like were they in

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Speaker 4: the military and the CIA? No, my dad was the

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Speaker 4: dean of students at Loyola University Rome Center, which is

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Speaker 4: part of chic Loyal in Chicago and uh, and then

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Speaker 4: my mom was a student at Loyal University of Room

702
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Speaker 4: Center because she her dad, my grandfather got a job

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Speaker 4: with the un regulating fish populations around the world. Let

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Speaker 4: that sink in.

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Speaker 1: Yes, So do you feel a tie to Italy?

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Speaker 4: Very loosely, but I I really like when I'm there,

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Speaker 4: I get I tear up and get emotional. And then

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Speaker 4: my aunt and uncle and cousins still live there. They

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Speaker 4: moved out of Rome to Tuscany, but uh so they yeah,

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Speaker 4: they're Then then a bunch of my cousins live in

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Speaker 4: uh London, and then the others live in Nairobi. So

712
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Speaker 4: it's all they're all over the place. Mikhail is Irish,

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Speaker 4: don't know, yes, so okay, and then the other side

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Speaker 4: of me is Norwegian.

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Speaker 3: Wait do you love actually because you get to travel

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Speaker 3: all over the place seriously, and that's like super cool.

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Speaker 4: I travel almost every weekend. I mean you grab me,

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Speaker 4: you know. But it's yeah, of our schedules partly routine,

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Speaker 4: and so once if you get to the hotel and

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Speaker 4: they're like, which like a complimentary beverage, and I was like, yes, it.

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Speaker 1: Is hard when travels a part of your career, it

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Speaker 1: makes it hard to always enjoy it. But when you

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Speaker 1: when everything's set up for you and it's nice and

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Speaker 1: it's perfect it's dreamy.

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Speaker 3: Well, I was gonna say, what is like your dream

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Speaker 3: vacation spot. Are you more of a beach person? Are

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Speaker 3: you more of a snow I'm not.

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Speaker 4: Kidding being here in Indiana, I'm not kidding when I

729
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Speaker 4: say this. In any like, I've been going pretty it's

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Speaker 4: been pretty exhausting last few day. So I got here

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Speaker 4: and I it was great, went out for dinner and

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Speaker 4: then I slept all night, which and it was I

733
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Speaker 4: was like, oh, you're well rested. It so it was

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Speaker 4: like a night. I was like, oh, this is like

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Speaker 4: a vacation. Yeah, and went to the gym. It was great.

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Speaker 4: So they like when I get those one day like

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Speaker 4: those one days, I'm like, ah, recuperated.

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Speaker 3: So your dream vacation is not necessarily a location, it's

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Speaker 3: if you get rest.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, how about you.

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Speaker 3: So this is where we differ and we joke about

742
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Speaker 3: this all the time. I'm more like, I need a

743
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Speaker 3: beach sun.

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Speaker 2: I need it.

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Speaker 3: I need that type of vibe, maybe margarite in my hand.

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Speaker 3: And so I'm very much like a water boat pool person.

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Speaker 4: So right now, if you're walking out.

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Speaker 3: I got Fiji, Bora, Turks and Caicos even just like

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Speaker 3: a simple Florida, anywhere with a beach and like sun

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Speaker 3: Ryan get a tan say less.

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Speaker 2: That's my my dream because.

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Speaker 1: You have bucket list places that you haven't been that

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Speaker 1: you want to go, but then you also have places

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Speaker 1: that were such a good experience you are itching to

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Speaker 1: go back.

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Speaker 2: But I like it.

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Speaker 1: I just like being in like a fun city where

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Speaker 1: there's energy and people and you meet people from other places.

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Speaker 1: Cape down to that because on my list right now,

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Speaker 1: I would love to do that. But I the older

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Speaker 1: I've gotten, the more I've appreciated hotels because I used

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Speaker 1: to always try to crash with a friend or you

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Speaker 1: just forget how nice it is to have your bed

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Speaker 1: made for you somebodys or like have stuff put away.

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Speaker 3: Yeah see, I've never been one to like crash with people,

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Speaker 3: but I because of how much we travel, I appreciate.

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Speaker 3: I become a hotel snob. I appreciate a really really

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Speaker 3: nice hotel.

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Speaker 4: I feel like a kid because I'm like, oh I

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Speaker 4: get to relax.

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Speaker 1: Yeah wait, how do you travel?

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Speaker 3: Like what are your esentils and things that you're just like, Okay,

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Speaker 3: I don't need that, like when you're packing, when you're

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Speaker 3: doing that.

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Speaker 4: Oh ear plugs. I'm asked for the flight ear plugs.

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00:32:57,040 --> 00:33:00,720
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, your plugs are like headphones ear plug and

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Speaker 4: some sort of tablet.

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Speaker 1: Shows to watch movies, shows.

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Speaker 4: And play video tennis. Really yeah, I play big of

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Speaker 4: a tennis fan. You were big tennis fan, and I

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Speaker 4: play eight bit football as well.

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Speaker 1: What's your favorite tennis van you in the world.

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Speaker 4: I mean, Indian Wells is one of the best. Looks beautiful,

784
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Speaker 4: it's so great, and there's courts everywhere. They let you

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Speaker 4: play if you want. There's a sushi I mean like

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Speaker 4: they have great food. But I got to go to

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Speaker 4: the French Open.

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Speaker 2: And have you been to the Australian Open.

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Speaker 1: I've never heard.

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Speaker 4: That's that's the I would love to. I got to.

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Speaker 3: That's a that's a bucket list maybe, especially if you're

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Speaker 3: a big tennis fan.

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Speaker 2: There is awesome.

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Speaker 4: Yes, I would, And it's ruckus. As I was saying,

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Speaker 4: New York is wonderfully ruckous, beautiful facility, hard to go.

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Speaker 2: I'm the only one who's left out. I think I

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Speaker 2: need to make that a bucket list for me.

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Speaker 4: It's great, really and it's yeah and uh, but the

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Speaker 4: French is right in Paris, so you can it's and

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Speaker 4: it's just there and it's not big, and you're like, oh,

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Speaker 4: this is where the French are open happens?

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Speaker 1: What are their sports? Like, Okay, you're a tennis guy,

803
00:34:08,040 --> 00:34:11,359
Speaker 1: so all those championships are kind of their own spectacles.

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Speaker 1: You've done the Super Bowl, yep. Anything that you haven't

805
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Speaker 1: done that you like really want to do.

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Speaker 4: I'd like to go to a Duke basketball game with

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Speaker 4: Ken Jong. See yeah, yeah, he's a huge and so

808
00:34:25,000 --> 00:34:27,360
Speaker 4: like to see. Now Ken's going to get a compliment,

809
00:34:27,400 --> 00:34:30,520
Speaker 4: but he's like the king of Duke and so he

810
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Speaker 4: goes to those games. And so I was like, Ken,

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Speaker 4: someday we get to go this sea. We are pretty

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Speaker 4: best decently we've when we met on community, we fell

813
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Speaker 4: in love.

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Speaker 2: Really is he.

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Speaker 4: Expect him to be yes? And I'm saying that measured

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Speaker 4: because Ken is also a doctor.

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Speaker 3: Imagine if he was Duke's team doc.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it would be you.

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Speaker 2: I would go to do just for that.

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Speaker 4: We just get injured and just be like, oh my

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Speaker 4: elbow dream.

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Speaker 2: Sporting Okay, I'm kind of weird.

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Speaker 3: I want to go to I don't even know what

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Speaker 3: it's called, but I want to go to like the

825
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Speaker 3: best surfing competition in the world.

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Speaker 4: I don't know, because you would get everything you want.

827
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Speaker 4: You would get the beach, the beach, and then there

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Speaker 4: would be a sporting.

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Speaker 3: Sport like I just and it's just like a sport

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00:35:15,600 --> 00:35:18,239
Speaker 3: that you don't necessarily get to see on TV as

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Speaker 3: much or like it's not as accessible to people, and

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Speaker 3: I think that would just be super cool.

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Speaker 4: I mean that's yeah, I'm on I'm on board with that.

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Speaker 2: What about you.

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Speaker 1: I'm one of the Kentucky Derby for the first time

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Speaker 1: this year and that's I surprise you haven't bet. No,

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Speaker 1: I got to put a lot into this outfit. I

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Speaker 1: get you.

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Speaker 4: I know I'm to go like this. No, no, we're

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Speaker 4: not you you need like a three piece suit.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, no, I'll be ready.

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Speaker 4: We love to come with you. Thank you for the invite.

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Speaker 1: You're welcome.

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Speaker 4: See you there. I would like to go to a

845
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Speaker 4: professional bowling match, which I've never been to.

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Speaker 1: Professional darts is like I.

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Speaker 4: Would love to go to a professional dart out.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's wild. So that's next for us. Three.

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Speaker 4: Do you guys play darts? No, I mean I'll do

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Speaker 4: it at the bar like I got into darts big

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Speaker 4: time in college.

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Speaker 1: Wow.

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Speaker 4: I love it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Joel, thank you for being Thanks for having me.

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Speaker 4: Guys, thank you, thank you.

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