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

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Speaker 1: snow Angels in the confetti with the NWSL champion Orlando Pride.

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Speaker 1: It's Monday, November twenty fifth, and on today's show you'll

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Speaker 1: hear our interview with Kansas City current owner Chris Long,

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Speaker 1: who joined us for a fun live show Saturday morning

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Speaker 1: in Kansas City, plus producer Misha and I recap all

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Speaker 1: the fun of NWSL Championship weekend, two giant upsets in

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Speaker 1: the City of Angels and a dynasty unseated. It's all

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Speaker 1: coming up right after this. Welcome back Orange Slaic says,

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Speaker 1: here's what you need to know today in NWSL news,

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Speaker 1: It's all over. The Orlando Pride defeated the Washington Spirit

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Speaker 1: one nil in Saturday's NWSL Championship game behind a goal

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Speaker 1: from superstar striker Barbara Banda in the thirty seventh minute.

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Speaker 1: With the win, the Pride became the first team since

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Speaker 1: twenty nineteen and just the third all time to win

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Speaker 1: both the NWSL Shield for the best regular season record

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Speaker 1: and the NWSL title as well. Band of the game's

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Speaker 1: MVP had four playoff goals. That's a new single postseason

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Speaker 1: NWSL record. It was also the first NWSL title win

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Speaker 1: for six time World Player of the Year Marta, who's

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Speaker 1: been with the Pride since twenty seventeen. Lots more on

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Speaker 1: that game later in the show. In other soccer news,

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Speaker 1: Indiana feverstar Caitlin Clark is part of the ownership group

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Speaker 1: trying to bring an NWSL expansion team to Cincinnati. The

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Speaker 1: ownership group of MLS team FC Cincinnati is leading the bid,

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Speaker 1: competing with groups from Cleveland, Denver, Nashville, and Philadelphia. The

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Speaker 1: city chosen for the league's next expansion team is expected

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Speaker 1: to be announced before the end of the year. The

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Speaker 1: team would begin playing twenty twenty six, joining Boston to

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Speaker 1: bring the league to sixteen teams. College hoops News All

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Speaker 1: eyes were on Los Angeles this weekend, the site of

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Speaker 1: two Marquee matchups that ended up being two big upsets.

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Speaker 1: On Saturday, Number six Notre Dame took out Number three

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Speaker 1: USC seven sixty one, handing the Trojans their first loss

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Speaker 1: of the season. Hanna Hidalgo and Olivia Miles combined to

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Speaker 1: score or assist on sixty three of Notre Dame's points,

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Speaker 1: becoming the second pair of teammates in the last twenty

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Speaker 1: five years and the first since two thousand and seven

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Speaker 1: to each have twenty points, five rebounds and five assists

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Speaker 1: against an AP Top ten opponent. Then, on Sunday, top

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Speaker 1: rank South Carolina and Don Staley put their forty three

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Speaker 1: game win streak on the line against number five UCLA

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Speaker 1: at Pauley Pavilion, and the Game Cocks watched it fall.

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Speaker 1: UCLA emerged victorious seventy seven sixty two, beating the defending

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Speaker 1: champs and earning the team's first ever win over a

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Speaker 1: top ranked opponent. Balanced attack from the Bruins. Senator Lauren

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Speaker 1: Betts had eleven points and fourteen rebounds, Guard London Jones

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Speaker 1: had fifteen points on five three pointers, and guard Elina

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Speaker 1: Arnossalo had thirteen points, four assists, and three rebounds. This

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Speaker 1: game was completely UCLA's start to finish. They never trailed

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Speaker 1: and enjoyed a twenty plus point lead in the fourth.

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Speaker 1: In fact, the home crowd was channing overrated at the

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Speaker 1: Game Cocks in the final minute. Looks like we'll be

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Speaker 1: getting a new number one in women's college basketball. Finally,

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Speaker 1: college field hockey a massive upset in the national tournament

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Speaker 1: as number four Saint Joseph's took down undefeated number one

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Speaker 1: North Carolina and friend of the Show Aaron Mattson in

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Speaker 1: the semi finals on Friday. Carolina's bid for a national

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Speaker 1: title three peat ended, while the Hawks earned a spot

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Speaker 1: in the finals for the first time in program history. Meantime,

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Speaker 1: Northwestern defeated Massachusetts in the other semi to make it

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Speaker 1: to the title game, and it was the Northwestern Wildcats

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Speaker 1: who defeated Saint Joseph's five nothing to win it all.

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Speaker 1: It's the second title for Northwestern, who have played for

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Speaker 1: the Field Hockey Championship in four straight seasons, last winning

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Speaker 1: it in twenty twenty one. All right, slices, We're still

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Speaker 1: recovering from an epic weekend in Kansas City for the

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Speaker 1: NWSL championship game. I left Spain, went straight to Kansas

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Speaker 1: City and met up with Mesh where we hit the parties,

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Speaker 1: really got a sense for how much the Kansas City

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Speaker 1: current are ingrained in this city, how much they've been embraced.

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Speaker 1: It would have been a real blast to see the

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Speaker 1: current in this game, the way that those fans rally

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Speaker 1: around that team, but ultimately watching mart to win her

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Speaker 1: first title with the Pride and getting Meche even though

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Speaker 1: was a pretty good time as well, so meiche Let's

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Speaker 1: recap some of the best parts of the weekend. We'll

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Speaker 1: get to the game at the end, but first a

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Speaker 1: couple of things we got to experience before the game

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Speaker 1: even happened that were pretty cool. One was the skills competition,

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Speaker 1: we got to see live what I can only describe

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Speaker 2: I think that that's exactly what the script road use.

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Speaker 1: It was at the Kansas City Current Facility, their practice facility,

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Speaker 1: which is a beautiful space. The sunset was gorgeous. It

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Speaker 1: Ewis was hosting Big Golden Retriever Energy hilariously unsure of

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Speaker 1: what was going on almost the entire time because the

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Speaker 1: scores of the one v ones of the players versus

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Speaker 1: was a mess, but in the best possible way. And

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Speaker 1: I have to admit we've been running around. I haven't

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Speaker 1: I'm curious how they pulled it all together. There were

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Speaker 1: not knowing what was happening. There were calls for var

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Speaker 1: during his skills competition because multiple times the Black team

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Speaker 1: thought they won and Sam was like, not yet, I

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Speaker 3: Craziness, yeah, chaos, very much, chaos, very much cold. I

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Speaker 3: was getting clown the entire time because Mary.

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Speaker 2: Candy was apparently, so I'll.

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Speaker 1: Take Candy as that's why you were getting clowned.

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Speaker 3: I thought I was gonna die.

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Speaker 1: I was wearing zero jacket, zero hat, zero gloves, totally fine,

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Speaker 1: cold drink in my hand, and me, she's your Chicago

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Speaker 1: many people there was really fun and just really fun.

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Speaker 1: You'll hear in our interview later on this week that

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Speaker 1: we sat down with Angels City Center back Sarah Gordon

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Speaker 1: and we were trying to hype her up, Mesh and

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Speaker 1: I to pull Rachel Kudnanji and stand on the ball

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Speaker 1: my god, pull a Kundananji stand on the ball, like

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Speaker 1: pull the goalie towards you. And she's like, I'm totally

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Speaker 1: doing I'm totally doing it. If I don't do it,

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Speaker 1: it's because I chickened out. We're like, oh, well, no,

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Speaker 1: well no, it's because you chickened out. And she did.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's fully what happened. Not even once it has

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Speaker 3: seemed halfway like she did do it. But that's fine,

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Speaker 3: that's okay. It's easy to say as a spectator you

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Speaker 1: It was a good time, though, and I loved it.

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Speaker 1: When the winning team was getting their checks, I could

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Speaker 1: hear Sam Muis yell off Mike barbecues on you, So

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Speaker 1: hopefully Sam got that free free barbecue from the winners.

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Speaker 1: Later on that night, we had a great dinner with

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Speaker 1: some friends. Lots of laughs, too many laughs, and then

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Speaker 1: ended up at the Just Women's Sports party, which went off.

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Speaker 1: Not only was there a slide in the party that

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Speaker 1: Misha and I both took upon making our exit, but

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Speaker 1: so many players, so many greats of old Melissa Ethernche.

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Speaker 1: We got to meet Grant Hill, we got to meet

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Speaker 1: Misha was much more excited to meet Grant Hill's wife, Tama.

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Speaker 3: Okay, first of all, let's set the record straight, because

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Speaker 3: I don't want him to hear this.

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Speaker 1: And be like, uh oh, okay, I do want him

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Speaker 2: It was about both of them.

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Speaker 3: I just to Mia has a dance right now to

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Speaker 3: a song that I'm trying to learn, and I was

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Speaker 2: Coercior and to teach you how to do it.

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Speaker 3: But by the time the night was over we actually

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Speaker 3: got to talk to her. I was in no place

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Speaker 1: I wish you told me that, because that's like, that's

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Speaker 1: like the best possible TikTok would be to learn the

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Speaker 1: would have been epic. Shit meishe Why didn't you tell me?

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Speaker 3: That?

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Speaker 2: Was the plan I was trying.

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Speaker 3: I tried to get you to listen to the song

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Speaker 3: It's too loud, listen too loud.

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Speaker 1: It was just I told you my plan, which was

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Speaker 1: tell him I've had sexual thoughts about him for like

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Speaker 1: multiple decades. And I accomplished my plan.

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Speaker 2: You just had to stay fifty feet away at all

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Speaker 1: No. I took a photo and I touched him, but

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Speaker 1: I managed not to tell him that he still got

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Speaker 1: it and always will.

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Speaker 2: God is Brad listening?

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Speaker 1: Brad's always listening, Hi, Brad. Brad would admit Grant Hill

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Speaker 1: still got it. So that was really fun. That was

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Speaker 1: That was. It was a really fun party. It was

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Speaker 1: a really cool vibe.

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Speaker 3: Oh and we have to mention all of the freaking

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Speaker 3: US Women's National Team Team Canada NWUSL grades who just

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Speaker 3: I was so happy to see Desi Scott. Yeah, life

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Speaker 3: of the party, Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Moves all of it. That.

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Speaker 3: There was folks over there, yeah, the destroyer. So many

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Speaker 2: A great time.

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Speaker 1: Well, I mean, only because you bring that up, I

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Speaker 1: have to mention that mische was in her introvert mode,

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Speaker 1: being all like, oh, I'm just a little tired. I

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Speaker 1: don't know, you know, if my wife was here, things

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna stay. And I'm like, how do you know

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Speaker 1: your wife's not here? Look around there's like eight thousand

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Speaker 1: hot gay women here and they were like, oh, it's

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Speaker 1: not my type. I'm like, what do you mean? There's

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Speaker 1: to talk to some people, came back like fifteen minutes later,

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Speaker 1: and Misha's on the dance were like this, why isn't

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Speaker 1: everyone dancing? Why is everyone being some lamp get out here?

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Speaker 1: And I'm like, okay, we flipped the switch. Now Mish

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Speaker 1: must have found some contenders for WiFi. And now we

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Speaker 1: flipped the switch and Misha's in extrovert mode.

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Speaker 2: Don't do me.

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Speaker 3: What happened was when we first cross Paths, I was

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Speaker 3: half a glass of red wine in by the time

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Speaker 2: The second time.

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Speaker 1: You need liquid courage, is what you're saying.

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Speaker 3: Yes, I was in the last throws of my second glass,

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Speaker 3: which they were poured them heavy.

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Speaker 1: And you did tell me that you're a lightweight, so

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Speaker 1: you only need I guess two.

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Speaker 2: Glasses exactly, exactly.

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Speaker 1: morning we get up and we've got our live show

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Speaker 1: at Westport Cafe, which was the blast. Lots of sponsors

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Speaker 1: iHeart folks and I heart women's sports folks and really

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Speaker 1: get the show in fun of some people. We went

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Speaker 1: from there to an Auto Straddle party and now let

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Speaker 1: them not super familiar with, but a bunch of my

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Speaker 1: friends are fans of their content, a lot of queer

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Speaker 1: so I was. I managed to slide in there, and

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Speaker 1: that Mesh and I instantly inserted ourselves into mishad first

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Speaker 1: DIBs and if you want to see someone who used

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Speaker 3: Because you know why I was screamy because who was.

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Speaker 3: I had to lock in my partner, Aaron shout out

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Speaker 2: Aaron and I had to lock in a second.

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Speaker 3: I was like, I'm never gonna get another opportunity to

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Speaker 1: I gotta show out in front of the legends. I mean,

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Speaker 1: at one point things got real slow as soon as

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Speaker 2: Mesh for the win.

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Speaker 1: And then hilariously, this very high profile financial investor Capital

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Speaker 1: Group head comes in adorably and it's like, oh my god,

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Speaker 1: I've always wanted to play this. It's just like the movies.

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Speaker 1: And we're like, what, you've never played beer pong? Oh

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Speaker 1: We did our best. Meche did beat us, but the

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Speaker 1: I don't consider it an actual loss. It was more

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Speaker 1: It is what loser's says. It is what loser's saying,

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Speaker 1: we'll meet again on more even ground. But the auto

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Speaker 1: And what was great about it too, was like Sue

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Speaker 1: And I love also that she didn't waste a second,

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Speaker 1: And when we were in can France over the summer,

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Speaker 1: another country to try to set up so that we

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Speaker 3: When I met you at that hotel before we went

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Speaker 3: You have to be locked in for a game like that.

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Speaker 1: So that was a good time. We went straight from

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Speaker 1: there to see that. They dedicated the press room to

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Speaker 1: just made sense to name that after Grant. Also some clever,

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Speaker 1: Jenna Toanelly, who is a friend of the show, has

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I wanted Sarah thinks I'm insane for this, but

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Speaker 3: And what we got it was cute, but I just

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Speaker 2: And Lindsay Gives made a good point.

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Speaker 3: She was sitting with us high Lindsey, if you're listening

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Speaker 3: Sometimes they're just boring and that's just what it is,

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Speaker 1: So I didn't say. I didn't say you were crazy

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Speaker 1: But you know, the Spirit had more chances in the

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Speaker 1: Meshe is that those twenty five chances, very few of

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Speaker 3: We felt like none of their attacks stream anything together,

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Speaker 3: think I told you and lindsay, everything feels a step

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Speaker 2: I thought the first chunk of the first half.

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Speaker 3: They did a great job possessing the ball, but again

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Speaker 2: You mentioned Trinity Rodman.

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Speaker 3: She had little bursts here and there, but you could

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Speaker 3: and then you know, it just kind of fell apart

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Speaker 3: to the spirit because the pride, it was written in

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Speaker 3: the stars, right, it was written in the stars all.

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Speaker 2: Season for them. And I'm just so happy for Marts.

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Speaker 3: I'm happy for Barbara Benda, I'm happy for Emily and

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Speaker 3: Kylie who he had on the show, all those folks.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Trinity Rodman was clearly not herself. Clutching her back

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Speaker 1: that didn't have Kreybathoun, didn't have Andy Sullivan. You just

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Speaker 1: don't know what that would have looked like if the

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Speaker 1: Spirit had had their best players out there. But at

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Speaker 1: the same point, who knows if they would have won anyway,

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Speaker 1: because that Orlando team, to your point, felt almost inevitable

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Speaker 1: You've got Barbara Banda doing Barbara Banded things. You've got

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Speaker 1: was really cool to watch, and you know, MARTA's mother

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Speaker 1: And after the game, Marta said specifically that she's had

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Speaker 1: I didn't want to leave this place without doing something big.

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Speaker 1: And she said, tonight she got the answers to all

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Speaker 1: those questions, which is really cool. She also said, I

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Speaker 1: had to wait eight years for this. Just the F

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Speaker 1: Chef's guess, Marta, that's how you get it done?

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Speaker 1: Nope, nope yeah. And then you and I wandered around

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Speaker 1: There was a corner of the stadium where all the

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Speaker 1: Grant Hill, who's the co owner, ran over and they

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Speaker 1: were chanting his name, and they were chanting seb Hines,

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Speaker 1: their coach of the year, first black coach to win

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Speaker 1: I think, because of MARTA's win, is sort of an

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Speaker 3: Just strictly on the legacy that you know, the addition

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Speaker 1: It all and mart at the cherry on the top.

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Speaker 1: Any other thoughts about our epic weekend meech other than

436
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Speaker 1: you know, I'm such a great hang.

437
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Speaker 2: You are so.

438
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Speaker 3: Security and I'm glad that I actually had the energy

439
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Speaker 3: to hang this time because last time I definitely was

440
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Speaker 3: like I'm gonna go to sleep.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, all Star weekend we were on different schedules. You

442
00:20:45,520 --> 00:20:47,080
Speaker 1: were like, let me take a disco nap and head

443
00:20:47,080 --> 00:20:48,560
Speaker 1: back out at eleven pm, and I was like, I'm

444
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Speaker 1: gonna go to bed now.

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Speaker 3: But I just want to say shout out to all

446
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Speaker 3: the folks we saw. I got to meet for the

447
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Speaker 3: first time in person, the folks from Shaye Butter FC. Yes,

448
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Speaker 3: so that was wonderful. Shout out to the folks at

449
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Speaker 3: Galpal Sports. We also met all the players, all the people.

450
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Speaker 3: And then my last note about the final itself. I

451
00:21:08,680 --> 00:21:11,480
Speaker 3: was walking off the field as I was going around

452
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Speaker 3: trying to catch social and things, and Kroy Bethune is

453
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Speaker 3: sitting on the sideline. It's mostly empty save the rest

454
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Speaker 3: of the media folks, and she's sitting on a cooler

455
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Speaker 3: on the sideline. Her knee is bouncing and she's got

456
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Speaker 3: this super intense look on her face, and I'm like,

457
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Speaker 3: am I gonna poke the bear a little bit and

458
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Speaker 3: see what's going on? I'm gonna poke the bear. So

459
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Speaker 3: I walk over there and I'm like, you know, what's

460
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Speaker 3: the thoughts, what's the feelings? Didn't get it recorded because

461
00:21:35,400 --> 00:21:38,800
Speaker 3: I just genuinely wanted to know, and she's like, I

462
00:21:38,840 --> 00:21:41,360
Speaker 3: need to soak this in because I'm using this next year.

463
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Speaker 3: I was like, cool, y'all gonna be careful. So that's

464
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Speaker 3: all I'm gonna say.

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Speaker 1: She wanted to be out there, yes, and it would

466
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Speaker 1: have been a different game if she was. That is

467
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Speaker 1: a Rookie of the Year Midfielder of the Year with

468
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Speaker 1: only seventeen games played. She is going to be a

469
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Speaker 1: problem for the rest of the league and we're excited

470
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Speaker 1: to see it. I talked to Morgan Gatro formally mo'brian,

471
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Speaker 1: who played with the Chicago Red Stars when I was there,

472
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Speaker 1: and she was really pumped and said, you know, fourth

473
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Speaker 1: time's the charm, and you think about some of these

474
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Speaker 1: players that have been on teams, gotten to championships, not

475
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Speaker 1: got it done, And so as much focus on Martin

476
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Speaker 1: and Barbara winning her first, but like some of the

477
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Speaker 1: players deeper in the roster that also got that, which

478
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Speaker 1: is pretty cool. And then last thing, I was talking

479
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Speaker 1: to the commissioner, Jessica Berman, and I said, oh, congrats

480
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Speaker 1: on everything, what a successful weekend. Do you get to

481
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Speaker 1: take a break and she said, oh, absolutely not. I

482
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Speaker 1: have to finalize an expansion team. And I said, oh yeah,

483
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Speaker 1: they're trying to pick a bid and get that done

484
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Speaker 1: by end of year. So no rest, no rest for anyone.

485
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Speaker 1: We're going to take a quick break. When we come back.

486
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Speaker 1: We talk stadiums, Sabering, Champagne, and Taylor Swift with Casey

487
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Speaker 1: current co owner Chris Long, who joined us at our

488
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Speaker 1: live show in Kansas City. Stick her out right now.

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Speaker 1: We're going to welcome co founder and owner of the

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Speaker 1: Kansas City Current Chris Long to the Penalty Box. Thank

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Speaker 1: you for being here.

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Speaker 4: It's a pleasure. Hi everyone.

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Speaker 1: Before the show, we joked about how your wife was

494
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Speaker 1: supposed to join me on a panel at the espnW

495
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Speaker 1: summit and then couldn't make it, so they said, but

496
00:23:31,320 --> 00:23:33,879
Speaker 1: don't worry, Chris is coming. And then you couldn't make it.

497
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Speaker 1: So third time's the charm? Were you dodging my tough questions?

498
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Speaker 4: Oh it's too intimidating up here in the penalty box.

499
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Speaker 1: So Chris founded Palmer Square Capital Management in June of

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Speaker 1: two thousand and nine, currently serves as chairman, CEO, and

501
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Speaker 1: portfolio manager. In December of twenty twenty, he and his

502
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Speaker 1: wife Angie co founded The KC Current alongside co owner

503
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Speaker 1: Brittany Mahomes. He was the twenty twenty two Kansas City

504
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Speaker 1: Sports Commissioned Sports Executive the Year named SBJ twenty twenty

505
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Speaker 1: two power Players in Women's Sports. And I looked this up.

506
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Speaker 1: He was a hooper at Princeton where I was hoping

507
00:24:06,880 --> 00:24:09,159
Speaker 1: to talk some shit, but his squad beat Cornell in

508
00:24:09,200 --> 00:24:11,920
Speaker 1: every matchup while he was on the team. So the

509
00:24:12,000 --> 00:24:15,879
Speaker 1: joke's on me. Yeah, I won't hold it against you.

510
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Speaker 1: It's Chris Long. So I think a lot of folks

511
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Speaker 1: were excited to see the Current in the title game here.

512
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Speaker 4: Well we were too.

513
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Speaker 1: Yeah, came up just short. But I'm curious sports culture,

514
00:24:31,720 --> 00:24:34,800
Speaker 1: So prizes the end result and winning it all. Are

515
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Speaker 1: you able to hold your disappointment at the same time

516
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Speaker 1: as enthusiasm for the progress of this season and how

517
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Speaker 1: close you came one hundred percent?

518
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Speaker 4: I mean, I'm so proud of the Orlando Pride, Washington

519
00:24:46,800 --> 00:24:49,200
Speaker 4: Spirit what they've done this season. I'm so proud of

520
00:24:49,240 --> 00:24:52,560
Speaker 4: the league. And if you look at just continually upping

521
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Speaker 4: its game, I mean, what a glorious event we've had

522
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Speaker 4: so far, right, I mean, this is what it is

523
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Speaker 4: all about. So yeah, I certainly would of loved to

524
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Speaker 4: be in the championship game. I mean, who wouldn't, But

525
00:25:03,840 --> 00:25:05,000
Speaker 4: this is pretty cool.

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Speaker 1: We've talked a lot about your facilities, so the point

527
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Speaker 1: where purpose built stadium for women just rolls right off

528
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Speaker 1: the tongue because I've said it so many times. How

529
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Speaker 1: meaningful was it to see that your work, your investment,

530
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Speaker 1: your time, your planning resulted in the league awarding you

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Speaker 1: this championship.

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Speaker 4: It's a little bit of an out of body experience.

533
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Speaker 4: I mean walking around and seeing just the media and

534
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Speaker 4: the use of the facility and the branding and you know,

535
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Speaker 4: we just open this thing March sixteenth. I mean, this

536
00:25:36,240 --> 00:25:40,159
Speaker 4: isn't even a year old, and I really believe that

537
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Speaker 4: we're at a point in time where this is going

538
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Speaker 4: to be an inflection point in infrastructure, and you're going

539
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Speaker 4: to see a lot more coming as far as what

540
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Speaker 4: looks like CPK Stadium that's going to be in a

541
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Speaker 4: lot of spots here in the next three to five years.

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Speaker 1: What a legacy to know that you've made. Me. There

543
00:26:00,359 --> 00:26:03,040
Speaker 1: is so much pressure on other teams now to do

544
00:26:03,200 --> 00:26:05,560
Speaker 1: just what you did, and it didn't exist before you.

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Speaker 1: That's first of all, wild that it would be twenty

546
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Speaker 1: twenty four, but I mean the incredible amount of pressure

547
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Speaker 1: you put on other places to have to meet your standard.

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Speaker 1: Are there any owners reaching out saying, excuse me, we

549
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Speaker 1: don't have the funds, or we're a little bit overwhelmed,

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Speaker 1: or I can't believe you set this up for us,

551
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Speaker 1: so now we have to meet it.

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Speaker 4: Well, I don't know anyone's reaching out with that sort

553
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Speaker 4: of commentary, but I will say, as you mentioned expansion

554
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Speaker 4: in the open, I mean, just everyone should should know this,

555
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Speaker 4: and I'm sure Commissioner Berman talked about it. But if

556
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Speaker 4: you look at the top three things as we look

557
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Speaker 4: at cities for expansion, it's facilities, facilities, facilities, that is

558
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Speaker 4: the focus. And I think that we're getting calls just

559
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Speaker 4: how did you do it? How did you finance it?

560
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Speaker 4: Who did you go to? Had you know you didn't

561
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Speaker 4: use public money. If you were going to use public money,

562
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Speaker 4: how would you have done it? And I mean we

563
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Speaker 4: were trying to be a positive change agent and almost

564
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Speaker 4: be like a consultant in a lot of ways. So hopefully,

565
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Speaker 4: hopefully again it translates. I think it will. I think

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Speaker 4: these next three to five years we're going to see

567
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Speaker 4: some really great investments in facilities.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's interesting in women's sports, particularly more nascent leagues,

569
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Speaker 1: it does become a sort of rising tide lifts all boats.

570
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Speaker 1: You're in competition, but you also understand that the league's stability,

571
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Speaker 1: the league's future success relies on every team being able

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Speaker 1: to step up. And I remember when angel City launched

573
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Speaker 1: and had a number of really impressive and new practices

574
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Speaker 1: in place. They would sit when I was in ownership

575
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Speaker 1: with the Red Stars, they would have a zoom call

576
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Speaker 1: with our Red Stars leadership and tell us this is

577
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Speaker 1: how we did this, this is how we figured this out.

578
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Speaker 1: And that is not normal in professional sports, but it

579
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Speaker 1: has to be when you're trying to create a league

580
00:27:44,720 --> 00:27:47,239
Speaker 1: that's just you know, a decade or so old. Did

581
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Speaker 1: you have to pay extra for the sky behind your

582
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Speaker 1: practice facility to be Kansas City current red.

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Speaker 4: Or is that just part of the deal, just part

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Speaker 4: of the deal.

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Speaker 1: It's nice. It was nice last night. I like that

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Speaker 1: every game of sellout this season. It's yeah, that's a

587
00:28:02,560 --> 00:28:05,040
Speaker 1: pretty nice way to be validated in your investment. Is

588
00:28:05,240 --> 00:28:07,720
Speaker 1: did you hope and assume that? Or was that a

589
00:28:07,720 --> 00:28:09,600
Speaker 1: little surprised that it was every single game?

590
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Speaker 4: Quite honestly, Kansas City is such a sports town. We

591
00:28:13,800 --> 00:28:17,440
Speaker 4: assumed it. It was not a surprise, or you know, wow,

592
00:28:17,520 --> 00:28:20,560
Speaker 4: are we lucky? I mean, hopefully you're having the best time.

593
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Speaker 4: This community just absolutely eats sports. They love it.

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Speaker 1: I've been told that I'm from Chicago and everyone here

595
00:28:28,080 --> 00:28:30,399
Speaker 1: is like, well, so you don't understand Kansas City and sports,

596
00:28:30,400 --> 00:28:34,800
Speaker 1: And I'm like, oh, okay, excuse me. There was so

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Speaker 1: much focus one hundred and twenty four days. I believe

598
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Speaker 1: it was one hundred and twenty four days from you

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Speaker 1: saying year one, So there was so much focus the

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Speaker 1: first year. We have one hundred and twenty four days

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Speaker 1: to start an entire franchise and then so much focus

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Speaker 1: on the facilities and getting the stadium ready for this season.

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Speaker 1: Where does your focus go now?

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Speaker 4: Oh, I mean the mandate we've had is to be

605
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Speaker 4: the best women's football club in the world, and we're

606
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Speaker 4: we're not there yet. I mean, we have so many

607
00:29:02,160 --> 00:29:04,840
Speaker 4: things to do, so that's making the brand more global,

608
00:29:05,160 --> 00:29:08,880
Speaker 4: that's expanded beyond just the Kansas City Current, you know,

609
00:29:08,880 --> 00:29:15,200
Speaker 4: obviously buying other soccer clubs. It's we haven't won a championship.

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Speaker 4: I mean, we're focused on winning a championship. We came

611
00:29:18,280 --> 00:29:21,600
Speaker 4: up short in twenty twenty two. Obviously the Portland Thorns,

612
00:29:21,960 --> 00:29:24,440
Speaker 4: you know, beat us that year in DC, and obviously

613
00:29:24,520 --> 00:29:27,120
Speaker 4: we came up again short this year. So that's a

614
00:29:27,160 --> 00:29:30,000
Speaker 4: big focus. Is this kind of reinforcing that culture of

615
00:29:30,240 --> 00:29:33,960
Speaker 4: winning and getting yourself to be a perennial contender. So

616
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Speaker 4: there's lots to do, lots to do yet, but it

617
00:29:36,680 --> 00:29:39,480
Speaker 4: feels good for where we are. I mean, you know,

618
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Speaker 4: you rewind the clock back to we bought the club

619
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Speaker 4: December sixth of twenty twenty in the heart of the pandemic,

620
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Speaker 4: and we didn't have a brand, a website, no employees,

621
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Speaker 4: and it was like, okay, you have to be on

622
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Speaker 4: the field in one hundred and twenty four days. I

623
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Speaker 4: mean it was absolutely insane, uncomfortable, uneasy. I mean it

624
00:29:57,480 --> 00:30:01,239
Speaker 4: was really difficult. But here and it's it's you know,

625
00:30:01,280 --> 00:30:04,040
Speaker 4: and we'll watch this glorious epic match tonight in a

626
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Speaker 4: stadium that I think is one of the best in.

627
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Speaker 1: The world, beautiful setting for tonight. Who gets the credit

628
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Speaker 1: You talked about going global, you talked about getting that

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Speaker 1: first title, getting better as a team. Tim Wuchewinga helps

630
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Speaker 1: with that just a little bit. And who gets the

631
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Speaker 1: credit for that move to go out and get Tim

632
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Speaker 1: Wah Golden Boot winner, record breaker in her first.

633
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Speaker 4: Season, Vladco and Anofski. I mean, he's world class at

634
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Speaker 4: spotting talent. And not only did he go out and

635
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Speaker 4: get tem Law, who is as amazing off the pitch,

636
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Speaker 4: by the way as she is on the pitch, but

637
00:30:38,960 --> 00:30:41,440
Speaker 4: also got Bia. The two I don't know if you

638
00:30:42,320 --> 00:30:45,960
Speaker 4: knew this, but Bea and Temaw were playing together in

639
00:30:46,040 --> 00:30:49,840
Speaker 4: China and sort of got both at once. So all

640
00:30:49,840 --> 00:30:52,880
Speaker 4: the credit goes to him on that, on that accomplishment.

641
00:30:53,320 --> 00:30:54,920
Speaker 1: Who else is taking credit for that?

642
00:30:56,440 --> 00:30:59,080
Speaker 4: Well, I don't know, probably everybody at this point. So,

643
00:31:00,080 --> 00:31:02,360
Speaker 4: but I would say just to take a step further

644
00:31:02,400 --> 00:31:05,480
Speaker 4: and not to gush too much about our technical staff,

645
00:31:05,480 --> 00:31:09,160
Speaker 4: but I really do do admire them. If you watch

646
00:31:09,800 --> 00:31:16,640
Speaker 4: timwaw from game one to now, her development is actually staggering.

647
00:31:16,680 --> 00:31:19,280
Speaker 4: And she was good at game one, I mean really good.

648
00:31:19,440 --> 00:31:22,560
Speaker 4: But I mean what she has accomplished as a player

649
00:31:23,160 --> 00:31:26,920
Speaker 4: from all sorts of angles, I don't know that anyone's

650
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Speaker 4: grown that quickly or developed that quickly as Tim Watchawinga.

651
00:31:31,200 --> 00:31:33,840
Speaker 1: And honestly, if you look across the league, Rachel Kundananji,

652
00:31:33,880 --> 00:31:36,320
Speaker 1: Barbara Banda, Tim Wachaweinga, if you look at the African

653
00:31:36,360 --> 00:31:38,920
Speaker 1: players that have come over, when they have the resources,

654
00:31:38,960 --> 00:31:42,560
Speaker 1: the investment, the coaching, the care, the sky's the limit.

655
00:31:42,760 --> 00:31:45,280
Speaker 1: And I think there's probably a trend coming when it

656
00:31:45,320 --> 00:31:48,320
Speaker 1: comes to that, because there is so much untapped talent

657
00:31:48,360 --> 00:31:50,280
Speaker 1: in places that haven't invested in women's sports the way

658
00:31:50,320 --> 00:31:53,960
Speaker 1: the US has. Yeah, I mean just incredible to watch

659
00:31:54,520 --> 00:31:57,840
Speaker 1: the development there. And we had tem Wah on our

660
00:31:57,880 --> 00:32:01,920
Speaker 1: show and Jericho from the team and we asked him,

661
00:32:01,960 --> 00:32:04,200
Speaker 1: what did you have any big goals before the season started.

662
00:32:04,400 --> 00:32:05,800
Speaker 1: She said, yeah, I wanted to have, like, I don't know,

663
00:32:05,840 --> 00:32:08,320
Speaker 1: twenty three or twenty four goals, and I'm like, did

664
00:32:08,360 --> 00:32:10,760
Speaker 1: you know that would be the record all time? And

665
00:32:10,800 --> 00:32:14,120
Speaker 1: she's like, no, just seemed like I could do it. Well,

666
00:32:14,160 --> 00:32:16,680
Speaker 1: call your shot, I guess is what happened.

667
00:32:16,960 --> 00:32:19,920
Speaker 4: Well, I just just rewind. I didn't know very much

668
00:32:19,960 --> 00:32:22,800
Speaker 4: about about Tim Law at all, and I went down

669
00:32:22,800 --> 00:32:25,920
Speaker 4: to spring training. We were at IMG and we had

670
00:32:25,920 --> 00:32:28,720
Speaker 4: our first scrimmage, and you know, I was looking at

671
00:32:28,760 --> 00:32:30,560
Speaker 4: the players and just trying to make sure and get

672
00:32:30,560 --> 00:32:32,480
Speaker 4: the names right, and you just to understand who's out there,

673
00:32:33,160 --> 00:32:36,920
Speaker 4: and ball, you know, is serviced over the top and

674
00:32:38,000 --> 00:32:41,200
Speaker 4: just outran everybody to that ball, and I thought, whoa,

675
00:32:41,600 --> 00:32:43,280
Speaker 4: this is going to be interesting. I didn't know it

676
00:32:43,280 --> 00:32:46,160
Speaker 4: would be twenty goals interesting, but sort of felt felt

677
00:32:46,200 --> 00:32:46,680
Speaker 4: pretty good.

678
00:32:46,880 --> 00:32:50,480
Speaker 1: Yeah, Kansas City is such a great soccer town. It's

679
00:32:50,480 --> 00:32:53,120
Speaker 1: a great sports soun in general. But I've been hearing

680
00:32:53,120 --> 00:32:55,040
Speaker 1: all season long that you walk around and there is

681
00:32:55,200 --> 00:33:00,400
Speaker 1: current stuff everywhere, merch colors, ads. Can you tell us

682
00:33:00,440 --> 00:33:02,800
Speaker 1: some of the best ways you've seen the city rally

683
00:33:02,800 --> 00:33:03,720
Speaker 1: around this team.

684
00:33:04,280 --> 00:33:07,240
Speaker 4: Oh, there's a myriad of ways. But I love whenever

685
00:33:07,320 --> 00:33:11,920
Speaker 4: we do something celebratory all of downtown lights teal. And

686
00:33:11,960 --> 00:33:14,280
Speaker 4: not only is it light teal, and this is from

687
00:33:14,360 --> 00:33:17,040
Speaker 4: the Union Station to the Kaufman Center. All of our

688
00:33:17,200 --> 00:33:22,960
Speaker 4: Crown Jewel institutions have basically gotten teal lights. The Marriott

689
00:33:23,240 --> 00:33:28,040
Speaker 4: puts on the entire front facade are crest. I mean

690
00:33:28,120 --> 00:33:30,320
Speaker 4: it's special if you look. Actually, and I don't know

691
00:33:30,320 --> 00:33:32,560
Speaker 4: if we'll see it tonight because obviously it'll be very

692
00:33:32,640 --> 00:33:37,640
Speaker 4: a very bright light night. But the bridge behind the stadium,

693
00:33:38,280 --> 00:33:39,560
Speaker 4: guess what color the lights are?

694
00:33:40,080 --> 00:33:40,520
Speaker 1: Teal?

695
00:33:40,800 --> 00:33:45,320
Speaker 4: Teal Missouri Department of Transportation teal lights on the bridge.

696
00:33:45,360 --> 00:33:46,200
Speaker 4: That's pretty sick.

697
00:33:46,960 --> 00:33:48,800
Speaker 1: Can we get a round of applause for that? That

698
00:33:48,880 --> 00:33:51,239
Speaker 1: should be normal. We're so used to that being the

699
00:33:51,280 --> 00:33:54,000
Speaker 1: norm for our men's teams, and so for a city

700
00:33:54,040 --> 00:33:56,640
Speaker 1: to get behind a women's team. Also, kudos to you

701
00:33:56,800 --> 00:33:59,080
Speaker 1: and the Liberty and the Valkyries and all the teams

702
00:33:59,080 --> 00:34:03,320
Speaker 1: that are expanding the color palettes because it's smart. It

703
00:34:03,480 --> 00:34:06,000
Speaker 1: becomes associated with you in a way that the traditional

704
00:34:06,040 --> 00:34:09,680
Speaker 1: colors are not. And it's really cool. You and your wife,

705
00:34:09,719 --> 00:34:12,880
Speaker 1: Angie run Palmer Square Capital Management and co own the

706
00:34:12,920 --> 00:34:17,239
Speaker 1: current My parents have been married for fifty years, for

707
00:34:17,440 --> 00:34:21,280
Speaker 1: like thirty of that they've had a law firm together. Yeah,

708
00:34:21,400 --> 00:34:24,680
Speaker 1: I do not know how they do it. I love

709
00:34:24,760 --> 00:34:29,080
Speaker 1: my husband and also I do not want to work

710
00:34:29,080 --> 00:34:30,640
Speaker 1: with him every second of the day and be married

711
00:34:30,640 --> 00:34:33,200
Speaker 1: to him. So how do you do it? How do

712
00:34:33,239 --> 00:34:35,879
Speaker 1: you how do you balance when is it work time?

713
00:34:35,920 --> 00:34:37,959
Speaker 1: When is it marriage time? When is it parent time?

714
00:34:40,280 --> 00:34:40,520
Speaker 2: You know?

715
00:34:40,680 --> 00:34:45,239
Speaker 4: We uh, First off, I mean, Angie's brilliant. One of

716
00:34:45,280 --> 00:34:48,120
Speaker 4: the hardest workers I've ever seen, is true, you know,

717
00:34:48,280 --> 00:34:53,840
Speaker 4: authentic leader type personality. So she inspires me NonStop. So

718
00:34:53,880 --> 00:34:58,000
Speaker 4: it starts there. But I'd say we have different skill

719
00:34:58,000 --> 00:35:02,080
Speaker 4: sets and they're very complimentary. So whether that's if you

720
00:35:02,280 --> 00:35:05,560
Speaker 4: think about Palmer Square, what does Palmer Square do? We

721
00:35:05,600 --> 00:35:10,359
Speaker 4: manage money for investors globally. She looks at the risk

722
00:35:10,840 --> 00:35:13,879
Speaker 4: and the investment sort of process, and I do all

723
00:35:13,920 --> 00:35:16,680
Speaker 4: of the client and product development and all of this

724
00:35:16,719 --> 00:35:20,960
Speaker 4: stuff sort of out front. We get so much more

725
00:35:21,000 --> 00:35:24,000
Speaker 4: done because you check your ego at the door, right,

726
00:35:24,040 --> 00:35:25,799
Speaker 4: it's not only your partner, it's your wife, it's your

727
00:35:25,800 --> 00:35:28,319
Speaker 4: best friend, it's you know, it's your confidant. So the

728
00:35:28,400 --> 00:35:31,480
Speaker 4: fact that we can use our talents at the same

729
00:35:31,560 --> 00:35:36,080
Speaker 4: time on the same with the same philosophy and with

730
00:35:36,160 --> 00:35:39,560
Speaker 4: the same mission, you get things done pretty quickly. I

731
00:35:39,560 --> 00:35:41,480
Speaker 4: mean case in point, Look, the stadium went up in

732
00:35:41,520 --> 00:35:44,120
Speaker 4: eighteen months, right, we worked NonStop. I took one thing,

733
00:35:44,160 --> 00:35:46,799
Speaker 4: she took another. We just we knew by the time

734
00:35:46,840 --> 00:35:49,319
Speaker 4: we would meet back up to do a check that

735
00:35:49,400 --> 00:35:51,839
Speaker 4: we would be on the same page.

736
00:35:51,920 --> 00:35:54,120
Speaker 1: A lot about accountability there. If you didn't get your

737
00:35:54,200 --> 00:35:56,919
Speaker 1: checklist done. It's a whole different kind of honeydo list

738
00:35:57,000 --> 00:36:02,200
Speaker 1: when it's a stadium being built, not like the dishes. Yeah, yeah,

739
00:36:02,680 --> 00:36:05,640
Speaker 1: you know when it comes to that partnership, you co

740
00:36:05,760 --> 00:36:08,839
Speaker 1: founded the team and you were the main owners, but

741
00:36:09,160 --> 00:36:12,560
Speaker 1: pretty soon after Brittany Mahomes comes in and then Patrick Mahomes.

742
00:36:12,800 --> 00:36:14,880
Speaker 1: What did that mean for the team? That addition of

743
00:36:15,320 --> 00:36:19,520
Speaker 1: not just obviously capital, but the name, the recognition, social

744
00:36:19,560 --> 00:36:20,640
Speaker 1: media presence.

745
00:36:21,120 --> 00:36:26,880
Speaker 4: It's immeasurable. I mean, Patrick and Brittany are incredible people. Obviously,

746
00:36:27,120 --> 00:36:31,200
Speaker 4: their brands go everywhere they want to go. And you

747
00:36:31,239 --> 00:36:33,719
Speaker 4: know the best part about them is we don't even

748
00:36:33,920 --> 00:36:36,920
Speaker 4: really ask of you know, where this on Monday night

749
00:36:36,920 --> 00:36:39,720
Speaker 4: football or you know, talk about this in your press

750
00:36:39,719 --> 00:36:42,840
Speaker 4: conference or you know, obviously Brittany did so much for

751
00:36:42,920 --> 00:36:45,960
Speaker 4: our brand and what we do on social they just

752
00:36:46,040 --> 00:36:49,480
Speaker 4: do it. So I would say that we really got

753
00:36:49,760 --> 00:36:53,080
Speaker 4: people that are obviously in the public eye all the time,

754
00:36:53,640 --> 00:36:56,440
Speaker 4: but they're just normal like you and me. I mean,

755
00:36:56,440 --> 00:36:59,840
Speaker 4: they are really really down to earth people. So Angie

756
00:36:59,840 --> 00:37:01,920
Speaker 4: and I not lucky that it worked out the way

757
00:37:01,920 --> 00:37:02,440
Speaker 4: it did.

758
00:37:02,880 --> 00:37:04,759
Speaker 1: Is Jason Sadakas on the payroll or do you just

759
00:37:04,800 --> 00:37:07,040
Speaker 1: get lucky that he likes to rock Kansas City gear

760
00:37:07,160 --> 00:37:08,720
Speaker 1: and likes women's sports.

761
00:37:08,719 --> 00:37:12,440
Speaker 4: Well, talk about another authentic down to earth He just

762
00:37:12,480 --> 00:37:13,520
Speaker 4: did that. I'm uh.

763
00:37:13,680 --> 00:37:16,919
Speaker 1: Monday night football Sadekas was wearing the Kansas City Current

764
00:37:16,920 --> 00:37:19,880
Speaker 1: sweatshirt on with the Manning brothers. You didn't even have

765
00:37:19,960 --> 00:37:20,719
Speaker 1: to ask.

766
00:37:21,239 --> 00:37:24,239
Speaker 4: Not that I'm aware of. I mean that's the thing is,

767
00:37:24,280 --> 00:37:28,560
Speaker 4: like people I think care about where things are going

768
00:37:28,600 --> 00:37:31,759
Speaker 4: with women's sports, and the people that really get it,

769
00:37:32,320 --> 00:37:33,239
Speaker 4: you don't have to ask.

770
00:37:34,120 --> 00:37:37,040
Speaker 1: Yeah, they know the value of that and that you know,

771
00:37:37,120 --> 00:37:39,960
Speaker 1: if he's wearing a Chief sweatshirt, Okay, if you're wearing

772
00:37:39,960 --> 00:37:43,239
Speaker 1: a Current sweatshirt, everyone's paying attention and everyone wants to know.

773
00:37:43,680 --> 00:37:46,839
Speaker 1: You know your wife, Angie, as far as I heard,

774
00:37:46,920 --> 00:37:49,440
Speaker 1: she had a ritual before every game involving some fancy

775
00:37:49,520 --> 00:37:51,920
Speaker 1: champagne at the stadium. Is that still going on?

776
00:37:52,480 --> 00:37:55,520
Speaker 4: Well, that's funny. The ritual is actually if we win,

777
00:37:56,680 --> 00:37:59,040
Speaker 4: we will go into the pitch Club, which is our

778
00:37:59,160 --> 00:38:02,120
Speaker 4: premium offering. Hopefully people get to see that this evening.

779
00:38:02,200 --> 00:38:03,000
Speaker 1: Well, thanks for the invite.

780
00:38:04,040 --> 00:38:10,799
Speaker 4: Let's go, and she sabers a bottle of champagne and half.

781
00:38:10,840 --> 00:38:14,040
Speaker 4: You've ever seen a sabering, but it's a very sharp,

782
00:38:14,120 --> 00:38:17,919
Speaker 4: think long sushi knife kind of deal where you find

783
00:38:17,960 --> 00:38:20,239
Speaker 4: the stem of the bottle and you actually cut it,

784
00:38:20,360 --> 00:38:23,200
Speaker 4: but cut it so cleanly that you can actually then

785
00:38:23,280 --> 00:38:25,880
Speaker 4: drink it. And we when we win, we probably go

786
00:38:25,960 --> 00:38:31,120
Speaker 4: through forty to fifty bottles of both clcos champagne, and

787
00:38:31,200 --> 00:38:34,480
Speaker 4: it's become so fun. It's obviously not cheap, but we

788
00:38:35,040 --> 00:38:38,360
Speaker 4: we love it, like everyone really enjoys that. So hopefully

789
00:38:38,400 --> 00:38:39,960
Speaker 4: we get to do it a lot in twenty twenty

790
00:38:39,960 --> 00:38:41,200
Speaker 4: five because that means we're winning.

791
00:38:42,280 --> 00:38:45,640
Speaker 1: I'm a master saberer. I've done it multiple times, so

792
00:38:45,680 --> 00:38:48,000
Speaker 1: if you ever need a you know, pinch hitter. Also

793
00:38:48,160 --> 00:38:50,680
Speaker 1: be careful when they start expanding the season, you have

794
00:38:50,680 --> 00:38:53,840
Speaker 1: to up the budget on that. More games, more wins,

795
00:38:53,960 --> 00:38:59,040
Speaker 1: more bottles. You know. An important aspect of leadership is learning.

796
00:38:59,239 --> 00:39:02,440
Speaker 1: And I'm always fascinated when I talk to successful leaders

797
00:39:02,880 --> 00:39:05,640
Speaker 1: to ask what they have changed their minds about. Is

798
00:39:05,680 --> 00:39:08,480
Speaker 1: there something over the course of your time, whether you know,

799
00:39:08,560 --> 00:39:10,880
Speaker 1: in your investment work or as an owner, in the

800
00:39:10,920 --> 00:39:14,160
Speaker 1: last couple of years, that you've really thought, oh yeah,

801
00:39:14,520 --> 00:39:16,600
Speaker 1: not even that I had it wrong, but things have

802
00:39:16,719 --> 00:39:17,840
Speaker 1: changed and now I feel differently.

803
00:39:19,600 --> 00:39:22,319
Speaker 4: You know, one thing I think that's very valuable is,

804
00:39:22,680 --> 00:39:26,640
Speaker 4: especially it's sitting in our seat, you know, running different businesses,

805
00:39:26,840 --> 00:39:30,400
Speaker 4: is you know, someone will tell you someone said something

806
00:39:30,520 --> 00:39:34,000
Speaker 4: or someone did something, and they're very adamant that they're

807
00:39:34,000 --> 00:39:37,719
Speaker 4: one hundred percent right. You always need to go check

808
00:39:37,760 --> 00:39:41,320
Speaker 4: the other side of the story, or you know, someone

809
00:39:41,360 --> 00:39:44,920
Speaker 4: assumes someone did this or that, And when you think

810
00:39:44,920 --> 00:39:48,600
Speaker 4: about managing people and being a good leader, it's not

811
00:39:48,880 --> 00:39:51,719
Speaker 4: always just black or white, right, There's always some gray

812
00:39:51,760 --> 00:39:54,200
Speaker 4: in there. So I feel like I've gotten a lot

813
00:39:54,280 --> 00:39:57,000
Speaker 4: better at that. You know, you know the old saying

814
00:39:57,120 --> 00:39:59,600
Speaker 4: if you assume, you may know, I won't finish it, but.

815
00:39:59,600 --> 00:40:02,000
Speaker 1: We swear here, yeah, you make an ass out of

816
00:40:02,000 --> 00:40:02,360
Speaker 1: you and me.

817
00:40:03,080 --> 00:40:07,479
Speaker 4: Exactly, and we're really good at not making an ass

818
00:40:07,520 --> 00:40:08,239
Speaker 4: out of me.

819
00:40:08,320 --> 00:40:11,360
Speaker 1: And yeah, that's a great lesson, I think, not just

820
00:40:11,400 --> 00:40:13,640
Speaker 1: for leadership but in life. And I think as I'm

821
00:40:13,680 --> 00:40:17,799
Speaker 1: getting older, I still have snap judgments about people and

822
00:40:17,880 --> 00:40:21,000
Speaker 1: things that are in conflict with my belief systems or

823
00:40:21,040 --> 00:40:23,400
Speaker 1: the way I do things. But now as I get older,

824
00:40:23,440 --> 00:40:27,120
Speaker 1: I give myself a brief pause and think, what are

825
00:40:27,120 --> 00:40:29,239
Speaker 1: the questions I can ask to make sure that the

826
00:40:29,239 --> 00:40:31,879
Speaker 1: impression I'm getting is the right one, and then if

827
00:40:31,880 --> 00:40:33,560
Speaker 1: it is, and I can decide how to move forward.

828
00:40:34,000 --> 00:40:37,640
Speaker 1: But I've got these two producers, Misha and Alex twenty

829
00:40:37,680 --> 00:40:40,440
Speaker 1: seven thirty two, so we're representing Yes, clap it out

830
00:40:40,480 --> 00:40:44,719
Speaker 1: for them, let's go. And it is interesting to have

831
00:40:44,760 --> 00:40:47,160
Speaker 1: these two young women in their twenties and thirties and

832
00:40:47,200 --> 00:40:52,200
Speaker 1: I'm very early forties, barely some would say late thirties

833
00:40:54,080 --> 00:40:58,439
Speaker 1: if we were using a different calendar, and to talk

834
00:40:58,480 --> 00:41:01,000
Speaker 1: to them about things, and I always say, I don't

835
00:41:01,000 --> 00:41:03,000
Speaker 1: want to be condescending. But the older I get, the

836
00:41:03,040 --> 00:41:05,319
Speaker 1: more I have just a little bit of grace for

837
00:41:05,560 --> 00:41:08,880
Speaker 1: people and things. Instead of getting more stubborn about my beliefs,

838
00:41:08,880 --> 00:41:12,000
Speaker 1: instead of getting more judgmental, I'm getting more open minded,

839
00:41:12,400 --> 00:41:14,799
Speaker 1: which I think is how we should go. And when

840
00:41:14,840 --> 00:41:17,759
Speaker 1: it comes to a league like this, I imagine there are

841
00:41:17,840 --> 00:41:20,760
Speaker 1: other owners who have different ideas about how to move forward.

842
00:41:20,880 --> 00:41:23,040
Speaker 1: I imagine the commissioner has different ideas about how to

843
00:41:23,040 --> 00:41:26,359
Speaker 1: move forward. How do you come together? Because it is

844
00:41:27,080 --> 00:41:30,120
Speaker 1: a team at this point of all of all the

845
00:41:30,160 --> 00:41:32,160
Speaker 1: teams in the league that has to kind of start

846
00:41:32,200 --> 00:41:35,720
Speaker 1: to make decisions in cohesion, whether that's I was talking

847
00:41:35,760 --> 00:41:40,200
Speaker 1: to your staff member over there about Danny, Yeah, about

848
00:41:41,440 --> 00:41:43,800
Speaker 1: about spring training and can we get all the players

849
00:41:43,800 --> 00:41:45,400
Speaker 1: in the same place for that, and then can we

850
00:41:45,440 --> 00:41:48,360
Speaker 1: exchange business practices while they're also training and prepping for

851
00:41:48,440 --> 00:41:51,040
Speaker 1: the season? Can we And it's different budgets, and it's

852
00:41:51,080 --> 00:41:53,920
Speaker 1: different goals, and it's different locations, so things like that,

853
00:41:54,000 --> 00:41:57,400
Speaker 1: how do you come together? And is there a hierarchy

854
00:41:57,440 --> 00:42:00,440
Speaker 1: of who has the loudest, most important voice in the room?

855
00:42:00,840 --> 00:42:03,520
Speaker 4: Oh, I would say that's a first of all fantastic

856
00:42:03,560 --> 00:42:05,480
Speaker 4: backdrop you just laid out there. I would say that

857
00:42:05,560 --> 00:42:08,560
Speaker 4: the one key characteristic of the end of his cell

858
00:42:08,680 --> 00:42:12,640
Speaker 4: is most, if not all, of the ownership has actually

859
00:42:12,800 --> 00:42:17,080
Speaker 4: changed in the last little bit when it was yeah,

860
00:42:17,440 --> 00:42:23,960
Speaker 4: with expansion or and so as there isn't this this

861
00:42:24,000 --> 00:42:26,880
Speaker 4: person's over here in right field, and this one's in

862
00:42:26,960 --> 00:42:28,359
Speaker 4: left field, and how do you how do you get

863
00:42:28,360 --> 00:42:32,160
Speaker 4: to the center? It's on the margins. And that is

864
00:42:32,200 --> 00:42:35,000
Speaker 4: not how it was when we first joined the league.

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Speaker 4: Board meetings were unorganized and you felt like it was

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Speaker 4: going to be like a fight. It's it's just not

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Speaker 4: like that now, where it's everybody knows what's most important

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Speaker 4: and it's the league first. And I really believe that

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Speaker 4: that's why you've seen so much growth in everything end

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Speaker 4: of it, so including this event. Right, there's such a

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Speaker 4: large d step up than even last year, and that's

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Speaker 4: due to the fact that we're more on the same

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Speaker 4: page than we've been.

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Speaker 1: All Right, last things, most important things. Number one, how

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Speaker 1: many conversations are happening behind the scenes to get Taylor

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Speaker 1: and Travis to a game?

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Speaker 4: Oh god, I mean lots. I mean and being open

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Speaker 4: and honest. I mean. I wrote Travis a handwritten note

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Speaker 4: and said, you know, he wore our so he can read.

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Speaker 1: Kidding, we love we love our himbo Travis, No, but.

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Speaker 4: Back to like people that get it. He wore on

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Speaker 4: his new you know, his podcast, he wore Casey current

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Speaker 4: gear and we didn't even again, didn't even ask and

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Speaker 4: so wrote him in a thank you note and said, hey,

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Speaker 4: we'd love to have you at a game, and well,

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Speaker 4: by the way, if you know Jason Er or you

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Speaker 4: know your significant other would like to come to that

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Speaker 4: would be okay. We would find room in one of

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Speaker 4: the you know, one of the sweets. But I think

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Speaker 4: that I think he's been to some games this year

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Speaker 4: and he's been a massive supporter. He came to a

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Speaker 4: ton of games last year, almost most of the home

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Speaker 4: games that he could do. I think I think she'll

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Speaker 4: get to so.

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Speaker 1: At the Red Stars Stadium, JJ Watt would sometimes come

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Speaker 1: support his wife, and there were enough suites and they

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Speaker 1: are high enough up that it would be JJ and

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Speaker 1: their two dogs in the suite watching the game. I heard.

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Speaker 1: One of the conflicts is that the way the suites

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Speaker 1: are set up, it'd just be hard to get security

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Speaker 1: in place for Taylor.

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Speaker 2: Is that the problem here?

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Speaker 1: Do we need doing? Do we need to find some

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Speaker 1: solution around that?

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Speaker 4: Nope, we have Actually we have looked at the security

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Speaker 4: for that and it is not a problem.

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Speaker 1: Okay, Okay, this sounds positive to assure you on that.

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Speaker 1: I feel I feel like we're on the right track

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Speaker 1: here for this this is gonna happen. Okay, good will

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Speaker 1: you let me know when it's happening and get me

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Speaker 1: in that suite you mentioned text? Great, thank you, thank you.

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Speaker 2: Okay.

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Speaker 1: Last question, most important, how do we organize a river

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Speaker 1: goal skills competition for fans and say podcast hosts.

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Speaker 4: Oh, we just do it.

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Speaker 1: Let's go.

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Speaker 4: I mean, Tamwlaw's got to be the star of that then, obviously,

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Speaker 4: But I don't know, Alana, what do you think? How

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Speaker 4: do we do river goals competition?

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Speaker 1: Just set it up and let it fly?

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Speaker 4: Yeah? Yeah, Why don't we once everything's done here today

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Speaker 4: and everything up, why don't we just go over.

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Speaker 1: The stadium and everyone's invited. Let's go drink your mimosas

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