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Speaker 1: Hey, that folks, it is Thursday, February nineteenth. Then that's

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Speaker 1: what I'm fucking talking about. That is a direct quote

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Speaker 1: from your newly minted gold medal winning Alyssa Lou figure

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Speaker 1: skating champ at the Olympics. And welcome to this episode,

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Speaker 1: very animated episode of Amy and TJ.

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Speaker 2: Robes.

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Speaker 1: We have a new star, we have a new story,

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Speaker 1: we have a new comeback story.

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Speaker 2: We have a new hero of these Olympics. It's a

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Speaker 2: Lissul Lou.

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Speaker 3: It's a Lissa Lou.

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Speaker 4: It's been twenty four years since we have seen a

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Speaker 4: United States of America female figure skater take gold at

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Speaker 4: the Winter Olympics.

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Speaker 3: It's been since two thousand and two.

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Speaker 4: And the cool thing is if any of you all remember,

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Speaker 4: of course, that was Sarah Hughes. She will in the

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Speaker 4: stands watching Alyssa Lou win gold.

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Speaker 3: That was such a cool full circle moment.

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Speaker 4: They showed her watching, and of course all of us

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Speaker 4: are thinking, could she be watching?

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Speaker 3: Finally the drought ending Alyssa.

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Speaker 1: Lou, Folks, is the hero we need right now in

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Speaker 1: a lot of ways, and she taught us a lot

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Speaker 1: of lessons at twenty years old, this young lady skates

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Speaker 1: with and she bounces around life and on camera with

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Speaker 1: a joy that we all need to pay attention to

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Speaker 1: for a lot of reasons. But folks, I assume you

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Speaker 1: were watching, But history was just made and a remarkable

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Speaker 1: moment just took place at the Olympics. Alyssa lou Yes,

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Speaker 1: she's the first American to do so in a long time. Robes,

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Speaker 1: But this young lady pulled off something that is admirable

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Speaker 1: and unlikely. She retired from this sport at sixteen. Why

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Speaker 1: because she didn't like it? Yeah, because she got burnt out,

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Speaker 1: and you know what, she took some time off. She

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Speaker 1: came back and said I love what I'm doing and

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Speaker 1: came back without the same pressure and law and behold,

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Speaker 1: Robes looked.

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Speaker 3: She wins gold.

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Speaker 4: I said to you, I just watched a twenty year

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Speaker 3: We are all in each one of our.

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Speaker 4: Lives, so invested in the outcome of everything. We want

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Speaker 4: to control everything. And we heard her give an interview

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Speaker 4: and she said it, She said, I don't really care

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Speaker 4: what happens if I fall, If I don't I don't.

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Speaker 3: I'm out there doing what I love and that's fine.

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Speaker 4: Easy to say maybe, But she skated with that same mentality.

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Speaker 4: You could tell she was out there joyful, enjoying herself.

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Speaker 4: She did not look like she was scared, felt like

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Speaker 4: of that. She was loose and free and it was

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Speaker 4: It was fun to watch. You know, when you watch

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Speaker 4: they're going to be make a mistake. That never happened

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Speaker 4: for a second. Watching Alyssa Lou perform.

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Speaker 1: I felt that about the two Japanese skaters that she

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Speaker 1: most skaters that we experienced.

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Speaker 2: She was a rare case. Folks.

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Speaker 1: We just watched and was watch live and I think

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Speaker 1: you have peacock, go back and watch it, watch the replay.

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Speaker 1: But if you get a chance to see it in primetime,

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Speaker 1: pay attention to everything this young lady does Alyssa Lou.

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Speaker 1: Pay attention to how she interacts with her fellow competitors,

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Speaker 1: how she interacts with her coaches. We're talking about the

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Speaker 1: most athletically pressure charge situation possible. Super Bowl. Sure, fine,

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Speaker 1: there are other championships. This happens once every four years.

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Speaker 1: This is the and Roopes. It's always important. We taught

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Speaker 1: gold medals, but winning a gold in an individual curling

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Speaker 1: I'm saying. My point is all that stuff's great, but

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Speaker 1: the darling of figure skating. So the pressure is one

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Speaker 4: You know what, And you don't make me coffee in

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Speaker 3: It's scary, it's funny.

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Speaker 4: No, But the point is in anyone who watches this

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Speaker 3: She had this.

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Speaker 4: Joyful energy that just emanated from her. And once we

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Speaker 4: yet all of us said, how could anyone beat that?

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Speaker 3: Just that was a gold metal skate peri period periods.

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Speaker 1: Nothing and those other the Japanese skaters were fantastic, But

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Speaker 1: the entire time we were watching them skate, you were

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Speaker 1: that quite frankly, I wasn't familiar with. And the thing

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Speaker 1: is Robes what makes the story more remarkable. Yes, sixteen

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Speaker 1: was back in twenty twenty two. Now she's been trying

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Speaker 1: to come back. She had issues with COVID, She had

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Speaker 1: with a whole new attitude. She says she really did

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Speaker 1: By the sixteen, she's burnt out done. The joy wasn't there,

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Speaker 1: the pressure was there. She says, she wanted to even

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Speaker 1: She wanted to go be a kid, and she did.

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Speaker 1: How robes she needs to be studied. It made her

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Speaker 4: I'm still in awe because, look, having watched a lot

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Speaker 4: we can take from these athletes and apply them to

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Speaker 3: But just seeing this young woman at the height.

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Speaker 3: End of her Olympic dream.

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Speaker 4: But if your Olympic dream is Justice Gate and not

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Speaker 4: doesn't matter because I'm doing what I love and I

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Speaker 4: know we can all say that out loud, but to

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Speaker 4: with that attitude, it doesn't matter what happens as long

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Speaker 4: as I enjoy the ride. And yes, she put in

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Speaker 4: all of that. It's not as if she's just waiting

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Speaker 4: for things to happen. She is making them happen, but

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Speaker 4: of what she does. That is the key to life,

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Speaker 4: Isn't that? The key to peace? Isn't that the key

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Speaker 1: That is everything that every self help author is preaching.

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Speaker 1: Everybody's telling you. Eckhart totally, of Gabby Bernstein, all of

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Speaker 2: Are they not rolled?

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Speaker 1: When you stop being invested in the outcome, you're living

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Speaker 1: in the moment, and that is the key to happiness,

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Speaker 1: is what we want. But it's really the key to piece.

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Speaker 1: That's what we all want. Okay, fine, read the book,

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Speaker 1: them all. However, if you don't want to read all

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Speaker 1: that stuff, watch tonight's replay of the Olympic figure skating final.

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Speaker 1: Of the women and don't take your eyes off Alyssa

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Speaker 1: lou all night. How is it possible, Robes. What's possible

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Speaker 1: is she got burnt out, and it seems it happens

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Speaker 1: then she found her joy in her piece and she's excelling.

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Speaker 2: Robes.

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Speaker 1: This young lady has taught the lesson and is living

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Speaker 1: You cannot argue with any of her methods.

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Speaker 2: It works. Holy Hell, Quad God. And this young lady,

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Speaker 2: what did he say?

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Speaker 1: Too much pressure? He's worried about the outcome. The eyes

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Speaker 1: that are on me, he said, all the things that ain't.

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Speaker 3: Even come out of my mouth exactly.

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Speaker 4: And think about Amber Glenn, by the way, who was

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Speaker 3: It was all about the gold.

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Speaker 4: If you are singularly focused on an outcome, which by

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Speaker 4: exactly what you visualize winning the gold. They tell you

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Speaker 4: you to visualize winning, visualize the gold. Right, But that

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Speaker 4: also can create a lot of pressure that undoes any

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Speaker 4: that's all that matters.

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Speaker 3: The outcome is all that matters.

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Speaker 4: So to see and hear someone like Alissa have a

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Speaker 4: see what that outcome actually ended up becoming, it's remarkable.

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Speaker 2: Applied to anything.

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Speaker 1: Apply to your driving test, applied to your first date,

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Speaker 1: Apply it to your relationship you got going on right now,

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Speaker 1: Apply to the interview you gotta go do to get

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Speaker 1: a job, apply to anything in the world. And how

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Speaker 2: See what happens.

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Speaker 1: Okay, if it works out fine, the relationship you're in

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Speaker 1: right now, if you stop being invested in the outcome,

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Speaker 1: how much different would you behave?

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Speaker 4: Yes, and look, the input is what you have control over.

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Speaker 4: And that is what she did, and that is what

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Speaker 4: put into something. But as long as you don't expect

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Speaker 4: a return or an outcome, you're gonna be happy because

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Speaker 4: do love. Apparently if it's about a relationship, and then

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Speaker 4: you just say, I gave it my all and that

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Speaker 1: And folks, we are going to be talking about Alyssa

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Speaker 1: Loo for a long time, for the rest of Olympic history.

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Speaker 1: And she is having an impact right now, yes, on

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Speaker 2: All right, we continue here.

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Speaker 1: Alyssa Lou just what minutes ago, won the gold medal

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Speaker 2: Rose.

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Speaker 1: This is she is now the darling of the Olympics.

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Speaker 1: Technical score an artistic score because she can handle both.

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Speaker 1: It's kind of awesome. Again, a twenty year old taught

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Speaker 1: And I said today, I only want to see her

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Speaker 4: except for his whole Her whole hair is Davy Crockett.

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Speaker 2: But here's the thing, Ropes, it works on her, It

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Speaker 3: Completely.

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Speaker 1: She was coming off the ice, coming to her coach.

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Speaker 2: And you you, that.

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Speaker 4: No, you know, we're always used to seeing these beautiful ballerina,

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Speaker 1: But yes, there, everybody, these might become a new thing.

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Speaker 4: So she's super cool and way cooler than me, and

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Speaker 4: I would not be willing to go through that pain

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Speaker 4: She just does her and you can see it, you

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Speaker 1: I love that she is this country's representative right now.

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Speaker 2: And she is an American superhero.

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Speaker 3: So she is America.

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Speaker 4: And she was actually born in California via a surrogate mother.

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Speaker 1: All right, well, folks, we appreciate, appreciate you always going

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Speaker 3: Yes, it's the perfect.

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Speaker 4: This has been one of my favorite Winter Olympics and

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