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

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Speaker 1: to have the best asses in the podcast game after

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Speaker 1: this trip. Every day it's hills, hills and more hills.

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Speaker 1: It's Monday, February sixteenth, and on today's show, we're coming

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Speaker 1: to you from the third stop of our Italian adventure.

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Speaker 1: Cortina will bring you highlights from the sliding track and

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Speaker 1: our favorite skeleton wives the alpine slopes where we saw

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Speaker 1: mind breaking podium in the Giant slalom and highlights of

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Speaker 1: the liveliest most in the Olympic Spirit stop yet plus

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Speaker 1: the point God Reigns Supreme, a Flavor Flave duet, and

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Speaker 1: you've got leaf blower questions, We've got leaf blower answers.

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Speaker 1: It's all coming up right after this chow slices. Welcome back.

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Speaker 1: Here's what you need to know today. Let's start with

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Speaker 1: the Giant Slalom, where it was a second gold for

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Speaker 1: Italy's Federica Brignoni, cementing an incredible comeback from a frack

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Speaker 1: leg and torny cilsaf for just last April. Now you

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Speaker 1: remember Brinoni, she's one of Italy's flag bearers. She also

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Speaker 1: won Thursday's Super g The rest of the podium was

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Speaker 1: sweden Sarah Hector and Norway's Tayla Luisa steernesssund who shared silver.

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Speaker 1: They both finished in two fourteen twelve. We'll have more

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Speaker 1: on that tie later. Mikhayla Schifferin finished eleventh. Well friend

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Speaker 1: at the show, Paula Moltzen was fifteenth. Again. More from

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Speaker 1: this event, including the details of the remarkable nature of

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Speaker 1: that silver medal tie later in the show. To skeleton

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Speaker 1: aka the sliding sport where you're belly down face first.

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Speaker 1: Austria's Janine Flock won gold on Saturday night in Cortina,

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Speaker 1: marking her first win at either the Olympics or World

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Speaker 1: Championships in sixteen all time appearances. Despite winning three overall

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Speaker 1: World Cup titles in her career, Flock had never managed

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Speaker 1: to put four runs together on the biggest stages. You remember,

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Speaker 1: for skeleton, you do four heats and the times from

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Speaker 1: each are added together. Four Your time now. Back at

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Speaker 1: the twenty eighteen Peong Chang Olympics, she was in first

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Speaker 1: the win in her fourth Olympics Germany's Suzanne Kreehaer and

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Speaker 1: jack Leen Pfeiffer won silver and bronze respectively, and Alex

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Speaker 1: skeleton Wives, Skeleton Engay, shit, y'all more sliding. The women's

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Speaker 1: monobob competition got underway on Sunday and after two runs,

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Speaker 1: Team USA has three sleds in the top five. Friend

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Speaker 1: at the show, Alana Myers Taylor is in second point

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Speaker 1: Kaylee Armbruster Humphries is third point three to one back,

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Speaker 1: We're planning to be back at the sliding Center for

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Speaker 1: runs three and four today, and all the times from

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Speaker 1: medals will be awarded as soon as run four is done.

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Speaker 1: Run three gets underweight at one pm Eastern today, and

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Speaker 1: Olympic appearance of monobob in tomorrow's episode. To Moguls, you remember,

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Speaker 1: Team USA athletes Liz Lemley and Jalen Kauf went one

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Speaker 1: mogul skier of all time. Australia's Jakara Anthony claimed the gold,

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Speaker 1: USA's Aaron Jackson, the defending Olympic champion and the five

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Speaker 1: We're at semi final time. Team USA will match up

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Speaker 1: events to have on your radar today. The pairs figure

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Speaker 1: Friend of the Show, Chelsea Gray defeated Ali Shagray, earning

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Speaker 1: a cool two hundred thousand dollars. That's more than Chelsea

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Speaker 1: more Unrivaled. The league has announced that its playoffs semi

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Speaker 1: prize pool for players to six hundred thousand dollars. Playoffs

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Speaker 1: Gold Medal is one of the legacy names of the

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Speaker 2: Schiffrin falls shorter, Olympic woes continue are because she has

431
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Speaker 2: been so successful before, and Michayla's spoken about it. Where

432
00:20:54,800 --> 00:20:57,760
Speaker 2: there's risk in competing at the Olympics. You're putting yourself

433
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Speaker 2: in front of a brand new audience, much bigger audience,

434
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Speaker 2: who isn't aware of what you have done before. And

435
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Speaker 2: one of the things I kind of keep coming back

436
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Speaker 2: to though, is when people talk about, like, oh, that

437
00:21:09,119 --> 00:21:13,520
Speaker 2: was a disappointing result, well, disappointing to whom you know,

438
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Speaker 2: was Mikayla disappointed with it?

439
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Speaker 3: Were you disappointed with it?

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Speaker 2: I'm generally coming from a perspective that I don't I

441
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Speaker 2: don't think athletes really owe us anything, you know. I

442
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Speaker 2: think it's a little bit different if somebody is not

443
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Speaker 2: putting their best foot forward purposefully or intentionally. But that

444
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Speaker 2: doesn't happen at the Olympics. That doesn't happen most of

445
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Speaker 2: the time in sports, and so I think in general,

446
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Speaker 2: if there is disappointment, it is disappointment on behalf of

447
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Speaker 2: the athlete. But I also want to let them say

448
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Speaker 2: that they are disappointed, rather than us deciding that for

449
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Speaker 2: them or deciding that for the viewers. I thought it

450
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Speaker 2: was really interesting because after Shiffern's result in the Giant Solemn,

451
00:21:52,040 --> 00:21:54,800
Speaker 2: you know, she seemed pretty happy. She was proud of

452
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Speaker 2: the progress that she'd made, and just kind of a

453
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Speaker 2: refresher for people. This is the event that she ended

454
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Speaker 2: up getting a big puncture wound. Back in November of

455
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Speaker 2: twenty twenty four, she talked about experiencing PTSD. It took

456
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Speaker 2: her a really long time to kind of get back

457
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Speaker 2: into the mix with giant slalom and get back up

458
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Speaker 2: to her normal speed. And it was just last month

459
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Speaker 2: that she had her first podium result on the World

460
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Speaker 2: Cup and so to see some of those headlines, it

461
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Speaker 2: just makes me bummed for her because I think her

462
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Speaker 2: result in giant slalom was a strong one against a

463
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Speaker 2: really really deep field of competitors.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and I think there's so much to that. It's

465
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Speaker 1: a lack of understanding and knowledge about the different events,

466
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Speaker 1: about how the World Cup circuit works, about the injury. Right,

467
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Speaker 1: we just know the name, and we know she's dominant,

468
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Speaker 1: and we know she's often called the best of all time,

469
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Speaker 1: so we expect her to win all the things.

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Speaker 2: And we know that she had a really bad Olympics

471
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Speaker 2: four years ago, and I think that's only added to

472
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Speaker 2: the narrative. That's a really really hard I mean, talk

473
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Speaker 2: about pressure when you're winning, but talk about pressure when

474
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Speaker 2: you are the winningest athlete of all time and cannot

475
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Speaker 2: succeed at the Olympics. And that's next level. And I

476
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Speaker 2: don't think it's something that she wants. She just wants

477
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Speaker 2: to ski.

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Speaker 1: Just it reminds me of Serena Williams used to say,

479
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Speaker 1: it's only story when I lose. Everyone just expects me

480
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Speaker 1: to win. So when I lose, that's when all the

481
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Speaker 1: stories are written. It's not quite the same with Michaela

482
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Speaker 1: and the sport that she's in, but there are some

483
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Speaker 1: ties there. Let's get to those who did win and

484
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Speaker 1: the podium because this was wild. So again, two heats

485
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Speaker 1: and then they combined the times and in the first

486
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Speaker 1: heat three skiers tied down to the hundredth of a second,

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Speaker 1: Albania's Laura culture Hector and Stirnistunt. And then in the

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Speaker 1: second heat, Hector and Stirniston tied down to the hundredth

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Speaker 1: of a second. Again, y'all, that is insane. And as

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Speaker 1: Alex pointed out, there are some sports that go to

491
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Speaker 1: the thousandth this is one that just goes to the hundredth.

492
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Speaker 1: But again, they are going an entire giant slalom course

493
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Speaker 1: and they are finishing to the exact same one hundredth

494
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Speaker 1: of a second twice, which was crazy. And then it

495
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Speaker 1: was so cool because when the Italian Federica Brignoni skied

496
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Speaker 1: down and had the best time won the gold. The

497
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Speaker 1: two silver medalists in a moment completely reminiscent of some

498
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Speaker 1: bios and Jordan Childs with Rebecca Andragia at the Paris Olympics,

499
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Speaker 1: ran out and bowed down to Federica Brinoni in front

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Speaker 1: of her adoring Italian crowd, which was just so cool.

501
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Speaker 1: And you know, we talked about this on the show,

502
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Speaker 1: and we even talked about this with Paul Moltzen, who

503
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Speaker 1: didn't have a good day to day unfortunately. We talked

504
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Speaker 1: about Brinoni skiing so free because of the massive injury

505
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Speaker 1: she suffered last April and how it just changed her

506
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Speaker 1: perspective heading into these games. And I asked her about that,

507
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Speaker 1: and I thought her answer was perfect.

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Speaker 6: I think I think there was my secret for the

509
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Speaker 6: Olympics because I was really free. I was really focusing

510
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Speaker 6: on my skiing and enjoy it. I knew this was

511
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Speaker 6: my last Olympics already. I didn't know if I wanted

512
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Speaker 6: to be here before and then after the injury, if

513
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Speaker 6: I could be here, So just to be here was special,

514
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Speaker 6: to to to be the flat keeper, and that was

515
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Speaker 6: was already they My Olympic Games were already made, so

516
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Speaker 6: I didn't need anything else. So that's why I think

517
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Speaker 6: I had it.

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Speaker 2: And it was just the silver battleists that were bowing

519
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Speaker 2: down to bring known a you know, throughout the mix

520
00:25:05,280 --> 00:25:08,920
Speaker 2: on athletes were talking about how much they respected her,

521
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Speaker 2: and we asked her, do you feel that support yourself,

522
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Speaker 2: And here's what she had to say.

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Speaker 1: The first race I came back and.

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Speaker 6: Actually, even after my injury, all the girls were writing

525
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Speaker 6: me or when I came back, I saw it. It's

526
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Speaker 6: not what you write or you put on Instagram or

527
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Speaker 6: you post this, I don't care. But is the attitude

528
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Speaker 6: that the girls they have with me and and I

529
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Speaker 6: have with them. It's this is something that made me.

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Speaker 1: I mean, when I went.

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Speaker 6: To Selden just to watch the race, I saw this,

532
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Speaker 6: this word and how they were happy to see me,

533
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Speaker 6: and it was kind of, Okay, I want to come back.

534
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Speaker 6: This this gave me a lot of a lot of

535
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Speaker 6: energy to as for to come back.

536
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and truly everyone does love Brinoni. A bunch of

537
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Speaker 1: athletes were actually asked about her in the mix zone

538
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Speaker 1: and they all kind of, I don't know, like a

539
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Speaker 1: mother figure, sort of like such a kind supportive person

540
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Speaker 1: even as she was coming back from such a difficult

541
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Speaker 1: injury herself. And actually one of the people asked was

542
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Speaker 1: Paula Moltz, and here's what she had to say.

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Speaker 7: I cannot rid about her enough. She's the kindest, most

544
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Speaker 7: genuine athlete on tour. She's kind to everyone, she's friendly

545
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Speaker 7: to everyone, and like, obviously this come back and to

546
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Speaker 7: have two gold medals at home is like, hands down,

547
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Speaker 7: she's clearly the best here in the world right now.

548
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Speaker 1: Frankly, this giant solomn was basically a love fest because

549
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Speaker 1: we also had the silver medalists that were like the cutest.

550
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Speaker 1: They were trying to share the chair that they have

551
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Speaker 1: whoever sitting in the gold position. They were trying to

552
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Speaker 1: sit on it side by side, like squeezed on it

553
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Speaker 1: as they were waiting to see if they were gonna

554
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Speaker 1: win bronze or silver or gold or whatever. And then

555
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Speaker 1: they took the podium together, leaping up in the air

556
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Speaker 1: when they got their medals and hugging like it was

557
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Speaker 1: just very sweet. So afterwards we talked to them about

558
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Speaker 1: each other. Here's Teya on her relationship with Sarah.

559
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Speaker 5: I never forget first year coming into World Cup in

560
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Speaker 5: twenty eighteen. She was so welcoming and talking to me

561
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Speaker 5: as anyone else and befriended me quickly and was always

562
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Speaker 5: supportive and if I had good runs, she was there

563
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Speaker 5: right away and if I had bad runs, she always

564
00:27:15,840 --> 00:27:21,200
Speaker 5: also always comes by, and it's likewise, so it's yes,

565
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Speaker 5: it's a competitive sport and we are competitors, but in

566
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Speaker 5: one way we are colleagues in the way that it's

567
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Speaker 5: just about who's the fastest, is not me against you,

568
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Speaker 5: so makes it more connecting in a way, which I

569
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Speaker 5: like about alpine skiing.

570
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Speaker 1: It's just like so genuine and sweet. And then we

571
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Speaker 1: asked Sarah, of course about her relationship with Taya.

572
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Speaker 6: I'm also so happy to do it with Tia because

573
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Speaker 6: she's super nice and I like her a lot, to

574
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Speaker 6: her good friends, and so that was a really really

575
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Speaker 6: cool experience.

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Speaker 1: Alex, I hate to say it because I am getting

577
00:27:53,520 --> 00:27:57,040
Speaker 1: a little Olympic pilled. I did order a stuffed animal

578
00:27:57,080 --> 00:27:59,560
Speaker 1: of a curling stone with earmuffs on, like I fear

579
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Speaker 1: I've been imbued with too much of the Olympic spirit.

580
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Speaker 1: But this did feel like what you always talk about,

581
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Speaker 1: like when you think of the Olympics, and like everyone

582
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Speaker 1: giving their best and giving their all and finding joy

583
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Speaker 1: in the position they landed in and then loving on

584
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Speaker 1: each other. It was so nice.

585
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Speaker 2: I don't know why stories like this always make me

586
00:28:15,760 --> 00:28:18,359
Speaker 2: so emotional, but I think it's because you have athletes

587
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Speaker 2: that are training their entire lives to be the best

588
00:28:21,400 --> 00:28:26,120
Speaker 2: in the world, and yet even in those moments, they

589
00:28:26,160 --> 00:28:29,119
Speaker 2: are able to appreciate each other in a way that

590
00:28:29,240 --> 00:28:31,679
Speaker 2: feels almost antithetical to the idea of wanting to be

591
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Speaker 2: best in the world.

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Speaker 1: It's very impressive. It's really impressive. Speaking of impressive, we

593
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Speaker 1: also got the chance to talk to Sarah Schlepper, you

594
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Speaker 1: remember us talking about on the show before. She's one

595
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Speaker 1: half of the first ever mother son duo at the

596
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Speaker 1: Winter Olympics. She's formerly of tam Usa, spent her first

597
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Speaker 1: four games with them, the last three games, including this

598
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Speaker 1: one with Mexico. This is her seventh Olympic Games and unfortunately,

599
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Speaker 1: Alex she was disqualified due to this maximum stand height rule.

600
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Speaker 1: We had to google this, but basically the distance between

601
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Speaker 1: the bottom of her boot and the snow was like

602
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Speaker 1: a millimeter two big. She was really frustrated with herself

603
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Speaker 1: for the error.

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Speaker 3: Alex.

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Speaker 1: She came walking over carrying a little like lemon cake

606
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Speaker 1: with a candle in it, and we were like, is

607
00:29:12,640 --> 00:29:15,320
Speaker 1: it your birthday? She's like no, She's like, I'm depressed.

608
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Speaker 1: I'm what is it called? And I was like, eating

609
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Speaker 1: your feelings. She was like, yes, I'm eating my feelings.

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Speaker 1: And then she described her own personal error. She does

611
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Speaker 1: her own tuning of her skis. She talked about how

612
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Speaker 1: the Team USA has so many texts and people to

613
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Speaker 1: do all the things, but Team Mexico's a very different situation.

614
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Speaker 1: Tuned her own skis and just made a mistake. And

615
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Speaker 1: she's made this mistake once before in the past, so

616
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Speaker 1: she was saying, like, I can't believe I didn't remember

617
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Speaker 1: and get it right. And then it was funny, she said,

618
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Speaker 1: my dad runs a ski shop. He's going to be

619
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Speaker 1: so disappointed in me.

620
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Speaker 2: And she also doesn't just tune her own skis, she

621
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Speaker 2: tunes her son's skis. Although she said her husband is

622
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Speaker 2: helping out this week, given that you know he's over

623
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Speaker 2: in Bormeo.

624
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Speaker 3: Which is about six hours away that car.

625
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Speaker 1: Yeah, but she was going to hitch a ride with

626
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Speaker 1: someone from the team for her gear to get to

627
00:29:59,640 --> 00:30:02,920
Speaker 1: see her her son compete on Monday. And overall, she

628
00:30:03,000 --> 00:30:05,200
Speaker 1: still had a really great attitude about everything and her

629
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Speaker 1: ability to come and race, and she did say she

630
00:30:07,800 --> 00:30:09,959
Speaker 1: didn't want to go out like this, so she hinted

631
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Speaker 1: at you know more competitions in her future, maybe even

632
00:30:14,360 --> 00:30:16,000
Speaker 1: She said she wouldn't be able to break the Olympic

633
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Speaker 1: record of ten games, but she left the door jar

634
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Speaker 1: for competing again. So it was honestly really cool to

635
00:30:22,880 --> 00:30:26,520
Speaker 1: talk to someone doing an event like that that's older

636
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Speaker 1: than me and Alex. I'm just having trouble walking up

637
00:30:29,240 --> 00:30:33,400
Speaker 1: the hills to watch them. Just so impressive, endlessly impressed.

638
00:30:33,600 --> 00:30:38,200
Speaker 1: Speaking of hills, goddamn it. Skeleton, Holy shit, Yeah, what

639
00:30:38,360 --> 00:30:42,160
Speaker 1: a what a weird, interesting, intriguing, cool event to sy

640
00:30:42,200 --> 00:30:45,440
Speaker 1: in person. If you're trying to imagine how one can

641
00:30:45,520 --> 00:30:49,000
Speaker 1: watch a race on a sliding course, that's a great question.

642
00:30:49,280 --> 00:30:51,520
Speaker 1: We're still figuring it out. We watched from many different

643
00:30:51,600 --> 00:30:55,520
Speaker 1: vantage points, finish line, starting line, midway, through different curves,

644
00:30:55,760 --> 00:30:57,840
Speaker 1: and no matter where you're watching, it's blink and you'll

645
00:30:57,840 --> 00:30:59,720
Speaker 1: miss it right like you're gonna watch most of the

646
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Speaker 1: race on a screen and then whichever part is in

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Speaker 1: could take in like where we should be to watch,

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Speaker 1: we had to walk up a giant hill and thankfully

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Speaker 1: we were entertained. Along the way, there was a brass

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Speaker 1: band playing Depeche Mode of all things with like a

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Speaker 1: sick baritone sacks leading the way. At one point, Tina,

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Speaker 1: the mascot, was dancing with them on top of this

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Speaker 1: like mountain side overlooking the town, and the drummer gave

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Speaker 1: Tina one of his drumsticks that she was like playing

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Speaker 1: the drum and dancing like it was a scene. There

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Speaker 1: were these German fans with these giant inflatable pretzels Janine flocks.

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Speaker 1: Family and friends all had these vest son that said

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Speaker 1: flock Janine. It was just like full of energy, even

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Speaker 1: though it was so bifurcated, like all along the different

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Speaker 1: spots along the track.

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Speaker 2: I'm so curious, like what people thought they were getting

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Speaker 2: into when they bought an Olympic skeleton to get and

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Speaker 2: if they understood that it would involve all of this walking,

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Speaker 2: but that as a reward they would get a band

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Speaker 2: playing for them.

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Speaker 1: Yes, and Flavor Flave or flav is not all talk, folks.

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Speaker 1: He was there when we were there at skeleton. He

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Speaker 1: was at Monobob on Sunday. He's wearing his gear, He's screaming.

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Speaker 1: The first time Mystique Roe went in heat number three,

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Speaker 1: which was the first heat of the night, I could

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Speaker 1: hear flave yelling come on mystiq.

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Speaker 8: Yeah boy as she took off down the courtse so

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Speaker 8: he the hype man is hype mannin and yeah, it

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Speaker 8: was a really cool thing to.

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Speaker 1: Experience in person. I'm not going to tell you that

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Speaker 1: I recommend it of all the Olympic sports as the

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Speaker 1: one to buy the ticket for. Definitely go see it.

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Speaker 1: It's very cool. It's just a difficult spectator sport. But

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Speaker 1: you also get to see the strength, the power, the speed,

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Speaker 1: the detail of the takeoff, which is where we spent

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Speaker 1: a lot of our time. And there were some really

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Speaker 1: cool storylines in there, and we mentioned Janine Flock being

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Speaker 1: one of them. This is someone who was in her

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Speaker 1: fourth Olympics, had finished fourth before right off the podium

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Speaker 1: and she finally put it all together to win. And

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Speaker 1: after the medals were awarded, we talked to a couple

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Speaker 1: of the athletes, include in Great Britain's Tabitha Stoker. She

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Speaker 1: finished fifth in the event. She was thrilled with that

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Speaker 1: result in her Olympic debut. One of those athletes Alex

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Speaker 1: that you would hope some reporter wouldn't come up and say,

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Speaker 1: how sad are you? You just missed the podium because

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Speaker 1: she's like, oh my god, I had the best time

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Speaker 1: and I'm so proud of myself, Like she was so joyful.

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Speaker 2: Ye.

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Speaker 1: What really got her excited and choked up even was

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Speaker 1: when the twenty five year old talked about Janine Flock

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Speaker 1: getting that gold medal win. Take a listen.

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Speaker 9: I was literally crying. I'm just so happy for her,

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Speaker 9: Like I've you know, we'd go on these circuits scared

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Speaker 9: there we're away from our family and our friends, and

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Speaker 9: Jeanine's for our team especially. I think she's definitely been

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Speaker 9: like a bit of an inspiration and she's always been

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Speaker 9: so kind.

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Speaker 3: And helpful with with sliding.

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Speaker 9: Or with anything else other than that. And to see

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Speaker 9: her succeed how she did today and to win like that,

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Speaker 9: it's just inspiring and.

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Speaker 1: I'm so so happy for her.

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Speaker 3: She deserved it.

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Speaker 9: And yeah, it's like I said, is she inspiring?

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Speaker 3: Ah, I'm just a sucker for as loved as so much.

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Speaker 5: I know.

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Speaker 1: It's like so nice and it really gives you a

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Speaker 1: story of the time that these people are spending together

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Speaker 1: across continents, away from their friends and family and really

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Speaker 1: bonding over this very unique thing they do. Speaking of bonding.

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Speaker 1: You guys, we got to meet and talk to the

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Speaker 1: Skeleton Wives. They were so much better than I even

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Speaker 1: could have imagined. I don't know what I imagined. We

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Speaker 1: talked about him on the show. We were like skeleton

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Speaker 1: and gay shit, y'all, which, by the way, someone said,

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Speaker 1: isn't that just Halloween? True?

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Speaker 5: Fair?

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Speaker 1: But and then we were like Skeleton Wives. Sounds like

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Speaker 1: a new Bravo show or something. But they were so delightful.

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Speaker 1: Nicole Silvera of Brazil and Kim Mahleman's of Belgium. We

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Speaker 1: talked to Nicole first. I just became instantly obsessed with her.

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Speaker 1: Just so much joy, so much love, such a great speaker.

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Speaker 1: I asked her. You know, she had said that this

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Speaker 1: was gonna be the first time they were competing as

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Speaker 1: a married couple at the Olympics, and that they wanted

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Speaker 1: to be loud and proud about their relationship while at

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Speaker 1: these Italian Games. And you may recall in a previous

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Speaker 1: show we mentioned that the Italian government has grown increasingly

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Speaker 1: hostile to LGBTQ plus people in recent years. That includes

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Speaker 1: removing lesbian mothers from their children's birth certificates. In twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty three and banning travel abroad for surrogacy in twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty four. And they're aware of these things, and they

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Speaker 1: wanted to show up in this country and you know,

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Speaker 1: be themselves, And so I asked Akle if they could

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Speaker 1: be loud and proud the way they wanted. Absolutely.

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Speaker 10: I think we don't try and hide anything. Our emotions

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Speaker 10: and how we encounter each other at the end of

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Speaker 10: the track is genuine. I think Italy is a tough

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Speaker 10: place in terms of where the laws are going, so

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Speaker 10: I'm just happy that we can show that it's okay

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Speaker 10: to be who you are with no fear of that.

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Speaker 1: More nerves for yourself or her tonight.

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Speaker 10: Honestly, I thought it would be a lot more nervous

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Speaker 10: to compete, but I would say I kept it pretty cool.

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Speaker 10: There's always that those butterflies, and I try and use

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Speaker 10: that to my advantage, so I would say that it's.

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Speaker 1: For both of us.

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Speaker 10: So it's almost four times the adrenaline rush that I

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Speaker 10: get to every race.

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Speaker 1: Nicole was also asked in the mix zone about the

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Speaker 1: lodging arrangements at the Games for the skeleton wives, because

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Speaker 1: obviously typically athletes live with folks from their own countries

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Speaker 1: in their country house, but the Skeleton Wives were able

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Speaker 1: to room together here in Italy. Take a listen.

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Speaker 10: Throughout the whole season, we stayed in Airbnb, so we

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Speaker 10: shared for the last time, I want to say three

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Speaker 10: or four years, we shared accommodations. So we really from

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Speaker 10: the beginning needed this to be at constant, so we fought, well,

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Speaker 10: we didn't fight, honestly. Our federations were both very great.

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Speaker 10: Brazil was able to spare a bed and he was

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Speaker 10: very cute because when we showed up, the room was

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Speaker 10: half decorated in Belgium and half decorated in Brazil. And

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Speaker 10: I want to say, it's one of the first times

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Speaker 10: that we've been able to join nations like that because

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Speaker 10: our Belgium and Brazil federations were right next to each other.

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Speaker 10: So yeah, it was it was incredible.

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Speaker 11: But she's in the Brazil house technically, yes, yes, So

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Speaker 11: there's just a couple of us around Nicole talking to her,

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Speaker 11: and then we see Kim walk over and in her.

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Speaker 1: Hands she's got these heart shaped cookies that the Belgian

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Speaker 1: federation gave her for Valentine's Day, and I was just

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Speaker 1: thinking watching them exchange and watching Nicole see the cookies

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Speaker 1: and them talking about it, Like, what a memory for

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Speaker 1: these two. They're competing at the Olympics together in the

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Speaker 1: same event on Valentine's Day, like just it's just the cutest.

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Speaker 1: And we got a chance to talk to Kim next

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Speaker 1: and we asked her as well about the reception that

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Speaker 1: she and Nicole have received in Italy. Take a listen.

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Speaker 11: I mean we don't really hide our relationship. No, I

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Speaker 11: mean everyone here is super nice. I don't think that

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Speaker 11: the Italian's unfriendly.

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Speaker 1: Towards us at all.

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Speaker 11: I think it's just systematic as usual. No, I think

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Speaker 11: it's been great. We've had a great time. It's been

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Speaker 11: a very special Olympic Games.

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Speaker 1: Alex like, I love love and these two, like, I'm

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Speaker 1: kind of like might become a skeleton fan solely to

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Speaker 1: follow their careers because they were so delightful.

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Speaker 2: I'm like over here counting out all the different types

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Speaker 2: of flavors of sports and gay shit that we've had.

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Speaker 2: We have players that are competing in hockey USA Canada

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Speaker 2: rivalry against their significant other. We have the Hillary Knights

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Speaker 2: and Britney Bows of the world competing in different sports.

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Speaker 1: Yes, Asy fun and Page Becker, same team.

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Speaker 3: I just love the different varieties.

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Speaker 1: There's so much gy shit. Highly recommend following them on

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Speaker 1: social and just seeing what the content is because I

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Speaker 1: can almost guarantee I haven't done that. I'm going to

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Speaker 1: now because I'm obsessed.

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Speaker 2: With them saying that you're going to do our good

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Speaker 2: game play at the day yourself, Sarah, you're doing your

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Speaker 2: slice work.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yes, I'm ast signing myself some little citrus work.

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Speaker 1: And it is going to be to follow those two

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Speaker 1: and keep up with their goings on because we just

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Speaker 1: had so much fun talking to them, and we had

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Speaker 1: just a lot of fun at both of these events.

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Speaker 1: It's a lot of waiting, it's a lot of hiking,

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Speaker 1: it's a lot of standing in the cold, but in

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Speaker 1: the end, we have the opportunity to talk to Olympic

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Speaker 1: athletes and Olympic medallists at some of the happiest moments

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Speaker 1: of their lives. And as you can see, we're just

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Speaker 1: gushing about it because it's really really cool to be

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Speaker 1: a foot away from someone who's emoting in that way.

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Speaker 1: It's just it's just really special. All Right, We got

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Speaker 1: to take another break when we come back. Speaking of

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Speaker 1: a mooting emotion, New goal. Find the party, Bros.

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Speaker 3: It's next game.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back Slices. We love that you're listening, but we

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Speaker 1: want you to get in the game every day too,

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Speaker 1: So here's our good game play at the day. Obviously,

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Speaker 1: follow Kim and Nicole join me in my slice work

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Speaker 1: slash Little Citrus Work. We'll put their accounts in the

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Speaker 1: show notes. And if you like the coverage that we're

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Speaker 1: bringing you for Italy, maybe consider sharing an episode or

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Speaker 1: two with someone who might like it. Maybe repost a

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Speaker 1: video or two. I've been putting them on Instagram or

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Speaker 1: Blue Sky where I say, come with me to halfpipe,

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Speaker 1: come with me to moguls. I've really tried to put

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Speaker 1: together some behind the scenes where you can not see

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Speaker 1: some of the events, but like what the crowd looks like,

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Speaker 1: and what the walk looks like and all the other stuff.

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Speaker 1: Something that I've always wondered about when I haven't been

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Speaker 1: at the Olympics personally. So if you like any of

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Speaker 1: that stuff, share it, send it to people. I think

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Speaker 1: I mentioned when we were leaving for this trip that

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Speaker 1: I stopped using Twitter and TikTok and TikTok I was

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Speaker 1: pretty new on but it has a lot of reach

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Speaker 1: and Twitter. I had, like, I don't know two hundred

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Speaker 1: and sixty thousand followers, and it just didn't feel right

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Speaker 1: to be in those spaces anymore. But I do want

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Speaker 1: the coverage that we're doing here to spread far and wide.

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Speaker 1: I do want to make sure that people are seeing

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Speaker 1: all the stuff that we're putting our work into. So Instagram,

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Speaker 1: LinkedIn blue Sky like wherever you see it, Facebook, share

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Speaker 1: it and send it to people. We would love your

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Speaker 1: help in making sure that our stories get out there

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Speaker 1: and get told and speaking of your help, keep sending

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Speaker 1: us missions because we are on the hunt investigating these

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Speaker 1: things for you. Someone asked about a leaf blower, and

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Speaker 1: there's a leaf blower man at Skeleton on Saturday, so

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Speaker 1: I asked him if there are actual leaf blowers that

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Speaker 1: they're using, and the answer is yes. One person is

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Speaker 1: able to clear off all the snow and debris out

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Speaker 1: of the groove lines in the track using the air

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Speaker 1: from the leaf blower much faster than multiple people with

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Speaker 1: Watch the Win Brothers, rating five out of five stars

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Speaker 1: for their fashionable matching fits review. The three older brothers

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Speaker 1: of Team USA and Boston Fleet hockey player Haley Win

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Speaker 1: have been turning heads in Milan as they arrive at

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Speaker 1: her games in increasingly wild and creative coordinated outfits. One

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Speaker 1: day they were wearing American flag, bucket hats, fleeces and pants.

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Speaker 1: Another day bald egle onesies. One day they were wearing jorts,

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Speaker 1: headbands and sleeveless americates. Another day, in response to being

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Speaker 1: boot at a game, they donned newsboy caps with cigars

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Speaker 1: and news papers. They were real preppy, real classy, and

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Speaker 1: then they would hold up the newspapers when something good

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Speaker 1: the Americans so good. Their videos are so entertaining, and

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Speaker 1: y'all know I love a costume. These boys are kill

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Speaker 1: get back to Milan is to party with Haley and

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Speaker 1: her brothers after a Team USA gold medal win. No Jinks,

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