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Speaker 2: Peak behind the curtain.

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Speaker 3: Sometimes podcasts are recorded and shot on Would you call.

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Speaker 2: This an app? I would call this. I think it's

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Speaker 2: called a website. It's these new things where you log

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Speaker 2: to all sorts of different places. I can't believe we've

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Speaker 2: been on a journey already with this very podcast. Think

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Speaker 2: We've done this in Los Angeles and beautiful Los Angeles.

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Speaker 3: We've recorded this everywhere from New York to Los Angeles.

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Speaker 3: But I do want to say we've recorded this at

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Speaker 3: Sesame workshop.

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Speaker 3: By now you've all heard us interact with the Sesame gang.

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Speaker 2: I can't believe we got to hang with them. No,

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Speaker 2: Think of all the places you've recorded this podcast on

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Speaker 3: Truly, like we're talking all over our great nation. But

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Speaker 2: I can't call them the readers.

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Speaker 2: I think the listenership for this podcast is just called

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so all you the guys out there, Hey, you

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, I mean I just want to really beautifully sort

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Speaker 3: Really, a country is a place that has its own vibe.

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Speaker 3: That's actually real of culture number six, A country place

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Speaker 2: Barbe is back. Barber's back.

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Speaker 3: You know you all fell in love with Barb on

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Speaker 3: Maybe she felt like, let's actually test them and see

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Speaker 2: A lot of personnel, a lot of human energy convocating

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Speaker 3: Human energy convocating is really the definition of a big event.

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Speaker 3: The nation is a country. Get your thsrs out girl.

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Speaker 2: The opening ceremony is a place with its own vibe.

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Speaker 2: could be its own country, that's all. But then what

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Speaker 3: We're falling apart if I had to throw more figures

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Speaker 3: Seven hundred hours of rehearsals in preparation for the ceremony.

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Speaker 2: We're about ninety three hundred hours off from an expert performance.

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Speaker 3: we did zero hours of preparation for this and we're crushing.

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Speaker 2: I read every single word, dead ass. I read these

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Speaker 3: Because of Vincent's work, we know there's going to be

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Speaker 3: opening ceremony, with fourteen hundred costumes produced and fifteen hundred

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Speaker 3: pairs of shoes created. Okay, this is put together. Oh

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Speaker 3: I'm saying that doesn't fit seventy hairstylists, they're gonna be working.

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Speaker 3: So basically, what we're saying is there's going to be

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Speaker 3: And I don't feel controversial saying that it's the Olympics.

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Speaker 2: It just was you just didn't.

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Speaker 3: Literally get this? Most people aren't even getting a medal.

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Speaker 4: It goes back to the Catherine Hephern interview with Barbara Walters.

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Speaker 3: They loaded their ship with coffee and sold it along

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Speaker 3: Take this next one, doll, because I know this next

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Speaker 3: I've been to Colombia Gata and you know what I

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Speaker 2: And Alyssa Edwards. Next up, Croatia. The necktie originated in Croatia.

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Speaker 3: In Finland, people support national Sleepyhead Day, where the last

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Speaker 2: Work must have been great coffee, all right, all right,

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Speaker 3: Like that nice, that's lovely, you know, it's almost as

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Speaker 2: I love it. See there's tomorrow and then there's zeg.

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Speaker 2: lake or sea.

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Speaker 3: Or that we know, bar Barbara, Barbara, get on the

437
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Speaker 3: dims your Christian name.

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Speaker 2: What happens in Germany? This is a good one. Donald

439
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Speaker 2: Duck is a pop culture hero in Germany. But here's

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Speaker 2: my thing. Pop culture hero in many other countries as

441
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Speaker 2: well anyway, including maybe even more here. I guess America.

442
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Speaker 2: He even has his own fan club, the Donaldists, who

443
00:25:55,119 --> 00:25:59,560
Speaker 2: hosts annual conferences and lectures. Well, I guess we can

444
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Speaker 2: start the Daisyists, because Daisy Duck deserves her own fan club.

445
00:26:04,280 --> 00:26:08,480
Speaker 2: I want to say, if Daisy Duck has no fans,

446
00:26:08,560 --> 00:26:11,359
Speaker 2: then you and I are dead. Oh no, one hundred percent.

447
00:26:11,480 --> 00:26:13,439
Speaker 2: I mean like we're not around. If you see that

448
00:26:13,520 --> 00:26:18,800
Speaker 2: she's famless. Speaking of fans, this next country is very

449
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Speaker 2: very special to you. Yes, it is my etymology. Mmm

450
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Speaker 2: mm hmmm sort of, uh, Greace.

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Speaker 3: The red carpet tradition originated in ancient Greece, So every

452
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Speaker 3: time you see people stunting pretty on a red carpet,

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Speaker 3: thank Grease. The Crimson Path was featured in the Acialists

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Speaker 3: play Agamemnon isalsts isalst play Achless Isalist A Scalis barber

455
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Speaker 3: probably now is truly tomato tomato coated here. Yeah, but

456
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Speaker 3: the Crimson Path I like so much more than red carpet.

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Speaker 3: We have to stop saying hit the red carpet and

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Speaker 3: say hit the crimson path.

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Speaker 2: And I do think it starts with us. Bob Well

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Speaker 2: I'm about to trod the Crimson path. We'll be trotting

461
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Speaker 2: the Crimson path up the opening ceremony, treading, treading. I

462
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Speaker 2: don't know.

463
00:27:08,480 --> 00:27:12,240
Speaker 3: English is such a silly language. Agreed, talk about Japan

464
00:27:12,440 --> 00:27:15,920
Speaker 3: so much better. Japan a quarter century ago, that's twenty

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Speaker 3: five years, so much math. This episode, Japan modified a

466
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Speaker 3: number of national holidays to place them on Mondays, creating

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Speaker 3: three day weekends. This is referred to as the Happy

468
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Speaker 3: Monday system.

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Speaker 2: Very Japan coded that they would do this. So Japan coded.

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Speaker 3: So thoughtful, fun forward, thinking of its people. I do

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Speaker 3: think that you know Japan, I would say, amazing experience.

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Speaker 2: I had one note. I had one note about Japan

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Speaker 2: when we were there. Hear it. I would like a

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Speaker 2: couple more garbage cans, just a.

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Speaker 3: Couple more, because the whole thing is like, there's no

476
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Speaker 3: trash cans anywhere, and this works for the country because

477
00:27:58,000 --> 00:28:00,879
Speaker 3: there's no garbage on the streets. People know not to

478
00:28:00,880 --> 00:28:03,199
Speaker 3: bring garbage out because there's gonna be nowhere to put it.

479
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Speaker 3: And it does work. However, maybe just one, if we

480
00:28:08,640 --> 00:28:11,680
Speaker 3: could add just one garbage can to Tokyo, it would

481
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Speaker 3: have thrilled me.

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Speaker 2: This is your hack you go into seven eleven, you

483
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Speaker 2: go into a Coombinia seven eleven, lost in a family

484
00:28:17,040 --> 00:28:18,960
Speaker 2: mart and you buy a little thing, or you just

485
00:28:19,040 --> 00:28:22,400
Speaker 2: kind of tossed your stuff in there. I heard and Barbara,

486
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Speaker 2: you can confirm this. Maybe the reason why there's no

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Speaker 2: garbage cans watch or drop in the chat. Japan has

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Speaker 2: no garbage cans. The reason Japan has no garbage cans

489
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Speaker 2: is I guess because they were originally worried that garbage

490
00:28:40,640 --> 00:28:44,200
Speaker 2: cans would be perfect places for terrorists to put bombs in.

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Speaker 2: I was talking to a friend and he was like, oh,

492
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Speaker 2: do you know why, And that's because it's like a

493
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Speaker 2: way to like keep people responsible for their own belongings.

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Speaker 2: He goes, no, it's because they were originally afraid that

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00:28:56,160 --> 00:29:02,040
Speaker 2: terrorist attacks would happen most likely in like via garbage.

496
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Speaker 2: Which is so interesting.

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Speaker 3: This is too scary to talk about. I'd rather talk

498
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Speaker 3: about Kenya. Most people think of Kenya as being dominant

499
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Speaker 3: in long distance running, but Kenya made its Winter Olympic

500
00:29:14,000 --> 00:29:17,320
Speaker 3: debut in nineteen ninety eight with cross country skier Philip Bolt.

501
00:29:17,440 --> 00:29:20,239
Speaker 3: He famously finished last in his first race, but his

502
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Speaker 3: story is legendary because he trained in Finland to chase

503
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Speaker 3: that Olympic dream.

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Speaker 2: Correction, Philip boett Bloch, Philip Philip blah.

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Speaker 3: Wah, Sorry, I think I saw an athlete and bo

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Speaker 3: it in a doc and I thought Hussein Bolt wah

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Speaker 3: different wah.

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00:29:45,520 --> 00:29:49,680
Speaker 2: Bolt very tomato, tomato made tomato. English is so silly.

509
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Speaker 3: What's your favorite animated film? Shrek two? But this is

510
00:29:54,120 --> 00:29:58,960
Speaker 3: about Madagascar. This is about Madagascar. More than eighty percent

511
00:29:58,960 --> 00:30:02,040
Speaker 3: of the plants and animal species found on Maundagascar are

512
00:30:02,080 --> 00:30:07,640
Speaker 3: not found anywhere else on Earth. Wow, well, I guess

513
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Speaker 3: that's are they competing?

514
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Speaker 2: I like to see some of them at the Games.

515
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Speaker 2: Perhaps we will.

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Speaker 3: Finally, we're gonna give a fact about Singapore. This is

517
00:30:17,440 --> 00:30:20,640
Speaker 3: actually a sports fact as well. This tiny tropical island

518
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Speaker 3: had its first Winter Olympian in twenty eighteen. Chyenne Go

519
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Speaker 3: a short track speedskater, no mountains, no snow, yet she

520
00:30:28,600 --> 00:30:31,800
Speaker 3: represents Singapore on the icy track, making history at the

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Speaker 3: Winter Games.

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Speaker 2: This is huge, and this opens up a beautiful, beautiful

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Speaker 2: entry point into our next episode, where we will be

524
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Speaker 2: talking about the debutantes, the first timers. It's not so

525
00:30:45,680 --> 00:30:48,400
Speaker 2: long ago that Singapore was the new girl at school.

526
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Speaker 2: But we will be talking about Beneen, Guinea Bissau, so

527
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Speaker 2: many other warm places that somehow have a presence at

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Speaker 2: these Winter Games, and we are so happy for them

529
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Speaker 2: and thrilled to see how they do. Now, that's on

530
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Speaker 2: hard work, and that's on hard work and dedication in

531
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Speaker 2: warm places. Now, I want to not get ahead of myself. Bob,

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Speaker 2: do you want to sort of chime in one last

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Speaker 2: time before we award our metals. We'll take that as

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Speaker 2: a no. Or that she's in a stairwell at the

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Speaker 2: NBC building.

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Speaker 3: Well you you missed your window there, bar, because we're

537
00:31:27,400 --> 00:31:32,080
Speaker 3: gonna go ahead, and yes, no bar.

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Speaker 2: Go ahead, go ahead.

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Speaker 4: I just wanted to let you know that a city

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Speaker 4: outside of Osaka removed its trash hands to prevent the

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Speaker 4: deer from trying to eat from plastic.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we heard all about the Nara deer. The Nara

543
00:31:48,920 --> 00:31:52,080
Speaker 2: deer are sacred deer and for them to for nine

544
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Speaker 2: of them to die is a travesty. I thank you,

545
00:31:59,480 --> 00:32:02,240
Speaker 2: thank you for that. I have looked up. According to Google,

546
00:32:03,640 --> 00:32:06,440
Speaker 2: the key reason for the lack of public trash cans

547
00:32:07,240 --> 00:32:10,240
Speaker 2: is the nineteen ninety five Tokyo subway terror attack. I

548
00:32:10,280 --> 00:32:13,960
Speaker 2: remember this where saren gas was used and hidden in

549
00:32:14,000 --> 00:32:16,960
Speaker 2: public spaces, which prompted the widespread removal of trash cans

550
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Speaker 2: to enhance safety.

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Speaker 3: Okay, well I didn't know that, and I don't want

552
00:32:21,160 --> 00:32:23,959
Speaker 3: to be you know, just leave me alone. I just

553
00:32:24,000 --> 00:32:26,360
Speaker 3: I was just looking for a place to put my coffee.

554
00:32:26,400 --> 00:32:28,720
Speaker 3: I'll go into seven eleven next time. This is a

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00:32:28,760 --> 00:32:29,680
Speaker 3: global for everyone.

556
00:32:29,800 --> 00:32:33,800
Speaker 2: Leave me alone. Okay, I'm leaving you alone. I was

557
00:32:33,920 --> 00:32:38,400
Speaker 2: just trying to inform you because you had asked. The

558
00:32:38,480 --> 00:32:41,360
Speaker 2: bronze medal goes to.

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Speaker 3: I'm sorry, I gotta give it to Donald Duck. I

560
00:32:45,480 --> 00:32:48,800
Speaker 3: know that you took issue with with Germany claiming him,

561
00:32:49,080 --> 00:32:52,800
Speaker 3: but any Donald Dunk mentioned like, I'm on board.

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00:32:52,840 --> 00:32:56,080
Speaker 2: I love the guy. I love him. He's so sweet.

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Speaker 3: My bronze medal goes to the fact that Germany holds

564
00:33:00,480 --> 00:33:02,520
Speaker 3: Donald Duck as a pop culture hero and you know what,

565
00:33:02,560 --> 00:33:04,040
Speaker 3: sure they call himself to Donald Disc.

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Speaker 2: I'm just happy for Donald.

567
00:33:05,640 --> 00:33:09,320
Speaker 3: I'm really happy to see him take the spotlight over Mickey.

568
00:33:09,560 --> 00:33:12,200
Speaker 2: There we go. What's the silver medal? Because he's very

569
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Speaker 2: he he's he's very barb like in that when the

570
00:33:15,520 --> 00:33:18,760
Speaker 2: heroes need him most. I love Barb. Okay, we love Barb.

571
00:33:19,000 --> 00:33:21,959
Speaker 2: We love Barb, but Mickey is very Barb. In the

572
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Speaker 2: Games where the Sora and Donald and Goofy are looking

573
00:33:26,720 --> 00:33:29,680
Speaker 2: for King Mickey, King Mickey is on his own adventure

574
00:33:29,720 --> 00:33:33,120
Speaker 2: somewhere and he loses access to communication and they feel

575
00:33:33,120 --> 00:33:36,440
Speaker 2: abandoned by him. That happens, and that doesn't Happenliar, and

576
00:33:37,240 --> 00:33:41,840
Speaker 2: you're abandoned. Missions rearing their up. Barb has ripped the

577
00:33:41,880 --> 00:33:47,760
Speaker 2: sutures open, and that's okay. I'm sorry, guys, give us

578
00:33:47,760 --> 00:33:52,960
Speaker 2: silver before before this becomes you know, we're kidding. We

579
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Speaker 2: love you and this is not our toxic way of

580
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Speaker 2: showing it. We're playfully ribbing as it were, Okay, held

581
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Speaker 2: tense ribbing. Yeah, I oh, this is tough. Okay, that's okay. Greece,

582
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Speaker 2: I'm sorry. Germany gets bronze. I am gonna give my

583
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Speaker 2: silver two Georgia. I love that zag they have I

584
00:34:25,520 --> 00:34:27,920
Speaker 2: love ZAG. I love that it sort of opened up

585
00:34:27,960 --> 00:34:30,759
Speaker 2: this beautiful moment of discovery where you really blew me

586
00:34:30,800 --> 00:34:33,000
Speaker 2: away with your mandarin. Oh do you remember it?

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00:34:34,800 --> 00:34:35,000
Speaker 1: Oh?

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00:34:35,200 --> 00:34:37,719
Speaker 2: Yeah, oh no, let's.

589
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Speaker 3: Don't anyone ever won't leave me alone?

590
00:34:44,120 --> 00:34:46,960
Speaker 2: What did I not do? You just didn't say it? Okay,

591
00:34:48,200 --> 00:34:51,040
Speaker 2: and what's gold? I have a gold, but I wonder

592
00:34:51,080 --> 00:34:52,439
Speaker 2: I hope that we have the same one.

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00:34:52,800 --> 00:34:57,640
Speaker 3: Okay, on three, we'll both say our gold.

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00:34:58,040 --> 00:35:01,520
Speaker 2: One. Wait, hold on, what's my goal? Oh?

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00:35:01,760 --> 00:35:02,480
Speaker 3: One? Two?

596
00:35:02,840 --> 00:35:07,719
Speaker 2: Three? Finland? Oh no, national sleepy head day. I think

597
00:35:07,800 --> 00:35:10,560
Speaker 2: took us for a ride. I is this a thing

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00:35:10,600 --> 00:35:12,279
Speaker 2: where we have a tie for goal? I know, because

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Speaker 2: then then there would be no silver. It would be

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Speaker 2: that things.

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Speaker 3: I'm sorry, I'm gonna go hard for Finland. I think

602
00:35:16,800 --> 00:35:21,359
Speaker 3: it's Finland. I don't think that Greece. Oh the Crimson Path,

603
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Speaker 3: that was good. Okay, you know what, I'm sorry. I'm

604
00:35:23,440 --> 00:35:26,399
Speaker 3: taking the bronze medal away. I'm taking the bronze medal Oway.

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Speaker 3: This is one of those controversies. Wait, what are you doing?

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Speaker 2: Bronze is? What are you doing?

607
00:35:33,000 --> 00:35:33,040
Speaker 3: Me?

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00:35:33,400 --> 00:35:34,439
Speaker 2: Tell me, tell me what you're doing.

609
00:35:34,560 --> 00:35:38,920
Speaker 3: I'm taking the bronze medal away from Donald Duck And okay,

610
00:35:39,360 --> 00:35:40,719
Speaker 3: so then who gets bronze.

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Speaker 2: I'm bumping. I'm bumping. You're gonna but my silver down

612
00:35:44,760 --> 00:35:47,520
Speaker 2: to bronze to make sure that we both can get it.

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Speaker 3: I just I think I'm helping us both. Okay, So

614
00:35:51,480 --> 00:35:56,400
Speaker 3: don't George though, Georgia gets bronze. Zag is Bronze is bronze,

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00:35:56,960 --> 00:36:01,840
Speaker 3: Silver is what Finland Finland Sleepy Day is crazy national

616
00:36:01,840 --> 00:36:04,000
Speaker 3: sleepy head day where someone gets thrown in the water.

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Speaker 2: That to me is too good.

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00:36:06,080 --> 00:36:11,680
Speaker 3: And the gold is of course Crimson Path, Crimson Path.

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Speaker 2: I feel good about that, all right? I want is

620
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Speaker 2: saying a metal controversy these judges, Yeah, it happens every time.

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Speaker 2: Where's the French judge in this?

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Speaker 3: I think it feels like you you've been the drama. You've

623
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Speaker 3: really been the drama on this episode.

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Speaker 2: Barbara is getting French judge. Absolutely, but the French judge

625
00:36:36,960 --> 00:36:40,279
Speaker 2: and Barbara both iconic. So there you go. Well, this

626
00:36:40,400 --> 00:36:46,040
Speaker 2: has been our really wacky ride through the countries. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: of the.

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Speaker 3: Twenty twenty six Winter Olympics, And you can tune in

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Speaker 3: next time when we are talking about the debutantes aka

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Speaker 3: the first timers at these Olympic Games, the twenty twenty

631
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Speaker 3: six Milan Courtain one. They are going to be storming

632
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Speaker 3: the fort for the very first time.

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Speaker 2: And we we're gonna be talking about it.

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Speaker 3: We want to remind you be sure to follow two

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00:37:10,200 --> 00:37:12,960
Speaker 3: guys five rings on the iHeartRadio app or your favorite

636
00:37:12,960 --> 00:37:16,040
Speaker 3: podcast platform and watch on the NBC.

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Speaker 2: Sports YouTube channel. Watch and listen to every moment of

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Speaker 2: the Winter Olympics February sixth through the twenty second on

639
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Speaker 2: NBC in Peacock and on the iHeartRadio app.

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Speaker 3: We are going to end this episode triumphantly, as we

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Speaker 3: do every episode, with the sounds of the Olympic