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

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Speaker 1: yet again not to depend on AI.

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Speaker 2: I asked chatpt for ten names.

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Speaker 3: I want to hear them.

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Speaker 2: Sporty Sisters, game changers here, Hose here, O's here, Hers.

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Speaker 3: You your hose were.

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Speaker 1: Here?

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Speaker 3: Hoes Please I can't.

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Speaker 1: That's actually the new tagline for the sale right here,

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Speaker 1: Hose power.

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Speaker 2: Players Coract please us the cold open victory fixes No.

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Speaker 4: Nothing else matters Alex.

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Speaker 3: Nothing else matters here, Hoes.

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Speaker 1: Oh my god, never change, Alex, never change, Oh my god.

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Speaker 1: On today's show, we're going to tell you how we

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Speaker 1: ended up at here Hose. Plus we got Cougar's porta

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Speaker 1: potties and a whole lot of tea to spill. Plus

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Speaker 1: we're hopping, flipping and jumping with blind Landing hosts Ari Sapristine.

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Speaker 1: He'll give you the tips in fact, you need for

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Speaker 1: all the gymnastics apparatus finals this weekend.

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Speaker 3: It's all coming up right after this. It's Friay, and

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Speaker 3: here's what you need to know today.

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Speaker 1: First of all, Saturday is Mech's birthday, Meche.

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Speaker 3: How old are you gonna be? Twenty seven?

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Speaker 1: Ew?

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Speaker 3: Super gross? Do you have any plans.

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Speaker 4: Uh right, now, hang out with my parents and possibly

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Speaker 4: go to the park.

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Speaker 3: You sound like a twenty seven year old. No, sixty

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Speaker 4: Look, I've been told I give grandparent energy, so that's

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Speaker 4: fine with me.

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Speaker 3: That's fine. I've been told.

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Speaker 4: Also, one of my closest friends said, I look like

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Speaker 4: I eat peas, So I feel like it all tracks a.

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Speaker 3: Good bege big grandparent energy.

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Speaker 1: Love it, We love it. Happy birthday me, She have

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Speaker 1: a great weekend. Also, shout out to my parents. Saturday

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Speaker 1: is also my parents' fiftieth wedding anniversary, and they have

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Speaker 1: spent like thirty plus years of it almost working together

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Speaker 1: It feels unfathomable to me. Put shout out to fifty

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Speaker 1: years Nancy and Rick Spain. Okay, let's get to the sports.

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Speaker 1: In gymnastics, the all around final took place yesterday, with

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Speaker 1: Simone Biles winning gold, Brazil's Rebecca Andrage picking up silver,

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Speaker 1: deep on gymnastics in just a bit on this show,

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Speaker 1: so you know we're gonna get to all.

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Speaker 3: The good stuff.

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Speaker 1: But let's just get a few facts out into the

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Speaker 1: world right now. First, with the gold, Biles becomes the

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Speaker 1: first woman to win two Olympic All around titles since

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Speaker 1: nineteen sixty eight. She also breaks a one hundred and

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Speaker 1: win six Olympic medals. Also, Brazil's Rebecca Andrage whose name

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Speaker 1: She wins her second straight Olympic All Around silver. And

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Speaker 1: get this, she has torn her acl three times and

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Speaker 1: Finally, shout out Sonny Lee, Tokyo gold medalist in this event.

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Speaker 1: She's overcome so much these last three years, including two

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Speaker 1: Gold medal and the dishes, bitch. We're gonna have more

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Speaker 1: up later in the show. In swimming, the US claimed

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Speaker 1: and Peacock. Japan opened its tournament with a narrow two

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Speaker 1: then they won their next two games, two to one

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Speaker 1: goals have all come from different players. Meanwhile, for the US,

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Speaker 1: Mele Swanson leads the scoring after pool play with three goals.

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Speaker 1: Entering the twenty twenty four Olympics. The US has a

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Speaker 3: Be sure to watch the US nine am on Saturday

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Speaker 3: in hoops.

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Speaker 1: Sunday at eleven am, Eastern Team USA Basketball takes on

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Speaker 1: Germany in their last game of group play before the quarterfinals.

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Speaker 1: Germany has multiple WNBA players on its roster, including Dallas

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Speaker 1: Wings superstar Satusaboly, who put up thirty three points in

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Speaker 1: You can catch USA Basketball on the USA Network and

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Speaker 1: in three x three. The US plays France today at

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Speaker 1: Play on Saturday at one oh five pm Eastern against China.

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Speaker 1: They've had a real rough start to the tournament. They

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Speaker 1: six make it to the knockout stage. In volleyball, the

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Speaker 1: US indoor team continues its Olympic gold medal defense with

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Speaker 1: Track gets going with a lot of qualifying and preliminary

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Speaker 1: Queen Shaker Richardson, the reigning one hundred meters world champion,

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Speaker 1: The one hundred meter final is Saturday at three to

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Speaker 1: Michael Grady, Cornell class of twenty nineteen, who helped tam

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Speaker 3: We see no gender.

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Speaker 1: We're all just big red bears.

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Speaker 1: So there's a ton of talk online about the women's

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Speaker 1: causing all this conversation. Okay, So, two female boxers in

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Speaker 1: Algeria's Iman Khalif and Chinese Type a's Lin Uting both

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Speaker 1: Say, quote everyone competing in the women's category is complying

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Speaker 1: want to remind and encourage people to handle these topics

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Speaker 1: and it is okay to have opinions about some of

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Speaker 3: Thank you.

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Speaker 1: Moving on, as we continue to debate the best name

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Speaker 1: for our show listeners, I'd like to thank Leah Kennedy

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Speaker 1: for emailing us and reminding us not to rely on AI.

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Speaker 1: Here's Leah quote high Team, good game, first and foremost.

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Speaker 3: I love this podcast.

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Speaker 1: It's sports, it's female legends, it's comedy, it's everything. I

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Speaker 1: wanted to try my hand at ideas for squad names,

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Speaker 1: and as a modern gal, I turned to Generative.

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Speaker 1: I laughed out loud at the top suggestion it gave me,

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Speaker 1: and I just had to share winning wenches. This says

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Speaker 1: so much about the problems with jen AI and our

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Speaker 3: It sure does, Leah. Okay, so Leah continues, So.

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Speaker 1: I went back to my own brain and a few suggestions,

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Speaker 1: taking some inspiration from Julie Foudy's Dope Village for Laughter,

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Speaker 1: permitted another favorite podcast and came up with one Good

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Speaker 1: Game Nation, two Spainer's Gamers, three Spain Squad.

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Speaker 3: Okay, thank you, Leah.

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Speaker 1: Winning Wenches is literally insane, but your other suggestions are cute.

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Speaker 3: I'm trying to keep the name about the show and

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Speaker 1: Spain and more Good Game But Spain Gamers does have

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Speaker 2: Olga Corbett was a gymist that was competing in the

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Speaker 2: right around that time in the seventies, gymnastics is at

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Speaker 2: a turning point where it starts to look more like

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Speaker 2: it looks today. But to be honest, what we saw

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Speaker 2: fifty years ago, someone that's like really good at CrossFit

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Speaker 2: could probably do. And now what we're seeing on bars,

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Speaker 2: it is only several people that you know.

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Speaker 1: So if Olga lived now and we taught her if

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Speaker 1: oga again things based on what we saw all the

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Speaker 1: way back then, she would be crushing I did she.

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Speaker 2: Did Olga Corbett have the talent, have the preternatural talent too,

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Speaker 2: if she lived in this era, make it far? You know,

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Speaker 2: I think that that is very interesting hypothetical, And I

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Speaker 2: imagine that honestly, any great Olympic champion like Olga Korbett,

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Speaker 1: Lou Rett hashtag team Olga. Okay, let's get to the

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Speaker 1: balance beam.

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Speaker 2: What you got in the balance beam final. There's a

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Speaker 2: little known gymnast who's just kind of rising onto the

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Speaker 2: scene that people should keep her eye on. Her name

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Speaker 2: is Simone Files. I don't know if it's sort of

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Speaker 2: I'm not quite sure. I haven't heard it, you know,

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Speaker 2: many times in my life. So Simone is a you know,

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Speaker 2: the first time it was seen as this disappointment because

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Speaker 2: total different meaning to her. I think if she got

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Speaker 2: like amazing in full circle, but I think that we

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Speaker 2: fascinating because it's almost like, no matter what color medal

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Speaker 2: And her teammate Sunny Lee back at Olympic Trials, when

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Speaker 3: Okay, floor exercise, we.

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Speaker 2: Got another Simone.

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Speaker 3: Hebeca matchup.

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Speaker 2: I mean, the audience is just tired for me saying

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Speaker 2: This is a case where it's definitely Simones to lose.

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Speaker 2: As we saw in the Olympic all around final today,

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Speaker 2: Simone scored one point higher than hebeca on floor. A

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Speaker 2: cushion that Simone has going into a floor final is

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Speaker 2: keep their eye on is another US competitor, Jordan Chiles.

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Speaker 2: This is someone who I mentioned UCLA Gymnastics before about

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Speaker 2: my co host Dinusia for the last pine landing episode

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Speaker 2: that she went there UCLA gymnastics has been a main

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Speaker 2: collegiate program that has been very big about supporting people

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Speaker 2: Jordan Chiles on Floor is going to go up last

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Speaker 2: be the last gymnastics routine of the entire Olympics, and

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Speaker 2: it will really be one to watch because it's arguably

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Speaker 2: It's really a routine that she's had to push back

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Speaker 2: against some officials that have told her to not use

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Speaker 2: fearing that it won't score well internationally. And she's kind

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Speaker 2: of said, yeah, I don't know, man, I just want

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Speaker 2: to be me out there and kind of gone against

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Speaker 2: the grain to put together this routine that could definitely

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Speaker 2: get her on the metal stand. She finished in third,

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Speaker 2: qualified in third, and we could see her take that

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Speaker 2: metal home.

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Speaker 3: We love that.

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Speaker 1: We love it so much and we love that Beyonce

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Speaker 1: sent them all shout outs and then they got to

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Speaker 1: do that opening ceremony video, the talking back and forth

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Speaker 1: with her, which I can only imagine the mind blown

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Speaker 1: situation when they got the call for that.

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Speaker 3: Ari, thanks so much for the insight.

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Speaker 1: I'm so much more excited, and I already was very

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Speaker 1: excited to watch all these apps, Barradas Finals. Everybody check

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Speaker 1: out blind landing the podcast. Also some figure skating on there.

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Speaker 1: If you're a figure skating fans, you get gymnastics, figure skating,

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Speaker 1: all the good stuff.

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Speaker 3: Maybe is even some chainsaw talk.

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Speaker 2: Thank you, Ari, Thanks so much for having me really

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Speaker 2: appreciate it.

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Speaker 1: Time to pay the bills, time to make the donuts.

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Speaker 1: When we come back, we find out who looked around

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Speaker 1: and found out Welcome back. Okay, So you heard me

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Speaker 1: and Ari talking about the culture change in gymnastics, particularly

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Speaker 1: a shift after the Marta and Bella Corola years. Well,

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Speaker 1: a gymnast from those days Tokyo Olympia, Mikaela Skinner criticized

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Speaker 1: the current gymnastics squad, and while we're totally empathetic to

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Speaker 1: how our years in the toxicity and pressure of the

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Speaker 1: Corolis might influence her opinion, we're just never here for

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Speaker 1: unnecessarily taking shots at fellow athletes.

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Speaker 3: Because when you do that, you might end up here.

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Speaker 3: That's right, It's time.

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Speaker 1: For figger around and find out Friday around and ooh.

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Speaker 3: Buddy, this one's a doozy.

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Speaker 1: So in case you don't remember the comments from Skinner

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Speaker 1: on her YouTube channel back in July, here she is

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Speaker 1: questioning the work ethic of Team USA's current gymnasts. I mean,

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Speaker 1: obviously a lot of girls don't work as hard.

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Speaker 4: The girls just don't have the work ethic to get

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Speaker 4: towere you need to be in gymnastics, you do have

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Speaker 4: to be.

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Speaker 1: I feel like a little aggressive and a little intent.

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Speaker 3: Well, she couldn't have been more wrong.

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Speaker 1: After the US one gold in the women's team final,

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Speaker 1: Simone Biles took to Instagram posting a picture of herself

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Speaker 1: and her teammates with the caption quote lack of talent,

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Speaker 1: lazy Olympic champions and current and former teammates chimed in

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Speaker 1: on the comments. Sunny Lee wrote, put a finger down

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Speaker 1: if Simone Biles just ended you ed Mikayla Maroney, not

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Speaker 1: to be confused with Mikayla Skinner wrote, it doesn't get

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Speaker 1: more iconic than this.

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Speaker 3: She surround and found out for real.

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Speaker 1: Feels like I need to apologize just to redeem my

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Speaker 1: first name.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, people do not message Mikayla Maroney, she is not

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Speaker 3: the one.

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Speaker 1: Also, according to a post on Jordan Childs Instagram, Mikhayla

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Speaker 1: Skinner has since blocked Simone Biles. After the team win,

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Speaker 1: it was revealed that this year's gymnastics squad has a

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Speaker 1: nickname of both the Golden Girls, a nod to their

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Speaker 1: age and no doubt thanks to Mikayla Skinner, another nickname

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Speaker 1: team around and find out.

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Speaker 3: Ef around and fine find out.

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Speaker 1: Let me just say, y'all loved seeing these absolute legends

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Speaker 1: shut up Mikayla Skinner, including at a little leader on Twitter,

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Speaker 1: who wrote, I can't express enough how much I love

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Speaker 1: that Simone Biles stayed focused, took care of business, but

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Speaker 1: did not forget to come back and take care of

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Speaker 1: a hater as soon as she got her work squared away.

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Speaker 1: May we all also at Joe moo Lungma on Twitter

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Speaker 1: wrote in male sports, they would call what Skinner said

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Speaker 1: bulletin board material. I'm fine going with that for female sports,

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Speaker 1: but if women want to come up with their own

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Speaker 1: term for it, please go right ahead. It'll almost certainly

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Speaker 1: be better than bulletin board material. That's your key listeners.

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Speaker 1: Send us your better version of bulletin board material at

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Speaker 1: good Game at wondermedianetwork dot com, send it to me

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Speaker 1: on social at Sarah Spain on Twitter. Try to beat

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Speaker 1: this at Agent's nine hundred suggested vision board material or

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Speaker 1: pinterest eaten good, which is absolutely incredible. I don't know

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Speaker 1: if we can stop pinteresting good. It's so good, Okay fun.

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Speaker 1: Little side note to shout out to Lindsay.

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Speaker 3: Gibbs, who we love and has an incredible women's sports

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Speaker 3: newsletter called power Plays. She reminded us that MICHAELA.

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Speaker 1: Skinner also made news last summer because she had an

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Speaker 1: elaborate gender reveal party with her husband Jonas Harmer, and

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Speaker 1: they had a giant balloon covered light up sign that read.

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Speaker 3: Baby Harmer.

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Speaker 1: You know, like baby Harmer, but it just said baby Harmer.

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Speaker 1: Just absolute gold, which you know is what this lazy

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Speaker 1: ass team won. So I guess sip on that girl.

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Speaker 1: Woof all that tea spill and it's given me a

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Speaker 1: taste for more. So let's spill a little more tea

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Speaker 1: ahem cafe in Paris. We've gathered some of the wildest juiciest,

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Speaker 1: most dramatic stories we've.

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Speaker 3: Heard come out of the Games.

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Speaker 1: So pull up a chair, grab a croissant, and let's goss. First,

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Speaker 1: a terrifying encounter for Canadian rugby captain Olivia Apps Okay, So,

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Speaker 1: six weeks prior to the start of the Games, she

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Speaker 1: was attacked by a cougar while hiking the animal. Guys,

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Speaker 1: not Courtney Cox and Busy Phillips or me for that matter,

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Speaker 1: Misha Okay, Olivia, her hiking companion, and their dogs all

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Speaker 1: managed to escape, using bear spray to fend off the cougar.

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Speaker 1: She was treated for a cougar byite and airlifted out

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Speaker 1: of the park. And get this, she was back on

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Speaker 1: the pitch mere days later, and now less than two

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Speaker 1: months after the big cat bite. She and Team Canada

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Speaker 1: secured as silver medal this week.

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Speaker 3: Pretty good, Okay.

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Speaker 1: Next up twenty six year old Egyptian fencer Nada Hafez,

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Speaker 1: who revealed after her competition ended that she was seven

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Speaker 1: months pregnant while competing in the individual women's saber competition

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Speaker 1: at the Olympics. In a post on Instagram on Tuesday,

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Speaker 1: Nada wrote, what appears to you as two players on

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Speaker 1: the podium. They were actually three. It was me, my competitor,

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Speaker 1: and my yet to come to our world little baby.

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Speaker 1: It's giving Serena at the Australian Open, It's giving Rihanna

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Speaker 1: in the super Bowl. It's giving women could freaking do anything.

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Speaker 1: She lost in the round of sixteen, but still she

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Speaker 1: was seven months pregnant competing in the Olympics.

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Speaker 3: And here's a fun fact for y'all.

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Speaker 1: According to the Olympic Nerds over at Olympdia, at least

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Speaker 1: twenty five athletes have competed at the Olympics while pregnant,

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Speaker 1: but Hafez breaks the record for most pregnant athlete.

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Speaker 3: Is that an official record? I feel like it should be.

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Speaker 1: Also, with all those like swords around, it's badass. Last,

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Speaker 1: but not least a lack of movement that would have

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Speaker 1: made me move some bowels back. At US track Trials

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Speaker 1: in June, before her semi final race in the four

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Speaker 1: hundred meters, runner Kendall Ellis found herself trapped it a

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Speaker 1: porta potty, pleading for someone to let her out. She

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Speaker 1: a race, which she won in a personal best time.

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Speaker 1: Then she topped that mark in the final, winning the

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Speaker 1: event and earning her spot in the Paris Olympics and

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Speaker 1: the cherry on top of the near do do Sunday.

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Speaker 1: Kendall has since partnered with Sharman toilet paper to keep

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