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Speaker 1: Simone Ladeci Shakri Lebron. They ain't got nothing on Tom

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Speaker 1: Gavin and Tate Ocome everybody to this very special edition

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Speaker 1: of Amy and TJ Robes. We have spent so much

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Speaker 1: time watching Olympics coverage, but we've been getting into a

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Speaker 1: lot of sports that we don't normally get to watch

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Speaker 1: bad Medden, table tennis, canoeing, fencing, surfing, judo, and a

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Speaker 1: lot of that is us asking questions like what are

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Speaker 1: the rules here? What are you doing?

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Speaker 2: We don't even I mean, I've watched sports that I

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Speaker 2: didn't even know existed FORFO. So I've been doing a

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Speaker 2: lot of Google searches, learning a lot about sports and

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Speaker 2: just being in general awe of the athleticism in so

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Speaker 2: many arenas and areas that I didn't even know was

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Speaker 1: And so one of them we got and I shouldn't

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Speaker 1: say stuck, but we got caught up in and watched

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Speaker 1: every moment was skateboarding, and it was the women in particular.

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Speaker 1: We didn't understand single rule like wait, she fell, she

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Speaker 1: So we were trying to figure it out.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it was street skateboarding, and we were in awe

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Speaker 2: because what they were doing was crazy and watching them

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Speaker 2: with a big old smile and try it again.

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Speaker 1: So that was street skate, yes, but there's also park

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Speaker 1: skate that we're about to get an education on in

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Speaker 1: the next couple of days. But we're going to get

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Speaker 1: it right now. From one of our stuts. Tom Sharp

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Speaker 1: joins us from Paris. Okay, you have to forgive us here, Tom,

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Speaker 1: you're gonna have to help get everybody caught up a

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Speaker 1: little bit. So let's start with that park skateboarding. What

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Speaker 1: exactly are we talking about here.

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Speaker 3: I've had to try and explain it to a lot

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Speaker 3: of people over the past couple of days, and it's

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Speaker 3: kind of hard to explain. I guess the best way

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Speaker 3: to put it would be, it's like an empty backyard

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Speaker 1: Okay, that's pretty good.

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Speaker 2: All right, that's very cool, And like I'm sure many

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Speaker 2: of your counterparts, you got started very very early. When

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Speaker 2: I was googling you, one of the words that came

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Speaker 2: up in association with your name was prodigy. When did

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Speaker 2: you start skateboarding?

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Speaker 3: Oh god, my older brother skated and that's how I

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Speaker 3: I was like four or five. So I've been skating

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Speaker 3: for twenty years now, which is pretty crazy to say.

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Speaker 2: Wow, twenty four years old, been skating since you were four,

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Speaker 2: You're at the Olympics. Tell me how you're feeling right now.

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Speaker 4: It's pretty crazy.

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Speaker 3: If you would have told me this is where I

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Speaker 4: Absolutely not.

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Speaker 1: When did it become, I guess, a job or a

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Speaker 1: I'm sure you still have fun doing it, But when

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, you're exactly right. Started skating just because

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I would say so. I would say, so, tell

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Speaker 3: So you get forty five seconds to do the best

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Speaker 1: So how much of that is as you all just

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Speaker 2: That's crazy. You make up your run when you get

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Speaker 3: I don't personally have a coach. We have the Team

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Speaker 3: all out. But I mean, you can kind of know

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Speaker 1: Sure how many runs do you all get to do

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Speaker 4: We get three?

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Speaker 1: He gets three? So combined score, you dropped one. How's

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Speaker 4: Just your best run counts.

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Speaker 3: Whatever one they thought was the best is the score

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Speaker 2: Wow, I mean that's a lot of pressure, Tom. How

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Speaker 3: I definitely still get nervous. It's even though I've been

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Speaker 2: So what do you do before you go to quell

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Speaker 3: I mean, honestly, I just kind of try and remind

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Speaker 1: We hear so much about how athletes, elead athletes prepare.

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Speaker 3: I do a good amount of training outside of skateboarding,

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Speaker 2: So I be I was going to ask you a

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Speaker 2: lot's been made of Olympic Village food that it's not

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Speaker 2: So far an Olympic village.

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Speaker 3: The food is it's all right, it's not that bad.

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Speaker 3: The best is more where I'm struggling, But I mean,

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Speaker 1: What's the Olympic experience like for a skateboarder? You'll, I

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Speaker 1: what's the Olympic experience been?

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Speaker 2: Like?

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Speaker 3: I get mixed kind of feelings from people. We were

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Speaker 2: Have you had that oh my god, Olympic moment yet?

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Speaker 3: Absolutely, doing the opening ceremony, meeting the whole basketball team.

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Speaker 3: It's it's pretty insane.

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Speaker 1: That's it's so that's so cool and casual. It's always

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Speaker 3: Yeah, my mom and my dad, my brother are all

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Speaker 2: Have you say, have you been able to watch any

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I've been here for like ten days now. Practice

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Speaker 3: saw ping pong which are sorry table, which is by

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Speaker 4: Uh.

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Speaker 3: We got judo and three v three and uh three

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Speaker 4: It was It's very cool.

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Speaker 1: How competitive we're going to be. Talking to your teammates

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Speaker 1: as well and your friends of course, Gavin and Tate,

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Speaker 1: what questions would you want an interviewer to ask your

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Speaker 1: two friends to put them on the spot. What should

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Speaker 3: I think just asking them more about the village. They'll

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Speaker 2: Oh okay, all right, that's always that's always good information.

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Speaker 2: And this it really is a brotherhood. When we see

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Speaker 1: Well, I wonder we're gonna let you go here, man,

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Speaker 1: Thank you, Tom, Thank you.

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Speaker 2: All right, everybody, we have Tom's good friend Gavin Bodker

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Speaker 2: get this right? You're just seventeen years old?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm seventeen.

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Speaker 6: It's insane. I'm still like it hasn't really settled and

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Speaker 5: I don't know, it's crazy.

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Speaker 1: You got other friends who are sixteen, seventeen years old

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Speaker 6: Pretty much like any of the basketball players. That's aw

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Speaker 1: But it was gooz, do you fool fanboy out and

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Speaker 6: I try to play it cool. But yeah, I asked

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Speaker 2: Yeah, very casually asked for a selfie any game.

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Speaker 5: It was on the opening ceremony days.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, just like us, we've been watching them on TV too.

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Speaker 1: Are you going into this fully? Pretty healthy right now?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, not really, but maybe after this time. Do you have.

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Speaker 6: I just want to walk away knowing that I tried

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Speaker 6: I feel like it's a little bit different, just because

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Speaker 1: A little weird, but like why are you here?

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Speaker 2: You didn't have a coach getting into this. This is

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Speaker 6: But food has been it's been all right, nothing nothing

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Speaker 1: Okay, nothing too. I have nothing to write home about.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, a lot of my family is here. I have

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Speaker 2: Oh, that's awesome. And Kevin, wait, are you about to

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Speaker 6: I'm actually taking the taking a break from high school

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Speaker 2: All right, Well, I mean with what you do, that

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Speaker 5: Y doing this at this level, there's no way I

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Speaker 1: I don't know, good, I don't know if you made

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Speaker 1: don't know, man, it don't worry out. But whatever, it's yours,

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Speaker 1: it's your life. You do your thing, man, Please, please

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Speaker 1: please tell your tell your your your teammate Tate. We

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Speaker 1: We're gonna miss him, that's okay. But man, I cannot

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Speaker 4: Man.

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Speaker 1: Really, good luck to you there in Paris. Brother God

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Speaker 5: Thank you, thank you so much. Congratulations Kevin, thank you.

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