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Speaker 1: Bloomberg Audio Studios, Podcasts, radio news.

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Speaker 2: He comes in with a silver medal. John Tucker thought

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Speaker 2: it was going to be handed to him. Corey Dropkin

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Speaker 2: joins us now US Olympic Curling silver medalist, working on

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Speaker 2: a furtherance of curling, back away from the ten days

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Speaker 2: where we all tune into it. Welcome to Bloomberg Surveillance.

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Speaker 1: Thank you very much, thanks for having me.

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Speaker 2: I've got to do this because it was inflicted upon

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Speaker 2: me as a child. So in the ninety two nine

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Speaker 2: region of Boston, if you fancy, there's the Wellesley Country Club, Brayburn,

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Speaker 2: the Weston Golf Club, and they saw coalesced around a

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Speaker 2: curling hunk of ice called Broomstone's. Yeah, did you go

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Speaker 2: there as a little kid? Like? Were you part of

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Speaker 2: that whole scene?

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Speaker 1: Absolutely?

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Speaker 3: That was Broomstone's Curling Club was like my second home.

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Speaker 3: My whole family curled. I have an older brother that

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Speaker 3: curled and I follow in his footsteps. My parents were

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Speaker 3: so involved with a youth curling program there. You know,

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Speaker 3: I was known to be running up and down the

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Speaker 3: stairs playing pool. So many stones on the ice.

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Speaker 2: Did you ever stub your toe on that damn stone?

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Speaker 2: I mean was a stone laying around at home and

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Speaker 2: it ran over it.

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Speaker 3: Nope, nope, no, pretty much just grew up sliding down

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Speaker 3: the sheet of ice.

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Speaker 4: Since you're five years old, you were curling five years old.

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Speaker 4: I didn't think a five year old could curl.

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Speaker 3: I know. Well, they have these these smaller stones that

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Speaker 3: way like half the half the size or their stones

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Speaker 3: about forty four pounds. They have like these little rocks

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Speaker 3: that they called them, that you know, are made for

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Speaker 3: younger curlers, for kids that can't slide a forty pounds

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Speaker 3: stone down the sheet of ice.

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Speaker 2: What changed with this Olympics in terms of a sport

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Speaker 2: that we focus on every four years to hey, this

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Speaker 2: is for real? What's the catalyst right now out of

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Speaker 2: that wonderful Olympic coverage?

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Speaker 3: I think it's the energy that you see from the sport,

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Speaker 3: from all the athletes. You know, we love a sport

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Speaker 3: where you know, the crowd's going wild and cheering big,

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Speaker 3: you know. I think traditional it used to be known

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Speaker 3: as you know, a bit of a quiet you know,

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Speaker 3: more of like a silent please type of sport where

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Speaker 3: you know, it's all about etiquette, and this is the

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Speaker 3: sport of etiquette and you know, instead of the you know,

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Speaker 3: the respective cheers you know on made shots and then

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Speaker 3: be silent for the next opponent to throw. You know,

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Speaker 3: we want to we want those those cheers to vibrate

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Speaker 3: through the stadium. And that's what we saw in Italy,

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Speaker 3: you know, the Italian crowd showing up, our American crowd.

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Speaker 3: You know, every country's shown up for their own and

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Speaker 3: the energy that the athletes were given off.

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Speaker 2: Alexis with Corey Dropkin. He has a silver medal in

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Speaker 2: studios where there's that that's a hunk of metal.

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Speaker 4: It's around his neck in case you guys can't can't seek,

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Speaker 4: May I feel it for I've never been this close

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Speaker 4: to a Oh my gosh, that's heavy. All right, That's

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Speaker 4: that's the real deal.

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Speaker 2: And hopefully less because there's stories like they go about

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Speaker 2: three four, five years and they fall apart.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, or they've been falling off the ribbon or something.

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Speaker 1: By the way, the eighty six dollars right now up,

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Speaker 1: so get that piece in there, please.

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Speaker 4: He's going to hang on to his silver. So I mean, undoubtedly,

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Speaker 4: you know, curling is having its moment, but in what ways,

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Speaker 4: like are you are you seeing and hearing from like

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Speaker 4: young people here in the US, are they going like, yeah,

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Speaker 4: I want to do that.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely, I mean I think every four years it's

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Speaker 3: natural that. I mean, the world loves watching curling, you know,

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Speaker 3: we just need to be able to give the world

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Speaker 3: what they want to watch more often. And I would

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Speaker 3: want to see, especially in the US, curling exposed a

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Speaker 3: little bit more. We need it more on an annual basis.

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Speaker 3: And and that's part of why Rock League is here

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Speaker 3: and starting in April. You know. But I've heard so

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Speaker 3: many curling communities having you know, big open houses, new kids,

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Speaker 3: You're up in Duluth right now.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's still winter.

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Speaker 2: Okay, So you're up in Duluth and you want to

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Speaker 2: do Rock League. Do you have any media into it?

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Speaker 2: Is there a TV?

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Speaker 4: You know TV, so that's what you need to get

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Speaker 4: it to the next level?

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Speaker 1: Yes? Yeah, And it says Apple TV.

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Speaker 2: I mean, you know, it says Dead TV.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I know.

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Speaker 3: I know they've got a network for sure in Canada

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Speaker 3: or I know they're working on the US. It sounds

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Speaker 3: like there was there was talks about potentially securing something,

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Speaker 3: you know, but hopefully, hopefully we're able to get that

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Speaker 3: in that way that everyone around the US can watch.

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Speaker 3: April six to twelveth in Toronto is where Rock League

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Speaker 3: is happening. It's it's the inaugural first season. It's gonna

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Speaker 3: be seven days games. There's six franchises and the beautiful

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Speaker 3: thing is that it's it's mixed gender. So on each

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Speaker 3: franchise there's ten athletes, five male and five female, and

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Speaker 3: so really you get the best in the world that

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Speaker 3: are that are playing head head and head.

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Speaker 2: What do you like in a bar with the games,

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Speaker 2: like a pool table or some of those games US

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Speaker 2: you just go in and get some idiot to bet.

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Speaker 1: This is not this is not a sport you can

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Speaker 1: do with what beer in one hand.

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Speaker 2: These guys.

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Speaker 1: League Night is known to have some beer involved. For sure.

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Speaker 3: On an average Tuesday evening, you're definitely gonna see curlers

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Speaker 3: with the beer on the back of the boards.

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Speaker 1: But I love pool.

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Speaker 3: When I grew up and I wanted to be good

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Speaker 3: at curling, my dad told me that if you want

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Speaker 3: to be good at curling, you got to learn your angles.

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Speaker 1: If you want to learn, you start.

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Speaker 3: Playing bills or you doing pocket Absolutely pocket.

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Speaker 4: So see you can try the curling skills translate to

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Speaker 4: other things.

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Speaker 2: I'm a size in my ears size are curling experts here,

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Speaker 2: I got I got out to turn your I'm gonna

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Speaker 2: have to go here in a couple of minutes because

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Speaker 2: of a random ah that I mean, Corey. It's as

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Speaker 2: simple as that. Were the Canadians cheating?

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Speaker 3: You know, they weren't cheating, no, you know, but there

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Speaker 3: was there was you know, basically touching the ground is

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Speaker 3: technically in fracture where you know, it's similar to like

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Speaker 3: traveling in basketball.

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Speaker 2: Okay, were they cheating?

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Speaker 1: They weren't cheating, but they were. They were definitely.

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Speaker 4: Did somebody call them out on it? Is that really

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Speaker 4: what happened?

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Speaker 3: I mean the Swedish curler Oscar Erickson, you know, call

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Speaker 3: them out on it, and I'd say, you know, they

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Speaker 1: Little bit over the board, which is why.

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Speaker 4: Going on in curling, which doesn't happen often.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you don't see it very often. You know, it's

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Speaker 3: it's also a big stage. You know, if we're talking

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Speaker 3: about the the emotions are high. You know, you had

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Speaker 3: a you know, essentially a legend of the sport who's

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Speaker 3: being called out and you know he overreacted for sure.

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Speaker 3: He was in a fracture that as you know, traveling

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Speaker 3: in basketball, some people get called on it, some people don't,

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Speaker 3: and he got called on it.

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Speaker 4: Where do you keep the metal when you're not wearing it?

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Speaker 3: Either close by to me or or a pie on

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Speaker 3: a on a shelf at home.

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Speaker 4: Now that there's a pillow not under the mattress.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, okay. When you get the clorox free and clear

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Speaker 2: out on the kitchen floor, you're like demanding you do

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Speaker 2: the scrub it in the kitchen floor.

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Speaker 4: You know, if you were my son, this would be

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Speaker 4: I'd be asking you to do it. I really would, Corey.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you know I'm very good at cleaning the kitchen floor.

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Speaker 3: You can ask.

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Speaker 2: Well, thank you so much. This has been just a joy.

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Speaker 2: It is a real entrepreneurial spirit. Folks Rock League. You're

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Speaker 2: going to see it, as Corey mentions, out of Toronto

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Speaker 2: here as they develop our interest in curling after our

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Speaker 2: complete addictive fixture. How come the games are so long?

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Speaker 4: Well, that's a good question.

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Speaker 3: Right now, the men's and women's four person games are

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Speaker 3: ten ends and that takes about two and a half hours.

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Speaker 2: Are you going to get a pitch clock.

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Speaker 3: I know they should. We need to see is the

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Speaker 3: game shortened a little bit? And you're going to see

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Speaker 3: that in Rock League too, where the games will be shortened.

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Speaker 3: The mixed doubles games are about an hour and a half,

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Speaker 3: where my mind is perfect.

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Speaker 1: People love watching mixed doubles.

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Speaker 2: Corey, thank you so much. Out of Whalem, Massachusetts, out

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Speaker 2: of Southboro as well, and of course now up into

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Speaker 2: luth Minnesota. Mister Dropkin is an Olympic silver medalist. The

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Speaker 2: dow right now negative six on here. We've got to

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Speaker 2: get back to these markets and all the news flow

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Speaker 2: changing are literally by the fifteen minutes is how I

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Speaker 2: would put it. Right now, I'm going to go to

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Speaker 2: the major Bloomberg feed here which you have in Iran.

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Speaker 2: That's actually a little bit stable right now. And alexis

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Speaker 2: if I bring it over to top Live where they're

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Speaker 2: working feverishly. Yes, out of Dubai, out of London, out

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Speaker 2: of Dublin today is well, uh right now, this is

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Speaker 2: this is just a general statement from our Matthew Griffin

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Speaker 2: on the stock market as well, and again as a

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Speaker 2: way to the tape negative six point thirty.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and Iran's new leader coming out with these statements

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Speaker 4: that are moving the market for the first time since

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Speaker 4: the war.

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Speaker 2: Here's what I want. This is Patrick Sykes. He's out

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Speaker 2: of Cambridge and is an Istanbul. We've had him on

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Speaker 2: the show. He's absolutely brilliant, no other way to put

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Speaker 2: it in. Patrick Sykes making clear that the message itself

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Speaker 2: was defiant. Iran will continue to attack the golf and

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Speaker 2: keep the straight of our moves closed. So we'll have

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Speaker 2: to see that as well. What do you did you steal?

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Speaker 4: Maybe you'd want to hold the metal.

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Speaker 2: I want to hold the metal.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, isn't it heavier than you'd expect?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? Silver, I don't think you got that through TSA.

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Speaker 4: Okay here right right now here, or you can have

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Speaker 4: your metal back.

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Speaker 2: Thank you.

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Speaker 4: You're silver medal

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Speaker 2: Right, Corey Dopkins silver medalists with us today is he

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Speaker 2: begins ROC League and curling