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Speaker 1: Welcome to Good Game with Sarah Spain where it's Alex's birthday. Alex,

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Speaker 1: I got you a pin, the most coveted pin at

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Speaker 1: the Games.

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Speaker 2: You're welcome.

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Speaker 1: It's Tuesday, February seventeenth, and on today's show, we'll be

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Speaker 1: chatting with us Leisure, Ceramic pinmaker extraordinaire and the most

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Speaker 1: eligible bachelorette in the Olympic Village, Sophia Kirkby. We talk

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Speaker 1: about her luge origin story, carrying her dad's memory with

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Speaker 1: her at the Games, and we get all the tea

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Speaker 1: on the many dates she's been on here in Cortina,

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Speaker 1: plus Slider's helping sliders, Stewie makes a statement and a

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Speaker 1: hockey choose your own adventure.

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Speaker 2: It's all coming up right after this.

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Speaker 1: Chous LICs Now we're recording most of this episode ahead

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Speaker 1: of Monday night's monobob Final that's the individual women's bob sled.

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Speaker 1: The winner is decided based on the combined time from

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Speaker 1: all four of their runs. After Sunday's heats one and two,

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Speaker 1: Germany's Laura Nolty was in first, followed by Americans a

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Speaker 1: Lot to Myers, Taylor and Kaylee Armbruster Humphries and second

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Speaker 1: and third and Kasha Love in fifth. So to see

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Speaker 1: how it all played out and runs three and four

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Speaker 1: Monday night. Let's hear once again from wiser and more

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Speaker 1: attractive Sarah and Alex of the future. Thank you Dummer

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Speaker 1: and uglier Alex and Sarah of the past. We are

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Speaker 1: here after a thrilling women's monobob competition at the Cortina

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Speaker 1: Sliding Center. It is dead quiet here, everybody has gone.

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Speaker 1: You can hear the tinkling of one tiny chain against

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Speaker 1: a flagpole near the sliding center and oh my gosh,

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Speaker 1: this was emotional for me, Alex. We saw Alana Meyers

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Speaker 1: Taylor win her very first gold medal. She's been to

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Speaker 1: five Olympics. She is six for six, medaling in every

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Speaker 1: Olympic event in which she's ever competed, which is just

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Speaker 1: an insane clutch stat. But tonight, at forty one, with

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Speaker 1: two sons, after the toughest season of her entire career, injuries, crashes,

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Speaker 1: dealing with her family, everything, she finally emerges victorious. And

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Speaker 1: then Kaylee Armbruster Humphreys comes in.

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Speaker 2: With the brons. These are two women that have competed

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Speaker 2: and pushed each.

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Speaker 1: Other for so many years, and I have to admit

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Speaker 1: I teared up, Like when the final racer, Germany's Laura

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Speaker 1: Nolty passed the finish line and we saw that she was.

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Speaker 2: In the red came up behind Alana.

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Speaker 1: I just like I started crying, not a lot because

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Speaker 1: I was in the media zone. I was being very professional,

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Speaker 1: but I know what this means. And we had her

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Speaker 1: on the show Alex and we talked to her about

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Speaker 1: how much they were putting into this season as a family,

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I I don't think I really thought about how

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Speaker 3: somebody that lights up rooms. Every athlete who encounters her

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Speaker 3: has something good to say about her. She's made the

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Speaker 3: Winter Olympics a more diverse, a more inclusive, a more

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Speaker 3: exciting competition, and she puts in so much work off

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Speaker 1: We had a chance to talk to both Alana and

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Speaker 1: Kaylee afterwards and they beamed about each other and how

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Speaker 2: They talked a lot.

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Speaker 1: About being moms, about being in the more elder stage

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Speaker 2: And with the child does not win things.

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Speaker 1: And I specifically asked Alana about coming on our show

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Speaker 1: Told us this was the toughest season yet, all the injuries,

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Speaker 4: Oh gosh, so yeah, this season was so bad. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: But it means so much because of the people who

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Speaker 1: Alana was also asked about a quote that she gave

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Speaker 2: Take a lesson.

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Speaker 4: I still can't believe it, Like I still can't even

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Speaker 4: the end of the day and six days, I got

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Speaker 5: The mids like a seventy degrees swing here, Like.

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Speaker 2: I'm just kidding. None of this stuff.

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Speaker 1: I can't wear any of this stuff when I go home,

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Speaker 4: But it's just, you know, at the end of the day,

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Speaker 4: Kept going, And so at the end of the day

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Speaker 4: it means nothing because I'm still just mom to them.

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Speaker 4: You know, I got more blink to hang around my neck.

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Speaker 4: But at the end of the day, they just want

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Speaker 1: Alana was also asked about her two sons being here

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Speaker 4: I didn't think they would be because it's bedtime right

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Speaker 3: I also asked Alana about an absolutely wild stat courtesy

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Speaker 4: Kelly makes me better, like at the end of the day,

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Speaker 4: like when you have somebody pushing you like that, and

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Speaker 2: Another crazy stat.

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Speaker 1: With this medal, Alana ties Bonnie Blair for the most

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Speaker 1: shocked to see that. She was surprised to learn that

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Speaker 4: It's really cool, and Bonnie Blair is so legendary. It's funny.

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Speaker 4: It's in twenty ten, in my very first games, we

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Speaker 4: I was just starstruck to even meet her now, to

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Speaker 2: Just incredible.

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Speaker 1: And Alana, of course has yet another event, so she

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Speaker 2: That's a name, Alex, that is.

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Speaker 1: The name everyone knows when it comes to the USA

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Speaker 1: and Winter Olympics just incredible. We also got to talk

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Speaker 2: Oh, you's definitely sleep.

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Speaker 6: They welcome up to God.

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Speaker 2: I like, Brad like doing this and I was like,

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Speaker 1: Kaylee also said that two nights ago was the first

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Speaker 1: She also said that she understands that mom guilt is

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Speaker 7: I've also failed a lot of times, and for me,

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Speaker 7: Games, but I find my people and they support me,

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Speaker 1: I think so Alex and I have seen so many

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Speaker 2: Here's what else you need to know today to hockey.

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Speaker 1: The US won at semi final on Monday, defeating Sweden

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Speaker 1: While you wait for the next bit of women's hockey action,

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Speaker 1: On Monday was announced that Brianna Stewart has signed with

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Speaker 1: A Lake Placid, New York native, She's become my most

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Speaker 1: So happy to have you on. We have so much

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Speaker 5: three am in the morning to watch my early morning

438
00:20:14,160 --> 00:20:19,119
Speaker 5: races in Germany, and it was just really hard to

439
00:20:19,160 --> 00:20:22,320
Speaker 5: see him just I hate to say it, but deteriorate

440
00:20:22,400 --> 00:20:24,399
Speaker 5: so quickly right in front of me. I mean, he

441
00:20:24,480 --> 00:20:28,919
Speaker 5: had stage four cancer and for the longest time he

442
00:20:29,040 --> 00:20:31,320
Speaker 5: lied to me saying that he didn't have cancer. Like

443
00:20:31,359 --> 00:20:35,080
Speaker 5: I confronted him a year earlier, like Dad, do you

444
00:20:35,119 --> 00:20:39,120
Speaker 5: have cancer? And I'm like sobbing crying. He's like, no,

445
00:20:39,160 --> 00:20:42,880
Speaker 5: I do not have cancer. I'm just getting old. And

446
00:20:43,200 --> 00:20:46,080
Speaker 5: I said okay. And then, believe it or not, we

447
00:20:46,200 --> 00:20:50,119
Speaker 5: had a solar eclipse in Lake Placid, New York, and

448
00:20:50,240 --> 00:20:53,800
Speaker 5: on that day my mom told me, your dad has cancer.

449
00:20:54,920 --> 00:20:58,159
Speaker 5: And I kind of already knew, but that was the

450
00:20:58,200 --> 00:21:03,399
Speaker 5: time it finally got confirmed. And it was just tough

451
00:21:04,760 --> 00:21:06,800
Speaker 5: knowing that my dad might not see me.

452
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Speaker 2: At these Olympics. Was he trying to protect you?

453
00:21:09,240 --> 00:21:11,679
Speaker 5: My dad was trying to protect me. Everyone else in

454
00:21:11,680 --> 00:21:17,360
Speaker 5: the family knew. However, whenever something was slightly brought up,

455
00:21:17,840 --> 00:21:21,560
Speaker 5: he would tell the group like some things are not

456
00:21:21,600 --> 00:21:24,479
Speaker 5: allowed to be said, or he would just give out

457
00:21:24,680 --> 00:21:28,159
Speaker 5: hints to everyone and then everyone would change the topic

458
00:21:28,359 --> 00:21:32,280
Speaker 5: or move to something else. Because I'm my father's only daughter,

459
00:21:33,119 --> 00:21:37,680
Speaker 5: we had a super close father daughter bond, and he

460
00:21:37,760 --> 00:21:40,040
Speaker 5: just didn't want me thinking about that while I was

461
00:21:40,080 --> 00:21:42,040
Speaker 5: in Europe racing my world cups.

462
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Speaker 1: Such a tough balance because there is love in that

463
00:21:45,800 --> 00:21:49,040
Speaker 1: attempt to protect you, but then also you feel like

464
00:21:49,920 --> 00:21:51,840
Speaker 1: I know something going on, like I know people know

465
00:21:51,960 --> 00:21:54,600
Speaker 1: something I don't know. Were you able to talk to

466
00:21:54,680 --> 00:21:56,439
Speaker 1: him about his decision not to share it with you

467
00:21:56,520 --> 00:21:56,960
Speaker 1: right away?

468
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Speaker 5: I did not speak to my dad about his decision

469
00:22:01,440 --> 00:22:04,280
Speaker 5: because it was his own decision. He was the one

470
00:22:04,359 --> 00:22:08,480
Speaker 5: that was sick. It's not about me, It's about him

471
00:22:08,680 --> 00:22:12,639
Speaker 5: and the last whatever moments he has left. So I

472
00:22:12,760 --> 00:22:17,600
Speaker 5: wanted to respect that and just help him be as

473
00:22:17,600 --> 00:22:20,560
Speaker 5: happy as he could for whatever time he had. And

474
00:22:20,800 --> 00:22:22,800
Speaker 5: he would tell me he would apologize. He was like,

475
00:22:22,840 --> 00:22:25,800
Speaker 5: so I'm sorry I didn't tell you. I'm sorry that

476
00:22:26,320 --> 00:22:28,720
Speaker 5: I just didn't want you to know. I didn't want

477
00:22:28,760 --> 00:22:31,959
Speaker 5: you to deal with these thoughts while you were competing

478
00:22:32,080 --> 00:22:36,879
Speaker 5: in Europe, and it would have broken my heart that

479
00:22:37,680 --> 00:22:40,000
Speaker 5: you were thinking about it while you were competing.

480
00:22:40,480 --> 00:22:43,480
Speaker 1: So you've talked about how you really dived into your art,

481
00:22:43,520 --> 00:22:46,040
Speaker 1: your pottery, and your ceramics, and how it was really

482
00:22:46,040 --> 00:22:47,160
Speaker 1: healing after.

483
00:22:46,960 --> 00:22:47,840
Speaker 2: You lost your dad.

484
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Speaker 1: Can you talk about the complimentary or maybe different roles

485
00:22:51,880 --> 00:22:54,560
Speaker 1: that your sport and your art have played for you

486
00:22:54,600 --> 00:22:57,640
Speaker 1: as you've dealt with this grieving and continued to compete.

487
00:22:57,920 --> 00:22:58,120
Speaker 2: Right.

488
00:22:58,240 --> 00:23:03,399
Speaker 5: So, my hobby ceramics was a huge part of my

489
00:23:03,480 --> 00:23:06,840
Speaker 5: healing process from the grief of my father passing away.

490
00:23:08,040 --> 00:23:12,520
Speaker 5: It was a place for me to think of something

491
00:23:12,560 --> 00:23:17,680
Speaker 5: else and focus on maybe an item that I want

492
00:23:17,720 --> 00:23:21,479
Speaker 5: to make, or gifts that I can give to other people.

493
00:23:22,040 --> 00:23:25,800
Speaker 5: It was just a way to cope with something that

494
00:23:26,000 --> 00:23:30,840
Speaker 5: was so sad, and it could completely take my mind

495
00:23:30,840 --> 00:23:34,439
Speaker 5: off of it because instead of thinking about my dad,

496
00:23:34,880 --> 00:23:38,040
Speaker 5: I was thinking about, Okay, how do I structure this item,

497
00:23:38,760 --> 00:23:41,359
Speaker 5: what color is it going to be? Who's it for?

498
00:23:41,880 --> 00:23:46,400
Speaker 5: Like I started putting love and passion into those projects.

499
00:23:46,520 --> 00:23:50,879
Speaker 5: Instead of having so much sadness and regret that I

500
00:23:50,920 --> 00:23:56,000
Speaker 5: could have felt with my dad and pottery with my sport,

501
00:23:56,440 --> 00:24:01,040
Speaker 5: I think compliments. Well. I've read some research that pottery

502
00:24:01,119 --> 00:24:04,320
Speaker 5: has shown to be really good for your brain as

503
00:24:04,359 --> 00:24:08,399
Speaker 5: it adds both creativity and strategy for when you're making

504
00:24:08,440 --> 00:24:13,720
Speaker 5: something on the pottery wheel, for example. And with my sport,

505
00:24:13,960 --> 00:24:18,000
Speaker 5: I am exercising so much. I need to optimize recovery

506
00:24:18,359 --> 00:24:22,640
Speaker 5: when I'm not in sport, and this hobby is perfect

507
00:24:22,720 --> 00:24:25,400
Speaker 5: because it doesn't require too much moving around.

508
00:24:25,600 --> 00:24:27,760
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, physically a great choice, and then also

509
00:24:27,760 --> 00:24:31,879
Speaker 1: mentally it's so meditative, so it sort of offsets the

510
00:24:31,920 --> 00:24:35,320
Speaker 1: potential rushes of cortisol and otherwise that come from competition

511
00:24:35,400 --> 00:24:38,720
Speaker 1: and from pushing yourself. You know, oft an athlete struggle

512
00:24:38,760 --> 00:24:41,440
Speaker 1: to find their identity outside of their sport, especially after

513
00:24:41,480 --> 00:24:44,320
Speaker 1: they retire. Does it feel like you're able to continue

514
00:24:44,320 --> 00:24:47,119
Speaker 1: expanding who you are while you're still competing instead of

515
00:24:47,200 --> 00:24:49,000
Speaker 1: putting everything into the louge.

516
00:24:49,600 --> 00:24:54,120
Speaker 5: Yes, I have full confidence in myself that I can

517
00:24:54,160 --> 00:24:57,880
Speaker 5: expand who I am and my interests outside of luge.

518
00:24:58,680 --> 00:25:02,280
Speaker 5: I might be now officially an Olympian, but I have

519
00:25:02,440 --> 00:25:06,760
Speaker 5: so many more identities to myself. Yeah, for example, I

520
00:25:06,800 --> 00:25:11,600
Speaker 5: am an olympian. Now, I am a friend, I am

521
00:25:11,680 --> 00:25:16,240
Speaker 5: a sister, I am a potter, I guess you can

522
00:25:16,280 --> 00:25:19,000
Speaker 5: say now I'm an influencer on social media.

523
00:25:19,080 --> 00:25:21,000
Speaker 2: Absolutely, at least I try to be.

524
00:25:22,080 --> 00:25:26,040
Speaker 5: And I'm just having so much fun being a bachelorette

525
00:25:26,720 --> 00:25:29,560
Speaker 5: in my town of Lake Placid, New York. Let me

526
00:25:29,600 --> 00:25:32,359
Speaker 5: tell you, dating is slimpic and sometimes.

527
00:25:32,400 --> 00:25:33,520
Speaker 2: You took the show on the road here.

528
00:25:33,520 --> 00:25:35,080
Speaker 1: I want to get to the dating here because it's

529
00:25:35,080 --> 00:25:37,480
Speaker 1: such a fun part of your story and obviously a

530
00:25:37,520 --> 00:25:39,760
Speaker 1: big part of your role as an influencer now is

531
00:25:39,800 --> 00:25:42,240
Speaker 1: people wanted to hear about everything going on. But let's

532
00:25:42,240 --> 00:25:44,639
Speaker 1: talk about your actual competition before we get to that.

533
00:25:44,960 --> 00:25:47,840
Speaker 1: Because this was the Olympic debut of the women's doubles lose,

534
00:25:47,920 --> 00:25:50,160
Speaker 1: it's still a relatively new discipline on the World Cup

535
00:25:50,200 --> 00:25:52,800
Speaker 1: circuit in the World Championships. How did you decide you

536
00:25:52,840 --> 00:25:54,359
Speaker 1: wanted to give doubles a go and how did you

537
00:25:54,400 --> 00:25:55,480
Speaker 1: end up partnering with Chavan.

538
00:25:56,119 --> 00:26:03,160
Speaker 5: I partnered with Chewan Foregan as the COVID was beginning

539
00:26:03,200 --> 00:26:06,600
Speaker 5: to be a thing in the world and our coach

540
00:26:06,640 --> 00:26:09,920
Speaker 5: at the time, Robert feg had put us together and said, Hey,

541
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Speaker 5: we are looking to expand our women's doubles louge division.

542
00:26:14,840 --> 00:26:16,840
Speaker 5: Would you guys be willing to give it a shot

543
00:26:16,920 --> 00:26:20,360
Speaker 5: next season? And we both agreed that we would give

544
00:26:20,359 --> 00:26:23,200
Speaker 5: it a try, And the following year there was not

545
00:26:23,320 --> 00:26:26,520
Speaker 5: much traveling happening. We were with the junior national team

546
00:26:27,240 --> 00:26:31,439
Speaker 5: and none of the athletes were traveling or competing, so

547
00:26:31,480 --> 00:26:34,400
Speaker 5: we spent a whole year in Lake Placid simultaneously doing

548
00:26:34,480 --> 00:26:38,520
Speaker 5: singles and doubles louge. And then once the following year

549
00:26:38,560 --> 00:26:42,479
Speaker 5: came and we began traveling again, we quickly decided, Okay,

550
00:26:43,000 --> 00:26:46,560
Speaker 5: we will both commit ourselves to women doubles louge and

551
00:26:46,760 --> 00:26:49,720
Speaker 5: just hope it makes its debut because at the time

552
00:26:49,760 --> 00:26:52,639
Speaker 5: when we did make that decision, women's doubles louge had

553
00:26:52,680 --> 00:26:55,919
Speaker 5: yet to have made its debut, and I'm so happy

554
00:26:55,960 --> 00:26:58,960
Speaker 5: that it did. I think it's such an amazing event

555
00:26:59,040 --> 00:27:02,320
Speaker 5: to watch. It's really fun to just have all this

556
00:27:02,400 --> 00:27:05,320
Speaker 5: girl power and show that we were able to do

557
00:27:05,400 --> 00:27:06,560
Speaker 5: everything that the men could do.

558
00:27:07,200 --> 00:27:09,520
Speaker 1: Yeah, how much do two get to train together in

559
00:27:09,560 --> 00:27:10,160
Speaker 1: the same place?

560
00:27:10,320 --> 00:27:11,280
Speaker 2: You around pretty much?

561
00:27:11,800 --> 00:27:15,080
Speaker 5: My partner and I are pretty much glued to each other,

562
00:27:15,560 --> 00:27:16,520
Speaker 5: or I guess she's.

563
00:27:16,359 --> 00:27:19,080
Speaker 2: More like the event and otherwise, or she.

564
00:27:19,240 --> 00:27:21,760
Speaker 5: For example, in our support she is strapped to the sled,

565
00:27:22,200 --> 00:27:25,560
Speaker 5: so she is attached to the sled and I'm wedge

566
00:27:25,680 --> 00:27:28,360
Speaker 5: right in there, so we're really close on that aspect.

567
00:27:28,800 --> 00:27:31,800
Speaker 5: And then outside of sliding in the summertime, we are

568
00:27:32,240 --> 00:27:35,640
Speaker 5: training together. We have a start house, which is an

569
00:27:35,640 --> 00:27:38,760
Speaker 5: indoor refrigerated stimulation of the start that we have here

570
00:27:38,760 --> 00:27:43,199
Speaker 5: in luge. We'll follow that by being in the gym together,

571
00:27:44,080 --> 00:27:47,359
Speaker 5: and then we'll have our time apart when she goes

572
00:27:47,400 --> 00:27:50,840
Speaker 5: back to her house and I hope back to my room.

573
00:27:51,440 --> 00:27:53,440
Speaker 2: Because we're just.

574
00:27:53,400 --> 00:27:55,439
Speaker 5: Around each other a lot. I actually have a funny

575
00:27:55,480 --> 00:27:59,040
Speaker 5: reference to it. I call her my luge wife because

576
00:27:59,280 --> 00:28:02,760
Speaker 5: we train together, we sleep together, on the road, we're

577
00:28:02,800 --> 00:28:06,280
Speaker 5: always paired in the same room. We both have this

578
00:28:06,440 --> 00:28:10,320
Speaker 5: goal in life that we are trying to accomplish together,

579
00:28:11,200 --> 00:28:16,680
Speaker 5: and over time, she's just my longest relationship I've had.

580
00:28:18,320 --> 00:28:22,600
Speaker 1: First wife, longest wife so far. You were fifth place

581
00:28:22,640 --> 00:28:24,800
Speaker 1: in both events. How did you feel about your competition

582
00:28:24,800 --> 00:28:25,440
Speaker 1: here at the Games.

583
00:28:25,640 --> 00:28:29,400
Speaker 5: I was very happy with Team Relay. It's such a

584
00:28:29,440 --> 00:28:32,119
Speaker 5: funny event to compete in, not only is it my

585
00:28:32,280 --> 00:28:36,600
Speaker 5: partner and I, but it's multiple teammates all competing against

586
00:28:36,640 --> 00:28:40,840
Speaker 5: the other countries. However, for my event, I was a

587
00:28:40,840 --> 00:28:44,960
Speaker 5: little disappointed in myself. We had had some difficulties and

588
00:28:45,000 --> 00:28:48,560
Speaker 5: we had tapped some walls out of curve eleven. However,

589
00:28:49,040 --> 00:28:54,960
Speaker 5: mistakes can happen in any race, and from that, I

590
00:28:55,000 --> 00:28:59,800
Speaker 5: try to just give myself a period of grief and

591
00:29:00,000 --> 00:29:02,960
Speaker 5: and now I feel like I have learned from that

592
00:29:03,800 --> 00:29:06,280
Speaker 5: and I hope that I can do better in the future.

593
00:29:06,640 --> 00:29:08,800
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean fifth in the Olympics. Wow.

594
00:29:09,120 --> 00:29:11,440
Speaker 1: You know, it's all about expectations and all about how

595
00:29:11,480 --> 00:29:14,160
Speaker 1: you feel about your actual performance. But what an incredible thing,

596
00:29:14,160 --> 00:29:17,160
Speaker 1: and especially in the very first iteration of an event.

597
00:29:17,400 --> 00:29:19,880
Speaker 1: So that's Olympic history. How special is it to be

598
00:29:20,200 --> 00:29:22,600
Speaker 1: one of the very first competitors in an Olympic event.

599
00:29:23,000 --> 00:29:25,960
Speaker 5: I thought it was very special to be literally the

600
00:29:26,120 --> 00:29:30,440
Speaker 5: first sled to compete in the women's doubles lose event

601
00:29:30,840 --> 00:29:33,680
Speaker 5: because my partner and I had BIB number one, so

602
00:29:33,720 --> 00:29:35,720
Speaker 5: we were quite literally the first led off.

603
00:29:36,200 --> 00:29:36,760
Speaker 2: So cool.

604
00:29:37,000 --> 00:29:39,240
Speaker 1: I saw you ripped your suit pre competition, I assume

605
00:29:39,240 --> 00:29:39,800
Speaker 1: you have a couple.

606
00:29:39,960 --> 00:29:44,240
Speaker 5: Fortunately they gave us two race suits. I don't know why.

607
00:29:44,320 --> 00:29:46,840
Speaker 5: I normally put on my suit on days before, but

608
00:29:47,320 --> 00:29:50,200
Speaker 5: during the Olympics, I've just been taking life hour by hour.

609
00:29:50,760 --> 00:29:54,280
Speaker 5: So a few hours before my race, I was like, Oh,

610
00:29:54,320 --> 00:29:56,760
Speaker 5: I need to try my race suit on. I put

611
00:29:56,800 --> 00:30:01,080
Speaker 5: it on and then I realized, oh no, I had

612
00:30:01,120 --> 00:30:04,840
Speaker 5: a huge tear in my inner thigh. And at that

613
00:30:04,960 --> 00:30:08,880
Speaker 5: moment I calmed myself down. I was like, thank goodness.

614
00:30:08,880 --> 00:30:11,040
Speaker 5: For the first time, they gave us two suits.

615
00:30:12,240 --> 00:30:13,000
Speaker 2: Smart. Smart.

616
00:30:13,120 --> 00:30:15,880
Speaker 1: You know ahead of these Olympics you made thousands of

617
00:30:15,960 --> 00:30:19,480
Speaker 1: ceramic pins. We talked about your art earlier and you

618
00:30:19,560 --> 00:30:22,200
Speaker 1: decided to combine your two loves, art in luge with

619
00:30:22,280 --> 00:30:25,080
Speaker 1: the pins. What inspired the idea of being, as far

620
00:30:25,120 --> 00:30:27,320
Speaker 1: as we know, the first Olympian to make your own

621
00:30:27,360 --> 00:30:28,200
Speaker 1: pins to trade with.

622
00:30:28,560 --> 00:30:32,320
Speaker 5: In the summertime, I was working on different projects. I

623
00:30:32,440 --> 00:30:36,080
Speaker 5: was making magnets for Alana Meyers Taylor, a Bob's letter

624
00:30:36,120 --> 00:30:41,640
Speaker 5: who is currently competing for Team Years Show, and was

625
00:30:41,680 --> 00:30:44,120
Speaker 5: when I was in the cafeteria at the Lake Plazat

626
00:30:44,120 --> 00:30:50,520
Speaker 5: Olympic Paralympic Training Center, an athlete suggested that I make pins, Like,

627
00:30:50,520 --> 00:30:53,600
Speaker 5: why don't you make pins? It's so traditional in the

628
00:30:53,640 --> 00:30:57,240
Speaker 5: world of the Olympics, and I was like that, that's

629
00:30:57,240 --> 00:30:59,440
Speaker 5: an amazing idea. I started to get right on that,

630
00:31:00,000 --> 00:31:01,720
Speaker 5: so I made as many as I could. I made

631
00:31:01,760 --> 00:31:04,920
Speaker 5: over two thousand pins. I took the skill that I

632
00:31:04,960 --> 00:31:07,640
Speaker 5: had for making magnets and I just made something smaller,

633
00:31:08,400 --> 00:31:12,880
Speaker 5: and I just wanted to do something new. I wanted

634
00:31:12,880 --> 00:31:17,240
Speaker 5: to stand out and bring my art to the Games

635
00:31:17,240 --> 00:31:20,640
Speaker 5: because I can show people I'm not just an Olympian.

636
00:31:21,200 --> 00:31:24,720
Speaker 5: I am also a creative artist and I have been

637
00:31:24,760 --> 00:31:27,560
Speaker 5: able to touch a lot of people in the world

638
00:31:27,680 --> 00:31:30,800
Speaker 5: who they themselves enjoy pottery because, believe it or not,

639
00:31:31,560 --> 00:31:34,280
Speaker 5: I can relate to people a lot more with pottery

640
00:31:34,280 --> 00:31:35,080
Speaker 5: than I can lose.

641
00:31:35,440 --> 00:31:37,840
Speaker 2: No, I believe it. There's a few more.

642
00:31:37,720 --> 00:31:40,000
Speaker 1: Folks too in that it takes a long ass time

643
00:31:40,080 --> 00:31:41,920
Speaker 1: to make stuff in pottery. Though, when you first started

644
00:31:41,920 --> 00:31:44,320
Speaker 1: making the pins, how sure were you that you were

645
00:31:44,320 --> 00:31:46,120
Speaker 1: going to qualify for the Sola Big Team.

646
00:31:46,640 --> 00:31:48,560
Speaker 5: I wasn't sure if I was going to qualify for

647
00:31:48,640 --> 00:31:53,000
Speaker 5: this team or not. I just put my full effort

648
00:31:53,080 --> 00:31:57,800
Speaker 5: into the pins on the hopes that I could qualify

649
00:31:57,840 --> 00:32:00,840
Speaker 5: myself for the Games. So I took a risk, and

650
00:32:00,960 --> 00:32:03,200
Speaker 5: I am so glad that it paid off.

651
00:32:03,480 --> 00:32:04,800
Speaker 2: Yeah.

652
00:32:04,840 --> 00:32:06,880
Speaker 1: Ahead of the Games, you also put out a call

653
00:32:07,160 --> 00:32:09,520
Speaker 1: that after your competitions were done, you'd be sticking around

654
00:32:09,520 --> 00:32:10,560
Speaker 1: and looking for love.

655
00:32:11,120 --> 00:32:12,760
Speaker 2: So quick logistics question I had.

656
00:32:12,800 --> 00:32:14,719
Speaker 1: Are you allowed to stay in the athlete village as

657
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Speaker 1: long as you like during the Games, no matter when

658
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Speaker 1: your competition.

659
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Speaker 5: Is Fortunately for myself, I am an athlete on Team USA,

660
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Speaker 5: and I am one of the few countries that are

661
00:32:22,880 --> 00:32:26,600
Speaker 5: allowed to stay in the Olympic Village until the closing ceremony.

662
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Speaker 5: Majority of my competitors in luge have left the village.

663
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Speaker 2: That's so interesting.

664
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Speaker 1: I actually don't know who's footing the bill for like

665
00:32:33,600 --> 00:32:36,680
Speaker 1: the athlete village or maybe other expenses. Maybe there's a

666
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Speaker 1: reason the other athletes are encouraged not to stick around.

667
00:32:39,240 --> 00:32:41,800
Speaker 1: But what a nice thing from Team USA because you

668
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Speaker 1: do get to stick around. And one of my favorite

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Speaker 1: I mean, you've been posting such incredible social media content,

670
00:32:46,920 --> 00:32:50,320
Speaker 1: but one of them was, of course dudes commenting, what

671
00:32:50,400 --> 00:32:52,840
Speaker 1: are you focus on your louge and you're like, I'm

672
00:32:52,960 --> 00:32:56,000
Speaker 1: done competing, like I'm in, I'm onto the romance portion

673
00:32:56,120 --> 00:32:59,280
Speaker 1: of this adventure not surprising at all. Have you gotten

674
00:32:59,360 --> 00:33:03,320
Speaker 1: much negative around your search for love? Or mostly positive reactions.

675
00:33:03,200 --> 00:33:08,480
Speaker 5: Mostly positive reactions. However, I have seen a portion of

676
00:33:08,600 --> 00:33:13,440
Speaker 5: people who speak their minds and they might not agree

677
00:33:13,440 --> 00:33:17,600
Speaker 5: with what I'm doing. They might think that I'm not

678
00:33:17,800 --> 00:33:21,160
Speaker 5: done competing because I've had a couple comments say like,

679
00:33:22,080 --> 00:33:25,440
Speaker 5: why aren't you focusing on your sports? Why are you

680
00:33:25,560 --> 00:33:29,240
Speaker 5: not competing? Like you should be focusing on that, And

681
00:33:29,840 --> 00:33:34,440
Speaker 5: I've tried to address the public. This was my idea

682
00:33:34,520 --> 00:33:38,320
Speaker 5: ahead of time. I was focused purely on my event,

683
00:33:39,200 --> 00:33:43,280
Speaker 5: and I competed and I'm done. I've been finished with

684
00:33:43,360 --> 00:33:45,520
Speaker 5: my competition for days ago, So I don't know what

685
00:33:45,560 --> 00:33:48,040
Speaker 5: you'd like me to do. I'm not going to try

686
00:33:48,160 --> 00:33:50,640
Speaker 5: now to continue living in the past. I'm trying to

687
00:33:50,680 --> 00:33:54,000
Speaker 5: live in the future, and I'm taking these opportunities to

688
00:33:54,360 --> 00:33:59,080
Speaker 5: just take risks, meet new people, and have fun, because

689
00:33:59,080 --> 00:34:01,560
Speaker 5: it's going to be quite rare to be in Italy

690
00:34:02,160 --> 00:34:06,680
Speaker 5: housed and have this opportunity of going on amazing dates.

691
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, welcome to the difference between three thousand

692
00:34:09,600 --> 00:34:11,080
Speaker 1: followers and twenty five thousand.

693
00:34:11,320 --> 00:34:12,439
Speaker 2: You got a whole.

694
00:34:12,120 --> 00:34:16,319
Speaker 1: Bunch more nosy people with lots of opinions that are

695
00:34:16,320 --> 00:34:19,279
Speaker 1: gonna come sliding into the comments and you'll eventually learn

696
00:34:19,320 --> 00:34:22,040
Speaker 1: that they don't deserve your time or energy.

697
00:34:21,880 --> 00:34:25,560
Speaker 5: And sliding into the DMS. I could not tell you.

698
00:34:25,600 --> 00:34:27,799
Speaker 5: I'm not counting all day to see how many people

699
00:34:27,880 --> 00:34:30,439
Speaker 5: have messaged me, but I have at least twenty five

700
00:34:30,560 --> 00:34:33,240
Speaker 5: hundred requests in the last well, i'd say two weeks.

701
00:34:34,040 --> 00:34:35,759
Speaker 2: There could be a diamond in there that you're missing.

702
00:34:35,840 --> 00:34:38,520
Speaker 1: You got to hire someone to start scoping them and

703
00:34:38,560 --> 00:34:40,239
Speaker 1: figure out if they are a need to push along to.

704
00:34:40,239 --> 00:34:43,120
Speaker 1: You need an assistant to handle your love adventure. Let's

705
00:34:43,120 --> 00:34:44,239
Speaker 1: talk about some of the dates you've.

706
00:34:44,120 --> 00:34:44,719
Speaker 2: Already been on.

707
00:34:45,160 --> 00:34:48,200
Speaker 1: I know, for Valentine's you had a spa date and

708
00:34:48,239 --> 00:34:52,440
Speaker 1: a Michelin restaurant. We actually walked by you guys were

709
00:34:52,520 --> 00:34:53,960
Speaker 1: in the front window, and I made sure to knock

710
00:34:53,960 --> 00:34:54,640
Speaker 1: on the window and wave.

711
00:34:54,680 --> 00:34:56,160
Speaker 2: Alex was like, oh my god, don't interrupt them.

712
00:34:56,200 --> 00:34:57,040
Speaker 1: I was like, I gotta wave.

713
00:34:57,080 --> 00:34:58,920
Speaker 2: Look at them. Tell us about the.

714
00:34:58,840 --> 00:34:59,959
Speaker 1: Pasta you had on that date.

715
00:35:00,320 --> 00:35:02,960
Speaker 5: So it was so fun to see you. You actually

716
00:35:03,000 --> 00:35:06,040
Speaker 5: weren't the first person to recognize us, as we were

717
00:35:06,080 --> 00:35:11,600
Speaker 5: seated right against the window of a public street, and

718
00:35:12,160 --> 00:35:15,960
Speaker 5: the pasta was just the best pasta I have ever had.

719
00:35:16,000 --> 00:35:17,879
Speaker 5: Like I'm going to be thinking about that pasta for

720
00:35:17,920 --> 00:35:21,440
Speaker 5: so long. It was this fresh pasta with some kale

721
00:35:21,520 --> 00:35:25,280
Speaker 5: sauce on top as well as crushed up hazel nuts,

722
00:35:25,920 --> 00:35:30,280
Speaker 5: and it was just a delicious three or four course meal,

723
00:35:30,520 --> 00:35:33,759
Speaker 5: like I have never had such a fancy dinner in

724
00:35:33,800 --> 00:35:34,240
Speaker 5: my life.

725
00:35:34,600 --> 00:35:38,600
Speaker 1: And this was a fan who's from the UK, who

726
00:35:38,920 --> 00:35:40,239
Speaker 1: traveled all the way here to meet you.

727
00:35:40,760 --> 00:35:43,200
Speaker 5: This is a fan, believe it or not. He's actually

728
00:35:43,200 --> 00:35:47,040
Speaker 5: from the United States and he is currently working in

729
00:35:47,120 --> 00:35:50,360
Speaker 5: the United Kingdom. And a couple of weeks ago he

730
00:35:50,640 --> 00:35:54,560
Speaker 5: slid into my DMS and I was not planning to

731
00:35:54,760 --> 00:36:00,600
Speaker 5: respond to him. I was in dope in control to

732
00:36:00,640 --> 00:36:04,319
Speaker 5: take my tests after a race, and I was just

733
00:36:04,400 --> 00:36:07,560
Speaker 5: reading some of my messages to my fellow competitors that

734
00:36:07,600 --> 00:36:10,920
Speaker 5: were also in there because we are randomly selected to

735
00:36:11,080 --> 00:36:14,480
Speaker 5: give samples in order to prove we are promoting safe sport,

736
00:36:14,600 --> 00:36:17,440
Speaker 5: and I was reading them out loud, and then she

737
00:36:17,520 --> 00:36:20,040
Speaker 5: saw the picture of this one guy and she was like,

738
00:36:20,480 --> 00:36:23,360
Speaker 5: he's cute. You should message him back, and I was

739
00:36:23,400 --> 00:36:27,000
Speaker 5: like nah, and she goes message him back. I go, okay, okay.

740
00:36:27,280 --> 00:36:29,759
Speaker 5: So I messaged him back and I thought that that

741
00:36:30,040 --> 00:36:33,040
Speaker 5: was just a great decision I'm glad that she told

742
00:36:33,040 --> 00:36:33,279
Speaker 5: me so.

743
00:36:33,800 --> 00:36:35,680
Speaker 1: Yeah, you owe because you said it was a great date.

744
00:36:35,920 --> 00:36:36,759
Speaker 2: It was a great date.

745
00:36:36,800 --> 00:36:40,640
Speaker 5: He booked us four hours in the spa in Courtina,

746
00:36:41,120 --> 00:36:43,160
Speaker 5: and then later that night he took me to a

747
00:36:43,200 --> 00:36:46,719
Speaker 5: Michelin Star restaurant. And I mean he flew here and

748
00:36:46,760 --> 00:36:51,040
Speaker 5: housed himself here in Courtina just to hang out with me.

749
00:36:51,239 --> 00:36:53,359
Speaker 2: It's a man with a plan. You think you'll see

750
00:36:53,400 --> 00:36:53,759
Speaker 2: him again.

751
00:36:54,040 --> 00:36:57,440
Speaker 5: I think that he was such a great guy. We

752
00:36:57,440 --> 00:37:02,080
Speaker 5: were having potential thought of going on a warm vacation

753
00:37:02,239 --> 00:37:05,560
Speaker 5: with each other after my Olympics. So if I were

754
00:37:05,600 --> 00:37:09,360
Speaker 5: to go on a vacation with a boy, hopefully somewhere

755
00:37:09,360 --> 00:37:12,560
Speaker 5: tropical like the Caribbean, he is at the top of

756
00:37:12,600 --> 00:37:13,080
Speaker 5: my list.

757
00:37:13,320 --> 00:37:15,360
Speaker 1: Okay, well, we'll have to get a follow up on that.

758
00:37:15,440 --> 00:37:18,680
Speaker 1: I love that because you've had another couple of dates.

759
00:37:18,719 --> 00:37:21,680
Speaker 1: You had coffee with an athlete this morning. I do

760
00:37:21,760 --> 00:37:24,200
Speaker 1: love that you're always blocking their faces to protect them

761
00:37:24,440 --> 00:37:27,080
Speaker 1: from people, you know, going and asking them how the

762
00:37:27,160 --> 00:37:30,160
Speaker 1: date was or maybe you know whatever else, But how

763
00:37:30,280 --> 00:37:30,879
Speaker 1: was that date?

764
00:37:31,320 --> 00:37:35,160
Speaker 5: The coffee was great. It was more like two people

765
00:37:35,280 --> 00:37:37,520
Speaker 5: hanging out. It felt like like.

766
00:37:37,440 --> 00:37:38,520
Speaker 2: We weren't friend zone.

767
00:37:38,960 --> 00:37:43,560
Speaker 5: We weren't quite as compatible as my Valentine's date was.

768
00:37:43,800 --> 00:37:47,080
Speaker 5: We had lots to say, whether it was like questions

769
00:37:47,120 --> 00:37:52,319
Speaker 5: about each other's sport and how they're being treated in

770
00:37:53,080 --> 00:37:57,560
Speaker 5: their like village and such. However, I just didn't feel

771
00:37:57,600 --> 00:37:59,120
Speaker 5: too much chemistry out of that one.

772
00:37:59,280 --> 00:37:59,840
Speaker 2: Like we shook.

773
00:38:00,600 --> 00:38:04,000
Speaker 5: We said, like, all right, well, I'm like, good luck

774
00:38:04,040 --> 00:38:07,400
Speaker 5: with the rest of your time here at the Olympics. However,

775
00:38:07,719 --> 00:38:10,080
Speaker 5: you know, you win some, you lose some. That's the

776
00:38:10,120 --> 00:38:13,160
Speaker 5: point of this journey that I wanted to have. I

777
00:38:13,239 --> 00:38:16,040
Speaker 5: just wanted to put myself out there, and at the

778
00:38:16,120 --> 00:38:19,520
Speaker 5: end of the day, I wanted to say that I tried,

779
00:38:19,800 --> 00:38:24,520
Speaker 5: and I don't regret not taking any risks or shutting

780
00:38:24,560 --> 00:38:25,840
Speaker 5: down any opportunities.

781
00:38:25,960 --> 00:38:27,480
Speaker 2: I love that. How many dates have we been on

782
00:38:27,520 --> 00:38:28,600
Speaker 2: so far? So far?

783
00:38:28,880 --> 00:38:29,600
Speaker 5: I've been on.

784
00:38:31,160 --> 00:38:33,960
Speaker 1: Four dates okay, And how many do you have on

785
00:38:34,040 --> 00:38:35,040
Speaker 1: the books ready to go?

786
00:38:35,400 --> 00:38:40,680
Speaker 5: I have one pending for tomorrow morning for coffee Tuesday night.

787
00:38:41,000 --> 00:38:44,960
Speaker 5: I also have a confirmed sushi date okay. That guy

788
00:38:45,400 --> 00:38:48,280
Speaker 5: is driving in from Germany to see me. He says

789
00:38:48,320 --> 00:38:53,279
Speaker 5: that it's an eight hour drive. And I also have

790
00:38:53,480 --> 00:38:56,880
Speaker 5: a pending dinner date on Wednesday.

791
00:38:57,239 --> 00:38:59,120
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, I love this so much.

792
00:38:59,560 --> 00:39:02,479
Speaker 1: What's the funniest person you've seen comment on your social media?

793
00:39:02,520 --> 00:39:05,320
Speaker 1: Your dating recaps? Have you seen people that you recognize,

794
00:39:05,320 --> 00:39:07,040
Speaker 1: celebrities or other athletes?

795
00:39:07,280 --> 00:39:10,479
Speaker 5: Believe it or not, Delta has been giving me some

796
00:39:10,520 --> 00:39:14,879
Speaker 5: good comments Delta Airlines, and I've just been cracking out

797
00:39:14,880 --> 00:39:16,320
Speaker 5: at some of the stuff that they've been saying.

798
00:39:16,480 --> 00:39:17,520
Speaker 2: That's the what I wrote down.

799
00:39:17,880 --> 00:39:20,680
Speaker 1: You posted one of your dates and they just wrote, ohmg,

800
00:39:21,640 --> 00:39:26,200
Speaker 1: soft launch, Like Delta is keeping tabs on your love adventure,

801
00:39:26,239 --> 00:39:28,680
Speaker 1: which is so fun. This seems like a very good

802
00:39:28,719 --> 00:39:31,239
Speaker 1: approach to meeting dudes. Probably going to be tougher, as

803
00:39:31,320 --> 00:39:33,640
Speaker 1: you mentioned in Lake Placid. Do you think you'll keep

804
00:39:33,760 --> 00:39:36,399
Speaker 1: up the coming to my dms and shoot your shot

805
00:39:36,520 --> 00:39:38,160
Speaker 1: approach after the games.

806
00:39:38,520 --> 00:39:41,680
Speaker 5: I've been more onto the side of once I go home,

807
00:39:41,960 --> 00:39:45,240
Speaker 5: I'm going to rest. I'm going to focus on myself

808
00:39:45,920 --> 00:39:48,520
Speaker 5: and I just want to go into the pottery studio

809
00:39:48,600 --> 00:39:52,439
Speaker 5: for days. Yeah, because I've just been thinking like, oh,

810
00:39:52,480 --> 00:39:54,680
Speaker 5: what should I make when I get home. I'm like, oh,

811
00:39:54,760 --> 00:39:56,920
Speaker 5: I saw this in the store. I don't want to

812
00:39:56,960 --> 00:39:59,040
Speaker 5: buy it. I want to make it when I get home.

813
00:39:59,360 --> 00:40:02,640
Speaker 1: Yeah, and again, like it's such a great brain reset

814
00:40:02,800 --> 00:40:04,640
Speaker 1: after a stressful time to go in there and do

815
00:40:04,719 --> 00:40:08,600
Speaker 1: that meditative work. You know, you haven't just been looking

816
00:40:08,640 --> 00:40:11,360
Speaker 1: for love for yourself, but you've been spreading love to others.

817
00:40:11,400 --> 00:40:14,839
Speaker 1: You handed out Valentines around Cortina and Valentine's Day, you

818
00:40:14,880 --> 00:40:17,279
Speaker 1: also help facilitate an engagement. So I need to hear

819
00:40:17,320 --> 00:40:19,640
Speaker 1: about this engagement pin and how they found you to help.

820
00:40:19,960 --> 00:40:24,560
Speaker 5: Right, So tim Usa reached out to me if I

821
00:40:24,640 --> 00:40:28,080
Speaker 5: could help spread love for Valentine's Day in the streets

822
00:40:28,080 --> 00:40:32,239
Speaker 5: of Cortina, Italy by handing out handmade Valentines. And I

823
00:40:32,280 --> 00:40:34,839
Speaker 5: also gave a bunch of fans my handmade pins as

824
00:40:34,920 --> 00:40:41,160
Speaker 5: Valentine's and along with the engagement. Before I left for

825
00:40:41,280 --> 00:40:44,760
Speaker 5: the season, meaning back in the fall or late summer.

826
00:40:45,320 --> 00:40:49,520
Speaker 5: This one follower, his name's Luke. He had messaged me

827
00:40:49,760 --> 00:40:52,840
Speaker 5: saying like, I don't know if you'll see this, but

828
00:40:53,000 --> 00:40:57,080
Speaker 5: please I plan to propose to my girlfriend at the Olympics.

829
00:40:57,880 --> 00:41:00,879
Speaker 5: We are both volunteering and I would love it if

830
00:41:00,920 --> 00:41:04,360
Speaker 5: you could please help me by handmaking some pins. I

831
00:41:04,400 --> 00:41:07,560
Speaker 5: hear that you're making pins for the Olympics, and I

832
00:41:07,600 --> 00:41:09,200
Speaker 5: reached out to him and I said, oh, this is

833
00:41:09,239 --> 00:41:12,160
Speaker 5: such a beautiful idea. Yes, I'll do what I can.

834
00:41:12,920 --> 00:41:16,440
Speaker 5: And I made some pins for him. It's two wedding

835
00:41:16,520 --> 00:41:19,680
Speaker 5: rings that are connected. I painted it with the Italian

836
00:41:19,680 --> 00:41:22,760
Speaker 5: flag and I stamped the year, which is two zero

837
00:41:22,880 --> 00:41:26,720
Speaker 5: two six, to help symbolize the year and the location

838
00:41:26,800 --> 00:41:27,560
Speaker 5: that got engaged.

839
00:41:27,719 --> 00:41:28,440
Speaker 2: That's so cool.

840
00:41:28,520 --> 00:41:31,359
Speaker 1: I love that people already are roping you into their

841
00:41:31,520 --> 00:41:34,120
Speaker 1: love adventures as well. Okay, before we let you go,

842
00:41:34,120 --> 00:41:36,920
Speaker 1: I want to do a quick speed round. It's the

843
00:41:37,000 --> 00:41:41,640
Speaker 1: biggest takeaway from your Olympic debut. Competition wise, have fun.

844
00:41:41,760 --> 00:41:42,839
Speaker 2: Biggest takeaway from.

845
00:41:42,800 --> 00:41:47,879
Speaker 1: Your Olympic debut love and life wise, take risks. You're

846
00:41:48,000 --> 00:41:50,240
Speaker 1: very close to another person when you compete in doubles.

847
00:41:50,320 --> 00:41:51,600
Speaker 1: How do you get comfortable with that?

848
00:41:52,000 --> 00:41:53,240
Speaker 2: Do it over and over again?

849
00:41:54,320 --> 00:41:56,520
Speaker 1: What do people misunderstand about the discipline?

850
00:41:56,600 --> 00:41:58,839
Speaker 2: And just louse in general? It's not as gay as

851
00:41:58,880 --> 00:41:59,239
Speaker 2: you think.

852
00:42:00,080 --> 00:42:02,200
Speaker 1: What are the best jokes you've heard about Devil's luge?

853
00:42:02,800 --> 00:42:04,960
Speaker 5: This is kind of a joke that I've come up with. Okay,

854
00:42:05,600 --> 00:42:08,120
Speaker 5: you know what's gayer than women's doubles luge?

855
00:42:09,320 --> 00:42:13,800
Speaker 2: Men's doubles luge. I just say it reminds me of Ason. Gary.

856
00:42:13,840 --> 00:42:15,560
Speaker 1: You might be too young for that, But go ahead

857
00:42:15,600 --> 00:42:18,400
Speaker 1: and look up Ason Gary and you'll see basically flying

858
00:42:18,440 --> 00:42:19,240
Speaker 1: doubles luge.

859
00:42:19,440 --> 00:42:21,040
Speaker 2: Sophia. It was so great to talk to you.

860
00:42:21,080 --> 00:42:23,040
Speaker 1: It's been so fun to keep running into you all

861
00:42:23,080 --> 00:42:26,160
Speaker 1: across town, getting into your adventures. And I have to say,

862
00:42:27,000 --> 00:42:29,560
Speaker 1: if I were an Olympian and I were single, I

863
00:42:29,560 --> 00:42:32,319
Speaker 1: would be doing exactly what you're doing. I would be

864
00:42:32,360 --> 00:42:34,719
Speaker 1: having a blast. I would be meeting everyone I could meet.

865
00:42:34,760 --> 00:42:37,160
Speaker 1: I would be going on fun dates. So I just

866
00:42:37,560 --> 00:42:40,520
Speaker 1: respect and admire the risk you're taking and also how

867
00:42:40,560 --> 00:42:42,200
Speaker 1: you're just having as much fun as possible.

868
00:42:42,360 --> 00:42:42,960
Speaker 2: Well, thank you.

869
00:42:43,040 --> 00:42:45,080
Speaker 5: I'm just very proud of myself that I was able

870
00:42:45,120 --> 00:42:47,520
Speaker 5: to make it to this level that I brought in

871
00:42:47,560 --> 00:42:50,920
Speaker 5: a brand new concept, which was sharing my pins, and

872
00:42:50,960 --> 00:42:52,839
Speaker 5: I've had so much fun giving them away. I've been

873
00:42:52,880 --> 00:42:55,880
Speaker 5: having so much fun working with a local Italian shop

874
00:42:55,960 --> 00:42:59,200
Speaker 5: right in the center. I partnered with this family and

875
00:42:59,239 --> 00:43:02,080
Speaker 5: they've been I hope to see them years on end

876
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Speaker 5: when I come back to compete in World Cups. And

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Speaker 5: I'm just really happy that I was able to get

878
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Speaker 5: people on social media to recognize me and see parts

879
00:43:16,640 --> 00:43:19,040
Speaker 5: of my love life because I wanted to put myself

880
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Speaker 5: out there, but I didn't want to show any skin.

881
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Speaker 5: I didn't want to imply anything sexual. I just wanted

882
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Speaker 5: to show an honest side to myself. And I'm really

883
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Speaker 5: proud that I did that without like crossing a line

884
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Speaker 5: or showing too much.

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Speaker 1: That's really great. And yeah, shout out to Art House.

886
00:43:37,680 --> 00:43:39,640
Speaker 1: Not only did producer Alex and I go there and

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Speaker 1: buy some of your pins, but we bought a whole

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Speaker 1: bunch of other stuff, So they should be very thankful

889
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Speaker 1: for that partnership. You're sending a bunch of folks in

890
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Speaker 1: there to find your pins and find all the other

891
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Speaker 1: amazing stuff that they have.

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Speaker 5: So thanks again, Sophia, thank you, Thanks for having me here.

893
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Speaker 1: Thanks again to Sophia for taking a break from her

894
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Speaker 1: dates to chat with us.

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Speaker 2: We have to take another break when we come back.

896
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Speaker 1: Jack Whitecastle and Piston Bullies, welcome back Slices. At this

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Speaker 1: point in the Olympics, Alex and I are basically sliding

898
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Speaker 1: sport experts. We've been to bob sled and skeleton events,

899
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Speaker 1: and we've interviewed an Olympic loisure So if you're wondering, wow,

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Speaker 1: how did y'all become so knowledgeable? Well, we have a

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Speaker 1: special little secret weapon named Ken Childs who runs the

902
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Speaker 1: site Sliding on ice dot com. He covers these sports

903
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Speaker 1: all the time, and I've been dming him lots of questions.

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Speaker 1: He agreed to jump on a call before our first

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Speaker 1: visit to the Cortina Sliding Center to describe some of

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Speaker 1: the nuances between the three sliding sports. Here's an excerpt

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Speaker 1: from our conversation.

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Speaker 2: Joining us now.

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Speaker 1: He runs the site sliding on ice dot com dedicated

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Speaker 1: to bob sled, skeleton and lush coverage. A sometime motorsports reporter, announcer,

911
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Speaker 1: and photographer, he likes golfing, wearing ostentatious shirts, and his dog,

912
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Speaker 1: he worked the twenty eighteen Olympic Games, is my go

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Speaker 1: to resource for all things sliding sports. And with the

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Speaker 1: recipient of an accidental voice to teen message that caught

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Speaker 1: me talking to my dog saying quote, Hi boo boo

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Speaker 1: high handsome, whoops it easy, it's Ken Childs.

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Speaker 2: Hi, Ken, how's it going well?

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Speaker 1: I'd just like to thank you, sort of in person

919
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Speaker 1: ish for just keeping it moving when I accidentally texted

920
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Speaker 1: you high booboo high handsome with a question about something

921
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Speaker 1: Bob's led related and you just were like, I bet

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Speaker 1: that was for her dog, and like you just knew.

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Speaker 8: Sarah, I got to say, I'm not side piece material,

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Speaker 8: so I was pretty sure that that was not the

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Speaker 8: situation at all.

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Speaker 1: What I'm mostly curious about is the skills required for

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Speaker 1: each event, how they're disparate between the events, and then

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Speaker 1: what makes Olympic level athletes great at what they do

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Speaker 1: in the sliding sport. So let's start with LUs What

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Speaker 1: is an athlete's responsibility and focus when they're in a

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Speaker 1: lose run.

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Speaker 8: So really the focus is kind of the same for

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Speaker 8: all three, but it's just a matter of how are

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Speaker 8: they doing it? In loush your big focus is at

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Speaker 8: the start, as we saw this week. If you don't

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Speaker 8: get a good start, your whole race is done before

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Speaker 8: you're even twenty five years down the track, So you

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Speaker 8: want to pull off strong and quick. Your lose athletes

939
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Speaker 8: tend to be, for lack of a better term, they're

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Speaker 8: a little more top heavy because their entire thing is

941
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Speaker 8: a big poll. They spend a lot of time working

942
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Speaker 8: on the shoulders. You have a lot of shoulder injuries

943
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Speaker 8: over the year. Sandra Robetcher has been fighting them for

944
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Speaker 8: years Tucker West is Adam, but you have a big

945
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Speaker 8: start because that's the only spot you can gain momentum

946
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Speaker 8: without just sliding well. Is you can pull off hard

947
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Speaker 8: and paddle down, but then you've got to settle in

948
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Speaker 8: the slide, and then you go from this explosive motion

949
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Speaker 8: to having to be as calm as humanly possible while

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Speaker 8: hurling down a track.

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Speaker 6: It's between seventy five and eighty five miles an hour

952
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Speaker 6: I louge.

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Speaker 8: There's more control than you have in Bob's layer skeleton,

954
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Speaker 8: so you're going to have really these more finite, just

955
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Speaker 8: tinier motions to steer the slide because the runners are

956
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Speaker 8: sharper where in Bob's led skeleton the runners a rounded,

957
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Speaker 8: so it's a little more it's a little more precision,

958
00:47:03,719 --> 00:47:05,880
Speaker 8: but again the goal is to do as little as possible.

959
00:47:05,960 --> 00:47:08,279
Speaker 8: If the slide is going well, the less steering you're doing,

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Speaker 8: the faster.

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Speaker 6: You're going to go.

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Speaker 1: And the steering just comes from distribution of body weight,

963
00:47:13,280 --> 00:47:17,360
Speaker 1: so minor adjustments in one side or the other to

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Speaker 1: help slightly steer so.

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Speaker 8: And lose you can you steer with your feet, you

966
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Speaker 8: use your calves to steer the kofins, which are the

967
00:47:24,880 --> 00:47:28,080
Speaker 8: little horns on the front, and you can your big

968
00:47:28,120 --> 00:47:32,160
Speaker 8: steers come from that. There are little handles that you

969
00:47:32,200 --> 00:47:35,680
Speaker 8: can't see that he use to make very small steers

970
00:47:35,719 --> 00:47:37,400
Speaker 8: because of the way it adjust the slide while you're

971
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Speaker 8: sliding down. And then otherwise it is all it is

972
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Speaker 8: all body weight, a shoulder here, a head turned there.

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Speaker 6: When you get the skeleton.

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Speaker 8: On the other hand, the easiest way to explain it's heads, shoulders, knees,

975
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Speaker 8: and toes. The head, shoulder, knees to the lower down

976
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Speaker 8: on your body you're using to steer. The harder of

977
00:47:55,239 --> 00:47:59,359
Speaker 8: a steer you have a skeleton runner is rounded all

978
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Speaker 8: the way down on the back half, there's like little

979
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Speaker 8: grooves and you can use those to kind of control

980
00:48:04,320 --> 00:48:06,600
Speaker 8: your sled a little bit. A bigger steer is going

981
00:48:06,640 --> 00:48:09,319
Speaker 8: to be made with your hip. Maybe when you start

982
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Speaker 8: seeing toast tapping the you see the feet swaying left

983
00:48:12,200 --> 00:48:13,960
Speaker 8: to right a little bit to control those are much

984
00:48:13,960 --> 00:48:18,399
Speaker 8: bigger stiers, but a lot of times you'll have more

985
00:48:18,440 --> 00:48:21,719
Speaker 8: shoulders and head and that's kind of just making small adjustments.

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Speaker 1: So if we see the feet moving, are they potentially

987
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Speaker 1: in trouble or they've gotten offline enough that they have

988
00:48:27,320 --> 00:48:29,440
Speaker 1: to make a pretty significant move.

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00:48:29,880 --> 00:48:30,359
Speaker 6: Yes and no.

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00:48:31,440 --> 00:48:33,200
Speaker 8: If you see the feet really swinging, if you see

991
00:48:33,200 --> 00:48:35,520
Speaker 8: the toast tapping on the ice and things like that, absolutely,

992
00:48:36,120 --> 00:48:38,279
Speaker 8: sometimes what you're trying to do is set up for

993
00:48:38,320 --> 00:48:40,840
Speaker 8: the next curve, and so you'll see kind of the

994
00:48:40,880 --> 00:48:44,480
Speaker 8: feet move left, move right, something like that, just to

995
00:48:44,520 --> 00:48:46,600
Speaker 8: try to get in a better position to go into

996
00:48:46,600 --> 00:48:50,440
Speaker 8: the next curve. And that way you just you take

997
00:48:50,480 --> 00:48:53,239
Speaker 8: it on a little more smooth Again, anything that's not

998
00:48:53,280 --> 00:48:55,160
Speaker 8: going straight down the track, you're losing time.

999
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Speaker 6: And so if you can get the angle in just

1000
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Speaker 6: a little bit better.

1001
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Speaker 8: So you'll see people of lean and the feet kind

1002
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Speaker 8: of sway a little bit just to get up into

1003
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Speaker 8: that turn.

1004
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Speaker 6: You take the turn well. And then when they come out,

1005
00:49:05,960 --> 00:49:06,840
Speaker 6: when they come off.

1006
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Speaker 8: A curve, if you see a big sway of the feet,

1007
00:49:09,080 --> 00:49:11,640
Speaker 8: they're probably trying to fight a skid.

1008
00:49:11,760 --> 00:49:13,360
Speaker 2: And maybe a little out of control.

1009
00:49:13,600 --> 00:49:14,560
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, just a little bit.

1010
00:49:14,640 --> 00:49:15,319
Speaker 2: Yeah. Oh.

1011
00:49:15,400 --> 00:49:19,080
Speaker 1: In fun fact foto figo Ken also mentioned the summer

1012
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Speaker 1: luge programs and louse slider search that got Sophia into

1013
00:49:22,200 --> 00:49:22,600
Speaker 1: the sport.

1014
00:49:22,760 --> 00:49:23,320
Speaker 2: Take a listen.

1015
00:49:23,719 --> 00:49:25,560
Speaker 6: USA Luge has something called the slider Search.

1016
00:49:25,600 --> 00:49:28,120
Speaker 8: They go to five or six places a year, and

1017
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Speaker 8: you have little roller loog sleds and kids between ten

1018
00:49:31,120 --> 00:49:37,000
Speaker 8: and thirteen can do summer louge and they try it

1019
00:49:37,040 --> 00:49:39,080
Speaker 8: out and if the coaches see anything they kind of

1020
00:49:39,120 --> 00:49:41,840
Speaker 8: like or whatever, you get a notification.

1021
00:49:41,280 --> 00:49:44,920
Speaker 6: Hey, we'd maybe like to have you out for a

1022
00:49:44,960 --> 00:49:46,799
Speaker 6: camp kind of thing. And then you go from there

1023
00:49:47,480 --> 00:49:49,120
Speaker 6: and yeah, before you know it.

1024
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Speaker 8: Because Germany lousi athletes start with they're like six, so

1025
00:49:53,600 --> 00:49:56,839
Speaker 8: we start them late here at ten, and so it's

1026
00:49:56,880 --> 00:49:58,800
Speaker 8: a little bit different. But Bob sand Skeleton, it's a

1027
00:49:58,840 --> 00:50:01,680
Speaker 8: lot of times people just see it and some people

1028
00:50:01,680 --> 00:50:03,120
Speaker 8: will get a letter on the mail we saw you

1029
00:50:03,160 --> 00:50:04,160
Speaker 8: did well at this track event.

1030
00:50:04,200 --> 00:50:05,399
Speaker 6: Hey have you thought about Bob Steed?

1031
00:50:05,520 --> 00:50:06,680
Speaker 2: We noticed your quads?

1032
00:50:07,560 --> 00:50:09,920
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, we notice your real big and real fast.

1033
00:50:09,960 --> 00:50:11,120
Speaker 6: How did you like to push a slide?

1034
00:50:11,560 --> 00:50:11,799
Speaker 8: Yeah?

1035
00:50:11,880 --> 00:50:13,879
Speaker 1: I feel like they should just also put little mini

1036
00:50:13,920 --> 00:50:16,680
Speaker 1: hamburgers on everything and say we're doing a slider search,

1037
00:50:17,000 --> 00:50:18,040
Speaker 1: would you like to come along?

1038
00:50:18,120 --> 00:50:20,040
Speaker 2: And then that way they'll get people whether they're interested

1039
00:50:20,160 --> 00:50:20,319
Speaker 2: or not.

1040
00:50:20,640 --> 00:50:23,240
Speaker 8: Everybody sure, I've got good news for you about these sponsors,

1041
00:50:23,280 --> 00:50:26,040
Speaker 8: the loose slider search, Swaite Castle.

1042
00:50:26,120 --> 00:50:30,200
Speaker 1: Yes it is, Yes, of course, I love that that's amazing.

1043
00:50:30,840 --> 00:50:33,000
Speaker 1: Oh my god, you gotta love it when people take

1044
00:50:33,080 --> 00:50:34,080
Speaker 1: the easy wins.

1045
00:50:34,520 --> 00:50:36,600
Speaker 2: Good on your white castle. That's great.

1046
00:50:37,520 --> 00:50:39,120
Speaker 1: We always love that you're listening, but we want you

1047
00:50:39,160 --> 00:50:40,959
Speaker 1: to get in the game every day too, So here's

1048
00:50:40,960 --> 00:50:43,680
Speaker 1: our good game play of the day. Follow both Sophia

1049
00:50:43,840 --> 00:50:46,800
Speaker 1: and Ken on social media. We'll link to their respective

1050
00:50:46,840 --> 00:50:49,560
Speaker 1: profiles in the show notes. Also, when it comes to

1051
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Speaker 1: Sophia's awesome art, unlike most Olympic pins, you don't have

1052
00:50:53,239 --> 00:50:54,760
Speaker 1: to be in Italy to get in on the trading.

1053
00:50:55,000 --> 00:50:57,920
Speaker 1: You can actually buy one of Sophia's handmade pins online

1054
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Speaker 1: in the US. We'll link to them in the show notes.

1055
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Speaker 1: Also keep sending us on missions slices. We've got some

1056
00:51:03,520 --> 00:51:05,640
Speaker 1: answers come in your way in a future episode about

1057
00:51:05,760 --> 00:51:09,000
Speaker 1: polls in Big Air and clothes in half pipe. We

1058
00:51:09,040 --> 00:51:10,440
Speaker 1: always love to hear from you, so hit us up

1059
00:51:10,440 --> 00:51:13,080
Speaker 1: on email good game at wondermedianetwork dot com or leave

1060
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Speaker 1: us a voicemail at eight seven two two four fifty seventy,

1061
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Speaker 1: and don't forget to subscribe a rate and review. It's

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Speaker 1: easy watch talking to strangers, rating four out of five times.

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Speaker 2: You're glad you did it. Review.

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Speaker 1: A few years ago, on an episode of Professor Lorie

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Speaker 1: Santos's Happiness Lab podcast, she shared a study done by

1066
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Speaker 1: a behavioral science professor that showed that commuters who were

1067
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Speaker 1: instructed to talk to strangers on a train reported a

1068
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Speaker 1: happier commute.

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Speaker 2: Than those who stayed silent.

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Speaker 1: I remember at the time I scoffed at it a bit.

1071
00:51:42,600 --> 00:51:44,799
Speaker 1: I'd rather listen to a podcast or you know, get

1072
00:51:44,840 --> 00:51:46,880
Speaker 1: some work done than talk to randos on the train,

1073
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Speaker 1: but I remembered it, and often while traveling in airports

1074
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Speaker 1: or especially in foreign countries, I remember and try to

1075
00:51:53,800 --> 00:51:56,239
Speaker 1: engage with people instead of burying myself in some sort

1076
00:51:56,239 --> 00:51:59,440
Speaker 1: of content or putting my headphones in. And it's true,

1077
00:51:59,600 --> 00:52:02,360
Speaker 1: I often feel happier when I do it. And the

1078
00:52:02,400 --> 00:52:05,759
Speaker 1: Olympics is a fantastic place to talk to strangers and

1079
00:52:05,800 --> 00:52:09,520
Speaker 1: feel the energy and happiness that comes from connection. Plus

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Speaker 1: you often learn random stuff, like the fact that the

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Speaker 1: machines that groom's ski slopes are called piston bullies. Alex

1082
00:52:16,920 --> 00:52:18,960
Speaker 1: and I met a guy in our Valdidentro hotel that

1083
00:52:19,000 --> 00:52:21,480
Speaker 1: works for the Piston Bully company, and he was out

1084
00:52:21,480 --> 00:52:23,960
Speaker 1: working and training at the Games, including working with the

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Speaker 1: Shi Grooms Initiative, which is dedicated to empowering women in

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Speaker 1: the snow grooming industry, which is apparently still super male dominated. Like,

1087
00:52:33,239 --> 00:52:35,319
Speaker 1: when would I ever learn that or know about that?

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Speaker 1: So maybe today, on your commute or outrunning errands, see

1089
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Speaker 1: if there's a chance to strike up a conversation with

1090
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Speaker 1: the friendly stranger. You never know what you might learn.

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Speaker 1: Now it's your turn, rate and review. Thanks for listening,

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Speaker 1: See you tomorrow. Good game, Sophia, Good game, gentleman, Callers

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Speaker 1: thousands of people looking for somewhere to eat and just

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