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Speaker 2: Why you went there? I went there.

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Speaker 1: It's the Paralympics. We're still here, y'all.

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Speaker 2: You thought it was over, but it's really only just begune.

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Speaker 2: Paris is still lit up with some of the world's

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Speaker 2: finest and I don't mean little steaks, finest little steaks.

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Speaker 1: I love a steak free.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's friends, right, yes, of course, steak free. It's babe.

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Speaker 2: know it is really free free, free free that feels

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Speaker 1: Well, it's a very Matt Rogers, Bow and Yang circa

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Speaker 1: steak free. You don't get any more chic when it

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Speaker 1: It's literally meat and potatoes. Isn't that amazing?

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Speaker 2: It is amazing. It's what our ancestors ate. Yeah, and

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Speaker 2: it's a staple and don't question it. I feel like

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Speaker 1: It's like that guy that you forgot that you had

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Speaker 2: I feel like steak freed is security. Steak freed is

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Speaker 2: Yeah, like it's just steak freits is It's literally a

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Speaker 1: I think the Paralympics end up being the steak freights

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Speaker 1: The agidas are in the sky. Now what are the agidos?

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Speaker 1: And hey, Paralympians use up whatever condoms the Olympians didn't.

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Speaker 2: That's there's no mistake. When you've win three, one, three times,

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Speaker 1: With the twenty twenty eight Summer Olympics, hosted by La Frek,

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Speaker 1: about Ali Truett. Ali Truett, This, this's crazy. She's headed

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Speaker 1: You would black out and then yeah, yeah, this is

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Speaker 1: It a miracle. It's just like you have stared death

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Speaker 2: I mean, can you imagine like from going from shark

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Speaker 1: Bethany, Right, But Ali's not a surfer. Who's Ali Ali Truett?

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Speaker 1: This is a mess? Oh soulsurfer? Was Anna Sipia Rod? Yeah?

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Speaker 2: Oh babe. Period. So now, less than a month after

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Speaker 1: They first met at the Simplot Games Indoor Athletics meet

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Speaker 2: I feel like he's gonna come back stronger than ever.

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Speaker 2: Let these two have their gold medal ending. I'm serious,

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Speaker 1: I'm going to give silver to Ali. I mean shark

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Speaker 2: Tower, so beautiful.

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Speaker 1: Sorry, Ezra.

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