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

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Speaker 1: for two more friends to help us recreate the Indiana

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Speaker 1: Fever's team handshake, a five way DApp innovation at its finest.

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Speaker 1: How did we not think of that before? On today's show,

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Speaker 1: we'll talk about the historic performance we just saw at

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Speaker 1: the Paralympics, check in on your faith in the Las

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Speaker 1: Vegas Aces, ask if you ever think about dying at

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Speaker 1: a basketball game, and dive deep into the special Rookie

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Speaker 1: Season's Angel recent Kaitlin Clarker have it. It's all coming

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Speaker 1: up right after this Welcome back slices, Happy Friday. Here's

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Speaker 1: what you need to know today. Some really awesome news

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Speaker 1: out of the Paralympics. As Zakiya Kudu Dotti, who you

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Speaker 1: heard Alex mention a couple episodes ago. That's the taekwond

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Speaker 1: athlete that the International Paralympic Committee helped escape from the Taliban. Well,

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Speaker 1: she just won the first ever Paralympic medal for the

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Speaker 1: refugee Paralympic team, despite the ban on women in sports

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Speaker 1: in her country, in the first race of their first

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Speaker 1: Paralympic Games. On Thursday, American swimmer Christy Rolly Crossley, who

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Speaker 1: uses they, them and she her pronouns, broke a world record.

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Speaker 1: The thirty seven year old single mother of three posted

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Speaker 1: a world record time of twenty seven point two eight

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Speaker 1: which includes athletes with weakness, limb loss or coordination difficulties.

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Speaker 1: A few hours later, Raleigh Crossley won silver in the final,

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Speaker 1: finishing point two eight seconds behind China's Chen Yee, who

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Speaker 1: set her own world record for her classification. Athletes classified

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Speaker 1: as both S nine and S ten compete against each

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Speaker 1: other in this event. Raley Crossley is expected to contend

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Speaker 1: for a medal in three more individual events, plus one

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Speaker 1: or two relays ahead of the Paralympics. The New York

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Speaker 1: Times profile Rally Crossley. We'll link to it in our

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Speaker 1: show notes. Because their disability isn't always as obvious as

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Speaker 1: some of their competitors, she's had to face accusations of

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Speaker 1: gaming the classification system. Quote. I've become a lightning rod

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Speaker 1: of sorts where people are like, she's so fast, and

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Speaker 1: they I don't see the disability all the time. End quote.

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Speaker 1: Remember Sarah Adam, the American wheelchair rugby player Alex told

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Speaker 1: you about earlier this week. While she's the first woman

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Speaker 1: fifty one forty eight win over rival Canada on Thursday.

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Speaker 1: Plenty more Paralympic events to look forward to this weekend.

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Speaker 1: We'll let you know what's on deck in our show

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Speaker 1: notes to Hoops. There are four WNBA games today, all

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Speaker 1: with playoff implications. We'll give you the full schedule in

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Speaker 1: our notes, but we've got a spotlight one matchup in particular.

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Speaker 1: It's the Indiana Fever at the Chicago Sky seven thirty

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Speaker 1: Eastern on Ion and League Pass Caitlin Clark versus Angel

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Speaker 1: seven versus Number eight. It's a duel between two squads

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Speaker 1: with playoff hopes that are trending in sort of opposite directions.

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Speaker 1: This one's going to have some fireworks, and if Clark

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Speaker 1: To something else to note, this game is going to

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Speaker 1: be the Sky's first ever Barbie theme game. Chicago became

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Speaker 1: the first WNBA franchise to partner with Mattel's Barbie this week,

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Speaker 1: and per a team press release, the partnership is meant

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Speaker 1: to celebrate women athletes, with the goal of championing women

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Speaker 1: Smart move when you got Shytown Barbie aka Bayou Barbie

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Speaker 1: aka Podcast Barbie aka Angel Reese on the roster. Also

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Speaker 1: some more news out of Chicago. Point guard Dana Evans

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Speaker 1: is looking to leave the franchise. Evans first drived in

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Speaker 1: coach and GM James Wade. After Wade's departure, as well

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Speaker 1: as that a veteran point guard, Courtney Vanderslute, many anticipated

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Speaker 1: it would be evans time to shine this season. With

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Speaker 1: media availability on Wednesday, Evans told reporters that she wasn't

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Speaker 1: at six pm Eastern on Sunday, streaming on Paramount Plus.

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Speaker 1: In USL Super League news, Brooklyn's home opener on Saturday

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Speaker 1: next week. Finally, one last piece of soccer news, so,

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Speaker 1: Aurora is in that league. They're the largest independent, community

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Speaker 1: another round of selling community shares. So if you've ever

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Speaker 1: The US Open rolls on this weekend. Results are coming

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Speaker 1: ted Lasso to the nineteen eighty miracle on ice. What's

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Speaker 1: my little slices. Yesterday we asked y'all to weigh in

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Speaker 1: on the state of the Las Vegas Aces and while

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Speaker 1: some of you have lost all altogether at a three pet,

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Speaker 1: others refused to stop believing. We asked, if you had

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Speaker 1: to put a percentage on it, what odds do you

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Speaker 1: Three peten ain't easy and had a gift of my

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Speaker 1: beloved Michael Jordan love that at Coorea, Cubs fans said

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Speaker 1: give some solid analysis saying they're doing the classic post

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Speaker 1: title hangover team that flips the switch at the right time,

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Speaker 1: so it sounds like he still believes. And finally at

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Speaker 1: it comes to this team. End quote. Ain't that the

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Speaker 1: damn truth? Asia Wilson right now trying to put this

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Speaker 1: back to back titles in the WNBA. So when the

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Speaker 1: history to three peat has been the Houston Comets. They

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Speaker 1: It's just a matter of whether they can put it

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Speaker 1: all together. So, Mesh, can they do it? What's your

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Speaker 2: I gotta give them a fifteen percent chance, and I'm

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell you why. Okay. I've considered a lot

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Speaker 2: First and foremost, how many other teams I think actually

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Speaker 2: that episode. But I think the Liberty, the Links, the Sun,

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Speaker 2: and the Fever have a chance. And of those teams,

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Speaker 2: I put them in there because I think they got

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Speaker 2: a little bit the magic going on. I'm starting to

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Speaker 2: believe in the Fever, Okay, but I think of those

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Speaker 2: five teams, Vegas has like the fourth best chance, So

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Speaker 2: I'm putting them at fifteen. Fever probably a like ten.

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Speaker 1: Honestly, by the way, I mean, the Fever also just

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Speaker 1: got the goat bump of Simone Biles right and Gabby

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Speaker 1: touching them they might have rubbed off like an extra

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Speaker 2: It's like the cheese touch, but for greatness. People my

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Speaker 2: age will know what that is.

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Speaker 1: Sorry, what wait? Hold on? What's the cheese touch? Oh?

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Speaker 2: If I'm not mistaken, is that Captain underpants? Y'all tweet

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Speaker 2: at us?

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Speaker 1: Okay, I've actually seen half of a cap underpants with

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Speaker 1: my nephew, and I've touched a lot of cheese. I

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Speaker 1: think it's actually diary but wimpy kid though, Diary of

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Speaker 2: The other thing for me that I had to consider

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Speaker 2: is we keep comparing this ACES team to the Aces

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Speaker 2: team of last year, and they're just not the same team.

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Speaker 2: The circumstances are not the same. And if you look

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Speaker 2: at the numbers, last year, they averaged like almost ninety

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Speaker 2: three points a game, held opponents to eighty ish.

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Speaker 1: This year they're averaging eighty.

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Speaker 2: Seven, so not bad, but opponents are like right at

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Speaker 3: I think that this Ace's team loves nothing more than

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Speaker 1: Okay, some of the twer just to our questions is

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Speaker 1: room for sure. I like that analysis, Alex. We got

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Speaker 1: of No Dumb Questions. Welcome back, Slices. It's time once

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Speaker 1: again for no dumb questions, and we got a couple

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Speaker 1: certified slice Alyssa Obradovich, who's back with another one. She wrote,

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Speaker 1: I've got a burning question after Tonight's huge Fever win

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Speaker 1: the Sun spends the night in Indianapolis, does Carrington stay

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Speaker 1: at the team hotel or with Smith Alyssa from Champagne, Illinois. Okay,

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Speaker 1: this is a juicy wanta lessa. Let's dive in for context,

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Speaker 1: Dja Carrington at the Connecticut Sun is dating Indiana Fever

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Speaker 1: forward Melissa Smith. Their relationship dates back to their college

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Speaker 1: but they're back together now. They're posting supportive messages on

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Speaker 1: Insta about each other, and they're making little cutesy videos together,

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Speaker 1: so they seem quite happy. So your question is, did

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Speaker 1: Djna skip the team hotel with the fever and crash

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Speaker 1: at Smith's house in Indy? Meish? This topic is hoops

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Speaker 1: and gay shit both of your accounts. What say you?

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Speaker 1: That's a mess?

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Speaker 2: Oh, so per Djna's TikTok if you haven't already looked.

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Speaker 1: Oh, we did some research. Yeah, we did some research.

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Speaker 2: Okay, we can't prepared today at DJA Carrington, she's not

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Speaker 2: very hard to find on there. But she stayed with

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Speaker 2: Melissa the night before the game, and did it get

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Speaker 2: ready with me from Melyssa's house. So i'd rephrase your questions.

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Speaker 2: Did Carrington stay at the team hote to or spent

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Speaker 2: another night?

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Speaker 1: Oh that is some good research. Also, I am way

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Speaker 1: too competitive for that shit.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's literally what I was about to say, I'm like,

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Speaker 2: kudos to y'all, because if I'm planning against my girl

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Speaker 2: the next day.

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Speaker 1: We're not together. No, I had the tiger all night.

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Speaker 1: I'm thinking about ways to destroy you. Mm hmm, I'm

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Speaker 1: tearing you apart. I'm sorry. But also, yeah, they don't

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Speaker 1: see each other that much, so I guess, like, does

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Speaker 1: your horniness override your competitiveness? And I don't know. I

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Speaker 1: do have to say in college occasionally, if I was

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Speaker 1: like someone someone would want to take back to their

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Speaker 2: This TMI is that over.

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Speaker 1: Here you ain't even got to worry about that, That's right.

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Speaker 1: I mean, listen, I would make a great lesbian. I

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Speaker 1: think my competitiveness would just add to my attractiveness, not

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Speaker 1: I'm going to say that she stayed there both nights

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Speaker 1: because you know what, if you're always traveling in different places,

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Speaker 1: you just want to you just want to hang and

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Speaker 1: spend some special time. It's like on The Bachelor of

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Speaker 1: you still need to take that time to just like

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Speaker 1: hang and like catch up. I'm sure that that's exactly

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Speaker 2: I don't know nothing about the batch.

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Speaker 1: number two at Aaron Underscore raw tagus on X and

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Speaker 1: asked for no dumb questions. Now that Caitlin Clark holds

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Speaker 1: the most threes by a rook and Angelica has a

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Speaker 1: rooks have? Well, listen, we actually have a whole list

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