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Seg 5 - WBB Show w Meghan Caffrey 3-5 · Coaches Corner

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  Speaker 1: Back on the Women's Basketball Coaches Show, and as advertised,
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  Speaker 1: we are visiting with Megan Caffrey of the Big East
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  Speaker 1: Conference Big East Digital, and she will be at the
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  Speaker 1: Big East Tournament doing many different things. So let's start there. Meghan,
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  Speaker 1: I know you're going to be a busy girl Friday
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  Speaker 1: with three games, but what else are you doing this
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  Speaker 1: weekend for the Big East Conference?
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  Speaker 2: Well, Bob verset and foremost, I'm so excited.
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  Speaker 3: We had been talking about this all season long, so
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  Speaker 3: I'm pumped to finally be on here chatting some Big
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  Speaker 3: East women's hoops with you. So thank you first and
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  Speaker 3: foremost for getting me on here. But I'm excited. So
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  Speaker 3: I will I kind of have a couple of different roles,
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  Speaker 3: like you mentioned this upcoming weekend. I'll broadcast the later
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  Speaker 3: two games actually on Saturday, which I'm really excited to
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  Speaker 3: f s two games, so I'll be sidelined for those,
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  Speaker 3: and then all throughout the rest of the weekend with
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  Speaker 3: the tournament, I'll be We do a lot of work
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  Speaker 3: on the digital side of things, so if you're following
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  Speaker 3: along on Twitter on Instagram, all of the socials, we
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  Speaker 3: put out special interviews that go a little bit more
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  Speaker 3: in depth after games, and we just have fun with it, really, right,
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  Speaker 3: like this is the start for all of us of
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  Speaker 3: a very very long march, so we try and have
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  Speaker 3: some fun, we make some light of it, and then
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  Speaker 3: honestly just helping out the conference in whatever ways that
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  Speaker 3: they might need. So kind of jack of all trades.
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  Speaker 3: If I need to do a little bit of like
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  Speaker 3: camera work for our Twitter stuff, I'll do some of that.
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  Speaker 3: But for the most part, we're keeping me in my
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  Speaker 3: space with what I'm very good at, which is asking
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  Speaker 3: some questions.
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  Speaker 2: There you go good, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: All right. So when we got together in October at
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  Speaker 1: Madison Square Garden, no surprise at the top two. That's
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  Speaker 1: where they are. You kind of Creighton. But then you
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  Speaker 1: look at the coaches polls at the beginning of the year,
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  Speaker 1: so many unknowns though, Transfer Portal andil that attle bit.
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  Speaker 1: For the top five teams, the teams that you would
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  Speaker 1: expect to be there year and in year out. The
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  Speaker 1: only big surprise is what Tony Bazilla did with Seaton Hall.
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  Speaker 1: But otherwise it's pretty much what we've seen the last
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  Speaker 1: couple of years. Villanova, Marquette, Creighton. You kind of the
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  Speaker 1: of the list.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and I think though it's to note too right, Like,
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  Speaker 3: especially when you look at Marquette, we are used to
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  Speaker 3: seeing them.
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  Speaker 2: At the top of the list.
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  Speaker 3: However, they were able to stay at the top of
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  Speaker 3: the list Bob with a brand new head coach this year,
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  Speaker 3: right of newer players stepping into some roles. I think
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  Speaker 3: it's I'm always big on giving flowers where flowers are due, right,
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  Speaker 3: And when you look at what first year head coach
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  Speaker 3: Ker Conswegua was able to do right, finish twenty to
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  Speaker 3: nine overall, twelve and six in conference play, enough to
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  Speaker 3: get them a first round by and earn the four
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  Speaker 3: seed in the tournament this weekend, I think it's huge.
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  Speaker 3: And you have to remember what Kara did take over
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  Speaker 3: from Meghan Duffy, Right, Meghan Duffy built the program into
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  Speaker 3: what we have known Marquette basketball to be.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 3: They made the three NCAA tournament appearances in the last
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  Speaker 3: four years, and last year they had these great scores
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  Speaker 3: like Liza Carlin, Jordan King, Mackenzie Hare and they all
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  Speaker 3: left right. So what care was able to do with
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  Speaker 3: some of these players coming out a little bit more so? Right,
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  Speaker 3: you look at Skyler Forbes, Hallie Weiss really having coming
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  Speaker 3: into their own for some of these players who had
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  Speaker 3: been on the roster and stepping into new roles this year,
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  Speaker 3: I think that is so huge and I think it's
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  Speaker 3: really cool to see just how much they had. There's
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  Speaker 3: some struggles for sure during the year, but it's really
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  Speaker 3: awesome to see them back up in that top spot
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  Speaker 3: as well, even though there was some changeover.
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  Speaker 2: Right, And I think it's it's cool too.
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  Speaker 3: Where you mentioned with Seaton Hall, it was what's gonna
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  Speaker 3: happen to the pirates? Right, what's gonna what are they
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  Speaker 3: gonna look like? However, it's just a note to head
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  Speaker 3: coach Tony Bazilla. He's like the transfer king, I feel
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  Speaker 3: like right like this has been so many coaches have
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  Speaker 3: been getting into the transfer transfer portal, even more so
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  Speaker 3: these past couple of years. But Tony has been doing
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  Speaker 3: that for years and has really been able to manage
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  Speaker 3: transfers I think really well and mesh the teams together
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  Speaker 3: really well.
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  Speaker 1: Megan, throughout your season, you get tout with a lot
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  Speaker 1: of the student athletes that play in the Big East here.
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  Speaker 1: What are some of your favorite ones that you've talked
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  Speaker 1: to this year, and maybe a few players that you
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  Speaker 1: can highlight that the fans will see this week at
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  Speaker 1: Mohican son Arina that we don't talk about enough.
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  Speaker 3: I would love to talk about Jury Allen a little
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  Speaker 3: bit with DePaul. She It's funny, right, she's one of
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  Speaker 3: those players who have been in the conference for quite
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  Speaker 3: some time. Winn's Scholar Athlete of the Year, which is
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  Speaker 3: really exciting for her. But I so the conference does
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  Speaker 3: we do was weekly and it was a little bit
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  Speaker 3: more so bi weekly this past year, but we do
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  Speaker 3: it now. It's turned into a digital segment called in
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  Speaker 3: the Bonus.
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  Speaker 2: It's really fun. If you guys don't tune into it,
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  Speaker 2: make sure you're tuned into it. A little plug there.
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  Speaker 3: But we get the chance to talk to players and
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  Speaker 3: we get a little bit more in depth with them.
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  Speaker 3: We get to learn about them a little bit more.
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  Speaker 3: And we have jewelry on this this season, Bob. And
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  Speaker 3: from everything that I knew about her with the DO,
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  Speaker 3: I got to learn so much more about the who
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  Speaker 3: and she is so interesting. She is extremely interestive. She's
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  Speaker 3: so It's funny because I remember in the interview, I
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  Speaker 3: was like, Jory, you're really calm, right, like I'm talking
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  Speaker 3: to you and there's just this really mellow presence. And
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  Speaker 3: it was so interesting because she talked of some battles
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  Speaker 3: of anxiety that she's had and for her she has
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  Speaker 3: found a passion of writing and so she's actually in
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  Speaker 3: the middle of writing.
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  Speaker 2: I believe it was a memoir.
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  Speaker 3: So I was just like, you know, it was one
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  Speaker 3: of those moments that we love watching and we have
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  Speaker 3: the blessing right of our jobs, Bob, How lucky are we, right,
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  Speaker 3: we get to watch hoops, That's what our job is,
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  Speaker 3: and you know, you get so caught up in just
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  Speaker 3: how great these athletes are that you forget sometimes, especially
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  Speaker 3: at this level. Right their college kids, their kids, and
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  Speaker 3: they have so many more interest of what they like
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  Speaker 3: to do, you know, when they think of life outside
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  Speaker 3: of basketball, life after basketball, if that ends for them.
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  Speaker 3: And so it was really cool to get to learn
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  Speaker 3: that about her. And I was telling her, I was like,
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  Speaker 3: keep me post a girl, because I'm gonna definitely want
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  Speaker 3: to read up on that.
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  Speaker 2: It was really cool. That is awesome.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Jory had a fantastic year. I mean, Jill Pizzotti
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  Speaker 1: raved the Botter when we made our alone visit out
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  Speaker 1: up to Chicago this year. One of my favorite places
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  Speaker 1: to go. What is your favorite city to go to?
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  Speaker 2: Big East?
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  Speaker 1: Wise by the way, Okay.
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  Speaker 2: We got to talk a little.
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  Speaker 3: But first and foremost, Bob, when you're going out to Chicago,
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  Speaker 3: you gotta tell me are we doing deep dish? Are
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  Speaker 3: you not as much of the deep dish type of
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  Speaker 3: a guy. What's our favorite Chicago thing?
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  Speaker 1: I'm a dish deep dish guy, But Debbie and I
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  Speaker 1: go usually go to Pizano's on the other side of
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  Speaker 1: the arena. We stay at the gate at the Marquee there,
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  Speaker 1: and then that little Italian place on the other side
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  Speaker 1: of wind Trust we go to. Yeah, good place.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, No, I love it. It's fun because you know,
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  Speaker 3: with the Big East, the conference is so lucky that
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  Speaker 3: we're going to such big cities. Right, You're going out
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  Speaker 3: to a Chicago, Right. We get to go to some
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  Speaker 3: wonderful places when we're traveling. So you're putting me on
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  Speaker 3: the spot because there's so many great places and I
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  Speaker 3: didn't travel. I will say this past season, I didn't
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  Speaker 3: travel too much. But there's this one spot and I'm
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  Speaker 3: blanking on it right now because I didn't get to
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  Speaker 3: go out there. But in o Maha, if I ever
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  Speaker 3: go out to Creighton, there's this really really great steak
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  Speaker 3: steakhouse that I'm always like, we got to go there
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  Speaker 3: and venture that way. So I'm blanking on the name.
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  Speaker 3: I'm gonna try and do some research when you ask
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  Speaker 3: the next question.
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  Speaker 1: To get that Gilbert.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, yes, yes, yes.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, that's right connected to the Marriott. Yep. Been there
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  Speaker 1: a few times.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, And it's just it's fun.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, that's the we travel so much for this job,
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  Speaker 3: where you kind of have to. I feel like everyone
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  Speaker 3: within it and correct me if I'm wrong. I feel
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  Speaker 3: like we all kind of become little foodies here and
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  Speaker 3: there because it's like new places we need, we need
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  Speaker 3: to try some new foods and you know, whatever the
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  Speaker 3: specialty is with these cities. I will say Chicago. The
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  Speaker 3: first time I went out there, I tried Deep Dish.
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  Speaker 3: So I'm a Jersey girl, Okay, I do like a
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  Speaker 3: thin crust pizza. I will.
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  Speaker 2: I will admit that.
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  Speaker 3: So I tried it because I was like, you have to.
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  Speaker 3: You can't go to Chicago and not try the Deep Dish.
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  Speaker 3: And it's it's so good, but sometimes I'm like it's
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  Speaker 3: so heavy that I need to go to bed right after.
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  Speaker 2: Some stuff to do.
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  Speaker 3: I'm gonna I'm gonna opt for a thin crust instead.
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  Speaker 1: All right, one more segment with Megan. We'll actually get
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  Speaker 1: into the games when we come back on the Yukon
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  Speaker 1: of Women's Basketball Coaches show here on Learfield in just
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  Speaker 1: a minute.