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Seg 1 - WBB Show w Geno Feb 10 · Coaches Corner

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  Speaker 3: Our show tonight.
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  Speaker 1: Gino's with us here coming off a pair of winds
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  Speaker 1: in Chicago and then Saturday the win over Butler.
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  Speaker 3: Good to see it.
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  Speaker 1: I guess you had a media session today. I'm gonna
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  Speaker 1: take our stab here was the first question asked about
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  Speaker 1: Sarah Strong's availability for tomorrow night when you take on Creighton,
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  Speaker 1: or pretty close to the first question.
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  Speaker 2: No, I was disappointing at they didn't want to know
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  Speaker 2: if I was going to be there. So I told them,
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  Speaker 2: when they start asking about me as much as they
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  Speaker 2: ask about Sarah, I'll tell them whether Sarah's playing or not.
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  Speaker 3: Are you doing load management tomorrow night?
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  Speaker 2: No? No, you know I was trying to trying to
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  Speaker 2: that everybody who doesn't follow basketball really close but knows
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  Speaker 2: the term load management. From that, the NBA came up.
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  Speaker 3: With that.
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  Speaker 2: Us old folks that used to play, and guys that
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  Speaker 2: I know that we used to play. We had never
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  Speaker 2: heard of a word called load management. We never heard of,
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  Speaker 2: you know, days off and not playing, and never heard
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  Speaker 2: of a killes achilles tendon tears, never heard of a CL's,
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  Speaker 2: never heard of calf strains. I remember if you were
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  Speaker 2: if you remember when you were younger and you you
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  Speaker 2: ever see, hey, this guy is out because he has
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  Speaker 2: a calf strain.
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  Speaker 3: You know.
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  Speaker 2: So there's a lot of things that are you know,
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  Speaker 2: that are popping up these days that maybe we have
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  Speaker 2: better equipment to diagnose what it is that's bothering somebody,
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  Speaker 2: you know, and you can't just say, rub some dirt
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  Speaker 2: on it, you know, like we yeah, like rub some
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  Speaker 2: dirt on it.
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  Speaker 3: It'll feel better. You know.
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  Speaker 2: It was mud for a beasting back in the yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, and they have ambulances and helicoptors in fire
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  Speaker 2: trucks of low league games in case the kid gets
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  Speaker 2: hit by a pitch in the ass or something like that.
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  Speaker 2: But during this time of the year, as you get
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  Speaker 2: to middle of February, you know, everybody's got some makes
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  Speaker 2: and pains. Every single player that's playing college basketball, something's
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  Speaker 2: bothering them. It's just a matter of what degree. And
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  Speaker 2: you know, whether it's Sarah Strong or anybody else in
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  Speaker 2: the country.
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  Speaker 3: You know.
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  Speaker 2: So Sarah's been feeling great. You know, she looks great,
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  Speaker 2: She's playing great, so that the last couple of days
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  Speaker 2: have just been about monitoring or practice in game time
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  Speaker 2: because you know her her legs get sore because she
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  Speaker 2: plays hard, you know, and she practices hard. And like
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  Speaker 2: every kid, I wish I could, you know, I could
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  Speaker 2: give every kid a couple of days off, But.
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  Speaker 1: Yay, you don't have that luxury of a bye week
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  Speaker 1: or a by weekend. The fact you're play nonconference games
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  Speaker 1: this time of year.
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  Speaker 3: We don't, we don't.
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  Speaker 2: The problem we're given players a couple of days off
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  Speaker 2: is they start to see what they're missing and they
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  Speaker 2: don't want to come back. Like I remember when I
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  Speaker 2: was younger, when I was coaching at the University of Virginia,
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  Speaker 2: Terry Holland was the coach, and he said, I never
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  Speaker 2: give my guys two days off. And I said, wow,
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  Speaker 2: he goes because they're going to start to do all
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  Speaker 2: the things that they can't do because they have practice
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  Speaker 2: every day, and then they're going to realize this isn't bad.
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  Speaker 2: And I remember Bjorn Borg, a great tennis player, when
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  Speaker 2: he was twenty seven or something like that. I know,
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  Speaker 2: he said I'm going to take a month off, rest,
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  Speaker 2: come back and he never came back. That was the
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  Speaker 2: end of bjorn.
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  Speaker 3: Borg, right, Yeah, he retired early.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and they said that's it, I'm done. You know,
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  Speaker 2: you mean, it's like I went to the Final four
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  Speaker 2: in Houston when our men played in Houston, right, And
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  Speaker 2: I hadn't been to a men's final four since nineteen
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  Speaker 2: eighty one because it happened to be in Philadelphia, and
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  Speaker 2: North Carolina played Indiana in the championship game and Virginia
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  Speaker 2: was in the semifinals, which is where I was going
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  Speaker 2: to go coach anyway, and I hadn't been to one.
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  Speaker 2: And now, obviously it's different. Nineteen eighty one, it was
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  Speaker 2: at the Spectrums nineteen thousand people. You know, I'm down
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  Speaker 2: in Houston. It'sent whatever that dome is called. Its seventy
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  Speaker 2: thousand people at the game. But I'm up there and
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  Speaker 2: there's a suite and there's food and there's drinks and
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  Speaker 2: watching it on big screen. And so I asked our
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  Speaker 2: development people, I said, is this what you guys do
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  Speaker 2: with our final fource? And they said yeah, And I went, man,
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  Speaker 2: maybe we should stop going and be up here and
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  Speaker 2: one of these things. I mean, it is a great
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  Speaker 2: spectacle that everybody loves except the people that are coaching
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  Speaker 2: and playing in it. You know, we're miserable and it
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  Speaker 2: is an unbelievable experience and I didn't realize what you know,
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  Speaker 2: what it was and what I was, what I was
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  Speaker 2: giving up just to, you know, just to be on
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  Speaker 2: the floor coaching. So yeah, be careful taking some time
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  Speaker 2: off from your job. You'll never go back.
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  Speaker 1: So if we get to the Final four this year
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  Speaker 1: in Phoenix, just take some time off, go upstairs.
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  Speaker 2: And I'd rather be upstairs. I'd rather be upstairs, I
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  Speaker 2: really would. That way, I could just walk away from
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  Speaker 2: the don't have to watch. That wouldn't look too good.
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  Speaker 2: I just walked away from the events.
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  Speaker 1: Well you did, You did pretty well at the final
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  Speaker 1: four last year.
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  Speaker 3: That went pretty well.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, about as well as you could expect. Just quick update.
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  Speaker 1: We'll get to our first break here in a sec.
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  Speaker 1: I see Block is practicing again, but still a couple
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  Speaker 1: days away, maybe a week before she comes back to play.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know it sound like said I just I mean,
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  Speaker 1: you said maybe Mark, you're open for market.
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  Speaker 3: But she just started practicing again, correct.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, she started working out. She looks great. I mean
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  Speaker 2: that's the other thing. You know, they come back, you know,
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  Speaker 2: they're well rested and anxious to go, and you know,
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  Speaker 2: and you don't realize how much you miss her. She
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  Speaker 2: reminds me of Atlna every time I would go to practice.
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  Speaker 2: I can't believe I got to put up with this
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  Speaker 2: again today. And then as soon as she's not there,
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  Speaker 2: I go, where is she?
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  Speaker 3: Like?
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  Speaker 2: We can't win without her, you know, like some players
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  Speaker 2: are just you know, even as freshmen. You know, Blanca
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  Speaker 2: is just so exciting to watch and so much fun
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  Speaker 2: to see what she's going to do next and how
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  Speaker 2: much she stirs up the pop when she gets in
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  Speaker 2: the game. You know, and you saw the game the
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  Speaker 2: other day, the last couple of games that she hasn't
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  Speaker 2: been in, it's like you you kind of wait for
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  Speaker 2: that five minute mark when you know she's going to
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  Speaker 2: come in and reminds me when.
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  Speaker 3: We had Shay.
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  Speaker 2: You know, at about the six minute mark in the
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  Speaker 2: first quarter, Shaye would start taking her warm up off
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  Speaker 2: because she knew, you know, five minutes and forty five
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  Speaker 2: seconds she's going in the game, and you know, you
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  Speaker 2: look forward to that, so we'll have her back sooner
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  Speaker 2: rather than later.
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  Speaker 3: Right, Well, we were in Chicago.
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  Speaker 1: I went to practice and Michael and Paul Polo can
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  Speaker 1: attest to this. Blanc It's not like she sat around
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  Speaker 1: at practice the day of the game. She's at one
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  Speaker 1: side by mid court, jogging towards the hoop, takes a shot,
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  Speaker 1: comes back over here. She must have did that for like,
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  Speaker 1: what forty five minutes, Mike, forty forty five minutes. Maybe
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  Speaker 1: that's that's that's quite the workout you get there. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: it wasn't dead sprints. Let's not go crazy. It's not
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  Speaker 1: like herb Brooks doing herbies back in the day. But
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  Speaker 1: still that's good to keep her going. And she looks
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  Speaker 1: great and boy, nicest kid you could ever meet too.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, she's fantastic. And you know, like I
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  Speaker 2: said earlier today, I just keep checking the airports, you know,
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  Speaker 2: when you get, like I said, you get people a
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  Speaker 2: day off. I check all the airports. You know. I
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  Speaker 2: don't know whether she's I check all the flights to Ecuador,
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  Speaker 2: all the flights back to Italy. As long as you're
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  Speaker 2: still in the country. I'm good.
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  Speaker 3: I'm all right.
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  Speaker 1: All right, we'll take our first break, we'll get into
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  Speaker 1: some game stuff and we'll bring back a little a
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  Speaker 1: little nugget of information. Speaking of Shay, we'll get to
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  Speaker 1: that in a minute. This is the Ukon of Women's
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