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OneLegUpAlex Media Praises Slain US Service Members For Their Sacrifice in Iran; Olympics Shifts To Paralympics 3-3-26 · OneLegUpAlex Media

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  Speaker 1: Here's your host, Alex Garrett.
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  Speaker 2: Well here at one look up Alex Media.
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  Speaker 1: Firstly, I wanna say to the six US service members
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  Speaker 1: that have been killed in the line of duty taking
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  Speaker 1: out the tyrannical Iranian regime killing Kamani over the weekend.
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  Speaker 2: God bless your sacrifice. Thank you for your sacrifice.
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  Speaker 1: Now I'm gonna go into some sports talk, but you
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  Speaker 1: cannot be here to talk sports without the servicemen and
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  Speaker 1: women that have dedicated their lives for two hundred and
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  Speaker 1: fifty years.
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  Speaker 2: So the six service members US service members that have
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  Speaker 2: lost their.
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  Speaker 1: Life defending our freedom, defending the freedoms of the Iranian people,
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  Speaker 1: those six must be honored. And I'll get into this
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  Speaker 1: on one like up Alex News. But I'm not ready
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  Speaker 1: to call this a full blown warn war yet because
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  Speaker 1: we don't have boots on the ground, and may we
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  Speaker 1: not have boots on the ground.
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  Speaker 2: But but.
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  Speaker 1: We do have some numbers to talk about on the
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  Speaker 1: sports side of things, because in the NAB National Association
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  Speaker 1: Broadcasters newsletter, they released the article or side of the
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  Speaker 1: article from the Associated Press that the Winter Olympics in
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  Speaker 1: Milan scored a rating of twenty four million viewers on
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  Speaker 1: average across primetime coverage from two to five Eastern.
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  Speaker 2: And primetime in Milan eight to eleven pm Eastern through Friday.
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  Speaker 1: This was published on February twenty second, so this was
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  Speaker 1: through a couple fridays ago. That is a ninety four
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  Speaker 1: percent improvement over the twenty twenty two Beijing Games that
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  Speaker 1: was the last Winter Games. It's the second Shared Olympics
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  Speaker 1: where viewers have returned in large numbers. Twenty twenty four
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  Speaker 1: pairs Summer Games were up twenty were up eighty two
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  Speaker 1: percent from twenty twenty one in Tokyo. Complete numbers from
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  Speaker 1: the seventeen days are expected to be released on Monday,
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  Speaker 1: February twenty third, but overall, because this article was in
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  Speaker 1: Today's newsletter, overall a ninety four percent plus improvement for
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  Speaker 1: NBC's Olympic coverage from one Winter Games to the next,
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  Speaker 1: and curling.
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  Speaker 2: Got a big view in viewing as well.
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  Speaker 1: The US gold medal game against Canada the men's on
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  Speaker 1: February twenty second, averaging eighteen point six million live viewers
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  Speaker 1: on NBC and Peacock picking at twenty six million during
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  Speaker 1: the overtime period, and eight point seven million Canadians watched
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  Speaker 1: the conclusion the women's gold medal game average five point
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  Speaker 1: three million viewers on USA Network and Peacock. Now why
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  Speaker 1: am I talking about ratings. I'm talking about ratings because
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  Speaker 1: I want that same viewership energy. I want that same excitement,
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  Speaker 1: that same passion, that same patriotism and love of America
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  Speaker 1: to be transferred. Now to the Paralympics. We know paralympian
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  Speaker 1: here at one leg of alex.
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  Speaker 2: Media, Patrick Halgren.
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  Speaker 1: He qualified he'll be competing in the twenty twenty six
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  Speaker 1: Winter Parain Olympics. How cool is that? In Milan, I'm
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  Speaker 1: known guys that do sled hockey. Now I don't know
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  Speaker 1: anybody on the USA team, but I'm excited to see
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  Speaker 1: sled hockey, see what the team USA could do, because
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  Speaker 1: they've won golds for quite a few times actually, and
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  Speaker 1: they do have adaptive curling. But if there was ever
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  Speaker 1: a week to cover adaptive sports, it's this week. If
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  Speaker 1: there was ever a week to launch just, you know,
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  Speaker 1: more conversations about adaptive sports, it would be this week.
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  Speaker 2: To drum up.
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  Speaker 1: The Paralympics would start with the opening ceremony on March sixth,
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  Speaker 1: And I really do hope that the millions that tuned
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  Speaker 1: in to the Cortina Milano Milano Courtina.
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  Speaker 2: Winter Olympics.
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  Speaker 1: Can be transferred now to the Paralympics because adaptive athletes
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  Speaker 1: deserve to be viewed and seen as well. Let me
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  Speaker 1: say that again. Adaptive athletes deserve to be seen as well.
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  Speaker 1: And they are competitive. I think disabled community is a
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  Speaker 1: very competitive community.
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  Speaker 2: We want to win.
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  Speaker 1: It's not just oh look how awesome it is he
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  Speaker 1: put that goal, that puck in the net. Like no,
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  Speaker 1: these guys are more capable than some pity cheering.
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  Speaker 2: They mean freaking business. They mean business. These Paralympians, they
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  Speaker 2: don't do this to be like, oh look how cool
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  Speaker 2: he is, or.
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  Speaker 1: Look at that he made a basket Like no, they
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  Speaker 1: really want to win. And I hope USA takes home
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  Speaker 1: the gold in a lot of events, in every event.
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  Speaker 1: But it's always exciting, especially now that I've been more
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  Speaker 1: involved with the adaptive.
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  Speaker 2: Community and following it, in seeing it.
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  Speaker 1: And and following alongside to see this excitement, this build up,
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  Speaker 1: this training, because it just shows we deserve to play
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  Speaker 1: sports as much as anybody else.
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  Speaker 2: Well, and I've said this before, I'll say this before
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  Speaker 2: and I'll say it again. I believe.
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  Speaker 1: That whether we have crutches, a wheelchair, a powerchair in
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  Speaker 1: this case, sleds to play sled hockey, or adaptive curling,
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  Speaker 1: they have those little things that push the curling up
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  Speaker 1: the ice in case someone can do it by hand.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, these different adaptations doesn't take away from the
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  Speaker 2: fact that we are competing human beings.
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  Speaker 1: And I've always thought people were disabled and then competitive
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  Speaker 1: will have one leg up because you have to. There's
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  Speaker 1: going to be stigmas attached to everybody, and the disabled
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  Speaker 1: community finds a way to smash those stigmas, and yes,
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  Speaker 1: through competition they do as well.
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  Speaker 2: Through competition, we smash stigmas.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm excited to see it once again in Milan
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  Speaker 1: at the twenty twenty six Winter Olympics, and I'll be
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  Speaker 1: watching carefully and reporting back to you here at the
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  Speaker 1: One Leg Up alex Media because this channel and this
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  Speaker 1: media outlet is designed to help up people have one
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  Speaker 1: leg up. And you know how we do that by highlighting
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  Speaker 1: those who are competitive athletes with disabilities showing.
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  Speaker 2: How they have one leg up on life.
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  Speaker 1: Patrick Holgan lost his leg in a motorcycle accident.
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  Speaker 2: Only to become a paralympian. So if that's not motivating
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  Speaker 2: enough for you. I don't know what to tell you.
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  Speaker 1: But he doesn't do it to be you know, maybe
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  Speaker 1: he doesn't it to be inspission, but he doesn't do
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  Speaker 1: it for like, well look at me. He doesn't because
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  Speaker 1: it's the only way he knows to be is to
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  Speaker 1: be an athlete. And now we get to watch him
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  Speaker 1: compete after hanging out with him in the summer of
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  Speaker 1: this city, in the city the summer or late October,
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  Speaker 1: I remember.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly, but it was in twenty five. It was the
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  Speaker 2: collapse of the year.
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  Speaker 1: But those millions of viewers, turn your eyes now to
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  Speaker 1: the Paralympics, the Winter Paralympics, and go Team USA. And
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  Speaker 1: that's my message from one leg up outlex Media