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- 0:00Speaker 1: Team USA.
- 0:01Speaker 2: That's where it's at today as we are about to
- 0:03Speaker 2: get the semifinal underway for Team USA. I believe Slovakia.
- 0:08Speaker 2: But here's some history for you, and I'm gonna put
- 0:11Speaker 2: this on the podcast as well. I wanted to drop
- 0:12Speaker 2: this before the puck drops at three ten on my
- 0:15Speaker 2: YouTube and my speaker dot com podcast. You know, the
- 0:21Speaker 2: Kachucks and the Hughes are playing on the same US
- 0:25Speaker 2: hockey team and according to the Associated Press reprinted by Newsday.
- 0:29Speaker 1: By the way, shout out to Newsday for this beautiful
- 0:32Speaker 1: picture of the Hughes and Kokchucks.
- 0:35Speaker 2: Also of the just the red, White and Blue brothers
- 0:40Speaker 2: as they say, but there have been a number of
- 0:45Speaker 2: brothers who have played on the same team. Let me
- 0:47Speaker 2: go through them real fast. Joe and Larry McCormick nineteen twenty.
- 0:51Speaker 1: Roger and Bill Christian, Bell and Bob.
- 0:54Speaker 2: Cleary nineteen sixty. Here's where it gets interesting nineteen sixty.
- 0:59Speaker 1: Four, David and Yes, Herb Brooks.
- 1:04Speaker 2: Herb Brooks, the man that coached the Miracle on Ice
- 1:08Speaker 2: team in nineteen eighty, actually played in Team USA with
- 1:13Speaker 2: his brother alongside Roger and Bill Christian in nineteen sixty four,
- 1:18Speaker 2: eighty four, Mark and Scott Fusco nineteen ninety eight. I
- 1:22Speaker 2: remember Darien Hatcher. I remember Kevin Hatcher, but I remember
- 1:24Speaker 2: Darian Hatcher a little bit. And then this year the Kochucks,
- 1:28Speaker 2: Matthew and Brady and Jackie Quinn Hughes. And if you
- 1:31Speaker 2: saw Keith Kitchuck, he was chugging down a couple of
- 1:33Speaker 2: beers during that game.
- 1:35Speaker 1: The other day, he was sweating out a little bit
- 1:36Speaker 1: for his boys.
- 1:37Speaker 2: And yet here they are on the verge of a
- 1:40Speaker 2: almost at Stanley Cup, of a gold medal game. And
- 1:44Speaker 2: let me tell you, this team, from what I've seen
- 1:48Speaker 2: over the last fifteen years, is a lot.
- 1:50Speaker 1: Stronger than it was in twenty ten. Ryan Miller was incredible,
- 1:53Speaker 1: by the way.
- 1:54Speaker 2: Shout out to Aaron Franklin her miller esque performance this
- 1:58Speaker 2: entire Olympics for Team USA Women's Hockey, who won the
- 2:01Speaker 2: gold yesterday. But now all eyes are on today at
- 2:06Speaker 2: three ten pm, can the magic continue? I gotta be honest,
- 2:11Speaker 2: I've been wearing this jersey every night that Team USA
- 2:15Speaker 2: Hockey's been playing and we've not been steered wrong so far.
- 2:20Speaker 1: So let's do it again at three ten pm. It's
- 2:21Speaker 1: TM USA in the semi finals. That's your latest update.
- 2:25Speaker 2: I one look up Alex Garrett and one look up
- 2:28Speaker 2: Alex Sports says, go Team USA.