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USA Mens Soccer Wins First Knockout Match in 24 Years · The Wes Carroll Morning Show

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Speaker 2: Show Thursday morning, second day of July. I am Wes.
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Speaker 2: Thanks for joining me. I'm trying to remember if I
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Speaker 2: even said July yesterday. I say, I think I said July.
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Speaker 2: I may have said June. I don't know, one of
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Speaker 2: those things I do sometimes. If I did, my bad
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Speaker 2: nobody messaged me, so maybe I got it right. It
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Speaker 2: is day two of July and I always go through
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Speaker 2: this thing where I try to figure out where the
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Speaker 2: halfway point is officially for the year. And I think
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Speaker 2: it's noon today. That's what my kids were telling me,
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Speaker 2: like that's the halfway point. It seems like it should
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Speaker 2: be a couple of days later than that. But they
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Speaker 2: got it all worked out. I trust them. They're the
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Speaker 2: math people in the house. I used to be a
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Speaker 2: math person, not so much any more, and they had
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Speaker 2: the time for that. I had other things going on,
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Speaker 2: but we were discussing it and they did the math.
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Speaker 2: So will officially, I guess, be over the hump at
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Speaker 2: noon or something like that today on this second day
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Speaker 2: of July. How about that US Men's National tennis team,
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Speaker 2: tennis soccer team. Sorry, I'm literally looking at a tennis
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Speaker 2: ball and that's what I did. US men's national soccer
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Speaker 2: team winning in the World Cup last night to zero
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Speaker 2: against bosni and I always thought it was Herzegovina. But
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Speaker 2: there's about twenty different ways it's pronounced. I think there
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Speaker 2: may be more ways to say it than there are
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Speaker 2: for Qatar, because Katar is the new way they say it,
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Speaker 2: and for a while it was cutter and they just
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Speaker 2: keep jumping around. Anyway, two to win last night, and
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Speaker 2: it was a big, big day for US soccer in general.
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Speaker 2: And there's a few things about this that are special,
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Speaker 2: and I know there's some people that are, you know,
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Speaker 2: just they don't get the fever of like the Olympics
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Speaker 2: and World Cup and things. I think there's a lot
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Speaker 2: more people with eyes on the US team because US men,
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Speaker 2: because US women obviously have had a lot of success
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Speaker 2: and the men not so much. And there's just a
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Speaker 2: lot of excitement. They're playing at home, hosting the World Cup,
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Speaker 2: a lot of people enjoying their time in the States.
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Speaker 2: I think there's more people in the world that maybe
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Speaker 2: when their team goes out, they've just the people that
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Speaker 2: have been here that seem to be kind of gravitating
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Speaker 2: towards pulling for the US. And I know Canada and
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Speaker 2: Mexico were also hosting and they've both won and gone through,
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Speaker 2: so it was nice that the US wasn't the first
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Speaker 2: of the three hosts to be out. But the US
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Speaker 2: advances now to play Belgium, who had the absolute insane
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Speaker 2: ending of their game yesterday where they were down very
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Speaker 2: late one oh, it looked like they were done, and
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Speaker 2: they managed to down two oh and they managed to
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Speaker 2: score two goals very late and make it happen. So
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Speaker 2: it just a wild, wild ending to that game and
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Speaker 2: they won three to two with extra time. Just nuts, right,
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Speaker 2: So anyway, the US team what I want to talk
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Speaker 2: about today, and it's such a different thing right now
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Speaker 2: with the excitement for the team, with the momentum that
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Speaker 2: they have and the support that they have, and I
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Speaker 2: think that what I believe is the case for this
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Speaker 2: and just my impressions of it is basically we're talking
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Speaker 2: about a team that is on the way up and
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Speaker 2: they haven't gotten to this status yet where they get
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Speaker 2: to the level that because remember when the women's team
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Speaker 2: started to win, it was exciting. It was a lot
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Speaker 2: of fun. I still pull for them. I still want
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Speaker 2: to see them succeed. It's just it's a little bit
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Speaker 2: harder when you know what's coming from it. There's the well,
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Speaker 2: we have a platform now, we have to get out
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Speaker 2: and tell you our politics, and we have to tell
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Speaker 2: you why America sucks, and we don't want to sing
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Speaker 2: for the anthem, and we won't want to be out
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Speaker 2: there for the anthem. And that's not what's happening right
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Speaker 2: now with this men's team. Most of the most of
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Speaker 2: the starters sing at the anthem. There's one that just
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Speaker 2: stands there looking angry. I don't know what the story is, honestly,
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Speaker 2: don't care. I've long been an advocate for you. You know,
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Speaker 2: to me, part of our First Amendment is this right
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Speaker 2: to protest. I don't know that he's doing anything to protest,
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Speaker 2: but I think that guiding people to kind of stay
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Speaker 2: in the back instead of being out for the anthems
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Speaker 2: for protests like we've seen in some pro sports, that's
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Speaker 2: the better way to handle it. I think you don't
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Speaker 2: want to be out there for the anthem, don't be
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Speaker 2: out there for the anthem. But I do think when
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Speaker 2: it's a national team, it's different because you're in a
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Speaker 2: position where you're representing a country and you have people
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Speaker 2: in that country that are supporting you. I don't expect
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Speaker 2: you to sing. I've always thought when I watched the
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Speaker 2: World Cup and I see the other countries singing their anthems,
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Speaker 2: probably in many cases under duress. Some of these countries
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Speaker 2: aren't nice. Just the reality some cases you're just not
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Speaker 2: allowed to not sing, and you have to act like
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Speaker 2: you love it, and you know, under some penalty, potential
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Speaker 2: penalties including maybe even you know, horrible things to you
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Speaker 2: or your family. And I don't say that laughingly. It's
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Speaker 2: just the reality that some of these places are really
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Speaker 2: bad places on the planet. And for some reason America
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Speaker 2: decided to focus all of our attention on ourselves and
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Speaker 2: how horrible we are. And we're learning, of course from
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Speaker 2: all these people that are visiting that we're not as
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Speaker 2: bad as they're telling us in the media and some
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Speaker 2: of the handful of people that organize these protests or
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Speaker 2: trying to keep this story alive. But anyway, so the
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Speaker 2: women got popular and then decided that they had to
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Speaker 2: do what they have to do with their platforms. They
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Speaker 2: felt like they had earned somehow this right to go
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Speaker 2: out and do their thing and have their media pages
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Speaker 2: and their protests on the field, and they wanted to
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Speaker 2: wear armbands that said things and whatever. The men are
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Speaker 2: still in that early phase of it. They're trying to say, hey,
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Speaker 2: we're as good as everybody else. They've advanced to the
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Speaker 2: round of sixteen. They can't call it the sweet sixteen,
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Speaker 2: that's an NCAA thing, But to the round of sixteen,
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Speaker 2: that's great. They'll play Belgium in Seattle, and Belgium is
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Speaker 2: not the team they used to be. I know, the
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Speaker 2: US had a friendly with Belgium in Atlanta and Belgium
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Speaker 2: beat them pretty badly. But friendlies are kind of a
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Speaker 2: lot of things that are happening. Happening during those friendlies.
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Speaker 2: Some teams are trying to establish themselves and say this
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Speaker 2: is who we are. Some are just saying, look, we
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Speaker 2: want to see what happens if we put this guy
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Speaker 2: here and this guy over there, and what happens with
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Speaker 2: this combination of players. And you know, it may have
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Speaker 2: been enough for the US to say or they don't
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Speaker 2: want to show too much, and it may may have
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Speaker 2: been enough for the US to kind of get a
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Speaker 2: feel for where things needed to go once they got
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Speaker 2: actually into the tournament. My good friend Colin invited me
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Speaker 2: to that friendly game and I was not able to go,
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Speaker 2: and it was really devastating, especially for my fourteen year
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Speaker 2: old but I do appreciate the invitation. I had a
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Speaker 2: work commitment I could not avoid. There was no way
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Speaker 2: possible for me to avoid it, and we tried to
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Speaker 2: make it happen. But Colin, who listens, I appreciate it.
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Speaker 2: I still do. And Luke has already brought up the
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Speaker 2: fact that we could have seen the US in Belgium
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Speaker 2: already play in that friendly, but you know, we're not
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Speaker 2: making it to Seattle. So that's just the reality. So
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Speaker 2: now we got them in on the way up and
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Speaker 2: right now they're just having a good time. They're enjoying
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Speaker 2: a sport. They're playing a sport that you know, affords
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Speaker 2: them this opportunity to play at this level, and they're
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Speaker 2: having success. They seem to be, you know, a team.
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Speaker 2: They seem to have camaraderie, they seem to have the
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Speaker 2: agenda seems to just be let's win. They're using their
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Speaker 2: platform to try to win. They want to get now
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Speaker 2: to the round of eight. That's what they want to
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Speaker 2: do next. They want to win this next game. They
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Speaker 2: want to get to the round of eight, you know,
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Speaker 2: and then you think about other things beyond that. So
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Speaker 2: it's a winnable match. Now they do have a bit
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Speaker 2: of a complication with all of this because their best
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Speaker 2: goal scorer got a red card in the game last night.
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Speaker 2: I personally, and I've never officiated a game. I've coached
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Speaker 2: a lot of games. I understand letter of the law
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Speaker 2: and the rule. It was a play where he ultimately
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Speaker 2: put one of the Bosnian players in a position where
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Speaker 2: it caused some harm. It could have really injured him.
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Speaker 2: It looked like it really did when the play happened,
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Speaker 2: and in real time didn't look like that. That's that's
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Speaker 2: not that's not what it's not what it looked like.
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Speaker 2: But then they have their you know, var reviews. They
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Speaker 2: looked at it and they said, hey, it put him
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Speaker 2: in a position where he could have injured somebody, and
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Speaker 2: they pull out the red card. I didn't like it.
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Speaker 2: I thought it should have been a yellow when it happened.
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Speaker 2: I didn't think it should have been a red at all.
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Speaker 2: But I don't get to make those decisions as a coach.
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Speaker 2: I didn't get to make those decisions as a player.
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Speaker 2: I can tell you that when I never got a
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Speaker 2: red in a game ever in any capacity, I was
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Speaker 2: threatened with some yellows as a coach. I definitely got
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Speaker 2: some as a player, usually from running my mouth, and
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Speaker 2: I tried not tried not to do that too much.
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Speaker 2: As a coach. Got threatened a few times. It was
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Speaker 2: a few like you know you're gonna have to knock
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Speaker 2: it off, and you know, ultimately I did because I'm
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Speaker 2: trying to set a good example for the kids playing
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Speaker 2: in high school. Also a little different because I'm representing
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Speaker 2: my school playing as an adult and rec league on
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Speaker 2: a team that I helped found. Yeah, I could get
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Speaker 2: away with that if I wanted to, and that's the
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Speaker 2: only cards I ever got, but I was never It
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Speaker 2: was a very physical game. They were letting a lot
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Speaker 2: of stuff go last night, and I to me, if
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Speaker 2: the ref didn't even think it was worthy of a
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Speaker 2: yellow in real time, I don't know how you get
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Speaker 2: straight to red. But the US it was one of
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Speaker 2: those things where having ten on the field and they
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Speaker 2: had to play, and they had to play like lights
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Speaker 2: out for a long stretch of the game, most of
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Speaker 2: the second half and into a long bit of extra
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Speaker 2: time because there was a lot of time added because
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Speaker 2: of that review for that red card and the fact
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Speaker 2: that they scored a second goal after that while they
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Speaker 2: were playing with just ten also pretty special. And you know,
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Speaker 2: beating beating someone, beating a team from anywhere in Europe
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Speaker 2: or Asia is an accomplishment for the US team at
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Speaker 2: this level and it's pretty excellent. So really happy for him,
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Speaker 2: really excited for him. Had fun watching the game, you know,
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Speaker 2: me and the family all watching it last night. So
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Speaker 2: and I know a lot of America tuned in, a
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Speaker 2: lot of America excited about it. And we'll see where
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Speaker 2: things go with Belgium. If they play with the intensity
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Speaker 2: that they played down a man last night, they certainly
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Speaker 2: have the chance of beating Belt. Belgium's not what they
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Speaker 2: used to be. They used to be, you know, one
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Speaker 2: of the big players in this World Cup in the past.
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Speaker 2: They've got a very senior team as far as some
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Speaker 2: of their players that are. But they're still good and
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Speaker 2: they're still dangerous. They're just not, you know, one of
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Speaker 2: the teams that you would just great Belgium, you know,
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Speaker 2: I know they they're looking forward to their chance to
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Speaker 2: play Belgium and see what they can do with them,
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Speaker 2: and I'm looking forward to to watching it. Still got
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Speaker 2: Australia coming up for their you know, next game, and
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Speaker 2: we'll see if if Australia can find a way to
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Speaker 2: win their next match. And I believe and I think
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Speaker 2: I've got this right because I said it yesterday, But
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Speaker 2: if the Australian team ends up winning their match, I
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Speaker 2: believe they because they play Egypt, yeah, tomorrow at two.
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Speaker 2: I believe their next match would be in Atlanta, and
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Speaker 2: I think likely the opponent would be Argentina and that
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Speaker 2: would be interesting of course, and conversations have to start
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Speaker 2: happening then because those are not going to be cheap tickets.
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Speaker 2: But anyway, excited about the outcome, excited for the team.
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Speaker 2: I love the fact that we haven't gotten to that
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Speaker 2: status where they think we have to hear about their politics.
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Speaker 2: If it's happened, I haven't heard it, and I think
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Speaker 2: that's where all teams at this level should be. It's
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Speaker 2: not saying that anyone has to be muzzled, it's not
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Speaker 2: saying that anybody has to be kept quiet. It's just
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Speaker 2: you're part of the national team, Go play for your country.
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Speaker 2: Go represent your country, and understand this is a privilege
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Speaker 2: that you have to be on this team. It's not
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Speaker 2: a right, and just go play. Now, if they do
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Speaker 2: very well, and they've already done well, and if they
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Speaker 2: continue to win in this tournament and they get on
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Speaker 2: to you know, the next stage and the next World Cup,
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Speaker 2: and they keep in the Olympics and all these things,
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Speaker 2: maybe they'll become unbearable as well. Maybe that will happen,
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Speaker 2: maybe it'll just be a lot. But it's the same
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Speaker 2: sort of thing that I feel like with like we've
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Speaker 2: been talking a little bit this week about the w NBA,
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Speaker 2: it feels with a w NBA like they just wanted
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Speaker 2: to walk into the door, get started, get a few
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Speaker 2: new players that come in, and they wanted to we
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Speaker 2: have our platform now, and it's you're standing on the
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Speaker 2: shoulders of the NBA players who have a platform. Nobody.
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Speaker 2: Research in polling shows us that people don't really care
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Speaker 2: who celebrities vote for, what they think about politics, and
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Speaker 2: it's it's a waste of time, but they certainly have
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Speaker 2: the right to do it. They're just adult professionals that
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Speaker 2: are playing a sport, and if they want to go
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Speaker 2: on social media and alienate fans, they should be able
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Speaker 2: to do that. That's fine. And you know, have their
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Speaker 2: little you know echo chamber where they just hear everybody
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Speaker 2: go yeah, yeah, yeah, you're you're great, right, And that's
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Speaker 2: what they're going to get. The sycophants that are going
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Speaker 2: to tell them you're awesome, you're amazing, and your everything
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Speaker 2: you say is right, they're gonna get that. That's what
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Speaker 2: there sometimes are looking for. And you know, with a WNBA,
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Speaker 2: they just kind of walk in the door and it's like, hey,
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Speaker 2: we're here now, I've earned this my platform. I don't know.
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Speaker 2: I guess let's see we've hang some w's up before
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Speaker 2: we start all that. You know, Let's let's see what
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Speaker 2: you can do out there. I don't want to just
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Speaker 2: pick on them, though it seems like we've been picking
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Speaker 2: on them all week. I just want to see that.
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Speaker 2: I want to see that league thrive. I want to
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Speaker 2: see it survive. I just hate that they've decided to
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Speaker 2: go after their best player and try to seemingly injure
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Speaker 2: her constantly. But this is about the men's soccer team.
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Speaker 2: That's what it's about. And good for them. I'm excited
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Speaker 2: for them to go on to the next round. I
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Speaker 2: hope that we will continue to want to support them
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Speaker 2: because all they're gonna want to do is go out
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Speaker 2: What would people change their name? Too? Apparently? Jessica topped
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Speaker 2: the list, followed by Amira, Caroline or Carolyn I don't
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Speaker 2: know which that is, Lisa or Natalie. Interesting. A couple
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Speaker 2: of things to take away from this for me is
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Speaker 2: this idea that the name Damien carries that, you know,
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Speaker 2: that the devil, the spawn of Satan kind of thing.
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Speaker 2: Just kind of interesting stuff there. And how did Amira
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Speaker 2: get in on this list of names that people would
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Speaker 2: change their name too. That's interesting. And I still say
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Speaker 2: the Karen thing is really stupid, because it's really nothing
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Speaker 2: but a way to tell, you know, white women to
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Speaker 2: shut up. They're not allowed to complain. Not sure how
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Speaker 2: many people will be screaming for this ice cream because
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Speaker 2: a roadside stop in Japan has gone viral on social
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Speaker 2: media for an unusual dessert item, oyster infused soft serve
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Speaker 2: ice cream. The cone starts with a rich, creamy vanilla
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Speaker 2: based and adds fresh oysters from a local bay and
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Speaker 2: a salty, soy sauce drizzle on top, creating a mix
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Speaker 2: of sweet, seafood savory flavors. Most people shocked the combination exists,
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Speaker 2: but those who've tried it say that the unexpected blend
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Speaker 2: actually works. The quirky treat being served all summer for
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Speaker 2: just a few dollars quickly becoming one of Japan's strangest
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Speaker 2: must try snacks. They have a lot of those. There's
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Speaker 2: a lot of people who go to Japan just for
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Speaker 2: the food and the unique food items, and this would
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Speaker 2: certainly be one of those. I am not an oyster
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Speaker 2: guy in any form or capacity, so I will pass.
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Speaker 2: I don't know how the fresh oysters works with it.
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Speaker 2: I assume that means raw right, no things I'm not in.
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Speaker 2: I know people like it and good for you. I
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Speaker 2: was offered fried oysters on my trip to Mobile and
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Speaker 2: I had to decline. It's just not my thing. I
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Speaker 2: want to know how intelligent someone is without having to
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Speaker 2: talk to them. It could be as simple as looking
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Speaker 2: in their eyes. A new study new research out of
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Speaker 2: Georgia Tech suggesting a person's eyes might reveal how well
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Speaker 2: they process information. Specifically, scientists found a link between a
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Speaker 2: person's baseline pupil size, which is how big their pupils
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Speaker 2: are while resting, and then certain types of intelligence to
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Speaker 2: go with it. Researchers track nearly five hundred adults using
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Speaker 2: eye scanning technology and discover that people with larger pupils
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Speaker 2: tend to perform better on tests measuring problem solving having
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Speaker 2: better attention control and working memory. Scientists say this could
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Speaker 2: be tied to the part of the brain that regulates
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Speaker 2: focus and mental effort. Interesting. A new U gov survey
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Speaker 2: has found that when people do their grocery shopping, wealthier
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Speaker 2: Americans aren't necessarily flocking to fancy specialty stores. Instead, Costco
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Speaker 2: is their top choice. Eleven percent of higher income Americans
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Speaker 2: say Costco is where they go to do most of
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Speaker 2: their grocery shopping, compared with just five percent of middle
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Speaker 2: and lower income shoppers. Trader Joe's also popular with the
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Speaker 2: wealthier consumers, while Walmart superstores remain the favorite among lower
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Speaker 2: and middle income households. The survey found that higher income
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Speaker 2: sh shoppers also tend to hit grocery stores more often,
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Speaker 2: thirty four percent shops several times a week compared to
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Speaker 2: twenty five percent of other shoppers. They're also spending considerably more,
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Speaker 2: with fifty one percent reporting weekly grocery bills of more
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Speaker 2: than one hundred and fifty dollars and five percent spending
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Speaker 2: more than four hundred dollars a week. Among middle and
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Speaker 2: lower income households, most spend less than one hundred and
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Speaker 2: fifty dollars a week. On groceries, and the largest share
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Speaker 2: reports weekly grocery bills between fifty and one hundred dollars.
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Speaker 2: It also depends on how many teenage boys you have
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Speaker 2: in the house. I would assume that'll do it for
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