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Kappa Kate Sutton Joins The Show - 2/13/26 · The Huddle

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  Speaker 1: That's right. We are on the air.
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  Speaker 2: It's hour number two, Friday edition of The Huddle. Fox
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  Speaker 2: Sports Radio Wisconsin. Drew Wilson, Billy Schmid, armand Sary and
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  Speaker 2: bringing it to you from headquarters.
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  Speaker 1: And oh baby, this is a special day.
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  Speaker 2: This is the day that the Huddle goes international long
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  Speaker 2: distance basu as we welcome back to the program our
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  Speaker 2: returning champion, The Sorority Sports Report with Kapa Kate Kate Sutton,
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  Speaker 2: usually emanating from Madison, today it's from Milan.
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  Speaker 1: Kate, how are things good afternoon for you?
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  Speaker 3: Good afternoon.
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  Speaker 4: It's one o'clock here and it's actually the first sunny
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  Speaker 4: day we've had any very long time, so it's exciting.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, that's not right.
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  Speaker 2: Day seven of the Milan Courtina Olympics. Kate, what have
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  Speaker 2: you done so far? We're all so jealous. We've been
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  Speaker 2: watching and wondering what it's like to be in the
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  Speaker 2: belly of the beast for an event like this.
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  Speaker 1: What is it like?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, it's insane.
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  Speaker 4: Every I mean, I already knew coming here that i'd
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  Speaker 4: be meeting a bunch of people from around the world,
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  Speaker 4: But I mean when you're coming here and starting off
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  Speaker 4: strong during the Olympics. I'm just surrounded by everyone's wrapping
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  Speaker 4: their country. I know exactly like what language to try
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  Speaker 4: to speak to someone to Most of the time though,
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  Speaker 4: they just start speaking in English. I don't really blunt
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  Speaker 4: in at all here. But it's it's super cool. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: there's lights everywhere. They have so many pop up stores
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  Speaker 4: that I've definitely gone into a few of those and
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  Speaker 4: I don't going to go again today and maybe buy
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  Speaker 4: another hat or something.
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  Speaker 1: That is just so wild. So what events have you
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  Speaker 1: been to so far?
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  Speaker 3: So I went to the opening ceremony.
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  Speaker 4: So there was this deal where you could do a
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  Speaker 4: two for one ticket if you are a student or
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  Speaker 4: actually I think he was under the age of twenty six,
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  Speaker 4: so instead of paying two hundred and sixty, I only
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  Speaker 4: paid one hundred and thirty to go. So my friends
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  Speaker 4: and I went as a large group. It was so
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  Speaker 4: much fun. We went to a pub beforehand, went in there,
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  Speaker 4: and while we were in there too, it's just the
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  Speaker 4: Coronas are everywhere because that's their main sponsor.
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  Speaker 3: So that was super fun.
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  Speaker 4: And then after that I went to the women's US
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  Speaker 4: hockey game when they played Switzerland, and that was amazing
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  Speaker 4: to watch because we shut them out five and I
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  Speaker 4: mean all the six players from Madison. I mean, that's
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  Speaker 4: just such a cool connection that we have, at least
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  Speaker 4: to the school. So I'm super That was the most
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  Speaker 4: exciting game I think I've been to. And then I
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  Speaker 4: just got back from Cortina because I had a friend
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  Speaker 4: from high school who actually competed in Louse yesterday. He
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  Speaker 4: broke the track record and was the first American to
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  Speaker 4: ever place in number one in luge in any race ever.
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  Speaker 4: He ended up in six, but his first run he
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  Speaker 4: was in first place. It was the most that was
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  Speaker 4: the most exciting event. Honestly, I'm already I'm mourning it today.
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  Speaker 4: That's why we're't all black.
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  Speaker 5: That's great, so pre gaming for the opening ceremonies, but the.
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  Speaker 6: Right way to well, that's the thing Kate Arma has
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  Speaker 6: been trying to sell me on going in twenty twenty
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  Speaker 6: eight to LA and I'm be completely honest, I think
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  Speaker 6: I'm gonna find a lot of other things to do,
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  Speaker 6: But now you've just sold me on the energy. So
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  Speaker 6: opening ceremonies, we think and we see on television, seems
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  Speaker 6: like there might just be a lot of walking around
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  Speaker 6: but that that was maybe one of the more electric
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  Speaker 6: times for the opening ceremonies because of the festivities prior
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  Speaker 6: to in the squad that you guys were able to
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  Speaker 6: roll through with.
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  Speaker 1: I love that.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, like we had to make it as fun as
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  Speaker 4: we could well because again that this is also the
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  Speaker 4: first widespread Olympics ever. So this that's why it's Malan Courtina.
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  Speaker 4: So we're sitting there in there and there's the lady
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  Speaker 4: in silvers.
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  Speaker 3: Every time they're.
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  Speaker 4: Calling out the country, you're supposed to walk out, and
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  Speaker 4: all these athletes are supposed to follow, except most countries
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  Speaker 4: had no athletes following them.
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  Speaker 3: So we're sitting in the building in Milan and we're like,
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  Speaker 3: where the heck are all the athletes.
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  Speaker 4: Well, the majority of them are in Courtina, So then
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  Speaker 4: you can see certain countries if you have more people
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  Speaker 4: competing in the arenas they were here in Milan, if
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  Speaker 4: they were in the Alps, that's where they were.
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  Speaker 3: So I mean, it was it was still super fun
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  Speaker 3: to watch.
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  Speaker 4: But my friend Marcus, who was there, he said the
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  Speaker 4: Courtina opening ceremony was super fun for him because it
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  Speaker 4: was way more intimate.
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  Speaker 3: We're in an arena in Milan, so we were just
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  Speaker 3: high up.
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  Speaker 4: Thankfully, my seats were great, so I got to watch
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  Speaker 4: them go out of the tunnel and everything.
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  Speaker 3: But back in fourteen, they were giving high fives everyone on.
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  Speaker 4: The street stuff like that, just like you have to
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  Speaker 4: hang out with the athlete.
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  Speaker 2: But Billy, if I may here, you're wondering about the
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  Speaker 2: pageantry of the Is it a TV event or is
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  Speaker 2: it something you can enjoy in person? Dude, we were
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  Speaker 2: just at the NFL Draft, which is yes, and we
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  Speaker 2: enjoyed that.
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  Speaker 1: So that's the thing.
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  Speaker 6: That's why I'm like, if I'm going to go to something,
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  Speaker 6: the ceremony might be the last thing, because that feels
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  Speaker 6: like the least, that's right, But the luge being the
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  Speaker 6: most entertaining might be my favorite part.
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  Speaker 7: It is interesting that they had the second ceremony, sorry, Kate,
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  Speaker 7: because it's sort of like, no, it's like the spring
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  Speaker 7: training MLB thing. It's like the play they're more accessible there.
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  Speaker 7: It's a smaller environment, you know, sometimes it's a great
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  Speaker 7: experience to do that. It's like the summer it's like
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  Speaker 7: the summer school graduation. You know, you have the graduation,
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  Speaker 7: not the main event, but they graduated from those summer
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  Speaker 7: school kids, you know, but people forget that there there
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  Speaker 7: were two like that. That's an interesting tidbit.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, Kate, here you when most people go abroad,
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  Speaker 2: they get to know their town maybe for the first
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  Speaker 2: weekend or two, and then they hit the U rail
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  Speaker 2: and they start traveling around.
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  Speaker 1: There's no reason for you to leave right now.
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  Speaker 3: No, I mean, I will say, we've been doing some
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  Speaker 3: day trips.
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  Speaker 4: So my friends and I we did do like late
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  Speaker 4: Saturday night through all Sunday. We went to Florence, so
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  Speaker 4: we got to explore that for a bit. That is
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  Speaker 4: so much different than on I will say, because I
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  Speaker 4: feel like it's very The places that a lot of
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  Speaker 4: students had to go to is Barcelona, Florence, and Rome.
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  Speaker 4: So when we go to Florence, there's literally a study
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  Speaker 4: abroad bar there were shots labeled for each of the
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  Speaker 4: colleges and university Wisconsin.
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  Speaker 3: I had it.
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  Speaker 4: I can't even remember what it was. It wasn't a
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  Speaker 4: very good shot, which was a little disappointed. I'm like,
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  Speaker 4: we're the drinking say, you guys had to represent us better,
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  Speaker 4: But it was the whole Florence was still super fun,
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  Speaker 4: I believe. On Sunday, my friends and I are playing
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  Speaker 4: on going to Bologna or Madona, one of the two.
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  Speaker 4: But we're trying to take some day trips. But exactly
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  Speaker 4: we're here, we're exploring. We're trying to like, there's so
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  Speaker 4: many fun events that are happening.
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  Speaker 3: Now, what's the reason, Yeah, to leave everyone's.
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  Speaker 1: Paying to us, We don't have You're at the center
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  Speaker 1: of the universe right now. We're all watching. Every day, we're.
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  Speaker 2: Watching stuff that's happening by you. So Billy was asking,
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  Speaker 2: first of all, how good is the food? Because you
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  Speaker 2: go from being you know, you don't live in university
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  Speaker 2: housing anymore, so you don't have like the dorm food anymore.
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  Speaker 2: But you're eating ramen noodles like a college student. And
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  Speaker 2: now you go overseas and that's one of the things
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  Speaker 2: I've been floored by when I.
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  Speaker 1: Travel is how good the food is? How good is
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  Speaker 1: the food in Milan?
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  Speaker 4: Unreal to the point where my bank account is sort
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  Speaker 4: of taking a hit.
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  Speaker 5: I don't know how Mom's watching.
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  Speaker 6: She's gonna help out, she already had, she already said,
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  Speaker 6: you're going to replenish.
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  Speaker 3: I'm already starting to hit the point where and be like, hey,
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  Speaker 3: Mom and Dad, like my savings.
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  Speaker 4: Are gone because it's been two weeks, and I mean
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  Speaker 4: I also want to go to as many Olympic events
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  Speaker 4: as I can while I have the opportunity to. So
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  Speaker 4: even now, like I'm wondering if I should just pay
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  Speaker 4: the money and try and go to the USA Woman's
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  Speaker 4: Gold sit Gold Game, try and buy it because I'm
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  Speaker 4: have high hope the USA.
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  Speaker 5: Will make it there.
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  Speaker 4: So I mean, you're paying for that on top of
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  Speaker 4: the fact that I'm trying to try every restaurant around me.
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  Speaker 4: The pasta is incredible, the pizza's unreal and what's super
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  Speaker 4: fun is I mean, at least in my area, I
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  Speaker 4: did find a place that gives you a whole pizza
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  Speaker 4: for only six euros.
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  Speaker 1: Whoa those deals?
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  Speaker 7: Yeah deal and they get down with the multiple court,
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  Speaker 7: the multiple courses. You know, you know when you go there,
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  Speaker 7: you don't just sit there and you know you had
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  Speaker 7: the the first the pasta course, the second course. I know,
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  Speaker 7: it's it's a it's an experience, man. It's pretty awesome.
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  Speaker 6: Though, have we hit any any of the gelato spots?
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  Speaker 6: Was is that it become a nightly nightly occurrence as well?
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  Speaker 4: I I wish we've honest Honestly, that's been the joke
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  Speaker 4: so far. We've been eating so much pizza and pasa
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  Speaker 4: that we haven't really had a lot of gelato yet.
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  Speaker 4: But I did go to Venice because on my way
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  Speaker 4: to Courtina it was actually cheaper for me to go
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  Speaker 4: to Venice. I had someplace if you ever go, go
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  Speaker 4: to Suso Gelato. It was probably the best ice cream
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  Speaker 4: I've ever had in my entire life. But I mean,
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  Speaker 4: that's kind of expected we're in Italy. But yeah, no, Honestly,
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  Speaker 4: the major the problem that I've been having is the
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  Speaker 4: fact that everyone eats.
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  Speaker 3: So late here, very late.
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  Speaker 4: All the restaurants are closed until seven pm. So when
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  Speaker 4: you're out partying as late as most students are, because
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  Speaker 4: I mean my college, my university here has like set
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  Speaker 4: up student events that go until like two three in
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  Speaker 4: the morning, So it's one of those things where also
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  Speaker 4: and you're waking up late, then you want to eat,
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  Speaker 4: and all the restaurants are now closed for close after lunch.
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  Speaker 3: Then there's that awkward break and then they don't open
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  Speaker 3: until dinner.
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  Speaker 1: Man, this is awesome. That sounds like the best time.
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  Speaker 1: I'm in a whole squad out there.
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  Speaker 2: As well, takes out and joining us caplicate the sorority
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  Speaker 2: sports port allowed from Milan where she's studying abroad. Now
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  Speaker 2: let's get the studying a broad part in because we
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  Speaker 2: know your parents might be listening to the program doing
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  Speaker 2: class work. Classes on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, you have classes.
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  Speaker 2: You're taking three classes, and you have basically weekends free,
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  Speaker 2: which is a veteran move.
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  Speaker 1: Great work.
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  Speaker 4: You know I should. So here's something new. I'm in
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  Speaker 4: an exchange program, so I'm I'm going to an Italian university.
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  Speaker 4: So in America, the very norm is that you're in
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  Speaker 4: the same classroom, you have the same schedule that should
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  Speaker 4: be set.
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  Speaker 3: I just came.
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  Speaker 4: Actually that's why I had to do a one o'clock
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  Speaker 4: is because I just came from a three hour lecture
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  Speaker 4: that started at eight thirty am and ended at noon
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  Speaker 4: today because he moved it from Monday to Friday just
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  Speaker 4: for this week. So I have to check my schedule
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  Speaker 4: every week to see if my professors will change things around.
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  Speaker 3: So I did go.
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  Speaker 4: I did make it barely, and I kind of fell
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  Speaker 4: asleep in the middle of it because there's family business
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  Speaker 4: strategies and I mean, I can only listen to that
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  Speaker 4: for so long.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, I'm there fall.
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  Speaker 1: For making it three and a half hours.
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  Speaker 6: In all reality, Okay, you get more credit for actually going.
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  Speaker 6: The professor changes the day, true, I can't change that.
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  Speaker 6: I'm sorry. I'm locked in. I had an appointment with
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  Speaker 6: the couch. I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 5: I can't cancel that. You had to watch my athline
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  Speaker 5: and cross country scheme.
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  Speaker 1: You know I'm going to sleep. I can't cancel on
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  Speaker 1: that appointment on myself. Important.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, short track too much.
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  Speaker 4: This is the one with the hardest attendants to the
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  Speaker 4: second is like an app that essentially you have to
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  Speaker 4: use here that you check in every single class.
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  Speaker 3: That's how you record attendance.
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  Speaker 4: Most of my classes, thankfully three out of the four
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  Speaker 4: say if you can't make it, you can't make it.
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  Speaker 3: We understand your exchange.
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  Speaker 4: Students try to come like you have to at least
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  Speaker 4: come to seventy five percent.
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  Speaker 3: But if we get it.
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  Speaker 4: However, the professor this morning for the three hour, eight
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  Speaker 4: thirty lecture, he's my only professor that will go through
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  Speaker 4: and double check that people that have checked in on
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  Speaker 4: the app are actually in person. And there were six
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  Speaker 4: kids that just checked in hoping he wouldn't notice and
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  Speaker 4: now they're going to be sent to the dean.
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  Speaker 2: Man.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I can because I would have done that.
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  Speaker 6: I can't tell you how many times I'm thinking it's
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  Speaker 6: definitely already trying to check in and see if you
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  Speaker 6: would check.
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  Speaker 3: My heart stopped because that was my play on too.
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  Speaker 4: I was like, you know, if I can take it,
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  Speaker 4: I'll just press the check in and hope for the best.
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  Speaker 5: You confused by the language or something noise?
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  Speaker 1: Is it just me?
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  Speaker 5: Or is that a little redundant?
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  Speaker 7: You check it on the app to see that you're
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  Speaker 7: in class, but it's like then they're checking in the class.
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  Speaker 5: I'm like, isn't that redundant?
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  Speaker 3: That's that's exactly what we thought.
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  Speaker 4: Where all the students are looking at each other as
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  Speaker 4: we're watching the names get written down, We're.
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  Speaker 3: Like, what's this guy's problem? Like it's a Friday morning.
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  Speaker 4: Like you geta come on, I don't like this guy already?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't like this guy.
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  Speaker 5: Bob sleds on, like.
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  Speaker 3: Come on, doesn't he know that I just came from
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  Speaker 3: courteena like I.
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  Speaker 6: Had think about the people, think about the people, professor,
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  Speaker 6: Come on.
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  Speaker 1: That's right, seriously, what is it?
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  Speaker 6: Like?
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  Speaker 2: Kate to attend a louge event because none of us
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  Speaker 2: have ever seen that sport live, Like, where do you
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  Speaker 2: position yourself to get any view at all? Like, you know,
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  Speaker 2: it's a little bit like watching a marathon. I watch,
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  Speaker 2: I'm here in one spot, We're going to move to another.
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  Speaker 1: But what is it like see?
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  Speaker 4: I actually would compare it to F one how you
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  Speaker 4: get a spot and you only see it for like
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  Speaker 4: zero point five seconds and then it's gone. So in luge,
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  Speaker 4: normally a lot of people my friend are and she's
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  Speaker 4: from New Berlin as well, so we both met up
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  Speaker 4: there when we actually were with Marcus's family while we
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  Speaker 4: were there, and we stayed with them. So where we
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  Speaker 4: ended up watching was actually just at the bottom of
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  Speaker 4: the main area, right when you walk in, and there's
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  Speaker 4: a big JumboTron.
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  Speaker 3: That's just where we all sat and washed and the
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  Speaker 3: luge hat.
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  Speaker 4: Went right behind us. So it was the perfect spot.
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  Speaker 4: So we're watching them throughout the whole race, and then
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  Speaker 4: you can turn around for a few seconds and watch
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  Speaker 4: them fly by, and then they're gone again in the tunnels.
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  Speaker 4: So it was it was definitely new for me, but
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  Speaker 4: I was if I hadn't compared I would say F one,
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  Speaker 4: And there were some people that were up at the
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  Speaker 4: starting line up, like as Aubrey and I walked all
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  Speaker 4: the way up the mountain all the way down. There
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  Speaker 4: were people lined up all throughout the all against the tunnels.
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  Speaker 4: But I trusted. I trusted the Marcus's family who have
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  Speaker 4: watched this consistently, here's the best spot to watch.
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  Speaker 3: And they were absolutely right.
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  Speaker 4: There was a huge crowd and when Marcus won, the
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  Speaker 4: entire place erupted. Because that was their first Olympic Games.
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  Speaker 4: They beat out guys in their first round. They beat
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  Speaker 4: out guys that have been loose together monger than they've
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  Speaker 4: been alive. So it was so exciting, truly like once
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  Speaker 4: in a lifetime experience.
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  Speaker 2: In the studio here we have your Mom's station on
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  Speaker 2: W twelve and the mornings they just showed a live
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  Speaker 2: shot of Milan for the Olympics, and they had Jason Newton,
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  Speaker 2: who used to work here, who's there covering for them.
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  Speaker 2: And it's funny and it looks beautiful. What's it like weatherwise?
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  Speaker 2: How's the compared to wiscons It's forty five degrees here,
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  Speaker 2: Billy's and shorts today better believe it. Yeah, because it's
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  Speaker 2: forty five. What is it like there and how how
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  Speaker 2: cold is it? And how do you know when you're
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  Speaker 2: going to a lose thing? What does one where in
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  Speaker 2: terms of, like, you know, being on a mountain and stuff,
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  Speaker 2: how do you adapt?
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  Speaker 4: The weather was definitely different, Like she Marcus's mom texted
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  Speaker 4: Aubrey and I please make sure that you dress warm.
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  Speaker 3: She's like, please bring boots. I look in my closet.
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  Speaker 4: I only have high heeled boots and I have sneakers
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  Speaker 4: because I packed as light as I could. So then
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  Speaker 4: I'm in a panic. And thankfully I went to because
• 13:52
  Speaker 4: I'm in Milan, fashion in the capital of the world.
• 13:54
  Speaker 5: That's true, the.
• 13:55
  Speaker 4: Dibomo and I got some cheap twenty dollars snow boots
• 13:58
  Speaker 4: that were a size too big, but I just had
• 14:00
  Speaker 4: to like layer up my socks.
• 14:02
  Speaker 3: That was the smartest thing I've ever.
• 14:03
  Speaker 4: Done, because it was freezing in fourteen when you're just
• 14:06
  Speaker 4: standing out there, like I'm wearing as much as I can,
• 14:08
  Speaker 4: but still like it was a lot colder out there.
• 14:11
  Speaker 4: Of course you're in the mountains and around all the
• 14:13
  Speaker 4: snow here. It's honestly just been very rainy, very cloudy.
• 14:17
  Speaker 3: Very rainy.
• 14:17
  Speaker 4: It's been consistently like around forty forty five degrees. Today
• 14:21
  Speaker 4: is the nicest, say that we've had so far. It's
• 14:23
  Speaker 4: sixty degrees, it's sunny. I'm gonna go on a walk
• 14:26
  Speaker 4: after this.
• 14:26
  Speaker 3: It's it's beautiful. I'm so excited.
• 14:29
  Speaker 7: It's interesting because I remember the Socio Olympics it was
• 14:31
  Speaker 7: an issue because it wasn't getting cold enough for some
• 14:33
  Speaker 7: of the events and the snow was not you know,
• 14:35
  Speaker 7: staying on the mountains and things like that. So it's
• 14:38
  Speaker 7: good to hear that, at least mostly in the mountains,
• 14:40
  Speaker 7: it's been cold enough for the actual you know, the
• 14:43
  Speaker 7: actual plants in the competition.
• 14:46
  Speaker 4: Yeah, the night we showed up, it actually started snowing
• 14:48
  Speaker 4: a little bit as we were walking back up, but
• 14:50
  Speaker 4: the next day it all was melting, so you know,
• 14:52
  Speaker 4: it was very bipolar out there.
• 14:54
  Speaker 3: It was freezing when we got there, but then it
• 14:56
  Speaker 3: was pretty. And here's the thing.
• 14:57
  Speaker 4: When I say warm, I think it was like thirty
• 15:00
  Speaker 4: two thirty three degrees outside, but still for the snow
• 15:04
  Speaker 4: and everything, like people were saying, especially at the Louse Tournament,
• 15:07
  Speaker 4: we wanted it to be colder because that means the
• 15:09
  Speaker 4: ice is gonna be thicker.
• 15:11
  Speaker 3: Stuff like that.
• 15:11
  Speaker 4: So I mean, really, the Winter Olympics, it comes down
• 15:14
  Speaker 4: to a science because I think it was one of
• 15:16
  Speaker 4: the Olympics actually in Quartina back in the day. Maybe
• 15:19
  Speaker 4: that's wrong, but it's they had to fly in snow.
• 15:22
  Speaker 4: They had to have an army flying snow to one
• 15:23
  Speaker 4: of the Winter Olympics. And I'm just grateful for both
• 15:26
  Speaker 4: for Italy that they didn't.
• 15:27
  Speaker 3: Have to do that.
• 15:28
  Speaker 2: Here now here's here's the last thing for you, Kate,
• 15:30
  Speaker 2: as you're in the center of it and you're going
• 15:32
  Speaker 2: to events and you're just living and breathing it because
• 15:34
  Speaker 2: it's there. It's you're surrounded by the Olympics. Are you
• 15:37
  Speaker 2: watching anything on television? Like are you watching the Italian feed?
• 15:40
  Speaker 2: Are you watching like events like just while you're studying
• 15:43
  Speaker 2: or something, or while you're at a bar?
• 15:44
  Speaker 1: Is it on is it like? Is it you know?
• 15:47
  Speaker 1: Is it inescapable? Are you consuming it the way we
• 15:49
  Speaker 1: are watching on TV?
• 15:51
  Speaker 4: I would, honestly, I was a little shocked that there
• 15:54
  Speaker 4: weren't more like jumbo trons showing stuff because here's the issue.
• 15:58
  Speaker 4: I mean, the arena and the both to the arenas
• 16:00
  Speaker 4: in order to get to the opening ceremony or to
• 16:02
  Speaker 4: get to the hockey arena, you had to go an
• 16:05
  Speaker 4: hour outside in opposite directions of the main city center.
• 16:09
  Speaker 4: So when I went out closer to the arenas, it
• 16:12
  Speaker 4: was everywhere. All the TVs were up, all the bars
• 16:14
  Speaker 4: had stuff going on. In Milan, it they're they're playing stuff.
• 16:18
  Speaker 4: But honestly, it's it's been a little bit quieter. When
• 16:21
  Speaker 4: I say quieter, I just mean like it's not like business.
• 16:23
  Speaker 1: As usual, right, because it's a huge city.
• 16:26
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a huge city.
• 16:27
  Speaker 4: So honestly, and also maybe not even seeing the right
• 16:30
  Speaker 4: spots or areas. I mean, I'm surrounded about university and
• 16:32
  Speaker 4: I feel like a lot of the kids are enjoying themselves,
• 16:35
  Speaker 4: but not as invested as I think.
• 16:37
  Speaker 3: A lot of other people.
• 16:38
  Speaker 2: There's a lot of people that care more about fashion
• 16:40
  Speaker 2: than the Olympics. I was gonna say, over the place exactly.
• 16:45
  Speaker 2: Oh my goodness. So who's if we have the ballpark,
• 16:49
  Speaker 2: you can stereotype first, who are the what country? The
• 16:52
  Speaker 2: students that you've encountered are the most fun outside of US?
• 16:55
  Speaker 2: Of course, the US and US wins is the most
• 16:57
  Speaker 2: fun to hang with, to run with.
• 17:00
  Speaker 3: And you know, the Irish guys I know had drinks.
• 17:02
  Speaker 5: I've been.
• 17:03
  Speaker 3: We had a pub.
• 17:04
  Speaker 4: We had a pub crawl for my school one night,
• 17:06
  Speaker 4: and that's how we met them all. And that was
• 17:08
  Speaker 4: that was one heck of a night. Because they're talking
• 17:10
  Speaker 4: and their thick Irish accents. I could barely understand what
• 17:13
  Speaker 4: they were saying. Stop laughing because I thought it was
• 17:15
  Speaker 4: a joke. It was They're They're the most fun. But
• 17:18
  Speaker 4: a lot of the friends I've made, I have a
• 17:20
  Speaker 4: really good friend from Singapore, I have a friend from
• 17:25
  Speaker 4: friends from Italy, I have friends from France, and I
• 17:27
  Speaker 4: just found a new friend from Spain actually, But a
• 17:30
  Speaker 4: lot of other people from the US just scattered, like Texas, Virginia, Washington.
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: Was studying abroad always part of your plan, cake, is it?
• 17:38
  Speaker 6: It seems like you've had it down to a science,
• 17:40
  Speaker 6: right out of the gates, not only from just a
• 17:42
  Speaker 6: planning of the country and the timing of it, planets
• 17:44
  Speaker 6: of a line.
• 17:45
  Speaker 3: Let me tell you, it was my dream to study abroad.
• 17:48
  Speaker 4: I honestly didn't think i'd be able to because, I mean,
• 17:51
  Speaker 4: as a lot of people know, study abroad programs are
• 17:54
  Speaker 4: quite expensive, so it was I was thinking maybe I
• 17:56
  Speaker 4: save up. I just travel afterwards. But this exchange program
• 17:59
  Speaker 4: I'm a part of is almost like the Gateway. It's
• 18:01
  Speaker 4: the cheat code because if you get into the exchange programs,
• 18:04
  Speaker 4: all you're paying is your same tuition that you would
• 18:07
  Speaker 4: be paying to go to the University.
• 18:09
  Speaker 3: Of Wisconsin instead.
• 18:10
  Speaker 4: Great, so I am all by myself out here. So,
• 18:12
  Speaker 4: like I mean, it's been a little scary. I had
• 18:14
  Speaker 4: to fill out my permit, I had to go meet
• 18:16
  Speaker 4: with the Italian government, I had to get a tax code.
• 18:19
  Speaker 4: I had to do everything myself. When I have a
• 18:22
  Speaker 4: few friends that are in this i EES program that
• 18:26
  Speaker 4: get everything handed to them. But that program, again, it
• 18:29
  Speaker 4: just depends on what you're looking for and what experience
• 18:32
  Speaker 4: that you want to have. But this exchange program really
• 18:34
  Speaker 4: gave me that opportunity to actually come out here.
• 18:36
  Speaker 3: And it just so I didn't even know that the Olympics.
• 18:39
  Speaker 4: Were going to be here during Yeah, I wanted pasta,
• 18:43
  Speaker 4: gelato and pizza and I go.
• 18:44
  Speaker 3: If I'm going to study abroad, I want to go.
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: I want to win.
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: So jealous, Hey, keep enjoying, enjoy, take big bites. Think
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: of Billy when you get your gelato, and we hope
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: to get another report for you. Maybe at the back
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: end of the Olympics, maybe when you go to the
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: closing ceremonies.
• 19:00
  Speaker 3: That would be fun.
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: All right, thanks for joining us, Kate, get out there
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: and enjoy Milan. You bet the sorority sports port capa Kate.
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: Kate Sutton, a University Wisconsin student who's been joining us
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: for a while.
• 19:11
  Speaker 5: Now, what a fantastic experience too. You know.
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: The one thing is she's enjoying life right now.
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: But we were talking about it before she left, like
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: what if the Badger's go on a final four run
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: and you're overseas.
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: Sure, yeah, then she'll have fomo.
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: That's the first But other than that, now, not much.
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: When we come back, Dolf is going to join us
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: from the country station down the hall. Our halftime correspondent
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: halftime of our final show the week, my final show
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: before vacation.
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: It's the Huddle. Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin.