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2-19-26 Hour 1 - USA & Canada men advance/No 3-on-3 OT in Olympics/Nugs expecations post-All Star Break · Moser, Lombardi and Kane

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  Speaker 1: This is Mosher, Lombardy and Kane on demand. Listen live
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  Speaker 2: Next goal wins winner onto the semifinals.
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  Speaker 3: Nice didn't through.
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  Speaker 4: This story makes Mourner.
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  Speaker 2: Delivers Canada into the semis.
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  Speaker 3: I'm playing Hughes, We've played three and a half minutes
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  Speaker 3: in overtime.
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  Speaker 2: Well, your shus pist.
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  Speaker 4: Dollars his dollars.
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  Speaker 5: When Hu's and overtime, let's shy heather.
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  Speaker 2: The United States that face blow back here.
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  Speaker 3: In the semies.
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  Speaker 4: Mister Gerbashaw teared down.
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  Speaker 2: This wall is America.
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  Speaker 4: I asked this last week. We can somebody explain to me.
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  Speaker 4: By the way, that was NBC on the call. When
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  Speaker 4: did Freebird become like the nation's anthem?
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  Speaker 6: When did we decide as a country that this was
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  Speaker 6: going to be like our second anthem outside the national anthem?
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  Speaker 2: Probably the day that Ronnie van Zant was born.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, that day.
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  Speaker 3: I'm ashamed to ask what is free bird?
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  Speaker 2: What do you mean?
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  Speaker 4: What is freebird?
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  Speaker 3: Who sings it?
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  Speaker 2: Lina skinnerd It's by a band called Leonard Skinnyard. They
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  Speaker 2: also sang Sweet Home, Alabama. Three steps, yeah, okay, give me.
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  Speaker 4: Three steps, give me three steps missed.
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  Speaker 2: So I think I think the day that Ronnie van
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  Speaker 2: Zant was born in Jacksonville, Florida, nineteen forty eight, I
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  Speaker 2: think that that day it was just decided, God decided,
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  Speaker 2: all right, eventually you and your boys going to write
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  Speaker 2: an anthem for this country. That's no.
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  Speaker 6: I gotta tell you something else. You start my morning
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  Speaker 6: with a good mister, Gorbachev.
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  Speaker 4: Tear down this wall. That one works for me.
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  Speaker 3: Tail.
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  Speaker 6: Tear down.
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  Speaker 2: I'll tell you what's interesting about that. I was just
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  Speaker 2: the other day, guys, I was just the other day
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  Speaker 2: looking at a It's kind of a before and after
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  Speaker 2: type of thing. The kids today have absolutely no idea
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  Speaker 2: what that's even about, do they. I was looking at
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  Speaker 2: it before and after in Berlin, Vicky of where the
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  Speaker 2: wall was.
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  Speaker 3: Well, think about how long ago that was. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: Powder wasn't alive. Nelson wasn't alive.
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  Speaker 2: Well, Powder was alive. He definitely was alive, barely barely alive. Right,
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  Speaker 2: His parents had just gotten down really and Lawyer like, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I like you, I like you too, right, that kind
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  Speaker 2: of thing.
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  Speaker 4: Well, now they were married for a while yeah, Frank yous.
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  Speaker 2: Youre right, Yeah, and then Nolan came along and then
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  Speaker 2: I guess the rest is history.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: But there was a wall that literally kept people in
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  Speaker 2: East Berlin, a literal wall. And if you were in
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  Speaker 2: East Berlin and you tried to get the same with
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  Speaker 2: East Germany, if you try to you they would shoot you.
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  Speaker 2: And if you tried to leave to go see it's
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  Speaker 2: crazy because.
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  Speaker 6: I know there's not a wall, but it's kind of
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  Speaker 6: like the DMZ right North Koreans if they tried in defect.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but but what they did is is cut. They
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  Speaker 2: cut down to the country and happened. They cut the
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  Speaker 2: city in half. Yeah, and if you tried to leave.
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  Speaker 2: It's like, what's weird is Berlin was in East Germany.
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  Speaker 2: Then you had Berlin and it was divided and West
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  Speaker 2: Berlin was free, but it was surrounded by a wall.
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  Speaker 2: It was just because it's hard for the modern mind
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  Speaker 2: to even comprehend.
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  Speaker 3: It was a wall inside a city inside a free country.
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  Speaker 2: So you have this wall communist country. The only part
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  Speaker 2: that was free was West Berlin. That's it.
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  Speaker 4: So it's like we had a wall on Colfax.
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  Speaker 2: Correct, And if you tried to cross the wall to
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  Speaker 2: get to the north side. Then they would shoot you.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, when they parsed all that stuff out after World
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  Speaker 3: War Two, whoever came up with that plan was drunk,
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  Speaker 3: by the way.
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  Speaker 4: You know what I found out when I went back home.
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  Speaker 6: My brother told me this because he was that the
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  Speaker 6: Warsaw Pact.
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  Speaker 2: Uh could have been.
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  Speaker 6: My brother told me this because he's one of these
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  Speaker 6: freaks that sent his DNA to some lab somewhere to
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  Speaker 6: analyze what we were.
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  Speaker 4: Here we go, but I found out we have a
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  Speaker 4: lot of Russian. Had no idea. I'm like, Russian, that's
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  Speaker 4: why you do that?
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  Speaker 3: That Russian accent?
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  Speaker 6: Maybe maybe that's why. But it's something about the Russian
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  Speaker 6: Empire pushing up against Germany.
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  Speaker 2: Way back in the day.
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  Speaker 4: We had a lot of Russian and then they were like, hey, Germans,
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  Speaker 4: why don't you come on over here.
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  Speaker 2: That's not exactly how he did it. Well, you know
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  Speaker 2: it a gun point.
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  Speaker 3: Well yeah, it's in extremely cold temperatures.
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  Speaker 4: Either way, I got that for months.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, thanks for that bit of information to change the
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  Speaker 2: way I think about it.
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  Speaker 3: Fellas yesterday I would say it's top three for me,
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  Speaker 3: top eight.
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  Speaker 2: How'd that go?
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  Speaker 3: How'd that go I'm talking about watching Olympic hockey. It
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  Speaker 3: was one of the top three hockey days of my life.
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  Speaker 3: I can't remember watching hockey back to back to back
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  Speaker 3: and so into it and so dramatic and so ridiculously
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  Speaker 3: good and competitive, and I was nervous watching every game.
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  Speaker 3: It seemed every game was better than the next. What
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  Speaker 3: is going on? Why is Olympic hockey so good? Why
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  Speaker 3: is it so good? Most outside of a Stanley Cup
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  Speaker 3: playoff game, which is obviously a big deal, a game seven,
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  Speaker 3: a game seven of a Stanley Cup playoff game, That's
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  Speaker 3: what each of those games was, basically.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think if you're playing for your country, Vican,
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  Speaker 2: it means that much to you, then you're going to
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  Speaker 2: do everything you can to try to win the game.
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  Speaker 2: And boy, oh boy, I'm watching that Checky of Canada game.
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  Speaker 2: And I don't know about you guys, but when Checkie
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  Speaker 2: goes up three to two late on the pilot, go
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  Speaker 2: up kind with eight guys on the ice.
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  Speaker 3: Bro when Marty Nacho's had the break away and win.
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  Speaker 2: It's on Marty's stick, and watch Bennington close the I
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  Speaker 2: just I know. And then once Suzuki tied it once
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  Speaker 2: Suzuki tied it, and that was a brilliant redirect, by
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  Speaker 2: the way, I mean a brilliant deflection. Well he missed
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  Speaker 2: and earlier correct had to do it. So once he
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  Speaker 2: did that, I thought, okay, this is over. And then
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  Speaker 2: of course Marner cuts through three dudes and do stall.
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  Speaker 2: By the way, Connor, we were texting yesterday, why can't
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  Speaker 2: Lucas do stall play like that against us? You know,
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  Speaker 2: is as the Avs for the Ducks. Hopefully we'll see
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  Speaker 2: that version here in a couple of weeks when we're
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  Speaker 2: down in end he over pushes allows Marner going through
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  Speaker 2: three guys in a backhand flip to the far post.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, bro, okay, bro, First of all, you got
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  Speaker 2: to put him on is if you're if you're Check,
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  Speaker 2: you you've got to put him on his butt as
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  Speaker 2: he's coming into your watching. Yeah, put him on his butt.
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  Speaker 4: So let me say a couple of things here.
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  Speaker 6: First of all, all I've wanted is Canada and the
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  Speaker 6: US and the gold medal game. That's all I've wanted.
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  Speaker 6: And I gotta be honest, man, was I rooting for Check?
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  Speaker 2: You?
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  Speaker 4: Like really really bad? Like really bad?
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  Speaker 3: Listen, listen, I can't come to terms with this. Help
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  Speaker 3: me out, guys. I want everyone to jump inside my brain.
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  Speaker 3: I love Nate McKinnon. He's a great dude. I really
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  Speaker 3: like him. Catle mccarr, Salt of the Earth, Devon Tave's.
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  Speaker 3: I love all of them. Why did I want them
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  Speaker 3: to lose?
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  Speaker 4: I really did? I really?
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  Speaker 3: What is wrong with me? Because I know their teammates
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  Speaker 3: probably didn't.
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  Speaker 4: I just think it would be look in this saying.
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  Speaker 3: I want them to lose? What what's wrong?
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  Speaker 6: In the same way that I kind of root against
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  Speaker 6: Canadian teams if they're in the Stanley Cup final because
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  Speaker 6: I love this idea that their sport and the best
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  Speaker 6: trophy in all of sports is resided in this country
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  Speaker 6: for so long. I think the idea of Canada losing
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  Speaker 6: that game with how stacked they are, like.
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  Speaker 4: It's the underdog thing. And I also could point and laugh.
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  Speaker 3: Now I know why people root against Notre Dame. It's
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  Speaker 3: the same thing. Dominance. I know what it is now.
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  Speaker 3: I know what it is. Vic.
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  Speaker 2: They haven't won a national title in over thirty years.
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  Speaker 2: I know what I know that Vi, Vic, Vic, You're
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  Speaker 2: you're riding coat tails of a of a long bygone era.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, I know what that feeling is like. I couldn't
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  Speaker 3: believe I found myself doing that yesterday, Greg with two g's,
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  Speaker 3: three g's. I can't believe it. I'm just like you.
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  Speaker 3: I was like, oh, man, check you had it. Why
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  Speaker 3: because ultimately the goal is to have Canada and the
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  Speaker 3: US in the gold medal game, and now it looks
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  Speaker 3: to be that way.
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  Speaker 4: Wait, Nebraska's won a national title recently, didn't under name?
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  Speaker 2: Yes?
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  Speaker 3: Is that true?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? That was the That was the Fiesta Bowl National title. No, no, yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it was the Fiesta Bowl National title over Florida.
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  Speaker 6: Anyway, that was one thing that hit me. The other
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  Speaker 6: thing that hit me was Czech You is a dumb name.
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  Speaker 6: Czech Republic is way better and Republic is a better name.
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  Speaker 6: I don't yeah, I don't know, man, Why why we
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  Speaker 6: do Czech you? Czech Republic is awesome.
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  Speaker 3: Don't do well because the other half of the Czechoslovakia, Slovakia,
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  Speaker 3: they're still in the tournament. That's why they owned the rights.
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  Speaker 4: Dude.
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  Speaker 3: You know what, man, they own the rights. I mean
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  Speaker 3: you got to give them their due. I mean, think
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  Speaker 3: about that. It used to be a proper country called Czechoslovakia.
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  Speaker 3: Then they said, eh, let's cut this sucker in hand. Okay,
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  Speaker 3: so you're check you. We will go Slovakia.
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  Speaker 4: We divide, we divide.
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  Speaker 6: Our country at the platte and we just say, all right,
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  Speaker 6: one side united, the other side of states.
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  Speaker 2: Yep, all right. So apparently they adopted Czech you in
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  Speaker 2: twenty sixteen as an official war word English short name
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  Speaker 2: to make it easier for international use, branding and sports,
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  Speaker 2: similar to how France is used instead of the French Republic.
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  Speaker 4: But French Republic is stupid, Czech Republic rules.
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  Speaker 2: Somebody sounds cool?
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  Speaker 3: Please answer the question that I posed that Greg with
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  Speaker 3: three g's posed, why were we rooting against our friends?
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  Speaker 4: It's the underdog, dang has to be.
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  Speaker 2: Were you rooting for Switzerland against Finland?
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  Speaker 4: No, I really didn't. I didn't have really a poll
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  Speaker 4: to either one.
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  Speaker 6: You can't claim eight different countries, bro, I'm not claiming
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  Speaker 6: eight different countries.
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  Speaker 3: Bro.
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  Speaker 2: That's where my That's where the mosures came from.
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  Speaker 3: Mos. Did you want to win Switzerland? No, check Ya
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  Speaker 3: or Canada.
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  Speaker 2: I was kind of pulling for check Yet when pilots scored,
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  Speaker 2: I'm saying, I'm like.
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  Speaker 3: I just Nelly, who are you pulling for check He
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  Speaker 3: or Canada?
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  Speaker 7: I got admit, man, I don't know if I want
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  Speaker 7: that smoke in the gold medal match against Canada. I
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  Speaker 7: kind of wanted to see check you pull it out, Nelly.
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  Speaker 3: Nelly answered this question because these guys just aren't authentic enough.
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  Speaker 3: Is Nathan McKinnon our friend? Of course? Do you like
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  Speaker 3: Cale mccarr's face, love his face, an great guy, love taste?
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  Speaker 3: Why on earth would we pull against our friends?
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  Speaker 6: What?
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  Speaker 4: Why are you saying we're not honest stuff? When I
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  Speaker 4: was the first one to say I was rooting.
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  Speaker 3: Against It's just something about your faces? What what's going on?
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  Speaker 3: Why are we like this?
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  Speaker 7: I think because part of you doesn't want to see
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  Speaker 7: USA have to face your friends in the finals. You
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  Speaker 7: don't want Oh no, that would be fun. Part of me,
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  Speaker 7: I thought you you don't want to have that conflict
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  Speaker 7: of interest right.
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  Speaker 5: Now, there's no conflict, conflict of it, conflict if oh
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  Speaker 5: my god, if there's a conflict and you live here
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  Speaker 5: and you're not rooting for the US team in the
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  Speaker 5: gold medal game, if it comes to that, get.
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  Speaker 3: The hell out.
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  Speaker 7: Are we catching heat from the guy who doesn't know
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  Speaker 7: what freebird is really you On a second, you want
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  Speaker 7: to call yourself American, you don't know who skinner it is.
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  Speaker 3: You mean to tell me you might have a conflict
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  Speaker 3: of who you're rooting for.
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  Speaker 7: If it's half the AVS roster against us A and
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  Speaker 7: the Golden Mill, Oh my.
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  Speaker 3: God, get them up. Stop, get up, get up, Let's leave,
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  Speaker 3: leave the studio, leaf stop, don't hit another button in leaf.
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  Speaker 2: I'll say this man. Part of me wanted to see
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  Speaker 2: Canada just melt down.
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  Speaker 4: I did too.
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  Speaker 2: That's because if if Canada loses, I'm not talking about
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  Speaker 2: our buddies on the AVS who are on Team Canada,
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  Speaker 2: because I'd be happy for I'd be happy for them
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  Speaker 2: if they win it all. I mean I'll be sad
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  Speaker 2: for US if if the if the USA gets by Slovakia,
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  Speaker 2: and Slovakia is pretty damn good. I don't know how
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  Speaker 2: to tell you that they were the number three ranked.
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  Speaker 4: You want to see you look, it would bring you
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  Speaker 4: a shot in froight.
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  Speaker 2: The Canadians would It would be a national meltdown. Kind
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  Speaker 2: of interesting to see how that develops.
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  Speaker 3: Paula on the text line says, dudes, if Canada and
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  Speaker 3: the US playing the gold medal game. I'm rooting for Canada.
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  Speaker 3: All right now, Paula, Now, what is your deal? What
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  Speaker 3: why would you root? What's your deal?
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  Speaker 4: Jesus God, I'm telling you I want not how we roll?
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  Speaker 3: Bro?
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  Speaker 4: What's your deal? Paul No, but Vic, this is very simple.
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  Speaker 6: You keep asking the question of why were we rooting
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  Speaker 6: against it.
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  Speaker 4: It's like they're the powerhouse.
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  Speaker 6: They're the overwhelming hang on hand, They're the overwhelming favorite
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  Speaker 6: to this thing. Their forward group is like go to
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  Speaker 6: They're like the best ever. And if they lost, God,
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  Speaker 6: I think I would take joy in Canadians being sad victory.
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  Speaker 2: Are comparing this particular Canadian team and I think back
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  Speaker 2: to the other Canadian teams that won the Gold. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: you know, featuring Joe Sakeek and Steve Eiseman, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: all these Hall of famers. They're comparing this team to
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  Speaker 2: the eighty seven candidate Cup team where Lemieux and Gretzky
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  Speaker 2: played on the same line. Yeah, and you're like, WHOA,
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  Speaker 2: that's pretty. That's pretty.
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  Speaker 3: Here's another one from A two five nine when Mexico
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  Speaker 3: plays the US in soccer. I route for Mexico.
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  Speaker 2: What's your deal?
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  Speaker 4: What's going on here? What are we?
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  Speaker 3: Excuse me, where we originating the show right now? Am I?
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  Speaker 3: I'm confused?
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  Speaker 4: Where are we Denver, Ontario?
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  Speaker 3: What?
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  Speaker 2: What is this?
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  Speaker 3: Are we in Manitoba? Are we in Guadalajara?
• 14:26
  Speaker 2: Where are we?
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  Speaker 4: Where are we doing the show?
• 14:28
  Speaker 3: I would love to be Lombardi again? What was wrong
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  Speaker 3: with all you people? Dude?
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  Speaker 4: I'm gonna tell you right now.
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  Speaker 6: If this show, if they want to move us out
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  Speaker 6: the parts of our art time and we can do
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  Speaker 6: the same show, that's finely Ill there.
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  Speaker 3: Are you kids?
• 14:41
  Speaker 2: Maybe it's not even close to me till till the bus.
• 14:44
  Speaker 2: Maybe we should just give it a test run, right dude,
• 14:46
  Speaker 2: I'm noting. Hey, can we all just take a trip
• 14:48
  Speaker 2: and do the show from Porto Arts? Can tune test run?
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  Speaker 2: How's that?
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  Speaker 3: I'm gonna tell you right now, boys, the US could
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  Speaker 3: be playing Italy featuring my mom in goal and I'm
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  Speaker 3: rooting for the Well.
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  Speaker 6: I just I was just gonna talk about this. There's
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  Speaker 6: more we got to discuss. We didn't even get to.
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  Speaker 4: The US game yet. But when McKinnon lit up Marty Nachos,
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  Speaker 4: it just proves McKinnon's own grandmother could be playing for
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  Speaker 4: the other team and he's going to blow her up
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  Speaker 4: at center ice if he has to, Okay, because he
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  Speaker 4: didn't lay off of natures at all, you know.
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  Speaker 2: And he shouldn't and he should not.
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  Speaker 6: You wouldn't feel some sort of conflict with hitting a
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  Speaker 6: teammate on the other team in a tournament like this.
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  Speaker 3: I know.
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  Speaker 4: I think I would.
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  Speaker 3: No, I would feel the content if my brother was
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  Speaker 3: on the other team.
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  Speaker 2: I blow him different, blow him up.
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  Speaker 4: Brothers different about sister. How about this?
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  Speaker 3: You think aunt?
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  Speaker 6: Does he hit Landy that way? Does he hit everybody
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  Speaker 6: that way? I? Well, you think you think he plants
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  Speaker 6: Landy into the boards with full force if they're played
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  Speaker 6: in Sweden?
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  Speaker 4: Or does he pull up a little.
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  Speaker 2: As far as I'm concerned.
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  Speaker 4: McKinnon's a psycho, He's gonna hit somebody.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, as far as I'm concerned, you play to win
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  Speaker 2: the game. That's it. You go.
• 15:58
  Speaker 3: You'll full her edwards someone I have to repeat myself.
• 16:02
  Speaker 3: So it said, Vicky, you root for Italy in soccer
• 16:05
  Speaker 3: when Italy played the US in soccer, and they've done
• 16:07
  Speaker 3: it before in the World Cup. Now I was all US.
• 16:11
  Speaker 3: I hated my mom and dad.
• 16:16
  Speaker 2: Hated them.
• 16:17
  Speaker 3: Wait, who don't even go there.
• 16:19
  Speaker 6: Who did your mom and dad root for in that game?
• 16:22
  Speaker 6: Were they Italy?
• 16:23
  Speaker 3: Or I didn't watch? But my like my uncle rooted
• 16:26
  Speaker 3: for My uncle was born in Italy. He rooted for Italy,
• 16:29
  Speaker 3: and I couldn't even look him in the face.
• 16:32
  Speaker 6: All right, So more to get through with these couple
• 16:35
  Speaker 6: of games. I have questions, by the way, on what
• 16:38
  Speaker 6: your expectations are for the last twenty five games the
• 16:40
  Speaker 6: Nuggets they are back out of tonight against the Clippers.
• 16:42
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• 16:44
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• 17:01
  Speaker 6: But again, that keyword for this hour is Buffalo's So
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• 17:07
  Speaker 4: So a few more minutes on on the hockey.
• 17:09
  Speaker 6: Here US wins in a similar fashion overtime two to
• 17:14
  Speaker 6: one win over Landeskog.
• 17:15
  Speaker 4: Swedish team I don't know you guys feel about this.
• 17:23
  Speaker 6: I kind of hated that, as good as those three
• 17:26
  Speaker 6: games were, all back to back to back, all three
• 17:30
  Speaker 6: going to o t that they they go three on
• 17:33
  Speaker 6: three hockey.
• 17:34
  Speaker 3: I know, I don't like. It sucks, you know. Kyle
• 17:36
  Speaker 3: explained it best to me. It's the Olympics and everything's
• 17:39
  Speaker 3: on a schedule. Everything's got to be on time, and
• 17:41
  Speaker 3: they have that one sheet of ice to play hockey.
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: They're playing in the same rink.
• 17:45
  Speaker 3: It's yeah, but it's a game like it's a good game.
• 17:47
  Speaker 3: I know, I know, but this is it's a time thing.
• 17:50
  Speaker 3: It's a scheduled thing.
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: You know.
• 17:51
  Speaker 3: They can't have a game go five hours.
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: They can, and the gold medal game they can.
• 17:56
  Speaker 3: But they're not. That's what's said in the gold medal game.
• 17:59
  Speaker 3: They're still doing on the three on three.
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: Are you sure?
• 18:04
  Speaker 3: I asked the question on Twitter yesterday. Yeah, because I
• 18:06
  Speaker 3: didn't know the rules and in the gold medal game.
• 18:10
  Speaker 3: Somebody verify this, please, But if they don't allow the
• 18:15
  Speaker 3: gold medal game to be decided five on five, that's wrong.
• 18:19
  Speaker 6: I mean, but how often does a hockey game go like?
• 18:23
  Speaker 6: It doesn't go way long? It's like an extra twenty
• 18:25
  Speaker 6: thirty minutes.
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: Nah, well you can't. I guess you can't risk that.
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: Hang on a second, VIC, but up up. Uh yeah,
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: the gold medal game will use three on three. Yep,
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: that's not right. Yeah, that's not right.
• 18:43
  Speaker 6: The goal is a really good game up to like
• 18:45
  Speaker 6: and look in the regular season in the NHL, I
• 18:47
  Speaker 6: don't care.
• 18:48
  Speaker 4: It's like it's but it leaves so much randomness to it.
• 18:52
  Speaker 6: A busted stick turns into a two on one going
• 18:55
  Speaker 6: the other way, and it's just like, all right.
• 18:57
  Speaker 3: I mean it is mussy, right, and it opens it up.
• 19:00
  Speaker 3: You're watching that extra period and you're going, oh my god,
• 19:03
  Speaker 3: end to end craziness it is. But it just feels dirty.
• 19:07
  Speaker 4: It does feel dirty a little bit.
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: The gold medal game in twenty ten, that was USA
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: and Canada where Crosby scored the game winning goal.
• 19:16
  Speaker 4: Yeah, and that goal that no, Crosby left and did
• 19:19
  Speaker 4: not come back.
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: That's concerning. There'll be an update today. But that was
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: five on five hockey, that goal, that game five on five. Yeah.
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: I just so somewhere somewhere over the last sixteen years
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: they changed it.
• 19:32
  Speaker 6: You have these great games like this and then it's
• 19:34
  Speaker 6: left to a three on three situation where it's just
• 19:36
  Speaker 6: weird and random.
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: I don't like it, but if it's me, I prefer. Listen,
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: in the NHL, you gotta do it, you gotta get
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: done period. If it's me, I prefer if you're talking
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: about advancing on go five on five, bro, well.
• 19:49
  Speaker 4: It's it's like the MLB.
• 19:51
  Speaker 6: I know people hate this, but like, I don't mind
• 19:52
  Speaker 6: it an extra as they start a guy on second.
• 19:55
  Speaker 6: They don't do that in the playoffs obviously, but it's like,
• 19:57
  Speaker 6: all right, regular season, let's move this along.
• 19:59
  Speaker 4: Get the game for sure. Well, in the game matters.
• 20:01
  Speaker 4: Play the game, Just play the game.
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: Now? Did you feel did you feel kind of bad
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: watching Quinn Hughes fire that puck by Landy reaction?
• 20:14
  Speaker 3: I saw Landy's reaction immediately and and I even tweeted
• 20:18
  Speaker 3: as much. I said, as much as I was happy
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: to see the US survive, I felt so bad for
• 20:23
  Speaker 3: Gabe because you know the pain he's feeling. You know
• 20:26
  Speaker 3: that they had it on the stick. They had it.
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: They had it, so did check?
• 20:30
  Speaker 4: Yeah, they had it.
• 20:31
  Speaker 6: Well, here's what's weird, what's really weird? Because I felt
• 20:35
  Speaker 6: this too. I felt this over the last couple of games.
• 20:37
  Speaker 6: Hella Buck's been really good for the US.
• 20:38
  Speaker 4: Really good.
• 20:41
  Speaker 6: And I know that Winnipeg is bad enough this year
• 20:43
  Speaker 6: where it doesn't matter. But Hellabuck's whole shtick, his whole
• 20:46
  Speaker 6: thing in his career is he's a really good goalie
• 20:49
  Speaker 6: that shrinks when it matters the most. And now he's
• 20:51
  Speaker 6: playing really well in high pressure situations. I'm like, well,
• 20:54
  Speaker 6: don't carry that over. Keep being that that guy that.
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: I don't know that we'll see Helli Buck in the
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: postseason this year.
• 20:59
  Speaker 4: Talk to that.
• 21:00
  Speaker 3: Yeah, two things. First of all, you guys have sort
• 21:02
  Speaker 3: of glossed over this. Uh, Powder's biggest fear going into
• 21:06
  Speaker 3: this Olympic Hockey stuff was an injury. Yeah, McKinnon's not right.
• 21:10
  Speaker 4: No, he's not and Brian Nelson's got a full face
• 21:12
  Speaker 4: shield right now.
• 21:13
  Speaker 3: Yeah, McKinnon is not right and we noticed it, and
• 21:16
  Speaker 3: I wonder how not right he is.
• 21:19
  Speaker 4: Well, there's a lot of speculation about it. I don't
• 21:21
  Speaker 4: they haven't announced, like, what's bothering him? Have they?
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: Well, okay, you say he's not right, He's not wrong
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: enough to not meet with the media. He's not wrong
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: enough to not play he's not wrong enough to whatever.
• 21:32
  Speaker 3: Do you think he's just going to meet with the
• 21:33
  Speaker 3: media and say, yeah, it hurts right about here?
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: No, of course not. I don't. I don't think that,
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: but I mean define not right in your eyes? Vic
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: to find that I'm not saying with what I don't know? Well,
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: he scored a goal yesterday. Yep, look here here's the
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: here's the it doesn't even matter. Would you be surprised
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: if he had it?
• 21:54
  Speaker 3: Let me ask you a better Would you be surprised
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: if he's playing with an injury? Absolutely?
• 21:59
  Speaker 6: On a second, let me ask this another way. You
• 22:01
  Speaker 6: just remember when or you don't. Most you weren't here.
• 22:04
  Speaker 6: PhD was all fired up that Atlantiskuy didn't play any
• 22:06
  Speaker 6: games for the Avs and then showed up for the
• 22:08
  Speaker 6: first game of Sweden. They thought that that was weird.
• 22:11
  Speaker 6: Why because he didn't play for the team. He was
• 22:15
  Speaker 6: too hurt to play for the team that was contractually
• 22:17
  Speaker 6: paying him, but healthy enough to.
• 22:19
  Speaker 3: Play for you.
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: But time his time, that was his time.
• 22:21
  Speaker 4: One I understand. I agree with you. That's what we
• 22:23
  Speaker 4: were saying.
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: Is that.
• 22:24
  Speaker 6: My guess is he was probably healthy enough for the
• 22:26
  Speaker 6: last game or two before this. Break and they're like,
• 22:28
  Speaker 6: screw it, just take these two games off and be
• 22:31
  Speaker 6: totally totally right. But what happens if McKinnon plays through
• 22:35
  Speaker 6: whatever he's dealing with right now until Canada their run ends,
• 22:39
  Speaker 6: and then he misses the first.
• 22:40
  Speaker 4: Game for the Avs. How'd you feel then?
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: Wouldn't bother me at all?
• 22:45
  Speaker 4: If he plays through.
• 22:46
  Speaker 6: An injury for Canada, but then the Avs start back
• 22:48
  Speaker 6: up and he's like, hey, I gotta rest.
• 22:50
  Speaker 3: Move your face and look at my face, Look at
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: my face, look at my eyes, look at me. Wouldn't
• 22:54
  Speaker 3: bother me one bit if he gave up a couple
• 22:56
  Speaker 3: AVS games to win or an attempt to win gold
• 22:58
  Speaker 3: for his country. I don't know how many people feel
• 23:00
  Speaker 3: that way, not one bit. And I would say to him,
• 23:03
  Speaker 3: you're a good man, you're playing for your country, and
• 23:05
  Speaker 3: if it costs you a couple of games with the Avalanche,
• 23:07
  Speaker 3: oh well, let me say bother me one iota.
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: Bigley put it this way, it doesn't matter what you think.
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: It doesn't matter what the fans think, it doesn't matter
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: what Chris McFarland thinks, Jared Bednard, none of that matters.
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: You know why, because the players want to play Olympic
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: cock exactly right, You're right, end of story. It doesn't
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: matter exactly what. It doesn't matter, So do you think
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: it doesn't?
• 23:27
  Speaker 3: Players are going, Oh my god, what would what would
• 23:31
  Speaker 3: Brett can think of me if I had to miss
• 23:32
  Speaker 3: a couple of APS games because I'm playing for my count, But.
• 23:35
  Speaker 4: I would worry about what the employee money would think?
• 23:38
  Speaker 4: I would people.
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: You're right, the owners care because the owners are the
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: owners are fans.
• 23:44
  Speaker 4: But but yeah, you're you're from your teammates.
• 23:48
  Speaker 3: Ye brou I'm not paying for Nathan McKinnon's salary.
• 23:52
  Speaker 4: I get it.
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: The players are willing to put it on the line
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: to do this, and I don't blame them. And you
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: know what, they've earned that right, They've negotiated that right.
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: They the guys who can play for their country desperately
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: want to play for their country and.
• 24:09
  Speaker 3: A few games for their absolute Absolutely, what's your line
• 24:13
  Speaker 3: on a few whatever it takes, Well, it would, It
• 24:15
  Speaker 3: would suck, But this is the player's house.
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna respect the player's choice.
• 24:20
  Speaker 3: Totally agree with you. And if somebody, if if you
• 24:23
  Speaker 3: had Brett, let me turn it around. If you had
• 24:25
  Speaker 3: that choice, what would you do.
• 24:29
  Speaker 4: If you did? You do Brett to play for my country?
• 24:31
  Speaker 3: Yeah? Your country called. You're playing against Cuba in the
• 24:37
  Speaker 3: World Baseball Classic Championship.
• 24:39
  Speaker 6: Yeah, and I got like a hammy that's nagging me
• 24:41
  Speaker 6: or something, and you got.
• 24:42
  Speaker 3: What whatever it may be, it's the championship game and
• 24:46
  Speaker 3: you got to return to your team in Colorado.
• 24:49
  Speaker 4: Oh.
• 24:49
  Speaker 6: I think I would do it, but I would understand
• 24:50
  Speaker 6: people that wouldn't like it.
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: But what you would do.
• 24:53
  Speaker 4: So, let's say I played for the Rockies.
• 24:55
  Speaker 6: Okay, I played for the Rockies and now I'm playing
• 24:57
  Speaker 6: the World Baseball Classic. I'm very obviously dealing with a injury.
• 25:00
  Speaker 6: I got it out for the rest of the WBC.
• 25:02
  Speaker 6: Then I come back and I miss a.
• 25:03
  Speaker 4: Week for the Rockies.
• 25:04
  Speaker 6: I can understand that people would be like, dude, that's
• 25:07
  Speaker 6: a little weird. But I would I do it? Yeah,
• 25:09
  Speaker 6: I probably would. I'm not judging him. I'm just saying like,
• 25:13
  Speaker 6: there is this weird line between you're contractually obligated to
• 25:18
  Speaker 6: be at your best to win a Stanley Cup, but
• 25:20
  Speaker 6: you're also playing for your country.
• 25:22
  Speaker 4: But there's two separate things.
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: It's it's a it's a unique odd thing. You're right,
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: but it happens once every four years.
• 25:28
  Speaker 3: Once the league opened the door for that, we're going
• 25:31
  Speaker 3: to allow our players to go play in a non
• 25:35
  Speaker 3: NHL event and play hard. All bets are off. They're
• 25:40
  Speaker 3: going to play hard for their countries, and I respect
• 25:42
  Speaker 3: the hell out of them for it.
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: But I.
• 25:45
  Speaker 6: Right now, I just want to be clear. Well, I'm
• 25:47
  Speaker 6: not I'm not casting a judgment or anything like that.
• 25:50
  Speaker 6: But I know I'm talking about this for weeks, no
• 25:53
  Speaker 6: me being worried about an injury.
• 25:55
  Speaker 4: Yeah, but I don't.
• 25:56
  Speaker 6: I'm not blaming the players for this at all. That's
• 25:59
  Speaker 6: all I'm saying. I'm not blaming them, But yeah, I'm nervous.
• 26:02
  Speaker 6: If Nathan McKinnon was Sidney Crosby yesterday, You're damn right.
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: I would be kind of Absolutely, we would be, But
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: realize it's the player's choice.
• 26:11
  Speaker 6: I gues again, you're you're arguing something that I'm in
• 26:15
  Speaker 6: agreement with you on. But if Nathan McKinnon went down
• 26:18
  Speaker 6: the same way as Sidney Crosby, our entire if you're like,
• 26:22
  Speaker 6: oh my god, if we're sitting here, if we're sitting
• 26:25
  Speaker 6: here April first.
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: Going, oh man, the abs have dropped from number one.
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: Now they're a wild card and it's all because Nate
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: got hurt in the O.
• 26:33
  Speaker 6: That would it would That was my whole concern.
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: That's all motion of the remaining games. Now US has
• 26:41
  Speaker 3: taken on Slovakia and Canada has to play Finland. Who
• 26:44
  Speaker 3: has the better opponent, the tougher opponent to get to
• 26:47
  Speaker 3: the Golden medal round. Slovakia is no slouch, bro, I know,
• 26:50
  Speaker 3: but they don't have the big names. What do you
• 26:55
  Speaker 3: mean they don't have the big names. They have a
• 26:58
  Speaker 3: bunch of hockey NHL players on Finland.
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: Let me throw out you. We throw out to you
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: some uh and.
• 27:05
  Speaker 3: Not that the names matter, but Slovakia is just tearing
• 27:09
  Speaker 3: up opposition. I agree with you.
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: There they've got they've got yeah, there, it's not super huge,
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: you're right, but about they've got some. They've got some
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: NHL players on the Nemets Fervari origin has been around. Sernach,
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: of course, is one Cups with the Tampa Bay Lightning. Uh.
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: Paspasil Tuitar's former NHL or Slavkofki is the overall number
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: one Montreal as got names well yeah like and has
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: scored the game winning goal yesterday you're not even talking
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: about that.
• 27:42
  Speaker 3: Yeah, why don't you talk about that?
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: Talking about Lecky on the broakaway going sports sexy LEXI.
• 27:51
  Speaker 6: Part of it was us like twenty eight minutes to
• 27:54
  Speaker 6: get to the US game. So I thought maybe about
• 27:57
  Speaker 6: that for a second.
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: Victy Slovakians, on other things, Milwawkans are pretty good. The
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: USA should beat Slovakia and go to the gold medal game, period,
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: end of story.
• 28:06
  Speaker 3: Should is one thing. But the fact that both of
• 28:08
  Speaker 3: those games he has, all three of those games went
• 28:10
  Speaker 3: to overtime yesterday, tells you should doesn't matter in the island.
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: No agreed? Agreed? I mean, and when you looked at
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: when you looked at the the Swedish roster yesterday, what
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: were you thinking. They got dudes all over the plain.
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: They're good, they got a bunch, they got a bunch,
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: and you're going, oh god, USA, they should win.
• 28:28
  Speaker 3: I guess Sam rights in and let me let me
• 28:31
  Speaker 3: read this and tell me if this is true, because
• 28:34
  Speaker 3: he makes a point here. Sam rights in. All right,
• 28:37
  Speaker 3: So the US wins gold and I'll probably forget about
• 28:39
  Speaker 3: in two months Avs win the Cup and I'll remember
• 28:41
  Speaker 3: for the rest of my life.
• 28:42
  Speaker 6: That's true, you won't forget about it in two months,
• 28:45
  Speaker 6: but it's not gonna have.
• 28:46
  Speaker 3: Nearly You won't to have the last impact one.
• 28:48
  Speaker 4: Hundredth of the same impact.
• 28:49
  Speaker 3: You're right, because it's it's also territorial, it's regional. Right.
• 28:53
  Speaker 3: This is our team. This is the team that you
• 28:54
  Speaker 3: pull for, the team you watch every night. This is
• 28:56
  Speaker 3: a team. Totally understand that.
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: What was the last time the teams on the men's
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: side won a gold medal in a high international competition,
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: the highest international competition.
• 29:07
  Speaker 3: I don't know what is it?
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: Squaw Valley nineteen sixty.
• 29:13
  Speaker 3: What are you talking about? The miracle on ice? So?
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: I mean, sorry about that? Lake Placid nineteen eighty.
• 29:20
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you almost bore that.
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: Saua Valley nineteen sixty, the.
• 29:23
  Speaker 6: Most memorable thing men's hockey's ever done, and most forgot
• 29:26
  Speaker 6: about that.
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: Rand Squad Valley nineteen sixty. That's it and those two
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: are it? That's it? Yeah?
• 29:34
  Speaker 6: When name the years, he asked one of title mos.
• 29:36
  Speaker 6: You can do that pretty quick, can't you?
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: Two thousand and four?
• 29:41
  Speaker 4: Yeah, you understand my point.
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: It's been forty six It's been forty six years, bro.
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: I mean, these guys they want to play for their country.
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: They want to win.
• 29:51
  Speaker 4: For their countries.
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: Arguing against that and selfishly as Avalanche guys, yeah, we're like,
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: oh man, did you.
• 29:59
  Speaker 3: See in that Chechia Canada game? Check you had six
• 30:03
  Speaker 3: guys on the ice. I don't like that.
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: On the goal.
• 30:07
  Speaker 6: The funny thing is that I can't remember if it
• 30:10
  Speaker 6: was Cooper or somebody from Canada was talking about this Leo.
• 30:12
  Speaker 4: We all missed it. We didn't even see it until
• 30:14
  Speaker 4: you know.
• 30:15
  Speaker 3: And I think, here's where my color? So that was
• 30:17
  Speaker 3: his advantage.
• 30:18
  Speaker 6: That was him defending the refs. He's like, if we
• 30:20
  Speaker 6: didn't even tell, how can I get mad at them?
• 30:22
  Speaker 3: Here's here's where now, you guys know what it's like
• 30:25
  Speaker 3: for me to watch these games when the jersey colors
• 30:28
  Speaker 3: are the same. Those jerseys were too similar. Those that
• 30:31
  Speaker 3: red on top of the Chechia jersey that matched the
• 30:35
  Speaker 3: red that the Canadians wore. Yeah, noliky, that's why I
• 30:41
  Speaker 3: like playing against the Swedes. They stick, they stand out,
• 30:46
  Speaker 3: you know, the Swedes. They had the brightness there.
• 30:48
  Speaker 4: What's funny?
• 30:49
  Speaker 6: They score that goal that was plot right correct, and
• 30:53
  Speaker 6: literally there's six people hugging each other.
• 30:58
  Speaker 3: And they're like, wait, no, how do we all have room?
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: We can tell you.
• 31:03
  Speaker 3: Three. Wait, how do I find somebody to hug?
• 31:06
  Speaker 6: This wasn't like somebody had a toe of the skate
• 31:10
  Speaker 6: on the ice as he's jumping the bench. They were
• 31:12
  Speaker 6: all playing hockey at the same time. They scored, they
• 31:16
  Speaker 6: all hugged each other, and it had to be like,
• 31:20
  Speaker 6: all right, hey, let's all make a circle, get this
• 31:22
  Speaker 6: guy in the middle, and we'll let's all skate to
• 31:23
  Speaker 6: the bench together.
• 31:24
  Speaker 4: You know what I mean, Like sid it.
• 31:25
  Speaker 6: It's like a slap tag in baseball, or you don't
• 31:27
  Speaker 6: got the ball, just show it to the raft like yeah,
• 31:29
  Speaker 6: he's out anyway. Three oh three, five, four, nine two five.
• 31:35
  Speaker 6: I want to talk about expectations. The Nuggets are back
• 31:37
  Speaker 6: at it tonight. They'll take on the Clippers, currently third
• 31:40
  Speaker 6: in the Western Conference. What is the minimum they need
• 31:44
  Speaker 6: to do to make you happy in the last twenty
• 31:46
  Speaker 6: five games. What needs to happen. We'll get to it next.
• 31:49
  Speaker 6: The Nuggets are back on the court in Los Angeles
• 31:51
  Speaker 6: against the Clippers, and we'll have all the action right
• 31:54
  Speaker 6: here on Altitude Sports Radio ninety two five. Tune in
• 31:56
  Speaker 6: for pregame coverage powered by Ramos Law at eight pm.
• 31:59
  Speaker 6: So the light tip the Nuggets heading into this post
• 32:04
  Speaker 6: All Star break twenty five games left, they currently sit
• 32:07
  Speaker 6: in third.
• 32:08
  Speaker 3: In the twenty seven games left twenty seven sorry, twenty
• 32:12
  Speaker 3: seven games left.
• 32:14
  Speaker 6: They currently sit in third in the Western Conference. They
• 32:17
  Speaker 6: are a game up on Houston and a game and
• 32:20
  Speaker 6: a half on both the Lakers and the Tea Wolves,
• 32:22
  Speaker 6: but a full two and a half back of second
• 32:25
  Speaker 6: place with the Spurs. What do you want to happen
• 32:28
  Speaker 6: these final twenty seven games?
• 32:30
  Speaker 4: What would be the minimum to make you happy?
• 32:32
  Speaker 3: I have a number out here, I've got you know,
• 32:34
  Speaker 3: I looked at the schedule. I've run through the schedule
• 32:36
  Speaker 3: with you guys. It's incredibly difficult. The next three weeks
• 32:39
  Speaker 3: of this schedule the toughest three week stretch of the season.
• 32:43
  Speaker 3: And I mean incredibly difficult. So go through it for yourself.
• 32:47
  Speaker 3: If you don't believe me, it's nuts. You got Minnesota
• 32:50
  Speaker 3: in there, you got Okay see a couple of times,
• 32:52
  Speaker 3: you got the Lakers, a couple of times, you got
• 32:55
  Speaker 3: visits with Boston. It's it's nuts. It's tough. If this
• 33:00
  Speaker 3: team goes twenty and seven in the remaining twenty seven
• 33:03
  Speaker 3: games and that's asking a lot. Twenty and seven. It'll
• 33:07
  Speaker 3: bring them to fifty five wins on the season, which
• 33:10
  Speaker 3: would be short of their franchise record obviously, and that's
• 33:13
  Speaker 3: fine because of the injuries they've gone through. Now they're
• 33:16
  Speaker 3: going to make history here in the regular season. But
• 33:19
  Speaker 3: twenty and seven will assure you the two or three seed,
• 33:22
  Speaker 3: and you have to have the two or three seed
• 33:24
  Speaker 3: in my humble opinion. So that's the mark.
• 33:27
  Speaker 6: So what I'm shooting fo, I am like, I'm less
• 33:31
  Speaker 6: concerned with record and just where they are on the standings.
• 33:35
  Speaker 6: I think if they finish top four, I'm cool. And
• 33:38
  Speaker 6: it's just because there's still as much as you are.
• 33:41
  Speaker 6: I think we all want to see this sort of
• 33:47
  Speaker 6: this really good push towards the postseason. They're still without
• 33:50
  Speaker 6: ag and Peyton Watson, Like, that's not a small thing
• 33:53
  Speaker 6: to be missing in the lineup.
• 33:55
  Speaker 3: Four gets you, OKAYC in the second round. I don't
• 33:57
  Speaker 3: want four, two or three?
• 34:00
  Speaker 2: Yeah no, no, no, You're Vickers entirely correct. You must maintain
• 34:06
  Speaker 2: top three at all costs.
• 34:08
  Speaker 3: That's it, period.
• 34:08
  Speaker 6: And what's the difference between facing the thunder and round
• 34:11
  Speaker 6: two and round three?
• 34:13
  Speaker 3: What's the difference maybe another round of basketball, maybe they
• 34:18
  Speaker 3: lose somebody who know, it's exactly right.
• 34:20
  Speaker 2: You don't. You don't want to see them until they've
• 34:22
  Speaker 2: had to play all of their toughest basketball.
• 34:24
  Speaker 3: That's like asking, what's the difference if the has played
• 34:27
  Speaker 3: Dallas in the second round. I think there is the
• 34:30
  Speaker 3: first round.
• 34:31
  Speaker 6: There's partly a benefit to it that if you get
• 34:33
  Speaker 6: through that, there's no benefit.
• 34:35
  Speaker 2: Really, okay, I tend to think that there's no benefit
• 34:39
  Speaker 2: to that. I'm talking about I would rather look, I
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: would rather go through it having them have to face
• 34:46
  Speaker 2: attrition by the time that you face them. Same with it,
• 34:49
  Speaker 2: which is why the NHL playoff format. Well you got
• 34:52
  Speaker 2: to get through them anyway. Well yeah, but you know what,
• 34:56
  Speaker 2: let them go through a couple of series of getting
• 34:58
  Speaker 2: their butts kicked and physic go crap before you face them.
• 35:01
  Speaker 2: I mean again, you any coach in the entire league
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: thinks that way, Well, you got listen, you might as
• 35:08
  Speaker 2: well play Dallas in the first round because you gotta
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: play them anyway.
• 35:11
  Speaker 3: My ass not to say it's going to be no
• 35:14
  Speaker 3: but but but the attrition factor can be there.
• 35:17
  Speaker 2: And I'm not saying you want the easiest path to
• 35:19
  Speaker 2: the final. But you want the easiest path to the final.
• 35:22
  Speaker 3: Matchups matter, right, Yes, attrition.
• 35:28
  Speaker 4: Is hurt the Nuggets more than anybody else.
• 35:31
  Speaker 6: If we're talking about attrition, I mean the later we go,
• 35:34
  Speaker 6: I mean, that's what happened last year. The later they
• 35:36
  Speaker 6: got into the playoffs, the more you guys, all the
• 35:39
  Speaker 6: players broke down.
• 35:40
  Speaker 3: Well, you don't get If you want to use your argument,
• 35:42
  Speaker 3: then play them in the first round, right you.
• 35:43
  Speaker 2: Don't think, Okay, see one of the face the Nuggets
• 35:45
  Speaker 2: in the final one. I mean the round.
• 35:48
  Speaker 6: Let's just do it, like rip the band aid off
• 35:50
  Speaker 6: and let's go, Like part of me wants it, like
• 35:52
  Speaker 6: get this out way, let's see, let's see better.
• 35:55
  Speaker 2: That's why you're dumb, all right?
• 35:57
  Speaker 3: Hang on?
• 35:58
  Speaker 6: Do you not think that's why you're A year after
• 36:01
  Speaker 6: the Nuggets won the title, they went Game seven with Minnesota.
• 36:03
  Speaker 6: They lost, Right, Minnesota was seen as as maybe outside
• 36:08
  Speaker 6: the Nuggets, the best team in the Western Conference.
• 36:10
  Speaker 3: And we also does have made the Western Conference finals
• 36:12
  Speaker 3: two years running.
• 36:13
  Speaker 6: We all had this thought, didn't we. God man, we
• 36:16
  Speaker 6: got by Minnesota. Motion you said this one hundred times.
• 36:18
  Speaker 6: I don't even know if I believe this, but you
• 36:19
  Speaker 6: said if they beat Minnesota, they were gonna be in
• 36:21
  Speaker 6: the finals.
• 36:22
  Speaker 4: You just walked right over Dallas that.
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: Was gonna be in Yes, I did, Yes, I did.
• 36:25
  Speaker 4: Who ended up winning that series and going to the
• 36:28
  Speaker 4: NBA Finals.
• 36:28
  Speaker 2: By the way, they would have beaten Dallas. Okay in
• 36:33
  Speaker 2: my mind, I mean here's an obviously remember no, in
• 36:35
  Speaker 2: my mind they would have beaten Dallas.
• 36:36
  Speaker 4: Wouldn't that have been? Alright?
• 36:38
  Speaker 6: Like if you just won Game seven, then you had
• 36:40
  Speaker 6: basically you're saying a gimme series to get into the
• 36:42
  Speaker 6: NBA Finals.
• 36:43
  Speaker 3: Right, here's another reason you want to finish second or third. Okay, listen,
• 36:46
  Speaker 3: I've I've already would probably, But let me give you
• 36:49
  Speaker 3: the main reason. I've already done all. I've looked at
• 36:51
  Speaker 3: this sucker up and down. If you finished second or third,
• 36:54
  Speaker 3: you're gonna face the likes of Portland, Golden State, or
• 36:58
  Speaker 3: Phoenix in the first round.
• 37:00
  Speaker 2: Sounds good?
• 37:01
  Speaker 3: One of those three those that's that's not bad. If
• 37:03
  Speaker 3: you finish fourth, you got Minnesota, Houston, the Lakers, one
• 37:09
  Speaker 3: of those three. How do you like that? The difference
• 37:11
  Speaker 3: between those two opponents.
• 37:12
  Speaker 4: I think that it's a hell of a hill decline
• 37:15
  Speaker 4: to get to two.
• 37:18
  Speaker 3: I didn't think I said two or three.
• 37:20
  Speaker 4: I know, but three is still one of those teams.
• 37:23
  Speaker 3: No, No, if you finished third, you would take on
• 37:27
  Speaker 3: the seventh seed. I'm sorry, you take on the sixth seat.
• 37:30
  Speaker 3: You're exactly.
• 37:30
  Speaker 6: I mean, it'd be one of those teams anyway. Like
• 37:32
  Speaker 6: if they get to two, yes, that's ideal. I just
• 37:35
  Speaker 6: don't know if with the amount of things are missing,
• 37:38
  Speaker 6: if they can climb that as.
• 37:40
  Speaker 3: The half games isn't insurmountable.
• 37:41
  Speaker 6: It's not, but it's you just mentioned the schedule and
• 37:44
  Speaker 6: what they're gonna have to do to keep pace there,
• 37:46
  Speaker 6: and San Antonio is pretty damn good.
• 37:49
  Speaker 3: Good news is Spencer Jones is locked in. He's gonna
• 37:51
  Speaker 3: be on the roster for the rest of the season.
• 37:53
  Speaker 3: He'll be able to chase around Kawhi tonight in La Ag.
• 37:57
  Speaker 2: Actually had I saw them. I saw that he practiced.
• 38:01
  Speaker 2: So Victim, here's my let's get down to real talk.
• 38:04
  Speaker 2: Can we please? Real talk? Are we looking? I'm not
• 38:09
  Speaker 2: worried about Pee Watt necessarily let us hand me heal.
• 38:12
  Speaker 2: Think he's gonna be fine. I am entirely concerned, more
• 38:18
  Speaker 2: than concerned about Aaron Gordon and the long term prospects
• 38:21
  Speaker 2: of him being in the lineup. I don't know what
• 38:24
  Speaker 2: to do with him. I don't know what to do
• 38:26
  Speaker 2: about him. I don't know how to view this, VIC,
• 38:29
  Speaker 2: because you're talking about by the time he actually comes
• 38:32
  Speaker 2: back to the lineup, you're talking about having missed half
• 38:36
  Speaker 2: the season. It's bigger than that motion half the season
• 38:40
  Speaker 2: with a hamstring that is probably hanging by a thread.
• 38:43
  Speaker 2: That's the way I feel, and I don't feel good
• 38:45
  Speaker 2: about that at all.
• 38:46
  Speaker 6: A couple of weeks ago. I hope I'm getting this
• 38:48
  Speaker 6: right because it's not in front of me. But Adamarrez
• 38:51
  Speaker 6: of DNVR had that AG in two years. Has not
• 38:55
  Speaker 6: played sixteen consecutive games.
• 38:57
  Speaker 3: Yeah, not since the NBA Finals of twenty twenty three.
• 39:01
  Speaker 3: Not since that run to the playoff finals. Has he
• 39:04
  Speaker 3: played sixteen games in a row.
• 39:06
  Speaker 6: Most of you swept every team in the postseason. How
• 39:08
  Speaker 6: many games is that?
• 39:09
  Speaker 2: That's sixteen?
• 39:10
  Speaker 4: Yeah, he has. On this pace, he wouldn't be able
• 39:14
  Speaker 4: to finish a total sweep.
• 39:16
  Speaker 3: Well, this much we know. I think they've learned their
• 39:20
  Speaker 3: lesson on AG. If there's a back to back, for example,
• 39:24
  Speaker 3: tomorrow night, there's a back to back right out of
• 39:26
  Speaker 3: the shoot tonight tomorrow night eight. No more back to
• 39:29
  Speaker 3: backs for Aaron Gordon. Yeah, it ain't happened anymore, right,
• 39:33
  Speaker 3: Can I.
• 39:34
  Speaker 4: Ask you something else?
• 39:35
  Speaker 3: Fick?
• 39:35
  Speaker 6: Because they went out and they filled their two way
• 39:37
  Speaker 6: slot that was voided out by Spencer Jones contract.
• 39:39
  Speaker 4: They got former Buff kJ Simpson.
• 39:41
  Speaker 3: No, no, he's just a two way player. But they
• 39:45
  Speaker 3: could they could also still sign another roster.
• 39:48
  Speaker 4: No, that's why I said. He took Spencer Jones's two
• 39:50
  Speaker 4: way deal.
• 39:52
  Speaker 6: Right now that Spencer Jones is a full time contract,
• 39:57
  Speaker 6: so they still have a roster spot left. I've seen
• 40:00
  Speaker 6: people talk about guards. Somebody's gonna explain this to me.
• 40:03
  Speaker 6: Why what is the need that people feel like we
• 40:06
  Speaker 6: have for another guard? I feel like we're so guard
• 40:08
  Speaker 6: heavy already.
• 40:09
  Speaker 3: I'll tell you why. Because because Jaylen Pickett hasn't been right.
• 40:12
  Speaker 3: He's not playing tonight, he's out, and they're worried that
• 40:17
  Speaker 3: if he's not right, and if he's not gonna handle
• 40:19
  Speaker 3: that position, they need a backup ball handler. Maybe not
• 40:22
  Speaker 3: for the playoff run, but through the remaining twenty seven games. Yeah, yeah,
• 40:27
  Speaker 3: I think they do.
• 40:28
  Speaker 6: They just need somebody to get it over the timeline.
• 40:31
  Speaker 6: I don't think this isn't to John Stockton days. I
• 40:34
  Speaker 6: mean they run their entire offense, or a center Lebron
• 40:38
  Speaker 6: James runs the offense, or Luca does. They aren't point guards.
• 40:41
  Speaker 6: The best players in the league are on point guards.
• 40:42
  Speaker 6: They handle the ball the most. I'm far more.
• 40:45
  Speaker 4: Concerned, way more concerned with.
• 40:47
  Speaker 6: Having somebody who's six foot ten that can be on
• 40:49
  Speaker 6: the floor because right now it's Jokic and valentiunas and
• 40:52
  Speaker 6: I don't know what is Zeke Naji back to.
• 40:54
  Speaker 4: He can't play anymore, Like what's going on there?
• 40:57
  Speaker 3: He's not in the rotation. It's like Heth Holmes is
• 40:59
  Speaker 3: not the rotation.
• 41:00
  Speaker 6: He plays for a little bit and then he disappears again.
• 41:04
  Speaker 6: So like drawn Holmes and Zikenagy, if they can't play,
• 41:06
  Speaker 6: you need a big.
• 41:07
  Speaker 2: Can Okay fine, but can we be you need a
• 41:10
  Speaker 2: big yes to take a g spot.
• 41:16
  Speaker 6: We're obviously like if you can't trust ag to stay
• 41:19
  Speaker 6: healthy anymore, number one, number two. Okay, if you lose, forget,
• 41:23
  Speaker 6: if you lose yok, then if you lose, just all over.
• 41:25
  Speaker 6: But if you lose, if you get, if you lose Valentine.
• 41:28
  Speaker 3: You don't have a back. If you lose a g No,
• 41:32
  Speaker 3: nobody you get in the buyout market is going to nobody.
• 41:36
  Speaker 3: Nobody can't much size like it's but you're you're talking
• 41:40
  Speaker 3: as if this is going to be a band aid
• 41:41
  Speaker 3: approach to winning a championship. I've got again, I've got
• 41:43
  Speaker 3: news for you. If AG can't play in the playoffs,
• 41:46
  Speaker 3: you're not winning a championship.
• 41:49
  Speaker 2: Brett stuff for second, Please, I've also got news for you. Okay,
• 41:53
  Speaker 2: So Zekenagy's not playing, Okay, fine, whatever. When it wrote
• 41:56
  Speaker 2: we roll around to the postseason, that bench is going
• 41:59
  Speaker 2: to rink anyway. I mean, I guess, I guess the
• 42:03
  Speaker 2: guy can play. I thought he would be trade bait perhaps,
• 42:07
  Speaker 2: but when it really matters, when it comes down to
• 42:09
  Speaker 2: crunch time, is he going to be getting minutes in
• 42:11
  Speaker 2: the postseason? This?
• 42:12
  Speaker 6: Seriously, this is not about the playoffs, and what's it about.
• 42:16
  Speaker 6: This is about getting you the proper seeding entering the playoffs.
• 42:20
  Speaker 6: That's what that last spot is for. To me, like,
• 42:22
  Speaker 6: this isn't about who's gonna play in the postseason. If
• 42:25
  Speaker 6: anybody that they sign within the next couple of weeks
• 42:28
  Speaker 6: is playing for you in the postseason, times is tough Okay,
• 42:31
  Speaker 6: that can't happen. The point is, how many times did
• 42:35
  Speaker 6: we see, especially with Jokic out and Ag out or
• 42:39
  Speaker 6: Yokic and valentiunis, they had to play small ball.
• 42:41
  Speaker 4: They're getting out rebounded like twenty a game.
• 42:44
  Speaker 6: And the second Valannis got back in the lineup, that
• 42:47
  Speaker 6: flipped because you just had somebody big.
• 42:50
  Speaker 4: You need to have a big guy right now.
• 42:52
  Speaker 6: Their option for no Ag is, well, let's stretch Peyton
• 42:56
  Speaker 6: Watson in a new tool. He's not a four, he's.
• 42:58
  Speaker 3: Not you know, the schedule, Dictate exactly what your needs
• 43:02
  Speaker 3: are down the stretch. Because the next month of Nuggets basketball,
• 43:05
  Speaker 3: all right, the next month fourteen games. I will challenge
• 43:10
  Speaker 3: you to find another team in the NBA that has
• 43:12
  Speaker 3: a tougher fourteen game stretch than the Denver Nuggets. No way,
• 43:16
  Speaker 3: listen to this. This is the next fourteen games at
• 43:20
  Speaker 3: the Clippers at Portland, at Golden State, Boston at OKC,
• 43:26
  Speaker 3: Minnesota at Utah, Lakers, Nicks at OKCE Houston, San Antonio
• 43:33
  Speaker 3: at the Lakers Philly. That is ridiculous.
• 43:37
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's a lot.
• 43:39
  Speaker 3: That is a ridiculous stretch of games, fourteen games. If
• 43:44
  Speaker 3: you go through those fourteen games. Let's say ten and four.
• 43:48
  Speaker 3: What a win.
• 43:51
  Speaker 2: I've only been back a showing a third from Espanya.
• 43:58
  Speaker 2: Look at me for a second place. Put your head
• 44:00
  Speaker 2: up and look at me. Turnsideways, look to your left,
• 44:03
  Speaker 2: the tiny bit, the other way, another way.
• 44:07
  Speaker 3: What do you want?
• 44:08
  Speaker 2: Who did your hair?
• 44:10
  Speaker 3: What do you want?
• 44:11
  Speaker 2: Who did your hair?
• 44:12
  Speaker 3: What do you get to the point? What do you want?
• 44:14
  Speaker 3: I'm deep in some good Nuggets analysis right now.
• 44:16
  Speaker 2: I don't need well, we're getting to break and we've
• 44:19
  Speaker 2: got a lot more Nuggets analysis to come. I'm distracted
• 44:22
  Speaker 2: by your red racing stripe. I'm sorry?
• 44:26
  Speaker 3: Are you growing another soul patch?
• 44:28
  Speaker 2: No that I miss.
• 44:32
  Speaker 6: Great game tonight Nuggets and Clippers eight thirty. You can
• 44:36
  Speaker 6: hear it right here Altitude Sports Radio ninety two five.
• 44:38
  Speaker 3: Even you you're the guy, hold on, say you're going
• 44:42
  Speaker 3: to call out what I do hygienically and for looks
• 44:47
  Speaker 3: when every other day you're so confused with what you
• 44:49
  Speaker 3: look like, you grow random soul patches.
• 44:53
  Speaker 2: That's how we've been randomly. Wait, so even don't forget
• 44:55
  Speaker 2: to make a comment. Is he have a red racing
• 44:58
  Speaker 2: strip on the side of his head? Or is am
• 44:59
  Speaker 2: I just an.
• 45:00
  Speaker 3: So You're a guy who can't figure out whether or
• 45:03
  Speaker 3: not he wants to grow this horrific patch of hair
• 45:06
  Speaker 3: under his chin on a day like some days you
• 45:09
  Speaker 3: have it, some days you don't, And you're gonna point
• 45:11
  Speaker 3: to me about what I look like.
• 45:15
  Speaker 2: You know what we do with the soul patch, Brett?
• 45:18
  Speaker 4: Is it a song?
• 45:21
  Speaker 2: Yeah? I think everybody knows what we do with the
• 45:23
  Speaker 2: soul patch, right, Steve.
• 45:25
  Speaker 4: Lay that down doesn't even make sense.
• 45:28
  Speaker 2: We lay it down.
• 45:30
  Speaker 3: That doesn't even make sense, doesn't make anything.
• 45:31
  Speaker 4: It doesn't make sense to drive. That doesn't even make
• 45:35
  Speaker 4: sense to what you're saying. What do you How do
• 45:38
  Speaker 4: you lay down a soul patch?
• 45:40
  Speaker 2: Maybe you like to find out?
• 45:42
  Speaker 4: No, I don't.
• 45:43
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• 45:51
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