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Happy Monday, Kid Nation.

All right, so Big Al Mack said he had something go wrong with a potential date to a comedy show.

We'll get into it here in about 40 minutes.

Speaking of that, worst date ever also happening in an hour from now.

And I had a big missed opportunity. Big time missed opportunity. Big mistake.

Not a mistake. It just I missed a direct message that I just couldn't stop thinking about all

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All right. Let's get to the headlines.

The 2026 Winter Olympics are officially done. And you know what? Team USA did very well.

We got 12 gold medals. This is the most we've ever won at the winter game.

Nice. So let's celebrate that. The old record was 10 and that was done at the Salt Lake City games back in 2002. Okay. The U.S. men's hockey team beat Canada yesterday. They won gold for the first time in 46 years. USA! U.S.A. Overtime game. Yeah, thrilling. I mean, it was, I was just picturing all of the United States of America sitting in front of their TVs watching this.

The last time was the famous Miracle on Ice Game against the Soviet Union in 1980.

That's the last time we won gold in hockey.

Team USA, uh, team USA's best sport this time was freestyle skiing with eight medals.

Three of them were gold.

Speed skating was next at five and two.

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