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podcast everybody I'm Kayle Frets.

Fantastic show for you. We're smack dab in the middle of Jiro.

We've got a Pococher who I guess sort of didn't win a stage on purpose today. Anyway, we'll get to that. We've got some flying parrots, the brothers' parrots. We've got a chapeau of the week. we've got some chat around the pretty interesting

contract and transfer season happening in the women's peloton and then we're

going to look ahead to what's going to go on in the rest of the

Jiro here because I think yeah we're far enough in now that we could start to make

if not some predictions we can at least look at what the week ahead might hold

based on how folks are riding so far but let's let's kick things

off with I think sort of one of the biggest questions remaining at the Giro and

this is based of course off the assumption that Tata Pagachir has a pretty strong hold on this jurid

Italia, but the race for second...

You haven't introduced this yet.

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