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In segment one, Chris and I will break down the soccer news.

We'll have my interviews with Kellyn Acosta and Jillian Sackovitz and Susanna Collins in

segments two and three, but let's bring in Whitty.

How are you, my friend?

No recovering from a bonkers champions league finale in Madrid.

I kind of feel like the way that Parasite and Germain capitulated, I'm sort of inclined

to believe that you see a team that just did not, could not get over the finish line and

that eventually Real Madrid was going to turn on the press going forward, attacking, committing

numbers forward.

There were moments in the first half where I'm watching it going, they know that they're

one-neil down and then after and Bob Bay scores, they know that they're two-neil down and

eventually seems like they all looked around and went, oh my God, we're down two-neil

and a champion's league knockout tie.

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