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Hi, my name is Alex Edelman and my sports
fantasy is to be part of the 1980 US

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Olympic Miracle and Ice Team.

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The miracle and ice is the single greatest
sports triumph in the history of the

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United States.

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A team of American college students beat
the juggernaut U S S R ice hockey team

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in the semi-final. Then they won, uh,
the gold medal in the final against,

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I think Sweden or Finland. I, I can't
remember because it's very anticlimactic,

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but the Miracle on Ice truly
referred to as a miracle on ice. Um,

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it was like a lore for every
hockey playing young person.

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I was a hockey playing young
person. I loved this story so much.

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There's a really good movie where
Kurt Russell plays Herb Brooks.

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It's very dignified, but
it is absolutely excellent.

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And there's a monologue that he delivers
that like you can go on YouTube and

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watch like five year old
kids. Yeah. You know,

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delivering this monologue dressed
as like, dressed as Herb Brooks,

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dressed as Kurt Russell
dressed as Herb Brooks.

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Great moments are born
from great opportunities.

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That's what you have here tonight, boys.

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But it's a really, uh, it's a really
beautiful story. And also by the way,

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not to get like, serious about
it, like at the time was like a,

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was like the US needed a w like
the people who lived in the

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United States were like very put upon
and it felt like a very meager time.

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And they had just had the Iranian
hostage crisis was going on. And in fact,

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when the Iranian hostages got out and
they showed them a tape to catch 'em up to

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what they'd missed over
the last couple of months,

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the US Olympic hockey team was
pretty prominently featured.

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And so it was a really big, you know,

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glorious victory for the
United States. And so, like,

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if I had one sports fantasy, I'd
wanna be part of that miracle.

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My show is called Just For Us,

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and it's on Broadway right now
at the Hudson until August 19th.

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And you can get tickets on my
Instagram, Alex Edelman, or uh,

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at just for us show com.