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Speaker 1: Hey, what's up, good people.

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Speaker 2: This is Jamel Hill, host of Politics, and welcome to

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Speaker 2: a very special edition of Politics. I do these minipiles

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Speaker 2: ever so often just to give you, guys, sort of

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Speaker 2: my immediate reaction, my immediate thoughts to.

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Speaker 1: Some of the hottest topics across sports.

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Speaker 2: Now, for those of you who I'm sure paid attention,

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Speaker 2: this past weekend was the WNBA All Star Weekend, and

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Speaker 2: the WNBA All Star Weekend ten out of ten. No notes, well,

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Speaker 2: actually a couple notes, so maybe I couldn't give it

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Speaker 2: couple notes that were necessarily more or less related to

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Speaker 1: But generally I thought it was an incredible.

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Speaker 2: Sort of an incredible showcase for the WNBA. It was Indianapolis,

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Speaker 2: wondered how would this all start weekend and go off,

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Speaker 2: to get the same viewership. As of this recording, I

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Speaker 2: don't know what that viewership is, but if we're just

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Speaker 2: going off vibes and energy, it looked like Indianapolis.

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Speaker 1: Was a hell of a time.

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Speaker 2: Scott Diggins had an incredible performance the Vista Collier.

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Speaker 1: She wound up winning w NBA All Star MVP.

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Speaker 2: Now, as much as there was so much to talk about,

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Speaker 2: by far was the w NBA players wearing these shirts.

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Speaker 1: These shirts that say pay us what you owe us.

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Speaker 2: They wore these in their warm ups, hitting your warm

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Speaker 2: and this has caused quite a polarizing reaction across social media,

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Speaker 2: as you might as you might gather now to give

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Speaker 2: or the players, they decided to opt out of their

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Speaker 2: collective bargaining agreement which they agreed to in twenty twenty.

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Speaker 2: They decided to opt out. It made all the sense

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Speaker 1: Of why they did. You should probably go back.

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Speaker 2: I would encourage you all, if you can, to go

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Speaker 2: back and listen to a podcast that I did earlier

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Speaker 2: in this season of spot Attacks of Politics with the

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Speaker 2: executive director of the WNBA Players Association. That would be

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Speaker 2: Terry Jackson, who broke all this down and pretty much

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Speaker 2: foreshadowed a lot of this, not necessarily the T shirts,

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Speaker 2: check out check out that episode. So anyway, they decided

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Speaker 2: right now, it still is creating a reaction because when

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Speaker 2: trending topics and it was all about them deciding to.

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Speaker 1: Wear these T shirts. There's a few things that were

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Speaker 2: I realize that social media is not a perfect age,

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Speaker 1: But what was immediately.

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Speaker 2: Obvious about this is that a lot of people were

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Speaker 2: I say, h huh, it's interesting how that protect women's

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Speaker 2: sports energy isn't there when you have women demanding more

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Speaker 2: So suddenly that whole protect women's sports thing, they ain't

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Speaker 2: And yet again that protect women's sports crowd is not there.

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Speaker 1: It reminds you of almost a Tiger Woods.

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Speaker 2: A lot of people were bothered by this T shirt.

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Speaker 2: One of the words that people kept circling was the

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Speaker 2: oh is appropriate. I want you guys to understand where

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Speaker 2: lose forty to fifty million dollars. We gonna get to

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Speaker 2: that number in a second. But here's what the players

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Speaker 2: recognize right now in this moment. The WNBA, because this

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Speaker 1: About enough on social media.

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Speaker 2: The WNBA just signed a two point two billion dollars

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Speaker 1: That deal kicks into effect next year.

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Speaker 2: They will the league will be able to the league

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Speaker 2: will have eighteen teams. They currently have thirteen teams. All right,

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Speaker 2: so let me just ask y'all this. A lot of

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Speaker 2: the same time, simultane simultaneously, So let me ask you

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Speaker 2: why are so many investors lining up to buy teams?

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Speaker 2: Can anybody answer me that question? If the WNBA product

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Speaker 2: this forty fifty million dollar profit or a forty fifty

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Speaker 2: If there is nothing to be gained financially from this league,

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Speaker 2: if it is the charity you guys keep saying that

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Speaker 1: For example, the the Valkyries, right the Valkyries are the

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Speaker 1: newest franchise in the WNBA. There are an incredible story

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Speaker 2: The Valkyries are already valued at five hundred million dollars.

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Speaker 2: It's the highest valuation of any women's sports team in history.

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Speaker 2: The Valkyries currently right the New York Liberty their valuation is.

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Speaker 1: Four hundred and thirty million dollars.

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Speaker 2: Right now, the Indiana Fever their valuation is two hundred

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Speaker 2: And because of that, there are a number of investors

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Speaker 1: They want the team, but they want to move the team.

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Speaker 2: So there's a lot of conjecture there about what really

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Speaker 1: So I'm the smartest person in the world.

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Speaker 2: But if this is a bad investment, like y'all say

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Speaker 2: it is, why do they keep attracting billionaires? And investors.

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Speaker 2: Let me tell you something. I know this is gonna

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Speaker 2: In fact, I'm gonna use the NBA as an example

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Speaker 2: this moment. Let me remind you of what has happened

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Speaker 2: every single NBA lockout? All right, the NBA has been

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Speaker 2: I believe they've locked out four times in NBA history,

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Speaker 2: four times, all right? Every single time is a lockout.

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Speaker 2: What do the owners claim? The owners claim they are

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Speaker 2: losing money. I am old enough to remember in nineteen

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Speaker 1: Just sell a piece of the Lakers for ten billion dollars.

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Speaker 2: So if the NBA was losing as much money as

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Speaker 1: Create the narrative that the players are being ungrateful.

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Speaker 1: Adam Silver, who was the deputy commissioner of the NBA, then.

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Speaker 2: He said that the league was operating at a three

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Speaker 1: Twenty two teams, so class.

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Speaker 2: What have we learned from this is that when it

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Speaker 1: The table, the owners will lie.

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Speaker 2: they are literally tearing their acls to buy one. But

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Speaker 2: it's supposed to be bad business, Okay, it is not

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Speaker 2: owner of the Los Angeles Clippers. Pro Publica did this

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Speaker 2: report in twenty twenty or twenty twenty one, excuse me.

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Speaker 1: In twenty twenty one, pro.

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Speaker 2: Publica took a look at why sports teams are such

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Speaker 2: an attractive business for billionaires.

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Speaker 1: And for people with that kind of money.

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Speaker 2: In twenty twenty one, guests who paid more taxes Lebron

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Speaker 2: James or Steve Barmber. Now, keep in mind, Steve Bamber

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Speaker 2: is worth one hundred and thirty billion dollars. Lebron James.

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Speaker 2: I don't know if he was worth a billion dollars then,

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Speaker 2: but I know what Steve Barmber was worth.

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Speaker 1: Okay, the answer is Steve Bomber.

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Speaker 2: Steve Bomber in twenty twenty one was able to show

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Speaker 2: that the Clippers lost seven hundred million dollars.

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Speaker 1: Steve Balmer strikes me as a pretty smart dude.

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Speaker 2: Do you actually think and I ain't trying to call

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Speaker 2: affais on nobody, I ain't trying to call an IRS,

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Speaker 2: do you actually think that Steve Bamber, who has been

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Speaker 1: Why are you signing with the billionaires? They got enough money?

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Speaker 2: And it seemed to me that you all took such

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Speaker 2: Look, just because on your job you got to put

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Speaker 2: I don't understand this. Whenever it is player versus owner,

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Speaker 2: And so it is unbelievable to me to see how

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Speaker 1: And I'd rather you just say that to sit up there.

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Speaker 1: Because you don't.

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Speaker 2: All right now, just so you all understand the full

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Speaker 1: And by the way, in twenty eleven, the reason why the.

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Speaker 2: At that point it was fifty seven percent, but all

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Speaker 1: And again, these are businessmen who are a stoop.

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Speaker 2: They get into this to make money, all right, They

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Speaker 1: They were able to.

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Speaker 1: That they are not deserving of this.

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Speaker 2: And these narratives should all sound really familiar to you

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Speaker 1: So for the people who are.

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Speaker 1: Most people do. I know they are entrepreneurs, but most

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Speaker 2: You should be rooting for the people to make more

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Speaker 1: Sounds like for a lot of y'all, like y'all just

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Speaker 2: As I said, NBA players make about a fifty percent,

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Speaker 2: In WNBA players make less than ten percent of the revenue,

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Speaker 2: They're not saying we should be worth as much as

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Speaker 2: You all are aware that Russia has one of the

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Speaker 1: Far behind us, far less.

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Speaker 2: Progressive than us, but they can pay women's basketball players more.

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Speaker 2: That should make a lot of that shouldn't make sense

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Speaker 1: And you see that throughout history. That's why I pointed

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Speaker 2: Is that every time it's a lockout, there's always a

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Speaker 1: And then there came this other.

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Speaker 1: So we have three narratives.

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Speaker 2: That coincidentally got pushed out there before the w NBA

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Speaker 1: Listen, all I've done is watch A Long Order a

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Speaker 2: I ain't Olivia Benson, and I can't stable, but I

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Speaker 1: And you know who else can connect these dots is

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Speaker 3: Applies pay these women and the w NBA peyty motherfucking women.

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Speaker 2: Man.

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Speaker 3: I don't want to have a motherfucking fish run. Have

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Speaker 1: That's what they should do.

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Speaker 3: At my motherfucking grandma church.

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Speaker 1: Have a motherfucking fish run. I don't want to hear

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Speaker 3: How do you goddamn people, man, And how y'all feel

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Speaker 3: like women shouldn't even make no goddamn money unless they're

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Speaker 3: That woman damn now Ironstinle who know how to play

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Speaker 1: You like it or not.

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Speaker 3: Katie's goddamn people, But I don't want to hear. Listen,

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Speaker 3: if Pope Ice was telling me right now, they ain't

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Speaker 3: Ain't nobody signing up to lose no goddamn money. I

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Speaker 3: They make fifty percent. Other revenue generated goes to the playoff.

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Speaker 1: In the WNA dem again nine that shit.

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Speaker 3: You ain't got to give him fifty percent again more

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Speaker 1: And me Katie's goddamn people, man.

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Speaker 2: They deserve I mean, I don't understand why it's hard

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Speaker 1: What would happen if.

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Speaker 1: Because here's the other thing.

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Speaker 2: This is a critical moment for the WNBA in the

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Speaker 1: They have new teams that are coming.

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Speaker 2: New investment, and what they want to do is protect

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Speaker 1: You don't want the players having to play overseas.

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Speaker 2: To some degree, you don't even want them to be

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Speaker 2: So it makes more sense to invest in the players now.

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Speaker 2: demanding anything. Do you realize that in whatever company you

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Speaker 2: work for, whether the company profits or not, they still have.

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Speaker 1: To pay you.

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Speaker 2: The other thing is, do you think in the NBA

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Speaker 2: that they waited until the NBA was profitable before they

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Speaker 2: started playing paying the players. The NBA wasn't profitable for

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Speaker 2: about forty years if we believe their books, they were

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Speaker 2: not profitable for forty years. And those forty years, did

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Speaker 2: the player salaries increase the.

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Speaker 1: Discreete or decrease?

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Speaker 2: It increased, And just to give you idea of this

452
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Speaker 2: disparity in the early seventies where you could argue the

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Speaker 2: nineteen seventies were a really rough time for the NBA.

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Speaker 2: A lot of people thought the NBA was going to flow.

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Speaker 2: It was perceived as a league being two black, They

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Speaker 2: had rampant drug issues.

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Speaker 1: TV ratings were terrible, you know.

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Speaker 2: The seventies into basically that magic bird.

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Speaker 1: They got the NBA off of life support.

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Speaker 2: The NBA Finals was on tape delay before those two

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Speaker 2: showed up, So the league was.

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Speaker 1: In a bad place.

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Speaker 2: Even still with the league being in you know, that

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Speaker 2: kind of volatility, experiencing that kind of volatility. Kareem Abdul

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Speaker 2: Jabbar was making three hundred seventy five thousand dollars a year.

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Speaker 2: That was in the early seventies, so imagine what the

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Speaker 2: equivalent of that is now. Bill Bradley and Walt Fraser

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Speaker 2: were each making over three hundred thousand dollars a year.

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Speaker 1: In today.

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Speaker 2: In the year of our Lord Beyonce the highest paid

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Speaker 2: player I believe in the WNBA might be Jackie Young.

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Speaker 2: Jackie Young is making less than what Kareeb Abdul Jabari

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Speaker 2: is making in the seventies. Does that sound right to you? Okay,

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Speaker 2: that's what they're fighting for. And by the way, if

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Speaker 2: you follow the financial trajectory of the NBA and the WBA,

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Speaker 2: the WVa.

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Speaker 1: Is actually ahead of where the NBA was. So how

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Speaker 1: is a player the highest.

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Speaker 2: Paid player today in the WBA making less than what

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Speaker 2: somebody made fifty years ago. It doesn't make sense, which

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Speaker 2: leads me to what this is really all about. A

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Speaker 2: lot of times, especially when it comes to women fighting

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Speaker 2: for pay, fighting for equity, people don't deny them pay

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Speaker 2: because they haven't earned it. They deny them pay and

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Speaker 2: equity simply because they can, because they can rely on

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Speaker 2: people out there telling women what they don't deserve. And

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Speaker 2: there's no better example of this in recent times than

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Speaker 2: what happened in the NCAA Women's Tournament a few years ago.

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Speaker 1: This was twenty twenty.

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Speaker 2: This was the year of COVID, when both the tournaments,

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Speaker 2: the men and women's tournaments, were being paid in a

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Speaker 2: bubble and Sedona Prince went to TikTok made note of

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Speaker 2: what their facilities, their exercise facilities looked like, where they

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Speaker 2: basically gave them a couple of yoga masks, some cheap

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Speaker 2: ass dumbbails that they might have got from Dollar General

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Speaker 2: and they called it a day. Meanwhile, the men's tournament,

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Speaker 2: those players they had a state of the art gyp

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Speaker 2: that they could work out in. The women were on

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Speaker 2: a four or five hundred million dollar television deal. So

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Speaker 2: you mean to tell me they couldn't afford some extra dumbbails.

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Speaker 2: So why did they do it? They did it because

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Speaker 2: they could. They did it because people are constantly in

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Speaker 2: this mentality that the women just need to be happy

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Speaker 2: and shut up and be grateful. There's that word again,

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Speaker 2: grateful that they even allowed to play sports at all.

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Speaker 2: So as long as you in this mentality that people

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Speaker 2: need to be grateful and they need to be subservient

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Speaker 2: to the people in charge, that's why those t shirts

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Speaker 2: are getting the reaction that they are because people caught

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Speaker 2: up on one word old.

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Speaker 1: How dare these women use the word?

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Speaker 2: Oh, that's what this is all about. So all these

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Speaker 2: people who are like uplift women's sports and protect women's sports.

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Speaker 2: Y'all quiet, huh, sorry, it's not a trans athlete in this,

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Speaker 2: so y'all can hate because I know that's the only

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Speaker 2: thing y'all really care about. Y'all don't actually care about

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Speaker 2: investment in women's sports and the things that undermine women's sports.

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Speaker 1: You know what all underminds women's sports is when.

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Speaker 2: People take off on players, women's players who dare to

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Speaker 2: speak out.

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Speaker 1: And by the way, you know.

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Speaker 2: Y'all messing with the wrong group of players, right, And

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Speaker 2: by the wrong group, I.

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Speaker 1: Mean you got the right ones. And if you recall,

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Speaker 1: the last.

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Speaker 2: Time this league decided to wear some T shirts was

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Speaker 2: when they got a senator elected, and that would be

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Speaker 2: Reverend Rafayel Warnock, who was elected to the Georgia Senate.

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Speaker 2: Because the WNBA players decided to stand against one of

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Speaker 2: the NBA or one of the WNBA owners, Kelly Leffler

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Speaker 2: at the time of the Atlanta Dream, because the players

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Speaker 2: were vocal about black lives matter and standing out against

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Speaker 2: police andjustice.

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Speaker 1: She made some.

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Speaker 2: Comments on Fox saying that the players were wrong, calling

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Speaker 2: them anti American, her own players in her own league,

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00:31:24,560 --> 00:31:29,400
Speaker 2: and the WAA players said bet clockett. So they started

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Speaker 2: to research the candidates and the Senate race. They came

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Speaker 2: across Reverend Rafael Warnot. He was polling at nine percent,

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Speaker 2: He had zero chance of winning the Senate seat in Georgia.

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Speaker 2: And when he decided, when they decided, they met with him,

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Speaker 2: they heard his platform, and they decided that they were

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Speaker 2: going to get behind this man. So instead of expanding

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Speaker 2: their energy on Kelly Leffler, they decided to use their

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Speaker 2: platform to promote Reverend Wafael Warnock. And when they did that,

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Speaker 2: he won the race. They talked about his platform, they

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00:32:04,080 --> 00:32:08,760
Speaker 2: wore support Warnock T shirts, and they changed the course

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Speaker 2: of history by getting him elected Senator in Georgia.

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Speaker 1: And that's even especially more monumental.

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Speaker 2: Because Reverend Warrenhut was one of those who cast a

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Speaker 2: vote for Justice Kintanji Brown Jackson to become the first

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Speaker 2: black woman.

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Speaker 1: To be appointed to the Supreme Court.

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Speaker 2: So don't underestimate how much these women are willing to

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Speaker 2: fight for what they believe.

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Speaker 1: They are old, all.

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Speaker 2: Right, I want to move on before I get you

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Speaker 2: guys out of here and talk about more positive things

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Speaker 2: about the NBA All Star Weekend. Not that it was

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Speaker 2: a negative about the T shirts. I think they had

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Speaker 2: every right to do that, as I explained the many

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Speaker 2: reasons why, but by far, I think it's fair to say,

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Speaker 2: especially if you're on social media and following all the

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Speaker 2: activity happening in Indianapolis.

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Speaker 1: Can y'all, for the love of God, kill.

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Speaker 2: This narrative that Caitlyn Clark is unliked in the WNBA

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Speaker 2: because I don't know what y'all saw, but what I

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Speaker 2: saw is Kaitlyn Clark.

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Speaker 1: Having a blast with WNBA players black white. She was

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Speaker 1: having a ball.

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Speaker 2: Now, because the music rights, I ain't gonna play you

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Speaker 2: what she's singing, but I believe it's waka flaka.

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Speaker 1: Kayln Clark was a hell of a.

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Speaker 2: Ambassador for the NBA WNBA All Star Weekend and even

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Speaker 2: though she wasn't able to participate, her presence was felt.

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Speaker 2: Kaitlyn was going up all the time, and you know

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Speaker 2: Indianapolis as a city, I had friends that were there.

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Speaker 1: They put on a show.

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Speaker 2: Now, I know the FISA Collier was the official MVP

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Speaker 2: of the WNBA All Star Game, but the real MVP

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Speaker 2: was stud Buds. They were the real MVP of WNBA

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Speaker 2: All Star Weekend.

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Speaker 1: And in case you aren't familiar with Stub Buds.

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Speaker 2: These are the Minnesota Leak's teammates, Courtney Williams natsiha Heidemann.

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Speaker 2: They are two of the most charismatic, funniest, hilarious personalities

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Speaker 2: in the WNBA.

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Speaker 1: They did a seventy two.

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Speaker 2: Hour live stream and they was wild the whole time.

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Speaker 1: This is they was getting in.

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Speaker 2: They was having crazy conversations. I mean, the phrase get

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Speaker 2: the strap was used quite a bit. They are they

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00:34:54,960 --> 00:35:00,240
Speaker 2: had themselves a ball and it was infectious and they,

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Speaker 2: to me, dave the best advertisement for what this weekend

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Speaker 2: was about because they showed that authenticity.

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Speaker 1: They showed you know, that camaraderie, that fun. Look.

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Speaker 2: I've been to a few NBA All Star weekends and

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Speaker 2: I can tell you look that you don't see this

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Speaker 2: kind of authenticity often.

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Speaker 1: I mean, you just don't. You know, that's not.

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Speaker 2: A lot of NBA players. They're kind of too cool

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Speaker 2: for certain stuff. But those young ladies, they showed people

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Speaker 2: how to have a good time and.

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Speaker 1: Shout out to the stub buds.

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Speaker 2: I hope you take advantage of the momentum and the

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00:35:45,640 --> 00:35:51,520
Speaker 2: publicity that you were able to generate from this particular weekend.

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Speaker 2: I can only imagine the numbers that your Twitch stream did,

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00:35:55,040 --> 00:35:59,319
Speaker 2: but you brought all the fun, the life, the thing

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Speaker 2: that makes the UNBA All Star Weekend special. You made

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Speaker 2: that very apparent for the people and those of us

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Speaker 2: who weren't there. I felt like I was there wh

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Speaker 2: y'all were at the club singing Keisha Cold with Paige Beckers.

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Speaker 1: I felt like I was with y'all. So I want

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Speaker 1: to thank you.

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Speaker 2: For bringing that sense of enjoyment to everybody who was

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Speaker 2: watching from home. So it is, and I listen if

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Speaker 2: i'm you know, I know they got the deal on

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Speaker 2: switch on Twitch.

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Speaker 1: Excuse me.

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Speaker 2: I'm not sure what their what their deal looks like,

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Speaker 2: but I think those two ladies earn themselves some money

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Speaker 2: this weekend, and there's no.

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Speaker 1: Question about it.

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Speaker 2: They deserve all the sponsorship, and really, you know, it's

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Speaker 2: too bad their planing. But like for really any event,

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Speaker 2: people need to think about an alternative broadcast with them.

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Speaker 2: I'm just throwing that out there. Don't want any credit,

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Speaker 2: don't want a piece of the path, but throwing it

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Speaker 2: out there and maybe some of y'all who have these

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Speaker 2: other events to think about hiring the stub buds to

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Speaker 2: bring some life to your event. For sure, well listen.

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