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Speaker 1: You don't know confession I can't take back el arm.

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Speaker 2: Mouse speaker sex is seventy five nines, who says, whenever

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Speaker 2: I get asked what I do for work, I simply

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Speaker 2: say I signed an NDA, so I can't talk about it.

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Speaker 3: Oh that's cool, Yeah, yeah, it does sound good.

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Speaker 2: Truth is, I have a really boring job. But I

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Speaker 2: found this is a better way to just avoid the question.

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Speaker 3: I'm using it from here on out.

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Speaker 1: Yes, if the company is listening, if they could send

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Speaker 1: me an NDA and we could make it real like that,

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Speaker 1: it's just a.

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Speaker 2: Piece of paper that da Yeah, yeah, yeah. Brook loves

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Speaker 2: her paper work. And we do have an unwritten non

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Speaker 2: disclosure agreement with listeners who come on this segment for

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Speaker 2: this one because we literally have no idea who you are,

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Speaker 2: so we couldn't expose your secrets and ruin your life

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Speaker 2: even if we wanted to, and trust me, at least

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Speaker 2: one person here wants to. But let's go to today's

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Speaker 2: anonymous confessor, who's chosen to go by Shannon as her

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Speaker 2: alias Shannon. Welcome to the show.

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Speaker 4: Hi guys, thanks for having me.

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Speaker 3: You're welcome. Like the professor of confessor, I don't know,

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Speaker 3: I like that word a lot.

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Speaker 2: But yeah, all right, professor, confessor, miss Anonymous, the voice

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Speaker 2: changer is on. You are the mass speaker. Whenever you're ready,

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Speaker 2: let's hear your confession.

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Speaker 4: All right, this is kind of wild. So me and

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Speaker 4: my mom are really close. We have a really tight relationship.

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Speaker 4: It's just her and me, you know, single mom.

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Speaker 1: That's okay.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, And my mom has always been big into tennis,

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Speaker 4: and so when I was little and even to this day,

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Speaker 4: I have also been obsessed with tennis.

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Speaker 3: Okay, So yeah, that was kind of what.

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Speaker 4: My world revolved around. Tennis lessons, tennis in school, you

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Speaker 4: name it.

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Speaker 2: I me and my dad league baseball game.

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Speaker 1: It's crazy how sports brings kids together.

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Speaker 3: Yet I no, no.

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Speaker 2: We would go to the Bahamas on vacation. My parents

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Speaker 2: would force me to play tennis on the nice courts

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Speaker 2: over there. God, it was hot.

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Speaker 3: I wanted to play croquette.

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Speaker 2: Ye forced me to play tennis.

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Speaker 3: It's hard.

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Speaker 2: We had an image to a poll. But it's good

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Speaker 2: that you enjoyed it.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, she didn't force me. I was I thought I

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Speaker 4: wanted to be just like her. Okay, so I think

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Speaker 4: I was about nine. She told me she signed me

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Speaker 4: up to be a reporter writer for kids. Sports Illustrated.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that is so cool, what a great sperience.

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Speaker 2: That was one of my top five magazines to read

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Speaker 2: as a kid. Yeah, I like I like the older

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Speaker 2: stuff too. Business Weekly, that's awesome. You got to be

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Speaker 2: a writer for them.

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Speaker 4: So I was a writer for them and we went everywhere,

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Speaker 4: you know, for about three years. I went to like

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Speaker 4: the US Open, you know, Wimbledon, all these big matches.

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Speaker 3: Why would you want to hide any of this information?

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Speaker 3: It feels like also an there's such a job security.

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Speaker 2: And kids for.

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Speaker 4: Years, I guess because I was little. She told me

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Speaker 4: to keep it a secret because my friends wouldn't understand.

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Speaker 4: They would be jealous.

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Speaker 3: Jealous yea friends, Yeah.

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Speaker 2: They would want to go with you or.

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Speaker 4: I don't know, yeah exactly. So I totally was like, sure,

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Speaker 4: we got to keep this a secret. I'm a big shot.

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Speaker 3: But yeah.

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Speaker 4: So I did tell one person, my best friend, and

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Speaker 4: she was like, hey, you know, I've been looking for

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Speaker 4: your articles and I can't seem to find any. And

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Speaker 4: I was like, oh, what the heck?

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Speaker 3: I thought.

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Speaker 1: The first thing I think other nine year olds would

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Speaker 4: You know what, I mean, so, yeah, I was like,

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Speaker 4: let me find these articles. So I went to the

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Speaker 4: library and I looked. I checked out a bunch of

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Speaker 4: I went to my mom and I asked her what's up.

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Speaker 4: Turns out she just would tell the organizations that I

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Speaker 4: was a writer from Kids Sports Illustrate, and we would

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Speaker 4: get in and they would let me interview them.

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Speaker 3: But I was not it was all she made the

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it was just a way to get us in

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Speaker 4: for like free or cheap to all these matches.

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Speaker 2: Oh my god, those are really expensive too.

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Speaker 1: Why couldn't she I mean, I guess she couldn't pretend

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Speaker 1: that she was a Sports Illustrated writer because that would

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Speaker 1: be too hard to check.

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Speaker 2: Sports Illustrated credentials are written in crayon.

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Speaker 1: I mean, honestly, you carry a clipboard anywhere and people

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Speaker 1: believe you, and.

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Speaker 2: I get a media pass to go to our segments.

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Speaker 2: We have free rein so I.

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Speaker 4: Can how did you No one's going to think a

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Speaker 4: nine year olds lying? Oh. I was really upset and confused.

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Speaker 1: Thank god you only told your best friend because I

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Speaker 1: was not listen to my mom wanted to the entire

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Speaker 1: school and been humiliated.

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Speaker 2: Also, those paychecks bounced.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, oh my gosh, it was really weird. I was

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Speaker 4: a little annoyed with her. But I'm like, hey, I

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Speaker 4: did get to meet all you know, I met Serena

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Speaker 4: and Venus William, you know Andre Agasi.

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Speaker 2: The whole time, you.

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Speaker 3: Were happy and excited and it felt important. Your right,

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Speaker 3: The skills were probably improving.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I thought I was a really talented writer.

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Speaker 4: Turns out not so much.

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Speaker 2: To found out the truth was it over?

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Speaker 1: Yeah?

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Speaker 4: My mom actually wanted to keep doing it, but I

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Speaker 4: was like, no, we're going to get caught. You know

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Speaker 4: this is Yeah, I was really nervous.

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Speaker 3: Dude, that's not good. Your mom wanted to bring the

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Speaker 3: nine year old in on the con. Yeah, it was

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Speaker 3: innocent when you didn't know she found a hack.

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Speaker 2: Dude, almost like I'm saving thousands and I'm meeting all

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Speaker 2: these cool people, get into all the men's tennis players

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Speaker 2: locker rooms.

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Speaker 4: He's a single mom. She's always been very.

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Speaker 3: She never met a zalu around.

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Speaker 2: Oh wow, best sports scam maybe in History Now featuring

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Speaker 2: anonymous Shannon. Well done and text in seven, eight, five,

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Speaker 2: nine two. If you have a confession that you've been

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Speaker 2: holding on to, we can hid your identity, master your voice,

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Speaker 2: and make you the next mass speaker. The phone taps

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Speaker 2: coming up right after

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Speaker 3: This, Brook and Jeffrey in the morning