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Speaker 4: Welcome to Naked Sports, the podcast where we live at

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Speaker 4: the intersection of sports, politics, and culture. Our purpose reveal

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Speaker 4: the common threads that bind them all. So what's happening

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Speaker 4: in women's basketball right now now is what we've been trying.

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Speaker 1: To get to for almost thirty years.

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Speaker 4: From the stadiums where athletes break barriers and set records.

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Speaker 1: Cayman Clark broke the all time single game assist record.

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Speaker 3: This is crazy for rookies to be doing.

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Speaker 4: Our discussions will uncover the vital connections between these realms

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Speaker 4: and the community we create. In each episode, we'll sit

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Speaker 4: down with athletes, political analysts, and culture critics because at

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Speaker 4: the core of it all, how we see one issue

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Speaker 4: shines the light on all others. Welcome to Naked Sports.

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Speaker 4: I'm your host, Carrie Champion. Hey, fam, how's everybody doing?

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Speaker 4: So if you're watching and listening, you can see it's

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Speaker 4: just me and studio by myself. And the reason why

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Speaker 4: that is is because I've decided to do a couple

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Speaker 4: of podcasts where I give you updates, I talk to

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Speaker 4: you about what's going on, and to me, that is

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Speaker 4: important and I always talk about this that Naked Sports

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Speaker 4: is the intersection of sports, culture and politics. I am very,

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Speaker 4: very proud of that, but I do, if I'm being honest,

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Speaker 4: even though I work for CNN, I shy away from

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Speaker 4: talking solely about politics for a couple of reasons, and

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Speaker 4: I'm just gonna be really candid with you. I really

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Speaker 4: don't know how to describe what is happening in this atmosphere.

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Speaker 4: And I also feel like the quote unquote leaders in

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Speaker 4: today's world feel the same way. They feel like they

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Speaker 4: can't talk about what's happening because we don't know what's happening.

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Speaker 4: It's never happened before in our lifetime. And I have

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Speaker 4: friends who have been on the podcast who have said

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Speaker 4: things like our ancestors have laid a blueprint. True, but

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Speaker 4: there's a very different a very different vibe. There may

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Speaker 4: be a blueprint for how to proceed and deal with

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Speaker 4: what we're dealing with. Here's the issue. Our ancestors were

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Speaker 4: fighting for literally fighting for their lives. They were fighting

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Speaker 4: we are a generation of people who are comfortable, and

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Speaker 4: I'm talking about all of us. I'm talking about the

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Speaker 4: last my mom included, perhaps last fifty sixty years, seventy years.

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Speaker 4: We are a generation of people who have enjoyed certain

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Speaker 4: Black excellence is the equivalent of individual riches. Nineteen Keys

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Speaker 4: was talking about that, and look, I don't know much

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Speaker 4: He said, black excellence has replaced Black power, and we

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Speaker 4: His whole thought was that black excellence stands for individual riches.

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Speaker 4: so we should be paid for our excellence. Black power

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Speaker 3: Said, what's wrong black excellence?

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Speaker 5: But the studies show that black media and wealth will

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Speaker 5: I think that's also the reason why we don't unify

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Speaker 5: For excellence as a people or as individuals, but we

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Speaker 3: It don't matter who'd have had to die.

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Speaker 4: I'm not saying either or is wrong or right. I'm

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Speaker 4: saying yes, both can coexist. But this week, Senator Corey Booker,

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Speaker 4: What was the point of him, you know, talking for

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Speaker 4: Most recently, ice officers detained a dad out of Maryland

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Speaker 4: They have a totally different legal system. Can you imagine

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Speaker 4: That sounds feasible, but it just wasn't true. And what

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Speaker 1: Nothing's happening, nothing's happening.

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Speaker 4: So Corey Booker has been able to document all of

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Speaker 4: your job as a federal employee, whether it be you

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Speaker 4: of the Smithsonian, the African American Smithsonian.

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Speaker 4: The African American Museum at the Smithsonian, Like, can you imagine?

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Speaker 4: And he just for twenty five hours talked about why

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Speaker 4: he talked about different instances that happened to the people

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Speaker 6: I rise with the intention of disrupting the normal business

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Speaker 6: This would be a crisis for Disability services. What it

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Speaker 6: It's a crisis of our national character. Why are so

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Speaker 4: Side note, not only did Cory Booker set a record

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Speaker 1: How you gonna do that? And do you know bathroom break?

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Speaker 1: How do you physically prepare for that? That has nothing

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Speaker 4: But I'm like, yo, but someone did ask and he

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Speaker 4: was just like, I'm a former athlete, you know, he

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Speaker 4: He put all of his his skill sets in place

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Speaker 4: feel isn't right. The last time that this was done,

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Speaker 4: bizarre how this world works, was former Senator strom Thurman

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Speaker 4: and he stood on the Senate floor for twenty four

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Speaker 4: did not matter because our humanitarian rights were not the same.

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Speaker 1: So listen to what I'm telling you.

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Speaker 4: The last time that it was done, it was because

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Speaker 4: making sure we understood where we were today versus where

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Speaker 6: A few things.

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Speaker 4: props to the black women who made this game what

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Speaker 4: it is today.

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Speaker 1: What take a listen.

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Speaker 9: As a white woman who leads a black led sport

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Speaker 9: and celebrated here, I want to show a light on

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Speaker 9: black women. They don't get the media.

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Speaker 1: Coverage that they deserve.

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Speaker 9: They've given so much to this sport and the community

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Speaker 9: and society as a whole, and their value is undeniable.

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Speaker 9: And the WNBA last season the postseason awards, eighty percent

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Speaker 9: of the winners were black, but they got half the

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Speaker 9: amount of coverage as a white athletes. So I think

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Speaker 9: it's time for change.

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Speaker 4: Pagebeckers is a superstar, and not only is she a superstar,

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Speaker 4: she's made for this moment. She understands what it means

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Speaker 4: to be the face of a program. She also understands

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Speaker 4: what it means to have white privilege. She also understands

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Speaker 4: what it means to make sure she lifts up everyone

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Speaker 4: around her who doesn't look like her, because oftentimes Black women,

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Speaker 4: especially in sports, especially in the WNBA, are ignored, are vilified,

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Speaker 4: as we have seen talked about on this podcast at nauseum.

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Speaker 4: So I love Page Beckers, and I think there are

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Speaker 4: something special happening with Yukon right now. I don't care

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Speaker 4: for her coach, but that's a side note. But there's

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Speaker 4: something special happening with Yukon. They haven't been here, and

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Speaker 4: by here, I mean the Final Four in sometime now,

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Speaker 4: and they have a story, they have something to prove,

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Speaker 4: they have a goal. They're playing with different intentions now.

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Speaker 4: My hope is that they've looked past UCLA and they're

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Speaker 4: looking at Don Stay because the South Carolina game Cocks

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Speaker 4: are the current champions, and so perhaps they are more

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Speaker 4: focused on Don and South Carolina.

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Speaker 1: And then as a.

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Speaker 4: Process, UCLA wins because we are focused on Yukon, eyes

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Speaker 4: on the prize. I am hesitanting in what I'm about

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Speaker 4: to say, but I think we don't have an upset.

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Speaker 4: I think that I think UCLA is gonna win going

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Speaker 4: into this this game, promise you, even though we're number one,

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Speaker 4: we're not favored.

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Speaker 1: I think they're going to win.

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Speaker 4: I think they're going to surprise you and don't be

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Speaker 4: ride my, you know what, asking me for tickets when

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Speaker 4: it's all said and done speaking of women's college basketball,

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Speaker 4: how much your tickets now? I'm going right now looking

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Speaker 4: at them. When I talk to you, it's the day

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Speaker 4: before and it says if you want to be in

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Speaker 4: row F, section two two nine. That don't seem like

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Speaker 4: a good section to me. But whatever, I don't know.

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Speaker 4: Seven hundred and eighty one dollars. I look at it

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Speaker 4: two ways. I think they should be more expensive. Maybe

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Speaker 4: I'm wrong. I think they should be more expensive, But

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Speaker 4: I can tell you I don't remember a time where

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Speaker 4: somebody who's paying eight hundred dollars to watch women's Final four.

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Speaker 4: I can't remember a time. I'll go back and do

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Speaker 4: the math and let you know, but I don't remember

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Speaker 4: a time. I think that speaks to where we are

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Speaker 4: with college sports. And I know, I know men are like, yeah,

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Speaker 4: the game is cool and it's fine, and it's this,

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Speaker 4: and it is that. I know some of you are uninterested.

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Speaker 4: But the resurgence because there was a point in our

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Speaker 4: history when the WNBA began. People loved women's basketball. When

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Speaker 4: the WNBA began in nineteen ninety seven, promised you. The

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Speaker 4: games were sold out, the women weren't making any money,

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Speaker 4: but it was really really popular. It was this new thing.

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Speaker 4: You get to see superstars like Lisa Leslie dunk. No

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Speaker 4: one ever saw a woman dunk before on a professional level.

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Speaker 4: Don Staley played in the league. I can go down

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Speaker 4: a list of superstars, Cynthia Cooper, all of these women

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Speaker 4: really truly or the pioneers. Nineteen ninety seven wasn't that

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Speaker 4: long ago. Somebody y'all listened was born in nineteen ninety seven,

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Speaker 4: and that may seem like forever ago to you, but

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Speaker 4: it really wasn't that long ago. And what I can

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Speaker 4: recall was a time in which people were excited about

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Speaker 4: women's basketball, but it didn't sustain, and the interest fail

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Speaker 4: and the interest foul and the interest fail. And then

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Speaker 4: we had these two girls have this crazy, amazing rivalry,

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Speaker 4: and Caitlyn Clark and Angel Reese and they changed the game.

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Speaker 1: Take a listen.

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Speaker 11: I don't think Angel should be criticized at all, you know,

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Speaker 11: no matter which way it goes, you know, she should

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Speaker 11: never be criticized for what she did. I think everybody

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Speaker 11: knew there was gonna be a little trash shot in

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Speaker 11: the entire tournament. It's not just me an angel. So,

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Speaker 11: like I said, I'm a big fan of hers.

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Speaker 4: And so now we find ourselves some four years past

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Speaker 4: that moment, and people are very interested in women's basketball

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Speaker 4: and it is here to stay. Women's sports are here

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Speaker 4: to stay. And I hope, and this is my true hope.

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Speaker 4: I hope we live in a world one day where

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Speaker 4: the women of color get treated like the men of

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Speaker 4: color in the NBA.

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Speaker 1: I hope that.

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Speaker 4: We live in a world one day where these multi

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Speaker 4: million dollar endorsement deals aren't just reserved for the select few.

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Speaker 4: I wish Amaya Moore had a multi million dollar endorsement

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Speaker 4: deal when she was in the league. I wish Lisa

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Speaker 4: Leslie had the say when she started in nineteen ninety seven.

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Speaker 4: I wish women right now who were playing at the

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Speaker 4: highest of levels could say, yeah, I have an endorsement

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Speaker 4: deal worth file five million dollars for five years, which

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Speaker 4: is twenty million dollars like a Kitlin Clark got from Nike.

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Speaker 1: I wish there was.

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Speaker 4: This onslaught of interest in the women who helped build

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Speaker 4: this game, who aren't mainstream, if you will, who don't

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Speaker 4: look like Kitlin Clark, who don't look like Pagebeckers. Women's

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Speaker 4: sports has come a long way, but you have to

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Speaker 4: start acknowledging the women who helped pave the way, and

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Speaker 4: you have to start acknowledging the players who have been

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Speaker 4: doing it from day one. It hasn't happened yet, but

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Speaker 4: I'm here to support, and I'm asking you to support.

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Speaker 4: So this weekend, I'm watching the Final Four.

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Speaker 1: I hope you do.

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Speaker 4: I hope that you continue to support the women of

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Speaker 4: this league and other sports that have women in it.

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Speaker 1: It's just insane.

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Speaker 4: It's just insane that we have to find a way

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Speaker 4: to have people pay these women. For the twenty twenty

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Speaker 4: four to twenty five NBA season, that's current the league

552
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Speaker 4: minimum salary for a player with zero years of experience

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Speaker 4: Sato and Espano one hundred and fifty seven and fifty

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Speaker 4: three dollars, and it increases based on years of service.

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Speaker 4: While the women their rookie season seventy thousand and I

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00:29:16,720 --> 00:29:19,240
Speaker 4: already know what you're about to say. Oh, they don't

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Speaker 4: make any money, so why should we give them more money?

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Speaker 4: The women's game doesn't make any money. Yeah, Okay, that's

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Speaker 4: just not true. Give it the attention, and as you

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Speaker 4: can see, it will make the money. We got to

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Speaker 4: start from scratch though, because we've been invested in this much,

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Speaker 4: zero much. No one's been investing in women's sports, So

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Speaker 4: that's why it's that way. It's not right, but we're

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Speaker 4: getting there. So at the end of the day, here's

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Speaker 4: the point. I am hoping that when you listen to

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Speaker 4: this podcast you feel two things. The first thing is activated,

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Speaker 4: activated to want to do something for your community. You

568
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Speaker 4: don't have to give a twenty five hour five in

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Speaker 4: his speech like Corey Booker did, but activated. I talk

570
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Speaker 4: about this every single week. If you decide to boycott, boycott,

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Speaker 4: If you don't want to go to Target, have at it.

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Speaker 4: If you don't want to shop at Amazon, have at it.

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Speaker 4: Side note Amazon has us in a chokehold, in a

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Speaker 4: full choke hold, because I can't give up Amazon just yet,

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Speaker 4: because I would be a hypocrite. Because if I want

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Speaker 4: some purple sneakers with a bunny on the side, they

577
00:30:25,320 --> 00:30:28,440
Speaker 4: can get that to me tomorrow, So you can't get

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Speaker 4: that anywhere else, right, I understand one at a time,

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Speaker 4: one at a time, one at a time. If it's

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Speaker 4: Target for you, if it's only shopping at black businesses.

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Speaker 4: If it's helping other businesses that are people of color,

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Speaker 4: so be it. That could be your way to contribute.

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Speaker 4: I don't know what else to tell you, but I

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Speaker 4: want you to be activated. I want you to be aware.

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Speaker 4: We are walking around like nothing is happening, and I

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Speaker 4: am worried for us. And I'm not just talking about

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Speaker 4: black folks. I mean as a society, we're walking around

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Speaker 4: like nothing is happening.

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Speaker 1: We're walking around like.

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Speaker 4: A plain, closed ice officer couldn't walk up to you

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Speaker 4: today and literally say come with me, and I'll tell

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Speaker 4: you another thing about that. Since I'm here, they're gonna

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Speaker 4: find the right one with the right time, and it

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Speaker 4: ain't gonna go well. And I'm not promoting that, and

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Speaker 4: I'm not wishing that on anyone. But imagine someone walking

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Speaker 4: up to one of your boys that you know that

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Speaker 4: carries and they like, come with me, sir, and he

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Speaker 4: just has all some khakis in a T shirt and

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Speaker 4: is not aware of what's happening. And anybody can get

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Speaker 4: a fake ass badge, you don't know if it's a

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Speaker 4: real badge that's gonna go real left, real quick. Somebody's

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00:31:41,120 --> 00:31:43,920
Speaker 4: gonna have the time, and we will see you, mark

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Speaker 4: my words, how this unconstitutional process will play out on

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Speaker 4: the streets in front of us everyday Americans, or maybe

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Speaker 4: on the subway stop since I'm here in New York,

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Speaker 4: or or maybe at someone's college where one of these

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Speaker 4: these radicalized kids feels away. It's not gonna be pretty.

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Speaker 4: And so I'm asking you to feel like you can

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Speaker 4: say or do something. Call your local congressman, Google it,

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Speaker 4: you can find it.

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Speaker 1: It's there.

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Speaker 4: Do whatever it takes. But get activated, get aware, because

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Speaker 4: they are coming for us, and we are still worried

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Speaker 4: about what we're gonna wear tomorrow, what trips we're gonna take,

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00:32:24,320 --> 00:32:27,040
Speaker 4: who's fighting on social media, who's in the middle of

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Speaker 4: an argument, who said this on Real Housewives? Who said

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Speaker 4: this on that show? I pay attention. I mean, we

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00:32:35,040 --> 00:32:38,000
Speaker 4: don't have the luxury not to pay attention. So that's

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Speaker 4: the first thing I want you to do. Be activated.

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Speaker 4: The second thing, and I'm talking to myself while I'm

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Speaker 4: talking to y'all, because I was watching Real Housewives, shout

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Speaker 4: out to my best friend Bosima, who's on the show.

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Speaker 4: I'm planning trips. I'm trying to go to Portugal, I'm

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Speaker 4: not trying to look I'm doing the same thing. I'm

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Speaker 4: saying this to y'all because I am saying it to me.

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Speaker 4: And then the next thing I need y'all to do

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Speaker 4: is support women's sports.

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Speaker 1: You really do. It'll make this world a better place.

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Speaker 1: It just will.

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Speaker 4: And it's good and the quality is there and it's

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Speaker 4: always been good.

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Speaker 1: And if in.

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Speaker 4: Fact, we start to support women's sports, you start to

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Speaker 4: support the women you work with, You start to support

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Speaker 4: your mother, your sister, your girlfriend, all of the women

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Speaker 4: in your life will start to matter in a different

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Speaker 4: way if they don't already. And I'm talking to myself

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Speaker 4: for that way as well. So with that being said,

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Speaker 4: I'm gonna wrap this edition of Naked Sports. We will

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Speaker 4: be back next week. Remember this, go UCLA. We need

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Speaker 4: to win. If we don't win, do not at me,

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Speaker 4: do not talk to me. I'm going to request privacy

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Speaker 4: for me and my family until further notice. Okay, I

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Speaker 4: mean that now make me sick, but I love y'all

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Speaker 4: back next week. Naked Sports written and executive produced by

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Speaker 4: me Carry Champion, produced by Jockuvis Thomas, Sound designed and

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Speaker 4: mastered by Dwayne Crawford. Naked Sports is a part of

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Speaker 4: the Black Effect podcast network.

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