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Speaker 1: Hey, what's up, everybody.

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Speaker 2: I'm Jammelle Hill and welcome to Politics and iHeart podcast

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Speaker 2: and Unbothered Network production.

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Speaker 1: Time to get spolitical.

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Speaker 2: Last week, Time magazine revealed its Athlete of the Year, and.

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Speaker 1: The choice was Caitlyn Clark. Now, I thought the honor

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Speaker 1: was well deserved.

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Speaker 2: When you look at this year, few, if any, athletes

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Speaker 2: have had the impact that she's had on women's basketball,

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Speaker 2: really on any sport at both the college and the

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Speaker 2: professional level. And march, Clark became the NCAA men's and

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Speaker 2: women's all time scoring leader. A couple months later, her

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Speaker 2: Iowa team met undefeated South Carolina in the National Championship

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Speaker 2: and while South Carolina won the title, that game averaged

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Speaker 2: eighteen point four million viewers, and for the first time

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Speaker 2: in history, the women's national championship game had more viewers

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Speaker 2: than the men. Game also averaged more viewers than any

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Speaker 2: of the NBA Finals games between the Boston Celtics and.

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Speaker 2: Clark won Rookie of the Year and her Indiana Fever

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Speaker 2: team made the playoffs for the first time since twenty sixteen. Now,

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Speaker 2: if I listed all the ratings records that Caitlin Clark

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Speaker 2: broke in the WNBA. I'd be talking to you all

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Speaker 2: for another hour, but I think you get what her impact.

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Speaker 1: Was this season.

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Speaker 2: Now, as part of This Time Magazine honor, writer Sean

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Speaker 2: many one on one interviews this year. So this was

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Speaker 2: the first time that we are hearing from her at length,

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Speaker 2: or I should say the first time in some time

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Speaker 2: we're hearing from her at lyngth and ball. Some of

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Speaker 2: her supporters mad about the things she said.

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Speaker 1: Ever since Angel Reese did.

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Speaker 3: This, and Angel Reese knows a ring is coming.

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Speaker 2: Race has been part of the conversation, whether we like

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Speaker 2: game between LSU and Iowa, racial battle lines were drawn.

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Speaker 2: Caitlin Clark was certainly a popular player before that National Championship,

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Speaker 2: for her popularity exploded among a certain group, and let's

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Speaker 2: in this manner to a heralded white player, even though

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Speaker 1: Now, as Clark's popularity continued to explode.

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Speaker 2: Those of us with common sense and good observational skills

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Speaker 2: big mad because it turns out that Caitlyn Clark isn't

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Speaker 2: In the Time magazine piece, Clark made made it clear

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Speaker 1: Those were her exact words. But here's the.

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Speaker 2: Quote that really pissed off her so called fans. Caitlin

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Speaker 2: Clark said, I want to say I've earned every single thing,

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Speaker 2: but as a white person, there is privilege. A lot

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Speaker 1: Oh they was mad, heeded. How does fish grease that?

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Speaker 2: Clark not only acknowledged her privilege, but she then committed

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Speaker 2: a deeper internal sin. She had the nerve to publicly

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Speaker 2: A lot of her fake fans again had that hatred

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Speaker 2: for from conservative media personality Megan Kelly, who tweeted, look

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Speaker 2: at this, she's on the knee all but apologizing for

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Speaker 2: being white and getting attention the self flagellation, the oh,

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Speaker 2: I guess it could be worse.

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Speaker 4: Kitlyn Clark could have said she supports black Santa's.

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Speaker 1: Santa Claus should not be a white man anymore.

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Speaker 2: Yet another person claiming it's racist to have a white Santa.

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Speaker 4: You know, and by the way, for all your kids

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Speaker 4: watching at home, Sanna.

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Speaker 1: Just is white.

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Speaker 2: bandwagon because of her comments in Time magazine. Former college

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Speaker 4: A right wing hero. All she needed to do was

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Speaker 2: In twenty twenty two, Riley Gaines finished fifth and the

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Speaker 2: She soon because the winner of the race was transgender

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Speaker 2: conservative media stardom ever since. If I'm Leah Thomas, I'm

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Speaker 2: asking her for a cut. At this point, I knew

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Speaker 2: this moment would unfortunately come for Kaitlyn Clark, who was

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Speaker 2: probably the most unintentionally controversial athlete in professional sports right now.

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Speaker 2: The moment these fake fans of hers got any indication

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Speaker 2: people twist themselves into notts because in this time profile,

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Speaker 2: Clark debunked a lot of the false narratives that they pushed. No,

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Speaker 2: she didn't think she was targeted by WNBA players. In fact,

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Speaker 2: if anything, Clark said, she realizes that most of the

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Speaker 2: college competition she faced was substandard and it took her

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Speaker 2: some time to adjust to the WNBA. Clark said, professional

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Speaker 2: but if you go back and watch the way people

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Speaker 2: it's hard, it's college. A lot of those women will

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Speaker 2: So I completely understand it, and it's no disrespect at all.

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Speaker 2: They don't have the IQ. You have to simplify it

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Speaker 2: shit Diana Tarassi said, and y'all came to herd with pitchforks. Now,

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Speaker 2: I personally never thought that Caitlyn Clark was required to

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Speaker 1: This is a woman who comes off.

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Speaker 2: As very sure of herself and is certain about what

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Speaker 5: There's always going to be some negativity, and I feel

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Speaker 5: sport because of just who you are, and you represent

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Speaker 5: the growth of this thing. And even today, earlier today

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Speaker 5: Meg and Kelly, she was saying that you were apologizing

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Speaker 1: And I just want to know how you feel or

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Speaker 1: how you.

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Speaker 5: Respond to some of those criticisms when you have to

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Speaker 5: deal with something that it's really not your problem, Like

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Speaker 5: I feel like it's them looking in a mirror a

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Speaker 5: little bit, but it still comes down on your shoulders.

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Speaker 6: I feel like I always have had really good perspective

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Speaker 6: I've earned every single thing that's happened to me over

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Speaker 6: the course of my career. But also I grew up

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Speaker 2: Kate Le Clark is standing on who she is. Meanwhile,

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Speaker 2: her critics are standing on some bullshit. I'm Jamel Hill,

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Speaker 2: and I approve this message. Coming up next on Spolitics,

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Speaker 2: my guest for this episode is another woman whose career

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Speaker 2: is built on standing on business. She's a two time

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Speaker 2: Olympic gold medalist who has multiple world championships and five

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Speaker 2: a seven figure person in a boxing match. Her story

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Speaker 2: is so incredibly inspiring, and it's so inspiring that it's

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Speaker 2: coming to us in movie form in theaters on Christmas Day.

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Speaker 2: Coming up next on Spolitics, the quote the greatest woman

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Speaker 2: of all time, Floressa Shields.

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Speaker 1: Claris.

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Speaker 2: I want to thank you so much for joining me.

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Speaker 2: You're making history. You're the first person to actually be

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Speaker 2: in studio with me.

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Speaker 1: In this podcast studio.

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Speaker 2: So I just want to thank you for blessing it,

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Speaker 2: for ordaining it. Of course, especially a super talented woman

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Speaker 2: like yourself, it makes it even more makes it even

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Speaker 2: more special. But I'm going to start by asking you

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Speaker 2: a question that I ask every guest that appears on

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Speaker 2: sport that made you the athlete, Name the athlete or

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Speaker 2: the moment that made you love sports?

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Speaker 7: Honest Lee, I have to say, like, my love for

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Speaker 7: sports started with seeing Serena Williams play tennis.

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Speaker 1: This is before I was boxing.

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Speaker 7: You know, my grandma was a big uh Venus and

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Speaker 1: We watched Dwight.

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Speaker 7: Howard growing up when he was a magic man and

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Speaker 7: all that stuff or was it magic mean a miracle?

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Speaker 1: I think it's magic man.

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Speaker 7: And I have to say my grandma always was like,

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Speaker 1: So before I even chose boxing, I knew about tennis.

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Speaker 4: Did you ever think about playing tennis because you saw her?

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Speaker 1: It on Christmas Day.

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Speaker 7: I believe that it's going to change so many lives,

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Speaker 1: The movie is very inspiring.

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Speaker 7: One thing I've known the whole time is that my

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Speaker 7: It's filled with so many different dynamics, and I just

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Speaker 7: And I hope that when they watch the movie they

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Speaker 7: God told me I'll want to go melt the first time.

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Speaker 7: And even though I had no idea what the professional

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Speaker 2: And of course in the end notes, you know, we

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Speaker 1: Might see their portrayals? Absolutely?

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Speaker 7: You know, And I'm happy that Ryan caught me and

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Speaker 1: You know, at this age or at this stage of

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Speaker 7: Everyone is okay, well how they were portrayed because everything

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Speaker 2: I was gonna ask you that, like, how, yeah, what

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Speaker 1: I would say ninety five percent of it with I.

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Speaker 1: But I let them know everything in the movie.

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Speaker 7: I'm like, I want them to see the real stuff,

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Speaker 2: What are the I mean pretty much the crux of

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Speaker 1: Now we don't.

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Speaker 7: would you, I would?

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Speaker 1: Look?

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Speaker 7: The only thing is to just I think I think

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Speaker 7: But if I knew what I know now, I would

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Speaker 4: It sounds like you're saying Jason might have been right.

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Speaker 1: But I just think I don't know.

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Speaker 7: If I had a daughter, I will I will tell her,

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Speaker 2: You know, that's just how that's that's how it goes.

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Speaker 7: My dad didn't like how he was portrayed, and my

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Speaker 7: He's a hardbody and he's old school. And my dad

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Speaker 1: I never bet with Jason. Never.

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Speaker 2: Me and Jason always been cool and they have what

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Speaker 2: do you how do you think that people in Flint

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Speaker 7: They're so happy about this. They're so happy about this.

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Speaker 7: It showed the streets, you know, Ryan Destiny running on

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Speaker 1: Ryan?

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Speaker 1: I think Ryan is great at what she do because.

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Speaker 1: But this is boxing. We're gonna get it right. This

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Speaker 1: is not rocky, this this is real and the greatest

441
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Speaker 1: one of all time. You got to get these boxing right.

442
00:22:03,000 --> 00:22:04,960
Speaker 7: I don't know about the acting part, y'all can figure

443
00:22:04,960 --> 00:22:06,800
Speaker 7: that part out, but the boxing part, y'all need me

444
00:22:06,880 --> 00:22:09,320
Speaker 7: let me know. And they never had to need me

445
00:22:09,400 --> 00:22:12,200
Speaker 7: because Rob tell you a great job training rind this.

446
00:22:13,119 --> 00:22:17,840
Speaker 2: You know, once people who obviously don't understand the Hollywood process,

447
00:22:17,840 --> 00:22:21,680
Speaker 2: but like once you give them your life, essentially you're

448
00:22:21,800 --> 00:22:25,119
Speaker 2: kind of out of the process a little bit. Was

449
00:22:25,119 --> 00:22:28,480
Speaker 2: it hard for you to kind of turn over creative

450
00:22:28,520 --> 00:22:32,840
Speaker 2: control and give someone license to near license to shape

451
00:22:32,840 --> 00:22:36,320
Speaker 2: their shape their life in the way that they saw it. Yeah,

452
00:22:36,359 --> 00:22:40,439
Speaker 2: you know, yeah, no.

453
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Speaker 7: No, no, no, I am very you were very involved,

454
00:22:44,680 --> 00:22:48,040
Speaker 7: very strict about how I'm portrayed, especially to the world

455
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Speaker 7: and how that's why I took over my own brand

456
00:22:50,800 --> 00:22:53,159
Speaker 7: and when people start seeing who I was, because the

457
00:22:53,200 --> 00:22:55,959
Speaker 7: people I hadn't tricked, my brand had me as some

458
00:22:56,119 --> 00:22:58,679
Speaker 7: beasts and even my fans were scared of me, and

459
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Speaker 7: it was like I didn't like that. So with the

460
00:23:01,119 --> 00:23:04,840
Speaker 7: movie coming out, me and Barry sat and talked. Me

461
00:23:04,920 --> 00:23:07,640
Speaker 7: and Barry Jenkins sat and talked who wrote who wrote

462
00:23:07,640 --> 00:23:09,639
Speaker 7: the movie? Me and him talked for four or five hours.

463
00:23:10,000 --> 00:23:12,119
Speaker 7: When I met him, I asked him what was his

464
00:23:12,160 --> 00:23:14,040
Speaker 7: perception of what my story was and he told me

465
00:23:14,520 --> 00:23:17,480
Speaker 7: and I said, well, okay, I got you, and I said,

466
00:23:17,480 --> 00:23:18,960
Speaker 7: it's a few things that you missed out.

467
00:23:19,000 --> 00:23:20,040
Speaker 1: I said, this is my life.

468
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Speaker 7: And then I said, let's we got to put our

469
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Speaker 7: minds together to make this right.

470
00:23:23,600 --> 00:23:25,280
Speaker 1: And then he was like, well, how do you feel

471
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Speaker 1: about this?

472
00:23:25,760 --> 00:23:27,439
Speaker 7: How do you feel about He asked his questions and

473
00:23:27,480 --> 00:23:30,760
Speaker 7: I answered everything truthfully and then he was like, do

474
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Speaker 7: you want to include that?

475
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Speaker 1: Absolutely? I want the truth in the movie.

476
00:23:35,640 --> 00:23:38,880
Speaker 7: And before the script even was able they were able

477
00:23:38,920 --> 00:23:41,560
Speaker 7: to start shooting, he sent me the script and said

478
00:23:41,680 --> 00:23:43,040
Speaker 7: I'm waiting on you to read it, and when you

479
00:23:43,080 --> 00:23:44,840
Speaker 7: get back to me and let me know what you think,

480
00:23:45,280 --> 00:23:51,360
Speaker 7: then then we'll start. So he sent me the script

481
00:23:51,760 --> 00:23:54,159
Speaker 7: a few things. I was one or two things. I

482
00:23:54,200 --> 00:23:55,879
Speaker 7: was like, I take it out.

483
00:23:56,600 --> 00:23:58,800
Speaker 1: And he respectful of it. He took and he took

484
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Speaker 1: it out.

485
00:24:00,320 --> 00:24:03,199
Speaker 7: And from there, when they started doing the casting, like

486
00:24:03,359 --> 00:24:04,719
Speaker 7: Rachel will reach out to me all the time, Hey,

487
00:24:04,760 --> 00:24:05,680
Speaker 7: we're doing the casting.

488
00:24:06,560 --> 00:24:08,000
Speaker 1: Thousands of girls showed up.

489
00:24:09,000 --> 00:24:12,880
Speaker 7: I even told a girl name who's an actress night

490
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Speaker 7: a nice feast of Williams.

491
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Speaker 1: I said.

492
00:24:14,520 --> 00:24:17,400
Speaker 7: I was like, go because I thought she could play

493
00:24:17,440 --> 00:24:20,320
Speaker 7: me right. And when she said let me know that

494
00:24:20,400 --> 00:24:24,680
Speaker 7: Ryan Destiny got the part, I said, okay, cool. Met

495
00:24:24,760 --> 00:24:27,720
Speaker 7: Ryan Destiny over the phone, like we talked and she

496
00:24:27,800 --> 00:24:30,040
Speaker 7: let me know. I'm like, I'm like, I'm training very hard,

497
00:24:31,280 --> 00:24:33,439
Speaker 7: but I was. I wasn't involved as much as I

498
00:24:33,480 --> 00:24:37,360
Speaker 7: needed to be involved, you know. And even before they

499
00:24:37,440 --> 00:24:41,320
Speaker 7: started showing up the premieres and everything, I seen the

500
00:24:41,359 --> 00:24:43,200
Speaker 7: movie first.

501
00:24:43,440 --> 00:24:45,160
Speaker 1: It was just me, I believe my publicist.

502
00:24:45,200 --> 00:24:47,959
Speaker 7: It was here in LA I seen it, and I

503
00:24:48,000 --> 00:24:49,960
Speaker 7: am one hundred percent for sure, even though that the

504
00:24:50,000 --> 00:24:52,719
Speaker 7: contract was signed, if I did not like the movie,

505
00:24:53,240 --> 00:24:56,000
Speaker 7: if I didn't like I was portrayed, I'm one hundred

506
00:24:56,000 --> 00:24:59,320
Speaker 7: percent sure that everyone would have went back and did

507
00:24:59,400 --> 00:25:03,240
Speaker 7: things better, differently, fixed whatever. I am one hundred percent

508
00:25:03,280 --> 00:25:06,040
Speaker 7: sure of that. So I think working with them was

509
00:25:06,160 --> 00:25:10,639
Speaker 7: very simple and easy. And they also knew that if

510
00:25:10,640 --> 00:25:14,119
Speaker 7: I didn't like it, I'll be outspoken about it, you know,

511
00:25:14,200 --> 00:25:15,920
Speaker 7: but not in a bad way, but just you would

512
00:25:15,920 --> 00:25:17,879
Speaker 7: have told them, yeah, yeah, like this.

513
00:25:17,760 --> 00:25:18,960
Speaker 1: Ain't it which I do this world.

514
00:25:19,000 --> 00:25:22,800
Speaker 7: But I literally love how the truth is in there

515
00:25:22,840 --> 00:25:26,040
Speaker 7: and how I was portrayed, because that's the truth.

516
00:25:27,359 --> 00:25:29,240
Speaker 2: There's a lot of success just in the fact of

517
00:25:29,280 --> 00:25:33,520
Speaker 2: getting a movie made. But do you have in your mind,

518
00:25:33,560 --> 00:25:37,080
Speaker 2: like what success looks like in terms of how this

519
00:25:37,200 --> 00:25:39,840
Speaker 2: is received, how many people see it, how much money

520
00:25:39,880 --> 00:25:43,920
Speaker 2: it makes. It's like, what part of that? How will

521
00:25:44,000 --> 00:25:46,159
Speaker 2: you judge and determine that about whether or not this

522
00:25:46,200 --> 00:25:47,920
Speaker 2: movie you consider it to be a success.

523
00:25:49,720 --> 00:25:53,280
Speaker 7: It's already a success, you know, just the fact that

524
00:25:53,320 --> 00:25:55,000
Speaker 7: I have a movie about my life at the age

525
00:25:55,000 --> 00:25:57,840
Speaker 7: of twenty nine and I gotta fighting too much. I'm

526
00:25:57,880 --> 00:25:59,960
Speaker 7: still ranked number one woman fighter in the world right now,

527
00:26:00,400 --> 00:26:01,919
Speaker 7: So that's already a win in itself.

528
00:26:02,320 --> 00:26:03,640
Speaker 1: It's the win from Ryan Destiny.

529
00:26:03,680 --> 00:26:07,600
Speaker 7: She's getting so many awards, so many nominations.

530
00:26:08,640 --> 00:26:10,159
Speaker 1: I believe that the world is going to take to

531
00:26:10,200 --> 00:26:11,000
Speaker 1: this movie. Now.

532
00:26:11,240 --> 00:26:13,320
Speaker 7: Of course you want to see the box office numbers

533
00:26:13,320 --> 00:26:14,879
Speaker 7: and you want to see all this stuff, of course,

534
00:26:15,280 --> 00:26:18,280
Speaker 7: but I'm not gonna let that be toured. How great

535
00:26:18,320 --> 00:26:20,080
Speaker 7: this is for me. I mean, what other boxs have

536
00:26:20,080 --> 00:26:24,320
Speaker 7: a biopic about their life? I tell you, maham Ali, right,

537
00:26:25,440 --> 00:26:28,000
Speaker 7: can you think of another one off the top of

538
00:26:28,040 --> 00:26:28,360
Speaker 7: my head?

539
00:26:28,440 --> 00:26:31,280
Speaker 2: George Foreman, George Foreman, you're right, yeah, I did see

540
00:26:31,320 --> 00:26:33,760
Speaker 2: that movie. Yeah, And I'm trying to think who else? Well,

541
00:26:33,880 --> 00:26:36,479
Speaker 2: I mean not a feature film. I mean what they

542
00:26:36,480 --> 00:26:39,400
Speaker 2: did a series on Mike Tyson, right, I think that's

543
00:26:39,440 --> 00:26:40,960
Speaker 2: probably what I can think of now.

544
00:26:42,080 --> 00:26:43,880
Speaker 1: But obviously you're the first.

545
00:26:43,640 --> 00:26:47,560
Speaker 4: Woman at the You're the first like this is big.

546
00:26:47,840 --> 00:26:49,800
Speaker 1: This is big to me, and it is well deserved.

547
00:26:49,840 --> 00:26:51,959
Speaker 7: And to be a believer in Christ and have your

548
00:26:52,000 --> 00:26:54,440
Speaker 7: movie come out on Christmas Day, I get to share

549
00:26:54,440 --> 00:26:58,239
Speaker 7: my day with the most powerful man in person in

550
00:26:58,280 --> 00:26:58,760
Speaker 7: the world.

551
00:26:58,840 --> 00:27:01,159
Speaker 1: That it was going to be Christmas or it just no.

552
00:27:01,480 --> 00:27:04,679
Speaker 1: They had told me August. The day changed so many times.

553
00:27:04,880 --> 00:27:06,920
Speaker 7: First it was August, which I was happy about because

554
00:27:06,960 --> 00:27:09,040
Speaker 7: I was fighting in July. And then they came back

555
00:27:09,040 --> 00:27:10,879
Speaker 7: and said, oh, it's December, and I'm like, what are

556
00:27:10,920 --> 00:27:13,879
Speaker 7: you guys doing? And then they're like, oh, it's Christmas Day?

557
00:27:13,920 --> 00:27:16,320
Speaker 7: And I was like in my mind, and actually I

558
00:27:16,640 --> 00:27:17,880
Speaker 7: text Rachel I said.

559
00:27:19,160 --> 00:27:20,840
Speaker 1: Who the hell go to the movies on Christmas Day?

560
00:27:21,280 --> 00:27:25,639
Speaker 7: And she wrote back and said, correct, everybody, A lot

561
00:27:25,720 --> 00:27:28,560
Speaker 7: of people. But this is how how much I'm out

562
00:27:28,640 --> 00:27:31,080
Speaker 7: the loop, Like this show how much I just train

563
00:27:31,240 --> 00:27:33,800
Speaker 7: and work out and you know, travel.

564
00:27:33,880 --> 00:27:36,959
Speaker 1: I'm not thinking of those type of things. But I

565
00:27:36,960 --> 00:27:40,760
Speaker 1: believe the color purple came out Christmas Day. Now that

566
00:27:40,880 --> 00:27:45,080
Speaker 1: everything is like dawning on me, I'm like, this is

567
00:27:45,119 --> 00:27:45,720
Speaker 1: really big.

568
00:27:48,520 --> 00:27:54,680
Speaker 2: Your fight February second, Danielle Perkins, it hasn't been a challenge.

569
00:27:54,720 --> 00:27:56,720
Speaker 2: You're promoting this movie, you have so much going on.

570
00:27:57,320 --> 00:27:59,960
Speaker 2: Has it been a challenge in terms of preparing.

571
00:27:59,600 --> 00:28:01,640
Speaker 1: For that, Well, it's just got to announce.

572
00:28:01,640 --> 00:28:03,280
Speaker 7: So I've been in the gym the past two months

573
00:28:03,359 --> 00:28:07,840
Speaker 7: already trained and working out, but it has It is

574
00:28:07,840 --> 00:28:10,240
Speaker 7: a challenge when you're traveling back and forth and you're

575
00:28:10,240 --> 00:28:12,960
Speaker 7: going all these different places and then you land where

576
00:28:12,960 --> 00:28:15,199
Speaker 7: you're where you can train, but your body is like

577
00:28:15,240 --> 00:28:17,920
Speaker 7: you having jet leg and dehydrated because you have drinking

578
00:28:17,960 --> 00:28:23,320
Speaker 7: of water, all this stuff, so it it holds its challenges,

579
00:28:23,359 --> 00:28:24,919
Speaker 7: but I'm happy that you know, this is something of

580
00:28:24,920 --> 00:28:26,720
Speaker 7: the last bit we gotta do, and I don't let

581
00:28:26,760 --> 00:28:29,680
Speaker 7: them know, like, look, your girl needs eight weeks to train,

582
00:28:29,720 --> 00:28:31,199
Speaker 7: because who wants to have a movie come out of

583
00:28:31,200 --> 00:28:34,960
Speaker 7: our life and then lose after kind of embarrassing that

584
00:28:35,359 --> 00:28:37,919
Speaker 7: probably wouldn't be It's not even just lose, it's more

585
00:28:38,120 --> 00:28:41,240
Speaker 7: just like I have I have, I'm gonna have millions

586
00:28:41,440 --> 00:28:43,680
Speaker 7: of more new followers and fans.

587
00:28:44,000 --> 00:28:46,440
Speaker 1: I gotta over I gotta overwin.

588
00:28:46,560 --> 00:28:48,320
Speaker 7: Now it's like, yeah, you can win, but you gotta

589
00:28:48,400 --> 00:28:51,840
Speaker 7: like really good, you know, especially with all the hate

590
00:28:51,880 --> 00:28:53,680
Speaker 7: right now, I got to show these folks.

591
00:28:54,360 --> 00:28:57,800
Speaker 2: So what uh, you know, looking at the evolution of

592
00:28:57,840 --> 00:29:00,640
Speaker 2: the competition that you've had to face about your career

593
00:29:00,640 --> 00:29:02,960
Speaker 2: as a professional, just talking about that part of it,

594
00:29:03,640 --> 00:29:07,240
Speaker 2: how have you seen the competition evolved? Do you feel

595
00:29:07,280 --> 00:29:10,520
Speaker 2: like women's boxing is in a stronger place because of you?

596
00:29:11,240 --> 00:29:14,160
Speaker 7: Absolutely, women's boxing is a very stronger place because I

597
00:29:14,200 --> 00:29:19,240
Speaker 7: think that you know, me speaking about equality, me being

598
00:29:19,280 --> 00:29:25,360
Speaker 7: on these brands, me being main event on Showtime, ESPN, HBO,

599
00:29:25,640 --> 00:29:29,840
Speaker 7: The Zone, me having talked with these execs, is changing

600
00:29:29,880 --> 00:29:30,560
Speaker 7: women's boxing.

601
00:29:30,640 --> 00:29:31,760
Speaker 1: I have real talks with them.

602
00:29:31,760 --> 00:29:33,680
Speaker 7: I'm not a person who's going to come in the

603
00:29:33,760 --> 00:29:35,840
Speaker 7: room and scream and yell and tell you to do

604
00:29:35,880 --> 00:29:40,600
Speaker 7: what I say. I come with the facts. Hey, you guys,

605
00:29:41,400 --> 00:29:43,120
Speaker 7: we got the next fight coming up. Last fight, you

606
00:29:43,160 --> 00:29:45,280
Speaker 7: guys gave me trouble about how many viewerships we got,

607
00:29:45,320 --> 00:29:47,080
Speaker 7: even though I got more viewership than everybody else.

608
00:29:47,960 --> 00:29:49,600
Speaker 1: You guys said I should have got more viewership.

609
00:29:49,640 --> 00:29:51,720
Speaker 7: Well, I believe I could have got more viewership if

610
00:29:51,720 --> 00:29:52,960
Speaker 7: you guys promoted my fight.

611
00:29:52,800 --> 00:29:54,640
Speaker 1: Twelve weeks instead of four weeks.

612
00:29:54,960 --> 00:29:57,080
Speaker 7: You guys promote the men fight twelve weeks And then

613
00:29:57,080 --> 00:29:58,480
Speaker 7: they asked me, how do you know that?

614
00:29:58,560 --> 00:30:02,320
Speaker 1: Well have proof, I'll screenshot it.

615
00:30:02,360 --> 00:30:05,520
Speaker 7: You guys started promoting Adrian brownin fight this date in

616
00:30:05,560 --> 00:30:08,240
Speaker 7: his fight date was that date. You started promoting my

617
00:30:08,280 --> 00:30:10,920
Speaker 7: fight this date, and my fight was four weeks later.

618
00:30:11,400 --> 00:30:14,240
Speaker 7: So you can't say I'm supposed to get more viewership

619
00:30:14,280 --> 00:30:15,720
Speaker 7: when I don't get the same amount of promotion.

620
00:30:16,600 --> 00:30:18,400
Speaker 1: But that's a conversation you got have for them. It's

621
00:30:18,440 --> 00:30:19,040
Speaker 1: not that they're.

622
00:30:18,880 --> 00:30:22,320
Speaker 7: Sexist, it's just they're doing what they're used to doing.

623
00:30:22,520 --> 00:30:26,040
Speaker 7: Women don't women just want the money. We want to

624
00:30:26,080 --> 00:30:26,720
Speaker 7: be paid equal.

625
00:30:26,760 --> 00:30:28,400
Speaker 1: That's it. Pay us equal, pay us equal.

626
00:30:28,720 --> 00:30:32,520
Speaker 7: And it was just like they're not realizing they're not

627
00:30:32,560 --> 00:30:34,719
Speaker 7: paying us equal because of this, or they got all

628
00:30:34,720 --> 00:30:38,160
Speaker 7: these different reasons why, but you just let them know.

629
00:30:38,360 --> 00:30:41,480
Speaker 1: You guys are you guys are making this reason. You

630
00:30:41,560 --> 00:30:42,240
Speaker 1: guys are doing this.

631
00:30:42,360 --> 00:30:44,640
Speaker 7: So you have to fix your part and do the

632
00:30:44,680 --> 00:30:47,080
Speaker 7: same that you do for us for them, and then

633
00:30:47,120 --> 00:30:49,360
Speaker 7: we can talk about the numbers. Now, if you promote

634
00:30:49,360 --> 00:30:53,240
Speaker 7: my fight twelve weeks like you do the men, and

635
00:30:53,280 --> 00:30:56,080
Speaker 7: then I still get half the numbers that they get,

636
00:30:56,680 --> 00:30:59,600
Speaker 7: then we know, all right, it's not that we got

637
00:30:59,640 --> 00:31:00,560
Speaker 7: to fix something else.

638
00:31:01,160 --> 00:31:02,880
Speaker 1: But that's not it.

639
00:31:03,080 --> 00:31:06,040
Speaker 7: Because I've getten more numbers than the men, and we

640
00:31:06,160 --> 00:31:08,880
Speaker 7: promote my fight six weeks, eight weeks, and I get

641
00:31:08,960 --> 00:31:10,200
Speaker 7: I get a lot of viewership.

642
00:31:11,320 --> 00:31:14,280
Speaker 2: I asked you about the competition just because I know,

643
00:31:14,680 --> 00:31:18,080
Speaker 2: you know, looking at boxing history, is that every great

644
00:31:18,080 --> 00:31:20,080
Speaker 2: boxer needed a foe, you know.

645
00:31:20,160 --> 00:31:22,240
Speaker 1: Almost Yeah, I've had a few of them, that you've

646
00:31:22,240 --> 00:31:22,760
Speaker 1: had a few.

647
00:31:22,800 --> 00:31:25,760
Speaker 2: But I mean, let's be honest, is that like you

648
00:31:25,920 --> 00:31:29,760
Speaker 2: have destroyed a lot of your your competition, all of them,

649
00:31:30,080 --> 00:31:32,400
Speaker 2: which speaks to your individual greatness.

650
00:31:33,840 --> 00:31:35,800
Speaker 1: Have you felt like you know that.

651
00:31:35,840 --> 00:31:39,720
Speaker 2: You need a a George Foreman or you know, a

652
00:31:39,800 --> 00:31:43,320
Speaker 2: Joe Fraser, Like have you felt like, hey, I would

653
00:31:43,360 --> 00:31:46,560
Speaker 2: you have liked to experience having like a real like

654
00:31:46,600 --> 00:31:49,760
Speaker 2: a rival rival like some of these other boxing legends.

655
00:31:50,120 --> 00:31:55,120
Speaker 7: I've had rivals, you know, Hannah Gabriel's being one. The

656
00:31:55,160 --> 00:31:59,200
Speaker 7: girl knocked me down in the first round. I remember that, right, crazy,

657
00:31:59,560 --> 00:32:01,480
Speaker 7: even though I won that fight, you natally, I mean,

658
00:32:01,600 --> 00:32:03,320
Speaker 7: Savetta Marsha will Be and the amateurs.

659
00:32:03,720 --> 00:32:06,680
Speaker 1: Me and her had a rough, ruggy fight. I won unanimously,

660
00:32:07,040 --> 00:32:10,640
Speaker 1: but it was rough and rugged. She was tough.

661
00:32:11,360 --> 00:32:13,880
Speaker 7: Christina Herrin being my first girl I ever really had

662
00:32:13,880 --> 00:32:16,080
Speaker 7: a grudge match with and who I thought we would

663
00:32:16,120 --> 00:32:19,480
Speaker 7: have plenty more time, but hey, I destroyed her so

664
00:32:19,560 --> 00:32:21,840
Speaker 7: bad at the first fight. She didn't want to she

665
00:32:21,880 --> 00:32:24,280
Speaker 7: didn't want to rematch me. None of these girls want

666
00:32:24,280 --> 00:32:26,680
Speaker 7: to rematch me after I beat them. So those were

667
00:32:26,680 --> 00:32:31,320
Speaker 7: my George Foreman fights and it so yeah, like I mean,

668
00:32:31,680 --> 00:32:34,560
Speaker 7: it's to be as skilled and as great as I am.

669
00:32:34,600 --> 00:32:36,920
Speaker 7: It's like a blessing and a curse at the same time.

670
00:32:37,560 --> 00:32:39,840
Speaker 7: But I take it for more of a blessing because listen,

671
00:32:43,560 --> 00:32:45,280
Speaker 7: if a girl can get in the ring with me

672
00:32:45,960 --> 00:32:48,920
Speaker 7: and she can't stand total toe with me ten rounds straight,

673
00:32:49,080 --> 00:32:51,520
Speaker 7: go to war with me, have good defense, offense, not

674
00:32:51,640 --> 00:32:55,560
Speaker 7: back down, and I would give her props. I'll give

675
00:32:55,560 --> 00:32:59,040
Speaker 7: her props, but I'm never gonna make a fight like

676
00:32:59,120 --> 00:33:01,479
Speaker 7: that on purpose. She got to come in there with

677
00:33:01,520 --> 00:33:03,760
Speaker 7: the smoke, and if she ain't got the smoke, it's

678
00:33:03,760 --> 00:33:06,480
Speaker 7: not my job to go on there and take easy

679
00:33:06,520 --> 00:33:06,720
Speaker 7: on her.

680
00:33:08,040 --> 00:33:10,520
Speaker 1: If it's too hot in the kitchen, get out. I'm sure.

681
00:33:10,560 --> 00:33:13,440
Speaker 2: Obviously, like a lot of people, you watch the Jake

682
00:33:13,480 --> 00:33:17,360
Speaker 2: Paul Mike Tyson fight, and you know, as it stands now,

683
00:33:17,680 --> 00:33:21,400
Speaker 2: a lot of people have credited Amanda's soroano and Katie

684
00:33:21,400 --> 00:33:24,280
Speaker 2: Taylor is having the most watched women's sporting event of

685
00:33:24,320 --> 00:33:25,600
Speaker 2: all time because it's seventy.

686
00:33:25,600 --> 00:33:26,560
Speaker 1: Four million viewers.

687
00:33:26,720 --> 00:33:30,040
Speaker 2: You seem to you seem to have to take an

688
00:33:30,120 --> 00:33:34,440
Speaker 2: issue with that characterization that they're the most watched.

689
00:33:34,640 --> 00:33:35,720
Speaker 1: Is that the truth or a life?

690
00:33:36,440 --> 00:33:37,960
Speaker 4: That's why I asked, like, well, I was going to

691
00:33:38,000 --> 00:33:38,480
Speaker 4: ask you.

692
00:33:38,400 --> 00:33:43,640
Speaker 7: I'm gonna ask you. Was it a sporting women's event?

693
00:33:43,680 --> 00:33:47,080
Speaker 7: It was not, so they were on a larger star.

694
00:33:47,760 --> 00:33:48,000
Speaker 1: Yep.

695
00:33:48,040 --> 00:33:51,640
Speaker 7: As you know, all right, so so so, so just

696
00:33:51,640 --> 00:33:57,040
Speaker 7: just bear with me. Beginning of your sentence said it

697
00:33:57,120 --> 00:33:59,719
Speaker 7: was the most watched women's sporting event with seventy four

698
00:33:59,760 --> 00:34:02,400
Speaker 7: mini right right, And then I asked you was it

699
00:34:02,440 --> 00:34:03,440
Speaker 7: a sporting women's event?

700
00:34:03,720 --> 00:34:06,520
Speaker 1: You said no, it was not, So how does that

701
00:34:06,560 --> 00:34:09,280
Speaker 1: go hand to hand? It don't.

702
00:34:10,520 --> 00:34:13,319
Speaker 7: And that's not a knock to them. It's not a knock.

703
00:34:13,400 --> 00:34:17,120
Speaker 7: It's a win for women's boxing. But when I was

704
00:34:17,160 --> 00:34:21,359
Speaker 7: the head of the bill, I was the head. I

705
00:34:21,440 --> 00:34:25,600
Speaker 7: got four million views two k two million in the UK,

706
00:34:25,719 --> 00:34:30,040
Speaker 7: two million in the US abroad four million people over

707
00:34:30,120 --> 00:34:32,400
Speaker 7: four million people watch the fight. We're the head of

708
00:34:32,440 --> 00:34:34,120
Speaker 7: the bill. That's what you were promoting with. That's what

709
00:34:34,160 --> 00:34:39,080
Speaker 7: you're going with. That's not the same here now. And

710
00:34:39,080 --> 00:34:43,840
Speaker 7: did fifty many people tune in to gather around and

711
00:34:43,880 --> 00:34:46,000
Speaker 7: make sure that they were in their seats and ready

712
00:34:46,000 --> 00:34:48,880
Speaker 7: to watch when Mike Tyson came out? Because who doesn't

713
00:34:48,880 --> 00:34:53,160
Speaker 7: want to see Mike Tyson fight? Absolutely, But that doesn't

714
00:34:53,200 --> 00:34:56,000
Speaker 7: mean that the girls are not worth the views. I'm

715
00:34:56,000 --> 00:34:58,920
Speaker 7: not saying that. I'm saying had they been the top

716
00:34:59,120 --> 00:35:02,479
Speaker 7: of the bill without Jake Parler, Mike, without Jake Paula

717
00:35:02,520 --> 00:35:07,080
Speaker 7: Mike typing where they have got that viewership and there

718
00:35:07,239 --> 00:35:10,840
Speaker 7: in their first fight they got one million point five

719
00:35:12,360 --> 00:35:16,400
Speaker 7: And that's the issue I had with old Cameron. He

720
00:35:16,520 --> 00:35:19,239
Speaker 7: says he's reading off QR cars and I don't know

721
00:35:19,320 --> 00:35:22,759
Speaker 7: much about boxing women's boxing, but you get on a QO,

722
00:35:22,920 --> 00:35:25,440
Speaker 7: you're reading a car. Oh a man of Sano and

723
00:35:25,520 --> 00:35:28,680
Speaker 7: K Taylor has the most watched women's boxing event in

724
00:35:28,800 --> 00:35:32,040
Speaker 7: history with one point five million, And it's an article

725
00:35:32,719 --> 00:35:35,400
Speaker 7: that shows you that I had two million viewers who

726
00:35:35,520 --> 00:35:40,520
Speaker 7: watched the fight alone in just the UK. So that's

727
00:35:40,560 --> 00:35:42,960
Speaker 7: my thing. It's not to take a knock from them.

728
00:35:43,239 --> 00:35:46,080
Speaker 7: It just they do things trying to make it seem

729
00:35:46,160 --> 00:35:49,759
Speaker 7: like what I did. They they're trying to make make

730
00:35:49,840 --> 00:35:52,040
Speaker 7: records that you guys are not breaking a record if

731
00:35:52,040 --> 00:35:54,239
Speaker 7: you're not doing it the same way, it's not the

732
00:35:54,280 --> 00:35:59,760
Speaker 7: same thing. They do have the most women's watched boxing

733
00:35:59,800 --> 00:36:04,640
Speaker 7: mat in history as the co main event. I have

734
00:36:04,800 --> 00:36:08,719
Speaker 7: the most watched women's boxing match as a standalone women's box.

735
00:36:09,000 --> 00:36:11,680
Speaker 2: But you said you considered this to be even though

736
00:36:11,680 --> 00:36:14,440
Speaker 2: they were a part of a larger event or you know,

737
00:36:14,560 --> 00:36:16,480
Speaker 2: within one, you consider it to be a win.

738
00:36:16,680 --> 00:36:19,319
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a win. I feel like the girl stole

739
00:36:19,360 --> 00:36:21,120
Speaker 1: the show. I agree.

740
00:36:21,280 --> 00:36:23,560
Speaker 7: I mean with the with the head, but the cut,

741
00:36:23,719 --> 00:36:27,960
Speaker 7: the punches, the counterpunching, Amanda with those strong hands.

742
00:36:28,160 --> 00:36:31,719
Speaker 2: Listen, I watched the fight. I was glued into it.

743
00:36:31,800 --> 00:36:33,719
Speaker 2: Did you think the outcome was right? Did you think

744
00:36:33,760 --> 00:36:34,800
Speaker 2: that was the right decision?

745
00:36:34,920 --> 00:36:38,000
Speaker 7: I did, Okay, I thought Katie edged it with her

746
00:36:38,040 --> 00:36:41,440
Speaker 7: skill on her counterpunching when I watched it they're in person.

747
00:36:41,440 --> 00:36:42,719
Speaker 7: But then when I went home and watched it, I said,

748
00:36:42,719 --> 00:36:44,960
Speaker 7: this could have been a draw. But those girls are

749
00:36:44,960 --> 00:36:49,400
Speaker 7: like kryptonite to each other, like their styles just don't mix,

750
00:36:49,560 --> 00:36:53,880
Speaker 7: Like they just are always gonna give each other trouble.

751
00:36:54,000 --> 00:36:56,719
Speaker 2: Indeed in a way, so they haven't. Really, it's gonna

752
00:36:56,719 --> 00:36:58,799
Speaker 2: be another decision. You thought that was a win for

753
00:36:59,040 --> 00:36:59,760
Speaker 2: women's boxing.

754
00:36:59,800 --> 00:37:01,160
Speaker 1: Did you you think? Yeah?

755
00:37:01,239 --> 00:37:04,279
Speaker 2: The Jake Paul Mike Tyson fight was a win for

756
00:37:04,320 --> 00:37:05,279
Speaker 2: boxing for men.

757
00:37:08,480 --> 00:37:13,120
Speaker 7: Asking the question, you know, Listen, I'm glad Mike Tyson

758
00:37:13,120 --> 00:37:14,160
Speaker 7: did whatever he wanted to do.

759
00:37:14,640 --> 00:37:16,480
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm glad he went in there. I'm glad he fought.

760
00:37:16,520 --> 00:37:18,560
Speaker 7: I'm glad I got to see him walk to the

761
00:37:18,640 --> 00:37:21,160
Speaker 7: ring with my own eyes and see him inside the ring.

762
00:37:21,200 --> 00:37:22,920
Speaker 7: And boxing was to dream of mind, you know, to

763
00:37:23,080 --> 00:37:25,839
Speaker 7: just see that. Of course I would love to see

764
00:37:25,880 --> 00:37:28,759
Speaker 7: him knock Jake Paul out, absolutely, but I.

765
00:37:28,719 --> 00:37:31,399
Speaker 4: Know you two have history. Yes, yeah, but it's just like, what.

766
00:37:31,400 --> 00:37:35,480
Speaker 7: Did it do for boxing? And didn't do anything? But

767
00:37:35,600 --> 00:37:38,719
Speaker 7: I'm happy for Jake Paul and Mike Tyson. I just

768
00:37:38,840 --> 00:37:43,040
Speaker 7: I just didn't it didn't do anything for boxing. I mean,

769
00:37:43,080 --> 00:37:46,040
Speaker 7: you want to say, all we got viewership, but it's Netflix.

770
00:37:46,040 --> 00:37:49,160
Speaker 7: Who doesn't have Netflix. It's eight ninety nine a month.

771
00:37:49,480 --> 00:37:52,680
Speaker 7: Everybody watched Netflix and it didn't charge nobody to watch it, So.

772
00:37:54,560 --> 00:37:55,960
Speaker 1: Ingrass to them. Man, it's beautiful.

773
00:37:57,640 --> 00:38:00,680
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, there's a larger question to be asked there

774
00:38:00,719 --> 00:38:02,640
Speaker 2: about the sport. But before I ask you that one,

775
00:38:03,239 --> 00:38:05,239
Speaker 2: we're gonna take a quick break and we'll be right

776
00:38:05,280 --> 00:38:08,840
Speaker 2: back with more from the quote the greatest woman of

777
00:38:08,880 --> 00:38:23,200
Speaker 2: all time back in a moment. A lot of I

778
00:38:23,280 --> 00:38:25,480
Speaker 2: asked you that about the Jake Paul Mike Tyson fight

779
00:38:25,520 --> 00:38:30,080
Speaker 2: because there's mixed opinions along boxing fans. Some people think

780
00:38:30,120 --> 00:38:32,719
Speaker 2: that it's great for the sport they look at the viewership,

781
00:38:33,239 --> 00:38:37,440
Speaker 2: but a lot of boxing purists, they are a little

782
00:38:38,280 --> 00:38:40,920
Speaker 2: disheartened that this is the kind of fight that has

783
00:38:40,960 --> 00:38:46,160
Speaker 2: now become considered a premier fight. So do you still

784
00:38:46,200 --> 00:38:50,080
Speaker 2: think that boxing men's boxing? Would you consider it in

785
00:38:50,120 --> 00:38:52,359
Speaker 2: a healthy place if this is the kind of fight

786
00:38:52,440 --> 00:38:55,920
Speaker 2: that becomes considered a marquee event.

787
00:38:57,239 --> 00:39:01,160
Speaker 7: Jake Paul is great at marketing, great at building his brand,

788
00:39:01,800 --> 00:39:04,520
Speaker 7: and that's something that you know, I give him credit

789
00:39:04,600 --> 00:39:08,000
Speaker 7: for me saying that he came from YouTube and just

790
00:39:08,040 --> 00:39:10,920
Speaker 7: came to boxing and started making millions off the bat

791
00:39:11,880 --> 00:39:13,919
Speaker 7: and I gotta work this hard and I got real

792
00:39:13,960 --> 00:39:17,359
Speaker 7: accomplishments that let me know that I need to build

793
00:39:17,360 --> 00:39:19,560
Speaker 7: my brand. So I do, you know, give credit to

794
00:39:19,640 --> 00:39:22,440
Speaker 7: Jake Paul for that. Build my brand on YouTube, build

795
00:39:22,440 --> 00:39:27,040
Speaker 7: my brand on Instagram, beild my brand on Facebook, everywhere.

796
00:39:27,080 --> 00:39:27,680
Speaker 1: Just build my.

797
00:39:27,560 --> 00:39:31,799
Speaker 7: Brand because your brand will last you longer once you're

798
00:39:31,840 --> 00:39:34,120
Speaker 7: done with the sport anyway, And if you don't have

799
00:39:34,160 --> 00:39:38,440
Speaker 7: a brand, it's like everything you did kind of disappears anyway,

800
00:39:38,480 --> 00:39:41,400
Speaker 7: because there's always a new up and coming fighter or

801
00:39:41,480 --> 00:39:45,920
Speaker 7: up and coming champion, you know, and people. So I

802
00:39:45,960 --> 00:39:48,560
Speaker 7: think that's where he's winning at, you know, and I

803
00:39:48,560 --> 00:39:51,279
Speaker 7: think everybody keep looking at because boxing is such a

804
00:39:51,320 --> 00:39:54,719
Speaker 7: real sport. It's a real fight in there, and they're

805
00:39:54,760 --> 00:39:57,759
Speaker 7: trying to say that his fights aren't real. I mean,

806
00:39:57,840 --> 00:39:59,919
Speaker 7: Jake Paul has a loss on his record. He lost

807
00:40:00,080 --> 00:40:02,520
Speaker 7: Tommy Fiery, So he had a real boxing match. That's

808
00:40:02,520 --> 00:40:04,279
Speaker 7: the real, the real one I thought that he had

809
00:40:05,040 --> 00:40:08,560
Speaker 7: and he lost. But you don't hear him talking about that.

810
00:40:08,600 --> 00:40:10,359
Speaker 7: They just try to, Oh, we thought he won't but

811
00:40:10,360 --> 00:40:14,240
Speaker 7: but he lost and he's trying to become a better boxer.

812
00:40:14,239 --> 00:40:17,280
Speaker 1: But boxing is such a real sport.

813
00:40:17,600 --> 00:40:22,600
Speaker 7: I think that these guys are overlooking that they're overlooking

814
00:40:22,640 --> 00:40:24,920
Speaker 7: that you have to build your brand outside the ring.

815
00:40:25,440 --> 00:40:27,560
Speaker 7: It's not just about fighting anymore. We're not in that.

816
00:40:28,440 --> 00:40:32,000
Speaker 7: We're not in that place an era of where social

817
00:40:32,040 --> 00:40:35,279
Speaker 7: media don't matter like we are. I grew up in

818
00:40:35,280 --> 00:40:38,560
Speaker 7: a social media era where it's like you use this

819
00:40:38,680 --> 00:40:41,840
Speaker 7: up to your benefit. People still kind of oh, we

820
00:40:41,920 --> 00:40:44,640
Speaker 7: don't really play the internet games, we don't do social media.

821
00:40:45,680 --> 00:40:48,000
Speaker 7: Oh you know, having viewership and people watching your social

822
00:40:48,040 --> 00:40:51,040
Speaker 7: media followers don't mean nothing. And I'm sorry to tell you,

823
00:40:51,080 --> 00:40:53,920
Speaker 7: but it does mean something. How you looked at on

824
00:40:53,960 --> 00:40:56,839
Speaker 7: social media, who follows you, how many followers you got,

825
00:40:56,960 --> 00:40:59,920
Speaker 7: it matters, sadly, no matter how great you are mad,

826
00:41:01,080 --> 00:41:04,319
Speaker 7: So that's what is winning for him.

827
00:41:05,440 --> 00:41:06,960
Speaker 1: Now, men's boxing, where is it at?

828
00:41:07,080 --> 00:41:10,600
Speaker 7: They need to understand that you guys are getting paid millions,

829
00:41:11,160 --> 00:41:12,200
Speaker 7: but people don't know you.

830
00:41:12,200 --> 00:41:15,320
Speaker 1: Guys name that.

831
00:41:15,600 --> 00:41:18,080
Speaker 7: They don't know what you do, what you stand for,

832
00:41:18,760 --> 00:41:20,480
Speaker 7: what your life is about, who you are.

833
00:41:20,920 --> 00:41:21,560
Speaker 1: They don't know.

834
00:41:22,719 --> 00:41:25,520
Speaker 7: So once you're done boxing and all those ten million,

835
00:41:25,640 --> 00:41:28,600
Speaker 7: five million, two million payday stop coming in and even

836
00:41:28,640 --> 00:41:31,640
Speaker 7: spend all your money. That's why you don't see a

837
00:41:31,640 --> 00:41:34,839
Speaker 7: lot of boxes with endorsements and sponsorships because they don't

838
00:41:34,840 --> 00:41:37,120
Speaker 7: build the brands. I'm going to be one of the

839
00:41:37,160 --> 00:41:39,760
Speaker 7: first boxes that you see that have deals and stuff

840
00:41:39,760 --> 00:41:43,040
Speaker 7: like Sarrenda Williams go, It's going to happen because I'm

841
00:41:43,080 --> 00:41:46,160
Speaker 7: putting in the work and I'm building my brain.

842
00:41:46,719 --> 00:41:47,880
Speaker 1: Is that in a way.

843
00:41:49,760 --> 00:41:52,400
Speaker 2: I don't want to say, because you mentioned like you know, hey,

844
00:41:52,840 --> 00:41:56,279
Speaker 2: this is just kind of what it is, but you're it.

845
00:41:56,320 --> 00:42:01,160
Speaker 2: Does it sometimes frustrate you that your accomplishments in some

846
00:42:01,200 --> 00:42:03,280
Speaker 2: circles or in some regards when we talk about marketing

847
00:42:03,280 --> 00:42:06,239
Speaker 2: and getting the deals and all that isn't enough. You know,

848
00:42:06,280 --> 00:42:08,480
Speaker 2: like you talked about how you have to market yourself,

849
00:42:08,520 --> 00:42:11,400
Speaker 2: promote yourself, build your brand, Like that sounds like a

850
00:42:11,440 --> 00:42:13,000
Speaker 2: lot of work, you know what I mean.

851
00:42:13,320 --> 00:42:14,120
Speaker 1: It absolutely is.

852
00:42:14,200 --> 00:42:16,160
Speaker 7: And I have a great team who I work with now,

853
00:42:16,280 --> 00:42:19,800
Speaker 7: you know, PR team, styling team, a hair makeup. I

854
00:42:19,840 --> 00:42:24,000
Speaker 7: have a great team that I work with now. But

855
00:42:25,239 --> 00:42:29,040
Speaker 7: I just said that to say, yeah, it's frustrating, but

856
00:42:29,080 --> 00:42:30,200
Speaker 7: it's also it's the part.

857
00:42:30,400 --> 00:42:33,120
Speaker 1: It's a part of it. You know. Serena Williams.

858
00:42:33,600 --> 00:42:35,360
Speaker 7: When I look at her, you know, she played with

859
00:42:35,440 --> 00:42:38,200
Speaker 7: the beads for a long time, she represented for the culture.

860
00:42:39,760 --> 00:42:42,720
Speaker 7: But then you know, people start saying like, oh, she's

861
00:42:42,760 --> 00:42:45,879
Speaker 7: she's strong, she's built like a man, and you never

862
00:42:45,960 --> 00:42:50,919
Speaker 7: really seen her respond. You always just seen her kind

863
00:42:50,920 --> 00:42:55,480
Speaker 7: of put her time into her work. And when she

864
00:42:55,520 --> 00:42:57,879
Speaker 7: put her time into her work, that's when you've see

865
00:42:58,000 --> 00:43:00,680
Speaker 7: that all these endorsements and sponsors and everything like she

866
00:43:00,719 --> 00:43:03,359
Speaker 7: didn't pay that stuff no mind. I think the more

867
00:43:03,360 --> 00:43:05,239
Speaker 7: you focus on yourself and your career and what you

868
00:43:05,280 --> 00:43:07,080
Speaker 7: want to do and you keep the outside of the

869
00:43:07,080 --> 00:43:09,719
Speaker 7: noise out, that's when you start to really elevate.

870
00:43:09,760 --> 00:43:11,640
Speaker 1: And that's what I'm doing right now, is it?

871
00:43:12,360 --> 00:43:14,400
Speaker 4: You know, as you have won more and more and

872
00:43:14,440 --> 00:43:14,960
Speaker 4: more and.

873
00:43:14,920 --> 00:43:16,880
Speaker 1: Sitting at the top of the sport.

874
00:43:17,160 --> 00:43:19,840
Speaker 2: How do you handle that pressure because people are looking

875
00:43:19,880 --> 00:43:22,520
Speaker 2: for you to lose. You know, you have some challenger

876
00:43:22,560 --> 00:43:24,439
Speaker 2: you don't even know right now is at home thinking

877
00:43:24,480 --> 00:43:25,960
Speaker 2: about like trying to knock you out.

878
00:43:26,239 --> 00:43:26,959
Speaker 1: So how do you.

879
00:43:26,920 --> 00:43:30,640
Speaker 4: Handle dealing with like you're carrying a sport?

880
00:43:31,000 --> 00:43:36,239
Speaker 7: I train that's it when you self made, you know

881
00:43:36,280 --> 00:43:37,560
Speaker 7: what I'm saying, and you get to where you got

882
00:43:37,560 --> 00:43:39,600
Speaker 7: to because of you being you, you doing you how

883
00:43:39,640 --> 00:43:41,640
Speaker 7: you do you, and you know how you got to

884
00:43:41,680 --> 00:43:45,680
Speaker 7: where you are, no handouts, nobody giving you nothing. It's

885
00:43:45,719 --> 00:43:48,360
Speaker 7: like I know how stat the top, I know what

886
00:43:48,400 --> 00:43:50,880
Speaker 7: to do, I know what matters. So it's like people,

887
00:43:51,320 --> 00:43:55,080
Speaker 7: of course, everybody always want the winners to lose. People

888
00:43:55,160 --> 00:43:58,800
Speaker 7: love controversy like they love drama. They love a comeback story.

889
00:43:58,880 --> 00:44:02,720
Speaker 1: But for me, it's like I just believe in winning.

890
00:44:02,920 --> 00:44:05,320
Speaker 1: And how do you win? You train, you have discipline,

891
00:44:05,360 --> 00:44:08,080
Speaker 1: you focus, and you just you just do it. So

892
00:44:08,680 --> 00:44:12,439
Speaker 1: I don't really hate come with the game.

893
00:44:12,840 --> 00:44:14,839
Speaker 7: You know, And I've always known as a young girl,

894
00:44:14,880 --> 00:44:17,239
Speaker 7: and my coaches tell me all the time women have

895
00:44:17,280 --> 00:44:19,960
Speaker 7: to work ten times harder than me. He always told

896
00:44:19,960 --> 00:44:22,280
Speaker 7: me that. So now that I'm a fifteen time world champion.

897
00:44:22,560 --> 00:44:25,160
Speaker 7: I'm like, yeah, no, I'm gonna start getting some endorsement, sponsorsitions, SOUF.

898
00:44:25,200 --> 00:44:28,480
Speaker 1: All right, cool for you?

899
00:44:30,040 --> 00:44:31,879
Speaker 4: What motivates you now to keep going?

900
00:44:31,920 --> 00:44:35,520
Speaker 2: I mean, you're it's hard to believe your twenty nins,

901
00:44:35,560 --> 00:44:38,600
Speaker 2: you know, because it feels like you've been on the

902
00:44:38,640 --> 00:44:41,000
Speaker 2: scene for so long. But what what would you say

903
00:44:41,040 --> 00:44:42,640
Speaker 2: is your motivation now?

904
00:44:43,560 --> 00:44:45,879
Speaker 7: My motivation for me is that I haven't gotten through

905
00:44:46,160 --> 00:44:49,160
Speaker 7: where I want to get to yet. And it's not

906
00:44:49,560 --> 00:44:51,759
Speaker 7: I mean, in boxing, I can retire right now. I'm

907
00:44:51,760 --> 00:44:55,160
Speaker 7: going down the Hall of Fame, you know, but and

908
00:44:55,160 --> 00:44:57,680
Speaker 7: be regarded as one of the greatest women boxers to

909
00:44:57,719 --> 00:45:01,000
Speaker 7: ever live. I get that, But it's like I want

910
00:45:01,200 --> 00:45:02,640
Speaker 7: I still girls, I want to fight.

911
00:45:03,040 --> 00:45:04,400
Speaker 1: I got records, I want to break.

912
00:45:04,480 --> 00:45:08,759
Speaker 7: I got a vision of myself that's so big, and

913
00:45:08,800 --> 00:45:11,480
Speaker 7: it's like, that's what motivates me. It's like, I have

914
00:45:12,320 --> 00:45:14,799
Speaker 7: to get there to feel that satisfaction for me, not

915
00:45:14,840 --> 00:45:15,520
Speaker 7: nobody else.

916
00:45:16,239 --> 00:45:17,480
Speaker 1: For me. I got to get there.

917
00:45:17,600 --> 00:45:19,480
Speaker 2: Have you thought about or how much have you thought

918
00:45:19,520 --> 00:45:21,040
Speaker 2: about how much longer you want to do this?

919
00:45:21,360 --> 00:45:22,640
Speaker 1: Because boxing is you.

920
00:45:22,560 --> 00:45:27,319
Speaker 2: Know, it's one of those sports that it has a

921
00:45:27,320 --> 00:45:29,520
Speaker 2: certain shelf life because of the physicality. So how much

922
00:45:29,560 --> 00:45:32,440
Speaker 2: longer do you or how much thought have you given

923
00:45:32,640 --> 00:45:34,000
Speaker 2: to how long you want your career to be.

924
00:45:34,440 --> 00:45:37,400
Speaker 7: I've been boxing eighteen years now, you know, and I

925
00:45:37,400 --> 00:45:39,560
Speaker 7: think I'm going to retire when I'm boxing at twenty six,

926
00:45:39,800 --> 00:45:44,520
Speaker 7: so I have eight more years in boxing. So those

927
00:45:44,560 --> 00:45:47,439
Speaker 7: who thought they wanted me to go on ahead eight years

928
00:45:47,440 --> 00:45:48,520
Speaker 7: thirty eight, I'm going to retire.

929
00:45:49,080 --> 00:45:51,640
Speaker 1: Really And why did that number? Why?

930
00:45:53,800 --> 00:45:55,960
Speaker 7: I don't know, because I think if I don't retire

931
00:45:55,960 --> 00:45:58,520
Speaker 7: at thirty eight, I'm going to be boxing on fifty.

932
00:45:59,160 --> 00:46:01,279
Speaker 7: So it's just like, but you know what the also too,

933
00:46:01,320 --> 00:46:04,920
Speaker 7: I'm saying thirty eight. But if I'm still in great

934
00:46:05,000 --> 00:46:08,880
Speaker 7: shape and I can whoop these girls at forty and fifty,

935
00:46:09,160 --> 00:46:09,640
Speaker 7: you would do it?

936
00:46:09,719 --> 00:46:09,799
Speaker 5: What?

937
00:46:10,200 --> 00:46:13,560
Speaker 1: Why not? But Hopkins did it? You know?

938
00:46:13,680 --> 00:46:15,680
Speaker 7: So he was boxing at fifty. I think he was

939
00:46:15,680 --> 00:46:20,200
Speaker 7: boxing at fifty. So for me, I'm just like, but

940
00:46:20,239 --> 00:46:22,359
Speaker 7: that's the age, you know. I feel like twenty six

941
00:46:22,440 --> 00:46:26,600
Speaker 7: years boxing, I think I'll be Okay, I've done enough fighting.

942
00:46:26,760 --> 00:46:31,080
Speaker 7: I don't have you know what, I'm going to retire

943
00:46:31,239 --> 00:46:33,879
Speaker 7: when when that bone in me when it like comes

944
00:46:33,880 --> 00:46:36,920
Speaker 7: to a fight, when like the fire don't light up

945
00:46:37,600 --> 00:46:39,960
Speaker 7: that's when I retire. And I'm thinking that age to

946
00:46:40,000 --> 00:46:42,279
Speaker 7: be thirty eight. It's not gonna be before then. But

947
00:46:42,480 --> 00:46:46,680
Speaker 7: it's like, if somebody challenges me, and I don't get like, oh.

948
00:46:46,600 --> 00:46:48,000
Speaker 1: You're challenging me. You think you can beat me, You

949
00:46:48,040 --> 00:46:48,600
Speaker 1: want to fight.

950
00:46:48,520 --> 00:46:50,759
Speaker 7: Me, and and I don't get that hunger to go

951
00:46:50,840 --> 00:46:53,280
Speaker 7: train and work and then I'll retire.

952
00:46:53,400 --> 00:46:56,680
Speaker 1: But till then, I'm just gonna keep beating these girls up.

953
00:46:57,800 --> 00:47:00,640
Speaker 1: Dare I say, I guess if the fire inside it's

954
00:47:00,719 --> 00:47:04,520
Speaker 1: not that the fire inside is not there, then on

955
00:47:04,680 --> 00:47:08,239
Speaker 1: fire side, yeah, then you're like, I won't box now?

956
00:47:08,239 --> 00:47:10,600
Speaker 2: Do you you're the first woman in boxing to get

957
00:47:10,960 --> 00:47:15,440
Speaker 2: a seven figure pay for a fight. When you think

958
00:47:15,440 --> 00:47:18,680
Speaker 2: about your legacy, do you think what you have? You know,

959
00:47:18,760 --> 00:47:22,160
Speaker 2: individually you've been able to accomplish all these things financially

960
00:47:22,640 --> 00:47:26,200
Speaker 2: in the sport, But do you think the success, the

961
00:47:26,239 --> 00:47:30,080
Speaker 2: financial success that you've established that women's boxers can have,

962
00:47:30,719 --> 00:47:33,120
Speaker 2: you think that's sustainable? Like, do you think that if

963
00:47:33,160 --> 00:47:36,759
Speaker 2: there's another woman that comes along who you know is

964
00:47:36,760 --> 00:47:38,799
Speaker 2: able to accomplish some of the same things that you did,

965
00:47:38,800 --> 00:47:41,399
Speaker 2: that she's going to get a payday that is as

966
00:47:41,440 --> 00:47:43,040
Speaker 2: big or bigger than yours. You know what I mean

967
00:47:43,200 --> 00:47:45,840
Speaker 2: that you've laid the foundation. Yes, I am creating a

968
00:47:45,880 --> 00:47:46,799
Speaker 2: full blueprint.

969
00:47:47,680 --> 00:47:49,680
Speaker 7: I'm a promoter, so I got t Rex promotion, so

970
00:47:50,080 --> 00:47:52,000
Speaker 7: I actually promote a woman fighter, and I'm giving her

971
00:47:52,040 --> 00:47:54,520
Speaker 7: audi jewels and stuff that I know so she can.

972
00:47:54,440 --> 00:47:55,960
Speaker 1: Get her big paydays too.

973
00:47:56,560 --> 00:47:59,080
Speaker 7: It's a blueprint now on how you make a million

974
00:47:59,120 --> 00:48:02,239
Speaker 7: dollars even if you don't have the gold medals. And

975
00:48:02,280 --> 00:48:05,400
Speaker 7: that's shown with Katie Hiller and Amni Torano. You know

976
00:48:05,480 --> 00:48:08,720
Speaker 7: that they made a million and I've made a million,

977
00:48:08,800 --> 00:48:10,319
Speaker 7: And I'm trying to think, is there any other woman

978
00:48:10,320 --> 00:48:11,160
Speaker 7: that made a million in box?

979
00:48:11,239 --> 00:48:14,080
Speaker 1: I think it's just us for right now. But I

980
00:48:14,120 --> 00:48:18,000
Speaker 1: am letting them know. It is a blueprint, and I

981
00:48:18,040 --> 00:48:22,279
Speaker 1: always the biggest blueprint is built your brand. In terms

982
00:48:22,320 --> 00:48:22,960
Speaker 1: of pay equity.

983
00:48:23,040 --> 00:48:27,080
Speaker 2: Another thing that you fought for is when it came

984
00:48:27,120 --> 00:48:32,360
Speaker 2: to the Olympics. You know, for a female boxer to

985
00:48:32,400 --> 00:48:35,399
Speaker 2: get paid the same as they do for mailboxes when

986
00:48:35,400 --> 00:48:37,759
Speaker 2: they're training and everything for the Olympics. And I looked

987
00:48:37,800 --> 00:48:39,680
Speaker 2: it up and I saw that I think it was

988
00:48:39,719 --> 00:48:42,799
Speaker 2: in twenty twenty two, Congress actually passed a law that

989
00:48:42,920 --> 00:48:49,480
Speaker 2: said that American athletes who are representing Team USA in

990
00:48:49,560 --> 00:48:52,719
Speaker 2: international competitions, you have to pay them the same, regardless

991
00:48:52,760 --> 00:48:55,600
Speaker 2: of gender. And it feels like that was a fight

992
00:48:56,160 --> 00:48:59,680
Speaker 2: that you fought and you won. So when you think

993
00:48:59,719 --> 00:49:03,720
Speaker 2: about out the legacy that you have left as someone

994
00:49:03,760 --> 00:49:07,359
Speaker 2: who fought those kind of battles, you know, how does

995
00:49:07,360 --> 00:49:09,560
Speaker 2: that make you feel about your purpose?

996
00:49:09,960 --> 00:49:12,000
Speaker 7: You know, I alway wanted to stand for something bigger

997
00:49:12,040 --> 00:49:16,000
Speaker 7: than myself. And that's why, you know, I told Tim Usa, listen,

998
00:49:16,120 --> 00:49:17,799
Speaker 7: if you guys don't pay us like you paid the men,

999
00:49:17,960 --> 00:49:20,040
Speaker 7: I won't even go back to the twenty sixteen Olympics

1000
00:49:20,400 --> 00:49:23,760
Speaker 7: and I'm the reigning Olympic champion, and they're like, okay,

1001
00:49:24,520 --> 00:49:26,920
Speaker 7: you got it. And the women were getting paid the

1002
00:49:26,920 --> 00:49:29,080
Speaker 7: same as the men. You know, I was getting paid

1003
00:49:29,120 --> 00:49:31,280
Speaker 7: five thousand a month actually leading up to the Olympics.

1004
00:49:31,280 --> 00:49:32,560
Speaker 1: It wasn't three. It's say three in the.

1005
00:49:32,480 --> 00:49:35,000
Speaker 7: Movie, but it was actually five because I was returning

1006
00:49:35,480 --> 00:49:37,880
Speaker 7: Olympic go milest So I was getting paid more than

1007
00:49:37,880 --> 00:49:44,200
Speaker 7: the men actually, But I think that that's where the

1008
00:49:44,200 --> 00:49:46,120
Speaker 7: fight started at. But I didn't know that things were

1009
00:49:46,160 --> 00:49:48,760
Speaker 7: so unequal like that because all I did was focus

1010
00:49:48,840 --> 00:49:51,160
Speaker 7: on boxing. You know, it wasn't until I had conversation

1011
00:49:51,200 --> 00:49:52,680
Speaker 7: with the men, like how much y'all get paid them on?

1012
00:49:53,560 --> 00:49:55,680
Speaker 7: You know, people don't have this conversations because they say, oh,

1013
00:49:55,719 --> 00:49:58,839
Speaker 7: you know, some people can't talk. They contracts and checks

1014
00:49:58,920 --> 00:50:01,359
Speaker 7: or whatever the case may be. But I was just like,

1015
00:50:01,480 --> 00:50:03,320
Speaker 7: you know, I was curious how much how much I

1016
00:50:03,400 --> 00:50:06,239
Speaker 7: make a month? And they'd tell me. I'm like, really, hum,

1017
00:50:07,520 --> 00:50:12,239
Speaker 7: that's interesting. And I mean, I just didn't grow up

1018
00:50:12,280 --> 00:50:14,480
Speaker 7: around that type of stuff. Like when I was at

1019
00:50:14,520 --> 00:50:16,680
Speaker 7: the gym with all the guys. Coach didn't make me

1020
00:50:16,760 --> 00:50:18,959
Speaker 7: run less, I didn't punch the bag less, I didn't

1021
00:50:18,960 --> 00:50:21,440
Speaker 7: spar less, I did everything like the guy. So I

1022
00:50:21,480 --> 00:50:25,239
Speaker 7: didn't think that these differences between men and women even

1023
00:50:25,280 --> 00:50:27,919
Speaker 7: existed until I got a little older. I'm like, oh,

1024
00:50:28,080 --> 00:50:32,640
Speaker 7: this is what these girls were talking about. Oh okay,

1025
00:50:33,560 --> 00:50:36,239
Speaker 7: So now that I know about it, I joined the

1026
00:50:36,239 --> 00:50:40,080
Speaker 7: fight for it now. When I turned pro my first

1027
00:50:40,160 --> 00:50:43,640
Speaker 7: you know, I reached out to uh, Laila Ali and

1028
00:50:44,040 --> 00:50:44,759
Speaker 7: a Wolf and.

1029
00:50:44,719 --> 00:50:47,360
Speaker 1: I asked and Wolf how much was her highest payday

1030
00:50:47,400 --> 00:50:47,880
Speaker 1: in boxing?

1031
00:50:48,200 --> 00:50:51,480
Speaker 7: Told me fifty K. I said, but you're a real champ,

1032
00:50:51,480 --> 00:50:54,400
Speaker 7: you only fifty fifty K? I asked that Laila alien.

1033
00:50:55,320 --> 00:50:57,640
Speaker 7: This is word the word this is on my grandmother.

1034
00:50:57,840 --> 00:50:58,040
Speaker 1: You know.

1035
00:50:58,120 --> 00:51:00,239
Speaker 7: I asked her how much would how much did you

1036
00:51:00,280 --> 00:51:02,719
Speaker 7: get paid for your highest payday? She told me six

1037
00:51:02,840 --> 00:51:07,120
Speaker 7: hundred thousand, and I said, in my mind, I said, okay,

1038
00:51:07,160 --> 00:51:09,280
Speaker 7: so it's possible. In my mind, I said, it's possible

1039
00:51:09,320 --> 00:51:12,080
Speaker 7: for me to make a high of six hundred K.

1040
00:51:12,160 --> 00:51:13,400
Speaker 1: That's what I thought to myself.

1041
00:51:14,000 --> 00:51:17,840
Speaker 7: So to be able to make a million, I was like, wow,

1042
00:51:18,239 --> 00:51:21,200
Speaker 7: you know, how did we get here? But that's how

1043
00:51:21,239 --> 00:51:24,279
Speaker 7: I know that when women's boxing had changed. But my

1044
00:51:24,360 --> 00:51:27,759
Speaker 7: first payday in boxing, my first professional fight, I got

1045
00:51:27,800 --> 00:51:32,239
Speaker 7: paid fifty K. That's when I knew. I said, see,

1046
00:51:32,480 --> 00:51:35,360
Speaker 7: times is changing, stuff is changing. And I didn't know

1047
00:51:35,400 --> 00:51:37,160
Speaker 7: how or where. I knew it had a lot to

1048
00:51:37,160 --> 00:51:39,760
Speaker 7: do with me and my Olympic gold medals. But I said,

1049
00:51:39,840 --> 00:51:41,640
Speaker 7: I got to keep building off of this. So every

1050
00:51:41,640 --> 00:51:43,000
Speaker 7: time when I thought, I let him know, hey, I

1051
00:51:43,000 --> 00:51:45,759
Speaker 7: got to go up twenty five thousand, fifty thousand on

1052
00:51:45,920 --> 00:51:48,239
Speaker 7: a K. When I became undisputed, I told them to

1053
00:51:48,239 --> 00:51:51,480
Speaker 7: double my check and they were like, oh, Curris, no

1054
00:51:51,520 --> 00:51:54,200
Speaker 7: woman's ever made three hundred and fifty k in boxing.

1055
00:51:54,400 --> 00:51:56,320
Speaker 7: When I said, you won't be seeing me in the

1056
00:51:56,400 --> 00:51:58,600
Speaker 7: ring unless you pay me it. I'm undisputed now.

1057
00:51:59,080 --> 00:52:00,279
Speaker 1: And it was a fight.

1058
00:52:00,320 --> 00:52:01,799
Speaker 7: You guys all thought I was gonna lose, and you

1059
00:52:01,840 --> 00:52:03,560
Speaker 7: put me in here with this girl that was twenty one,

1060
00:52:03,960 --> 00:52:06,400
Speaker 7: you know, with ten knockouts and I had seven fights.

1061
00:52:06,680 --> 00:52:07,000
Speaker 1: Mhm.

1062
00:52:08,480 --> 00:52:10,239
Speaker 7: Y'all paid me one hundred and fifty for the fight,

1063
00:52:10,400 --> 00:52:12,120
Speaker 7: or I think it was one seventy five. I said,

1064
00:52:12,800 --> 00:52:14,880
Speaker 7: my next fight better be three fifty or I'm not fighting.

1065
00:52:15,960 --> 00:52:18,239
Speaker 7: To my promoter that I told show Time that and

1066
00:52:18,280 --> 00:52:20,600
Speaker 7: they were like, Claris said, nobody, No woman's made that

1067
00:52:20,680 --> 00:52:21,160
Speaker 7: kind of money.

1068
00:52:21,160 --> 00:52:24,879
Speaker 1: I said, m hmm okay. And I sat at home

1069
00:52:24,920 --> 00:52:27,520
Speaker 1: for about a month and I was like, no phone

1070
00:52:27,520 --> 00:52:29,799
Speaker 1: call Yoka, all right, cool? Cool now.

1071
00:52:29,800 --> 00:52:31,560
Speaker 7: I always not my promoter car and said, hey Chris,

1072
00:52:31,719 --> 00:52:33,759
Speaker 7: we got it. Since you got what we got you

1073
00:52:33,800 --> 00:52:37,439
Speaker 7: three fifty, okay, what's the day when we're when we're

1074
00:52:37,440 --> 00:52:39,319
Speaker 7: fighting and its been a champions back.

1075
00:52:40,560 --> 00:52:43,640
Speaker 2: Yeah, You've been able to win in so many different

1076
00:52:43,920 --> 00:52:46,280
Speaker 2: weight classes and h to prefer our interview.

1077
00:52:46,280 --> 00:52:48,319
Speaker 4: I was reading this one story that I think they

1078
00:52:48,360 --> 00:52:48,719
Speaker 4: called it.

1079
00:52:48,800 --> 00:52:51,960
Speaker 2: They called your new class the Clarissa Wait, because it's

1080
00:52:52,000 --> 00:52:55,279
Speaker 2: like you established I can fight at whatever whatever I need.

1081
00:52:55,360 --> 00:52:56,480
Speaker 1: Yeah, however I need to fight out.

1082
00:52:56,719 --> 00:52:59,879
Speaker 4: Hey, do you have a weight you prefer to fight at?

1083
00:53:00,239 --> 00:53:05,080
Speaker 7: One sixty eight? One sixty? That's I feel the best

1084
00:53:05,120 --> 00:53:08,040
Speaker 7: at one sixty eight. I feel good at one sixty.

1085
00:53:08,560 --> 00:53:10,680
Speaker 7: I mean I feel deprived at one fifty four. But

1086
00:53:10,760 --> 00:53:12,560
Speaker 7: I went down there and I fought and I beat

1087
00:53:12,840 --> 00:53:13,799
Speaker 7: beat all the girls there.

1088
00:53:14,719 --> 00:53:16,759
Speaker 1: But sixty and sixty eights where I'm comfortable at.

1089
00:53:16,960 --> 00:53:21,279
Speaker 7: I mean, seventy five seventy five plus for heavyweight is

1090
00:53:21,320 --> 00:53:26,480
Speaker 7: cool too, But I just I find a way to

1091
00:53:26,480 --> 00:53:28,520
Speaker 7: be comfortable at whatever weight class that I'm at. You know,

1092
00:53:28,600 --> 00:53:30,759
Speaker 7: I do the diet and right, I be strategic. I

1093
00:53:30,760 --> 00:53:33,320
Speaker 7: have a great nutritionist team try out to perfect the athletes.

1094
00:53:33,400 --> 00:53:39,600
Speaker 7: Like so, I think I feel good everywhere, but sixty

1095
00:53:39,640 --> 00:53:42,600
Speaker 7: eight is like naturally where I'm like, Okay, that's where I.

1096
00:53:43,320 --> 00:53:45,719
Speaker 2: Now that you've gotten a little taste of Hollywood. I

1097
00:53:45,719 --> 00:53:48,680
Speaker 2: mean you see that you know boxers, and I know

1098
00:53:48,719 --> 00:53:53,440
Speaker 2: you've flirted with uh with MMA before. A lot of

1099
00:53:53,480 --> 00:53:57,279
Speaker 2: athletes in your position make that turn into acting, make

1100
00:53:57,320 --> 00:53:59,560
Speaker 2: that turn into doing entertainment.

1101
00:54:00,160 --> 00:54:02,320
Speaker 1: Is that something that you've considered?

1102
00:54:02,920 --> 00:54:06,480
Speaker 7: Now you know I've done some acting, Okay, so I

1103
00:54:06,520 --> 00:54:08,200
Speaker 7: don't believe in like, oh, you should wait to retire

1104
00:54:08,200 --> 00:54:10,560
Speaker 7: to do the acting. So I've done some acting now

1105
00:54:11,160 --> 00:54:14,439
Speaker 7: and I actually I actually have a movie role coming

1106
00:54:14,520 --> 00:54:16,600
Speaker 7: up that I have to get ready for. I'm planning

1107
00:54:16,600 --> 00:54:20,320
Speaker 7: a cop in a movie. So yeah, hopefully we you

1108
00:54:20,360 --> 00:54:22,120
Speaker 7: know that that's on a big platform. You guys be

1109
00:54:22,120 --> 00:54:23,840
Speaker 7: able to see it. If you don't sit on the platform,

1110
00:54:23,840 --> 00:54:25,839
Speaker 7: you sit on my page for sure. So I'm playing

1111
00:54:25,880 --> 00:54:31,239
Speaker 7: a cop. Okay, it's other movie opportunities, but right now,

1112
00:54:31,280 --> 00:54:34,560
Speaker 7: I just I've been so busy promoting a movie and

1113
00:54:34,880 --> 00:54:37,919
Speaker 7: now I just start promoting my next fight, and that's

1114
00:54:37,920 --> 00:54:39,759
Speaker 7: what I've been focused on. But I am I do

1115
00:54:39,880 --> 00:54:42,520
Speaker 7: want to be an actress. That's what I want to do,

1116
00:54:42,719 --> 00:54:44,440
Speaker 7: and I'm not gonna wait to after I'm done boxing

1117
00:54:44,440 --> 00:54:45,880
Speaker 7: to do it. I feel like I can still do

1118
00:54:45,920 --> 00:54:51,520
Speaker 7: some stuff now. And I want to be more motivational speaker.

1119
00:54:52,719 --> 00:54:56,120
Speaker 7: I want to model. You know, it's so many things

1120
00:54:56,120 --> 00:54:57,759
Speaker 7: that I want to do that I feel like I

1121
00:54:57,840 --> 00:55:01,000
Speaker 7: can do. I just have to find a time to

1122
00:55:01,000 --> 00:55:03,320
Speaker 7: do it. But I definitely believe that.

1123
00:55:03,719 --> 00:55:07,480
Speaker 2: One of my favorite stories involving you is and you

1124
00:55:07,480 --> 00:55:13,040
Speaker 2: put this on your Instagram page it's when old girl, Uh,

1125
00:55:13,080 --> 00:55:16,200
Speaker 2: when the woman showed up at the gym. Oh god, like, listen,

1126
00:55:16,800 --> 00:55:19,880
Speaker 2: this this is where I am. If you want to smoke,

1127
00:55:20,120 --> 00:55:27,080
Speaker 2: come up here. And this this was somebody I guess

1128
00:55:27,120 --> 00:55:29,279
Speaker 2: you sort of mentored a little bit right like that.

1129
00:55:29,360 --> 00:55:32,160
Speaker 2: It reached out to you and said, hey, you know

1130
00:55:32,239 --> 00:55:33,880
Speaker 2: what I want to I want to be you. I

1131
00:55:33,880 --> 00:55:36,239
Speaker 2: want to be a fighter for real in this game.

1132
00:55:36,280 --> 00:55:39,319
Speaker 2: And you, you know, offered to be mentor them. But

1133
00:55:39,360 --> 00:55:43,080
Speaker 2: then things were left and somehow they thought that they

1134
00:55:43,080 --> 00:55:45,719
Speaker 2: could talk slick to you, and you let her know

1135
00:55:46,160 --> 00:55:48,359
Speaker 2: what she could show up, and when she showed up,

1136
00:55:48,640 --> 00:55:52,320
Speaker 2: I'm thinking she didn't realize that was probably the wrong decision.

1137
00:55:53,160 --> 00:55:54,920
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, what.

1138
00:55:57,960 --> 00:56:01,200
Speaker 2: Selfishly seeing how people how slick people talk on social

1139
00:56:01,239 --> 00:56:04,239
Speaker 2: media for those of us, you know, I mean, I

1140
00:56:04,840 --> 00:56:07,240
Speaker 2: ain't got hands like that, but there are so many

1141
00:56:07,280 --> 00:56:09,799
Speaker 2: times that I wish I could put my hands on

1142
00:56:09,840 --> 00:56:13,080
Speaker 2: some of these people who talk slick across social media.

1143
00:56:13,200 --> 00:56:18,480
Speaker 1: So what't you tell people? Oh girl? You know, Mike

1144
00:56:18,520 --> 00:56:19,680
Speaker 1: Tyson said it best.

1145
00:56:20,080 --> 00:56:23,120
Speaker 7: Social media has made people like comfortable that they can

1146
00:56:23,120 --> 00:56:25,000
Speaker 7: say whatever they want without getting hitting the mouth for it.

1147
00:56:25,040 --> 00:56:28,239
Speaker 2: Correct, and they never had their ass whipping and they

1148
00:56:28,239 --> 00:56:30,560
Speaker 2: talked like it and they need it, Yeah, they.

1149
00:56:30,400 --> 00:56:31,160
Speaker 1: Do, you know.

1150
00:56:31,360 --> 00:56:36,160
Speaker 7: And I would say with that, I didn't tell her

1151
00:56:36,160 --> 00:56:38,000
Speaker 7: to come to the gym. I didn't invite her to

1152
00:56:38,000 --> 00:56:40,560
Speaker 7: come to the gym. I had my hundred thousand dollar

1153
00:56:40,680 --> 00:56:42,920
Speaker 7: challenge going on, Like if any girl she want to

1154
00:56:42,920 --> 00:56:43,760
Speaker 7: come to the gym.

1155
00:56:43,760 --> 00:56:45,720
Speaker 4: Yes, I was like, I thought it was part of something.

1156
00:56:45,840 --> 00:56:48,360
Speaker 7: But she never reached out and said she wanted to

1157
00:56:48,400 --> 00:56:50,759
Speaker 7: do a challenge. I just showed up to the gym

1158
00:56:50,800 --> 00:56:53,759
Speaker 7: to spar against these two grown men, professional fighters, to

1159
00:56:53,760 --> 00:56:56,400
Speaker 7: get ready for my championship fight July twenty seventh that

1160
00:56:56,440 --> 00:56:57,040
Speaker 7: I had.

1161
00:56:57,800 --> 00:57:01,880
Speaker 1: And she trolled me so much. I got over a

1162
00:57:01,920 --> 00:57:02,799
Speaker 1: million followers.

1163
00:57:02,840 --> 00:57:05,000
Speaker 7: But she told me so much that it was like

1164
00:57:05,160 --> 00:57:07,879
Speaker 7: I know this girl, like I know this girl face, now,

1165
00:57:07,880 --> 00:57:09,799
Speaker 7: I know her voice now, like he trold.

1166
00:57:09,520 --> 00:57:12,160
Speaker 1: Me so much. So as I'm walking into the gym

1167
00:57:12,280 --> 00:57:16,400
Speaker 1: to start getting ready to spark against these men, I

1168
00:57:16,440 --> 00:57:20,080
Speaker 1: see her. So she just showed up an announced.

1169
00:57:20,200 --> 00:57:23,240
Speaker 2: I thought, you like, hey, if you got all that smoke, nah,

1170
00:57:23,560 --> 00:57:24,360
Speaker 2: this is where I'm gonna be.

1171
00:57:24,440 --> 00:57:25,120
Speaker 1: Ah.

1172
00:57:25,120 --> 00:57:26,840
Speaker 7: So I'm showing up to do what I do, and

1173
00:57:26,880 --> 00:57:29,040
Speaker 7: that's prepared for my World championship fight. That I have

1174
00:57:29,160 --> 00:57:32,320
Speaker 7: coming up in Detroit at Little Caesars in front nineteen

1175
00:57:32,320 --> 00:57:35,640
Speaker 7: thousand people. I gotta get ready and I walk in

1176
00:57:35,680 --> 00:57:40,439
Speaker 7: the gym and my eyes I looked in the ring

1177
00:57:40,440 --> 00:57:41,640
Speaker 7: because I like to know who around.

1178
00:57:41,680 --> 00:57:44,000
Speaker 1: I looked in the ring. I said, oh, I know

1179
00:57:44,120 --> 00:57:50,760
Speaker 1: this bitch, and then I said, Clarissa s yeah. All

1180
00:57:50,800 --> 00:57:54,400
Speaker 1: of a sudden, I just I clicked out. I'm not

1181
00:57:54,440 --> 00:57:57,480
Speaker 1: gonna lie. I clicked out. I walked into the ring.

1182
00:57:57,560 --> 00:58:00,480
Speaker 7: She like, yeah, Chris, I told you when I when

1183
00:58:00,520 --> 00:58:02,320
Speaker 7: I see what was up, I said, what you here?

1184
00:58:02,360 --> 00:58:05,120
Speaker 1: F why at my gym? Fo? She said?

1185
00:58:07,760 --> 00:58:09,480
Speaker 7: She said, I'm here to get a couple of rounds

1186
00:58:09,600 --> 00:58:12,520
Speaker 7: spar with you. I said, I'm about to fuck you up.

1187
00:58:13,000 --> 00:58:14,320
Speaker 1: Well, I told her. I said I'm gonna fuck you

1188
00:58:14,400 --> 00:58:17,640
Speaker 1: up bad. And then she was.

1189
00:58:17,600 --> 00:58:18,800
Speaker 7: And then I was like, I got, I got, I

1190
00:58:18,800 --> 00:58:20,440
Speaker 7: got you for a run round. She was like, I

1191
00:58:20,480 --> 00:58:23,120
Speaker 7: didn't call off work to come get one round and

1192
00:58:23,120 --> 00:58:26,240
Speaker 7: said that's all. You're gonna last one round for you one.

1193
00:58:26,800 --> 00:58:28,560
Speaker 7: Then she got the argument, we ain't going two rounds.

1194
00:58:28,600 --> 00:58:30,960
Speaker 7: I'm about to leave, da da. I said, you think

1195
00:58:31,000 --> 00:58:32,400
Speaker 7: you about to leave when you disrespect me?

1196
00:58:32,480 --> 00:58:34,080
Speaker 1: And I tried to run up and here outside the ring.

1197
00:58:34,160 --> 00:58:34,680
Speaker 1: I was so mad.

1198
00:58:35,280 --> 00:58:37,480
Speaker 7: Then all of a sudden, my ex fiance grabbing me,

1199
00:58:37,720 --> 00:58:40,240
Speaker 7: my homegirl bedy grabbing me, my best friend nanny grabbed me.

1200
00:58:40,760 --> 00:58:43,560
Speaker 7: I'm like, y'all need to don't nobody touch me.

1201
00:58:44,800 --> 00:58:46,920
Speaker 1: I'm I'm, I'm I don't I done.

1202
00:58:46,640 --> 00:58:50,440
Speaker 7: Click thout because it's something about I don't disrespect nobody.

1203
00:58:51,040 --> 00:58:53,360
Speaker 7: I don't do that. Like I'm personally. If I dispect you,

1204
00:58:53,400 --> 00:58:55,040
Speaker 7: I want you to dispect me back, like I won't

1205
00:58:55,120 --> 00:58:57,280
Speaker 7: smoke if like, if I walk up to you, I'm

1206
00:58:57,320 --> 00:59:01,400
Speaker 7: talking in trash. I expect you to talk trash back,

1207
00:59:01,440 --> 00:59:03,160
Speaker 7: and if you want to get active, we get acted.

1208
00:59:03,200 --> 00:59:04,960
Speaker 1: That's what I expect. That's why I don't do that.

1209
00:59:05,320 --> 00:59:05,920
Speaker 1: I don't do that.

1210
00:59:05,960 --> 00:59:08,040
Speaker 7: But it was like the fact that she tried to

1211
00:59:09,240 --> 00:59:13,680
Speaker 7: make it seem like somebody scared of her. She did

1212
00:59:13,800 --> 00:59:17,880
Speaker 7: shed add and what I'm listen, I don't duck, no smoke,

1213
00:59:18,240 --> 00:59:22,600
Speaker 7: zero like I'm changing my brand of course, all that

1214
00:59:22,600 --> 00:59:24,280
Speaker 7: good stuff, but do not play with me.

1215
00:59:24,320 --> 00:59:28,160
Speaker 1: I'm not one of them. Man. She got dressed. We

1216
00:59:28,200 --> 00:59:28,840
Speaker 1: went in the ring.

1217
00:59:29,960 --> 00:59:32,040
Speaker 7: I said, enough talking to you, because she got the

1218
00:59:32,160 --> 00:59:34,640
Speaker 7: cursing and your boyfriend this and your boyfriend that and

1219
00:59:34,640 --> 00:59:35,560
Speaker 7: I'm make you my beat.

1220
00:59:35,560 --> 00:59:39,080
Speaker 1: D da da. She was talking crazy. I said, okay,

1221
00:59:39,720 --> 00:59:43,200
Speaker 1: that's how I am. I don't like all this shut up.

1222
00:59:43,520 --> 00:59:45,280
Speaker 1: I want to fight. I don't put my hands on you.

1223
00:59:45,440 --> 00:59:48,680
Speaker 1: That's me. That's why with the social media, i'd be

1224
00:59:48,680 --> 00:59:50,400
Speaker 1: like kind of baked girls in like do you want

1225
00:59:50,440 --> 00:59:52,280
Speaker 1: to fight? Or now you want to scrap? Like what's up?

1226
00:59:52,800 --> 00:59:55,360
Speaker 7: So I don't do that. Do all that talking because

1227
00:59:56,320 --> 00:59:59,680
Speaker 7: everybody can do it. Everybody can do the talking, but

1228
00:59:59,720 --> 01:00:02,240
Speaker 7: can you really back up what you say? I'm a

1229
01:00:02,280 --> 01:00:06,320
Speaker 7: backer upper. So she she got dressed, we got in

1230
01:00:06,320 --> 01:00:08,320
Speaker 7: the ring, We had a we had a red fern there.

1231
01:00:12,640 --> 01:00:15,600
Speaker 2: Said like I said, it's got anybody watching right now,

1232
01:00:15,760 --> 01:00:20,160
Speaker 2: go see the video because it's on my YouTube, on

1233
01:00:20,200 --> 01:00:22,400
Speaker 2: your YouTube, and I can tell when you hit that girl.

1234
01:00:22,600 --> 01:00:24,920
Speaker 1: The first time, I was like, oh no, this is

1235
01:00:24,920 --> 01:00:25,760
Speaker 1: going bad.

1236
01:00:26,040 --> 01:00:28,720
Speaker 7: All trying to knock her out. And then the thing is,

1237
01:00:28,800 --> 01:00:32,400
Speaker 7: I got so much class when it like when it

1238
01:00:32,400 --> 01:00:34,840
Speaker 7: comes to boxing that when she start covering up, I

1239
01:00:34,880 --> 01:00:37,320
Speaker 7: stop hitting her. I stopped hearing her. I said, man,

1240
01:00:37,320 --> 01:00:39,840
Speaker 7: I've been ana kute this, I've been I've been Jills.

1241
01:00:40,400 --> 01:00:44,479
Speaker 7: And then she oh her own her stomach, hold her head.

1242
01:00:46,120 --> 01:00:49,520
Speaker 1: I was like, look at it, stup bit. But you

1243
01:00:49,600 --> 01:00:55,840
Speaker 1: know what, sometime jamill just hear me out. Just him.

1244
01:00:55,880 --> 01:00:57,960
Speaker 1: Sometimes you got to make an example a lot of people.

1245
01:00:58,240 --> 01:01:00,880
Speaker 2: You are preaching to the choir, that let all the

1246
01:01:00,920 --> 01:01:05,160
Speaker 2: girls who was considering trying to get the honey k

1247
01:01:05,360 --> 01:01:07,200
Speaker 2: or who was considering trying to come to the gym

1248
01:01:07,280 --> 01:01:10,040
Speaker 2: to respect me, that let them know, oh she not

1249
01:01:10,640 --> 01:01:13,560
Speaker 2: she professional, but.

1250
01:01:15,080 --> 01:01:17,400
Speaker 1: She she's from the streets. She gonna kick our ass.

1251
01:01:17,440 --> 01:01:18,200
Speaker 1: We come down here.

1252
01:01:18,560 --> 01:01:21,560
Speaker 4: Did anybody did anybody take you up on any k?

1253
01:01:21,680 --> 01:01:24,400
Speaker 1: Come on? Now? I think the first one I have

1254
01:01:24,480 --> 01:01:25,760
Speaker 1: to be the girl came off to the gym.

1255
01:01:25,880 --> 01:01:28,240
Speaker 2: Now you gotta that one hundred K. Was like, if

1256
01:01:28,240 --> 01:01:30,560
Speaker 2: they can beat you, if they can beat me, you god,

1257
01:01:31,480 --> 01:01:35,680
Speaker 2: oh my god, it ain't just show up. Yeah, because

1258
01:01:35,680 --> 01:01:38,560
Speaker 2: if that's the case, everybody, I was like, right now,

1259
01:01:38,920 --> 01:01:44,280
Speaker 2: I'll let you fire on me, right I was after

1260
01:01:44,560 --> 01:01:46,800
Speaker 2: that Timmy Hers episode. But I'll let you fire on

1261
01:01:46,880 --> 01:01:50,960
Speaker 2: me right now. For as you just said, as we

1262
01:01:51,000 --> 01:01:54,400
Speaker 2: wrap up here. So, uh, I ask every guest that

1263
01:01:54,440 --> 01:01:57,880
Speaker 2: appears on politics here, uh what I call the messy question.

1264
01:01:58,480 --> 01:02:00,880
Speaker 2: Now you mentioned you you don't dunckt the smoke, and

1265
01:02:00,880 --> 01:02:03,480
Speaker 2: anybody who follows you on social media says that you don't.

1266
01:02:03,320 --> 01:02:03,920
Speaker 1: Dust the smoke.

1267
01:02:04,440 --> 01:02:05,479
Speaker 4: You get paid to fight.

1268
01:02:07,120 --> 01:02:11,680
Speaker 2: So given the recent events, I am wondering, what would

1269
01:02:11,720 --> 01:02:14,680
Speaker 2: it take? How much money would it take for you

1270
01:02:14,760 --> 01:02:16,160
Speaker 2: to jump in the ring with bring me my.

1271
01:02:19,720 --> 01:02:22,360
Speaker 1: Just what it out? I mean, at this point the

1272
01:02:22,360 --> 01:02:25,439
Speaker 1: girl leaked my number, she leads your number, Oh my god,

1273
01:02:25,600 --> 01:02:28,320
Speaker 1: what your actual telephone number? Yeah? Oh my god.

1274
01:02:28,640 --> 01:02:30,760
Speaker 7: So at this point you can give me a dollar

1275
01:02:30,800 --> 01:02:33,400
Speaker 7: and I'll put my hands a dollar.

1276
01:02:34,120 --> 01:02:37,320
Speaker 1: That's it. Don't have nothing to do with whatever else.

1277
01:02:37,560 --> 01:02:42,960
Speaker 7: It's just that part alone, that that part of that

1278
01:02:43,080 --> 01:02:45,760
Speaker 7: part theories where it's like, I'm a businesswoman, don't leak

1279
01:02:45,840 --> 01:02:46,280
Speaker 7: my number?

1280
01:02:46,840 --> 01:02:47,560
Speaker 1: Why would you do that?

1281
01:02:48,400 --> 01:02:51,320
Speaker 7: You know you should have came to me like Shirley,

1282
01:02:52,040 --> 01:02:52,840
Speaker 7: Hello Barber.

1283
01:02:53,080 --> 01:02:56,640
Speaker 4: Charlotte, and you're too young to know about.

1284
01:02:58,160 --> 01:02:59,920
Speaker 1: I guess I got an own soul or whatever. But

1285
01:03:00,160 --> 01:03:04,040
Speaker 1: it's about hello Barber. This is surely for real. But

1286
01:03:04,120 --> 01:03:07,280
Speaker 1: it's more of the more thing like but she's not

1287
01:03:07,400 --> 01:03:09,320
Speaker 1: no boxer. You know what I'm saying. If you know

1288
01:03:09,880 --> 01:03:11,600
Speaker 1: she hain't no boxer, So I don't want to have

1289
01:03:11,640 --> 01:03:13,280
Speaker 1: to put my hands on it do you?

1290
01:03:14,560 --> 01:03:17,480
Speaker 2: I have to say, like I I was so surprised

1291
01:03:17,520 --> 01:03:18,520
Speaker 2: when I saw you trending.

1292
01:03:18,560 --> 01:03:19,880
Speaker 1: I'm thinking, like, did she be somebody else?

1293
01:03:20,000 --> 01:03:25,160
Speaker 2: Like I was like, oh my, were you surprised at

1294
01:03:25,320 --> 01:03:28,040
Speaker 2: everything that happened? Like all of a sudden, you're trending

1295
01:03:28,240 --> 01:03:31,200
Speaker 2: people trying to put your personal life out there. You know,

1296
01:03:31,280 --> 01:03:33,640
Speaker 2: how did you basically handle it? I mean I saw

1297
01:03:33,680 --> 01:03:36,560
Speaker 2: some of the comments that you made on social media,

1298
01:03:36,640 --> 01:03:38,880
Speaker 2: but like I mean, for you, that had to be

1299
01:03:38,920 --> 01:03:41,080
Speaker 2: a bit surprising because you're out there in the public.

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Speaker 1: But you know, this is a much different way. Well

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Speaker 1: one I have decided that moving forward that I would

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Speaker 1: like my dat in life to be private.

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Speaker 7: You know what I'm saying. And there's plenty of reasons

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Speaker 7: why I don't really care about outside perception of of myself.

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Speaker 1: I just I don't know.

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Speaker 7: I say, I wasn't surprised when I when I seen it,

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Speaker 7: I said, oh my god. But it's one of those

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Speaker 7: things where it's like, don't people have to spend there?

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Speaker 7: It is and it's like we all know that this

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Speaker 7: woman had a boyfriend. We all know that, and this

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Speaker 7: situation is so weird because it's like we falls on

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Speaker 7: the phone all the time, so just like to see this.

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Speaker 7: It's just like okay, but I don't know, I don't know.

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Speaker 7: I thought it was I thought it was weird and

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Speaker 7: it's strange, but black. I mean, drama sells, that's it. Drama,

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Speaker 7: drama sales, and it's not.

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Speaker 1: I wasn't. I'm not in that beef.

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Speaker 7: You know, only my my smoke with her is is

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Speaker 7: posting my number. It don't got nothing to do with

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Speaker 7: I don't got nothing to do with him. It was

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Speaker 7: her posting my number. So people like, oh, she wants

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Speaker 7: to fight, fight her over a dude, whatever, stop it,

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Speaker 7: stop it. That is so beneath me. It is the

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Speaker 7: direspect of the leak in my number part and that's it.

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Speaker 7: Other than that, I don't got nothing else to do with.

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Speaker 7: None of the other stuff.

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Speaker 2: Well, the timing of it, I mean a lot of

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Speaker 2: people are going to see your movie anyway, the.

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Speaker 7: Fires Christmas Day, the Fire Inside comes out in theaters.

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Speaker 2: Now there's some other there might be another curious contingent

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Speaker 2: that comes to see to try to figure out, like, oh,

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Speaker 2: I wonder what.

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Speaker 1: Her backstory is.

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Speaker 2: But for all those who are watching it, watching it,

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Speaker 2: listening like the movie really is good. I'm not just

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Speaker 2: blowing smoke up in your ass like it's a good movie.

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Speaker 1: It is a great movie.

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Speaker 2: One more segment to go, and you guys know what

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Speaker 2: that means. I got questions to answer up next, your

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Speaker 2: viewer slash listener questions, and I have plenty of answers

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Speaker 2: coming up next on the final segment of Spotatives. And

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Speaker 2: before I close out this episode of Politics, time for

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Speaker 2: this week's audience question, which comes from Frank Simmons out

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Speaker 2: of Cypress, Texas. Frank asked, have you followed this gymnastics

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Speaker 2: and if so, what's your opinion of the team. Now,

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Speaker 2: for those who may not be familiar, in twenty twenty three,

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Speaker 2: Fisk University became the first historically black college and university

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Speaker 2: to establish a gymnastics team. But to answer the question, yes,

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Speaker 2: I have followed this team because I heard about Morgan Price,

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Speaker 2: who earlier this year became the first athlete from an

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Speaker 2: HBCU team to win a national championship. Now coming out

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Speaker 2: of high school, Morgan was a five star level recruit

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Speaker 2: who initially committed to Arkansas, but then she did committed

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Speaker 2: to go to FIST because, according to her coach, Kauran

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Speaker 2: Tarvor Korean asked her flat out, do you want to

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Speaker 2: make history? And that's exactly what Morgan Price did. So

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Speaker 2: shout out to Fisk University for what they've accomplished. Also,

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Speaker 2: their season starts in January, so make sure you support

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Speaker 2: them and check them out. Morgan Price is special and

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Speaker 2: could be the next great one.

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Speaker 1: Thank you for your question.

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Speaker 2: Now, if any of you listening would like to ask

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