Speaker 1: Hello Sunshine, Hey fam Today on the bright Side, we're
Speaker 1: popping off on the biggest pop culture stories of the
Speaker 1: week with the host of ESPN's NBA Today, Melika Andrews.
Speaker 1: It's Friday, July nineteenth.
Speaker 2: I'm Simone Boyce, I'm Danielle Robe and this is the
Speaker 2: bright Side from Hello Sunshine, a daily show where we
Speaker 2: come together to share women's stories, to laugh, learn and
Speaker 2: brighten your day.
Speaker 1: Danielle.
Speaker 3: Happy Friday, tgif Simone.
Speaker 1: So ready for the weekend, Danielle. But first we are
Speaker 1: popping off about Emmy nominations, pep talks from Rihanna, and
Speaker 1: whether we'd swipe right on the new Olympics logo.
Speaker 3: That's true. But before we go there, we want to
Speaker 3: spotlight our favorite moment of the week, brought to you
Speaker 3: by our friends at BMW. Yes.
Speaker 1: This week, we're celebrating a woman who is making history,
Speaker 1: the incredible formidable Sophia Vergara. So Emmy nominations were announced
Speaker 1: on Wednesday, and Sophia scored a Lead Actress nomination for
Speaker 1: her role in Griselda, which follows the life of cartel
Speaker 1: boss Griselda Blanco. Now here's the thing. This nomination makes
Speaker 1: Sophia the first Latina woman born in another country to
Speaker 1: be nominated for lead actress in a limited series.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and it's also the first time she spoke Spanish
Speaker 3: significantly in an acting role. So she took to social
Speaker 3: media to acknowledge the accomplishment, writing, Wow, Griselda was my
Speaker 3: first dramatic role ever and it took us fifteen years
Speaker 3: to bring her to life. I'm incredibly grateful to everyone
Speaker 3: who was a part of this series.
Speaker 1: Sophia has been nominated four times in the past for
Speaker 1: her role as Gloria in Modern Family, but she's proving
Speaker 1: that she has some serious dramatic chops as well. I
Speaker 1: love seeing her breath and her range as a performer.
Speaker 1: If you haven't seen Griselda, you can binge it now
Speaker 1: on Netflix. It's dark, but it's so good. Additionally, we
Speaker 1: also want to shout out Lily Gladstone and Callie Reese
Speaker 1: for making history as the first Indigenous woman to be
Speaker 1: nominated for acting in their roles in Under the Bridge
Speaker 1: and True Detective Night Country.
Speaker 3: Congrats to these incredible women. It's a huge accomplishment and
Speaker 3: we'll be rooting for you.
Speaker 1: All right, y'all, it's time to pop off. Oh, and
Speaker 1: today we are doing it with the host of ESPN's
Speaker 1: NBA Today and NBA Countdown, Melika Andrews. I'm glad I
Speaker 1: can do the ok that's the best way to start today.
Speaker 1: That was pretty good. It was really good. Okay, we
Speaker 1: need to just gas up our guests a little bit.
Speaker 1: God So. Not only was she the network's youngest sideline
Speaker 1: reporter during the NBA's twenty twenty season, but in twenty
Speaker 1: twenty two, she became the first woman to host the
Speaker 1: NBA Draft. I mean, badass, fory all around, Milika, welcome
Speaker 1: to the bright side. I also happy to be here.
Speaker 4: Blake Lively recently was talking about how she was described
Speaker 4: as a crown straightener.
Speaker 1: Did you guys see this? I just I loved that.
Speaker 4: And when I was coming here this morning, I said,
Speaker 4: you know what, I get to be with Danielle and Simone,
Speaker 4: two crowned straighteners to start my day.
Speaker 1: There is no better way to kick off a morning.
Speaker 1: That's so sweet. I am so excited to be this.
Speaker 1: What does it mean? So?
Speaker 4: I mean instead of you know, you want to let
Speaker 4: a lady know, not that her crown maybe has shifted
Speaker 4: off to the side, but almost just straightened without even
Speaker 4: making somebody feel some type of way about it. And
Speaker 4: so you all just walk through the world, sharing women's stories,
Speaker 4: straightening crowns, and leaving the world a little bit brighter.
Speaker 4: And I just think that you guys are awesome. So
Speaker 4: I am so excited to be here with you too.
Speaker 1: You're already our favorite guests already. I'm not competitive at all.
Speaker 3: So look, yes, that's super kind. Thank you.
Speaker 4: Well, No, I'm so happy to be here and I
Speaker 4: feel so honored to have been invited to share your space.
Speaker 3: Well, I want to guess you up a little bit more.
Speaker 3: You're only twenty nine, and you've already made history in
Speaker 3: the sports world. You were named Forbes thirty Under thirty
Speaker 3: just a few years ago. I can't believe you're twenty nine.
Speaker 3: You carry yourself like.
Speaker 1: Just like I'm old.
Speaker 3: No, like just like.
Speaker 1: A woman, you know what I mean. Thank you appreciate that.
Speaker 4: My friends would tease me it's because I'm old the
Speaker 4: same thing, exactly right.
Speaker 1: I am a chill at home type of person.
Speaker 4: But no, I just I feel like I stand on
Speaker 4: the shoulders of so many amazing women who have paved
Speaker 4: the way in the sports industry, and we.
Speaker 1: Have get to jobs, not half two jobs.
Speaker 4: And I just I try to keep that in mind
Speaker 4: because this is supposed to be fun, and it doesn't
Speaker 4: mean not every day that's it's work, because it is.
Speaker 4: And there are some days that you don't feel like going,
Speaker 4: and there's some days that you would rather stay in bed,
Speaker 4: and there's some days where you spill your coffee all
Speaker 4: down your white jacket that I maybe did this morning.
Speaker 4: But I just try to keep that in mind and
Speaker 4: keep that perspective and not think of, oh, now I'm
Speaker 4: sitting in this chair hosting the NBA Draft and making history,
Speaker 4: because then I think I would start to get really nervous,
Speaker 4: which I do already, but more think of it in
Speaker 4: terms of, Okay, how can I leave my mark in
Speaker 4: order to make our world a little bit better and
Speaker 4: a little bit easier for the women that are coming
Speaker 4: up behind all of us. And I think that if
Speaker 4: we can and all do that, then we move the
Speaker 4: collective benchmarks forward for everybody.
Speaker 3: So I love watching you talk about basketball. I know
Speaker 3: you talk about a lot of things, but I love
Speaker 3: watching you talk about basketball, and I'm a basketball fan.
Speaker 3: You're a basketball journalist, like you are a sports journalist,
Speaker 3: so I'm curious as to when you really fell in
Speaker 3: love with basketball. Was there a moment or a player.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a great question to know. It was really
Speaker 1: growing up.
Speaker 4: It was my dad because when I was a kid, right,
Speaker 4: this was when you only had one screen in the house,
Speaker 4: there was a television and there wasn't everyone could watch
Speaker 4: their own individual shows. And he would let me stay
Speaker 4: up late if it was watching basketball with him, right,
Speaker 4: And so I kind of figured out, like, all right,
Speaker 4: like maybe if I want to stay up late and
Speaker 4: I want to enjoy a little bit of quality time
Speaker 4: with my dad, then that's something that we would do together.
Speaker 4: And so we watched the Golden State Warriors and they
Speaker 4: were terrible, like this is back when they were Gosh,
Speaker 4: they were so awful, and I hated them lose because
Speaker 4: I perceived it as my dad being upset every time
Speaker 4: that they lost. But for me, that's really when I
Speaker 4: fell in love with basketball. My dad's a personal trainer.
Speaker 4: I played every sport I could growing up. It was
Speaker 4: something that was just a lot of fun for me,
Speaker 4: and the NBA sort of became what we did together
Speaker 4: as a family, watching games, going to games when we
Speaker 4: could afford to go to games as a family, and
Speaker 4: so fast forward, it still sort of feels like this
Speaker 4: familial touchstone for us. Whenever, like the conversation lulls around
Speaker 4: the dinner table, we all turned to all right, but
Speaker 4: did you see was Zion Williamson did the other night?
Speaker 4: And then like the conversation kind of comes back into
Speaker 4: this bag.
Speaker 3: So that every family has their exactly that's our thing.
Speaker 3: That's funny. I've never really thought about that. That's our thing,
Speaker 3: the thing that gets the conversation buzzing.
Speaker 4: And so whenever you're like, oh, you know, I need
Speaker 4: to I haven't called my dad in a few days.
Speaker 1: I need to call my dad.
Speaker 4: But maybe life stressful or all these other things are happening,
Speaker 4: and you know, he's so perceptive. He's going to know
Speaker 4: when something's going on with me that I maybe don't
Speaker 4: even want to talk about. I'm like, we always have basketball.
Speaker 4: That's always something that whenever we need to get pull
Speaker 4: it back and light like then we can kind of
Speaker 4: go back to basketball.
Speaker 1: So that's where that love kind of came from for me.
Speaker 1: Your dad must be so proud of not just you,
Speaker 1: but also your younger sister Kendra. I mean, she covers
Speaker 1: the Golden State Warriors for ESPN. Yeah.
Speaker 4: No, there's a moment the other day and she actually
Speaker 4: texted it to me where I was doing NBA today
Speaker 4: And Kendra's in Las Vegas this week doing the NBA
Speaker 4: Summer League sidelines, And can I say she's just so
Speaker 4: good on the sidelines. It's so infuriating. Like the first
Speaker 4: time she did, I thought I was going to give
Speaker 4: her all this advice and like, you know, this and
Speaker 4: the other, and then she gets up there the first time,
Speaker 4: and she's a natural at it. She's so very good
Speaker 4: at She's a great writer, she's a very good reporter,
Speaker 4: but she's very very good on the sideline. So everybody
Speaker 4: knows I'm two and a half years older. Everybody with
Speaker 4: the sibling knows. These little they are always in your stuff.
Speaker 4: They are always in your stuff. We're on DV one day,
Speaker 4: Kendra's joining NBA today and wrapping up her very professionally
Speaker 4: delivered report and at the end, I kind of look
Speaker 4: over to the side. She's like, you know, gesticulating using
Speaker 4: her hands, and I look over and I'm.
Speaker 1: Like, Kendra, thank you so very much. But is that
Speaker 1: her watch?
Speaker 4: And because of the tape delay, it looks like for
Speaker 4: a second she's like bobbing her head saying yes it is,
Speaker 4: and then she goes, no, no, it's not your watch.
Speaker 4: To set the record straight, it's my watch. However, it
Speaker 4: is now her watch. She this is she has she
Speaker 4: has worn it for so many years at this point,
Speaker 4: this is now.
Speaker 1: This clip was like two years ago that.
Speaker 4: Now it's her common law watch. It's her common law watch.
Speaker 4: She has a common law relation with the watch.
Speaker 1: It is now her watch.
Speaker 3: We have to take a quick break stick with us.
Speaker 3: We're back to popping off with Malika Andrews. It's it's
Speaker 3: the end of the week, so we want a kiki
Speaker 3: about the biggest moments in pop culture. Malika. First things first,
Speaker 3: it's WNBA All Star weekend.
Speaker 4: Well, everyone is going to Phoenix right now, and it's
Speaker 4: funny that we're talking about cultural moments. I was having
Speaker 4: a conversation with a colleague this morning because a year
Speaker 4: ago there was this conversation around WNBA All Star about
Speaker 4: should it be moved to Las Vegas to coincide with
Speaker 4: the Men's Summer League, because that's how fans right are
Speaker 4: going to be attracted to this event, like, why not
Speaker 4: kind of exactly, why not sort of ride that sort
Speaker 4: of the coattails there and see and now fast forward
Speaker 4: one year, one year, and this is the place to be, Like,
Speaker 4: I have so much fomo right now.
Speaker 1: I'm enjoying sitting here with you all.
Speaker 4: I'm so much pomo that I am not now immediately
Speaker 4: headed to the airport to get on an airplane to
Speaker 4: go to Phoenix, because this is sort of the place
Speaker 4: to be. And I think, of course, part of that
Speaker 4: is this this sensational rookie class. We saw Caitlyn Clark
Speaker 4: have nineteen assists, set a single game record as a
Speaker 4: rookie with nineteen assists in a game. This week we
Speaker 4: have Angel Reese who is making history of her own
Speaker 4: with double doubles all over the place, just a machine
Speaker 4: on the floor. Getting to see them as teammates for
Speaker 4: the first time because they are playing against the US
Speaker 4: Women's Olympic team. That's sort of the setup of this
Speaker 4: All Star game. And Angel Rees kind of told me, Yeah,
Speaker 4: I'm gonna go to Paris and I'm gonna watch, but
Speaker 4: you know, book it in twenty twenty eight, I'm gonna
Speaker 4: be there and her and Caitlyn together because we've been
Speaker 4: saying over and over again, this.
Speaker 1: Is competition, it's not cattiness.
Speaker 4: And I think people get confused when women start to
Speaker 4: get competitive in sports about what that line is.
Speaker 1: Don't be confused. This is the best in the world
Speaker 1: doing what they do.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, at All Star Weekend in Phoenix, it's the
Speaker 4: place to be, and not being there we're missing out.
Speaker 1: Well, It's funny how when men do it, it's competition,
Speaker 1: when women do it, it's cattiness. Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 3: There's a woman I think that really exemplifies what you
Speaker 3: just said, Maliko, which is Serena Williams. Competition right, like
Speaker 3: she talked, I'm gonna swear she talks shit all the time,
Speaker 3: and she does it in an amazing way. I saw
Speaker 3: her do it at the Spies and I'm wondering if you.
Speaker 1: Thought it landed. I'm going to speak for myself.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and I'm going to say yes, okay, because I
Speaker 4: was sitting there, you know, I went to the SP's
Speaker 4: with Kendra thinking to myself, my goodness, you were saying
Speaker 4: so many things that so many women wish that they
Speaker 4: could say out loud, that certainly we all think yep,
Speaker 4: and that all of us are like trying not to
Speaker 4: stand up and like start hitting the table and be
Speaker 4: like oh yes, like thank you for giving this voice
Speaker 4: to women who maybe can't make that joke. And that's
Speaker 4: what the humor is for, right, They're the best kind
Speaker 4: of humor.
Speaker 1: It lives in a truth.
Speaker 4: And I think that it's really refreshing to see Serena
Speaker 4: kind of step into that, because I do think you're right,
Speaker 4: she does kind of have that smack talk on the core.
Speaker 4: But I also think that she has been very conscious
Speaker 4: for many years. And I've only had the pleasure of
Speaker 4: meeting her once, but from my outside perspective and I
Speaker 4: don't want to put anything on her, it seems like
Speaker 4: she's been very conscious for years of where that space
Speaker 4: is keeping it to being on the court, and now
Speaker 4: we're getting to see her step into her comfort in
Speaker 4: all of these other places as a strong black woman
Speaker 4: that's been beat down in so many.
Speaker 1: Ways by society.
Speaker 4: So for her to look around and say, you know what,
Speaker 4: I'm kind of done with this and I'm going to
Speaker 4: stand up for myself is something that I say, you
Speaker 4: know what, yeah with me, with me, that lance with me,
Speaker 4: that lance, well.
Speaker 1: She was specifically calling out Harrison Butker for his comments
Speaker 1: about women choosing careers versus families homemaking. Homemaking. Yes, and
Speaker 1: he very specifically pointed to his wife who chose to
Speaker 1: go the homemaking child rearing route, which we celebrate that
Speaker 1: for the women who choose that. But it's just so
Speaker 1: interesting to think about the contrast between the kind of
Speaker 1: woman that Harrison Bucker was describing in his speech and
Speaker 1: who Serena Williams is. And I'm just so thankful that
Speaker 1: she didn't succumb to this pressure to choose one or
Speaker 1: the other. Like, she is still one of the greatest
Speaker 1: of all time, and like, can you imagine if she
Speaker 1: if she had listened to someone like Harrison Butker and
Speaker 1: suppressed all this talent, I mean, we would be there
Speaker 1: would be a huge void in the world if she
Speaker 1: hadn't done that.
Speaker 4: Right, suppressed all of that talent, but also not to
Speaker 4: the point of suppressing her own ambitions as a mother.
Speaker 4: As a mother, Like I think holding that duality is
Speaker 4: something that is so important and it's not the path
Speaker 4: for everybody. Yes, that's sort of I think that the
Speaker 4: point that Serena was making. Yes, by the way, I
Speaker 4: love the joke that she made, like Lebron, you want
Speaker 4: to play with your son brawny, which is great and
Speaker 4: it's so much fun to see that excellence on the floor.
Speaker 1: But then her saying, well, I did it with my
Speaker 1: daughter in my belly.
Speaker 4: And it was sort of like just reminding us of
Speaker 4: sort of the greatness of women and the multitudes that
Speaker 4: a single person can contain, because I think that right
Speaker 4: now we're sort of in this place where we're being
Speaker 4: asked not to be able to hold multiple truths exactly.
Speaker 3: That's super well said. I think she's one of the
Speaker 3: only people that could have made the joke, and so
Speaker 3: I'm really glad she did. She like used her power
Speaker 3: for good.
Speaker 1: I loved it.
Speaker 3: Okay, Malika Simone, let's talk TV's biggest moments. Emmy nominations
Speaker 3: were announced this week, and a show that seems to
Speaker 3: be a crowd favorite, The Bear, was nominated for twenty
Speaker 3: three awards.
Speaker 1: That's my lucky number. I hope it's their lucky number. Two.
Speaker 3: There you go, and that's a record for a comedy series. Okay,
Speaker 3: it is such a good Chicago show, Milika. I'm a Chicagoan,
Speaker 3: so I have like a specsher.
Speaker 1: For a year Deep Dish pizza. How do you both
Speaker 1: feel about it? Is it pizza? It's not my favorite
Speaker 1: a castle it's a castroll and we all know how
Speaker 1: I feel about castroles.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Simone has hot takes on pizza. So it is
Speaker 3: a Chicago show. I want to love it. I have
Speaker 3: to be honest. It is frenetic and it is hard.
Speaker 3: I get anxious watching. It's anxiety, are you guys big fans?
Speaker 1: So? Can I offer might be maybe it might be
Speaker 1: a hot take?
Speaker 3: Please?
Speaker 1: Is it comedy? No, it's definitely not. It's it's very
Speaker 1: much Do you really feel it's very much drama with
Speaker 1: some levity in it? Yeah. I have to be in
Speaker 1: the right mood to watch the show. It's not that
Speaker 1: I don't love the performances and the direction, their grasp
Speaker 1: of like the culinary language, and it's so immersive. It's
Speaker 1: so immersive.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's also fun to watch the two of them,
Speaker 3: like Jeremy Allen White and Iowa Debris are just I
Speaker 3: have this chemistry and this mastic.
Speaker 1: She is funny. She's very very funny. There you go.
Speaker 4: I agree with you. Yeah, Simone, I I do. I
Speaker 4: do get a little stressed out. Yes, at times, watch
Speaker 4: I have to. It's not the last show I can
Speaker 4: watch before bed. If I am going to watch that,
Speaker 4: I need to watch that an episode of also nominated
Speaker 4: ABBT Elementary afterwards to kind of cleanse the palette. And
Speaker 4: I do think you were you know, you mentioned this
Speaker 4: sort of record number of nominees that they I wonder
Speaker 4: if they are going to, for lack of a better pun,
Speaker 4: sort of maul the competition because of all of the
Speaker 4: attention that is on. I don't know why I keep
Speaker 4: doing the Bear. Yeah, I'm making my hands as a bear.
Speaker 1: Well, that's the thing. This cast is so beloved. People
Speaker 1: are rooting for them both on and off screen, and
Speaker 1: they've just become such a cultural moment, like just rooting
Speaker 1: for them, following them. So I'm definitely here to support
Speaker 1: the Bear, support the cast. I just have to be
Speaker 1: in the right head space to watch. It's a little
Speaker 1: stressful sometimes.
Speaker 3: I'm glad that you guys agree with confident. I want
Speaker 3: to love the show, but it stresses me out.
Speaker 1: Anybody who's worked in restaurants too, It just like immediately
Speaker 1: takes you back to some of the toxicity that you
Speaker 1: deal with job I've ever had.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: All right, now, we also have to shout out the
Speaker 1: home team because The Morning Show was showered with nominations
Speaker 1: to sixteen in total Outstanding Drama Series. Jennifer Aniston and
Speaker 1: Reese Witherspoon were nominated for Outstanding Lead Actress in a
Speaker 1: Drama Huge congratulations to both of them, including our boss Reese,
Speaker 1: and also the men on the show got some love too,
Speaker 1: so well deserved. Billy crude Up, John Hamm, Mark duplace
Speaker 1: All nominated for Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series
Speaker 1: the show. Yeah, she's incredible as well. Billy crude Up.
Speaker 1: I love that man so much. He is such a
Speaker 1: dynamic actor on screen, Like I just can't take my
Speaker 1: eyes off of him whenever he's on screen.
Speaker 4: And as someone who works in TV, can I just
Speaker 4: say their attention to detail on that show.
Speaker 3: We always talk about this, right like.
Speaker 4: Oh, wait, you like that's not something you think about
Speaker 4: until you see. Oh, they take the ear piece out
Speaker 4: to talk to the person who's acrossing and they put
Speaker 4: the earpiece back in. Just the tiniest little details that
Speaker 4: really make it come to life in a very realistic way. Yeah,
Speaker 4: so so good, And I loved the Actors on Actors
Speaker 4: with Jennifer Anison and Kinta.
Speaker 1: I just thought that that was Quinta. I thought that
Speaker 1: that was great. It was so good.
Speaker 3: I always think, too, when you see great acting, it
Speaker 3: means that it starts with great writing, and so it's
Speaker 3: just a very talented cast and crew. So there's this
Speaker 3: quote that I share on the show sometimes that Michelle
Speaker 3: Weiner told me that life is just a series of
Speaker 3: pep talks, and Malika, you came in here and you
Speaker 3: kind of gave us a different way of saying that,
Speaker 3: like a crown straightener, which I loved. So there was
Speaker 3: a moment this week that I think backs up both
Speaker 3: of those notions. You guys may have seen this video
Speaker 3: that went viral earlier this year, but Natalie Portman and
Speaker 3: Rihanna or Rihanna, I always want to say Rihanna, but
Speaker 3: it is Rihanna met at the Door Fashion show in
Speaker 3: Paris and they had a moment. So Rihanna went up
Speaker 3: to Natalie and she said that she is the baddest
Speaker 3: bitch in town, and they both just like gushed over
Speaker 3: each other and it went viral because it was so adorable.
Speaker 3: It was so great to see like two grown women
Speaker 3: just loving.
Speaker 1: On each other.
Speaker 3: Well, fast forward a few months, Natalie Portman made an
Speaker 3: appearance on Jimmy Fallon This Week and she said that
Speaker 3: that moment with Rihanna was a quote formative moment in
Speaker 3: my life. She said it just happened a few weeks
Speaker 3: before her divorce was finalized, and that every woman going
Speaker 3: through a divorce should have Rihanna say to her that
Speaker 3: she's a bad bitch. This really warmed my heart. Yeah,
Speaker 3: it's really not like you don't know what somebody's going through.
Speaker 3: And so sometimes that sweet moment, that little pump up,
Speaker 3: it really gives you something.
Speaker 4: That's why, you know, whenever I walk past to a
Speaker 4: woman who I like their outfit, it's small, it's not
Speaker 4: Ranna saying it to you, because you wouldn't be Andrew, stop.
Speaker 1: Don't do that. Don't do that. We're not doing that.
Speaker 4: But I tried, you know what I mean, Like, I
Speaker 4: try to say it because you're making someone day. I
Speaker 4: when a stranger comes up to me, I don't dress
Speaker 4: for other men, I just for women. And so when
Speaker 4: someone comes up to me and says, you know what
Speaker 4: your hair looks great today? I love your outfit and
Speaker 4: you know if they caught the show or other things
Speaker 4: like say say it, say it to someone, sprinkle a
Speaker 4: little bit more kindness in the world, and that clip,
Speaker 4: I mean, I just I love it because I'm sure
Speaker 4: you can think back to a time that maybe you
Speaker 4: were feeling a little bit down though someone said something
Speaker 4: to you right, and you just felt your crown was
Speaker 4: straightened because of it.
Speaker 3: Malika gen Z, girls make me feel better than anybody else.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, I'm going to tell you a quick
Speaker 1: small story.
Speaker 3: I was on a date one time and the woman
Speaker 3: that was the hostess at the restaurant says, you are
Speaker 3: so beautiful. And the guy I was with it was
Speaker 3: like a first date, and he looked at me and
Speaker 3: he was like, oh my.
Speaker 1: God, that's so nice.
Speaker 3: Like she just like gave me so much in that moment.
Speaker 3: And so I started doing that to people, yeahcause I'm like,
Speaker 3: it's not just a compliment for you, Like it makes you.
Speaker 4: Look so good and it also makes you feel good,
Speaker 4: Like you feel better when you just say it and
Speaker 4: walk past someone and you're like, you know what, keep
Speaker 4: doing usis like that just makes you feel better.
Speaker 3: Is there a coach or somebody that you'd want a
Speaker 3: little pump up from.
Speaker 4: Becky Hammond, no question, the head coach of the Las
Speaker 4: Vegas Aces, or Don Staley. I mean yeah, either or both,
Speaker 4: one in the right ear, one in the left. Like
Speaker 4: those two women. I just think every time that Don speaks,
Speaker 4: I feel like she's talking to me right, Like she
Speaker 4: has that sort of like superpower that it feels like
Speaker 4: she's talking to every individual woman, because.
Speaker 1: It's like, yeah, okay, now I feel a little bit better.
Speaker 1: Now I'm going to walk through my day with my
Speaker 1: shoulders a little bit farther back.
Speaker 3: Someone, how about you? Who do you want to speech from?
Speaker 1: Oprah? Oh that's a good world, Oprah? Or Tracy Ellis Ross.
Speaker 3: Oo great.
Speaker 4: I saw Tracy Eellis Ross on a plane one day
Speaker 4: speaking of drive by compliments that make you feel great,
Speaker 4: and she said, oh, I love your curls.
Speaker 1: And I was like, oh, from Tracy, that's I mean
Speaker 1: from the Pattern beauty founder Tracy Ellis Rot. And you
Speaker 1: know what, she was so kind.
Speaker 4: I mean again, this was didn't didn't introduce it, just
Speaker 4: like a tiny little because I didn't want to bother her.
Speaker 4: She didn't want, but it was a two second thing.
Speaker 4: She meets one hundred bazillion people in a day. But
Speaker 4: then the flight attendant was this.
Speaker 1: I loved this.
Speaker 4: He was this man with like this beautiful curly hair,
Speaker 4: and he went up to her and was like, I
Speaker 4: don't want to bother you, but can I ask you
Speaker 4: about my curl pumping? And she just had all the
Speaker 4: time in the world just so yep. I was I
Speaker 4: would do this to try this from this line, and
Speaker 4: I was, you know what, that's that's the kindness we
Speaker 4: want to see in the world.
Speaker 1: That was the curl optimism that we want to see
Speaker 1: in the world.
Speaker 3: Because you're a sports curly, I'm going to give you mine.
Speaker 1: It's Jimmy V. That's a good one. So laugh every day,
Speaker 1: cry every day. That's living life to the fullest.
Speaker 3: Oh see, I knew you know that speech. If anybody
Speaker 3: doesn't know it, I please go look it up on YouTube.
Speaker 3: It's from nineteen ninety three and he gave it right
Speaker 3: before he passed away, And I dare you not to
Speaker 3: cry and laugh in that speech, like watch, it's just beautiful.
Speaker 1: All right, We've got to take a quick break, but
Speaker 1: we'll be right back. Don't go anywhere. We're back and
Speaker 1: still popping off with Malika Andrews. Okay, next up, we
Speaker 1: are hyped that the Olympics are just a week away.
Speaker 1: And here's the thing, y'all. This year's custom emblem is
Speaker 1: catching fire online. Okay, do you remember the trend the
Speaker 1: gold dress or blue dress divided the internet. I always
Speaker 1: saw it as blue. I think I was a gold
Speaker 1: dress card. Okay, okay, Well, this year's emblem is just
Speaker 1: as polarizing. So here's the deal with the emblem. The
Speaker 1: background is a gold circle to symbolize a gold medal,
Speaker 1: and then there's this white flame in the middle, which
Speaker 1: is symbolizing the Olympic Flame. And I think we are
Speaker 1: going to need to pull up a picture here so
Speaker 1: that you can see it, because it kind of ends
Speaker 1: up looking like a face with a gold blonde layered haircut,
Speaker 1: or some people think it looks like the Tender Flame.
Speaker 1: Have you seen the logo? You know what I'm talking about.
Speaker 1: It it's not you look at it and you don't
Speaker 1: say what is that? You say, who is that? Exactly?
Speaker 1: And you know who it is?
Speaker 4: Look up the emblem and then look up missus incredible.
Speaker 1: Yes, right, yes, it totally looks like exactly.
Speaker 4: That is Missus Incredible, which is who's Missus Incredible from
Speaker 4: The Incredibles?
Speaker 1: And that that is.
Speaker 3: That's her face, her cartoon.
Speaker 4: Face and not her super suit exactly. I love that
Speaker 4: or belongs on a lipstick advert.
Speaker 1: I mean obviously the lips had to have been intentional, right, Like,
Speaker 1: you're not just going to put those lips there without Yeah,
Speaker 1: of course you're going to make people think it's a face,
Speaker 1: So that actually is intentional. Okay. It symbolizes Mary Anne,
Speaker 1: which is the personification of the French Republic. God it.
Speaker 1: I love the female empowerment. People love this emblem.
Speaker 3: I like, this is incredible.
Speaker 1: Better it can be both. We can hold multiple things.
Speaker 3: We we well, we also want to honor some people
Speaker 3: that we lost in this last week. So Shannon Doherty,
Speaker 3: Richard Simmons, and the groundbreaking sex researcher doctor Ruth Westeimer.
Speaker 3: All three of them modeled resilience and honestly positivity in
Speaker 3: their own ways. Richard Simmons promoted fitness and body positivity.
Speaker 3: He died on July twelfth, just one day after his
Speaker 3: seventy sixth birthday. You know, I read a piece in
Speaker 3: the Atlantic by Gall Beckerman that pointed out how he
Speaker 3: was practicing a form of body positivity way before his time,
Speaker 3: and if you go back and watch old Sweaton to
Speaker 3: the Oldies videos, you'll see people of every shape and
Speaker 3: size doing the moves along with him. He wanted fitness
Speaker 3: and exercise to also belong to people who didn't look
Speaker 3: like athletes or movie stars. And I also saw a
Speaker 3: tribute that Jane Fonda wrote about him saying he always
Speaker 3: wanted to bring joy to people and went out of
Speaker 3: his way. Do you guys remember Richard Simmons? Was he
Speaker 3: like a figure in your life and.
Speaker 1: Dark to Ruth? Especially for me? Yeah, I was like
Speaker 1: for me in college. I remember my college roommate and
Speaker 1: I would always be like, well, what would doctor Ruth say?
Speaker 1: Really Ruth say?
Speaker 4: And we would you know, that was kind of our Yeah,
Speaker 4: I think just I loved it. I think that that
Speaker 4: Jade put it perfectly. Accessibility for a lot of different
Speaker 4: people to feel comfortable in their bodies is something that
Speaker 4: they did before that it was trendy to do.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Well.
Speaker 3: Doctor Ruth died one day later at age ninety six,
Speaker 3: and was known as Grandma Freud. As a young girl,
Speaker 3: she survived the Holocaust and went on to have a
Speaker 3: storied career as a sex therapist, a professor, and the
Speaker 3: host of the sex positive syndicated radio show Sexually Speaking,
Speaker 3: which ran for ten years. Malika, I love that she
Speaker 3: was a figure in your life. I used to watch
Speaker 3: her growing up, Like in my parents would go to
Speaker 3: bed and I would like secretly turn doctor Ruth on.
Speaker 3: She just she was so ahead of her time. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: do you remember her, Simone, I do.
Speaker 1: I grew up in a home that was very conservative
Speaker 1: when I came to discussing sex sexuality, so I can't
Speaker 1: say that I ever watched her at home. She was
Speaker 1: certainly a larger than life cultural figure who had a
Speaker 1: really widespread influence. Yeah.
Speaker 3: People when she passed, people really came out with stories
Speaker 3: of how much she impacted their lives.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Why did you in your roommate love doctor Ruth?
Speaker 4: Because you know, you're figuring it all out in college
Speaker 4: and if you know, a nana is telling you all
Speaker 4: these nasty things, and maybe, you know what, we can
Speaker 4: figure out a way that this all works within our
Speaker 4: own lives, you know. Like I just thought that she
Speaker 4: was tremendous and to go from being a survivor of
Speaker 4: the Holocaust to then embrace which was your body in
Speaker 4: so many ways. I'm Jewish, and you know, talking to
Speaker 4: Holocaust survivors about, you know, the branding of their bodies
Speaker 4: and what their bodies go through in these heinous, heinous camps.
Speaker 4: To go from that perspective to the perspective of fully
Speaker 4: and holly not only embracing your own but helping other
Speaker 4: people to do the same is a pretty incredible journey
Speaker 4: and mark to leave on the world.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a radical shift. Yeah, to still go into
Speaker 1: what in many ways is still a life of service,
Speaker 1: you know, after its taboo in a lot of ways.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: You know, my grandma was a Holocaust survivor and to
Speaker 3: come to America, she said at sixteen, was for her
Speaker 3: even more traumatic than the Holocaust because she was like,
Speaker 3: I didn't understand I was a kid in the Holocaust.
Speaker 3: I didn't understand what any of these customs where people
Speaker 3: spoke different, they it was made fun of. So to
Speaker 3: your point, Malika, for doctor Ruth to come out of
Speaker 3: that move to America and then embrace like an American
Speaker 3: way of life and build this persona for herself is
Speaker 3: just it's tremendous.
Speaker 4: Like this kind of tiny woman like I just I
Speaker 4: love that kind of dichotomy too, Like this tiny woman
Speaker 4: with this amazing accent that just I.
Speaker 1: Don't know, I just I love all of that exactly
Speaker 1: pint sized.
Speaker 3: Lastly, we're remembering actress Shannon Doherty, who lost her battle
Speaker 3: to cancer on July thirteenth. She was a fixture on
Speaker 3: eighties and nineties TV Little House on the Prairie, Charmed
Speaker 3: nine oh two, one oh Brenda. I mean, in recent
Speaker 3: years she bravely chronicled her battle with breast cancer, including
Speaker 3: on her podcast as recently as a few weeks ago.
Speaker 3: I grew up watching all of her shows, So that
Speaker 3: was a sad one too.
Speaker 4: Yeah, A Little House on the Prairie was definitely that
Speaker 4: was the really Yeah, that was my little sister and I.
Speaker 1: We really really enjoyed Little House on the Prairie.
Speaker 4: But that vulnerability to be able to share not with
Speaker 4: the perspective of hindsight, to know that everything is going
Speaker 4: to be okay, to share in real time with the
Speaker 4: goal I imagine of helping other people, but all so
Speaker 4: to kind of come to terms with your own battle mortality.
Speaker 4: I just think that's something that I admire tremendously because
Speaker 4: I'd like to think that that's something that I could
Speaker 4: find within myself, but I'm not sure. Like your natural
Speaker 4: instinct is to protect, to protect yourself, and to be
Speaker 4: so selfless as to share what you are going through
Speaker 4: with other people and the hope that that can help
Speaker 4: them and their journey is something that I just have
Speaker 4: the utmost respect for.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and she did it in a really raw, real way, Yeah,
Speaker 3: which doesn't happen on social media all the time.
Speaker 4: No, it's something that's really I know, you guys talked
Speaker 4: recently about the Selene documentary too on the show, Like
Speaker 4: we don't get to see that very often, particularly from
Speaker 4: these celebrities that are in so many ways larger than life.
Speaker 1: These are the things that sort of connect all of us. So, yeah,
Speaker 1: that was terribly sad. I just wanted to say that
Speaker 1: I hope that Shannon Doherty's death is an in vain.
Speaker 1: Breast cancer rates among young women under fifth are surging,
Speaker 1: and so you know, this is a great opportunity, reality check,
Speaker 1: to just do a check on your own health and
Speaker 1: make sure that you're getting your mammograms regularly. There have
Speaker 1: been several instances of notable breast cancer cases in the news,
Speaker 1: and also I've been touched by it in my own life,
Speaker 1: so just a great reminder to do those regular checkups.
Speaker 1: Well said Simon.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Melika, thanks for popping off with us today.
Speaker 1: Yes, this was thank you for having me this may
Speaker 1: my week. I am so, so so excited that I
Speaker 1: got to comment. I'm a little sad that it's that
Speaker 1: it's over me too. Will you come back anytimes?
Speaker 4: I know you're going back to the NBA Today's studio,
Speaker 4: but anytime, literally, anytime.
Speaker 1: This is so much fun.
Speaker 3: Malika Andrews is the host of NBA Today and NBA Countdown.
Speaker 3: That's it for today's show. On Monday, tag Nataro and
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