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Speaker 1: Welcome back to another episode of Full Circle, Lexing. Let's

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Speaker 1: just get right into it. Let's not even beat around

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Speaker 1: the bush.

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Speaker 2: How are you doing?

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Speaker 3: I got a practice facility. Congratulations, laughing up, it's clap

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Speaker 3: it up. Just we got a practice facility.

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Speaker 2: Well, Lexie, what happened?

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Speaker 3: Girl?

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Speaker 4: You know, I've been reading a lot and praying a lot,

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Speaker 4: and I've been learning that when you are putting things

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Speaker 4: into the universe, you're manifesting things, you're praying for things.

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Speaker 3: You have to be very specific.

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Speaker 4: So amen, I've been putting out into the universe that

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Speaker 4: I want to practice facility.

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Speaker 3: I fail to say where.

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Speaker 4: Now I have one in Seattle with the Seattle storm.

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Speaker 4: I'm feeling good. Actually it's Tuesday. The trade happened on Friday,

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Speaker 4: I want to say, And I've had a few days

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Speaker 4: to like decompress about it and.

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Speaker 3: Think about it.

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Speaker 4: My family was in town this weekend, thankfully, so I've

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Speaker 4: been able to like just be with them, and I'm

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Speaker 4: excited I feel good about it, but I mean, we've

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Speaker 4: been talking about it the last few episodes about the

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Speaker 4: business of sports and how hard it is sometimes personally

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Speaker 4: and just another little, another little detour to my ultimate destination.

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Speaker 1: But could you walk us through how you found out,

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Speaker 1: like the process and I know I found out on Instagram,

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Speaker 1: but could we you all this through how you found out?

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Speaker 4: I will say I thankfully received a phone call. I

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Speaker 4: was on my way to my game in Nashville. I

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Speaker 4: was literally in the parking garage and our GM called and.

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Speaker 3: I was like, this is not good.

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Speaker 4: I just I immediately knew it was going to be something

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Speaker 4: like this, so I answered the phone. The call was

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Speaker 4: one minute, that's it. So we got She got straight

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Speaker 4: to it. She said, the Seattle Storm have inquired about

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Speaker 4: you and we're going to trade you.

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Speaker 3: And I was like.

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Speaker 4: Uh, in those exactly yeah, And then my gosh also

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Speaker 4: added that because the Storm had a player suffered an injury,

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Speaker 4: actually Jordan Horston, who's playing in athletes alimited right now,

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Speaker 4: had an injury that they're like, oh, yeah, they need

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Speaker 4: they need a roster spot because they lost the player,

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Speaker 4: which I later found out was not the reason why

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Speaker 4: Seattle reached out, so she said that to me on

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Speaker 4: the phone, and I just said, okay, good luck, and

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Speaker 4: then that was. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: I was like to you guys, like there was really.

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Speaker 4: No conversation, and looking back, maybe I could have handled

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Speaker 3: And I was getting ready to go play a.

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Speaker 4: Game myself, so I was really like, I need to

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Speaker 4: get to the gym, like that was like my first thought.

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Speaker 3: And then after that.

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Speaker 4: Deerica called me and she was just like, do you

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Speaker 4: feel like talking And I was just like, m sure,

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Speaker 4: let's talk. She had no idea that was going to happen.

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Speaker 4: So we talked for a second, and you know, it

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Speaker 4: really didn't get that much time together on the court

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Speaker 4: and we really played well together. So I'm grateful for

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Speaker 4: my time with Deerica for sure. But yeah, it like

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Speaker 4: well in. We didn't win, but I walked into the

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Speaker 4: And everybody's like looking at me, like are you okay?

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Speaker 4: like I'm okay. But like it's still like a lot

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Speaker 3: I mean, now you know, the smoke is clear a

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Speaker 4: I'm like really excited, but the whole process of it

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Speaker 1: Definitely, what about you said that they told you the

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Speaker 1: reason was because Seattle inquired about you because somebody was

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Speaker 5: But then you later found out that wasn't the reason, right,

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Speaker 5: What was the reason that they've just really needed a

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Speaker 5: funny because when the Spark signed Plumb in Odyssey, I

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Speaker 5: in AU the last two weeks, was not shooting as

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Speaker 5: But now, like I'm absolutely going to be a two

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Speaker 5: But I've been showing that i can do more than

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Speaker 5: just shoot threes, which I've been able to do that

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Speaker 4: You at your opportunity. So yeah, I spoke with the

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Speaker 4: GM and the coach. I've been texting with some of

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Speaker 4: They've all been watching me in Nashville and they're just

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Speaker 4: really excited about how my game has grown in the

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Speaker 4: better because a lot of people don't really know my game.

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Speaker 4: A lot of people really do think that I am

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Speaker 1: That was gonna be my next question yecause obviously we

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Speaker 1: everything else that you had going on in LA, because

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Speaker 1: you had a lot going on there, Yeah, how does

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Speaker 2: I mean, Seattle wasn't too far right.

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Speaker 3: No, I mean, and I don't.

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Speaker 4: I will still be in LA during the off season.

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Speaker 4: I just got a place out there. I love La,

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Speaker 4: my first thought was like another year summer of living

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Speaker 4: I heard from a few of them and they're like,

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Speaker 4: we see out to Storm fans now. So yeah, it's

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Speaker 4: just it was a lot, and it's just I've been

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Speaker 4: it in my notes, Maria, hear you want to hear

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Speaker 4: some stats from my town in LA, I would love

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Speaker 3: Okay, right, I have it. I've written down, guys.

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Speaker 4: Okay, Lexi's time in La, Lexi's time in LA and

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Speaker 4: three seasons in LA, three gms, three coaches, three strength

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Speaker 4: I feel like, yeah, I probably was the last one

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Speaker 4: the dysfunction of the past. So like, I can understand that,

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Speaker 4: I have to understand that. But I've been like seeing

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Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, wait, I have a question. So basically

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Speaker 1: to clarify, you've been seeing a lot of dial what's

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Speaker 1: the dialogue that you've been seeing, Like, is it people

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Speaker 2: Me being sick.

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Speaker 4: just like weird things like that, which in my seven

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Speaker 3: I just wasn't getting an opportunity to play. And you know,

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Speaker 4: Major leap from year one to year two, and then

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Speaker 4: still here in dealing with now this autoimmune disease that

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Speaker 4: My routine is like top tier. So I've honestly, like

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Speaker 4: I said, the phone call was a minute. I don't

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Speaker 4: that I'm in in Seattle because I wanted a facility.

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Speaker 3: But again, this is another situation.

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Speaker 4: And it's disappointing because us as players just have to

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Speaker 3: But yeah, the call was very short, and I'm just like.

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Speaker 4: I feel like I probably deserved a longer conversation than that.

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Speaker 4: But again, I take ownership for part of that because

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Speaker 2: Now, but you didn't.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I literally did not have time.

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Speaker 1: So you can't really blame yourself because you literally did

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Speaker 3: One or two maybe.

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Speaker 4: But I mean, yeah, I was like, oh, my apartment,

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Speaker 4: how do they know you're telling them like coaches talk.

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Speaker 4: I mean we have we have four WNBA coaches in

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Speaker 3: Playing right now.

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Speaker 4: And I'm like, I mean that makes me happy because

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Speaker 4: you got to keep your value high, wherever that may be.

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Speaker 4: If your value is high and it's not on your team,

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Speaker 4: then they're going to find a way to get you.

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Speaker 3: Now.

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Speaker 4: If you don't have any value at all, like then

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Speaker 3: Just give them away like that.

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Speaker 4: Like, again, that's another thing that makes you kind of

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Speaker 3: Because this is what happens, right.

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Speaker 1: And I think part of that though, is probably the

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Speaker 3: It. Yeah.

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Speaker 4: And then I mean even our new GM, she came

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Speaker 4: I will say, like she doesn't even know like the

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Speaker 4: and I'll take ownership for that because I was trying

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Speaker 4: here and be like I was perfect. I did everything right,

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Speaker 4: and I don't know why like this is happening, Like

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Speaker 4: like just all of this to move forward.

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Speaker 3: And yeah, and.

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Speaker 4: Now I got people calling be ah old because I'm

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Speaker 3: I'm young and turned Still.

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Speaker 4: I went to a class last night, a dance class

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Speaker 4: hip hop?

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Speaker 2: How was that?

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Speaker 3: It was so much fun?

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Speaker 4: I put it on TikTok guys if you want to see.

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Speaker 4: It was a little beginning class.

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Speaker 2: How was I?

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Speaker 3: Like?

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Speaker 2: Did you go by yourself?

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Speaker 4: That was my friend and her friend that also like

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Speaker 3: It was a could workout.

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Speaker 2: Good for you. I'm actually excited for you.

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Speaker 1: This is like going back to what we were just

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Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I mean the last win now situation I

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Speaker 3: Team could win a championship.

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Speaker 4: I think we have all the pieces, we have all

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Speaker 4: From the Seattle Storm fans. I always have loved playing

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Speaker 2: I'm excited for you.

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Speaker 4: Thanks, and now your weekend we can pivot to All Star.

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Speaker 1: How yeah, you guys. I was at All Star weekend.

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Speaker 1: It was great, it was fun. This was my third

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Speaker 1: All Star. My first one was Salt Lake, second one

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Speaker 1: I felt like San Francisco is a much better location

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Speaker 1: and like in San fran it was still cold, but

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Speaker 1: it wasn't like when I was in Indiana it literally snowed,

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Speaker 1: So this is much better. I think let's just talk

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Speaker 2: For a second.

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Speaker 3: Seeing a lot of complaints, let me say something.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if I'm gonna get in trouble for this,

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Speaker 1: that the fans are misinterpreting the fact that All Star

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Speaker 1: Like they they don't care, They're not gonna care, they

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Speaker 1: so I.

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Speaker 2: Feel comfortable saying it.

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Speaker 1: If y'all see them posting that they're at a spades

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Speaker 1: city at the same time.

442
00:23:10,160 --> 00:23:13,600
Speaker 2: They're on break, like this is just one big he

443
00:23:13,680 --> 00:23:15,240
Speaker 2: haha celebration to them.

444
00:23:15,320 --> 00:23:17,520
Speaker 1: It's like, yeah, I know the fans wanted to be

445
00:23:18,440 --> 00:23:18,879
Speaker 1: they want to.

446
00:23:18,880 --> 00:23:20,160
Speaker 2: Go to stock so bad.

447
00:23:20,400 --> 00:23:23,679
Speaker 4: They think the All Star Game has never been that. Like,

448
00:23:24,280 --> 00:23:27,240
Speaker 4: I don't know what people are talking about. Like, yes,

449
00:23:27,760 --> 00:23:32,560
Speaker 4: Kobe Bryant was a psychopath on the court, but it's

450
00:23:32,600 --> 00:23:34,920
Speaker 4: like he didn't want to lose, okay, but like still

451
00:23:34,960 --> 00:23:36,000
Speaker 4: the scores were still like.

452
00:23:36,000 --> 00:23:38,600
Speaker 3: One hundred and twelve to like one hundred and eighteen.

453
00:23:38,840 --> 00:23:39,360
Speaker 3: And that was.

454
00:23:39,320 --> 00:23:42,479
Speaker 4: Before all the threes. So that was before all the threes.

455
00:23:42,760 --> 00:23:45,440
Speaker 4: So alas, y'all are like, we want to see more

456
00:23:45,440 --> 00:23:48,960
Speaker 4: windmill dunks. Okay, they that's what they were doing in

457
00:23:48,960 --> 00:23:52,400
Speaker 4: twenty ten because they weren't shooting all the threes, yet

458
00:23:52,440 --> 00:23:54,000
Speaker 4: they still weren't playing any defense.

459
00:23:54,680 --> 00:23:58,160
Speaker 1: Yeah, they were just shooting more laps, I think, Yeah,

460
00:23:58,160 --> 00:24:01,400
Speaker 1: which is way more boring, by the way. So I

461
00:24:01,400 --> 00:24:04,320
Speaker 1: think fans are misinterpreting the fact that All Star weekend

462
00:24:04,600 --> 00:24:08,640
Speaker 1: is like an NBA family reunion and celebration of the

463
00:24:08,680 --> 00:24:11,359
Speaker 1: city in which it's being played. Like it was very

464
00:24:11,480 --> 00:24:15,160
Speaker 1: much as somebody being there. It felt like a celebration

465
00:24:15,480 --> 00:24:17,640
Speaker 1: of Steph Curry's career and the.

466
00:24:17,600 --> 00:24:19,199
Speaker 2: Bay It was not.

467
00:24:19,400 --> 00:24:22,119
Speaker 1: Really It's never going to be about we want to

468
00:24:22,160 --> 00:24:24,359
Speaker 1: go at each other's throat, simple like they don't care

469
00:24:24,480 --> 00:24:25,560
Speaker 1: and they're not gonna like.

470
00:24:25,560 --> 00:24:27,000
Speaker 3: The fan experience I feel.

471
00:24:27,119 --> 00:24:28,840
Speaker 4: So I've never been to NBA All Star, but I

472
00:24:28,840 --> 00:24:30,960
Speaker 4: went to w NBA All Star for the first time

473
00:24:31,040 --> 00:24:36,560
Speaker 4: last summer. The fan experience is I think it stops

474
00:24:36,600 --> 00:24:41,119
Speaker 4: at like you're seeing everybody at one place at one time. Yeah,

475
00:24:41,520 --> 00:24:44,320
Speaker 4: and you have all these activations and all of these

476
00:24:44,440 --> 00:24:46,600
Speaker 4: pop ups and all these things that you can just

477
00:24:46,720 --> 00:24:47,920
Speaker 4: get in one place.

478
00:24:48,440 --> 00:24:51,080
Speaker 3: So like if you are a Steph Curry.

479
00:24:50,840 --> 00:24:53,760
Speaker 4: Fan and you live in New York City and the

480
00:24:53,800 --> 00:24:56,960
Speaker 4: All Star Game is in New York that year, for example,

481
00:24:57,160 --> 00:24:59,120
Speaker 4: now you get the opportunity you get to see Steph Curry.

482
00:24:59,119 --> 00:25:00,760
Speaker 4: You probably get to buy bunch of stuff that you

483
00:25:00,800 --> 00:25:02,760
Speaker 4: tip probably wouldn't be able to get because you live

484
00:25:02,880 --> 00:25:05,560
Speaker 4: so far you don't want to order it online. Like

485
00:25:05,760 --> 00:25:10,080
Speaker 4: that's the fan experience. The game is like the cherry

486
00:25:10,119 --> 00:25:10,560
Speaker 4: on top.

487
00:25:10,920 --> 00:25:13,320
Speaker 1: The game is really like you said, it's about seeing

488
00:25:13,400 --> 00:25:14,760
Speaker 1: all of those players on the court.

489
00:25:14,880 --> 00:25:18,160
Speaker 2: At the same time, it's not about y'all just had.

490
00:25:18,119 --> 00:25:21,840
Speaker 4: The Olympics, Like can we like where they were playing

491
00:25:21,880 --> 00:25:22,480
Speaker 4: really hard?

492
00:25:23,160 --> 00:25:26,119
Speaker 1: Where I will I feel like I'm like shitting on

493
00:25:26,160 --> 00:25:28,560
Speaker 1: the fans right now. And what I do understand about

494
00:25:28,600 --> 00:25:31,040
Speaker 1: the fans being pissed at the All Star Game because

495
00:25:31,080 --> 00:25:33,960
Speaker 1: I was at the game, but I mean I was working.

496
00:25:34,000 --> 00:25:35,800
Speaker 2: I didn't pay for those she gets hawd, I paid

497
00:25:35,880 --> 00:25:37,440
Speaker 2: for them. I would be so tight.

498
00:25:38,760 --> 00:25:41,760
Speaker 3: I've watched it on TV. It was very weird.

499
00:25:41,960 --> 00:25:42,880
Speaker 2: The new format.

500
00:25:43,280 --> 00:25:45,359
Speaker 4: They need to throw that out. I don't know what

501
00:25:45,400 --> 00:25:50,280
Speaker 4: that was. And no disrespect to the rising stars, but no.

502
00:25:51,080 --> 00:25:55,600
Speaker 1: I I was excited about it. I was really excited

503
00:25:55,640 --> 00:25:57,840
Speaker 1: about it because I thought, you know, a little something new,

504
00:25:57,880 --> 00:26:01,880
Speaker 1: and I thought that maybe it being so tight kind

505
00:26:01,880 --> 00:26:04,360
Speaker 1: of in the unrivaled as like three v three and like, yeah,

506
00:26:04,520 --> 00:26:07,320
Speaker 1: but like I thought it was gonna be more one

507
00:26:07,359 --> 00:26:10,760
Speaker 1: on one competition and like more ego involved, and it

508
00:26:10,920 --> 00:26:11,560
Speaker 1: just wasn't that.

509
00:26:11,760 --> 00:26:13,560
Speaker 2: If anything, they cared a little bit less.

510
00:26:13,800 --> 00:26:14,240
Speaker 3: Yeah.

511
00:26:14,280 --> 00:26:16,680
Speaker 4: Well, because and I even saw like a lot of

512
00:26:17,040 --> 00:26:20,879
Speaker 4: media members or people in the sports community just talking

513
00:26:20,920 --> 00:26:25,600
Speaker 4: about how All Star Weekend is no longer about basketball

514
00:26:25,640 --> 00:26:26,240
Speaker 4: being played.

515
00:26:26,440 --> 00:26:31,080
Speaker 3: It's like jam packed with so much stuff and.

516
00:26:31,000 --> 00:26:34,520
Speaker 4: Even the players are exhaust like they're exhausted, Like, yeah,

517
00:26:34,560 --> 00:26:36,760
Speaker 4: you're talking about party. I don't even know if they

518
00:26:36,760 --> 00:26:39,760
Speaker 4: have time to party because they have so many other things,

519
00:26:40,560 --> 00:26:43,200
Speaker 4: engagements that they have to go to and appear at

520
00:26:43,200 --> 00:26:45,560
Speaker 4: in appearances in community and this and that, which is

521
00:26:45,600 --> 00:26:49,120
Speaker 4: also amazing, But for them to do all of that

522
00:26:49,240 --> 00:26:52,680
Speaker 4: and then you guys want them to like go crazy

523
00:26:52,720 --> 00:26:55,119
Speaker 4: in the game when they have their real games in

524
00:26:55,160 --> 00:26:55,920
Speaker 4: a few days.

525
00:26:56,280 --> 00:26:59,639
Speaker 3: The rest of the league is in Cabo chilling, and

526
00:26:59,680 --> 00:27:01,080
Speaker 3: they're they're All.

527
00:27:00,920 --> 00:27:04,040
Speaker 4: Star working and the fans are just like, play harder,

528
00:27:04,080 --> 00:27:07,240
Speaker 4: play harder, but like it's called All Star break.

529
00:27:07,560 --> 00:27:10,560
Speaker 1: I will say part of the problem though, part of

530
00:27:10,560 --> 00:27:12,080
Speaker 1: what the fans are so pissed off about.

531
00:27:12,160 --> 00:27:14,440
Speaker 2: And I think what would make the fans complain.

532
00:27:14,160 --> 00:27:16,440
Speaker 1: About it a little less because what you said was

533
00:27:16,480 --> 00:27:19,199
Speaker 1: really good in the sense that the fantasy of what

534
00:27:19,240 --> 00:27:21,359
Speaker 1: the game used to be when Kobe and Jordan and

535
00:27:21,359 --> 00:27:23,959
Speaker 1: then we're playing isn't real. Like it wasn't this like

536
00:27:24,480 --> 00:27:26,119
Speaker 1: they weren' out there trying to kill each other. I mean,

537
00:27:26,160 --> 00:27:28,400
Speaker 1: there was more competition, but and they took it more.

538
00:27:28,480 --> 00:27:31,639
Speaker 1: They definitely took it more seriously. But it wasn't what

539
00:27:32,680 --> 00:27:34,680
Speaker 1: It wasn't commercialized back then.

540
00:27:34,760 --> 00:27:35,000
Speaker 3: Either.

541
00:27:35,119 --> 00:27:37,399
Speaker 4: It was like, yes, really about the like I remember

542
00:27:37,480 --> 00:27:41,240
Speaker 4: growing up, everyone couldn't wait to watch the All Star

543
00:27:41,359 --> 00:27:43,400
Speaker 4: game and like also it's like.

544
00:27:44,320 --> 00:27:46,879
Speaker 1: Saturday Night is part of the problem. I think the

545
00:27:46,920 --> 00:27:49,800
Speaker 1: fans would be less annoyed if the three point contests

546
00:27:49,800 --> 00:27:53,119
Speaker 1: and the dunk contest were less pooh pooh. Yeah, you know,

547
00:27:53,560 --> 00:27:55,040
Speaker 1: like they they probably would be able to get over

548
00:27:55,080 --> 00:27:56,520
Speaker 1: the fact that the players aren't trying in the game.

549
00:27:56,800 --> 00:27:59,440
Speaker 1: If John Moran and Anthony Edwards were, They're like.

550
00:27:59,359 --> 00:28:03,240
Speaker 3: Are y'all tired? And Mac mcclug is amazing.

551
00:28:03,280 --> 00:28:05,760
Speaker 4: Don't get me wrong, what he does is impressive three

552
00:28:05,800 --> 00:28:09,080
Speaker 4: straight years. Let's see, he's a G League player, which,

553
00:28:09,200 --> 00:28:11,720
Speaker 4: let's disrespect to G League players, but this is.

554
00:28:11,920 --> 00:28:16,080
Speaker 3: NBA All Star weekends, and y'all no disrespect.

555
00:28:16,119 --> 00:28:18,880
Speaker 4: I have a young G League player caring because it's

556
00:28:18,880 --> 00:28:21,760
Speaker 4: not like he's doing a great job, like it's he's

557
00:28:21,760 --> 00:28:22,560
Speaker 4: not bs ing.

558
00:28:23,359 --> 00:28:27,280
Speaker 2: He's incredible. He's incredible. I was so impressed, what are

559
00:28:27,320 --> 00:28:29,960
Speaker 2: we doing? But also I.

560
00:28:31,560 --> 00:28:33,560
Speaker 1: Would be so for real when I say this. First

561
00:28:33,560 --> 00:28:34,800
Speaker 1: of all, if I were Mac, I would never do

562
00:28:34,800 --> 00:28:35,280
Speaker 1: that shit again.

563
00:28:35,320 --> 00:28:39,880
Speaker 3: I'm not sure Adam Silver, I hope they pay him

564
00:28:39,880 --> 00:28:40,200
Speaker 3: for that.

565
00:28:40,520 --> 00:28:42,920
Speaker 1: But also number two, part of the thing with the

566
00:28:42,960 --> 00:28:44,600
Speaker 1: mac McClung thing is like.

567
00:28:46,000 --> 00:28:47,680
Speaker 2: No ship, He's dunking over a.

568
00:28:47,640 --> 00:28:50,880
Speaker 1: Car and doing these crazy never before seen insane dunks.

569
00:28:51,360 --> 00:28:55,480
Speaker 1: When he's not technically a full time NBA player, he

570
00:28:55,600 --> 00:28:58,400
Speaker 1: spends the whole year practicing for the Dunk Contest, like

571
00:28:58,600 --> 00:29:01,880
Speaker 1: and that's no disrespect for him. It's just like he

572
00:29:01,920 --> 00:29:03,800
Speaker 1: pops up once a year for the Dunk Contest. That's

573
00:29:03,800 --> 00:29:05,560
Speaker 1: where that's when we see him. That's like what he

574
00:29:06,040 --> 00:29:08,800
Speaker 1: is riding on for endorsements and blah bla blah blah.

575
00:29:08,840 --> 00:29:11,400
Speaker 1: It's like the Dunk Contest. So no shit, Like he

576
00:29:11,840 --> 00:29:13,920
Speaker 1: is killing it at the Dunk Contest. And if he

577
00:29:13,960 --> 00:29:17,080
Speaker 1: goes up against like an NBA player that's like full

578
00:29:17,080 --> 00:29:19,480
Speaker 1: time in the NBA, obviously they're not going to be

579
00:29:19,480 --> 00:29:21,800
Speaker 1: doing as good as him because he knew three years

580
00:29:21,800 --> 00:29:23,680
Speaker 1: ago that he was gonna have to carry the Dunk

581
00:29:23,720 --> 00:29:24,920
Speaker 1: Contest for the next three years.

582
00:29:24,960 --> 00:29:27,640
Speaker 4: You know. Yeah, I don't know why the dunkers don't

583
00:29:27,640 --> 00:29:29,440
Speaker 4: want to participate, like.

584
00:29:29,480 --> 00:29:31,560
Speaker 1: You know, they don't want to do nothing outside of

585
00:29:31,560 --> 00:29:32,920
Speaker 1: the outside of the career past.

586
00:29:32,920 --> 00:29:37,600
Speaker 4: The last year, Jalen Brown tried my dad's dunk. He

587
00:29:37,640 --> 00:29:41,080
Speaker 4: attempted it, and I don't know if he did it right.

588
00:29:41,720 --> 00:29:44,200
Speaker 4: He tried, and my dad loved the fact that he

589
00:29:44,320 --> 00:29:47,840
Speaker 4: like attempted it. He has Brown seven like every time

590
00:29:47,880 --> 00:29:49,840
Speaker 4: we watch him play, but like it's so crazy that

591
00:29:49,880 --> 00:29:52,480
Speaker 4: he like just has year number and whatever. So the

592
00:29:52,520 --> 00:29:54,800
Speaker 4: fact that he did that, like my dad loved it,

593
00:29:54,840 --> 00:29:58,240
Speaker 4: but I don't think he successfully did it. But people

594
00:29:58,240 --> 00:30:01,800
Speaker 4: were like so mean of people were so mean, and

595
00:30:02,040 --> 00:30:05,840
Speaker 4: like I'm just like, I guess I understand why guys

596
00:30:05,840 --> 00:30:08,080
Speaker 4: don't want to put themselves out there like that because

597
00:30:08,320 --> 00:30:10,600
Speaker 4: you don't like they're quite literally they quite literally do

598
00:30:10,680 --> 00:30:11,239
Speaker 4: not have to.

599
00:30:11,720 --> 00:30:13,640
Speaker 1: You don't want to put yourself out there and do

600
00:30:13,480 --> 00:30:14,840
Speaker 1: the contest your skin.

601
00:30:15,280 --> 00:30:17,600
Speaker 3: They do need to have thicker skin, right. It's just like,

602
00:30:18,480 --> 00:30:20,040
Speaker 3: if I can choose.

603
00:30:19,720 --> 00:30:25,080
Speaker 4: To avoid all this, I probably will because that But

604
00:30:25,280 --> 00:30:26,960
Speaker 4: like people are I have.

605
00:30:27,000 --> 00:30:28,920
Speaker 3: Lost their minds on the internet.

606
00:30:29,840 --> 00:30:32,680
Speaker 1: That just proves though what everybody says about them. Also,

607
00:30:33,200 --> 00:30:35,720
Speaker 1: I mean, in the nineties, early two thousands, they didn't

608
00:30:35,720 --> 00:30:38,200
Speaker 1: have the internet, So I get that exactly when those

609
00:30:38,240 --> 00:30:40,960
Speaker 1: players say that the players today are soft and you're

610
00:30:40,960 --> 00:30:42,719
Speaker 1: saying here saying to me, well, maybe they don't want

611
00:30:42,720 --> 00:30:44,200
Speaker 1: to do the dump contst with people are gonna be

612
00:30:44,240 --> 00:30:44,680
Speaker 1: mean to them.

613
00:30:45,080 --> 00:30:47,400
Speaker 2: Bro get out of here with that. I'm not trying

614
00:30:47,400 --> 00:30:47,840
Speaker 2: to hear that.

615
00:30:48,040 --> 00:30:50,920
Speaker 1: Do you not think in like in the early two thousands,

616
00:30:50,960 --> 00:30:55,120
Speaker 1: if like Vince Carter did bullshit in the dunk contest.

617
00:30:54,840 --> 00:30:57,000
Speaker 2: People will be making fun of him to his face.

618
00:30:56,760 --> 00:31:02,480
Speaker 4: In person, sending him letters to the arena, always a

619
00:31:02,560 --> 00:31:05,240
Speaker 4: tweet or someone sending you a postcard.

620
00:31:05,680 --> 00:31:10,360
Speaker 1: You demand need to be fighting at the games, like, bro, no, no,

621
00:31:10,480 --> 00:31:10,880
Speaker 1: you know what.

622
00:31:11,040 --> 00:31:13,000
Speaker 4: You know what's crazy? If I opened up a fan

623
00:31:13,080 --> 00:31:15,920
Speaker 4: mail and it was all I said was you suck,

624
00:31:16,400 --> 00:31:18,880
Speaker 4: and it hurt me more than a tweet. Like that

625
00:31:18,920 --> 00:31:21,600
Speaker 4: would definitely hurt me more than a tweet. So bruh,

626
00:31:21,720 --> 00:31:23,560
Speaker 4: I mean, and many of the guys to step up.

627
00:31:23,720 --> 00:31:24,840
Speaker 2: You know what else I'm mad about?

628
00:31:24,960 --> 00:31:27,680
Speaker 1: And I realized that it was because actually there's a

629
00:31:27,680 --> 00:31:30,240
Speaker 1: few things about a week I'm mad about. Number one,

630
00:31:31,000 --> 00:31:34,239
Speaker 1: why wasn't Steph Curry in the three week Contest? I

631
00:31:34,320 --> 00:31:37,920
Speaker 1: don't care what. I don't care what the situation was

632
00:31:37,960 --> 00:31:40,240
Speaker 1: with Sabrina or she. First off, I were her, I

633
00:31:40,280 --> 00:31:42,640
Speaker 1: wouln't want to do it either. Second of all, like

634
00:31:43,480 --> 00:31:45,840
Speaker 1: it's in the bay, and they were like, yeah, buddy,

635
00:31:45,880 --> 00:31:47,040
Speaker 1: healed represents the bay.

636
00:31:47,200 --> 00:31:52,440
Speaker 3: Hell no, I did not know. He didn't even do

637
00:31:52,520 --> 00:31:53,440
Speaker 3: the three point contest.

638
00:31:53,600 --> 00:31:55,200
Speaker 1: Bro, do you know how this and I'm Steph Crey's

639
00:31:55,200 --> 00:31:57,760
Speaker 1: my favorite basketball player. I literally bought an eighteen dollars

640
00:31:57,760 --> 00:32:01,440
Speaker 1: collectible Steph Curry popcorn bucket. Like I'm not playing, but

641
00:32:02,320 --> 00:32:04,600
Speaker 1: so when I got Imagine my surprise when I get

642
00:32:04,640 --> 00:32:06,840
Speaker 1: to All Star Saturday night and I see Steph Curry.

643
00:32:06,680 --> 00:32:10,520
Speaker 3: Street in his clo Yeah, hell no, don't like that?

644
00:32:11,400 --> 00:32:13,680
Speaker 1: Who would want to buy? Like, who would want to

645
00:32:13,680 --> 00:32:15,880
Speaker 1: buy that ticket? You know what I'm saying, Like if

646
00:32:15,880 --> 00:32:18,160
Speaker 1: I were a fan that spent my hard earned money

647
00:32:18,600 --> 00:32:19,960
Speaker 1: to see I'm in the bay.

648
00:32:20,080 --> 00:32:21,160
Speaker 2: This is where we're from.

649
00:32:21,400 --> 00:32:23,920
Speaker 1: This Steph Curry is getting older, like we might never

650
00:32:23,920 --> 00:32:25,880
Speaker 1: have an All Star weekend with him here again.

651
00:32:26,440 --> 00:32:28,080
Speaker 2: And he's not doing the damn three works.

652
00:32:28,160 --> 00:32:30,240
Speaker 3: Please, Okay, what else you're not at?

653
00:32:30,760 --> 00:32:32,640
Speaker 2: Last thing? This is the last thing I'm not at.

654
00:32:32,760 --> 00:32:36,000
Speaker 1: And this this got me so tight. We're calling it

655
00:32:36,080 --> 00:32:38,400
Speaker 1: eight second violation in the All Star.

656
00:32:38,240 --> 00:32:41,480
Speaker 4: Game time out, we have a conversation about these referees

657
00:32:41,880 --> 00:32:44,840
Speaker 4: just across the board, just across the board. I don't

658
00:32:44,840 --> 00:32:46,920
Speaker 4: think I can get in trouble for talking about refs

659
00:32:46,960 --> 00:32:49,320
Speaker 4: on my own show like you do in the media.

660
00:32:49,360 --> 00:32:53,040
Speaker 3: But we'll see, y'all are this is not y'all's show.

661
00:32:53,520 --> 00:32:54,320
Speaker 2: Are they please?

662
00:32:55,480 --> 00:32:59,680
Speaker 4: But in AU it's a mess. An NBA it's a mess,

663
00:33:00,000 --> 00:33:02,640
Speaker 4: and unrivaled it's a mess. What are y'all doing? Did

664
00:33:02,720 --> 00:33:03,920
Speaker 4: y'all have a meeting?

665
00:33:04,480 --> 00:33:07,120
Speaker 3: Let me tell you to be yelled at all.

666
00:33:07,040 --> 00:33:09,160
Speaker 4: The time, which I can understand because they do get

667
00:33:09,200 --> 00:33:10,000
Speaker 4: yelled at all the time.

668
00:33:10,080 --> 00:33:12,800
Speaker 3: I could never be a rep personally. I would. I would.

669
00:33:13,040 --> 00:33:15,800
Speaker 3: No way you're screaming to be like that. Never a

670
00:33:15,840 --> 00:33:16,720
Speaker 3: basketball game.

671
00:33:17,120 --> 00:33:21,080
Speaker 1: Hell no, we're just talking. But like they got us,

672
00:33:21,480 --> 00:33:24,200
Speaker 1: you're calling an eight second violence. It's the All Star

673
00:33:24,440 --> 00:33:25,120
Speaker 1: This doesn't.

674
00:33:24,920 --> 00:33:28,160
Speaker 4: Matter who they call it on Steph Curry.

675
00:33:28,560 --> 00:33:30,000
Speaker 3: Not have Steph Curry.

676
00:33:30,400 --> 00:33:33,040
Speaker 4: It was like the rules of basketball do not apply

677
00:33:33,160 --> 00:33:36,320
Speaker 4: to Steph Curry in the All Star Game in San Francisco, Please,

678
00:33:36,800 --> 00:33:37,560
Speaker 4: I don't even.

679
00:33:37,520 --> 00:33:39,680
Speaker 1: Like okay, if I remember correctly, he was dribbling the

680
00:33:39,680 --> 00:33:42,200
Speaker 1: ball of the court and it.

681
00:33:42,240 --> 00:33:43,920
Speaker 2: Was like everybody was like Steph, Steph.

682
00:33:44,000 --> 00:33:46,200
Speaker 1: Like the crowd was going wild because it was like

683
00:33:46,840 --> 00:33:48,880
Speaker 1: they had to get to forty points to win the game,

684
00:33:48,920 --> 00:33:50,120
Speaker 1: and Steph Curry had the ball.

685
00:33:50,440 --> 00:33:52,000
Speaker 2: His team had thirty eight.

686
00:33:52,440 --> 00:33:58,720
Speaker 3: Like yes, I'm telling you. They want to be the

687
00:33:58,800 --> 00:33:59,520
Speaker 3: center of attention.

688
00:33:59,720 --> 00:34:01,760
Speaker 1: So and you want to know how the game en did,

689
00:34:01,800 --> 00:34:03,600
Speaker 1: Like see, this is what I'm so pissed about.

690
00:34:03,800 --> 00:34:05,600
Speaker 2: Then blah blah blah.

691
00:34:05,640 --> 00:34:08,760
Speaker 1: The international team I think it was Chuck's Global All Stars.

692
00:34:08,760 --> 00:34:12,840
Speaker 1: Whatever they miss, they somehow fumble their opportunity whatever, and

693
00:34:12,880 --> 00:34:15,959
Speaker 1: then Steph's team gets the ball back. I'm sitting there going, okay,

694
00:34:15,960 --> 00:34:18,239
Speaker 1: get the ball to Steph Curry. Get the ball to

695
00:34:18,280 --> 00:34:23,439
Speaker 1: Steph Curry. Jason Tatum's going in the game on a layup. Bro,

696
00:34:25,080 --> 00:34:28,279
Speaker 1: Jason Tatum, Bro, Jason Tatum, Are you serious?

697
00:34:28,640 --> 00:34:31,640
Speaker 3: Are you? Said Jason? Nobody's even plays said.

698
00:34:32,080 --> 00:34:35,720
Speaker 2: Nobody's even playing defense. Just get the ball to step

699
00:34:35,920 --> 00:34:38,920
Speaker 2: like we all know what's going on here, Like that happened.

700
00:34:40,480 --> 00:34:43,800
Speaker 4: My last thing about All Star how are the teams?

701
00:34:44,200 --> 00:34:46,919
Speaker 4: They didn't completely make sense. So you got you got

702
00:34:46,960 --> 00:34:51,200
Speaker 4: the ogs right, uh huh? And you have the young

703
00:34:51,400 --> 00:34:55,640
Speaker 4: the Young Stars. We have two ogs, my Boston boys

704
00:34:56,320 --> 00:34:57,840
Speaker 4: who are twenty six.

705
00:34:58,000 --> 00:35:00,920
Speaker 3: I think they're not ogs. It is not an OG.

706
00:35:01,560 --> 00:35:02,400
Speaker 3: And then you have.

707
00:35:04,520 --> 00:35:05,439
Speaker 2: Is not a Global Star.

708
00:35:07,520 --> 00:35:09,840
Speaker 4: You have a twenty eight year old Jalen Brunson on

709
00:35:09,920 --> 00:35:11,400
Speaker 4: the Young Stars.

710
00:35:12,280 --> 00:35:13,120
Speaker 3: What are we doing?

711
00:35:13,840 --> 00:35:16,520
Speaker 4: Like I knew what they were trying to do, but like,

712
00:35:16,560 --> 00:35:19,279
Speaker 4: once y'all saw that that didn't match up, that y'all

713
00:35:19,320 --> 00:35:21,480
Speaker 4: should have just eliminated the names and just.

714
00:35:21,560 --> 00:35:24,000
Speaker 3: Kept Team Chuck Team Shack like we would have been

715
00:35:24,040 --> 00:35:24,799
Speaker 3: okay with that.

716
00:35:25,160 --> 00:35:28,280
Speaker 4: Yeacause I remember I saw a press conference of Jalen Brunson.

717
00:35:28,760 --> 00:35:31,839
Speaker 4: He was like, yeah, they said that like we were

718
00:35:31,840 --> 00:35:34,759
Speaker 4: the young stars, and then everyone looked at directly at me.

719
00:35:35,960 --> 00:35:38,640
Speaker 3: And I was like, he's like, yeah, I'm twenty eight.

720
00:35:39,200 --> 00:35:42,320
Speaker 1: But like I will say, side note, the crowd was

721
00:35:42,360 --> 00:35:46,319
Speaker 1: going crazy for Jaylen Brunson all weekend like they loved him.

722
00:35:46,360 --> 00:35:48,280
Speaker 2: He just loved him.

723
00:35:48,560 --> 00:35:50,640
Speaker 1: Like there were people that the crowd the crowd went

724
00:35:50,680 --> 00:35:53,040
Speaker 1: mild for, like they really didn't care. Obviously, they went

725
00:35:53,040 --> 00:35:55,840
Speaker 1: crazy for Staff every time he did anything, but I

726
00:35:55,880 --> 00:35:58,760
Speaker 1: would say second to Staff was Jaylen Brunson.

727
00:35:59,200 --> 00:36:00,359
Speaker 2: They were up.

728
00:36:00,680 --> 00:36:04,040
Speaker 4: That's fire and he deserves them because people always shut

729
00:36:04,080 --> 00:36:07,000
Speaker 4: on him for being, you know, a small fish in

730
00:36:07,040 --> 00:36:10,160
Speaker 4: a big market, but he's definitely a big.

731
00:36:10,000 --> 00:36:11,080
Speaker 3: Fish in a big market.

732
00:36:11,440 --> 00:36:13,719
Speaker 1: No, I love Jaylen Bronson. I was rooting for him

733
00:36:13,719 --> 00:36:15,000
Speaker 1: in the three point contest. I don't know what the

734
00:36:15,040 --> 00:36:16,000
Speaker 1: hell he had going on.

735
00:36:16,160 --> 00:36:17,439
Speaker 3: Who won? He right?

736
00:36:17,560 --> 00:36:20,960
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it was Taler hero and Buddy Hill at

737
00:36:20,960 --> 00:36:21,239
Speaker 1: the end.

738
00:36:21,480 --> 00:36:24,359
Speaker 2: That's that's why fans are mad at All Star weekend.

739
00:36:24,400 --> 00:36:25,799
Speaker 2: I'm gonna be real like, that's why.

740
00:36:26,719 --> 00:36:29,600
Speaker 4: It's just very It just seemed very unserious. And I

741
00:36:29,680 --> 00:36:32,240
Speaker 4: hope next year is better.

742
00:36:32,520 --> 00:36:33,120
Speaker 3: It's in LA.

743
00:36:34,200 --> 00:36:36,839
Speaker 2: Well, we'll letting Lebron better play. Because what the hell

744
00:36:36,880 --> 00:36:37,319
Speaker 2: was that too?

745
00:36:37,600 --> 00:36:39,680
Speaker 3: I forgot about that day of day of.

746
00:36:40,840 --> 00:36:42,200
Speaker 2: I was on the bus on the way to the

747
00:36:42,239 --> 00:36:43,319
Speaker 2: game when I found that out.

748
00:36:43,520 --> 00:36:46,319
Speaker 3: I was saying, he's just like, yeah, I feel like it.

749
00:36:46,360 --> 00:36:47,600
Speaker 3: And Edwards didn't play either.

750
00:36:48,520 --> 00:36:50,799
Speaker 2: He first of all, I forgot he was there. He

751
00:36:50,960 --> 00:36:52,920
Speaker 2: just disappeared. I don't even think I really saw him

752
00:36:52,960 --> 00:36:53,880
Speaker 2: sitting on the side.

753
00:36:54,239 --> 00:36:55,839
Speaker 4: Well, you saw in media he said I don't want

754
00:36:55,840 --> 00:36:59,200
Speaker 4: to be the face of anything. He said that what

755
00:36:59,920 --> 00:37:02,160
Speaker 4: he said, he said, I don't want to he said,

756
00:37:02,160 --> 00:37:03,400
Speaker 4: that's what y'all got win before.

757
00:37:03,600 --> 00:37:07,399
Speaker 3: That's what he said in media. I love Aunt, He's just.

758
00:37:09,000 --> 00:37:09,600
Speaker 1: He's just so.

759
00:37:10,040 --> 00:37:11,200
Speaker 3: He's just so unhinged.

760
00:37:12,120 --> 00:37:14,680
Speaker 1: So I went to Georgia and Aunt went to Georgia,

761
00:37:14,719 --> 00:37:17,239
Speaker 1: and I remember he was like very much on a

762
00:37:17,280 --> 00:37:20,000
Speaker 1: microscope when we were there. Because we don't have basketball

763
00:37:20,000 --> 00:37:22,640
Speaker 1: players like that for men's our women's team.

764
00:37:22,600 --> 00:37:23,680
Speaker 2: Absolutely dusts them.

765
00:37:24,239 --> 00:37:27,239
Speaker 1: But I will say while he was there, one thing

766
00:37:27,280 --> 00:37:30,239
Speaker 1: I learned is that I can't remember if it was

767
00:37:30,239 --> 00:37:32,959
Speaker 1: like his trainer or somebody very personally close to him

768
00:37:33,280 --> 00:37:35,560
Speaker 1: during his draft process, because he kept making it seem

769
00:37:35,600 --> 00:37:38,560
Speaker 1: like he didn't care about basketball. Was saying that because

770
00:37:38,560 --> 00:37:41,520
Speaker 1: he's been through so much in life, he kind of

771
00:37:41,960 --> 00:37:44,759
Speaker 1: not sets himself up for rejection. But he's not like

772
00:37:44,800 --> 00:37:46,359
Speaker 1: one who's gonna be like, I'm gonna be the face

773
00:37:46,360 --> 00:37:48,280
Speaker 1: of the NBA just in case.

774
00:37:48,400 --> 00:37:50,520
Speaker 3: That doesn't happen. You get what I'm saying.

775
00:37:50,560 --> 00:37:52,720
Speaker 2: So he kind of right exactly.

776
00:37:52,880 --> 00:37:55,720
Speaker 3: I think that his Adidus commercials are fired fire.

777
00:37:55,840 --> 00:37:59,080
Speaker 1: I think him selling himself short in that way is

778
00:37:59,200 --> 00:38:02,120
Speaker 1: kind of just that, like he's selling himself short to

779
00:38:02,200 --> 00:38:04,120
Speaker 1: kind of like prepare himself.

780
00:38:03,760 --> 00:38:06,680
Speaker 3: Like I don't defect me. It's like a defense mechanism.

781
00:38:06,920 --> 00:38:09,320
Speaker 3: He doesn't want to look at Jesus.

782
00:38:09,360 --> 00:38:11,239
Speaker 4: Like he kind of said it with like a smart though,

783
00:38:11,360 --> 00:38:14,400
Speaker 4: like exactly, I'm asking me that, like you already know

784
00:38:14,520 --> 00:38:16,880
Speaker 4: I'm one of them, Like exactly.

785
00:38:16,520 --> 00:38:17,040
Speaker 3: Do you want?

786
00:38:17,480 --> 00:38:20,120
Speaker 4: Like it's like it's like, but that's the thing with media,

787
00:38:20,160 --> 00:38:22,239
Speaker 4: They like try to set you up so you can

788
00:38:22,280 --> 00:38:26,880
Speaker 4: say things so in the occasion that you're not living

789
00:38:26,960 --> 00:38:28,640
Speaker 4: up to what you say, they can.

790
00:38:28,560 --> 00:38:31,439
Speaker 2: Be like see exactly whereas now.

791
00:38:31,480 --> 00:38:34,480
Speaker 4: And that's what I'm saying about Ant, Like he's smart,

792
00:38:35,200 --> 00:38:38,279
Speaker 4: Like they're the athletes are smartening up when it comes

793
00:38:38,280 --> 00:38:40,880
Speaker 4: to media, because that's something that I personally have been

794
00:38:40,880 --> 00:38:43,480
Speaker 4: grateful for. Like I've never really been a media darling,

795
00:38:43,760 --> 00:38:46,279
Speaker 4: which is why now I'm in media myself, because I

796
00:38:46,320 --> 00:38:51,120
Speaker 4: feel like it's possible to uplift all players but also

797
00:38:51,200 --> 00:38:53,840
Speaker 4: be critical of their game, but like a in a

798
00:38:54,080 --> 00:38:55,080
Speaker 4: respectful way.

799
00:38:55,480 --> 00:38:57,160
Speaker 3: But when someone is doing something.

800
00:38:56,840 --> 00:38:59,399
Speaker 4: Really well, like you should be able to like unbiasedly

801
00:38:59,800 --> 00:39:01,480
Speaker 4: appreciate what that person is doing.

802
00:39:01,760 --> 00:39:02,680
Speaker 3: But if you talk so.

803
00:39:02,680 --> 00:39:04,839
Speaker 4: Crazy about them in the past, you can't really say

804
00:39:04,840 --> 00:39:07,640
Speaker 4: anything good about them ever because you'd have to apologize

805
00:39:07,640 --> 00:39:08,480
Speaker 4: for being an asshole.

806
00:39:09,080 --> 00:39:10,319
Speaker 2: But I've been there.

807
00:39:10,480 --> 00:39:13,399
Speaker 3: Trust these athletes are like smartening up.

808
00:39:13,600 --> 00:39:16,000
Speaker 4: You're not gonna get me caught up in saying something

809
00:39:16,120 --> 00:39:18,279
Speaker 4: that you can turn and flip on me in a

810
00:39:18,400 --> 00:39:20,480
Speaker 4: year or in a few weeks.

811
00:39:20,719 --> 00:39:24,800
Speaker 1: I think the craziest example of that is Ben Simmons

812
00:39:25,080 --> 00:39:28,120
Speaker 1: whole rise, Like before he got drafted. There's a clip

813
00:39:28,160 --> 00:39:31,160
Speaker 1: of I believe it's callin coward in the media being like.

814
00:39:32,560 --> 00:39:36,520
Speaker 2: Lebron, we don't need you anymore. Ben Simmons is here.

815
00:39:36,760 --> 00:39:39,600
Speaker 1: Like like that's gonna like hot.

816
00:39:39,640 --> 00:39:41,640
Speaker 2: Ben Simmons Like why would he say that? So I

817
00:39:41,680 --> 00:39:42,839
Speaker 2: think yeah said it.

818
00:39:42,920 --> 00:39:46,160
Speaker 4: Like when when when Ant started getting the Michael Jordan comps,

819
00:39:46,360 --> 00:39:48,359
Speaker 4: We're like, oh they finished, try and pack him up

820
00:39:48,360 --> 00:39:50,160
Speaker 4: in a few months, like oh.

821
00:39:50,120 --> 00:39:53,160
Speaker 3: Yeah, don't. Like I just always have thought that was

822
00:39:53,200 --> 00:39:54,279
Speaker 3: the weirdest thing about me.

823
00:39:54,440 --> 00:39:57,640
Speaker 2: They were compared Jimmy Butler to Michael Jordan.

824
00:39:57,800 --> 00:40:01,520
Speaker 4: Yeah, like we put everybody on this pet instead of

825
00:40:01,560 --> 00:40:04,520
Speaker 4: just appreciating who they are, just to kick them off

826
00:40:04,520 --> 00:40:05,680
Speaker 4: of it when you feel like it.

827
00:40:05,960 --> 00:40:06,719
Speaker 3: So it's like I.

828
00:40:06,680 --> 00:40:08,400
Speaker 2: Will say I'm guilty of that.

829
00:40:10,000 --> 00:40:12,879
Speaker 1: Just because somebody listen, and we do not judge when

830
00:40:12,920 --> 00:40:16,799
Speaker 1: somebody is going so crazy, like in a moment, you

831
00:40:16,840 --> 00:40:19,640
Speaker 1: get recentcy biased, you know what I'm saying. You get

832
00:40:19,680 --> 00:40:22,520
Speaker 1: so excited, like and so you're like, yeah, this person's

833
00:40:22,560 --> 00:40:25,120
Speaker 1: gonna be the next blah blah blah blah blah. And

834
00:40:25,520 --> 00:40:28,839
Speaker 1: if they don't, if they don't amount to that, you're

835
00:40:29,000 --> 00:40:30,759
Speaker 1: like you're kind of like, oh, you're not that, And then.

836
00:40:30,640 --> 00:40:35,360
Speaker 4: You yeah, yep, yeah, and I've seen it happen. I personally,

837
00:40:36,040 --> 00:40:39,799
Speaker 4: I've gotten like the reverse of it. Like people have

838
00:40:39,920 --> 00:40:42,680
Speaker 4: like just been so awful and mean to me from

839
00:40:42,680 --> 00:40:46,040
Speaker 4: the beginning that when I'm starting to.

840
00:40:46,000 --> 00:40:49,279
Speaker 3: Do good, they can't. There's nothing they don't want to say,

841
00:40:49,320 --> 00:40:51,800
Speaker 3: nothing exactly, which is okay.

842
00:40:51,520 --> 00:40:54,200
Speaker 4: Because I've been able to build a very thick skin

843
00:40:54,280 --> 00:40:57,840
Speaker 4: and a crazy work ethic and not play for the

844
00:40:57,960 --> 00:41:01,480
Speaker 4: validation of others or accolades or awards. I really do

845
00:41:01,520 --> 00:41:04,480
Speaker 4: play because i love playing basketball and I love working hard.

846
00:41:05,200 --> 00:41:09,040
Speaker 4: But I'm just like it's okay, Like I'm not really

847
00:41:09,040 --> 00:41:10,920
Speaker 4: gonna I'm not gonna accept it. It's not going to

848
00:41:11,000 --> 00:41:13,640
Speaker 4: mean anything to me. If all of a sudden everybody's like, oh,

849
00:41:13,800 --> 00:41:17,200
Speaker 4: Letxie is actually like a pretty decent basketball player, I

850
00:41:17,280 --> 00:41:21,120
Speaker 4: don't care. But it's like, why is it so hard

851
00:41:21,239 --> 00:41:24,319
Speaker 4: for people to just be like, you know what, we

852
00:41:24,440 --> 00:41:28,240
Speaker 4: might have been wrong about how we felt about her game.

853
00:41:28,400 --> 00:41:31,840
Speaker 4: And it's just like anybody who's been watching me in

854
00:41:31,920 --> 00:41:35,319
Speaker 4: AU the last two weeks, like, there's no way y'all

855
00:41:35,360 --> 00:41:40,479
Speaker 4: can say that I'm not an elite WNBA player And

856
00:41:40,480 --> 00:41:42,799
Speaker 4: and if you don't feel that way, whatever, that's on you.

857
00:41:42,840 --> 00:41:45,439
Speaker 4: But like whatever, you can look at the stats, blah

858
00:41:45,440 --> 00:41:47,279
Speaker 4: blah blah blah, go look at the go look at.

859
00:41:47,160 --> 00:41:48,680
Speaker 3: The film, go look at the videos.

860
00:41:48,760 --> 00:41:52,280
Speaker 4: Like I passed the eye test, but for some reason

861
00:41:52,800 --> 00:41:56,319
Speaker 4: what I did in college doesn't matter. You know, how

862
00:41:56,360 --> 00:41:59,040
Speaker 4: I play in the games that I have had opportunities

863
00:41:59,160 --> 00:42:01,759
Speaker 4: that shit don't matter or like it's just been kind

864
00:42:01,760 --> 00:42:03,560
Speaker 4: of like weird. But like that's just the media in

865
00:42:03,600 --> 00:42:05,560
Speaker 4: a nutshell. But again, like like I said, it doesn't

866
00:42:05,600 --> 00:42:08,400
Speaker 4: really bother me. It hasn't prevented me from like working

867
00:42:08,440 --> 00:42:09,120
Speaker 4: really hard and.

868
00:42:09,080 --> 00:42:19,520
Speaker 3: Trying to do what I want to do with the

869
00:42:19,600 --> 00:42:20,319
Speaker 3: All Star Game.

870
00:42:20,440 --> 00:42:22,719
Speaker 4: Back to that, I saw that next year that they're

871
00:42:22,719 --> 00:42:25,000
Speaker 4: going to try and put in a one on one

872
00:42:25,040 --> 00:42:30,600
Speaker 4: on one. I wonder where y'all got that from, bruh.

873
00:42:30,800 --> 00:42:32,800
Speaker 2: First of all, that is that was lit.

874
00:42:32,920 --> 00:42:36,520
Speaker 4: I was pleasantly surprised by the unrival of one on one.

875
00:42:37,239 --> 00:42:41,480
Speaker 4: I do have some critiques of it, though, what are

876
00:42:41,520 --> 00:42:44,360
Speaker 4: your critiques? If anybody has played one on one in

877
00:42:44,440 --> 00:42:50,560
Speaker 4: any workout or anything. Dribble limit, you have a dribble

878
00:42:50,600 --> 00:42:53,640
Speaker 4: limit and you get one one shot. There are no

879
00:42:53,800 --> 00:43:00,640
Speaker 4: offensive rebound put backs in ones, so outside of those

880
00:43:00,680 --> 00:43:01,280
Speaker 4: two things.

881
00:43:01,320 --> 00:43:03,640
Speaker 3: I mean, I think the seven second shot clock was.

882
00:43:04,000 --> 00:43:07,799
Speaker 4: Cool, but like if you were really an elite one

883
00:43:07,840 --> 00:43:10,000
Speaker 4: on one player, you don't need more than.

884
00:43:10,080 --> 00:43:12,480
Speaker 3: Four dribbles five dribbles to score.

885
00:43:12,800 --> 00:43:15,759
Speaker 4: So that would be my only thing. Dribble limit and

886
00:43:15,800 --> 00:43:17,799
Speaker 4: you only get one one shot. You don't get to

887
00:43:17,840 --> 00:43:20,080
Speaker 4: throw the ball at the rim and go jump over

888
00:43:20,160 --> 00:43:23,080
Speaker 4: your person and put it back, like you don't get

889
00:43:23,120 --> 00:43:26,400
Speaker 4: to do that in ones. But other than that, it

890
00:43:26,520 --> 00:43:28,120
Speaker 4: was really fun to watch. I was.

891
00:43:28,480 --> 00:43:28,799
Speaker 3: I was.

892
00:43:28,960 --> 00:43:31,439
Speaker 4: I will say I had my hesitations about it because

893
00:43:31,440 --> 00:43:33,759
Speaker 4: I was like one on one, like how is this

894
00:43:33,840 --> 00:43:34,359
Speaker 4: gonna look?

895
00:43:34,480 --> 00:43:37,080
Speaker 3: But it actually was like really enjoyable. I really liked

896
00:43:37,080 --> 00:43:37,640
Speaker 3: watching them.

897
00:43:38,200 --> 00:43:42,799
Speaker 1: Yeah, that was fun. Your your your teammate Skyler, she

898
00:43:43,360 --> 00:43:47,359
Speaker 1: like I watched her in the couple. Great, that's gonna

899
00:43:47,360 --> 00:43:47,960
Speaker 1: be exciting.

900
00:43:48,200 --> 00:43:50,160
Speaker 4: It was so funny just saying that the guards go

901
00:43:50,200 --> 00:43:52,600
Speaker 4: against the bigs, like they didn't stand a chance with

902
00:43:52,680 --> 00:43:57,360
Speaker 4: those rules. Like I saw like mislayup rebound, miss layup rebound,

903
00:43:57,440 --> 00:43:59,759
Speaker 4: like that's not allowed in one on one.

904
00:44:00,320 --> 00:44:03,560
Speaker 2: Yeah. Also that's part of that is like the fans

905
00:44:03,640 --> 00:44:04,760
Speaker 2: picking how it seeded.

906
00:44:05,000 --> 00:44:08,080
Speaker 3: Yeah, or they should separate guards and posts.

907
00:44:08,400 --> 00:44:11,719
Speaker 4: That makes sense like for sure, because I'm sorry and

908
00:44:12,000 --> 00:44:14,040
Speaker 4: I think I do think Fee is one of the

909
00:44:14,080 --> 00:44:15,600
Speaker 4: best ISO players in the league.

910
00:44:16,200 --> 00:44:18,560
Speaker 1: I picked her to win that, yeah, on how Highlights

911
00:44:18,560 --> 00:44:20,640
Speaker 1: go go go watch, y'all, because I kicked her to

912
00:44:20,680 --> 00:44:21,040
Speaker 1: win that.

913
00:44:21,239 --> 00:44:24,120
Speaker 4: I will say that Fee is definitely, absolutely one of

914
00:44:24,160 --> 00:44:25,680
Speaker 4: the best ISO players in the league.

915
00:44:26,520 --> 00:44:29,359
Speaker 3: But to say that a Rique is not the best

916
00:44:29,400 --> 00:44:30,040
Speaker 3: one on one.

917
00:44:29,920 --> 00:44:33,480
Speaker 4: Player, like like we all know because we all have

918
00:44:33,560 --> 00:44:38,120
Speaker 4: to freaking guard her, Like, she is probably the best

919
00:44:38,160 --> 00:44:39,279
Speaker 4: one on one player in the league.

920
00:44:39,320 --> 00:44:39,920
Speaker 3: But she didn't win.

921
00:44:40,040 --> 00:44:43,200
Speaker 4: She came in second, which still with all those post players,

922
00:44:43,280 --> 00:44:45,799
Speaker 4: is still very impressive that she made it to the

923
00:44:45,800 --> 00:44:49,759
Speaker 4: final round because yeah, the guards like they were, they

924
00:44:49,760 --> 00:44:56,200
Speaker 4: were literally just getting beat up and out rebounded. Yeah,

925
00:44:56,239 --> 00:44:59,000
Speaker 4: but now the quid media going around also our weekend,

926
00:44:59,080 --> 00:45:00,960
Speaker 4: asking the guys they would play in a one on

927
00:45:00,960 --> 00:45:03,200
Speaker 4: one tournament, Like these guys play one on one all

928
00:45:03,239 --> 00:45:04,719
Speaker 4: off season, that's all they do.

929
00:45:05,480 --> 00:45:07,399
Speaker 1: But they also play pick up and they play hard

930
00:45:07,480 --> 00:45:09,320
Speaker 1: play doing the All Star game, so that doesn't matter.

931
00:45:09,480 --> 00:45:12,719
Speaker 4: So I mean, you know what I got asked, I

932
00:45:12,719 --> 00:45:14,800
Speaker 4: want to check out him because you already took in

933
00:45:14,920 --> 00:45:17,560
Speaker 4: season tournament from us. You're finish take on one on

934
00:45:17,560 --> 00:45:19,680
Speaker 4: one right.

935
00:45:19,239 --> 00:45:21,080
Speaker 2: And he trying to get Kaitlyn.

936
00:45:21,280 --> 00:45:23,960
Speaker 1: He was trying to get Kaitlyn, like they're using all

937
00:45:24,040 --> 00:45:29,680
Speaker 1: y'all ship. But I got asked doing another show about

938
00:45:30,000 --> 00:45:32,319
Speaker 1: basically they had me do like a bracket of it

939
00:45:32,360 --> 00:45:37,480
Speaker 1: was like Caitlyn Clark and Steph Curry, Damian Lillard and Rique.

940
00:45:38,120 --> 00:45:42,200
Speaker 1: It was like a co ed tournament basically, and like

941
00:45:42,520 --> 00:45:44,840
Speaker 1: the tournament, yeah, but it.

942
00:45:44,880 --> 00:45:47,439
Speaker 2: Was a guy and it was like a guy that's cool.

943
00:45:47,520 --> 00:45:47,680
Speaker 4: Yeah.

944
00:45:48,040 --> 00:45:49,799
Speaker 1: I was gonna say, what do you think about that?

945
00:45:50,000 --> 00:45:52,000
Speaker 1: Because I thought that that sounded lit. I don't know

946
00:45:52,320 --> 00:45:53,080
Speaker 1: that would be lit.

947
00:45:53,360 --> 00:45:57,920
Speaker 4: Just come do it at ours, Yeah, just come do

948
00:45:57,960 --> 00:46:01,640
Speaker 4: it at ours, but like make it like a fun thing,

949
00:46:01,760 --> 00:46:05,840
Speaker 4: like that's the thing, Like basketball is fun everything.

950
00:46:05,840 --> 00:46:08,160
Speaker 1: I thought when Stephan Sabrina shot against each other, that

951
00:46:08,320 --> 00:46:09,240
Speaker 1: was so fun.

952
00:46:10,000 --> 00:46:13,879
Speaker 4: I thought, everything doesn't have to be like hyper competitive

953
00:46:14,000 --> 00:46:18,080
Speaker 4: think PC. Sometimes things can just just be fun. And yes,

954
00:46:18,160 --> 00:46:19,640
Speaker 4: someone at the end of the day has to win

955
00:46:19,719 --> 00:46:23,280
Speaker 4: and someone has to lose. But in like certain situations,

956
00:46:23,960 --> 00:46:29,200
Speaker 4: entertainment does trump competitiveness. But like some some fans just

957
00:46:29,239 --> 00:46:33,640
Speaker 4: cannot comprehend that and just want to just be mean

958
00:46:33,840 --> 00:46:35,560
Speaker 4: about everything.

959
00:46:35,160 --> 00:46:37,600
Speaker 2: They do and that's gonna be. That's gonna be it forever.

960
00:46:37,719 --> 00:46:38,920
Speaker 2: That's gonna be the case forever.

961
00:46:39,000 --> 00:46:41,120
Speaker 1: There's like those people who choose to do that and

962
00:46:41,160 --> 00:46:42,120
Speaker 1: be mean about everything.

963
00:46:42,640 --> 00:46:44,360
Speaker 2: There's nothing that we can do about them, you know

964
00:46:44,400 --> 00:46:44,799
Speaker 2: what I mean?

965
00:46:45,040 --> 00:46:47,520
Speaker 1: Yeah, I will say the last thing I will say,

966
00:46:47,560 --> 00:46:49,040
Speaker 1: pissed me off. Vows are weekd be Cause I forgot

967
00:46:49,040 --> 00:46:53,120
Speaker 1: to mention this earlier. Why are we having full blown

968
00:46:53,239 --> 00:46:56,120
Speaker 1: ceremonies in the middle of the games?

969
00:46:56,320 --> 00:46:56,879
Speaker 3: I don't know.

970
00:46:57,880 --> 00:47:02,120
Speaker 1: Like I was in there and I was use like, okay,

971
00:47:02,480 --> 00:47:06,319
Speaker 1: this it felt very long because of this. First of all,

972
00:47:06,680 --> 00:47:09,920
Speaker 1: y'all got Dame shooting against a random.

973
00:47:09,520 --> 00:47:13,759
Speaker 4: From the crowd, my gosh, and the whole thing was weird,

974
00:47:14,320 --> 00:47:16,240
Speaker 4: and little thing was weird.

975
00:47:16,080 --> 00:47:19,279
Speaker 2: I lose, That's what I was saying. I knew Dame

976
00:47:19,440 --> 00:47:22,480
Speaker 2: was missing no shots purpose if Dave.

977
00:47:22,280 --> 00:47:24,839
Speaker 4: Looked at that kid one hundred grand and just went

978
00:47:26,040 --> 00:47:28,279
Speaker 4: three in a row, like nope, no money for you

979
00:47:28,400 --> 00:47:30,120
Speaker 4: little kids, Like what's the kid?

980
00:47:30,960 --> 00:47:33,200
Speaker 1: Once mister bees asked the kid who gives me the

981
00:47:33,200 --> 00:47:35,040
Speaker 1: hebgb's by the way, But that's a whole conversation for

982
00:47:35,040 --> 00:47:38,480
Speaker 1: another day. Once mister Bees I asked that kid what

983
00:47:38,600 --> 00:47:39,879
Speaker 1: he wanted the money for and he was.

984
00:47:39,840 --> 00:47:42,440
Speaker 2: Like for college and to help my family. I was like, damn,

985
00:47:42,440 --> 00:47:43,120
Speaker 2: can't be him.

986
00:47:43,920 --> 00:47:47,200
Speaker 4: But I was just like, okay, like what was there

987
00:47:47,239 --> 00:47:52,279
Speaker 4: a single benefit of Dame winning that competition? Like that

988
00:47:52,320 --> 00:47:55,480
Speaker 4: the day would Dame get that money, because that's not

989
00:47:55,560 --> 00:47:57,040
Speaker 4: life changing money for Dame.

990
00:47:57,480 --> 00:48:00,080
Speaker 2: He has had Dick had he I'm saying.

991
00:47:59,800 --> 00:48:02,160
Speaker 4: Like, so I was like, was mister B's like trying

992
00:48:02,160 --> 00:48:05,600
Speaker 4: to like oki dok the NBA? Like I'm like, I

993
00:48:05,760 --> 00:48:07,799
Speaker 4: was watching it and I was just like, wait, so

994
00:48:07,880 --> 00:48:11,319
Speaker 4: if Dame makes more shots than the kid, if the

995
00:48:11,320 --> 00:48:16,240
Speaker 4: professional basketball player makes more shots than the regular kid,

996
00:48:16,640 --> 00:48:19,960
Speaker 4: then the regular kid gets no money, right.

997
00:48:20,560 --> 00:48:23,560
Speaker 1: I actually think that the competition lowki No, it was

998
00:48:23,600 --> 00:48:25,520
Speaker 1: a bear that was stupid. Hello, But I think that

999
00:48:25,920 --> 00:48:27,520
Speaker 1: if it would have it would have ate like it'd

1000
00:48:27,520 --> 00:48:29,880
Speaker 1: actually been a cute, little energy breakup because it was

1001
00:48:30,000 --> 00:48:32,920
Speaker 1: a lot shorter than the ceremony they had later if

1002
00:48:32,960 --> 00:48:36,239
Speaker 1: they had him shooting against another random yeah, or they

1003
00:48:36,239 --> 00:48:38,600
Speaker 1: should have had like Dame shoot against Steph Curry and

1004
00:48:38,680 --> 00:48:40,640
Speaker 1: had a kid represent a kid.

1005
00:48:41,200 --> 00:48:44,160
Speaker 3: Yes, Like that just makes it like.

1006
00:48:45,239 --> 00:48:46,640
Speaker 2: Are you trying to make Dame of dumb?

1007
00:48:46,920 --> 00:48:50,200
Speaker 4: The fact that Dame had to make three and the

1008
00:48:50,280 --> 00:48:53,360
Speaker 4: kid only had to make one. Like, I think, you

1009
00:48:53,400 --> 00:48:56,399
Speaker 4: don't know what I think. After Day made like the

1010
00:48:56,400 --> 00:48:59,440
Speaker 4: first one, I think he had like a light bulb

1011
00:48:59,640 --> 00:49:02,719
Speaker 4: moment it well, I keeped it Day. It was I

1012
00:49:02,800 --> 00:49:04,960
Speaker 4: waited one, yeah, because then he started missing.

1013
00:49:05,360 --> 00:49:09,240
Speaker 1: I feel like being there watching it, you could clearly

1014
00:49:09,280 --> 00:49:11,840
Speaker 1: tell that Day made his first two okay, and that

1015
00:49:11,920 --> 00:49:15,640
Speaker 1: kid still had a made one. And that's when mister Beast, like,

1016
00:49:15,680 --> 00:49:19,399
Speaker 1: I guess to make it climactic. Mister Beasts, after Day

1017
00:49:19,400 --> 00:49:21,400
Speaker 1: made a second one, was like, so what what do

1018
00:49:21,440 --> 00:49:23,239
Speaker 1: you want to use the money for? And then he

1019
00:49:23,320 --> 00:49:26,239
Speaker 1: said college and his family and then it's like Dame's like, okay,

1020
00:49:26,280 --> 00:49:27,520
Speaker 1: I'm not going to make this last one.

1021
00:49:27,600 --> 00:49:28,760
Speaker 2: So he just kept missing.

1022
00:49:29,280 --> 00:49:32,880
Speaker 4: I think mister Beast like thought. He was like going like,

1023
00:49:33,440 --> 00:49:35,400
Speaker 4: I bet you he had a video on Dick. This

1024
00:49:35,560 --> 00:49:39,439
Speaker 4: is why NBA players are. This is like I bet

1025
00:49:39,680 --> 00:49:42,280
Speaker 4: like mister BS does like I don't know, I agree

1026
00:49:42,320 --> 00:49:45,600
Speaker 4: with you. Mister Beasts is like and he like gives me.

1027
00:49:46,600 --> 00:49:48,560
Speaker 2: I'm scared of him. He gives me very weird And

1028
00:49:48,800 --> 00:49:50,480
Speaker 2: why do you have so much money? Every time I

1029
00:49:50,520 --> 00:49:52,120
Speaker 2: see him, he give it away a million dollars?

1030
00:49:52,160 --> 00:49:55,600
Speaker 3: Why and why are you always recording it?

1031
00:49:56,800 --> 00:50:00,000
Speaker 2: Just give it away sometimes I always find sus.

1032
00:50:00,920 --> 00:50:04,560
Speaker 4: Yeah, that was odd and like rewatching it back because

1033
00:50:04,560 --> 00:50:06,319
Speaker 4: when I was watching it in real time, I was

1034
00:50:06,360 --> 00:50:09,160
Speaker 4: just confused because I was like, wait, so Dame wins

1035
00:50:09,239 --> 00:50:12,239
Speaker 4: and the like then the money, No one gets money, so.

1036
00:50:12,120 --> 00:50:15,080
Speaker 3: Would then know why would Dame win? Like why would

1037
00:50:15,120 --> 00:50:15,680
Speaker 3: he want to win?

1038
00:50:16,480 --> 00:50:16,640
Speaker 4: Right?

1039
00:50:16,760 --> 00:50:19,120
Speaker 1: They told him before it started that they have to

1040
00:50:19,160 --> 00:50:20,960
Speaker 1: love the get. They had the one hundred thousand. It

1041
00:50:20,960 --> 00:50:22,680
Speaker 1: wasn't the real one hundred thousand dollars, I hope, but

1042
00:50:22,680 --> 00:50:24,520
Speaker 1: they had the one hundred thousand dollars on the court

1043
00:50:24,600 --> 00:50:25,480
Speaker 1: like they were gonna give.

1044
00:50:25,320 --> 00:50:28,360
Speaker 4: It to Shon. Gave me squid Games vibes.

1045
00:50:29,040 --> 00:50:31,560
Speaker 3: Yes, this is weird.

1046
00:50:31,719 --> 00:50:34,799
Speaker 4: Speaking of squid Games and AI and all that. Why

1047
00:50:34,840 --> 00:50:37,640
Speaker 4: did why did Shaq walk out with that robot?

1048
00:50:38,680 --> 00:50:39,879
Speaker 3: That was terrifying?

1049
00:50:40,320 --> 00:50:42,600
Speaker 1: Was it on television how they had all the robots

1050
00:50:42,640 --> 00:50:43,720
Speaker 1: do the do a dance?

1051
00:50:43,960 --> 00:50:44,120
Speaker 4: No?

1052
00:50:44,200 --> 00:50:45,920
Speaker 3: I didn't, or if it was, I missed it.

1053
00:50:46,000 --> 00:50:48,640
Speaker 4: I just saw that robot walk out with Shaq and

1054
00:50:48,719 --> 00:50:51,239
Speaker 4: I immediately thought of an episode of Black Mirror, and

1055
00:50:51,280 --> 00:50:53,080
Speaker 4: I was like, what are we doing?

1056
00:50:53,239 --> 00:50:54,640
Speaker 3: Robots are not our friends?

1057
00:50:54,800 --> 00:50:57,080
Speaker 1: What people don't know is there there was like five

1058
00:50:57,120 --> 00:50:59,719
Speaker 1: of those little dog robots and I guess it was

1059
00:50:59,760 --> 00:51:01,480
Speaker 1: drunk commercial break or something, you know how they do

1060
00:51:01,520 --> 00:51:05,880
Speaker 1: stuff in the arena. They had the dog robots do

1061
00:51:06,120 --> 00:51:08,160
Speaker 1: like a dance, and I was.

1062
00:51:10,160 --> 00:51:13,920
Speaker 4: There's literally an entire episode of Black Mirror with those dogs,

1063
00:51:14,360 --> 00:51:15,520
Speaker 4: those robot dogs.

1064
00:51:15,800 --> 00:51:19,080
Speaker 1: And then they had another one race and they said

1065
00:51:19,520 --> 00:51:20,720
Speaker 1: do you have anything to say?

1066
00:51:20,760 --> 00:51:22,760
Speaker 2: And then the robot went makes some noise.

1067
00:51:23,640 --> 00:51:27,480
Speaker 4: Nah nah, I tweeted. I said, y'all not afraid enough

1068
00:51:27,520 --> 00:51:31,239
Speaker 4: of robots for me. I watched too many movies. I

1069
00:51:31,320 --> 00:51:33,759
Speaker 4: read too many books. I mean, y'all just literally have

1070
00:51:33,800 --> 00:51:36,640
Speaker 4: to watch Terminator. That's all you really have to watch.

1071
00:51:37,120 --> 00:51:37,359
Speaker 3: No.

1072
00:51:37,560 --> 00:51:39,520
Speaker 1: I was, I'm ready for w All Star WEEKD because

1073
00:51:39,560 --> 00:51:40,839
Speaker 1: w Allstar wikid was lit.

1074
00:51:41,360 --> 00:51:44,320
Speaker 3: It was so fun. It was so fun, and I

1075
00:51:44,360 --> 00:51:48,160
Speaker 3: think the USA All Star format also was really.

1076
00:51:48,080 --> 00:51:50,360
Speaker 2: Fun because they don't they tried.

1077
00:51:50,680 --> 00:51:52,920
Speaker 4: Yeah, But I'm like, because then I saw that Yannis

1078
00:51:53,040 --> 00:51:55,200
Speaker 4: was like they need to do like a World versus USA,

1079
00:51:55,400 --> 00:51:59,759
Speaker 4: which that could be not great because like snubs will

1080
00:51:59,760 --> 00:52:03,680
Speaker 4: absolutely happen. So like, I don't know, like when people

1081
00:52:03,680 --> 00:52:06,520
Speaker 4: are like people are like obsessing about fixing All Star weekend.

1082
00:52:06,800 --> 00:52:08,160
Speaker 3: I think everyone they just need.

1083
00:52:08,160 --> 00:52:10,040
Speaker 4: To like peel it all the way back to like

1084
00:52:10,160 --> 00:52:13,760
Speaker 4: it's our basic form and then go from there instead

1085
00:52:13,760 --> 00:52:17,239
Speaker 4: of adding like all these trinkets and bells and whistles.

1086
00:52:18,320 --> 00:52:20,480
Speaker 3: People want to watch basketball.

1087
00:52:21,200 --> 00:52:25,799
Speaker 4: So that's why they love WNBA All Star because they

1088
00:52:25,840 --> 00:52:28,960
Speaker 4: were hooping. I was there, You were there, that the

1089
00:52:29,160 --> 00:52:32,320
Speaker 4: environment was amazing, Like they was out there hooping and

1090
00:52:32,440 --> 00:52:33,600
Speaker 4: like that's what people want to see.

1091
00:52:34,560 --> 00:52:37,120
Speaker 3: So I think that that's the fix. Adam Silver, I

1092
00:52:37,160 --> 00:52:38,160
Speaker 3: don't know, but.

1093
00:52:38,239 --> 00:52:41,040
Speaker 2: He don't do nothing simple. Everything is always up.

1094
00:52:42,320 --> 00:52:45,600
Speaker 4: He's obsessed with tournaments. Maybe he has like a baby,

1095
00:52:45,600 --> 00:52:49,520
Speaker 4: he has like a problem, Like I don't know, but

1096
00:52:51,160 --> 00:52:55,800
Speaker 4: everything is a tournament now, Like, can we just play basketball,

1097
00:52:55,880 --> 00:52:56,480
Speaker 4: Adam Silver?

1098
00:52:57,239 --> 00:52:57,879
Speaker 2: Just one game?

1099
00:52:58,239 --> 00:53:02,120
Speaker 3: Like Kathy, don't start that ship. Gosh, mis cuff is fun,

1100
00:53:02,239 --> 00:53:03,680
Speaker 3: but that's all we need.

1101
00:53:04,160 --> 00:53:04,640
Speaker 2: That's enough.

1102
00:53:04,920 --> 00:53:05,960
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's enough.

1103
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Speaker 2: Well, Lexi, I'm so excited for you in this next chapter.

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Speaker 1: And I can't wait to be doing breakdowns in your

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Speaker 1: win now era, Like that's when now the content, that's.

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Speaker 3: What absolutely is.

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Speaker 4: And I am telling the Seattle fans like this show

1108
00:53:20,920 --> 00:53:23,520
Speaker 4: is not going to be like messy. It's not gonna

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00:53:23,640 --> 00:53:26,160
Speaker 4: tell secrets of the locker room, good or bad.

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Speaker 3: Like this is like quite literally a journey.

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Speaker 4: Oh and another full circle moment that I want to

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00:53:34,120 --> 00:53:37,120
Speaker 4: drip in here. I think the Seattle Storm, We're supposed

1113
00:53:37,120 --> 00:53:39,719
Speaker 4: to draft me, and they ended up not drafting me,

1114
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Speaker 4: which was okay, but I remember talking to the Seattle Storm.

1115
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Speaker 4: I was very sure I was going through the storm

1116
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Speaker 4: and I ended up going to Connecticut, which still was

1117
00:53:48,600 --> 00:53:52,800
Speaker 4: a blessing to get drafted. But I mean, if my

1118
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Speaker 4: life ain't the name of this damn podcast, Like it's

1119
00:53:56,200 --> 00:53:59,480
Speaker 4: just full circle moment after full circle moment, Like, so

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Speaker 4: this is to be fun and now I have you

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Speaker 4: coming on this journey with me and our iHeart family,

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Speaker 4: so like this is just gonna be really fun and

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Speaker 4: I'm really excited.

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Speaker 2: No, I can't wait.

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Speaker 1: I don't worry, guys, Seattle fans, LEXI won't be messy.

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Speaker 3: We will not be messy.

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Speaker 4: We're gonna be fun and it's going to be a

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Speaker 4: time and I'm so excited. And thank you guys so

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Speaker 4: much for coming to another episode of Full Circle.

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Speaker 3: We will see you next week.

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Speaker 2: Bye, thanks for listening to Full Circle.

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Speaker 1: We'll be back next week with more Basketball for the Girls,

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Speaker 1: by the girls.

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Speaker 2: We want to hear from you.

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Speaker 1: Leave us a review on Apple Podcasts, and tell us

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Speaker 1: what you want us to talk about. Full Circle is

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Speaker 1: hosted by Lexi Brown and Mariah Rose. Our executive producer

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Speaker 1: is Jesse Katz. Our supervising producer is Grace Fuz. Our

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Speaker 1: producer is Zoe Danklow. Listen to Full Circle on America's

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Speaker 1: and search full Circle with Lexi Brown and Mariah Rose

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Speaker 1: and start listening