Speaker 1: M H. Welcome back all the smoke, l A Season
Speaker 1: four Jack. We got a special guests, someone very important
Speaker 1: to us and kind of getting in our start in
Speaker 1: this whole space. Emmy Award winning journalists. It's been a
Speaker 1: minute since you've been on here, and you haven't been
Speaker 1: talking to nobody. Welcome everybody who has something to say,
Speaker 1: comes through all the smoke. Let's not get right before
Speaker 1: we get to what we're gonna get to. We would
Speaker 1: like to officially welcome me to the Showtime family. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you're making the announcement. I mean you're part of the
Speaker 1: game now. Rachel is here to join the show Time
Speaker 1: Basketball team and really kind to help guide this ship.
Speaker 1: So with an honor to have you on board, and
Speaker 1: we're excited to be working with you. I mean, I
Speaker 1: am so thrilled. For twenty five years, I have gotten
Speaker 1: to do what I love for a job, which is
Speaker 1: also kind of crazy in and of itself. And to
Speaker 1: have this next step be with Showtime Sports, to get
Speaker 1: to work with crazy, cool, talented people I admire and
Speaker 1: respect both in front of and behind the camera. I'm
Speaker 1: so excited to join you guys. Can you take a
Speaker 1: few minutes, Let's get straight to it to tell us
Speaker 1: about your departure from ESPN. Yeah, I mean, look, it
Speaker 1: all started really good a few years ago. Um, we
Speaker 1: can go back to three years ago. ESPN gave me
Speaker 1: a new contract. I already been there with The Jump,
Speaker 1: and in the contract was that I was going to
Speaker 1: host the NBA Finals. And you guys have known me
Speaker 1: for years, I have covered the sport for decades. The
Speaker 1: idea that I was going to host the NBA Finals
Speaker 1: everything my dream job. That was going to be your
Speaker 1: first time, to be my first time doing it. It
Speaker 1: just it meant the world. I mean I called every
Speaker 1: executive involved personally to take them. I mean, I was
Speaker 1: just I was so so excited. Um. They put everything
Speaker 1: in writing in the contract, they put out a big
Speaker 1: press release about it. Um. One of the things I
Speaker 1: asked for in the contract was that any pregame show
Speaker 1: I did would be a continuation of our daily show,
Speaker 1: The Jump, because it was something we started together. I
Speaker 1: was so proud of. And I just also didn't want
Speaker 1: any confusion. There's a lot of politics at ESPN, and
Speaker 1: I knew that the NBA Countdown job was still open,
Speaker 1: and I didn't want anyone to think that I was
Speaker 1: trying to horn in on NBA Countdown. I wasn't. I
Speaker 1: wanted to stay with the Jump. It was important to me,
Speaker 1: so I thought making that distinction would really help things.
Speaker 1: And Maria Taylor ended up getting the NBA Countdown job.
Speaker 1: I really wanted to make an effort to welcome her,
Speaker 1: to open my door to her. I sent her flowers
Speaker 1: when she got the job because I was really really
Speaker 1: happy for her. What changed on how you felt in
Speaker 1: the workplace, Well, things got complicated later that season, y'all
Speaker 1: know it was right. So we had a pandemic. There
Speaker 1: was the tragic murder of your friend George Floyd, a
Speaker 1: lot of difficult conversations with this country looking itself in
Speaker 1: the face, seeing what had to change and be different.
Speaker 1: And The New York Times did an expose in July
Speaker 1: on racism at ESPN and the lack of opportunities for
Speaker 1: people of color, and the executivety Is p N said,
Speaker 1: what I think people would expect all the right things
Speaker 1: about we'd like to give more people more opportunities. We're
Speaker 1: continuing to grow all of those things. And around the
Speaker 1: same time, I got a phone call asking me would
Speaker 1: I step aside for Maria to host the NBA Finals
Speaker 1: and have me go back to being a sideline reporter.
Speaker 1: And they stressed it was my choice. They weren't telling
Speaker 1: me to do this because it was in my contract,
Speaker 1: but they were putting a lot of pressure on me.
Speaker 1: You know. I was being told, well, you're not a
Speaker 1: team player, which any woman in business knows is code right.
Speaker 1: Women are supposed to be kumbaya and team players and
Speaker 1: helpful and men are aggressive sharks and all of that.
Speaker 1: And I just felt like, hey, I worked so long
Speaker 1: decades for this job. I have done everything that was asked.
Speaker 1: We put on some great shows leading up to the playoffs,
Speaker 1: and I wanted a chance to do it. And at
Speaker 1: this time, I was also getting ready to leave for
Speaker 1: the Bubble and went down there and it was a
Speaker 1: different set of equipment than I have been using to
Speaker 1: broadcast at home. So my very first day i'm there,
Speaker 1: I'm using the new equipment. And I didn't know that
Speaker 1: if you leave a particular app running in the background,
Speaker 1: that the line from my hotel room looking into my
Speaker 1: hotel room them to Bristol would stay open. So I
Speaker 1: thought I was done for the day. I did the
Speaker 1: things you would do on your first day in a
Speaker 1: hotel room. I spent hours unpacking. UM, called my husband,
Speaker 1: called talk to my kids, called some friends, called my doctor,
Speaker 1: And unfortunately, that entire time, nobody back at ESPN told
Speaker 1: me that there was an open line to my hotel
Speaker 1: room and anyone who looked at the feed could see me.
Speaker 1: No one shut it off, decided, oh, she clearly doesn't
Speaker 1: know she's getting watched unpacking or doing all these other things. Um,
Speaker 1: And at least one person, uh, decided to just sit
Speaker 1: and watch and started spying on me like I was
Speaker 1: their own personal television show. And when they heard something
Speaker 1: they thought was juicy, they picked up their cell phone
Speaker 1: and they started recording my conversation on their cell phone.
Speaker 1: A personal conversation. Yeah, this was a conversation between me
Speaker 1: and a friend. We talked about a lot of different things, UM.
Speaker 1: But then he brought up the article that had been
Speaker 1: in the paper about the lack of opportunities for people
Speaker 1: of color at ESPN, and we started talking about how
Speaker 1: my situation may intersect with some of the race and
Speaker 1: gender history of a network that is again well documented,
Speaker 1: is complicated history with both of those kinds of things
Speaker 1: and those issues. So we started talking about it, and um,
Speaker 1: I wanna I want to try to get if I
Speaker 1: have it here exactly what I said, because I think
Speaker 1: there's a lot of confusion over that, and there's been
Speaker 1: some a lot of bad headlines. So let's just get
Speaker 1: it clear, and so here it is. I called Maria
Speaker 1: Taylor incredibly talented. Then I said, I wish Maria Taylor
Speaker 1: all the success in the world. She covers football, she
Speaker 1: covers basketball. If you need to give her more things
Speaker 1: to do, because you ESPN are feeling pressure about your
Speaker 1: crappy long time record on diversity, which, by the way,
Speaker 1: I know personally from the female side, well, then go
Speaker 1: for it. Just find it somewhere else. You're not going
Speaker 1: to find it from me taking my thing away. This
Speaker 1: is in my contract, This job is in my contract
Speaker 1: in writing, and I want to just kind of touch
Speaker 1: on the female side of it. Part of that quote
Speaker 1: and the frustration in my voice when I was talking
Speaker 1: about it, because you guys are players. You know what
Speaker 1: it's like for women in this business. And y'all know
Speaker 1: when I started. I mean, things are a lot better
Speaker 1: now than when I started years ago, and I have
Speaker 1: been through a lot. I have fought through a lot
Speaker 1: of things in this business to get to where I am,
Speaker 1: And to me, it felt like, hey, if you have
Speaker 1: a problem, if it is this article, if it is
Speaker 1: something else, whatever it is, why are you coming to
Speaker 1: the two women here to solve it? Like? Why is
Speaker 1: this a switch? And you know one thing I said
Speaker 1: in that conversation that didn't get publicized as much is
Speaker 1: um you know, Maria worked on college football at the time.
Speaker 1: She was the sideline reporter on college football and Rees
Speaker 1: Davis was the host, just like I was the host
Speaker 1: of the NBA Finals and the host of the NBA
Speaker 1: pregame show. And I asked my friend on the phone,
Speaker 1: I said, do you think ESPN would ever say to
Speaker 1: Reese Davis, Hey, we want to give Maria this opportunity,
Speaker 1: you go be the sideline reporter. Do you guys think
Speaker 1: that what ever happened, they don't say that to men.
Speaker 1: So when I said go somewhere else when I was
Speaker 1: feeling so frustrated, that's what I was talking about and
Speaker 1: things kind of progressive. ESPN HR did a full investigation
Speaker 1: into it. They told me that I had done nothing
Speaker 1: wrong that required any kind of discipline. Then six months later,
Speaker 1: they actually gave me a contract extension and a race,
Speaker 1: and they actually elevated Maria in that same period as well.
Speaker 1: So I thought we had put things behind us, And unfortunately,
Speaker 1: I think there were still some people who had bad feelings,
Speaker 1: and they held onto this tape for a year, just
Speaker 1: kept it in their pocket, and then when there was
Speaker 1: a point they wanted some leverage with their own situations,
Speaker 1: they fed it to the press and the story that
Speaker 1: ran again in the New York Times. And I will
Speaker 1: say now what I said then, which is I feel
Speaker 1: very sorry that any of this touched Maria Taylor, because
Speaker 1: she's a fellow woman in this business. It wasn't her
Speaker 1: fault what was going on. I wasn't talking about her actions.
Speaker 1: I was talking about someone else. And to even bring
Speaker 1: her into it, um, that was a mistake on my part.
Speaker 1: And if I caused her to be upset in any way,
Speaker 1: that stinks. I don't want to be that person, right,
Speaker 1: I don't want to do that. So I called, I texted,
Speaker 1: I asked our supervisors to set up a meeting, and
Speaker 1: I was just told she wasn't interested in talking to me,
Speaker 1: which is, of course, you know, that's her thing. And
Speaker 1: I thought that when this became public, I should also
Speaker 1: apologize on air, and I did that. Imagine yourself working
Speaker 1: somewhere twenty five years for a job and they want
Speaker 1: to use you as a scapegoat to pick something that
Speaker 1: they've been sucking up for years. It don't work like that,
Speaker 1: and that's not fair to nobody at no race. And
Speaker 1: that's how I took it, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: And and that and then it just wasn't right. And
Speaker 1: that's why I didn't mind um jumping out there and
Speaker 1: standing up for you, because I love you and I
Speaker 1: and I know you, and like we said earlier, we
Speaker 1: wouldn't be here without you. But people just gotta put
Speaker 1: theirself in somebody else's shoes sometime before you just jump
Speaker 1: out there and judge and just already and make it racial.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. If I would be, I
Speaker 1: would be upset the same goddamn way. If I've been
Speaker 1: working my life for a job for twenty years and
Speaker 1: just because you've but you've been messing something up your
Speaker 1: whole last twenty years. You want to use my situation
Speaker 1: to make it look better and make me take a
Speaker 1: step back on the job that I've been working for it.
Speaker 1: Don't work like that, and that wasn't fair. So I
Speaker 1: understood it, and that's why I stood up for you. Well.
Speaker 1: It was especially too in a time where there was
Speaker 1: so much racial tension, you know what I mean, Like
Speaker 1: we knew what was in the air at the time,
Speaker 1: So that's why I kind of felt like, and that's
Speaker 1: the media. I mean. I had to learn the hard
Speaker 1: way on the email joker thing. You know. I jumped
Speaker 1: out there without knowing everything and and tried to be like,
Speaker 1: you know, if this is what I think it is
Speaker 1: from what everyone was hearing, this is not all that.
Speaker 1: And then I kind of here and I'm just like, oh, ship,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. But it's it's the media
Speaker 1: will take stuff. And we know we're all a part
Speaker 1: of the media. The media will take stuff and and
Speaker 1: take what they need and and and run with that,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, And no matter who it
Speaker 1: hurts or effects that it's not about being right, It's
Speaker 1: about being first, you know, So who wants to be
Speaker 1: able to break that? I will say that in the
Speaker 1: days after all of this sort of became more public,
Speaker 1: I was really moved by you. By you, Matt. You
Speaker 1: got on a plane at five in the morning to
Speaker 1: come be next to me on television, remember, and you
Speaker 1: give me chills to think about it when we're in Phoenix, right,
Speaker 1: And with no hesitation, I talked to him, yeah, because
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, we know it's it's always hard
Speaker 1: because you know, obviously this is a crazy business. The
Speaker 1: NBA is a crazy business. But you really find very
Speaker 1: few real friends. I'm cool with everybody, but real friends
Speaker 1: is hard to come by. Some when I heard it,
Speaker 1: started hearing you know that Rachel's racist and this is
Speaker 1: not just like fuck no, and that's why I felt
Speaker 1: like I had to speak on it. Like I said,
Speaker 1: you kind of you know, you definitely helped start Jack
Speaker 1: and with the jump at the same time, and then
Speaker 1: as soon as I was ready to come, like you
Speaker 1: were like a almost a mother figure from a standpoint,
Speaker 1: you know, this is your camera. If you need help
Speaker 1: with that, U saw practice, you know, call me, here's
Speaker 1: my cell phone. We can do that. I'm just like, oh, ship, well,
Speaker 1: because she's given me the kind of the blueprint. So
Speaker 1: you were always so welcome me because I felt like
Speaker 1: you wanted to see us succeed in this space, which
Speaker 1: was which was dope, you know, And it's a cutthroat business,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. Not all athletes are cut
Speaker 1: out for this ship, you know what I mean. So
Speaker 1: you you know, you kind of let us know earlier, like, hey,
Speaker 1: you know, this is where you gotta be, and you know,
Speaker 1: if you need help, I'm here. So that's why, you know,
Speaker 1: I really kind of went out there and just like, no,
Speaker 1: this is not she's I can personally tell you for sure,
Speaker 1: she's not racist. So it's just hard because, like I said,
Speaker 1: the tension in the air at that time was just there.
Speaker 1: It was a real division because of what literally happened
Speaker 1: on in the streets. And and I do feel that
Speaker 1: if I got anything sort of in that really rotten week,
Speaker 1: it was what you said publicly, you're getting on that plane.
Speaker 1: It was Chris Paul, the head of the Players Association, saying,
Speaker 1: I want to sit down with an interview with you still,
Speaker 1: like let's be on camera together. Kareem Abdul Jabbar went
Speaker 1: on camera with me just a couple of days later.
Speaker 1: That meant the world to me, given his position, everything
Speaker 1: he's fought through. Um, you know, Adam Silver made some
Speaker 1: comments I really appreciated about the situation, and it made
Speaker 1: me feel like, oh, these twenty years, the people in
Speaker 1: the league know me, they know, they know, they know
Speaker 1: who who you are, they know what you're about, and
Speaker 1: that that's something I took with me. Um past the
Speaker 1: job at ESPN was Okay, you know this foundation what
Speaker 1: I have done. It's not like I built the whole
Speaker 1: thing at ESPN. I worked at the Washington Post, I
Speaker 1: worked at CNN, I worked at t N T, I
Speaker 1: did baseball on TVs. I have done it all. So
Speaker 1: I covered football for years. You know that's me. It's
Speaker 1: not ESPN granting me my career, and that, um it
Speaker 1: sort of opened up for me what I could do
Speaker 1: somewhere else and sort of all the things I had
Speaker 1: been wanting to do. But where could I do that?
Speaker 1: How could I make that fun? What would you say
Speaker 1: you learned from all this, Rachel? I learned to be
Speaker 1: particularly careful with my words. That even if what I say,
Speaker 1: the exact words and I read you that quote aren't
Speaker 1: if those words aren't so incendiary, they can make people
Speaker 1: feel a kind of way. They can make people feel
Speaker 1: like you're implying something that brings up that hurt, right,
Speaker 1: that brings up other experiences that brings up their own
Speaker 1: frustration with things that have been told to them throughout
Speaker 1: their long career or things like that, and that whether
Speaker 1: it's in private public that it matters to me that
Speaker 1: I don't cause that kind of hurt and I want
Speaker 1: to make sure that I get better every day at
Speaker 1: choosing what and how I say things and expressing who
Speaker 1: I really am. So I learned that. I also learned, frankly,
Speaker 1: that one of the things that was important to me
Speaker 1: in terms of the next job I did was, as
Speaker 1: you just mentioned, working with a team of people where
Speaker 1: everyone else wanted each other to win, right that that
Speaker 1: close group where people are having fun, loving what they
Speaker 1: do and trying to support each other in a way
Speaker 1: that makes everyone better and kind of brings new ideas
Speaker 1: and all of that. So that was a big thing
Speaker 1: that I was looking for. And then also, you know,
Speaker 1: the media world is changing, and you know, I grew
Speaker 1: up on newspapers, and I grew up in the Washington,
Speaker 1: D c. Area, and I thought, if I could work
Speaker 1: for the Washington Post, that was it. That's all I
Speaker 1: wanted to do. That's how I first met you, and uh.
Speaker 1: I worked there for ten years, but newspapers changed right
Speaker 1: with the Internet and all the stuff, and it was like, huh,
Speaker 1: I can reach more people and talk to more people
Speaker 1: if I do television. And now media is changing again.
Speaker 1: So yes, television, linear television is still a big part
Speaker 1: of how we all consume sports. But I'm also excited
Speaker 1: to be with a place that is really interested in Hey,
Speaker 1: we want to reach people. What are the not just one,
Speaker 1: but four different ways that we can do that. How
Speaker 1: do people actually absorb sports into their life? Is it
Speaker 1: with one screen? Is it with two screens? Is it
Speaker 1: with something like you guys right, this is a podcast,
Speaker 1: but also it's on, it's on. I see a lot
Speaker 1: of television cameras here, but this kind of plays Foster's Hey,
Speaker 1: just come to the table as you are where you are.
Speaker 1: We're excited and happy. Do you have us having you
Speaker 1: join us? What are your goals in the next few years? Well, look,
Speaker 1: I think that showtime is in such an exciting point
Speaker 1: because y'all got the players. First thing, when I talk
Speaker 1: to you, you said your first job to make us
Speaker 1: look good. I did, actually that is what I said.
Speaker 1: But I always think that's my job. I mean, that's
Speaker 1: what Matt was saying I mean that is that is
Speaker 1: how I go about this stuff. And and you guys
Speaker 1: do this incredible stuff on the court. Well, I don't
Speaker 1: know anymore. I don't know how your back is. But
Speaker 1: I'm on the golf course now. But the reason we
Speaker 1: want to hear what you have to say is because
Speaker 1: of what you've accomplished, Because of what you have done.
Speaker 1: I want to show that off. I want you guys
Speaker 1: to win and look your best and kind of succeed here.
Speaker 1: And it is the first thing I said to you.
Speaker 1: It is probably the first thing I said to you
Speaker 1: when you came to the jump. It's probably the first
Speaker 1: thing I said to you. It's the first thing I
Speaker 1: said to t Mac. You know, I am here to
Speaker 1: make this a success and to have fun, because I
Speaker 1: think that across the sports landscape, we have kind of
Speaker 1: gotten into a point with studio programming, with things that
Speaker 1: aren't just the game, where yes, there's absolutely a place
Speaker 1: for reporting on the business of sports. Yes there's absolutely
Speaker 1: a place for investigative journalism. I believe that. But people
Speaker 1: sit down and watch a game because it's fun, because
Speaker 1: they want to escape for a few hours, because they
Speaker 1: want to scream, because they want to see the hero
Speaker 1: and the villain drink do other things. Um, they want
Speaker 1: to see whoever they think is the hero, whoever they
Speaker 1: think is the villain, go at it. It's a story
Speaker 1: in front of them, playing out in real time. And
Speaker 1: I just think that on the Jump, one thing we
Speaker 1: were able to capture was the fun of sports, and
Speaker 1: that's one of my real big pillars for what we
Speaker 1: do going forward here at showtime is let's have some fun.
Speaker 1: Let's invite people in to have fun with us. Let's
Speaker 1: tell some great stories. Stack. We haven't even gotten to
Speaker 1: half the stories of your playing days. Same with you, Matt.
Speaker 1: What about what about? How? What about how he used
Speaker 1: to dress when he first came on the Jump? Oh boy,
Speaker 1: like l a gangster, Dicky's Penaltyon's chains on top, I'd
Speaker 1: be I'd be getting ready for a game like what
Speaker 1: the funk is Jack wearing on the Jumps? Everyone's allowed
Speaker 1: to have their own style came around, you know, like that.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I think I just think there's so many
Speaker 1: things we can do that play on people's love of
Speaker 1: the game and have a good time. So that's really
Speaker 1: the thing I want to do and focused on going forward. Well,
Speaker 1: we just want to give you your flowers. I mean,
Speaker 1: Richel like you. So we're you've been so instrumental and
Speaker 1: not only us, but but a lot of different people.
Speaker 1: That again for sure us first and foremost us. Um.
Speaker 1: But again like you said, and and it resonated with me.
Speaker 1: You know around the league, your work has spoken for itself.
Speaker 1: And I think that's why. You know, the people that
Speaker 1: didn't know you may have condemned you, but the people
Speaker 1: who know you And that's what I really care about,
Speaker 1: is how the people who know me and love me
Speaker 1: feel about me. That's the only people that matter. And
Speaker 1: and you really found out who did that and and
Speaker 1: who did and who does and to me that's the
Speaker 1: most important. But you're you know, you're very special to us,
Speaker 1: You're very special to the NBA. You know all you've
Speaker 1: done and and and geors you've open and your approach
Speaker 1: to the game. Um, So we just want to let
Speaker 1: you know that you know, you've had a year off you.
Speaker 1: I'm sure you're not too rusty. It's like riding a bike,
Speaker 1: but we obviously want to thank you for what you've
Speaker 1: done and welcome to you and and excited to you know,
Speaker 1: partner up and move forward with you. We're going to
Speaker 1: have so much ever richel You know, I love you,
Speaker 1: but like it's deeper than just the show. We know
Speaker 1: a lot of guys that wasn't Hall of Famous or
Speaker 1: wasn't NBA stars the whole career, we don't get those opportunities.
Speaker 1: So and Gina tell you, you know, when when y'all
Speaker 1: called me, I was in a I was in a
Speaker 1: position where I didn't know what I was doing, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean, I don't know what I was
Speaker 1: gonna do going forward. So to get that call from
Speaker 1: you and Gena, get the opportunity, it was like a
Speaker 1: It was a moment where I felt like that I
Speaker 1: really was appreciated for what I did in a relationship
Speaker 1: we had my whole career and being a guy like
Speaker 1: that that wasn't All Star, that wasn't one of the
Speaker 1: commerce guy on the commercials. To be able to get
Speaker 1: this opportunity and get that call from it meant the
Speaker 1: world because guys like me don't get these calls. So
Speaker 1: I'll ride for you and love you. And that's why
Speaker 1: I didn't hesitate to have your back, because the opportunity
Speaker 1: to give me as prices and no dollar or anything
Speaker 1: you can put on it. Just the phone call and
Speaker 1: just thinking about me. Man, everything. So I love you
Speaker 1: and I always got you back. Well, appreciate that, but
Speaker 1: that's you. You earn that, and that is also being
Speaker 1: invested in the game. We know that having an exceptional
Speaker 1: basketball team that wins a title does not just have
Speaker 1: all stars, right, it has the glue guys. That has
Speaker 1: the guys, the fan favorites, the two of you and
Speaker 1: you know, and the Tracy mcgrady's right, and the Allen Iversonce,
Speaker 1: which we you know. I mean, by the way, the
Speaker 1: fact that Showtime has partnership with my personal hero Alan Iverson.
Speaker 1: Just talked to Chuck the other day. Man, our greatest
Speaker 1: living American. I just want to make that clear. I
Speaker 1: love you too, but I will throw you. I will
Speaker 1: throw you aside. I will throw you aside for Allen Iverson,
Speaker 1: the idea that yes, uh team Allen Iverson and again
Speaker 1: here at show Time. They both have partnerships, the Showtime,
Speaker 1: the two of you, Kevin Garnett, Paul Pierce. These are
Speaker 1: guys who all have different role on a basketball team,
Speaker 1: and they all have different roles when you're talking about
Speaker 1: basketball and they're all the showtime and we need we
Speaker 1: need all of those voices, h you know, and you
Speaker 1: kind of you don't kind of help me and Jack
Speaker 1: get here from the standpoint of you allowed us to
Speaker 1: talk on TV, you know what I mean, opening the
Speaker 1: door for us to talk, because, like I said, people
Speaker 1: didn't I didn't even know I wanted to do this.
Speaker 1: When I was done, he didn't know what he wanted
Speaker 1: to do. We would talk like what's next, and it
Speaker 1: was just like we started talking on TV and people like, oh,
Speaker 1: you know, you guys are good, you guys are real,
Speaker 1: you guys this and that was that's what made me think, well,
Speaker 1: let's do something together, you know, I mean. So that's
Speaker 1: how kind of, you know, all the smoke came about,
Speaker 1: was because we had an opportunity to talk on TV
Speaker 1: when we didn't know that we could really we do.
Speaker 1: We could talk ship, but we didn't know what we
Speaker 1: could really talk, you know, and say stuff that people want,
Speaker 1: you know, need and want to hear. So well, this
Speaker 1: is perfect. So I was in a way always helping
Speaker 1: to create things at show time, and now I get
Speaker 1: to get paid for it. Well, Rachel, welcome, Thank you,
Speaker 1: I appreciate you. Thank you excited to move forward and
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