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Speaker 1: Full Circle is an iHeart women's sports production in partnership

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Speaker 2: Hey, y'all, welcome back to Full Circle, the Women's Sports Round.

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Speaker 2: If you didn't know you needed, I'm Lexi Brown here

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Speaker 2: with my girl Mariah Rose. We're breaking down what's happening

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Speaker 2: on the court and the culture and our own personal

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Speaker 2: growth because women's sports deserves the entire conversation. Welcome, Mariah.

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Speaker 2: How are you doing? How is your weekends? February is

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Speaker 2: going to be crazy for you already know.

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Speaker 3: I am great.

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Speaker 1: Its snowed in Atlanta this weekend, so that's crazy, but yes,

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Speaker 1: February is gonna be insane.

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Speaker 3: It snowed.

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Speaker 1: Oh no, yes, girl, it snowed in Georgia, and you

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Speaker 1: know that's the apocalypse down here.

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Speaker 3: So yeah, it was snowing here.

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Speaker 2: Still in Nashville, there's still ice on the ground, but

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Speaker 2: most of it has gone. We were supposed to have

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Speaker 2: our live show yesterday, which was Sunday, and we weren't

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Speaker 2: able to unfortunately, But it's okay. We're gonna have another

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Speaker 2: live show at some point, but we were really excited.

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Speaker 2: We were gonna have some cool guests and whatever.

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Speaker 3: But it's fine.

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Speaker 2: We're pivoting like we always do. A lot happened over

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Speaker 2: the weekends. A lot happened this morning, please, Yeah, okay,

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Speaker 2: So first we're gonna start with Unrivaled, who had their

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Speaker 2: first games in Philly.

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Speaker 3: I think what was it like twenty one.

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Speaker 2: Thousand people popped out to watch the Unrivaled games late

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Speaker 2: every weekends. So yeah, so that was amazing. There's a

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Speaker 2: dem there's a very high demand for women's basketball, and

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Speaker 2: we learned that the last two years we were playing

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Speaker 2: in Canada, where we were selling out arenas in literally

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Speaker 2: another country. We just saw it with Unrivaled selling out

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Speaker 2: an arena in Philly. So shout out unrival because that's

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Speaker 2: not easy to do, even logistically. How they made it

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Speaker 2: all happen moving from Miami to Philly just in their

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Speaker 3: So shout out to Unrivaled.

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Speaker 2: And this is the perfect segue to what happened this morning,

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Speaker 2: which I cannot say too much because it is negotiations.

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Speaker 2: We're talking about the demand for women's basketball, and we

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Speaker 2: had a meeting this morning, representatives of the w representatives

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Speaker 2: from the Players Association all gathered in New York. You know,

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Speaker 2: a few people from AU even flew to New York

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Speaker 2: I was in practice, so I wasn't able to make

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Speaker 2: the meeting, But from what I gathered from the group

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Speaker 2: chat from talking with Neka, I don't think it went

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Speaker 3: I don't think it went very well.

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Speaker 2: I'm sure by the time this episode drops there will

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Speaker 2: I'm like, it just didn't seem like it went anywhere.

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Speaker 2: So I don't want to say it went badly, but

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Speaker 2: I'm like, why y'all have everybody fly in and just

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Speaker 2: to a point where it's just like, okay, like are

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Speaker 1: That's what I was gonna ask because I think people

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Speaker 1: are a little lost on what the hold up is, right,

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Speaker 1: So if you could speak as much as you possibly

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Speaker 1: Like that's the conversation you're having on.

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Speaker 1: So to your knowledge, what's the hold up?

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Speaker 2: So from what I have gathered over time is Kathy

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Speaker 2: But the only way you would make this max compensation

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Speaker 2: So no, not a Wilson, like, not even Asia Wilson

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Speaker 2: But we all know what, Like Vegas was doing whatever

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Speaker 2: and win games. But that's a whole other side conversation. Now,

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Speaker 3: Expenses. So many expenses. This is an expense. This is

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Speaker 2: Instead of calling it, and they're interchanging expenses and investment, right,

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Speaker 2: So the money that you're putting into these organizations. They

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Speaker 2: should be investments. You're investing in your organization, you're investing

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Speaker 2: in your players. But they're riding everything off as an

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Speaker 2: expense or we're just throwing money away. We're losing money.

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Speaker 2: We're losing money. We're losing money. But that's what an

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Speaker 2: Like it's like we're gymnastics right now, and with the housing.

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Speaker 2: And I think a lot of people not a lot

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Speaker 2: I'm like looking at like maybe like the two weird

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Speaker 2: I can only assume that other people probably feel similarly.

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Speaker 2: We do not One, most players do not live in

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Speaker 2: their team markets for the off season. One second of all,

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Speaker 2: only half of the contracts in the WNBA per team

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Speaker 2: it is about money, because some players have mortgages to

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Speaker 2: We haven't even gotten into the international players. I'm in

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Speaker 2: Then, I'm so imagine if I had to pay so

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Speaker 3: Absolutely not bro not not no, no, no, I'm not

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Speaker 2: So I already told Mecca if they that housing is

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Speaker 1: For those listening, this housing situation that was something that

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Speaker 1: you we're accustomed to before that is now okay, well,

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Speaker 1: So it's not like they're actually increasing what you guys

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Speaker 2: Table, right, So, like you're gonna pay us more, which again,

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Speaker 3: But yeah, you're like, okay, we'll give.

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Speaker 2: You a little bit more money, but then we're going

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Speaker 3: So y'all want us to.

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Speaker 2: Pocket the expenses instead of throwing in there's'll say that

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Speaker 2: We want to play this summer. We all care about

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Speaker 2: the fact that we can't get on the same page

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Speaker 2: I'm looking at see like this is we have the

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Speaker 2: and then instead of returning after the break, they were like,

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Speaker 3: They have to go talk.

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Speaker 2: To another some committee.

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Speaker 2: So Returner is on my team this week, which we'll

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Speaker 1: It's not their fault. It's not their fault for posting they.

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Speaker 3: Can't help me, y'all, it's not their fault. The admin

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Speaker 2: They read the comments. They read y'all's comments. They y'all

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Speaker 1: If you're gonna comment that, why are you almost maybe

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Speaker 3: Yeah, go harass. You can harass the w NBA admin.

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Speaker 2: Come on, it's not their fault, guys. They're literally just

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Speaker 2: I was very shocked at the full blown schedule announcements.

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Speaker 3: Their social team is good.

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Speaker 2: Like their admin they got to be like twenty five

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Speaker 3: I don't know, so they're funny.

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Speaker 2: We weren't even allowed to post in our uniforms, Like

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Speaker 1: All I see is college kids in all different sports

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and that would have gotten us well ship. We

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Speaker 1: I'm not I am not primed to be in that

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Speaker 2: it's on the AU page, it's on the Instagram. It's

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00:24:40,800 --> 00:24:46,240
Speaker 2: on the website. If y'all don't understand AU, just look

442
00:24:46,280 --> 00:24:49,479
Speaker 2: it up. All the rules are there, the format is there.

443
00:24:50,040 --> 00:24:55,000
Speaker 2: But there's like a few little like tidbits of misinformation

444
00:24:56,040 --> 00:24:58,480
Speaker 2: that I feel circulates from time to.

445
00:24:58,400 --> 00:24:59,760
Speaker 3: Time when AU comes around.

446
00:25:00,080 --> 00:25:04,920
Speaker 2: I want to like maybe address those misconceptions as best

447
00:25:04,960 --> 00:25:05,560
Speaker 2: as I can.

448
00:25:08,040 --> 00:25:14,520
Speaker 3: First, I'll tell you how do I say this without

449
00:25:14,640 --> 00:25:15,479
Speaker 3: getting in trouble.

450
00:25:18,280 --> 00:25:23,439
Speaker 2: Whatever money you think that we make here, you are

451
00:25:23,480 --> 00:25:26,800
Speaker 2: wrong the numbers. I'm not going to get into the

452
00:25:26,840 --> 00:25:32,280
Speaker 2: specific numbers because that's not really like what AU is about, honestly,

453
00:25:32,400 --> 00:25:37,880
Speaker 2: But the way that the importance of off season opportunities

454
00:25:37,920 --> 00:25:41,399
Speaker 2: are gauged, whether this person is making X amount of

455
00:25:41,400 --> 00:25:44,080
Speaker 2: money versus that birsus making X amount of money, I

456
00:25:44,160 --> 00:25:49,320
Speaker 2: just don't think that that's a very productive conversation to

457
00:25:49,400 --> 00:25:51,360
Speaker 2: have or dialogue that needs to exist.

458
00:25:51,480 --> 00:25:53,240
Speaker 3: Like we've been doing this.

459
00:25:53,440 --> 00:25:55,280
Speaker 2: I think the conversation needs to be like we've been

460
00:25:55,320 --> 00:26:00,320
Speaker 2: doing this for five years, and I will say every

461
00:26:00,400 --> 00:26:05,560
Speaker 2: year I've made we've made more money than the year previously.

462
00:26:06,480 --> 00:26:07,560
Speaker 3: So not only are we.

463
00:26:10,160 --> 00:26:16,520
Speaker 2: Improving everything in every way year to year like we

464
00:26:16,520 --> 00:26:20,399
Speaker 2: were the first off season five on five opportunity.

465
00:26:21,280 --> 00:26:24,000
Speaker 3: For women's basketball players.

466
00:26:25,000 --> 00:26:28,560
Speaker 2: So I'm interested, Mariah, Like, what is the conversation that

467
00:26:28,600 --> 00:26:31,119
Speaker 2: you see surrounding AU? Like, I just for me personally,

468
00:26:31,200 --> 00:26:38,040
Speaker 2: I don't see much conversation about AU. I also mute

469
00:26:38,119 --> 00:26:43,280
Speaker 2: and not interested a lot of things, So maybe that's why.

470
00:26:44,200 --> 00:26:46,680
Speaker 2: But I don't know what you see or hear. You know,

471
00:26:46,720 --> 00:26:50,200
Speaker 2: I'm not on X or anything anymore, so I would

472
00:26:50,280 --> 00:26:50,600
Speaker 2: like to know.

473
00:26:51,119 --> 00:26:54,760
Speaker 1: Yeah, on my end, I feel like the fans, first

474
00:26:54,800 --> 00:26:57,320
Speaker 1: of all, this is such a good year for the

475
00:26:57,320 --> 00:27:00,280
Speaker 1: off season leagues because like we were talking about, there's

476
00:27:00,359 --> 00:27:02,560
Speaker 1: not much to get into as far as the WNBA

477
00:27:02,600 --> 00:27:04,959
Speaker 1: SoC sart, and the only way to see y'all is

478
00:27:05,320 --> 00:27:08,360
Speaker 1: through AU and Unrivaled, And I feel like this year

479
00:27:08,440 --> 00:27:11,800
Speaker 1: has been such a big year for that. I maybe

480
00:27:11,800 --> 00:27:13,439
Speaker 1: it's because of the way my algorithm is set up.

481
00:27:13,520 --> 00:27:17,119
Speaker 1: I don't see negative conversations about women's basketball unless I

482
00:27:17,160 --> 00:27:20,080
Speaker 1: see it, like on one of the big pages posting

483
00:27:20,119 --> 00:27:23,600
Speaker 1: something and it's like they they are they don't make

484
00:27:23,640 --> 00:27:26,800
Speaker 1: any money, Like those are the only negative conversations I see.

485
00:27:26,800 --> 00:27:30,240
Speaker 1: I only see like highlights and stuff like That's all

486
00:27:29,800 --> 00:27:33,439
Speaker 1: I'll ever see is like, yeah, oh che did this

487
00:27:33,680 --> 00:27:36,399
Speaker 1: treated that, so that's the only thing I see, and

488
00:27:36,400 --> 00:27:39,080
Speaker 1: then I'll see like random little tiktoks people like together.

489
00:27:41,960 --> 00:27:46,760
Speaker 2: When they're at Yeah, I've like curated my algorithms. I

490
00:27:46,800 --> 00:27:50,320
Speaker 2: don't see very much negative stuff anymore, and if it

491
00:27:50,359 --> 00:27:54,000
Speaker 2: is negative, it's usually like on a different page.

492
00:27:54,640 --> 00:27:57,920
Speaker 1: I don't see people comparing a you and Unrivaled really ever,

493
00:27:58,160 --> 00:28:00,840
Speaker 1: because they're so different. And I think that is how

494
00:28:00,920 --> 00:28:03,320
Speaker 1: like it kind of works for them both to exist

495
00:28:03,600 --> 00:28:07,560
Speaker 1: because they're both so different, like the model, like the

496
00:28:07,600 --> 00:28:09,680
Speaker 1: three on three and then the five on five and

497
00:28:09,680 --> 00:28:13,679
Speaker 1: the team switching and like it's so different. And I

498
00:28:13,760 --> 00:28:16,280
Speaker 1: knew about AU first obviously it's been around for longer,

499
00:28:16,600 --> 00:28:19,440
Speaker 1: so I don't really see much comparison or anything like that.

500
00:28:19,920 --> 00:28:21,400
Speaker 1: I don't know what you're referring to with the whole

501
00:28:21,440 --> 00:28:22,320
Speaker 1: salary situation.

502
00:28:23,560 --> 00:28:27,240
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was just like, well, it's something that gets

503
00:28:27,280 --> 00:28:30,680
Speaker 2: brought to our attention to like when we're recruiting, when

504
00:28:30,720 --> 00:28:33,640
Speaker 2: people like are like, oh, how much money, Well, because

505
00:28:33,680 --> 00:28:36,680
Speaker 2: they're making this over there, I can make this overseas.

506
00:28:37,359 --> 00:28:38,840
Speaker 3: So these are just things that we.

507
00:28:38,760 --> 00:28:45,480
Speaker 2: Have to like address privately usually, but I think like

508
00:28:46,120 --> 00:28:47,840
Speaker 2: in order for us to continue to grow and to

509
00:28:47,880 --> 00:28:53,440
Speaker 2: continue to attract the best players that we can. There

510
00:28:53,440 --> 00:28:56,120
Speaker 2: needs to be like that misconception of like you're not

511
00:28:56,200 --> 00:28:59,760
Speaker 2: making good money here, Like I feel like that just

512
00:28:59,800 --> 00:29:00,560
Speaker 2: needs to go away.

513
00:29:00,600 --> 00:29:06,960
Speaker 3: We're also only playing for four weeks, so it's just

514
00:29:07,120 --> 00:29:09,280
Speaker 3: one one month of basketball.

515
00:29:10,280 --> 00:29:14,360
Speaker 2: So if I can, I can speak for myself what

516
00:29:14,440 --> 00:29:18,800
Speaker 2: I've made an AU versus like a whole overseas season,

517
00:29:19,160 --> 00:29:23,440
Speaker 2: Like I'm gonna stay playing with AU, like I was

518
00:29:23,560 --> 00:29:27,640
Speaker 2: over so I was in hungry for six months and

519
00:29:27,680 --> 00:29:30,000
Speaker 2: I would get to just be here for four weeks

520
00:29:30,920 --> 00:29:34,280
Speaker 2: and play probably play what we play. You get twelve games,

521
00:29:34,480 --> 00:29:37,400
Speaker 2: like depending on what team you are overseas, you might

522
00:29:37,440 --> 00:29:38,600
Speaker 2: get four games a month.

523
00:29:39,840 --> 00:29:45,600
Speaker 3: You play once a week. So yeah, that was just

524
00:29:45,680 --> 00:29:46,240
Speaker 3: one thing.

525
00:29:46,960 --> 00:29:49,840
Speaker 2: What else do I want to say by AU?

526
00:29:51,800 --> 00:29:52,320
Speaker 3: I don't know.

527
00:29:53,120 --> 00:29:55,800
Speaker 2: I guess we can get into my teams strategy for

528
00:29:55,840 --> 00:30:01,120
Speaker 2: the week because by the time it's not I mean again,

529
00:30:01,280 --> 00:30:03,200
Speaker 2: we all see each other all the time, so like

530
00:30:03,360 --> 00:30:05,920
Speaker 2: it's not a secret. And then you have different coaches

531
00:30:05,960 --> 00:30:09,160
Speaker 2: week to week, so whatever your strategy was will probably

532
00:30:09,240 --> 00:30:11,480
Speaker 2: be shared the next week with a new group of

533
00:30:11,520 --> 00:30:16,239
Speaker 2: people or if you have a new coach. So if

534
00:30:16,280 --> 00:30:19,000
Speaker 2: you guys didn't see my roster. I have a lot

535
00:30:19,040 --> 00:30:22,680
Speaker 2: of shooters on my team, and that's basically what my

536
00:30:22,720 --> 00:30:26,960
Speaker 2: strategy was was to get all the people that I

537
00:30:27,000 --> 00:30:30,040
Speaker 2: don't like, all the players that I don't like to

538
00:30:30,160 --> 00:30:33,720
Speaker 2: chase around the court because they like to run around

539
00:30:33,760 --> 00:30:36,400
Speaker 2: and hit outside shots. Those are all the players I chose.

540
00:30:37,720 --> 00:30:39,960
Speaker 2: I haven't been a captain in four years. This is

541
00:30:40,000 --> 00:30:43,440
Speaker 2: my first time beting a captain since season one and

542
00:30:44,040 --> 00:30:48,920
Speaker 2: w yeah, it's been a long time. Can you believe that?

543
00:30:49,600 --> 00:30:55,719
Speaker 2: Four years of no captain? And then I found the

544
00:30:55,760 --> 00:30:58,440
Speaker 2: most success while I was captain in year one by

545
00:30:58,480 --> 00:31:01,760
Speaker 2: picking my point guard. So that's why I picked Shay

546
00:31:01,840 --> 00:31:07,040
Speaker 2: Petty first, because I mean, I can run the one obviously,

547
00:31:07,160 --> 00:31:10,200
Speaker 2: but if the point guard to me is like the

548
00:31:10,240 --> 00:31:13,000
Speaker 2: most important person on the court, I feel like so

549
00:31:13,760 --> 00:31:15,840
Speaker 2: me and Shay have really good chemistry on and off

550
00:31:15,840 --> 00:31:18,040
Speaker 2: the court, so she was who I wanted to choose,

551
00:31:18,080 --> 00:31:22,280
Speaker 2: So she was my first pick. Shee And then I

552
00:31:22,320 --> 00:31:24,000
Speaker 2: will say to go back to the point of me

553
00:31:24,120 --> 00:31:26,960
Speaker 2: not being a captain for four weeks. For four years

554
00:31:28,520 --> 00:31:33,640
Speaker 2: the first three seasons of AU, the captains were determined

555
00:31:33,680 --> 00:31:38,480
Speaker 2: by your overall points on the leader board, and then

556
00:31:38,600 --> 00:31:43,120
Speaker 2: last year we implemented the captains being chosen by your

557
00:31:43,160 --> 00:31:47,560
Speaker 2: weekly points for that week. So if someone had like

558
00:31:47,600 --> 00:31:52,000
Speaker 2: a really really tough week one week one, and then

559
00:31:52,040 --> 00:31:55,040
Speaker 2: week two they bounced back and had an amazing week,

560
00:31:55,960 --> 00:31:57,680
Speaker 2: they will have a chance to be a captain no

561
00:31:57,720 --> 00:31:59,719
Speaker 2: matter where they are on the leaderboard, because if that

562
00:31:59,760 --> 00:32:02,400
Speaker 2: we they accumulated the most points, like whether you're in

563
00:32:03,560 --> 00:32:06,720
Speaker 2: thirtieth place or third place, if you happen to get

564
00:32:06,760 --> 00:32:08,880
Speaker 2: the most points for that week, you'll be able to

565
00:32:08,880 --> 00:32:09,560
Speaker 2: be a captain.

566
00:32:09,960 --> 00:32:11,080
Speaker 3: So we felt like that was.

567
00:32:11,720 --> 00:32:16,040
Speaker 2: A better way to one have more captain opportunities and

568
00:32:16,080 --> 00:32:19,840
Speaker 2: then to keep everybody motivated no matter where they are

569
00:32:19,880 --> 00:32:22,560
Speaker 2: on the leaderboard, because we found out that like after

570
00:32:22,640 --> 00:32:25,920
Speaker 2: the if after week one, if you had a tough

571
00:32:25,960 --> 00:32:28,280
Speaker 2: like a hard week and your teams didn't win and

572
00:32:28,320 --> 00:32:30,600
Speaker 2: you felt real, real low on the leaderboard, people would

573
00:32:30,640 --> 00:32:33,480
Speaker 2: be like, oh, I have no chance to win or

574
00:32:33,520 --> 00:32:35,560
Speaker 2: do anything now or ever be a captain.

575
00:32:35,680 --> 00:32:37,560
Speaker 3: So then people would like not care as much.

576
00:32:39,000 --> 00:32:41,040
Speaker 2: So that's something that you just learn over time through

577
00:32:41,080 --> 00:32:42,440
Speaker 2: child and err And that's one of the best things

578
00:32:42,440 --> 00:32:46,240
Speaker 2: about AU is like they listen to us, like they

579
00:32:46,320 --> 00:32:49,480
Speaker 2: really do, Like just I don't know if anybody who's

580
00:32:49,520 --> 00:32:52,800
Speaker 2: listening has been following AU since the beginning, but like

581
00:32:54,600 --> 00:32:57,240
Speaker 2: it's like night and day what it is now, and

582
00:32:57,320 --> 00:32:59,000
Speaker 2: I'm like so proud of it.

583
00:32:59,000 --> 00:33:02,400
Speaker 3: It's like my little baby, like literally my baby.

584
00:33:06,720 --> 00:33:09,480
Speaker 1: I love it. I love it. Well, I'm excited to

585
00:33:09,520 --> 00:33:13,000
Speaker 1: see how your season goes, Laxie, me too.

586
00:33:25,880 --> 00:33:28,800
Speaker 3: I'm excited. And everyone's everyone has just been.

587
00:33:28,640 --> 00:33:32,280
Speaker 2: Working really hard. My dad has been great. He's been

588
00:33:32,920 --> 00:33:34,560
Speaker 2: such a breath of fresh air.

589
00:33:34,920 --> 00:33:35,160
Speaker 1: You know.

590
00:33:35,480 --> 00:33:37,240
Speaker 2: I haven't really been able to spend this much time

591
00:33:37,240 --> 00:33:40,520
Speaker 2: with him, like in years, so it is nice to

592
00:33:40,520 --> 00:33:43,840
Speaker 2: see him every day, be in the gym with him

593
00:33:43,840 --> 00:33:48,600
Speaker 2: every day. I really haven't done that since like middle school,

594
00:33:49,000 --> 00:33:54,120
Speaker 2: high school. It's like over ten years guy, over ten

595
00:33:54,200 --> 00:34:01,480
Speaker 2: years ago, guys, which is so crazy. The last thing

596
00:34:01,480 --> 00:34:04,360
Speaker 2: I do want to say about AU is that it

597
00:34:04,400 --> 00:34:05,200
Speaker 2: is player.

598
00:34:05,080 --> 00:34:05,800
Speaker 3: Led and ran.

599
00:34:06,400 --> 00:34:09,200
Speaker 2: I don't know how many more times I'm gonna have

600
00:34:09,280 --> 00:34:11,560
Speaker 2: to reiterate that. How we're going to reiterate that, Like

601
00:34:12,640 --> 00:34:18,279
Speaker 2: the Player Executive Committee literally runs the league. We run

602
00:34:18,320 --> 00:34:22,200
Speaker 2: the league, we make the decisions, we help pick the rosters,

603
00:34:22,239 --> 00:34:25,680
Speaker 2: we pick where we live. Like literally any decision that

604
00:34:25,800 --> 00:34:29,640
Speaker 2: is made, like ninety five percent of the decisions that

605
00:34:29,640 --> 00:34:32,839
Speaker 2: are made when it comes to AU Pro Basketball goes

606
00:34:32,880 --> 00:34:34,279
Speaker 2: to the executive committee.

607
00:34:34,440 --> 00:34:38,160
Speaker 3: So the flowers I'll give and then you can give yours.

608
00:34:38,200 --> 00:34:41,360
Speaker 2: I'm gonna give my flowers to our executive committee, TP,

609
00:34:41,680 --> 00:34:46,520
Speaker 2: Sid Dory Isy me, Like, even with Sid and TP

610
00:34:46,800 --> 00:34:51,239
Speaker 2: not playing this season, just how dedicated how much they

611
00:34:51,320 --> 00:34:55,000
Speaker 2: pour into everybody they're doing like broadcasting and sideline stuff

612
00:34:55,000 --> 00:34:57,840
Speaker 2: for us. Like the way that they've shown up in

613
00:34:57,920 --> 00:34:59,120
Speaker 2: Nashville has been amazing.

614
00:34:59,320 --> 00:35:00,000
Speaker 3: Is I and Dory.

615
00:35:00,440 --> 00:35:02,960
Speaker 2: The way they've shown up being from Nashville and pouring

616
00:35:02,960 --> 00:35:05,600
Speaker 2: into the community and bringing the community out like has

617
00:35:05,640 --> 00:35:08,600
Speaker 2: been so amazing. So I don't know if they're gonna

618
00:35:08,600 --> 00:35:10,400
Speaker 2: hear it. We can clip this, I guess, so I

619
00:35:10,440 --> 00:35:12,560
Speaker 2: can post it and tag them. But I want to

620
00:35:12,600 --> 00:35:16,080
Speaker 2: give flowers to my player executive committee because we're about

621
00:35:16,080 --> 00:35:17,960
Speaker 2: to be in Week one of AU and this has

622
00:35:18,000 --> 00:35:20,480
Speaker 2: been already like one of the best seasons yet. So

623
00:35:20,560 --> 00:35:23,680
Speaker 2: I'm giving my flowers to my executive committee because we

624
00:35:23,800 --> 00:35:26,400
Speaker 2: worked our asses off this off season to make this

625
00:35:26,520 --> 00:35:28,480
Speaker 2: happen and bring this season to life.

626
00:35:28,520 --> 00:35:30,759
Speaker 3: So period that's when we give my flowers too.

627
00:35:31,400 --> 00:35:37,160
Speaker 1: Yeah, I am going to give my flowers to I'm

628
00:35:37,160 --> 00:35:38,960
Speaker 1: going to switch sports a little bit, switch gears a

629
00:35:38,960 --> 00:35:42,960
Speaker 1: little bit to Cocoa golf because.

630
00:35:42,760 --> 00:35:43,080
Speaker 3: I don't know.

631
00:35:43,120 --> 00:35:45,839
Speaker 1: Yeah, I saw the viral video where she lost and

632
00:35:45,880 --> 00:35:48,520
Speaker 1: she was smacking her tennis racket into the ground as

633
00:35:48,600 --> 00:35:52,840
Speaker 1: somebody who hates losing probably more than I love winning,

634
00:35:54,080 --> 00:35:57,600
Speaker 1: I completely understand. And honestly, it's refreshing to see athlete

635
00:35:58,120 --> 00:36:01,440
Speaker 1: care that much. I say, female athlete in the world.

636
00:36:01,800 --> 00:36:05,080
Speaker 1: And it's not like she still cares that much, you know,

637
00:36:05,239 --> 00:36:08,360
Speaker 1: And so that's and she's so young, and she's.

638
00:36:08,200 --> 00:36:13,400
Speaker 2: A baby, so and she now that's probably the first

639
00:36:13,400 --> 00:36:16,840
Speaker 2: time we've seen her do anything remotely close to that.

640
00:36:17,719 --> 00:36:27,000
Speaker 2: Like the way her her poise at her age is amazing, amazing, and.

641
00:36:27,800 --> 00:36:30,879
Speaker 1: Especially I'll give as many cameras on her as there are,

642
00:36:31,800 --> 00:36:36,360
Speaker 1: I'm gonna give them flowers to Naomi Osaka too, because

643
00:36:37,800 --> 00:36:39,600
Speaker 1: you know what, and I and I want her to

644
00:36:39,640 --> 00:36:41,759
Speaker 1: I want her to stand on business a little more.

645
00:36:42,080 --> 00:36:44,040
Speaker 3: She almost had it, Mariah.

646
00:36:44,120 --> 00:36:47,839
Speaker 2: You know, if you guys fought, if you guys follow tennis,

647
00:36:48,480 --> 00:36:53,640
Speaker 2: you guys know, like Naomi, like she'd be like almost

648
00:36:53,719 --> 00:36:58,200
Speaker 2: she'd be standing like six toes down, Like but what

649
00:36:58,360 --> 00:37:01,120
Speaker 2: she did in this last what she did in this

650
00:37:01,239 --> 00:37:05,160
Speaker 2: last tournament, Like I was proud of her, but then

651
00:37:05,200 --> 00:37:09,719
Speaker 2: she let like the people bully her again, like she

652
00:37:09,920 --> 00:37:12,640
Speaker 2: beat she beat somebody, and she was rude, like the

653
00:37:12,920 --> 00:37:15,520
Speaker 2: girl who lost was rude as hell to her. And

654
00:37:15,600 --> 00:37:18,960
Speaker 2: Naomi was like, Okay, I don't care you lost. But

655
00:37:19,000 --> 00:37:19,960
Speaker 2: then she backed down.

656
00:37:20,560 --> 00:37:26,080
Speaker 3: She backed down. What are you apologized?

657
00:37:26,640 --> 00:37:28,560
Speaker 2: Yeah, and then then she then she ended up getting

658
00:37:28,640 --> 00:37:30,560
Speaker 2: an injury and had to not be and she wasn't

659
00:37:30,560 --> 00:37:33,560
Speaker 2: able to finish. So I was just like, damn it, Naomi,

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Speaker 2: Like I really thought that if she was able to

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Speaker 2: stay healthy and get far like that would have been

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Speaker 2: like such a turning point for her as far as

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Speaker 2: like her confidence and standing on standing on her business.

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Speaker 2: I want her to get there so bad, Like she's

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Speaker 2: such a good tennis player.

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Speaker 3: Me too, and she's so cute.

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Speaker 2: When she comes on the court of her outfits, like

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00:37:54,760 --> 00:37:58,759
Speaker 2: they was talking about her outfits and everything. I'm just like, everybody,

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Speaker 2: please enough. But she got Taylor Towsend in her corner.

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Speaker 1: Now because it's Black History Month, I can say this,

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Speaker 1: uh list the get got a Black History Month.

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Speaker 2: I just gotta say, I know that we should have

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00:38:15,280 --> 00:38:18,319
Speaker 2: started the show that the happy Black History Month.

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Speaker 3: Guys, that's how we should have started the ship.

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Speaker 1: There is nothing like a black star in a sport

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00:38:25,680 --> 00:38:27,879
Speaker 1: like there is. And I'm not saying there's anything wrong

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Speaker 1: with white people who play sports. Don't even don't even

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00:38:29,680 --> 00:38:31,880
Speaker 1: start with me in the comments, but I'm just saying,

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Speaker 1: like you know what I'm talking about, Like that aura,

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00:38:34,760 --> 00:38:38,200
Speaker 1: like that that aura just it gives a little something different.

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Speaker 1: And like when I think about growing up and like Serena,

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Speaker 1: Venus and Serena, Like I got a Venus and Serena

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00:38:44,000 --> 00:38:47,280
Speaker 1: tennis racket, Like I was obsessed with with Venus and Arena.

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00:38:47,920 --> 00:38:51,480
Speaker 1: Like now Naomi and Coco have that, like they have

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Speaker 1: that aura, that star power like they are that. Like

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Speaker 1: when she walked out on the court with that hood

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Speaker 1: on and that outfit like the Nike the white flowing, I.

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Speaker 3: Was like, you are a star.

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Speaker 1: I just need I just need your confidence to match

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Speaker 1: that after the outfit comes off on the court, off

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Speaker 1: the court, in the press conference and stand tintails.

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Speaker 2: Down and losing everything. Man, just be that girl no

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Speaker 2: matter what. And I think that is what. Yeah, I

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00:39:20,600 --> 00:39:25,280
Speaker 2: think that that's that's that is the key, Like everything

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00:39:25,400 --> 00:39:26,560
Speaker 2: is not going to go perfectly.

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Speaker 3: You're not gonna win every game. I mean you could.

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Speaker 3: I mean shit, Venus and Serena won a lot of matches.

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Speaker 2: But you lose sometimes. But you got to be that

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00:39:37,800 --> 00:39:40,560
Speaker 2: girl no matter what. And that's that's that's when you

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00:39:40,680 --> 00:39:44,240
Speaker 2: happen to your authenticity and your mol and your morals

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00:39:44,280 --> 00:39:46,520
Speaker 2: and your work ethic. Would if you feel like you

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00:39:46,560 --> 00:39:49,000
Speaker 2: did everything you could, you could be prepared yourself every

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00:39:49,000 --> 00:39:50,759
Speaker 2: way you could and it didn't work out, you could

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00:39:50,800 --> 00:39:53,600
Speaker 2: still feel good and walk around like you're that girl,

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00:39:53,880 --> 00:39:58,600
Speaker 2: which is why when Cocoa smashed her racket, like she

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00:39:58,800 --> 00:40:01,440
Speaker 2: was just having a vulnerable moment, they got it on

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00:40:01,520 --> 00:40:03,400
Speaker 2: camera and she went to the press and she was like, well,

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00:40:03,480 --> 00:40:07,560
Speaker 2: damn can I can we get some privacy? Like I'm

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00:40:07,600 --> 00:40:11,000
Speaker 2: not going to apologize for being frustrated because I lost.

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Speaker 2: I'm a competitor, but having cameras like that everywhere is insane. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: but she, I mean, Coco stood in that and she

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00:40:18,960 --> 00:40:21,440
Speaker 2: always takes ownership when she like loses and stuff like that.

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Speaker 2: And like we said, she's so young, Like I'm so

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Speaker 2: excited for Coco, Like she's just getting started, and Naomi's

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Speaker 2: young too. Taylor's like, they're all pretty young like. But

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Speaker 2: now that Naomi and Taylor are like, they locked in.

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Speaker 2: I hope Taylor because Taylor walked around like she that

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00:40:39,920 --> 00:40:43,719
Speaker 2: girl all the time, so she gonna rub a little

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00:40:43,719 --> 00:40:48,000
Speaker 2: bit of that on Naomi is need that one watch

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Speaker 2: watch out?

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Speaker 3: Okay.

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Speaker 2: So yeah, if y'all haven't tapped in with the tennis girls,

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Speaker 2: please do that support them. Coco even asked us that

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Speaker 2: we need to be better as a community supporting, you know,

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Speaker 2: our tennis players.

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00:41:02,520 --> 00:41:03,400
Speaker 3: So I agree with her.

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Speaker 2: I think we need to do a better job of

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Speaker 2: supporting our girls in the tennis world. Flowers for them,

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00:41:09,520 --> 00:41:13,319
Speaker 2: Flowers for the PEC. Make sure y'all are tuned into

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00:41:13,400 --> 00:41:15,560
Speaker 2: AU games this week. I know y'all are mad at

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00:41:15,560 --> 00:41:18,759
Speaker 2: the WNBA, but please redownload the app and watch us

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00:41:18,800 --> 00:41:19,120
Speaker 2: on there.

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00:41:19,160 --> 00:41:22,400
Speaker 3: It's free stream the games. It's also easy.

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Speaker 2: But I know y'all mad at the w's, I'm mad

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00:41:26,040 --> 00:41:27,879
Speaker 2: at them too, but they got our games on there

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Speaker 2: for free, so redownload that app.

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Speaker 3: I know y'all all.

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Speaker 2: Took it off your fucking devices. I get it, trust me,

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00:41:35,040 --> 00:41:37,880
Speaker 2: but we're on there for free. If y'all want to

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Speaker 2: support the girls. But week one, I'm a captain.

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Speaker 1: First of all, let me get y'all together. The deleted

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00:41:45,320 --> 00:41:47,960
Speaker 1: the app because if we do have a season, how

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00:41:48,040 --> 00:41:49,120
Speaker 1: y'all know what's going on.

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00:41:49,200 --> 00:41:51,960
Speaker 2: That's what I'm saying when I saw people like I

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00:41:52,000 --> 00:41:55,520
Speaker 2: deleted the app, But I'm like, guys, the we're not

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00:41:55,719 --> 00:41:57,480
Speaker 2: the league is not disappearing.

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00:41:57,920 --> 00:41:59,720
Speaker 3: You're gonna have to readown.

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Speaker 1: Game, y'all, and the negotiations we're gonna app.

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00:42:05,120 --> 00:42:08,520
Speaker 2: They're gonna look at when y'all down deleted the app

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00:42:08,600 --> 00:42:11,839
Speaker 2: and be like, oh you you remove this app at

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00:42:11,840 --> 00:42:15,600
Speaker 2: this time. We're not letting you back in because the w'

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00:42:15,600 --> 00:42:17,920
Speaker 2: is petty like that. So go ahead and redownload that

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00:42:18,080 --> 00:42:21,920
Speaker 2: now and watch AU and hopefully by the time AU

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00:42:22,000 --> 00:42:24,480
Speaker 2: was done, we get the CBA signed and then everybody

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00:42:24,520 --> 00:42:25,520
Speaker 2: will have the app back.

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00:42:25,600 --> 00:42:27,800
Speaker 3: We could just get back to business as usual.

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00:42:27,840 --> 00:42:30,800
Speaker 2: Okay, all right, So I need y'all to tap in

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Speaker 2: with us this weekend AU season five. We hear Captain

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Speaker 2: Lexi of the Rhythm, So tune in. Thank y'all for listening,

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Speaker 2: y'all next week.

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