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Speaker 1: Welcome to Good Game with Sarah Spain. Where pride isn't

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Speaker 1: a month in women's sports, It's a year round way

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Speaker 1: of life. So happy last day of June. We're all

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Speaker 1: going to be just as gay tomorrow, Yes all of us.

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Speaker 1: Everybody's at least a little gay. It's Tuesday, Jude thirtieth,

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Speaker 1: and on today's show, Big Citrus jumps on to talk

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Speaker 1: about a record breaking conversation starting headline dominating week in

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Speaker 1: the WNBA. Plus I share what I was up to

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Speaker 1: in can France. The unbearable heat, the glamorous parties, the

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Speaker 1: smart conversations, and two straight days screaming bitch stole my

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Speaker 1: look at an American treasure. Plus a historic amount of

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Speaker 1: free basketball records galore, and one pro hits a speed

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Speaker 1: bump in a meteoric year. It's all coming up right

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Speaker 1: after this welcome back slices. Here's what you need to

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Speaker 1: know today and a little bit of ketchup from the

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Speaker 1: past week. Let's start with some WNBA action from over

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Speaker 1: the week weekend. On Sunday, the Washington Mystics best did

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Speaker 1: coach Cheryl Reeve now has three hundred and seventy nine

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Speaker 1: More w all eyes will be on Brooklyn tonight as

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Speaker 1: the New York Liberty take on the Las Vegas Aces

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Speaker 1: It's going to be a tough battle and a really

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Speaker 1: pool on the line. Tip Off is at seven pm Eastern.

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Speaker 1: You can watch on Prime Video. A whole lot more

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Speaker 1: hoops headlines to get to big Syptress is going to

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Speaker 1: talk about in just a few to the PWHL. After

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Speaker 1: spot to create culture and build fandom. Speaking of legendary

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Speaker 1: hockey greats, we learned last week that Marie Philip Puhlen

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Speaker 1: Montreal Victoire hoist the Walter Cup earlier this year. She

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Speaker 1: Mark and kimber Walter. Now, the Walters will be joined

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Speaker 1: by Kilmer Sport Ventures, led by Larry Tannenbaum, who's also

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Speaker 1: PWHL's advisory board will continue overseeing operations. And speaking of

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Speaker 1: Mark Walter, the La Times reported that Walter, who's also

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty nine. To tennis, the first round of Wimbledon

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Speaker 1: this summer to the trails, where ultra marathon stars are

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Speaker 1: come back, Big Citrus gets to yappin' WNBA records and

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Speaker 1: that we need to stop letting people who don't care

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Speaker 1: It's a classic.

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Speaker 1: cover it again. The last thing I want to say

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Speaker 1: is that the only way to have any forward progress

433
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Speaker 1: is to have expectations for ourselves and others. As fans

434
00:21:54,320 --> 00:21:58,240
Speaker 1: choose your battles, you're just creating more engagement and more

435
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Speaker 1: clicks and more views. When you with people in the

436
00:22:01,080 --> 00:22:04,040
Speaker 1: comments who don't have any intention to have a real

437
00:22:04,280 --> 00:22:05,520
Speaker 1: engagement on this topic.

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Speaker 3: Right.

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00:22:06,040 --> 00:22:09,560
Speaker 1: The expectation for the league is to be clearer and

440
00:22:09,640 --> 00:22:12,479
Speaker 1: more communicative in their decision making and to get out

441
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Speaker 1: ahead of these things. And the expectation for journalists is

442
00:22:15,359 --> 00:22:18,439
Speaker 1: to prioritize the league and its players and women's sports

443
00:22:18,520 --> 00:22:22,440
Speaker 1: over their own personal gain, which is clicks or reads

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00:22:22,920 --> 00:22:25,880
Speaker 1: or engagement or whatever else. And in the video on Instagram,

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Speaker 1: I refer back to my conversation with Christine Brennan. I

446
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Speaker 1: still don't really know what her ultimate goal is with

447
00:22:32,280 --> 00:22:34,680
Speaker 1: some of the articles that she writes and the language

448
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Speaker 1: that she chooses.

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Speaker 2: It's to sell books.

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Speaker 1: Well, probably, and that's what I said in the video.

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Speaker 1: I mean, it's probably to sell books. But at this

452
00:22:41,200 --> 00:22:45,560
Speaker 1: point we've so lost the plot on selling her Caitlin

453
00:22:45,640 --> 00:22:48,320
Speaker 1: Clark book based on the latest things she's writing and

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00:22:48,359 --> 00:22:51,159
Speaker 1: the erasure of women's sports that's required to continue the

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Speaker 1: narrative that she's pushing, that even that seems like a

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Speaker 1: tenuous connection between the work she's producing and the book

457
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Speaker 1: she's trying to sell. But yeah, I mean the number

458
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Speaker 1: of people who reach out to me and ask like,

459
00:23:00,800 --> 00:23:02,800
Speaker 1: what is the goal here or how is she still

460
00:23:02,800 --> 00:23:04,840
Speaker 1: doing this? I don't have any answers for you. I

461
00:23:05,080 --> 00:23:07,080
Speaker 1: asked her all the questions when she came on the show,

462
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Speaker 1: and if you didn't listen, I very highly recommend going

463
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Speaker 1: back and listening to my conversation with Christine Brennan from

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Speaker 1: season one, because I think there's a lot in there,

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Speaker 1: not just about her choices, but about the league and

466
00:23:17,760 --> 00:23:21,600
Speaker 1: how it needs to be covered responsibly that everybody could

467
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Speaker 1: probably benefit from hearing.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, sadly, it's still extremely relevant.

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Speaker 1: Okay, So now that as usual, that's dominated the majority

470
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Speaker 1: of our time instead of talking about the fucking awesome

471
00:23:31,440 --> 00:23:33,680
Speaker 1: shit that's happening in the w I do want to

472
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Speaker 1: at least mention that during the week that we were

473
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Speaker 1: sort of half off, we were producing shows but not

474
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Speaker 1: doing need to knows. Every day shit went off. Okay,

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Speaker 1: Olivia Miles, who is frankly insane. If you are not

476
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Speaker 1: watching Olivia Miles, she is so freaking fun. But she

477
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Speaker 1: became the fastest player in WNBA history to reach three

478
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Speaker 1: hundred plus points at one hundred plus assists. She did

479
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Speaker 1: it in eighteen games. That's one game better than both

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Speaker 1: Caitlin Clark and Paige Beckers. They did it in nineteen

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Speaker 1: and Olivia Miles has been an We knew she was

482
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Speaker 1: fantastic at the collegiate level. She has instantly become one

483
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Speaker 1: of the best players in the w helping the Links

484
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Speaker 1: to the top of the WNBA standings despite so many

485
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Speaker 1: players leaving, despite Nafisa Kall, you're still being out Like

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Speaker 1: holy shit, Cheryl reeve you Lucky duck right into your

487
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Speaker 1: lap another generational player. I totally agree.

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Speaker 3: And in a year where Azy Fudd is the number

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Speaker 3: one draft pick and we have the caliber of Asy

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Speaker 3: Fudd and a number of other amazing uh you know,

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Speaker 3: even formerly pro rookies, Olivia Miles to me is well

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Speaker 3: on her way to Rookie of the Year.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah.

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Speaker 1: I'm not the only one putting her name in that hat.

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Speaker 3: And I'm also not the only one putting her name

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Speaker 3: in the hat for another award MVP.

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Speaker 1: Woo. Can you imagine what are we a third of

498
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Speaker 1: the way through almost half.

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Speaker 3: I just think that if you are a rookie and

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Speaker 3: your name is even being considered for that conversation, which

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Speaker 3: it is, then I mean that's a clear runway to

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Speaker 3: Rookie of the Year, and I just think deserves Flowers yeah, yeah.

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Speaker 2: You guys know how I like hypothetical questions after our

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Speaker 2: last World Cup conversation, But I'm curious if you think,

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Speaker 2: do you think that if Nafisa had started the season healthy,

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Speaker 2: we would be seeing the same level of excellence from

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Speaker 2: Olivia or do you think Nefica's injury required her to

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Speaker 2: step it up more than she would have otherwise.

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Speaker 1: It's a particularly interesting question because at the beginning of

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Speaker 1: the season, we talked about how it might be a

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Speaker 1: disappointment for Olivia Miles to not have the guard forward

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Speaker 1: play with Nefisa that she could. That we were like, oh,

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Speaker 1: what a bummer. We can't wait to see that one

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Speaker 1: two punch and the way she'll be able to facilitate

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Speaker 1: with someone who draws the kind of gravity and energy

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Speaker 1: that Nefisa does, And instead we've seen a whole different

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Speaker 1: sort of bag out of Olivia. So it would be different,

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Speaker 1: for sure. You can't argue that it wouldn't be different

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Speaker 1: if Nefisa was out there. But I almost feel like

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Speaker 1: what we're going to see when Nefisa does come back

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Speaker 1: is just an acceleration of what we've already seen, and

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Speaker 1: in a completely different way. She's already facilitating and serving

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Speaker 1: her teammates in a really spectacular way. But with Fee

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Speaker 1: in the middle there and the kind of poll that

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Speaker 1: she'll have in terms of the defense, will we see

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Speaker 1: Olivia be even more in her bag on the perimeter

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Speaker 1: because they won't be able to focus on it the

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Speaker 1: same way. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: I think that ultimately at the end of the season,

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Speaker 3: we will have a better Olivia Miles because Naviisa Collier

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Speaker 3: wasn't playing in the beginning than we would have if

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Speaker 3: Navisa Collier was playing the whole season.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, wh just wild. Okay, while we're on the topic

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Speaker 1: of records and quickest two and everything else, I do

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Speaker 1: have to shout out Camilla Cardoso because as usual, the

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Speaker 1: Chicago Sky are disappointing. I was really excited we got

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Speaker 1: odd players and things were gonna be different, but they're

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Speaker 1: not still not very good. But Kamila had a freaking

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Speaker 1: crazy game. They beat La Portland Fire one twenty four

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Speaker 1: to ninety four, and she set a new WNBA record

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Speaker 1: for most shots taken without a miss. She went thirteen

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Speaker 1: for thirteen with thirty points that same game, which was

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Speaker 1: Courtney vander Slut's first game back. This guy also set

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Speaker 1: a WNBA record for most assists in a game. They

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Speaker 1: had thirty eight, and so it's kind of fitting that

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Speaker 1: they did that on Slut's first game back, because she's

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Speaker 1: of course the number two all time in w assists,

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Speaker 1: only behind SUPERD. So getting Sloote back should help. And

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Speaker 1: Camilla clearly, if she can be as efficient as she

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Speaker 1: was in that one, they'll be better. I don't know.

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Speaker 1: And the pista resistance, which I'm using in particular because

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Speaker 1: we're talking about the chef here, Chef Marina Maybury first,

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Speaker 1: before we even get to the Crazy Night. On Friday,

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Speaker 1: she sets a career high with thirty seven points and

555
00:27:38,080 --> 00:27:40,760
Speaker 1: hit nine three pointers, which is tied for a WNBA

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Speaker 1: single game record. That was in the Tempo's win over

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Speaker 1: the Connecticut Sun. The team also made nineteen three pointers

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Speaker 1: as a team, so second most in a regular season

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Speaker 1: game in WNBA history. This is just like records, record records.

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Speaker 1: Then her next game, she's like, thirty seven, that's not

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Speaker 1: that impressive. Let me go ahead and hit fifty three,

562
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Speaker 1: ties the all time regular season record. And I love

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Speaker 1: that Sandy Brundello left her in the game. She went

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Speaker 1: for two threes that she missed to try to break

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Speaker 1: the record and then took herself out with the minute left.

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Speaker 1: Was like, that's good, I'm done. But the content from

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Speaker 1: the team and her teammates and the fifty three written

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00:28:13,840 --> 00:28:16,399
Speaker 1: on a piece of paper like Welt Chamberlain, like, just

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Speaker 1: Marina Maybury is cooking. Yeah, And if you are not

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Speaker 1: watching her, And I said this in the video about

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Speaker 1: Kaitlyn Clark, because I'm like, if you like Kaitlin Clark,

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Speaker 1: have you seen Marina Maybrey. She is shooting from five

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Speaker 1: feet behind the three point arc with three people in

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Speaker 1: her face and less than half a second of reaction

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Speaker 1: time to get it up. She's practically shooting it like

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Speaker 1: over the shoulder half the time, and it's just drain,

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Speaker 1: drain and draine. It's so fun to watch. I couldn't like.

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Speaker 1: I was watching the highlights and I was like, this

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Speaker 1: looks like.

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Speaker 3: AI, Yeah, these kinds of games are I love them,

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Speaker 3: And I love these kinds of moments for women's sports,

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Speaker 3: for Marina Maybrey herself, because even if you have never

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Speaker 3: watched a w game, hell a basketball game in your life,

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Speaker 3: that's the kind of stat where you're like, oh, I

585
00:29:05,280 --> 00:29:07,480
Speaker 3: can tell that's good. Like if you've never run a

586
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Speaker 3: mile in your life, you can tell a four minute

587
00:29:09,320 --> 00:29:11,480
Speaker 3: mile or whatever is good. This is kind of thing

588
00:29:11,520 --> 00:29:14,720
Speaker 3: that will break through and hopefully draw more people into

589
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Speaker 3: then becoming you know, actual fans.

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Speaker 1: But damn amazing. I completely agree. I'm like fifty three points.

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Speaker 1: You don't need to no shit to know that that's amazing.

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00:29:24,200 --> 00:29:25,720
Speaker 1: All Right, we got to take a quick break. When

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Speaker 1: I come back, I talk about my celeb filled week

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Speaker 1: in can France. It's coming up next Welcome Back Slices.

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Speaker 1: So the jet lag has not hit yet, but I'm

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00:29:42,040 --> 00:29:44,440
Speaker 1: sure it will. I did go to sleep at like

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Speaker 1: three am almost every night in France, so I feel

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Speaker 1: like I was just easing my way back to this time.

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Speaker 1: Oh and I don't know if I mentioned this on

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Speaker 1: a previous show, but the reason I was going to

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00:29:53,520 --> 00:29:56,200
Speaker 1: can France was for Sport Beach, which is this annual

602
00:29:56,280 --> 00:29:58,640
Speaker 1: sort of boondoggle where all these different ad execs and

603
00:29:59,000 --> 00:30:02,080
Speaker 1: marketing people and partners and sponsors and teams and leagues

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00:30:02,080 --> 00:30:04,920
Speaker 1: and individual athletes all go to the south of France

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Speaker 1: and do panels on the beach, and then there's all

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Speaker 1: these activations and parties and events that sort of surround

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Speaker 1: that hub that is called Sport Beach, Alex Bianca, I

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Speaker 1: need to tell you some of.

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Speaker 2: The highlights, yes please, Okay.

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Speaker 1: I'm just gonna warn you now, just be dropping names

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00:30:19,920 --> 00:30:22,160
Speaker 1: left and right, just be forewarned.

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Speaker 2: Well I know most of them.

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Speaker 1: Probably maybe we'll find out. I'm just gonna tell you

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Speaker 1: first all the fun, amazing things I did, and then

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Speaker 1: I do have three kind of takeaways from the incredible time.

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Speaker 1: But again fast and furious on the name dropping in

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Speaker 1: my apologies, but it was a record heat wave in France,

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Speaker 1: so just picture that everyone I'm describing here is pouring

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Speaker 1: sweat and potentially on their second to third outfit change

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Speaker 1: of the day, because it was literally the hottest day

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Speaker 1: in the history of France while I was there, and

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Speaker 1: France was the hottest place on Earth one of the

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Speaker 1: days when I was there, So keep that in mind

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Speaker 1: as I'm telling you how many things we packed into

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Speaker 1: a day.

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Speaker 2: Did the sweat at least make some of these people

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Speaker 2: like less intimidating?

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Speaker 1: I did appreciate when certain people were sweating. I was like,

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Speaker 1: you're a human. And then other people like Eva Longoria,

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Speaker 1: who did not ever sweat, I was like, what's happening.

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Speaker 1: This is not fair. So like, one of the first

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Speaker 1: things I did was get drinks with Flavor Flav and

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Speaker 1: his manager, Rhiannon, who's awesome. She's just fantastic, and we

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Speaker 1: got to break down all the amazing fun stuff that's

635
00:31:21,560 --> 00:31:24,320
Speaker 1: gonna happen in Vegas for SHE weekend. So that was

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00:31:24,320 --> 00:31:26,520
Speaker 1: a blast and just being reminded, you know you and

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Speaker 1: I Alex saw Flavor Flav walking down the street in

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Speaker 1: the middle of Italy during the Olympics and just the

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00:31:31,440 --> 00:31:34,080
Speaker 1: energy that he exudes and then pulls back to him

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00:31:34,080 --> 00:31:37,640
Speaker 1: because of people's enthusiasm about meeting him. Seeing that in

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Speaker 1: a different location also in Europe, but walking down the

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Speaker 1: streets of can and just watching people celebrities and regular

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Speaker 1: folks that like losing their minds, just a constant room

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Speaker 1: of yeah boy everywhere he went, and then everywhere Flav went,

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00:31:50,320 --> 00:31:53,400
Speaker 1: he would constantly be like we outside, we outside, and

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Speaker 1: we're like, we don't where porings went. I did a

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Speaker 1: panel with Candice Parker and Carolyn Braff from Gatorade and

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Speaker 1: Julie Andrew and we talked about how to get women

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Speaker 1: into coaching and got a lot of great feedback on

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Speaker 1: that and I'm really excited to keep expanding on that

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Speaker 1: with the Sport Beach Women's Leadership Council that I'm on

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Speaker 1: with them. But that was at Sport Beach, which is

653
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Speaker 1: this massive set and stage right on the beach, and

654
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Speaker 1: right upstairs from that is something called the Hang that

655
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Speaker 1: Gatorad sponsored all week, and it was all women's sports

656
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Speaker 1: conversations in a smaller space. So Candae Parker, Super Meghan Rapino,

657
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Speaker 1: Hillary Night, all these different athletes going up and creating

658
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Speaker 1: sort of a curated conversation with everybody who was up

659
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Speaker 1: there about a variety of different topics, which was really

660
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Speaker 1: cool because you know, in some of the other spaces

661
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Speaker 1: you could really tell where women's sports was still pretty

662
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Speaker 1: novel for the people there. Right. It was one of

663
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Speaker 1: those things where I felt like I should constantly sort

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Speaker 1: of bring it up as part of a larger conversation

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Speaker 1: if it wasn't already brought up. Whereas the Hang was

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Speaker 1: really specific and drilled down into the ways that those

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Speaker 1: brands and partners and athletes could all get involved in,

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Speaker 1: like moving the needle.

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Speaker 2: It reminds me of like in a conversation with somebody

670
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Speaker 2: and you're not really sure how much they know the

671
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Speaker 2: Women's Sports League, You're like the NWSL that stands for

672
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Speaker 2: National Women's Soccer League, versus like being able to jump

673
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Speaker 2: right in and be like, yeah, did you see the

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Speaker 2: current Gotham game?

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Speaker 1: Oh so real? Exactly, And that's actually one of my takeaways,

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Speaker 1: which we'll get to in a moment. There was this

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Speaker 1: amazing Deep Blue, which is Laura Crunty who helped start

678
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Speaker 1: this I Hurt Women's Sports Whole endeavor. That's her like

679
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Speaker 1: company that works to pair brands and sponsors and people

680
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Speaker 1: with inventory and women's sports stuff. So they had a

681
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Speaker 1: dinner with Axios and Autodesk and it was on this

682
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Speaker 1: beautiful rooftop and it was this really interesting collection of

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Speaker 1: a lot of people I'm used to seeing at women's

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Speaker 1: sports events, like Midge Purse and Robin Arzone from Peloton

685
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Speaker 1: and Sue Bird and everyone else. But then Anthony Ramos

686
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Speaker 1: from Hamilton, who I was so excited to meet, Big Poppy,

687
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Speaker 1: David Ortiz, Red Sox legend, Andrew Day, the singer who

688
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Speaker 1: ended up performing on the rooftop. And when Laura was pregnant,

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Speaker 1: she would always listen to the song rise you know.

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Speaker 4: Alras Oh yeah, and so she was like gave this

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Speaker 4: really impassionate thing about raising her daughter and in the

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Speaker 4: world right now, needing to keep remembering to like just

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Speaker 4: keep pushing and rising up, and Solenn Andrew saying and

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Speaker 4: Anthony Ramols was like so moved, and then Flavor Flav

695
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Speaker 4: was like urging her to sing more songs and like

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Speaker 4: just on this rooftop.

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Speaker 1: It was just a very cool scene. And then late

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Speaker 1: night was Hotel Ducap, which is the Eden Rock hotel

699
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Speaker 1: right on the tip of Antibue, and Questlove was spinning

700
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Speaker 1: and so that was just like a really fun kind

701
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Speaker 1: of capper. But yeah, so I went to bed at

702
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Speaker 1: three am, and this is one day. That was one day,

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Speaker 1: and I want you to know that was one day.

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Speaker 3: I am dying at how glamorous this week makes it

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Speaker 3: look being a podcast host. You know, you have a

706
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Speaker 3: ton of other jobs too, but like this is an

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Speaker 3: amazing slice.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, this is what life is like for all podcast hosts. Right, well,

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Speaker 1: wait till you get to Tuesday. It started with the

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Speaker 1: Business of Women's Sports Summit at the iHeart Cafe, and

711
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Speaker 1: I hosted a couple of panels on youth sports and

712
00:34:56,440 --> 00:34:59,239
Speaker 1: on a bunch of like Emerging Spaces one of the

713
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Speaker 1: really cool people to to talk to as one of

714
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Speaker 1: the co founders of Sequel, which is the new tampon

715
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Speaker 1: that's like innovating a market that hasn't been changed for

716
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Speaker 1: a really long time, creating this like spiral like Technique

717
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Speaker 1: who also talked to this women Becks from Crux, which

718
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Speaker 1: is this new model of owning multiple women's soccer leagues

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Speaker 1: across Europe, each team in a different league, and kind

720
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Speaker 1: of innovating around the multi sport ownership model in a

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Speaker 1: way that in men's sports oftentimes we're seeing the women

722
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Speaker 1: be the secondary or even the tax break used by

723
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Speaker 1: men's leagues to own the women under them. Instead, they're

724
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Speaker 1: going around and buying a women's team in multiple different

725
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Speaker 1: European leagues so that they can create facilities, data, branding, marketing,

726
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Speaker 1: all the stuff specifically for the women so that they

727
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Speaker 1: don't live under men's teams that aren't prioritizing them. I

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Speaker 1: think I want to have someone from Cruks on the

729
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Speaker 1: show because it's really interesting too how the model's completely

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Speaker 1: different from NWSL, where now you have to be a

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Speaker 1: billionaire to own, but on the European side, it's a

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Speaker 1: much less expensive buy in, but the way they're trying

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Speaker 1: to operate within the space. And then also you have

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Speaker 1: to account for promotion. So if you buy a team

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Speaker 1: and you only have X amount of dollars and then

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Speaker 1: you keep getting promoted and getting better, the cost of

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Speaker 1: business and everything goes way up. So it's like a

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Speaker 1: promise of future spending that you need to be able

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Speaker 1: to prove anyway. Okay, so just to keep going. Then

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Speaker 1: I went back to Sport Beach with Noah Lyles, the

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Speaker 1: Olympic goal medal winning sprinter and world record holder, and

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Speaker 1: Loriola New York Times about look good, play good, feel

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Speaker 1: good and the idea of confidence being a part of

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Speaker 1: your training and not an ancillary aspect of who you are.

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Speaker 2: Oh my god, Noah is such a good person to

746
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Speaker 2: speak on that.

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Speaker 1: Yes, but what was fascinating is you think of him

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Speaker 1: only as this guy who is always like spouting off

749
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Speaker 1: and talking smack and being super hyped, dripping in diamonds exactly.

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Speaker 1: He talked about the amount of therapy that he went

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Speaker 1: through and as a young person he had asthma an

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Speaker 1: adhd and he didn't think that he was going to

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Speaker 1: be super successful, and so it was an earned and

754
00:36:54,200 --> 00:36:57,360
Speaker 1: practiced quality as opposed to an inherent one, and that,

755
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Speaker 1: to me was the most inspiring part was how somebody

756
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Speaker 1: at home hearing about how as a kid he didn't

757
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Speaker 1: think he was special or didn't think he would achieve things,

758
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Speaker 1: ended up becoming this guy who's now known for his

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Speaker 1: incredible confidence, and also how we sometimes have conversations about

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Speaker 1: that as being a distraction from the end goal of success,

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Speaker 1: when in fact he considers it a part of his

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Speaker 1: training and that the confidence and showing up and the

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Speaker 1: pre race and the shit talking and everything else is

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Speaker 1: part of the race for him. So that ended up

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Speaker 1: being a really cool conversation. So then it was time

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Speaker 1: for the iHeart Dinner guys. I hit it off with

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Speaker 1: all of our fellow iHeart podcast hosts that I was

768
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Speaker 1: so nervous about being I thought I was getting pranked

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Speaker 1: when they said they were sending us all together. I

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Speaker 1: didn't get to talk to Malcolm glad Well that much.

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Speaker 1: He was kind of off on his own. But Eva

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Speaker 1: Longoria and her business partner and I bonded on a

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Speaker 1: million different things. She is such a huge invested sports fan.

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Speaker 1: She's an Angel City owner, but she also has a

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Speaker 1: lot of ties to other sports, and the way she

776
00:37:54,320 --> 00:37:56,800
Speaker 1: wants to run her business and her content and create

777
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Speaker 1: around women is so inspiring. And I get the feeling

778
00:38:00,120 --> 00:38:02,160
Speaker 1: we're gonna be working together on a handful of things

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Speaker 1: in the future. We've got some meetings set up, and

780
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Speaker 1: just like, she's so impressive and so kind and nice

781
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Speaker 1: and again doesn't sweat or ever look unattractive wild just

782
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Speaker 1: truly one of those people that you meet like, oh, well,

783
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Speaker 1: I know why you're super famous. You're so hot and

784
00:38:16,480 --> 00:38:19,000
Speaker 1: wonderful and kind and smart and interesting. I ended up

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Speaker 1: sitting down with Questlove and ho to Codpy for about

786
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Speaker 1: forty minutes and we all just shot the shit and

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Speaker 1: Quest and I bonded about consciousness and the brain and

788
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Speaker 1: neuroplasticity and started sharing podcasts and books with each other.

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Speaker 1: And Hoda asked me to do the like tell me

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Speaker 1: your whole life in six minutes thing, and we started

791
00:38:35,800 --> 00:38:37,759
Speaker 1: talking about all these different ways that we had like

792
00:38:38,280 --> 00:38:42,959
Speaker 1: moved through the entertainment and hosting world and the things

793
00:38:43,000 --> 00:38:44,440
Speaker 1: that had set us back and the things that had

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Speaker 1: helped us move forward. And I just like was so impressed,

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Speaker 1: of course by both of them. I always have been

796
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Speaker 1: but everything everyone's always said about Hoda being America's sweetheart

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00:38:53,760 --> 00:38:57,560
Speaker 1: was like spot on. Also, this was sort of unbelievable

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Speaker 1: to me. But Hoda and I wore the exact same

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Speaker 1: dress on Monday, So thankfully we were not in the

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Speaker 1: same place on Monday because exact same dress. Although it

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Speaker 1: would have been funny and both of us would have

802
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Speaker 1: thought it was cool, but we wore the exact same

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Speaker 1: dress on Monday, and I'm looking at her instant I'm like,

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Speaker 1: oh my god, hilarious. I've got to tell her tomorrow

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Speaker 1: that we wore the same dress. This is crazy. Then

806
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Speaker 1: we show up at the iHeart dinner wearing the exact

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Speaker 1: same outfit again for the second day in a row.

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Speaker 1: We were wearing a white suit with a like kind

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Speaker 1: of beijor pinkish shirt underneath, and I was like, Hodah,

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Speaker 1: first of all, bitch stole my look. And secondly, thank

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Speaker 1: you to my stylist, for which I never have one.

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Speaker 1: But I finally got when I was like, I guess

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Speaker 1: he steered me right if I matched Hoda for the

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Speaker 1: first two days.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, seriously, wait, is he hodas stylust too?

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Speaker 2: Like, what's the explanation?

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Speaker 1: No, I we're just like super stylish and on trend

818
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Speaker 1: is the explanation that when someone else tells me what

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Speaker 1: to wear, I look good, which is another takeaway for later.

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Speaker 1: But it was hilarious because I was like, Hodah, I

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Speaker 1: literally was going to introduce myself to you, in part

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Speaker 1: by saying, we wore the same dress yesterday and now

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Speaker 1: we're wearing the same exact oubit again, which was so right.

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Speaker 1: So after that was the watch party that Hodaan even

825
00:40:00,400 --> 00:40:03,600
Speaker 1: I hosted for soccer game. That was an interesting other

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Speaker 1: opportunity for the number of people I spoke to there

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Speaker 1: who were watching this men's soccer to learn about women's soccer,

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Speaker 1: where I assumed a level of knowledge that for a

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Speaker 1: lot of the attendees wasn't there, right, And so getting

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Speaker 1: the chance to kind of hopefully inspire some of these

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Speaker 1: people to think outside of the spaces that they're already

832
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Speaker 1: operating in that was a real eye opener for me

833
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Speaker 1: in some cases. So after that, because I had hit

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Speaker 1: it off with Questlove, he invited me to Questlove's game

835
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Speaker 1: night in Camp, which was one of my goals for

836
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Speaker 1: the trip was hit it off with Questlove enough that

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Speaker 1: I get invited to a future game night, not a

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Speaker 1: future one that very night. So I took my new

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Speaker 1: friend who i'd met at a previous party, and we

840
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Speaker 1: went to this mansion. And just to give you a

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Speaker 1: little idea of who was at this party, Babyface, Dexter

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Speaker 1: Fowler from The Cubs, Jenelle Monet, Andrew Day, Chuck d

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Speaker 1: Flavor Flav, Jermaine Dupree, Ashley Graham, Jenna Lyons from Jay Crew.

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Speaker 1: Everywhere you looked was another super famous person, two funny stories.

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Speaker 1: Ashley Graham, who's a supermodel. For those who don't know,

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Speaker 1: I've been using a picture of her for my eyebrow

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Speaker 1: place for seven years. I can't believe how many times

848
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Speaker 1: I've talked about eyebrows on this show. You can tell

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Speaker 1: that they're a big part of my face. But there's

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Speaker 1: this one photo for where her eyebrows kind of look

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Speaker 1: like mine, and they're exactly what I want mine to

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Speaker 1: look like. And so I got to tell her, this

853
00:41:25,000 --> 00:41:27,080
Speaker 1: is very weird, but I've been showing this picture of

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Speaker 1: you to my eyebrow place for seven years, and she

855
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Speaker 1: thought it was hilarious. And then Janelle Monet, so in

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Speaker 1: the movie glass Onion. First of all, I'm obsessed with her,

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Speaker 1: and I got to tell you that she's incredible across

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Speaker 1: a million different spaces and for so many different ways,

859
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Speaker 1: and what she stands for and how she operates as

860
00:41:41,920 --> 00:41:44,520
Speaker 1: an artist and as a creative is so moving at

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Speaker 1: all times. But I was wearing these earrings and I

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Speaker 1: bought them because Janelle Monne wore them in glass onion

863
00:41:50,520 --> 00:41:52,960
Speaker 1: and they looked so cool in the movie in multiple

864
00:41:52,960 --> 00:41:55,680
Speaker 1: scenes that I looked up online what earring she was

865
00:41:55,680 --> 00:41:57,640
Speaker 1: wearing and then bought them. And they're more expensive than

866
00:41:57,680 --> 00:41:59,440
Speaker 1: what I usually buy, but they're so badass. And I

867
00:41:59,520 --> 00:42:01,520
Speaker 1: was wearing the while I was talking to her, and

868
00:42:01,560 --> 00:42:03,880
Speaker 1: I was like, Janelle, I bought these earrings because you

869
00:42:03,880 --> 00:42:05,279
Speaker 1: wore them in glass, and she's like, oh my god.

870
00:42:05,440 --> 00:42:07,399
Speaker 1: I told her those earrings in the movie they look great.

871
00:42:07,600 --> 00:42:10,680
Speaker 2: Wait, Sarah, what games did you play at game night?

872
00:42:11,160 --> 00:42:14,560
Speaker 1: So the game tables were completely full. The only option

873
00:42:14,560 --> 00:42:16,319
Speaker 1: would have been to pull another game off like a

874
00:42:16,320 --> 00:42:19,000
Speaker 1: bookshelf to play, but there was no tables left to play,

875
00:42:19,040 --> 00:42:22,440
Speaker 1: so it was more of a watching. I didn't get

876
00:42:22,440 --> 00:42:24,840
Speaker 1: to play at this particular game night, Oh my gosh.

877
00:42:24,880 --> 00:42:26,239
Speaker 1: And I was mingling and talking, so.

878
00:42:26,440 --> 00:42:29,839
Speaker 3: I am now just imagining all of all the celebrities

879
00:42:29,880 --> 00:42:32,640
Speaker 3: that you just mentioned, like what games were they playing,

880
00:42:32,640 --> 00:42:35,360
Speaker 3: Because to me, Jenna Lyons would be playing poker.

881
00:42:35,080 --> 00:42:38,040
Speaker 1: Like she is cool, she is cool. Yeah, she was

882
00:42:38,080 --> 00:42:42,400
Speaker 1: playing Kaboom k Bomb. I don't even know this game.

883
00:42:42,719 --> 00:42:45,520
Speaker 1: But the whole time, pretty much Janelle and Jenna and

884
00:42:45,560 --> 00:42:47,719
Speaker 1: a handful of the people were playing Kaboom or k

885
00:42:47,880 --> 00:42:52,120
Speaker 1: bomb or whatever. And then Dexter and Babyface and other

886
00:42:52,160 --> 00:42:57,120
Speaker 1: people were playing spades, okay, and then I saw people

887
00:42:57,160 --> 00:43:01,240
Speaker 1: playing Connect four and then I saw people playing Domino. Ooh, okay.

888
00:43:01,239 --> 00:43:04,719
Speaker 1: So that was day two. Okay, I'll just sum up

889
00:43:04,719 --> 00:43:06,600
Speaker 1: a couple of the things that happened after that. I

890
00:43:06,640 --> 00:43:10,080
Speaker 1: got to meet Regina King, who is a queen and

891
00:43:10,400 --> 00:43:13,560
Speaker 1: so gorgeous and not sweaty somehow and so kind. And

892
00:43:13,600 --> 00:43:15,319
Speaker 1: I got to tell her that my favorite work she's

893
00:43:15,360 --> 00:43:18,720
Speaker 1: ever done is an SNL sketch called weed Gummy. Now

894
00:43:19,280 --> 00:43:21,600
Speaker 1: I do believe she's done other great work, but weed

895
00:43:21,640 --> 00:43:23,880
Speaker 1: Gummy is one of those sketches I've watched a million

896
00:43:23,920 --> 00:43:26,239
Speaker 1: times and stay stuck in my head. And she thought

897
00:43:26,280 --> 00:43:28,480
Speaker 1: it was hilarious that that's what I brought up to her.

898
00:43:29,160 --> 00:43:32,200
Speaker 1: I got to meet Anthony from Queer Eye and talked

899
00:43:32,200 --> 00:43:35,520
Speaker 1: to him about how the show was literally something that

900
00:43:35,560 --> 00:43:37,800
Speaker 1: I saved, episode by episode for when I most needed

901
00:43:37,800 --> 00:43:41,000
Speaker 1: it during sad moments. And I just think he is

902
00:43:41,160 --> 00:43:42,880
Speaker 1: such a cutie Patuti, and it was so nice to

903
00:43:42,920 --> 00:43:44,959
Speaker 1: get to talk to him about the show. Colin Jost

904
00:43:44,960 --> 00:43:46,839
Speaker 1: and Lindsay Vaughn were hanging out in the Sport Beach

905
00:43:46,920 --> 00:43:49,000
Speaker 1: Room with me, so that was fun. I had to

906
00:43:49,040 --> 00:43:51,080
Speaker 1: meet Jenny Garth of nine O two to O fame

907
00:43:51,320 --> 00:43:53,040
Speaker 1: and she had her dog with her on a little

908
00:43:53,080 --> 00:43:55,200
Speaker 1: live panel with Hoda and she was a great interview

909
00:43:55,200 --> 00:43:57,640
Speaker 1: and a fascinating subject and not at all what I

910
00:43:57,680 --> 00:43:59,880
Speaker 1: expect from someone who sort of was like hand p

911
00:44:00,160 --> 00:44:03,359
Speaker 1: from small town America and became a huge star, has

912
00:44:03,400 --> 00:44:05,160
Speaker 1: been through a lot and learned a lot from what

913
00:44:05,200 --> 00:44:07,600
Speaker 1: she's been through, and just was a really really cool person.

914
00:44:08,320 --> 00:44:13,040
Speaker 1: And then my final name drop moment was when I

915
00:44:13,080 --> 00:44:15,960
Speaker 1: met Questlove. I had a plan because we both listened

916
00:44:16,000 --> 00:44:18,359
Speaker 1: to the Lonely Island of Seth Meyers podcast and he's

917
00:44:18,360 --> 00:44:20,359
Speaker 1: actually been on it as a judge for like which

918
00:44:20,400 --> 00:44:22,680
Speaker 1: of their sketches go on the quote unquote Criterion collection

919
00:44:23,280 --> 00:44:26,319
Speaker 1: and without laboring and telling all the inside jokes of

920
00:44:26,320 --> 00:44:28,160
Speaker 1: the pod. Basically, if you see one of the hosts

921
00:44:28,160 --> 00:44:30,239
Speaker 1: of the pod, you're supposed to say quad Army and

922
00:44:30,280 --> 00:44:33,080
Speaker 1: they're supposed to say back to righteous Kill. So I

923
00:44:33,120 --> 00:44:35,200
Speaker 1: met quest I introduced myself and then I said quad

924
00:44:35,360 --> 00:44:38,920
Speaker 1: Army and he was like, oh yeah, yeah, totally Quaid

925
00:44:38,960 --> 00:44:41,839
Speaker 1: and I was like, no, You're supposed to say righteous Kill.

926
00:44:41,840 --> 00:44:44,759
Speaker 1: He's like, oh yeah, I screwed it up. And then

927
00:44:44,840 --> 00:44:46,680
Speaker 1: we ended up talking for forty minutes about a million

928
00:44:46,680 --> 00:44:48,480
Speaker 1: other things that it was great, and he even showed

929
00:44:48,520 --> 00:44:51,480
Speaker 1: me his detailed list of every episode of Saturday Night

930
00:44:51,480 --> 00:44:53,920
Speaker 1: Live that he watched and tracked every musical moment of

931
00:44:53,960 --> 00:44:56,480
Speaker 1: the RPMs the key so that he could make that

932
00:44:56,719 --> 00:45:00,040
Speaker 1: beautiful music special that he made. If you guys, I

933
00:45:00,080 --> 00:45:02,879
Speaker 1: haven't seen the fiftieth anniversary music special that Questlove made,

934
00:45:03,120 --> 00:45:07,040
Speaker 1: where he takes the musical performances and mashes them like

935
00:45:07,040 --> 00:45:09,720
Speaker 1: a DJ would, but using visuals, So all of a sudden,

936
00:45:09,719 --> 00:45:15,680
Speaker 1: it's like Handsome Umbop gets interrupted by the Cranberrys and

937
00:45:15,719 --> 00:45:17,360
Speaker 1: they're singing at the same time, but the way a

938
00:45:17,400 --> 00:45:19,160
Speaker 1: DJ would mash up two songs. It is one of

939
00:45:19,239 --> 00:45:21,640
Speaker 1: the most incredible things I've ever seen. I sent it

940
00:45:21,680 --> 00:45:23,960
Speaker 1: to at least fifty people when it came out, So

941
00:45:24,080 --> 00:45:26,279
Speaker 1: talking to him about the making of it and how

942
00:45:26,320 --> 00:45:28,759
Speaker 1: he had to pitch Lauren on it and then make

943
00:45:28,800 --> 00:45:30,640
Speaker 1: it and then get the rights for everything, and then

944
00:45:30,680 --> 00:45:34,000
Speaker 1: seeing his notes of sitting down and watching every episode

945
00:45:34,080 --> 00:45:36,239
Speaker 1: of the entire fifty years of the show to track

946
00:45:36,280 --> 00:45:38,040
Speaker 1: all the music and then get it in his head

947
00:45:38,080 --> 00:45:39,880
Speaker 1: the way a genius does, where he's connecting all the

948
00:45:39,920 --> 00:45:42,160
Speaker 1: different keys and bridges, and that's just that's really cool.

949
00:45:42,280 --> 00:45:45,239
Speaker 1: It was like the coolest conversation ever. But then like

950
00:45:45,320 --> 00:45:47,680
Speaker 1: two hours later at game night, he goes by the way,

951
00:45:47,960 --> 00:45:50,480
Speaker 1: I texted Seth and the Lonely Island guys that I

952
00:45:50,560 --> 00:45:54,840
Speaker 1: failed them and that this awesome like sportscaster Sarah Spain

953
00:45:55,200 --> 00:45:57,920
Speaker 1: had quite armed me and I'd failed to righteous kill back,

954
00:45:58,239 --> 00:46:00,759
Speaker 1: and they were all really excited that you listened to

955
00:46:00,800 --> 00:46:02,919
Speaker 1: the pod and Andy Samberg at first didn't know where

956
00:46:02,920 --> 00:46:04,319
Speaker 1: you are, but then he came back, He's like, wait,

957
00:46:04,360 --> 00:46:07,279
Speaker 1: I know who. That is so cool and so like

958
00:46:07,400 --> 00:46:10,080
Speaker 1: for me, like who spends every episode wishing I was

959
00:46:10,120 --> 00:46:11,600
Speaker 1: best friends with all of them For them to know

960
00:46:11,640 --> 00:46:14,120
Speaker 1: I exist and then know that I kuwait Army right

961
00:46:14,160 --> 00:46:17,280
Speaker 1: just killed them was very cool.

962
00:46:17,400 --> 00:46:18,359
Speaker 2: I'm so happy for you.

963
00:46:18,880 --> 00:46:22,080
Speaker 1: Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you. Okay, so

964
00:46:22,640 --> 00:46:24,560
Speaker 1: I've already gone on too long name dropping and telling

965
00:46:24,560 --> 00:46:25,920
Speaker 1: you all the fun stuff, and I even forgot to

966
00:46:25,920 --> 00:46:27,919
Speaker 1: mention that on the last night iHeart rented one hundred

967
00:46:27,920 --> 00:46:30,839
Speaker 1: foot catamaran and everyone went on this insane boat ride

968
00:46:30,880 --> 00:46:33,920
Speaker 1: through can and it was so cool to see how

969
00:46:34,000 --> 00:46:35,920
Speaker 1: much the iHeart people all just wanted to hang out

970
00:46:35,920 --> 00:46:38,279
Speaker 1: with each other outside of work and got along and

971
00:46:38,400 --> 00:46:40,640
Speaker 1: just bonded. And the boat was beautiful. And as we

972
00:46:40,680 --> 00:46:43,160
Speaker 1: pulled into the harbor, Jada Kiss was performing on a

973
00:46:43,160 --> 00:46:46,200
Speaker 1: neighboring boat, and I zoomed in and saw my friend

974
00:46:46,200 --> 00:46:48,799
Speaker 1: Ben Lyons talking to Anthony Ramos, and I was like

975
00:46:48,880 --> 00:46:51,360
Speaker 1: messaging him these paparazzi photos of him from boat to

976
00:46:51,400 --> 00:46:53,480
Speaker 1: boat in France, and I was like, I couldn't be

977
00:46:53,520 --> 00:46:55,759
Speaker 1: any cooler right now. And then I walked over and

978
00:46:55,800 --> 00:46:57,720
Speaker 1: tried to get on that boat and was summarily denied,

979
00:46:57,760 --> 00:47:00,440
Speaker 1: and I realized I wasn't that cool. As I was

980
00:47:00,480 --> 00:47:03,000
Speaker 1: waiting trying to text with multiple people on the boat

981
00:47:03,040 --> 00:47:04,239
Speaker 1: that I knew that were like, oh my god, I'm

982
00:47:04,280 --> 00:47:06,239
Speaker 1: so sorry. I don't have any poll with the door. Like,

983
00:47:06,480 --> 00:47:08,520
Speaker 1: I'm excited I got on, but I don't know anyone

984
00:47:08,520 --> 00:47:10,279
Speaker 1: who's running the party, so I can't get you in.

985
00:47:10,840 --> 00:47:12,680
Speaker 1: Fat Joe walked by me and then they were like,

986
00:47:12,760 --> 00:47:15,720
Speaker 1: and here's why, Cleff. So it was like Jada, Kiss, Flavor,

987
00:47:15,719 --> 00:47:19,600
Speaker 1: flav Y, Clef, all these people on this boat and

988
00:47:19,640 --> 00:47:22,160
Speaker 1: they were just going crazy to all New York songs.

989
00:47:22,200 --> 00:47:25,240
Speaker 1: There was a big Nix Nice Vive on the boat. Anyway,

990
00:47:25,520 --> 00:47:29,600
Speaker 1: that was like how things ended was me getting rejected

991
00:47:29,640 --> 00:47:31,480
Speaker 1: from the final party, which was a good way to end,

992
00:47:31,520 --> 00:47:33,239
Speaker 1: you know, just really bring down the ego that I

993
00:47:33,280 --> 00:47:34,960
Speaker 1: had amassed over the course of the week by when

994
00:47:35,040 --> 00:47:37,560
Speaker 1: told Andy Sandberg knows who I am by just rejecting

995
00:47:37,600 --> 00:47:41,160
Speaker 1: me from a very cool boat. Okay, so my three takeaways.

996
00:47:42,040 --> 00:47:45,040
Speaker 1: Number one is getting the room. You know, I kind

997
00:47:45,040 --> 00:47:48,040
Speaker 1: of described can as a boondoggle and Sport Beaches just

998
00:47:48,040 --> 00:47:49,880
Speaker 1: a way for people to get paid from their company

999
00:47:49,920 --> 00:47:52,239
Speaker 1: to go to France and party, which it very much is.

1000
00:47:52,719 --> 00:47:55,440
Speaker 1: But also the number of meetings that came up because

1001
00:47:55,440 --> 00:47:57,319
Speaker 1: I met someone, the number of conversations that I had

1002
00:47:57,320 --> 00:47:59,560
Speaker 1: with people that I otherwise wouldn't have met or been

1003
00:47:59,600 --> 00:48:02,000
Speaker 1: able to talk to about iHeart women's sports and women's

1004
00:48:02,040 --> 00:48:03,920
Speaker 1: sports in general, and our show and everything else was

1005
00:48:04,440 --> 00:48:08,400
Speaker 1: massive and post COVID with zoom, you kind of forget

1006
00:48:08,400 --> 00:48:10,439
Speaker 1: how much more gets done when you're actually like face

1007
00:48:10,480 --> 00:48:13,360
Speaker 1: to face with people and having a conversation. And then

1008
00:48:13,440 --> 00:48:16,680
Speaker 1: you know, especially a friend of mine, Justine, said she

1009
00:48:16,760 --> 00:48:19,080
Speaker 1: had like a full half hour conversation with someone and

1010
00:48:19,080 --> 00:48:21,239
Speaker 1: got really vulnerable about some stuff that had gone on

1011
00:48:21,320 --> 00:48:23,360
Speaker 1: with her and that the end found out that the

1012
00:48:23,400 --> 00:48:26,440
Speaker 1: person was a global CEO for a massive brand and

1013
00:48:26,560 --> 00:48:29,040
Speaker 1: was like, let me help you, and like she wouldn't

1014
00:48:29,080 --> 00:48:31,640
Speaker 1: have necessarily done that first ball in a zoom, but secondarily,

1015
00:48:31,640 --> 00:48:33,319
Speaker 1: if she like had known who the person was, they

1016
00:48:33,360 --> 00:48:36,880
Speaker 1: were just having a human conversation that ended up resulting

1017
00:48:36,920 --> 00:48:39,759
Speaker 1: in some vulnerable conversation topics and her being able to

1018
00:48:39,800 --> 00:48:41,480
Speaker 1: open up and be helped by someone who has a

1019
00:48:41,520 --> 00:48:43,560
Speaker 1: lot of pull. So get in the room, go to

1020
00:48:43,600 --> 00:48:45,480
Speaker 1: the place, go to the conference, talk to the people,

1021
00:48:45,880 --> 00:48:49,319
Speaker 1: introduce yourself all the stuff. It's still like so necessary.

1022
00:48:49,920 --> 00:48:53,480
Speaker 1: Number two, what I alluded to earlier, Make sure that

1023
00:48:53,520 --> 00:48:55,760
Speaker 1: you're going to spaces that aren't as familiar with women's

1024
00:48:55,800 --> 00:48:59,040
Speaker 1: sports and having conversations about women's sports and the athletes

1025
00:48:59,080 --> 00:49:01,480
Speaker 1: and the leagues and the team, because it's amazing how

1026
00:49:01,480 --> 00:49:03,640
Speaker 1: you can go to a sports conference and people are like, oh,

1027
00:49:03,719 --> 00:49:06,160
Speaker 1: professional women's hockey, that would be so cool, and you're like,

1028
00:49:06,480 --> 00:49:10,000
Speaker 1: it's happening already, and it is cool, right. There's just

1029
00:49:10,080 --> 00:49:11,759
Speaker 1: a lot of the same touch points that you hear

1030
00:49:11,760 --> 00:49:14,080
Speaker 1: over and over the people know, which is great Serena

1031
00:49:14,120 --> 00:49:16,239
Speaker 1: Williams and Caitlin Clark and the US women's soccer team,

1032
00:49:16,440 --> 00:49:19,440
Speaker 1: but getting out into those spaces and really expanding people's

1033
00:49:19,440 --> 00:49:21,719
Speaker 1: knowledge and a lot of them would be interested and

1034
00:49:21,800 --> 00:49:23,680
Speaker 1: want to dive in more. They just need to be

1035
00:49:23,760 --> 00:49:26,080
Speaker 1: told that the space exists and the opportunities are there,

1036
00:49:26,200 --> 00:49:30,120
Speaker 1: so really remembering to start base level and build from there.

1037
00:49:30,200 --> 00:49:32,640
Speaker 2: I feel like that's something that we even talk about sometimes,

1038
00:49:32,680 --> 00:49:35,239
Speaker 2: Like you would think that as a women's sports podcast

1039
00:49:35,320 --> 00:49:37,359
Speaker 2: we would know all the things about women's sports, except

1040
00:49:37,400 --> 00:49:39,120
Speaker 2: that it's a really huge space. And so I tell

1041
00:49:39,160 --> 00:49:40,840
Speaker 2: people all the time when I meet them, I'm like,

1042
00:49:41,000 --> 00:49:43,880
Speaker 2: send us pitches, let us know if something cool is happening,

1043
00:49:43,920 --> 00:49:47,000
Speaker 2: because you just are not aware of how big the

1044
00:49:47,040 --> 00:49:49,480
Speaker 2: world is. And how much is going on out there. Yeah,

1045
00:49:49,560 --> 00:49:51,600
Speaker 2: we need a dumbed down version for Alex about some

1046
00:49:51,680 --> 00:49:53,600
Speaker 2: of the celeb names you just drop because my I'm

1047
00:49:53,680 --> 00:49:55,480
Speaker 2: so sorry. Yeah, i'll give you a f I'm gonna

1048
00:49:55,480 --> 00:49:56,640
Speaker 2: trust that they're a great.

1049
00:49:57,120 --> 00:50:01,319
Speaker 1: PowerPoint presentation later and then finally, and I don't want

1050
00:50:01,320 --> 00:50:05,960
Speaker 1: this to sound corny, because maybe it can't be corny.

1051
00:50:06,360 --> 00:50:08,600
Speaker 1: I did work with the stylists, and I did show

1052
00:50:08,680 --> 00:50:11,520
Speaker 1: up feeling good in the spaces in which I was

1053
00:50:11,760 --> 00:50:14,799
Speaker 1: and with the people I interacted with, And usually my

1054
00:50:15,000 --> 00:50:19,440
Speaker 1: attempts to be low maintenance are genuine. I am a

1055
00:50:19,440 --> 00:50:22,640
Speaker 1: low maintenance person. I like to be pretty chill and comfortable.

1056
00:50:22,960 --> 00:50:25,560
Speaker 1: And I also don't ever want to see myself or

1057
00:50:25,600 --> 00:50:28,240
Speaker 1: have others see me as better than them or different

1058
00:50:28,239 --> 00:50:31,600
Speaker 1: from them. Right. I don't like the idea of talent

1059
00:50:31,719 --> 00:50:34,439
Speaker 1: quote unquote being separate from everyone else in a way

1060
00:50:34,440 --> 00:50:37,319
Speaker 1: that feels like a distance. And I actually feel very

1061
00:50:37,400 --> 00:50:40,320
Speaker 1: uncomfortable when I get sent like car service, or people

1062
00:50:40,320 --> 00:50:42,160
Speaker 1: try to open doors or like do things for me.

1063
00:50:42,480 --> 00:50:44,880
Speaker 1: It makes me feel bad, even though I know that

1064
00:50:44,960 --> 00:50:48,400
Speaker 1: sometimes giving up responsibilities or asking for help is necessary

1065
00:50:48,400 --> 00:50:50,520
Speaker 1: when you get really busy. I don't know why, but

1066
00:50:50,560 --> 00:50:56,319
Speaker 1: I have this internalized like dislike for that side of

1067
00:50:56,360 --> 00:51:00,239
Speaker 1: this job. And what I found is I I can

1068
00:51:00,280 --> 00:51:03,120
Speaker 1: still be very grounded and kind and low maintenance while

1069
00:51:03,160 --> 00:51:06,040
Speaker 1: also putting in enough effort to be seen as the

1070
00:51:06,080 --> 00:51:09,600
Speaker 1: successful decision making person that I want people to see

1071
00:51:09,600 --> 00:51:12,880
Speaker 1: me as in this space. And so the panel I

1072
00:51:12,920 --> 00:51:15,080
Speaker 1: did with Noah about look good, feel good, play good

1073
00:51:15,360 --> 00:51:18,399
Speaker 1: became something that I recognized over this week that had

1074
00:51:18,400 --> 00:51:20,440
Speaker 1: I not put that effort in before to show up

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Speaker 1: looking and feeling confident, I would have been a different

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Speaker 1: person in those meetings and parties because I would have

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Speaker 1: been so worried about how I didn't show up looking

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Speaker 1: like I fit in, instead of feeling confident enough to

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Speaker 1: be moving around the space like I belonged.

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Speaker 2: With your great eyebrows, with.

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Speaker 1: My great eyebrows. But like, I know that it's a

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Speaker 1: privilege to be able to afford a stylist, or to

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Speaker 1: be able to afford buying those clothes, but I think

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Speaker 1: it's also just an intention that you can set without

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Speaker 1: the money side of things, which is to say, I

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Speaker 1: allow myself to feel powerful and like a boss and

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Speaker 1: to walk into spaces and carry myself in a way

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Speaker 1: that deserves respect as opposed to trying so hard to

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Speaker 1: be easy, reasy, low maintenance cool that you don't project

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Speaker 1: the kind of respect that you hope that people will

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Speaker 1: give you, you know. So to end on that seemingly

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Speaker 1: superficial but actually very powerful and meaningful note for me,

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Speaker 1: can was freaking awesome. Thank you so much to iHeart

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Speaker 1: for valuing our show and me and sending me And

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Speaker 1: hopefully a lot of really awesome stuff will be coming

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Speaker 1: down the pipe because of all the connections that I

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Speaker 1: made in people that I met. And also it's supposed

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Speaker 1: to be a massive heat wave in Chicago, so the

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Speaker 1: sweating will continue until morale improves. We have to take

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Speaker 1: another break when we come back. Signs of the Times

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Speaker 1: welcome back slices. As we are closing out this final

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Speaker 1: week of season two of the show, I have to

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Speaker 1: remind you yet again to tell your friends, tell your enemies,

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Speaker 1: tell your neighbors and your parents to listen to the show,

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Speaker 1: tell everyone you know about it, and please subscribe, rate

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Speaker 1: and review. I tell you every but it's so easy.

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Speaker 1: Watch Balhalla rating one out of one very Special Place review.

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Speaker 1: Since the Golden State Valkyries very first game, the atmosphere

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Speaker 1: in the building has been one of one. The team

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Speaker 1: set out to have a home court advantage unlike any

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Speaker 1: other in the league, and the city showed up and

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Speaker 1: made it so, with valkx merch on practically every single

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Speaker 1: body in the arena, every seat filled, and an inclusive

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Speaker 1: and joyful atmosphere, one that immediately earned it coverage as

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Speaker 1: a queer hot spot in a city already full of

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Speaker 1: great LGBTQ spaces. You might remember we even shouted out

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Speaker 1: a story very early in the val season, one about

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Speaker 1: the Valqueries and other queer supporters groups. Well, it's the

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Speaker 1: very last day of Pride Month and Balhalla has been

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Speaker 1: even more pop in than usual this month, as evidenced

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Speaker 1: by the signs that fans have brought to games this June.

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Speaker 1: A recent instapost from the team showed a few of

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Speaker 1: the best signs, one that reads we retired from the

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Speaker 1: clubs now we party at Balhalla, another that reads trans

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Speaker 1: people belong in ballha GSV made me gayer, and one

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Speaker 1: featuring Rue Paul. The Chase Center is just full of

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Speaker 1: pride every single game, so much so that when the

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Speaker 1: Valks bested the Dream over the weekend on Pride night

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Speaker 1: Star Gabby Williams said right into the camera on live

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Speaker 1: TV for the gays, and I bet we're going to

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Speaker 1: see that rallying cry on some future signs by next

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Speaker 1: Valkyrie's home game. Now it's your turn, y'all rate and review.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for listening, See you tomorrow. Good game, Marina Maybury,

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Speaker 1: Good game, my stylist, Hugh literally the hottest day in

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Speaker 1: French history while I'm trying to look cute. Good Game

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Speaker 1: with Sarah Spain is an iHeart women's sports production in

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Speaker 1: partnership with Deep Blue Sports and Entertainment. You can find

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Speaker 1: us on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you

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Speaker 1: get your podcasts. Production by Wonder Media Network, our producers

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Speaker 1: are Alex Asi and Bianca Hillier. Our executive producers are

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Speaker 1: Christina Everett, Jesse Katz, Jenny Kaplan and Emily Rudder. Our

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Speaker 1: editors are Emily Rudder, Lucy Jones, Brittany Martinez and Gianna Palmer.

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Speaker 1: Production assistants from Avery Loftus and I'm your host Sarah

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