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Speaker 1: Welcome to Good Game with Sarah Spain, where we're once

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Speaker 1: again asking to move the Super Bowl to Saturday so

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Speaker 1: the Sunday Scaries this.

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Speaker 2: Time every single year.

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Speaker 1: It's Monday, February tenth, and on today's show, we'll chat

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Speaker 1: with the legendary Hannah Storm and the hilarious Mike Goulli Junior,

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Speaker 1: both of whom I caught up with on Radio Row

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Speaker 1: of stuff, including how the sentiment toward women's sports has

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Speaker 2: And women's sports spaces.

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Speaker 1: And Mike did a little drive by to discuss our

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Speaker 1: brand new, brilliant business plan investing in babies. Plus the

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Speaker 1: WNBA News keeps it Coming and HBCU stand up change

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Speaker 1: in the game, and a chance to send your sports

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Speaker 1: faves a little love. It's all coming up right after

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Speaker 1: this happy Monday slices. Here's what you need to know

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Speaker 1: today in Unrivaled News. The league's long anticipated one on

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Speaker 1: one tournament starts today. Thirty of the league's elite competitors

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Speaker 1: begin their quest for the two hundred thousand dollars top

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Speaker 1: and seven to nine pm Eastern on TNT and True TV.

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Speaker 1: We'll be interested to see if injured players including Marina Maybury,

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Speaker 1: who hasn't seen any time in Unrivaled yet due to

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Speaker 1: if you're hearing this before tip off, there's still time

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Speaker 1: You could print out slice Joey Maldonado's or you can

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Speaker 1: fill one out on the nifty app made by Corey McDonald,

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Speaker 1: who sent it to us on Blue Sky. We'll link

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Speaker 1: to both of those in our show notes. Either way,

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Speaker 1: if any of you got close to calling it right.

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Speaker 3: More.

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Speaker 1: Unrivaled News League co founder Nafisa Callier put on a

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Speaker 1: show Saturday night for the Lunar Owls against her partner

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Speaker 1: in business, Brianna Stewart and her missed team. The Owls

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Speaker 1: are now eight to oh after the eighty five to

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Speaker 1: twenty three points and seventeen boards in the losing effort. Also,

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Speaker 1: on Saturday for quote, player health and safety reasons. Now

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Speaker 1: Unrivaled hew the fan autograph session and gave out free

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Speaker 1: Who was out Unrivaled that night, posted video of the

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Speaker 1: End quote to the WNBA, where we've got a homecoming

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Speaker 1: of sorts. Alicia Clark is returning to the Seattle Storm

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Speaker 1: Marina Maybray has requested a trade from the Connecticut Sun,

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Speaker 1: that trade request. In tennis News, American star Coco Goff

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Speaker 1: Talk about putting your money where your mouth is. Good shit,

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Speaker 1: how you can use your dollars to support HBCUs and

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Speaker 1: athletes later in the Show in college hoops news, star

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Speaker 1: UCLA center Lauren Betts announced that she'll return to school

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Speaker 1: At six foot seven, Bets is having an outstanding year

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Speaker 1: of her choice. Ucile is currently ranked number one in

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Speaker 1: one overall seed in this year's NCAA Tournament. More College

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Speaker 1: Hoops Friends of the Show, coach Vick Schaeffer and sophomore

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Speaker 1: stud Madison Booker helped number four Texas pull off a

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Speaker 1: On Sunday, Number nineteen Tennessee fell to number six LSU,

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Speaker 1: that thriller you remember last week we told you about

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Speaker 1: how Tennessee head coach Kim Caldwell was returning to the

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Speaker 1: the team, and Caldwell said, simply, quote I.

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Speaker 3: End quote.

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Speaker 1: Annual USA Canada rivalry series has come to a close,

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Speaker 1: Third year in a row that the Canucks got us

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Speaker 1: In previous shows, we've noted how Gotham FC has seen

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Speaker 4: when we're talking about everything thing else, it had to

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Speaker 4: organically come up and grow and listen when the readings

439
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Speaker 4: aren't there, when.

440
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Speaker 2: People aren't watching.

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Speaker 4: And let's face that the w NBA place in the summer,

442
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Speaker 4: right and so you know it's when the eyeballs are there,

443
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Speaker 4: rising tide.

444
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Speaker 2: Lifts all boats kind of thing, right though, is it?

445
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Speaker 1: It's like, if the iball aren't there, are you giving

446
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Speaker 1: it and are you giving.

447
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Speaker 4: It the agency that that it should have? Are you

448
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Speaker 4: making it a priority? And it's really to me going

449
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Speaker 4: to be really interesting to see how these other leagues

450
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Speaker 4: too that are popping up. You know, we've had listen

451
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Speaker 4: and these leagues have always been there. By the way,

452
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Speaker 4: there's always been you know, hey, let's sort of women's

453
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Speaker 4: basketball league. There's been all these sortup leads through the years.

454
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Speaker 1: So do we finally have enough traction just it feels

455
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Speaker 1: different again to hopefullly have a wave right that is

456
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Speaker 1: going to carry these things in a sustainable business model,

457
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Speaker 1: And do we have enough investment and enough high profile

458
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Speaker 1: people investing.

459
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Speaker 2: In the long run?

460
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Speaker 4: Right, like not a reactionary Oh this didn't work in

461
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Speaker 4: the first of the second year, but you know, and the.

462
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Speaker 2: W went through a lot of stages.

463
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Speaker 1: I mean, I think that's why that's why weren't a

464
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Speaker 1: better place now. Is the idea of it being more

465
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Speaker 1: like a startup. You're not getting ROI immediately, it's a

466
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Speaker 1: long term investment, is opposed to we've treated it differently

467
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Speaker 1: than every other sport. With men's sports, we've always known

468
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Speaker 1: you're gonna put a lot of money up front, you're

469
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Speaker 1: gonna spend a lot to see it later. That's women's

470
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Speaker 1: sports has been this immediate well lost money so that

471
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Speaker 1: it's over. Yes, there wasn't this fundamental belief in the

472
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Speaker 1: product that we've had for men and in the future

473
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Speaker 1: ability of it that's changed.

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Speaker 2: Yes, right, it's like this is going to be a gimmick.

475
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Speaker 1: It's going to be a fulfilling prophecy, because then when

476
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Speaker 1: you saw it that way way.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, right exactly.

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Speaker 1: You've worked things like WNBA women's golf, Olympic sports. Do

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Speaker 1: you feel like you're treated differently working in those spaces

480
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Speaker 1: than when you're in like say the Big four professional

481
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Speaker 1: men's sports.

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Speaker 4: Uh? Not really, I think because you know, you mentioned

483
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Speaker 4: like a I worked major golf tournaments and things like that. No,

484
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Speaker 4: not really. I didn't think I was particularly treated or

485
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Speaker 4: perceived differently. You know, maybe I just wasn't paying close

486
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Speaker 4: enough attention. You know, I think that with women, I

487
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Speaker 4: think that it.

488
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Speaker 2: Was very collegial.

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Speaker 4: So yes, okay, now that you asked the question, now

490
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Speaker 4: that I'm like me passing around trying to think of

491
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Speaker 4: the answer, I remember like I was the first NFL

492
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Speaker 4: sideline reporter. Okay, oh J was supposed to do it,

493
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Speaker 4: and then you know he wasn't able to. Yeah, so

494
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Speaker 4: what so they were like, you're going to become You're

495
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Speaker 4: going to be the first NFL sideline reporter. And not

496
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Speaker 4: only did the teams not want me there, nobody wanted

497
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Speaker 4: me there. My own colleagues didn't want me there, and

498
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Speaker 4: my producers didn't want me there, and it was probably

499
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Speaker 4: the worst year of my career professional year. And I

500
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Speaker 4: had a lot of incidents through the years covering men's sports,

501
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Speaker 4: A lot of baseball things happened in the sport of

502
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Speaker 4: baseball as well, where you know, I was the only woman,

503
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Speaker 4: and you know, a lot of really not great things happened,

504
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Speaker 4: and you know, I just underwent you know, some and

505
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Speaker 4: and a lot of it was is you know, pretty

506
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Speaker 4: public knowledge like Albert Bell, like swinging a bat at

507
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Speaker 4: me and the dugout and things like that. That is

508
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Speaker 4: something that I mean would never have happened in women's

509
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Speaker 4: sports like ever. And especially you know, as a mom,

510
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Speaker 4: I have three girls, and I was covering sports a lot,

511
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Speaker 4: you know, in various stages of pregnancy and motherhood and

512
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Speaker 4: all of that. And I remember the first year of

513
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Speaker 4: the w n b A, I just had a newborn.

514
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Speaker 4: A very lovely woman who was calling Connecticut basketball games.

515
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Speaker 4: Let me sit by her side and watch her. Her

516
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Speaker 4: name was Doris Burke. I don't know if you've ever

517
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Speaker 4: heard of that. Yeah, I think she's yeah, I think

518
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Speaker 4: she's all right, and I think, you know, you might

519
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Speaker 4: have heard of her and and again with any Meyers

520
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Speaker 4: that first season and an all female crew behind the

521
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Speaker 4: scenes and the w NBA, and I remember, you know,

522
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Speaker 4: being a new mom, how terrifying this assignment was. First

523
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Speaker 4: of all, to do play by play. I got an ulcer.

524
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Speaker 4: I was traveling with my baby and meeting Cheryl Swoops

525
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Speaker 4: and Cheryl Swoops had just had Jordan, and she was

526
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Speaker 4: one of the faces of the of the w NBA

527
00:24:20,760 --> 00:24:24,439
Speaker 4: initially along with Lisa Leslie and Rebecca Lobo. And seeing

528
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Speaker 4: her and seeing her with Jordan and seeing her like

529
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Speaker 4: work her way back to play with the comments, and

530
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Speaker 4: it was just for me. I was like that experience,

531
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Speaker 4: like just having like another mom there who was like

532
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Speaker 4: going through like we had our babies, like almost at

533
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Speaker 4: the same time. Like just seeing that what she was

534
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Speaker 4: trying to do and what I was trying to do.

535
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Speaker 2: I mean, what a what a blessing?

536
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Speaker 4: I mean something that you know was so far flown

537
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Speaker 4: from people saying we don't want you here. Yeah, you know,

538
00:24:53,320 --> 00:24:56,199
Speaker 4: to guess what, We're all in the same boat. You know,

539
00:24:56,240 --> 00:24:58,960
Speaker 4: we're doing this together. I get you, like I understand you.

540
00:24:59,080 --> 00:25:02,359
Speaker 2: There's credible power and not feeling alone.

541
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Speaker 1: Even if it doesn't fix it, it doesn't get you

542
00:25:04,760 --> 00:25:07,399
Speaker 1: more sleep, it doesn't make it any easier. Yeah, but

543
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Speaker 1: it is incredibly worthwhile to realize, oh, there's somebody else

544
00:25:10,720 --> 00:25:12,359
Speaker 1: doing this too, maybe I'll be okay.

545
00:25:12,480 --> 00:25:14,680
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean, and.

546
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Speaker 4: You know that behind the scenes, like yeah with producer,

547
00:25:17,720 --> 00:25:19,840
Speaker 4: like it's okay, you and I are forward facing, but

548
00:25:19,840 --> 00:25:22,080
Speaker 4: when you're building a team behind the scenes too, and

549
00:25:22,080 --> 00:25:24,679
Speaker 4: if you're building like so for Amazon Thursday Night Football,

550
00:25:24,760 --> 00:25:27,000
Speaker 4: which I did with Andrea for four seasons, and Thursday

551
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Speaker 4: Yight Football, we had all female team, you know for

552
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Speaker 4: a couple of years and behind the scenes, I mean

553
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Speaker 4: that was so like empowering, so cool, and again we

554
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Speaker 4: were like all in it together, which was really neat.

555
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Speaker 1: It feels different having been predominantly in the women's sports

556
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Speaker 1: space for the last year and a half after thirteen

557
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Speaker 1: or fourteen years of mostly men's space, while trying to

558
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Speaker 1: push women's as.

559
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Speaker 2: Much as possible, it's this. It feels different.

560
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Speaker 1: It just feels different, and there's plenty of good in

561
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Speaker 1: both spaces, but I think sometimes we get stuck in

562
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Speaker 1: the way things always have been, and that's the way

563
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Speaker 1: things should be, as opposed to looking and being like, oh,

564
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Speaker 1: actually you can look over at the women's space and

565
00:26:00,240 --> 00:26:03,359
Speaker 1: less toxicity and more support and all this other stuff.

566
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Speaker 2: Yeah, what's on tap for you this week in New Orleans?

567
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Speaker 3: What are you up to?

568
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Speaker 4: So a year ago I got diagnosed with breast cancer

569
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Speaker 4: right before the Super Bowl. I had surgery a couple

570
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Speaker 4: of weeks before the super Bowl, was able to come back.

571
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Speaker 4: I hosted Sports Center super Bowl Morning, which was really cool,

572
00:26:18,440 --> 00:26:21,080
Speaker 4: so like a really good goal. Yeah, for sure, no

573
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Speaker 4: breast cancer in my family. No symptoms I've had. You know,

574
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Speaker 4: I've had probably what I don't know, twenty twenty two mammograms,

575
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Speaker 4: all negative, you know, so complete shock.

576
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Speaker 2: And I learned a ton And what the things I learned.

577
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Speaker 4: Was your risk for breast cancer does not just come

578
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Speaker 4: from your mother's side. It can come from your dad's

579
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Speaker 4: side as well. And how important it is to talk

580
00:26:45,320 --> 00:26:48,800
Speaker 4: about your family history. People are scared to talk about cancer,

581
00:26:49,160 --> 00:26:51,600
Speaker 4: they're scared to people just we just don't generally talk

582
00:26:51,640 --> 00:26:53,800
Speaker 4: to our family about health things anyway, I think, but

583
00:26:54,320 --> 00:26:57,919
Speaker 4: you really do need to know. So your parents, your grandparents,

584
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Speaker 4: your their half siblings, did anybody have breast cancer, of

585
00:27:02,840 --> 00:27:05,320
Speaker 4: varying cancer, colorectal cancer, those kind of the big three.

586
00:27:05,320 --> 00:27:07,000
Speaker 2: But if they had cancer, what did they have?

587
00:27:07,280 --> 00:27:07,480
Speaker 3: Right?

588
00:27:07,840 --> 00:27:10,200
Speaker 2: So just taking some time when you're with your family.

589
00:27:10,280 --> 00:27:12,440
Speaker 4: A lot of families are together this weekend, Yeah, to

590
00:27:12,880 --> 00:27:15,360
Speaker 4: talk about that. I'm working with this company called Mariad.

591
00:27:15,720 --> 00:27:18,240
Speaker 4: So you go a mariad dot com backslash, know your

592
00:27:18,320 --> 00:27:21,040
Speaker 4: history and they'll just tell you, like, here's the simple

593
00:27:21,119 --> 00:27:21,800
Speaker 4: questions to ask.

594
00:27:21,880 --> 00:27:22,840
Speaker 2: It'll take five.

595
00:27:22,680 --> 00:27:26,239
Speaker 4: Minutes, you know, easy, easy, and then and then they

596
00:27:26,320 --> 00:27:28,320
Speaker 4: let you know are you a candidate for genetic testing.

597
00:27:28,600 --> 00:27:30,600
Speaker 2: I always thought genetic test it was scary. I'm like,

598
00:27:30,680 --> 00:27:33,399
Speaker 2: what is this? I don't know, blah blah blah.

599
00:27:33,640 --> 00:27:36,760
Speaker 4: First of all, it's like this, it's like a saliva

600
00:27:36,800 --> 00:27:37,760
Speaker 4: test you can do at home.

601
00:27:39,040 --> 00:27:41,480
Speaker 2: Insurance pays for the whole thing. In ninety percent of cases.

602
00:27:42,119 --> 00:27:44,640
Speaker 4: You could do a blood test, but this will tell

603
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Speaker 4: you your risk.

604
00:27:46,760 --> 00:27:48,160
Speaker 2: For like eleven different kinds of cancer.

605
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Speaker 1: Yeah, a lot of people started doing that if they

606
00:27:49,760 --> 00:27:52,679
Speaker 1: had family history because they might want to be preemptive

607
00:27:52,680 --> 00:27:55,840
Speaker 1: about it, whether that's a misseectomy or otherwise, because if

608
00:27:55,840 --> 00:27:58,640
Speaker 1: they have a certain percentage, it's more likely.

609
00:27:58,720 --> 00:28:01,560
Speaker 4: Yeah, but the other thing is like, so many younger

610
00:28:01,600 --> 00:28:03,320
Speaker 4: people are getting cancer.

611
00:28:03,040 --> 00:28:06,600
Speaker 2: Now, so should you. Let's say you're at.

612
00:28:06,480 --> 00:28:08,520
Speaker 4: A pretty high risk. Let's say you're younger person. You're

613
00:28:08,520 --> 00:28:11,159
Speaker 4: at a pretty high risk for breast cancer. You know

614
00:28:11,280 --> 00:28:13,720
Speaker 4: to get screened now, right, Like you know you need

615
00:28:13,760 --> 00:28:16,880
Speaker 4: to be screened more seriously, and your your health care

616
00:28:16,920 --> 00:28:19,679
Speaker 4: provider knows that and you will so like I have

617
00:28:19,800 --> 00:28:24,119
Speaker 4: to have a mammogram ultrasound at MRIs, you know what

618
00:28:24,119 --> 00:28:26,880
Speaker 4: I mean. And you're you know, insurance need to pay

619
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Speaker 4: for that. So this is just like a game plan. Cool,

620
00:28:29,400 --> 00:28:30,760
Speaker 4: you know what I mean. It's like a roadmap for

621
00:28:30,840 --> 00:28:32,440
Speaker 4: you for your health. But you can't be scared of it.

622
00:28:32,520 --> 00:28:33,120
Speaker 4: People are scared.

623
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Speaker 1: They're yeah, we're all used to, like we're filling out

624
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Speaker 1: all those forms of the doctor. They're like, how many

625
00:28:37,720 --> 00:28:39,120
Speaker 1: drinks a week? You're like, all right, let me mind

626
00:28:39,160 --> 00:28:41,120
Speaker 1: us like ten or twelve and then put that number done.

627
00:28:41,240 --> 00:28:42,200
Speaker 2: But you gotta be honest.

628
00:28:42,560 --> 00:28:45,200
Speaker 1: You gotta be honest about stuff like family history that

629
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Speaker 1: one actually met. No, I'm just kidding. I'm very honest

630
00:28:48,040 --> 00:28:50,680
Speaker 1: about my I have to tell this story quickly. My

631
00:28:50,720 --> 00:28:52,960
Speaker 1: friend went to the doctor and she had just been

632
00:28:52,960 --> 00:28:53,880
Speaker 1: back home with family and.

633
00:28:53,800 --> 00:28:54,360
Speaker 2: They drink a lot.

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Speaker 1: She's from Buffalo Bills fan and the doctor said, so

635
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Speaker 1: are you still having about thirty to forty drinks a week?

636
00:29:01,480 --> 00:29:04,680
Speaker 1: And she was like huh And she's like, wait, hold

637
00:29:04,720 --> 00:29:06,520
Speaker 1: that sounds like a lot. Hold on, but I did

638
00:29:07,840 --> 00:29:11,080
Speaker 1: I think that's a little too many. I wouldn't say thirty.

639
00:29:11,120 --> 00:29:16,400
Speaker 1: And she said, I said three to four. And she's like, oh,

640
00:29:16,440 --> 00:29:18,160
Speaker 1: And she was like the fact that I thought you

641
00:29:18,240 --> 00:29:20,360
Speaker 1: might have said thirty to forty and think about it

642
00:29:20,480 --> 00:29:21,080
Speaker 1: and maybe.

643
00:29:20,880 --> 00:29:23,440
Speaker 2: Should maybe we should well back a little bit.

644
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Speaker 1: Sad, hilarious. Yeah, Hannah, it's always so good to see you.

645
00:29:28,440 --> 00:29:30,920
Speaker 1: Have a great time this week, and I love those

646
00:29:30,960 --> 00:29:31,520
Speaker 1: old stories.

647
00:29:31,520 --> 00:29:33,040
Speaker 2: We'll have to have you back to talk more about.

648
00:29:33,200 --> 00:29:36,120
Speaker 1: Maybe we'll get to you and and and a couple

649
00:29:36,200 --> 00:29:38,640
Speaker 1: other folks and and celebrate that first year.

650
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Speaker 4: Sometimes it's the best. Yeah, you're you're the best thing

651
00:29:40,760 --> 00:29:41,520
Speaker 4: sor everything you're doing.

652
00:29:41,640 --> 00:29:42,160
Speaker 2: I love this.

653
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Speaker 4: This is Sarah Spain and her wheelhouse and all her power,

654
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Speaker 4: and I really appreciate it.

655
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Speaker 1: Thanks to Hannah for sitting down with us in New Orleans.

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Speaker 1: Next time, we demand to know what sort of fountain

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Speaker 1: of youth you're drinking. From y'all aging backwards for real.

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Speaker 1: We got to take another break. When we come back,

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Speaker 1: we get Goofy with the co host of Gojo and Golic,

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Speaker 1: my guy, Mike Golitt Junior.

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Speaker 2: Welcome back, Slices.

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Speaker 1: Let's head back to Super Bowl Radio Row, where Friday

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Speaker 1: saw a little drive by from Mike Gollett Junior, one

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Speaker 1: of my favorite old ESPN coworkers. Whenever we hosted shows together,

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Speaker 1: things pretty quickly devolved into silliness, and sure enough on

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Speaker 1: Friday that happened again. It's Friday at Radio Row. It's

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Speaker 1: starting to the numbers are trickling down. People have partied

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Speaker 1: too hard. Shows are back to wherever they came from.

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Speaker 1: But Mike Golick Junior is still here, and he's here

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Speaker 1: for Amina kaims esk drive by.

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Speaker 2: Top highlight from Super Week.

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Speaker 3: Ooh top highlight from Super Week. I appreciated.

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Speaker 5: I was over by the Bleacher Report set and in

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Speaker 5: the sea of you know, sponsorship deals athletes. I saw

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Speaker 5: Zach Martin a walk in Hall of Fame or throwing

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Speaker 5: paper towels through targets over and all this stuff.

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Speaker 3: I was. I was really enjoying the wife Guy.

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Speaker 5: Move from Ronas Grassu, the former Chicago Bears and Oregon

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Speaker 5: Duck center who is obviously betrothed to Sabrini and Escu,

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Speaker 5: the WNBA superstar. She's over doing a bunch of interviews,

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Speaker 5: and I look off to the side of stage, and

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Speaker 5: he's just there, happy as a clam, holding her purse

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Speaker 5: off at the side, waiting on his lady go get

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Speaker 5: done doing her great things.

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Speaker 3: So I like to see the support and the camaraderie

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Speaker 3: over here.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, not just wife guy of any kind, but like

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Speaker 1: wife guy who in theory this would be his domain.

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Speaker 2: Yes, And it said he's like, yeah, I just played

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Speaker 2: in the NFL. Honey, you go you go get him.

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Speaker 3: You go ahead and do your thing. Maybe I'll be

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Speaker 3: right here when you get done here.

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Speaker 5: By the way, I mean just Oregon super couple royalty

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Speaker 5: in there. The kids already got to have scholarship offers

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Speaker 5: down the road.

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Speaker 1: No kidding, What is that kid gonna look like? We've

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Speaker 1: got Sabrina live smaller compact, We've got Hornus who's a big.

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Speaker 2: Boy thick to see what sport are we putting that

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Speaker 2: kid in?

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Speaker 3: Well, that's gonna be interesting to me.

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Speaker 5: Is the personality that comes with an offensive lineman general

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Speaker 5: reserved will only act and provoke smart Sabrina a little

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Speaker 5: more fiery, big, fiery, tough competitor, willing to show the emotion.

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Speaker 5: So I wonder, if you get a d lineman out

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Speaker 5: of that converce accommodation.

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Speaker 1: Should we call Sabrina and Ronas and tell them our

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Speaker 1: plans for their not yet conceived or birth child.

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Speaker 5: I think it'd be only right we also present them

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Speaker 5: with we are investors. We would like to help support

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Speaker 5: this child in any way that we can.

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Speaker 1: It's the next wave of sports investment. You don't invest

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Speaker 1: in a league or a team, you invest in a fetus.

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Speaker 5: Hey, you guys all heard it right there. That is ripe.

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Speaker 5: This belongs to us. We will gettigious copyright whichever one

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Speaker 5: that is one. I don't exactly know, but we said

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Speaker 5: both in front of a microphone, so now they cannot

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Speaker 5: come for us.

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Speaker 3: Gojo, thanks for coming by, Thanks Sarah, good to see you.

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Speaker 2: Thanks to Mike for stopping by.

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Speaker 1: And shout out to that party voice I acquired talking

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Speaker 1: over all the crowds and the live music on Thursday.

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Speaker 2: Night, Ooh Boy.

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Speaker 1: Also shout out to Jason English and Aaron Kaufman from iHeart,

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Speaker 1: who were fantastic producers and bookers and just all around

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Speaker 1: good hangs all week on Radio Row.

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Speaker 2: Appreciate you guys.

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Speaker 1: All Right, folks, it's Black History Month, and we're going

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Speaker 1: to continue to be intentional about shining a light on

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Speaker 1: black women's sports pioneers that you might not know about.

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Speaker 2: Today, we're talking about.

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Speaker 1: A gymnast who's actually blazing a new path as we speak. No,

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Speaker 1: not seven time Olympic gold medalist Simone Biles, obvi. She's unbelievable,

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Speaker 1: but we're pretty sure you know plenty about her by now. Instead,

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Speaker 1: we want to introduce you to Morgan Price, a junior

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Speaker 1: all around gymnast at Fisk University. Fisk is a historically

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Speaker 1: black college in Nashville, Tennessee, and the first HBCU with

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Speaker 1: the gymnastics team, which has competed since twenty twenty two.

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Speaker 1: On Saturday, Price did something no other HBCU gymnast has

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Speaker 1: ever done. She earned a perfect ten. The score was

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Speaker 1: for her bar routine and a meet at Temple University.

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Speaker 1: We'll link to that in the show notes so you

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Speaker 1: can see it for yourself. And that wasn't her first

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Speaker 1: time being the first. In twenty twenty four, as a sophomore,

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Speaker 1: she won the USA Gymnastics Women's Collegiate National Championships all

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Speaker 1: Around title, becoming the first HBCU gymnast to.

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Speaker 2: Win a national championship.

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Speaker 1: The USAG Championships are a little different from the NCAA

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Speaker 1: Championships in that they're open to schools with fewer than

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Speaker 1: seven and a half full scholarships. Now, those are outstanding

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Speaker 1: feats on their own, but they're even more awesome.

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Speaker 2: When you know about Price's journey.

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Speaker 1: According to a new story by WFAAABC eight in Dallas,

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Speaker 1: one of her life goals was to go to an

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Speaker 1: HBCU and compete, but she knew there weren't any HBCU

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Speaker 1: programs out there, so as a high schooler in twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty two, she committed to compete at the University of Arkansas,

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Speaker 1: but then, while scrolling Instagram one day, she saw a

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Speaker 1: post announcing FISK was starting a gymnastics program. She called

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Speaker 1: Arkansas and de committed, choosing instead to go to FISK,

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Speaker 1: which didn't even have a gymnastics training center on campus yet.

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Speaker 2: In her profile on.

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Speaker 1: The team site, she says, in part quote, growing up

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Speaker 1: in gymnastics, I rarely had teammates who looked like me.

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Speaker 1: I wanted to be a part of history and inspire

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Speaker 1: younger girls who want to attend an HBCU as well.

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Speaker 1: I will forever cherish being a part of this team

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Speaker 1: end quote. What Morgan is doing is extremely important. Showing

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Speaker 1: young athletes that HBCUs can help them excel in their sports,

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Speaker 1: just like predominantly white institutions can, and most HBCUs are

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Speaker 1: doing it with less money and less resources than pwis.

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Speaker 2: Something that needs to change.

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Speaker 1: Friend of the Show Jamal Hill penned an article for

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Speaker 1: The Athletic back in twenty nineteen titled It's time for

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Speaker 1: Black athletes to leave white colleges. She wrote, quote, beyond sports,

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Speaker 1: the average HBCU endowment is only one eighth that of

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Speaker 1: the average predominantly white school. Taken together, all of the

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Speaker 1: HBCU endowments combined make up less than a tenth of

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Speaker 1: Harvard's end quote. In twenty twenty three, and PR ran

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Speaker 1: an episode of Morning Edition where it was reported that

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Speaker 1: sixteen states had underfunded some of their HBCUs for decades

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Speaker 1: by more than twelve billion dollars. According to the US

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Speaker 1: Department of Education. Now, with Trump looking to dismantle the

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Speaker 1: Department of Education and the new administration's clear desire to

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Speaker 1: impede or erase opportunities for black folks and people of color,

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Speaker 1: the disparity could get even worse. But when athletes of

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Speaker 1: Morgan's caliber decide to commit to HBCUs instead of pwys,

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Speaker 1: they bring attention and new opportunities for the folks who

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Speaker 1: come after them. So hell of a job, Morgan Price

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Speaker 1: Big shout out to all the HBCUs across the land,

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Speaker 1: and to all the athletes, coaches, and administrators who find

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Speaker 1: ways to excel even when the investment isn't there. If

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Speaker 1: you're interested in helping close the endowment gap between HBCUs

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Speaker 1: and PWIS, consider making a donation to an HBCU athletic

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Speaker 1: department near you. We'll link to a map of HBCUs

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Speaker 1: across the country with school websites attached. Navigate to their

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Speaker 1: donation pages that's usually on the toolbar at the top,

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Speaker 1: and make a gift. We'll also link to Jamel story

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Speaker 1: and the NPR episode in the show notes if you

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Speaker 1: want to learn more. We always love that you're listening,

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Speaker 1: but we want you to get in the game every

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Speaker 1: day too. So here's our good game play of the day.

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Speaker 1: Like I said earlier, fill out your bracket if the

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Speaker 1: unrivaled one on one tournament games haven't started yet, and

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Speaker 1: get your popcorn ready for the games this afternoon and tonight.

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Speaker 1: This should be fun. Also, Valentine's Day is coming up

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Speaker 1: on Friday, and we want to know what women's sports

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Speaker 1: figures use slices are sending platonic love to this year.

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Speaker 1: Is there a coach that inspires you with the way

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Speaker 1: they lead, Maybe a player whose game you can't get

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Speaker 1: enough of, or maybe you've got a kiddo that wants

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Speaker 1: to shout out their favorite player. We're all ears. We'd

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Speaker 1: love it if you'd send us a voicemail. That way,

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Speaker 1: maybe your fave we'll hear it. It wouldn't be the

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Speaker 1: about Jeopardy contestant Jen Feldman, who told us that she

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Speaker 1: chose her final Jeopardy answer quote what is watch more

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Speaker 1: Women's Sports in part because she hoped Sue Bird might

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Speaker 1: see it. Well, folks, we made sure that Sue Bird

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Speaker 1: and Meghan Rapino's podcast A Touch More. We'll link to

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