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Speaker 1: Full Circle is an iheartwoman's sports production and partnership with

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Speaker 1: What's up, y'all, Hi guys, Welcome to our first live

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Speaker 1: recording of Full Circle. Yes, we're so excited to have

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Speaker 1: all of you here today and to get into some

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Speaker 1: basketball talk. But first little life update. Lexi, you had

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Speaker 1: a huge life altering situation in the last couple of weeks.

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Speaker 2: Actual want to check in a week later. How are

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Speaker 2: you feeling.

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Speaker 3: I'm excited.

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Speaker 4: You know, after the smoke cleared a little bit of

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Speaker 4: you know, the unexpectedness of getting traded, I realized that

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Speaker 4: I actually probably am in a much better situation for

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Speaker 4: my career at this point.

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Speaker 3: So I'm really excited. And you know, have a facility now.

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Speaker 4: I can't wait to use that some veteran teammates ready

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Speaker 4: to win a championship now. And you know, last time

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Speaker 4: I was on a team like that, we did end

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Speaker 4: up winning a championship. So I'm really excited to get

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Speaker 4: to work in Seattle. And yeah, I'm happy.

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Speaker 1: As Lexi said in our last episode, when you're manifesting,

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Speaker 1: and you're praying for something, you.

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Speaker 3: Gotta be specific specific.

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Speaker 1: And she asked for a practice facility, but she didn't

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Speaker 1: say where.

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Speaker 4: So I didn't theywhere, But I got one, and that's

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Speaker 4: all that matters.

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Speaker 2: Amen.

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Speaker 4: But first, I do want to give y'all like a

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Speaker 4: quick rundown of like what this podcast is. And it's

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Speaker 4: relatively new, and you know, we're still trying to find

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Speaker 4: our cadence and stuff. I can't thank you guys enough

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Speaker 4: for like pulling up, Like I was so nervous that

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Speaker 4: like it was just gonna be us sitting here on

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Speaker 4: this stage by ourselves, So like this means the world

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Speaker 4: to us. But what Full Circle is is obviously a

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Speaker 4: women's basketball show, but I also wanted to be a

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Speaker 4: place where people can come on here and be their

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Speaker 4: authentic selves and just show their connections and their ties

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Speaker 4: and their love to the game.

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Speaker 3: And that does have to be a player.

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Speaker 4: It can be a coach, it can be a fan,

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Speaker 4: somebody's mentor someone who's just involved in the game in

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Speaker 4: any way, shape or form. So we're obviously going to

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Speaker 4: give updates on everything women's basketball. I think it's going

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Speaker 4: to be a lot of fun doing this during the

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Speaker 4: WNBA season since there are no current w players who

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Speaker 4: about that. But also I just wanted a place for

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Speaker 4: people to be like authentic. So that's like the perfect

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Speaker 4: way to segue into our first guest, Taja Cole, who

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Speaker 4: is an au og Uga Virginia Tech legend and graduate,

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Speaker 4: and she has, because of AU, become one of my

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Speaker 4: best friends in the world.

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Speaker 3: So let's give it up for Taj Cale. Hey, Taja,

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Speaker 3: welcome to stage.

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Speaker 5: What's up, y'all?

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Speaker 3: You've been with AU since season one, like me, and

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Speaker 3: we had our little dynamic duo moment.

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Speaker 4: I was a captain I think almost every week in

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Speaker 4: so we you know, built a very strong friendship in

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Speaker 4: bond doing that. But you know, now we're in season four, Like,

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Speaker 4: what are some of like the biggest changes and improvements

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Speaker 5: Just the growth I think in the league.

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Speaker 6: You know, uh, first year, you expect things to be

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Speaker 6: kind of bumpy, you just starting a new business.

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Speaker 5: But I didn't even feel that my first year.

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Speaker 6: I thought it was the best thing that ever happened,

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Speaker 6: you know, but I think just the growth in uh,

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Speaker 6: know about AU now. I was just telling him about

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Speaker 5: I just met him outside and he was following us

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Speaker 6: I think just the stage that Athletes Unlimited is on

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Speaker 6: many people DM me AND's like hey, how can I

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Speaker 6: I have people with D and me like hey, can

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Speaker 6: Or how can I work and be around AU? And

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Speaker 1: I think one of my favorite things about AU is

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Speaker 1: the fact that you guys have the power to draft

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Speaker 1: other players and things like that. Not to expose y'all,

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Speaker 1: but they're back in the green room being like, oh,

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Speaker 4: Mind you, and neither one of us are captains, that

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Speaker 4: really doesn't matter what either one of us really think.

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Speaker 1: But how do you think that impacts the level of

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Speaker 1: power to kind of be where a GM's hat, a

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Speaker 4: Well, for me, it's fun because you really get to

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Speaker 4: learn the game from so many people's different points of view.

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Speaker 4: You like, one week you'll have a captain who's a

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Speaker 4: Then you'll have a center as your captain and they

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Speaker 4: think the game completely different. So it's always fun to

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Speaker 4: how people draw up plays, how people like to run timeouts,

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Speaker 4: run their practices, Like it's so different for every single person.

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Speaker 4: And I was a captain during scrimmage week, which was fun,

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Speaker 4: but I was like, I don't want to I don't

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Speaker 4: because we just have such a talented group. So you know,

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Speaker 4: my heart goes out to these last week captains because

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Speaker 4: it's it's gonna be closed. So I mean I think

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Speaker 4: right now, Maddie and Odyssey their neck and neck at

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Speaker 4: there's like nine or ten players that can probably finish

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Speaker 3: So we're really excited about that. Tash, have you been

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Speaker 5: I was a captain doing scrimmage week. I loved it.

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Speaker 6: My team we went too and one. I want to

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Speaker 6: I'm a point guard, so I naturally care about everybody

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Speaker 6: and then as a captain, when it works, you like,

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Speaker 5: I mean, I think it was cool.

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Speaker 3: What kind of coach are you going to be? Like,

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Speaker 1: So so as a coach, I know we've all had

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Speaker 1: one way or another, good and bad. But what are

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Speaker 1: some things that you learned from your athletic background that

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Speaker 5: Just life lessons, you know.

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Speaker 6: I think I like playing for players, coaches, coaches who

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Speaker 6: as a person is in as a player. So I

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Speaker 6: think that's what I try to use every day. I

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Speaker 6: want to be a college head coach assistant coach real soon,

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Speaker 6: you know, when I get in my thirties.

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Speaker 8: You know, are you guys?

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Speaker 6: I'm twenty seven, Like, I think the game is changing,

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Speaker 6: Like even from a you know, a business standpoint, it's

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Speaker 6: so many young people who get, you know, opportunities to

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Speaker 3: Do you have like a dream school that you would

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Speaker 4: Not trying to take nobody's job right now, obviously, because

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Speaker 1: I just recently learned from being around all these basketball

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Speaker 1: players that all the conferences have their own like reputations,

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Speaker 1: if you will, Like y'all said that the SEC was

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Speaker 4: Well, now it's a little different because they're all like

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Speaker 4: fast and finesse finesse. Yeah, the SEC was the like

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Speaker 3: Big ten was like they.

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Speaker 4: I'm she said that Big ten players were corn corn

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Speaker 3: I don't know much about the PAC twelve because I

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Speaker 4: like it's it's it's it's so crazy that like leagues

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Speaker 4: people love women's basketball, because it's not completely like that

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Speaker 4: I think that's what I think that's why there's the

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Speaker 1: No men's it's like good bad football basketball, not a

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Speaker 3: No facts.

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Speaker 4: I think the one last thing I want to do

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Speaker 4: is give you your flowers because you have been just

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Speaker 4: such an amazing person to me.

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Speaker 3: You've been an amazing human being.

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Speaker 4: I love what you're doing with the young people, with

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Speaker 4: your coaching. So just yeah, guys, So to give y'all

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Speaker 4: some context of this, at the end of our episodes,

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Speaker 4: we give flowers. So every episode, whatever's going on in

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Speaker 4: women's basketball space, we'll give people flowers.

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Speaker 3: So for our guests today, we are.

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Speaker 4: Giving them flowers. So tajha here, thank yous, love you. Thanks, Okay,

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Speaker 4: you guys ready for our next guest.

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Speaker 1: I know, I am.

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Speaker 3: Okay.

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Speaker 4: We got some some youngins coming into the building, Vanderbilt's finest.

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Speaker 4: I personally think they are the best one two punch

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Speaker 4: in the sec. Let's give a warm welcome to Camille

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Speaker 4: Pierre and michaeleb Blakes. Come on, girly pops. Yeah, welcome.

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Speaker 4: This is y'all's first podcast appearance. Huh yeah, yes, I'm honored.

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Speaker 1: My favorite thing ever, is that, like today, we're getting

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Speaker 9: Honestly, it's my second year. I feel like the best

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Speaker 10: Yeah, I'd agree with her the traveling part. And then

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Speaker 3: Oh that's beautiful.

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Speaker 8: Oh my god, I was not the sweet in college party.

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Speaker 9: So I went home back to Phoenix, and I spent

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Speaker 9: So this season was kind of personal, like I wanted

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Speaker 3: So and I think you are and you showing it.

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Speaker 9: I think honestly, you just have to play to get better,

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Speaker 3: Really, what what now career got to get into that?

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Speaker 1: Sorry, if you look through the record books at Vandy,

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Speaker 3: I have no clue. I just wanted to what made

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Speaker 2: I just felt like I had to prove a point.

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Speaker 4: So I was excited ship just a chip after chip

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Speaker 3: I love that.

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Speaker 1: I like that a pressure can either make you weaker

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Speaker 2: So that's impressive.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, let's clap it up for that. That's amazing.

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Speaker 4: Hey, y'all, Finna keep clapping after we talk about what

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Speaker 4: Mikayla's been doing this.

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Speaker 10: I think just coming here, I just wanted to prove

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Speaker 4: So I want to talk about the second fifty point game.

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Speaker 3: That's amazing. So like outside of your play.

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Speaker 10: I just learned like you really have to prove yourself,

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Speaker 1: I feel like there's I'll just say it, there's a

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Speaker 9: I think for me, it's just always been like being

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Speaker 10: Yeah, I just have to agree with her on that one.

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Speaker 10: I think that both of us are still underrated. Nobody

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Speaker 10: I feel like we're both, like, as you said, one

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Speaker 2: In those games.

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Speaker 10: So that's what we're going to keep doing.

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Speaker 4: I mean, I know we were talking in the back

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Speaker 10: I think we need to have a turning point in

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Speaker 4: So yeah, so much of the tournament is about like

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Speaker 4: So I haven't rooting for y'all since the beginning, and

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Speaker 4: I'm just like really excited that you guys are getting

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Speaker 3: I agree with y'all.

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Speaker 4: Y'all are not getting nearly the recognition that y'all deserve,

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Speaker 4: but that's what we're here for to help with that.

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Speaker 4: I do wanted to ask, you know more, a little

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Speaker 9: I would do Mercedes give me a little g wagon

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Speaker 3: She woos over there.

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Speaker 10: I'd have to go BMW for my car, and then

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Speaker 10: I don't know that. I'd probably do something like more

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Speaker 1: You were talking about learning from pros players overseas. What

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Speaker 9: I feel like me I probably just started watching the

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Speaker 2: I feel like we moved the same, so her for sure.

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Speaker 10: Yeah, I'd probably go my brother probably, And then I've

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Speaker 4: So, now you guys are new WNBA fans viewers. Who

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Speaker 9: Mine is the Sparks, But I'm from the West Coast

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Speaker 1: Good thing this is only audio.

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Speaker 10: Mine was probably I like the Liberty because I was

446
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Speaker 10: just close to home and I can go to the

447
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Speaker 10: Barclays anytime I wanted.

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Speaker 4: So paggyback off of that question, if you could play

449
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Speaker 4: for any WNBA team, what team would it be?

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Speaker 2: I'm going to Sparks. It's in LA, and like that's

451
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Speaker 2: just my vibe.

452
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Speaker 3: Let me stop.

453
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Speaker 10: Now.

454
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Speaker 3: LA is fun, like I loved playing in LA.

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Speaker 10: So I feel you me, I don't know, maybe go

456
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Speaker 10: back to home, like somewhere around there in the Tri

457
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Speaker 10: State where people can come watch from the family.

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Speaker 8: Y'all are La, New York?

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Speaker 1: Like those are your favorite teams? Believaton g Wagon yeah.

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Speaker 4: Y'all Hollywood for real and y'all in Nashville, So I

461
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Speaker 4: can't imagine how y'all act if y'all actually got to

462
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Speaker 4: like an la or in New York, but y'all got

463
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Speaker 4: I mean, it's been really nice like hearing y'all because

464
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Speaker 4: I don't I haven't.

465
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Speaker 3: Really liked talk to y' all that much.

466
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Speaker 4: Like this is our first like real conversation, and like

467
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Speaker 4: Mariah said, like a lot of us do think that

468
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Speaker 4: this younger group is soft and lacks discipline and all

469
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Speaker 4: these kind of things, and like y'all don't.

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Speaker 1: Y'all are the future and you deserve more of these

471
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Speaker 1: opportunities to get your stories out there for people to

472
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Speaker 1: hear that y'all's generation isn't what people are trying to

473
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Speaker 1: make it out to be. And so thank you so much.

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Speaker 1: I've enjoyed talking to you also, and.

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Speaker 3: We would like to give you guys your flowers.

476
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Speaker 2: Thank you so much.

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Speaker 3: All right, give it up for the Vandy girls. They're

478
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Speaker 3: so wise and mature.

479
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Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, I'm like, why am I getting nervous?

480
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Speaker 4: Can I imagine myself on a podcast at eighteen or

481
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Speaker 4: nineteen years old?

482
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Speaker 1: I'm glad that put it isn't out there.

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Speaker 4: Our final guests up, they really don't need an intro,

484
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Speaker 4: but I'm gonna intro them anyway. We have some WNBA

485
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Speaker 4: champs faces of the league. You have Sidney Colson and

486
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Speaker 4: Teresa Plays. It's in the building, everybody. Hey, hi, guys,

487
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Speaker 4: I'm gonna say.

488
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Speaker 3: I'm so honored we brought the baritones on the stage already.

489
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Speaker 8: What's off limits for us to say? Nothing?

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Speaker 3: Nothing?

491
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Speaker 1: Absolutely nothing.

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Speaker 8: Cool. Good to know. We're just trying to make sure

493
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Speaker 8: we didn't know what the rating was on this or whatever.

494
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Speaker 3: Whatever. Do y'all ever filter yourselves?

495
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Speaker 8: Ever?

496
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Speaker 3: No, I would never ask you to not be yourselves.

497
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Speaker 3: So just be yourselves.

498
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Speaker 4: Okay, Okay, you're right. Just youys can relax now, Okay,

499
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Speaker 4: sit and TP. First thing I want to ask you, guys,

500
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Speaker 4: because I've never asked all this before. It's like, how

501
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Speaker 4: did y'all get a TV show?

502
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Speaker 12: I asked TP like a couple weeks after meeting her. Really,

503
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Speaker 12: I was like, Hey, would you ever want to do

504
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Speaker 12: something like in front of the camera? And we had

505
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Speaker 12: heard about one another in the league, but never like

506
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Speaker 12: we're in the same space. We just heard that was

507
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Speaker 12: the other funny person with one of the other funny

508
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Speaker 12: people in the league.

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Speaker 8: So there was a little bit on.

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Speaker 12: W It's just like when we have like mutual friends

511
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Speaker 12: that we have, They're like, look, we've got a lot

512
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Speaker 12: of teammates, like this person is like one of my

513
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Speaker 12: funniest teammates I've ever had, And I would hear her

514
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Speaker 12: name a lot and I'm just like, who is this bitch?

515
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Speaker 12: I'm like, like, what kind of funny? So we had

516
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Speaker 12: to like experience one another. But I was supposed to

517
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Speaker 12: be doing something with together. I was gonna do like

518
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Speaker 12: a six episode podcast or something, just talking about my

519
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Speaker 12: experience in the W like being in and out the league,

520
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Speaker 12: how to stay in the league, me wanting to become

521
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Speaker 12: an actor, doing stand up stuff like that. So just

522
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Speaker 12: like my whole experience. And once I'm at TP, I

523
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Speaker 12: told my agent. I was like, hey, I think we

524
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Speaker 12: need to go back to them and tell them that,

525
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Speaker 12: like I need to do something with TP.

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Speaker 8: It needs to be in front of the camera.

527
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Speaker 7: Week meeting me like I could have been a serial killer.

528
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Speaker 8: This would have been worth it anyway.

529
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Speaker 13: The way that she brought it up to me was, Hey,

530
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Speaker 13: would you ever do something on TV?

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Speaker 7: And that was absolutely not.

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Speaker 12: Right. So I just spent like weeks trying to convince

533
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Speaker 12: her throughout the round you want to do it the

534
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Speaker 12: entire season, Yeah.

535
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Speaker 1: Trying to convince her as of what like are you

536
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Speaker 1: asking me every day?

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Speaker 12: Like or just like whenever she said something really funny,

538
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Speaker 12: I'm like, girl, that was good, that would be good

539
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Speaker 12: on TV.

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Speaker 8: But it took a while.

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Speaker 12: But once we pitched it to them, then they had

542
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Speaker 12: us like meet with somebody that they were trying to

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Speaker 12: hire to be the showrunner of the show. And actually Carly,

544
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Speaker 12: our director. You met Carly you were on the show.

545
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Speaker 12: Carly came up with the log line of like two

546
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Speaker 12: w NBA players driving to be the face of the league,

547
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Speaker 12: despite the fact that nobody asked them to, And once

548
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Speaker 12: Carli pitched that to us on the call, we were

549
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Speaker 12: like absolutely and from yeah it was.

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Speaker 4: It really was, honestly, I really and I had only

551
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Speaker 4: known both of you from a distance. I remember watching

552
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Speaker 4: I watched Sydney in the National Championship game and I'm like,

553
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Speaker 4: she's a dog. You still are a dog, but now

554
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Speaker 4: you're a funny dog. I had no idea like this

555
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Speaker 4: was your personality, Like watching you play like you would

556
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Speaker 4: have no idea.

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Speaker 3: I'm like, she's kind of scary and I love her

558
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Speaker 3: not at.

559
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Speaker 4: All, but like getting to know you, I'm like, I

560
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Speaker 4: would have never thought like this was your personality. I

561
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Speaker 4: know how old I was that twenty elevenphomore.

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Speaker 8: I think, Yeah, it.

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Speaker 3: Was you against Notre Dame.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, that was like one of the most elite final

565
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Speaker 4: fours I think I've ever watched in my life.

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Speaker 1: But I remember I'd be like, were you always the

567
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Speaker 1: funny one on your teams? Or when you were younger,

568
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Speaker 1: and like trying to get it was like, Okay, ain't

569
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Speaker 1: shit funny?

570
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Speaker 8: Or like were you always me both either one of you?

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Speaker 13: Yeah, I've always been the team jokes for even taking

572
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Speaker 13: it to like full blown high school. I was voted

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Speaker 13: class clown after being at that high school for only

574
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Speaker 13: two years. Yeah, so I get pretty acclimated easily, and

575
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Speaker 13: my jokes would start flowing after I guess a few minutes.

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Speaker 8: Like immediately. Yeah. I mean always had like.

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Speaker 12: Probably like one teammate that that was always like we

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Speaker 12: both would just like go at it or like had

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Speaker 12: the same like same humor, but yeah, pretty much always

580
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Speaker 12: like the jokes to the clown.

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Speaker 8: I was class down in high school too.

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Speaker 1: So y'all are the ones y'all out, yeah, we were

583
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Speaker 1: both nobody wants to make eye contact with y'all and

584
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Speaker 1: coach shoo and y'all out, no, not at all.

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Speaker 4: Which is crazy now because now even in those moments,

586
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Speaker 4: they get them on camera and of y'all and post them. Yeah,

587
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Speaker 4: but y'all are doing something that y'all should not be doing,

588
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Speaker 4: like on the bench or in a huddle, there's a

589
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Speaker 4: camera right on you every time, and they just post.

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Speaker 12: Yeah, we used to get away with it more like

591
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Speaker 12: social media and like the w getting more attention has

592
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Speaker 12: brought more to it.

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Speaker 8: But like we've both been doing this since since my

594
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Speaker 8: rookie year, easily my rookie year, so it just gets

595
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Speaker 8: more attentions. Be the same.

596
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Speaker 4: Y'all could probably have like a highlight reel of like

597
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Speaker 4: your basketball highlights, and then like a blooper reel of just.

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Speaker 12: I think the highlight reel would be the the comedy.

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Speaker 8: The basketball one would be pretty short, but sure.

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Speaker 13: Of the game down thirty throws in there. But our

601
00:28:00,560 --> 00:28:04,040
Speaker 13: bloopers were countless throughout the season. I mean, starting from

602
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Speaker 13: my rookie year, I did not play. I literally didn't.

603
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Speaker 13: I remember, like towards the end of my rookie year.

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Speaker 13: This is actually hilarious. Towards the end of my rookie year.

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Speaker 8: We'll tell you, you know what it is.

606
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Speaker 7: I want to tell you guys, this is funny.

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Speaker 13: One of the owners of our franchise came up to

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Speaker 13: me in this one specific game and he said, oh,

609
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Speaker 13: we thought you were actually gonna get to score today.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, And I was like, I gotta shut off this.

611
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Speaker 13: Next time. I did end up shooting humbly four for

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Speaker 13: four from the free throw line my rookie year because

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Speaker 13: what suck me on the team. I'm pretty sure my

614
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Speaker 13: personality and me just willing to do extra cardio with

615
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Speaker 13: anyone who needed it.

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Speaker 4: So that's a great teammate though, because you were Because

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Speaker 4: that's the thing that people don't understand because like we

618
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Speaker 4: all kind of have very similar experiences in the w

619
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Speaker 4: you know, getting being the best, one of the best

620
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Speaker 4: in college, getting to the league, and you're like quickly

621
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Speaker 4: humbled like, oh you're actually not that good, but like

622
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Speaker 4: you can try, you can be here. But you guys

623
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Speaker 4: like took the route to like just beat great teammates

624
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Speaker 4: but still have like very long successful careers.

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Speaker 3: Y'all want a championship.

626
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Speaker 4: So when y'all finally like were re like united in Vegas, Like,

627
00:29:26,280 --> 00:29:28,320
Speaker 4: what was that experience like for y'all?

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Speaker 7: Honest are great? Like I really didn't know.

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Speaker 13: I was showing up to Vegas not really knowing anybody,

630
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Speaker 13: Like I knew people from a distance, but I wasn't

631
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Speaker 13: I didn't have any friends on the team. So I'm

632
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Speaker 13: showing up to Vegas like not really knowing.

633
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Speaker 7: What to expect, and then lo and behold this.

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Speaker 13: Yeah, was just sitting in the locker room and just

635
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Speaker 13: hit it off from day one. I came in Lake

636
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Speaker 13: because I was playing in Spain, so I showed up

637
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Speaker 13: with like three days left of training camp. So when

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Speaker 13: I showed up, immediately hit it off. Spent every waking

639
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Speaker 13: minute together, I feel like, just talking.

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Speaker 12: Okay, were not submitting every waking pretty much.

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Speaker 7: We were like, hey, what are you doing? After you

642
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Speaker 7: you invited me?

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Speaker 14: Details, details, keep going okay, So we didn't after practice

644
00:30:17,800 --> 00:30:20,360
Speaker 14: go lift weights together, and then after that go the

645
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Speaker 14: cool tap together, and then after that separate for dinner,

646
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Speaker 14: but then reconvene later that evening.

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Speaker 7: To watch the NBA Playoffs. The pool side together.

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Speaker 3: Pool side true, pool side true?

649
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Speaker 8: True?

650
00:30:34,360 --> 00:30:36,600
Speaker 3: Wait were we still? Were we still sharing RUMs at

651
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Speaker 3: this time?

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Speaker 11: No, No, our apartment so like we could have just called.

653
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Speaker 12: But we're the time that once we find like somebody funny,

654
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Speaker 12: like Okay, I'm gonna keep hanging out with you then

655
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Speaker 12: cuz I wanna laugh if I'm gonna get cut, I

656
00:30:50,360 --> 00:30:52,520
Speaker 12: need to have a good time before I'm gonna have

657
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Speaker 12: a good time.

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Speaker 8: Before I didn't so good time.

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Speaker 12: This girl was bringing the laughs and a good time.

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Speaker 12: But no, we were really just like we we just

661
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Speaker 12: hit it off. We were like insps. Just when you

662
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Speaker 12: like find a friend you feel like you've known for

663
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Speaker 12: a long time, or anybody you're like, damn, I feel

664
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Speaker 12: like I have known you.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, but that's important And sport, it's like you said,

666
00:31:09,680 --> 00:31:11,760
Speaker 1: you showed up and you didn't know anybody, and then

667
00:31:11,880 --> 00:31:14,600
Speaker 1: you met and you had that camaraderie and you had

668
00:31:14,600 --> 00:31:17,880
Speaker 1: somebody Like people don't realize it's like showing up to

669
00:31:17,920 --> 00:31:19,320
Speaker 1: work and not knowing any of your coworkers.

670
00:31:19,320 --> 00:31:20,400
Speaker 8: But you gotta work together.

671
00:31:21,280 --> 00:31:23,760
Speaker 1: So that's why you need people who are like fun

672
00:31:23,840 --> 00:31:26,840
Speaker 1: and funny and cool and like we'll make everybody talk

673
00:31:26,920 --> 00:31:29,240
Speaker 1: because not everybody's showing up like that.

674
00:31:29,480 --> 00:31:32,000
Speaker 3: Yeah, you really need one. You just need like one

675
00:31:32,040 --> 00:31:35,080
Speaker 3: little buddy, like just one.

676
00:31:35,200 --> 00:31:37,080
Speaker 13: That dinner body on the road where you're like, hey,

677
00:31:37,080 --> 00:31:40,600
Speaker 13: we're going to eat tonight. Yeah you're in like yeah

678
00:31:40,680 --> 00:31:43,880
Speaker 13: smoking that again, You're like what Mohican rush.

679
00:31:44,120 --> 00:31:44,920
Speaker 7: Eating that tonight?

680
00:31:45,800 --> 00:31:47,120
Speaker 12: You know, if you have somebody that you know is

681
00:31:47,120 --> 00:31:49,240
Speaker 12: gonna have your back end stuff, If y'all are both new,

682
00:31:49,720 --> 00:31:51,840
Speaker 12: you feel like a little more confident going into a

683
00:31:51,880 --> 00:31:54,000
Speaker 12: new situation because like a right, at least got this

684
00:31:54,040 --> 00:31:57,080
Speaker 12: one person and if stuff isn't going well or whatever,

685
00:31:57,120 --> 00:31:58,920
Speaker 12: like you got somebody to talk to, you can kind

686
00:31:58,920 --> 00:32:01,360
Speaker 12: of get over it faster. I think it's just like

687
00:32:01,960 --> 00:32:04,080
Speaker 12: it just makes the environment much easier. And we all

688
00:32:04,120 --> 00:32:06,240
Speaker 12: were new to that space obviously, the entire team and

689
00:32:06,280 --> 00:32:08,640
Speaker 12: stuff pretty much was new to one another.

690
00:32:08,800 --> 00:32:10,520
Speaker 3: Yeah, and I'll say like.

691
00:32:12,400 --> 00:32:15,440
Speaker 4: Bias because I love y'all and we've grown very close

692
00:32:15,480 --> 00:32:19,320
Speaker 4: since playing in AU like that like re emergence of

693
00:32:19,400 --> 00:32:22,680
Speaker 4: the Aces as like the powerhouse it became, and like

694
00:32:23,080 --> 00:32:27,320
Speaker 4: how y'all just captured like the entire WBA fan base

695
00:32:27,440 --> 00:32:29,960
Speaker 4: with like y'all's energy and y'all style of play, Like

696
00:32:30,040 --> 00:32:33,120
Speaker 4: I think y'all fueled that kind of like I remember

697
00:32:33,200 --> 00:32:35,880
Speaker 4: just seeing the content and stuff that they were putting

698
00:32:35,880 --> 00:32:38,720
Speaker 4: out and it was like always y'all, And I think

699
00:32:38,800 --> 00:32:41,920
Speaker 4: that like that was such an underrated part of the

700
00:32:42,320 --> 00:32:45,880
Speaker 4: championship run, was having people like you on the team.

701
00:32:46,000 --> 00:32:48,160
Speaker 4: And like I was kind of that in Chicago. I'm

702
00:32:48,160 --> 00:32:52,360
Speaker 4: not as fun, but like I was like the same y'all.

703
00:32:53,120 --> 00:32:56,920
Speaker 8: Y'all had a good group like I would.

704
00:32:57,160 --> 00:32:59,120
Speaker 4: I remember there'd be moments where everyone was like kind

705
00:32:59,120 --> 00:33:01,160
Speaker 4: of just looking around and they like look at me,

706
00:33:01,280 --> 00:33:04,440
Speaker 4: like do some funny.

707
00:33:03,600 --> 00:33:06,720
Speaker 8: Say so stupid? Yeah.

708
00:33:06,760 --> 00:33:08,880
Speaker 4: So, like even like when we made it to the finals,

709
00:33:09,000 --> 00:33:11,600
Speaker 4: I said, Candice, we make it to the finals, can

710
00:33:11,640 --> 00:33:13,160
Speaker 4: you make a TikTok with us?

711
00:33:13,400 --> 00:33:15,440
Speaker 3: And she's like yeah, sure, Like we're at sixth place.

712
00:33:15,520 --> 00:33:16,320
Speaker 5: She probably was like.

713
00:33:16,240 --> 00:33:17,760
Speaker 8: We're not making it to the finals.

714
00:33:18,120 --> 00:33:20,280
Speaker 3: We made it. That was the first thing I asked her.

715
00:33:20,680 --> 00:33:21,680
Speaker 8: We got the locker room.

716
00:33:23,320 --> 00:33:27,640
Speaker 3: One, okay, walked right into that locker room time and

717
00:33:27,680 --> 00:33:28,040
Speaker 3: she did it.

718
00:33:28,320 --> 00:33:32,920
Speaker 4: Yeah, it was at that and then when everybody like

719
00:33:33,680 --> 00:33:35,600
Speaker 4: dance like dances out, so it was just like the

720
00:33:35,640 --> 00:33:39,200
Speaker 4: back of her head. She was like it was like

721
00:33:39,400 --> 00:33:41,600
Speaker 4: ten percent effort, but at least she did it.

722
00:33:41,680 --> 00:33:43,120
Speaker 8: Well, good for you, I know, can is to be

723
00:33:43,160 --> 00:33:47,160
Speaker 8: a real liar, please just spread.

724
00:33:47,440 --> 00:33:48,720
Speaker 7: Let's let's take into that.

725
00:33:50,120 --> 00:33:51,480
Speaker 1: Is it hard for you all to get your teammates

726
00:33:51,480 --> 00:33:53,840
Speaker 1: to do that stuff, like to participate in the TikTok

727
00:33:53,960 --> 00:33:55,880
Speaker 1: challenges and the jokes and whatnot?

728
00:33:57,080 --> 00:33:57,240
Speaker 4: Not?

729
00:33:57,280 --> 00:34:02,640
Speaker 8: Really I was literally about to say, we don't for.

730
00:34:06,280 --> 00:34:09,319
Speaker 13: We don't force it upon them, but like, okay, I'm

731
00:34:09,320 --> 00:34:12,080
Speaker 13: gonna speak about what I've seen from Sydney. Okay, so

732
00:34:12,120 --> 00:34:15,760
Speaker 13: Cidney does this thing that's like we're talking about clouds

733
00:34:15,760 --> 00:34:17,640
Speaker 13: in the sky, and then Sidney always is like, well

734
00:34:17,640 --> 00:34:21,759
Speaker 13: what if? Okay, Whenever Sidney says what if there was?

735
00:34:21,880 --> 00:34:22,920
Speaker 13: At minimum?

736
00:34:22,960 --> 00:34:27,640
Speaker 11: And I roll from Chelsea, gret A grunts from Asia,

737
00:34:28,120 --> 00:34:31,279
Speaker 11: three people turning around into their locker spaces like this,

738
00:34:31,960 --> 00:34:32,960
Speaker 11: but I'm tuning in.

739
00:34:34,239 --> 00:34:36,000
Speaker 8: I'm like, what what if?

740
00:34:36,360 --> 00:34:37,080
Speaker 7: What?

741
00:34:37,280 --> 00:34:38,120
Speaker 11: Please us?

742
00:34:38,880 --> 00:34:41,000
Speaker 7: But everybody was dying to know what they was about

743
00:34:41,000 --> 00:34:44,040
Speaker 7: to say. Therefore they wanted to participate.

744
00:34:44,040 --> 00:34:45,560
Speaker 8: They wanted in that like they didn't.

745
00:34:45,640 --> 00:34:48,640
Speaker 12: Chelsea would roll their odds and stuff and be like,

746
00:34:48,719 --> 00:34:50,400
Speaker 12: here you go again, but what tell me?

747
00:34:50,440 --> 00:34:50,760
Speaker 8: What?

748
00:34:50,760 --> 00:34:51,200
Speaker 7: What?

749
00:34:51,120 --> 00:34:51,560
Speaker 2: What say?

750
00:34:52,400 --> 00:34:54,640
Speaker 12: You want to know so bad? Like stop acting like

751
00:34:54,640 --> 00:34:56,160
Speaker 12: you don't like us. So it was just like a

752
00:34:57,040 --> 00:34:59,440
Speaker 12: like we got we get just get cool with people.

753
00:34:59,480 --> 00:35:06,720
Speaker 12: I think just by honestlyky or like showing some sort

754
00:35:06,719 --> 00:35:10,120
Speaker 12: of like like interest in everybody on the team for

755
00:35:10,200 --> 00:35:13,240
Speaker 12: whatever it is that they have going, whether it's the

756
00:35:13,280 --> 00:35:16,520
Speaker 12: most important player on the team, like like the MVP

757
00:35:16,920 --> 00:35:19,759
Speaker 12: or the point guard, or it's the last person which

758
00:35:19,760 --> 00:35:24,400
Speaker 12: happens to be honest, maybe maybe not twelve, but like

759
00:35:24,560 --> 00:35:27,920
Speaker 12: Tim on the bench, like we're gonna find out something.

760
00:35:29,480 --> 00:35:31,640
Speaker 13: It was really easy to work up the ladder because

761
00:35:31,760 --> 00:35:36,839
Speaker 13: we were cool from the start. Twelve we're good.

762
00:35:37,320 --> 00:35:39,880
Speaker 12: But I'm saying, like I think when you are like

763
00:35:40,360 --> 00:35:43,879
Speaker 12: genuinely interested in who your teammates are and like you

764
00:35:43,920 --> 00:35:46,680
Speaker 12: try to find out what they like, like you hang

765
00:35:46,719 --> 00:35:48,839
Speaker 12: out with them off the court, I think people like

766
00:35:48,960 --> 00:35:51,360
Speaker 12: normally people are just gonna slowly like open up a

767
00:35:51,400 --> 00:35:54,319
Speaker 12: little bit. And so it's never like us propping up

768
00:35:54,360 --> 00:35:55,919
Speaker 12: a camera and like begging them to come.

769
00:35:56,080 --> 00:35:57,120
Speaker 8: It's like if we said everybody to do that what

770
00:35:57,200 --> 00:35:59,000
Speaker 8: you're about to do, and then you know, it's just

771
00:35:59,040 --> 00:35:59,359
Speaker 8: like more.

772
00:35:59,400 --> 00:36:02,319
Speaker 4: Even when y'all we filmed y'all's episode when we had

773
00:36:02,320 --> 00:36:04,120
Speaker 4: a whole production crew in camera.

774
00:36:04,120 --> 00:36:05,640
Speaker 3: It did not even feel like that.

775
00:36:05,840 --> 00:36:09,280
Speaker 4: We had like lines and everything, and there was actors

776
00:36:09,320 --> 00:36:11,480
Speaker 4: in there, and it just felt like we.

777
00:36:11,520 --> 00:36:14,200
Speaker 3: Were just hanging out, but we were making a show.

778
00:36:14,800 --> 00:36:20,680
Speaker 13: You loved talking trash like Lexi took her job very seriously, right.

779
00:36:21,280 --> 00:36:23,600
Speaker 4: Mind you, I don't talk trash at all in games

780
00:36:23,680 --> 00:36:25,800
Speaker 4: in real life. That's why the episode was so funny

781
00:36:25,800 --> 00:36:31,200
Speaker 4: because I don't say doesn't say SI and TV show

782
00:36:31,680 --> 00:36:34,840
Speaker 4: is like it was like a scripted not scripted show.

783
00:36:35,000 --> 00:36:37,799
Speaker 4: So they had asked me and Jordan Canada to be

784
00:36:37,800 --> 00:36:39,759
Speaker 4: in one of their episodes and the premise of the

785
00:36:39,800 --> 00:36:43,560
Speaker 4: episode was trash talking and drag queens were teaching them

786
00:36:43,880 --> 00:36:44,759
Speaker 4: how to trash talk.

787
00:36:45,200 --> 00:36:45,720
Speaker 11: So we.

788
00:36:47,040 --> 00:36:49,239
Speaker 4: So we played Me and Jordan played two on two

789
00:36:49,320 --> 00:36:52,640
Speaker 4: again sit in TP, and it was just like trash like.

790
00:36:52,680 --> 00:36:53,839
Speaker 3: It was almost unseerious.

791
00:36:54,080 --> 00:36:54,560
Speaker 8: You want to.

792
00:36:56,040 --> 00:36:59,120
Speaker 4: I don't like like, I don't like shoes like TP.

793
00:36:59,320 --> 00:37:02,480
Speaker 4: I am about about shoes like our makeup was done like,

794
00:37:02,800 --> 00:37:04,400
Speaker 4: but it was so funny.

795
00:37:05,320 --> 00:37:07,640
Speaker 7: Your makeup's not done for games though, that was normal.

796
00:37:08,360 --> 00:37:11,960
Speaker 4: You're right, right, all right, not professionally done. If I

797
00:37:11,960 --> 00:37:14,160
Speaker 4: could get my makeup professionally done for games, I probably

798
00:37:14,160 --> 00:37:15,120
Speaker 4: would it will be.

799
00:37:15,840 --> 00:37:17,319
Speaker 8: I would never because whom when I now?

800
00:37:26,960 --> 00:37:31,400
Speaker 1: Oh, I got a question, what's y'all's favorite opposing arena

801
00:37:31,560 --> 00:37:32,120
Speaker 1: to play in?

802
00:37:32,680 --> 00:37:36,040
Speaker 8: M I liked Madison Square Garden a lot. Oh yeah,

803
00:37:36,080 --> 00:37:37,880
Speaker 8: what was a mystery?

804
00:37:38,239 --> 00:37:38,640
Speaker 7: Honestly?

805
00:37:38,680 --> 00:37:41,320
Speaker 13: Like Connecticut, I feel like it's a really good shooters gym,

806
00:37:41,760 --> 00:37:42,840
Speaker 13: Like the backdrop is great.

807
00:37:43,200 --> 00:37:46,640
Speaker 3: Oh no, nothing month, so you'd be in three?

808
00:37:46,880 --> 00:37:49,560
Speaker 8: I like New York. I think in La.

809
00:37:51,480 --> 00:37:53,680
Speaker 3: You know what's crazy about that question now? And I'm

810
00:37:53,760 --> 00:37:54,759
Speaker 3: thinking about it.

811
00:37:55,960 --> 00:37:59,239
Speaker 4: When I was on a team, my favorite gym to

812
00:37:59,320 --> 00:38:02,400
Speaker 4: play in was the team I like then got traded to.

813
00:38:02,880 --> 00:38:04,640
Speaker 4: So when I was in Connecticut, I was like, oh

814
00:38:04,640 --> 00:38:10,040
Speaker 4: my god, I love playing in Target Center, Boom Minnesota.

815
00:38:08,040 --> 00:38:09,880
Speaker 8: Mines Manifest where you want to go.

816
00:38:10,719 --> 00:38:13,879
Speaker 4: My favorite gym plane was is Seattle, and it's gonna

817
00:38:13,880 --> 00:38:14,800
Speaker 4: be in Seattle forever.

818
00:38:14,880 --> 00:38:15,120
Speaker 9: I know.

819
00:38:15,160 --> 00:38:16,440
Speaker 8: That's what No.

820
00:38:16,719 --> 00:38:17,200
Speaker 3: Lanta was.

821
00:38:17,280 --> 00:38:19,840
Speaker 4: It was Staples, which I still love playing in Staples

822
00:38:20,080 --> 00:38:21,480
Speaker 4: Earth Crypto.

823
00:38:22,400 --> 00:38:24,359
Speaker 3: Sorry, but No.

824
00:38:24,520 --> 00:38:28,680
Speaker 4: Seattle's gym is fun to playing because their environment is crazy.

825
00:38:28,920 --> 00:38:33,520
Speaker 4: I hate playing in Vegas. Y'all fans are hostile.

826
00:38:34,440 --> 00:38:35,719
Speaker 2: Like that's kind of a good thing.

827
00:38:36,200 --> 00:38:37,000
Speaker 3: It's a good thing.

828
00:38:37,080 --> 00:38:39,359
Speaker 4: But like No y'all's fans are amazing, but it's hard

829
00:38:39,360 --> 00:38:40,240
Speaker 4: to play in Vegas.

830
00:38:40,320 --> 00:38:42,560
Speaker 13: It's hard to play in Vegas and in Phoenix because

831
00:38:42,600 --> 00:38:45,920
Speaker 13: the second you step off that airplane, all the moisture

832
00:38:45,960 --> 00:38:49,080
Speaker 13: gets sucked out of your skin and you have dry

833
00:38:49,120 --> 00:38:53,879
Speaker 13: mouth and you have just like dry hands. And one

834
00:38:54,000 --> 00:38:59,359
Speaker 13: day is it enough to acclimate your body to the climate? Yea,

835
00:39:00,400 --> 00:39:03,160
Speaker 13: because when you're in Vegas, like when you're there for

836
00:39:03,200 --> 00:39:05,399
Speaker 13: the season, you don't feel that, but when you're in.

837
00:39:05,400 --> 00:39:07,000
Speaker 7: And out you feel it.

838
00:39:07,000 --> 00:39:07,960
Speaker 8: It's much more aggressive.

839
00:39:08,000 --> 00:39:08,520
Speaker 7: Yeah, for sure.

840
00:39:08,640 --> 00:39:11,319
Speaker 4: How was your first year in Vegas as a new team,

841
00:39:11,320 --> 00:39:13,480
Speaker 4: because I remember that was my rookie year and I

842
00:39:13,480 --> 00:39:17,520
Speaker 4: remember everybody had Vegas circled because everyone was so excited

843
00:39:17,680 --> 00:39:20,799
Speaker 4: to go there. And now everyone's like, it's like Mohigan now,

844
00:39:20,920 --> 00:39:23,520
Speaker 4: like going to Vegas like going to Mandolin.

845
00:39:23,600 --> 00:39:25,760
Speaker 8: How was it from one perspective.

846
00:39:25,320 --> 00:39:30,280
Speaker 4: From like being like in the new team.

847
00:39:30,360 --> 00:39:31,000
Speaker 8: I liked it.

848
00:39:31,280 --> 00:39:34,239
Speaker 12: It was the management and everything, Like you could just

849
00:39:34,280 --> 00:39:37,640
Speaker 12: tell that it just seemed like a different vibe around

850
00:39:37,680 --> 00:39:41,160
Speaker 12: the team, like an energy around the organization. I think

851
00:39:41,200 --> 00:39:45,200
Speaker 12: all the players felt that, and I think having coaches

852
00:39:45,239 --> 00:39:48,239
Speaker 12: from the NBA and stuff coming in it just felt

853
00:39:48,280 --> 00:39:51,000
Speaker 12: like it was gonna be something different than what the

854
00:39:51,120 --> 00:39:53,680
Speaker 12: league had scene, which I mean it was for a

855
00:39:53,680 --> 00:39:56,640
Speaker 12: little while the offense that was ran and everything. Everybody

856
00:39:56,640 --> 00:39:59,920
Speaker 12: started running that stuff now, so it's like gonna come

857
00:40:00,120 --> 00:40:00,840
Speaker 12: with something else.

858
00:40:01,440 --> 00:40:03,720
Speaker 8: But it was cool when it was new. It was

859
00:40:03,719 --> 00:40:04,439
Speaker 8: like it.

860
00:40:04,320 --> 00:40:06,160
Speaker 12: Was greaty because it was hard to the stuff was

861
00:40:06,200 --> 00:40:08,040
Speaker 12: hard to guard, and we happened to have the right

862
00:40:08,080 --> 00:40:10,239
Speaker 12: people in place to be running for No.

863
00:40:10,680 --> 00:40:13,480
Speaker 4: I do think I'm giving I'm giving y'all all these

864
00:40:13,560 --> 00:40:17,080
Speaker 4: dayn compliments like y'all are my oppression. This is really hard,

865
00:40:17,520 --> 00:40:21,120
Speaker 4: like the other of us are there. But like while

866
00:40:21,160 --> 00:40:23,720
Speaker 4: that was going on, I'm like I remember watching y'all

867
00:40:23,719 --> 00:40:26,879
Speaker 4: like just get the acest organizations, just get better every year,

868
00:40:26,920 --> 00:40:28,600
Speaker 4: and I'm like they really set in the tone and

869
00:40:28,680 --> 00:40:32,359
Speaker 4: the table for what the wn BA needs to look

870
00:40:32,440 --> 00:40:34,080
Speaker 4: like and what it needs to do. So the fact

871
00:40:34,080 --> 00:40:36,880
Speaker 4: that y'all were able to win two championships playing the

872
00:40:36,920 --> 00:40:39,120
Speaker 4: way y'all play, with the personnel y'all have, with the

873
00:40:39,160 --> 00:40:43,560
Speaker 4: resources you have, like people like obviously there's other teams

874
00:40:43,560 --> 00:40:45,320
Speaker 4: that are like, oh, we wish we had that, and

875
00:40:45,360 --> 00:40:47,719
Speaker 4: they like gon be shady about it, Like I'm like,

876
00:40:47,800 --> 00:40:49,640
Speaker 4: thank you Vegas.

877
00:40:49,280 --> 00:40:52,520
Speaker 3: Thank you New York. That'sk you everybody.

878
00:40:52,760 --> 00:40:55,600
Speaker 12: When I was on teams that were like not doing well,

879
00:40:55,719 --> 00:40:57,440
Speaker 12: like when I was in San Antonio, when I heard

880
00:40:57,440 --> 00:41:01,000
Speaker 12: about other teams like getting things like whatever you hear

881
00:41:01,040 --> 00:41:02,839
Speaker 12: about the people are doing stuff under the table, if

882
00:41:02,880 --> 00:41:06,560
Speaker 12: somebody's flying charter, I was never mad at those people

883
00:41:06,560 --> 00:41:09,719
Speaker 12: doing it. Sometimes the envelope and a boundary needs to

884
00:41:09,719 --> 00:41:12,719
Speaker 12: be pushed because the league's not making it happen. So

885
00:41:12,760 --> 00:41:16,000
Speaker 12: you need owners who are actually interested in doing for

886
00:41:16,080 --> 00:41:18,960
Speaker 12: their team what should be done at a professional level. Anyways,

887
00:41:19,280 --> 00:41:21,359
Speaker 12: It's like if everybody just starts breaking the rule, they

888
00:41:21,360 --> 00:41:23,279
Speaker 12: don't have to adjust the rule, right, you have to

889
00:41:23,360 --> 00:41:27,520
Speaker 12: because it doesn't make sense anyway what we were doing, like.

890
00:41:26,440 --> 00:41:29,319
Speaker 13: Like they shouldn't be the outlier, they should be the standard. Yeah,

891
00:41:29,360 --> 00:41:32,719
Speaker 13: and come to twenty twenty five. Now we're seeing all

892
00:41:32,719 --> 00:41:35,240
Speaker 13: these practice stilities going up. We're seeing like training tables

893
00:41:35,239 --> 00:41:37,440
Speaker 13: for players to be able to eat before and after practice,

894
00:41:37,480 --> 00:41:41,279
Speaker 13: Like all these things are necessities for guys. But like

895
00:41:41,440 --> 00:41:42,960
Speaker 13: you look at the women's game and you just like,

896
00:41:43,440 --> 00:41:44,040
Speaker 13: so y'all.

897
00:41:43,840 --> 00:41:45,280
Speaker 3: Asking for too much food?

898
00:41:45,520 --> 00:41:45,719
Speaker 13: Right?

899
00:41:46,040 --> 00:41:48,560
Speaker 3: Right? Three hour practice?

900
00:41:48,640 --> 00:41:48,839
Speaker 7: Right?

901
00:41:49,080 --> 00:41:50,280
Speaker 8: Necessity for life?

902
00:41:50,400 --> 00:41:51,480
Speaker 3: Well, I said this to you.

903
00:41:51,480 --> 00:41:55,040
Speaker 1: You had that in college, so it's not necessarily like what, Oh,

904
00:41:55,040 --> 00:41:57,120
Speaker 1: it's a necessity for the guys, but it's not for y'all.

905
00:41:57,120 --> 00:41:58,920
Speaker 1: It's like, no, that's what I'm used to, Like, that's

906
00:41:58,960 --> 00:42:01,560
Speaker 1: the standard that I was, So why am I a

907
00:42:01,560 --> 00:42:04,160
Speaker 1: professional now and I'm not being held to that standard?

908
00:42:04,200 --> 00:42:05,120
Speaker 1: It doesn't make any sense.

909
00:42:05,239 --> 00:42:08,279
Speaker 4: I remember when they when we caught wind of the

910
00:42:08,360 --> 00:42:11,960
Speaker 4: Liberty with their charter flights and they were trying to

911
00:42:12,040 --> 00:42:14,799
Speaker 4: like divide and conquer the league. But we were all

912
00:42:14,880 --> 00:42:17,040
Speaker 4: kind of like, good for them, right, that's something we

913
00:42:17,120 --> 00:42:19,720
Speaker 4: were like, good for New York, like that they.

914
00:42:19,560 --> 00:42:21,480
Speaker 13: Got to New Jersey before in my life. But I

915
00:42:21,600 --> 00:42:25,600
Speaker 13: was like, I'm like, you go here was where'd they go?

916
00:42:25,760 --> 00:42:27,880
Speaker 7: Like? They were like going to the Bahamas.

917
00:42:28,680 --> 00:42:30,360
Speaker 11: They're taking training game at the Bahamas.

918
00:42:30,400 --> 00:42:37,240
Speaker 1: We're like, but that's a common misconception, probably because it's women,

919
00:42:37,360 --> 00:42:40,759
Speaker 1: but that everybody thinks that when one team is doing well,

920
00:42:40,840 --> 00:42:42,800
Speaker 1: or one person is doing well, or they're new people

921
00:42:42,840 --> 00:42:45,439
Speaker 1: getting a certain level of attention or whatever, that there's

922
00:42:45,520 --> 00:42:49,759
Speaker 1: this jealousy and cattiness and anger and everybody's talking shit.

923
00:42:50,040 --> 00:42:53,080
Speaker 1: And but I would like y'all to speak to the

924
00:42:53,080 --> 00:42:56,080
Speaker 1: fact that that is not true and that that doesn't exist,

925
00:42:56,120 --> 00:42:57,960
Speaker 1: because being around y'all, I know it doesn't exist. I'm

926
00:42:57,960 --> 00:43:00,200
Speaker 1: trying to tell people on TikTok that doesn't exist. But

927
00:43:00,320 --> 00:43:02,400
Speaker 1: Joe Shmoe from Alabama's like, nah.

928
00:43:04,200 --> 00:43:09,399
Speaker 12: Other, yeah, no, I'm not gonna discount what you're saying.

929
00:43:09,480 --> 00:43:11,359
Speaker 12: It is true on a level, there is, but it's

930
00:43:11,400 --> 00:43:14,359
Speaker 12: just like with normal people, you might say something that

931
00:43:14,920 --> 00:43:18,480
Speaker 12: is like envious of somebody's situation or like I remember,

932
00:43:18,480 --> 00:43:19,920
Speaker 12: you can think at times where we've been out the

933
00:43:19,960 --> 00:43:21,880
Speaker 12: league and you're watching a team and you're watching a

934
00:43:21,880 --> 00:43:25,319
Speaker 12: player and you're like, I bust this girl, Like I

935
00:43:25,360 --> 00:43:27,520
Speaker 12: make it very difficult for this girl to play basketball,

936
00:43:27,600 --> 00:43:31,560
Speaker 12: but like I can't get a contract. Things like that,

937
00:43:32,000 --> 00:43:35,480
Speaker 12: Like things like that are just said. Everybody has said

938
00:43:35,520 --> 00:43:38,399
Speaker 12: a jealous thing about somebody before, but it doesn't mean

939
00:43:38,400 --> 00:43:41,200
Speaker 12: that you're necessarily jealous of that person. It doesn't mean

940
00:43:41,200 --> 00:43:43,560
Speaker 12: that you don't want well for that person. So I

941
00:43:43,600 --> 00:43:46,200
Speaker 12: think that naturally is gonna happen. It happens in women's sports,

942
00:43:46,200 --> 00:43:48,640
Speaker 12: it happens in men's it happens in regular jobs.

943
00:43:49,200 --> 00:43:52,160
Speaker 8: People call out what they see. Sometimes it's like.

944
00:43:53,600 --> 00:43:55,880
Speaker 12: It may be some things may be unwarranted and not

945
00:43:55,920 --> 00:43:58,840
Speaker 12: completely factual, and maybe you are just emotional about a situation,

946
00:43:59,239 --> 00:44:02,279
Speaker 12: but some things are based in truth, and maybe it's

947
00:44:02,280 --> 00:44:03,759
Speaker 12: just not what people want to hear at the time.

948
00:44:04,080 --> 00:44:06,359
Speaker 12: But I think for the most part, yeah, like those

949
00:44:06,400 --> 00:44:08,279
Speaker 12: of us in this league, especially the way that it's

950
00:44:08,320 --> 00:44:11,320
Speaker 12: been for me since I've been a rookie, Like, people

951
00:44:11,440 --> 00:44:13,720
Speaker 12: for the most part want to see the league do well,

952
00:44:14,120 --> 00:44:16,719
Speaker 12: and people understand that when there are stars in the

953
00:44:16,760 --> 00:44:19,239
Speaker 12: league that are doing well and bringing eyes, that's good

954
00:44:19,239 --> 00:44:24,120
Speaker 12: for everybody. We have a pretty good idea of one

955
00:44:24,160 --> 00:44:27,600
Speaker 12: person or two people or whatever stars doing well helps

956
00:44:27,640 --> 00:44:28,680
Speaker 12: our entire league.

957
00:44:28,760 --> 00:44:31,440
Speaker 8: I don't think that that's like no crazy to say.

958
00:44:31,680 --> 00:44:34,440
Speaker 3: I mean, it happens in all sports leagues. I just don't.

959
00:44:34,719 --> 00:44:37,279
Speaker 4: It's just weird that when it comes to our league,

960
00:44:37,600 --> 00:44:41,720
Speaker 4: people like like look at it kind of like well there,

961
00:44:41,800 --> 00:44:45,600
Speaker 4: if these handful of players are doing well, then everybody

962
00:44:45,600 --> 00:44:48,000
Speaker 4: else is mad. But like we're seeing right now in

963
00:44:48,040 --> 00:44:51,000
Speaker 4: the NBA, like everyone's trying to search far and wiy

964
00:44:51,080 --> 00:44:55,120
Speaker 4: for the new face at an NBA, Like it happens everywhere,

965
00:44:55,160 --> 00:44:57,520
Speaker 4: And like me and Mariah say all the time, like

966
00:44:57,560 --> 00:45:01,160
Speaker 4: the league doesn't need a singular face, like I think

967
00:45:01,320 --> 00:45:05,120
Speaker 4: leagues will do better if there's like multiple faces, including

968
00:45:05,960 --> 00:45:10,439
Speaker 4: sit in TP like I've I think y'all have been

969
00:45:10,520 --> 00:45:14,080
Speaker 4: like incredible for the w n B A, And I

970
00:45:14,080 --> 00:45:16,360
Speaker 4: do want to pivot like to a little bit of AU,

971
00:45:16,800 --> 00:45:21,120
Speaker 4: like what has AU meant to you guys in your career?

972
00:45:21,280 --> 00:45:23,399
Speaker 4: And I think I mean you can kind of thank

973
00:45:23,440 --> 00:45:29,360
Speaker 4: AU for y'all's friendship kind of because I would have

974
00:45:29,400 --> 00:45:32,560
Speaker 4: been looked at by the Aces if she hooping AU

975
00:45:32,680 --> 00:45:35,239
Speaker 4: and they wouldn't have met. So let's clap it up

976
00:45:35,239 --> 00:45:40,680
Speaker 4: for AU always. So yeah, like what is y'all's like

977
00:45:40,840 --> 00:45:44,120
Speaker 4: experience been like in PC members now?

978
00:45:44,560 --> 00:45:46,400
Speaker 7: So like you know how hard I thought to be

979
00:45:46,440 --> 00:45:46,960
Speaker 7: on the BC?

980
00:45:47,719 --> 00:45:50,040
Speaker 3: She did? God do we have her?

981
00:45:50,560 --> 00:45:54,200
Speaker 4: We have her interview on like record TV came in

982
00:45:54,280 --> 00:45:55,480
Speaker 4: like she was running for president.

983
00:45:55,920 --> 00:45:58,279
Speaker 8: She came in, So I wanted to spot so bad.

984
00:45:58,440 --> 00:46:03,320
Speaker 4: I was like, even though you were the only one,

985
00:46:03,440 --> 00:46:03,879
Speaker 4: We're like.

986
00:46:03,840 --> 00:46:08,200
Speaker 13: I already had a job, You're idoy presentation, I'm just

987
00:46:08,239 --> 00:46:08,880
Speaker 13: gonna get did it.

988
00:46:08,920 --> 00:46:12,320
Speaker 7: But I wanted to nobody. He's been absolutely incredible.

989
00:46:12,480 --> 00:46:15,080
Speaker 13: Like I think that once you're in it, once you

990
00:46:15,120 --> 00:46:17,960
Speaker 13: see it from the outside and it looks like fun,

991
00:46:18,520 --> 00:46:21,520
Speaker 13: and you don't, like you're hesitant to believe that, like

992
00:46:21,719 --> 00:46:24,400
Speaker 13: that kind of fun's actually happening, right, And when you

993
00:46:24,440 --> 00:46:25,960
Speaker 13: show up, you're like, oh my god, this is so

994
00:46:26,040 --> 00:46:26,520
Speaker 13: much fun.

995
00:46:26,640 --> 00:46:28,200
Speaker 7: Like I'm meeting so many.

996
00:46:28,000 --> 00:46:30,600
Speaker 13: Really cool people on like multiple levels, because you know,

997
00:46:31,200 --> 00:46:34,680
Speaker 13: a bunch of us do something outside of just basketball, right,

998
00:46:35,160 --> 00:46:37,839
Speaker 13: so like the out of balance meetings that we have

999
00:46:38,120 --> 00:46:39,880
Speaker 13: to like just get to know people on a deeper

1000
00:46:39,960 --> 00:46:45,000
Speaker 13: level and understand people's whys and and just like mingle

1001
00:46:45,040 --> 00:46:48,480
Speaker 13: and like meet strangers that you've never met before. But

1002
00:46:48,560 --> 00:46:50,440
Speaker 13: also we'll be blaying on a team with them, Like

1003
00:46:51,080 --> 00:46:53,760
Speaker 13: we have a forty person roster, and I felt closer

1004
00:46:53,800 --> 00:46:55,959
Speaker 13: to a lot of these women on a forty person

1005
00:46:56,040 --> 00:46:59,520
Speaker 13: roster than I have a twelve person roster sometimes, Like

1006
00:47:00,080 --> 00:47:03,400
Speaker 13: and it's the environment, it's like the acceptedness. It's like

1007
00:47:03,960 --> 00:47:05,640
Speaker 13: just the way that we go about our business here

1008
00:47:05,719 --> 00:47:09,600
Speaker 13: that just feels like family. So that's what AU has

1009
00:47:09,719 --> 00:47:12,880
Speaker 13: done for me. Also, have had a really incredible roommate

1010
00:47:13,760 --> 00:47:14,480
Speaker 13: for the past.

1011
00:47:14,520 --> 00:47:15,480
Speaker 7: Seasons, said Sid.

1012
00:47:17,239 --> 00:47:18,000
Speaker 8: I think they got that.

1013
00:47:19,320 --> 00:47:21,680
Speaker 7: It would have been LEI. No.

1014
00:47:23,280 --> 00:47:26,239
Speaker 4: Actually this year, no, no roommate for me.

1015
00:47:26,840 --> 00:47:27,120
Speaker 8: Get it.

1016
00:47:27,200 --> 00:47:35,600
Speaker 12: Yeah, you and Bick I'm back, and Lydia he cans, Hey,

1017
00:47:35,640 --> 00:47:40,080
Speaker 12: Caitlin got some players here. But yeah, for me, yeah,

1018
00:47:40,120 --> 00:47:42,239
Speaker 12: like you said, I was out of the league in

1019
00:47:43,640 --> 00:47:47,680
Speaker 12: twenty one, and so Tosh Cloud when she brought this

1020
00:47:47,800 --> 00:47:50,840
Speaker 12: to like four or five of us other w players,

1021
00:47:50,880 --> 00:47:54,120
Speaker 12: like just saying, look, the co founders John and Jonathan

1022
00:47:54,160 --> 00:47:57,080
Speaker 12: are looking to start a basketball league, like make it

1023
00:47:57,080 --> 00:48:00,279
Speaker 12: the fourth sport, and we need to put to other

1024
00:48:00,440 --> 00:48:02,239
Speaker 12: a PC or we really need to reach out to

1025
00:48:02,280 --> 00:48:05,760
Speaker 12: see how many players are actually would actually be interested

1026
00:48:05,760 --> 00:48:07,320
Speaker 12: in this, and there are a lot of people interested

1027
00:48:07,320 --> 00:48:10,560
Speaker 12: in Some people, you know, still ended up taking overseas jobs.

1028
00:48:10,560 --> 00:48:13,440
Speaker 12: I think it was, you know, that uncertainty for some

1029
00:48:13,480 --> 00:48:16,000
Speaker 12: people of like is this real, This like seems too

1030
00:48:16,040 --> 00:48:18,640
Speaker 12: good to be true, even though there was like already.

1031
00:48:18,320 --> 00:48:20,719
Speaker 8: A model with other sports, it was still.

1032
00:48:21,200 --> 00:48:24,520
Speaker 12: In contracts, but it was like, yeah, but we've never

1033
00:48:24,560 --> 00:48:29,040
Speaker 12: seen this though, And for me, I was like, I'm

1034
00:48:29,080 --> 00:48:31,480
Speaker 12: I'm a risk taker anyways, Like I don't mind, Like

1035
00:48:31,520 --> 00:48:34,480
Speaker 12: I like innovation. I like, you know, like something that

1036
00:48:34,520 --> 00:48:36,880
Speaker 12: seems like it could be something in the future. Like

1037
00:48:36,920 --> 00:48:38,560
Speaker 12: I'm like, okay, yeah, I want to get in on that.

1038
00:48:38,800 --> 00:48:40,480
Speaker 12: Plus I just didn't have anything to lose. I was

1039
00:48:40,480 --> 00:48:42,279
Speaker 12: out of the league, and it was like I still

1040
00:48:42,360 --> 00:48:47,000
Speaker 12: want to play. I feel capable still and can still

1041
00:48:47,040 --> 00:48:48,319
Speaker 12: make money. So I was like, yeah, I'll go do

1042
00:48:48,320 --> 00:48:50,879
Speaker 12: this for six weeks in Vegas, Like that's a good time,

1043
00:48:51,320 --> 00:48:55,719
Speaker 12: And so I went and Nicki and Becky were at

1044
00:48:55,760 --> 00:48:56,320
Speaker 12: one of the games.

1045
00:48:56,320 --> 00:48:57,680
Speaker 8: I got a training camp contract.

1046
00:48:58,520 --> 00:49:01,600
Speaker 12: We won the next season, won the next season like

1047
00:49:01,880 --> 00:49:02,719
Speaker 12: TP the first year.

1048
00:49:02,760 --> 00:49:03,840
Speaker 8: So it was like, really AU.

1049
00:49:03,960 --> 00:49:07,279
Speaker 12: I always give credit that AU change the trajectory of

1050
00:49:07,320 --> 00:49:09,160
Speaker 12: my career, both on and off.

1051
00:49:09,040 --> 00:49:13,360
Speaker 8: The court, and sons.

1052
00:49:11,840 --> 00:49:15,759
Speaker 4: That a lot of players feel that way about AU,

1053
00:49:15,800 --> 00:49:18,000
Speaker 4: and I think that's what makes it so special one

1054
00:49:18,040 --> 00:49:20,400
Speaker 4: through forty, Like every time I come to AU, like

1055
00:49:20,440 --> 00:49:23,000
Speaker 4: I just feel re energized when I leave. And I

1056
00:49:23,000 --> 00:49:27,200
Speaker 4: think that's been like the biggest difference between my WNBA

1057
00:49:27,280 --> 00:49:31,680
Speaker 4: career pre AU and current and post AU is like

1058
00:49:31,800 --> 00:49:35,200
Speaker 4: I just have this new found energy and I have

1059
00:49:35,320 --> 00:49:37,840
Speaker 4: new friends and like more friends in the league.

1060
00:49:37,960 --> 00:49:41,240
Speaker 3: Like and I was talking to Mariah because when going.

1061
00:49:41,040 --> 00:49:42,600
Speaker 4: Back to that, when people are like, oh, you guys

1062
00:49:42,640 --> 00:49:44,759
Speaker 4: all hate each other, don't like each other, No, we

1063
00:49:44,840 --> 00:49:47,239
Speaker 4: just don't ever be around each other in the offseason.

1064
00:49:47,440 --> 00:49:49,960
Speaker 4: That's what I was going to say, known each other

1065
00:49:49,960 --> 00:49:54,319
Speaker 4: as competitors, more teammates, and never liked just as like

1066
00:49:54,480 --> 00:49:59,000
Speaker 4: human beings like existing and exploring like other things that

1067
00:49:59,040 --> 00:49:59,640
Speaker 4: you like to do.

1068
00:49:59,719 --> 00:50:01,640
Speaker 3: So I I think, like, yes.

1069
00:50:01,520 --> 00:50:03,919
Speaker 4: We have like other leagues now, but like I really

1070
00:50:03,960 --> 00:50:06,319
Speaker 4: think that like AU like set the tone for what

1071
00:50:07,200 --> 00:50:09,640
Speaker 4: women's basketball in the US should be. And that's like

1072
00:50:09,960 --> 00:50:13,319
Speaker 4: being around each other more than just training camp to

1073
00:50:13,600 --> 00:50:15,719
Speaker 4: end a season and then you're like, Okay, see you

1074
00:50:15,760 --> 00:50:16,239
Speaker 4: next year.

1075
00:50:16,480 --> 00:50:20,279
Speaker 12: And to make it a more like like really like

1076
00:50:20,320 --> 00:50:24,920
Speaker 12: women's basketball pro pro basketball, like really more of a family.

1077
00:50:24,960 --> 00:50:27,479
Speaker 12: And yeah, and people like I know since the first year,

1078
00:50:27,719 --> 00:50:29,960
Speaker 12: like you were obviously about to be on the PC

1079
00:50:30,520 --> 00:50:34,000
Speaker 12: the first year, but like we set out from the

1080
00:50:34,120 --> 00:50:37,279
Speaker 12: very beginning to like make sure that we weren't having

1081
00:50:37,280 --> 00:50:39,719
Speaker 12: a league full of W players. Yeah, Like it was

1082
00:50:39,760 --> 00:50:43,319
Speaker 12: important for us to have people who were you know,

1083
00:50:43,360 --> 00:50:45,400
Speaker 12: you might be overseas for like that have been overseas.

1084
00:50:45,440 --> 00:50:47,399
Speaker 12: How many years had you played overseas before playing AU?

1085
00:50:48,360 --> 00:50:50,120
Speaker 8: Twelve years?

1086
00:50:50,160 --> 00:50:50,480
Speaker 9: Wow?

1087
00:50:50,719 --> 00:50:50,960
Speaker 7: You know.

1088
00:50:51,080 --> 00:50:53,319
Speaker 12: And we've had several players who have come through and

1089
00:50:53,360 --> 00:50:55,759
Speaker 12: you just maybe you've been in a W training camp

1090
00:50:55,800 --> 00:50:57,960
Speaker 12: and never made it. Maybe you never got a shot

1091
00:50:58,120 --> 00:51:01,439
Speaker 12: at a training camp. But we're giving people a chance

1092
00:51:01,480 --> 00:51:03,400
Speaker 12: to play in front of their families in the States

1093
00:51:03,440 --> 00:51:05,719
Speaker 12: before you injure career. I mean, you end up playing

1094
00:51:05,719 --> 00:51:08,360
Speaker 12: in front of the w U, NBA gms and coaches.

1095
00:51:08,760 --> 00:51:11,080
Speaker 12: So it ends up being a really good environment for

1096
00:51:11,160 --> 00:51:14,720
Speaker 12: us to get to know even more players than just who.

1097
00:51:14,520 --> 00:51:16,000
Speaker 8: We play with on w teams.

1098
00:51:16,320 --> 00:51:18,480
Speaker 12: And maybe if we end up on teams with people

1099
00:51:18,520 --> 00:51:21,359
Speaker 12: overseas or maybe not on the same team, but when

1100
00:51:21,360 --> 00:51:23,640
Speaker 12: you go to their city, I don't even know you, girl,

1101
00:51:23,719 --> 00:51:25,960
Speaker 12: but you another black woman on the team.

1102
00:51:25,960 --> 00:51:33,759
Speaker 8: In Polish songs the game girl, what's up? Yeah.

1103
00:51:34,120 --> 00:51:36,880
Speaker 12: So it's been good to have this environment here for

1104
00:51:36,960 --> 00:51:38,600
Speaker 12: us to be together. I mean it's five weeks now,

1105
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Speaker 12: used to be six. But I think it really creates,

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Speaker 12: like you said, that that fun, that sisterhood for basketball,

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Speaker 12: Like it's reinvigorating for some people. And you know, hopefully

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Speaker 12: like we have young players that experience it and they

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Speaker 12: enjoy it, they feel like they got something from it,

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Speaker 12: and they continue to come back or tell people about it.

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Speaker 1: Well, I will say you taking that leap and taking

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Speaker 1: a risk, say with au you too, Lexi. It's like

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Speaker 1: now the next generation of Hooper's coming into the w

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Speaker 1: are gonna have so much of a different experience than

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Speaker 1: y'all did because you were able to take that risk

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Speaker 1: and because you opened up the opportunity and showed the

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Speaker 1: proof of concept. So with that being sad, flowers flowers.

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Speaker 3: We always give.

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Speaker 1: Flowers at the end of every show, so we have

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Speaker 1: physical shower flowers for you guys.

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Speaker 8: Thank you, appreciate it. Thanks guys, people get them, so

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Speaker 8: we were like, we better get something.

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Speaker 4: I almost didn't even get you on any.

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Speaker 3: We appreciate it, of course, Thank you guys.

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Speaker 7: Thank you.

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Speaker 8: Do we walk off now, I think show.

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Speaker 4: You said if you want, We're about to wrap it up.

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Speaker 4: Thank you guys for coming to our first live episode

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Speaker 4: of Full Circle podcast. Wasn't as bad as I thought

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Speaker 4: it was gonna be.

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Speaker 13: Out we didn't go we actually we have flowers for

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Speaker 13: you guys.

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Speaker 8: No, seriously, thank y'all so much for coming.

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Speaker 1: Like the things we were talking about today, for example,

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Speaker 1: the narrative about cattiness or jealousy or blah blah blah,

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Speaker 1: I feel like part of the reason that that comes

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Speaker 1: about is because a lot of the people covering women's

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Speaker 1: basketball aren't actual fans of the game or actually students

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Speaker 1: of the game, and so having people who will actually

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Speaker 1: have that experience, who have more to talk about than

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Speaker 1: just who hates this person or who likes this person

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Speaker 1: or who's the face or whatever, like all of that

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Speaker 1: stupid stuff. Like talking about actual basketball and stories that

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Speaker 1: matter is why we're doing this.

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Speaker 4: So proud of you, Lexi, thank you, Thank you guys again.

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Speaker 4: Oh my goodness, my heart is very full. So thank

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Speaker 4: you guys so much.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for listening to Full Circle. We'll be back next

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Speaker 1: week with more basketball for the girls, by the girls.

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Speaker 1: We want to hear from you. Leave us a review

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Speaker 1: on Apple Podcasts and tell us what you want us

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Speaker 1: to talk about. Full Circle is hosted by Lexi Brown

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Speaker 1: and Mariro. Our executive producer is Jesse Katz. Our supervising

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Speaker 1: producer is Grace Fuz. Our producer is Zoe Dankla. Listen

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