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Speaker 1: This is my legacy. Welcome to our bonus episodes, dropping

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Speaker 1: every Thursday Today. More from our interview with sports journalists

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Speaker 1: and truth teller Jamil Hill and her husband Ian Wallace,

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Speaker 1: featuring moments you didn't hear in the main episode.

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Speaker 2: Let's jump right in.

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Speaker 3: Even though she's the one who said I love it,

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Speaker 3: I not say so. Here's the story, and I think

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Speaker 3: it was just a bit of a disconnect. We were

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Speaker 3: in Dallas and this was probably what maybe four months

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Speaker 3: into like meeting each other, and she was leaving out

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Speaker 3: and I said I love you jokingly, and she she thought,

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Speaker 3: like I was really serious. She wanted me to be serious.

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Speaker 4: He totally said it because I called my girl and

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Speaker 4: I was like, girl, he said he loved me or whatever.

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Speaker 1: So so you threw out a I love you as.

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Speaker 3: A joke, Like love you context is everything.

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Speaker 5: It was.

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Speaker 3: She was leaving for work and we were playing house

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Speaker 3: that weekend because as we were in a long distance relationship,

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Speaker 3: so it was just a kind of a funny thing.

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Speaker 4: Well, I thought he was serious, and so you know,

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Speaker 4: it wasn't like him. I kind of had the same

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Speaker 4: approach when we started to get to know each other.

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Speaker 4: I wasn't looking for a relationship either. I wasn't looking

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Speaker 4: to fall in love, which I guess again to some

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Speaker 4: given our pro tips. Another thing, usually when you're not

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Speaker 4: trying is when it happens right. And so neither one

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Speaker 4: of us were in the space where we were looking

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Speaker 4: for something super serious. But as we spent more time together,

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Speaker 4: we just were having so much fun with one another

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Speaker 2: Connection was really seamless.

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Speaker 4: And you know, I probably I knew for sure that

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Speaker 4: when I knew for sure that I loved you when

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Speaker 4: we went to the SPCE together. I think that was

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Speaker 4: right around the time where I was just like, Okay,

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Speaker 4: this is a feeling that's not going to be going away,

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Speaker 4: because you know, we were dating, but we didn't put

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Speaker 4: any boundaries necessarily that we we didn't have that will

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Speaker 4: you go with me conversation quite yet. So we were

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Speaker 4: dating for almost a year by the time we had

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Speaker 4: that conversation, which I will I will openly admit I

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Speaker 4: was the one who introduced this conversation.

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Speaker 2: It was me.

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Speaker 4: I told him, you know, he came to Connecticut to

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Speaker 4: visit me. It was right around his birthday, and I said, like, listen, I.

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Speaker 2: Don't want to play around anymore.

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Speaker 3: I want you.

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Speaker 2: I was smooth. I was smooth with it.

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Speaker 3: I think Jamel is hard to read, so you know,

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Speaker 3: while I knew she had feelings for me, it almost

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Speaker 3: came out of nowhere. But I was happy.

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Speaker 2: I was happy. I told him.

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Speaker 4: I was like, hey, I'm ready to do this for real.

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Speaker 4: So you know, if you if you got some little

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Speaker 4: situations you need to take care of on the side,

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Speaker 4: and you tell them their time is over.

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Speaker 2: Okay.

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Speaker 4: So I definitely was the one who broached and asked

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Speaker 4: him about like, hey, I think we should try to

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Speaker 5: You've said Ian makes you laugh and makes your spirit lighter.

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Speaker 5: What does he do to make you laugh?

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Speaker 2: Oh?

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Speaker 4: I get to snitch on him a little bit, okay,

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Speaker 4: or brag on him. I should say he has a

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Speaker 4: tremendous sense of humor, Like maybe you know you're really funny.

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Speaker 3: You're very joyful. I mean I could say like the

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Speaker 3: smallest thing, and you're laughing, like you have a lot

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Speaker 3: of joy I do, but you're funny.

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Speaker 4: So it's not just that I don't laugh at everybody's

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Speaker 2: It's it's you.

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Speaker 3: So Hell'm kind of fun.

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Speaker 2: Now.

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Speaker 4: But he has a great sense of humor, a real

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Speaker 4: zest for life. I mean, like another one of our

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Speaker 4: sort of common love languages is that we both like

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Speaker 4: to travel, and so we spend a lot of our

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Speaker 4: you know, just in little things that he does every day.

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Speaker 2: He likes to roast me quite a bit, which.

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Speaker 4: You know, and so I always find this to be,

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Speaker 2: My husband is also super playful.

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Speaker 4: I know women out there could identify with this, is

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Speaker 4: that there is this thing that happens inside of a

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Speaker 2: They want to wrestle you, they want to like I'm.

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Speaker 3: Like what, But here's the thing, Jimmell. You act like

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Speaker 3: you don't like it, but you like it. It's one

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Speaker 2: I'm like, okay.

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Speaker 4: So, I mean, you know, neither one of us grew

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Speaker 4: up with We have siblings, but we didn't grow up

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Speaker 4: close in age, so I feel like you're getting all

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Speaker 3: What you like it?

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Speaker 2: It is?

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Speaker 4: Well, I'll say this, and I think women can also

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Speaker 4: relate to this. Is they do it, there's nothing you

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Speaker 4: you're like, hey, what's wrong? Because you haven't you know,

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Speaker 4: you haven't tried put me in a full Nelson today.

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Speaker 4: I don't know what's going on. So but yeah, his

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Speaker 4: sense of humor, the lightness, those are all things that

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Speaker 4: in the brand of media that I'm in, I talk

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Speaker 4: about sports, of course, but I talk a lot about

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Speaker 4: the intersection with sports with social justice, culture, gender, race.

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Speaker 4: Those are heavy subjects, and I think because of what

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Speaker 4: able to tap into that lightness that I have and

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Speaker 4: the fact that, yes, I am a joyful person and

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Speaker 4: has all of those qualities as well, and so it

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Speaker 4: just adds a sort of a lightness to our relationship

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Speaker 4: that is really endearing and important to me.

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Speaker 1: You know, people ask us a lot of times, all

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Speaker 1: work that we do, in particular in this time is

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Speaker 1: used to be more serious by nature, funnier, but it's

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Speaker 1: it's and then i'm and i'm just when you have

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Speaker 1: given tributes, you said that Martin is part of the

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Speaker 6: He will say that because of him, but and but

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Speaker 6: it also reminds listeners and even during the civil rights movement,

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Speaker 6: I think people are surprised to find out that, first of.

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Speaker 1: All, that your father actually had a sense of humor

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Speaker 5: And you know, Dad is seen as extraordinarily serious. But

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Speaker 5: as a minister, I guess you're always bringing humor to

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Speaker 5: guess it's I mean, some of the things they joke

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Speaker 2: It through it.

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Speaker 4: It's interesting because I think it was last year I

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Speaker 4: that focused on his relationship with basketball and about how

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Speaker 4: into talking about his legacy because you know, it's sort

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Speaker 2: Who's like? What did his joper look? Like? I need

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Speaker 4: You know, just what you said is that you have

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Speaker 4: balance out something that might be terrifying with also saying like, hey,

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Speaker 2: So let's just get these jokes off right.

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Speaker 4: Now and try to diffuse the situation a little bit.

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Speaker 1: And one thing I would like to add as well,

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Speaker 1: look into black love. I think that a few years

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Speaker 1: ago in Boston there was a monument that was dedicated

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Speaker 5: Park, the Boston Comments.

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Speaker 1: And you had this monument to black love, and that

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Speaker 4: I would even take it a step further and say

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Speaker 4: I think that part of the story of doctor Martin

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Speaker 4: Luther King Junior, the love that he shared with Curtas

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Speaker 4: Scott King, is like a major component that I think

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Speaker 2: But yeah, their story is a love story.

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Speaker 3: of their strength today.

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Speaker 4: I think in today's world, where athletes have a direct

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Speaker 4: the power to be able to engage them, especially in

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Speaker 4: this moment. The problem is that for as active and

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Speaker 2: To ask I was going to ask this question, Yeah,

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Speaker 2: is like they were engaged in a different way. Now.

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Speaker 4: There were some factors that were unique that were helping

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Speaker 4: and they got Rael Reverend Rafael Warnock elected. They collectively

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Speaker 2: See that they changed history by doing that.

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Speaker 4: Well, I would say, again, I think it's always unfair

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Speaker 1: Do you find yourself studying activism as well? Because you

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Speaker 2: And I get it.

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Speaker 4: Everybody's tired, but you know, hey, I mean Harriet didn't

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Speaker 2: We had to vent that because we were so frustrated.

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Speaker 4: But the reality is, like none of our ancestors laid

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