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

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Speaker 1: in the glory of correctly predicting the Women's College World

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Speaker 1: Series winner.

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Speaker 2: I'm not the kind of person to say I told

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Speaker 1: Who am I kidding? I'm absolutely that person I told

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Speaker 1: you so. It's Monday, June ninth, and on today's show,

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Speaker 1: Big Citrus will reconvene to talk Texas's first Softball National

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Speaker 1: Championship Athletes, Unlimited Softball Leagues opening day, Coco Goff's French

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Speaker 1: Open win, and we'll check in on happenings in the WNBA.

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Speaker 1: Plus the House versus NCAA settlement is done, NWSL expansion side,

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Speaker 1: Boston Legacy FC has its logo, and one team's new

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Speaker 1: tradition is so good it should be illegal. It's all

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Speaker 1: Here's what you need to know today. In tennis, Coco

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Speaker 1: Goff took home her first French Open title and second

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Speaker 1: in three sets. Goff's victory marks the first time the

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Speaker 2: It back in twenty fifteen.

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Speaker 1: Goff actually dropped the first set of the final, but

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Speaker 2: If you didn't catch the match, you missed a.

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Speaker 1: We'll link to a slow mo video of that moment

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Speaker 1: her adorable celebration with the French Open ball kids. We'll

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Speaker 1: said and done, runner up Seblanka gave Golf her props

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Speaker 1: in the on court interview, saying, quote to Coco, you

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Speaker 1: But then in the press conference, Sablenka made some interesting comments.

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Speaker 1: She told reporters in part, quote, I think she won

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Speaker 2: You all know me.

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Speaker 1: I'm always going to be honest and human, and how

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Speaker 2: But both things can be true.

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Speaker 2: She earned that title respect end quote.

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Speaker 1: the House versus NCAA anti trust settlement has officially come

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Speaker 1: sports to softball. Congratulations to the Texas Longhorns, who won

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Speaker 1: After a five month design process, NWSL expansion franchise, Boston

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Speaker 1: it was Kansas City current forward ten whewinga earning Player

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Speaker 1: I hope you had a gate gay weekend.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna welcome in my producers, Alex, Hi, Alex.

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Speaker 2: Hello, and me. She's crying. Hi, Mesh, Liza.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna have a little big Centrius conversation about a

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Speaker 1: First of all, I really enjoyed doing a deep dive

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Speaker 3: So it's so funny to hear your reaction to it,

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Speaker 2: First of all, that's a really good Swan. It's a

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Speaker 2: great wait, do it, do it again? Do it again?

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Speaker 3: No, I agree, I mean, I listen. I just think

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Speaker 2: Me swan thoughts.

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Speaker 4: So I have an unfair bias against swans because I

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Speaker 1: So these are not swans, these are geese. But I'm

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Speaker 3: Okay, one final note on this, because I just googled

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Speaker 1: Oh, we're gonna have a lot of juicy tea coming

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Speaker 1: bird wings and mask and like talents that you could

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Speaker 1: wear for photo ops. The Volt had it felt very

437
00:21:30,200 --> 00:21:31,760
Speaker 1: like kid like, but a lot of the kids were

438
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Speaker 1: enjoying it. This like demonstration of electricity using like these

439
00:21:35,280 --> 00:21:39,840
Speaker 1: like volts and hair and the Blaze had face painting,

440
00:21:40,240 --> 00:21:42,480
Speaker 1: and the Bandits had this cool like sort of like

441
00:21:42,520 --> 00:21:45,720
Speaker 1: horseshoe toss thing, and they were all kind of interacting

442
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Speaker 1: with all the different kids that came. They also had

443
00:21:47,400 --> 00:21:51,280
Speaker 1: a hair braiding station, lots of merch that people.

444
00:21:50,960 --> 00:21:52,360
Speaker 2: Were really gobbling up.

445
00:21:52,400 --> 00:21:54,760
Speaker 1: My friend makes these bracelets called Changed by the Game

446
00:21:55,080 --> 00:21:57,840
Speaker 1: and you could keep track of the outs on your

447
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Speaker 1: wrist while you're playing the different logos and stuff. And

448
00:22:01,480 --> 00:22:04,320
Speaker 1: then there's like these little strips that you move to

449
00:22:04,400 --> 00:22:06,439
Speaker 1: remind yourself how many outs, which is pretty cool. So

450
00:22:06,480 --> 00:22:08,960
Speaker 1: they were selling those. And then there was just I mean,

451
00:22:09,000 --> 00:22:11,880
Speaker 1: it was like legends everywhere you look. Joe Torre was there,

452
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Speaker 1: legendary MLB manager. So he let me wear his World

453
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Speaker 1: Series ring and his Hall of Fame ring, which was

454
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Speaker 1: no offense to my husband, but way more diamonds than

455
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Speaker 1: I've ever had.

456
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Speaker 2: Oh, very great.

457
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Speaker 1: I have a great wedding ring, but this middle diamond

458
00:22:27,040 --> 00:22:32,480
Speaker 1: in this Yankees World Series ring was wow. Kenny Williams,

459
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Speaker 1: former White Sox GM was there. They were there to

460
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Speaker 1: support Kim Eng the commissioner, Sue Anquist, legendary UCLA coach

461
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Speaker 1: and my personal life coach was there, Lisa Fernandez. All

462
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Speaker 1: just I mean everywhere you looked were legends and what

463
00:22:45,880 --> 00:22:48,040
Speaker 1: was really cool. You guys heard it on this show,

464
00:22:48,040 --> 00:22:52,080
Speaker 1: both from Jenny Finch and Jessica Mendoza, how excited they

465
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Speaker 1: are about this league, Like it almost brings them to

466
00:22:54,400 --> 00:22:57,520
Speaker 1: tears to think about everyone pulling in the same direction

467
00:22:57,680 --> 00:23:01,800
Speaker 1: for the sport and the amount of attention, money, resources,

468
00:23:01,840 --> 00:23:04,240
Speaker 1: time coming in from both MLB's agreement with them and

469
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Speaker 1: everything that Athletes Unlimited has built to this point.

470
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Speaker 2: So it was just awesome.

471
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Speaker 1: It was just a really great day and it was

472
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Speaker 1: a total sellout, and I'm just really excited for them.

473
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Speaker 3: So, Sarah, I'm curious for your thoughts on this because

474
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Speaker 3: I think, as we've discussed on this show before, Athletes

475
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Speaker 3: Unlimited has done some really cool stuff before, from basketball

476
00:23:23,080 --> 00:23:27,159
Speaker 3: to lacrosse, to volleyball to softball. Also with their a

477
00:23:27,359 --> 00:23:30,359
Speaker 3: youth style format before where an individual player is winning

478
00:23:30,400 --> 00:23:33,639
Speaker 3: to now this more traditional league format, and it feels

479
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Speaker 3: to me like this is a real pivot point for AU.

480
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Speaker 3: I don't want to say the start of the foundation,

481
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Speaker 3: because they clearly already have the foundation, but it feels

482
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Speaker 3: like a turning point, and I'm curious if you got

483
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Speaker 3: that sense from the folks that you spoke to over

484
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Speaker 3: the weekend.

485
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Speaker 1: Certainly for this sport, and I think it's necessary for

486
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Speaker 1: this sport where they're not a secondary league in any

487
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Speaker 1: sense of the word. They are the main professional league,

488
00:23:56,240 --> 00:23:58,800
Speaker 1: and even in the last couple of years they were

489
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Speaker 1: the main professional league even using their au individual player model.

490
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Speaker 1: I don't know if this signals a change that they'll

491
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Speaker 1: look to make in their other sports.

492
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Speaker 2: I don't know if they think it's.

493
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Speaker 1: Necessary in basketball to pivot to a traditional team model.

494
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Speaker 1: I don't know if they feel that way in volleyball either,

495
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Speaker 1: As they try to separate themselves potentially from the pack

496
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Speaker 1: with the PVF and love volleyball, maybe they think it's

497
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Speaker 1: better to have a model that is a little bit different.

498
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Speaker 1: I think just in terms of awareness, size.

499
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Speaker 2: Resources, investment.

500
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Speaker 1: The MLB part of this, which is rumored to be

501
00:24:34,440 --> 00:24:36,960
Speaker 1: like a seven or eight figure investment, and the fact

502
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Speaker 1: that every single game will be on MLBtv, the app

503
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Speaker 1: and streaming is huge.

504
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Speaker 2: I did not. I talked to both Jonathan's who run it.

505
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Speaker 1: I didn't talk to them about whether they'll plan to

506
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Speaker 1: do this with their other leagues. But I think the

507
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Speaker 1: thing that I've talked to Jonathan patrick Off about the

508
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Speaker 1: most is how does AU step into being a little

509
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Speaker 1: bit cooler and a little bit edgy, because it does

510
00:25:01,720 --> 00:25:04,040
Speaker 1: tend to read, in my opinion, and has read the

511
00:25:04,119 --> 00:25:05,720
Speaker 1: last couple of years as a little bit more of

512
00:25:05,760 --> 00:25:10,360
Speaker 1: a traditional old school model where it's about kids watching,

513
00:25:11,320 --> 00:25:14,200
Speaker 1: and the graphics and the vibes and the social all

514
00:25:14,280 --> 00:25:16,280
Speaker 1: sort of sent that message. And I think they know,

515
00:25:16,760 --> 00:25:19,159
Speaker 1: and you could see it in this iteration of basketball

516
00:25:19,200 --> 00:25:21,639
Speaker 1: that they had this year that it started to change.

517
00:25:21,680 --> 00:25:24,960
Speaker 1: They started to understand the power of having more interesting

518
00:25:25,000 --> 00:25:27,600
Speaker 1: and funny and clever and smart socials and getting the

519
00:25:27,600 --> 00:25:30,200
Speaker 1: player personalities out more and having it be a little

520
00:25:30,240 --> 00:25:33,119
Speaker 1: less infantalizing. So I hope that that's their plan with

521
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Speaker 1: this league too. One of the things I loved was

522
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Speaker 1: that the teams are already starting to establish little traditions

523
00:25:41,160 --> 00:25:44,240
Speaker 1: the talents. Player who hit a home run had the

524
00:25:44,359 --> 00:25:46,520
Speaker 1: like two fingers out and made it look like sort

525
00:25:46,560 --> 00:25:49,119
Speaker 1: of eagle talents that were like coming out as she

526
00:25:49,200 --> 00:25:51,680
Speaker 1: was running around the bases. The Bandits had the most

527
00:25:51,760 --> 00:25:55,199
Speaker 1: insane player intros, coming through some swinging saloon doors and

528
00:25:55,240 --> 00:25:58,119
Speaker 1: then doing a variety of different like spinning fake guns

529
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Speaker 1: or like shooting things. I just I love that they

530
00:26:01,600 --> 00:26:04,320
Speaker 1: are starting to find those moments early in this league

531
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Speaker 1: because that's part of the joy of softball and something

532
00:26:06,480 --> 00:26:10,000
Speaker 1: that Jessica Mendoza told this member. She said, basically, like

533
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Speaker 1: trying to have individual winners in a sport that people love,

534
00:26:13,560 --> 00:26:16,320
Speaker 1: the team interaction so much of maybe.

535
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Speaker 2: Wasn't the way to go.

536
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Speaker 1: So I like that they're already establishing some of those,

537
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Speaker 1: like routines and habits and traditions so fun.

538
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Speaker 3: I'm jealous that you got to be there for it.

539
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Speaker 1: It's fun how many firsts we were having of late

540
00:26:27,680 --> 00:26:29,520
Speaker 1: and getting to like experience.

541
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Speaker 2: It's such a great sign for women's sports.

542
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Speaker 1: Alex, I think that you had texted me something about

543
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Speaker 1: the Women's College World Series. Was there something that you

544
00:26:38,920 --> 00:26:41,439
Speaker 1: wanted to say about that other than just enthusiasm for

545
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Speaker 1: Texas winning it all?

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

547
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Speaker 3: I think it's interesting because even earlier in the show

548
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Speaker 3: you mentioned it in talking about Nigerie Kennedy and her

549
00:26:50,560 --> 00:26:55,520
Speaker 3: one million dollar an IL collective. And after that series

550
00:26:55,680 --> 00:26:59,119
Speaker 3: ended with Texas Tech losing. Of course, their coach, Jerry

551
00:26:59,160 --> 00:27:03,120
Speaker 3: Glasgow spoke about how he thought it was quote almost

552
00:27:03,160 --> 00:27:09,040
Speaker 3: insulting to Canady how often that one million dollar ANIL

553
00:27:09,119 --> 00:27:12,160
Speaker 3: deal was brought up. I'm going to continue the quote here.

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Speaker 3: I think it's interesting. You watch Ohio State in the

555
00:27:14,760 --> 00:27:17,680
Speaker 3: men's football game National Championship game. You don't hear any

556
00:27:17,720 --> 00:27:21,000
Speaker 3: announcers talking about nil. They just don't talk about it.

557
00:27:21,040 --> 00:27:23,480
Speaker 3: And yet you know, Ohio State had won the highest

558
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Speaker 3: two or three nil payouts last year in college football.

559
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Speaker 3: I wonder why we talk about it for a female athlete.

560
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Speaker 3: And I thought it was interesting. You know, he equated

561
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Speaker 3: it to being a double standard, just how often it's

562
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Speaker 3: talked about. I do think that because it was in

563
00:27:36,800 --> 00:27:41,720
Speaker 3: softball for the star pitcher to transfer, it's a different

564
00:27:41,840 --> 00:27:45,879
Speaker 3: type of situation here. But I thought it was interesting,

565
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Speaker 3: and I was just curious if you guys had any

566
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Speaker 3: thoughts on that.

567
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Speaker 2: I see both sides of it.

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Speaker 1: I think, on the one hand, it's great to talk

569
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Speaker 1: about women making money, getting paid, bringing victories to schools,

570
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Speaker 1: bringing revenue to schools. Because of the conversations were likely

571
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Speaker 1: to be in the future about NCAA versus House and

572
00:28:02,880 --> 00:28:05,040
Speaker 1: all of the money being dumped into men's sports because

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Speaker 1: they believe that's the only space that will bring something back.

574
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Speaker 1: On the other hand, I see his point too, that

575
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Speaker 1: being if it's being talked about as sort of Texas

576
00:28:14,440 --> 00:28:16,280
Speaker 1: Tech wouldn't be here if they hadn't just thrown a

577
00:28:16,280 --> 00:28:18,360
Speaker 1: bunch of money at the best player kind of bs.

578
00:28:19,200 --> 00:28:21,280
Speaker 1: We don't see that as often on the men's side.

579
00:28:21,320 --> 00:28:23,960
Speaker 1: We see it as congratulating a school when they can

580
00:28:23,960 --> 00:28:26,560
Speaker 1: wrangle a big star, and it feels like, potentially, he

581
00:28:26,640 --> 00:28:29,920
Speaker 1: thinks in this case, it's being held up as an

582
00:28:29,960 --> 00:28:33,080
Speaker 1: abuse of the system, So I can see where he's

583
00:28:33,119 --> 00:28:35,640
Speaker 1: coming from there. Okay, let's move on to tennis, because

584
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Speaker 1: I want to talk Coco. Golfs win so much fun,

585
00:28:38,600 --> 00:28:40,400
Speaker 1: all the moments coming out of that win.

586
00:28:40,600 --> 00:28:42,920
Speaker 2: There's just so much joy and mesh.

587
00:28:43,000 --> 00:28:45,719
Speaker 1: I know we talked earlier in the show about breaking

588
00:28:45,760 --> 00:28:48,760
Speaker 1: this sort of curse or this long drought since the

589
00:28:48,840 --> 00:28:52,120
Speaker 1: last American twin it was Serena ten years ago. But

590
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Speaker 1: I don't think we need to compare Serena and Coco here.

591
00:28:56,360 --> 00:28:58,960
Speaker 1: I think it's okay to mention that and then just

592
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Speaker 1: be like, let's talk coc and not bring it all

593
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Speaker 1: the way back to ten years ago.

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Speaker 4: Exactly my thoughts exactly to a Tea Sera, because first

595
00:29:07,080 --> 00:29:09,920
Speaker 4: of all, I'm thinking about Coco being twenty one, being

596
00:29:10,000 --> 00:29:13,440
Speaker 4: so early on in her career, having so much talent,

597
00:29:13,480 --> 00:29:16,520
Speaker 4: and being her own person, right, I feel like it's

598
00:29:16,640 --> 00:29:20,760
Speaker 4: worth appreciating what she's done, aside from everybody else and

599
00:29:20,760 --> 00:29:22,880
Speaker 4: all the accomplishments that we want her to reach because

600
00:29:22,920 --> 00:29:25,000
Speaker 4: Serena did it, because so and so did it. And

601
00:29:25,080 --> 00:29:27,640
Speaker 4: at the same time, I want people to remember what

602
00:29:27,720 --> 00:29:32,479
Speaker 4: Serena did was a decade's long process of excellence, like

603
00:29:32,560 --> 00:29:36,400
Speaker 4: we haven't seen to me, she's top two athletes period

604
00:29:36,480 --> 00:29:40,360
Speaker 4: of all time. We simply haven't seen anybody with that

605
00:29:40,440 --> 00:29:43,440
Speaker 4: kind of longevity in women's tennis, and frankly to me,

606
00:29:43,760 --> 00:29:45,880
Speaker 4: to me, okay, in tennis in general. I know we've

607
00:29:45,880 --> 00:29:48,160
Speaker 4: got Novak, I know we've got Rafa, I know we've

608
00:29:48,160 --> 00:29:48,600
Speaker 4: got all them.

609
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Speaker 2: I'm not worried about them.

610
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Speaker 4: So I think Serena's legacy we have to put it

611
00:29:52,960 --> 00:29:56,280
Speaker 4: in context and remember how freaking outstanding that was, and

612
00:29:56,320 --> 00:29:58,840
Speaker 4: also know that Coco just got here for real, she

613
00:29:59,080 --> 00:30:01,240
Speaker 4: just got here stopp putting that pressure on her. You

614
00:30:01,280 --> 00:30:04,320
Speaker 4: can compare in that, Yes, she won a French Open,

615
00:30:04,320 --> 00:30:06,520
Speaker 4: and she's the first one since Serena to do it. Yes,

616
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Speaker 4: in full stop, keep it it ends there right now.

617
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Speaker 2: And that's not a knock on Coco.

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Speaker 4: It's just we're talking about two completely different, completely different

619
00:30:16,160 --> 00:30:19,040
Speaker 4: plan It's completely different atmospheres right now. But I want

620
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Speaker 4: to give Coco her props because I love what she's

621
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Speaker 4: been doing. I love watching her play, and I really

622
00:30:24,200 --> 00:30:26,680
Speaker 4: love the joy that she plays. With that slow mode

623
00:30:26,760 --> 00:30:28,640
Speaker 4: video that we told you guys to go listen or

624
00:30:28,760 --> 00:30:31,280
Speaker 4: go watch, we linked to it in our show notes,

625
00:30:31,280 --> 00:30:35,480
Speaker 4: I'm telling y'all it's as a basketball player, I don't

626
00:30:35,480 --> 00:30:38,760
Speaker 4: really have a desire to play tennis, but watching that

627
00:30:38,840 --> 00:30:40,680
Speaker 4: moment it makes me say, you know what, I should

628
00:30:40,720 --> 00:30:42,480
Speaker 4: be watching a little bit more. I should be paying

629
00:30:42,520 --> 00:30:44,400
Speaker 4: more attention. I should be locked in a little bit more.

630
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Speaker 4: And it's little stuff like that that we've seen kind

631
00:30:47,400 --> 00:30:50,400
Speaker 4: of turn women's sports into what we've just talked about

632
00:30:50,480 --> 00:30:52,920
Speaker 4: having all the first having so many people excited about it,

633
00:30:53,520 --> 00:30:55,400
Speaker 4: and in that moment there was just so much joy,

634
00:30:55,440 --> 00:30:58,400
Speaker 4: so much black joy, which means so much to me personally.

635
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Speaker 1: So yeah, and that's what I want to say, is

636
00:31:00,640 --> 00:31:02,719
Speaker 1: what you had to say about her. And Serena reminded

637
00:31:02,720 --> 00:31:05,120
Speaker 1: me a little of Mariah Stakos coming on and saying,

638
00:31:05,680 --> 00:31:08,240
Speaker 1: it's great that people were excited about me as a

639
00:31:08,240 --> 00:31:11,720
Speaker 1: young black golfer, but immediately it was like and Tiger Woods.

640
00:31:11,800 --> 00:31:14,520
Speaker 2: Yeah, and she's like, no, don't do that. Tiger Woods

641
00:31:14,680 --> 00:31:16,800
Speaker 2: is this whole thing different.

642
00:31:16,960 --> 00:31:20,880
Speaker 1: Great that I'm a young prodigy black golfer, but like

643
00:31:20,960 --> 00:31:22,040
Speaker 1: that is too much pressure.

644
00:31:22,160 --> 00:31:23,600
Speaker 2: And I feel like that's the same for Coco.

645
00:31:23,680 --> 00:31:26,800
Speaker 1: It's great, we love to see it the black joy,

646
00:31:27,160 --> 00:31:30,160
Speaker 1: especially in a sport that you want to bring more

647
00:31:30,200 --> 00:31:32,080
Speaker 1: eyeballs too that you want to bring more young black

648
00:31:32,080 --> 00:31:35,200
Speaker 1: players to. But not if we're going to force the

649
00:31:35,200 --> 00:31:37,280
Speaker 1: pressure on her of being the next Soreena.

650
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Speaker 4: Yes, because then what inevitably happens is if she doesn't

651
00:31:40,520 --> 00:31:43,280
Speaker 4: live up to Serena, then she's a bust, which is

652
00:31:43,320 --> 00:31:46,600
Speaker 4: completely untrue in and of itself as well. So yeah,

653
00:31:46,680 --> 00:31:49,920
Speaker 4: I gotta give left to Coco and to Serena because

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Speaker 4: that WNBA collab with the Toronto Tempo, her being an owner.

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Speaker 4: I love that. I love her having her hands all

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Speaker 4: over that. But yeah, she's She's one of a kind.

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Speaker 3: I think what stood out to me the most about

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Speaker 3: Coco's win is something that I feel like I saw

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Speaker 3: a lot covering the Olympics, which is that when you

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Speaker 3: win the first time, I often see a lot of joy.

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Speaker 3: Sometimes there's some relief in there depending on what the

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Speaker 3: stakes were, but I think sometimes winning the second time

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Speaker 3: is so much harder. Obviously this is a different tournament

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Speaker 3: than the one that she won before, but right there's

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Speaker 3: always a question of like was it a fluke? Can

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Speaker 3: I get back to that same stage, can I meet

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Speaker 3: the expectations? And so I think seeing her breakthrough for

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Speaker 3: a second time to win a Grand Slam, it just

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Speaker 3: makes me really excited for what's to come for her,

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Speaker 3: while simultaneously not trying to put more pressure on her.

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Speaker 1: I agree there is a little bit of that like

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Speaker 1: relief plus joy of like I did it again.

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Speaker 2: I wasn't a one hit wonder. I want to quickly

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Speaker 2: talk about the WNBA from this.

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Speaker 1: Weekend too, because Mesh, I was thinking about you as

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Speaker 1: I was texting Front of the Show Jess Smith about

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Speaker 1: the big win that the Valks got over the Aces

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Speaker 1: three players in double digits, and some like serious statlines

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Speaker 1: Kayla Thornton twenty two points, eleven boards, Veronica Burton fourteen points,

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Speaker 1: career high, twelve assists and seven rebounds, and Monique Billings

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Speaker 1: fourteen points eleven boards, like a real team effort.

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Speaker 2: But the aces, Sarah, you've been officially it's officially.

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Speaker 4: Time to worry. I was, I was holding off on

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Speaker 4: the worry. It's officially time to worry.

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Speaker 2: Okay. They got worked. They got worked.

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Speaker 4: They've got so much connectivity work to do on the

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Speaker 4: defensive end, which surprises the hell out of me, and.

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Speaker 2: Rebounding the ball.

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Speaker 4: Let me not forget to mention that they were negative

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Speaker 4: twelve minus twelve on the boards against the Valkyries.

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Speaker 2: You mentioned it.

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Speaker 4: Three players in double double territory. That's you cannot be

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Speaker 4: given that up under Becky Haam and she's obviously upset

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Speaker 4: about that, she had some comments about it in the

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Speaker 4: postgame press conference.

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Speaker 2: But offensively too. They're missing that fourth dog.

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Speaker 4: Remember Monica McNutt coined Jack the Jack Crew for them

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Speaker 4: when it was you know, when they had Kelsey Plumb

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Speaker 4: on this roster. They need Jewel Lloyd to be that

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Speaker 4: fourth player. And frankly, Asia Wilson's doing what she does.

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Speaker 4: She's second best in scoring average right now in the WNBA.

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Speaker 4: Jewels got to step up. Chelsea Gray doesn't have the

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Speaker 4: assist numbers that she's had and granted, team, you know,

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Speaker 4: players got to hit shots for you to get the assists.

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Speaker 4: But it's just a lot of things that still need

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Speaker 4: a lot of work, and I feel like I was

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Speaker 4: expecting them to be a little bit further along. We're

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Speaker 4: still very early in the season, haven't even hit the

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Speaker 4: All Star break yet, but they got to get They

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Speaker 4: gotta get Jewel.

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Speaker 2: I think she's she's the answer.

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Speaker 4: She's shooting twenty nine point four percent right now, which

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Speaker 4: is worse than any season average field goal percent and.

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Speaker 1: Get some time hopefully. Yeah, and that's part of it.

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Speaker 1: It's just getting used to a new system. I do

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Speaker 1: have to say, and Asia is not at fault for this,

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Speaker 1: but if the Aces don't do that well, and Asia

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Speaker 1: has already won a couple MVPs, it does support my

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Speaker 1: preseason prediction that voters might think it's time for a

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Speaker 1: new MVP or should I say fee P because I

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Speaker 1: just want to point out then if it's a Collier

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Speaker 1: heading into the Links game against the Dallas Wings, was

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Speaker 1: putting up over twenty one points per game on fifty

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Speaker 1: two point five percent field goal percentage, forty point nine

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Speaker 1: percent three point percentage, and ninety point seven percent free

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Speaker 1: throw percentage, making her the first scoring leader in WNBA

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Speaker 1: history to average fifty forty ninety efficiency eight games into

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Speaker 1: the season.

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Speaker 2: Again, it's early.

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Speaker 1: I'm just pointing out that my chip on her shoulder

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Speaker 1: feeling a little ragie after losing in the finals and

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Speaker 1: getting second in the MVP voting might end up all

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Speaker 1: being what we see this year.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I think there's some merits to that, but man

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Speaker 4: Ace has got to figure it out.

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Speaker 2: They gotta figure it out.

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Speaker 1: Okay, last WNBA, we have to talk about the Studs

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Speaker 1: Buds because it is Pride.

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Speaker 4: This is my new favorite thing in the world. If

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Speaker 4: y'all are paying attention to this, I need you to

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Speaker 4: go follow them immediately. It's at stud Dot Buds with

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Speaker 4: a Z on Instagram and the stud Buds are Courty

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Speaker 4: Williams and Natisha Heideman. It's it's my favorite thing to

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Speaker 4: come out of Pride month. So far, We're not even

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Speaker 4: halfway through and I'm obsessed I'm obsessed.

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Speaker 2: They just get on there, shoot the shit.

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Speaker 4: I love having two masculine presenting players have a friendship

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Speaker 4: that's visible to people, especially at a time like this.

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Speaker 4: So if you're not following them, go follow them and

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Speaker 4: get yourselves a laugh.

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Speaker 1: So far, there's been some good moments, for instance, asking

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Speaker 1: Elana Smith when she knew she was straight, or maybe

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Speaker 1: they were telling her when they knew she when they

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Speaker 1: knew she was straight. Either way, the stud buds are

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Speaker 1: are a good watch and absolutely just in time for Pride.

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Speaker 3: I just need to say that I googled stud buds

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Speaker 3: and the first thing I found was a stud Finder,

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Speaker 3: which also in time for Pride.

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Speaker 1: Thank god, that's what you said, because I was gonna say.

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Speaker 2: I don't know where you were going.

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Speaker 1: Sometimes I google stuff out of the context and my

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00:36:50,640 --> 00:36:52,680
Speaker 1: brain just isn't hasn't gotten there yet, and then whatever

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Speaker 1: comes up, I'm like, oh, yeah, I deserve that. I

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Speaker 1: deserve the results I just found. And I was worried

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Speaker 1: about you with stud buds with a Z, but thankfully

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Speaker 1: just a good old Studfinder.

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Speaker 2: We got to take another break, y'all.

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Speaker 1: When we come back, a brand new tradition has already

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Speaker 1: lassoed our attention and shot right through our hearts.

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Speaker 2: Stick around welcome back slices.

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