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Speaker 1: Hey, everyone, welcome back to another episode of fut Around

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Speaker 1: and find Out. I'm here with my girl a shanty, Hey,

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Speaker 1: a shanty.

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Speaker 2: Hey. How are you? How are you feeling? I'm great.

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Speaker 2: How are you feeling? I'm good, very festive.

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Speaker 3: As you know, the holidays are here, and so I'm

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Speaker 3: feeling really good. Christmas is my favorite holiday, and yeah,

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Speaker 3: it's the best time. That's why we're in these bright

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Speaker 3: colors representing I agree. Look at us, Look at us,

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Speaker 3: red and green, looking like some ornamous on a Christmas tree,

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Speaker 3: the best worments on your tree. You know what, Let's

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Speaker 3: talk about the fact that you have been off of

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Speaker 3: school and it's just been straight basketball.

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Speaker 2: What's that been like? Freedom?

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Speaker 1: It's been really nice actually to not have to worry

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Speaker 1: about school and just you know, go home after practice,

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Speaker 1: get to hang out with everyone. Been having some really

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Speaker 1: good movie nights. There's been a lot of discussions about

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Speaker 1: like like I want to make things with KK and

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Speaker 1: maybe Clee and whoever else wants to join, but like

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Speaker 1: holiday theme treats, but we'll see. But just having like

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Speaker 1: the extra down time to just chill and be with

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Speaker 1: everyone has been so nice.

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Speaker 2: So that's been incredible.

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Speaker 3: I remember during that time for me, it was so

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Speaker 3: much fun. And then like my seniors at that time

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Speaker 3: would be like, this is as close as the experience

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Speaker 3: you get to playing pro because like all you have

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Speaker 3: to worry about is playing is being with well, you know,

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Speaker 3: not everybody's gonna always hang with their teammates, but this

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Speaker 3: is the time where all you have is basketball and

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Speaker 3: it's like the best time ever. So I'm excited you

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Speaker 3: are experience in that.

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Speaker 2: Me too. So we got a fun guest coming on,

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Speaker 2: girl Lea, Yes we do, and I'm so excited.

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Speaker 3: Yes, we have a special guest, Emmy Award winning host

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Speaker 3: of NBA TV, NBA Countdown and WNBA Countdown on ESPN.

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Speaker 3: Also the first woman to host the NBA Draft, Malika Andrews.

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Speaker 1: Everybody that was so good as Shanty, that's so perfect

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Speaker 1: joining us on the pod today we have Melika Andrews.

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Speaker 2: Hi, thank you for being here.

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Speaker 4: Good morning. I'm so happy to be here. I'm so

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Speaker 4: excited to chat with you all. It's the best way

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Speaker 4: to start my day.

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Speaker 2: Oh, what was a pleasure to have you.

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Speaker 5: Thank you, Shanta. I'm excited. I'm excited.

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Speaker 4: Let's I mean, I am, I am, I'm a fan

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Speaker 4: of the podcast, and so I'm like a little bit nervous.

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Speaker 5: So I'm excited that usual place, right, and this is.

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Speaker 4: A little bit of a turning things around for me,

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Speaker 4: returning the tables.

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Speaker 2: Okay, well, let's get started our first little section. I

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Speaker 2: want it for me.

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Speaker 1: I'm a book lover, so I want to get to

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Speaker 1: know I know that you're also a book lover about

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Speaker 1: your love of books. I read that in twenty twenty

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Speaker 1: four you had a goal.

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Speaker 2: To read fifty books in the year. Yes, did you

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Speaker 2: have a goal for twenty twenty five to just keep.

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Speaker 5: Reading in twenty twenty nine.

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Speaker 4: Twenty four, I had sort of delusional ambition with our

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Speaker 4: schedules and the way that things go reading fifty books,

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Speaker 5: Pages of fifty books.

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Speaker 4: I have since ventured into the audiobook space and I

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Speaker 4: found it much easier to tackle to tackle fifty books

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Speaker 4: a year. But for me, I was always not good

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Speaker 4: I don't like things I'm not good at, and reading

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Speaker 4: is sort of always something I've devoured and stories is

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Speaker 4: always something I'm looking forward to. So anything historical fiction,

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Speaker 5: I'm in for all of those, all of those sorts

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Speaker 5: of books. That is my That's it for me.

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Speaker 1: Okay, I feel like I'm going to need some book

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Speaker 4: And I just recommended this to set started a book group,

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Speaker 4: challenge to I recommended the first book of the book group.

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Speaker 4: has an incredibly high bar for books, right, and so

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Speaker 5: I was doing some recon on what Necca liked and

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Speaker 4: I wasn't sure if it was going to be exactly

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Speaker 5: Have you read The Women? Not Little Women, but The Women?

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Speaker 5: Is that by Kristin Hanna?

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Speaker 1: No, it's on my list. I read The Nightingale? Is

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Speaker 2: Right?

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Speaker 5: Did you love it?

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Speaker 1: I loved the book, like loved, but sobbed like most

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Speaker 1: of the books, but that is such That's one of

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Speaker 1: So that's on my list. But I was like, I

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Speaker 5: Can't take this. The Women will. It's it's a beautiful,

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Speaker 4: Of women in World War in the Vietnam War rather,

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Speaker 5: But it's such a good book. It's a beautiful book.

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Speaker 4: The Nightingale, but The Nightingale is definitely definitely up there.

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Speaker 4: But you have to should please read women. It's one

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Speaker 4: of my apposute favorite books. I reread it outside of

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Speaker 4: And by the way, Neka, who is the Queen of

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Speaker 4: you know, she loves a good book, but she will

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Speaker 4: tell you when it's not.

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Speaker 5: She liked it, So I would say ten out of ten,

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Speaker 4: But how do you you're on the road and you're

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Speaker 5: Can you read it on a bus and you read?

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Speaker 5: Where do you get most of your reading done? Easy?

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Speaker 1: That's a skill that I learned from going to and

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Speaker 5: My bucket list.

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Speaker 4: I really want to go, which I knew someone who

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Speaker 4: worried because there's nowhere. You know, it's all ice that

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Speaker 5: Not that I get seasick, but I can't read in

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Speaker 4: Are you a big reader like Asashanta? Are you just

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Speaker 4: like tearing through books. I'm not tearing through books, but

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Speaker 3: I do enjoy reading, but I definitely have not been

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Speaker 2: So I'm really excited to hear about this.

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Speaker 3: And I know a lot of our listeners are readers,

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Speaker 3: so we definitely need a top three recommendation.

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Speaker 4: So you know what's interesting, and I'll give you The

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Speaker 4: Women is definitely up there. The Nightingale is a fantastic book.

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Speaker 4: And I have a different book for different things that

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Speaker 4: The Women is absolutely incredible. It's probably my favorite book

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Speaker 5: I have a list.

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Speaker 4: I keep them on my phoot because people asking me this,

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Speaker 4: different things. So for me, though, I started reading that

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Speaker 2: What are some other recks other than the women?

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Speaker 5: All right?

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Speaker 4: I think top three books, and I'm reading on her

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Speaker 4: gonna We're not going to give it to that yet.

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Speaker 5: This is a very difficult question. This is like asking

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Speaker 4: Three books that I've read recently in the last five

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Speaker 5: The women giver of Stars.

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Speaker 4: I think I'm going to give the last one Midnight.

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Speaker 5: Library is a honorable mention.

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Speaker 4: Those are those are three, the Women Remarkably Bright Creatures,

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Speaker 1: letting myself get wrapped in the future and what's next,

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00:21:10,560 --> 00:21:13,760
Speaker 1: although that is coming, but I've really worked on saying present.

445
00:21:13,920 --> 00:21:16,200
Speaker 1: And so we had just gotten back from a trip,

446
00:21:16,240 --> 00:21:18,040
Speaker 1: so I did end up watching. I made KK stay.

447
00:21:18,119 --> 00:21:19,679
Speaker 1: I was doing some recovery before I went home. We

448
00:21:19,760 --> 00:21:24,480
Speaker 1: watched it together and it was I mean, it's weird

449
00:21:24,520 --> 00:21:28,000
Speaker 1: watching knowing that like that is my future, that you know,

450
00:21:28,119 --> 00:21:31,239
Speaker 1: hopefully things go well and hopefully like one of those

451
00:21:31,280 --> 00:21:33,199
Speaker 1: teams will drop me, but just knowing that that is

452
00:21:34,000 --> 00:21:37,440
Speaker 1: coming and like a few months really not that long,

453
00:21:37,480 --> 00:21:39,679
Speaker 1: like that is it was very insane to think.

454
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Speaker 5: Is it kind of like I imagine this is what

455
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Speaker 5: it's like.

456
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Speaker 4: I don't have children, but when you say, you know, oh,

457
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Speaker 4: are you you'll be happy if it's a boy or

458
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Speaker 4: a girl, when when as long as a child's healthy,

459
00:21:51,560 --> 00:21:53,159
Speaker 4: it doesn't matter. But then in your mind you're kind

460
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Speaker 4: of like, I really want this or I really want that.

461
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Speaker 4: Is it sort of like I'll be happy no matter what.

462
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Speaker 4: But there's a small part of me I maybe you

463
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Speaker 4: feel something you weren't necessarily expecting to feel when that

464
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Speaker 4: comes up.

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Speaker 1: That's actually funny. I feel like that's a really good comparison.

466
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Speaker 1: But with that, it's just the same, like you don't

467
00:22:09,760 --> 00:22:11,840
Speaker 1: I don't have a say and where I get to go.

468
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Speaker 1: And so I feel like, no matter what team where

469
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Speaker 1: I'm drafted, there's going to be pros and con siege,

470
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Speaker 1: and I'll make sure to find the pros and all

471
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Speaker 1: of it.

472
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Speaker 4: If it's Texas, you got some great barbecue.

473
00:22:25,680 --> 00:22:28,720
Speaker 5: If it's Minnesota, some cute jackets.

474
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Speaker 2: Because in the summer, so it will be.

475
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Speaker 4: If you're spending any time outside of the season in Minnesota.

476
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Speaker 2: I mean they got likes and stuff.

477
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Speaker 5: You know, Goose if you gotta like it, I mean you're

478
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Speaker 5: probably on the Canada Goose Blands. It was fun. I

479
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Speaker 5: really enjoyed it.

480
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Speaker 4: And I'm looking forward to doing more with the w

481
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Speaker 4: you know, coming up in the future, because women's basketball

482
00:23:03,240 --> 00:23:06,600
Speaker 4: it's just it's fun, it's and I love all basketball.

483
00:23:06,880 --> 00:23:09,719
Speaker 4: But there's a different whenever I go to when we

484
00:23:09,720 --> 00:23:11,320
Speaker 4: were at the when we took NBA to day to

485
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Speaker 4: the w NBA Finals for the first time ever this

486
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Speaker 4: past year. There's just a different energy, a different frequency

487
00:23:16,359 --> 00:23:19,040
Speaker 4: to it that I really enjoy being around. And you know,

488
00:23:19,480 --> 00:23:22,240
Speaker 4: I do fun things with my style is like we

489
00:23:22,359 --> 00:23:26,600
Speaker 4: only wear female designers for the WM coverage that we do,

490
00:23:26,760 --> 00:23:29,120
Speaker 4: and so there's just a different there's a there's sort

491
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Speaker 4: of an appreciation for the style that's a little bit different.

492
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Speaker 4: There's a fundamental to the game that's a little bit

493
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Speaker 4: different and cleaner, and you know, so I'm I really

494
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Speaker 4: enjoyed it, and I'm hoping you know, we didn't take

495
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Speaker 4: NBA to Day to the w NBA Draft last year

496
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Speaker 4: just with the timing of everything, but I'm thinking in

497
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Speaker 4: the future that's something.

498
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Speaker 5: That we're going to We're going to need to do.

499
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Speaker 3: Oh absolutely, yeah, it's absolutely so, Malika. We usually ask,

500
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Speaker 3: you know, some of the players who come on what's

501
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Speaker 3: their welcome to the league moment?

502
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Speaker 2: For them.

503
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Speaker 3: So as a reporter, what's your welcome to the league moment?

504
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Speaker 5: Oh, I've had a couple, I have a couple. You can't.

505
00:24:11,440 --> 00:24:13,800
Speaker 5: You can't. You know, if you don't play.

506
00:24:14,359 --> 00:24:15,840
Speaker 4: You're not going to get dunked on and put on

507
00:24:15,880 --> 00:24:17,240
Speaker 4: a poster if you don't play defense.

508
00:24:17,320 --> 00:24:18,560
Speaker 5: Right, So that's.

509
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Speaker 2: That's one way to put it.

510
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Speaker 5: I'm going to view this last half full.

511
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Speaker 4: I think, you know, probably the biggest one that I've

512
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Speaker 4: learned from. And I've gone to Jannis and I've told

513
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Speaker 4: him how much I learned from this in the past.

514
00:24:33,440 --> 00:24:39,639
Speaker 5: Was in what year was that, twenty eighteen maybe twenty nineteen.

515
00:24:39,760 --> 00:24:41,679
Speaker 5: It was my first year as a beat reporter.

516
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Speaker 4: I'd written about like right after the Bucks lost in

517
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Speaker 4: the conference finals to the Toronto Raptors. I'd written that

518
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Speaker 4: Joannis was evaluating his future and it may lie outside

519
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Speaker 4: of Milwaukee. Now, this seems like, you know, in the

520
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Speaker 4: face of the news in the last couple of weeks,

521
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Speaker 4: this seems like old news.

522
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Speaker 5: But at the time that hadn't really been written.

523
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Speaker 4: And I wrote that, and I'd asked my editors if

524
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Speaker 4: we could wait to put they at the time, they

525
00:25:07,880 --> 00:25:10,320
Speaker 4: really liked to publish things like at the buzzer, because

526
00:25:10,320 --> 00:25:12,480
Speaker 4: that's when it's going to get the most eyeballs, and

527
00:25:12,520 --> 00:25:15,800
Speaker 4: I felt like that was a little bit sensitive maybe

528
00:25:15,840 --> 00:25:18,520
Speaker 4: to run at the buzzer, but I was a first

529
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Speaker 4: year reporter.

530
00:25:19,119 --> 00:25:21,520
Speaker 5: I wasn't going to push back that hard, and so they.

531
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Speaker 4: Ran it at the buzzer, and I knew in the

532
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Speaker 4: press conference afterwards that I wanted to make sure that

533
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Speaker 4: I asked Jannis a question because in that time, the

534
00:25:32,880 --> 00:25:35,120
Speaker 4: locker room wasn't really open. They were trying to make

535
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Speaker 4: sure that, you know, in the face of losing, it's

536
00:25:38,520 --> 00:25:40,600
Speaker 4: not exactly the time too want to chat with everybody,

537
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Speaker 4: and so I knew I wanted to ask the question

538
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Speaker 4: because I wanted to make sure that he saw that

539
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Speaker 4: I was there so that if he was upset, he

540
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Speaker 4: could let me know, because I think that that's the

541
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Speaker 4: right thing to do. I got the last question, and

542
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Speaker 4: that those press conferences are on camera, so they turned

543
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Speaker 4: the camera to me and I asked some innocuous question

544
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Speaker 4: because I knew literally was.

545
00:26:00,480 --> 00:26:03,360
Speaker 5: Just trying to show up and just say, hey, I'm here,

546
00:26:03,400 --> 00:26:05,600
Speaker 5: and I know that this thing just ran and you're

547
00:26:05,640 --> 00:26:07,040
Speaker 5: probably not very happy with me.

548
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Speaker 4: But I asked him something about you know that they

549
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Speaker 4: I don't remember they'd said some things about the run

550
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Speaker 4: and what the experience maybe doesn't matter and doesn't matter

551
00:26:16,600 --> 00:26:19,440
Speaker 4: now that you're looking at and I'm asking him the question,

552
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Speaker 4: and be Honest gets up and he walks out of

553
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Speaker 4: the room, and Chris Middleton like he became a meme

554
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Speaker 4: and he's.

555
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Speaker 5: Like, what just happened?

556
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Speaker 4: And I was so I felt so terrible, And you know,

557
00:26:34,600 --> 00:26:37,600
Speaker 4: of course that goes everywhere, and you know.

558
00:26:37,440 --> 00:26:39,919
Speaker 5: People filling in the gaps of how he feels about.

559
00:26:40,720 --> 00:26:43,080
Speaker 4: And we've talked about it since, and I've told him

560
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Speaker 4: I would what I would have done differently, and he's

561
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Speaker 4: told me what he would have done differently. We were both,

562
00:26:47,720 --> 00:26:49,840
Speaker 4: you know, I was twenty two, he was twenty two.

563
00:26:50,119 --> 00:26:52,080
Speaker 4: We were both just kind of trying to figure it

564
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Speaker 4: out and figure out our jobs.

565
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Speaker 5: But at the time, it was like.

566
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Speaker 7: Everywhere from from viral all the things like Honest walked out,

567
00:27:00,800 --> 00:27:06,600
Speaker 7: blah blah blah, and I I definitely He reached out

568
00:27:06,600 --> 00:27:08,520
Speaker 7: to me later that night actually and told me and

569
00:27:08,600 --> 00:27:11,120
Speaker 7: he apologized and I said when I like, I said,

570
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Speaker 7: I would have done differently, But at the time, getting

571
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Speaker 7: walked out on in a press conference.

572
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Speaker 4: I was like, oh my gosh, so yeah.

573
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Speaker 8: That was probably my first welcome to the welcome to

574
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Speaker 8: the league moment, a welcome wow. Yeah, So if you

575
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Speaker 8: want to look that up.

576
00:27:33,359 --> 00:27:41,000
Speaker 5: After I felt like, you know, the walls are kind

577
00:27:41,000 --> 00:27:41,840
Speaker 5: of closing in on you.

578
00:27:41,920 --> 00:27:43,359
Speaker 4: I like went to the bath room and had to

579
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Speaker 4: like gather myself a little bit because I felt I.

580
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Speaker 5: Felt pretty bad.

581
00:27:47,080 --> 00:27:48,960
Speaker 4: And and again like it's a good but it's a

582
00:27:48,960 --> 00:27:52,080
Speaker 4: good you get dunked on so you can learn how

583
00:27:52,119 --> 00:27:54,720
Speaker 4: to you know, be in better position and rotate better.

584
00:27:54,800 --> 00:27:56,680
Speaker 5: Right, So that's what that's what I did.

585
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Speaker 2: Oh my goodness, look at you now.

586
00:28:03,880 --> 00:28:07,080
Speaker 5: And let's yeah, like always go back and have the conversation.

587
00:28:07,480 --> 00:28:12,080
Speaker 4: Always go back and say close done differently, yep, close the.

588
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Speaker 1: Loop, Malika, Who is your starting five for current women's

589
00:28:15,880 --> 00:28:18,240
Speaker 1: college players? And it doesn't have to be like the

590
00:28:18,240 --> 00:28:19,800
Speaker 1: best player is just your favorites?

591
00:28:20,520 --> 00:28:23,600
Speaker 5: Oh that's a great that are currently can I And it.

592
00:28:23,560 --> 00:28:25,760
Speaker 2: Doesn't have to be me. I won't be offended.

593
00:28:26,240 --> 00:28:30,720
Speaker 4: No, I was going to say, asy, I'll put your can.

594
00:28:30,760 --> 00:28:32,720
Speaker 5: I put you in there even if you do.

595
00:28:35,240 --> 00:28:39,840
Speaker 4: Playing right now, because I think that she when she

596
00:28:40,120 --> 00:28:41,880
Speaker 4: is playing, it's one of those things where like I

597
00:28:41,880 --> 00:28:43,720
Speaker 4: can't wait for her to come back and living in

598
00:28:43,760 --> 00:28:46,920
Speaker 4: Los Angeles and going to those games is absolutely electric.

599
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Speaker 4: I'm going to say, uh, Lauren Bett's amazing, incredible.

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Speaker 5: I am going to say that's three, or that's that's three.

601
00:28:59,360 --> 00:29:00,000
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's three.

602
00:29:00,240 --> 00:29:04,040
Speaker 5: I'm gonna say Audie mm hmmm.

603
00:29:06,200 --> 00:29:08,960
Speaker 4: We covered her on the show the other day and

604
00:29:09,120 --> 00:29:12,680
Speaker 4: her story was, I mean, with her with her father

605
00:29:12,760 --> 00:29:15,520
Speaker 4: and just absolutely credible and by the way, like you

606
00:29:15,520 --> 00:29:17,080
Speaker 4: don't want to get her on the post amazing.

607
00:29:17,960 --> 00:29:22,120
Speaker 5: And then you know what we're gonna go with. We're

608
00:29:22,120 --> 00:29:24,080
Speaker 5: gonna go with KK. We're gonna show KK for love.

609
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Speaker 2: I love that the.

610
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Speaker 4: First time we met, we met was with a Z

611
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Speaker 4: and I met KK was there as well at the SBS.

612
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Speaker 5: So we'll go with that.

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Speaker 4: How's that for my That's I think we might have

614
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Speaker 4: some redundancy, but we were gonna, we're gonna we're gonna

615
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Speaker 4: tack up some ws.

616
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Speaker 2: Oh for sure.

617
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Speaker 3: That seemed like, I know, you got a little squad

618
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Speaker 3: definitely scoring one hundred plus points a game though, and.

619
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Speaker 5: No one scoring.

620
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Speaker 4: I mean, yeah, it's gonna like ve and then no

621
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Speaker 4: one's scoring, no one scoring on.

622
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Speaker 5: Our on our on our on our front court. There

623
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Speaker 5: that's a fun locked out.

624
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Speaker 2: So now we're going to get into our what the

625
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Speaker 2: fun of the week?

626
00:30:18,800 --> 00:30:20,600
Speaker 3: What the fun of the week is something that happened

627
00:30:20,600 --> 00:30:23,440
Speaker 3: this week that made you say what the fun by?

628
00:30:23,480 --> 00:30:24,680
Speaker 5: What the fed of the week?

629
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Speaker 4: Was the Oklahoma City Thunder getting eat by Fisherwnbnyama and

630
00:30:31,880 --> 00:30:35,000
Speaker 4: the San Antonio Spurs in their return in the NBA Cup.

631
00:30:35,160 --> 00:30:37,280
Speaker 4: It was their only their second loss of the season,

632
00:30:38,040 --> 00:30:42,320
Speaker 4: and it was I was on the edge of my

633
00:30:42,480 --> 00:30:43,480
Speaker 4: seat for that game.

634
00:30:43,680 --> 00:30:45,720
Speaker 5: I there's few things that I.

635
00:30:45,760 --> 00:30:50,520
Speaker 4: Enjoy more than watching a goliath battle with a young,

636
00:30:50,840 --> 00:30:55,400
Speaker 4: hungry up and coming they got next type of squad

637
00:30:56,040 --> 00:31:00,000
Speaker 4: and that game, I mean that was that was awesome.

638
00:31:00,200 --> 00:31:01,200
Speaker 5: That was an awesome game.

639
00:31:01,280 --> 00:31:03,960
Speaker 4: So that that would be my The Oklahoma City Funder

640
00:31:04,000 --> 00:31:06,360
Speaker 4: racking up their second loss of the season, awesome win

641
00:31:06,440 --> 00:31:09,720
Speaker 4: by the Spurs. That definitely some of the things anytime

642
00:31:09,720 --> 00:31:11,280
Speaker 4: Big is on the court, I don't know how you

643
00:31:11,280 --> 00:31:13,320
Speaker 4: don't say what the fun I've never seen.

644
00:31:15,080 --> 00:31:16,920
Speaker 5: What he can do at seven foot five.

645
00:31:17,040 --> 00:31:19,360
Speaker 4: That was That's that's probably if we're sticking in the

646
00:31:19,360 --> 00:31:21,360
Speaker 4: hoops world, that's my that's my what the fud?

647
00:31:21,840 --> 00:31:23,959
Speaker 2: My what the fun is?

648
00:31:24,000 --> 00:31:27,280
Speaker 1: From last week after the USC game, someone had me

649
00:31:27,360 --> 00:31:30,800
Speaker 1: sign a Dallas Wings jersey and I thought it was

650
00:31:30,840 --> 00:31:33,280
Speaker 1: I just always assume it's paid jersey, and like, was

651
00:31:33,320 --> 00:31:35,760
Speaker 1: just signing things fast, was paying attention. I didn't realize still,

652
00:31:35,760 --> 00:31:37,440
Speaker 1: after my grandpa sent me a picture and it was

653
00:31:37,480 --> 00:31:41,080
Speaker 1: someone with a FUD thirty five Dallas Wings jersey, and

654
00:31:41,680 --> 00:31:42,360
Speaker 1: I was just shocked.

655
00:31:42,360 --> 00:31:43,840
Speaker 2: I was like, what the fun? Like, how do they

656
00:31:43,880 --> 00:31:44,640
Speaker 2: have this already?

657
00:31:46,440 --> 00:31:47,200
Speaker 5: That's a good one.

658
00:31:47,640 --> 00:31:49,080
Speaker 2: So I thought that was crazy.

659
00:31:49,720 --> 00:31:50,360
Speaker 5: That's wild.

660
00:31:50,440 --> 00:31:52,600
Speaker 3: I love that I have a what the fun of

661
00:31:52,600 --> 00:31:54,960
Speaker 3: the week? Okay, but honestly, this what the fun of

662
00:31:55,000 --> 00:31:55,600
Speaker 3: week is?

663
00:31:56,240 --> 00:31:56,440
Speaker 2: Oh?

664
00:31:56,760 --> 00:32:03,040
Speaker 3: Every week acis pop buff Oh gosh, it's not crazy.

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Speaker 3: He's not crazy. He's always taking these fun pictures like

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Speaker 3: during the games or like after the games. And I

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Speaker 3: just want to say, I finally made the Instagram.

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Speaker 2: Okay, I finally made it. He's like a he's big time.

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Speaker 5: Okay.

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Speaker 3: I remember I saw him. He was like one point

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Speaker 3: two million views or something like that. I said, Okay, no,

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Speaker 3: I'm telling you, he's so fun. He's such a joy

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Speaker 3: to be around. Like that is definitely not with the

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Speaker 3: fun and sometimes his pictures are hilarious, like no, no, no, no,

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Speaker 3: they're hilarious, off guard. Sometimes I understand why you don't

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Speaker 3: love them, but it makes my day to see his posts.

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Speaker 2: So that's definitely not with the fun.

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Speaker 4: I love that, we love, we love sweet sweet parents.

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Speaker 4: We love that I do sweet adorable parents.

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Speaker 1: All right, well that is all we have today, Malika,

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much.

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Speaker 2: This was so much fun. I enjoyed literally every second

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Speaker 5: I did too.

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Speaker 4: Thank you so much for having me, and I feel

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Speaker 4: like we I was so into the books that this

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Speaker 4: has to be a part one of a part two.

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Speaker 4: We're going to answer more questions in part two. But

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Speaker 4: I appreciate you ladies having me.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, no, seriously, I got to whip up my Goodreads

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Speaker 1: and add all the books that you brought up.

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Speaker 5: Let me put you on. Got to get on Libby,

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Speaker 5: l Ibby.

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Speaker 2: Okay, perfect, Thank you, damn, thank you so much, really.

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Speaker 5: Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you and everyone.

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