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Speaker 1: Levels to.

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Speaker 2: This is an iHeart women's sports production in partnership with

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Speaker 2: Deep Blue Sports and Entertainment. You can find us on

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Speaker 1: Hey, everybody, what's going on? Is your girl? Serrika Foster

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Speaker 1: Brassby and I'm your girl, Cheryl Swoops. What's up y'all? Hey?

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Speaker 1: And this is the Levels to this podcast.

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Speaker 3: This is the show where we share that it is

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Speaker 3: levels to the shit that women go through.

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Speaker 1: We have such a fun show lined up for you today.

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Speaker 3: But Cheryl, I feel like this is the first time

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Speaker 3: in a few weeks that we've been like on a

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Speaker 3: regular show.

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Speaker 1: Oh my god, I know.

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Speaker 2: I'm like, can we get back to our show? But

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Speaker 2: it's been real though, So listen, I'm.

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Speaker 1: Gonna hop right into it.

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Speaker 2: So I'm gonna keep a long story short because we

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Speaker 2: got some way more important exciting things to talk about

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Speaker 2: than my personal shit. So, for people who don't know,

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Speaker 2: my mom and dad split up when I was three

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Speaker 2: months old. Okay, so I don't know my dad. I

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Speaker 2: actually met my dad for the very first time when

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Speaker 2: I was like.

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Speaker 4: Forty years old. Okay, didn't really feel anything.

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Speaker 2: I was just for me, I was like, I need

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Speaker 2: to at least know who he is, just to have

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Speaker 2: some closure.

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Speaker 1: Okay. Ye.

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Speaker 2: So that was that, and it was a very short

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Speaker 2: conversation of I'm your daddy.

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Speaker 1: Oh hi, right, okay.

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Speaker 2: Fast forward to a couple of weeks ago, I get

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Speaker 2: a message on Facebook from someone saying they're my cousin

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Speaker 2: on my dad's side. Now, mind you, I don't know

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Speaker 2: anybody on my dad's side, So I respond Hi. So

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Speaker 2: they basically said, Hey, cheryl A, your cousin just wanted

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Speaker 2: to let you know that Billy Ray that's my dad's name,

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Speaker 2: that he's not doing very well, so hoping you'll respond.

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Speaker 2: So I responded, I said, Hi, how, what's wrong? Blah

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Speaker 2: blah blah. So I get this whole rundown and then

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Speaker 2: and they said, but your sister, Patricia is with him

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Speaker 2: at the hospital. And I responded and said, I don't

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Speaker 2: have a sister because to my knowledge, Tea, I don't

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Speaker 2: have a sister, right, because I don't know anybody on

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Speaker 2: my dad's side. So I go to the hospital to

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Speaker 2: see him, visit him. He was diagnosed with prostate cancer

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Speaker 2: a couple of years ago. Doctors are saying he doesn't

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Speaker 2: have long to live, so I needed some closure in

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Speaker 2: for me right before he passes on and all those

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Speaker 2: good things, because I had a gazillion question. Now, am

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Speaker 2: I wrong to just be like, I don't really know

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Speaker 2: you anyway?

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Speaker 4: So I'm going to step back, do you.

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Speaker 1: Know what I mean?

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Speaker 4: Because there's a whole lot of stuff in between there.

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Speaker 3: Okay, So there is some stuff that I feel like

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Speaker 3: I can fill in the blank just by common sense.

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Speaker 3: And I also think like there's this natural guilty feeling

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Speaker 1: Your dad right in your mind, You're like, you want

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Speaker 3: Rude because as you my daddy, Yes, but realistically I

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Speaker 3: don't like know you liked that. Yes, So like the

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Speaker 3: way that you probably feel is the way you would

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Speaker 3: feel if you found out someone you knew passed away,

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Speaker 3: where you'd be like, oh, my condolences.

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Speaker 2: Yes, But at the end of the day, this is

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Speaker 1: Now, I'm a journalist, and so I listen to words.

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Speaker 3: You keep saying the man I've been told, the man

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Speaker 3: that people say this is my saddy here, Okay, but

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Speaker 3: like you don't sound sure, is this your daddy. Are

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Speaker 3: you unsure your daddy?

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Speaker 1: So I don't know.

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Speaker 2: And that's not coming from me, that's coming from my

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Speaker 1: I don't know, y'all.

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Speaker 2: Okay, So to me, I was like, this could be

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Speaker 1: It really could be about I feel in some type

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Speaker 3: Okay, So I think your feelings are entirely valid, right,

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Speaker 3: Like entirely valid, Like you, you don't get to just

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Speaker 1: Me Billy ray One doing well? Come both to nobody

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Speaker 3: So why couldn't your contact me two years ago when

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Speaker 3: he was diagnosed with when he was diagnosed exactly you

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Speaker 3: right right?

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Speaker 1: Right?

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Speaker 3: So I already got issues, like you clearly knew how

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Speaker 3: to reach me. Yeah yeah, and I did not know

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Speaker 3: how to reach y'all clearly, Like what's up with that?

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Speaker 1: I don't even know. I don't even know you.

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Speaker 2: I don't know anybody on his side of the family.

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Speaker 2: So even if I wanted to find you, I wouldn't.

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Speaker 1: Know where to begin. I wouldn't know where to start.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, And so now I'm getting all these text messages

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Speaker 2: every day about what the doctor's just saying.

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Speaker 1: Blah blah blah, you know what.

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Speaker 3: I mean, and it's overwhelmed me, girl, Like y'all telling

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Speaker 1: I don't know for.

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Speaker 2: Real, you know what I'm saying, And I'm not getting

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Speaker 2: to be like like, I don't give it damn right.

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Speaker 1: But again, in a way, he's a stranger to me.

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Speaker 3: So I will say the one way that you can

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Speaker 3: if you wanted to get additional closure, have you gone

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Speaker 1: Have you talked to him? I did, Okay, I went

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Speaker 3: To me, if he's up to it, like and I

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Speaker 3: don't mean up to it like I mean like physically.

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Speaker 3: If I mean if he's going through something physically, is

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Speaker 3: like you owe me this information. But if he's physically

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Speaker 1: I mean, first of all, I didn't going nowhere.

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Speaker 2: I did, but I did so some of the things

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Speaker 1: And that's why I'm like, I don't really know what

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Speaker 3: But then ask us off this, what's the reason for

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Speaker 1: Because that's what I said.

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Speaker 3: I mean, if it's a dire as y'all say, what's

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Speaker 2: And so I debated on if I was even going

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Speaker 2: a part of me that does feel guilty, Like even

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Speaker 2: though I don't know him, right, there's a part of

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Speaker 2: me that's like, yeah, but that's shit, daddy.

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Speaker 1: You know why I told me. You know why because

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Speaker 1: of how we were raised.

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Speaker 3: Because we were raised with this idea of you honor

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Speaker 3: I'm not I'm actually not even criticizing when I say this,

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Speaker 3: I ain't really got to put up with you just

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Speaker 3: because you're my mama or my daddy. And there are

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Speaker 3: some cases where I'm like, I feel that, But then

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Speaker 3: there are other cases where it's like I physically would

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Speaker 3: yes if you didn't Yeah, and I would not be

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Speaker 3: doing our levels to this podcast. Yeah, he didn't bring

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Speaker 3: you plan it to seed. And so because of that,

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Speaker 3: there's some level of appreciation isn't the word, but there

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Speaker 3: because in that.

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Speaker 1: I'm supposed to have this because regardless of.

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Speaker 3: What we did or didn't do, or what you did

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Speaker 3: physically being on this earth. And so for that, I

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Speaker 3: can understand you being like I kind of care, but like, really,

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Speaker 3: I just don't know you. That's it. That's exactly where

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Speaker 3: I am. Yeah, those are valid. This is definitely a

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Speaker 2: Because I needed that, I needed I needed that, so

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Speaker 2: that you've got it right now, got my mind is.

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Speaker 3: On a whole lot of different levels right now. There

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Speaker 3: is levels two familial relationships. We definitely got to have

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Speaker 1: Because I may have some updated info for you.

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Speaker 3: Right right right, you might, but you definitely deserve to

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Speaker 3: get whatever closure you need.

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Speaker 1: And I don't think Daddy got a reason to laugh

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Speaker 1: he on his death bed.

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Speaker 4: I agree, But you know what I do want to

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Speaker 2: I hope that that will that will get me out

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Speaker 2: of this whatever I'm feeling right now, Yes.

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Speaker 1: Exactly what it is. Some time out some hoops, some hoops.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna have a hoops conversation, y'all.

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Speaker 3: And the cool thing about it is we get to

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Speaker 3: have a hoops conversation after having spent the last couple

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Speaker 3: of weeks watching some incredible hoops.

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Speaker 1: We've been at AU, We've been at the NBA.

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Speaker 3: Well we're gon put NBA all staring in their honey

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Speaker 3: because it wasn' no incredible w hoop's going on on air?

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Speaker 3: But anyway, in the streets stop, we was in the

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Speaker 3: and we are not but a few days away from

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Speaker 3: so it's gonna be some great conversations to be held.

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Speaker 3: But honey, free agency took everybody for a choke hold.

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Speaker 3: And the moment that we thought everything was everything.

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Speaker 1: The moment we.

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Speaker 3: Thought at leaving and dB leaving and all these people

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Speaker 3: leaving and moving and Kelsey plummeu, the moment we thought

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Speaker 3: we was like, Okay, the biggest splash is over. Diana

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Speaker 3: Tarazzi says, hold my beer, let me let y'all have

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Speaker 3: let me let y'all have this for the rest or whatever,

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Speaker 3: because I'm out. I'm sticking this out. She pulled on

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Speaker 3: Magic Johnson. I ain't gonna be here.

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Speaker 2: That's it at point blank period. Y'all don't getting no

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Speaker 2: farewell tour, none of that.

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Speaker 1: None of that.

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Speaker 3: So let's just go ahead and move into this conversation

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Speaker 3: and take it to the next level.

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Speaker 1: So last week we.

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Speaker 3: Were doing whatever we were doing, minding our business, drinking

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Speaker 3: from the view that said that Diana Tarazi was going

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Speaker 3: to be appearing on the show the next day.

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Speaker 1: Now, you had to be either confused.

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Speaker 3: Or having a gift of foresight to think this means

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Speaker 3: I could not agree more like, it is just so

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Speaker 1: And I'm gonna let y'all know something too.

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Speaker 3: Sheryl thinks she slicked with this little flex that she

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Speaker 1: I don't know what did I do?

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Speaker 3: Ilex, she said, like Diana, I we have won at

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Speaker 1: Let me tell you how a little.

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Speaker 3: Okay, let me tell you because I know my basketball history.

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Speaker 1: And what people made her care.

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Speaker 3: And I thought in DT did one all of them

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Speaker 3: Make sure y'all click that, because the serious.

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Speaker 4: I love you, but I can't stand you sometimes.

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Speaker 1: I know I did not mean that, but if I wanted.

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Speaker 3: So kudos to you, Kudos to Diana because y'all out

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Speaker 1: But absolutely, man, I.

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Speaker 3: Am going to miss DT. She's too funny. To me,

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Speaker 3: To me, she has literally been one of the sweetest

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Speaker 1: But you know, and I said that earlier.

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Speaker 2: I said, one of the meanest, toughest competitors you'll ever

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Speaker 1: And DT, we love you over here at levels.

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Speaker 3: To this, and we do got no reason to not

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Speaker 3: But what that did, though, was that really opened up

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Speaker 1: I know a lot of people were taking one year.

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Speaker 1: Is this cost seem now? Like? Is that what we

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Speaker 2: But I'm with you, like I like the moves that

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Speaker 4: I feel like I'm coming about this team.

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Speaker 2: First of all, I just knew Natasha Cloud was gonna

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Speaker 2: I love Sato going to Phoenix. Listen the pieces they're

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Speaker 1: So I thought Phoenix would be a great place for her.

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Speaker 3: But dB who did not go to Phoenix, did however,

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Speaker 3: They added in Dwana Bonner, they added in Natasha Howard,

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Speaker 4: I was like in Time Out, one player that I love.

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Speaker 2: Said Coleson, who I think will be a really good

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Speaker 3: Serious serious contenders were real yeah, serious contenders.

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Speaker 3: from coaching a defensive team. And the one thing that

443
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Speaker 3: we talked about as it relates to Indiana last year

444
00:22:04,040 --> 00:22:06,920
Speaker 3: was needing to pick up their defense. I have said

445
00:22:07,000 --> 00:22:10,520
Speaker 3: multiple times that if you can get Caitlin to play

446
00:22:10,720 --> 00:22:14,320
Speaker 3: as hard on defense as she does offensively, that is

447
00:22:14,359 --> 00:22:17,680
Speaker 3: a dangerous situation for a point guard to have. Then

448
00:22:17,760 --> 00:22:20,879
Speaker 3: you bring in Natasha Howard and Dwana Bonner, who are

449
00:22:20,960 --> 00:22:23,080
Speaker 3: both former defensive Player of the Year.

450
00:22:23,400 --> 00:22:26,840
Speaker 1: Listen, I was just getting ready to say, Lexi Hall

451
00:22:26,960 --> 00:22:28,480
Speaker 1: is the reason why we started.

452
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Speaker 3: To see the change in their defensive prison last season.

453
00:22:32,600 --> 00:22:37,359
Speaker 3: It just feels like adding this additional element is really

454
00:22:37,359 --> 00:22:41,000
Speaker 3: what's gonna take Indiana to the next level. So yeah,

455
00:22:41,119 --> 00:22:44,320
Speaker 3: like they were a playoff team already, but they just

456
00:22:44,359 --> 00:22:46,840
Speaker 3: became a serious confender for real.

457
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Speaker 2: Like this, this Indiana favorite team is gonna be scary.

458
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Speaker 4: They're gonna be scared scar Yeah, yeah, I'm.

459
00:22:53,480 --> 00:22:55,959
Speaker 1: Excited about it. I'm excited to see it.

460
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Speaker 3: So let's move down to the South a little bit

461
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Speaker 3: and talk about because you started to mention how surprised

462
00:23:03,800 --> 00:23:07,280
Speaker 3: you were to see Brittany Grinder moved to Atlanta. I

463
00:23:07,359 --> 00:23:11,000
Speaker 3: was surprised to see Brianna Jones go to Atlanta.

464
00:23:10,720 --> 00:23:12,040
Speaker 1: Facts back too.

465
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Speaker 4: So here's my question. Will they play Brianna and Brittany together?

466
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Speaker 1: And that's my question.

467
00:23:18,960 --> 00:23:23,520
Speaker 3: As well, Like, I don't know how this lineup is

468
00:23:23,600 --> 00:23:26,719
Speaker 3: gonna work because they brought in Vittry Walker, kimbro as

469
00:23:26,760 --> 00:23:29,840
Speaker 3: well too, and Seyenne Parker who was with their other

470
00:23:30,119 --> 00:23:33,080
Speaker 3: larger post players. She's now in Las Vegas. But but

471
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Speaker 3: I like that, by the way, but go ahead, I

472
00:23:34,800 --> 00:23:38,200
Speaker 3: do like that. I just I'm curious to see what

473
00:23:38,400 --> 00:23:42,000
Speaker 3: carl s Mesko's what his vision is for this team,

474
00:23:42,280 --> 00:23:47,080
Speaker 3: because to me, he has always been a coach, especially

475
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Speaker 3: in his years well, we only know him really for

476
00:23:49,520 --> 00:23:52,199
Speaker 3: his years at Florida Golf Coast, but he really didn't

477
00:23:52,240 --> 00:23:54,400
Speaker 3: do a lot of mid range. He was a three

478
00:23:54,400 --> 00:23:56,680
Speaker 3: pointer in layups kind of person. That was it three

479
00:23:56,680 --> 00:24:00,080
Speaker 3: pointers in layups. We're shooting a three or we're driving inside,

480
00:24:00,359 --> 00:24:04,919
Speaker 3: and Bree Jones isn't necessarily a three point shooter.

481
00:24:05,240 --> 00:24:09,879
Speaker 4: So that's Brittany, I know, But that ain't what I.

482
00:24:09,760 --> 00:24:11,120
Speaker 1: Was just getting ready to say the same thing.

483
00:24:11,200 --> 00:24:13,800
Speaker 3: Like, Brittany can shoot the three, and she can make

484
00:24:13,880 --> 00:24:17,119
Speaker 3: some threes, but that's not her game. So I'm very

485
00:24:17,119 --> 00:24:20,800
Speaker 3: curious to see how you're gonna have two traditional bigs

486
00:24:21,320 --> 00:24:25,520
Speaker 3: play together. I just I don't know what the goal.

487
00:24:25,560 --> 00:24:28,080
Speaker 3: I don't know what the goal is as it relates

488
00:24:28,080 --> 00:24:31,560
Speaker 3: to that. But I do like the addition because with

489
00:24:31,680 --> 00:24:35,520
Speaker 3: Jordan Canada, with Ryan Howard, with Ali sha Gray, and

490
00:24:35,560 --> 00:24:37,440
Speaker 3: I got to even show some nuts to Na's heil

491
00:24:37,480 --> 00:24:40,399
Speaker 3: me because she came to AU last year and then

492
00:24:41,080 --> 00:24:43,600
Speaker 3: this past season in the WNBA you could see her

493
00:24:43,640 --> 00:24:48,520
Speaker 3: improvement as a player. So there's certainly a Cordier I

494
00:24:48,520 --> 00:24:50,640
Speaker 3: think that looks good and can play good and can

495
00:24:50,760 --> 00:24:53,840
Speaker 3: really elevate. They did make the playoffs this last year,

496
00:24:53,880 --> 00:24:56,040
Speaker 3: but they could maybe move up and seeding a little

497
00:24:56,040 --> 00:24:56,600
Speaker 3: bit this year.

498
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Speaker 1: But I just don't know what we're finna do with Brie.

499
00:24:59,720 --> 00:25:02,959
Speaker 4: And yeah, not really sure, but a player I am

500
00:25:03,000 --> 00:25:03,520
Speaker 4: sure about that.

501
00:25:03,600 --> 00:25:04,320
Speaker 1: We just saw to you.

502
00:25:04,480 --> 00:25:07,320
Speaker 4: Who will be in Atlanta. Is Maya Calledwell?

503
00:25:08,000 --> 00:25:12,000
Speaker 1: Yes? Oh, I love me some Maya Callwell, talk about it?

504
00:25:12,920 --> 00:25:18,240
Speaker 2: Love me Somehow long athletic defense runs the floor can

505
00:25:18,359 --> 00:25:23,959
Speaker 2: score three level score like Maya Callwell is going to

506
00:25:24,160 --> 00:25:28,520
Speaker 2: be a great addition to this team depending on how

507
00:25:28,560 --> 00:25:32,800
Speaker 2: he plays. Right, going back to your point, because when

508
00:25:32,800 --> 00:25:35,400
Speaker 2: I look at the rest of this roster with Jordan Canada,

509
00:25:35,800 --> 00:25:41,280
Speaker 2: Alisha Gray, Ryan Howard, throw Maya Callwell in there, like

510
00:25:41,560 --> 00:25:44,199
Speaker 2: this is a team that should be getting up and

511
00:25:44,280 --> 00:25:45,000
Speaker 2: down the floor.

512
00:25:45,440 --> 00:25:48,280
Speaker 3: This team definitely should be running. And he got some shooters.

513
00:25:48,359 --> 00:25:49,960
Speaker 3: He got some shoulders now.

514
00:25:50,080 --> 00:25:53,880
Speaker 1: So yeah yeah, yeah, like he got some shooters.

515
00:25:53,920 --> 00:25:56,600
Speaker 3: So this is it's gonna be interesting to see how

516
00:25:56,680 --> 00:25:59,320
Speaker 3: this comes together. I can't wait for training camp, Like

517
00:25:59,400 --> 00:26:01,440
Speaker 3: I I think I'm going to be paying a little

518
00:26:01,440 --> 00:26:03,639
Speaker 3: bit more attention this year in some training camps than

519
00:26:03,640 --> 00:26:06,199
Speaker 3: I have in the past, just to even see how

520
00:26:06,200 --> 00:26:10,600
Speaker 3: they're going to position players and interesting. So I missed

521
00:26:10,680 --> 00:26:14,360
Speaker 3: Seanne Parker who has gone to Las Vegas.

522
00:26:14,560 --> 00:26:18,160
Speaker 1: She will be joining a Jewel Lloyd. How about that?

523
00:26:18,200 --> 00:26:21,399
Speaker 1: She will be joining a Tiffany Mitchell. How about that?

524
00:26:21,920 --> 00:26:25,399
Speaker 1: She'll be joining a Dana Evans. How about that? And

525
00:26:25,480 --> 00:26:28,680
Speaker 1: she will also be joining D one and only AGEA Wilson.

526
00:26:29,160 --> 00:26:33,800
Speaker 2: How about that? And let's not forget Liz Kittley.

527
00:26:34,240 --> 00:26:34,919
Speaker 1: Liz Kittley.

528
00:26:35,040 --> 00:26:39,560
Speaker 3: Yes, now, she was drafted but was out last season

529
00:26:39,640 --> 00:26:43,040
Speaker 3: because of an injury that she's stayed in college and

530
00:26:43,119 --> 00:26:47,880
Speaker 3: so this is so smart of Las Vegas, Like we knew,

531
00:26:48,240 --> 00:26:51,359
Speaker 3: like Liz was gonna sit for a year, but like

532
00:26:51,680 --> 00:26:52,760
Speaker 3: how lucky are you to.

533
00:26:52,680 --> 00:26:55,560
Speaker 1: Get to sit behind Age Wilson and just learn and.

534
00:26:55,480 --> 00:26:57,919
Speaker 3: Just just learn and you get it the year that

535
00:26:58,000 --> 00:27:01,600
Speaker 3: she's like better than best than the best itself like

536
00:27:02,359 --> 00:27:04,320
Speaker 3: incredible seasons to learn behind her from.

537
00:27:04,760 --> 00:27:07,320
Speaker 1: But I'm interested because I don't think Las Vegas got

538
00:27:07,359 --> 00:27:08,320
Speaker 1: a GM yet.

539
00:27:08,920 --> 00:27:13,880
Speaker 2: So word on the street is, I don't think they're

540
00:27:13,960 --> 00:27:15,119
Speaker 2: going to have a GM.

541
00:27:15,640 --> 00:27:20,879
Speaker 1: Drop some tea from Dshare, That's all I'm saying. Damn.

542
00:27:21,520 --> 00:27:26,040
Speaker 2: So I guess it's just Becky and Nicky maybe the

543
00:27:26,040 --> 00:27:29,720
Speaker 2: ones that's putting this squad together that's interesting.

544
00:27:29,960 --> 00:27:30,920
Speaker 1: But here is.

545
00:27:30,960 --> 00:27:36,119
Speaker 2: What I still think Vegas is missing a piece. I

546
00:27:36,160 --> 00:27:39,040
Speaker 2: love Cheyenne Parker going to Vegas. I love that move.

547
00:27:39,440 --> 00:27:43,520
Speaker 2: Got Cheyenne, you got Asia, you have Liz Kittley. Yeah,

548
00:27:43,600 --> 00:27:46,800
Speaker 2: I'm still looking for and I'm talking about coming off

549
00:27:46,800 --> 00:27:51,080
Speaker 2: the bench because the starters Chelsea Gray, Jackie Young, Juel Lloyd,

550
00:27:51,400 --> 00:27:54,480
Speaker 2: Asia Wilson, and who is at Cheyenne or Liz, I

551
00:27:54,520 --> 00:27:59,920
Speaker 2: don't know. Probably I'm still thinking there's another, like really

552
00:28:00,119 --> 00:28:03,720
Speaker 2: good scoring guard that they need to bring off the bench.

553
00:28:04,359 --> 00:28:07,040
Speaker 2: I know you got Dana Evans, not really sure who

554
00:28:07,040 --> 00:28:08,800
Speaker 2: am I missing, but Tiffany Mitchell.

555
00:28:09,040 --> 00:28:12,720
Speaker 4: Tiffany Mitchell. If Tiffany's back and she's healthy, I still

556
00:28:12,760 --> 00:28:15,639
Speaker 4: feel like they're missing one more piece.

557
00:28:15,960 --> 00:28:16,240
Speaker 1: See.

558
00:28:16,280 --> 00:28:19,439
Speaker 3: I think the piece that they're missing is someone is

559
00:28:19,480 --> 00:28:21,400
Speaker 3: a true score to come off the bench that can

560
00:28:21,400 --> 00:28:22,400
Speaker 3: play the post.

561
00:28:22,640 --> 00:28:24,680
Speaker 1: Like that's there were Matt too.

562
00:28:25,240 --> 00:28:29,360
Speaker 3: Yeah, because there were moments last season where I felt

563
00:28:29,480 --> 00:28:34,200
Speaker 3: that Vegas started to get gassed because Asia was doing everything.

564
00:28:34,280 --> 00:28:36,439
Speaker 1: And Asia was having to play a lot of minutes.

565
00:28:36,600 --> 00:28:38,600
Speaker 3: Yeah, and then like even when you think about who

566
00:28:38,600 --> 00:28:41,600
Speaker 3: else they lost, you lost not only your six Women

567
00:28:41,640 --> 00:28:45,040
Speaker 3: of the Year last year in Tiffany Hayes to Golden

568
00:28:45,040 --> 00:28:47,760
Speaker 3: Stand but you also lost Alicia Clark, who was your

569
00:28:47,760 --> 00:28:49,640
Speaker 3: sixth Woman of the Year the year before.

570
00:28:49,920 --> 00:28:50,280
Speaker 1: Yeah.

571
00:28:50,280 --> 00:28:53,520
Speaker 3: So like as it relates the players coming off the

572
00:28:53,520 --> 00:28:56,480
Speaker 3: bench that give you that spark, Sidney Colson, Sidney Colston

573
00:28:56,520 --> 00:28:57,000
Speaker 3: could come in.

574
00:28:56,960 --> 00:28:59,280
Speaker 1: The game and really give you that energy, give you

575
00:28:59,320 --> 00:28:59,880
Speaker 1: that defense.

576
00:29:00,360 --> 00:29:04,000
Speaker 3: So it is I agree with you that I like

577
00:29:04,200 --> 00:29:07,760
Speaker 3: the moves that they made, but it does feel like

578
00:29:07,840 --> 00:29:12,360
Speaker 3: there is one thing that they need to add steal.

579
00:29:12,800 --> 00:29:13,760
Speaker 1: It feels like.

580
00:29:13,720 --> 00:29:17,440
Speaker 3: There's that one that one thing, and I don't know

581
00:29:18,320 --> 00:29:21,160
Speaker 3: for sure what that one thing is, but I agree

582
00:29:21,200 --> 00:29:23,160
Speaker 3: with you. We're gonna take a quick break, but when

583
00:29:23,200 --> 00:29:26,960
Speaker 3: we come back, we're gonna talk more WABA free agency.

584
00:29:27,440 --> 00:29:39,120
Speaker 1: So stick with us now. I'm gonna come down.

585
00:29:38,960 --> 00:29:42,440
Speaker 3: To where you are, Cheryl, because if there's anybody who

586
00:29:42,480 --> 00:29:48,240
Speaker 3: knows this Dallas Wings team, and when I'm thinking about

587
00:29:48,360 --> 00:29:52,080
Speaker 3: free agency and I'm thinking about a team, I'm.

588
00:29:51,880 --> 00:29:54,240
Speaker 1: Excited about this team. I can't even let you finish.

589
00:29:54,440 --> 00:29:56,680
Speaker 1: But well, I like this.

590
00:29:58,200 --> 00:30:00,640
Speaker 3: I just feel like Kurt Miller came in and was like, Okay,

591
00:30:00,680 --> 00:30:01,560
Speaker 3: guess what I'm finna do.

592
00:30:01,760 --> 00:30:02,560
Speaker 1: Shake some ship up.

593
00:30:02,800 --> 00:30:03,000
Speaker 2: Yeah.

594
00:30:03,520 --> 00:30:06,400
Speaker 1: Yeah, Like I'm about to do. I'm about to shake

595
00:30:06,440 --> 00:30:06,959
Speaker 1: some ship up.

596
00:30:07,400 --> 00:30:10,360
Speaker 3: And he brought in Dje Carring and did he brought

597
00:30:10,400 --> 00:30:12,920
Speaker 3: in Ty Harris, he brought in Melissa Smith.

598
00:30:13,200 --> 00:30:15,080
Speaker 1: He has the rights to Key.

599
00:30:14,840 --> 00:30:19,320
Speaker 3: Herb Kekey Herbert Harring. Yeah, and he has the twelfth

600
00:30:19,320 --> 00:30:25,800
Speaker 3: pick Andes Allen Myshahines Allen, and they have future draft

601
00:30:25,840 --> 00:30:28,760
Speaker 3: swaps and the fact that they got the number one.

602
00:30:29,000 --> 00:30:31,320
Speaker 3: Number one probably gonna be Paige Beckers.

603
00:30:31,400 --> 00:30:33,960
Speaker 2: Okay, but time out real quick because I love me

604
00:30:34,080 --> 00:30:35,200
Speaker 2: some Page Beckers.

605
00:30:35,440 --> 00:30:37,480
Speaker 1: But here's where I am right.

606
00:30:38,440 --> 00:30:43,480
Speaker 2: You can't go wrong my opinion with Paige Beckers or

607
00:30:43,520 --> 00:30:44,600
Speaker 2: Olivia Miles.

608
00:30:45,120 --> 00:30:47,440
Speaker 1: You know what, you not wrong? Okay, I'm gonna throw

609
00:30:47,480 --> 00:30:49,240
Speaker 1: one more out there for you. Huh.

610
00:30:49,280 --> 00:30:52,280
Speaker 3: You could also go Kecky Aries and not be wrong

611
00:30:52,360 --> 00:30:55,400
Speaker 3: because Fierra I think Tierra mcowan could use a little

612
00:30:55,440 --> 00:30:55,600
Speaker 3: bit of.

613
00:30:55,600 --> 00:30:58,200
Speaker 1: Assistance in She can't. She can't hold it down.

614
00:30:58,520 --> 00:30:59,000
Speaker 4: She can't.

615
00:30:59,480 --> 00:31:02,720
Speaker 1: So you can't go wrong. But Dallas got it going

616
00:31:02,760 --> 00:31:03,360
Speaker 1: on right now.

617
00:31:03,440 --> 00:31:07,480
Speaker 2: Yeah, because here's here's my thing, right you you really

618
00:31:07,560 --> 00:31:10,600
Speaker 2: can't pass on one of those two when you have

619
00:31:10,640 --> 00:31:11,440
Speaker 2: the number one pick.

620
00:31:11,880 --> 00:31:12,360
Speaker 1: You can't.

621
00:31:12,600 --> 00:31:15,880
Speaker 2: But two players that we just saw at a U.

622
00:31:16,000 --> 00:31:22,240
Speaker 2: T Ty Harris and Maddie Secrets. Yes, so we don't

623
00:31:22,240 --> 00:31:24,600
Speaker 2: even bring those two up. We didn't even talk about

624
00:31:24,600 --> 00:31:28,960
Speaker 2: the v he says, they just brought in Irique. Listen,

625
00:31:29,400 --> 00:31:33,400
Speaker 2: this Dallas Wings team, like we said about Indiana, This

626
00:31:33,520 --> 00:31:36,840
Speaker 2: Dallas Wings team, if they can stay healthy, they don't

627
00:31:36,880 --> 00:31:39,640
Speaker 2: be scary dog dog.

628
00:31:39,920 --> 00:31:42,080
Speaker 1: We ain't even bring up the vents. I didn't even

629
00:31:42,120 --> 00:31:42,479
Speaker 1: bring up.

630
00:31:42,480 --> 00:31:44,800
Speaker 3: I did't even bring up how Irique about to eat?

631
00:31:45,120 --> 00:31:46,880
Speaker 3: I didn't even bring up. I didn't even bring up

632
00:31:46,920 --> 00:31:51,120
Speaker 3: Maddie actually won athlete? Yeah, who was eating every day?

633
00:31:51,160 --> 00:31:54,920
Speaker 3: She ain't every now athletes every day, didn't didn't miss

634
00:31:54,920 --> 00:31:57,800
Speaker 3: a meal. What makes it so exciting is because of

635
00:31:57,920 --> 00:32:01,200
Speaker 3: all of the free agency new that was being broken,

636
00:32:01,280 --> 00:32:04,080
Speaker 3: the one thing that everybody wanted to see was what

637
00:32:04,080 --> 00:32:06,920
Speaker 3: would happened with Satchu Savoli because she was such a

638
00:32:06,960 --> 00:32:09,000
Speaker 3: critical piece to the Dallas.

639
00:32:08,680 --> 00:32:09,800
Speaker 1: Wings and what they've done.

640
00:32:10,000 --> 00:32:12,560
Speaker 3: But if there is a team that I will give

641
00:32:12,760 --> 00:32:16,520
Speaker 3: a high grading mark to who has tried to fill

642
00:32:16,560 --> 00:32:20,520
Speaker 3: that gap and bring in what I think is probably

643
00:32:20,520 --> 00:32:23,560
Speaker 3: going to be one of the toughest teams. And they

644
00:32:23,600 --> 00:32:26,360
Speaker 3: now have Chris Koklanis, who is the new head coach.

645
00:32:26,720 --> 00:32:29,040
Speaker 3: Chris is such a nice guy, and I think he's

646
00:32:29,080 --> 00:32:31,640
Speaker 3: also someone who knows how to bring the best offensively

647
00:32:31,640 --> 00:32:34,880
Speaker 3: out of players. I just think that this Dallas Wings

648
00:32:34,880 --> 00:32:37,360
Speaker 3: team could really be a top three team in this league.

649
00:32:37,560 --> 00:32:41,440
Speaker 2: Ida too, t I absolutely do. They could be tough

650
00:32:41,960 --> 00:32:45,840
Speaker 2: if they can stay healthy and list that's the thing.

651
00:32:45,920 --> 00:32:47,760
Speaker 3: Health has got to be the thing for them, because

652
00:32:47,800 --> 00:32:50,320
Speaker 3: they were a fancy. They were a top four in

653
00:32:50,360 --> 00:32:53,360
Speaker 3: twenty twenty three and fell off last year only because

654
00:32:53,840 --> 00:32:56,840
Speaker 3: Howard wasn't healthy the whole time. Satu wasn't healthy the

655
00:32:56,840 --> 00:32:59,880
Speaker 3: whole time, like Irique I had Miss La Layer two

656
00:33:00,120 --> 00:33:03,000
Speaker 3: like it was it was too bad her.

657
00:33:02,880 --> 00:33:07,640
Speaker 2: Forehands, so she Jayleen Brown did something with her nose.

658
00:33:07,800 --> 00:33:09,840
Speaker 2: She was out for Like, they just couldn't stay healthy.

659
00:33:09,920 --> 00:33:12,440
Speaker 1: It was crazy, And you know, it's team. And here's

660
00:33:12,440 --> 00:33:13,880
Speaker 1: the other thing that I'm going to bring up to.

661
00:33:14,200 --> 00:33:16,400
Speaker 3: There's a lot of conversation that I feel and has

662
00:33:16,440 --> 00:33:19,360
Speaker 3: been had about whether or not Iveryqua and Page could

663
00:33:19,360 --> 00:33:22,400
Speaker 3: play together and all that stuff. And in my hand,

664
00:33:22,440 --> 00:33:26,120
Speaker 3: I'm like, y'all, like two strong guards can play.

665
00:33:26,680 --> 00:33:28,680
Speaker 1: We're seeing it. We're seeing it in the.

666
00:33:28,720 --> 00:33:31,720
Speaker 3: NCAA right now between Hannah ha Dog going a house.

667
00:33:32,080 --> 00:33:35,240
Speaker 3: But We saw it already, because I'm not saying these

668
00:33:35,280 --> 00:33:37,920
Speaker 3: two are the same players, but I am saying, do

669
00:33:38,000 --> 00:33:41,080
Speaker 3: y'all remember when Odyssey Sims was playing for Dallas. They

670
00:33:41,080 --> 00:33:44,320
Speaker 3: were playing some of their best basketball when Odyssey was there.

671
00:33:44,560 --> 00:33:48,280
Speaker 3: So two strong guards who have a similar style but

672
00:33:48,680 --> 00:33:51,640
Speaker 3: can impact the games in different ways can't work. We've

673
00:33:51,640 --> 00:33:54,640
Speaker 3: already seen it. So yeah, I think people need to

674
00:33:54,680 --> 00:33:59,400
Speaker 3: relax on that, like t percent happened. But I brought

675
00:33:59,440 --> 00:33:59,920
Speaker 3: up out of Sea.

676
00:34:00,320 --> 00:34:05,480
Speaker 2: Yeah, as you should in l A the LA as

677
00:34:05,560 --> 00:34:11,279
Speaker 2: she should be with a contract, not a seven days,

678
00:34:11,320 --> 00:34:12,520
Speaker 2: not a ten day, seven day.

679
00:34:12,520 --> 00:34:16,160
Speaker 1: It's a contract, not a hardship. See is a baller

680
00:34:16,600 --> 00:34:18,600
Speaker 1: and I love her in LA.

681
00:34:21,520 --> 00:34:26,920
Speaker 2: In LLL, just adding her alone changes the look of

682
00:34:26,960 --> 00:34:30,359
Speaker 2: that team. Yeah, because of the things that she can

683
00:34:30,440 --> 00:34:34,320
Speaker 2: do with the basketball in her hands. Yeah, I'm sorry.

684
00:34:34,320 --> 00:34:36,200
Speaker 2: Can can we rewind for one second and go back

685
00:34:36,239 --> 00:34:36,920
Speaker 2: to Vegas?

686
00:34:37,160 --> 00:34:37,319
Speaker 1: Oh?

687
00:34:37,440 --> 00:34:40,040
Speaker 2: God, I totally forgot and this could be that player

688
00:34:40,920 --> 00:34:41,840
Speaker 2: Crystal Bradford.

689
00:34:43,440 --> 00:34:46,840
Speaker 1: I forgot. They signed her to a training camp contract.

690
00:34:47,400 --> 00:35:00,920
Speaker 3: Crystal Bradford Phoebe Yeah, ye shout out CB No that

691
00:35:01,600 --> 00:35:04,240
Speaker 3: she could be that one player that I was thinking about.

692
00:35:04,640 --> 00:35:09,200
Speaker 3: You're right, you are so right, Crystal Bradford definitely has

693
00:35:09,239 --> 00:35:12,160
Speaker 3: the ability to chase the game and she just needs

694
00:35:12,440 --> 00:35:14,960
Speaker 3: like she just needs to shot, like she was a

695
00:35:15,040 --> 00:35:19,080
Speaker 3: baller in the WS and and one thing put up.

696
00:35:19,280 --> 00:35:21,560
Speaker 3: Just she just needs to shot. Shout out to c B.

697
00:35:21,920 --> 00:35:24,160
Speaker 3: That's a hold it down. I love this, I love it.

698
00:35:24,239 --> 00:35:25,360
Speaker 3: She could definitely be that player.

699
00:35:25,640 --> 00:35:25,839
Speaker 1: Yeah.

700
00:35:25,920 --> 00:35:28,160
Speaker 2: Sorry, I just I had to. I had to do that.

701
00:35:28,400 --> 00:35:31,000
Speaker 2: So nobody makes all.

702
00:35:30,560 --> 00:35:33,120
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah. So we have so out of

703
00:35:33,160 --> 00:35:38,359
Speaker 3: season LA. Mercedes Russells had is now in LA. We

704
00:35:38,440 --> 00:35:42,279
Speaker 3: know Kelsey Plumb who was traded, and they already have

705
00:35:42,480 --> 00:35:46,400
Speaker 3: such a strong piece and Deerica Handy. There are things

706
00:35:46,440 --> 00:35:50,560
Speaker 3: that I think this LA team could utilize, one of

707
00:35:50,600 --> 00:35:52,200
Speaker 3: which being an actual facility.

708
00:35:52,320 --> 00:35:54,440
Speaker 1: Don't make no sense that y'all are one of the

709
00:35:54,520 --> 00:35:56,440
Speaker 1: marquee franchises in the w NBA.

710
00:35:56,600 --> 00:35:59,040
Speaker 3: Y'all got the Lakers looking a hot ass mess at times,

711
00:35:59,480 --> 00:36:01,520
Speaker 3: but I got a dad facility.

712
00:36:01,880 --> 00:36:05,200
Speaker 4: But that's there or there, Okay.

713
00:36:05,800 --> 00:36:09,919
Speaker 3: I don't know how much this team becomes. I don't

714
00:36:09,960 --> 00:36:11,560
Speaker 3: know where to place LA just yet.

715
00:36:11,760 --> 00:36:11,920
Speaker 1: Right.

716
00:36:12,239 --> 00:36:16,000
Speaker 3: I feel like LA had the injuries that happened to

717
00:36:16,120 --> 00:36:20,839
Speaker 3: Los Angeles really was their detriment in twenty twenty four.

718
00:36:21,360 --> 00:36:24,359
Speaker 3: But you got you know d is gonna come back

719
00:36:24,360 --> 00:36:27,920
Speaker 3: where Kia Jackson is going to ball out like he

720
00:36:28,719 --> 00:36:34,480
Speaker 3: is a ball to gl rival. Three ain't three three

721
00:36:34,520 --> 00:36:36,640
Speaker 3: on three ain't for everybody, but it's for Rikia.

722
00:36:40,719 --> 00:36:42,560
Speaker 1: She looks and she looks good doing it.

723
00:36:42,560 --> 00:36:44,440
Speaker 2: But I'll tell you another player that I feel like

724
00:36:44,600 --> 00:36:47,480
Speaker 2: is benefiting from unrival is Ray Barell.

725
00:36:48,320 --> 00:36:49,760
Speaker 1: So if ray.

726
00:36:49,600 --> 00:36:53,000
Speaker 2: Can bring that same confidence, she gets opportunity. Ray Barell

727
00:36:53,200 --> 00:36:58,200
Speaker 2: should get minutes and how healthy we cam brinkbe coming back? Yeah,

728
00:36:58,320 --> 00:37:01,200
Speaker 2: I'm there with you. I like the piece right out

729
00:37:01,239 --> 00:37:04,120
Speaker 2: to see Deerica. I like the pieces. The way I

730
00:37:04,120 --> 00:37:07,760
Speaker 2: feel about Phoenix is how I feel about the Sparks,

731
00:37:07,800 --> 00:37:08,600
Speaker 2: not really sure.

732
00:37:09,120 --> 00:37:12,400
Speaker 3: It's like you're not right, Like you're just not really sure.

733
00:37:13,200 --> 00:37:16,160
Speaker 3: But the pieces are absolutely there. You know, Lynn Roberts

734
00:37:16,239 --> 00:37:18,880
Speaker 3: is the new head coach, so it's gonna be interesting

735
00:37:18,920 --> 00:37:20,920
Speaker 3: to see how what she implements and what she brings

736
00:37:20,920 --> 00:37:23,080
Speaker 3: over from Utaw. But at the end of the day,

737
00:37:23,560 --> 00:37:26,120
Speaker 3: I do like the pieces you mentioned can bring. They

738
00:37:26,160 --> 00:37:29,040
Speaker 3: still you know, they also re signed Asaray Stevens, so

739
00:37:29,320 --> 00:37:33,280
Speaker 3: you've got, you know, a couple of of well sized

740
00:37:33,320 --> 00:37:36,759
Speaker 3: bigs underneath. Erry McDonald is also somebody I believe that's

741
00:37:36,800 --> 00:37:38,960
Speaker 3: coming back. So from a guard perspective, you have a

742
00:37:39,040 --> 00:37:41,920
Speaker 3: solid guard, you also have some solid pieces that can

743
00:37:41,960 --> 00:37:42,680
Speaker 3: come off the bench.

744
00:37:42,760 --> 00:37:45,120
Speaker 1: I like the core look of this team.

745
00:37:45,239 --> 00:37:48,440
Speaker 3: I just think it's too new for me to just

746
00:37:48,520 --> 00:37:51,200
Speaker 3: really say, Okay, this is where I think they're gonna be.

747
00:37:51,600 --> 00:37:56,560
Speaker 3: But I was shocked to see Lexi Brown sent to

748
00:37:57,080 --> 00:37:58,479
Speaker 3: the Seattle Storm Yep.

749
00:37:59,760 --> 00:38:00,480
Speaker 1: That shocked me.

750
00:38:00,760 --> 00:38:03,680
Speaker 4: It shocked me too. But it's a good look for Seattle.

751
00:38:04,239 --> 00:38:06,919
Speaker 1: It is. It's a really good look for Seattle because

752
00:38:06,960 --> 00:38:08,560
Speaker 1: Lexi has playing Lexi.

753
00:38:08,280 --> 00:38:12,520
Speaker 2: Played really well at AU, not just shooting the ball,

754
00:38:12,600 --> 00:38:15,560
Speaker 2: but also like putting the ball on the deck, attacking

755
00:38:15,600 --> 00:38:19,919
Speaker 2: the pain. See, Seattle could be nice, they could.

756
00:38:19,920 --> 00:38:24,239
Speaker 3: Seattle definitely can't be nice. And I really want this

757
00:38:24,280 --> 00:38:30,600
Speaker 3: for Skuyler, like I want this for Skyler so much so.

758
00:38:30,800 --> 00:38:34,719
Speaker 3: Sky's coming back, Necka's coming back. They've got Zaya Cook

759
00:38:34,840 --> 00:38:38,320
Speaker 3: at the guard positions. Gabby Williams is coming back. Gabby

760
00:38:38,360 --> 00:38:41,760
Speaker 3: Williams yeap, Gabby Williams is coming back. They added Alicia

761
00:38:41,840 --> 00:38:50,760
Speaker 3: Clark coming back. Oh honey, I love Ezsie. I love her.

762
00:38:51,400 --> 00:38:53,839
Speaker 3: And they've added Katie Lou Samuelson as well.

763
00:38:54,040 --> 00:38:54,279
Speaker 1: Yep.

764
00:38:55,080 --> 00:38:58,520
Speaker 3: They got lea rue over from that from the trade

765
00:38:58,560 --> 00:39:00,879
Speaker 3: with La And honestly, I'll was thinking in my head

766
00:39:00,920 --> 00:39:05,240
Speaker 3: the reason that you know Seattle went for Lexi Brown

767
00:39:05,640 --> 00:39:08,720
Speaker 3: is because of the injury that happened to Jordan Horston.

768
00:39:08,800 --> 00:39:12,120
Speaker 3: Because I had high hopes for Jordan. She was starting

769
00:39:12,360 --> 00:39:15,120
Speaker 3: to play well in AU. She ended last season very

770
00:39:15,120 --> 00:39:18,279
Speaker 3: well for Seattle, so I had high hopes on what

771
00:39:18,360 --> 00:39:20,759
Speaker 3: she could potentially bring as a third year player to

772
00:39:20,840 --> 00:39:21,239
Speaker 3: this team.

773
00:39:21,280 --> 00:39:23,480
Speaker 1: So it was very unfortunate to see her out.

774
00:39:23,480 --> 00:39:26,359
Speaker 3: But I think the replacement with Lexi Brown, I want

775
00:39:26,400 --> 00:39:28,200
Speaker 3: them to go as far as they could possibly go.

776
00:39:28,239 --> 00:39:28,840
Speaker 1: For Skyler.

777
00:39:29,920 --> 00:39:33,480
Speaker 2: You know, Skyler in a way reminds me of like

778
00:39:33,480 --> 00:39:37,600
Speaker 2: a Chris Paul just can't find the right team.

779
00:39:37,440 --> 00:39:40,480
Speaker 4: To get that championship with Yep, yep, do.

780
00:39:40,400 --> 00:39:42,120
Speaker 1: You know what I mean? And I did too. I

781
00:39:42,120 --> 00:39:44,160
Speaker 1: wanted for Skyler. I want it for Necker.

782
00:39:44,200 --> 00:39:47,000
Speaker 2: I know Nicka got her championship, but I just I

783
00:39:47,120 --> 00:39:50,600
Speaker 2: like this Seattle team. I do, and let's just keep

784
00:39:50,640 --> 00:39:54,000
Speaker 2: it one hundred. I would love to see Noie being

785
00:39:54,040 --> 00:39:55,920
Speaker 2: the only black female head coach.

786
00:39:56,080 --> 00:39:58,000
Speaker 4: I'd love to see no It hit her championship.

787
00:39:58,520 --> 00:40:01,080
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I would as a coach, that would

788
00:40:01,120 --> 00:40:04,399
Speaker 3: be I would Yeah, that would definitely be what's up?

789
00:40:04,560 --> 00:40:07,960
Speaker 3: I could, I could definitely see that Seattle is going

790
00:40:08,040 --> 00:40:10,080
Speaker 3: to be and to stay out West. I think the

791
00:40:10,120 --> 00:40:14,880
Speaker 3: other team that made some very interesting moves was the

792
00:40:15,080 --> 00:40:20,280
Speaker 3: Chicago's guy. Let's talk about it, the Chicago's guy.

793
00:40:21,360 --> 00:40:22,000
Speaker 1: Uh huh.

794
00:40:22,080 --> 00:40:25,160
Speaker 3: They added, well, they brought back Courtney Vandersloot, which I

795
00:40:25,160 --> 00:40:28,239
Speaker 3: think we all knew Courtney Vanderslut was gonna leave New York.

796
00:40:28,600 --> 00:40:31,760
Speaker 3: I'm not sure that I saw her going to Chicago,

797
00:40:31,960 --> 00:40:33,839
Speaker 3: but I get it, and I and I and I

798
00:40:33,880 --> 00:40:35,040
Speaker 3: and I respect it.

799
00:40:35,400 --> 00:40:37,560
Speaker 1: I love the move for aerol Atkins.

800
00:40:38,239 --> 00:40:40,040
Speaker 3: You got you got a champion, you got a good

801
00:40:40,080 --> 00:40:44,120
Speaker 3: ball handler, you got a player, a true competitor.

802
00:40:44,440 --> 00:40:45,880
Speaker 1: I love the addition of Key and Nurse.

803
00:40:46,360 --> 00:40:50,120
Speaker 3: Key and Nurse I think as again, another skill guard,

804
00:40:50,200 --> 00:40:52,880
Speaker 3: another person who can bring that competitive fire. And honestly,

805
00:40:52,920 --> 00:40:56,840
Speaker 3: I feel like she hasn't been given a true chance

806
00:40:57,080 --> 00:41:00,520
Speaker 3: to show herself healthy. Like even when she was playing

807
00:41:00,600 --> 00:41:03,959
Speaker 3: in Phoenix, I never believed that she was one hundred

808
00:41:04,000 --> 00:41:04,600
Speaker 3: percent healthy.

809
00:41:05,120 --> 00:41:07,120
Speaker 4: I felt like there was I don't think she was there.

810
00:41:07,360 --> 00:41:08,440
Speaker 4: I don't think she would think.

811
00:41:08,280 --> 00:41:09,480
Speaker 1: There were still some things lingering.

812
00:41:09,920 --> 00:41:13,040
Speaker 3: And what makes me so high on the Chicago team

813
00:41:13,480 --> 00:41:16,520
Speaker 3: is and obviously there's Angel Rees returning, Kayla on your

814
00:41:16,560 --> 00:41:20,560
Speaker 3: wedder is returning, Camilla Cardoso's returning. But what makes me

815
00:41:21,000 --> 00:41:24,080
Speaker 3: so excited about the Chicago team or am very interested

816
00:41:24,120 --> 00:41:28,400
Speaker 3: in the Chicago team is everything that they lost and

817
00:41:28,560 --> 00:41:32,440
Speaker 3: all the conversation around this team after losing everything for

818
00:41:32,520 --> 00:41:35,719
Speaker 3: a second straight year, because they lost it the first.

819
00:41:35,480 --> 00:41:37,560
Speaker 1: Time and that was last year.

820
00:41:37,760 --> 00:41:39,920
Speaker 3: You know, nobody expected them to do anything that they

821
00:41:39,920 --> 00:41:42,200
Speaker 3: did and they were literally a couple games away from

822
00:41:42,200 --> 00:41:46,360
Speaker 3: being a playoff team with no expectations other than the

823
00:41:46,400 --> 00:41:48,800
Speaker 3: fact that Angel Reese ended up hurting her wrists.

824
00:41:48,880 --> 00:41:51,000
Speaker 1: Thank you? Okay, yeah, But.

825
00:41:50,960 --> 00:41:54,400
Speaker 3: Then they lose Diamond Shields, they lose Lindsay Allen, they

826
00:41:54,480 --> 00:41:58,440
Speaker 3: lose Dana Evans, they lose Ree Turner. Like here we

827
00:41:58,480 --> 00:42:00,600
Speaker 3: are once again, and then we bring in a new

828
00:42:00,640 --> 00:42:03,319
Speaker 3: head coach with Tyler Marsh. So here we are once

829
00:42:03,360 --> 00:42:07,160
Speaker 3: again looking at Chicago with who on your roster? What

830
00:42:07,320 --> 00:42:10,080
Speaker 3: y'all doing, y'all ain't got no coach, first year coach?

831
00:42:10,360 --> 00:42:11,400
Speaker 3: What's y'all gonna look like?

832
00:42:11,600 --> 00:42:13,640
Speaker 1: It's like it's the same thing this year.

833
00:42:13,719 --> 00:42:16,440
Speaker 3: But I'm just like excited because I feel like this

834
00:42:16,600 --> 00:42:19,200
Speaker 3: time it's like y'all said the same shit about us

835
00:42:19,239 --> 00:42:21,160
Speaker 3: last year, and we showed you that we could really

836
00:42:21,160 --> 00:42:24,200
Speaker 3: still be a competitive team and really be a way

837
00:42:25,040 --> 00:42:27,440
Speaker 3: a playoff team if not for one or two things.

838
00:42:27,560 --> 00:42:29,319
Speaker 1: So I feel that same energy this year.

839
00:42:29,440 --> 00:42:33,280
Speaker 2: Listen, I love me some Rebecca Allen. I think Rebecca

840
00:42:33,320 --> 00:42:37,360
Speaker 2: Allen is going to be a really good piece for Chicago.

841
00:42:38,280 --> 00:42:41,080
Speaker 2: The other player they got that I that I've always

842
00:42:41,239 --> 00:42:44,080
Speaker 2: liked and couldn't quite understand why she can't stay on

843
00:42:44,080 --> 00:42:45,920
Speaker 2: a roster, Arella Garantes.

844
00:42:46,880 --> 00:42:50,680
Speaker 1: Yeah, I love Brella. She's a big.

845
00:42:50,480 --> 00:42:54,239
Speaker 2: Guard, she plays hard, so hopefully she can land a

846
00:42:54,239 --> 00:42:56,360
Speaker 2: spot on this team. But I want to have a

847
00:42:56,440 --> 00:42:59,760
Speaker 2: quick conversation about a player we didn't talk about, Kennedy

848
00:42:59,800 --> 00:43:04,960
Speaker 2: car I get what everybody says and attitude, yeah, all

849
00:43:05,000 --> 00:43:06,600
Speaker 2: of that, I hear it. And a lot of this

850
00:43:06,800 --> 00:43:09,920
Speaker 2: is on Kennedy because you know, people had conversations with

851
00:43:09,960 --> 00:43:12,719
Speaker 2: her and Kennedy Carter's two damn good not to be

852
00:43:12,760 --> 00:43:13,720
Speaker 2: playing in this league.

853
00:43:14,320 --> 00:43:17,120
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, yeah, And she's bawling right down, she playing

854
00:43:17,120 --> 00:43:17,879
Speaker 3: over seats, I know.

855
00:43:18,400 --> 00:43:23,680
Speaker 2: So like it's Chicago not bringing her backs, you know,

856
00:43:23,880 --> 00:43:25,920
Speaker 2: like I just want to know I don't hear anything

857
00:43:26,120 --> 00:43:27,760
Speaker 2: about her and I need to.

858
00:43:28,440 --> 00:43:31,800
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I completely agree Kennedy.

859
00:43:32,880 --> 00:43:33,280
Speaker 1: Boy.

860
00:43:33,480 --> 00:43:35,440
Speaker 3: First, I kept saying to myself the whole time I

861
00:43:35,520 --> 00:43:38,400
Speaker 3: was in Nashville. I was like, Kennedy would eat athletes unlimited.

862
00:43:38,840 --> 00:43:41,720
Speaker 3: See if this would be.

863
00:43:42,040 --> 00:43:44,279
Speaker 1: So good, I would love to see her playing this league.

864
00:43:44,280 --> 00:43:47,640
Speaker 3: But no, you're right, like somebody needs to be working

865
00:43:47,640 --> 00:43:50,359
Speaker 3: on putting Kennedy on their roster. I don't know who,

866
00:43:50,960 --> 00:43:53,680
Speaker 3: I don't know what. Look Connecticut, what you're doing? Do

867
00:43:53,719 --> 00:43:57,399
Speaker 3: you need some I mean, come on, somebody, somebody got

868
00:43:57,440 --> 00:43:59,719
Speaker 3: to be doing something to put Kennedy on a roster

869
00:43:59,760 --> 00:44:03,760
Speaker 3: because she after the year that she had, and honestly,

870
00:44:03,840 --> 00:44:05,759
Speaker 3: she really ain't had a bad year since she been

871
00:44:05,800 --> 00:44:08,560
Speaker 3: in a WNBA. I think people have that out of sight,

872
00:44:08,600 --> 00:44:10,839
Speaker 3: out of mind situation just because she didn't play for

873
00:44:10,880 --> 00:44:13,360
Speaker 3: a couple of years. But she ain't really had no

874
00:44:13,440 --> 00:44:15,680
Speaker 3: bad years she's ever played in the w So she

875
00:44:15,800 --> 00:44:19,120
Speaker 3: deserves to certainly be on a roster. And yeah, I

876
00:44:19,160 --> 00:44:20,799
Speaker 3: was just gonna mention that it's going to be great

877
00:44:20,840 --> 00:44:25,120
Speaker 3: for Chicago to also have Elizabeth Williams back who although

878
00:44:25,160 --> 00:44:26,680
Speaker 3: she played on restricted minutes, she.

879
00:44:26,719 --> 00:44:27,680
Speaker 1: Really did a great job.

880
00:44:27,719 --> 00:44:30,200
Speaker 3: She landed in like the top six for athletes on

881
00:44:30,280 --> 00:44:32,920
Speaker 3: limited leader board, like she you know, was giving them

882
00:44:33,040 --> 00:44:35,520
Speaker 3: twenty some ad minutes a game. Still knows how to

883
00:44:35,600 --> 00:44:38,320
Speaker 3: drive and protect the basket, still can defend blocking skills

884
00:44:38,360 --> 00:44:41,920
Speaker 3: is ridiculous. Like that's going to be very very helpful

885
00:44:42,200 --> 00:44:45,040
Speaker 3: for Chicago from a defensive standpoint. So I love to

886
00:44:45,080 --> 00:44:49,160
Speaker 3: see that. I am full transparency. Wasn't really going to

887
00:44:49,239 --> 00:44:53,680
Speaker 3: talk much about Connecticut and Washington because honestly, I just

888
00:44:53,719 --> 00:44:55,319
Speaker 3: really don't even know what to say about them.

889
00:44:55,719 --> 00:44:57,000
Speaker 1: I just don't even know what to say.

890
00:44:57,280 --> 00:45:02,200
Speaker 2: Sometimes ain't none Tuesday, listen, I am the same way.

891
00:45:02,760 --> 00:45:04,279
Speaker 2: I was just like, what are y'all doing?

892
00:45:04,800 --> 00:45:07,240
Speaker 1: What are you doing? But Ti, here is a bigger

893
00:45:07,440 --> 00:45:08,879
Speaker 1: what is Lena Delladon doing?

894
00:45:09,920 --> 00:45:12,520
Speaker 3: She need to do something because we could, we could

895
00:45:12,600 --> 00:45:15,960
Speaker 3: use you, we could use you, add and use you.

896
00:45:16,400 --> 00:45:18,640
Speaker 2: I think Connecticut just said we're gonna start all over.

897
00:45:18,880 --> 00:45:21,960
Speaker 2: Connecticut said we quit this year, We're gonna start all over.

898
00:45:22,560 --> 00:45:25,279
Speaker 3: Because I'm not even gonna play them like that though,

899
00:45:25,320 --> 00:45:27,960
Speaker 3: because it's not like I mean, and I'm joking, I'm

900
00:45:28,040 --> 00:45:30,600
Speaker 3: joking Obviously I cover the team, so I'm not talking

901
00:45:30,840 --> 00:45:33,320
Speaker 3: about the team I cover. I'm saying though in a

902
00:45:33,400 --> 00:45:37,240
Speaker 3: joking fashion, but seriously, I just want to see how

903
00:45:37,280 --> 00:45:41,400
Speaker 3: they put these pieces together, because they don't have scrubs.

904
00:45:41,800 --> 00:45:44,200
Speaker 3: Tina Charles is not a scrub. Natasha Cloud is not

905
00:45:44,239 --> 00:45:47,880
Speaker 3: a shrub. Jacy Sheldon not a scrub. Diamond the Shields

906
00:45:47,920 --> 00:45:50,640
Speaker 3: not a scrub. Like like, it's not like this is

907
00:45:51,160 --> 00:45:54,080
Speaker 3: a team of nobody's right, So that's not what I'm

908
00:45:54,080 --> 00:45:54,600
Speaker 3: getting at.

909
00:45:54,920 --> 00:45:55,680
Speaker 1: What I do.

910
00:45:55,520 --> 00:45:59,520
Speaker 3: Feel, though, is that these players all have so different

911
00:45:59,560 --> 00:46:04,400
Speaker 3: planes styles that I'm finding it difficult to see how

912
00:46:04,520 --> 00:46:07,840
Speaker 3: they will play together. And so I will certainly be

913
00:46:07,960 --> 00:46:13,920
Speaker 3: interested to see what new coach Rashid Mezzin brings together.

914
00:46:15,480 --> 00:46:19,040
Speaker 3: Just Rashid Messin's kinds his name.

915
00:46:19,719 --> 00:46:22,960
Speaker 1: I know, I've been practicing my French get my friends together.

916
00:46:23,640 --> 00:46:24,000
Speaker 1: I'm not.

917
00:46:30,160 --> 00:46:33,919
Speaker 3: Oh, it's funny, but yeah. And then Washington same way,

918
00:46:34,360 --> 00:46:37,640
Speaker 3: like I, I don't know what you're doing.

919
00:46:38,360 --> 00:46:40,160
Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't know what your plan is.

920
00:46:41,280 --> 00:46:43,160
Speaker 1: I'm putting it in the Lord's hands.

921
00:46:43,400 --> 00:46:47,080
Speaker 2: I'm trusting because Washington's the one team like, at least

922
00:46:47,120 --> 00:46:49,719
Speaker 2: for me, that I haven't really heard much about like,

923
00:46:49,760 --> 00:46:51,400
Speaker 2: I don't know what moves they're making.

924
00:46:52,080 --> 00:46:54,799
Speaker 1: I know nothing. I don't know. They didn't sign sign up.

925
00:46:54,840 --> 00:46:57,640
Speaker 3: They got Shakira. Shakira's a bomb, you know what I mean.

926
00:46:57,680 --> 00:47:01,000
Speaker 3: Aliah Edwards obviously is some one who held it down.

927
00:47:01,880 --> 00:47:04,640
Speaker 3: I love Britney Sikes, Slim Slim gonna do her.

928
00:47:05,960 --> 00:47:06,359
Speaker 1: I saw.

929
00:47:06,640 --> 00:47:10,600
Speaker 3: I remember Emily Angsler stepping up her game last year

930
00:47:10,640 --> 00:47:13,959
Speaker 3: when injuries came about me as a team that could

931
00:47:13,960 --> 00:47:16,640
Speaker 3: certainly make some noise if they, you know, added a

932
00:47:16,640 --> 00:47:18,160
Speaker 3: piece or two. But I just don't know if they

933
00:47:18,200 --> 00:47:19,880
Speaker 3: even feel like that's something that they want to do.

934
00:47:20,080 --> 00:47:23,400
Speaker 3: They've got some draft picks, for sure, they definitely wrecked

935
00:47:23,480 --> 00:47:25,239
Speaker 3: up on some draft picks. They got a new head

936
00:47:25,280 --> 00:47:28,520
Speaker 3: coach in Sidney Johnson, so it shall be interesting to

937
00:47:28,600 --> 00:47:32,040
Speaker 3: see what they do next year. But some other like

938
00:47:32,120 --> 00:47:34,319
Speaker 3: notable moves for some teams that we didn't really get

939
00:47:34,320 --> 00:47:36,719
Speaker 3: a chance to get into. Is He Harrison is now

940
00:47:36,760 --> 00:47:40,279
Speaker 3: going to the New York Liberty. That's a really good

941
00:47:40,320 --> 00:47:42,680
Speaker 3: move I believe for New York, an even better move

942
00:47:42,760 --> 00:47:46,359
Speaker 3: for Izzy. The championship culture there. It's just I feel

943
00:47:46,400 --> 00:47:50,480
Speaker 3: like she'll fit right in Minnesota. Links they didn't really add.

944
00:47:51,440 --> 00:47:53,960
Speaker 3: I mean they did add like Grace Berger off Waivers,

945
00:47:53,960 --> 00:47:55,759
Speaker 3: but they didn't like add like a big name.

946
00:47:56,000 --> 00:47:58,560
Speaker 1: They did resign Missisha Heidemann.

947
00:47:58,760 --> 00:48:01,799
Speaker 4: Well, I like them picking up Kristin Williams bringing her

948
00:48:01,880 --> 00:48:02,560
Speaker 4: to training camp.

949
00:48:03,080 --> 00:48:05,000
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I'm.

950
00:48:04,880 --> 00:48:08,960
Speaker 2: Hoping that Alissa Peeley will get a little bit more

951
00:48:09,000 --> 00:48:12,279
Speaker 2: playing time this year. Yeah, because I liked I liked

952
00:48:12,320 --> 00:48:15,000
Speaker 2: her work. I liked what she did at AUS as

953
00:48:15,040 --> 00:48:17,440
Speaker 2: well as Kristin Williams. I just I thought AU was

954
00:48:17,520 --> 00:48:20,239
Speaker 2: really good for a lot of these players who are

955
00:48:20,320 --> 00:48:24,680
Speaker 2: trying to be seen and get an opportunity for some w.

956
00:48:26,280 --> 00:48:28,160
Speaker 1: Training camp invites. Yeah.

957
00:48:28,320 --> 00:48:32,080
Speaker 3: Kiera Leslie got an invite to a training cam contract

958
00:48:32,120 --> 00:48:35,919
Speaker 3: too with Minnesota. Cheryl Reef was out in AU during

959
00:48:35,960 --> 00:48:38,279
Speaker 3: the first week, so she got a good chance to

960
00:48:38,360 --> 00:48:41,719
Speaker 3: look at some of these players. And Kayla McBride and

961
00:48:41,800 --> 00:48:45,200
Speaker 3: Courtney Williams are down balling out in Miami and.

962
00:48:45,320 --> 00:48:47,759
Speaker 1: Fief he's probably gonna be the m v P. Yeah,

963
00:48:48,120 --> 00:48:51,200
Speaker 1: I think he's probably probably gonna be the m v P.

964
00:48:51,480 --> 00:48:54,680
Speaker 2: So he said, I'm bringing all the money home. Yeah,

965
00:48:54,760 --> 00:48:58,279
Speaker 2: she won the one on one. She's a founder, like

966
00:48:58,520 --> 00:49:01,759
Speaker 2: Fea said. I'm also she can't come into the house.

967
00:49:01,960 --> 00:49:03,759
Speaker 1: She eating all that, she eating all of it.

968
00:49:03,920 --> 00:49:08,439
Speaker 3: So it's definitely a fun situation that they got going

969
00:49:08,480 --> 00:49:09,239
Speaker 3: on in Minnesota.

970
00:49:09,320 --> 00:49:10,600
Speaker 1: I don't really see, you know.

971
00:49:11,120 --> 00:49:13,040
Speaker 3: The reason why I ain't really talking about them is because,

972
00:49:13,120 --> 00:49:14,680
Speaker 3: like we already know, they'll be a top team.

973
00:49:15,040 --> 00:49:17,560
Speaker 1: New York will be a top team. You know.

974
00:49:17,760 --> 00:49:19,759
Speaker 3: Vegas, I think will still be a top team. But

975
00:49:19,840 --> 00:49:21,759
Speaker 3: they did make some off season additions, which is why

976
00:49:21,800 --> 00:49:24,000
Speaker 3: we brought it up. And then there's the Golden State Valkyries.

977
00:49:24,080 --> 00:49:24,200
Speaker 2: Right.

978
00:49:24,280 --> 00:49:27,800
Speaker 3: The Valkyries didn't really have any huge, huge, like mind

979
00:49:27,880 --> 00:49:31,080
Speaker 3: blowing free agency signings, but I'd love them bringing on

980
00:49:31,160 --> 00:49:32,920
Speaker 3: the six Women of the Year in Tiffany Hayes. I

981
00:49:33,000 --> 00:49:35,560
Speaker 3: love them also picking up Laciitia and me here off waivers.

982
00:49:36,400 --> 00:49:39,080
Speaker 3: I'm excited, Like, I think they have the best position

983
00:49:39,200 --> 00:49:44,279
Speaker 3: right now. No expectations whatsoever, none whatsoever. You just got here, No,

984
00:49:44,480 --> 00:49:45,600
Speaker 3: no expectations.

985
00:49:46,440 --> 00:49:49,360
Speaker 2: But with the pieces they got in free agency and

986
00:49:49,440 --> 00:49:53,280
Speaker 2: then the players that they added, I think they'll compete.

987
00:49:53,800 --> 00:49:53,960
Speaker 1: Right.

988
00:49:54,480 --> 00:49:59,279
Speaker 2: Are they gonna like win the whole thing, No, but

989
00:50:00,000 --> 00:50:04,120
Speaker 2: they have some pieces that will compete and they might

990
00:50:04,200 --> 00:50:05,280
Speaker 2: surprise a few teams.

991
00:50:06,520 --> 00:50:11,200
Speaker 3: True, indeed, true, indeed, I have no doubt whatsoever that

992
00:50:11,400 --> 00:50:13,719
Speaker 3: this team will be competitive. I loved I think I

993
00:50:13,800 --> 00:50:16,360
Speaker 3: said this when we did the expansion Draft episode that

994
00:50:16,560 --> 00:50:18,440
Speaker 3: I loved their pickup of Veronica Burton.

995
00:50:18,719 --> 00:50:19,880
Speaker 1: I thought that was huge.

996
00:50:20,440 --> 00:50:27,640
Speaker 3: Davey Adic, Caleb Thornton, that's gonna be huge, Kate Martin,

997
00:50:28,320 --> 00:50:32,680
Speaker 3: Martin point to eat. And I was shocked when they

998
00:50:32,760 --> 00:50:39,600
Speaker 3: added Timmy Fame Ballet Dan did what I was shocked. Yes,

999
00:50:40,000 --> 00:50:43,080
Speaker 3: show I feel good about what this Golden State team

1000
00:50:43,200 --> 00:50:46,279
Speaker 3: is gonna bring. I like the idea of playing with

1001
00:50:46,440 --> 00:50:50,160
Speaker 3: no expectations because that means you can shock and surprise people.

1002
00:50:50,560 --> 00:50:52,920
Speaker 3: You can set what you want your standard to be

1003
00:50:53,040 --> 00:50:55,640
Speaker 3: because nobody has already said that for you. So I

1004
00:50:55,840 --> 00:50:58,799
Speaker 3: really love that for this team. But yeah, man, free

1005
00:50:58,840 --> 00:51:02,200
Speaker 3: agency was a trip, a lot of fun. But boy,

1006
00:51:02,400 --> 00:51:05,719
Speaker 3: this twenty twenty five season about to be coreat it is.

1007
00:51:06,480 --> 00:51:08,000
Speaker 1: Yes, it is, yes, it is.

1008
00:51:08,440 --> 00:51:10,840
Speaker 2: Cannot Before we get out of here, can I just

1009
00:51:10,880 --> 00:51:14,560
Speaker 2: say something real quick, because listen, when you talk about

1010
00:51:14,600 --> 00:51:17,960
Speaker 2: the growth of the game and WNBA expansion and all

1011
00:51:18,040 --> 00:51:23,000
Speaker 2: of the things, it only gets better to have a

1012
00:51:23,160 --> 00:51:25,479
Speaker 2: Serena Williams as an.

1013
00:51:25,440 --> 00:51:33,600
Speaker 1: Investor for the Toronto Tempo. Yes, let's go I love

1014
00:51:33,680 --> 00:51:37,920
Speaker 1: this so much. It is going to be an incordible,

1015
00:51:38,040 --> 00:51:39,040
Speaker 1: so excited about that.

1016
00:51:39,400 --> 00:51:41,640
Speaker 3: She's going to be an incredible asset just to have

1017
00:51:41,840 --> 00:51:44,640
Speaker 3: her and continuing to be in women's sports. And of

1018
00:51:44,719 --> 00:51:46,719
Speaker 3: course the petty and me was like, oh, you really

1019
00:51:46,800 --> 00:51:50,160
Speaker 3: gonna be the owner of a team in drake hometown.

1020
00:51:53,000 --> 00:51:57,600
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's probably why she did it. Ah, I love her, Petty, but.

1021
00:51:58,040 --> 00:52:00,360
Speaker 3: Yeah, we were gonna go ahead and repast up to

1022
00:52:00,440 --> 00:52:02,839
Speaker 3: stay with us. Guys will be back to uh level off.

1023
00:52:12,080 --> 00:52:12,800
Speaker 1: All right, Cheryl.

1024
00:52:14,200 --> 00:52:18,560
Speaker 3: We talked a lot today free agency basketball. Just excitement

1025
00:52:18,680 --> 00:52:20,800
Speaker 3: for my life of this season.

1026
00:52:21,360 --> 00:52:24,960
Speaker 1: I know, I know.

1027
00:52:27,680 --> 00:52:30,560
Speaker 3: If there's one team that I can just ask before

1028
00:52:30,600 --> 00:52:32,759
Speaker 3: we head out of here, just the one team that

1029
00:52:32,840 --> 00:52:34,200
Speaker 3: you are most excited to.

1030
00:52:34,239 --> 00:52:44,880
Speaker 1: Watch this year? And you can't say Dallas Indiana mm

1031
00:52:44,920 --> 00:52:56,800
Speaker 1: hmm okay, and what about you? For me? I think it's.

1032
00:52:58,120 --> 00:53:00,000
Speaker 2: I said Indiana because you said I couldn't say Dallas

1033
00:53:00,040 --> 00:53:00,440
Speaker 2: because I was.

1034
00:53:00,440 --> 00:53:02,840
Speaker 1: Gonna to Dallas. I know you was gonna say Dallas.

1035
00:53:02,880 --> 00:53:04,240
Speaker 1: See and I and I won't.

1036
00:53:04,080 --> 00:53:06,839
Speaker 3: Say connect it so and you can't say New York either.

1037
00:53:07,320 --> 00:53:10,920
Speaker 3: I won't say New York. I'm actually torn between Seattle

1038
00:53:11,040 --> 00:53:15,160
Speaker 3: and Indiana. Yeah, I think those are the two. I'm

1039
00:53:15,200 --> 00:53:18,480
Speaker 3: really torn between those. I like Seattle in Indiana. But anyway,

1040
00:53:19,200 --> 00:53:21,319
Speaker 3: time for us to go ahead and level this thing

1041
00:53:21,400 --> 00:53:23,279
Speaker 3: on out. So what you got for a nation, let's

1042
00:53:23,320 --> 00:53:23,520
Speaker 3: do it.

1043
00:53:23,840 --> 00:53:24,759
Speaker 1: I got for y'all.

1044
00:53:24,880 --> 00:53:27,280
Speaker 4: Listen, happy Women's History Months.

1045
00:53:29,200 --> 00:53:32,520
Speaker 2: So because it is Women's History Month, I'm going to

1046
00:53:33,239 --> 00:53:34,800
Speaker 2: leave y'all with something.

1047
00:53:36,120 --> 00:53:37,320
Speaker 1: But I think it's very important.

1048
00:53:37,960 --> 00:53:42,320
Speaker 2: Okay, I raise up my voice, not so that I

1049
00:53:42,400 --> 00:53:45,160
Speaker 2: can shout, but so that those with out a voice

1050
00:53:45,280 --> 00:53:45,919
Speaker 2: can be heard.

1051
00:53:47,000 --> 00:53:48,040
Speaker 1: We cannot all.

1052
00:53:48,040 --> 00:53:54,040
Speaker 2: Succeed when half of us are held back. M I'm

1053
00:53:54,080 --> 00:53:56,759
Speaker 2: not really sure who that's from. I just I found

1054
00:53:56,800 --> 00:53:59,920
Speaker 2: it and I thought it was really appropriate for Women's

1055
00:54:00,080 --> 00:54:03,399
Speaker 2: History Month, but honestly for any day of the month,

1056
00:54:03,960 --> 00:54:06,840
Speaker 2: any day of the year, because that's pretty powerful.

1057
00:54:07,600 --> 00:54:11,840
Speaker 3: Yeah, yep, yep, yeah, Well, I love that we are

1058
00:54:11,920 --> 00:54:14,799
Speaker 3: in Women's History Months. I don't know, are you gonna

1059
00:54:14,840 --> 00:54:17,640
Speaker 3: do something cool like, you know, every every day, every

1060
00:54:17,760 --> 00:54:20,480
Speaker 3: show a quote from a different woman like you did

1061
00:54:20,560 --> 00:54:21,520
Speaker 3: for Black History Months?

1062
00:54:22,880 --> 00:54:25,360
Speaker 1: Hey, how about that? I'll be telling everybody my secret.

1063
00:54:27,239 --> 00:54:27,680
Speaker 3: My bad.

1064
00:54:28,920 --> 00:54:29,680
Speaker 1: I gotta find out.

1065
00:54:29,760 --> 00:54:32,320
Speaker 2: I gotta find out who this one's from, because it

1066
00:54:32,400 --> 00:54:33,880
Speaker 2: doesn't have a name, but I like it.

1067
00:54:34,080 --> 00:54:36,440
Speaker 1: But yes, I'm gonna bring you on something from a.

1068
00:54:36,480 --> 00:54:43,759
Speaker 2: Different, powerful, inspiring woman every day this week.

1069
00:54:44,200 --> 00:54:45,840
Speaker 4: And I love it month that we record.

1070
00:54:46,560 --> 00:54:47,960
Speaker 1: I love it one hundred percent.

1071
00:54:48,040 --> 00:54:50,880
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1072
00:54:51,080 --> 00:54:53,920
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00:54:54,040 --> 00:54:56,960
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1074
00:54:57,040 --> 00:54:58,880
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1075
00:54:58,920 --> 00:55:01,480
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1082
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