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Speaker 4: Sophie's Phoenix Babies, Sylphe's Phoenix.

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Speaker 1: Here we are.

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Speaker 3: This is beautiful. First of all, who is outside? I'm

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Speaker 3: not even that sweaty, which is surprising.

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Speaker 2: We have fans over here to left. What's that fans?

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Speaker 2: And we're about to have some freaking awesome guests.

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Speaker 1: Yes, Holly Roe is gonna show up.

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Speaker 3: Alison Feaster as his daughter is actually playing for you, Sehn.

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Speaker 3: The city is popping full of great energy for the

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Speaker 3: women's final four. Here Trophy cactuses the mural behind us.

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Speaker 4: The incredible and beautiful, magnificent mural behind us was created

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Speaker 4: by the renowned Phoenix based artist La Morena.

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Speaker 3: I love that, so she teamed up with Marriott Bonvoy,

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Speaker 2: The coloring is perfect, it's so phoenix y and I

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Speaker 4: It makes her set a little more extra special. But

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Speaker 2: My name is listen to you know Hoos also known

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Speaker 5: I'm a Phoenix based artist and I'm here with Marriott

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Speaker 5: I'm very proud of our Phoenix city. And so when

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Speaker 5: for little res girls seeing this, it means so much

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Speaker 5: potential them that they can also to play women's college basketball.

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Speaker 5: I'm so excited for women's sports in general because we're

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Speaker 2: I hope little girls see themselves in this mureaum.

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Speaker 5: And know that it's possible to play in the Final

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Speaker 2: So final four.

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Speaker 1: We have all one seeds.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, big dogs Ucla. We have Texas, we have Yukon,

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Speaker 3: I do think this year you do have the very

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Speaker 2: Our first game is Yukon. South Carolina Yukon.

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Speaker 1: We've seen each other a zillion times, which is gonna

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Speaker 4: You could argue Don Staley and Gino are like an

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Speaker 4: It gives me like Bill Bilichick, I guess he's Tony

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Speaker 3: And then you have Texas and Ucla, which honestly, I

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Speaker 3: I thought Yukon is looking tough. They always look tough

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Speaker 4: Was your freshman year the first year of SEC you

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Speaker 4: Okay, they were, So you have good reason to be

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Speaker 4: an SEC fan thousand percent. This is game day. Also,

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Speaker 4: Even so, who you got give me an expert analysis?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I truly do like all four programs. Yep, I

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Speaker 3: kind of a cool storyline there. But Texas is looking

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Speaker 4: So you think Texas wins today and they'll see either

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Speaker 6: Yes, I do.

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Speaker 2: I think. I think that Yukon South Carolina game. I

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Speaker 3: South Carolina is just so so athletic, and they have

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Speaker 1: Yeah, but it's gonna be fun, Sophie.

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Speaker 4: This pod will be dropping after we have crowned our

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Speaker 4: women's Final four champion. Well, can you look into this

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Speaker 3: This has already happened. I think I almost just said Yukon.

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Speaker 3: Is that my gut feeling?

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Speaker 1: I thought you were gonna throw them You're gonna throw

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Speaker 2: I'm going Texas, all right, everybody.

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Speaker 3: Our first guest today is one of the most respected

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Speaker 3: Basketball, football, softball, and some of the biggest moments in sports.

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Speaker 2: For over two decades.

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Speaker 4: You've seen her on the sidelines to the final four

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Speaker 1: Please welcome Holly Row everybody.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, thank you, She's a Betsy lady.

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Speaker 1: Everybody.

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Speaker 4: Before we hop into women's college basketball, I have a

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Speaker 1: Call out a game, would you remember the moment?

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Speaker 7: I remember stories like I might not remember the score,

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Speaker 1: I hope.

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Speaker 4: Do you remember remember ninth grade? Oh god, well, you'd

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Speaker 4: Missoo ku. Of course, Zire Taylor hit a shot back

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Speaker 7: And I did the postgame interviews. Fans rush the field,

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Speaker 4: I think everyone we watch on TV, we all have

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Speaker 1: So we remember you from those moments.

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Speaker 4: And I remember obviously that game was so important, but

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Speaker 1: I love that so much, Yeah.

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Speaker 7: Because that is such an organic moment that we'll never

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Speaker 7: have again. You know, the Kumazoo rivalry was one of

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Speaker 4: I missed that when they left the Big Twelve, Like

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Speaker 1: We are here to talk.

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Speaker 4: About women's college basketball, and obviously the women's college basketball

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Speaker 4: fandom has been growing like crazy the last few years,

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Speaker 4: and we're feeling it here in Phoenix. Obviously, we have

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Speaker 4: Players are front and center, and fans have traveled all

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Speaker 4: over the world to come watch women's college basketball. What

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Speaker 7: I think it's the best it's ever been, and I

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Speaker 7: so when I say, I have watched this entire thing,

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Speaker 7: and I hope have been a proponent in pushing this

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Speaker 7: constant narrative. We've known forever that this is a really

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Speaker 7: just now kind of catching up with us, and it

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Speaker 7: feels really good, you know. And I don't want to

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Speaker 7: I want to have the attitude of like, Yay, finally

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Speaker 7: you get to see what we've been loving for such

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Speaker 2: So I think it's a really beautiful place.

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Speaker 7: And the thing I'm proud of is women like Sophie.

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Speaker 7: You know, the players that I get to cover, they're

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Speaker 7: College basketball is better than it's ever been. And that's

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Speaker 7: real credit to the athletes and the coaches.

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Speaker 3: So we know that you travel all the time, like

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Speaker 3: like Europe tomorrow covering a sport that I don't know,

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Speaker 3: No one even knew what was going on, what sports

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Speaker 2: I know something. It's April third today. There you go, Holly.

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Speaker 2: We want everyone to grow in our league.

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Speaker 3: Let's talk about this Final four though, Like what excites you,

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Speaker 2: Why are you so good at it?

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Speaker 7: I appreciate you saying that, but I think it's just

445
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Speaker 7: natural curiosity. Like I'm so curious about people, and I

446
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Speaker 7: just you know, like I'll see something or i'll hear

447
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Speaker 7: something and I'll be like, oh my gosh. So I

448
00:18:36,440 --> 00:18:38,840
Speaker 7: had a funny story that happened last weekend, we were

449
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Speaker 7: covering Michigan and we were out having a walk in

450
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Speaker 7: downtown Fort Worth and we stopped at this park to

451
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Speaker 7: watch the end of the Yukon Duke men's game. So

452
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Speaker 7: I'm with Cheney and Andrea and Christine and Rebecca was

453
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Speaker 7: there and we were like screaming in this park at

454
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Speaker 7: the end of that game, you know that shot. And

455
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Speaker 7: so this lady comes over to me and she's like, oh,

456
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Speaker 7: my gosh, we love your work.

457
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Speaker 2: My daughter plays for Michigan.

458
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Speaker 7: And so she ends up telling me this incredible story

459
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Speaker 7: about Brooke Courels Daniels, who is five seven and the

460
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Speaker 7: leading offensive rebounder on her team.

461
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Speaker 2: So like, how is she so good?

462
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Speaker 7: Why is your daughter such a crazy offensive rebounder at

463
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Speaker 7: five to seven? And she's like, well, her brother is

464
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Speaker 7: six seven, and here's video of them playing in the driveway,

465
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Speaker 7: and so we use that in our broadcast. That happened

466
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Speaker 7: because we were walking down the street in the park, right.

467
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Speaker 7: So those are the kind of things that I live for.

468
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Speaker 7: Of like you just naturally curiously following.

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Speaker 3: Can I also give you some props because I think

470
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Speaker 3: that you do stories and you find people that everyday

471
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Speaker 3: people can.

472
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Speaker 2: Relate to and you give them hope that, like just

473
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Speaker 2: a little bit of hope that maybe they could do

474
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Speaker 2: that one day.

475
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Speaker 3: Doesn't matter what they look like, where they're from, how

476
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Speaker 3: tall they are, how much they weigh. Like that that

477
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Speaker 3: gives a five to seven guard hope that, like, hey,

478
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Speaker 3: I could go be the leading rebounder in the nation.

479
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Speaker 2: You know what I mean.

480
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Speaker 7: I can be the leading offensive rebounder on an Elite

481
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Speaker 7: eight team.

482
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Speaker 2: That's insane. But yeah, I think that we live.

483
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Speaker 7: I love all the I'm the hopeful storyteller, Like I

484
00:20:04,760 --> 00:20:08,200
Speaker 7: just want hope and encouragement and happiness. Like I don't

485
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Speaker 7: love doing the hard stories.

486
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Speaker 4: This is a little slight pivot, but you've got some

487
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Speaker 4: kicks on today. Yeah. The basketball fashion world, ye is

488
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Speaker 4: ever changing? Do you feel like you have to keep

489
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Speaker 4: up with the the fashion?

490
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Speaker 1: No, I don't know what.

491
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Speaker 4: It's always growing and I feel like shoes are such

492
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Speaker 4: a big part of it.

493
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Speaker 1: And obviously I can tell you know what's going on.

494
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Speaker 2: Yeah, well here's what I will say.

495
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Speaker 7: So back in twenty twenty, I was in the WNBA

496
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Speaker 7: bubble and I remember calling my boss and saying, hey,

497
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Speaker 7: you know, like the fits are a thing like they

498
00:20:39,800 --> 00:20:41,639
Speaker 7: keep coming in and we're doing tunnel fits and we

499
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Speaker 7: don't ever broadcast it.

500
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Speaker 2: We're not showing it on TV.

501
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Speaker 7: And my producer was literally like, I don't understand what

502
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Speaker 7: you're saying to me.

503
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Speaker 2: What is a fit?

504
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Speaker 7: So I had to explain to her or what a

505
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Speaker 7: fit was, and so like, I'm I take a teeny

506
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Speaker 7: bit of pride in that, Like I was the first

507
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Speaker 7: one that got tunnel fits on TV in the bubble,

508
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Speaker 7: like maybe we were doing.

509
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Speaker 2: Before in games, but I don't really remember it.

510
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Speaker 3: HOLLI I was walking in in like pajama's sweats. Now

511
00:21:06,160 --> 00:21:09,520
Speaker 3: you can see people's like style, who they are personally

512
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Speaker 3: of like walking in, you know, like she can be feisty.

513
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Speaker 7: I love it personalizes players. I think it personalizes players

514
00:21:16,520 --> 00:21:19,760
Speaker 7: and it really showcases whatever your vibe is. You get

515
00:21:19,760 --> 00:21:21,920
Speaker 7: to be really personal with it. And I like it

516
00:21:22,119 --> 00:21:24,840
Speaker 7: because it elevates fandom and I love it for the

517
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Speaker 7: fans and I think it's fun for you guys.

518
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Speaker 2: I don't know.

519
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Speaker 7: I know some players are like, Okay, now this is

520
00:21:29,119 --> 00:21:31,240
Speaker 7: a hassle because it's a whole thing, but you can

521
00:21:31,240 --> 00:21:32,520
Speaker 7: do it or you don't have to do it. And

522
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Speaker 7: I think it's very personal, and I really love it

523
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Speaker 7: because it shows personality and it's like I do think

524
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Speaker 7: that the w is where fashion and culture, you know,

525
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Speaker 7: it's intersectional, and so I really like.

526
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Speaker 4: That, Ollie, how do you see travel impacting sports as

527
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Speaker 4: we know it?

528
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Speaker 1: Right now?

529
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Speaker 7: My niece is a young basketball player, and so it's

530
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Speaker 7: really my first relative that has wanted to be a

531
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Speaker 7: college basketball player. So I'm pouring everything into her, Like

532
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Speaker 7: I'm trying to sponsor her teams, and she's in you

533
00:22:00,480 --> 00:22:01,680
Speaker 7: and she's here at the Final four.

534
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Speaker 2: Her team has a tournament.

535
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Speaker 7: Oh really, So like I will always like donate points

536
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Speaker 7: so they can get hotel rooms for free. So I'm

537
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Speaker 7: like staying in my Marriott so i can get points

538
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Speaker 7: so then I can give them to my niece. I'm

539
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Speaker 7: really trying to give back that way with my Marriot points,

540
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Speaker 7: and I think it's really special.

541
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Speaker 2: I've done that for them at the WNBA All Star Game.

542
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Speaker 7: And then one other cool thing we're doing with our

543
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Speaker 7: Merriot points right now is my son and I started

544
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Speaker 7: a foundation, Joyous, So we are doing the Joyous Foundation

545
00:22:27,920 --> 00:22:30,080
Speaker 7: where we are just like I was in the depths

546
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Speaker 7: of stage four cancer. You know, it was a really

547
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Speaker 7: scary dark place, and so we're trying to figure out

548
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Speaker 7: how can we help people going through cancer find joy

549
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Speaker 7: during this really scary time of their life. And so

550
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Speaker 7: we are also using my Marriot points to bring cancer patients.

551
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Speaker 7: So we have a woman that we've brought here. I've

552
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Speaker 7: got her staying at a Sheraton right here to using

553
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Speaker 7: my points so that we can bring her to a

554
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Speaker 7: South Carolina game. She's a three time ovarian cancer survivor.

555
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Speaker 7: But what's brought her joy is watching the South Carolina

556
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Speaker 7: game Cocks play and she will get to see them

557
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Speaker 7: play in person.

558
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Speaker 2: That is.

559
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Speaker 3: Do that That's incredible.

560
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Speaker 4: I was reading you you kept a joy journal as

561
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Speaker 4: you were going through treatment and stuff, and that I

562
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Speaker 4: feel like little things like that we often don't. It

563
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Speaker 4: seems maybe like fleeing in the moment, but I'm sure

564
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Speaker 4: that's something that you look back on and like that

565
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Speaker 4: was very powerful and like kept you positive through so

566
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Speaker 4: many dark moments.

567
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Speaker 7: It's it's really true because when you're in cancer, you

568
00:23:28,880 --> 00:23:31,480
Speaker 7: can't control anything, Like I can't control what's happening in

569
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Speaker 7: my body and I'm having another spread and another surgery

570
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Speaker 7: and another bad scan, and it's really stressful, and so

571
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Speaker 7: during that time, I was like, I can't control what's

572
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Speaker 7: happening to me, but I can control if I'm.

573
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Speaker 2: Joyful every single day.

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Speaker 7: And so I still keep my joy journal and I

575
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Speaker 7: will write down these things that bring me joy.

576
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Speaker 2: So I'll give you an example.

577
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Speaker 7: I wrote down last year at the w NBA Draft,

578
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Speaker 7: this player for Yukon that had played at Princeton transferred in.

579
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Speaker 7: I just believed in her so much, and so during

580
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Speaker 7: the draft I said, I think Caitlyn Chen should go

581
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Speaker 7: up and sit in the front row where the Yukon team,

582
00:24:05,760 --> 00:24:07,960
Speaker 7: like they were all there watching their other Yukon friends,

583
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Speaker 7: Paige Becker's get drafted, and I just had this instinct

584
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Speaker 7: and I said to one of her teammates, tell Caitlyn

585
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Speaker 7: to go sit in that front row right now. And

586
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Speaker 7: like literally two minutes later, she got drafted to the Valkyries.

587
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Speaker 2: She has played for.

588
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Speaker 7: The valkyriese has been an unbelievable player in the WNBA.

589
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Speaker 7: So that went in my joy journal because that brought

590
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Speaker 7: me so much happiness.

591
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Speaker 2: So that's that's kind of what I want us to do.

592
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Speaker 7: Is if you're not experiencing joy every day, what are

593
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Speaker 7: you doing?

594
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Speaker 2: So that's kind of where we're trying to get to.

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Speaker 3: Speaking of joy, I know, I just landed here in Phoenix,

596
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Speaker 3: but I've lived out here for seven eight years.

597
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Speaker 2: Now. I feel like women's basketball has.

598
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Speaker 3: Kind of taken over downtown Phoenix a little bit. I

599
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Speaker 3: love feeling that vide No.

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Speaker 7: We literally said when we landed, like what a great

601
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Speaker 7: spot for the final four. There's billboards everywhere, There're signs everywhere, like,

602
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Speaker 7: I love it because we want to feel like this

603
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Speaker 7: is a big event in big time. And I really

604
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Speaker 7: am proud of sponsors. There's more money than there's ever

605
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Speaker 7: been with sponsorships, like this opportunity you're getting, Sophie. We

606
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Speaker 7: didn't used to have these, and so I'm really proud

607
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Speaker 7: of how brands have gotten behind women's sports and the fans.

608
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Speaker 7: You guys have always been here. You are so tried

609
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Speaker 7: and true and we are literally nothing without you. But

610
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Speaker 7: what I love is the money that is flowing into

611
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Speaker 7: our sport. Women deserve it, and we're finally seeing it

612
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Speaker 7: payback for us.

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Speaker 3: I think I was in the league at the perfect

614
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Speaker 3: time because I was in it when we were still

615
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Speaker 3: like it was rough, and now I'm kind of getting

616
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Speaker 3: to see the positive impact of how awesome the WNBA

617
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Speaker 3: can be not only on our lives but for the

618
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Speaker 3: next generation. And I feel like when companies truly get.

619
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Speaker 2: To meet you or Asia or Angel.

620
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Speaker 3: Caitlin Cameron, like all these people, they see how awesome

621
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Speaker 3: us women really are outside of basketball and.

622
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Speaker 2: They pour in.

623
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Speaker 3: But I think the most important thing to me is

624
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Speaker 3: you see these little girls out here, like we're making

625
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Speaker 3: it better for them, and so when they're in lot

626
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Speaker 3: of seats, they're gonna be probably doing what the men

627
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Speaker 3: are doing. And that's like you were a trailblazer for that,

628
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Speaker 3: and so it's so cool for you kind of full

629
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Speaker 3: circle to be on this show when you've been around

630
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Speaker 3: this entire time.

631
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Speaker 7: Yeah, what I love for these young women is there

632
00:26:09,640 --> 00:26:11,679
Speaker 7: are so many more opportunities. So I'm going to tell

633
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Speaker 7: you one quick story. The last time that Yukon right now,

634
00:26:14,960 --> 00:26:17,359
Speaker 7: they're on a fifty four game winning streak. The last

635
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Speaker 7: time Yukon was on a long winning streak, they were

636
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Speaker 7: on a one hundred and eleven game winning streak and

637
00:26:23,359 --> 00:26:25,760
Speaker 7: the team that beat them was coached by Vick Schaeffer

638
00:26:26,000 --> 00:26:29,040
Speaker 7: with a little tiny player that's five to four named

639
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Speaker 7: Morgan william I remember, and Morgan william rises up and

640
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Speaker 7: hits this shot to end at Yukon's one hundred and

641
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Speaker 7: eleven game winning streak.

642
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Speaker 2: What school was that, Mississippi State? Yeah, college era, Yeah,

643
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Speaker 2: that show.

644
00:26:42,119 --> 00:26:44,800
Speaker 7: And so she rises up hits this shot over a

645
00:26:45,240 --> 00:26:47,960
Speaker 7: Gabby Williams coming out to block it. And when I

646
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Speaker 7: went to do the postgame interview with Morgan, I said,

647
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Speaker 7: what did you see when you rose up to take

648
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Speaker 7: that shot?

649
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Speaker 2: And she said opportunity And.

650
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Speaker 7: Still to this day makes me want to cry and

651
00:26:58,359 --> 00:27:01,040
Speaker 7: give me chills because all we ever, I'm gonna cry

652
00:27:01,119 --> 00:27:04,520
Speaker 7: right now, all we have ever asked is opportunities for

653
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Speaker 7: these little girls, for women, and so now that women

654
00:27:07,359 --> 00:27:10,360
Speaker 7: are getting them, I just feel so so proud and grateful.

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Speaker 1: I got yeah, it's okay.

656
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Speaker 2: Right, yeah yeah.

657
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Speaker 4: I think what's also really admirable is you've been in

658
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Speaker 4: men's the highest level of men's sports spaces for a

659
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Speaker 4: long time, and you still made the active decision to

660
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Speaker 4: give back to women's sports when you very much could

661
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Speaker 4: have taken more money or more opportunities to continue doing

662
00:27:30,640 --> 00:27:32,440
Speaker 4: higher level men's sports. And I just think it's really

663
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Speaker 4: admirable that you never left like what you cared about

664
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Speaker 4: and giving back to women and highlighting women. And so

665
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Speaker 4: I think you deserve so much credit for like always

666
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Speaker 4: staying true and I think getting to see you do

667
00:27:45,320 --> 00:27:47,359
Speaker 4: that has been very cool. But I am curious how

668
00:27:47,720 --> 00:27:50,720
Speaker 4: continuing to cover women's sports and I guess watching it

669
00:27:50,760 --> 00:27:52,719
Speaker 4: evolve and having like some skin in the game this

670
00:27:52,760 --> 00:27:56,200
Speaker 4: whole time, how has that changed you personally or as

671
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Speaker 4: a journalist yourself.

672
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Speaker 2: Well, since I'm already crying out, yeah, that's sure. Oh

673
00:28:00,119 --> 00:28:02,199
Speaker 2: my god, I'm really proud of that.

674
00:28:02,640 --> 00:28:05,960
Speaker 7: I'm grateful that you even noticed that because in my era,

675
00:28:06,480 --> 00:28:08,879
Speaker 7: you know, there would be a lot of sports casters

676
00:28:08,880 --> 00:28:11,000
Speaker 7: and young reporters and they would start out on women's

677
00:28:11,040 --> 00:28:13,359
Speaker 7: sports and then when they hit the big time, they

678
00:28:13,400 --> 00:28:16,000
Speaker 7: would go on to the men's sports. And I am

679
00:28:16,280 --> 00:28:18,679
Speaker 7: very proud I have never done that because I believe

680
00:28:18,680 --> 00:28:21,240
Speaker 7: the big time is women's sports, and so I have

681
00:28:21,359 --> 00:28:23,960
Speaker 7: really sacrificed. You know, I will do a college football

682
00:28:24,000 --> 00:28:26,960
Speaker 7: game and I will be in an SEC city at midnight,

683
00:28:27,040 --> 00:28:29,200
Speaker 7: and then I will be at a tip off at

684
00:28:29,240 --> 00:28:32,720
Speaker 7: noon in Indianapolis for WNBA game and by and I

685
00:28:32,800 --> 00:28:35,800
Speaker 7: got there by driving through the night by myself, Like

686
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Speaker 7: I have gotten there by really truly being committed to

687
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Speaker 7: women's sports.

688
00:28:40,040 --> 00:28:40,959
Speaker 2: But it's more than that.

689
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Speaker 7: It's like I'm that little girl that wished I had

690
00:28:43,600 --> 00:28:45,920
Speaker 7: these opportunities, you know, like I played every sport growing

691
00:28:46,000 --> 00:28:49,840
Speaker 7: up in basketball in high school, but I didn't have

692
00:28:49,880 --> 00:28:52,240
Speaker 7: the opportunities in college that people have. And so really,

693
00:28:52,280 --> 00:28:54,600
Speaker 7: I am that little girl that I am covering these

694
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Speaker 7: sports for. So I keep doing it because that's who

695
00:28:57,600 --> 00:29:00,520
Speaker 7: I am, and I love it, but should be more

696
00:29:00,520 --> 00:29:01,600
Speaker 7: than I've ever changed it.

697
00:29:02,480 --> 00:29:04,600
Speaker 3: That is not true, Holly is true.

698
00:29:05,280 --> 00:29:06,840
Speaker 2: This is supposed to be a happy podcast.

699
00:29:11,560 --> 00:29:13,280
Speaker 4: All right, guys, real quick, we're gonna do the perfect

700
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Speaker 4: travel play. Okay, we're drawing it up late. Second time

701
00:29:15,560 --> 00:29:18,800
Speaker 4: out to have a board of the fifty US states here.

702
00:29:18,840 --> 00:29:21,000
Speaker 4: Actually no Hawaii and Alaska, so we got the continental

703
00:29:21,040 --> 00:29:23,680
Speaker 4: forty eight and we're gonna jar a perfect road trip. Okay,

704
00:29:23,840 --> 00:29:26,320
Speaker 4: four cities, mark them down. It could be about sports,

705
00:29:26,360 --> 00:29:28,800
Speaker 4: it could be sight seeing related, it could be about food.

706
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Speaker 1: You let me know. Safety seconds, let's get into it. Oh,

707
00:29:33,280 --> 00:29:34,360
Speaker 1: you're excited. You want to go first.

708
00:29:34,400 --> 00:29:36,800
Speaker 2: I'm excited about mine because mine is super specific. Can

709
00:29:36,840 --> 00:29:38,640
Speaker 2: I go first? Yeah? Okay, I'm ready, all right, so

710
00:29:38,720 --> 00:29:39,200
Speaker 2: here I am.

711
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Speaker 7: I am starting here for the SEC Softball tournament in Lexington, Kentucky.

712
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm driving up.

713
00:29:46,280 --> 00:29:48,959
Speaker 7: In the through the night doing the semifinals, driving up

714
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Speaker 7: through the night for the season opener WNBA game Dallas

715
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Speaker 7: at Indiana.

716
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Speaker 1: Oh Okay.

717
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Speaker 7: Then I am that's to Oklahoma City for the Women's

718
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Speaker 7: College world S. Then I'm going to Salt Lake City,

719
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Speaker 7: Utah for the very first ever AUSL Pro Softball debut

720
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Speaker 7: for the Utah Talents, before I take a vacation to

721
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Speaker 7: Italy and New York.

722
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Speaker 2: So that is a very important era.

723
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Speaker 7: And this is a true story and I didn't even

724
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Speaker 7: know I was doing this. I am staying in only

725
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Speaker 7: Marriott properties in Italy. I'm going to the Lake Como. Addition,

726
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Speaker 7: the Saint Regis in Florence and the Saint Regions.

727
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Speaker 2: Everyone can.

728
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Speaker 1: I gave a shout out to landlocked states. The coast.

729
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Speaker 4: Guys, coast are overrated. I know people only care about

730
00:30:32,360 --> 00:30:35,800
Speaker 4: the coast, but I still am from Missouri and everyone

731
00:30:35,840 --> 00:30:36,240
Speaker 4: knows it.

732
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Speaker 2: You know, coasts are not overrated.

733
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Speaker 4: I love California, but I'm just saying you a lot

734
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Speaker 4: of people would do Florida, California and that's a very

735
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Speaker 4: I'm all sports central.

736
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Speaker 1: Okay, here we got sports. Here's mine, guys. Okay.

737
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Speaker 4: I started in Seattle because I was singing Pacific Coast

738
00:30:51,040 --> 00:30:53,440
Speaker 4: Highway because it's a great road trip. But then I

739
00:30:53,520 --> 00:30:56,280
Speaker 4: realized I'm not gonna get a lot of sports in

740
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Speaker 4: on the coast of Oregon in northern California. But Seattle's

741
00:31:00,040 --> 00:31:01,920
Speaker 4: good sports city. So we're gonna start there. We're gonna

742
00:31:02,000 --> 00:31:05,640
Speaker 4: drive through Lake Cordelane and end up in Bozeman, Montana

743
00:31:06,040 --> 00:31:08,160
Speaker 4: for a little Montana State podcast football game.

744
00:31:08,440 --> 00:31:10,720
Speaker 1: That's where you boy went to undergrad.

745
00:31:11,080 --> 00:31:13,240
Speaker 4: Then we're gonna drive straight down through the Rockies to

746
00:31:13,440 --> 00:31:15,680
Speaker 4: Holly's hometown, Salt Lake City.

747
00:31:15,800 --> 00:31:18,440
Speaker 1: Let's go also a reality TV capital of the world.

748
00:31:18,640 --> 00:31:19,760
Speaker 1: People don't know about it.

749
00:31:19,760 --> 00:31:20,360
Speaker 2: I have details.

750
00:31:20,640 --> 00:31:23,960
Speaker 7: My hairstylist does the hair for the Real Housewives.

751
00:31:25,440 --> 00:31:25,840
Speaker 1: Some thoughts.

752
00:31:25,840 --> 00:31:27,760
Speaker 2: Can we have another hour and we can retails? I

753
00:31:27,800 --> 00:31:28,360
Speaker 2: have details.

754
00:31:28,360 --> 00:31:30,800
Speaker 1: We can watch NHL hockey and yes.

755
00:31:31,840 --> 00:31:34,560
Speaker 2: Yes ausl Utah Talents and check.

756
00:31:34,360 --> 00:31:35,840
Speaker 4: In with Holly if she's got any time off. And

757
00:31:35,880 --> 00:31:38,200
Speaker 4: then we're gonna go one of the worst drives imaginable.

758
00:31:38,560 --> 00:31:42,360
Speaker 4: I seventy straight through Colorado and Kansas to Kansas City.

759
00:31:42,360 --> 00:31:45,920
Speaker 4: We're gonna get some barbecue and watch the Chiefs revamp,

760
00:31:46,120 --> 00:31:48,000
Speaker 4: revamp their dynasty.

761
00:31:48,040 --> 00:31:51,520
Speaker 3: Well, your guys is this is very Sophie driven. Okay,

762
00:31:51,880 --> 00:31:53,360
Speaker 3: so they didn't put on here. I don't know if

763
00:31:53,360 --> 00:31:55,720
Speaker 3: you guys can see fans, but I'm starting in Hawaii.

764
00:31:56,240 --> 00:31:58,760
Speaker 2: Oh you should have thought there. We should have thought

765
00:31:58,800 --> 00:32:01,240
Speaker 2: it out. Yeah, So I'm gonna go their little island life.

766
00:32:01,280 --> 00:32:02,480
Speaker 2: That's right up my alley.

767
00:32:02,840 --> 00:32:05,360
Speaker 3: I'm going to go straight up to Columbia, Missouri to

768
00:32:05,360 --> 00:32:07,840
Speaker 3: get some booches and some barbecue. That's where I'm from,

769
00:32:07,920 --> 00:32:11,320
Speaker 3: where my family's at. I'm going to Nashville to you know,

770
00:32:11,480 --> 00:32:13,760
Speaker 3: listen to some country music, maybe mee a cowboy or two,

771
00:32:14,280 --> 00:32:16,440
Speaker 3: and then I am going straight down to Florida to

772
00:32:16,440 --> 00:32:16,840
Speaker 3: get a tan.

773
00:32:17,120 --> 00:32:20,600
Speaker 1: Okay, any sports are you avoiding sports?

774
00:32:21,080 --> 00:32:21,520
Speaker 2: Time off?

775
00:32:21,680 --> 00:32:21,960
Speaker 1: Okay?

776
00:32:22,040 --> 00:32:23,880
Speaker 7: That tells you how our brains are different. Like from

777
00:32:23,920 --> 00:32:26,200
Speaker 7: my time off, I'm like, I'm going to all the sports.

778
00:32:26,240 --> 00:32:28,840
Speaker 2: You know, I'm hitting family and beaches.

779
00:32:28,920 --> 00:32:31,640
Speaker 1: I've been Nashville drive a lot of times. It's not bad.

780
00:32:32,080 --> 00:32:35,440
Speaker 7: Speaking of which, I was doing a speaking engagement years

781
00:32:35,440 --> 00:32:38,280
Speaker 7: ago and I was in Columbia and these two women

782
00:32:38,320 --> 00:32:40,440
Speaker 7: came up to me and really bent my ear for

783
00:32:40,480 --> 00:32:41,240
Speaker 7: like thirty minutes.

784
00:32:41,280 --> 00:32:45,280
Speaker 2: And it was your mom and maybe your grandma. Oh,

785
00:32:45,360 --> 00:32:47,960
Speaker 2: I don't know them. They were sending me pictures of

786
00:32:47,960 --> 00:32:50,280
Speaker 2: when they used to play. They were so cute and

787
00:32:50,400 --> 00:32:51,960
Speaker 2: know I was upsts and I love them very much.

788
00:32:52,960 --> 00:32:56,000
Speaker 4: The University of Missouri women's basketball team at one point

789
00:32:56,080 --> 00:32:57,880
Speaker 4: had four starters from our high school.

790
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Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, that's amazing. Freshman year, it was fun.

791
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Speaker 2: We got in Nashville. I thought we were going to

792
00:33:03,680 --> 00:33:05,240
Speaker 2: get a team. I was so hopeful we were getting

793
00:33:05,240 --> 00:33:06,080
Speaker 2: a team in Nashville.

794
00:33:06,400 --> 00:33:08,920
Speaker 7: I feel like it could still happen because Kennith Parker

795
00:33:09,000 --> 00:33:12,400
Speaker 7: had a group put together there, and I was literally like,

796
00:33:12,440 --> 00:33:14,360
Speaker 7: if she gets a group, then I'm going to retire

797
00:33:14,480 --> 00:33:16,080
Speaker 7: and work on that team.

798
00:33:16,400 --> 00:33:19,000
Speaker 2: But I think that, you know, we'll have more expansion.

799
00:33:19,040 --> 00:33:21,240
Speaker 7: I think Kathy has said that they want more expansion

800
00:33:21,320 --> 00:33:24,240
Speaker 7: by twenty twenty eight, so I think we'd see more there.

801
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Speaker 1: Come on, before we go. You had one more story.

802
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Speaker 6: For us on a landge.

803
00:33:27,800 --> 00:33:30,800
Speaker 7: Okay, so we were talking about travel and hotels and everything.

804
00:33:30,920 --> 00:33:33,800
Speaker 7: So my son and I love to travel together, and

805
00:33:33,840 --> 00:33:36,040
Speaker 7: we went to the Olympics. You know, he's thirty. Now

806
00:33:36,120 --> 00:33:38,000
Speaker 7: I talk about him like he's twelve, but he's thirty.

807
00:33:38,680 --> 00:33:41,520
Speaker 7: We talk about the Olympics. So I am a huge

808
00:33:41,520 --> 00:33:43,320
Speaker 7: fan of the Olympics. So we went to the Paris

809
00:33:43,360 --> 00:33:45,440
Speaker 7: Olympics just as fans, and we had the time of

810
00:33:45,440 --> 00:33:47,800
Speaker 7: our lives. And we got to go to Team USA

811
00:33:47,920 --> 00:33:51,680
Speaker 7: women's gold medal basketball game and be there when Stewie

812
00:33:51,800 --> 00:33:54,479
Speaker 7: and Asia and Chelsea Gray and be there with all

813
00:33:54,520 --> 00:33:55,320
Speaker 7: them at the celebration.

814
00:33:55,440 --> 00:33:56,840
Speaker 2: You just got to enjoy it. We just got to

815
00:33:56,920 --> 00:33:57,160
Speaker 2: enjoy it.

816
00:33:57,240 --> 00:33:59,360
Speaker 7: We were just fans, Like I was painting my face red,

817
00:33:59,360 --> 00:34:01,560
Speaker 7: white and blue, just being a fan, not a reporter.

818
00:34:02,160 --> 00:34:05,800
Speaker 2: So I really do like travel for love.

819
00:34:05,680 --> 00:34:08,279
Speaker 7: Of sports, and I've been all over the world and

820
00:34:08,400 --> 00:34:10,959
Speaker 7: really using sports as kind of my lifeline for life.

821
00:34:11,000 --> 00:34:13,120
Speaker 2: Wait, what makes a good hotel room to you? Okay,

822
00:34:13,160 --> 00:34:13,640
Speaker 2: so to me?

823
00:34:14,120 --> 00:34:17,160
Speaker 7: So right now, I'm super in love with the Additions

824
00:34:17,200 --> 00:34:19,920
Speaker 7: on the Marriott brand because you walk into the lobby

825
00:34:19,960 --> 00:34:22,080
Speaker 7: and there's a feeling. So one of my favorite hotels

826
00:34:22,120 --> 00:34:24,960
Speaker 7: is the Addition Miami. It's Miami Beach and you walk

827
00:34:25,000 --> 00:34:27,840
Speaker 7: in and it's like cream and wood and plants, and

828
00:34:27,880 --> 00:34:31,640
Speaker 7: it's very natural and elegant. So I'm really picky about

829
00:34:31,640 --> 00:34:33,919
Speaker 7: hotels because I stay in hotels more than I stay

830
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Speaker 7: at my own home, So.

831
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Speaker 2: I am very picky.

832
00:34:36,440 --> 00:34:38,480
Speaker 7: But I would say the Marriott Editions are my favorite

833
00:34:38,480 --> 00:34:40,719
Speaker 7: brand right now because there is a feeling when you

834
00:34:40,760 --> 00:34:43,120
Speaker 7: walk in the door. So I'm really excited to go

835
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Speaker 7: to the one in Lake Como. I think it's going

836
00:34:44,719 --> 00:34:45,400
Speaker 7: to be gorgeous.

837
00:34:45,440 --> 00:34:47,000
Speaker 1: So lake Como, Italy awesome.

838
00:34:47,120 --> 00:34:50,120
Speaker 7: Then I also just stayed at the Saint Regis in Chicago.

839
00:34:50,480 --> 00:34:53,319
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm a stunny Have you ever stayed there? Oh

840
00:34:53,360 --> 00:34:53,680
Speaker 2: my god.

841
00:34:53,760 --> 00:34:57,280
Speaker 4: It's nice that despite how much you do travel for work,

842
00:34:57,800 --> 00:34:59,759
Speaker 4: that you can still find time to, like because when

843
00:34:59,800 --> 00:35:03,520
Speaker 4: you're airport not by choice always, it's it's a daunting

844
00:35:03,680 --> 00:35:06,160
Speaker 4: idea to want to book your own plane tickets.

845
00:35:06,480 --> 00:35:07,480
Speaker 1: But it's good that you're.

846
00:35:07,360 --> 00:35:09,879
Speaker 4: Still finding time to like visit places that you want

847
00:35:09,920 --> 00:35:10,160
Speaker 4: to see.

848
00:35:10,200 --> 00:35:12,399
Speaker 7: Yeah. The second I don't have a game, I book

849
00:35:12,400 --> 00:35:14,719
Speaker 7: a flight. So I'm like, I'm like, oh god, I

850
00:35:14,719 --> 00:35:15,759
Speaker 7: can finally do something I want.

851
00:35:15,880 --> 00:35:17,120
Speaker 2: Let me book a flight to this game.

852
00:35:17,440 --> 00:35:18,320
Speaker 1: You're not a homebody.

853
00:35:18,520 --> 00:35:22,680
Speaker 2: No, is your son in sports? He's not. He's an actor. Really, Yeah,

854
00:35:22,680 --> 00:35:23,240
Speaker 2: he's an actor.

855
00:35:23,280 --> 00:35:26,600
Speaker 7: He was actually in the Kurt Warner movie American Underdog.

856
00:35:26,640 --> 00:35:29,279
Speaker 2: Did you ever watch that movie? Son is in that movie?

857
00:35:29,800 --> 00:35:31,239
Speaker 1: Okay? Yes, Where does he live?

858
00:35:31,640 --> 00:35:32,040
Speaker 2: New York?

859
00:35:32,120 --> 00:35:33,479
Speaker 1: He lives in New York, New York City? Okay.

860
00:35:33,560 --> 00:35:33,840
Speaker 6: Nice.

861
00:35:34,000 --> 00:35:36,000
Speaker 1: Have you lived in any other state that isn't Utah?

862
00:35:36,239 --> 00:35:38,640
Speaker 7: Have you? I lived in LA when I was doing

863
00:35:38,760 --> 00:35:40,880
Speaker 7: my cancer treatment. I was getting treated at the UCLA

864
00:35:40,960 --> 00:35:43,000
Speaker 7: Medical Center. So I lived in LA for four years,

865
00:35:43,320 --> 00:35:44,879
Speaker 7: and then I lived in New York for four years.

866
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Speaker 1: So you're the best guys.

867
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Speaker 4: We for the first time on this podcast laughed and cried,

868
00:35:52,080 --> 00:35:55,680
Speaker 4: Oh my gosh, and so that that feels good.

869
00:35:55,840 --> 00:35:57,000
Speaker 1: No, that's so awesome.

870
00:35:57,840 --> 00:36:01,120
Speaker 4: And it's nice to ask someone questions and let someone

871
00:36:01,160 --> 00:36:04,320
Speaker 4: share their story who is often sharing other people's stories,

872
00:36:04,840 --> 00:36:06,280
Speaker 4: and so like, that's so cool.

873
00:36:06,320 --> 00:36:08,719
Speaker 1: And we thank you very much. And you're going right

874
00:36:08,719 --> 00:36:09,520
Speaker 1: back to work after this.

875
00:36:09,640 --> 00:36:12,440
Speaker 7: I'm going to work right this minute. I'm formulating my

876
00:36:12,520 --> 00:36:15,360
Speaker 7: questions right now. The arrival interviews for coach Don Staley

877
00:36:15,400 --> 00:36:16,320
Speaker 7: and Gina Oriama.

878
00:36:16,880 --> 00:36:18,160
Speaker 2: So I'm excited.

879
00:36:18,160 --> 00:36:19,920
Speaker 7: I think we're going to get two really good games.

880
00:36:20,160 --> 00:36:22,359
Speaker 7: I will be really surprised if these aren't two very

881
00:36:22,360 --> 00:36:23,120
Speaker 7: competitive games.

882
00:36:23,160 --> 00:36:24,200
Speaker 2: I think we have the four.

883
00:36:24,000 --> 00:36:27,239
Speaker 7: Best teams in the country. So I'm really excited, and

884
00:36:27,400 --> 00:36:29,000
Speaker 7: I just want to compliment you guys, because I really

885
00:36:29,080 --> 00:36:30,799
Speaker 7: enjoy your show. I watch your show and I think

886
00:36:30,840 --> 00:36:32,759
Speaker 7: it's so fun. But in my head I've been like,

887
00:36:32,800 --> 00:36:34,560
Speaker 7: who the hell is this guy and why is he

888
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Speaker 7: on with Sophie.

889
00:36:35,360 --> 00:36:38,080
Speaker 2: High school friends. Yeah, but you do a good job,

890
00:36:38,160 --> 00:36:41,600
Speaker 2: and do you like you really know work for Complex.

891
00:36:43,160 --> 00:36:45,680
Speaker 4: And so I've been doing interviews and producing and stuff

892
00:36:45,680 --> 00:36:46,200
Speaker 4: for a long time.

893
00:36:46,840 --> 00:36:48,879
Speaker 2: He's very good at Your show is so fun, it's

894
00:36:48,960 --> 00:36:51,040
Speaker 2: so cute. But this is my first time I've gotten

895
00:36:51,040 --> 00:36:53,160
Speaker 2: to interact with you. So I will say I'm proud

896
00:36:53,200 --> 00:36:54,279
Speaker 2: of you. You're doing a great job.

897
00:36:54,400 --> 00:36:56,760
Speaker 4: I appreciate that. And you're part of my childhood core memories,

898
00:36:56,760 --> 00:36:57,840
Speaker 4: all the MISERI games.

899
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Speaker 2: So that's like all of our love that that I'm

900
00:37:00,120 --> 00:37:00,879
Speaker 2: your childhood course.

901
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Speaker 1: Thank you for coming, guys.

902
00:37:08,320 --> 00:37:11,040
Speaker 4: Alison Feuster has played and traveled over the world and

903
00:37:11,120 --> 00:37:13,920
Speaker 4: is a lifelong athlete. She's an executive for the Boston

904
00:37:13,960 --> 00:37:17,520
Speaker 4: Celtics and the mother of an NCAA star athlete, and

905
00:37:17,560 --> 00:37:20,080
Speaker 4: an advocate for the power of sports. She was a

906
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Speaker 4: part of the first sixteen seed to beat a one seed.

907
00:37:22,280 --> 00:37:23,640
Speaker 4: I knew you beat a one seedos.

908
00:37:23,640 --> 00:37:25,239
Speaker 6: I'm sure if it was the first one actually only

909
00:37:25,280 --> 00:37:26,200
Speaker 6: on the women's side.

910
00:37:26,400 --> 00:37:29,680
Speaker 4: Incredible, only incredible when Harvard beat Stanford, what was it,

911
00:37:29,800 --> 00:37:33,080
Speaker 4: nineteen ninety nine, ninety eight. She went on to play

912
00:37:33,080 --> 00:37:35,319
Speaker 4: in the WNBA for the Sparks, the Charlotte Sting, and

913
00:37:35,360 --> 00:37:36,160
Speaker 4: the Indiana Fever.

914
00:37:36,239 --> 00:37:36,799
Speaker 2: Come right now.

915
00:37:37,000 --> 00:37:39,000
Speaker 3: Now she's here with us in Phoenix for the twenty

916
00:37:39,040 --> 00:37:42,719
Speaker 3: twenty six NCAAA Women's Championship where her daughter, which is

917
00:37:42,840 --> 00:37:46,200
Speaker 3: absolutely amazing, full circle moment, Sarah Strong, who was just

918
00:37:46,280 --> 00:37:49,200
Speaker 3: named the AP Player of the Year as a sophomore

919
00:37:49,680 --> 00:37:50,280
Speaker 3: at Ukon.

920
00:37:51,000 --> 00:37:53,720
Speaker 2: That is crazy, absolutely insane.

921
00:37:53,760 --> 00:37:55,000
Speaker 4: But I do have to say one thing. I keep

922
00:37:55,000 --> 00:37:57,480
Speaker 4: having nuggets before we hop into everything. I covered the

923
00:37:57,520 --> 00:38:01,200
Speaker 4: McDonald's All American Game in Houston would have been two

924
00:38:01,280 --> 00:38:05,240
Speaker 4: years ago. Yeah, Sarah, So we did like fun social

925
00:38:05,280 --> 00:38:06,960
Speaker 4: content and stuff with her. So I actually get to

926
00:38:07,080 --> 00:38:09,000
Speaker 4: hang out and meet Sarah two years ago. Did you

927
00:38:09,120 --> 00:38:11,480
Speaker 4: in the moment when you guys were the first sixteen

928
00:38:11,520 --> 00:38:13,680
Speaker 4: to win, did it just feel like I mean, obviously

929
00:38:13,840 --> 00:38:15,720
Speaker 4: it's a tournament win, it's a bigger win than normal,

930
00:38:16,000 --> 00:38:17,640
Speaker 4: But did you know in the moment, like what you

931
00:38:17,760 --> 00:38:19,560
Speaker 4: had done or was it like, oh, big win, let's move,

932
00:38:19,640 --> 00:38:20,359
Speaker 4: let's keep it moving.

933
00:38:20,560 --> 00:38:22,120
Speaker 6: I think we were cognizant.

934
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Speaker 8: I think the grainy, you know, barely color video that

935
00:38:26,120 --> 00:38:28,400
Speaker 8: they show every year during the tournament. You know, you

936
00:38:28,400 --> 00:38:31,560
Speaker 8: can see my teammates just losing it. We knew it

937
00:38:31,960 --> 00:38:36,320
Speaker 8: that it would reverberate almost thirty years later. No, because

938
00:38:36,440 --> 00:38:39,040
Speaker 8: it's just not hasn't been known the women's side, and

939
00:38:39,040 --> 00:38:41,799
Speaker 8: it's just done twice in the man why humans, So

940
00:38:41,880 --> 00:38:42,920
Speaker 8: it's not there the.

941
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Speaker 3: Women's side, there's not even there's such a huge difference

942
00:38:45,600 --> 00:38:47,759
Speaker 3: between a one seed and a two seed, like.

943
00:38:48,000 --> 00:38:50,160
Speaker 2: I mean, that's his historic history.

944
00:38:50,400 --> 00:38:53,760
Speaker 3: You don't see a lot of upsets or cinerell of stories.

945
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Speaker 6: Not on the side.

946
00:38:55,000 --> 00:38:58,000
Speaker 8: You still selection Sunday, we were given a sixteen seed.

947
00:38:58,080 --> 00:38:59,919
Speaker 6: We had we thought we were much better.

948
00:39:00,040 --> 00:39:01,680
Speaker 8: We found out we were going to go play at Stanford,

949
00:39:01,680 --> 00:39:03,520
Speaker 8: which is number one seed, so we were going in

950
00:39:03,520 --> 00:39:05,200
Speaker 8: with a chip on our shoulder. They had a fifty

951
00:39:05,320 --> 00:39:09,480
Speaker 8: something game win streak, and we prepared these play cards.

952
00:39:09,520 --> 00:39:11,720
Speaker 8: So because it was so loud, and I think because

953
00:39:11,719 --> 00:39:15,080
Speaker 8: of the earthquake, there's some type of system where the

954
00:39:15,320 --> 00:39:18,840
Speaker 8: it's just some type of shock system, so it's really loud.

955
00:39:18,840 --> 00:39:21,080
Speaker 6: You can feel the court shake.

956
00:39:21,400 --> 00:39:23,600
Speaker 8: I was a nation's leading scorer at the time, so

957
00:39:23,640 --> 00:39:26,520
Speaker 8: there wasn't a ton of respect for Harvard player lead

958
00:39:26,560 --> 00:39:28,799
Speaker 8: the nation and scoring. And I will say this in

959
00:39:28,840 --> 00:39:31,520
Speaker 8: all fairness, Stanford did have two they were missing two starters.

960
00:39:32,400 --> 00:39:35,200
Speaker 8: It only doesn't matter because you got to play the

961
00:39:35,239 --> 00:39:39,839
Speaker 8: game one percent. We just chopped away at it and won.

962
00:39:40,160 --> 00:39:42,560
Speaker 1: I'm probably I'm hitting YouTube when I get to the host.

963
00:39:42,600 --> 00:39:44,080
Speaker 2: Yeah, I want to know.

964
00:39:44,280 --> 00:39:45,719
Speaker 3: Was it you and then just like a bunch of

965
00:39:45,760 --> 00:39:47,200
Speaker 3: other people or did you have some studs on your

966
00:39:47,239 --> 00:39:47,800
Speaker 3: team too.

967
00:39:47,640 --> 00:39:50,080
Speaker 6: That were like, could you know our college coach?

968
00:39:50,160 --> 00:39:51,920
Speaker 2: And I'm not even trying to be disrespectful, I just

969
00:39:51,960 --> 00:39:52,319
Speaker 2: want to.

970
00:39:52,520 --> 00:39:55,200
Speaker 8: A college coach set the stage at the beginning of

971
00:39:55,239 --> 00:39:57,560
Speaker 8: the year, act as if your role on the team

972
00:39:57,680 --> 00:40:00,600
Speaker 8: is the most important role, and each and every person

973
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Speaker 8: knew what she was supposed to do on the court.

974
00:40:03,280 --> 00:40:05,920
Speaker 8: I just happened to, you know, want to be the

975
00:40:05,920 --> 00:40:07,800
Speaker 8: best player on the team and score the most points.

976
00:40:07,800 --> 00:40:09,960
Speaker 8: But my teammates, they knew what they were supposed to

977
00:40:10,040 --> 00:40:12,719
Speaker 8: do and they did. One of my teammates hit a

978
00:40:12,800 --> 00:40:15,880
Speaker 8: three pointer to seal the wins. So people were confident,

979
00:40:16,320 --> 00:40:17,520
Speaker 8: you know what they had to do.

980
00:40:17,680 --> 00:40:20,200
Speaker 2: You're saying that, and like, that's what we're trying to

981
00:40:20,200 --> 00:40:20,759
Speaker 2: get in the.

982
00:40:20,840 --> 00:40:24,200
Speaker 3: War that the championship team say the same exact thing,

983
00:40:24,280 --> 00:40:26,560
Speaker 3: and it's absolutely know your role, own your role, and

984
00:40:26,600 --> 00:40:29,319
Speaker 3: that even if it's getting two boards a game, own that,

985
00:40:29,560 --> 00:40:31,040
Speaker 3: you know what I mean, the team needs that and

986
00:40:31,080 --> 00:40:32,880
Speaker 3: so I absolutely love that it is.

987
00:40:33,000 --> 00:40:35,840
Speaker 4: I wonder what the difference, like the feeling between that

988
00:40:36,000 --> 00:40:38,279
Speaker 4: win versus if Sarah win didn't chap.

989
00:40:38,520 --> 00:40:39,840
Speaker 1: I mean, they're both like very euphouric.

990
00:40:40,080 --> 00:40:41,200
Speaker 6: Give me Sarah's wink.

991
00:40:41,640 --> 00:40:43,480
Speaker 8: Yeah, you know, so we want the Celtics one in

992
00:40:43,520 --> 00:40:44,279
Speaker 8: twenty twenty four.

993
00:40:44,760 --> 00:40:47,840
Speaker 6: I was elated, you know, all all the things.

994
00:40:47,840 --> 00:40:51,080
Speaker 8: And then when they won last year and Tampa, yeah, yeah,

995
00:40:51,120 --> 00:40:52,040
Speaker 8: there's nothing like that.

996
00:40:52,040 --> 00:40:54,000
Speaker 6: That's yeah, yeah, it was so great.

997
00:40:54,200 --> 00:40:56,400
Speaker 2: First of all, you're All Star one year for the

998
00:40:56,480 --> 00:40:58,040
Speaker 2: w R. Yeah yeah, heck yeah you are.

999
00:40:58,239 --> 00:41:03,040
Speaker 3: So you played at the highest level college pros and

1000
00:41:03,080 --> 00:41:04,960
Speaker 3: now I was just asking you, I feel like, probably

1001
00:41:05,000 --> 00:41:07,399
Speaker 3: the most anxious you're ever going to be is being

1002
00:41:07,400 --> 00:41:10,239
Speaker 3: a mom on the sideline watching your baby girl do

1003
00:41:10,320 --> 00:41:12,839
Speaker 3: her thing on the biggest level of college hoops. Like,

1004
00:41:13,160 --> 00:41:15,600
Speaker 3: what are you truly feeling like being on this side

1005
00:41:15,640 --> 00:41:16,360
Speaker 3: of it, what did.

1006
00:41:16,239 --> 00:41:17,839
Speaker 1: You not know then?

1007
00:41:18,160 --> 00:41:22,160
Speaker 8: Beyond nerves like it's zero control on the game, on

1008
00:41:22,200 --> 00:41:25,719
Speaker 8: the outcome, whatsoever. I think we parents like to think

1009
00:41:25,760 --> 00:41:28,520
Speaker 8: that we have some magic word that we can say

1010
00:41:28,560 --> 00:41:29,880
Speaker 8: to activate.

1011
00:41:29,400 --> 00:41:32,960
Speaker 6: Something and our children but no powerless yea.

1012
00:41:34,120 --> 00:41:38,120
Speaker 8: And also positively optimistic that they're going to put their

1013
00:41:38,120 --> 00:41:40,200
Speaker 8: best foot forward. The best team is going to win today,

1014
00:41:40,680 --> 00:41:42,759
Speaker 8: and so that's really all you can hope for. That's

1015
00:41:42,800 --> 00:41:45,319
Speaker 8: easier said than done. I'm already sweating bullets thinking about it.

1016
00:41:45,480 --> 00:41:50,439
Speaker 8: Just trusting every step of the process we get caught

1017
00:41:50,480 --> 00:41:52,920
Speaker 8: up and hoping that we make the right decisions along

1018
00:41:52,920 --> 00:41:54,759
Speaker 8: the way. And you know, I know Geno and the

1019
00:41:54,800 --> 00:41:55,400
Speaker 8: staff habit.

1020
00:41:55,600 --> 00:41:58,759
Speaker 4: So as someone who's been involved with sports almost your

1021
00:41:58,760 --> 00:42:01,080
Speaker 4: whole life, do you do you find it hard to

1022
00:42:01,560 --> 00:42:03,399
Speaker 4: let go a little bit in moments like this because

1023
00:42:03,440 --> 00:42:04,839
Speaker 4: obviously you do know what you're talking about.

1024
00:42:04,840 --> 00:42:06,520
Speaker 1: You've been in these moments absolutely.

1025
00:42:06,840 --> 00:42:07,160
Speaker 6: Is it?

1026
00:42:07,200 --> 00:42:09,480
Speaker 4: Is it hard to tell yourself like, let Gino in

1027
00:42:09,520 --> 00:42:12,160
Speaker 4: the staff handle it, or do you it's easy to

1028
00:42:12,160 --> 00:42:13,880
Speaker 4: just hey.

1029
00:42:13,800 --> 00:42:15,960
Speaker 2: You know, I know Stone who.

1030
00:42:15,760 --> 00:42:16,480
Speaker 1: Knows what's going on.

1031
00:42:16,600 --> 00:42:18,640
Speaker 8: And as a mom, like I think we've gotten to

1032
00:42:18,680 --> 00:42:22,640
Speaker 8: a point this season especially and looking back at last season,

1033
00:42:22,760 --> 00:42:24,080
Speaker 8: like she her phone.

1034
00:42:23,840 --> 00:42:25,800
Speaker 6: Was off before the before the Final four.

1035
00:42:25,640 --> 00:42:28,200
Speaker 8: And we couldn't get to her anyway, and that and

1036
00:42:28,280 --> 00:42:30,520
Speaker 8: when we when she came out and to see her

1037
00:42:30,600 --> 00:42:34,640
Speaker 8: with that level of focus and just preparedness, like, yeah,

1038
00:42:34,719 --> 00:42:35,520
Speaker 8: they know what they're doing.

1039
00:42:35,560 --> 00:42:39,040
Speaker 6: So I'm definitely not one to push up on Geno

1040
00:42:39,160 --> 00:42:39,480
Speaker 6: like that.

1041
00:42:39,520 --> 00:42:41,759
Speaker 3: You've been around the game forever, still are with the

1042
00:42:41,760 --> 00:42:44,960
Speaker 3: Boston Celtics, which is huge not only for just being

1043
00:42:44,960 --> 00:42:47,439
Speaker 3: in the NBA, but as a woman trailblazing for people

1044
00:42:47,440 --> 00:42:49,200
Speaker 3: who might want to do that when they're done. What

1045
00:42:49,239 --> 00:42:53,080
Speaker 3: do you kind of see in this generation of players

1046
00:42:53,120 --> 00:42:56,440
Speaker 3: that maybe you didn't see when you were playing, And like,

1047
00:42:56,520 --> 00:42:59,759
Speaker 3: what excites you about even the next generation after Sarah's.

1048
00:42:59,440 --> 00:43:03,320
Speaker 8: Done with I'm excited about this next generation and I

1049
00:43:03,360 --> 00:43:06,000
Speaker 8: can tell you even the generation that's that's killing it now,

1050
00:43:06,080 --> 00:43:08,480
Speaker 8: you guys, and I include you in there because you're

1051
00:43:08,600 --> 00:43:11,239
Speaker 8: you know, you're an active player multi hyphenates, if I

1052
00:43:11,239 --> 00:43:14,279
Speaker 8: can use that phrase. You guys are so good at

1053
00:43:14,320 --> 00:43:18,719
Speaker 8: so many things, mastering the on court stuff, you are

1054
00:43:19,200 --> 00:43:22,759
Speaker 8: getting exposure to all types of things off the court,

1055
00:43:22,840 --> 00:43:25,600
Speaker 8: just building out that professional profile, so to speak, and

1056
00:43:25,640 --> 00:43:27,760
Speaker 8: you can do many things, and I think the younger

1057
00:43:27,800 --> 00:43:30,880
Speaker 8: generation is learning that in real time from you guys,

1058
00:43:30,920 --> 00:43:32,320
Speaker 8: and yeah, you're just ready.

1059
00:43:32,320 --> 00:43:34,200
Speaker 3: Well, I think it shows it's always been there. I

1060
00:43:34,239 --> 00:43:37,920
Speaker 3: think maybe it's just the platform, the opportunity, right. Social

1061
00:43:37,920 --> 00:43:39,719
Speaker 3: media is a good thing, could be a bad thing,

1062
00:43:39,800 --> 00:43:41,719
Speaker 3: but I think that's helped bring a lot of opportunity

1063
00:43:41,719 --> 00:43:44,080
Speaker 3: and eyes to our sport. But I think you were

1064
00:43:44,120 --> 00:43:46,799
Speaker 3: walking proof that the resume of us being more than

1065
00:43:46,840 --> 00:43:48,040
Speaker 3: just an athlete have always been there.

1066
00:43:48,080 --> 00:43:50,400
Speaker 8: Yeah, it's a different type of hustle, Like we definitely

1067
00:43:50,440 --> 00:43:52,520
Speaker 8: had to hustle back in the day to get what

1068
00:43:52,560 --> 00:43:54,760
Speaker 8: you guys are now getting very well deserved.

1069
00:43:54,920 --> 00:43:58,000
Speaker 4: Obviously we've talked we've talked a lot of women's basketball

1070
00:43:58,080 --> 00:44:02,160
Speaker 4: and women like players and people involved in the WNBA.

1071
00:44:02,200 --> 00:44:05,360
Speaker 4: But as someone who's in the NBA, what do you

1072
00:44:05,480 --> 00:44:08,520
Speaker 4: feel like your trailblazing is someone who you aren't in

1073
00:44:08,560 --> 00:44:09,160
Speaker 4: a women's field.

1074
00:44:09,160 --> 00:44:10,320
Speaker 1: You're in a men's field.

1075
00:44:10,880 --> 00:44:13,160
Speaker 4: But being a woman in such like a high level,

1076
00:44:13,600 --> 00:44:16,759
Speaker 4: male centered like office, what are you most proud of

1077
00:44:16,800 --> 00:44:18,120
Speaker 4: as far as being a woman in that space?

1078
00:44:18,160 --> 00:44:19,400
Speaker 8: And this is not this I say this with the

1079
00:44:19,480 --> 00:44:22,520
Speaker 8: utmost humility, Like if you're in a role like I am,

1080
00:44:22,680 --> 00:44:26,840
Speaker 8: if you're in a space that's male dominated and do

1081
00:44:26,840 --> 00:44:29,800
Speaker 8: you have some influence, you have to leverage that influence

1082
00:44:29,840 --> 00:44:34,600
Speaker 8: to open doors and provide exposure to the underrepresented. And

1083
00:44:34,640 --> 00:44:38,240
Speaker 8: I'm really proud that I embraced that role. I want

1084
00:44:38,600 --> 00:44:41,440
Speaker 8: young women, young girls to know that there is a

1085
00:44:41,520 --> 00:44:45,760
Speaker 8: place in men's sports for them. Yeah, because there's certainly

1086
00:44:45,800 --> 00:44:48,480
Speaker 8: a lot of men and women's professional sports, so we

1087
00:44:48,520 --> 00:44:52,280
Speaker 8: want to make sure that there is just that exposure.

1088
00:44:52,520 --> 00:44:55,359
Speaker 3: Everyone is focused on Sarah, right, But I think once

1089
00:44:55,400 --> 00:44:57,520
Speaker 3: you're in it, you realize that it takes a village

1090
00:44:57,560 --> 00:44:59,920
Speaker 3: in a community, in a small circle, some big st

1091
00:45:00,040 --> 00:45:02,920
Speaker 3: but mainly a small circle of really getting her to

1092
00:45:02,960 --> 00:45:04,239
Speaker 3: where she's at.

1093
00:45:04,680 --> 00:45:06,680
Speaker 2: And I think I'm just wanting.

1094
00:45:06,360 --> 00:45:08,480
Speaker 3: This isn't a question, this is just me showing appreciation

1095
00:45:08,560 --> 00:45:11,120
Speaker 3: that as an athlete, I just want to say thank

1096
00:45:11,160 --> 00:45:14,480
Speaker 3: you for pouring into women's sports, thank you for pouring

1097
00:45:14,520 --> 00:45:16,160
Speaker 3: into Sarah to show her what.

1098
00:45:16,080 --> 00:45:16,840
Speaker 2: It can really be like.

1099
00:45:16,880 --> 00:45:18,840
Speaker 3: Because I do think that you know, the kids and

1100
00:45:18,840 --> 00:45:20,280
Speaker 3: the athlete, they get all the credit.

1101
00:45:20,120 --> 00:45:22,719
Speaker 2: But the parents do so so much. And it's expensive.

1102
00:45:23,160 --> 00:45:26,520
Speaker 3: It's expensive to go and travel on the au circuits.

1103
00:45:26,600 --> 00:45:29,399
Speaker 3: It's expensive to travel to every game to be here

1104
00:45:29,400 --> 00:45:31,560
Speaker 3: in support. Because you say, you know, oh, her phone's off.

1105
00:45:31,560 --> 00:45:33,359
Speaker 3: She doesn't need to know. You bring her a certain

1106
00:45:33,360 --> 00:45:35,000
Speaker 3: comfort when she looks up in the stands and she

1107
00:45:35,080 --> 00:45:36,239
Speaker 3: makes eye contact with you.

1108
00:45:36,480 --> 00:45:37,360
Speaker 2: I just want to say.

1109
00:45:37,239 --> 00:45:41,120
Speaker 3: Thank you from a child perspective, from an athlete perspective

1110
00:45:41,200 --> 00:45:43,840
Speaker 3: of supportive, awesome parents that pour into your children.

1111
00:45:43,960 --> 00:45:46,040
Speaker 8: When I went to work with the Celtics, she stayed

1112
00:45:46,080 --> 00:45:48,520
Speaker 8: back in North Carolina with her dad. She wore the

1113
00:45:48,600 --> 00:45:52,759
Speaker 8: tires off his car going to tournament to pick up

1114
00:45:52,760 --> 00:45:57,120
Speaker 8: her friends basketball's in the back. And this past Christmas

1115
00:45:57,160 --> 00:46:00,120
Speaker 8: she bought him a car as a way to say

1116
00:46:00,160 --> 00:46:00,520
Speaker 8: thank you.

1117
00:46:01,080 --> 00:46:04,000
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, yeah it was. It was pretty moving. Love that.

1118
00:46:04,440 --> 00:46:07,200
Speaker 3: Speaking of travel, did you have any rituals when you

1119
00:46:07,239 --> 00:46:12,600
Speaker 3: traveled back in the day, either here or yeah, tell.

1120
00:46:12,480 --> 00:46:12,960
Speaker 6: Me about that.

1121
00:46:13,000 --> 00:46:16,160
Speaker 8: I've always been one to kind of delve into the

1122
00:46:16,200 --> 00:46:21,200
Speaker 8: culture wherever I am and sitting outside on terrassa having

1123
00:46:21,200 --> 00:46:26,560
Speaker 8: a drink with friends, we need.

1124
00:46:27,960 --> 00:46:28,560
Speaker 1: Where did you play?

1125
00:46:29,040 --> 00:46:32,160
Speaker 6: I played in France six years in France, nine in.

1126
00:46:32,120 --> 00:46:35,320
Speaker 8: Spain, one, Italy, one, Portugal. Sarah is also a naturalized

1127
00:46:35,360 --> 00:46:37,640
Speaker 8: French citizen. Well she has it by birth, but her

1128
00:46:37,680 --> 00:46:41,200
Speaker 8: dad and I are naturalized. So yeah, having played there

1129
00:46:41,200 --> 00:46:42,799
Speaker 8: for so long, Oh that's amazing.

1130
00:46:42,960 --> 00:46:45,320
Speaker 4: Did your connections with the Celtics come from playing or

1131
00:46:45,360 --> 00:46:47,120
Speaker 4: going to school in Boston or.

1132
00:46:47,120 --> 00:46:49,560
Speaker 8: The kind disorda a little bit. When I at forty,

1133
00:46:49,600 --> 00:46:51,520
Speaker 8: I was like, it's time to retire what you played

1134
00:46:51,560 --> 00:46:52,120
Speaker 8: till you were forty?

1135
00:46:52,200 --> 00:46:52,400
Speaker 1: I did.

1136
00:46:52,400 --> 00:46:53,240
Speaker 6: I was playing overseas.

1137
00:46:53,280 --> 00:46:55,799
Speaker 8: I was, you know, it's didn't know what I wanted

1138
00:46:55,800 --> 00:46:58,920
Speaker 8: to do and just kept playing, working, hustling.

1139
00:46:58,640 --> 00:47:00,160
Speaker 6: Until I figured it out out.

1140
00:47:00,600 --> 00:47:03,439
Speaker 8: There was a program for former players at the NBA

1141
00:47:03,560 --> 00:47:06,359
Speaker 8: League office. It was called the Basket Operations Associates Program

1142
00:47:06,440 --> 00:47:08,919
Speaker 8: or something like that. The first cool heart were six

1143
00:47:09,000 --> 00:47:12,760
Speaker 8: of us, me, Stacey Lovelace of former Purdue boiler Maker,

1144
00:47:12,920 --> 00:47:18,400
Speaker 8: Ryan Cardinal, Drew Goodens, Corey mcgetty, and Troy Murphy. I

1145
00:47:18,400 --> 00:47:20,160
Speaker 8: want to say it was the last guy, but yeah,

1146
00:47:20,440 --> 00:47:22,879
Speaker 8: that's how I met Danny Ainge and Brad Stevens through

1147
00:47:22,880 --> 00:47:23,400
Speaker 8: that program.

1148
00:47:23,600 --> 00:47:26,160
Speaker 1: Was education growing up like a big part of like

1149
00:47:26,239 --> 00:47:27,480
Speaker 1: all of Yeah, it was.

1150
00:47:27,560 --> 00:47:29,600
Speaker 6: It was the only, really the only motivation.

1151
00:47:29,800 --> 00:47:33,879
Speaker 8: My mom was a single parent raising four kids, and yeah,

1152
00:47:34,000 --> 00:47:35,960
Speaker 8: education was the way to get a good job and

1153
00:47:36,040 --> 00:47:39,560
Speaker 8: make money to help the family. And that's why I

1154
00:47:39,680 --> 00:47:42,080
Speaker 8: chose to forego the scholarship and go to Harvard.

1155
00:47:42,160 --> 00:47:44,480
Speaker 4: Really yeah, because the IVY you cannot do it.

1156
00:47:45,360 --> 00:47:46,239
Speaker 6: Athletic scholarships.

1157
00:47:46,280 --> 00:47:48,200
Speaker 1: Athletic scholarships you had to.

1158
00:47:48,800 --> 00:47:54,000
Speaker 4: I lived with Harvard football guys my first two years

1159
00:47:54,040 --> 00:47:55,520
Speaker 4: in New York, and so I learned a lot about

1160
00:47:55,520 --> 00:47:59,239
Speaker 4: the IVY League sports. We asked Holly this earlier, is

1161
00:47:59,280 --> 00:48:02,560
Speaker 4: there a community right now and it can be w

1162
00:48:02,960 --> 00:48:07,360
Speaker 4: or college basketball that you think embraces women's sports like

1163
00:48:07,360 --> 00:48:09,480
Speaker 4: more than anywhere else, or some somewhere underrated that.

1164
00:48:09,480 --> 00:48:12,640
Speaker 2: You're like, this great question for like someone who's it could.

1165
00:48:12,440 --> 00:48:13,000
Speaker 1: Even be in Europe.

1166
00:48:13,080 --> 00:48:16,680
Speaker 4: Yeah, like somewhere where you're like, they they love women's basketball.

1167
00:48:16,239 --> 00:48:16,640
Speaker 6: You know what.

1168
00:48:16,840 --> 00:48:19,200
Speaker 8: So I was working with men like the NBA players.

1169
00:48:19,400 --> 00:48:22,000
Speaker 8: I'm around the guys all the time that they love

1170
00:48:22,040 --> 00:48:24,040
Speaker 8: the game. And I also want to shout out like

1171
00:48:24,120 --> 00:48:27,800
Speaker 8: the players who use their platform, like Kevin Durant who's

1172
00:48:27,840 --> 00:48:32,440
Speaker 8: always you know, repping and uplifting and watching the sport.

1173
00:48:32,840 --> 00:48:34,960
Speaker 8: You know, Kobe, May you rest in peace with the

1174
00:48:35,520 --> 00:48:38,160
Speaker 8: jert with the orange sweatshirt like that. That was a

1175
00:48:38,760 --> 00:48:41,560
Speaker 8: watershed moment for for the for the game, and so yeah,

1176
00:48:41,560 --> 00:48:43,440
Speaker 8: I would, I would call out the NBA players.

1177
00:48:43,440 --> 00:48:45,000
Speaker 1: That's awesome. Actually that's a really good answer.

1178
00:48:45,080 --> 00:48:47,160
Speaker 3: You know what's funny And I know you clearly just

1179
00:48:47,200 --> 00:48:49,759
Speaker 3: said this, but to piggyback off that we know that

1180
00:48:50,000 --> 00:48:51,120
Speaker 3: those guys support us.

1181
00:48:51,280 --> 00:48:54,319
Speaker 4: I mean, you're behind the scenes with those guys, but

1182
00:48:54,360 --> 00:48:56,000
Speaker 4: you also have played yourself. What do you feel like

1183
00:48:56,040 --> 00:48:58,200
Speaker 4: you have seen change the most in the women's game since,

1184
00:48:58,239 --> 00:48:59,480
Speaker 4: like you played to now.

1185
00:48:59,480 --> 00:49:04,200
Speaker 8: The amount of resources available, I think that's the obvious thing,

1186
00:49:04,280 --> 00:49:06,720
Speaker 8: but I the amount of I mean, the women today are.

1187
00:49:06,600 --> 00:49:08,880
Speaker 6: Just they don't have to work two jobs. You know,

1188
00:49:08,960 --> 00:49:10,920
Speaker 6: you can dedicate your livelihood.

1189
00:49:11,040 --> 00:49:14,360
Speaker 8: Your livelihood is basketball and being a professional and honing

1190
00:49:14,400 --> 00:49:14,920
Speaker 8: your craft.

1191
00:49:15,000 --> 00:49:15,920
Speaker 2: What is something you have.

1192
00:49:16,000 --> 00:49:19,560
Speaker 3: Like told Sarah in order to like help her, Like

1193
00:49:19,600 --> 00:49:21,600
Speaker 3: what's what's your pieces of advice to her?

1194
00:49:21,920 --> 00:49:24,120
Speaker 8: Because you've been in her shoes. I tell her she

1195
00:49:24,239 --> 00:49:26,359
Speaker 8: has to trust like the work that she puts in.

1196
00:49:26,600 --> 00:49:29,759
Speaker 8: If you're in any role, you you might your confidence might,

1197
00:49:30,000 --> 00:49:32,080
Speaker 8: you know, waiver at times. You have to trust that

1198
00:49:32,120 --> 00:49:35,560
Speaker 8: the little daily deposits that you put in over many many,

1199
00:49:35,600 --> 00:49:37,560
Speaker 8: many many years, Like she knows how to do it.

1200
00:49:37,719 --> 00:49:41,520
Speaker 8: That's where you get your confidence from. And also, you know,

1201
00:49:41,760 --> 00:49:44,840
Speaker 8: she's a she's a whole amazing person. If the basketball

1202
00:49:44,880 --> 00:49:45,640
Speaker 8: were not there.

1203
00:49:45,480 --> 00:49:49,200
Speaker 4: You've lived overseas, went to school in Boston in Boston now, yes,

1204
00:49:49,480 --> 00:49:50,560
Speaker 4: grew up in South Carolina.

1205
00:49:50,680 --> 00:49:52,000
Speaker 2: I thought we were going to get a W team

1206
00:49:52,000 --> 00:49:52,520
Speaker 2: in Boston.

1207
00:49:52,719 --> 00:49:56,480
Speaker 6: Yeah, we're close close. Keep our fingers crossed basketball aside.

1208
00:49:56,680 --> 00:49:59,600
Speaker 4: Do you guys as a family find like travel, vacations

1209
00:49:59,600 --> 00:50:02,600
Speaker 4: whatever it exploring the country, the world like an important

1210
00:50:02,640 --> 00:50:04,800
Speaker 4: part of growing as a person.

1211
00:50:05,040 --> 00:50:05,839
Speaker 6: Yeah, we travel a lot.

1212
00:50:05,920 --> 00:50:09,120
Speaker 8: Last year we went back to Spain for like a

1213
00:50:09,160 --> 00:50:13,360
Speaker 8: four day trip, Sarah, my husband, my mom, you know,

1214
00:50:13,440 --> 00:50:15,799
Speaker 8: in tow We also went to the British Virgin Islands.

1215
00:50:15,840 --> 00:50:17,080
Speaker 6: My husband from the Virgin Islands.

1216
00:50:17,080 --> 00:50:19,160
Speaker 2: I just got back from there, like this morning.

1217
00:50:19,440 --> 00:50:20,120
Speaker 6: Amazing St.

1218
00:50:20,120 --> 00:50:20,799
Speaker 2: Thomas Saint John.

1219
00:50:20,840 --> 00:50:22,400
Speaker 6: Yeah, my husband's from Thomas.

1220
00:50:22,480 --> 00:50:25,600
Speaker 2: Oh really yeah, spent eleven days there the past two weeks.

1221
00:50:25,640 --> 00:50:28,440
Speaker 8: That's amazing. So we do like travel is a big

1222
00:50:28,520 --> 00:50:28,960
Speaker 8: part of it.

1223
00:50:29,280 --> 00:50:32,160
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean I think like everyone has their own reasons,

1224
00:50:32,160 --> 00:50:33,879
Speaker 4: But for me, I just think, yeah, from a young age,

1225
00:50:33,960 --> 00:50:37,280
Speaker 4: learning that people are different than you, like not everything

1226
00:50:37,360 --> 00:50:39,520
Speaker 4: is the way it is in your hometown and your

1227
00:50:39,560 --> 00:50:43,239
Speaker 4: family is so important. I'm just curious what lessons you

1228
00:50:43,280 --> 00:50:45,920
Speaker 4: think you learn being all over the place, and then

1229
00:50:45,920 --> 00:50:49,280
Speaker 4: also like getting to expose you know, Sarah to different

1230
00:50:49,280 --> 00:50:49,960
Speaker 4: places as well.

1231
00:50:50,040 --> 00:50:51,480
Speaker 3: She yes, I don't even know if she knows this,

1232
00:50:51,600 --> 00:50:53,799
Speaker 3: but she has such an advantage of being able to

1233
00:50:53,800 --> 00:50:57,080
Speaker 3: already explore Europe in different cultures or like bringing all

1234
00:50:57,120 --> 00:50:59,560
Speaker 3: the good of each culture and like creating your like

1235
00:51:00,120 --> 00:51:00,600
Speaker 3: yourself and.

1236
00:51:00,920 --> 00:51:02,440
Speaker 6: You know, that's so true, that's so true. You make

1237
00:51:02,480 --> 00:51:02,959
Speaker 6: a good point.

1238
00:51:03,360 --> 00:51:06,120
Speaker 8: I think that's one of the that's a skill, like

1239
00:51:06,239 --> 00:51:10,360
Speaker 8: being able to go to a country that the foreign

1240
00:51:10,360 --> 00:51:15,120
Speaker 8: country and figure out the language, make friends. It's like

1241
00:51:15,160 --> 00:51:18,080
Speaker 8: a survival skill that I'm I'm it was hard, you know,

1242
00:51:18,120 --> 00:51:20,719
Speaker 8: growing up and having to change schools every couple of years.

1243
00:51:20,960 --> 00:51:23,440
Speaker 8: But at the same time, that's that's what allows her

1244
00:51:23,560 --> 00:51:26,520
Speaker 8: to probably play and not look like she feels pressure

1245
00:51:26,640 --> 00:51:29,480
Speaker 8: or out of source because she's been under pressure and

1246
00:51:29,920 --> 00:51:31,719
Speaker 8: in adversity in other situations.

1247
00:51:31,800 --> 00:51:33,960
Speaker 6: So I think that's one of the things.

1248
00:51:34,000 --> 00:51:37,160
Speaker 8: That's one of the amazing things about traveling and living abroad.

1249
00:51:37,160 --> 00:51:39,360
Speaker 8: You get a chance to you can't speak the language,

1250
00:51:39,360 --> 00:51:41,799
Speaker 8: you have to find another way to communicate to find

1251
00:51:41,800 --> 00:51:42,440
Speaker 8: common ground.

1252
00:51:42,920 --> 00:51:45,720
Speaker 2: Two part question. First one, are you a hotel snob?

1253
00:51:45,960 --> 00:51:50,080
Speaker 6: Absolutely? Absolutely, the NBA does not.

1254
00:51:50,200 --> 00:51:55,400
Speaker 8: Oh gosh, there's nothing like being at a nice hotel, peaceful,

1255
00:51:55,960 --> 00:51:57,480
Speaker 8: the fragrance, all the things.

1256
00:51:57,600 --> 00:51:57,799
Speaker 6: Yeah.

1257
00:51:57,800 --> 00:51:59,080
Speaker 2: Wait, so that was my second part.

1258
00:51:59,120 --> 00:52:01,640
Speaker 3: Amazing what megs and you have to go into detail

1259
00:52:01,640 --> 00:52:03,879
Speaker 3: here what makes a great hotel room?

1260
00:52:04,200 --> 00:52:06,360
Speaker 8: The bed, you guys saw it with the bed, the comforter,

1261
00:52:07,040 --> 00:52:08,719
Speaker 8: the sheets, properly tucked up.

1262
00:52:11,560 --> 00:52:13,040
Speaker 6: Amnities in the bathroom.

1263
00:52:13,400 --> 00:52:14,400
Speaker 2: But you do get kind.

1264
00:52:14,239 --> 00:52:16,520
Speaker 3: Of bougie though, because now you have people like checking

1265
00:52:16,800 --> 00:52:17,560
Speaker 3: on you at night.

1266
00:52:17,600 --> 00:52:19,359
Speaker 2: Hey, do you need a little do you want your

1267
00:52:19,400 --> 00:52:20,000
Speaker 2: fire on.

1268
00:52:21,800 --> 00:52:21,960
Speaker 7: It?

1269
00:52:22,520 --> 00:52:25,480
Speaker 2: But what what are you excited.

1270
00:52:25,200 --> 00:52:29,160
Speaker 3: To see from like a basketball perspective from UCLA, from

1271
00:52:29,239 --> 00:52:32,719
Speaker 3: South Carolina, from Texas, because we know, we know what.

1272
00:52:32,640 --> 00:52:33,400
Speaker 6: You see from Yukon.

1273
00:52:33,480 --> 00:52:34,279
Speaker 2: Everyone sees that, you.

1274
00:52:34,280 --> 00:52:34,640
Speaker 1: Know what I mean.

1275
00:52:34,640 --> 00:52:37,480
Speaker 8: It's incredible to have four number one seats. This is

1276
00:52:37,520 --> 00:52:40,640
Speaker 8: going to be a crazy final four. I am excited

1277
00:52:40,719 --> 00:52:44,439
Speaker 8: to see all the seniors who are who have one

1278
00:52:44,480 --> 00:52:48,240
Speaker 8: more shot at at a national title. Lauren Bed's Kiki Rice.

1279
00:52:48,560 --> 00:52:50,160
Speaker 8: I mean I think they have six seniors that you

1280
00:52:50,160 --> 00:52:50,360
Speaker 8: know with.

1281
00:52:50,440 --> 00:52:50,880
Speaker 5: U C l A.

1282
00:52:51,200 --> 00:52:53,560
Speaker 4: That's the sad part. That's the other side too. Yeah,

1283
00:52:54,000 --> 00:52:56,759
Speaker 4: when it's over and it's so it's so heartbreaking.

1284
00:52:56,920 --> 00:53:00,360
Speaker 8: Yeah, Madison Booker, how tough is she? And Roy Harmon

1285
00:53:00,520 --> 00:53:03,879
Speaker 8: like that Texas team is stacked and they're and they're

1286
00:53:03,920 --> 00:53:06,280
Speaker 8: due as well. And then you turn to South Carolina

1287
00:53:06,280 --> 00:53:08,319
Speaker 8: and I mean Donald is a former teammate of mine.

1288
00:53:08,360 --> 00:53:12,040
Speaker 8: She's probably one of the teammate I I admire the most.

1289
00:53:12,160 --> 00:53:15,560
Speaker 8: And yeah, here we go again against against against South Carolina.

1290
00:53:15,640 --> 00:53:17,399
Speaker 6: So it's gonna be a great, great final four.

1291
00:53:17,480 --> 00:53:20,360
Speaker 4: We were talking earlier about that the Geno Don Staley

1292
00:53:20,440 --> 00:53:24,200
Speaker 4: matchup is kind of an iconic march. Rather like that's

1293
00:53:24,200 --> 00:53:26,800
Speaker 4: almost equally the storyline or as an important of a

1294
00:53:26,800 --> 00:53:28,400
Speaker 4: storyline is like the team's playing because.

1295
00:53:28,239 --> 00:53:30,680
Speaker 1: Those two have seen each other so much and are

1296
00:53:30,719 --> 00:53:31,440
Speaker 1: so storied.

1297
00:53:31,480 --> 00:53:35,040
Speaker 3: Like if you had to give advice to parents or

1298
00:53:35,120 --> 00:53:39,640
Speaker 3: players in this situation of where college sports are today,

1299
00:53:40,080 --> 00:53:42,719
Speaker 3: what advice would you would you give these kids that

1300
00:53:42,960 --> 00:53:45,280
Speaker 3: you know, maybe they are freshmen and they're not getting

1301
00:53:46,000 --> 00:53:47,400
Speaker 3: the stardom that they thought they would?

1302
00:53:47,400 --> 00:53:49,040
Speaker 2: Like, what what's it mean to say?

1303
00:53:49,040 --> 00:53:49,920
Speaker 1: What's it mean to maybe go?

1304
00:53:50,280 --> 00:53:52,320
Speaker 8: Yeah, you know, that's that's a tough one and I

1305
00:53:52,400 --> 00:53:54,400
Speaker 8: think it, And let me just say at the outset,

1306
00:53:54,440 --> 00:53:57,120
Speaker 8: it depends on the family and the player the situation.

1307
00:53:57,760 --> 00:53:59,000
Speaker 6: Each situation is unique.

1308
00:53:59,360 --> 00:54:02,080
Speaker 8: I would say, though, that there's something to be said

1309
00:54:02,080 --> 00:54:03,399
Speaker 8: about figuring it out.

1310
00:54:03,960 --> 00:54:05,960
Speaker 6: Figuring it out like you you did.

1311
00:54:06,040 --> 00:54:09,040
Speaker 8: Hopefully you did the research required when you made the

1312
00:54:09,320 --> 00:54:12,359
Speaker 8: decision to go to a school, that you have some

1313
00:54:12,520 --> 00:54:14,960
Speaker 8: semblance of confidence that you can work your way to

1314
00:54:15,000 --> 00:54:16,560
Speaker 8: a point where you need to work to.

1315
00:54:16,840 --> 00:54:19,920
Speaker 3: I just feel like you have such an underdog mentality

1316
00:54:20,160 --> 00:54:23,280
Speaker 3: and I think so many people lack that quality.

1317
00:54:23,400 --> 00:54:26,399
Speaker 4: Your story's so dope and how diverse, but it all

1318
00:54:26,440 --> 00:54:28,000
Speaker 4: comes back to ball.

1319
00:54:28,160 --> 00:54:31,520
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, but Harvard, you got like Europe. It's all.

1320
00:54:31,600 --> 00:54:33,520
Speaker 4: It's all very cool and it fits like what we're

1321
00:54:33,640 --> 00:54:35,759
Speaker 4: trying to cover today, and so we think, thank you

1322
00:54:35,760 --> 00:54:36,319
Speaker 4: for pulling up.

1323
00:54:36,560 --> 00:54:37,560
Speaker 6: Thank you guys for having me.

1324
00:54:38,160 --> 00:54:46,040
Speaker 1: Yeah it was sick. Thank you, Holy freaking Molly, that

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Speaker 1: was awesome. No, that actually so great.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, So thank you to Holly, Thank you to Alison.

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Speaker 2: We cried, cried, and we laughed, laugh, cry, We did

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Speaker 3: And then a huge shout out to Merrit bon boy

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