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Speaker 1: Levels to This is an iHeart women's sports production in

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Speaker 2: Hey, what's up, everybody? It's your girl, Treka Foster Brass.

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Speaker 1: What's going on? Y'all? Is your girl? Cheryl swoops? Cheryl's

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Speaker 1: over there, Parch what's up? I was thirsty?

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Speaker 2: And this is levels to this.

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Speaker 3: This is the show where we talk about the real

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Speaker 3: shit that women go through, and we really.

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Speaker 2: Do have a fun episode.

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Speaker 3: We've got a very fun guest who's going to join

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Speaker 3: us today. But first, Cheryl, I was teasing you before

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Speaker 3: the show starts because you switch up your voice when

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Speaker 3: you are talking.

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Speaker 1: To your babies.

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Speaker 2: And I think, I think we.

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Speaker 3: Have a lot of listeners who are pet moms, So like,

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Speaker 3: tell everybody, tell everybody about your about your babies.

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Speaker 4: You know.

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Speaker 1: You. I can't do ship around you.

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Speaker 2: I got a point, you do?

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Speaker 1: No, okay, So I have two babies. You could appreciate this.

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Speaker 1: Are you a movie a movie? Buff? I am okay?

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Speaker 1: So Queen and Slim you saw the movie? Yeah? Yes,

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Speaker 1: my dog's names Yeah? But crazy, the crazy thing is.

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Speaker 1: So the boy is slim obviously from the movie, but girl,

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Speaker 1: there is nothing about him that's slim. He is some

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Speaker 2: What kind of dog you have?

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Speaker 1: They were rescued, so they're German Shepherd mix. The vet's

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Speaker 1: not sure what the mixed part is, but they're both

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Speaker 1: German Shepherd. But they are my babies. And you know

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Speaker 1: how when you have babies you gotta do the little

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Speaker 1: baby talk. My husband hates it because he's like, why

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Speaker 1: are you talking to them? Damn dogs like that, my dad,

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Speaker 1: But I said, this is my baby, baby, Oh my god.

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Speaker 3: First of all, I enjoy I love being like people

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Speaker 2: But before then I had a dog. I had a lab.

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Speaker 3: I had a chocolate lab, and her name was Peyton.

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Speaker 3: I named her after Peyton Manny because y'all know I'm

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Speaker 2: You're after Peyton. And I had to get my dog away.

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Speaker 3: I moved to an apartment that didn't allow pets, so

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Speaker 3: at six months I had to get my dog away.

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Speaker 3: But that dog got big as hell. I was like, bro,

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Speaker 3: what a dog went? A chocolate lab? Yeah, Peyton was

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Speaker 3: And then two months later they big as you. You're

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Speaker 3: make a long story short. I initially didn't want them

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Speaker 1: So somebody either dropped them off at my neighbors, and

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Speaker 1: They were dropped off. If you guys want them, you

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Speaker 1: to a shelter. Now, I had been thinking about getting

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Speaker 2: Oh that is such a beautiful story.

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Speaker 1: I love that, you know the best thing about him, Tea.

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Speaker 2: A row for two weeks.

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Speaker 3: So it's just so's it's so inconcestent our schedule that

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Speaker 3: And we had a German shepherd. Her name was Major. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: we called him Chico. Chico used to Chico used.

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Speaker 3: And I'll never forget one time I was like five

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Speaker 5: I was like, you didn't hate that, please tell me.

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Speaker 3: I dif'dly remember that, like, yes, this dog, y'all gosh.

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Speaker 3: Listeners out there who are dog moms or dog dads, yes,

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Speaker 3: we are a pet friendly show here at levels to this,

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Speaker 3: but we need to have a dog show. We we should,

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Speaker 3: we should are some of our some of our best

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Speaker 2: So yes, let's do that.

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Speaker 3: But this week we are actually gonna talk a little

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Speaker 2: What she is also a dog dog mom?

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Speaker 1: Yes, yes she is.

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Speaker 2: She is also a dog mom.

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Speaker 3: So this week we are gonna have Sexy Lexi, Lexi

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Speaker 3: just to kick it with us a little bit.

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Speaker 2: And I'm excited to chat with Lexi.

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Speaker 3: Who knows where this conversation is gonna go because you

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Speaker 1: I am too, yeah, just you know, not only when

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Speaker 1: we talk basketball, but there's so many different levels to Lexi.

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Speaker 1: So we're gonna get into some good stuff with her.

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Speaker 3: Absolutely, So without further ado, let's just go ahead and

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Speaker 3: take this thing to the next level. Yo, everybody, we

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Speaker 2: And before I.

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Speaker 3: about to call on cheryls so much pain today because

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Speaker 2: I don't understand yesterday?

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Speaker 1: Do you do you hear me over here trying to laugh.

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Speaker 1: I'm like, I'm like, but today.

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Speaker 3: We are so the real to welcome in Seattle Storm's

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Speaker 3: own Lexi Brown also co hosts I Heard Women's Sports

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Speaker 3: Network with our girl Mariah Rose. But what's up Lexi? No, man, wait,

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Speaker 3: Lexi don't don't. Don't respond to that t You gotta

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Speaker 1: More than that. She's not just Lexi Brown, she is

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Speaker 1: the sexy Lexy Brown. Let's go. No, ma'am.

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Speaker 4: I've been trying to get it to be a thing

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Speaker 1: They're slow. They're slow in Seattle.

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Speaker 4: It's the only one that will call me sexy LEXI.

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Speaker 1: Don't you know, like next is the one that told

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Speaker 4: Yeah, yeahbody please, I mean, right now, that's what I'll

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Speaker 6: So somebody bringing a sign.

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Speaker 4: Sexy Lexi on that bench, like, come on, somebody.

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Speaker 1: Somebody come do something with her.

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Speaker 4: I'm gonna address the elephant in the room immediately.

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Speaker 1: we know you were with the Sparks. We won't talk

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Speaker 1: asking myself this question, why aren't you getting the minutes

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Speaker 1: that you should be getting that you deserve. I'm just

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Speaker 1: so let's address it.

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Speaker 4: I mean, honest, I just think I came into a

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Speaker 4: Like the contract was protected, which is a blessing to

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Speaker 4: Game of the year, no need to overreact to anything

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, and I'm with you with that, Like

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Speaker 6: Anybody else's experience.

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Speaker 4: I app So if you have that experience with somebody,

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Speaker 1: So Lexi, you you brought it up when we were

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Speaker 4: So it's just something that I've had to deal with,

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Speaker 6: I thought it was over. So but I feel good.

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Speaker 1: Wow, I feel real good. Well you do you do?

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Speaker 1: Look good? Thank you? You do? You do? Look sexy Lexi?

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Speaker 4: Sexy sexy Lexia.

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Speaker 6: Come on, y'all make some T shirts or something.

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Speaker 1: Listen, don't be saying that when all these people show

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Speaker 2: All listen. I was about to say, who are gonna

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Speaker 6: And they were like, yep, what I was like, Yeah.

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Speaker 4: That's how we do things.

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Speaker 3: but it's definitely like what this leaves deserves. What was

440
00:22:40,119 --> 00:22:43,840
Speaker 3: your overall impression of like this season of AU and

441
00:22:43,880 --> 00:22:46,440
Speaker 3: how you guys are continuing to kind of grow that league.

442
00:22:46,720 --> 00:22:47,879
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean, I agree with you.

443
00:22:47,960 --> 00:22:51,800
Speaker 4: This was definitely the best season in my opinion from

444
00:22:52,160 --> 00:22:56,159
Speaker 4: the buy in from Nashville, from our roster, from the play,

445
00:22:56,560 --> 00:23:00,240
Speaker 4: like from week one to week five, like we had

446
00:23:00,440 --> 00:23:03,040
Speaker 4: such a great time and everything was just so well

447
00:23:03,080 --> 00:23:06,880
Speaker 4: thought out and well executed, and it took a lot

448
00:23:06,920 --> 00:23:11,280
Speaker 4: of work, and honestly, they were not like wanting to

449
00:23:11,280 --> 00:23:13,880
Speaker 4: be in Nashville for real, like they had. We knew

450
00:23:13,880 --> 00:23:15,760
Speaker 4: we had to get out of Dallas, and they had,

451
00:23:15,800 --> 00:23:17,600
Speaker 4: you know, a bunch of other options, and then here

452
00:23:17,640 --> 00:23:19,960
Speaker 4: comes Nashville and they're like, oh, we don't know about Nashville,

453
00:23:20,000 --> 00:23:24,000
Speaker 4: and we the executive Committee, were like, no, I think

454
00:23:24,040 --> 00:23:27,959
Speaker 4: you we should look into Nashville for sure. And we

455
00:23:28,000 --> 00:23:30,679
Speaker 4: started talking to people from Nashville and they were so

456
00:23:30,840 --> 00:23:33,919
Speaker 4: aesthetic for us to be there, and you know, the

457
00:23:33,960 --> 00:23:37,080
Speaker 4: rest is history. Were there for at least two more seasons.

458
00:23:37,119 --> 00:23:39,400
Speaker 4: I think I've already I don't know if I'm allowed

459
00:23:39,400 --> 00:23:41,240
Speaker 4: to say this, but I've already signed my contract for

460
00:23:41,320 --> 00:23:46,199
Speaker 4: season five and I'm returning as the chairperson of the

461
00:23:46,240 --> 00:23:49,720
Speaker 4: Executive Committee. So this is my home, this is my family.

462
00:23:50,720 --> 00:23:53,360
Speaker 4: It's the happiest I've been playing basketball since I left

463
00:23:53,440 --> 00:23:55,639
Speaker 4: Duke and it changed my career.

464
00:23:55,880 --> 00:23:57,400
Speaker 6: So I love.

465
00:23:57,240 --> 00:23:59,679
Speaker 4: AU And you know, every year we have more and

466
00:23:59,760 --> 00:24:03,200
Speaker 4: more players from the W coming to AU and players

467
00:24:03,200 --> 00:24:06,760
Speaker 4: in AU getting on rosters, like seeing so many players

468
00:24:06,840 --> 00:24:10,240
Speaker 4: that started AU not on W rosters and making opening

469
00:24:10,280 --> 00:24:13,439
Speaker 4: day rosters, Like that's what makes me so proud and

470
00:24:13,560 --> 00:24:14,440
Speaker 4: happy about AU.

471
00:24:14,800 --> 00:24:16,400
Speaker 6: Like I think I said it on our show.

472
00:24:16,480 --> 00:24:19,800
Speaker 4: We have thirty current We have thirty current W players

473
00:24:19,840 --> 00:24:22,879
Speaker 4: that have played in AU or just played in AU.

474
00:24:23,640 --> 00:24:25,880
Speaker 6: So I mean it's a place you go.

475
00:24:26,000 --> 00:24:30,199
Speaker 4: To enjoy yourself, to develop, to build relationships and have

476
00:24:30,280 --> 00:24:33,680
Speaker 4: a good time. Like I just the way everyone gets

477
00:24:33,680 --> 00:24:36,800
Speaker 4: to play and just be themselves in AU, Like it's

478
00:24:36,880 --> 00:24:39,919
Speaker 4: just it's like basketball utopia. That's what I keep telling people.

479
00:24:39,960 --> 00:24:42,200
Speaker 4: And that's like my first thing when I try to

480
00:24:42,200 --> 00:24:44,959
Speaker 4: get people to come and play and athletes ulimit. It

481
00:24:45,000 --> 00:24:48,160
Speaker 4: is like if you want to just whop, like, AU's

482
00:24:48,200 --> 00:24:49,400
Speaker 4: where you want to be for sure.

483
00:24:49,520 --> 00:24:55,000
Speaker 1: That's it. That's it. So Lexi, I don't I don't

484
00:24:55,240 --> 00:24:59,800
Speaker 1: want to talk about unrival, but I do want to

485
00:25:00,080 --> 00:25:04,840
Speaker 1: ask you a question. So we know that the CBA

486
00:25:05,040 --> 00:25:08,840
Speaker 1: is coming up, So two questions. What are the top

487
00:25:08,920 --> 00:25:13,960
Speaker 1: priorities that you all are wanting to address or you're

488
00:25:14,280 --> 00:25:20,720
Speaker 1: looking to talk about, And do you feel that having

489
00:25:20,880 --> 00:25:27,200
Speaker 1: an athlete's unlimited and an unrival helps you guys when

490
00:25:27,240 --> 00:25:31,560
Speaker 1: it comes to sitting at the table for negotiations with

491
00:25:31,640 --> 00:25:32,360
Speaker 1: a new CBA.

492
00:25:32,600 --> 00:25:37,520
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, first question, we have like a every time

493
00:25:37,520 --> 00:25:39,720
Speaker 4: we're in our meetings, we have a long list of things.

494
00:25:39,880 --> 00:25:44,359
Speaker 4: I think currently right now player salaries is like one A,

495
00:25:44,520 --> 00:25:45,200
Speaker 4: one B, one C.

496
00:25:45,640 --> 00:25:47,600
Speaker 6: Like that's what.

497
00:25:47,640 --> 00:25:51,520
Speaker 4: The main focus is at this moment. I know I've

498
00:25:51,560 --> 00:25:54,840
Speaker 4: heard from other players. You know, making sure we get

499
00:25:54,840 --> 00:25:57,960
Speaker 4: to keep the charter flights is a priority because that's

500
00:25:58,040 --> 00:26:02,760
Speaker 4: not written in our CBA currently. The charter flights, accommodations,

501
00:26:04,280 --> 00:26:12,920
Speaker 4: healthcare benefits for current and retired athlete or players, relocation expenses,

502
00:26:13,680 --> 00:26:15,480
Speaker 4: like any little thing.

503
00:26:15,520 --> 00:26:17,240
Speaker 6: And I think that's what's so amazing about.

504
00:26:17,080 --> 00:26:20,280
Speaker 4: Terry, who's the president of our Players Association, and Mekka,

505
00:26:21,640 --> 00:26:24,440
Speaker 4: is that they're like any little thing that you've experienced

506
00:26:24,520 --> 00:26:28,040
Speaker 4: as a player, like bring it to us, because everything

507
00:26:28,080 --> 00:26:30,560
Speaker 4: has to be put in the CBA. Like for me,

508
00:26:30,680 --> 00:26:32,879
Speaker 4: for example, something that I brought up in one of

509
00:26:32,920 --> 00:26:35,840
Speaker 4: our meetings that we had in Nashville was are we

510
00:26:35,920 --> 00:26:42,959
Speaker 4: going to have player minimum requirements to access certain salaries?

511
00:26:43,600 --> 00:26:46,120
Speaker 4: Because right now, the only requirement you have to make

512
00:26:46,160 --> 00:26:50,200
Speaker 4: a maximum contract is years of service and that's it.

513
00:26:51,160 --> 00:26:54,840
Speaker 4: So for a player like me who has the years

514
00:26:54,880 --> 00:26:58,840
Speaker 4: of service but didn't necessarily ever get the same opportunities,

515
00:26:59,520 --> 00:27:02,919
Speaker 4: I'm never going to have a chance to access a

516
00:27:02,920 --> 00:27:06,840
Speaker 4: certain amount of money because I don't for whatever reason,

517
00:27:06,920 --> 00:27:08,560
Speaker 4: my career has just been the way it was.

518
00:27:08,640 --> 00:27:10,600
Speaker 6: And even if I do play well.

519
00:27:11,160 --> 00:27:13,919
Speaker 4: If this GM don't like me that much, or this

520
00:27:13,960 --> 00:27:15,719
Speaker 4: coach don't like me that much, like they're not going

521
00:27:15,760 --> 00:27:19,560
Speaker 4: to give me that money. But if there's a threshold

522
00:27:19,640 --> 00:27:21,840
Speaker 4: you have to reach, and I reach it, it doesn't

523
00:27:21,880 --> 00:27:24,320
Speaker 4: matter what anybody thinks about Lexi the person.

524
00:27:24,600 --> 00:27:29,040
Speaker 6: We're talking about, Lexi the player and I.

525
00:27:29,160 --> 00:27:32,880
Speaker 4: That came to my attention the last round of negotiations

526
00:27:33,359 --> 00:27:35,320
Speaker 4: when we didn't have as many.

527
00:27:35,119 --> 00:27:37,240
Speaker 6: Free agents for the new money.

528
00:27:37,560 --> 00:27:40,480
Speaker 4: So like, whoever was just a free agent was getting

529
00:27:40,560 --> 00:27:42,720
Speaker 4: the new money, which good for them.

530
00:27:42,920 --> 00:27:43,280
Speaker 6: Love that.

531
00:27:44,200 --> 00:27:49,560
Speaker 4: But this next CBA, everybody's a free agent. So now

532
00:27:49,640 --> 00:27:52,199
Speaker 4: are y'all going to determine who gets what because of

533
00:27:52,240 --> 00:27:54,359
Speaker 4: who you like, who you want on the team, Like, no,

534
00:27:54,440 --> 00:27:57,720
Speaker 4: there has to be something in place. That's what how

535
00:27:57,720 --> 00:28:00,360
Speaker 4: it is in the NBA, Like you have to meet

536
00:28:00,440 --> 00:28:04,280
Speaker 4: minimum requirements to access money. So that was my thing

537
00:28:04,320 --> 00:28:07,720
Speaker 4: that I brought up, and honestly, it probably won't even

538
00:28:07,720 --> 00:28:09,760
Speaker 4: affect me at all, Like I don't know if I'll

539
00:28:09,760 --> 00:28:10,320
Speaker 4: ever be like.

540
00:28:10,359 --> 00:28:12,600
Speaker 6: First team all the w NBA or MVP or nothing

541
00:28:12,680 --> 00:28:13,000
Speaker 6: like that.

542
00:28:13,119 --> 00:28:15,800
Speaker 4: But I still think it's important to have things in

543
00:28:15,880 --> 00:28:18,960
Speaker 4: place so everything can look uniform, so you're not looking

544
00:28:19,040 --> 00:28:23,280
Speaker 4: at one team salary cap and stats of players and

545
00:28:23,320 --> 00:28:25,880
Speaker 4: another team salary cap and stats of players and you're like,

546
00:28:26,040 --> 00:28:29,840
Speaker 4: what is what is the how do we get here?

547
00:28:29,920 --> 00:28:31,920
Speaker 4: Like how did y'all balance the salary cap?

548
00:28:32,960 --> 00:28:33,120
Speaker 3: Oh?

549
00:28:33,160 --> 00:28:36,159
Speaker 4: And then speaking of salary cap, getting rid of the

550
00:28:36,200 --> 00:28:40,160
Speaker 4: hard cap is huge for us. So those are just

551
00:28:40,360 --> 00:28:43,719
Speaker 4: a handful of things. I'm on the CBA committee, so

552
00:28:43,760 --> 00:28:45,960
Speaker 4: I'm like really engaged and locked into this.

553
00:28:46,520 --> 00:28:48,760
Speaker 6: I asked Ecca questions all the time. She's probably tired

554
00:28:48,800 --> 00:28:49,000
Speaker 6: of me.

555
00:28:51,520 --> 00:28:55,120
Speaker 4: So it's fun being involved in this round of negotiations

556
00:28:55,120 --> 00:28:57,520
Speaker 4: because the last CBA was only my second season, so

557
00:28:57,520 --> 00:29:00,800
Speaker 4: I had no idea what was going on. But I've

558
00:29:01,000 --> 00:29:03,760
Speaker 4: experienced a lot since then, so I'm like, oh, I'm

559
00:29:03,800 --> 00:29:06,240
Speaker 4: going to be involved in this for sure. And then

560
00:29:06,760 --> 00:29:10,920
Speaker 4: the second question is the effects of AU and unrivaled.

561
00:29:11,160 --> 00:29:13,640
Speaker 4: I think it gives us more leverage because we're able

562
00:29:13,720 --> 00:29:17,080
Speaker 4: to show that people want to invest in, support and

563
00:29:17,160 --> 00:29:20,360
Speaker 4: watch women's basketball in the United States, and we've just

564
00:29:20,400 --> 00:29:23,640
Speaker 4: never had that before. We've never had any tangible proof

565
00:29:23,720 --> 00:29:27,560
Speaker 4: and evidence of people wanting more women's basketball, people wanting

566
00:29:27,680 --> 00:29:29,720
Speaker 4: us to be in the States, people wanting us to

567
00:29:29,720 --> 00:29:32,040
Speaker 4: be in their commercials, wanting to wear their clothes be

568
00:29:32,080 --> 00:29:35,960
Speaker 4: a part of their brands. So I think that's huge

569
00:29:35,960 --> 00:29:38,080
Speaker 4: for us as far as negotiating.

570
00:29:38,960 --> 00:29:40,120
Speaker 6: But I don't think it's everything.

571
00:29:40,160 --> 00:29:42,000
Speaker 4: Like there's a lot of things that AU and unrivaled,

572
00:29:42,200 --> 00:29:44,720
Speaker 4: like things that they just don't have to worry about,

573
00:29:44,800 --> 00:29:47,240
Speaker 4: like traveling, and.

574
00:29:46,720 --> 00:29:48,000
Speaker 6: Like there's just a lot of.

575
00:29:47,920 --> 00:29:50,920
Speaker 4: Things that the WNBA handles that Unrivaled in AU just

576
00:29:50,960 --> 00:29:53,080
Speaker 4: don't have to deal with because we're in one place.

577
00:29:55,120 --> 00:29:59,360
Speaker 4: So I think there needs to be just a cohesiveness,

578
00:30:00,040 --> 00:30:02,880
Speaker 4: and I think that's going to be the most beneficial thing.

579
00:30:02,920 --> 00:30:05,560
Speaker 4: We don't all have to be competing with each other.

580
00:30:05,760 --> 00:30:08,280
Speaker 4: We all need to work together to continue to elevate

581
00:30:08,280 --> 00:30:08,960
Speaker 4: the women's game.

582
00:30:09,080 --> 00:30:10,440
Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree one hundred percent.

583
00:30:10,560 --> 00:30:13,680
Speaker 3: I don't personally see any of the three as the same,

584
00:30:13,840 --> 00:30:17,840
Speaker 3: Like the audience is different, the concepts are different, and

585
00:30:17,880 --> 00:30:21,040
Speaker 3: to me, even the sustainability level is different. I mean,

586
00:30:21,080 --> 00:30:23,520
Speaker 3: the W've been around almost thirty years, so clearly that

587
00:30:23,720 --> 00:30:26,160
Speaker 3: is where it is. But when I look at like

588
00:30:26,600 --> 00:30:30,880
Speaker 3: an unrivaled I see like a star driven Typely, the

589
00:30:30,880 --> 00:30:34,120
Speaker 3: bigger your name, the bigger your presence, the bigger your popularity,

590
00:30:34,160 --> 00:30:36,600
Speaker 3: the more people want to come and see you. I

591
00:30:36,640 --> 00:30:39,560
Speaker 3: look at Athletes Unlimited as a league that is truly

592
00:30:39,640 --> 00:30:43,280
Speaker 3: about developing and getting better as a player, and I

593
00:30:43,360 --> 00:30:46,120
Speaker 3: love that there are like stars from the W who

594
00:30:46,200 --> 00:30:48,880
Speaker 3: are like, listen, I want to stay home.

595
00:30:49,200 --> 00:30:50,480
Speaker 2: I don't want to go overseas.

596
00:30:50,560 --> 00:30:52,800
Speaker 3: I still want to make some extra money in my pocket,

597
00:30:52,800 --> 00:30:54,640
Speaker 3: but I still want to play with people who are

598
00:30:54,680 --> 00:30:56,040
Speaker 3: competitive and who want.

599
00:30:55,840 --> 00:30:58,000
Speaker 2: To get better, and it makes me better.

600
00:30:58,080 --> 00:30:59,760
Speaker 3: So there are two things that I see in the

601
00:30:59,840 --> 00:31:02,480
Speaker 3: day of you that I'm always like, if you pull

602
00:31:02,560 --> 00:31:04,800
Speaker 3: from this, and you pull from this, you can actually

603
00:31:04,840 --> 00:31:08,680
Speaker 3: come up with something that could be dope. And I

604
00:31:08,720 --> 00:31:11,320
Speaker 3: hate the fact that there is no like a developmental

605
00:31:11,400 --> 00:31:14,680
Speaker 3: league or g league for W players because at some point,

606
00:31:14,720 --> 00:31:16,480
Speaker 3: whether we like it or not, it's the worst part

607
00:31:16,520 --> 00:31:17,000
Speaker 3: of sports.

608
00:31:17,000 --> 00:31:19,440
Speaker 2: People get injured, people get injured.

609
00:31:19,120 --> 00:31:22,080
Speaker 3: People get hurt, and so now you've got this player

610
00:31:22,200 --> 00:31:25,440
Speaker 3: that can't go overseas for real, because then they've really

611
00:31:25,560 --> 00:31:27,760
Speaker 3: lost the opportunity to kind of come in and play

612
00:31:27,800 --> 00:31:29,160
Speaker 3: for hardship opportunities.

613
00:31:29,440 --> 00:31:32,360
Speaker 2: But what are they doing in this meantime? Like what

614
00:31:32,600 --> 00:31:38,840
Speaker 2: they what are they go? You're thed, you're the grand.

615
00:31:40,240 --> 00:31:42,880
Speaker 3: If there is a way that, like some of the

616
00:31:43,040 --> 00:31:47,240
Speaker 3: model in structure that they have, that athletes unlimited, coupled

617
00:31:47,280 --> 00:31:50,120
Speaker 3: with the promotion and marketing and investment that they get

618
00:31:50,120 --> 00:31:54,240
Speaker 3: from unrivaled, can pull together and this is in my world,

619
00:31:54,280 --> 00:31:57,640
Speaker 3: in my head, my head world somewhere can pull together

620
00:31:57,720 --> 00:32:01,440
Speaker 3: to come up with like a small G league type

621
00:32:01,480 --> 00:32:04,480
Speaker 3: situation that happens during the summer at the same time

622
00:32:04,520 --> 00:32:07,840
Speaker 3: as the WNBA, so that college players, people who want

623
00:32:07,880 --> 00:32:09,800
Speaker 3: to get better, folks who may not have made a

624
00:32:09,920 --> 00:32:12,520
Speaker 3: roster can stay in shape, can stay tuned up, like

625
00:32:12,760 --> 00:32:13,200
Speaker 3: so that you.

626
00:32:13,320 --> 00:32:17,160
Speaker 2: Have a pool, a pool of people of.

627
00:32:17,200 --> 00:32:20,120
Speaker 3: Players to pull from and to choose from and they

628
00:32:20,160 --> 00:32:23,240
Speaker 3: feel valued. Like is that something that you guys have

629
00:32:23,320 --> 00:32:24,840
Speaker 3: ever discussed.

630
00:32:24,440 --> 00:32:29,040
Speaker 4: Or absolutely so actually funny that you've said that. So

631
00:32:30,160 --> 00:32:34,240
Speaker 4: there's actually a new league starting next summer. It's called

632
00:32:34,360 --> 00:32:37,560
Speaker 4: Upshot League, and it's based in Jacksonville. One of the

633
00:32:37,560 --> 00:32:39,680
Speaker 4: teams is going to be in Jacksonville, So my dad

634
00:32:39,680 --> 00:32:42,280
Speaker 4: they have had my dad kind of consulting with it,

635
00:32:42,800 --> 00:32:46,840
Speaker 4: and Taj from the W left the W to come

636
00:32:46,920 --> 00:32:51,960
Speaker 4: work for this new league. Yes, okay, she's the vice

637
00:32:52,040 --> 00:32:58,640
Speaker 4: president of basketball operations. So essentially this would be exactly

638
00:32:58,680 --> 00:33:02,720
Speaker 4: what you described league for players running concurrently with the

639
00:33:02,880 --> 00:33:06,800
Speaker 4: W season and if and B because it's gonna have

640
00:33:06,800 --> 00:33:09,640
Speaker 4: to be written in the CBA. If this could be

641
00:33:09,840 --> 00:33:14,400
Speaker 4: the pool that people can pick from for their hardship contracts,

642
00:33:14,800 --> 00:33:18,080
Speaker 4: so like you could have make sure that these teams

643
00:33:18,120 --> 00:33:21,239
Speaker 4: are running similar sets, they're running similar defenses, so when

644
00:33:21,280 --> 00:33:25,360
Speaker 4: you bring your hardship player, they are at least familiar,

645
00:33:26,440 --> 00:33:29,760
Speaker 4: you know. I feel like having additional roster spots would

646
00:33:29,760 --> 00:33:32,600
Speaker 4: help that as well. But if that can't happen, then

647
00:33:32,680 --> 00:33:36,000
Speaker 4: you know, this league is starting next summer. So I

648
00:33:36,040 --> 00:33:37,760
Speaker 4: ask my dad about it all the time, like are

649
00:33:37,760 --> 00:33:39,960
Speaker 4: they going to work like closely with the W. Is

650
00:33:40,000 --> 00:33:42,000
Speaker 4: it going to be like a feeder league to the W,

651
00:33:42,280 --> 00:33:44,040
Speaker 4: or is it going to be independent from the W?

652
00:33:44,280 --> 00:33:47,040
Speaker 4: Like There's so many things, but again everything has to

653
00:33:47,040 --> 00:33:50,680
Speaker 4: be written in the CBA. So this is like the

654
00:33:50,760 --> 00:33:53,240
Speaker 4: perfect time for it to be starting. I'm sure that.

655
00:33:53,440 --> 00:33:54,920
Speaker 4: I don't know if they did this on purpose or

656
00:33:54,960 --> 00:33:58,080
Speaker 4: not to run at the same time as the negotiation period,

657
00:33:58,160 --> 00:34:03,120
Speaker 4: but yeah, it's The cities are Jacksonville, Savannah, Charlotte, Greensboro,

658
00:34:03,720 --> 00:34:07,000
Speaker 4: So it's only four cities, I think, but that's more

659
00:34:07,040 --> 00:34:10,160
Speaker 4: than enough players to have a pool to choose from

660
00:34:10,719 --> 00:34:11,239
Speaker 4: for the W.

661
00:34:11,560 --> 00:34:13,719
Speaker 6: So, I mean that's come up a lot.

662
00:34:13,840 --> 00:34:17,600
Speaker 4: As these college kids are getting more popular, their brands

663
00:34:17,640 --> 00:34:19,400
Speaker 4: are growing, They're going to get to the league and

664
00:34:19,440 --> 00:34:21,520
Speaker 4: get cut and we can go through the same thing

665
00:34:21,680 --> 00:34:25,080
Speaker 4: every year every year. Yeah, the same thing, and it's

666
00:34:25,120 --> 00:34:27,480
Speaker 4: just going to keep getting worse. So if there's a

667
00:34:27,560 --> 00:34:32,279
Speaker 4: way that this upshot league can run with the W

668
00:34:32,719 --> 00:34:36,479
Speaker 4: I think that would be amazing. Wouldn't promise anybody any

669
00:34:36,760 --> 00:34:40,480
Speaker 4: WNBA time or a roster spot because you have to

670
00:34:41,320 --> 00:34:44,839
Speaker 4: fall under the eight players for the hardship contracts, but shit,

671
00:34:44,920 --> 00:34:49,319
Speaker 4: we had ten. So I don't think I've been on

672
00:34:49,400 --> 00:34:52,400
Speaker 4: a team yet that hasn't activated a hardship player.

673
00:34:52,880 --> 00:34:53,080
Speaker 1: Yep.

674
00:34:53,120 --> 00:34:56,880
Speaker 4: Yeah, so it shit happens.

675
00:34:56,920 --> 00:35:00,840
Speaker 1: Every year to that point. LEXI. You know, back in

676
00:35:00,880 --> 00:35:03,839
Speaker 1: the day when the league started, we had I think

677
00:35:03,880 --> 00:35:07,400
Speaker 1: we carried thirteen players on a roster with you know,

678
00:35:07,440 --> 00:35:11,160
Speaker 1: we had two ir spots. So when you start talking

679
00:35:11,200 --> 00:35:14,280
Speaker 1: about expansion and bringing new teams, like, yeah, that's great,

680
00:35:15,680 --> 00:35:19,279
Speaker 1: but why not look at adding a couple of more

681
00:35:19,360 --> 00:35:23,000
Speaker 1: roster spots as well? What would you contribute all the

682
00:35:23,360 --> 00:35:28,640
Speaker 1: hype and the growth of women's basketball or the W two.

683
00:35:28,719 --> 00:35:30,719
Speaker 6: I think it's like a mixture of things. I think

684
00:35:30,760 --> 00:35:32,360
Speaker 6: you go all the way back to COVID.

685
00:35:33,239 --> 00:35:39,400
Speaker 4: The world changed when COVID happens, and I think people

686
00:35:39,440 --> 00:35:44,800
Speaker 4: were already online a lot pre COVID, but post COVID,

687
00:35:45,080 --> 00:35:49,560
Speaker 4: like people are like chronically on the internet. And I

688
00:35:49,600 --> 00:35:54,520
Speaker 4: think women athletes just do the internet better than men athletes,

689
00:35:55,040 --> 00:36:00,960
Speaker 4: Like they their content is better, they are or personable

690
00:36:01,000 --> 00:36:04,120
Speaker 4: on their socials because for so long, that's all we had,

691
00:36:04,200 --> 00:36:08,200
Speaker 4: Like we didn't have these commercials that we didn't have billboards,

692
00:36:08,200 --> 00:36:10,000
Speaker 4: commercials where we just had to show up for a

693
00:36:10,000 --> 00:36:11,960
Speaker 4: production date and then the company would take care of

694
00:36:11,960 --> 00:36:14,560
Speaker 4: everything else. Like we had to do everything ourselves if

695
00:36:14,560 --> 00:36:17,200
Speaker 4: we wanted to build our brand outside of basketball, because

696
00:36:17,200 --> 00:36:19,920
Speaker 4: we didn't have the same resources or attention or energy

697
00:36:19,920 --> 00:36:23,600
Speaker 4: that the men had. So I think once COVID happened,

698
00:36:24,400 --> 00:36:27,080
Speaker 4: like the women athletes like, we were like it's our

699
00:36:27,080 --> 00:36:28,960
Speaker 4: time to shine, Like this is where we live, we

700
00:36:29,000 --> 00:36:30,680
Speaker 4: live on socials, like this is what we do.

701
00:36:31,480 --> 00:36:32,200
Speaker 6: And I think.

702
00:36:32,040 --> 00:36:35,080
Speaker 4: Finally there was a switch in college or the switch

703
00:36:35,160 --> 00:36:37,960
Speaker 4: in the w and in other women's professional leagues where

704
00:36:37,960 --> 00:36:41,600
Speaker 4: they were like, oh, like, this isn't a distraction, This

705
00:36:41,640 --> 00:36:44,280
Speaker 4: doesn't mean that they don't care about the sport they're playing.

706
00:36:44,760 --> 00:36:46,680
Speaker 4: This is how they're going to build their fan base,

707
00:36:46,719 --> 00:36:48,080
Speaker 4: this is how they're going to build their brand, and

708
00:36:48,160 --> 00:36:52,160
Speaker 4: ultimately that gives us more money, our organization more money,

709
00:36:52,160 --> 00:36:54,920
Speaker 4: our teams more money. So I think it was a

710
00:36:54,920 --> 00:36:58,800
Speaker 4: combination of that. I think also in the college game,

711
00:36:59,719 --> 00:37:02,600
Speaker 4: the women, well everyone talks about all the time. The

712
00:37:02,600 --> 00:37:04,879
Speaker 4: men's college landscape has been a mess for a few

713
00:37:04,920 --> 00:37:07,800
Speaker 4: years now with the transferring and the one and done

714
00:37:07,960 --> 00:37:12,200
Speaker 4: and all that. So you just have a group of

715
00:37:12,280 --> 00:37:15,560
Speaker 4: this social media I mean, I don't think these are

716
00:37:15,560 --> 00:37:18,719
Speaker 4: the iPad kids, but they're like the iPhone kids who

717
00:37:18,840 --> 00:37:22,160
Speaker 4: got to go through high school and college not being

718
00:37:23,960 --> 00:37:27,960
Speaker 4: frowned upon for being active on socials and being their

719
00:37:28,000 --> 00:37:30,520
Speaker 4: own person outside of the sport that they played, and

720
00:37:30,560 --> 00:37:32,680
Speaker 4: they were able to go through college and build their

721
00:37:32,680 --> 00:37:35,959
Speaker 4: brands and be themselves. And you look at the men's

722
00:37:35,960 --> 00:37:37,560
Speaker 4: side and you're like, who is this person? I don't

723
00:37:37,600 --> 00:37:39,480
Speaker 4: know who that guy is. Oh he was at a school.

724
00:37:39,719 --> 00:37:41,680
Speaker 4: This is his third school, Like what is going on?

725
00:37:42,400 --> 00:37:44,319
Speaker 4: And the women, you just had the same group of

726
00:37:44,360 --> 00:37:47,000
Speaker 4: girls that you got to watch grow and win and

727
00:37:47,040 --> 00:37:49,080
Speaker 4: get better and develop and then get to the W

728
00:37:50,120 --> 00:37:51,640
Speaker 4: And I just think it was just like the perfect

729
00:37:51,640 --> 00:37:52,120
Speaker 4: storm of that.

730
00:37:52,640 --> 00:37:55,920
Speaker 6: And I've always said it was great timing.

731
00:37:56,719 --> 00:37:58,920
Speaker 4: And at the end of the day, the players that

732
00:37:58,960 --> 00:38:01,120
Speaker 4: were in this perfect store how to produce. They had

733
00:38:01,120 --> 00:38:03,520
Speaker 4: to be entertaining, they had to win, and they did

734
00:38:03,560 --> 00:38:07,279
Speaker 4: all of the things. So that's why I think like

735
00:38:07,320 --> 00:38:09,279
Speaker 4: the women are just blowing the men out of the

736
00:38:09,320 --> 00:38:11,680
Speaker 4: water in that aspect, because you go look at the

737
00:38:11,680 --> 00:38:13,560
Speaker 4: men's side, you're like, I don't even know who won.

738
00:38:13,600 --> 00:38:14,840
Speaker 6: Who won Florida.

739
00:38:15,760 --> 00:38:19,520
Speaker 4: I don't And I didn't care about the men's tournament

740
00:38:19,600 --> 00:38:20,439
Speaker 4: at all this year.

741
00:38:20,600 --> 00:38:21,759
Speaker 6: I did not care at all.

742
00:38:22,040 --> 00:38:25,719
Speaker 4: And I love basketball, but I can't watch men's college

743
00:38:25,760 --> 00:38:27,399
Speaker 4: basketball because I don't know who any of the people

744
00:38:27,440 --> 00:38:32,359
Speaker 4: are and I'm tired of seeing the kid transfer ten

745
00:38:32,360 --> 00:38:33,200
Speaker 4: minutes after.

746
00:38:33,000 --> 00:38:33,680
Speaker 6: The game ends.

747
00:38:33,920 --> 00:38:38,080
Speaker 3: I don't like that like, yazy so complained about one

748
00:38:38,120 --> 00:38:39,080
Speaker 3: and done for years.

749
00:38:39,480 --> 00:38:41,759
Speaker 4: Yeah, and they want us to have that for our game.

750
00:38:41,880 --> 00:38:43,719
Speaker 4: I'm like, have y'all seen what it's done to the

751
00:38:43,760 --> 00:38:47,480
Speaker 4: men's game. No, because the transfer is already ruining women's

752
00:38:47,480 --> 00:38:48,759
Speaker 4: college basketball a little bit.

753
00:38:49,440 --> 00:38:51,440
Speaker 6: But y'all want to bring one and done. Look what

754
00:38:51,480 --> 00:38:54,760
Speaker 6: it's doing to the men. Yeah, it's winning a mess.

755
00:38:54,600 --> 00:38:57,480
Speaker 1: It's like, keep it, keep it where it is, keep

756
00:38:57,520 --> 00:38:58,520
Speaker 1: it where it is.

757
00:38:59,040 --> 00:39:00,719
Speaker 3: I will say I was in invested this year in

758
00:39:00,719 --> 00:39:02,839
Speaker 3: the men's tournament just because I'm a Michigan State girl

759
00:39:02,920 --> 00:39:06,239
Speaker 3: and my spartans was bawling. But that's where I start

760
00:39:06,239 --> 00:39:07,600
Speaker 3: and stop, Like I.

761
00:39:07,560 --> 00:39:10,279
Speaker 2: Can't tell you the Like I just was like no.

762
00:39:10,400 --> 00:39:12,799
Speaker 3: And then plus for you know, for work, when they're like, hey,

763
00:39:12,840 --> 00:39:14,640
Speaker 3: we need you to cover this game, and I'm like, okay,

764
00:39:14,640 --> 00:39:16,160
Speaker 3: well now I got to actually study because I don't

765
00:39:16,160 --> 00:39:17,080
Speaker 3: know none of these players.

766
00:39:17,160 --> 00:39:17,560
Speaker 4: Yeah.

767
00:39:17,600 --> 00:39:20,200
Speaker 6: But but exactly that's.

768
00:39:20,000 --> 00:39:22,879
Speaker 2: The point though, Like, I completely agree with your point.

769
00:39:22,920 --> 00:39:24,600
Speaker 3: I feel like you hit the nail on the head

770
00:39:24,640 --> 00:39:27,040
Speaker 3: about it being the perfect storm, right, Like you've got

771
00:39:27,080 --> 00:39:30,239
Speaker 3: to have players producing at the same time as all

772
00:39:30,280 --> 00:39:34,400
Speaker 3: these other things are happening, and it just kind of

773
00:39:34,400 --> 00:39:37,879
Speaker 3: brings about the fact that these college players bringing their

774
00:39:37,920 --> 00:39:40,200
Speaker 3: college fan bases to the W. I feel like it's

775
00:39:40,239 --> 00:39:43,680
Speaker 3: also something that for years we've been trying to figure out, Like,

776
00:39:43,760 --> 00:39:46,560
Speaker 3: of course, you know, Yukon has kind of always been Yukon,

777
00:39:46,640 --> 00:39:49,839
Speaker 3: and Tennessee has kind of always been Tennessee. And I think,

778
00:39:49,960 --> 00:39:52,239
Speaker 3: you know, once Asia came along, we started seeing the

779
00:39:52,280 --> 00:39:55,760
Speaker 3: South Carolina's turn around, and then the Nordre Dames got bigger,

780
00:39:55,800 --> 00:40:00,360
Speaker 3: and so like that that transition has been in Bible,

781
00:40:00,640 --> 00:40:03,000
Speaker 3: you know, in my opinion, just seeing people continue to

782
00:40:03,040 --> 00:40:06,800
Speaker 3: bring their college fan bases over and parody in college

783
00:40:06,840 --> 00:40:10,080
Speaker 3: basketball too. I think it's helped me for the longest

784
00:40:10,120 --> 00:40:12,279
Speaker 3: the times it was like it's the same for schools.

785
00:40:12,120 --> 00:40:14,840
Speaker 4: It's schools, same for schools.

786
00:40:15,520 --> 00:40:18,080
Speaker 2: You never know, right, like you never know. And I

787
00:40:18,160 --> 00:40:19,080
Speaker 2: and I love that.

788
00:40:19,080 --> 00:40:23,440
Speaker 3: About where college where where basketball and college basketball has gotten.

789
00:40:23,480 --> 00:40:25,080
Speaker 2: But what I hate.

790
00:40:25,640 --> 00:40:28,600
Speaker 3: And I mean this strongly, what I hate is that

791
00:40:28,880 --> 00:40:33,000
Speaker 3: anytime you open the door for new things and new

792
00:40:33,040 --> 00:40:35,879
Speaker 3: fans and new people and and it's not And I

793
00:40:35,920 --> 00:40:39,319
Speaker 3: am one who is adamant LEXI I only got two

794
00:40:39,400 --> 00:40:41,480
Speaker 3: hundred and forty characters, you know what I'm saying, Like

795
00:40:41,520 --> 00:40:41,880
Speaker 3: I don't have.

796
00:40:42,000 --> 00:40:45,680
Speaker 2: I'm not paying Eline for longer tweets, for longer messages.

797
00:40:46,360 --> 00:40:49,760
Speaker 4: And I think everyone who does that needs to stop stop,

798
00:40:50,200 --> 00:40:52,919
Speaker 4: Like that's it. You can't get to write that much.

799
00:40:53,000 --> 00:40:59,080
Speaker 4: Go write a newsletter and email hundred because I don't.

800
00:40:58,880 --> 00:41:00,399
Speaker 1: Even want to read all of that. I don't even

801
00:41:00,400 --> 00:41:01,080
Speaker 1: want to read all that.

802
00:41:01,200 --> 00:41:03,360
Speaker 4: Wants to hear your think piece about something that you

803
00:41:03,400 --> 00:41:04,520
Speaker 4: know nothing about.

804
00:41:04,719 --> 00:41:05,440
Speaker 2: Nothing about.

805
00:41:05,520 --> 00:41:09,719
Speaker 3: But I only bring that up to say, it is

806
00:41:09,840 --> 00:41:13,560
Speaker 3: so many factors to where women's basketball have gotten where

807
00:41:13,560 --> 00:41:16,120
Speaker 3: they are. And it didn't start yesterday, and it didn't

808
00:41:16,160 --> 00:41:18,759
Speaker 3: start last year, and it didn't start two years ago,

809
00:41:18,880 --> 00:41:21,719
Speaker 3: like it has been this way and it has been

810
00:41:21,840 --> 00:41:25,959
Speaker 3: growing to this level to ninety sep since ninety seven.

811
00:41:26,040 --> 00:41:29,760
Speaker 3: Like I think people forget, like when the league first started, it.

812
00:41:29,640 --> 00:41:35,600
Speaker 2: Was jumping, jumping, like jumping, like it was crazy, crazy jump.

813
00:41:35,680 --> 00:41:38,600
Speaker 3: I think people forget like ce Vivian Striker was selling

814
00:41:38,600 --> 00:41:41,640
Speaker 3: out stadiums years ago, you know what I mean, in

815
00:41:41,680 --> 00:41:46,120
Speaker 3: the college game. So it's just crazy how folks just

816
00:41:46,200 --> 00:41:47,400
Speaker 3: kind of forgotten or not.

817
00:41:47,400 --> 00:41:48,839
Speaker 2: I don't want to say forgot.

818
00:41:48,480 --> 00:41:50,400
Speaker 1: But it's like recency bias.

819
00:41:50,760 --> 00:41:54,200
Speaker 3: It's recency bias because we are a younger fan base

820
00:41:54,280 --> 00:41:57,440
Speaker 3: to the point of social media. So you know, we

821
00:41:57,480 --> 00:42:01,200
Speaker 3: didn't have an opportunity to have everything recorded and placed

822
00:42:01,239 --> 00:42:04,360
Speaker 3: on YouTube or placed on TikTok, so younger folks and

823
00:42:04,400 --> 00:42:05,080
Speaker 3: younger fans.

824
00:42:05,400 --> 00:42:07,480
Speaker 2: But I know it's frustrating.

825
00:42:07,520 --> 00:42:13,720
Speaker 3: And then YouTube personally, YouTube have the opportunity to sit

826
00:42:13,840 --> 00:42:17,560
Speaker 3: on Gils Arena, which is a show that people watch

827
00:42:17,600 --> 00:42:21,080
Speaker 3: and consume all the time, and every little thing you

828
00:42:21,160 --> 00:42:28,239
Speaker 3: say gets clips cut, messed up, fucked up, just like

829
00:42:28,440 --> 00:42:31,520
Speaker 3: it's like, there's no all of that, and I get it,

830
00:42:31,719 --> 00:42:34,520
Speaker 3: all of that, but I do want to offer you

831
00:42:34,600 --> 00:42:38,839
Speaker 3: both an opportunity to just kind of as frustrating as

832
00:42:38,880 --> 00:42:42,919
Speaker 3: it is, like why why is it important to continue

833
00:42:43,239 --> 00:42:46,320
Speaker 3: to be vocal? Like you both have podcasts, you both

834
00:42:46,360 --> 00:42:49,560
Speaker 3: have outlets where you can speak your truth and where

835
00:42:49,640 --> 00:42:51,840
Speaker 3: you can because you got more than two If you

836
00:42:51,880 --> 00:42:53,560
Speaker 3: want to have more than two hundred and forty characters,

837
00:42:53,600 --> 00:42:55,839
Speaker 3: you go to a platform that gives you more than

838
00:42:55,840 --> 00:42:57,520
Speaker 3: two hundred and forty characters, and.

839
00:42:57,480 --> 00:43:00,319
Speaker 1: You ain't got PA and you ain't gotta pay.

840
00:43:00,160 --> 00:43:02,759
Speaker 2: Ninety nine, but in fact they pay you.

841
00:43:02,880 --> 00:43:06,440
Speaker 3: But anyway, I think the question is just like and

842
00:43:06,480 --> 00:43:08,040
Speaker 3: this is for both of you like, why is it

843
00:43:08,080 --> 00:43:11,680
Speaker 3: so important to despite the noise and the way that

844
00:43:11,719 --> 00:43:15,320
Speaker 3: your words are constantly twisted, you still find it important

845
00:43:15,400 --> 00:43:17,960
Speaker 3: and valuable to kind of speak your truth and just

846
00:43:18,000 --> 00:43:19,560
Speaker 3: be like, this is what it is.

847
00:43:20,320 --> 00:43:26,960
Speaker 4: I didn't realize what like that clipping was until I

848
00:43:27,000 --> 00:43:29,640
Speaker 4: went on my first episode, literally my first time on

849
00:43:29,760 --> 00:43:33,480
Speaker 4: gils Arena. They could be talking about an NBA player

850
00:43:33,480 --> 00:43:36,960
Speaker 4: in the playoffs and it like went crazy and.

851
00:43:38,120 --> 00:43:39,480
Speaker 6: I wasn't wrong. That's the thing.

852
00:43:39,600 --> 00:43:40,760
Speaker 2: That's the thing about you, guys.

853
00:43:41,360 --> 00:43:42,760
Speaker 6: I'm very rarely wrong.

854
00:43:43,000 --> 00:43:46,440
Speaker 4: And I say that respectfully because I do my research

855
00:43:47,000 --> 00:43:51,600
Speaker 4: and I don't speak negatively about people because why, like

856
00:43:51,719 --> 00:43:55,240
Speaker 4: I don't need like when people just want to speak

857
00:43:55,280 --> 00:43:59,640
Speaker 4: negatively and be rude and like personally attack people like

858
00:43:59,719 --> 00:44:02,040
Speaker 4: I've just wasn't raised that way. That doesn't bring me

859
00:44:02,160 --> 00:44:05,080
Speaker 4: joy and that's bad energy and bad karma. So like

860
00:44:05,120 --> 00:44:07,000
Speaker 4: that's something that I don't do. So when people want

861
00:44:07,000 --> 00:44:11,080
Speaker 4: to clip things, I it was frustrating at first, because

862
00:44:11,640 --> 00:44:14,040
Speaker 4: I was more frustrated the fact that people just weren't

863
00:44:14,080 --> 00:44:17,359
Speaker 4: going out of their way to provide themselves with more

864
00:44:17,440 --> 00:44:19,879
Speaker 4: context of the conversation. Like for me, I'm a big

865
00:44:19,920 --> 00:44:23,919
Speaker 4: context girly like, I'm huge on context, So the fact

866
00:44:24,000 --> 00:44:27,279
Speaker 4: that people were just seeing the clip and running with it,

867
00:44:27,800 --> 00:44:30,160
Speaker 4: I was just kind of like, this makes me concerned

868
00:44:30,200 --> 00:44:34,160
Speaker 4: for like the human race a little bit as a whole,

869
00:44:34,640 --> 00:44:39,080
Speaker 4: but I can feel good about the whole point I

870
00:44:39,160 --> 00:44:43,160
Speaker 4: was making. So once I like got came to terms

871
00:44:43,160 --> 00:44:45,359
Speaker 4: with that, I was like, I don't care what people say.

872
00:44:45,360 --> 00:44:48,960
Speaker 4: I'm not even on that platform anymore. I already see people.

873
00:44:49,239 --> 00:44:52,640
Speaker 4: I've already seen people clipping me and Mariah's show to

874
00:44:52,719 --> 00:44:55,000
Speaker 4: make it seem like we're saying things that we're not saying,

875
00:44:55,080 --> 00:44:59,000
Speaker 4: Like you have no control over what other people do

876
00:44:59,080 --> 00:45:02,319
Speaker 4: with your content. And if they want to go out

877
00:45:02,320 --> 00:45:05,319
Speaker 4: of their way and make my words negative because that's

878
00:45:05,360 --> 00:45:08,360
Speaker 4: what they think, or they want to use my words

879
00:45:08,400 --> 00:45:11,320
Speaker 4: to say something mean about me, like there's nothing I

880
00:45:11,320 --> 00:45:12,040
Speaker 4: can do about that.

881
00:45:12,160 --> 00:45:13,080
Speaker 6: I don't care. I don't get it.

882
00:45:13,239 --> 00:45:17,840
Speaker 4: M So I just think it's important that we thinking

883
00:45:18,080 --> 00:45:22,560
Speaker 4: like you, Cheryl. We have been here since the beginning

884
00:45:22,600 --> 00:45:25,960
Speaker 4: before it was cool to like women's basketball to cover

885
00:45:26,040 --> 00:45:29,840
Speaker 4: women's basketball, and it's important for us to stay strong

886
00:45:29,920 --> 00:45:32,960
Speaker 4: in our opinions and continue to uplift the game and

887
00:45:33,040 --> 00:45:35,040
Speaker 4: talk about it the way it needs to be talked about.

888
00:45:35,640 --> 00:45:37,000
Speaker 1: And I don't know.

889
00:45:37,080 --> 00:45:40,880
Speaker 4: I just people are just like anybody who attacks Cheryl.

890
00:45:40,960 --> 00:45:46,000
Speaker 6: I'm just like, what it's like, y'all like attacking like Lebron.

891
00:45:46,080 --> 00:45:47,960
Speaker 6: Y'all realize that, like what are we doing here?

892
00:45:48,160 --> 00:45:55,760
Speaker 1: Like, no, no, they're attacking. It's like attacking MJ, not Lebron.

893
00:45:55,960 --> 00:45:59,719
Speaker 1: But Oka correct now I'm just playing. I'm just playing.

894
00:46:02,280 --> 00:46:02,759
Speaker 6: Both of them.

895
00:46:04,160 --> 00:46:12,880
Speaker 1: No, you know, to answer your question, we have so

896
00:46:13,239 --> 00:46:21,520
Speaker 1: many men, whether they're ex athletes, current athletes, never played

897
00:46:21,560 --> 00:46:26,160
Speaker 1: the game before, but because they are, because they are men,

898
00:46:27,680 --> 00:46:31,080
Speaker 1: whatever they say, it makes it right, right, So people think,

899
00:46:31,200 --> 00:46:36,440
Speaker 1: so they think. And I actually said this last year.

900
00:46:37,200 --> 00:46:41,880
Speaker 1: I said, if if I can't talk about our game,

901
00:46:42,600 --> 00:46:47,640
Speaker 1: if I can't talk about players in our game, good bad, indifferent.

902
00:46:47,800 --> 00:46:50,279
Speaker 1: If I can't do it, nobody should be doing it,

903
00:46:50,680 --> 00:46:58,680
Speaker 1: especially a male. Right. And to Lexi's point, I don't

904
00:46:58,880 --> 00:47:03,279
Speaker 1: hate or not one single person. First of all, let's

905
00:47:03,320 --> 00:47:08,319
Speaker 1: just say that let alone a player, Like, what do

906
00:47:08,360 --> 00:47:11,000
Speaker 1: I look like hating on any player that's playing the

907
00:47:11,040 --> 00:47:15,400
Speaker 1: game today. Yeah, they probably have more opportunity, they're making

908
00:47:15,440 --> 00:47:18,480
Speaker 1: more money, they're getting bigger bags, and I am here

909
00:47:18,520 --> 00:47:22,200
Speaker 1: to applaud it. Stand up for it, Go get Joe Bagg.

910
00:47:22,440 --> 00:47:29,760
Speaker 1: Like I already said, there is nothing that I wanted

911
00:47:29,800 --> 00:47:34,840
Speaker 1: to accomplish in basketball that I didn't accomplish. So to

912
00:47:34,960 --> 00:47:39,719
Speaker 1: say I'm hating on players, I hate players. I'm a racist.

913
00:47:39,920 --> 00:47:44,400
Speaker 1: All of those things like find something new, find something different,

914
00:47:44,440 --> 00:47:47,520
Speaker 1: find something unique to come at me with, because that

915
00:47:47,640 --> 00:47:51,239
Speaker 1: doesn't fly over here, Like all the racist comments, all

916
00:47:51,280 --> 00:47:53,399
Speaker 1: of those things that people want to say I am.

917
00:47:53,880 --> 00:47:57,400
Speaker 1: I actually laugh at it because y'all sound dumb. Like

918
00:47:57,480 --> 00:48:03,760
Speaker 1: y'all sound really dumb. I love where this game is at,

919
00:48:04,560 --> 00:48:08,920
Speaker 1: but I feel it's very important for like Lexi, myself

920
00:48:08,960 --> 00:48:12,680
Speaker 1: and t even you with your platform, I feel like

921
00:48:12,719 --> 00:48:16,880
Speaker 1: it's very important that we are in those spaces where

922
00:48:16,920 --> 00:48:22,160
Speaker 1: men are talking about our game. You haven't played our game.

923
00:48:22,280 --> 00:48:25,160
Speaker 1: You don't know the ins and outs of what it

924
00:48:25,239 --> 00:48:28,680
Speaker 1: means to be a part of the WNBA better than

925
00:48:28,719 --> 00:48:31,960
Speaker 1: those who have covered it since day one, like you,

926
00:48:32,520 --> 00:48:35,799
Speaker 1: who have played it since day one, like myself, and

927
00:48:35,840 --> 00:48:40,239
Speaker 1: who's currently playing it, like Lexi, I don't care what

928
00:48:40,280 --> 00:48:43,560
Speaker 1: you did in the NBA. You didn't do it on

929
00:48:43,600 --> 00:48:46,600
Speaker 1: this side. So to come for me and come at

930
00:48:46,600 --> 00:48:49,560
Speaker 1: me and say, oh, you don't know this you don't

931
00:48:49,600 --> 00:48:52,600
Speaker 1: know that. Okay, Well you can keep saying that because

932
00:48:54,320 --> 00:48:55,920
Speaker 1: I know for a fact I know more about the

933
00:48:55,960 --> 00:48:58,400
Speaker 1: game than you do. That's why I think it's important

934
00:48:58,440 --> 00:49:02,000
Speaker 1: to have voices like myself off and Lexi's and whether

935
00:49:02,080 --> 00:49:03,640
Speaker 1: y'all want to hear it or not, Like I get

936
00:49:03,640 --> 00:49:07,120
Speaker 1: these comments all the time. I hate when y'all bring

937
00:49:07,120 --> 00:49:09,279
Speaker 1: her on the show talking about gil show. And you know,

938
00:49:09,360 --> 00:49:11,200
Speaker 1: on days when I have time, because some days I

939
00:49:11,200 --> 00:49:13,920
Speaker 1: have time, not every day I ain't got time, but

940
00:49:14,040 --> 00:49:16,600
Speaker 1: on the days when I do, like, I'm gonna sit

941
00:49:16,600 --> 00:49:20,359
Speaker 1: here and I'll entertain you. So my response is, if

942
00:49:20,360 --> 00:49:24,600
Speaker 1: you don't like it, then don't watch it. And not

943
00:49:24,640 --> 00:49:28,160
Speaker 1: only that, if I'm such a bad person, why is

944
00:49:28,200 --> 00:49:30,680
Speaker 1: it that you're searching for what is Cheryl Who's doing?

945
00:49:30,760 --> 00:49:32,680
Speaker 1: Or what does she say? Or who does she who

946
00:49:32,719 --> 00:49:35,360
Speaker 1: is she talking about? So you can go and comment it, like,

947
00:49:35,800 --> 00:49:38,880
Speaker 1: just go find somebody else to troll, because that's what

948
00:49:38,920 --> 00:49:39,400
Speaker 1: you're doing.

949
00:49:39,560 --> 00:49:41,640
Speaker 4: They probably and they probably are following you.

950
00:49:41,719 --> 00:49:46,200
Speaker 3: Ain't blocked, they ain't blocked you, they ain't muted you.

951
00:49:46,320 --> 00:49:47,560
Speaker 2: Probably following you.

952
00:49:48,040 --> 00:49:48,720
Speaker 1: Ask y'all.

953
00:49:50,080 --> 00:49:51,440
Speaker 2: When they see.

954
00:49:54,520 --> 00:49:57,480
Speaker 1: But to you, here, here's here, here's my here's my thing,

955
00:49:57,640 --> 00:50:00,080
Speaker 1: right because and I don't want to talk about it

956
00:50:00,160 --> 00:50:03,160
Speaker 1: because I'm over it. But you know, like the most

957
00:50:03,160 --> 00:50:11,200
Speaker 1: recent situation with Caitlyn and Angel, I said I had

958
00:50:11,239 --> 00:50:14,960
Speaker 1: no issue with Caitlyn's foul. That's the very first thing

959
00:50:15,000 --> 00:50:17,279
Speaker 1: I said. And I didn't because I would And I

960
00:50:17,280 --> 00:50:19,520
Speaker 1: also said I would have done the same thing because

961
00:50:19,560 --> 00:50:22,080
Speaker 1: I was taught you don't give up an easy layup.

962
00:50:22,160 --> 00:50:24,600
Speaker 4: And the thing it had nothing to do with the

963
00:50:24,640 --> 00:50:25,680
Speaker 4: players on the court.

964
00:50:26,200 --> 00:50:27,560
Speaker 6: I wasn't saying oh no about that.

965
00:50:27,680 --> 00:50:29,600
Speaker 4: I said, damn, that was a that was a smart

966
00:50:30,120 --> 00:50:31,520
Speaker 4: play from a competitor.

967
00:50:32,239 --> 00:50:34,440
Speaker 1: That's what it was. And that's what it was.

968
00:50:36,560 --> 00:50:40,319
Speaker 4: That too, But okay, LEXI like, you.

969
00:50:40,280 --> 00:50:44,919
Speaker 1: Can do whatever you want. But but people wanted to say, yeah,

970
00:50:45,000 --> 00:50:45,600
Speaker 1: go ahead.

971
00:50:46,200 --> 00:50:49,279
Speaker 4: I was, yeah, it's going to be this is going

972
00:50:49,360 --> 00:50:51,480
Speaker 4: to overshadow anything that happens for.

973
00:50:51,440 --> 00:50:52,120
Speaker 6: The next year.

974
00:50:52,760 --> 00:50:53,440
Speaker 1: Yeah.

975
00:50:53,480 --> 00:50:56,759
Speaker 4: Well, you know, I was disappointed and and I was like,

976
00:50:56,800 --> 00:50:58,239
Speaker 4: can you maybe they'll surprise me.

977
00:50:58,680 --> 00:51:01,880
Speaker 1: No, they know, you didn't. You didn't really think that.

978
00:51:01,920 --> 00:51:04,040
Speaker 1: You didn't really think that. But you know, but people

979
00:51:04,120 --> 00:51:07,239
Speaker 1: want to say that Angel reacted that way because it

980
00:51:07,280 --> 00:51:11,279
Speaker 1: was Caitlin. And what I said was m no, I

981
00:51:12,160 --> 00:51:15,600
Speaker 1: think Angel Angel would have reacted like that period because

982
00:51:15,640 --> 00:51:18,480
Speaker 1: that's that's who Angel is. So somebody brought up the

983
00:51:18,480 --> 00:51:23,040
Speaker 1: fact that when when At fouled her heart, she didn't

984
00:51:23,120 --> 00:51:23,680
Speaker 1: jump up like that.

985
00:51:23,760 --> 00:51:27,040
Speaker 3: I was like, well, she probably couldn't breathe.

986
00:51:27,480 --> 00:51:32,400
Speaker 1: She probably couldn't breathe like like, not only that, but

987
00:51:32,440 --> 00:51:34,680
Speaker 1: it was the fact like At grabbed the girl by

988
00:51:34,719 --> 00:51:37,360
Speaker 1: the throat, she closed lined her, so she probably was

989
00:51:37,360 --> 00:51:38,279
Speaker 1: trying to catch her breath.

990
00:51:38,320 --> 00:51:40,120
Speaker 6: She probably was like what just happened?

991
00:51:40,520 --> 00:51:41,480
Speaker 1: What is going on?

992
00:51:43,440 --> 00:51:45,680
Speaker 4: And I got screened in the back cord by Alissa

993
00:51:45,760 --> 00:51:46,600
Speaker 4: Thomas and that.

994
00:51:46,680 --> 00:51:55,720
Speaker 1: Ship listen, at ain't no joke. At at ain't no Joe.

995
00:51:55,719 --> 00:51:57,200
Speaker 6: I'm sorry, no one is doing that.

996
00:51:57,320 --> 00:52:02,520
Speaker 1: No, it's not happening. Yeah, I'm just like, like it

997
00:52:02,960 --> 00:52:06,319
Speaker 1: just it takes the fun out of out of the

998
00:52:06,360 --> 00:52:10,839
Speaker 1: game when when it's all the extracurricular stuff outside of

999
00:52:10,880 --> 00:52:14,719
Speaker 1: what's going on on the court. Right, And I completely

1000
00:52:14,719 --> 00:52:20,480
Speaker 1: agree with Lexi, it's two competitors. It's two competitors, right,

1001
00:52:20,680 --> 00:52:23,239
Speaker 1: Like Caitlyn did what she's supposed to do. It was

1002
00:52:23,280 --> 00:52:26,000
Speaker 1: a hard foul. Whether you thought it was a flagrant

1003
00:52:26,080 --> 00:52:28,560
Speaker 1: or not. My thing is the rest called it a

1004
00:52:28,600 --> 00:52:32,360
Speaker 1: flagrant from the angle I saw. I didn't think she

1005
00:52:32,560 --> 00:52:35,200
Speaker 1: went for the ball, and I thought the rules were

1006
00:52:35,280 --> 00:52:36,600
Speaker 1: you don't go for the ball with the hard foul

1007
00:52:36,640 --> 00:52:39,560
Speaker 1: to the flagran foul whatever. But they both both Caitlyn

1008
00:52:39,600 --> 00:52:42,600
Speaker 1: and Angel said it was a basketball play. Let's move on.

1009
00:52:43,040 --> 00:52:46,399
Speaker 1: So so if they're moving on, why can't the rest

1010
00:52:46,400 --> 00:52:46,839
Speaker 1: of the world.

1011
00:52:48,239 --> 00:52:49,759
Speaker 3: You know what, I'm gonna even add to that and

1012
00:52:49,840 --> 00:52:53,320
Speaker 3: just simply say the very next day, I was sitting

1013
00:52:53,440 --> 00:52:57,680
Speaker 3: courtside doing my job, watching Shakira get ready to go

1014
00:52:57,840 --> 00:53:02,520
Speaker 3: off and then then part and I didn't see no

1015
00:53:02,800 --> 00:53:06,600
Speaker 3: extra curricular commentary about Shakira and Marina and Shakira push

1016
00:53:06,600 --> 00:53:08,600
Speaker 3: the ship out of Marina, and I was like, damn, Marina,

1017
00:53:08,640 --> 00:53:10,040
Speaker 3: you kind of had to eat that one. But at

1018
00:53:10,040 --> 00:53:12,719
Speaker 3: the end of the day, like the same thing right

1019
00:53:12,760 --> 00:53:15,920
Speaker 3: before that happened, you could see John quill and I

1020
00:53:15,960 --> 00:53:17,160
Speaker 3: forgot who she was getting.

1021
00:53:16,880 --> 00:53:19,200
Speaker 4: At Chelsea somebody.

1022
00:53:19,840 --> 00:53:22,960
Speaker 3: I'm just like, we know, we know what it is, like,

1023
00:53:23,040 --> 00:53:25,320
Speaker 3: we know, and it's so irritating, and so.

1024
00:53:29,200 --> 00:53:32,160
Speaker 1: No Djona and Jeff Shepherd, Yeah.

1025
00:53:32,760 --> 00:53:35,960
Speaker 6: Yeah, the competitors competitors.

1026
00:53:36,440 --> 00:53:38,960
Speaker 4: So that's why it's important for us to keep the

1027
00:53:38,960 --> 00:53:39,800
Speaker 4: main thing the main.

1028
00:53:39,680 --> 00:53:42,400
Speaker 2: Thing, yep, exactly exactly.

1029
00:53:42,480 --> 00:53:45,759
Speaker 4: The main thing is these are strong, amazing, powerful women

1030
00:53:45,840 --> 00:53:48,120
Speaker 4: competing for a championship.

1031
00:53:57,440 --> 00:54:02,040
Speaker 1: Well, listen, all right, so this this isn't a basketball one.

1032
00:54:02,280 --> 00:54:06,799
Speaker 1: But I told I told a couple of people you

1033
00:54:06,840 --> 00:54:10,960
Speaker 1: were coming on the show today, and I need to

1034
00:54:11,000 --> 00:54:15,759
Speaker 1: know for them, what does the dating scene look like

1035
00:54:15,880 --> 00:54:25,520
Speaker 1: for lex It's just me, I said, you know what,

1036
00:54:25,920 --> 00:54:31,000
Speaker 1: because some listen I've had I've had three people hit

1037
00:54:31,080 --> 00:54:34,480
Speaker 1: me up like, what's up with Lexi Brown? I said,

1038
00:54:34,480 --> 00:54:35,560
Speaker 1: what you mean? What was up with her?

1039
00:54:35,680 --> 00:54:35,759
Speaker 3: So?

1040
00:54:35,880 --> 00:54:40,000
Speaker 1: I said, she's coming on the show, And okay, that's

1041
00:54:40,040 --> 00:54:42,839
Speaker 1: the that's the answer I'm giving them. She's a stay

1042
00:54:42,920 --> 00:54:45,479
Speaker 1: home dog mom. Unless you got a real cute dog,

1043
00:54:45,560 --> 00:54:48,520
Speaker 1: you ain't got a gent No, I won't even say that.

1044
00:54:48,680 --> 00:54:51,400
Speaker 6: Boy, I got real responsibilities. I got a handle, you know.

1045
00:54:54,080 --> 00:54:57,040
Speaker 1: Okay, Well I did ask, so I need that out

1046
00:54:57,080 --> 00:55:00,160
Speaker 1: here so so when they hear it, they'll no idea.

1047
00:55:00,200 --> 00:55:01,920
Speaker 2: Ask that's great.

1048
00:55:02,000 --> 00:55:05,759
Speaker 3: Okay, Oh my god, did you say did you say?

1049
00:55:05,800 --> 00:55:12,320
Speaker 1: How quick? She cut me off like no, no, no, no,

1050
00:55:12,840 --> 00:55:13,520
Speaker 1: not going here.

1051
00:55:13,840 --> 00:55:15,719
Speaker 3: You're gonna get these You're gonna get these photos on

1052
00:55:15,800 --> 00:55:18,160
Speaker 3: Instagram and that's it.

1053
00:55:19,800 --> 00:55:20,439
Speaker 2: Oh my God.

1054
00:55:20,480 --> 00:55:23,960
Speaker 3: Well, before we let you go, Lexi, we have missed

1055
00:55:24,000 --> 00:55:26,480
Speaker 3: several times that you have a show with Mariah Rose

1056
00:55:26,600 --> 00:55:29,120
Speaker 3: on the iHeart Women's Sports Network. So I just want

1057
00:55:29,120 --> 00:55:31,080
Speaker 3: to give you an opportunity to kind of talk about

1058
00:55:31,080 --> 00:55:34,719
Speaker 3: your show where people can listen and like what you

1059
00:55:34,800 --> 00:55:35,640
Speaker 3: and Mariah.

1060
00:55:35,280 --> 00:55:35,799
Speaker 2: Got coming up.

1061
00:55:35,880 --> 00:55:39,080
Speaker 4: Yeah, So it's called Full Circle Podcast and it's just

1062
00:55:40,480 --> 00:55:44,160
Speaker 4: a women's basketball show. We we last week our episode

1063
00:55:44,160 --> 00:55:46,640
Speaker 4: was called keep It Cute, So that's basically what we do.

1064
00:55:46,719 --> 00:55:52,560
Speaker 4: We like to talk analytics, stats, uh, good performances, teams,

1065
00:55:52,600 --> 00:55:55,640
Speaker 4: like we just really get into it. But it's nothing personal,

1066
00:55:55,840 --> 00:56:00,640
Speaker 4: like we say, U, what is it just five? I

1067
00:56:00,680 --> 00:56:03,080
Speaker 4: forgot what our logo thing line was. I made it

1068
00:56:03,160 --> 00:56:05,160
Speaker 4: up one day and I can't remember it right now.

1069
00:56:05,200 --> 00:56:08,239
Speaker 4: But it's just like a fun space for women's basketball,

1070
00:56:08,320 --> 00:56:11,760
Speaker 4: especially in the toxicity that surrounds the sport at times.

1071
00:56:11,800 --> 00:56:13,839
Speaker 4: So it's just a place where you can get some

1072
00:56:13,880 --> 00:56:17,120
Speaker 4: really valuable information about what's going on in the w

1073
00:56:17,400 --> 00:56:20,440
Speaker 4: in college, might tap into some high school stuff this

1074
00:56:20,560 --> 00:56:25,040
Speaker 4: year as well. And it is weekly on Wednesdays. You

1075
00:56:25,040 --> 00:56:27,480
Speaker 4: can find it anywhere you find your podcast, and then

1076
00:56:27,600 --> 00:56:30,560
Speaker 4: videos drop on YouTube on Fridays.

1077
00:56:31,440 --> 00:56:34,320
Speaker 2: I love that will love it. We definitely going to

1078
00:56:34,400 --> 00:56:35,759
Speaker 2: be checking out. I already do checking out.

1079
00:56:35,800 --> 00:56:39,520
Speaker 4: So there we go, Zoey all producer, no filter, all facts,

1080
00:56:39,560 --> 00:56:40,240
Speaker 4: there we go.

1081
00:56:40,440 --> 00:56:46,080
Speaker 2: No filter. All thank you that. I love that shout

1082
00:56:46,080 --> 00:56:46,840
Speaker 2: out to Zoe.

1083
00:56:47,280 --> 00:56:51,560
Speaker 1: Like zorry, you'll be on top of it.

1084
00:56:51,840 --> 00:56:54,880
Speaker 2: Yes, Zoe be on it. Yeah.

1085
00:56:54,960 --> 00:56:57,600
Speaker 3: I love that we share the same producer. So let's

1086
00:56:57,600 --> 00:56:58,680
Speaker 3: make sure Zoe get hugged.

1087
00:56:58,680 --> 00:56:58,839
Speaker 1: Love.

1088
00:57:00,600 --> 00:57:02,799
Speaker 2: But thank you so much for hanging out. Lexi. We

1089
00:57:02,800 --> 00:57:04,400
Speaker 2: definitely got to have you come back on the show

1090
00:57:04,520 --> 00:57:06,839
Speaker 2: because we didn't even get into half the ship.

1091
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Speaker 1: We was gonna talk about talk. I'm struggling over here,

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Speaker 1: and you know, you know, I like to talk. I

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Speaker 1: like to laugh. I'm struggling. But sex but sexy, Lexi.

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Speaker 1: We know you're gonna keep it sexy.

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Speaker 4: Keep it sexy, right, yeah, sexy?

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Speaker 1: Oh my god, bye, Thanks Lexi.

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Speaker 3: I can already tell that we are gonna have to

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Speaker 3: have Lexi back on the show because there is just

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Speaker 3: never enough time to get into everything that we really

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Speaker 3: want to get into. And I could just really feel

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00:57:48,640 --> 00:57:51,880
Speaker 3: like that was starting to get juicy. The conversation was

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Speaker 3: starting to get juicy.

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Speaker 1: Well, I mean, there were so many places we could

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00:57:56,200 --> 00:57:59,040
Speaker 1: have gone but and and a lot of good things

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Speaker 1: that we talked about, out her Crohn's disease, her going

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00:58:02,840 --> 00:58:06,680
Speaker 1: to Seattle, and how all of that felt. But you

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00:58:06,760 --> 00:58:10,360
Speaker 1: know what I was disappointed in because now I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: have people coming at me.

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Speaker 2: Ah the dating question.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Like I actually had people say can you find

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00:58:21,560 --> 00:58:25,040
Speaker 1: out if Lexi Brown is single? And a couple of them.

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Speaker 1: I said, even if she and she isn't you're not

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Speaker 1: her type.

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Speaker 2: It's not you. It's nice. It is true her and Cannon,

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Speaker 2: and that's it. That's all we working with.

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Speaker 3: Alexi was like, nah, Cannon is the only man in

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00:58:38,080 --> 00:58:41,200
Speaker 3: my life right. That is so funny. But you know

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Speaker 3: what's crazy. I get that question about you all the.

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Speaker 1: Time about me.

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Speaker 2: Yes, people are always like, you know I love you know,

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Speaker 2: I love Sharyl. You know you know you know shrel

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00:58:50,320 --> 00:58:51,400
Speaker 2: I had a crush on Sharyl.

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Speaker 3: But I was like, well, you're the blue woman that's married,

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Speaker 3: which you should have had a crush back of the day.

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Speaker 1: Listen, let me spell it for you and you pronounce it.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna spell it and you pronounce it. This is

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Speaker 1: what my husband is.

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Speaker 4: I g.

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Speaker 3: And you and t.

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Speaker 2: Spell it against your ig.

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Speaker 1: And you and t ignant.

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Speaker 2: Ignorant. I knew it instantly because I got one of them.

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Speaker 1: But you know, what's so much? You know, because I

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Speaker 1: know we're gonna wrap it up. But it's social media

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00:59:41,440 --> 00:59:46,360
Speaker 1: is such a place. It's just such a place. Sometimes

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Speaker 1: just when I'm sitting around not doing anything, which isn't

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00:59:49,320 --> 00:59:53,120
Speaker 1: very often, I'll just go through my d MS because

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Speaker 1: I don't do that very often, and some some of

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00:59:56,080 --> 00:59:58,520
Speaker 1: the messages are of course, people hate me, but then

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Speaker 1: there are some that are like, mmmm, girl, you're sicker

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Speaker 1: than a snick thought. I thought you was fine when

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01:00:08,480 --> 01:00:11,720
Speaker 1: you play the things I would do to you. Now

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01:00:12,000 --> 01:00:14,880
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh gosh.

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Speaker 3: This is why I don't check my dms. What I

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Speaker 3: tell you, you gotta show him. You got to show him

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Speaker 3: to your husband, because that's when it's really funny.

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Speaker 2: I get stuff like that and.

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Speaker 3: I show it to Greg and he was like, he'd

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01:00:24,280 --> 01:00:27,080
Speaker 3: be like, oh, and it's it's crazy because it's always

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Speaker 3: somebody who you know that you're not gonna get with.

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Speaker 2: That's why they be cool, That's why they respond the way.

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01:00:32,520 --> 01:00:35,320
Speaker 2: That's fine because they like say like it don't matter,

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Speaker 2: we know you not.

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Speaker 1: Never gonna happen. It's never never gonna happen.

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Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying.

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Speaker 3: I'm telling you now, let let let somebody find Slade

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Speaker 3: in my d MS.

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Speaker 1: I can't show up and I know you don't. I

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01:00:48,920 --> 01:00:51,120
Speaker 1: know you don't. I can't show that one.

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Speaker 2: Oh my god, yes, God, hilarious.

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Speaker 1: So so thankful to have Lexi on such a great conversation.

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Speaker 3: Absolutely well, as we are on our way up out

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Speaker 3: of here, Cheryl, I know you got something good for

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Speaker 3: us this week?

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Speaker 2: How are you gonna level us?

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Speaker 1: Okay? So we are in Pride months. We are right,

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Speaker 1: and I know We've said it because we always you know,

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01:01:17,600 --> 01:01:21,760
Speaker 1: we're always on top of people and things in what

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Speaker 1: month it is, and so for Pride Months, yes, I

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01:01:25,320 --> 01:01:28,600
Speaker 1: want to do some type of a quote or an

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Speaker 1: uplifting word for all of the LGBTQ community. So today

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Speaker 1: this is what I got. It says, to be yourself

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01:01:44,840 --> 01:01:48,360
Speaker 1: in a world that is constantly trying to make you

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01:01:48,480 --> 01:01:51,920
Speaker 1: something else is the greatest accomplishment.

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, that can be for anybody, for anything, but

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Speaker 3: in particular because.

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Speaker 1: It's Pride month. Just want to send out mad love

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Speaker 1: to our LGBTQ plus community and that word today was

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Speaker 1: for you.

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Speaker 3: Absolutely, I absolutely love that and it is one one

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01:02:12,040 --> 01:02:15,360
Speaker 3: hundred percent accurate. Never never, never ever ever change who

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01:02:15,360 --> 01:02:16,880
Speaker 3: you are, Always be who you are.

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01:02:17,160 --> 01:02:19,080
Speaker 1: We love that, love that.

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Speaker 3: Well with that, friends, That is going to be it

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Speaker 3: for this week's episode of Levels to This, but we

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Speaker 3: will be back next week with more next level conversations

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Speaker 3: just about the real shit that we go through as women.

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01:02:35,800 --> 01:02:38,600
Speaker 3: And remember this isn't our show, but it's our show,

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Speaker 3: so we want to hear from you.

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Speaker 2: Leave us a review in Apple Podcasts. Tell us what

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01:02:42,120 --> 01:02:43,160
Speaker 2: you thought of this week's show.

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01:02:43,200 --> 01:02:45,680
Speaker 3: You can hit us up on Gmail at Level to

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01:02:45,760 --> 01:02:48,919
Speaker 3: This Podcast at gmail dot com and please follow us

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01:02:48,960 --> 01:02:53,720
Speaker 3: on Instagram at lttpod. Until then, keep your mental's ground

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Speaker 3: level and we will be.

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Speaker 2: Back next week.

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