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

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Speaker 1: sad to be leaving the gorgeous Hotel Saints Cecilia in Austin, Texas,

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Speaker 1: where we've been making cowboy hats with Kristin Davis, shooting

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Speaker 1: bourbon with Ed Helms, and spreading the gospel of women's sports.

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Speaker 1: It's Tuesday, March eleventh, and on today's show, will be

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Speaker 1: bringing you a conversation I had with WNBA player Lexi

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Speaker 1: Brown as part of a live show at the iHeart

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Speaker 1: Podcast Hotel at south By Southwest on Saturday night. We

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Speaker 1: talked about how she found out she was getting traded,

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Speaker 1: how storytelling and brand sponsorship are helping grow women's sports,

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Speaker 1: and her podcast Full Circle, which you can find right

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Speaker 1: here on the iHeart Women's Sports Network. Plus March means

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Speaker 1: Upsets Galore, a Sicko's Breakdown of Rivals, and the NWSL

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Speaker 1: is back.

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Speaker 2: In more ways than one. It's all coming up right

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Speaker 2: after this Welcome back slices. Here's what you need to

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Speaker 2: know today.

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Speaker 1: Let's start with the NWSL, which returned in style with

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Speaker 1: the Challenge Cup Thrilled on Friday night, kicking off the

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty five season. It was a rematch of last

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Speaker 1: ball's championship game. This time the Washington Spirit claimed the

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Speaker 1: cup over the Orlando Pride, winning four to two at

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Speaker 1: a penalty shootout after a one to one regulation finish.

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Speaker 1: Regular season NWSL games start this upcoming Friday, the fourteenth.

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Speaker 1: More NWSL, the league is investigating the technical staff of BAYFC,

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Speaker 1: with the San Francisco Chronicle reporting that two former players

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Speaker 1: described the culture under head coach Albertine Montoya as quote

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Speaker 1: unquote toxic. NWSL Commissioner Jessica Berman confirmed the investigation while

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Speaker 1: speaking to reporters on Friday, saying, quote, a review is

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Speaker 1: underway by an independent third party, and we're very confident

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Speaker 1: that the system we have in place will ensure that

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Speaker 1: we surface the issues that need to be addressed, and

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Speaker 1: that we'll continue to work with all our clubs, our

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Speaker 1: technical staff, and our players to make sure that we're

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Speaker 1: achieving our goal of creating a safe, healthy working environment

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Speaker 1: end quote. The news comes just weeks after the very

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Speaker 1: short tenure of Graham Abel as the club's head of

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Speaker 1: domestic scouting. Abel was named that post in February, but

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Speaker 1: he resigned one week later. He had previously been the

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Speaker 1: subject of an investigative report by The Oregonian in which

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Speaker 1: more than a dozen players alleged she was verbally abusive.

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Speaker 1: We'll keep you posted as we learn more. BFC opens

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Speaker 1: its season on Saturday with an away game against the

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Speaker 1: Utah Royals to Unrivaled. By the time all Uselice is

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Speaker 1: hear this, the Unrivaled regular season will have come to

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Speaker 1: a close and will know which four teams made the playoffs.

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Speaker 1: As of this recording on Monday afternoon, the Lunar Owls,

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Speaker 1: Rows and Laces have locked down playoff spots, with the

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Speaker 1: Vinyl and Misted fighting for the fourth and final spot.

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Speaker 2: Y'all know what that means.

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Speaker 1: It's time to bust out the crystal ball again, and

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Speaker 1: it says the Lunar Owls are gonna win at all. Okay,

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Speaker 1: that's not helpful for this specific moment, but I guess

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Speaker 1: we all know that's what's gonna happen, right, or at

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Speaker 1: least that's what we think to college hoops, where conference

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Speaker 1: tournaments are in full swing and some have already wrapped.

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Speaker 2: Let's go conference by conference.

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Speaker 1: First up, the ACC the number eleven Duke Blue Devils

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Speaker 1: upset Number six Notre Dame sixty one to fifty six

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Speaker 1: Duke rallied from a fourteen point deficit to beat number

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Speaker 1: seven NC State seventy six to sixty two to take

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Speaker 1: where revenge is sweet. UCLA avenged two losses to crosstown

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Speaker 1: center Lauren Betts led her squad with seventeen points, five rebounds,

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Speaker 1: tourney's most outstanding player. Juju Watkins of USC started the

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Speaker 1: in the whole second half. Both teams dominated the Big

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Speaker 1: and are potential number one seeds in the upcoming NCAA Tournament.

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Speaker 1: That nineteen point victory over the Longhorns completed the game

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Speaker 1: South Carolina was ranked fifth nationally entering the conference Attorney

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Speaker 1: to secure their program's first ever NC Double Attorney bid.

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Speaker 1: If you missed Friday's episode with A Ten Commissioner Bernadette McGlade,

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Speaker 1: go back and take a listen to Colla Hockey. The

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Speaker 1: eleven team NC Double Attorney bracket was revealed on Sunday,

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Speaker 1: with Wisconsin earning the number one seed thanks to a

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Speaker 1: In Minnesota, earned seeds two through four and the regional

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Speaker 1: final hosting rights that go along with them. That tourney

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Speaker 1: gets underwean Thursday, and we'll link to the full bracket

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Speaker 1: and schedule in our show notes to alpine skiing. On Sunday,

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Speaker 1: American Mikayla Schiffrin added to her lore, finishing third in

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Speaker 1: the slalom in Aure, Sweden, to break yet another record

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Speaker 1: with her one hundred and fifty sixth podium finish the

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Speaker 1: with Swedish gear Ingemar Stenmark, who competed in the nineteen

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Speaker 2: And finally converted track sprinner.

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Speaker 1: Kasha Love won the mono bob at the World Championships

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Speaker 1: in Lake Placid, New York, this past weekend. Love top

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Speaker 1: German Laura Nolta by forty four hundredths of a second.

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Speaker 1: Friend of the Show Alana Meyers Taylor earned bronze, five

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Speaker 1: hundredths behind Nolta. Slices, I want to take a quick

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Speaker 1: moment to shout out one of our shows presenting sponsors,

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Speaker 1: Elf Cosmetics, who were announced last week as the official

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Speaker 1: makeup and Skincare partner of the NASL. ELF is the

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Speaker 1: love that after they sent me a bag of goodies,

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Speaker 1: I am now a primer girl. That's right, folks, This

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Speaker 2: Never too late to start right.

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Speaker 1: We got to take a quick break when we come back.

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Speaker 1: It's my conversation with Lexi Brown from south By, Southwest

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Speaker 1: stick Around. She's a member of the Seattle Storm, a

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Speaker 1: In my opinion, helping the Chicago Sky to their twenty

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Speaker 3: Let's go.

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Speaker 1: She's a fashion influencer and she owns more bikinis than

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Speaker 1: I do shoes. It's Lexi Brown, you really do love

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Speaker 1: a bikini.

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Speaker 3: Okay.

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Speaker 2: I don't know how you pack all those girls. I

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Speaker 2: mean they're small, They're real small.

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Speaker 3: They are small. All right. I don't work hard for nothing,

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Speaker 3: that's right, that's right.

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Speaker 2: Show it off.

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Speaker 1: Okay, this off season in the WNBA was insane. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: so much player movement. How did you find out that

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Speaker 4: Also, with all this movement going on, I really believe

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Speaker 4: that I was good in LA. So when I was

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Speaker 4: we're talking about, Oh, this is crazy, Like I can't

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Speaker 4: believe this person got traded. I can't believe this person

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Speaker 3: So I found out. Actually I was.

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Speaker 4: Playing in Athletes Unlimited, which is another women's basketball professional

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Speaker 4: off season league in Nashville, and I was actually pulling

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Speaker 4: and for a few weeks, I was kind of feeling

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Speaker 3: You know, I was very happy there. I was very

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Speaker 3: So pulling out of the park garage, my GM's.

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Speaker 3: Like I immediately knew.

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Speaker 4: So I entered the phone, and I'm not even exaggerating.

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Speaker 4: Our conversation was one minute, and that's when she told

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Speaker 3: Had a game to get to.

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Speaker 4: I had a game to play, and I take ownership

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Speaker 4: in that conversation, probably not being as long and meaningful

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Speaker 4: So the first season of Athletes Unlimited, I was fresh

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Speaker 4: it was an amazing experience, and I found myself playing

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Speaker 4: I went to France, was playing exceptionally well and nothing

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Speaker 4: So the Athletes Unlimited opportunity to come before I went overseas,

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Speaker 4: and I let them know, like my agent really wants

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Speaker 1: The fan base, the attention that you get in La,

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Speaker 1: Absolutely, It's like one team announces a fifty million dollar

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Speaker 2: We love it.

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Speaker 3: Keep that's what we need.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, because not just you, but there was a hilarious

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Speaker 4: We're at it, We're at practice getting cussed out.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, but that investment has been so important for facilities

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Speaker 4: I think charter flights not having those is kind of

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Speaker 4: So we're spending two three hours in airports. There's horrible

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Speaker 4: Season, No so for, Me i'm five, NINE i can

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Speaker 4: Like i'm. Cool SO i feel for my like taller.

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Speaker 4: Teammates we're an economy next to just a random person

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Speaker 4: yeah like they're like you're on A, wait you had

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Speaker 4: and then it's like that whole, Conversation oh, well we

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Speaker 4: just this is just how we travel and then.

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Speaker 3: We have our whole travel. Party it's like thirty. People

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Speaker 4: Bags so it was more of like the process of

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Speaker 4: of being on commercial. FLIGHTS i don't, like you weren't being,

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Speaker 4: it's something that we're used, to but it was something

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Speaker 4: i'm glad that we've been able to make that. Change

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Speaker 3: When they have kids and they have like and you

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Speaker 2: Where someone has a roommate and their kid.

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Speaker 4: Is in the, room, yeah or if you don't want

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Speaker 3: My, gosh fun we get to hang out.

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Speaker 4: Over but my teammates like thirty five and she's, like,

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Speaker 4: WHY i don't want this sepack. MACHINE i don't want

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Speaker 4: this child with me in my. Room SO i, mean

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Speaker 4: just the little changes That i've been made have have

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Speaker 1: Grateful Your Dadde brown was a twelve YEAR nba. Vet

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Speaker 1: he went won The dunk.

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Speaker 3: Contest he dine, yes shout out.

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Speaker 1: Dad what's the best piece of advice he's given, you

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Speaker 4: Life he has this little term that he's very proud,

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Speaker 4: of And i'm very proud of it for it, Too

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Speaker 4: but it's hoop over. Hype so growing, UP i didn't

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Speaker 4: it more of a motivation for. Me and As i've

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Speaker 4: just gotten, older that's just something That i've always held.

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Speaker 4: Onto so you, know at the end of the, day

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Speaker 4: your game is going to speak for, itself whether people

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Speaker 4: want to acknowledge it or. Not you have to Put

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Speaker 3: And that's the main. Thing and he always just reminded

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Speaker 1: Thing someone told me that in my business early in my,

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Speaker 1: career be so good they can't say no to you, Exactly,

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Speaker 1: so especially as a woman in the space for often

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Speaker 1: men are trying to say you don't. Belong if you're

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Speaker 1: just too good for them to turn you, away then

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Speaker 1: there's nothing they can.

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Speaker 2: Say and that's the same.

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Speaker 1: Way if you're hooping well, enough people will know your,

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Speaker 1: name people will give you the brands and, deals and

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Speaker 1: people will recognize that you have something to give as a.

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Speaker 2: Player how have you seen that brand support change over the.

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Speaker 3: Years it's been.

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Speaker 4: INSANE i remember getting drafted and there were conversations about

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Speaker 4: me leading up to the, draft regarding my social media

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Speaker 4: presence and being on YouTube and is she focused and

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Speaker 4: things and you, KNOW i feel like that might have

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Speaker 4: affected my draft stock a little, Bit BUT i, Like

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Speaker 4: i've always believed that everything happens the way it's supposed to.

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Speaker 3: Happen so that was just in twenty.

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Speaker 4: Eighteen so just seeing the transformation of how women athletes

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Speaker 4: themselves on their, terms on their platforms and not being

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Speaker 1: Offices now you're more likely to be, told, hey you

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Speaker 1: need to get on social.

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Speaker 3: Media, Yeah like it's.

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Speaker 4: Crazy i've had like veteran teammates that WHEN i was

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Speaker 4: there's like you are On instagram too, Much like why

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Speaker 4: are you posting so many? Pictures and why do you make?

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Speaker 4: Vlogs and why are you doing? This And i'm just

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Speaker 4: like see the vision. Please, also it was fun for.

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Speaker 4: ME i would didn't play a lot my rookie. YEAR

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Speaker 4: i was, OVERSEAS i had a lot of free. Time

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Speaker 4: so it was just something THAT i ended up doing

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Speaker 4: as a. Hobby and now it's something That i've been

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Speaker 4: able to, monetize which has been a. Blessing but for,

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Speaker 4: me it was always just a way to like have

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Speaker 4: my free.

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Speaker 3: TIME i just love taking. Pictures i've always had cameras

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Speaker 3: in front of my. Tail.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Yeah i'm a total.

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Speaker 2: Overshare i'm, like here's What i'm doing, today what's everyone else?

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Speaker 1: Doing?

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Speaker 3: No my.

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Speaker 2: Eight here's WHERE i.

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Speaker 4: Went my first season Of overseas wasn't, hungry And i've

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Speaker 4: like documented the entire. THING i documented our ENTIRE wnba bubble,

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Speaker 4: season which was a, nightmare but it's documented on YouTube

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Speaker 4: if anybody wants to see what that was. Like i've

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Speaker 4: removed it from my my brain, completely but little things

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Speaker 4: like that were just important to. Me and now just

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Speaker 4: seeing so many players being able to tap into that

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Speaker 4: as well has been has been really.

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Speaker 1: Cool you'll be grateful too when you get, older speaking

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Speaker 1: from someone.

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Speaker 2: Who's slightly, older you'll be.

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Speaker 1: Grateful you have those, memories you, Memory you're gonna remember

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Speaker 1: everything and they're, like, wait where was?

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Speaker 2: It what WAS i? DOING i drink a lot though

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Speaker 2: way too in.

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Speaker 1: College you're a fashion, Girly you've got deals.

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Speaker 2: With fashion nova and true.

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Speaker 1: Religion what do you wish more sponsors knew about working

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Speaker 4: ATHLETES i, THINK i, MEAN i think they're realizing it

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Speaker 4: now that we are such layered human beings and in

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Speaker 4: so many different, ways and everybody has different styles and

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Speaker 4: people deal with things, differently just like everybody plays a

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Speaker 4: little bit. Differently SO i think the best thing that

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Speaker 4: lot more on the court as, well which is leading

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Speaker 4: to them getting a lot of opportunities off the court

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Speaker 4: that align with. Them you, Know i've seen some players

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Speaker 4: in the past have deals with the. Brand i'm just,

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Speaker 4: like they don't even use, that they don't even wear,

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Speaker 4: that and they don't even. Align but Now i'm, seeing you,

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Speaker 4: know a lot of players finding their people in brands

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Speaker 4: and sponsorship dollars and, like that's been so amazing to,

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Speaker 4: i've been a little, Girl like that's something THAT i

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Speaker 4: always thought was, missing was the individuality of the, whole

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Speaker 4: like everybody being able to just be their authentic.

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Speaker 3: Selves, yeah something.

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Speaker 1: We've talked about a lot in the last five or

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Speaker 1: ten years in women's sports is there used to be

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Speaker 1: this desire to make everyone one. Dimensional you were either

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Speaker 1: infantalizing women as your little girl all grown up and

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Speaker 1: you had to be perfect all the, time maybe role,

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Speaker 1: models or you were.

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Speaker 2: Sexualized those are only two.

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Speaker 1: Options either you're real hot and sexy and take it,

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Speaker 1: off or you're a child and you're my little, girl

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Speaker 1: and don't do anything that will make me think of you.

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Speaker 1: Differently and now women athletes can be just like everyone,

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Speaker 1: else multi. Dimensional we have, heroes we have, villains we

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Speaker 1: have funny, players we have quiet, ones we have, masculine, feminine, gay,

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Speaker 1: straight and their authentic selves are brought to the court

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Speaker 1: both for the fit checks down the tunnel on the

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Speaker 1: way in to.

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Speaker 2: The, game to the post. Game and it's so much.

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Speaker 3: More, interesting so much tough.

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Speaker 4: Fun.

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Speaker 1: Duh it's so much more interesting then back in the.

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Speaker 1: Day AND i remember there were, athletes great players who

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Speaker 1: would come to me and, Say i'm thinking about endorsing

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Speaker 1: this fun thing my partner's, doing But i'm worried that

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Speaker 1: it will reflect badly on my brand as a role.

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Speaker 1: Model and that's so sad because it made everyone. Boring,

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Speaker 1: yeah AND i think being able to see everybody authentically

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Speaker 1: as themselves has also a lot of fans to relate

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Speaker 1: to them better and brands to find the people that match. Them,

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Speaker 1: yeah there were mass players in the league partnering with,

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Speaker 1: walkxer and that makes way more sense than when the

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Speaker 1: league started and they were throwing Like Diana tarassi at

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Speaker 1: a halter top on a car and being.

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Speaker 2: Like ball like it didn't make any.

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Speaker 4: Sense i'm happy they did that walk straight because there

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Speaker 4: was quite a bit of pushback to the skims, rollout

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Speaker 4: WHICH i thought was. Beautiful gorge was. GORGEOUS i loved.

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Speaker 4: It it did not feel to me like the male.

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Speaker 4: Gaze it felt, empowered and that was the big.

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Speaker 1: Difference AND i think that's also what we're seeing from female,

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Speaker 1: athletes being empowered in their own.

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Speaker 4: Body don't know because the men had their rollout, first

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Speaker 4: and the amount of COMMENTS i, read, like would you

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Speaker 4: guys PUT nba players in? Skims, yes they already. Did

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Speaker 4: they literally already. Did like you didn't, notice, right they

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Speaker 4: literally already have done. It SO i think being able

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Speaker 4: to do more things like, that like walks er, skims

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Speaker 4: now we're tapping into, makeup, skin, beauty, hair, like there's

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Speaker 4: just so much untapped.

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Speaker 1: POTENTIAL i still, think, well and it makes sense because

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Speaker 1: when y'all are playing for two and a half hours

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Speaker 1: and nothing on your face, MOVES i need. THAT i

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Speaker 1: needed that three hours ago On Kristen davis's brunch WHEN

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Speaker 3: Fitzing it's quite impressive BECAUSE i don't even have. THAT

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Speaker 3: i don't even have that skill some of that you

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Speaker 3: do this doesn't MEAN i do. THIS i paid for.

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Speaker 2: This where's my makeup and?

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Speaker 1: Hair how do we make sure the growth is sustainable

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Speaker 1: in the long term and not a passing, trend because

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Speaker 1: in my, view we have to make sure, brands investors

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Speaker 1: and owners communicate with athletes and fans and understand what's

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Speaker 1: driving their. Interests because Like i've had these great conversations

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Speaker 1: with former and current athletes who have gotten to the ownership,

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Speaker 1: side and they, say the biggest thing is connecting the,

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Speaker 1: owners these millionaires with the players for them to nderstand

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Speaker 1: what do they? Want what are the Why unrival's been

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Speaker 1: so successful because it was started by two players who

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Speaker 1: know what players. Want how have you found conversations with

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Speaker 1: the highest level front office folks have gone when you

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Speaker 1: try to get them to see the position and the

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Speaker 1: perspective of the players in the.

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Speaker 4: League it's always interesting talking to higher ups because like

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Speaker 4: the initial reaction is like, Shock like she's really, intelligent

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Speaker 4: she knows how to speak in these, rooms and like

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Speaker 4: once you get over that, articulate articulate and.

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Speaker 3: We know what that, yeah exactly.

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Speaker 4: able to just to be relatable to them and relate to.

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Speaker 3: THEM i think having brand partnerships that align.

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Speaker 4: With the, athlete because athletes are on a microscope twenty

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Speaker 4: four to seven on and off the, Court so you

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Speaker 4: need to have athletes and people advertising for your products

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Speaker 4: or company that like. Align so if someone, yeah so

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Speaker 4: if someone sees the person out doing something and it

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Speaker 4: goes completely again what they're, promoting that's not. Good for some,

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Speaker 4: reason athletes are held at this like different type of

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Speaker 4: pedestal as far as like behavior.

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Speaker 3: Morality like you, said everybody.

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Speaker 4: Wants to be a role, model which for me, PERSONALLY

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Speaker 4: i love being a role.

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Speaker 4: Of, four so LIKE i have not known anything. Else but,

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Speaker 4: like you're not forced to be a role model just

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Speaker 4: because you're really good at a.

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Speaker 3: Sport like you're just really good at a sport and

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Speaker 3: you are who you. Are SO i think the best.

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Speaker 4: Thing women are like the most conscious, consumers so they

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Speaker 4: can see right through all. That so as women athletes

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Speaker 4: and for, brands it's like very important that you do

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Speaker 4: your due. Diligence you research the athletes that you're reaching

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Speaker 4: out to and vice. Versa you us as, athletes we

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Speaker 4: cannot show up to these meetings and these conversations completely

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Speaker 4: unaware of what this company stands for and what they

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Speaker 4: want to, do and then it's a two way.

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Speaker 1: Street, YEAH i, mean in women's, sports the intersection of

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Speaker 1: social issues is impossible.

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Speaker 1: Act being a female athlete is an act of resistance

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Speaker 1: against so many of the forces that try to hold us.

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Speaker 1: Back and so when you try to do deal with

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Speaker 1: companies that are not aligned with women in the women's,

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Speaker 1: space it blows my mind that it takes announcing it

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Speaker 1: and then having all of your fans and players being

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Speaker 1: power of social, media and it removes the gatekeepers from

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Speaker 1: being the only ones who tell you how people.

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Speaker 2: Feel they don't have to publish an op ed or like.

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Speaker 2: The pulse about the fans.

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Speaker 1: one pusher of like brand, affinity, feelings and changed feelings

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Speaker 1: about a brand purchase.

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Speaker 2: Power women are doing the.

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Speaker 1: majority of household purchasing, power and it's only going up

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Speaker 1: as we're getting more, jobs more college, degrees and we're

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Speaker 1: still targeting men eighteen to forty.

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Speaker 1: important to keep elevating our, voices telling our story worries

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Speaker 1: the station, Exactly. Harriet, okay so last question for you

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Speaker 1: your Show Full. Circle you talked about in a recent

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Speaker 1: episode the way media cover and talk about female. Athletes

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Speaker 1: you've got a room full of some, media some, sponsors

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Speaker 4: It for, me being the basketball nerd THAT i, AM

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Speaker 4: i love analytical breakdowns of, games AND i feel like

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Speaker 4: in the women's basketball space that is NONEXISTENT i feel

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Speaker 4: like people tiptoe because we're. Women you don't want to hurt.

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Speaker 4: Feelings but What i've learned being now in the media

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Speaker 4: space is that there's ways to our ticulate points without being,

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Speaker 4: mean without having personal. Jabs like if somebody shot twenty

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Speaker 4: percent from the field in their, game they shot twenty

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Speaker 4: percent from the field in their, game but that doesn't

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Speaker 4: mean that they're the worst player on that that said.

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Speaker 4: Team so that hopefully right. Exactly so there's ways to

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Speaker 4: objectively cover women's sports without always pitting women against each

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Speaker 4: just needs to be more mature conversation surrounding women's, basketball

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Speaker 4: which is WHY i wanted to make my show completely

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Speaker 4: about women's basketball and covering the game and everything that's

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Speaker 4: going on and doing it in the.

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Speaker 3: Most positive way. Possible, like, yes everything in sports is not,

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Speaker 3: positive but it doesn't have to be like. Demeaning you

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Speaker 4: Criticize but, like if a fact is a, Fact like

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Speaker 4: people would call me a hater BECAUSE i would say,

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Speaker 3: Really like how is it? Hate if it's?

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Speaker 4: True But i'm not trying to like mess up someone's.

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Speaker 4: Reputation i'm not trying to attack their person what they

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Speaker 4: have going. On BUT i feel, like for, me like

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Speaker 4: basketball is such a beautiful game to, me AND i

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Speaker 4: love it so, much AND i really played basketball BECAUSE

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Speaker 4: i love it.

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Speaker 3: And it's so.

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Speaker 4: Fun AND i just think that the joy of the

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Speaker 4: game and the love of the game has been lost

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Speaker 4: in media, money sponsorships. Deals AND i hope that my,

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Speaker 4: show which is going to run through THE wnba, season

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Speaker 4: i'm really excited THAT i can be able, to you,

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Speaker 4: know cover the league and my, team specifically The Seattle

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Speaker 4: storm in an objective, way and bring in more fans

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Speaker 4: and educate fans and have, them you, know fall in

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Speaker 4: love with THE.

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Speaker 3: WNBA i love.

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Speaker 1: That And i'm going to say that you said it was,

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Speaker 1: okay because what's been interesting for me is WHEN i

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Speaker 1: toxic hatred of women's sports that we wanted to offset

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Speaker 1: that with. Support but then it became something where we

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Speaker 1: recognize we couldn't make it legitimate if we didn't criticize

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Speaker 1: the same way with women's but a lot of female

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Speaker 1: athletes are so used to sycophantic relationships with the media

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Speaker 1: because those are the people allowed in, yeah that they

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Speaker 1: comes along with the legitimacy of a major.

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Speaker 2: League AND i think we're still finding that. Balance but

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Speaker 2: Now i'm just to Say Lexi brown SAID i could do.

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Speaker 3: It, okay, yeah, cool do it is? Me all.

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Speaker 1: Right we're looking forward to the, Season we're looking forward

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Speaker 1: to the podcast and talking to you.

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Speaker 2: Again thank you so much. Everybody Lexy, brown thanks again

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Speaker 2: so much To lexi for joining.

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Speaker 1: Us we had a, Blast and thanks to all the

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Speaker 1: incredible folks At iHeart and The Hotel Saints cecilia for

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Speaker 1: the gorgeous event that they threw celebrating Our iHeart Women's

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Speaker 1: Sports network and our. SHOW i had such a fantastic

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Speaker 1: time all weekend Meeting Kristin davis Of sex and The

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Speaker 1: City fame and hearing about her Podcast Are you A?

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Speaker 2: Charlotte she is truly a.

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Speaker 1: DELIGHT i also got to hang out With Ed helms

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Speaker 1: and hear about his Podcast.

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Speaker 2: Snafu it was really.

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Speaker 1: Cool he was around all weekend and went to everyone's,

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Speaker 1: events which was so awesome of. HIM i also got

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Speaker 1: to tell him how many Times i've been sent memes

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Speaker 1: of times in my. Life all that plus The iHeart

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Speaker 1: Podcast awards yesterday, night Which i'm gonna tell you all

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Speaker 1: more about later this. Week but just all in, all

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Speaker 1: And i'm just super grateful that they included our. SHOW

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Speaker 1: Break when we come, back we celebrate some, rivals stick, around.

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Speaker 2: Welcome back.

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Speaker 1: Slices we always love that you're, listening but we want

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Speaker 1: you to get in the game every day.

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Speaker 2: Too so here's our good game play of the. Day

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Speaker 2: it's an easy.

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Speaker 1: One subscribe to The Full circle, podcast Which Lexi brown

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Speaker 1: co hosts With Mariah. Rose will link to it in

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Speaker 1: our show, notes and we always love to hear from,

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Speaker 1: you especially when it's about gigantic Rice crispy. Treats we

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Speaker 1: have loved getting your messages and, photos Especially Patti, bifoalco

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Speaker 1: who also does great work for The Women's Sports. Foundation

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Speaker 1: she sent us proof of a giant Rice krispy circa

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Speaker 1: twenty eighteen that was at least three times the.

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Speaker 2: Size of her. Head we all loved that.

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Speaker 1: Photo we also heard From Slice, lisa who wrote to

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Speaker 1: us with lore from a few decades ago with the

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Speaker 1: subject line big ass Rice Crispy. Treats here's What lisa said,

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Speaker 1: QUOTE i have what may be the answer To thursday's

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Speaker 1: episode With Alexa philippoo and the story Of Dina Tarassi's

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Speaker 1: Rice crispy treat hair bun. TABLE i worked as a

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Speaker 1: chain for several years in the late nineties WHILE i

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Speaker 1: was building a portfolio for grad. School sometime around ninety

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Speaker 1: nine or, so we got a mystery shipment of very

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Speaker 1: large Rice crispy. Treats they were somewhere between the size

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Speaker 1: those large blue foil, wrappers and they were shipped to

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Speaker 1: us with the idea THAT i would be unwrapping them

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Speaker 2: Cake it seems funny, now and.

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Speaker 1: They probably have thirty seven varieties made with every cereal

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Speaker 1: possible at your corner, bodega but commercially Available Rice Krispy

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Speaker 1: treats only showed up in stores sometime in the early,

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Speaker 1: nineties so we couldn't imagine anyone paying for these, things

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Speaker 1: for nine ninety, nine and the damn things were very

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Speaker 1: Floor now you may be wondering WHY i remember the

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Speaker 1: year a product arrived at a JOB i held twenty

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Speaker 1: school in two thousand and The Rice Krispy treats were

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Speaker 1: around nineteen ninety, nine which lines up With tarassi's years in.

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Speaker 2: College and as soon As alexa started.

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Speaker 1: Talking about A Rice crispy, table these things immediately came to,

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Speaker 1: mind big enough to be a dining table in your grandparents'

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Speaker 1: formal dining. Room absolutely not big enough to be something

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Speaker 1: a college kid would have in a dorm and use

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Speaker 1: as a flat.

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Speaker 1: Quote we are obsessed with this, Story. Lisa thanks for

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Speaker 1: reaching out and keep hitting us. Up whether you have

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Speaker 1: stories About, Rice krispy tables or. Anything you could send

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Speaker 1: us an email good game at wondermediaetwork dot com or

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