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Speaker 1: What's good, y'all, Welcome back to another episode of Full

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Speaker 1: Circle High Lexi, Hey, girl, we have a lot to

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Speaker 1: talk about today.

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Speaker 2: We need a thought we do we really do well.

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Speaker 1: I believe AU has concluded and you gave it the

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Speaker 1: goodbye that it deserves.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, we had a time last night. Girl. I

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Speaker 2: wish you were still here. You came the wrong weekend,

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Speaker 2: low key, I know.

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Speaker 1: I love Nashville.

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Speaker 2: It was fun.

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Speaker 3: Even though we were like in our little au bubble,

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Speaker 3: we made it poppin. It was really fun.

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Speaker 2: Last night.

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Speaker 3: We had our last games. I finished in seventh place.

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Speaker 3: Everybody top ten.

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Speaker 1: Congratulations Lexi.

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Speaker 2: So that bonus check is going to hit soon. Period.

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Speaker 3: We had a wrap party last night, and I just

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Speaker 3: want to have a conversation real quick about how athletes party.

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Speaker 3: Oh my god, it's like, and you went to Georgia,

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Speaker 3: so you are around you know the athlete party culture.

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Speaker 1: When I first learned how to party, when I got

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Speaker 1: to college shocked. I was shocked. I didn't even understand.

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Speaker 1: And i'mn't even talking about like boy athletes because I'd

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Speaker 1: be one of them, like the plague, but girl athletes

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Speaker 2: Y'all get down, We get down. It gets to it.

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Speaker 1: But it's because y'all are very disciplined and you have

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Speaker 1: like such a strict schedule and it doesn't really matter

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Speaker 1: what day of the week it is, because you guys

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Speaker 1: could have work all weekend and then not even get

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Speaker 1: your time to have a little drinking in. So when

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Speaker 1: it's a Monday night.

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Speaker 3: It's like an inside joke amongst all, like even college athletes,

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Speaker 3: it's like, why are we going this hard? Like is

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Speaker 3: there something that we need to talk about? Like do

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Speaker 3: we need to go to therapy? Are we stressed?

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Speaker 2: Why?

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Speaker 1: I mean, probably athletes, we.

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Speaker 3: Have one day of freedom and you decide to just

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Speaker 3: go crazy.

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Speaker 2: It's actually insane, but you're right.

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Speaker 3: It's just you have so much discipline ninety nine point

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Speaker 3: nine percent of the time, and you have one opportunity

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Speaker 3: a week, sometimes a month sometimes to like just not

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Speaker 1: It's on top of that, I would love to talk

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Speaker 1: to you about the fact that my sister is a

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Speaker 1: division one volleyball player, and like she's still very young,

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Speaker 1: but her whole life has been consumed with volleyball. When

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Speaker 1: the next day.

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Speaker 2: Me too, turns that way.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, So it's like, of course, when you get older

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Speaker 1: and you're of age to drink and you're having fun

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Speaker 1: with your friends and you're in Nashville and you're having

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Speaker 1: good time and you've been in AU season all of

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Speaker 1: these weeks, of course you're going to want to have fun.

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Speaker 1: Your whole life has been dedicated to being disciplined for

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Speaker 3: Literally, but I'm like, why do we have to like go?

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Speaker 3: So it's crazy, Like I'm thirty now, Like if y'all,

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Speaker 3: if y'all are watching this right now, y'all can see

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Speaker 3: it all over my face that last night was a

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Speaker 3: long night, but it was so much fun.

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Speaker 1: I really can't.

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Speaker 3: Okay, you look like you're going, oh thanks, it's happiness,

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Speaker 3: thank you.

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Speaker 1: I think that that's a myth about or at least

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Speaker 1: with our generation, it is about, Oh, you turn thirty,

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Speaker 1: feel like thirty. They is like the new twenty thirty, right,

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Speaker 1: because I'd be like, I'm sixteen and I'm twenty four.

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Speaker 2: Girl, I feel twenty four is crazy. Right.

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Speaker 3: First of all, can we talk about Okay, I was

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Speaker 3: Maria when Mariah was in Nashville and we went out

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Speaker 3: the way, My best friend Joy who lives in Nashville,

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Speaker 3: she's thirty one. She had no idea you were twenty four, right,

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Speaker 3: So we went to dinner. All right, She's, Oh my god,

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Speaker 3: I love Mariah. She's so intelligent. She really has Like.

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Speaker 3: I'm like, Mariah is just a baby. And we were

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Speaker 3: I mean I was in the WNBA at twenty four,

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Speaker 1: At twenty four? Oh yeah, I was just a professional

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Speaker 3: It's so crazy because even yesterday I was thinking about,

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Speaker 3: like in the Grand Scheme of life, like even though

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Speaker 3: we have the complaints of how people talk about us,

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Speaker 3: which we're going to get into next, we play basketball.

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Speaker 2: We play a sport for a living, Like it's so fun.

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Speaker 2: Like that's why. Yeah, let's actually get into it right now.

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Speaker 3: Let's just talk about it at the end of the day,

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Speaker 3: Like what people say to us about us, da da

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Speaker 3: da da.

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Speaker 2: I play a game.

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Speaker 3: I play a sport as my job that I love,

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Speaker 3: so like there has to be we got to meet

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Speaker 3: in the middle as media, fans athletes, like we all

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Speaker 3: have to meet in the middle of this is a sports,

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Speaker 2: It's fun.

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Speaker 3: And I don't know at what point all of that

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Speaker 1: Let me introduce the topic just in case our listeners

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Speaker 1: don't know what we're talking about. So basically, Anthony Edwards

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Speaker 1: Star weekend, and obviously everybody's been kind of trying to

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Speaker 1: And then obviously a lot of people had stuff to

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Speaker 1: on it. And said, Okay, why would anyone want to

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Speaker 2: On it all the time.

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Speaker 1: Thus started a whole debate over the conversations rounding athletes,

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Speaker 1: the coverage surrounding athletes. Athletes like they're being unfairly covered media,

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Speaker 1: which we'll get into in a second. But Steven Asmath

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Speaker 1: will just go on by name, basically came back at Lebron,

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Speaker 1: essentially proving his point, saying, well, if we can't criticize you,

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Speaker 1: what the hell can we talk about? And I don't

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Speaker 1: criticize you when you ruined the dunk contest and blah

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Speaker 1: blah blah blah. Thus LEXI enter your take.

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Speaker 3: It's just like and we say all the time on

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Speaker 3: Gils Gil even though people are like Gil and we

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Speaker 3: talk a lot of nonsense, We make a lot of jokes.

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Speaker 3: If you really peel back all the layers, we all

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Speaker 3: are athletes, professional athlete, college athletes. At the core, Gil

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Speaker 3: always says, don't tell me why you don't like that player,

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Speaker 3: tell me why you love this player.

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Speaker 2: I just it's why is that so hard for people

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Speaker 3: You do not.

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Speaker 2: I mean it's even within life.

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Speaker 3: You don't have to tear down so somebody else to

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Speaker 3: uplift this person. Just talk about how much you love

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Speaker 3: this person and all the things amazing things that they do,

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Speaker 3: without even bringing in all these other people and tearing

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Speaker 3: them down, because you need to like catapult your fave.

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Speaker 3: Like I just don't, like I'm.

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Speaker 2: Like looking back.

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Speaker 3: First of all, I don't know why now Lebron decided

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Speaker 3: like this has been a problem with the coverage of sports,

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Speaker 3: I think for a while now, where like people just

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Speaker 3: nitpick at like weird things, like someone could be like, oh,

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Speaker 3: Luca had a triple double, but we're going to talk

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Speaker 3: about like the six turnovers he had, or like the

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Speaker 3: defense he didn't play. He had a triple double and

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Speaker 3: they won. Why why do we have to nitpick anything

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Speaker 3: in that moment? Like I'm all for constructive criticism, and

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Speaker 3: I said that to you on Twitter. There is a

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Speaker 3: very fine line between personal attacks and constructive criticism, and

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Speaker 3: the media is like tiptoeing that line, like we saw

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Speaker 3: it with Lebron and Bronnie Why does Lebron's son have

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Speaker 1: Okay, I do have a response to that. What Bronni

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Speaker 1: the fact that Bronni would not be in the NBA

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Speaker 1: So that's that's where the relevance comes in. I do

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I understand that for Bronni, Okay, you got to

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Speaker 2: But for Broun, what is that? Like?

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Speaker 3: We know it And I don't like to throw people's

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Speaker 3: business out, but we know what Michael Jordan's Sun was

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Speaker 2: What was he doing, Maric? She made a video about it,

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Speaker 1: D you why exactly? I think that, like you said,

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Speaker 1: there is a fine line between constructive criticism and personal attacks.

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Speaker 1: I also think that what people are ignoring because it

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Speaker 1: seems like everybody is kind of complaining about everything right now.

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Speaker 1: The media is complaining about the league. The league is

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Speaker 1: complaining about the media, the fans are complaining about both.

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Speaker 1: It's confusing. But I think what coming from a sort

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Speaker 1: feel like my job is it necessarily to please the

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Speaker 1: when I was talking about this on Twitter, also, I

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Speaker 1: don't agree with Steven A. I want to like get

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Speaker 1: that out because people got confused on Twitter. I disagree.

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Speaker 2: I think it was way too much with.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think he does way too much when it

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Speaker 1: comes to covering athletes and black athletes in particular, and

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Speaker 1: he knows that. Like I don't care. But I think

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Speaker 1: for me at least, there is a thirst and a

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Speaker 1: hunger for people to hear about those negative things that

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Speaker 1: media say. And I think it's unfair for media that

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Speaker 1: what they say constantly gets clipped into the very negative

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Speaker 1: part of what they say. For example that Lebron quote

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Speaker 1: where he says the media is constantly shitting on our game.

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Speaker 1: He also went on to say he understands that it's

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Speaker 1: but nobody heard that part because they just flip it

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Speaker 1: don't care what the fans say, Oh, we want to

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Speaker 1: hear you guys, like we want analysis over storylines and

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Speaker 1: At what level do you think former or current athletes

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Speaker 3: Cool, we're there now the end, Like we're going to

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Speaker 2: Which I trust me, I understand.

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Speaker 3: And as fans, we owe fans performance, we owe them entertainment.

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Speaker 2: We're just like living life and having.

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Speaker 2: He has so he has his entire life still to

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Speaker 3: And everybody just constantly like, you're not this, You're not that,

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Speaker 1: But it's like that's just one on one yeah, And it.

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Speaker 3: Was like funny ha ha, like oh, just girls making misss. No,

438
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Speaker 3: you would never do that to a man, I'm sorry,

439
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Speaker 3: like you would never do your.

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Speaker 1: Professional and Diana because she would know the name of

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Speaker 1: a men's coach.

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Speaker 3: Like so for her, that's how she came into announce

443
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Speaker 3: officially announcing her retirement on the View, which is I

444
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Speaker 3: don't I don't know why she went on the View,

445
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Speaker 3: but hey, it's a.

446
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Speaker 1: Lot of eyes.

447
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Speaker 3: I don't leadership, but I know after that moment happened,

448
00:22:23,800 --> 00:22:26,280
Speaker 3: she's like, oh no, why did I come on here?

449
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Speaker 3: But Diana handled it in the Diana way mispronounced will

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Speaker 3: Be's name right back to her.

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Speaker 1: But that's in no. I will say that a huge

452
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Speaker 1: part of this, and I want to say I think

453
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Speaker 1: that with athletes and with this like complaint of coverage

454
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Speaker 1: that they're experiencing, part of the issue is social media

455
00:22:48,840 --> 00:22:51,520
Speaker 1: and comments. I feel like if they were just reading

456
00:22:51,560 --> 00:22:54,359
Speaker 1: this stuff, you were just reading this stuff about yourselves

457
00:22:54,480 --> 00:22:57,040
Speaker 1: in the newspaper, it would just it would be a

458
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Speaker 1: little bit less all consuming. But because of social media,

459
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Speaker 1: and because not only does steven A I keep using

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Speaker 1: him as an example, but he's the biggest person, right, yeah,

461
00:23:06,440 --> 00:23:10,080
Speaker 1: the biggest fish. Steven A comes out and says Kevin

462
00:23:10,119 --> 00:23:13,080
Speaker 1: Durant is the softest superstar or whatever, and that's just

463
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Speaker 1: the headline. On top of that, Kevin Durant is getting

464
00:23:15,640 --> 00:23:17,880
Speaker 1: hundreds of comments and people also calling him the same thing.

465
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Speaker 1: But I think it's important for us all to realize

466
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Speaker 1: that this social media world is new to all of

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Speaker 1: us and it's unfortunate that everybody has something to say

468
00:23:25,200 --> 00:23:28,119
Speaker 1: about everything and it explodes everything into a much bigger

469
00:23:28,160 --> 00:23:30,560
Speaker 1: deal than it needs to be. Like, even if I

470
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Speaker 1: calls up Kevin Durant soft, I'm getting insulted Kevin Durant.

471
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Speaker 2: Is getting inside everybody.

472
00:23:36,359 --> 00:23:38,520
Speaker 1: We're all getting insulted, and everybody's getting in.

473
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Speaker 3: Time bring somebody else they like. The right reaching that

474
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Speaker 3: people do online is actually.

475
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Speaker 1: Now I'm being stupid, Kevin Durant soft. Everybody's dumb. It's like,

476
00:23:49,080 --> 00:23:51,200
Speaker 1: the whole thing is ridiculous. I think that we all

477
00:23:51,240 --> 00:23:53,760
Speaker 1: just need to I've gotten a lot better with comments

478
00:23:53,840 --> 00:23:57,399
Speaker 1: and stuff, just based on the fact that everybody gets

479
00:23:57,640 --> 00:24:01,000
Speaker 1: it's happens to everybody. Nobody has anything to say about anything.

480
00:24:01,119 --> 00:24:03,879
Speaker 1: I was just before we started recording looking at all

481
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Speaker 1: of the Oscars looks.

482
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Speaker 3: And.

483
00:24:08,760 --> 00:24:13,520
Speaker 1: So nobody has anything I say about anything ever, nothing, nothing, nothing.

484
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Speaker 1: I'm telling you, I said, maybe the most perfect dress ever.

485
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I say it all the time.

486
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Speaker 3: People don't get embarrassed in public enough. People don't feel

487
00:24:23,359 --> 00:24:26,919
Speaker 3: awkward in public enough. Like all people need on the

488
00:24:26,960 --> 00:24:29,680
Speaker 3: internet is one person to be like, I agree with you,

489
00:24:30,080 --> 00:24:32,159
Speaker 3: and they're like, my point is valid. So I'm going

490
00:24:32,200 --> 00:24:35,760
Speaker 3: to just keep reiterating this point because somebody out there,

491
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Speaker 3: they could be across the world, across the country, they

492
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Speaker 3: couldn't abot It's not even a real person agrees with me.

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Speaker 3: So I'm just gonna keep hammering this point home.

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Speaker 2: Over and over and over.

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Speaker 3: You know how people are like boo tomatoes like people

496
00:24:51,320 --> 00:24:54,480
Speaker 3: don't People don't feel that anymore in real life.

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Speaker 1: Part of the problem is back in the day, you

498
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Speaker 1: used to actually have to boose somebody to their face

499
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Speaker 1: and throw tomatoes, which it would take a lot for

500
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Speaker 1: people to get that angry about something to do that,

501
00:25:04,600 --> 00:25:07,760
Speaker 1: whereas now you can just send tomato emojis, comment boo

502
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Speaker 1: from your living realm, which it doesn't feel as right,

503
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Speaker 1: it doesn't feel as serious.

504
00:25:12,600 --> 00:25:15,719
Speaker 2: Send of me and I don't listen.

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Speaker 1: I understand being critical of staff. I have stuff to

506
00:25:18,200 --> 00:25:21,480
Speaker 1: say about stuff all the time. I sent somebody's dressed

507
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Speaker 1: to my best friend earlier and I said, this is

508
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Speaker 1: absolutely horrible, and that's where he said, I'm not going

509
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Speaker 1: to comment on their Yeah, right, I'm.

510
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Speaker 2: Not gonna com chat. Do y'all have friends?

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Speaker 3: Every time I see a negative comment, I'm just like,

512
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Speaker 3: you don't have a group chat to send this to.

513
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Speaker 2: You don't have a best de to send this to.

514
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Speaker 3: Never in my life have I looked here's a here's

515
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Speaker 3: a crazy example. And I'm so sorry to our listeners

516
00:25:45,760 --> 00:25:51,600
Speaker 3: for this example. My Instagram reels timeline is absolutely ridiculous.

517
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Speaker 3: It makes no sense. I don't know why I get

518
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Speaker 3: the videos. I get whatever go on my reels yesterday

519
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Speaker 3: it is a page about a man with five wives. There, okay,

520
00:26:04,720 --> 00:26:08,040
Speaker 3: the whole page is about this man with his five wives,

521
00:26:08,840 --> 00:26:12,320
Speaker 3: and the entire page is dedicated to them addressing the

522
00:26:12,400 --> 00:26:14,720
Speaker 3: negative comments about their lifestyle.

523
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Speaker 2: I don't have.

524
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Speaker 3: Any opinion on someone else's lifestyle. I don't care, but

525
00:26:20,160 --> 00:26:24,280
Speaker 3: I was every video was them responding to something negative

526
00:26:24,280 --> 00:26:28,200
Speaker 3: that somebody said under a post that they made regardless

527
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Speaker 3: of their lifestyle.

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Speaker 2: Their posts were cringey as hell. I don't care if

529
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Speaker 2: you have one.

530
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Speaker 3: Wife, five wives, your content is weird, like, it's weird content.

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Speaker 1: I'm not.

532
00:26:40,880 --> 00:26:45,080
Speaker 3: Never in my brain did it say, let me type out,

533
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Speaker 3: I hate your content, it's weird.

534
00:26:47,200 --> 00:26:48,520
Speaker 2: I kind of internally had my.

535
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Speaker 3: Dialogue and I was like, I don't really like this,

536
00:26:51,920 --> 00:26:55,639
Speaker 3: and I moved on. Now I'm talking about it here again.

537
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Speaker 2: We don't know.

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Speaker 3: I don't even remember the page. I don't remember these

539
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Speaker 3: people's names. I just remember seeing it, feeling how I felt,

540
00:27:02,480 --> 00:27:05,440
Speaker 3: and I just moved on. Why is it so hard

541
00:27:05,440 --> 00:27:09,360
Speaker 3: for everybody to do? I think we as public figures.

542
00:27:09,440 --> 00:27:12,280
Speaker 3: I think that again, people are insecure, so when somebody

543
00:27:12,320 --> 00:27:14,439
Speaker 3: comes at your lifestyle or something like that. And another

544
00:27:14,440 --> 00:27:16,800
Speaker 3: thing that is new to me from being online is

545
00:27:17,160 --> 00:27:21,040
Speaker 3: people writing things about me that are wrong, like one

546
00:27:21,119 --> 00:27:25,320
Speaker 3: thing that I've wanted to show myself correct incorrect. This

547
00:27:25,359 --> 00:27:27,200
Speaker 3: happens to you all the time, people assuming things about

548
00:27:27,200 --> 00:27:29,240
Speaker 3: your health, and I'm sure this happens to other people

549
00:27:29,240 --> 00:27:30,960
Speaker 3: who get made fun of about their health all the time,

550
00:27:31,080 --> 00:27:34,240
Speaker 3: like a Ben Simmons or a Joel Embiid or you Like,

551
00:27:34,320 --> 00:27:36,280
Speaker 3: I'm sure that that is very annoying.

552
00:27:36,359 --> 00:27:39,560
Speaker 1: But at the same time, I've learned that social media

553
00:27:39,600 --> 00:27:42,040
Speaker 1: has given people the unique ability to all be in

554
00:27:42,080 --> 00:27:44,280
Speaker 1: the public eye. Like I'm just a girl in my

555
00:27:44,359 --> 00:27:46,160
Speaker 1: room and I'm now in the public eye, and it's

556
00:27:46,200 --> 00:27:49,320
Speaker 1: like people are gonna have people are gonna have something

557
00:27:49,359 --> 00:27:51,520
Speaker 1: to say about me, regardless whether it's true or not.

558
00:27:51,720 --> 00:27:53,800
Speaker 1: And I have to have enough self control to know

559
00:27:53,880 --> 00:27:57,440
Speaker 1: that being able to do something cool like play basketball

560
00:27:57,440 --> 00:27:59,159
Speaker 1: for a living or make videos for a living or

561
00:27:59,200 --> 00:28:02,239
Speaker 1: talk about sports for living. The downside to that is

562
00:28:02,359 --> 00:28:05,120
Speaker 1: people are going to say stuff, and the sooner we

563
00:28:05,320 --> 00:28:07,520
Speaker 1: accept that and move on and stop giving it. The

564
00:28:07,600 --> 00:28:11,520
Speaker 1: attention the sooner it's going to slow down. People get

565
00:28:11,560 --> 00:28:15,240
Speaker 1: fully famous off of being trolls and being haters and

566
00:28:15,280 --> 00:28:18,160
Speaker 1: talking about people and making fun of people. Like, it's

567
00:28:18,200 --> 00:28:20,800
Speaker 1: time to stop paying so much attention to that. It's

568
00:28:20,840 --> 00:28:22,280
Speaker 1: gonna happen. It's a reality and the situation.

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Speaker 3: Some people get famous because nobody likes them, right, Like

570
00:28:27,920 --> 00:28:31,840
Speaker 3: I see pictures and posts, it's not a single nice

571
00:28:31,840 --> 00:28:34,760
Speaker 3: thing is said, but they keep put like but again,

572
00:28:35,000 --> 00:28:39,880
Speaker 3: it's like something off. People clearly don't like your content.

573
00:28:40,080 --> 00:28:42,800
Speaker 3: There means you like that just can't be good mentally

574
00:28:42,840 --> 00:28:45,840
Speaker 3: for anybody, But they continue to post because it's engagement.

575
00:28:45,880 --> 00:28:48,840
Speaker 3: It's money, Like I get it from like a lifestyle standpoint,

576
00:28:49,240 --> 00:28:54,280
Speaker 3: it's easy money. But I don't like negative things being

577
00:28:54,360 --> 00:28:55,880
Speaker 3: said to me, whether they're true or not.

578
00:28:56,080 --> 00:28:58,800
Speaker 2: But like, there are people who literally make a living.

579
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Speaker 3: Pissing people off, And I don't who's scarier.

580
00:29:03,200 --> 00:29:05,840
Speaker 1: Who's scarier the person making a living off of being

581
00:29:05,880 --> 00:29:09,600
Speaker 1: pissed off pissing people off, or the people enjoying being

582
00:29:09,640 --> 00:29:12,840
Speaker 1: pissed off so much that those people are getting hundreds

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Speaker 1: of thousands.

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00:29:13,240 --> 00:29:16,120
Speaker 2: Of views Exactly. I don't understand.

585
00:29:15,720 --> 00:29:17,520
Speaker 1: Everyone that it's impressive.

586
00:29:17,600 --> 00:29:19,560
Speaker 2: It's very impressive. The rage.

587
00:29:20,280 --> 00:29:25,680
Speaker 3: Being able to monetize rage has been like, it's something

588
00:29:25,720 --> 00:29:29,040
Speaker 3: to me that my mind just simply cannot comprehend. If

589
00:29:29,080 --> 00:29:32,480
Speaker 3: I post something or if I say something, even before

590
00:29:33,120 --> 00:29:36,600
Speaker 3: I put something out, I literally go in my mind internally,

591
00:29:37,440 --> 00:29:39,800
Speaker 3: will this upset any anybody?

592
00:29:40,320 --> 00:29:42,920
Speaker 1: Same? That's sad, but same.

593
00:29:43,120 --> 00:29:45,920
Speaker 3: But it's like, okay, so then yes, okay, we're going

594
00:29:45,960 --> 00:29:48,840
Speaker 3: to go through a little tree chart of how I

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00:29:48,880 --> 00:29:49,840
Speaker 3: put out content.

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Speaker 2: Okay, well this makes people mad? Yes or no? Okay, no,

597
00:29:53,880 --> 00:29:58,880
Speaker 2: good post? Yes? All right? Who you figure out who?

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00:30:00,200 --> 00:30:04,960
Speaker 3: Okay, it's gonna make this little sector math why. Okay,

599
00:30:05,000 --> 00:30:08,240
Speaker 3: that's not a good reason. Why, So I'm gonna post it,

600
00:30:08,440 --> 00:30:13,680
Speaker 3: Like I just wish people like have that internal dialogue. Like, obviously,

601
00:30:13,720 --> 00:30:16,800
Speaker 3: you don't post things and do things for people to

602
00:30:17,080 --> 00:30:20,400
Speaker 3: like it. Everyone's not gonna like everything that you do.

603
00:30:20,960 --> 00:30:24,200
Speaker 3: But if you can, you can get a point across

604
00:30:24,240 --> 00:30:27,240
Speaker 3: without being offensive. You can get a point across without

605
00:30:27,280 --> 00:30:31,720
Speaker 3: hurting somebody's feelings unless something that they're doing is egregious. Obviously,

606
00:30:31,800 --> 00:30:35,040
Speaker 3: these people they deserve to be spoken about how they're

607
00:30:35,080 --> 00:30:38,120
Speaker 3: being spoken about. But also no, they don't because they're egregious.

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00:30:38,120 --> 00:30:41,000
Speaker 3: We should actually just ignore them and send.

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Speaker 1: Them to say. What you said about choosing who you're

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Speaker 1: pissing off, because, to be honest, everything that you do,

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Speaker 1: especially as black women, Let's be real, everything that we

612
00:30:50,240 --> 00:30:53,120
Speaker 1: do is going to piss somebody off. We just have

613
00:30:53,240 --> 00:30:56,160
Speaker 1: to ask ourselves who exactly are we pissing off? Like,

614
00:30:56,320 --> 00:30:59,040
Speaker 1: to be honest, I'm gonna be real with y'all. LEXI

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Speaker 1: has nothing to do with it about if I'm pissing

616
00:31:01,480 --> 00:31:06,400
Speaker 1: off like older repubs, white men.

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00:31:06,480 --> 00:31:07,200
Speaker 2: I'm cool with that.

618
00:31:07,280 --> 00:31:09,800
Speaker 1: Like if they're pissing me, I'm so fine with that.

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Speaker 1: Like I am so cool with that. Now if i

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Speaker 1: look at what I'm about the post and I'm like

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Speaker 1: I might, I just might. There's one person chance I'm

622
00:31:15,520 --> 00:31:17,520
Speaker 1: gonna piss off the girls or the gays or black

623
00:31:17,560 --> 00:31:21,000
Speaker 1: people is not getting posted. I'm sorry. Those are groups

624
00:31:21,000 --> 00:31:23,120
Speaker 1: of people. Not only are they way too funny for

625
00:31:23,160 --> 00:31:24,320
Speaker 1: me to want them to be mad at me. I

626
00:31:24,360 --> 00:31:26,640
Speaker 1: don't want to be a meme. I don't want them insulting.

627
00:31:26,240 --> 00:31:27,160
Speaker 2: Me main character.

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Speaker 3: You do not want to be the main character of

629
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Speaker 3: black Twitter ever, right in your life, right ever?

630
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Speaker 1: Ever, So, if I'm gonna piss the girls, the gays,

631
00:31:33,440 --> 00:31:36,320
Speaker 1: or black people off. That's just not gonna happen now

632
00:31:36,320 --> 00:31:39,600
Speaker 1: if I'm pissing off like the pubs.

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00:31:39,560 --> 00:31:45,200
Speaker 3: The pubs, And again it's just like, why tell me why.

634
00:31:45,680 --> 00:31:49,280
Speaker 3: I'm always I'm a big make it make sense. So

635
00:31:50,120 --> 00:31:54,480
Speaker 3: I'm a very understanding person. I love to learn. One

636
00:31:54,520 --> 00:31:57,640
Speaker 3: of our clips from our last our free agency emergency

637
00:31:57,680 --> 00:32:02,400
Speaker 3: episode was going crazy on Twitter from a page that

638
00:32:02,520 --> 00:32:05,200
Speaker 3: actually I had blocked. He'll probably watch this now, so

639
00:32:05,240 --> 00:32:07,320
Speaker 3: shout out to you. I don't remember his page name,

640
00:32:07,360 --> 00:32:11,000
Speaker 3: but he was blocked. It was about us talking about

641
00:32:11,240 --> 00:32:14,360
Speaker 3: players wanting to go to Indiana for free agency, and

642
00:32:14,400 --> 00:32:16,760
Speaker 3: you know, you already know how people felt about me

643
00:32:17,280 --> 00:32:20,760
Speaker 3: and my comments about the rookies and all that kind

644
00:32:20,800 --> 00:32:24,920
Speaker 3: of stuff. But again, people clip certain things because like

645
00:32:25,000 --> 00:32:28,240
Speaker 3: it's an art, it is a skill to clip fifteen

646
00:32:28,280 --> 00:32:31,000
Speaker 3: seconds of an entire conversation that you know is going

647
00:32:31,040 --> 00:32:33,840
Speaker 3: to start a dialogue. And I have fallen victim to

648
00:32:33,880 --> 00:32:35,880
Speaker 3: that quite as many times online.

649
00:32:36,640 --> 00:32:38,800
Speaker 2: And again I don't care exactly.

650
00:32:38,840 --> 00:32:42,080
Speaker 3: We don't care because when you listen to the totality

651
00:32:42,120 --> 00:32:45,280
Speaker 3: of the conversation, you know that I didn't say anything wrong,

652
00:32:45,360 --> 00:32:47,440
Speaker 3: I didn't say anything bad, I didn't say anything harmful.

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00:32:47,440 --> 00:32:50,200
Speaker 3: I didn't say anything negative, but in this little clip,

654
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Speaker 3: it's going to start a dialogue. And that getting in

655
00:32:52,920 --> 00:32:56,920
Speaker 3: media and getting in social media, specifically podcasting, I understand

656
00:32:57,000 --> 00:32:59,640
Speaker 3: that's how you get people to come watch your videos

657
00:32:59,720 --> 00:33:01,520
Speaker 3: or talk talk about them, and that's just comes as

658
00:33:01,600 --> 00:33:03,920
Speaker 3: the game is the game. Oh well, but as long

659
00:33:03,960 --> 00:33:06,840
Speaker 3: as I've always stood firm and okay, like y'all can

660
00:33:06,880 --> 00:33:08,960
Speaker 3: be mad at me for this ten second clip, I

661
00:33:09,000 --> 00:33:11,840
Speaker 3: know what I said in the entire conversation, so I

662
00:33:11,880 --> 00:33:13,200
Speaker 3: don't care what y'all are saying.

663
00:33:13,280 --> 00:33:15,720
Speaker 2: So now everyone's like, oh, we love this podcast, we

664
00:33:15,800 --> 00:33:16,640
Speaker 2: love LuxI.

665
00:33:18,400 --> 00:33:21,600
Speaker 3: Great because we've been taking this the entire time. If

666
00:33:21,640 --> 00:33:23,800
Speaker 3: Indiana said Lexi, do you want to come play here?

667
00:33:23,880 --> 00:33:29,120
Speaker 3: I probably would have said yes, Like what are you

668
00:33:29,200 --> 00:33:29,960
Speaker 3: kidding me? Real?

669
00:33:30,240 --> 00:33:31,080
Speaker 2: Like please?

670
00:33:42,560 --> 00:33:44,880
Speaker 1: This has been something that I, as somebody who gives

671
00:33:44,880 --> 00:33:46,960
Speaker 1: my opinion about a lot of stuff, get attacked for

672
00:33:47,560 --> 00:33:51,160
Speaker 1: so often. It's I'm gonna change my mind about stuff

673
00:33:51,200 --> 00:33:53,800
Speaker 1: and feel different ways about different things depending on who

674
00:33:53,840 --> 00:33:56,960
Speaker 1: I'm talking about, what weather it is outside. Like that

675
00:33:57,000 --> 00:33:59,560
Speaker 1: doesn't make me a hypocrite or wishy washy. I'm just

676
00:33:59,600 --> 00:34:03,600
Speaker 1: a normal person. For example, I'm currently getting attacked on

677
00:34:03,600 --> 00:34:06,680
Speaker 1: the internet because I a couple of weeks ago after

678
00:34:06,760 --> 00:34:12,360
Speaker 1: Kendrick Lamar's Grammy sweep said okay, we and you know

679
00:34:12,400 --> 00:34:13,320
Speaker 1: we're both Drake girls.

680
00:34:13,360 --> 00:34:15,640
Speaker 3: Girl, I don't even started last night being my friend

681
00:34:15,680 --> 00:34:18,040
Speaker 3: of the car screaming you.

682
00:34:17,960 --> 00:34:20,600
Speaker 2: Can never make me hate you Drake. They can never

683
00:34:20,719 --> 00:34:24,319
Speaker 2: back he hate you his album with Party, right, And.

684
00:34:24,360 --> 00:34:26,799
Speaker 1: So, okay, that's funny because I posted a video of

685
00:34:26,840 --> 00:34:29,120
Speaker 1: me dressed up as Drake for Halloween where I said

686
00:34:29,320 --> 00:34:31,160
Speaker 1: they can never make me hate Drake, and I was

687
00:34:31,160 --> 00:34:34,360
Speaker 1: getting attacked and being told I have no morals because

688
00:34:34,480 --> 00:34:36,479
Speaker 1: I am a Drake fan, right. And so then after

689
00:34:36,520 --> 00:34:38,800
Speaker 1: the Grammys, I made a video and I was like, Okay,

690
00:34:39,200 --> 00:34:42,360
Speaker 1: this is kind of crazy that all of Drake's peers

691
00:34:42,360 --> 00:34:45,560
Speaker 1: and coworkers aka the music industry are singing the song

692
00:34:45,640 --> 00:34:48,160
Speaker 1: calling him a PDF file like I'm sideyeing that.

693
00:34:48,280 --> 00:34:48,920
Speaker 2: I'm sorry.

694
00:34:49,400 --> 00:34:51,399
Speaker 1: Not one person is like, hey, that's my friend. I'm

695
00:34:51,400 --> 00:34:54,120
Speaker 1: not going to sing that that everybody. That's crazy.

696
00:34:54,160 --> 00:34:59,160
Speaker 3: First of all, I do want to say I have

697
00:34:59,280 --> 00:35:02,040
Speaker 3: taken a high. It is from rap music as a whole.

698
00:35:03,520 --> 00:35:05,720
Speaker 2: I hate it. I love the rap girlies.

699
00:35:05,760 --> 00:35:07,879
Speaker 3: I love like I really think the rap girlies are

700
00:35:07,920 --> 00:35:12,160
Speaker 3: carrying rap right now, Doci Lotto Meg, I really think

701
00:35:12,200 --> 00:35:14,640
Speaker 3: that they're carrying rap flow Milly.

702
00:35:16,600 --> 00:35:18,920
Speaker 2: I cannot listen to it anymore.

703
00:35:19,440 --> 00:35:24,960
Speaker 3: It is so negative, it's so mean, it's violence disgusting.

704
00:35:25,680 --> 00:35:28,800
Speaker 3: But exactly when I tell you I listened to music

705
00:35:28,840 --> 00:35:30,719
Speaker 3: for the vibes, when I tell you, I had no

706
00:35:30,840 --> 00:35:37,160
Speaker 3: idea that Kendrick was calling Drake that For months I've.

707
00:35:36,960 --> 00:35:39,520
Speaker 2: Been on in the car a minor. I had no

708
00:35:39,640 --> 00:35:41,520
Speaker 2: idea what we were talking about.

709
00:35:41,680 --> 00:35:43,000
Speaker 1: You thought they was talking about a note.

710
00:35:43,000 --> 00:35:46,600
Speaker 2: I was talking about a music note. I had no

711
00:35:46,719 --> 00:35:48,440
Speaker 2: idea that that.

712
00:35:48,640 --> 00:35:50,719
Speaker 3: Was what the song was about until like all the

713
00:35:50,800 --> 00:35:54,399
Speaker 3: lost started coming out and I was like, I did

714
00:35:54,440 --> 00:35:56,839
Speaker 3: not listen to a single lyric of the song. I

715
00:35:56,920 --> 00:35:59,200
Speaker 3: just like dancing to the look I'm in la now

716
00:35:59,239 --> 00:36:02,879
Speaker 3: you know everybody do this little la whatever. I had

717
00:36:02,920 --> 00:36:06,840
Speaker 3: no idea once I found out that was the topic

718
00:36:07,000 --> 00:36:10,360
Speaker 3: of the song. That song, because it has not been played,

719
00:36:10,360 --> 00:36:13,480
Speaker 3: I don't even think it's in my library anymore. And

720
00:36:13,520 --> 00:36:16,319
Speaker 3: that's not a like I'm defending Drake, like I don't

721
00:36:16,360 --> 00:36:17,640
Speaker 3: even know how we got to this conversation.

722
00:36:17,880 --> 00:36:21,000
Speaker 2: But it's just like I don't like I.

723
00:36:20,880 --> 00:36:25,360
Speaker 3: Don't like it negative exactly, and that's the negativity away.

724
00:36:25,400 --> 00:36:28,160
Speaker 3: It's everywhere. It's in music, it's in sports, it's in me,

725
00:36:28,280 --> 00:36:29,160
Speaker 3: it's everywhere.

726
00:36:29,600 --> 00:36:31,239
Speaker 1: But that's why I try to take things as they

727
00:36:31,239 --> 00:36:33,200
Speaker 1: are and just have fun. And that's why with with

728
00:36:33,239 --> 00:36:35,799
Speaker 1: that whole the song situation, my point with leading back

729
00:36:35,840 --> 00:36:40,160
Speaker 1: to sports was I feel like, so I said, Okay,

730
00:36:40,600 --> 00:36:42,719
Speaker 1: that is weird that all these people are singing that

731
00:36:42,840 --> 00:36:44,919
Speaker 1: song and like enjoying it like that kind of makes

732
00:36:44,960 --> 00:36:47,200
Speaker 1: me side eyed because I'm like, yo, why are all

733
00:36:47,239 --> 00:36:51,200
Speaker 1: these people calling you that? Like that's insane. So then

734
00:36:51,200 --> 00:36:53,600
Speaker 1: when Drake's album comes out and I'm I'm bopping to

735
00:36:53,640 --> 00:36:58,120
Speaker 1: Nokia like everybody everybody on Nokia, They're like, I thought

736
00:36:58,160 --> 00:37:00,840
Speaker 1: you was ov. Oh, let's get this right right now.

737
00:37:01,400 --> 00:37:04,399
Speaker 1: I don't have any sort of undying loyalty to any

738
00:37:04,440 --> 00:37:05,319
Speaker 1: person I've never met.

739
00:37:05,280 --> 00:37:10,640
Speaker 2: Before, are you, Guys? They do not? Are you?

740
00:37:12,120 --> 00:37:14,560
Speaker 1: Like I'm going to when something's ugly, I'm gonna say

741
00:37:14,560 --> 00:37:16,600
Speaker 1: I think it's ugly and and and guess what if

742
00:37:16,640 --> 00:37:19,160
Speaker 1: I think Meghan the Stallion's dress last night was ugly,

743
00:37:19,200 --> 00:37:20,880
Speaker 1: She's just an example. I love that girl. If I

744
00:37:20,920 --> 00:37:23,040
Speaker 1: think her dress last night was ugly, and I also

745
00:37:23,080 --> 00:37:26,200
Speaker 1: think her dress next week is beautiful. That's okay, Like

746
00:37:26,280 --> 00:37:28,160
Speaker 1: I can change my mind. And it's the same thing

747
00:37:28,160 --> 00:37:31,440
Speaker 1: with sports. If I think that, you know, maybe people

748
00:37:31,719 --> 00:37:33,759
Speaker 1: would want to play for Indiana because they're killing it

749
00:37:33,800 --> 00:37:36,440
Speaker 1: during free agency, but I also think that, you know,

750
00:37:36,440 --> 00:37:38,120
Speaker 1: their fans can be a little racist and a little

751
00:37:38,120 --> 00:37:43,560
Speaker 1: out of hand. Sometimes those are okay, like' but I

752
00:37:43,560 --> 00:37:46,440
Speaker 1: do want to mention as far as hate is concerned

753
00:37:46,520 --> 00:37:51,239
Speaker 1: online hate and everybody being negative, I feel like I

754
00:37:51,280 --> 00:37:53,879
Speaker 1: know Labron probably experiences hate to a high degree because

755
00:37:53,880 --> 00:37:56,000
Speaker 1: if I experience hate, I can only imagine what Labron.

756
00:37:56,680 --> 00:37:59,000
Speaker 3: I think people also need to think about that your

757
00:37:59,040 --> 00:38:01,640
Speaker 3: little hate bubble? Do you think you have think about

758
00:38:03,320 --> 00:38:05,160
Speaker 3: When I have my little moments of like, oh why

759
00:38:05,280 --> 00:38:08,040
Speaker 3: is everybody be mean? I quite literally just think of

760
00:38:08,120 --> 00:38:09,399
Speaker 3: Lebron James and I'm like.

761
00:38:09,360 --> 00:38:14,640
Speaker 1: You know what, right or anybody beyond so Drake. But

762
00:38:14,880 --> 00:38:17,520
Speaker 1: one person I really think about is I think the

763
00:38:17,520 --> 00:38:19,760
Speaker 1: only person I can think of in sports who really

764
00:38:19,800 --> 00:38:21,320
Speaker 1: has a hay train on them that I feel like

765
00:38:21,360 --> 00:38:23,320
Speaker 1: it's unfair and unnecessary is Angel Reese.

766
00:38:23,920 --> 00:38:27,239
Speaker 3: That it's discussed, girl, it's absolutely ridiculous.

767
00:38:28,320 --> 00:38:31,240
Speaker 1: I have never seen anything like it. It's crazy sports

768
00:38:31,480 --> 00:38:34,800
Speaker 1: and entertainment. I have never seen anything like her comment

769
00:38:34,840 --> 00:38:37,920
Speaker 1: section or my comment section when I post about her,

770
00:38:38,120 --> 00:38:39,440
Speaker 1: so I can only imagine Riyah.

771
00:38:39,560 --> 00:38:42,640
Speaker 3: I had a video of me on my TikTok people,

772
00:38:42,800 --> 00:38:43,600
Speaker 3: it's still up there.

773
00:38:44,480 --> 00:38:46,359
Speaker 2: I was in a workout. It was like a ten

774
00:38:46,400 --> 00:38:48,520
Speaker 2: second clip of me in a training session.

775
00:38:48,760 --> 00:38:53,000
Speaker 3: If anybody wants to see me playing basketball, it's on TikTok.

776
00:38:53,120 --> 00:38:54,960
Speaker 2: I don't put basketball stuff on Instagram.

777
00:38:55,000 --> 00:38:59,319
Speaker 3: I'll put pictures on Instagram, but workout videos, highlights.

778
00:38:58,960 --> 00:39:01,479
Speaker 2: That's all on TikTok. Like I put that over.

779
00:39:01,440 --> 00:39:02,600
Speaker 1: There, she does.

780
00:39:02,680 --> 00:39:08,480
Speaker 3: I had a video of me working out, and usually,

781
00:39:08,680 --> 00:39:12,399
Speaker 3: like I love my followers and supporters. They're very they

782
00:39:12,440 --> 00:39:14,680
Speaker 3: love when I hoop, like and I appreciate y'all, Like

783
00:39:14,760 --> 00:39:17,440
Speaker 3: y'all literally got me back on the court because everyone

784
00:39:17,880 --> 00:39:21,840
Speaker 3: that follows me and supports me started when I was younger,

785
00:39:22,200 --> 00:39:24,839
Speaker 3: playing at Dude, playing at Maryland. Like, they know I

786
00:39:24,840 --> 00:39:27,359
Speaker 3: can hoop, So I've always appreciated that about them. So

787
00:39:27,719 --> 00:39:31,920
Speaker 3: whenever I put up basketball content, it's overwhelmingly positive, right,

788
00:39:32,200 --> 00:39:34,839
Speaker 3: overwhelmingly positive. So sometimes if I need a little pick

789
00:39:34,880 --> 00:39:37,839
Speaker 3: me up, let me drive a little basketball picture. Let

790
00:39:37,840 --> 00:39:40,840
Speaker 3: me drop a little basketball video because I know, like y'all.

791
00:39:40,640 --> 00:39:43,280
Speaker 2: Gonna make me feel good. I put up this video

792
00:39:44,400 --> 00:39:48,480
Speaker 2: and it was just negative, negative, negative, negative, eggave.

793
00:39:48,200 --> 00:39:50,760
Speaker 3: And I was just like, it was just me shooting

794
00:39:50,880 --> 00:39:54,879
Speaker 3: jump shots, which like, it's not cat like that's the thing.

795
00:39:54,920 --> 00:39:57,120
Speaker 3: Sometimes players will post something and they'll be like, that's

796
00:39:57,120 --> 00:39:59,440
Speaker 3: not even how you. That's not even you. This is

797
00:39:59,440 --> 00:40:01,600
Speaker 3: not how you play. All I gotta do is shoot

798
00:40:01,719 --> 00:40:05,320
Speaker 3: post a little shooting video. It's cool because people, I'm valid,

799
00:40:05,360 --> 00:40:09,439
Speaker 3: I'm stamped as a shooter. So I was getting all

800
00:40:09,480 --> 00:40:13,600
Speaker 3: of these negative comments, and I was just like, what

801
00:40:13,760 --> 00:40:15,759
Speaker 3: is going on here? Why are y'all being so mean

802
00:40:15,800 --> 00:40:17,839
Speaker 3: to me? On TikTok, I.

803
00:40:17,840 --> 00:40:21,759
Speaker 2: Thought I was Angel Rees I mean and shout out

804
00:40:21,760 --> 00:40:22,240
Speaker 2: to Angel.

805
00:40:22,320 --> 00:40:26,080
Speaker 3: We always talk about her, all of them, all the

806
00:40:26,160 --> 00:40:27,040
Speaker 3: w players, the.

807
00:40:27,040 --> 00:40:29,000
Speaker 2: Rookies, everybody. We love y'all.

808
00:40:29,560 --> 00:40:33,960
Speaker 3: But my entire comment section for that particular video thought

809
00:40:34,040 --> 00:40:38,880
Speaker 3: I was Angel and they were so mean, and I

810
00:40:38,960 --> 00:40:39,840
Speaker 3: was just like.

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Speaker 1: That's why I'm like when she cried in that postgame interview,

812
00:40:43,440 --> 00:40:46,080
Speaker 1: I believe it was I think when LS the last

813
00:40:46,080 --> 00:40:47,479
Speaker 1: heard and.

814
00:40:47,440 --> 00:40:49,120
Speaker 2: She was sexualizing me.

815
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Speaker 1: I That's why I literally have stamped myself as the

816
00:40:52,600 --> 00:40:55,200
Speaker 1: Angel Reese defense attorney on TikTok. I like, she could

817
00:40:55,239 --> 00:40:56,880
Speaker 1: be wrong and I'm an opportuny. I don't fit it

818
00:40:56,880 --> 00:40:58,799
Speaker 1: because that's gonna get clipped and they're going to use

819
00:40:58,800 --> 00:41:01,799
Speaker 1: that against me. Lord help me. But anyways, because I

820
00:41:01,840 --> 00:41:04,000
Speaker 1: think that the hate that she gets is so forced

821
00:41:04,080 --> 00:41:04,480
Speaker 1: and so.

822
00:41:04,640 --> 00:41:06,800
Speaker 2: Very unwarranted, and she's a kid.

823
00:41:07,200 --> 00:41:09,440
Speaker 1: Also, I want to mention for all of you. I

824
00:41:09,440 --> 00:41:11,319
Speaker 1: think there's this and we could probably do a whole

825
00:41:11,320 --> 00:41:14,240
Speaker 1: episode on just this particular topic. But when it comes

826
00:41:14,239 --> 00:41:16,759
Speaker 1: to being a woman and things that women get criticized

827
00:41:16,760 --> 00:41:19,839
Speaker 1: for that men don't i e. Body image, i e.

828
00:41:20,480 --> 00:41:23,880
Speaker 1: Being sexualized, things like that. When Angel says something like

829
00:41:24,080 --> 00:41:27,320
Speaker 1: I'm constantly being sexualized and then she puts on something

830
00:41:27,400 --> 00:41:30,719
Speaker 1: sexy and y'all say, see, you want to be sexualized.

831
00:41:31,000 --> 00:41:34,800
Speaker 1: There's a difference between being sexy and being complimented and

832
00:41:35,200 --> 00:41:38,960
Speaker 1: you know, appreciating a woman then sexualizing her and being

833
00:41:39,000 --> 00:41:42,359
Speaker 1: weird and being ode like and not. I see that

834
00:41:42,400 --> 00:41:44,360
Speaker 1: come with the WNBA players all the time. It's like

835
00:41:44,400 --> 00:41:49,320
Speaker 1: this weird like y'all want y'all They want y'all to

836
00:41:49,360 --> 00:41:52,520
Speaker 1: be sexy because that makes them able to appreciate you.

837
00:41:52,440 --> 00:41:57,000
Speaker 3: A page, right, but then you are sexy and now stop.

838
00:41:58,920 --> 00:42:02,399
Speaker 3: But I'm just like okay. The happy medium between that

839
00:42:02,880 --> 00:42:03,960
Speaker 3: is be yourself.

840
00:42:05,120 --> 00:42:06,759
Speaker 2: Yeah, like wow, that's a word.

841
00:42:07,000 --> 00:42:09,560
Speaker 3: Don't pander to what people want you to be or

842
00:42:09,560 --> 00:42:11,720
Speaker 3: don't want you to be. If you are just simply

843
00:42:11,800 --> 00:42:14,880
Speaker 3: you and people have an opinion about it, it's not

844
00:42:14,880 --> 00:42:17,680
Speaker 3: going to bother you. Like for me, for example, I

845
00:42:17,680 --> 00:42:22,760
Speaker 3: remember being in high school and college like posting bathing

846
00:42:22,800 --> 00:42:26,600
Speaker 3: suit photos and photos with your shirt like that was

847
00:42:27,000 --> 00:42:29,759
Speaker 3: it was, no, don't do it, you cannot do it.

848
00:42:31,120 --> 00:42:31,920
Speaker 2: And I feel like.

849
00:42:32,120 --> 00:42:35,120
Speaker 3: As a young girl, you probably shouldn't, Like you shouldn't

850
00:42:35,160 --> 00:42:38,360
Speaker 3: probably put pictures up in your bathroom in your bikini. Now,

851
00:42:38,400 --> 00:42:40,120
Speaker 3: if you're at the beach, if you're at the pool,

852
00:42:40,880 --> 00:42:43,640
Speaker 3: do whatever you want. That's just how I was raised.

853
00:42:43,680 --> 00:42:45,960
Speaker 3: And if just if you do something differently, I don't

854
00:42:46,000 --> 00:42:48,799
Speaker 3: judge you. I don't think you're a bad person, but like,

855
00:42:49,600 --> 00:42:52,000
Speaker 3: there are societal norms that you have to kind of

856
00:42:52,280 --> 00:42:55,400
Speaker 3: think about when you put something out there to be consumed,

857
00:42:55,440 --> 00:42:57,000
Speaker 3: And that circles back to what we were talking about,

858
00:42:57,040 --> 00:43:00,160
Speaker 3: when you put something out there to be consumed and

859
00:43:00,200 --> 00:43:04,600
Speaker 3: commented on it's gonna be consumed and commented on. But negative,

860
00:43:04,760 --> 00:43:09,319
Speaker 3: overwhelming negativity is insane. But I remember I didn't really

861
00:43:09,400 --> 00:43:14,560
Speaker 3: get comfortable posting on my socials, like posting on game days,

862
00:43:15,000 --> 00:43:18,440
Speaker 3: posting night before games. I didn't really get comfortable with

863
00:43:18,520 --> 00:43:23,120
Speaker 3: that until maybe like five years ago. Like, yeah, there's

864
00:43:23,160 --> 00:43:25,840
Speaker 3: certain things like even as a professional athlete, you're always

865
00:43:25,880 --> 00:43:29,240
Speaker 3: constantly thinking like, oh, this person's gonna look this person's

866
00:43:29,480 --> 00:43:32,000
Speaker 3: that's things that people that are not athletes. I don't

867
00:43:32,040 --> 00:43:33,799
Speaker 3: have a front office, I don't have a GM that

868
00:43:33,880 --> 00:43:36,640
Speaker 3: don't have brands and sponsors looking at you. They don't

869
00:43:36,640 --> 00:43:39,240
Speaker 3: have to think about stuff like that. But I agree

870
00:43:39,280 --> 00:43:43,879
Speaker 3: with you, the hate that she gets is insane. And

871
00:43:44,160 --> 00:43:47,120
Speaker 3: once I realized that the comments were not to me,

872
00:43:48,960 --> 00:43:52,040
Speaker 3: I I didn't like my feelings weren't hurt because I

873
00:43:52,120 --> 00:43:54,279
Speaker 3: was like, these are they they don't think this is

874
00:43:54,320 --> 00:43:58,320
Speaker 3: like they're not commenting about me. But I've seen her comments.

875
00:43:58,360 --> 00:44:01,000
Speaker 3: I've seen things that people say to her, and I've

876
00:44:01,040 --> 00:44:03,680
Speaker 3: always had a lot of empathy and I've always felt

877
00:44:03,719 --> 00:44:06,680
Speaker 3: really bad about that because what are you y'all?

878
00:44:06,719 --> 00:44:07,480
Speaker 2: What are y'all doing?

879
00:44:08,440 --> 00:44:11,279
Speaker 3: But once I saw that in my comment section, it

880
00:44:11,440 --> 00:44:14,920
Speaker 3: like it was like a switch was flipped in my brain,

881
00:44:15,200 --> 00:44:19,400
Speaker 3: Like this is what she sees this every day, every hour,

882
00:44:20,600 --> 00:44:23,400
Speaker 3: doing something that she loves. She's literally leveling up in

883
00:44:23,440 --> 00:44:26,520
Speaker 3: every aspect of her life. Whether y'all like it or not,

884
00:44:26,760 --> 00:44:32,000
Speaker 3: it's happening. That was like it was like it was

885
00:44:32,080 --> 00:44:35,279
Speaker 3: like mind altering, Like I would.

886
00:44:35,000 --> 00:44:37,160
Speaker 1: Have to switch my comments, like that is a power

887
00:44:37,200 --> 00:44:39,360
Speaker 1: move from her because I would have to switch my

888
00:44:39,440 --> 00:44:42,480
Speaker 1: comments to the only people I follow the comment. There

889
00:44:42,560 --> 00:44:44,600
Speaker 1: is no way I would be able to sit and

890
00:44:44,640 --> 00:44:46,000
Speaker 1: look at that all the time and keep my head

891
00:44:46,080 --> 00:44:48,480
Speaker 1: high the way that she does. And that's another reason

892
00:44:48,600 --> 00:44:50,960
Speaker 1: I think that this is so important and what we're

893
00:44:50,960 --> 00:44:53,520
Speaker 1: talking about with coverage is so important because I feel

894
00:44:53,560 --> 00:44:55,640
Speaker 1: like a lot of shows think that they're checking off

895
00:44:55,680 --> 00:44:59,440
Speaker 1: their WNBA coverage box by talking about whatever Angel Reese

896
00:44:59,480 --> 00:45:02,320
Speaker 1: is doing this that may not be about what she

897
00:45:02,400 --> 00:45:05,560
Speaker 1: wore on Wilden Out or something like grown assmen on

898
00:45:05,800 --> 00:45:09,480
Speaker 1: Sports Network television talking about what Angel rees wore on

899
00:45:09,760 --> 00:45:13,239
Speaker 1: Wilden Out. Y'all are weird. That is not covering women's basketball.

900
00:45:13,440 --> 00:45:15,480
Speaker 1: That is weird, and that is sexualizing her.

901
00:45:15,800 --> 00:45:18,600
Speaker 3: And even if it's positive, it's weird.

902
00:45:19,040 --> 00:45:20,840
Speaker 2: We are professional athletes.

903
00:45:21,400 --> 00:45:24,560
Speaker 3: Cover the sport, and if you don't, if you want

904
00:45:24,560 --> 00:45:27,799
Speaker 3: to talk about how certain players play, talk about how

905
00:45:27,800 --> 00:45:32,319
Speaker 3: certain players play. Again, there is a respectful and analytical

906
00:45:32,360 --> 00:45:36,600
Speaker 3: way to talk about players positively and negatively.

907
00:45:37,400 --> 00:45:40,200
Speaker 2: Everything that everybody says now.

908
00:45:39,920 --> 00:45:42,319
Speaker 3: That I'm seeing, I'm like again, I'm so happy we're

909
00:45:42,360 --> 00:45:45,680
Speaker 3: doing this show, especially when the W season starts, because

910
00:45:46,440 --> 00:45:49,799
Speaker 3: however I'm playing, however the Storm is playing wherever we're at, Like,

911
00:45:49,840 --> 00:45:53,200
Speaker 3: we're gonna talk about where we are as a team,

912
00:45:53,239 --> 00:45:55,920
Speaker 3: We're going to talk about stats, we're gonna talk about analytics,

913
00:45:55,960 --> 00:45:58,120
Speaker 3: we're gonna talk about other teams. We're gonna get into

914
00:45:58,239 --> 00:46:01,680
Speaker 3: it because it is so verely lacking. And I thought

915
00:46:01,880 --> 00:46:06,880
Speaker 3: after the college season, after how amazing the W season was,

916
00:46:07,200 --> 00:46:07,799
Speaker 3: it was going to.

917
00:46:07,840 --> 00:46:11,319
Speaker 2: Improve, and it has gotten worse. I didn't think it

918
00:46:11,360 --> 00:46:13,920
Speaker 2: could get worse. Have you heard.

919
00:46:13,800 --> 00:46:17,320
Speaker 3: Anything about women's college basketball this year anywhere?

920
00:46:18,000 --> 00:46:18,400
Speaker 2: Really?

921
00:46:18,560 --> 00:46:24,480
Speaker 1: Not well, not really outside of Juju, And even with Juju,

922
00:46:24,920 --> 00:46:26,360
Speaker 1: it's still very minimal.

923
00:46:26,680 --> 00:46:32,440
Speaker 3: Like I have been in complete disbelief of the coverage

924
00:46:32,480 --> 00:46:37,600
Speaker 3: of the women's college game this year, because yes, there's

925
00:46:37,600 --> 00:46:39,640
Speaker 3: not a Kaitlin Clark, there's not an Angel Reese, there's

926
00:46:39,640 --> 00:46:43,120
Speaker 3: not that rivalry right now. But there is some very

927
00:46:43,480 --> 00:46:47,520
Speaker 3: good basketball being played by a lot of players, and

928
00:46:47,560 --> 00:46:50,480
Speaker 3: it's just being kicked to the side, and I'm just like,

929
00:46:51,320 --> 00:46:55,239
Speaker 3: I don't understand it. Like, for example, this is a

930
00:46:55,239 --> 00:47:01,560
Speaker 3: perfect example. Hailey Vanlyth her redemption arc this year has

931
00:47:01,600 --> 00:47:05,120
Speaker 3: been incredible, absolutely amazing. They just won the Big twelve

932
00:47:05,200 --> 00:47:10,720
Speaker 3: title at tc freaking U. Like no one is checking

933
00:47:10,760 --> 00:47:14,960
Speaker 3: for TCU. Haley van Lidt gets there, she turns it

934
00:47:15,000 --> 00:47:18,600
Speaker 3: around like, y'all don't have nothing to say.

935
00:47:18,800 --> 00:47:21,120
Speaker 1: Okay, let me ask you a question. This is coming

936
00:47:21,120 --> 00:47:21,799
Speaker 1: around fair weather.

937
00:47:21,880 --> 00:47:24,960
Speaker 2: But I am okay, I'm curious.

938
00:47:25,680 --> 00:47:28,880
Speaker 1: I don't know TCU has given me. Y'all should be

939
00:47:29,160 --> 00:47:30,160
Speaker 1: y'all should be grown.

940
00:47:30,640 --> 00:47:32,359
Speaker 2: Like you know, they're old. They got a lot of old.

941
00:47:32,520 --> 00:47:33,200
Speaker 1: They got a lot of.

942
00:47:34,960 --> 00:47:38,440
Speaker 2: They do, but so do the man. Hey, they do

943
00:47:38,600 --> 00:47:43,520
Speaker 2: that too. That's how college should be. That's what I'm saying.

944
00:47:44,320 --> 00:47:47,160
Speaker 2: It's so funny. It's like people are like, she's in

945
00:47:47,239 --> 00:47:48,920
Speaker 2: her fourth fifth year. Yes she is.

946
00:47:49,040 --> 00:47:50,799
Speaker 3: I know y'all are used to twelve year olds being

947
00:47:50,880 --> 00:47:53,480
Speaker 3: the league in the NBA, but like, no, like there

948
00:47:53,560 --> 00:47:57,040
Speaker 3: was a time where whole championship teams were like twenty two,

949
00:47:57,120 --> 00:47:58,120
Speaker 3: twenty three, twenty four.

950
00:47:58,800 --> 00:48:03,400
Speaker 1: No, I'm not you know about about fourth about old.

951
00:48:03,760 --> 00:48:08,120
Speaker 2: They are old. But again, so you better win, you.

952
00:48:08,080 --> 00:48:12,239
Speaker 1: Better win, you better win, you better win. Imagine you're

953
00:48:12,360 --> 00:48:16,160
Speaker 1: leaving your walking home from a geography class and you

954
00:48:16,239 --> 00:48:17,640
Speaker 1: know you have to guard a twenty.

955
00:48:17,440 --> 00:48:18,080
Speaker 2: Seven year old.

956
00:48:20,560 --> 00:48:22,920
Speaker 3: I remember my senior year of college. I was like,

957
00:48:23,040 --> 00:48:26,839
Speaker 3: get I'm done. I was twenty three, Get me out

958
00:48:26,880 --> 00:48:29,680
Speaker 3: of here. The fact that these girls and guys stay

959
00:48:29,719 --> 00:48:31,800
Speaker 3: in college as long as they do. Hey, get your degree,

960
00:48:31,840 --> 00:48:36,680
Speaker 3: I'm all for it, trust me, get all the degree money, Yeah,

961
00:48:36,920 --> 00:48:38,759
Speaker 3: get all you can get from these schools because they

962
00:48:38,800 --> 00:48:39,719
Speaker 3: do not care about you.

963
00:48:39,880 --> 00:48:41,439
Speaker 2: I'm there, I'm here for that.

964
00:48:42,120 --> 00:48:45,640
Speaker 3: But yes, you're twenty nine in college. You better win

965
00:48:45,800 --> 00:48:48,600
Speaker 3: every game you play. You better dominate every game you play.

966
00:48:49,360 --> 00:48:53,280
Speaker 3: But the fact that everybody had so much to say

967
00:48:53,440 --> 00:48:58,239
Speaker 3: about Hayley at LSU, and that was not a good

968
00:48:58,239 --> 00:49:02,040
Speaker 3: decision for her as a fit fit wise, I don't

969
00:49:02,080 --> 00:49:04,239
Speaker 3: think her game changed at all. It just wasn't a

970
00:49:04,239 --> 00:49:07,960
Speaker 3: good fit. And that happened sometimes. She bet on herself

971
00:49:07,960 --> 00:49:11,160
Speaker 3: and went to TCU. Probably got some money over there.

972
00:49:11,400 --> 00:49:11,920
Speaker 2: Good for you.

973
00:49:13,040 --> 00:49:18,800
Speaker 3: And she's been killing crickets I'm just like again, the rage, baiting,

974
00:49:18,880 --> 00:49:23,799
Speaker 3: the negativity. Why does everything have to be negative? Like, yes,

975
00:49:24,000 --> 00:49:26,200
Speaker 3: y'all had, y'all got, y'all licks in on her. Trust me,

976
00:49:26,320 --> 00:49:28,040
Speaker 3: I remember the memes. I remember it all.

977
00:49:28,960 --> 00:49:31,720
Speaker 2: But now she's turned it around and y'all have nothing

978
00:49:31,760 --> 00:49:34,600
Speaker 2: to say. That is the thing about media I don't like.

979
00:49:34,920 --> 00:49:38,719
Speaker 3: Agreed, It's okay when you are presented with new information,

980
00:49:38,840 --> 00:49:40,120
Speaker 3: your opinion can change.

981
00:49:40,280 --> 00:49:42,719
Speaker 2: That's fine, and that's I think a lot of people

982
00:49:42,760 --> 00:49:43,359
Speaker 2: are scared of that.

983
00:49:43,400 --> 00:49:47,719
Speaker 3: But because it's because people are so disrespectful, like they

984
00:49:47,800 --> 00:49:50,239
Speaker 3: like cross the boundary, like you, there's like a point

985
00:49:50,280 --> 00:49:53,120
Speaker 3: in our return. That's how I feel about my WNBA career.

986
00:49:53,480 --> 00:49:56,439
Speaker 3: So many people cross the boundary, so they just got

987
00:49:56,440 --> 00:49:59,719
Speaker 3: to stay over there. And it's okay because I know

988
00:49:59,760 --> 00:50:01,600
Speaker 3: that I I've never changed who I am and my

989
00:50:01,680 --> 00:50:04,719
Speaker 3: work ethic never changed. But the fact that people are

990
00:50:04,760 --> 00:50:10,480
Speaker 3: just overly disrespectful off rip. Then, yeah, you get presented

991
00:50:10,520 --> 00:50:13,680
Speaker 3: with new information, you really can't come back actually because

992
00:50:13,680 --> 00:50:14,840
Speaker 3: you were so insane.

993
00:50:15,640 --> 00:50:17,080
Speaker 2: That's what I'm gonna say that On.

994
00:50:17,000 --> 00:50:20,600
Speaker 1: The first side, like people don't really give media that's

995
00:50:20,920 --> 00:50:24,200
Speaker 1: unfortunate the opportunity to change their minds, because it's like

996
00:50:24,320 --> 00:50:28,360
Speaker 1: if you say, I've said before that I think that

997
00:50:28,440 --> 00:50:30,680
Speaker 1: Kevin Durant's career is forever going to be saying by

998
00:50:30,680 --> 00:50:32,000
Speaker 1: the fact that he went to Golden State, I don't

999
00:50:32,000 --> 00:50:33,640
Speaker 1: care what he does, I don't care where he goes.

1000
00:50:33,920 --> 00:50:35,560
Speaker 1: I'm not saying I don't think he's a great basketball

1001
00:50:35,560 --> 00:50:38,120
Speaker 1: player whatever, but that narrative is going to follow him

1002
00:50:38,120 --> 00:50:39,799
Speaker 1: for the rest of his career until he retires. It's

1003
00:50:39,800 --> 00:50:42,080
Speaker 1: just the truth. Sorry, But the point is that doesn't

1004
00:50:42,120 --> 00:50:44,839
Speaker 1: mean I can't say some like positive things about him

1005
00:50:44,920 --> 00:50:46,960
Speaker 1: or acknowledge when he is doing well, or acknowledge when

1006
00:50:47,000 --> 00:50:49,600
Speaker 1: he's doing great. And I think that even I like

1007
00:50:49,640 --> 00:50:52,080
Speaker 1: am going to take more responsibility on doing that because,

1008
00:50:52,719 --> 00:50:55,359
Speaker 1: for example, if you made a Haley band lit joke

1009
00:50:55,520 --> 00:50:57,440
Speaker 1: or meme, or if you are a media member and

1010
00:50:57,440 --> 00:50:59,520
Speaker 1: I'm not just talking about people on social media who

1011
00:50:59,760 --> 00:51:01,480
Speaker 1: are like kids in their room getting their back off

1012
00:51:01,480 --> 00:51:03,239
Speaker 1: of like clickbait and make a memes like whatever, do

1013
00:51:03,320 --> 00:51:05,359
Speaker 1: what you want, but the people on television, like if

1014
00:51:05,360 --> 00:51:07,160
Speaker 1: you made fun of her when she was getting dusted

1015
00:51:07,200 --> 00:51:10,440
Speaker 1: by or whatever, all the memes like, then you need

1016
00:51:10,480 --> 00:51:12,279
Speaker 1: to cover the fact that she's doing well. Now that

1017
00:51:12,320 --> 00:51:15,840
Speaker 1: needs that needs to also come up. That's responsible about.

1018
00:51:15,640 --> 00:51:18,480
Speaker 3: It exactly, that's responsible media coverage.

1019
00:51:19,200 --> 00:51:19,600
Speaker 2: Whatever.

1020
00:51:19,719 --> 00:51:22,640
Speaker 3: That she was doing bad before, she's doing great now.

1021
00:51:23,000 --> 00:51:26,279
Speaker 3: You had so much to say before, you.

1022
00:51:26,280 --> 00:51:30,439
Speaker 2: Had clearly you have things to say, so say say

1023
00:51:30,480 --> 00:51:30,879
Speaker 2: it now.

1024
00:51:31,760 --> 00:51:36,399
Speaker 3: So that yeah, again, as an athlete with grievances, since

1025
00:51:36,400 --> 00:51:41,440
Speaker 3: we all have grievances, that for me, that has always

1026
00:51:41,480 --> 00:51:46,799
Speaker 3: been my biggest issue with how sports are covered is that, Yes, criticism,

1027
00:51:47,040 --> 00:51:49,040
Speaker 3: I get it, that's how we're built where you have

1028
00:51:49,080 --> 00:51:49,560
Speaker 3: thick skin.

1029
00:51:49,640 --> 00:51:51,000
Speaker 2: Trust me, we have thick skin.

1030
00:51:52,000 --> 00:51:55,720
Speaker 3: But when there's good things going on, talk about those

1031
00:51:55,800 --> 00:52:00,320
Speaker 3: two y'all. People were shitting on Steph Curry all season

1032
00:52:00,400 --> 00:52:04,120
Speaker 3: because the Warriors were horrible. They're not they're still not

1033
00:52:04,160 --> 00:52:07,799
Speaker 3: winning a championship, and that's okay, but they've turned it

1034
00:52:07,840 --> 00:52:08,520
Speaker 3: around a bit.

1035
00:52:08,800 --> 00:52:09,840
Speaker 2: They've turned it around.

1036
00:52:10,160 --> 00:52:13,359
Speaker 3: He had fifty six points, right mm hmm, and they're like,

1037
00:52:14,080 --> 00:52:15,200
Speaker 3: we're not gonna on.

1038
00:52:15,200 --> 00:52:16,879
Speaker 2: The same day. It's like his day.

1039
00:52:17,040 --> 00:52:19,560
Speaker 3: I saw it on Twitter, like he's had like whatever

1040
00:52:19,640 --> 00:52:20,759
Speaker 3: day that date that was.

1041
00:52:20,840 --> 00:52:21,480
Speaker 2: He's had like.

1042
00:52:21,560 --> 00:52:26,160
Speaker 3: Career games three straight years. Like that's fun to talk about.

1043
00:52:26,320 --> 00:52:29,279
Speaker 3: Like it's like there's no way that people go into

1044
00:52:29,320 --> 00:52:31,440
Speaker 3: work every day, go to write, Go sit on their

1045
00:52:31,440 --> 00:52:34,759
Speaker 3: little computers and type up a story that y'all it

1046
00:52:34,760 --> 00:52:39,279
Speaker 3: brings y'all joy to talk so negatively about everybody all

1047
00:52:39,320 --> 00:52:40,040
Speaker 3: the time.

1048
00:52:40,960 --> 00:52:43,000
Speaker 2: Like, I don't know, it's like psych.

1049
00:52:43,360 --> 00:52:49,200
Speaker 1: Later, But I'm really cited about seventy six ers.

1050
00:52:49,960 --> 00:52:52,000
Speaker 3: We have our we have our producers on the show

1051
00:52:52,080 --> 00:52:56,160
Speaker 3: right now, Zoe and Grace, like, don't, don't. We're not

1052
00:52:56,880 --> 00:52:59,800
Speaker 3: whether I'm having a great season or an okay season,

1053
00:53:00,080 --> 00:53:06,440
Speaker 3: You're not gonna stop making episodes Like no, George.

1054
00:53:06,480 --> 00:53:10,480
Speaker 2: I feel very bad. You gotta. I've taken that for

1055
00:53:10,560 --> 00:53:11,720
Speaker 2: him because.

1056
00:53:13,080 --> 00:53:18,680
Speaker 3: He stopped making his shows because again, I because when

1057
00:53:18,920 --> 00:53:20,000
Speaker 3: they started losing.

1058
00:53:20,840 --> 00:53:22,640
Speaker 2: I I'm like an investigator.

1059
00:53:23,120 --> 00:53:26,880
Speaker 3: I actively went to his YouTube page and his podcast

1060
00:53:26,920 --> 00:53:30,720
Speaker 3: pee page to look at the comments and the way

1061
00:53:30,840 --> 00:53:34,919
Speaker 3: people were speaking to him and about him about basketball

1062
00:53:35,560 --> 00:53:40,120
Speaker 3: on his little podcast baby that he loves like it's

1063
00:53:40,160 --> 00:53:43,520
Speaker 3: a hobby. We've been on what this for an hour?

1064
00:53:44,200 --> 00:53:49,200
Speaker 3: One hour once a week, Like that's how long podcasts take, guys.

1065
00:53:49,280 --> 00:53:53,160
Speaker 3: Like the way people were speaking to that man online

1066
00:53:53,640 --> 00:53:56,920
Speaker 3: and just ruining this outlet that he created for himself.

1067
00:53:57,760 --> 00:54:01,640
Speaker 3: It upset me because I'm like, y'all, don't know what

1068
00:54:01,960 --> 00:54:04,600
Speaker 3: else he has going on in his life. Y'all just

1069
00:54:04,640 --> 00:54:07,960
Speaker 3: see the basketball thing, and I'm just like, I don't

1070
00:54:08,200 --> 00:54:11,160
Speaker 3: like that. He had to be like, I'm going to

1071
00:54:11,200 --> 00:54:12,880
Speaker 3: take a break from this because I need to focus

1072
00:54:12,920 --> 00:54:14,040
Speaker 3: on basketball, like.

1073
00:54:15,760 --> 00:54:18,799
Speaker 1: And I hate people are dumb. He has he is

1074
00:54:18,840 --> 00:54:21,600
Speaker 1: Paul George. There is a whole media machine behind that

1075
00:54:21,640 --> 00:54:24,640
Speaker 1: podcast that is like planning the episodes and editing the

1076
00:54:24,640 --> 00:54:27,400
Speaker 1: episodes whatever. He sits down for an hour once a

1077
00:54:27,400 --> 00:54:29,640
Speaker 1: week and talks. That's it.

1078
00:54:31,560 --> 00:54:33,520
Speaker 3: In his hotel room on the road when he's not

1079
00:54:33,640 --> 00:54:39,880
Speaker 3: doing anything anyway. So I mean, and I follow his

1080
00:54:40,040 --> 00:54:42,640
Speaker 3: producer on Instagram. We follow each other, and I asked him.

1081
00:54:42,800 --> 00:54:44,800
Speaker 3: I genuinely asked him. I said, is it a problem?

1082
00:54:44,920 --> 00:54:48,080
Speaker 3: You think it is problematic for players to have podcasts

1083
00:54:48,120 --> 00:54:51,120
Speaker 3: in season? And he said, it depends on the player,

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Speaker 3: that's all he said.

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Speaker 2: And I was.

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Speaker 3: I said, all right, We're up for the challenge, Mariah,

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Speaker 3: because we full Circle will be in full effect the

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Speaker 3: entire w season, no matter what is going on.

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Speaker 2: I don't care what nobody says.

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Speaker 1: We in here and I will be asked and I listen,

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Speaker 1: y'all you better know that. That's why I'm here, I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna ask Lexi the questions. She may decline to answer them,

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Speaker 1: but I will be asking yes.

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Speaker 3: So anything at all, things, WNBA College, whatever, y'all can

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Speaker 3: find it here on the Full Circle podcast.

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Speaker 2: This was an amazing episode. I love it. We still

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Speaker 2: turns up from Nashville.

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Speaker 1: Let's end on a positive note, and let's each say

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Speaker 1: like one positive thing about the sports world that we

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Speaker 1: want the audience to take away.

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Speaker 3: The one oh this will be We'll give We'll give flowers.

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Speaker 3: I was giving a flower to Haley van Lit. Haley

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Speaker 3: van Lit gets a flower, and then I'm going to

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Speaker 3: give flowers to Athletes Unlimited for putting together an amazing

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Speaker 3: fourth season. We had a great time. It was amazing.

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Speaker 3: Everyone had a blast. And this is my family and

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Speaker 3: I love it here. I love it here.

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Speaker 1: As far as my flowers, I want to give them

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Speaker 1: to two medium members because I feel like the media

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Speaker 1: has been getting thrashed good. But I want to give

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Speaker 1: my flower one to l Duncan, who I absolutely adore.

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Speaker 1: Like for all the reasons I said before. I think

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Speaker 1: that she can be critical and funny and also very

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Speaker 1: responsible in the way she covers things. Girl Dad iconic.

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Speaker 1: And then number two. I want to give a flower

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Speaker 1: to cheneaum Okay because the way that she talked about

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Speaker 1: what you've been talking about this whole episode, and athletes

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Speaker 1: and how they get insulted and what their problem is

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Speaker 1: with the coverage of sports. The way that she articulated

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Speaker 1: it really changed my mind about it because I felt

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Speaker 1: a little attack on my theat I was like, what

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Speaker 1: the hell y'all want us to say? Then I say

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Speaker 1: that yep, And then I watched Shane's take and I said, Oh,

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Speaker 1: she read me like Goaden me all the way out,

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Speaker 1: and I think that she Both of those women need

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Speaker 1: to be on every billboard, every television station, every show

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Speaker 1: like they're so talented.

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Speaker 3: No, we love them el Cheney, Hayley, Van Liz at

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Speaker 3: least unlimited.

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Speaker 2: We love y'all.

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Speaker 3: This was an amazing episode of Full Circle Podcast and

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Speaker 3: we will see y'all next week.

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Speaker 1: Bye. Thanks for listening to Full Circle. We'll be back

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Speaker 1: next week with more basketball for the Girls by the girls.

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Speaker 1: We want to hear from you. Leave us a review

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Speaker 1: on Apple Podcasts and tell us what you want us

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Speaker 1: to talk about. Full Circle is hosted by a Lexi

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Speaker 1: Brown and Mariah Rose. Our executive producer is Jesse Katz.

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Speaker 1: Our supervising producer is Grace Fuse. Our producer is Zoe Danklab.

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Speaker 1: Listen to Full Circle on America's number one podcast network,

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Speaker 1: with Lexi Brown and Mariah Rose and start listening