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Speaker 1: Hey, everybody, I am Tarika Foster Brassby.

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Speaker 2: And y'all know what time it is. I'm your girl, Cheryl.

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Speaker 1: Swoops And this is levels to this podcast. This is

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Speaker 1: the show where we share that it's levels to the ship.

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Speaker 3: That women go through.

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Speaker 1: Man, we've got such a great show today. We're definitely

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Speaker 1: going to talk about some WNBA. The season is over,

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Speaker 1: the series is over. The New York Liberty have won

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Speaker 1: the first ever title for the sake of New York

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Speaker 1: and the WNBA, So we definitely got to talk about that.

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Speaker 1: But first we got to catch up Cheryl, because you

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Speaker 1: and I have not seen home and I don't know

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Speaker 1: how long.

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Speaker 2: It's been a while.

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Speaker 3: It's been a minute.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I was on the road for thirteen days and I

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Speaker 1: thought that my husband missed me. When I got home,

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Speaker 1: he did, I mean he did kind of. It was

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Speaker 1: it lasted for like twenty minutes.

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Speaker 4: That was it.

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Speaker 3: It was twenty minutes. I came home. He was all excited,

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Speaker 3: gave me the good.

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Speaker 2: Hug, all that kind of stuff, sat.

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Speaker 3: Down on the couch.

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Speaker 1: About fifteen minutes in he was just like yo, loud

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Speaker 1: mouth ass.

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Speaker 3: Is back.

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Speaker 5: Waite, Wasn't he like okay, baby? When's your next.

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Speaker 2: Trip where you go?

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Speaker 1: Ready to go? It's right because I'm on Friday Friday here, but.

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Speaker 5: I think that's just but that's men, right, Like, yeah,

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Speaker 5: you're right. And I was talking about this earlier, like

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Speaker 5: like I'm all in my feelings right now.

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Speaker 2: Because i missed my husband.

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Speaker 5: I've been on the road not quite thirteen, but i've

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Speaker 5: been on the road for seven. Yeah, I've been on

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Speaker 5: the road for seven and I got to be on

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Speaker 5: the road for another three, so it'll be ten eleven days.

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Speaker 2: By the time I get home. But you know, I'm a.

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Speaker 5: Very like affectionate, emotional woman.

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Speaker 2: I love my time with my husband.

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Speaker 5: And so this morning he said, baby, you're not on

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Speaker 5: a plane home yet, right, And I was like, oh, I.

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Speaker 2: Said, maybe you miss me.

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Speaker 5: Stop laughing, damn stop laughing. And he was like, yeah,

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Speaker 5: I do miss you. So I said, what do you miss?

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Speaker 2: Now? Let me let me let me say.

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Speaker 5: This, because I always like take care of him before

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Speaker 5: I leave. I make like meals, I cook, I make

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Speaker 5: greens and chicken and rice, whatever it is he wants.

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Speaker 5: So I said, well, what do you miss? He said, well,

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Speaker 5: I mean I am on my last pot of greens.

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Speaker 5: So I was like, Oh, so you missed my cooking.

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Speaker 3: That's what you missed.

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Speaker 2: That's what you missed.

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Speaker 1: Homecree, you want me to just come home, make you

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Speaker 1: some more food, and get bass back out of the road.

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Speaker 2: Okay, okay, okay, okay, lord, But you know what this

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Speaker 2: reminds me of?

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Speaker 5: Though I got mad for a second and then I laughed.

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Speaker 2: But you know what this reminds me of.

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Speaker 5: Like, seriously, our first episode out the different levels to

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Speaker 5: motherhood and being wives and stuff, like, we just talked

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Speaker 5: about all the things that we as women have to

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Speaker 5: do and take care of, and this is part of it.

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Speaker 3: Yep, it is, it really is.

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Speaker 1: It's funny because I caught my husband called me when

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Speaker 1: I was out. I was in Minnesota getting ready to

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Speaker 1: go back to New York. This was Friday. This was

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Speaker 1: this past Friday. And so my home is heated by

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Speaker 1: an oil by like oil furnace and not like an

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Speaker 1: electric furnace. So whenever the oil tank gets low, we

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Speaker 1: refill the oil.

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Speaker 2: So wait a minute, wait a minute, wait it oil

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Speaker 2: not gas.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's not gas. It's not a gas furnace. It's

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Speaker 1: an oil furnace.

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Speaker 3: So it actually it actually saves me a little bit

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Speaker 3: of money in the longer stane, okay.

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Speaker 1: Because I don't have to pay a gas bill or

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Speaker 1: and the oil will last me for like three months.

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Speaker 2: So we could. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: So anyway, we turned our we turned our furnace off

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Speaker 1: because it started to get a little chili. So we

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Speaker 1: were already a little low. Friday comes along and Greg.

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Speaker 3: Says, oh, by the way, the the heat is off.

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Speaker 3: And I said, the heat is off? What you mean?

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Speaker 1: He's like, yeah, I think the tank is low. This

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Speaker 1: is Friday. I am in Minnesota.

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Speaker 2: About it? Yeah, what you're gonna know about it?

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Speaker 1: So I said, you you ain't called a man and

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Speaker 1: tell him to come out here. He's like, man, I

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Speaker 1: forgot about it until like a few minutes ago.

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Speaker 3: So you've been in the cold for three days. It's

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Speaker 3: what you said, You've been in the cold.

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Speaker 2: This whole time. What I mean, you gonna called a

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Speaker 2: man to come out and put some oil in the

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Speaker 2: damn place?

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Speaker 3: Yeah? Like, well, y'all are going for you to get

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Speaker 3: home to do that.

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna stay cold. I'm just gonna stay bro.

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Speaker 1: I'm not home until Monday is Friday. You're just gonna

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Speaker 1: be you know, hoodie around the house.

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Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, Oh my gosh.

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Speaker 5: Listen, it can't it cannot just be your husband and

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Speaker 5: my husband. Like I know y'all out there, sisters, women.

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Speaker 5: I know y'all could relate to this. I know you can't.

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Speaker 2: And you know what, and the men are probably like, damn,

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Speaker 2: that's I did it that me?

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Speaker 1: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: God yeah, but it's so funny. It's funny.

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Speaker 5: But but my point is this, But for him to

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Speaker 5: call you and say, oh, the gas is off and

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Speaker 5: you're not even home, I'm like, what do you want

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Speaker 5: to do?

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Speaker 1: He wanted you to call, He wanted you to call

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Speaker 1: and get it feel all. He wanted me to call

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Speaker 1: the man to come out here. I called the man

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Speaker 1: on Friday and told the man we needed some oil

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Speaker 1: will gladly come out. But I can't come out until Monday.

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Speaker 1: Now I could have said, sir, it's an emergency, it's

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Speaker 1: no heat in my house, can you come out?

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Speaker 3: But I see, hey on.

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Speaker 1: No since show ass in this code ass house.

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Speaker 2: I'm good.

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Speaker 3: I'm good.

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Speaker 5: I got heat, I got a c I got service,

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Speaker 5: I could control it.

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Speaker 2: I'm good.

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Speaker 3: It was crazy.

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Speaker 2: So needless to say, yesterday we got to eat the house.

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Speaker 2: It was great, of course you did.

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Speaker 1: But the whole entire purpose of me not being home

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Speaker 1: for thirteen days is because I was on the road

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Speaker 1: covering the WNBA Finals. So going back and forth from

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Speaker 1: New York to Minnesota and then back to New York

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Speaker 1: again for Game five, I'm like, wow, this series has

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Speaker 1: been a series in Cheryl. I can't wait to dive

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Speaker 1: and to not only this finals, but really this overall.

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Speaker 3: Season with you.

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Speaker 2: So let's go ahead and get ready to take this

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Speaker 2: to the next level.

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Speaker 1: Cheryl. I don't think that I have missed and this

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Speaker 1: might be very different for you because you have played

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Speaker 1: in four WNBA finals. You don't know what it's like

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Speaker 1: to lose a WNBA finals. That is what it is.

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Speaker 1: But I was so thoroughly entertained from Game one to

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Speaker 1: Game five of this finals, that it didn't surprise me

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Speaker 1: one bit that it would end in the fashion that

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Speaker 1: it ended, So for those who may have missed it,

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Speaker 1: the New York Liberty are now the twenty twenty four

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Speaker 1: WNBA champions after an overtime thriller in a Game five

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Speaker 1: where they won sixty seven to sixty two, and not

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Speaker 1: without controversy, because there was indeed a controversial call. At

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Speaker 1: the end of regulation. With ten point one seconds left

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Speaker 1: on the clock, the Minnesota Lynks were up sixty to

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Speaker 1: fifty eight and a file was called on Atlanta Smiths

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Speaker 1: against Brianna Stewart, where to me it looked all bald.

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Speaker 1: If there was any contact, the contact was so marginal,

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Speaker 1: I don't know how a referee could have called it,

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Speaker 1: but they did call it. She went to the free

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Speaker 1: throw line, she hit both free throws, tied the score

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Speaker 1: sixty sixty, and.

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Speaker 3: That's how we ended up going in overtime. Sure, yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 3: charl Reeves, I.

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Speaker 2: Say that was my that was my rewind.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, let's rewind before that foul call. Let's rewind because

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Speaker 5: Brianna Stewart did travel I'm sorry, and did she did?

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Speaker 5: The New York shuffle if there is such a thing,

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Speaker 5: and did and that too, Yes, just it was.

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Speaker 3: It was unreal how many missed calls. And granted it

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Speaker 1: Sides, because no doubt there were there were. It was

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Speaker 1: just terrible officiating. But down the stretch there was just

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Speaker 1: some things that happened that made Sheryl Ribs say they

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Speaker 1: stole the championship from us.

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Speaker 3: This was stolen from us. These these things should not

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Speaker 3: have happened. That happened.

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Speaker 1: Whereas on the other side, Sandy Brondella, who had just

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Speaker 1: argued the game before, yes, like game these thing, this thing, this,

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Speaker 1: she was saying it wasn't fair. She felt it was

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Speaker 1: pretty fair, which it is fair when you win. It

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Speaker 1: is unfair when you lose. So Suiryl, just overall, number one,

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Speaker 1: what did you think about the series? And number two,

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Speaker 1: what were your overall thoughts on Game five?

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Speaker 5: So the series itself, I loved. I was hoping, you know,

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Speaker 5: it's funny. Halfway through the season, I was like, damn,

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Speaker 5: I'll be ready when the season's over because there was

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Speaker 5: just way too much ugliness and just stuff right, and

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Speaker 2: Get to the finals, I'm like, oh, I do not

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Speaker 2: want this series to end. That's what you want from

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Speaker 2: the finals.

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Speaker 5: You wanted to go to Game five, or if it's

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Speaker 5: Game seven, you wanted to go Game seven. But every

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Speaker 5: single game was good, Every game was competitive.

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Speaker 2: Listen, I was here for it.

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Speaker 5: Team I didn't. I don't know about you. I don't

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Speaker 5: know about very many people had Minnesota playing in the finals.

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Speaker 1: So I did not have them in the finals, but

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Speaker 1: I did have them as one of the final four teams.

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Speaker 1: I thought biasedly, I thought Connecticut would would beat Minnesota.

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Speaker 1: I did have New York, Vegas, Minnesota, and Connecticut, but

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Speaker 1: I thought Connecticut was good enough to beat Minnesota to

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Speaker 1: make it to the finals.

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Speaker 3: But I did have New York still win it at

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Speaker 3: all because I.

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Speaker 1: Didn't think Connecticut was would be able to contact New

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Speaker 1: York for all five games.

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Speaker 2: Facts.

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Speaker 5: The reason why I say that is because when you

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Speaker 5: look at this Minnesota team, I've always thought he was

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Speaker 5: a good basketball player, but Nafisa Collier was on a

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Speaker 5: whole another level this season, and she opened my eyes

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Speaker 5: and a lot of other people. But people weren't talking

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Speaker 2: But it should never even come down to that. It

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Speaker 3: You, because that is exactly what I said.

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Speaker 2: You did, and you did it. You did, you did

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Speaker 2: You got to show up. I don't care. That's in regulation,

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Speaker 5: Show up and your role players got to show up.

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Speaker 5: And you know who showed up for New York Sobbly

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Speaker 1: I was I was making a joke and I said,

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Speaker 5: You that she really did, real she really did.

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Speaker 1: If you're in New York, you gotta be like, maybe

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Speaker 2: Maybe she's one of our six.

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Speaker 3: Maybe she's one of our six.

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Speaker 5: Seriously, because the moment, the moment wasn't too big for her.

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Speaker 3: Nope, I mean literally made the most of her.

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Speaker 3: So I was very proud of her. And happy to

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Speaker 1: But let's talk about MVP for a second, because there

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Speaker 1: John Quill had been the most consistent player that entire

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Speaker 3: It felt so good to see a.

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Speaker 1: Player like John Quill who have came and lost, came

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Speaker 3: Was a w NBA championship.

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Speaker 2: And now she tends it me too. You know, I

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Speaker 5: Was like, John, well, you could dominate a lot more

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Speaker 5: Since you bawled your ass out, you deserve this finals, MVP,

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Speaker 5: Bahama is celebrating right now. They having a party like

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Speaker 5: And I am gonna say this because someone asked me

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Speaker 5: I just wanted it to be a great series. I

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Speaker 5: I was like, give me another overtime in another but

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Speaker 5: since hear me out, hear me out. At one moment,

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Speaker 5: I was pulling for New York. Another moment, I was

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Speaker 2: But let me give you my reason.

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Speaker 5: I just did not want Minnesota to be that team

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Speaker 5: that got five championships. I know it's petty, but listen, listen,

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Speaker 5: I am petty right now because I'm like, oh no, no, no,

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Speaker 2: Let's just leave it at four.

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Speaker 5: I don't need them look at five right now. Okay,

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Speaker 5: I got to get that out of my system, y'all.

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Speaker 5: I am being petty, but that's that's just that's the

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Speaker 2: Like what about competitive yet?

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Speaker 3: Yeah?

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Speaker 5: But but but I'm also saying it jokingly right and

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Speaker 3: I know.

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Speaker 2: That's right, thank e h A n G. You hear me?

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Speaker 3: Yes, yes, I do know.

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Speaker 2: I can't pull for New York.

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Speaker 5: New York was our nemesis, like, yes, but we had

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Speaker 2: But I but I do have to end on this.

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Speaker 2: I felt spoons joy. Oh, I felt her pain. I

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Speaker 5: Like the weight had been lifted off of her shoulder,

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Speaker 3: Yes, same thing.

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Speaker 5: With Sue Wicks, right, because we battle with them and

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but I can't. I can't be happy for New

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Speaker 3: I know that's the right.

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Speaker 1: Let's say first of all, it was funny because I

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Speaker 2: That was crazy, that was crucial too.

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Speaker 1: We were talking about that was crucial and crazy because

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Speaker 4: Yeah right, the buzzer sounds the bank shot, the three

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Speaker 4: You put the pressure on them, get in front. Tina

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Speaker 4: It's just a prayer, and it's answer.

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Speaker 5: Perhaps the most remarkable comeback in the three year history

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Speaker 3: But here's the thing. Here's the thing. Ultimately it didn't matter.

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Speaker 3: I know you hated it. I know you did.

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Speaker 1: You're real wrong, But ultimately it didn't matter, right because

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Speaker 1: I mean, we know what ended up coming out of that.

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Speaker 3: So Lera' said, you ain't got a.

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Speaker 2: Wish I could see my face bavvy.

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Speaker 5: You know when I said, when I see Raymond, they

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Speaker 2: I tell Spoon, I said, it's all good.

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Speaker 5: All you did was prolonged and inevitable. Prolong We were coming,

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Speaker 3: I love it.

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Speaker 1: I love it, but Spoon legitimately made me.

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Speaker 3: She brought me to tears.

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Speaker 1: it was definitely more than just this is New York.

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Speaker 5: Something good tea, I said the same thing. It was

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Speaker 2: It was all the shit that she went.

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Speaker 3: her and very excited for again. You mentioned Sue. Sue

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00:22:15,400 --> 00:22:16,160
Speaker 3: was so excited.

446
00:22:16,200 --> 00:22:18,480
Speaker 1: I saw swing. I was like swinging, not too much,

447
00:22:18,560 --> 00:22:24,400
Speaker 1: not swing. You were shot a minute.

448
00:22:26,800 --> 00:22:27,280
Speaker 5: Too much.

449
00:22:27,320 --> 00:22:30,720
Speaker 3: Swim not too much, not too much, swim not too much.

450
00:22:30,720 --> 00:22:33,439
Speaker 3: Take your little hat, get your little T shirt. But

451
00:22:33,760 --> 00:22:35,520
Speaker 3: you know, not too much now.

452
00:22:35,840 --> 00:22:38,480
Speaker 1: But when we come back on the other side of

453
00:22:38,480 --> 00:22:42,719
Speaker 1: the break, I think this season was just a season

454
00:22:42,840 --> 00:22:47,160
Speaker 1: unlike any other for so many different reasons. And we'll

455
00:22:47,200 --> 00:22:49,080
Speaker 1: talk about that when we come back.

456
00:23:00,359 --> 00:23:00,480
Speaker 4: You know.

457
00:23:00,640 --> 00:23:02,840
Speaker 1: Sure we kind of touched on a little bit the

458
00:23:03,000 --> 00:23:07,240
Speaker 1: season and the way it ended for you know, Teaspoon

459
00:23:07,800 --> 00:23:13,199
Speaker 1: in Chicago, but just really that was just one of

460
00:23:13,400 --> 00:23:18,440
Speaker 1: the many things that happened over the course of this season.

461
00:23:18,480 --> 00:23:21,160
Speaker 1: This season was I said before and I'll say it again.

462
00:23:21,240 --> 00:23:23,520
Speaker 1: I had such a love hate relationship with this season

463
00:23:23,720 --> 00:23:26,760
Speaker 1: because I always love when the w NBA season comes around.

464
00:23:26,800 --> 00:23:27,600
Speaker 3: It's my season.

465
00:23:27,600 --> 00:23:30,080
Speaker 1: I love it right from a working perspective, From a

466
00:23:30,119 --> 00:23:33,159
Speaker 1: fan perspective, I love it. But this season came with

467
00:23:33,640 --> 00:23:38,280
Speaker 1: so much turmoil as well as with the growth. It

468
00:23:38,359 --> 00:23:42,960
Speaker 1: came with so much divisiveness as well as so much.

469
00:23:42,880 --> 00:23:45,400
Speaker 2: Love and hate and hate.

470
00:23:45,800 --> 00:23:49,880
Speaker 3: It was so much of everything, and.

471
00:23:51,320 --> 00:23:54,359
Speaker 1: It's hard to put in words that it's like, yeah,

472
00:23:54,440 --> 00:23:58,159
Speaker 1: we understand that when a game is growing, that there's

473
00:23:58,240 --> 00:24:00,000
Speaker 1: going to be some people who are going to be

474
00:24:00,160 --> 00:24:04,200
Speaker 1: let in. But I also feel like they misunderstand what

475
00:24:04,240 --> 00:24:07,320
Speaker 1: we're trying to say when we say like, new fans

476
00:24:07,359 --> 00:24:10,240
Speaker 1: need to understand the kind of community that they're coming into,

477
00:24:10,880 --> 00:24:14,520
Speaker 1: and I don't think that that is understood because there's

478
00:24:14,560 --> 00:24:16,439
Speaker 1: this thing. First of all, let me back up a second.

479
00:24:17,280 --> 00:24:20,280
Speaker 1: I want people to understand definitions. And one thing I

480
00:24:20,320 --> 00:24:22,720
Speaker 1: hate is when folks be like, oh, y'all, old fans

481
00:24:22,760 --> 00:24:26,320
Speaker 1: are gatekeeping. Can you please understand what the word gatekeeping means.

482
00:24:26,960 --> 00:24:31,359
Speaker 1: Nobody is keeping you from watching the WNBA. Nobody's keeping

483
00:24:31,400 --> 00:24:35,840
Speaker 1: you from attending games, buying tickets, buying merch, nobody's gate

484
00:24:35,960 --> 00:24:39,680
Speaker 1: keeping anything. We're not disallowing you access.

485
00:24:39,480 --> 00:24:42,080
Speaker 3: To be a fan of the WNBA. So I need

486
00:24:42,119 --> 00:24:42,920
Speaker 3: y'all to stop the shit.

487
00:24:42,960 --> 00:24:44,760
Speaker 1: Stop using words because you hear it and you think

488
00:24:44,760 --> 00:24:47,080
Speaker 1: it's popular that you can just throw it out there.

489
00:24:46,920 --> 00:24:49,080
Speaker 2: At your leisure, and yeah, don't know what it means.

490
00:24:49,040 --> 00:24:50,600
Speaker 3: Something, and you don't know what it means.

491
00:24:50,760 --> 00:24:54,200
Speaker 1: Gatekeeping actually means something, So we're not gatekeeping anything.

492
00:24:54,440 --> 00:24:56,240
Speaker 3: What we are saying is.

493
00:24:56,160 --> 00:24:59,680
Speaker 1: That You don't just walk into the sport brand new

494
00:25:00,040 --> 00:25:03,560
Speaker 1: and act like you know everything, because you don't. There

495
00:25:03,560 --> 00:25:05,600
Speaker 1: are a lot of people who put their blood, sweat

496
00:25:05,640 --> 00:25:09,280
Speaker 1: and tears, including you, into helping to grow this game

497
00:25:09,359 --> 00:25:13,080
Speaker 1: to where it is now. It didn't just magically grow

498
00:25:13,840 --> 00:25:16,719
Speaker 1: in the twenty twenty four season. It's been a culmination

499
00:25:16,840 --> 00:25:19,359
Speaker 1: of things over the course of time. You got to

500
00:25:19,400 --> 00:25:24,280
Speaker 1: respect that history in order to appreciate what we're seeing now.

501
00:25:24,560 --> 00:25:26,800
Speaker 3: And I think that's what hurt me the most, that

502
00:25:26,840 --> 00:25:27,920
Speaker 3: I'm sure hurt you.

503
00:25:27,880 --> 00:25:31,280
Speaker 1: All, is that there was a lack of respect and

504
00:25:31,320 --> 00:25:35,680
Speaker 1: a lack of acknowledgment for who put the hard work

505
00:25:35,800 --> 00:25:38,160
Speaker 1: in to get to where we are now.

506
00:25:38,840 --> 00:25:41,960
Speaker 5: Damn you said a lot that needed to be said.

507
00:25:42,800 --> 00:25:46,400
Speaker 2: Yeah, ooh, let me just pick up where you left off.

508
00:25:47,280 --> 00:25:51,680
Speaker 5: You know, T as a pioneer of this game, the

509
00:25:51,920 --> 00:25:59,040
Speaker 5: first player design. I care deeply about the league, about

510
00:25:59,040 --> 00:26:03,680
Speaker 5: the game, about the players, and that's all of the players,

511
00:26:03,720 --> 00:26:07,040
Speaker 5: because to me, it's a sisterhood.

512
00:26:07,080 --> 00:26:11,880
Speaker 2: Current players, former players, it's a sisterhood. Right. There are so.

513
00:26:12,080 --> 00:26:16,879
Speaker 5: Many themes that happened this season where I was like,

514
00:26:16,920 --> 00:26:21,040
Speaker 5: you know what, let me step away because this shit

515
00:26:21,240 --> 00:26:23,680
Speaker 5: hurts and I'm not talking about people who were coming

516
00:26:23,800 --> 00:26:27,240
Speaker 5: for me. I'm talking about people who were coming for

517
00:26:27,440 --> 00:26:33,720
Speaker 5: current players. Yeah, because I did and I always will

518
00:26:34,480 --> 00:26:38,560
Speaker 5: stand up for those players when people are coming for

519
00:26:38,680 --> 00:26:42,480
Speaker 5: them in a way that has nothing to do with basketball.

520
00:26:42,520 --> 00:26:45,560
Speaker 5: First of all, I got called everything but a child

521
00:26:45,560 --> 00:26:47,760
Speaker 5: of God. But it didn't bother me because I do

522
00:26:47,840 --> 00:26:48,080
Speaker 5: know I.

523
00:26:48,080 --> 00:26:48,880
Speaker 1: Am a child to God.

524
00:26:49,160 --> 00:26:50,840
Speaker 2: Okay, but I got.

525
00:26:50,680 --> 00:26:53,840
Speaker 5: Called everything but a child of God because I have

526
00:26:53,880 --> 00:26:58,280
Speaker 5: an opinion, an opinion And you know the thing that

527
00:26:59,160 --> 00:27:02,360
Speaker 5: I didn't underst and I still don't understand. You have

528
00:27:03,440 --> 00:27:09,520
Speaker 5: male analysts, former NBA players doing podcasts talking about the game.

529
00:27:09,400 --> 00:27:10,040
Speaker 2: Doing whatever.

530
00:27:10,720 --> 00:27:15,040
Speaker 5: They're allowed to say whatever they want, whenever they want,

531
00:27:15,200 --> 00:27:20,640
Speaker 5: however they want, and there's nothing right Like they can

532
00:27:20,680 --> 00:27:22,480
Speaker 5: sit here and say whatever it does they want to say.

533
00:27:22,560 --> 00:27:22,880
Speaker 3: They can.

534
00:27:23,000 --> 00:27:26,520
Speaker 5: They're allowed to have opinions about the game, about players,

535
00:27:26,720 --> 00:27:30,960
Speaker 5: and there's no hate, no nothing that comes back to them.

536
00:27:31,040 --> 00:27:31,240
Speaker 2: Right.

537
00:27:31,320 --> 00:27:33,240
Speaker 3: No, people tune in the next week to hear it.

538
00:27:33,240 --> 00:27:37,199
Speaker 5: Again, exactly. But let a former player or even some

539
00:27:37,280 --> 00:27:40,520
Speaker 5: of the current players say something or have an opinion,

540
00:27:41,760 --> 00:27:42,919
Speaker 5: and it's like, how dare you?

541
00:27:43,280 --> 00:27:45,000
Speaker 2: And I just wanted.

542
00:27:44,760 --> 00:27:49,639
Speaker 5: People to understand this, like it's my opinion, just like

543
00:27:49,760 --> 00:27:52,600
Speaker 5: everybody has their opinions on who the goat is.

544
00:27:53,080 --> 00:27:56,080
Speaker 2: If I'm not your go good, that's your opinion.

545
00:27:56,960 --> 00:27:57,200
Speaker 3: Yep.

546
00:27:57,400 --> 00:28:00,320
Speaker 5: But I didn't take the social media and cusha out

547
00:28:00,400 --> 00:28:02,240
Speaker 5: and call you out, your name and you know, all

548
00:28:02,280 --> 00:28:04,320
Speaker 5: of those things, which is what happened when I had

549
00:28:04,320 --> 00:28:05,280
Speaker 5: an opinion.

550
00:28:05,000 --> 00:28:09,760
Speaker 1: An opinion that other people also shared, right, because it wasn't.

551
00:28:09,560 --> 00:28:10,600
Speaker 3: Like you was the only one.

552
00:28:10,800 --> 00:28:15,160
Speaker 1: There's an opinion that so many people shared and it

553
00:28:15,280 --> 00:28:18,200
Speaker 1: wasn't and it wasn't an improbable opinion.

554
00:28:18,480 --> 00:28:22,320
Speaker 2: It was very valid. But it didn't matter what I said.

555
00:28:22,600 --> 00:28:26,320
Speaker 5: I tweeted something to Diamond to Shills after they played

556
00:28:26,359 --> 00:28:30,159
Speaker 5: Indiana Fever, and what I tweeted to her was like,

557
00:28:30,359 --> 00:28:32,399
Speaker 5: keep your head up, we got you, We're here for you.

558
00:28:32,840 --> 00:28:34,440
Speaker 2: But that had nothing to do with basketball.

559
00:28:34,760 --> 00:28:37,000
Speaker 5: That was when everyone was coming for her, saying I

560
00:28:37,000 --> 00:28:38,440
Speaker 5: hope your tumor comes back and.

561
00:28:38,400 --> 00:28:39,320
Speaker 2: You die next time.

562
00:28:39,960 --> 00:28:40,200
Speaker 3: Yep.

563
00:28:41,000 --> 00:28:44,040
Speaker 5: Like I don't know how other people feel about that.

564
00:28:44,040 --> 00:28:45,120
Speaker 2: That's not okay with me.

565
00:28:45,600 --> 00:28:48,239
Speaker 5: So I see that I'm going to address it. I'm

566
00:28:48,280 --> 00:28:51,840
Speaker 5: going to say something. But when I look at trying

567
00:28:51,880 --> 00:28:54,120
Speaker 5: to take all of that ugliness out of it, right,

568
00:28:54,720 --> 00:28:57,960
Speaker 5: and when I look at just.

569
00:28:58,080 --> 00:29:01,120
Speaker 2: The basketball, it was so good.

570
00:29:02,200 --> 00:29:07,400
Speaker 5: The basketball itself was so good, from the rookies that

571
00:29:07,520 --> 00:29:10,880
Speaker 5: came in to the second ear players to the vets,

572
00:29:11,240 --> 00:29:16,000
Speaker 5: like everybody balled out, everybody.

573
00:29:15,400 --> 00:29:18,280
Speaker 2: Showed up when the lights were on, they showed up.

574
00:29:18,920 --> 00:29:22,160
Speaker 5: And to me, I really wish we would have and

575
00:29:22,360 --> 00:29:26,200
Speaker 5: could have just focused on how good the game was

576
00:29:26,800 --> 00:29:29,840
Speaker 5: instead of all the negative energy that came with it.

577
00:29:30,480 --> 00:29:31,960
Speaker 3: One hundred percent agree.

578
00:29:32,240 --> 00:29:35,479
Speaker 1: I think for a long time we had tried to

579
00:29:35,600 --> 00:29:40,320
Speaker 1: figure out why there was a disconnect between women's college

580
00:29:40,400 --> 00:29:44,360
Speaker 1: basketball and the WNBA, and slowly but surely, over the

581
00:29:44,480 --> 00:29:48,800
Speaker 1: last few years, you'd begin to see Yukon fans turn

582
00:29:48,880 --> 00:29:51,440
Speaker 1: into more W fans because of all the Yukon players

583
00:29:51,600 --> 00:29:55,360
Speaker 1: South Carolina. Really, when Asia came into the game, you

584
00:29:55,480 --> 00:29:59,040
Speaker 1: really saw an influx. Oh yeah, you know, college Chanians

585
00:29:59,040 --> 00:30:01,640
Speaker 1: become W fans because they followed Asia, and then they

586
00:30:01,680 --> 00:30:06,840
Speaker 1: followed Tiffany Mitchell, and then they followed you know, Alicia Grant,

587
00:30:07,400 --> 00:30:11,240
Speaker 1: and then here recently, obviously the most recent example is

588
00:30:11,560 --> 00:30:14,000
Speaker 1: Kaitlin Clark and all the IM fans that have now

589
00:30:14,240 --> 00:30:16,840
Speaker 1: you know, Notre Dame had an influx of people because

590
00:30:16,840 --> 00:30:19,880
Speaker 1: of Iarique and all, so like this year I think

591
00:30:20,040 --> 00:30:24,360
Speaker 1: was the year that we truly saw an influx of

592
00:30:24,440 --> 00:30:29,160
Speaker 1: college fans turn into WNDA fans, which kept the numbers high,

593
00:30:29,360 --> 00:30:32,880
Speaker 1: which kept the interest high. Absolutely love that. And I

594
00:30:32,920 --> 00:30:36,880
Speaker 1: think that anyone who would say that Kaitlin Clark didn't

595
00:30:36,920 --> 00:30:39,880
Speaker 1: play a role in that is high.

596
00:30:39,760 --> 00:30:43,400
Speaker 3: Because clearly she did. She absolutely played a role.

597
00:30:43,520 --> 00:30:46,520
Speaker 2: But I don't know anyone who said that right.

598
00:30:46,520 --> 00:30:48,880
Speaker 3: Me neither me neither. I don't know one who didn't

599
00:30:49,160 --> 00:30:49,720
Speaker 3: who said that.

600
00:30:50,000 --> 00:30:55,240
Speaker 1: And so I keep asking myself, right, like, where where

601
00:30:55,280 --> 00:30:58,120
Speaker 1: does this come from? And I tried to, like I

602
00:30:58,200 --> 00:31:01,360
Speaker 1: really tried to sit in like rationalize it right, And

603
00:31:01,640 --> 00:31:03,360
Speaker 1: believe me, I've come to the conclusion that there is

604
00:31:03,400 --> 00:31:04,240
Speaker 1: no rationalization.

605
00:31:05,520 --> 00:31:06,440
Speaker 3: Where did you come up?

606
00:31:06,480 --> 00:31:12,240
Speaker 1: There's nothing, absolutely absolutely nothing. But in the beginning I

607
00:31:12,360 --> 00:31:14,240
Speaker 1: tried to put myself in. I said, you know what,

608
00:31:14,320 --> 00:31:16,680
Speaker 1: I'm a college fan as it comes to D one,

609
00:31:16,760 --> 00:31:18,040
Speaker 1: I'm a Michigan State girl.

610
00:31:18,280 --> 00:31:20,720
Speaker 3: You know I love aerial powers. That's my dog. Could

611
00:31:20,800 --> 00:31:22,360
Speaker 3: you know? We rolling Spartan high.

612
00:31:22,520 --> 00:31:25,040
Speaker 1: So here we go, like is it the fandom that

613
00:31:25,080 --> 00:31:27,800
Speaker 1: we have in college sports that it's like are we

614
00:31:27,880 --> 00:31:31,160
Speaker 1: bringing that level? Like I'm trying, I was trying to understand,

615
00:31:31,440 --> 00:31:35,000
Speaker 1: and nothing at all made sense, Like there's no reason, nothing,

616
00:31:35,040 --> 00:31:35,640
Speaker 1: no rhyme or.

617
00:31:35,600 --> 00:31:36,800
Speaker 3: Reason to it made sense.

618
00:31:37,080 --> 00:31:39,400
Speaker 1: And it just got to the point that the only

619
00:31:39,600 --> 00:31:44,239
Speaker 1: reason why people felt okay with bringing this ugliness and

620
00:31:44,280 --> 00:31:47,880
Speaker 1: this hate and this divisiveness to this league is because

621
00:31:48,200 --> 00:31:53,880
Speaker 1: we're women, and society just accepts every kind of shit

622
00:31:53,960 --> 00:31:56,800
Speaker 1: that you throw at women, and when you throw it

623
00:31:56,840 --> 00:32:00,440
Speaker 1: at Black women, it just doesn't matter. Let me, you

624
00:32:00,480 --> 00:32:03,040
Speaker 1: can look at what's going on culturally right now with

625
00:32:03,720 --> 00:32:07,880
Speaker 1: Sean Combs. Yeah, it was a woman, and no one

626
00:32:07,960 --> 00:32:09,920
Speaker 1: believed that she was getting beat up or no one

627
00:32:09,960 --> 00:32:12,120
Speaker 1: believed that she was and then you have to have

628
00:32:12,160 --> 00:32:14,160
Speaker 1: the video evidence, You have to have all of this

629
00:32:14,240 --> 00:32:17,960
Speaker 1: stuff to prove, to further prove and show, and even

630
00:32:18,000 --> 00:32:20,920
Speaker 1: then you get doubters, right, And that's what it is

631
00:32:20,920 --> 00:32:23,120
Speaker 1: with the WNBA. That's what it is with this league.

632
00:32:23,280 --> 00:32:25,080
Speaker 1: People can come in and say what they want to

633
00:32:25,080 --> 00:32:27,760
Speaker 1: say about folks. They can talk to how y'all, how

634
00:32:27,760 --> 00:32:29,520
Speaker 1: they want to talk to y'all. They could say what

635
00:32:29,560 --> 00:32:32,280
Speaker 1: they want to say about y'all to y'all because you

636
00:32:32,360 --> 00:32:35,120
Speaker 1: all are women, because we are all women, and no

637
00:32:35,160 --> 00:32:38,880
Speaker 1: one cares truly about our thoughts, our opinions, are our feelings,

638
00:32:38,960 --> 00:32:42,000
Speaker 1: because this is what people have done to women and

639
00:32:42,080 --> 00:32:46,760
Speaker 1: women's sports and women in any profession for centuries.

640
00:32:47,120 --> 00:32:47,680
Speaker 3: I don't care.

641
00:32:48,280 --> 00:32:51,320
Speaker 1: They would never do this to men, even in the

642
00:32:51,360 --> 00:32:53,000
Speaker 1: infancy stages of the NBA.

643
00:32:53,320 --> 00:32:55,960
Speaker 3: They would never bring this to men.

644
00:32:56,440 --> 00:32:59,080
Speaker 1: And that's really what it boils down to, I guess,

645
00:32:59,200 --> 00:33:01,880
Speaker 1: really what it boils down to women's sports. As much

646
00:33:01,880 --> 00:33:06,120
Speaker 1: as we're growing and as much as we're seeing the investment,

647
00:33:07,000 --> 00:33:10,920
Speaker 1: we are still not necessarily getting the respect that you

648
00:33:11,000 --> 00:33:11,720
Speaker 1: all deserve.

649
00:33:11,960 --> 00:33:13,640
Speaker 3: And that is why this door can be open.

650
00:33:13,920 --> 00:33:17,080
Speaker 2: That is such a great point, my goodness. But you

651
00:33:17,120 --> 00:33:17,800
Speaker 2: know the other.

652
00:33:17,800 --> 00:33:22,520
Speaker 5: Part to that two T is when it happens, we

653
00:33:22,560 --> 00:33:25,840
Speaker 5: don't say nothing. It's like we sit back and we

654
00:33:25,880 --> 00:33:29,120
Speaker 5: sit there like, oh shit, well, I know that's wrong,

655
00:33:29,520 --> 00:33:32,400
Speaker 5: but I can't say anything because if I say something,

656
00:33:32,960 --> 00:33:36,760
Speaker 5: this might happen, or that might happen, or I might

657
00:33:36,840 --> 00:33:39,760
Speaker 5: lose this, or I might lose that. And the men

658
00:33:40,040 --> 00:33:41,960
Speaker 5: on the other side are like, I dare you to

659
00:33:42,000 --> 00:33:44,280
Speaker 5: say something. Well, this is my opinion, this is how

660
00:33:44,320 --> 00:33:45,840
Speaker 5: I feel, this is what I'm gonna do.

661
00:33:46,360 --> 00:33:47,600
Speaker 2: What you're gonna do about it?

662
00:33:48,040 --> 00:33:48,280
Speaker 3: Yep?

663
00:33:48,760 --> 00:33:56,800
Speaker 5: But it's you knows. As women we're always looking to men.

664
00:33:56,440 --> 00:33:57,600
Speaker 2: To validate us.

665
00:33:57,880 --> 00:34:00,680
Speaker 5: We too, we look to men to tell us how

666
00:34:00,720 --> 00:34:03,880
Speaker 5: great we are, how beautiful we are, how good we are,

667
00:34:04,120 --> 00:34:09,040
Speaker 5: how whatever. But as women we also do the same

668
00:34:09,080 --> 00:34:11,200
Speaker 5: thing that that we talk about the men doing.

669
00:34:11,280 --> 00:34:13,719
Speaker 2: We tear each other down quicker than a man will.

670
00:34:15,120 --> 00:34:17,880
Speaker 3: Speak on it. Speak on it.

671
00:34:18,520 --> 00:34:22,239
Speaker 2: Because I see many women in my I wait for

672
00:34:22,280 --> 00:34:22,960
Speaker 2: what reason?

673
00:34:23,239 --> 00:34:25,839
Speaker 5: Because if you sit here and you're talking about, oh,

674
00:34:25,880 --> 00:34:27,719
Speaker 5: I want the league to grow. I want the league

675
00:34:27,760 --> 00:34:30,919
Speaker 5: to grow. I want to What can I do well?

676
00:34:31,080 --> 00:34:34,319
Speaker 5: Since you can stop tearing us down and go at

677
00:34:34,320 --> 00:34:37,160
Speaker 5: the ones who don't know shit about this game, don't

678
00:34:37,200 --> 00:34:42,240
Speaker 5: know shit about the players, and start showing some respect. Yeah,

679
00:34:42,480 --> 00:34:45,480
Speaker 5: because I listen, I'll sit here when I When I

680
00:34:45,480 --> 00:34:48,640
Speaker 5: don't want to deal with it, I don't respond, or

681
00:34:48,719 --> 00:34:51,120
Speaker 5: I just block you block block block block girl. And

682
00:34:51,160 --> 00:34:53,400
Speaker 5: then they get mad that I blocked them, like why

683
00:34:53,440 --> 00:34:55,600
Speaker 5: are you blocking me? Because I don't have to let

684
00:34:55,640 --> 00:34:58,000
Speaker 5: you sit here on my page and save ignorant shit

685
00:34:58,120 --> 00:34:58,319
Speaker 5: to me.

686
00:34:58,680 --> 00:34:59,120
Speaker 3: Yeah.

687
00:34:59,160 --> 00:35:02,960
Speaker 1: And I not only that, but it's the ones that

688
00:35:03,560 --> 00:35:06,239
Speaker 1: say stuff and then when you clap back, they're like,

689
00:35:06,440 --> 00:35:09,560
Speaker 1: but you're supposed to be professional, but you're supposed to be.

690
00:35:10,000 --> 00:35:12,000
Speaker 1: And I know we're gonna talk about this in more

691
00:35:12,080 --> 00:35:15,520
Speaker 1: detail on a later show. But I'm still a human

692
00:35:15,920 --> 00:35:18,239
Speaker 1: and I'm still I'm still that girl from the East

693
00:35:18,239 --> 00:35:20,919
Speaker 1: Side of Detroit. You come on my Twitter page talking shit,

694
00:35:21,200 --> 00:35:24,080
Speaker 1: you best believe I don't clap back, and I'm not

695
00:35:24,120 --> 00:35:26,680
Speaker 1: at all worried about whether or not I'm going to

696
00:35:26,760 --> 00:35:29,240
Speaker 1: lose my job or I'm going to lose an endorsement,

697
00:35:29,320 --> 00:35:30,840
Speaker 1: or I'm going to lose any girl.

698
00:35:31,280 --> 00:35:34,200
Speaker 5: When im good, I have time, I'm gonna let you

699
00:35:34,320 --> 00:35:38,280
Speaker 5: know I have time. I got time in some days

700
00:35:38,320 --> 00:35:39,960
Speaker 5: I'm like, you know what, I don't.

701
00:35:39,680 --> 00:35:43,240
Speaker 2: Have time and I don't even know you. But here's

702
00:35:43,239 --> 00:35:44,120
Speaker 2: the thing, Te. You listen.

703
00:35:44,160 --> 00:35:46,480
Speaker 5: If I don't like you, if I don't like what

704
00:35:46,520 --> 00:35:48,800
Speaker 5: you're doing, I don't like what you're posting.

705
00:35:48,800 --> 00:35:50,040
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna follow you.

706
00:35:50,280 --> 00:35:52,719
Speaker 5: I'm not gonna have my notifications turned on so that

707
00:35:52,800 --> 00:35:55,600
Speaker 5: every time TE posts something I can see what she doing.

708
00:35:55,880 --> 00:35:57,960
Speaker 5: I don't follow people, I don't listen to people. I

709
00:35:57,960 --> 00:36:00,239
Speaker 5: don't deal with people that I don't like.

710
00:36:00,560 --> 00:36:00,799
Speaker 3: Yep.

711
00:36:01,600 --> 00:36:03,520
Speaker 5: So if you don't like me, why are you here?

712
00:36:03,680 --> 00:36:05,680
Speaker 5: Why are you on my page? Why are you watching

713
00:36:05,719 --> 00:36:08,200
Speaker 5: everything I post? Why are you watching everything I do?

714
00:36:08,600 --> 00:36:11,160
Speaker 3: It is wild, it is wild.

715
00:36:11,200 --> 00:36:23,400
Speaker 1: It's just crazy, quite literally, it's quite literally wild.

716
00:36:31,000 --> 00:36:31,880
Speaker 3: I think it's interesting.

717
00:36:31,920 --> 00:36:34,120
Speaker 1: I was looking at a poll because one thing that

718
00:36:34,160 --> 00:36:37,480
Speaker 1: people say about, you know, as we conclude here, just

719
00:36:37,560 --> 00:36:39,160
Speaker 1: kind of talking about this season.

720
00:36:39,000 --> 00:36:41,800
Speaker 3: Well, why don't you guys have more women as fans

721
00:36:41,840 --> 00:36:43,800
Speaker 3: and blah blahlah blah blah, And I'm.

722
00:36:43,680 --> 00:36:48,120
Speaker 1: Like, okay, there are about I believe it's fifty six

723
00:36:48,160 --> 00:36:51,440
Speaker 1: to forty four as it relates to sports fans than

724
00:36:51,480 --> 00:36:54,920
Speaker 1: the sports fan demographic, fifty six percent of sports fan

725
00:36:54,960 --> 00:36:59,239
Speaker 1: are men. So obviously, as we grow it can't be

726
00:36:59,440 --> 00:37:03,040
Speaker 1: just women. You can't just expect women to watch. Obviously

727
00:37:03,120 --> 00:37:05,560
Speaker 1: men have to watch too, obviously men. I mean that's

728
00:37:05,640 --> 00:37:08,759
Speaker 1: just that's just basic fucking math, Like you're going to

729
00:37:08,880 --> 00:37:11,960
Speaker 1: need so like I really wish people just quit me.

730
00:37:11,960 --> 00:37:14,479
Speaker 3: And like, you know, you need to get more women

731
00:37:14,520 --> 00:37:14,840
Speaker 3: to watch it.

732
00:37:14,960 --> 00:37:17,160
Speaker 1: I mean, sure, we need to get more people of

733
00:37:17,200 --> 00:37:21,040
Speaker 1: everybody people, period, But basic math says it's just people

734
00:37:21,280 --> 00:37:23,439
Speaker 1: because men are bigger sports fans than women.

735
00:37:23,520 --> 00:37:25,520
Speaker 3: That's just what the study shows with the post shows,

736
00:37:25,520 --> 00:37:26,520
Speaker 3: So y'all sound stupid.

737
00:37:26,520 --> 00:37:29,840
Speaker 1: It's shit continuing to say this, but anyway, I bring

738
00:37:29,880 --> 00:37:32,279
Speaker 1: that up to say I bring that up to say

739
00:37:32,280 --> 00:37:36,680
Speaker 1: that it is interesting to me that as I look

740
00:37:36,719 --> 00:37:39,200
Speaker 1: at the growth of this sport and I look at

741
00:37:39,520 --> 00:37:42,520
Speaker 1: all the TV deals that are coming in and the

742
00:37:42,560 --> 00:37:45,400
Speaker 1: merchandise sales were through the roof. It was just announced

743
00:37:45,400 --> 00:37:50,279
Speaker 1: that the Finals had two point fifteen million viewers. That

744
00:37:50,440 --> 00:37:54,000
Speaker 1: just further lets me know that whether you hate it,

745
00:37:54,280 --> 00:37:56,399
Speaker 1: whether you want to talk about it, whether you want

746
00:37:56,440 --> 00:37:58,920
Speaker 1: to hate on us as you know, either a former

747
00:37:58,960 --> 00:38:02,640
Speaker 1: player or an analyst or whatever, at the end of

748
00:38:02,680 --> 00:38:07,160
Speaker 1: the day, we got your attention. You're watching, you're engaging,

749
00:38:07,480 --> 00:38:11,080
Speaker 1: you're talking, and the numbers are showing it improving it.

750
00:38:11,200 --> 00:38:13,799
Speaker 1: So you can continue to tweet what you're tweeting, you

751
00:38:13,800 --> 00:38:16,720
Speaker 1: can continue to say what you're saying. You can continue

752
00:38:16,719 --> 00:38:18,799
Speaker 1: to hate the way that you want to hate, or

753
00:38:18,840 --> 00:38:21,240
Speaker 1: you can just jump on board and love the product.

754
00:38:21,440 --> 00:38:23,760
Speaker 3: You can also jump on board and get other people

755
00:38:23,760 --> 00:38:25,839
Speaker 3: to watch the product. You can do it the right

756
00:38:25,880 --> 00:38:26,879
Speaker 3: way or the wrong way.

757
00:38:26,920 --> 00:38:30,479
Speaker 1: But either way, the number suggests that this game ain't

758
00:38:30,520 --> 00:38:31,240
Speaker 1: going nowhere.

759
00:38:32,239 --> 00:38:37,600
Speaker 5: It's just not We're not going nowhere, not Pereriod period.

760
00:38:37,600 --> 00:38:38,760
Speaker 3: Like we're not going nowhere.

761
00:38:39,280 --> 00:38:42,439
Speaker 5: And you know, to add to that, we're not going

762
00:38:42,440 --> 00:38:44,360
Speaker 5: anywhere because it's a great product.

763
00:38:44,480 --> 00:38:46,680
Speaker 3: Yes, they're not going anywhere.

764
00:38:46,840 --> 00:38:48,440
Speaker 2: The talent level is.

765
00:38:49,920 --> 00:38:54,359
Speaker 5: Crazy stupid, but you know what, the personalities that these

766
00:38:54,360 --> 00:38:59,040
Speaker 5: players have, they're fun to watch, they're fun to engage with.

767
00:38:59,160 --> 00:39:01,239
Speaker 5: When you really get to know them, you get to

768
00:39:01,280 --> 00:39:04,879
Speaker 5: know their personality and then to see what they do

769
00:39:05,000 --> 00:39:07,480
Speaker 5: on the court, like, these are some of the best

770
00:39:07,520 --> 00:39:11,640
Speaker 5: players in the world, the absolute best in the world,

771
00:39:12,120 --> 00:39:17,000
Speaker 5: and they deserve so much better than they were given

772
00:39:17,040 --> 00:39:20,480
Speaker 5: this year from fans because I feel like some of

773
00:39:20,520 --> 00:39:23,560
Speaker 5: it was like we couldn't really enjoy the product on

774
00:39:23,600 --> 00:39:26,680
Speaker 5: the floor because of all the ugliness that came along

775
00:39:26,760 --> 00:39:31,160
Speaker 5: with that. And I really hope that it's better next year.

776
00:39:31,520 --> 00:39:33,879
Speaker 5: I want to say this one thing, and I'm sure

777
00:39:33,920 --> 00:39:36,960
Speaker 5: you saw it. So Darius Rucker, did you see his

778
00:39:37,040 --> 00:39:40,399
Speaker 5: post He just posted a couple of days ago. He

779
00:39:40,440 --> 00:39:44,319
Speaker 5: basically said thank you to the WNBA and thank you

780
00:39:44,360 --> 00:39:47,600
Speaker 5: to the Indiana Fever. He said he and his girlfriend

781
00:39:47,760 --> 00:39:51,800
Speaker 5: attended almost I think he said every Indiana Fever game.

782
00:39:52,000 --> 00:39:54,480
Speaker 5: He was just talking about how great the talent was.

783
00:39:54,760 --> 00:39:59,480
Speaker 5: He came in to watch Aliyah because South Carolina and Caitlyn,

784
00:39:59,600 --> 00:40:02,759
Speaker 5: And I said, but when we got there, we got

785
00:40:02,760 --> 00:40:05,319
Speaker 5: to see Kelsey Mitchell and then he talked about all

786
00:40:05,320 --> 00:40:08,239
Speaker 5: the other players that he watched play. But I just

787
00:40:08,320 --> 00:40:11,359
Speaker 5: thought that tweet and that post, I was like, damn,

788
00:40:11,400 --> 00:40:13,920
Speaker 5: I wish all New fans felt this way.

789
00:40:14,400 --> 00:40:18,160
Speaker 3: But would you say that, I would say that.

790
00:40:18,960 --> 00:40:21,759
Speaker 1: I think the numbers show us that in a way

791
00:40:21,800 --> 00:40:23,680
Speaker 1: they kind of do, whether they want to admit it

792
00:40:23,760 --> 00:40:23,960
Speaker 1: or not.

793
00:40:24,239 --> 00:40:28,360
Speaker 3: I mean, how many people did you hear say, oh, well,

794
00:40:28,480 --> 00:40:31,399
Speaker 3: Indiana lost, we might as well pack it up. The

795
00:40:31,480 --> 00:40:33,839
Speaker 3: WNBA might as well pack it up. Nobody's gonna watch

796
00:40:33,920 --> 00:40:34,520
Speaker 3: no more or up.

797
00:40:34,840 --> 00:40:40,600
Speaker 1: And the numbers say otherwise. Viewership say folks watched. Viewership

798
00:40:40,640 --> 00:40:45,160
Speaker 1: say folks watched in abundance. Viewership says that people actually

799
00:40:45,280 --> 00:40:49,680
Speaker 1: enjoy the WNBA and enjoy watching the WNBA despite who

800
00:40:49,719 --> 00:40:53,439
Speaker 1: may be the most popular player at the time or whatever.

801
00:40:53,160 --> 00:40:53,680
Speaker 3: That might be.

802
00:40:54,160 --> 00:40:57,960
Speaker 1: And so I think people just need to admit it, like,

803
00:40:58,280 --> 00:41:00,440
Speaker 1: just admit that this is a good, prime thing that

804
00:41:00,480 --> 00:41:03,960
Speaker 1: you enjoy watching it, and not necessarily have to put

805
00:41:03,960 --> 00:41:06,759
Speaker 1: it all on one person, because the truth is is

806
00:41:06,840 --> 00:41:09,400
Speaker 1: just that maybe Caitlyn is what brought you to the W.

807
00:41:09,680 --> 00:41:12,920
Speaker 1: Maybe Angel is what brought you to the W. Maybe

808
00:41:13,040 --> 00:41:15,680
Speaker 1: you know whatever it is that brought you to the W.

809
00:41:16,040 --> 00:41:18,600
Speaker 1: That's great that that's what brought you here, but there

810
00:41:18,640 --> 00:41:22,879
Speaker 1: are so many other things that make you stay. And

811
00:41:23,040 --> 00:41:25,800
Speaker 1: I love that about the talented women in this league.

812
00:41:25,840 --> 00:41:28,680
Speaker 1: And so Darius just really echoed. He did a lot

813
00:41:28,719 --> 00:41:32,239
Speaker 1: of people feel maybe they just don't want to say it.

814
00:41:32,520 --> 00:41:35,040
Speaker 3: He did point one five million people watch.

815
00:41:35,239 --> 00:41:38,040
Speaker 5: Well and listen in case people didn't see it or

816
00:41:38,040 --> 00:41:40,560
Speaker 5: don't have Twitter. I want to read it real fast

817
00:41:40,880 --> 00:41:45,319
Speaker 5: because I think it's it's worth acknowledging and recognizing. Yes,

818
00:41:45,440 --> 00:41:48,040
Speaker 5: so he said, my girlfriend and I watched every Fever

819
00:41:48,120 --> 00:41:50,560
Speaker 5: game and got to see how truly great the basketball

820
00:41:50,560 --> 00:41:52,000
Speaker 5: play in your league really is.

821
00:41:52,480 --> 00:41:53,680
Speaker 2: I want to thank ab.

822
00:41:53,920 --> 00:41:57,279
Speaker 5: Aliah Boston, my fellow game cock CC one of the

823
00:41:57,280 --> 00:42:03,520
Speaker 5: greatest I've ever seen. That's Caitlin Clark, Kels, Kelsey, Mitchell Buckets,

824
00:42:03,880 --> 00:42:08,840
Speaker 5: Melissa Smith, Holly, Lexi Hall, d d Damirs Dantis. I

825
00:42:08,880 --> 00:42:11,960
Speaker 5: love the nickname and all the other great players and

826
00:42:12,040 --> 00:42:14,000
Speaker 5: coaches in Indiana for a fun, great season.

827
00:42:14,760 --> 00:42:16,520
Speaker 2: Getting to watch the enemy.

828
00:42:16,840 --> 00:42:19,040
Speaker 5: I only call her that because she played like Jordan

829
00:42:19,080 --> 00:42:22,200
Speaker 5: against my Fever talking about Aurique and all the other

830
00:42:22,239 --> 00:42:25,160
Speaker 5: great players play with That amount of passionate skill has

831
00:42:25,200 --> 00:42:28,319
Speaker 5: me hooked. He continued to say, we got to go

832
00:42:28,360 --> 00:42:31,200
Speaker 5: and see the game against the Goat Asia Wilson, and

833
00:42:31,239 --> 00:42:34,560
Speaker 5: the atmosphere in that building was amazing. What an incredible

834
00:42:34,600 --> 00:42:37,120
Speaker 5: place to watch a game. And now watching the finals

835
00:42:37,160 --> 00:42:42,080
Speaker 5: with the microwave, that's Sabrina Stewie and Zeppelin, that's jj

836
00:42:42,560 --> 00:42:46,239
Speaker 5: go five games in overtime against the Assassin, Courtney Williams

837
00:42:46,239 --> 00:42:50,160
Speaker 5: and feezy Nefisa was icing on the cake. Just want

838
00:42:50,200 --> 00:42:52,480
Speaker 5: to thank all of you for being great. Now I

839
00:42:52,480 --> 00:42:54,840
Speaker 5: get to watch my game COCOMs Basketball and then go

840
00:42:54,920 --> 00:42:56,040
Speaker 5: right into the next season.

841
00:42:56,239 --> 00:42:59,600
Speaker 2: Man and my so in like I read that, and

842
00:42:59,640 --> 00:43:03,719
Speaker 2: I will like I gotta repost it because here's the thing.

843
00:43:03,880 --> 00:43:07,719
Speaker 5: You you can be a fan of one team or

844
00:43:07,760 --> 00:43:11,920
Speaker 5: a fan of one players, but still appreciate the rest

845
00:43:11,960 --> 00:43:15,920
Speaker 5: of the talent and the league yep, without being so

846
00:43:16,360 --> 00:43:21,120
Speaker 5: ugly and mean and disrespectful. Like it's a great product.

847
00:43:21,280 --> 00:43:24,920
Speaker 5: It's a great product across the board. So Darius, thank

848
00:43:24,960 --> 00:43:28,520
Speaker 5: you for being a fan, for being in and we

849
00:43:28,600 --> 00:43:31,160
Speaker 5: expect to have you on levels to this one day.

850
00:43:31,200 --> 00:43:36,560
Speaker 1: So absolutely that is a great way to close it out.

851
00:43:37,080 --> 00:43:40,240
Speaker 1: We look forward to the twenty twenty five season women's

852
00:43:40,280 --> 00:43:43,799
Speaker 1: college basketball that's coming up, starting very soon, so we

853
00:43:43,880 --> 00:43:47,520
Speaker 1: get to see Juju and Paige Becker's and you know,

854
00:43:47,600 --> 00:43:52,319
Speaker 1: Hannah Hadogo Raven Johnson's gonna cut up as South Carolina.

855
00:43:52,000 --> 00:43:54,760
Speaker 2: Malaysia for Wiley Malaysia.

856
00:43:55,080 --> 00:43:55,800
Speaker 3: Oh my god.

857
00:43:56,000 --> 00:43:57,920
Speaker 1: Yes, and we hope she feels better. We know she

858
00:43:58,000 --> 00:44:01,080
Speaker 1: got hurt a couple of games ago, but hopefully she's good.

859
00:44:01,520 --> 00:44:04,160
Speaker 1: It's just so much talent in women's basketball right now.

860
00:44:04,440 --> 00:44:07,120
Speaker 1: This college season is gonna be crazy. The drafts in

861
00:44:07,160 --> 00:44:08,880
Speaker 1: twenty twenty five, it is gonna be crazy.

862
00:44:09,120 --> 00:44:12,480
Speaker 3: New format next year for the WNBA. The finals is

863
00:44:12,520 --> 00:44:16,400
Speaker 3: going seven games. The first round.

864
00:44:16,120 --> 00:44:20,319
Speaker 1: Will be one one one, so everybody gets a home game. Man,

865
00:44:20,360 --> 00:44:22,759
Speaker 1: it's just gonna be so much fun. There will be

866
00:44:22,920 --> 00:44:27,200
Speaker 1: levels to the WNBA and women's basketball next season, and

867
00:44:27,239 --> 00:44:29,440
Speaker 1: we're gonna be right there for it, every piece of it,

868
00:44:34,440 --> 00:44:35,160
Speaker 1: all right, y'all.

869
00:44:35,239 --> 00:44:38,720
Speaker 3: So that is what's gonna do it for us here.

870
00:44:39,040 --> 00:44:42,920
Speaker 1: I had levels to this, but before we go, of course, Cheryl,

871
00:44:43,000 --> 00:44:45,040
Speaker 1: you have got to help us level up for the

872
00:44:45,080 --> 00:44:45,680
Speaker 1: next week.

873
00:44:45,960 --> 00:44:47,720
Speaker 3: What you got for us today, this.

874
00:44:47,600 --> 00:44:50,640
Speaker 5: One is short and sweet, but I don't know if

875
00:44:50,680 --> 00:44:53,799
Speaker 5: anyone else is feeling this. I found this and I

876
00:44:53,920 --> 00:44:57,239
Speaker 5: was like, you know what this is for me, and

877
00:44:57,280 --> 00:44:59,200
Speaker 5: I'm just giving you some context so.

878
00:44:59,200 --> 00:45:01,680
Speaker 2: Then when I read it, you'll be like, Okay, maybe hopefully.

879
00:45:03,239 --> 00:45:06,320
Speaker 2: I think in life, we all go through things, right.

880
00:45:06,120 --> 00:45:08,359
Speaker 5: And sometimes we get to a point to where we

881
00:45:08,480 --> 00:45:12,480
Speaker 5: wonder like is it time to make a change, and

882
00:45:12,520 --> 00:45:13,640
Speaker 5: we get afraid to.

883
00:45:13,680 --> 00:45:15,600
Speaker 2: Like just step out and do it.

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Speaker 5: It's kind of sort of where I am right now

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Speaker 5: with some stuff I'm going through.

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Speaker 2: So I found this and this is what it says.

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Speaker 5: It says in any given moment, we have two options

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Speaker 5: to step forward into growth or step back into safety.

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Speaker 1: M and that plays right into what we discussed today,

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Speaker 1: growth of the league, growth of even just growth of self.

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Speaker 3: Just that's a whole other topic right there, just what

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Speaker 3: it is.

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Speaker 5: But that's when I am right now, Like I'm comfortable, right,

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Speaker 5: I know, I'm safe with where I am and what

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Speaker 5: I'm doing, but there are some other things I want

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Speaker 5: to do, but I'm a little nervous to just to

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Speaker 5: step out in it and grow.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, there are some things that I've done just this

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Speaker 1: year that I was like, holy shit, but you gotta

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Speaker 1: be favor, be comfortable.

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Speaker 3: Or grow.

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Speaker 2: And I always want to know, but always want.

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Speaker 1: To grow, want to grow, easy, love it, Love it

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Speaker 1: well fans. Thank you guys so much for listening to

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Speaker 1: levels to this. We will be back next week with

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Speaker 1: more next level conversation about the real shit women go through. Right,

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