Latest / The Breakfast Club / INTERVIEW: Cari Champion Talks Podcast, Caitlin Clark & Angel Reese, Racism In The WNBA, Price Of Success + More
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Wake that ass up in the morning. The Breakfast Club Morning.
- 0:05Speaker 2: Everybody is the j Envy, Jess, Hilarious, Charlamagne, the gud
- 0:09Speaker 2: We are the Breakfast Club Laurn LaRosa.
- 0:10Speaker 3: Feeling in for Jess while she's on maternity leaving.
- 0:12Speaker 2: We got a special guest in the building. Yes, indeed,
- 0:14Speaker 2: Harry Champion. Welcome back.
- 0:16Speaker 4: Thank you for having me.
- 0:17Speaker 3: How are you feeling?
- 0:18Speaker 5: All right?
- 0:19Speaker 4: I'm so happy. I just would like to say, you
- 0:21Speaker 4: guys need better customer service.
- 0:23Speaker 1: What happened?
- 0:24Speaker 4: So I came in? Well, first of all, I was
- 0:26Speaker 4: told they told me to come an hour ago.
- 0:28Speaker 1: Right, you was here an hour ago?
- 0:29Speaker 4: Yeah, just real it was the time.
- 0:31Speaker 3: Yes, she was. She was sitting there for a hour.
- 0:33Speaker 3: You had to wait for an hour.
- 0:35Speaker 4: I don't know what I was doing. That's crazy good correct.
- 0:37Speaker 1: Nobody said that didn't happen.
- 0:38Speaker 3: No, that definitely happened.
- 0:39Speaker 4: That definitely happened. Then I sat down and somebody's like,
- 0:42Speaker 4: do you need anything? I was like, yeah, I need
- 0:43Speaker 4: some coffee. And then I never and that somebody is
- 0:45Speaker 4: the person by the name of Brandon. Who's Brandon?
- 0:47Speaker 6: Brandon is a young man from Ghana who works and
- 0:49Speaker 6: he's a producer. He don't like black women. He likes
- 0:51Speaker 6: white woman.
- 0:51Speaker 1: Oh, so I could explain it.
- 0:52Speaker 4: So if I was white, I would have definitely probably.
- 0:55Speaker 1: Had Karen Champion. You'd have got your call, Karen Champion.
- 0:58Speaker 4: Karen would got the coffee. Carrien didn't get the coffee.
- 1:00Speaker 3: Got it?
- 1:00Speaker 4: La? You look great?
- 1:01Speaker 5: Thank you?
- 1:02Speaker 4: See you again again and.
- 1:04Speaker 1: Two lives back to back. You've bene told in this
- 1:06Speaker 1: studio that's crazy.
- 1:07Speaker 3: What's up with.
- 1:09Speaker 4: Why? Why? Why to stop your Julia, don't look and
- 1:18Speaker 4: he's stopping it right now. You fine, period, you fine?
- 1:21Speaker 3: Fine?
- 1:21Speaker 4: Well.
- 1:21Speaker 1: Carry is the host of the necond podcast.
- 1:23Speaker 6: You're back for the fourth season on The Black Effect
- 1:25Speaker 6: iHeart Radio podcast Network, and this season is a little different, Yeah,
- 1:28Speaker 6: because you have the making of a rivalry podcast, Caitlyn
- 1:30Speaker 6: Clark versus Angelies.
- 1:32Speaker 1: Why are you putting the women against each other?
- 1:34Speaker 4: I knew you was gonna say that, Okay, So well,
- 1:35Speaker 4: first off, then here's the thing that I saw. I
- 1:38Speaker 4: call a friend of mine, a little short man, and
- 1:41Speaker 4: I go, hey, short man, I want to do this idea.
- 1:43Speaker 4: And I think it's great. I said, everybody thinks that
- 1:46Speaker 4: these two ladies don't like each other. And in the
- 1:49Speaker 4: way we work. We see the world through our own lens.
- 1:51Speaker 4: So if you're black, I'm rying with angel and if you're white,
- 1:53Speaker 4: I'm right when Kaitlyn, I don't care what anybody says.
- 1:55Speaker 4: I felt that as opposed to just letting these women
- 1:57Speaker 4: play ball, and I said, rivalry is not a bad thing,
- 1:59Speaker 4: and everybody comparing it to magic and bird and I'm like,
- 2:02Speaker 4: that was a good thing, right. It helped the NBA.
- 2:04Speaker 4: That's the reason why the finals were no longer delayed.
- 2:06Speaker 4: They were live, And I was like, this is a
- 2:08Speaker 4: good thing. The WNBA has always been great, but they
- 2:11Speaker 4: needed these supernovas to bring people to the WNBA to
- 2:14Speaker 4: pay attention to see how special they were. They already
- 2:16Speaker 4: had Asia, they already had all these great people, Candice
- 2:19Speaker 4: Briana Stewart. I can go down the list of all
- 2:21Speaker 4: these great players. But for whatever reasons, this storyline was
- 2:24Speaker 4: so compelling and I and my argument is this country
- 2:27Speaker 4: is just built on race. So if you have black
- 2:29Speaker 4: versus white and anything, I'm locked in. Anybody's locked in
- 2:32Speaker 4: because you want to pick a side, and you want
- 2:34Speaker 4: to put all your tropes on whomever's the person you
- 2:36Speaker 4: decided to vote for. Or ride with I'm referring to
- 2:39Speaker 4: the election, and so my mind is, why don't we
- 2:42Speaker 4: talk about the making of a rivalry and how this
- 2:44Speaker 4: is really something special and how it's about to take
- 2:46Speaker 4: women's sports to a whole new level. And my man says, yes,
- 2:49Speaker 4: great genius. And so what I found out by doing
- 2:51Speaker 4: this docu series is six parts. We have six episodes
- 2:55Speaker 4: that were doing in real time while the WNBA playoffs
- 2:59Speaker 4: are happening, and soon we'll be into the finals. And
- 3:02Speaker 4: it's been a ride, and it's been really good and special.
- 3:04Speaker 4: I think we are I think we're doing it for
- 3:06Speaker 4: the culture. I think I'm learning a lot about how
- 3:08Speaker 4: people see women who play sports. And I also know
- 3:11Speaker 4: that I had to really talk about what I felt
- 3:14Speaker 4: because I know I was riding with Angel too, right,
- 3:16Speaker 4: So what do you feel, like?
- 3:18Speaker 1: What have you learned?
- 3:18Speaker 6: Because I mean you already were all in, you very
- 3:20Speaker 6: educated on the subject, But what did you learn new
- 3:23Speaker 6: that might have changed your perspective a little bit?
- 3:24Speaker 1: Like, you know what, I do root for Caitlyn as well.
- 3:26Speaker 4: Really, I like Kaitlyn. I think Caitlyn's a great I
- 3:28Speaker 4: think she's a baller. I think she just wants to
- 3:30Speaker 4: play what I do. What I don't like is how
- 3:33Speaker 4: some people in the media, some of my colleagues, are like,
- 3:36Speaker 4: how come she not, you know, denouncing racism, and how
- 3:38Speaker 4: come she's not? And I'm like, she will when she learns.
- 3:41Speaker 4: How long does it take a woman to find her
- 3:43Speaker 4: voice in this world? She grew up in Iowa, She's
- 3:46Speaker 4: twenty two years old. I'm not caping for but I'm like,
- 3:48Speaker 4: she didn't have the experience to speak on that. Remember
- 3:51Speaker 4: when Lebron wasn't speaking on Black Lives Matter and all
- 3:54Speaker 4: these other issues, and they held them accountable and he
- 3:56Speaker 4: finally said, Okay, I have something to say. You got
- 3:58Speaker 4: to be educated and you got to be comfortable before
- 4:00Speaker 4: you start talking about it. And she's getting there and
- 4:03Speaker 4: she'll be even better as as the years come along.
- 4:06Speaker 4: But I didn't like that. I also didn't like how
- 4:08Speaker 4: they treated Angel. Angel had the best moment of her life,
- 4:11Speaker 4: the best moment of her life. The crowning achievement is
- 4:14Speaker 4: to win a championship. And when she won this championship,
- 4:17Speaker 4: all these new fans and all these new analysts wouldn't
- 4:19Speaker 4: even celebrate this queen. She had to deal with all
- 4:22Speaker 4: this vitrioll and hate and death threats, and all she
- 4:25Speaker 4: did was say, I'm about to get a ring. You
- 4:28Speaker 4: can't see me. The reality is is that they have
- 4:32Speaker 4: been whoever anybody wanted them to be before they walked
- 4:36Speaker 4: on that stage. Like, as a white woman, we already
- 4:39Speaker 4: define who you are. As a black woman, we already
- 4:41Speaker 4: define who you are. And what I mean by we
- 4:43Speaker 4: is society. They come from two different worlds, they live
- 4:46Speaker 4: two different lives. They are who they are. Their talent
- 4:49Speaker 4: is who they are. So she grew up in Baltimore,
- 4:51Speaker 4: So angels gonna talk talk trash. Caitlin talks trash too,
- 4:56Speaker 4: just differently. And you ever remember let's talk about your
- 4:58Speaker 4: tire cowboys. You ever remember that time a long time ago, Bryant.
- 5:02Speaker 4: This is when Tony Romo tired Tony Romo. It was
- 5:05Speaker 4: quarterback and des Brian is trying to hype him up,
- 5:08Speaker 4: like we can do this, we can do this. And
- 5:09Speaker 4: you're on the sideline and he talking to him with
- 5:11Speaker 4: all this energy, and you hear the commentator saying, oh boy,
- 5:14Speaker 4: Dez is mad. Look at death. He's so mad y
- 5:17Speaker 4: and he's yelling at Tony, and Tony was like, no, actually,
- 5:20Speaker 4: he was trying to hype me up. He was telling
- 5:22Speaker 4: me that we got this, we can win this game.
- 5:24Speaker 4: Now when Tom Brady would sit on the sideline and
- 5:27Speaker 4: throw his helmet and cuts everybody out. Yeah, Tom's really
- 5:30Speaker 4: frustrated with the gamesting what's going on. And we do that, me, media,
- 5:36Speaker 4: everybody does that, And so I am. I'm finding out
- 5:39Speaker 4: that I have my own bias, I have my own attitude.
- 5:42Speaker 4: I even cover the game differently, even.
- 5:44Speaker 1: With white tears.
- 5:45Speaker 4: Don't move you listen at all, Thank you very much.
- 5:50Speaker 4: But my point is we have to stop doing that,
- 5:51Speaker 4: like media has to stop doing that. I think the
- 5:53Speaker 4: way that the fans are watching this game, they shouldn't
- 5:56Speaker 4: do that. And I think what I'm finding out in
- 5:58Speaker 4: this podcast is that most of us don't like to
- 6:00Speaker 4: see women compete like athletes. Women can't be on the
- 6:03Speaker 4: court trash talking. We can't be in your face. But
- 6:06Speaker 4: it's quite all right to do it in the NBA.
- 6:08Speaker 4: We can do it in the NBA. We can't do
- 6:09Speaker 4: it in the w NBA. And it makes no sense.
- 6:11Speaker 1: I want to ask you something about the WNBA thing.
- 6:13Speaker 6: Well, just really, Caitlyn and Angel, are they required to
- 6:16Speaker 6: talk about anything other than basketball. Do we need them
- 6:19Speaker 6: to do we need Kaitlyn or Angel to speak out
- 6:21Speaker 6: about anything, racism, sexism?
- 6:23Speaker 4: Do we need them to I don't know if we
- 6:25Speaker 4: need them to listen. We in this world we live
- 6:28Speaker 4: in today, you don't have that luxury. I think sports,
- 6:30Speaker 4: politics and culture all intersect. That's what we're doing on
- 6:33Speaker 4: Naked Sports. Sports, politics and culture intersect. And especially in
- 6:37Speaker 4: a w NBA that's been dealing with racism since its inception,
- 6:40Speaker 4: you have to talk about it so now you can't
- 6:42Speaker 4: hide it. You have these two big stars and they
- 6:45Speaker 4: are talking about it, so you can't hide it. It's
- 6:48Speaker 4: been happening. But now we have these two stars and
- 6:50Speaker 4: they're talking about it, and they're not letting you get
- 6:52Speaker 4: away with it. You have to. Unfortunate, you don't want
- 6:54Speaker 4: to talk about certain things, but you have to. You
- 6:56Speaker 4: have a voice. I should tell you that a long
- 6:58Speaker 4: time ago.
- 6:58Speaker 1: I don't want to talk about it home.
- 6:59Speaker 4: I'm makeing up something right now. My point is is
- 7:01Speaker 4: that you are required when you have a response. Look,
- 7:04Speaker 4: with great responsibility comes great pressure and vice versa. You
- 7:08Speaker 4: have to be able to stand in your feet and say,
- 7:10Speaker 4: this is what's happening. And this is what these ladies
- 7:12Speaker 4: have to do, whether they want to talk about it
- 7:13Speaker 4: or not.
- 7:14Speaker 2: What do you think about their first season, both both
- 7:16Speaker 2: their rookie seasons.
- 7:17Speaker 4: I think Kaitlyn was I think she was not playing
- 7:20Speaker 4: well when she first started. I think there was a
- 7:22Speaker 4: lot of hype, but I think she figured it out.
- 7:24Speaker 4: I think she is a generational talent.
- 7:26Speaker 1: Absolutely.
- 7:26Speaker 4: I think Kaitlin when they didn't take her to the Olympics,
- 7:29Speaker 4: she got in the gym, she got in the lab.
- 7:31Speaker 4: She came back better than ever. She took this team
- 7:33Speaker 4: that had never been to the playoffs within the last
- 7:34Speaker 4: ten years. She took up straight to the playoffs. They
- 7:36Speaker 4: I mean out the first round. But that's a remarkable turnaround.
- 7:40Speaker 4: She didn't do it alone. She had a Leah Boston
- 7:41Speaker 4: and other players, but what she was able to do
- 7:44Speaker 4: for that team was transcended. And then, as far as
- 7:46Speaker 4: Angel's concerned, this is a thing. They both are so
- 7:49Speaker 4: good in college and everybody's like, oh, they go they're
- 7:51Speaker 4: not gonna they rookie year. It's not gonna be this,
- 7:53Speaker 4: It's not gonna be that. They rookie year. They answered
- 7:56Speaker 4: every single call everyone thought they'd be average, were more
- 8:00Speaker 4: than average, over exceed the expectations. They weren't nervous. They
- 8:04Speaker 4: got there. They were like, this is my stage and
- 8:05Speaker 4: what not thinking twice? Angel goes to the med Gala,
- 8:08Speaker 4: then returns and then puts up another record breaking rebound
- 8:11Speaker 4: day a game and I'm like, wait a second, she's
- 8:13Speaker 4: not this is who she is, this is what they do.
- 8:16Speaker 4: They're not bothered by these like all the spotlights. Back
- 8:20Speaker 4: in the day the w n b A. In my opinion,
- 8:23Speaker 4: I felt like the women were I feel like they
- 8:26Speaker 4: were quiet. I feel like they felt like they had
- 8:28Speaker 4: to be a certain way. And these ladies don't even
- 8:30Speaker 4: know what that means. This generation don't know what that means.
- 8:31Speaker 4: I'm showing up.
- 8:32Speaker 6: What you said is very important because back in the
- 8:34Speaker 6: day that maybe it was just as good, but for
- 8:37Speaker 6: whatever reason, they didn't have a.
- 8:38Speaker 1: Voice they did.
- 8:39Speaker 4: I would interview these women, I'd be like, tell me something,
- 8:42Speaker 4: and they'd say what they thought they had to say. Yeah,
- 8:44Speaker 4: they're not doing that now, which I love and that
- 8:46Speaker 4: makes the game so compelling and that's why everybody's paying it.
- 8:48Speaker 1: And now when you know Sheryl swoops, she was like
- 8:50Speaker 1: I know she had a lot of.
- 8:51Speaker 4: Hell you know, they had something to say, but it
- 8:54Speaker 4: was new, and it's it's twenty eight years young, it's
- 8:57Speaker 4: still very young. And I and this is around the
- 8:59Speaker 4: same time if we even look at history, about thirty
- 9:02Speaker 4: years into the NBA, that's exactly around the same time
- 9:05Speaker 4: that the NBA started to do well and people could
- 9:08Speaker 4: see the profit in the NBA, not the ABA, but
- 9:10Speaker 4: the NBA when it merged. And it takes a while
- 9:13Speaker 4: for everybody to find their footing and what the foundation
- 9:15Speaker 4: is and what it looks like. So the problem now
- 9:17Speaker 4: not even the problem. They have to in the WNBA
- 9:21Speaker 4: right now, they have to address the racism. Charlotte disagrees
- 9:25Speaker 4: with me on this, and I want to get your thoughts.
- 9:27Speaker 4: He's like, it's the price of being famous, price of success.
- 9:30Speaker 4: It's the price of success. He's saying. The woman just
- 9:33Speaker 4: have to deal with it like that. It just comes
- 9:35Speaker 4: to the territory of making money.
- 9:36Speaker 3: Do you agree with that when it comes to the racism. Yeah,
- 9:38Speaker 3: absolutely too.
- 9:40Speaker 5: Why, I mean, because how do you get around it?
- 9:43Speaker 5: How do you not?
- 9:44Speaker 7: And especially and you said, in the world we live
- 9:45Speaker 7: in today, If you don't, people create a narrative, and
- 9:48Speaker 7: then you got to fight back against that, so you
- 9:50Speaker 7: kind of like fuck yourself over a bit.
- 9:52Speaker 4: So you're just sending to put your head down.
- 9:53Speaker 7: No, no, no, I'm saying they need to deal with
- 9:55Speaker 7: it like they have to do. It's not put your
- 9:56Speaker 7: head down it.
- 9:57Speaker 6: Let's be clear, because you know they'll take this out
- 9:59Speaker 6: of context. It's not just the racism. It's the heckling. Right,
- 10:02Speaker 6: So it's the heckling, it's the people outside your hotel.
- 10:06Speaker 6: It's all of that comes with being successful.
- 10:09Speaker 7: But that's two separate conversations. And to be clear, I'm
- 10:11Speaker 7: not saying put your head down. Just deal with it.
- 10:13Speaker 7: I mean deal with it, like say something. But with
- 10:16Speaker 7: the heckling and stuff like that, I think there's an
- 10:18Speaker 7: even trade because sometimes people they like when the NBA
- 10:22Speaker 7: players do it, it's a topic. It kind of adds
- 10:24Speaker 7: character to a player. But I can understand him being like,
- 10:28Speaker 7: just don't even address it. But when the NBA players
- 10:30Speaker 7: do it, people talk about it as if it's a
- 10:31Speaker 7: great thing. So why can't they one a bit?
- 10:35Speaker 1: Yeah, but you call bitch niggas all day, you know
- 10:39Speaker 1: what I'm saying.
- 10:39Speaker 5: But it's different with a girl even watching.
- 10:42Speaker 4: So here's different with the double standard that I that
- 10:45Speaker 4: I brought up to Charlotte Mane. He was like, the
- 10:46Speaker 4: men deal with it all the time. I agree, they
- 10:49Speaker 4: do deal with it. And now they've gotten to the
- 10:51Speaker 4: point we've seen Lebron and Russell Westbrook point out the
- 10:54Speaker 4: player and say you have to Caitlyn did that in
- 10:56Speaker 4: her second game of the playoffs. She was like, this
- 10:58Speaker 4: one right here, loved it. Yeah to go, I agree
- 11:01Speaker 4: with that, But this double standard where the women should
- 11:04Speaker 4: and it's a different double standard. The women should just
- 11:06Speaker 4: deal with it because the men just deal with it.
- 11:07Speaker 4: It doesn't hit the same way, does it. No, it
- 11:09Speaker 4: doesn't hit the same way.
- 11:10Speaker 3: Why not?
- 11:11Speaker 2: Because the NBA stars at w NBA stars, they are athletes,
- 11:14Speaker 2: they're on that platform. They're gonna be called a whole
- 11:16Speaker 2: bunch of things like Charla and myself called a whole
- 11:19Speaker 2: bunch of things.
- 11:19Speaker 3: You called you're a fragle maggot. Don't say that, guys,
- 11:24Speaker 3: you don't want to know.
- 11:26Speaker 5: It's a word.
- 11:26Speaker 4: That is that what Donnelle bard in another day?
- 11:32Speaker 1: You stop demon baby oil anyway, go ahead, continue Fragle man.
- 11:39Speaker 2: As I was saying, I think if you put anybody
- 11:40Speaker 2: into that celebrity light, they have to deal with it.
- 11:42Speaker 2: Whether you're a boxer, whether you're a baseball player, whether
- 11:44Speaker 2: you're a it doesn't.
- 11:45Speaker 3: Matter who you are. So you're still a celebrity. You
- 11:47Speaker 3: have to do it. Laura has to deal with it now.
- 11:50Speaker 7: Yeah, but it's still different because as a woman, there
- 11:53Speaker 7: are different things that people throw on me that like,
- 11:56Speaker 7: I don't want on me. As a man, y'all don't
- 11:58Speaker 7: get that like that is true. So how do you
- 12:00Speaker 7: want to tell a woman that it's not true? For instance,
- 12:02Speaker 7: right if you're.
- 12:03Speaker 1: Out, you're saying the things that I wouldn't want on me.
- 12:05Speaker 1: There's plenty of things you can say to a man.
- 12:07Speaker 5: I'm not saying that you don't want it on you.
- 12:08Speaker 7: What I'm saying is that regardless if you want on
- 12:11Speaker 7: you or not, you can react in people champion you,
- 12:14Speaker 7: and if you don't react, it's like, oh, he's he's
- 12:16Speaker 7: used to his celebrity.
- 12:17Speaker 5: If a woman chooses.
- 12:18Speaker 7: To not react, it's like it's going to keep going
- 12:21Speaker 7: to a point where it will it becomes her and
- 12:24Speaker 7: she has no defense against it because she hasn't said anything.
- 12:26Speaker 7: But then if she says something, it's like she thinks
- 12:29Speaker 7: she is you.
- 12:31Speaker 4: You're damned if you do, you damned if it's not
- 12:35Speaker 4: the same for men. And that is that is the truth.
- 12:37Speaker 4: That is a true statement. And so you you all
- 12:40Speaker 4: live in a different world. It's truly a man's world.
- 12:42Speaker 4: The older I get, the more I realize that, I'm like, damn,
- 12:44Speaker 4: y'all go, you.
- 12:45Speaker 7: Gotta navigate, Like even in this room, there are certain
- 12:48Speaker 7: things that you guys can do and say very confidently
- 12:51Speaker 7: that even if I confidently do and say, people just
- 12:53Speaker 7: take it differently.
- 12:54Speaker 1: Nothing's a god that.
- 12:55Speaker 3: You can say confidently that we can't say.
- 12:57Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, maybe the topic when you talk about and things,
- 13:00Speaker 2: if we say it wrong, especially when it comes to women. Women,
- 13:04Speaker 2: if we say it wrong, we're in trouble. But you
- 13:06Speaker 2: can say whatever you want about men. And that's how
- 13:08Speaker 2: the show old.
- 13:09Speaker 1: I think we're going. We're taking a confidence somewhere that
- 13:11Speaker 1: ain't true.
- 13:11Speaker 6: All I'm simply saying it is all I'm simply saying
- 13:13Speaker 6: about the WNBA or anybody that's successful. There is no
- 13:16Speaker 6: defense to it, meaning that these people can say whatever
- 13:20Speaker 6: they want about us and there's nothing we can do
- 13:22Speaker 6: about it. Like literally, we can we can speak out
- 13:24Speaker 6: against it. We can, you know, say that's wrong, but
- 13:27Speaker 6: it's not going to stop it. So you gotta find
- 13:30Speaker 6: ways to not let it affect you and not affect
- 13:32Speaker 6: your gain.
- 13:33Speaker 4: I agree with that, but here's where we draw the line.
- 13:35Speaker 4: Caitlin has said as well. Angel has been very vocal
- 13:38Speaker 4: about this. On our podcast, Angel Rey says, they followed
- 13:41Speaker 4: me home. There's death threats. There's now I'm not saying
- 13:44Speaker 4: there's not death threats for the men, but there is
- 13:46Speaker 4: a certain level of vitriol that a black woman gets
- 13:50Speaker 4: for being comfortable in her own skin and being unapologetic.
- 13:53Speaker 4: I can't even describe it, and I think I'm not
- 13:56Speaker 4: a black man, so I wouldn't know how to relate
- 13:58Speaker 4: to what the vituo all you would get would be.
- 14:00Speaker 4: But for a woman being confident and comfortable in her
- 14:03Speaker 4: own skin, especially a black woman, a black woman, there's
- 14:05Speaker 4: something so very frightening about it. Look at look at
- 14:08Speaker 4: the election, and Kamala walked over there and shook Donald
- 14:12Speaker 4: Trump's hand in his space and was like, what's up?
- 14:15Speaker 4: Do you know how many people were like, how dare she?
- 14:17Speaker 1: That's what she wanted to be.
- 14:18Speaker 4: That's what she won to us. That's when she won
- 14:21Speaker 4: to geeve the optics. He was afraid of her. And
- 14:25Speaker 4: and you know what's scary because he knows she tells
- 14:28Speaker 4: she's intelligent, she's smart, and she's ready, And that's exactly
- 14:30Speaker 4: what Angel is. Intelligence, smart, and she's ready, and she's unapologetic.
- 14:34Speaker 4: And that is for rightening on a different level. And
- 14:37Speaker 4: there's absolutely no respect for her because of the fact
- 14:39Speaker 4: that she does that. And so there is some times,
- 14:42Speaker 4: in my opinion that enough is enough. You're following me
- 14:45Speaker 4: home because I because I was trash talking. I agree
- 14:51Speaker 4: with that, but I don't necessarily know, and and and
- 14:54Speaker 4: and and this is one thing that I will say,
- 14:56Speaker 4: I'm sure other players have dealt with that, Like what
- 14:58Speaker 4: Lebron went through when he decided to leave Cleveland and
- 15:01Speaker 4: go to Miami. I'm sure it was a whole other level.
- 15:03Speaker 4: Like let's just let's be real, Like the way that
- 15:06Speaker 4: he dealt with that was probably better than anybody could
- 15:08Speaker 4: have dealt with that. And I don't even think I
- 15:09Speaker 4: didn't eve think anybody in the WNBA has been experienced
- 15:11Speaker 4: what he probably had to deal with, but his level
- 15:14Speaker 4: of success because of his level of success, but there
- 15:17Speaker 4: is something like, you, look, the w NBA needs to
- 15:19Speaker 4: invest in more security. They need to have a no
- 15:22Speaker 4: nonsense policy. They need to have a commissioner who talks
- 15:24Speaker 4: about this and say we won't tolerate this, although it
- 15:27Speaker 4: will happen.
- 15:27Speaker 1: Angel have to invest in her own persons.
- 15:29Speaker 4: She has to invest in her own personal security. And
- 15:32Speaker 4: and Caitlin Clark. I think when she's comfortable, we'll be
- 15:35Speaker 4: able to talk about this in a way that says,
- 15:36Speaker 4: don't put this on me, don't let me, don't this
- 15:38Speaker 4: is not about what I want to do. Don't put
- 15:40Speaker 4: your tropes, your beliefs on me.
- 15:42Speaker 2: But that's if the salaries can support it as well.
- 15:44Speaker 2: Like they're not getting played like paid like NBA players,
- 15:46Speaker 2: So if she can't afford a full time security, that's
- 15:49Speaker 2: a lot.
- 15:50Speaker 1: YEA, you're right, but they're making money. But I do
- 15:51Speaker 1: feel like making money.
- 15:53Speaker 6: Yeah, but even to your point, I think WNBA should
- 15:56Speaker 6: provide security even outside of the stadium.
- 15:58Speaker 1: I agree, especially for their top level challenges.
- 16:04Speaker 3: I'm surprised they.
- 16:04Speaker 2: Put them on I'm happy they put them on private
- 16:06Speaker 2: planes so they don't have to be the airport with
- 16:08Speaker 2: people harassing intail.
- 16:10Speaker 4: It started with Britney Grinder. They had to they were
- 16:12Speaker 4: rolling up on Brittany mad at her saying she wasn't
- 16:13Speaker 4: a patriot. They were upset at her because she came
- 16:15Speaker 4: home first. And so they have to do that. And unfortunately, uh,
- 16:19Speaker 4: there is some onus on the NBA as well. They
- 16:21Speaker 4: work together. They should be able to give them money
- 16:23Speaker 4: to Hammy, let me hold something and let this get
- 16:25Speaker 4: in and let's figure this out. And so I just
- 16:28Speaker 4: I do understand what you're saying. As a woman. It's
- 16:30Speaker 4: a different level of response. It's a different it hits differently.
- 16:33Speaker 4: You can't say you damned if you do, damned if
- 16:36Speaker 4: you don't, you really are so. And so I do
- 16:38Speaker 4: believe there needs to be some type of security in
- 16:40Speaker 4: place for all of these women. But now we're getting
- 16:42Speaker 4: into a whole nother level. And I don't necessarily agree
- 16:45Speaker 4: that just because they're famous they have to just take it.
- 16:47Speaker 4: I don't agree with that.
- 16:49Speaker 6: I mean you kind of do, because what are we
- 16:50Speaker 6: supposed to do? Like, what are you supposed to do?
- 16:52Speaker 6: When you're like, what is super supposed to do?
- 16:54Speaker 1: What is Lebron supposed to do? What is what he's
- 16:57Speaker 1: supposed to.
- 16:58Speaker 4: Sign up for?
- 16:59Speaker 6: It's not right, it's right, but there's really no defense
- 17:02Speaker 6: against it, Like, what do you do somebody gets on
- 17:04Speaker 6: the platform and says something crazy about you.
- 17:07Speaker 1: You consume if you want.
- 17:08Speaker 3: But what do you mean.
- 17:09Speaker 4: I don't mind you talking bad about me. I don't
- 17:11Speaker 4: mind you heckling hackling me either, Right, But the reality
- 17:14Speaker 4: is is that this has been an issue for a
- 17:15Speaker 4: very long time and they've never addressed it.
- 17:17Speaker 6: The baby just left here, right, he said, what the
- 17:20Speaker 6: baby shot somebody because they came on his property. That
- 17:24Speaker 6: the guy wanted to perform.
- 17:25Speaker 1: For the baby.
- 17:26Speaker 6: That's the price of being the baby. My therapist told
- 17:29Speaker 6: me that a long time ago. My therapist said, you
- 17:31Speaker 6: can't have you know your your success without having your problems.
- 17:34Speaker 1: It just comes with it. Why I hate that. It's
- 17:37Speaker 1: like it.
- 17:38Speaker 2: Charlamagne got beat up, pushed in the back of the head,
- 17:40Speaker 2: everybody laughed. Charlamagnet got got beat up again in front
- 17:43Speaker 2: of a.
- 17:44Speaker 1: And it beat inside of a bow day.
- 17:45Speaker 6: It's not true, but I beat the ship out that
- 17:48Speaker 6: young man.
- 17:49Speaker 1: I don't know if he was young or old the
- 17:51Speaker 1: first time.
- 17:52Speaker 4: Mae, somebody they tried to jump you out. That's about
- 17:55Speaker 4: But nobody felt bad for everybody.
- 17:56Speaker 1: They should.
- 17:58Speaker 3: They should.
- 18:03Speaker 6: The guys the drugs do I beat the ship out
- 18:04Speaker 6: of them. The other one they pushed me in the
- 18:06Speaker 6: back of the head.
- 18:06Speaker 1: Nothing, I ran, he ran into the station.
- 18:08Speaker 4: But that was a different kind of that was just
- 18:10Speaker 4: what he was.
- 18:12Speaker 1: A bad guy. He was the bad guy self proclaimed.
- 18:16Speaker 4: That's apples an orgious basketball, But.
- 18:19Speaker 1: That doesn't.
- 18:21Speaker 6: Was it a mistake? Is it a mistake for Angel
- 18:24Speaker 6: Reese to call herself the villain?
- 18:25Speaker 4: No? She well, she walked it back. She said, Look,
- 18:27Speaker 4: I've been trying to I've tried to own the narrative
- 18:29Speaker 4: and take this, but I refuse to take it. She
- 18:31Speaker 4: was like, I'm not built for this. Was everybody's not
- 18:33Speaker 4: built for that. And by the way, what black woman
- 18:36Speaker 4: isn't a villain when she's comfortable in her own skin
- 18:38Speaker 4: and speaking up against what's not right. Everybody makes black
- 18:41Speaker 4: women a villain when they're comfortable. You know this, I'm
- 18:44Speaker 4: not making this up. We're looking at Kamalas. She's smart,
- 18:48Speaker 4: she's intelligent, and all of a sudden, she's the back.
- 18:50Speaker 4: How is she a bad guy in a race? Is
- 18:52Speaker 4: a bad person in the race?
- 18:53Speaker 3: She's not me?
- 18:54Speaker 4: You pussy? How was she?
- 18:57Speaker 7: And Trump is like a total And that's what I'm
- 18:59Speaker 7: saying by I know that there's no defense to it,
- 19:01Speaker 7: but sometimes it's okay to if you decide to do
- 19:03Speaker 7: whatever you think is the defense, react to it because
- 19:06Speaker 7: you literally cannot win.
- 19:07Speaker 5: Because when you're a woman, you're the bad guy.
- 19:09Speaker 7: You don't get the like TOADD, you're the out here,
- 19:14Speaker 7: you're doing well, you're.
- 19:14Speaker 5: Speaking for yourself. We don't get that.
- 19:16Speaker 7: It's different for us. And I don't know why it's
- 19:17Speaker 7: like that, and I don't know if it's ever gonna change, but.
- 19:19Speaker 1: I get what you.
- 19:20Speaker 6: I think we're having two different conversations. I'm just talking
- 19:23Speaker 6: about when you are a successful person, this comes with it,
- 19:26Speaker 6: all of the bullshit, all of the talking ship harassment,
- 19:29Speaker 6: all of this.
- 19:31Speaker 4: I agree, and you and you and after a while,
- 19:33Speaker 4: when the beginning it hurts, right, don't care no more? Yeah, Okay,
- 19:37Speaker 4: what I only day white man. Okay, I got it. Okay,
- 19:38Speaker 4: what I'm an angry black woman, Okay, I got it.
- 19:41Speaker 4: I'm just saying about.
- 19:46Speaker 1: Get them online. One. I don't want to have this intervention.
- 19:49Speaker 4: Invention. My point is is that there will be a
- 19:52Speaker 4: narrative that follows you no matter what, and you take it. No,
- 19:55Speaker 4: I don't.
- 19:56Speaker 1: You started why would you the first thing you.
- 19:59Speaker 4: Said, day black Man, I date black Man. I believe you,
- 20:04Speaker 4: thank you? You see how you see.
- 20:05Speaker 6: How you doing?
- 20:06Speaker 1: We talk about carry heard the w NBA played the game.
- 20:08Speaker 4: I did do that?
- 20:09Speaker 3: Show me the pop?
- 20:09Speaker 1: What's that young lady name?
- 20:12Speaker 4: I'm not going to say because I did not. I'm
- 20:15Speaker 4: not gonna say.
- 20:15Speaker 6: So.
- 20:15Speaker 4: I'm sitting let me tell you. I'm sitting courtside, minding
- 20:18Speaker 4: my own business. Charlot Mane like you over there looking
- 20:21Speaker 4: six eight? How tall are you? What are you doing? It?
- 20:23Speaker 4: Just so happens one of the ladies tumbled from the
- 20:25Speaker 4: Las Vegas Aces in front of where I was sitting,
- 20:28Speaker 4: and I was just looking and it was sad.
- 20:29Speaker 6: You hit her head on Carrie's boot. Look had that
- 20:33Speaker 6: boot courtside? Carry over there sitting like a big old nigga,
- 20:36Speaker 6: legs open. You know what I'm saying, hands between the lever.
- 20:42Speaker 3: It takes for the liberty to win. I'm like, who
- 20:43Speaker 3: is carry.
- 20:44Speaker 4: Wanting to fight?
- 20:44Speaker 1: What's going on? But why was you sitting like this?
- 20:47Speaker 4: You have to why why carry that?
- 20:51Speaker 1: From Kanyak?
- 20:52Speaker 4: I did not have an Yeah, that's.
- 20:56Speaker 3: The first thing he came in to say. He was like,
- 20:57Speaker 3: look at Carrie she had.
- 20:59Speaker 1: She's sitting like a.
- 20:59Speaker 4: Nigg You got your legs up and you send like
- 21:04Speaker 4: a man. Who do you think he is? And I
- 21:06Speaker 4: was like wait everyone, no, no.
- 21:08Speaker 7: When I saw the picture, I was like, did Carry
- 21:10Speaker 7: has to play sport?
- 21:13Speaker 5: I didn't say that.
- 21:14Speaker 3: I thought.
- 21:15Speaker 5: I was like, did she's playing basketball or something?
- 21:17Speaker 4: Because I was like, am I looking like a man? Okay?
- 21:19Speaker 1: Tell me?
- 21:20Speaker 4: I was First of all, I was in the zone.
- 21:22Speaker 4: I was in the zone. I was watching the game.
- 21:24Speaker 4: That's how people watch the game. And you're up here
- 21:26Speaker 4: like I look like a man. I was like, is
- 21:28Speaker 4: that roote?
- 21:29Speaker 3: I don't know why you can sit in a friend
- 21:31Speaker 3: talking bad about me all the time.
- 21:33Speaker 4: He was like, I was in the group chat. They
- 21:34Speaker 4: said you was fine. I said I heard she was
- 21:35Speaker 4: a man. I was just like, why do you do that?
- 21:38Speaker 1: What you said?
- 21:40Speaker 4: That? Not that? Not on this day. I will come
- 21:44Speaker 4: over there.
- 21:45Speaker 1: I heard her name Carl. Leave it alone.
- 21:49Speaker 6: I have a question, like Carry is an example of
- 21:55Speaker 6: what I what she's talking about, because it's like Carrie
- 21:58Speaker 6: walks in the room.
- 21:59Speaker 1: She just has a correct right.
- 22:00Speaker 6: It's not because she's just tall, it's just because she
- 22:03Speaker 6: really has a presence. I can see how that can
- 22:05Speaker 6: intimidate some people.
- 22:06Speaker 4: I and you know what I said, and make people uncomfortable.
- 22:08Speaker 4: I know. I agree. I said, I feel it when
- 22:10Speaker 4: I feel it, and it's a it's not a cocky thing.
- 22:12Speaker 4: I just feel it. When I walk in the room,
- 22:13Speaker 4: people stop, they pay attention, they look, and it makes
- 22:15Speaker 4: people uncomfortable. I understand that, but it's just who I am.
- 22:19Speaker 4: It's my my level of comfort wherever I'm at. I'm
- 22:21Speaker 4: at home in my body wherever I'm at. And so
- 22:24Speaker 4: I get why you said that, and that's why he said,
- 22:26Speaker 4: are you six foot eight? And I'm like, no, I'm
- 22:27Speaker 4: just fite ten.
- 22:28Speaker 6: But it's not a size thing though, Like like when
- 22:30Speaker 6: Stephanie Mills walks in the room, you just feel it.
- 22:33Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying.
- 22:34Speaker 4: Do you feel it and you either are comfortable with
- 22:36Speaker 4: it or you're not comfortable with it? You can relate, No,
- 22:39Speaker 4: she can't.
- 22:39Speaker 6: When did you get comfortable with it? At what age
- 22:42Speaker 6: did you get comfortable with it? Because because Stephanie said
- 22:45Speaker 6: she didn't get it, tell she was fifty.
- 22:46Speaker 4: Five, Oh wow, I probably say within probably when I
- 22:52Speaker 4: was like thirty five, I just knew But first of all,
- 22:55Speaker 4: I look, this does sound crazy, and y'all and you
- 22:57Speaker 4: and you, everybody in this room can relate to this.
- 22:59Speaker 4: I hope way you ever felt like you were just
- 23:02Speaker 4: special on set apart absolutely from seven years old. Seven
- 23:05Speaker 4: years old, I was like, oh, I'm different, and I
- 23:07Speaker 4: didn't know what that meant or felt like. And I've
- 23:09Speaker 4: just I've walked in that ever since until you realize, oh,
- 23:11Speaker 4: this is what that means. And people resent you for it,
- 23:13Speaker 4: people love you for it, people hate you for it.
- 23:16Speaker 4: And that's what we're dealing with. Caitlyn and Angel. They're
- 23:18Speaker 4: just different. And of course there are players in the league.
- 23:20Speaker 4: I'm not saying anybody hates them. But you can't decide
- 23:24Speaker 4: who will be the super nova. You can't decide who's
- 23:27Speaker 4: going to be the person that carries us into a
- 23:29Speaker 4: different stratosphere. It just happens. It's something that is destined
- 23:33Speaker 4: it to what it is. You couldn't tell me Breakfast
- 23:35Speaker 4: Club would not be the voice of the people. And
- 23:37Speaker 4: then also elevate into more things like it just happens.
- 23:40Speaker 4: You were assigned. You were assigned, You were assigned. It
- 23:43Speaker 4: is what it is. And so once you realize that
- 23:47Speaker 4: you've already felt it. I felt it since I was
- 23:49Speaker 4: a kid, and I knew what it was, but I
- 23:50Speaker 4: was just like, Okay, what does this look like? What
- 23:52Speaker 4: am I going to do with it? And these two
- 23:55Speaker 4: ladies are learning to deal with that. They know they're assigned,
- 23:59Speaker 4: they know they're special, they know they set apart, and
- 24:01Speaker 4: they also know that people resent them because there are
- 24:04Speaker 4: the folks that were before them that actually laid the foundation,
- 24:07Speaker 4: the don State, Lisa Chryl Swoops, the canvas Parkers. The
- 24:10Speaker 4: less you can go down the list of women who
- 24:13Speaker 4: really put this league in its place and put it
- 24:15Speaker 4: put it literally on the map, but you can't assign
- 24:18Speaker 4: who's going to be the super nova to take us
- 24:20Speaker 4: to that next level. And it just so happens that
- 24:21Speaker 4: it's a woman by the name of Caitlyn Clark and
- 24:23Speaker 4: Angel Reese. And that story is so damn compelling. Black
- 24:26Speaker 4: versus white.
- 24:27Speaker 3: I mean, that story sells regardless.
- 24:28Speaker 2: I mean even in boxing, when you look at boxing
- 24:30Speaker 2: any when it's when it's race, I think I think
- 24:33Speaker 2: it's sales regardless.
- 24:34Speaker 3: People want to rep their race.
- 24:35Speaker 4: Taylor Swift and Beyonce we that's our next episode. Our
- 24:39Speaker 4: next episode is about the rivalry or the perceived rivalry
- 24:43Speaker 4: goes beyond sport. Find me any black and white version,
- 24:46Speaker 4: and people are going to compare because that's what people do,
- 24:49Speaker 4: and they have to tell you one is better than
- 24:50Speaker 4: the other. But both of those ladies were assigned. They're
- 24:53Speaker 4: special and set apart in their own world, powerful, but
- 24:56Speaker 4: people still want to put them in verses and want
- 24:57Speaker 4: to say one is better than the other.
- 24:59Speaker 6: Your lifelong Lakers fan, so you've seen the Lakers Celtics rivalry.
- 25:03Speaker 6: What makes this Caitlin Angel thing similar to Magic and
- 25:08Speaker 6: Bird outside of the race thing?
- 25:09Speaker 1: Like, just what is it?
- 25:11Speaker 4: Well, they don't play the same position, So I do
- 25:13Speaker 4: want to say that because I hear a lot of
- 25:14Speaker 4: players say they don't play the same position, So why
- 25:16Speaker 4: is there a rivalry. It's a rivalry because of right,
- 25:20Speaker 4: But it's a rivalry because well, and that was what
- 25:23Speaker 4: they were more, they were more equivalent. Caitlin right now
- 25:25Speaker 4: is all offense. She is spectacular and she's always going
- 25:30Speaker 4: to be more dynamic in the sense that offense gets
- 25:33Speaker 4: people in the stands, it makes people pay attention. She
- 25:36Speaker 4: is shooting from the logo and it's crazy, it's insane.
- 25:39Speaker 4: What she can do when she really gets in her zone.
- 25:42Speaker 4: And what Angel is doing, I think it's different. While
- 25:45Speaker 4: she's good on defense and she'll get our offensive game
- 25:47Speaker 4: together eventually, what she is doing, she's doing something that
- 25:50Speaker 4: we haven't seen, in my opinion, a w NBA player do,
- 25:53Speaker 4: or a black female athlete do, in a very long time.
- 25:56Speaker 4: She's getting a little to come to the games. Megdae
- 25:58Speaker 4: Stallion is talking about what she wants to do. She's
- 26:00Speaker 4: at the met Gala. She's living in the world. They're
- 26:03Speaker 4: rapping about her, akin to Drake rapping about Lebron. She
- 26:08Speaker 4: has She's done something that hasn't been done before and
- 26:10Speaker 4: she I don't even know if she's aware of it.
- 26:12Speaker 4: Even Serena, I love that people talked about that wasn't
- 26:15Speaker 4: happening with Lisa Leslie. Not that way, not in that way.
- 26:19Speaker 4: Like these are her people. She's kicking it with Megan,
- 26:20Speaker 4: she's taking away podcast like they are her people, they
- 26:24Speaker 4: are her friends. She has all the influence around, influencers
- 26:27Speaker 4: around her, and they want to be around her. We've
- 26:29Speaker 4: seen that happen. Athletes want to be ballers, and ballers
- 26:31Speaker 4: want to be athletes. We've only seen that with men.
- 26:33Speaker 4: We haven't seen that with women, especially not a black woman. Serena.
- 26:37Speaker 4: I'll give her because she was popular and she had
- 26:39Speaker 4: a lot of people, but it was tennis and she
- 26:41Speaker 4: and she did bring all the stars, so look you
- 26:43Speaker 4: get you know, apples and oranges. She did bring a
- 26:45Speaker 4: lot of stars to the game. But I truly, honestly
- 26:48Speaker 4: believe for a w NBA player, a black woman, to
- 26:51Speaker 4: have this effect in the culture. She is the culture.
- 26:54Speaker 4: She's representing the culture. She girl, she'd a high girl.
- 26:57Speaker 6: You can't she got it. She's on assignment.
- 27:02Speaker 7: I had to ask them when it happened. Would love
- 27:04Speaker 7: to hear what you had to say about it. Like
- 27:05Speaker 7: when she had to sit out for the rest of
- 27:07Speaker 7: the season, does that affect because I mean she has
- 27:10Speaker 7: all that, but like she's not playing the game for
- 27:12Speaker 7: the rest of the season, so that does that affect
- 27:14Speaker 7: what she was doing?
- 27:15Speaker 5: Or like what will happen moving forward?
- 27:17Speaker 4: No, she they have a truncated season. Anyway, I think
- 27:20Speaker 4: fat is she would have continued to play, maybe the
- 27:22Speaker 4: Chicago Sky would have made it to the playoffs. But
- 27:24Speaker 4: she made a smart decision in my in my opinion,
- 27:26Speaker 4: which is to take care of herself now so she
- 27:28Speaker 4: can come back stronger than ever. It doesn't affect her,
- 27:30Speaker 4: it did affect the rookie race in some capacity. I
- 27:33Speaker 4: thought Kaylen Clark was going to be Rookie of the
- 27:35Speaker 4: Year anyway. I just thought she was.
- 27:37Speaker 3: Beau know that Reese had a great first half. Yeah,
- 27:40Speaker 3: I just think Kaitlyn's first half.
- 27:41Speaker 4: Was kind of it was, but it balanced out because one,
- 27:44Speaker 4: not only did she take her team to the playoffs
- 27:45Speaker 4: that hadn't been in like ten years, Caitlyn she requires
- 27:50Speaker 4: something more. You can't really defend a shot like when
- 27:54Speaker 4: they were like triple teaming her and double teaming her.
- 27:56Speaker 4: She figured it out. She just figured it out. And that,
- 27:59Speaker 4: to me, for a rookie is really special because how
- 28:02Speaker 4: many times have we heard about rookies in the NBA
- 28:05Speaker 4: They're gonna be it, They're gonna be how many rookies
- 28:07Speaker 4: have been it? When you start looking at these rookies
- 28:10Speaker 4: and you're like, who's who's really it? Lebron right after Lebron,
- 28:13Speaker 4: who was a rookie that was it? Name one after Lebron,
- 28:15Speaker 4: who lived all the hype after.
- 28:18Speaker 1: After Lebron, nobody need the.
- 28:23Speaker 4: Number one pick who lived up to all the hype
- 28:26Speaker 4: after Lebron.
- 28:26Speaker 1: Nobody, you don't look at me.
- 28:28Speaker 5: I wouldn't know.
- 28:29Speaker 1: It took them.
- 28:32Speaker 4: It takes them a couple of years to figure it out.
- 28:34Speaker 4: It's a different league. But if we're just doing athletes
- 28:37Speaker 4: on athletes, I'm just saying, let's talk about it. It's
- 28:38Speaker 4: a different league. Obviously different requirements, but it look but
- 28:43Speaker 4: it took a minute. Everybody thought Zion was gonna be it.
- 28:47Speaker 1: What about Ion was victim?
- 28:50Speaker 4: Kind of still special, average, still special, but he wouldn't
- 28:54Speaker 4: given everybody the business. Yeah, and that's why I was
- 28:58Speaker 4: mad when people were like, they're jealous of her, and
- 29:00Speaker 4: we heard all these the man the men explaining that
- 29:03Speaker 4: the women were jealous of Kaitlyn. I was like, but
- 29:05Speaker 4: what about when everybody was going to Lebron's head? When
- 29:07Speaker 4: you are, when you are the most sought after, the
- 29:09Speaker 4: most talked about, I have to Okay, well, welcome to
- 29:11Speaker 4: the league. Let me show you what this is. Kennas
- 29:12Speaker 4: Parker her We always give this, always give this example.
- 29:16Speaker 4: Cannas Parker's rookie year. She got a two piece. They
- 29:19Speaker 4: had her on the ground. They were beating her, like
- 29:21Speaker 4: literally trying to beat her up. And it was benches.
- 29:24Speaker 4: Everybody got off the benches, Lisa Leslie got pushed down.
- 29:27Speaker 4: No one ever talked about it. And then you're talking
- 29:28Speaker 4: about Kaitlyn Clark and you're like, oh, they poked her
- 29:31Speaker 4: in the eye, they stabbed her in the eye. Oh
- 29:33Speaker 4: they they're just so mean to her. What game have
- 29:35Speaker 4: you been watching? These ladies? Ball a ball a ball
- 29:38Speaker 4: And you even said that you were watching. You were like,
- 29:40Speaker 4: this game is good.
- 29:41Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I watched it on television, but going
- 29:43Speaker 1: to the Liberty.
- 29:43Speaker 6: And A game, it was like, Wow, it's a whole
- 29:45Speaker 6: new thing. I enjoyed it thoroughly, like in a lot
- 29:48Speaker 6: of ways more than the men's.
- 29:49Speaker 4: Game a lot of ways because because.
- 29:51Speaker 1: They're so fundamentally sound that.
- 29:53Speaker 4: They know the basics and they and everyone said, oh,
- 29:55Speaker 4: they don't dunk, and they and then so when Caitlyn
- 29:57Speaker 4: started to shoot, like Steph, you didn't have that excuse
- 29:59Speaker 4: anymore to say you weren't watching the game.
- 30:01Speaker 1: And that's the new dunk. The logo three is the
- 30:03Speaker 1: new dunk anyway, So what it is?
- 30:04Speaker 4: Steph? I used to say this and still believe the
- 30:07Speaker 4: reason why Steph Curry is the most impactful player the
- 30:10Speaker 4: NBA has ever seen is because he made everybody believe.
- 30:13Speaker 4: He made the average kid in the backyard shoots from
- 30:15Speaker 4: the logo believe that they could do it. I don't
- 30:17Speaker 4: have to be six foot eight, I don't have to
- 30:19Speaker 4: be built like Lebron. I don't have to dunk. If
- 30:21Speaker 4: I can choot from here, I can be like Steph.
- 30:24Speaker 4: That is why people love Kaylyn Clark's game, because they believe, oh,
- 30:27Speaker 4: I can do that. Little girls are at home watching.
- 30:29Speaker 4: I'm sitting next to this little girl right now. This
- 30:30Speaker 4: little girl at the game last the other night was like,
- 30:32Speaker 4: oh wow, like so like and you know why she's
- 30:34Speaker 4: watching because when she saw Kayln Clark out there, she
- 30:36Speaker 4: could relate. She was like, because I don't know if
- 30:37Speaker 4: I'm ever gonna be Asia Wilson's height. But and by
- 30:40Speaker 4: the way, everyone's tall. I mean Steph is tall, Caitlyn's tall.
- 30:44Speaker 4: But they don't feel unattainable. It feels like it's not aspirational.
- 30:48Speaker 4: It's like, I can do that, not six eight six. Correct.
- 30:51Speaker 6: I don't like how you looked at me just now.
- 30:52Speaker 6: You said everybody's tall. You started to say except you,
- 30:54Speaker 6: But do you?
- 30:54Speaker 1: I saw you?
- 30:56Speaker 4: How tall are you five four far for I'm showing
- 31:01Speaker 4: what I said that to the I told you you're
- 31:06Speaker 4: starting to get hips. I told you that you got
- 31:10Speaker 4: you he got you got hips for I said that
- 31:12Speaker 4: to you. Look at your hips and big.
- 31:15Speaker 5: Beauty you are.
- 31:26Speaker 4: It's crazy, not even crazy crazy.
- 31:29Speaker 6: If Caitlyn and Angel are Magic and Bird, who's gonna
- 31:32Speaker 6: be Jordan?
- 31:34Speaker 4: If I have to say who Jordan is right now
- 31:36Speaker 4: and she's so humble with it, well we don't know
- 31:39Speaker 4: yet she could be, but right now talking about Asia Wilson,
- 31:42Speaker 4: if I had to talk about who, meaning like Asia
- 31:44Speaker 4: is a guaranteed bucket, I know, I know they may
- 31:47Speaker 4: not win this series as we know, and we're watching
- 31:50Speaker 4: their down to nothing. But Asian to me is she
- 31:54Speaker 4: does it all. She does it all. She's in the paint,
- 31:58Speaker 4: she's defense, she's all. She's literally she's a leader on
- 32:02Speaker 4: that court. She requires more. I'm watching. I'm like, if
- 32:05Speaker 4: you were a man, we'd be talking about this more.
- 32:07Speaker 6: Greatest w NBA player that's playing today. You know, I
- 32:09Speaker 6: love Agan Wilson. I think she's more like Tim Duncan
- 32:12Speaker 6: though why just because she's great on both ends of
- 32:16Speaker 6: the court right and even though her personality is really big. Right,
- 32:19Speaker 6: I'm not talking about it, I'm talking about the way
- 32:21Speaker 6: they play. For whatever reason, you don't appreciate that type
- 32:24Speaker 6: of game. She's so fundamentally sound, dominates on both sides
- 32:27Speaker 6: of the court. You know she's gonna show up every game,
- 32:30Speaker 6: but it just feels more Tim Duncans.
- 32:31Speaker 1: Tim Duncan is the greatest part for the ball time.
- 32:33Speaker 4: But yeah, he is. But I feel like there's something
- 32:35Speaker 4: more special about her. I but to the point where
- 32:38Speaker 4: Jorge Why.
- 32:39Speaker 1: We don't think Duncan is special because he beat the Lakers,
- 32:41Speaker 1: That's why.
- 32:41Speaker 4: No, And because George Duncan is phenomenal for two things, right,
- 32:47Speaker 4: And we got to keep it a buck. You played
- 32:49Speaker 4: for the Spurs, very humble team, very quiet team. He's
- 32:52Speaker 4: a quiet, humble man. You need to you need to
- 32:54Speaker 4: have your tongue hanging out your mouth. You need to
- 32:55Speaker 4: talk a little shit. Yeah, that's why we love Jordan.
- 32:58Speaker 4: Jordan gave us flash, she gave us a show. I
- 33:00Speaker 4: need to be entertained if I'm gonna watch basketball. I'm
- 33:02Speaker 4: not saying that doesn't mean Tim Duncan isn't that great.
- 33:04Speaker 4: But that's why people forget, That's why they forget about Kareem.
- 33:08Speaker 4: They forget about the greatest man ever who created this guy.
- 33:10Speaker 4: They forget about Kareem in a lot of ways. Absolutely,
- 33:12Speaker 4: And you remember Magic because he was Showtime. The Lakers
- 33:14Speaker 4: created Showtime. That's why you remember Magic over and Magic
- 33:18Speaker 4: is one of your favorite players. Why do we love
- 33:19Speaker 4: Kobe because Kobe was like we knew he was a
- 33:22Speaker 4: dog and he didn't care about nobody. You love that.
- 33:25Speaker 4: We need both and that, which is unfortunate because it
- 33:28Speaker 4: goes back to my point. Age has that trash talk
- 33:30Speaker 4: in her. She got that dog in her. But we
- 33:33Speaker 4: don't allow women to play sports like men play sports.
- 33:36Speaker 4: We don't allow women. We don't consume women the way
- 33:38Speaker 4: we consume men. When it comes to sports.
- 33:40Speaker 6: Asia and Donna the reason I started watching women's basketball.
- 33:43Speaker 4: Yea, Asia is to me the greatest to me, and
- 33:47Speaker 4: that and that and that and that says a lot
- 33:49Speaker 4: she and she's so humble with it though that's why
- 33:51Speaker 4: we're not paying it. She's so humble with it and that,
- 33:54Speaker 4: and I'm just like, she's the She's the greatest. I
- 33:56Speaker 4: don't know what juju will be. I don't want to
- 33:57Speaker 4: put that on her. I think Juju's Juju Watkins is
- 33:59Speaker 4: gonna I think she's gonna be something super special. I
- 34:02Speaker 4: think this. I think this class Page Beckers who's at Yukon,
- 34:05Speaker 4: I think she's gonna be special. What Page is gonna
- 34:07Speaker 4: do because she has a black stepmother. What she is
- 34:10Speaker 4: going to do is be able to kill this narrative
- 34:13Speaker 4: of black versus white. Because when she got up at
- 34:15Speaker 4: the SP's and said, I just want to give a
- 34:17Speaker 4: special shout out to black women. To me, I understood
- 34:21Speaker 4: that she knew her assignment. She sees that sometimes these
- 34:24Speaker 4: black women in this sport have been ignored. Look, seventy
- 34:26Speaker 4: five percent are lbgt QIA. You can't market that to
- 34:31Speaker 4: Middle America. So that's why it was so hard for
- 34:33Speaker 4: the WNBA to take off. So then you have this,
- 34:36Speaker 4: this this white Catholic woman who comes in from Iowa,
- 34:40Speaker 4: and it felt more comfortable to watch for the masses
- 34:43Speaker 4: and I would look seventy I think I'm back and forth.
- 34:49Speaker 4: Regardless of what the number is, the majority is and
- 34:54Speaker 4: it's hard to market that to a country that doesn't
- 34:56Speaker 4: want to deal with that. Right, it's hard to market that,
- 34:58Speaker 4: and not to me, but for them, it was hard
- 35:00Speaker 4: and This is where two things where the w NBA
- 35:02Speaker 4: needs to embrace it. They need to embrace who these
- 35:04Speaker 4: women are, what their sexuality is, how they live their lives.
- 35:08Speaker 4: They also need to get them some security. And they
- 35:10Speaker 4: can't make one person be the main person because that
- 35:12Speaker 4: causes resentment and strife, and so they need to really
- 35:16Speaker 4: this league is growing overnight and the w NBA needs
- 35:20Speaker 4: to figure it out quickly.
- 35:21Speaker 1: It's growing so fat.
- 35:22Speaker 6: I mean, think about last year, not the WNBA, but
- 35:25Speaker 6: the Women's college basketball NCAA Finals between Iowa and South Carolina.
- 35:31Speaker 4: Nineteen someone million people watch.
- 35:33Speaker 1: More than the men. They didn't they didn't expect.
- 35:36Speaker 4: They expect they heard of And at the time when
- 35:39Speaker 4: when Angel Reese beat Iowa and LSU beat Iowa, it
- 35:43Speaker 4: was nine point nine million people at the time, that
- 35:46Speaker 4: was the largest thing I'd ever seen. And and not
- 35:48Speaker 4: for nothing. You know, Camlin Clark, they had this exhibition
- 35:51Speaker 4: game her senior year, going into her senior year, they
- 35:54Speaker 4: played basketball in a football and at football stadium. Fifty
- 35:59Speaker 4: five thousand people showed up to watch to play basketball.
- 36:01Speaker 4: Fifty five thousand people showed up to watch women play sports.
- 36:06Speaker 4: That's crazy, it's it's I mean, we're in a different
- 36:09Speaker 4: We're in a different world right now. By the time
- 36:10Speaker 4: your children are ready to go pro and play and play,
- 36:13Speaker 4: and your girls are ready to play, they gotta make money.
- 36:15Speaker 6: Yeah, and you got phenomenally Like you said, you got
- 36:17Speaker 6: Page coming, you got Juju coming, you got all these
- 36:19Speaker 6: crooks at Iowa State, you got Malaysia for a whilely
- 36:22Speaker 6: at Talien.
- 36:23Speaker 4: She's she's special, beast, a beast. There are so many
- 36:27Speaker 4: great players and we're and they've been there. The product
- 36:30Speaker 4: has already always been there. We just now started paying attention.
- 36:33Speaker 4: We just started that. So it's something special and everybody
- 36:35Speaker 4: watches women's sports. That's not just cliche. Shout out to
- 36:37Speaker 4: my girl, just Sein Brown, who came up with that.
- 36:39Speaker 1: So what do you see them NBA five years from now?
- 36:42Speaker 4: I see I see more money. I see it competing
- 36:46Speaker 4: in a real way with the NBA. I say that
- 36:49Speaker 4: only because of those two women in that storyline. The
- 36:53Speaker 4: storyline will be will be a trope for another couple
- 36:56Speaker 4: of years because it's interesting and people are compelled to
- 36:58Speaker 4: pay attention to it. And you love to pick a side.
- 37:00Speaker 4: But I also know that on Football Sunday, when Caitlin
- 37:05Speaker 4: Clark was playing in the playoffs on a football Sunday.
- 37:08Speaker 4: Her game against the Connecticut Son literally average one point
- 37:12Speaker 4: two million viewers on a football Sunday. You mean to
- 37:15Speaker 4: tell me people weren't watching football. They went to turn
- 37:18Speaker 4: to watch women's basketball, not men's basketball. A playoff game,
- 37:22Speaker 4: the first round. It's it's it's it's a wrap. This
- 37:26Speaker 4: is this is the future. So so be prepared, and
- 37:28Speaker 4: anybody listening, make sure your daughter can play sports, because
- 37:31Speaker 4: she gonna take care of y'all. It'll be the daughter
- 37:32Speaker 4: with who's buying a house. And we'll hear those stories. Well,
- 37:35Speaker 4: hear the story I bought my mama house, I bought
- 37:38Speaker 4: my mama car. Through school, I went back to I
- 37:41Speaker 4: went back to my favorite high school, and I gave
- 37:43Speaker 4: everybody scholarships. The stories that we hear and see will
- 37:46Speaker 4: be for for for men. For the men will be
- 37:49Speaker 4: the stories that we hear and see for the women.
- 37:51Speaker 4: These these rappers will be talking about these women. These
- 37:54Speaker 4: women will have big, major, major deals when it comes
- 37:57Speaker 4: to marketing. They won't be sitting in the back. And
- 38:00Speaker 4: it won't be just because they are cute. It will
- 38:02Speaker 4: be because I'm old enough to remember five years ago.
- 38:05Speaker 4: When they talked about women, it was always who's the hottest.
- 38:07Speaker 4: When they talk about women in sports, it was who's
- 38:09Speaker 4: the hottest. It was never who was the best on
- 38:11Speaker 4: the courter, who was the best playing tennis? It was
- 38:13Speaker 4: like who look good? Serena made all that attention, although
- 38:15Speaker 4: she was great. But the catsuit, we all remember that catsuit,
- 38:18Speaker 4: that black catsuit. We only sexualized.
- 38:21Speaker 1: I used to have that picture hanging up in it.
- 38:23Speaker 6: Remember when she was because she was she had she
- 38:26Speaker 6: was hitting there was I had an action shot where
- 38:28Speaker 6: she had the tennis racket and she was about to
- 38:29Speaker 6: hit the ball.
- 38:30Speaker 5: I used to have it hanging up, hanging up she
- 38:32Speaker 5: was about to hit the ball.
- 38:33Speaker 6: No, I hadn't hanging up in why Serena was amazing?
- 38:37Speaker 6: I had the top five list it was remember but
- 38:41Speaker 6: it was Serena, Patti LaBelle, Kelly Roling, Okay, Jennifer low Pezant,
- 38:46Speaker 6: Stacy dash my point.
- 38:48Speaker 4: The hottest, the hottest. That's all they used to be.
- 38:50Speaker 4: They were sexualized and thought they were listen, listen. He
- 38:59Speaker 4: would like, day, I love that, I love oh, I
- 39:01Speaker 4: love the way she hit the ball. Soon in the
- 39:03Speaker 4: service crazy it was the first the immediate thought is
- 39:06Speaker 4: that she's bad. She's bad, bad, and that's fine because
- 39:09Speaker 4: that's how men see women. I understand that. But soon
- 39:11Speaker 4: it'll be like, what's her game?
- 39:12Speaker 3: Like?
- 39:13Speaker 4: I promise you this conversation about what they look like
- 39:16Speaker 4: will always still be there because men are men. But
- 39:18Speaker 4: the reality is the skill set will be the first thing.
- 39:20Speaker 4: When you think about Caitlin Clark. You're not looking at
- 39:22Speaker 4: her like, are you bad? You're not thinking that at all.
- 39:25Speaker 5: You think Kaylen Clark's age thing.
- 39:28Speaker 1: You know, if you ever know me that you try
- 39:30Speaker 1: to do a.
- 39:30Speaker 4: White woman, Yeah, that's what said.
- 39:33Speaker 5: Absolutely not Now you don't like white women.
- 39:37Speaker 6: Now, don't you can't even anybody gonna believe that one.
- 39:42Speaker 6: You can say that all day. Ain't nobody even gonna
- 39:44Speaker 6: believe that.
- 39:45Speaker 7: Okay, she loves you, she loves Travis Kelsey.
- 39:52Speaker 1: She had Travis Kelsey at her. I used to and
- 39:56Speaker 1: califlay exactly.
- 39:58Speaker 5: So you try to throw that one on me and
- 39:59Speaker 5: it back fire.
- 40:00Speaker 4: White man would have been yeah, but no, Travis. Everybody
- 40:05Speaker 4: gets a Travis thing. We don't not anymore, but everybody
- 40:07Speaker 4: gets the Travis because he has swag. Swag. It wasn't
- 40:09Speaker 4: not that he was attractive.
- 40:10Speaker 5: He just has I'm confused now what he had because
- 40:12Speaker 5: it went away so fast.
- 40:14Speaker 1: White love him. She want to love the jack so bad.
- 40:18Speaker 4: Little just now Edge you like white Man too?
- 40:21Speaker 7: No, I don't, I don't, I mean I don't.
- 40:26Speaker 4: Yeah, no fans White Man.
- 40:28Speaker 3: She's single.
- 40:29Speaker 5: Oh I was single last time you was here.
- 40:32Speaker 4: But you you got some booze now, right, So what
- 40:34Speaker 4: are the dms like?
- 40:35Speaker 1: Now?
- 40:35Speaker 4: Are they worthy? Because I want to give you some advice.
- 40:38Speaker 7: I feel like even if they it's a little hard
- 40:41Speaker 7: to navigate sometimes because like, where did you come from?
- 40:44Speaker 5: And why?
- 40:44Speaker 4: Yeah?
- 40:44Speaker 5: Sometimes there's a there's a lot of yeah, there's no cheer.
- 40:48Speaker 7: Yeah, And I could tell that in the conversation because
- 40:50Speaker 7: it'll go from you know, like that they'll bring the
- 40:54Speaker 7: jokes from the show into the d M and all that,
- 40:55Speaker 7: and then it'll go to oh because jokes the single,
- 40:58Speaker 7: it'll be like, oh, single, leave you alone, the ones
- 41:02Speaker 7: that's world saises.
- 41:03Speaker 5: Don't bring that up because I know.
- 41:05Speaker 4: You don't shave on your arms.
- 41:07Speaker 1: One on one arm pitch. She came and hit one
- 41:11Speaker 1: day and had hair on the one arm pit. It
- 41:12Speaker 1: was crazy, carry it was insane. Yeah, that's when.
- 41:16Speaker 5: I was moving and grooving. I'm not you know, I'm
- 41:19Speaker 5: not worried about anything, but you know something that.
- 41:22Speaker 4: Yeah, First of all, my advice would be have a
- 41:24Speaker 4: little fun. Try try try to go with that that like,
- 41:28Speaker 4: you know, that's that've been on my list. I've been
- 41:29Speaker 4: on my hit list.
- 41:30Speaker 3: You've been having fun for a long time.
- 41:32Speaker 5: First of all, m v no, I have not have fun.
- 41:36Speaker 4: But you know, don't don't go too crazy. Not too
- 41:39Speaker 4: crazy because they'll put your business in the street's business.
- 41:44Speaker 5: They work with women.
- 41:44Speaker 4: They are they'll put your business in and they lie.
- 41:46Speaker 4: They lie man, y'all lie, y'all, stay lying on y'all.
- 41:49Speaker 1: You can't wait to say. They hit Lauren a little
- 41:53Speaker 1: hand on one, but was appreciate.
- 41:59Speaker 6: Make sure some ve to the making of a rivalry
- 42:01Speaker 6: podcast Caitlyn Clark Brusus injuries on the blackpeck Ieart Radio
- 42:04Speaker 6: podcast network. It will be a documentary soon, documentary audio
- 42:08Speaker 6: documentary now.
- 42:09Speaker 4: But we put it out there.
- 42:10Speaker 3: And are you stay in New York? You want come
- 42:12Speaker 3: up here once a year?
- 42:13Speaker 4: I can? I try to come All the time I've
- 42:17Speaker 4: been trying to get this one. I'll be like, okay,
- 42:18Speaker 4: let me call it Eddie again. Damn the white white can.
- 42:23Speaker 1: Come up anything you want to. Very busy, you carry.
- 42:25Speaker 4: On CNN and all kinds of things booked and busy.
- 42:28Speaker 4: But I'll be back. I love talking about it's very comfortable.
- 42:30Speaker 4: Shout out to everybody who's listening, please go pay attention
- 42:33Speaker 4: to this. I'm seriously just as the docuseries a special.
- 42:35Speaker 4: I'm so proud of it. Like I've done a lot
- 42:37Speaker 4: of stuff, this is one I'm loud of. I'm really
- 42:39Speaker 4: really proud of it because we talk about everything and
- 42:42Speaker 4: it's just beautiful. Y'all beautiful. Thank you for supporting.
- 42:45Speaker 5: You have your coffee next time to Yeah, I know.
- 42:46Speaker 4: Shout out to Brandon who didn't get it.
- 42:48Speaker 1: He loves white and that's a black man that looks
- 42:51Speaker 1: white women. It's Carrie Champion.
- 42:52Speaker 3: It's the Breakfast Club.
- 42:53Speaker 1: Good morning, wake up in the morning. Breakfast Club.