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The interview of her lifetime... and at only 19!! DEVIN BOOKER · Johnjay & Rich On Demand

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  Speaker 1: Devin Booker is a massive star, massive star, one of
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  Speaker 1: the best basketball players in the country, in the world,
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  Speaker 1: in the history of the game.
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  Speaker 2: And he doesn't do interviews.
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  Speaker 1: And there's a story that's getting a lot of publicity
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  Speaker 1: because this girl got an interview with him, a one
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  Speaker 1: on one interview, and she like messaged me for stuff
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  Speaker 1: and she was going to volunteer for Love Pop and
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  Speaker 1: I kind of following her story and it's really cool
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  Speaker 1: because she's gone viral and I thought it'd be cool
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  Speaker 1: we got on her show and talk get her on
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  Speaker 1: our show and talk about what's happened and the process.
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  Speaker 2: Is it Brianna? Is that you say her name or Brianna?
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  Speaker 3: Brianna, it's Brianna. Yes, it's a little difficult with the spelling,
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  Speaker 3: but it's Brianna.
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  Speaker 1: So tell us your story, tell us your sports background,
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  Speaker 1: tell us where you're from, and tell us how this
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  Speaker 1: thing happened, because it's a really cool story with you
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  Speaker 1: and Devin Booker.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, thank you.
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  Speaker 2: So.
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  Speaker 3: First, I grew up in Michigan pretty much where he
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  Speaker 3: did as well, But a little bit of a backstory.
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  Speaker 3: I just graduated high school this year in twenty twenty
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  Speaker 3: five of May and I didn't get my dad's GYE bill,
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  Speaker 3: which is weird because it over twenty years in the service,
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  Speaker 3: but there was just something and I wasn't able to
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  Speaker 3: get it. So I'm starting at community college and then
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  Speaker 3: I'm going to work my way up to Walter Cronkite
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  Speaker 3: and look for scholarships there. And then, obviously, since I'm
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  Speaker 3: not in university, I have to work a thousand times
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  Speaker 3: harder to get these opportunities because a lot of kids
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  Speaker 3: in universities do. And it's definitely been a journey for me, honestly,
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  Speaker 3: but just staying consistent, being persistent, and then keeping God
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  Speaker 3: in my life has really made these opportunities for me possible.
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  Speaker 3: And along the way, I've actually interviewed a lot of
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  Speaker 3: amazing athletes like Will Hernandez He's from the Cardinals, he's
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  Speaker 3: an offensive lineman, Eric Priest with Golden Boy Promotions. I've
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  Speaker 3: interviewed Matt Barnes, Eddie House, Mike Bibby, coach Ty Ellis
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  Speaker 3: with the Las Vegas Aces. And that's just to name
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  Speaker 3: a few of my athlete interviews. And every one of
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  Speaker 3: those athlete interviews has helped me grow and prepare for
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  Speaker 3: the Devin Booker interview.
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  Speaker 2: Are you reading something? Are you just talking to us?
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  Speaker 3: I'm just talking.
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  Speaker 2: Oh it sounds like you're reading reading.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I've been practicing all morning.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, well good, But let me tell you something, Kyle
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  Speaker 1: on our show, she went to the Walter Cronkhigh School too,
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  Speaker 1: So look at now she's she's like a professional.
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  Speaker 2: So those are good goals to have. I don't sound
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  Speaker 2: as professional as Bonna, so I'm impressed. But Brianna, so
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  Speaker 2: what is yours like? Do you have a podcast? Like?
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  Speaker 2: What is the story? What'd you do? You started a
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  Speaker 2: sports podcast? You're obviously sports fan.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, so i just started a Instagram literally a year ago,
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  Speaker 3: and I'm on a podcast on Thanksgiving. They let me
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  Speaker 3: on a podcast. It's called the Pickham Pros, and they
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  Speaker 3: believe in me and I've been a part of it
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  Speaker 3: ever since. So I'm just blessed that they saw something
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  Speaker 3: in me. And ever since then, I've just been doing
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  Speaker 3: amazing and I've been going to all these events and
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  Speaker 3: interviewing all these athletes and it's just a big blessing.
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  Speaker 3: Since twenty twenty one, I think I went to Sun's
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  Speaker 3: games with posters to get his attention and he saw
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  Speaker 3: them a lot, especially one of my posts that I
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  Speaker 3: actually have a photo with with Booker, but I have
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  Speaker 3: my posters, and then I would go to all these games.
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  Speaker 3: I went to like many a month, which was insane.
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  Speaker 3: And then this year, about a few months ago, before
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  Speaker 3: the season started, I was just making videos for Booker,
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  Speaker 3: more posters, and then I made a video recently about
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  Speaker 3: a month ago that went viral. Everyone sent it to
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  Speaker 3: Booker and the Phoenix Suns and a lot of people
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  Speaker 3: helped me get his attention, and like Steve, he's in
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  Speaker 3: Scott Staley works with switch Den and Monte's m podcast,
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  Speaker 3: so everyone was like helping me with that, and all
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  Speaker 3: of a sudden, yes, I.
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  Speaker 2: Feel like I know Monte in the studio.
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  Speaker 3: Oh yeah he's awesome. Yeah I told him my un Okay, okay, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: so yes, So I made that video. It went a
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  Speaker 3: little viral and everyone was sending it and then I
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  Speaker 3: got a phone call randomly from the Phoenix Suns and
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  Speaker 3: I was like hello, like are you serious? Is this true?
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  Speaker 3: Because you know, I've been working so hard for this
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  Speaker 3: moment and I'm only nineteen.
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  Speaker 1: So it was really cool.
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  Speaker 3: I got the interview. We planned it, I found out Thursday.
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  Speaker 2: You get the phone call for the Phoenix Suns. What
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  Speaker 2: do they say?
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  Speaker 3: They're like, Hey, this is ah Blah with the Phoenix
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  Speaker 3: Suns and we want to call. We're calling you to
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  Speaker 3: get this interview with Booker scheduled. And I'm like yeah,
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  Speaker 3: and that was a month ago Thursday. I found out
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  Speaker 3: that I was doing it on Saturday. Okay, this past Saturday.
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  Speaker 2: So where'd you go Saturday?
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  Speaker 3: The performance center Okay in Scottsdale, Okay, their practice center.
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  Speaker 3: And we were in a room and I was not
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  Speaker 3: nervous one bit, which is surprising because that's like the
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  Speaker 3: biggest interview for me, right, that's like the foundation to
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  Speaker 3: my career. And it was amazing. We had a great
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  Speaker 3: connection this whole interview. It was nothing but last smiles,
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  Speaker 3: great conversations. And we're both from Michigan, right, so we
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  Speaker 3: already have that connection and we already know the same thing.
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  Speaker 3: So I think that made it a lot easier and
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  Speaker 3: a lot better. And it's just crazy because he doesn't
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  Speaker 3: do interviews, so it's amazing.
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  Speaker 2: So where can we watch? Where can we watch?
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  Speaker 3: The interview will be released this week on YouTube at
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  Speaker 3: the Pickham Pros look at you going.
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  Speaker 2: Is the Pickham pros Is? That is that Monte's podcast.
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  Speaker 3: No, Monte's podcast is QMO Pickam pros Is. They're based
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  Speaker 3: in North Carolina, so they're who I started with originally.
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  Speaker 2: Wow, that's great, good for you. I under them.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, thank you.
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  Speaker 2: Nice job. So how was Devid? Was he cool?
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  Speaker 1: Did you talk to him for a half hour five minutes?
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  Speaker 1: How long was the interview?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: About half hour and the nicest person ever. Yeah, that's great,
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  Speaker 3: He's amazing.
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  Speaker 4: We're not worried about you. You're gonna do big things
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  Speaker 4: like you You will not be stopped. You can hear
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  Speaker 4: it in her voice.
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  Speaker 2: Right, has already paid off for you.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, don't lose that fire. I mean, you
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  Speaker 4: keep that your whole life, and you'll keep on moving up.
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  Speaker 1: So your goal now is to get a scholarship to
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  Speaker 1: a s U to the Walter Cronkeyed School.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, and now I need to find another person to
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  Speaker 3: get the interview from.
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  Speaker 2: What is your next goal?
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I've met John Brooks twice. Now I think
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  Speaker 3: that would be a really cool one.
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  Speaker 1: That that would be cool. He's very nice. But the
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  Speaker 1: thing is, though, I mean, you hit the kind of
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  Speaker 1: the pinnacle here like that's like the biggest interview, Like, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know the Cardinals. Way, you gotta go, you got,
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  Speaker 1: you gotta go to cristialbo Ronaldo. Yeah you got. You're
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  Speaker 1: pretty much max out. Yeah, those would be, but you
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  Speaker 1: gotta let the you gotta let those are all and
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  Speaker 1: I bet you those will all come if you want them.
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  Speaker 2: Those.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, But as far as you need to start your
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  Speaker 3: own podcast where you have you all the goats of
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  Speaker 3: each sport. So you do like Christiana Rinaldo, then you
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  Speaker 3: do like Riger Federer.
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  Speaker 2: Where did you go to high school?
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  Speaker 3: I went to Hickley High School in the East Valley.
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  Speaker 4: Nice.
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  Speaker 2: Well, right on, okay, so do your parents know what
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  Speaker 2: you did? They must be very proud.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, in high school. Actually, there's a competition called JEA
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  Speaker 3: and I. It's like a journalism convention championship. And two
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  Speaker 3: years in a row, I made a video on sport
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  Speaker 3: related to my school. I filmed, edit it everything, and
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  Speaker 3: I went back to that first place.
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  Speaker 2: That's awesome.
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  Speaker 1: Well, congratulations, let us know when the podcast drops and
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  Speaker 1: we will help you promote it.
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  Speaker 3: Oh awesome, that'd be awesome. Thank you so much.
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  Speaker 2: You gotta brand We'll have a great day.
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  Speaker 1: Anything else you want to say, anybody you want to
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  Speaker 1: put the word out, you want Larry Fitzgerald, you wing,
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  Speaker 1: Charles Barkley?
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  Speaker 2: Who else? Yeah, anybody else you can think of sports?
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  Speaker 4: I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: I think those two are the major ones. Charles Barkley.
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  Speaker 3: My mom's the biggest fan. She would just flip out.
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  Speaker 4: It'd be a good one for you too, since she lives.
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  Speaker 4: Here's Danika Patrick. You do the race world too, that'd
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  Speaker 4: be kind of cool.
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  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, man, there's so many options.
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  Speaker 2: Are you still going to go to Suns games? Or
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  Speaker 2: are you kind of like I got Booker, I'm done?
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  Speaker 2: Are you Are you a Suns fan?
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  Speaker 3: No, I'm a Suns fan.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, all right.
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  Speaker 3: I want to go to the one on the twenty
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  Speaker 3: first against the Timberwolves because that one will be really good.
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  Speaker 2: I'll be there. I have to take it to the game. Actually,
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  Speaker 2: oh look that well.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you for listening and have it, and thank you
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  Speaker 1: for messaging us, and thank you for following us on Instagram.
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  Speaker 2: What's your Instagram? Let's give out your Instagram on the air.
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  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, so it's just Brionna dot Sports b R
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  Speaker 3: y A N N A and then Dot Sports.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, we'll follow it right now.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you, yay, thank you,