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WNBA All-Star Weekend Drama, LeBron vs Trump, Madison & Justin Got Engaged + More · Hoops for Hotties

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SPEAKER_00: Good morning and welcome back to the Hoops for Hoddies live show.
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SPEAKER_00: If this is your first time joining, welcome to the classroom for the girls, the gays, the days, and the straight men who don't admit they're not watching sports.
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SPEAKER_00: I am your host, Mariah Rose, and I'm your bestie for all things sports.
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SPEAKER_00: And today we have so much to get into across all sports.
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SPEAKER_00: I love this for us.
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SPEAKER_00: So today we are going to start with our hot girl headlines.
0:36
SPEAKER_00: As always, getting into some of the things I'm going to discuss today.
0:39
SPEAKER_00: I am going to give you guys an opportunity to ask me some questions and whatnot.
0:42
SPEAKER_00: I usually take calls on live.
0:44
SPEAKER_00: I have not done that in a minute because I have been lazy and my phone is downstairs.
0:48
SPEAKER_00: But some of the things we're going to get into in our hot girl headlines are Madison Beer and Justin Herbert getting engaged.
0:54
SPEAKER_00: Who the fuck is that?
0:55
SPEAKER_00: And how the fuck did he propose?
0:57
SPEAKER_00: That's all I want to know.
0:58
SPEAKER_00: What the fuck is the ring giving?
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SPEAKER_00: The pro-Sophie Cunningham rally and the Seattle Storm co-owner getting banned from their games for the next five games for confronting fans that brought pro-Sophie Cunningham signs to a Storm game.
1:15
SPEAKER_00: Trump calling LeBron James a racist, the WNBA All-Star Weekend tea, including the Stud Buds live stream, my my turnips and come up its during the weekend and all the things that I got into.
1:30
SPEAKER_00: And here on live, because you guys are special to me and because hopefully I can trust you to act fucking normal.
1:37
SPEAKER_00: I'll talk about the Dejanae tweeting cheating thread a little bit.
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SPEAKER_00: Okay.
1:41
SPEAKER_00: I again I am actually minding my business on this one, but I I I'll tell you guys what I think on that one.
1:48
SPEAKER_00: And I am going to talk about why LeBron James chose Philly.
1:53
SPEAKER_00: So those are my handy dandy crusty dusty notes.
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SPEAKER_00: Without further ado, let's get into it.
1:58
SPEAKER_00: So first we're going to talk about Madison Beer and Justin Justin Herbert getting engaged.
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SPEAKER_00: So first I'll tell you the T and then I'll tell you my thoughts and then how people acted weird when I posted a TikTok about this yesterday because yeah.
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SPEAKER_00: So they were first spotted together in August 2025 on the set of a music video that Madison Beer was shooting, which began to spark dating rumors.
2:19
SPEAKER_00: Madison would then appear at Chargers games throughout the fall, with the dating rumors seemingly confirmed when the two shared a kiss on the sideline before the Chargers Week Five game against the Washington Commanders.
2:30
SPEAKER_00: The pair attended a Los Angeles Dodgers World Series game together later that fall.
2:34
SPEAKER_00: And then the duo was also spotted sitting courtside at Crypto.com Arena supporting the Los Angeles Lakers.
2:40
SPEAKER_00: He also co-starred in a music video for her song Lover Girl, which was released in May as part of her latest album, Locket Deluxe.
2:48
SPEAKER_00: I yeah, I don't really be in white people's business like that, but I will say, gorgeous, gorgeous couple.
2:54
SPEAKER_00: Gorgeous, gorgeous couple.
2:55
SPEAKER_00: Madison Beer and Justin Herbert together kind of look like that rich suburban parent group.
3:03
SPEAKER_00: Parent group.
3:03
SPEAKER_00: I don't know what to call it because my fucking parents weren't together.
3:06
SPEAKER_00: Those rich suburban parents that are still married and they still like each other and go on dates and stuff.
3:12
SPEAKER_00: And the mom always picks up her kids in like workout gear.
3:15
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, you know what I'm saying?
3:16
SPEAKER_00: And like the dad is like always like on the phone.
3:18
SPEAKER_00: Like he's always on the phone.
3:20
SPEAKER_00: And like they they let the high school kids drink at their house because they have they have an insane basement.
3:25
SPEAKER_00: Like they give that, they give very that, they give very that.
3:29
SPEAKER_00: So they got engaged over the weekend, I think, recently.
3:33
SPEAKER_00: I don't know.
3:34
SPEAKER_00: They got engaged, and I love an engagement.
3:36
SPEAKER_00: And that you know what I love more than engagement in a wedding.
3:40
SPEAKER_00: And I would say I'm very excited to see their wedding, but okay, first of all, when I talk about weddings and engagements, because not too much on me, not too much on me.
3:47
SPEAKER_00: Like, like, don't even start.
3:48
SPEAKER_00: I need y'all to act fucking normal.
3:49
SPEAKER_00: I understand that it is not my wedding and it is not my engagement.
3:52
SPEAKER_00: Okay, I'm not trying to be nitpicky.
3:54
SPEAKER_00: If you like it, I love it.
3:55
SPEAKER_00: I'm not trying to yuck anyone's yum.
3:57
SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna give the girls a tea in the real, of what I think.
3:59
SPEAKER_00: And their engagement gave very much, like, there's a trend right now, like for the white women, of like this like farm life, farm style, like very outside in the trees, minimalist thing.
4:13
SPEAKER_00: Like, that is very it.
4:14
SPEAKER_00: Like, you remember when engagements used to be like 75 billion candles and like OD as fuck, you know what I mean?
4:21
SPEAKER_00: And like now it's like I just it's just me and my man, and some candles, and I'm wearing a long flowy skirt, and yeah, it just gives that.
4:30
SPEAKER_00: But I will say, she's wearing white in the photos, and anytime a girl gets engaged and she has on white in the engagement photos, I know she wasn't surprised.
4:40
SPEAKER_00: I know I know she knew it was coming.
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SPEAKER_00: So good for you, Madison.
4:43
SPEAKER_00: I know that they knew it was coming because I how did you just so happen to be white?
4:46
SPEAKER_00: I never believed them when they were like, I was so shocked that I didn't how did you just so happen to be wearing all fucking white?
4:51
SPEAKER_00: Did he tell you that you were going to a yacht party?
4:55
SPEAKER_00: Like a white party?
4:57
SPEAKER_00: Like, why are you in all white?
4:59
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, like so.
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SPEAKER_00: That always makes me think that you knew you were getting proposed, too.
5:02
SPEAKER_00: And when their nails are like done, but it gives like French manicure and it's like very minimalist, it's like, okay, girl, you knew you were getting engaged.
5:09
SPEAKER_00: So he didn't go to the second phase of voluntary workouts for the Chargers.
5:13
SPEAKER_00: Like right now, the NFL teams are in like kind of training camp season and they're all like gearing up for the season.
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SPEAKER_00: And he didn't go to the second phase of voluntary workouts because he wanted to go support her on tour, which is so cute.
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SPEAKER_00: Music boyfriend, love that for him.
5:27
SPEAKER_00: And his coach Harbaugh was asked if he cared that his starting quarterback isn't coming to workouts.
5:32
SPEAKER_00: And he said, uh, I asked him if he needed to ride to the airport.
5:36
SPEAKER_00: Listen, you need to ride to the airport or no.
5:39
SPEAKER_00: Like, I love that.
5:41
SPEAKER_00: Like, I love that.
5:42
SPEAKER_00: If I were a coach, I'd do the same fucking thing.
5:44
SPEAKER_00: You know what I'm saying?
5:45
SPEAKER_00: Like, your wife don't gotta be Taylor Swift for you go sport her on tour.
5:48
SPEAKER_00: This is why people think I'm shady.
5:49
SPEAKER_00: Um, their engagement post has 5.6 million likes, or at least it did when I was making my online yesterday.
5:55
SPEAKER_00: I didn't know people gave a fuck about them like that.
5:57
SPEAKER_00: Like, no shade.
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SPEAKER_00: I didn't know they had motion like that.
6:00
SPEAKER_00: I did not know they had motion like that, but good for them.
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SPEAKER_00: The photos are fucking stunning.
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SPEAKER_00: But to be fair, is it possible to take an ugly picture with Madison Beer?
6:07
SPEAKER_00: I mean, come on.
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SPEAKER_00: Like with the one where he threw her over his shoulder and she's like smiling vertically at the camera.
6:14
SPEAKER_00: I'm like, I would look like I was fucking dying.
6:15
SPEAKER_00: I feel like I would want my engagement to give more that than like Candles big showing jumbotron at a sporting event.
6:24
SPEAKER_00: Like, I would rather it be in the field in the trees.
6:27
SPEAKER_00: All that shit I talked earlier, no, like I'm serious.
6:29
SPEAKER_00: Like, I don't want no public ass embarrassing engagement.
6:32
SPEAKER_00: I'm cool off of that.
6:34
SPEAKER_00: Nia said she only knows of Madison Beer from Justin Beaver like 10 years ago.
6:38
SPEAKER_00: That's how I remember her too.
6:40
SPEAKER_00: But she had that song that went viral on TikTok that was like, uh, that one.
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SPEAKER_00: So good for her.
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SPEAKER_00: And that fight that you can recognize that face card from a mile away.
6:51
SPEAKER_00: So for our hot girl lesson of the day, since a lot of the girls know that Madison Beer got engaged to Justin Herbert I like to do a segment on my TikTok that I call, Is he actually good or is he just her man?
7:02
SPEAKER_00: And today we're gonna be talking about if Justin Herber is actually good.
7:06
SPEAKER_00: And this is kind of a little taste of a preview for NFL content because next week I'm probably gonna do an overview of like who's good and who's not going into NFL season now that the teams are in training camp and we're hearing the rumors, the boom is in the nastiness.
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SPEAKER_00: And my Bravo fans really appreciated me saying that.
7:24
SPEAKER_00: Now let's talk about if Justin Herbert is actually good or is he just dating Madison Beer or engaged to Madison Beer, I should say.
7:31
SPEAKER_00: So he is the starting quarterback for the Los Angeles Chargers.
7:34
SPEAKER_00: And I like to explain the Chargers as kind of like the Clippers of the NFL world because the Chargers don't have motion in LA like the Rams do.
7:45
SPEAKER_00: You know what I'm saying?
7:46
SPEAKER_00: It's kind of like the Clippers don't have motion in LA like the Lakers do.
7:50
SPEAKER_00: They're kind of the stepchild.
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SPEAKER_00: Like they're kind of just there.
7:52
SPEAKER_00: And can we denormalize LA teams having two teams or LA having two teams for everything?
7:59
SPEAKER_00: What the fuck is that necessary for?
8:02
SPEAKER_00: Like, I don't know.
8:02
SPEAKER_00: I feel like there's a city that can get a team that isn't, I mean, it's for money.
8:06
SPEAKER_00: That's what it's for.
8:07
SPEAKER_00: It's for money.
8:08
SPEAKER_00: So I don't, I should shut the fuck up.
8:10
SPEAKER_00: It's literally for money.
8:12
SPEAKER_00: But I do think that there are cities that can have a team that aren't LA.
8:16
SPEAKER_00: I don't know.
8:16
SPEAKER_00: Like, LA doesn't give a fuck about one of the teams each time.
8:19
SPEAKER_00: I'm there are Clippers fans out there.
8:21
SPEAKER_00: Y'all know the Clippers ban me.
8:22
SPEAKER_00: Every time I talk shit about them, I'm like, ugh, here I go again.
8:26
SPEAKER_00: But I don't know.
8:26
SPEAKER_00: I would just rather be in a different city.
8:28
SPEAKER_00: But the Chargers actually used to be in San Diego, but they moved to LA in 2017.
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SPEAKER_00: So they're fairly new in LA.
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SPEAKER_00: That's probably why they don't got motion.
8:36
SPEAKER_00: I went to a Chargers game at SoFi Stadium, and who were they playing?
8:41
SPEAKER_00: Were they playing the Eagles?
8:42
SPEAKER_00: They might have been playing the Eagles.
8:44
SPEAKER_00: They're playing some team that has a big fan base.
8:46
SPEAKER_00: The point is, the other team took over their trap.
8:49
SPEAKER_00: Came in their trap and took over their trap.
8:51
SPEAKER_00: I mean, you didn't hear non Neri, a Chargers fan.
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SPEAKER_00: It was fucking crazy.
8:57
SPEAKER_00: So yeah, they don't have motion.
8:58
SPEAKER_00: But he is 6'6 and 240 pounds and a starting quarterback in the NFL.
9:03
SPEAKER_00: And all of the tallest quarterbacks in the NFL are 6'6.
9:07
SPEAKER_00: So he's like one of the he's the tallest quarterback tied for the tallest quarterback in the NFL.
9:11
SPEAKER_00: I think the other ones are like Trevor Lawrence, and I can't remember the other one.
9:15
SPEAKER_00: Um, so he's tall, he's a big boy.
9:17
SPEAKER_00: Uh, but the 240 pounds means nothing to me.
9:20
SPEAKER_00: I don't know if if you guys like feel the same way, but a male weight is like quantum physics to me.
9:28
SPEAKER_00: Like when I hear how much a man weighs, like he's 6'6, 240, okay?
9:32
SPEAKER_00: That could mean he's fat as fuck, or that could be like I don't know what that means.
9:35
SPEAKER_00: Like a man's weight, it just whooosh, I don't get it.
9:39
SPEAKER_00: I I don't even fucking get it.
9:41
SPEAKER_00: But he's never won a playoff game.
9:43
SPEAKER_00: He's 0-3, but he is a talented player, he's known for being tough.
9:47
SPEAKER_00: He broke his hand in November and then played on it a week later.
9:50
SPEAKER_00: I remember watching that game, and they were like sucking his dick in the in the broadcast.
9:54
SPEAKER_00: Like they were like, he he broke his hand just last week.
9:58
SPEAKER_00: He broke his hand just last week.
9:59
SPEAKER_00: Yes, daddy.
10:00
SPEAKER_00: Like, but I mean, good for him.
10:03
SPEAKER_00: Good for him, you know what I'm saying?
10:05
SPEAKER_00: Like, it was it did give tough.
10:06
SPEAKER_00: If I broke my hand, I would be like bedridden for like two weeks.
10:09
SPEAKER_00: I'm like a bitch, but that's why I'm not an L uh an NFL quarterback.
10:13
SPEAKER_00: And he was drafted sixth overall in 2020.
10:16
SPEAKER_00: And a good rule of thumb, hot girls, is if they're a quarterback and they're drafted in the first round, that usually means they're good.
10:22
SPEAKER_00: Like, that usually means they're good.
10:23
SPEAKER_00: Like, that's a good rule of thumb.
10:24
SPEAKER_00: And especially if they're still starting and they're still around, it usually means that they're good.
10:28
SPEAKER_00: So yeah, I guess the verdict is he is good at football.
10:32
SPEAKER_00: But then everyone in my comments when I did, is he actually good or is he just a man on TikTok was like, I thought you were gonna talk about his political views and his personality.
10:42
SPEAKER_00: Listen, no shade.
10:43
SPEAKER_00: Y'all know I give a fuck about politics.
10:45
SPEAKER_00: I give a fuck about somebody's political views.
10:47
SPEAKER_00: Who gives a fuck that much about Justin Herbert?
10:49
SPEAKER_00: I was just trying to tell the girls if if he's good at football.
10:53
SPEAKER_00: I don't know shit about that man.
10:54
SPEAKER_00: And like maybe one day he'll become he'll be getting like you know, more relevant.
11:00
SPEAKER_00: And so I'll have to talk about like who he is as a person and like care about Justin Herbert that much.
11:05
SPEAKER_00: I'm not marrying him.
11:06
SPEAKER_00: I don't really, I don't know.
11:08
SPEAKER_00: And like, to be fair, most white men in the NFL, I assume Republican unless they tell me otherwise.
11:12
SPEAKER_00: I just I yeah.
11:14
SPEAKER_00: So I wasn't talking about if he's a good person or not.
11:17
SPEAKER_00: I was talking about if he's good at football.
11:19
SPEAKER_00: All right, now enough of that.
11:21
SPEAKER_00: Enough of Madison and Justin.
11:22
SPEAKER_00: Congratulations to them on their love and engagement.
11:24
SPEAKER_00: Beautiful couple.
11:25
SPEAKER_00: I hope they have a beautiful wedding.
11:26
SPEAKER_00: And when they do, best believe we're gonna be looking at them flowers and them dresses, and we're gonna be talking about it, and all the haters are gonna get fucking blocked because don't be weird.
11:35
SPEAKER_00: Don't be weird.
11:36
SPEAKER_00: Let us have fun.
11:37
SPEAKER_00: Okay, I didn't talk about this on TikTok because you guys know, you guys know here on my lives, you are my real family.
11:43
SPEAKER_00: My YouTube family, my Twitch family, my TikTok live family, you guys are the realest, and you deserve to hear what I think about shit straight from the horse's mouth, my mouth.
11:54
SPEAKER_00: And to be honest, when I every time I am forced because this is my fucking job, and talking about the things that matter to me in my personal life, as far as sports are concerned, is my fucking job.
12:05
SPEAKER_00: Every time it leads me to have to discuss Sophie Cunningham or Caitlin Clark, I want to gouge my own eyes out with a fork.
12:14
SPEAKER_00: Because then people are like, well, why do you keep talking about it?
12:17
SPEAKER_00: Because bitch, it's relevant.
12:19
SPEAKER_00: Like that's that's this is what the fuck, this is what the people want to see.
12:21
SPEAKER_00: This is what the people want to hear.
12:22
SPEAKER_00: Like and like the the annoying part is I don't ever have anything nice to say.
12:28
SPEAKER_00: And I think that's the part that people don't like.
12:30
SPEAKER_00: I don't ever think I don't ever have anything nice to fucking say.
12:34
SPEAKER_00: And I actually remember last year at All-Star Weekend, I was in an elevator, just me, Sophie Cunningham, and like the guy she was with.
12:41
SPEAKER_00: And I was like, I hope you've never seen my videos.
12:45
SPEAKER_00: I hope you've never seen my videos.
12:47
SPEAKER_00: It's a good thing, you know.
12:47
SPEAKER_00: I'm I'm getting it in and core power, just kidding, I would never fight her.
12:50
SPEAKER_00: Um, I mean respect to all the people that I cover.
12:52
SPEAKER_00: I would love to sit down and interview Sophie Cunningham.
12:55
SPEAKER_00: Are you kidding me?
12:55
SPEAKER_00: We could have a good conversation, bitch.
12:57
SPEAKER_00: I I believe in having conversations with people who disagree with you, and I fundamentally disagree with her, like wholeheartedly, like down to the outfit choices.
13:06
SPEAKER_00: Like, I see, okay, see, I'm being shady.
13:09
SPEAKER_00: And here I am on live.
13:10
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
13:11
SPEAKER_00: So I'm just gonna read you what happened and then I'll tell you my thoughts.
13:14
SPEAKER_00: So a crowd of a few dozen gathered outside Climate Pledge Arena to support Cunningham and promote statewide initiatives 638 and 11, which would bar transgender students from participating in girls' sports at Washington schools.
13:34
SPEAKER_00: Basically, these people gathered outside of the arena in Seattle when the team was playing The Fever to do a rally, I guess, for Sophie Cunningham in support of her because she said that we should be protecting girls from trans girls in sports.
13:51
SPEAKER_00: Um, I love that that's the hill she chooses to die on.
13:54
SPEAKER_00: That's like my fucking thing.
13:55
SPEAKER_00: Okay, I'm finding it.
13:57
SPEAKER_00: Let me go back to telling you what happened.
13:58
SPEAKER_00: Sophie Cunningham voiced support for barring transgender girls and women from girls and women's sports in an ESPN article published last week.
14:06
SPEAKER_00: She was booed by Storm fans when she checked into Tuesday's game, as well as when attempting her first free throws.
14:13
SPEAKER_00: Reporters asked to speak to both Sophie Cunningham and Caitlin Clark post-game, but neither player was made available.
14:21
SPEAKER_00: Oh my god, I can't with them.
14:24
SPEAKER_00: Kelsey Mitchell and Monique Billings addressed reporters instead, alongside head coach Stephanie White.
14:29
SPEAKER_00: When White was asked about the rally and Cunningham's recent comments, a fever public relations representative intervened with the following statement: Neither our organization nor Sophie had any knowledge of this demonstration and no contact with its organizers.
14:47
SPEAKER_00: The statement said, Our only goal as a team, whether at home or away, is to win basketball games and make Fever fans for life.
14:55
SPEAKER_00: And we are united in that mission.
14:57
SPEAKER_00: Stormhead coach Sonia Sonia Ramon answered a question about the pre-game protest following her team's seventh consecutive loss.
15:05
SPEAKER_00: And she said, Seattle and this organization and Climate Pledge, we always want an arena where people feel welcome coming into the building.
15:14
SPEAKER_00: I think we've always done a really good job with that.
15:16
SPEAKER_00: So I know our organization was working closely with Climate Pledge and the security just to make sure that everyone feels safe and included and welcome when they walk in this door.
15:27
SPEAKER_00: Okay, guys, hold on.
15:30
SPEAKER_00: I gotta hydrate me drinking a protein coffee talking about how to hydrate.
15:34
SPEAKER_00: I'm so fucking annoying.
15:35
SPEAKER_00: That is an excerpt from an article uh from ESPN.
15:38
SPEAKER_00: If you caught the shade after their seventh consecutive loss, because that was crazy.
15:42
SPEAKER_00: But I wanted to explain to you guys what happened in a very black and white way that is not clouded, by my opinion.
15:47
SPEAKER_00: And if you didn't catch what I was saying because I was reading out loud, loud, long story short, Sophie Cunningham in an ESPN article last week made comments about how she is very against trans girls participating in women's sports.
16:01
SPEAKER_00: Okay, she thinks we should protect our girls, that whole fucking thing, okay?
16:05
SPEAKER_00: Made comments about that, then doubled down after people got mad and were like was basically like I don't give a fuck.
16:11
SPEAKER_00: That's my opinion, which honestly I respect.
16:14
SPEAKER_00: I do.
16:15
SPEAKER_00: But that being said, coming into their game against the Seattle storm, obviously in Washington, where these policies, statewide initiatives 638 and 11, which would bar transgender women from or girls from participating in women's sports, this is all happening in Washington.
16:33
SPEAKER_00: So obviously, Sophie Cunningham coming to Seattle.
16:36
SPEAKER_00: They, the people who are very anti-trans girls in girls' sports, are gonna protest.
16:42
SPEAKER_00: Um, but they held a rally in support of Sophie Cunningham before the game, holding posters, signs, whatever, like sucking her dick because she doesn't like trans girls and doesn't want them to, I don't know, doesn't want trans girls to participate in sports, fine.
16:57
SPEAKER_00: So they boo her when she checks into the game, the Seattle Storm fans.
17:03
SPEAKER_00: And then post-game, Sophie Cunningham and Caitlin Clark aren't made available for media to answer questions.
17:11
SPEAKER_00: And and you know what I find interesting?
17:13
SPEAKER_00: Why the fuck wasn't why the fuck wasn't Caitlin available?
17:18
SPEAKER_00: She didn't make the comments.
17:19
SPEAKER_00: So why the fuck wasn't Caitlin available?
17:21
SPEAKER_00: Can somebody answer me on this?
17:22
SPEAKER_00: Because before I go off, I'm just trying to understand why couldn't Caitlin speak to the media after the game.
17:29
SPEAKER_00: It was Sophie who made the comments.
17:32
SPEAKER_00: And instead of Stephanie White answering for it, they have a PR representative come and say, We had no knowledge of this demonstration, no contact with the organizers.
17:43
SPEAKER_00: Our only goal as a team, whether at home or away, is to win basketball games and win basketball games and make fever fans for life.
17:50
SPEAKER_00: And we are united in that mission.
17:52
SPEAKER_00: I've said this about Caitlin Clark before, but it's an overall Indiana fever problem.
17:59
SPEAKER_00: Uh, I think it would be beautiful if we lived in a world where you could just go play basketball and that be it.
18:04
SPEAKER_00: I think that that would be great if we could just if if all people gave a fuck about was you playing basketball and you could just go out and hoop and that's it.
18:12
SPEAKER_00: I like that about Caitlin Clark, that she prioritizes playing basketball over everything else and over all the noise.
18:18
SPEAKER_00: Like I think that that's cool of her and she should have that right.
18:21
SPEAKER_00: But at the same time, you're not gonna be cashing in millions and millions on Gatorade deals and Nike deals and this, that, and the third if it's only about what happens on the court.
18:32
SPEAKER_00: The off-the-court stuff is pushing the league forward and making more people care.
18:38
SPEAKER_00: It's putting more money in your pocket.
18:40
SPEAKER_00: It's a big part of marketing the WNBA, just like any other game.
18:45
SPEAKER_00: That getting to know the players and the players' personal lives outside of the sport is a it's larger than life, and a lot of times larger than just what goes on in the court.
18:54
SPEAKER_00: That is reality, that is marketing, that is business, that is a fundamental truth when it comes to sports.
19:00
SPEAKER_00: Think about how much money Taylor Swift made the NFL, and she's not even a football player.
19:04
SPEAKER_00: And if you you if you can't connect the dots and be normal, because I can hear you guys now.
19:09
SPEAKER_00: What does that have to do with anything?
19:10
SPEAKER_00: Guys, connect the dots and be normal.
19:12
SPEAKER_00: Off the field, off-the-court stuff matters.
19:15
SPEAKER_00: It's just a part of it now.
19:17
SPEAKER_00: And I wish that we could live in a world where it was just about basketball, but it's not.
19:22
SPEAKER_00: And it not being just about basketball is benefiting all of you.
19:25
SPEAKER_00: Matter of fact, a big reason why people give more of a fuck about the WNBA than they used to is because of an off-the-court narrative that spun about Caitlin and Angel in college and how people attach themselves to that narrative and that story.
19:39
SPEAKER_00: Is that a positive thing entirely?
19:42
SPEAKER_00: Probably not.
19:43
SPEAKER_00: You know, it probably isn't.
19:44
SPEAKER_00: And it did result in a lot of negativity specifically for Angel and probably a lot of headaches for Caitlin as well.
19:50
SPEAKER_00: It is it comes with a lot of annoyingness, but at the same time, it came with a lot of growth for the league.
19:56
SPEAKER_00: I say this all the time being a content creator, like a side effect for being successful at my job is more people seeing me and more people having something to say about me.
20:05
SPEAKER_00: And that is not always gonna be positive because just like I don't like everybody, everybody's not gonna like me.
20:10
SPEAKER_00: And that is a side effect of my job that I'm going to have to live with for the rest of my life.
20:15
SPEAKER_00: And a side effect of Caitlin Clark's job and the Indiana fever as an organization is people are going to have things to say about them that have nothing to do with basketball.
20:25
SPEAKER_00: And this whole narrative of like trying to turn it back to basketball and this constant, like, well, all I care about is basketball, is only making you look like you don't, you, you're dense.
20:36
SPEAKER_00: You look dense now.
20:37
SPEAKER_00: And I just think Caitlin's team, and this is like in favor of her, like this is not me hating.
20:43
SPEAKER_00: Caitlin's team needs to come up with a better strategy for this because they are actually trying to pass like legislation to stop people from fouling her.
20:54
SPEAKER_00: Like, this is gone like I'm unfortunately, your existence as a basketball player has been politicized.
21:01
SPEAKER_00: I trust me, I know it sucks.
21:03
SPEAKER_00: I'm a black woman.
21:04
SPEAKER_00: Everything about my existence is politicized.
21:05
SPEAKER_00: It fucking sucks.
21:06
SPEAKER_00: Okay, but at the same time, it is just like a tax you have to pay to have a lot of attention.
21:12
SPEAKER_00: Is sometimes that attention becomes about more than just your talent.
21:16
SPEAKER_00: Okay?
21:16
SPEAKER_00: Zindea is currently doing press for the Spider-Man movie.
21:20
SPEAKER_00: And as much as she would just want people to ask her about her acting, people give a lot of a fuck about a lot of things that have nothing to do with the movie, her relationship with Tom Holland, her outfits, this, that, the other, and the third, her personal life.
21:31
SPEAKER_00: That is a part of the entertainment business and sports or entertainment.
21:34
SPEAKER_00: And so I just think her team and the Indiana Fever's PR needs to come up with a better strategy because when people are rallying behind one of your players because of something that has nothing to do, well, little to do with basketball, but you get what I'm saying.
21:47
SPEAKER_00: Nothing to do with tonight's game and the scheme of tonight's game.
21:50
SPEAKER_00: When that's happening, you need to come up with a better answer than our focus is basketball.
21:55
SPEAKER_00: Bitch, answer the fucking question.
21:57
SPEAKER_00: There was a rally behind one of you.
22:00
SPEAKER_00: Players, mind you, a big, a big part of the WNBA's fan base are the LGBT community.
22:07
SPEAKER_00: The LGBTQ community are a huge part of the WNBA's fan base.
22:13
SPEAKER_00: So to kind of say fuck you to the T is like stupid to me.
22:18
SPEAKER_00: It's stupid to me.
22:19
SPEAKER_00: Like you could have literally said, like come up with something to actually hit the nail on the head.
22:24
SPEAKER_00: Constantly beating around the bush is ridiculous.
22:28
SPEAKER_00: It's ridiculous.
22:29
SPEAKER_00: And like I understand, like you don't want to have to answer to these laws and you're not legislation, you're not fucking in the government, you're not, you know, the president.
22:36
SPEAKER_00: I get it.
22:36
SPEAKER_00: You're the Indiana Fever, you're a basketball organization.
22:39
SPEAKER_00: But if the goal is to protect your players and to bring the attention back to basketball, hitting the nail on the head and actually addressing problems head on would get you to that point of focusing on basketball a lot faster than giving people more to talk about and spend narratives about by avoiding the questions altogether because you know they're coming.
22:57
SPEAKER_00: So that's about Caitlin not making herself available for the media and Stephanie White not answering a question for herself and the PR person's stupid fucking answer.
23:04
SPEAKER_00: All of that shit was stupid to me.
23:06
SPEAKER_00: But more specifically, Sophie Cunningham.
23:12
SPEAKER_00: Sophie Cunningham.
23:14
SPEAKER_00: I think her choosing not to talk to the media after that game is fucking cowardly.
23:21
SPEAKER_00: Oh my god, it's so cowardly, it's embarrassing.
23:24
SPEAKER_00: It's like, because girl, sack the fuck up.
23:27
SPEAKER_00: You started all of this fucking shit.
23:29
SPEAKER_00: And matter of a fact, and people say this outside of the WNBA, you guys, because you know I cover a wide array of sports.
23:36
SPEAKER_00: And specifically in the NFL, I think they do a very good job of this, like nobody's bigger than the program kind of mentality.
23:42
SPEAKER_00: I know a lot of times it kind of like holds black players down and is a little bit like, but this nobody's bigger than the shield mentality.
23:50
SPEAKER_00: Whereas somebody being distracting in the locker room, somebody making certain comments in public, somebody doing something that diverts from the goal, like in an ESPN article saying trans girls shouldn't play sports, blah, blah, blah, blah, is distracting for everyone in the locker room.
24:04
SPEAKER_00: And I think if you're playing for an organization like the Indiana Fever that does only want to focus on basketball, and a star for a kid like Caitlin Clark, who does only want to focus on basketball, making those comments kind of fucks with the mission a little bit.
24:16
SPEAKER_00: Because if you're gonna have a player out here being like, well, fuck trans girls in sports, da-da-da-da.
24:21
SPEAKER_00: Protect women and da da.
24:22
SPEAKER_00: You can't be shocked and want to guard and shield everybody when it comes time to answer for that shit.
24:27
SPEAKER_00: And as a part of a team, everyone's gonna have to answer for that shit.
24:30
SPEAKER_00: As WNBA players, they're all employees.
24:33
SPEAKER_00: They all work for a company, right?
24:35
SPEAKER_00: And I've gotten to a point with politics where here's how it goes, right?
24:39
SPEAKER_00: Being a sports reporter, sports journalist, sports broadcaster, I have to work with people all the time that have different political views than me.
24:46
SPEAKER_00: And as much as I would love to live in a world where I could like sit down and be like, no, this is why you shouldn't be homophobic, this is why you shouldn't be racist, this is why at times you guys, we've got to put our head down and work and get the job done.
24:58
SPEAKER_00: And that's just like what it is.
24:59
SPEAKER_00: And that's what a lot of these athletes have to do.
25:01
SPEAKER_00: Okay, they have to play sports with people who think differently.
25:03
SPEAKER_00: Could you imagine being a black, clear, a black, queer woman having to play basketball with Sophie Cunningham?
25:12
SPEAKER_00: Child, but what you gonna do?
25:14
SPEAKER_00: Fucking ignore her and hate her and then like divert from the mission of winning at the end of the day, the mission's winning, right?
25:19
SPEAKER_00: And so her making comments like that, it just puts everyone in an awkward fucking situation.
25:24
SPEAKER_00: It really does.
25:25
SPEAKER_00: It really does.
25:26
SPEAKER_00: If you just want us to focus on basketball, then only talk about fucking basketball.
25:29
SPEAKER_00: And then when something is brought up, make a clear statement about it.
25:33
SPEAKER_00: But to hide from the fucking media, duck the smoke, after you incited this rally is is bullshit.
25:41
SPEAKER_00: It's bullshit.
25:42
SPEAKER_00: And yeah, so basically my point is at another date, I do want to make a very I haven't spoken on the trans women and girls in sports situation a lot.
25:52
SPEAKER_00: I did stand up for Blair, the volleyball player that teams were refusing to play against, and blah, blah, blah.
25:58
SPEAKER_00: Like I haven't, I want to make a very clear, concise, and educational video about my, not even necessarily my opinion, but my research about trans girls in sports, because I really want to have an educated opinion and viewpoint on it.
26:09
SPEAKER_00: Because I do think that the people on one side of the issue truly believe that they're like protecting girls.
26:15
SPEAKER_00: And then the people on the other side of the issue, myself and the others, are kind of like, if you want to protect women and girls, there are like way more steps we can take towards that that like are a lot less like fear-mongering and like hateful than just focusing on trans girls.
26:34
SPEAKER_00: Like a big issue, and this is just from my personal experience playing youth sports, being around girls who played youth sports.
26:42
SPEAKER_00: A big issue in the youth sports world that we we should really talk about is these male coaches and how they're treating these girls.
26:50
SPEAKER_00: I remember having friends that had men put faux uh cameras in their lockers so they could see them change in the locker room and shit like that.
26:58
SPEAKER_00: Those are things that affect every single girl on the team.
27:01
SPEAKER_00: It should be us against those kind of issues that are like super prevalent in sports and have been for years and years and years.
27:08
SPEAKER_00: Yet a lot of these people in the White House who all of a sudden are so gung ho on protecting young girls, then let us see the fucking Epstein files.
27:21
SPEAKER_00: Y'all protect young girls.
27:25
SPEAKER_00: Trump?
27:26
SPEAKER_00: Oh, oh, bitch.
27:28
SPEAKER_00: Like a bitch like Sophie Cunningham wanna say, protect girls.
27:32
SPEAKER_00: Bitch, you're a Trump supporter.
27:35
SPEAKER_00: Bitch, you're a Trump supporter.
27:37
SPEAKER_00: Don't wanna please, please, please, please, watch your fucking mouth when it comes to protecting women, bitch.
27:43
SPEAKER_00: Oh, now I'm getting angry.
27:45
SPEAKER_00: Watch your fucking You're a Trumpy.
27:48
SPEAKER_00: And you talking about some damn protect girls, girl, fuck you.
27:51
SPEAKER_00: That's such a non-issue.
27:53
SPEAKER_00: That's such a non-fucking issue.
27:55
SPEAKER_00: What about the young girls who were violated by those men?
27:59
SPEAKER_00: Please, please.
28:00
SPEAKER_00: Oh my god, you shaking hands and dapping up with Dave fucking Portnoy.
28:05
SPEAKER_00: Oh, honey, protect girls.
28:07
SPEAKER_00: Get the fuck out of here with that fucking bullshit, Sophie Cunningham.
28:11
SPEAKER_00: Bitch, girl, uh, uh, uh, protect girls.
28:15
SPEAKER_00: You call you your nickname is MAGA Barbie, you pander to Republicans all fucking day.
28:20
SPEAKER_00: You running around playing ring girl, and you talking about some fucking protect girls.
28:24
SPEAKER_00: Baby girl, please, please, please.
28:28
SPEAKER_00: Anyone who would allow the world to even project being MAGA, supporting a man who is the antithesis of supporting young girls.
28:43
SPEAKER_00: And then saying the reason you don't want trans girls in sports is because you want to protect young girls is fucking brain dead.
28:50
SPEAKER_00: And I don't, these Republicans, I I'm so, but like, this is a big reason I don't talk about this on TikTok anymore, is because they are so convinced.
28:59
SPEAKER_00: They're so stuck in their ways, they're so convinced, they're so like it's almost sad how like uneducated they are and how committed they are to hating anything that is different and anything that they don't understand.
29:11
SPEAKER_00: That at some point, like I'm not gonna keep arguing about it or putting myself on Front Street to get hate from these people because I also am something that triggers them.
29:19
SPEAKER_00: So it's like I don't, I'm not even gonna waste my fucking time.
29:22
SPEAKER_00: But here's how, here's where I stand on the issue, and then another day we're gonna have like a much more long-winded educational discussion about trans girls in sports.
29:30
SPEAKER_00: But here's how I stand, just in case anybody's confused.
29:33
SPEAKER_00: Just because you don't understand something does not mean you have to reject it, does not mean you have to hate it, and does not mean it's not real or true.
29:42
SPEAKER_00: How someone else chooses to live their life should not fucking bother you.
29:47
SPEAKER_00: I saw a video the other day talking about how homophobia, transphobia, that shit should be fucking embarrassing, actually.
29:54
SPEAKER_00: That shit should be fucking embarrassing because why the fuck do you care?
29:57
SPEAKER_00: Why does a trans person's existence bother you?
30:01
SPEAKER_00: Why are you so like uncomfortable by the idea that somebody simply wants to live their life in a way that is different from you?
30:08
SPEAKER_00: I believe in God, right?
30:10
SPEAKER_00: I believe in Jesus Christ.
30:11
SPEAKER_00: And a lot of people try to use Christianity as an excuse to be homophobic, but it's like Jesus hung out with the prostitutes, Jesus hung out with the liars and the scammers and the people that everyone cast out and judge.
30:22
SPEAKER_00: I I don't understand where you guys got this idea that like being holier than thou and looking down on the gay community and the LGBT community makes you any better.
30:32
SPEAKER_00: Are you joking?
30:33
SPEAKER_00: And like these are grown adults, these are grown adults, and it's sad because a lot of these viewpoints are getting passed on to children, and then that's gonna exist in the future generations, and it's just like we I personally as a person have too much going on in my fucking life to be worried about somebody else.
30:48
SPEAKER_00: But I also think when it comes to trans people in sports, it feels like kicking somebody while they're down to be like, oh, and you can't play sports when it's just like what it how prevalent is this issue, you know?
31:00
SPEAKER_00: Like how how prevalent is this issue?
31:03
SPEAKER_00: I don't necessarily care.
31:05
SPEAKER_00: I don't fucking care.
31:07
SPEAKER_00: And like the idea, and I hope any trans people that are watching, I hope that this doesn't come off, and this is why I need to have a more educated conversation about it down the line.
31:14
SPEAKER_00: But my thought process about it always was so like Riley Gaines, like the bitch who got fifth and made her whole personality.
31:21
SPEAKER_00: My thing is like, so do you do bitches like Sophie Cunningham and Riley Gaines think that men are gonna like go through a full transition and become a trans woman just so that they can win in sports and like beat women?
31:37
SPEAKER_00: Like, is that what they think this is or or do they think that like predatory men are going to literally go through a full transition, have surgery, take medication, like go through a full transition to become a woman to like prey on women?
31:52
SPEAKER_00: And then if we're talking about youth sports, my confusion is like these are children, like a trans child, like an eight-year-old, you think that a a boy is gonna go through a full transition just to go into the locker room and be like what?
32:08
SPEAKER_00: Like, I just don't so like someone in the comments just that if Dwight Howard chose to transition and go play Pro Ball in a woman's league, what would happen?
32:17
SPEAKER_00: What do y'all think happens when someone transitions?
32:19
SPEAKER_00: Like, do you think that they like like you think Dwight Howard could be like, you know what?
32:25
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I'm gonna be trans.
32:26
SPEAKER_00: And it's gonna be like this very easy process that's gonna happen by tomorrow, and then like he's gonna all of a sudden be in the WBA.
32:32
SPEAKER_00: Like, what?
32:33
SPEAKER_00: Like, y'all are being unrealistic.
32:35
SPEAKER_00: I I I like y'all are being unrealistic.
32:38
SPEAKER_00: I I'm sorry.
32:40
SPEAKER_00: We're gonna move on from this topic, but I don't get it.
32:44
SPEAKER_00: I'm sorry.
32:45
SPEAKER_00: Okay, staying in the WBA.
32:49
SPEAKER_00: Let's move on to someone say I say good for Dwight Howard for living her truth.
32:55
SPEAKER_00: Like, honestly, be who you are.
33:00
SPEAKER_00: Who fucking cares?
33:02
SPEAKER_00: Who fucking cares?
33:03
SPEAKER_00: Y'all are annoying, y'all are so annoying.
33:07
SPEAKER_00: I can't, and also, like, I do think uh sorry, I'm so on this.
33:12
SPEAKER_00: I do think like when it comes to Dwight Howard specifically in the situation, like we have, I mean, I don't know, let me not say when it comes to Dwight Howard, but in general, like you don't think that gay men exist in men's sports, like like look at Caitlin Jenner, for example.
33:29
SPEAKER_00: I'm not saying she's a gay man, I'm saying she's trans, but like, you don't think that dynamic exists within men's sports?
33:35
SPEAKER_00: They're just too shamed to actually live in their truth.
33:39
SPEAKER_00: I think, and uh again, this is just my opinion and my personal experience.
33:42
SPEAKER_00: I love anybody who knows me knows I love the LGBTQ community.
33:47
SPEAKER_00: Like, I grew up going to Christian schools where people were like deeply homophobic, and like I had a friend that got kicked out of school for being a lesbian, like it's like around deeply homophobic people, and like as like I grow and like when I got to college and like in high school, like I just love the LGBTQ community so much.
34:03
SPEAKER_00: I don't mean that to be weird, but I just do, and I think like being who you are is so brave in a world that might just like shut you down.
34:10
SPEAKER_00: I don't I don't think anyone should be shut down for like wanting to be in a relationship for a certain with a certain person or wanting to dress certainly.
34:15
SPEAKER_00: I think that shit is stupid, but I would be more scared of a closeted man any day than I would be of a trans woman who is out living her truth and getting to live her life in a way that is comfortable for her.
34:33
SPEAKER_00: There's actually nothing scarier to me than a closeted man.
34:36
SPEAKER_00: I I would, if we would just accept people for who they are and let people transition as they want to transition and do what they want to do, but yeah, I think we'd live in a lot less of a scary world.
34:44
SPEAKER_00: But hey, let's get into tea time.
34:48
SPEAKER_00: I'm like running over on time, so we're just gonna do one more segment and then I'll talk about why LeBron actually chose Philly and a TikTok probably.
34:57
SPEAKER_00: So for tea time, we're going to be talking about WNBA All-Star Weekend and all of the crazy fucking shit that went down.
35:05
SPEAKER_00: Okay?
35:05
SPEAKER_00: First and foremost, the Stud Buds year two live stream.
35:09
SPEAKER_00: So the Stud Buds live stream, can I just say they deserve so much coin for the way they've promoted WNBA All-Star Weekend and what they've turned WNBA All-Star Weekend into with the stream.
35:20
SPEAKER_00: I think that the Stud Bud stream has made so many people who have never cared about WBA All-Star care.
35:25
SPEAKER_00: And they're funny as fuck.
35:27
SPEAKER_00: Like, funny as fuck.
35:29
SPEAKER_00: There's so many iconic moments from the stream.
35:31
SPEAKER_00: I mean, like, it's so good.
35:33
SPEAKER_00: But they had year two, it was actually sponsored by ATT, which is funny because anybody, anybody who watches my live streams knows my beef with ATT, but I mean, good for them.
35:44
SPEAKER_00: Angel Reese dropped a Barbie.
35:46
SPEAKER_00: Um, she is the the second WNBA player ever behind Suberd to drop a Barbie and the first black player to have a Barbie.
35:55
SPEAKER_00: And I do want to put this in perspective.
35:56
SPEAKER_00: I don't, I don't want to sound any kind of way when I say this, but what comes to my mind when I hear Angel Reese was the is the first black WNBA player to receive a Barbie.
36:05
SPEAKER_00: And a white player had gotten one before.
36:07
SPEAKER_00: I think part of what makes, and I I hope you guys don't take this the wrong way.
36:10
SPEAKER_00: I think part of what makes this experience so beautiful to me is the fact that it makes Angel the first black woman to be a basketball player, but also be presented as a Barbie.
36:24
SPEAKER_00: Like be presented as this like feminine, beautiful, and I'm not saying you have to be that to be an athlete, obviously.
36:30
SPEAKER_00: Like all different types of beauty exist in the WNBA, but specifically to have a woman who is the black Barbie in the WNBA and be presented as feminine in her in a basketball uniform, mind you, like as a Barbie.
36:46
SPEAKER_00: I don't think people understand how important those little things are for little girls growing up.
36:52
SPEAKER_00: Because I'm trying to like, when I'm on live, I speak as I think.
36:57
SPEAKER_00: Little girls, like when I was growing up, be playing basketball, like there's this narrative around playing basketball that, like, if I put my kid in basketball, they're gonna be gay, which like who gives a fuck, but like fine.
37:06
SPEAKER_00: We'll live in that world for a second, right?
37:08
SPEAKER_00: It's like presenting black women who play sports in all different kinds of ways.
37:12
SPEAKER_00: Like, yes, you can be feminine and be beautiful and be a Barbie doll and be interested in makeup and be interested in your hair, and it doesn't make you like ditzy or stupid or fast or less good as your at your sport.
37:23
SPEAKER_00: Like, I think a lot of black women are sexualized unnecessarily for like wanting to look beautiful.
37:30
SPEAKER_00: Like, that has definitely been prevalent in my experience.
37:32
SPEAKER_00: I don't know if I'm like off base here, chat.
37:34
SPEAKER_00: You can let me know.
37:35
SPEAKER_00: But having Angel Reese be presented as feminine and Barbie licious and just gorgeous in her little basketball uniform as a Barbie is like as a black woman, that is something that is very meaningful to me beyond just it being a doll.
37:51
SPEAKER_00: And maybe that's me reading too much into shit, but I think that that's really special.
37:56
SPEAKER_00: And so I'm very happy for her for being the first black WNBA player to receive a Barbie doll and be presented in that way.
38:03
SPEAKER_00: I think that there's representation.
38:04
SPEAKER_00: Barbies can look all kinds of ways, and femininity can come in all shapes and sizes and forms.
38:09
SPEAKER_00: Like, I'm not trying to say that, but I just think that it's beautiful to see a black woman just get to be pretty and like get to be fabulous and like also get to be a fucking athlete and a stud.
38:19
SPEAKER_00: So, yeah.
38:21
SPEAKER_00: Someone said you should support her by buying one since you like it.
38:24
SPEAKER_00: It's sold out, you fucking dicker.
38:26
SPEAKER_00: God, people are so annoying.
38:28
SPEAKER_00: Shout out to Angela, Barbie sold out.
38:30
SPEAKER_00: What tea?
38:31
SPEAKER_00: And if they're back in stock, let me know.
38:32
SPEAKER_00: I will buy one 100%.
38:34
SPEAKER_00: I just had a niece.
38:35
SPEAKER_00: Of course, I would buy her an Angel Reese Barbie doll.
38:38
SPEAKER_00: Especially as a girl who grew up loving Barbie because she could do anything and look cute while doing so.
38:43
SPEAKER_00: Right.
38:44
SPEAKER_00: I was a Barbie girl down when I was little.
38:46
SPEAKER_00: Oh, oh my god, I love my I love Barbies and my mom like only bought me black Barbies.
38:50
SPEAKER_00: White people are gonna be like, that's fucking racist, but okay.
38:56
SPEAKER_00: Next, AZ Fudd won the three-point contest.
38:58
SPEAKER_00: She was the first rookie to do so.
39:00
SPEAKER_00: I still remember seeing Sabrina break that record in person in Vegas at my first WNBA All-Star weekend, and I've I haven't seen shit like it since.
39:08
SPEAKER_00: I do find it interesting that they said Sabrina declined and then she like didn't.
39:12
SPEAKER_00: Like Sabrina was like, I didn't decline, I was never properly invited.
39:15
SPEAKER_00: Like, just say you didn't want her to win again.
39:17
SPEAKER_00: I don't know.
39:18
SPEAKER_00: Next, Barack Obama meeting the WNBA players.
39:24
SPEAKER_00: Guys, if you know me, you know.
39:27
SPEAKER_00: There are three people that I could meet on this planet that I would be starstruck over.
39:33
SPEAKER_00: Okay?
39:33
SPEAKER_00: Chat, you can guess, you can guess who they are, right?
39:37
SPEAKER_00: Number one is Barack Obama.
39:39
SPEAKER_00: If I'm at Barack Obama, like there's something so presidential about him.
39:43
SPEAKER_00: Like, and he was the first black president, and that was like such a time in my life.
39:46
SPEAKER_00: Barack Obama, number two is Michelle Obama, and number three is Beyonce.
39:52
SPEAKER_00: I will add, I will add an honorable mention for my favorite basketball player of all time, Wardell Stephan Curry.
40:00
SPEAKER_00: I would die if I met Steph, but like not in the same way, like it wouldn't be in a starstruck kind of way, it would just be like in a like, holy shit, this is cool kind of way.
40:06
SPEAKER_00: Because I've sat courtside and saw stuff.
40:08
SPEAKER_00: Like, I don't know, athletes feel a little bit more accessible, and like like meeting Beyonce or the Obamas would be like crazy.
40:15
SPEAKER_00: So yeah, but he met all the players, it was so cute to see all their reactions, like Caitlin Clark being like a fan.
40:22
SPEAKER_00: And I do like that the I do like that Barack spoke life into her in the sense that he was like, My daughters are your age, like having all this intention at this age, because I get it to a way smaller scale, is like fucking overwhelming.
40:32
SPEAKER_00: And like, so hearing that from Barack Obama, imagine how crazy that is.
40:36
SPEAKER_00: Paige Becker saying that she gained aura from shaking his hand, like is the most Paige Becker shit I've ever seen.
40:41
SPEAKER_00: And oh my god, by the way, did you guys see that video of Paige Becker saying if she could switch lives with a celebrity, it would be Tom Holland?
40:48
SPEAKER_00: And she answered Tom Holland, and it was a like she Tom Holland, it was Tom Holland so that she could have Sandea.
40:57
SPEAKER_00: Like she is so anyways, uh Angel Reese like taking pictures of herself and the two girls with the it's it's just like fucking iconic, and it's cool to see Barack give the same level like of attention and you know, one-on-one time to WNBA players in women's sports as knowing everyone, everyone knows that he's a men's sports fan.
41:18
SPEAKER_00: So it was fat.
41:19
SPEAKER_00: Like, it was fine.
41:20
SPEAKER_00: I loved it.
41:22
SPEAKER_00: There was a record-setting crowd of 19,000 fans.
41:26
SPEAKER_00: I was there.
41:27
SPEAKER_00: The United Center is fucking huge.
41:29
SPEAKER_00: It makes sense to the Bulls, like, you know, they have all of that championship history.
41:33
SPEAKER_00: Not to call my sister out, but she was like, I can't think of stars that played for the Bulls, and I'm like, uh, Michael Jordan, but I forget my sister was born in 2006, so that was like way before her time.
41:43
SPEAKER_00: And she, it was just like a lapse, like she just couldn't remember because it was so fucking long ago.
41:47
SPEAKER_00: I feel like it's been a minute since they were relevant.
41:48
SPEAKER_00: You have like Derek Rose, but like right now the Bulls are just kind of like, but that arena is you know really sick, and it does give like oh championships, championships led to this, and it's like, yeah, whatever.
42:02
SPEAKER_00: But that's the whole point.
42:02
SPEAKER_00: They had 19,000 people in the arena, and to put that in perspective, not to compare to the MNBA, I'm not even because people are gonna die, uh TV and but there are 15,000 people at the Intuit Dome for the MNBA all-star game.
42:17
SPEAKER_00: I was not there.
42:18
SPEAKER_00: This was the first year I haven't gone since I started my career.
42:21
SPEAKER_00: I was like, I'm not about to sit down and watch a bunch of men not not try.
42:25
SPEAKER_00: To be fair though, the woman didn't try either.
42:26
SPEAKER_00: Asia Wilson didn't even put her hair in a ponytail.
42:29
SPEAKER_00: So yeah.
42:31
SPEAKER_00: Someone said the Angel Reese Barbie doll is available on Target's website right now if you want to support her.
42:36
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
42:37
SPEAKER_00: Shit.
42:38
SPEAKER_00: Fuck, let me look it up myself.
42:39
SPEAKER_00: They're bullying me.
42:40
SPEAKER_00: Hold on.
42:41
SPEAKER_00: Someone's already selling, reselling their Angel Reese Barbie doll on eBay for$94.
42:47
SPEAKER_00: You greedy fucks.
42:49
SPEAKER_00: Now I'm getting cussed out for you for Target.
42:52
SPEAKER_00: You know what?
42:53
SPEAKER_00: I'll talk to y'all later.
42:55
SPEAKER_00: I can't, I can't, I can't, I can't, I can't, I can't, I can't, I can't.
42:58
SPEAKER_00: I forgot.
42:59
SPEAKER_00: I'm sorry, I'm sorry, fuck.
43:00
SPEAKER_00: We divorced Target.
43:02
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
43:02
SPEAKER_00: Moving on to the next part of my live, all right?
43:04
SPEAKER_00: Shit, fuck.
43:06
SPEAKER_00: I can't do no.
43:07
SPEAKER_00: Do you guys see?
43:08
SPEAKER_00: This is the life, this is the life.
43:09
SPEAKER_00: This is the life right now.
43:11
SPEAKER_00: I get bullied for not buying the Barbie, and then I get bullied because the only place that it's available is at Target.
43:15
SPEAKER_00: Well fuck, well shit, we'll fuck me.
43:17
SPEAKER_00: Sideways.
43:18
SPEAKER_00: Somebody tell me it's another place to get the Angel Reese Barbie other than fucking Target because I'm not trying to get cussed out.
43:22
SPEAKER_00: You know how they be.
43:23
SPEAKER_00: All right, next topic.
43:24
SPEAKER_00: Okay, so I'm at the All-Star game, right?
43:27
SPEAKER_00: Let me tell you something.
43:28
SPEAKER_00: How you know the girls got got big fat cash now?
43:33
SPEAKER_00: They weren't trying worth of nothing.
43:35
SPEAKER_00: And here's my thing.
43:36
SPEAKER_00: I love that for them.
43:37
SPEAKER_00: For some reason, I've been at WNBA All-Star for the last like four, maybe five years, and NBA All-Star for the last like five, maybe six years.
43:45
SPEAKER_00: A lot of time I haven't going to these all star games.
43:47
SPEAKER_00: And something about them watching the men not try, I'm like, you fucking losers, fucking voice.
43:51
SPEAKER_00: I'm like, cash.
43:52
SPEAKER_00: I don't even pay for the tickets and I'm like wasting my fucking money.
43:56
SPEAKER_00: Ugh.
43:56
SPEAKER_00: Like it irritated me so bad I didn't even go this year.
43:58
SPEAKER_00: But something about watching the girls.
44:00
SPEAKER_00: Not try.
44:00
SPEAKER_00: I'm y'all know that sound on TikTok if it's like blah blah blah proper name stuff because I'm looking at everybody's hair, I'm like, I'm watching them giggle, and I'm like, look at girlhood.
44:12
SPEAKER_00: Angel's got pink hair, Asia's got her hair down, no leg sleeve.
44:17
SPEAKER_00: At one point, Asia's like, I'm wearing a dress and the thing is down.
44:20
SPEAKER_00: I'm looking at Ellie the elephant.
44:21
SPEAKER_00: I'm like, I'm drinking my margarita.
44:23
SPEAKER_00: I'm having the time of my life.
44:25
SPEAKER_00: Oh, Angel's here.
44:27
SPEAKER_00: Hey Angel.
44:28
SPEAKER_00: Angel Reese in the chat.
44:31
SPEAKER_00: What?
44:32
SPEAKER_00: Period.
44:33
SPEAKER_00: I love the look, they're cussing me out still.
44:35
SPEAKER_00: Mariah, look, look at the chat.
44:36
SPEAKER_00: Angel Reese is here.
44:38
SPEAKER_00: Hi, Angel.
44:39
SPEAKER_00: Love you down.
44:40
SPEAKER_00: Remember when I was your defense attorney in that one video and they cussed me out?
44:43
SPEAKER_00: She said, girl, your chat is late, Ella Male.
44:46
SPEAKER_00: Hey, Angel girl.
44:48
SPEAKER_00: Period.
44:49
SPEAKER_00: Oh, she said she'll send me a Barbie.
44:54
SPEAKER_00: Period.
44:54
SPEAKER_00: Because I my niece is gonna have an Angel Reese Barbie, and I'm gonna tell her.
44:58
SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna say, you don't you don't understand how iconic this era is.
45:01
SPEAKER_00: Oh my god, that's making me feel old.
45:03
SPEAKER_00: But I'm gonna give her that Barbie, and it's gonna be iconic as fuck.
45:06
SPEAKER_00: I mean, after it sits in my office.
45:08
SPEAKER_00: Angel, you're gonna sit like there next to Mariah Carey.
45:12
SPEAKER_00: I hope you like Mariah Carey.
45:14
SPEAKER_00: I love it.
45:15
SPEAKER_00: Yay! Angel Reese in the chat.
45:17
SPEAKER_00: Wait, this is so fun.
45:19
SPEAKER_00: Yay! I can't wait till I get my Barbie.
45:22
SPEAKER_00: I love it.
45:23
SPEAKER_00: Oh, she's gonna sit, she said she loves Mariah.
45:25
SPEAKER_00: So Angel is gonna sit right there next to Mariah and they're gonna be like, and it's gonna be beautiful.
45:32
SPEAKER_00: I love this for us.
45:34
SPEAKER_00: Ah, bye, Angel.
45:36
SPEAKER_00: Talk soon.
45:37
unknown: Ah!
45:38
SPEAKER_00: I love that she was here.
45:40
SPEAKER_00: I love my life.
45:41
SPEAKER_00: Isn't this cool?
45:43
SPEAKER_00: Pink hearts for the Barbie.
45:45
SPEAKER_00: Yes.
45:46
SPEAKER_00: Yes.
45:47
SPEAKER_00: Does this mean I uh I feel like page page records after she okay shook hands with Obama and she was like, I just gained aura.
45:54
SPEAKER_00: I think I just gained aura.
45:56
SPEAKER_00: Never miss another Hoops for Hotdy's live show, bitch.
45:58
SPEAKER_00: Or you might miss, you might miss fucking Angel Reese.
46:01
SPEAKER_00: Thank you.
46:01
SPEAKER_00: Okay, next.
46:03
SPEAKER_00: So yeah, the girls were not trying, which I love for them.
46:08
SPEAKER_00: Uh, except for Caitlin Clark.
46:09
SPEAKER_00: Caitlin Clark was trying.
46:10
SPEAKER_00: She was like shooting logo threes, which like I didn't like it.
46:13
SPEAKER_00: I love somebody who does try in the all-star game when nobody does.
46:16
SPEAKER_00: Like, yeah, like people might jump on Caitlin for doing that, but Wimby did that in the men's game, and Ant did that in the men's game, like, place.
46:23
SPEAKER_00: Kathy announced a live replay center for the W, which will be good, but doesn't matter because they booed her.
46:28
SPEAKER_00: They booed Kathy down.
46:31
SPEAKER_00: They booed Kathy down.
46:33
SPEAKER_00: And I was in the building, and when I my waiver looked at me and said, Why do they hate her so much?
46:39
SPEAKER_00: But when Angel, not Angel, when Asia said, the only time I see Kathy is when she's handing me awards.
46:49
SPEAKER_00: First of all, the subtle flex of being like, I only see Kathy when she hands me awards.
46:54
SPEAKER_00: Period, like, period.
46:55
SPEAKER_00: That well, that's a good time to see her.
46:58
SPEAKER_00: But I did interview Natasha Cloud, and the clips went like decently viral about of her talking about how they have no relationship with Kathy.
47:06
SPEAKER_00: Like she's not checking in on them.
47:08
SPEAKER_00: Like, it's not that the relationship isn't like that.
47:13
SPEAKER_00: So I I think it doesn't have to be that way.
47:16
SPEAKER_00: And they they should have a commissioner that gives a more of a fuck about the players and having a personal relationship with them.
47:22
SPEAKER_00: And like when they have a baby or when they get injured or something like checks up on them.
47:26
SPEAKER_00: I feel like that's normal, like being a boss behavior.
47:30
SPEAKER_00: No, how can you know what the players need if you're not interacting with them and talking to them?
47:36
SPEAKER_00: Next, uh, I told you I wasn't gonna speak on this and I'm not, but I will say this.
47:40
SPEAKER_00: DeJanae tweeted about getting cheated on, okay?
47:43
SPEAKER_00: And also kind of hard launched with Jackie Young at the All-Star Weekend.
47:48
SPEAKER_00: And I will say that is some shit I would do if I were lit.
47:52
SPEAKER_00: That's some shit I would do if I was lit.
47:56
SPEAKER_00: This is why I can't have two.
47:59
SPEAKER_00: This is why I gotta keep my followers, you know what I'm saying?
48:02
SPEAKER_00: Like, I wanna have a couple million, but once you get to like two million million, like too many millions, and too many people give a fuck about what you got going on.
48:11
SPEAKER_00: I don't know.
48:12
SPEAKER_00: Cause I've gotten lit and posted some embarrassing TikToks, some embarrassing shit on my story.
48:16
SPEAKER_00: I don't know.
48:17
SPEAKER_00: Like, that sounds like I'm not accusing her of being lit.
48:20
SPEAKER_00: I mean, I was for sure.
48:22
SPEAKER_00: Like during the entire WBLSR weekend, but that's some shit I would do when I was lit.
48:27
SPEAKER_00: So I'm when I I that I am not judging her.
48:30
SPEAKER_00: I've seen people give takes, well, she's in a new relationship, and if she didn't care, and if she fuck off.
48:37
SPEAKER_00: Maybe the girl was just lit.
48:38
SPEAKER_00: Or if she wasn't lit, maybe she was just emotional.
48:42
SPEAKER_00: Fuck! How are we policing how she tells the world she got cheated on?
48:47
SPEAKER_00: I will say this though.
48:48
SPEAKER_00: I see, this is why this is why I can't start talking about shit.
48:52
SPEAKER_00: I will say this.
48:53
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, Nelissa's guilty.
48:56
SPEAKER_00: Guilty because did y'all see her on stream?
49:02
SPEAKER_00: Did y'all see her on stream?
49:04
SPEAKER_00: Oh my gosh, she was talking about, well, if I was in a new relationship, I wouldn't do that though.
49:09
SPEAKER_00: Guilty.
49:11
SPEAKER_00: Oh my god.
49:13
SPEAKER_00: Okay, I'm done.
49:14
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
49:14
SPEAKER_00: So that's all I have to say on it.
49:16
SPEAKER_00: Are we happy now?
49:17
SPEAKER_00: Shit, fuck.
49:18
SPEAKER_00: Uh guilty! Hold on.
49:21
SPEAKER_00: Where's my sound effects?
49:22
SPEAKER_00: So, so so Liz is on live.
49:24
SPEAKER_00: She talks about some damn, well, if I was in a new relationship, I wouldn't, you know what I'm saying?
49:29
SPEAKER_00: Oh, I thought that said booing and it said boing.
49:32
SPEAKER_00: Guys, we're having too much fun right now.
49:33
SPEAKER_00: I feel like I'm at home with my homegirls, and I'm getting too comfortable.
49:39
SPEAKER_00: So let me yeah.
49:41
SPEAKER_00: Let me move on to my last topic.
49:43
SPEAKER_00: John Quail Jones crying about what she said.
49:46
SPEAKER_00: You guys are so fucking annoying.
49:48
SPEAKER_00: Like, you see how y'all cuss me out about using tar uh about using what?
49:52
SPEAKER_00: About buying something for Target when y'all bullied me into buying something.
49:55
SPEAKER_00: Here's my thing, bitches and hoes.
49:58
SPEAKER_00: Jean Queel Jones said that two teams didn't deserve to win a champion.
50:04
SPEAKER_00: First of all, those couldn't be sports fans that were bullying John Queel Jones for saying, uh, sorry, my audience don't know what the fuck is going on.
50:11
SPEAKER_00: Y'all know this is the classroom.
50:12
SPEAKER_00: John Queel Jones, Liberty player, finals MVP, very talented, whatever.
50:18
SPEAKER_00: She basically made a comment on the studbud stream about two teams deserving to win the championship more than another team.
50:24
SPEAKER_00: One of the teams was a Connecticut Sun team that she said deserved to win a championship, and another team was the Minnesota Lynx playing the Liberty that they deserve they she said that the Lynx deserved a win.
50:33
SPEAKER_00: Basically, she said the other team deserved to win more than her team.
50:36
SPEAKER_00: And in another separate case, her team deserved to win more than the other team.
50:40
SPEAKER_00: As sports fans, we have these conversations all the fucking time.
50:44
SPEAKER_00: So I don't understand like Liberty fans being like mad at her for saying that they deserved it less than the Lynx.
50:50
SPEAKER_00: The Lynx played better for most of the series.
50:52
SPEAKER_00: What the fuck are we talking about?
50:54
SPEAKER_00: And also, like, she didn't say, fuck my team.
50:58
SPEAKER_00: That championship was stupid.
50:59
SPEAKER_00: I'm not even happy we fucking won.
51:01
SPEAKER_00: We're losers.
51:02
SPEAKER_00: Like, y'all are acting like she literally like scratch out the Liberty on her jersey and was like calm down.
51:14
SPEAKER_00: And in the media, and I say this as a member of the media.
51:18
SPEAKER_00: Well, kind of the social media.
51:21
SPEAKER_00: Keep it peace.
51:25
SPEAKER_00: Keep it pee.
51:28
SPEAKER_00: First of all, let's go ahead and make it a rule in journalistic integrity.
51:32
SPEAKER_00: I got I got a journalism degree.
51:34
SPEAKER_00: Let's go ahead and add it to what we teach kids in school.
51:36
SPEAKER_00: If it happened on the studbus stream, don't ask them about it in the media.
51:39
SPEAKER_00: I'm sorry.
51:40
SPEAKER_00: If you want to ask Dijanae about her tweet thread, go ahead and ask her about her tweet thread because she put that out there herself.
51:45
SPEAKER_00: Y'all gonna ruin the fucking stream.
51:48
SPEAKER_00: Because I said something on the stream.
51:50
SPEAKER_00: I might have been drunk, I might have been high, I might have been lit.
51:53
SPEAKER_00: I was with my homegirl.
51:54
SPEAKER_00: I said something on the stream.
51:55
SPEAKER_00: Now you ask me about it in the media, and now I'm crying, and now I don't want to be on the stream no more.
51:59
SPEAKER_00: And y'all gonna ruin the fucking stream and have people being all buttoned up and nervous and fucking uh media, keep it pee.
52:09
SPEAKER_00: Don't ask them that shit.
52:10
SPEAKER_00: I'm sorry, media, like mainstream media.
52:12
SPEAKER_00: I can ask because I'm social media.
52:14
SPEAKER_00: Um, mainstream media, y'all need to ask them about something that happened in an article, y'all need to ask them about something that happened in the interview, y'all need to ask them about like stay in your lane, but the the stream is not your lane, bitch.
52:27
SPEAKER_00: Y'all ruining it, and I don't come for the media a lot, but that for that, that was ghetto.
52:32
SPEAKER_00: Don't be asking about what happened in the stub bus stream.
52:34
SPEAKER_00: Do you want the WNBA to grow or not?
52:35
SPEAKER_00: The the the stream, it has a lot of people tuning in to All Star Weekend.
52:40
SPEAKER_00: Don't fucking ruin it, seriously.
52:42
SPEAKER_00: Okay, well, I didn't even get to my LeBron subjects, but I've been talking to you guys for over an hour, and this was definitely my most fun live ever, I think.
52:56
SPEAKER_00: Guys, we had Angel Reese in the fucking chat.
52:59
SPEAKER_00: Angel Reese in the fucking chat.
53:00
SPEAKER_00: She's sending me a Barbie.
53:02
SPEAKER_00: Look, Angel's gonna sit right there next to Mariah, and it's gonna be gorgeous.
53:09
SPEAKER_00: Thank you so much for watching.
53:11
SPEAKER_00: If you didn't catch the full live, make sure you tune in on YouTube.
53:14
SPEAKER_00: I post all of these lives at 7 p.m.
53:17
SPEAKER_00: Eastern on the same day I went live Thursday night.
53:19
SPEAKER_00: So tonight you'll be able to watch the full thing on YouTube and listen to it if you're on the go.
53:25
SPEAKER_00: Anywhere that you get your podcast.
53:27
SPEAKER_00: Apple, Spotify, you fucking name it, girl.
53:29
SPEAKER_00: I got you.
53:31
SPEAKER_00: I love you guys so so much.
53:33
SPEAKER_00: Thank you so, so much for watching.
53:35
SPEAKER_00: I will be back on live next Thursday at 11 30 a.m.
53:38
SPEAKER_00: But y'all know I'll be late, somewhere like 11 45.
53:40
SPEAKER_00: But you know what I'm saying?
53:41
SPEAKER_00: I'm aiming for 11 30.
53:42
SPEAKER_00: Thank you so much for watching.
53:44
SPEAKER_00: Class is out of session.
53:46
unknown: Bye.