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Ep. 45 - Scary Movies, Life, and Basketball with Demeara Hinds · Beyond the Paw - Clemson Athletics

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  Speaker 1: Hey, everyone, welcome back to another episode of Beyond the Pall.
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  Speaker 2: Today we have Damira Hines women's.
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  Speaker 1: Basketball player, where we talk about her transferring to Clemson,
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  Speaker 1: a little bit about the WNBA and scary movies.
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  Speaker 2: Let's go Beyond the Paw.
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  Speaker 3: Welcome to Beyond the Paw. Today we have Demira Hines. Demira. Welcome, Demiro.
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  Speaker 3: You go by D though, yes, correct? Okay, so on
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  Speaker 3: this episode we're going to refer to you as D.
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  Speaker 2: Sounds good, awesome?
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  Speaker 3: All right, So you're from Wake Forest, you transferred here
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  Speaker 3: to Clemson. Can you kind of walk me through what
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  Speaker 3: that was like, your transfer process and the decision behind
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  Speaker 3: it and all that sort of stuff.
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  Speaker 4: It was definitely interesting, just because I did stay in
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  Speaker 4: the ACC. I kind of thought I was going to
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  Speaker 4: leave and like go SEC or something like that because
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  Speaker 4: my school is still there so or my old schools.
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  Speaker 4: So yeah, but I honestly had a really great relationship
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  Speaker 4: with Coach Poppy during the process and everything, and he
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  Speaker 4: just made me feel very comfortable and very at home,
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  Speaker 4: even though I'm from Georgia's.
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  Speaker 3: So, okay, you're kind of close, Yeah, I'm really close.
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  Speaker 4: Home is only like two and a half hours away,
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  Speaker 4: especially with Atlanta traffic because I live right at the bottom.
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  Speaker 5: So nice.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, so you're able to go home whenever you can. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: how far was wake Ford? Where's wake Forest?
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  Speaker 5: Again, it's in North Carolina?
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  Speaker 3: Okay, so how far was that from home?
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  Speaker 5: About five five and a half.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, So you have a nice dress. Yeah yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: that's it.
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  Speaker 6: So it was poppy the relationship. And I think we've
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  Speaker 6: heard that before. But what else about Clemson women's basketball
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  Speaker 6: or Clemson what kind of or maybe what was the
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  Speaker 6: moment you knew like I'm coming here?
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  Speaker 4: So I actually okay, so I had two situations while
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  Speaker 4: I was here. On my visit, I ran into a
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  Speaker 4: group of like older women who were like it was
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  Speaker 4: a pick a ball.
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  Speaker 2: Group during football, Yeah I love fitball.
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  Speaker 4: During my restaurant kind of visit or whatever, and they
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  Speaker 4: all kind of just like surrounded our table and started
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  Speaker 4: talking to each of the coaches and like to my
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  Speaker 4: mom and everything.
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  Speaker 5: And I was just like, oh, like they're so sweet.
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  Speaker 4: And like they were just like if you come here,
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  Speaker 4: like you're part of our community, like you should just
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  Speaker 4: come might as well. And I was like, I don't know.
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  Speaker 4: I still got more visits, like I'll think about it.
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  Speaker 5: And so there was a dead period and then I.
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  Speaker 4: Kind of just I was like with my thoughts because
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  Speaker 4: I was a grad already at Wake as well, so
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  Speaker 4: I didn't have class or anything else to like really do,
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  Speaker 4: but like kind of focus on where I was gonna
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  Speaker 4: like choose to go to next.
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  Speaker 5: So I kind of was just there.
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  Speaker 4: I was talking to my AU coach, was talking to
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  Speaker 4: my mom a lot about like the schools that I
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  Speaker 4: had already been to and like what I liked about
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  Speaker 4: each and kind of like weighing out my pros and
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  Speaker 4: cons and Clemson definitely had a lot more pros than
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  Speaker 4: some other places. And so it was kind of just
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  Speaker 4: one day, my AU coach called me and he was like, hey, like,
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  Speaker 4: do you want to make a decision or what? Because
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  Speaker 4: I'm really bad at being decisive and so when I
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  Speaker 4: have too many options, it like gets really kind of
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  Speaker 4: like tough for me. Yeah, And so it just got
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  Speaker 4: to a point where I was like, yeah, I like
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  Speaker 4: I've got three options, might as well just kind of
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  Speaker 4: like narrow it down from there so I don't have
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  Speaker 4: to like jumble up my brain too much. And so
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  Speaker 4: I kind of just I called coach Foppy one more
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  Speaker 4: time and I told him, I was like, what, like,
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  Speaker 4: what leads you, what drives you? And I told him,
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  Speaker 4: I don't want to be led by a coach that's
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  Speaker 4: not God fearing, and I want to have that type
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  Speaker 4: of base and establishment for myself just because that is
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  Speaker 4: somewhere that I'm trying to like get to, especially like
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  Speaker 4: getting out of college and everything like that. I want
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  Speaker 4: to be a lot more faith based. And so just
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  Speaker 4: having that conversation with him kind of like kind of
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  Speaker 4: he gave me a better perspective on where his mindset
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  Speaker 4: is at and how he's led by God, and so
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  Speaker 4: that helped me kind of come to my final decision
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  Speaker 4: of coming here.
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  Speaker 1: How was event like so far being at Clemson, You've
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  Speaker 1: been here now, like this has something surprised you, you
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  Speaker 1: know while you're being here.
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  Speaker 4: I don't think anything's really surprised me per se. I
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  Speaker 4: will say, like the amount of people that go to
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  Speaker 4: football games is kind of crazy because coming from Wake Forest, Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: coming from Wake Forest to this is a massive difference
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  Speaker 4: in the fan attendant. So that was really fun, especially
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  Speaker 4: like the night games and everything like that. It's been
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  Speaker 4: a little unfortunate that this is how it's going since
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  Speaker 4: I came. But uh, it's still fun and.
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  Speaker 6: There's a lot less students that go to Wake Forest, right,
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  Speaker 6: Like it's just smaller in general.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, yeah it is.
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  Speaker 4: Actually I'm trying to think it's what like twenty something here?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah there, it's like ten or twelve twelve?
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  Speaker 3: Oh wow, something like that.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, it's a lot small.
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  Speaker 6: What's been your favorite spot off campus or have you
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  Speaker 6: explored much?
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  Speaker 5: So I have.
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  Speaker 4: The thing is Wake had a lot of stuff around
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  Speaker 4: just because it was more of like a city area.
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  Speaker 4: It wasn't that much like countryside. But I think the
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  Speaker 4: one place that I've liked the most is I don't
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  Speaker 4: know if it's so or I saw, I saw Ramen.
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  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, the Buba place, the Bulba place.
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  Speaker 5: It's so good. I literally ate there like all the time.
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  Speaker 4: When I first got here, I literally would call my
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  Speaker 4: mom and be like, they're taking all my money.
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  Speaker 3: Roman has the robots that yeah, yeah, so cute. No,
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  Speaker 3: it's interesting. None of my roommates like Rahmen or anything
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  Speaker 3: like that, so I go by myself. So if you
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  Speaker 3: want to go, I'm down for sure.
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  Speaker 6: Okay, how do you feel about people saying you have
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  Speaker 6: hulk like energy because I've heard that.
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  Speaker 2: A couple of times now. I think it's cool. I
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  Speaker 2: think it's a compliment. We do you like, But how
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  Speaker 2: do you feel about it?
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  Speaker 4: I mean, I've always been called strong, so it doesn't
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  Speaker 4: really bother me. I am pretty strong for like love
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  Speaker 4: that men, so I don't mind it.
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  Speaker 5: Like we had, we had a thing during.
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  Speaker 4: The summer time of us trying to figure out what
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  Speaker 4: super hero we were, and Hulk was one of the options,
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  Speaker 4: and everybody wanted to call me Hulk, and I was like,
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  Speaker 4: I don't want to be Hulk.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, you don't look like the whole kid.
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  Speaker 4: I was literally like, I don't think that's who fits
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  Speaker 4: my character. But I guess since I'm just strong, y'all
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  Speaker 4: want to put that.
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  Speaker 3: But maybe it's when you like are on the court.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think you bring out the whole.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah for sure.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I wanted to be Black Panther, but they kept saying Hulks.
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  Speaker 4: I was like, I guess I'm just.
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  Speaker 2: Didn't want to let you be what you wanted to do,
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  Speaker 2: you know, because.
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  Speaker 4: We were supposed to pick at first and then everybody
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  Speaker 4: else came to a decision.
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  Speaker 5: But I was like, Okay, it's whatever the whole.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, I mean be who you want to be.
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  Speaker 6: You could be the whole and black Panther, mab combination, yeah,
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  Speaker 6: hybrid superhero or something you go wrong either.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's cool.
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  Speaker 6: I think, you know, watch I've been able to watch
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  Speaker 6: some practices now and I'm excited for season to come up.
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  Speaker 2: But you are so strong, like you were a grown
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  Speaker 2: woman out there, and I think that's so cool.
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  Speaker 6: And we've talked a lot about being like a young
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  Speaker 6: girl in sport and just being able to see that.
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  Speaker 6: And I even I was watching a video today from
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  Speaker 6: Billy Jean King talking about how, you know, young girls
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  Speaker 6: that play sports turn into leaders in sport teaches us
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  Speaker 6: how to lead, and like ninety four percent of C
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  Speaker 6: suite leaders are women that identify as athletes. And so
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  Speaker 6: I think that's really cool to be out there and
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  Speaker 6: to own your strength and to have muscles and to
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  Speaker 6: be gritty. And I think, just tell us about how
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  Speaker 6: you started in sport and kind of grew into this
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  Speaker 6: hulk like black Panther, like you know, strong woman on
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  Speaker 6: a court.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I will say I didn't think I was gonna play basketball.
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  Speaker 4: I definitely didn't start out with basketball crazy thing. I
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  Speaker 4: started out with gymnastics really really I started doing that
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  Speaker 4: and then my mother didn't want me doing it no more,
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  Speaker 4: so she took me out.
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  Speaker 3: I was really, I don't her.
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  Speaker 5: I was really disappointed, but I was like, you know what,
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  Speaker 5: it's fine.
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  Speaker 4: And then I started doing soccer when I was like five,
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  Speaker 4: and I did that all throughout my childhood until like
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  Speaker 4: high school. I didn't really start playing basketball until like, uh,
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  Speaker 4: freshman year of high school.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I was a little late bloomer.
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  Speaker 4: But I had like speed and strength on my on
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  Speaker 4: my side, so it kind of helped me kind of
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  Speaker 4: like get past the skill set part of like building
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  Speaker 4: that up over time. So yeah, I kind of did that,
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  Speaker 4: and then that's what got my AU coach to see
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  Speaker 4: me at a high school game, and that's when I
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  Speaker 4: kind of found out about that area of sports.
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  Speaker 5: And then now I'm here.
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  Speaker 3: You would have been one tall gymnast, you know, I
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  Speaker 3: really would have.
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  Speaker 4: I don't think I was supposed to be this tall though,
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  Speaker 4: how are obviously it was, but I'm.
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  Speaker 3: Six two six too, okay, yeah, yeah six three.
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  Speaker 5: On a good day, that's yeah. Once my shoes are on.
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  Speaker 3: The roster, says six.
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  Speaker 4: Three, yeah, they updated it recently. Because he looked at me,
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  Speaker 4: and he looked at some of the like my other teammates,
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  Speaker 4: and he was like, do you look taller than them?
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  Speaker 5: I was like, oh no.
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  Speaker 6: They.
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  Speaker 3: Always bump it a little.
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  Speaker 2: They shoes. That's what you're playing, man, exactly. Your mom
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  Speaker 2: played college tennis. Yah.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, she still plays sometimes now. Yeah, but she's had
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  Speaker 4: to take like a little break from it for a
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  Speaker 4: little bit.
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  Speaker 6: Does your mom playing motivate you or that have any
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  Speaker 6: part in kind of loving sports from an early age.
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  Speaker 5: So the thing is.
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  Speaker 4: She did it for like such a short period of
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  Speaker 4: time because she hadn't when she was really young. So
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  Speaker 4: I feel like just her and her sacrifices motivated me
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  Speaker 4: to want to do more and want to like play
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  Speaker 4: sports and like just do as much as I can
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  Speaker 4: so she didn't.
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  Speaker 5: Have to do too much.
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  Speaker 4: And so yeah, I feel like that was my like
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  Speaker 4: biggest motivation was just making proud.
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  Speaker 3: Have five siblings, right, I actually have seven seven siblings.
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  Speaker 3: Do you kind of play sports with them as well?
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  Speaker 3: Did you kind of grow up with them playing sports or.
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  Speaker 2: What was that like?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, So I grew up with my mom and my
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  Speaker 4: siblings on her side and I have three on her side,
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  Speaker 4: and then I have four on my dad's gotcha, And
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  Speaker 4: so yeah, they all play basketball as well, and they're
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  Speaker 4: all like big kids. So I honestly think that's why
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  Speaker 4: God made me tall, because like he knew they were
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  Speaker 4: gonna be really tall, right because between I'm the only
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  Speaker 4: person between my mom and my dad, gotcha?
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  Speaker 5: But my dad's only.
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  Speaker 2: Like five six what what?
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  Speaker 4: It's crazy when people see him in person, They're like,
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  Speaker 4: that's not your dad, and I'm.
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  Speaker 5: Like, it is, it really is.
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  Speaker 2: I'll tall as your mom.
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  Speaker 5: She's like maybe five eight five seven five eight. Yeah. Wow,
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  Speaker 5: I'm like towering over both men.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, do you have like a really tall grandparent or
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  Speaker 2: something like?
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  Speaker 5: Where?
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  Speaker 2: Did you're just tall?
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  Speaker 5: I really am just okay, Like my uncles.
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  Speaker 4: Are tall, and like my granddad it's like maybe six
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  Speaker 4: foot six to one, So it probably just skipped them
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  Speaker 4: and came to me.
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  Speaker 5: But besides that, them two or not will take it. Yeah,
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  Speaker 5: that's awesome.
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  Speaker 1: What it is something that basketball has taught you, like
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  Speaker 1: growing up, playing with your siblings, just playing basketball in
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  Speaker 1: general throughout college.
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  Speaker 2: What's like a big lesson?
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  Speaker 4: I'd say a big lesson, especially that I'm like kind
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  Speaker 4: of still like learning right now. Is that like even
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  Speaker 4: through the ups and downs and like the adversity, used
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  Speaker 4: to have to like remain calm and like like keep
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  Speaker 4: your sense of self through all of that, because like
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  Speaker 4: sometimes you can get lost, especially like with wins and
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  Speaker 4: losses and everything like that. So just like remaining myself
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  Speaker 4: and like humble and just kind of being a leader
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  Speaker 4: for everybody else and knowing that like whatever's happening, we
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  Speaker 4: could still make it through.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Like definitely being older too, like going through those
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  Speaker 1: experiences like help so much for like the younger girls
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  Speaker 1: and like girls that maybe just transferred into like going
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  Speaker 1: through that together or something that's really special too.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, because I definitely remember, for I didn't talk, I
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  Speaker 4: barely moved. I've barely got in any rips because I
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  Speaker 4: was just staring at everybody like I don't know what
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  Speaker 4: I'm doing.
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  Speaker 5: So just like I don't know.
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  Speaker 4: Because we have a couple of freshmen right now, and
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  Speaker 4: you could tell like sometimes the nerves get them a
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  Speaker 4: little bit, or like messing up gets them, and so
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  Speaker 4: it's just like constantly like reminding them like, hey, you're
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  Speaker 4: literally a freshman. You don't know any of this. Stuff
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  Speaker 4: you literally just learned it like off the fly. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: Like it's okay, it's okay to mess up because you
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  Speaker 4: mess up now, so like later you can help the
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  Speaker 4: next girl who comes in and behind you.
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  Speaker 3: Right, It's so important to learn those things too as
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  Speaker 3: a freshman and just sit back and observe, so when
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  Speaker 3: you come to be like a grad student or a
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  Speaker 3: fourth year or senior whatever, then you're able to teach
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  Speaker 3: those freshmen as well.
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  Speaker 5: Exactly.
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  Speaker 6: That's so hard though. I love that there's so much perspective.
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  Speaker 6: But how do you think we help the freshmen or
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  Speaker 6: is it just like you gotta go through it, Like
• 11:51
  Speaker 6: you can say that, right, and like maybe you're I
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  Speaker 6: hope your freshman trust you, right, But like I think
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  Speaker 6: we can all remember being a freshman and it's like, okay,
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  Speaker 6: maybe when i'm DZA your backsage, but like the world
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  Speaker 6: is so scary when you're a freshman.
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  Speaker 5: No, it really is.
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  Speaker 4: And I think there's like a trust aspect, especially because
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  Speaker 4: we built up like really strong bonds during the summer
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  Speaker 4: and everything, Like we had a lot of team bonding,
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  Speaker 4: and so I hope they trust me and they know
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  Speaker 4: I'm not gonna leave them astray.
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  Speaker 5: At all, But it is hard.
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  Speaker 4: It is tough being a freshman, especially like being in
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  Speaker 4: this big new environment, especially coming here to Clemson. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: being a freshman, I know, it's probably really tough because
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  Speaker 4: at Wake it was like such a small community and
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  Speaker 4: I came in during COVID, so there was nobody there,
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  Speaker 4: so it was literally just basketball.
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  Speaker 5: And it's definitely a different type of environment.
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  Speaker 6: Now.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I was gonna say, like transferring, you're kind of
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  Speaker 3: like a freshman as well, and you have that perspective
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  Speaker 3: coming into a new school and having to relearn everything,
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  Speaker 3: because I'm sure it's so yeah, so different.
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  Speaker 5: It is very different.
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  Speaker 4: But the coaches here like very personable and they like
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  Speaker 4: that relationship building aspect of like bringing people in and
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  Speaker 4: so I feel like that's helped everybody kind of like
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  Speaker 4: blend and mesh together really well.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's gonna ask like how it is being in
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  Speaker 3: a whole new team with a bunch of new people,
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  Speaker 3: a bunch of new freshmen, new transfers, everything like that.
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  Speaker 3: How do you guys build build camaraderie?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, the team bonding and it's like a lot of
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  Speaker 4: good personalities like mixed together. Everybody's like really funny or
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  Speaker 4: like just like really loving and everything. So I think
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  Speaker 4: all of it's kind of just like come together really well.
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  Speaker 4: Like they recruited a bunch of like really good girls.
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  Speaker 2: That's important.
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  Speaker 5: Literally, wait, he's.
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  Speaker 4: The funniest I said this yesterday on on the radio.
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  Speaker 4: It was Hannah because she literally has like I don't
• 13:32
  Speaker 4: want to say she has no filter, but like she
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  Speaker 4: just says whatever comes from mind.
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  Speaker 3: Those are the best people.
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  Speaker 4: No, yeah, because you know they're being honest. So it's like, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: I love.
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  Speaker 1: But what's been like like a fun moment that you've
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  Speaker 1: like experienced so far with the team and how has
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  Speaker 1: that helped you, you know, to like grow those relationships.
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  Speaker 4: M I would say, we went to Poppy's house a lot,
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  Speaker 4: and he lives on the lakes, so that was like
• 14:00
  Speaker 4: really fun, like going on the boat and stuff like that.
• 14:02
  Speaker 4: I will say I caught my first fish while I.
• 14:04
  Speaker 5: Was Poppy's house.
• 14:05
  Speaker 3: Yes, congratulations, thank you.
• 14:08
  Speaker 5: I really need to catch another one.
• 14:10
  Speaker 4: It was getting ridiculous now, but it was a fun
• 14:13
  Speaker 4: experience because like my teammates were beside me when I
• 14:15
  Speaker 4: did it, and I felt kind of bad because when
• 14:17
  Speaker 4: I caught it, I started swinging the pole and I
• 14:19
  Speaker 4: was just screaming.
• 14:20
  Speaker 5: I caught a fish.
• 14:21
  Speaker 4: I caught a fish, and I like almost smacked the
• 14:24
  Speaker 4: mess out of like Taylor and Coach kg in the
• 14:26
  Speaker 4: head when I was trying to bring the fish onto
• 14:29
  Speaker 4: the deck. But yeah, and then I couldn't even touch it,
• 14:32
  Speaker 4: Like I was literally sitting there shaking. I had to
• 14:34
  Speaker 4: call Coach Poppy over to like pull it off the
• 14:36
  Speaker 4: hook and everything, and he was trying to tell me
• 14:38
  Speaker 4: like how to hold it like in the mouth and everything.
• 14:41
  Speaker 3: I like, it's slimy.
• 14:42
  Speaker 5: I was like shaking like this. I was like, hold on,
• 14:44
  Speaker 5: give me two seconds.
• 14:46
  Speaker 2: Did you hold it? Though eventually I did, but.
• 14:47
  Speaker 4: I was literally sitting there shaking in the photo so
• 14:49
  Speaker 4: like I could barely get a picture.
• 14:52
  Speaker 2: It's a big fish.
• 14:53
  Speaker 5: No, it was a little babyish.
• 14:54
  Speaker 2: You're supposed to say that it was huge.
• 14:55
  Speaker 5: Oh yeah, it was ginormous. It was like the biggest
• 14:57
  Speaker 5: catfish ever.
• 14:58
  Speaker 2: Wow. Impressive.
• 15:00
  Speaker 1: I feel like that's definitely a perk of like being
• 15:02
  Speaker 1: out of school with the lake, Like there's just so
• 15:04
  Speaker 1: much you can do and it's so fun and relaxing,
• 15:07
  Speaker 1: like you can just go there whenever you know.
• 15:10
  Speaker 5: It's fun exactly.
• 15:11
  Speaker 4: It's very different because like I feel like the lake
• 15:14
  Speaker 4: is like the main thing out here because there's so
• 15:16
  Speaker 4: much water. I was kind of surprised by that. We're
• 15:18
  Speaker 4: very far inland and there's so much water, But I mean, okay,
• 15:22
  Speaker 4: it works.
• 15:23
  Speaker 6: Like, Yeah, so it's a lot about basketball. What do
• 15:28
  Speaker 6: you want to do after basketball?
• 15:30
  Speaker 2: Whenever?
• 15:30
  Speaker 6: That is, if you keep playing, what do you think
• 15:33
  Speaker 6: you want to do with your life after that?
• 15:36
  Speaker 5: That's a very good question.
• 15:37
  Speaker 2: Sorry, that's really deep too.
• 15:41
  Speaker 4: I've literally been pondering on this for a while now
• 15:43
  Speaker 4: because my mind changes so often because I find different
• 15:47
  Speaker 4: interests so often. Yeah, and it's like I really don't
• 15:50
  Speaker 4: know what I want to do yet. I definitely want
• 15:53
  Speaker 4: to travel, and I feel like I want to play
• 15:56
  Speaker 4: overseas just because I think I want to move out
• 15:58
  Speaker 4: of the country, like to live, and I kind of
• 16:02
  Speaker 4: want to figure that out on somebody else's dime for
• 16:04
  Speaker 4: for sure, while I'm like blowing overseas and just traveling
• 16:07
  Speaker 4: in different countries since I already be like over in
• 16:09
  Speaker 4: Europe or something, so yeah, kind of just figuring that out.
• 16:12
  Speaker 4: And then I feel like being over there might give
• 16:14
  Speaker 4: me like a new perspective on what I might be
• 16:16
  Speaker 4: like more passionate about outside of basketball, so that like
• 16:20
  Speaker 4: once the ball stops bounce and I can like really
• 16:22
  Speaker 4: hone in on something else.
• 16:24
  Speaker 2: Yeah, where would you want to live?
• 16:26
  Speaker 5: I really don't know yet. I'm actually really excited to
• 16:29
  Speaker 5: go over there, so I can figure that out.
• 16:31
  Speaker 4: Yeah, because I just know if I go somewhere else,
• 16:32
  Speaker 4: I'm gonna have to like learn a new language and everything.
• 16:34
  Speaker 4: So it's like, what language do I feel like I
• 16:36
  Speaker 4: could learn the easiest? That would probably be my best
• 16:40
  Speaker 4: guess of where I would like move to.
• 16:41
  Speaker 6: Gotcha in psychology is what you studied undergrad? Right?
• 16:46
  Speaker 5: Communication?
• 16:46
  Speaker 6: Communications? Okay, someone's bio is all messed up online because.
• 16:50
  Speaker 3: Yeah, an I got a bunch of psychologies.
• 16:53
  Speaker 6: Yeah yeah, okay, communications, what about communications that you like?
• 16:58
  Speaker 4: So I did it really late, but I ended up
• 17:01
  Speaker 4: really enjoying film studies and like movie making and that
• 17:04
  Speaker 4: whole process and everything.
• 17:06
  Speaker 5: So it wasn't until like.
• 17:07
  Speaker 4: The end of maybe my junior year and like the
• 17:10
  Speaker 4: rest of my senior year. I was like kind of
• 17:12
  Speaker 4: I was already done with like my basic credit hours,
• 17:13
  Speaker 4: so I just took a bunch of like film study classes,
• 17:16
  Speaker 4: and I like thoroughly enjoyed it. Like learning about like
• 17:19
  Speaker 4: at week they had like a film study for like horror,
• 17:22
  Speaker 4: and they'd have film study for like science fiction movies
• 17:26
  Speaker 4: and stuff, so I would kind of like learn about
• 17:28
  Speaker 4: those and like the background and the basics of like
• 17:30
  Speaker 4: how those movies are made.
• 17:31
  Speaker 5: So it was fun.
• 17:32
  Speaker 2: So you're really very nique. Yeah, do you like scary movies?
• 17:35
  Speaker 5: I do. I love scary movies.
• 17:36
  Speaker 3: Oh, I cannot watch us scary movie.
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: I don't know. I don't even watch the commercials for him.
• 17:43
  Speaker 4: Really like I will go by myself to the movie
• 17:45
  Speaker 4: theaters and watch a scary movie.
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: What's your favorite scary movie. I've never seen it, but.
• 17:53
  Speaker 4: I'm trying to think I have a lot. I would
• 17:55
  Speaker 4: say thriller movies might be more of my favorite.
• 17:58
  Speaker 3: Like are the ones that like out at you or No.
• 18:01
  Speaker 5: That would be more of like a scary movie.
• 18:02
  Speaker 4: So those are the ones where it's like suspense the
• 18:04
  Speaker 4: entire time and you just don't know what's about to happen.
• 18:06
  Speaker 3: Oh so you're just like sitting on the edge of
• 18:08
  Speaker 3: your chair.
• 18:08
  Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly in anxiety.
• 18:13
  Speaker 4: I would say, anytime I talk to people, I like
• 18:15
  Speaker 4: recommend in the tall Grass just because I like you
• 18:18
  Speaker 4: never know what to expect what's coming next in that one,
• 18:21
  Speaker 4: and then.
• 18:22
  Speaker 3: You spoil it because I'm not gonna cut.
• 18:25
  Speaker 4: Well, there's like a big rock and the man just
• 18:27
  Speaker 4: goes crazy and they're like going through a corn maize,
• 18:30
  Speaker 4: not a corn maze, just a corn field and they
• 18:31
  Speaker 4: get stuck in there and they have to try and
• 18:34
  Speaker 4: find a way out with like this little boy who's
• 18:36
  Speaker 4: also got stuck in.
• 18:37
  Speaker 5: There with like his parents.
• 18:39
  Speaker 4: It's it's a weird thing, like you literally have to
• 18:42
  Speaker 4: like watch it and pay attention to like all the
• 18:44
  Speaker 4: details to understand what's like going on.
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: This is a scary movie.
• 18:48
  Speaker 5: It's it's more thriller.
• 18:50
  Speaker 4: Okay, it could be scary at times for some people.
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: You're any kind of person I don't trust when it
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: comes to you.
• 18:57
  Speaker 4: Because my friends did the same thing. And then they'll
• 18:59
  Speaker 4: be like it was scary, and I was like, oh,
• 19:01
  Speaker 4: I'm sorry, I didn't think it was.
• 19:02
  Speaker 5: That's my fault.
• 19:04
  Speaker 3: I like the more like psychological like scary movies like
• 19:07
  Speaker 3: get Out And there's this new movie called Him. Oh
• 19:11
  Speaker 3: have you heard about that?
• 19:12
  Speaker 5: Yeah?
• 19:13
  Speaker 4: But see, my teammates went to see it or they
• 19:15
  Speaker 4: watched it, and they said it wasn't good because they
• 19:16
  Speaker 4: couldn't understand it.
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: And I was like, oh, or I like the movies
• 19:19
  Speaker 3: that make you like think afterwards and you go home
• 19:22
  Speaker 3: and you're driving home and you're like, what happened and
• 19:24
  Speaker 3: why did this person do this? But we never figured
• 19:26
  Speaker 3: out what happened to this person? Like I like those type,
• 19:29
  Speaker 3: but like actual scary movies where there's like blood.
• 19:32
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  Speaker 2: Now back to the show.
• 20:08
  Speaker 6: I think the last movie I watched that was scary
• 20:11
  Speaker 6: enough for me it was Sinners.
• 20:12
  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah.
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: I have a lot of thoughts.
• 20:16
  Speaker 6: So as you were saying, like thinking afterwards, I like
• 20:18
  Speaker 6: texted my friend. Afterwards, I'm like, I have so many
• 20:21
  Speaker 6: issues with this movie.
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it was so good, but I have so many questions.
• 20:24
  Speaker 3: Then Michael B. Jordan's yeah, and.
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: He was like, twins be cousins.
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, that was a good movie. Did you see it?
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: What did you say?
• 20:35
  Speaker 6: No?
• 20:35
  Speaker 4: I honestly loved it. It was I wouldn't categorize it
• 20:38
  Speaker 4: as like a horror because.
• 20:39
  Speaker 3: You wouldn't categorize that as a horror movie. I was
• 20:42
  Speaker 3: scared to I was like, I was scared to death
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: watching that movie. And I was not expecting vampires.
• 20:49
  Speaker 5: I wasn't even like where you come from? Why?
• 20:52
  Speaker 4: That was definitely a different twist on it. I didn't
• 20:54
  Speaker 4: expect that at all, But I liked it. It was
• 20:57
  Speaker 4: definitely interesting. Some people pissed me off. What was that lady?
• 21:02
  Speaker 5: The lady whose daughter.
• 21:03
  Speaker 4: Was like stuck in the back in town and like
• 21:06
  Speaker 4: her husband went outside to go get the car.
• 21:09
  Speaker 3: Oh oh yes, yes, yes, she owned a shop right and.
• 21:14
  Speaker 4: Then literally told them to come inside. It was like
• 21:17
  Speaker 4: closer towards the end of the movie.
• 21:19
  Speaker 3: I don't I don't know if I can explain it well,
• 21:22
  Speaker 3: but no.
• 21:22
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I was just she maybe bads she made me
• 21:25
  Speaker 4: so bad because I was like, why would you tell
• 21:26
  Speaker 4: them to come in? Y'all were doing so fine. The
• 21:29
  Speaker 4: sun was almost about the rise. They were gonna have
• 21:31
  Speaker 4: to go hide like it was gonna be okay.
• 21:34
  Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, do.
• 21:36
  Speaker 3: You guys go watch movies together as a team.
• 21:39
  Speaker 4: So we only been to one. We went to go
• 21:41
  Speaker 4: see The Long Walk. I think that's what it was called.
• 21:44
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 21:44
  Speaker 5: Yeah, that one wasn't scary either, though.
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: It was really really I've heard it's good.
• 21:50
  Speaker 5: It was good. I mean it was okay.
• 21:52
  Speaker 4: The ending is not very satisfying, but like the build
• 21:54
  Speaker 4: up into it is very good. So it's like, did
• 21:57
  Speaker 4: you want me to tell you yeah, uh, it's it's
• 22:02
  Speaker 4: really not scary. This one is honestly not scary, but
• 22:05
  Speaker 4: like the graphics can get a little into at times.
• 22:08
  Speaker 4: So it's like they're on this like walk and they're
• 22:11
  Speaker 4: trying to see who can like make it all the
• 22:12
  Speaker 4: way to the end, and it's like it's a group
• 22:15
  Speaker 4: of guys. I don't remember how many started off. Maybe
• 22:18
  Speaker 4: I haven't heard of this, Yeah, and they kind of
• 22:21
  Speaker 4: like they're just like shooting them down as they're going.
• 22:24
  Speaker 3: The trailers for this.
• 22:26
  Speaker 5: Yeah, it was a little intense in the moment, but
• 22:29
  Speaker 5: it's not bad.
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: Have you seen the New Conjuring movie?
• 22:32
  Speaker 5: No, I didn't.
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: I should have, but that one got me scared.
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: I was gonna say I hate watching it, but like
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna, I'm gonna, I feel like I need to
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: watch it.
• 22:44
  Speaker 4: Yeah, but I don't really do like the ghost ones
• 22:46
  Speaker 4: or like demons and stuff like that.
• 22:48
  Speaker 5: I don't know. Yeah, I don't like it either.
• 22:50
  Speaker 6: Yeah, Okay, it's like spooky season Halloween time. Best Halloween
• 22:56
  Speaker 6: costume you've had.
• 22:58
  Speaker 5: I actually have one that.
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: Oh that's we're going to be It's going to be
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: the best.
• 23:02
  Speaker 5: No, no, no, I'm not gonna do it.
• 23:03
  Speaker 3: This will come out after Halloween. Yeah, so you can
• 23:07
  Speaker 3: tell us.
• 23:07
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's just like my daytime costume because like I
• 23:10
  Speaker 4: want us to do a halloweenlyft and so fingers crossed,
• 23:14
  Speaker 4: we're winning on Saturday, so then I can get coach
• 23:16
  Speaker 4: Poppy to switch the times because I don't want to
• 23:18
  Speaker 4: change into it after practice. That's just not not my speed.
• 23:22
  Speaker 4: So I actually bought a costume to be the lo Rex.
• 23:25
  Speaker 3: Oh that's commitment everywhere, like the orange suit with the belly.
• 23:35
  Speaker 3: So you should play you should make a video of
• 23:36
  Speaker 3: you playing basketball being the lo Rex. Probably you have to.
• 23:41
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I actually probably will do that.
• 23:42
  Speaker 3: I saw a video of someone swinging on the bar
• 23:45
  Speaker 3: and the hue with the huge stomach. You have to.
• 23:50
  Speaker 3: It's you have to. I'm going to be looking forward to.
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: Actually, are you two doing anything? You're probably playing.
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: We play next week one, so we probably won't do anything.
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: But when nearer for practice, we were like Gatorade player
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: or Gatorade like a six pack. So we had like
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: our purple shirt on, like our clumpson shirt, and then
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: we had like orange beanie caps and then we like
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: had string like around us and it was just like
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: all the freshmen.
• 24:19
  Speaker 5: Like.
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: But I feel like those costumes that like you do
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: in practice are so fun because you're like in gear
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: still but like still making a way to have it fun.
• 24:30
  Speaker 3: I think we have practice on Halloween as well. So
• 24:33
  Speaker 3: I have this like Drake mask that maybe I'll use.
• 24:36
  Speaker 3: I don't know. I bought it from TikTok shop because
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: I don't know why. It was like an intrusive thought.
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: And Drake mask, like you're yeah, like Drake the artist.
• 24:45
  Speaker 3: Yeah, Drake the Artist. He has like a little like
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: the heart shaved out of his hair. But last year
• 24:52
  Speaker 3: I was Soldier Boy and I was able to like
• 24:54
  Speaker 3: jump on the trampoline and do like the soldier boy
• 24:56
  Speaker 3: dance and all of that stuff. I don't know. I
• 24:58
  Speaker 3: don't know what I was thinking. I but it made
• 25:00
  Speaker 3: for a good video. And I think my mom showed
• 25:02
  Speaker 3: her coworkers and they were like, what, who is your daughter?
• 25:07
  Speaker 3: I think they were terrified for me, but she was like, oh,
• 25:09
  Speaker 3: look at my daughter, like she's so funny, and they
• 25:11
  Speaker 3: were like, oh, you're not weird. But yeah, I don't know.
• 25:16
  Speaker 3: For Halloween this year, I'm usually not I'm usually the
• 25:18
  Speaker 3: type of person to think about it the day before, unfortunately,
• 25:22
  Speaker 3: But I'm trying to get better with that.
• 25:23
  Speaker 6: Maybe that's your best you know, creativity strikes and yeah,
• 25:27
  Speaker 6: something good.
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: Are you gonna be anything?
• 25:28
  Speaker 4: Tory?
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: Absolutely not. I do not like Halloween. I don't like
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: being scared.
• 25:33
  Speaker 6: I like seeing like the cute little kids, but I'm like,
• 25:37
  Speaker 6: we don't do trig or treating because I just jumped.
• 25:39
  Speaker 6: I jump my own shadow. Not a Halloween person. I
• 25:42
  Speaker 6: don't like scary things.
• 25:44
  Speaker 5: So no haunted houses, absolutely not.
• 25:46
  Speaker 6: No.
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: I love a good.
• 25:48
  Speaker 3: Yeah, are there any haunted houses near here. Yeah, a
• 25:51
  Speaker 3: couple as a team to really where if you find out.
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I know that might be where we went. Probably.
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: Yeah, there's another one that's really scary if there's like
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: actors that I went to one when I was a
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: kid and I can still feel the hand grabbing my
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: ankle and I've done your ankle, yes, like touched.
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: I can't.
• 26:14
  Speaker 3: That's they're really not allowed to touch you.
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: Well, I don't know. This was also a long time ago.
• 26:18
  Speaker 3: Wait, we should all. I want to do this because
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: I jump up my own shadow as well.
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: Don't invite me.
• 26:24
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: Wait, going back to basketball a little bit, can you
• 26:30
  Speaker 3: talk me through what AAU is. Is that like your
• 26:32
  Speaker 3: club team? Okay, and that's how you like get scouted
• 26:35
  Speaker 3: and you have college coaches and stuff like that.
• 26:37
  Speaker 5: Yeah, so it's like the same for like other sports.
• 26:39
  Speaker 4: It's like your club team that you kind of like
• 26:41
  Speaker 4: travel with and go to different tournaments and everything, and
• 26:44
  Speaker 4: like the coaches on the sidelines and stuff.
• 26:46
  Speaker 3: I also wanted to know, like if there's a college
• 26:49
  Speaker 3: basketball player that you wanted to emulate or you know,
• 26:52
  Speaker 3: or you look up to, Like who would that be?
• 26:54
  Speaker 3: It could be past or president mm hmmmmmm.
• 26:58
  Speaker 4: I would say when I was kind of coming into it,
• 27:02
  Speaker 4: I still was like really new, so I didn't like
• 27:04
  Speaker 4: know of any like college basketball players because I was
• 27:07
  Speaker 4: still really interested in soccer even while I was.
• 27:10
  Speaker 5: Yeah, that's crazy. I genuinely thought I was still gonna
• 27:12
  Speaker 5: play soccer.
• 27:13
  Speaker 4: But then my mom was like, you know, you just
• 27:15
  Speaker 4: have so much more like opportunity playing basketball.
• 27:18
  Speaker 5: You just need to go this for oute.
• 27:19
  Speaker 3: So I was like, okay, like could have been dual
• 27:22
  Speaker 3: sport athlete, been a lot.
• 27:25
  Speaker 4: That would have been too much, especially seeing like what
• 27:27
  Speaker 4: soccer players have to do, yeah, and then what basketball
• 27:30
  Speaker 4: players have to do. I was like, nah, I would
• 27:31
  Speaker 4: have like wore myself out, but yea the freshman year.
• 27:35
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 27:35
  Speaker 4: So I would say though, like once I got to
• 27:38
  Speaker 4: college and like my first year of like acc play,
• 27:42
  Speaker 4: I don't know if you guys would know her. Her
• 27:44
  Speaker 4: last name was Kubai. I think her first name was
• 27:46
  Speaker 4: like Laura or Lauren something like that. She was at
• 27:49
  Speaker 4: Georgia Tech, okay, and she was just a big body
• 27:51
  Speaker 4: post player who could like she was very versatile, and
• 27:54
  Speaker 4: I just loved the way how she played because she
• 27:56
  Speaker 4: was like inside out and she was just doing every
• 27:57
  Speaker 4: little thing for them, and so, yeah, liked her.
• 28:01
  Speaker 3: You didn't even get into what your position is. Oh,
• 28:04
  Speaker 3: I'm a center center, explain for the people.
• 28:08
  Speaker 4: So I know it says like forward center just because
• 28:11
  Speaker 4: I'm like undersized, so they just put me as a forward.
• 28:14
  Speaker 4: But I'm really like center, so I just play like
• 28:17
  Speaker 4: inside mainly and like I'm just like the big body
• 28:20
  Speaker 4: down there.
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: Yeah, what's your favorite part of the game.
• 28:24
  Speaker 4: I really like passing, even though they hate that. I
• 28:27
  Speaker 4: like that because they want me to score more.
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: Rare answer, No, I know.
• 28:31
  Speaker 4: Passing I do, especially if they actually like shoot it.
• 28:35
  Speaker 5: I like passing exactly, like because.
• 28:39
  Speaker 4: Sometimes I feel like getting assists is like kind of
• 28:41
  Speaker 4: overlooked in a way, especially for like people besides point guard,
• 28:45
  Speaker 4: and so I thoroughly enjoy like getting assists whenever somebody
• 28:48
  Speaker 4: actually shoots it.
• 28:49
  Speaker 5: So that's what I go for.
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: That that's really selfless.
• 28:53
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you basically like set them up, Like I know
• 28:55
  Speaker 3: you don't get the credit for the scoring, but you.
• 28:57
  Speaker 4: Do set them up because I know a rebound or something,
• 29:01
  Speaker 4: even if they shoot it.
• 29:02
  Speaker 3: So what about WNBA teams any that are your favorite?
• 29:09
  Speaker 4: I won't say I have a favorite, but I was
• 29:11
  Speaker 4: rooting for the Aces and they did pull through, so
• 29:13
  Speaker 4: that was great.
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: Do you have a player in the WWA that you
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: look up to?
• 29:17
  Speaker 4: I do really like Asia Wilson just because she's so
• 29:20
  Speaker 4: fearless and she's extremely confident, and I feel like she
• 29:23
  Speaker 4: just never lets what's happening in the game kind of
• 29:26
  Speaker 4: like make her fold or like kind of like I
• 29:30
  Speaker 4: don't know, just like go to the wayside. She's like
• 29:34
  Speaker 4: extremely like she knows who she is. Yeah, and she
• 29:36
  Speaker 4: shows it every time down the floor. So it's like, yeah,
• 29:39
  Speaker 4: I love her.
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: He's really authentic.
• 29:42
  Speaker 3: I feel like the WNBA is on such a rise.
• 29:45
  Speaker 3: It is right now.
• 29:46
  Speaker 5: It's crazy, really good.
• 29:47
  Speaker 3: We talked about it in one of my classes too,
• 29:50
  Speaker 3: and just to see like the marks from twenty twenty
• 29:52
  Speaker 3: three to now is insane. Hm, it's so cool to watch.
• 29:56
  Speaker 3: And like I think players like Asia Wilson and one
• 29:59
  Speaker 3: of like my favorite players like Sidney Colson. She's could
• 30:02
  Speaker 3: just because her personality, just because her personalities bringing more eyes,
• 30:06
  Speaker 3: bring more viewers to watch the game, and I think
• 30:08
  Speaker 3: that's so cool for women in sports.
• 30:10
  Speaker 4: But yeah, yeah, I would say like because growing up
• 30:14
  Speaker 4: or not not growing up, but like kind of looking
• 30:17
  Speaker 4: ahead to like what you would do post college. A
• 30:20
  Speaker 4: lot of girls would say, like they want to do
• 30:22
  Speaker 4: the WNBA, but you're gonna have to play overseas as well,
• 30:24
  Speaker 4: because you're not going to like be able to like
• 30:26
  Speaker 4: actually survive off of only the WNBA. So the fact
• 30:29
  Speaker 4: that it's getting a lot more traction and people are
• 30:31
  Speaker 4: actually able to like have a Liverpool salary and stuff
• 30:34
  Speaker 4: off of putting their bodies through all of that like
• 30:37
  Speaker 4: trauma throughout the year is like really great.
• 30:39
  Speaker 5: So yeah, it's awesome. It is cool.
• 30:42
  Speaker 6: They're really investing too, Like so many of them are
• 30:45
  Speaker 6: either have or are getting, you know, their own training facilities,
• 30:48
  Speaker 6: and we're seeing games being played in figure arenas. It's
• 30:51
  Speaker 6: really cool on TV all the time.
• 30:53
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I enjoy watching it.
• 30:55
  Speaker 3: So growing up my mom made me go to La
• 30:58
  Speaker 3: Sparks games. Oh yeah, And so I grew up going
• 31:01
  Speaker 3: and watching Lisa Leslie. She was so cool. And then
• 31:04
  Speaker 3: her daughter came to our gym once to do gymnastics
• 31:07
  Speaker 3: class and I got to meet her and I was
• 31:08
  Speaker 3: just so amazed by this beautiful tall woman who was
• 31:12
  Speaker 3: so who was so strong, It was so cool and
• 31:16
  Speaker 3: so swaggy, like it she kind of like made me
• 31:18
  Speaker 3: want to continue to, you know, pursue gymnastics and be
• 31:22
  Speaker 3: like a great athlete like her. So I think that's
• 31:24
  Speaker 3: great that they're finally getting some the attention that they deserve,
• 31:27
  Speaker 3: you know, for the athletes that they are.
• 31:29
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I feel like volleyball is really coming up too,
• 31:32
  Speaker 6: but even I mean growing up where they're like WNBA
• 31:35
  Speaker 6: players that's been around. So if you played basketball, you
• 31:37
  Speaker 6: knew the WNBA. Was there really pro volleyball that was
• 31:40
  Speaker 6: even around when you were growing up.
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: Not when I was growing up, it was all like
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: after you played college, you just go overseas and like
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: that's just kind of how it was. But now it's like,
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: well it's called the PVF, like for Volleyball Federation, but
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: now it's like the MLV so like Major League Vlleyball,
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: which is like really cool that it's like when did
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: that start in the US, Like literally this year it's
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: now called.
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: The MALVI and love Love Yeah.
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: And then they're like athletes athletes unlimited volleyball too, right,
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: there's volleyball, basketball, softball, yeah h yeah. So it's just
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: becoming way bigger, especially for women's sports too, which is
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: something that's really cool just to get younger girls too,
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: to get more involved and see that there's you know,
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: life after college in the US too, if you wanted
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: to play pro.
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: So it's pretty cool.
• 32:25
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 32:26
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I feel like maybe it was just like the Olympics,
• 32:28
  Speaker 6: like just crazy, right, Like even basketball, like, oh, who'd
• 32:31
  Speaker 6: you look up to? Like you can probably find somebody,
• 32:33
  Speaker 6: but I don't.
• 32:34
  Speaker 2: Know for volleyball.
• 32:36
  Speaker 6: Yeah, no, it's cool that it's now kids can do that, right, Yeah,
• 32:40
  Speaker 6: that's cool.
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it was your gymnast growing up, my gymnast growing up. Yeah,
• 32:44
  Speaker 2: like whould you look up to?
• 32:45
  Speaker 3: Oh, that's a good question. I think later, like in
• 32:53
  Speaker 3: my high school years, it was Simone Biles because she's
• 32:56
  Speaker 3: just the best ever. And then earlier during the Nastia
• 32:59
  Speaker 3: Luke again Shawn Johnson era era, it was Sean Johnson
• 33:03
  Speaker 3: for sure, because she was just so tiny and like
• 33:06
  Speaker 3: so muscular and so quick and so fast and I
• 33:08
  Speaker 3: kind of like emulate that like sort of body style
• 33:12
  Speaker 3: and that sort of quick twitch gymnastics. So she was
• 33:15
  Speaker 3: definitely one. And then Dominique Dawes too, who was like
• 33:19
  Speaker 3: the first African American who went to the Olympics and
• 33:21
  Speaker 3: won gold. Like she was also an inspiration for me
• 33:25
  Speaker 3: as well. But there were so many amazing gymnasts growing
• 33:28
  Speaker 3: up that I got to look to look up to,
• 33:31
  Speaker 3: and even like Gabby Douglas, like seeing athletes who look
• 33:34
  Speaker 3: like me and and we're succeeding at the sport like
• 33:39
  Speaker 3: that was that was for sure very cool for me
• 33:41
  Speaker 3: to see. But yeah, I love that.
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: What's something that people that live in the Clemson area
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: like don't know about you or something that you think
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: that they should know?
• 33:53
  Speaker 5: Mmmm, that's a good question.
• 33:57
  Speaker 6: M h.
• 33:59
  Speaker 4: I'm a pretty open books, so I really don't even
• 34:01
  Speaker 4: know what it would be and I don't really like.
• 34:05
  Speaker 5: Do too much.
• 34:08
  Speaker 3: Or how would like your teammates describe you in three
• 34:11
  Speaker 3: words besides the whole because because we know.
• 34:14
  Speaker 4: That, yeah, yeah, my main, my main description, they called
• 34:21
  Speaker 4: me grandma, So yeah, you have a female version of unk.
• 34:28
  Speaker 4: Basically I would hopefully say caring and so they would
• 34:37
  Speaker 4: say for one of them, uh.
• 34:41
  Speaker 3: M hmm.
• 34:42
  Speaker 5: That's another descriptive word for me that they would call me.
• 34:48
  Speaker 3: Mhm.
• 34:51
  Speaker 4: See, a lot of my words would be like nurturing
• 34:52
  Speaker 4: words just because they would be very similar because like
• 34:55
  Speaker 4: that's the only Yeah, I literally just act like their grandma.
• 34:59
  Speaker 3: When I think of my grandma, I think of someone
• 35:01
  Speaker 3: who loves me, who cares about me. Yeah literally, but yeah, yeah,
• 35:06
  Speaker 3: for sure.
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: That's what's so needed on a team too, Like in
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: all the chaos, like people are going to you and
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: they need they need that.
• 35:14
  Speaker 3: Because I know, practice is hard and it's gritty and
• 35:17
  Speaker 3: it's tiring. So you need someone who's been through it,
• 35:20
  Speaker 3: who can like talk you through it and like give
• 35:23
  Speaker 3: you those words of wisdom.
• 35:24
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I don't understand.
• 35:25
  Speaker 4: I feel like just having my experience and have been
• 35:28
  Speaker 4: like in college for so long, I'm able to kind
• 35:30
  Speaker 4: of just like give my perspective and be like, even
• 35:33
  Speaker 4: though you made a mistake right now, like it's okay,
• 35:34
  Speaker 4: and I still get hard, Like I'm hard on myself
• 35:36
  Speaker 4: sometimes when I make mistakes, just because I am a
• 35:39
  Speaker 4: lot older. So it's like I don't want to do
• 35:42
  Speaker 4: that just to lead by example, you know what I'm saying,
• 35:44
  Speaker 4: But like it's inevitable. So it's kind of just like
• 35:47
  Speaker 4: trying to tell them like they need to give themselves grace,
• 35:50
  Speaker 4: just like they try to tell me, Like I need
• 35:51
  Speaker 4: to give myself grace as well.
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: I feel like that's the biggest difference like between freshmen
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: and seniors, your grads, like just like the ability to
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: give yourself grace and like not be so hard on
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: yourself because like I agree with you, Like I see
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: freshmen and I'm like, it's okay, like don't stress about
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: it too much because like you're gonna grow, you're gonna
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: learn and move forward and those things.
• 36:10
  Speaker 2: So I think that's definitely the biggest difference. Beca, this
• 36:13
  Speaker 2: is your fifth year, six six years. Oh, me too, Oh.
• 36:16
  Speaker 6: And oh yeah, grandma, but you had to sit out
• 36:22
  Speaker 6: a year for injury.
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: Yeah, what was that?
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: Like?
• 36:25
  Speaker 5: It was definitely difficult because I fractured my tibia.
• 36:29
  Speaker 3: Really weird, that's your like she kind of yeah.
• 36:31
  Speaker 4: So it was like posterior tibia, So like all back
• 36:34
  Speaker 4: here was fractured on my left.
• 36:36
  Speaker 2: How did that happen?
• 36:37
  Speaker 5: Absolutely zero clue.
• 36:39
  Speaker 4: Like they couldn't even tell me how it happened because
• 36:40
  Speaker 4: it just kind of like built up.
• 36:42
  Speaker 3: Over time stress fractured mm hmm.
• 36:45
  Speaker 4: So they basically said it was like probably from like
• 36:47
  Speaker 4: overload and I was just doing way too much before
• 36:50
  Speaker 4: the season, and I literally didn't figure out that I
• 36:54
  Speaker 4: did it until right before we started, like scrimmages.
• 36:56
  Speaker 5: So before season, we always scrimmage.
• 36:58
  Speaker 4: A couple of teams before we actually like start playing,
• 37:01
  Speaker 4: and I like sat out for like those two scrimmages
• 37:05
  Speaker 4: just to like rest myself. And then that's when I
• 37:08
  Speaker 4: like got my X rays and stuff done, and they
• 37:10
  Speaker 4: were like, oh no, like like you have to sit.
• 37:12
  Speaker 5: Out for longer, and so how long is that? I
• 37:17
  Speaker 5: was out for the whole year? Oh wow, Yeah, But.
• 37:21
  Speaker 4: The like doctors and the PTE over there were really good,
• 37:24
  Speaker 4: so I was honestly back able to like move around
• 37:29
  Speaker 4: and start running and everything by like January kind of
• 37:33
  Speaker 4: so yeah, but by that point the season was already done,
• 37:36
  Speaker 4: so it's like, yeah, you're not playing. So it was
• 37:39
  Speaker 4: definitely difficult just mentally having to sit there and like
• 37:43
  Speaker 4: watch all the time and like travel and like not
• 37:46
  Speaker 4: be able to actually participate and play with my teammates.
• 37:49
  Speaker 4: But I think it did give me a better perspective
• 37:51
  Speaker 4: on like what the coaches were seeing then, Like you know,
• 37:54
  Speaker 4: you only have a player's perspective. It's kind of like
• 37:56
  Speaker 4: sometimes you feel like not they don't know what they're
• 37:58
  Speaker 4: talking about, but like you feel like you are doing
• 38:01
  Speaker 4: what you say you're doing and so kind of like
• 38:03
  Speaker 4: seeing it from like their point of view is like
• 38:06
  Speaker 4: very eye opening on like what we actually were doing
• 38:09
  Speaker 4: right and wrong, and like how we can actually be
• 38:12
  Speaker 4: better as a team.
• 38:14
  Speaker 3: That's you kind of got another perspective of your team
• 38:17
  Speaker 3: and how to better. That's really cool.
• 38:19
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it was helpful that I was older when I
• 38:21
  Speaker 4: happened to because I could actually like sit back and
• 38:23
  Speaker 4: have that perspective for my even though it was my
• 38:25
  Speaker 4: senior year.
• 38:25
  Speaker 5: So it was kind of sad, But yeah.
• 38:28
  Speaker 3: How did you get through that injury? Like what do
• 38:30
  Speaker 3: you think kept you going?
• 38:33
  Speaker 4: You know, I would definitely say my teammates, just because
• 38:36
  Speaker 4: we had been together for so long. That was our
• 38:37
  Speaker 4: fourth year together and that's like unheard of nowadays in
• 38:40
  Speaker 4: college sports, and so like us just having really like
• 38:44
  Speaker 4: that really was like my family since we were like
• 38:46
  Speaker 4: all so far away from home and so just like
• 38:49
  Speaker 4: having them every day kind of like to talk to
• 38:52
  Speaker 4: or lean on and everything. It was like very beneficial
• 38:55
  Speaker 4: for me in that moment, and I think I really
• 38:57
  Speaker 4: don't know how I would have like came out on
• 39:00
  Speaker 4: the other side without them like kind of with me
• 39:02
  Speaker 4: through that.
• 39:03
  Speaker 6: So yeah, well I think that's important too, right, like
• 39:05
  Speaker 6: you're not going to get through it by yourself, So
• 39:07
  Speaker 6: how do you find the right.
• 39:08
  Speaker 2: People that can help you get through it?
• 39:10
  Speaker 6: And that's so hard just even sitting out and that's
• 39:13
  Speaker 6: a long time. Like if you miss a whole season,
• 39:15
  Speaker 6: that's really double the time to get back to playing
• 39:18
  Speaker 6: because you've got to go all the way back through
• 39:19
  Speaker 6: a preseason and summer training all over again just to
• 39:23
  Speaker 6: compete against somebody else.
• 39:24
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it was really nerve wracking too, because like once
• 39:26
  Speaker 4: I came back and I had like my first game,
• 39:29
  Speaker 4: I was like out there, I was like, oh my gosh,
• 39:30
  Speaker 4: do I actually like remember how to play basketball against
• 39:32
  Speaker 4: other people?
• 39:33
  Speaker 6: So don't trust your body, like I think back and
• 39:35
  Speaker 6: be hard too, Like you just have to trust when
• 39:37
  Speaker 6: the doctors say, like you're good, you're stable, you'll be fine,
• 39:40
  Speaker 6: Like all right, when I jump and land, you promise right, okay?
• 39:45
  Speaker 4: Because like for the longest time, I couldn't even walk,
• 39:47
  Speaker 4: Like I had to like re learn how to walk
• 39:49
  Speaker 4: and everything because I had like a splint that like
• 39:52
  Speaker 4: kept my legs straight so I couldn't put any pressure
• 39:54
  Speaker 4: on it, and so I was like on crutches for
• 39:57
  Speaker 4: like three or four months.
• 39:58
  Speaker 5: I literally had like the arm bruises and it was terrible.
• 40:02
  Speaker 5: That's terrible. I hate it.
• 40:03
  Speaker 2: So let's not go back to those times. My good healthy.
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but you had a really good perspective on it,
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: Like I know, like when injuries happen and you have
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: like a long recovery, like you can either probably go
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: one or two ways, and like you really just went
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: like the positive route and like saw like the good
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: in it and like saw how it could help your
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: game when you got back.
• 40:20
  Speaker 2: So I think that's really really cool.
• 40:23
  Speaker 5: Yeah, thank you.
• 40:24
  Speaker 4: That was the only way I could because I was
• 40:25
  Speaker 4: just like, if I don't like go the positive route,
• 40:27
  Speaker 4: I'm going to like spirals because I'm just sitting here.
• 40:30
  Speaker 3: So yeah, and you came out on the other side. Yes,
• 40:33
  Speaker 3: ready for this next season, Yes.
• 40:35
  Speaker 5: Thank goodness. Hopefully I stay healthy now too.
• 40:37
  Speaker 2: Yeah you will, you will, Yes, you will.
• 40:40
  Speaker 3: Were you most excited to play this season?
• 40:43
  Speaker 6: M m?
• 40:48
  Speaker 5: I mean it's a lot of the same teams I've already.
• 40:50
  Speaker 3: Played, Yeah, same A SEC teams.
• 40:54
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean I've never played South Carolina and that's.
• 40:57
  Speaker 5: A really big school.
• 40:59
  Speaker 6: I know.
• 40:59
  Speaker 4: The arrival for Clinton, so very interested to see how
• 41:03
  Speaker 4: that goes.
• 41:04
  Speaker 3: That'll be a good game, but also like playing in
• 41:07
  Speaker 3: the same arena as Dawns daily too, Like that's got
• 41:10
  Speaker 3: to be cool to.
• 41:10
  Speaker 5: Yeah, actually seeing her in person will be really really cool.
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that's something that you're looking forward to just
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: for the season.
• 41:19
  Speaker 4: I'm looking forward to seeing how we like kind of
• 41:21
  Speaker 4: show up, how we're able to kind of like put
• 41:24
  Speaker 4: everything together that we've been learning since the summertime, because
• 41:26
  Speaker 4: we've been together for a while and kind of learning
• 41:29
  Speaker 4: like Poppy and his philosophies and everything, and how he
• 41:31
  Speaker 4: really wants us to like win and play together. So
• 41:33
  Speaker 4: I'm really interested to see how it kind of like
• 41:35
  Speaker 4: builds and develops over time and gets better by the
• 41:38
  Speaker 4: end of the season, just to see like where we're at.
• 41:41
  Speaker 5: Yeah, that's awesome.
• 41:42
  Speaker 2: And you get to play in the Bahamas this year.
• 41:44
  Speaker 5: Yes, I actually went to that tournament before, so all right.
• 41:51
  Speaker 4: I am excited to go again though, because it's always
• 41:53
  Speaker 4: good to like go somewhere warm during the cold time here.
• 41:56
  Speaker 2: For sure.
• 41:57
  Speaker 3: Great, that is so fun.
• 41:58
  Speaker 2: But I did not know this.
• 42:00
  Speaker 4: There we're going right after Thanksgiving for like three or
• 42:05
  Speaker 4: four days, I think, Yeah, so do.
• 42:07
  Speaker 2: A lot of a SEC teams go or is it
• 42:09
  Speaker 2: it's usually.
• 42:10
  Speaker 4: Like teams out of conference. So I think for our
• 42:12
  Speaker 4: first game, we play like Western Caroline or something like that.
• 42:15
  Speaker 2: Oh it's fun.
• 42:16
  Speaker 4: Yeah, And then I think after that it's like whoever
• 42:18
  Speaker 4: wins out of like another bracket will play each other.
• 42:21
  Speaker 5: Cool.
• 42:22
  Speaker 6: It's a cool thing out basketball. There's usually a lot
• 42:24
  Speaker 6: of like fun location. Yeah, little like many tournaments during
• 42:28
  Speaker 6: the holidays, Yeah.
• 42:31
  Speaker 4: Because we're always warm here because everybody else goes home
• 42:34
  Speaker 4: for the holidays and we're like not stuck.
• 42:36
  Speaker 3: But how many days do you guys get off a
• 42:39
  Speaker 3: lot for Christmas to go home or anything.
• 42:41
  Speaker 5: Like that, four or five days?
• 42:44
  Speaker 4: Yeah, just enough to like see all your family, give
• 42:47
  Speaker 4: the hugs, and then go back and gets working in here,
• 42:50
  Speaker 4: because that's when like conference conference really starts after Christmas.
• 42:55
  Speaker 2: A good thing.
• 42:55
  Speaker 5: You're closer to home.
• 42:56
  Speaker 4: Now, yeah, so I can I go home when I can?
• 43:00
  Speaker 5: I'm not right hand?
• 43:00
  Speaker 3: Yeah, Jamia, where can people find you on social media?
• 43:05
  Speaker 4: So for Instagram, it's just my name. I don't know
• 43:08
  Speaker 4: if should I spell okay D E M E A
• 43:12
  Speaker 4: R A dot A. And then on TikTok it's my
• 43:17
  Speaker 4: name again Demara Hines and then.
• 43:20
  Speaker 5: Yeah, that's beinally the only two that I use, so
• 43:22
  Speaker 5: keep it at that.
• 43:24
  Speaker 6: Well.
• 43:24
  Speaker 5: Awesome. This was so great.
• 43:25
  Speaker 2: Thank you for coming.
• 43:26
  Speaker 5: Thank you much for coming.