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WNBA All-Star Weekend Reaction with John & KC Robertson (Podcast No. 330.2) · The Central Indiana Sports Report

• 0:08
  [SPEAKER_04]: What you are listening to now is the central Indian Sports Report podcast number three hundred and thirty point two.
• 0:16
  [SPEAKER_04]: Our WMBA all star weekend recap with John and Casey Robertson We spent Friday and Saturday at the festivities and they're going to tell you all about it.
• 0:29
  [SPEAKER_04]: Oh, there was a game for
• 0:43
  [SPEAKER_00]: to the Central Indiana Sports Report with your host, Greg Midgalls.
• 0:50
  [SPEAKER_04]: Welcome WNBA and Beaver fans to the Central Indiana Sports Report.
• 0:56
  [SPEAKER_04]: I am your host, Greg Midgall here with John Robertson and his daughter Casey to review the WNBA all-star weekend.
• 1:05
  [SPEAKER_04]: There's two seconds left in the game and
• 1:09
  [SPEAKER_04]: Call yours team is up one fifty one over one fifty one one twenty seven over Caitlin's team and it was a stinker of an all star game John but a great all star weekend right
• 1:22
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, the weekend itself was honestly a great time.
• 1:26
  [SPEAKER_01]: There were so many great events that happened that we went to and experience.
• 1:30
  [SPEAKER_01]: I'm actually really sad that the game capped off the whole thing because I think they made two huge mistakes that are really going to leave a stain on the WMBA after the all-star weekend because of how bad the game was.
• 1:42
  [SPEAKER_01]: The game itself being non-competitive is one and then I think making a political statement at the beginning when they took off their shooting shirts is going to be
• 1:51
  [SPEAKER_01]: talked about it in a negative way.
• 1:52
  [SPEAKER_04]: I didn't even see that.
• 1:54
  [SPEAKER_04]: Tell me about it.
• 1:55
  [SPEAKER_01]: So they had their collective bargaining agreement.
• 1:57
  [SPEAKER_01]: They met the players union met and everything.
• 1:59
  [SPEAKER_01]: And again, I don't want to talk like I don't think the players deserve more money.
• 2:02
  [SPEAKER_01]: I do think the players deserve higher pay.
• 2:05
  [SPEAKER_01]: But like
• 2:06
  [SPEAKER_01]: What's the one thing that people don't like about the WMBA?
• 2:09
  [SPEAKER_01]: Like what's a barrier to entry for a lot of fans is how political they get and how they make up.
• 2:15
  [SPEAKER_01]: And so the players came out and they took off their shooting shirts and they had certain black shirts with white print that said, pay us what you owe us.
• 2:23
  [SPEAKER_01]: Right.
• 2:23
  [SPEAKER_01]: So they're using the all-star games.
• 2:24
  [SPEAKER_01]: They're not owed anything.
• 2:26
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I didn't like the wording.
• 2:28
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
• 2:29
  [SPEAKER_01]: I didn't like using that stage as a moment.
• 2:31
  [SPEAKER_01]: And I really do think it's going to cause fans.
• 2:35
  [SPEAKER_01]: to reflect poorly on the NBA, even if you were winning over, like, you know, you had been winning over a lot of people.
• 2:40
  [SPEAKER_01]: I think this is going to be a setback just because of that.
• 2:44
  [SPEAKER_04]: If it had said, pay us what we're worth.
• 2:46
  [SPEAKER_04]: I think that would be a whole different.
• 2:49
  [SPEAKER_01]: Sure.
• 2:49
  [SPEAKER_04]: Pay us what you owe is nobody sold anything, particularly in basketball.
• 2:55
  [SPEAKER_01]: And that combined with the fact that the game really wasn't enjoyable to watch.
• 2:58
  [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, it was awful.
• 3:00
  [SPEAKER_04]: Let's talk about the game for just a little while.
• 3:03
  [SPEAKER_04]: I don't want to spend much time on the game, John.
• 3:04
  [SPEAKER_01]: Sure.
• 3:06
  [SPEAKER_04]: First of all, it might have been a whole different story of Caitlyn play and I assume it would have been.
• 3:10
  [SPEAKER_04]: It would have been a whole game.
• 3:11
  [SPEAKER_04]: I think it would have been a fun game, but her not being in the game really hurt.
• 3:17
  [SPEAKER_04]: And second, Nefisa Collier, it's her year.
• 3:21
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, she's fantastic.
• 3:23
  [SPEAKER_01]: She's absolutely fantastic.
• 3:24
  [SPEAKER_04]: Thirteen for sixteen, three for four from behind the three point line, nine rebounds.
• 3:30
  [SPEAKER_01]: And Caitlyn wasn't the only one injured on her team.
• 3:34
  [SPEAKER_01]: Asia asks for minutes restriction.
• 3:36
  [SPEAKER_01]: There was a couple people that said they didn't want to play very many, but so like it wasn't just that.
• 3:41
  [SPEAKER_01]: I don't think it really changes too much other than the fact that the pace may run differently.
• 3:46
  [SPEAKER_01]: You might get some people actually playing defense on Caitlyn if she's out there, but I think they just came out to have a good time, which is great for them.
• 3:53
  [SPEAKER_01]: It's whatever, but as a fan, I didn't enjoy it.
• 3:55
  [SPEAKER_01]: How does you feel about it, Casey?
• 3:56
  [SPEAKER_01]: You didn't seem like you were that interested in watching it, which is fine.
• 3:59
  [SPEAKER_01]: I was on either.
• 4:00
  [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
• 4:03
  [SPEAKER_02]: I was doing crafting in the corner.
• 4:05
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
• 4:07
  [SPEAKER_01]: So that just you're a fan of the WMBA, but you didn't feel compelled to watch the all-star game because it wasn't that exciting to you.
• 4:14
  [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
• 4:15
  [SPEAKER_04]: A couple of positives real fast.
• 4:17
  [SPEAKER_04]: Sure.
• 4:17
  [SPEAKER_04]: Number one, the leading score for Team Clark was Kelsey Mitchell.
• 4:22
  [SPEAKER_04]: That was good to see.
• 4:23
  [SPEAKER_04]: Let's go.
• 4:25
  [SPEAKER_04]: Three for seven from deep.
• 4:28
  [SPEAKER_04]: The good news is
• 4:30
  [SPEAKER_04]: Indianapolis put on a great event.
• 4:32
  [SPEAKER_04]: It was a great crowd.
• 4:33
  [SPEAKER_04]: One bad thing is that four point shots got to go.
• 4:37
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I didn't made it really bad.
• 4:39
  [SPEAKER_01]: I think if Caitlin's in, you know, that's kind of a signature thing so she can play up to it, play it up to the crowd.
• 4:45
  [SPEAKER_04]: But I don't have a more than forty of them.
• 4:50
  [SPEAKER_01]: Well, there was a social media thing.
• 4:51
  [SPEAKER_01]: They were saying, like, however, my her team made, she had to take that many shots later.
• 4:56
  [SPEAKER_01]: But I don't know if that's accurate or not.
• 5:01
  [SPEAKER_04]: I heard something like that.
• 5:03
  [SPEAKER_04]: All right.
• 5:03
  [SPEAKER_04]: Now, let's talk about the weekend.
• 5:05
  [SPEAKER_04]: Let's forget about the game.
• 5:06
  [SPEAKER_04]: Let's talk about the weekend because the national media is raving about the job that Indianapolis did.
• 5:14
  [SPEAKER_04]: John, you were down there.
• 5:15
  [SPEAKER_04]: You took a lot of photos, a lot of video.
• 5:18
  [SPEAKER_04]: You even got you thrown up a little bit and got a lot of footage of it.
• 5:22
  [SPEAKER_04]: What an incredible job Indianapolis did.
• 5:25
  [SPEAKER_04]: And this is why we invited KC because she was actually part of it.
• 5:29
  [SPEAKER_04]: John and KC tells her about the weekend.
• 5:31
  [SPEAKER_01]: Sure, I'll kind of start the framework for you.
• 5:34
  [SPEAKER_01]: And then Casey, you can tell us your favorite part.
• 5:36
  [SPEAKER_01]: So I mean, because we were there a lot.
• 5:38
  [SPEAKER_01]: We had a long day yesterday.
• 5:39
  [SPEAKER_01]: We went down for the BNBA Live, which is kind of like a convention.
• 5:45
  [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, it was at the convention center.
• 5:46
  [SPEAKER_01]: So imagine like I was trying to explain before we went.
• 5:49
  [SPEAKER_01]: It's like a car show type thing except for its exhibitors for WNBA stuff.
• 5:53
  [SPEAKER_01]: They had player meeting grades, a lot of activations really, really cool.
• 5:56
  [SPEAKER_01]: We were worn out yesterday, right?
• 5:59
  [SPEAKER_01]: And then today we got up really early in KC got to be part of the WMBA community bounces what they called it.
• 6:08
  [SPEAKER_01]: I thought that was a weird name I called it the dribbling parade and really cool of it really cool of it.
• 6:13
  [SPEAKER_04]: So what pretty interesting is he called it?
• 6:15
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, this is dribbling.
• 6:17
  [SPEAKER_01]: So we'll go let KC tell you a little bit about what what was your favorite part of WMBA live yesterday?
• 6:25
  [SPEAKER_02]: My favorite part was probably all the little PR events, like the ion fashion thing.
• 6:34
  [SPEAKER_01]: Sure, okay, yeah, that was really cool.
• 6:36
  [SPEAKER_01]: I saw some video of that of you, right?
• 6:39
  [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
• 6:40
  [SPEAKER_01]: Subscribe that for people who may not have seen it.
• 6:45
  [SPEAKER_02]: You got in the line and there was like a bunch of clothes and bags and accessories that you could put on while you're in the line and there was little gems that you could put on your face and then once you got to the tunnel walk a camera guy told you kind of how to move and then you walk down the tunnel and then you got a tunnel walk video
• 7:12
  [SPEAKER_01]: That was a really cool activation because I mean, whether we like it or not the WMBA is focusing on the runway walks in the fashion as part of their brand, right?
• 7:21
  [SPEAKER_01]: Like some people like it, some people don't like it.
• 7:23
  [SPEAKER_01]: So I, on who's hosting the game's on Friday night, they'll give the kids an opportunity to do their own runway walk.
• 7:29
  [SPEAKER_01]: That was really, really cool.
• 7:30
  [SPEAKER_04]: And like it or not, that's something that girls probably like doing more than boys.
• 7:34
  [SPEAKER_01]: Sure, like I'm very much like
• 7:37
  [SPEAKER_01]: I don't care about it either way.
• 7:39
  [SPEAKER_01]: Like, I'm indifferent.
• 7:40
  [SPEAKER_01]: And I've heard strong opinions about it on both sides of the orange carpet from, like, I think Michelle hates it, right?
• 7:45
  [SPEAKER_01]: Like, I think Michelle hates it.
• 7:47
  [SPEAKER_01]: But I've heard like, Casey likes it.
• 7:49
  [SPEAKER_01]: I think you enjoy that part, right?
• 7:52
  [SPEAKER_02]: I do.
• 7:52
  [SPEAKER_02]: I like that people get to show their fashion tastes.
• 7:57
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
• 7:57
  [SPEAKER_01]: So like, that's what I do think the WMBA has to do these things to try and grow the audience.
• 8:02
  [SPEAKER_01]: You're gonna have to reach out to some non-traditional sports fans at some point.
• 8:06
  [SPEAKER_01]: So that was cool.
• 8:07
  [SPEAKER_04]: And I got to say that most of them have looked quite nice.
• 8:12
  [SPEAKER_04]: It's not, not a lot of joky kind of fashion and like you see a lot with the guys that just look hideous.
• 8:20
  [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.
• 8:20
  [SPEAKER_04]: The women have looked in, in Alia Boston just looked amazing.
• 8:24
  [SPEAKER_01]: She really did.
• 8:25
  [SPEAKER_01]: She always looks good.
• 8:26
  [SPEAKER_01]: Sophie always pushes the boundaries.
• 8:28
  [SPEAKER_01]: I would say sometimes on the fashion.
• 8:32
  [SPEAKER_01]: And there's a couple others, but that's their thing, that's their style.
• 8:35
  [SPEAKER_01]: Um, let's talk about the story three point shooting contest you got to witness yesterday.
• 8:39
  [SPEAKER_01]: Casey, why don't you tell us how that would?
• 8:44
  [SPEAKER_02]: Um, you and mother were playing against each other in a three point contest.
• 8:51
  [SPEAKER_02]: For the three star three point contest, your team line mother was team lemon.
• 8:57
  [SPEAKER_02]: And you made one point.
• 9:01
  [SPEAKER_01]: Three point.
• 9:01
  [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, one basket.
• 9:02
  [SPEAKER_02]: One basket.
• 9:03
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
• 9:03
  [SPEAKER_01]: You didn't have to say that part.
• 9:04
  [SPEAKER_01]: You just had to say I won.
• 9:06
  [SPEAKER_01]: You just had to say I won.
• 9:07
  [SPEAKER_01]: You just had to say I won.
• 9:08
  [SPEAKER_04]: But I did win.
• 9:09
  [SPEAKER_04]: What a good job.
• 9:10
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
• 9:11
  [SPEAKER_01]: That was really fun.
• 9:11
  [SPEAKER_01]: We got there early early.
• 9:13
  [SPEAKER_01]: And this is where I was a little nervous for Casey and her friend that went with us because you had to be a team to do the sorry contest.
• 9:21
  [SPEAKER_01]: There was a fairly big crowd because Sophie was supposed to show up in a few minutes and like they couldn't see anything because you know, they're young girls are there.
• 9:27
  [SPEAKER_01]: little shorter.
• 9:28
  [SPEAKER_01]: But so I was nervous.
• 9:30
  [SPEAKER_01]: They were going to have like everything was going to be boring enough.
• 9:32
  [SPEAKER_01]: But then after that it was a lot of fun.
• 9:34
  [SPEAKER_01]: And we got to see Sophie and Sophie held the dance contest.
• 9:37
  [SPEAKER_04]: All right.
• 9:37
  [SPEAKER_01]: And that was cool.
• 9:39
  [SPEAKER_04]: You guys are lucky.
• 9:39
  [SPEAKER_04]: I wasn't there.
• 9:40
  [SPEAKER_04]: I would have won that.
• 9:43
  [SPEAKER_01]: You would beat me for sure.
• 9:44
  [SPEAKER_01]: I cannot dance.
• 9:45
  [SPEAKER_01]: I actually was told yesterday that I am embarrassing dad dancer.
• 9:49
  [SPEAKER_01]: And I was like, I am well aware.
• 9:50
  [SPEAKER_01]: And I'm okay with it.
• 9:51
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
• 9:52
  [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, so my, but you know what, I wouldn't stop.
• 9:54
  [SPEAKER_04]: I would have kept going.
• 9:55
  [SPEAKER_01]: I did a stop.
• 9:56
  [SPEAKER_04]: Okay, good.
• 9:57
  [SPEAKER_04]: You and I probably are on the same level, then, John.
• 10:00
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, that's pretty bad.
• 10:00
  [SPEAKER_04]: Just enthusiastic and just no rhythm.
• 10:03
  [SPEAKER_01]: Very, yeah, very much.
• 10:05
  [SPEAKER_01]: We didn't got to go meet Natasha Howard.
• 10:07
  [SPEAKER_01]: She's at a booth for La Cremo wine.
• 10:11
  [SPEAKER_01]: The case he did not get to sample their products.
• 10:13
  [SPEAKER_01]: No.
• 10:15
  [SPEAKER_04]: No.
• 10:16
  [SPEAKER_01]: I did, but she got to meet Natasha Howard, who's really cool, right?
• 10:20
  [SPEAKER_02]: Yes.
• 10:22
  [SPEAKER_01]: Pretty tall, well she's six, five or six, three.
• 10:24
  [SPEAKER_02]: I think she's six, three.
• 10:27
  [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, very tall.
• 10:29
  [SPEAKER_01]: Very nice.
• 10:30
  [SPEAKER_01]: While we were in line for that, my wife got in line for who?
• 10:35
  [SPEAKER_02]: Sabrina, you next school.
• 10:37
  [SPEAKER_01]: Sabrina, you next school.
• 10:38
  [SPEAKER_01]: And you were pretty happy about that one, right?
• 10:41
  [SPEAKER_02]: Yes, I got my jersey signed.
• 10:45
  [SPEAKER_04]: What was the best five players in the league right now?
• 10:47
  [SPEAKER_04]: At least right.
• 10:48
  [SPEAKER_04]: The first half of the season for sure.
• 10:50
  [SPEAKER_02]: Yes.
• 10:51
  [SPEAKER_02]: Sabrina is actually my favorite non fever player.
• 10:54
  [SPEAKER_02]: So that was really exciting for me.
• 10:57
  [SPEAKER_01]: She's she's worn Sabrina shoes for basketball last year.
• 11:01
  [SPEAKER_01]: She has three pairs of them and she's going to she earned a custom pair this year because she got into the starting lineup last year.
• 11:08
  [SPEAKER_01]: That was the reward if she could earn a starting spot.
• 11:11
  [SPEAKER_01]: She got custom Sabrina for the season.
• 11:13
  [SPEAKER_01]: So
• 11:15
  [SPEAKER_01]: That was a big deal for you, me to Sabrina.
• 11:17
  [SPEAKER_01]: And that was the one of the ones that we were trying pretty hard to me.
• 11:20
  [SPEAKER_01]: Lines were long, lines were deaf, which is a good thing.
• 11:24
  [SPEAKER_01]: Really, I mean, you know, lines were long.
• 11:26
  [SPEAKER_01]: So you pretty much had to get in line about an hour ahead of time for the person you wanted to be when you were on the schedule.
• 11:31
  [SPEAKER_01]: So we got to see Kelsey next Kelsey Mitchell and we got her signature and we shot a little bit and bought some stuff at the stores.
• 11:38
  [SPEAKER_01]: And then that was pretty much the extent of it.
• 11:40
  [SPEAKER_01]: But I mean, there's a lot of activation.
• 11:41
  [SPEAKER_01]: There's a lot of game things that involve shooting
• 11:44
  [SPEAKER_01]: basketballs and did I miss anything or was that pretty much it?
• 11:47
  [SPEAKER_02]: That's pretty much it.
• 11:49
  [SPEAKER_02]: Thank you got the best score at the state farm assist challenge.
• 11:54
  [SPEAKER_01]: I did.
• 11:57
  [SPEAKER_01]: They were given up prizes.
• 11:58
  [SPEAKER_01]: Well, it wasn't really that hard.
• 11:59
  [SPEAKER_01]: The basket was at least five times the size of an actual hoop.
• 12:03
  [SPEAKER_01]: Because there was like the state farm assist there assisting you.
• 12:06
  [SPEAKER_01]: So like, you know, I had a six pointer.
• 12:08
  [SPEAKER_01]: I was silly.
• 12:11
  [SPEAKER_01]: It was a lot of stuff.
• 12:12
  [SPEAKER_01]: You got a lot of swag.
• 12:13
  [SPEAKER_01]: Like you do a business stuff.
• 12:14
  [SPEAKER_01]: There was shops.
• 12:15
  [SPEAKER_01]: We bought a couple of things.
• 12:16
  [SPEAKER_01]: The other thing that I really want to talk about as far as yesterday is we went around them.
• 12:19
  [SPEAKER_01]: We just looked at all the signages that was all over the city.
• 12:23
  [SPEAKER_01]: And Indy did it big, right?
• 12:24
  [SPEAKER_01]: Like Indy has the the J to be a mayor.
• 12:26
  [SPEAKER_01]: It was all Caitlin Clark.
• 12:27
  [SPEAKER_01]: It was massive.
• 12:28
  [SPEAKER_01]: But there was there was something for everybody all over the place.
• 12:31
  [SPEAKER_01]: It was pretty cool to see that.
• 12:33
  [SPEAKER_01]: Angel Reese did have a sign for her new shoe and it was on a brick building, which I thought was appropriate.
• 12:39
  [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, burn.
• 12:42
  [SPEAKER_04]: And that is the truth, too.
• 12:43
  [SPEAKER_04]: She can put up some bricks, can she not?
• 12:46
  [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, man.
• 12:47
  [SPEAKER_01]: It was.
• 12:50
  [SPEAKER_04]: It was my love for Angel Reese on this podcast.
• 12:54
  [SPEAKER_04]: Let's use it up some bricks.
• 12:56
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, that's fine.
• 12:57
  [SPEAKER_01]: We'd offered to buy the friend that went with KC.
• 13:01
  [SPEAKER_01]: We offered to get her friend's little sister, Angel Reaster as he was.
• 13:04
  [SPEAKER_01]: She didn't want it.
• 13:06
  [SPEAKER_04]: We said she said she said get us something like I'll get your names will research and she's like no absolutely not Wow a lot of angel res bashing here Casey you also did a clinic with Lexi hole recently, right?
• 13:20
  [SPEAKER_02]: Yes, I did it was really fun.
• 13:23
  [SPEAKER_02]: We got I got to be with a fever coat not like
• 13:27
  [SPEAKER_02]: Stephanie White, but one of the people, we went through a bunch of stations and worked on some fundamentals.
• 13:37
  [SPEAKER_02]: And it was really fun.
• 13:39
  [SPEAKER_02]: And we got to just a bunch of kids Lexi was in front of us.
• 13:45
  [SPEAKER_02]: It was really fun.
• 13:47
  [SPEAKER_04]: What percentage of the fever team have you met now?
• 13:51
  [SPEAKER_02]: I've had five from most of them at the one game.
• 13:54
  [SPEAKER_01]: That's right.
• 13:55
  [SPEAKER_01]: So if you count that, you've probably hit at least.
• 13:57
  [SPEAKER_01]: I would say forty forty percent.
• 14:00
  [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
• 14:00
  [SPEAKER_01]: Probably dumb.
• 14:01
  [SPEAKER_01]: Tell them about when you're shopping trip to Athleta on Thursday.
• 14:05
  [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
• 14:06
  [SPEAKER_01]: Just because I know Greg's an older white guy like me that he may not know who Athleta is.
• 14:11
  [SPEAKER_01]: It's it's a high high in brand of female athlete's your wear.
• 14:15
  [SPEAKER_01]: So it's like, you know, sportswear, but like high quality sportswear.
• 14:20
  [SPEAKER_01]: Gotcha.
• 14:22
  [SPEAKER_01]: Anyway.
• 14:23
  [SPEAKER_02]: Yes.
• 14:24
  [SPEAKER_02]: On Thursday morning, we went to the Keystone Mall and their Lexi was at the athletic store there and we went shopping like with Lexi.
• 14:35
  [SPEAKER_02]: We got to actually have a full on conversation with her and I ended up on one of Lexi's Instagram posts.
• 14:42
  [SPEAKER_02]: So that was fun.
• 14:43
  [SPEAKER_02]: And I got a sign hat.
• 14:46
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, so that was I thought that was a cool event because like they of all the stuff that we've done usually it's you get to say hi thanks and whatever move on it's not like a Lexi had scheduled it so she would take like groups of three to five and like actually walk around with the store with them for about five to ten minutes and then it was awesome so like carries it or Casey's a huge fan of that brand now
• 15:09
  [SPEAKER_01]: Right.
• 15:10
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yes.
• 15:10
  [SPEAKER_02]: So clothes are so nice.
• 15:13
  [SPEAKER_01]: Right.
• 15:13
  [SPEAKER_01]: But I mean, you would never have gone there if I hadn't been for Lexi.
• 15:16
  [SPEAKER_01]: So I really do think there are marketing opportunities for these girls.
• 15:21
  [SPEAKER_01]: That was the last couple of days.
• 15:22
  [SPEAKER_01]: And then this morning was the parade, the dribble parade.
• 15:24
  [SPEAKER_01]: I'll let her tell you about that.
• 15:26
  [SPEAKER_01]: Because I was going around with my camera and I have a question first.
• 15:31
  [SPEAKER_01]: Sure.
• 15:31
  [SPEAKER_04]: Before was it?
• 15:34
  [SPEAKER_01]: You know, far was.
• 15:37
  [SPEAKER_02]: I don't know.
• 15:38
  [SPEAKER_01]: How long were you doing it?
• 15:41
  [SPEAKER_01]: How long were you doing it?
• 15:42
  [SPEAKER_01]: But this is a funny story actually because it's dribbling for like two minutes.
• 15:48
  [SPEAKER_01]: She's shot out there like a can and like lots of people are just gonna dribbling and like casually walking and enjoying the walk she was at the front of the line and his bam gone and like me and my wife versus like well I'm not gonna run that pace so we'll catch up to her when we catch up to her
• 16:09
  [SPEAKER_02]: everyone else was running and I couldn't see behind me so I thought that was what you were supposed to do.
• 16:14
  [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, just for the record.
• 16:15
  [SPEAKER_01]: It wasn't everyone else.
• 16:16
  [SPEAKER_01]: It was like the five or six boys around her.
• 16:19
  [SPEAKER_01]: I didn't see there were a bunch going fast.
• 16:21
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, there was.
• 16:24
  [SPEAKER_01]: There was a part of Casey.
• 16:28
  [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, yeah, she was.
• 16:30
  [SPEAKER_01]: It was from the American Legion Park Mall Park there near the library to the circle.
• 16:36
  [SPEAKER_01]: So I would say
• 16:38
  [SPEAKER_01]: Maybe half a mile.
• 16:41
  [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, it's probably about four or five of Indianapolis City blocks, so I don't know how much that be quates.
• 16:45
  [SPEAKER_01]: Pretty long.
• 16:46
  [SPEAKER_04]: It's a pretty long way to dribble.
• 16:49
  [SPEAKER_04]: And she was just like, bam, gone.
• 16:50
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I was, cold cheerleaders were there.
• 16:53
  [SPEAKER_01]: Freddie fever was there.
• 16:54
  [SPEAKER_01]: All the mascots were there.
• 16:56
  [SPEAKER_02]: Blue was there.
• 16:57
  [SPEAKER_01]: Blue was there along the route.
• 16:59
  [SPEAKER_01]: There was people cheering for him like it was a marathon along the side route.
• 17:02
  [SPEAKER_01]: And she was done so quick that she probably didn't even hear him.
• 17:10
  [SPEAKER_01]: But it was a lot, but you had a good time, right?
• 17:13
  [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, it was so fun.
• 17:14
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, and then at the circle, they had a lot of activation to sue.
• 17:17
  [SPEAKER_01]: They were giving out free, had bands and landyards, and there was basketball, shooting things they had courts set up for people to play on.
• 17:24
  [SPEAKER_01]: There was a lot of stuff too.
• 17:25
  [SPEAKER_01]: Indeed, it's such a good job of just making the city feel like it was all WMBA all star all weekend.
• 17:31
  [SPEAKER_01]: So even if you came down there with no tickets to any event, no tickets for anything at all, you could find something to do and be involved for free.
• 17:39
  [SPEAKER_04]: And if you didn't have to sit through the game, all the better,
• 17:42
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I almost, we almost got tickets for the three point in the skills challenge last night.
• 17:47
  [SPEAKER_01]: We were really close because the tickets had gotten down to around like ten to twenty dollars.
• 17:52
  [SPEAKER_01]: And we were gonna do it, but we did it because we were just so tired.
• 17:56
  [SPEAKER_01]: Right.
• 17:56
  [SPEAKER_01]: And you had to get up in the morning.
• 17:58
  [SPEAKER_01]: Right.
• 17:58
  [SPEAKER_01]: And I think that would have been a better value than spending a hundred and twenty on the game tonight.
• 18:04
  [SPEAKER_01]: Right.
• 18:04
  [SPEAKER_01]: Like, I, we almost went to the game tonight, but I was like, last minute, I was like, I don't want to go.
• 18:08
  [SPEAKER_01]: So we didn't get tickets.
• 18:10
  [SPEAKER_01]: Um, and after watching it, I'm like, I'm so glad that I didn't waste that money.
• 18:14
  [SPEAKER_01]: And I hate to say that because you know I love you.
• 18:17
  [SPEAKER_01]: You know I love WMBA.
• 18:18
  [SPEAKER_01]: Of course you do.
• 18:20
  [SPEAKER_04]: And I like watching the fever play, but I did not enjoy this at all.
• 18:24
  [SPEAKER_01]: Let's talk real quick about the skills challenge.
• 18:26
  [SPEAKER_01]: I have a bone to pick with the skills challenge too.
• 18:29
  [SPEAKER_01]: I really do, and it's with the NBA and the WMBA.
• 18:33
  [SPEAKER_01]: I don't like the rules of the skills challenge.
• 18:36
  [SPEAKER_01]: I think that if you know, because on the three point shot, all of them, if you just miss three of them, you get to move on.
• 18:43
  [SPEAKER_01]: You don't have to make it.
• 18:45
  [SPEAKER_01]: Right, with no penalty.
• 18:47
  [SPEAKER_01]: So why wouldn't you just like chuck up three three's real quick and then just three and a row you're eliminated.
• 18:52
  [SPEAKER_04]: That should be what it is.
• 18:53
  [SPEAKER_04]: Sure.
• 18:54
  [SPEAKER_04]: No pro basketball player should miss three and a row.
• 18:57
  [SPEAKER_01]: I think well, so the girl the one Natasha Cloud who you like and I mean, she she ends up beating Erica Wheeler Wheeler.
• 19:08
  [SPEAKER_01]: I kept thinking Williams and I knew what I could I just call it.
• 19:11
  [SPEAKER_01]: the aircoealer missed it by one point nine seconds or whatever, but she made all one for all of her shots aircoealer is the winner in my mind agreed I absolutely agree, but like I have beef with the NBA does the same thing and I hate it about the NBA too.
• 19:26
  [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, so I think that's a bad rule in aircoealer.
• 19:30
  [SPEAKER_04]: You are the central Indian sports report skills challenge skills challenge champion.
• 19:36
  [SPEAKER_01]: Absolutely.
• 19:38
  [SPEAKER_04]: How about seeing Lexi get to play in the third.
• 19:40
  [SPEAKER_04]: Oh, good.
• 19:41
  [SPEAKER_04]: And just in general, a champion in our minds.
• 19:44
  [SPEAKER_01]: I love Erica Wheeler.
• 19:45
  [SPEAKER_01]: I absolutely love her.
• 19:46
  [SPEAKER_04]: She's such a buddy, doesn't love her.
• 19:48
  [SPEAKER_01]: If you don't like her, bow, read Christine Britain's book and you'll love her because there's a great conversation about her in there.
• 19:57
  [SPEAKER_01]: Can't wait to read it.
• 19:58
  [SPEAKER_01]: Moving on from that, who we love, Lexi Hall participated in the three-point challenge and had a slow start
• 20:06
  [SPEAKER_01]: I think after listen to her interview, she was nervous a little bit just because there was a lot more to it than she knew about.
• 20:13
  [SPEAKER_01]: Like she had to decide, like I feel out of thing, like do you want your rack on the right side or the left side and which side, which rack do you want to be or rack full of money balls?
• 20:21
  [SPEAKER_01]: And so I think it kind of gotten her head.
• 20:23
  [SPEAKER_01]: And you can see that she started really shaky, but by the end she was making almost all of them from her rack.
• 20:28
  [SPEAKER_01]: Her money ball rack was her last rack on the corner three and she hit four out of five, which kept her in the game.
• 20:34
  [SPEAKER_01]: Loved that they had Caitlin.
• 20:36
  [SPEAKER_01]: I loved that Lexi was representing anapolis.
• 20:38
  [SPEAKER_01]: Obviously she's my favorite player, so I was happy to see her participate.
• 20:42
  [SPEAKER_01]: I love that Caitlin put in that call, even though it's not official that she put in that call, I think she said put Lexi in my spot.
• 20:48
  [SPEAKER_01]: She should be something this weekend.
• 20:50
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, absolutely.
• 20:51
  [SPEAKER_01]: She's grown into be a fan favorite.
• 20:54
  [SPEAKER_01]: Like there were a lot of Lexi jerseys around and inapolis this weekend.
• 20:58
  [SPEAKER_01]: So any comments about the three point or skills challenge we watched last night?
• 21:05
  [SPEAKER_02]: That's Sabrina one.
• 21:07
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
• 21:08
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
• 21:08
  [SPEAKER_01]: I like Sabrina.
• 21:09
  [SPEAKER_01]: I did too.
• 21:12
  [SPEAKER_01]: Do you want to tell, do you know what Sabrina's doing with her money?
• 21:15
  [SPEAKER_01]: Did you hear that story?
• 21:16
  [SPEAKER_02]: The fifty thousand dollars Sabrina won.
• 21:19
  [SPEAKER_02]: She's giving half of it to Sonya.
• 21:24
  [SPEAKER_02]: Sonya Citron because she was the rookie that decided to be brave enough to join the three point challenge.
• 21:32
  [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, nice.
• 21:33
  [SPEAKER_01]: She said she said Sonya was so nervous and worried about it and she was and Sabrina thought that was really proud of her for participating as a rookie.
• 21:42
  [SPEAKER_01]: So she said she was going to give her half of the winnings.
• 21:44
  [SPEAKER_01]: I was like, wow, that's crazy.
• 21:46
  [SPEAKER_01]: It's off itself.
• 21:49
  [SPEAKER_04]: And that's why she's everybody's favorite.
• 21:51
  [SPEAKER_01]: So just to sum up, it was a real, we had a really great time all weekend.
• 21:56
  [SPEAKER_01]: I hope that the whole thing's not marred by the game.
• 22:01
  [SPEAKER_01]: I have a feeling the news will be talking about those two aspects of the game, but the weekend for Indianapolis with Spectacular and its fans, we really enjoyed it.
• 22:09
  [SPEAKER_04]: And let me put one more positive spin on the game.
• 22:11
  [SPEAKER_04]: It was at least better than the NBA All-Star game, which is just a bombination of the game.
• 22:18
  [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, I think it's been for a decade.
• 22:20
  [SPEAKER_01]: The first year.
• 22:21
  [SPEAKER_01]: I think both leagues have a lot of room for opportunity for improvement on all stars.
• 22:26
  [SPEAKER_01]: Games.
• 22:28
  [SPEAKER_01]: Weekend Activations Spectacular, game could use some work.
• 22:32
  [SPEAKER_04]: I also have time to share.
• 22:34
  [SPEAKER_01]: I didn't watch it.
• 22:34
  [SPEAKER_04]: I used some work.
• 22:36
  [SPEAKER_01]: I was playing Donkey Kong.
• 22:38
  [SPEAKER_04]: The hand of course that was perfectly said by John, whether you love the WNBA or not, you got to admit that game was a stinker.
• 22:50
  [SPEAKER_04]: But anyway, great weekend, great job by Indianapolis, putting on a great show as always.
• 22:57
  [SPEAKER_04]: And thanks so much to John and Casey for recounting their weekend and the great time that they had.
• 23:03
  [SPEAKER_04]: And thank you for listening.
• 23:06
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• 23:15
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• 23:24
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