Stubbs Serves The Truth w/ Rennae Stubbs

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Speaker 1: Hey, everyone, welcome back to another episode of fut Around and find Out. I'm here with my amazing co host Ashanti.

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Speaker 2: Hey guys, we're so excited for another episode. We have so much to talk about and I cannot wait to get into it because one of my favorite weeks is coming up. But we'll get into that later. But first, you were recently at the Basketball Hall of Fame. Tell us all about that.

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Speaker 1: I was so we got invited, the team got invited and some other student athletes to go down to support Maya Moore and Sue Bird be inducted into the Hall of Fame. And I'd never been before, so I thought, you know, like that'd be a really cool experience. Also seeing two of the grades, like, that's an incredible opportunity. So we went, had our business casual fits on, you know, and it was super cool. It was very long. I didn't really know what to expect, but it was really cool to be able to, you know, share that special moment with them and get to see them. And their speeches were beautiful, so it was really cool.

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Speaker 2: It looked to be beautiful. I mean, listen, girl, you got things in common with Maya and Sue. You got a championship under your belt, and who knows, that may be your future one day, So that's dope. Also, my favorite player ever was there, So for women, Maya Moore is my favorite. But you know, for the fellas, Carmelo Anthony was there and I saw he got inducted. I think the two thousand and eight Redeemed team was also inducted, and I saw Lebron and Chris Paul and a bunch of other players, so that was definitely awesome. And then of course I tuned into Carmelo's speech. It was beautiful. I was tearing up, getting emotional, but yeah, I thought that was super awesome, especially because, like literally mellow I saw him like a couple of days ago, because he's like an investor in the gym that I'm running right now. So yeah, that was dope to see him up there. But yeah, my boy just doing great things, doing great things.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, there were a lot of greats in the building.

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Speaker 2: So you're still up at school. Tell me about how it's been bonding with your team. I heard you guys are tuning into some fun movies.

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Speaker 1: Sunday night, we had a movie night. It was kind of rainy on Sunday. It's just like a chill day. Calise cook breakfast for people again.

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Speaker 2: Kali okay girl.

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Speaker 1: So I was like, let's watch Dinners. Clese and I've been wanting to watch it. KK loves it. I remember if Kelly said she'd seen it or not. So we decided to have a movie night and it was actually really good.

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Speaker 3: I've been seeing that.

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Speaker 1: Like the last quote from the movie the last time I seen my brother was the last time I seen the sun on TikTok a lot like I never It was like, huh, I don't really get it. We watched it, I started tearing up. I was like, wow, now I know I loved this quote.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I love that movie. I remember when it came out. I watched it probably like eight times. First of all, Michael B. Jordan and there's two of them, and there's two of them, it couldn't get better. There's a lot of deeper meaning in the music. I'm like super doomed them with music. So for me, the music definitely liked. There was like one specific scene where they took it back the history of music, back to like African roots, and then there were some like Asian roots. It was just it was beautiful and really really well written and beautifully directed.

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Speaker 3: So I agree.

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Speaker 1: I already I already need to rewatch it to catch up on those things that I missed. But that scene was beautiful.

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Speaker 2: You're right, so to quick pivot. New York Fashion Week is coming up, girl is I'm so looking forward to it. You're coming to the city. I'm hearing. New York Fashion Week, I mentioned it earlier is one of my favorite weeks in New York. I'm so looking forward to all the fits, all the parties, all the shows. Anything you're specifically looking forward to.

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Speaker 3: I'm excited for the shows.

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Speaker 1: I'm excited to dress up, get glam, you know, wear stuff that I don't usually wear, and then see what everyone else is wearing.

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Speaker 3: Excited to see you, I get Wait, New York food, little things for me.

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Speaker 2: Wait, absolutely, girl, there's so much. I know. We talked about pizza before, but you, of course, it's like a staple. Gotta try to pizza, Gotta try to solfo. Listen, you know what I really love a good New York Chinese spot.

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Speaker 3: Oh that hits what.

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Speaker 2: You don't like Chinese food?

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Speaker 3: Oh? I do?

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Speaker 1: It does sound really good, But I'm eating really healthy, So I don't know how crazy I can get.

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Speaker 2: Okay, that's fair. We'll stick to like dang, we'll put veggies on your pizza something I don't know. Do you like.

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Speaker 3: Pineapple on pizza?

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Speaker 2: Oh? Man, you're trying to get me controversial? All right, ladies and gentlemen, I do not like pineapple on my pizza. It doesn't belong. It doesn't belong. I'm sorry, ladies and gentlemen, it does belong. Oh, I can't get with it. One of my favorite stylists. Back to fashion Week. It's actually in the building. My mother is my absolute favorite styleist. You think I'm kidding, I'm telling you. Anytime I've ever looked good is because she put it on me. And so I've been invited out to a couple events this coming week and she is dressing me for every single one. So I love that.

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Speaker 3: I'm going to need to hire her. Can you let her know that I told.

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Speaker 2: Her to come ready. I showed her some of the fists that you like, and listen, she'll put you in something, no joke. You just say the word and she will. She'll work it out.

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Speaker 3: Okay, because you always look good, So.

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Speaker 2: I don't HiPE me. Girls, don't hide me like that, thank you. No. Yeah, she even picked this out. This is like a denim onesie, not onesie, but like one piece jumper and I got some boots on. But I'm not about to I'm not that flexible. I'm not about to pull that up for you.

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Speaker 3: Shut up, mom.

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Speaker 2: So what kind of looks do you have planned for fashion week?

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Speaker 3: I have no idea.

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Speaker 2: Okay, I'm more of a you know, show up and put it on. Okay, listen, show up and put that thing on. Okay, planned to you. So she actually showed me some earlier today. Definitely some denim. That's You're always gonna find something denim, something fluffy with good texture, and a Papa color that's like Staples. So we got some fun things coming up. I'm really excited about. There's like a leather top and denim skirt. Look. I can't wait to get into it. But I'm really looking forward to your looks, girl, because I haven't seen you look bad, so I can't wait. I'm still stuck on. Not to take it too far back, but all Star Weekend. The pink like what was that like a pink like.

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Speaker 3: Like the skirt suit?

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Speaker 2: Yes, the skirt suit with the shoulders. I'm telling you, like need the post pictures from Listen, the fans have been asking for the All Star weekend drop so good. I can't just let them sit in my camera. You know, listen, you heard it here first, y'all. She's gonna drop them picks and at some point, but okay, how about before the year's over, before I can do that. Okay, and definitely definitely show the fans the pink fit. You don't see me commenting, girl, I'm gonna be right there, like, yes.

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Speaker 3: She put that on. You know what, maybe I should post a dump from last year's US Open too.

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Speaker 2: You didn't post from last year's US Open.

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Speaker 3: No, And I have some cute pictures too. Oh, maybe.

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Speaker 1: That'll be my caption in honor of the US.

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Speaker 2: Weren't you just at the US Open. I definitely saw you doing tiktoks and having a good old time.

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Speaker 3: I was just there.

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Speaker 1: I was there with Mackenzie KK and Renee Stubbs.

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Speaker 3: It was a lot of fun.

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Speaker 2: Okay, we're gonna take a quick break and we'll be right back for a very special guest.

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Speaker 3: All right, everybody, welcome back from the break.

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Speaker 1: We have a very special guest here with us. So I'm super excited to have on because I might have only just met her pretty recently, which I think that she is one of the coolest people I've met this past I guess summer that was the kind of summer we met. So I'm super excited to have her on. Great person great personality, and great knowledge about the game of tennis.

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Speaker 2: Our guest is a six time Grand Slam champion. She coached some of the game's biggest names, including Serena Williams, and it's a familiar voice on ESPN, NBC and the Tennis Channel. Now she brings her sharp insight and wear to the Renee Stubbs tennis podcast, part of Ihart Woman's Sports.

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Speaker 4: It's Renee Stubbs. Thanks, guys, I appreciate it. I mean, Asy came out to the US Open. She drove down from Connecticut to come and see some great tennis with Coco and with Venus, so she got to see the absolute spectrums of the most amazing tennis champions. And it was great to have her there with a bunch of other of her Yukon alums. And it was great to just have Asy at the tennis and introducing you to another sport.

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Speaker 5: It was a lot of fun. But it's really fun to be here with you guys.

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Speaker 1: That was super fun, So thank you for having us at the Open. Let us go up to the what was like the ESPN booth.

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Speaker 4: Well, there's an outdoor booth on Armstrong Stadium and so it's kind of like a random place. Were usually inside a booth, but there were actually outside and we just kind of shimmered some seats along the side of our booth there for the girls to sit, and it was a lot of fun.

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Speaker 1: It was so cool that environment watching Venus play. I mean, I don't know, I've never what was my first doubles match, and that was incredible, that environment them watching them.

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Speaker 3: It was one of the coolest things.

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Speaker 4: I just love showing other athletes, particularly around like different I mean asy, you know, I loved the WNBA.

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Speaker 5: It's like my favorite thing to do.

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Speaker 4: I think I've told everyone that hasn't been to a Liberty game, what are you doing with yourself?

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Speaker 5: You have no life, you haven't been to game here in New York.

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Speaker 4: So it's like I like to also introduce tennis to people that are lovers of various different sports, because the atmosphere at the US Open is second to none at any Grand Slam. The noise, the chaos the US Open and yeah, so it's sort of similar to me.

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Speaker 5: I'm like, you haven't been to a liberty game? What is wrong with you? So anyway, I love that our worlds have collided.

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Speaker 2: So I want to know some behind the scenes, like things that the fans did not get to see at the US Open. I personally have never been. I really wanted to go, Unfortunately my schedule wasn't permitting.

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Speaker 5: The US Open is wild. It's loud.

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Speaker 4: It's like honey deuces and dough Bell tequila and like it's just Heineken and everything's just surrounded by noise.

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Speaker 2: You know.

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Speaker 4: The Arthur ash Stadium, which is the biggest stadium in the world, is loud. It's like, even for us doing courtside commentary, we've got to wear noise canceling headphones because we can't hear the commentators. It's just manic and crazy enoughter the nineteen days that I've worked there, I do need a bit of a break. But also at the same time, it's kind of my favorite Grand Slam to work in. Television because it's just so much and I kind of love it.

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Speaker 2: Sounds like my vibe too.

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Speaker 5: As long as I'm not working, it's way more fun.

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Speaker 2: We had some big matches this year at the Open, Cocoa and Naomi Venus playing double. What were some of your takeaways from the matches.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, unfortunately for Coco, it's a bit of a struggle right now and sort of you know, easy I talk to you about this a little bit. You know, when you have a technique flaw in your game, whether it be you know, in basketball, obviously it's like your shooting technique or something with your feed or your crossover or whatever it is, there's always you're always working on improving your technique on whatever it is. And Coco has arguably one of the greatest backhands we've ever seen in the game, but a forehand is really quite technically, quite flawed, and her serve has become a technical issue for her, So that was pretty tough to see. Naomi, on the other hand, played unbelievable. She's come back from having a baby. It's been a bit of a struggle for her over the last couple of years, but she's certainly found her form. Actually, one of the best matches that I called was the Naomi Osaka Amanda Anasimova. And if you remember, Amanda lost six love, six love in the finals of Wimbledon. I mean, that's like losing one hundred to four in a game in the NC DOUBLEA titles. I mean, that is so bad to lose that easily, right, And the fact that she came back at this tournament and beat that same player in this tournament just shows you the different ways to be able to manage stress and disappointment and come back and beat the same player who you literally couldn't win a game against in the finals of Wimbledon, and Igerschiontek, who was the favorite coming into the US Open, is unbelievable to me. The mental fortitude that she was able to turn around. So that was arguably the match of the tournament for me. It was three hours long. It went till like one o'clock in the morning, and then Amanda unfortunately, you know, I didn't play her best final, but Sabalanca was just too tough in the final and so much more experience than Amanda. But I'm happy for Amanda. She's young, she's been through a lot in her life. She lost her dad when she was nineteen leading into the US Open in twenty nineteen, she took a mental break from the game for about eight months, and then she was in qualifying here last year and lost in qualifying then and was doing online classes at twenty two, thinking oh, maybe it's just not for me anymore. And now look where she's at four in the world, killing it, doing great things. So I'm super super happy for her.

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Speaker 3: I feel like to hear other athletes and their stories.

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Speaker 1: Like everyone, whether you're an athlete not an athlete, everyone has adversity, their own path, their own stories on things they have to battle. But to hear other athletes come back at that level is like I got children you were talking about. It's so impressive. I'm definitely gonna have to read up on her later.

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Speaker 2: So you guys, I'm hearing about this glasses sticker story. Can somebody tell me what happened with that? Oh it?

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Speaker 1: Renee just had a sticker on her glasses and I took it off for her, but she said that she'd been walking around with it all day and no one told her, which is kind of nice.

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Speaker 5: Azy not all day for like five days.

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Speaker 4: I got a brand new pair of sunglasses that, by the way, is my third pair because I keep losing them because you know, as you get old, you start to have to wear reading glasses, and so I'd have to take my sunglasses off and I put them down and then I forget them and like I left them Wimbledon and then I got to the US opener. But the good thing is I know exactly where to get them. So this is my third pair of them. So I took them out of their case and you know, took the plastic things off, right, then.

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Speaker 5: I put them on.

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Speaker 4: I'm like, yeah, good to go, right, these are my favorite sunglasses. And then I was wearing them for like four days at least, and many people actually were like, love your glasses, Love your glasses.

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Speaker 3: And then all of a.

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Speaker 4: Sudden, I'm looking at Asy and Asy is just like staring at the eye definite, and I was like, what.

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Speaker 5: Is going She goes, can I take this sticker off?

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Speaker 4: I was like what, I'm like, So some all of my friends quote unquote let me walk around with this, either that or.

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Speaker 5: They thought it was part of the glasses.

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Speaker 4: Thank God for you know, Asy, who's at an age where she goes no those are not supposed to be on there.

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Speaker 1: I mean, there are very stylish glasses, so I could see the confusion. We're like, maybe it's supposed to be there because they looked good, like it didn't look bad with the sticker on.

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Speaker 3: But I got your rackron it.

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Speaker 2: Don't worry. Thank God, thank God for you. Yeah, I appreciate your girls of real one. But yes, you are actually very stylish. I have seeing some of your looks. How would you describe your personal style?

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Speaker 5: Who my personal style?

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Speaker 4: Well, I do say to my friends and my ESPN execs, you will not see me in a dress, and you will definitely not see me in patterns. Okay, so I am more sort of like you know. I love I love rocking a tie. I love rocking a sort of suit pants. Depends on the weather, obviously, if it's really hot at the US Open it has been, I don't mind like wearing a tank with a great pair of pants. I'll have my dunks, or I have any kind of a sneaker on, or not wear any kind of fancy shoe because I'm running around the US Open. It's I told you, I'm walking through garbage, and so I don't know I'm sort of like lesbian sheep.

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Speaker 5: That's my vibe.

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Speaker 2: Yes, love it, love it.

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Speaker 1: I do feel like fashion in women's sports right an hour ago, I'm pretty much hand in hand they are.

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Speaker 4: I mean, look at like, you know, listen, it's not my vibe a la booboo and the rhinestones and all that sort of stuff, but you know, look at Naomi Osaka like that stuff. And I mean the original of that, of course, is Serena Williams, you know when she came out with the cape and all this stuff on. Women athletes are arguably some of the most high profile people in the world, and I love that. You know, a young girl who wants to grow up and be an asy fud or a cocoa golf or you know, Serena or Venus Williams can look at these people and be like, oh, I can play sports and be cool as well, Like I'm going to do that.

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Speaker 3: So what do you think your greatest achievement was as a player?

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Speaker 4: I guess winning my first major title in Australia. You know, you always sort of dream at that moment and you don't say, oh, I'd rather win Wimbledon first, or oh maybe the US Open or all the stray and Open would be great.

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Speaker 5: I mean I never thought that way.

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Speaker 4: I just thought, boy, if I win one major title, I'm going to be the happiest person in the world. And it just made me feel like, you know, it's just like you easy ast like winning a national title does that say, oh, that's that's it. I'm good now, I don't have to prove anything. Or if I didn't win one, I'm sure Caitlyn Clark would have loved to won a national title, but didn't make her not be one of the best players. But it kind of helps if you can at least add that to your resume. So, I mean, I'd been a very very good player for a long time. I'd be number one in the world, all the things I'd wanted, multiple tournaments on the WTA Tour, but I hadn't won a Slam. And so you know, when Lisa Raymond and I achieved that at the Australian Open as the number one seeds and we've beat an incredible team to win the tournament in front of my family, which never traveled.

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Speaker 5: They never saw me.

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Speaker 4: Play live, very very very infrequently, only when I played in Australia, so to do it in front of like ten thousand people, fifteen thousand people on Rod Laver Arena, in front of my family and against a great team, and really it was very, very tough match that.

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Speaker 5: To me is like a memory I'll never forget.

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Speaker 4: And subsequently after that, winning Wimbledon a couple of times and all the things, they all are amazing, but there's nothing that substitutes the first time that you do it, because you finally have achieved something you've dreamed about your whole life.

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Speaker 1: I do have another question, actually the Olympics. Which Olympics was your favorite?

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Speaker 4: I'm not gonna lie and asy fingers crossed for you, buddy in la that there is nothing like playing for your country, in your country at your Olympics. And I was so blessed and fortunate that I went to four Olympics and one of them happened to be in Sydney, and I was in my prime at that age. I was in my prime in two thousand and two thousand and four, but when I went to Athens as well, but playing in Sydney was just I've never been more nervous in my life playing on a tennis court.

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Speaker 5: I was shaking and in the first round.

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Speaker 4: I was another one doubles player or number two doubles player at the time in the world. And I have never been more nervous playing against a team that I knew there was no way I was losing to.

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Speaker 5: And I could not stop shaking till like.

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Speaker 4: A set in four one in a second set because I was so nervous there because I wanted to do so well. But that Olympics was off the charts. The crowds in Australia. You know, hopefully, as I said, asy you get an opportunity in la if not in Brisbane, like the crowds are going to be bonker there. Australia, we just were obsessed with sports. There's no I mean, we will pay for any sporting event. So the fact that I got to walk on the track in Sydney, nothing beats that.

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Speaker 3: That's amazing.

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Speaker 1: And you kind of mentioned it right there, like you said, you were so nervous in those games even when you knew like there was no way you're going to lose. Tennis is such a mental game. How do you when you got like that, how did you kind of like reframe yourself, settle yourself, like lock back in.

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Speaker 4: Well, I know you got Geno to drop some pearlos on you, and you know, get you, get you in a great mindset. And I'm sure there's he said some amazing things to you in the in the in the past, and he will continue to do that in the future, and you'll have great coaches and people around you. But I have to say one of the things that I told myself in that very first game of that match, when I was literally shaking, my hands were shaking, I just said to myself, Rene, do what you do. And by saying that to myself, what I meant by that was there was you know, we all have weaknesses, right and I knew what my weakness was, my opponents and what my weaknesses are. But I was not going to let my weaknesses if I didn't do them well, affect the things that I knew. I did better than anybody else in the court. So I was a very aggressive player. I was an incredible volleyer. I had a great serve. I poached more than anyone like. I would put myself in the line of the fire of the bault more than probably anyone has ever in tennis's history. And on the double sport and I was like, that's I'm going to show up. That person's going to show up today. Now all the things that I know I maybe struggle with when I'm nervous or things aren't going well, they may show up as well, but I'm not going to let them affect the things that I know I do really, really well. So if that's a word of advice, is do what you do and don't let the bad stuff affect the things that you know you do better than everybody else.

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Speaker 5: And that really helped me in those moments.

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Speaker 3: I love that. Got to write that down, take some notes.

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Speaker 1: So what do you see in future for women's sports?

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Speaker 5: You know that's not right.

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Speaker 4: Everyone's watching it now, everyone's everyone's finally caught up to the fact that women's sport is entertaining. Okay, it's like you know before it was like, oh, the women can't do this, women can't do It's like have you watched the women?

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Speaker 5: Like if you're gone?

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Speaker 4: And I know I keep bringing this up, but I have floor seats to the Liberty. Let me tell you something of those seats are not cheap next year. So I hope everybody in the w NBA gets their bag because my tickets are two plus x next year, so the players better be getting some of that bag.

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Speaker 5: But like sitting close to the court, I.

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Speaker 4: Cannot tell you I never realized how physical basketball is, like my attention to the detail of what happens out there. And I think asy like if you sat courtside for a tennis match, now, you're just like wow. I mean they they are hitting the ball so hard, and the physicality of the tennis game and the movement and the speed.

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Speaker 5: Is off the charts.

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Speaker 4: And I would argue that when you sit courtside at a WNBA game, you better throw some respect because they are hurting each other to get the ball. And I think it's the thing that you probably you know what DT said about Caitlin coming into the league and all the rookies come into league. I mean, Paige Credit, She's like killed it this year, and a lot of the rookies did really well this year.

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Speaker 5: But I think they also were sort of really prepared for it.

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Speaker 4: Like you're going to have to bulk up, you're going to have to get faster because it is brutal. So I think like if everyone can look at women's sports like that and respect them, then they start going into watching them on TV or live and go men. I have so much respect for them and do not compare it to men's. Do not say, well, they can't do this. It's like, no, they can't.

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Speaker 5: They're women.

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Speaker 4: But respect what they are doing physically with their bodies, because they are pushing themselves to the limit physically of their bodies. And they're physically pushing themselves to do whatever they can in their sport. So respect that and if you can do that, you will really love watching any women's sports.

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Speaker 1: That's exactly how I felt watching Venus when we watched her doubles match and they said her age, and I was like, she is moving on the court and playing as well as she is. She was so strong. Watching her serve was unreal. But just seeing the way she was moving at her age, how is this possible to be able to keep your body in this kind of shit like that? I thought that blew my mind really.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, And I mean, you know easy as you saw, like what it was three years ago something like that. When Serena played the US Open, she was forty years of age, like running around with these like twenty three year olds and twenty four year olds and like moving as well.

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Speaker 5: As they are.

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Speaker 4: If you push yourself and you are a professional and you want the best out of your body, you can do it. And I just the one word I want people to remember when they talk about women's sports is respect. It Just respect them, that's all that. Don't compare them. You don't need to compare them to men. I hate this, Well, she couldn't win a game against Roger Federer. It's like, what's the point of that. Take all of Roger Feder's testosterone away, take all of his muscle mass away, speed away, and then we've got to match right or vice versa. Give all these women testosteron. It's like, it's such a stupid argument and I hate it. Just respect what every single athlete is doing because they are pushing themselves to the limit physically and mentally.

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Speaker 3: I love that. Don't compare disrespect.

00:24:31
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, Renee, what kind of tips do you have for a shanty? And I, as we're starting off this podcast.

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Speaker 4: Be curious, Like I think that's the best thing that you can ever be when you're podcasting, and you know, like when I interview other players, clearly I know sort of what they're going through and what they need to do to achieve, to be great and all those sort of things. But I want to know their story, Like I want to know what makes them tick. I want to ask them the questions that I'm I want to ask them. So be curious, respect, respect them, respect what they've done in their career. But I think the best thing about it is just just be curious about somebody and their lives and their sport and ask a million questions, you know, just ask the millions of questions that you would want to ask them, Like talking to you now easy. I'm like, I could just see me going, all right, okay, So I want to know more about you, you know what I mean. So it's like that's that's the beauty of being able to interview people and do this. It is like learn things from them and be curious about it. And I think that's the best thing to advise.

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Speaker 2: Thank you for that. So I want to know about you. You grew up in Australia. Tell us about that. It's very different than here in the States.

00:25:41
Speaker 4: People always ask me what's the difference between Australia an American? And I'm like, Australians work to get to the weekend and Americans work to get ahead, and by that I mean Australians we like to have a good time.

00:25:54
Speaker 5: We love to work hard, but we love to have a good time.

00:25:57
Speaker 4: So our shops close, if you go, they're as I mean, Ashanti, you know this.

00:26:02
Speaker 5: At five pm, shops are done, they're closed.

00:26:05
Speaker 4: Everyone's home, people are with their families, or people are going out for drinks.

00:26:09
Speaker 5: You're not working till nine pm.

00:26:10
Speaker 4: Except on the Thursday night we have late night shopping okay, the malls and they're open.

00:26:15
Speaker 5: Till nine okay.

00:26:17
Speaker 4: So there's like this community feel and it's about enjoying your life.

00:26:23
Speaker 2: I love my time in Australia. I love that it's hot, I love the people, And you're absolutely right, that's like one of the things I really enjoyed when I got to So. I lived there in Brisbane for a year because I played professional basketball over there. And when I got there, it was like everyone's smiling, they're greeting each other, and me coming from New York City was definitely like a culture shock. It feels a little bit slower, but not too slow. It's still city, it's still active. It's a lot of fun. You guys sure know how to party. So I really enjoyed my atte.

00:26:56
Speaker 5: Well that's another thing that we definitely do well.

00:26:59
Speaker 4: We definitely do that well. We can drink, we have a good time. It is hot, especially in Brisbane.

00:27:05
Speaker 5: It is real hot.

00:27:07
Speaker 4: It's kind of like the Florida all Australia, right, it's the opposite. North is hot, South is cold. But yeah, we're we're a good time.

00:27:15
Speaker 5: We're a good time.

00:27:16
Speaker 3: I love y'all, Renee.

00:27:18
Speaker 1: That was amazing. Thank you so much for letting us pick your brain, get to know you a little bit better. We're gonna go to a quick break. But after, Renee, are you down to play some games?

00:27:27
Speaker 2: Absolutely sounds good.

00:27:37
Speaker 1: All right, welcome back. It is time for fud and games. So to start us off, we have the what's the fud of the week?

00:27:44
Speaker 3: Ashanti? What do we have?

00:27:45
Speaker 2: Okay, you guys, so what the fun of the week is? Something that happened this week that made you go, what the fud? So are what the fun of the week is? Renee's star studded box she had Chelsea Handler Shonda Rhymes, Naomi, why girl? Tell us all about that?

00:28:03
Speaker 5: You know, Look, here's a deal. Tennis brings people together.

00:28:08
Speaker 4: Okay, and as you know, us athletes know kind of singers and actors and people of you know that genre, love sports, right, they love to be around sports athletes. So I have just met so many amazing people like Shonda and Chelsea and Juliana Marghley's and all these people that are in the photos that I put on my Instagram, because we genuinely have become friends based on the fact that they love tennis. They just love it and they come and watch and you know, I'm there and I go sit with them and we talk about tennis. And then I've gotten to be friendly and friends with a lot of these people based on the fact that they love the sport of tennis. And yeah, I mean, it's just part of what you do as part of what we do, right, We just we're around a lot of really cool, cool, frickin' people, and you know, it's great to be around really cool, freaking women who are doing great things in their industry. And as I said, be curious, right, And I'm curious about the things that they do, and getting to know them is always so fun. And then when you get to know people, you just realize it just real people. And so that's sort of like right, where again? I mean, look look at Asy, She's just a real person.

00:29:17
Speaker 2: So that's the fans and listeners.

00:29:19
Speaker 4: I mean, you did make my list on that little photo montage, so just so you know, I am honored.

00:29:29
Speaker 2: All right? Up next, we have a fun game called Ozzie Slang Quiz. Are you guys ready?

00:29:35
Speaker 5: Yes?

00:29:36
Speaker 2: So for our Azzi Slang Quiz game, I'm going to list out some Ozzy slang words and you guys are going to tell me what you believe it means. Okay, you're already yes.

00:29:49
Speaker 3: Wait shouldn't you know all the slang words?

00:29:51
Speaker 2: Well?

00:29:51
Speaker 5: You never know?

00:29:53
Speaker 3: Okay, that's fair.

00:29:54
Speaker 5: Remember I told you I've been living here for a long time.

00:29:56
Speaker 2: That's true. Ready. Frothy? What do you think frothy means? As you can go first, it's not like the milk on top of your coffee. I'm crying.

00:30:09
Speaker 1: There's another meaning frothy, Like, oh that's super cool. That's just so frothy.

00:30:15
Speaker 5: Well it could be. It could be that, but I'm thinking maybe the top of a beer.

00:30:18
Speaker 2: Yep, it's it's frothy means beer.

00:30:22
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, it's okay. You know you're what are you old enough to drink yet, I am not beer. You definitely old enough. In Australia we drink at eighteen, so.

00:30:33
Speaker 2: I knew the bars look young. You know what? Anyways, maccas, what's maccas like marker with an accent? Oh my goodness, I'll give you a hint a coffee too old beef petty. Oh, that's a good hint.

00:30:51
Speaker 5: Special song. Come on, let us change on.

00:30:56
Speaker 4: Good the whole rap big Mac, it's McDonald's means McDonald's.

00:31:01
Speaker 3: Okay, macis okay, I could see that.

00:31:05
Speaker 5: Yeah, okay, just shorten everything.

00:31:08
Speaker 2: Okay, the next one. You're ready? Yarn? Yarn? Are you? Are you chat?

00:31:15
Speaker 5: Cheapy tea?

00:31:17
Speaker 2: Do not cheap?

00:31:19
Speaker 3: I know, I don't, I don't, I don't know yarn?

00:31:25
Speaker 5: Yeah, And what are we doing right now?

00:31:27
Speaker 3: Talking? So it's like yapping yarn? You got a chat?

00:31:30
Speaker 2: Yeah? Okay, a good a good yarn, having a good chat, A good yarn. I like that? All right? Ready, h drum go. I might be saying this wrong. Drung go.

00:31:45
Speaker 3: That's how you say it.

00:31:47
Speaker 2: I help drunk.

00:31:49
Speaker 5: You're an absolute drong go.

00:31:52
Speaker 2: An idiot.

00:31:54
Speaker 5: Nailed it. You nailed it because of the way I said it.

00:31:58
Speaker 2: All right, you're gonna give the You're gonna the clues ready, Budgie smuggler. This is crazy? Am I saying this right? Is it? Budgie? Yeah?

00:32:08
Speaker 5: You nailed it? Smuggle Ye, you're never gonna get You're.

00:32:13
Speaker 2: Never gonna get this girl, Budgie smuggler. That's crazy.

00:32:21
Speaker 3: I don't Budgie smuggler.

00:32:23
Speaker 2: Okay, I don't know you wear a budgie smogling.

00:32:26
Speaker 5: It's a swimsuit.

00:32:29
Speaker 3: Like so like a speedo.

00:32:30
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, I'm thinking like smugs tight nailed it? Next? Is it Straya Austraia Astraya Astraia Straia Astrayia.

00:32:43
Speaker 3: Oh that's it? Okay, Uh what are these words? I have no idea?

00:32:49
Speaker 5: You know what I just tell you?

00:32:54
Speaker 2: Yes, dinging, did you say Australia nailed it? Ready? That's like, oh sorry, yeah, we just.

00:33:02
Speaker 5: Say we're from Australia. We're from Australia, Australia. We're not saying Australia.

00:33:07
Speaker 2: I'm from Australia. You know, all right?

00:33:11
Speaker 5: Are you from Australia?

00:33:13
Speaker 2: Yeah? Ripper, ripper, ripper, That's all I got.

00:33:26
Speaker 4: Hey, azy, if someone makes a three point shot with like two seconds to go and they're running towards you, you'd say you're a.

00:33:36
Speaker 5: Ripper.

00:33:37
Speaker 1: So it's like a you're a dog, like you're cool, you're awesome, You're awesome.

00:33:44
Speaker 4: What a little We usually say it like this, you're a little ripper really good? Yeah, so your center or forward when you run by and you made a great assist to them, they'd be like, you're a little ripper.

00:33:57
Speaker 3: Do you say on like while you're coming.

00:33:59
Speaker 4: To Sometimes sometimes a couple of little Australian australianisms come flying out of my mouth and people do write me and and and they'll be like what does that mean? Or they'll say, you know, they'll inquire about what it means. Yeah, so, or my co commentator will be like, what the hell does that mean? And then I'll have to explain it to them.

00:34:19
Speaker 2: Our last one fair dinkum must get wrong. That's fine fair fair in fair income mm hm hm hmm, good game.

00:34:39
Speaker 4: Kind of not really, it means like if you went up and uh, I don't know.

00:34:47
Speaker 5: It's it's basically saying like really fair income, no way, kind.

00:34:53
Speaker 4: Of like that if someone said, oh, I just crossed like for the other day, I got I got stung on the face by b still marked right here before I was about to go on.

00:35:02
Speaker 5: A true story and someone go fed.

00:35:04
Speaker 2: InCom Okay, seriously, real means really yeah for real?

00:35:11
Speaker 5: Yeah, faed income.

00:35:13
Speaker 4: That is very Australian, like you only say that when you're a few logs what alcoholic drinks in h.

00:35:21
Speaker 3: What's that? A few frothy.

00:35:24
Speaker 5: Diiled it?

00:35:26
Speaker 3: Okay.

00:35:27
Speaker 1: So the next game that we have is we're gonna have a little fun with the boo boo naming, kind of like Naomi Osaka did with naming her La Boo Boos after tennis legends.

00:35:36
Speaker 3: We're gonna do that. But the w n B A edition.

00:35:39
Speaker 1: Okay, So the first WNBA player we have Super bird.

00:35:46
Speaker 5: So boo boo Boody.

00:35:52
Speaker 1: Okay, I'm here for Birdy the boo boo Birdie.

00:35:57
Speaker 2: All right?

00:35:57
Speaker 3: What about Diana Tarasi.

00:36:00
Speaker 2: Tee to the berber. I'm crying.

00:36:09
Speaker 5: The tee the boob.

00:36:14
Speaker 2: They don't get better?

00:36:14
Speaker 5: Am I nailing these?

00:36:18
Speaker 2: No?

00:36:19
Speaker 3: I like it?

00:36:20
Speaker 5: Okay?

00:36:20
Speaker 2: Okay.

00:36:21
Speaker 5: Lisa Leslie, Lee, Lee, Leslie, l Lulu boo boom.

00:36:30
Speaker 2: Yeah Lee Leslie?

00:36:37
Speaker 4: Let what I did?

00:36:39
Speaker 5: I can't even remember what I said?

00:36:40
Speaker 2: Yeah, Lily took me out, Lily l Lou boo Leslie.

00:36:50
Speaker 5: Let's stretch.

00:36:50
Speaker 2: Let's stretch, period.

00:36:54
Speaker 3: Girl, She told, Okay, I like that, all right, Asia Wilson.

00:37:00
Speaker 2: As you boo.

00:37:04
Speaker 5: W Lulu Ilsen.

00:37:10
Speaker 2: Maya more.

00:37:13
Speaker 4: Mm hmm, Maya Lou my Maya.

00:37:22
Speaker 5: More bo Mau Mayola Maru.

00:37:28
Speaker 4: I can't do this one, this one. I'm like, I'm like, I'm off the reservation on this one. Maya Lulu boo boo Maru Ru.

00:37:38
Speaker 2: All right, her.

00:37:39
Speaker 3: Names are way better than anything that we were expecting.

00:37:42
Speaker 2: Yea chryl swoops La boo boo.

00:37:48
Speaker 4: Oh ship shool oops.

00:37:56
Speaker 5: Oops oops, share loops shall.

00:38:01
Speaker 2: Loop loopsops Shallopschi Lulu swoop shoops Okay.

00:38:13
Speaker 5: Shall whoop whoop doo doo doo crazy loops. Only in the morning too. I haven't even had a drink yet.

00:38:21
Speaker 2: All right, how about mmm easy easy fudsy fudding.

00:38:31
Speaker 5: I was gonna say lazy Lou, but you're not lazy.

00:38:37
Speaker 2: Lazy lu foo boo foo doo doo.

00:38:42
Speaker 5: For that dud.

00:38:43
Speaker 4: If don't't call you a for dad, that's terrible. That means I'm calling you lazy fud that like give me your give me your little.

00:38:51
Speaker 5: Boo boo name of yourself of myself. Yeah, come on, I know you've got something written down there.

00:38:57
Speaker 1: Give you best, well mine are like kind of the opposite direction of yours.

00:39:02
Speaker 5: You know, good, do give me some, give me some modern more along the.

00:39:05
Speaker 3: Line of like easy fuddlicious.

00:39:08
Speaker 2: Mm hmm.

00:39:10
Speaker 5: Okay, I get it, I get it, I get But you want to go.

00:39:13
Speaker 2: With your.

00:39:16
Speaker 3: Okay, what about Shaunty Plumber.

00:39:18
Speaker 2: Oh my goodness, not the laugh Mmm Shaunty plumb plumb blue. Yep, that's the one. What about you Renee reneet.

00:39:46
Speaker 5: Renee Bay okay s double boo boo Renee like stubble boob. That's a good one.

00:39:54
Speaker 2: That's not bad. Okay, I'll double boo boo Renee.

00:39:59
Speaker 3: Thank you so much for us today.

00:40:00
Speaker 1: This was incredible, getting to know you a little bit more, getting to know Ray Rays w Lulu a little bit more.

00:40:08
Speaker 5: You're welcome.

00:40:08
Speaker 4: I had to blast you, guys, Azy account white to see you this season. I'm going to be watching big time. I'm looking forward to everything. So thanks for having me today.

00:40:16
Speaker 3: You definitely need to make it to it.

00:40:17
Speaker 5: Thanks to San.

00:40:17
Speaker 2: You're so welcome.

00:40:19
Speaker 3: Listeners.

00:40:19
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