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Follow us at Underscore FTR pod. I'm at Angelina on air and this

1:00

episode and for the culture. We're talking about how aliens are real here on

1:03

Earth and let's talk TV. We're giving our Barbie film review. In Bitch,

1:07

I had an amazing weekend that went left real quick. And in today

1:11

in the Bay, I have Fatima who was founder of the Women's Premier Basketball

1:15

Association. What they're doing with the league of bringing a women's professional sports to

1:19

Oakland, California. So by all means, let's get to it. This

1:26

is for the culture, for the culture, for the culture. This is

1:30

where we pick aheadline and ask if they sheet or he did it for the

1:34

culture or if other did it for the culture. Oh what a US Air

1:42

Force officer an X intelligence officials testified under oath this past Wednesday, which was

1:51

July twenty seventh. Wednesdays today twenty six Today we're recording at midnight, so

1:56

it's twenty seventh technicique today. Yesterday was Wednesday, the twenty six six,

2:00

about the recovery of quotes non human biologics from crashed aircraft? Do do?

2:08

Do? Do? Do? Do? Do? Do? Should we play

2:12

the audio? Is there alien audio? No? Not intelligent extraterrestrials something I

2:21

can't discuss in public setting. Why not? Um? Okay, I can't

2:25

ask when you think this occurred? If you believe we have crashed craft?

2:30

Stated earlier, do we have the bodies of the pilots who piloted this craft?

2:36

As I've stated publicly already in my new station interview of biologics came with

2:39

some of these recoveries. Yeah, um per of my last email bit I

2:45

guess human or non human biologics? Non human? And that was the assessment

2:50

of people which recknowledge on the program I talk to that are currently still on

2:53

the program. This documentary reverences video photos eyewitness like how would be determined the

3:01

specific documentation I would have to talk to you in a skiff about Yeah,

3:07

okay, so and you may or may not be able to answer my last question, and maybe we get into a skiff at the next hearing that we

3:12

have. But who in the government, either what agency, subagency, what

3:17

contractors? Who should be called into the next hearing about UAPs, either in

3:23

a public setting or even in a private setting. And you probably can't name

3:27

names, But what agencies or organizations, contractors, etc. Do we need

3:30

to call in to get these questions answered, whether it's about funding, what

3:34

programs are happening, and what's out there. I can give you a specific

3:38

cooperative and hostile witness list of specific individuals that we're in those and how soon

3:44

can we get that list. I'm happy to provide that to you after the hearing. Super thank you, and I yield back on the fifth of Nebuary.

3:52

My question is, what the hell is a skiff? No, I'm

3:54

just kidding, that's just some some mumbo jumbo law talk. I'm like pictures

4:02

or didn't happen? Bit literally, I mean for me, I'm just like,

4:11

Okay, I do believe that there is aliens, Like honestly, I

4:14

could believe anything. Like the JV show, you just always get on me

4:16

because they're like, do you believe aliens? I mean mermaids are real?

4:19

And I'm like sure, just because so much of the world, the underwater,

4:24

is not discovered. So who am I to be like, no, that's not non existing exactly, Like good for you. Literally everything probably exists,

4:30

exactly. I think if there is aliens, okay, gonna do for

4:35

me exactly? They get me right now. I'm long guess right now is

4:44

alien gonna do pay for your gas? I'm just like until it's yo,

4:47

we are under attacked, aliens are coming for us to borrow, and then

4:51

like all of a sudden, all the lights go out. Then I'm freaking

4:54

the fuck out. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah exactly. It's

4:57

like there's been aliens. Yeah, just because you said in non human whatever,

5:01

like seeing you saw this, it could be anything. It could be a freaking robi bone steak. But they saw connected to an aircraft that crashed

5:08

and it's like unidentifiable and like it's floating in the air. Yeah. I'm

5:12

like, you know, the presidents, they they've seen the pictures, you

5:15

know, or someone higher up in the whatever you want to call it um

5:20

association of whatever. Like I feel like the pictures are there and they have

5:27

to wait fifty years for them to release the pictures. But then the aliens

5:30

are going to be like kicking in with us, and we're gonna be like, oh, okay, we already know what you look like. You look

5:36

like unimpressed. Yeah, but that's scary, Like, oh my god,

5:44

what if aliens got like a tinder? Would you would you date an alien? But I screw an alien? Yeah? How would I screw an alien?

5:51

Oh? Yeah, that's it's kind of scary. Like look like it's

5:57

just funny because it's like I remember when we were kids, is We're like,

6:00

there's gonna be flying cars and you know, aliens are gonna come,

6:03

and now it's like all kind of happening. It's like, oh yeah,

6:09

it's crazy. The future is crazy. We're literally living in the future.

6:12

We're gonna our Judy Jetson Rack is that her name? The jets They something

6:16

They do have some sounds of aliens. Oh, oh my god, oh

6:26

my god, oh my god. I will do this aliens. But love

6:41

is automatic. But this ya, I'm trying to zucker. Honestly, I

7:04

was trying to find the scene where like remember where they like are hearing the

7:09

noises and it's like I was like this whole time we were talking, I'm

7:15

playing audio. I was trying to find it, but I can't find it on you too? No is that? Oh so we are Disney Channel Original

7:25

Girl. Oh my god, girl the twenty first century. If the aliens

7:29

look like him, sure I do an alien and the zqual Okay, yeah,

7:34

oh my god. That movie was so fire. I won't have to

7:38

watch I know Raven her as her bestie. I remember like just having an

7:44

anxiety watching when I don't know, when I like showed their house and like

7:48

they're just like, I don't know, they're like floating in space. And

7:51

it was like that little circular too that they're just living in and then like

7:56

bits and pieces started breaking off. I don't know that always getting anxiety as

7:59

kid. I was like, oh my god, gird come down to earth. Remember she had like the little disc earrings, you know, I always

8:03

wanted those. She was fresh, she was fresh, her girls, you

8:07

know, Oh my god. I literally thought, you're already no way,

8:18

no way, breaking news. For the record, this is just zoom zo

8:22

zoom, like Yeah, aliens are out here. They've probably been out here.

8:28

It's like, do we want to fuck with aliens? Are they gonna

8:31

fuck with us? Are they gonna try? But you know what, the government probably been fucking with aliens. But the government is aliens alright, inception,

8:43

you just went through a layer a little Wow, they are listening to

8:48

us. No sweet just popped up someone for UFOs are real? Okay?

8:52

Are they gonna pay my rent? Should we throw a party? Should we invite billahadid? Why beladied? I don't know what is their plan for student

9:00

debt? Literally, I have a theory about that student debt. He's gonna

9:07

it's gonna be They're gonna wash it all the way right before, right before

9:11

Joe Biden leaves. Anyways, I think so oh yeah, oh yeah,

9:16

you keep dreaming, just gonna keep streaming dreaming. That's another one. You

9:20

guys know, I don't pay hospital bills. So I'm just like, okay, what's the big They'll die with your studolos, Like, what's gonna happen?

9:24

What's gonna happen? My dad always says he's gonna have bills, just

9:30

die with the It's not real. He says, you're always gonna be in

9:33

debt, so why stress over your studentos. Just die with them. It's

9:37

okay, Yes, Nancy, she's the most successful person I know. She

9:41

will never pay it off to school, just keeps getting higher and higher.

9:46

Yeah, do it? See what it feels like. I'm sees the aliens

9:48

are coming. They're gonna save us. Let's talk TV and just quick reminder

9:54

that the Writer's Guild of America is still on strike as well as the actors.

10:00

They need to do right by these writers. We linked it in the last podcast episode. We're probably do it again. Just their whole proposal of

10:07

like what they wanted and how it's old rejected. Oh but I do want

10:11

to give a shout out real quick to the Rock. You know, while

10:13

everyone is on strike, a lot of these writers and actors are not making

10:18

enough money to pay rent provide for their families. So they did start a

10:24

SAG after a relief fund, and Dwayne the Rock Johnson gave a historic seven

10:30

figure donation. They said, it's the largest single donation that we've ever received

10:33

from one individual, one individual at one time. And I was reading some

10:37

other article about like how it's going to help like thirty to fifty actors and

10:41

writers like pay their rent that month or something like that. It was a

10:46

huge help to everyone. Big up to the Rocks, who is from Hayward.

10:50

We claim him, Okay, I think he was probably like just born in Hayward and lived there for a little bit. But still Heyward Don Dwayne

10:56

the Rock Johnson doing big teams. We did get a really good movie this

11:00

past weekend, and we're going to talk about it. Barbie, wait,

11:05

did you see it? I did see it, and I want to go see it again. I know, Oh my gosh, it was literally so

11:13

good. So for me, like when I try to avoid all the reviews,

11:16

but the ones I like, obviously couldn't help it seeing because everyone's posting

11:20

about it left and right. For me, I feel like I saw the majority of it being it's a great movie. It's a great movie. It's

11:24

a great movie. And the only ones that were on the other side,

11:28

no one said it was bad. But there was a few that were like, it was really weird. That's what my boyfriend so irritated with him.

11:33

I'm like, you're just a hater. Everyone keeps saying it was really weird.

11:35

I think it's because like you didn't expect her to be like in Barbie

11:39

Land like that. She was like she wakes up and like turns her shower

11:41

on and like no water is coming out because she's a Barbie Land sonny can't

11:46

take a real shower. She's like tries to drink her coffee and like she's

11:50

sipping it but nothing comes out. It's fake. Last, which I think

11:54

that that was dope, especially if you're someone that like grew up with Barbies.

11:58

I definitely was more of my brat's air. Uh, but I'm sure

12:01

like even throughout the movie, there's just like a bunch of Easter eggs to like these discontinued Barbies and just like the Barbie world. So I mean,

12:07

I guess we're giving semi spoilers, but basically what happens is Margo Robbie is

12:13

stereotypical Barbie. She lives in Barbie Land, and she starts having these like

12:18

weird thoughts of like she's like, hey, guys, like why haven't if we just died right now or something like that, Like you guys ever think

12:24

about death? And everyone's like, witch, what are you talking about?

12:26

Is Barbie Land? Everything's perfect. One iconic line. I was like,

12:30

Wow, this is gonna be my new motto. But it's girls' night every

12:33

night, yeah, forever and ever. Yeah, I don't know that's a

12:37

direct call, but yes, every night is girls' night, bitch. Everyone

12:41

should live by that. So and they it comes to find out, they're

12:45

like, okay, well you need to go talk to weird Barbie to figure out why you're having these thoughts. And weird Barbie is the Barbie that you

12:50

would like cut her hair and like fuck her up with markers. Right,

12:52

That's why she's weird because like her owner like played with her too hard.

12:56

Yeah. Right, So yeah, she's just like constantly in a split.

13:03

Yeah yeah, yeah, she did great. Um, so you know she

13:07

talks to word Barbie and they're like, what the hell's going on. They're

13:11

like, okay, you need to go to the real world and figure out

13:13

why your owners being weird and putting these thoughts in your head because it's fucking

13:16

shut out. Yeah, so they go do that whatever. So so,

13:18

so her going back and forth between Barbie Land and then the world world,

13:22

and like obviously in Barbie Land like women, yeah, women rule the world.

13:28

Like Barbies are perfect. Everyone's perfect. I mean, no one ages,

13:31

no one does anything because he's there. Even that's another stuff that starts

13:35

going bad, Like it's like, oh my god, I have cellulite and like I can't stand on my tippy toes anymore. Like things are starting to

13:39

be not perfect for her, you know, there's like little signs and then

13:43

like she obviously has these thoughts about death. So when she goes to the

13:46

World World, she's like shook to her core, yeah, because she's like

13:50

what atriarchy? Man's disgusting ruling the world? Like why is the president or

13:54

why are like why why are all these men rule? Like they go to

13:58

places Mattel, you know, the owners of Barbie. I'm like it's a

14:01

little farell and like a bunch of dude. So she's like, can I talk to the president? He's like that's me yea, Like no old man

14:09

here, you know. But so Ken sneaks in with her to go to

14:13

the World World and Ken is like creaming his pants. He's like, man,

14:16

role, like what no one tell me anything about this is the patriarchy?

14:20

Like I gotta go back and tell the other can about this um So

14:26

that that's pretty much the premise of it. Um and America Ferre is like

14:30

ends up being Marcot Robbie's owner, and like they're figuring out why she's like

14:33

drawing her this way and like putting these thoughts in her head. Um her

14:37

little moment with her with her daughter. So it was the movie was like

14:43

a love letter to womanhood. Thank you, thank you. The scene there's

14:48

like a really short scene. It's it's it's like even in the beginning,

14:52

and I swear, like inside I wanted to like start balling. But the

14:54

scene where she's in the world world just for a little bit of time. She's like sitting at the bus stop and she sees the older woman and she

15:01

just like stares at her and then just says, like you're so beautiful because

15:05

she's never seen an older woman in her life. Yea, and like it,

15:09

Margot. Margot kills it like she perfect. She was a perfect Barbie.

15:15

But the way she portrayed like someone who doesn't know how to deal with

15:18

any emotions. It is like this fake as plastic person and like finally but

15:24

like finally feeling things and like I don't know, like being in contact with

15:30

stuff that she's never heard of before, Like she never cried before, like

15:33

there's so much stuff in the worldld that she's like, what the hell is this? Like what is crying? What is doing this? She acted in

15:37

her ass off and like someone like you could tell she's witnessing these things for

15:41

the first time basically, and she did that perfectly, like you could tell

15:46

she's someone who wow that. Like I saw her and I was like,

15:48

this is genuinely your first time crying. The way she looked at that older woman and like was so in awe and then just said, you're so beautiful.

15:54

Yeah. I almost wanted to start crying because like obviously, like aging

15:58

is a no no in our roles, you know, like it's just it's

16:00

one of the real things that we have to accept and deal with them.

16:04

It's not it's not real in Barbie world, because they're just they're all Barbies.

16:07

They're like, I'm young, I'm hot and beautiful. Like but for

16:11

her to be like a perfect person, sterotypical Barbie to see aging for the

16:15

first time and her first thought is you're so beautiful. She's not like,

16:18

oh my god, what's happening to your face? Or what is this?

16:21

Yes, yes, yes, it was so beautiful. I wanted to like start crying right away, and it's like it's the shortest scene ever. I

16:27

felt that. I felt that. I really love how they also tied in

16:30

the creator of Barbie. I think her name is Ruth or something, but

16:33

like they have someone acting to be the creator of her and then like,

16:37

okay, guys, spoiler or you know what we do on this podcast.

16:40

I love spoil everything. But in the very end, we oh, I

16:44

don't, We'll get there. We'll get there. We'll get there with her auto go like talking about the edge as yet. Uh no, yeah,

16:49

Margo eight down so great. Um the cameos. First of all, John

16:56

Alifa like popping up I don't know where, like just the ola. Yeah.

17:03

Michael Sarah, I'm sorry. He was like the perfect Allen, which

17:08

is like the one other like man Barbie that they ever created and supposed to

17:12

be like Ken's friend. I don't know, it wasn't a video. Was

17:17

like literally like the only other male. Yeah, and it's like he could

17:21

fit all of Ken's clothes, Like he's like literally just like Ken's sidekick bestie.

17:25

And I mean, Michael Sarah is just fucking hilarious. He played that perfectly. Um, I hate this is such like a like I said,

17:32

this movie is a love letter to womanhood, like it's so big on feminism,

17:36

so I hate for this to be my main takeaway. But I'm sorry. Ryan fucking Gosling the goat ate down. He stole every scene, Like

17:45

I h everything he said. Me and I took my friend Christina. We

17:49

like were bursting out laughing. There was one thing where we literally like were

17:52

like we might have to step out theater because we cannot control our laughter.

17:56

I think it was a dance number. Yes, yea, the small Parker

18:00

is so funny. I'm sorry. He was the perfect ken Yeah, like

18:08

he actually deserves um, what is it supporting actor? Yeah, he needs

18:12

an actor and an oscar for this. I was show good he was,

18:17

and like it's so funny because you remember that like Ryan Gosling was a Disney baby, like because he is hitting that dance number and it is just so

18:23

hilarious the little stuff he's saying, like, oh, I was really talked

18:27

about the patriarchy that I found out it isn't about horses. He has like

18:30

this weird obsession with horses, even the see where they're like going to fight

18:34

and they're like galloping in like I was just on my back, um Easter

18:40

Ray who was the president of Barbie. So there's just like the scene in

18:45

the movie where okay, so basically all the girls Ken comes back and he

18:51

fucks up Barbie Land. The patriarchy is taking over, and all the other

18:55

Barbies are in on it like they're they're like they're being they're brainwashed, yeah,

19:00

by the men. So their idea is to and this is where it's

19:03

like a very obvious, like at the beginning of the movie, it's very

19:07

complicated. You're kind of like, what is the plot? What is going

19:10

to happen in this Barbie film? And then it kind of kicks into gear

19:12

where it's very clear, you know, the Kens took over Barbie Land.

19:18

They January six, that motherfucker, okay, and they basically took over,

19:22

and all the other Barberies except for Stereotypical Barbie go along with this whole patriarchy

19:27

thing. So Stereotypical Barbie, who is Margo, has to figure out a

19:30

way to deep program all the other Barbies first to bring them back, and

19:36

then you know, once they do that, they'll take over Barbie Land and

19:40

bring it back to what it used to be so I will say the way

19:42

they distract their kens to deep program the other barbies. It was just like

19:47

a very obvious sequence, like the movie very much said men are so simple

19:52

and dumb. These are ways that we can manipulate them, Like I don't

19:56

know what are some of their like tactics to deep program the barbies, like

19:59

what is okay? Like you're gonna go ask this guy about finances because you

20:03

know, guys can't shut the fuck up if you ask them, like how do I manage my money? So like that's how you're gonna check that one.

20:10

He's a raise. Basically, he's a raised. Job is to go

20:14

up to the guy and ask him, are you watching the Godfather? But

20:18

the way she says Godfather the line delivery alone was like Oscar Worthy. Wait,

20:22

I definitely thought of you when that scene because I love the back and

20:29

it's just like any man, think of the most annoying man you know that

20:33

will not shut the fuck up about a movie and like has to over explain

20:37

it to you, like they saw that scene and they're still ruined right now.

20:41

Like if you ask a man about The Godfather, his response is one

20:48

going to be longer than the movies three hour runtime guaranteed. Oh my god,

20:52

are you watching The Godfather? Like the way she pronounced it, like there was no period in between God and Father, that was genius. Shout

21:02

out to Easter Ray. I mean she was very like she wasn't in a lot. Uh yeah, so good. Okay, let's talk about America forever

21:12

now, by the way, I love America, you guys. Short side

21:17

story about America Ferrera. But like when I was really young, I saw an interview about her, not about her, but she was. She was

21:22

doing an interview and they asked her what age she wants to be forever, and she said she would pick thirty. And like literally all my life and

21:27

tells a little girl, I always wanted to be thirty. And like as

21:30

I grow older, like I have cousins that are because I me and Chris

21:33

have like older cousins. We're probably like the only ones our age. Yeah,

21:37

we're like the younger ones. Yeah. So like we grew up around

21:40

cousins that are like a little bit older, but they always been like coultas. But like as I've gotten older, like my cousins are always making jokes

21:45

about how like they're so old because they're thirty or like just scared to become

21:48

that age or whatever. I like. For me, I've never had that

21:52

thought, like I've always wanted to be thirty because of America Frera since I

21:55

was a little girl. Yeah, so love her down And didn't you link

21:59

up with her or something? Yes, they have because they keep changing the

22:03

name. But she heard Eva Lengoria like started this UM. It's basically like

22:08

this group for Latina woman and we're supposed to like come with ways to like

22:12

help people vote, like how we could get people to the polls UM and

22:18

like every once in a while that like hop on a FaceTime with us. I actually haven't done it in a long time. I like always signed up

22:22

for the meetings and just haven't got on UM. But anyways, love her

22:26

down. And I remember before watching this movie trying not to look at the

22:30

reviews, a lot of people had a lot of praise for like America Farrs

22:33

like monologue and everything and like how great it was and how she killed it.

22:37

Yeah, Okay. While I was in the theater, there was also

22:41

this guy next to me. I hate when people chew with their mouth open,

22:45

and this guy was snacking during the monologue. So maybe that's it,

22:48

But honestly, I didn't really do that much for me. I'm sorry it

22:51

was you know, I liked it. I agreed with everything she said,

22:55

like for sure as properable, But I wasn't like they moved by the scene.

22:59

I guess I wasn't like, wow, yeah, yeah, yeah, give my girl an oscar. Yeah no, And I feel like they don't

23:06

Hella blew enough that way. I mean it was a powerful statement, sure,

23:10

yes, nonetheless, but it was it was even throughout my week,

23:14

I've been like going back to some of the stuff she said, or just

23:17

my everyday life being reminded of some of the stuff she said. I don't know, maybe the guy did ruin it for me. I guess I was

23:22

expecting to be like super mood by her delivery and I'd be like, give

23:26

her an oscar right now. But I don't know, I gotta go rewatch

23:30

it. I gotta watch it. Maybe I'm put on my feet of my

23:33

mouth. Yes, I feel like they needed that character to like kind of

23:37

tie in the real world. Um. Yeah, she was cool. She

23:41

was cool. My favorite parts, though, were just whenever they were own

23:44

Barby Land, like I wanted to be there the whole time. That was

23:47

that was the most fun. It was fun, right, it was so like, oh, it was just it was so pretty to watch, like

23:53

everything was fake and like beautiful and perfect. And I watched all the fucking

24:00

interviews with Greta Gerwig and like just what they did to create this world was

24:04

insane. And I even read that or saw an interview with her save um

24:10

for the backup people or the um like the extras or whatever. They're all

24:15

dancers, because dancers hold themselves a certain way, so they're all like very

24:19

intentional and that's just what a barbie is. Like their their fucking back is

24:23

straight, their heads up, they are like even if they're just like drinking

24:27

their coffee or something, they're doing like they they're doing something like a dancer

24:33

would do, you know. So just the detail that went into this and

24:37

the wigs, the wig, the wigs, like there were so many wings,

24:42

like just like you don't think about that, but like I don't know.

24:47

I'm like I have like a drag mindset now a little bit, just from watching Hell of drig Ras. I'm like, bitch, this should make

24:52

that fair wig costume, Like that is mother fucking work. Where's the wig

24:57

lady? Yes, and I'm I don't want to us boiled and for sure,

25:00

but it definitely was beautiful. What were you going to say about Okay,

25:03

okay, just how um the o Yeah, the kind was like the

25:11

creator was like, okay, barbe like Barbie is an idea and Barbie just

25:15

has this moment and she's like, well, you know, I don't want

25:17

to be an idea. I want to be the one making I don't know, I want to be the person making the ideas and creating it. So

25:22

like I'm want to be a person in the real world, Like I want

25:25

to go in the real world and you know, have an idea and then

25:27

actually put action towards it and make something and create something. But if I'm

25:33

in Barbie world, I'm just I'm just the idea. And I was like,

25:36

damn, that is that is life in a nut motherfucking shell. Like

25:44

you can either have a dream and do nothing with it, or have a

25:48

dream and like you know, and and act upon it. You know,

25:52

And that's the scariest, hardest part of life is acting upon your dreams or

25:57

that little that little was in the back of your mind but you're afraid what

26:00

people are gonna say, you know, but I mean this woman, Ruth,

26:04

she created this Barbie doll. I was just watching an interview with her

26:07

too, like the actual woman, and she, um, it's funny.

26:11

She she she named the but she made Barbie after her, after her daughter,

26:17

Barbara, And this was like I don't even know what year, but this was like you know, years ago, fifty years ago or something,

26:22

and it was funny. Her Her daughter was like kind of mad about it

26:25

because she was like, well like or she was. She was kind of

26:27

mad at her mom because her mom was, um always working. She was

26:32

always working. She was, you know, starting Mattel or not Mattel, but like Barbie, and she was working in and she's like, well,

26:37

why why can't my mom And this is like in the fifties, sixties, I don't know, and you know, why isn't my mom like home with

26:41

me. Well, she's out working. So it's just like it's kind of

26:44

ironic. She got like actually flak for for being a I don't know a

26:48

future woman who was like has a job or like it's all about her career,

26:55

such a I don't know a double standard to think about for women like

26:59

you want to be the mom, but you gotta be the worker. But

27:02

you gotta like provide for your family, but you also want what is your

27:04

dream into? Yeah, like what do you America? Did that? I

27:07

know it was a moment. It was a moment. I really want to

27:10

watch the movie. I really did too, And again, don't want to call it weird, but it kind of was. It was just like,

27:15

this movie is making me feel things. And maybe because I was with my

27:18

friend and that guy smacking his food, hello loud. I wasn't straight up

27:22

bawling at the end, but I did. I wasn't getting tearyed and almost

27:25

wanted to cry. My friend out of the hand was crying her ass off. But yeah, there's a scene at the end where it's like a montage

27:30

of it's not necessarily a Barbie's having a moment, but and she's having these

27:33

flashbacks, but it's not of her life. It's like this montage of just

27:37

womanhood, like yes, random women, oh yes, you know, these

27:41

characters probably weren't even in the movie at all when there were kids and when

27:45

they're growing up and like saying height to their kids, like you don't even

27:48

know who you're watching so it's like, why am I feeling all these things? Why do I want to cry right now? Watching this montage? It

27:52

was apparent child relationship. It was different like mothers and their daughters like like

27:56

swinging them around or pushing them on the swing or them. It was like

28:00

just ohn't want to think about It was like literally just like about being a

28:03

woman and like how we just like go through life. It literally when I

28:07

was watching and I was just like, this is life, Like, yeah,

28:10

maybe you're the mother, maybe you're the daughter, and these are like things he got through. It was just so beautiful and like I'm gonna get

28:15

emotional, but like my friend she's going through a really hard time because her

28:18

aunt is like as cancer and it is like passing away. So like that

28:22

seemed like fucked her up, and she like literally texts me she was like

28:26

me and my mom was gonna go watch it again. And then she's like

28:29

my mom bawling, like volt just like going up crying because it's like you

28:33

do just think about life in that scene. I don't know. It was

28:36

just really beautiful, like the only way I could describe this movie. It truly was like a love letter to woman. Yeah, and like womanhead.

28:41

Yes, maybe like maybe feel or maybe just remember like what it meant to

28:47

be human, you know, right, but specifically womanhood, yes, like

28:52

and that end scene is right, the montage of all those little different situations

28:56

is like that that ship gets overlooked. Yeah, it's like simple exactly,

29:00

Like, yeah, it's just like being a human and all of us are

29:03

like connected to humans and other ways, and everyone has different relationships with people.

29:07

Like it was crazy. You guys got to watch it. It was

29:11

truly a beautiful film, but also like funny as hell. I think I

29:15

feel like I was laughing the whole time, and when I wasn't laughing,

29:17

I wanted to cry. Yes, like those are the only two mutions I felt each and every scene. Yeah, it was gorgeous through and through.

29:25

I can't wait to see it again. Yeah, and Margot definitely up there

29:27

with one of her best performances. I think I still think it. Tania

29:32

is her best performance. Everyone watched. Iitania if you haven't Tania Harding story,

29:37

but this is definitely up there. And our girl needed a w honestly,

29:41

because you know she was she was going to take us some else back

29:44

to back, so she needed this one and she hit a home run,

29:48

so I'm happy for her. Ryan motherfucking Gosling hilarious. The goat, I

29:55

guess could have used to like obviously, he is the heart throb. He's in all the you know rom coms. Yeah, all serious movies. I

30:00

haven't really seen sad. Yeah, and I know there's other ones that I

30:04

can't even like think of. So I played the perfect Ken. Also,

30:07

Ken is also named after Ruth, the creator's son. Yeah. Those kids

30:12

cute, um, But yeah, I can't help I hate to be like

30:15

man, this movie made me take round Gostling more seriously for some reason,

30:18

just because, like I do love crazy stupid love obviously the Notebook, but

30:22

like here, I'm like you an act horse, sir, Like you were

30:26

cracking me up every time you'round screen. He was like the perfect dummy,

30:30

so good. I do love that too, Like it wasn't I think there

30:36

are some people hating on it, like I mean all the in cells in the world, just like, oh this is it time in and like Ken

30:41

was just there or whatever. But I do love that. That's the point.

30:45

There was no like relationship. She like didn't love he said, we

30:49

want to be a boyfriend. Girlfriends like, kenn, what does that mean?

30:55

Girls? Girl, She's stupid. I know. The end, she's

30:57

like apologizing. She's just like, maybe it isn't girl's ride every night.

31:00

You're like and then he like he's always trying to kiss her and she never

31:06

wants to kiss up. She was like that I love, but she didn't

31:12

really like it was more like on a friend note, because I remember he

31:15

tries to kiss her and she's like a friend, don't push it. Yeah,

31:21

no, it's great. Go watch Barbie. I literally I'm probably gonna

31:23

go watch it again, maybe this weekend so I can get a good cry

31:26

properly this time. Wait, one thing I wanted to add, So the

31:30

end, like you were either bawling or fighting back your tears, right,

31:34

very emotional. Just picture you in the theater crying, and then all you

31:38

hear is and I'm that like a bobby Literally this this person was working.

31:45

He was walking a little last and I was like, yeah, I was

31:48

like, I'm over here bawling, and then you just hear NICKI Minaj and

31:51

I spice man. He spaked me. When I get bad, I'm an

31:55

La Rodeo drive. I'm in New York. Medicine. That was hilarious.

31:57

I was like, good, how am I supposed to feel things? They're

32:00

about to shake my motherfucking ass at a hell of funny. So if you

32:05

want to laugh, cry and spark something, go see Barbie. I said,

32:13

bitch, if you wanted to go to Taylor's, just tell her brother

32:16

you want to go to Taylors. You said that. Oh hell yeah,

32:21

man, right, I said, I said, I said, I said,

32:24

bitch, bitch, not me and Chris just filling an earthquake right now?

32:31

I thought you shook the table, you know what over here? I

32:35

don't know if like there's sometimes this room just be shaken. I don't like

32:40

that. But that was definitely an earthquake because I'm going to Twitter dot com,

32:45

where it is basically earthquake dot com. That's where you go to see

32:47

if there was earthquake, you guys. I literally got back on Twitter like

32:52

five years ago because my dad said that's where you get the news first,

32:55

and I was like, damn, that's so right. Yeah, I'm not

33:00

googling the news right now to see if there is an earthquake. Twitter going

33:04

on X is that what it is now? I don't know. Yeah,

33:08

I literally tweeted earthquake like twenty seconds ago and already has like six likes.

33:13

So but I'm trying to see other people joining Oh this someone I did,

33:17

you tweeted that and you got six likes, like immediately, Oh my god.

33:22

So people are probably like, You're like, oh, let's see,

33:28

yeah, someone else just tweeted at Twitter falls off hells. Are we going to check for earthquakes? Chris is deep in his Twitter scroll right now.

33:37

I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I'm like, honestly, what are the streets

33:39

saying about this earthquake? I'm just refriend in New York? Did he fell

33:45

the earthquake? Now? Go to sleep? But I love him so much

33:49

I miss him. Just kidding. Um. I had a very annoying weekend.

33:58

You do. It wasn't annoying that it was okay. Friday, I

34:04

don't remember. I think I just got off Berkeley and like went home and

34:07

whatever, carred on the move my life. Saturday very eventful day. So

34:12

it was my best friend's birthday this past Monday, so obviously she wants to

34:15

celebrate on the weekend. She has a part time pilate's instructor, so she's

34:19

all about that fitness life. So she made us all go to a soul

34:23

cycle class and then the plan was sole cycle and then brush and she like

34:28

maybe get the bike right next to her. And honestly, I haven't worked

34:30

out in a minute. So I was a little nervous because I've done cycling

34:35

classes before, not a soul cycle, but I've been to a cycle bar

34:37

Berkeley's your first soule cycle class. I've never been. This is scary.

34:42

Well, okay, so my friend is instructor at Cycle bar Berkeley, which

34:46

is basically sole Cycling Berkeley, and that one kicked my ass. But it

34:51

was lit like I remember the lights one out. It was like only red lights and like it was intense. I remember, like you played bad Bunny,

34:57

Like that shit was lit like it was like a club. But I

35:00

I also died. But I remember when I went to his class, I definitely was hungover, so pursual, It's like all was not hungover. I

35:06

was like, I woke up, drink my Wrning coffee, had my little

35:09

protein bar, drink some water. I was like, whatever, let's let's

35:13

get ready to die. I meet up with them. It's na yea,

35:16

my best friend, her mom, her step dad, her little sister,

35:22

her cousin who I'm all like super close to her sisters, so cute.

35:24

She bought us all like, um the wristbands and the headbands and like different

35:29

colorful ones, so we all got to pick. I was like, oh my gosh, this is so cute, so we go in. Honestly,

35:34

I fucking killed it. Yeah, Like it wasn't until the probably like close

35:37

to the end. He kept making us turn the resistance up like until we

35:40

like basically cannot move our legs anymore. And every time like but then he

35:45

started preaching. Bro. He was like, one more time to the bride.

35:49

Then he'd like, how many times you're probably the friend that people always

35:52

come to you, like, you know, with their problems, but once

35:55

time someone's asked how you're doing, well, you're doing You're the strong friend.

36:00

Just preach And I'm like, I'm looking around, like is he talking to just me? Oh my god, I don't know. We're gonna Sunday

36:07

service. I was ready to haul off the bike go up there and start

36:12

confessing my sands like it was a moment. But then like in between like

36:17

motivating us, he'd be like, preach it down and put it up to

36:21

the right one more time, and like it was like, oh my god, fuck you, bro, I cannot go to the right anymore. So

36:25

that part I think we all wanted to die. But then and then you

36:30

know, at the very end, you get to put it all the way back to left and you're cycling. And after that, like I was ready

36:34

to go, and then it was like, oh, okay, class is about to be over, and I was like, oh, oh, I'm

36:37

gonna go thirty more minute. Literally yeah, So I'm so happy that.

36:44

I was like, oh, that wasn't hard at all. Like I mean, I'm an easy sweater, but you didn't anticipate it being over and you're

36:49

like, oh shit, that was it? Just go again right like I

36:52

thought I was gonna Like my thought was I'm gonna die, I'm gonna throw up, I'm gonna have a terrible time. Yeah, Grandma's boy. Um,

37:00

we just wanted to kill revolution new high score. What does that mean?

37:07

Oh yeah, yeah, is that good? Yeah? That is that good. I don't know exactly that was mele cycle. Vico is so ready.

37:15

Um. And then we go to this little brunch spot. I forgot what it's called, but um, it was like the most perfect mill like

37:21

I have. I had like a bomb ass poke ball that they had there. Nadia's mom was like, let's buy two bottles of prosecco so we have

37:29

that. I love her Brenda, I know, in the stuff that obviously

37:32

paid for everything. Then so everyone was ready to go. So I had

37:42

to go to the Paramore concert that night. Um, I mean I definitely

37:46

wanted to go, but like no, I mean like I couldn't do anything

37:49

else, Like we had to start getting ready for the Paramore concert. Yes,

37:51

yes, all right, right, so like Bredge's ending, her little sister is also going. So I'm like, oh my god, Colly like

37:55

park at my job, you know, so you're car safe. So we're

38:00

like a little short on time, I know, Naudio, we kind of wanted to shop around. So I was like, okay, I have to

38:04

go the Parrama concert, Like I have to leave at five. It's like

38:07

two pm now. But there was an anthropology so I was like, I

38:09

definitely want to stop at anthrow and this is one of Polo Alto. This

38:13

is I held a nice anthropology vig. Luckily I was like semi bro because

38:16

I would have wasted all my money there because there was like a whole second

38:20

floor that had like the whole home, Like the furniture is there, like

38:23

all the stuff I usually see online, don't get Okay, these hoops are

38:28

from anthropology. All my hoops honestly are from anthrow. So it's a clothing

38:31

store, jewelry store. They have handbags, they have like nice as candles.

38:37

But there's there's anthrow apology, then there's anthro living, so they have

38:40

like a whole home to course action okay, okay, and like it' very

38:45

it's like very like West down on Pottery Barn. It's like on the level of those kind of stores. And usually I feel like when I go at

38:51

least like the one in Oakland, like there's some home stuff like the candles and pillows, but like not everything that you see online. And I feel

38:57

like this one had the ship you see online, but there was a whole

38:59

second floor where they had the home stuff. They had a whole bridal section. My best friend, by the way, is like getting married. I'm

39:04

her maid of honor, so like we like went to go like at some

39:06

of the dress is actually like it was cute and it was her birthday,

39:08

and I was like Okay, I didn't buy anything. Yeah, I'll picked

39:10

something out and I'll buy it for you. Here it's I got a like

39:14

an expensive as candle and like some eye mask or something. Yeah. Um,

39:17

but yeah, it was dangerous being in there. I want to go

39:20

back. We where's the one in no clint Um, I feel like it's

39:25

oh, I guess Berkeley's when I went to Okay, Okay, I've been

39:29

a cafe m no, Okay, I heard so much about it. Good

39:32

brunch pot. Yeah. Like around there, there's like a bunch of cute

39:35

shops. Apology is definitely over there. Cool. Anywhere where you feel like

39:38

I'm in a white town, there's probably an anthropology around the corner, like

39:42

you could just smell it. Like I feel there's a pottery barn somewhere.

39:44

I know there's a West Time. Oh, I know there's an throw the very nearby. Go into the Star one day, you'll you'll love it.

39:51

But yeah, definitely everything is overpriced. Um oh but my um little estimations

39:55

of prices was a point because nay fiance was like, I really want this

40:00

coffee table and they're waiting how along for the girl to come back, and he was like how much do you think it is? And I was like

40:05

twenty three, which it was twenty four dollars. I was so closed.

40:09

And then there's a super cute green chair I wanted, and I was like,

40:13

how much do you think it is? And everyone was guessing and I was like five hundred, bitch, it was four sixty eight. Oh my

40:19

god. Okay, wait, I know my anthrow prices. Wait wait,

40:22

my dream is to go on the prices, right, I would kill it,

40:28

but I was like, I live on anthropology on the app, so

40:30

like I've probably just seen all the wasn't know how much it is. Yeah,

40:32

the data in your brain, so if it's like anthro edition prices,

40:36

right, I was murder ring because I was like, yeah, I'm guessing everything right in this bitch, let's go. I didn't even need that lady

40:43

to come back with the price. That would have been me so finished.

40:49

Like obviously, I'm feeling like a new woman after that whole cycle class because

40:52

I actually haven't worked out in a long time. Like I really was feeling so refreshed. We stopped at Blue Bottle, got me some good coffee,

40:58

got spent time my best friends family, Like I'm feeling good, and I'm

41:00

about to meet up with my best my other best friend, Christina. We're

41:02

getting ready for Paramore, like and mind you, I'm rushing right because I'm

41:07

like, fuck the concerts, like we have to leave AD five. I want to make sure I get there the same time as Kaliyah, so like

41:10

a letter and all this good stuff, and me and Christina are both like

41:14

why, like we're on Hispanic people time, like, so I was like,

41:17

which we need to leave AD five? Like four, I'm on the

41:21

way. So I'm like still using like the sweat in my hair to do a slickback pony. I like change it to my olpha real quick. But

41:25

I throw the cutest outfit together. Hello last minute. I have this Kendrick

41:30

Lamar a T shirt from his concert, but it's very like not appropriate for

41:35

anything because it's um from the mist Moral and the Big Steppers tour, an

41:40

album, and it's basically representing the song we Cried Together. The front of

41:45

the T shirt like is basically two people fucking and on the back it says

41:47

fuck you fuck me yes. So I can never wear it anywhere and it's

41:51

all blocks. I'm like perfect. It's like hip hop but it's me, but it's black. We're going to a rock concert. I wear my booty

41:55

short set. I planned on wearing too Beyonce, and then I had just

41:59

bought these black booties, so I have my black boots like everything, like

42:04

like my makeup, because I'm perfectly I'm paring on my strip blashes. They

42:07

land right away. Like that is when you know it's gonna be a good day. When you put your strip flashes on on the first try, You're

42:12

like, the possibilities are on this. I'm gonna go take over the world

42:15

now, yeah, get ready, hello quick, I look good. My outfits bomb. Christina's in a better mood, like and my I told me

42:21

my Frankristine, and she's like going through stuff because like her aunt that she's super close to is, you know, really sick right now, so they've

42:25

just been like going through it. She's like, oh my god, I

42:28

really need this night, and honestly, I'm not gonna lie. So originally I invited an idiot, but I had a feeling like her fiance probably has

42:34

plants for her, She's probably not gonna be able to make it. So

42:36

she was first. I was like, hey, I got extra ticket to para, where do you want to go? But I had a feeling she

42:39

was like, oh, I let you know, plant are tentative, So I kind of feeling she wasn't gonna make it. So I'm already thinking about

42:44

my backups, so I think I hit up Chris. Yeah, and then

42:47

I hit up my cousin Alexis and like yeah, christ and he had to

42:51

work. And then it wasn't until I feel like that night when you told me how to work, I was FaceTime of Christina just to make she's she's

42:55

okay, and I kind of mentioned it to her, but I'm thinking she

42:59

doesn't want to go out because of everything she's dealing with, you know, like she wants to be a family. But she was like, oh my

43:02

god, no, but that's what I need, Like I don't want to

43:05

go, and I was like, I was like, okay, I just need to wait for two more nos and then it's you so like and then

43:08

Chris asked me that morning like no, I have work, and I was

43:10

like, no, worries you? Oh good? You were you? It

43:17

makes some honey Criss actually stupid to even ask you. And then my cousin

43:22

laws Is right away was like, oh, my god, I really want you, but I find I was like, oh, say less, that's

43:25

fine. So it's like boom. I was like everyone said. Now we're

43:28

actually just waiting for Naudio to say no because she told me like she would see right. So I'm like so excited to take her scene out. I

43:35

pick her up, like everything is perfect. She has like joints world for us. I have our little stuff, like we have the playlist we're like

43:43

seeing in our hearts. That were like, we're gonna come out of this

43:45

concert better women, right, Like we're gonna like be like funck the world.

43:50

Like because Paramore's lyrics when you're going through anything in life, we'll hit

43:54

you deep, you know, whether you're dealing with a shitty relationship, a

44:00

job, just life in general. That drive, like every lyric was hitting.

44:04

We're like, Wow, we're gonna be like we're gonna walk out this concert new people. Like we've been we've both been going through some stuff.

44:09

We're like, this is what we mean. So we're on the bridge.

44:14

She's on her phone with her coworker that's also going to meet up with us, and she goes, bitch, blah blah blah, just got an email

44:19

saying the show is canceled. I said, bitch, did you get from

44:23

who? Hayley Williams? Take it master like you because she's like she's like

44:28

asking me to confirm, and I'm like, well, who did you get an email from? Like what? So my first thought is go immediately to

44:35

their Twitter, their Instagram, see if they posted anything themselves. Sure enough,

44:40

they put on their official account. Here's my thing. I get things

44:45

happen. Like they said, someone got sick. Like I'm all about putting

44:47

your health first, whatever it is, even if someone passed away or whatever,

44:52

Like I totally get it. But they did it two hours before the

44:55

show even starts, like an hour and a half. Like that is so

44:59

wrong. Yeah, and it's like someone was sick like when ye right,

45:05

this must be food poison because how long did you know you were feeling well?

45:08

Also? Who? Yeah, if it's not Haley Williams, Bitchies show

45:12

can still go on. Yes, not to dis you know Josh and especially

45:16

Taylor York you know, love him writing the songs on that guitar. But

45:22

who it was a sick one. I want to know, bitch. Me

45:25

and Christina were distraught. I was like having the greatest day. I was

45:30

like, wow, soul cycle like brunch and made it just in time.

45:35

We're like on time. We're like gonna be there before the show even starts.

45:37

Look at us go and door. Friends were through the roof. We

45:42

wanted to cry. We wanted to cry Hailey Williams, No, it ain't

45:45

fun hard times yea, yes, literally smash over. We're like, where

45:52

are we even gonna go? Like, where are we gonna do now?

45:55

We just want to go home, and we're like, let's go her how

45:58

the cork runs, go get some drinks, were like, yeah, we should drink about this. We're like, let's go to Niedos. The Chris

46:02

was working um at events, so like he wasn't gonna be able to see

46:06

us. Yeah, when he came by stress, I'm like, you could

46:09

come, but I'm not in my right state of mind right now. Yeah

46:13

he was. He was Stressedna for sure became. He had a good time.

46:19

We got drinks afterwards. It was cute, it was, but it

46:22

was very much like why Like even when we're Christine were out, were like

46:27

if we're just drinking to drink, like what is happening? What are we

46:30

doing? We should go home, you know. Yeah, yeah, we

46:32

had stopped a bad oak after and I didn't getting drunk and texting this guy

46:36

that's like so stupid. Luckily he did not text my drunk ass back.

46:42

Your girl went in the archives just texting. People shouldn't be texting for no

46:46

reason, not even wanting to drink. Like nothing excitings happened. We have

46:53

this unnecessary hangover. Hard times. Hard times, yeah right, with Chris

47:02

pulled up to our table, I just kept singing hard times because that's what

47:07

we're having. That's suck. So did they ever figure out a rescheduling when

47:13

it's going to be You're not gonna go? Yes, they rescheduled it to

47:15

a Monday. The culture was Saturday. They rescheduled to a Monday. Definitely

47:20

can't go. I mean, I think if I talked to Travis are my like second boss, he would let me track it once I tell him,

47:25

like, how so shitty how it got rescheduled. But it's like and it's

47:30

after Wasmatask too, It's like August seven, so okay, so it's still

47:32

like up. But there was a lot of people that were like, man,

47:37

we flew from LA. We drove from LA, or like I definitely

47:39

cannot get a Monday off, Like I like it associating and like how early

47:44

they did it, Like people were literally exiting the toll, Like Khalia of my sister that I mean, my best friends sisters was supposed to meet up

47:50

with was already in the city. Like we were on the bridge, she had already crossed, Like we just made it. Chris, you to me,

47:54

like you know that emergency X could do just before the bridge, and

47:57

we were able to do that. We were so close to like being in

48:00

San Francisco, it's like, hey, are you gonna refund my whole bridge

48:02

too? Yeah? Yeah yeah, And like yeah, luckily we're in the

48:07

bay. But there's so many people that came from somewhere else to come see them right right right? Or yeah, like people like parents who like got

48:13

a sitner for the night. Oh oh literally your friend right yeah, well

48:17

the co worker literally got a citner for the night, right Yeah, that's

48:23

why she was like, no, we're still going out. Yeah, we're

48:27

drinking. Right, So, like I said, I'm all for you know,

48:31

you gotta cancel show. You got a cancel show. But like an hour and a half before he's cut out of pocket and she was looking cute.

48:37

You guys all were looking cute a waste, and it's like we were looking cute for the Paramour concert. Like outside of that, like us,

48:43

I'm mad Oak and ETOs, It's like, who are these goth bitches?

48:45

What are they doing? Who is that raw rabbit? And then the worst

48:50

part, yeah, literally yeah yeah, we're drinking, O Mad Oak.

48:57

Obviously I'm not trying to drive home drink. I crashed our Chris's house.

49:00

So the next morning, Chris is already I gotta go to work, girl.

49:04

I woke up and I was like, you're leaving three in the morning.

49:07

I had to work at nine in the morning, six hours. I

49:13

definitely stopped in and I got ready. But the worst part, my job's

49:17

still in my like paramore clothes, my little black booty shorts is out of

49:22

pocket as black T shirt and these boots made for walking. So I could

49:29

have called my car's at my friend Christina's house, so I could have called a lift art to go get it. But while I'm leaving and the lifts

49:34

driving, I realized I don't have my keys, and I'm like, I

49:36

know exactly where they're at there in Christina's cupholder in the passenger side. Never

49:43

I had asked you the night before, like are my goladd leave my glass?

49:45

Santos. Oh yeah. It all came back to me that, like I put everything in that cupholder in Christina's car. So I messes Christina,

49:51

but she's at work. So I had to go to her job with the

49:55

walk of shame looking like I've belong on East fourteenth bitch. And it's so

49:59

funny because I know she was watching me because she goes, no one's here,

50:02

cool, no one's here. So I come, bitch, the whole

50:06

outside is packed, everyone has a table, and I'm hurt the way her

50:08

job works, like it's mostly outside, there's a small inside, so you

50:12

could like I basically I'm like, okay, I'm just gonna be line it

50:15

to the door right there, like head down, like no one can see me. And I have to walk through like people's tables to go there,

50:20

and i'd be line it there and it says like, please use the other

50:22

door. I'm like no, no, I gotta like walk found these other set of tables and like I finally got her, She's like I just saw

50:28

that whole thing. You just be lined it and like I could just see everything that's going on in your head, and I'm just like so embarrassed.

50:34

And Christina obviously puts it on extra thing. Like right when I'll walk in,

50:37

she's like, who's this horror walking in? Like I'm just like telling

50:42

her, like, excuse my horror friend. You guys, I'm like,

50:45

I hate yeah, because she knows I'm hating this because it literally looks like

50:51

walk of shame. But she is a real one. I got there,

50:55

like obviously, I'm super hungover. She makes me the Patters and Sandley Andrew

51:00

everyone go there. It's so bomb. She's made me a bombas bond me

51:04

sandwich. I love me a bond me. She made me Vienneme's iced coffee.

51:07

She like parted me some coke like something with bab bulls. She like

51:10

cooks me up with the whole mill to feel better. We're chilling. She's

51:14

like, let's go back to my house on my brake so I could drive you to your car because I still have to go to the station and finish

51:17

a couple shows. So like we go to her apartment and she knows I

51:21

look like a horse, so she gives me like slides to put on to get out those stupid ass booze and like some backup shorts. She gives me

51:27

a little alephit to change into because she doesn't have to come into work,

51:29

just in case I see anyone like rolls us some joint. She makes me

51:32

a bomb ass smoothie, like she literally took care of me. I felt

51:37

so much better after leaving, Like the smoothie does something to me. The smoothie was bomb not gonna lie, Yeah, she really is. I know.

51:46

It was like almond butter and like blueberries, bananas. She put like

51:52

a little bit of cinnamon powder at the end. I don't know what, but it was. It was the best smoothie I ever had in my life.

51:58

And I love like anything but an Anna's and like almonds. Perfect friend

52:04

women supporting as that whole meal, the names, iced coffee, the smoothie,

52:08

the joints. This horror WK. Yeah, slut shaming me. What

52:14

do you always say yesterday's eyeliners? Correctly. I was struggling and I was

52:22

like, but she said, no one was here. She's like, oh, I that no one that you know. I look like the books are

52:29

bill. I was like, outside, there's not one open table, and

52:32

like my asticks are basically out in these shores, like as I'm sitting down,

52:37

It's just it was not like a look that should tell of funny.

52:43

Actually this horwalking and he just like, excuse my hor friend. You guys.

52:50

I was like, fuck you, I hate you. I hate this.

52:52

I hate everything. What I did do, though, was I door

52:55

dash two vitamin waters and that definitely helped me. Really, the guys,

53:00

there's literally a grocery store on my street. I was I was not walking

53:05

in those booths anywhere down the street from a store seven eleven. I know,

53:12

because I got to seven leven. Bag, I like drunkenly walked down

53:16

your stairs and I'm like, well, like a fish out of water.

53:21

The energy vitral water, you guys, that really brings your girl back, because you know, when you're hungover, you're not craving water like you know

53:25

you need water, but you know like your mouth is just like nasty,

53:28

like you need something like sugar, yeah, a little sweeteners. And I

53:32

hate any kind of like flavored water because I do love water, like I

53:36

don't want I hate sparkling water. I hate any like yeah that's like half

53:39

flavored. I feel like but like wait, wait water, No, I

53:43

only get the yellow on the energy line. And I recently realized that actually

53:46

has caffeine in it. Oh what I know? And I can't believe I

53:50

didn't. First of all, it's called energy, and like right on the

53:52

bottles says caffeine. One day, I was just examining the bottle. I

53:57

was like, oh shu, there's caffeine in this bitch. You don't know

54:00

how many vitam waters I drink in my life. Like my family they know, like if I haven't vitamin water, they're like actually hung over because she

54:05

has a vitamin water, Like they know that is my go to. I do that. Oh my god, there's literally here doesn't say caffeine. I've

54:15

never seen that. I was shocking. I was like, oh, I'm an they called energy tropical situation. It's all like helly caffeine, but sixteen

54:22

milligrams of caffee. You guys, we are in the studio. There's literally

54:24

a yellow vitamin water. I'm not hungover today, but I just happen to

54:29

have that. Vitamins B three be five, B six beats. You don't

54:31

have it because I know there's caffeine. I didn't have time to stop at

54:34

a coffee shop and literally like was up gas station. I was like,

54:37

I'll just get this vitamin water because that's caffeine in it. Oh my god,

54:42

here or like my other like my other good friend Hannah, anytime we

54:46

were going through it, like about to start up period. Well, we'll have hot cheetos vitamins water. Yes, Why did you just smell it?

54:52

Because I honestly there's something about this this smell because I used to drink this

54:54

too, like in middle school, middle school, and I didn't know how

54:58

to caffee either. It was like middle school or high cool. I did

55:00

this yellow got the yellow one too. You gotta read the fine print caffeine.

55:04

I was shook. It reminds me of like high school. I was

55:07

to bring you back to a love that smells do that this one and then

55:10

the purple and like the triple X one I used to get old. Yes,

55:14

you know, I don't think with any other one except for this one. And my friend Hannah is the one that put me on because whenever we

55:19

used to work with me, when I was at the front desk, whenever

55:22

we like started our period, she was like, no, you gotta do the hot Cheeto and vitamin water duo, and I never went back. So

55:27

now whenever I'm in a bad mood and or hungover vitamin water hot Cheetos,

55:31

that will bring you back. You guys, I'm dead. It's literally right

55:35

here, the yellow Energy one. You gotta read the fine print. I

55:38

was so shook when I read caffeine makes sense. It called is the energy

55:43

one Energy Energy Energy? Wait, we were we even talking? Oh?

55:45

So I door dash it. Yeah, two bottles because I know one one

55:49

in a v NF and I swear I was like slept through it and drank

55:52

those two and I had enough energies to make it to Christina's job and call

55:55

that lift. And yeah, I'd finished my drove to the city, finished

56:00

my shows, came back and just went to sleep. And what a beautiful

56:06

Sunday. Yeah, it's like it's the weekend started off great and then oh

56:09

went downhill. But it doesn't matter because we're gonna go see Taylor on Saturday.

56:15

We are seeing tay Ta. So yeah, Chris's outfit is cute AF,

56:22

so make sure you're following us on Instagram because I don't have an outfit

56:25

yet. We're gonna try to get it last minute. But Chris send me

56:28

pictures of his outfit and it's giving the skirt, the skirt, every the

56:32

details, like all of it, all of it, the earrings, the

56:36

sunglasses, the teacher. I'd be great. I'm gonna add some ribbons to

56:39

it. Coming soon. You'll see, You'll see, You'll see what I

56:44

mean. You'll see what I mean. You'll see what I mean. Yeah,

56:46

I literally have nothing, like nothing. It's okay it just wear something

56:51

pink. But Beyonce, I will be Yeah, I just I just thought

56:54

all that shit too. I'll try to get it together. You guys,

56:59

we'll see see. But yeah, we're gonna be at Taylor. Our sees

57:01

are not bad, so I mean we're not like touching her, but we're

57:07

not on the nose leaves. Finally, hello for once. Excuse me.

57:13

I mean we never were never I would never And oh my god, Wild

57:20

has just been like going crazy, like our whole station has like transformed to

57:23

being a full on Taylor station. My boss literally was like, if you

57:28

think it's too many Taylor breaks, it's not Taylor Army. Every break is

57:34

Taylor and we're doing it big on while like we're having an after part Tay.

57:37

Yeah, so I will be hosting the after partay on Wild after the

57:43

concert, So be listening on your way out when you're sitting in that traffic

57:46

starting up fine frame. We're doing like all Taylor songs. It's like it's

57:50

all Taylor mix. I love it. Yes, but now I'm super excited.

57:52

And me and Chris will be at Swifty Clara so oh period, we'll

57:59

be in section one h three. If you see us, say what's that? This is Today in the Bay. What's your host? And Jelina Today

58:19

in the Bay, don't forget on socials. You can find us at Underscore

58:22

FTR pod. I'm at Angelina on air, and I am so excited for

58:27

this Women's Premier Basketball Association. It's a Bay Area basketball league and I feel

58:32

like, you know, we're just talking earlier how women's sports is really coming

58:37

up, but even these past few years, I feel like there's been big talk about getting a women's team in Oakland. So we're gonna talk more about

58:44

the league. But I'm here with the two behind it Alla team and Shelley

58:47

Shelly. You're actually part of a brand that was really instrumental in getting gets

58:51

started. Correct, Yes, Okay, okay, So yeah, we're gonna talk about all about that of a team. I do want to start with

58:54

you because you're a real hooper. Yeah, basketball has been part your life

59:00

kind of forever, so kind of tell me your journey first with the basketball for sure. Well before we just started, I want to thank you so

59:05

much for having us here today. Is an amazing experience, So thank you.

59:08

But just to give you a little background into my story, you know,

59:13

basketball saved my life in so many ways, and you know, just

59:15

with my upbringing in itself, it was really my outlet to be able to,

59:19

you know, navigate through that space and just remind myself, like life

59:24

there's ups and downs, but like regardless of how everything's going, like,

59:29

there's certain things that I can control, and when I was on the court, I could control those things. So that was literally like my escape.

59:35

So you know, growing up in Oakland, I had the opportunity to meet

59:38

a lot of amazing people that have helped me stay on course, you know,

59:42

within my journey, and you know, Shelley being one of those people.

59:45

Did you play in high school? I played in high school, I

59:49

played in middle school. I ended up going to Juco out here in San

59:52

Francisco City College of San Francisco and then transferred around a bit, trying to

59:57

kind of like figure out my my basketball life. And you know, I

1:00:02

think my junior year, I sit down and have a talk Michelle, and

1:00:05

I'm trying to figure out what it is I'm trying to do moving forward, you know, because I'm just like basketball, I want to be able to

1:00:10

do this, but I also want to figure out what else is my purpose?

1:00:13

What else am I looking to do? Because it's kind of like all you've known forever, that's literally been my identity. Like for so many people

1:00:20

that have played basketball throughout their lives, this is literally who they are,

1:00:23

right. I played basketball in high school. I was trash. I was

1:00:25

like big average, are you digingbo mentality? It's like basketball's life, and

1:00:30

it just it does teach you other things outside the court. You start thinking about those things, you know exactly, so I get a little bit basketball

1:00:38

Like, Okay, maybe basketball it's not my life because I was trash,

1:00:40

but no, But I mean again, it's taught me so many life you

1:00:45

know, skills, and it's helped me to you know, be within this

1:00:50

space that I'm at now. So you know, when I started my professional

1:00:53

career, Um, I wasn't in the best situation. I literally, you

1:00:58

know, I'd say this a lot. If you can make it in the Bay you can make it anywhere. So I had to I had to bring

1:01:01

that mentality with me while I was overseas because I was just like, this

1:01:05

is something I really want to do. This is what I want to pursue, and I want to you know, create longevity within this. So,

1:01:10

you know, fast forward six years down the line, I'm looking to create

1:01:15

something in the Bay Area here because I'm like, again, basketball has given

1:01:19

me so much and we don't really have anything like this out here in the

1:01:22

Bay Area or in you know, California for that matter. That's really looking

1:01:28

to create opportunities for women to you know, thrive on and off the court.

1:01:32

So we created the Women's Premier of Basketball Association last year. I was

1:01:37

playing top league in Mexico during this time, so it was a little bit

1:01:39

of a had to juggle a lot of things to be able to still put

1:01:44

my all into creating this league. But still, you know, nurture my

1:01:47

own individual goal, which is, you know, I'm blessed to play this

1:01:52

you know game still so created the Women's Premier Basketball Association. We started with

1:01:57

six teams last year had an amazing outcome because obviously it's new. If something's

1:02:04

new, no one's going to really like buy into it unless you know,

1:02:07

you really hold some sort of um how can I say this unless people respect

1:02:13

you in the community and reputation. Yeah, it's just like it's hard to

1:02:16

build something. But I had a lot of amazing people support me, Shelley

1:02:20

don Refology, them supplying us with you during that time and you know,

1:02:25

helping us to kind of create this collaborative space between our coaches or players,

1:02:29

you know, everybody else that's on our staff. You know, fast forward,

1:02:32

we're in our second season. We're literally doing you know, amazing things

1:02:37

this year, and we're continuously building on these opportunities to help not only our

1:02:40

players move on to the next level, but we're helping our officials. Like

1:02:45

Shelley has done an amazing job, you know, last year, she's been able to help all of those officials that have been within Refology, you know

1:02:52

a hand a couple of them have been able to move on to NBA and w NBA and you know, G league opportunities and you know players within our

1:02:59

league, they've been able to move on, and you know, some they've started their first year as playing professionals, and then you know, coaches have

1:03:06

been able to move on, and our trainers have been able to move on. One of our trainers is now working with the Seattle Storm just from one

1:03:12

year of being From one year of being will slow down just a little bit

1:03:14

because I know you're so no, we're gonna get there. We're gonna get

1:03:17

there because overseas, was that something that kind of switched with you to start

1:03:22

this league? Like what did you learn going over there and then coming back?

1:03:25

Like what was that shift for you? Literally, you have to love

1:03:29

it. If you're going overseas, you have to love basketball, because if

1:03:31

not, it's going to be a rude reality check, like there's going to

1:03:35

be things that aren't going to go your way. So it's just like, Okay, I have to pivot. I'm gonna have to make an adjustment.

1:03:40

But at the end of the day, I got to make sure that whatever

1:03:44

I'm doing, it's going to benefit me. Because every year you're going out

1:03:47

and you're playing overseas, like and a lot of women, it's like that's

1:03:52

kind of the only thing you have to do. I mean, we talk about share a woman as far as the representation and media is bad, and

1:03:57

like don't get to start on the pay gap. There's also like let's talk

1:04:00

about like just how high it is for women just to go straight pro like

1:04:03

what you have to go throughout. It's so hard because it's especially like after

1:04:06

you finish your collegiate careers, the college doesn't owe you anything. They don't

1:04:13

need to try and help you get overseas, especially like for players that you

1:04:15

know, don't get an opportunity to you know, a WNBA training camp,

1:04:20

so they're literally stuck in this place where they're just like I don't know what

1:04:25

to do. They're making poor business decisions. Like for me, I spent

1:04:29

like two grand my first summer trying to figure out what it is I was going to do professionally because I'm like going to this camp, I'm going to

1:04:34

this clinic, I'm going to this combine, praying that someone picks me up

1:04:39

and sees value within me. But I think the beautiful thing about this league

1:04:43

is as opposed to going to these combines and you have to perform at your

1:04:46

best in three days and you're competing against eighty other players, Right, you

1:04:50

have a ten week season here where you're actually able to see your growth,

1:04:55

you're learning, you have other people here that support you during this time,

1:04:59

and they're really at the end of the day, they want you to succeed. So they're going to do everything in your power and their power to pour

1:05:04

into you so that you can come out on top. And obviously once that's

1:05:09

done, you get to pay it forward and just continue to help the community.

1:05:12

That's what were the like conditions, like hooping overseas. Enough, we

1:05:17

already talking about the pay gap, but even just before going pro and having

1:05:20

to do that legal so I'm not gonna lie like unless you are unless you

1:05:25

have w NBA on your resume, Like, it's really hard to find a

1:05:29

program that's going to pay you what you feel like you're worth. Yeah,

1:05:31

and then you're competing against other people that have experienced So my first job I

1:05:36

was in All Salvador. I was on the worst team. Literally, this

1:05:40

was a rebuilding stage for them because they were trying to figure out, you

1:05:43

know, what they're going to do keep their team in or are they just

1:05:45

going to throw away the hope program. So I go out there and living

1:05:48

in Santiago de Mario. They didn't even have doors on the house that I

1:05:53

was living in, and obviously that's not safe, yeah, bringing in imports,

1:05:57

you know. So they ended up moving us to the Capitol. And

1:06:00

I think again, like I said, you have to love it. I

1:06:03

think I only made two hundred and fifty dollars my first year or my first

1:06:06

season playing there because the club brand out of money. Wow. But I

1:06:11

mean, like there were bugs in the house I was living in. Literally

1:06:14

I didn't have my own room, we didn't have hot water. I mean, luckily I got along with my teammate thought was there because our beds were

1:06:19

literally six inches apart. So I saw her every single day and we had

1:06:24

to just get through it together. But again, that's why I'm just like,

1:06:28

you have to really love it, because if you haven't experienced like that, anybody would have been like, I'm cool. Yeah, that's insane.

1:06:34

Like how did people are like forced to have to do that though and go

1:06:36

through it? And like that's why we needed these leagues you guys have created.

1:06:41

So tell me how did you link up with Shelley? How did this

1:06:43

partnership start? We were just talking about this on our drive up. So

1:06:46

again mid my junior year, trying to figure out what I'm doing because like

1:06:50

I'm in college, didn't have the best collegiate career. I was averaging like

1:06:56

three points per game. So I mean, if you're looking to play,

1:07:00

I don't think anybody's going to really invest in a player that's scoring three points

1:07:02

per game. So I'm just like nick upon a local to do that.

1:07:11

They don't need a paint or you can do all that stuff. So I

1:07:14

was just like, Okay, I went I met up with Shelley. She

1:07:17

was holding a like a clinic over at Bishop O'Dowd. That's where she went

1:07:21

um. And you know, she was doing these clinics during the summers to

1:07:25

like help other officials, you know, work on the mechanics and just kind

1:07:29

of get them set for you know, the upcoming season, whether it's college,

1:07:31

high school, or the pros. So I sit there, I watched

1:07:36

the entire time. I didn't know what to expect, right, And Shelley

1:07:40

and I have a really good conversation afterwards. She took the time to like

1:07:43

speak with me, because like I was just in awe that someone would take

1:07:46

the time to just meet with me, not knowing me or anything like that.

1:07:49

Afterwards, after everything you just went through your tale, it's like,

1:07:54

yeah, I'm just like, so I sit there and talk with her,

1:07:57

and you know, she's telling me about like what else she does. She

1:08:00

was like, I'm in real estate. You know, I do officiate, but I think the most valuable thing I hold is that I'm multidimensional and whatever

1:08:08

I'm doing, So she's creating other avenues, you know, she's not just

1:08:12

relying on one thing. So that was like my biggest takeaway that summer and

1:08:17

going to my senior year, I was just like, Okay, like something

1:08:20

else I flipped the switch. Something else turned on, and I was just

1:08:23

like, I need to start thinking about this in a different like way because

1:08:28

at the end of the day, like I don't have a safety net.

1:08:30

I don't have to I don't have college to go back to anymore. The real world legan. So I need to like literally kind of picture all on

1:08:35

this. I got to figure out Yeah, yeah, and Chilli, what

1:08:39

was your brand? That just so um about fifteen years ago, I started

1:08:43

a company called Raphology, and really I was working college women's basketball Division one

1:08:47

for twenty years and you're from here too. From here, Corn and Raisin

1:08:51

Alam and I went to high school Saint Jose Hey, so very local and

1:08:59

always to help anyone that is looking to pursue something at a higher level,

1:09:04

or even just to get better at the level that they're at. And when

1:09:08

Fatima intersected with me, this maybe seven eight nine years ago something like that,

1:09:13

she came up. Every summer would run a summer league where we could

1:09:15

pass along really good training to referees that couldn't necessarily get out and spend the

1:09:20

money to go to all of these camps where they might get seen and picked

1:09:24

up at higher levels. So what I did was I started refology, and

1:09:27

I brought the higher level training that I was getting and also participating in and

1:09:30

giving in the Division one space, and I brought it down to the locals.

1:09:38

So we would bring in folks every week from different areas from Monterey all

1:09:43

the way up to Sacramento and beyond. They could bring their crews and we

1:09:45

just pass along the great information. So that's what Fatima came up and witnessed.

1:09:49

Of course, my first thing was to try to recruit her as a

1:09:51

referee, which she's actually pretty good. Again, she still got that in

1:09:56

her back pocket of all of this. And but because you want good people

1:10:04

when you're reffing, you really good people around you, because it's it's a

1:10:08

trust you work as a team out there. When pandemic hit, I actually

1:10:14

got a phone call. I had been retired, went on. I worked

1:10:16

at the w for a few years, but I consult currently through my third

1:10:19

side coaching company, my business partner, Don Veden and I we consult NBA

1:10:24

teams and players and coaches on all things officiating related. Okay, and so

1:10:29

I get this phone call. And I really had still been offering some refology

1:10:32

clinics and things, just really for fun and charity. And I get this

1:10:36

phone call asking, Hey, there's a women's pro game we need some refs

1:10:41

for. Can you come out and referee? I said, well, I don't even think I have stripes anymore. If they don't mind me in a

1:10:45

refology shirt share, i'll show up. So I dug out the old pants

1:10:50

and went out, and Fatima was playing, and I saw all the women

1:10:55

that I had, many of the women that I had refereed all their college

1:10:59

career, um several that were there, and I just thought miss right.

1:11:04

So when Fatima was looking to really rebrand and start something fresh that had a

1:11:11

unique approach. I said, absolutely, but we have to rebrand and encouraged

1:11:15

her to really step outside of the box and start fresh, get her branding

1:11:20

set and launch as a new league with a new mission, and I'm just

1:11:25

happy to support her. And part of that then motivated me to start the

1:11:29

nonprofit Blast Equality Collapse that we can help fund. Part you know, our

1:11:33

premier partner is the Women's Premier Basketball Association, but I also through the nonprofit,

1:11:38

helped train and develop in a have incorporated refology now into the nonprofit all

1:11:44

the way down to youth sports as well as some other sports. The tagline

1:11:47

for um Blast Equality Collab is leadership Development. So from the bottom of my

1:11:54

heart, I believe referees are leading the way in creating fair playing environments or

1:11:59

facilitating the creation of fair playing environments. They have the opportunity on the daily,

1:12:03

hundreds of times each game to ensure their embodying equality. So what better

1:12:08

way to practice this by partnering with an association that wants to collaborate. All

1:12:14

players, coaches, and referees are eligible and participate and have a voice in

1:12:18

all of the training. We do things transparently, so there's no nothing hidden

1:12:24

behind creating this opportunity where these women get to play professional basketball at a professional

1:12:30

level. And I love so important, yes, and I love that you

1:12:32

both of you guys are from here because I mean, you just look at Oakland losing all these professional teams and a five year span. It's so sad,

1:12:40

and it's like, well, who has Oakland's back? You know, because like sports definitely belong in the city, and you know, like I

1:12:45

said earlier, like women's sports. I feel like right now, I mean it's a long fight and we're like not even closed still, but I feel

1:12:49

like something really is special happening right now. So I love that you guys

1:12:54

are from here and like just creating this pathway. How has the league already

1:12:57

impacted athletes? I mean, again, just to touch on last year,

1:13:02

we were able to send at least ten of our athletes overseas. For some,

1:13:06

you know, this is their first opportunities that like making their dreams a

1:13:10

reality. So we were able to do that. Moving into our second season,

1:13:15

like, we're working on making sure we increase that number this year,

1:13:18

but we've also been able to, you know, help more players get opportunities

1:13:23

through you know, whatever it may be. If they're looking to in their

1:13:27

professional careers, looking to move forward. We're trying to create more networking opportunities

1:13:31

to ensure that. Shelley's obviously pick some of them up for you know,

1:13:38

officiating opportunities as well. But again, I think the women in this league,

1:13:45

they're getting an opportunity to be supported by their community. They're feeling empowered,

1:13:51

and we're creating a competitive atmosphere for them to just come out here and

1:13:56

play and do the things that they love. And how does the league work?

1:13:59

Exactly like getting to play season starting, so we have so before the

1:14:04

season starts, we go through a tryout. So you know, this year

1:14:08

we had about forty five players come and try out with the league. Starting

1:14:12

with six teams last year, we were able to expand to eight this year,

1:14:15

so we added on team name teams, so we had about four or

1:14:18

five returners per team with obviously forty five other new players coming in. And

1:14:24

then we had some late register late people that registered looking for an opportunity to

1:14:30

be in the league, So we did a draft right after the tryout,

1:14:33

we selected teams, started out with practices leading up to the actual games which

1:14:40

started on June third, So literally whoever was able to make tryouts and you

1:14:44

know, they were able to show that they could play at this level because we have players literally that have graduated from university, players with w NBA EuroLeague

1:14:53

euro Cup experience playing in this league. So we want to make sure whoever's

1:14:56

here, they're able to compete and they're all still going to have fun at

1:15:00

the same time. Yeah, And alongside all of the tryouts, we also

1:15:04

hosted our inaugural Blast Equality Embodied Referee Leadership Summit Leadership at the intersection of basketball

1:15:13

plus officiating and alongside the Women's Premier Basketball Association Fatima Cameo Williams from GEMS in

1:15:19

the Gym, James Rockefeller from VJTV. We brought in some amazing guest speakers

1:15:25

to kick off the summit series, including none other than Dusty Baker, who

1:15:30

was our keynote, as well as NBA Championship coaches w NBA Championship coaches to

1:15:35

really present to any of the coaches players that want to participate, but for

1:15:40

the group of referees that are becoming part of the Embodied Referee Designation program,

1:15:44

that's really going to go across the country. At this point, we're creating

1:15:47

a new space so that we can provide these opportunities. Having this organization here

1:15:56

gives the opportunity for currently last year we had twenty five referees on we now

1:16:00

have close to thirty five are participating in the Embodied Referee program, coming from

1:16:05

as far as Handford to try to work these games. We've got some folks

1:16:10

that are out of state part of the program because they want to be part

1:16:13

of our training program that are looking at how can they get out here a

1:16:15

couple of times a summer to participate and serve in this capacity. So it's

1:16:21

really a high level training program for our officials and it's instrumental in being able

1:16:28

to ensure that the women are getting to play at a professional level. And

1:16:32

when they come from the backgrounds they come from, they don't necessarily want to

1:16:35

just if they want to continue playing their professional career overseas, that's great.

1:16:41

But some of the women have professional jobs, but they still want to play

1:16:45

professional basketball here. They don't want to play necessarily in a rec league or

1:16:48

a pro am change my whole life. They want to continue to play at

1:16:53

the highest level they can possibly play and what's so instrumental in the nonprofit and

1:16:58

the messaging that we're teaching and through all of our training and collaboration with Fatima

1:17:03

and the Women's Premier Basketball Association, is that leadership skill. Most women when

1:17:09

they end their playing career somewhere and they enter corporate America, there isn't a

1:17:14

ton of opportunity for them to continue in the habits that got them hired.

1:17:17

They may end up learning golf or something that fits in with the traditional corporate

1:17:23

way, but here's an opportunity for corporations to get behind also sponsoring. We

1:17:28

have one premier partner in the nonprofit, Team Schuler Compass real Estate. He's

1:17:32

done a He's made an incredible offer. He and Nicole Schuler have made an

1:17:38

incredible offer to any of the women that want to get licensed in real estate

1:17:41

while they're playing overseas. Once their license till reimburse them those fees and they

1:17:45

can start building their clientele while they're overseas or grow their their client their client

1:17:50

base here now. So we're looking for more partnerships in that space that allow

1:17:56

the women to continue to develop those strong leadership skills that they get through playing

1:18:00

high level sports. Yeah, I think it's the Harvard Business Review years ago.

1:18:04

I'd probably have to look on my very first tweet ever. But the

1:18:08

studies come out and they say over ninety of women in the C suite positions

1:18:13

played sports, and I think my tweet said something like I wonder if they

1:18:16

could say the same for the men but in those same positions. But it's

1:18:20

becoming more and more important, and businesses know, and we need those businesses

1:18:26

behind growing these organizations because the Women's Premiere Basketball Association is giving that opportunity for

1:18:30

these women to keep developing those strong leadership skills that make them so successful and

1:18:35

help transform a corporate culture in ways that are very needed right now. No,

1:18:41

that's amazing. It's like changing the way it's all like coming up in

1:18:44

basketball and still being able to do what you love, still being able to have a career if you want to. You know, you don't have to

1:18:47

go through these give up my whole thing right right now. I love that.

1:18:53

I still eat it up a game, But every time I see the

1:18:55

cliffs, I'm like, oh my gosh, it's like so lit. Tell me about like that atmosphere and fan base that has grown just in this little

1:19:00

bit of time still, Oh my goodness. Um, I appreciate everyone this

1:19:03

season that has come out and has continued to support us. It means a

1:19:09

lot because obviously we rely heavily on our community, but you know, this

1:19:15

season, we've had more high school students come out. You know, we

1:19:18

have more college and high school interns a part of this because they love being

1:19:24

around this atmosphere and just the mentorship component that you know, really comes with

1:19:28

it from all the players, you know, interacting with them and just trying

1:19:31

to help them be better as well as they're helping us, you know,

1:19:35

become better as well. So I just love that sisterhood that we're creating.

1:19:39

But the fans, they've been amazing. I can't thank them enough. But

1:19:45

I'm definitely looking to increase our fan base and get more of the cities that

1:19:50

you know, are supporting or backing these teams, to have them come out

1:19:54

and just see what their teams are doing. You know, yes, yeah,

1:19:57

and we have to have you come out because I've even gotten out and

1:20:00

shot the ball again. I haven't played in years because I'm rapping one.

1:20:05

You probably sash like not too good. We could do a little around the

1:20:11

World or something. I could try that. I actually I'm the in game

1:20:14

host for the Santa Cruise Worri is the g League team. The one's done

1:20:16

like we do shoot around and I don't make it to like the fifth track.

1:20:21

I'm not your announcer for them, but he's actually doing some announcing for

1:20:26

us this season. Oh really, Yeah, so we have we have a

1:20:29

lot of great people within the community a part of this because they truly believe

1:20:33

in league. Yes, I can definitely have to come out. Oh yeah,

1:20:39

no, I definitely know, like asap, I need to come out.

1:20:41

Have you as a guest announcer? Yes, I would love that,

1:20:45

was off on the mic. Where do you see the league five years from

1:20:49

now? That's a great question. Um, I mean I would even say

1:20:57

two years from now because I really liked to dream big. I mean,

1:21:00

that's why I'm in this space, you know. I really want to make

1:21:04

sure that all of our players are coaches, everyone that's on our staff,

1:21:09

they're paid because I want to create jobs within the community and I want people

1:21:13

to see value in what we're doing. Because again, like there's no women's

1:21:17

sports here, there's no sports teams out here in Oaklands, and I mean,

1:21:24

again, this is so important because if I had something like this growing

1:21:27

up, my life probably would have been different. But we're continuously making those

1:21:30

positive impacts in the community that we have now, especially with the next generation

1:21:34

of athletes, Like I think that's important. So within the next two years,

1:21:40

I want to make sure everybody in this league is paid, and I

1:21:43

want to be able to expand to different locations so that we can continue spreading

1:21:46

this vision throughout the rest of the nation. I'm so excited for you.

1:21:49

I love what you guys are doing. Like I just know I have a

1:21:51

good feeling like sports is coming back to Oakland, and just like women's sports,

1:21:56

it has to. There's so much space and opportunity right now. So

1:22:00

I mean, I really want people to just buy into that dream so we

1:22:02

can again make it a reality. Yeah, sell up and let us sell

1:22:06

Like where we can follow you, where we can buy tickets. How do

1:22:10

we support it? So follow us on at wool, Instagram, Women's PBA.

1:22:15

Our website is Women's PBA dot com. Do you want to highlight that

1:22:19

we are doing uh Skills clinic for high school girls next week? I just

1:22:24

dropped the fire last yesterday. Within twenty four hours, We've already had fifty

1:22:29

sign ups and now I was just I was capping it at fifty. So that's going to be happening right before All Star Game next week. So that

1:22:35

again we're showing that we're giving back to the community and we really care about

1:22:39

the next generation of athletes. I love it. Yeah, give them a

1:22:42

follow ups. What instagram is Women's Women's PA. All right, I'll be

1:22:45

reposting. We'll post it on the website too well. Nine for Night dot

1:22:48

com. But so have you guys came through today and I'll definitely be at

1:22:51

the next game. Thank you, I appreciate you. I guess is anything

1:22:55

else you guys want to tell your fans in the Bay area or interesting little

1:23:00

in support of Fatima's goal of trying to get the players paid and the coaches

1:23:03

and the participants and all the folks working, we um collaboratively. Actually,

1:23:09

Fatima, Donna and I went out and raft at the San Leandrew Boys and

1:23:11

Girls Club for a six week program every Tuesday's entertain race. Some funds also

1:23:16

help their program, So we're we've got a small purse already set up for

1:23:20

the championship weekend August fourth, through six. We've got some matching donors for

1:23:26

that, and we're kicking off a campaign with hundred X Causes, which is

1:23:30

another nonprofit that believes in the work that we're doing. Where we're going to

1:23:34

we'll have some more information on that here out next week, but we're hoping

1:23:38

to tap all of our networks in being able to raise funds for the nonprofit

1:23:43

so that we can grow the person the end of the summer for the Championships

1:23:47

weekend. Yeah, now that's super dough and I can't say how much like

1:23:50

instrumental the Boys and Girls Club was like to me and like all my friends,

1:23:54

like especially the athletes, Like there's a lot of you know, boys

1:23:58

and girls I grew up with that you know, on the same block. A lot of them would like get into trouble, but like going to the

1:24:01

Boys and Girls Club and like to play basketball after school, like not trying

1:24:04

to be in the streets or I remember one of the guys there. Because

1:24:08

the Boys and Girls Club, a lot of them are younger, like so you feel like, you know, those are your friends. It's not like

1:24:12

you know, these older people yelling at you that don't understand you where you

1:24:14

come from. I remember one of the guys dre end up being a coach for like AU program, and like I remember just everyone coming back like so

1:24:20

mad at him because they weren't touching ball until like two weeks. He was

1:24:23

just havn't have like run straight. But it just kept them out of so

1:24:27

much trouble. Like you know, they really care about the U. So I love that you guys are like going to the boys and Girls club because

1:24:30

I, like I always say when I make it, like those are the first people getting my money if I've ever become rich, Like I have to

1:24:35

go, like give them money. Enough fun about it too, if they

1:24:38

start. They restarted this program and it was it's the first time they've done

1:24:42

it in a number of years, bringing back in a competitive program. And

1:24:45

we watched the players and it was boys and girls playing on teams. Yeah,

1:24:49

we watched them develop in the six weeks incredibly. Just having the opportunity

1:24:56

and many of those players don't even play on high school teams, but just

1:24:59

to see them because there's only so many spots everywhere or what level you're at,

1:25:03

to see them be able to create the competitive environment there and actually have

1:25:08

them come out and support a few of them came out to watch FA team

1:25:11

of player. Yes, have some fun, so you know we're impacting young

1:25:15

girls lives, but also the young the young boys as well that are really

1:25:19

just want to see people competing at high levels. Right. I love what

1:25:23

you ladies are doing and I can't wait to see the future of this league.

1:25:26

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