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Welcome to Game Changers, the podcast where female athletes are the game changers. Listen every week for the latest happenings in women’s sports from news and updates to rumors swirling the league. Each week, AB will be joined by a special guest to share their experiences as a woman in the sports industry. So let’s get started and change the game!
What's up? Welcome to Game Changers, the podcast all about women changing the game. Join AB every Friday at 1PM for the latest happenings in women's sports. From updates to juicy gossip, Game Changers is the place to be. Now here's your host, AB.
Speaker 2:Hey, everyone. Welcome to Game Changers. I'm your host, A. B. This episode and every episode of Game Changers is all about women who are changing the game.
Speaker 2:Each week, we'll dive into the latest happenings around the women's leagues and interview special guests. So let's get started. Our very first guest of Game Changers is Michelle Kate.
Speaker 1:And the crowd goes crazy. Yeah. Crazy.
Speaker 2:If her voice sounds familiar, she did voice my podcast intro and outro, so thank you for that. And thank you for being the very first guest of Game Changers.
Speaker 1:Of course, bro. Of course.
Speaker 2:How are you doing?
Speaker 1:Pretty okay today. It could've been better.
Speaker 2:It's But, you know It's been a long day. Yeah. Are you ready to get
Speaker 1:started? Of
Speaker 2:course. So before we jump into an interview, I wanna start off with a segment I like to call league queens, and it's just a little bit of sports updates from around the leagues. I wanna get started with my favorite female athletes or at least one of them, miss Asia Wilson.
Speaker 1:Queen Asia, bro.
Speaker 2:I love her. So a lot has happened for her this week. So starting on Sunday, February 2, miss Asia Wilson's South Carolina Gamecock number 22 was raised to the rafters. And while her number is retired, this technically by NCAA rules does not mean that her jersey is retired. But you know what head coach John Staley had to say about that?
Speaker 2:What? Her 22 will never be worn on that court ever again.
Speaker 1:Period. Drop the mic.
Speaker 2:Period. One, that ceremony was absolutely amazing. She was so emotional, is so well deserved, absolute star in college and her career now. Like, I don't even have the words to describe.
Speaker 1:Dude, when we were looking up, like, her stats and stuff, like, before we recorded it, I was like, bro, she is really the GOAT.
Speaker 2:Let's just two time WNBA champion, two time Olympic gold medalist, NCAA champion, three time WNBA MVP award winner, and two of those came unanimously, meaning everybody voted for her. And she is the only person in WNBA history to do that two times. So Dude, the GOAT. Absolute GOAT queen, one of the best women's basketball players of all time, probably my favorite women's basketball player of all time, for sure. I absolutely love the Carolina the South Carolina Gamecocks right now.
Speaker 2:So, you know, it's just it's inevitable that I'd be an Asia Wilson fan. Also, literally two days after that, she announced her collaboration. Well, not an ass collaboration. The collaboration came in May of twenty twenty four, but she unveiled her Nike a one signature footwear and apparel collection. Oh my god.
Speaker 2:It looks amazing.
Speaker 1:Dude, I saw because, she was practicing in it at South Carolina. Right? Mhmm. Because I saw the picture. I was like, bro, those shoes are fire.
Speaker 2:Literally, she said that it's been in the work for two years. She's been working on this shoe design. So when they announced the collaboration last year, they'd already been working on this shoe. Like, she already had some things in mind, and they were working. They announced the collaboration, and it came out or will be out in May of twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2:They're so Exactly. Amazing.
Speaker 1:They're just they're just cute. They're full. And she had she had pink ones on. Those were They, like
Speaker 2:are one. It's a signature color that Nike came out with for her called pink aura. Love it. It's amazing. And then so it's a signature shoe that Nike a one, a pair
Speaker 1:of
Speaker 2:slides called the calm slides, basketball tights, mesh shorts, a T shirt, and a satin line hoodie for all our queens out there.
Speaker 1:Good for her. I love that WNBA, like, the WNBA in general has had, like, a really big, like, resurgence in popularity in the last two years, bro.
Speaker 2:Honestly, I was not I'm not much of a basketball fan in general, so I never watched a lot of college basketball or WNBA, NBA. But recently, especially with, like, Caitlin Clark and Angel Reese, I really got into college basketball. And then, I love South Carolina. I've been watching them for the past year, and they're a really exciting team to follow because they were undefeated for the longest.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:They lost that streak. Hell. Literally, it was so sad when
Speaker 1:that happened. That's sad, but, like, I feel like you you can only go undefeated for so long. I know. And last year was, like I won't say a miracle because, obviously, a lot of people worked very they worked very, very hard to put up the points that they did. But, like, that's, like, a a whole team going undefeated throughout their entire, like, campaign is, like, unheard of.
Speaker 2:Absolutely crazy. Oh, it was UCLA, fifth ranked UCLA, stun number one, South Carolina, ending the Gamecocks. Overall, 43 game winning streak.
Speaker 1:I will say on the topic of NCAA basketball, I feel like in general, I wasn't that big of a basketball fan until, like, maybe my senior year of high school, which was, like, 2022, which was when I got into, like, the Celtics. Mhmm. But then afterwards, I definitely started liking basketball more because of, like, Angel Reese, and I think they won 2022 or 2023. It's either 2022 or 2023.
Speaker 2:Twenty '20 '3. April second '20 '20 '3, LSU would defeat the Iowa Hawkeyes by the score of 102 to 85 to win their first ever national championship.
Speaker 1:Yeah. Shout out to them. I'll say Angel Reese definitely got me into, like, liking, NCAA basketball for real. Men's basketball, I'm still on the fence. Like, NCAA, I haven't gotten into it that much.
Speaker 2:I feel like
Speaker 1:now. Duke is very good.
Speaker 2:That's it. Gets very hype around, like, March because of March Madness. And so, one, I'm excited for women's March Madness now. I'd say in, like, recent years, you can see that treatment towards women, especially in the March Madness term. It has changed a little bit.
Speaker 2:Because I remember a couple years ago, there are pictures going around where the men got, like, these full swag bags full of Nike apparel, all kinds of merch and things for March like, repping March Madness. And their weight room, their, like, practice facility was really nice, and the women's was not even, like, half as nice.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:But, like, I know in, like, recent years that has changed. And because of all the popularity that Caitlin Clark, Angel Reese, and everyone has brought to the WNBA, that it will continue to change for them.
Speaker 1:Yeah. Same.
Speaker 2:So speaking of the WNBA, the Portland Thorns, a national women's soccer league team, has partnered with the city's unnamed WNBA team to build a $150,000,000 dual sport women's training facility that is set to open up in 2026 before WNBA season is set to start, which is kind of cool. Kinda historic. It's actually really historic. It is the very or they are the very first teams, from two different leagues, women's teams from two leagues, that will have a practice facility together. So a lot of WNBA teams, they share practice facilities with NBA teams, but it's never been a women's WNBA team and what like, this is a women's soccer team.
Speaker 2:It like, there could be a women's lacrosse team or whatever. But
Speaker 1:Oh, so it's like a it's like a complex?
Speaker 2:Yes. It's a full complex. Amenities will include locker rooms and lounges for both teams. So, like, two separate lounges, two sec separate locker rooms, two indoor soccer fields, an additional outdoor training area, outdoor soccer fields as well, a gym that will include two basketball courts, strength training, conditioning and rehab areas, film theaters, theaters as in plural, a dining room, and team offices. So it's like a whole, like, double like, it's a double facility.
Speaker 2:It's for both of both of them to enjoy to the full extent.
Speaker 1:Period. The price going up, y'all.
Speaker 2:And it's so crazy. So both teams are owned by the Bethel family, which also has stakes in an NBA team. Like, they are partial owners of an NBA team, but they own both of these women's teams now. And, like, they brought the WNBA expansion to Portland. That was part of the reason, that Portland has this team.
Speaker 2:But it I think it's so eye opening and mind blowing at the same time that they're able to do this and get, like, this is for the women to enjoy.
Speaker 1:Yeah. I I definitely like that they have their own space. Because, like, I understand, like, the NBA fill facilities are probably nice, but I feel like having just having your own space, knowing that whoever, like, you know, helps pay for your, franchise will also invest the money in making sure that you're comfortable and you have your own place to work out in and, like, like, I understand. Like, that's that's super like, that's cool. I love that for them.
Speaker 2:I think it's so cool. And a lot of the times, like, you hear about, oh, this NFL stadium is being upgraded. This team got a new practice facilities. And a lot of the times, it is male teams. And while, yes, that is a really big market, and there are a lot of fans of that, the women's sports industry is growing tremendously day by day.
Speaker 2:So I think it's really exciting and something new that hopefully will happen more often or at least all female, like, just a female facility for female teams.
Speaker 1:Yeah. Like, they can start the trend.
Speaker 2:Alright, y'all. That was some of the latest happenings in women's sports. Up next, an interview with our special guest, Michelle Katz. But first, let's take a little break.
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Speaker 2:And we're back y'all with Michelle. Michelle, thanks again for being the very first guest of Game Changers. Whoo. You ready for your interview?
Speaker 1:Of course. Okay. Always down.
Speaker 2:So what has been one of your, like, most eye opening or intimidating experiences as a woman in sports?
Speaker 1:Honestly, like, eye opening. I would say, honestly like, I feel like on a base level, like, I feel like it's very obvious to be, like, to say, like, oh, how, like, men run everything. But, honestly, I will I'll definitely say, like, how men run everything. Like, as I run track, and it's, like, everything, track wise, thing things are, like, separated, but at the same time, it's like, we know how women's sports is always considered, like, lesser. Or not always, because I'm hoping that will change.
Speaker 1:But, like, how Historically, it's been
Speaker 2:shown to be like that? Yes.
Speaker 1:Historically, it's, like, lesser. So I feel like, for me, like, one of the most eye opening things is probably how a lot of male I'll speak specifically the track, but how a lot of male stars are, like, catapulted, whereas the female stars in track are always kind of talked about they're talked about, but, like, only about their body. Like, you always hear about how, you know, female track runners are so bad or, like, look at them. Like, but we don't make the same comments about men. We just we let them be able to run and be successful or whatever.
Speaker 1:But, like, female athletes, it's not like they're it's like they're not a good female athlete unless they're attractive.
Speaker 2:Yeah. I definitely feel that with female athletes, and it's more about their personal lives instead of their athletic achievements.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And so with the podcast, I'm hoping to highlight women's athletic achievements and things they're doing to change the community for the better and just highlight something that shows their character, and it's not about their body or their appearance.
Speaker 1:Yeah. Period.
Speaker 2:Have you had any bad experiences as a woman in sport?
Speaker 1:I definitely had. I wrote an editorial about this for Jo, but I this was this semester. This was, like, a few weeks ago. We went to this meet and, like, I I wasn't feeling good because already, like and we can have a different conversation about this too. Obviously, women have periods, and that's something that men don't have.
Speaker 1:And a lot of people don't know that your period affects how you are able to train and, like, the quality of the training that you get. So, obviously, in me personally, like, I'm anemic. So it's it's too it's, like, 10 times worse for me because I already don't have iron in my blood.
Speaker 2:That just sounds scary.
Speaker 1:I know. It's horrible because, like, you wanna do things, but you're, like, tired. You don't really have the energy to do so. Like, it just kinda sucks. So I was at track meet, and I was on my period.
Speaker 1:And I, like, I wasn't doing well. Like, it was it was a bad meet for me. And then while I was there, like, anyone that really knows me loves like, I love my hair. Like, I love to do my hair. Made a documentary about my hair.
Speaker 1:Like, me and my hair are locked in. I love her boots down. But I had an official, like, one of the officials at the meet that we went to, like, came up to me and, like, touched my hair and, like, pet me. And it was really it was so weird because it it one, it didn't happen once. It happened twice.
Speaker 1:Why
Speaker 2:do people just feel the need to touch women whenever they please?
Speaker 1:Exactly. And mind you, I I don't know you. And it's an it's not like it's, like, away from other people. Like, it's in front of other people. Yeah.
Speaker 1:And it was once when I wasn't on the track, and it was second when I was, like I was going up to for the four by four. I was the first I was the first runner, so I was the first leg. And anyone that knows me in those, I hate I hate relays, and I hate the first leg of the four by four. Like, just, like, two things.
Speaker 2:Worst of the worst already.
Speaker 1:Exactly. And I'm already, like, going through it. So then I'm standing there. I'm trying to get my mind right, and the and he comes by again. Mind you, I'm standing on the line on the track with my block set, and he comes up to me and touches my hair again.
Speaker 1:I'm like, bro. Like
Speaker 2:I would've whipped around so fast.
Speaker 1:Like, what are we doing? Like, are you crazy? Like, in, like, in the moment, I wasn't I was like, okay. Like, this guy is so weird, but, like, it definitely did throw me off. And it's like, you would never touch a man.
Speaker 1:No. I don't think he would. No. Like, if you saw a man with, you know, long hair or, like, nice hair or whatever, you wouldn't touch that.
Speaker 2:No. Yeah. And if not even, like, to dismiss that fact, but, like, it probably wasn't even about your hair. Exactly. It was him just being weird.
Speaker 1:Exactly. It was just so weird. It's like so and, like, nobody said anything. So it's like, so we allow, like, just, you know, old random officials to just, like, touch people and nobody says anything. Or nobody at least, like, from the meet will say anything, but we just kinda, like, we just kinda let that slide.
Speaker 1:Like, that's crazy.
Speaker 2:Yeah. What is the first thing you think about when you think of female athletes?
Speaker 1:Dude, for me, I think a lot about the Olympics from this year just because this was the first year that there was a fifty fifty split between male and female athletes. So it was like, okay. Like, like, we're really getting somewhere. So I liked that there were so many female athletes that were able to be seen. And you could see that with, like, Ilona Ilona Meyer, I
Speaker 2:think. Ilona Maher. Yeah.
Speaker 1:Ilona Maher.
Speaker 2:I love her. She's one of my favorites.
Speaker 1:Exactly. And, like, I I didn't even like, I knew rugby existed, but I was never really never really saw anything about rugby. I was like, okay. Like, bury it.
Speaker 2:No. I got so into it this summer, and then she she went and competed on Dancing
Speaker 1:with the Stars.
Speaker 2:I won. I'm a fan of Dancing with the Stars anyway, but I was so excited for this past season. I watched every episode. It was so hard to pick a favorite, but, like, she killed it. And Steven Ederozik, he is known as
Speaker 1:I'm a horse guy.
Speaker 2:Horse guy. And while this is a women's sports podcast, I have to shout him out because Yeah. He's awesome. And a lot of honestly, team USA killed it at the Olympics.
Speaker 1:Easily.
Speaker 2:But watching the, women's teams this year was definitely something inspiring because they really showed out. I felt like it was a great show of support for women athletes all over, not just in The United States, but everyone banding together and showing support for each other. Do you remember that meme of or, like, the video going around with the gold medals and, like, thirteen second place or gold and silver? They're, like, biting the medals in bronze season. She does it too, and it's adorable.
Speaker 2:I love that one so much.
Speaker 1:Yes. I also loved, like, just, like, the camaraderie between Simone Biles and I forget who's the one from Brazil? Do Do you remember the the Brazilian athlete that won? And they were all they were, like, bowing down to her?
Speaker 2:Yes.
Speaker 1:Like, that was
Speaker 2:so like, I definitely I don't know her I don't know her name, but I know what you're talking about. I was so excited for that one because it was an all woman of color podium. All three women were women of color.
Speaker 1:And then, also, obviously, I love Sha'Carri Richardson Sha'Carri. Sorry. Sha'Carri Richardson, like, that's my that's my goat, bro.
Speaker 2:Well, I was I was like, goat. I've got to ask you, if you have your a favorite female athlete.
Speaker 1:Oh, yeah. Easily. Either yeah. I would say her or I would say, like, Susie Wolf. She is a team principal for a formula e team, and she's married to a team principal for a formula one team.
Speaker 1:And it's like and she used to be, like, a formula, like, series driver. So she's definitely, like she's up there for me. I love her.
Speaker 2:Do you follow either or both of them on social media?
Speaker 1:I follow I follow a lot of female athletes. I follow Sha'Carri. I follow a few other track athletes. I follow a few WNBA athletes. I think do I have anybody else?
Speaker 1:That's it.
Speaker 2:What is one thing that you notice about their post or that you keep an eye out for when they do post?
Speaker 1:Usually, like, a lot of a lot of the athletes that I post are people that I'm like, this is, like, this is somebody I look up to. This is somebody that I like. So I'll say, like, I think when I noticed in their posts, I like that they're very much authentic regardless. Like, especially when it comes to Sha'Carri Richardson, I like that she's kind of, like, about it just regardless, even if she did well or if she did great. I just like that she is able to comfortably be herself and not care about, you know, like, who has what to say about her, especially when she had that whole, doping scandal, like, I think two or three years ago.
Speaker 1:I like that she still went to bat for herself and she didn't let, you know, the internet and whatever they had to say, like, you know, take her down. So I definitely noticed that a lot of the athletes that I follow are very unapologetically themselves and I think that's a quality that's, you know, admirable and I look up to.
Speaker 2:Most definitely. And so do you notice a difference in when you're at like, the athletes that you follow put or certain accounts post about them versus mainstream sports accounts such as ESPN or Sportsnet?
Speaker 1:Oh, yeah. I feel like ESPN is obviously more akin to, like, traditional news networks. So they're kinda just gonna put out whatever story they think will make the most noise. So obviously, there might be stories that are, like, really heavily biased or very much, like, like, obviously, as someone, like, because, you know, I'm on the road or whatever. So I know when certain stories are gonna pop.
Speaker 1:I've for me, I feel like whenever I see one of my friends make a story or I make a story, I'm like, okay. I know that this one will probably get a lot of traction. So I I the one thing I'll say I notice about ESPN or, like, networks like that is they definitely do like to farm for, like, bad news or whatever. So, obviously, I I noticed that, you know, whenever someone isn't doing well or they fall from grace for x y z reason, a lot of big accounts on, like, Twitter or even, ESPN will pick up on the stories, whereas when they're doing well or when they're doing great, that may not be the same case. And, obviously, I think that's something that crosses gender, but I think women take the brunt of it because we already are at a deficit when it comes to reporting about women's sports.
Speaker 1:So when you're reporting about women's sports and then you're only reporting about sensational stories and people knows that, like or people know that, controversial or negative stories will get more traction, it puts us at, like, it puts us at it it puts us in a weird place when that's all you're reporting about. Like, especially when a like, when Angel Reese, she does a lot. She does a lot of things. Like, she'll go to New York Fashion Week
Speaker 2:Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1:And she has brand deals and all of these other things. But then people will only
Speaker 2:You remember the scandal about, like, when she took some time like, when she was benched for a little while or whatever? Oh my goodness. I thought Kim Mulkey did such an amazing job, and she was like, that's a locker room issue. You don't need to worry about that. I'm worried about that.
Speaker 2:I will worry about my team. You worry about their game, I'll worry about locker room issues.
Speaker 1:And I love when their coaches are about it because it's like, when they shut it when they shut it down because they know that, you know, bad press like, bad news is not always, like, the best, but bad news will get more attraction. And I like that when coaches acknowledge that, and they're like, well, actually, you don't need to know about that. This is our business. This really doesn't have anything to do with you.
Speaker 2:The thing is is, like, the public doesn't get to know everything. They don't have the right to. They don't need to know everything. And sometimes fans, I think, forget that. They want to know absolutely everything, especially if a player is injured, if there's a trade, what's happening, especially at, like, contract extensions.
Speaker 2:There's so much to the ins and outs of a sports team that a fan or even just an you might not call yourself a fan, just a regular every now and then viewer watch one game a month, something like that. You can't possibly know the ins and outs of everything. And so, like, what they give you should be good enough, but they always want more. And when they get more, they still spin it in a negative light.
Speaker 1:Exactly. Like, I that's also especially, I'd like, the closest I think I can compare it to is when, again, like, when Sha'Carri had her whole issue with the, with the negative drug test. Because, like, obviously, I I don't believe weed is a, performance enhancing drug. That's just my opinion. I don't think it really it's there's nothing that it can do for you, like, performance wise, other than, like, make you relax or something.
Speaker 1:But in a lot of sports, that's not a benefit.
Speaker 2:That's not gonna
Speaker 1:help you. That's not really gonna help you. So, like, for me, like, that's just my personal opinion. But a lot of people took that story and they ran with it. Like, she was doing PEDs and, like, all the other stuff when she's, like, she it was a moment of weakness because her mother had just passed away.
Speaker 1:And a lot of people were running with the idea that she was a she was a druggie, and she was never gonna
Speaker 2:be anything. Meth head all it sounds like Exactly.
Speaker 1:And especially crazy. Especially with her being black, it became, like, a weird, like, racial thing. And it's like, okay. Like, y'all are running with the story way too far. And then she came back, and she started eating people alive, and nobody was saying anything about it.
Speaker 1:And that's, like, that's the kind of thing that I that I don't like. If you're gonna talk about people's weaknesses, talk about, you know, their strengths. Talk about their moments of, like, really good performances.
Speaker 2:Yeah. I think especially for female athletes, it's already so hard to be recognized in the media for anything other than your appearance or your personal life. Like, especially when it comes to athletic achievements. It it's very hard to be up there with the best of the best in male athletes because men are seen as better. When it comes to, like, showing, or airing basketball games, they're, like, it's so hard to find certain games.
Speaker 2:One thing I love about the PWHL, the professional women's hockey league, is that their games are streamed on YouTube. Women's hockey league, is that their games are streamed on YouTube. Mhmm. And so you can watch from anywhere for free for any team. It's absolutely amazing.
Speaker 2:One of my favorite things. And so that's just one way that they are trying to negate one struggle for people when it comes to watching women's sports and is that, oh, well, we don't have a way to watch it. Well, now you have a free way to watch it because YouTube is free. And so I think that it's really important, like, going into it as a woman of color that she stood up for herself, one. And two, she let him have it.
Speaker 2:She didn't just stand up for herself, but she let him have it. She told him she wasn't gonna be soft cookie cutter about it. Like, she really went for it.
Speaker 1:Yeah. And then another thing that I, like, kinda it's like, this reminded me of what you said about the women's, hockey league. If you don't know anything about track, it's not it's kind of it's a pro sport, but it's, like, sort of like an amateur sport at the same time. Where it's, like, there are people that are pro, but they kind of race with everybody. But then also there's not, like, there's not many established, like, pro leagues, and there's there's one league that's, like, trying to, basically establish a pro league with, like, real, like, you know, prize winning pool money stuff.
Speaker 1:But then, I wanted to mention that, like, I think this was after the Olympics, because track season goes on until, like, August, I think. It starts in December and goes on till August. And there was an all women's track meet that they did with, like, really good, prize money. It was sponsored by the owner of Reddit, and they had they had walk up songs. It was, like, it was all women.
Speaker 1:So it was all women. Megan Thee Stallion was there.
Speaker 2:Oh my god.
Speaker 1:It was in New York City. Like, it was really, really cool, and they wanna make it, an annual thing.
Speaker 2:So That's exciting. I haven't heard of that before.
Speaker 1:It's called, Athlos. It was the Athlos NYC track meet.
Speaker 2:Oh my okay. I'll have to go look into that after this because I hadn't I have not heard of that before.
Speaker 1:Yeah. It was it was, like, really, really cool, and it's the first of its kind. So it was really cool to see, like, track get some mainstream appeal outside the Olympics because we know.
Speaker 2:Alright. Before we move on to the next segment, let's take a little break.
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Speaker 2:Up next, we're gonna be trying, trying out.
Speaker 1:Trying.
Speaker 2:To determine the winners of these games. So today's date is Thursday, February 6, but tomorrow is when the episode will air on Friday is when you'll be hearing this. As of tonight, on Thursday, number two, South Carolina plays UGA. This is, NCAA women's. I have to go for my girls in South Carolina.
Speaker 1:I know. I gotta
Speaker 2:say South. I'm a South Carolina fan. I said I was. I think they'll get back to one before the end of the season.
Speaker 1:Is UGA ranked? No. Yeah. I'm sorry, y'all. Yeah.
Speaker 1:I gotta go to South Carolina.
Speaker 2:Yeah. Like, it's at UGA, but I'm just a South Carolina girl.
Speaker 1:Exactly.
Speaker 2:Exactly. Exactly. Game number two, Stanford at Notre Dame who is ranked number three, and it's at Notre Dame. So fighting Irish, home court advantage. And so I just think with the home court advantage, everything that's happened recently that Notre Dame is gonna be pretty strong.
Speaker 1:Yeah. I'll I'll say I feel like I'll say Louisiana too. That's just because I like or not Louisiana. Sorry. Notre Dame too.
Speaker 1:That's just because I like Louisiana. It's a cool state.
Speaker 2:Moving on to the WNBA. We have our I say our very own, but Georgia's very own Atlanta Dream at the Washington Mystics. And so I haven't watched a lot of Atlanta Dream games, actually.
Speaker 1:Me either, but no shade. A lot of people tell me they're not the greatest WNBA team, but I've never seen them play. So I couldn't I that could be completely fabricated. I don't know.
Speaker 2:All I know about the Atlanta Dream is what I've heard from Chloe Spadlin Mhmm. Recent Piedmont graduate. Mhmm. Miss Chloe.
Speaker 1:I miss you, Colleen.
Speaker 2:They signed Brittney Griner who
Speaker 1:Oh, I forgot about that. That was this week.
Speaker 2:Yes. So I don't know if they're playing tonight, but kinda hopeful for Atlanta's future. So I'm gonna pick them.
Speaker 1:I'll say because I don't know anything about
Speaker 2:the Washington Dream. I will say I don't know anything about Washington, unfortunately. I have
Speaker 1:I have to go with Atlanta Dream, bro. ATL down.
Speaker 2:ATL. ATO. T sub, ATOWN down. Exactly. Well, thank you, Michelle, for being the very first guest of Game Changers.
Speaker 2:How was your time?
Speaker 1:I think for me personally, it was game changing.
Speaker 2:So thank you everybody for listening to the first episode of Game Changers. A new episode airs every Friday at 1PM, so be sure to check back next week for the latest happenings in women's sports and a new special guest.
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