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Allan tell me about the fire inside all
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right the fire inside Stars Brian Tyreek
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Henry and R Ryan Destiny uh as uh Ryan
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Destiny plays Carissa T-Rex Shields
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she's Olympic gold medalist um she she
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grew up in in the Rough Side of Town she
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had an abusive she had a mother who
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dated abusive men and the only way she
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could get out of the situation is to go
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off every afternoon and learn to box and
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that's where Brian Tyree Henry comes in
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uh he becomes her boxing coach and uh
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her her uh desire to fight or her need
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to fight in life turned her into a a
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vicious fighter uh at the uh age of I
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believe we're talking 15 or 16 here she
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was a teen when it when this happens and
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uh she she uh over time she becomes this
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incredible boxer to the point that she
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represents the United States uh in the
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and she wins the gold medal uh and then
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this is her story it's just one of those
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inspiring Sports stories uh it's written
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by Barry Jenkins who uh we all remember
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from Mufasa this is a much better movie
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than Mufasa uh very very standard and
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solid Sports biopic uh I think biopic um
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I think the biggest my biggest issue is
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the third act because by the time the
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second act comes along she's done it she
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is the best fighter in the world and she
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she asked the question well what now and
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the third the third Act is about uh
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equality of pay in women's sports
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because she is yeah because she's not
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paid like the men are um and she kind of
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goes through the struggle it's it
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there's this debate over U part of the
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problem is that she doesn't present
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herself as a likable person she's a
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bully and and uh caressa responds well I
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am a bully I'm a boxer I I win by being
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a bully when when they want her to be
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have a have a bright personality wear
2:03
sexy clothes and and the like and um and
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so the third Act is basically her fight
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to basically go on strike uh for
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fighting uh and until finally uh I
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believe the the I don't know the story
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intimately and I don't know the history
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of women's boxing but uh based on the
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ending credits uh she was able to bring
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Equity to to pay for boxers to for men
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and women so that's kind of uh that
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uh I you know like I said solid solid
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Sports biography uh you know I think uh
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you can't go wrong with this
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one as much as the third act you know
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just kind of it becomes a thing about
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equality it's fine I didn't it didn't
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bother me as much and and I think good
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around you don't seem super excited
2:53
about this movie well okay let's take
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the third act out of it uh it's it's a
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solid movie it's it's a very solid solid
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movie um I I kind of want more than just
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solid I kind of want a movie that um
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that evolves the genre that says
3:08
something uh something grander and and I
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felt like if there was anything Grand to
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be said uh it kind of really pay
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equality that's the grand message of
3:21
look opinion is get paid what you're
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worth and apparently she's worth a lot
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and she should get paid that much um
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literally the marketplace is going to
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decide what you get paid so if it's
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women's soccer not that popular women's
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popular uh is it uh women playing in uh
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WNBA I guess it's kind of popular now
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but are they paid basically on the scale
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of what it brings in monetarily I don't
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know yeah women's ice skating and
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women's gymnastics there are many
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women's sports that are very popular
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there are very and there are male sports
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that are also popular but I don't think
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women need to necessarily play every
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single sport that men do Play Because
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men and women are different so the NFL's
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great but I've only ever watched the
4:19
lingerie Bowl every year and it's good
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yeah but it doesn't generate the same
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kind of interest that the traditional
4:29
NFL uh BR so I mean the argument is so
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nuanced I mean do you really want to be
4:36
dealing with that in a narrative that
4:39
that would lose me Allan it would lose
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honestly yeah I mean I just thought I
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mean I I I understand uh
4:49
but the problem I had while watching it
4:51
was I wanted to hear her story uh you
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know her her rise in the ranks uh and
4:57
then and then it just it brought sens
5:00
itself out it becomes less about her and
5:01
it becomes about this issue about pay
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pay equity and like I said I'm all for
5:07
you're paid what you're worth I think
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Caitlyn Clark you know she is the sole
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person who is going to make the WNBA
5:14
successful pay her a crap load of money
5:18
because she is bringing she is bringing
5:20
eyeballs to your sport that no one is
5:22
watching and when someone when a single
5:24
person can do that uh unload the dump
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truck of money just just pair everything
5:29
you want want keep her in there U make
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her a star CU she will as you say a
5:34
rising tide lifts all boats she will
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bring money and and exposure to the rest
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of the league but what they what they do
5:42
to her and the way they treat her and
5:43
the fact that you know the fact that
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she's paid more than everyone and
5:46
they're all upset about that they you
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know shows you they don't understand a
5:50
thing about sports and they don't
5:52
understand a thing about the business of
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sports well I I I I'll go you one
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further um Caitlyn Clark people know who
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she is in the WM ba name your second
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player Britney grer your third
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favor yeah that's where it ends okay
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wait wait wait I got one better okay
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teams okay LA Sparks I know that one
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yeah and uh what's the one Caitlyn Clark
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play for the Indiana Fever is that
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right yeah and and the only reason I
6:39
know the LA Sparks is because of the
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crap that comes out of it at press
6:44
conferences well I'm just one I'd like
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to see a team called the Boston beavers
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I think that would they not do that the
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um what could I put there
