Michael Kosta unpacks Elon Musk calling Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill a "disgusting abomination," the head of FEMA learning there's a hurricane season, Social Security chief Frank Bisignano googling “social security,” and Tulsi Gabbard's Fox News-style intelligence briefing makeover.
For those airline customers nervous that diverse pilots aren't qualified for their jobs, White Flight's racial support pilots can put their minds at ease. Let a white male stand-in reassure passengers that their plane won't crash from DEI, while the actual pilots do all the work behind the scenes.
Candace Parker, three-time WNBA champion and two-time Olympic gold medalist, joins Michael to discuss her new book, “The Can-Do Mindset.” She explains how the title speaks to her childhood nickname and the lessons her family instilled in her, how much the WNBA has grown since her tenure as an athlete, the physical toll of the game, and how she fills the competitive void off-the-court.
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Wow, hop croud.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
We've got some much to talk about to night. The
had of Social.
Speaker 4 (00:40):
Security learns what social Security is, Tulca Gabber tries to
turn terror threats into mussy TV, and racism joins the
Mile High Club. So let's check in with the best
cabinet ever in another installment of The Worst Wing, What.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
A Bunch of Losers.
Speaker 4 (01:07):
One of the most heartwarming stories at the Trump administration
so far has been the beautiful friendship between Donald Trump
and Elon Musk, two men who had previously never had
a friend.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
But today that friendship got doged.
Speaker 5 (01:22):
You're gonna want to hear about this breaking moments ago
Elon Musk speaking out in a big way on the
Big Beautiful Bill. He took extra short time ago write
in quote, I'm sorry, but I just can't stand it anymore.
This massive, outrageous, pork filled congressional spending bill is a
disgusting abomination, shame on those who voted for it.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
You know you did wrong.
Speaker 4 (01:47):
You know it, Jameson, Oh no, not my two favorite
people fighting.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
Don't make me choose who I love more.
Speaker 4 (01:59):
But Yes is worried that Trump's bill will raise the
deficit too high. And when Elon is worried about something
getting too high, you know it's too high.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
And he may be right, but Elon has to be careful.
Speaker 4 (02:16):
You come out that hard against Trump's central legislative achievement,
you're going to be the first white person to get deported.
But while you're shaming supporters of this bill, be sure
to save a little shame for yourself. Elon, you're the
one who spent two hundred and eighty eight million dollars
getting Trump elected. You even showed whole to support them. Now,
(02:37):
granted the whole was a belly button, but still whole
is whole. So let's move on whole as whole. Let's
move on to the Federal Emergency Management Agency or FEMA.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
If you're nasty.
Speaker 4 (02:55):
FEMA is always ready to come to the rescue no
matter what sort of disaster that megabitch Mother Nature throws
at us, like wildfires, tornadoes, shark natos, horny dolphin natos.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Those are the worst.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
But it turns out not everyone at FEMA is as
prepared as they should be.
Speaker 6 (03:11):
FEMA staff were apparently caught off guard on Monday when
the disaster agency's new acting leader told them that he
was previously unaware that the US had a hurricane season.
Speaker 4 (03:24):
The head of FEMA doesn't know what hurricane season is.
I would expect Trump to hire someone who's not qualified
to handle hurricanes, but to not even know when they come.
I mean it's almost like Trump picks his cabinet the
way you select a jury.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
Do you have any opinions on hurricanes? Have you ever
heard of hurricanes?
Speaker 7 (03:42):
No?
Speaker 1 (03:42):
Great, you're hired.
Speaker 4 (03:45):
This guy's the head of the Emergency Management Agency. He
doesn't know about hurricane season. There's only like three emergencies
in life you really need to know. There's hurricanes, wildfires,
and when you're taking out the garbage and it starts
dripping from the bottom of the bag. Only life's emergencies.
But if that comment freaks you out, you're not alone.
The administration had to come out and say, ah, psych
(04:07):
I was joking.
Speaker 6 (04:08):
A spell twitch for the Department of Homeland Security tell
CNN that the comment was made in jest.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Yeah, sure, it was a joke. It's a joke. You know.
Speaker 4 (04:17):
That reminds me of the time I as a joke
shit my pants and it was so funny to do
that on that airplane.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
Everyone was laughing and loving a.
Speaker 4 (04:31):
Let's say he was actually joking about being a total dumbass.
That doesn't make it better. The head of FEMA is
a serious job. I don't want my EMTs to be like, okay,
you know, where do I push to make the heart
beat again?
Speaker 1 (04:45):
Just kidding? I got it? Hey, wake up.
Speaker 4 (04:49):
So the head of FEMA is either an idiot who
never heard of hurricane season or just an idiot. We
may never know, but another new Trump and Pointe has
been very clear about the fact that he has no
no idea what he's doing. In a new audio recording,
Social Security Commissioner Frank Bisignanu reveals that he had no
idea what the job entailed when it was offered to him.
(05:10):
It's about social security.
Speaker 7 (05:12):
There's Google and social security.
Speaker 4 (05:14):
You know, one of my great skills on my great
googlers on the East Coast.
Speaker 7 (05:19):
Come on, what's a commissioner of Social Security?
Speaker 4 (05:25):
First of all, can you google how to clear your throat?
I mean, I mean, how do you not know what
the Commissioner of Social Security does? He's the one who
you know, hands out the championship trophy at the end
of the Social Security season.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
But yeah, you knew that. But don't worry.
Speaker 4 (05:48):
Don't worry because he's one of the great googlers. Now,
not in the whole country, just the East coast, but
that's still a big population area.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
It's pretty cool.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
That the guy who's in charge of a one point
two trillion dollars agency is using the same tool I
use to look up the name of the one black
guy in Maroon five?
Speaker 1 (06:07):
What up page?
Speaker 4 (06:10):
Now at this point you might be asking yourself, does
anyone in this cabinet even know what their job is? Well,
based on what Education Secretary Linda McMahon has been up to,
still know.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
Education Secretary Linda McMahon weighed in on Long Island's continuing
mascot battle. She was in Massapequa yesterday. It's one of
thirteen districts fighting to keep Native American school nicknames and mascots.
The state says if the mascots are not changed by June,
funds will be withheld, but McMahon says the band violates
civil rights because names and mascots of other racial and
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ethnic groups are still allowed.
Speaker 6 (06:47):
We reserve the right to turn over this investigation to
the Department of Justice, because that's how serious we are
about there.
Speaker 4 (06:55):
Great use of your time, Education Secretary, China's schools are
producing a mill engineers a minute. But it's okay because
our students will know how to do the tomahawk chop.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
Look, we can't keep having.
Speaker 4 (07:07):
Endless disputes about Native American mascots, especially when every mascot
in Philly is clearly addicted to cocaine. I mean, the fanatic.
The fanatic is like perfectly designed anyways. Look, either we
(07:28):
don't allow mascots at all anymore, or every mascot is
an offensive ethnic stereotype.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Including white people.
Speaker 4 (07:34):
How about that, you know, the drunken Irish, okay, the
horny Italians, the emotionally unavailable British, that kind of thuff.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
The point is, when it comes to mascots.
Speaker 4 (07:48):
You can't make both liberals and conservatives happy unless all
the Native American mascots are trans and then everybody gets
something something. Now let's move on to Tulci Gabbert, Director
of National intelligen and woman who gives snow White the
poison apple and big.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
The audience loves. Tulci gabbers.
Speaker 4 (08:06):
She's in charge of the President's Daily Brief, which is
where the intelligence agencies gather all the top secret information
they need to go the president into a war with
their ron. Excuse me, to defend our national interests. Of course,
the problem with giving Donald Trump a PDB to read
is that reading's not really a thing.
Speaker 8 (08:27):
From inauguration till the end of May, he had had,
according to his public schedule, fourteen pdbs.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
Fourteen PDB since inauguration. What the hell? It's the daily Brief.
Speaker 4 (08:40):
Daily means you're supposed to get it every day, like
we're the Daily Show and we're on the air four
days a week.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
That's about. That's about exec that's about as president.
Speaker 4 (08:51):
Even President Biden had read ninety of them at this point,
although to be fair it was really just forty five.
They had to read them to him twice. But obviously
the president not having a grasp of national security is
a huge problem.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
But luckily Tausy Gabbett has a solution.
Speaker 9 (09:08):
Toulci Gabbard is considering bringing on a Fox News producer
and a network personality to present the briefing, tailoring it
to how the president actually prefers to consume information by
watching Fox News.
Speaker 4 (09:20):
Look, I love how Trump's people are like, we gotta
cut government spending, and also we need ten million dollars
for a fake TV show because the president can't read. Now, obviously,
converting the brief into a Fox News broadcast won't be easy.
To make it realistic, you have to cast someone who's
had sexual harassment allegations. Then you're going to need to
(09:41):
find time for the three dozen ads for catheters. But still,
at least Tulcy gabtt is thinking outside the box here,
and finally we can get some Fox News people in
the White House. Aside from the Secretary of Transportation and
the Secretary of Defense and the borders, are the Deputy
Director of the FBI, the Deputy Special Envoy for Middle
(10:02):
East Peace, the Senior counsel to the Assistant Attorney General
for Civil Rights, the US Attorney for the District of Columbia,
the Ambassador to Greece. I missed my kid's birthday, but look,
I'm glad that Tulci's trying something new although, knowing Donald Trump,
(10:25):
there is one other format that might work better than
imitating Fox News.
Speaker 10 (10:31):
Hello, miss a stepmom, I have an extra large package
for you. Oh my, so big, almost as big as
the recent rocket deployment in the Kashmiri region.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
Oh god, that's so dangerous. It couldn't mean war. No, seriously,
people could die.
Speaker 11 (10:52):
We need to move assets out of the region and
have a seal team on standby, ready to launch and encourage.
Speaker 10 (11:00):
Yeah, I'm about to launch an accursions so freaking deep.
Speaker 7 (11:03):
Let me get out of this hot robe.
Speaker 11 (11:09):
I think this area needs a little special attention. It's
a real hot zone full of secretary and violence that
threatens to explode without a meaningful peace process.
Speaker 10 (11:20):
That's not the only thing that's about to explode. Yeah,
there's also reports of shahab too, short range holistic missions
like this held by gorilla groups.
Speaker 7 (11:30):
Show me where there?
Speaker 1 (11:32):
Yes, about here?
Speaker 7 (11:34):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (11:35):
Right there?
Speaker 11 (11:36):
Yeah, right there, yes, Yes, we have reports of an
ISIS sleeper.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
Cell in Dallas. Wait we're in Dallas.
Speaker 11 (11:45):
Oh no, I have to my hot steps on.
Speaker 4 (11:52):
Are weakme back if I know how to calm down
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Speaker 12 (12:28):
They want to put black women in the cockpit because
they want to inspire more black women. Meanwhile, pay no
attention to the planes plummeting towards the ocean or smashing
into the runway, which is happening right now. If I
see a black pilot, I'm going to be like, boy,
I hope he's qualified.
Speaker 4 (12:43):
DEI diversity equity inclusion nonsense really should be called de
die because lives are at risk.
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Or d.
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Welcome back to the show.
Speaker 4 (15:16):
My guest tonight is a three time w NBA champion,
a two time Olympic gold medalist, and sports commentator. Her
new book is called The Can Do Mindset. Please welcome,
Candace Parker.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
Don't you love hearing your stats?
Speaker 4 (15:50):
Don't you love that three time WNBA NCAA Champion League MVP?
I mean, how much of that is the can do mindset?
How much of that is just you're really good at basketball?
Speaker 8 (16:03):
Well, I'm grateful for my parents and instill in that
mindset in me. But sometimes I have to tell people
when they're like, man, can you believe you played basketball?
I was like, well, I am six foot four, so.
Speaker 7 (16:14):
I was like, I think that had a little bit
to do with it.
Speaker 8 (16:16):
But it's definitely where I come from, the mindset instilled
in me as a kid. And I grew up with
two older brothers that I idolize more than anything even now.
So I'm just super grateful for that.
Speaker 4 (16:28):
You know, one of your nicknames growing up was can do?
That sets you up for success? People used to call
me Michael Pasta. What is that set me up?
Speaker 1 (16:42):
Yeah?
Speaker 8 (16:42):
I have to give a nod to my mom. It's
her birthday today, actually.
Speaker 13 (16:46):
Happy mom.
Speaker 8 (16:50):
And it's crazy growing up Candace Short can you know whatever,
and then my mom extended it to can do because
she saw, you know, sometimes I looked at the shadows
of my brothers and was like a little bit overwhelmed.
My older brothers of a professional NBA basketball player, played
ten years, actually played with somebody you might know, Lebron
James for a couple of years. And then my middle brother,
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he's like the black sheep of the family.
Speaker 7 (17:14):
He's a doctor.
Speaker 8 (17:15):
So I grew up with two older brothers that just
from a very.
Speaker 7 (17:21):
Early age knew they wanted to be great.
Speaker 8 (17:23):
And so my mom would say, can do became my mantra,
and it became something whether I was hitting big free
throws or whether I was trying to ace a test,
whatever it was, and so it just became something I
would tell myself. And then in writing this book, it
became an acronym community, authenticity, negativity, the dash, which is
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the journey and you know, seizing opportunity and creating it.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
I love this.
Speaker 4 (17:49):
I am glad you mentioned your siblings. I the youngest
of four. My siblings are just such a foundational part.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
Of my life.
Speaker 4 (17:57):
And hearing you talk about why your older brothers have
success in their mindset, I think more should be discussed
about how important siblings are and that.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
Relationship with siblings can mean so much.
Speaker 4 (18:10):
And I assume they're still in your life and you're
still supporting each other with the same level of enthusiasm.
Speaker 8 (18:16):
You know what's crazy is our family we grew up
just supporting one another. And you know, being the youngest,
like you have to fight for everything. I mean, like
the last chicken wing on the table, you're fighting for
whatever it was.
Speaker 7 (18:28):
But I wanted to be just like them.
Speaker 8 (18:29):
And as a little girl, I'm grateful for my parents
not shrinking me because I was a girl, not telling
me I couldn't do things because I was a girl,
and as a result, I mean sometimes I tell the
story in the book about how I was three. I
went to the park. My brothers took their shirts off,
and I took my shirt off.
Speaker 7 (18:45):
My dad was like my dad was like, you can't
do that, and I was like, but it's can't.
Speaker 8 (18:49):
Do like I I can't do that, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 4 (18:55):
You know, my brother would kick the shit out of me,
but that if someone else said something negative about me, exactly,
it was on And I still think about that even
though I can kick his ass.
Speaker 7 (19:07):
Right you got the mic too.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
I got the I got the mic. You played in
the WNBA for sixteen seasons. That's a lot you finished
up last year.
Speaker 7 (19:18):
Long time, yeah, a long time.
Speaker 4 (19:22):
You know you're honest in this book, which I love.
There's a lot of humor in this book as well.
But one of the things that as a as a
tennis player an enthusiast, hearing you talk about playing in
the WNBA early on and it was sponsored by Holliday
and Express and you're staying in Holiday and Expresses, and
you're some of the games are being played in almost
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high school like gyms.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
It reminded me of Billy Jean King.
Speaker 4 (19:48):
And how much she fought for almost no money at
the time, sacrificed her athletic ability and efforts. But now
the women are getting huge money. Now it's not as
necessar as much as the men. But how can we
celebrate how far the WNBA has come and also still
be eager to grow it.
Speaker 8 (20:08):
It's so interesting when I think society sometimes like limits growth,
and for a long time we looked at women's sports
as like a charity and it's not. And I think
now people are seeing it as a business and as
a result of the pioneers like the Billy Jean Kings
and the Cheryl Millers and all of them. And so
(20:28):
for me to look at the WNBA today, I think
it's the game has grown, for sure, the players have
become more skilled and it's more of a positionless basketball.
But honestly, it's a visibility like now you can find it.
You know the players, you identify with them, you root
against your rival. Like I grew up a Bulls fan.
I didn't like the Pistons because we didn't like them.
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That's just what it was, you know. And so I
think now when you establish that you're able to fall
in love with the stories, then that's where real growth happens.
Speaker 7 (20:58):
And we're seeing that in the WNBA now.
Speaker 4 (21:00):
Caitlin Clark, I think we looked it up today, is
making seventy eight thousand dollars a year, which is insane
because they're literally moving games to bigger venues because she's
selling so many tickets.
Speaker 7 (21:09):
And that's up for my rookie years. Just up right,
I see is that growth for my rookieyears.
Speaker 4 (21:13):
To tell you, in a few years when she's on
the free market, that's going to be a huge contract.
Are we gonna is the WNBA? Is it about to
take off even more?
Speaker 8 (21:24):
I'll say this in five years, I truly believe. I'll
say five to ten, I think there will be a
WNBA franchise that will be worth a billion dollars.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
I love that. That's great.
Speaker 4 (21:43):
You used to have to go play overseas to make
more money. That's a very common endeavor that all players
would have to do, or it was.
Speaker 8 (21:51):
Now because of leagues like unrivaled, players are able to
stay home. But I played six years in Russia, I
played two years in China, and I played one year
in Turkey. I mean my daughter, I had my daughter
when I was twenty three years old, so we've kind
of grown up together. And with that being said, the
world has been her playground. So she went to school
in Russia.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
I mean our Russian's huge basketball fans.
Speaker 8 (22:13):
I mean, what's crazy is the number one club over there.
I mean we had chefs, we had drivers, we had
we flew private we had I mean, these diamonds are
from Russia.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
There we go.
Speaker 7 (22:24):
But it's one of those things.
Speaker 8 (22:30):
It's one of those things where basketball over there is
a big deal, and you know they were able to
kind of drive the game forward because they were able
to pay the type of contracts that I think the
players deserved.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
Yeah, I don't think enough.
Speaker 4 (22:42):
I'm really thankful in the book you have a lot
of pictures of you in a cast, yes, and you
also have this great head to toe picture of and
a listing of all your different injuries, including total foot
reconstructive surgery. I don't think enough people watching at home
as we eat potato chips, watching our athlete and criticizing
them to understand the physical toll that our bodies take.
(23:06):
Excuse me, real professional athletes body stead. The reason I
was about to say it was you talk about how
your kids know that mommy has bad knees.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
Yes, and my daughters know that my back is bad.
But I don't have a gold medal to point too.
Speaker 4 (23:19):
Talk a little bit about the physical toll and how
are we doing now?
Speaker 7 (23:23):
Oh my goodness. Yeah.
Speaker 8 (23:25):
Ten knee surgeries, two foot surgeries, one shoulder surgery.
Speaker 7 (23:29):
So I've had my fair share of injuries.
Speaker 8 (23:33):
And I'll say this, I think the toll it takes
to play at a high level.
Speaker 7 (23:37):
I always look at.
Speaker 8 (23:38):
The years, but really, to me, it's the mileage, right,
And I think. You know, every athlete knows that feeling
of getting out of the bed mid season. And to
be honest with you, the reason why I retired. I
was going to try to come and come back and
play a seventeenth year. But the reason I retired was
just because it was I was like activating to activate,
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you know, like you wake up and you're like, okay,
I gotta get out of bed, I gotta stretch. Okay,
then I gotta go to practice, but you got to
activate to then do the pre practice and the cold
tubs and things like that.
Speaker 7 (24:08):
And so it just got to be too much.
Speaker 8 (24:10):
And so my kids now will look at my scars,
and you know, my daughter remembers, but my sons don't remember,
and so they know Mommy's bad. You know, got a
bad back and can't do the swings at the park.
But you know, overall, I'm you know, I'm healthy, and
I keep trying to stay active.
Speaker 4 (24:28):
As an athlete at your level for so many years.
You know, the public cares, the public sees your results.
You win, you lose, It's on the ticker down below.
But that's gone. Now, that's done now, And now, you know,
is it hard to transition to nobody gives a shit
about what you're.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
Doing day to day.
Speaker 8 (24:46):
True, Here's what I will say. I've had some amazing
role models. I really would challenge anyone to love the
game of basketball more than me. I think that I
grew up in a city and I say that, and
I evolved as a basketball player in Los Angeles. Seeing
Kobe Bryant play, I think he might rival me in
(25:09):
somebody that loved basketball more than me. And to watch
him seamlessly transition into being an author, and you know,
the time that he spent with his family, I think
not only did he inspire me on the court and
what he did between in between the lines, but off
the court and how I wanted to kind of plan
for the transition, because it really is like athletes die twice,
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it really is.
Speaker 4 (25:33):
But I mean you you, your competitiveness is unparalleled.
Speaker 8 (25:37):
It like now it's Domino's Like, I'm like, you bring
it all the way back?
Speaker 7 (25:47):
Are you?
Speaker 1 (25:47):
Are you like dunking on your kids?
Speaker 8 (25:49):
Listen, I'm like smacking their shot.
Speaker 7 (25:51):
There's no easy layups.
Speaker 8 (25:54):
I'm like, I'm crazy on the peloton, like crazy on
the peloton and pedals By almost.
Speaker 7 (26:00):
Got me the other day she did not get me.
Speaker 8 (26:04):
So it's just anything I can find competition in. I
think my wife and kids are sick of me because
it's like you want to play Domino's, you want to
play spades, Like what are we doing?
Speaker 1 (26:12):
You want to They're a competitive void there.
Speaker 7 (26:13):
Yeah, I really need to sell that.
Speaker 4 (26:15):
Tom Brady retired for two weeks. He was a parent
for two weeks, and he was.
Speaker 1 (26:18):
Like, I gotta go back to learn. Look.
Speaker 4 (26:21):
You you write beautifully about coaches in here, in particular
your coach at Tennessee Pat Summit, And I would love
if the rest of us can steal from you, or
even steal from her, something that you could share with
us that would help us all, something.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
That she instilled in you.
Speaker 4 (26:40):
And also not just Pat Summit, because there's there's other
coaches and athletes lives that aren't just winning national championship.
But please share your wisdom of all the coaches that
you've worked with.
Speaker 8 (26:51):
Coach Summit was not only a coach, she was an
educator and she was a leader of women. And I
say that in I think we grew up. My family
grew up. I'm with my parents always saying that bosses
push and leaders pull. Leaders get to where they want
their team to go, and they take them there. And
Coach Summit never asked of us what she wouldn't do herself,
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and so I'm super grateful, even though she's passed on,
to still be learning lessons from her. And it comes
to life in everything I do, whether I'm parenting, whether
I'm being a teammate.
Speaker 7 (27:24):
Working on television, whatever it is, it comes out how
is a parent well as a parent? You know, we
like to kids.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
Run suicides, but it doesn't seem to change their behavior.
Speaker 7 (27:35):
As a parent.
Speaker 8 (27:36):
We like to say a lot of things, but I
really think they're watching, and so a role model really
doesn't just it's not do as I say, it's do
as I do. And so my daughter has allowed me
the opportunity to look in the mirror and really, you know,
have to hold true to some of the things I say,
and Coach Summit was the best at that. I think
it's what you do and how you honor someone. My
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youngest son is named after her. It's Heart Summit after Coach,
And you know, my goal is to continue to keep
her legacy alive because she was one of the greatest
coaches male or female that has ever lived.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
I love the way you wrote about her.
Speaker 4 (28:18):
I heard in a different interview you did that one
of the one of the things that you mentioned about
Pat Summo was making eye contact. And it is wild
that we have to learn that and instill that because man,
some of the kids you talk to today it's you know,
it's and I was like, Wow, that is some real
ship right there. And I want to just say during
this interview, we've had really strong iconry.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
I've done a great job.
Speaker 8 (28:43):
That is something that Coach Somemmer would be very proud of.
But listen, if you didn't stare at her crystal blue eyes,
you were running suicides. So I learned to look her
in That fear.
Speaker 4 (28:54):
Is an important one. Thank you very much for coming.
The can do mindset is available. Candy things, but right
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We've got some much to talk about to night. The
had of Social.
Speaker 4 (00:40):
Security learns what social Security is, Tulca Gabber tries to
turn terror threats into mussy TV, and racism joins the
Mile High Club. So let's check in with the best
cabinet ever in another installment of The Worst Wing, What.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
A Bunch of Losers.
Speaker 4 (01:07):
One of the most heartwarming stories at the Trump administration
so far has been the beautiful friendship between Donald Trump
and Elon Musk, two men who had previously never had
a friend.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
But today that friendship got doged.
Speaker 5 (01:22):
You're gonna want to hear about this breaking moments ago
Elon Musk speaking out in a big way on the
Big Beautiful Bill. He took extra short time ago write
in quote, I'm sorry, but I just can't stand it anymore.
This massive, outrageous, pork filled congressional spending bill is a
disgusting abomination, shame on those who voted for it.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
You know you did wrong.
Speaker 4 (01:47):
You know it, Jameson, Oh no, not my two favorite
people fighting.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
Don't make me choose who I love more.
Speaker 4 (01:59):
But Yes is worried that Trump's bill will raise the
deficit too high. And when Elon is worried about something
getting too high, you know it's too high.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
And he may be right, but Elon has to be careful.
Speaker 4 (02:16):
You come out that hard against Trump's central legislative achievement,
you're going to be the first white person to get deported.
But while you're shaming supporters of this bill, be sure
to save a little shame for yourself. Elon, you're the
one who spent two hundred and eighty eight million dollars
getting Trump elected. You even showed whole to support them. Now,
(02:37):
granted the whole was a belly button, but still whole
is whole. So let's move on whole as whole. Let's
move on to the Federal Emergency Management Agency or FEMA.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
If you're nasty.
Speaker 4 (02:55):
FEMA is always ready to come to the rescue no
matter what sort of disaster that megabitch Mother Nature throws
at us, like wildfires, tornadoes, shark natos, horny dolphin natos.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Those are the worst.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
But it turns out not everyone at FEMA is as
prepared as they should be.
Speaker 6 (03:11):
FEMA staff were apparently caught off guard on Monday when
the disaster agency's new acting leader told them that he
was previously unaware that the US had a hurricane season.
Speaker 4 (03:24):
The head of FEMA doesn't know what hurricane season is.
I would expect Trump to hire someone who's not qualified
to handle hurricanes, but to not even know when they come.
I mean it's almost like Trump picks his cabinet the
way you select a jury.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
Do you have any opinions on hurricanes? Have you ever
heard of hurricanes?
Speaker 7 (03:42):
No?
Speaker 1 (03:42):
Great, you're hired.
Speaker 4 (03:45):
This guy's the head of the Emergency Management Agency. He
doesn't know about hurricane season. There's only like three emergencies
in life you really need to know. There's hurricanes, wildfires,
and when you're taking out the garbage and it starts
dripping from the bottom of the bag. Only life's emergencies.
But if that comment freaks you out, you're not alone.
The administration had to come out and say, ah, psych
(04:07):
I was joking.
Speaker 6 (04:08):
A spell twitch for the Department of Homeland Security tell
CNN that the comment was made in jest.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Yeah, sure, it was a joke. It's a joke. You know.
Speaker 4 (04:17):
That reminds me of the time I as a joke
shit my pants and it was so funny to do
that on that airplane.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
Everyone was laughing and loving a.
Speaker 4 (04:31):
Let's say he was actually joking about being a total dumbass.
That doesn't make it better. The head of FEMA is
a serious job. I don't want my EMTs to be like, okay,
you know, where do I push to make the heart
beat again?
Speaker 1 (04:45):
Just kidding? I got it? Hey, wake up.
Speaker 4 (04:49):
So the head of FEMA is either an idiot who
never heard of hurricane season or just an idiot. We
may never know, but another new Trump and Pointe has
been very clear about the fact that he has no
no idea what he's doing. In a new audio recording,
Social Security Commissioner Frank Bisignanu reveals that he had no
idea what the job entailed when it was offered to him.
(05:10):
It's about social security.
Speaker 7 (05:12):
There's Google and social security.
Speaker 4 (05:14):
You know, one of my great skills on my great
googlers on the East Coast.
Speaker 7 (05:19):
Come on, what's a commissioner of Social Security?
Speaker 4 (05:25):
First of all, can you google how to clear your throat?
I mean, I mean, how do you not know what
the Commissioner of Social Security does? He's the one who
you know, hands out the championship trophy at the end
of the Social Security season.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
But yeah, you knew that. But don't worry.
Speaker 4 (05:48):
Don't worry because he's one of the great googlers. Now,
not in the whole country, just the East coast, but
that's still a big population area.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
It's pretty cool.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
That the guy who's in charge of a one point
two trillion dollars agency is using the same tool I
use to look up the name of the one black
guy in Maroon five?
Speaker 1 (06:07):
What up page?
Speaker 4 (06:10):
Now at this point you might be asking yourself, does
anyone in this cabinet even know what their job is? Well,
based on what Education Secretary Linda McMahon has been up to,
still know.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
Education Secretary Linda McMahon weighed in on Long Island's continuing
mascot battle. She was in Massapequa yesterday. It's one of
thirteen districts fighting to keep Native American school nicknames and mascots.
The state says if the mascots are not changed by June,
funds will be withheld, but McMahon says the band violates
civil rights because names and mascots of other racial and
(06:45):
ethnic groups are still allowed.
Speaker 6 (06:47):
We reserve the right to turn over this investigation to
the Department of Justice, because that's how serious we are
about there.
Speaker 4 (06:55):
Great use of your time, Education Secretary, China's schools are
producing a mill engineers a minute. But it's okay because
our students will know how to do the tomahawk chop.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
Look, we can't keep having.
Speaker 4 (07:07):
Endless disputes about Native American mascots, especially when every mascot
in Philly is clearly addicted to cocaine. I mean, the fanatic.
The fanatic is like perfectly designed anyways. Look, either we
(07:28):
don't allow mascots at all anymore, or every mascot is
an offensive ethnic stereotype.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Including white people.
Speaker 4 (07:34):
How about that, you know, the drunken Irish, okay, the
horny Italians, the emotionally unavailable British, that kind of thuff.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
The point is, when it comes to mascots.
Speaker 4 (07:48):
You can't make both liberals and conservatives happy unless all
the Native American mascots are trans and then everybody gets
something something. Now let's move on to Tulci Gabbert, Director
of National intelligen and woman who gives snow White the
poison apple and big.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
The audience loves. Tulci gabbers.
Speaker 4 (08:06):
She's in charge of the President's Daily Brief, which is
where the intelligence agencies gather all the top secret information
they need to go the president into a war with
their ron. Excuse me, to defend our national interests. Of course,
the problem with giving Donald Trump a PDB to read
is that reading's not really a thing.
Speaker 8 (08:27):
From inauguration till the end of May, he had had,
according to his public schedule, fourteen pdbs.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
Fourteen PDB since inauguration. What the hell? It's the daily Brief.
Speaker 4 (08:40):
Daily means you're supposed to get it every day, like
we're the Daily Show and we're on the air four
days a week.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
That's about. That's about exec that's about as president.
Speaker 4 (08:51):
Even President Biden had read ninety of them at this point,
although to be fair it was really just forty five.
They had to read them to him twice. But obviously
the president not having a grasp of national security is
a huge problem.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
But luckily Tausy Gabbett has a solution.
Speaker 9 (09:08):
Toulci Gabbard is considering bringing on a Fox News producer
and a network personality to present the briefing, tailoring it
to how the president actually prefers to consume information by
watching Fox News.
Speaker 4 (09:20):
Look, I love how Trump's people are like, we gotta
cut government spending, and also we need ten million dollars
for a fake TV show because the president can't read. Now, obviously,
converting the brief into a Fox News broadcast won't be easy.
To make it realistic, you have to cast someone who's
had sexual harassment allegations. Then you're going to need to
(09:41):
find time for the three dozen ads for catheters. But still,
at least Tulcy gabtt is thinking outside the box here,
and finally we can get some Fox News people in
the White House. Aside from the Secretary of Transportation and
the Secretary of Defense and the borders, are the Deputy
Director of the FBI, the Deputy Special Envoy for Middle
(10:02):
East Peace, the Senior counsel to the Assistant Attorney General
for Civil Rights, the US Attorney for the District of Columbia,
the Ambassador to Greece. I missed my kid's birthday, but look,
I'm glad that Tulci's trying something new although, knowing Donald Trump,
(10:25):
there is one other format that might work better than
imitating Fox News.
Speaker 10 (10:31):
Hello, miss a stepmom, I have an extra large package
for you. Oh my, so big, almost as big as
the recent rocket deployment in the Kashmiri region.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
Oh god, that's so dangerous. It couldn't mean war. No, seriously,
people could die.
Speaker 11 (10:52):
We need to move assets out of the region and
have a seal team on standby, ready to launch and encourage.
Speaker 10 (11:00):
Yeah, I'm about to launch an accursions so freaking deep.
Speaker 7 (11:03):
Let me get out of this hot robe.
Speaker 11 (11:09):
I think this area needs a little special attention. It's
a real hot zone full of secretary and violence that
threatens to explode without a meaningful peace process.
Speaker 10 (11:20):
That's not the only thing that's about to explode. Yeah,
there's also reports of shahab too, short range holistic missions
like this held by gorilla groups.
Speaker 7 (11:30):
Show me where there?
Speaker 1 (11:32):
Yes, about here?
Speaker 7 (11:34):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (11:35):
Right there?
Speaker 11 (11:36):
Yeah, right there, yes, Yes, we have reports of an
ISIS sleeper.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
Cell in Dallas. Wait we're in Dallas.
Speaker 11 (11:45):
Oh no, I have to my hot steps on.
Speaker 4 (11:52):
Are weakme back if I know how to calm down
White pass on planes the fall.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
Welcome back to the Daily Shows.
Speaker 4 (12:18):
Since taking office, President Trump has dismantled DEI because not
only did it ruin the Little Mermaid, but it's been
responsible for one hundred percent of all plane crashes.
Speaker 12 (12:28):
They want to put black women in the cockpit because
they want to inspire more black women. Meanwhile, pay no
attention to the planes plummeting towards the ocean or smashing
into the runway, which is happening right now. If I
see a black pilot, I'm going to be like, boy,
I hope he's qualified.
Speaker 4 (12:43):
DEI diversity equity inclusion nonsense really should be called de
die because lives are at risk.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
Or d.
Speaker 4 (12:58):
Or de for ADDY issues to the extreme, because.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
That's what I got Dad. If you see this, call me.
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Kick this out. I'm about to clear this level.
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That's not easy.
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this Parkile, join me on the show. That's all that.
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Welcome back to the show.
Speaker 4 (15:16):
My guest tonight is a three time w NBA champion,
a two time Olympic gold medalist, and sports commentator. Her
new book is called The Can Do Mindset. Please welcome,
Candace Parker.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
Don't you love hearing your stats?
Speaker 4 (15:50):
Don't you love that three time WNBA NCAA Champion League MVP?
I mean, how much of that is the can do mindset?
How much of that is just you're really good at basketball?
Speaker 8 (16:03):
Well, I'm grateful for my parents and instill in that
mindset in me. But sometimes I have to tell people
when they're like, man, can you believe you played basketball?
I was like, well, I am six foot four, so.
Speaker 7 (16:14):
I was like, I think that had a little bit
to do with it.
Speaker 8 (16:16):
But it's definitely where I come from, the mindset instilled
in me as a kid. And I grew up with
two older brothers that I idolize more than anything even now.
So I'm just super grateful for that.
Speaker 4 (16:28):
You know, one of your nicknames growing up was can do?
That sets you up for success? People used to call
me Michael Pasta. What is that set me up?
Speaker 1 (16:42):
Yeah?
Speaker 8 (16:42):
I have to give a nod to my mom. It's
her birthday today, actually.
Speaker 13 (16:46):
Happy mom.
Speaker 8 (16:50):
And it's crazy growing up Candace Short can you know whatever,
and then my mom extended it to can do because
she saw, you know, sometimes I looked at the shadows
of my brothers and was like a little bit overwhelmed.
My older brothers of a professional NBA basketball player, played
ten years, actually played with somebody you might know, Lebron
James for a couple of years. And then my middle brother,
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he's like the black sheep of the family.
Speaker 7 (17:14):
He's a doctor.
Speaker 8 (17:15):
So I grew up with two older brothers that just
from a very.
Speaker 7 (17:21):
Early age knew they wanted to be great.
Speaker 8 (17:23):
And so my mom would say, can do became my mantra,
and it became something whether I was hitting big free
throws or whether I was trying to ace a test,
whatever it was, and so it just became something I
would tell myself. And then in writing this book, it
became an acronym community, authenticity, negativity, the dash, which is
(17:43):
the journey and you know, seizing opportunity and creating it.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
I love this.
Speaker 4 (17:49):
I am glad you mentioned your siblings. I the youngest
of four. My siblings are just such a foundational part.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
Of my life.
Speaker 4 (17:57):
And hearing you talk about why your older brothers have
success in their mindset, I think more should be discussed
about how important siblings are and that.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
Relationship with siblings can mean so much.
Speaker 4 (18:10):
And I assume they're still in your life and you're
still supporting each other with the same level of enthusiasm.
Speaker 8 (18:16):
You know what's crazy is our family we grew up
just supporting one another. And you know, being the youngest,
like you have to fight for everything. I mean, like
the last chicken wing on the table, you're fighting for
whatever it was.
Speaker 7 (18:28):
But I wanted to be just like them.
Speaker 8 (18:29):
And as a little girl, I'm grateful for my parents
not shrinking me because I was a girl, not telling
me I couldn't do things because I was a girl,
and as a result, I mean sometimes I tell the
story in the book about how I was three. I
went to the park. My brothers took their shirts off,
and I took my shirt off.
Speaker 7 (18:45):
My dad was like my dad was like, you can't
do that, and I was like, but it's can't.
Speaker 8 (18:49):
Do like I I can't do that, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 4 (18:55):
You know, my brother would kick the shit out of me,
but that if someone else said something negative about me, exactly,
it was on And I still think about that even
though I can kick his ass.
Speaker 7 (19:07):
Right you got the mic too.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
I got the I got the mic. You played in
the WNBA for sixteen seasons. That's a lot you finished
up last year.
Speaker 7 (19:18):
Long time, yeah, a long time.
Speaker 4 (19:22):
You know you're honest in this book, which I love.
There's a lot of humor in this book as well.
But one of the things that as a as a
tennis player an enthusiast, hearing you talk about playing in
the WNBA early on and it was sponsored by Holliday
and Express and you're staying in Holiday and Expresses, and
you're some of the games are being played in almost
(19:44):
high school like gyms.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
It reminded me of Billy Jean King.
Speaker 4 (19:48):
And how much she fought for almost no money at
the time, sacrificed her athletic ability and efforts. But now
the women are getting huge money. Now it's not as
necessar as much as the men. But how can we
celebrate how far the WNBA has come and also still
be eager to grow it.
Speaker 8 (20:08):
It's so interesting when I think society sometimes like limits growth,
and for a long time we looked at women's sports
as like a charity and it's not. And I think
now people are seeing it as a business and as
a result of the pioneers like the Billy Jean Kings
and the Cheryl Millers and all of them. And so
(20:28):
for me to look at the WNBA today, I think
it's the game has grown, for sure, the players have
become more skilled and it's more of a positionless basketball.
But honestly, it's a visibility like now you can find it.
You know the players, you identify with them, you root
against your rival. Like I grew up a Bulls fan.
I didn't like the Pistons because we didn't like them.
(20:49):
That's just what it was, you know. And so I
think now when you establish that you're able to fall
in love with the stories, then that's where real growth happens.
Speaker 7 (20:58):
And we're seeing that in the WNBA now.
Speaker 4 (21:00):
Caitlin Clark, I think we looked it up today, is
making seventy eight thousand dollars a year, which is insane
because they're literally moving games to bigger venues because she's
selling so many tickets.
Speaker 7 (21:09):
And that's up for my rookie years. Just up right,
I see is that growth for my rookieyears.
Speaker 4 (21:13):
To tell you, in a few years when she's on
the free market, that's going to be a huge contract.
Are we gonna is the WNBA? Is it about to
take off even more?
Speaker 8 (21:24):
I'll say this in five years, I truly believe. I'll
say five to ten, I think there will be a
WNBA franchise that will be worth a billion dollars.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
I love that. That's great.
Speaker 4 (21:43):
You used to have to go play overseas to make
more money. That's a very common endeavor that all players
would have to do, or it was.
Speaker 8 (21:51):
Now because of leagues like unrivaled, players are able to
stay home. But I played six years in Russia, I
played two years in China, and I played one year
in Turkey. I mean my daughter, I had my daughter
when I was twenty three years old, so we've kind
of grown up together. And with that being said, the
world has been her playground. So she went to school
in Russia.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
I mean our Russian's huge basketball fans.
Speaker 8 (22:13):
I mean, what's crazy is the number one club over there.
I mean we had chefs, we had drivers, we had
we flew private we had I mean, these diamonds are
from Russia.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
There we go.
Speaker 7 (22:24):
But it's one of those things.
Speaker 8 (22:30):
It's one of those things where basketball over there is
a big deal, and you know they were able to
kind of drive the game forward because they were able
to pay the type of contracts that I think the
players deserved.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
Yeah, I don't think enough.
Speaker 4 (22:42):
I'm really thankful in the book you have a lot
of pictures of you in a cast, yes, and you
also have this great head to toe picture of and
a listing of all your different injuries, including total foot
reconstructive surgery. I don't think enough people watching at home
as we eat potato chips, watching our athlete and criticizing
them to understand the physical toll that our bodies take.
(23:06):
Excuse me, real professional athletes body stead. The reason I
was about to say it was you talk about how
your kids know that mommy has bad knees.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
Yes, and my daughters know that my back is bad.
But I don't have a gold medal to point too.
Speaker 4 (23:19):
Talk a little bit about the physical toll and how
are we doing now?
Speaker 7 (23:23):
Oh my goodness. Yeah.
Speaker 8 (23:25):
Ten knee surgeries, two foot surgeries, one shoulder surgery.
Speaker 7 (23:29):
So I've had my fair share of injuries.
Speaker 8 (23:33):
And I'll say this, I think the toll it takes
to play at a high level.
Speaker 7 (23:37):
I always look at.
Speaker 8 (23:38):
The years, but really, to me, it's the mileage, right,
And I think. You know, every athlete knows that feeling
of getting out of the bed mid season. And to
be honest with you, the reason why I retired. I
was going to try to come and come back and
play a seventeenth year. But the reason I retired was
just because it was I was like activating to activate,
(23:58):
you know, like you wake up and you're like, okay,
I gotta get out of bed, I gotta stretch. Okay,
then I gotta go to practice, but you got to
activate to then do the pre practice and the cold
tubs and things like that.
Speaker 7 (24:08):
And so it just got to be too much.
Speaker 8 (24:10):
And so my kids now will look at my scars,
and you know, my daughter remembers, but my sons don't remember,
and so they know Mommy's bad. You know, got a
bad back and can't do the swings at the park.
But you know, overall, I'm you know, I'm healthy, and
I keep trying to stay active.
Speaker 4 (24:28):
As an athlete at your level for so many years.
You know, the public cares, the public sees your results.
You win, you lose, It's on the ticker down below.
But that's gone. Now, that's done now, And now, you know,
is it hard to transition to nobody gives a shit
about what you're.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
Doing day to day.
Speaker 8 (24:46):
True, Here's what I will say. I've had some amazing
role models. I really would challenge anyone to love the
game of basketball more than me. I think that I
grew up in a city and I say that, and
I evolved as a basketball player in Los Angeles. Seeing
Kobe Bryant play, I think he might rival me in
(25:09):
somebody that loved basketball more than me. And to watch
him seamlessly transition into being an author, and you know,
the time that he spent with his family, I think
not only did he inspire me on the court and
what he did between in between the lines, but off
the court and how I wanted to kind of plan
for the transition, because it really is like athletes die twice,
(25:31):
it really is.
Speaker 4 (25:33):
But I mean you you, your competitiveness is unparalleled.
Speaker 8 (25:37):
It like now it's Domino's Like, I'm like, you bring
it all the way back?
Speaker 7 (25:47):
Are you?
Speaker 1 (25:47):
Are you like dunking on your kids?
Speaker 8 (25:49):
Listen, I'm like smacking their shot.
Speaker 7 (25:51):
There's no easy layups.
Speaker 8 (25:54):
I'm like, I'm crazy on the peloton, like crazy on
the peloton and pedals By almost.
Speaker 7 (26:00):
Got me the other day she did not get me.
Speaker 8 (26:04):
So it's just anything I can find competition in. I
think my wife and kids are sick of me because
it's like you want to play Domino's, you want to
play spades, Like what are we doing?
Speaker 1 (26:12):
You want to They're a competitive void there.
Speaker 7 (26:13):
Yeah, I really need to sell that.
Speaker 4 (26:15):
Tom Brady retired for two weeks. He was a parent
for two weeks, and he was.
Speaker 1 (26:18):
Like, I gotta go back to learn. Look.
Speaker 4 (26:21):
You you write beautifully about coaches in here, in particular
your coach at Tennessee Pat Summit, And I would love
if the rest of us can steal from you, or
even steal from her, something that you could share with
us that would help us all, something.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
That she instilled in you.
Speaker 4 (26:40):
And also not just Pat Summit, because there's there's other
coaches and athletes lives that aren't just winning national championship.
But please share your wisdom of all the coaches that
you've worked with.
Speaker 8 (26:51):
Coach Summit was not only a coach, she was an
educator and she was a leader of women. And I
say that in I think we grew up. My family
grew up. I'm with my parents always saying that bosses
push and leaders pull. Leaders get to where they want
their team to go, and they take them there. And
Coach Summit never asked of us what she wouldn't do herself,
(27:13):
and so I'm super grateful, even though she's passed on,
to still be learning lessons from her. And it comes
to life in everything I do, whether I'm parenting, whether
I'm being a teammate.
Speaker 7 (27:24):
Working on television, whatever it is, it comes out how
is a parent well as a parent? You know, we
like to kids.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
Run suicides, but it doesn't seem to change their behavior.
Speaker 7 (27:35):
As a parent.
Speaker 8 (27:36):
We like to say a lot of things, but I
really think they're watching, and so a role model really
doesn't just it's not do as I say, it's do
as I do. And so my daughter has allowed me
the opportunity to look in the mirror and really, you know,
have to hold true to some of the things I say,
and Coach Summit was the best at that. I think
it's what you do and how you honor someone. My
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youngest son is named after her. It's Heart Summit after Coach,
And you know, my goal is to continue to keep
her legacy alive because she was one of the greatest
coaches male or female that has ever lived.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
I love the way you wrote about her.
Speaker 4 (28:18):
I heard in a different interview you did that one
of the one of the things that you mentioned about
Pat Summo was making eye contact. And it is wild
that we have to learn that and instill that because man,
some of the kids you talk to today it's you know,
it's and I was like, Wow, that is some real
ship right there. And I want to just say during
this interview, we've had really strong iconry.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
I've done a great job.
Speaker 8 (28:43):
That is something that Coach Somemmer would be very proud of.
But listen, if you didn't stare at her crystal blue eyes,
you were running suicides. So I learned to look her
in That fear.
Speaker 4 (28:54):
Is an important one. Thank you very much for coming.
The can do mindset is available. Candy things, but right
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