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00:00There's that word professional that men were owning and women weren't any part of that.
00:11So we were like, you know what?
00:12We need to insert ourselves into this conversation.
00:14And we'd be playing on cow fields with cow patties.
00:19It's not the same.
00:21There was some pro men's teams for quite a while in the AUDL and another league.
00:27And the Austin Soul is a men's team that had existed for quite a few years.
00:31Yet again in pro sports or sports in general, all the money and investment was going into
00:35the men's side.
00:36Oh, you know, well invest in the men's first because that's the most popular and then it'll
00:39trickle down and maybe there'll be opportunities someday.
00:43If there is a space for men to play professional Ultimate, why not us?
00:52I think it's going to be hard every year.
00:54Like, well, we don't have this and we don't have that.
01:02I would call us like or compare us to like a bad news bears, you know, we're from Texas,
01:06which that's part of it.
01:08Austin torch, I feel like very much aligns with Austin pushing for political equity,
01:13systemic changes.
01:14It's not about me.
01:15It's about our team.
01:16It's about like, what are we here for?
01:18We're here for each other.
01:25We're lighting a fire for the next generation.