What’s Next for Sue Bird

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🗓️ 5 May 2022

⏱️ 34 minutes

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If Sue Bird’s WNBA career was a person, it would be old enough to drink. The 12-time All-Star, five-time first-team All-WNBA selection, Olympic Gold Medalist, four-time world champion, and recent NCAA women’s tournament megacast star may (or may not) hang it up after this 21st season. As the WNBA tips off, Bird and Pablo discuss her legendary career, how she’s seen the league change, and important ephemera like AOL screen names. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Super, thank you for joining us and whenever you do join us, I am reminded that your email address is at aol.com.
0:07.0	You're welcome.
0:12.0	I was going to make fun of you for it, but I'm at that point in my life, Sue, where I'm nostalgic for America online.
0:20.0	It reminds me of how it used to be, the grind of going online and praying your friends were there.
0:28.0	Yes.
0:32.0	I don't know what you were doing on AOL.
0:34.0	You're account clearly your screen name, which I won't reveal here.
0:37.0	It has seen some things I imagine Sue, but I was like...
0:40.0	That's an updated version.
0:42.0	That's not the OG.
0:44.0	Wait, can you share the OG screen name now that you have been removed from it?
0:48.0	Absolutely. The OG screen name was Susie Q.Q.Q.10.
0:58.0	Is that three cues?
0:59.0	Three cues because one cue was taken, so then I had to go to another cue, and then I had to go to the third cue, and then finally I got what I wanted.
1:08.0	I cannot relate more to this as someone whose screen name was Yoda, because I'm not kind of guy.
1:16.0	Followed by six digits.
1:18.0	Yeah, back then, we all understood what that was.
1:22.0	Now you're some bot of troll or...
1:26.0	Exactly.
1:28.0	digits you're out. Back then it was OK.
1:30.0	My six digits in my screen name now just reads, like, yeah, I was participating in misinformation campaigns in chat rooms when I was 13.
1:40.0	ASL, age, sex location. Oh my god. ASL.
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