Sue Bird
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214 appearances
5 recordings
5 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard May 2025
Sue Bird’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Telling me everything's okay. That's frustrating too.
Yeah. Yeah.
Right. Like not. Yeah. By the way, this is all very like. situation dependent, topic dependent. Sometimes you do want to be, you want somebody to be like right there whipped up with you. But I think for me, it's a scenario where it's like my, one of my work environments. And I was finding that it like, wasn't helping me to like go from, I was like zero to 50 and she sent me to a hundred.
but maybe not exceed, but not bring you down either. To your point, it is frustrating for someone to try to like calm you when you're not ready to be calmed. And that's actually what I do. Sometimes I go to, she'll be talking about something and I immediately jump into solutions. And then I realize what happened. I'm like, yep, not yet. I get it. That was too soon. Too soon on the solution.
Yeah. Mm-hmm. Too soon on the solution.
I'm very solution-oriented.
Yeah. She's not.
She's not. I think it's more me because she's literally not. Do you feel like you're jealous? I don't feel like you're. I'm more jealous. I don't know that I'm like a super jealous person. I'm more jealous. I'm more jealous contextually than you or conceptually than you.
I think what we do together really well is understand that we need other people. So like we have a great friend group that we'll make sure we get dinners in with or like plan a weekend and go like hang out at their house. We've done vacations. I think the dinners part is a big part of our life. Like finding a cool new restaurant or one that has been around forever that we've never been to.
kind of checking those boxes. Those to me are like our outlets and things to do. I try to get her to do, I'm like, I love board games and I've tried to get her into like backgammon or something like that. No. Even when I was teaching you dominoes the other day, you were just like not... I was like, wait, did you like it? Yeah, I did. I was like, did you?
Do you remember early, like very early in our relationship? Um, I had already, no, maybe that's not when that happened, but it was early in the relationship within maybe a year. And we were like trying to plan a vacation and And you said it first, but I was thinking it. And it was kind of like, well, we're going to invite other people, right? Oh.
And I think it's like, but like that's, we're together, like actually in the early part of our relationship, we were together a lot. But then it was like, yeah, we like other people coming into our space or us going into theirs and like doing all the things we just said.
That's like what sports does. Yeah. It's really the sad part.
Yeah. Like not necessarily the ones I grew up with. There's a couple, but just kind of through the years who you became friends with. From, from New York where I'm from. And those are like the homies forever. And they've now adopted Megan. I think they like you better. No. Yeah. Which is totally fine. But like they are now, Megan is like now in this group.
Like they have their own individual friendships and relationships. And that's, we've been lucky in that way that it's like kind of worked out like that.
I don't know. I don't either. I have no idea. That to me is the saddest part. One of the sadder parts about being an athlete is you grow up with someone or a team or a certain amount of teammates. You have all these experiences, all these shared experiences, the highs, the lows, like these are like seriously deep relationships.
Now you may not know like their names of their siblings, but you're going to know a lot of other things about them. It's like this weird, unique thing. But at the same time, the ones you do become super close with, Life goes on. You all live where you live.
And then there, like I spoke about Diana, she lives in Phoenix in California and outside of the WNBA season, if I see her once a year, I feel lucky. And I know it's the same for you and a lot of your friends. Like I'm sure you got, like you guys spent all this time together. When's the last time you saw each other?
Like, it's just, and that to me is like the saddest part because those relationships would continue to thrive and they just kind of get stunted because you're so far away from each other.
I mean, I think for me, I've said I was going to play another year. It's more than likely my last. So there's the whole retirement, which is really code word for like identity and like, who are you without this? So that's like always just kind of swirling.
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