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The clip starts with a pan across Okaloosa Stadium, where the Destin Dastards are running drills and a text appears on screen, saying, “What are the Dastards reading?”
The camera fades out, then focuses on the Dastards starting forwards, Brooker, Ricci, and Alvarez.
“So guys, what’re you reading?” a woman’s voice asks off-screen.
“Shit, we’re doing that today?” Alvarez hissed, looking to Brooker with panic in his eyes.
“I thought today was the hype song,” Brooker murmured.
“Me too. I was prepared to talk about the new Hillary Duff album,” Ricci says.
“Right, your whole ‘sing to me, Paolo’ thing,” the woman tsked. “But surely y’all’re reading something.”
“Oh, yeah. I mean I haven’t started it yet, but my friend sent me the audiobook for Dungeon Crawler Carl,” Brooker said, scratching the back of his head, squinting as he recalled the title.
“What’s that about?” Ricci asked.
“I wanna say it’s some Dungeons and Dragons shit. I’m not sure.”
The screen fades and comes back to Carter doing ladder runs. As he reached the end, the off-screen woman asked, “Carter, what are you reading?”
He stopped, brow furrowing for a second before answering, “I just caught up on Dandadan and I’m thinking about reading Undead Unluck next.”
“I haven’t heard of those. Who’re the authors?”
“Oh.” His eye brows pinched together. “They’re mangas but I don’t actually know the mangakas names.”
“Mangakas?”
“It’s—”
The clip cuts to the captain of the Dastards, Fuller, and Taylor.
“Oh, well … pregnancy books,” Christenson said bashfully.
“I’m reading The Astonishing Miles Morales,” Noah said.
“Oh shit, can you lend me those?” Taylor asked.
“I’m reading them on Marvel’s version of Netflix, but I can share my login with you.”
“Fuck yeah, man,” Taylor said, knocking fists with the other man.
The video then cuts to the goal post, where Kean blocks a ball before stopping to approach the camera.
“Kean, what’re you reading?”
“Why’re you calling me that? And you know what I’m reading,” he said with an intensely furrowed brow.
“I’m doing content, Olli,” the woman hissed, though her tone was teasing.
“Oh.” Kean reached down for his water bottle and fiddled with it. “I’m reading States of Play, it’s about sportswashing.”
“And that is?” the woman prompted.
“You know—” Kean started to say before cutting himself off after the woman cleared her throat. “It’s when governments or corporations attach themselves to a game to pull themselves out of a scandal by drifting off the teams’ success.”
“So just some light reading?”
