Speaker 1: Hey, everyone, welcome back to another episode of Futter Around
Speaker 1: and find Out. I'm here with my girl of Shanty.
Speaker 2: Hey, Hey, how you doing. I'm so excited for this episode.
Speaker 2: Let's get right into it. We have a very special guest.
Speaker 2: Do you want to do the honors of introduced her?
Speaker 1: The most special guests we've had yet?
Speaker 2: Ooh, we've been waiting on this one.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, we have the one and only Alicia Clark
Speaker 1: wookay Ac is a three time WNBA champion. She was
Speaker 1: the WNBA six Player of the Year in twenty twenty three.
Speaker 1: She was on the WNBA All Defensive Team in twenty
Speaker 1: twenty and twenty nineteen, she's on the All Defensive second Team.
Speaker 2: Wait, whoa, Okay, Alicia, you're a superstar and we're really
Speaker 2: glad to have you on here. Okay wait Ac.
Speaker 1: Led the NCAA and scoring in two thousand and nine
Speaker 1: and twenty ten.
Speaker 3: I did not know.
Speaker 4: That long time ago, long time ago.
Speaker 1: You're the only player in the WNBA history with at
Speaker 1: least twenty seven hundred points, fourteen hundred rebounds, six hundred assists,
Speaker 1: and three hundred and fifty three pointers while shooting forty
Speaker 1: seven percent from the field and I didn't know this,
Speaker 1: but you led the NCAA and scoring in two thousand
Speaker 1: and nine and ten at Middle Tennessee State.
Speaker 2: Okay, so I just want to jump into it. I
Speaker 2: do want to talk about how your time has been
Speaker 2: so far in training camp. Tell us some of the things,
Speaker 2: some highlights, and maybe a little bit of the challenges.
Speaker 4: Training camp has been good. It's been fun.
Speaker 5: You know, it's always weird when you're in a new
Speaker 5: environment and just like trying to find your place and
Speaker 5: where you fit in and just kind of go. But
Speaker 5: it's been super easy here adjusting and just kind of
Speaker 5: falling into the flow of everything. And I think that
Speaker 5: just starts with how Jose showed up and just like
Speaker 5: I love when people are just like directing like, hey,
Speaker 5: this is what I expect, this is where we are,
Speaker 5: because then you know how to operate in that. But
Speaker 5: it's been super easy. It's been fun, fun getting to
Speaker 5: know new teammates. Yeah, and then the challenges. Honestly, the
Speaker 5: other day we were going we came in for like
Speaker 5: some film and what you know, we when you say
Speaker 5: walk through, you're literally walking maybe a slight little jog through,
Speaker 5: And so in my mind that's what I'm anticipating we're
Speaker 5: gonna do. So they're like, all right, you guys need
Speaker 5: to stretch or anything, and I'm like, no, we're We're good,
Speaker 5: Like we're just about to walk through.
Speaker 4: These mofos get out there and.
Speaker 5: They start going one hundred miles an hour and I'm
Speaker 5: standing on the side and I was like, oh, so
Speaker 5: we're not walking through like we're going.
Speaker 4: It's like, got it, okay? And I was like, maybe
Speaker 4: I should have activated and done a little stretching before.
Speaker 1: I'm used to a Yukon walkthrough, which is like full
Speaker 1: speed three man, we like, we're full on practice.
Speaker 3: So he said get to the base.
Speaker 2: I'm like, y'all did.
Speaker 5: They started sprinting and I looked over at ours, at
Speaker 5: our coach empress.
Speaker 4: And I was like, this is a lot through.
Speaker 2: I was like, hey, I saw your face.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 5: So that's probably the biggest adjustment is yes, young group,
Speaker 5: I gotta remember. I'm like, they want to come out
Speaker 5: and start shooting from the three point line first, they
Speaker 5: want to sprint through everything.
Speaker 4: So just that's been the adjustment.
Speaker 2: I'm looking forward to what what it ends up turning
Speaker 2: out to be, because i mean, like, yeah, walkthrough.
Speaker 3: Definitely asterisk, but it'll pay off.
Speaker 2: It'll pay off.
Speaker 3: We're gonna find it in between pace.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they're keeping me young. They're keeping me young.
Speaker 2: Anyway, Alicia, So recently you posted on social media about
Speaker 2: a bet you had with Paige. So the fans wanted
Speaker 2: to know what that hundred dollars bet was about. If
Speaker 2: it's podcast safe.
Speaker 4: Yeah it is.
Speaker 5: It was like in between half court and like it's
Speaker 5: almost like volleyball line, and so I was like, you know,
Speaker 5: one hundred bucks, one shot, and she was like, oh bet,
Speaker 5: and I was like, okay. So she shot the first
Speaker 5: one and she claims that someone hit her ball and
Speaker 5: it was going to go in and she I was like,
Speaker 5: go ahead, one more and so she shot the next
Speaker 5: one and missed, and so I won my one hundred dollars.
Speaker 4: So I was like, thank you for my free money.
Speaker 1: So she should owe you two hundred is what I'm hearing.
Speaker 4: Thank you.
Speaker 5: That's what I thought too. But you know, I was like,
Speaker 5: let me, let me tread carefully.
Speaker 1: You have a whole season to get more money out
Speaker 1: of her.
Speaker 2: I will say, what about you? Why don't you get
Speaker 2: in on the bets, girly?
Speaker 1: I wasn't there. I don't want to take her money.
Speaker 1: I can't take AC's money.
Speaker 5: Listen, they got more money than me. Okay, I've worked
Speaker 5: hard so they can have all the money. Okay, I'm
Speaker 5: taking all of their money this year.
Speaker 4: Okay, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 2: I know that's right. Okay, We're definitely going to get
Speaker 2: into that because you have put a lot of work
Speaker 2: for this next generation and we all appreciate you. But see,
Speaker 2: I do want to know a little bit more like
Speaker 2: about you. Okay, we know you're Miss Tennessee. You come
Speaker 2: with many nicknames that we're going to get into as well.
Speaker 2: But you also have a love for cooking, and I'm
Speaker 2: hearing you piloted like or you came up with something
Speaker 2: for like a cooking show.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's no longer up and going. We've kind of
Speaker 5: pivoted since then. But yeah, I was doing just like
Speaker 5: cooking on my Instagram, like it was nothing crazy, and
Speaker 5: we were trying to conceptualize what that would look like
Speaker 5: in a TV show format and started. I had recorded
Speaker 5: like three episodes with some of the guests that I
Speaker 5: got to handpick that I wanted to be a part
Speaker 5: of it, and.
Speaker 4: It was super special. Is dope.
Speaker 5: Doing the recordings showed me that, like, Okay, yeah, no,
Speaker 5: this is this is what I want to be doing.
Speaker 4: This kind of marries my love of.
Speaker 5: People, of food, of like communion, and just of like
Speaker 5: highlighting the goodness because I just think, you know, there's
Speaker 5: so much going on in the world anyway, and so
Speaker 5: I've always wanted to just be a light and like
Speaker 5: share goodness and put more goodness out there. The first
Speaker 5: guest that I had on there, it was just that,
Speaker 5: and I was like, yeah, no, this is something that
Speaker 5: I want to.
Speaker 4: Hopefully like redo and recreate in another avenue.
Speaker 5: But yeah, that was something that I just I loved
Speaker 5: being able to teach people food, learn something together.
Speaker 4: You know. For me, that's what I love about cooking.
Speaker 5: It's just bringing people together and fellowshipping and just enjoying
Speaker 5: good food.
Speaker 2: You gotta tell us twice, we're all foodies on this show,
Speaker 2: and anytime you want to come and cook something, please
Speaker 2: bring that energy over here, okay, and we definitely would
Speaker 2: love to see you in asy cooking. Just prepare your
Speaker 2: palate because my goodsess love some cottage cheese.
Speaker 1: I've already told her I volunteer if she cooks to
Speaker 1: be your taste tester if she needs one.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I love cottage cheese too.
Speaker 3: Oh my goodness, lot y'all are meant.
Speaker 1: To be.
Speaker 3: What's wrong with cottage cheese exactly? Immature taste buds.
Speaker 2: Hold on, hold on, we're gonna.
Speaker 3: Work on that palate. We're gonna work on the plate
Speaker 3: in a minute.
Speaker 2: I didn't say I disliked it, kind of gave. Okay,
Speaker 2: I've only had it in my eggs. Okay, so let's start.
Speaker 2: I didn't try it like playing or in anything else,
Speaker 2: and it just made my eggs a little bit like
Speaker 2: more milky.
Speaker 3: Creamy fluffy, creamy fluffy. Yes, that was different.
Speaker 5: Yeah see but I love a soft scramble, so it's perfect.
Speaker 2: Ooh okay, okay a see.
Speaker 3: Have you always been a good cook?
Speaker 4: Not always?
Speaker 5: I've learned, Like I mean, I wasn't bad, but I
Speaker 5: think I've definitely refined my skills over the years.
Speaker 4: Just playing overseas so much.
Speaker 5: You have so much downtime, and so that's where I
Speaker 5: like started watching YouTube videos and now when they had
Speaker 5: you know, like the master classes with different chefs. My
Speaker 5: TV stays on the Food Network and food channels, so
Speaker 5: like I'm always watching and just learning, so it was
Speaker 5: definitely a learned skill.
Speaker 2: You've traveled a bunch of places, and you've lived a
Speaker 2: bunch of places. Where do you like the cuisine the best?
Speaker 5: Ooh, I mean Italy and Spain off the top, love love, love.
Speaker 5: The food is like I could eat it seven days
Speaker 5: a week, like I was in Heaven. I just yeah,
Speaker 5: I love it. All those are my top two for sure.
Speaker 5: Friends had really good food. I was playing in Leon
Speaker 5: and you know that's like the European gastro capital, and
Speaker 5: so there were so many different little mom and pop shops.
Speaker 5: A lot of the famous chefs that come, you know,
Speaker 5: European chefs started in Leone, and like, so there's all
Speaker 5: these really great restaurants that were there, and you get
Speaker 5: all the different cuisines.
Speaker 4: So yeah, I loved it.
Speaker 5: Like living there, I got you got everything from Brazilian,
Speaker 5: I got Middle Eastern, and we got Italian that was there.
Speaker 5: So I was like eating everything when I was there.
Speaker 5: It was amazing food wise.
Speaker 3: That sounds incredible. Definitely needs a visit.
Speaker 1: Okay, which WNBA city has your favorite food spots?
Speaker 5: Ooh, I think it's a toss up between Chicago and
Speaker 5: New York.
Speaker 2: I love it.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, their food scene is very diverse. You can get
Speaker 5: literally any cuisine, so those are my top for sure.
Speaker 2: You have great taste.
Speaker 4: Thank you.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be texting you all season for food recks
Speaker 1: everywhere we go.
Speaker 5: Listen, you wouldn't be the first teammate to do so,
Speaker 5: so I'm prepared.
Speaker 2: But like, Okay, so you're in Dallas. Now, have you
Speaker 2: found your favorite Dallas restaurant?
Speaker 4: Not yet.
Speaker 5: I've only eaten out a couple of times since being here,
Speaker 5: just because.
Speaker 4: I cook all the time.
Speaker 5: But I did go to a bomb Japanese and Isakaia
Speaker 5: restaurant the other night.
Speaker 4: That was really good. Yeah, it was good.
Speaker 5: And so yeah, I mean I've found some coffee shops,
Speaker 5: like two, but outside of that, I haven't really ventured yet.
Speaker 5: So I'm waiting for, like I need like a big
Speaker 5: date where I can like gas myself up to driving
Speaker 5: to Dallas and go somewhere.
Speaker 1: Yeah. The Dallas traffic will definitely scare you away.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and because the mats, you know, the mats don't work.
Speaker 1: Well, I can't wait for you to start venturing out
Speaker 1: so I can then hear from you which spots I
Speaker 1: need to go to try.
Speaker 4: I'll drag you along too. I'm like, get up, we're going,
Speaker 4: let's go.
Speaker 1: Let's go, please do, please do. I'll pay for dinner
Speaker 1: there as long as you drive, though I don't want
Speaker 1: to try.
Speaker 2: Say, let's let's pivot a little bit to the w
Speaker 2: you know you were you were talking about, you know,
Speaker 2: they keep you young. So when you were a rookie,
Speaker 2: who was your vet? Who were some people that you
Speaker 2: were able to look up to and guide you in
Speaker 2: the dub.
Speaker 5: I had some amazing vets my rookie year. They're the ogs,
Speaker 5: like literally legends of this game. My vets my rookie year.
Speaker 5: Looking back, I'm like I had actually Coach Smith, Coach
Speaker 5: Camille Smith formerly Camille Little.
Speaker 4: She was my vet.
Speaker 5: Tanisha Wright, Katie Smith, Tina Thompson, Lauren Jackson was there
Speaker 5: my rookie year, Tamika Johnson. I don't know if I
Speaker 5: sent her Sue obviously playing there, like those were those
Speaker 5: were my vets, and I just I was so fortunate
Speaker 5: because they just like they laid the foundation of like
Speaker 5: everything from how you show up to practice, what it
Speaker 5: means to be a pro, how you look when you're
Speaker 5: not when you're traveling, because you know, back then we traveled.
Speaker 5: You know, commercially, what you're supposed to, you know, how
Speaker 5: you're presentable in public, how you treat your teammates just
Speaker 5: so much and just encouraging, challenging. I had a great
Speaker 5: group of vets. I'm really fortunate for the vets that
Speaker 5: I had.
Speaker 3: That's so crazy. Yeah, yeah, that's super. Do you literally
Speaker 3: had the legends as your vets? That is so cool. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So that's going to be me talking in ten years
Speaker 1: if I hopefully still play and be like, yeah, my
Speaker 1: rookie year, I got to play with AC, I got
Speaker 1: to playing from her, and like that's insane.
Speaker 4: It's insane, Like it really is.
Speaker 5: And for me just even like looking back and just remembering,
Speaker 5: like I mean at that time, like LJ was not even.
Speaker 4: One hundred percent and what she was able to do.
Speaker 5: Just watching her, I was like whoa And everyone's like
Speaker 5: she was like what she's doing now?
Speaker 4: Like this is her? I'm like not even one hundred
Speaker 4: percent yet, And I was like, are you kidding me?
Speaker 4: I was like, what is she?
Speaker 5: If she looks like this at eighty I would have
Speaker 5: made it to be an opponent when she was at
Speaker 5: one hundred.
Speaker 4: Because this is insane.
Speaker 1: Wow, yeah, that's dope. Okay, I was doing some research
Speaker 1: on you earlier and I didn't I don't want to
Speaker 1: keep bringing up that your season, but I didn't realize
Speaker 1: that you were drafted to a team that no longer exists,
Speaker 1: Like that's definition of season. You were drafted to the
Speaker 1: San Antonio San Antonio Solfer Stars.
Speaker 5: Aka Las Vegas. Now so the team is it's around. Yeah,
Speaker 5: it's crazy because Becky Hammond was my first VET, like
Speaker 5: she was the VET on the team when I got
Speaker 5: drafted there.
Speaker 2: That's insane, no iconic, Like how blessed you are like
Speaker 2: to be able to learn and gleam off these Hall
Speaker 2: of famers. Is there anything that they said to you
Speaker 2: that like stayed with you?
Speaker 4: I mean so much.
Speaker 5: I mean I can go down the line of just
Speaker 5: like you know, find find a way to add value
Speaker 5: to the team that you're on.
Speaker 4: Don't forget what got you here. You belong here.
Speaker 5: Like in terms of in this league, put in the work,
Speaker 5: like control what you can put in the work. Be
Speaker 5: if you're not playing in games, be the best practice
Speaker 5: player and best teammate you can be. Be ready for
Speaker 5: your opportunity. You never know when it's gonna come. If
Speaker 5: you're not ready for it, that's on you. And so
Speaker 5: like there were so many yeah, I know, just so
Speaker 5: many nuggets that just like even now to this day,
Speaker 5: that have carried me through because you know, this league
Speaker 5: is it's full of ups and downs, especially for players
Speaker 5: like me that you know are the intangible type of players,
Speaker 5: it can be a lot of up and down. You know,
Speaker 5: you do a lot of the thankless work, and it's
Speaker 5: like sometimes you know, you can it can feel like
Speaker 5: you're not being appreciated and not being seen for what
Speaker 5: you're doing, and it's like, hey, as long as you
Speaker 5: show up and you're doing what you're supposed to do
Speaker 5: and you're staying ready for opportunities and you're adding value
Speaker 5: to the team, like you're fine and so yeah, and
Speaker 5: that those for me, those nuggets just I mean, year
Speaker 5: after year have been my like foundation.
Speaker 1: You are the definition of adding value to a team.
Speaker 1: Oh thanks, I've gotten to see that from watching you
Speaker 1: play growing up, but just even in the less than
Speaker 1: two weeks, I've gotten to see firsthand like you add
Speaker 1: value and everything, like you said, all the intangibles, it's
Speaker 1: not stuff that you can replace.
Speaker 4: Yeah, thanks, Ed, I appreciate you.
Speaker 3: I'm learning from the best.
Speaker 4: Listen, I'm a set. Don't make me cry.
Speaker 1: Okay, see, I want to know what was your welcome
Speaker 1: to the league moment?
Speaker 4: Honestly, So there's two. One.
Speaker 5: I was talking yesterday at Media Day and I was like,
Speaker 5: you know what, honestly, it was probably getting cut my
Speaker 5: first two years. Like that for me was like like
Speaker 5: a reality like check of like whoa, it doesn't matter what.
Speaker 4: You did, what you know, program you come from, Like
Speaker 4: this is hard.
Speaker 5: And then once I finally got into like onto a team,
Speaker 5: we were playing LA for a preseason game and Delisia
Speaker 5: Milton Jones was on the team at the time, and
Speaker 5: you know, I'm like this tweener. I played a post
Speaker 5: my entire career, so like I've been playing against bigger,
Speaker 5: stronger defenders the whole time, So like I did you
Speaker 5: know my move that I would always do and like
Speaker 5: get around them, And I had like gone around her
Speaker 5: to go like finish on the opposite like side of
Speaker 5: the rim, and like she was behind me.
Speaker 4: So I was like, oh okay, like.
Speaker 5: You know, getting my feet wet, like feeling confident, and
Speaker 5: she was like blocks me out of bounds, and.
Speaker 4: She was like, nice, tryrook.
Speaker 3: She actually said that, yeah.
Speaker 4: And I kind of chuckled about it, you know, and I.
Speaker 5: Was just laughing, and I was just like, oh my god,
Speaker 5: there's not only are they like bigger, but like there's
Speaker 5: so much faster than like the players I played against
Speaker 5: in college. Because I literally thought I was like, oh yeah,
Speaker 5: I went around and you know this is in her
Speaker 5: later years when she was about to be done, but
Speaker 5: she closed that space so quick and blocked me out
Speaker 5: of bounds, and I was like, oh, okay, so I
Speaker 5: gotta go a little faster.
Speaker 1: That's really funny the comment. That's crazy.
Speaker 4: I was like, oh, I did try.
Speaker 2: It's okay, nice try real Look where you are now.
Speaker 2: You need it every moment, I know. So Ac, over time,
Speaker 2: you've developed a couple of nicknames. And I don't know
Speaker 2: if these nicknames come from the league or if they
Speaker 2: come from family friends.
Speaker 3: We have a c which obvious, Alicia Clark.
Speaker 2: We have vamps vamp Where does that come from? I'm scared.
Speaker 4: Right honestly.
Speaker 5: That literally started last year because Media Day in Seattle,
Speaker 5: I had posted my like one of the first pictures
Speaker 5: I had ever taken in Seattle, and I posted it
Speaker 5: with my media day picture from last year, just kind
Speaker 5: of side by side. I was like, these pictures are
Speaker 5: I think it was like ten years apart, because one
Speaker 5: was in twenty fifteen.
Speaker 4: When was it last year?
Speaker 5: And so everyone was like, you have an age, you're
Speaker 5: a vampire, like what and I was like, no, like
Speaker 5: you can clearly see I've aged, like there's a difference,
Speaker 5: and so ever since then, it's just like taken off.
Speaker 5: I didn't help myself yesterday apparently because someone had put
Speaker 5: together like all my media day pictures from over the years,
Speaker 5: and I was hoping someone could find it because I
Speaker 5: was like, oh, I would love to just see, like
Speaker 5: you know, they do it for everyone.
Speaker 4: I was like, well, I would love to just see that.
Speaker 5: And then everyone was like, yeah, you're not helping like
Speaker 5: the allegation, like you're not beating these allegations.
Speaker 4: You're not helping yourself. And I was like, you can
Speaker 4: see look at the eyebrows.
Speaker 1: Like yes, but no, I was just looking at that
Speaker 1: earlier in the tub and you can like see a difference,
Speaker 1: but it doesn't look like really aged.
Speaker 5: I mean good, but like also I have you know,
Speaker 5: and you know what the eyebrows was like back then?
Speaker 3: The eyebrows were then.
Speaker 5: Yeah, they were like pick up front and skinny in
Speaker 5: the back.
Speaker 2: It's okay, girl, you were staying with the times. You
Speaker 2: was staying with the time you were trended.
Speaker 4: You know, I do.
Speaker 1: I can't face card. Never declined though, that's for sure.
Speaker 5: Thanks Boky. But yeah, that's where it came from social media.
Speaker 5: It's hilarious.
Speaker 4: I love it. I engage with it because it's just
Speaker 4: it's fun.
Speaker 3: I'm nervous, quite nervous because I'm like.
Speaker 4: Was that all for the nicknames?
Speaker 2: Like, you know, we don't leave it at that, We
Speaker 2: won't leave it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, we'll leave it there. Okay, great, I.
Speaker 1: Feel like I need to come with a better nickname
Speaker 1: for you. We'll work on that. Okay, we'll work on it.
Speaker 1: But I wouldn't know what year and the W has
Speaker 1: been your favorite?
Speaker 4: Ooh what year? That's a good one.
Speaker 5: Honestly, probably like all of my championship years, just because
Speaker 5: I had so much fun with the teams that I
Speaker 5: was a part of, both on and off the court.
Speaker 5: And then just like in the year with what it
Speaker 5: all came out to be, I'd probably say that, Yeah,
Speaker 5: because I'm trying to think. Was there any like another
Speaker 5: sneaky year that I was like, Wow, I had so
Speaker 5: much fun?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 4: No, probably those three years like equally.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you can't go wrong with the championship year. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think that it's pretty hard to beat. Well, we're
Speaker 1: gonna aim to beat it this year.
Speaker 2: No, that's right, ezy.
Speaker 4: I love it.
Speaker 3: What's been some of the craziest changes.
Speaker 2: You've seen in the league. You know, you've been here
Speaker 2: for a while, you've seen and you've been part of
Speaker 2: a lot of the change.
Speaker 3: And she's made a lot of that change happen.
Speaker 4: Let me get let me roll out my uh my sproll.
Speaker 5: I mean what it used to be that was crazy
Speaker 5: was sharing rooms on the road. When we would travel,
Speaker 5: we'd have to share hotel rooms if you weren't a
Speaker 5: sixty year basis, because you had to have five years
Speaker 5: under your belt before you got your own hotel room.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 5: Honestly, I think just like traveling commercially, like you had
Speaker 5: the professional athletes, just like walking through the airport with
Speaker 5: like no security. We didn't have security back then either,
Speaker 5: so like there was no security if there was a
Speaker 5: delayed flight, you were sleeping at the airport, like on
Speaker 5: the ground, on the chairs like wherever.
Speaker 4: That was crazy. I think just like practice facilities, you know.
Speaker 5: I mean even going back to San Antonio, not that
Speaker 5: it was bad, it was like one of the better ones.
Speaker 5: But like our practice court was inside of a like
Speaker 5: a church gym, So like while we're in there practicing
Speaker 5: on the court, there's like a weight room upstairs for
Speaker 5: whoever wanted to be up there. And so like you had,
Speaker 5: you know, during the middle of the day, whoever's up
Speaker 5: there working out. You'd have like the grandmas and Grandpa's
Speaker 5: doing laps around the track because we're.
Speaker 4: Down there like practicing.
Speaker 5: You had some gyms where you would go practice and
Speaker 5: you're at a rec center. So you know, at the
Speaker 5: rec centers there's like fifty million lines and it's like, no,
Speaker 5: not the red or blue line, it's it's the green
Speaker 5: line that you shoot behind.
Speaker 4: Like just insane. What else?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean even to like hotels, like when when
Speaker 5: Tulsa had a team. I guarantee you anybody watching this
Speaker 5: who was around back then, if I say strawberry field salad,
Speaker 5: everybody knows what it was. Because we stayed at the
Speaker 5: holiday and express and the only type of like healthy
Speaker 5: type of something you could get from the restaurant was
Speaker 5: the strawberry field salad.
Speaker 3: So though, yes, I know it was great.
Speaker 4: It was like a nice saw mag you know you
Speaker 4: had first strawberry man. Yeah, that was insane. And then
Speaker 4: obviously the money, the money, like the money.
Speaker 5: Like we were having a conversation, I was talking on
Speaker 5: Sydney's podcast and like my first contract was thirty six thousand,
Speaker 5: so wow, yeah a lot different.
Speaker 1: Wow. Yeah, no, wonder you guys went overseas.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you have to, like there was if you wanted
Speaker 5: to be able to just sustain, like you had to
Speaker 5: go overseas.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's not a lot of money. That is crazy.
Speaker 2: Well, thank you paid you pay the duce.
Speaker 1: No, yeah, seriously, thank you so much for everything for
Speaker 1: making this possibility, for changing the league.
Speaker 3: How do you wind up being the vice president for
Speaker 3: the w NBPA.
Speaker 4: In our league, we.
Speaker 5: Have player leadership, which is like our highest governing body.
Speaker 5: So every team has two player representatives, a main one
Speaker 5: and an alternate, and then there's also an Executive committee.
Speaker 5: So that's kind of like the liaison between the league
Speaker 5: and the player reps and.
Speaker 4: The executive Committee. You have to be voted on.
Speaker 5: By your player leadership, by the player reps, and so
Speaker 5: there's terms. It's like two year terms for the vps.
Speaker 5: I think the president's like a four year term and
Speaker 5: you have the treasure all things.
Speaker 4: And so when the nominations were up.
Speaker 5: Two years ago, they were like, you know, they come
Speaker 5: to a player leadership because I've been a player rep
Speaker 5: for a little while now, and so it's like, hey,
Speaker 5: if you want to run for Executive Committee, submit your
Speaker 5: basically like application. It's like write one paragraph of why
Speaker 5: you want to be an EC member. And so I
Speaker 5: was like, you know what, I'm a room for it.
Speaker 5: And so in my paragraph that I was typing out,
Speaker 5: I was like, there's literally nobody in this league who
Speaker 5: has experienced literally every level everything that you can from
Speaker 5: being cut not being on a roster, to being on
Speaker 5: a roster and never playing, to being a bench player
Speaker 5: to being you know, working into like a role player,
Speaker 5: becoming a starter, becoming you know, a crucial part of
Speaker 5: teams winning at the highest level. Like, there's nobody else
Speaker 5: that has like literally started from the bottom line, like
Speaker 5: has worked through everything. And so I was like, I
Speaker 5: know what it feels like at every twist and turn.
Speaker 5: So I was like, I want to be able to
Speaker 5: offer be a voice for players like me that you know,
Speaker 5: these cbas don't necessarily cater to. And also I was like,
Speaker 5: by the time this term is up, I'm probably gonna
Speaker 5: be on my way out in the next couple of
Speaker 5: years or so after that, So I don't mind bting
Speaker 5: a little fire on my way out to like get
Speaker 5: what we deserve. And so, yeah, player leadership voted me
Speaker 5: in and that's how I became one of the vps.
Speaker 3: Yeah that makes sense literally every point of view you have.
Speaker 3: That's awesome, but there's a reason for it. I mean, hello,
Speaker 3: I'm just like, I'm just in all of you in all.
Speaker 2: I want to know more about the negotiations in New
Speaker 2: York and what that was like.
Speaker 4: Yeah, those were that was a crazy eight days.
Speaker 5: I was so happy that I got to like be
Speaker 5: there for it though, just because the way that things
Speaker 5: changed day to day.
Speaker 4: Had you know, we not been there in the room.
Speaker 5: To be able to like give feedback, this could have
Speaker 5: been a completely different outcome for the CBA. And I
Speaker 5: think when you have players, yeah we have you know,
Speaker 5: some of the one percenters, when you look at Fee
Speaker 5: and Stewie and Nekka, you know, those superstars, all Stars,
Speaker 5: MVP type caliber players, and then you had the rest
Speaker 5: of us that were, you know, have been again like
Speaker 5: crucial integral parts, but like represent the majority the makeup
Speaker 5: of the league or players that are in that middle tier.
Speaker 5: And you know, when we're sitting there having these conversations
Speaker 5: and just being able to balance ideas off of each
Speaker 5: other and going through like the nuances of what the
Speaker 5: CBA was, you know, there's perspectives that those one percenters
Speaker 5: don't they don't see just because they've never had to
Speaker 5: experience it. But when something came up that they didn't know,
Speaker 5: they were like, hey, how does this make you guys feel?
Speaker 5: What do you think? What should what could be better?
Speaker 5: And so it allowed a voice, like I think just
Speaker 5: to represent the majority of the league this go around
Speaker 5: with something that we all of us EC members were
Speaker 5: really really locked in on because the last go around,
Speaker 5: the middle tier players kind of got like left out.
Speaker 5: It was like we got kind of pushed out because
Speaker 5: everything was about the rookies and the and the super Max's,
Speaker 5: you know, and so the rest of us were kind
Speaker 5: of just like in this weird place where like, well,
Speaker 5: we're going to take a cheaper player over an experienced player,
Speaker 5: and so we wanted to make sure that didn't happen again,
Speaker 5: and so there was a lot of.
Speaker 4: Going back and forth.
Speaker 5: It was a stark reminder that this is a business,
Speaker 5: you know, sitting there having to negotiate across the table
Speaker 5: from other owners and gms and just the league itself
Speaker 5: of explaining why we're worth what we're fighting for, and
Speaker 5: that for me was just such an eye opener of like, this,
Speaker 5: this is a business, and don't forget it. Regardless of
Speaker 5: how much you love this league and how much you
Speaker 5: love the game, and you know you love your franchise
Speaker 5: and organization, etc. They're going to do whatever they need
Speaker 5: to do to make sure that their business does well.
Speaker 5: And so you know, we wanted to make sure that.
Speaker 5: That's where like a lot of our pushback came from
Speaker 5: was just like there is no more next time. This
Speaker 5: is the next time. But it was great. I was
Speaker 5: like our team at the PA, like our staff that
Speaker 5: we had, our board of advisors were freaking rock stars.
Speaker 5: I mean, we had some of the most amazing advisors
Speaker 5: leading us and guiding us through these negotiations, but yeah,
Speaker 5: it was. It was a fight till literally the very end.
Speaker 5: But like we were like, listen, we were college athletes.
Speaker 5: We would go out drinking and party until three in
Speaker 5: the morning and get up for six am workouts.
Speaker 4: We're about this life, So what do we tell you?
Speaker 4: We're here?
Speaker 2: Babies?
Speaker 3: Such a real comparison, true, eight days? Would you say
Speaker 3: sixteen plus hours?
Speaker 4: Yeah, it was like over one hundred hours. Like it was.
Speaker 4: It was crazy, but we were there for the long haul.
Speaker 1: The pictures and selfies I came out of that were
Speaker 1: also riceless.
Speaker 4: Fact. I was like, I need to make sure we're
Speaker 4: documenting this. Let me get let me take some pictures.
Speaker 1: So going off all this money talk should best be
Speaker 1: teaching rookies how to take care of their money so
Speaker 1: they don't go broke.
Speaker 5: Honestly, Yeah, because we had little to work with and
Speaker 5: made it go a long way.
Speaker 2: I made a dollar stretch and did do you hear me? No?
Speaker 5: But I definitely think there are things like nuanced, But
Speaker 5: you guys are already I think a lot more money
Speaker 5: conscious because you guys had the nil right, So you
Speaker 5: guys have teams and stuff that are already helping you
Speaker 5: invest and do things. But I think when it comes
Speaker 5: to maybe I don't know where to save a little.
Speaker 5: Whether it's like, hey, is there really a difference between
Speaker 5: getting the name brand this and the off brand this?
Speaker 5: And it's like, no, listen, bigs, if you save some money,
Speaker 5: because I'm the Queen of saving. Okay, I want to
Speaker 5: save money wherever I work hard for my money. But no,
Speaker 5: I mean, I think there's tips and tricks obviously that
Speaker 5: we've learned over the years and along the way that yeah,
Speaker 5: we're open to helping and give suggestions where needed, but honestly.
Speaker 4: We need to be talking to y'all like how we
Speaker 4: make more money off the court? Like what do I
Speaker 4: need to be doing?
Speaker 5: But what do I need to be doing on my
Speaker 5: social media?
Speaker 1: Oh? Please, you don't want to ask me that. Don't
Speaker 1: bring social media under this. I'm going to be a
Speaker 1: saving this season and spending on our excursions on dinner,
Speaker 1: on lunch, wherever we end up going.
Speaker 4: That's where I spend my money.
Speaker 2: They see, you don't have to tell her twy she
Speaker 2: she don't like spending money. She didn't told me multiple
Speaker 2: times every time I bring up shopping and she's like.
Speaker 1: No, but if it's not a good time in food,
Speaker 1: then I.
Speaker 3: Could be persuaded.
Speaker 2: Experiences and food valid ballad. Are you guys it is
Speaker 2: time for us to move on to our fudding games.
Speaker 2: So for our first game, it's really just fan questions
Speaker 2: that we have a lot of people had up billions,
Speaker 2: billions and billions of questions and we picked out We
Speaker 2: picked out like six or seven Ah childish, Okay, are
Speaker 2: you ready?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 2: So the first one, Ac, What was your first impression
Speaker 2: of Ac?
Speaker 5: My first impression of hers is she's just so sweet.
Speaker 5: I was like, oh, she's just so sweet. Like she
Speaker 5: came in, it was just so like chill and CHOI
Speaker 5: was just trying to like look around and was just
Speaker 5: so kind.
Speaker 4: I was like, oh, she's adorable.
Speaker 1: Was the first time wait, are you talking about the
Speaker 1: first day in Dallas? Yeah, Like our first day in Dallas,
Speaker 1: we had to work out together. This is before training
Speaker 1: him started. And she's parking her car, walking into the facility.
Speaker 1: My mom is dropping me off and she's like phone
Speaker 1: out of the window taking a Picture's like, smile, it's.
Speaker 2: Your first day at work.
Speaker 3: It's like, Mom, you're embarrassing me in front of one
Speaker 3: of my friends.
Speaker 5: It was so I was like, oh.
Speaker 3: I was like trying to red just thinking about.
Speaker 4: And she was just like she smiled and was like.
Speaker 2: We love Katie.
Speaker 1: If you weren't there, I probably would have posed like
Speaker 1: you were watching so cute.
Speaker 3: Second fan question is what's your favorite thing to cook?
Speaker 4: Honestly anything I love.
Speaker 5: I cooked so many different things, but probably something that
Speaker 5: I cook on probably more often, is like salmon. I
Speaker 5: love a god Oh no, you know what I love scout.
Speaker 5: I love making my scallops. My scallops are pretty good. Yeah,
Speaker 5: I'll say my scallops.
Speaker 3: I've never had good scoops before.
Speaker 4: Well, you will this summer, Like what's that I never
Speaker 4: had that? You will this summer.
Speaker 3: I'll be your sous chef. Just let me know what
Speaker 3: to do. Okay, she gonna be your taste testa.
Speaker 4: Listen, I take people up on that. So I hope
Speaker 4: you're ready.
Speaker 3: I'm ready, little run down those stairs.
Speaker 2: Who is your funniest teammate currently you can do currently
Speaker 2: and then in the past, funniest teamate of all time? Yeah,
Speaker 2: of all.
Speaker 4: Time is for sure Sidney Coulson.
Speaker 5: Yeah, she's just like just naturally gifted at being funny,
Speaker 5: Like she doesn't even try and she's funny.
Speaker 4: And then this year's so far probably Amy or Lands. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Do you have any pregame rituals?
Speaker 4: Nothing crazy. The only thing that I have is.
Speaker 5: Like, when it comes to my pregame meal, I always
Speaker 5: have to have like a baguette with like olive oil
Speaker 5: and balsamac. It's usually just like a half of so
Speaker 5: a Demi bagette with like whatever. I don't know, it's
Speaker 5: just it became my thing. And because I'm such a
Speaker 5: like runner and mover on the court, I was like, oh,
Speaker 5: I need extra carbs, and I was like, oh, this
Speaker 5: is a quick way to get some extra carbs.
Speaker 4: And now it just becomes like a part of it.
Speaker 1: I have our questions about your pregame routine. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: ask you that later, Okay, as easy about hers?
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, I need probably all these crazy superstitions.
Speaker 3: Does pineapple belong on pizza? The fans want to know?
Speaker 4: Absolutely.
Speaker 2: See.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, girl, we was locked in. We have
Speaker 1: so much in common, I know, like, are you okay?
Speaker 1: Are you just not okay? We're working on expanding her palate.
Speaker 2: Like a lot of things.
Speaker 3: But pineapple, why why pineapple?
Speaker 5: The sweet and savory like you don't get to like
Speaker 5: and grilled pineapples always bombs, so like, yeah.
Speaker 2: I like it separate but okay, and then our last
Speaker 2: one is your all time WNBA starting five.
Speaker 5: You know, I never answer this question because I can't.
Speaker 5: I'm like, I've played with so many different players over
Speaker 5: the years, how can I just narrow it down the five?
Speaker 4: Like that's insane? That's insane to me.
Speaker 5: And I'm so much of an overthinker because I'm like, Okay,
Speaker 5: I need somebody that can like be a defensive stupper
Speaker 5: that can do this and this.
Speaker 4: So I'm just like, I'm not good at that game.
Speaker 2: So I like that answer. I was just say, hey, listen,
Speaker 2: that's okay. That is okay. That wraps up our fan questions.
Speaker 2: Less easy you wanted to ask any.
Speaker 3: No, might'll be as slater.
Speaker 4: Oh no, I'm more nervous for those.
Speaker 2: And just to clarify because one of the fantom questions
Speaker 2: was do you like cottage cheese? But you mentioned already
Speaker 2: in the beginning that you you love it?
Speaker 5: Yep, yeah, I got two tubs in my fridge as
Speaker 5: we speak, from where grocery store I used to lack
Speaker 5: take cottage cheese black tap baby. Half a cup is
Speaker 5: thirteen grams of protein. Get your protein in.
Speaker 2: That's a chef. That's chef easy for y'all. Okay, the
Speaker 2: last thing we're going to do is are what the
Speaker 2: fud of the week or what the fun of the
Speaker 2: week is? Something that happened this week that made you say,
Speaker 2: what the fun? So I'll start because mine is very
Speaker 2: basic and easy. You have time to think. Asy, you
Speaker 2: also have one. I did all right, I have two
Speaker 2: oh period, so mine by the time this episode drops,
Speaker 2: it will pass when my birthday's coming up. So that's
Speaker 2: what the fun.
Speaker 1: Happy birthday, sean happy birthday?
Speaker 3: You think you thank you?
Speaker 4: Thay girl.
Speaker 2: Nothing too crazy, you know, very calm. Gonna go to
Speaker 2: movie theaters I rented out like a small theater and
Speaker 2: then actor gonna go shake my tail feather.
Speaker 3: That's it, as you should. What movie are you gonna see?
Speaker 2: The Michael Jackson movie that just came out, which is
Speaker 2: crazy because The devilwaar Is Proud of Two comes out
Speaker 2: on my birthday and I I'm kind of sick about
Speaker 2: it because I didn't know at the time when I
Speaker 2: chose and it's too late.
Speaker 1: But it's Okay, well, I feel like this one is
Speaker 1: like the you know, setting up for shaking your tail feathers,
Speaker 1: because you' gonna be shaking your tail feather in the seat.
Speaker 3: Listen to all the good songs and thank you. It's
Speaker 3: the warm up, it's the pregame.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: My first what the fud is that I was with
Speaker 1: my mom. I have a rental car. We got a
Speaker 1: nail in the tire, so we got a flat tire,
Speaker 1: so that I had to get a new rental car.
Speaker 1: But this one there was just a hailstorm, so it
Speaker 1: had like no options in the lot. So my car
Speaker 1: now is pretty bad, so that's unfortunate. And also there's
Speaker 1: another hailstorm to I didn't know that there were hailstorms
Speaker 1: in Texas like this, So Acy, if he didn't park
Speaker 1: in the garage, makes you park in the garage?
Speaker 4: Yeah, okay, I didn't know that was happening tonight. Cool.
Speaker 3: My second with the fud is Megan and Clay Child
Speaker 3: cut the caramel.
Speaker 2: Enough said that's my with the fud too.
Speaker 3: Then that's all I have to say, is what the fud?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 4: That was wild? My what the fud?
Speaker 5: Honestly kind of like piggyback off of Asy about the storms.
Speaker 5: I was asleep and it sounded like there was It
Speaker 5: was like literally after midnight, and it sounded like someone
Speaker 5: had taken a boulder and like slammed it down right
Speaker 5: outside the window on the concrete and like hit like
Speaker 5: I don't know, and like threw a bunch of glass
Speaker 5: aside from it, and it like I like jumped up
Speaker 5: out of my sleep and I was like, I was like,
Speaker 5: what is are we?
Speaker 4: Is there a tornado on the ground? Like what did
Speaker 4: I just hear? Scared the crap out of me? Scared
Speaker 4: the crap out of me.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the weather alerts woke me up out of my dream.
Speaker 1: Like I woke up in a panic, like did I
Speaker 1: miss my alarms? The time for progress and it was
Speaker 1: just like one am with weather alerts.
Speaker 3: Going off for real. Well that's a wrap on our
Speaker 3: with the funds.
Speaker 1: All right, Well that is a wrap on today's episode. Acy.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much for joining us. It was so
Speaker 1: much fun getting to know you. Everyone's going to have
Speaker 1: to stay tuned for all of our adventures and cooking
Speaker 1: and for me taste testing. But everyone, thank you so
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