Speaker 1: Hey, everyone, welcome back to fud Around and find out.
Speaker 1: This is Asy Fudd and I'm here with my girl,
Speaker 1: a shanty plumber a shanty. What is up?
Speaker 2: What's up? Asy? Listeners? We have a good one.
Speaker 3: It's a mailbag episode and we're going to get into
Speaker 3: all things Yukon basketball and Asy's personal life, and we
Speaker 3: may answer some burning questions that you have about me too.
Speaker 1: That's right, So I'm super excited to see what you
Speaker 1: guys want to know.
Speaker 3: Ashanti. Where are we starting? Well, let's start with a
Speaker 3: check in. The listeners want to know. How are you doing?
Speaker 3: What's up? You've been moving and shaking NonStop since like April,
Speaker 3: So how you doing?
Speaker 2: I'm good.
Speaker 1: I feel like being busy is all I've ever known,
Speaker 1: so like this is not really new. I feel like
Speaker 1: the whole living out of a suitcase for like weeks
Speaker 1: on end, that's a little new.
Speaker 2: But I'm good.
Speaker 1: A little tired, but nothing. You know, you can sleep
Speaker 1: in your dead like I'm not really worried about that.
Speaker 1: Other than that, Like, I'm great. I've had some really
Speaker 1: cool experiences these last few months. I've met some really
Speaker 1: amazing people. So feel like I'm just trying to really
Speaker 1: soak in every experience and every opportunity of gotten because
Speaker 1: it's easy to like look past things and look at
Speaker 1: the next thing coming.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Absolutely so someone who's balancing like traveling and basketball and
Speaker 3: school and all these other events you have to attend.
Speaker 2: Like, what kind of advice do you have but a listeners.
Speaker 1: I guess I'd say to stay present, Like there's when
Speaker 1: you're doing so much, especially back to back to back,
Speaker 1: like it's super easy to get caught up and either
Speaker 1: what you had just done or what you're looking forward
Speaker 1: to doing next week, but really being able to stay
Speaker 1: present and enjoy what you're doing in the moment, Like
Speaker 1: right now, I'm in Minnesota with my family, so getting
Speaker 1: to enjoy this little bit of downtime I have and
Speaker 1: I only have a little bit of time with my
Speaker 1: cousin and my grandparents and being here in my favorite place,
Speaker 1: so being able to really enjoy this before I go.
Speaker 2: On to what's next in a few days. No, Yeah,
Speaker 2: that's dope.
Speaker 3: I really do appreciate the time that I do get
Speaker 3: to spend with my family. I'm out here in New
Speaker 3: York where my family doesn't even live here anymore, so
Speaker 3: I definitely understand being present where you're at, especially when.
Speaker 2: It comes to some quality time with the FAMO. So
Speaker 2: who are your non like basketball related like role models
Speaker 2: or people you look up to?
Speaker 1: I have to say my parents. I think admiring. I
Speaker 1: feel like as I've gotten older, being able to appreciate
Speaker 1: you know how hard parenting is, having three kids and
Speaker 1: them balancing everything they've been able to do for us
Speaker 1: and giving us these opportunities growing up. Obviously, like in
Speaker 1: the moment growing up, you're like, Okay, this is a
Speaker 1: normal sort of parents supposed to do, But all the
Speaker 1: sacrifices that they've given for us, I'm just super grateful
Speaker 1: for and I hope that I could be a parent
Speaker 1: like them one day.
Speaker 3: We love you, guys. We love her parents. What would
Speaker 3: you say non basketball related?
Speaker 2: I'm going to say my mom. I think that's pretty cliche,
Speaker 2: but it's the truth.
Speaker 3: She is was a single parent raising me and my brother,
Speaker 3: and so I just admire her, especially like in these
Speaker 3: New York City streets. So that's definitely someone that I
Speaker 3: look up to non basketball. Why wives, Why whyse Okay, girly,
Speaker 3: So you're about to go on a very very long trip.
Speaker 3: How are you feeling about this trip overseas to China.
Speaker 1: I'm excited. I'm a little nervous for this flight. This
Speaker 1: wasn't planned until like a little bit ago. So when
Speaker 1: I left campus, I left my iPad on campus because
Speaker 1: I was like, oh, I'm not gonna need it. I'm
Speaker 1: taking a class. All my computer. I'll do homework or
Speaker 1: read a book, listen to music, like I'm not going
Speaker 1: to be on a flight that's longer than three hours,
Speaker 1: Like I'm not really going to be bored. And I'm
Speaker 1: currently IPEd liss gonna be on like a twelve plus
Speaker 1: hour flight, and some a little nervous around this is
Speaker 1: gonna go. What's the longest flight you've been on?
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 3: So I went to Australia. I lived there for a
Speaker 3: little bit, and so the I think it was two flights,
Speaker 3: but I don't remember how long the longest one of
Speaker 3: those two were, but I just remember it was too Australia,
Speaker 3: and I was lucky enough to have a lot of
Speaker 3: leg room, and I went to sleep for a majority
Speaker 3: of the time because I can't imagine.
Speaker 1: So you can sleep on planes, Oh absolutely, I have to.
Speaker 3: Speaking of sleep, miss girl, you are always napping all
Speaker 3: the time everywhere. And the reason why I know is
Speaker 3: because your dad literally posts on social media all the time.
Speaker 3: It's like a hidden talent of his where he's catching
Speaker 3: you knocked out, Like you can't sleep on planes is
Speaker 3: actually shocking to me because I've seen you via social media.
Speaker 1: Like everywhere I do sleep on plans, it's just like
Speaker 1: not good and my mouth is always open, so I
Speaker 1: wake up like choking because my mouth is all dry. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's probably like my least place asleep a car nap though,
Speaker 1: oh my gosh, those hit different. But I feel like
Speaker 1: growing up in a gym, I feel like that I
Speaker 1: very quickly learned how to sleep anywhere. Like I would
Speaker 1: lay my jacket down and I'd sleep like in between
Speaker 1: the bleachers on the like with games going on in
Speaker 1: the middle of a tournament. So I feel like growing
Speaker 1: up in that environment has taught me to sleep anyway.
Speaker 3: What's the weirdest place you've ever slept? The weirdest place
Speaker 3: I've ever slept. I've definitely fallen asleep at basketball games before, like,
Speaker 3: not like a tournament, ones like real ones.
Speaker 2: Wait, real ones that you are participating.
Speaker 1: No, no, no, no, not like ones I'm watching, not
Speaker 1: what's not playing it.
Speaker 2: I'm trying to think, Okay, that would be crazy. I
Speaker 2: cut the camera. I think.
Speaker 3: The weirdest place I've ever fell asleep, well, not really weird,
Speaker 3: but I mean, I don't know. I feel like it
Speaker 3: might be common. I fell asleep in a movie theater before. Now,
Speaker 3: movie theaters out here is like twenty five dollars just
Speaker 3: for a ticket, so I literally pay to take a nap.
Speaker 2: But you know what, I needed it, So it is
Speaker 2: what it is.
Speaker 1: I know a lot of people who do that. But
Speaker 1: if I'm paying to go see a movie, I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna fall asleep. I can't waste I feel that.
Speaker 2: But I feel like, I don't know. It's like it's
Speaker 2: nice and cold in the.
Speaker 3: Theater, and then I'm usually going with like some of
Speaker 3: my friends, some kind of like comfy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I played myself twenty five dollars to take a nap.
Speaker 1: Wait, Shanti, what movie did you fall asleep in?
Speaker 2: Girl? I don't know. I was sleep. I was knocked out.
Speaker 3: I know.
Speaker 2: I gotta ask my best friend and get back to
Speaker 2: y'all because no clue.
Speaker 3: Oh, actually I fall asleep in a club. That's gotta
Speaker 3: be the craziest place I've fallen asleep. Yes, that's definitely
Speaker 3: a scene. It's loud, it's crazy, it's high, but like
Speaker 3: when you're tired, it just it's like, get tired.
Speaker 2: I want to taking nap right here.
Speaker 3: Yeah, she was like, I think she's on a beach
Speaker 3: or something with her brother, and she like, I need
Speaker 3: to take a nap right here, like crying.
Speaker 2: I felt that. Tell me. Some of the things that
Speaker 2: you play or watch on your iPad.
Speaker 1: I think between my family and a couple of friends,
Speaker 1: I have like log Insto, every streaming platform possible, So
Speaker 1: whatever show I'm watching at that moment, I Co'm in
Speaker 1: between shows right now, So I'm just gonna download a
Speaker 1: bunch of like top ten whatever movies, and then my
Speaker 1: iPad games. I get made fun of a lot for these,
Speaker 1: but I don't care. I love my Smurf Village game.
Speaker 1: I've been playing that since I got my iPad in
Speaker 1: like third grade. I play the Harry Podder Hark Fog
Speaker 1: Words game.
Speaker 3: I get made show all of that because I need explanations,
Speaker 3: So go ahead, Smurfville, Harry Potter.
Speaker 1: I play Homescapes that's a good one. And then I
Speaker 1: say like, those are my big three, and then a
Speaker 1: bunch of like random ones obviously have on there.
Speaker 2: Okay, what smurf would you be?
Speaker 1: Obviously I'm gonna be smurfed. I mean, duh, who would
Speaker 1: you be?
Speaker 3: I am in between jokey Smurf because I got jokes
Speaker 3: for days or chef Smurf because I like to eat,
Speaker 3: even though Chef Smurk cooks.
Speaker 1: I was gonna say, Okay, we're gonna pretend like that
Speaker 1: makes sense.
Speaker 3: I mean, I'm a cook and any we can just
Speaker 3: make up our own smurf. You're gonna be the eating smurf. Yes, yes, absolutely,
Speaker 3: I know Harry Potter. I am a fan. I've read
Speaker 3: like every book, so I get that. Yes, girls giving
Speaker 3: Guilty Pleasure. I had a wand I think I had Halloween.
Speaker 3: Oh okay, you're gonna tell me anything I was doing? Yeah, craziness.
Speaker 2: I love that.
Speaker 3: What house would you want to be in for Harry Potter?
Speaker 3: Oh my gosh. Wait, and now I'm gonna I forget
Speaker 3: what house I'm in. I think, oh, excuse me, what
Speaker 3: house are you?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 1: But like you when you play the game, like take
Speaker 1: a test, so it like puts you in a house.
Speaker 1: It was either raven Claw or Hufflepuff. I forget which
Speaker 1: one it wasn't like it definitely wasn't Slytherin, and it
Speaker 1: wasn't gryffindor Gryffindor.
Speaker 2: Yeah, what house?
Speaker 3: Would you want to be in Gryffindor only because like
Speaker 3: Harry Potter was in Griffin.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I read the books.
Speaker 3: They're typically the ones who are like brave and going
Speaker 3: on adventures, and I like to believe that would be me.
Speaker 3: But honestly, soon as I hear something creepy and the
Speaker 3: woods or something like that, I'm running. Actually, I wouldn't
Speaker 3: go explore in the first place.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I don't think I would like to think
Speaker 1: I would, but I don't think I would. I think
Speaker 1: after this we need to do one of those tests
Speaker 1: and find out.
Speaker 3: Absolutely coming to you Realsom talked about your iPad the games.
Speaker 3: I know you're a huge reader, so tell the people
Speaker 3: what you've been reading and what you're into and what
Speaker 3: you're looking forward to reading.
Speaker 1: I feel like this has been a slow reading summer
Speaker 1: for me because I take classes but only during one
Speaker 1: month of the summer. This summer, I'm taking it during both,
Speaker 1: so it's been hard to read as much as I'd
Speaker 1: like to. I've read a few good ones, probably Seven
Speaker 1: Husbands of Evelyn Hugo. I really enjoyed that one made
Speaker 1: me cry. Oh if you like thrillers, pretty girls, I
Speaker 1: forget who maybe Karen slought or something like that. I
Speaker 1: forget who wrote it. That's a crazy book. And then
Speaker 1: The Nightingale. It's like a historical fiction book. I think
Speaker 1: our Strength coach gave it to me, and I was
Speaker 1: so just unprepared for. Like I was up at night,
Speaker 1: like sobbing reading this book. It like crushed my heart.
Speaker 2: But it was really good. It was really good.
Speaker 1: I would suggest that one. I don't think you would
Speaker 1: like that one.
Speaker 2: Do you read? Wait?
Speaker 5: Why?
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 3: It was just it was like a heavy read I read.
Speaker 3: I'm more of a like self help reader. I like
Speaker 3: reading about like just ways to improve in the business
Speaker 3: side of my life, and then also I enjoy, like,
Speaker 3: you know, the spiritual, faith based side, and.
Speaker 2: Then I enjoy we're reading. Yeah, just mostly like self help.
Speaker 3: When I was younger, I really was into a lot
Speaker 3: of fiction, but now I'm more like nonfiction self help,
Speaker 3: that kind of thing. But I don't mind a good
Speaker 3: little romance novel. I like that kind of stuff, so
Speaker 3: you can put me on for sure. Do you read
Speaker 3: like self help books and stuff like that, anything motivational?
Speaker 2: I read some.
Speaker 1: I'm very much more fiction, but like I really did
Speaker 1: The Obstacles the way, I really like that one and
Speaker 1: chop Wood Carry Water, but definitely fiction is always my
Speaker 1: go to.
Speaker 3: Yeah, all right, switching gears here, A listener wants to
Speaker 3: know what advice would you give to young athletes.
Speaker 1: Advice that I would give, Like, there's so many things
Speaker 1: you could say. Advice that I would give would be
Speaker 1: set goals and dream big and make sure like you're
Speaker 1: setting goals that are whether it's like in a month,
Speaker 1: a few months, things that you can like obtain that
Speaker 1: are closer, closer, like what am I trying to say?
Speaker 3: That are like things you can obtain now, and things
Speaker 3: that you might not think are obtainable, but set them
Speaker 3: anyways and try.
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, but also like short term and long term
Speaker 1: and then also things that you think like I don't
Speaker 1: know if I can get the level and off this
Speaker 1: is like realistic or not like you said it there,
Speaker 1: because like anything's possible. And then also like with that
Speaker 1: remembering that like the journey is never linear, it's never
Speaker 1: a straight line. The path like it's never easy. So
Speaker 1: I feel like just always remembering that, like there's always
Speaker 1: gonna be setbacks, and it's not about like the setbacks,
Speaker 1: it's about how you overcome those things and how you
Speaker 1: respond to those obstacles that are in the way and
Speaker 1: those things that are thrown at you.
Speaker 2: That's amazing, that's beautiful. I'm feeling inspired. Whatever, what's your advice? No,
Speaker 2: for real, I think that's dope.
Speaker 3: Like it is essentially there's gonna be a lot of
Speaker 3: people who tell you no, or maybe you don't fit
Speaker 3: the picture of what they believe you can do, you know,
Speaker 3: And so I think that is great advice for younger
Speaker 3: athletes because even myself growing up, there are people who
Speaker 3: I had big dreams.
Speaker 2: I was like, I'm going to play Division one basketball.
Speaker 3: That was like one of my first basketball goals, and
Speaker 3: people were just like I hadn't gotten super tall yet,
Speaker 3: so they were just like where are you going? Like, oh,
Speaker 3: you can, you can stay you know, near home. You
Speaker 3: can go to NYU, which is a great school, but
Speaker 3: that's not the Vision one school where I wanted to go.
Speaker 3: So if I would have just been okay with what
Speaker 3: everyone else was setting for me, I wouldn't have achieved
Speaker 3: the things that I've been able to achieve. So that's
Speaker 3: great advice, girly, And the advice I would give them
Speaker 3: kids is be yourself. There is no one else, honestly
Speaker 3: that you can be. And if you continue to just
Speaker 3: show up genuinely as yourself in spaces, the people your
Speaker 3: tribe will find you, and the path that you're supposed
Speaker 3: to be walking on and the things that you're supposed
Speaker 3: to be doing in this life will happen over time.
Speaker 2: So just continue to show up authentically as you. That's
Speaker 2: for the kids.
Speaker 3: I love that we have a special listener who has
Speaker 3: a live question today, Philip.
Speaker 5: Give a question for us.
Speaker 1: This is my cousin Philip.
Speaker 2: He lives in La Wait.
Speaker 1: First of all, show them your jersey. For those of
Speaker 1: you who can't see, he's wearing an easy fed bass
Speaker 1: camp jersey. It looks good on him. Yeah, go ahead,
Speaker 1: ask your question.
Speaker 5: Uh so easy, Yes, sir.
Speaker 4: I want to know, like what you work out schedule
Speaker 4: is like, you know, do you like work out every day?
Speaker 5: Is it like like is it like.
Speaker 4: A few a few week days every week, like, you.
Speaker 5: Know, great question, Philip.
Speaker 1: So, as you can see, Phillip's here with me in Minnesota,
Speaker 1: and he's gotten a little taste of my workout schedule
Speaker 1: because he's been waking up early and going to the
Speaker 1: gym with me. Yeah, I work out just about every day.
Speaker 1: I think I do something most days, so I go
Speaker 1: to the gym, I do an on court workout probably
Speaker 1: five six days out of the week. And I'm more
Speaker 1: of a As I've gotten older, I've learned that quality
Speaker 1: is more important than quantity. So it's not about how
Speaker 1: long you're on the core, more about like the quality
Speaker 1: of the worth that you're getting when you're on the court.
Speaker 1: So I feel like if you do an hour of
Speaker 1: good work, even forty five minutes of quality work, that's
Speaker 1: all you need. And then I go in and I
Speaker 1: lift afterwards, which is also usually about an hour. And
Speaker 1: while I've been working out on court, Philip has been
Speaker 1: doing his own workout on the track, Philip, Hell, have
Speaker 1: your workout's been going?
Speaker 4: Just you know, running, never stopping until I'm done with
Speaker 4: the workout facts.
Speaker 1: Philip is also working on his pushups and jumping jacks.
Speaker 5: Tell them how your pushups.
Speaker 2: Are coming along.
Speaker 4: They're doing mediocre mediocre, Okay, I just feel like they
Speaker 4: do mediocre.
Speaker 1: I would approve that all right for the people who
Speaker 1: can see.
Speaker 5: Give them a little flex dom your muscles.
Speaker 2: Oh love?
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, so good, Philip. That was a great question.
Speaker 5: Thank you so much for joining today and asking.
Speaker 4: Also, what do you think is crazy a baby named
Speaker 4: like someone we don't know who has a baby named
Speaker 4: after you or attached you?
Speaker 5: Will you?
Speaker 1: Wow? Well those were both pretty crazy, and I know
Speaker 1: people with both.
Speaker 5: Oh okay, I.
Speaker 2: Think a baby is crazy.
Speaker 1: Like a baby being named after me is crazy because
Speaker 1: I feel like that's like a different level of like
Speaker 1: this child is stuck with that name for at least
Speaker 1: eighteen years until they can legally change it if they
Speaker 1: hate it that much. But then again, also, a tattoo
Speaker 1: is crazy because like that's permanent, you know, it's either way.
Speaker 5: I'm honored.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I feel like that's a good answer.
Speaker 5: What do you think is crazier personally? Kid named after you?
Speaker 5: Would you name your kid after me?
Speaker 4: I mean, yeah, it might probably not.
Speaker 5: But I you think about it, probably not, but you
Speaker 5: consider it. Yeah. Okay, Well, thank.
Speaker 2: You so much.
Speaker 5: Bill, Give me a hug.
Speaker 3: But that is one hundred percent the cutest listener question
Speaker 3: we got in. But the listeners really want to know.
Speaker 3: And up next we're going to get into basketball and
Speaker 3: all Yukon questions.
Speaker 2: They want to know everything. You ready, Oh, I'm ready?
Speaker 2: All right. So we were just talking about your personal life.
Speaker 3: What other schools were you thinking about going to visit
Speaker 3: during your recruitment process.
Speaker 1: So my family was road trip family. So to every
Speaker 1: AU tournament we went, we drove. Most of them. We drove,
Speaker 1: so we would stop, we'd leave early, and we would
Speaker 1: stop at whatever school we were passing on the way
Speaker 1: that was either interested or even just even if like
Speaker 1: they hadn't shown interest yet, we would still stop just
Speaker 1: to see their campus, which at the time like it was.
Speaker 2: Cool, but I was kind of like, why are we
Speaker 2: doing this?
Speaker 1: And as I'm older and like, even when I went
Speaker 1: into making my college decision, I was really grateful that
Speaker 1: my parents did that. Because of COVID, I didn't get
Speaker 1: official visits. So going on all those other visits, I
Speaker 1: had already seen the campuses of all the schools I
Speaker 1: was like really considering, but also campuses of other schools
Speaker 1: and like things that I knew I didn't like, so
Speaker 1: getting getting that feel early on was really important and
Speaker 1: I didn't realize that at the time, but so, like
Speaker 1: I visited Notre Dame a lot, and like a few
Speaker 1: memories from there is their dining hall and how my
Speaker 1: younger brothers when they get any type of buffet of
Speaker 1: food in front of them, like they go absolutely insane,
Speaker 1: and just seeing their plates they had like secondhand embarrassment
Speaker 1: sometimes seeing the plates they'd come back with. When I
Speaker 1: went to UCLA, I visited there and they had we
Speaker 1: were doing like a walk around the campus and they
Speaker 1: had someone on a golf cart stop me with like
Speaker 1: a magazine I think of a picture.
Speaker 2: Of me on it, and they were like are you easy?
Speaker 5: Fun and like.
Speaker 2: Showing me this magazine.
Speaker 1: They UCLA needs problems because they're like recruiting people and
Speaker 1: their creative like they were. It was top notch of
Speaker 1: things that they would send and do. But it was
Speaker 1: a lot of just really funny things like that. There
Speaker 1: was a lot of good memories on those visits.
Speaker 2: That sounds great.
Speaker 3: I mean, what's one of the weirdest or like craziest
Speaker 3: or unexpected things that a school has done to try
Speaker 3: to get you to commit to them?
Speaker 1: I feel like that was that was funny, and at
Speaker 1: the moment, I was like, what the heck, Like how
Speaker 1: does this person know who I am? And then like
Speaker 1: later we figured out, But that was really cool. I mean,
Speaker 1: I remember when Maryland offered me a scholarship in sixth grade.
Speaker 1: I was at their like elite camp and I was
Speaker 1: called into a Brenda's coach Fries office during lunchtime. And
Speaker 1: in the moment, I'm like, I just want to go
Speaker 1: eat lunch with my friends, Like why am I being
Speaker 1: called to her office right now? And my parents are
Speaker 1: there and they're talking. I don't like remember the conversation
Speaker 1: too much, and they're talking. You might have watched the video.
Speaker 1: And at the end, she's like, I really enjoyed having
Speaker 1: you here. You've been really great, been following you, watching you,
Speaker 1: and we want to offer you a scholarship. And they
Speaker 1: just look at me. I got to look at them,
Speaker 1: and I look at my parents and I'm like, what
Speaker 1: does that mean? I had no idea what it I
Speaker 1: don't what a scholarship meant. So I think that was
Speaker 1: probably one of my favorite memories, just because that was
Speaker 1: like the start, like the real start of the recruitment.
Speaker 1: Process for me and really learning what that Oda scholarship
Speaker 1: was and realizing like what my future could look.
Speaker 2: Like sixth grade. Oh my goodness, do you have any
Speaker 2: good recruitment stories? Good?
Speaker 3: I mean, my one of my favorites is we went
Speaker 3: to like a really really bougie restaurant. This was in
Speaker 3: South Texas at Corpus, and the waiter came out and
Speaker 3: it was like the last part of the meal, we
Speaker 3: already ate, we're done. The waiter came out and it
Speaker 3: was like a cake, almost like a like a flond
Speaker 3: with like a little candle, and then like on the side.
Speaker 2: Of it it just said will you marry us?
Speaker 3: Which is kind of crazy, but like it really is
Speaker 3: like a decision that's gonna last a lifetime if you stay.
Speaker 3: And so I think that was definitely the craziest recruitment story.
Speaker 2: And I ended up going there, so I guess it
Speaker 2: was said I do Did you really say I do?
Speaker 3: Yes, that's gonna be a story from our future future
Speaker 3: husband whoever asked, I'd be like, oh, second time around,
Speaker 3: here we go. But yeah, that was definitely a wild one.
Speaker 3: So what is a core memory from last season other
Speaker 3: than winning the Natty?
Speaker 1: I feel like a lot of my favorite memories are
Speaker 1: just us as a team hanging out, and one of
Speaker 1: them was in the It was around it was early
Speaker 1: in the seasons. It was around Halloween. We had just
Speaker 1: started getting in discaray movies. I think this was around Halloween,
Speaker 1: and the first one we decided to watch was The Purge.
Speaker 1: And it was like our first big movie night. It
Speaker 1: wasn't the whole team, but we were all like squeeze
Speaker 1: in pages room. So it was Page, me, KK, Sarah Ice, Jana,
Speaker 1: Caitlin Ali, We're like all a squeeze in her room
Speaker 1: and we're watching The Purge and a lot of them
Speaker 1: had never seen it before, and I think, if I
Speaker 1: remember correctly, we kind of convinced Jana that this was
Speaker 1: a real thing. And so then it also became a
Speaker 1: conversation of like if the Purge really did happen, Like
Speaker 1: where would you hide?
Speaker 2: Would you go?
Speaker 3: Wow?
Speaker 1: Like who would you try to kill? And like would
Speaker 1: you be like try to get money? Would try to
Speaker 1: get some like new bags and new designer clothes? Like
Speaker 1: what would you be trying to get? But that was
Speaker 1: like our first of many movie nights, and it was
Speaker 1: nice just to hang out with them and mess with them.
Speaker 3: I love that. That's cute teammate bonding. Okay, so fud family,
Speaker 3: super fun crazy. Never know what stories you're gonna get
Speaker 3: with you guys, Can you tell us one story or
Speaker 3: tell us anything crazy that's happened maybe during a game
Speaker 3: or when your family came over. It could be au,
Speaker 3: it could be college anything.
Speaker 1: Wait, funy, craziest thing that they've done at a game,
Speaker 1: at a game to make it to a game all
Speaker 1: time or anything. One of my favorite things is when
Speaker 1: I when I'm like in a game, I even whether
Speaker 1: if I'm playing or like on the bench, just in
Speaker 1: the huddle, and I look up on the jumpotron and
Speaker 1: I see someone from my family up there dancing. It's
Speaker 1: usually my dad. But when I see him either up
Speaker 1: there dancing or like, I'll like make eye contact with them,
Speaker 1: and I'll see him just in this going crazy, or
Speaker 1: when he's like jumping trying to get a T shirt.
Speaker 1: The amount of videos that I've seen from fans of
Speaker 1: him like at games trying to get T shirt tosses, Like,
Speaker 1: I'm like, Dad, you have so many Yukon shirts, why
Speaker 1: do you need another Yukon shert from this T shirt
Speaker 1: toss like you really don't. I know you don't, but
Speaker 1: it's become a competition for him. But that always makes
Speaker 1: me laugh. I can imagine him just rebounding over people
Speaker 1: to grab these T shirts. Yes, and is killing me
Speaker 1: because it gives very much on brand. And now that's
Speaker 1: the competition.
Speaker 2: But it's like arms all the way out jumping.
Speaker 3: Has anyone ever out jumped him? No, not the Yukon fans,
Speaker 3: at least not the box out. If you can add
Speaker 3: any like random rule to basketball, what would it be?
Speaker 1: I feel like an easy answer would be like a
Speaker 1: four point shot, like half court and back is worth
Speaker 1: four points if you get like a crazy buzzer beater,
Speaker 1: just make things interesting or even like the volleyball line,
Speaker 1: like a spot is like a bonus point. But I
Speaker 1: feel like it makes you something like more fun. Like
Speaker 1: that's that's a basic answer. I don't know what would
Speaker 1: you say.
Speaker 3: Could you I was gonna say, could you knock down
Speaker 3: a four point and that's gonna be a that's gonna
Speaker 3: be a regular range.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I definitely knocked out at least, like you know,
Speaker 1: I got to get a couple of them in at
Speaker 1: least won a game that was.
Speaker 3: Probably one of my favorite parts of the All Star Game.
Speaker 3: I'm like, yes, let's run it up. You should have
Speaker 3: four points.
Speaker 2: I like that. Okay.
Speaker 3: So one of the listeners want to know what is
Speaker 3: your signature move and what would you name it?
Speaker 1: My signature move in high school, my signature move was
Speaker 1: an in and out cross like I did it like
Speaker 1: one hundred times a game. I feel like I don't
Speaker 1: do it as much, but it's still my go to,
Speaker 1: like when I'm playing one on one in workouts, or
Speaker 1: like an in out between.
Speaker 3: I don't know what I would call it, though you
Speaker 3: have a great name, girl, I would use it for everything,
Speaker 3: but I don't.
Speaker 2: Know what I would call it.
Speaker 5: What would be your move? And what would you call it?
Speaker 3: I love a good hook shot, and it's called the
Speaker 3: hook shot, so you know what I call it?
Speaker 2: I don't know. Some ap something.
Speaker 3: Okay, they start with an AP for sure work, but
Speaker 3: the rest I don't know. We put a little razzle
Speaker 3: dazz on it, Okay. So we have a ton of
Speaker 3: questions and this one is making me laugh and I
Speaker 3: can't wait to ask you. So one of the listeners
Speaker 3: asked which cartoon character would be unstoppable in college basketball.
Speaker 2: My mind immediately goes to space.
Speaker 1: Jam I feel like mine. I'm trying to think of
Speaker 1: something else. Okay, I'm gonna go with Sully from Monstros Inc.
Speaker 1: I think he'd be a beast in the paint. Yes, absolutely,
Speaker 1: that's cute.
Speaker 3: So it just depends. Like I'm thinking Tom and Jerry
Speaker 3: old school. Both of them will be great. One Tom
Speaker 3: haydy cat. He's bigger, at least on the cartoon. He
Speaker 3: makes him look big, so we would put him in
Speaker 3: the paint. Absolutely, But Jerry he's small. He gets through everybody.
Speaker 3: He'll be my little point guard.
Speaker 2: So okay, I think my characters.
Speaker 3: Okay, what is the funniest thing a coach has ever
Speaker 3: yelled at you about?
Speaker 2: Hmmm, you know what?
Speaker 1: The funniest or I would say, like the most random,
Speaker 1: like I'm not gonna say unacceptable, but like something you
Speaker 1: shouldn't be yelled at for would be my dad yelling
Speaker 1: at me. I forget what grade it, definitely, I want
Speaker 1: to say this was like seventh eighth, maybe ninth grade
Speaker 1: like in that in that time period, could have been younger.
Speaker 2: I don't remember.
Speaker 1: I needed to go pee during practice, he yelled at me.
Speaker 2: He yelled at me.
Speaker 1: So he kicked me out of practice, kicked me out
Speaker 1: of the gym because I asked to go.
Speaker 2: Pee something you could not even control.
Speaker 1: No, actually he told me that you can't control it,
Speaker 1: and you should only be asking to go to the
Speaker 1: bathroom if you need to poop, because that's been that
Speaker 1: you can't hold. But if you need to pee, then
Speaker 1: you're not really trying. You're not working hard enough.
Speaker 3: Oh, he said, all that needs to be coming out
Speaker 3: through sweat.
Speaker 2: I see, I see the thinking practice.
Speaker 1: I think I was just speechless on that one. I
Speaker 1: was like, is he what's going on?
Speaker 2: I mean, did you ever pee your pants in practice? No?
Speaker 2: So I mean I should have just.
Speaker 3: A prop of point, like I told you, I told
Speaker 3: you I needed to go. Okay, So what is the
Speaker 3: most embarrassing moment you've had on the court?
Speaker 2: Then? So we know you didn't pee your pants? What happened?
Speaker 1: I mean, I guess similar to that. I guess getting
Speaker 1: my period during a game. That's never fun. How old
Speaker 1: were you when this happened? Oh, this was like in college. Okay,
Speaker 1: it was, but someone saw it before, like other people
Speaker 1: did so I've heard like other horror stories. But so
Speaker 1: they caught it in time for me to change and
Speaker 1: was this a TV game? Yeah, but it wasn't bad
Speaker 1: and you could only see it from a certain angle.
Speaker 3: So yeah, it was caught in time. But shout out
Speaker 3: to the community because oh my goodness, that's crazy. Okay,
Speaker 3: we're back from break a Z.
Speaker 2: What do you got?
Speaker 3: So the first question is where did you grow up?
Speaker 3: So I grew up in New York City. I lived
Speaker 3: mostly in Manhattan majority of my life, but I've lived
Speaker 3: in almost every borough except for Staten Island.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 3: The next question is where did you play college basketball?
Speaker 3: I played college basketball at Texas A and M Corpus Christi.
Speaker 3: It is a small division one in South Texas aka
Speaker 3: The Island University. Was it hard to leave New York
Speaker 3: when you picked a college out of state? I was
Speaker 3: really excited to leave New York. You know, I grew
Speaker 3: up there, so I was like, I want to go
Speaker 3: somewhere outside of the city, and I want to go
Speaker 3: somewhere warm, So it made sense for me to go
Speaker 3: there and then but it's very different. It's very different.
Speaker 3: People are always smiling and they greet you when you
Speaker 3: walk by. New York is not as friendly as Texas is,
Speaker 3: but it was it was great.
Speaker 1: Wait, so then what made you want to go back?
Speaker 1: You're like, I miss it.
Speaker 2: New York is always home.
Speaker 3: I went to college in Texas, but I was like,
Speaker 3: I knew I wasn't going to stay there forever. So
Speaker 3: that's why I definitely made my way back back home.
Speaker 3: But after a couple of years. Though, after a couple
Speaker 3: of years, but I made my way back.
Speaker 1: You did, what injuries did you have when you were playing?
Speaker 2: So quite a few.
Speaker 3: Actually, I was pretty much injured majority of my college career.
Speaker 3: I had some major ankle injuries, like just like sprains,
Speaker 3: and then I popped my cartilage and the big one.
Speaker 2: I tore my ACL when I was a senior. Hey,
Speaker 2: part of the club.
Speaker 3: It's when right or leftni lefni. Okay, so we've got
Speaker 3: both in these covered between the two of us.
Speaker 2: Then look at that. Listen only on one good one.
Speaker 1: No, I don't say that we have two good ones each,
Speaker 1: like our knees are good.
Speaker 2: Okay, put it together. We got two good knees.
Speaker 1: There you go.
Speaker 5: Okay.
Speaker 3: The next question is did you play overseas? And where
Speaker 3: I did play overseas? I played in Malta. I played
Speaker 3: in Czech Republic, Germany and Australia. My absolute favorite place
Speaker 3: playing was Australia. It was the last place I played,
Speaker 3: and I just loved everything. I've always wanted to go
Speaker 3: and so I was really excited to be able to
Speaker 3: play out there and live out there for a couple
Speaker 3: of months.
Speaker 1: What about that was your favorite?
Speaker 2: I think the team was.
Speaker 3: The team felt really like family and it's warm all
Speaker 3: the time. I lived in Brisbane and Brisbane's like a city,
Speaker 3: but they have like this man made beach in the
Speaker 3: middle of the city and so.
Speaker 2: That was cool. It's a lot of greenery, but not
Speaker 2: like the country, so I enjoyed being able to still
Speaker 2: be around like green but not be in in the
Speaker 2: middle of like the woods.
Speaker 1: So you didn't see any giant spiders or kinkers.
Speaker 2: No giant spiders.
Speaker 3: But I was chased down the street by a turkey
Speaker 3: looking animal on my way to practice yep, yep, traumatic experience.
Speaker 2: Me and my therapists are locked in after that.
Speaker 3: But definitely that was the only thing I was more afraid,
Speaker 3: because you know, Australia is home to the deadliest animals
Speaker 3: in the world. But it was more city like than anything.
Speaker 3: And I only got chased one time, so you know,
Speaker 3: we let it go. I feel like those are good odds.
Speaker 3: Only once, only once out of the months I was there.
Speaker 3: I'll take it anytime.
Speaker 5: Okay.
Speaker 1: The next question is fast forward a little bit. They
Speaker 1: want to know how did you get into basketball media?
Speaker 3: So I got hurt towards the end of being in Australia,
Speaker 3: and for me, I was kind of like, all right,
Speaker 3: I've dealt with injuries all through college.
Speaker 2: I've dealt with injuries.
Speaker 3: Now in my professional career, I might want to like
Speaker 3: slow down a little bit. So I was like, how
Speaker 3: can I I still be around the game when I'm
Speaker 3: not playing professionally? And so I was kind of like,
Speaker 3: why not host? Why not tell stories? Why not still
Speaker 3: be around it in ways that I don't necessarily have
Speaker 3: to play all the time, still play for funsies. But
Speaker 3: it's like a different vibe now with the game. So yeah,
Speaker 3: I got into it because I stopped playing professionally. Okay,
Speaker 3: last question, do you like hosting broadcasting as much as playing?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 3: I love it and I just find like a new
Speaker 3: love for it hosting and broadcasting and all this fun stuff.
Speaker 3: But I think even when I still play basketball but
Speaker 3: recreationally or like for New York City outdoor summer basketball,
Speaker 3: it's just something about playing the game that will always
Speaker 3: be the best feeling ever. So why I love hosting
Speaker 3: and I love doing all the things surrounding the game.
Speaker 3: I think actually playing will always be like my number
Speaker 3: one love.
Speaker 1: I love that it doesn't get better than playing it.
Speaker 2: It doesn't, So be present. Why you got it?
Speaker 1: Thank you all for listening. We'll be back next week
Speaker 1: after I get back from traveling, but until then, show
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