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Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, Okay, welcome back to serving pancakes. I
Speaker 3: am Mattie Richell.
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Speaker 2: We have a lot to get to today, I fear
Speaker 2: so all right, So we had our roster releases. Well
Speaker 2: do you want to do a little catch up first?
Speaker 2: And then I always just go straight for the volleyball.
Speaker 1: I know you like, let's just go like, can we
Speaker 1: like not talk about volleyball first podcast? Yes, give us
Speaker 1: an update on your health. Update on the health health
Speaker 1: is wealth you guys. So unfortunately, fortunately I have to
Speaker 1: have another surgery, not as invasive, but still evasive, and
Speaker 1: that is I learned that yesterday. So I have surgery tomorrow.
Speaker 3: So Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1: We're just going to go in. I developed incisional hernia.
Speaker 1: That's pretty so that my small intestine is protruding through
Speaker 1: a hole that cannot heal because intestine's coming through. So like,
Speaker 1: you know what, we don't like that. We're going to
Speaker 1: go in, close that hold up, put some mesh down,
Speaker 1: close it up. But instead of had the farmaginal surgery,
Speaker 1: they kind of like close everything together. The doctor that
Speaker 1: I have is a specialist in hernias, and so they're
Speaker 1: gonna go layer by layer like onions. So they're gonna
Speaker 1: sow every piece of layer down and they're gonna redo
Speaker 1: my old incisional scar. So give me a little bit
Speaker 1: more cosmetic, look more appealing to the eye, because right
Speaker 1: now it's kind of keyloaded and dark. I didn't mind it,
Speaker 1: like it's a scar. Scars do that.
Speaker 3: They're like, yeah, but it looks kind of badass.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think I'm like, I get bit by a shark.
Speaker 1: That's what it's giving, Like, yeah, a shark.
Speaker 3: I got stabbed.
Speaker 1: In the middle straight out.
Speaker 3: That.
Speaker 1: Yeah. So it's like a two week recovery kind of thing.
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna go back to Austin tonight. First tomorrow,
Speaker 1: and I'll be there for these and a half weeks
Speaker 1: and then I'll come back home to Miami. Holy my news.
Speaker 1: What's your news?
Speaker 2: Well, first of all, we'll be praying for you because
Speaker 2: that sounds like a lot and you've really gone through
Speaker 2: it this summer.
Speaker 3: What has been up with me? Nothing? I'm just I
Speaker 3: don't know. New teams, AKA, what's the way?
Speaker 1: It's something like, there it is?
Speaker 3: Does that look right on the screen?
Speaker 1: Flip it there it is? It's giving West Coast versus
Speaker 1: East Coast. That's what it's giving now. So like like
Speaker 1: the Battle of the Texas teams, it's like it's yeah,
Speaker 1: let's got a new thing now. I like it. I
Speaker 1: love it.
Speaker 2: Maybe we should just adopt that. No, I feel like
Speaker 2: the La Hands sign is pretty good.
Speaker 1: Figure out that definitely.
Speaker 2: Figure out my hands Miami trign be like this.
Speaker 3: Oh Miami Okay. Yeah.
Speaker 2: So for the people that don't know, I'm going to
Speaker 2: LA next season, which is exciting but very bittersweet because
Speaker 2: I really really loved Houston a lot.
Speaker 1: How much as you love Houston, let's talk about why
Speaker 1: being in LA is so important though for your life?
Speaker 3: Yeah, Like my life is in La. So for me
Speaker 3: makes sense. Like, I think the whole reason of our
Speaker 3: league was.
Speaker 2: Like, Okay, everyone gets to come home and you get
Speaker 2: to play in the US, and like that is all
Speaker 2: so awesome in itself, but like you're still away from home.
Speaker 3: At the end of the day.
Speaker 2: So I'm still My husband lives in La full time.
Speaker 2: He never travels with me in like the last ten
Speaker 2: eleven years of me playing, He's always here and I'm away, So.
Speaker 3: It's like obviously very challenging.
Speaker 2: So now this will be our first full year together,
Speaker 2: which is actually crazy. I know.
Speaker 1: I'm like, Maddie has been overseas for a very long
Speaker 1: time and has been doing long distance since she's been
Speaker 1: married for ten years plus, which is insane. Yeah, so
Speaker 1: now that she's coming back home and gets to do
Speaker 1: like her real life at home in her brand new house,
Speaker 1: I think is so great. That's so exciting.
Speaker 2: Now, I know, it's like all the stars are truly aligning,
Speaker 2: and you know, it's so funny, like every time I
Speaker 2: come home in the summer, everybody's like, I know it's
Speaker 2: summer like because Mattie's home and it feels like vac
Speaker 2: and now it just like feels like normal.
Speaker 3: Life, which is a better feeling.
Speaker 1: Honestly, basically, twenty six is the year of alignment. I
Speaker 1: feel that way too.
Speaker 3: So, yeah, the year the Horse. I don't know that far.
Speaker 1: But she got my setter, Carly Lloyd.
Speaker 2: From all we got Oh my gosh, I'm so s Yes,
Speaker 2: Carly was my first ever national team roommate when I
Speaker 2: traveled for the first time with USA. So I think
Speaker 2: it's just so funny now that we're on the same team.
Speaker 2: Full circle moment, full full circle. And then we also
Speaker 2: have oh, Catherine.
Speaker 1: Plumber, I know, I saw that's going to be insane time.
Speaker 3: Oh that was that was exciting.
Speaker 2: And then they just re announced also Haley Washington. Mm
Speaker 2: hmm today with.
Speaker 3: Your team Miami. You're already in Miami.
Speaker 1: I know, I've been living my life literally, Yeah, it's fine.
Speaker 1: They haven't. They were asked for me. I'm still waiting
Speaker 1: for the Rossity release. But there I'm sure by now
Speaker 1: this comes out, it's gonna be released. But I'm already
Speaker 1: in the works of setting up health for the team already,
Speaker 1: you know. So I'm like, if I'm gonna be be here,
Speaker 1: I will always have the best of the best kind
Speaker 1: of stuff from like chiropractors, the massage there, pisture, and
Speaker 1: the conditioning coaches. Yeah, pets, I'm on it. So I
Speaker 1: was on the phone this morning with our director of
Speaker 1: health for the league setting that kind of stuff for
Speaker 1: the team Miami. But yeah, I've already been in here.
Speaker 1: This is now my home. I consider it now. And
Speaker 1: does it feel like oh for sure, It's like when
Speaker 1: I went home yesterday. I went back to Texas yesterday.
Speaker 1: Even tho I went back into my apartment that I
Speaker 1: designed and put together, it didn't feel like That's not like,
Speaker 1: it didn't feel like my home anymore. You know, I
Speaker 1: definitely felt like I was visiting and then to kind
Speaker 1: of like I got on the plane literally last night
Speaker 1: after flying in yesterday morning and just because I wanted
Speaker 1: to be here. I want to be yeah, yeah, exactly. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So but it was it was really good. Obviously, Gonna
Speaker 1: miss love Austin, you know, Austin always has my heart
Speaker 1: going to ut there. Obviously, I've developed great relationships to
Speaker 1: girls and that kind of Step two. Got an opportunity
Speaker 1: to play with some of my best friends, which has
Speaker 1: been great opportunity to play with some girls that came
Speaker 1: after me, you know, it's been really cool and to
Speaker 1: see them growing developed. But you know, it's a new year,
Speaker 1: new beginnings, time for a change. Yeah, and it's an
Speaker 1: opportunity to like, you know, actually you know, practice longer
Speaker 1: periods of time. So I'm looking forward to that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's great. No more three opposites.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no more three or four opposites and no more
Speaker 1: of that.
Speaker 3: That's so challenging, just two of us.
Speaker 1: So it's great.
Speaker 3: Yeah, good, that's exciting. Things are coming.
Speaker 2: It's really hard to leave a team, but like, I
Speaker 2: don't know, like a new challenge in front of you,
Speaker 2: is it kind of like refreshes you to the sport.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: It's also cool too that like, because we've been doing
Speaker 1: it now for two years, even though on the same teams,
Speaker 1: even though we're moving teams, we kind of know the
Speaker 1: gist of everything and how things kind of go. You
Speaker 1: guys got our Dovo though. Shannon's amazing. You're gonna love Yes,
Speaker 1: that's for sure, for sure. Yeah, she text us yesterday
Speaker 1: that she's with you guys.
Speaker 3: Just send me her phone number.
Speaker 1: Yes, Maddie, that's one point. I tell you, that's one
Speaker 1: person you want to have on your Like, this is
Speaker 1: my people list, Like if I was open a business,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna hid.
Speaker 3: Her number, text me her number.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, she's she's she's amazing, she's.
Speaker 3: We gotta save it up to Shannon. Yeah, sweet, that's exciting.
Speaker 3: I didn't know that.
Speaker 1: Like I'm talking like, oh, I know everything.
Speaker 2: I know a good devo. I know our devo in
Speaker 2: Houston is the best. Shout out Aaron, you were awesome.
Speaker 2: But she came in late and so like after season one.
Speaker 2: But anyway, it pays to have a good Dovo.
Speaker 1: Yeah, like Shannon has my location. That's how Yeah, that's.
Speaker 3: How she knows you'll be late.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'll be late, and now I'll be late. I'll
Speaker 1: be gone, Like we'll have the weekend off and I'll
Speaker 1: be like, I ain't tell Eric, but I'm gonna tell you.
Speaker 1: I'll be back. She was like, Okay, just be back.
Speaker 2: Yeah, hopefully Paolo Coco is the same.
Speaker 1: No, I don't think that's the thing. No, I don't
Speaker 1: think we're getting something selling. We ain't getting weekends off.
Speaker 1: But I'm the life that I lived in Austin is
Speaker 1: over with, which is fine because my life was here anyway.
Speaker 1: So like you know, practice, I don't mind practice. I
Speaker 1: can practice. Just make it. Just make it useful, you know.
Speaker 1: I don't like going to practice and it's like, not,
Speaker 1: we're not really doing shit. Make it worth my while,
Speaker 1: which I'm sure that he will.
Speaker 3: I've heard oh one thousand.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I ain't never scared. I ain't never scared to
Speaker 1: work hard. You know what I'm saying. I ain't never scared.
Speaker 3: So working hard on a purpose, I can't complain with that.
Speaker 1: For the past two years haven't gotten much of it.
Speaker 1: So you know, I'm excited to actually.
Speaker 3: You know well that you just have more opportunity.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, do you think it'll be fun to play against
Speaker 2: Austin if you have to play them next season? I
Speaker 2: don't know how the East West situation is gonna work,
Speaker 2: but I'm assuming that at some point.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I I feel like this has to be some
Speaker 1: type of like crossover or something like that. However, they're
Speaker 1: going to design and schedule, which I hope they released soon.
Speaker 1: But I mean, there's no like excitement about it. I
Speaker 1: just like it's just like another team, you know, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's my old team. I'm excited to kind of like
Speaker 1: it'd be a different visual for sure, seeing on the
Speaker 1: opposites out of the side of the net. But like
Speaker 1: just like any other team, which they did hate that
Speaker 1: I would do. Like if I saw my friends other teams,
Speaker 1: I'm going over to go talk. They don't like that,
Speaker 1: but then they'll see now that like it's normal, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean. So yeah, I'll come over and
Speaker 1: see them and hug them and say hi, and then
Speaker 1: go back to my side, you.
Speaker 3: Know, perfect, and then against them.
Speaker 1: I know I've been saying, I'm like the cha Some
Speaker 1: people don't know as the championship follows me. People don't know.
Speaker 3: Oh, but what if it follows Carly.
Speaker 1: Oh, that could be a thing. You know what I
Speaker 1: can share that? You know, well, I guess.
Speaker 3: What if it all? What if it also follows Koto?
Speaker 1: You do have Koto? You want her to be a
Speaker 1: Pepper partner. I'm telling you right now, Okay, I'll lock
Speaker 1: that in. Yeah, you want her to be a Pepper
Speaker 1: partner one hundred percent, Like, yeah.
Speaker 3: You're welcome. Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1: She was searching, like who else could be besides her?
Speaker 3: I can't pick any of the middles. Sorry Middles, I
Speaker 3: love you.
Speaker 1: Sorry, No, I'm always with a Libero or or like
Speaker 1: I prefer Libero orn outside.
Speaker 2: I was with Jordan Thompson for the last two years,
Speaker 2: and let me tell you, Jordan is actually a very
Speaker 2: good Pepper partner.
Speaker 3: Jordan, Yeah, you're welcome.
Speaker 1: Well you pepper with me?
Speaker 3: We're good. Yeah, maybe it's me.
Speaker 2: No, Okay, THEA has to come back. Okay. Do you
Speaker 2: know who else is on your team? Are you excited
Speaker 2: to play with anybody?
Speaker 3: You don't know?
Speaker 1: Anyone I know, like Mackenzie Adams Atlantish is on our team.
Speaker 1: With that I do know of her.
Speaker 3: And Paolo already have that you know relationships.
Speaker 1: I've heard that like players only wanted to play for him.
Speaker 1: That's what I heard, which is really cool to hear, Like,
Speaker 1: I love that, you know what I mean? Her? I know.
Speaker 1: The second opposite is a Serbian opposite. She's kind of young.
Speaker 1: I don't know officially, but heard her. She's upper She's
Speaker 1: really good.
Speaker 3: But there.
Speaker 1: Miami is made up of a Miami's made up of
Speaker 1: a lot of foreigners apparently, so it'd be really exciting
Speaker 1: to see.
Speaker 3: Oh that's great.
Speaker 2: Also in a city that's so diverse, I feel like.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but I don't feel like Spanish everyone I think
Speaker 1: a lot of people can be like Spanish foreigners. I
Speaker 1: think that which would be cool, that would make sense. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know I've ben with a Latin culture.
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, for y'all, don't who don't know?
Speaker 1: I used to speak Spanish. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: No, we've heard this story before, but can you just
Speaker 2: can you just tell it one more time for everybody?
Speaker 3: Because you did not speak.
Speaker 1: So when I first contacted from California, this is like
Speaker 1: nineteen ninety nine, two thousand, we listened to an apartment
Speaker 1: complex and there was only friend that I had was
Speaker 1: the Mexican girl next door who spoke Spanish. He didn't
Speaker 1: speak any English, which I was fine because you know,
Speaker 1: I watched Selena.
Speaker 3: Yep, you knew.
Speaker 1: You thought I could see the colors of the rainbow
Speaker 1: and Spanish, so I thought I knew Spanish. So you know,
Speaker 1: when we first started playing together, she would talk to
Speaker 1: me in Spanish and I'd be like, no, dead ass.
Speaker 1: I'd be like yes, and she would respond to me,
Speaker 1: you're speaking like maybe she thought you spoke just a
Speaker 1: different dialect. She's from a different rea. Girl was responding
Speaker 1: to me. So I was like, you know, we was talking.
Speaker 1: We was about this is my age, bloom cool home
Speaker 1: girl like.
Speaker 3: My mom, and ended up going it's.
Speaker 2: Like me and we spoke weird Spanish to each other exactly.
Speaker 1: But like I just we was playing barbiees and it'd
Speaker 1: just be like and she would say, come on to
Speaker 1: d some something in Spanish and I'd be like, and
Speaker 1: we was talking back and forth. In my mind, I'm like,
Speaker 1: you guys, I'm in this like I'm in like the
Speaker 1: first grade, okay, Like I did speak Spanish. And it
Speaker 1: wasn't until another girl moved in, who was by this
Speaker 1: bitch I think her name was.
Speaker 3: I think her name it sounds like.
Speaker 1: This is. We were all together and yeah, see they
Speaker 1: were like speaking Spanish and so you know, I'm thinking
Speaker 1: I speak Fanish too, So I'm like, they like speaking Spanish.
Speaker 1: I'm like, but some time, but she looks at me.
Speaker 1: She looks at me, and she goes, you're not even
Speaker 1: saying nothing. And when I tell you all the way,
Speaker 1: my heart just broke because then and then I then
Speaker 1: I could see the girl next to her being like,
Speaker 1: you know, I know right type ship in my face.
Speaker 1: Play with them again. I didn't play with them. It
Speaker 1: was fine, Yeah, I said audios amiga.
Speaker 2: Oh wow, so you'll do great with your team. You'll
Speaker 2: speak Spanish with them.
Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly, Now I know little span your You know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. They call me Muchacha.
Speaker 3: All right, that's a good.
Speaker 1: That's a good. That's my little new name. So the
Speaker 1: cat they call Muchacha here in Miami be gonna look
Speaker 1: out for that.
Speaker 3: That's gonna be.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Muchacha is like girl, okay, perfect or yeah, look it up.
Speaker 2: Let's look it up, just to be safe.
Speaker 1: Yeah is the god side. That's my name is Miami.
Speaker 1: But anyways, I'm excited about Miami. I'm excited to learn Spanish.
Speaker 1: I will say I can cuss in Spanish now, so
Speaker 1: if it gets to the point where I gotta cuss,
Speaker 1: I can cuss, you're.
Speaker 3: Gonna have to do it in Portuguese. With Muchacha means.
Speaker 1: Girl, I'm gonna cuss out. I'm on Google Translate and
Speaker 1: showing my phone. This is what the hell I'm saying.
Speaker 3: We're so sorry.
Speaker 1: I'm just okay, but I promise I'm fine.
Speaker 2: The true true downfall of our teams the next season
Speaker 2: is that we will be like the furthest ever from
Speaker 2: each other.
Speaker 1: I know, and we have a thing that like when
Speaker 1: we play against each other, even if we don't play
Speaker 1: against each other, I won't really see you, but I
Speaker 1: don't know. It depends on how to n which is
Speaker 1: crazy because like I'm used to seeing you at least
Speaker 1: four times, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2: I know, and we were like so close that even
Speaker 2: when you would come and play me, or like I
Speaker 2: would go there, we could stay for a day and
Speaker 2: then just like make our way back.
Speaker 1: But the good thing is for you, I.
Speaker 3: Need a private jet, private jet sponsorship.
Speaker 1: Somebody plug it here. But the good thing for you
Speaker 1: is that like when you come here to play us,
Speaker 1: potentially you can still stay right and then you fly
Speaker 1: back into time, so you don't really you.
Speaker 2: Know what I mean, Yeah home, Yeah, I know that
Speaker 2: is nice even think about that.
Speaker 1: But the other way around for me would be kind
Speaker 1: of difficult. But you know, we'll play it by ear.
Speaker 1: We'll see how it happens.
Speaker 2: I know when I flew there the other week, it
Speaker 2: took a whole day off my life, but then when.
Speaker 1: You went back, I gained my whole day back exactly.
Speaker 1: So you know, so if you got practice at eleven am,
Speaker 1: you leave here at five, you go get there by ten.
Speaker 3: You know what I mean, So make it for practice.
Speaker 3: Don't worry, Yeah, don't worry.
Speaker 2: But we don't know who our coaches are even by the.
Speaker 3: End of the week. I don't know if it'll be announced.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that was one thing that Shannon had asked me
Speaker 1: because she wasn't sure because she like, obviously you know,
Speaker 1: she wouanted to know who was her superior, right, And
Speaker 1: that's what you didn't know because she had asked me.
Speaker 2: There's some ideas, but nothing solidified yet, so I won't
Speaker 2: speak on it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but I saw the video that you and Carly
Speaker 1: had did for the.
Speaker 2: Like that.
Speaker 3: We're going to see some people, We're going to meet
Speaker 3: our team. It's so fun.
Speaker 2: Okay, So the scooter in the video of the vespa
Speaker 2: is mine and that is like how I get around
Speaker 2: my little area. So like the people were like, oh,
Speaker 2: you should just ride the scooter, and I was like okay,
Speaker 2: And so then the little footage of me on the
Speaker 2: scooter going out, and then I rode to Carly's house
Speaker 2: picked up and then we met our whole team at
Speaker 2: the beach house that that they want us to meet
Speaker 2: at Carly's family friend.
Speaker 3: But yeah, it was so cute and I really like,
Speaker 3: I really like our team. I think it'll be a
Speaker 3: fun vibe.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm very excited, but like if also Vespa, if
Speaker 2: you're listening, I could use another one.
Speaker 3: Plug it here, plug it here.
Speaker 1: I rode on the back when I'm there, So I
Speaker 1: would prefer a bigger seat for this bad ass in
Speaker 1: the bag. Maddie needs a bigger helmet for her head.
Speaker 2: But its yeah mm hmm, yeah, well your head's getting
Speaker 2: smaller with all the surgeries.
Speaker 1: It was my my head meet the best story.
Speaker 2: Yes, you told me when your sister text you or
Speaker 2: told you you were losing your head meat she said.
Speaker 1: She's like, yeah, I can see your school Like damn bitch,
Speaker 1: Like I'm going through it, Like can you not?
Speaker 3: It was like the lowest low to Yeah.
Speaker 1: She was like yeah. She was like, you ain't got
Speaker 1: no hit meet. My brother was like, yeah, I can
Speaker 1: see your thoughts.
Speaker 3: Shut up.
Speaker 1: See this is what it's like being in the black
Speaker 1: community and going through things. You know what I mean,
Speaker 1: Like they make fun of you to make you feel better,
Speaker 1: you know. He's like, yeah, I can see what you're
Speaker 1: already thinking, Like shut up. Fuck both of y'all. Actually like,
Speaker 1: how about that, Jean.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they're just trying to make your head smaller because
Speaker 2: it was actually getting too bad.
Speaker 1: Well, I had just I just got my weight back
Speaker 1: and so hopefully I can keep it now, even off
Speaker 1: the surgery. I don't. It'll be fine. It's gonna be fine.
Speaker 1: So yeah, whatever, Okay, But anyways, but I would like
Speaker 1: to say, yes, just some little advice for Calarly, Well,
Speaker 1: for you, take care of my girl.
Speaker 3: That's all I want to say.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, and season she needs like lots of love
Speaker 1: and lots of like you know, oh, so take care
Speaker 1: of her.
Speaker 3: Yeah, for sure, you will.
Speaker 1: Big enough to cry on for sure.
Speaker 3: That's all I get. Yeah, lots of love.
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Speaker 2: Okay, so we can talk about as of today, we're
Speaker 2: recording who we know is on certain rosters.
Speaker 1: Oh, Tia is staying.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Tia and p are staying in Atlanta, which is awesome.
Speaker 3: I love p Yeah. Yeah, she's so fun. Okay.
Speaker 2: And then your team, well, your ex team is keeping
Speaker 2: a lot of same players. Yeah, my Libarrow from last
Speaker 2: year's going there, Little Lauren, I love her.
Speaker 1: That's awesome. And she's also a training on the messal
Speaker 1: team right now too.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so that's I feel like.
Speaker 1: Eric, that's a cheat, Like, how do you Eric's training
Speaker 1: with most of his girls that he will compete with
Speaker 1: in the love season.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a great question that you're putting on the table. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I don't know if that's fair or not. I'm just saying,
Speaker 1: don't shoot the messenger.
Speaker 2: But yeah, well, I think in some in some countries,
Speaker 2: you can't the head coach of the national team, can't
Speaker 2: coach in that country, can't be a head coach of
Speaker 2: a pro team in the same country. Mhm, which I
Speaker 2: think is honestly a decent rule because then stuff like
Speaker 2: that doesn't happen.
Speaker 3: But what do I know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we got Claire choon Say who was at Madison
Speaker 1: last year. We got Brooke Millaviller, who was at super
Speaker 1: Novous last year.
Speaker 3: Yah coming over from MLV A fellow.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's really insane. The internet is crazy. Everyone's going
Speaker 1: crazy on it. I know there's been something said and
Speaker 1: I'm like, people are crazy.
Speaker 2: What was the most loco I'll say the most loco
Speaker 2: thing that you see, Like.
Speaker 1: Not loco, but like people are just like I don't know,
Speaker 1: they're just good things are bad things. I guess, like
Speaker 1: I guess bad. I guess too. This is a little
Speaker 1: bit of both. So no one cares then, but it's
Speaker 1: something interesting I think. I think also, like people were
Speaker 1: saying how they feel like Love was like poaching players
Speaker 1: from MLV. I'm like, no, to dever to poach players,
Speaker 1: you gotta have given them bread, and there's no way
Speaker 1: they're breaking more money, like Brooke coming to Love making
Speaker 1: way more money she's making Super Novo.
Speaker 2: To be honest, I have no idea about any of that,
Speaker 2: but like, if your choice is to play high level volleyball,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna be a little biased and say you would
Speaker 2: be in the correct league now.
Speaker 1: Now, So with that being said, that being said, Okay,
Speaker 1: for me, there's no down for MLB. I think MLB
Speaker 1: is a great great everybody may exactly it's perfect, but
Speaker 1: I feel like the levels are just different, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean, Like when you're competing against you know,
Speaker 1: Jordan Larson every other night, or Jordan Thompson every other night,
Speaker 1: you know, Madison Skinner every other night, the level is different,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, Like you have Olympic players
Speaker 1: training the national team gym that are all in the
Speaker 1: same league across the board. On top of really good
Speaker 1: foreign best Dick can say, you can actually say best
Speaker 1: players in their position in the world of playing in
Speaker 1: this league.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I would agree with you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I think that it's yeah, you can't for
Speaker 2: anybody who's like comparing the level of the two leagues.
Speaker 2: I just don't think that it's a fair argument at
Speaker 2: this point.
Speaker 1: So you want to hear my I want to hear
Speaker 1: my example. Sure, So again, I have said this before,
Speaker 1: and I will say I'm dying on this heel. Okay,
Speaker 1: I can give okay, best I can give the NBA
Speaker 1: has a G League. Yes, the levels are both good.
Speaker 1: When I watch the G League game sometimes, you know,
Speaker 1: they have some phenomenal basketball players. I'm talking about guys
Speaker 1: that are on the cups that definitely could be playing
Speaker 1: in the NBA, you know what I mean. For sure,
Speaker 1: there's guys that bounce around from G League teams into
Speaker 1: the big teams. You know, like there was one guy
Speaker 1: last season that was going from the sup from the
Speaker 1: Spurs G League team to the big team, up and
Speaker 1: down throughout the season. I think G League gives me
Speaker 1: All Star. I'm talking like they dunkin, not a lot
Speaker 1: of the defense, a lot of offense. It's very like
Speaker 1: boom boom bam MLV. It's very MLB for me, is
Speaker 1: very flashy because the block isn't discipline. You know, they
Speaker 1: have a lot more opportunities to have. You know, middles
Speaker 1: get faked out holes in the block, blocks being set
Speaker 1: up all over the place. When I watched the games,
Speaker 1: I'm like, this kill was insane, but the block had
Speaker 1: three feet of a hole in because the middle was
Speaker 1: late to it.
Speaker 3: You know what I mean. Yeah, you're one on one
Speaker 3: a lot. It feels good. Yeah, you get like a
Speaker 3: lot of.
Speaker 1: It's really flashy, big kills, big blocks. Love is not
Speaker 1: like that. It's like, yeah, you may get those opportunities
Speaker 1: like slim chants like sometimes, but the block is solid,
Speaker 1: it's big, and it's yeah, it's literally trained, like we
Speaker 1: train to block specific players because you have to. You
Speaker 1: can't go on and just being like, oh, let's just
Speaker 1: take her line when she's diverse and has both you
Speaker 1: know what I mean? Like, so I compared it to
Speaker 1: those two things. No, again, it's still like, no, there's
Speaker 1: a great G League, still great, great players, but the
Speaker 1: level is just different for sure.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: And then like a lot of players go through the
Speaker 2: G League, they develop, and then you go to the NBA.
Speaker 3: There you go. Yeah yeah, so yeah, similar vibe, I
Speaker 3: would agree. So and that's our two cents.
Speaker 1: That's just our two cents. For me, it's like who's
Speaker 1: gonna who? Who won't fight me? Nobody, But I'm just saying,
Speaker 1: you know, you can argue about it if you want
Speaker 1: to and say whatever, but that's just like the best
Speaker 1: way I can because for me, it's like Americans are
Speaker 1: just now getting to getting into high level volleyball and
Speaker 1: what that looks like, you know, and I can't stand
Speaker 1: when they say things like a bast certain player or
Speaker 1: like oh, she's the best player in the world, and
Speaker 1: we know it's not, you know, because we know who
Speaker 1: those bar and they're not. They're not they're not here yet,
Speaker 1: they're not here yet, you know.
Speaker 3: No, Yeah, that grinds my gears truly.
Speaker 1: Even love. We have phenomenal some athletes, we do have
Speaker 1: our prime time best in the world. But there when
Speaker 1: you say someone's best in the world, and when you
Speaker 1: know you have Vargas who's probably the best, and the
Speaker 1: who's yeah, they're the best opposites top one and two
Speaker 1: in the world. You can't say you're the best opposite
Speaker 1: in the world when you got there over there, fucking yeah,
Speaker 1: slang in you know what I mean.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, And if you have laid over there or
Speaker 3: you have played against them, yeah, then I think you
Speaker 3: you can't say it.
Speaker 1: And I think America does a really good job of
Speaker 1: hip too. They'll believe that ship like they say, the
Speaker 1: best in the world, best in the world. You also
Speaker 1: have to have some kind of accountability and be like, okay,
Speaker 1: let me be let me be humble, you know, right, jump.
Speaker 2: In some areas, But yeah.
Speaker 3: All right, anyway, Okay, let's move on. Who are where
Speaker 3: were we at?
Speaker 1: Where are we off?
Speaker 3: On our tangent?
Speaker 2: Okay, Yeah, Houston is keeping a lot of their same
Speaker 2: team for the most part.
Speaker 3: Jordan Mica.
Speaker 2: Justine's coming back from having her baby, which is so awesome.
Speaker 2: Amber will be there. She's coming off an injury, but
Speaker 2: I think she'll bounce back quick.
Speaker 3: Jess Karen. They're solid. They'll be really solid this year.
Speaker 3: I think the many good.
Speaker 2: Players, yes you guys truly showing up to practice every
Speaker 2: day for me was like the highlight of my day.
Speaker 3: You know. People are like I have to go to work.
Speaker 2: I'm like, I get to go to practice like with
Speaker 2: all of my friends, and it was just so much fun.
Speaker 2: So yeah, I'll miss them a lot. I'll miss my coach, Sonya,
Speaker 2: my dog. I really loved her, and just all of
Speaker 2: our stuff. I feel like we just had such a
Speaker 2: good like group of people and everybody was like truly
Speaker 2: cared for each other and like really looked out for
Speaker 2: each other, and we built I feel like we built
Speaker 2: something really really special last year specifically, so it.
Speaker 3: Was fun to be a part of. So I'll miss that.
Speaker 2: But hopefully with La we can do something similar. But yeah,
Speaker 2: it was a good group and I just loved Houston.
Speaker 3: Honestly. Before moving there, I was like, Houston, I don't know.
Speaker 3: My father like as my father in law, it is like,
Speaker 3: you've been to Houston before, right, He.
Speaker 2: Used to do like work trips there, and he was like, ah,
Speaker 2: worst city ever.
Speaker 3: I never want to have to go back there.
Speaker 2: And I was like what he's talking for like five
Speaker 2: minutest of how much he disliked Houston, and I was like, oh, man,
Speaker 2: like I've already signed this contract, like I'm going. And
Speaker 2: then after living there, I was like, this was one
Speaker 2: of my favorite places to live. So Houston. Yeah, it
Speaker 2: was so fun and I just had a good community there.
Speaker 2: So yeah, I'll miss it for sure, but I'll visit.
Speaker 1: She'll be back because Houston is Houston is in the
Speaker 1: Western Conference, so I'm sure you'll. If you guys are.
Speaker 3: Playing be a spot at off the Record, I'll be back.
Speaker 3: Oh not off the record. I'm sad.
Speaker 2: I know there was one night specifically where Kat do
Speaker 2: we play against you guys and then you stayed yeah yeah,
Speaker 2: and then we went to this like really great place
Speaker 2: called off the Record. They have like R and B
Speaker 2: music and Cat got in a dance battle with somebody
Speaker 2: on the dance It was like, what's the movie.
Speaker 1: You Got served?
Speaker 3: It was like you got served?
Speaker 2: Kat is like dance battling against somebody and then they
Speaker 2: start like hitting an extra move and then Kat was like,
Speaker 2: uh uh, Kat hits this great dance move and then
Speaker 2: fully hits the splits.
Speaker 3: In the middle of.
Speaker 1: This, y'all talk about people's phones are out. There's light splashing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that once I hate. Everybody was like, it's sober.
Speaker 3: And then we're telling the story and everybody was like, Maddie,
Speaker 3: do you have a video? Do you have a video?
Speaker 2: Like phones are out this and I was like, I
Speaker 2: was so like hyping Cat up in the moment.
Speaker 3: I was like, what, no phone out?
Speaker 1: That's how you Yes, exactly, It's all up here though.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I love that day. Good core memory right there.
Speaker 2: Oh also Jordan Larsen coming out of retirement girl you
Speaker 2: are yes, hey girl.
Speaker 1: I thought when she threw that rich ass party, that
Speaker 1: party looked insane. I was just like, damn retirement party. Now, yeah,
Speaker 1: I was like, she really is good.
Speaker 2: Now going out with the band and then coming back
Speaker 2: with a bigger band came back with a bigger band. Okay, hey,
Speaker 2: if you could still do it, props to you.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm giving it. I'm giving it this season, the
Speaker 1: next season, and I'm out. Oh you called it now?
Speaker 3: Yeah, all right, now, I'll be at your retirement party.
Speaker 2: So they have heard Lexi Rodriguez coming back, Julia san
Speaker 2: Jacamo from Atlanta.
Speaker 3: That's a good pickup for them. Rebecca Alec going back.
Speaker 1: To her not surprising, that makes sense.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Also Nazi Valentine.
Speaker 2: Says she's going to settle her love her one of
Speaker 2: the best teammates I've ever had. Any trades that surprised you,
Speaker 2: I think the four from Houston to Salt Lake honestly
Speaker 2: were like pretty shocking to me. But yeah, I didn't
Speaker 2: realize that half our team would go.
Speaker 1: Experience your experience and what they're looking for. I think
Speaker 1: some girls are actually looking for like playing time, so
Speaker 1: you don't want to play behind someone really big if
Speaker 1: you're trying to see.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 1: Kind of moves some stuff too. So anyways, any additional
Speaker 1: information you want to find on these rosters, you guys
Speaker 1: can go to love dot com.
Speaker 3: You welcome, mm hmm.
Speaker 2: Okay, and now just bonus question. What team is shaping
Speaker 2: up to be one of the big dogs. Who are
Speaker 2: you not looking forward to playing against?
Speaker 1: I would say, now, looking forward to playing against you guys,
Speaker 1: I will say that, yeah, be a good team. I
Speaker 1: feel like, yeah, I think you guys are gonna be
Speaker 1: really good team. Yeah.
Speaker 3: It's because we'll have good players and just like really good.
Speaker 2: Energy yeah yeah, and good vibes.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that'll count for a lot. But I'm also looking
Speaker 1: forward to those phone calls I'm gonna get from me too,
Speaker 1: So I can't wait. Yeah, I can't wait. But I
Speaker 1: would say you guys are gonna be good for sure.
Speaker 2: I would say, you guys, I think a sneaky one
Speaker 2: is gonna be Madison because also they got Montano.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Lauren Carlyn.
Speaker 2: That's gonna be deadly mm and they have Timmy and
Speaker 2: Anaho Oh yeah. I think they'll be a silent killer
Speaker 2: this year. And that's my opinion.
Speaker 3: And that's my opinion. That's my opinion.
Speaker 2: Well, stay tuned, everybody. I think rosters are going to
Speaker 2: be all out by the time this airs, hopefully, and
Speaker 2: people will have to let us know what they think.
Speaker 1: Yeah, give us the scoop of what you guys, what's
Speaker 1: the team? What's the two teams that you guys want
Speaker 1: to see compete head to head? Who going to dictate
Speaker 1: off roster's pick?
Speaker 3: Who's going to be in the finals?
Speaker 2: Miami and Los Angeles because of me and Car.
Speaker 3: And Goto and oh I love that?
Speaker 2: All right, Well, I think that's all you have for today. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it's great to see your face.
Speaker 1: Always good to see you. I'll probably have seen you in
Speaker 1: next few weeks for six Man. Who knows. We'll see
Speaker 1: what happens after this.
Speaker 2: Maybe we have to do like a special six Man episode. Yeah,
Speaker 2: good luck with your surgery.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that'd be so fun, like filming together. I
Speaker 1: want to do an episode filming together. It's the last,
Speaker 1: the last episode.
Speaker 2: It will be Oh that could be fun to feel
Speaker 2: we do it at six Man.
Speaker 3: Okay, that could be good.
Speaker 1: You imagine is walking off our mics and our phones,
Speaker 1: like because the mice connect to the phones as well.
Speaker 3: Oh I didn't know that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, i'd be great.
Speaker 3: The full microphone, this whole.
Speaker 1: Big Yeah, that's what this. The thing is the cord
Speaker 1: that sucks, but you.
Speaker 3: Can get a mini one anyway.
Speaker 2: Okay, that's all we have for you today, this has
Speaker 2: beand Serving Pancakes.
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