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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's on the track. Yeah, what's up, what's up?

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Speaker 1: What's up? What's up?

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Speaker 2: Welcome to certain thing pancakes. Baby, we're on doing the

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Speaker 2: damn thing today. It's your girl Can and Maddie King.

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Speaker 2: You know what's up?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's that okay that.

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Speaker 2: Today we have got tell the people welcome to certain pancakes, everybody.

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Speaker 2: Today we have the most incredible guests. Lexi Rodrigae, you.

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Speaker 1: Better clear Baryl from Love and Rasca. Where to start?

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Speaker 2: Lexi, you are in a four time All American in

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Speaker 2: twenty twenty one ABC A Freshman Year, Big Tail, Big twelve,

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Speaker 2: Sorry Big.

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Speaker 1: Ten levererro what you said? Twelve? I know because I'm

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Speaker 1: old say.

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Speaker 2: We're all American at Nebraska twenty and twenty one EIGHTYCA

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Speaker 2: Freshman of the Year twenty twenty four, Big Taylor Burrough

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Speaker 2: of the Year. You got all the accolades. Girl, you

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Speaker 2: are the ope. I'm getting up to everything right now.

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Speaker 2: But thank you and welcome to serving pancakes.

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Speaker 3: Yes, thanks for having me. I'm excited to get to

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Speaker 3: chat with you. Guys.

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Speaker 4: You have truly remind me like in my mind, you're

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Speaker 4: kind of like the Taylor Swift of volleyball.

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Speaker 1: I like that.

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Speaker 5: I like that about the followers. I'm like, how do

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Speaker 5: I I should have gone to Nebraska?

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Speaker 1: Damn?

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Speaker 5: All right, We're gonna hit you with some just quick

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Speaker 5: questions first. Okay, okay, loosen it up, all right? What

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Speaker 5: do people always get wrong about you from social media?

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Speaker 3: Oh? Okay, this is a loose en up one.

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Speaker 1: Person, go straight to it.

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Speaker 3: I don't know.

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Speaker 6: I think some people think that I'm maybe a little

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Speaker 6: bit more serious than I am, and I feel like

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Speaker 6: I'm very much just like go with the flow of

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Speaker 3: Honestly, Like, I feel like some people just get I

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Speaker 6: Like, oh, I'm so like serious, and which I am.

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Speaker 6: I can be serious, but like I definitely just like

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Speaker 6: to have fun.

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Speaker 2: That kind of goes into my next question too, like,

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Speaker 2: you know, we know Lexi or guess is the athlete?

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Speaker 1: Like who you are?

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Speaker 2: They're sports mal American, all the great things you've done,

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Speaker 2: but like this is our first time actually getting to

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Speaker 2: Like you know who what's like? Who's Lexi without volleyball?

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Speaker 2: Not that jersey on her back.

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Speaker 3: I love to stay active. I love to do things.

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Speaker 6: I love to meet new people and build connections and

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Speaker 6: do little whatever. Like I am always on the go

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Speaker 6: want to go get coffee, I'll go get coffee. Let's

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Speaker 6: go play pick a ball or do something. And I

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Speaker 6: feel like that's kind of how he's always been a

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Speaker 2: And daw the video of you guys dancing, you was

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Speaker 2: getting down. I was like, oh god, I went to

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Speaker 1: Maybe girl glast seasoning like you were killing it. You

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Speaker 1: were killing it. Oh my gosh, thank you.

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Speaker 6: I don't know if you guys know Alexi's heart, but

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Speaker 3: Okay, okay, I can loosen.

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Speaker 6: But like stuff like that, like I love like doing

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Speaker 6: stuff outside of vallad ball that's just random and fun.

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Speaker 1: I do a lot of random, fun stuff. I love.

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Speaker 5: I'll see anything, yeah for whatever, I'm saying yes, because

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Speaker 5: I like the experience too. So there's only a good

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Speaker 3: Out of Yes, I agree.

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Speaker 1: That's kind of how we met too.

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Speaker 2: It was like she's always wanted to be down and

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Speaker 2: do something, and I'm like, yeah, might as well.

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Speaker 1: I do not nothing else. Dommes exactly sit on the couch,

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Speaker 3: I know, I do my fair show that trust me.

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Speaker 5: Okay, who's the hardest hitter you've ever had to dig?

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Speaker 3: Ooh?

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Speaker 1: Like one of those ones.

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Speaker 5: The ball went through me, not that we.

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Speaker 3: M my eyes.

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Speaker 6: I would say there's a few thinking back more of

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Speaker 2: Well, obviously everyone went to other big question, especially me,

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Speaker 2: like I'm sure you had so many colleges after you

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Speaker 6: Oh well, actually, interesting fact, I guess they were my

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, so I was I was pretty young.

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Speaker 6: I was fourteen when like I started getting recruited and

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Speaker 6: And then I went to this camp and they ended

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Speaker 6: after being there, like I was like, the facilities are amazing.

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Speaker 6: I at the time, Caleb Banworth was the assistant coach there,

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Speaker 6: I never ended up getting to be coached by her,

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Speaker 6: but I was like I wanted to be coached by her.

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Speaker 6: And after I mean, when you're on the visit, they

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Speaker 3: Just literally fell in love.

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Speaker 6: So then I was like I said yes on the

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Speaker 1: Rules the rules.

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Speaker 3: We followed all the rules obviously, but I remember like

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Speaker 3: telling my mom. I was like, Mom, I'm pretty sure

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Speaker 6: She was like, you're what, like, you're pretty what do

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Speaker 6: you mean You're pretty sure? And then we ended up

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Speaker 6: I was like I want to say yes.

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Speaker 2: Mom.

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Speaker 6: She's like, why do you Why don't you tell them?

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Speaker 6: I was like, well, I don't know, like am I

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Speaker 6: am I allowed to? You're just gonna like let me

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Speaker 6: and find me. I was fourteen years old, like I

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Speaker 6: didn't get but yeah, so then it just, yeah, it

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Speaker 1: Yea come true.

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Speaker 3: You know.

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Speaker 4: Can we start though, from a little before that, like

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Speaker 4: what was your volleyball experience growing up and tell us

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Speaker 4: where you're from and everything about you and start at birth,

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Speaker 4: when did you start playing?

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Speaker 5: And where are you from?

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Speaker 3: Okay, I'm from Sterling, Illinois, so it's kind of a

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Speaker 3: smaller town, only like fourteen thousand people. And then I started.

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Speaker 6: Playing when I was I think seven. I had an

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Speaker 6: it was pretty much like she was always at practices,

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Speaker 6: kind of ended up classic yeah, classic playing peppering against

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Speaker 6: And there wasn't really like any teams at our club

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Speaker 6: I ended up going to Sports Performance. I don't know

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Speaker 6: So then we ended up my sister and I and

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Speaker 6: then our family of course would have to drive us

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Speaker 3: And dedication, come back and yeah, do all that stuff.

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Speaker 2: And then Nebraska all this times literally and yeah, like

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Speaker 2: oh like I'm that bitch, like I'm the ship.

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Speaker 1: Moment we were like you know what, like I'm actually

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Speaker 1: pretty good at this. When was that like moment for you?

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Speaker 1: I would say, hmm f Sauna, you can be real.

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Speaker 3: I already I don't know because I I always was

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Speaker 6: My mom would try and keep me humble of like, Okay,

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Speaker 6: let's look at what's actually possible.

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Speaker 1: Not that it wasn't.

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Speaker 3: Possible, but yeah, you gotta you need someone to keep

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Speaker 1: Gosh, you're so normal. She's such a normal, like humble spirit.

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Speaker 1: Like we was delusional. What do you mean I'm go anywhere?

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Speaker 1: I'm better at her? Yeah?

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Speaker 6: That was that was not me, Like I did not

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Speaker 3: My sister, she was older than me. Obviously we were

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Speaker 3: don't even know. She'll get to like get a scholarship

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Speaker 3: I can do this too. So she was like seventeen,

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Speaker 5: And she kind of paid the way for you.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, for sure.

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Speaker 5: How do you feel like it was when you got

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Speaker 5: to the Rasca. Was that a shock for you?

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Speaker 3: Like when I first got to college.

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Speaker 5: Because now you're like, I'm a little verable. I didn't

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Speaker 5: even know I was gonna like get a scholarship, and

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Speaker 5: now I'm.

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Speaker 2: I ain't supposed to be here are some of those

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Speaker 2: big dogs?

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Speaker 5: Well, like what how was that?

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Speaker 3: Yeah?

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Speaker 6: I was very very like very scary, Like I was

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Speaker 6: so I'm gonna be so honest.

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Speaker 5: I was so.

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Speaker 6: Scared and like it was during the like COVID year,

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Speaker 6: so like Lauren Stiffrance and Lexis Son who were supposed

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Speaker 3: And obviously, like you you get awards and stuff and

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Speaker 2: I think that's one thing that's about being my pro

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Speaker 4: I didn't care about anyone else. I was like I'm

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Speaker 3: Seriously, Yeah, yeah, I appreciate that.

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Speaker 4: Do you feel like do you feel like now playing

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Speaker 5: All I hate seeing and do you like what was

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I would say I always knew, like since I

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Speaker 3: I kind of always mentally prepared that I would have

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Speaker 3: It's hard, but it was good. I liked it, and like,

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Speaker 6: Pretty grateful that I kind of just got to like

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Speaker 1: Right.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, you had so many greats around you. They're just

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Speaker 1: What's the thought in your head?

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Speaker 6: I was definitely really nervous, it was, yeah, because it

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Speaker 3: To do the damn thing. And I was like if

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Speaker 3: I mean, for a while it was just like a

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Speaker 1: Get back there. But I got to do.

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Speaker 5: Did you get an ace in that my name?

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Speaker 1: Okay?

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Speaker 3: Okay, okay in the in the fifth set? My first

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Speaker 1: Okay it mattered, yes, okay.

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Speaker 4: And also you've been doing USA Volleyball for for a while, right,

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Speaker 1: Summer.

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Speaker 5: You went to VNL a couple of weeks. Yeah, where

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Speaker 5: what what legs were you on?

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Speaker 6: I went to the second and third week and then

446
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Speaker 6: I went to finals.

447
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Speaker 1: Okay, nice going abroad with me before.

448
00:22:04,359 --> 00:22:08,320
Speaker 6: I've been abroad but from like the you twenty one

449
00:22:08,600 --> 00:22:09,840
Speaker 6: stuff like that.

450
00:22:11,600 --> 00:22:14,760
Speaker 5: Yeah, what are your thoughts? How was it?

451
00:22:14,760 --> 00:22:15,320
Speaker 3: It was good.

452
00:22:15,359 --> 00:22:18,720
Speaker 6: I feel like I again, like coming from love. I

453
00:22:18,920 --> 00:22:22,040
Speaker 6: didn't really play that much, so I was like, Okay,

454
00:22:22,080 --> 00:22:25,040
Speaker 6: this is my first time like being back in like

455
00:22:25,080 --> 00:22:27,280
Speaker 6: the bro jersey like whatever.

456
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Speaker 3: So I was kind of going into it with just

457
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Speaker 3: like Okay, we.

458
00:22:31,320 --> 00:22:36,520
Speaker 6: Gotta learn, we gotta get the like, get the rust out,

459
00:22:36,600 --> 00:22:38,120
Speaker 6: give yourself grace type of thing.

460
00:22:38,240 --> 00:22:41,040
Speaker 3: And I feel like it like went pretty well.

461
00:22:41,080 --> 00:22:41,720
Speaker 1: Like I was.

462
00:22:41,960 --> 00:22:46,040
Speaker 6: Obviously able to travel and get to play in some

463
00:22:46,119 --> 00:22:49,480
Speaker 6: matches against like some pretty good teams, some of the

464
00:22:49,480 --> 00:22:51,919
Speaker 6: best teams, and so it was good. And then I

465
00:22:52,000 --> 00:22:57,280
Speaker 6: really enjoyed getting to play with like Poulter and Skinner

466
00:22:57,359 --> 00:23:00,520
Speaker 6: and Dana and everyone just like who has a lot

467
00:23:00,560 --> 00:23:04,560
Speaker 6: of experience, like just getting to like learn and kind

468
00:23:04,560 --> 00:23:06,280
Speaker 6: of see like that level of play.

469
00:23:06,680 --> 00:23:08,840
Speaker 3: So it was really good. I met a lot of

470
00:23:08,920 --> 00:23:10,480
Speaker 3: cool people, so that was fun.

471
00:23:11,119 --> 00:23:13,240
Speaker 5: Yeah, you meet all the best people in that gym.

472
00:23:13,359 --> 00:23:16,280
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, truly a lot of my best girls are

473
00:23:16,280 --> 00:23:16,840
Speaker 4: from there.

474
00:23:16,920 --> 00:23:19,720
Speaker 2: So friendship is much the best work because I'm not

475
00:23:19,760 --> 00:23:21,040
Speaker 2: in there, so then we do all the best the

476
00:23:21,119 --> 00:23:23,320
Speaker 2: words Be and Maddie are best friends.

477
00:23:25,119 --> 00:23:25,879
Speaker 1: We're best friends.

478
00:23:26,880 --> 00:23:29,919
Speaker 3: Have you guys ever played on the same protein before?

479
00:23:31,600 --> 00:23:32,359
Speaker 1: No, I mean.

480
00:23:34,000 --> 00:23:38,600
Speaker 5: Really yet, but no, we played together, like in the

481
00:23:38,600 --> 00:23:42,520
Speaker 5: same city in twenty twenty What year, Maza we.

482
00:23:42,480 --> 00:23:46,320
Speaker 1: Talked about this twenty to twenty two.

483
00:23:45,600 --> 00:23:46,720
Speaker 5: We were both in Istanbul.

484
00:23:47,320 --> 00:23:49,840
Speaker 4: Yeah, and I had beef in college and then so

485
00:23:50,000 --> 00:23:51,600
Speaker 4: like I had a really terrible.

486
00:23:51,480 --> 00:23:56,680
Speaker 1: Beef with the not big beef but then with one

487
00:23:56,720 --> 00:23:59,040
Speaker 1: sided what it was.

488
00:23:59,000 --> 00:24:03,440
Speaker 4: Once inside cited beef. Years later, we're both playing in Istanbul.

489
00:24:03,560 --> 00:24:06,199
Speaker 4: We got invited out for like a dinner of all

490
00:24:06,320 --> 00:24:09,040
Speaker 4: the Americans, and only the two of us showed up,

491
00:24:09,119 --> 00:24:11,560
Speaker 4: and I was like this girl, like I have to

492
00:24:12,560 --> 00:24:13,399
Speaker 4: I have to say I did it.

493
00:24:13,440 --> 00:24:16,200
Speaker 5: And then like we squashed it and then just became

494
00:24:16,280 --> 00:24:18,440
Speaker 5: friends from there. Oh my gosh.

495
00:24:18,680 --> 00:24:21,399
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's so cute. It was even really a beef.

496
00:24:21,440 --> 00:24:26,040
Speaker 1: But wasn't that the squash Watch.

497
00:24:27,600 --> 00:24:30,800
Speaker 5: Yeah, watch episode one of this the whole beef is explained.

498
00:24:31,520 --> 00:24:37,760
Speaker 4: Oh okay, do you have aspirations of like LA Olympics

499
00:24:37,880 --> 00:24:39,200
Speaker 4: or like, what are your thoughts?

500
00:24:39,359 --> 00:24:42,080
Speaker 5: Are you after national team this summer? Are you like,

501
00:24:42,320 --> 00:24:44,160
Speaker 5: I want to be in this gym. It's like something

502
00:24:44,240 --> 00:24:46,200
Speaker 5: really low where you like, I'm just gonna see how goes.

503
00:24:46,680 --> 00:24:51,880
Speaker 6: Uh, obviously I have goals to play in an Olympics.

504
00:24:52,760 --> 00:24:55,480
Speaker 6: I don't like, would it be really cool to play

505
00:24:55,520 --> 00:24:59,439
Speaker 6: in LA twenty eight, Yes, but obviously I know, like

506
00:25:00,200 --> 00:25:03,400
Speaker 6: it's times joindling down like it's in a.

507
00:25:03,359 --> 00:25:06,680
Speaker 3: Few years, like if my name is not called.

508
00:25:06,560 --> 00:25:10,080
Speaker 6: Like I will just keep playing and keep striving for

509
00:25:10,119 --> 00:25:12,120
Speaker 6: the next one. But I just want to like keep

510
00:25:12,119 --> 00:25:15,000
Speaker 6: getting better and as long as like I'm enjoying it

511
00:25:15,160 --> 00:25:18,760
Speaker 6: and loving like the process, like I don't, I don't

512
00:25:18,800 --> 00:25:22,920
Speaker 6: see why not, but yeah, hopefully hopefully I get invited back.

513
00:25:23,480 --> 00:25:26,040
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean all you can ask for.

514
00:25:26,400 --> 00:25:28,800
Speaker 1: Look at us, like we've been playing.

515
00:25:28,480 --> 00:25:31,840
Speaker 5: For way too long now, but we still need to think.

516
00:25:32,520 --> 00:25:34,200
Speaker 1: It's all right. I'm just kidding.

517
00:25:35,440 --> 00:25:37,080
Speaker 2: I'm also like admiring you for you to be your

518
00:25:37,119 --> 00:25:39,040
Speaker 2: age and you seem just such a high level thinker too,

519
00:25:39,080 --> 00:25:40,800
Speaker 2: just about your you know your personality and who you

520
00:25:40,840 --> 00:25:42,119
Speaker 2: are as a person, and just like the way you

521
00:25:42,119 --> 00:25:44,000
Speaker 2: think of things, even like you said thinking about the LA,

522
00:25:44,240 --> 00:25:46,040
Speaker 2: it's like you're focusing on the things you can control,

523
00:25:46,080 --> 00:25:48,159
Speaker 2: which is like you're joint left of the game and

524
00:25:48,200 --> 00:25:50,280
Speaker 2: being part of that and it looks like that like

525
00:25:50,760 --> 00:25:52,440
Speaker 2: that's who you are as a person and you enjoy

526
00:25:52,480 --> 00:25:54,359
Speaker 2: playing it, Like you know, what is about the volleyball

527
00:25:54,400 --> 00:25:55,960
Speaker 2: that makes you so happy as the people is being

528
00:25:55,960 --> 00:25:58,359
Speaker 2: able to just call this space something that that's yours

529
00:25:58,400 --> 00:25:59,119
Speaker 2: that you're really good at.

530
00:25:59,200 --> 00:26:01,359
Speaker 1: Like what brings you so much happiness playing?

531
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Speaker 6: I would say it's definitely the people, like people and experiences,

532
00:26:06,760 --> 00:26:09,399
Speaker 6: I guess, but like not like oh I got to

533
00:26:09,440 --> 00:26:11,959
Speaker 6: go to this place more like I don't know, you

534
00:26:12,040 --> 00:26:15,280
Speaker 6: just get to do cool things together with like teams,

535
00:26:15,400 --> 00:26:17,680
Speaker 6: And I'm sure we've all been a part of teams

536
00:26:17,680 --> 00:26:20,439
Speaker 6: where it's like, oh, we lost every single game, but

537
00:26:20,560 --> 00:26:22,800
Speaker 6: like the experience and the memories I have with that

538
00:26:22,880 --> 00:26:25,960
Speaker 6: team or like stuff you carry with And I don't

539
00:26:26,000 --> 00:26:30,560
Speaker 6: know if for me, like yes, I love winning and

540
00:26:30,600 --> 00:26:34,080
Speaker 6: I'm competitive and I want to accomplish my goals, but

541
00:26:34,600 --> 00:26:37,960
Speaker 6: if I didn't enjoy it like I want, I want

542
00:26:38,040 --> 00:26:40,239
Speaker 6: to want to like keep going, and like why I

543
00:26:40,320 --> 00:26:42,960
Speaker 6: enjoy it is because of like the people I meet

544
00:26:43,119 --> 00:26:46,840
Speaker 6: and the friendships I make and just you know, all

545
00:26:46,880 --> 00:26:49,760
Speaker 6: that fun stuff that you really get to like enjoy.

546
00:26:50,560 --> 00:26:54,960
Speaker 4: Exactly, great answer, three tweeks.

547
00:26:55,000 --> 00:26:57,879
Speaker 1: Fucking it's truly.

548
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Speaker 5: It's the people for me as well, So that's it's huge. Okay.

549
00:27:09,040 --> 00:27:11,320
Speaker 5: And then you wrote a book recently?

550
00:27:11,440 --> 00:27:17,320
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, okay.

551
00:27:17,440 --> 00:27:20,560
Speaker 6: I recently came out with a book. It's called The

552
00:27:20,600 --> 00:27:26,159
Speaker 6: Big Little Dream, super cute. It's a children's book, so

553
00:27:26,400 --> 00:27:29,040
Speaker 6: it's kind of like a short story just about a

554
00:27:29,080 --> 00:27:34,000
Speaker 6: little girl who wants to be in sports but is

555
00:27:34,320 --> 00:27:38,640
Speaker 6: a little undersized and doesn't really think that she belongs.

556
00:27:38,800 --> 00:27:42,880
Speaker 6: And then she like stumbles across volleyball and ends up

557
00:27:43,119 --> 00:27:46,280
Speaker 6: seeing it on TV and seeing it on a big

558
00:27:46,320 --> 00:27:49,400
Speaker 6: stage and just believes that she can do it. So

559
00:27:49,920 --> 00:27:52,639
Speaker 6: it's a cute, little, cute little story and.

560
00:27:53,359 --> 00:27:55,919
Speaker 1: Yeah about you, kind of about me.

561
00:27:57,560 --> 00:28:00,760
Speaker 6: I have to give credit where credit is do. My

562
00:28:01,560 --> 00:28:08,359
Speaker 6: co author, Kelsey is basically the brains in the writer

563
00:28:08,640 --> 00:28:12,000
Speaker 6: behind it all. Like I helped kind of draft it

564
00:28:12,040 --> 00:28:14,679
Speaker 6: a little bit and help kind of the storyline, but

565
00:28:15,280 --> 00:28:18,600
Speaker 6: she is kind of the power power woman behind it all.

566
00:28:18,880 --> 00:28:19,440
Speaker 1: But it's.

567
00:28:21,200 --> 00:28:25,840
Speaker 3: Inspired by me and by my kind of story. But

568
00:28:25,880 --> 00:28:27,760
Speaker 3: it's not like about me.

569
00:28:28,840 --> 00:28:31,439
Speaker 1: I'm just kidding, I'm joking.

570
00:28:29,880 --> 00:28:31,920
Speaker 5: I'm just helped.

571
00:28:32,040 --> 00:28:32,520
Speaker 3: I helped.

572
00:28:32,720 --> 00:28:35,040
Speaker 1: I'm kidding. That's awesome.

573
00:28:37,800 --> 00:28:39,240
Speaker 3: Kind of yeah, but it's cool.

574
00:28:40,400 --> 00:28:41,920
Speaker 1: Where can we find this? I want to I want

575
00:28:41,920 --> 00:28:42,280
Speaker 1: to read it.

576
00:28:43,080 --> 00:28:45,400
Speaker 3: Uh, there's a link. I can send it to you.

577
00:28:46,440 --> 00:28:48,800
Speaker 4: Wait, if you had to choose one person when they

578
00:28:48,920 --> 00:28:51,800
Speaker 4: adapt it to TV and film, who do you think

579
00:28:51,840 --> 00:28:53,520
Speaker 4: will play you in the movie?

580
00:28:53,760 --> 00:28:56,960
Speaker 3: Play me? Oh gosh, okay, this is turning into a movie.

581
00:28:57,600 --> 00:29:00,480
Speaker 3: Oh my gosh. I don't know because I'm I kind

582
00:29:00,480 --> 00:29:02,240
Speaker 3: of I mean, have you guys thought.

583
00:29:02,040 --> 00:29:07,800
Speaker 6: About this, like who would play you in a movie?

584
00:29:08,440 --> 00:29:12,160
Speaker 3: Because I was kind of I don't know because I'm

585
00:29:12,200 --> 00:29:14,719
Speaker 3: like Hispanic and I'm just trying. I'm trying to like

586
00:29:15,800 --> 00:29:16,960
Speaker 3: think of Hispanic.

587
00:29:22,120 --> 00:29:25,440
Speaker 1: Oh that's sleeping Holes is a good one too, That is.

588
00:29:27,360 --> 00:29:27,920
Speaker 3: Seleiner.

589
00:29:28,960 --> 00:29:30,040
Speaker 6: Yeah, I don't know.

590
00:29:30,200 --> 00:29:32,719
Speaker 3: I'm not picky. If someone wants to play me, they

591
00:29:32,760 --> 00:29:33,160
Speaker 3: can do it.

592
00:29:33,840 --> 00:29:37,960
Speaker 5: Okay, we're taking requests. And then you also have an app?

593
00:29:38,000 --> 00:29:39,720
Speaker 5: Why do you have so much stuff going on?

594
00:29:40,640 --> 00:29:41,880
Speaker 1: I'm behind in life.

595
00:29:43,560 --> 00:29:46,480
Speaker 5: Making, Like all I do is one.

596
00:29:48,280 --> 00:29:49,960
Speaker 1: I'm in the kitchen all the time.

597
00:29:53,480 --> 00:29:54,760
Speaker 5: I do need hobbies.

598
00:29:54,800 --> 00:29:58,200
Speaker 3: So croucheng is one of on my list of to

599
00:29:58,360 --> 00:30:01,280
Speaker 3: dos to lards. But yes I did.

600
00:30:01,440 --> 00:30:05,920
Speaker 6: I also did just release an app called She's Sports.

601
00:30:06,160 --> 00:30:09,400
Speaker 6: I'm a co founder of it, so again have to

602
00:30:09,440 --> 00:30:12,800
Speaker 6: give credit to my other co founder, but he just

603
00:30:12,840 --> 00:30:15,600
Speaker 6: had this really cool idea when I was in college

604
00:30:15,640 --> 00:30:21,040
Speaker 6: of kind of creating something for the younger generation and

605
00:30:21,080 --> 00:30:25,520
Speaker 6: the upcoming women in sports, and then also providing an

606
00:30:25,560 --> 00:30:32,320
Speaker 6: opportunity for like nil for women athletes in college, just

607
00:30:32,400 --> 00:30:36,160
Speaker 6: because obviously, as we know, like a lot of the

608
00:30:36,240 --> 00:30:40,600
Speaker 6: men's players get like all of this money and then

609
00:30:40,720 --> 00:30:43,480
Speaker 6: like the women don't get any money. So we were

610
00:30:43,520 --> 00:30:45,920
Speaker 6: just like, Okay, this is a cool opportunity to kind

611
00:30:45,920 --> 00:30:49,080
Speaker 6: of bring the two together and give a platform that's

612
00:30:49,520 --> 00:30:54,640
Speaker 6: empowering to young girls and give them like real vulnerable,

613
00:30:54,920 --> 00:31:00,240
Speaker 6: like honest answers about like being a student athlete or

614
00:31:00,320 --> 00:31:03,520
Speaker 6: just an athlete in general, and then also giving these

615
00:31:03,920 --> 00:31:06,680
Speaker 6: female athletes kind of a place where they can do

616
00:31:06,720 --> 00:31:08,440
Speaker 6: that and also giving them some money.

617
00:31:08,800 --> 00:31:10,160
Speaker 2: So what does it actually do is kind of like

618
00:31:10,200 --> 00:31:13,200
Speaker 2: a parody for just like giving advice to young athletes,

619
00:31:13,280 --> 00:31:15,080
Speaker 2: or it's something like cameo where you can like ask

620
00:31:15,080 --> 00:31:18,320
Speaker 2: a certain athlete maybe a question about mental health or

621
00:31:18,440 --> 00:31:20,200
Speaker 2: struggles and they can respond back.

622
00:31:20,800 --> 00:31:23,280
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's kind of a mix between like that, like

623
00:31:23,360 --> 00:31:26,720
Speaker 6: the cameo style of like they have a place where

624
00:31:26,720 --> 00:31:29,880
Speaker 6: they can ask any athlete or ask to all athletes,

625
00:31:29,920 --> 00:31:35,480
Speaker 6: like any question. There's mental fitness, lifestyle, training, nutrition, all

626
00:31:35,560 --> 00:31:38,520
Speaker 6: that stuff. And then yeah, it's also a place where

627
00:31:38,560 --> 00:31:41,360
Speaker 6: you can just like the athletes can upload their own

628
00:31:41,400 --> 00:31:43,960
Speaker 6: content so they can kind of do whatever they want

629
00:31:44,000 --> 00:31:47,280
Speaker 6: with it, show more behind the scenes things, like more

630
00:31:47,360 --> 00:31:52,760
Speaker 6: of like a positive content platform because like obviously we

631
00:31:52,800 --> 00:31:55,520
Speaker 6: can all go to TikTok or Instagram and find the

632
00:31:55,640 --> 00:31:58,480
Speaker 6: dances and the trends and everything like that, and this

633
00:31:58,640 --> 00:32:02,560
Speaker 6: is supposed to be more like raw and helpful for

634
00:32:03,040 --> 00:32:03,880
Speaker 6: younger athletes.

635
00:32:04,200 --> 00:32:04,800
Speaker 1: That's awesome.

636
00:32:04,960 --> 00:32:07,480
Speaker 5: Oh, I love that you're doing all these things really

637
00:32:07,480 --> 00:32:09,760
Speaker 5: like inspiring the youth you're using your platform.

638
00:32:09,840 --> 00:32:16,840
Speaker 3: Thanks, thank you guys, just.

639
00:32:18,800 --> 00:32:19,320
Speaker 1: Amazing.

640
00:32:19,560 --> 00:32:21,360
Speaker 4: Well I think that may be all that we have

641
00:32:21,520 --> 00:32:25,000
Speaker 4: for you, but thank you so much for chatting with us.

642
00:32:25,040 --> 00:32:25,920
Speaker 5: This has been as up.

643
00:32:26,960 --> 00:32:29,239
Speaker 2: It's awesome to get to know you, especially from personal lover.

644
00:32:29,320 --> 00:32:30,920
Speaker 2: Now I'm not gonna say hi to you. I'm like, oh,

645
00:32:30,960 --> 00:32:32,840
Speaker 2: she's so nice, so sweet, Like.

646
00:32:32,840 --> 00:32:35,840
Speaker 4: Yeah, definitely a hug when we play against them, But

647
00:32:36,000 --> 00:32:38,080
Speaker 4: if I don't know anyone else, I typically don't do that.

648
00:32:39,800 --> 00:32:42,760
Speaker 1: Yourself. Welcome and girl.

649
00:32:44,120 --> 00:32:45,520
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, thanks for having me.

650
00:32:45,600 --> 00:32:48,320
Speaker 6: And it's nice to read you guys too officially and

651
00:32:48,360 --> 00:32:49,520
Speaker 6: I didn't know you guys were best.

652
00:32:50,200 --> 00:32:52,800
Speaker 1: Yeah, this is my ace boon cooon.

653
00:32:54,000 --> 00:33:02,640
Speaker 3: Yeah, but one apologize culture you guys.

654
00:33:02,680 --> 00:33:06,120
Speaker 1: Sorry, yeah, Bay, what are the kids? What are you

655
00:33:06,120 --> 00:33:09,600
Speaker 1: younger people saying now? Like my ride or die? No

656
00:33:09,720 --> 00:33:16,000
Speaker 1: rider dies? Definitely it really I think that multi generational.

657
00:33:16,360 --> 00:33:18,920
Speaker 4: Okay, where can we find the book? If we are

658
00:33:19,040 --> 00:33:21,560
Speaker 4: just a listener or a person watching this, you.

659
00:33:21,520 --> 00:33:24,200
Speaker 3: Can find the book at the Big Little dream dot com.

660
00:33:24,480 --> 00:33:25,000
Speaker 5: There we go.

661
00:33:25,720 --> 00:33:30,320
Speaker 3: It's so cute, little you, I know, little me.

662
00:33:30,920 --> 00:33:33,360
Speaker 1: Oh you know, I know you about the things you

663
00:33:33,400 --> 00:33:34,840
Speaker 1: were at Red Bow when you play right.

664
00:33:34,840 --> 00:33:36,960
Speaker 3: Something like that. And it used to be I'm not

665
00:33:37,120 --> 00:33:38,360
Speaker 3: a bow but like a scurrng.

666
00:33:38,800 --> 00:33:40,479
Speaker 1: Okay, that's cute. That was really cute.

667
00:33:40,520 --> 00:33:43,920
Speaker 5: And this book's not based on you, allegedly allegedly.

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Speaker 1: Okay, you guys, thanks for watching Serving Pancakes. I'm Pat Bell,

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Speaker 1: I'm not a kingden.

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Speaker 5: Get you on the flip side.

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Speaker 2: God. Serving Pancakes is an iheartwomen's sports production and partnership

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Speaker 2: with Deep Blue Sports entertain You can find us on

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Speaker 2: the iHeartRadio, app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcast.

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Speaker 2: Production by the League One Volleyball. We're your hosts, Kat

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Speaker 2: Beell and Mattie Rachelle, Anya Alvarez and Noah Snyder are

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Speaker 2: executive producers. Sound editing and mixing by Tiffany Oshinsky. Stay

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Speaker 2: tuned as we serve you up more behind the scenes

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Speaker 2: in volleyball every week. Thanks for listening.