Speaker 1: That was pretty long.
Speaker 2: I know I can actually I think I can hold
Speaker 2: the tune.
Speaker 3: Probably not, okay, okay, I haven't even thought of a
Speaker 3: beat today.
Speaker 1: It's honestly, I'm pretty sure it's the same every time.
Speaker 4: Could it be boom cat boom boom boom cat, boom
Speaker 4: boom boom cat.
Speaker 1: That's the same one.
Speaker 4: Boom cat cat, boom ca cat cat, boom cat cat,
Speaker 4: boom cat cat cat, boom cat cat. Okay cat, it's
Speaker 4: cat on the way to give you all the boom
Speaker 4: came in really hot and heavy.
Speaker 1: That was actually, what's up? Don't make me laugh? I
Speaker 1: can't laugh out.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, has a decision now, Yeah, it's long, give
Speaker 2: us the strong, give us the update.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, so I had surgery about it about
Speaker 5: a week ago. You know, wait to get out to
Speaker 5: go and okay, yeah, I had heard you about a
Speaker 5: week ago.
Speaker 1: So I've been off the grid, low key like a
Speaker 1: key and long story short.
Speaker 5: You know, I was going through the healing process and recovering,
Speaker 5: and then as I was healing, I noticed that like
Speaker 5: I had like an abnormal bulge which just so happened
Speaker 5: to be herd.
Speaker 2: Down low in your pants.
Speaker 5: No, actually, you're terrible actually no, but higher actually below oh,
Speaker 5: the chest and the stomach area. And basically they were
Speaker 5: saying that, like my abdominal wall was splitting because it
Speaker 5: was splitting in the incision I had, my intestines were
Speaker 5: poking through this like splitting area.
Speaker 1: So I had to go back in.
Speaker 5: They were like saying that, I, you know, I should
Speaker 5: have surgery because something could happen and get worse and
Speaker 5: then get bigger then have to pull me again in
Speaker 5: the season and I'll be out again. So they're like,
Speaker 5: it's just better, just kind of deal with it now.
Speaker 5: We have so much time, you know, coming up with
Speaker 5: the schedule. So got surgery about a week ago. Were
Speaker 5: you go out, and I've been healing good so far.
Speaker 5: My decisions is probably about like I will say, two
Speaker 5: to three inches longer, but it's like more fine, definitely
Speaker 5: like dinner. But my first decision was staples. This time
Speaker 5: they did sutures, so I had just stitches and they
Speaker 5: will follow on their own that kind of stuff too.
Speaker 1: So I'm getting better at laughing and coughing first.
Speaker 6: To anything funny that's very hard to Gina's been killing
Speaker 6: it so but yeah, so I'm getting better at coughing
Speaker 6: and sneezing and laughing that kind of stuff too, but
Speaker 6: slow and.
Speaker 2: Steady, you know, slow and steady, don't want to push it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So this time around, I'm definitely gonna kind of
Speaker 1: sit more in my hands and just wait until they
Speaker 1: tell me to just go.
Speaker 3: So, yeah, do you want to explain maybe to everyone too,
Speaker 3: about the photo that that you showed me of?
Speaker 2: Like Kat said, do you want to see it? Kat
Speaker 2: calls me and says, do you want to see? Do
Speaker 2: you want to see the the Do you want to
Speaker 2: see the inside of my stomach? And I was like,
Speaker 2: my inside?
Speaker 1: How close do you want to be?
Speaker 3: I don't know because I'm proud so weasy with that stuff.
Speaker 1: You didn't get though for the time that you looked
Speaker 1: at it, you did pretty good. So I have a picture.
Speaker 1: I have a picture of what.
Speaker 5: I look like on the inside, basically like where they
Speaker 5: split me and split me down the middle. They opened
Speaker 5: me up, and you can see the layers of like
Speaker 5: my abdominal wall like flaps on the side, and then
Speaker 5: down the middle you can see like my trunk.
Speaker 1: Which is having organs like getting getting light headed.
Speaker 5: You can see like my organs which is like covered
Speaker 5: with a lining that our body naturally makes on top
Speaker 5: of it is a mash that they put sergically inside.
Speaker 2: Okay, yes, but.
Speaker 3: When Kat sent this photo to me, I looked at
Speaker 3: it and I was like, that looks like spaghetti and
Speaker 3: meatballs a little bit.
Speaker 2: And then I'm looking at it and I was like
Speaker 2: fine because in my head I was like, that looks
Speaker 2: like pasta dish.
Speaker 3: And then you started explaining all of that and I
Speaker 3: was like connecting the dots, like, oh, that's what I'm
Speaker 3: looking at.
Speaker 2: And then I was like I can't.
Speaker 1: I can't. I don't think I feel good.
Speaker 5: You like, I can't look at it away.
Speaker 2: So that was gnarly. I can't believe that.
Speaker 5: Actually, everyone's reaction to people that have shown they're like,
Speaker 5: oh wow, that's crazy, and they're like, I can't look
Speaker 5: at it any longer because now it's sartain to makes sense,
Speaker 5: like that is crazy.
Speaker 1: That's what you look like on the inside is so crazy.
Speaker 1: So again, had a movie. But you did good.
Speaker 2: Thank you so much. Yes, but I hope it's all
Speaker 2: back together for Yeah, we're glad.
Speaker 3: I was thinking when they cut you open, it would
Speaker 3: just be like rainbows and butterflies, but it was spaghetti
Speaker 3: and meatballs.
Speaker 5: Well that was that's underneath the mesh totally. Yeah, it's
Speaker 5: the rainbows and the sparkles, you know, yeah.
Speaker 3: The unicorns. Oh my gosh, that's hilarious. Okay, Well, we're
Speaker 3: glad you're you're back.
Speaker 2: What's your recovery timeline? Do you know?
Speaker 1: He told me, he's.
Speaker 5: Like, just he knows my body recovers really quickly, so
Speaker 5: he's like, you know, let's just keep on like a
Speaker 5: little a better pace this time compared to last time,
Speaker 5: So like mid September, late September, and then obviously starts
Speaker 5: early November, so I have about a month and a
Speaker 5: half to train before we start the.
Speaker 2: First the first perfect, plenty of time, plenty of time.
Speaker 3: So yeah, but before that, you you were on another podcast,
Speaker 3: What's up?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, Trader, what's up? Yeah?
Speaker 5: So, if you guys haven't seen it yet, I was
Speaker 5: on Canaan's podcast.
Speaker 1: Canaan's a podcaster. He posts a lot of like volleyball conti.
Speaker 5: He talks about love, talks about MLV, and basically to
Speaker 5: talk about my story who I am as a person
Speaker 5: on off the choru as well as like my history and.
Speaker 1: That was pretty cool. You know, y'all know who I am.
Speaker 5: I am super unfiltered, cut raw, especially in my space
Speaker 5: like that where I'm able to be you know, myself
Speaker 5: all the way.
Speaker 1: And yeah, we talked.
Speaker 5: About everything about you know, love, you know, my transition
Speaker 5: from MLB coming over this way, having Eric as a coach,
Speaker 5: my experience that kind of stuff too so and then
Speaker 5: obviously now switching over to Miami.
Speaker 1: So yeah, it was cool.
Speaker 2: WHOA, I haven't listened to it, but I'll get there.
Speaker 2: It's juicy.
Speaker 5: You and my friends like paused and she was like,
Speaker 5: I have to go back and finish the shouse cat.
Speaker 5: She was like, you were saying some shit that like
Speaker 5: I really didn't think about. On top of like things
Speaker 5: that people probably wouldn't say.
Speaker 3: I'm like, wellest part.
Speaker 1: Too, too, okay, hot take.
Speaker 5: You know obviously the comparison that we talked about last
Speaker 5: time far as like MLV versus Love, you know what
Speaker 5: I mean. Even since then, there's been like comments and
Speaker 5: like I've got a few dms to talk about, well
Speaker 5: that's the case, and why are like, well will it
Speaker 5: balance out? Because love players are now coming from Love
Speaker 5: into MLB, and I'm like, no, because it's not like
Speaker 5: you have Jordan Thompson coming over to MLB's not like
Speaker 5: you have like, you know, players like that. You have
Speaker 5: great quality players who including people like me that are
Speaker 5: coming from the bench and go and go play and
Speaker 5: start and probably make a lot of more money for sure,
Speaker 5: but like you know, you have an opportunity to like
Speaker 5: play than being.
Speaker 2: By somebody else, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So yeah, that does.
Speaker 5: That make the level go higher potentially, But is it equal? No,
Speaker 5: because you don't have all those players stacked up on
Speaker 5: one team throughout the entire league.
Speaker 1: So I would say it again.
Speaker 5: So that and then the other hot take was having
Speaker 5: Eric as a coach, which I was just not a
Speaker 5: fan of, but personally that you see, you know, personally
Speaker 5: outside of that, I think, I mean, Eric have a
Speaker 5: great relationship outside of that work environment, but inside. And
Speaker 5: he told me a warning so we got talked about
Speaker 5: in the podcast. He was like, oh my god, you're
Speaker 5: gonna hate me as a coach and I was like, no,
Speaker 5: I'm not. I will say, hey, this is a strong word.
Speaker 5: I wouldn't say hate. I was gonna leave it there.
Speaker 5: But like I said, we have a great relationship outside
Speaker 5: of volleyball, and I prefer that one then the one that.
Speaker 2: The coach was perfect for sure.
Speaker 7: So yeah, ju see, okay, wow, and wait I met
Speaker 7: Knat at the love LA finals.
Speaker 5: By the way, I think he kind of has like
Speaker 5: a bad rap. I think people contend to say like
Speaker 5: he's a little messy. I don't think he's messy at all.
Speaker 5: I just think again, he just kind of says things
Speaker 5: that people one don't expect and to just kind of like,
Speaker 5: you know, it's almost like he's not in a space
Speaker 5: to say to have his opinion in the day. I'm like,
Speaker 5: people can have their opinions what it is and't matter
Speaker 5: if you're in the space.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know what I mean. But outside of that,
Speaker 1: I think he was He's great. He's really nice. You know.
Speaker 5: I felt like I was able to talk to him
Speaker 5: about things. Definitely, like banstered a lot and.
Speaker 1: Was very like you know, key keying. You know. It's
Speaker 1: almost like again like being on the phone with the friend,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean.
Speaker 2: So it's really cool.
Speaker 1: So if you're an opportunity to like be on this
Speaker 1: podcast and just chest and at.
Speaker 3: The end of the day, it just gets the conversation
Speaker 3: going about volleyball in the league, which is the point, feeling.
Speaker 1: Yes, exactly, that's the point.
Speaker 2: So so stir the pot. But I mean someone has
Speaker 2: to stir it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, it's happening in all the other sports,
Speaker 5: and and it's quis as kept, not as quie ass kept.
Speaker 5: Fans love the drama, so like, let's just talk about it.
Speaker 5: Let's be real about the situation. Let's stop, you know,
Speaker 5: smiling people's faces. Netli Evan's all grand, It's not like
Speaker 5: it's fine. You have people that say they love you,
Speaker 5: and I'm telling you now they don't. They're talking about
Speaker 5: you behind your bath. I found out some juice too,
Speaker 5: honestly in the past week that I have not told
Speaker 5: you yet, but I can't talk about in the podcast
Speaker 5: because that's just too much.
Speaker 1: But yeah, yeah, it's it's it's basically, I guess I
Speaker 1: can say this.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 5: We talked about kind of what my exit was at
Speaker 5: the finals, kind of what that whole thing was about,
Speaker 5: the competition I had with staff before game two, and
Speaker 5: how there was to talk about, like me basically overstepping
Speaker 5: my boundary coming back to the team and whatever. About
Speaker 5: the night before the game, before all the bullshit whatever.
Speaker 5: I now know who was saying what that ooh juice, Yeah,
Speaker 5: so exactly, but they're.
Speaker 1: Gonna be like not me. I was just like, no,
Speaker 1: I know who was saying what now, so.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, that's which is crazy.
Speaker 1: I'm not it's a I'm letting dead dogs be dead.
Speaker 5: Like I'm like at this point, it's like it's cool,
Speaker 5: like it's fine, it's fine.
Speaker 1: But like, you know, you know what was going on.
Speaker 5: I told you about this because I told you how
Speaker 5: piss I called you when I was how pissed, how
Speaker 5: pissed I was about to choye because it was so
Speaker 5: like like I've been gone, and it's like, just because
Speaker 5: we lost does not mean that was my fault because
Speaker 5: I was there like that was stupid and me like
Speaker 5: tossing balls or like me just trying to get feedback
Speaker 5: in the match was not because the reason we lost
Speaker 5: that was bullshit. I'm sorry, but it got back to me.
Speaker 5: Now I know who said what, and it's just I'm done.
Speaker 5: It's I'm fine, it's fine.
Speaker 1: So if you don't know, now you know.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 3: If if you didn't know, now you know, yeah, so exactly,
Speaker 3: and that's what's all.
Speaker 1: Whatever it's cool. Yeah, but they say smiling way boys, but.
Speaker 3: You're yeah, at least you're in hopefully a better situation
Speaker 3: next year for yourself.
Speaker 5: I'm afore I go exactly sure, so exactly exactly exactly.
Speaker 2: What other dramas me.
Speaker 5: A lot of like l A Love LA stuff marketing
Speaker 5: team is on it. I'm like, Miami, what's going on
Speaker 5: our marketing team and.
Speaker 2: Our LA is killing it?
Speaker 3: No seriously though, But also we do have like kind
Speaker 3: of an advantage because we have like California girl like
Speaker 3: who are living here and from here, and we're like
Speaker 3: in the area.
Speaker 2: So it's easier for us to put stuff together.
Speaker 3: But we had an event last Saturday for all of
Speaker 3: our like day one people who put down the deposit
Speaker 3: for season tickets, and it was really cool. It was
Speaker 3: at the California Surf Club, which is here in Redondo Beach,
Speaker 3: and a woman came up to me. I hope she's
Speaker 3: listening now, but she lives in the South Bay and
Speaker 3: she said that every morning on her walk.
Speaker 2: I think she she said she's a doctor.
Speaker 3: So like love that go girl not really volleyball affiliated,
Speaker 3: but just listens to our podcast when she goes on
Speaker 3: her walks in the morning.
Speaker 1: Nice one.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and I was like, that is so cool, and
Speaker 3: like introduced herself to me and I was like, thank
Speaker 3: you so much for listening, and it was just like, whoa.
Speaker 2: People are listening.
Speaker 1: That's awesome.
Speaker 2: Crazy anyway, but it was a really fun event.
Speaker 3: They had a panel with some of the players, like
Speaker 3: people can ask questions, blah blah blah. They just had
Speaker 3: merch and like a little bracelet making station. Dry Water
Speaker 3: was there, one of our partners, and then they could
Speaker 3: make a little tote bag. But it was just like
Speaker 3: a fun way to meet all of the people in
Speaker 3: the community and it was actually really awesome.
Speaker 2: Props Emily Hartong for putting that on.
Speaker 1: She did a great Emily.
Speaker 3: But yeah, and then I've gone to like a couple
Speaker 3: of clinics recently just like hang out, give some feedback,
Speaker 3: and that's been really fun just to meet some of
Speaker 3: the teams and the club players in the community. I
Speaker 3: think it's important to get involved, so I've been doing that.
Speaker 1: That's really good.
Speaker 5: And then even keeping up any of your your off
Speaker 5: court hobbies like crochet.
Speaker 1: At this point you need to start sailing some shit.
Speaker 5: Seriously, I know you guys Maddie has gotten so good
Speaker 5: at it.
Speaker 1: So right now, if I.
Speaker 2: Have a photo, Oh I do have a photo for sure, but.
Speaker 1: Something's happening for me in the future hasn't been released yet.
Speaker 3: And oh, okay, this is my that's my jersey that
Speaker 3: I made.
Speaker 2: Cool huh And.
Speaker 1: He's making me one with the Miami logo on it.
Speaker 3: Totally, that's so cool. Start that, start that soon. I'll
Speaker 3: get that too before season.
Speaker 5: But yeah, that's a great shirt. So yeah, I'll take
Speaker 5: one for Miami. So what about you still making not
Speaker 5: making bread?
Speaker 2: No more, I'm making bread.
Speaker 3: I actually made like some cookies yesterday with my sour
Speaker 3: dough starter, which were crazy.
Speaker 2: I made lemon bars.
Speaker 3: The other week I did bread, and yeah, that's still going.
Speaker 3: The jersey game is I think we're gonna I think
Speaker 3: I'm gonna maybe start like some sort of Etsy shop
Speaker 3: or something like that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, start taking you can sell like your teammates jerseys
Speaker 5: with their number on the jerseys.
Speaker 2: The thing is like a good amount of time.
Speaker 1: Though there has to be a machine that can do it.
Speaker 3: There's no machine that can Oh that, that's like the
Speaker 3: that's why it's so special.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, with your AI, I'm sure, allegedly that's what.
Speaker 3: TikTok tells me. But yeah, I think well, and I
Speaker 3: think it's like way cooler that it's handmade by me.
Speaker 1: Yeah. True. It's also like kind of like your idea too, though,
Speaker 1: which is nice.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 3: I think I'm going to try to make like a
Speaker 3: fun bucket hat for six man?
Speaker 2: Six man?
Speaker 3: Is this weekend the big talk about six Yeah did
Speaker 3: we talk about it last podcast? I can't remember we
Speaker 3: have touched on it.
Speaker 2: We did it, I'm pretty sure. Oh yeah.
Speaker 3: Also, like good job to our girls they made it
Speaker 3: to finals finals week, but.
Speaker 2: We thought we thought you had it. Sorry ladies for USA. Yeah,
Speaker 2: but this weekend is the.
Speaker 3: I don't even know how to explain that six man
Speaker 3: six on six beach volleyball. Everybody like kind of dresses up.
Speaker 3: It's just like a big thing in Manhattan Beach, and
Speaker 3: I feel like people like take.
Speaker 2: Off work, they fly in for this. It's like once
Speaker 2: a year.
Speaker 1: And play.
Speaker 2: It's like Christmas for some people.
Speaker 3: And it's also like the volleyball community kind of like
Speaker 3: just getting together and hanging out.
Speaker 2: And so I didn't really want to like play this
Speaker 2: year and every year.
Speaker 3: Right, I played for the last seven years and I
Speaker 3: really just wanted to like be able to see all
Speaker 3: my friends and spectate this year. So I have a
Speaker 3: group of love La girls that are coming together and
Speaker 3: we are like a team of sorts, but we're not playing,
Speaker 3: So we're just gonna go out there and like tell
Speaker 3: people the good word about love La and hang out.
Speaker 2: That's so Sue.
Speaker 3: My brother's flying in. I have just other friends coming
Speaker 3: who love volleyball, and it's really fun. So because I
Speaker 3: get to see all these volleyball people I know, and
Speaker 3: then I can go watch I know, but like like
Speaker 3: the l like that LA gets a presence there because
Speaker 3: then LA is in l A.
Speaker 2: It's an l A team.
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Speaker 2: You will not want to take them off, I promise.
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Speaker 2: You went golfing.
Speaker 1: I went golfing this morning. Not golfing. I just was
Speaker 1: a caddy. I just I mean, I guess caddies do
Speaker 1: more than what I did. I just drove the card
Speaker 1: around and.
Speaker 2: Yeah, pretended to know what was happening with the rangefinder,
Speaker 2: and I just.
Speaker 1: Like, yeah, pretended to know what have what the rangefinder?
Speaker 1: And then I just scribbled in how many.
Speaker 2: Hold ones?
Speaker 1: There was zero of those? How many swings he took
Speaker 1: to get to the flag?
Speaker 2: Mm hmmm, yeah, yes, yeah he got one.
Speaker 1: He got one.
Speaker 2: Four par part four, part four. There we go.
Speaker 1: There was par Yeah, yeah par.
Speaker 2: There you go.
Speaker 8: Exciting I can get out honestly, Yeah, yeah, golf is hard,
Speaker 8: I'm sure.
Speaker 1: But you know, I had a few notes that I
Speaker 1: was able to give. You know, I was like, think about.
Speaker 5: Swinging with speed, not like power, because that's what vollyball
Speaker 5: players do. We think about speed and not trying to
Speaker 5: like dump the ball unless.
Speaker 3: You like, but you don't want to swing a golf
Speaker 3: club with speed or power. It should be like pretty slow. Actually,
Speaker 3: oh well, I said speed like the first like it
Speaker 3: to go far. I don't think so no, no, no no,
Speaker 3: because Paul Golf and like every time I'm with him,
Speaker 3: like you really you want to take your golf you
Speaker 3: want to take your club back pretty slow?
Speaker 1: I on the ball.
Speaker 2: We should play golf. We should play golf. Is that
Speaker 2: what you're gonna say?
Speaker 1: I can play. We should. We should play golf.
Speaker 2: I'm pretty we should.
Speaker 1: We should film an episode as smacked up playing playing
Speaker 1: nine holes.
Speaker 3: Okay, but when can you twist because your stomach is
Speaker 3: like September before that.
Speaker 2: Okay, I'll come to Miami and we can play golf.
Speaker 1: You are coming back. That's a great time. Okay.
Speaker 4: Wait.
Speaker 3: You know what's funny is so my husband is going
Speaker 3: on another bachelor trip and and he texted Kat and
Speaker 3: was like, I might have to go on a trip again.
Speaker 2: And it's like Maddie should come to Miami.
Speaker 3: But then and like two days later, he's like, hey,
Speaker 3: I might have to go on another trip to wherever
Speaker 3: bachelor trip.
Speaker 2: You should go to Miami. And I was like, okay,
Speaker 2: So he finally told me.
Speaker 1: But it's awesome.
Speaker 2: I almost ruined the surprise.
Speaker 5: It's almost like maybe he talked about it with her,
Speaker 5: and as I was talking to you, I was like, oh,
Speaker 5: she doesn't know.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 5: What's funny is like I know, I keep the surprise,
Speaker 5: but it was almost like it's something that he wants
Speaker 5: to do.
Speaker 1: So he wants to give you something to do, you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. So it's like fair like yeah.
Speaker 3: It's like it's like I'm like a little kid, like
Speaker 3: you know, you just use distraction techniques. And he's just like, Okay,
Speaker 3: I have to go, so like I have to put
Speaker 3: her with somebody or like put her with a friend.
Speaker 1: He sounds kind of bummed. He's like, I have to
Speaker 1: like go to this bachelor party. And I go to
Speaker 1: a bachelor trip with all my boys and like hang
Speaker 1: out in and.
Speaker 3: Like drink beers and oh yeah, go to Miami. And
Speaker 3: I'm like, he said, up a playd Apro.
Speaker 1: That's what it golf? Yeah, yeah, that that's gonna be
Speaker 1: actually really fun. That's perfect.
Speaker 2: Have some clubs. I think I'll just bring the driver.
Speaker 2: I feel like I can use the driver on that.
Speaker 1: I'll just use Carlos's clubs.
Speaker 2: Perfect drink.
Speaker 5: So yeah, yeah, he's a driver, and he's a driver.
Speaker 5: Anything you can do, the put whatever. I don't have
Speaker 5: to switch. Just give me the driver and let.
Speaker 2: Me just like.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think as somebody likes ahead, we'll go one.
Speaker 1: Today he was like four and I was like agreed
Speaker 1: is that?
Speaker 3: But like, as I was gonna say, as a hitter,
Speaker 3: like all I want to do really truly is hit
Speaker 3: the ball as hard as possible that you smacked them,
Speaker 3: but you do like the mentality that's you go to
Speaker 3: top golf, I can hit it to the back fence.
Speaker 2: That's drives the back fence crazy, yeah, and.
Speaker 3: It's like the best feeling ever. But like if I
Speaker 3: had to putt to win a championship, no dice, no way.
Speaker 1: I'm more of a putter. I'm more like a short
Speaker 1: scheme kind of like.
Speaker 2: Oh the finesse, yeah, you know, it's the touch that
Speaker 2: is not for me.
Speaker 1: Came launched that. Yeah, you're like I see those videos.
Speaker 5: Of golfing and they're like on the range where you're
Speaker 5: just kind of practicing your swing and then they're like
Speaker 5: making that sound off the off the Yeah you know
Speaker 5: what I'm talking about.
Speaker 1: But it's like like thunder. It's loud.
Speaker 2: People are like what the oh yeah, it's more like
Speaker 2: a whack.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 5: People don't like it when you're doing that around those
Speaker 5: I guess those areas so but yeah, oh pase, no
Speaker 5: one ever says anything to me. Are you making that
Speaker 5: sound of course, Okay, we're going to see making those
Speaker 5: hoes are We're gonna make a bet And I'm just
Speaker 5: kidding no, because it's not better anything else. Par three
Speaker 5: course with Paul and he got a hole in one
Speaker 5: and we were running around the course like swinging our
Speaker 5: golf clothes were and then I guess it's like a
Speaker 5: rule if you make a hole in one, you have
Speaker 5: to buy around for everybody, like on the course. Maybe
Speaker 5: don't quote me on that, but like all.
Speaker 3: These little on the course, I think on the course,
Speaker 3: don't don't quote me on that, but it was so cool.
Speaker 1: Who made it?
Speaker 2: Paul?
Speaker 1: Did I not met?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: I do.
Speaker 5: So does anything change for your off season? Now we're
Speaker 5: like halfway through, We're like coming up.
Speaker 1: It's I know, I feel like.
Speaker 3: Well, I feel like right now, I'm just trying to
Speaker 3: kind of like maintain like playing shape ish or and
Speaker 3: like working out. I mean, I work out like five
Speaker 3: times a week, but then I try to play. I
Speaker 3: play beach volleyball. I started to get some indoor reps.
Speaker 3: So Mizuno, like Rockstar SCVC is one of our love clubs,
Speaker 3: and they let me go and like.
Speaker 2: Get some in there, which is really sweet.
Speaker 3: Of them, so they like started to go out to
Speaker 3: play indoor a little bit, but just slowly, you know,
Speaker 3: just getting getting my toes wet. Nothing crazy so far,
Speaker 3: but I think like slowly we'll start to ramp it
Speaker 3: up now because I think, I mean, November is going
Speaker 3: to be here in no time.
Speaker 1: Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 5: I think also, like, I think it's really cool that
Speaker 5: Love is starting to like host practices for the players
Speaker 5: now and the next one is supposed to be here
Speaker 5: in Austin.
Speaker 1: Is that something.
Speaker 9: I think it's like September, like oh really, yeah, the
Speaker 9: second week, the second week, wait, I think that's the
Speaker 9: weekend that that that I would go to my Yeah,
Speaker 9: I think it's the same weekend.
Speaker 1: Okay, well we're not going to be there.
Speaker 5: We're going to be in Miami, so okay, which I
Speaker 5: wouldn't be trying to play it at that point anyways.
Speaker 5: I don't think I'm gonna start playing probably until like October.
Speaker 2: Oh got you, Yeah, I need to I'll figure that out.
Speaker 2: I'll probably we can play in Miami.
Speaker 1: Yeah for sure.
Speaker 5: I'm playing the beach and everything. There's like total club
Speaker 5: teams all there are there too, so totally. Yeah, it's
Speaker 5: going to be here quick though, I kind of I
Speaker 5: feel a little bit like for me, my mindset is
Speaker 5: this strength. As long as I have my strength, that
Speaker 5: the touch of it will come because then we have
Speaker 5: a month he's in training, you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 5: So like my main thing is just focused on strength
Speaker 5: and jumping, so I'll build that confidence back.
Speaker 3: So I think when you've been playing, as long as
Speaker 3: we have the touch, it's like riding a bike, like
Speaker 3: the touches will come back. But the two weeks level
Speaker 3: of of strength and conditioning is really where it matters.
Speaker 3: So yeah, we have that, it's easier to get back
Speaker 3: on the court. But if you have to come from
Speaker 3: zero with both, like yeah, to do nothing all summer
Speaker 3: and then show up to preseason like I'm here would
Speaker 3: be impossible.
Speaker 1: That'd be crazy. That's like.
Speaker 5: I think if I train like I'll train training for
Speaker 5: athletes unlimited, like we ramp up in the month before
Speaker 5: I lean with a fluence unlimited, like, I'll be fine.
Speaker 2: So yeah, yeah, I just want to maintain and like
Speaker 2: push it up a little.
Speaker 5: My mom ask and she was like, do you feel
Speaker 5: like nervous anything because your body's different now and blah blah, blah,
Speaker 5: like are you scared to make certain movements? I'm like,
Speaker 5: once once I don't feel pain, I'm gonna be fine anyways,
Speaker 5: you know. But it's just more of like appened to
Speaker 5: my mind, like no until they say okay go, because
Speaker 5: once I get told go, I'm not thinking about anything inside.
Speaker 1: I'm just thinking about training my muscles. That's it. That's
Speaker 1: my focus is like mostly all that on that.
Speaker 5: So yeah, I don't have any like, I don't have
Speaker 5: any fear like trauma like hurting myself. I mean obviously
Speaker 5: when you feel certain things almost like it's something okay.
Speaker 5: But I think I also want to be very much
Speaker 5: chatam in about like maybe every like month, every two months,
Speaker 5: to get a scan to see how I feel, you know,
Speaker 5: how everything's looking on the inside.
Speaker 2: You know, so it looks like it looks like meat
Speaker 2: balls and spaghetti.
Speaker 1: Yep. Well I want to keep looking like that, you know.
Speaker 1: So that's the goal.
Speaker 2: Oh my whatsh Yeah, Well you'll be back.
Speaker 3: In no time.
Speaker 1: Yeah sure.
Speaker 5: So anyways, what else we got you can catch on
Speaker 5: getting roster updates.
Speaker 1: I saw Serena's at San Francisco. Now they talked about
Speaker 1: mm hmm.
Speaker 2: Kelsey Powell good.
Speaker 5: Yeah, really good team, very strong. California teams are looking
Speaker 5: really strong. Kelsey coming back is going to be insane,
Speaker 5: you know, coming back having a baby and getting in
Speaker 5: shape and playing. It's gonna be awesome.
Speaker 2: Her Annie and Justine coming back. Yeah, Danny Drew's I think, did.
Speaker 5: You see Danny freaking hand cleaning with a full belly
Speaker 5: a baby?
Speaker 1: No? It was baby No, Like she's about to. Like
Speaker 1: I've been talking to her Superwoman do in.
Speaker 5: Like two or three weeks and like, I mean, hand cleaning, squatting,
Speaker 5: full belly.
Speaker 1: Bought the pop.
Speaker 3: I'm like, you're so impressive. She's like the most superhuman
Speaker 3: person that I know.
Speaker 1: I think I would agree. I would agree.
Speaker 3: I remember talking to some of the Salt Lake girls
Speaker 3: during season or maybe it was during a you I
Speaker 3: don't know, and some of them Tory Dixon was like, oh,
Speaker 3: it was like day in the life with Danny.
Speaker 2: Drew's and Tori was like doing all of the workouts
Speaker 2: with her and it was like hiking working out, like
Speaker 2: all of this stuff. And Toy was like, she's like bionic,
Speaker 2: she just doesn't quit.
Speaker 1: And I was like, yeah, she's just so much energy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: super mom super super mom. She's gonna be a great mom.
Speaker 2: She's so sweet. Oh yeah, okay, but we have we
Speaker 2: have a lot of moms coming back. Who else? Who's
Speaker 2: your team? We can talk about your team?
Speaker 5: Yeah, my team obviously has been fully released. We have
Speaker 5: lots of Spanish players on our team, which is awesome.
Speaker 1: I've been saying this a lot.
Speaker 3: That to that.
Speaker 5: See, that's why I'm splaining as far as it goes.
Speaker 5: I can cut somebody out, that's for show.
Speaker 1: I can guess.
Speaker 2: I can cuss like may I'm o cat okay, and
Speaker 2: then you can cuss them out.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 5: That's my talent is cussing. It's a true talent. I
Speaker 5: can cuss the many languages, yeah, which is great. And
Speaker 5: one thing I've been saying about, like about playing with
Speaker 5: the team that's built like this, is that, like one
Speaker 5: thing you have to teach about this with culture like
Speaker 5: this is grit, you know what I mean, Like you
Speaker 5: don't have to tell these tell players like that come
Speaker 5: from like Argentina, Brazil, Spain, like to.
Speaker 1: Be aggressive, you know, or be like let's go. They
Speaker 1: already have that naturally.
Speaker 5: And I feel like we did a lot of that
Speaker 5: building and trying to find that type of like raw
Speaker 5: as a whole collective.
Speaker 1: Group last year in Austin, and but a team like
Speaker 1: this is like everybody already kind of like has that,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, which is great. Yeah, you
Speaker 1: don't have to spend time trying to like elevate that.
Speaker 1: That makes sense.
Speaker 3: Yes, I totally get that. That'll be fun because I
Speaker 3: feel like you're kind of like that already too.
Speaker 1: I'm fiery, I belong, I'm with my people.
Speaker 2: You know, you're with your your with your Latina girl.
Speaker 1: I am like, I'm deep down, it's in there.
Speaker 3: I know, Mina, you used to speak that Spanish when
Speaker 3: you were younger. Also, yeah, you never had it, to
Speaker 3: be honest. Also, they announced Annie for our team after
Speaker 3: I don't know if we talked about this, Annie ony Koto.
Speaker 2: We got, we got some good girls.
Speaker 5: But yeah, so all those rosters are pretty stacked, you know.
Speaker 5: I said, LA's pretty stacked, Miami's pretty stacked. Everyone is
Speaker 5: a great team.
Speaker 1: Do you having like preseason predictions or should we just
Speaker 1: wait a little bit.
Speaker 2: Ooh preseason predictions?
Speaker 3: I don't know, because there are early spots, there are
Speaker 3: still some spots that need to be filled. I think
Speaker 3: there's still bringing a couple of players in and then
Speaker 3: like we'll get some collegiate girls.
Speaker 2: So you know, who's to say what could really shake out?
Speaker 4: Well?
Speaker 1: You know, every season we make a bet, so we
Speaker 1: have to make a bet about something. Is it are for?
Speaker 1: We probably won't. I don't know when even the conferences
Speaker 1: would cross. I'm not really sure.
Speaker 2: So we have to know that it's going to work out.
Speaker 1: We have to now bet like, okay versus the other side?
Speaker 7: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Should we bet? Like what?
Speaker 3: Well? I mean obviously I would bet on my side.
Speaker 3: You would bet on your side. I was gonna say
Speaker 3: which side of the conference will be better?
Speaker 5: I would say we should beat We should bet who's
Speaker 5: gonna win their first game?
Speaker 2: You are, oh, well, if we win our first game.
Speaker 1: I think so too. But if we tie, then it's
Speaker 1: just a tie.
Speaker 3: But if we how about this, if we tie, then
Speaker 3: you owe me dinner? Uh no, I win, you owe
Speaker 3: me dinner. If you win, you could if you wanted
Speaker 3: to still buy me dinner.
Speaker 1: Y'll see her, They'll see what she does, how mad
Speaker 1: he is, this is how she is?
Speaker 2: Whatever is?
Speaker 1: No, Well, okay, we'll find a way.
Speaker 2: So okay, let's also before we wrap.
Speaker 3: Let's think of if we had if you had to
Speaker 3: put another team and like another city, what city would
Speaker 3: you want to see a team in?
Speaker 1: Ooh, that's a good question.
Speaker 2: If I had to pick, Okay, you go.
Speaker 1: If I had to pick, I would say New York.
Speaker 2: That's what I was gonna say. Okay, New York would
Speaker 2: be so cool.
Speaker 1: I also think.
Speaker 2: That Chicago would be sick.
Speaker 1: I've only been in Chicago once. It was fine, but
Speaker 1: I don't. I can't say it enough to say that
Speaker 1: I love it. I've been to New York twice and
Speaker 1: I love it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, New York would just be so different than anywhere
Speaker 3: else that has a team. Now yeah right, Hey, also
Speaker 3: Las Vegas, Yeah I don't.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't want to live in Las Vegas.
Speaker 1: But been there, done that and it was great.
Speaker 2: But yeah, mmm, that's I'm trying to think where else
Speaker 2: it would I want to live.
Speaker 1: Puerto Rico.
Speaker 2: Puerto Rico would be That would.
Speaker 1: Be a good one. That would be a really good one.
Speaker 2: Yes, we got to get that going.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that'd be Now, that would be a good one.
Speaker 2: Puerto Rico would be great.
Speaker 3: And then we also need to start like chartering flights
Speaker 3: so that we could go like La direct to Puerto
Speaker 3: Rico if we had.
Speaker 2: To play there, yea, to Miami.
Speaker 1: We need someone money, That's what we need. We need
Speaker 1: to the money.
Speaker 3: But anyways, okay, and then last question, what like rivalries
Speaker 3: do think there will be this year?
Speaker 1: Ooh?
Speaker 2: I think.
Speaker 1: I think our rival would probably be.
Speaker 5: I'm gonna say Atlanta, just because my team is made
Speaker 5: up from like big, big parts of Atlanta.
Speaker 1: So I think it's going to be like Atlanta versus Miami. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that would be like the big one.
Speaker 2: Okay, I'm so calculated.
Speaker 1: That's that's a smartest answer.
Speaker 2: And your coach came from Atlanta.
Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: So well, yeah, okay, I feel like ours will I
Speaker 3: feel like ours will be San Francisco just because it'll
Speaker 3: be like the Battle of California.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so we can do it.
Speaker 5: So I think it would be my Miami versus Atlanta's
Speaker 5: smart smart guests. Obviously Austin versus Houston, obviously La versus Sand.
Speaker 1: Fran And then I would say like Battle of the North.
Speaker 3: I feel like for some reason, just because of like
Speaker 3: also the schools like Wisconsin Nebraska like Madison, Nebraska are
Speaker 3: going to be.
Speaker 2: Like mm hmm.
Speaker 1: But Minnesota is in there now too, so.
Speaker 2: Oh shoot, you're right.
Speaker 5: And Salt Lake, Yeah, most of matchup pretty well too,
Speaker 5: I would say too.
Speaker 1: And everybody could have a rival this year. They want it.
Speaker 1: It's like if you want to compute, if you want
Speaker 1: to take it. Yeah. What it's as saying that the
Speaker 1: crown stays here.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, the Crown's gotta go give the ground
Speaker 2: to somebody else.
Speaker 1: It was like what somebody else with?
Speaker 2: Well, they broke you guys up a little bit. So
Speaker 2: maybe this year will be better.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and we'll see, maybe we'll have a better chance
Speaker 5: of competing against for the title.
Speaker 2: We will be Only time will tell, Time will tell.
Speaker 2: Sleep baby, it sounds like time to me. All right.
Speaker 2: Thank you everybody for listening. I'm Maddie Rischel and I'm
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