Speaker 1: We're live. We're live. F we are so back.
Speaker 2: We really, Uh, I'm happy to minute. We took a
Speaker 2: minute off there because we were busy, very busy with life, busy,
Speaker 2: busy losing the semi finals.
Speaker 1: Uh, it's okay. We move on. Are we gonna? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Have you do you still know how to wrap? We're
Speaker 1: gonna find out.
Speaker 3: Boom boom, boom boom, Yeah, boom boom, back in action,
Speaker 3: boom boom. It's Maddie and catch back on the podcast. Yeah,
Speaker 3: we're hitting it good. It's your girl, cat better be understood.
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Speaker 4: That was a good one.
Speaker 1: Anyways. Hey, yeah, what's going on. It's been how your
Speaker 1: journey been? You know? Take me let's just let's just
Speaker 1: take me back to take me through it. Take me
Speaker 1: through you've been going through it? Regular season?
Speaker 3: You know you guys won as the first top team
Speaker 3: regular season.
Speaker 1: How was that? Yes?
Speaker 2: Wow, These last two weeks have actually been like pretty
Speaker 2: emotionally roller Coastery winning winning was really cool. So like
Speaker 2: we beat Atlanta and Atlanta to clinch first awesome and
Speaker 2: then our like half our team won like awards for
Speaker 2: people of the year, which was so cool because I
Speaker 2: feel like that was well deserved, and then went to
Speaker 2: Louisville for playoffs that didn't go so great, so many thoughts, Yeah,
Speaker 2: we're not there.
Speaker 3: Let's stay back in regular season. But your favorite moment
Speaker 3: so far for regular season?
Speaker 2: Oh okay, regular season was obviously as well.
Speaker 1: We had a.
Speaker 2: Terrible start, but we were terrible at the beginning.
Speaker 1: Terrible.
Speaker 2: We're owing three at the beginning and like that really
Speaker 2: pains you, you know, like losing really sucks. And then
Speaker 2: we were We had like a really honest, open conversation
Speaker 2: after that third loss and everybody was just.
Speaker 1: Like, you got to get on board, we need to
Speaker 1: figure this out. Whatever.
Speaker 2: And then after that day we played you guys next
Speaker 2: at the Spurs Area Arena, and like that was.
Speaker 1: The game changer for us.
Speaker 2: So I think that moment was like really cool because
Speaker 2: we were like, Okay, we need to figure this out
Speaker 2: no matter what, and like we did, and then like
Speaker 2: from that moment on, it was like we were just
Speaker 2: on a roll. So everything felt really good going forward
Speaker 2: from there, and like the season in total was really great.
Speaker 2: Like I loved our team a lot, I love our coach,
Speaker 2: so in totality season awesome, and I think that moment
Speaker 2: was just really pivotal for our team in general.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but I don't know, it was really fun.
Speaker 2: This is probably like one of the more enjoyable seasons
Speaker 2: that I've had in my career, which is really cool.
Speaker 2: So and I'm just like happy to see all these
Speaker 2: little young girls do well and like have a good
Speaker 2: time and have their first pro year. Like it's just
Speaker 2: so fun to be alongside them as they get to
Speaker 2: do this. So I'm really grateful for this season.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I definitely connect with the pivotal like conversations. I
Speaker 3: think throughout our season we had those same conversations like
Speaker 3: almost like you guys, you guys had a moment and
Speaker 3: you switched it on. And I feel like, for love Austin,
Speaker 3: we were having these conversations almost like weekly, you know.
Speaker 3: I think for our team, we had built up this
Speaker 3: huge like stretch of winning matches and playing well, then
Speaker 3: began a stretch of like not playing well and trying
Speaker 3: to gain some type of like camaraderie and raw But
Speaker 3: that's how it was last season. It was always just
Speaker 3: trying to you know, tooth and nail about just trying
Speaker 3: to find something to grass to get us kind of going.
Speaker 3: My favorite moment, I would say, is just I don't.
Speaker 1: Honestly, I don't really have one.
Speaker 3: I think every day was just just a joy to
Speaker 3: be in the gym, and like that's why I just
Speaker 3: tick it ass, Like every day I'm just coming here
Speaker 3: be the best I can be, and then like that's
Speaker 3: pretty much it.
Speaker 2: So it's all you goodly do too, exactly, I think
Speaker 2: as we get older too. I was like reflecting with
Speaker 2: Mica the other day, like I honestly just love.
Speaker 1: Being in the gym in general.
Speaker 2: Now it's not like Okay, I have to win this,
Speaker 2: or I have to do this, or I have to
Speaker 2: do like this to make me happy. It's like no, really,
Speaker 2: like the daily grind is so fun for me, and
Speaker 2: like getting to you know, be there with the younger
Speaker 2: girls kind of coach them along or just like yeah,
Speaker 2: you know, help like help everyone in the gym do
Speaker 2: what they need to do is like fun for me now.
Speaker 2: So yeah, it's it's definitely a shift of like what
Speaker 2: volleyball used to be for me, and I think that's
Speaker 2: been a really cool experience of this season as well.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I would say, especially like I think part of
Speaker 3: that is like snow in your roles. I think, like, yeah,
Speaker 3: we know, I know, if my name it's called, I
Speaker 3: can play a pivotal role in like being a starter
Speaker 3: or doing whating to do as far as like being
Speaker 3: out there at starting six, but also knowing a rule
Speaker 3: far as like okay, like I am also a bench
Speaker 3: player and making sure I'm giving to like the people
Speaker 3: around me and the girls are on the court, as
Speaker 3: well as giving.
Speaker 1: Feedback kind of stuff too.
Speaker 3: So I think that just comes with just being comfortable
Speaker 3: and knowing what you're doing, Like I don't have to
Speaker 3: find an identity right now, like anymore.
Speaker 1: Like volleyball is like it's so ficked on my career.
Speaker 1: You know, it's so much fun.
Speaker 3: You know your bet now, and just kind of like
Speaker 3: playing the game is how you want to play it,
Speaker 3: like no one kind of telling you what to do.
Speaker 3: You're doing it is your own style this point that
Speaker 3: kind of thing too. So anyone that surprised you this
Speaker 3: season anything.
Speaker 1: I mean it's a team surprise right now would be.
Speaker 2: Surprise surprise, okay, anyway I would say, well, okay, surprise,
Speaker 2: but also not surprise, like how they they beat us
Speaker 2: twice at the beginning of the year when we were
Speaker 2: zero three, and I was like, dang, this team is
Speaker 2: really good, and I think like we saw that at
Speaker 2: the beginning, and then they had that ull kind of
Speaker 2: in the last half of the season, and I was like,
Speaker 2: what's happening here? And then we played them our last
Speaker 2: match at home, and it like we were like, Okay,
Speaker 2: we're feeling good. We're going to our next match like
Speaker 2: clinch first, and then going into Semis, We're like, Okay,
Speaker 2: this team has the potential to be really good, but
Speaker 2: like we haven't seen that in a minute, so like whatever,
Speaker 2: and then they play their best volleyball they've played all season,
Speaker 2: and I was like, Okay, this team is really good,
Speaker 2: you know, like I you showed up and played when
Speaker 2: it mattered, and that sucks for us, and like we
Speaker 2: definitely gave it everything that we had. So I can't
Speaker 2: be upset with like our team at all, because I
Speaker 2: feel like we did go down fighting, especially in the
Speaker 2: golden set that was like the most intense volleyball dog
Speaker 2: fight I feel like we've ever done. So I mean,
Speaker 2: perhaps to them, they're a great team, so it sucks.
Speaker 2: I mean losing sucks and losing like that really sucks,
Speaker 2: but that is the nature of sports.
Speaker 1: Yeah, my surprise is definitely Austin.
Speaker 3: I am surprised just because, like I mean, am I surprised,
Speaker 3: Yes and no, just because like this is just what
Speaker 3: love Austin does. Like I think the more it was
Speaker 3: more crunch time, and I'm like, we work really well
Speaker 3: on like high pressure environments and situations as it is anyway,
Speaker 3: so I'm like, at this point, it doesn't really matter
Speaker 3: what's happening as long as everyone comes to get towards
Speaker 3: the end, which I think was what happened towards end
Speaker 3: is kind of what mattered.
Speaker 1: So I do fell back for Jordan Larson.
Speaker 3: Obviously, she was an amazing tribute for the sport, and
Speaker 3: you know, you didn't want her career going out like that,
Speaker 3: you know, to lose and just such a such like
Speaker 3: a small percentage of points, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: Like if this was your real rules, it'd be totally different.
Speaker 3: But since then it's not, you know, it's when's the
Speaker 3: losses and other stuff, so shout out to her.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, that's I mean, it is crazy, like the
Speaker 2: a three way tie the last match of the season
Speaker 2: going into playoffs, like you couldn't have written it up better.
Speaker 2: And none of this, I mean, for the people that
Speaker 2: are like this was scripted, it was not.
Speaker 1: Unfortun it was not.
Speaker 2: I think like, Okay, the league is just that strong
Speaker 2: and we have so many great talented players that that's
Speaker 2: just how it shook out, which.
Speaker 1: Actually blows all of our minds too. So yeah, that
Speaker 1: was wild.
Speaker 2: Like us, we were in Atlanta watching both games go on,
Speaker 2: and it was like, Okay, if these people lose and
Speaker 2: then they're both in and if but and I was like,
Speaker 2: I literally can't even follow, like it.
Speaker 3: Looks like you just can't lose.
Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly exactly.
Speaker 2: I mean it is cool just to see like that
Speaker 2: everybody can win. I mean, you guys two years in
Speaker 2: a row now have showed up when it mattered.
Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly, good for you when thank you, which I
Speaker 3: would say, like that's for me the biggest like change
Speaker 3: from season one to season two because like now it's
Speaker 3: like the top four teams had.
Speaker 1: To go last last year, like everyone got to go.
Speaker 3: But I think what you said or Molly said that,
Speaker 3: like even with this type of like setup for the
Speaker 3: best two out of three the first day, does it
Speaker 3: really matter what do you think does it really.
Speaker 1: Because it isn't.
Speaker 2: It isn't two out of three, you know, so technically
Speaker 2: like even going into the finals, now, whoever ends tomorrow,
Speaker 2: it doesn't matter. Yeah, it's basically just a warm up
Speaker 2: because the second day is the only one that matters.
Speaker 2: So whoever's how the second day is going to take
Speaker 2: it doesn't Like if you win three zero tomorrow, who cares.
Speaker 1: Yeah. True, so it's.
Speaker 2: A one in my mind. Now it's a one and done.
Speaker 2: You just have an extra season match. True, So do
Speaker 2: with that what you will.
Speaker 3: I think they may even change it again, Like I
Speaker 3: would say, like.
Speaker 1: What I would do?
Speaker 3: Tell me if I was Tom, whouns that kind of
Speaker 3: suff But if I was Tom, I feel like the league,
Speaker 3: the league, if you're the first place team.
Speaker 1: And you win the regular season, like you're like you
Speaker 1: get a buy, you get a buy, You're.
Speaker 3: Going you guaranteed that spot you guys worked your ass
Speaker 3: off to because it's so hard.
Speaker 1: Think about it. It's so hard to.
Speaker 3: Like compete mount and compete every night and to keep
Speaker 3: that to keep that first play spot with all the
Speaker 3: teams going on, all the sets being played, and I
Speaker 3: feel like that's where deserve and earn, Like you just
Speaker 3: can't take that away. I feel like and I think
Speaker 3: you should just get a bye for sure.
Speaker 1: I kind of agree with you.
Speaker 2: And also, like Jordan Thompson, you get MVP of the league,
Speaker 2: like you are record breaking season, you are killing this shit,
Speaker 2: and then now that's the way that it has to
Speaker 2: end when like you've literally carried.
Speaker 1: The whole team the whole season.
Speaker 2: Yeah, like that was heartbreaking to me because I'm like, Jordan,
Speaker 2: you deserved she deserves to be there, and so that
Speaker 2: that paid me the most. And then like she cares
Speaker 2: so much, and there's like people online talking about her
Speaker 2: like walking off the court after the game crying, and
Speaker 2: I'm like.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I saw that she cares.
Speaker 2: Man Like, she's one of the best teammates I've ever had,
Speaker 2: and I hope that people know that and see that,
Speaker 2: and like I respect her so much.
Speaker 1: So yeah, she definitely deserved that.
Speaker 3: So any type of you know, refreshments for season three
Speaker 3: coming up, anything new you're hoping or.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we'll have the addition of some new teams, which
Speaker 2: is exciting. I think we're not at liberty to say
Speaker 2: what's happening. True, Yeah, I'm excited for season three, Like,
Speaker 2: I think two six teams is great, but it's always
Speaker 2: nice to play more people and have more opportunity to
Speaker 2: win go different places, like, yeah, just have more teams,
Speaker 2: more people build the league is so cool.
Speaker 1: So I'm glad to see that it's expanding.
Speaker 3: What about you, my little hope would be, I mean,
Speaker 3: because it is expanding, you know, and as crazy as
Speaker 3: flying has been, I'm like, who's.
Speaker 1: Got a private jet somewhere? People gonna be flying as private?
Speaker 3: Did we get an airline sponsor something of that sort?
Speaker 1: You know? So have my people call Delta's people? I
Speaker 1: like them.
Speaker 2: Of those I don't hate on the other ones, but Delta, Yeah,
Speaker 2: if you're listening, I feel like Delta probably listens to
Speaker 2: our podcast.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they're definitely, They're like they're we're there there, there
Speaker 3: are two third people on this planet, like you need
Speaker 3: to fly to MeV But yeah, besides the flying bank, yeah,
Speaker 3: for everybody's favorite, No, I would just honestly, I think
Speaker 3: I'm always just excited to see what they can come
Speaker 3: up with next, you know what I mean, Like, how
Speaker 3: are you guys gonna make How are you the top
Speaker 3: this season?
Speaker 1: For next season?
Speaker 3: You know, I think They've done a lot of great
Speaker 3: things from last year, especially when it comes to the
Speaker 3: athlete experience. I think that's a lot better than it
Speaker 3: was last year. I think they're getting more organized just
Speaker 3: with like kind of like you know, placing girls and
Speaker 3: having those conversations as well as like you know, when
Speaker 3: we do need anything, they're the league is pretty much
Speaker 3: getting there for that, especially for my situation obviously that
Speaker 3: I got sick and stuff. But I'm excited to see
Speaker 3: what they do come up with next year far as
Speaker 3: like just being more.
Speaker 1: For us for sure.
Speaker 2: Do you want to touch on what's been going on
Speaker 2: with you at all? Yeah, I mean you don't have to,
Speaker 2: but if if you.
Speaker 3: Want to, very little, Yeah, we kind of kept it
Speaker 3: in house. Honestly, it was just more of black because
Speaker 3: it was just so much going on, and I think
Speaker 3: the first like three days, it was just so uncertain
Speaker 3: what was happening. So I basically had a small intestine rupture.
Speaker 3: That's like not the thing. It's so rare for that
Speaker 3: to even happen to anyone, especially in that location, and
Speaker 3: I had no idea, I had no symptoms. I was training,
Speaker 3: I was working out, and then it wasn't until we
Speaker 3: were playing away Madison and this and the team. A
Speaker 3: few of the girls on the team, including myself, caught
Speaker 3: like a little bug of like food poisoning basically, and
Speaker 3: obviously everybody else's bodies digested that the way it should
Speaker 3: go naturally, and then mine that poison leaked into E.
Speaker 1: Coli.
Speaker 3: Whatever it was in the food leaked into my domino,
Speaker 3: which is already been effective for my own bowels and
Speaker 3: toxics and stuff, and it just let up all those signals.
Speaker 3: So going in they thought that I had like a
Speaker 3: ruptured assess because I had a lot of like fluid
Speaker 3: on my pelvis. So I went one surgery to remove
Speaker 3: the fluid.
Speaker 1: And they realized that wasn't it.
Speaker 3: And then like a day later, two yeah, a day
Speaker 3: or two later, I wanted to go on a very
Speaker 3: inbacious surgery, which they found out that I had a
Speaker 3: rupture small intestine.
Speaker 1: So they had to go on there cut that out.
Speaker 3: They could have had a foot of my testins out
Speaker 3: removed by appendix, put me all back together, and they're like, okay,
Speaker 3: you're here, and I was there. I was in Madison,
Speaker 3: Wisconsin for eleven days, flew back to Texas and I've
Speaker 3: been home now coming up on this is either I
Speaker 3: can't remember three weeks or four.
Speaker 1: Weeks, so it's been a long It's been a while
Speaker 1: just recovery. I've been in the bed.
Speaker 3: I've been on bed rest for two weeks, like literally
Speaker 3: could barely walk. So I would say this past week
Speaker 3: has been like my most like strengthening week. I've been
Speaker 3: going to rehab and just getting my health back together.
Speaker 3: So that's why i haven't been on the bench or anything.
Speaker 3: But I'm excited to fly out this weekend and support
Speaker 3: the love as Yes, yeah.
Speaker 1: Girl, we are glad that you made it through that
Speaker 1: and that you are here, because that was when he
Speaker 1: said He's like.
Speaker 3: He was like, yeah, like you were going you're you
Speaker 3: were going septic, which means you could die, and then
Speaker 3: we're gonna have surgery, which also means you can die.
Speaker 3: I was like, y'all, somebody, Yeah, I was sick. I
Speaker 3: was really sick. My mental state was so strong. Yeah,
Speaker 3: but I'm good now, I'm feeling better. My return is
Speaker 3: like I said, they said, right, it's based on me,
Speaker 3: and for me, it's like my body is healing a
Speaker 3: lot faster, which I know it normally does. Anyways, because
Speaker 3: I was in really great shape. But for me, it's
Speaker 3: more of like thank you sotening time. Yeah, thanks, thanks
Speaker 3: Solid for shout out.
Speaker 1: I A.
Speaker 3: It's just more about just like giving to myself and
Speaker 3: what I need right now and just being Catherine. I
Speaker 3: feel like I pour into so many people, like my
Speaker 3: friendships and my teammates, my and my my family, and
Speaker 3: like this is like the first time I'm like, okay,
Speaker 3: you know what, Like, let's give in to you and
Speaker 3: what you need and I need you right now. So
Speaker 3: it's great to focus on me. So I'll be back.
Speaker 3: I'll be back in the gym probably full time the
Speaker 3: next three weeks, give or take for what I want
Speaker 3: to say, But come nixt November, I'll be rocking and rolling.
Speaker 1: Holy crap, I know you lost your butt. That's crazy.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I went into surgery.
Speaker 3: I went into the er one ninety four, walked out,
Speaker 3: got home one seventy seven. My first week at home,
Speaker 3: lost ten pounds and got tested again and was in
Speaker 3: like one sixty five.
Speaker 1: Had a mental breakdown in doctor's office.
Speaker 3: I was like, I've never seen myself that small, and
Speaker 3: I was like, okay, I'm getting am I getting better?
Speaker 1: Why am I losing weight? Like? What's going on?
Speaker 3: Like? And then I got weigh in this next week,
Speaker 3: So this is week three, I had gained back ten
Speaker 3: more pounds, So there we go. Booty is starting to
Speaker 3: percolate that a little bit more because I'm doing some
Speaker 3: some press, some leg press in the gym right now.
Speaker 1: So the booty are you going press exactly? Body is
Speaker 1: very tea. I'm giving skinny Bobby right now. But you know,
Speaker 1: we'll see. I want to stay around this weight, but well,
Speaker 1: what'll make something happen? Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2: Okay, So you've been you have you been in the
Speaker 2: contact in contact with all of the girls, and everybody
Speaker 2: still like they come to see you.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Girls have came by like Molly, Julianne, Carly have came
Speaker 3: by a few times.
Speaker 1: Everyone text and checks in on me. Coaching staff as well.
Speaker 3: I stopped over at the gym one day after my
Speaker 3: first appointment and I sit around like twenty minutes because
Speaker 3: that's about as much as I could stand around and
Speaker 3: to see them and checking with them. We also have
Speaker 3: like a regular season our last team dinner last week
Speaker 3: that I went to, and I'm a sayre for most of.
Speaker 1: The time and left early. So yeah, I've been around.
Speaker 3: I'm not really sure like what they expect from me, Like,
Speaker 3: I hope they don't expect me to be in the
Speaker 3: gym every day.
Speaker 2: Probably want they want you cheering, they want you on
Speaker 2: the sideline. They need your energy at practice. I'm joking.
Speaker 1: I was like, yeah. I was like, I'm feeling better
Speaker 1: in the past week.
Speaker 3: I've been home for three weeks, but this is the
Speaker 3: first week I've been feeling like very more act, much
Speaker 3: more active. And I was thinking, I was like, I
Speaker 3: wonder if, like they're thinking I should be at the
Speaker 3: gym every day because I worked them Like I can't
Speaker 3: even leave my bed, Like I can't even like stay
Speaker 3: I can't stay it for long periods of time. So
Speaker 3: I'm like, am I, Maddie, you're not Maddie. Mollie was like, Katy,
Speaker 3: it's fine. They're not really worried about okay. I was
Speaker 3: like the practice facility every day, like I don't know
Speaker 3: because rushout of surgery, I think you're okay.
Speaker 1: Okay, because I wasn't sure. You know, you know how
Speaker 1: people can be. I know, I don't know they'd like
Speaker 1: what kat is not committed to this team.
Speaker 3: No, but you know, yeah, she just literally got her
Speaker 3: organs rearranged.
Speaker 1: No but you but you know, but you know.
Speaker 2: We know you're coming out here this weekend. And I
Speaker 2: say here in La because I'm already in La. I
Speaker 2: live here, so I'll get to see.
Speaker 1: What's funny is Maddie actually helped me like book my hotel.
Speaker 3: So all the hotels are like sowed out in Long
Speaker 3: Beach and any surrounding city just because there's also like
Speaker 3: this like race Card been going on, and so I
Speaker 3: text Mattie.
Speaker 1: I was like, hey, like I'm trying to book a hotel.
Speaker 1: Blah bah blah.
Speaker 3: She sends me a hotel that's like, what two minutes
Speaker 3: from your house?
Speaker 1: How far is it from your house?
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's like I could probably walk there in like
Speaker 2: ten minutes. It's like a two minute drive, but it's
Speaker 2: like far farish from the venue.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's really thirty minutes from the venue. And it's
Speaker 3: like right on the beach and it's like literally two
Speaker 3: minutes from my house. I'm like, okay, we're saying that, Yeah,
Speaker 3: this seems perfect. I can see you every day, that's all. Yeah,
Speaker 3: but it's only that I was really available.
Speaker 1: Too you know. So it was fate. Okay, and that's
Speaker 1: not my problem. I'm getting the best of both worlds exactly.
Speaker 3: I get the beach, I get my best friend, I
Speaker 3: get to go to watch the game.
Speaker 1: So what are you expecting then of the final? What
Speaker 1: do you think is gonna happen? Let's bet. Let's make
Speaker 1: a bet. We haven't don a bet in a while.
Speaker 1: Do you want to bet? It's fine, we'll be we'll
Speaker 1: bet dinner. You take, We'll bet dinner, but you already
Speaker 1: owe me one.
Speaker 2: And then you take your team and I'll ride right
Speaker 2: now with Salt Lake because they beat us.
Speaker 1: Okay, I'm riding with Austin for sure? Is that that's
Speaker 1: what I mean?
Speaker 3: Okay, No, let's bet Babel from the bagel shop by
Speaker 3: your house.
Speaker 1: The bagels I want that?
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah, that's that's right next to my new house.
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, well we're going there too. O. Yeah.
Speaker 3: I got a house, you guys, you red house. Okay,
Speaker 3: a really nice house.
Speaker 1: Everyone. We're really excited about it.
Speaker 3: So I move Friday, okay, oh yes, some stuff they
Speaker 3: do then packing all that kind of stuff. Yeah yeah,
Speaker 3: I'm looking around my house like right now, like, oh
Speaker 3: my God, we'll figure that out.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm there.
Speaker 2: No, yeah, you that'll be your first workout and like
Speaker 2: pass out.
Speaker 1: Okay, So yeah, we're rolling with love, Austin. Yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: going with love. I think we're gonna take the first match.
Speaker 1: The first one doesn't matter. I know you can.
Speaker 3: So I think we'll take the first match, and I
Speaker 3: think we'll go I think we're gonna go to two up,
Speaker 3: no golden set.
Speaker 1: I'm calling it interesting. Yeah, we'll see. I don't know.
Speaker 2: If Saltlake plays plays like how they played against us,
Speaker 2: it'll be a really really good final.
Speaker 1: How do you how do you beat Saltlake? If you're
Speaker 1: giving out some notes.
Speaker 2: Well, last time I talked to you about this, I
Speaker 2: was like, serve them short.
Speaker 1: They struggle with that.
Speaker 2: They did not struggle with that last times, Alexa, So
Speaker 2: you know it's right.
Speaker 1: Now and short. Yeah, but like she's lethal in the middle.
Speaker 2: So if they're passing well and Polter's running the offense
Speaker 2: how she ran against us, it's kind of hard to stop. Yeah,
Speaker 2: So I'm not giving you any notes.
Speaker 3: We play each other all like four times, we should
Speaker 3: have all we need.
Speaker 2: I know, I know, Oh my gosh. Okay, So then
Speaker 2: after that. What are you doing for the off season?
Speaker 1: Off season?
Speaker 3: Just rehab, recovery, you know, boyfriends in Miami, so I'll
Speaker 3: be out there most of the time.
Speaker 1: You're gonna come see me there there. Yeah.
Speaker 3: So yeah, just recovering, rehabs, getting my body back to
Speaker 3: where it needs to be. And yeah, that's what about
Speaker 3: it traveling. Depending on how my trip goes this weekend,
Speaker 3: I'm gonna be going to Greece for a wedding, yeah,
Speaker 3: May seventh, and then I'd become a week in meek
Speaker 3: nose after that. So it just depends on how I'm
Speaker 3: feeling internally. So rough life, Yeah, sad, so sad.
Speaker 1: I have my soft girl life right now. You know
Speaker 1: that's good. Yeah, you're a deserve of it. Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 3: I need to be taken care of the way I
Speaker 3: want to be taken care of, right, the way I
Speaker 3: want to be.
Speaker 1: Taken care of. Right For anyone listening, I'm going to
Speaker 1: send it just this clip, just the clip. Yeah, oh
Speaker 1: my gosh. So but yeah, what about you. It's off season,
Speaker 1: you're treating a national team this summer. What are you doing? No, honestly,
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 2: Okay, the house that I gotta move into a house,
Speaker 2: so that's going to take a lot of my time.
Speaker 2: And then after that, I don't know. Maybe I'll pick
Speaker 2: up an internship somewhere. If anyone wants to hire me
Speaker 2: for something, hit me up. We'll probably we maybe we'll
Speaker 2: continue our podcast. I don't know what that will look like,
Speaker 2: but I have nothing. We have some trips planned, like
Speaker 2: not like Lockdown, but something's here and there that maybe
Speaker 2: we might do. But other than that, I'm just a
Speaker 2: free bird.
Speaker 1: You know. Are you going to Coachella? That's why you
Speaker 1: make it? No, that just happened.
Speaker 2: I made that for a friend, but she ended up
Speaker 2: not wearing it, So now I get to wenna.
Speaker 1: Yeah she didn't wear it.
Speaker 4: I didn't.
Speaker 1: I don't hear it.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, she forgot to pick it up. That's okay,
Speaker 2: I forget her.
Speaker 1: Okay, so she didn't have it.
Speaker 2: That's what it was, okay, Yeah, no worries. But yeah,
Speaker 2: I've been crocheting my actual ass off making stuff.
Speaker 1: So I might even open a little business. We'll see. Cool.
Speaker 1: What about the sourdough you've given upon that?
Speaker 2: No, I'm still doing that. But I can't I can't
Speaker 2: crank out sourdough like enough to do anything. It would
Speaker 2: just it's just a hobby.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Okay, I have a lot of hobbies.
Speaker 2: I feel like if I could get paid to do hobbies,
Speaker 2: I would be so rich.
Speaker 1: Yeah, like that would be my ultimate goal. I mean, you.
Speaker 3: Could just you know, learn how to monetize your hobbies.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and put time into it. That's the thing I
Speaker 1: need more time.
Speaker 3: Have.
Speaker 1: Mean, once you retire in like five years, when I'm
Speaker 1: seventy five, seventy five, you guys, I don't know when
Speaker 1: I'll retire. Isn't that crazy? I think you're retired in
Speaker 1: like four years? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Maybe I felt like when I was playing abroad, I
Speaker 2: was like, Okay, once I turned thirty, that'll be like
Speaker 2: I'll definitely retire. And then this league happens so awesome,
Speaker 2: and now I can extend another ten Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think I'm for sure going to retire in two years.
Speaker 1: For sure. I'm gonna play this season, the next season
Speaker 1: and be done.
Speaker 2: Make sure we have this recording so that like when
Speaker 2: year five comes around, we're like, remember when you said that.
Speaker 3: What's funny is Aaron she always says, Kat, you always
Speaker 3: are going to retire Literally every.
Speaker 1: Year and she's like, and you play two more years.
Speaker 1: I'm like no, I know, like this is this.
Speaker 3: Is my.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and then you can do like Jordan Larson's farewell
Speaker 2: tour through the league, which was pretty cool. Get to
Speaker 2: like have people say nice things about you too. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it's really cool actually, Jordan, that you get to retire
Speaker 2: in the US and like be able to do it
Speaker 2: like this. Like I feel like that's every athlete stream,
Speaker 2: you know, because like if you retire.
Speaker 1: Overseas, they're like thanks, spy.
Speaker 2: You're actually like a yeah, it's like a thing, you.
Speaker 1: Know, yeah somewhere, and I think they did.
Speaker 2: I think they retired it when like the last game
Speaker 2: or practice or something in Nebraska. So cool, very happy
Speaker 2: for her. I don't know why stop doing that. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I was having a moment here and then now it's
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Speaker 2: The Adidas Love Collection just dropped and you can shop
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Speaker 2: Thompson the one and.
Speaker 3: Allston swept the Love Awards for sure.
Speaker 2: Girl, Yeah, our setter, Oh my gosh, our setter is
Speaker 2: the best human ever. And like the way that Micah
Speaker 2: guided her through this season two, like them as like
Speaker 2: their own setter team was like the coolest thing to see,
Speaker 2: like how much they loved each other and so it
Speaker 2: was actually a really cool thing. Like when we were
Speaker 2: doing media for semi finals, they had five of us
Speaker 2: come in to do like whatever media thing and it
Speaker 2: was Amber, Jordan, Kaisa, Ar Setter, Me and Jess and
Speaker 2: like Kaiza, Amber and Jordan all were supposed to tell
Speaker 2: each other like that they each won the award, and
Speaker 2: so it was like this snowball effect of like hey, Amber,
Speaker 2: you got middle of deer, Kaisa you got seid of
Speaker 2: the Jordan you got opposite of the ear. And it
Speaker 2: was like so cute to just see them all like
Speaker 2: have that moment together. Some tears were shed and it
Speaker 2: was like really beautiful and I'm just so happy for
Speaker 2: all of them.
Speaker 1: Amber two.
Speaker 2: Amber is on freaking real and they all just had solid,
Speaker 2: like full seasons.
Speaker 1: You know. It was just they were so consistent.
Speaker 2: Really well one game, no, it was like the whole time.
Speaker 2: So that was really cool for them.
Speaker 1: What are you laughing at? Yeah, I would agree.
Speaker 3: I definitely think, like, obviously Jordan is so deserving Manami.
Speaker 2: Manami, dude, semi final matches Manami, Like.
Speaker 1: She was, well, I have yeah, but I.
Speaker 2: Was like there were balls people were hitting like into
Speaker 2: six into like one six, tipping role shotting. She's running
Speaker 2: from the other side of the court, one arm, stabby
Speaker 2: digging these balls, and I was like, where the hell
Speaker 2: did you come from? Like unreal on she's unreal fairy. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and she just reads the game so well.
Speaker 3: So yeah, when they she was crying too. Yeah, it
Speaker 3: was very happy. Yeah. So Jordan Thompson m VP Opposite
Speaker 3: of the Year Jordan. Jordan has played like I am
Speaker 3: so in all this girl and so impressed with her,
Speaker 3: like every time I see her home, Like I just
Speaker 3: love watching her play. I love her attitude, I love
Speaker 3: her like sportsmanship. I just love how she's just like
Speaker 3: a dog, like when she does the little like plex thing,
Speaker 3: because Jordan, she knows she's little.
Speaker 1: She knows she's small. She knows, she knows, she knows. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that dog is big, you know what I mean.
Speaker 3: So to be able to watch her perform this season,
Speaker 3: either against her or just watching from home, has been
Speaker 3: so great, like definitely so deserving.
Speaker 2: So no, she's the best, Like I was, truly one
Speaker 2: of my favorite teammates to compete with for that reason alone,
Speaker 2: Like she's an absolute dog but also one of the
Speaker 2: like goofiest, funniest, like sweetest humans that I know, and
Speaker 2: so like when you can pair both of those and
Speaker 2: you can like have a lot of fun while you're playing,
Speaker 2: but also be like as intense as she is. And
Speaker 2: she's a great leader too, Like yeah, like total package.
Speaker 2: So truly an honor to get to play with her.
Speaker 2: It's been like really fun these last two years. Your coach,
Speaker 2: she's Coach of the Year two Sonya Wait you also
Speaker 2: we have Jordan Larson Outside of the year. Sorry yeah,
Speaker 2: Jordan Larson. Thank you for your service.
Speaker 1: Thank you govn the GOV.
Speaker 2: You've paved the way for a lot of the sixth
Speaker 2: rotation passing outside. So big appreciation there, my coach. Sonya's awesome.
Speaker 2: Like I'll stay in touch with her probably for a
Speaker 2: long time, like more like this, so super grateful for her.
Speaker 2: And also this is my first female coach that I've
Speaker 2: ever had professionally, So initially I was like a girl coach,
Speaker 2: Like I don't know how I feel about that, you know,
Speaker 2: like I've always had male coaches.
Speaker 1: No, it's just like a.
Speaker 2: Different because I don't know, I don't know.
Speaker 1: Like the like how it's going to be, you know. Yeah.
Speaker 2: But the actual really cool part was like she's played
Speaker 2: abroad in all of these countries where like most of
Speaker 2: us have played, She played collegiately, she's coached, she's coaching internationally,
Speaker 2: Like she's done everything or been involved in like every
Speaker 2: piece that we've all done, so she like understands every
Speaker 2: single facet of like what we're going through. And I
Speaker 2: think that was really really valuable, and like the mental
Speaker 2: piece off the court, piece, the on the court whatever,
Speaker 2: like she was like, Okay, I get it, but this
Speaker 2: is mine.
Speaker 1: I know, just being a female. I know it was
Speaker 1: times y'all got on her damn nerves.
Speaker 2: For sure, Yeah, but that's like yeah, for sure. But
Speaker 2: I think that there was like a genuine level of
Speaker 2: respect of like us to her and like I really
Speaker 2: really liked playing for her.
Speaker 1: Great coach, like great human being too.
Speaker 2: So I've had a lot of coaches that are like
Speaker 2: good coaches but terrible dudes or like just yeah, I
Speaker 2: don't know, it's just it's different than a male coach.
Speaker 2: I feel like they just don't get it, you know,
Speaker 2: or they just want to like yell at you, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: stop up.
Speaker 1: Her? Do you want to do like.
Speaker 2: A like an awards of who Our favorite guests were our.
Speaker 3: Own serving serving pancakes sword.
Speaker 2: Speaking of pancakes, hold on, wait, can we t o
Speaker 2: for a second, and just so I can set the
Speaker 2: record straight. The pancake that I had in the semi
Speaker 2: final that went up and over the net and landed
Speaker 2: on their side and was a point was probably the
Speaker 2: coolest point in my whole entire life. And they didn't
Speaker 2: call it up and I just am here to say
Speaker 2: it was fully up.
Speaker 1: Did you see it?
Speaker 3: Set the record straight? Actually, I was sleeping on the game.
Speaker 3: I didn't watch the game, but I saw.
Speaker 2: Get this and that was this picture for this Well,
Speaker 2: it wasn't on there because it didn't count as a point.
Speaker 1: Okay, the block is blocking.
Speaker 2: They're blocking Claire on the outside, right, They hit kind
Speaker 2: of hits kind of like inside of Amber off her
Speaker 2: left hand. It's trickling back behind Amber. Okay, okay, Like
Speaker 2: it's like she kind of like it like a soft block,
Speaker 2: but like it's like a ricochet a touch. It's going
Speaker 2: right behind Amber. Like if she's where are you, I'm
Speaker 2: front row, so I'm in four. I'm like back.
Speaker 1: Into you'reupposed to play the tepe Okay, yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm like I'm like crashing kind of but like
Speaker 2: it's right on her, so I'm like, oh, sliding in late.
Speaker 2: WHOA ball bounces like it was it's not a ball
Speaker 2: that should have come up. I slide my in there.
Speaker 2: Abow pancake execution, beautiful bounces up, goes over the net
Speaker 2: lands on their side. I'll send you the clip. It
Speaker 2: was so cool. I had to hype that up. But
Speaker 2: I was like, this was the coolest point of my
Speaker 2: whole career, and then it wasn't actually a point, so
Speaker 2: uh that sucked anyway.
Speaker 1: I will I've never.
Speaker 3: Seen I never heard of a pancake bouncing that high.
Speaker 3: I will say that, but exactly tell it to the refs.
Speaker 3: My hand has to be underneath their solid exactly pink
Speaker 3: I got you certain Pink Awards, who wins Best Guest?
Speaker 1: Can we run through who we've had?
Speaker 2: Who have we had on from start to finish?
Speaker 1: We've had I'm must see my person.
Speaker 3: We've had Jordan, We've had Micah, We've had Logan with Nikki,
Speaker 3: We've had Amber. Amber was great, Carlinie, Carleni, Carlenie.
Speaker 1: Carl's episode was great.
Speaker 2: Carlinie is just so raw and unfiltered and it's hilarious
Speaker 2: to me.
Speaker 3: I had no idea she was like that, and I'm like,
Speaker 3: I want to be your friend. Carlenie's mind was my
Speaker 3: best guest for me. Carlinie, Okay, but who else do
Speaker 3: we have?
Speaker 1: We had? Yes, Yes, it was so cute.
Speaker 3: She was We had Brio'iley. Brie was a good one setter. Yeah,
Speaker 3: she's good.
Speaker 1: Well, because we.
Speaker 2: Did Micah Jordan when you were in hospital. I feel
Speaker 2: like it's like illegal to say them because like they're
Speaker 2: my teammates. But that one was really fun because we
Speaker 2: were just like shooting the shit.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so maybe I'll say.
Speaker 2: Them, Okay, Team MVP, Team MVP of like my my team?
Speaker 1: Yeah, like who shine Away? You didn't expect what younger
Speaker 1: players see yeah mm hmmmm. My team MVP.
Speaker 2: I feel like my team MVP would have to be
Speaker 2: I might to just say our setters collectively, even though
Speaker 2: Micah didn't play, but like Kaisa obviously had a great season.
Speaker 2: What Micah did with Kaisa and just like how they
Speaker 2: worked through everything together like was so cool.
Speaker 1: And also I have to throw Maddie walk.
Speaker 2: In there, because she was thrown in and like initially
Speaker 2: she was our dub subsetter and then Micah was like
Speaker 2: working her way back in, so now we have three setters,
Speaker 2: and like that's always a challenge when you have an
Speaker 2: odd man out.
Speaker 1: In the position.
Speaker 2: And I think that their dynamic was like so cool
Speaker 2: to see because they were all like, Okay, this is
Speaker 2: what it is.
Speaker 1: I understand my role and I'm going to do it
Speaker 1: really well.
Speaker 2: And like if I get placed, if I have to
Speaker 2: go play, like I'm going to go play and ball out,
Speaker 2: and like they were all just super encouraging of each
Speaker 2: other and it was really really cool to see.
Speaker 3: I just want to note that, like it's for the
Speaker 3: audience while we're emphasizing so much about like the relationships
Speaker 3: and the roles and then building up each other because
Speaker 3: it is so not foreign for players to be switched
Speaker 3: out and people be upset about it, like it's a
Speaker 3: real thing. It happens, and there's an unspoken beef, there's
Speaker 3: an elephant in a room. That's most of the situation
Speaker 3: that mostly that mostly happens when that switch kind of happens.
Speaker 3: But we're pros and we're playing at a high level,
Speaker 3: and we're mature, and I think it takes a lot
Speaker 3: of maturity and understanding to like when that role is
Speaker 3: switched or your your role is something that you're not,
Speaker 3: you said being, and you being able to stand in
Speaker 3: that and still give what you have regardless if it's
Speaker 3: not what you're used to everything about your character.
Speaker 2: So yeah, and I think there's a lot of sentiment
Speaker 2: online that's like, why isn't this person playing like they
Speaker 2: should be playing? They did this, and it's like, well,
Speaker 2: this league is stacked with like some of the best
Speaker 2: players in the world, So if they're not playing, like
Speaker 2: there's a reason why. Yeah, maybe it's talent, maybe it's attitude,
Speaker 2: maybe it's you never know, like it could be a
Speaker 2: multitude of reasons. But like if they're able to like
Speaker 2: understand that role and then like like the like our setters.
Speaker 2: Did you know, like all of them played the whole season.
Speaker 2: It wasn't like Okay, like this person is playing and
Speaker 2: I hate that and I'm gonna go pout on the bench.
Speaker 2: It was like no, like they're playing and I'm going
Speaker 2: to help them find a way to like make this
Speaker 2: team better. And I think that's why we had such
Speaker 2: success all season. So props to my setter, Girlies Love.
Speaker 3: I'll definitely like piggyback off of you. From that, I
Speaker 3: would say my team of the p is Carli Lloyd.
Speaker 3: She's just going right now, dude, But she's that's she does,
Speaker 3: you know what I mean. And I feel like like
Speaker 3: any other player, anybody else, like there's just days that
Speaker 3: you're on, days that you're off, and it doesn't like
Speaker 3: reflect to you who you are as an athlete, take
Speaker 3: away from you, but like everyone has those days and
Speaker 3: sometimes you know, you go through dry spills. We're just
Speaker 3: like freak I can't hit this ball, or freaka can't
Speaker 3: pass this ball, or freak I can't serve or dig
Speaker 3: a ball, whatever it is. And I think that like
Speaker 3: Carleague Number one like brought us to a championship last year,
Speaker 3: even going back and forth position in the set and
Speaker 3: being the starting set and not starting to the last season,
Speaker 3: and then she took our team all the way to
Speaker 3: the finals and we won with her, and then to
Speaker 3: coming to year two as a championship center and then
Speaker 3: like not really give an opportunity to play.
Speaker 1: That often, you know, most of the season, you know,
Speaker 1: take a back seat. That's hard.
Speaker 3: It has to be hard, you know, But again it
Speaker 3: takes that maturity and that level of like respect, knowing
Speaker 3: what your role is and still giving in that aspect
Speaker 3: just for it to turn around and be like, oh,
Speaker 3: by the way, right at the end, we need you back.
Speaker 1: To bring us to the ring championship home, you know.
Speaker 3: So, like I think that's a lot of your mental state.
Speaker 3: That's just a lot just in general. I think then
Speaker 3: she held it so well and done so well, and
Speaker 3: like Bree has supported her so so much, and they've
Speaker 3: always just been supportive of each other, and I think
Speaker 3: that like that's been a main reason why the team
Speaker 3: of our success, just like y'all assume, because like people
Speaker 3: have understood what needs to be done and they have
Speaker 3: the assignment and they still everyone felt still on the
Speaker 3: same page. We're going with this direction of this is
Speaker 3: what has to be to go this direction. I'm okay
Speaker 3: with that, and like they support anyway. So that's been great.
Speaker 3: Now That's why I would say Carly is my MVP
Speaker 3: for I love Carly.
Speaker 1: See Lloyd, Yeah, me too, who shined in a way
Speaker 1: that you did not.
Speaker 3: Expect from my team. Yeah, I'm gonna say.
Speaker 1: And then we did not expect. Do you want me
Speaker 1: to go first? Yeah, you go first? Something about mine? Okay?
Speaker 2: I got to say my labo, Lauren Bersenyo, Okay, because
Speaker 2: she was I'm a Lauren fan.
Speaker 1: She wasn't gonna be the libero.
Speaker 2: But then we found out that Justine was pregnant. Congrats,
Speaker 2: just seen on a beautiful baby boy. By the way,
Speaker 2: we love you, Lauren bald Out. Like we people were like, oh,
Speaker 2: like we don't know what to expect from her, and
Speaker 2: like you you're a rookie, you have low expectations. That's
Speaker 2: totally fine, and like she far exceeded that and I
Speaker 2: am so proud of her. And she's just an awesome
Speaker 2: teammate and like a sponge, you know, like I feel
Speaker 2: like just really willing to learn, like would be doing
Speaker 2: extra reps needed, like doing everything that she needed to
Speaker 2: be doing to like get better and be able to
Speaker 2: be at the professional level, and that.
Speaker 1: Just props to her because she did an amazing job.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I was l Yeah, me too.
Speaker 3: I always told you she how good she was when
Speaker 3: I saw her, like, you're so good and she gets
Speaker 3: so shy, she's so cute. Yeah, I'm going to go
Speaker 3: with my person my personationial thought. I'm going to go
Speaker 3: with Maddy Banks obviously coming from a new team and
Speaker 3: she's coming to Austin.
Speaker 1: Yeah, coming to Austin.
Speaker 3: It's you know, trying to be a passing secretation outside
Speaker 3: and especially like when ball controls like not.
Speaker 1: Our team's like biggest strand.
Speaker 3: I think Maddie's done a really good job as far
Speaker 3: as like holding it down and bringing the consistency for it. Obviously,
Speaker 3: Logan's passing has improved tremendously too, Like she's just been
Speaker 3: working really hard on that, so too. Yeah, I think
Speaker 3: Maddie coming in being on our new team, new dynamic,
Speaker 3: new City, and her just coming in and taking up
Speaker 3: of it, soaking up everything like you just said, and
Speaker 3: like really diving deep and buying into what we're trying
Speaker 3: to do here on our team. Has been great, So
Speaker 3: I would say she definitely surprising because I think it's
Speaker 3: it's easy to kind of fall fault into what you're
Speaker 3: used to in what you know, and I think Eric
Speaker 3: introduced a lot of new things that maybe some of
Speaker 3: us are weren't used to, and she definitely got into
Speaker 3: that with the rest of us.
Speaker 1: So yeah, props to her. Yeah, Maddy Banks, Yeah, girl fan,
Speaker 1: I like her. She's a sweetheart.
Speaker 2: Who are you most excited to see evolve next season?
Speaker 1: Next season?
Speaker 3: I think just like I will say, I can't wait
Speaker 3: to see Logan Lenicky play more on your team. I
Speaker 3: liked took mine, sorry Logan, And honestly, just the new
Speaker 3: rookies that are coming in next season. I think they
Speaker 3: have a really strong classes coming in to join Love.
Speaker 3: I'm assuming, I'm assuming, we're.
Speaker 2: Assuming, and we hope that they go where they will
Speaker 2: get some playing time.
Speaker 1: Because you just never know.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean Atlanta at Lena's rookie came in and
Speaker 3: she started and she's just starting for them, you know,
Speaker 3: kind of on and off, but she was in there
Speaker 3: a lot too, you know what I mean. So yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: I'm insted to see, like, yeah, your Logan and the
Speaker 3: new talent that's coming in for sure.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I would say Logan too, So we don't have
Speaker 2: to I don't have to pick another one. Who is
Speaker 2: somebody that we didn't talk to this season that we
Speaker 2: got to get on the pod next season?
Speaker 3: Tom, I went every Tom, I think to have someone
Speaker 3: on the inside or Courtney, like talking with someone like
Speaker 3: on the inside of the league, Like, Yeah, it would
Speaker 3: be so cool.
Speaker 1: I think I almost say yes.
Speaker 3: Again, by the way, we don't do that.
Speaker 2: We could do that, okay to the people, Like I
Speaker 2: see all of the tiktoks and everything that people put
Speaker 2: out there, and I feel like there's questions that the
Speaker 2: people have that I'm also like those are valid, Like
Speaker 2: what I.
Speaker 1: Want to know, like how to improve our fan experience?
Speaker 2: Mmmm, because apparently that's a pretty hot topic. And you know,
Speaker 2: just like maybe bring the fan questions to somebody on
Speaker 2: the pod who's in a position of I can give
Speaker 2: you those answers maybe, And then yeah, I think.
Speaker 3: Having someone on the inside would be cool, And they
Speaker 3: think Tom would be surprisingly entertaining.
Speaker 1: Tom. We're calling you, are calling you, I know he
Speaker 1: on his phone. Championship week. How are you going to
Speaker 1: is there? You go I'm feeling good. You know, I've
Speaker 1: got some rest. You're alive. I'm feeling good. I'm alive,
Speaker 1: Thank god. Amen.
Speaker 3: No, I'm feeling good. I'm really pushing hard for my team.
Speaker 3: I'm inspired. I'm inspired for them. I heard that practice
Speaker 3: wasn't the best practice yesterday, but I mean, it's okay,
Speaker 3: get all that shit out now.
Speaker 1: And then bring the heat and the fire to the weekend.
Speaker 1: So okay, I'm feeling good. I'm feeling positive.
Speaker 3: I think you know, we've been in the position before,
Speaker 3: and you know, we know how to produce in these environments.
Speaker 3: I don't know if you know, but the pyramid is
Speaker 3: sold out. Really, there's no tickets unless you might find
Speaker 3: like general missions some a little bit on stub Hub.
Speaker 1: It's going to be tight.
Speaker 3: And what's crazy is they sold They sold so many tickets.
Speaker 3: No one even knew what teams are going to be
Speaker 3: there either, so that's which makes it more interesting. But
Speaker 3: it ain't no tickets online. So I'm excited about the
Speaker 3: atmosphere and to see what we create in that gym.
Speaker 3: It's gonna be cool.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that's awesome.
Speaker 2: So you're game for you guys, and I'm excited about
Speaker 2: volleyball in the US.
Speaker 1: Woo. Yeah, but I'm sad that we're not there.
Speaker 3: Well, how are you feeling. You know, your game in
Speaker 3: the Golden Set and it wasn't what you wanted.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, it was tough, but I think I mean again,
Speaker 2: that is totally the nature of sport. There has to
Speaker 2: be a winner and a loser, and it is unfortunate
Speaker 2: that it was us. But I think like we had
Speaker 2: a great season in total, so I'm really proud of that.
Speaker 1: And there are moments that I.
Speaker 2: Wish I could take back in those games, but what
Speaker 2: can you do onward and upwards? So yeah, I'm just
Speaker 2: excited looking forward to year three. Kat and I are
Speaker 2: coming back. That's all we know.
Speaker 1: That's all you get to know. Tom, I didn't say that,
Speaker 1: she said it. It wasn't me. Obviously, I don't know anything neither.
Speaker 1: I plead the fifth. But yeah, no, I feeling good.
Speaker 2: I mean, I'm back home now and maybe I'll go
Speaker 2: watch of games. But I don't know, I don't know
Speaker 2: how to hang out with me. Yeah no, that's that's
Speaker 2: a plus, honestly. So yeah, I guess I'm just uh,
Speaker 2: what's the what I'm looking for? Processing? Yeah, this season sense,
Speaker 2: But yeah.
Speaker 3: So what's your I think we can act on this.
Speaker 3: This is like how we first start our podcast. You know,
Speaker 3: me and Maddie became friends because she told people that
Speaker 3: I was her rose. So we're gonna end it of
Speaker 3: the season. Yeah, so what is your rose and your
Speaker 3: thorn of this season?
Speaker 2: Okay, the thorn definitely has to be losing in the
Speaker 2: semis for sure, But I think the rose is not
Speaker 2: even like this season. I think the rose is my team,
Speaker 2: like in total, because I think it's really really rare
Speaker 2: in the professional setting to get to work with a
Speaker 2: group of people that you really like. And I think
Speaker 2: I really love this team. So my Houston team, my dogs.
Speaker 1: Yeah h is uh?
Speaker 2: Anyway, yours your life, your rose has to be that
Speaker 2: you're alive.
Speaker 1: Yeah, my rose, I'm breathing.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, I would say my rose would be my
Speaker 3: health experience. I guess, as crazy as it sounds, just
Speaker 3: because like you don't really realize how much you're moving
Speaker 3: around and just like exerting your energy in so many places.
Speaker 3: And this has allowed me to really just kind of
Speaker 3: sit with myself and like, like I said, give more
Speaker 3: to myself. So I appreciate the humbleness of me being
Speaker 3: able to be still and just not have anywhere to
Speaker 3: be an athlete right now. Like I'm like, I would
Speaker 3: think about mind to me, I was like, imagine if
Speaker 3: I was healthy and I was like all the stresses
Speaker 3: I would have gone through in the past like three
Speaker 3: weeks of like all the other ship that's been going
Speaker 3: on most of the entire seasons. So I'm like, oh,
Speaker 3: the fact I've been able to kind of catch a
Speaker 3: break from that has been great. So I will say
Speaker 3: that the stillness I've gotten to reach in this time
Speaker 3: period and my thorn would be also I would say
Speaker 3: like this, you know, just like that was just such
Speaker 3: a scary moment, and right now I feel like I'm
Speaker 3: trying to keep my mind set of like I'm afraid
Speaker 3: of being sick again, you know. So I'm like, Okay,
Speaker 3: you're going to be fine, super unexpected. So I would
Speaker 3: say that, but everything happens for a reason, and I
Speaker 3: guess that happened when it did, and then this time
Speaker 3: I was really healthy under some good insurance from the league.
Speaker 1: You know, my contract is signed and everything.
Speaker 2: So yeah, it does make you I mean, like I
Speaker 2: obviously knew what you were going through and like I
Speaker 2: was walking into the gym every day, like, Okay, my
Speaker 2: friend is really struggling, Like that could have been anyone,
Speaker 2: you know, Like I'm gonna I'm going to enjoy this
Speaker 2: while I can, you know, because like you never know
Speaker 2: when something's gonna get taken away from you.
Speaker 1: So I'm so glad you're alive.
Speaker 2: And I do love you, and I love this podcast,
Speaker 2: and I hope everyone listens and everyone comes to our games.
Speaker 2: Obviously everyone's coming this weekend to the finals. Yeah, that's
Speaker 2: really exciting and also really exciting just in general for
Speaker 2: when the love LA team, Like that's so promising. You know,
Speaker 2: you're selling out an arena already. I don't know what's
Speaker 2: going on with that team, but cool that you already
Speaker 2: have like fans and interest. True keep coming back.
Speaker 3: Anyway, This is Serving Pancakes, It sure, girl can.
Speaker 2: This is Maddie and we'll catch you on the flip side.
Speaker 1: Class.
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