Speaker 1: Same beat, but it's the last one. It's the last,
Speaker 1: so don't think that really.
Speaker 2: Boom, get it cat boom, cat a cat boom a
Speaker 2: cat boom, getta cat bike cat boom Cata catt pink
Speaker 2: gotta cat.
Speaker 3: It's pancakes and Maddie, you know we're looking good and
Speaker 3: we both we got fatties.
Speaker 1: All season long. Wait to see next song?
Speaker 2: Song boom, I almost say a thong. I know you're
Speaker 2: not seeing me.
Speaker 3: No one see me in that song.
Speaker 2: Whoa Okay? What is this is our last episode of
Speaker 2: season two?
Speaker 3: Oh my god?
Speaker 2: It's been so such a journey. It has been a
Speaker 2: long journey, a long summer journey of people just listening
Speaker 2: to you and I So next season, not just summer, the.
Speaker 3: Season we started. We've been doing this now like almost
Speaker 3: a year because we started starting. I started doing this
Speaker 3: last year during au so.
Speaker 2: I know that was and we used to have guests
Speaker 2: on and so maybe eventually we could get back to
Speaker 2: that too, but that's for another time because today.
Speaker 3: It's just us.
Speaker 4: It's just us, our last one.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this is a long year.
Speaker 3: I know you went from being at the bottom to
Speaker 3: the top, then not at the top. Oh, from being
Speaker 3: from the bottom to the top and at the top,
Speaker 3: you know, right, I think I saw Maddy. I think
Speaker 3: Maddie joined the bench club at least like one time
Speaker 3: this season, and that was the first time seen her
Speaker 3: on the bench like ever. Like once it happened one
Speaker 3: game they put.
Speaker 2: Because we locked eyes. We locked eyes from the bench
Speaker 2: and then we had like a little rat battle or
Speaker 2: a little dance battle moment.
Speaker 3: Blowing the whistle for you to go back and Maddie
Speaker 3: go ahead.
Speaker 2: But long journey.
Speaker 3: Now you're switching teams and you've let left the h
Speaker 3: and gonna do life with your family.
Speaker 2: And also you yeah, you're leaving the a.
Speaker 3: New beginnings coming to the m New Beginnings.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh. There's just so many things I'm going
Speaker 2: to miss about Houston, but so many things I love
Speaker 2: about lay. Like yesterday I got to go to like
Speaker 2: a thing in Hollywood with USA Network, which the people
Speaker 2: who work at USA Network that do all of the
Speaker 2: they're in cahoots with our team. They're amazing. They really
Speaker 2: really love love and just women's sports in general. So
Speaker 2: that was really cool to see. Yeah, but yeah, I'm excited.
Speaker 2: I'm excited for stuff that's going to happen here. What
Speaker 2: are you hoping in the next season.
Speaker 3: I'm really excited about, Yeah, to be healthy all the
Speaker 3: way through. Yeah, Yeah, I'm I just said this point,
Speaker 3: I feel like I'm not even I'm not training my
Speaker 3: body now for volleyball, like I'm training for life. That's
Speaker 3: what it feels like. And I just know that, like,
Speaker 3: through this experience, I'm gonna like learn and develop something
Speaker 3: so amazing for whatever is gonna have to prepare me
Speaker 3: for whatever in life. But yeah, season three, I'm like,
Speaker 3: I'm so excited about the expansion. I'm so excited about.
Speaker 1: The new teams and new players.
Speaker 3: I'm excited to have to see the teams kind of
Speaker 3: how they match up against each other. I love that
Speaker 3: we're oh, go ahead, probably can't say that yet. I'm
Speaker 3: gonna say maybe that we're starting earlier this season.
Speaker 2: We are a little bit, not too much.
Speaker 3: I mean, I mean, like for early. Yeah, we started
Speaker 3: January ninth through the past two years, and now we're
Speaker 3: starting to simmerporteen.
Speaker 2: I know that is kind of it's early. I'm just
Speaker 2: worried that the preseason won't be long enough.
Speaker 3: I mean, that's that's not a lot, It's a month
Speaker 3: and no, it's not a lot of time at all. Yeah,
Speaker 3: five six weeks. Yeah, but I mean I feel like
Speaker 3: as a professionals, we should be doing some work before
Speaker 3: that anyways, But I guess it's not. It's nothing like
Speaker 3: trying that connection with your team now.
Speaker 2: So yeah, it takes time.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: And also we won't have like the collegiate players coming
Speaker 2: in until we don't know who they are, but whoever's coming, like,
Speaker 2: they won't get there until after the collegiate season is done. Yeah,
Speaker 2: so that'll be they'll come right in and just sit
Speaker 2: right in, so you know, hopefully we'll see What.
Speaker 3: About you about your hopes first season? Are you already looking.
Speaker 2: Forward to ooh my hopes? I mean, I hope that
Speaker 2: we are a great team and that we beat everybody
Speaker 2: and that we win a lot. I'm just kidding. I
Speaker 2: hope that our team is just fun and that we
Speaker 2: enjoy it. I like everyone on my team, so I'm
Speaker 2: really not worried about that. But I don't know. I
Speaker 2: just hope it's a good experience. You know, it's a
Speaker 2: new team, like you, a new team in a new city,
Speaker 2: and so you feel like this responsibility to like make
Speaker 2: it something good.
Speaker 3: Especially with the experience it for two years, yes, exactly.
Speaker 2: Yes, So playing already for two years, I'm like, Okay,
Speaker 2: we kind of know like what we need to do,
Speaker 2: and so then I feel this responsibility to be like,
Speaker 2: we need to get out in the community. We need
Speaker 2: to like make sure people want to come. We want
Speaker 2: to put on a good product. Obviously play high level volleyball,
Speaker 2: but I think there's now realizing there's so many other
Speaker 2: things that go into it, and so many people working
Speaker 2: behind the scenes, and it's just it's so much work.
Speaker 2: And so also I appreciate everybody who works in this
Speaker 2: league because you're doing so much.
Speaker 3: Even on the call I was on this morning and
Speaker 3: seeing getting to meet everybody who's behind the scenes, from
Speaker 3: like media to marketing to CEO at CFOs. Obviously, I
Speaker 3: also have the privilege to finally have a talking conversation
Speaker 3: with with one of our guys from our ownership group, Matt,
Speaker 3: who's great and super inspiring, very much in love with
Speaker 3: what's happening with love and wants this team to be
Speaker 3: the best of everything. He's lying into my next week,
Speaker 3: So we are going to meet in person next week,
Speaker 3: and business Lady, I know I'm like, I'm like, we
Speaker 3: need to be doing this that at that and he
Speaker 3: was like, yeah, you're right, Like I know, he's like,
Speaker 3: yap don all these things. We just hired our new
Speaker 3: president and she's been like the CFO cf CFO or
Speaker 3: CFA for F one, Formula one and another and another
Speaker 3: thing that he's help tulling me about. So yeah, I'm
Speaker 3: trying to see what what business ownership looks like what
Speaker 3: they're doing, as well as, like, like you said, being
Speaker 3: a part of a team for the last two years,
Speaker 3: you kind of know what goes into and what the
Speaker 3: players need and know what I mean far as like yeah,
Speaker 3: and strength and you know the floor we're practicing. We
Speaker 3: do know what we're playing now, which is great.
Speaker 2: So I'm just like, you're allowed to say. You're probably
Speaker 2: not allowed to say, are you Probably not. Let's keep
Speaker 2: it a secret.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we'll keep it, keep put them on a low low.
Speaker 3: But yeah, I'm like, I want to be involved as
Speaker 3: much as I can for the player experience, you know
Speaker 3: what I mean. So he was like, when we want
Speaker 3: you that for that, we love that. So going to
Speaker 3: meet him next week. Fine, Yeah, I'm just super excited.
Speaker 3: And they have all the good things lining up for
Speaker 3: us and a lot of fun things. Like I said,
Speaker 3: we were talking about all this stuff that La is doing.
Speaker 3: He was like, I have the same stuff loding up
Speaker 3: for us with different sports groups and stuff, which is great.
Speaker 3: So I'm like yeah, and I'm like, and I want
Speaker 3: to go so I can talk to people.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, I can help you with that.
Speaker 2: No, But when people like see you face to face
Speaker 2: and they have They're like, Okay, why do I need
Speaker 2: to invest in legue? But then you have a player
Speaker 2: in front of you who's like, this is all the reasons.
Speaker 2: This is like, we appreciate all that you're doing, this
Speaker 2: is why we play this and that, And then they
Speaker 2: can like come to the games and see it all
Speaker 2: in action and know someone on the team. Like if
Speaker 2: you go to a sporting event, it's way cooler when
Speaker 2: you know somebody who's playing.
Speaker 3: Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 2: And so I feel like, just like get out there
Speaker 2: and like meet everybody I can is so beneficial and
Speaker 2: I enjoy doing it. And then like when I see
Speaker 2: people in the stands that i've I'm like, oh my god.
Speaker 2: Like last year when I was in Houston, there was
Speaker 2: a guy who was doing the fifty to fifty raffle
Speaker 2: at the Texans game and I was and he was like,
Speaker 2: what is this? Is this like a team? And I
Speaker 2: was like, yeah, like we're the new pro volleyball team
Speaker 2: blah blah blah, and he was like, how cool. And
Speaker 2: then like three weeks later, I was at a Rockets
Speaker 2: game because my friend had ticket whatever, and the same
Speaker 2: guy is doing the fifty to fifty raffle at the
Speaker 2: Rockets game and he was like, I went to one
Speaker 2: of y'all's games. I had the best time. Like, thank
Speaker 2: you so much for telling me about it. And I
Speaker 2: was like, see, that's great, you.
Speaker 3: Know, yeah, just that's community.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was really cool actually, and I was like, oh,
Speaker 2: like us actually getting out there helps, So I don't know,
Speaker 2: I feel like it's important.
Speaker 3: And I feel like we're way better in person than
Speaker 3: we are over the phone or like on.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah yeah yeah, oh yeah.
Speaker 2: You really get the personality.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the character of the vibe. You know. Well, obviously,
Speaker 3: since we're about to close this chapter, any any final
Speaker 3: words about season two, anything you want to describe for
Speaker 3: season two.
Speaker 2: For the season, well, I feel like serving pancakes has
Speaker 2: just been so amazing because I want to do it
Speaker 2: with you? Why do you start? I know, but like
Speaker 2: when when we started this, Okay, so I guess people
Speaker 2: don't really know like the reasoning behind why. Maybe we're
Speaker 2: how we got here. Yeah, So like Kat is doing
Speaker 2: an internship this season with the league, and you're working
Speaker 2: with broadcasts, so maybe one day you'll see Cat like
Speaker 2: on the broadcast. But last summer I was working with
Speaker 2: the marketing team and like this kind of idea was
Speaker 2: pitched to me to take over the podcast, and I said,
Speaker 2: I can do it, but I will not do it
Speaker 2: with anyone else other than Cat Bill.
Speaker 3: Well, I was already I was already on it before.
Speaker 3: But we like as great as I was, I was
Speaker 3: a co host, the greatest the main house was. She
Speaker 3: was amazing, but like you know, it's just the banter
Speaker 3: is definitely like different.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, so it was like kind of pseudo I
Speaker 2: guess pitched to both of us to like re take
Speaker 2: it over and like that's how we got here. And
Speaker 2: it's just been like fun getting to see like how
Speaker 2: it's progressed and like how maybe we've progressed. And I
Speaker 2: think at first it was super uncomfortable and we felt
Speaker 2: like really weird doing it, or I did. At least
Speaker 2: I was like, I'm not a podcast, But now I
Speaker 2: feel like, I hope people just feel like they're involved
Speaker 2: in like a FaceTime with us and get to hear
Speaker 2: fun stuff about our league. And I mean, typically we
Speaker 2: would have players other players in the league on, but
Speaker 2: I think we'll get back to that eventually. Hopefully season
Speaker 2: three we're back in action, which I think we will be,
Speaker 2: but exactly, no, it's been It's been really fun to
Speaker 2: get to do this with you. And I mean, you're
Speaker 2: one of my best friends, so like what else could
Speaker 2: I ask for it?
Speaker 3: I love you. It's been really cool. When they told
Speaker 3: me that you know, we're going to be doing this together,
Speaker 3: I was like, of course, that definitely just makes sense.
Speaker 3: And like I said, I agree with you. It's been
Speaker 3: great to kind of see our growth and our progress
Speaker 3: through this situation and through the six prints together and
Speaker 3: we said hopefully we be able to have not hopefully
Speaker 3: we will have next more players on to you know, interview,
Speaker 3: but I think it's also been great to build relationship
Speaker 3: between us and the fan base of like who we
Speaker 3: are as people, who we are as friends and be
Speaker 3: able to take them along this journey to like get
Speaker 3: to know us and experience our like wittiness and our yappiness.
Speaker 3: So it's been really yeah.
Speaker 2: So and also like you had a health scare and
Speaker 2: people got to be involved in that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because no one really knew.
Speaker 3: They were like even I've got people like the message
Speaker 3: me after seeing our podcast. They were like, yeah, when
Speaker 3: we looked online far as like you know, the injury
Speaker 3: report just said that you were injured. Are you just
Speaker 3: out and didn't say like what was wrong? No one
Speaker 3: really knew, you know what I mean?
Speaker 1: So yeah, but yeah, people got.
Speaker 3: To live there.
Speaker 2: And then all of a sudden you came back to
Speaker 2: the finals and you were like this skinny and people
Speaker 2: were like, what was that? This health health scare?
Speaker 3: Actually I'm missing a few things now.
Speaker 2: Waste Yeah, locked in, But feeling a word to describe
Speaker 2: season two? What would you say?
Speaker 3: I would say season two? Describing season two would be
Speaker 3: you go first. I don't know, that's kind of a
Speaker 3: hard one.
Speaker 2: I don't know if I yeah, I don't know if
Speaker 2: I could describe it in a word. But like my
Speaker 2: I my feeling of season two, I don't know, like
Speaker 2: I look back on it right now already like nostalgically
Speaker 2: because I just felt like it was so great. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I think season two for me in the league, I
Speaker 2: enjoyed more than season one, and I think that was
Speaker 2: just because of our team and like the personnel and
Speaker 2: our staff. Everything just really like meshed well. And I'm
Speaker 2: gonna miss like that feeling of walking into practice every
Speaker 2: day a lot, because it was just like, Okay, I'm comfortable,
Speaker 2: I'm having fun every single day when I walk again,
Speaker 2: and I'm here to work and do my job and
Speaker 2: I know I'll be supported in the right way. And
Speaker 2: then coming to a new team, now you just kind
Speaker 2: of like don't know the vibe yet of what you're
Speaker 2: going to get. And I know it can get there,
Speaker 2: but yeah, I mean it's not like day one what
Speaker 2: I'm walking back into. So I already miss season two.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I would say season two would be like I
Speaker 3: would say it was. I think season one was like
Speaker 3: taught me patience. I think season two, I would say,
Speaker 3: like was like a growth year for me too. I
Speaker 3: would say with dealing with things on off the court
Speaker 3: and just certain things. But I would definitely say growth.
Speaker 3: But I definitely like I'm going to miss, like obviously
Speaker 3: going to the gym and seeing familiar faces and like,
Speaker 3: you know, it was it was honestly really cool to
Speaker 3: play with girls that were you know, went to Texas
Speaker 3: and were older than me and younger than me. To
Speaker 3: play with like all the generations from UT that was awesome,
Speaker 3: you know what I mean. And you know, we kind
Speaker 3: of get a bad rep from like get all the
Speaker 3: Texas girls together and like Texas to Texas that, but
Speaker 3: like it's just something out that sisterhood, not even like
Speaker 3: the volleyball part of it, just like knowing that we've
Speaker 3: all been through it and playing together on the same
Speaker 3: team is really cool too. You know, I really did
Speaker 3: enjoy that. It was cool to like play with girls
Speaker 3: who I saw when I was at Texas who were
Speaker 3: in high school and I got to watch them play
Speaker 3: once I graduated, and being the same team with them,
Speaker 3: that was it's all right. And so I was like
Speaker 3: I was in high school, Julianne was at Texas, you know,
Speaker 3: so being on the same team with like all those
Speaker 3: generations of a UT alumni was cool.
Speaker 2: Episodes, Yeah, you get to like watch your like play
Speaker 2: with your hero that you watched or like your inspiration
Speaker 2: and then like these younger girls you were like their
Speaker 2: inspiration and out yeah, yeah, full circle and every really yeah,
Speaker 2: it is very unique. Your team was very unique in
Speaker 2: that sense.
Speaker 3: And I felt that too, Like I felt I felt
Speaker 3: like that inspiration like from me going up and spression
Speaker 3: of mind like going down, like was definitely like honored
Speaker 3: in a sense and as well as like definitely like
Speaker 3: appreciated and like said, you know it was no you
Speaker 3: know what I mean. I felt that like they appreciated
Speaker 3: me or like because of I was older than them
Speaker 3: and kind of walked the same walk there walk. So
Speaker 3: it's been great. But I think also with growth comes
Speaker 3: new beginnings and like I said, in the beginnings, see
Speaker 3: what's next?
Speaker 2: Aint know, how's Miami training you? You're back now, I'm back.
Speaker 3: I'm back in better last night if you didn't see me, Okay,
Speaker 3: that was really cute. It's like this mint like blue
Speaker 3: wish type of color.
Speaker 2: It was really cute. Good color on you, like exactly exactly.
Speaker 3: But yeah's Mimy's great a game back On Monday, I
Speaker 3: had one of my college teammates, Haley I can make,
Speaker 3: she came and visit me because she's a head coach
Speaker 3: at Kent State, Texas with you as well.
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Speaker 1: Can we y'all know me y'a Haley?
Speaker 2: Can we interject?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: We got it? Because Haley is also is also in
Speaker 2: the Hall of Fame at Texas. She is, yes, and
Speaker 2: then who's now also gonna be in the Hall of
Speaker 2: Famite Texas?
Speaker 3: It's me.
Speaker 2: The only time I'll ever horns up.
Speaker 3: Is exactly Well, you did a lot for Houston, so whatever.
Speaker 2: I mean, it was more like the h not like that.
Speaker 3: Okay, okay, Sole sprint them out? Good, Okay?
Speaker 2: We yeah, whoa, whoa how are you doing that? I
Speaker 2: don't know.
Speaker 3: We say like too much horn for one hand, too
Speaker 3: much horn.
Speaker 2: Do you ever have people like get in the middle
Speaker 2: and then you have.
Speaker 1: Like yeah, well like this, yeah, yeah, cool.
Speaker 3: We say like baby horns, and we like baby horns
Speaker 3: like this, babys, that's that's the h though.
Speaker 2: You were secretly going, yeah, go Houston, but.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but yeah, hall of Fame, Haley, so Hilly.
Speaker 2: Did they tell you though? Hold on, we gotta we
Speaker 2: gotta talk about.
Speaker 3: This, Okay. They told me so the process of bas school,
Speaker 3: like they told me back in July. No, back in June.
Speaker 3: I got a call, I believe, and I was super surprised,
Speaker 3: super shocked and very much like overwhelmed, you know, like
Speaker 3: because that's a really big deal. It's a really big deal.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I think for me, it was like I couldn't believe
Speaker 3: that they would even honor me with such a title
Speaker 3: or such an opportunity to be in that in that position.
Speaker 3: And my Mom's like, cat like, okay, yeah, you're so humble,
Speaker 3: but give credit where it's at, you know what I mean.
Speaker 3: And I'm like, yeah, like I was there, Like I
Speaker 3: did have a great run when I was there and
Speaker 3: made a huge impact even once I left. You know,
Speaker 3: every when girls coming to commit to Texas, you know
Speaker 3: a lot of them wanted to come because I was
Speaker 3: there and you know what I learned there. But I
Speaker 3: mean it was great. So they called me. I was
Speaker 3: on the phone with you know, the athletic director for
Speaker 3: women's sports, the athletic director for all the sports, and
Speaker 3: they kind of like, you know, they were like, they're like,
Speaker 3: are you going to be in Austin, you know, this
Speaker 3: is this time in the fall, And I was like.
Speaker 1: Yes and no.
Speaker 3: I was like, you know, I still lived there, but
Speaker 3: I just moved to Miami. And they were like, oh, well,
Speaker 3: hopefully you can be back here for the fall because
Speaker 3: wearing duct me to the Hall of Honor, which is
Speaker 3: like the Hall Ofwaen took a Hall of Fame in Texas,
Speaker 3: and I was like, I was like fish that was
Speaker 3: working out and I sat down. I was like shaking
Speaker 3: and then like I just started crying and I'm like,
Speaker 3: I was like, we cute. My boyfriend was like, what's
Speaker 3: going on? I was like, they do the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 3: He's like he was so happy for He was actually
Speaker 3: really happy for me, and like he was telling me
Speaker 3: everyone that was around us, they won't come and congratulate me.
Speaker 3: So it was really cool too.
Speaker 2: So it is so cool. It is such a big honor,
Speaker 2: so you're going back for it?
Speaker 3: Yeah, so it's it's it's dude. Now. The ceremony September night,
Speaker 3: September eighteenth, so it's the weekend that Texas played you
Speaker 3: tsa free pomo for college football. So we'll do the
Speaker 3: ceremony that evening and the next day I'll get announce
Speaker 3: on the field at the football game. So I got
Speaker 3: to dang, we get like a sick ass like luxury suite.
Speaker 3: I could to go to my family and friends and
Speaker 3: stuff too, So it's gonna.
Speaker 2: Be Wait, that's amazing. So then your boyfriend was the
Speaker 2: first person that you told.
Speaker 3: He was, and then I caught my momy.
Speaker 2: But how did Regina react? Also comments on every single
Speaker 2: one of my tiktoks, she's she loves to love her.
Speaker 2: I love her.
Speaker 3: I'm like she seem to me too, like you see that?
Speaker 3: Do you see this? I'm like, girl, stop bothering that girl.
Speaker 1: Stop calling her.
Speaker 3: And then she's also called on other people stuff, like
Speaker 3: there was one moody talking about church and your mom
Speaker 3: was like, amen, God only, I'm like want of those accounts.
Speaker 3: You're one of those accounts. She's so funny, she has
Speaker 3: nothing else, just given up.
Speaker 2: But she I'm sure she was so excited.
Speaker 3: For you, super happy. She was the one that told
Speaker 3: me like, you know, you need to get on that
Speaker 3: high horse and ride it because you deserve it. And
Speaker 3: and she was like, of course, like they that you that,
Speaker 3: you know what I mean? So I just know, like,
Speaker 3: you know, it's a really big honor. I didn't started
Speaker 3: to come as soon as it did, just because I
Speaker 3: wasn't sure like how the process was, you know. And
Speaker 3: when I went to support Haley last year because she
Speaker 3: said she got aducted as well, I saw the people
Speaker 3: that got inducted from like nineteen ninety three, so I
Speaker 3: was like, oh, I can always looking on it could
Speaker 3: happen for me, maybe fifty years down the road. But
Speaker 3: like that works, you know what I mean, Like that's fine,
Speaker 3: and I let it go, you know. I was like
Speaker 3: people will come, you know, And then it came a
Speaker 3: lot faster than I wanted to. So you see what
Speaker 3: happens when you just let go and like God and
Speaker 3: first for her, but yeah, being the babble player for
Speaker 3: my class, which is great. I think they normally just
Speaker 3: do one first four anyways, if they started doing two,
Speaker 3: that'd be great too, because there's so many of us.
Speaker 3: I think it's so deserving to be in the Hall
Speaker 3: of Honor, but really cool to be reposing volleyball this year.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna put on put on for the girls. You know,
Speaker 3: we say volleyball. So that dress gonna be is black tie,
Speaker 3: and that dress is gonna be tea.
Speaker 2: It's black tie.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Oh wow.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a nice little it's a nice event.
Speaker 2: Yeah you got Are you gonna wear burnt orange?
Speaker 3: A probably going like a burnt orange dress. I have
Speaker 3: a dress I've been looking at, but almost like like
Speaker 3: a swimsuit with like a silk bottom. So I'm not
Speaker 3: sure if I like it or not. Yeah, but I
Speaker 3: want to wear like a burnt orange or like a
Speaker 3: nice or nice color. You know, I wore yellow to
Speaker 3: support Haley last year and I was tea, So I
Speaker 3: think I want to kind of just stay around that
Speaker 3: re realm something bright, maybe that Miami loved Miami color.
Speaker 3: Whoever know, you never.
Speaker 2: Know, Okay, baby, Okay, Well six minutes.
Speaker 3: Anyhow, it was so much fun.
Speaker 2: Oh, it was great. The capacity that I was in
Speaker 2: while I was there was wonderful because I didn't actually drunk.
Speaker 3: I'm just kidding.
Speaker 2: Play. I was sober the whole time. It didn't actually play.
Speaker 2: It was more just to tell everybody about love La,
Speaker 2: and love La like helped me like get together matching
Speaker 2: suits and like I got the girls together and so
Speaker 2: they've just been like.
Speaker 3: I just want to say, y'all if y'all didn't see
Speaker 3: any of that content. Maddie had girls from other teams
Speaker 3: wearing La swimsuits. I'm like, you know what, Hell yeah, Maddie.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I even asked Kat to come out, but you
Speaker 2: were busy, but yeah, no, just my honorary members because
Speaker 2: Jess Marzak, Lauren Bersonno, they were only two from other teams,
Speaker 2: but I played with them at Houston and they wanted
Speaker 2: to like be involved but not have to play. So
Speaker 2: I was like, just come hang out with me for
Speaker 2: the day, but you have to wear love La stuff.
Speaker 2: And they were like okay, And I mean you get
Speaker 2: to come and see all of your friends and hang
Speaker 2: out and it's like this big volleyball reunion of everybody,
Speaker 2: you know. So I wanted to be able to be
Speaker 2: there and like feel a part of a team is
Speaker 2: like the way to do it. Yeah, And so we
Speaker 2: were disable like Friday morning, we met at like the
Speaker 2: local bar and then like handed out merchandise to everybody
Speaker 2: and like the little tattoos and whatever, and it was
Speaker 2: so fun. I had a really really fantastic time. So
Speaker 2: thank you love LA for sponsoring. But yeah, it is
Speaker 2: called the Charlie Saikley six Man and allegedly he is
Speaker 2: the godfather of beach Volleyball and covidye Manhattan Beach Open
Speaker 2: in the nineteen eighties. Holy moly.
Speaker 3: So yes, I've played in six man. This season would
Speaker 3: have been like my fourth time, but obviously due to
Speaker 3: health health reasons, I couldn't play.
Speaker 1: I really want to travel.
Speaker 3: I even like text my doctor to ask him, ask
Speaker 3: him I could go, and he told me now, So
Speaker 3: that's something like we do n't like to do in
Speaker 3: the off season. I've been playing. I've been playing in
Speaker 3: twenty nineteen. How long have you been playing six man? Manti?
Speaker 2: I think this was my seventh year of being at
Speaker 2: six man. I've played the last six Okay, so you've
Speaker 2: been there pretty much every year. Like then, there I
Speaker 2: was like the structure of like six man, like how
Speaker 2: are they putting on this? So there's I don't know
Speaker 2: how many teams they have, but like Friday is kind
Speaker 2: of the main day where everyone's in it, and then
Speaker 2: you have teams of four or five or sorry, pools
Speaker 2: of four or five, but it's six verse six on
Speaker 2: the sand. Everybody kind of has like a theme or
Speaker 2: like a sponsor or something like that, and then it's
Speaker 2: like fourteen pools top to make it out and make
Speaker 2: it to Saturday, and then it's just like a double
Speaker 2: lim tournament on Saturday, and then you have a winner
Speaker 2: at like the end of the day or like in
Speaker 2: the afternoon, but it's just all of your friends. The
Speaker 2: teams have like fifty people on them some of them.
Speaker 2: It's kind of crazy, and yeah, six on six normal.
Speaker 2: Actually it's side out rules and it's just kind of
Speaker 2: like a fun, free for all volleyball tournament.
Speaker 3: You didn't play at all while you were there this weekend.
Speaker 2: No, because you have to register, like if you're going.
Speaker 3: To have a true true true true true.
Speaker 2: So we were just there and then there was sorry,
Speaker 2: like a love La booth on the sand as well
Speaker 2: that was like selling merch and so we were just
Speaker 2: like down there kind of chatting with people about like
Speaker 2: our team, and we had our players there. We don't
Speaker 2: know where we're going to play yet, but like just
Speaker 2: kind of answering questions in the community and just getting
Speaker 2: involved in the community.
Speaker 3: You know, putn't getting the word out there spreading the word.
Speaker 2: We're just spreading our word at all of the bars.
Speaker 3: That's just a really cool thing too, just like you know, obviously,
Speaker 3: most love fans. They love all the love athletes they
Speaker 3: love enjoy like watching them play indoor and it's like, oh,
Speaker 3: you guys play outdoor too, Yeah, for fun, Like if
Speaker 3: you ever want to come out and watch a game
Speaker 3: and see someone of your favorite love players play together
Speaker 3: or gets each other out in the sand, that's a
Speaker 3: fun place to be too. I enjoy s l X men,
Speaker 3: it's so so much fun. I love to beware of
Speaker 3: the little cute team bikinis and all the sponsors place
Speaker 3: we get to do, like you say, get to see
Speaker 3: all your friends. The best part is the people, for
Speaker 3: sure love it, love it.
Speaker 2: The volleyball community in so Cal is very, very fun.
Speaker 2: And the people it's like the weekend before college starts, right,
Speaker 2: It's like the weekend before you have to report. And
Speaker 2: so like a lot of our friends too now who
Speaker 2: are like college coaches, they come for this and then
Speaker 2: they leave after and they go back and coach whatever
Speaker 2: because like they're all the coaches now because we're old.
Speaker 2: But yeah, it's kind of like the last hurrah before
Speaker 2: seasons really start to begin for some people. So it's
Speaker 2: always a good time.
Speaker 3: And you talked about like being in the community and
Speaker 3: spreading the word, Like what does it mean to you
Speaker 3: to be out there representing love such like a large
Speaker 3: expansion tournament and obviously being also one of the first
Speaker 3: like founding members and for the first Nargo season for
Speaker 3: love La, Like what's that mean for you?
Speaker 2: Yeah, it feels much more special and personal to me.
Speaker 2: So like while I'm out there like telling people about it,
Speaker 2: it's like I'm obviously very involved, so like I care
Speaker 2: about growing it. Like I said earlier, it just it
Speaker 2: I feel like I have more responsibility to like make
Speaker 2: this team work and to like let people know about
Speaker 2: it and interact with people. Then like if I were
Speaker 2: playing overseas, like I'm not going to go out of
Speaker 2: my way in the city and be like, hey, come
Speaker 2: to our games and like I want to make a
Speaker 2: relationship with you. But here just feels like I'm a
Speaker 2: part of this community and I want people to feel
Speaker 2: like they're a part of our team, and like when
Speaker 2: they come watch they know someone on the team or
Speaker 2: like they seem I've interacted with them. And if like
Speaker 2: I go to sign autographs after, I love seeing people
Speaker 2: in the stands that I know and I'm like, oh
Speaker 2: my gosh, thank you for coming, Like goodness, blah blah blah.
Speaker 2: So it feels more special being home and getting to
Speaker 2: play in my home city.
Speaker 3: Well, I just want to say I admire you and
Speaker 3: I think you are a great addition obviously not only
Speaker 3: to the league, but to this team, and like they
Speaker 3: are so so fortunate to have you on their team,
Speaker 3: and you know, the passion that you bring on the
Speaker 3: court and obviously even more off the court is great.
Speaker 3: So thank you as a volleyball fan, as a volleyball
Speaker 3: player for living our sport and letting everybody know I
Speaker 3: do love. It means a lot and I can't wait
Speaker 3: just to see you know, even after we retire. You know,
Speaker 3: this is like this is like on our back that
Speaker 3: weights on our back and be able to carry this
Speaker 3: weight and let it lay down the floor, laid down
Speaker 3: the foundation and then see it growing the build as
Speaker 3: we progress out of the sport. It's gonna be really
Speaker 3: cool and a lot of that's gonna be heads off
Speaker 3: to you too, So yeah, thank you.
Speaker 2: And also you in Miami period.
Speaker 3: I about to be in a book. I'm just like
Speaker 3: you coming in really hot next week for sure. So
Speaker 3: obviously you know, season starting starting coming up in December.
Speaker 3: Normally we starting January, but we're starting up early with
Speaker 3: the expansion. We have so many teams, super super short
Speaker 3: time away thinking about it. It's like right around the corner.
Speaker 2: I know it'll be here before we know it. And
Speaker 2: let's see who from the Love family have I gotten
Speaker 2: to see most? Is one of these questions.
Speaker 3: Carly.
Speaker 2: I actually see Carly like at least twice a week.
Speaker 2: So Carly Lloyd and I play beach volleyball together in
Speaker 2: Hermosa pretty consistently. We're getting really good. We might even
Speaker 2: we might even play like a little tournament together.
Speaker 3: Oh fun.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's one in Hermosa in a few weeks, so
Speaker 2: I need to talk to her. But I'm thinking about it.
Speaker 3: Are you getting in I see her? At what you said,
Speaker 3: you're playing a tournament inside indoor with her? A you
Speaker 3: think about getting about getting reps with her indoor as well?
Speaker 2: No, I have been getting reps indoor, but I gotta
Speaker 2: get Carly in on that too. We've been doing like
Speaker 2: a lot on the beach, but we can't. I mean,
Speaker 2: she she has a little one, She's got a kid,
Speaker 2: so I should have your schedule. It is harder to
Speaker 2: work around. Yeah me, I'm just out here bopping from
Speaker 2: sand to court to court to sand and whatever. So
Speaker 2: we'll get her out there. Don't you worry? Are you?
Speaker 2: You're getting in the Miami mindset.
Speaker 3: Honestly, what I shouldn't have been doing was touching a ball.
Speaker 3: Literally a few days ago. I was standing up in
Speaker 3: the pool. I know that was so stupid, and my
Speaker 3: friend was tossing a ball to me, and I was
Speaker 3: setting to myself and setting back there. And you don't
Speaker 3: realize actually how much core you are using to do
Speaker 3: that also trying to keep up in the pool. I'm
Speaker 3: just I'm still sore. I wasn't sore at all. And
Speaker 3: then I thought I made a mistake and like did
Speaker 3: something really bad. So now I'm like kind of scared,
Speaker 3: but I'm fine. But to answer your question, yes, but
Speaker 3: now I'm like I should just like not do that
Speaker 3: even at all.
Speaker 2: You know, yeah, you lay in bed and just set.
Speaker 3: I think you're still using your core. I think laying down.
Speaker 2: Okay, I don't know how to talk to.
Speaker 3: He's been very strict about like what they want me
Speaker 3: to do all he can do at this point. They want
Speaker 3: me to even doing physical therapy, like I can't work
Speaker 3: on like my helping floor muscles now that he's like
Speaker 3: just walking because I have something foreign in my body.
Speaker 3: So he's like, you really want your boy to like
Speaker 3: grasp the nature of what's in there, you know. So
Speaker 3: I'm like, all right, my bad. But like I said,
Speaker 3: I've been in my Miami mindset. I've been here. Now
Speaker 3: I'm just looking forward to I'm trying to I want
Speaker 3: to be able to just be like you when I
Speaker 3: grew up and get the community's mindset wrapped around my
Speaker 3: love Miami here coming up soon.
Speaker 2: So yeah, I'm.
Speaker 3: Really really excited, really excited. Speaking of our teams, any
Speaker 3: you want to talk season three predictions or what?
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, Okay, well first we need to say,
Speaker 2: did what you talked about last time about the conferences
Speaker 2: that we have the East and the West.
Speaker 3: Yes, a little bit, but we weren't really like throw
Speaker 3: all about who was.
Speaker 2: Where Okay, well, okay, in your Eastern Conference? Where do
Speaker 2: you what do you think? What are your thoughts? Okay,
Speaker 2: so are you gonna.
Speaker 1: Be all right?
Speaker 3: Just so you guys know, Eastern Conference is made up
Speaker 3: of five teams. We got Love Atlanta, Love Madison, obviously,
Speaker 3: Love Miami, Love Minnesota, and Love Nebraska. I think Love
Speaker 3: Atlanta is going to be really good. They're always I
Speaker 3: think it's always a really good team. Now that we
Speaker 3: have their coach and like, what are their star players
Speaker 3: on our team, I think that's just gonna be like
Speaker 3: a battle because it's gonna be you know what I mean,
Speaker 3: just like that, like just that normal competitive energy towards
Speaker 3: you know, playing against an old team and old teammates.
Speaker 3: They're definitely going to bring fire, just because especially since
Speaker 3: we have their coach and stuff. Obviously love Miami. We're
Speaker 3: full of foreigners on our team, which I'm so excited about.
Speaker 3: My friend she she watched our like video like FaceTime
Speaker 3: meda they posted yesterday, and she was like, there's only
Speaker 3: two Americans on a team, Like what else is? Oh
Speaker 3: my god, We're gonna have that competitive you know, foreign drive,
Speaker 3: which I love so much. I think just that's something
Speaker 3: you just can't teach. When it comes back to Spanish culture,
Speaker 3: I'm excited about that. Love Nebraska. Obviously they have the
Speaker 3: goat returning again.
Speaker 2: She's back, she's back. Said they held on to some
Speaker 2: people from last year too, So yeah, we've got some good,
Speaker 2: got some good.
Speaker 3: So if I had to say how things relying up,
Speaker 3: I'm pre s like this is just my predictions.
Speaker 1: I'm Miami at the top.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I gotta see my team first. Obviously, I'm gonna
Speaker 3: see Miami at the top. I just think we have
Speaker 3: a lot of balance everywhere. And then I would say
Speaker 3: next is gonna be I would say Minnesota. Now, when
Speaker 3: you talk about love Minnesota.
Speaker 2: Minnesota to this is really hard.
Speaker 3: Yeah, this is kind of hard, but let's just do anyways, Okay,
Speaker 3: I would say Miami number one. I'm gonna go number two.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna go I'm gonna go Love Minnesota. Think they
Speaker 3: can they together? I think. Then I would say Madison, Okay, Nebraska,
Speaker 3: then Atlanta. That's what I would say.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Okay, Okay, make sure we write that down so
Speaker 2: that like we can when we bet, when we make
Speaker 2: our bet, whoever's like closest to their for the Western conference.
Speaker 2: We have Love Austin, Houston, La, Salt Lake, and San Francisco.
Speaker 2: I gotta put us at the top. I'm gonna say
Speaker 2: Houston's gonna be good. San Francisco is gonna be good,
Speaker 2: Salt Lake's gonna be good. I'm gonna go La, San France, Cisco, Houston,
Speaker 2: Salt Lake, Austin.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna go.
Speaker 2: L A l A one, San Fran two, Houston three,
Speaker 2: Salt Lake, Austin.
Speaker 3: You're putting your You're putting your championship team at the bottom.
Speaker 2: Well, they don't have you anymore or Carly.
Speaker 3: Best of but they don't have they don't have the
Speaker 3: hype and they don't have what except but they don't
Speaker 3: have the hands.
Speaker 2: Well actually breeze good to Yeah, there's just they've just
Speaker 2: like changed up a lot, and I feel like I
Speaker 2: don't know how that's gonna.
Speaker 1: How that's gonna be.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 2: But then like yeah for US US, Okay, San Fran
Speaker 2: you're gonna have Kelsey back Kara there. I don't know
Speaker 2: who they're AFO is. I can't remember. They have Serena.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Oh Serena's not in Minnesota, that's right.
Speaker 2: No, Serena's a San fran Salt Houston pretty much has
Speaker 2: majority of their team bank and then Salt Lake had
Speaker 2: some changes too, but they still have Alexa Pultzer, they
Speaker 2: have Logan. Now, yeah, I don't know this, who knows, honestly,
Speaker 2: this is just what.
Speaker 3: We're going with, what we off of our what we
Speaker 3: know from last year, the girls moving around and yeah,
Speaker 3: just kind of what we know for ore from our
Speaker 3: own volleyballs. So nothing against anybody, Okay, they they shouldn't
Speaker 3: take it personal and that they do. Take it up
Speaker 3: with me, take it up with Kat, not with me. Yeah,
Speaker 3: just come talk, just come talk to me. I'm friendly.
Speaker 2: We'll wrap now, we'll wrap it up. This is it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, let's start last clothes essentially. I know I can.
Speaker 3: I'll just call you later.
Speaker 2: It's fine, that's true, full FaceTime after week wrap.
Speaker 3: I just want to say, as we're wrapping up, this
Speaker 3: has been so great. Really this really Who would have
Speaker 3: thought like us meeting in Turkey is now like look
Speaker 3: at this now, y'all. Maddie is my matron of honor.
Speaker 3: Whenever I get married.
Speaker 2: She's matron. Does that mean I had a baby?
Speaker 3: No, means you're married?
Speaker 2: Is that right? Wait? Yes, girl, Wait what's the one
Speaker 2: when when.
Speaker 3: A matron's married maid of honors when it is not married?
Speaker 2: Okay, major, let me just double check.
Speaker 3: Yeah, because if that's not it, a matron is an.
Speaker 2: Older, married woman with a dignified, mature manner. Wait, hold on,
Speaker 2: hold on, okay, you're right.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's my way of having to thank you. Yeah,
Speaker 3: so I'm gonna have to. I thought I had. I
Speaker 3: thought my mom said I had to disinguish distinguished between
Speaker 3: the two. She said that both of y'all weren't married,
Speaker 3: and it's different, she said, but because the honor. Haley,
Speaker 3: what did she get? But you guys are.
Speaker 2: Maybe Oh well, I don't know, but I'm just saying
Speaker 2: that she won't.
Speaker 3: She won't, Okay, I mean she I hope she will,
Speaker 3: but she's not seeing anyone sign in relationship.
Speaker 2: So just get married soon, said she we can still.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well I want both my I want you guys
Speaker 3: spoke to my bridesmaids make some honor. So okay, it
Speaker 3: was hard to choose. It was very hard to choose.
Speaker 2: I get it. But you don't have to choose yet,
Speaker 2: you're I.
Speaker 3: Know, Yeah, I just wanted to have to have an
Speaker 3: I'm trying to get an idea.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's okay.
Speaker 3: Anyways, this has been really great and I'm so blessed,
Speaker 3: so happy about our friendship and I'm so glad it's
Speaker 3: expanded to this, and that's playing for an amazing league
Speaker 3: and living our dream at home and.
Speaker 2: Living our dreams.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I know, really cool.
Speaker 2: We are truly so blessed and so thankful to everybody
Speaker 2: who's listened to us. Just yep. We appreciate you guys
Speaker 2: a lot because we have no idea what we're doing,
Speaker 2: but we just like to talk to each other and
Speaker 2: talk about vliable. So thank you for tuning in.
Speaker 3: And we are also yeah, well we're also thank you
Speaker 3: to everyone from behind the scenes production, yes, the editing,
Speaker 3: all that stuff.
Speaker 1: We love y'all.
Speaker 3: Appreciate y'all and Noah Rich y'all been great with us
Speaker 3: this year. We appreciate y'all so so so much.
Speaker 2: So yeah, and then we can't wait to be back
Speaker 2: for season three.
Speaker 3: We'll be back. We'll be back, all right, and hopefully
Speaker 3: with some new some some some some some good stuff,
Speaker 3: you know what I mean, like some new some more
Speaker 3: you know, posting on Instagram, some clips, some teasers, you
Speaker 3: know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: Really good crowd exactly. Yeah, really bring it to the
Speaker 1: podcast so.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, maybe some even some like live broadcasting.
Speaker 3: Yeah, who knows schedule?
Speaker 2: All right, well actually next week. Yeah okay, I'm Maddie Rachel,
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