Speaker 1: When I knew she was like my type of vibe.
Speaker 1: We were at the stub Buds but she had her
Speaker 1: little section.
Speaker 2: Wait wait wait, wait wait wait, hold, you was at
Speaker 2: the stub Buds party and you didn't call me for
Speaker 2: the stuff.
Speaker 3: I am a stud. I am a stud, and I
Speaker 3: am your bud.
Speaker 4: If you were my bud, I would be on my boat.
Speaker 4: I was never letting it go.
Speaker 2: I'm saying I think this was a mutual mutual disrespect happened.
Speaker 4: We didn't pull up after the game.
Speaker 1: The stub was like, whoa. I love how energetic you are,
Speaker 1: Like Celsius. I am on caffeine and it's not working.
Speaker 1: Like you know, I drink a gallon of this a
Speaker 1: day and I don't even know how many gallons per
Speaker 1: day the past four or five days it's been.
Speaker 3: But it's not working.
Speaker 1: Dam And if I try to, Yeah, there's no boys.
Speaker 3: You should try Boom. Have you tried Boom? Is that
Speaker 3: the mushroom coffee?
Speaker 2: No, it's some new energy drink. We're obviously endorsing products
Speaker 2: that I'm paying us what.
Speaker 3: I swear by it. I love it.
Speaker 1: You know, if I were to do it, then you
Speaker 1: drink it would be rebel because you know, I want
Speaker 1: to be one of them little rebel athletes jumping from
Speaker 1: the buildings, you.
Speaker 3: Know how rebels like it makes me jittery. Well, sometimes
Speaker 3: I just want to feel.
Speaker 4: Just right now.
Speaker 1: I could just use a feeling right now. I don't
Speaker 1: feel nothing. I just I mean, I feel like it
Speaker 1: tastes good, but like I'm sure it's giving my baseline.
Speaker 3: But shoot, I mean we are we both.
Speaker 2: I guess this is a great place to start because
Speaker 2: we both were at the w NBA All Star Weekend.
Speaker 3: For the entire weekend, some of us were on a boat.
Speaker 3: Did you get I just didn't think you would come
Speaker 3: on the boat.
Speaker 4: Why would you not think I would come?
Speaker 3: You know, I'm not gonna say a high maintenance because
Speaker 3: that's not the words.
Speaker 2: But I just feel like things I would I would
Speaker 2: want to make like I would want to make sure
Speaker 2: everything was coming.
Speaker 1: It's like I don't like any minor inconvenience.
Speaker 3: It's like people.
Speaker 2: Know and this was like this was like I met
Speaker 2: this dude when I was here doing shows, and I
Speaker 2: ended up randomly going to like this, I'm an adventurous girl. Okay,
Speaker 2: So like when I'm on the road and by myself.
Speaker 2: I have to show I'm on a bit of an
Speaker 2: energy high. And usually I ended up in random places
Speaker 2: with fans. I know it sounds very weird, but it happened,
Speaker 2: you see what I'm saying. And this is how I
Speaker 2: have friends all over the place.
Speaker 3: Period. So I was there and my you know, my
Speaker 3: girls birthday's coming up. It's Leo season.
Speaker 1: She's only.
Speaker 2: It's so she was she wanted to do a boat thing,
Speaker 2: and I was like, oh, I know a boat got
Speaker 2: but like this was like it was a nice boat,
Speaker 2: but it was like hood boat.
Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying. I love I love a
Speaker 3: hood I do love a hood boat.
Speaker 4: Make it as long as we make it on the boat.
Speaker 3: I'm good. We're good.
Speaker 2: But I'm like, you know, I can't all around backwoods
Speaker 2: and Southeast High School.
Speaker 3: So for real, I'll be fine next time. I know,
Speaker 3: next time, next time you on the hood unless you
Speaker 3: try you on the hood boat.
Speaker 1: I mean that just like going going where the wind
Speaker 1: blows you.
Speaker 4: You know, I was in the.
Speaker 2: Bed, Sam, I ain't gonna hold I know every time
Speaker 2: I hit you up, like what's up where you at?
Speaker 3: And you would just send me a picture.
Speaker 2: Robe you know my girl through like all the premiere
Speaker 2: gay parties, and she was like trying to get all
Speaker 2: my friends to come, and she was like, tell Ari
Speaker 2: to come, and I was.
Speaker 3: Like, I don't.
Speaker 2: I don't think I already go outside. That's what I told her,
Speaker 2: So I don't think she go outside.
Speaker 1: See here's the thing. It's not that I don't go outside.
Speaker 1: It's just that the way all stars set up for me,
Speaker 1: it's like, first of all, it's hour by hour something
Speaker 1: which I love, Blessings on blessings, and I love that
Speaker 1: the w has so much going on. However, when you
Speaker 1: do that much talking that much straight, my voice is
Speaker 1: not naturally like this. It felt like when I saw
Speaker 1: together party saying, it felt like somebody was punching my
Speaker 1: throat from the inside.
Speaker 3: Damn, my vocal cords were burst.
Speaker 2: Well you do run them sets? I text you, I said,
Speaker 2: you you run these basketball streets. And several people came
Speaker 2: up to me like I see what you're doing with
Speaker 2: al and I like it.
Speaker 3: She's the best. And I was like, all right, okay,
Speaker 3: all you know, it's crazy.
Speaker 1: I didn't realize how many mutual friends we had, Like
Speaker 1: every time like shout out jam Mel Hill shout out
Speaker 1: Joy Taylor, there's my people, and I'm like, they're like,
Speaker 1: you don love stay.
Speaker 4: I was like, I already do, and she leaves me off.
Speaker 1: Anyway.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so we we went to different events, but I
Speaker 2: think we we had we picked.
Speaker 3: Up some of the similar vibes. Yeah, it was a
Speaker 3: it was an interesting All Star weekend. Always is the
Speaker 3: gift that keeps on giving.
Speaker 2: I don't think I've ever been this like in it,
Speaker 2: you know, like I've gone, welcome, I've gone, But I
Speaker 2: don't think I've ever been this in it. I had
Speaker 2: two events, of course.
Speaker 3: The together event.
Speaker 2: I did my own comedy show you I was. I
Speaker 2: was in it, and being in it, I was I
Speaker 2: was catching tea spilling all over the place.
Speaker 1: You know, sometimes she gets messy, but we you know,
Speaker 1: we real her back, but we let her go. And
Speaker 1: you know, as as more people come in and it's
Speaker 1: being streamed, it's just is what it is.
Speaker 2: It's you know, it felt like a corporate retreat, you know,
Speaker 2: like a messy corporate retree.
Speaker 1: Corporate retreat is nuts. I mean, I guess no low key.
Speaker 1: Though it might be that corporate retreat, it felt like that.
Speaker 2: It felt like a corporate retreat where people are drinking
Speaker 2: who don't normally drink.
Speaker 3: Things are getting said that shouldn't be said.
Speaker 1: You know, I feel like everything that is said was intentional.
Speaker 1: I feel like everything that was presented to the public
Speaker 1: was presented to the public with intention and and I
Speaker 1: think just you know, sometimes we the corporate public is
Speaker 1: watching like and that's fine, Like that's fine, shout out
Speaker 1: to the stup but you know, walking around here and
Speaker 1: making more money, and all of us with that blue
Speaker 1: hair shout out to.
Speaker 2: Them, shout out of the stream. We're on a different
Speaker 2: different times through the weekend hours.
Speaker 1: Last year, you don't you probably don't remember when Kathy
Speaker 1: the commissioner, Kathy Eenbert was dancing the nuck if you
Speaker 1: buck with the stub buzzs, and so we thought we
Speaker 1: were gonna get it, like you know, maybe a repeat
Speaker 1: or something like that. But like it was, it was.
Speaker 1: It was lit like the whole seven two hours stream.
Speaker 1: Everybody's getting into it. Some hot mic moments happened that
Speaker 1: some definitely hot mic, but it's okay, we go past it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2: But also I think people got a chill, people a
Speaker 2: little grace, you know, Like I feel like they were
Speaker 2: super hot on John Quell and I was like.
Speaker 1: Man, come up off my bra.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 2: It was like, man, like, you know, I think you
Speaker 2: can have respect for your team, you can have respect
Speaker 2: for the vibe, and you can also have opinions about
Speaker 2: the game.
Speaker 1: And I agree, you know what's it's two things could
Speaker 1: be true. And like if my group Chad got lead,
Speaker 1: that would be over for all of us. Real, So like,
Speaker 1: obviously she's over here talking, but like she doesn't she
Speaker 1: You're not just thinking being surveyed, Like yeah, and so
Speaker 1: like shout out to her for cleaning up and getting MVP,
Speaker 1: because yeah, that trophy case looking right, I mean category.
Speaker 3: I mean yeah.
Speaker 2: I mean if we're gonna go there, let's go there,
Speaker 2: and let's talk about the game.
Speaker 3: Bad. Damn dam it was terrible. Damn the game was off.
Speaker 1: Yes, and yes I can acknowledge that it was terrible,
Speaker 1: But you know, I'm always gonna protect Mike'm.
Speaker 3: Like, dude, do what you feel your must sometimes you
Speaker 3: know what I must.
Speaker 1: I must see the one because because they already paid
Speaker 1: play a compact schedule, they just kind of want to chill.
Speaker 1: They want to be on the bobs, they want to
Speaker 1: be lit with all of us clearly, and so it's like,
Speaker 1: you know, let however, I get, I think you what
Speaker 1: there's a rebuttal.
Speaker 3: Yes, because I agree if that's what it is.
Speaker 2: Like I said, it's like, do some chill corporate tat
Speaker 2: treat type shit cool. Don't charge nobody for them tickets.
Speaker 2: Give them away, Okay, give them away. I don't have
Speaker 2: people paying good money to sit there and watch that.
Speaker 3: That was bad.
Speaker 2: I didn't even know how they determined the m v P.
Speaker 2: I said, nobody played. How you're gonna have a most
Speaker 2: valuable play of the game that nobody play, Like y'all
Speaker 2: really playing in our face. I love John Quell, but
Speaker 2: come on, let's pupper stats. Well with these m v
Speaker 2: P stats.
Speaker 4: There are no stats in this them right now that
Speaker 4: I can see.
Speaker 1: However, yes, nineteen thousand, seven hundred and eighty three people
Speaker 1: witnessed it in person. But yeah, the game was you know,
Speaker 1: it was a little bad, okay, and and it's kind
Speaker 1: of great to see your face and person. No, just
Speaker 1: put yourself in a little Sam, little Sam, like five
Speaker 1: two Sam?
Speaker 3: All right, did I want Harlem Globe charters?
Speaker 2: I want you right right, right right right, don dunk yeah,
Speaker 2: I was do give me you want you want a
Speaker 2: Harlem Globe trotter, t Like, if it's gonna be a
Speaker 2: loose game like that, I want to see some cool
Speaker 2: so I just give them something.
Speaker 3: It was just kind of like they were just like,
Speaker 3: we here.
Speaker 1: It's now the time to be like, well, maybe you know,
Speaker 1: Chelsea Gray should have been on that floor. You're like,
Speaker 1: y'all want some cool passes? There you go. Yeah, but like, nah,
Speaker 1: I feel you, and I do think that there needs
Speaker 1: to be a healthy balance of like, you know, having
Speaker 1: fun and not putting yourself.
Speaker 4: At risk for injury.
Speaker 3: Yes. The funniest part though, was when Asia accidentally block
Speaker 3: Angel because why yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah
Speaker 3: that she's not to do that for real.
Speaker 2: She's like, you don't really block and that's true. You
Speaker 2: don't be blocking people and going super hard at the
Speaker 2: All Star you know what I mean, But you want
Speaker 2: them to go something something like honestly, and you know,
Speaker 2: I know she catches a lot of a flat, but
Speaker 2: this moment, for me, it was like at least Caitlyn
Speaker 2: came out and started the game like a game. It
Speaker 2: was like, all right, you're playing with some intensity, You're
Speaker 2: trying to make it feel like, yeah, something, you know
Speaker 2: what I mean, because it.
Speaker 3: Was funny watching Yeah.
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna she was draining him and going. I
Speaker 2: was like, yo, she's only one precious right now.
Speaker 1: But you know what, I think it should be set
Speaker 1: up like maybe the first half you playing, playing, and
Speaker 1: then the second half you just turn up, and I think, yeah,
Speaker 1: that could be really cool. But also if you turn
Speaker 1: it up for three days straight and being literally with
Speaker 1: your friends.
Speaker 3: Like you know, hey, you guys, you gotta figure it out.
Speaker 2: I mean, everyone everyone's turned up, So even if you've
Speaker 2: turn it up, you're turning up based on the level
Speaker 2: that everybody was turned up.
Speaker 3: So it should to some degree balance itself out. But
Speaker 3: I just didn't.
Speaker 2: Like to make the weekend feel hold and just like
Speaker 2: for the fans, you know what I mean, Like for
Speaker 2: the fans, for the people that are really are buying tickets.
Speaker 2: I had friends who like paid money, you know what
Speaker 2: I mean, and they were like, Yo, what the fuck?
Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: So it's like, just imagine on the week for the fans,
Speaker 2: you got to give them a game at some point,
Speaker 2: even if it's the fourth just you got to give
Speaker 2: them a game at some point. I also just think
Speaker 2: we need more. And the Skills Challenge day, it's just
Speaker 2: it's a very like the.
Speaker 4: Day of it or the skills like actually the event.
Speaker 2: The event itself. I saw some one on Threads was like, yo,
Speaker 2: I was there. It was an hour and they said
Speaker 2: lasted an hour. It was like, y'all would have rather
Speaker 2: watched the mascots play spades, And I thought that was pretty.
Speaker 1: But you know, okay, yes, yes, and yes, and you know,
Speaker 1: you know, y'all got back.
Speaker 3: What I loved about Skills with It was the three generations. Yes,
Speaker 3: that was that was fire.
Speaker 1: I think I think it's really fire when you can
Speaker 1: acknowledge the legends of the game. You got Elena back
Speaker 1: on the court. She's still got it, so like, hey, Elena,
Speaker 1: you want to pull up? That was you know, pull
Speaker 1: up anyway. And but then you have the current generation,
Speaker 1: then you have the next generation because E Y B
Speaker 1: L was at the same time.
Speaker 4: That was fired. That was that was fire.
Speaker 3: And three point contest is always cool.
Speaker 4: The only rookie.
Speaker 3: You you you a ball.
Speaker 1: I don't know how to properly does that was weird, but.
Speaker 3: That was dope.
Speaker 2: I really appreciated that, but I do think, okay, hear
Speaker 2: me out, because I don't mean this disrespectfully.
Speaker 3: Don't do it, and I don't.
Speaker 4: Mean it's brewing. I see your little guy.
Speaker 2: I don't mean for like the game, but for the skills,
Speaker 2: that load of hoop and let them.
Speaker 3: Don't know them, let him done, let him do.
Speaker 1: At this point, I want at this point, y'all all
Speaker 1: need a dunk lead. Okay, how are you lowers at
Speaker 1: the league that you make your money just a little bit?
Speaker 2: Make a league just for that legue, but for the
Speaker 2: fun of it. We all having fun, right, everybody getting drunk,
Speaker 2: having fun. Lower that room just a little bit. Let's
Speaker 2: somedimes pop off.
Speaker 3: That wouldn't be fun.
Speaker 4: Make a league, you know.
Speaker 1: I hate that.
Speaker 3: That's why I talked.
Speaker 1: At two am, and she's like, I'm feeling creative. I'm like, okay,
Speaker 1: she did not mention these dunks, and I knew. I
Speaker 1: knew that would have awakened that I would have awakened.
Speaker 1: I said, now, let me say that for the just
Speaker 1: a little bit dumb all right, saying we're not going there.
Speaker 3: Cool, well, we're out something the.
Speaker 1: Shrimplin would be fun. However, just imagine if you missed
Speaker 1: that thing, just miss it and get hurt. Let's let's
Speaker 1: not have our Let's not have our greatest athletes on
Speaker 1: the plane to get hurt. They got a whole season.
Speaker 1: They're already back in practice.
Speaker 3: You know that's true. They're right back at it.
Speaker 2: And you gotta have respect for these women. They do
Speaker 2: put it all out on the floor. They play hard
Speaker 2: all season, and I have a high level of respect
Speaker 2: for everybody who plays games.
Speaker 3: I do want to say that.
Speaker 4: But we know, we know a game.
Speaker 1: Okay, yes, so you want you want a competitive game
Speaker 1: at some point, and at some point you were going
Speaker 1: to make your own dunk league, so you can see.
Speaker 2: Them aside side dunk fun, don't dun't it. It's dunk fun.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's great.
Speaker 3: That's not like because you're not skillful enough.
Speaker 2: It's like, let's just have fun launching them off the
Speaker 2: back or you know, dunk fun, dunk fun.
Speaker 3: Did you did you stay for the half time? Did
Speaker 3: you see Tyler? I did? I did? I thought that
Speaker 3: was cool? Great? Yeah? No, no, no, no, no, I thought.
Speaker 1: That was watched it because that's what really matter.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, Ellie really is the diva of the league
Speaker 2: and could never in a way that is wild. I
Speaker 2: saw those other mascots. They were working hard, they were
Speaker 2: working hard, they were really putting effort in. They really
Speaker 2: were trying to get that attention. And that one point
Speaker 2: I saw Ellie. She was laying down, fanning herself as
Speaker 2: she should as they as they milled about.
Speaker 1: She runs the gross. Ellie really runs the grass. The
Speaker 1: girls could never. But you know how I like her
Speaker 1: little bestie Scott Sky and Violet c Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: they gave it the girls Dusty show Illness and Barclays,
Speaker 1: I like, I thought to bring it.
Speaker 3: She's got a crew, yeah, like her besties.
Speaker 1: It's very cute for.
Speaker 3: Them, but it's given mean girls in my That's just
Speaker 3: what I said.
Speaker 4: But Pa was over there bouncing around.
Speaker 1: He's very top, I mean bottom heavy, so he was
Speaker 1: just bouncing around.
Speaker 3: You already know how I feel about those ones. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: I'm not.
Speaker 1: I'm not a fan, no, but you know what Ellie
Speaker 1: gives it. I don't think anybody else can give her
Speaker 1: a nice nasty pump. I love a nice slow pump
Speaker 1: up and down that court.
Speaker 3: She has the greatest fits and she has.
Speaker 1: The greatest we matched head to toe on the carpet
Speaker 1: and I can't tell if it was iconic or embarrassing.
Speaker 3: Oh, Ellie, we had the same but head to toe
Speaker 3: can we get a split screen?
Speaker 1: But Ellie definitely wore better.
Speaker 3: Like, don't do me because I don't like to lose.
Speaker 3: But I had a head to toe custom.
Speaker 1: I chose a black woman designer. She made it from
Speaker 1: the ground up for me, and it was dope because
Speaker 1: it was like a rib corse set. I think this
Speaker 1: denim with a cream this is on an orange collar,
Speaker 1: maq maq.
Speaker 4: I'm thinking I'm original.
Speaker 1: My little coach Tabby it was like cream because you know,
Speaker 1: shout out to that partnership. Then I look at Eleanor
Speaker 1: and she had a dinim ohm custom.
Speaker 3: From the same black women, no, but but.
Speaker 1: With a coach Tabby. It was also cream, but hers
Speaker 1: was embroidered like the graffiti one. I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: you would just take it up and now up, it's
Speaker 1: not only the girls, never I am the girls. And
Speaker 1: so I'm just at this point, why I compete where
Speaker 1: you don't compare it? And I was just so embarrassed. Actually,
Speaker 1: you got I answered my own question, Then you gotta
Speaker 1: get you get that I do.
Speaker 2: But how you gotta get inside scoop on what she's
Speaker 2: wearing next. You gotta you gotta find.
Speaker 4: Can match her again and lose again, you know, steal their.
Speaker 3: Man, isn't she un is? It was it as mascot.
Speaker 3: It's one of those mascott kind of saw see scooped
Speaker 3: that Ellie scoop that Ellie.
Speaker 4: Competition so real. But we had our own shan of moment.
Speaker 3: We did, Yes, we did, did our first live podcast.
Speaker 1: I'm riding down Chicago streets and I see a big
Speaker 1: Sam Jay face and then I ride like two more
Speaker 1: feet and then I see my face next to Asia Wilson,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, oh my god, We've made it.
Speaker 3: We've done it. It was crazy, It was It was
Speaker 3: cool though. Everybody was so happy.
Speaker 1: First of all, you have so many fans, you think
Speaker 1: that like these basketball streets. I run like you run
Speaker 1: these streets, period, And everybody's like, oh my god, you're
Speaker 1: on the show with Sam Jack.
Speaker 4: I gotta get a ticket.
Speaker 3: Great.
Speaker 1: I love that, y'all love Sam. I love that. I
Speaker 1: love that. I too love you. But that was fire.
Speaker 3: No, it was super dope. I really really had a
Speaker 3: good time.
Speaker 2: I didn't know what to expect, you know what I mean,
Speaker 2: Like especially like I don't know what those kind of
Speaker 2: live podcasting You just don't know what the vibes. And
Speaker 2: also it was a little bit of some heavy topic.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so we started off with CBA right, like, yeah,
Speaker 4: it was.
Speaker 1: It was already starting out with like, you know, women
Speaker 1: fighting for what they were, and I thought that like
Speaker 1: Terry and Alicia did a great job of like depicting
Speaker 1: the journey of that and like showing, like, you know what.
Speaker 4: They haven't fighting.
Speaker 1: Alicia says she made thirty thousand dollars her rookie year
Speaker 1: as a professional athlete, the most popular women's basketball league.
Speaker 3: In the world.
Speaker 1: It was just nuts, like wild, but they went in
Speaker 1: that war room from from that CBA, it's gone increasingly up.
Speaker 4: They've had like what like three cbas since then.
Speaker 3: However, they got my guy Dwayne there.
Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, Asia, who I wish we were my best
Speaker 1: friend because we were so similar. And then yeah, it's
Speaker 1: Sue Sue that I accidentally called Susanne on the stage.
Speaker 3: Did you call behind? I was thinking this now she
Speaker 3: knows well, but yeah, Sue is fitted too.
Speaker 2: She always it was fire always. I just see if
Speaker 2: I can find those glittery shorts. So shorts was shorts
Speaker 2: was fire.
Speaker 1: So you let you love it.
Speaker 2: But Dad as a moment, I usually don't, Honestly, I
Speaker 2: usually don't.
Speaker 3: But she did it perfect.
Speaker 1: You know what that means.
Speaker 3: I mean to Suzanna's an influencer. She's influencer. She's a inspiration.
Speaker 3: When you see me, when you see me, glittering bird,
Speaker 3: you know where I got it from.
Speaker 4: And the age was just chilling.
Speaker 1: And we had just come from a junior w n
Speaker 1: B A like right before and so like I feel like,
Speaker 1: literally I spent on my day age. But it was
Speaker 1: dope because it was like Obama's foundation, like Obama's life.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, the right help right thinking it's hard. Anyway,
Speaker 1: we went here, we came from there and.
Speaker 3: It was great.
Speaker 1: The kids got gifted a two s and it was
Speaker 1: just cut. And then before that, I gotta hug y'all.
Speaker 3: I was about to say, Bama was out there. I
Speaker 3: have peaked, Joe. You didn't call me for the Oldbama hug?
Speaker 3: You know I could. They didn't tell me I was
Speaker 3: announcing him.
Speaker 4: Listen.
Speaker 1: I got in there and they were like, I was like,
Speaker 1: I have a heart out of this because my schedule
Speaker 1: was like back to back to back. They're like, you
Speaker 1: actually don't have a heart out. You won't be able
Speaker 1: to leave the building.
Speaker 3: I was like, what do you mean?
Speaker 1: And it was then I clicked out. I was like,
Speaker 1: oh my gosh, I'm about to share a stage with
Speaker 1: the president and I'm like, oh, this is.
Speaker 3: You're not out to he out.
Speaker 1: They said, actually, girl, you did not have a heart out,
Speaker 1: because how you gonna leave secret services? Right there line
Speaker 1: in the building. And then he talked to them kids
Speaker 1: and one of them fell asleep, and he kind of
Speaker 1: like made a joke out of there. He was like,
Speaker 1: this is just exactly what it's like, an old WAMA
Speaker 1: table and you know what Michelle, Michelle be running that
Speaker 1: house doesn't and she does.
Speaker 3: Now that's dope.
Speaker 2: And seeing John Cole playing basketball with one of the
Speaker 2: all my feed was fired. It just felt like a
Speaker 2: really like it was a really cool weekend.
Speaker 1: It was.
Speaker 3: It was a really really really cool weekend. I definitely
Speaker 3: did too much.
Speaker 1: And there's there's something for everybody. And just like Wnba
Speaker 1: all storry, I know everything.
Speaker 2: We're in Atlanta and we talked about it on the
Speaker 2: pod of the li pod that you know when you
Speaker 2: asked me what was my first splurge and I told
Speaker 2: you I threw five thousand dollars at Magic City. Yeah,
Speaker 2: that was the first splurge of me when I felt
Speaker 2: like I made some money finally. And we're in Atlanta,
Speaker 2: which is where I live, and you're here and I
Speaker 2: was like, hey, at all right? And I said hey,
Speaker 2: like are you even earlier? And you were like absolutely,
Speaker 2: I'm getting out of here day sap. And I was like,
Speaker 2: how are you going to do that? On Magic City Monday?
Speaker 3: There will be other Mondays. It's every single Monday. I
Speaker 3: just don't. I don't know, I don't. I think you're
Speaker 3: here now.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's it's so cute.
Speaker 4: Hey deal, and Rocco is that for me?
Speaker 3: And I needed to get back to my little York
Speaker 3: shippers got dogs.
Speaker 1: And that's fine, that's great for them. But mister Rocco,
Speaker 1: when I returned to him and he pops on my life,
Speaker 1: I got my head. So I'll catch you next Monday.
Speaker 1: The Monday after the Monday after Atlanta ain't but like
Speaker 1: an hour flight away.
Speaker 3: All right, I got you. I'm hold you to it.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna hold you to it, but I understand it's
Speaker 2: my catsman yelling at me like fucking crazy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but you know you should be afraid of that
Speaker 1: one because cats can actually kill you.
Speaker 3: They're so independent.
Speaker 1: And I'm like, yeah, I can't even he does do
Speaker 1: his own thing. But we need to bring all started Atlanta.
Speaker 1: I think that should be the next location.
Speaker 2: I mean that's what the streets are saying. That's what
Speaker 2: that's what the whispers are that it would be here.
Speaker 3: It would be You thought Chicago was messy, but that
Speaker 3: but that's what Max.
Speaker 1: That's all star great. Like you know what I mean, Like,
Speaker 1: imagine a stub bud stream. Imagine our show live. They
Speaker 1: would really pull up.
Speaker 4: I mean they pulled up. They started out there, but
Speaker 4: like they.
Speaker 2: Would really stub bus stream in Atlanta is crazy, Yeah,
Speaker 2: because this is the land of the studs.
Speaker 4: So they would have a lot of buds.
Speaker 3: They would have a lot of buds.
Speaker 1: So many buds, so many, so many buds. And then
Speaker 1: and then Angel would just continue to do things that
Speaker 1: we even dream of. Shout out to her in that barbie.
Speaker 1: She's the furzy black w me like she's to have
Speaker 1: a barbe Like I saw so many.
Speaker 3: Little girls holding those. I thought it was really cool.
Speaker 3: It's like, oh my god, I made me so emotional.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I got it making it serious like from the
Speaker 1: stud of magic ceed stream. But I'm like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: angels still making history, and what was dope about it?
Speaker 1: You know, she came from Chicago and used to all
Speaker 1: the billboards and her still there. I'm like, dang shy,
Speaker 1: Tim Barbie can also be atl Barbie. And then her
Speaker 1: team gets behind it, so now she can actually use
Speaker 1: Barbie legally. I'm like, bruh, yeah, that's what you get
Speaker 1: to have a team of all women because Janine holds
Speaker 1: it down.
Speaker 5: Now.
Speaker 3: I thought that was super dope. It really did. Uh
Speaker 3: it did. It did warm my heart, you know what
Speaker 3: I mean.
Speaker 2: It was just like it's so cool that like young
Speaker 2: black girls have all this representation of themselves like in
Speaker 2: the world, you know what I mean, and around, Like
Speaker 2: I remember being a little girl and having Barbies and
Speaker 2: like it was like a black Barbie drop.
Speaker 3: It wasn't like it wasn't just there. It was like, oh, they're.
Speaker 2: Gonna do like a black Christmas Barbie, like you gotta
Speaker 2: you gotta get in, And especially wasn't being reflected of
Speaker 2: like black women that were actually out in the world
Speaker 2: doing things. So I just thought it was it was
Speaker 2: just so cool to see that and see like how
Speaker 2: into giving that energy to.
Speaker 3: The young girls that were out there she was. It
Speaker 3: was just it was really dope. And then the pink
Speaker 3: hair with a pink fit.
Speaker 1: I said, you literally don't miss you look like the
Speaker 1: money you make and and I love that.
Speaker 3: For her, and I like that she still like brings
Speaker 3: it on the court.
Speaker 2: I like that you really get to see the duality
Speaker 2: in her, you know, like who she is off and
Speaker 2: then who she is on the court.
Speaker 3: And you know, I think, like, you know, unfairly.
Speaker 2: The league gets a lot of criticism or it gets
Speaker 2: called a gay league or this or that.
Speaker 3: And it's like, you know, it's a league, a mixed.
Speaker 2: League of all types of women, and you can carry
Speaker 2: and embody femininity and sexiness, and then you can be
Speaker 2: a dog on the court like that is that is
Speaker 2: can be a.
Speaker 1: Walking double double the league, top reboundery, you can you
Speaker 1: can set all these historic marks for it and do
Speaker 1: it while wearing pink hair, yeah, and a pink gown
Speaker 1: going into the one hundred and So I just appreciate
Speaker 1: that energy that she brings.
Speaker 2: And she really is a vibe. You feel it when
Speaker 2: she's she is the vibe. Yeah, yeah, for sure.
Speaker 4: And I knew she was like my type of vibe.
Speaker 1: We were at the stub Buds but she had her
Speaker 1: little section her and it was cute because like every
Speaker 1: everything else was crowded and Angel had her space.
Speaker 2: Wait wait, wait, wait wait wait, you was at the
Speaker 2: stub Buds party. I did, and you didn't call me
Speaker 2: for the stuff. I am a stud. I am a stud,
Speaker 2: and I am your bud.
Speaker 4: If you were my bud, I would be on the boat.
Speaker 4: I never letting it go.
Speaker 2: I'm saying I think this was a mutual mutual disrespect happened.
Speaker 1: We didn't pull up after the game. The stubs party
Speaker 1: was that whoa yeah. But the point was Angel in
Speaker 1: her space and I love that. I love that she's
Speaker 1: a protective of space because I actually they got me.
Speaker 1: It's funny because they walked in there were like, I was, yes,
Speaker 1: y'all have thirty minutes with me. They got me for
Speaker 1: a little longer than thirty minutes. I was proud of me.
Speaker 1: Maybe I am particular. Leave me alone.
Speaker 2: I think you might be particular. All right, that's all right.
Speaker 2: It's okay to be particular. Whoever, whoever you know, whoever's
Speaker 2: loving you, they get how particular you are, and that's
Speaker 2: all that matters.
Speaker 4: Okay.
Speaker 1: Then now you have everybody in my business would say,
Speaker 1: should not be it, should never give that. We're gonna
Speaker 1: head on over to track and field because at least
Speaker 1: we can divert attention. Because the USATF Outdoor and PTER
Speaker 1: National Championships happened this weekend. Yes, and our girls should
Speaker 1: carry it. Ten seventy seven winning time in the hundred,
Speaker 1: which her pr is ten sixty five. So come on,
Speaker 1: you got this Bookie? She showed out.
Speaker 2: I mean I knew it was gonna go down because
Speaker 2: she was at the Liberty Game hanging out with Ellie
Speaker 2: right before that. The nails were together, the fit was fitting.
Speaker 2: I was like, nah, she about to pop out, you
Speaker 2: know what. I anywhere you can always tell, Like when
Speaker 2: someone's out before like a big moment and they're just.
Speaker 3: Chilling, You're like, not in his own it's go time.
Speaker 1: Ellie gave Shakrrie greatness and honestly, Ellie sprinkles.
Speaker 4: Good you I mean, j J m VP.
Speaker 3: Come on, you know, like it is what it is.
Speaker 1: Elie's the magic and that.
Speaker 2: Gotta go get you some some of that Ellie good
Speaker 2: vibes before step out to anything dig and Carrie definitely
Speaker 2: did that.
Speaker 3: And then she definitely showed out.
Speaker 1: With her when I tell you all his pays in too,
Speaker 1: with her nails like they were the print and they
Speaker 1: had the they were three D imprinted, and I was like, yes, Carrie,
Speaker 1: and then the orange shut it down. Whenever there's a
Speaker 1: bright color that's giving electric care. When I think of electricity,
Speaker 1: I think of bolts. When I think of bolt, I
Speaker 1: think of track. You see that? You see that?
Speaker 3: Oh you thought I was gonna keep.
Speaker 1: Like that.
Speaker 2: I love when we show up authentically as ourselves, like
Speaker 2: any version, Yeah, you know what I mean. I think
Speaker 2: it's just I think it's just dope when people show
Speaker 2: up as they are and allow themselves not to be
Speaker 2: defined by the thing, but they kind of allow themselves
Speaker 2: to show up in the thing and take up the
Speaker 2: right type of space. And I really think she does that,
Speaker 2: So it was just super dope to us. Super doope
Speaker 2: her like excel and succeed.
Speaker 3: And she has a redemption arc. Right, She's a battle injury.
Speaker 1: She's a battle personal situations that could have easily derailed somebody,
Speaker 1: but she keeps all that energy and she focuses on
Speaker 1: the track.
Speaker 4: I think she's another athlete that's like very very.
Speaker 1: Misunderstood by the public, by the media, and I will
Speaker 1: never forget this.
Speaker 3: A couple of years ago, I went to Diamond League
Speaker 3: Classics and.
Speaker 1: A family's like, Shakari is Shakari, and she's like, it's
Speaker 1: Shakiri and I love that.
Speaker 3: Correct them every time.
Speaker 1: People can see that as rude, But she's rude in
Speaker 1: her identity. People can see like the flashiness of the nails,
Speaker 1: the flashness of the outfice, But that's her.
Speaker 2: That's what I mean by just so authentically in a
Speaker 2: space and taking up the right type of space, because
Speaker 2: I especially feel like, especially with us, when we get
Speaker 2: to certain levels of success, we get on these weird
Speaker 2: spaces with each other where we're like, well, you're not
Speaker 2: supposed to act like that, and you're not supposed to
Speaker 2: talk like that, and you're not supposed to dress like that,
Speaker 2: and now you're doing this, and so suddenly you're supposed
Speaker 2: to be like a different person. And I just don't
Speaker 2: agree with that. Yeah, and I think it is more
Speaker 2: important old spaces that you show up authentically as you
Speaker 2: are and representing authentically where you come from, if that's
Speaker 2: what you want to do here, because all it does
Speaker 2: is create space, you know what I'm saying, Like I
Speaker 2: used to go to SNL full Do Rag sit at
Speaker 2: the table by do raging and just chilling. And I
Speaker 2: know sometimes people like, yo, she's really walking in thirty
Speaker 2: Rag thirty rock with a do rag on. But I'm like, yeah,
Speaker 2: if I change everything I am to be in this building,
Speaker 2: then I'm not creating spaces for people who grow up
Speaker 2: like I grow up and I like me to be
Speaker 2: in this build. Yeah, I'm saying, you got to be
Speaker 2: something else to be here. So I really just respect
Speaker 2: that she does not do that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean all the track girls too, Like you
Speaker 1: got you have that she carries the world, but you
Speaker 1: also have the Gabby Thomas's which is like kind of
Speaker 1: like pull her opposite personalities and there's space for it all.
Speaker 1: Then you got the loud and out in your face
Speaker 1: like Tara Davis woodall like she's so funchy. After one
Speaker 1: of her means, we were out there and she was
Speaker 1: just like, you know, liddy and then a family was
Speaker 1: walking buy.
Speaker 3: She's like, you want to picture and she just offers
Speaker 3: her energy to you.
Speaker 1: Then you have Massa Russell, who's honestly has every reason
Speaker 1: to be confident. The girls going just she's fast, she's
Speaker 1: an Olympic gold medalist, yes, and she knows who she
Speaker 1: is and she handles herself in in a way that's
Speaker 1: very unapologetic. I like the unapologetic as part of track.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and they should be like that, I think.
Speaker 2: And a lot of these spaces in sport and other
Speaker 2: careers just like we got to remember what defined all
Speaker 2: the stuff that came before us.
Speaker 3: It was defined by whiteness.
Speaker 2: It was defined by white society saying what was proper
Speaker 2: or what was okay or how one was to behave
Speaker 2: in these spaces.
Speaker 3: And so it's like, we don't have to assimilate.
Speaker 1: To that all.
Speaker 2: And now that we are fully in these spaces, the
Speaker 2: definition of what it is can change.
Speaker 1: And growing up, I remember looking at flow Jo like
Speaker 1: dang that one sleep, like that one legacive is fired,
Speaker 1: Daniel hair is fired. You know all the nineties, girly
Speaker 1: eighties and nineties girls had that, Like I don't know
Speaker 1: how they achieved this with their hair, but it was
Speaker 1: like that loose curl, but like like kind of teased down,
Speaker 1: half up, half down, real volume situation. She was laser
Speaker 1: focused that them nails were right, and ye know she
Speaker 1: was about to terrorize everybody on that track. You can
Speaker 1: do it about looking so glamorous.
Speaker 2: Yeah, a lot of this stuff, these definitions came from
Speaker 2: a place of privilege and a place of elitism, you know,
Speaker 2: and I think that that surpasses color. You think about
Speaker 2: like Nancy Kerrigan and Tanya Harden, it was a lot
Speaker 2: of the same things, Like, aside from the mess that happened,
Speaker 2: a lot of the same type of things were being
Speaker 2: played out.
Speaker 3: And so it's just kind of dope.
Speaker 2: As we see just more diversity in sport, food, just
Speaker 2: you know, gender and ethnicity, that it also can look
Speaker 2: more diverse out there.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, And then speaking of diversity, what about body diversity.
Speaker 1: The Para track and Field championships for this weekend and
Speaker 1: bad Thrice, who is a friend of the pod, we
Speaker 1: collectively gave her, you know, the blessings along the way.
Speaker 1: But Juju won the T sixty four long jump National Championships,
Speaker 1: So that means our girls a champ again.
Speaker 4: That means love Island.
Speaker 1: Whatever she was doing there in Fiji, and that she
Speaker 1: told us last week worked.
Speaker 3: The little bit of working out. She got to work out.
Speaker 1: One coming home and nice. You know, you go on
Speaker 1: a reality show and don't miss a beat.
Speaker 3: I think we gave her the vibes. I think she came,
Speaker 3: you know we did. We filled her up with the
Speaker 3: vibes to go out there, filled her up with the vibes.
Speaker 2: Good ju juice, went out there and handled biz. She
Speaker 2: did super proud of skround the cars.
Speaker 1: We are our own sound effects, don't.
Speaker 5: You know?
Speaker 3: Like the jumpers and they like they started the clasp
Speaker 3: like Tar Davis. Would you know I want a cheerleader?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I just the moms and that I had the
Speaker 1: prive you in the past three weeks. That is so
Speaker 1: crazy to me. But anyway, my best friend's a long
Speaker 1: jumper and I'm like all that sand I can't be comfortable.
Speaker 1: But you know what, shout out to their apparatus because
Speaker 1: it couldn't be me.
Speaker 3: I don't know how anyone.
Speaker 2: Like, because you're jumping against the resistance of the sind
Speaker 2: I would imagine I've never done it.
Speaker 4: No, no, no, there's a board.
Speaker 1: Okay, run there's the runway, there's the board, and it's
Speaker 1: a really it's a really touchy subject because of like
Speaker 1: scratching and fall.
Speaker 4: If your footwork isn't properly placed on the.
Speaker 1: Board, you go over the board, it's completely disqualified and
Speaker 1: so they have multiple tries to do it. You can
Speaker 1: scratch some. I mean, that's a great question, beautiful question.
Speaker 1: You run down the runway. That's why a lot of
Speaker 1: them like the collapse and so you speak it like
Speaker 1: Tara for example, star off slow and then build up
Speaker 1: momentum and when it's the right pace, she'll start taking
Speaker 1: off and then you kind of hit it at them.
Speaker 1: Go to your footwork and then you time out. So
Speaker 1: like you start on the board, you run backwards to
Speaker 1: time time.
Speaker 3: Your time the footwork out. But then once you get
Speaker 3: used to it, you go.
Speaker 1: But there there are so many juicy things where like
Speaker 1: some scratches and fowling that could disqualified jump that would
Speaker 1: have otherwise been a winning jump, which is what happened
Speaker 1: to Sorrow this weekend. But yeah, it's really it's really complicated.
Speaker 1: So you bounce off the board and then you it's
Speaker 1: kind of like you kind of air run and then
Speaker 1: hit a pipe position in land.
Speaker 2: Oh it's crazy, that's why they'd be like.
Speaker 1: But then there's also triple jump, which is a different
Speaker 1: event but it's still into the pit. But there's a
Speaker 1: form difference of them. So the jumpers are the jumpers.
Speaker 1: I wanted to do high jump in high school. I
Speaker 1: didn't want to do the coach made me do high jump.
Speaker 3: In high school. I was actually a shot putter.
Speaker 2: Really, I know, I'm I'm not I'm I'm not saying
Speaker 2: I'm drunk. What you're saying, you don't got that shot
Speaker 2: put deck. They be having that neck.
Speaker 1: Well, you know, high school track is very different than
Speaker 1: bro you know you that's right. But in high school
Speaker 1: when I try to high jump, I just would tumble
Speaker 1: on the mat and it was just the failure.
Speaker 4: So like they have that big.
Speaker 3: Blue cushiony mat.
Speaker 2: But that makes sense because then gymnasts and like yeah, surely.
Speaker 1: So the transferable skills that people don't know is like
Speaker 1: in tumbling, when you're when you're cheering and you set
Speaker 1: for your tumbling, it's like arms straight up. So that
Speaker 1: helped me with the which should have helped me with
Speaker 1: high jump to like go up and arch over but
Speaker 1: because bass are like not that arch, that would be
Speaker 1: a tough for its long story anyway, to make a
Speaker 1: long story short, I ended up. I ended up not
Speaker 1: doing that. The only track and field event I did
Speaker 1: was shot put. But now I do distance running when
Speaker 1: I cam running the after Dark half Marathon. I went
Speaker 1: it last year. I love distance running. It's the only
Speaker 1: thing that makes me like not wound.
Speaker 2: Tight that's hugely unbreathing, right yeah, and pace and.
Speaker 1: Pace and not and not getting starting off too quickly
Speaker 1: like it's it's about controlling and choosing. Okay, I didn't
Speaker 1: know today would be like an Ari delayer. I mean,
Speaker 1: I mean, I'll be prepared next week to read you.
Speaker 1: Read you.
Speaker 4: What's your sign?
Speaker 3: I'm a capital cool.
Speaker 4: Okay, I've been prepared next week to read you.
Speaker 3: That's fine. Let's continue the magic that is women's sports.
Speaker 1: Because the a US I had a championship, right, yes, right,
Speaker 1: And so with the championship comes back to back champion
Speaker 1: been the Utah Talents.
Speaker 4: Yeah yeah yeah.
Speaker 1: And the next guest that we have our show is
Speaker 1: the MVP, not not you know, not the little one,
Speaker 1: just the big one.
Speaker 3: That's a little big one.
Speaker 1: Okay, Jaylen Auchin, welcome to the show.
Speaker 3: So what's up, jade Lynn? How are you doing? I'm
Speaker 3: doing great?
Speaker 1: How are you guys? She's found the light and she's
Speaker 1: like all beaming. Yeah, we're not doing as well as
Speaker 1: the MVP.
Speaker 3: That's all I'm saying. Pretty awesome, but not as awesome
Speaker 3: as you. How have you been feeling? Like, what are
Speaker 3: the emotions like this last twenty four hours?
Speaker 5: I think it's just full of every positive emotion I
Speaker 5: can think of just the past twenty four hours. For me,
Speaker 5: it's sometimes it doesn't hit me until later, so I'm
Speaker 5: still living in like are we playing tomorrow? Like what's
Speaker 5: going on? But it's been awesome being able to celebrate
Speaker 5: with my teammates and just know that how much of
Speaker 5: the season, how much work we put in.
Speaker 2: I feel like you gotta be so strict during the
Speaker 2: season with yourself and your your dedication and your diligence.
Speaker 2: It's over, Like what's your thing? Is it like I'm
Speaker 2: gonna go get a drink? Is it like I'm about
Speaker 2: to eat like a ship ton of McDonald's.
Speaker 3: What, like, what are you doing? Just like ah, I
Speaker 3: can kind of let go now.
Speaker 5: The first thing I thought of after we won. I
Speaker 5: was like, we're going to karaoke. We're gonna sing, we're
Speaker 5: gonna dance, we're gonna have fun, and like we're gonna
Speaker 5: truly celebrate just who we are and like what we've accomplished.
Speaker 5: So first thought my head was karaoke. Oh my gosh,
Speaker 5: we did so many songs last night. It was so fun.
Speaker 5: I did drift Away with one of our media people.
Speaker 5: We did drift Away by Uncle Cracker and everyone was
Speaker 5: singing it, so it was fun growing up.
Speaker 4: That was actually probably my koke.
Speaker 6: It it gets the people going to So.
Speaker 4: What got you going this year?
Speaker 3: Obviously the motivation from last year.
Speaker 1: You were a reserve player, your name was valk Rode
Speaker 1: on your jersey and then you said that your goal
Speaker 1: was to get it stitched on. I mean, I guess
Speaker 1: it is beyond stitch. So what did the work look
Speaker 1: like making that transition.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think just the consistency of just thinking the
Speaker 5: game doesn't change. And that's true in every aspect and
Speaker 5: every sport. Like on paper, you gotta score more than
Speaker 5: the other team, you gotta do what it takes to
Speaker 5: just win pitch by pitch. So I think keeping just
Speaker 5: the mindset of dude, Yeah, I earned my spot being here,
Speaker 5: but it doesn't change how I play. It doesn't change
Speaker 5: I don't need to do any more than what I've
Speaker 5: already proved myself to be. So trying to just remind
Speaker 5: myself that throughout the whole year was a big goal
Speaker 5: for me.
Speaker 2: I think, you know so part of what makes the
Speaker 2: championship team a championship team is the level of buying.
Speaker 2: And there's kind of like a one identity or you
Speaker 2: know what I mean, like one mission of sorts. What
Speaker 2: would you say that was for the talents team? Like
Speaker 2: what was the team's identity?
Speaker 5: Are saying this year was built for this? We just
Speaker 5: bought into We're built for every moment, like hard, easy, whatever.
Speaker 1: It may be.
Speaker 5: We know what it takes and what we need to
Speaker 5: do in order to succeed the way that we did.
Speaker 5: So in every day, we just ended meetings like we're
Speaker 5: built for this, win or loose. We're built for this,
Speaker 5: like this is a lesson learned within itself, or this
Speaker 5: is a lesson of what consistency we need to accomplish.
Speaker 1: I mean, you've been consistently great because the towns obviously
Speaker 1: are back to back. But when you win, you get
Speaker 1: a target on your back, right, like the people people
Speaker 1: are looking at you all like y'all have the competition.
Speaker 1: So how did you maintain that consistency? How did you
Speaker 1: wake up and choose being built for this every every day.
Speaker 5: I like to think think of it as like a
Speaker 5: compliment if we have a target on our back, like
Speaker 5: we're doing something right, and just being in the mindset
Speaker 5: of pressure as a privilege as well as like we
Speaker 5: have the privilege to go through hard things, We have
Speaker 5: a privilege to show up as ourselves. We have just
Speaker 5: the opportunity to showcase to the next generation what great
Speaker 5: softball looks like all around.
Speaker 3: Throughout the whole league.
Speaker 5: So just knowing even though we have a target on
Speaker 5: our backs, again, the game shouldn't change and we know
Speaker 5: what we need to do at the end of the day.
Speaker 2: We just talked about the team's mindset, you know what
Speaker 2: I mean? But what was your mindset going into this
Speaker 2: championship series? Like what were you telling yourself that you
Speaker 2: had to live up to and what were you telling
Speaker 2: yourself to have such a impact on a game.
Speaker 5: Honestly, the night before the first game, I think I
Speaker 5: sat down and plugged my computer into the TV and
Speaker 5: sat there watched film throughout the year for an hour
Speaker 5: and a half maybe, And so just going into the
Speaker 5: preparation of that aspect too, of just I'm semi a nerd,
Speaker 5: so like I'm writing down all the stats, I'm writing
Speaker 5: down this and that for an hour and a half,
Speaker 5: I'm writing down what I've done personally and like what
Speaker 5: I might need to work on the next day. So
Speaker 5: it all goes into like the optional BP practices that
Speaker 5: we have too, and knowing my intentions with that and
Speaker 5: knowing like the film that I watched last night, I
Speaker 5: know the intention of my practice and optional practice the
Speaker 5: day after. So I think a lot of preparation individually,
Speaker 5: like night before games has helped too.
Speaker 1: I mean it absolutely were because you had a two
Speaker 1: roum homer in the first and of game two.
Speaker 4: I mean that film session work.
Speaker 1: So let's go from your mental to actually what you
Speaker 1: were seeing from the field. So what were you seeing
Speaker 1: from your plate?
Speaker 5: Honestly, it was a good day for me. Just I
Speaker 5: felt like I hit flow. And it's hard to describe, yeah,
Speaker 5: and some people don't understand what flow is, but like
Speaker 5: once you're in flow, like the ball moves slower, the
Speaker 5: ball looks bigger, like you're hitting a beach ball, and
Speaker 5: like if you have trusted your preparation beforehand, like with film.
Speaker 6: With with group.
Speaker 5: Like plans, We'll sit there and go through film and
Speaker 5: be like, hey, what are the lefties doing today? What
Speaker 5: are the right he's doing today? Like what what are
Speaker 5: we collectively gonna do to attack the pitch? To attack
Speaker 5: whatever we're seeing that day? And then I always give
Speaker 5: a big shout out to our coach. Will he preps
Speaker 5: me before every single got back, I'll stand him be
Speaker 5: like and if I don't know, I know that he
Speaker 5: knows how I play. So it's like, you tell me
Speaker 5: what to do? What am I gonna hunt today? Like
Speaker 5: what am I about to do into this box? Like
Speaker 5: am I gonna go halfway home? Which is a different
Speaker 5: stance that I do and like and being able to
Speaker 5: trust what he's telling me like it it's into me.
Speaker 5: It's like I know that he's making me better day
Speaker 5: by day, and I trust in that more than I'm like, hey,
Speaker 5: I don't feel like my swing's great today, but he's like, no,
Speaker 5: you can do it, like you got this, And so
Speaker 5: before every at bat I make sure to make my
Speaker 5: stop with Coach Will, and like he does, he gives
Speaker 5: me a little good luck rub on the helmet before
Speaker 5: every single at that and I like make sure he
Speaker 5: does it because I'm like, you're your powers are going
Speaker 5: through me.
Speaker 3: So it's been fun exactly.
Speaker 2: I mean that's really I think that's dope to hear
Speaker 2: because the relationship with coaching, I think is one of
Speaker 2: the most important relationships, and it doesn't always come together
Speaker 2: like you have in that relationship with your coach.
Speaker 3: Was that always there for you or did it.
Speaker 2: Take you know, some time to like build up that
Speaker 2: trust or did you kind of walk in and kind
Speaker 2: of feeling like, naw, this guy's got it.
Speaker 5: I think every day we kind of unlock just like
Speaker 5: a deeper connection with every single one of our coaches.
Speaker 5: I've been thankful to be with coach Will since I
Speaker 5: played at UCLA. He was there, so I was able
Speaker 5: to have like coach Lisa too. I had so many
Speaker 5: different people that I've had beforehand that have known just
Speaker 5: how I play, and again, like I trust them sometimes
Speaker 5: more than I trust myself. So yeah, Coach Will, and
Speaker 5: then I had Brandon work with me at optional practice too,
Speaker 5: like coach Lisa's in there, Coach Bear, everyone's every day.
Speaker 5: I feel like we're unlocking just a deeper level of
Speaker 5: connection and a deeper level of trust and just know
Speaker 5: that we thrive off of just having fun and so
Speaker 5: as long as we can keep it light and have fun.
Speaker 5: Like sometimes I have to apologize to Will because I'll
Speaker 5: be a little brat. Sometimes I'm like, I can't believe
Speaker 5: that happened to me, Like why am I doing that?
Speaker 5: And He's like, Okay, you're gonna get an You're gonna
Speaker 5: you're gonna get another at bat. I don't know why
Speaker 5: you're freaking out right now. And I'm like, you know what, Yeah,
Speaker 5: I'll talk to you next at that. So it's been fun.
Speaker 3: People don't a lot of people don't know.
Speaker 1: Like before the AUSL, there was AU right athletes unlimited,
Speaker 1: and it's very like point based, like based on your
Speaker 1: individual stats. But this is this is a team nature.
Speaker 1: It's going back to traditional you know, competition. So what
Speaker 1: element did you bring from how AU used to be
Speaker 1: structured to the AUSL.
Speaker 5: Now, Yeah, I was only able to experience a single
Speaker 5: season with the AU points and it was very different.
Speaker 5: I just coming from like the whole my whole life
Speaker 5: being on a team and just working as a team,
Speaker 5: working as a collective goal, working just as one unit,
Speaker 5: and then going into just an individual point system. It
Speaker 5: was kind of it was just a shock to me,
Speaker 5: and I didn't know how to just go about it.
Speaker 5: I think to me, that transition was really hard mentally
Speaker 5: because I'm so used to pouring into other people and
Speaker 5: I've never had to be like, wait no, like we
Speaker 5: have to trust ourselves and we have to earn it
Speaker 5: for ourselves like this that. But it's been an awesome
Speaker 5: transition back into a team setting of moving as a unit,
Speaker 5: moving as like having one collective goal, the classic one team,
Speaker 5: one heartbeat. Like going back into that role, I feel
Speaker 5: like I thrive a lot more because I just like working.
Speaker 5: I like team projects, and I like working together.
Speaker 2: The AUSL is experiencing a bit of a renaissance right now.
Speaker 2: How does that feel like when you're out there on
Speaker 2: the field, Like is that tangible to you?
Speaker 3: Do you feel it? Yes?
Speaker 5: Especially having this year of our home bases and being
Speaker 5: in Utah and like creating a true traditional team setup
Speaker 5: of set locations and having a huge fan base this
Speaker 5: year at Utah was it was crazy. I honestly one
Speaker 5: of the shocks to me. I didn't realize how big
Speaker 5: of a sports city Salt Lake was, and so like
Speaker 5: the turnout was crazy to me. So it was awesome
Speaker 5: being able to make those connections with fans and seeing
Speaker 5: just repetitive fans coming in coming into lines and be
Speaker 5: like we saw you yesterday, We'll be there at the
Speaker 5: games next week, Like we only live twenty minutes away.
Speaker 5: It's awesome that, like our city is able to have
Speaker 5: a professional softball team. So I've just come at it
Speaker 5: with like so much gratitude because I mean, one of
Speaker 5: the big home bases that I saw this year too
Speaker 5: was at Portland, and that's a very heavy female sports city.
Speaker 5: So I'm just like WHOA, Like we're the visiting team,
Speaker 5: and like when the games turned out the way they
Speaker 5: did of us playing over there, it was like, all right,
Speaker 5: this is a neutral site, but like we're still selling
Speaker 5: out the stadium. Like it's just awesome to see the
Speaker 5: growth of the sport and know that we have done
Speaker 5: so much, but there's still so much more to do
Speaker 5: and so much more growth to have.
Speaker 1: I love the idea of a renaissance, and I love
Speaker 1: the idea of still aiming for more.
Speaker 3: So as you navigate going from.
Speaker 1: Youth softball to like elite to college now pro what
Speaker 1: is the next chapter or what is the current chapter
Speaker 1: you're in, and what are you aiming towards next? You
Speaker 1: say you have a lot of growth obviously for the sport,
Speaker 1: but I want you to look internally.
Speaker 5: Internally, I think I have some goals of just playing internationally.
Speaker 5: I've always wanted to go experience the sport outside of
Speaker 5: what the norm has been for me at least, and
Speaker 5: so being able to experience different cultures of softball and
Speaker 5: the way that they work and function is one of
Speaker 5: my goals. So possibly looking into Japan hopefully or in
Speaker 5: the Mexico League that's growing actively too, So kind of
Speaker 5: just continuing to play softball, hopefully year round at some point,
Speaker 5: and just taking as long as my body is able to,
Speaker 5: like I want to play for as long as I can.
Speaker 1: Well, the show is called Everyone Watches Women's Sports? So
Speaker 1: who is one athlete woman athlete that you've been watching,
Speaker 1: whether that be your whole life or now.
Speaker 5: Oh my gosh, this is funny because this has been
Speaker 5: a frequent topic this past summer, but I used to
Speaker 5: watch Katie Ladeci growing up, and just the athlete that
Speaker 5: she is is amazing to me. I used to do
Speaker 5: I say, I did competitive swim. I did swim for
Speaker 5: like six years, but I was like five to eleven,
Speaker 5: so I don't even.
Speaker 1: Know if that counts.
Speaker 3: It does, thank you.
Speaker 4: That's what I think too.
Speaker 5: And sometimes I'll literally pretend like I'm Katie Leadecie and
Speaker 5: I brought my goggles this summer and like we'll hit
Speaker 5: I'll hit the point.
Speaker 3: In chocolate milk and then a couple gold medals, That's
Speaker 3: what I'm saying.
Speaker 5: But definitely, Katie Lideki is someone that I saw watch
Speaker 5: growing up on the TV and I was like, she's insane.
Speaker 1: So just yeah, we can't wait to continue watching Jeden.
Speaker 1: You hold it down for all those that just want
Speaker 1: to be excellent in baskt and your greatness.
Speaker 3: Thank you, thank you so much.
Speaker 1: This was fun.
Speaker 3: Thank you, guys.
Speaker 1: I mean, Jalen is not the only MVP. You kind
Speaker 1: of You're kind of nice with softball too. Y'all don't
Speaker 1: know that. Y'all don't know this. And Sam Javen known
Speaker 1: each other and we didn't realize we didn't each other,
Speaker 1: like I guess we did because we were definitely talking
Speaker 1: back then, Like but the MLB had us out, yes,
Speaker 1: and when the softball tournament, but it wasn't much of
Speaker 1: a skillful one, No, it wasn't.
Speaker 2: It was a June teeth softball tournament and Alabama. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it was let's put on by Lebron's and interrupted and
Speaker 2: interrupted and you were there.
Speaker 1: So I was supposed to play, and I told my agent.
Speaker 1: I was like, yo, you got me messed up because
Speaker 1: like whenever I ever swung aback in my life.
Speaker 3: So I finessed my way into hosting it. Yeah, yeah
Speaker 3: with Hawks. Shout out to my cost. But that was fun. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I played little road play.
Speaker 4: It was a very bad game.
Speaker 3: Sack Stack was there at least. I'm yeah. It was
Speaker 3: a bad gay. It was terrible, But I got to
Speaker 3: hits you did.
Speaker 4: You were about the only one.
Speaker 3: I went home I got. I got on pace.
Speaker 4: You were literally the only one movie I got trained.
Speaker 2: Right before the game, I want you to know, I
Speaker 2: know I doubt I was doing. And one of my
Speaker 2: homies had to be playing. I just bumped into and
Speaker 2: he's like, Sam, you on my team, And I'm nice
Speaker 2: at this we're gonna win. And I was like, cool,
Speaker 2: but I want to hit the ball. And he was like,
Speaker 2: all you gotta do is like swing at.
Speaker 3: It like.
Speaker 2: Down and just go down and up and you're gonna
Speaker 2: be fine. And uh I did all right. I got
Speaker 2: m v P. I got the belt. I still got
Speaker 2: the belt.
Speaker 1: That belt was nice.
Speaker 2: The belt was nice. I still got my jersey. It's
Speaker 2: it's one of my only successful times in sport.
Speaker 1: Well, you you were, you were m v P.
Speaker 4: You have a belt, so I got that.
Speaker 3: That's more about sending anybody else has.
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't have a bet.
Speaker 3: You didn't even play, Yeah, but you wanted to be.
Speaker 3: But you gave good vibe. I think you. I think
Speaker 3: you sprinkled a little. We've been sprinkling this whole time.
Speaker 1: I love a sprinkle, a little sprinkle, sprinkle, razzle dazzle.
Speaker 1: But you know, from from softball to baseball, we have
Speaker 1: somebody so special coming up on Nay Davis. I am
Speaker 1: so excited to talk to her because she's been famous
Speaker 1: for as long as I can remember.
Speaker 4: And I could have used some of her razzal dazzle on.
Speaker 1: Either baseball or softball because I still am challenging. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I just remember the Black Bats signal went up and
Speaker 2: they were like, hey, y'all, we got one over there
Speaker 2: in baseball wet tearing it up. I was like, it's
Speaker 2: time to pay attention.
Speaker 3: Well, let's talk to her right now.
Speaker 2: Well, I want to say when it's nice to meet you.
Speaker 2: I've never met you, and uh, I just want to
Speaker 2: say hello, I'm Sam. It's a pleasure. I'm so glad
Speaker 2: that you're here. I know you want already kind of
Speaker 2: know each.
Speaker 1: Other, like well and you know, you know if you
Speaker 1: didn't know not because you literally played so many sports.
Speaker 1: But she's a hooper.
Speaker 4: She's a hooper.
Speaker 1: I started Unrival Philly, trying to kind of get you
Speaker 1: in basketball again to like, I mean, hey, it is
Speaker 1: what it is.
Speaker 6: You still I still do. We got a basketball court
Speaker 6: at the hotel, so I'm it's my goal to get
Speaker 6: shots up every morning. I went this morning, still got it,
Speaker 6: you know, still working on my shot teachings. You know.
Speaker 6: I decided to have a career change somehow, some way,
Speaker 6: So I love But.
Speaker 4: Who's your player camp?
Speaker 1: Though?
Speaker 3: Like if you're a hooper camp and then you can
Speaker 3: lie a little bit if.
Speaker 6: You won't that's I don't know.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 6: That's a I don't know. That's what I never thought
Speaker 6: about that. I used to say Steph Curry because I'm
Speaker 6: always more of a shooter, but I was pretty good
Speaker 6: at facilitating too, So I probably go with Steph Curry.
Speaker 1: You've been familys your whole life. Okay, we like, first
Speaker 1: of all.
Speaker 3: I can't believe you're this old.
Speaker 1: Now I'm gonna put your age outlet that because that
Speaker 1: means that puts my age out there like that. How
Speaker 1: often are you recognized just in everyday life? Does it
Speaker 1: ever get overwhelming for you?
Speaker 6: Nah, it doesn't get overwhelming. And now that I'm playing
Speaker 6: banana ball, it I hear it every day. If you
Speaker 6: don't know what banana ball is, you should look it up.
Speaker 6: It's a fun way of playing baseball. It's very entertaining
Speaker 6: for everybody. And so all the time we have to
Speaker 6: meet players before, we have to meet fans before the
Speaker 6: game and after the game, and every single game, I
Speaker 6: always get, oh, my my parents watched you or the
Speaker 6: parents I watched you. So it doesn't get overwhelming. It's
Speaker 6: just it's it's a feeling that's like, you know how
Speaker 6: when you like you, some significant happens and it gives
Speaker 6: me like nostalgic feeling. I look at it that way,
Speaker 6: like people remember where they were when they, you know,
Speaker 6: watch me play. So it's a good feeling, if that
Speaker 6: makes sense.
Speaker 1: I love that.
Speaker 3: I love that.
Speaker 2: Speaking of what, what was the highlight for you playing
Speaker 2: for the Indianapolis Clowns.
Speaker 6: I never thought in my life I would be going
Speaker 6: to any of the Dakota's and we got to play
Speaker 6: in North Kota, and I thought that was I thought
Speaker 6: that was super cool. Like that was after my birthday.
Speaker 6: I was like, Okay, I get to go to you know,
Speaker 6: that's my birthday gift. Get to go to North Dakota.
Speaker 3: Like who who?
Speaker 6: Like no one plays a trip to North Dakota.
Speaker 3: I'm not gonna lie to you.
Speaker 2: I think like no one who doesn't live in the
Speaker 2: Dakotas thinks they're ever gonna go to the Dakota's because
Speaker 2: I had the same experience before I went.
Speaker 1: No shit, I wanted to go to the Dakota because
Speaker 1: I'm making my way through the fifty States.
Speaker 4: Okay, Dakota's gonna get you every time.
Speaker 3: Thea's gonna get you.
Speaker 6: Not much there, but I'm sure you could find something.
Speaker 6: Did you find something on that No, I say in
Speaker 6: the hotel.
Speaker 4: Okay, I mean your business.
Speaker 3: Oh my goodness.
Speaker 1: But you mentioned that you played banana ball, and I
Speaker 1: know that that comes with a lot of fun too.
Speaker 4: Do you dance?
Speaker 3: Do you dance on the field.
Speaker 1: I know that tavana is different, but like we're in
Speaker 1: the dancing and stuff.
Speaker 6: I mean, I'm about the best, but I can get
Speaker 6: a little one too, Yeah, a little song, But I
Speaker 6: feel like that's what keep you engaged, especially if it's
Speaker 6: a dance you like. So twenty twenty, everybody was doing
Speaker 6: TikTok dances and so we kind of still do that,
Speaker 6: just on the field. And I started just I started
Speaker 6: posting tiktoks more just because I think it's fun. So
Speaker 6: I could dance a little bit, but like, don't expect
Speaker 6: me to go on a dance circle and dance for
Speaker 6: a minute straight. I can give you a good fifteen
Speaker 6: seconds and give you.
Speaker 4: A nice little to eight counts, not too much.
Speaker 3: So I fight women's sports.
Speaker 2: It's been having a lot of like breakthrough moments recently.
Speaker 2: A WNBA women's hockey, women's rugby. Why do you think
Speaker 2: now is a good time for women's baseball.
Speaker 6: I mean, you just said it. With all these leagues
Speaker 6: coming up and all the attention that they're getting, I
Speaker 6: feel like, why not add another one, Why not bring
Speaker 6: a refreshing sport. You know, everybody looks at baseball as
Speaker 6: kind of like, kind of boring. Not gonna lie, it
Speaker 6: is pretty boring, And I feel like us as women
Speaker 6: bring us special energy to the field, and I think
Speaker 6: it's gonna be so much fun. I can't wait. I'm
Speaker 6: excited about the behind the scenes stuff. Like we're in
Speaker 6: the same hotel for eight weeks, so like I'm be
Speaker 6: filming a lot, doing a bunch of tiktoks, just like
Speaker 6: behind the scenes to show the personalities that we have,
Speaker 6: because that's what really keeps people engage, is that personality
Speaker 6: off the field and then performing well on the field
Speaker 6: as well. So you just get you get new faces
Speaker 6: that you haven't seen before, new personalities, new content. I
Speaker 6: think it's overall it's gonna be so much fun.
Speaker 1: I mean, I know we started this talk with Unrivaled
Speaker 1: and seeing each other in Philly, but Unrivaled is like
Speaker 1: that too great one location.
Speaker 4: I remember Chelsea Gray saying like it.
Speaker 1: Was cute, and so you lose and you gotta walk
Speaker 1: down the hallway and see the people who just beat you.
Speaker 1: So what do you think the competition is gonna be
Speaker 1: like being in one location? I mean, yeah, the TIKSI
Speaker 1: is like great, but the competition.
Speaker 3: What about it?
Speaker 6: I mean it's only fourteens, so I think each time
Speaker 6: it's gonna get more and more competitive, Like you don't
Speaker 6: want to keep losing to the same team over and
Speaker 6: over again. And then they just had the WBC, which
Speaker 6: is the World Baseball Classic, and so USA, Australia, Mexico,
Speaker 6: USA kind of ran through everybody. So I know these
Speaker 6: other country the players on their team, they're gonna be
Speaker 6: ready to compete. So it's like, we gotta be able
Speaker 6: to keep that competition up.
Speaker 3: So I mean if we.
Speaker 6: Get spaining bad, yeah, it's gonna be hard. But at
Speaker 6: the end of the day is you gotta have that
Speaker 6: next play mentality and you don't want that to happen again.
Speaker 6: So it's gonna come you know, it's it's gonna come
Speaker 6: back to where you just that competition and you that
Speaker 6: competitiveness is just gonna come out and you don't want
Speaker 6: to lose to the same team, and there's only four
Speaker 6: teams in this league.
Speaker 3: Come on, athlete.
Speaker 2: Speaking of being like prepared for the competition, let's talk
Speaker 2: about like your practice schedule, your training special Like.
Speaker 3: How are you getting ready for the first pitch.
Speaker 6: So when I was playing, I've been playing banana ball
Speaker 6: since April, and we are basically practicing almost every day
Speaker 6: unless we're traveling. So I would always hit in the
Speaker 6: casion with the guys. I would take fly balls with
Speaker 6: the guys VP with the guys. I started staying again, Well,
Speaker 6: I did it once because we've been on a break.
Speaker 6: But I would stand in when the pitcher's throwing their
Speaker 6: bullpen just just to get my timing down and then
Speaker 6: just work on little things that I need to adjust
Speaker 6: so that way when I get when I got here
Speaker 6: the first pitch, it'll feel like nothing, just because I've
Speaker 6: been practicing so much and we have a practice schedule here.
Speaker 6: So we had a meeting today, we'll practice tomorrow, we'll
Speaker 6: practice throughout the week, and then play your first game Saturday.
Speaker 2: I mean that it's super dope because it's like what
Speaker 2: you're doing is historic. So I wonder, like when you're
Speaker 2: practicing with the guys up been on the ball, like,
Speaker 2: is everyone like rallying behind you? Is everyone like all right?
Speaker 2: You're like you're about to go do the thing?
Speaker 6: You know, not for sure there, I've say since I
Speaker 6: got there in April, they have been like asking me,
Speaker 6: are you ready? Are you ready? Are you ready? Like
Speaker 6: at first I didn't take BP with them, I didn't
Speaker 6: take fly balls with them, just because I felt like
Speaker 6: I was overstepping where I was supposed to do. But
Speaker 6: then once the head coach is like, you know you
Speaker 6: have season two, get in there, they wouldn't mind, they
Speaker 6: don't care. They started helping me out so much. They're
Speaker 6: they're just getting me ready and they're just like, I
Speaker 6: can't wait to see you kill it out there. I
Speaker 6: know they're going to be watching as many games as
Speaker 6: they can. So just to have that support from your
Speaker 6: male counterparts is just a lot. It means so much.
Speaker 6: So I'm playing for them, you know, I'm playing for myself,
Speaker 6: my family, you know, the next generation. But they've kind
Speaker 6: of they've grown so they've helped me grow so much
Speaker 6: and we become a family that you know, I'm also
Speaker 6: playing for them. And you know what, like you said,
Speaker 6: you asked me about the clowns, like that's my team.
Speaker 6: That's why I'm representing when I play.
Speaker 2: If I were to tell thirteen year old money that
Speaker 2: she'd be playing professional baseball today, what do you think
Speaker 2: she would have said.
Speaker 6: I wouldn't believe you. I wouldn't believe. I wouldn't believe
Speaker 6: that that was the thing, just because I didn't know
Speaker 6: any other I knew girls played baseball, but I didn't
Speaker 6: know it was that serious. So I wouldn't believe. If
Speaker 6: anybody said anything about me being a professional baseball player,
Speaker 6: I wouldn't believe anything because that wasn't my goal at thirteen.
Speaker 6: My goal was to go to Yukon, become the next
Speaker 6: mind more, go to the WNBA, And what was my goal? Like,
Speaker 6: that's that's what I knew, So I couldn't believe. I
Speaker 6: wouldn't believe anything anyone had to say about me being
Speaker 6: around baseball.
Speaker 1: And I got older, Oh my god. But you had
Speaker 1: such a path though, Like you. I remember when you
Speaker 1: committed and everybody was up because you chose an HBCU,
Speaker 1: Like why did you choose an HBCU? First of all,
Speaker 1: shout out to HBCU, But just talk to me about
Speaker 1: the college path of it all.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yah, shout out to Hampton. Hampton was such a
Speaker 6: fun time. But it's all about doing your research. So
Speaker 6: I did my research about different schools, and I reached
Speaker 6: out to different schools because I decided to play softball,
Speaker 6: like I said, in eleventh grade. And by that time,
Speaker 6: all these colleges have their commits already, so they're not
Speaker 6: looking for new commits. So I reached out to a
Speaker 6: bun j accus and Hampton got back to me, and
Speaker 6: then we toured the campus. I went to a camp.
Speaker 6: I got to meet the dean of journalism because that's
Speaker 6: what I wanted to study. So I got to meet
Speaker 6: the dean and she took me on a personal visit
Speaker 6: with my family during homecoming and so.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I'm about to say that's homecoming.
Speaker 6: I walked up. They were like, you want to play?
Speaker 6: You want to play? And I was I looked at
Speaker 6: my mom like they don't even know who I am, Like,
Speaker 6: why are they offering me food? Like it really offer food?
Speaker 6: Like it was that's what sold me. But he was like,
Speaker 6: I'm keep it in the back of my mind. I'm like, dang,
Speaker 6: this actually feels like home. It's not too far from home,
Speaker 6: but it's a good distance to mature and to grow.
Speaker 6: And once I met the Dean and she kind of
Speaker 6: took me under her wing to help me out with everything.
Speaker 6: It's kind of like a solidified decision. I had no
Speaker 6: second guesses at all, but going there it was probably
Speaker 6: one of the best decisions I've ever made. Like I
Speaker 6: have so many friends and so many different avenues, just
Speaker 6: I don't know, something about Hampton just has a special
Speaker 6: place in my hard. I go back from homecoming. My
Speaker 6: little sister's going there next year, so it's just like
Speaker 6: it's just it's just a family atmosphere that you know,
Speaker 6: I missed now, but I'm glad I made that decision.
Speaker 1: Speaking of research, uh, this is everyone watches women's sports,
Speaker 1: so there there's a wide range of sports covered and
Speaker 1: a lot of people don't know how different softball and
Speaker 1: baseball are. So can you describe some of the challenges
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, did I take a question that.
Speaker 2: Was no, I'm saying we're becoming a thing and I
Speaker 2: love this, like no, no, it's happening.
Speaker 3: Sorry about you, It's about you.
Speaker 1: So can you describe some of the challenges or just
Speaker 1: some of the differences between softball and baseball.
Speaker 6: Yeah, some of the differences. Well, obviously, the picture is
Speaker 6: still on underhand and the balls rising as it's coming
Speaker 6: to you, compared to baseball, where it's kind of coming
Speaker 6: down on an angle. The bases are closer the pictures.
Speaker 6: It seems like the pictures don't harder, but it's probably
Speaker 6: the same amount of reaction time. The fields just smaller.
Speaker 6: You have women who are gonna slap it, so they're
Speaker 6: running out the box while they're hitting the ball, which
Speaker 6: is very difficult because the bases are shorter, like I said,
Speaker 6: so you got to really release it quickly. It's just
Speaker 6: a faster paced game, like the game could finish an
Speaker 6: hour and a half compared to baseball, where it can
Speaker 6: be two hours plus. But other than that, the rules
Speaker 6: are kind of the same. You know, you have a
Speaker 6: certain amount of innings. Whoever scores more runs, they win
Speaker 6: the game. You have to wait till the balls release
Speaker 6: before you can take a lead, which is basically get
Speaker 6: off the base or steal. That's kind of really it.
Speaker 6: Other than that, everything's basically the same. It's just the
Speaker 6: bad and ball got to try to you know, godfielders
Speaker 6: literally that that's it. But there's like small things that
Speaker 6: are a little different.
Speaker 1: Well, thanks explaining the game to us, because and everybody
Speaker 1: out there, because they are different. So now it's time
Speaker 1: for own very little game. If a rapid fire, yes, yes,
Speaker 1: I I suppose I shall start and we will go
Speaker 1: like that, okay, on your walkout song or walk up song.
Speaker 6: So I have a couple. I know it's rapid fire,
Speaker 6: but I have a few. Lately, it's been Who's that
Speaker 6: girl by Eve because you know that's the one and
Speaker 6: she's from Philly, so I gotta represent Philly. After COVID,
Speaker 6: I chose PSA by jay Z because it's like, allow
Speaker 6: me to re introduce myself. So I had that one,
Speaker 6: and then honestly, I just chose for this leak, I
Speaker 6: chose a K pop song that's more of like a
Speaker 6: women's anthem. It's called this is for So just me
Speaker 6: giving a shout out for you know, all the women
Speaker 6: that are playing in this league. It's a new women's league,
Speaker 6: so just women power.
Speaker 1: I know that saying about me, But my my like
Speaker 1: mantra song every morning is let me but blow your
Speaker 1: mind by you, So like that's.
Speaker 3: That's the story of my life. I like that I
Speaker 3: like that. I like knowing that about you. Yeah, that's
Speaker 3: all right, best baseball movie of all time?
Speaker 6: Uh the Sandlot, I.
Speaker 1: I know you're gonna say it sound like because it
Speaker 1: is valid, No complaints, biggest superstition.
Speaker 3: Oh.
Speaker 6: I used to always play with some type of money
Speaker 6: in my back pocket, and I would always take a
Speaker 6: nap before the game with the money in your pocket. No,
Speaker 6: I would just take a nap in your pajamas or something,
Speaker 6: but a change like we're gonna us before the game.
Speaker 6: And I wouldn't give my mom he a change back
Speaker 6: and just be in my back pocket.
Speaker 1: And I was just crazy.
Speaker 6: Mes Yeah, just some type of money. Yeah, post game meal, Uh,
Speaker 6: chook place, fine, plase good for me.
Speaker 3: I need I need the order, all right.
Speaker 6: So it depends on what I'm feeling. So if I
Speaker 6: get nuggets, I'll get the eight count nugget meal and
Speaker 6: then I'll get some polyenes and sauce. If I'm getting
Speaker 6: the chicken sales meal, I have to get no pickles
Speaker 6: and then I get the pickles.
Speaker 1: I love it.
Speaker 6: There's just not on.
Speaker 2: Sandwich, no pickles in the barbecue sauce, honey roast and barbecue.
Speaker 3: Ooh you missed the chuffil a sauce with the barbecue sauce.
Speaker 1: That's the best coming.
Speaker 3: You like a mix on the sandwich.
Speaker 1: Well, see, I'm okay, because of course I'm began. But
Speaker 1: like when I do, when I have the fries, I'll
Speaker 1: mix anyway.
Speaker 3: This is again not about me.
Speaker 4: The most random thing in your baseball.
Speaker 6: Back, most random thing probably some bliss stacks or some
Speaker 6: lip bomb some gotta keep the lips right. Yeah, that's
Speaker 6: probably it.
Speaker 3: Pitch you think you'll hit your first home run off basketball?
Speaker 6: I think that's probably the easiest one. The hard and
Speaker 6: the furtherest goes out.
Speaker 1: Period, and that that's in the end for rapid Fire.
Speaker 1: But because the show is everyone watches women's sports. You
Speaker 1: just know who's a woman that you've been watching, whether
Speaker 1: that be growing up or right now in the women's
Speaker 1: sports space.
Speaker 6: So for a long time, I was a huge soccer fan,
Speaker 6: so I'd watch all the women's national team games. And
Speaker 6: I love an underrated player, and so christim Press was
Speaker 6: my girl growing up, like I would represent her at
Speaker 6: all time that I have a jersey of hers, So
Speaker 6: christin Press for sure. But lately, for like the past
Speaker 6: few years, it's definitely Paige. I've been watching Page a lot.
Speaker 4: I think she's like, it's like a very similar.
Speaker 6: Someone else told me that. I was like, I don't
Speaker 6: think so, but we'll see.
Speaker 1: Not not two people wrong. Tell you about yourself, well, our.
Speaker 4: Popular friend, Thank you so much, funny, it's been.
Speaker 6: Yeah, for sure, I appreciate it. Thanks for allowing me
Speaker 6: to come on. This is fun. That's fine. Hey, bring
Speaker 6: me back at the end of the season.
Speaker 1: We'll talk.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Oh now, it's that's the date. We gotta do it.
Speaker 6: Yah for sure. This great.
Speaker 3: Yay is great.
Speaker 1: Love her so much. She's been famous her whole life. Literally,
Speaker 1: I can't believe time lives like that.
Speaker 3: I feel old.
Speaker 1: We are old, we are, But you know what a
Speaker 1: tail is oldest time is the dominance that is US
Speaker 1: women's water polo.
Speaker 3: The US Senior national water polo team won.
Speaker 1: Gold because what's Neil? Because these this is a dynastic
Speaker 1: program at the twenty twenty sixth World Aquatics World Cup
Speaker 1: with a thirteen nine victory over Spaining.
Speaker 4: If you know anything about water polo, you.
Speaker 1: Know that means you're intense.
Speaker 3: Yes, you're intense, and you got that that helmet.
Speaker 1: That helmet should try, but I'm like looking underwater and
Speaker 1: they're just like battling it out underwater, and I'm like, oh, water.
Speaker 4: Polo has got to be miserable.
Speaker 2: Probably one of the first times I really watched it
Speaker 2: was like the last Olympics, like if it's on, I
Speaker 2: might just let it be on. But this time I
Speaker 2: paid attention and I was like, oh.
Speaker 3: No, they're like they're like going at it.
Speaker 1: When I tell you, I love them first of all.
Speaker 1: They the reason why I cover them is because I
Speaker 1: was talking in a women's sports foundation.
Speaker 3: I was like, I cover every sport, no matter the
Speaker 3: age level, ability or sport.
Speaker 4: And Maggie Stephan.
Speaker 1: Who was on the senior national team, she's she's so great,
Speaker 1: so good in the sport. I was like, you don't
Speaker 1: cover us. When I went on a deep dive, no
Speaker 1: pun intendent a water polo, I was like, this sport
Speaker 1: is so hard, Like I'm not a brough treading water.
Speaker 1: Sometimes just imagine your entire sport, like treading is the rest.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, that's how you chose. I'm I'm okay, listen, okay,
Speaker 2: I'm I'm a city kid.
Speaker 3: So I was taught to swim at the y Oh.
Speaker 2: Why Yes, Yes, I'm a real I'm a real city kid.
Speaker 2: So I am a strong pool swimmer.
Speaker 3: Oh I love that. Now you put me in an ocean,
Speaker 3: we're in trouble.
Speaker 1: Okay. My goal is in the ocean because I do go.
Speaker 3: We're dealing with waves. I'm like named after the Mermaid,
Speaker 3: and I'm a pisty. But I'm good. I'm good in
Speaker 3: a pool. Yeah, I'm good at a pool. And then
Speaker 3: we'll have a water polo battle.
Speaker 2: You might, we'll see. I'm not even gonna say you might.
Speaker 2: I'm not going lay down for that because we're the powerful.
Speaker 3: It might be. Yeah, I'll be some competition.
Speaker 1: I'm own it, period.
Speaker 3: Yeah, let's see what's up.
Speaker 2: I get worried about you because you just you're more
Speaker 2: active with than me. But I'm floating.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, buoyant is a real thing. I got you better
Speaker 1: be our boyant.
Speaker 3: I got I got yeah, but.
Speaker 4: I gotta less wrap around and drag you down.
Speaker 3: That's murder.
Speaker 4: Okay.
Speaker 1: You know, Sam and I like to be into the thick,
Speaker 1: into the thick of it, into the swing of it,
Speaker 1: into the swing of it. Oh, we have to keep
Speaker 1: y'all updated on what everyone's watching. So we just talked
Speaker 1: to her earlier Monteue Davis. She's a part of the
Speaker 1: Women's Pro Baseball League. They're opening day August first. It
Speaker 1: is in true rivalry fashion, Los Angeles versus New York. Okay,
Speaker 1: it's kind of like w NBA and did thirty years ago,
Speaker 1: La versus New York. Well, that's the tap off, but
Speaker 1: like let's it's gonna be great on and popping. Also,
Speaker 1: we are still trying to recover from All Star. Still
Speaker 1: a customer uncovering. But there's a whole second half of
Speaker 1: the season, so I don't know how these officers are
Speaker 1: going to go play games, but it's happening.
Speaker 3: So the second half of the season.
Speaker 2: The second half of the season's coming, and I am excited.
Speaker 3: One.
Speaker 2: I'm excited excited to have more time to watch. The
Speaker 2: first half of the season. I was road heavy, but
Speaker 2: because you're popular the second half, I'm going to be
Speaker 2: home a lot more so I got just more time
Speaker 2: to tap in. I feel like whatever happened over All
Speaker 2: Star weekend, what happened that was most important is the
Speaker 2: mess got cleared.
Speaker 4: The air.
Speaker 2: The air is clear, and we're rolling into the second
Speaker 2: half of the season.
Speaker 3: Is strong.
Speaker 2: I'm always looking forward to my Liberty. I'm always looking
Speaker 2: forward to how that doesn't play.
Speaker 1: No, she lives in Atlanta now.
Speaker 2: So I live in Atlanta now, so I'm also watching
Speaker 2: the dream. But I'm just excited. I always feel like
Speaker 2: the second half of the seasons when the competition just
Speaker 2: picks up. Now we're all running towards the championship. Things
Speaker 2: are real, and I just think we're gonna just see
Speaker 2: some some great games all around. Lucky for you New
Speaker 2: York and Atlat I still have to play, So there's
Speaker 2: some there's some little matchups there, but it's it's do
Speaker 2: or die for these teams because only the top eight
Speaker 2: teams make it into finals. Mind you, expansion has happened,
Speaker 2: so your odds are even less and so it's going
Speaker 2: to be a fight to the finish.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of parody in the league right.
Speaker 2: Now, and there's also like some like there's some expansion
Speaker 2: teams that are like like Toronto's.
Speaker 3: Interesting, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2: Like there's teams that are like you can't just go like,
Speaker 2: oh they're new, right, they have nothing to do with it.
Speaker 3: You're like, no, they're coming, And then.
Speaker 1: Like going into All Star break, even though they lost
Speaker 1: right before. Golden State has been absolutely nuts. Not in
Speaker 1: a row is crazy. So I don't know if if
Speaker 1: people who were predicting the season saw that for them,
Speaker 1: but they sure did rally.
Speaker 2: The Valkras and like they have a lot of home sport. Yeah,
Speaker 2: oh my gosh, already they're getting shown up for you
Speaker 2: know what I mean. Their mascot got a.
Speaker 1: Cruise violence now.
Speaker 4: Split she clam slams all of it.
Speaker 2: There's a different sauce coming from there, vibes all around,
Speaker 2: for the.
Speaker 1: Vibes all around. So I just want to see. I
Speaker 1: want to see if New York can recover. I know
Speaker 1: they've had a bumpy, bumpy road, but all in great,
Speaker 1: great competition. I was about say, all in great fun.
Speaker 1: I don't think it's gonna be all in great fun.
Speaker 1: I think it's gonna be all in great grit.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, New York's gonna have to dig it
Speaker 2: out yep. Yeah, but they can do it.
Speaker 1: They can. I absolutely believe New York and a leanter
Speaker 1: and probably in this particular of like inconsistencies.
Speaker 4: But we'll see.
Speaker 1: Uh we talk about them a lot because that's where
Speaker 1: we live. But you know, it is what it is. Also,
Speaker 1: this is completely not here, but it's Tour de France
Speaker 1: fem August first through the ninth. The total distance one
Speaker 1: and seventy five kilometers and that's just nuts to me.
Speaker 3: That's just nuts. A lot of bike.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's a lot of pedaling.
Speaker 3: Fun fact about Ari, she can't ride a bike. She
Speaker 3: can do everything else but ride a bike. So I
Speaker 3: finally shine.
Speaker 4: You've been shining this. I'm not on tour for comedy.
Speaker 1: I don't know people.
Speaker 2: This is the one thing because you're always like no, no, no, no, no,
Speaker 2: thank you, tumble but you don't make skydiving all the things.
Speaker 3: But I cannot ride a bike.
Speaker 2: Yea, yeah, I'm gonna make you balance, baby, get on
Speaker 2: this bike.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm terrified. Actually the ground is hard water. At
Speaker 1: least you can the older you get to. The scarier
Speaker 1: of a bike situation is.
Speaker 3: Like I'll jump from playing ten times before I try
Speaker 3: to paddle down the street. It's kind of nuts. I
Speaker 3: can teach you.
Speaker 2: I'm very I've done this before with like with someone
Speaker 2: that was not a child.
Speaker 1: You were just talking about the US women's water polo
Speaker 1: with the helmets.
Speaker 2: I am like, we'll get you together. Am I gonna
Speaker 2: have a good helmet and my knees?
Speaker 3: Is it? All of it?
Speaker 1: All the paths because I you know, we can't.
Speaker 3: I can't. You gotta.
Speaker 1: If y'all see me with scratches and bruises, it's because
Speaker 1: of Sam and she got me on a bike and
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna be so.
Speaker 3: I think you'll kill it like real easy. We can
Speaker 3: we can do hard things. We can do hard things.
Speaker 1: We can do hard things, but we can also talk
Speaker 1: to y'all every single Thursday. We'll see you next to me.
Speaker 3: Yes, happy,