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Ep. 57 - One Last Ride! · Beyond the Paw - Clemson Athletics

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  Speaker 1: Hey, everyone, welcome back to another episode of Beyond the Pod.
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  Speaker 1: Today is Mee, Mia and Tory's final episode together. It's
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  Speaker 1: been such a journey, it's been such an honor to
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  Speaker 1: speak with different people, meet them, learn their story, and
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  Speaker 1: we're just glad to be here today.
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  Speaker 2: I can't believe it's the last episode. Yeah, it felt
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  Speaker 2: like it was so quick. Does not seem right at
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  Speaker 2: all at all.
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  Speaker 1: Like thinking back to when we first started this process
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  Speaker 1: into now and how much we've grown as people as athletes,
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  Speaker 1: it's it's crazy to think about, like I would have
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I know I said this before, but I
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  Speaker 1: would have never done this ever if it weren't for
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  Speaker 1: Clemson and the people behind Clemson and the people who
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  Speaker 1: encourage you to do hard things. So it's really.
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  Speaker 3: Cool to think about, I know.
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  Speaker 2: And like looking back when we first started, I feel
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  Speaker 2: like it was so like we were just so unsure
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  Speaker 2: of like what we were doing.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, like should we do this?
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  Speaker 3: Should we do that?
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  Speaker 2: Like just didn't have it down. But I feel like
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  Speaker 2: now we did it. Like we did it and you know,
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  Speaker 2: wasn't easy at first. It took us a little bit
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  Speaker 2: to kind of like get used to it and get
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  Speaker 2: the flow of each other. But once we did it
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  Speaker 2: was it was great.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, like we're just gonna sit and talk.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's talk about I never thought I could talk
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  Speaker 1: for like forty five minutes and fifteen minutes for an
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  Speaker 1: hour long episode. But it's actually not that hard thinking
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  Speaker 1: about it, just because even when you have a guest too,
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  Speaker 1: it makes it so much easier because they have a
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  Speaker 1: lot to explain as well, So just.
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  Speaker 3: Hearing their stories.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's what's been cool is being able to learn
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  Speaker 4: more about our guests. But how do you also like
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  Speaker 4: dig in and ask questions and then we've learned a
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  Speaker 4: lot about each other too. Yeah, yeah, but we want
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  Speaker 4: to share. I mean, what it's been a year and
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  Speaker 4: a half together, a long time, and that's a lot
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  Speaker 4: of text.
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  Speaker 3: And hours Togeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we need to talk about like what we've learned
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  Speaker 1: about each other. Then it's the briefit Yeah, tour you
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  Speaker 1: go first.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, I think I've seen you grow up a lot.
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  Speaker 4: I think it's been cool to obviously both are student
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  Speaker 4: athletes at a really high level. But I think when
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  Speaker 4: we're texting literally every week, multiple times a week, and
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  Speaker 4: trying to coordinate our guests and working together on a
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  Speaker 4: year and a half long project, Like it's been cool
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  Speaker 4: to really take on something big with you two and
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  Speaker 4: seeing YouTube both insert your personalities and your comfort and
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  Speaker 4: confidence growing, and I think all of us also learning,
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  Speaker 4: like what our unique strengths are in creating a run
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  Speaker 4: of show or getting a guest, or how do we
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  Speaker 4: rely on each other at different times, Like it's been
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  Speaker 4: fun to work with you not necessarily like, oh, they're
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  Speaker 4: just student athletes. I'm like, no, like the three of
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  Speaker 4: us are on a team, yeah, trying to figure it out.
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  Speaker 1: I feel like it's fun also, like yes, the planning
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  Speaker 1: and working together and stuff. But whenever we like get
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  Speaker 1: on the podcast, it just became so easy at a
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  Speaker 1: point where it was like, oh, like I'm not worried
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  Speaker 1: about how I'm perceived or like how my voice is perceived,
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  Speaker 1: or how people are listening to us and the guests,
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  Speaker 1: Like it's just a conversation that like genuinely brings joy.
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  Speaker 1: And I feel like we have like a lot of
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  Speaker 1: fun talking to each other and a lot of fun
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  Speaker 1: talking to the host. And like, you know, a lot
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  Speaker 1: of people think this is nervous, like very scary thing
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  Speaker 1: to do, and I think I had someone tell me like,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know how you do that, like I would
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  Speaker 1: rather flip on a mean, oh gosh, And I was like,
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  Speaker 1: it's once you get used to it, it's actually just
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  Speaker 1: so much fun. And like learning about other people and
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  Speaker 1: where they've come from and their background, like that's something
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  Speaker 1: that is crucial. Do I feel like growing?
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  Speaker 2: I feel like, well, I'm just so grateful in general too,
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  Speaker 2: because this is such a unique experience. Like how many
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  Speaker 2: people can truly say that they run a podcast at
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  Speaker 2: their school and like they get to have editors and
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  Speaker 2: producers and all of people helping us. I feel like
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  Speaker 2: that's so rare too. But yeah, like hearing people's stories,
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  Speaker 2: like I never really realized, like how if you just
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  Speaker 2: talk to someone like forty five minutes, you just literally
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  Speaker 2: get so much out of them And it's like, oh
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  Speaker 2: my gosh, I would have never have known that, right,
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  Speaker 2: But like what a cool thing too to have this
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  Speaker 2: platform to like have people tell their stories.
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  Speaker 4: And a lot of our guests we don't necessarily have
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  Speaker 4: a history with, Like obviously we've had some of your
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  Speaker 4: teammates on or people that you know, but a lot
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  Speaker 4: of times it's like, let's waiting to get started and chatting,
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  Speaker 4: and then I always love it because it's like you're talking.
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  Speaker 4: Then we would record the episode, and then there's that
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  Speaker 4: time afterwards where we're still talking, and then usually there's
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  Speaker 4: like fifteen minutes after the episode that the three of
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  Speaker 4: us just go stand by my office.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, we keep talking. Correlation never schedule now.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, But I think it's also we've learned, like the
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  Speaker 1: tone in which we create our questions too, really helps
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  Speaker 1: the guests kind of open up as well. So I
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  Speaker 1: think it's been such a learning process, you know, as
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  Speaker 1: me and me are me is starting to go into
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  Speaker 1: the real world and stuff like that. It's it's been
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  Speaker 1: really interesting to learn how to communicate. And my major
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  Speaker 1: was communications, but I feel like you don't really understand
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  Speaker 1: it till you're in it.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, So how to be curious, Yeah, ask your questions.
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  Speaker 1: I was talking to someone the other day and I
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  Speaker 1: was thinking about my elementary school mantra. I know, I'm
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  Speaker 1: I'm aging myself.
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  Speaker 3: As you.
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  Speaker 1: Back in the olden days to elementary school. But our
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  Speaker 1: mantra was start curious, stay curious, go anywhere, Oh cool,
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  Speaker 1: And I think that's just I feel like I've just
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  Speaker 1: carried that throughout my entire life. Honestly, like something I
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  Speaker 1: would hear every single day since I was five years old.
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  Speaker 1: It's really stuck with me as an adult because so true.
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  Speaker 3: Like you find go anywhere. Yeah, And I.
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  Speaker 1: Think curiosity is such a cool thing and I think
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  Speaker 1: it's something that everyone should have at all time.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, and like you said, like I would have
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  Speaker 2: never imagined myself doing something like this right, like literally
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  Speaker 2: ever until you're in it and it's like, Okay, this
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  Speaker 2: is like really cool. Yeah, this is awesome, But like
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  Speaker 2: would never have known if like didn't just say yes
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  Speaker 2: to the opportunity, right, take the chance and do it right.
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  Speaker 3: So, yeah, that's been a cool piece about it.
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  Speaker 1: What about you tour? You started this with Megan and
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  Speaker 1: Ali a long long time ago. Can you explain any
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  Speaker 1: like fears, any like doubts you had going into starting
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  Speaker 1: something like this?
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  Speaker 3: Well, I think it's how long is it gonna last?
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  Speaker 3: Who's gonna listen?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah?
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  Speaker 4: Are people going to say yes to doing it? And
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  Speaker 4: so I think it's really cool how it has grown.
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  Speaker 4: I mean it's grown so much even from just the
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  Speaker 4: physical space of where the three of us, you know,
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  Speaker 4: with Ali and Megan, how we would do it to
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  Speaker 4: now in this studio and being comfortable to how we
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  Speaker 4: articulate to guests to come on the show to even
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  Speaker 4: like student athletes will come up to me and be like,
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  Speaker 4: I want.
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  Speaker 3: To be on the podcast. How do I get to
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  Speaker 3: my guests?
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  Speaker 2: Oh?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, So I think I've just noticed that it's been
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  Speaker 4: a cool kind of how everything has turned and I
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  Speaker 4: think it's just fun.
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  Speaker 3: But it is.
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  Speaker 4: It's hard in the sense of like coordinating schedules and
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  Speaker 4: coming up with the plan and trying to think of
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  Speaker 4: things that people want to listen to while also getting
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  Speaker 4: to the heart of people's stories.
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  Speaker 3: But I do I mean, huge shout out.
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  Speaker 4: To Clemson Ventures and Clemson Athletics that allows us to
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  Speaker 4: do this.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think it's cool. Like in the industry, people
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  Speaker 3: will ask me a lot I want to learn more,
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  Speaker 3: how do you do that podcast? Really like, yeah, it's
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  Speaker 3: so cool that we get this.
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  Speaker 4: And then sometimes I feel bad because I'm like, Okay,
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  Speaker 4: how do you produce it? And I'm like, uh, major
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  Speaker 4: shout out to Clemson Ventures because we just show up
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  Speaker 4: and we talk like we don't have to do a
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  Speaker 4: lot of the background stuff. But I don't know, I
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  Speaker 4: don't think there's many fears now, it's just talking. I
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  Speaker 4: think it's so fun for me.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I work with student athletes every day, but
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  Speaker 2: then we sit here for an hour and I learn
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  Speaker 2: way more.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's crazy, even just like my teammates who I
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  Speaker 1: see every day, who I think I know, and then
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  Speaker 1: they come on the podcast and I'm like, I never
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  Speaker 1: knew that about you, and that's your why and like
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  Speaker 1: why you're here too, And it makes me appreciate them
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  Speaker 1: so much more and them being here, like I know
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  Speaker 1: how much of a sacrifice they've made in their life
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  Speaker 1: and stuff like that. It's really cool to have a
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  Speaker 1: better understanding of people and why they're here and why
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  Speaker 1: they want what they.
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  Speaker 2: Want, right Because everyone sees them on the field or
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  Speaker 2: the core or like them playing their sport, but not
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  Speaker 2: actually anything about them who they are as a person.
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  Speaker 2: I think that's like so hard with the college athletics too,
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  Speaker 2: is like everyone like people just see them as players, right,
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  Speaker 2: Like they don't they don't get them.
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  Speaker 3: As like the human side, right.
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  Speaker 2: So I feel like getting their story out is really
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  Speaker 2: good just for athletics in general, as it connects them too,
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  Speaker 2: because even some of our guests don't even realize that
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  Speaker 2: their story is special, right, every person's story is special.
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  Speaker 1: People are like, why would you want me to come
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  Speaker 1: on the podcast, and like why wouldn't you want to
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  Speaker 1: be on the pod? Why wouldn't we want you to
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  Speaker 1: be on the podcast? Everyone has something to share, and
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  Speaker 1: it's you never know because the things that you may
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  Speaker 1: share people might be dealing with, and like the audience
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  Speaker 1: might be dealing with and like they're too afraid to
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  Speaker 1: say it or they're too afraid to admit it to themselves.
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  Speaker 1: So it's cool to have someone speak up and speak
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  Speaker 1: out on things that you know are relatable to other
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  Speaker 1: people that they may not think is super relatable.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's cool for like the younger generations too
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  Speaker 2: that like get to hear that, because I know, like
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  Speaker 2: when I was a little kid, like hearing if I
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  Speaker 2: were to hear some of those stories, be like Okay,
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  Speaker 2: they literally like it was so hard for them to
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  Speaker 2: get to where they are, but yet they did it. Anyways, YEA,
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  Speaker 2: like hearing those stories I think would be really cool
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  Speaker 2: for the younger generations too, because yeah, we literally have just.
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  Speaker 4: From all over all over the world, literally Russia, all
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  Speaker 4: over the country, California to write local.
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  Speaker 3: It is really cool.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I want to talk about some of our favorite
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  Speaker 1: guests that we've had on. I know, we just had
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  Speaker 1: Graham on, which was awesome, amazing. Yeah, it was awesome
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  Speaker 1: and hearing his perspective, you know, like he's not necessarily
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  Speaker 1: like an athlete at Clemson, but he he runs athletics
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  Speaker 1: and so it's cool to hear someone else's perspective from
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  Speaker 1: that aspect.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it was so cool. This was maybe a year
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  Speaker 3: ago or so.
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  Speaker 4: I was in a meeting and I'm very lucky that
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  Speaker 4: Graham is my boss, right, And like I've had a
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  Speaker 4: great relationship with Graham for a long time and respect him,
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  Speaker 4: and we're in a meeting and I'm like, oh my gosh,
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  Speaker 4: I get to listen to Graham all the time.
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  Speaker 3: This was like a monthly meeting.
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  Speaker 4: I'm like, this man is literally a leader of college
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  Speaker 4: athletics across the country and we get access to him
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  Speaker 4: all the time. So even when we were doing that podcast,
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  Speaker 4: I was just thinking, like, he's so busy, he has
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  Speaker 4: so much on his plate. But how many other athletic
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  Speaker 4: directors are going to sit down and I don't know,
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  Speaker 4: maybe others would but I thought Graham was like he
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  Speaker 4: literally made the joke to you of like why am
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  Speaker 4: I not on the podcast?
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  Speaker 3: Come beyond it? And then he just shared it. Yeeah.
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  Speaker 4: It was really cool, and I think he's he's just
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  Speaker 4: so good and so relatable.
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  Speaker 1: I really don't think there are many schools that are
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  Speaker 1: doing that or have people that are willing to do that. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: first of all, have the platform of the podcast itself,
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  Speaker 1: and then have Graham or their ad like want to
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  Speaker 1: come speak and want to come converse with other student
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  Speaker 1: athletes and share their story and like get a little
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  Speaker 1: bit personal about their family life and you know the
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  Speaker 1: relationships that they've built here at Clemson too. Like that's
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  Speaker 1: really really cool to hear about because it makes us
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  Speaker 1: feel like he's you know a lot of people think
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  Speaker 1: of like people who are super high up, they're like
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  Speaker 1: figureheads and they're like enigmas and a mystery, but like he's.
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  Speaker 3: Real, he's a human.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it was really cool to hear about.
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  Speaker 2: I think that just kind of shows like the Clemson
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  Speaker 2: culture and just kind of like the umbrella of Clemson athletics.
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  Speaker 2: Like he's willing to do that, Like he's willing to
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  Speaker 2: just like give all student athletes like just the best experience,
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  Speaker 2: you know, So like I think that just kind of
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  Speaker 2: shows like who the people are here and like who's
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  Speaker 2: running it, you know, just.
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  Speaker 3: Trying to be humans. Like I love when he's talking
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  Speaker 3: about like him a baseball dad.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: The thing that I took away from that is him
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  Speaker 1: talking about him going on Yeah, just like.
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  Speaker 2: I actually saw him on a run literally like four
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  Speaker 2: days later. I was like, I wonder if there anything He's.
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  Speaker 1: Just listening to his thoughts. Yes, I think that's so
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  Speaker 1: funny hear about that's awesome.
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  Speaker 3: I don't want to say like favorites because I think
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  Speaker 3: all of our.
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  Speaker 2: Guests were oh yeah, But I also the moments that
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  Speaker 2: have stuck out to us.
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  Speaker 3: I really think when we had Jackson Olsen, Oh.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that was a crazy story too of how it happened.
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  Speaker 2: Please tell it. It was literally like I think we
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  Speaker 2: had a guest maybe the day before.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I know, Eve, you had like a connection.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. So I actually knew someone who worked for this
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  Speaker 1: van of bananas and I knew they were they were coming.
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  Speaker 1: I knew Ali and Meghan had had one player on before,
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  Speaker 1: but I didn't really know how to get in contact
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  Speaker 1: with whoever they got in contact. Luckily, I had a
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  Speaker 1: contact dating back to high school. And yeah, I just
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  Speaker 1: I literally DMed him because I don't have like his
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  Speaker 1: number or anything, not close at all. But I was
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  Speaker 1: just like I saw on Instagram post that he worked here,
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  Speaker 1: and I was like, I wonder if he is here,
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  Speaker 1: And he was here, and he was able to get
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  Speaker 1: me in contact with someone who could get me in
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  Speaker 1: contact with the player of our choice. Like that is
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  Speaker 1: so cool. That never happens. And so Savannah Bananas is
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  Speaker 1: such a huge organization and you know, people come from
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  Speaker 1: all over the country to watch them and to actually
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  Speaker 1: like have a relationship with one of the players and
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  Speaker 1: like be able to converse and hear his story and
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  Speaker 1: perspective like that was that was so cool, so good,
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  Speaker 1: and it was.
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  Speaker 3: Like everyone wearing yellow, Yeah tomorrow, can we do this schedule? Wait?
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  Speaker 1: Funny story. I literally went to the concessions on where
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  Speaker 1: they were.
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  Speaker 3: Having literally.
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  Speaker 1: Because I think I had a yellow sweatshirt.
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  Speaker 2: Mia had some I don't even know. It was like
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  Speaker 2: a fishing shirt. Yeah, random.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and then Tory, we didn't let know that we
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  Speaker 1: were wearing yellow, and I was like, oh my gosh,
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  Speaker 1: she can't like not be wearing yellow. So I literally
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  Speaker 1: asked the kind lady at concessions. I was like, we
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  Speaker 1: borrow a shirt and we'll bring it right back to you.
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  Speaker 1: I promise, like we're going to be an hour, We're
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  Speaker 1: going to be back in like one hour. And she
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  Speaker 1: was like, just take it and turned it. Yeah we
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  Speaker 1: did return it. Yeah, but it was it was so cool,
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  Speaker 1: like it was it felt like the rush and adrenaline
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  Speaker 1: of just us like running back and forth and trying
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  Speaker 1: to communicate and then meeting the player in front of
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  Speaker 1: near and communicating where he's get a tight window.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, they were practicing, and yeah they were.
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  Speaker 1: Practiced practice like right after I think yeah, and he
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  Speaker 1: was there before too, and so he had to like
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  Speaker 1: run out of practice film this and then he can
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  Speaker 1: only give us like a certain amount of times. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: but it was it was awesome that we were able
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  Speaker 1: to like four to Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, we were like texting about it.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, clenched that moment, no heads up whatsoever, but like
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  Speaker 1: getting a run of show, like ye got to be
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  Speaker 1: ready for anything. I remember Matt typing on that and
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  Speaker 1: he was like yeah and we're like okay, but he
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  Speaker 1: was so cool too, and he was also a little
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  Speaker 1: bit vron about his you know, m LB dreams and
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  Speaker 1: like that's a big dream that a lot of people
• 15:05
  Speaker 1: and sports have so going pro So I think it
• 15:08
  Speaker 1: was cool for him to share his experience with that
• 15:10
  Speaker 1: and how it doesn't necessarily have to turn into a
• 15:12
  Speaker 1: negative and how he created a huge positive.
• 15:16
  Speaker 3: I'm just creating his brain.
• 15:17
  Speaker 2: In general, I think it's a cool perspective to have
• 15:19
  Speaker 2: because with all the new like social media stuff and
• 15:22
  Speaker 2: like as athletes, like we're all trying to like create
• 15:24
  Speaker 2: our Brandy and Ale and stuff like that. So I
• 15:27
  Speaker 2: thought that was a really cool perspective too, because he
• 15:29
  Speaker 2: literally like blew up.
• 15:31
  Speaker 4: But I know, I follow him on Instagram now and
• 15:34
  Speaker 4: social like just trying to follow along with this vandam
• 15:38
  Speaker 4: bananas more because of the conversation with him, which is
• 15:41
  Speaker 4: kind of cool because I hope that more people listen
• 15:44
  Speaker 4: and follow along to the student athletes and the teams
• 15:47
  Speaker 4: here because.
• 15:48
  Speaker 3: They hear the stories.
• 15:49
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 15:49
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I already follow every team account.
• 15:53
  Speaker 1: No, that was crazy, crazy crazy just whirl one.
• 15:56
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that was fun.
• 15:57
  Speaker 1: And then also a moment that I like really really
• 16:02
  Speaker 1: appreciate appreciated was Lily Lippett coming on the podcast and
• 16:07
  Speaker 1: sharing her story about and being super super vulnerable and
• 16:11
  Speaker 1: raw with us and sharing her story about her perspective
• 16:15
  Speaker 1: on her brother passing away unfortunately and how he served
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: and how she's trying to go down that path as well.
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: And it was just so inspiring for someone to take
• 16:25
  Speaker 1: something that's so traumatic happen and turn it into like
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: a new perspective on life. I was really inspiring for
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: me to listen to being her teammate, you know, I've
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: I've I knew all of this stuff that was happening,
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: and I didn't know if she would be comfortable sharing
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: any of it. But I think honestly, people listening to
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: it who've gone through the same thing will take a
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: lot of information and a lot of inspiration on her story.
• 16:54
  Speaker 3: Yeah so good, Yeah so good. It's such a cool
• 16:57
  Speaker 3: thing though too.
• 16:58
  Speaker 2: That like that is a way for people to like
• 17:01
  Speaker 2: work through things like hearing others and like really cool
• 17:05
  Speaker 2: for her to share that.
• 17:06
  Speaker 3: That vulnerable moment.
• 17:07
  Speaker 2: But like like I said, like people don't know that
• 17:10
  Speaker 2: like about you athletes.
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: Maybe she didn't even know it herself, and like just
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: getting on a platform like this, we're able to like
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: actually think about it and talk through it too. I'm
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: sure is probably helpful as well.
• 17:23
  Speaker 4: Totally when it's not like it was the opening question
• 17:26
  Speaker 4: no topic too, but being able to sit down with
• 17:28
  Speaker 4: someone and just get to know them more, be curious
• 17:31
  Speaker 4: to go anywhere. Yeah, the story and Lily was so impactful.
• 17:35
  Speaker 3: Yeaheah, so good.
• 17:36
  Speaker 4: And I think when you a lot of people know
• 17:38
  Speaker 4: Lily from gymnastics and you see her competing and then
• 17:42
  Speaker 4: to see the real human side of her, it was
• 17:45
  Speaker 4: just really cool.
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: Yeah, in her bionic arm that she has.
• 17:48
  Speaker 3: Yeah, she's so cool. Yeah, I know for me too.
• 17:51
  Speaker 3: Aiden Hampton was one.
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah, just like hearing all of his experience with like
• 17:56
  Speaker 2: EMS and then or EMT and then him playing soccer
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: sack like just everything that he does, and like him
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: telling those stories was like just insane. Like I just felt,
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: like I've said this before, I felt like my jaw
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: was dropped. Like the entire episode of like you did what,
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: Like how did you have time for any of that?
• 18:14
  Speaker 3: Spending time at the firehouse.
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and then doing extra training for what he was
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: doing on top of his soccer training at the same time. Yeah,
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: that is some dedication is an.
• 18:26
  Speaker 3: Easy part yeah, so an athlete.
• 18:28
  Speaker 4: How many people are saying that, Yeah, you do want
• 18:30
  Speaker 4: athletes the easy part, no, as he was training for
• 18:33
  Speaker 4: something marine related.
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's insane.
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: True dedication. You have to have to your conviction, yeah yeah.
• 18:42
  Speaker 4: Following your passion. Yeah, being willing to take a risk too,
• 18:46
  Speaker 4: going for it.
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: My favorite part, I feel like was him talking about
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: his experience with having to save someone and then like
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: compare it, not comparing, but like the parallels of like
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: hitting like catch a pk, yeah, saving a PK. I
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: know the terminology now.
• 19:05
  Speaker 3: But become a real sport expert, right, yes.
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: And I think that was just so cool how he
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: could relate something that he wants to do in his
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: career to his sport, because I feel like that's something
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: that a lot of people can do as well. And
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: there are so many lessons that we've learned with athletics
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: that easily transfer over to what our next step is.
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: Well, like the pressure, the adrenaline, Like especially for someone
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: like him, for like what he was doing, Like that's
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: gotta be a lot of adrenaline. It's a lot of pressure.
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: Taking a risk. Yeah totally.
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: Yeah, So yeah, it's being a student athlete here, I
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: feel like or anywhere in general definitely prepares you for life.
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a bunch of like tangible skills that we've
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: had experience with where a lot of people just you know,
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: say like, oh, yeah, I'm able to take a risk,
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: but no, have you actually taken a risk? Have you
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: actually done something under pressure where it matters? You know,
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: like it's it's cool we have that inable experience that
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: we can put it under our belt.
• 20:04
  Speaker 4: So when it's realizing that it is transferable, because I do,
• 20:07
  Speaker 4: at least in my position, I see student athletes struggle
• 20:10
  Speaker 4: to make that correlation like Aiden obviously did with the
• 20:14
  Speaker 4: pressure the sport to real life. But sometimes I think
• 20:17
  Speaker 4: student athletes think like, oh I can and there is
• 20:21
  Speaker 4: a difference, right, shooting and making a free throw is
• 20:24
  Speaker 4: maybe different than saving a.
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: Life, Yeah, but maybe a little.
• 20:28
  Speaker 4: Yeah, but there are like handling feedback, having failure, going
• 20:32
  Speaker 4: for it, being vulnerable in shooting a free throw in
• 20:35
  Speaker 4: front of thousands of people, like it can be it
• 20:39
  Speaker 4: is transferable to real life.
• 20:41
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: A bunch of the interview questions that I've been receiving
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: is when as a time that you failed and what
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: did you've learn and what did you gain.
• 20:48
  Speaker 3: And multiple times? There are a lot of.
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: Many many I'm very coachable, very coachable, am it able
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: to take correction and apply it?
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: Like that's a big skill that like not like but
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: you overlook it when you're.
• 21:04
  Speaker 4: A student because think of how many times your coach
• 21:08
  Speaker 4: gives you feedback, right, right, And like failure can be anything, right,
• 21:12
  Speaker 4: you just wobble on the beam, like that could technically
• 21:15
  Speaker 4: be a failure. You're getting feedback or you know, obviously
• 21:19
  Speaker 4: I played basketball. Every time you miss a shot is failure, right,
• 21:23
  Speaker 4: not like in this deep sense, but how do you
• 21:25
  Speaker 4: bounce back?
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: Yeah?
• 21:26
  Speaker 3: Right?
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: But that's just more information and it's not about like
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: how fast you can learn it, but how you can
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: learn from your mistakes as well. I feel like learning
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: you can anyone can learn anything, but like no one's
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: perfect too, and like everyone everyone makes mistakes. So just
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: being able to take in that information and learn from it,
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: I think is also essential to everything we're gonna do.
• 21:49
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• 22:21
  Speaker 3: Now back to the show.
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: Yeah, we always said for volleyball, like it's truly a
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: game of errors. Like you mess up, they get another point,
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: Like they mess up, you get a point.
• 22:31
  Speaker 3: Like it's literally just like who can fail?
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: The least part of it crazy.
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: But like not even thinking about it and just playing
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: the game like it truly does prepare you just to
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: like get used to failing because I feel like it's
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: so uncomfortable. But being in the in uncomfortable is what
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: how you grow right and how you succeed right.
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: Victor was also another crazy stuck just hearing about someone
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: who's you know, I feel like it gave me a
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: lot of perspective, you know, because like I have days
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: where like I complain or like I take you know,
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: my life here at Clemson for granted, and it's so
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: easy because like everything all the resources are given to us,
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: so it's just like, oh, like I have to go
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: to practice, Like, oh, I have to go here, go
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: to class, whatever it may be. And Victor literally crossed
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: the border to come and.
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: Do that multiple attempts, multiple.
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: Multiple attempts, just to have a yes, to just have
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: the chance to be a student athlete here at Clemson.
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: I mean, I feel like that should give everyone perspective
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: on their life, like it's it. His is one that
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: I come back to and it always makes me think. So, yeah,
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: his story was incredible.
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: So many good ones, so many, so many.
• 23:56
  Speaker 4: If you said interviews, yeah, oh what's coming up? What's
• 24:02
  Speaker 4: next for you?
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: Oh, what's next for me? That's a really great question, Tory,
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: And I wish I could give you an answer. I
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: really really wish I could give you an answer, seeing
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: as I have to be out of here July twenty first,
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: per my lease.
• 24:16
  Speaker 3: So much time, yeah.
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so much time. But yeah, I've been going through
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: different applications, different interviews with different organizations, and it's been
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: really fun. It's been a learning process, I'll say for sure,
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: because how I get interviewed now is so much different
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: than how I would interview in the fall. And a
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: lot of things have changed. I've been able to practice
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: my elevator speech and my elevator pitch over and over again,
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: and yeah, it's been really cool. Like the question I
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: was explaining to Toy earlier before we started, you know,
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: you don't want to be too prepared either, because if
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: you prepare too much, like they may not ask you
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: some of the questions. Because I prepared at least fifteen
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: questions for this interview and not one with sas So
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: that was interesting. But you always have to keep in
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: mind that you have to speak on the fly, and
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: you know, you don't want it to sound and rehearse
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: because then it doesn't sound authentic as well. So it's
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: it's been a battle of you know, testing the waters
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: of how much should I talk about here and what
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: what experience should I talk about for this question? And
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: you kind of have to like do it on the
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: fly and like what experience pertains to what question? And
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: I've been able to like learn that as I'm as
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: I'm going. It's it's a learning process, but it's it's
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: been very fun. I think it's a lot of good
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: practice and hopefully I'll end up with a job somewhere,
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: so but yeah, it's been really cool. And also it's
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: like taught me how to network more than I have.
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: I feel like the podcast is really good networking in
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: and of itself, but like also reaching out to people,
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: like cold calling people, like cold emailing people. That's something
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: that I never did before or and now I'm I
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: wouldn't say a pro at it, but I'm definitely good
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: at doing that. Like just even like people who went
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: to Clemson who are working at the organization that I
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: want to work with, Like that's just an easy way
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: for anyone to get involved and to learn their story
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: and you know, not necessarily like reaching out to someone
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: be like hey I want a job. Y just reaching
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: out to someone and being like hey, like I saw
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: you worked here. I want to learn more about the
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: organization and hear your story and perspective kind of like
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: what we do on the podcast do Like, yeah, I've
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: been leaning a lot on the podcast, and like just
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: the experience here that we have is so tangible and
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: something that I can like easily grab to and and
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: be able to speak about. But just also having someone
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: else talk to me about their experience in general with
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: like an email, like I have a phone call with
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: a Clemson alumni who works with an organization tomorrow, And
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: you know, she only probably agreed to have a phone
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: call with me because I went to Clemson and that
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: connection is open store, open store, and it's really really huge.
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: So yeah, that's my experience so far.
• 27:09
  Speaker 3: You're going to get a job. Yeah, it'll all go out.
• 27:13
  Speaker 4: But even crucial after the podcast, like you and Graham
• 27:15
  Speaker 4: talking and sharing contacts in your plan.
• 27:18
  Speaker 3: Like that's awesome. Yeah, you just have to be open conversation.
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: Graham was like, at the end of the podcast, we
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: usually asked the student athlete what their social media is
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: and how to get in contact with them. And obviously
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: Graham's not accessible in the social media aspect, but he
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: was like email, Like I do check my email, I
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: do answer my emails. And he asks postgrad plans and
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: he was like, send me an email what they are
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: and I did.
• 27:42
  Speaker 3: So it's like that, yeah, cool little connection.
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: And like Clemton has so many people who've worked for
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: like so many different organizations before, like we have ventures now,
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: there's a whole wide range of people who have worked
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: like if you want to go into sports too, like
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: most of those people have have worked in professional sports,
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: so I think we have so many resources here that,
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: like me, I'm still learning how to how to reach
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: out and how to bridge that connection.
• 28:07
  Speaker 3: But power of the paw is real.
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it is, it is. What about you, Mia?
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: So fortunately I've extended all my eligibility here for indoor
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: But OK, yeah, I'm going to Oregon to play beach
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: flyball next year.
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: So and the only reason she isn't saying here is
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: because cleon, there's.
• 28:26
  Speaker 3: No beach team here unfortunately.
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: But yeah, so I'm going back home for summer and
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna get like a job or whatever, and then
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: I'll be training all summer and then yeah, I don't
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: go to Oregon until like September.
• 28:41
  Speaker 3: Oh wow.
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: Yeah, because it's quarter systems. So yeah, they're still in
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: school until like second week of June. Oh man wow.
• 28:48
  Speaker 3: So yeah it's a little bit longer.
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: So what does the training look for that look like
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: for that, because you have to find a beach to train.
• 28:55
  Speaker 3: So there's actually a club by me. Indoor courts, which
• 28:58
  Speaker 3: is so nice. Yeah, indoor sand court, there's.
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: Like indoor volleyball courts, and then in the back are
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: the beach courts.
• 29:05
  Speaker 3: Nice. So it's like.
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: Probably the only place in Illinois that yeah, like.
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: What if you live in.
• 29:10
  Speaker 3: Like reminder Macus from it's cold for.
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: Most of the yeah, but yeah, there's tournaments like on
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: like the beach at Lake Michigan, so like those I
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: can do in the summer, which will be fun when
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: it's like warmer out.
• 29:24
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 29:24
  Speaker 3: But yeah, so I'll just.
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: Be training, hanging out at home and then going to Oregon.
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: But it's gonna be crazy. I'm literally coming from coast
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: to coast, yeah, and it's like I'm driving twelve hours
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: home and then I'm not sure if I'm driving there yet.
• 29:38
  Speaker 3: But it's like literally a thirty three hour drive and
• 29:40
  Speaker 3: I just don't know if I can do that.
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: Los Angeles to Hear was thirty six hours. Did you
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: drive it my I made my dad drive it by himself. No, no,
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: not not by.
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: I think you would have to you would have to
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: stop for like multiple times, like three days.
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: No, it was it was four days, and we had
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: to stop because we had to stop in Utah to
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: get my stuff. And then Rebecca drove followed us and
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: drove with us, and so sometimes I would sit in
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: the car with Rebecca and some sometimes I would sit
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: in the car with my dad and like we stopped
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: along the way and we got to sight see and
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: everything that like that you should.
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: Well that's what I'm saying that it would be a
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: really pretty drive because you go through like Wyoming.
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: And Utah Pacific Coast Highway in Oregon to yeah, beautiful.
• 30:26
  Speaker 3: Like a week long thing. I could do that, And
• 30:30
  Speaker 3: because when am I? When am I ever going to
• 30:31
  Speaker 3: do it?
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: Right?
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: Not ever just gonna drive cross country? I think everyone
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: should get you drive back maybe that time I got
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: to drive out there first. But i also want to
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: see like the state of Oregon. I've heard like that
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: is really pretty. Uguene's like all the way to the
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: coast pretty much. Okay, it's like an hour off the coast.
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: So yeah, it's going to be a totally new experience.
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: It's going to be very playing a spring sport after
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: playing a fall sport my entire life, So that will
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: be new and interesting.
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: But that's more fun because then you can attend.
• 30:59
  Speaker 2: I can go to football, yeah, and I can go
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: to volleyball games, which are weird. So yeah, it's gonna
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: be completely new, But I'm just like I'm just gonna
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: do it. And you know, taking a risk, right, I
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: just don't want to be done with college sports yet.
• 31:16
  Speaker 3: So yeah, what education are you pursuing.
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: I'm doing advertising and brand responsibility.
• 31:22
  Speaker 3: Nice.
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so it's like the only one of the only
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: one year programs that I could have done, which was
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: really nice. I got to be able to do that,
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: and y'a'll be.
• 31:30
  Speaker 3: Done in June. I'll get a master's.
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: And then what's next after that? Because coming from me,
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: think about it, I stuff behind you. Yeah, think about
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: it now, like I wish a year ago I would have.
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: Been Yeah, I know I probably should start doing that,
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: but definitely something in sports. Yeah, not really sure. I
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: think I do want to play. I'm going to try
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: to play after Owes. I really want to go on
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: tour for AVP if I could do it and just
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: like stay in California for like a year or too
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: or something. Just kind of feel like I would want
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: to continue playing for as long as I can. And
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: if I'm like, no, I'm done, then I'll be done
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: and I'll find.
• 32:07
  Speaker 3: A job hopefully.
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: But yeah, definitely that interview process I feel like is.
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: Play sports as long as you know. But what everyone says,
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: so yeah, I feel like you're you'll love California.
• 32:23
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: I feel like it's very You're very like chill, like
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: he's going and a lot of the people are like hang.
• 32:30
  Speaker 3: And maybe I can learn to surf.
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, learn to surf. I feel like you'll love
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: Malibu too.
• 32:36
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I could see you being a California girl.
• 32:39
  Speaker 3: I love this. I'm so excited.
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: If you need any recommendations, I know me'll hit you up.
• 32:44
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: I guess what is your biggest takeaway from this experience
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: doing the podcast?
• 32:52
  Speaker 2: I feel like for me, I mean, like I've said,
• 32:55
  Speaker 2: I would have never seen myself doing something like this,
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: but I think just like the vulnerable side, because that's
• 33:02
  Speaker 2: just something you just don't see.
• 33:04
  Speaker 3: So I think finding.
• 33:06
  Speaker 2: Ways to get that out of people, I think it has
• 33:08
  Speaker 2: been really cool because I feel like I've been able
• 33:09
  Speaker 2: to do that in other areas of my life, conversations
• 33:12
  Speaker 2: with people I've never met before, or you know, people
• 33:16
  Speaker 2: I do know but still trying to get their story
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: out of them. I think that's a really unique skill
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: and I think that the podcast you Know help help
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: me with that, And just like finding different information out
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: of people is hard sometimes, but I feel like, you know,
• 33:30
  Speaker 2: going at this opportunity with full speed and just like
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: getting the most out of it.
• 33:36
  Speaker 3: For me, that was that's the coolest part, I think.
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: How about yall, I feel like I would definitely say
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: I've learned the skill of discernment and learning like when's
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: the right time to ask a specific question, how to
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: ask a question, what tone to bring it up in.
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: Those are a lot of things that I feel like
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: people don't really think about because as on a podcast,
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: people think it's like interview. The interviewer ask a question,
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: you answer, and then I ask another question, you answer,
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: and it's more like a conversation. So trying to understand
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: how to facilitate facilitate that conversation has been really interesting
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: for me. And then also just breaking out of my
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: shell too in general, Like I this is something that
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: you know, we've been blessed with the opportunity to have,
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: so just learning how to take advantage of that and
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: how how much can I learn? You know, Like I'm
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: always wanting to like learn and grow and you know,
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: know more about different sports. And I feel like I
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: have learned a ton a ton of things about sports.
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: I've learned a lot about baseball, lacrosse, like sports I
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: never even had the experience with when I was younger.
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: So it's it's been super cool to understand people but
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: also understand their story and their background and you know,
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: make them feel like their value too because they are.
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: So that's something really cool. Just just breaking out of
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: your show. And for the next people who are going
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: to be our co host too, like you're gonna learn
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: that you have to break out of your show because it,
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: you know, it makes for a boring episode. I feel
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: like if you're just like, oh, what'd you do? Then
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: why how you know? So just like realizing that it
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: is a conversation and and yeah, just to be personable
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: and you know, don't be afraid to like make a
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: joke here and there, and don't be afraid to, you know,
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: make fun of yourself or be silly. It's it's it's fun.
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: So I think, yeah, it's my biggest takeaway.
• 35:42
  Speaker 4: I'm just envisioning like a blooper real eve asking sport
• 35:47
  Speaker 4: related questions. So for people who don't know these, we're
• 35:50
  Speaker 4: very grateful for your vulnerability. You've never claimed to be
• 35:54
  Speaker 4: an all sport expert, and I don't think anyone is.
• 35:57
  Speaker 4: I think we all have questions about other people's sports.
• 35:59
  Speaker 4: I will never understand volleyball and tribe, but you always
• 36:03
  Speaker 4: asked great questions.
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: Yeah, because I'm thinking about that person who's not me.
• 36:09
  Speaker 3: Or a friend or for some of that, I don't know, you.
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: Know, that other person over there who may be listening
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: to the podcast and they don't know anything about what's
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: going on, and you know, or the people who may
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: be listening and can't get a visual of like how
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: the guest is using their hand motions or explaining things
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: to us. Like I think it's important to get like
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: the full picture, and so I'm just making sure that
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: for our audience and sometimes me sometimes sometimes that we
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: understand what we're talking about.
• 36:38
  Speaker 2: But I feel like it's cool because like if you
• 36:40
  Speaker 2: want to work in sports one day, like you get
• 36:42
  Speaker 2: to listen to like if you want to go play
• 36:45
  Speaker 2: or work with like a baseball organization, and like you
• 36:47
  Speaker 2: can like really like dive deep with people know more
• 36:50
  Speaker 2: about it. Same with like soccer lacrosse, Like I learned
• 36:53
  Speaker 2: so much about lacrosse, you're I don't know if any of.
• 36:57
  Speaker 3: Us ever really understood lacrosse.
• 36:59
  Speaker 4: I know.
• 37:01
  Speaker 3: So hard wait explain the line, right, but.
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: I will say that is that is a sport that's
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: hard to understand. And I've heard it, We've had it
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: explained to us.
• 37:14
  Speaker 4: Multiple I guess Kayla, Natalie, maybe the next one will click.
• 37:20
  Speaker 3: Yeah, maybe the next episode. Okay for you too, though.
• 37:22
  Speaker 4: Wrapping up your time here, what's been your favorite just
• 37:25
  Speaker 4: Clemson memory? What?
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: It's a good question, Yeah, my favorite.
• 37:34
  Speaker 3: Or a top highlight.
• 37:35
  Speaker 4: Maybe it doesn't be your like all time, no pressure
• 37:37
  Speaker 4: on it, but what's the top.
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: I would say, I mean, I don't know if this
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: is like a top top highlight, but watching our facility
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: be built from the ground up was incredible experience for me.
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: And just being able to be here from the very
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: start of a program to the very end and now
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: leaving as ACC champions, Like that's something that I'm gonna
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: take with me forever in life and I'm gonna be
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: searching for something like that for the rest of my
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: life because it's just it's been so fulfilling to see
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: something from the start all the way to the end
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: and getting to say that, you know, I was the
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: first ever I was part of the first ever gymnastics
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: scene at Clemson. I don't I feel like a lot
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: of people can't say that. So just having that experience
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: and then also just having the community embrace us too
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: as a new sport as you know, like new kids
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: on the block. We didn't really know what to expect
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: here at Clemson, but man, having sold out meets and
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: and you know, people coming up to us down the
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: street when we're like after a meet with our parents
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: like that has been so cooled. And just the relationships
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: that you know, we've made here, like these are not
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: just relationships that I feel like I've had during my
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: time here at college. I feel like their lifelong relationships.
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: So yeah, I feel like that's the the top, Yeah,
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: the top of the top moment for me. Yeah, I
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: love it.
• 39:18
  Speaker 2: I think just one that comes to the top of
• 39:20
  Speaker 2: my head is this year we beat South Carolina at
• 39:25
  Speaker 2: their place since first time since like nineteen ninety four
• 39:29
  Speaker 2: something crazy like that, and then we were like undefeated
• 39:33
  Speaker 2: for like four ms after that. So I think just
• 39:34
  Speaker 2: like that that little beginning to the season, it was
• 39:37
  Speaker 2: it just like showed how hard we had worked, like
• 39:39
  Speaker 2: in the spring, and that was one of our harder springs,
• 39:43
  Speaker 2: just with like new leadership and you know, captain stuff,
• 39:47
  Speaker 2: trying to like figure out how to you know, set
• 39:50
  Speaker 2: the standard and live by it and do all this stuff.
• 39:52
  Speaker 2: So I think that was just a really cool moment
• 39:54
  Speaker 2: beating them in five sets. It was just like wow,
• 39:56
  Speaker 2: like a lot of hard work like truly paid off.
• 39:58
  Speaker 2: So it was just like very like proud moment of
• 40:03
  Speaker 2: like the team and stuff.
• 40:06
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and then we beat FSU on our last game.
• 40:09
  Speaker 2: So that was just like cherry on top, just the
• 40:11
  Speaker 2: cherry on top full circle. Just really like you know, upset, emotional,
• 40:18
  Speaker 2: you know, the feeling, but like also adrenaline with the
• 40:20
  Speaker 2: love for the game. I think also in this one
• 40:23
  Speaker 2: is a little bit more like in general, but I
• 40:26
  Speaker 2: just remember losing a game and being like really upset afterwards,
• 40:31
  Speaker 2: like clearly, like you could tell I was upset, and
• 40:33
  Speaker 2: like a little girl came up to me and she's
• 40:35
  Speaker 2: like can.
• 40:35
  Speaker 3: I get your signature?
• 40:36
  Speaker 2: And like that was just like so sweet because like
• 40:38
  Speaker 2: they don't really care, Like they don't care if you
• 40:41
  Speaker 2: win or lose, like it's they just come to watch
• 40:43
  Speaker 2: you and watch your team. So I think that's the
• 40:45
  Speaker 2: cool part too of Clemson in general, and like the community,
• 40:48
  Speaker 2: like you said, is that people want to come see
• 40:50
  Speaker 2: Clemson watch no matter what sport, no matter your record,
• 40:54
  Speaker 2: no matter anything like.
• 40:56
  Speaker 3: That, Like they just truly loves.
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: And like obviously we care about being the best and
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: winning here at Clemson, but at the end of the day,
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: as a student athlete and having this experience experience, like
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: what I'm gonna remember most is like hanging out with
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: my teammates in the hotel room, or like doing games,
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: or like going on a boat and hanging out and
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: doing s'mores, Like all of all of those things that
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: you don't really like see or think about are just
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: like the special memories that I'm gonna hold tight forever here.
• 41:25
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it really is a grieving process too when your
• 41:29
  Speaker 4: sport ends.
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: Yeah it is.
• 41:31
  Speaker 4: And it's hard to take a while too. And I
• 41:33
  Speaker 4: know you're losing indoor, but you're getting to stay with beach.
• 41:36
  Speaker 4: But you like and I don't know if people understand
• 41:40
  Speaker 4: it till you're in it, and it comes in waves
• 41:42
  Speaker 4: and there's different parts.
• 41:43
  Speaker 3: And you said you mentioned, you know, trying to.
• 41:45
  Speaker 4: Chase that feeling of you know, ground up first team
• 41:48
  Speaker 4: ACSM champions.
• 41:49
  Speaker 3: Like I don't really know.
• 41:51
  Speaker 4: There's a lot of transferable skills from sport to life,
• 41:53
  Speaker 4: but I don't know if that feeling.
• 41:56
  Speaker 3: Comes back to you.
• 41:57
  Speaker 4: Like, not to be a downer, but I think that
• 41:59
  Speaker 4: that is a real I've hit my peak.
• 42:01
  Speaker 3: No, that is not what I said. That is not
• 42:03
  Speaker 3: what I said.
• 42:04
  Speaker 4: But it's also like how lucky I think, How lucky
• 42:07
  Speaker 4: am I to experience something so deep? We're like, I've
• 42:11
  Speaker 4: never been able to find that feeling of playing D
• 42:14
  Speaker 4: one basketball again, and that's okay. I'm also not out
• 42:18
  Speaker 4: here trying to be like Wreckley Champion the glory days,
• 42:22
  Speaker 4: but I don't know. But also how lucky am I
• 42:24
  Speaker 4: to have played and have those teammates and even though
• 42:28
  Speaker 4: I had multiple surgeries and it still hurts now, Like
• 42:31
  Speaker 4: how lucky am I to have done that?
• 42:33
  Speaker 3: Where I don't. That's not always the part we talk about.
• 42:36
  Speaker 4: Of course, it's sad when you lose your last game,
• 42:38
  Speaker 4: and in sports, rarely do you win your last game
• 42:42
  Speaker 4: if you have a postseason tournament, So we give everything
• 42:45
  Speaker 4: we have to more than likely end on a loss.
• 42:49
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and it's worth it. It's so worth it. Totally.
• 42:54
  Speaker 1: Don't be sorry it's over. I mean, don't be sad
• 42:56
  Speaker 1: it's over. Be happy that yeah, but also you can
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: sad like yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, so there definitely is
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: like a long, a long morning process that goes along
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: with doing a sport for over twenty years of your
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: entire life, and it's something that you're known as, like
• 43:12
  Speaker 1: oh no, the volleyball player, oh Eve, the gymnasts, like
• 43:14
  Speaker 1: we've we've been known as our sports our entire life.
• 43:17
  Speaker 1: So it's it's so weird breaking away from that, but
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: I think it's also so refreshing because now I get
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: to look for something new absolutely and I feel like
• 43:26
  Speaker 1: I have the whole world that you know, my feet and.
• 43:29
  Speaker 3: Always been more than a gymnast ortalball player.
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: Just like realizing that I haven't been just a gymnast
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: this entire time, and I have been like a fully
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: fledged person.
• 43:37
  Speaker 2: Yes, that's like, oh I'm feeling right now too, because
• 43:41
  Speaker 2: like obviously like I'm still gonna be playing next year,
• 43:43
  Speaker 2: but like in this little window that I have that
• 43:46
  Speaker 2: I'm not doing anything, it's like really weird. Oh I
• 43:48
  Speaker 2: literally do with all of this tame so much for time,
• 43:51
  Speaker 2: but it's like kind of weird that like I can
• 43:53
  Speaker 2: like find new things about myself, like oh, I didn't
• 43:55
  Speaker 2: even know that about I didn't know I like that,
• 43:57
  Speaker 2: or like different hobbies I can do so if you
• 44:00
  Speaker 2: don't have to jam pack your day, Yeah, I know,
• 44:03
  Speaker 2: like I think sometimes it's weird. I still struggle with that,
• 44:05
  Speaker 2: and it's been ten years since I've played of like,
• 44:08
  Speaker 2: oh I don't have to.
• 44:09
  Speaker 3: Have plans this afternoon.
• 44:11
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's actually okay for me to do nothing, right,
• 44:16
  Speaker 4: I don't have to go work out for two hours
• 44:19
  Speaker 4: at a time.
• 44:20
  Speaker 3: It is so weird.
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a screw day run practice.
• 44:25
  Speaker 4: Yeah, or like when I need to shower or change
• 44:28
  Speaker 4: or how quickly can I eat to get to the
• 44:30
  Speaker 4: next thing, bringing like.
• 44:31
  Speaker 3: Three changes of clothes?
• 44:32
  Speaker 4: Yeah? Am I going to walk in with ice bags?
• 44:34
  Speaker 4: Where can I throw away my ice bag?
• 44:36
  Speaker 3: Yeah?
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: It's kind of it's kind of hard to think about.
• 44:38
  Speaker 1: Like when I when we finished the season, I was like, oh,
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: like my life is over, you know, like that's I mean,
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: that's like a little bit dramatic to say, but I
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: literally thought like what is next? Like is this like
• 44:52
  Speaker 1: the end for me? Like what is coming on? But
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: you know, now being out of it for a little bit,
• 44:58
  Speaker 1: there is a lot more life live. And I feel
• 45:02
  Speaker 1: like it's cool because we're just you know, we've had
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: this amazing experience, and we're still at the beginning of
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: our lives. Absolutely, there's so much more to experience, so
• 45:10
  Speaker 1: much more to learn, So I'm really excited for the future.
• 45:14
  Speaker 2: So to wrap up, although even I will not be
• 45:16
  Speaker 2: here next year.
• 45:19
  Speaker 3: We are incredibly hope.
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: Everyone is crying.
• 45:21
  Speaker 2: I know, incredibly grateful for the experience and just everything
• 45:25
  Speaker 2: the podcast gave us, the incredible stories we heard, but
• 45:28
  Speaker 2: it's not over, and two new hosts will be joining
• 45:31
  Speaker 2: the Beyond the Past squad and cannot wait to see,
• 45:35
  Speaker 2: you know, all the new.
• 45:36
  Speaker 3: Stories that what the future holds, What.
• 45:38
  Speaker 4: The future holds Beyond the podcast season three this fall,
• 45:41
  Speaker 4: stay tuned.
• 45:44
  Speaker 1: Oh wait. I also want to just say like thank
• 45:46
  Speaker 1: you to all of the listeners who have supported us,
• 45:49
  Speaker 1: and you know, the people who've come up to us
• 45:51
  Speaker 1: and have been like, oh I listened to her beyond
• 45:53
  Speaker 1: the pod episode, like can I be on it? Yeah,
• 45:55
  Speaker 1: And just having people actually notice that what we're doing
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: and what we're talking about is important and important for
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: people to share their stories too. It's it's been such
• 46:05
  Speaker 1: an honor to be like a little part of that
• 46:07
  Speaker 1: and help facilitate conversations that have been super important. So
• 46:13
  Speaker 1: I just have this podcast to thank for facilitating helping
• 46:17
  Speaker 1: me learn how to be a person too, and how
• 46:19
  Speaker 1: to be a better communicator, and you know, and Ali
• 46:22
  Speaker 1: and Meghan with you know, handing us their child and yeah,
• 46:26
  Speaker 1: and trusting us with it, and you know, whoever takes
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: it over, we have trust in them and just know that,
• 46:33
  Speaker 1: like it's a responsibility to at the end of the day,
• 46:35
  Speaker 1: and you have people's lives who, like you, could change
• 46:40
  Speaker 1: so and your life can change too. So I'm just
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: super thankful to Clemson, Clemson Ventures, Trey Kevin, Jeff Tory,
• 46:48
  Speaker 1: everyone who has supported us on this journey. It's been
• 46:53
  Speaker 1: truly unbelievable that Clemson has something like this again. So yeah,
• 46:57
  Speaker 1: just thank.
• 46:58
  Speaker 3: You to everyone
• 47:02
  Speaker 1: That's wrap cut yay,