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Episode 79-Josh Hubbard · Johnny's World

• 0:20
  SPEAKER_02: All right.
• 0:21
  SPEAKER_02: Welcome back to a new episode of the Johnny's World Podcast.
• 0:24
  SPEAKER_02: This is BW here along with my colleague Johnny.
• 0:27
  SPEAKER_02: How are we doing today, Johnny?
• 0:29
  SPEAKER_01: Johnny's doing quite well today, BW.
• 0:31
  SPEAKER_01: How how are you doing today on this uh winter day?
• 0:34
  SPEAKER_01: Come about to be spring pretty soon.
• 0:36
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, man.
• 0:37
  SPEAKER_02: Doing doing good.
• 0:38
  SPEAKER_02: Um, kind of a crazy basketball game last night.
• 0:41
  SPEAKER_02: We'll talk more about that later, I'm sure.
• 0:43
  SPEAKER_02: Uh but glad baseball's cranked up.
• 0:46
  SPEAKER_02: I guess we'll see about baseball.
• 0:47
  SPEAKER_02: I don't know.
• 0:47
  SPEAKER_02: Jury's still out on the team, but uh overall, doing pretty good.
• 0:52
  SPEAKER_01: Awesome.
• 0:53
  SPEAKER_01: Yep, yep.
• 0:53
  SPEAKER_01: Spring's here, you know, our favorite time of the year.
• 0:56
  SPEAKER_01: The Masters will be coming up pretty soon.
• 0:58
  SPEAKER_02: Yes, sir.
• 1:00
  SPEAKER_01: Uh yeah, so good times, good times uh about approaching.
• 1:05
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, baseball season it's uh might be a little rough, but hey, at least at least we'll be outside enjoying the sunshine.
• 1:10
  SPEAKER_01: So that's always a good thing.
• 1:11
  SPEAKER_01: That is right.
• 1:12
  SPEAKER_01: That is right.
• 1:13
  SPEAKER_01: Still smoking to do.
• 1:14
  SPEAKER_01: Nothing like being at Duty Noble.
• 1:16
  SPEAKER_01: So that's that's that's all all good.
• 1:18
  SPEAKER_01: But uh, but yeah, uh, how's everything going on the on the coffee side?
• 1:22
  SPEAKER_01: Any any new announcements?
• 1:24
  SPEAKER_02: We're doing great.
• 1:25
  SPEAKER_02: Uh so Johnnypacker.net, we're still we're still up there um selling fresh roasted coffee.
• 1:31
  SPEAKER_02: We've got whole beans, we've got ground beans, we've got all kinds of different flavors.
• 1:36
  SPEAKER_02: I was just texting with our buddy the other day about the uh bourbon barrel flavor.
• 1:40
  SPEAKER_02: Um, it's a cool, uh, unique flavor.
• 1:43
  SPEAKER_02: If anybody's ever had bourbon barrel coffee before, it's got, you know, you've got to like the taste of bourbon or whiskey.
• 1:50
  SPEAKER_02: It's got a pretty strong flavor, but a lot of people really like that.
• 1:53
  SPEAKER_02: Um, I actually prefer it if you get it.
• 1:56
  SPEAKER_02: I like to do it as a cold brew.
• 1:58
  SPEAKER_02: Um, it's a little inconsistent when you do it hot, but when you do it cold, you're kind of staying at the same temperature and it it's real nice and smooth.
• 2:05
  SPEAKER_02: So it's it's good for a change.
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  SPEAKER_02: I don't drink it every day, but I like it.
• 2:08
  SPEAKER_02: So if you're interested in that sort of thing, hop on there, check it out.
• 2:12
  SPEAKER_02: But we've also got all kinds of other regular flavors and everything.
• 2:16
  SPEAKER_02: So there's something for everybody on there.
• 2:19
  SPEAKER_02: And I say this every time, but all y'all that are drinking coffee, you're going to Starbucks every day, you're going to Kroger, you're getting a bag of coffee that was probably roasted six months ago, some kind of folders.
• 2:32
  SPEAKER_02: You know, come support us, a local small business, Johnnypacker.net.
• 2:38
  SPEAKER_02: It's for a good cause.
• 2:39
  SPEAKER_02: We're donating a portion of our of our proceeds to the CF Foundation.
• 2:43
  SPEAKER_02: So y'all help us donate more money so we can become a really big donor and and support Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.
• 2:50
  SPEAKER_02: Plus, who doesn't like coffee?
• 2:52
  SPEAKER_01: So Johnnypacker.net.
• 2:54
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, exactly.
• 2:55
  SPEAKER_01: And I wanted to throw this out there for people who might wonder that this money doesn't come into Johnny's pocket, doesn't come into BW's pocket.
• 3:00
  SPEAKER_01: It's going, like you said, to the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.
• 3:03
  SPEAKER_01: And as you've listened to this podcast, you've heard about my story and my fight that I continue to fight every day of my life with CF.
• 3:09
  SPEAKER_01: And our goal in doing this podcast is spreading awareness about my fight with CF and letting others who might be struggling uh know that they're that to not give up, to keep fighting, keep living, like I always say.
• 3:21
  SPEAKER_01: And the way we do that is through uh through advancement, through um gene therapy and different trials.
• 3:28
  SPEAKER_01: And the only way that can come about to get new medicines, like the one that I'm on, tricapta, which is saved my life.
• 3:33
  SPEAKER_01: There's still 10% of the CF population that need new drugs that that they can't take the one that I'm on right now.
• 3:41
  SPEAKER_01: And they're out there just waiting, waiting, waiting.
• 3:43
  SPEAKER_01: And the money that we raise through simply buying a bag of coffee goes to the CF Foundation to help raise funds to so that they can come up with new drugs, because obviously money rules the world, and and that's what every and you know, with fundraising, I've done this for many, many years, uh, speaking on behalf of the children's hospital in Jackson, raising money and awareness for it because uh being spending the first eight months of my life there, it it means a lot to me.
• 4:10
  SPEAKER_01: And and it's called grassroots fundraising.
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  SPEAKER_01: We start, you know, pennies, nickels, quarters, dimes, they all add up.
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  SPEAKER_01: And that's what we're doing.
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  SPEAKER_01: You're simply buying a bag of coffee.
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  SPEAKER_01: You might not think you're doing much, but you really are.
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  SPEAKER_01: One bag of coffee you buy uh will help save, uh possibly save another someone's life with CF if they can get uh new drugs out.
• 4:27
  SPEAKER_01: So uh so yeah, it all adds up in the in the long in the end of everything, it all adds up, and you're just playing a simple part on it.
• 4:34
  SPEAKER_01: So uh Johnnypacker.net is the website, like I said.
• 4:38
  SPEAKER_01: Um we're just we're just promoting it and um and we're doing our best to try to try to get money raised.
• 4:44
  SPEAKER_01: Like like we were, we were actually honored last year by um by the CF uh foundation in the Memphis chapter.
• 4:51
  SPEAKER_01: We got to go up there, and that was really cool.
• 4:53
  SPEAKER_01: Uh we got recognized for our our fundraising efforts, and we want to keep doing that.
• 4:57
  SPEAKER_01: It's not about us, it's about raising money uh to help others, and that's kind of the whole purpose of doing this podcast together, but along with talking about sports and and food and stuff like that that we enjoy talking about.
• 5:08
  SPEAKER_01: So uh thank you all for listening.
• 5:10
  SPEAKER_01: And uh it's been it's been fun.
• 5:12
  SPEAKER_01: It's hard to believe that we've been doing this three years now, BW.
• 5:15
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, and I just wanted to say uh before our guest comes on, I have a feeling we're gonna have a lot of new listeners because our guest is uh he is uh he is becoming a very popular man around campus and just an exciting guy to watch play basketball.
• 5:30
  SPEAKER_02: And so if you're new here, we appreciate you listening.
• 5:34
  SPEAKER_02: Be sure to subscribe to our podcast because we plan to have more guests just like the one that we're about to have on.
• 5:40
  SPEAKER_02: Uh, we always have athletes, coaches, anybody affiliated with Mississippi State.
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  SPEAKER_02: So if you're interested in that sort of thing, listen to us and you can also listen and support a good cause.
• 5:49
  SPEAKER_02: So thank you all for being here.
• 5:51
  SPEAKER_01: Absolutely.
• 5:53
  SPEAKER_01: Like I like to say, it's a win-win deal.
• 5:55
  SPEAKER_01: You know, you get you get coffee, something that tastes good that you enjoy, and you're you're donating towards a good cause, and you're listening to this podcast, and you're you might be learning something new every every day you you listen to it.
• 6:05
  SPEAKER_01: So always a good deal.
• 6:07
  SPEAKER_01: That's right.
• 6:08
  SPEAKER_02: All right, Johnny.
• 6:09
  SPEAKER_02: Well, I'm gonna um leave us some room here.
• 6:11
  SPEAKER_02: We're about to introduce our guest, and so y'all stay tuned for Josh Hubbard, number 13 of the Mississippi State Bulldogs.
• 6:20
  SPEAKER_01: All right, welcome back, brand new edition of the Johnny's World Podcast.
• 6:23
  SPEAKER_01: It's Johnny here with BW, and we got our special guest today.
• 6:26
  SPEAKER_01: Really, really appreciate him coming on.
• 6:28
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, he is a a rising star in Startville, Mississippi for the Mississippi State basketball team.
• 6:33
  SPEAKER_01: Uh number 13, Josh Hubbard.
• 6:35
  SPEAKER_01: Welcome to Johnny's World, Josh.
• 6:36
  SPEAKER_01: Really appreciate you coming on, buddy.
• 6:38
  SPEAKER_00: Yes, sir.
• 6:39
  SPEAKER_00: Appreciate the invite.
• 6:40
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, man.
• 6:41
  SPEAKER_01: Well, uh, well, BW and I were just talking about that earlier.
• 6:44
  SPEAKER_01: We're we're both graduates of MRA, and you're a graduate MRA.
• 6:47
  SPEAKER_01: So I kind of wanted to start off there.
• 6:48
  SPEAKER_01: We got that in common.
• 6:50
  SPEAKER_01: Uh uh tell us about your journey to get to MRA, where how all that came to be.
• 6:55
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, so uh uh I went to MRA in third grade.
• 6:58
  SPEAKER_00: Um, I kind of followed my path of my brother and my sister.
• 7:01
  SPEAKER_00: Um they were both in uh they went to Murray High School, and um, I don't know what grade they were in in high school, but uh I just knew they were going to MRA private school and uh since third grade.
• 7:12
  SPEAKER_00: That's kind of how uh I followed them.
• 7:14
  SPEAKER_00: And um it was it was just a a change, you know, something I had to get adjusted too quickly.
• 7:21
  SPEAKER_00: Um I lived in Jackson at the time, and then my eighth grade year I moved to Madison, so uh it all it all came together at the end of the day.
• 7:29
  SPEAKER_02: Where'd y'all go to elementary school before MRA?
• 7:33
  SPEAKER_00: Um, I went to McLeod.
• 7:36
  SPEAKER_02: Um Man, that's where I went.
• 7:38
  SPEAKER_02: The McLeod Mustangs.
• 7:39
  SPEAKER_02: I was there until I went to MRA in fifth grade, so that's where I was too.
• 7:44
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I went to McLeod elementary school in uh span elementary school.
• 7:49
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, nice, yeah, nice.
• 7:52
  SPEAKER_02: Well, uh, we gotta ask you, because I mean, uh Coach Deweys was there when we were there, and uh I played football.
• 7:59
  SPEAKER_02: I didn't play basketball, but I played golf too, and he was the golf coach, and uh he wasn't really much of a golf coach.
• 8:06
  SPEAKER_02: I mean, he would just kind of go around and ride in the cart and he'd say, What's your score?
• 8:10
  SPEAKER_02: And I'd say, you know, like three over, he'd say, Well, do better, and then he'd drive off.
• 8:14
  SPEAKER_02: Um, but the uh but the study hall, I don't know if he still does study hall, but he was he was infamous for Wally, you talking?
• 8:23
  SPEAKER_02: Give me 25.
• 8:24
  SPEAKER_02: Is he is he still doing that kind of stuff?
• 8:27
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, he's still doing it.
• 8:28
  SPEAKER_00: He got me a couple times.
• 8:30
  SPEAKER_02: Oh man.
• 8:32
  SPEAKER_02: Is he making people sit on the wall too?
• 8:34
  SPEAKER_00: Nah, he don't do that no more.
• 8:36
  SPEAKER_00: He he got it a little nice.
• 8:37
  SPEAKER_00: He just he just stick with the push-ups.
• 8:41
  SPEAKER_02: Well, what what is he like as a coach, you know, especially now that you've been with Coach Jans and and uh Coach Deweis?
• 8:48
  SPEAKER_02: I mean, Deweys obviously the winningest coach in Mississippi.
• 8:51
  SPEAKER_02: I mean, what what is his style like compared to Jans and and how was your transition from that?
• 8:57
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, uh Coach Deweez, you know, he took me under his wing uh ever since my eighth grade year.
• 9:02
  SPEAKER_00: Um, my brother played for him.
• 9:04
  SPEAKER_00: So me and Coach Dewey's connection, you know, started at a very young age of mine.
• 9:08
  SPEAKER_00: Um we just had a special bond that nobody could break.
• 9:12
  SPEAKER_00: Uh he was a legendary coach, you know, before I started playing with him.
• 9:16
  SPEAKER_00: And then uh he told me that I could be one of his best players uh that he ever coached.
• 9:21
  SPEAKER_00: And um, ever since that day, he pushed me every day in practice and uh challenged me during games.
• 9:27
  SPEAKER_00: And so he he really gave me a college-like experience uh before I even got to college as far as uh being cultureable.
• 9:36
  SPEAKER_00: Um and you know, he was hard on me.
• 9:38
  SPEAKER_00: It was days I was frustrated, and that's helped me mentally uh transition to college with Coach Jans because um college is you know that can be stressful as well and uh have frustrating moments.
• 9:49
  SPEAKER_00: But um Coach Luis has really helped me get to this level.
• 9:52
  SPEAKER_00: Um Coach Jans is pushing me even more just like Coach Luis was, and I feel like uh that's what made my transition so smoothly to be coachable.
• 10:03
  SPEAKER_01: Well, well, Josh, I have to ask you, uh um, I I read an article the other day um that you overcame some some health issues, and um I wanted to hit on that.
• 10:12
  SPEAKER_01: Obviously, we're talking about basketball, but I want to hit on that because uh from a personal standpoint, I uh I've been battling cystic fibrosis my whole life, and that's kind of why we do this podcast.
• 10:21
  SPEAKER_01: We do we do a fundraiser to help raise money for and spread awareness about cystic fibrosis and um and just overcoming adversity has been a story of my life, man.
• 10:29
  SPEAKER_01: Just just uh just fighting hard and just keep living.
• 10:32
  SPEAKER_01: That's my mantra, keep living, just keep living.
• 10:34
  SPEAKER_01: And uh, and this story I read, um, it really inspired me.
• 10:38
  SPEAKER_01: And just I'll just hit on that and talk talk about that experience.
• 10:42
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, it was um it was fourth grade.
• 10:44
  SPEAKER_00: Um, I remember waking up in the morning uh feeling a little weak, and uh my mom noticed my face was a little swollen.
• 10:50
  SPEAKER_00: So she took me to um my doctor, and uh my doctor said I need to go to the hospital immediately.
• 10:58
  SPEAKER_00: Um I was I ended up there 19 days, and um, I think the first few days they didn't know what actually was going on with me, and then I soon got diagnosed with a disease called um Kawasaki, uh, like the motorcycle.
• 11:15
  SPEAKER_00: Um, and so that was uh that was um I don't I don't remember what uh what it like how I got it or anything like that, but there were like spots on my um stomach.
• 11:27
  SPEAKER_00: Uh I was real weak.
• 11:29
  SPEAKER_00: I lost like uh 20 to 30 pounds during those 19 days.
• 11:34
  SPEAKER_00: And so um, yeah, I had to miss school and everything like that.
• 11:38
  SPEAKER_00: Uh I was uh I was still motivated and you know I had a lot of support for my school and my family.
• 11:45
  SPEAKER_00: And uh like you said, just facing adversity, uh, that was pretty much the first time me facing a hard situation at such a young age.
• 11:52
  SPEAKER_00: And uh I just had to, you know, be positive because there were a lot of negative um moods and stuff like that in the room because you know it could have been a different way, but um yeah, I'm definitely great, grateful for that moment and uh how I overcame it.
• 12:09
  SPEAKER_00: You know, God helped me a huge in a huge way.
• 12:13
  SPEAKER_00: Uh and so for my family to be there for me and for MRA that supported me too, that was that was very grateful too.
• 12:20
  SPEAKER_01: Were you treated at uh at the children's hospital in in Jackson?
• 12:24
  SPEAKER_00: Yep, sure was.
• 12:25
  SPEAKER_01: Wow, that's a small world, man.
• 12:27
  SPEAKER_01: I worked there for many years and I spent the first eight months of my life in that hospital.
• 12:31
  SPEAKER_01: It's a special place and uh just uh can't say enough good things about it.
• 12:35
  SPEAKER_01: And so good to see success stories like yourself come from there.
• 12:38
  SPEAKER_01: We matter of fact, we did uh we did uh radio thons, and I talked to a former co-worker last night.
• 12:44
  SPEAKER_01: He still works there, and they the radio thon is coming up this week.
• 12:47
  SPEAKER_01: Uh and those were such good times because we had on, because I was thinking, I was like, man, if I was still working, I'd get Josh, you come on there and tell your story, because we would always bring former patients and uh and to come on and share their success stories, and doctors and nurses, and and help raise money and spread awareness because uh the hospital there is is it's the only hospital in the state of Mississippi treats patients from all 82 counties, and there's so many success stories a lot of people don't did not know about.
• 13:12
  SPEAKER_01: And now um through the years, people are hearing more and more, and um it's it's really an amazing place.
• 13:18
  SPEAKER_01: So congrats to you being a success story and and thank you, God, for Josh.
• 13:22
  SPEAKER_01: And just uh just so proud of you and and I love the way that you uh you thank God and you're just uh you're just all around great guy.
• 13:29
  SPEAKER_01: And I um put it this way, you're a you're a you're a perfect role model for a young athlete coming up.
• 13:35
  SPEAKER_01: So uh I commend you on that.
• 13:36
  SPEAKER_01: So really appreciate you.
• 13:38
  SPEAKER_01: Appreciate it.
• 13:41
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, well, uh just one other thing about MRA.
• 13:43
  SPEAKER_02: I think today they're playing in the overall championship.
• 13:46
  SPEAKER_02: So uh you've got one of those.
• 13:48
  SPEAKER_02: Uh I guess the last time they won, you were there, right?
• 13:52
  SPEAKER_00: Uh yeah, last time.
• 13:54
  SPEAKER_02: Because they I think they lost to prep the last couple years, and now I guess they're playing JA.
• 13:59
  SPEAKER_02: So um do you uh you still know any of the guys on the team?
• 14:04
  SPEAKER_00: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 14:05
  SPEAKER_00: I I keep in touch with them.
• 14:06
  SPEAKER_00: I've just texted a few of them today, you know, send a little motivational text.
• 14:11
  SPEAKER_00: Um big game for them, you know.
• 14:14
  SPEAKER_00: Uh overall is is it's it's a huge deal for uh M AIS and just Mississippi in general.
• 14:21
  SPEAKER_00: Um the best wins.
• 14:23
  SPEAKER_00: Uh it's the best of uh the three best teams of all the one A's, two A's, six A's, and stuff like that.
• 14:29
  SPEAKER_00: So it's a huge tournament.
• 14:31
  SPEAKER_00: Um anything can happen.
• 14:33
  SPEAKER_00: Uh I think a two-A school beat uh five A school in it, something like that.
• 14:38
  SPEAKER_00: So uh yeah, it's it's definitely a fun event.
• 14:41
  SPEAKER_00: Um, they got a great opponent against them going against JA.
• 14:44
  SPEAKER_00: They lost to him twice in the regular season.
• 14:47
  SPEAKER_00: So um, and I told them my story of when I was a junior, I beat JA twice, and uh they beat us the third time in the overall.
• 14:57
  SPEAKER_00: So I told them that you know it's it's hard to beat a team three times in a row.
• 15:01
  SPEAKER_00: Um, so that they're they're they're definitely motivated and ready to play tonight.
• 15:06
  SPEAKER_00: So rooting for them.
• 15:08
  SPEAKER_02: That is true.
• 15:09
  SPEAKER_02: It's hard to beat them three times in a row.
• 15:10
  SPEAKER_02: Didn't think about that.
• 15:12
  SPEAKER_01: Well, I have to ask you, I I um I I read something, or maybe I heard it heard you talk about it in an interview before that when you broke the record for the Mississippi uh overall score, and you're in the middle of the game.
• 15:22
  SPEAKER_01: Is that right when it when it was going on?
• 15:23
  SPEAKER_01: And you're like, can't can't really think about it at that time.
• 15:26
  SPEAKER_01: We were focused on that game.
• 15:27
  SPEAKER_01: But what was that like, man?
• 15:28
  SPEAKER_01: That was uh that was a huge accomplishment.
• 15:31
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, um, it was a uh semifinal game of the state championship, and uh we were playing PCS at PCS, so they had a huge crowd, and um, you know, when I got that bucket, uh it's like you said, I couldn't really, you know, like process the moment.
• 15:51
  SPEAKER_00: Um, but uh after the game, it you know came to realization.
• 15:55
  SPEAKER_00: But you know, during that moment, it was it was so it was so crunch time and had just had to get back on defense because the game was so close.
• 16:03
  SPEAKER_00: Uh I think we were up like two or three like under five minutes left in the game.
• 16:08
  SPEAKER_00: So they made a good comeback and you know they got comfortable.
• 16:12
  SPEAKER_00: So we just we just had to you know forget my moment for a while and finish the game first before we celebrate.
• 16:20
  SPEAKER_02: And that's cool.
• 16:21
  SPEAKER_02: Well, I know uh last night's game didn't turn out like we wanted it to, but man, you you've been on fire the past couple of games and you're you're kind of beating some own personal records there and everything.
• 16:32
  SPEAKER_02: So are are you uh what's going on?
• 16:34
  SPEAKER_02: Are you you just like in the zone right now?
• 16:37
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, you know, it's just uh just one of those games, you know.
• 16:42
  SPEAKER_00: Not really much to say about it.
• 16:43
  SPEAKER_00: Um uh tunnel vision, you know, focus, you know, uh the team, the team's focus for sure.
• 16:50
  SPEAKER_00: Uh we we got high expectations for uh the team, you know, Coach Jance has a lot of expectations for us.
• 16:57
  SPEAKER_00: So uh we just follow him.
• 16:58
  SPEAKER_00: Uh he's a great leader, he knows what it takes to win.
• 17:01
  SPEAKER_00: So uh every night we just uh try our hardest, you know, try to limit our mistakes, uh and uh look at our mistakes after each game and you know try to do better.
• 17:10
  SPEAKER_00: So when we play the next game, uh we know what to do.
• 17:14
  SPEAKER_02: Well, I was talking to Johnny about this uh before we came on.
• 17:18
  SPEAKER_02: And um, I'm an optometrist and I do some work with athletes, uh, sports vision training and stuff.
• 17:23
  SPEAKER_02: And so I I I always look at high-performing athletes, and Steph Curry is one of the athletes that I'm always really uh fascinated by.
• 17:30
  SPEAKER_02: He's done a lot of like vision performance training and uh a lot of like hand-eye coordination stuff, which is stuff I work on too.
• 17:37
  SPEAKER_02: And um that shot you hit down there at the end of the game, it just I mean, it was just like a Steph Curry shot.
• 17:43
  SPEAKER_02: You there was just no doubt that thing was going in as soon as it left your hand, got in your face, like way past the arc.
• 17:49
  SPEAKER_02: I mean, you had to have just been in the zone when you hit that thing.
• 17:53
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, it was a it was a cool shot to make.
• 17:55
  SPEAKER_00: Um it was it was just in that moment, you know.
• 17:59
  SPEAKER_00: I I can't really explain it.
• 18:01
  SPEAKER_00: Um it's it's it's hard to explain because uh it's you know how people view it.
• 18:07
  SPEAKER_00: Uh it's not how I think at it uh at the moment, but um for me it was it was just trying to make a comeback um and trying to finish the game.
• 18:17
  SPEAKER_00: So yeah.
• 18:19
  SPEAKER_02: Do y'all do any kind of like uh you know different kind of training or like like that, like vision performance stuff or any kind of like stuff like that?
• 18:26
  SPEAKER_02: I know Steph Curry uses like strobe goggles and all kinds of cool stuff.
• 18:31
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, we don't we don't use goggles like him, you know.
• 18:34
  SPEAKER_00: He he got he got a lot more resources, but um, we got we got some good resources too.
• 18:39
  SPEAKER_00: Um our strength conditioning coach, he does a great job with us uh building our techniques and you know our hand accornations and get quicker with our hands, feet, and stuff like that.
• 18:49
  SPEAKER_00: So yeah, I I think I think state does it has has a good great program for that.
• 18:54
  SPEAKER_00: Nice.
• 18:56
  SPEAKER_01: Well one thing I've noticed I have to I have to say is I feel like when you watch a when you watch a team, obviously talent is is a major thing uh when you put a team together, but that closeness and that that you know when when your team becomes kind of like your family, they're close knit.
• 19:12
  SPEAKER_01: And I feel like y'all have that on that team.
• 19:14
  SPEAKER_01: Just uh just talk about your relationships with the players.
• 19:17
  SPEAKER_01: And and you know, I see that picture of Coach Jans being buried in the sand.
• 19:20
  SPEAKER_01: That was a trip in the when y'all went, was overseas or somewhere.
• 19:24
  SPEAKER_01: Talk talk about that.
• 19:25
  SPEAKER_01: Was that I'm sure that was a bonding experience with your with your teammates.
• 19:29
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, Coach Jans tells us all the time, you know, uh talent can only take you so far.
• 19:35
  SPEAKER_00: So, you know, you got to do the the dirty work.
• 19:37
  SPEAKER_00: Um, we played a lot of talented teams this year that we've um that we've beaten.
• 19:42
  SPEAKER_00: And um, you know, it's it's just like you said, that closeness and togetherness that we've built it.
• 19:48
  SPEAKER_00: And it all started in Portugal um on our overseas trip.
• 19:52
  SPEAKER_00: Uh that that trip was was the thing that started it right there um with this uh journey that we all have as a team together.
• 20:00
  SPEAKER_00: Um, you know, we were there for uh I think uh two weeks or something like that.
• 20:06
  SPEAKER_00: So, you know, we played three games, that was fun to uh compete against other people because in the summer, you know, we just go at each other each and every day.
• 20:17
  SPEAKER_00: Sorry about that, but yeah, we go we go to we go against each other each and every day uh during the summer.
• 20:23
  SPEAKER_00: So um to just spend time with each other and uh do the things that we love to do on the court and uh also see Jams with a smile on his face, you know, like burying him in the sky.
• 20:36
  SPEAKER_00: You know, that was it was a cool experience.
• 20:39
  SPEAKER_00: So we we did a lot of fun events and just that special bond that we built uh since that day just keeps getting special and special.
• 20:46
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I saw that last night in the crowd.
• 20:48
  SPEAKER_01: Someone had the uh Jans's head buried in the sand as like a one of those heads that the student section had.
• 20:54
  SPEAKER_01: I was like, man, that's that's pretty funny right there.
• 20:58
  SPEAKER_01: Um I bet that was a cool experience.
• 21:00
  SPEAKER_01: Well, uh, I have to give a special shout out, Josh.
• 21:02
  SPEAKER_01: I feel like I feel like this is like we're all connected in some way.
• 21:05
  SPEAKER_01: You know, the world is there, you know, we always say the world is small, and especially especially living in Starp when I've learned learned that more and more.
• 21:12
  SPEAKER_01: Everybody kind of knows everyone, and and uh and you know, especially with the BW and I graduates from MRA, you're from MRA, then we had that connection with the Batson Children's Hospital, didn't realize that until recently.
• 21:24
  SPEAKER_01: And then our good friend, I'd give her a shout out, I told her I'd give her a shout-out.
• 21:27
  SPEAKER_01: Uh Evan, Miss Evan, as you call her.
• 21:29
  SPEAKER_01: Uh BW and I went to high school with her, been been friends for many, many years, and uh, I know she's a special person in your life, all right?
• 21:37
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, yeah, most definitely.
• 21:39
  SPEAKER_00: That's my second mom right there for sure.
• 21:41
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, that's what she says.
• 21:44
  SPEAKER_01: So uh uh she she's such a great person.
• 21:46
  SPEAKER_01: So I'm um so she so shout out to Miss Evan right there on this on this podcast, Johnny's World Podcast.
• 21:51
  SPEAKER_01: Uh uh Josh, you you just make us proud.
• 21:53
  SPEAKER_01: I can't can't say enough good things about you.
• 21:55
  SPEAKER_01: I just I feel like well, we've never even met, but I feel like I'm I'm so connected to you with you through all this stuff.
• 22:00
  SPEAKER_01: So uh but what you're doing on the court, man, we commend you and and uh you're just uh you're just a role model, people to look up to, and and uh just keep fighting.
• 22:09
  SPEAKER_01: And I was talking to BW.
• 22:10
  SPEAKER_01: We were in college in 2004 with that basketball team with that was so good with uh at state with Shane Power and uh Timmy Bowers, Winston Fraser, Lawrence Roberts.
• 22:20
  SPEAKER_01: We start off undefeated and we get beat.
• 22:22
  SPEAKER_01: First game we got beat that year was Kentucky, buzzer beater Eric Daniels put it in at the last second.
• 22:27
  SPEAKER_01: Reminded me of last night, you know, you fight so hard and then get beat at the buzzer.
• 22:31
  SPEAKER_01: But man, they and I'm sure Coach Jance talked to you about that.
• 22:34
  SPEAKER_01: You know, they they they after that game, I think they went on to win like 12 or 13 uh games and they didn't lose on the road.
• 22:41
  SPEAKER_01: Uh so you you know, and and as you as you you know in your own life, you know, adversity, that's you you you live for stuff like that.
• 22:49
  SPEAKER_01: It gives you momentum to build off on it, and and I could just see y'all building from that, learning from that, building from it uh and going on and having a successful season as March comes.
• 22:57
  SPEAKER_01: So uh so yeah, uh just just commend you so much and good luck the rest of the way.
• 23:02
  SPEAKER_01: We'll be pulling so hard for you and uh as March March comes and and uh when the tournament comes.
• 23:07
  SPEAKER_01: So thank you, Josh.
• 23:08
  SPEAKER_01: BW if you have anything else.
• 23:10
  SPEAKER_02: No, that's it.
• 23:11
  SPEAKER_02: Appreciate it, Josh.
• 23:12
  SPEAKER_01: All right, Josh.
• 23:13
  SPEAKER_01: Take care.
• 23:13
  SPEAKER_01: Hell State, good dogs.