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Ep. 37 - Going Bananas with Jackson Olson · Beyond the Paw - Clemson Athletics

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  Speaker 1: Today we have Savanna bananas. Jackson Olsen. Super excited to
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  Speaker 1: have you and get to know more about you.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, thank you for having me, of course.
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  Speaker 3: How has it been coming to Clemson and the environment
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  Speaker 3: and all of that stuff.
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  Speaker 4: It's awesome. Last night was fun. We went around the
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  Speaker 4: town a little bit. Yeah, I saw some of the bars,
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  Speaker 4: the college bars. Felt weird in twenty seven walking into
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  Speaker 4: a college town college bar area.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, they're welcome.
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  Speaker 4: Has been amazing, and yeah, it was really cool to
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  Speaker 4: come here November obviously. Yeah, but this one's a different beast,
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  Speaker 4: so sure, Yeah, this one is very.
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  Speaker 2: New for us.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, playing in front of eighty thousand people, like that's
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  Speaker 3: gonna be insane. And all of the tickets are sold
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  Speaker 3: out too, Like I was trying to get one and
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  Speaker 3: I couldn't find one anywhere, like they were trying to
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  Speaker 3: resell them and everything like that was.
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  Speaker 2: Just stay in the stadium until tomorrow and.
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  Speaker 3: They ca okay, yeah yeah, wait, just like sit in
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  Speaker 3: the seat until tomorrow exactly, or like maybe I'll go
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  Speaker 3: home and bring a sleeping bag, yeah, and then it'll
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  Speaker 3: be more comfortable.
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  Speaker 5: How is the field, Like it's a football field and
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  Speaker 5: I need to hear your perspective on the fence, because
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  Speaker 5: the fence situation is a little crazy.
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  Speaker 4: Right fence situation is kind of crazy. I'm a lefty hitter,
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  Speaker 4: so I'm not gonna lie. I like the dimensions of
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  Speaker 4: Tampa Bay better because it was the right field. It
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  Speaker 4: was like one hundred and eighty feet.
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  Speaker 3: Gotcha this one.
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  Speaker 4: It's flipped around, so now left field is short, right
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  Speaker 4: field as long. So now I gotta either flare a
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  Speaker 4: ball left or hit a bomb to the right. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: but yeah, it's pretty it's pretty crazy, pretty crazy.
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  Speaker 3: Got to be honest. We kind of snuck in and
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  Speaker 3: watched a little bit of your practice. But the fence
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  Speaker 3: that's up there, it doesn't like stop the balls from
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  Speaker 3: going out like it was in the seats with people
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  Speaker 3: and I was like, how are you someone going to
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  Speaker 3: get hit by a ball or something.
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  Speaker 4: You gotta bring your glove, Okay, gotta bring your glove. Obviously,
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  Speaker 4: a foul ball caught by a fan is an out.
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  Speaker 4: The home run is not an out. But still, if
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  Speaker 4: you're sitting in that area, you gotta bring a glove
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  Speaker 4: because some of the guys are hitting the ball very,
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  Speaker 4: very hard, and it's like the net ends at a
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  Speaker 4: certain point, right, so you gotta be ready.
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  Speaker 3: That's what we were worried about. I was like, someone's
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  Speaker 3: definitely going to get hit in the face.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, the guy one of your teammates who's on stack olds.
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  Speaker 1: He was just like hitting bombs like left and right,
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  Speaker 1: and we're like, that's like definitely hitting people.
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  Speaker 4: Well, he's literally already at the height of the fence basically,
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  Speaker 4: so he doesn't really have to hit it very high
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  Speaker 4: to get it out.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: So wait, so a little bit of background about you.
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  Speaker 3: How did you become a Savannah Bananas baseball player?
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  Speaker 4: Probably a typical the way you would think. I became
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  Speaker 4: a Savannah ban I posted a TikTok and they saw it.
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  Speaker 4: Didn't try out, didn't get recruited from my baseball skills, TikTok,
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  Speaker 4: recruited from TikTok, which is I want to say, I'm
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  Speaker 4: one of the first people to ever be recruited I
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  Speaker 4: do a sports team from a social media app.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. Pretty cool.
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  Speaker 4: We do have tryouts, though, so like the normal way
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  Speaker 4: to get on the team is through tryouts. Yeah, I
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  Speaker 4: posted a video, a couple of videos like hinting at
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  Speaker 4: it and Jesse Cole saw it and was like, we
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  Speaker 4: gotta do this.
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  Speaker 3: So you played baseball at Stetson before, yes, and Hartford?
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  Speaker 3: How was that?
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  Speaker 2: It was great? It was great.
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  Speaker 4: I wanted to go to Stetson because it was after COVID,
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  Speaker 4: so I was like, this is my one chance to
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  Speaker 4: play somewhere else not have to sit out a year,
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  Speaker 4: right and much warmer.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, in Florida than Connecticut.
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  Speaker 3: Very sure. Yeah, So what's your journey band like with
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  Speaker 3: playing pro? Did you ever want to go to the
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  Speaker 3: MLB or what's that? What did that?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: That was a dream.
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  Speaker 4: That was a dream for a lot of us, a
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  Speaker 4: lot of us and the Bananas party animals, all the
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  Speaker 4: new teams coming in. Okay, the reason we're here is
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  Speaker 4: because we started out as baseball players. Okay, now we're
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  Speaker 4: entertainers baseball players, but the root of all of it
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  Speaker 4: stems from us being traditional baseball players who learn how
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  Speaker 4: to dance.
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  Speaker 3: That's awesome, learned how to dance.
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  Speaker 5: What do you think is an underappreciated piece for the players?
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  Speaker 5: You all doing what you do for the Bananas, like
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  Speaker 5: from the common fans. What's something that you don't think
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  Speaker 5: people realize the depth of the baseball player.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, so good example of it. Actually have a tattoo.
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  Speaker 4: We have all matching tattoos the guys who are in
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  Speaker 4: this dance. So it's three two to two, third inning,
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  Speaker 4: second batter, second pitch. We do a choreographed dance, so
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  Speaker 4: the middle of the field, the catcher, well not the
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  Speaker 4: cat pitcher, shortstop, second bament, center fielder, and we're all
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  Speaker 4: best friends, which.
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  Speaker 2: Makes kind of cool.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, so we all got the tattoos at the same
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  Speaker 4: time and everything. But we have to do that dance,
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  Speaker 4: like I said, like in the middle of a batter,
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  Speaker 4: and we have to remember it from learning it, probably
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  Speaker 4: an hour and a half before learning that dance, and
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  Speaker 4: then we have to be ready for the pitch, so
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  Speaker 4: like we'll do the dance next to pitchers bound and
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  Speaker 4: also have to be ready for the ball to come
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  Speaker 4: at us while we're remembering the dance.
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  Speaker 3: Crazy.
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  Speaker 2: That's That's where I'm like.
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  Speaker 4: Really when people come in and they're like, oh, this
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  Speaker 4: is a bit like Globetrotters of baseball whatever, and I'm like, no,
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  Speaker 4: like this is legit. We're worried that like after we
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  Speaker 4: do the choreographed dance, we might get killed.
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  Speaker 3: How do you balance being an athlete while also being
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  Speaker 3: an entertainer at the same time. Yeah, I feel like
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  Speaker 3: that's so so.
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  Speaker 2: Hard, it's insane. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you get started on like TikTok and social media
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  Speaker 1: and all that, Like what made you want.
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  Speaker 6: To get into it?
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  Speaker 4: So I started posting videos at Hartford before COVID hit
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  Speaker 4: and and then I went home and made a bunch
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  Speaker 4: of videos with my parents. My mom, people recognized her
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  Speaker 4: for a moment more than they recognized me, which I
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  Speaker 4: was like, all right, mom, make your own TikTok, like
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  Speaker 4: make your own thing. This is my thing now. No,
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  Speaker 4: but yeah, just started posting videos about baseball, about life,
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  Speaker 4: and I realized pretty quickly, like my baseball career is
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  Speaker 4: going to end soon. So at that point I thought
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  Speaker 4: it was so I was like, all right, I need
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  Speaker 4: to make more lifestyle content. I love the Greatest Showman,
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  Speaker 4: I love musicals, I love Taylor Swift, I love all
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  Speaker 4: of these food all these different things. So I started
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  Speaker 4: making videos about the other stuff. And now it's become
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  Speaker 4: my character with the bananas.
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  Speaker 2: Yah.
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  Speaker 4: So I didn't start doing that, and I was just
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  Speaker 4: posting like my highlights, which no one cares about, by
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  Speaker 4: the way, Like no one cares about your highlight at all.
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  Speaker 2: You have to give people a reason to care.
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  Speaker 4: So what I started doing is I started making those stories,
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  Speaker 4: like a story about my life. I'll post a story
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  Speaker 4: about my life and how my dad helped me through
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  Speaker 4: when I was like, I do a lot of like
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  Speaker 4: when I was ten, fifteen, twenty and twenty five.
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  Speaker 2: That's how I like split up stories.
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  Speaker 4: And then the next video I'll post is like me
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  Speaker 4: making a player hitting a home So I made people
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  Speaker 4: care about my story, and now they care about the
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  Speaker 4: cool play or the home run or whatever. And that's
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  Speaker 4: how I've kind of built the I don't want to
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  Speaker 4: say like Hannah Montana type thing, but like best of
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  Speaker 4: both worlds, Like all right, I'm the social media kid,
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  Speaker 4: but I can also play baseball. So like combining those
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  Speaker 4: two and now we see a lot more people coming
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  Speaker 4: into the Banana's coach rack. Yeah, Tanner Thomas, like those
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  Speaker 4: guys are the same character where it's like they're the
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  Speaker 4: social media guy but also they can play baseball and
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  Speaker 4: you have to make people care about the first part.
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  Speaker 5: How do you think you learned that lesson? Like what
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  Speaker 5: was the light bulb of Like ooh, I need to
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  Speaker 5: Montana a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know.
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  Speaker 4: I think it was through just posting videos, Like I
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  Speaker 4: was posting and posting and posting it all right, what
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  Speaker 4: is this leading to?
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  Speaker 2: Is this leading to something? Or am I just doing
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  Speaker 2: this for fun?
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  Speaker 4: And then a couple of brands started reaching out and
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  Speaker 4: they were like, hey, we want to work with you.
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  Speaker 4: And they were small at first, and now they've gotten
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  Speaker 4: to the point where I'm like, I could quit bananas
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  Speaker 4: right now and be fine and be doing this. So
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  Speaker 4: now I'm like, Okay, baseball's going to end. I need
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  Speaker 4: to have the dual personality. If I don't have it,
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  Speaker 4: I could be released. They could say Jackson, You're not
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  Speaker 4: good anymore.
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  Speaker 2: See you next year.
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  Speaker 4: But if that happens, I have my phone in my hand.
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  Speaker 2: Boom.
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  Speaker 3: Do you have like a strategy to to your videos
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  Speaker 3: that you make or is it just like I'm gonna
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  Speaker 3: post like whatever I feel.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, basically I think about like who's watching it on
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  Speaker 4: the other side? Your target auto almost like, but it's
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  Speaker 4: almost on picturing myself watching my own video as a followercha,
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  Speaker 4: So like I'm like, what I think this is funny
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  Speaker 4: or like quirky.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know.
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  Speaker 4: A lot of it is very like a lot of
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  Speaker 4: what I do is the words on the screen matter
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  Speaker 4: so much, the way you say it, the way they
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  Speaker 4: have to fit in three lines. They don't fit in
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  Speaker 4: three lines. No one's watching it, right, first five seconds
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  Speaker 4: have to be like oh, like what's that? Last last
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  Speaker 4: part has to make you watch it again? Like right,
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  Speaker 4: it's basically those three things.
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  Speaker 3: Gotcha?
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  Speaker 1: Do you have any like advice like Nils getting big
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  Speaker 1: for us and you know we're not really influencers or
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  Speaker 1: very big on social media, but like anything that you
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  Speaker 1: would tell, like.
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  Speaker 3: Any advice building your personal brand, because yeah, in this
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  Speaker 3: world now that we're in with college athletics and nil,
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  Speaker 3: it's getting crazy and you have to have a brand
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  Speaker 3: to get paid.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I look at it like like a live dune
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  Speaker 4: for example, Like obviously she's the top of the top
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  Speaker 4: for athletes and she just retired, but she's the top,
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  Speaker 4: and I look at the only reason she's the top. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: she's a great gymnast, but she posts the videos that
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  Speaker 4: like people want to watch and they're like, oh, okay,
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  Speaker 4: this is interesting and I know Lsu, I know, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: but yeah.
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  Speaker 2: She likes it. But just as an example for people
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  Speaker 2: to look at.
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  Speaker 4: Like, like I said before, like I was posting my
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  Speaker 4: story into a clip or a highlight, her videos of
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  Speaker 4: her doing gymnastics would not do well if she wasn't
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  Speaker 4: showing who she was before that, right, And so like
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  Speaker 4: anyone can post a clip, but that's my advice. Show
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  Speaker 4: you tell your story, then post what you do on
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  Speaker 4: the field on the core. So it's about your story first,
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  Speaker 4: about like it could be. It doesn't even have to
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  Speaker 4: be like a long like this is my story, it's
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  Speaker 4: just who are you outside of the sport? Then show
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  Speaker 4: your sport?
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  Speaker 3: That's interesting here.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, well, and especially when you think about being an
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  Speaker 5: athlete in your identity is your sport, right, But you're
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  Speaker 5: saying you're more than that, and that's actually what people
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  Speaker 5: want to see and consume. And I think that's a
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  Speaker 5: really powerful message too, that you really are selling who
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  Speaker 5: you are as a person. And the highlights are cool
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  Speaker 5: and you can work those at two, but your sport
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  Speaker 5: is just part of it, not the whole thing.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, learning what who you are off the field is
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  Speaker 3: just as important.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I love that you mentioned Livy done because I do gymnastics,
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  Speaker 3: so really yeah, I take a lot of my advice
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  Speaker 3: from her and like trying to build my brand from her.
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  Speaker 4: But I lsu like I bet I had example that
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  Speaker 4: is the best prime example.
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  Speaker 3: No, she is the top earner for anil. He's the
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  Speaker 3: best example. But that's so interesting that you said, like
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  Speaker 3: her gymnastics videos weren't getting as many views as her
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  Speaker 3: videos that she posted about like her personality and stuff
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  Speaker 3: like that, And that's such a good takeaway to hear
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  Speaker 3: for other athletes for sure. Definitely who's your favorite like
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  Speaker 3: dance partner or like person on the team, Like who
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  Speaker 3: would you say?
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  Speaker 4: Ryan Cox? So he's our shortstop, second base, Okay, we're
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  Speaker 4: best friends. So it kind of works in the middle
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  Speaker 4: of the field too, communication wise. For dancer though I
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  Speaker 4: don't know. kJ Jackson's a really good dancer. Flash Are
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  Speaker 4: Designated Runner is a good dancer. And then Macio, who
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  Speaker 4: like teaches us the dances he's on real too.
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  Speaker 3: So how is it getting your teammates to get into
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  Speaker 3: a TikTok video with you?
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  Speaker 4: Like?
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  Speaker 3: Are there some who are like, no, I'm not doing that, bro, Like.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it was really really difficult as a college athlete
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  Speaker 4: when I was in college when and I wasn't a
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  Speaker 4: thing I wasn't making money to get someone into video.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, very difficult. Now it's easy.
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  Speaker 4: It's like it's almost guaranteed we're going to be making
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  Speaker 4: content at the field.
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  Speaker 2: You just go up to anyone you want.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, because video.
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  Speaker 2: That's how college sports should be now too, because of that.
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  Speaker 6: Iol for sure.
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  Speaker 3: Have you seen when you guys came to Clemson the
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  Speaker 3: last time. The Clemson baseball players have kind of taken
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  Speaker 3: a lick of your advice and kind of popped up,
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  Speaker 3: popped off on TikTok, and I see their videos like
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  Speaker 3: every day now.
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  Speaker 4: Oh yeah, it's huge there. I mean when we went there,
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  Speaker 4: we weren't sure how they were going to react. And now,
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  Speaker 4: first of all, they're one of the best teams in
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  Speaker 4: the country and they're the most viewed team in the country.
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  Speaker 3: Shoutout shot and baseball.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah crazy, they're all doing it.
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  Speaker 3: They are. It's hilarious.
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  Speaker 6: It's been funny.
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  Speaker 5: I have seen the picture of Jay Dillard coming out
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  Speaker 5: on a horse so many times.
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  Speaker 4: So funny story. I actually had to make this is
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  Speaker 4: our first day there. I had to make a video
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  Speaker 4: in their locker room of I think it was like
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  Speaker 4: a that's so true. So I had to do that
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  Speaker 4: and like run through their locker room. Well everyone was
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  Speaker 4: sitting down and I'm like, they're gonna hate this, but
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  Speaker 4: they all loved it. And I'm like, if I did
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  Speaker 4: this five years ago in my locker room, I would
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  Speaker 4: have been cut.
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  Speaker 3: So how did they react to like the Tiktoks and
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  Speaker 3: like you guys coming like first, because they were like
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  Speaker 3: this is like new to me, like making a dance video.
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  Speaker 3: Like how did you get them to be more comfortable?
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  Speaker 4: So I think it was a combination of us and
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  Speaker 4: entertainment team of like and also Jesse basically coming in
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  Speaker 4: and saying, guys, you be you be what you want
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  Speaker 4: and Eric backets to the head coach he was it
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  Speaker 4: wasn't for him, it wouldn't have worked because he'd let
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  Speaker 4: his team do that. I'm not sure a lot of
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  Speaker 4: coaches would rely, but clearly the stats show it from
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  Speaker 4: this year, like having fun turns in the winds.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, I bet there's a lot of teams out.
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  Speaker 4: There that are like, oh, Clemson, like the TikTok Boys, Well,
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  Speaker 4: the TikTok Boys are might win the college.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah TikTok Boys, Yeah, that's insane.
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  Speaker 6: I noticed you have a bandana on.
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  Speaker 3: Is that kind of like your thing that like a signature?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I started doing it two years ago. I didn't
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  Speaker 4: have a hat that fit me when I started with
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  Speaker 4: the bananas, and I was like, I saw her short.
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  Speaker 4: I saw Ryan Cox wearing or not wearing anything. He
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  Speaker 4: was just like, no hat on, and I'm like, let's
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  Speaker 4: just see if they say anything. They never said anything,
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  Speaker 4: and it's been my kind of go to. I have
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  Speaker 4: like probably one hundred different headbands and I wear them
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  Speaker 4: every game.
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  Speaker 3: Which one is your favorite?
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  Speaker 4: There's a splatter one that's like yellow and blue.
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  Speaker 2: That I wear a lot.
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  Speaker 3: Does anyone come like any and Dana come with like
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  Speaker 3: superstition superstitions?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, superstition, I don't think so.
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  Speaker 4: I used to wear a one that was like light
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  Speaker 4: blue with bananas all over it.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, I think I saw that one from.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's like the main one that I used to wear.
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  Speaker 4: And now I'm like, I need to switch it up.
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  Speaker 2: A little bit.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, we're a little bit in there.
• 13:18
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 13:19
  Speaker 3: Do you have any like game day superstitions at all,
• 13:21
  Speaker 3: like or rituals that you do before games, because like
• 13:24
  Speaker 3: as much as it is entertainment, like you're still playing
• 13:26
  Speaker 3: a game.
• 13:27
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's actually funny.
• 13:28
  Speaker 4: I used to make a TikTok before every game, okay,
• 13:30
  Speaker 4: and last year I realized first like twenty games, every
• 13:34
  Speaker 4: time I made a TikTok before the game, I had
• 13:35
  Speaker 4: a terrible game. Oh So now I make it like
• 13:38
  Speaker 4: the day before, like out of practice day.
• 13:40
  Speaker 2: I can post it during the day. But it's a weird.
• 13:42
  Speaker 4: It's a weird thing now where I'm like very nervous
• 13:44
  Speaker 4: to make one because I'm like, oh, I'm recording it. Yep,
• 13:45
  Speaker 4: I'm going up for three. Here we go. I don't
• 13:48
  Speaker 4: know what it is about it, but it's on game day.
• 13:50
  Speaker 4: I feel like it's just a thing where it's like
• 13:52
  Speaker 4: I need to focus myself too right into the mode because,
• 13:55
  Speaker 4: like I said, like we're baseball players first.
• 13:57
  Speaker 6: Right, But yeah, have you made any today?
• 14:00
  Speaker 2: Three today? Because we're not playing today a game?
• 14:03
  Speaker 6: There you go.
• 14:04
  Speaker 5: Yeah, what has it been like on campus? You've surely
• 14:07
  Speaker 5: seen some of the facilities. You're in Clemson. We know
• 14:11
  Speaker 5: it's unreal, but what do you think of the all
• 14:13
  Speaker 5: the different buildings and what the student athletes have.
• 14:16
  Speaker 2: It's crazy. I mean, I went to a small school
• 14:18
  Speaker 2: in Connecticut, not a bigger school. At Stetson.
• 14:20
  Speaker 4: But even then, it's like the facilities are unbelieve I
• 14:24
  Speaker 4: can't even wrap my head around it.
• 14:26
  Speaker 2: I've never been able.
• 14:27
  Speaker 4: To be in a facility like this, So yeah, it's
• 14:31
  Speaker 4: like you said, it's crazy, It's crazy. It's overwhelming. Definitely
• 14:34
  Speaker 4: the locker rooms too. I'm like, we got a tour
• 14:37
  Speaker 4: of one of the Clemson locker rooms, one locker rooms,
• 14:41
  Speaker 4: one of them, and they're like, oh, yeah, we only
• 14:43
  Speaker 4: use this for home games. Other ones over there, and
• 14:45
  Speaker 4: I'm like, this is the nicest place I've ever been
• 14:47
  Speaker 4: in my life.
• 14:47
  Speaker 2: You use it seven times.
• 14:50
  Speaker 3: So we call it the White House over there where
• 14:52
  Speaker 3: they have the practice locker room, packed locker room and
• 14:55
  Speaker 3: they have a slide in there.
• 14:56
  Speaker 4: I was going to say it smelled a little too good,
• 14:59
  Speaker 4: like the where the paths were the smelly shoes were.
• 15:02
  Speaker 3: But yeah, how has it been like getting a reaction
• 15:05
  Speaker 3: from fans like do you get recognized when you're walking
• 15:07
  Speaker 3: down the street like in Savannah or how has that
• 15:09
  Speaker 3: been a decent amount?
• 15:11
  Speaker 4: Last night it was a little more overwhelming where I'm like, oh, okay,
• 15:15
  Speaker 4: like this is yeah. When I'm in like big, I
• 15:17
  Speaker 4: don't really put myself in like big like situations like that,
• 15:20
  Speaker 4: like at a bar, like a massive bar like the
• 15:22
  Speaker 4: Tiger Town and I think it's.
• 15:24
  Speaker 3: Called Yeah shout out tiger Town area is like that, and.
• 15:26
  Speaker 2: Then the place right next to it.
• 15:28
  Speaker 4: I was like, okay, I'm getting kind of looked at,
• 15:31
  Speaker 4: and then a couple people would come up and then
• 15:33
  Speaker 4: it was like all right, I'm gonna We're gonna go.
• 15:35
  Speaker 3: Now how has that been? Do you get like overwhelmed
• 15:38
  Speaker 3: or like nervous when people come up to you, or.
• 15:40
  Speaker 4: Like because we're doing it so much after our games
• 15:42
  Speaker 4: and before our games, it is pretty easy now. But
• 15:46
  Speaker 4: now it's a thing where like if I'm at a
• 15:48
  Speaker 4: bar or somewhere that bad things could happen even if
• 15:52
  Speaker 4: I'm not doing anything.
• 15:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm like, oh, there might be a phone on me.
• 15:54
  Speaker 4: At a bananas game, It's like fine, I'm like, yeah,
• 15:57
  Speaker 4: we can do whatever, we can make tiktoks whatever, but yeah,
• 16:00
  Speaker 4: I definitely am careful.
• 16:02
  Speaker 3: Okay, So are there any like weird things like a
• 16:05
  Speaker 3: fan has asked you or crazy experiences or what about
• 16:08
  Speaker 3: like signs at a game or like stuff like that, Like.
• 16:11
  Speaker 4: There have been some sign Like two years ago there
• 16:14
  Speaker 4: was an R rated sign. Okay, I can't even say
• 16:16
  Speaker 4: on this, but like I saw it in the stands
• 16:17
  Speaker 4: and I'm like, all right, someone's got to go take that.
• 16:21
  Speaker 2: Tell him to put it down. There are kids here,
• 16:22
  Speaker 2: you can notice that.
• 16:23
  Speaker 4: Yes, well it was a massive It was like three
• 16:26
  Speaker 4: rows behind the dugout and I was playing third base
• 16:29
  Speaker 4: at the time, and I'm.
• 16:30
  Speaker 3: Like, yeah, someone from someone go grab that.
• 16:35
  Speaker 4: Crazy moment though, I signed a prosthetic leg of a
• 16:39
  Speaker 4: guy that literally took it off and tossed it to me.
• 16:42
  Speaker 5: He took took his leg off, like you're on the field.
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: No.
• 16:45
  Speaker 4: No, this was like after the game in the plaza
• 16:47
  Speaker 4: two years ago, and it's pitch black you can't really see.
• 16:49
  Speaker 4: So like I saw him and I was like, oh,
• 16:52
  Speaker 4: did you catch it? Yeah, I got it and I
• 16:54
  Speaker 4: signed it and he was he was over there like
• 16:55
  Speaker 4: and I threw it back to.
• 16:56
  Speaker 2: Him and he was like, you're the mass It's amazing.
• 16:58
  Speaker 5: That sane.
• 17:00
  Speaker 2: That's insane that he could do that.
• 17:01
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that just shows the amount of like bands, the
• 17:05
  Speaker 3: amount of love Savannah Banas gets. That's awesome.
• 17:07
  Speaker 2: It's fun.
• 17:08
  Speaker 5: Yeah, what's the life on the road like? Traveling a lot,
• 17:12
  Speaker 5: playing a lot of games, what's that Like?
• 17:14
  Speaker 4: It's a lot not like Major League Baseball where we're
• 17:17
  Speaker 4: not like playing every single day, but the schedule kind
• 17:21
  Speaker 4: of goes like we leave on Thursday, rehearsal day, Friday,
• 17:25
  Speaker 4: play Saturday, Sunday, off day, Monday and Tuesday, then practice
• 17:29
  Speaker 4: Wednesday back at it.
• 17:31
  Speaker 3: Wow.
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: So but a week like this, we have one game,
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: so it's much easier.
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 17:34
  Speaker 3: I was like bussing with the team and that type
• 17:36
  Speaker 3: of stuff.
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: It's fun. We usually end up making videos.
• 17:38
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 17:39
  Speaker 4: I usually sleep ninety five percent of the time. Okay,
• 17:42
  Speaker 4: but a lot of guys usually try to try to
• 17:44
  Speaker 4: get your rest in. Then if we don't sleep a
• 17:47
  Speaker 4: lot on.
• 17:47
  Speaker 5: The road, Yeah, what's your sleeping hack on the bus?
• 17:51
  Speaker 5: Because it takes skill to get comfortable.
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 17:53
  Speaker 4: So I need a need a window, need a window.
• 17:56
  Speaker 4: And I have this from TikTok shop. There's like this
• 17:59
  Speaker 4: really fuzzy like yeah, it's a fuzzy sweashirt, fuzzy shorts
• 18:05
  Speaker 4: combo and I roll them up and I just.
• 18:09
  Speaker 5: Sometimes I've seen people like teams get the like dog
• 18:18
  Speaker 5: like that's actually genius that.
• 18:22
  Speaker 3: I needed that. This year it was so bad, Oh,
• 18:25
  Speaker 3: my word busting, like for four hours, like in the
• 18:28
  Speaker 3: seat belt, it's like in your back. It's absolutely the worst,
• 18:32
  Speaker 3: the worst. Do you have any like younger fans or
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: advice for younger fans that you would say, like who
• 18:37
  Speaker 3: are in baseball and like maybe want to go pro,
• 18:40
  Speaker 3: but could consider the Savannah bananas as another option too.
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I would say, it's funny, I asked.
• 18:45
  Speaker 4: So I got the opportunity to talk to my idol,
• 18:47
  Speaker 4: Derek Jeter, Wow, got to ask him questions, and the
• 18:52
  Speaker 4: one main one was I asked that question and he
• 18:54
  Speaker 4: was like, you're gonna fail if you play baseball. You're
• 18:55
  Speaker 4: gonna fail so many more times than you're going to succeed,
• 18:58
  Speaker 4: and even then you can still be successful.
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: Yeah, And he just stopped at that, and I was like, whoa.
• 19:04
  Speaker 4: That's all you need to say. That's all, Like, there's
• 19:05
  Speaker 4: no other there's nothing that needs to go after that.
• 19:07
  Speaker 4: It's like, you're just going to fail, but even if
• 19:10
  Speaker 4: you do, you can still be successful. So a lot
• 19:12
  Speaker 4: of kids see one thing they do wrong and they're like,
• 19:14
  Speaker 4: I'm done, done forever. Yeah, I didn't get an opportunity
• 19:17
  Speaker 4: to play professional baseball. I'm like, all right, this sucks.
• 19:20
  Speaker 4: For like two months I was like, what am I
• 19:22
  Speaker 4: going to do now? Instead of the next day being
• 19:24
  Speaker 4: like all right, now what Like, now, what's the next step?
• 19:27
  Speaker 4: I can still be successful, So yeah, don't worry about
• 19:30
  Speaker 4: the one little failure or the two or the three
• 19:32
  Speaker 4: or the four, like, you still have a good chance.
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: Right, that's such good advice. What about we heard you
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: were drafted to the Arizona Diamondbacks.
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 19:41
  Speaker 4: I was offered a contract for after the draft, which
• 19:44
  Speaker 4: happens a lot, so like, if you don't get chosen
• 19:46
  Speaker 4: in the draft, you can have an opportunity to sign.
• 19:50
  Speaker 4: So I was playing in the Cape Cod League and
• 19:52
  Speaker 4: playing playing pretty well. They reached out and they were like,
• 19:54
  Speaker 4: we'll give you five thousand dollars to sign, And at
• 19:56
  Speaker 4: that point I'm like, yeah, I've never seen five dollars
• 20:00
  Speaker 4: in my life. I'm a recent college grad. I was
• 20:04
  Speaker 4: in probably more debt than I could imagine. And I
• 20:08
  Speaker 4: turned it down because I called my coach from Hartford
• 20:10
  Speaker 4: and he was like, go back for your senior year, graduate,
• 20:13
  Speaker 4: get drafted, and like if you have a good year,
• 20:16
  Speaker 4: you'll get drafted.
• 20:16
  Speaker 5: Whatever.
• 20:17
  Speaker 4: Yeah, next year was COVID, So the draft got shortened
• 20:20
  Speaker 4: by about ninety percent. Yeah, and I was not not
• 20:23
  Speaker 4: in that ten percent best players, So yeah.
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: That's crazy.
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: Kind of going back to like banana ball, there's like
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: I've heard there's like different rules or like different things
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: other than just normal baseball. Can you kind of explain, you.
• 20:36
  Speaker 6: Know, kind of like the challenges of that or just
• 20:38
  Speaker 6: you know, just in general the rules.
• 20:40
  Speaker 4: Yeah, two hour time limits, so after two hours done,
• 20:44
  Speaker 4: no walks. If you walk, get four balls on you.
• 20:46
  Speaker 4: It's a sprint until every every single fielder has to
• 20:49
  Speaker 4: touch the ball before they can tag you out. So
• 20:51
  Speaker 4: it's pretty fun when that happens. Not on defense, but
• 20:54
  Speaker 4: when you're the runner, when you're the offensive team, can't
• 20:58
  Speaker 4: step out of the box. And if you my favorite
• 21:00
  Speaker 4: two of my favorite are fan catch foul ball isn't
• 21:03
  Speaker 4: out and if you bunt, you're ejected from the game.
• 21:06
  Speaker 3: But you they literally throw you out of the game.
• 21:09
  Speaker 3: You're don wait what does bunt mean for the non base.
• 21:11
  Speaker 4: So for the non baseball player, instead of making a
• 21:13
  Speaker 4: full swing, you just put your bat out and the
• 21:16
  Speaker 4: ball hits it and then they so it's hard for
• 21:17
  Speaker 4: the defense to.
• 21:18
  Speaker 3: Have to try to go get it, so they have
• 21:19
  Speaker 3: to run up to the base kind of to grab
• 21:21
  Speaker 3: the ball.
• 21:21
  Speaker 4: Yes, okay, but if you do that, if you if
• 21:24
  Speaker 4: you hit the ball like that, you're ejected from the game.
• 21:26
  Speaker 3: Does everyone know that?
• 21:28
  Speaker 5: Uh?
• 21:28
  Speaker 4: Yeah, because the rules, so you'll see, well, every before
• 21:32
  Speaker 4: every game they list the rules. Okay, so everybody knows, like,
• 21:34
  Speaker 4: all right, fan, catch foul ball to our time limit
• 21:37
  Speaker 4: all that.
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: So how is it playing with like the party animals
• 21:40
  Speaker 3: too and travel like are they a part of the
• 21:42
  Speaker 3: Savannah Bananas, Like they're like firefighters.
• 21:44
  Speaker 4: They're under the umbrella of Banana Ball and Savannah Bananas.
• 21:48
  Speaker 4: So it's not like this other team from across the
• 21:50
  Speaker 4: country that we're like feuding with. It's all I mean,
• 21:53
  Speaker 4: we share locker rooms, okay, we play on the same
• 21:55
  Speaker 4: field in Savannah. So and then there are two teams
• 21:58
  Speaker 4: coming in, the Firefighters and Tailgators who are starting.
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: Up in the month.
• 22:03
  Speaker 4: I want to say, gotcha cool, So it's going to
• 22:04
  Speaker 4: be crazy. Then next year six and then who knows,
• 22:06
  Speaker 4: maybe there's ten.
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: That's so cool.
• 22:09
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, where are all of the places you guys
• 22:12
  Speaker 3: are traveling this year for your world tour?
• 22:16
  Speaker 4: So we played at Tampa Bay, which was cool, the
• 22:17
  Speaker 4: Buck Stadium, truest. We're playing in seventeen MLV stadiums and
• 22:21
  Speaker 4: three NFL and then one college.
• 22:24
  Speaker 6: Awesome.
• 22:25
  Speaker 4: Yeah, and I'm most excited for your Yankee stadium other
• 22:29
  Speaker 4: than this place.
• 22:30
  Speaker 5: Yea.
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: I grew up in Connecticut, so.
• 22:32
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's cool, a full circle moment. Did you have
• 22:36
  Speaker 3: any like players? I know you mentioned Derek Jeter, but
• 22:39
  Speaker 3: did you have any players that you looked up to?
• 22:42
  Speaker 4: Yeah, Derek Jeter, Alex Rodriguez, a lot of Yankees guys. Yeah,
• 22:47
  Speaker 4: those two, those two mainly.
• 22:48
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 22:49
  Speaker 3: I went to a Yankees game for the first time
• 22:51
  Speaker 3: last summer, and I was there for an internship in
• 22:54
  Speaker 3: New York. But I took the train and had the
• 22:57
  Speaker 3: whole exposed experience. It is insane. There are so many
• 23:00
  Speaker 3: people there. Everyone's so rowdy. I think there was a
• 23:02
  Speaker 3: fight behind me. Like I had the best time, and
• 23:05
  Speaker 3: like I feel like growing up there and going to
• 23:07
  Speaker 3: those games like would make you want to be a
• 23:09
  Speaker 3: baseball player. Oh yeah, like I wanted to be a
• 23:11
  Speaker 3: baseball player.
• 23:12
  Speaker 4: I'm not sure we'll have a fight like a Red
• 23:13
  Speaker 4: Sox Yankees fight between the bananas and party animals fans.
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: We're a little more civil, but it'll still be fun.
• 23:20
  Speaker 5: That's awesome. Baseball bananas aside. What do you care about
• 23:24
  Speaker 5: in life? What are your passions? What's important to Jackson?
• 23:28
  Speaker 4: Family number one, one hundred percent, just like I want
• 23:33
  Speaker 4: to see them as much as I possibly can. A
• 23:36
  Speaker 4: lot of family stuff happening right now. My brother just
• 23:38
  Speaker 4: got engaged, which.
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: Is really cool.
• 23:41
  Speaker 4: Also, sister just had her second child, so got to
• 23:44
  Speaker 4: see him for a little while over Easter. So family. Yeah, yeah,
• 23:49
  Speaker 4: family number one too. I would just say creativity. I
• 23:52
  Speaker 4: love being creative every single day. That means the most
• 23:55
  Speaker 4: to me, whether it's making videos, planning videos with teammates,
• 23:59
  Speaker 4: helping other teammates, or other people figure out what they
• 24:02
  Speaker 4: want to do. Right those are my two. Like family
• 24:06
  Speaker 4: and creativity are like my core. Like that that's at
• 24:07
  Speaker 4: my core.
• 24:08
  Speaker 3: So that's awesome.
• 24:09
  Speaker 5: Cool.
• 24:10
  Speaker 3: Do you have any advice for people who are like
• 24:12
  Speaker 3: starting to build their brand right now?
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: Be yourself?
• 24:15
  Speaker 4: Because if you're not yourself right now and you gain
• 24:17
  Speaker 4: a bunch of followers and then you're like, oh wait
• 24:20
  Speaker 4: that I want to switch up. A lot of people
• 24:22
  Speaker 4: are eyes around me right now. I can't be that
• 24:24
  Speaker 4: fake person anymore. It's going to be way harder to
• 24:26
  Speaker 4: create content, and that's a number one piece of advice.
• 24:29
  Speaker 4: Like I if you go back to my first video
• 24:31
  Speaker 4: I ever made, you might not know if depending on circumstance,
• 24:35
  Speaker 4: but like you might not know if I made that
• 24:36
  Speaker 4: video yesterday or five years ago. All every video I
• 24:39
  Speaker 4: make is like totally me yourself. I've just I've just
• 24:43
  Speaker 4: been doing different things.
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: So like, yeah, a.
• 24:47
  Speaker 6: Son, it's really good advice.
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: That is what are like some challenges of posting on
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: social media, Like do you ever run into like creative
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: blocks or like I don't know, things that like you
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: want to post but you can't, or like stuff like that.
• 25:00
  Speaker 4: Sometimes, Yeah, I got into a block of like I
• 25:03
  Speaker 4: was only posting bananas content for a while, gotcha, And
• 25:05
  Speaker 4: then I went to Disney and posted like five Disney
• 25:07
  Speaker 4: videos and it got me out of that funk of
• 25:10
  Speaker 4: like I'm doing the same thing every day, like I need.
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: To switch it up a little bit.
• 25:14
  Speaker 4: So basically, whenever you're in that block, just switch up
• 25:16
  Speaker 4: what you're actually doing in real life, not just trying
• 25:18
  Speaker 4: to switch up your content, because that's going to be
• 25:20
  Speaker 4: impossible to just like ooh, I'm gonna switch up what
• 25:22
  Speaker 4: I'm posting. No move yourself into another area, literally physically
• 25:27
  Speaker 4: get somewhere else, and your creativity will start going again.
• 25:31
  Speaker 3: I feel like it could be hard, like doing the
• 25:32
  Speaker 3: same thing every day, Like you're on tour with the Bananas,
• 25:35
  Speaker 3: You're with the guys all the time. So that's like
• 25:37
  Speaker 3: the majority of your content.
• 25:38
  Speaker 4: Yeah, And the main thing I want to do too
• 25:40
  Speaker 4: is like when I see my page, I don't want
• 25:42
  Speaker 4: three yellow jersey tiktoks in a row. Yeah, Like I
• 25:45
  Speaker 4: want someone to go to my page and be like
• 25:46
  Speaker 4: a banana kid. Yeah, I want different. I want to
• 25:49
  Speaker 4: like sometimes I'll wear I'll put on if we're wearing
• 25:52
  Speaker 4: yellow that day and I'm making a video, I'll wear
• 25:55
  Speaker 4: my white jersey just to like switch it up. Because
• 25:57
  Speaker 4: you don't want people seeing the exact same. That's for
• 25:59
  Speaker 4: any college athlete. Don't want like, yeah, your jersey and
• 26:02
  Speaker 4: every single video.
• 26:03
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 26:04
  Speaker 3: I understand that the leotard, the leotard pictures seed, it
• 26:09
  Speaker 3: gets ruined. Like I want people to see that I
• 26:11
  Speaker 3: actually do have a life, like outside of gymnastics.
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: The reason for this podcast like going beyond of like
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: what athletes are you know more of about them and
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: their story and who they are.
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: Definitely what do you guys want to do after this?
• 26:26
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'll let you go first.
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: Well, I have a little bit more time than to eve,
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: but I think, you know, rebel sports communication majors, So
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: definitely want to stay in the sports world. I feel like,
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: obviously that's been our whole lives, so you know, either
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: going to sports broadcasting or reporting ESPN something like along
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: those lines. But would just be super happy just to
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: stay in sports. And I play volleyball, so whether it's
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: in that realm or you know, other sports, but just
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: kind of staying in the athlete zone is kind of
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: my things.
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: Very cool.
• 27:01
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 27:01
  Speaker 3: Yeah, So I graduated with the communications major and then
• 27:04
  Speaker 3: I'm doing a marketing masters right now, and then because
• 27:07
  Speaker 3: of COVID and I have a red shirt year, I'm
• 27:10
  Speaker 3: taking a sixth year, so I'm going to get a
• 27:12
  Speaker 3: second masters in Sports business analytics.
• 27:14
  Speaker 5: Wow.
• 27:15
  Speaker 3: So I thought at first with communications that I wanted
• 27:18
  Speaker 3: to do production and wanted to be like a reporter
• 27:21
  Speaker 3: and stuff like that. And then I did an internship
• 27:23
  Speaker 3: with Fox Sports, which I loved and I had a
• 27:25
  Speaker 3: blast doing. We were covering baseball actually so and we
• 27:29
  Speaker 3: were also doing the USFL and then soccer as well,
• 27:33
  Speaker 3: so I got a bunch of experience in that world,
• 27:35
  Speaker 3: and I figured that I wanted to be a little
• 27:37
  Speaker 3: bit more behind the camera. And so I feel like
• 27:39
  Speaker 3: that's where sports business analytics will come in, and like
• 27:42
  Speaker 3: doing the data analytics of sports. So I can still
• 27:45
  Speaker 3: be in the sports world and be in the entertainment industry,
• 27:48
  Speaker 3: but like kind of have the best of both worlds
• 27:51
  Speaker 3: at the same time.
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: That's cool.
• 27:53
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm thinking that's where I want to.
• 27:55
  Speaker 4: Lead to two masters. I mean that's yeah, you got
• 27:57
  Speaker 4: a good, good foot forward.
• 27:59
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I'm I'm a grandma basically, but yeah,
• 28:04
  Speaker 3: especially in my sports, gymnastics is not long lived at all.
• 28:07
  Speaker 3: So twenty three going to be twenty four when I graduate,
• 28:10
  Speaker 3: so I'll be ready, I think, to hit the world
• 28:13
  Speaker 3: world running, And what's your dream?
• 28:15
  Speaker 5: I mean, I'm doing it. I'm the old one dream. Yeah,
• 28:17
  Speaker 5: I work here. I think I was a student athlete
• 28:20
  Speaker 5: as well. I played basketball, and I did not want
• 28:22
  Speaker 5: to coach and nothing x as and o's, but I
• 28:25
  Speaker 5: wanted to stay in sport, wanted to be around people,
• 28:27
  Speaker 5: and so this is what I get to do and
• 28:29
  Speaker 5: just hang out with the student athletes and try to
• 28:31
  Speaker 5: think of the life stuff too. And I think when
• 28:33
  Speaker 5: I was a student athlete, I wasn't thinking about life
• 28:36
  Speaker 5: stuff and never had a healthy season, graduated head a master's,
• 28:40
  Speaker 5: had no plan and it all worked out. I'm like,
• 28:42
  Speaker 5: how can I help others maybe not have to rely
• 28:45
  Speaker 5: on luck when they're done.
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: That's cool, that's really cool.
• 28:48
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 28:48
  Speaker 6: Have you ever been to a volleyball game or gymnastics?
• 28:51
  Speaker 5: Never?
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: Yes, volleyball game, yes, gymnastics, I've never been. That's awesome.
• 28:55
  Speaker 6: One you need to go to you to go.
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: I heard they get pretty crazy, like they do.
• 28:59
  Speaker 3: We get we're sold out, like it comes in and
• 29:01
  Speaker 3: this is our second year of the program. So basketball, Yeah,
• 29:05
  Speaker 3: we're we're very new and the Clemson community has just
• 29:09
  Speaker 3: embraced us completely and like come to every single meet
• 29:12
  Speaker 3: and like we get recognized going down the street and
• 29:15
  Speaker 3: people come up to us.
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: Like it's cool.
• 29:16
  Speaker 3: It's very very cool, and it's very very fun, especially.
• 29:19
  Speaker 5: Eight nine thousand people families. It's a concert. DJ Sha
• 29:24
  Speaker 5: is doing this thing the entire music and there's these
• 29:27
  Speaker 5: humans just flipping their body.
• 29:28
  Speaker 3: It's kind of like like Ninja, like watching girls be
• 29:31
  Speaker 3: Ninja's and they Clemson is so good because they built
• 29:34
  Speaker 3: like a thirty million dollar facility for us, and so
• 29:37
  Speaker 3: we have like one of the best facilities in the
• 29:38
  Speaker 3: country as well to start off a program. So if
• 29:42
  Speaker 3: I can go back, Yeah, that's what I get told, like,
• 29:46
  Speaker 3: don't ever leave college, like don't like stay in it
• 29:49
  Speaker 3: as long as you can, and once you start working
• 29:52
  Speaker 3: you'll never stop. So just it's just bills over here. Yeah,
• 29:55
  Speaker 3: just pill from the other side. I also wanted to
• 29:58
  Speaker 3: ask you who is your like dream per sent to
• 30:00
  Speaker 3: come and watch you guys.
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: Probably Hugh Jackman because I'm a huge Greatest Showman fan.
• 30:05
  Speaker 3: So I love that movie.
• 30:06
  Speaker 4: To like I wear a red coat sometimes when I
• 30:09
  Speaker 4: come up to bat. Really if I came out and
• 30:11
  Speaker 4: that and then like he came up instead, that'd be
• 30:13
  Speaker 4: so cool.
• 30:14
  Speaker 3: Hugh Jackman, if you're hearing this, yeah, or Taylor Swift,
• 30:18
  Speaker 3: Taylor Swift, which would be cool.
• 30:20
  Speaker 4: We were just done a sports center last week and
• 30:22
  Speaker 4: they asked me, They're like, who's one person, and I'm like,
• 30:24
  Speaker 4: Taylor Swift.
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: I've been watching this somehow. If you're watching this.
• 30:27
  Speaker 3: Like what's your favorite song?
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: You really don't blame me.
• 30:32
  Speaker 3: Don't blame me.
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: I like reputation an old swifty or new.
• 30:36
  Speaker 4: I would say like after her third album, I started
• 30:39
  Speaker 4: becoming a big one.
• 30:41
  Speaker 3: Okay, I think I'm into her more like country album,
• 30:44
  Speaker 3: her old stuff, old stuff, Okay, yeah for sure.
• 30:46
  Speaker 6: Have you use her songs for like your walk up songs?
• 30:49
  Speaker 4: Oh yeah, I had a couple of them last year.
• 30:52
  Speaker 4: I had the greatest show as my main one and
• 30:54
  Speaker 4: then Ready for It was like, oh, that's awesome when
• 30:56
  Speaker 4: I used last year, and I do a lot of
• 30:58
  Speaker 4: I mean I literally dressed up as her for a
• 31:00
  Speaker 4: walk up one time, which.
• 31:03
  Speaker 2: But we've done a lot, a lot of videos and
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: a lot of stuff with her.
• 31:07
  Speaker 5: So she has to come to a game.
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: Has to.
• 31:09
  Speaker 4: We'll get you a suite, we'll get you. Don't have
• 31:12
  Speaker 4: to interact with any of us, just as long as
• 31:13
  Speaker 4: you're there.
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: That would be cool.
• 31:15
  Speaker 3: Just be there. Yeah, she'll probably bring in a lot
• 31:17
  Speaker 3: of fans to people know she's there.
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: I don't care about us anymore.
• 31:21
  Speaker 3: The Taylor's here, Taylor's Jackson. Where can people follow you?
• 31:25
  Speaker 3: On social media? TikTok, Instagram, Twitter.
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: Jack and Olsen underscore.
• 31:30
  Speaker 3: On everything on everything that's all we have we have. Yeah,
• 31:34
  Speaker 3: thank you, thank you so much, thank you for coming
• 31:36
  Speaker 3: on and good luck on Saturday.
• 31:38
  Speaker 2: Thank you, you're welcome.