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Ep. 41 - The Art of Locking In with Bianca Martinez · Beyond the Paw - Clemson Athletics

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  Speaker 1: Hey guys, welcome back to another season of Beyond the Pod.
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  Speaker 1: Today we have a very special guest. We have Bianca
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  Speaker 1: Martinez from the Clemson volleyball team where she goes into
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  Speaker 1: transferring to Clemson, her very athletic family, and a little
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  Speaker 1: bit into Drake and Lebron James. So stay tuned and
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  Speaker 1: let's go Beyond the Paw.
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  Speaker 2: This is the start of season two. That's super excited
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  Speaker 2: to just get the ball rolling again.
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  Speaker 3: Super excited to be here.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, thanks for me here, Thank you for being our
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  Speaker 1: first season two guests like this is.
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  Speaker 3: A big deal. Excited new setup too. We got the chairs.
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  Speaker 3: You're the first in these chairs.
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  Speaker 1: First guests feel special, you are, Yeah, no pressure.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: So you're from Omaha, Nebraska.
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  Speaker 3: Correct.
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  Speaker 1: So what made you go from Omaha to California and
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  Speaker 1: then from California to Clemson.
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  Speaker 4: I think just like growing up in Omaha, I love it,
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  Speaker 4: but there's just I just knew there was just so
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  Speaker 4: much more out there, right, and I just felt like
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  Speaker 4: the way I was going to get out was by
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  Speaker 4: playing sports. So I just kept up with it. My
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  Speaker 4: parents like put that on me, like sports is gonna
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  Speaker 4: get you to go places. So I did that growing up,
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  Speaker 4: and I just knew when I was in the recruiting
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  Speaker 4: process that I wanted to go somewhere warm. So it
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  Speaker 4: was like Florida, California. So I emailed a lot of
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  Speaker 4: coaches reached out to cal State Fullerton. I had a
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  Speaker 4: great conversation with their coaches at first, and I was
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  Speaker 4: just like, this is the place I'm supposed to be
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  Speaker 4: On my visit, I was like, I love it here,
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  Speaker 4: and I mean southern California. School was like twenty five
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  Speaker 4: thirty minutes away from the beach. I was like, this
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  Speaker 4: is literally all I could ever ask for.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, wait, as a California native, where is four ten?
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  Speaker 4: It's like like forty five minutes outside of La Okay,
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  Speaker 4: it's kind of by like Irvine.
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  Speaker 1: Oh you know valley like area or is it down
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  Speaker 1: Irvine is down?
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  Speaker 3: Yes? More south?
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  Speaker 5: Yes?
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  Speaker 3: Okay, Okay, gotcha. But yeah, great place.
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  Speaker 1: I was wondering because I have so many friends who
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  Speaker 1: like talk about cal State Fuller ten and I have
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  Speaker 1: no idea where it is like ever on the map. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: so cayl State Fuller ten. How was your experience there?
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  Speaker 3: It was great.
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  Speaker 4: I made a lot of new friends and just like
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  Speaker 4: the community there was really good. Me and my friends,
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  Speaker 4: like on the team, we were just like best friends
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  Speaker 4: and like we just had that together for three years.
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  Speaker 4: The volleyball was great. I just knew that there after
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  Speaker 4: my junior year that there was just something more, and
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  Speaker 4: so I prayed a lot about it, and it just
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  Speaker 4: kind of felt like God was calling me to go
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  Speaker 4: somewhere else, and so I just trusted that and I
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  Speaker 4: ended up in a really good spot.
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  Speaker 3: What was like the big factor?
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  Speaker 2: You know, obviously with the recruiting process back in the
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  Speaker 2: transfer portal has been crazy, but what was like that
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  Speaker 2: big factor that was.
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  Speaker 3: Calling you to Clemson transfer port was crazy.
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  Speaker 4: You're definitely just like putting yourself out there and you
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  Speaker 4: just have no idea what's going to happen. And so
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  Speaker 4: I really had to just trust that there was a
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  Speaker 4: plan for me. And Jackie was the first coach to
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  Speaker 4: offer me in the portal, so I knew that was
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  Speaker 4: a sign. And my visit here was great, and I
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  Speaker 4: just it felt like home, and I just knew that
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  Speaker 4: I had to commit before I left.
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  Speaker 3: So you committed on the spot? Yeah, oh wow, wait
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  Speaker 3: did you commit in person or yeah?
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  Speaker 4: Okay, Yeah, it was it was such a fast process,
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  Speaker 4: Like it's like.
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  Speaker 3: Like everything happens so quick, and there was it anywhere else.
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  Speaker 4: No, it was my only visit. There was a dead
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  Speaker 4: period where we couldn't visit, and so it was like
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  Speaker 4: it was like a week of like being.
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  Speaker 3: In the transfer portal like it was. It was crazy.
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  Speaker 4: So I had a lot of coaches reaching out schools
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  Speaker 4: and I had a lot of options, and Cumpson was
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  Speaker 4: my only visit and so I just knew.
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  Speaker 3: That it all just would workout. So that's how has
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  Speaker 3: it been? Oh my god? Amazing?
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  Speaker 4: Yet in the spring, I just kept saying, like I
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  Speaker 4: this is the perfect place for me, Like I didn't.
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  Speaker 4: This is exactly where we're supposed to end up. And
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  Speaker 4: I always tell people like when they would be like,
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  Speaker 4: how do you like it, I'm just like, this is
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  Speaker 4: exactly where we're supposed to be get Yeah, So yeah
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  Speaker 4: that yeah, it's great.
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  Speaker 3: How has it been so far? Starting season?
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  Speaker 2: Getting that ball rolling and then you went to your
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  Speaker 2: first football game last weekend, so you're kind of getting
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  Speaker 2: the full Compson experience.
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  Speaker 3: How's that going?
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  Speaker 4: It's been fun because like in spring, it was just
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  Speaker 4: a lot of practices. Football wasn't like there wasn't a
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  Speaker 4: lot going on. I still had so much fun and
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  Speaker 4: just like getting to know you guys and getting to
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  Speaker 4: know the girls on the team was so fun. But
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  Speaker 4: definitely like being in this like season uh and just
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  Speaker 4: like this way we started, Like it's just so fun
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  Speaker 4: and like traveling and like getting to play these big
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  Speaker 4: schools that I never got to experience. I was in
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  Speaker 4: the conference and like the same conferences, the same for
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  Speaker 4: the same three years.
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  Speaker 3: So it's just like seeing the same teams, is it
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  Speaker 3: Big Big West? Big West?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, same same teams every single year. So it's like
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  Speaker 4: I get to see new teams and like this is
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  Speaker 4: a conference I never thought I'd be playing in and
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  Speaker 4: so it's just like so exciting. And then we had
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  Speaker 4: the acc SEC Challenge last night and we won and
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  Speaker 4: it was so fun and just like to be.
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  Speaker 3: A part of that, it's just so special.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, for sure, I feel like Nebraska too, like your hometown,
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  Speaker 1: that's a huge volleyball state, like very big. I think
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  Speaker 1: if the Huskers, I think of Harper Murray and those girls,
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  Speaker 1: and how did that like kind of blossom your inspiration
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  Speaker 1: for wanting to do volleyball.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it definitely was a culture there, Like, yeah, volleyball
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  Speaker 4: is just like so big in Nebraska that just like
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  Speaker 4: it's just like built in, Like when I was playing club, like,
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  Speaker 4: it just was so big and so being a part
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  Speaker 4: of that definitely made me want to play college volleyball and.
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  Speaker 3: Just keep pursuing that.
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  Speaker 4: Also, just like my family like being athletes, like that
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  Speaker 4: was just like in the built into me like as
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  Speaker 4: a kid.
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  Speaker 3: So doing that, like that's just exactly what I wanted
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  Speaker 3: to do. I wanted to go play college volleyball. I
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  Speaker 3: originally wanted.
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  Speaker 4: To do track because I was pretty good at track
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  Speaker 4: in high school.
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  Speaker 3: What did you do?
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  Speaker 5: I did?
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  Speaker 4: Hi jot?
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  Speaker 3: Okay? Yeah? Is that where you jump over the bar
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  Speaker 3: at the bar like but like on your back? Yeah
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  Speaker 3: yeah yeah yeah I loved it. I love track, but
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  Speaker 3: and then I fell in love with volleyball.
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  Speaker 1: So when I think of track, I always think of
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  Speaker 1: like the pole vaulting. Yeah, that's the one with the stick.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I've seen so many fail videos.
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  Speaker 3: With I could never couldn't be nice.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, you have a really competitive, like athletic family. Yeah,
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  Speaker 5: Like mom and dad played brother plays.
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  Speaker 4: Like my my dad he played internationally for the Panama team.
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  Speaker 3: That's where he's from.
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  Speaker 4: And then well before that was playing a UH and
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  Speaker 4: then AI school in Sioux City, Briar Cliff, so he
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  Speaker 4: played he was hall of Fame.
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  Speaker 3: Like hey, what sport is this small? In basketball?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, And then my sister also played at a smaller
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  Speaker 4: school in Nebraska bell w University and she was there
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  Speaker 4: the first year that they had a woman's team. She's
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  Speaker 4: in the Hall of Fame there. Like that's awesome leading scorers.
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  Speaker 4: So just like seeing that growing up, just like that
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  Speaker 4: is instilled in me and I think that like my
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  Speaker 4: dad really pushed that on me. But it was like
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  Speaker 4: great because like I just he was so passionate about
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  Speaker 4: sports and about.
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  Speaker 3: Basketball and it just made me like want to be that.
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  Speaker 4: And same as my sister, Like just seeing her growing up,
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  Speaker 4: going to all of her high school games, all of
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  Speaker 4: her college games, like I wanted to be like that.
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  Speaker 4: Like she she was so fiery during her game, so
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  Speaker 4: like sometimes I'd be like youlex Is, like chill, It's
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  Speaker 4: just a game. But like then I started playing like
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  Speaker 4: that and I was like like this is so fun Now.
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  Speaker 1: It's so funny to see like the attitudes, yes, because
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  Speaker 1: like they can be a completely normal, like nice person.
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  Speaker 1: You know, Oh that girl is so nice, but then
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  Speaker 1: when you see her on the court, she's ready.
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  Speaker 3: Yea, Like that's exactly you.
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  Speaker 2: Like you were like happy bubble a girl and then
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  Speaker 2: like on the court, I'm like, okay, how we're playing.
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  Speaker 3: It's like a different side. Exactly do you do that playing?
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  Speaker 5: Like do you go to a different alter ego, different
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  Speaker 5: place or do you feel like you're mac I feel
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  Speaker 5: like you're just always smiling.
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  Speaker 3: I'm definitely always having fun.
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  Speaker 2: But I feel like there's like like you just see
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  Speaker 2: like red lights, if that makes sense, Like you're just
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  Speaker 2: like in the zone. You're like locked in and like
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  Speaker 2: you get these girls or you're just like nothing's getting
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  Speaker 2: past or like I'm getting every you're getting a kill
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  Speaker 2: or like things like that.
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  Speaker 3: But I don't know if.
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  Speaker 2: It's different ego or like alter ego, but it's definitely
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  Speaker 2: like a different type of vibe.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. Sure, I would say.
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  Speaker 1: For me it's a little different too, because we're not
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  Speaker 1: like actively like trying to attack.
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  Speaker 3: Someone or like do something like that.
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  Speaker 1: But there is like a different side where I'm like
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  Speaker 1: zoned in, locked in, like I cannot hear anyone around me,
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  Speaker 1: and like the stands with eight thousand people like, I
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  Speaker 1: can't hear it.
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  Speaker 5: But also if you weren't locked in and you're on
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  Speaker 5: the balance beam or flipping on bars like that would
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  Speaker 5: be dangerous.
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  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, So it's a good thing that you're locked in.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you have to be focused even in practice all
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  Speaker 1: the time, like your mental needs to be there for
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  Speaker 1: sure all the time, like the time, or else you
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  Speaker 1: can get seriously injured. So we have to practice the
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  Speaker 1: art of locking in and then we can like laugh
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  Speaker 1: around afterwards, but before you're about to flip around and
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  Speaker 1: do a skill.
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  Speaker 3: Like yeah, like that the art of locking in, the
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  Speaker 3: art of locking in life.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, the art of locking in episode title Art.
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  Speaker 3: Of locking that's good.
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  Speaker 2: That's good, And I feel like that kind of goes
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  Speaker 2: into your position as a whole. Being a middle blocker,
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  Speaker 2: you're just always in the play, like you always have
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  Speaker 2: to be locked in, You're always doing something.
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  Speaker 3: Describe what that's like being up at the net like that.
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  Speaker 4: Being a middle blocker is definitely like you are running
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  Speaker 4: our defense. Like whatever the middle blocker is doing, everyone
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  Speaker 4: else is doing. And so you have to be a
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  Speaker 4: leader in that way and you have to know what's
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  Speaker 4: going on on the other side offensively, so you can
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  Speaker 4: tell your other teammates like what we're doing. And you
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  Speaker 4: are in every single play, like we are blocking on
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  Speaker 4: the right side, the outside, the middle. We have the
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  Speaker 4: biggest I feel like we have the biggest job, and
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  Speaker 4: just you have to be so locked in like just
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  Speaker 4: knowing where the ball is going, and like if you
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  Speaker 4: miss your mark or whatever, it could just like create problems.
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  Speaker 4: So it's just like you have to be on top
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  Speaker 4: every single time, like making sure you're looking at whatever's
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  Speaker 4: going on. So yeah, that definitely ties into being a
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  Speaker 4: middle blocker.
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  Speaker 1: And I was gonna ask you for the people who
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  Speaker 1: don't know volleyball what a middle blocker does, but I'm
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  Speaker 1: not gonna ask you that this time because i feel
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  Speaker 1: like it's pretty self explanaby, I just learned.
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  Speaker 3: I had no idea. I watched so much volleyball, I
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  Speaker 3: just don't understand. I don't understand the like rotation. So
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  Speaker 3: thank you. That was actually really good, Like, oh, wow,
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  Speaker 3: you are in every play.
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  Speaker 1: For me, how I interpret it is you're in the middle, yes,
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  Speaker 1: and your hands are up.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, you are blocking, yes, yes, it's good transition off
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  Speaker 4: and hit. We also have the fastest set so we
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  Speaker 4: get to call what we're doing first. Everyone kind of
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  Speaker 4: plays around us. Wait with the fastest, what is the fastest,
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  Speaker 4: so like the fastest tempoed ball, so like coming at
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  Speaker 4: you coming out of like the setter, Oh quickst yeah yeah, so.
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  Speaker 3: Can we go back a little? I guess there's like okay,
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  Speaker 3: so there's like different like film. We need a film. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I remember, there's like different tempos.
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  Speaker 2: So like the outside, which is what I play, is
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  Speaker 2: like three different tempoed balls that you can get. So
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  Speaker 2: there's like a go, a rip, a gap. Those are
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  Speaker 2: all different speeds basically, but like middles, like you can
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  Speaker 2: explain yours, but it's like it's kind.
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  Speaker 4: Of like they outside and right side, it's like they'll
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  Speaker 4: wait on the ball.
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  Speaker 3: Middles.
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  Speaker 4: It's like you have to be up and the setter
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  Speaker 4: is giving you that ball whether you're ready or not,
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  Speaker 4: Like be up and like they're shooting you that ball.
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  Speaker 4: So it's just faster, gotcha Okay yeah, And like you
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  Speaker 4: guys are closer together, like the center in the middle
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  Speaker 4: are closer, so it's like fast traveling further. Yeah, okay,
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  Speaker 4: even when we run behind the center, which is like
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  Speaker 4: our set called like a slide or a pin, Like
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  Speaker 4: it's still super fast, so you just kind of like
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  Speaker 4: have to chase the ball.
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  Speaker 3: So everything is like quick, fast paced. Yes, at all times. Yes.
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  Speaker 1: What do you think about, like when you're up at
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  Speaker 1: the net, like waiting for a ball, Like what goes
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  Speaker 1: through your mind trying to like be on defense?
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  Speaker 4: I think like offensively, like when that ball's up, I'm
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  Speaker 4: just thinking about hitting the crap out of the ball.
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  Speaker 3: I've been working on singing deep. But she can bounce though. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Sometimes she gets up and I'm like, like, there was
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  Speaker 2: a picture of your head.
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  Speaker 3: Your entire head was above.
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  Speaker 1: The net, and I was like, no, your vert has
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  Speaker 1: got to be insane. Yeah, just with the high too.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah. Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I love jumping and I literally I just got that
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  Speaker 4: from my dad, Like he was so athletic and like
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  Speaker 4: I don't know it, just you.
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  Speaker 3: Gotta come jump in the gym. I will, I will. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: but it's trampoline action. Yeah I should be that.
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  Speaker 4: But yeah, and then offensive or defensively, it's just like
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  Speaker 4: that ball's coming so fast and so you have to
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  Speaker 4: make really quick decisions on like where that ball's going,
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  Speaker 4: and like the other set are like where she's putting
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  Speaker 4: that ball, just like waiting, but then like the second
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  Speaker 4: she sets it, it's like you're making decision and going
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  Speaker 4: so just fast.
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  Speaker 1: Gotcha, who do you listen to before you go out?
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  Speaker 1: Like who's in your headphones before you go out? Like
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  Speaker 1: it helps you walk in mentally to be able to
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  Speaker 1: slam balls and in people's face and jump high and
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  Speaker 1: jump high, like what gets you go in like that?
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  Speaker 3: I'm a big drake girl. Okay, I really like that.
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  Speaker 4: And then I think that like that before like two
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  Speaker 4: hours before the game, and then like right before the game,
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  Speaker 4: I like to listen to like gospel and just like
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  Speaker 4: get in that mode and like I think that, like
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  Speaker 4: my biggest thing is like my faith, so like playing
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  Speaker 4: through like my purpose and stuff and like what I'm
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  Speaker 4: supposed to do, and like I'm not playing for myself,
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  Speaker 4: like I'm playing for God. So it's like getting in
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  Speaker 4: that mode and just like playing with purpose and like
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  Speaker 4: we we get to throw out balls every single game
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  Speaker 4: to the crowd and kind of get it right on them,
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  Speaker 4: like write our names, our numbers, and like one thing
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  Speaker 4: I always write is like play with purpose because that's
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  Speaker 4: just kind of like my my thing in life is
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  Speaker 4: just like walking in purpose and walking what God has
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  Speaker 4: called you to do, and so that's a.
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  Speaker 3: Big thing for me. That's awesome.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's really cool to hear too, because like everyone
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  Speaker 2: kind of there's either like the speaker going or like
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  Speaker 2: everyone's got their own individual headphones on, so like we
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  Speaker 2: don't really know like what everyone's listening to. So like
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  Speaker 2: that's cool to know, like looking at you across the
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  Speaker 2: locker room knowing like that's how you're locking in, Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: like the game.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, and we all just do different things yeah, and
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  Speaker 4: just get the vibes going in there.
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  Speaker 3: So it's fun.
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  Speaker 2: I feel like the middle group is like a really
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  Speaker 2: tight knit and kind of all of our posessional groups
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  Speaker 2: we kind of have like our own you know, special
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  Speaker 2: bond relationship talk about how you know, how close you've
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  Speaker 2: gotten and how each of you meddles are, you know,
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  Speaker 2: big leaders on the team.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. Coming in, I came in with Nil and so
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  Speaker 4: she was a transfer to and the Kates have been
• 15:26
  Speaker 4: there and so like they just kind of they helped
• 15:29
  Speaker 4: us with so much. I had so many questions when
• 15:31
  Speaker 4: I first is here. I was like, this is so
• 15:34
  Speaker 4: different than what I've experienced, and so.
• 15:37
  Speaker 3: I just had so many questions and they were so helpful.
• 15:40
  Speaker 4: Like that was my biggest thing when I came in,
• 15:41
  Speaker 4: and like why it felt like home so fast was
• 15:45
  Speaker 4: because you guys were just so helpful and like opening,
• 15:48
  Speaker 4: like oh just open arms, and like I just knew
• 15:50
  Speaker 4: I could go to you guys, and so that just
• 15:52
  Speaker 4: like helped a lot, and they were just on top
• 15:55
  Speaker 4: of everything, and like even when I was I didn't
• 15:57
  Speaker 4: have a question, but I still had no idea what
• 15:58
  Speaker 4: was going on, Like you're gonna come like okay, Like
• 16:01
  Speaker 4: they were just like helpful in that way and just
• 16:03
  Speaker 4: like knew that like I would be like a little
• 16:05
  Speaker 4: behind because I just didn't know what your guys like
• 16:07
  Speaker 4: system was and there was just so much to learn.
• 16:09
  Speaker 4: But they were just always there and like didn't like
• 16:13
  Speaker 4: matter how many questions I had to ask, and they're
• 16:15
  Speaker 4: just always there. So Yeah, we're definitely a tight knit
• 16:18
  Speaker 4: group and we just like we just want to see
• 16:20
  Speaker 4: each other win, like, but we're also we're very competitive
• 16:23
  Speaker 4: in practice where it's like we know, like we're fighting
• 16:26
  Speaker 4: for spots and like, but we just want to make
• 16:28
  Speaker 4: each other better. So it's like when we play our
• 16:31
  Speaker 4: hardest every single day, it makes each other better, so it's.
• 16:34
  Speaker 2: Fun and I love them, right, That's definitely like a
• 16:37
  Speaker 2: special thing because I know, like especially like you said,
• 16:40
  Speaker 2: like people are fighting for spots, so like to have
• 16:43
  Speaker 2: people on the team just like being supportive of each
• 16:46
  Speaker 2: other is like definitely a huge part of success.
• 16:49
  Speaker 4: I think, even like in games, it's just like we're
• 16:52
  Speaker 4: always just like the like our biggest cheerleaders, Like when
• 16:55
  Speaker 4: you come off the bench, like it's just like that's
• 16:58
  Speaker 4: like my position group. So it's like I'm going to
• 17:00
  Speaker 4: cheer for them, and I'm gonna be like this is
• 17:01
  Speaker 4: what you probably could have done with that ball, or
• 17:03
  Speaker 4: like give them feedback. But like we're just each other's
• 17:06
  Speaker 4: biggest cheerleaders. So it's really really special.
• 17:09
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I love that.
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: That's so nice to have teammates that are like rooting
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: for you out of all times too. Like I know,
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: like it's competitive even in gymnastics with like lineup spots,
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: like we're all fighting for the same thing, but to
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: have people like lift you up at the same time
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: is so important amongst the team, and like it just
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: makes you win more. Yeah, Like it just makes everyone
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: do better. So that's so cool that you guys have
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: that on Clemson volleyball.
• 17:34
  Speaker 5: I think that's a special teammate too, right, because the
• 17:37
  Speaker 5: reality is there's what six people that are playing at
• 17:39
  Speaker 5: one time. I now like stebs in and out, but
• 17:41
  Speaker 5: you have way more than six people or ten people
• 17:43
  Speaker 5: on your team same for you. Right, are only so
• 17:45
  Speaker 5: many spots that you can can compete, but if you
• 17:48
  Speaker 5: can find that right way to push each other and
• 17:50
  Speaker 5: then celebrate each other and not maybe get as you know,
• 17:54
  Speaker 5: concerned or upset about minutes and your time comes right
• 17:58
  Speaker 5: and maybe someone gets more minutes but still having an
• 18:00
  Speaker 5: impact from the sideline or when you do come on
• 18:03
  Speaker 5: the court. And so I think it's just so easy
• 18:05
  Speaker 5: to get in your own head if you're not playing,
• 18:07
  Speaker 5: but there's so many other ways to contribute, and it
• 18:10
  Speaker 5: seems like watching you all so much fun. So I
• 18:12
  Speaker 5: love hearing you say this because you can see it
• 18:15
  Speaker 5: on the court, which is just nice too, knowing that maybe.
• 18:17
  Speaker 3: There's not the you know, behind each other's.
• 18:20
  Speaker 5: Backs, they're like mad or like you're seeing value no
• 18:22
  Speaker 5: matter what you're playing time.
• 18:24
  Speaker 3: I don't understand. I don't really know what playing time
• 18:27
  Speaker 3: looks like, but it's been cool.
• 18:28
  Speaker 5: Is it seems like everybody's contributing, having fun, and also
• 18:32
  Speaker 5: like Neil has the coolest name when they're announcing it.
• 18:37
  Speaker 3: Oh wait, you said Neil, and I didn't know who
• 18:39
  Speaker 3: you were talking about. Who's this? She's a transfer from
• 18:41
  Speaker 3: Michigan State.
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: Okay, she's a senior and her last name is Okerry
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: Cardi B.
• 18:50
  Speaker 3: So that's hilarious. Do they say they should say that
• 18:53
  Speaker 3: one day?
• 18:53
  Speaker 5: I think they just say it, like okur like listening
• 18:57
  Speaker 5: to the I was watching on TV a couple of
• 18:59
  Speaker 5: your last game and like hearing them, sa I hear
• 19:01
  Speaker 5: her name, I'm like, come on, you want to have.
• 19:04
  Speaker 3: But it seems like she's been doing great as well.
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: They're fighting back the urge to say what's it like?
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: Been competing in WAT too, Like it's all renovated, it's
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: all done, Like everything's new. You have so many more
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: seats for people to come and watch, Like it gets
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: crowded in there too, Like there are so many fans
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: and there are lines out the door for volleyball, which
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: is so cool.
• 19:26
  Speaker 4: It's so fun just because like I've never gotten that experience.
• 19:29
  Speaker 4: But just like being at home and like we have
• 19:32
  Speaker 4: our fans that like are going to show up and
• 19:34
  Speaker 4: like be loud and support and like just being surrounded
• 19:37
  Speaker 4: in that. And then I think that, like we literally
• 19:39
  Speaker 4: have the coolest gin.
• 19:40
  Speaker 3: Yeah that's so cool and so good, and the people's
• 19:44
  Speaker 3: orange like it is nice.
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: I'm like the Aces Club of Tome like looks super like.
• 19:53
  Speaker 3: It is.
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: Every time I go up to watch for lunch, I'm like, oh,
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: I want to watch them practice from up here, Like
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: this is the best be you could possibly have for
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: a volleyball game.
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, we'd be like in practice and people would
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: just like stop and sit in those shares and we're like.
• 20:06
  Speaker 5: This, Like I think I say it all the time,
• 20:12
  Speaker 5: but the Spirit crew, the Spirit.
• 20:17
  Speaker 3: They're always doing their thing.
• 20:18
  Speaker 4: Our first home game, I was like that was amazing,
• 20:21
  Speaker 4: Like that was literally the best like crowd I ever
• 20:25
  Speaker 4: could have.
• 20:25
  Speaker 3: Imagine.
• 20:25
  Speaker 5: I don't imagine being the other team like trying to
• 20:27
  Speaker 5: serve and they're just like on you in their face.
• 20:31
  Speaker 3: I wish that we could have something like that. That
• 20:33
  Speaker 3: looks so fun.
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: I've seen the Central Spirit crew at volleyball and they're
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: literally taunting the other players.
• 20:39
  Speaker 5: I feel like that would go well in gymnastics tough
• 20:45
  Speaker 5: outcomes well, see Central Spirit.
• 20:47
  Speaker 3: I feel like they would do that though for you. Yeah,
• 20:49
  Speaker 3: they would be a great group, I hope.
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: So that'd be imagine you're on the beam and someone's
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: trying to like like I'm sorry.
• 20:59
  Speaker 3: I would that's why they're not gonna. I would hate that,
• 21:02
  Speaker 3: but I would hate that before the other team. Yeah.
• 21:06
  Speaker 5: I just feel like there's maybe a difference of like
• 21:09
  Speaker 5: missing a serve and falling off.
• 21:14
  Speaker 3: I guess both they're bad.
• 21:15
  Speaker 5: Both they're bad. You don't want to do that. One
• 21:17
  Speaker 5: might be worse. Yeah, yeah, I don't know.
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: How what about the little girls? Do you have girls
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: coming up to you after games and stuff like that?
• 21:26
  Speaker 3: How is that?
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: Like, I know you probably envisioned yourself being like this
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: huge volleyball player one day. How is that like being
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: in the shoes that they want to be?
• 21:34
  Speaker 4: It's so fun because I think, like I gotten asked
• 21:37
  Speaker 4: like for the first time, like my like to sign
• 21:40
  Speaker 4: there is something and I'm just like that's so special
• 21:42
  Speaker 4: and like I just I love that and like especially
• 21:45
  Speaker 4: like being somebody that people can look up to. I
• 21:49
  Speaker 4: definitely felt like that when we were hosting our camps
• 21:51
  Speaker 4: this summer, and I've never really been in that spot,
• 21:56
  Speaker 4: but it was just so fun because it's like you
• 21:58
  Speaker 4: don't know how much like they're looking at you and
• 22:01
  Speaker 4: like doing what exactly what you do and like wanting
• 22:04
  Speaker 4: to be and like that was used to be me,
• 22:05
  Speaker 4: Like I wanted to be like that big time volleyball
• 22:08
  Speaker 4: player and like signing like signatures after game and.
• 22:11
  Speaker 3: Like that's just so fun.
• 22:12
  Speaker 4: It's just a special place to be in and to
• 22:15
  Speaker 4: know that there's people that really look up to you.
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: No, it's crazy, like they watch your every movie and
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: like your style they'll try and copy as well. Like
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: it's crazy, but that just shows like so much about
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: how Clemson community has like kind of honed in on
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: athletics and is so supportive of us too, Like it's
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: insane and like to have like to be a mini celebrity.
• 22:36
  Speaker 3: Kind of And.
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah, did you guys have that at any of your
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: other schools or anything like that, or how does it
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: kind of compare?
• 22:45
  Speaker 4: Not really, because Clemson's just like a college town, so
• 22:49
  Speaker 4: it's like everyone's a fan and it's so fun. Like
• 22:53
  Speaker 4: I didn't I've never gotten to experience that, but like
• 22:55
  Speaker 4: that's like one of my favorite things about being here.
• 22:57
  Speaker 4: It's just like it just feels like everyone is so
• 23:00
  Speaker 4: supportive and everyone's family and like everyone just wants to
• 23:03
  Speaker 4: like be together.
• 23:03
  Speaker 3: That's just what it feels like. So I really like that.
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: Kind of going into your thoughts about leadership and Clemson
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: volleyball and like the culture and how every thing's kind
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: of moving in the right direction. What have been your
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: thoughts about you know, we've done some like pretty intense
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: training segments with just being a leader and throwing each
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: other in there, So like, what have been your thoughts
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: about about that?
• 23:28
  Speaker 4: At Fullerton, I was a captain, so like I kind
• 23:32
  Speaker 4: of had like that leadership like like background, so coming
• 23:36
  Speaker 4: into this I was just like, I know I can
• 23:38
  Speaker 4: bring that into this team whether I'm a captain or not.
• 23:41
  Speaker 4: Like I just there's ways that you can be a leader,
• 23:42
  Speaker 4: and we've really like honed in on that and like
• 23:45
  Speaker 4: being a leader in your own like your own kind
• 23:48
  Speaker 4: of thing, right, your own kind of way, which is
• 23:50
  Speaker 4: I think it's great and I think that's really working
• 23:53
  Speaker 4: with our team right now because like when we're in
• 23:56
  Speaker 4: these games, it's like everyone's a leader on the court,
• 23:58
  Speaker 4: Like everyone's like a leader in their own way on
• 24:00
  Speaker 4: the court. So I feel like definitely like that's just
• 24:04
  Speaker 4: something that we've really worked on and I really like it.
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: And I think that with a team full of leaders
• 24:10
  Speaker 3: like it just it works.
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: So yeah, I think that's so special that you guys
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: can hone in on like your different leadership styles too,
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: because not everyone is going to lead the same way,
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: like you said before, like some someone may want to
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: lead by example or may not be vocal, but there's
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: maybe really vocal and yeah, the fact that it gels
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: perfectly is is very cool to see for sure.
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and with like the different roles that we have
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: is like super helpful too, because we're not like stepping
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: over each other or it's not like one person has
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: all the responsibility either, so it's like we all kind
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: of figure out different ways that like we can contribute.
• 24:43
  Speaker 3: So it's like perfect.
• 24:45
  Speaker 4: I feel like it flows so well, just like everyone
• 24:47
  Speaker 4: has a job and like we just work really well
• 24:50
  Speaker 4: together and like we don't step on each other's shows
• 24:52
  Speaker 4: and just like just works out for us.
• 24:54
  Speaker 3: Yeah. How is your first football game? Oh my god,
• 24:58
  Speaker 3: it was so fun. Besides the fact that it got
• 25:02
  Speaker 3: it did it? Did I stay or did you leave?
• 25:06
  Speaker 4: Like it was like three minutes in the game we
• 25:09
  Speaker 4: were like weather delay, but then my sister was there,
• 25:12
  Speaker 4: and so we were literally in bed and like put
• 25:16
  Speaker 4: jamas on, like change out of our clothes, and then
• 25:19
  Speaker 4: we've seen that the game started again and we.
• 25:21
  Speaker 3: Were like we should go back.
• 25:22
  Speaker 4: So we just like we like sweats and like we
• 25:26
  Speaker 4: like went back and like got to catch the second
• 25:28
  Speaker 4: half and it was so fun to be there.
• 25:30
  Speaker 3: That's dedication. Yeah, that is dedication.
• 25:32
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: I know a lot of people who just left and
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: didn't come back.
• 25:36
  Speaker 3: Yeah, So but I'm really glad you went because it
• 25:39
  Speaker 3: was fun in your first one ever. You have to stay.
• 25:41
  Speaker 5: I know.
• 25:42
  Speaker 3: It was like your sister was there. Yeah.
• 25:45
  Speaker 4: Yeah, and we're big like just sports girls, Like we
• 25:48
  Speaker 4: love watching Like that's just like our thing in our family,
• 25:51
  Speaker 4: really big like NBA.
• 25:53
  Speaker 3: Like I'm a really big Lebron James fan and the
• 25:56
  Speaker 3: Lakers fan.
• 25:57
  Speaker 4: So that was like really cool about being at Fullerton
• 25:59
  Speaker 4: is that I got to go to a lot of
• 26:01
  Speaker 4: Lakers games and so like it was like forty five
• 26:04
  Speaker 4: minutes away and just it was fun to be in there.
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: That's awesome. No, I we did some research actually about
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: you and Drake and Lebron came up multiple times. When
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: I was looking, I was like Okay, so we have
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: to mention this in here.
• 26:15
  Speaker 4: Why Lebron my dad like we were. He's always been
• 26:20
  Speaker 4: to Lebron that I do what my dad does. So
• 26:22
  Speaker 4: it's like, okay, that was just like what I And
• 26:24
  Speaker 4: so I grew up watching Lebron James and like I
• 26:27
  Speaker 4: just fell in love with.
• 26:28
  Speaker 3: The athlete he was and he's just so.
• 26:34
  Speaker 4: Good, like just and like how much he's played and
• 26:37
  Speaker 4: how many years and like the greatness he's achieved and
• 26:41
  Speaker 4: just like how you can just do that for so
• 26:42
  Speaker 4: many years, Like that's just crazy. So definitely one of
• 26:46
  Speaker 4: my favorite athletes.
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: I feel like Lebron is that type of athlete that
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: brings some sort of like levity and positivity to a
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: game too. Like he don't get me wrong, he is
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: very good at what he does, but like he's a
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: funny guy. Yeah, keep him know his personality like out
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: off the court too, so like he's just an easy
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: guy to root for and it helps that he's good too. Sure,
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: what do you think about Bronnie.
• 27:11
  Speaker 4: I think it's so cool that they got to play
• 27:13
  Speaker 4: with each like that is. I thought that was the
• 27:15
  Speaker 4: coolest thing ever. And I think that if anybody could
• 27:20
  Speaker 4: done that it was lebron like to play with your son,
• 27:23
  Speaker 4: and like that's just I think. I think Bronnie is
• 27:26
  Speaker 4: gonna have a really good career. I think it's a
• 27:28
  Speaker 4: good career ahead of him. So I'm excited to see that.
• 27:30
  Speaker 4: Did you play basketball in high school?
• 27:32
  Speaker 3: I did? I played my dad like that was like
• 27:37
  Speaker 3: we're playing basketball.
• 27:40
  Speaker 4: I wasn't the biggest fan of basketball, like playing I
• 27:43
  Speaker 4: just it wasn't really my thing, but like I just
• 27:45
  Speaker 4: kind of was forced into.
• 27:47
  Speaker 3: It, which is fine.
• 27:49
  Speaker 4: And I played until my sophomore year of high school
• 27:52
  Speaker 4: and I like broke my dad's her. I was like,
• 27:55
  Speaker 4: I just don't want to do this anymore. But it
• 27:57
  Speaker 4: was okay because I ended up being really good a
• 27:58
  Speaker 4: volleyball so there was like other things like other ways.
• 28:03
  Speaker 4: And he had my sister, she played college basketball, right,
• 28:06
  Speaker 4: so he did he did, So I'm glad you did
• 28:11
  Speaker 4: that because I could do my own thing right, which
• 28:13
  Speaker 4: he loves me as a volleyball player, Like he is
• 28:15
  Speaker 4: my biggest supporter, and both my parents like my biggest supporters.
• 28:19
  Speaker 4: They're just always there and like calling after every single game,
• 28:22
  Speaker 4: watching every single game, like they will always be there
• 28:26
  Speaker 4: and they's just like how much they poured into me,
• 28:28
  Speaker 4: like even since a kid, Like that's just why, like
• 28:32
  Speaker 4: I've been so successful. It's just like they've poured so
• 28:35
  Speaker 4: much into me and my siblings, so very.
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: Blessed medication like driving to practices, knowing your game schedule,
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: like driving to competitions or games and stuff like that.
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: Like it's a lot, Like it's a sacrifice. And like
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: for our parents to now like see us as collegiate
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: athletes and have that like viewership too, it's got to
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: be so cool for them because I know they get
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: into it as much as we do. Yeah, so that's
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: very cool.
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: What it's something that you know, most Clemson fans wouldn't
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: know about you. You're new to the team, you're new
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: to Clemson. What's like something you'd want people don't know
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: about you? Oh gosh, other than basketball and Drake and.
• 29:23
  Speaker 3: Maybe just like what I.
• 29:24
  Speaker 4: Want to do, Like for my career, I'm really into
• 29:29
  Speaker 4: I'm a sociology major, and I really want to get
• 29:33
  Speaker 4: into social work and like child welfare. Like I've always
• 29:36
  Speaker 4: had a heart for just like kids that just like
• 29:41
  Speaker 4: kind of like grow up in like lives that like
• 29:44
  Speaker 4: they don't deserve, you know what I mean like I
• 29:46
  Speaker 4: feel like every kid like deserves to like get the
• 29:49
  Speaker 4: life like the childhood I got, and so like, I'm
• 29:52
  Speaker 4: really passionate about kidding. I want to get my master's
• 29:55
  Speaker 4: in social work and then I want to go into
• 29:57
  Speaker 4: social uh social work being child welfare.
• 30:00
  Speaker 3: So I'm really excited for my career like after volleyball.
• 30:04
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I just I feel like that is something I
• 30:06
  Speaker 4: am so passionate about and I feel like I could
• 30:09
  Speaker 4: really make a difference in that. And I know it's
• 30:11
  Speaker 4: like a tough but I feel like the person I
• 30:13
  Speaker 4: am and the joy I have that I could really
• 30:16
  Speaker 4: be like a light in that place.
• 30:18
  Speaker 3: So great, that's amazing. That's incredible, incredible.
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: Yeah that you already know that too, And yeah, like
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: focus on that.
• 30:26
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• 30:28
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• 30:32
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• 30:35
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• 30:55
  Speaker 3: Now back to the show. So is this your fifth year?
• 31:00
  Speaker 3: This is your's? My no, it's my fourth.
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  Speaker 1: Oh this year, I'm okay, gotcha? So get your masters
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  Speaker 1: next year.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, that's awesome.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah. Have you done any like volunteer work or anything
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  Speaker 5: kind of in that realm?
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  Speaker 3: Getting ready for it a little bit?
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  Speaker 4: My mom she works for the Urbanly of Nebraska, and
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  Speaker 4: so they really like serve like those like children in
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  Speaker 4: like underprivileged areas or just like that just don't have
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  Speaker 4: all the things that other kids have. So I was
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  Speaker 4: in their program growing up, and then I also volunteered
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  Speaker 4: and helped her all out with summer programs and all
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  Speaker 4: that stuff. So I think just being in that and
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  Speaker 4: like seeing my mom do that, it just made me
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  Speaker 4: want to do it.
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  Speaker 3: And my parents they were.
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  Speaker 4: House parents for the Omaha Home for Boys growing up,
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  Speaker 4: So like my first three year's life, I was living
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  Speaker 4: in a house like full of like boys and they
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  Speaker 4: were just like house parents and so like those guys,
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  Speaker 4: like they were family, like they saw me take my
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  Speaker 4: first steps, like it was just like being part of that,
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  Speaker 4: like it's just it makes me want to like give
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  Speaker 4: back to that.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. Also sounds like you have a really special family.
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  Speaker 4: Oh yeah, Oh yeah, we have really big hearts. Like
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  Speaker 4: my parents have the biggest hearts ever, Like my mom,
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  Speaker 4: like she will do anything for anyone. And just I
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  Speaker 4: think seeing that, like it just has made me want
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  Speaker 4: to become like that person.
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  Speaker 3: And so yeah, it's cool special.
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  Speaker 1: Seems like you've had great role models. Yeah, yeah, that's amazing.
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  Speaker 5: I do.
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  Speaker 4: My my biggest sister. She's just like I've done everything
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  Speaker 4: she's done. Like like she was class president high school.
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  Speaker 3: I was like, okay, I'm going to do that. I
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  Speaker 3: was class president in high school.
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  Speaker 4: If we went to the same high school, we played
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  Speaker 4: like we did the same thing. And so I just
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  Speaker 4: like I wanted to do everything she's done. And so
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  Speaker 4: she's been such a big role model and she's such
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  Speaker 4: a good person and has been so successful in life
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  Speaker 4: that just like I want to do what she's done.
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  Speaker 4: And like she has a great job right now and
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  Speaker 4: I'm just like, you're like a girl boss, and like
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  Speaker 4: I just love that.
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  Speaker 3: It's awesome. Yeah, what does she do now?
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  Speaker 4: She she works for Battle Sports, which is like a
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  Speaker 4: football company. Okay, and their headquarters are in Omaha. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: so she gets to work there and she has like
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  Speaker 4: the coolest job. She just gets to work with athletes,
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  Speaker 4: which I think is really cool, especially being an athlete.
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  Speaker 4: Like getting to like stay in that is really cool.
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  Speaker 4: And I feel like she just like found her calling
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  Speaker 4: and I think that's also really special that she goes
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  Speaker 4: she gets to go to a job that she loves.
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  Speaker 4: Like she's always talking about her job and like she
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  Speaker 4: loves working, and like she gets to travel and work
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  Speaker 4: with all these athletes and like there's so many like
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  Speaker 4: doors that are open like opportunities from that. So yeah,
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  Speaker 4: definitely something that's really cool.
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  Speaker 2: That's definitely really important too, about finding like your career too,
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  Speaker 2: because like you may major in something one year and
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  Speaker 2: then you're like, oh my gosh, no right, Like but
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  Speaker 2: like finding what you love is definitely important because that's
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  Speaker 2: what you're gonna be doing.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, So my parents are always like it's rare that
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  Speaker 5: you really love your job and that you're excited, Like
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  Speaker 5: I'm excited to go to work the next day. And
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  Speaker 5: I'm always just telling my parents how much I love
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  Speaker 5: what I get to do, and they're.
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  Speaker 3: Like, just stay like this is good, Like this is rare.
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  Speaker 5: I'm like, that's so sad that that's rare, like that
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  Speaker 5: everyone is what they do.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean you're just.
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  Speaker 5: Tough, like you're going to work every day, then you're
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  Speaker 5: going back to work the next day. But I can't
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  Speaker 5: imagine having a job that I didn't love and get
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  Speaker 5: excited to be in. So right, that's cool that your
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  Speaker 5: sister has it, and I'm pretty confident you'll find that too. Yeah,
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  Speaker 5: I think you've done West coast, Midwest from the Midwest too,
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  Speaker 5: and now east southeast.
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  Speaker 3: Where do you think you'd want to live if you
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  Speaker 3: could pick?
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  Speaker 1: You're going to ask this, Actually I get this all
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  Speaker 1: the time, and I'm like, I have no idea, but
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  Speaker 1: I love Omaha.
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  Speaker 3: I love Nebraska. It is like home.
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  Speaker 4: But I don't think i'll I don't think i'll end
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  Speaker 4: up there. I think it's either going to be West
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  Speaker 4: coast or East coast. It's either going to be southern
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  Speaker 4: California or it's going to be I love the South,
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  Speaker 4: which I didn't think I was going to. Like, I
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  Speaker 4: was really kind of scared because I'm like, I've never
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  Speaker 4: been over here really, like yeah, and like the culture
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  Speaker 4: is so different, especially like from coming from a school
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  Speaker 4: in California, Like it was just so different. But I
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  Speaker 4: love it here.
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  Speaker 3: It just feels like home here. It's just slower.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, people are so good and like just friendly, so nice.
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  Speaker 4: They really are so Yeah, and California is really expensive.
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  Speaker 4: So I feel like it's going to be somewhere over
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  Speaker 4: here in the South.
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  Speaker 3: I think so. I think so. I think it's an
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  Speaker 3: endo good but I really like it here.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, because you've said Florida too, right, like you could
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  Speaker 2: see yourself in face.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you're trying to say that snowy.
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  Speaker 1: Florida is so nice, Like actually there are and there
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  Speaker 1: are so many places in Florida that are something you have.
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  Speaker 1: Tampa you have, like Miami you have like a bunch
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  Speaker 1: of places in Florida. Yeah, you can go too, It's huge.
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  Speaker 3: I definitely feel like I need to be buy some
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  Speaker 3: like water.
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  Speaker 2: Water.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm like a big Like ocean is my favorite thing.
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  Speaker 3: I love swimming. I was a swimmer too. Yeah. My
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  Speaker 3: grandma she taught swimming for fifty years.
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  Speaker 4: Oh my god, yeah, she taught us. I swam a
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  Speaker 4: little bit in high school. I actually swam my freshman
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  Speaker 4: year to get out of playing basketball, What was your stroke?
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  Speaker 4: What was your butterfly? That was mine too, Yeah, and
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  Speaker 4: then I taught swimming lessons and coach little swimming in
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  Speaker 4: high school. So I'm I love a big swimmer, and
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  Speaker 4: I want to learn how to surf. I didn't really
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  Speaker 4: have time when I was in California, So you.
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  Speaker 3: Have to learn how to surf in California. Yeah, is
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  Speaker 3: so fun. No, you have to try, like I've tried.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not very good at it.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, Yeah, it is so fun though, like falling even
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  Speaker 1: its just like so joyful and it's like so peaceful,
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  Speaker 1: like the waves and everything like that, except when the
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: waves like crash over you like that.
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  Speaker 3: But other than that, you almost drown. You're almost dround
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  Speaker 3: of sharks. I am like, I'm definitely afraid of sharks.
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  Speaker 3: That would be my thing. It's like I don't want
• 37:05
  Speaker 3: to run into any I don't even like going like
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  Speaker 3: and that far out off shre like staying grays and
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  Speaker 3: things like that too.
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  Speaker 1: But like growing up in California, you just have to
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  Speaker 1: get used to it, like I'm I'm used to at
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  Speaker 1: this point. What I can't see won't hurt me is
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  Speaker 1: my motto.
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  Speaker 3: I'm from Los Angeles. Okay, yeah, okay, yeah, so that's
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  Speaker 3: so cool.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I know, I love it there. I would pull
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  Speaker 1: for that one for you.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, because you're also west coast mm hmm, East Utah.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know what that is the west kind of
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  Speaker 3: west west, and then now east southeast southeast. What are
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  Speaker 3: you thinking? Oh, you're gonna put me on the spot.
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  Speaker 1: I I'll answer this on our last ever podcast podcast episode.
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  Speaker 3: Ever, how about that stay.
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  Speaker 1: I'll answer that for you. But no, Yeah, California is great.
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  Speaker 1: I can I can't say enough great things about it.
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  Speaker 4: Especially southern California. Yeah, just like the weather, it's like perfect.
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  Speaker 4: I remember being there my freshman year and like my
• 38:03
  Speaker 4: family and my parents were like back in Nebraska and
• 38:05
  Speaker 4: they're like it's ten degrees outside.
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  Speaker 3: I'm like, that's cool.
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  Speaker 4: It's like seventy threes here walking to class in the
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  Speaker 4: tank top. I was like, it's seventy and sunny every
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  Speaker 4: single day.
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  Speaker 3: This is perfect. No, it is that is not.
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  Speaker 2: My family is too really spoiled. I'm freezing, Like how
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  Speaker 2: are you doing?
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  Speaker 3: I'm like great, got more.
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  Speaker 2: But then like when it's cold and it's like thirties
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  Speaker 2: forties and it's not actually, but it's not actually called
• 38:29
  Speaker 2: I'm like frigid, and everyone's like, what is wrong with you?
• 38:32
  Speaker 5: Like I grew up in way worse wearing a winter
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  Speaker 5: coat fifty degrees, which is like a spring day in
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  Speaker 5: the Midwest.
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: Yes, I saw this video online where it was like
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: people did not know that, like or people from California
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: did not know that like indoor high schools existed. And
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: this is very like true for myself because I went
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: to school, Like my whole school was like outside, like
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: our classes were inside, but the majority of our school,
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: like our common area where we ate lunch.
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  Speaker 3: Like hallways and stuff.
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: Yeah are hallways, walkers all outside. Everything was outside. And
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  Speaker 1: I had no idea that, like I would only see
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  Speaker 1: it in like movies where high schools were like inside,
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  Speaker 1: like it was just one big, big building.
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  Speaker 3: And I saw a movie. Yeah, yeah was outside, Like
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  Speaker 3: that is actually crazy.
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  Speaker 1: It was like the complete opposite then, I guess because
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: coming in like having my friends talk about like their
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: high school and stuff like that, I was like, where
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: were like the palm trees at your school, like at
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: there existed.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, my high school was actually very beautiful. It was
• 39:33
  Speaker 4: like it was like a courtyard and so in the
• 39:37
  Speaker 4: middle of downtown Omaha, and I just thought it was
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  Speaker 4: the coolest, Like I that will.
• 39:41
  Speaker 3: Forever just be my favorite place in the world.
• 39:43
  Speaker 4: Like I love that high school. I originally wanted to
• 39:47
  Speaker 4: go back and teach and maybe teach sociology and coach volleyball,
• 39:52
  Speaker 4: so maybe further down the line in my career, that's
• 39:55
  Speaker 4: something I want to do. I love that high school
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  Speaker 4: with my whole heart.
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  Speaker 3: That's awesome.
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: What advice would you give to your younger self or
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: like your future students, maybe in volleyball.
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  Speaker 4: I think just be patient and everything's gonna work out,
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  Speaker 4: Like just keep working show hoping me to show up,
• 40:14
  Speaker 4: like be ahead of things, but like everything's gonna work out.
• 40:18
  Speaker 4: I think that's just like something that I like struggled with,
• 40:21
  Speaker 4: like when I was younger. It's like being like so like,
• 40:25
  Speaker 4: oh my gosh, like where am I gonna go? Like
• 40:27
  Speaker 4: is this gonna work out? But like it's going to
• 40:29
  Speaker 4: work out. So I think just like being patient and
• 40:32
  Speaker 4: just working hard. I think that's some advice I would give.
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  Speaker 3: That's advice. Where can people find you on social media?
• 40:40
  Speaker 4: My Instagram is Bianca Belizia.
• 40:44
  Speaker 3: My middle name, You guys, can follow me on there.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's awesome, awesome, Thank you so much for coming on.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you guys. This is so.
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  Speaker 1: One Season two beyond the Phone, let's go, let's go.
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  Speaker 3: Well, thank you guys.
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  Speaker 1: Mhm mhm