August 21, 2025 • 32 mins
This week on Fudd Around and Find Out, we bring you our first ever ask me anything episode. Azzi and Ashanti dive into your biggest questions — from life on the road to personal confessions and everything in between. Azzi opens up about balancing travel, hoops, and family time, shares the weirdest places she’s ever fallen asleep, and admits her guilty pleasure iPad games (yes, Smurf Village still holds strong).
The two swap stories about role models, awkward basketball moments, and we even get an adorable appearance from Azzi's little cousin Phillip who throws a few questions of his own into the mix.
From recruitment memories to UConn behind-the-scenes, book recommendations, and even which cartoon characters would dominate college basketball, everything you've ever wanted to know about Azzi and Ashanti is finally answered.
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Hey, everyone, welcome back to fud Around and find out.
This is Asy Fudd and I'm here with my girl,
a shanty plumber a shanty. What is up?
Speaker 2 (00:11):
What's up? Asy? Listeners? We have a good one.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
It's a mailbag episode and we're going to get into
all things Yukon basketball and Asy's personal life, and we
may answer some burning questions that you have about me too.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
That's right, So I'm super excited to see what you
guys want to know.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
Ashanti. Where are we starting? Well, let's start with a
check in. The listeners want to know. How are you doing?
What's up? You've been moving and shaking NonStop since like April,
So how you doing?
Speaker 2 (00:41):
I'm good.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
I feel like being busy is all I've ever known,
so like this is not really new. I feel like
the whole living out of a suitcase for like weeks
on end, that's a little new.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
But I'm good.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
A little tired, but nothing. You know, you can sleep
in your dead like I'm not really worried about that.
Other than that, Like, I'm great. I've had some really
cool experiences these last few months. I've met some really
amazing people. So feel like I'm just trying to really
soak in every experience and every opportunity of gotten because
it's easy to like look past things and look at
the next thing coming.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
Absolutely so someone who's balancing like traveling and basketball and
school and all these other events you have to attend.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Like, what kind of advice do you have but a listeners.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
I guess I'd say to stay present, Like there's when
you're doing so much, especially back to back to back,
like it's super easy to get caught up and either
what you had just done or what you're looking forward
to doing next week, but really being able to stay
present and enjoy what you're doing in the moment, Like
right now, I'm in Minnesota with my family, so getting
to enjoy this little bit of downtime I have and
I only have a little bit of time with my
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cousin and my grandparents and being here in my favorite place,
so being able to really enjoy this before I go.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
On to what's next in a few days. No, Yeah,
that's dope.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
I really do appreciate the time that I do get
to spend with my family. I'm out here in New
York where my family doesn't even live here anymore, so
I definitely understand being present where you're at, especially when.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
It comes to some quality time with the FAMO. So
who are your non like basketball related like role models
or people you look up to?
Speaker 1 (02:12):
I have to say my parents. I think admiring. I
feel like as I've gotten older, being able to appreciate
you know how hard parenting is, having three kids and
them balancing everything they've been able to do for us
and giving us these opportunities growing up. Obviously, like in
the moment growing up, you're like, Okay, this is a
normal sort of parents supposed to do, But all the
sacrifices that they've given for us, I'm just super grateful
for and I hope that I could be a parent
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like them one day.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
We love you, guys. We love her parents. What would
you say non basketball related?
Speaker 2 (02:40):
I'm going to say my mom. I think that's pretty cliche,
but it's the truth.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
She is was a single parent raising me and my brother,
and so I just admire her, especially like in these
New York City streets. So that's definitely someone that I
look up to non basketball. Why wives, Why whyse Okay, girly,
So you're about to go on a very very long trip.
How are you feeling about this trip overseas to China.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
I'm excited. I'm a little nervous for this flight. This
wasn't planned until like a little bit ago. So when
I left campus, I left my iPad on campus because
I was like, oh, I'm not gonna need it. I'm
taking a class. All my computer. I'll do homework or
read a book, listen to music, like I'm not going
to be on a flight that's longer than three hours,
Like I'm not really going to be bored. And I'm
currently IPEd liss gonna be on like a twelve plus
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hour flight, and some a little nervous around this is
gonna go. What's the longest flight you've been on?
Speaker 2 (03:35):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
So I went to Australia. I lived there for a
little bit, and so the I think it was two flights,
but I don't remember how long the longest one of
those two were, but I just remember it was too Australia,
and I was lucky enough to have a lot of
leg room, and I went to sleep for a majority
of the time because I can't imagine.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
So you can sleep on planes, Oh absolutely, I have to.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
Speaking of sleep, miss girl, you are always napping all
the time everywhere. And the reason why I know is
because your dad literally posts on social media all the time.
It's like a hidden talent of his where he's catching
you knocked out, Like you can't sleep on planes is
actually shocking to me because I've seen you via social media.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
Like everywhere I do sleep on plans, it's just like
not good and my mouth is always open, so I
wake up like choking because my mouth is all dry. Yeah,
that's probably like my least place asleep a car nap though,
oh my gosh, those hit different. But I feel like
growing up in a gym, I feel like that I
very quickly learned how to sleep anywhere. Like I would
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lay my jacket down and I'd sleep like in between
the bleachers on the like with games going on in
the middle of a tournament. So I feel like growing
up in that environment has taught me to sleep anyway.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
What's the weirdest place you've ever slept? The weirdest place
I've ever slept. I've definitely fallen asleep at basketball games before, like,
not like a tournament, ones like real ones.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Wait, real ones that you are participating.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
No, no, no, no, not like ones I'm watching, not
what's not playing it.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
I'm trying to think, Okay, that would be crazy. I
cut the camera. I think.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
The weirdest place I've ever fell asleep, well, not really weird,
but I mean, I don't know. I feel like it
might be common. I fell asleep in a movie theater before. Now,
movie theaters out here is like twenty five dollars just
for a ticket, so I literally pay to take a nap.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
But you know what, I needed it, So it is
what it is.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
I know a lot of people who do that. But
if I'm paying to go see a movie, I'm not
gonna fall asleep. I can't waste I feel that.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
But I feel like, I don't know. It's like it's
nice and cold in the.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
Theater, and then I'm usually going with like some of
my friends, some kind of like comfy.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
Yeah, I played myself twenty five dollars to take a nap.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
Wait, Shanti, what movie did you fall asleep in?
Speaker 2 (05:53):
Girl? I don't know. I was sleep. I was knocked out.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
I know.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
I gotta ask my best friend and get back to
y'all because no clue.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
Oh, actually I fall asleep in a club. That's gotta
be the craziest place I've fallen asleep. Yes, that's definitely
a scene. It's loud, it's crazy, it's high, but like
when you're tired, it just it's like, get tired.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
I want to taking nap right here.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
Yeah, she was like, I think she's on a beach
or something with her brother, and she like, I need
to take a nap right here, like crying.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
I felt that. Tell me. Some of the things that
you play or watch on your iPad.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
I think between my family and a couple of friends,
I have like log Insto, every streaming platform possible, So
whatever show I'm watching at that moment, I Co'm in
between shows right now, So I'm just gonna download a
bunch of like top ten whatever movies, and then my
iPad games. I get made fun of a lot for these,
but I don't care. I love my Smurf Village game.
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I've been playing that since I got my iPad in
like third grade. I play the Harry Podder Hark Fog
Words game.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
I get made show all of that because I need explanations,
So go ahead, Smurfville, Harry Potter.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
I play Homescapes that's a good one. And then I
say like, those are my big three, and then a
bunch of like random ones obviously have on there.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
Okay, what smurf would you be?
Speaker 1 (07:13):
Obviously I'm gonna be smurfed. I mean, duh, who would
you be?
Speaker 3 (07:18):
I am in between jokey Smurf because I got jokes
for days or chef Smurf because I like to eat,
even though Chef Smurk cooks.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
I was gonna say, Okay, we're gonna pretend like that
makes sense.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
I mean, I'm a cook and any we can just
make up our own smurf. You're gonna be the eating smurf. Yes, yes, absolutely,
I know Harry Potter. I am a fan. I've read
like every book, so I get that. Yes, girls giving
Guilty Pleasure. I had a wand I think I had Halloween.
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Oh okay, you're gonna tell me anything I was doing? Yeah, craziness.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
I love that.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
What house would you want to be in for Harry Potter?
Oh my gosh. Wait, and now I'm gonna I forget
what house I'm in. I think, oh, excuse me, what
house are you?
Speaker 4 (08:10):
No?
Speaker 1 (08:10):
But like you when you play the game, like take
a test, so it like puts you in a house.
It was either raven Claw or Hufflepuff. I forget which
one it wasn't like it definitely wasn't Slytherin, and it
wasn't gryffindor Gryffindor.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Yeah, what house?
Speaker 3 (08:23):
Would you want to be in Gryffindor only because like
Harry Potter was in Griffin.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
Yeah. I read the books.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
They're typically the ones who are like brave and going
on adventures, and I like to believe that would be me.
But honestly, soon as I hear something creepy and the
woods or something like that, I'm running. Actually, I wouldn't
go explore in the first place.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
So yeah, I don't think I would like to think
I would, but I don't think I would. I think
after this we need to do one of those tests
and find out.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
Absolutely coming to you Realsom talked about your iPad the games.
I know you're a huge reader, so tell the people
what you've been reading and what you're into and what
you're looking forward to reading.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
I feel like this has been a slow reading summer
for me because I take classes but only during one
month of the summer. This summer, I'm taking it during both,
so it's been hard to read as much as I'd
like to. I've read a few good ones, probably Seven
Husbands of Evelyn Hugo. I really enjoyed that one made
me cry. Oh if you like thrillers, pretty girls, I
forget who maybe Karen slought or something like that. I
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forget who wrote it. That's a crazy book. And then
The Nightingale. It's like a historical fiction book. I think
our Strength coach gave it to me, and I was
so just unprepared for. Like I was up at night,
like sobbing reading this book. It like crushed my heart.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
But it was really good. It was really good.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
I would suggest that one. I don't think you would
like that one.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
Do you read? Wait?
Speaker 5 (09:43):
Why?
Speaker 2 (09:44):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
It was just it was like a heavy read I read.
I'm more of a like self help reader. I like
reading about like just ways to improve in the business
side of my life, and then also I enjoy, like,
you know, the spiritual, faith based side, and.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
Then I enjoy we're reading. Yeah, just mostly like self help.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
When I was younger, I really was into a lot
of fiction, but now I'm more like nonfiction self help,
that kind of thing. But I don't mind a good
little romance novel. I like that kind of stuff, so
you can put me on for sure. Do you read
like self help books and stuff like that, anything motivational?
Speaker 2 (10:22):
I read some.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
I'm very much more fiction, but like I really did
The Obstacles the way, I really like that one and
chop Wood Carry Water, but definitely fiction is always my
go to.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
Yeah, all right, switching gears here, A listener wants to
know what advice would you give to young athletes.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
Advice that I would give, Like, there's so many things
you could say. Advice that I would give would be
set goals and dream big and make sure like you're
setting goals that are whether it's like in a month,
a few months, things that you can like obtain that
are closer, closer, like what am I trying to say?
Speaker 3 (10:56):
That are like things you can obtain now, and things
that you might not think are obtainable, but set them
anyways and try.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
Yes, yes, but also like short term and long term
and then also things that you think like I don't
know if I can get the level and off this
is like realistic or not like you said it there,
because like anything's possible. And then also like with that
remembering that like the journey is never linear, it's never
a straight line. The path like it's never easy. So
I feel like just always remembering that, like there's always
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gonna be setbacks, and it's not about like the setbacks,
it's about how you overcome those things and how you
respond to those obstacles that are in the way and
those things that are thrown at you.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
That's amazing, that's beautiful. I'm feeling inspired. Whatever, what's your advice? No,
for real, I think that's dope.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
Like it is essentially there's gonna be a lot of
people who tell you no, or maybe you don't fit
the picture of what they believe you can do, you know,
And so I think that is great advice for younger
athletes because even myself growing up, there are people who
I had big dreams.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
I was like, I'm going to play Division one basketball.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
That was like one of my first basketball goals, and
people were just like I hadn't gotten super tall yet,
so they were just like where are you going? Like, oh,
you can, you can stay you know, near home. You
can go to NYU, which is a great school, but
that's not the Vision one school where I wanted to go.
So if I would have just been okay with what
everyone else was setting for me, I wouldn't have achieved
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the things that I've been able to achieve. So that's
great advice, girly, And the advice I would give them
kids is be yourself. There is no one else, honestly
that you can be. And if you continue to just
show up genuinely as yourself in spaces, the people your
tribe will find you, and the path that you're supposed
to be walking on and the things that you're supposed
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to be doing in this life will happen over time.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
So just continue to show up authentically as you. That's
for the kids.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
I love that we have a special listener who has
a live question today, Philip.
Speaker 5 (12:59):
Give a question for us.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
This is my cousin Philip.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
He lives in La Wait.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
First of all, show them your jersey. For those of
you who can't see, he's wearing an easy fed bass
camp jersey. It looks good on him. Yeah, go ahead,
ask your question.
Speaker 5 (13:15):
Uh so easy, Yes, sir.
Speaker 4 (13:19):
I want to know, like what you work out schedule
is like, you know, do you like work out every day?
Speaker 5 (13:24):
Is it like like is it like.
Speaker 4 (13:26):
A few a few week days every week, like, you.
Speaker 5 (13:29):
Know, great question, Philip.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
So, as you can see, Phillip's here with me in Minnesota,
and he's gotten a little taste of my workout schedule
because he's been waking up early and going to the
gym with me. Yeah, I work out just about every day.
I think I do something most days, so I go
to the gym, I do an on court workout probably
five six days out of the week. And I'm more
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of a As I've gotten older, I've learned that quality
is more important than quantity. So it's not about how
long you're on the core, more about like the quality
of the worth that you're getting when you're on the court.
So I feel like if you do an hour of
good work, even forty five minutes of quality work, that's
all you need. And then I go in and I
lift afterwards, which is also usually about an hour. And
while I've been working out on court, Philip has been
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doing his own workout on the track, Philip, Hell, have
your workout's been going?
Speaker 4 (14:19):
Just you know, running, never stopping until I'm done with
the workout facts.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
Philip is also working on his pushups and jumping jacks.
Speaker 5 (14:27):
Tell them how your pushups.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
Are coming along.
Speaker 4 (14:29):
They're doing mediocre mediocre, Okay, I just feel like they
do mediocre.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
I would approve that all right for the people who
can see.
Speaker 5 (14:41):
Give them a little flex dom your muscles.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Oh love?
Speaker 5 (14:46):
Oh yeah, so good, Philip. That was a great question.
Thank you so much for joining today and asking.
Speaker 4 (14:51):
Also, what do you think is crazy a baby named
like someone we don't know who has a baby named
after you or attached you?
Speaker 5 (15:00):
Will you?
Speaker 1 (15:02):
Wow? Well those were both pretty crazy, and I know
people with both.
Speaker 5 (15:09):
Oh okay, I.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
Think a baby is crazy.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
Like a baby being named after me is crazy because
I feel like that's like a different level of like
this child is stuck with that name for at least
eighteen years until they can legally change it if they
hate it that much. But then again, also, a tattoo
is crazy because like that's permanent, you know, it's either way.
Speaker 5 (15:30):
I'm honored.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
Yeah, I feel like that's a good answer.
Speaker 5 (15:33):
What do you think is crazier personally? Kid named after you?
Would you name your kid after me?
Speaker 4 (15:41):
I mean, yeah, it might probably not.
Speaker 5 (15:44):
But I you think about it, probably not, but you
consider it. Yeah. Okay, Well, thank.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
You so much.
Speaker 5 (15:51):
Bill, Give me a hug.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
But that is one hundred percent the cutest listener question
we got in. But the listeners really want to know.
And up next we're going to get into basketball and
all Yukon questions.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
They want to know everything. You ready, Oh, I'm ready?
All right. So we were just talking about your personal life.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
What other schools were you thinking about going to visit
during your recruitment process.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
So my family was road trip family. So to every
AU tournament we went, we drove. Most of them. We drove,
so we would stop, we'd leave early, and we would
stop at whatever school we were passing on the way
that was either interested or even just even if like
they hadn't shown interest yet, we would still stop just
to see their campus, which at the time like it was.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
Cool, but I was kind of like, why are we
doing this?
Speaker 1 (16:46):
And as I'm older and like, even when I went
into making my college decision, I was really grateful that
my parents did that. Because of COVID, I didn't get
official visits. So going on all those other visits, I
had already seen the campuses of all the schools I
was like really considering, but also campuses of other schools
and like things that I knew I didn't like, so
getting getting that feel early on was really important and
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I didn't realize that at the time, but so, like
I visited Notre Dame a lot, and like a few
memories from there is their dining hall and how my
younger brothers when they get any type of buffet of
food in front of them, like they go absolutely insane,
and just seeing their plates they had like secondhand embarrassment
sometimes seeing the plates they'd come back with. When I
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went to UCLA, I visited there and they had we
were doing like a walk around the campus and they
had someone on a golf cart stop me with like
a magazine I think of a picture.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
Of me on it, and they were like are you easy?
Speaker 5 (17:40):
Fun and like.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
Showing me this magazine.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
They UCLA needs problems because they're like recruiting people and
their creative like they were. It was top notch of
things that they would send and do. But it was
a lot of just really funny things like that. There
was a lot of good memories on those visits.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
That sounds great.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
I mean, what's one of the weirdest or like craziest
or unexpected things that a school has done to try
to get you to commit to them?
Speaker 1 (18:06):
I feel like that was that was funny, and at
the moment, I was like, what the heck, Like how
does this person know who I am? And then like
later we figured out, But that was really cool. I mean,
I remember when Maryland offered me a scholarship in sixth grade.
I was at their like elite camp and I was
called into a Brenda's coach Fries office during lunchtime. And
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in the moment, I'm like, I just want to go
eat lunch with my friends, Like why am I being
called to her office right now? And my parents are
there and they're talking. I don't like remember the conversation
too much, and they're talking. You might have watched the video.
And at the end, she's like, I really enjoyed having
you here. You've been really great, been following you, watching you,
and we want to offer you a scholarship. And they
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just look at me. I got to look at them,
and I look at my parents and I'm like, what
does that mean? I had no idea what it I
don't what a scholarship meant. So I think that was
probably one of my favorite memories, just because that was
like the start, like the real start of the recruitment.
Process for me and really learning what that Oda scholarship
was and realizing like what my future could look.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
Like sixth grade. Oh my goodness, do you have any
good recruitment stories? Good?
Speaker 3 (19:15):
I mean, my one of my favorites is we went
to like a really really bougie restaurant. This was in
South Texas at Corpus, and the waiter came out and
it was like the last part of the meal, we
already ate, we're done. The waiter came out and it
was like a cake, almost like a like a flond
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with like a little candle, and then like on the side.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
Of it it just said will you marry us?
Speaker 3 (19:43):
Which is kind of crazy, but like it really is
like a decision that's gonna last a lifetime if you stay.
And so I think that was definitely the craziest recruitment story.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
And I ended up going there, so I guess it
was said I do Did you really say I do?
Speaker 3 (19:58):
Yes, that's gonna be a story from our future future
husband whoever asked, I'd be like, oh, second time around,
here we go. But yeah, that was definitely a wild one.
So what is a core memory from last season other
than winning the Natty?
Speaker 1 (20:14):
I feel like a lot of my favorite memories are
just us as a team hanging out, and one of
them was in the It was around it was early
in the seasons. It was around Halloween. We had just
started getting in discaray movies. I think this was around Halloween,
and the first one we decided to watch was The Purge.
And it was like our first big movie night. It
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wasn't the whole team, but we were all like squeeze
in pages room. So it was Page, me, KK, Sarah Ice, Jana,
Caitlin Ali, We're like all a squeeze in her room
and we're watching The Purge and a lot of them
had never seen it before, and I think, if I
remember correctly, we kind of convinced Jana that this was
a real thing. And so then it also became a
conversation of like if the Purge really did happen, Like
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where would you hide?
Speaker 2 (20:59):
Would you go?
Speaker 3 (21:00):
Wow?
Speaker 1 (21:00):
Like who would you try to kill? And like would
you be like try to get money? Would try to
get some like new bags and new designer clothes? Like
what would you be trying to get? But that was
like our first of many movie nights, and it was
nice just to hang out with them and mess with them.
Speaker 3 (21:13):
I love that. That's cute teammate bonding. Okay, so fud family,
super fun crazy. Never know what stories you're gonna get
with you guys, Can you tell us one story or
tell us anything crazy that's happened maybe during a game
or when your family came over. It could be au,
it could be college anything.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
Wait, funy, craziest thing that they've done at a game,
at a game to make it to a game all
time or anything. One of my favorite things is when
I when I'm like in a game, I even whether
if I'm playing or like on the bench, just in
the huddle, and I look up on the jumpotron and
I see someone from my family up there dancing. It's
usually my dad. But when I see him either up
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there dancing or like, I'll like make eye contact with them,
and I'll see him just in this going crazy, or
when he's like jumping trying to get a T shirt.
The amount of videos that I've seen from fans of
him like at games trying to get T shirt tosses, Like,
I'm like, Dad, you have so many Yukon shirts, why
do you need another Yukon shert from this T shirt
toss like you really don't. I know you don't, but
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it's become a competition for him. But that always makes
me laugh. I can imagine him just rebounding over people
to grab these T shirts. Yes, and is killing me
because it gives very much on brand. And now that's
the competition.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
But it's like arms all the way out jumping.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
Has anyone ever out jumped him? No, not the Yukon fans,
at least not the box out. If you can add
any like random rule to basketball, what would it be?
Speaker 1 (22:45):
I feel like an easy answer would be like a
four point shot, like half court and back is worth
four points if you get like a crazy buzzer beater,
just make things interesting or even like the volleyball line,
like a spot is like a bonus point. But I
feel like it makes you something like more fun. Like
that's that's a basic answer. I don't know what would
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you say.
Speaker 3 (23:07):
Could you I was gonna say, could you knock down
a four point and that's gonna be a that's gonna
be a regular range.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
Yeah, I definitely knocked out at least, like you know,
I got to get a couple of them in at
least won a game that was.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
Probably one of my favorite parts of the All Star Game.
I'm like, yes, let's run it up. You should have
four points.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
I like that. Okay.
Speaker 3 (23:26):
So one of the listeners want to know what is
your signature move and what would you name it?
Speaker 1 (23:31):
My signature move in high school, my signature move was
an in and out cross like I did it like
one hundred times a game. I feel like I don't
do it as much, but it's still my go to,
like when I'm playing one on one in workouts, or
like an in out between.
Speaker 3 (23:43):
I don't know what I would call it, though you
have a great name, girl, I would use it for everything,
but I don't.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
Know what I would call it.
Speaker 5 (23:52):
What would be your move? And what would you call it?
Speaker 3 (23:54):
I love a good hook shot, and it's called the
hook shot, so you know what I call it?
Speaker 2 (24:01):
I don't know. Some ap something.
Speaker 3 (24:05):
Okay, they start with an AP for sure work, but
the rest I don't know. We put a little razzle
dazz on it, Okay. So we have a ton of
questions and this one is making me laugh and I
can't wait to ask you. So one of the listeners
asked which cartoon character would be unstoppable in college basketball.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
My mind immediately goes to space.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
Jam I feel like mine. I'm trying to think of
something else. Okay, I'm gonna go with Sully from Monstros Inc.
I think he'd be a beast in the paint. Yes, absolutely,
that's cute.
Speaker 3 (24:41):
So it just depends. Like I'm thinking Tom and Jerry
old school. Both of them will be great. One Tom
haydy cat. He's bigger, at least on the cartoon. He
makes him look big, so we would put him in
the paint. Absolutely, But Jerry he's small. He gets through everybody.
He'll be my little point guard.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
So okay, I think my characters.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
Okay, what is the funniest thing a coach has ever
yelled at you about?
Speaker 2 (25:10):
Hmmm, you know what?
Speaker 1 (25:12):
The funniest or I would say, like the most random,
like I'm not gonna say unacceptable, but like something you
shouldn't be yelled at for would be my dad yelling
at me. I forget what grade it, definitely, I want
to say this was like seventh eighth, maybe ninth grade
like in that in that time period, could have been younger.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
I don't remember.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
I needed to go pee during practice, he yelled at me.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
He yelled at me.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
So he kicked me out of practice, kicked me out
of the gym because I asked to go.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
Pee something you could not even control.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
No, actually he told me that you can't control it,
and you should only be asking to go to the
bathroom if you need to poop, because that's been that
you can't hold. But if you need to pee, then
you're not really trying. You're not working hard enough.
Speaker 3 (25:54):
Oh, he said, all that needs to be coming out
through sweat.
Speaker 2 (25:57):
I see, I see the thinking practice.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
I think I was just speechless on that one. I
was like, is he what's going on?
Speaker 2 (26:08):
I mean, did you ever pee your pants in practice? No?
So I mean I should have just.
Speaker 3 (26:18):
A prop of point, like I told you, I told
you I needed to go. Okay, So what is the
most embarrassing moment you've had on the court?
Speaker 2 (26:28):
Then? So we know you didn't pee your pants? What happened?
Speaker 1 (26:31):
I mean, I guess similar to that. I guess getting
my period during a game. That's never fun. How old
were you when this happened? Oh, this was like in college. Okay,
it was, but someone saw it before, like other people
did so I've heard like other horror stories. But so
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they caught it in time for me to change and
was this a TV game? Yeah, but it wasn't bad
and you could only see it from a certain angle.
Speaker 3 (26:59):
So yeah, it was caught in time. But shout out
to the community because oh my goodness, that's crazy. Okay,
we're back from break a Z.
Speaker 2 (27:18):
What do you got?
Speaker 3 (27:19):
So the first question is where did you grow up?
So I grew up in New York City. I lived
mostly in Manhattan majority of my life, but I've lived
in almost every borough except for Staten Island.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (27:32):
The next question is where did you play college basketball?
I played college basketball at Texas A and M Corpus Christi.
It is a small division one in South Texas aka
The Island University. Was it hard to leave New York
when you picked a college out of state? I was
really excited to leave New York. You know, I grew
up there, so I was like, I want to go
somewhere outside of the city, and I want to go
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somewhere warm, So it made sense for me to go
there and then but it's very different. It's very different.
People are always smiling and they greet you when you
walk by. New York is not as friendly as Texas is,
but it was it was great.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
Wait, so then what made you want to go back?
You're like, I miss it.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
New York is always home.
Speaker 3 (28:14):
I went to college in Texas, but I was like,
I knew I wasn't going to stay there forever. So
that's why I definitely made my way back back home.
But after a couple of years. Though, after a couple
of years, but I made my way back.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
You did, what injuries did you have when you were playing?
Speaker 2 (28:30):
So quite a few.
Speaker 3 (28:32):
Actually, I was pretty much injured majority of my college career.
I had some major ankle injuries, like just like sprains,
and then I popped my cartilage and the big one.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
I tore my ACL when I was a senior. Hey,
part of the club.
Speaker 3 (28:48):
It's when right or leftni lefni. Okay, so we've got
both in these covered between the two of us.
Speaker 2 (28:56):
Then look at that. Listen only on one good one.
Speaker 1 (29:01):
No, I don't say that we have two good ones each,
like our knees are good.
Speaker 2 (29:04):
Okay, put it together. We got two good knees.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
There you go.
Speaker 5 (29:07):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (29:07):
The next question is did you play overseas? And where
I did play overseas? I played in Malta. I played
in Czech Republic, Germany and Australia. My absolute favorite place
playing was Australia. It was the last place I played,
and I just loved everything. I've always wanted to go
and so I was really excited to be able to
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play out there and live out there for a couple
of months.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
What about that was your favorite?
Speaker 2 (29:32):
I think the team was.
Speaker 3 (29:35):
The team felt really like family and it's warm all
the time. I lived in Brisbane and Brisbane's like a city,
but they have like this man made beach in the
middle of the city and so.
Speaker 2 (29:48):
That was cool. It's a lot of greenery, but not
like the country, so I enjoyed being able to still
be around like green but not be in in the
middle of like the woods.
Speaker 1 (30:01):
So you didn't see any giant spiders or kinkers.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
No giant spiders.
Speaker 3 (30:05):
But I was chased down the street by a turkey
looking animal on my way to practice yep, yep, traumatic experience.
Speaker 2 (30:14):
Me and my therapists are locked in after that.
Speaker 3 (30:17):
But definitely that was the only thing I was more afraid,
because you know, Australia is home to the deadliest animals
in the world. But it was more city like than anything.
And I only got chased one time, so you know,
we let it go. I feel like those are good odds.
Only once, only once out of the months I was there.
I'll take it anytime.
Speaker 5 (30:38):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
The next question is fast forward a little bit. They
want to know how did you get into basketball media?
Speaker 3 (30:43):
So I got hurt towards the end of being in Australia,
and for me, I was kind of like, all right,
I've dealt with injuries all through college.
Speaker 2 (30:53):
I've dealt with injuries.
Speaker 3 (30:55):
Now in my professional career, I might want to like
slow down a little bit. So I was like, how
can I I still be around the game when I'm
not playing professionally? And so I was kind of like,
why not host? Why not tell stories? Why not still
be around it in ways that I don't necessarily have
to play all the time, still play for funsies. But
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it's like a different vibe now with the game. So yeah,
I got into it because I stopped playing professionally. Okay,
last question, do you like hosting broadcasting as much as playing?
Speaker 2 (31:25):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (31:27):
I love it and I just find like a new
love for it hosting and broadcasting and all this fun stuff.
But I think even when I still play basketball but
recreationally or like for New York City outdoor summer basketball,
it's just something about playing the game that will always
be the best feeling ever. So why I love hosting
and I love doing all the things surrounding the game.
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I think actually playing will always be like my number
one love.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
I love that it doesn't get better than playing it.
Speaker 2 (31:56):
It doesn't, So be present. Why you got it?
Speaker 1 (32:00):
Thank you all for listening. We'll be back next week
after I get back from traveling, but until then, show
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are Kurt Redmand, Maya Howard, and Jacqueline Scheninger. This podcast
is edited by Mike Costcarelli and hosted by me Aisy
Fudd and Ashanti Plummer.
Hey, everyone, welcome back to fud Around and find out.
This is Asy Fudd and I'm here with my girl,
a shanty plumber a shanty. What is up?
Speaker 2 (00:11):
What's up? Asy? Listeners? We have a good one.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
It's a mailbag episode and we're going to get into
all things Yukon basketball and Asy's personal life, and we
may answer some burning questions that you have about me too.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
That's right, So I'm super excited to see what you
guys want to know.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
Ashanti. Where are we starting? Well, let's start with a
check in. The listeners want to know. How are you doing?
What's up? You've been moving and shaking NonStop since like April,
So how you doing?
Speaker 2 (00:41):
I'm good.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
I feel like being busy is all I've ever known,
so like this is not really new. I feel like
the whole living out of a suitcase for like weeks
on end, that's a little new.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
But I'm good.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
A little tired, but nothing. You know, you can sleep
in your dead like I'm not really worried about that.
Other than that, Like, I'm great. I've had some really
cool experiences these last few months. I've met some really
amazing people. So feel like I'm just trying to really
soak in every experience and every opportunity of gotten because
it's easy to like look past things and look at
the next thing coming.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
Absolutely so someone who's balancing like traveling and basketball and
school and all these other events you have to attend.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Like, what kind of advice do you have but a listeners.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
I guess I'd say to stay present, Like there's when
you're doing so much, especially back to back to back,
like it's super easy to get caught up and either
what you had just done or what you're looking forward
to doing next week, but really being able to stay
present and enjoy what you're doing in the moment, Like
right now, I'm in Minnesota with my family, so getting
to enjoy this little bit of downtime I have and
I only have a little bit of time with my
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cousin and my grandparents and being here in my favorite place,
so being able to really enjoy this before I go.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
On to what's next in a few days. No, Yeah,
that's dope.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
I really do appreciate the time that I do get
to spend with my family. I'm out here in New
York where my family doesn't even live here anymore, so
I definitely understand being present where you're at, especially when.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
It comes to some quality time with the FAMO. So
who are your non like basketball related like role models
or people you look up to?
Speaker 1 (02:12):
I have to say my parents. I think admiring. I
feel like as I've gotten older, being able to appreciate
you know how hard parenting is, having three kids and
them balancing everything they've been able to do for us
and giving us these opportunities growing up. Obviously, like in
the moment growing up, you're like, Okay, this is a
normal sort of parents supposed to do, But all the
sacrifices that they've given for us, I'm just super grateful
for and I hope that I could be a parent
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like them one day.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
We love you, guys. We love her parents. What would
you say non basketball related?
Speaker 2 (02:40):
I'm going to say my mom. I think that's pretty cliche,
but it's the truth.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
She is was a single parent raising me and my brother,
and so I just admire her, especially like in these
New York City streets. So that's definitely someone that I
look up to non basketball. Why wives, Why whyse Okay, girly,
So you're about to go on a very very long trip.
How are you feeling about this trip overseas to China.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
I'm excited. I'm a little nervous for this flight. This
wasn't planned until like a little bit ago. So when
I left campus, I left my iPad on campus because
I was like, oh, I'm not gonna need it. I'm
taking a class. All my computer. I'll do homework or
read a book, listen to music, like I'm not going
to be on a flight that's longer than three hours,
Like I'm not really going to be bored. And I'm
currently IPEd liss gonna be on like a twelve plus
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hour flight, and some a little nervous around this is
gonna go. What's the longest flight you've been on?
Speaker 2 (03:35):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
So I went to Australia. I lived there for a
little bit, and so the I think it was two flights,
but I don't remember how long the longest one of
those two were, but I just remember it was too Australia,
and I was lucky enough to have a lot of
leg room, and I went to sleep for a majority
of the time because I can't imagine.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
So you can sleep on planes, Oh absolutely, I have to.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
Speaking of sleep, miss girl, you are always napping all
the time everywhere. And the reason why I know is
because your dad literally posts on social media all the time.
It's like a hidden talent of his where he's catching
you knocked out, Like you can't sleep on planes is
actually shocking to me because I've seen you via social media.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
Like everywhere I do sleep on plans, it's just like
not good and my mouth is always open, so I
wake up like choking because my mouth is all dry. Yeah,
that's probably like my least place asleep a car nap though,
oh my gosh, those hit different. But I feel like
growing up in a gym, I feel like that I
very quickly learned how to sleep anywhere. Like I would
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lay my jacket down and I'd sleep like in between
the bleachers on the like with games going on in
the middle of a tournament. So I feel like growing
up in that environment has taught me to sleep anyway.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
What's the weirdest place you've ever slept? The weirdest place
I've ever slept. I've definitely fallen asleep at basketball games before, like,
not like a tournament, ones like real ones.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Wait, real ones that you are participating.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
No, no, no, no, not like ones I'm watching, not
what's not playing it.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
I'm trying to think, Okay, that would be crazy. I
cut the camera. I think.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
The weirdest place I've ever fell asleep, well, not really weird,
but I mean, I don't know. I feel like it
might be common. I fell asleep in a movie theater before. Now,
movie theaters out here is like twenty five dollars just
for a ticket, so I literally pay to take a nap.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
But you know what, I needed it, So it is
what it is.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
I know a lot of people who do that. But
if I'm paying to go see a movie, I'm not
gonna fall asleep. I can't waste I feel that.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
But I feel like, I don't know. It's like it's
nice and cold in the.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
Theater, and then I'm usually going with like some of
my friends, some kind of like comfy.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
Yeah, I played myself twenty five dollars to take a nap.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
Wait, Shanti, what movie did you fall asleep in?
Speaker 2 (05:53):
Girl? I don't know. I was sleep. I was knocked out.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
I know.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
I gotta ask my best friend and get back to
y'all because no clue.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
Oh, actually I fall asleep in a club. That's gotta
be the craziest place I've fallen asleep. Yes, that's definitely
a scene. It's loud, it's crazy, it's high, but like
when you're tired, it just it's like, get tired.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
I want to taking nap right here.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
Yeah, she was like, I think she's on a beach
or something with her brother, and she like, I need
to take a nap right here, like crying.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
I felt that. Tell me. Some of the things that
you play or watch on your iPad.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
I think between my family and a couple of friends,
I have like log Insto, every streaming platform possible, So
whatever show I'm watching at that moment, I Co'm in
between shows right now, So I'm just gonna download a
bunch of like top ten whatever movies, and then my
iPad games. I get made fun of a lot for these,
but I don't care. I love my Smurf Village game.
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I've been playing that since I got my iPad in
like third grade. I play the Harry Podder Hark Fog
Words game.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
I get made show all of that because I need explanations,
So go ahead, Smurfville, Harry Potter.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
I play Homescapes that's a good one. And then I
say like, those are my big three, and then a
bunch of like random ones obviously have on there.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
Okay, what smurf would you be?
Speaker 1 (07:13):
Obviously I'm gonna be smurfed. I mean, duh, who would
you be?
Speaker 3 (07:18):
I am in between jokey Smurf because I got jokes
for days or chef Smurf because I like to eat,
even though Chef Smurk cooks.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
I was gonna say, Okay, we're gonna pretend like that
makes sense.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
I mean, I'm a cook and any we can just
make up our own smurf. You're gonna be the eating smurf. Yes, yes, absolutely,
I know Harry Potter. I am a fan. I've read
like every book, so I get that. Yes, girls giving
Guilty Pleasure. I had a wand I think I had Halloween.
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Oh okay, you're gonna tell me anything I was doing? Yeah, craziness.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
I love that.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
What house would you want to be in for Harry Potter?
Oh my gosh. Wait, and now I'm gonna I forget
what house I'm in. I think, oh, excuse me, what
house are you?
Speaker 4 (08:10):
No?
Speaker 1 (08:10):
But like you when you play the game, like take
a test, so it like puts you in a house.
It was either raven Claw or Hufflepuff. I forget which
one it wasn't like it definitely wasn't Slytherin, and it
wasn't gryffindor Gryffindor.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Yeah, what house?
Speaker 3 (08:23):
Would you want to be in Gryffindor only because like
Harry Potter was in Griffin.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
Yeah. I read the books.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
They're typically the ones who are like brave and going
on adventures, and I like to believe that would be me.
But honestly, soon as I hear something creepy and the
woods or something like that, I'm running. Actually, I wouldn't
go explore in the first place.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
So yeah, I don't think I would like to think
I would, but I don't think I would. I think
after this we need to do one of those tests
and find out.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
Absolutely coming to you Realsom talked about your iPad the games.
I know you're a huge reader, so tell the people
what you've been reading and what you're into and what
you're looking forward to reading.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
I feel like this has been a slow reading summer
for me because I take classes but only during one
month of the summer. This summer, I'm taking it during both,
so it's been hard to read as much as I'd
like to. I've read a few good ones, probably Seven
Husbands of Evelyn Hugo. I really enjoyed that one made
me cry. Oh if you like thrillers, pretty girls, I
forget who maybe Karen slought or something like that. I
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forget who wrote it. That's a crazy book. And then
The Nightingale. It's like a historical fiction book. I think
our Strength coach gave it to me, and I was
so just unprepared for. Like I was up at night,
like sobbing reading this book. It like crushed my heart.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
But it was really good. It was really good.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
I would suggest that one. I don't think you would
like that one.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
Do you read? Wait?
Speaker 5 (09:43):
Why?
Speaker 2 (09:44):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
It was just it was like a heavy read I read.
I'm more of a like self help reader. I like
reading about like just ways to improve in the business
side of my life, and then also I enjoy, like,
you know, the spiritual, faith based side, and.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
Then I enjoy we're reading. Yeah, just mostly like self help.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
When I was younger, I really was into a lot
of fiction, but now I'm more like nonfiction self help,
that kind of thing. But I don't mind a good
little romance novel. I like that kind of stuff, so
you can put me on for sure. Do you read
like self help books and stuff like that, anything motivational?
Speaker 2 (10:22):
I read some.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
I'm very much more fiction, but like I really did
The Obstacles the way, I really like that one and
chop Wood Carry Water, but definitely fiction is always my
go to.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
Yeah, all right, switching gears here, A listener wants to
know what advice would you give to young athletes.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
Advice that I would give, Like, there's so many things
you could say. Advice that I would give would be
set goals and dream big and make sure like you're
setting goals that are whether it's like in a month,
a few months, things that you can like obtain that
are closer, closer, like what am I trying to say?
Speaker 3 (10:56):
That are like things you can obtain now, and things
that you might not think are obtainable, but set them
anyways and try.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
Yes, yes, but also like short term and long term
and then also things that you think like I don't
know if I can get the level and off this
is like realistic or not like you said it there,
because like anything's possible. And then also like with that
remembering that like the journey is never linear, it's never
a straight line. The path like it's never easy. So
I feel like just always remembering that, like there's always
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gonna be setbacks, and it's not about like the setbacks,
it's about how you overcome those things and how you
respond to those obstacles that are in the way and
those things that are thrown at you.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
That's amazing, that's beautiful. I'm feeling inspired. Whatever, what's your advice? No,
for real, I think that's dope.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
Like it is essentially there's gonna be a lot of
people who tell you no, or maybe you don't fit
the picture of what they believe you can do, you know,
And so I think that is great advice for younger
athletes because even myself growing up, there are people who
I had big dreams.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
I was like, I'm going to play Division one basketball.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
That was like one of my first basketball goals, and
people were just like I hadn't gotten super tall yet,
so they were just like where are you going? Like, oh,
you can, you can stay you know, near home. You
can go to NYU, which is a great school, but
that's not the Vision one school where I wanted to go.
So if I would have just been okay with what
everyone else was setting for me, I wouldn't have achieved
(12:24):
the things that I've been able to achieve. So that's
great advice, girly, And the advice I would give them
kids is be yourself. There is no one else, honestly
that you can be. And if you continue to just
show up genuinely as yourself in spaces, the people your
tribe will find you, and the path that you're supposed
to be walking on and the things that you're supposed
(12:45):
to be doing in this life will happen over time.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
So just continue to show up authentically as you. That's
for the kids.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
I love that we have a special listener who has
a live question today, Philip.
Speaker 5 (12:59):
Give a question for us.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
This is my cousin Philip.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
He lives in La Wait.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
First of all, show them your jersey. For those of
you who can't see, he's wearing an easy fed bass
camp jersey. It looks good on him. Yeah, go ahead,
ask your question.
Speaker 5 (13:15):
Uh so easy, Yes, sir.
Speaker 4 (13:19):
I want to know, like what you work out schedule
is like, you know, do you like work out every day?
Speaker 5 (13:24):
Is it like like is it like.
Speaker 4 (13:26):
A few a few week days every week, like, you.
Speaker 5 (13:29):
Know, great question, Philip.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
So, as you can see, Phillip's here with me in Minnesota,
and he's gotten a little taste of my workout schedule
because he's been waking up early and going to the
gym with me. Yeah, I work out just about every day.
I think I do something most days, so I go
to the gym, I do an on court workout probably
five six days out of the week. And I'm more
(13:54):
of a As I've gotten older, I've learned that quality
is more important than quantity. So it's not about how
long you're on the core, more about like the quality
of the worth that you're getting when you're on the court.
So I feel like if you do an hour of
good work, even forty five minutes of quality work, that's
all you need. And then I go in and I
lift afterwards, which is also usually about an hour. And
while I've been working out on court, Philip has been
(14:15):
doing his own workout on the track, Philip, Hell, have
your workout's been going?
Speaker 4 (14:19):
Just you know, running, never stopping until I'm done with
the workout facts.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
Philip is also working on his pushups and jumping jacks.
Speaker 5 (14:27):
Tell them how your pushups.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
Are coming along.
Speaker 4 (14:29):
They're doing mediocre mediocre, Okay, I just feel like they
do mediocre.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
I would approve that all right for the people who
can see.
Speaker 5 (14:41):
Give them a little flex dom your muscles.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Oh love?
Speaker 5 (14:46):
Oh yeah, so good, Philip. That was a great question.
Thank you so much for joining today and asking.
Speaker 4 (14:51):
Also, what do you think is crazy a baby named
like someone we don't know who has a baby named
after you or attached you?
Speaker 5 (15:00):
Will you?
Speaker 1 (15:02):
Wow? Well those were both pretty crazy, and I know
people with both.
Speaker 5 (15:09):
Oh okay, I.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
Think a baby is crazy.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
Like a baby being named after me is crazy because
I feel like that's like a different level of like
this child is stuck with that name for at least
eighteen years until they can legally change it if they
hate it that much. But then again, also, a tattoo
is crazy because like that's permanent, you know, it's either way.
Speaker 5 (15:30):
I'm honored.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
Yeah, I feel like that's a good answer.
Speaker 5 (15:33):
What do you think is crazier personally? Kid named after you?
Would you name your kid after me?
Speaker 4 (15:41):
I mean, yeah, it might probably not.
Speaker 5 (15:44):
But I you think about it, probably not, but you
consider it. Yeah. Okay, Well, thank.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
You so much.
Speaker 5 (15:51):
Bill, Give me a hug.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
But that is one hundred percent the cutest listener question
we got in. But the listeners really want to know.
And up next we're going to get into basketball and
all Yukon questions.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
They want to know everything. You ready, Oh, I'm ready?
All right. So we were just talking about your personal life.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
What other schools were you thinking about going to visit
during your recruitment process.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
So my family was road trip family. So to every
AU tournament we went, we drove. Most of them. We drove,
so we would stop, we'd leave early, and we would
stop at whatever school we were passing on the way
that was either interested or even just even if like
they hadn't shown interest yet, we would still stop just
to see their campus, which at the time like it was.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
Cool, but I was kind of like, why are we
doing this?
Speaker 1 (16:46):
And as I'm older and like, even when I went
into making my college decision, I was really grateful that
my parents did that. Because of COVID, I didn't get
official visits. So going on all those other visits, I
had already seen the campuses of all the schools I
was like really considering, but also campuses of other schools
and like things that I knew I didn't like, so
getting getting that feel early on was really important and
(17:06):
I didn't realize that at the time, but so, like
I visited Notre Dame a lot, and like a few
memories from there is their dining hall and how my
younger brothers when they get any type of buffet of
food in front of them, like they go absolutely insane,
and just seeing their plates they had like secondhand embarrassment
sometimes seeing the plates they'd come back with. When I
(17:26):
went to UCLA, I visited there and they had we
were doing like a walk around the campus and they
had someone on a golf cart stop me with like
a magazine I think of a picture.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
Of me on it, and they were like are you easy?
Speaker 5 (17:40):
Fun and like.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
Showing me this magazine.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
They UCLA needs problems because they're like recruiting people and
their creative like they were. It was top notch of
things that they would send and do. But it was
a lot of just really funny things like that. There
was a lot of good memories on those visits.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
That sounds great.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
I mean, what's one of the weirdest or like craziest
or unexpected things that a school has done to try
to get you to commit to them?
Speaker 1 (18:06):
I feel like that was that was funny, and at
the moment, I was like, what the heck, Like how
does this person know who I am? And then like
later we figured out, But that was really cool. I mean,
I remember when Maryland offered me a scholarship in sixth grade.
I was at their like elite camp and I was
called into a Brenda's coach Fries office during lunchtime. And
(18:28):
in the moment, I'm like, I just want to go
eat lunch with my friends, Like why am I being
called to her office right now? And my parents are
there and they're talking. I don't like remember the conversation
too much, and they're talking. You might have watched the video.
And at the end, she's like, I really enjoyed having
you here. You've been really great, been following you, watching you,
and we want to offer you a scholarship. And they
(18:49):
just look at me. I got to look at them,
and I look at my parents and I'm like, what
does that mean? I had no idea what it I
don't what a scholarship meant. So I think that was
probably one of my favorite memories, just because that was
like the start, like the real start of the recruitment.
Process for me and really learning what that Oda scholarship
was and realizing like what my future could look.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
Like sixth grade. Oh my goodness, do you have any
good recruitment stories? Good?
Speaker 3 (19:15):
I mean, my one of my favorites is we went
to like a really really bougie restaurant. This was in
South Texas at Corpus, and the waiter came out and
it was like the last part of the meal, we
already ate, we're done. The waiter came out and it
was like a cake, almost like a like a flond
(19:37):
with like a little candle, and then like on the side.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
Of it it just said will you marry us?
Speaker 3 (19:43):
Which is kind of crazy, but like it really is
like a decision that's gonna last a lifetime if you stay.
And so I think that was definitely the craziest recruitment story.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
And I ended up going there, so I guess it
was said I do Did you really say I do?
Speaker 3 (19:58):
Yes, that's gonna be a story from our future future
husband whoever asked, I'd be like, oh, second time around,
here we go. But yeah, that was definitely a wild one.
So what is a core memory from last season other
than winning the Natty?
Speaker 1 (20:14):
I feel like a lot of my favorite memories are
just us as a team hanging out, and one of
them was in the It was around it was early
in the seasons. It was around Halloween. We had just
started getting in discaray movies. I think this was around Halloween,
and the first one we decided to watch was The Purge.
And it was like our first big movie night. It
(20:37):
wasn't the whole team, but we were all like squeeze
in pages room. So it was Page, me, KK, Sarah Ice, Jana,
Caitlin Ali, We're like all a squeeze in her room
and we're watching The Purge and a lot of them
had never seen it before, and I think, if I
remember correctly, we kind of convinced Jana that this was
a real thing. And so then it also became a
conversation of like if the Purge really did happen, Like
(20:58):
where would you hide?
Speaker 2 (20:59):
Would you go?
Speaker 3 (21:00):
Wow?
Speaker 1 (21:00):
Like who would you try to kill? And like would
you be like try to get money? Would try to
get some like new bags and new designer clothes? Like
what would you be trying to get? But that was
like our first of many movie nights, and it was
nice just to hang out with them and mess with them.
Speaker 3 (21:13):
I love that. That's cute teammate bonding. Okay, so fud family,
super fun crazy. Never know what stories you're gonna get
with you guys, Can you tell us one story or
tell us anything crazy that's happened maybe during a game
or when your family came over. It could be au,
it could be college anything.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
Wait, funy, craziest thing that they've done at a game,
at a game to make it to a game all
time or anything. One of my favorite things is when
I when I'm like in a game, I even whether
if I'm playing or like on the bench, just in
the huddle, and I look up on the jumpotron and
I see someone from my family up there dancing. It's
usually my dad. But when I see him either up
(21:55):
there dancing or like, I'll like make eye contact with them,
and I'll see him just in this going crazy, or
when he's like jumping trying to get a T shirt.
The amount of videos that I've seen from fans of
him like at games trying to get T shirt tosses, Like,
I'm like, Dad, you have so many Yukon shirts, why
do you need another Yukon shert from this T shirt
toss like you really don't. I know you don't, but
(22:15):
it's become a competition for him. But that always makes
me laugh. I can imagine him just rebounding over people
to grab these T shirts. Yes, and is killing me
because it gives very much on brand. And now that's
the competition.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
But it's like arms all the way out jumping.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
Has anyone ever out jumped him? No, not the Yukon fans,
at least not the box out. If you can add
any like random rule to basketball, what would it be?
Speaker 1 (22:45):
I feel like an easy answer would be like a
four point shot, like half court and back is worth
four points if you get like a crazy buzzer beater,
just make things interesting or even like the volleyball line,
like a spot is like a bonus point. But I
feel like it makes you something like more fun. Like
that's that's a basic answer. I don't know what would
(23:06):
you say.
Speaker 3 (23:07):
Could you I was gonna say, could you knock down
a four point and that's gonna be a that's gonna
be a regular range.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
Yeah, I definitely knocked out at least, like you know,
I got to get a couple of them in at
least won a game that was.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
Probably one of my favorite parts of the All Star Game.
I'm like, yes, let's run it up. You should have
four points.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
I like that. Okay.
Speaker 3 (23:26):
So one of the listeners want to know what is
your signature move and what would you name it?
Speaker 1 (23:31):
My signature move in high school, my signature move was
an in and out cross like I did it like
one hundred times a game. I feel like I don't
do it as much, but it's still my go to,
like when I'm playing one on one in workouts, or
like an in out between.
Speaker 3 (23:43):
I don't know what I would call it, though you
have a great name, girl, I would use it for everything,
but I don't.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
Know what I would call it.
Speaker 5 (23:52):
What would be your move? And what would you call it?
Speaker 3 (23:54):
I love a good hook shot, and it's called the
hook shot, so you know what I call it?
Speaker 2 (24:01):
I don't know. Some ap something.
Speaker 3 (24:05):
Okay, they start with an AP for sure work, but
the rest I don't know. We put a little razzle
dazz on it, Okay. So we have a ton of
questions and this one is making me laugh and I
can't wait to ask you. So one of the listeners
asked which cartoon character would be unstoppable in college basketball.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
My mind immediately goes to space.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
Jam I feel like mine. I'm trying to think of
something else. Okay, I'm gonna go with Sully from Monstros Inc.
I think he'd be a beast in the paint. Yes, absolutely,
that's cute.
Speaker 3 (24:41):
So it just depends. Like I'm thinking Tom and Jerry
old school. Both of them will be great. One Tom
haydy cat. He's bigger, at least on the cartoon. He
makes him look big, so we would put him in
the paint. Absolutely, But Jerry he's small. He gets through everybody.
He'll be my little point guard.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
So okay, I think my characters.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
Okay, what is the funniest thing a coach has ever
yelled at you about?
Speaker 2 (25:10):
Hmmm, you know what?
Speaker 1 (25:12):
The funniest or I would say, like the most random,
like I'm not gonna say unacceptable, but like something you
shouldn't be yelled at for would be my dad yelling
at me. I forget what grade it, definitely, I want
to say this was like seventh eighth, maybe ninth grade
like in that in that time period, could have been younger.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
I don't remember.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
I needed to go pee during practice, he yelled at me.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
He yelled at me.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
So he kicked me out of practice, kicked me out
of the gym because I asked to go.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
Pee something you could not even control.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
No, actually he told me that you can't control it,
and you should only be asking to go to the
bathroom if you need to poop, because that's been that
you can't hold. But if you need to pee, then
you're not really trying. You're not working hard enough.
Speaker 3 (25:54):
Oh, he said, all that needs to be coming out
through sweat.
Speaker 2 (25:57):
I see, I see the thinking practice.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
I think I was just speechless on that one. I
was like, is he what's going on?
Speaker 2 (26:08):
I mean, did you ever pee your pants in practice? No?
So I mean I should have just.
Speaker 3 (26:18):
A prop of point, like I told you, I told
you I needed to go. Okay, So what is the
most embarrassing moment you've had on the court?
Speaker 2 (26:28):
Then? So we know you didn't pee your pants? What happened?
Speaker 1 (26:31):
I mean, I guess similar to that. I guess getting
my period during a game. That's never fun. How old
were you when this happened? Oh, this was like in college. Okay,
it was, but someone saw it before, like other people
did so I've heard like other horror stories. But so
(26:52):
they caught it in time for me to change and
was this a TV game? Yeah, but it wasn't bad
and you could only see it from a certain angle.
Speaker 3 (26:59):
So yeah, it was caught in time. But shout out
to the community because oh my goodness, that's crazy. Okay,
we're back from break a Z.
Speaker 2 (27:18):
What do you got?
Speaker 3 (27:19):
So the first question is where did you grow up?
So I grew up in New York City. I lived
mostly in Manhattan majority of my life, but I've lived
in almost every borough except for Staten Island.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (27:32):
The next question is where did you play college basketball?
I played college basketball at Texas A and M Corpus Christi.
It is a small division one in South Texas aka
The Island University. Was it hard to leave New York
when you picked a college out of state? I was
really excited to leave New York. You know, I grew
up there, so I was like, I want to go
somewhere outside of the city, and I want to go
(27:53):
somewhere warm, So it made sense for me to go
there and then but it's very different. It's very different.
People are always smiling and they greet you when you
walk by. New York is not as friendly as Texas is,
but it was it was great.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
Wait, so then what made you want to go back?
You're like, I miss it.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
New York is always home.
Speaker 3 (28:14):
I went to college in Texas, but I was like,
I knew I wasn't going to stay there forever. So
that's why I definitely made my way back back home.
But after a couple of years. Though, after a couple
of years, but I made my way back.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
You did, what injuries did you have when you were playing?
Speaker 2 (28:30):
So quite a few.
Speaker 3 (28:32):
Actually, I was pretty much injured majority of my college career.
I had some major ankle injuries, like just like sprains,
and then I popped my cartilage and the big one.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
I tore my ACL when I was a senior. Hey,
part of the club.
Speaker 3 (28:48):
It's when right or leftni lefni. Okay, so we've got
both in these covered between the two of us.
Speaker 2 (28:56):
Then look at that. Listen only on one good one.
Speaker 1 (29:01):
No, I don't say that we have two good ones each,
like our knees are good.
Speaker 2 (29:04):
Okay, put it together. We got two good knees.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
There you go.
Speaker 5 (29:07):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (29:07):
The next question is did you play overseas? And where
I did play overseas? I played in Malta. I played
in Czech Republic, Germany and Australia. My absolute favorite place
playing was Australia. It was the last place I played,
and I just loved everything. I've always wanted to go
and so I was really excited to be able to
(29:27):
play out there and live out there for a couple
of months.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
What about that was your favorite?
Speaker 2 (29:32):
I think the team was.
Speaker 3 (29:35):
The team felt really like family and it's warm all
the time. I lived in Brisbane and Brisbane's like a city,
but they have like this man made beach in the
middle of the city and so.
Speaker 2 (29:48):
That was cool. It's a lot of greenery, but not
like the country, so I enjoyed being able to still
be around like green but not be in in the
middle of like the woods.
Speaker 1 (30:01):
So you didn't see any giant spiders or kinkers.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
No giant spiders.
Speaker 3 (30:05):
But I was chased down the street by a turkey
looking animal on my way to practice yep, yep, traumatic experience.
Speaker 2 (30:14):
Me and my therapists are locked in after that.
Speaker 3 (30:17):
But definitely that was the only thing I was more afraid,
because you know, Australia is home to the deadliest animals
in the world. But it was more city like than anything.
And I only got chased one time, so you know,
we let it go. I feel like those are good odds.
Only once, only once out of the months I was there.
I'll take it anytime.
Speaker 5 (30:38):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
The next question is fast forward a little bit. They
want to know how did you get into basketball media?
Speaker 3 (30:43):
So I got hurt towards the end of being in Australia,
and for me, I was kind of like, all right,
I've dealt with injuries all through college.
Speaker 2 (30:53):
I've dealt with injuries.
Speaker 3 (30:55):
Now in my professional career, I might want to like
slow down a little bit. So I was like, how
can I I still be around the game when I'm
not playing professionally? And so I was kind of like,
why not host? Why not tell stories? Why not still
be around it in ways that I don't necessarily have
to play all the time, still play for funsies. But
(31:15):
it's like a different vibe now with the game. So yeah,
I got into it because I stopped playing professionally. Okay,
last question, do you like hosting broadcasting as much as playing?
Speaker 2 (31:25):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (31:27):
I love it and I just find like a new
love for it hosting and broadcasting and all this fun stuff.
But I think even when I still play basketball but
recreationally or like for New York City outdoor summer basketball,
it's just something about playing the game that will always
be the best feeling ever. So why I love hosting
and I love doing all the things surrounding the game.
(31:49):
I think actually playing will always be like my number
one love.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
I love that it doesn't get better than playing it.
Speaker 2 (31:56):
It doesn't, So be present. Why you got it?
Speaker 1 (32:00):
Thank you all for listening. We'll be back next week
after I get back from traveling, but until then, show
the pod some love, rate, review, and subscribe to futt
Around and find Out wherever you get your podcasts. Futt
Around and find Out is a production of iHeart Women's
Sports and Unanimous Media. Executive producers are Jesse Katz, Eric Payton,
Charla Sumter Brugette, and Stephan Curry. Co executive producer is
(32:24):
Klena Maria Cutney. Producers are Mike Costcarelli and co producers
are Kurt Redmand, Maya Howard, and Jacqueline Scheninger. This podcast
is edited by Mike Costcarelli and hosted by me Aisy
Fudd and Ashanti Plummer.
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