October 17, 2025 • 39 mins
Azzi and Ashanti catch up with WNBA rookie Kaitlyn Chen, who joins the pod all the way from Prague. The three get into everything from Kaitlyn’s love for sourdough to life overseas, culture shocks, and her chaotic 72-hour move to Europe.
Kaitlyn reflects on her whirlwind year — winning a national championship at UConn, getting drafted into the W, and becoming the first Taiwanese player in league history. She opens up about adjusting to pro ball, building chemistry with the Golden State Valkyries, and what it’s like playing in front of 18,000 fans in Ballhalla.
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Hey, everyone, welcome back to another episode of futt Around
and find out. I'm here with my girl a shanty Ashanti.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
What's up? Hey, I'm good, I'm excited. We have a
fun guest today. You want to introduce her.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
Fun is one word to describe her. I would describe
her as weird. We have the one and.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Only Hey, Caitlyn jen Hey, Kitlynzy fun. Hi Shanty Caitlyn.
Where are you right now?
Speaker 3 (00:28):
I'm in Prague right now?
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Amazing? Okay, overseas, girly. We want to get to know you.
So I have a couple of questions and a couple
of fun stories lined up. I had the chance to
chat with one of your besties, Ellie, your former teammate,
and she she gave me some tea that want to chat.
I can't wait to hear this.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
God.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
So my first question is what is a non basketball
related thing that people don't know about you?
Speaker 3 (01:00):
On basketball related? I like reading?
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Is that count on part with a Z? We got
some bookworms in the building. So I heard that Another
non basketball related thing is that you like bread. Oh
my god, I.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
Do like bread. Oh my god? She told you that?
That was really embarrassing. So at Princeton. We had like,
you know, one of those weekly podcasts, and when I
was on it, like the last question the guy asked
me was like, like, what's something people should know about you?
Like unrelated to basketball? And obviously, like my mind went blank.
So I go, uh, I really like bread, and he
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was he didn't really know what to do with that.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
So, like, if you know Caitlyn sheen like that is
like a personality trait. I've never seen anyone eat bread
the way that she does.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
Good bread is good bread, and Azy also eats it.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
She really I try not to, but when you're with Caitlyn,
it's like you have to.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Yeah, I heard it turned into like a whole thing.
Parents started making big goods and bringing it to games.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
Yeah, that part was actually incredible because all my friend's
parents like somehow found out and so they would bring
me like a loaf of sour dough bread or a
loaf of like a baget be amazing.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
And what'd you get for your birthday?
Speaker 3 (02:17):
A loaf of bread, like a shirt that said like
I heartbread, and like one of those like big stuffed
animal loafs.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
That's fire. I also heard another fun story back in
your Princeton days. I think it was sophomore year. You
had a media day. Oh yeah, do you shout out
to Ellie? But you want to tell us what happened
sophomore year?
Speaker 3 (02:41):
Yeah, So they wouldn't let us put our hair down
for media day. Crazy, right, So I had my hair
tied up and it was before I had highlights. My
hair was black, and we did pictures on a white
backdrop and a black backdrop, and so like with the
black backdrop, you couldn't see my hair, so I looked
like a boy. And it sort of became like a
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choke on our team that like I was a boy
on our team, and they named me Kyle, and from
then on, like all of my teammates have called me
Kyle since.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
Other things that Ali did say was you were like one,
super fun, super smiling. She didn't say a bunch of
embarrassing things, mostly good, and that you're always like a
permanent plus one is that like your love language, you're
always down to go somewhere with your teammates.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
Yeah. I feel like the majority of my time at
Princeton it was like you couldn't find one of us
without the other.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Yeah, Ezy, she was that way at Yukon too. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
I was definitely a plus one plus one third wheel
something like that, always.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
In my apartment. Oh, Kalyn, trying to miss you?
Speaker 3 (03:46):
Yeah you should. I guess I miss you a little too, just.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
A little, just a little, Okay, Kaitlyn, what would you
say was the biggest difference coming from Princeton to Yukon.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
Five spots? Oh, five spots?
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Like best explain five spots to our listeners.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
It's this one drill that we do at the end
of every practice, and it's like sort of like a
star passing a drill and it ends with like a layup,
but you have to get like everyone has to like
go through and make their lay up in a road
for practice to be over. And if like someone misses
or you drop a pass and you got to like restart.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
But you hear five spots and that's the end of practice.
Everyone's like five spots, Yes, let's go.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
I was gonna ask, so, why'd you choose Yukon? You
could have went anywhere.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
I felt like Yukon would give me like the best
chance to win a national championship. Yeah, and like make
it far in the tournament. I would like to say
that I was right about that, but honestly, just like
meeting in the team coaches on my visit, it was great.
Asy was really friendly, honestly nicer than I thought she
would be.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Walk us through your visit.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
Who was my visit?
Speaker 2 (04:52):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (04:53):
My visit was really random. It was like on like
a Monday, Tuesday, I saying the week yeah, because I
remember I wanted to the weekends with my friends at
Princeton because it was senior spring. Obviously, I remember playing
CD games classic. What do we do?
Speaker 1 (05:07):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (05:07):
We went to coach's house as usual, and honestly, I
don't really remember much.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
I remember much.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
Honestly, what I remember your visit is your dad, your mom,
and your dad playing CD games and they were the funny.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
So I was like Caitlyn, like, I don't.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
Know how about her yet, but her parents were cool
and that still stands. Well, it was the right choice
because you won a national championship. Caitlyn was like last
year like the biggest surprise for me. Like from her visit,
I was like, oh, I don't know I feel about her.
I don't know if she's going to commit, and then
she did, and then the summer it was like I
don't know if I could really see myself hanging out
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with her and being close with her, and then it
was like as soon as the season started, I think
I hung out with Caitlyn every single day.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
That's cute, Caitlyn.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
You made last year so much fun.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
Thanks.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
It's actually really weird without even though we were only
together for less.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Than a year.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
I know it's weird that I was only there for
a year. It feels like longer, maybe just because season
feels so long.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
Dude, especially when you go through When you go through
a season like that together bonds you.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
Definitely. There are a few times last season where I
was like, oh, thank god, I only have to go
through this one.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
Those sauna conversations. I haven't been in the sauna since
you left. Actually, I have not stepped butt in there.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Yeah you're nobody.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
Yeah, but you're not recovering.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
I okay this week, No, my body needs it. This week,
I'll go in the sauna. I haven't sauna. I haven't wordled.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
I wordled last night.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
You didn't text me?
Speaker 3 (06:36):
Yeah I didn't, and I connected connected, no mistakes.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
We used to.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
It was in the sauna. And if we're on trips
on the bus. We would wordle connect and.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
Hashtag and sports connect A terrible that one.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
Yeah, it was usually lucky if I got one sports connection,
but we would do that. You me, Paige, And then
some of the back of the bus joined us too.
On Jake, Jaki, Okay, let's talk about where you are
right now. You said you're in Prague playing overseas. How
long have you been out there?
Speaker 3 (07:07):
I got out here I think October second, so about
a week.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
Yeah, wait, what time is it there?
Speaker 3 (07:14):
Uh? Shoot, four forty seven, so you guys are six
hours behind.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Yeah, okay, that's not terrible.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
But it's like when I'm done with my day and
I want to call my friends, they're all still working,
so that part sort of sucks. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Yeah, why'd you choose Prague?
Speaker 3 (07:33):
It was actually really really last minute. So my Asian
I brought it up like maybe a week before, and
I didn't really think anything of it because he didn't
say anything else. And then he brings it up again,
is like, I really think you should do this, and
they want you to leave in three days, and I was, okay,
I guess i'll go, but I figured it's two and
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a half months. It would be a fun experience and
worse comes the worst. It's only two and a half months.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
You can do anything for ten and a half months. Facts,
how did you pack? Like did you bring one bag over?
Or how does that work?
Speaker 2 (08:09):
Word walk us through your seventy two hours?
Speaker 3 (08:12):
That was hard. Well, I had actually gone from Cabo
to Toronto to visit my boyfriend and that's when I
found out, and so all my stuff was still at home.
I didn't have any winter stuff. So my mom, being
the amazing person that she is, brought me my stuff
to Toronto. That way, I didn't have to like you know,
fly back to Los Angeles, to fly back to like
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the East Coast, to fly to Europe. So thankful for
my mom. She's the best.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
She is the best. Okay, now you're only a week in, Like,
what are the practices like? Like walk us, walk us
through a day? Actually, because I have no idea.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
A day, Well, I wake up and then h do
you want like a game day or regular practice day?
Speaker 2 (08:54):
Both? Some was a regular practice day.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
Regular practice day. I'll walk you through my day. Today.
I woke up and I got ready. I cooked for
the first time today. I made eggs for breakfast, and
I went to the gym. We had film and then
we lifted and then practice and then I actually met
up with these two soccer girls who played for like
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the PROG team nearby or like here, because they were like, oh,
we're always looking for more Americans saying out. So got
coffee with them and that was honestly great. Yeah I
really like them.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
Oh that's nice. So that's a practice day. What's a
game day.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
Like game day? I feel like it's pretty similar to
like every other game day. Wake up, shoot around in
the morning, come home, nap, and then go to the game.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
What do you eat for a pretty game meal.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
I've sort of just been like winging it, Like finding
something nearby. The little Vietnamese place by my house has
been really amazing. I'll just get like a rice bull
from there.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
Yeah, you go. What's the biggest difference you notice from
playing with Yukon and then playing internationally with your check team.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
Well, one, everyone spoke English at Yukon. There's a start
like sometimes I'll be on the court and I'll be
hearing like three different languages all around me. But for
the most part, like everyone speaks English. So that's helpful
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because I've heard that on some other teams. That's not
necessarily the case.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
You guys have a translator. No, oh, you're on your own.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
Everyone's English is like good enough though.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
When you go through plays, like what do they how
do they explain the plays in what language?
Speaker 3 (10:42):
It's all English?
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Oh nice? Yeah, it's like speech is in.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
English English, but it's like a little broken English. Yeah,
you piece it together.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
Is there anything you learned from playing in the w
that's translating over to playing internationally?
Speaker 3 (10:59):
Yeah, I guess just like the physicality. Like I didn't
realize how much more physical professional basketball would be compared
to college, although I probably should have. But that's not
really something they tell you.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
I know it's early, but is there anything from playing
internationally that you want to bring home with you?
Speaker 3 (11:14):
Honestly, they like move the ball really well here, like
it rarely like just sticks. I feel like we sort
of had that Yukon too.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
But post passing, post passing, the bigs are thanking you.
The bigs are thank you. So are there any countries
you're excited to travel to or play against?
Speaker 3 (11:31):
Yeah? Honestly, we get like a national team break where
we get like a week off. I think so. One
of my Valkyrie's teammates is playing in Spain, and we
were hoping to like meet up and like go travel
somewhere cool. But we haven't quite figured out where that
somewhere cool is yet. So maybe ask me in like
a month and then I would know.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
We'll follow back on.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
I heard Budapest is really cool and pretty.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
Do you have like a good amount off days where
you can like a train somewhere and travel or yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:02):
We at least get like one a week. Yesterday it
was I guess an off day, but we were traveling.
The travel was pretty rough yesterday though. It was like
a four hour bus ride and then an hour and
a half plane ride, so that sort of sucked.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
Where did y'all go?
Speaker 3 (12:17):
We we went to Borges, France. I don't really know
if you that's how you pronounce it.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
And pull up a map. I don't think I know where.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
Yeah, I also had to do that.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
Did you say? See you out in check? Because I
know there's like a beautiful bridge with locks and like
a rainbow, buildings and a castle.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
I had one day of exploring so far here. I
walked to the castle. I saw it from the outside.
It was really pretty, and then I like walked into Actually, no,
that's a lie. I tried to take the tram, I
went the wrong way and then I got off and
got an uber and went to like the more like
center of the city and I went shot. I found
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them all there, and then I sort of just like
walked around. But Prague is like beautiful. It looks so
like I don't know how subscribe it. But like Europe,
you just play. All over Europe, we play like I
think in France, Spain and Poland, You're.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
Gonna have some really cool stories and pictures and I'm excited.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
Well, I sent you my pictures and you never responded.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
I'm sorry. It's okay, Kately, you can send us your pictures.
Speaker 3 (13:30):
Also for people who don't know, like easy is a
horrible texter just like will not respond.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
I actually mentioned that like our first pod. I was like,
I texted you, you didn't text back. But if she
does pick up, if you like FaceTime.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
Also because I just called her and she's.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
Not disturbed, still usually turned off right away, but I
didn't try to.
Speaker 3 (13:49):
Well, I called you twice and you still didn't pick up.
Speaker 4 (13:52):
McKenzie called Mackenzie. Sure, okay, So after your overseas. You're
playing athletes unlimited. This is gonna be your first season
doing this. What are you looking forward to and are
there is there a team or people that you're most
excited to play against or with.
Speaker 3 (14:10):
I'm excited for like the competition there. I feel like
there are a lot of really really great players and
honestly just like meeting more people. Three halls doing it
and we became friends when she was with the Vakries
a little, so I'm honestly excited for our month together
in Nashville.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
I was a huge fan of the tiktoks you guys made.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
Yeah, see, it's like I'll do them if you don't
make me dance.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
Can you act? Because you know, Asy have been doing
a little acting lately and I've been loving it.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
Oh I'm not really great at that either. It's got
to be like very basic, like.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
One line okay, okay, or just likes guest appearances, yes,
a little droppings, Okay. Gotta start somewhere. So let's pivot
and talk about the w Kaitlyne, you were drafted while
you were there support of Page. Walk us through that
experience when you heard your name.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
I feel like it was pretty exciting. They sort of
tricked me a little though, because for a sec for
a while, like when the camera was like in my face,
it was like Dallas up next. I was like, Oh,
this is great. Go like hanging out with Page for
like two weeks of training camp, hopefully make a team,
but if it doesn't, you know, and then it like
jumped to the Valkyries, and honestly, I was pretty excited,
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you know, to be back in California, although everyone keeps
saying like, oh, you went home, but like it's like
a five hour drive, so not quite but home state. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
Can you share with everyone your thought process going to
the draft. I don't know if you want to share
or not, but that to me was just such a
Caitlin Chen and that was very on par for who
you are.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
I was like, I could get drafted. I could not. Honestly,
I didn't think I was gonna get drafted for a while.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
No, I was just gonna make you elaborate and talk
about how you were, like, well, training camp is this long,
but you.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
Oh yeah, So Princeton does like reunions every year, and
it's like, you know, the highlight of my year. It's
when everyone sort of starts, everyone goes back and it's
like you're sort of reunited with all your friends, Like
no one tells you that, Like college is so great
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and you don't really get to live with your friends
like that anymore. But for reunions, you guys spend four
days with your besties. And so I was a little
bummed that I might not be able to go if
I were to like make a team. So I was like,
you know what, I'll go to training camp, give it
my all. If I make a team. I make a team,
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that's awesome. I'll be in the w If I don't,
I get to go to reunions, oh my god. And
so you know, I got waived and I was able
to go to reunions, had a blast, loved spending time
with my friends there, and then went home, worked out
a little, and got called back and so everything honestly
worked out really well.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
We had to do both. It was perfect.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
Yeah, it was perfect. Couldn't have drawn it up better.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
She really couldn't have. So after Paige got drafted, she
advocated for you. What was it like hearing that from her?
Speaker 3 (17:27):
I feel like it's it was really nice of her.
I feel like that's just like how Page is though,
Like she's that kind of teammate that's always going to
have your back and always going to like support you
and like uplift you wherever she goes.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
Yeah, Hazy, you were there at the draft. What's your
point of view of all this happening, seeing Paige get drafted,
seeing Kaitlyn get drafted. What was your experience?
Speaker 1 (17:49):
Like, I mean, Kaitlyn was there and she was like,
I'm not getting drafted. I'm not getting drafted. Caitlyn put
something nice on, like make sure you look for themible
because you're gonna get drafted.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
I say, I didn't.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
I knew she's gonna get drafted. But it doesn't change,
Like even when you're expecting, it doesn't change. Hearing their
name called, seeing them go up there on the stage
and holding their jersey. So being able to be a
part of that for all of them was really special.
I'm getting to celebrate all of them and just share that,
Like that's a huge moment, a huge accomplishment. So it
was an honor for all of us. But just cheer
her on and be her cheerleader.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
I love that, Like you shat a tight knit family, Caitlin.
You were the first Taiwanese player to be drafted in
the W What does that mean for you?
Speaker 3 (18:32):
I feel like it's pretty special. I don't think I
quite realized that until like after, I guess, but sort
of just to be able to be like a role
model for a younger Asian American athletes, it means a lot. Yeah,
because for us growing up, like there wasn't always someone
to look up to.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
What was it like meeting Jeremy Lynn?
Speaker 3 (18:54):
That was cool? Yeah, that was like so sort of
like random but not really random, but a definitely cool
experience because obviously, like everyone knows Jermy Lynn from insanity
and everything.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
Yeah, yup, big fan.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
Did you get to talk to him or was it
just like a hey, I'm kaitln Chen, take a picture.
Speaker 3 (19:13):
Yeah, he's pretty free but said hi, picture.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
So the Valkyrie's incredible fan energy. You guys called that
ball Halla, right, yeah, okay, can you explain to the
people who don't know, including me, what Bahla means.
Speaker 3 (19:29):
The Valkyries, I guess they're like home place where they
like battle or like home field is called Balhalla, so
like you know, for us, it's called Balhalla, which is
like Chase Center, and that's where we play, and honestly,
it was amazing playing there. Like Yukon obviously also amazing
fans always like bring in. It's like sold out every
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home game, but like playing in Balhalla where it's like
eighteen thousand fans every night and they go crazy from
like the start of the game to the end, no
matter if you're winning or losing. It was pretty special.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
Yeah, so you would say that it's crazier than Sample
and there, I.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
Think just because there were like eight thousand more fans.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
We had the stud buds on the pod and they
actually mentioned that playing against you guys in that arena
was the loudest, the most amazing and like crazy. So
shout out to you guys being like a first year
organization and your fans showing up the way that they do.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
Yeah, they definitely showed up every game, and it was
like every game we'd be like, oh, that was the
loudest it's ever been, and then the next game we'd
be like, oh my god, it was even louder.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
They turned up in that Bay area.
Speaker 3 (20:41):
Definitely something you should experience.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
If you haven't girl with you there, we can't make
it happen. So your dad went to a Golden State
versus Dallas game and you were playing and he wore
a page jersey. What was that about?
Speaker 3 (20:59):
You know, he loves page and so he was like,
it's my one chance to wear my pay jersey.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
Oh my goodness, daughter, pull it out.
Speaker 3 (21:09):
Yeah, don't worry. He talked to me before and I
honestly did it pretty funny. So I was like, yeah,
I go for it.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
So being waived and then being resigned again, did it
affect your relationship with your team at all?
Speaker 3 (21:22):
Not that much, because I mean it's like training camp,
and training camp is sort of quick, you like get
to know people, but not that much. And then when
I came back to everyone was just super welcoming, and
I felt like it was pretty easy to like fit
in and you know, get along with everyone.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
You seemed like you guys got along like I had
a good, good team chemistry.
Speaker 3 (21:43):
Yeah, we definitely had a special group. Everyone got along
super well. There was never any really locker room drama
or anything like that, and I felt like everyone was
just super selfless, like doing whatever they could for the
best of the team.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
That's amazing. Well definitely paid off because you guys made
it to the playoffs. Which is like unheard of for
a first year team. So congratulations on all your success
that you had with them. Thanks your coach, Natalie Nicasse
one Coach of the Year. What is the biggest thing
that you learned from her?
Speaker 3 (22:15):
Honestly, just like how to be a leader. I felt
like she held us point guards, especially to like a
high standard of like this is like your team, and
whatever happens, if it goes poorly, that's on you. So
you got to make sure that you're holding everyone accountable
and like doing everything within your power to make sure
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the team is prepared.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
Come on, Acy, let's get into some fan questions from Instagram.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
Okay, so there were a ton of fan questions, so
prayer yourself are kind of all over the place. The
first one was what was your welcome to the w moment?
Speaker 3 (22:58):
Honestly, probably just training camp and having to guard Veronica.
That was sort of rough. She's just so strong, Like
I feel like I'd be there in front of her
and she just finish right over me and I'd be like,
oh darn not again.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
Yeah, she's good. She played. She was fun to watch
this year.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
Yeah, she was incredible. She's amazing player, even better person.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
What's your pregame routine?
Speaker 3 (23:25):
Pregame routine? Mmmm, take a fat nap.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
I thought you say something mouse girl.
Speaker 3 (23:34):
That too. Yeah, honestly, I don't have like a ton
of like like I feel like I'm superstitious, but not
like pregame routine ishous you know.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
So what are you superstitious about?
Speaker 3 (23:50):
Like little stuff like if we well, I guess this
doesn't imply as much anymore, but like in college, like
if we want a game, I just wear the same socks,
same underwear. I would wash it obviously, but same sports bra.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
What was your favorite food spot in the Bay?
Speaker 3 (24:14):
Oh, I feel like I'm gonna get hate for this,
but honestly, the Sweet Green by my apartment amazing, like
one of the best sweet greens that I've ever had,
and they would give you like so much too. Or
the Taco play or Brito place me and Paige went two.
When you came to visit.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
That place, that's okay, take me there when I come
to visit.
Speaker 3 (24:36):
Well, you were supposed to come visit, and.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
You know what, I deserve that I deserve that she.
Speaker 3 (24:46):
Was literally in San Francisco for like the three days
I wasn't there.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
Oh no, no, yeah, really unfortunately unfortunate. So who is
your favorite Yukon women's basketball alum?
Speaker 3 (24:59):
Oh mmmm, pitchbackers.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
You're gonna say that, which w team and which player
was the toughest opponent?
Speaker 3 (25:10):
Guys, these are hard because I didn't really play that much,
so like what looks like, you know, like Minnesota is
definitely tough. I mean, they have so many really great players.
I can spread the floor and they've played together for
a few years now, so they just like play off
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each other super Well.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
Yeah, what's your favorite music genre or and artists?
Speaker 3 (25:37):
Mm hmm, I don't think I have a favorite artist
music genre. I like country and some R and.
Speaker 2 (25:45):
B okay, I like that too.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
Luke Bryant, good, how did you guys come up with
the bench celebrations when someone scored?
Speaker 3 (25:54):
Honestly, a lot of it would be like on the fly,
or like after we do something, we'd be like, oh,
let's do this next, and then you know, you do it. Yeah,
but that was a lot of fun. Yeah, it was
a lot of fun, really fun games when we make
a lot of threes.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
What's something you didn't expect after going pro?
Speaker 3 (26:13):
I think I didn't realize how much I would like
this life because I always was sort of like, oh,
you know, maybe I'll play like a few years overseas
and then go find a real job. But this job
is like pretty great. Like all I have to do
is wake up and play basketball. It's really fun.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
Okay, Star Bench Cut, Princeton, Yukon and the Valkyries.
Speaker 3 (26:36):
Guys, I can't do that. This is so hard.
Speaker 2 (26:42):
This is a pretty hard one.
Speaker 3 (26:43):
I feel like I'm gonna get shipped for anything that
I say.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
You definitely are. There's no right answer here.
Speaker 3 (26:49):
I feel like I gotta start Princeton. You know, that's
just like home. You know, IVS wouldn't be there or
wouldn't have gone anywhere else if it wasn't for there.
Why can't I just like bench both of them.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
One, Caitlin, they're watching, I know, so you can you
can really say whatever, But.
Speaker 3 (27:19):
Honestly, hm hmm, that's hard. Probably Bench u Kon cut
the Vacries just because you know, like I don't know,
both seasons were so special, but winning a national championship
is pretty incredible. And also like I'll have a lot
more years with the packery so they can make their
way up.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
First come, first served, baby, Okay, this was a really
popular one.
Speaker 2 (27:47):
What's your quad routine?
Speaker 3 (27:49):
Oh god, I don't even understand why everyone's talking about
my quads like that, Like they're not like Caitlyn you have,
but I, like, I know I have strong legs, but like,
have you seen your legs? Your quaser is just as big? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (28:04):
Like yeah, it's like it looks different on you like yours,
just like they look so like yeah, maybe.
Speaker 3 (28:12):
Because my arms are like skinny, so like my legs
stick out. But I don't have a quatter team like
I means natural.
Speaker 2 (28:22):
I just like this. Okay. East Coast or West Coast?
Speaker 3 (28:26):
Ooh hard, that's really hard because I like both a lot,
you know, but probably West Coast. I do love being home,
but then I get fomo when I'm on the West
Coast because all my friends are on the East Coast.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
So okay, another really popular question, how was Cabo?
Speaker 3 (28:45):
Oh? So much fun? It was so great. That was
like my four days of summer because it's so cold
in San Francisco in the summer, so that was really nice.
And honestly, just being with the boys, it's a lot
of fun.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
It looks like fun. You look like you have some
color who are who are the boys?
Speaker 3 (29:05):
I don't know why, but we started calling like, you know,
normally it's like the girls, but for some reason, we're
the boys.
Speaker 2 (29:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (29:12):
I think Kate had a big part in that.
Speaker 1 (29:14):
Okay, this is another hard question. What is your all
time starting five with your Valkyries Yukon and Princeton teammates
starting five?
Speaker 3 (29:24):
Is this like like we're trying to win?
Speaker 2 (29:26):
It can be you're trying to have a good we
want it. Let's let's do try to win first. That's
actually the most popular question after we asked this, Are
we win having fun?
Speaker 1 (29:39):
All?
Speaker 3 (29:39):
Right? To win from Princeton, you know, I gotta go
with Ellie. She's a beast on.
Speaker 1 (29:47):
The boards, Ellie only if she has her bow in
her hair.
Speaker 3 (29:52):
That Honestly, I never experienced bo Ellie, and I'm sorry
glad I didn't. Definitely wouldn't be fun of her a
lot for that. Definitely, Yeah, but Ellie, uh, Yukon, hmm,
that's hard. Probably Azy Page and Sarah, I'm honored. And
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then I would go with the Veronica from the Doctors.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
Great, I'm picking you.
Speaker 3 (30:21):
I don't know, I'm just picking I didn't know like
it was I supposed to put me on it. No,
that's off.
Speaker 2 (30:28):
Oh, any anyone you want. But I think that's a
solid five though. I like that team. I feel like it'd
be good vibes too.
Speaker 3 (30:35):
Definitely.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
Yeah. So now we're gonna do fudding games. The first
one is the what the fud of the week or
what the fun of the week is something that happened
this week that made you say, what the fud? Caitlyn?
Do you have a what the fun of the week?
Speaker 3 (30:55):
I actually do. It was our dinner at the hotel,
our day before the game. So there is chicken, you know,
got the chicken, cut it open, It was rough, it
was just like straight pink inside. No, and our coach
goes around, guys, don't eat the chicken, like got it,
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won't be eating the chicken.
Speaker 2 (31:19):
Oh my gosh. This was before a game.
Speaker 3 (31:23):
This was the night before. And then they brought out
some more chicken that was cooked, but still, like, what
was that chicken even doing out there?
Speaker 2 (31:31):
In the first girl, who are you gonna play against?
Because this give me a set up? That's insane. Lebron's
retirement fake out so he did like a whole setup
like his original decision day so he's like, big decision happening,
tune in twelve o'clock on this date, and it just
(31:51):
turns out it was an ad for Hennessy. Let me
tell you something, Lebron, The prices for Lakers tickets just
off of him saying something went from like two hundred
dollars to two thousand because he wanted to play around
on Instagram and Twitter talking about decision happening. So now
I've been priced out of any Laker game because Lebron
(32:16):
want to play around. But it also speaks to like
his influence. He's moving the needle because eighteen hundred dollars
difference because he just said a decision he's to be made.
Speaker 3 (32:27):
It's crazy.
Speaker 2 (32:28):
Definitely, My what the fuck of the week?
Speaker 3 (32:31):
Azy, let's hear what the fuck?
Speaker 4 (32:35):
My?
Speaker 2 (32:35):
What the fud of the week?
Speaker 1 (32:37):
Is that Nick from Love Island?
Speaker 2 (32:39):
Again?
Speaker 1 (32:40):
I don't watch it, so it's like whatever to me,
but my teammates freaked out. Nick from Love Island was
at Ted's on a Wednesday.
Speaker 3 (32:48):
Teds yes at Teds.
Speaker 1 (32:51):
I have no idea if I was told he's doing
some like Greek frat something college tour, but I think
a couple of my teammates went to meet them, and
I'm like, what the heck.
Speaker 2 (33:03):
Guys, I was just like, what the fun? You know,
You're like, what the fuck?
Speaker 1 (33:07):
So the next tame that we're playing is called the
euro Trip. You're in Prague with a new team, new culture,
new adventures. So we're gonna test your Europeans for Bible skills.
Speaker 2 (33:15):
Today.
Speaker 1 (33:16):
We're gonna give you a situation and you're gonna tell
us what you'd do.
Speaker 2 (33:20):
You ready, mm hmmm.
Speaker 1 (33:22):
You walk into a grocery store and realize that everything
is labeled in check. You need toothpaste. How do you
find it?
Speaker 3 (33:29):
I go to the you know, the toothpaste aisle, and
then I find the toothpaste. This is actually like something
that happened to me, Like I couldn't find the or
I had to go get shampoo and conditioner body wash,
and he was honestly harder than expected. I was staring
at the I was staring at the aisle thing for
like five minutes.
Speaker 1 (33:50):
Yeah, well, I feel like those things all look the
same too, and the eyeball and it took me.
Speaker 3 (33:55):
A while to find lotion and I still haven't found
salt and pepper. Trouble with that yesterday.
Speaker 1 (34:02):
Can you ask someone or they don't speak English?
Speaker 3 (34:05):
Well, Sometimes you get a little nervous because you know,
I don't want to sound dumb, like should someone ask
where the salt and pepper is? It's embarrassing.
Speaker 2 (34:13):
Bring your teammate with you. Bring your teammate with you? Okay.
Speaker 1 (34:18):
Next, your new teammates invite you to try traditional check gulash.
You're unsure of what's in it? Do you say yes
or politely passed?
Speaker 3 (34:26):
I feel like it depends how it looks like. If
it looks like it would be good, then yeah.
Speaker 1 (34:31):
Try Okay, So say it looks a little sketchy, I.
Speaker 3 (34:35):
Would ask what's in it? And then maybe take a small,
small bite like thank you, thank you?
Speaker 2 (34:45):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (34:45):
You have a team meeting that starts at nine o'clock.
You show up at eight fifty five, but everyone else
rolls in at nine to fifteen. Next time, do you
go buy American time or you're uptime?
Speaker 3 (34:55):
I think still American time because I would get stressed
if I should it up late.
Speaker 1 (35:01):
Yeah, better safe than sorry. Are your teammates celebrate a
win at a cafe instead of blasting music in the
locker room? What's your move? Do you join in or
start a vibe shift.
Speaker 3 (35:11):
I feel like you join in, like, you know, see
what it's like. If it isn't great, then so chet
up next time.
Speaker 2 (35:21):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (35:21):
So you realize that Thanksgiving isn't celebrated there? How do
you recreate it abroad with your teammates friendsgiving?
Speaker 3 (35:28):
Duh? Everyone brings something?
Speaker 1 (35:30):
Okay, So you're just gonna leave it open ended, like everyone,
all the foreigners just bring like your favorite go to
dish and just have like a melting pot of Thanksgiving.
Speaker 3 (35:38):
Yeah. I guess so, because if I made them, like
make American Thanksgiving food, like, it probably wouldn't be very good.
Speaker 2 (35:44):
Okay, I can you even cook? Like, what would you
bring to this thing? Friendsgiving? Bread? Okay? She's providing the
space for it to go down.
Speaker 3 (36:00):
Yeah, exactly, my humble apartment.
Speaker 2 (36:03):
Okay. So the next game is IVY or Orima. You
both played for Gino, who's known for his quotes, and
Caitlyn you went to Princeton. I'm going to read you
to a quote and you tell us it became from
an IVY League scholar or Gino Oriama. Discipline is the
bridge between goals and accomplishments. Who said this IVY League, Yeah, yep, Ivy.
(36:29):
Jim Ron sounds like Gino, though, I feel like they're
all going to sound like it could be coached next one.
If you can't play hard all the time, you shouldn't
play at all, coach. Coach, Yeah, definitely, coach, yep. The
purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with
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an open one. IVY League, Ivy, yep, Ivy, Malcolm Forbes.
If your best player isn't your hardest worker, your team's
in coach yep. Oh yeah. The good excellence is never
an accident. It is a result of high intentions and
sincere effort.
Speaker 3 (37:12):
Ivy.
Speaker 2 (37:12):
I feel like, yep, that's Ivy Aristotle. You don't need
balance in your life, you need commitment. Coach. Yeah that
was also, Oh my goodness, you have some good listeners. Yes,
that's coach. The more you know, the more you realize
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you don't know.
Speaker 3 (37:34):
I feel like that's definitely something he could have said
at some point.
Speaker 2 (37:38):
We can repeat that one. The more you know, the
more you realize you don't know.
Speaker 1 (37:44):
I also feel like that something you could have said.
But I think I'm still.
Speaker 2 (37:46):
Gonna go IVY.
Speaker 3 (37:48):
Yeah, I agree.
Speaker 2 (37:49):
It was IVY, but.
Speaker 3 (37:52):
I feel like he said something like that or I
don't know, I'm.
Speaker 2 (37:56):
Sure he has. Yeah, well now maybe he got it
from IVY League scholar. Sometimes the toughest lesson is learning
to be coached. Coach coach yep, best coach. Knowledge will
give you power, but character will give you respect IVY
(38:17):
IVY Yes, Bruce Lee quote, we don't recruit talent, we
recruit tough coach.
Speaker 3 (38:26):
Coach.
Speaker 2 (38:27):
You got it, yat killed that. Yeah, got every single
one right.
Speaker 1 (38:30):
Well, the IVY League ones are like a little more
like thoughtful and likes and coaches like straight to.
Speaker 3 (38:37):
The point and coaches were all about like.
Speaker 2 (38:41):
Coach. All right.
Speaker 1 (38:45):
That is a wrap on today's episode. Kaitlyn Chen, thank
you so much for joining us from.
Speaker 3 (38:49):
Frogue, Thanks for having me.
Speaker 1 (38:52):
Thank you, Kitlyn, good luck this season and everyone, thank
you so much for tuning in today. Don't forget to rate,
review and subscribe to Fight Around and find Out wherever
you get your podcasts.
Speaker 2 (39:01):
And we'll see you next week.
Speaker 1 (39:04):
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This podcast is edited by Mike Coscarelli and hosted by
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me Aizy Fudd and as Shauntee Plummer
Hey, everyone, welcome back to another episode of futt Around
and find out. I'm here with my girl a shanty Ashanti.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
What's up? Hey, I'm good, I'm excited. We have a
fun guest today. You want to introduce her.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
Fun is one word to describe her. I would describe
her as weird. We have the one and.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Only Hey, Caitlyn jen Hey, Kitlynzy fun. Hi Shanty Caitlyn.
Where are you right now?
Speaker 3 (00:28):
I'm in Prague right now?
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Amazing? Okay, overseas, girly. We want to get to know you.
So I have a couple of questions and a couple
of fun stories lined up. I had the chance to
chat with one of your besties, Ellie, your former teammate,
and she she gave me some tea that want to chat.
I can't wait to hear this.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
God.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
So my first question is what is a non basketball
related thing that people don't know about you?
Speaker 3 (01:00):
On basketball related? I like reading?
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Is that count on part with a Z? We got
some bookworms in the building. So I heard that Another
non basketball related thing is that you like bread. Oh
my god, I.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
Do like bread. Oh my god? She told you that?
That was really embarrassing. So at Princeton. We had like,
you know, one of those weekly podcasts, and when I
was on it, like the last question the guy asked
me was like, like, what's something people should know about you?
Like unrelated to basketball? And obviously, like my mind went blank.
So I go, uh, I really like bread, and he
(01:39):
was he didn't really know what to do with that.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
So, like, if you know Caitlyn sheen like that is
like a personality trait. I've never seen anyone eat bread
the way that she does.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
Good bread is good bread, and Azy also eats it.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
She really I try not to, but when you're with Caitlyn,
it's like you have to.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Yeah, I heard it turned into like a whole thing.
Parents started making big goods and bringing it to games.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
Yeah, that part was actually incredible because all my friend's
parents like somehow found out and so they would bring
me like a loaf of sour dough bread or a
loaf of like a baget be amazing.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
And what'd you get for your birthday?
Speaker 3 (02:17):
A loaf of bread, like a shirt that said like
I heartbread, and like one of those like big stuffed
animal loafs.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
That's fire. I also heard another fun story back in
your Princeton days. I think it was sophomore year. You
had a media day. Oh yeah, do you shout out
to Ellie? But you want to tell us what happened
sophomore year?
Speaker 3 (02:41):
Yeah, So they wouldn't let us put our hair down
for media day. Crazy, right, So I had my hair
tied up and it was before I had highlights. My
hair was black, and we did pictures on a white
backdrop and a black backdrop, and so like with the
black backdrop, you couldn't see my hair, so I looked
like a boy. And it sort of became like a
(03:01):
choke on our team that like I was a boy
on our team, and they named me Kyle, and from
then on, like all of my teammates have called me
Kyle since.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
Other things that Ali did say was you were like one,
super fun, super smiling. She didn't say a bunch of
embarrassing things, mostly good, and that you're always like a
permanent plus one is that like your love language, you're
always down to go somewhere with your teammates.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
Yeah. I feel like the majority of my time at
Princeton it was like you couldn't find one of us
without the other.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Yeah, Ezy, she was that way at Yukon too. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
I was definitely a plus one plus one third wheel
something like that, always.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
In my apartment. Oh, Kalyn, trying to miss you?
Speaker 3 (03:46):
Yeah you should. I guess I miss you a little too, just.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
A little, just a little, Okay, Kaitlyn, what would you
say was the biggest difference coming from Princeton to Yukon.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
Five spots? Oh, five spots?
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Like best explain five spots to our listeners.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
It's this one drill that we do at the end
of every practice, and it's like sort of like a
star passing a drill and it ends with like a layup,
but you have to get like everyone has to like
go through and make their lay up in a road
for practice to be over. And if like someone misses
or you drop a pass and you got to like restart.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
But you hear five spots and that's the end of practice.
Everyone's like five spots, Yes, let's go.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
I was gonna ask, so, why'd you choose Yukon? You
could have went anywhere.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
I felt like Yukon would give me like the best
chance to win a national championship. Yeah, and like make
it far in the tournament. I would like to say
that I was right about that, but honestly, just like
meeting in the team coaches on my visit, it was great.
Asy was really friendly, honestly nicer than I thought she
would be.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Walk us through your visit.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
Who was my visit?
Speaker 2 (04:52):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (04:53):
My visit was really random. It was like on like
a Monday, Tuesday, I saying the week yeah, because I
remember I wanted to the weekends with my friends at
Princeton because it was senior spring. Obviously, I remember playing
CD games classic. What do we do?
Speaker 1 (05:07):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (05:07):
We went to coach's house as usual, and honestly, I
don't really remember much.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
I remember much.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
Honestly, what I remember your visit is your dad, your mom,
and your dad playing CD games and they were the funny.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
So I was like Caitlyn, like, I don't.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
Know how about her yet, but her parents were cool
and that still stands. Well, it was the right choice
because you won a national championship. Caitlyn was like last
year like the biggest surprise for me. Like from her visit,
I was like, oh, I don't know I feel about her.
I don't know if she's going to commit, and then
she did, and then the summer it was like I
don't know if I could really see myself hanging out
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with her and being close with her, and then it
was like as soon as the season started, I think
I hung out with Caitlyn every single day.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
That's cute, Caitlyn.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
You made last year so much fun.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
Thanks.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
It's actually really weird without even though we were only
together for less.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Than a year.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
I know it's weird that I was only there for
a year. It feels like longer, maybe just because season
feels so long.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
Dude, especially when you go through When you go through
a season like that together bonds you.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
Definitely. There are a few times last season where I
was like, oh, thank god, I only have to go
through this one.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
Those sauna conversations. I haven't been in the sauna since
you left. Actually, I have not stepped butt in there.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Yeah you're nobody.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
Yeah, but you're not recovering.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
I okay this week, No, my body needs it. This week,
I'll go in the sauna. I haven't sauna. I haven't wordled.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
I wordled last night.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
You didn't text me?
Speaker 3 (06:36):
Yeah I didn't, and I connected connected, no mistakes.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
We used to.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
It was in the sauna. And if we're on trips
on the bus. We would wordle connect and.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
Hashtag and sports connect A terrible that one.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
Yeah, it was usually lucky if I got one sports connection,
but we would do that. You me, Paige, And then
some of the back of the bus joined us too.
On Jake, Jaki, Okay, let's talk about where you are
right now. You said you're in Prague playing overseas. How
long have you been out there?
Speaker 3 (07:07):
I got out here I think October second, so about
a week.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
Yeah, wait, what time is it there?
Speaker 3 (07:14):
Uh? Shoot, four forty seven, so you guys are six
hours behind.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Yeah, okay, that's not terrible.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
But it's like when I'm done with my day and
I want to call my friends, they're all still working,
so that part sort of sucks. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Yeah, why'd you choose Prague?
Speaker 3 (07:33):
It was actually really really last minute. So my Asian
I brought it up like maybe a week before, and
I didn't really think anything of it because he didn't
say anything else. And then he brings it up again,
is like, I really think you should do this, and
they want you to leave in three days, and I was, okay,
I guess i'll go, but I figured it's two and
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a half months. It would be a fun experience and
worse comes the worst. It's only two and a half months.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
You can do anything for ten and a half months. Facts,
how did you pack? Like did you bring one bag over?
Or how does that work?
Speaker 2 (08:09):
Word walk us through your seventy two hours?
Speaker 3 (08:12):
That was hard. Well, I had actually gone from Cabo
to Toronto to visit my boyfriend and that's when I
found out, and so all my stuff was still at home.
I didn't have any winter stuff. So my mom, being
the amazing person that she is, brought me my stuff
to Toronto. That way, I didn't have to like you know,
fly back to Los Angeles, to fly back to like
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the East Coast, to fly to Europe. So thankful for
my mom. She's the best.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
She is the best. Okay, now you're only a week in, Like,
what are the practices like? Like walk us, walk us
through a day? Actually, because I have no idea.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
A day, Well, I wake up and then h do
you want like a game day or regular practice day?
Speaker 2 (08:54):
Both? Some was a regular practice day.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
Regular practice day. I'll walk you through my day. Today.
I woke up and I got ready. I cooked for
the first time today. I made eggs for breakfast, and
I went to the gym. We had film and then
we lifted and then practice and then I actually met
up with these two soccer girls who played for like
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the PROG team nearby or like here, because they were like, oh,
we're always looking for more Americans saying out. So got
coffee with them and that was honestly great. Yeah I
really like them.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
Oh that's nice. So that's a practice day. What's a
game day.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
Like game day? I feel like it's pretty similar to
like every other game day. Wake up, shoot around in
the morning, come home, nap, and then go to the game.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
What do you eat for a pretty game meal.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
I've sort of just been like winging it, Like finding
something nearby. The little Vietnamese place by my house has
been really amazing. I'll just get like a rice bull
from there.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
Yeah, you go. What's the biggest difference you notice from
playing with Yukon and then playing internationally with your check team.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
Well, one, everyone spoke English at Yukon. There's a start
like sometimes I'll be on the court and I'll be
hearing like three different languages all around me. But for
the most part, like everyone speaks English. So that's helpful
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because I've heard that on some other teams. That's not
necessarily the case.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
You guys have a translator. No, oh, you're on your own.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
Everyone's English is like good enough though.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
When you go through plays, like what do they how
do they explain the plays in what language?
Speaker 3 (10:42):
It's all English?
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Oh nice? Yeah, it's like speech is in.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
English English, but it's like a little broken English. Yeah,
you piece it together.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
Is there anything you learned from playing in the w
that's translating over to playing internationally?
Speaker 3 (10:59):
Yeah, I guess just like the physicality. Like I didn't
realize how much more physical professional basketball would be compared
to college, although I probably should have. But that's not
really something they tell you.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
I know it's early, but is there anything from playing
internationally that you want to bring home with you?
Speaker 3 (11:14):
Honestly, they like move the ball really well here, like
it rarely like just sticks. I feel like we sort
of had that Yukon too.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
But post passing, post passing, the bigs are thanking you.
The bigs are thank you. So are there any countries
you're excited to travel to or play against?
Speaker 3 (11:31):
Yeah? Honestly, we get like a national team break where
we get like a week off. I think so. One
of my Valkyrie's teammates is playing in Spain, and we
were hoping to like meet up and like go travel
somewhere cool. But we haven't quite figured out where that
somewhere cool is yet. So maybe ask me in like
a month and then I would know.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
We'll follow back on.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
I heard Budapest is really cool and pretty.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
Do you have like a good amount off days where
you can like a train somewhere and travel or yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:02):
We at least get like one a week. Yesterday it
was I guess an off day, but we were traveling.
The travel was pretty rough yesterday though. It was like
a four hour bus ride and then an hour and
a half plane ride, so that sort of sucked.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
Where did y'all go?
Speaker 3 (12:17):
We we went to Borges, France. I don't really know
if you that's how you pronounce it.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
And pull up a map. I don't think I know where.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
Yeah, I also had to do that.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
Did you say? See you out in check? Because I
know there's like a beautiful bridge with locks and like
a rainbow, buildings and a castle.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
I had one day of exploring so far here. I
walked to the castle. I saw it from the outside.
It was really pretty, and then I like walked into Actually, no,
that's a lie. I tried to take the tram, I
went the wrong way and then I got off and
got an uber and went to like the more like
center of the city and I went shot. I found
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them all there, and then I sort of just like
walked around. But Prague is like beautiful. It looks so
like I don't know how subscribe it. But like Europe,
you just play. All over Europe, we play like I
think in France, Spain and Poland, You're.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
Gonna have some really cool stories and pictures and I'm excited.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
Well, I sent you my pictures and you never responded.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
I'm sorry. It's okay, Kately, you can send us your pictures.
Speaker 3 (13:30):
Also for people who don't know, like easy is a
horrible texter just like will not respond.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
I actually mentioned that like our first pod. I was like,
I texted you, you didn't text back. But if she
does pick up, if you like FaceTime.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
Also because I just called her and she's.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
Not disturbed, still usually turned off right away, but I
didn't try to.
Speaker 3 (13:49):
Well, I called you twice and you still didn't pick up.
Speaker 4 (13:52):
McKenzie called Mackenzie. Sure, okay, So after your overseas. You're
playing athletes unlimited. This is gonna be your first season
doing this. What are you looking forward to and are
there is there a team or people that you're most
excited to play against or with.
Speaker 3 (14:10):
I'm excited for like the competition there. I feel like
there are a lot of really really great players and
honestly just like meeting more people. Three halls doing it
and we became friends when she was with the Vakries
a little, so I'm honestly excited for our month together
in Nashville.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
I was a huge fan of the tiktoks you guys made.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
Yeah, see, it's like I'll do them if you don't
make me dance.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
Can you act? Because you know, Asy have been doing
a little acting lately and I've been loving it.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
Oh I'm not really great at that either. It's got
to be like very basic, like.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
One line okay, okay, or just likes guest appearances, yes,
a little droppings, Okay. Gotta start somewhere. So let's pivot
and talk about the w Kaitlyne, you were drafted while
you were there support of Page. Walk us through that
experience when you heard your name.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
I feel like it was pretty exciting. They sort of
tricked me a little though, because for a sec for
a while, like when the camera was like in my face,
it was like Dallas up next. I was like, Oh,
this is great. Go like hanging out with Page for
like two weeks of training camp, hopefully make a team,
but if it doesn't, you know, and then it like
jumped to the Valkyries, and honestly, I was pretty excited,
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you know, to be back in California, although everyone keeps
saying like, oh, you went home, but like it's like
a five hour drive, so not quite but home state. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
Can you share with everyone your thought process going to
the draft. I don't know if you want to share
or not, but that to me was just such a
Caitlin Chen and that was very on par for who
you are.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
I was like, I could get drafted. I could not. Honestly,
I didn't think I was gonna get drafted for a while.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
No, I was just gonna make you elaborate and talk
about how you were, like, well, training camp is this long,
but you.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
Oh yeah, So Princeton does like reunions every year, and
it's like, you know, the highlight of my year. It's
when everyone sort of starts, everyone goes back and it's
like you're sort of reunited with all your friends, Like
no one tells you that, Like college is so great
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and you don't really get to live with your friends
like that anymore. But for reunions, you guys spend four
days with your besties. And so I was a little
bummed that I might not be able to go if
I were to like make a team. So I was like,
you know what, I'll go to training camp, give it
my all. If I make a team. I make a team,
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that's awesome. I'll be in the w If I don't,
I get to go to reunions, oh my god. And
so you know, I got waived and I was able
to go to reunions, had a blast, loved spending time
with my friends there, and then went home, worked out
a little, and got called back and so everything honestly
worked out really well.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
We had to do both. It was perfect.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
Yeah, it was perfect. Couldn't have drawn it up better.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
She really couldn't have. So after Paige got drafted, she
advocated for you. What was it like hearing that from her?
Speaker 3 (17:27):
I feel like it's it was really nice of her.
I feel like that's just like how Page is though,
Like she's that kind of teammate that's always going to
have your back and always going to like support you
and like uplift you wherever she goes.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
Yeah, Hazy, you were there at the draft. What's your
point of view of all this happening, seeing Paige get drafted,
seeing Kaitlyn get drafted. What was your experience?
Speaker 1 (17:49):
Like, I mean, Kaitlyn was there and she was like,
I'm not getting drafted. I'm not getting drafted. Caitlyn put
something nice on, like make sure you look for themible
because you're gonna get drafted.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
I say, I didn't.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
I knew she's gonna get drafted. But it doesn't change,
Like even when you're expecting, it doesn't change. Hearing their
name called, seeing them go up there on the stage
and holding their jersey. So being able to be a
part of that for all of them was really special.
I'm getting to celebrate all of them and just share that,
Like that's a huge moment, a huge accomplishment. So it
was an honor for all of us. But just cheer
her on and be her cheerleader.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
I love that, Like you shat a tight knit family, Caitlin.
You were the first Taiwanese player to be drafted in
the W What does that mean for you?
Speaker 3 (18:32):
I feel like it's pretty special. I don't think I
quite realized that until like after, I guess, but sort
of just to be able to be like a role
model for a younger Asian American athletes, it means a lot. Yeah,
because for us growing up, like there wasn't always someone
to look up to.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
What was it like meeting Jeremy Lynn?
Speaker 3 (18:54):
That was cool? Yeah, that was like so sort of
like random but not really random, but a definitely cool
experience because obviously, like everyone knows Jermy Lynn from insanity
and everything.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
Yeah, yup, big fan.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
Did you get to talk to him or was it
just like a hey, I'm kaitln Chen, take a picture.
Speaker 3 (19:13):
Yeah, he's pretty free but said hi, picture.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
So the Valkyrie's incredible fan energy. You guys called that
ball Halla, right, yeah, okay, can you explain to the
people who don't know, including me, what Bahla means.
Speaker 3 (19:29):
The Valkyries, I guess they're like home place where they
like battle or like home field is called Balhalla, so
like you know, for us, it's called Balhalla, which is
like Chase Center, and that's where we play, and honestly,
it was amazing playing there. Like Yukon obviously also amazing
fans always like bring in. It's like sold out every
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home game, but like playing in Balhalla where it's like
eighteen thousand fans every night and they go crazy from
like the start of the game to the end, no
matter if you're winning or losing. It was pretty special.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
Yeah, so you would say that it's crazier than Sample
and there, I.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
Think just because there were like eight thousand more fans.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
We had the stud buds on the pod and they
actually mentioned that playing against you guys in that arena
was the loudest, the most amazing and like crazy. So
shout out to you guys being like a first year
organization and your fans showing up the way that they do.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
Yeah, they definitely showed up every game, and it was
like every game we'd be like, oh, that was the
loudest it's ever been, and then the next game we'd
be like, oh my god, it was even louder.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
They turned up in that Bay area.
Speaker 3 (20:41):
Definitely something you should experience.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
If you haven't girl with you there, we can't make
it happen. So your dad went to a Golden State
versus Dallas game and you were playing and he wore
a page jersey. What was that about?
Speaker 3 (20:59):
You know, he loves page and so he was like,
it's my one chance to wear my pay jersey.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
Oh my goodness, daughter, pull it out.
Speaker 3 (21:09):
Yeah, don't worry. He talked to me before and I
honestly did it pretty funny. So I was like, yeah,
I go for it.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
So being waived and then being resigned again, did it
affect your relationship with your team at all?
Speaker 3 (21:22):
Not that much, because I mean it's like training camp,
and training camp is sort of quick, you like get
to know people, but not that much. And then when
I came back to everyone was just super welcoming, and
I felt like it was pretty easy to like fit
in and you know, get along with everyone.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
You seemed like you guys got along like I had
a good, good team chemistry.
Speaker 3 (21:43):
Yeah, we definitely had a special group. Everyone got along
super well. There was never any really locker room drama
or anything like that, and I felt like everyone was
just super selfless, like doing whatever they could for the
best of the team.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
That's amazing. Well definitely paid off because you guys made
it to the playoffs. Which is like unheard of for
a first year team. So congratulations on all your success
that you had with them. Thanks your coach, Natalie Nicasse
one Coach of the Year. What is the biggest thing
that you learned from her?
Speaker 3 (22:15):
Honestly, just like how to be a leader. I felt
like she held us point guards, especially to like a
high standard of like this is like your team, and
whatever happens, if it goes poorly, that's on you. So
you got to make sure that you're holding everyone accountable
and like doing everything within your power to make sure
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the team is prepared.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
Come on, Acy, let's get into some fan questions from Instagram.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
Okay, so there were a ton of fan questions, so
prayer yourself are kind of all over the place. The
first one was what was your welcome to the w moment?
Speaker 3 (22:58):
Honestly, probably just training camp and having to guard Veronica.
That was sort of rough. She's just so strong, Like
I feel like I'd be there in front of her
and she just finish right over me and I'd be like,
oh darn not again.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
Yeah, she's good. She played. She was fun to watch
this year.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
Yeah, she was incredible. She's amazing player, even better person.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
What's your pregame routine?
Speaker 3 (23:25):
Pregame routine? Mmmm, take a fat nap.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
I thought you say something mouse girl.
Speaker 3 (23:34):
That too. Yeah, honestly, I don't have like a ton
of like like I feel like I'm superstitious, but not
like pregame routine ishous you know.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
So what are you superstitious about?
Speaker 3 (23:50):
Like little stuff like if we well, I guess this
doesn't imply as much anymore, but like in college, like
if we want a game, I just wear the same socks,
same underwear. I would wash it obviously, but same sports bra.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
What was your favorite food spot in the Bay?
Speaker 3 (24:14):
Oh, I feel like I'm gonna get hate for this,
but honestly, the Sweet Green by my apartment amazing, like
one of the best sweet greens that I've ever had,
and they would give you like so much too. Or
the Taco play or Brito place me and Paige went two.
When you came to visit.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
That place, that's okay, take me there when I come
to visit.
Speaker 3 (24:36):
Well, you were supposed to come visit, and.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
You know what, I deserve that I deserve that she.
Speaker 3 (24:46):
Was literally in San Francisco for like the three days
I wasn't there.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
Oh no, no, yeah, really unfortunately unfortunate. So who is
your favorite Yukon women's basketball alum?
Speaker 3 (24:59):
Oh mmmm, pitchbackers.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
You're gonna say that, which w team and which player
was the toughest opponent?
Speaker 3 (25:10):
Guys, these are hard because I didn't really play that much,
so like what looks like, you know, like Minnesota is
definitely tough. I mean, they have so many really great players.
I can spread the floor and they've played together for
a few years now, so they just like play off
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each other super Well.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
Yeah, what's your favorite music genre or and artists?
Speaker 3 (25:37):
Mm hmm, I don't think I have a favorite artist
music genre. I like country and some R and.
Speaker 2 (25:45):
B okay, I like that too.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
Luke Bryant, good, how did you guys come up with
the bench celebrations when someone scored?
Speaker 3 (25:54):
Honestly, a lot of it would be like on the fly,
or like after we do something, we'd be like, oh,
let's do this next, and then you know, you do it. Yeah,
but that was a lot of fun. Yeah, it was
a lot of fun, really fun games when we make
a lot of threes.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
What's something you didn't expect after going pro?
Speaker 3 (26:13):
I think I didn't realize how much I would like
this life because I always was sort of like, oh,
you know, maybe I'll play like a few years overseas
and then go find a real job. But this job
is like pretty great. Like all I have to do
is wake up and play basketball. It's really fun.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
Okay, Star Bench Cut, Princeton, Yukon and the Valkyries.
Speaker 3 (26:36):
Guys, I can't do that. This is so hard.
Speaker 2 (26:42):
This is a pretty hard one.
Speaker 3 (26:43):
I feel like I'm gonna get shipped for anything that
I say.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
You definitely are. There's no right answer here.
Speaker 3 (26:49):
I feel like I gotta start Princeton. You know, that's
just like home. You know, IVS wouldn't be there or
wouldn't have gone anywhere else if it wasn't for there.
Why can't I just like bench both of them.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
One, Caitlin, they're watching, I know, so you can you
can really say whatever, But.
Speaker 3 (27:19):
Honestly, hm hmm, that's hard. Probably Bench u Kon cut
the Vacries just because you know, like I don't know,
both seasons were so special, but winning a national championship
is pretty incredible. And also like I'll have a lot
more years with the packery so they can make their
way up.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
First come, first served, baby, Okay, this was a really
popular one.
Speaker 2 (27:47):
What's your quad routine?
Speaker 3 (27:49):
Oh god, I don't even understand why everyone's talking about
my quads like that, Like they're not like Caitlyn you have,
but I, like, I know I have strong legs, but like,
have you seen your legs? Your quaser is just as big? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (28:04):
Like yeah, it's like it looks different on you like yours,
just like they look so like yeah, maybe.
Speaker 3 (28:12):
Because my arms are like skinny, so like my legs
stick out. But I don't have a quatter team like
I means natural.
Speaker 2 (28:22):
I just like this. Okay. East Coast or West Coast?
Speaker 3 (28:26):
Ooh hard, that's really hard because I like both a lot,
you know, but probably West Coast. I do love being home,
but then I get fomo when I'm on the West
Coast because all my friends are on the East Coast.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
So okay, another really popular question, how was Cabo?
Speaker 3 (28:45):
Oh? So much fun? It was so great. That was
like my four days of summer because it's so cold
in San Francisco in the summer, so that was really nice.
And honestly, just being with the boys, it's a lot
of fun.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
It looks like fun. You look like you have some
color who are who are the boys?
Speaker 3 (29:05):
I don't know why, but we started calling like, you know,
normally it's like the girls, but for some reason, we're
the boys.
Speaker 2 (29:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (29:12):
I think Kate had a big part in that.
Speaker 1 (29:14):
Okay, this is another hard question. What is your all
time starting five with your Valkyries Yukon and Princeton teammates
starting five?
Speaker 3 (29:24):
Is this like like we're trying to win?
Speaker 2 (29:26):
It can be you're trying to have a good we
want it. Let's let's do try to win first. That's
actually the most popular question after we asked this, Are
we win having fun?
Speaker 1 (29:39):
All?
Speaker 3 (29:39):
Right? To win from Princeton, you know, I gotta go
with Ellie. She's a beast on.
Speaker 1 (29:47):
The boards, Ellie only if she has her bow in
her hair.
Speaker 3 (29:52):
That Honestly, I never experienced bo Ellie, and I'm sorry
glad I didn't. Definitely wouldn't be fun of her a
lot for that. Definitely, Yeah, but Ellie, uh, Yukon, hmm,
that's hard. Probably Azy Page and Sarah, I'm honored. And
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then I would go with the Veronica from the Doctors.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
Great, I'm picking you.
Speaker 3 (30:21):
I don't know, I'm just picking I didn't know like
it was I supposed to put me on it. No,
that's off.
Speaker 2 (30:28):
Oh, any anyone you want. But I think that's a
solid five though. I like that team. I feel like it'd
be good vibes too.
Speaker 3 (30:35):
Definitely.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
Yeah. So now we're gonna do fudding games. The first
one is the what the fud of the week or
what the fun of the week is something that happened
this week that made you say, what the fud? Caitlyn?
Do you have a what the fun of the week?
Speaker 3 (30:55):
I actually do. It was our dinner at the hotel,
our day before the game. So there is chicken, you know,
got the chicken, cut it open, It was rough, it
was just like straight pink inside. No, and our coach
goes around, guys, don't eat the chicken, like got it,
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won't be eating the chicken.
Speaker 2 (31:19):
Oh my gosh. This was before a game.
Speaker 3 (31:23):
This was the night before. And then they brought out
some more chicken that was cooked, but still, like, what
was that chicken even doing out there?
Speaker 2 (31:31):
In the first girl, who are you gonna play against?
Because this give me a set up? That's insane. Lebron's
retirement fake out so he did like a whole setup
like his original decision day so he's like, big decision happening,
tune in twelve o'clock on this date, and it just
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turns out it was an ad for Hennessy. Let me
tell you something, Lebron, The prices for Lakers tickets just
off of him saying something went from like two hundred
dollars to two thousand because he wanted to play around
on Instagram and Twitter talking about decision happening. So now
I've been priced out of any Laker game because Lebron
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want to play around. But it also speaks to like
his influence. He's moving the needle because eighteen hundred dollars
difference because he just said a decision he's to be made.
Speaker 3 (32:27):
It's crazy.
Speaker 2 (32:28):
Definitely, My what the fuck of the week?
Speaker 3 (32:31):
Azy, let's hear what the fuck?
Speaker 4 (32:35):
My?
Speaker 2 (32:35):
What the fud of the week?
Speaker 1 (32:37):
Is that Nick from Love Island?
Speaker 2 (32:39):
Again?
Speaker 1 (32:40):
I don't watch it, so it's like whatever to me,
but my teammates freaked out. Nick from Love Island was
at Ted's on a Wednesday.
Speaker 3 (32:48):
Teds yes at Teds.
Speaker 1 (32:51):
I have no idea if I was told he's doing
some like Greek frat something college tour, but I think
a couple of my teammates went to meet them, and
I'm like, what the heck.
Speaker 2 (33:03):
Guys, I was just like, what the fun? You know,
You're like, what the fuck?
Speaker 1 (33:07):
So the next tame that we're playing is called the
euro Trip. You're in Prague with a new team, new culture,
new adventures. So we're gonna test your Europeans for Bible skills.
Speaker 2 (33:15):
Today.
Speaker 1 (33:16):
We're gonna give you a situation and you're gonna tell
us what you'd do.
Speaker 2 (33:20):
You ready, mm hmmm.
Speaker 1 (33:22):
You walk into a grocery store and realize that everything
is labeled in check. You need toothpaste. How do you
find it?
Speaker 3 (33:29):
I go to the you know, the toothpaste aisle, and
then I find the toothpaste. This is actually like something
that happened to me, Like I couldn't find the or
I had to go get shampoo and conditioner body wash,
and he was honestly harder than expected. I was staring
at the I was staring at the aisle thing for
like five minutes.
Speaker 1 (33:50):
Yeah, well, I feel like those things all look the
same too, and the eyeball and it took me.
Speaker 3 (33:55):
A while to find lotion and I still haven't found
salt and pepper. Trouble with that yesterday.
Speaker 1 (34:02):
Can you ask someone or they don't speak English?
Speaker 3 (34:05):
Well, Sometimes you get a little nervous because you know,
I don't want to sound dumb, like should someone ask
where the salt and pepper is? It's embarrassing.
Speaker 2 (34:13):
Bring your teammate with you. Bring your teammate with you? Okay.
Speaker 1 (34:18):
Next, your new teammates invite you to try traditional check gulash.
You're unsure of what's in it? Do you say yes
or politely passed?
Speaker 3 (34:26):
I feel like it depends how it looks like. If
it looks like it would be good, then yeah.
Speaker 1 (34:31):
Try Okay, So say it looks a little sketchy, I.
Speaker 3 (34:35):
Would ask what's in it? And then maybe take a small,
small bite like thank you, thank you?
Speaker 2 (34:45):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (34:45):
You have a team meeting that starts at nine o'clock.
You show up at eight fifty five, but everyone else
rolls in at nine to fifteen. Next time, do you
go buy American time or you're uptime?
Speaker 3 (34:55):
I think still American time because I would get stressed
if I should it up late.
Speaker 1 (35:01):
Yeah, better safe than sorry. Are your teammates celebrate a
win at a cafe instead of blasting music in the
locker room? What's your move? Do you join in or
start a vibe shift.
Speaker 3 (35:11):
I feel like you join in, like, you know, see
what it's like. If it isn't great, then so chet
up next time.
Speaker 2 (35:21):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (35:21):
So you realize that Thanksgiving isn't celebrated there? How do
you recreate it abroad with your teammates friendsgiving?
Speaker 3 (35:28):
Duh? Everyone brings something?
Speaker 1 (35:30):
Okay, So you're just gonna leave it open ended, like everyone,
all the foreigners just bring like your favorite go to
dish and just have like a melting pot of Thanksgiving.
Speaker 3 (35:38):
Yeah. I guess so, because if I made them, like
make American Thanksgiving food, like, it probably wouldn't be very good.
Speaker 2 (35:44):
Okay, I can you even cook? Like, what would you
bring to this thing? Friendsgiving? Bread? Okay? She's providing the
space for it to go down.
Speaker 3 (36:00):
Yeah, exactly, my humble apartment.
Speaker 2 (36:03):
Okay. So the next game is IVY or Orima. You
both played for Gino, who's known for his quotes, and
Caitlyn you went to Princeton. I'm going to read you
to a quote and you tell us it became from
an IVY League scholar or Gino Oriama. Discipline is the
bridge between goals and accomplishments. Who said this IVY League, Yeah, yep, Ivy.
(36:29):
Jim Ron sounds like Gino, though, I feel like they're
all going to sound like it could be coached next one.
If you can't play hard all the time, you shouldn't
play at all, coach. Coach, Yeah, definitely, coach, yep. The
purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with
(36:50):
an open one. IVY League, Ivy, yep, Ivy, Malcolm Forbes.
If your best player isn't your hardest worker, your team's
in coach yep. Oh yeah. The good excellence is never
an accident. It is a result of high intentions and
sincere effort.
Speaker 3 (37:12):
Ivy.
Speaker 2 (37:12):
I feel like, yep, that's Ivy Aristotle. You don't need
balance in your life, you need commitment. Coach. Yeah that
was also, Oh my goodness, you have some good listeners. Yes,
that's coach. The more you know, the more you realize
(37:33):
you don't know.
Speaker 3 (37:34):
I feel like that's definitely something he could have said
at some point.
Speaker 2 (37:38):
We can repeat that one. The more you know, the
more you realize you don't know.
Speaker 1 (37:44):
I also feel like that something you could have said.
But I think I'm still.
Speaker 2 (37:46):
Gonna go IVY.
Speaker 3 (37:48):
Yeah, I agree.
Speaker 2 (37:49):
It was IVY, but.
Speaker 3 (37:52):
I feel like he said something like that or I
don't know, I'm.
Speaker 2 (37:56):
Sure he has. Yeah, well now maybe he got it
from IVY League scholar. Sometimes the toughest lesson is learning
to be coached. Coach coach yep, best coach. Knowledge will
give you power, but character will give you respect IVY
(38:17):
IVY Yes, Bruce Lee quote, we don't recruit talent, we
recruit tough coach.
Speaker 3 (38:26):
Coach.
Speaker 2 (38:27):
You got it, yat killed that. Yeah, got every single
one right.
Speaker 1 (38:30):
Well, the IVY League ones are like a little more
like thoughtful and likes and coaches like straight to.
Speaker 3 (38:37):
The point and coaches were all about like.
Speaker 2 (38:41):
Coach. All right.
Speaker 1 (38:45):
That is a wrap on today's episode. Kaitlyn Chen, thank
you so much for joining us from.
Speaker 3 (38:49):
Frogue, Thanks for having me.
Speaker 1 (38:52):
Thank you, Kitlyn, good luck this season and everyone, thank
you so much for tuning in today. Don't forget to rate,
review and subscribe to Fight Around and find Out wherever
you get your podcasts.
Speaker 2 (39:01):
And we'll see you next week.
Speaker 1 (39:04):
Phutto 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 Stephen Curry. Co executive
producer is Kleana Maria Cutney. Producers are Mike Costcarelli, and
co producers are Kurt Redman, Maya Howard, and jacq ln Scheninger.
This podcast is edited by Mike Coscarelli and hosted by
(39:25):
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