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August 28, 2025 35 mins

Fresh off her trip from China, Azzi takes you behind the scenes of her adventure overseas. Joined by Azzi’s mom, Katie, they relive their incredible trip to China with Stephen Curry—from first-class flights and private jets to the craziness of Curry Con. Azzi shares how her relationship with Stephen first took shape, what it was like to experience China alongside him, and how it felt working out together, coach international hoopers, and move through waves of fans. Katie jumps in with her take on the nonstop security, the gifts from fans, and some bathroom culture shocks. And, of course... the side quests: discovering mystery snacks from local markets, bubble tea runs, karaoke nights, and even a spontaneous Spades lesson.

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Speaker 1 (00:03):
What's up everyone? Welcome back to another episode a fut
Around and find out Now. I'm so excited to be back.
But first I want to thank you guys so much
for your love and support. I love reading your guys'
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at fut Around Pod. But for now, Ashanti, we have
so much to get into today.

Speaker 2 (00:22):
That's right, we definitely have a jam pack episode. You
did so much traveling and we need to hear about it.

Speaker 1 (00:28):
We do, But first, Ashanti, what have you been up
to since seven traveling?

Speaker 2 (00:32):
Well? This past weekend I got to host the Jordan
Brand Global One Finals and basically what it is. They
found a bunch of high school players from over seventeen
different cities and they got to play one on one
for a chance to sign with Jordan Brand for the year.
So I got to host that on Peer seventeen on
a rooftop. It was so dope.

Speaker 1 (00:52):
That sounds super cool.

Speaker 2 (00:53):
I also got a chance to meet Maya Moore, who
happens to be my favorite player.

Speaker 1 (00:56):
Oh was she at the game?

Speaker 2 (00:58):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (00:58):
She was. That was cool. That sounds fun, But that
was my weekend.

Speaker 2 (01:02):
You technically started this journey out in Minnesota and then
major way over to Sonoma. Tell us about that.

Speaker 1 (01:08):
So from Minnesota, we flew to San Francisco, and first,
like you said, I went to Sonoma. Amy Ritt, the
founder of Madison Reed, invited my mom and I to
her house out there, and so we just had like
a nice relaxing pool day. They made an incredible lunch,
got to hang out with their daughter, Madison, who Madison
Read is named after. So it was a lot of fun.
I was so unprepared for the heat that they have

(01:31):
out there, and I was like, you know, this is
my last day like relaxing in the sun, Like I'm
not gonna put sunscreen on, and I roasted in their pool.
I was burnt, but it was it was like the perfect,
just relaxing day before all the craziness that I had
coming up. No, yeah, that sounds like fun.

Speaker 2 (01:47):
I was going to ask you, like a fun or
crazy story from your time out there, but I think
getting cooked in the pool is definitely up there full
of the funny or crazy stories. Is there anything that
you learned from Amy from working with her?

Speaker 1 (01:59):
She's just an incredible person. She has like this hunger
and energy about her in the way that she loves,
like her passion for getting things done, supporting women, uplifting women,
I think is incredible and it shows in the way
that whenever we talk communicate, but also the way that
she runs her stores and her business. I just like
I look up to her. She's such an amazing woman,
both as just a person and as a business woman.

(02:19):
It's incredible.

Speaker 2 (02:20):
Okay, business woman and getting it done. We love that.
So you were also doing something else out in Sonoma.
Curry Camp.

Speaker 1 (02:27):
Tell us about that. Curry Camp was also a lot
of fun. There's a lot of girls that I hadn't
met before. Like whenever I go to these camps, I
feel very old and out of touch with the high schoolers.
So it's always fun to get to know them, see
like who my coaches are recruiting, see who the next
big players are. I also got to work out with
Stuff a little bit and Brandon his trainer. It was
fun to get to get some good workouts in, meet

(02:49):
these players and get to enjoy you know, San Francisco
or you weren't even in San Francisco, I don't know
where we were. We got to enjoy the Bay Area
a little.

Speaker 2 (02:57):
So there you go, Bay Area somewhere out. Okay, that's cool.
So you're back with Steph after a while. Any fun
stories from being with him again? Reunited?

Speaker 1 (03:08):
Reunited? I actually spent a lot of time with his son,
Canon Cuti is uh, here's a lot of energy. So
I had a lot of fun messing with him. And
he's an aggressive one. So he played some one on
one but that was fine. I felt like Cannon I
hadn't really had a bonding moment and that was that
was it. So hopefully he remembers me next time I

(03:29):
see him.

Speaker 3 (03:30):
That's cute.

Speaker 2 (03:31):
I love that. While you were out there, I know,
you know, Steph enrolls with a lot of people. Is
there any pros or exciting people that you got to meet?

Speaker 1 (03:39):
There were some pros and some college players. Actually there
was Davion Mitchell was there, Quincy Oliveri was there. College
players was to Hod Pettiford. I worked out with him
one day. There was another guy from who played at
UNC last year, and I forget his name. He didn't
work out with me because he had to take a final,
So that's excuseton not remembering. His name was Elliott. His
name was Elliott, That's what it was. But yeah, it

(03:59):
was fun to get to watch stuff work out, but
to watch them work out, work out with some of
them as well. I always loving to meet new people.
It was fun, for sure.

Speaker 2 (04:07):
So what's one thing you learned or like we'll never
forget from working out with stuff.

Speaker 1 (04:11):
I feel like, well, one that he misses like he
is human.

Speaker 2 (04:16):
You heard it here first ladies and gentlemen.

Speaker 1 (04:19):
But his footwork and just I mean, it's how it
looks in a game too, but to see it in
like a workout and up close, his footwork and just
how easy he makes his ball handling and everything. It
just flows perfectly. And I feel like working out with
someone like him it raises everyone else who's working out
with him, or even if I'm just on the other
end of the court working out at the same time
as him, seeing him down there, knowing I'm in his
presence elevates my game and elevates, you know, like my

(04:41):
intensity and my attention to detail.

Speaker 2 (04:44):
I can imagine you around greatness so easy. You've known
Stephan for a long time, you know, it's been I
believe seven years. So tell us how your partnership and
your relationship has grown with him.

Speaker 1 (04:53):
Well, first it all started when I named my dog
Curry after him. That's where it really started. And then
at USA Child his mom was there because they're close
with the Brink family, so his mom was there to
support Cameron Brink and I told her I was like,
I named my dog after years. That's where it all started,
kind of like, man, I put it in the air

(05:13):
after that, and then he invited me to Curry Camp
after my freshman year. I'm just like twenty eighteen and
something like that, and I was one of the first
two girls be invited and that was such an incredible experience,
like something I'll never forget. And I feel like that's
kind of the trend with stuff, like I feel like
he's given me so many opportunities that are just like unreal,
and then I was invited back the next year. He's

(05:35):
just someone He's so real, I don't know how, like
so like genuine, like who you see on social media
and like in videos and whatever, that's exactly how he
is in person, Like he really truly cares and wants
to make and leave the game better and make everyone
around him better. And I think That's what I admire
most about him is just the person that he is
along with the player, because I mean, when you're someone

(05:56):
like him, like you can act and be whoever you want,
and you can really just tell how amazing he is.
But to think, like if when I think about that
first year he invited me to camp, there's no way
I would ever have expected our relationship to have continued
all these years later and to have grown the way
that it has, Like I am so so grateful for
him and just all the experiences that he's given me.

Speaker 2 (06:17):
That's an amazing, incredible person, incredible player. It's rare. He's a
rare breed. And now I know I need to name
my dog Oprah so I can put it in the
air so I can meet her.

Speaker 1 (06:30):
There you go, That's.

Speaker 2 (06:32):
That's how it all starts. Okay, So I saw on
social media you were at top golf with some players
tell us about that.

Speaker 1 (06:40):
I was so mind you. I golf maybe once a year,
like maybe one top golf trip a year, So I'm
not I'm like good for someone who doesn't has never
been taught, doesn't know actually how to do anything golf related.
Like I just go out there and just swing. But
Quincy and I were talking trash and I told him

(07:00):
I was gonna beat him, and he actually he did
end up beating me the first game, maybe the first
two games. We're not gonna talk about that. But it
was a lot of fun just to be to be
all the all the players, all the kids were there
from Curry camp and some of the cry Quincy. Quincy
he played at Rice and then Xavier and then he
was on the Lakers. Last year. He just went viral

(07:21):
for graduating. He just got his master's and he wore
his Lakers jersey to graduation. That's where I had seen
him before. But it was a lot of fun. I
won the last game, and that's what matters. It's not
how you started, how you finished, but just to computer
to a sport that like, you know nothing about. I
always have fun with.

Speaker 2 (07:35):
Yeah, that sounds dope, all right, Azy, So it started
with naming your dog after Curry, and then all these
years later, Stephan takes you to China. So we're gonna
get into that right after the break, and we have
a special guest, Azy, who do we have my mom
coming up next?

Speaker 1 (08:01):
All right, we are back from the break and our
special guest today joining us live is my mom, Katie
fud Hi.

Speaker 3 (08:08):
Everyone, Hey, you're okay.

Speaker 2 (08:10):
Okay, So you guys were both in China with Stefan
and me and everyone want to hear all about it,
So tell us what that was like.

Speaker 3 (08:18):
I think there's so many cool stories and amazing things.
Maybe we just go day by day.

Speaker 1 (08:22):
Sounds good to me. First, you can start with our
incredible flight. We flew first class. I think that was
my first time on a flight where you like lay
down like. There were a lot of highlights from the trip.
There are some little things like that flight, that seat.
I would fly to China sitting first class over flying
to LA in a normal seat, like I'd rather fly.

(08:43):
There's thirteen fourteen hours on that plane, then what five
or six to LA in a normal seat. It was incredible,
except on the flight out, I fell asleep and I
missed every single meal we had on that flight. So
I was a little sad because there was a Sunday
cart and I was like really looking forward to that
and I missed it.

Speaker 3 (09:00):
It was really good.

Speaker 1 (09:00):
I'm glad you got it.

Speaker 3 (09:02):
And then at the end of the trip we realized
that you could put something on your screen that said
wake me for meals.

Speaker 1 (09:07):
Rookie mistake.

Speaker 3 (09:08):
Yeah, she'll know for next time. Yeah, but I've definitely
been on overseas flights walking through that first class section
they go to a regular seat and just thinking about
how wonderful would be to be there, and it was.
It did not disappoint, now, you know. Yeah. And then
we went from that flight and in Beijing we switched
to a private jet to go to chun Ching.

Speaker 1 (09:27):
Also our first time on a private a private jet.

Speaker 3 (09:31):
Yeah, I think the best the coolest part about that,
or the funniest part about that was maybe Tony's seat.

Speaker 2 (09:35):
Wait, who's Tony.

Speaker 3 (09:37):
Tony is a photographer who works for thirty Inc. And
so we got on the plane and it was a full,
full seat, it's full private plane, and so as we
got in, we sat down, and then Tony got in
and found the only open seat, and so it was
in the back of the plane and he's like, oh,
this is like really spacious, like there's a bench back
there and it's got so much space, like a lot
of leg room. It's great. And then he realized it

(09:59):
was the bathroom.

Speaker 2 (10:01):
First of all. One thing I'm noticing is you guys
go big or go home with the travel I would
love to come on, Tony, come on, Stephan.

Speaker 3 (10:10):
Yeah, so every time someone had to go to the bathroom,
Tony had to get up from a seat and hang out. So,
needless to say, on the way back to Beijing, he
did not get the bathroom seat.

Speaker 1 (10:18):
Good for him.

Speaker 3 (10:19):
Then we got to chun Ching and the hotel that
we stayed at was like pretty far away from everything,
so it's like a forty minute drive.

Speaker 1 (10:26):
Probably would you say I was falling asleep? I don't remember.

Speaker 3 (10:28):
But were you awake watching? Did you see the car
that was driving past us?

Speaker 1 (10:31):
No? I was like fighting for my life, Like my
eyes were just I was just trying to You missed.

Speaker 3 (10:36):
The whole car. There was one car that was just
driving erratically and the passenger was waving up Steph Curry
Warrior's jersey out of the window, and he was like
driving up to every black man and slowing down and
then going the other way.

Speaker 1 (10:48):
Really, yeah, you missed that. You only took a video
of me fighting my life.

Speaker 3 (10:53):
Yeah, but I didn't know if your eyes had opened
at all because we were talking loudly, so no, yeah, yeah,
So that was our first introduction of just the fanatical fans,
the absolute love over there for basketball and all things
Stephan Curry. That was a really cool introduction to it.
And then we never really saw We never saw the
front of the hotel. We never saw the lobby of
the hotel because they just said there was too many

(11:13):
people out front, so we had to go in through
the garage.

Speaker 1 (11:16):
It was like every building we went to, we never
saw the front, just the back way in the garage,
in the underground back door exit.

Speaker 3 (11:23):
Then the next morning we woke up, had breakfast. So
the next morning you woke up, you went to work out.
Oh yeah, I went to work out, and then the
gym was people like someone slept in in the workout
room in the hotel waiting for a glimpse of Steph
Curry or you know, to be close to someone who's
close to him. So I would say there were probably

(11:43):
what would you say, like ten people, twelve people waiting
outside the Yeah, it was.

Speaker 1 (11:47):
Like ten the first morning, it wasn't that many. I
couldn't sleep. I know, then I want to watch the sunrise.
So I just went up and saw her working out
and she said, look all these people, And as I
was getting ready, to leave. One of the guys called
me back and I have something for you, and I'm like, yeah,
something for me to sign, and so I go back.
I'm like okay, fine, and he pulls out a little
Boo boo for me and he's like for you, like

(12:09):
for me, and he has me open it and I
was like, wow, this is so nice, and then he
had me sign some pictures. I was like, I've never
gotten a gift like this from someone, and like, back home,
we get I get lots of bracelets from younger girls,
but like this was a like grown man, not grown
it probably like thirties, but like, I've never gotten anything
from any guys in the US.

Speaker 3 (12:30):
I was like, this is very sweet of you. I
think thirties has grown.

Speaker 2 (12:33):
That's very grown.

Speaker 3 (12:34):
Yeah, that's very grown. The culture over there is very different.
It's very giving, it's very appreciative, it's very so many
people had gifts for stuff. So many people had and
you've got a couple of gifts as well. Love you know,
not just like here sign this and sign this and
sign this, and I've got more and more for you
to sign. But it's like here, I appreciate you, Thank
you so much. This is for you? Can you please
sign something for me? Then we went to the gym

(12:56):
and it was at like an expo center, but it
was the largest exposenter I've ever seen, like a convention center.
And so you warmed up with Carl running things, Carlos
Steph's trainer.

Speaker 2 (13:08):
Yeah. So I also you worked out with Steph Seth
and his trainer.

Speaker 1 (13:11):
Yeah. So that's Carl's like his strength guy, like yeah,
the strength stuff. And then Brandon is his encore trainer.

Speaker 2 (13:18):
What was that? Like, you got the original Splash bros.

Speaker 1 (13:22):
It was really cool. I'd never met Seth before, so
to get to shoot with both of them was it
was fun. They're both really good shooters obviously, So like
I was saying earlier, you just like it makes you
focus more, makes you like pay attention to details because
you don't want to miss in front of them.

Speaker 2 (13:38):
Of course, of course.

Speaker 3 (13:40):
So you had the Curry Camp players come in and
you didn't interact a time with them, But what was
the feel of the vibe of like they were from
all different countries, not just China. We were in China,
but they weren't just from China. So where were they
all from? And how did you feel communicating with people
that didn't necessarily speak English.

Speaker 1 (13:57):
So there are mostly roof from China, there was a
few from Thailand, a couple from Taiwan, from Japan, one
girl from Australia. So there was one girl that spoke
English and the rest of them spoke all different languages,
like they couldn't even all communicate with each other. And
it was really weird at first, like I didn't really
know how to communicate anything to them besides by like demonstrating,

(14:21):
but I just I had no idea how like how
do you explain like what to do without just showing it,
Like they don't understand what's coming out of my mouth and.

Speaker 3 (14:28):
I can see your brain turning, like there's stuff I
want to say, though they can't understand me. So should
I say it or should I not say it?

Speaker 1 (14:35):
The first morning was just like a lot of like
goods and good jobs and high vibes. That's about all
that came out of my mouth, and except like to
the Australia, like I talked to the AUSSI a little bit,
but other than that, the first morning was very uncomfortable
for me because I just had no idea how to
go about it. And my mom is like, basketball is
universal language. Figure it out. Come on, Katie, it's not
helpful at all.

Speaker 3 (14:55):
She figured it out.

Speaker 1 (14:56):
I did not. The first day, they didn't have translators.
They did have a couple of translators, but.

Speaker 3 (15:02):
They didn't all speak like so the translators spoke Chinese, right.

Speaker 1 (15:05):
Yeah, I think there was one that spoke Japanese. But
even then, like she wasn't always around.

Speaker 3 (15:11):
It was interesting to watch, Like I was in the
bleachers watching, it was interesting to watch them. The players
really focus on what the demonstrations were, right, Like, as
the people demonstrated, then it was like, right now, I
understand what we're doing.

Speaker 2 (15:23):
You were right, basketball is the universal langage. They could
see it and they'll get it done.

Speaker 3 (15:27):
Yeah, it is.

Speaker 1 (15:27):
Yeah. There's a drill that the girls were doing. They
started the drill doing it wrong, and I'm like, how
there's no way I can be like, okay, like you
actually just do this instead of that. So we had
to stop the entire drill and like redemonstrate it because
you can't just say like oh, instead of running straight
like you have to zigzag. You can't.

Speaker 3 (15:44):
There's also more of an exaggerated demonstration. I would think,
right to get them to understand like Okay, now I'm
gonna come here and do this, and then just to
like really get them to get those points. But I
mean by the end it worked out great.

Speaker 2 (15:55):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (15:56):
Then from launch, we went to Curricon before it did
open to the public, so we got to walk through
and kind of see what was there, and I had
no idea what to expect. They kind of kept explaining
it like Curry Cohn was the Steph Curry equivalent to
Comic Con.

Speaker 3 (16:11):
But We've also never been to Comic On, so.

Speaker 1 (16:13):
Yeah, I've only seen what I imagine was like people
dressing up and like the action figures, So then I
imagine like that, but Steph Cury version, and that's really
what it was. There were different like around the outside
it was like mini games, like shooting games, ball handling,
like some like little stores with like Steph Cray basketballs.
There was a section people brought in their cars that
they had decorated with like decals and different things, all

(16:36):
Steph Curry related. And then inside the cars and like
right outside there was like a little table, little booth.
Each table something different, Like one table had like porcelain shoes,
and someone had made like each one of his versions
of shoes. I can made them and like painted them.
There was one with a whole bunch of different like
Steph Currey leab Baboo dolls. There was one. There were
so many, I mean, what were the other ones?

Speaker 3 (16:57):
I can't remember, but it was just that I thought
the car was real the coolest thing. The amount of
effort and detail that went into those was was crazy.

Speaker 1 (17:04):
They are all very different.

Speaker 3 (17:06):
Yeah, there was another section where someone had every single
like Steph Curry shoes.

Speaker 1 (17:10):
It was like their personal collection. I think it was
maybe two guys, like their personal collection. Yeah, and they
were saying that some of like the Curry team was
saying that there were shoes that hadn't even been released,
Like there were like versions of them that they then
went back and like changed a couple of details and
then released them. And there were those versions that were
still like never made it out of house. And then

(17:31):
they also had both of myps, which was really cool.
I'm like, why did you get so that was crazy
to see. I had got to take a picture with
them and with the shoes because that was super cool
and nice surprise.

Speaker 2 (17:42):
Well, the love is really real for stuff in China
and you lazy, So that's crazy, sneakers cars, what else?

Speaker 3 (17:50):
Yeah, So then they went went out to the front
and then they opened up Curry Con with this humongous
hoop and they had them each shoot and make a
basket in the hoop to open up carry Con, and
the easy got to be the first shooter, as you.

Speaker 1 (18:06):
Should, I airbowld my first shot.

Speaker 2 (18:09):
No, it was Ai. It was Ai.

Speaker 3 (18:13):
It actually wasn't even used, and she was further back then.
She probably should have been thinking like, oh, I'll just
be back here, but not realizing actually how high it was.
I mean it was at least twenty feet in the air.

Speaker 2 (18:23):
Mom, it was Ai.

Speaker 3 (18:26):
That's in fairness. I think everyone air bowled their first shot, right, Yeah, yeah,
Steff shot ten times, You shot five, and Stuff shot
five and people are there just for like any chance
to get close to stuff. And then the girls did
their workout. And then what happened at the end.

Speaker 1 (18:39):
Of the day.

Speaker 2 (18:40):
I think I saw that, and I'm pretty sure Asy
hit the most threes. Is that that same day all
three of you guys had a rack and you were shooting. Okay, yeah,
well we got the best shooters in the world and
my girl asy hit the most shots. I don't know.

Speaker 3 (18:58):
So that day when we were wrapping, they were wrapping
up on court and we were getting ready to walk out.
What happened.

Speaker 1 (19:04):
So they had security everywhere. Security was everywhere. We each
had our own personal security, and then just like around
the event, there was security everywhere to make sure, like
because these fans were they love Stefan and one of
the girls I like heard it happen. She jumped over
the barrier, over the barrier, down the bleachers and tried

(19:26):
to run on the court and she ran on. Oh
she did run. She was like a little smaller than
me but super skinny. The security guard they ran after
her and just like snatched her up, like her legs
were like in the air. Snatched her because it.

Speaker 3 (19:39):
Was like an old school version of Red Rover. No
young kid just played Red Rover because it's so dangerous. Yeah,
she link hands and someone tries to break through, and
so she was running. They just like like boom, just
grabbed her head here and just swung her back around,
which was like, WHOA did that just happen? But it
was such a quick reaction on the security part. It
was it was really funny.

Speaker 2 (20:00):
What did she think she was gonna accomplish?

Speaker 1 (20:02):
That's what I was wondering, Like, what was she gonna
tackle stuff?

Speaker 3 (20:05):
Like maybe you just give him a hug because it
very It's not like anyone was like aggressive. They were
just so excited and they're very gentle and kind and
you know, so I don't think she was trying to
come do anything other than just be close to him,
maybe touch him, hug something.

Speaker 1 (20:20):
Is my touch stuff career? That's crazy.

Speaker 2 (20:22):
Yeah, listen, I don't know. I'm trying to touch her
to see if the jump shot, you know what I mean,
rub off on me. I get I get that, think
in I get that.

Speaker 3 (20:31):
So then the second day was kind of the same thing.
Work out in the morning and then normal Curry camp
in the morning, and then they split right the boys
went to Curry Kahn and then Asy had the girls
all alone. She was in charge.

Speaker 1 (20:44):
Okay, head lady in charge.

Speaker 3 (20:46):
Yeah, head lady in charge. How'd that go?

Speaker 1 (20:48):
It was good? It actually was a lot better than
I thought it was gonna be. I was really nervous,
but I felt like there was less like without the guys,
and there was like less energy, less like it was
more chill, So I got to know the players a
little bit better, which, like I said before, was really hard,
and I didn't really do a great job of the
first day. So I got to know them a little
bit better. That was when I started to learn a

(21:09):
little bit of Chinese. But it just it felt easier
to interact with them without like the other court going
and like us having to keep up with the guys,
and like we could break down things a little bit better,
we could go over things a little bit better. So
it was it was actually fun to, you know, actually
have a real moment with some of those girls.

Speaker 2 (21:24):
You gotta tell us.

Speaker 3 (21:25):
A word, yeah, yes, well, I forget was it good
job or like very good?

Speaker 1 (21:31):
Oh gosh, I'm gonna get roasted by say it wrong?

Speaker 2 (21:34):
Got this? You got this? You got this?

Speaker 1 (21:35):
It was how young dah?

Speaker 2 (21:37):
How does that mean?

Speaker 1 (21:40):
It's like how young duh? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (21:43):
She said how young duh?

Speaker 1 (21:44):
How young du Yeah? And I think it means good job,
we're very good one of those two. And then I
also learned how to show was good ball ja yo?
I'm pretty sure that was. It means like fighting, So
those were my three and they.

Speaker 3 (21:57):
Like fighting, like compete.

Speaker 1 (21:59):
Yeah, it felt like a let's go kind of yeah,
because they would like get a stop or like they
get scored on. They'd be like jayo ja yo, and
I'm like okay, I mean let's give it, like let's.

Speaker 2 (22:08):
Go, okay cool.

Speaker 3 (22:11):
We learned all that then the Yao Foundation, so Yao,
I mean he has a foundation over there that they're
trying to bring basketball to girls in the countryside to
get more girls playing. They say a lot of boys play,
but they're trying to get more girls playing. So they
brought in a group of would say like ten to
fifteen probably ye young younger girls and one was fourteen
years old, but I think they were all younger. We

(22:32):
split and did like a really young group and then
kind of the older of the young kids, so maybe
like eleven to fourteen year olds and then seven to
ten year olds and the Curry campers stayed and helped,
which was really it.

Speaker 1 (22:46):
Was, and the Australian yeah, but stayed to explain because
these younger girls also didn't speak There was a few
of the Chinese girls that spoke English, but none of
these younger girls did, so they stayed and demonstrated and
helped translate and community okay, like what we were doing,
and that was that was probably one of the coolest,
one of my favorite parts, because like I had just
finished like feeling like I actually bonded and had like

(23:08):
a productive session with the older girls, and then they
stayed and helped with younger girls, and so to be
able to have that interaction with them and like see
the younger girls actually smile and understand what we were
doing and have fun, that was I was.

Speaker 3 (23:19):
Like, yeah, it would we do right after that?

Speaker 1 (23:20):
I don't know, but at some point that day we
did go on a side quest.

Speaker 3 (23:24):
Oh yeah, that was in between and we had to
go back to that.

Speaker 1 (23:27):
So we had like a three hour break in between events,
and like I said, they were very worried about security.
So we were in what we call the green room,
which was like there's this little room with a couch
that we were eating in and changing in, and I asked, like,
you know, would it be possible to go on a
side quest, go adventure, Like there's no there was no
real set time to go out in the city and

(23:48):
kind of be a tourist or look around, and so
they asked, you got approval, and we went to a
mall that was nearby. I really wanted to get some snacks.
We went to a mall nearby. First of all, this
mall was huge, and they said this was not a
big mall for them. It was huge and we were
walking through and in the back there was like a market.
It was like a grocery store. Supermarket is what it said. Okay,

(24:08):
well yeah, it was a supermarket. And I wanted to
get snacks and it was just like rows and rows
of snacks and nothing is English. So like, obviously you
know some of the brands, like you know, like Nessel,
you know, lay Is, you know, but other than that,
like this is all written in Chinese and not like
our alphabet. You can't even make it out. You can't

(24:29):
even guess what these snacks are. So I'm like, Elaine,
what is this? Elaine, what is that? And she's like
how do you like, how do you want me to
explain this? And I'm like, well, just pick what your
favorite snack store? And she was like, well what do
you want? Like do you want sweet or salty? I'm
like I want everything. So we ended up just whatever
like looked pretty like. I picked a bag because it
was pink. I picked a bag because we were just
picking random stuff. So when we got back, we made

(24:51):
a rule that whoever was in the room, if you
were in the room, you had to try the snack.
There was no saying no. If we opened a snack
and you were in the room, you had to eat it, and.

Speaker 3 (24:59):
You can spit it out. You had You had to.

Speaker 1 (25:01):
Eat it considered. But it was a dangerous game because,
like I said, like we had no idea what we got.
So when you opened it and you saw it, even
if it looked scary, you had to eat it. You
had to try it.

Speaker 3 (25:11):
I would say the worst was the tofu. That texture
was it was spicy. The flavor actually wasn't bad. It
was just more the texture of it. And then what
was that was some squiggly vegetable. It was a vegetable.
That's the one that tempered was spicy. Yeah, it was
super spicy. And once again the texture and it would
just look like, honestly look like a worm, but it wasn't.

(25:31):
She said it was a vegetable wad or something. Yeah,
but she said it was a vegetable.

Speaker 1 (25:34):
You just have to go in with an open mind, like,
don't go in with any like assumptions of what you're
going to eat, because you're going to be disappointed or
not disappointed, but like it's not should be what you expect.
You're going to be shot.

Speaker 3 (25:47):
But then you took your snacks and you went into
STEP's room.

Speaker 2 (25:50):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (25:50):
I made stuff and seth try them. And one of
the bags of lads that we got was salted egg
yolk flavor. But it tasted like seafood. It tasted like
a clamor I don't know, it tastes like the ocean.

Speaker 2 (26:00):
I mean I kind of like, I like seafood.

Speaker 3 (26:02):
So that no one liked the chip.

Speaker 1 (26:05):
No one like oh.

Speaker 3 (26:07):
But then the other chip was black truffle problem.

Speaker 1 (26:11):
That was like a spicy rice cracker, which is also good.
I thought.

Speaker 3 (26:14):
Yeah, so some of those acts were really good, but
some of the flavors were just unique. I'm sure another
flavor of the lays would have been fine, but the
celted egg yoke just wasn't wasn't It is kind of crazy.

Speaker 1 (26:24):
Yeah. We went on another side quest. Another side quest.
We went to like this touristy area and we walked around.
It was really cool, so hot outside, but it was cool.
It was like an ancient little like city area. There's
a ton of up and down, ton of stairs like
cobble stairs.

Speaker 3 (26:38):
You was pretty though, very pretty. Then we went to
another mall.

Speaker 1 (26:41):
We had time lefts we went to another mall. We
got more bubble.

Speaker 3 (26:43):
Tea and that mall was bigger than the first mall.

Speaker 1 (26:45):
That all was bigger, which is hard to believe. And
they still said that wasn't the big trees inside. It
was crazy.

Speaker 3 (26:50):
What Yeah, it was like a little park inside. But
they had another bubble Tea place the same place, hayti.
So we got another bubble Tea highlight for sure.

Speaker 1 (26:58):
Yeah, so good. So basically everywhere that we went, like
even at the government building, we were like up high
and down on the sidewalk below We're like hundreds of
people just standing there like with jerseys, yelling Steph Curry,
I love you Steph Curry, like channing MVP like And
then we were on the boat. There are people on
like little boats next to us, channing his name. People

(27:18):
still on the sidewalk like we're like on the boat
going by and people are yelling at him. And so
this time we got out of the car and to
like walk like through the sidewalk into this like old
city they.

Speaker 3 (27:29):
Had the whole street blocked off, the whole.

Speaker 1 (27:31):
Narrow hundreds of people. I think that, I think thousands,
Like I don't know how to gauge that amount of people,
but so many people and all you just hear is
screaming and yelling, and I don't know how they the
security guards were like they had their arms on the
on the rails like against it, like trying to push

(27:51):
all the fans back to make sure they don't come through.
But it was that was crazy to see them the
people there.

Speaker 3 (27:56):
I can't even imagine what stuff actually felt like with that,
Like these people just screaming his name and like he's
a big deal here right, he's STUFH Curry, but over
there he is the deal, which it needs a very
different feel. So it was just people on top of
people on top of people.

Speaker 1 (28:12):
Yeah. Well then there's a rooftop party to finish it,
and had some karaoke. You sang a little bit, right,
I did sing a little some one direction okay easy,
learned a new card game. Yeah, they taught me how
to play spades, so that was a lot of fun.
I think we played cards the entire time on the
private jet and then we got to the little waiting room.
They taught me how to play spade.

Speaker 3 (28:31):
We were really just trying to stay awake and not
sleep because we wanted to sleep on the plane.

Speaker 1 (28:35):
Yeah. So also I need to, you know, continue to
learn how to play spades and get better. So if
there are any black people in Connecticut that will play
space with me, please, I.

Speaker 2 (28:46):
Need some girl, just come, just come to New York
because I'm also a new beginner in space. But I
learned that you have to keep playing in order to
like really know how to play. And it's no joke,
like no talking across the board, a bunch of crazy stuff.

Speaker 1 (29:02):
So yes, right, next time I see you gotta play,
you gotta find some people to play.

Speaker 2 (29:06):
I'm glad to hear you guys really enjoyed China. It
sounds like they love Stephan Curry out there and you guys.
Curry did his big one taking care of you guys
and making sure the whole experience was great.

Speaker 1 (29:17):
So I love that.

Speaker 2 (29:18):
What is the biggest thing you learned about Stefan on
this trip?

Speaker 1 (29:22):
I feel like the craziest thing was just the reach
he has, like like kind of what my mom was saying,
like he's Stephan Curry, like he he's famous here, but
seeing kind of just how people view him over there
and how impactful and powerful he is and like literally
across the world was unreal. And people had kind of
told me about it and tried to prepare me, but

(29:45):
there's nothing like actually seeing that firsthand and getting to
experience that, Like the first time we're on the Courtly
all he had to do was dribble a basketball and
they were like, oh, he's just on the sideline dripping
a basketball. They're freaking out. So that was crazy just
to see like how impactful and how power he is,
and like, I thought, that was just so remarkable.

Speaker 2 (30:04):
Okay, so if you could go back to China or
like if you could, would you and what would you do?

Speaker 3 (30:10):
What didn't you get to do that you would do
if you go back.

Speaker 1 (30:12):
I would definitely go back to China, and I would
love to do more like touristy things or just be
able to actually be like submersed into their culture a
little bit more. I felt like we didn't get the
full food experience because you were so busy. A lot
of our meals were like delivered to us from the
hotel or from somewhere else, but we didn't get to
actually go out. And now their main dish was that

(30:33):
they're known for as hot pot, and I know I
wouldn't have been able to eat that because it would
have been way too spicy for me. But I still
like would have loved to like go out and go
to like a normal restaurant and see what that's like
or I don't know, something like that.

Speaker 3 (30:42):
I would love to go see the Pandas.

Speaker 1 (30:44):
Oh yeah, the Pandas too, for sure.

Speaker 2 (30:46):
So you guys had some fans that want to give
you some gifts in real life. How did you get
these gifts?

Speaker 1 (30:53):
Yeah, so they actually DMed someone. I think they DMed
my agent, Jack, and so she was able to message
our phones and work, so she was able to message
and coordinate with people that were with us to go
pick up the gifts. And so I got the gifts
I think on the second day. And these girls gave me.
It was a Lulu boo for me, a luluoo for Paige,
a panda, these little like little cute custom like would

(31:16):
you call them name tags? That was so sweet of
them to think of me and bring a gift. Like
I said, I'm not used to that, so for them
to go out of their way to do that, and
then I was able to meet one of the girls
the next day. She didn't even have a ticket for
the for the last day, but she like stayed around
and drove all the way back just for the chance
to maybe get to meet me. And so I thought, like,

(31:37):
like I said, to see the reach that Steph has,
but then to be over there and have people know
who I am and be fans of me, I thought
that was It was incredible when I was just in
shock about how like surreal that was. And so getting
to meet that girl who did that was amazing. I
got to give her a hug and thank her in
person because that really was so sweet of her to do.

Speaker 2 (31:57):
The love is real for you out there in China,
I felt it. Okay, now is time for the what
the fud of the week. If you don't know what
the fud of the week is a story or something
maybe crazy that's happened this past week that we highlight

(32:18):
on the show, So a zy, what's your what the
fud of the week?

Speaker 1 (32:23):
My what the fud of the week would be the
heated toilets heat that they had in our hotel. They
were incredible, and I definitely wrote down in my notes
to keep in mind for when I have my own
house that I need a heated toilet seat. Actually I
would also I'd change that. I would add on to
that was got the Curry con what the gym? They

(32:46):
not all their toilets were Western toilets. Some of them
were just holes, and that was a different experience.

Speaker 3 (32:52):
I had never the contrast, and that was different for sure.

Speaker 1 (32:58):
And they also so don't have toilet paper. So Elaine
had like a thing of tissues in her purse and
so she gave She was like just in case, and
I'm like, what do you mean, just in case I
don't need to blow my nose And She's like, no
for the toilet and.

Speaker 3 (33:09):
I was like yeah, And they don't flush in those holes.
You don't flush the toilet paper down, You put it
in a waste basket.

Speaker 2 (33:15):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (33:16):
Yeah, yeah. The smell in there was nothing like I've
ever smelt. Thank you for that.

Speaker 2 (33:24):
You went from in you know, being a spot with
a heated seats to having the squat over a hole
in the ground.

Speaker 1 (33:31):
Amazing.

Speaker 2 (33:32):
Now we're gonna move on to our game of the week.
So I have a question for both of you. What
are the top four places that you guys have visited.

Speaker 3 (33:41):
I would definitely say China is one.

Speaker 1 (33:42):
China for sure is up there.

Speaker 3 (33:44):
Yeah, China for sure. I think the Yukon European trip.
Slovenia was great, Bolognia was great. In terms of the food,
I would say was great. He was one okay, one
Caman Islands.

Speaker 1 (33:56):
Came in uns for sure. That was when I was
hurt and my team, oh well, that was the struggle
tournament for them. But I was living my best life
on the beach and storkling everyone else. When you ask
them about that trip, they hated it. They're like, I'm
never going back. I was like, I'll go back.

Speaker 3 (34:09):
Yeah, you get this one with the uh sting ray
sting ray hold a starfish. H Yeah, that was pretty cool.
And then the cruise and the cruse and the crews.

Speaker 1 (34:19):
The cruise for sure, that's a good four. That is
a great four.

Speaker 3 (34:22):
Can we top those?

Speaker 1 (34:24):
We will? I don't know how. We will soon come,
soon come. And that is a wrap on today's episode.
Thank you guys so much for listening. Don't forget to rate, review,
and subscribe wherever you get your podcast fut Around and
find Out. We'll see you guys next week. Fut Around
and find Out is a production of iHeart Women's Sports
and Unanimous Media. Executive producers are Jesse Katz, Eric Payton,

(34:46):
Charlae Sumter Brugette, and Stephan Curry. Co executive producer is
Klena Maria Cutney. Producers are Mike Costcarelli and co producers
are Kurt Redman, Maya Howard, and jack Lyn Schaninger. This
podcast is edited by Mike Costcarelli and hosted by me
Aisy Fudd and A Shady Plumber
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