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But for now, Ashanti, we have so much to get into today.

That's right, we definitely have a jam pack episode.

You did so much traveling and we need to hear about it.

We do, But first, Ashanti, what have you been up to since seven traveling?

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.

That sounds super cool.

I also got a chance to meet Maya Moore, who happens to be my favorite player.

Oh was she at the game?

Yeah?

She was.

That was cool.

That sounds fun, But that was my weekend.

You technically started this journey out in Minnesota and then major way over to Sonoma.

Tell us about that.

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 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.

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?

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.

It's incredible.

Okay, business woman and getting it done.

We love that.

So you were also doing something else out in Sonoma.

Curry Camp.

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 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.

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?

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 see him.

That's cute.

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?

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 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.

So what's one thing you learned or like we'll never forget from working out with stuff.

I feel like, well, one that he misses like he is human.

You heard it here first ladies and gentlemen.

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 intensity and my attention to detail.

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.

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 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 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 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.

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.

There you go, That's.

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.

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 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 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.

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?

All right, we are back from the break and our special guest today joining us live is my mom, Katie fud Hi.

Everyone, Hey, you're okay.

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.

I think there's so many cool stories and amazing things.

Maybe we just go day by day.

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.

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.

It was really good.

I'm glad you got it.

And then at the end of the trip we realized that you could put something on your screen that said wake me for meals.

Rookie mistake.

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.

Also our first time on a private a private jet.

Yeah, I think the best the coolest part about that, or the funniest part about that was maybe Tony's seat.

Wait, who's Tony.

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 was the bathroom.

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.

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.

Good for him.

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.

Probably would you say I was falling asleep?

I don't remember.

But were you awake watching?

Did you see the car that was driving past us?

No?

I was like fighting for my life, Like my eyes were just I was just trying to You missed.

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.

Really, yeah, you missed that.

You only took a video of me fighting my life.

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 people out front, so we had to go in through the garage.

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.

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 what would you say, like ten people, twelve people waiting outside the Yeah, it was.

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 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.

I was like, this is very sweet of you.

I think thirties has grown.

That's very grown.

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 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.

Yeah.

So I also you worked out with Steph Seth and his trainer.

Yeah.

So that's Carl's like his strength guy, like yeah, the strength stuff.

And then Brandon is his encore trainer.

What was that?

Like, you got the original Splash bros.

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.

Of course, of course.

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.

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, 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.

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?

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.

She figured it out.

I did not.

The first day, they didn't have translators.

They did have a couple of translators, but.

They didn't all speak like so the translators spoke Chinese, right.

Yeah, I think there was one that spoke Japanese.

But even then, like she wasn't always around.

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.

You were right, basketball is the universal langage.

They could see it and they'll get it done.

Yeah, it is.

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.

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.

Yeah.

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.

But We've also never been to Comic On, so.

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 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?

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.

They are all very different.

Yeah, there was another section where someone had every single like Steph Curry shoes.

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 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.

Well, the love is really real for stuff in China and you lazy, So that's crazy, sneakers cars, what else?

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.

Should, I airbowld my first shot.

No, it was Ai.

It was Ai.

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.

Mom, it was Ai.

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.

Of the day.

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.

So that day when we were wrapping, they were wrapping up on court and we were getting ready to walk out.

What happened.

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 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.

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.

What did she think she was gonna accomplish?

That's what I was wondering, Like, what was she gonna tackle stuff?

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.

Is my touch stuff career?

That's crazy.

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.

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.

Okay, head lady in charge.

Yeah, head lady in charge.

How'd that go?

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 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.

You gotta tell us.

A word, yeah, yes, well, I forget was it good job or like very good?

Oh gosh, I'm gonna get roasted by say it wrong?

Got this?

You got this?

You got this?

It was how young dah?

How does that mean?

It's like how young duh?

Yeah?

She said how young duh?

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.

Like fighting, like compete.

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.

Go, okay cool.

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 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.

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 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.

Like, yeah, it would we do right after that?

I don't know, but at some point that day we did go on a side quest.

Oh yeah, that was in between and we had to go back to that.

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 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, 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 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 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.

You can spit it out.

You had You had to.

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.

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.

She said it was a vegetable wad or something.

Yeah, but she said it was a vegetable.

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.

But then you took your snacks and you went into STEP's room.

Yeah.

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.

I mean I kind of like, I like seafood.

So that no one liked the chip.

No one like oh.

But then the other chip was black truffle problem.

That was like a spicy rice cracker, which is also good.

I thought.

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.

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.

You was pretty though, very pretty.

Then we went to another mall.

We had time lefts we went to another mall.

We got more bubble.

Tea and that mall was bigger than the first mall.

That all was bigger, which is hard to believe.

And they still said that wasn't the big trees inside.

It was crazy.

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.

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 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.

Had the whole street blocked off, the whole.

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 all the fans back to make sure they don't come through.

But it was that was crazy to see them the people there.

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.

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.

We were really just trying to stay awake and not sleep because we wanted to sleep on the plane.

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.

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.

So yes, right, next time I see you gotta play, you gotta find some people to play.

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.

So I love that.

What is the biggest thing you learned about Stefan on this trip?

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 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.

Okay, so if you could go back to China or like if you could, would you and what would you do?

What didn't you get to do that you would do if you go back.

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 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.

I would love to go see the Pandas.

Oh yeah, the Pandas too, for sure.

So you guys had some fans that want to give you some gifts in real life.

How did you get these gifts?

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 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, 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.

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 on the show, So a zy, what's your what the fud of the week?

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 not all their toilets were Western toilets.

Some of them were just holes, and that was a different experience.

I had never the contrast, and that was different for sure.

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.

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.

Yeah.

Yeah, yeah.

The smell in there was nothing like I've ever smelt.

Thank you for that.

You went from in you know, being a spot with a heated seats to having the squat over a hole in the ground.

Amazing.

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.

I would definitely say China is one.

China for sure is up there.

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.

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.

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.

The cruise for sure, that's a good four.

That is a great four.

Can we top those?

We will?

I don't know how.

We will soon come, soon come.

And that is a wrap on today's episode.

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Executive producers are Jesse Katz, Eric Payton, 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