Chase Budinger on His Journey From the NBA to Beach Volleyball Olympian with Teammate Miles Evans
Road Trippin’
Wondery
4.6 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 24 July 2024
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s episode were joined by USA Beach Volleyball Olympians Chase Budinger and Miles Evans. The duo discusses the brutal schedule they had to endure to quality for the Olympics and what they are most excited for in Paris. Chase also shares his journey of becoming an Olympian for beach volleyball after his NBA career, why the thinks his skillsets allowed in to do so, and if he thinks any other NBA players could do the same. This was a fascinating convo that made us even more excited for the 2024 Summer Olympics to begin!
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| 0:08.0 | Which are you drinking wine this wine? |
| 0:13.0 | I was like, about time, |
| 0:18.0 | buddy, |
| 0:20.0 | that's how the addition will start. |
| 0:22.0 | This edition, a special edition of Road Tripman with |
| 0:24.7 | R.J. and Channing, I'm your host, Ali Clifton, Richard Jefferson Channing Fry. |
| 0:27.6 | And my friends, this is a very special episode because we're going to step away from what this |
| 0:32.4 | podcast is pretty much predicated on |
| 0:34.5 | 95% of the time, which is the NBA and all that chatter. We're going to step away just a little because |
| 0:40.2 | how lucky are we? We are joined by one of two duos who will be competing on the |
| 0:47.4 | sand representing Team USA at the 2024 Paris Olympics for men's Beach volleyball, Chase Buttinger, and Miles Evans. |
| 0:56.2 | Guys, thanks so much for taking the time and congratulations. |
| 0:59.7 | Thank you. |
| 1:00.7 | Yeah. |
| 1:01.7 | This is so exciting. I'm sorry that you had to wait on, just kidding, I won't do that too, Jay, that's all right, listen, I didn't get the link. I didn't get the link. |
| 1:11.0 | You didn't get the link, Rich is drinking wine at 9 a.m. and these two are just trying to win the gold for our country. |
| 1:18.0 | So we shall dive right into the journey and what has been for the both of you. I guess at this point right now, |
| 1:27.5 | Chase you just mentioned, as we're recording this, one more practice and then you guys head to Paris. How are we feeling? |
| 1:34.0 | What's the vibes right now? |
| 1:36.0 | I mean for me it's like it's so surreal that we're actually |
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