Cougars Uncaged, with Samantha Hoelscher and Izzy Dugal

Meet our first women guests—Sam Hoelscher (Public Accounting, senior) and Izzy Dugal (Business Communications, senior)—and yes, they brought the vibes. From the Wellness kitchen to the wooded campus trail (groundhogs, turkeys… maybe Bigfoot?!), these Den Dwellers dish on campus life, hot takes, and hotter dogs.

Highlights you’ll love:

• Roll With It: Accents devolve into close-talking, hunting becomes “save the animals,” and Izzy professes love for glizzies while Sam time-stamps her most recent hot dog.
• Behind the Curtain: If they could meet anyone? MJ and Steph. No hoops allowed—so it’s golf and grub only. Plus, two heartfelt shout-outs to the moms and dads who made them who they are.
• Rapid Fire: Turkey vs. cheeseburger, “do your homework” vs. “stay out of trouble,” sardines vs. alligator (yes, eaten), and the great ketchup-only debate.
• Showtime: NBA team showdown gets… spicy. (City + team name, people!)
• Trivia: Email studentlife@cleary.edu
  — How many players are on the 2025–26 Cleary Women’s Basketball roster? First correct answer wins a Jimmy John’s gift card.

Plus: Homecoming, Oct 11 — hockey, men’s & women’s soccer, rock wall, Velcro wall, axe throwing, and a mechanical bull. New “Roll Cougs” tees featuring the bus drop that day.

Hit play for laughs, heart, and a dash of chaos. Then tell a friend and Roll Cougs!

Transcript

Lonnie Preis  0:00  
Hello everybody. Welcome to the one. Keep going.

Lonnie Preis  0:10  
We have two goals here. One is for people to get to know you. Two to make you laugh, and you already started laughing, so we want more of that. Okay, you are here with the den dwellers. I'm Lonnie priest. That's Kylie Walker. Kylie, there she is working it. You are working it. I love we are so thankful you are here to spend time with us, getting to know these young ladies. This is Sam and Izzy, and we are pumped, jacked, excited, elated, stoked, whatever else you can say that's emotional and exciting. We're so pumped that you're here. You are the first young ladies we've had a couple males, first young ladies to be on this podcast. We hope that this is just, you know, just an awesome experience for you. Tell us how you're feeling right now, heading into this

Izzy  0:55  
I'm excited. I'm ready to go.

Lonnie Preis  0:57  
You're ready to go. You are ready. I'm a little nervous,

Sam  0:59  
just because it's so much. I don't know, it feels like I'm like, gonna like wraps or do some music.

Lonnie Preis  1:06  
I mean, if you want to start rapping, if you, we can completely start to rap right now. If you, if you, if you want to rap, I can get some kind of a beat. No. Can you rap? Can you freestyle? I can't rap. I can't

Lonnie Preis  1:22  
sing. Alright, okay. That's the best beat we'll probably ever have on the show. Okay. Anyways, this is going to be fun, you know, relax. We'll just kind of have a conversation. And it's really we are pumped that you guys are here. So first one is just a little getting to know you segment. We broke this up into segments. This is just getting to know you. Got a couple questions for you. First of all, this is easy. You can say your name because I can't pronounce. I don't want to butcher anybody's last names. You know kind of your name, so everybody knows what year you are here, what your major is. And then this question, which you cannot this question, you cannot say the same thing, what is your favorite spot on this campus? Like, very specific spot on this campus. So name, Major, what year, and then your favorite spot on campus. So whoever wants to go first, and then the other person can go, I'll

Sam  2:09  
go first. Okay. My name is Samantha holsher. I'm majoring public accounting, and I'm a senior, and I would say my favorite spot is probably wellness.

Lonnie Preis  2:20  
Okay, all right, so the gym. All right, this gets a little spit. Can you name a specific spot where you'd like to like one spot that pops, pops in your mind, your favorite spot in wellness?

Sam  2:30  
Oh, probably the kitchen.

Lonnie Preis  2:33  
Okay, have you been Have you cooked in there a little

Sam  2:37  
bit, actually? Yeah. She likes food. Okay.

Lonnie Preis  2:40  
All right, we might get into that. We might get into that good. All right, excellent. How about you, Izzy.

Izzy  2:44  
Okay, I'm Isabelle de gal, but everybody calls me Izzy. I am going for business communications, and I'm a senior here at Clear University, and my favorite spot was supposed to be the kitchen, because, well, I'm a big back and I love food, but I will say our little wooded area,

Unknown Speaker  2:59  
wherever we are over there, okay, they have a

Izzy  3:02  
little trail that we can walk on.

Lonnie Preis  3:04  
Have you been on that trail? Yeah, me and Sam go hiking. We go

Izzy  3:07  
off the trail. Yeah, okay, I've tried

Lonnie Preis  3:09  
to go off that trail. Have you got caught? I mean, there's some, like, some prickers that over Is it pretty cleared in certain areas? Yeah, okay, I didn't know how much off trail we like venture off, yeah, did the groundhogs follow you?

Izzy  3:23  
No, they I try to chase them, but they run away. We also found a turkey

Lonnie Preis  3:28  
too in there. Yeah, nothing else. So no other animals. Um, a flea

Izzy  3:32  
was on my leg once, you know, was on my pants, but we got it off.

Lonnie Preis  3:36  
Squirrels, okay, no ticks. You didn't come out of. There's any ticks or anything. All right, check out the wooded trail. Everybody. Bam, see you. On cage. Okay, on cage. These animals are on cage in there. Okay, thank you. Oh, another question in this segment, one question, one last question, what do you what you love the most about Cleary? What do you love most about your Cleary or your experience here in the time you've been here,

Sam  4:01  
I'd have to say the small environment since the smaller campus, you like, you just know more people, I guess. Okay, so big and you see a person that you've never seen before.

Lonnie Preis  4:10  
Love it this. You can't answer the same way.

Izzy  4:12  
I know. Okay, I was gonna say, well, people like how everybody's just very involved, everybody's so cheerful, so outgoing, like, I just like people.

Lonnie Preis  4:22  
You're pretty cheerful too. Yeah, I love it. I love it. Okay, first segments done, roll with it is this next segment, and per your request, we thought we'd put a little twist into the roll with it. Segment, which is we're going to talk with some accents in this segment. Kylie, do you approve?

Unknown Speaker  4:43  
I do. I would like to know what an accent that is.

Lonnie Preis  4:45  
I don't know, but we're gonna go with it. We're gonna roll with it. So you guys ready? You ready for your for the questions in this one?

Izzy  4:53  
I think we are sham B country.

Sam  4:59  
Do? Okay, yep, I'm ready.

Izzy  5:02  
That wasn't an accent. Sam, my

Lonnie Preis  5:04  
bad. We can, we can switch to the clothes talker if you want. Sure, I think we should do that one. We're gonna do close talking scrap the scrap that. Okay, I asked you before about a topic you wanted to talk about, and you said, hunting. Okay, you brought up the question of hunting. So speak, I'm going to bring the first question to you, speaking of hunting, Izzy, what do you like to hunt? If you don't hunt, what would you hunt?

Izzy  5:31  
I'm pro life, so I think all animals deserve to live. I mean, yes, I get if you're eating them, it's a different thing. But I don't like shooting animals

Lonnie Preis  5:42  
I know. Speaking of eating, you mentioned eating. Speaking of eating, what's your favorite food to eat?

Izzy  5:53  
Hot dogs, glizzies, corn. Glizzies.

Lonnie Preis  5:56  
Speaking of hot dogs, Sam, when where's the last time you can remember eating a hot dog?

Sam  6:06  
I think he was a couple days ago. She makes him like

Lonnie Preis  6:13  
every other day, very nice, speaking of a couple days ago or the past, What's your earliest memory that you can think of.

Izzy  6:23  
I can remember my when I was first born. My I was adopted, so my parents came and picked me up at the hospital, and it was like, you know how the lights are, like, really bright and stuff, and babies usually split. My dad put his like hands over my eyes, and I can remember seeing their faces and everything. Wow.

Lonnie Preis  6:42  
That's awesome. That's a great memory. Speaking of speaking of hospitals, she met in hospital, speaking of hospitals, what's the Have you ever had a surgery or broken bone, or what's your what's your worst injury ever?

Sam  7:01  
My wisdom teeth. That's the only time I've ever been to a doctor. I don't go to the doctor.

Lonnie Preis  7:07  
Okay, she's healthy. Speaking of teeth, what animal's teeth scare you the most? Shark, speaking of shark, when was the last time you went to the ocean?

Izzy  7:23  
Two years ago. I want to go again. And where

Lonnie Preis  7:26  
and where did you go two years ago?

Izzy  7:30  
Destin Florida, okay. Speaking of

Lonnie Preis  7:33  
Florida, what's your favorite spot in Florida? Panama? Speaking of Panama, what would you if you've been there, where would you go, specifically in Panama? Or where would you like to go?

Izzy  7:44  
PCB, Panama City, beach, just right on the beach.

Lonnie Preis  7:48  
Speaking of the beach, what's your most annoying thing about the beach? The people? Speaking of that's okay. That's okay. Speaking of people, Izzy, who's your favorite person?

Izzy  8:03  
My bearded dragon. He's a person in my heart. And what's her name. His name is nimithi, but we call him Nim for short, nim. That's it. Thank you for

Lonnie Preis  8:12  
the role with this segment. We just went from hunting, obviously being realized we do not want herd animals all the way to Nim, which we definitely did not want to hurt. So thank you, ladies for doing the role with this segment. We you saw. We went all over the place. All over the place. Okay, now it's time for, I think. Thank you. Thank you ladies. Now it's time for a segment called behind the curtain. Behind the curtain. You don't have to do it, but I like it. Okay, this is a chance to get to know you guys a little bit more. This is we're just gonna, I'm just gonna, I'm just gonna ask you a couple questions. So first question and we will go back and forth. Obviously you can't say the same. Don't be trying to read this. I see, I see you. Girl, okay, if you can meet anyone on this planet, anybody on this planet that you've never met before, who would it be?

Izzy  8:58  
Do they have to be alive? Or can they be, you know, we're

Lonnie Preis  9:01  
gonna stay alive. Okay, yep.

Izzy  9:05  
Michael Jordan,

Lonnie Preis  9:06  
Michael Jordan,

Sam  9:07  
Sam. Stephen Curry,

Lonnie Preis  9:10  
oh, okay, we got the basketball vibe going on, so just Steph and Michael walk in the door. Did you get I'm just kidding, they're not really here, okay, but let's say they do walk in this door. Thank you. First question, Sam, what would you ask Mr. Curry if you walked in the store? One question,

Sam  9:35  
that's a hard question. What's his favorite food?

Lonnie Preis  9:40  
Probably my favorite food has to be a different question for Mr. Jordan. Michael comes in the room. What are you going to ask him?

Izzy  9:45  
What's your mindset before a game? Oh, you get a you

Lonnie Preis  9:49  
get a long answer on that one. I love you know, Michael Jordan is going to do some announcing. Yes, that'll be I know. Okay, now you get some time. Both of you get some time, couple hours to hang with the. Him. You can do nothing basketball related. Okay, what would you do? He can't work out anything related to basketball. What would you do for those two hours?

Sam  10:09  
Probably golfing. Oh, well, I'm not very good golfer, and he is so

Izzy  10:16  
that was gonna be the cat, but golfing,

Lonnie Preis  10:18  
yeah, he'd teach you here to help you. He's good. He's good. Can't say the same answer. I love it.

Sam  10:24  
That's why I answer first. Anyways.

Izzy  10:32  
Darn Sam.

Sam  10:34  
Eating corn dog. Yeah.

Lonnie Preis  10:36  
Go get food. Get food. Go out to dinner. I mean, just have a conversation. Okay, great. All right, a little bit more serious. It's probably the most serious question we serious question we ask here, on a more personal level, who is the person in your past who has impacted you the most? We'll start with you, your mom. Okay, hang on, we'll have another follow up. Person who's impacted you the most

Sam  10:55  
has to be past. Yeah, you just leave them behind.

Lonnie Preis  11:03  
Oh, I'm sorry, but is there someone from your past who's still in your life?

Sam  11:06  
Okay, okay, yes, okay, that's my dad. Yeah, my bad.

Lonnie Preis  11:17  
Yes, my dad. Your dad. Okay, interesting similarities with their other responses. Okay, next question about them specifically, and I know you could go on, but what's one specific way that they have impacted you? Obviously, positively. So Sam, we'll start with you on

Sam  11:33  
this one. I'd say sports, probably because my dad likes love sports or whatever.

Lonnie Preis  11:39  
So how did his love of sports. How did that impact you did it?

Sam  11:43  
He was always just, like, pushing me. And he's sometimes I'd say he was a little bit too hard on it, but I mean, it helped me out. So I look back at it now and I'm thinking, like, okay,

Lonnie Preis  11:52  
he did a good job. Was it more than just basketball? Like, did you

Sam  11:57  
oh yeah, for all sports I played, he was always on it, even if you've never played the sports before, he's always,

Lonnie Preis  12:02  
yeah, was there a sport you tried that, that you're like, Okay, I tried it. Yep, checked it off the box. I'm not going to play that sport

Sam  12:13  
again. I mean, maybe No, there wasn't. Okay.

Lonnie Preis  12:16  
You love everything, yeah? All right, awesome. And how about you something specific with your

Izzy  12:21  
so my mom helped me become the woman I am today. Like everything I know is because of her. Even with sports, like she was my biggest supporter, like she brought me to every practice, every game, stayed like was rough, but hey, that's why I'm today. That's awesome.

Lonnie Preis  12:40  
All right. So we don't know how many people are gonna watch this. We think it's 1000s of people watching this, but we have a feeling that at least your two families, these two people you mentioned, are going to be watching this. If you could say one thing to them right now, look in the camera, bright lights. What would you say? What would you say to those people?

Sam  13:00  
I'm not being a baby, because I know he's gonna listen to it and say I wasn't that hard on you. I don't know. That's probably

Lonnie Preis  13:10  
what I'm saying. All right, which he probably knows, but All right, that's fair. That's fair. Yeah, it can be funny. It could be whatever

Izzy  13:15  
you want. Um, well, I look up to my mom, but I made it. I made it.

Lonnie Preis  13:21  
Love it. That's awesome. That's awesome. Okay, thank you guys so much. I know we went from some you know, Steph and Michael coming in the room to people that are more impactful, which is just getting to know you guys a little bit more. Okay, next segment, probably one of our funnest it's called Rapid Fire. You're gonna get questions thrown at you. You have, you cannot. And I know you guys like to think and process questions. First thing that comes to mind, hopefully it's appropriate, but we're gonna throw, I'm throwing questions at you back and forth. Start with you. You just got to answer. Some of these are goofy. Some of these are not are we ready? Yep, this is rapid fire. Here we go. Kylie, any noise for us?

Lonnie Preis  14:01  
Is he starting with you favorite sandwich? Turkey, Turkey, cheeseburger. What cheeseburger? Yeah, cheeseburger. All right, if you could, if you could only watch one TV show, Sam, for the rest of your life. What TV show? Cheers, cheers. Bob, Oh. Interesting advice for freshmen.

Lonnie Preis  14:19  
Phrase, do your homework. Do your homework.

Lonnie Preis  14:24  
Yeah, do your homework. Got to be

Izzy  14:26  
different. Do the same one as me.

Lonnie Preis  14:29  
Stay out of trouble. That's good animal you are most scared of, hopefully not Nim, polar bear. I love animals. First. You gotta be scared of one, first one that comes to mind that you think you might be scared of

Sam  14:47  
anything that would eat you.

Izzy  14:51  
I love animals. Guys, that's the problem. I'm fine with them, yeah, but

Sam  14:55  
if you come into contact with them, they're not gonna like you.

Izzy  14:57  
Hey, whoa. Hi. How are you? How. Bigfoot, I don't know, yeah, Bigfoot.

Lonnie Preis  15:02  
Oh, okay, there you go. Not an animal, but we'll go with it. Best, best way to top a hot dog.

Izzy  15:09  
What do you put on your ketchup, mustard, you know, you can add some onions, you know, maybe some chili. Add some relish, if you're feeling it, maybe some jalapenos. I can keep going for days. So, all right, strictly ketchup,

Lonnie Preis  15:20  
strictly catch up. Boom. That's how I am. All right. What do you do in your free one thing, top thing that comes to mind? What do you do in your free time? Dirt biking, dirt biking. Shoot free time. Oh, paint. Oh, very nice. If you could do take one do one thing over from your past. What would it

Izzy  15:40  
be all the advice that I have now, like, everything that I've learned, I would bring it with me, like, or Whoa, everything that I don't know how to

Lonnie Preis  15:49  
describe this stuff that you didn't listen to. Yes, okay, got it. Got it. That makes sense. Say, how about you? I play volleyball. Oh, okay, interesting. I like these next questions. I don't know if anyone has ever called you quirky. Hopefully you know what that means. But the quirkiest thing about you odd, quirky, unique, oh,

Izzy  16:10  
you can go first on this one. I'm loud, very outgoing, like people I don't know, anytime I'm just around people are just like, What is wrong with

Lonnie Preis  16:19  
you? Okay, just because you're a little bit, yeah,

Izzy  16:22  
I don't know. Okay, I'm, like, very energetic. Okay, I

Sam  16:27  
don't know. I'm energetic too, but it's only around my family, I don't know. So I'd say I'm very quiet, okay, opposite

Lonnie Preis  16:34  
of her. All right, all right, good. This one weirdest thing, start with you. Weirdest thing you have ever tried to hear eaten or tried to eat? Oh, what

Sam  16:43  
are those things? Where you like open the I puked everywhere we oysters. No, you open it up. It smells disgust. Sardines. Oh, yes,

Lonnie Preis  16:51  
sardines, nice. Yes, that's, well, not nice, but yes, that's a good one. I

Izzy  17:00  
would have to say, alligator.

Lonnie Preis  17:01  
Did you like it? Oh, very good. I've tried that too. Biggest pet peeve

Izzy  17:08  
repeating myself.

Lonnie Preis  17:10  
Do you repeat yourself or other people when they repeat themselves? You repeating myself? So that's your own personal pet peeve. Yes. What's a person? What's a pet peeve of someone else? Like, Oh, I wish they wouldn't do that so much, right?

Lonnie Preis  17:30  
We'll stick with the first answer. This is right. We won't call this rapid fire. It's just like slow and steady fire. Okay, what do you got pet peeve

Sam  17:40  
um, being late or, like, waiting on somebody I can't that's good. That's I gotta be there, right?

Lonnie Preis  17:46  
You guys are on time today. I like it. Okay. Describe yourself in three words. First three words that come to mind to describe yourself, go quiet. Are we going back and forth? No, no, all three.

Sam  18:00  
I love it, quiet,

Izzy  18:04  
happy, positive, outgoing.

Sam  18:06  
For you, yeah, okay, that's a good one. I say positive. What this

Lonnie Preis  18:11  
one will let you go one more.

Lonnie Preis  18:19  
Oh, sorry, phone, phone call. Sorry, Kylie, is that you rapid fire is going off the rails. Okay, how about this? Izzy. Do you got one more for her? What would you describe her in one

Sam  18:30  
more word would you say? Quiet, quiet and positive?

Lonnie Preis  18:35  
Oh, laid back. Yeah. Nice. We got through it. We got through it. Okay. Last segment. Sorry, guys. Last segment. Oh, by the way, you need to be thinking about this before we get to that point. But you need to be thinking about a trivia question that we can ask the audience, sorry to put you on the spot. But just think of something that's, you know, trivia could be basketball related and so on. Anyways, we'll get to that in a minute. Showtime. This is your competitive, right? You consider yourselves competitive? Yes. Sounds like, oh yeah, I am Showtime. You get a chance to show what you know. So I'm going to ask you this question. You're going to fill in a blank, okay, you are going to and then you're going to kind of dictate where we go with this game. Okay, okay, you know the most about what basketball Perfect. Oh, yeah, we'll see. And I'm guessing, with your answers to the who you want to meet, you know a little bit about the NBA. Yeah, correct. Okay, so we're, this is the game. You're going to start this. You are going to, we NBA basketball teams, you know, no offense not WNBA. And that's not a knock on the WNBA. I just don't know the teams. To even know if you're making these up. So we're, I figured you all know NBA teams. We're going to start with you, you're going to state, you're going to say the city and the team name. Then you're going to go back and say a different NBA team, and we're going to go back and forth. You have three seconds to come up with a new team, and we go back and forth. If you repeat one of the previous teams, you lose the other the other person wins. Got it. Got it. We're gonna start with you three seconds. Don't repeat on your mark. Get set. Go. Grizzlies, Memphis, yeah, say this, say that. You say the city first. But it don't matter.

Sam  20:27  
Pistons, Cleveland, kevlars,

Izzy  20:30  
Milwaukee, bucks,

Sam  20:33  
go and say warriors. San

Izzy  20:35  
Francisco, 323.

Izzy  20:43  
I'm out

Lonnie Preis  20:46  
Chicago Bulls. It's very hard. It's very

Izzy  20:49  
hard. Okay, I had all them, like, lined up.

Lonnie Preis  20:54  
That's great. Thanks for the applause, Kai, because that is a tough thing. We've noticed that you know. So you guys have showed what you know when it comes to the NBA? Put yourselves out there. Okay, trivia question the moment everyone's been waiting for, by the way, student life@cleary.edu is where you're going to go and answer this trivia question from these young ladies. This is definitely putting you on the spot, but it could be something even related to Cleary women's basketball. It could be a fun little fact, fun little nugget.

Sam  21:25  
Okay, how many people do we have on team currently,

Lonnie Preis  21:27  
like, for this current year? That's very that's I like that one because they might have to wait and kind of watch see the roster. Okay, so are we talking playing people that are actually playing compete? No, no, it's good. I like it. You go with this. Okay, the question out there, Cougar faithful, Cougar fans, how many women's basketball players are there on the 2025 26 basketball roster? First one to answer, and it can be a basketball player, but it cannot be one of you young ladies student life@cleary.edu put in your answer, and you'll get a chance to win a Jimmy John's gift card, which we will announce the winner at the next podcast.

Izzy  22:11  
Sorry, can we answer? We want Jimmy John's?

Lonnie Preis  22:13  
No, you cannot. You can maybe help somebody answer, but I would think one of your teammates will will figure it out.

Izzy  22:19  
If one of you guys do answer, please put the Jimmy John's with us.

Lonnie Preis  22:24  
Thank you guys, that that's, this is the end of our show. Pretty nice. Did you enjoy it? Yes. Okay. Thank you all so much for being here. First gut response about being on the podcast. What are your thoughts? Little feedback for our audience.

Izzy  22:35  
I loved it. We'll do better. You know, next time, oh yes, first time,

Lonnie Preis  22:39  
oh rapid fire. You know, that's that's tough. That's tough.

Unknown Speaker  22:42  
Yeah, we process a lot

Sam  22:43  
before we have to have the questions that

Lonnie Preis  22:50  
is not happening on this podcast. Girl, that's not how we roll. Get it. Roll with it. Speaking of roll with it, speaking of that segment, roll Cougs is our saying homecoming coming up October 11. You're getting T shirts that say roll Cougs, and it's got the bus on it. You guys are going to be able to ride that new bus to some of your games. You're going to like it. Roll Cougs. Roll with it. What do you got going?

Speaker 1  23:16  
Bull riding? Oh my gosh, there's what? There's bull

Lonnie Preis  23:19  
riding. Listen, listen, yes. Thank you. Kylie, Homecoming, homecoming day, October 11. We have hockey. We have soccer, women's we have men's soccer. We but from two to seven during the day, we have, I'll get to the big stuff, but we have a little segment of some carnival games. We got a rock climbing wall. We got the velcro wall where you run and you jump and you stick to the wall. You got some other games. We have a legitimate, real AX throwing and ladies, we have a mechanical bull, not a real ball, but we have a mechanical bowl, okay, well, you thought it was a real ball. Sorry to disappoint.

Sam  24:00  
Baseball guy, not whatever. Oh, and then Samantha,

Lonnie Preis  24:05  
anyways, we can no coach would ever let their athlete, nor would I let anyone she wants to run with the bulls basically. Oh, yeah. Well, with your excitement about this, we expect them both on the actual mechanical. Oh, we will Okay. We will be there. Make sure Coach slump is gives you the A okay to do that. You'll be fine. It's padded. You can't get too hard. Okay, that is homecoming, October 11. Roll, coug See you there, guys. This is exhilarating, energizing. I am fired up for the rest of my day. We are gonna end this segment. We're gonna drum roll it again, and we're gonna go 123, roll, Cougs. You ready to get hyped? Let's do it. Let's do roll it. Here we go. Thank you.

Unknown Speaker  24:42  
You.

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