Cougars Uncaged, with Hayley Dann and Jamey Lobdell

This episode of Cougars Uncaged brings the laughs, the “hot takes,” and a ton of heart as The Den Dwellers sit down with Coach Hayley Dann (Bowling Coach) and Coach Jamey Lobdell (Softball Coach).

Coach Dann shares how a “quarter-life crisis” turned into a bold leap from a 9–5 job in Ohio to chasing big goals in collegiate and professional bowling—ultimately landing her at Cleary, where she’s now entering her fourth season and loving life with her athletes. Coach Lobdell talks about his coaching path (including time at Saginaw Valley), the curveballs of life and COVID, and how a call from Coach Tim Bailey pulled him right back into the game.

From favorite campus spots (Lake Trust Stadium love, and the peaceful first-base dugout at sunset) to a legendary debate on pineapple on pizza, the conversation stays fun and real. The “Behind the Curtain” segment dives deeper into who shaped them—Coach Lobdell’s grandmothers (both educators with strong local Howell roots) and Coach Dann’s college coach Craig, whose positivity and resilience still guide her coaching today.

Then it’s off the rails in the best way: rapid-fire answers, spirit animals, Starbucks orders, weirdest foods ever eaten (yes… those), pet peeves, and a hilarious game of “Showtime” featuring musical artists. The episode wraps with a student trivia challenge (and a gift card prize!)—plus one last bowling question: How many strikes to bowl a perfect 300?

Transcript

Speaker 1  0:00  
Hi. Welcome back to the

Lonnie Preis  0:05  
one and only scene of cougars. Uncaged today, you're here with the dendwellers. Kylie Walker, Lonnie priest, we are pumped Jack, stoked that we have coach Haley Dan coach Jamey Lobdell with us. We got to keep our stuff together here, guys, we are pumped that you're here. Are you happy to be here? What are your thoughts coming into this?

Hayley Dann  0:27  
100% Yeah, I'm super excited. It's gonna be fun. Good.

Lonnie Preis  0:32  
Well, we will try and make sure we laugh a few times, cry maybe a little bit from laughter and whatever else happens. Kylie, we ready to get rolling? Yep, let's do this thing. All right, here we go. First question is just, kind of just to get to know you guys a little bit better, because this is going to go out to 1000s of people worldwide. We want to make sure hundreds of 1000s, hundreds of 1000s, millions, millions. So tell us a little bit about yourselves. What brought you, first of all, what brought you to Cleary, like, what? And we'll start with you, Haley, what? What brought you to Cleary is the first star and what you do here, just where everybody knows, yeah?

Hayley Dann  1:06  
So yeah, I'm Hayley Dann. I'm the head bowling coach here, and just entered my fourth season here at Cleary, I actually kind of had a quarter life crisis, I guess you could say. And I was working a nine to five at an Air Force base in Dayton, Ohio, and wanted to start pursuing bowling in a more full time capacity. I knew that I wanted to bowl professionally. I knew that I wanted to coach after coaching high school a couple years and started looking for college coaching jobs. And Cleary actually is one of the first ones that popped up. And I was like, Michigan, that's not that far away. And I applied, and, you know, the process was pretty cool, getting to be a full time coach and big life change, big move, but it's been really great so far. And I love my athletes, and I'm happy to be here. Awesome.

Speaker 2  1:57  
That's a great story. Did you know that, coach? Oh, yeah, I didn't know you coach high school so or only Yeah? Yeah, we're at

Hayley Dann  2:07  
Vandalia Butler and Kettering alter.

Jamey Lobdell  2:10  
Have no idea. Yeah, powerhouses, I'm sure. Would you say powerhouses?

Hayley Dann  2:15  
Powerhouses, I mean, the alter girls, we made it to the like, postseason, what did you say the altar? Girls, yeah, like, alter high school girls,

Lonnie Preis  2:25  
like, was it? Is it a Christian? Like, Altar, yeah, it's a

Lonnie Preis  2:29  
Catholic. Is that their mascot? No?

Lonnie Preis  2:34  
Altar. Girls nights, yes, yeah. That is something that is a trivia question, right?

Hayley Dann  2:38  
That's no. I mean, I coach the girls team, but it's like they're the altered nights.

Jamey Lobdell  2:43  
Oh, the alternate Sorry,

Lonnie Preis  2:47  
there we go. All right. Awesome. Great. Jamey, how about you? How do you get here?

Jamey Lobdell  2:54  
Oh, gosh, well, I was coaching at Saginaw Valley, and Tim was the head coach for years he started the program here. Tim Bailey, coach. Bailey and I had left Saginaw Valley with intense moving to Florida and covid, you know, whole bunch of stuff, life happens, and suicide, oh, maybe I'm just done coaching and and took the summer off. Got really good at golf. And then Tim called me, and like the mafia. He wrangled me back in as an assistant coach, and then just went from there. Okay, this would be my third, fourth year.

Lonnie Preis  3:28  
Okay, you mentioned golf, really good at it. Like, are you talking about senior level? Okay, I thought nobody's good at golf. Okay. I thought you're like, I thought about going to the senior too. No, I'm not full of

Hayley Dann  3:43  
golf memorabilia and clubs. Very humble. He does. All right.

Lonnie Preis  3:47  
Golf's Humble. Humble. It is humbling. It is good. Okay? Couple other questions about Cleary. Oh, well.

Jamey Lobdell  3:52  
But I also like woodchucks. So the reason why you came here when I toured the campus with Tim, I'm like, this is Woodchuck heaven, like I'm in 100%

Kylie Walker  4:05  
hot take. Do you think that our mascot should be a woodchuck?

Lonnie Preis  4:07  
100% okay, yeah. Starts here. Start the petition. And I would chucks.

Jamey Lobdell  4:13  
We actually have done artwork with that in the fight in woodchucks.

Lonnie Preis  4:19  
All right, make a note of that. Kylie, speaking of this, this might kind of tie into this next question, what is your favorite spot on campus? Start with you, Jamey,

Jamey Lobdell  4:30  
seriously, the first base dugout after practice, when everybody's wrapped up and gone and you have a nice sunset, because there is nice sunset when you're in the turf field. Oh, yeah. And especially in the fall, you can sit there and it's nice and peaceful and recap the day with the boys. And love it. Love it, boys, meaning coaches, yeah.

Lonnie Preis  4:53  
What's interesting about the stadium is we've had a couple people say specific, like seats in that stadium that they. You know students that that's their favorite spot, which I think is

Speaker 2  5:03  
pretty cool. It's good.

Lonnie Preis  5:05  
Haley, how about you? I'm gonna

Hayley Dann  5:06  
have to say, like trust stadium, just as a whole, I really enjoy supporting our other sports and being close with the softball coaches and softball team. We share four athletes between women's bowling and softball, and I just, I don't know, a lot of good memories supporting other sports teams. And then my first year here, I think I was just a little in awe of, like, this is my job every day. And I'd like, on Fridays, I'd take, you know, some time to go watch a practice here and there, and just enjoy the sunshine and the warmth. And I don't know, I just, I mean, we're in athletics for a reason, right? And it's like, I just, I love being, you know, central to athletics, and it's just really cool.

Lonnie Preis  5:43  
So I do this with everybody. You say Lake trust is there? Can you think of a specific spot? You know, you don't have to know the seat number, but certain spot you like to watch it like? Do you like to be close to the dugout so you can hear coach? Do you like if you're at the stadium watching softball or baseball? I can answer that. You know where she sits. Okay, see

Jamey Lobdell  6:00  
about four rows, five rows up on the first base side, right next to the dugout. Yep, nice, yeah.

Hayley Dann  6:06  
We always go there. Usually a few of our parents are there, and

Speaker 2  6:11  
the geniuses, yeah, should I say that? Yes, but

Hayley Dann  6:18  
yeah, they are not close enough that, you know, we can, you know, talk or make eye contact, but then also talking to some of the parents and other awesome,

Jamey Lobdell  6:27  
yeah, because you guys, you have parents that are bowling parents too. So, yeah, so it's

Hayley Dann  6:33  
a nice way to kind of get to know them, and like a non I get to be like non coach a little bit and kind of just hang out and be a supporter.

Jamey Lobdell  6:41  
Can I Can I ask a question? Absolutely. So let me ask you this. So you're watching a softball game with bowling parents, but their kids are playing softball. Yeah, are they more knowledgeable? Do you think about bowling? I could I know a couple parents probably know a lot about bowling or softball.

Hayley Dann  6:59  
I would say majority of the parents are more knowledgeable on softball, maybe a 5050, split, like I know

Lonnie Preis  7:07  
that the pun, the split.

Speaker 4  7:10  
I like it. Stop it. Yeah, there it is. Girl, here we go.

Jamey Lobdell  7:19  
But What's the toughest spare to pick up?

Hayley Dann  7:22  
Um, I mean, if we're talking about splits, the 710 or the Big Four,

Jamey Lobdell  7:27  
I would have guessed the 6767,

Speaker 4  7:33  
literally. Why you said that? Yeah,

Lonnie Preis  7:36  
there we go. Well, all right, let you guys know each other really well, which is great, obviously, great working relationship. Here's a question, how much has your bowling average improved since you've been working together, and how much has your golf game improved since you've been working together? Because I would think, you know, you obviously want to help each other out. Zero.

Hayley Dann  7:54  
Okay, yeah, I I keep saying I'm going to come get lessons from him, and I haven't really. I haven't pursued that enough.

Jamey Lobdell  8:00  
Okay, I'm not the lesson guy. Oh, I do want to go bowling one time. We should. I'm terrible. If I can break if I can go into triple digits. Oh, that's good, solid, awful bowler. We just gotta keep it on the lane. The one thing I've learned, though, is I gotta get fitted for a ball like you just can't go up and grab the house ball and expect to be

Lonnie Preis  8:22  
Oh, do you do straight ball? Or do you, yeah? Oh, well, you, I think you could just grab a house ball then, well,

Jamey Lobdell  8:29  
yeah, it's like, as hard as you can throw it.

Kylie Walker  8:32  
I think my favorite part is a little ramps that like you just drop the ball down.

Lonnie Preis  8:37  
Do you use bumper ball? Do you use the bumpers? Yeah, okay, we need to go

Hayley Dann  8:40  
some time. I will say I hopped in some VP recently. Okay? My form very athletic. No, my form is terrible.

Jamey Lobdell  8:50  
She watched it back to pretty

Hayley Dann  8:53  
embarrassed. And I'm like, never let me do that again.

Speaker 2  8:56  
That's like the it's what was that movie? Shallow.

Lonnie Preis  8:59  
Hell. Okay? Okay, perfect. Shallow how perfect. Transition into our hot take new segment. This is where we're going to throw out a topic and have you guys just debate it for a little bit and see what you guys think. Okay, and with so I wrote you brought up a topic, Haley, that is perfect, pineapple on pizza. Let's start with you. Just want to hear what your, what your take is on pineapple on pizza, and what your, what's your thoughts and beliefs are?

Hayley Dann  9:25  
Yeah, I mean, I think it absolutely blondes on pizza. I think it's great Hawaiian pizza with, you know, some pepperoni, pineapple, add some jalapeno in there, like a spicy Hawaiian. Pretty great flavor combo. Lost me.

Lonnie Preis  9:39  
So why I'm sensing some what's the issue here?

Jamey Lobdell  9:44  
Well, maybe I'm wrong, but I'm not sure. Like, if I went to Italy and had some pizza, would there be pineapple? Would I go, Hey, can I get some pineapple on that? I mean, what? I don't know. I don't know that. But why? Because I don't. Like, pineapple, okay, on pizza, it's, it's like, if you had this cup right here, and it's a coffee cup, and you're like, you have an expectation of what it's going to taste like. But if you put milk in it and you took a drink, you like, it just doesn't make sense. No, like, I expect to have, I Yes, and you don't like it. No, my expectation is I want it to taste like pizza,

Lonnie Preis  10:29  
which is meat. You're talking meat. You just want as much meat on there as possible. Like, okay, pizza, well, let's, let's. I just

Kylie Walker  10:36  
want to dig a little wait. I got to add something. Google says that it is a delicate delicacy to have pineapple on pizza in Italy.

Speaker 1  10:46  
Oh, okay,

Jamey Lobdell  10:50  
it's just not my preference. But now I don't think it's abnormal, all right.

Lonnie Preis  10:53  
Well, let's I'm just very curious. Though, you go to a pizza and I'm getting hungry, but what do you what do you ask for it? What do you want on

Jamey Lobdell  11:00  
it? Pepperoni, mushroom, jalapeno, done interesting.

Lonnie Preis  11:05  
Jalapeno, very unique taste. Some people are like, Yeah, I don't see that on a pizza. I see that on a nacho,

Speaker 2  11:10  
correct? Okay, yeah, all right.

Lonnie Preis  11:13  
What about you? Are you give Are you? Are you

Hayley Dann  11:15  
doing Hawaiian? I mean, it's like, 5050, like, we'll go just like traditional, like pepperoni, banana pepper, mushroom, but if we're feeling it, then we'll go to that, that spicy Hawaiian with the jalapeno, pineapple pepperoni.

Lonnie Preis  11:28  
Oh so pineapple and jalapeno. Yeah, that is, I don't know about that.

Hayley Dann  11:32  
It's, it's amazing, sweet and the spicy and the sweet and sour. It's, it's delicious.

Lonnie Preis  11:39  
That's an honestly I've never tried that, never even seen it, but now I'm going to, I'm not a big pepper person, but jalapenos, yes, yeah, okay. I could sit here and talk about pizza all day. Okay, I was it doesn't taste right to me. I was it. I lived in Milwaukee. Grew up in Milwaukee, cheese, best cheese you've ever had. Then we lived in Chicago. Chicago knows pizza so but I found Michigan's got some good ones. Real good ones. Okay, now we're going to dive deeper. This is a little segment called behind the curtain.

Speaker 4  12:10  
Behind the curtain,

Lonnie Preis  12:13  
a chance to get to know you a little bit more broad. And so we'll start with you. Actually, we'll go with you. Haley, so I know you love this question, if you can meet anybody on this planet who you have never met before, who would it be?

Hayley Dann  12:29  
So I had to do some thinking, and I kind of stay with the bowling theme a little bit. And Marion Ladwig, she's actually originally from Grand Rapids, I believe, but she won five US Open titles, and was player of the year nine times. And I just from a time that was, it was in she was born in 1914, I just, I had to do a little bit of background myself, but I've known about her and I've known about her success, but, you know, I'm curious as to what it was like to be a superstar in that era, and what kind of the mental mindset was before. You know sports performance and mental mindset was a thing in athletics, and to be a female superstar bowler in that era as well in a predominantly male

Lonnie Preis  13:18  
sport, love it. So here's a follow up. She walks in this door, or you can see her, what's the first question you ask her?

Hayley Dann  13:26  
I think it's going to be, you know, like, how did you accomplish that? Or what, what was going through your mind when you were, you know, at the top of your success, and it was obviously for many years running, you know. So just what that looks like. Because, you know, I still have a lot of aspirations and goals in my own personal bowling career, and, you know, at the professional level that I still want to strive for. And I just, I think it'd be really cool to talk to someone from a whole different era, and what that was like,

Speaker 2  13:51  
Yeah, that's awesome. Yeah, Jamey, how about you?

Jamey Lobdell  13:54  
That would be the hot tape question. Do you think you mentioned the mental

Jamey Lobdell  14:04  
like, they seem to get it done without focusing a ton on that. I wonder if the hot take is, is it sometimes crippling to constantly talk about that aspect of it or to just go or is it or are people innately able to handle themselves, and that's why they're a champion?

Hayley Dann  14:28  
Yeah, I think very hot take is because maybe that research and that focus wasn't there then, and they're like, Okay, just gotta go and get it done, right?

Jamey Lobdell  14:38  
Or, you know, not. Or this is my hot take there, there were less people participating in leisure activities during that timeframe, yeah, because I'm thinking of back. So I'll, I'll just stay with that theme, and I'll dovetail into it. There's like, I'm old, so there's a gazillion people that I would love to meet. Yeah? I mean, I but. It all of them just think, yeah, there's. But that era you go back to Great Boston Marathon champion and Olympian, Clarence Demar in the marathon, great runner, really interesting guy. However, back then, marathoning was a sport of like, blue collar plumbers, printers, laborers. It wasn't. And now you look at it, it's like, that type of running is more like a sport of privilege. For a lot of people, if you went to a big marathon, it's all like, hey, what do you do? They're not like, Hey, I'm a plumber, right? Or, you know, I'm a carpenter there. I'm a thoracic surgeon. And I, you know, like, I run at my life, whatever. So, so I maybe it's the type of person during that era.

Speaker 2  15:52  
I don't know I'm getting, like, way off, but what would you ask him? I love it. I love what? First question, yeah.

Jamey Lobdell  15:59  
Well, I know so much about him. I, I would, I would like to ask him, this guy. He lived in Keene, New Hampshire for a while. He was up there, and he worked at the college up there. He was a printer, and he taught printing, because that was a trade back, and it was a trade school, and he took classes at Harvard in Boston. And he hitchhike he never drove. He hitched tight. It was 100 mile trip around that wow, never was late for a class all through the winter. But he would run and hitch rides. But a lot of times he would run through the night to get home so he could teach classic mistake. So which so now you would like, I would love to bring him into now, current time. And having talked to some athletes who are like, I just don't know if I have time to, you know, I don't know if I can do that. Yeah, and, and I think I'm working pretty hard, but okay, like

Lonnie Preis  16:52  
perspective, I love it, but I love it. Yeah, all right, so follow up question about these two people. Great. These are awesome, awesome examples. They come in and you have time to spend with them, and you can't do you can't spend time doing with them. You know, you can't go on a run, you can't go bowling. What would you do if you had a couple hours with them?

Hayley Dann  17:13  
Oh, that's a great question.

Lonnie Preis  17:15  
Besides, besides, obviously, pick their brain and talk like just something.

Hayley Dann  17:19  
That was a great question. I don't know as much as coach Lobdell knows about this athlete that you mentioned. But I mean, honestly, I'm not a Michigan native, so you know, I guess we could go explore Grand Rapids together, if that's where he's from.

Jamey Lobdell  17:34  
Love it ever been to the bridge, the bridge

Hayley Dann  17:37  
like Mackinac. No, I'm not. Yeah, not yet.

Lonnie Preis  17:41  
I'm not a big bridge fan driving. I mean, I'd like to look at it, but, and I like to ride, I don't like to drive it, though, really you have to have people drive for you. I mean, I'll do it if I have to, but I'd rather have my wife or somebody else, but

Hayley Dann  17:54  
been on the sky bridge, and I think it's like Tampa Clearwater area, yes, ocean, that's a little bit scary.

Jamey Lobdell  18:01  
Yeah, there's a couple of them. There's some in there's like, there's a bridge in Alaska. I lived in Alaska for a while, and there's a bridge there that goes over hurricane Gulch. And it is spectacular.

Speaker 2  18:14  
Oh, scary, awesome. Yeah, what would you do, Mr. Clarence, yes,

Jamey Lobdell  18:23  
go golf. No, he would not golf because I'm sure he would probably figure that was just way too leisurely. I'd probably just maybe go fishing. Yeah, you know, love it. Have something where there would be some passive thing we're doing. Yep, that they would just a national conversation

Lonnie Preis  18:41  
with flow. Awesome, awesome. Okay, now on a more, I guess even a more personal level, Jamey, we'll start with you on this one who in your life, who's a person that has had the biggest impact on you? I know there's been a bunch, there's been a bunch, but one, one that jumps in your mind,

Jamey Lobdell  18:59  
probably, probably both my grandma's there. They were both really, both educators. My grandma Lobdell, actually, fun fact, I was born here in Howell, at the hospital here, and my grandma was actually, at one point, principal at Howell High School. Oh, wow. And she taught at the school the blind and so, yeah. And then my other they, they were lifelong residents here, own brown well drilling out on 59 so got There's pictures of in bars in town or, and they're in them, yeah, you'll look and see some old dirt thing. And, oh, that's your Great Grandpa. He's hauling a log through Main Street or whatever. Yeah, that's awesome. But anyway, they were both very supportive and and just super interesting people. Yeah, that's so cool.

Speaker 2  19:51  
Yeah. Haley, how about you?

Hayley Dann  19:53  
This is a tough one, you know, I definitely have, you know, like my mom, she's impacted me a lot. She was st. A mother and things like that. But, you know, from another impact, and I think just relating to this some is, is my college coach. He went through cancer a couple times before I had him, and while he was coaching us, and his just his positive demeanor and his outlook on life, he always said, you know, he continues to say there's only good days and great days. And he just lives this life of, like positivity. And you know, when I look back, or when I face situations and coaching, I like, Okay, what would Craig do? And he was, you know, kind of like another father figure to me. And you know, while I was an athlete, and kind of took me under his wing. And, yeah, I just, you know, I'm definitely not half the coach he is, but I strive to be. And, yeah, it just, he definitely was very impactful. And his daughter, we bowled together, and we, she's my best friend. Oh, that's kind of cool. So again, we're just, we're kind of like family. And, you know, I don't see him and talk to him as much as I'd like, but I just continue to always think of, you know, what would Craig do?

Lonnie Preis  21:05  
Yeah, I mean, to have those people. I mean, obviously, as coaches, you have those people that just inspired you to do the same thing. And I'm sure he's very, very proud of you.

Speaker 2  21:16  
All right, is he still coaching?

Hayley Dann  21:18  
No, he coached for a total of seven years. His first year coaching was my freshman year, and then, like I was his first senior, I saw through start to finish, and then cheerful senior day, yeah. I mean, he had other seniors buzz, yeah. It just, you know, the only one that he had all four years on his you know, team. And but then he continued coaching three years after that, and but now he just works his full time job. And he's, he's also does, like, dirt racing. Like, oh, wow, yeah. And so he's into racing, what's like, like, dirt, track cars, cars, track, car racing. So he, he's been doing that for years, works at a bike shop part time like he can't stay Sit, sit still at all. He's busy.

Lonnie Preis  22:04  
That's cool. All right. Thank you guys for sharing that. Let us know a little bit more about you and who's impacted you. We're shifting gears kind of completely the other end of the spectrum. We're going to something called Rapid Fire. You did not get these questions ahead of time. We need the first things that come to mind when we ask you these questions, okay, all right. All right, here we go. We start with Jamey, then we'll go back and you get the same question, but we'll go back and forth. That makes sense. So she gets, you both are going to get the same question, but then we'll, we'll start with her and so on. Are we ready? Let's go. Rapid Fire advice for freshmen.

Jamey Lobdell  22:37  
Learn how to budget your time.

Hayley Dann  22:40  
I would say, go to all the campus activities you can and meet all the people you can and get out of your room.

Lonnie Preis  22:45  
Get out of your room. I love it. Okay, your go to very different question. Here. Your go to Kara Oh, I'm sorry, we're going back to you. Haley, go to karaoke song

Hayley Dann  22:55  
wannabe by the Spice Girls. Jamey, I want to,

Lonnie Preis  23:02  
oh yeah, feel free to sing this. We haven't had that yet on the podcast, but if you guys want to, you

Hayley Dann  23:06  
got it? I think you would lose subscribers if I started, you

Jamey Lobdell  23:09  
know what? I don't know this is gonna be, I don't know the chain smokers selfie.

Speaker 2  23:17  
I don't even can we. Can we hear a snippet? I know you got I know, let me take a selfie.

Speaker 4  23:24  
Okay, okay, oh yeah, bounce

Lonnie Preis  23:29  
it in the back. All right, your spirit, animal,

Jamey Lobdell  23:35  
bear, specifically grizzly. You not polar, not black. Thought it would be a woodchuck, little disappointing bear. No.

Speaker 2  23:49  
Pandas, the woodchuck, you would think, however, is too passive, okay,

Hayley Dann  23:57  
man, this is a tough one, like, I have no idea what animal is clumsy? Because I relate to that,

Speaker 2  24:06  
a panda bear, a sloth, a sloth. You don't want to be a sloth. I don't want to know that's

Speaker 3  24:12  
that's not a compliment, I think,

Hayley Dann  24:14  
especially after the situation that happened this morning

Speaker 3  24:18  
with the headphone, I think,

Speaker 2  24:20  
wait what? Let's let's all do the Haley, I think

Jamey Lobdell  24:27  
trend, like, it's a new trend. Thing in this I need to get checked out. Like, what? Highly, why isn't this working? Might want to turn it around.

Lonnie Preis  24:34  
Oh, bam. It's a new. It's a new. It's like when the kids wear the stuff with the tags on it, or criss cross. Chris, cross, you're not old enough to

Jamey Lobdell  24:42  
remember crisscross. Crisscross will make it jump. They wore their clothes backwards.

Speaker 3  24:47  
Oh yeah. I was wearing my headphone backwards, trying to be cool. Yeah, yeah,

Lonnie Preis  24:53  
way up. This is that the how the round fire segment works, completely off the rails. One, one, pant leg up. We are. Sloughing through this rapid fire. What animal would you like to be, or what animal would you like to hold right now? Anything With An animal I would love to hold, a koala. Oh, a koala bear. Very good. Okay, going back to your favorite app on your phone,

Hayley Dann  25:13  
favorite app

Lonnie Preis  25:14  
on my phone, or the one you go to the most,

Hayley Dann  25:17  
um, I mean, probably my messaging app to text my husband and,

Speaker 4  25:23  
Okay, how about you?

Lonnie Preis  25:26  
X, Okay, nice. Your

Hayley Dann  25:29  
Twitter. X,

Lonnie Preis  25:31  
all right, your whatever, your go to order at Starbucks if you don't drink coffee. Your favorite huh? Go to Starbucks. All right, your favorite drink?

Speaker 2  25:39  
Speed, Speedway, gas station, black. What do you put in it? Straight, black coffee. Black, nothing in it. Just coffee. Yeah, black coffee. Coffee, okay,

Speaker 4  25:50  
just coffee. Cougar, hay lakes, coffee. Haley.

Hayley Dann  25:54  
How about you? It depends on, you know, in the warm months, I like cold brew with cold foam, like brown sugar, vanilla. And then in the cold days, I like an oat milk latte with brown sugar.

Jamey Lobdell  26:06  
When is, when is the day? Like, when is the cut off for the pumpkin spice latte? Like, when does that happen? I mean, I have a sense of it, because I can tell our players are, like, you can tell when it changes. It's a little too early, the Uggs come out.

Lonnie Preis  26:22  
It's apple spider. Tell the time of the year. But yeah,

Hayley Dann  26:26  
yeah, I think pumpkin spice came out, honestly, like the end of August, and I think too early, probably November. And then we start with the sugar cookie. So after Thanksgiving, peppermint

Speaker 5  26:39  
comes out in the beginning.

Lonnie Preis  26:43  
We're coming back. We got a few more questions. All right, here we go. What's something that always makes you laugh?

Hayley Dann  26:50  
I think, like, I don't know funny videos on the internet, or, I'll say Lobdell, because he always finds a

Speaker 3  26:56  
witty joke, witty I like it, or sarcastic? Sarcastic. Coach, fine

Lonnie Preis  27:03  
line coach. Lobdell, what makes you laugh

Jamey Lobdell  27:06  
at the moment? Like the current trend? This is gonna seem weird, but AI cat tick tocks, okay, I just It's random. I do. Kylie, do you know what I'm talking about? Look it up.

Speaker 4  27:20  
I do. It's called Brain rot. Yes, brain rot.

Lonnie Preis  27:25  
Three more. These are my favorite, weirdest thing you've ever eaten, muktuk.

Jamey Lobdell  27:32  
What is that? It's, it's seal blubber that's been fermented. So it's a line of Eskimo and awful.

Lonnie Preis  27:40  
And watch what possessed you to try it a dare. Or is it healthy?

Jamey Lobdell  27:44  
No, well, I don't think it's I think it's healthy if you need that sort of caloric intake during the dead of winter in the Arctic. But no, just, just to do I just wanted to try it. Okay, all right. It was terrible. Haley muck tuck as well.

Hayley Dann  28:00  
You guys know what Rocky Mountain Oysters are? Yeah, is it a poop?

Jamey Lobdell  28:04  
No, it's, it's cow testicle. Oh, okay, when they're cast, like, when you buffalo testicles?

Hayley Dann  28:12  
Yeah, I had deep fried bowl or Buffalo testicle in Colorado.

Kylie Walker  28:17  
Okay? It's a Colorado delicacy. 100%

Jamey Lobdell  28:21  
okay, you have to have like so I hunted with some cowboys, and in so they do their roundup and stuff, and in their castrating, vaccinating the calves and the little bulls and stuff, they clip them out, and they got a fire going there in the frying pan. Here you go.

Hayley Dann  28:40  
Pretty I mean, good little spicy sauce with them. They were bad. I don't know if I'd eat them again.

Jamey Lobdell  28:44  
Better than muktuk. They were probably no, not really muktuk, just

Speaker 2  28:48  
sounds extremely chewy to me. Anyway, sorry, no, it's kind of okay, like an oyster, yeah, oh gosh, muktuk, yeah.

Lonnie Preis  28:57  
Just, it's a fun thing to say, all right. Biggest pet peeve,

Hayley Dann  29:01  
biggest pet peeve, that's tough. I think repeated like tapping and sounds like it just over, stimulates me. I get really annoyed of people. Or can

Lonnie Preis  29:12  
you hear this? Can you hear, oh, sorry, people fidgeting. Okay, Jamey, how about you

Jamey Lobdell  29:20  
pet peeve. Somebody says I can't, yeah, oh, that's a great, crazy, very good first, first, first word out of their mouth, I can't. We can't got it. Can't do it.

Lonnie Preis  29:32  
That's great. All right, only in three. This is the last one in three, and only three words describe yourself. You Brett Jamey, you first,

Jamey Lobdell  29:48  
complicated, motivated,

Speaker 2  29:53  
thoughtful, nice, deep words. I like it.

Hayley Dann  29:59  
I would say. A empathetic. I have no idea caring. I guess that goes with empathetic, though this is tough. I would say, like curious, like I'm

Hayley Dann  30:18  
always interested in, I don't know, learning things, and I don't know this is tough,

Jamey Lobdell  30:24  
I would agree, knowing her, 100% caring, empathetic,

Lonnie Preis  30:28  
it's been great to have sometimes we've even had guests answer it for each other. If they're Yeah, because it is, it's a hard question. So it's great to have, you know, for somebody you know, like, yeah, yeah. I mean that's, that's exactly how I describe you,

Jamey Lobdell  30:40  
especially if you're work colleagues, you don't really you see a work person. Yes, you don't really see them outside. And I think that's probably where coaching is a little different, because you you see people in a different way when they're dealing with other people. And like coaching, you can see them deal with people so you get a better idea of who they are. Yeah, I think, no, it's a good point. As opposed to, if I was just, you know, making widgets in a factory, yeah, I wouldn't see them in a personal manner.

Lonnie Preis  31:10  
Oh, yeah. You can see so much about their Yeah, their person who they are, what they believe in. That is, that's awesome. Well, you, neither one of you, describe yourselves as competitive, which is interesting. But anyways, we're going to see how competitive you are right now, we have a little game. It's called Showtime. Show us what you know, you guys came up with a with a topic of musical artists. This is a little bit, a little bit of a twist from what we've done the past, which was a lot easier, to be honest, the way we've done the other contests, pride, the pride of the jungle, the bragging rights. I mean, what more do you

Speaker 3  31:46  
need a free Woodchuck?

Unknown Speaker  31:50  
You have to catch it yourself, though.

Jamey Lobdell  31:51  
No, we do have a content. We do have something, a long standing goal on a softball team, the girls know if they can capture, not with a trap bare hand, capture a woodchuck and present it that your tuition is paid for the rest of your time

Lonnie Preis  32:09  
at clearing. That's why I've seen

Kylie Walker  32:11  
some I'm on it. I'm going to catch a woodchuck and bring it to your office today.

Jamey Lobdell  32:15  
Well, I'm telling you right now. There is video of this too. I think I'm the only person on campus has actually physically smacked a woodchuck on the backside. Oh, but you got there? I got it. You got it? Super Stock smack. It's on video.

Hayley Dann  32:37  
Is it wild? Hog?

Speaker 4  32:42  
Wild? Wood chucks. It's a new video.

Jamey Lobdell  32:46  
I know I'm going to get a call from Alan, and he's like, hey. Like, we have this. You know, we had a student out there and they got bit by a woodchuck

Lonnie Preis  32:55  
because they're trying to smack,

Kylie Walker  32:56  
smack a chuck. I think instead of running with the bulls, we should do running with running, yes, what?

Hayley Dann  33:03  
Chuck's Gone Wild. We might have to edit some of this.

Lonnie Preis  33:09  
Oh, no, we're good. Muck Chuck, smack a smack chuck with smack a chuck. All right, smack a chuck. So here we go. The way we play this game is this, one of them is going to say a musical artist. I just have a feeling we're going to start with Taylor Swift, but we'll see the next lift, yeah, the next person has to say a musical artist. That starts with the first letter of the last name of the previous artist. If you say a group, because you can see a group as well. That's one word. You then would have to go with the last letter of that group's name, and I'll help you. If you mess up, we're gonna give you a little more time. Usually it's like three seconds to respond. In this game, this one, we're gonna give you, like, probably five, and we're going back and forth. Do you have?

Jamey Lobdell  33:58  
Can you add a layer? And if you name somebody, you have to at least give a little snippet of a song.

Lonnie Preis  34:06  
No, we don't have time for that, so sorry, but then, but it's a great idea for a whole nother podcast. All right, here we go. We're gonna go. You guys ready for this Showtime? Sure.

Hayley Dann  34:20  
I'll start with a different one. Tate McRae,

Jamey Lobdell  34:24  
M, M, Marty Stewart,

Hayley Dann  34:29  
s, I'll remind you of what we have to does it count if I say Steven Tyler from Aerosmith, that's

Lonnie Preis  34:35  
not individual, that's he's a part of a group. You have five seconds for I

Speaker 2  34:41  
can't I think s group or artist that starts with S, oh my gosh, I feel like a woman. Oh, should I Twain, thank you. T.

Jamey Lobdell  34:55  
Tim McGraw, M

Hayley Dann  34:57  
Marin Morris who M.

Speaker 2  35:01  
Brett, this is, I thought they'd go a lot, much longer.

Jamey Lobdell  35:07  
M3, this is hot Morrissey, okay?

Speaker 2  35:11  
Y, young blood. O, D,

Speaker 2  35:19  
who's my fee for three? Del McCurry band.

Lonnie Preis  35:25  
Is band part of their official title?

Jamey Lobdell  35:27  
Yeah, the del McCurry man, B, B. Why is it so hard

Speaker 2  35:36  
for it really is 321, 69, right now. Adams, all right, we'll keep

Lonnie Preis  35:45  
going s, s, there you go.

Speaker 2  35:49  
Oh, my good, super tramp. Oh, P, struggling so I close.

Lonnie Preis  36:03  
Okay, game over. Sorry, coach. Lovell you win this one? I won the coffee cup you want to get after it. All right. Jocko audience, the moment you've been waiting for to wrap up the show. We have the trivia challenge. These coaches were asked beforehand, can you think of a trivia question. They have one for us when you hear it, yes, please go to student. I got to make sure I got this right. Kylie. Student life@cleary.edu first person to respond with the correct answer is going to win a gift card to one of our many sponsors of this show. Kylie's ready to hand that out to you. So student life@clear.edu when this is released, which will be sometime in November. So be ready. It'll be a nice little gift before Thanksgiving and the holiday. So awesome. Coach. Lobdell, you're going to share for us our trivia question for the audience.

Jamey Lobdell  36:58  
Trivia question. Here's the clue and the question, who was the person during heated competition, who said, Who you think you are, I am.

Lonnie Preis  37:14  
Got that who you think you are, I am, who said it? Student life@clear.edu make sure you get it in first one wins a prize. Awesome. Love it. Thank you all for being here. This has been great. Hopefully, this was like, you know, just Earth move, you know, shattering for you my life. I think that's yes, I think that you Haley, how do you know, what do you think

Hayley Dann  37:39  
it was fun? I would do it again.

Speaker 2  37:41  
I can't believe it's over. I know, I know. Sad. We can

Hayley Dann  37:44  
do another one. Yeah,

Lonnie Preis  37:47  
back. We'll bring you back and have some fun with it.

Jamey Lobdell  37:50  
Have the whole segment. Yeah, we never got into the bowling trivia. We didn't like I really wanted to use my knowledge. We could get it show it off a little bit.

Hayley Dann  37:59  
Okay, all right. Quick one, how many strikes are gonna 300 a lot. What's the number?

Jamey Lobdell  38:06  
Is it 12? It is gonna say, Hey, what's that we one of

Lonnie Preis  38:10  
our, well, I can't say our other trivia question, has that released yet? About but we had another bowling specific trivia question, really, about the no, what do you Oh, that one's already it out. It's already been given out. Well, let's,

Kylie Walker  38:22  
let's know they don't. We didn't have a winner. Nobody's emailed yet, but it is already out.

Lonnie Preis  38:26  
Just say it. Well, we can give it away. Coach, if he knows it. Coach, Lobdell has given you all the answer to go on there and win a prize. Four strikes in a row. What do you call that? You know? Three strikes is a turkey. What's four? Okay? He doesn't know. No, don't say it, Coach, I know you know. All right, thank you all for being here. We're gonna roll the tape, we're gonna bang the table again, and on the count of three, we're gonna go.

Speaker 4  38:48  
123, go, cougars. All right, thank you all for being here. It's been great, Coach Dan, Coach Lobdell, love the energy you brought today. Thank you all for being here until next time.

Speaker 1  39:01  
123, go. Cougars. You.

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