Tosh Show - My Favorite Beach Volleyball Olympian - Phil Dalhausser

Episode Date: November 11, 2025

Daniel serves up questions to one of his sports heroes, fellow UCF alum and Olympic beach volleyball gold medalist Phil Dalhausser.

Hey guys. It's me, Daniel. Do me a solid. I don't ask for a lot, but like and subscribe to this podcast. Also, you could rate it. Highly, I would appreciate. Maybe even write a review. Maybe we'll become best friends. How does it feel to be the best in the world at something? Feels pretty good. Welcome to Tosh Show. Have my son hit him with a hooty-hoo. Woo-de-hoo. More hooty-hoo. Hit him with another hooty-hoo. That's my boy. How you doing, Eddie? I'm doing good. How are you doing?

Well, you ever had those new Arby's steak nuggets? Not at all. I feel like Arby's. I don't want to make fun of fast food because I don't eat it. I get it. They're just trolling at this point. this is this is the most disgusting thing i've ever seen by the way if arby's is a sponsor you shouldn't be okay just turn it off because i i'm about to say awful things it's just gross they're little nugget they're just pieces of little tiny pieces of steak and they have a commercial and they just show them and it comes in like a whatever used fry cup yeah

that they you know recycled and now there's just little things of gross meat Are you supposed to use your fingers? This is disgusting. It's just disturbing that anyone would find this acceptable. It's steak. Can I get it medium rare? Do they allow you to do that at the drive-thru? Speaking of eating disgusting, yesterday, I did the unthinkable.

Okay? What'd you do? I went to a Lakers basketball game. Something that my wife has always asked if I would do. I would take her and the opportunity came to bring someone and I said I'm not going to bring her I brought my son oh I mean I like it yeah they were playing the Miami heat the game was at 630 so I'm like this is a perfect time for me to take my son the traffic won't be bad you know I'm not I'm not going to buy tickets my agent David Sherman called me asked if I wanted to go and I said

hey, I think the answer is yes. That's crazy. My friend, Danny, he came. It was just, it was wonderful. By the way, David Sherman, I believe, he might be Steph Curry's agent, too. And he's from Florida. He went to FSU. That's a little seminal.

Perfect. Yeah, he's a big dolphin fan, too. He still watches the dolphins. Danny and I have almost given up this year. So here's how it went down. We drive there. I have valet parking. So that's going to be easy, except for my navigation system tells me to go down a road downtown

Los Angeles that is blocked off. So now I'm panicked. But I get ushered to a different parking structure. And I'm like, no, no, I have valet. And they're like, sir, that's great. Just go down in this parking structure. You'll go underneath and you'll exit out and it'll bring you right next to the building. I'm like, oh, thank goodness.

Because I was worried sick that I was going to have to park. and then walk in a structure right I didn't right up next to to the stadium I valet I made sure I brought cash tipping valet is always confusing

because everyone tips when they get their car but that's not the same person that drops it off and that's the person that can do some real damage to the car you know they got they they're the ones that you want to make happy I tip when I drop it off and when I pick it up sides you don't do that do you not just pick up I think of they share it at the end. I feel like it hoses. I feel like it hoses the first guy. You say they share it. Give a guy $100

bill and see if he like puts it into the big coffee pot. I bet he doesn't. I don't know. They probably do share it. But anyway, I tip on both sides. I did a, I brought two 20s. The only time I have cash in my life is for valleys. Okay, so I tip. My son and I are very excited. We go into the stadium. We go down. It's always good when you go down. Yes. Ground floor and you go down. down. Now we're in a tunnel. We get to go to a Delta Sky Lounge where there's food. Oh, that's nice. We're just eating. I started simple. I had some spaghetti, uh, uh, sushi. I had spaghetti sushi, a plant-based hot dog, sourpatch kids, Reese's pieces, M&Ms, a hat, a donut half. Uh-huh. It was just, it was the top half of a donuts. It had, they were doing some fancy dessert on it.

Again, I got there 25 minutes early. I got to kill time. Killing time, but so I'm having a full meal. And it was all great. It was all fine. The pasta was delicious. Then we go to our seats.

I'm with David Sherman. You know, it's just nice. It's just fun. And I had floor seats. I was among the elite. I was sitting right next to JJ Reddick. That's cool. I was next to the, I was the first seat past the coach's bench for the Lakers.

Listening in. Oh, my goodness. did I hear stuff and we're sitting there and the players are right next day one of the coaches for the Lakers he's he's a second row coach okay just the whole time just shouting so loud he's just yelling at Luca cook him cook him's way great cook him great direction cook him I'm like okay we get it you like the matchup also had a mark is smart get a technical he went crazy I let my son know Okay, that guy, you know, I'm saying stuff

to the players constantly but I go, we don't say anything to Marcus. Marcus will run our test us. Yeah. We got to keep it cool with Marcus. Here's something, you know, people always say, oh, I worry about the NBA being fixed and we all know that apparently it is, you know.

The poker games are. Depends on who you got on your team, but I personally, I personally found a way to fix the game. Okay. As a Miami Heat fan, I'm sitting there every time out. I'm watching JJ draw plays on his little dry erase board. I take my phone out.

I lift it up and I take a photo. What's keeping me from not sitting there and then texting my buddy that works for the heat on the other bench? This is what they're doing this play. This is good. Why can't I do that? You can do it. Right. Well, I'm just saying what if I could do.

that, and I've got video evidence to show that I could. Right. What's stopping other people from doing this? I mean, maybe there's something on the back of the ticket, but who cares? That says you can't take photos of the plays? This affects David, not you. You're fine. I don't think they can stop you.

I think they need to look into this. Now, did I enjoy... Call him for an investigation. Well, I'm just pointing out a clearly broke system. I mean, if I'm going to be honest... LeBron's not playing Which if you're sitting Courtside and you're right next to him

It kind of doesn't matter You're still getting to see I'm like there there's son There's LeBron I complimented LeBron's sweater I said I like that sweater I was like that's a good sweater No interaction with me This game you watch the Lakers

And you watch Luca And you watch What's the other white dude Austin Reeves? You watch Austin Reeves And you're like Is this what like good basketball was like in the 40s

I'm like this is showtime this is embarrassing they're all flopping they're all complaining about no calls both teams even the heat because Tyler Hero wasn't playing although there's a white person with some swag I mean if you if you told me Luca was a superstar and I didn't know the game I'd be like what that guy's a superstar

like it's not fun to watch by the way nobody was missing both teams were shooting over 50% They had like 70 something at the half Here's what I'll say As a basketball fan So I'm a fan I don't enjoy it Best seat in the house

Oh Most famous stadium I'm still like If you're not paying attention Intensely You kind of You forget the score You wander

Yeah it's like it's not like watch on TV Where the scores in front of you Everything I've just You know I don't need to do it again my wife was so jealous I was like well just watch us

like you'd be happy for your son getting to do something you're probably wondered how my stomach held up yeah that is true rock solid huh it handled it how did it work for my friend Danny not so

he also has he also has trouble so on the way home he lives close I was dropping him off at his house he lives near the Pantages in a high rise Pantages was letting out he's like I I got to I'm not going to make it he was he was having my panic i pull up right in front i roll the windows down my son's in the

back and i just start screaming guys i'm yelling guys out of the way my buddy's got a poop my son is just laughing so hard because everybody's just turning and laughing and looking at us and he jumps out of my truck and he runs through a wall of people that i'm like guys make wave danny's got a poop i kept yelling his name danny's got a poop and they're like oh He just loved it. My son loved it. As soon as he got home that night, he told my wife, that was the story. He told me, he goes, Dad was just screaming at everybody that Danny had a poop.

I like, that's the story he brought back. That's great. Here's another thing. I watched the game. I'm watching these players. And I'm like, oh, when you're up that close, are you just like, look at how big there? No. I'm like, I'm just as big.

I mean, you are 6'4. Right. Nobody there. I mean, like, yes, the sense. are big, but everybody else is just, it's like, I, I feel like I could still play a quarter. I feel like if you put me in for a quarter, I'm, you know, they're going to exploit me as the matchup, but it's not going to be like glaring. Cook them.

Cook them. You're going to need to double team. We'll send help, but whatever. But yeah, they're tall. They don't blow me away. Today's guest, he's a beast. Enjoy. this episode is brought to you by prize picks you and i make decisions every day but on prize

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University of Central Florida alumni, Phil Dollhauser. Oh, thanks for having me. Charge on, huh? Is that what the night say, charge on? Yeah, I guess it's, yeah. Do you ever do this? You see F? When I went there, yeah. You did that one? I never knew which way the C would go. I was always like, oh, I'd better stare at everybody. All right, I just did the intro with my shirt off because I felt that would be nice since you always have to work with your shirt off. I appreciate it. You're welcome. Do you believe in ghosts? I do, yes. You got any proof?

I don't have proof, but I've had, like, I guess, encounters. I didn't actually see them, but some weird shit has gone on in houses I still lived at. You were like in a haunted house? Man, I don't know. It's just weird things, like kitchen cabinet doors opening on them. Well, that happens all the time. Cabinets aren't. It's actually a house up in the hills in Santa Barbara.

Uh-huh. Just an old house and weird things that happen. I don't know. I'm glad I don't live there anymore. Wow. Yeah. All right. you went through it by the way let me just let me set this the foundation here of it i'm a huge fan

i appreciate it just love it here's watch me gush on for a minute i don't know a ton about volleyball and you'll you'll you'll figure that out almost immediately but i mean very passionately we'll watch beach father i've watched you forever just like oh this is it's the best i lived in um south bay for a long time yeah by hermosa beach i would i would get up in the morning i didn't have have a real job. I was a comedian. There's a little donut shop right across from this little park there. The point is, I used to get my donuts, and I would just sit on the strand on the little brick walkway, and I just watch all of the up-and-coming, some pro volleyball players just practice in the morning. Yeah, yeah. Did you ever live there? I did, yeah. For, I don't know,

like three or four years, but I lived in Santa Barbara, and then moved to Ventura, and then a thousand oaks over the mountains here, and then ended up down South Bay. It's just huge. down there the beach volleyball scene it's like the mecca of beach volleyball yeah i always found that weird on the tour when the tour used to be more readily uh available i don't know if it was more popular was it more popular okay fine they'd be like oh you know this week we're live from manhattan beach and then next week they were live from hermosa beach and acted as if that was a big deal like a big difference right yeah yeah that's a six minute walk from one court to the other court The peer to peer is only a mile.

Hormosa capital, Manhattan Beach, not the capital? Other way around. Manhattan Beach is the capital. Yeah. Oh, that stings because Hormosa's always the second fiddle to Manhattan Beach. Manhattan Beach, higher property value. Hermosa, a little more cool, artsy, whatever. Redondo Beach gets nothing.

Yeah. You ever played beach volleyball in Redondo Beach? A couple times, but nobody wants to go down to Redondo. Nobody wants to play in Redondo Beach. Oh, that's a shame. How does it feel to be the best in the world at something? Feels pretty good. I will say winning a gold medal and beach volleyball was amazing. Did you cry during the anthem?

No. But we beat this Brazilian team in the finals and I was not a big fan on one of the players because he's kind of a douche. And we won 15 to 4 in the third set, so we kind of gave him a smashing. And when we were on the podium... Did you win the first set? We won the first set, lost the second and won the third. And on the podium, he was weeping, which made the moment even more special. Did they play the National Anthem extra quick because it was in Beijing? I don't remember. Okay.

Sometimes I feel like they speed through it pretty quickly. Yeah, maybe. You were born in Switzerland, moved to Alaska, and then Daytona Beach, Florida, all before the age of three. Who were your parents running from? Well, my mom's Swiss, and my dad is German, actually. he was kind of bouncing back forth as a chef from europe to the u.s and i don't know he got a job in in alaska you imagine if you would have like your lived out your life in alaska it's a beautiful place we all like

alaska for yeah it would have been terrible oh it would be terrible flor is a little better is there any beach volleyball in alaska i haven't been back since you've never been back no i feel like you should play beach volleyball in the snow they've never done that as like some big tournament There's actually now snow volleyball. There is? Yeah. I don't like this. I'm not a big fan either.

But I have played twice in the snow, once in Russia, and another time in Lake Tahoe. Just a random storm came through and snowed on us. Did you play every sport growing up? Yeah, for the most part. But my main sports growing up were tennis and baseball. What were you in baseball? First base and pitcher. You got fast twitch still?

Or is it gone? Is it all? It's still a little bit there, but not 100%. You went to Daytona Beach High School. Yep. When Vince Carter was, you were a senior when he was a freshman? No, vice versa. I was a freshman.

He was a senior. You were a freshman. He was a senior. Now, I was at UCF over there at that time, and we came to watch Vince play high school basketball. Oh, really? Yep. Yeah. It was a tough ticket to get.

Yeah, you had to wait in line. Mm-hmm. I think we all agree. Black people in general are cooler than white people. his nickname I'm not saying it's a lot better than yours but the thin beast

versus his which was half man half amazing I mean both pretty bad if you ask me I think half man and half amazing was just pretty nice all right

you win did you hate your nickname I mean I thought it was a little cheesy I guess nail on head it was nice to have a nickname I guess I was good enough to have a nickname

you started playing volleyball at 17 yeah and you just immediately took to it Because that's late in life for most professional athletes. Man, I was just kind of a natural. I know it's kind of like a duchy thing to say, but like everything just came naturally to me.

I became obsessed and that's all I did. When I went to school at UCF, they had, I don't know if you were, when you were there, they had four lit volleyball courts, beach courts. And I spent a lot of time out there, cut my teeth, I guess, like getting my reps in. And didn't want to get a real job when I graduated. Did you actually graduate?

I did, yeah. What's your degree in? Business administration. Business marketing. What was your GPA? Just under 3.0. Just under 3.0. Were you embarrassed about UCF when you went to UCF?

No, because, well. You went later than I did. I went at a time when UCF wasn't at the same tiers going to UF or FSU. Sure, yeah. Or certainly Miami. It was known as kind of a heavy commuter school. But then I feel like I changed all of that. and then made it more popular than you, uh, went in there with those, uh, Blair Witch Project kids.

Yeah. So you were in the mid, mid-90s, I guess? Uh-huh. Okay. How long to take you to graduate? Four and a half years. Three and a half. Oh.

Okay. I was gifted. Dang. Is there a beach volleyball program now at UCF? No, there isn't. Okay. This is what has to happen for your legacy. There should be like a full stadium court named after you at UCF.

Oh, that'd be cool. Have you gone back there to do anything? We go watch basketball games. I'm going to become your PR person. I'm in charge of everything now. We're going to make that. UCF, I'll come back, but not until Phil has his own beach volleyball center. Any young talent coming out of Orlando right now in the volleyball scene?

No, Orlando's not exactly a beach volleyball hotbed. I'm trying to change that. We coached juniors there. So you can't play with anybody, can you? No, not really, no. I mean, I could, but it just, the level wouldn't be as high. You really got lucky that you stumbled into volleyball. I did. Yeah, I really didn't.

I mean, where you were in Orlando. I played one year in high school, and my indoor coach was a beach player, and he took us down to the beach. And I was like, oh, this is way more fun than indoor. And then I just stuck with it and worked out. I mean, how good did it feel to get to the top of the mountain, to be the best at something that you loved? Oh, it was pretty cool. Did you feel good about it? Yeah, I did.

I mean, you still feel good about it, I guess. You know, you put so much time and effort into something and for it to work out. Right. Some people don't appreciate it, though. Yeah. They're like, I got close to the mountaintop. And then I was like, you know what? I don't think it's much better up there, so I'm going to stop here.

You won the Michelle Eckers Award. Yeah. You were the winner before I won it. I wanted following you. And Cheryl Hines won it before you. Now, should she have to return hers because her husband has worked diligently to bring measles back to America. Cheryl Hines?

Yeah. Yeah, I mean, it's kind of messed up. Yeah. She's, she's, by the way, what are you more proud of winning your Michelle Eckers Award or Gold Medal from Beijing? I'm going to go gold medal. You're serious? Yeah.

I was honored to receive the Michelle Acres Award, but gold medal is a little better. Where do you keep yours? Because I might have given mine away to a guest. I tucked in, I don't know, wherever all up. my other trophies are. Do you have a trophy room? You have a trophy house? Do you have a trophy storage unit? There's a couple cool trophies you get around on the world tour that I keep out. In Norway, you get like a Viking sword, like a legit sword. And in Switzerland, you get like a big cowbell. So those are kind of cool. So I keep those out. By the way, how hard is it to break up

with your partner? It's like dating. It is. Of course it is. Yeah. It's not easy. I've had some tough conversations, especially like if I, you know, you spent so much time with this person, you become friends with them, and you're like, hey, I'm going to move on here. Because none of them want to leave you. Have you ever been dumped? I have not, no. You've never been dumped. No.

That's probably going to happen. It's good feeling. If you keep, if you keep going, they're like, hey, somebody tell the 53-year-old, we don't want them. We know, you're 6-9, you're all right. By the way, are you 6-8, or you've been 6-8 your whole life, but you thought 6-9 was funnier? No, I'm spot on 6'9. Are you still 6.9? Are you shrinking yet? I think I'm standing up a little taller now because my posture is better.

So maybe I'm 6.9 and a half now, maybe. Were you ashamed of being tall? Were you one of those tall people that walked around? A little bit, yeah, because I didn't like attention and people would always ask me if I play basketball. So I thought maybe subconsciously, like if I walked around like that, I wouldn't look as tall, maybe. I always think it's fine. My wife will accuse me of it. I'm 6-4, and she always like, quit acting like you're so tall.

And, like, because I, like, lumber places. Yeah. My brother teases me, too. He's 6-4. Do you have a good vertical? Not so much anymore. I'm 45, but, uh, back in the day, I was probably close to 40 inches. That's real?

I mean, not on the sand, but indoor, you know, um, but yeah, I mean, I guess it's real, yeah. What's the worst part about being 6'9? Probably planes or fine in pants, one of those, those two things. Those are the two? Yeah. What about bed? You sleep on a cow king? Yeah, we do.

Yeah, we have one. Do you cheat the angle a little bit? No, those are long enough. They're long enough? Yeah, yeah. But, like, if you go to Europe, like, I played a lot in Europe, and those are not cow kings. Those are the size of this table here. Your wife is tall?

She's 5'10. That's a lot of body in bed. Jeez, that's all. Between the two, you might need to go with a custom bed. Your weight. How much did you weigh, let's say, when you started playing professional, like 21, 22 where what was your weight then uh probably like around 190 yeah okay and today i hover in between 200 and 205 do you care about your weight no not really is your body a temple yeah sure do you like

care about every single thing that goes in your mouth man it drives me crazy honestly like if i i can't completely enjoy snickers because in the back of my mind i'm like i probably shouldn't be eating this oh so do you have a sweet tooth i do a little bit i i eat i can't completely enjoy i i don't just constantly. But then again, you've seen me without a shirt on, and you know, it's disgusting. It's not good. People often talk about soccer, tennis, or basketball as the most athletic sports because of how much the athletes are moving. But I believe beach volleyball players blow that out of the water. I mean, you're running in sand for over an hour. Would you say that you're like the most well-conditioned athletes? It does take every athletic ability and you're on an unstable surface

with wind and sun in your eyes, whatever, something, rain, so I think you may have a point. Do you like sand? I don't mind being sandy. It's so annoying. Yeah. I'm a surfer. I don't like, I don't like being sand. Do you like getting dressed after you've been playing on the beach and you're covered in sand?

I usually shower off. Well, I know, but some people don't have a shower right. I'm saying sometimes you've got to, like, go home or something. How many calories you think you burn during a match? Do you ever figure that out? I think it was around 7,800 or so. What do you eat before, like, tournaments? In the morning, like, I don't eat that much.

I don't want to be, but I usually get most of my calories at the end of the day. When do you prefer to play? I want to get it over in the morning. You want to play volleyball in the morning? Yeah. What about a tournament? Your preference would be in the morning? I'd rather, yeah, have two matches, like, say, 9 and 1 o'clock,

and then I have the rest of my day. Otherwise, I'm sitting around waiting to play, and that kind of drives me crazy. What about a night match? You don't think that's cool as shit? shit? Yeah, they're definitely more entertaining because more people are there usually. Do you care about the crowds or no? Not really, no. You don't. You're so... But it's, I mean, obviously, more people out there the better for the sport, so I want a big crowd for that reason. How often are you taking a spike to the face? A lot. Because when I'm blocking, my head's right there, right? And I've gotten a few stitches

a couple times here and... Oh, they bust you open. Yeah. That's tough. What's going on behind your back? I mean, We have plays? Are we just saying who we're hitting it to? Yeah. So there's a little bit of both. We have plays, right? Because it's kind of like a chess match. I don't know how deep you want to get into it. Well, I can get into it, but I guess in my head, I'm like, is it chess or let's be clear, is it closer to checkers? You want to keep the ball up, right? Yeah, exactly. Because when the ball's in the air and the guy's about to hit it, he can see the other side of the court. So he sees the movement of the fender and blocker. So you kind of like try to trick him into hitting it into the block or to the defense.

So that's kind of the idea. I always find it fascinating, i.e., is it rigged, how you can be so dominant in your first set and then shit the bed in the second one. I never understand how the swings are that dramatic. It's like you're clearly better than them. Now you lost. You just won eight minutes ago. Is it that evenly matched?

Like the top teams are like they're not much better than each other right. If you win easily in the first set, you tend to take the first set. you tend to take the foot off the gas a little bit like oh this is going to be easy and then all of a sudden you're down whatever 1917 in the second set and you're like oh shit and probably gonna go three now you have a coach that's there with you that can call time out are they helping you really a good coach can they know what buttons to push or is it actually strategy that they've picked up on they'll pick up something what the other team's doing usually you're cheating basically yeah Yeah, stealing signs.

Is that, is that worth it to steal signs? I mean, do people, how do people? No, like, it'd be frowned upon. Well, how can fans don't do it? They do, and then players get pissed at them. Okay. Yeah. Is there anything from stopping me from yelling out what the person in front is calling

behind their back every time? I mean, eventually someone will say something to you. I'm not allowed to do that as a fan, is what you're saying. I mean, there's no written rule. Okay. Well, then start inviting me to matches, Phil. Okay. I'll start calling everything out.

Yeah. Until it gets real uncomfortable. When did Beach volleyball where you get a point even if you're not serving? When did that change? 2001. Okay. Yeah. Okay.

At least it was during my lifetime of caring about this. Just because I just don't really, I never got the bulletin that it was going to change. Now, did you prefer that rule change? Yeah, because at the same time, they made the court shorter. Okay. That was nine by nine meters and went to eight by eight meters. I don't know meters, okay. Well, I was only in Germany for two years.

Yeah, but, so I have less court to deal with when I'm blocking. You like to hit on two? Not so much. Oh. Yeah. You always serve to the weaker opponent? Yeah. So do they ever serve to you?

Some teams would, because they'd have, like, really good serves. Uh-huh. And passing was never my strong suit. Like, it was the weakest part of my game because no one ever served me. So, yeah, like a team that had really good serves, they would go after me. Your serve, which became the greatest serve ever. wasn't the greatest serve ever when you started, though, right? No, yeah, you put some time into it, you know?

I mean, well, I'm just saying it wasn't like, your serve became, like, fierce. Yeah. By the way, what's the deal with beach volleyball, the tour now? The definition of beach, is that just gone away completely? It's kind of sand volleyball now. Isn't it weird that you mastered a sport that was a sport, but they just changed the surface that it's played on? It's a different discipline for sure.

I mean, how different is it? Well, it's, all right. Obviously, you're on sand compared to hard court, right? Mm-hmm. And it's two-on-two. It's smaller court now. It used to be the same size. It's impossible to cover that much.

Yeah, a little more difficult. To me, it was always more fun. Of course. You're at the beach. Yeah. It seems cooler. It seems cooler. I was always beach volleyball,

and then the Olympics has turned me into a complete fan where I also just love indoor volleyball. And that's probably because of crotch. I was a fan. I was like, oh, look at this. And then he's making the girls like dominant. I got into watching it. Yeah.

I don't know if you know much about Karch. I don't know much about him other than it's possibly the coolest name. Yeah. Karch Kari. He's won two gold medals playing indoor. One gold medal on the beach playing and then coached gold, silver, and bronze for the women. And now he's the indoor coach for the men. When you first got on to the pro tour, was he still on the pro tour?

Yeah, I had the pleasure of playing him a couple times. Win or lose? I won't beat him once and then he beat me probably like I don't know three or four times Another question about the volleyball Where it's at right now Are we over

Is it ump or is it What are they ref? Are we over them? Can we have computers do all of this? I think we're pretty close Actually Like now they have the big tournaments They have like video review and stuff

But it seems so simple Like it's just so many few things It's not like football Where there's a bazillion things going on Like a net touch Or touching off a block or something. The end.

How many tournaments do you think, do you have any that you can think of where it's like a bad call cost you the tournament completely? No, I can't think of nothing. You ever punch a ref? No, but my old partner, actually, he had a little bit of a temper.

And he didn't agree with the ref. And his next set, he turned and tried to hit him off, he hit the ball at the ref on the upstand. He missed. Thankfully, because, like, if he would have hit this ref and the ref humbles off the stand. Right. Then he would have gotten what he wanted. Yeah.

But he got the biggest AVP, which is the Pro Tour, fine ever as a player. And that was $5,000. Oh, it was only $5,000? Did you pay it for him? When you're a partner, do you split the prize money 50-50 even though you're doing the heavy lifting? You know, I do. I mean, that doesn't seem fair. that's like bands that share

like the drummer gets the same pay as the lead singer it's like I know that band's gonna break up who was your least favorite partner go ahead that's tough like my you don't have to answer that I will answer that two partners that come in mind they're both a little shorter

and both were angry and they got angry at me a lot even though you just said yourself I did most heavy lifting and they still got angry with me but Todd Rogers and Nick Lucentum oh man you're 45 You kind of said this was going to be my swan song year,

but you did pretty well, and you're saying, I'm probably going to go again another year. This is my gripe with athletes, and I want you to hear it as a fan. All right. Okay, fucking shut up and just play as long as you want. Yeah, you're right. And keep going.

Hey, I learn and listen. Just keep going. If two years go by and you're like, oh, I want to play again, I say do it if you have the means. Yeah. It's better than anything else you're going to do. Yeah. I mean, it's so fun.

I messed up. How much of your Olympic career did you spend answering questions about Walsh and Misty May? I mean, I definitely answer a few questions about them, that's for sure. Are you friends with them? I know them pretty well, yeah, more Kerry than Misty. That's, I think, what it was that became the perfect storm for why I became obsessed with watching it, was because you came along at the same time that they popped, and it was like we were just so dominant as a country, and I was like, oh, this is fun.

Yeah, this is fun to watch. I mean, they were pretty darn good. Hold on, let me, I'm curious about something real fast. This shouldn't take me more than two seconds to my wife. I just got to ask her one thing about a volleyball player that grew up in Florida. Hello? Hey. Oh, don't say hello like that on the edges.

Hello? It's just. Hello? Yeah. Oh, I've just gotten to soccer. Hi, honey. Hey, sweets. Oh, that's how we talk.

Hey, who's that girl you know, grew up with that went to the Olympics for a volleyball? Youngquist. Brooke sweat She became Brooke sweat But she became Brooke sweat But she was Brooke Youngquest Okay that's all I wanted

I'll talk to you later I'm here with Phil You want to say how to Phil? Okay hey Phil Hi Phil She's a Florida gator Ah Yeah

I know Brooke You know Brooke I do yeah Carly went Grew up with Brooke Let me tell you something else too I just The joy that you bring

I love the Olympics It's probably the only time I am faintly patriotic But man It, volleyball really does. They figured it out for the Olympics. It's so, it's so entertaining. Even in Paris, they featured it.

It was like under the Eiffel Tower. They got that this was the main of, yet they can't figure it out year round how to make it like must-see TV. Yeah, it's kind of turning into like swimming or gymnastics, like it's just Olympic sport, unfortunately. I don't agree. I just don't know how to fix it.

I don't have the ideas. Like, if you were to ask me, who would you rather be? Michael Phelps or you, I would say you. Like, that's a clear winner. Yes, of course, he's the most decorated athlete of all time. But swimming, it's like I get it.

You were the fastest in the water. That's not entertaining. I mean, it is on some... I cheer. Don't get me wrong. I cheer from Michael Phelps. Just saying. Probably way more money than I do.

Listen, let's talk dollars. Okay. AVP tour. You're in the top four teams. What kind of living can you make? So right now, I mean, I don't know how far you were to get into this but they change like the tour a little uh into like a league okay NBA so they only take the top eight teams into the league men and women and then with that you get two other

tournaments so like all right say you win the two tournaments you don't make it past the first round in the in the league in playoffs then you probably are making 40,000 dollars in prize money somewhere around there for just that one tournament for the whole for the whole year yeah for the I didn't want to hear that. Yeah. But that's, all right, so the top teams, they go play internationally, which has a little more prize money, but not that much more. Okay, but that's prize money. So then if you offset it with sponsorship, I know. It's not great.

It's not great, but it's not. I mean, you can make a good living, yes? Yeah, I mean, prize money is way better in the 2000s and 2010s, but lately it's just kind of gone downhill. We'll be right back. Why did I decide to try the perfect gene? Simple, they paid me to try them. They've also taken the pain out of online ordering, which also really didn't affect me. Turns out it was a good decision. The perfect gene has redefined what genes can be.

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because I have a problem with this. Okay. Every time I watch the Olympics, are you just laughing at my stupidity? No, no, no. You're entertaining. Every time I watch the volleyball in the Olympics, I get so furious because there'll be some,

I don't want to speak out, there'll be some random country, and I, like, oh, look, both of those players are U.S. athletes, but they fucking got grandfathered. By the way, some, like, guys that couldn't make the U.S. squad knocked out the U.S. squad in Paris. I forgot who they were

But there were some country that just loopholed them in and said you're now citizens You know what I'm talking about Qatar? Yeah sure Guitar they do some shady shit So could you do that

Can you just go to another country So they actually just stopped that rule So you can't do it anymore Well that's good I missed my window window What about Switzerland I think could you go back For your home country and play for them?

I don't think so Not why not Are there better Switzerland players than you Well I probably could make the team but, like, just because of the rule, because I played for the U.S., I can't play for another country. Okay, all right. I'm just trying to get you back.

I want you to play in L.A. because it's kind of, that'll be a fun one. You need at least a role in it. You know, you'll be courtside doing whatever. I don't know if TV's my thing, you know. How many Olympics would that be, that'd be five? Five, yeah. There's no scenario where you're going to, like, try to find a way to get into the 28 Olympics.

Oh, man, it would be, like, I'd have to go play, like, these small tournaments in like Asia and like to get points and it'd be like a whole thing so yeah i mean it's it to me it's it's like the end of an era for me then i don't want to close this this book yet you're my you're my pete sampress oh you know that's a good name top gun maverick be honest how pissed were you that they played beach football instead of volleyball like that's a goddamn thing did you see the new top gun no i did yeah yeah okay and the iconic scene is beach volleyball They replaced it with football, and we all know the only people

that bring a football to the beach are assholes. We've learned nothing from point break. I agree. It should have been beach volleyball. But they're so bad at it, so it makes it look a little kind of stupid. You're telling me the sexy beach volleyball scene from the original Top Gun is not good volleyball.

Pretty bad. Oh, a bubble burst. Like, I mean, couldn't they get like a body double in? I mean, at 5'7, Tom Cruise is not going to look good on a volleyball court. Yeah. In the movie Castaway when Tom Hanks names the volleyball Wilson, did that moment put beach volleyball on the map?

I hope not. Beach Kings. Is that your favorite movie? Oh, my God. Do you love it? This is the worst movie. You, come on. Actually, okay, my partner at the time,

his friend was a producer. And he was like, hey, you got to do a, a favor for me and do this movie and I was living at Santa Barbara at the time so I had to get up early drive all the way down to Hermosa and we shoot this couple scenes or whatever I'm like this is the dumbest thing ever and I was like all right at least I'm going to get paid a couple bucks so I get paid like I think like 500 bucks and the check bounced whoa yeah the Beach Kings check bounced no I still want that money whoever you did never got paid for Beach Kings this is this is this I tell you what, I'll boycott the movie now.

I appreciate that. Have you had a shaved dome your entire career? 2003, I did not. And then I shaved it. Was it beautiful? Was it long? What'd you do? Ah, I held onto it way too long.

Listen, I was going bald at 25. And I just started, I started doing all the stupid stuff, the propitia, the Rogaine. I did everything. I was like, and then once I got money, I was like, watch this. I'll fucking fix it. You're back. That's maybe what we should do. Right now, you should just do all the Hollywood procedures

and then just get a huge thing of hair. But it hasn't worked for LeBron. No. You're better looking in person. Oh, I'm going to say. I appreciate it. I got Jason Statham. How often do you go see a dermatologist?

Once a year. You ever have any scares? No. You have any serious injuries, surgeries? I had a blood clot in my shoulder, actually two months before. the London Olympics, which was kind of bad timing. But that was, like, the biggest injury I've had, I guess, if you want to call it an injury.

Is sand, like, actually helpful for the joints, all that jumping on it? Yeah, compared to indoor 100%, yeah. The endurance you must have. You train constantly year-round? Not so much anymore. Good. Yeah.

But, like, when I was, like, playing the World Tour, like, four or five times a week, and, you know, gym, four times a week. It's just gruel. What about the bottom of your feet? pedicures? No, they're all calloused over. You have any feeling in your feet?

No, not really. Can you walk on like the hottest shit ever? Yeah, I can't actually. Are they gross? Are your feet gross? They're pretty gross, yeah. Mm, all right. I mean, I figured they'd be gross.

Yeah, they took a beating over the years. Do your forms have any feeling left into them whatsoever? Well, you get kind of used to... The sting? Yeah. I never did. Well, that's why I didn't play. It was like it hurts.

First practice of the year would sting a little bit, and it'll go away. Everybody that's on the show gets gifts. It's just stuff that lays around my house, okay? Okay. This kid super made these for us. That's a toss show hat. Oh, nice.

Oh, you're going to love that. Thank you. This company sent me stuff. I don't know who they are. Do you know who Space Coast Board Riders Club is? I don't know, but they sent me some like this stuff. It's no good. Extra large is way too big for me.

I don't like a large, but I don't like it. So get rid of that. Okay. Then I wanted you to have my, get that off my, throw that on my, you don't want me to do that. Then I wanted you. you to have my UCF baseball jersey. Oh, nice. This is from my time playing baseball at UCF.

I'm going to sign that for it, and I want you to take this Tosh jersey home. Okay. Do you ever watch UCF baseball? No. Oh, me neither. You're going to love that. Oh, thanks.

Then I wanted you to have my UCF singlet. If you ever wanted to wear something around the house, just to make the wife laugh. You'll have fun with that, too. Oh, wait, wait, I forgot this. My wife has horrible posture. You said your posture has gotten better. She has this weird stupid pillow that she just lays on all for her neck

Yeah, I don't like it I can't I'm always picking it up it's gone This is I get so much free stuff and I do the same thing You just give it to everyone yeah I don't want it you don't want it of course you don't want it Get it out of the house One of your hobbies is disc golf yes my question is seriously Yeah I never was a big in the disc golf world they call it ball golf I was never a big ball golfer. I refuse to do that. That's like calling indoor volleyball, indoor volleyball versus just it's volleyball. No, I hear you. But the disc golf world is kind of nerdy, you know.

Yeah, it is. Do you have like a bunch of clubs? Sure. Yeah, yeah. It's actually, I mean, we're going to get some nerdy stuff here, but they actually have all, you know, they fly differently. Yeah, oh, I know. Yeah. I mean, I understand what a putter is. And you, yeah, yeah. But first of all, are you good? And second of all, can you throw a Frisbee a mile? I'm okay, and I throw it pretty good, I guess. You do have a long wingspan, right? Yeah. It's like not proportion to your height. No, it's 6-9, exactly. Oh, it is? Yeah. Oh. Yeah, they're just, my arms are long and skinny, so they look long. I thought, I got bad intel. Yeah. I thought they were seven feet. You play ping pong? I do. Tennis. I grew up playing tennis. Pickle ball. I haven't played

yet. You haven't played yet. You stick your nose up at it, don't you? No, I don't know. Okay. I'm not, uh... You'll try it, then. Yeah, yeah. Oh, you'd be a monster at pickleball. You'd be a monster. None of these things I can do, just so you know. I just love watching him.

But a tennis, uh, do you care about tennis? I, not so much anymore until once, uh, Federer and Nadal and all those guys kind of... Okay, well, let me welcome you to the new crop because they're entertaining. Alcarez is legit. Yeah. You get, out, he's fun to, it must see TV. But Yonick's center, tall, lanky, too thin, busted for steroids. right got a slap on the wrist wasn't suspended like like he should have because he was the number

one player in the world anyway i saw him young i was like he's too he's too thin to be the best now he's the best in the world but pop for steroids this brings me to my question to you steroids on in the volleyball world there's never as long as i've been playing there's never been someone that's been popped but there have you get tested oh yeah okay yeah yeah a couple brazilian players have been tested positive but then And they got kind of like a slap on the wrist as well. Hmm. Your parents, were they super proud of you?

No, they told me to get a job. No, no, no, I'm not talking about in the beginning. Oh, yeah. My parents told me, I had, they said, we'll give you three months to see if this comedy thing works out. That was what they told me. And then just go back and get a job. And I was like, all right, three months seemed fair. I had a similar conversation with my parents.

I was like, give me two years. Okay. Yeah. And in my third year on tour, I won my first pro event. But once you started shining, was it the best thing in the world for them? No, my dad was like, hey, you owe me $2,700. Now that you're making some money. But how about it now?

No, yeah, 100%. They were, like, proud of me. Do your kids know that you're the best? They know now that I'm good at beach volleyball. Because the other kids know, their friends know. Yeah. My kid, he'll talk to other kids. And they're like, and like, you know, my dad can beat up your dad.

And it's like, but my kid's like, yeah, but my dad's funnier than your dad, so. You like being a dad? I do, yeah. Your kids are 11. 11 and 12, yeah. Well, awfully close in age. Yeah, 14 months, we, for a minute there, we were, uh, you're like, this is the window. Let's have children.

Yeah, we fucked up. But now they're like, they're buddies and so they're, it's all good now. Are they giants or no? My daughter is, her body is like same as just all limbs and tall. But my son, he's a little over average. but nothing crazy. Will you be upset if your son is short? No.

This is a conversation I'm having my wife right now. I'm tall, she's short, and my son is short. And I'm like, what are we going to do? She's like, I guess we still have to love them. Yeah. You think you'll ever not play volleyball? When I'm done playing professionally, I will not. I mean, I've coached juniors, so sometimes I'll, like, hit around with them a little bit.

But that's on women's net and I don't jump. But, like, to go play for fun, that wouldn't be. huh what about what about what carch is doing you think you'll ever go that route i mean the indoor or the indoor route like i don't know much about indoor really i mean but but coaching in general there's just not enough money really to do it i would do it a professional team it'd be fun but like i would have to travel a lot and i get it yeah dude do you hate traveling now have you got a big fan i'm not a big fan i despised it yeah i mean after a while 20 years of it and i was like okay yeah yeah Well, Phil, thank you very much for being on the show.

Thank you. I appreciate it. Yeah. Well, anyway, I want to thank Phil for being on the show. What a delight. UCF. Two UCF boys. Hang it out.

Just sitting there riffing. He was setting them up. He were spiking them. Spiking them down. We were going on too. These are just terms I learned. Anyway. All right. Let's go. What is it? Next week is the announcement for the big tour? Wow. I cannot wait for this tour. I know you're excited. Yeah, you're a ball energy. Trying to find love for my wife's cousin Amanda. Yeah.

You got some new voicemails? Yep. Let's hear him. It's Josh. It's Tyler from Pittsburgh. I figured my fiancé was going to be on her lunch break. So I called her and asked what she. We thought on adding a potential horse girl into our family. Honestly, she didn't take it well at all. And she asked why I even thought it was okay to bring that up to her. So I probably shouldn't have done that. I think it's funny that you did. And you realized it?

That's a good sign. Yeah, he was wanting to see, hey, am I engaged to somebody that gets it? And you're not. Maybe if it doesn't work out with your fiancé now, You can dip your toe into the horse world. Come on over. Come on over. Saddle up.

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Just nails it. Says he has no horse experience, but he says howdy. He did, yeah. That's good enough. I think if you say howdy, good enough. Yeah, that's horse experience. That'd be fun to have a pilot in the friend group. 6-4, balding.

We're like the same person. Or he said 6-2 balding. 6-4. He said 6-4 balding. 2-90. Good, then neither one of us are going to see each other's bald spots. We're like looking eye-to-eye. Yeah.

I like this guy. Maybe he works out. All right, see you next week.