Good morning, SANDCAST fans,
And a merry early Christmas to all. We’ll be dropping a podcast early this week, since our usual publish day, Wednesday, will be Christmas morning, and I’d rather not run anything on Christmas day.
After all, there’s the Ravens to watch!
So, on Christmas Eve, you’ll be getting an early Christmas present, which is an episode of SANDCAST, and the first major partner switch of the 2025 beach volleyball season: Tri Bourne and Evan Cory.
Also a Christmas present: We had a listener say that the automated audio ads were becoming a pain in the ass. So we’ve stopped running them. We can’t control them like we can with YouTube ads, so the only ads you’ll hear from now on or those we personally record. Thanks for the feedback, and enjoy the episodes with fewer ads.
The week in SANDCAST Studios
This past week’s podcast featured, for the second straight week, a pair of brothers, these ones the English-Spanish variety: Javier and Joaquin Bello. Kyle Friend and I recorded this episode from the Beach Pro Tour Finals in Doha, so we’re pool-side, cruising, chatting one of the fastest-rising beach volleyball teams in the world:
Tri Bourne and Evan Cory Partner
Every Olympic quad inevitably features a plethora of partner switches. After Paris, this presented many questions: Who would go where? Would Tri Bourne stick with his new guy, Ryan Wilcox? How about the Taylors? Theo Brunner? Trevor Crabb? Where are they headed?
Can’t tell you much about anyone else, but this we do know: Tri Bourne and Evan Cory are the first new team of the 2025 beach volleyball season.
Kristen Nuss, Taryn Kloth Mic’d up!
As part of our growing collaboration with Beach Volleyball World, we have a ton of fun things coming down the pipe. Fantasy beach volleyball? Happened at the Rio Elite16 and the Beach Pro Tour Finals. International podcasts? More of them coming. Mic’d up content? You know it!
We put some mics on Kristen Nuss and Taryn Kloth during their pool play win over Raisa Schoon and Katja Stam at the Beach Pro Tour Finals, and it was as you’d expect: so dang awesome.
Watch TKN mic’d up!
FUN NEWS! SANDCAST and Volleyball TV are partnering up. By the end of the year, the Road to Paris will feature highlights and clips from Volleyball TV to complement the coverage. Better yet: You can get 20 percent off your VBTV subscription if you use the code SANDCAST20.
News Around the Beach
- The 2024 Ultimate Beach Volleyball Gift Guide. Per annual tradition, I made a list of the best Christmas gifts you can get for the beach volleyball enthusiast in your family. Let me know what I missed.
- We’ve got NEW SANDCAST MERCH! Been a long time in the works, and a long time coming. Perfect time to scoop up some Christmas gifts for the SANDCAST lover — if that is such a thing — in your fam!
- Penn State wins the Natty. Bummer that Louisville star Anna DeBeer was out, or this would have been an awesome match to watch. But a big congrats to Penn State, who won its first title in a decade in front of a record-breaking crowd of 21,726 at the Yum! Center. Nittany Lions’ coach Katie Schumacher-Cawley is, unbelievably, the first female coach to win a Division I NCAA title.
- SANDCAST memberships are live. We’ve opened up memberships for anyone who wants to watch full podcast episodes on YouTube a day or two early.
- Coming up on Tuesday!! we have the newest partnership in the land: Tri Bourne and Evan Cory.
Much Love to the sponsors
We’re officially partnered with Better at Beach! Don’t know how this took so long, seeing the massive overlap between our audiences. So if you want to get Better at Beach, use our code SANDCAST for 10 percent off all of their products, from online classes to in-person camps and more.
We’ve been with Wilson Volleyball since day one, and we love the products they make — the best ball on the market, hands down, no questions asked. With season coming up, if you’re looking to get some new equipment, use our discount code: SANDCAST63 for 20 PERCENT OFF.
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Need to get hydrated? Waiakea has all kinds of fantastic deals online, and good news for you (and us), you can get 20 PERCENT OFF using our discount code, Sandcast, at checkout. Aloha, y’all.
SANDCAST is fueled by a lovely mix of three main ingredients: We LOVE to do it, people enjoy listening to it, and sponsors fund our ability to do so. We only partner with sponsors we love, and we are so fired up to have Athletic Greens join the show! And they’re hooking up our listeners with a full year of Vitamin D for FREE, as well as five totally FREE travel packs!
Appreciate y’all for listening, reading, and loving the beach like we do.
Have a great week!
SHOOTS!
Tri and Travis (and Savvy)
