In October 2015, Hurricane Patricia exploded into the most powerful storm ever recorded in the Western Hemisphere in under 24 hours. Twenty-two years earlier, a different storm did the same thing over the Gulf of Mexico, burying the American South in snow nobody saw coming. Meteorologists have a word for what happens when something grows far faster than anyone built a system to track it. Jakyi 'Kyi Kyi' Miles had Division I offers before he started high school. NIL deals before he could drive. He's the top-ranked point guard in the 2028 class, playing for one of the best high school teams in the country, and he's still a kid figuring out what kind of person to become inside all of it. Hurricane researcher Jason Dunion has flown directly into some of the most violent storms on record. He joins Bucket to talk about rapid intensification, the eye of the storm, and what it actually takes for something growing this fast to hold together instead of tearing itself apart. If you've enjoyed this season, we'd love your vote for the Signal Awards: Best Documentary (Sports): https://vote.signalaward.com/PublicVoting?utm_campaign=signa5_entrant_finalistnotification_092926&utm_medium=email&utm_source=cio#/2026/shows/genre/documentary-sports Best Indie Podcast: https://vote.signalaward.com/PublicVoting?utm_campaign=signa5_entrant_finalistnotification_092926&utm_medium=email&utm_source=cio#/2026/shows/genre/indie-podcast Follow Kyi Kyi: @kyikyi_miles Featuring music by @Nasteeluvzyou, our second BeatStars × Bucket Challenge winner Bucket is on Instagram @bucketpodcast · hello@bucketpodcast.com

Signal to Noise | Bonus A nor'easter, a lot of New York pizza, and a lot of courts without nets. Bucket is a 2026 Signal Awards Finalist in Indie Podcast and Documentary (Sports).  Listener's Choice voting is open through October 15th  You Can Vote for BOTH categories here:  https://vote.signalaward.com/PublicVoting?utm_campaign=signa5_entrant_finalistnotification_092926&utm_medium=email&utm_source=cio#/2026/shows/genre/documentary-sports https://vote.signalaward.com/PublicVoting?utm_campaign=signa5_entrant_finalistnotification_092926&utm_medium=email&utm_source=cio#/2026/shows/genre/indie-podcast The next ten days get busy: a storm that grew faster than anyone could measure, a man on a ladder in Queens, and an old friend checking back in. Pressure's dropping.

When we first sat down with Kaylor Buse in Season 1, Episode 3, "The Full Measure," she wasn't necessarily a household name.  She was a high schooler talking about competing + recruiting with a clarity most players twice her age never find: prioritizing the human connection, seeing through the empty promises of the courting process before it had even ramped up for her. Then came winning the Oregon 6A State Championship. A dominant AAU season. The national spotlight. Major offers from the best programs in the country. And now: a commitment to Texas Christian University.  We check back in with one of our favorite guests to find out whether the wisdom she showed us back then held up under the weight of everything that followed, and what the recruiting process actually looked like from the inside. The first of our Check-In Episodes.  Follow Kaylor: @KaylorBuse  @TCUwbb Bucket is on Instagram: @bucketpodcast hello@bucketpodcast.com

There's a kind of wild thing you can only admire from a distance. You can study it, rank it, put its face on a wall downtown, but you can't quite reach it, and it was never going to answer to you anyway. It just keeps moving. Next thing.  Sky sits down with the youngest athlete he's ever interviewed: Jaiyana Bogen-Jacobs, a five-star recruit ranked second in the nation in the class of 2029, out of Campo Verde High School in Gilbert, Arizona.  And something about her sent Sky looking for a different vocabulary to describe what he was watching. That search led to Amaroq Weiss, biologist, former attorney, and senior wolf advocate at the Center for Biological Diversity, and to the true stories of two wandering gray wolves who left everything they knew and walked thousands of miles into the unknown. One found what he was looking for. One went twice as far and didn't. Their journeys became the frame for a conversation about a young player everyone can already feel coming, even though she hasn't fully arrived. This is the Season Two premiere of Bucket, a story about wildness, recognition, and the beauty of something that belongs only to itself. Follow Jaiyana: @jaijai_theathlete2029 Mural art by Antoinette Cauley: @antoinettecauley Featuring music by @RomaBeatz, our first BeatStars × Bucket Challenge winner Learn more about wolves and how to help at SaveOurWolves.org Bucket is on Instagram @bucketpodcast · hello@bucketpodcast.com

You don't know who's listening around the campfire. Bucket Podcast | Season 1 Finale. @BucketPodcast hello@bucketpodcast.com