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

Some players arrive. Britt Prince chose to build. A homegrown Nebraska kid from Elkhorn North — where she led a brand new program to state championships, broke the Nebraska Class B scoring record, and won back-to-back Gatorade and MaxPreps Player of the Year honors. Then she came home to Lincoln. As a Husker, she's earned First Team All-Big Ten honors, a Nancy Lieberman Award nomination for the nation's best point guard, and posted one of the rarest shooting seasons in college basketball — 50-40-90. She leads Nebraska in scoring, assists, and steals. She got better at everything in year two. Every single category. But this episode isn't just about the numbers. It's about what it means to be a builder. Sky sits down with Britt to talk about the invisible work, the program she helped raise, and the state that shaped her. Then we go somewhere unexpected — because it turns out the philosophy of building shows up in the most unlikely places. Curt Arens, Senior Editor of Nebraska Farmer — Farm Progress, talks about what the land asks of the people who tend it. The patience of planting something you won't harvest for months. The legacy of building something not just for yourself, but for whoever comes after you. And Adam Ward — bestselling author, all around great dude, and one of the most celebrated brick artists on the planet — talks about what it means to build something remarkable and let it go. Three different worlds. One through line. Brick x brick. Brick x Britt.  Follow Bucket Podcast @Bucketpodcast Follow Britt @britt.prince23 Follow Adam @peaceandbricks

We said if. Game 7 said yes. This bonus episode is part two of two... an inside look at the conversations happening inside a friend group right now — the texts, the takes, the things basketball keeps making them consider.  Definitely one for the hoop nerds.  Sky talks with Ryan Arel and Cy Benedict — friends who've been thinking about the 2026 NBA Western Conference Finals a little too hard. The basketball is in there. So is everything else. Cy's article: https://cybdellenback.substack.com/p/the-nbas-western-conference-finals

Some of the best conversations happen between brothers who've been talking hoops and life since they were kids.  This is one of those. Sky sits down with his 'brother' Cy Benedict — philosopher, writer, and author of the Substack The Real — and you're a fly on the wall. They get into Cy's recent piece about the Spurs and Thunder, why Wembanyama feels like a breath of fresh air in a league full of optimized everything, and what basketball keeps trying to tell us about the world we're living in. Unexpected audio issues hit, but it felt wrong not to release it anyway — Game 6 of the NBA Western Conference Finals is tonight, and this conversation deserved to exist while the series is still alive. The game has always been a mirror.  Cy's article can be found at https://cybdellenback.substack.com/p/the-nbas-western-conference-finals?utm_source=ig&utm_medium=social&utm_content=link_in_bio&utm_id=97760_v0_s00_e0_tv3