[Hip-hop music.]
- You want to hit first?
- Yeah, we could hit.
You want me to hit it for real?
Ooh!
- He says for real,
so I gotta speed it up a little.
[Upbeat hip-hop music.] - Big Baller's back, baby!
- Teach me how to shoot.
That puck's loud.
Oh! What the...?
- Oh yeah, that's how quick it is.
- Ooh. You're gonna be a cowboy, Nate, after this. Look out.
- I'm learning.
"Houseguest." Let's get it.
[Upbeat music.]
All the way in Louisiana,
I had to pull up on Miss Jennie Finch.
Professional softball, one of the GOATs, one of the greats.
I mean it's a lotta land out here,
so trying to figure out where the crib is.
- Hey, hey, hey, hey!
- Oh. See, look.
- This is it, right here. - I done walked past the crib.
- We're kinda crazy,
we live in a metal building.
- How are you? - Good, how are you?
- I'm good. - Welcome to the South.
- Thank you for havin' me.
How you been? - Thanks for coming.
[Heavy hip-hop music.]
[Country hip-hop music.]
- Let's break out some sweet tea
and gumbo. - Sweet tea?
Oh, let's get it! - Let's go!
Yes, we're in the South. - Yes,
when you come from the South,
you definitely gotta have the sweet tea.
- Welcome. - Thank you.
[Country hip-hop music.]
- How did a Cali girl
end up all the way in the South?
- I know, right? You're tellin' me.
[Nate laughs.]
- That's what love will do to you.
- It sounds like you got ... like you say "y'all,"
so you got the accent for sure now.
- Yes.
- How you like it out this way?
- I love it, I love it.
So my husband was born and raised
right here in Sulphur, Louisiana,
and I knew I wasn't gettin' a Southern boy
to Southern California, [Nate laughs.]
- You had to come here.
Oh, O.K. - That wasn't happening,
yes. - Sacrifice.
- So here we are.
- Nice, it's beautiful. - Yeah.
[Soft guitar music.]
So this is the play area.
- Play area. - This is where
it all goes down. - This is where
I will be at,
for sure. - We spend....
- Trampoline,
full-court basketball court. - ... a lotta time in here.
- So do you pitch with your son?
Your son get hits off you? - I do, I do.
I haven't thrown full-out, but I keep him humble.
[Subdued hip-hop music.]
- What was that like, winning the national championship?
- It was the best, a dream. And that's one of the reasons
why I wanted to go to Arizona,
'cause I think they had five national championships
at that time. So, you envision that's what you want to do.
- Yeah, facts. - You want to compete,
you want to be the last team standing.
And 3,500 people came out to watch us play
pretty much every game and, you know, you walk around town,
and you're it. And it's like, "I play softball."
- Right.
- First time like, "Jennie, can I have your autograph?"
I was like, "I just pitch, I just play softball."
But in a small town, you know,
they appreciate that, and you can really make an impact
in the community, which was great.
It was my junior year, we had eight seniors that year,
and they would've been the first class
to not win a national championship for Arizona.
Talk about pressure, right? - Oh wow, yeah, right?
- And so to be able to send them off
with a championship. - The right way.
- Oh, it was the best, it was the best.
- Can I bring you out of retirement one time
and see you underhand one?
- Knock the dust off of it?
- Yeah, a little bit.
- We could try a little bit. - Can I get that?
I want to see that.
[Upbeat music.]
- See I want to play basketball,
he wants to hit.
You want to hit first? - Yeah, we could hit.
See that jump shot.
- See I was a post.
- Aw, buckets.
You didn't play?
You shoulda played at Arizona.
- No, no, no, no.
- Yeah, you coulda played. - Oh, I could've.
Well, I like to think I could've.
One of my best friends, who was a sprinter....
And so I would be at the end, take the ball,
and I would just chuck it down to her.
My arm, her speed, every time.
- Oh, so you guys were like the Kevin Love and LeBron James.
- That's right, that's right.
- Kevin take the ball out and just....
Shoom!
Just catch the ball and lay it up!
[Softball thuds.]
- Ooh, strike.
Oh, sweet.
So you telling you me you're not
about to go play in the Olympics?
- No, no!
- Oh my God, they need you!
Your favorite strikeout?
- Ooh!
- Any person in particular?
Like somebody that you're just like,
"I just have to strike her out."
- Everybody.
[Both laugh.]
Everybody! - I like that.
Every strikeout counts, right?
- Absolutely, I hate to lose.
- Oh!
- Keep that front shoulder in!
- Front shoulder in.
- There, look!
- There it is.
[Metal clanging.]
[Laughs.]
- That front shoulder has to stay in.
In front, yeah.
No, no, no - front one.
Yeah.
If that opens up, then you lose it, right?
So front shoulder in, drive through it.
[Ball smacks loudly.]
- Whoo! Yeah!
- O.K., see that?
Good tips.
- Boom.
[Country music.]
- So where we headin'?
- Let's go to the ranch.
- To the ranch.
And what we ridin' on?
- A four-wheeler, we good?
- Yeah, of course - All right, let's roll
- How could you not be with it. I'm with this!
- Got my boots on. Let's do this.
- Let's get it.
So forward, brake.
- Yes. Gas, brake.
If you release the gas you stop, too.
- I have a question. What does that
little ... what's this, right there?
- It's an extra brake if you need it.
But you won't need it, just the hand brake's good.
[Four-wheelers roaring.]
- This is so cool!
This is how you guys ride?
This is sick!
- Across the street.
- Gotta take me to this tour? - Casey's parents.
- I'm driving this on the road.
This is sweet.
[Country music.]
- Right, so this is our future homestead.
- It's beautiful.
Look at this view!
- I know, I love it. This is one of my favorite spots.
So, we're gonna move this cabin to the back
as a guesthouse.
- O.K.
- And then.... - Like the whole house itself?
- Yeah, I dunno how but.... - Y'all will figure it out.
- These amazing people come in and move it, I guess.
- Lift up the whole house.
- And then our house pad
will be right here on the peninsula,
so we'll have 180 degrees of water around us.
And this will be just a massive pond, and....
- So jet skies can fit on this too?
- Well, it's not full yet, so we'll drain it out -
my husband kinda likes his own little aquarium
pretty much, fishbeds and such -
and then we'll fill it back up,
stock it, and be ready to go.
I'm trying to talk him into a zip line.
- Hey, I like that. - Yes, right!
- So then I'll be back for sure, with the zip line,
definitely with the zip line. - This house,
the cabin's yours.
Any time - any time you want.
- The zip line, I need that.
[Upbeat lo-fi music.]
- So this is our guesthouse, if you come back.
- Yes, please.
- This'll be yours.
- Oh, this is cabin-cabin life.
- This is. - For real, for real.
With the animals and ... oh, this is awesome.
- This is my husband's trophy room.
- Collector, huh?
- Yeah, we have a full....
- You got the cool chandeliers.
- Bear mount, that's coming.
And a wolf, he just got a wolf in Canada.
- Oh, word?
- Yes, crazy.
I'm like "Keep 'em at the cabin, keep 'em at the cabin."
[Both laugh.]
[Chill music.]
- Do you have like a most proud moment,
just of your career in general?
- So many. I think just being a female athlete
and, like I said, "Who did you look up to growing up?"
It was the male athletes, because we didn't have a chance
to see them or know who they are, you know?
There's college, then every four years you got to see
female athletes in the Olympics. But there weren't
professional leagues.
So as I got older, I think just seeing females have
an opportunity to excel and play the game
and play professionally in the National Pro Fastpitch
league ... and for me like yes, the Olympics, like for sure.
That's the pinnacle, being able to represent your country,
there's no greater honor.
But being able to like play professionally and put a jersey
on and play during the summer every night,
this wasn't even around when I was little.
So I think every time I put that jersey on,
it was that moment like, "I'm doing this!
I'm out of college, this is my job,
my job is to play softball."
Like, "What?"
- Yeah. - You know?
And I never took that for granted, every opportunity
to be able to play
and then to see just young girls. And I think,
you know, it's cool being an athlete,
and for them to realize how strong our bodies are and truly
physically what we're capable of.
We're capable of so much more than our mind can even imagine
if we just put in the work and we do the grind, you know?
Face the grind....
- It's funny, my daughter asked me one day, she'd just
gone to play basketball, she asked me, she said,
"Daddy, can I be able to dunk like you one day?"
And I'm like "Yes, you can!
Who says you can't?" - Absolutely!
Like, "Let's get to work. You want to dunk?
O.K., let me show you how to do it."
So, it's pretty cool that she's asking me.
- It's not a gender thing. You can do anything.
- Yes, she's asking me how to dunk, I say,
"I 'bout to see if I can really teach my daughter."
I don't know how tall she's gonna be,
but I think if she's able to dunk,
at the height she's at, it's gonna look
unbelievable. So, that's our mission.
- I can't wait to see, I can't wait to see it.
- That's our mission right now.
[Heavy hip-hop beat.]
- Let's go to the stable.
- Let's get it.
[Deep bass music.]
- This is what we call the corral.
So, this is where we work all of our cattle.
We have one Wagyu bull out there, and then
the rest are Charolais, so they're Wagyu, Charolais mixed.
- And then you've got these two beautiful horses right here.
- Yeah!
I heard you want to....
- Get on one. - Get on, let's go!
- Well, it's making me nervous, but yeah.
[Country music.]
- Drew, this is Nate.
- Wassup, Drew? How you doin'? Nate.
Nice to meet you. - Nice to meet you.
- It's a pleasure, my brother. - Yes, sir.
- Names of these ones?
- This one's name is Roach,
this one's name is Spoon.
- Wassup? - Roach and Spoon.
- Put your foot, that foot, in that stirrup.
- Ah, yeah.
Oh, don't run off on me.
- Bringing the cowboy out of Nate, here we go.
- You filming? - Welcome to the ranch.
[Nate laughs.]
- Now wherever you want to go, just point him there
in that direction.
- Ooh! You're gonna be a cowboy, Nate, after this.
Look out.
- Yeah, I'm learning.
I don't know how to go forward.
- Put your hands forward to him.
- Other way, this way. Yeah, that way.
This is cool!
You bring your kids to ride your horses, too?
- Yes, not as often as I would like.
- They like it?
- They love it.
- Oh, he's over here eating. You want to eat some more?
You want to eat some?
- I know, mine tried to snag a little grass.
- Yeah, this is super cool.
[Country music.]
- All right, want to get off these horses?
Let's go get some gumbo.
- Let's go eat.
- All right, let's go.
[Uplifting music.]
- So this is
chicken-and-elk-sausage
gumbo.
- Let's try!
Happy today, thank you so much!
- You're welcome.
- 'Cause we've been working hard all day.
- We have.
- Thank you very much.
- It's been a fun day, thanks for coming.
- Yes, I appreciate you.
Your hospitality's been amazing.
- Just wait for the gumbo. - Amazing.
[Relaxed lo-fi music.]
- The dogs already know where to go!
- Totally, right?
- That's crazy!
- You're on the wrong side of the road!
- Ain't no cars comin'!
- Hey there's no cellphones out here.
Country!
Leave your technology in the city!
[Engines roar.]
[Country hip-hop music.]