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Rici Perdue is headed to the National Special Olympics ! · Aired Out

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  Speaker 1: a lot to talk about this morning. I have Ricky
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  Speaker 1: first off, man, very good morning to you. I'm so
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  Speaker 1: happy that you're here, dude. Thank you so much for
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  Speaker 1: coming in here you will and being part of this
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  Speaker 1: experience here it aired out. I think I've known you
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  Speaker 1: now for quite a while.
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  Speaker 2: Yes you have.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, How old are you? Man?
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  Speaker 2: I'm forty two?
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  Speaker 1: All right? You have some really big news that's coming.
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  Speaker 2: Up, Yes, I do.
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  Speaker 1: Can you please do share?
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  Speaker 3: I am going to go to Minnesota in June and
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  Speaker 3: I'm gonna compete to too much backing Field.
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  Speaker 1: For the twenty twenty six Special Olympics.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, you say game.
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  Speaker 1: Holy crap, dude, how did you How did this happen?
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  Speaker 1: How did you How did you get to the position
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  Speaker 1: where you're you're headed to Minnesota.
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  Speaker 3: I've been facting almost every day by myself, and I
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  Speaker 3: did my dragon field around here to compete, and someone
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  Speaker 3: saw me how good I was, and.
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  Speaker 2: They told the big boss up the USA.
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  Speaker 3: Game, and and that's why I pick on one of
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  Speaker 3: the three here's going around here to go to Minnesota.
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  Speaker 1: One of how many three?
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  Speaker 2: One of the three here?
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  Speaker 1: You are one of three? Yeah, from here, from from Vermont. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that it's going to Minnesota. Yes, for the national Games.
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  Speaker 1: That's good, dude, that's a really big deal.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, it is.
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  Speaker 1: For me.
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  Speaker 3: I'm gonna Nova and inside at the same time we've
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  Speaker 3: been in Minnesota.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. So so, Ricky, you said you're forty two years old. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: you're you're gonna be doing track and field. Yes, running okay, uh,
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  Speaker 1: hurdles or anything like no, just straight running, just running.
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  Speaker 1: How long have you been running? Like high school before that?
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  Speaker 3: I did when I was in high school and after
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  Speaker 3: the ice Yeah, I did run when I was in
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  Speaker 3: high school and then when when I've done high school.
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  Speaker 3: I stopped for a little while, and then I look
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  Speaker 3: at my my year, my my yearbook, and I look
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  Speaker 3: at one on my page, my year bug. And one
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  Speaker 3: of my teammates, right somembdy said, you need to keep
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  Speaker 3: keep running, So I keep after I keep running.
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  Speaker 2: Stands, I haven't stopped.
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  Speaker 1: Oh do you run every day?
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  Speaker 2: Almost every day?
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  Speaker 1: Okay? So where where are you running? I ran from Williamstown?
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  Speaker 2: That's cool?
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  Speaker 1: Right? So where where do you run all over the place?
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  Speaker 2: No, I have a I have a route.
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  Speaker 3: I can go by myself, So I go wherever I
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  Speaker 3: want to go?
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  Speaker 1: All right? And how far is this route here? What
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  Speaker 1: are we talking about? Like a mile?
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  Speaker 2: Almoll? Look, I do like ten miles from uh one way?
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  Speaker 2: And then go back to that. I went to, yes, ten.
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  Speaker 3: Miles, ten miles? Yeah, well I could do more than
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  Speaker 3: ten miles if I feel like it.
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  Speaker 1: Really? Oh yes, that's crazy, dude, I know. Mom. So
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  Speaker 1: do you know how long it takes you? Do you
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  Speaker 1: do you time yourself?
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  Speaker 3: I do will take me probably, I'm gonna guess maybe
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  Speaker 3: two hours. Okay, Well marry less if I don't stop.
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  Speaker 1: Do you do you push yourself? Do you push yourself
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  Speaker 1: each time? Do you do you like, say I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to try for an hour, we're in fifty three minutes.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, sometimes I do that, or sometime I push went
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  Speaker 3: out to see how fast I go up that steep hill,
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  Speaker 3: or some day I metroides. I spent myself all the
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  Speaker 3: way down to steephill.
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  Speaker 1: So how did you get how did you get started?
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  Speaker 1: In running? Though? Like? What? What? What was the beginning
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  Speaker 1: of this? Where were you?
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  Speaker 2: Like?
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  Speaker 1: I enjoy this?
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  Speaker 2: We you?
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  Speaker 3: I went to school with after you three two and
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  Speaker 3: one of the person who were doing track and field,
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  Speaker 3: and he asked me to join the track and field
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  Speaker 3: with them. I said I need to talk to my
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  Speaker 3: mom about it first and see that could be okay,
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  Speaker 3: And she said yes, So that's why I shown. That's
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  Speaker 3: why I joined that that CST cattering team. And I've
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  Speaker 3: been running since after that.
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  Speaker 1: Wow. Yeah, whuldn't you graduate from U thirty two and four?
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  Speaker 1: All right? So that was wild though? Yes, and you've
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  Speaker 1: been You didn't just say okay, uh, done done with
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  Speaker 1: high school, done with running? You you just kept on going. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: holy crap, are you fast? Are you pretty fast?
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  Speaker 2: Yes?
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  Speaker 3: I am very fast. I tried to come out of
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  Speaker 3: my sister to with me and she can keep up
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  Speaker 3: my pace. So she tried to run, but she can't
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  Speaker 3: do it.
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  Speaker 1: Do you bring your pace down to uh whoever is
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  Speaker 1: running with you? Or do you just try to do
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  Speaker 1: that's crazy, but it's kind of harme with something.
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  Speaker 3: If someone want to run behind me or beside me,
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  Speaker 3: kind of diffic.
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  Speaker 1: It's a pain in the ass because they're not staying
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  Speaker 1: with you.
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  Speaker 3: No, and I need to try to slow down. I
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  Speaker 3: need to wait for it if they need to catch
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  Speaker 3: up to me.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you don't want that, No, Yeah, of course that's awesome, dude. Listen, man,
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  Speaker 1: I'll tell you right now, there are so many people
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  Speaker 1: that are really excited and happy for you. I mean
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  Speaker 1: pretty much everybody at Washington County Mental Health Oh yeah,
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  Speaker 1: is freaking out about this. I mean they're just so excited, dude.
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  Speaker 1: You know. And and then you got You've got all
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  Speaker 1: your your your fans, Oh yeah, you get your family,
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  Speaker 1: you got you got so many friends. I know, this
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  Speaker 1: is going to be amazing. So all right, let's see here,
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  Speaker 1: I pulled it up. Uh, it's going to be one
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  Speaker 1: of the biggest sporting events in the country. The National
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  Speaker 1: Special Olympics competition competition June twentieth through the twenty sixth.
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  Speaker 1: That's like really soon here, dude, it is I mean
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  Speaker 1: you know that. Yes, that's really that's coming up fast.
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  Speaker 1: Twin Cities, Mini Pless, Saint Paul, Minnesota. Yes, ever been there? No,
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  Speaker 1: I have not. The events are primarily going to be
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  Speaker 1: at the University of Minnesota and the National Sports Center
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  Speaker 1: and plane more than three thousand, three to four thousand athletes.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yes, but diffend uh dippen, who are going to
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  Speaker 2: be there from.
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  Speaker 1: All fifty states? Yes, this is amazing. What else do
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  Speaker 1: we have here? Volunteers in nearly twenty Olympic style sports,
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  Speaker 1: the volunteers. Where do you see this? Ten thousand plus
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  Speaker 1: volunteers are going to be part of this to pull
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  Speaker 1: this thing off. Yes, that's not real man, And Vermont
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  Speaker 1: is going to be well represented. You said it's going
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  Speaker 1: to be you and three others, three other from Honors.
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  Speaker 3: And more people from beside me. There could be a
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  Speaker 3: lot of people from using game beside me who are
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  Speaker 3: doing dragon field. There's a couple people who are doing swimming.
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  Speaker 3: There's a couple of people who are doing basketball and
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  Speaker 3: they are team fromont So yes.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so that's really cool. From Mont's got its own delegation.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yes, wow, the coaches, the volunteers, I mean, everybody
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  Speaker 1: that's involved with this is really something else, and especially
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  Speaker 1: those that are representing the Green Mountain State on the
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  Speaker 1: national stage. Are there any coaches or anyone that you
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  Speaker 1: want to give a shout out to.
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  Speaker 3: I'm just shout out to all my coaches from the
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  Speaker 3: high school. Old coacher who did help me compee with
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  Speaker 3: dragon Field around here.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so yes, do you know any do you want
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  Speaker 1: to mention any of their names?
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  Speaker 3: M yeah, I get to name two of them from
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  Speaker 3: the high school on Monk chaulnn and goat the topping.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, I'm just I'm just trying to get some ticket
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  Speaker 1: information here too. I'll post this all up. But the
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  Speaker 1: opening ceremony could be a major, major deal. Yes, Demi Levado,
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  Speaker 1: I heard, I heard She's gonna She's gonna do the
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  Speaker 1: opening ceremony. Yes, that's freaking awesome, dude, along with John Batiste.
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  Speaker 1: Huntington Bank Stadium is where that uh, that opening ceremony
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  Speaker 1: is gonna be Ever been a big stadium like this before?
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  Speaker 2: No, I have not.
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  Speaker 1: It's gonna be loud, Yes, it's going to be amazing.
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  Speaker 1: What kind of butterflies are flapping around in your belly
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  Speaker 1: over doing these events here? You know you're gonna be
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  Speaker 1: running in front of a lot of people, a lot
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  Speaker 1: of people. This is a really big deal man. All right,
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  Speaker 1: I want to know what what kind of running races
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  Speaker 1: you said you're gonna do? Three?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, all right?
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  Speaker 1: The first one is what the four hundred four hundred?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's the hop from not to the finish line.
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  Speaker 3: That's once. And then the Henry you have to do twice,
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  Speaker 3: and whant to track you to pace yourself and make
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  Speaker 3: sure you don't go to different.
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  Speaker 1: Lane.
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  Speaker 3: If you do, you get gudified, okay. And then the
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  Speaker 3: fifty you have to do same thing with fifty hundred
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  Speaker 3: you had to do there's four laps more than four laps, okay,
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  Speaker 3: and you have to make sure you have to pace yourself.
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  Speaker 3: If you don't pay your say you, you will lose
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  Speaker 3: all your energy up to the end.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, these are all very different races. The four hundred
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  Speaker 1: is more of of like a sprint. And will you
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  Speaker 1: have an adequate amount of time to rest up before
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  Speaker 1: you run?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. I had to Wednesday when I get there.
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  Speaker 3: But again I I hope I could rest avery five
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  Speaker 3: minutes to go to my next compete, but again I
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  Speaker 3: don't know.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, and then the the fifteen hundred is is
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  Speaker 1: totally different too. So yes, you want to come out
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  Speaker 1: of the chute, go, you know, get a jump on it.
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  Speaker 1: But then get into a groove, get into a rhythm.
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  Speaker 3: Like you have to make sure you don't go do slow,
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  Speaker 3: don't go way fat. Just try to pace yourself the
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  Speaker 3: whole way to the fish line.
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  Speaker 1: And you you know where that threshold is. You you
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  Speaker 1: you you're paying attention to your body. Yep, you're breathing,
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  Speaker 1: and you know where you're You're your threshold is. You
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  Speaker 1: know where where to go?
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  Speaker 3: I know when my limit is. Yes, yeah, so if
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  Speaker 3: I go really fast, not me.
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  Speaker 2: I need to.
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  Speaker 3: Till my body needs to slow down. I need to
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  Speaker 3: keep my pace down to make sure I don't lose
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  Speaker 3: all my breath, I lose all my energy before the
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  Speaker 3: end on my face.
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  Speaker 1: Geez giving you a shout out here he says you
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  Speaker 1: can run.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yes, he knows that run. Everybody knows that can run.
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  Speaker 1: But listen, I'm gonna be honest with you, Okay, I've
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  Speaker 1: known you for a long time, Yes you have, but
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  Speaker 1: I did not know that you're a runner. No, I
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  Speaker 1: didn't know that about you. And you know this is
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  Speaker 1: what I do know about runners though. Runners have an
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  Speaker 1: incredible amount of self discipline and mind control. You have
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  Speaker 1: to be.
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  Speaker 3: You had to be focused because yeah, again, I I
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  Speaker 3: block all the noise around me and design like fun
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  Speaker 3: of me and behind me and insign me. I if
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  Speaker 3: I hear, if I if I don't hear people the audience,
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  Speaker 3: And you did a good job.
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  Speaker 2: You keep going on. Just look, I just now listen
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  Speaker 2: to all the voice. I just be focused and see
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  Speaker 2: what I need to be I need to do.
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  Speaker 1: So you have to be mentally very strong disciplined because
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  Speaker 1: it's it's a it's a psychological sport running. It's because
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  Speaker 1: you can get things scrolling around in your head. Oh
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  Speaker 1: my god, you know, uh, I'm not doing as well
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  Speaker 1: as I hope to or whatever, and then next thing
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  Speaker 1: you know, your legs are are are showing that. So
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  Speaker 1: you have to, like you say, you have to block
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  Speaker 1: out a lot of stuff, including the runners that are
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  Speaker 1: around you. Oh yeah, and you know this from track
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  Speaker 1: and field? Are you know this from uh?
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  Speaker 3: What?
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  Speaker 1: Do you call it which you did at you thirty two?
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  Speaker 2: What's dug field? And the same?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, what's it called there? When you're running long distance?
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  Speaker 1: When you're running long distance there you were you were
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  Speaker 1: saying that you thirty two, you did that? What is
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  Speaker 1: that called again?
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  Speaker 2: There were almost like, no, what is that?
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  Speaker 1: When they're running cross country?
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  Speaker 2: Yes? Cross country?
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  Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, when you're running cross country.
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  Speaker 2: You have to do the same You have to do
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  Speaker 2: the same thing too.
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  Speaker 3: You have to if someone like if people on on
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  Speaker 3: the side, you have to cheer you on.
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  Speaker 2: You still need to somehow to plug to now, listen to.
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  Speaker 1: People, listen to your body. Yeah, and and not starting
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  Speaker 1: freaking out if somebody passes you. Just stay focused this,
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  Speaker 1: don't get discouraged.
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  Speaker 3: Now and then do you try to do your best
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  Speaker 3: if you can't, if you can't make it to the
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  Speaker 3: French line, at least you try to go to the
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  Speaker 3: French line.
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  Speaker 1: You know what? Do you know why? Part of the
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  Speaker 1: reason why I'm not a runner. We talk about mental toughness.
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  Speaker 3: It's hard for your body because your body is yeah,
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  Speaker 3: saying you're doing different exercises you haven't done before, right.
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  Speaker 1: I would have somebody past me if I was doing
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  Speaker 1: a cross country and I would in my mind, I'd
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  Speaker 1: be going in front of a bitch and then next thing,
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  Speaker 1: you know, you know, I would be slowing down. And
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  Speaker 1: you can't do that.
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  Speaker 2: No, you can't.
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  Speaker 1: You have to stay focused.
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  Speaker 2: And always focus.
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  Speaker 3: If you're doing any kind of events like again, cross
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  Speaker 3: country on the trail and cross country skiing. There's the
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  Speaker 3: same thing. Same thing on with skis too.
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  Speaker 1: In cycling, any kind of especially in endurance sport. Wow, dude,
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  Speaker 1: this is really something else. Three to four thousand athletes
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  Speaker 1: from all fifty states in Minneapolis St. Paul, Minnesota, track
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  Speaker 1: and field, swimming, basketball, soccer, flag football, gymnastics, bowling, golf, powerlifting, volleyball,
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  Speaker 1: and so much more. Amazing. I'll put the official website
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  Speaker 1: up here too. Is this gonna be oh, the official
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  Speaker 1: YouTube channel too. I'm going to drop that in the
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  Speaker 1: comments right here. Do you know subscribing if this is
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  Speaker 1: going to be broadcast anywhere on TV or an thin?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, we got to find out. Somebody will find out
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  Speaker 1: for me. I'm sure Gee will probably. But yeah, he says,
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  Speaker 1: you're very focused on your running. You've been running for uh,
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  Speaker 1: every day for years oh, yes, you ever get some injuries?
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  Speaker 1: What are they? What are they? I'm just trying to
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  Speaker 1: remember from high school here shin splints.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, I have and I haven't. The last I want
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  Speaker 3: did my cross country running on the trail. I this's
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  Speaker 3: when my my back on my leg and I said, oh,
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  Speaker 3: I guess I need to stop. And so yes, I
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  Speaker 3: have insured myselfie forre and I need to listen to
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  Speaker 3: my body.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, it's not easy to do.
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  Speaker 3: But again you need to try to listen to your
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  Speaker 3: body with your body and say you need to stop
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  Speaker 3: and rest.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly. So when you run these uh these ten
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  Speaker 1: mile practice training, Yes, you said you do stop every
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  Speaker 1: now and then I do, okay ten miles. So is
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  Speaker 1: how do you how do you? Where do you? Do
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  Speaker 1: you have? Like water that you're carrying with you?
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  Speaker 2: I did? I drink a lot of before I go,
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  Speaker 2: and I drink a while when I come back.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my god, yeah, I would be drinking water everything
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  Speaker 1: this minute. It's crazy speaking of water. Joe Edson just
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  Speaker 1: commented here saying, JD, you and I would be better
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  Speaker 1: off handing out water. God, is that the truth? How
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  Speaker 1: have your knees been and it's been good.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it doesn't bother me all.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, never had problems with any okay, authritis anything? No? Really, yes,
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: nothing and you're forty two years old. Yes, bro, I'm
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: just saying the arthritis wave is coming. Okay, it's coming.
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: Keep running away from it, but it's coming. Uh So
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: what else do you want to do down there? Like
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: when you're hanging out in Minneapolis, you want to hit
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: some like you want to hit some some bars, some restaurants,
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: some night clubs. What do you want to see? You
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: want to see some night life? What do you want
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: to do?
• 23:31
  Speaker 3: I want to see what was down in Minnesota? But
• 23:36
  Speaker 3: God again, I'm knowing been in Minnesota and when say
• 23:39
  Speaker 3: it was what city it is?
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: What big?
• 23:44
  Speaker 3: Like what con of temperature in Minnesota? Yeah, because here
• 23:48
  Speaker 3: is kind of different than in Minnesota.
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: I have no clue. It could be cold a hot.
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I don't know.
• 23:57
  Speaker 3: I get I have no clue that's going to snow
• 23:59
  Speaker 3: down now. So it's like that, it's kinda different from
• 24:03
  Speaker 3: here to down to Minnesota.
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: You know the Mall of America is there one of
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: the biggest malls in in the in the United States.
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: I know that that's some pretty pretty cool, pretty cool stuff.
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: That's where prince is from. Minnesota. Wow, we got some
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: great restaurants famous for their burgers. Yeah, what is it
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: the lay end of the ten thousand Lakes? I think
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: something like that. Isn't that what they call it? Yeah? Dude,
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: So how do we how do we help out? I mean,
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: I mean what Washington County Mental Health is like? Hm,
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: this guy needs to fundraise a little bit. How do
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: we help out? How do we how do we support you?
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: How do our listeners are our followers here?
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: Dude?
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: Is there like a or a gofund me?
• 25:03
  Speaker 3: There's there's a I should have been a call with
• 25:05
  Speaker 3: me by dinner, but there's uh the backptom that called
• 25:11
  Speaker 3: had my name and said at the email thing to
• 25:17
  Speaker 3: you donate some money for me to sponsor sponsor me
• 25:22
  Speaker 3: to go to Minnesota, and that money you need to
• 25:26
  Speaker 3: go up to and boingt and and.
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: They will they will get it, hopefully.
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: But what we're gonna do when we wrap up here,
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: and I hope everybody is paying attention, I'm gonna find
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: out exactly how people can donate and support you. And
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: we're gonna get that linked up to this episode, and
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: we're gonna push it all over aired out, okay, so
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: that people know. I mean even if they could throw
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: ten bucks in the pot to help you get there
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: and back, airfare and rental cars in all of this stuff, uniforms, everything.
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: This stuff's not cheap, man, No, it's not. What do
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: you want to say to your family and your friends
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: who have been running alongside of you, maybe not literally,
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: but have loved you and supported you and encouraged you
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: and rooted you on.
• 26:43
  Speaker 3: What do you want to say? Just say thank you
• 26:45
  Speaker 3: for I've return me to for me to go to Minnesota,
• 26:52
  Speaker 3: and I thank you for my family and those are
• 26:56
  Speaker 3: thank you for my family here too.
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: So yeah, okay, dude, this is really quite an accomplishment.
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: Oh yes, you must be stoked. You've never been, you've
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: this is your first time, Yes, for the National Special Olympics,
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: your first time. This is big highlight in your life. Dude. Yes, man,
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: I want to be I want to be connected. I
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: don't know if it's deb or Joe, but I want
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: to be connected with somebody and I know they'll be
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: there right.
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: Uh they can take me to you up. I don't
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: know they can know. I don't think all right, all right,
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: I want to be connected to somebody who's going to
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: be able to tell me how you did, like right away,
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: all right, if you placed second, third, first, whatever I
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: want to know. I got to find out who to
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: who to be in touch with so that this second
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: we know. Oh yeah, I want to have that information
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: on aired out. It's fast as possible because I want
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: from what I want for to know. Man.
• 28:29
  Speaker 3: Oh yes, I will like, yeah, I will try to
• 28:32
  Speaker 3: let people know who like my coach or my teammate,
• 28:37
  Speaker 3: or if I have a chance, I will try to.
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: Talk to my mom on the phone.
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 28:45
  Speaker 3: So if I have more if I have more informationed
• 28:49
  Speaker 3: who what place I got? Yeah, but again I don't
• 28:53
  Speaker 3: know yet because nuh down in Minnesota.
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: So I'm just getting I'm just getting ready to go to.
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you focus on that. Yeah, I'll take care of
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: the rest over on this end, making sure everybody knows
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: how the hell you're doing. Man, I mean, uh, look
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: at this. Glenn is saying, go for it, buddy, Joe
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: is saying kick ass. You know, g is rooting you on,
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: show him what you got. Stacy saying, don't forget about
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: the Minnesota Vikings, who the hell cares really really of
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: Vikings gives it. Damn, Ricky, Thanks for coming in here, dude.
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: You love having you in here, and we are we're
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: big fans of you. We're gonna be pushing, pushing this
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: hard and you're just gonna kick ass. Yes, good for
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: you man. Thanks for coming in here, brother. Yeah, I
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: appreciate it very much. And thanks to Joe UH and
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: deb and everybody else that's uh that's on your team.
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: We're on your team too. Bout all right. I have
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: a great rest of your your day Thursday. You do,
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: alright that m hm
• 31:01
  Speaker 3: Yes,