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BONUS: replay of the LIVE Gill Connections podcast from USTFCCCA Convention 2022 · The Gill Athletics Track and Field Connections Podcast

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  blessed. All right.
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  Hey, welcome to you live. Taping of the Gila FedEx
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  connections podcast right here at U STC.
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  A, I don't know how I got talked into this, but it's live tonight
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  fellas and ladies. No bleep buttons, no edits.
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  We're going to see what happens today.
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  In today's interviews here. So the idea tonight is, we are
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  going to have coaches other people in our industry.
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  I've got some awesome, people make treadmills and relay meats,
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  and all that kind of stuff that we're just going to review for.
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  5 to 10 minutes at a time. Just really just have fun right
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  here at the convention here in Denver Colorado.
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  So speaking of relays, we're going to kick this off with
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  still, my all-time favorite track, meet in the whole world.
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  And I'm not saying that just because he's right here, I'll
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  say it all day, every day. And that is we have here.
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  The director of the Drake Relays.
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  I've got mr. Blake Bolden Blake, welcome to
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  the show. Hey, thanks Mike, thanks for.
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  Thanks for having me. Thanks for putting this
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  together. This is really fun and exciting.
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  Yeah, we'll see you in about the two-hour Mark.
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  Yeah. How excited you still, aren't
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  you? Don't have hot tea.
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  I need that with your years with screws, so Blake, kick us off
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  here. As we look into the 2022, u.s.
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  tfcc a convention here in Denver, Colorado, I saw kind of
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  a cool announcement today coming from the Drake Relays, which I
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  thought might have been a little unique, tell us.
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  Yeah. But what happened, which
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  announced today? Thanks.
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  Mike. Well, we're about 58 minutes now
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  from the start of the technical. Symposiums, there are eight
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  sessions for disciplines jumps throws, Sprints hurdles and
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  distance. And in each of those eight
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  sessions, there will be a leader in our industry talking about
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  their expertise and sharing with coaches.
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  So we were able to partner with Sam to sponsor those to support
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  the coaches and coaches education, but also to give an
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  opportunity to share the news that we announced today.
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  And we align this sponsorship with this announcement that
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  we've restructured, the University division of the
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  Drake, Relays with a, a complete focus on performances for those
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  University athlete. Now Heaven compete, not
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  competed, sorry coached the Drake Relays and have an
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  intended, many of them, you know, the athletes.
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  What I love about the track meet is it is athlete focused at the
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  Drake Relays. I mean it's really as a coach I
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  really appreciated how much the athletes will take care.
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  Tell us about this the sounds very double down on athlete
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  since you're here on the competition.
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  Yeah. Those things like clerking you
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  know appropriate call times. You know friendly officiating if
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  that's if they're such a If you can use that adjective for that,
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  noun, we have very friendly officials that are focused on
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  the student athlete experience and that opportunity to compete
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  in front of fourteen thousand fans.
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  And, you know, you can win the Drake Relays, you're going to do
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  a Victory lap and a Champions flag and really celebrate those
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  College athletes. But this is less about
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  celebrating them and instead setting the table for them to
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  maximize their performance. So you know for the first time
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  in decades we've committed to if necessary.
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  Wind reverse 100 100 hurdles and 110 hurdle finals and that's one
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  of many different examples, you know.
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  So we're all detailed all those improvements at Drake, Relays
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  dot-org and that announcement is out today.
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  But and really, what we've really done is some small
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  tweaks, to Sprint, hurdles distance, but really revamped
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  entirely the field of it. So that the jumps the throws and
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  just recently the horizontal jumps in the throes, we're going
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  to take 24 hours. Athletes to an open competition
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  that's down from 32. So what that means is each
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  Flight of the prelims will have twelve athletes, rather than 16
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  allowing these athletes, to give a little bit better Rhythm and,
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  and have less waiting time between these three rounds of
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  premiums, and then nine athletes will go to the final get to get
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  their chance to compete. But more than that were, and
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  adding an Invitational University division, all of
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  those events. So nine athletes.
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  And these we may not even see. Tearful teams.
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  But already some coaches today that have international athletes
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  and National caliber throws particularly long throws excited
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  about the opportunity to come and know that they're going to
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  get six attempts. And this also means we'll have
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  up to 18, Collegiate athletes, getting six attempts, nine in
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  the open and nine in the what we're calling the champion
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  section. You know what I love about this.
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  You know, the Drake Relays is now a hundred and something
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  years old which I love hundred 1313 a love that.
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  At and you're continually evolving, looking to get better
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  every year. Yeah, what drives you to do
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  that? As you sit in the seat that you
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  sit in as the Director of Drake. Relays, how are you always
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  constantly thinking? What's better, how can I
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  continue to make this a better and greater experience?
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  Well, the coaches. I mean, you know, the student
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  athlete is the focus and that's what these coaches do every
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  single day and and they're incentivized to do that
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  financially and otherwise and their focus on getting ready for
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  their conference championships and the national championships.
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  And we Our fans and we as a staff that's what we want to be
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  part of. We want to find not just the
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  Midwest best but the nation's best to come and show off in
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  front of a sold-out crowd. And having these nine finalists
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  in the field events allows us then to to place it more
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  strategically in the meat program.
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  So we've never been able to do long throws on and our Friday
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  night program, or we've got a good crowd and good energy and
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  it's later in the day because the sun sets, and it's just gets
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  gets dark and are throwing sectors.
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  So, for safety reasons, we blew me overthrown on.
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  Friday, and Saturday afternoons or in the morning.
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  So with only nine athletes six attempts, we're talking about
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  getting that done in less than an hour, and it's better for the
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  athletes that they can get in, get amped and then get their six
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  attempts alongside eight other of the top athletes and Country.
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  So I just have one favor to ask of you.
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  I feel like you might have this pull.
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  So my favorite event in the entire world is the shuttle
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  hurdle relay. Yeah, you know, obviously in
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  Iowa, first of all shout outs, Iowa has it as an actual event
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  for your statement. That's right and it's a really
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  famous well attended, well celebrated event at the Drake,
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  Relays can we get that as an incidental, a event please?
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  I just would love we love that. If the big green eyes and I know
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  who else would love it, is the folks over at Indiana State and
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  they do a terrific job because you represent it doesn't matter.
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  Who's in that a bit, don't count out.
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  Indiana state senator Morse, they're in it to win it every
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  year. That's hurdle you.
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  That's right, that's right way. Thanks for being here.
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  You know, I'm going to end every interview tonight with what are
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  you most looking forward to in 2023?
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  I feel like I can answer Answer for you but I'ma let you answer.
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  What are you excited for here in 23 track season?
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  Yeah, 2022 and 2023 this change in University division and
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  really reshaping the college section of the Drake Relays and
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  seeing how coaches respond and then the momentum we get from
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  this day all the way to 20 24, because right now coaches have
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  set their schedules, many of them for 2023.
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  So we're really talking partial squats and some of that.
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  But there's already excitement about the 2024 Drake Relays and
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  that reshaping the commitment. University division.
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  I love it. I love it.
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  We're going. And every interview with a
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  selfie man in here. You were the first in the live
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  event, brother. All right.
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  Thanks man. Comes up.
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  We'll have the next guest coming up here in just two seconds.
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  We're just going to keep rotating them.
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  Through all night, we're scheduled 5 to 7 p.m. but I'm
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  not going to lie. If people are still waiting at 7
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  p.m. I'm here all night.
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  What do I got to do? I got nothing else to do.
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  Except for actually this gentleman actually invited you
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  to do something tonight so I will have to cut it off at some
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  point tonight. So hey, introduce yourself and
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  welcome to the live version of The Guild connections podcast.
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  Treadmills space. I spent 27 years in
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  Intercollegiate Athletics, specifically, track and field
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  Auburn University University of Iowa, Texas Tech, and Universal
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  Tennessee. So in 2018, I transitioned out
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  of that into a new chapter in my life.
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  Professionally personally with my wife and kids and it's been a
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  great transition, but beauty of my job is, it keeps me coming to
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  the convention and track me attend events, like this with
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  you. Yeah, you know, Lane.
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  Were all burn. I know for sure, in the Iowa
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  space, for sure, but I was always impressed with just your
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  breadth of knowledge and everywhere that you have been,
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  you've always had success. I mean, that's just kind of a
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  cool thing about your coaching and your coaching style, talk to
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  us know. There's a lot of coaches that I
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  As someone who used to coach myself, I get a lot of hate.
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  What's it like on the other side?
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  Still involved in track and field but you're not coaching.
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  How was your experience with you?
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  It's been wonderful. I mean, you know, I had an
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  opportunity probably two or three.
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  Years before that when I was at Iowa before I moved to Tennessee
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  and it just wasn't a good time for me personally
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  professionally, but when you boost treadmills called and
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  probably the most difficult conversation I've ever had was
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  with Beth at Tennessee and just letting her know that I was
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  going a different direction, but she was incredible and
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  supporting my decision. Yeah.
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  And it's great on the other side, obviously, I miss a lot
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  about track and field. The energy student-athletes
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  building of relationships with families, but this provides me a
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  I work remotely. So I find the coffee shop in
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  So we really come in and take in the space.
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  We've got a lot of folks who came from a track-and-field
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  Forty, two, forty five thousand dollars, and it's just a lot
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  easier to manage when it comes to fitting it into your budget.
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  I love what you said there. If you didn't use this word, I'm
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  going to put the word in your mouth of authenticity regarding
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  the, hey, there's a guy who did it as a coaching space with
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  this, in that you're talking to coaches with this.
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  You're not coming from just those Al's or engineering
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  I did it right where you were doing it.
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  I love that authenticity from this check know and you know
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  I mean, it's technology. You're going to have an issue.
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  And one of the things that we stand by in that in that
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  And we're going to we're going to diagnose.
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  That's and more importantly, create a plan to get you back in
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  Action because the machine never goes down at the most opportune
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  time sir. And when it goes down, you all
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  you want is to know that somebody's gonna put their
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  And that's that's been our calling card.
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  I think that's a big reason why we've been able to capture a
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  So give me the 30-second version what is the difference between a
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  Yes, I go to the gym. Shred me.
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  What's the difference. Why, what's the 40,000?
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  What's been We're basically using air pressure to create
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  lift and reduce impact so I can put you on there and one percent
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  increments kind of twenty percent of your body weight.
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  I can run you on a treadmill at a speed up to 18 miles an hour
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  at an incline up to 50%. So it's great in the
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  rehabilitation space. It's great in recovery space in
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  the in the sports performance space at 80 miles an hour,
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  you're going to 52nd for the M Speed so it's an over speed
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  training tool for a lot of folks and it's I have never probably
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  why I joined boot. Beltran.
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  You can imagine my wife's dismay when I came and had a
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  conversation at the dinner table said, hey, I'd like to go to
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  boost trade motion where leave a job at the University of
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  Tennessee to sell treadmills and no no just no, just credit the
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  treadmill salesman around the world, but it's just a product,
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  I believe that the product that I know works, and it's a product
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  that you don't have to sell it sells itself.
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  And at that price point. It's, it's not like taking candy
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  from a baby at Halloween time but it's been a much easier,
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  sell weed. Got high schools and NAIA
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  much as the power 5 school selves.
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  Well, I know for people that are here at the convention
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  themselves, you have a boots, they chickened out for all of us
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  online and for a future podcast stuff, where can they reach
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  loose treadmill? Just go online boosts
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  Here we make we have a machine here so coaches can come by and
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  check it out. Run on it.
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  And you know we we've got our event tonight and you're coming
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  too and it was just excited to be here and support the coaches.
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  We know that The challenge, we know the grind, we all lived at,
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  you know, 80 90 hours a week after week after week away from
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  your families. There's a tremendous amount of
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  sacrifice in it and if we can help in any way and outside of
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  just selling you a product, that's what we're here for.
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  Well it's a boost treadmills back on I love it.
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  All right man we're in the neighborhood interview with a
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  selfie here. Are you look much better than I
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  do in that one man? Thanks for joining us.
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  We appreciate you, man. All right, we'll get geared up
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  here for whoever. Our next guest is you don't
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  know. We didn't set this in a schedule
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  so I don't know who's going to be next actually.
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  Now I do know who's going to be next.
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  So introduce yourself. And let's get started tonight.
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  I'm Tim buyers on the UK, you realize director and I'm just
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  here to, you know, let people know that t relays is back and
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  it needs to be bad. Yeah, what a what?
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  A tradition filled meet that the key.
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  A you relays is it can? Unfortunately, it's a little
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  triumphed, over a couple of others, right?
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  I don't know that. Anybody has the history that KU
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  has for the entire sport of track and field, right?
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  You know, 1923 is when the relay started, we have 100 year
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  anniversary this year and we're looking at Jim Ryan, Billy Mills
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  coming back, share in the city. You know, you know a lot of
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  local people come back. It's just a body history that's
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  there at Kansas seems you know, the track and field and cross
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  country programs in which there's only one Broken in some
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  national championship in basketball.
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  I think probably heard them and yeah, pretty good team.
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  Yeah. And then cross country and track
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  and field University campus Stanley, I love Stanley to death
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  and does a great job and his staff that's been there for the
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  coaching staff. For the longest time is always
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  been really first class and just top, tell us a little bit about
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  yourself. Tim, how did you get to the
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  cave? Uh, you know, I'm a born and
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  bred bullets, kid. I was born in North Memorial
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  hospital. I'm so I've been going to Cannes
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  relay since I was probably about six, seven years old, I each for
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  28 years and then this positioned opened up.
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  It been vacant for a few years and you know, to have the
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  opportunity to bring the Kansas relays back to Lawrence kid is
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  very, very emotional there. So I want to bring it back full
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  force. I want people to know that this
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  is something that's going to be around for another hundred
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  years. So tell us, you know, we're
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  tonight, we're going to have a lot of track coaches up.
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  Be the bulk of it, of course, but what does a director of
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  relays at KU to? What is I know the list is long,
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  right? What are your top three, four,
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  five priorities that you have to accomplish for the KV?
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  You know this one is just get the trust back for you know,
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  that you crack a field Community to tell them.
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  Hey, this is its back. You know, there's rumors going
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  around really good. Be there for one year, then
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  we're going to stop. That's not true at all.
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  I wouldn't take a job just for one year.
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  It's been. I'm just harder.
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  Yeah, I don't get yourself. Yeah.
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  So, going back and forth. Between those two, is that
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  student experience is the number one thing I want them to come, I
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  want them to say that was a great relay meet and we want to
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  come back next year or they want to put it on their calendar for
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  the coaches for the next three years.
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  So what are the dates this year? April 13th, through the 15th,
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  April 13th, through the 15th. The hundred-year.
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  Maybe you're going to ever try out the KU relays?
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  Absolutely. Should this be the year?
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  I think this should be the year. It's when were recording this,
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  it's the middle of December. Is there still time to get in
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  trees into the capsule? Okay, we're doing a top, like,
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  entry list of the top 45 or come not going to put a little Mark
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  on anything, because we found that a lot of times people end
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  up, not entering because I'm not getting that, right?
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  We're just going to do a top inner and week except all for by
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  ones and four by fours for high schools.
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  Even, you know, they can come and have a great experience.
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  You see to wrap right around 8,000 out there and we can do
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  more with what a facility by the way.
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  Yeah, I mean, good God if you moment that's amazing.
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  It's amazing. Well Tim to wrap it up I
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  actually had a did something fun here.
• 18:41
  Okay so I have a hundred questions here. 1 through 100.
• 18:45
  Okay they're random. All right I'll tell Miranda okay
• 18:48
  you get two guests. You get to pick the number 1
• 18:50
  through 100, okay 12. All right, so we're going to go
• 18:52
  12. I thought to depict 150k you
• 18:54
  really As 201. Okay. 100 sign up to 1200 is my
• 18:59
  bonus ocean, right? Number 12.
• 19:00
  So did the apple far far? From fall far from the tree?
• 19:04
  Let's hear it. Tim, are you Tina apple or you
• 19:05
  team Android, man? I actually have both of my
• 19:08
  pocket right now caii you as a NASA iPod phones and I had a
• 19:15
  Droid working and so I was not expecting that answer.
• 19:20
  I'm T my phone. Okay, I only have one phone.
• 19:22
  I don't know what to do because it's the 100th anniversary of
• 19:25
  the case. You relays.
• 19:26
  Here's pushing number 100 100 Y2K was a bust but are you
• 19:31
  sitting any New Year's resolutions this year?
• 19:33
  So what is New Year's resolution?
• 19:35
  I'm getting new hip and so I'm excited to you know, it's just
• 19:39
  kind of got to that point where I haven't been able to do my
• 19:43
  exercise and do things like I used to do Iron Man's legs and
• 19:46
  stuff. So now this is so I'm ready to
• 19:49
  get that new hip and start my my road back.
• 19:52
  Well, I'm from Alabama and I can't even spell on your man's.
• 19:54
  I'm sorry. Not gonna do that.
• 19:57
  Honestly, just pray for your hit, man.
• 20:03
  Complete recovery fertile IDs. He's a basketball guy.
• 20:07
  So he's hope that everything goes well and that is gonna be
• 20:12
  an amazing year for you personally.
• 20:14
  Thank you my own profession. It's gonna start.
• 20:18
  All right bro. Hey thanks for being on the
• 20:19
  show. Absolutely.
• 20:24
  That is excited to relase in the road kind of, right?
• 20:26
  So we had the Drake Relays and get the KU relays.
• 20:29
  I don't know if this next guest is gonna be a real, a
• 20:31
  participant or not hate. Someone asked me about my hat.
• 20:34
  I love this hat and I'm not a hat where it's a trek nerd that
• 20:38
  right. I love it.
• 20:39
  All the stares that I got in the airport were definitely worth it
• 20:42
  if you're one of the know more about the hat.
• 20:44
  So my friends at prep running nerd, PR EP argue and then ing
• 20:49
  nerd that they're on Twitter of course, because that's where I
• 20:52
  live, right? So, So check them out.
• 20:54
  These hands are boss, me and I love it and I hope you love it
• 20:56
  too. All right, hey let's get on with
• 20:58
  the next guest. Introduce yourself, you know,
• 21:07
  here's what I love about today's world you and I have no idea who
• 21:11
  each other is. We were introduced this morning
• 21:16
  through email and you know, that is really honestly.
• 21:19
  One of the reasons I started the podcast, it's one of the reasons
• 21:21
  that I'm on Twitter. Is meeting new people.
• 21:24
  I just stayed in my little bubble and champagne.
• 21:27
  I wouldn't meet anybody. So I just am so thankful that
• 21:30
  you're here that you took the step out again.
• 21:31
  Not knowing anything. And being your Jessica really,
• 21:35
  really cool. And says, a lot about you really
• 21:37
  does. Yes, great great part about
• 21:38
  conferences. Yes, getting to talk with
• 21:41
  like-minded people. Well, hopefully not like my do
• 21:44
  with me yours. Then I have to judge you,
• 21:46
  Jessica, you should be like me, but tell us the Jessica.
• 21:49
  How many years have you come to this convention?
• 21:51
  And what's what are you doing here?
• 21:52
  Yes. Is my first year at the.
• 21:55
  Yeah. So I coached track distance
• 21:58
  program when I was in college. I was in the Marine Corps for
• 22:03
  some time Ruth. Hello.
• 22:09
  So what are you looking forward to?
• 22:11
  You obviously, have you saw the schedule and said, okay, I like
• 22:15
  this. I like that.
• 22:15
  What are you looking forward to most this week?
• 22:21
  Parents coaches and just keep hearing about, and what makes
• 22:25
  their program successful? You know, I've got a lot of very
• 22:28
  talented athletes who still is they're looking for their next
• 22:31
  steps in college speaking with college coaches, hearing, you
• 22:35
  know what kinds of things they're looking for?
• 22:37
  Some of the times Runners need to be hitting this year.
• 22:41
  You said a kind of a fun word their networking and I say it's
• 22:45
  fun because it's what the things I love because we networking is
• 22:47
  about meeting new people, and giving value to people other
• 22:50
  people think of the The Dark Side of networking like, oh how
• 22:53
  many business cards can I collect?
• 22:54
  Or how many people can I find that will help get me a job?
• 22:57
  How are you? That's Hot Topic right now in
• 22:59
  Twitter. Specifically how are you almost
• 23:02
  a tackling networking at an event like this what's your kind
• 23:05
  of goals and you're blocking and tackling style right I think
• 23:09
  just being open just like this. Talking to some line here is my
• 23:16
  yeah, just trying to put myself out there on Twitter to go up
• 23:21
  and introduce sea games on name tags.
• 23:24
  And I wish everybody would wear name tags at all times.
• 23:33
  Just try to take in everything I can.
• 23:35
  Is there anybody that you really want to meet maybe some of it?
• 23:39
  Someone, I know. Maybe I can introduce you to
• 23:40
  someone. You like to know what.
• 23:41
  I want to get to know someone. So don't think that's the thing
• 23:46
  with live. I put you on the spot.
• 23:50
  Okay. All right.
• 23:51
  Well, if there is what we know is one things I love bringing
• 23:54
  people together. So so please leverage me and my
• 23:57
  network and our Network. Are you feeling?
• 24:00
  All right, Jessica. So we've got something fun here.
• 24:01
  I've got 100. Just kind of Of random wacky
• 24:05
  off-the-wall question so they're numbered 1 through 100.
• 24:07
  We're going to do two of them. What's the number you want to
• 24:09
  tackle first, there's lucky number 13, right?
• 24:13
  Don't get lost at night. Are you a camper?
• 24:17
  Well, I spent about five years on active duty to bring forth.
• 24:20
  So you want to call that keeping the absolute to some functions
• 24:24
  of can't be. Yeah.
• 24:24
  What was your specialty? Is a marine?
• 24:27
  I was a Communications. Did you do a podcast as a ring?
• 24:33
  I don't know how we had several Marines at work force, it takes,
• 24:38
  and it is, and it's a different breed and thank God for people
• 24:42
  like you. It's really needed and I can't
• 24:45
  say thank you enough honestly because I know I can't all right
• 24:49
  what else? Number 1 through 100 All the way
• 24:53
  down here. The bottom.
• 24:55
  You know where we're going. We don't need roads.
• 24:57
  You invented a time travel machine.
• 24:59
  How are you going to use it? I told you off the wall already
• 25:05
  know what's coming. I got 100 of these.
• 25:07
  All nights will see. You know, I think right now I
• 25:11
  would go back to who myself this summer when I took on the job.
• 25:16
  And I think there's a lot of things that I've learned this
• 25:18
  past season coaching that I could just in line, six months
• 25:20
  dish, What's the one thing that you?
• 25:25
  You know, now today in December that back in junior like home
• 25:28
  and just knowing things going to be okay you know it's a daunting
• 25:37
  role to take on and it's something that I took very
• 25:39
  seriously and I think at the end of the day you know what it
• 25:44
  worked out, I think we all need to hear that.
• 25:48
  Sometimes we put a lot of pressure on ourselves and get a
• 25:51
  lot of pressure from outside people kind of that deep.
• 25:54
  You know what? It's gonna be, okay?
• 25:56
  It's gonna work out the right way.
• 25:58
  Awesome. So what are you looking forward
• 26:00
  to most coming up here in the 2023 season track season coming
• 26:05
  up? I've got a lot of young Runners
• 26:09
  that are very eager and excited for the season.
• 26:11
  So I'm excited to see what they do and they're attracting is
• 26:15
  just kind of see where they go from there and their next steps
• 26:17
  on their college journey. I think the revenue also because
• 26:22
  I think you're awesome. You just so thankful that you're
• 26:25
  coaching track and field and cross country.
• 26:28
  It's immeasurable I don't say this lightly and I say it all
• 26:30
  the time, it's very, very true for me.
• 26:33
  It's immeasurable the positive impact that coaches me on young
• 26:36
  people today. You know, you're dealing in the
• 26:37
  high school. Sites are 14 18 year old, they
• 26:40
  need leadership. And what you provide for them is
• 26:43
  invaluable for the rest of the world.
• 26:45
  Not just track and field. We're literally the entire rest
• 26:47
  of the world just be. So thank you so much for being
• 26:48
  the coach. We're going to do the selfie
• 26:50
  first. Oh no we gotta get that selfie
• 26:52
  in. All right Jessica You so much
• 26:54
  for coming out. I don't know that I said, thank
• 26:59
  you enough for her being a marine because that's a big
• 27:03
  deal. Aaron, you are know what her
• 27:04
  name and email is they text me or hit me up on Twitter at Mike
• 27:08
  Cunningham or text me to 1789 830 38 and I'll make sure we get
• 27:14
  Jessica's name and email over to you here in, okay?
• 27:18
  All right, you're not see buddy. You don't know what's going on.
• 27:20
  Let's go ahead and reduce ourselves Market.
• 27:28
  That's get to Council Bluffs. Iowa, actually grew up after you
• 27:33
  come out, so I need to visit. Yes, because I need to visit for
• 27:41
  one year, but so before Guild, and after my coaching career, I
• 27:47
  actually was a professional poker player.
• 27:49
  And so, I started back then, and still goes to today, I collect a
• 27:53
  poker, chip everywhere that I play poker, like, I'm all framed
• 27:55
  up in the house number 56 at 376 use this past weekend.
• 28:01
  And I know Council. Bluffs has two casinos.
• 28:02
  I have been to, I got like little list of where I need to
• 28:04
  go. So I need to get out of several.
• 28:07
  Yeah, one of those. That just one out there.
• 28:09
  Yeah. That part's fun and then now
• 28:29
  being junior college is helping the sophomores.
• 28:32
  Find homes. Yeah, we spoke briefly to
• 28:38
  Twitter than the former junior college coach.
• 28:40
  Also coached at, you know, high school and power 5, and the
• 28:44
  Junior College route to me is still one of the most precious
• 28:47
  things. Like I love going to junior
• 28:49
  college national meet, it's just a different breed, not only
• 28:52
  athletes but also coaches you know High School coaches, work
• 28:55
  their tail off to get their kids recruited.
• 28:57
  College coaches through your college coaches work their tail
• 29:00
  off to recruit kids to the program.
• 29:02
  You're doing both ends but this is the proverbial light candles
• 29:05
  at both ends are sure. It's it's very misunderstand
• 29:09
  levels. You know I think you have
• 29:14
  everything from. Oh yeah.
• 29:21
  Oh yeah. It's pretty awesome.
• 29:30
  So it's misunderstood people really, really look into it.
• 29:36
  This is how to get to do some really, really good things in
• 29:40
  the future wife and I will Western has done it at a high
• 29:43
  level for a long time. You know, all the way up there
• 29:46
  and Western, Iowa, don't get it twisted.
• 29:47
  There's a lot of your neck of the woods.
• 29:50
  What are you most looking forward to 2020?
• 30:27
  It's hard to do that because we have a winner team winners.
• 30:40
  Of course. It's like there's only one
• 30:43
  person that gets the last year. We're right, and or force on the
• 30:58
  weak side for two. If you can keep that rolling, I
• 31:04
  love him and well, you're a winner today because you get to
• 31:06
  play our fun little question game. 2 1 through 100?
• 31:10
  You get to pick the number 78. All right, we're in the 70s or
• 31:13
  significance about 78. I was born in Germany.
• 31:16
  I love it. You're two years younger than
• 31:17
  me, you young whippersnapper. All right, real or fake.
• 31:20
  What's your favorite WWE? Wrestler of all time?
• 31:24
  And I guess I should have wrote WWE because it could be.
• 31:29
  Yeah, right. This is the place this at one
• 32:27
  time of year. You have the fittest hotel in
• 32:29
  the country. We went to, we went worked out
• 32:32
  this morning and you won't have that many people in that
• 32:35
  business. And what time did you work out?
• 32:37
  I went in by sending her. Yeah, I'm the 5:00 crew.
• 32:40
  There is all the coaches that were in there and there weren't
• 32:43
  many the diehards. Now, that's too early.
• 32:46
  The networking Wednesday, I'll be in there again at around 5.
• 32:50
  A.m. I want to see you.
• 32:52
  I might need a spotter. I'm doing the Ten sets of ten
• 32:56
  incline dumbbell right now as it's been a little tough.
• 32:58
  All right, man. All right, let's get our Sophie
• 32:59
  in here, brother, am preciate you being here on the show.
• 33:03
  Thanks for trusting me here in the live version.
• 33:04
  Thanks, Bob. Hey, it's 5:30.
• 33:08
  It's 5:30 we still got an hour and a half at least going on
• 33:12
  here on the live podcast. So, we're going to see who our
• 33:14
  next guest. Is there being a little shy?
• 33:17
  I wish, you know, I would turn around.
• 33:18
  I'm gonna give a little picture and show you what's going on
• 33:21
  right here at the live recording, the Alex connections
• 33:25
  podcast. I'm gonna have this next guest
• 33:28
  introduce himself, but he doesn't need any introduction at
• 33:32
  all. Please introduce yourself my
• 33:33
  friend - hey everyone my name is Richard heene the fighting
• 33:41
  Hornets. I love it cheering just a little
• 33:44
  bit so we can hear you man. But you, thanks for being here,
• 33:48
  you know, you and I have certainly a business
• 33:51
  relationship and extremely extremely thankful for.
• 33:54
  But throughout that and for the past few years, we've actually
• 33:58
  struck up quite a personal relationship.
• 34:00
  And that doesn't happen. Very often in business and
• 34:03
  things like that, so you're just some of them.
• 34:04
  So like it's just really cool to go.
• 34:06
  That's how people live right here now.
• 34:08
  How much I love you, I adore you and your family and just just so
• 34:12
  grateful for you in improving. The feeling is mutual, you know,
• 34:16
  if it's just because it started two years ago and it's just
• 34:23
  grown over the years. Just simple phone calls checking
• 34:26
  in and it's like my brother from another one zipper.
• 34:30
  So Richie tell us how many years have you come here to the
• 34:33
  commissioner has been I know I've built a than ever since.
• 34:38
  I became head coach. Missouri, 2001 whenever the
• 34:43
  existing of is audited. Yeah.
• 34:48
  Make the middle a lot of good people and build a lot of great
• 34:52
  relationships being here and learned a lot of things.
• 34:55
  And where are you? Is there something you're
• 34:56
  looking forward to the most this week whether it's a speaker or a
• 35:00
  meeting or all the fame, there's anything like you're like man,
• 35:03
  there's something I'm definitely not going to miss the sides
• 35:06
  being here on the live. Taping of the guilt fixes for
• 35:08
  this is the biggest thing else. Being around the positive energy
• 35:35
  Hall of Fame. Always being constant is just to
• 35:38
  see people who have laid the path.
• 35:41
  So many people in the sport just to see them be honored on that
• 35:45
  night rightfully so yeah and this year's crew every year Is
• 35:48
  like the, who's who but I mean this year another just amazing
• 35:52
  set of just just to deserve it and then in women that are going
• 35:55
  into the Hall of Fame, it really is quite amazing.
• 35:58
  Alright, my friend, we're gonna play a little fun, little one,
• 36:00
  300 game. I got 100, just random questions
• 36:02
  and trust me. They've been random.
• 36:04
  You get to pick the number though. 1 through 100.
• 36:10
  I'm ready. Let's go with the number one.
• 36:12
  Number one, 30 minutes or less. What topping is never going on
• 36:17
  your pizza. Probably Black Ops 2 Call.
• 36:23
  Did you like it in taco dip? Do not know like all of them
• 36:26
  all. Okay, all right.
• 36:28
  One more. Okay, let's go with 45.
• 36:31
  Is that the number of championship rings?
• 36:33
  You have the time? That is the greatest Flex that
• 36:39
  anybody will have here tonight. I'm gonna go 55 and celebration
• 36:42
  and here's the thing. Next year, we're gonna have to
• 36:44
  do 56 or 57. You just keep adding them on my
• 36:46
  friend, you don't share your not a good share with Team
• 36:49
  Championships, not at all. All right.
• 36:52
  Well, you must like food, 155. Let's go to the kitchen.
• 36:55
  You've got to make one meal to save your life.
• 36:59
  What is it? What are you doing?
• 37:10
  You got a smoker, you know, what do you got?
• 37:15
  Is your favorite player like a barbecue, or a pinot and what
• 37:18
  your fingers will Richie, something
• 37:30
  that we're doing tonight, as well, only Force like people and
• 37:32
  I blew it with Blake Bolden by the way earlier today is any
• 37:36
  Feel connections, Alum. So you were on the podcast.
• 37:40
  We were one of my first people on the podcast.
• 37:42
  Thank you for that trust my friend, and if you haven't
• 37:45
  checked it out, just go in your favorite podcast app or on
• 37:48
  YouTube, Just Google Richie Bean.
• 37:50
  Gill Athletics, it'll pop right up until they don't make your
• 37:53
  life better. Listen to a story.
• 37:54
  His story matters and it is a doozy trust me.
• 37:57
  But because I got to grill. You for about two hours, you get
• 38:00
  to put the script tonight. And ask me one question, I'm
• 38:04
  putting myself out there. I'm not.
• 38:06
  I don't want to Give me time to think.
• 38:07
  So I need to we need to get a question, get an excellent
• 38:09
  question. One question, there's nothing.
• 38:10
  You know, there's no bleep button and no edits.
• 38:11
  So don't say anything that your mom would be mad at.
• 38:14
  What point raised me right? I want to know you know that the
• 38:25
  answer might have been different than years ago but about maybe
• 38:28
  five, six seven. Think about 10 years ago
• 38:30
  actually, you know, my life changed when I looked at my job
• 38:33
  here at uofl etics being from a To a servant of coaches that
• 38:39
  really flip the switch of like, hey, you know what?
• 38:42
  When I stop thinking that, hey, every piece of my equipment is
• 38:45
  for every coach. It's, it's great to have
• 38:48
  choices. That's why we had different car
• 38:49
  companies, Etc. We don't always have the
• 38:51
  solution for everybody, but for those people that we do have the
• 38:55
  solution for instead of saying he buys, okay.
• 38:57
  Now let's have a conversation. Great.
• 38:59
  And, you know, you know, I've consulted on your facility,
• 39:00
  which I'm so happy for you couldn't staff in that was in
• 39:04
  service facility. Yeah, yeah.
• 39:06
  That is Because it is an amazing facility.
• 39:09
  When we talk, we had a budget to keep it.
• 39:12
  So we with lower featured of benefits, on some things, and
• 39:15
  other things was like, hey, no, no.
• 39:16
  My program is built on X, so we're going to go with do it
• 39:18
  higher over here, we did a great design for the game board, we
• 39:21
  just serve. That's really what it was all
• 39:22
  about and that is that drives me every day is to get up these
• 39:27
  guys and gals that are out here and sit in this seat.
• 39:29
  Right here. Do something that is more
• 39:31
  valuable than anything out there in my world.
• 39:34
  They helped 14 to 18. Rolls 18 to 22 year olds become
• 39:39
  better, human beings. That's better for our world, not
• 39:42
  just track and field. And so, how do I help that coach
• 39:45
  get better and make more money for his family?
• 39:47
  His passion, how do I help this coach go and work in a job where
• 39:50
  they can be there with their spouses cetera?
• 39:52
  That's my passion that drives me every single day.
• 39:54
  I wake up. So I want to say something to
• 39:56
  you. I we are here lat and I'm not
• 39:58
  just saying it in the process of getting our tractor and needing
• 40:03
  a overall on equipment when he spoke about The budget, he
• 40:07
  understood the challenges, we had in getting things done, but
• 40:11
  that was no, oh, there's a big Universal.
• 40:14
  We got to do this and got to do that.
• 40:16
  The same customer service, the same detail and everything.
• 40:20
  I give this man, Kudos his staff.
• 40:23
  Who knows? They were excellent in the
• 40:25
  process of us, choosing either from his designs are for
• 40:29
  customizing. I heard those customers mask,
• 40:32
  making sure that the delivery was on time.
• 40:36
  Out there, I couldn't ask for any better customer service and
• 40:40
  those people who have their customer service is the most
• 40:43
  part. And I can honestly, say not
• 40:46
  because this is my friend, but because Gil did good business
• 40:51
  and put customer service at the top, I stand on the shoulders of
• 40:54
  great people, our customer service team, we talked about
• 40:58
  authenticity earlier tonight. Former coaches from where
• 41:00
  athletes do I do this much of the whole thing?
• 41:03
  There's a whole crew that does a lot more.
• 41:05
  And that means the, World for you to say that this is so much.
• 41:08
  Let's get selfie to in this camera turned off.
• 41:13
  All right. Richard, thank you so much, man.
• 41:15
  Appreciate you and go check out his podcast.
• 41:18
  Go check them out. At bitchy Veen.
• 41:19
  Go on your podcast app or YouTube to search his name and
• 41:23
  it's it's heartfelt. We want it.
• 41:25
  We got into it, Go horns. Thanks, all right.
• 41:29
  Hey, what am I just dear time? All time friends was Richie be
• 41:34
  man, I just love it. What?
• 41:35
  A great great person. I can't wait to see who the next
• 41:37
  person is. We got another Alum.
• 41:40
  So buckle up, we're going to get another question.
• 41:43
  Right back here at at your humble host.
• 41:45
  Ian. All right.
• 41:47
  I've been working out. So introduce yourself to the
• 41:50
  crowd here. Greg Smith head coach
• 41:53
  cross-country, track and field University of Bridgeport.
• 41:56
  So brand new program. Mike, you're missing all the
• 41:57
  fun. This is where the fun is out
• 41:59
  front here, talking to each other.
• 42:01
  You know, I feel bad. I told you I was gonna be here
• 42:03
  like 455 so, Gary Aldridge solve my sergeant and you stop and
• 42:07
  we'll talk you know what? Those are two good people so
• 42:09
  I'll allow that all about it. Yeah it's really hard to be
• 42:12
  focused. I hear on our audience and our
• 42:14
  guest. Yeah.
• 42:15
  And all these amazing people that I'm just super excited.
• 42:17
  We said we're going to go five to seven and I made a promise to
• 42:19
  myself at seven PM. People are still here.
• 42:21
  I'm still here. We're gonna roll with it and he
• 42:23
  forgot my, yeah. So tell me, what are you doing
• 42:25
  here at the convention? What are you looking forward to
• 42:27
  the most here? This week for me thing, I
• 42:29
  enjoyed the movie still is interacting with the coaches and
• 42:32
  doing things like that. I have committee meetings.
• 42:35
  Starting a brand new defense program.
• 42:36
  He straps just get the word out there.
• 42:38
  And you know, I actually enjoyed the meetings because that's
• 42:42
  where we kind of Lower score, right?
• 42:44
  More better support. And well, I like the symposiums
• 42:47
  and things like that. Just interacting with the other
• 42:50
  coaches. I mean, you learn a lot more,
• 42:51
  you see how everybody's doing? And, you know, like, you know,
• 42:54
  if you're a track coach or you do with the score your fanatical
• 42:57
  about, right? So it's good to be your Trek
• 43:00
  nerd about it. Oh yeah, yeah.
• 43:02
  So it's good to just meet other people with the same mindset.
• 43:06
  So tell us a little bit now and we got into this.
• 43:08
  So here we have another Alum of the build connections podcast so
• 43:11
  you just got to Google his name would be.
• 43:13
  Left buttocks and the podcast, those pop-up or the YouTube and
• 43:16
  we got into this but I was just kind of a 30-second version of
• 43:18
  starting a new program from scratch because that just like I
• 43:21
  feel like that's what I would have really enjoyed in the
• 43:23
  coaching you say that and you doing.
• 43:27
  No. It's it's.
• 43:28
  It is excited and I feel privileged and I'm the first,
• 43:31
  the only first ever coached in universities everything.
• 43:34
  That's right. So it's exciting thing to do.
• 43:37
  It's a lot of recruiting just getting the word out there.
• 43:39
  You know, I think you saw like the news For News 12
• 43:43
  Connecticut. Yeah.
• 43:44
  So talking about the program and the university has bought in and
• 43:48
  they've been very supportive of it so it's exciting.
• 43:51
  I get to build it in my locker. Yeah, I love the vision to
• 43:55
  track. If you are joining a Division, I
• 43:56
  coach just because I can do both things so I can get those higher
• 44:01
  end athletes. That would love to get to USA's
• 44:02
  or the trials things like that. Like soak it was other athletes.
• 44:05
  It just with the opportunity to improve to reach their potential
• 44:09
  so much. Well, I have no doubt that
• 44:10
  they've been improved in the evening just like talking.
• 44:13
  With you and get to know you better.
• 44:14
  All right, we have a little fun tonight.
• 44:16
  So we've got 100, random questions, and you get to pick
• 44:19
  the number 100. You want 100 there?
• 44:23
  Now, 200 5454 as well. So we already had 154 is my old
• 44:26
  football numbers, huh? Let's go what's your hobby, man?
• 44:33
  You can't say, I make the rules. Done various things.
• 44:45
  I've tried to be staying up once in a while checking so you can't
• 44:49
  say that without you gotta give us a joke, it's not a joke, like
• 44:54
  a punchline joke, there's got to be like people, their faces will
• 44:58
  turn red. It's I hope.
• 45:43
  Awesome almost. It makes it easier to digest and
• 45:46
  then you have the rest of the day to treat them as awful to
• 45:49
  us. So for me, nothing is
• 45:52
  off-limits. Current economy and things like
• 45:54
  that. So if you need to get personal,
• 45:56
  if you need to get a little bit wrong, little bit rough.
• 45:58
  That's a great thing to do. So I love comedy, even if it's
• 46:02
  something that like being, I'm a big animal rights and the
• 46:04
  relevance. But if I get into a club in the
• 46:07
  city, makes a really funny animal cruelty.
• 46:09
  Do I'm going to laugh because I know that's something I really
• 46:12
  care about you. And they're making me laugh.
• 46:14
  I got it. I don't know if that question
• 46:16
  comes up with anybody else would like to get that same hobby?
• 46:18
  That's, that's really cool. It's something.
• 46:20
  I look like I said, I any time something pops in my head, like
• 46:23
  things are funny idea. I take out my phone and it's
• 46:25
  program and I catch myself. All right, so we're doing it.
• 46:30
  Only Gil efforts connections, alums, get to do.
• 46:32
  This is so you were gracious. You were awesome on the podcast,
• 46:36
  so thankful that you would join us on that podcast.
• 46:38
  And I grilled you for close to two hours, right?
• 46:40
  You know, the experience writing probably went home and cried a
• 46:42
  little bit. Got to, you know, fuck yourself,
• 46:45
  back up to get back on that horse.
• 46:47
  Now you get to flip it. You get to ask me one question,
• 46:50
  okay, what do you miss most about Coach?
• 46:53
  Hmm, that's a prank question, you know, I think the thing that
• 46:57
  I miss the most is there's some freedom and going outside at
• 47:01
  2:00 every day to work with young people.
• 47:03
  There's just something about not being an office all the time.
• 47:06
  And I think that's why I like to travel for, for my profession,
• 47:09
  here at Delta X because I'm out of the office at that point, but
• 47:12
  there was something about I'll just be in the toes in the sand
• 47:14
  pit. Helping people work on the
• 47:15
  lounge on house, for instance hurdles that's probably what I
• 47:18
  miss the most young people for sure.
• 47:20
  Well I mean if you're doing a great thing here, I we talked
• 47:22
  about it to another handful of the coaches.
• 47:23
  As I was walking up and they said where you had that's it'll
• 47:26
  actually good told. Mike, I would go and do the
• 47:27
  podcast with them and everybody said the same thing.
• 47:29
  It's a great thing you're doing because for me I don't like to
• 47:33
  set up a podcast. Sometimes people take citizen as
• 47:35
  intelligence where they think, if I could be really critical
• 47:38
  right coach. He's our athletes and things
• 47:40
  like that. It makes me sound smarter
• 47:42
  whereas your hi. In sport, you're highlighting
• 47:44
  the coaches which I think is a great thing.
• 47:45
  Yeah. Well it's all about uplifting
• 47:47
  around and what you do because what you do is in measurable for
• 47:49
  our young people and you can do it while you're dressed like
• 47:51
  Jake from State Farm. So I actually went with my pet
• 47:55
  Henry. That's yes.
• 47:57
  Well yeah, that's kind of helped myself and I was in my workout
• 48:00
  clothes and he was like, you look like you're going for a run
• 48:02
  and was a goof. You don't know me.
• 48:33
  It's one of the more unique mascots Hornet life forever, you
• 48:36
  know. Yeah.
• 48:37
  I forget the chance but I'm sure and change the last 20-something
• 48:40
  years. Let's get herself.
• 48:41
  A man, appreciate you so much for being.
• 48:43
  So they preach again. Oh man.
• 48:47
  Hey, I love when there's Golf and explanations on and there's
• 48:49
  one standing right in front of me.
• 48:50
  That did the get in here, you just gotta push your way to the
• 48:52
  front. Just push away.
• 48:54
  You just elbow, just elbow. But, hey, here we go.
• 48:57
  Another yellow Phoenix connections, Alum.
• 49:00
  I'm allowing everybody else to introduce themselves.
• 49:02
  Instead of me doing so, introduce yourself to the crowd
• 49:05
  here today, and you got to speak up a little bit, you know, it's
• 49:12
  loud here. I mean, everything that you're
• 49:14
  hearing right now, this is what's going on all around us.
• 49:17
  It's quite amazing. When you put a bunch of coaches
• 49:19
  together and how much we'll we'll chat along here.
• 49:22
  So spec, tell me how many years have you been coming to the
• 49:26
  mention? And where are you most looking
• 49:27
  forward to this week here. At this sir, I'm proud to say
• 49:30
  that into every convention. Great job.
• 49:40
  Shout out to Sam seems and shout out to Sam's.
• 49:43
  Ruth is love Sam, but he ain't doing this all by himself.
• 49:46
  He's got a great amazing staff that supports us 365 days a
• 49:50
  year. Yeah.
• 49:50
  Sorry that I just want to give a shout-out.
• 49:53
  It's really made this such a professional everything, from
• 49:58
  mauermann, of course. Wonderful.
• 50:03
  Symposiums getting you guys hear that.
• 50:06
  You just re out here. Yes, there's obviously the
• 50:10
  fellowship catching Last year you spoke in the supposing.
• 50:16
  You were a teacher you teaching this year or yeah, I've done it.
• 50:19
  The last two years this year to be your ability Among Us.
• 50:24
  Somebody else do it. I enjoy attending those and a
• 50:29
  lot of my friends are going to be presenting so I was like
• 50:32
  yeah. So if you could only come up
• 50:35
  with some spot you can only go to one thing.
• 50:38
  Not just Symposium one thing all of paint thinner, but our men,
• 50:41
  see your buddy speak, go to a committee meeting.
• 50:43
  If you can only do one thing this week, what would it be?
• 50:46
  Actually, the coaches off a big reason for that is a lot of my
• 50:52
  mentors, a lot of my friends, a lot of my colleagues.
• 50:56
  Groups are all in it, and it's really an amazing group.
• 51:01
  I mean, they're amazing every year.
• 51:02
  But this year, as I read through the list, I'm like, oh my gosh.
• 51:05
  Oh my gosh. Oh my gosh.
• 51:06
  Like, they're amazing. That's great.
• 51:10
  That they have an opportunity to be recognized and celebrated,
• 51:16
  some of them have been retired and it's past due, right?
• 51:20
  And then there's a lot of them that are still Enterprise.
• 51:28
  Really recognized. Guys that put so much of this
• 51:33
  one. Yeah, we're standing on their
• 51:36
  shoulders as coaches today and what they did in that word we're
• 51:39
  building it. So future coaches can stand on
• 51:41
  these big old shoulders right here.
• 51:43
  All right, mr. Speaker here, we've got 100
• 51:45
  questions, just kind of random fun questions.
• 51:46
  You get to pick the number one through 144.
• 51:50
  What's the significance of 44? One of my favorite didn't want
• 51:54
  to go forward. All right.
• 51:56
  Well this is a good one. It's Space.
• 51:58
  Invaders time. What's your favorite video game?
• 52:00
  Of all time. Let's see.
• 52:03
  It shows you how long? Hold on.
• 52:04
  Don't say pong. I've got to say that I can still
• 52:07
  remember when Palm Normal sleep at all classic as a classic 80s
• 52:13
  game and that's hot. The video game.
• 52:17
  Did you have you guys purchase the Nintendo switch?
• 52:21
  I don't have anything like this. So they've got a pacman on the
• 52:23
  air where you play against 99 other people in the world.
• 52:26
  Okay, it's awesome. You got to check it out.
• 52:28
  Was when we first got our switch it was addicted.
• 52:31
  Now I'm addicted to court. Okay trigger.
• 52:33
  So another thing that we're doing and this is exclusive,
• 52:36
  you're in a small Club here is any your left buttocks
• 52:39
  connections? Alums that are on the live
• 52:41
  podcast here. Tonight looks like grilled you
• 52:43
  for a couple of hours Long process to get to your whole
• 52:47
  story. It was very probably had to take
• 52:50
  a nap. I'm sure after that.
• 52:52
  So I'm going to let you put the script and you get to ask me one
• 52:55
  question. Okay we're going to go back to
• 52:57
  our days of all state. Oh yes I remember at all state
• 53:03
  you had a collection of reptiles.
• 53:07
  Yeah would you like to share with everybody?
• 53:10
  Yeah, you know, I don't have them now because I married my
• 53:14
  wife for Evening. But yes, I had I've always I
• 53:18
  grew up a huge snake, man. Like I moved a lot in
• 53:21
  everywhere. That I would move into the new
• 53:23
  school. The first thing I would do is go
• 53:24
  to the library and read all the snake - and that was just this
• 53:27
  before the internet, you remember those days.
• 53:30
  So I would read them, all right? And so when I finally got to
• 53:32
  college and I was finally able to get my own reptile, I got a
• 53:35
  ball python all my snakes, by the way, we're all named after
• 53:38
  herders. Who do you think skeet skeet?
• 53:41
  Very first one thing exactly the all-time now I'd have a great
• 53:45
  Halloween. A in a tray.
• 53:46
  Those kind of me Ali as well with me.
• 53:49
  I had a ball python, and then when I was coaching Junior
• 53:52
  College, I just got so lucky in Kansas.
• 53:54
  They had a big reptile, big snake collection that they were
• 53:57
  peering down to only snakes that were native to Kansas all those
• 54:01
  things are going to get rid of. They knew all the snake guy so I
• 54:04
  got a pink foot red tail boa. I got a little one foot mrs.
• 54:09
  Massasauga rattlesnake I came here with others but really the,
• 54:13
  I love my snakes. I really did.
• 54:14
  They were all doing. At the rattlesnake, the eight
• 54:17
  footer had a bad attitude so you can find him either.
• 54:19
  So I had a great time and now my wife she did say, she'd divorce
• 54:24
  me, but I also kind of thought about calling her Bluff.
• 54:27
  It's like well, if I get a stick, what you can do, we gonna
• 54:29
  pick it up and get rid of it? Yeah, they'll just be there.
• 54:31
  So, what we did? We got this steal of a deal of
• 54:34
  Three Sixty gallon fish tank is there is a tank of fish called
• 54:39
  the African growth fish and it looks just like a snake.
• 54:43
  It has two little things up from its long thick.
• 54:45
  They look just like snakes its scratch.
• 54:48
  My snakes. Which I'm good.
• 54:49
  I'm really good. Let's get question, but I love
• 54:51
  that. All right, my friend.
• 54:52
  Let's take our self here today. Thank you again for being on the
• 54:55
  live show, man. Appreciate you very much, thank
• 54:57
  you. Oh man Jim Sprecher we work
• 55:01
  together at Ball State University.
• 55:03
  He was the head men's coach. It was a woman's assistant coach
• 55:06
  under the great Sioux Parks over there and just really had just
• 55:09
  an all-time blast there with lots of great alumni and great
• 55:13
  times that we have therein. Track and field and you know I
• 55:17
  don't plan this but we're going to have our third Gila thetax
• 55:20
  connections. Podcast, alum in a row please
• 55:23
  introduce yourself Sir. Charles Ryan director track and
• 55:26
  field at San Jose State University.
• 55:28
  See, I appreciate you speaking up and didn't like some of them
• 55:31
  are. Yeah.
• 55:32
  You got some experience with that.
• 55:33
  We we do this on occasion every now and so let's talk about that
• 55:36
  a little bit. Yeah, very impress.
• 55:38
  Your no G coz you gotta get a new guy.
• 55:40
  Now with the governor for Originals.
• 55:45
  I'm so impressed. Rest with because, you know, I
• 55:47
  have experienced with this. It's real easy actually, it's
• 55:50
  hard but it's easy to start a show.
• 55:52
  Yes, it's extremely hard to be going three years on your is
• 55:57
  shocked as I am that. We are still doing this thing.
• 56:00
  You know, we started Athletics LLC, you know, during the
• 56:03
  pandemic when people were looking for something to connect
• 56:06
  to and honestly we're a little bored and going a little
• 56:08
  stir-crazy with, you know, all this free time and, you know, it
• 56:12
  snowballed into something that the people seem to care about
• 56:14
  him. Reinstating and we enjoy doing
• 56:17
  it. So as long as they're still
• 56:19
  interest, we're going to keep this train rolling.
• 56:20
  We haven't missed the show in three years.
• 56:22
  That is also impressive because for one of the consistency is
• 56:25
  extremely hard in its weekly, it's not like you do this month.
• 56:28
  Oh yeah, everyone you were hardly and then you think about
• 56:30
  the people that are involved. So Charles Ryan is here.
• 56:33
  By the way, new head coach director, try to feel the San
• 56:36
  Jose sleeping State University, which is doing really cool
• 56:39
  things. And really good for our sport,
• 56:41
  by the way, I appreciate San Jose.
• 56:43
  So Charles is on there. We're such to from TCU my
• 56:47
  Calaway. Do I really have to tell you
• 56:49
  where he's from Florida and increase health ins?
• 56:52
  I don't know what he's doing there but now they're yeah the
• 56:55
  executive producer as oh my gosh one more time but you got to
• 57:01
  check them out on every Friday night on YouTubes right here
• 57:04
  where you are right now on YouTube live.
• 57:06
  Check it out every Friday when were us is on point.
• 57:15
  Percent of the time. It doesn't best friend is right?
• 57:17
  It's amazing. So, they have a video component,
• 57:20
  which they do an amazing job, great intro, and outro by the
• 57:23
  Great lead on chiku. I'm gonna surprise coming up in
• 57:25
  2023. Yeah.
• 57:27
  Oh yeah, yeah. I like it.
• 57:29
  They do an amazing job. And then, we're so gracious.
• 57:32
  So humble, they allow us to take the audio version, so we just
• 57:36
  rip the audio from it. And we run it about two weeks
• 57:38
  later for people who don't watch on YouTube, but it's still to
• 57:41
  use. There's so much valuable
• 57:42
  information. You can kicked out you guys like
• 57:44
  how do I expand? Like you know, how do I make
• 57:47
  more people be able to listen to the topics that you guys talked?
• 57:49
  No, it's been really fun and we've always you know, most of
• 57:52
  the topics that we tackle. You know, we discussed amongst
• 57:55
  ourselves and figure out you know what we want to talk about
• 57:58
  but we take you know, suggestions from the audience
• 58:00
  and you know send us DM's Instagram messages and all that
• 58:04
  stuff. So it's really, you know, it's
• 58:07
  us on the show but we try to make it like it's about, you
• 58:09
  know, the community is like a community that cares about our
• 58:12
  sport. So if you got questions, if
• 58:14
  you've got thoughts and there's things Honestly, get it to send
• 58:16
  us. And as always, we'll do it in
• 58:18
  the easiest way to do that. They don't know how to get ahold
• 58:19
  of these guys. Just go to the YouTube channel.
• 58:22
  Absolutely. There in the comments.
• 58:23
  Register doesn't great job of reading those three.
• 58:25
  Yes, I've heard you come in about the comments.
• 58:27
  Oh yeah they actually do read them.
• 58:28
  That's another cool thing. As far as that no end in sight,
• 58:32
  there's no talk about oh no, there was breaking up the band.
• 58:34
  Know there's no end in sight. Nothing.
• 58:36
  Nobody has been offered any you Sensation to go off and do their
• 58:39
  own snow or anything like that. So I'm shocked.
• 58:42
  It's it's, it's know. We all really, really enjoy it.
• 58:46
  And, you know, we were the governor AKA cream.
• 58:49
  Treat Thompson had to replace me one day because my son was born
• 58:54
  and so he did a great job. They're like, well, we just need
• 58:58
  to keep him in there. So it went from four to five and
• 59:00
  it's been that way and it's going to stay that with me.
• 59:02
  Like we all really enjoyed doing.
• 59:03
  We have moved mountains and all kind of things to get the show.
• 59:07
  Done weekly at one point. We were in four different time
• 59:10
  zones throughout throughout the world.
• 59:11
  That was fun. That was an interesting during
• 59:13
  the Olympics. I was crazy.
• 59:18
  The consistency. You guys had a special shout-out
• 59:20
  to Mouse. Yes, through the Olympics.
• 59:23
  So over there through the Olympics, the World
• 59:25
  Championships, time zones. Yep.
• 59:28
  Super tired. Oh, he was a little responsible
• 59:30
  for things. Yeah, and you never miss the
• 59:32
  show and that's what I love about what you guys are doing
• 59:35
  their. You're showing a different part,
• 59:37
  a part that some people think they Be involved like, oh,
• 59:39
  that's that's right. Big boy stuff or whatever over
• 59:41
  there, right? I love that.
• 59:42
  You kind of this kind of pull that curtain back and like, Hey
• 59:44
  we're going to bare it all good and bad.
• 59:45
  We're going to talk about it all.
• 59:46
  Yeah. There's really no, there's no
• 59:49
  track and field or other any other subject for that matter
• 59:51
  that it's off-limits. We don't really run for many
• 59:53
  everything. We try to keep things, you know,
• 59:55
  current and up-to-date with whatever is going on within the
• 59:57
  culture and the sport. And you know, like I said people
• 1:00:00
  seem to enjoy it so as long as there's an audience for it will
• 1:00:04
  keep rocking it out. It's a great point.
• 1:00:05
  So we didn't talk about this but I do want to talk about just A
• 1:00:08
  little bit tell us about how you enjoying not being a head coach
• 1:00:12
  because you've done that. I uh, I think the program that
• 1:00:15
  you took over is of such historical significance.
• 1:00:18
  It's a different head coaching job.
• 1:00:20
  How has it been? And how are you enjoying it
• 1:00:22
  struggles? I'm having a ball with it.
• 1:00:24
  You know, a lot of people thought that, you know, the
• 1:00:27
  resurrection of Speed City and all that other stuff, given
• 1:00:30
  historical context and then cancel the program and what it's
• 1:00:33
  been in the 2010's on, his was an impossible job.
• 1:00:36
  I never really saw it that way. I saw it as a huge opportunity.
• 1:00:38
  To Annie and I'm from the Bay Area.
• 1:00:40
  So it's a little bit, you know, more special to me.
• 1:00:44
  I'm honored to be in the chair. I'm having a ball doing it.
• 1:00:46
  We have an incredible year, one recruiting class, we set some
• 1:00:50
  program records last year. We sent six kids to Regionals.
• 1:00:52
  We're trying to Triple that you know up for this upcoming year.
• 1:00:56
  We're just trying to be relevant at on the national level.
• 1:00:59
  Because if you're going to do this job this way, that's the
• 1:01:02
  only way it's going to play. You don't have a fantastic
• 1:01:06
  staff. I was able to get as I've said
• 1:01:08
  before. Or my number-one draft, it's it
• 1:01:10
  at every at every position, Ernie TJ, and Charmaine are
• 1:01:13
  absolutely killing it for me. Great, and we're having well,
• 1:01:17
  it's mostly the California Central team.
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  It's going to stay that way. But we do recruit all over the
• 1:01:22
  world and obviously out of state, it's coming together
• 1:01:25
  really nicely. And if the team's by 85%
• 1:01:27
  freshman right now. So if the babies can run like
• 1:01:30
  adults, we all know how that goes.
• 1:01:32
  We're gonna have a lot of noise to make this year, if they can
• 1:01:35
  grow up fast. So we're having a compliment, I
• 1:01:37
  can give you They got the right personality.
• 1:01:40
  Well, I appreciate it. Just seemed what you've done in
• 1:01:41
  the first year, and as you now evolved into the second year,
• 1:01:45
  they do those to the administration for for both the
• 1:01:48
  right lever here and give it our best Administration I've ever
• 1:01:50
  worked for Jeff. Bonilla and his leadership team
• 1:01:52
  are phenomena from compliance all the way down.
• 1:01:55
  They literally never told me no for anything.
• 1:01:58
  I've asked and they find answers, they find Solutions
• 1:02:01
  when you're working for Solutions, based people get a
• 1:02:04
  lot of things accomplished. Absolutely, well, like I
• 1:02:06
  mentioned, don't miss it. Chuck's, what's not?
• 1:02:38
  Yeah, so we're allowing only alums like grilled you for a
• 1:02:42
  good two hours. It was during Pope, I'm a union
• 1:02:45
  Hartman. It was to flip the script
• 1:02:47
  tonight. You get to ask me one question
• 1:02:49
  only. We first one question.
• 1:02:51
  No holds bar. There's a metal button or
• 1:02:53
  anything else? Oh no, I'm honestly, I would
• 1:02:56
  like to know as a person who jumped into this podcast face
• 1:03:00
  and obviously have crushed it. What's that experience like been
• 1:03:04
  for you, like, what has been the best part of to me?
• 1:03:07
  I see what you do as a Back to the sports and what's been the
• 1:03:10
  best piece of this for you? Yeah, I did something that's
• 1:03:12
  happened. That I didn't, I wasn't aware.
• 1:03:15
  That would happen is, you know, interview these coaches of all
• 1:03:18
  different levels, right? So from the vision One,
• 1:03:20
  Professional high school club, that we just call the gamut
• 1:03:23
  guys, gals black, white asian all around, right, and I knew
• 1:03:28
  focusing on their Journey would be pretty cool to have that.
• 1:03:30
  Go to this one place. Why'd they go to this one place?
• 1:03:32
  What mentors poured into them? I did not expect that as a on
• 1:03:37
  the business side of Track-and-field manufacturer
• 1:03:40
  that I would get any much or any like things that would help me
• 1:03:45
  and there were a couple of ones. And I tell you one that really
• 1:03:48
  stuck out early is when I interviewed Brooks Johnson.
• 1:03:51
  I'm sure in which was very nerve-racking for me because
• 1:03:55
  there's several reasons. It was nerve-wracking when we
• 1:03:57
  did it as well. Yeah, well shout out to Brooks.
• 1:04:01
  Brooks is an interesting interview for sure.
• 1:04:04
  But love him. What a godsend that that we have
• 1:04:07
  him here on this? And in track and field, but he
• 1:04:11
  really talks about how he thinks about coaching, not that he's
• 1:04:14
  not a Sprint, coach is not a distance coach, and just with
• 1:04:16
  the general and how you have to like not have limitations
• 1:04:19
  because we brought up the high jump men's World Record and as I
• 1:04:22
  would you ever give me, it's not gonna get broken.
• 1:04:24
  Of course, it is like, that's what they said before.
• 1:04:26
  He jumped it into the just the thought process that he and
• 1:04:30
  company company. Really changed me and then he
• 1:04:33
  brought in a quote again that really changed me in regards to
• 1:04:37
  helping not judge others. People, he brought up George
• 1:04:40
  Williams. Quote of if you're not in the
• 1:04:41
  Huddle you don't know the play Indian and so it was awesome to
• 1:04:45
  go get George Williams on the podcast.
• 1:04:47
  Hear the man say it. And just that, like, when I
• 1:04:49
  think about judging people, for whatever reason, like, oh man, I
• 1:04:53
  can't believe they didn't choose Gila putting or give me my kid
• 1:04:55
  that that it's like oh you know what?
• 1:04:57
  I don't know what's going on. I don't know, I don't know.
• 1:05:00
  So it helps me like how do I meet you where you are today?
• 1:05:03
  Knowing that I don't know everything that's going on you
• 1:05:06
  today and you may jump out and for some reason I had coaches to
• 1:05:09
  her me and I used to get like defensive and I was like, that's
• 1:05:20
  what I've got now. No, not anytime.
• 1:05:44
  Oh man that's a lot of fun. I really do love alumni as of
• 1:05:47
  the podcast that come on here. Now this guy's not an alumni,
• 1:05:51
  he's barely an alumni of a school.
• 1:05:53
  He's that jockey and greed in this world, it is yourself here
• 1:05:56
  Jake. So my name is Jake and Josh, I'm
• 1:05:59
  not a coach and recruiting recruiting coordinator, right
• 1:06:01
  now the University of Innsbruck in Central Virginia.
• 1:06:04
  Now, how many years or how? Conventions, have you come to?
• 1:06:07
  This is my second convention. So last year was my first.
• 1:06:09
  Yeah, that's where we first met. Yeah.
• 1:06:12
  But yeah. So it's been a lot of fun here
• 1:06:14
  to in college coaching the other person as a whole, for four and
• 1:06:18
  a half years. It is from high school coaching,
• 1:06:19
  a lot of still in college and how different as you approach
• 1:06:24
  this week this year, this week. How different are you
• 1:06:27
  approaching it than last week when you were green and, you
• 1:06:29
  know, probably wide-eyed and like, oh my God, everybody's
• 1:06:31
  here, there's so many things I can do on the schedule.
• 1:06:34
  How are you approaching? It differently this year,
• 1:06:37
  really? Think that the biggest thing
• 1:06:38
  that I've been trying to do into approached differently is just
• 1:06:40
  taking in as much information as possible.
• 1:06:42
  Meet as many people as possible, taking everything kind of day by
• 1:06:45
  day and taking each experience as as its own.
• 1:06:49
  What are you like? Maybe you did this last year,
• 1:06:51
  but is there anything that when you look to the schedule, you
• 1:06:53
  highlighted double like you highlighted and circled.
• 1:06:56
  Like, I am not in this scene. This?
• 1:06:58
  What with what that money for the convention?
• 1:07:03
  Probably Sean Du Nord stage his Symposium when he was talking
• 1:07:06
  about, I think I remember correctly.
• 1:07:08
  It was like your muscular adaptation syndrome, okay coming
• 1:07:11
  from Olympic weightlifting because that's a huge part of
• 1:07:13
  what I do. So I also do a lot of the
• 1:07:14
  strength patient programme for our throwers.
• 1:07:17
  So getting an opportunity to kind of hear him speak about
• 1:07:19
  that. Take what he talked about
• 1:07:21
  translate, what I do for our program and everything like
• 1:07:24
  that, help our kids and that was, that was a big one, this
• 1:07:27
  year. I think David Symposium is going
• 1:07:30
  to be a big ones. I mean, yeah, come on, hashtag
• 1:07:32
  Legend. What's he speaking?
• 1:07:38
  I should probably know that right, who cares is on the
• 1:07:42
  schedule and he's going to talk about Tic-Tac-Toe strategies.
• 1:07:45
  Well, I'm gonna play Tic-Tac-Toe, it Don talks, he's
• 1:07:47
  one of the people lose schexnayder is one that's like,
• 1:07:50
  over talking, right? Well, I'm just gonna go because
• 1:07:52
  I learn something. How are you?
• 1:07:54
  You know, when the when the greats are speaking?
• 1:07:55
  Because as soon as they start talking, everyone else's dead
• 1:07:57
  silent their writing things down.
• 1:07:59
  Yeah, yeah. Well, the to give a little bit
• 1:08:02
  of a preview you so, season 4 of The Gila Phoenix connections,
• 1:08:05
  like a starts on January 2nd engineer, and we're kicking off,
• 1:08:08
  season 4 with Dan half. Oh, that's kind of and as we
• 1:08:11
  were getting ready to interviewed and month or so ago,
• 1:08:14
  another coach, I don't know if you must be telling stories, I
• 1:08:17
  won't name him but he said, hey, here's my dad passed or he was
• 1:08:21
  speaking. This is recently, this goes
• 1:08:22
  because for a long time now, they say No rookie like you
• 1:08:25
  jack, he said, all I did was just sit there and write, not
• 1:08:28
  like I was front row. And I've been coaching for 30
• 1:08:30
  years and I just sat there in the front row and he goes, and I
• 1:08:32
  remember at the very last thing, I just Wrote?
• 1:08:33
  I am so dumb because Dan is so sorry.
• 1:08:36
  So so no, well, Jake. So what we have a little fun
• 1:08:39
  here today, how got 100 only cheating?
• 1:08:42
  I got 100 random questions and, you know, you guys are out there
• 1:08:45
  and live world. You know how random these are 1
• 1:08:48
  through 100. You get to pick the number that
• 1:08:49
  we're going to ask. It's going to 52.
• 1:08:53
  What's the significance of 52? That was my first football
• 1:08:57
  number back in like kiwi, football team.
• 1:09:00
  Let's get drunk, man. If you could be in in, in any
• 1:09:04
  video game, which one would it be?
• 1:09:06
  You get it, man. Like you, you attacking Donkey
• 1:09:08
  Kong or something? But what game would you be a
• 1:09:10
  number Tron? They were in the game.
• 1:09:11
  Yeah. That's a tough one right now,
• 1:09:15
  probably God works. I'm Justin, I'm not a huge gamer
• 1:09:18
  but I've been seen all the videos on that and that looks
• 1:09:20
  like a beak. Probably not the most chill
• 1:09:58
  activity but working out. Yeah, honestly, just something
• 1:10:02
  about it. So relaxing and having like that
• 1:10:04
  set goal, Papa headphones in and everything like that wasn't you
• 1:10:06
  know I'm a big rock fans always rock.
• 1:10:08
  Big, big AC/DC van. Yeah.
• 1:10:11
  So Wearing that and just going after really hard to have a lot
• 1:10:13
  of fun with that and friends tag along that kind of thing is
• 1:10:16
  always the signs will wrap us up your man, what are you looking
• 1:10:18
  forward to the most in the 2023 season?
• 1:10:22
  She's probably just overall the experience, the experience with
• 1:10:24
  with the athletes, everything like that and watching them grow
• 1:10:27
  and develop. That's been the biggest thing I
• 1:10:28
  learned in year. One was just everything you can
• 1:10:30
  do to help the kids get better, help them grow, develop
• 1:10:33
  athletically personally and everything that they're doing
• 1:10:36
  and seeing the growth of they made from last year to this year
• 1:10:39
  was incredible and seeing what they're going to do in.
• 1:10:41
  Three seasons and even better. You know I just hope for you and
• 1:10:46
  I just know because I know it to be true so long satisfying
• 1:10:49
  career man you know it's it's great.
• 1:10:51
  I remember my first couple of years coaching and just to know
• 1:10:54
  it's everything it's all consuming and you gotta know you
• 1:10:57
  gotta think long-term and that's not the greatest thing on
• 1:10:59
  Twitter of all places of course, Kimber, who was, I'm so sorry.
• 1:11:03
  What a sales rep, Mokelumne, we talked about just like you guys
• 1:11:11
  Giudice, Victoria. I think about what you're doing
• 1:11:14
  here. But I think, you know, you've
• 1:11:16
  got the things up here and here you have a long career, we just
• 1:11:20
  can't have you burned out and be down at the 30. 35.
• 1:11:23
  Yeah. I mean, let's take a selfie.
• 1:11:25
  All right, thanks for being alive.
• 1:11:27
  Feel that buttocks. Connections podcast.
• 1:11:28
  Right here, you sta sta. 2022 convention, and you're still
• 1:11:32
  here online. That's quite amazing.
• 1:11:34
  We're going to see who's coming up, next organized.
• 1:11:39
  And we're going to have a lot of fun as we continue here.
• 1:11:41
  In Denver Colorado at the u.s. tfcc a convention.
• 1:11:46
  I almost said winter meeting convention here in 2022.
• 1:11:50
  All right, I'm letting everybody introduce themselves.
• 1:11:52
  Go ahead. Introduce yourself your Chris,
• 1:11:54
  Chris. We time at Seattle Pacific
• 1:11:55
  University and yeah, I'm a regular here at the convention.
• 1:11:59
  So yeah, you jump ahead of my questions.
• 1:12:08
  I just hear someone who was there for the division to me.
• 1:12:11
  And they told me about something that I really got to check out
• 1:12:14
  how I don't remember what it is, there's a museum.
• 1:12:16
  So like a real oh yeah it's got the Rock and Roll Hall Of.
• 1:12:18
  He's got it's got to be mo pop the Museum of Pop history and it
• 1:12:21
  was incredible. Yeah, he's my friend from Emory
• 1:12:23
  rutile actually. Oh yeah, he's the he told me
• 1:12:25
  about. Yeah.
• 1:12:26
  You know, Bona room and a pearl G.
• 1:12:27
  Yeah. And I think Bill Gates, put a
• 1:12:30
  lot of money towards that and I think Eddie Vetter did
• 1:12:33
  contribute. And so they made sure he got his
• 1:12:35
  own room. Yeah.
• 1:12:36
  But what do you get what? I was really getting at?
• 1:12:38
  What are you coach there at the office?
• 1:12:39
  I'm mainly our distance coach. I'm associate head coach.
• 1:12:41
  There and, you know, obviously devil and other stuff when
• 1:12:44
  needed but primarily distance. Yeah.
• 1:12:45
  Coach doesn't come with. Just one Ali, you know, it's a
• 1:12:48
  big. It's a lot of hats.
• 1:12:50
  Yeah. I'm a track coach that
• 1:12:51
  specializes in this. There you got time.
• 1:12:54
  So you said you're a convention regular.
• 1:12:56
  How many years you've been coming?
• 1:12:57
  This is my seventh year. Yeah.
• 1:12:58
  So it's been, you know, pretty involved in committees and a lot
• 1:13:02
  of things. So it's just, you know what, I
• 1:13:06
  think about this podcast, you know, coaches connection.
• 1:13:10
  It just feels like an extension. What we do here, right
• 1:13:13
  Community, a lot of collaboration, sharing ideas,
• 1:13:16
  it's great. I actually kind of Wonder, I
• 1:13:18
  mean, I kind of know where I got the idea for doing what I want
• 1:13:20
  to do for about I wondered is this is my this is my Super Bowl
• 1:13:24
  and I love going to the NCAA championships and that is
• 1:13:26
  amazing. They are phenomenal to me.
• 1:13:28
  This is my this is my weakness. Oh I know, I know and I wonder
• 1:13:34
  if there's something subconsciously that that's what
• 1:13:36
  helped me because I actually started this before Cove and I
• 1:13:38
  was as a pre covid podcaster. I wonder if there's something
• 1:13:42
  kind of subconscious in there. So tell me as you two.
• 1:13:45
  You've got it down. Been here, seven years, you got
• 1:13:47
  it down like you know, you got the schedule and you gotta work
• 1:13:49
  your time. What are you looking forward to
• 1:13:51
  the most this week? I always look forward to a lot
• 1:13:54
  of our committee work. You know, we these committees
• 1:13:56
  are among division to executive committee and and serve as vice
• 1:14:00
  president for that committee. And so there's a lot of really
• 1:14:04
  interesting legislation that we're talking about right now
• 1:14:06
  some proposals. And and that's just a really
• 1:14:08
  hard working. Perfect.
• 1:14:09
  It's thankless work in many ways.
• 1:14:11
  It's It's conference calls every month but then this is our time
• 1:14:14
  that, okay? We're together we're in a room
• 1:14:16
  and it's just people who are very invested in sport.
• 1:14:20
  I obviously, one of my highlights obviously balam in.
• 1:14:23
  You can do with that, but the coaches Hall of Fame is a big
• 1:14:27
  deal, especially as a younger coach.
• 1:14:29
  I'm in my 30s and looking at being inspired by these coaches,
• 1:14:33
  from these amazing people. Yeah.
• 1:14:35
  And not all of them. Have big Power, five schools,
• 1:14:37
  either. Some of the best coaches are
• 1:14:39
  coaching high school with the coaching smaller, Schools.
• 1:14:42
  And so, for me, when I'm thinking about where my career
• 1:14:46
  is going, and it just gives me so much, hope in like, what is
• 1:14:50
  possible in this profession, you know?
• 1:14:53
  So I know. I just listed basically
• 1:14:54
  everything about convention though, I missed like 100
• 1:14:57
  things, that's it. Still trying to be a family man.
• 1:15:13
  You're married. It's plus coach.
• 1:15:15
  So I do appreciate that. You're bored.
• 1:15:17
  You, I've got some random questions here.
• 1:15:18
  Awesome. Hey random questions.
• 1:15:20
  Let's do it. Did, they are off the wall.
• 1:15:22
  Ran up here. So 1 through 100, you get to
• 1:15:24
  pick the number. 38, why 38, why 38?
• 1:15:29
  This is gonna I don't even it's high school.
• 1:15:32
  We had what we called red numbers like red.
• 1:15:35
  Like red number five, red like Star Wars X-Wing Fighters before
• 1:15:39
  every race we check in red 38. Stay involved.
• 1:15:42
  So we're ready. Okay, well this is perfect for
• 1:15:57
  what we were just talking about earlier.
• 1:15:58
  It's Chow Time. What's your favorite music?
• 1:16:00
  Artist and song? Favorite music artist and song.
• 1:16:04
  My favorite band right now is the War on Drugs.
• 1:16:07
  Their van out of Philly, their incredible very layer.
• 1:16:11
  Adam relief guys is incredible musician favorite song.
• 1:16:18
  Gosh, I'm much more of a much more album guy.
• 1:16:21
  Yes, I'm not saying I'm a vinyl guy with album Person.
• 1:16:29
  So speaking of songs. It's huh one song one song you
• 1:16:33
  get you can put overheat 100 times.
• 1:16:35
  So you better like it. What's the one song?
• 1:16:37
  Yeah. Yeah going on here.
• 1:16:39
  What's your favorite one drug song?
• 1:16:41
  If your lawn drug song would be it's their last Disturbed last
• 1:16:47
  song in Reverse still in Reverse.
• 1:16:49
  I love the last song on their third album.
• 1:16:52
  So I'm not I'm a Christian hip-hop fan.
• 1:16:55
  Yes, exclusively in the gravel something.
• 1:16:57
  I'm going to loosen the War on Drugs in Reverse.
• 1:17:00
  Yeah. Say, yeah, let's not album.
• 1:17:02
  That's great. So yeah, I'm not gonna do it.
• 1:17:06
  That's great. Thank you so much for being
• 1:17:10
  here. It's like yeah.
• 1:17:12
  Alright being a live podcast right here at the USGA.
• 1:17:16
  Okay, thanks. All right.
• 1:17:19
  The crowd is standing. I think I can.
• 1:17:20
  I scared everybody off by saying that we were going to go to
• 1:17:23
  seven and that was it. But I'm going to go on.
• 1:17:26
  If you're going to be here, I'm going to be here.
• 1:17:27
  They're going to be here. We're going to keep going on
• 1:17:29
  here so we'll see. See where it goes.
• 1:17:32
  And what happens here on the live taping of the Gulf of
• 1:17:34
  extracting Fields, connections podcast.
• 1:17:37
  All right, we got our next person in the hot seat.
• 1:17:39
  Go ahead and move up here for me.
• 1:17:40
  Right. And introduce Yourself, my name
• 1:17:42
  is coach cage. I'm from Atlanta Georgia, it
• 1:17:46
  coach girls coaching Westlake High School, Jason, you did
• 1:17:51
  something today. I was very impressed with my
• 1:17:54
  friends so I'm a huge social media guy, as you know, right?
• 1:17:59
  Right. You can always catch me on
• 1:18:00
  Twitter at Iconium that easy and Jason here today said, hey, he's
• 1:18:05
  not here at the convention. He's a high school.
• 1:18:06
  Coach is only a few of you here. I should say few, but you're the
• 1:18:09
  minority and reverse the college coaches.
• 1:18:11
  He put on He goes, hey, if any of you college coaches, want to
• 1:18:14
  learn more about Westlake High School in our athletes.
• 1:18:17
  Here's where I'm going to be between five and seven PM.
• 1:18:19
  Come check it out. I got those very intelligent my
• 1:18:22
  friend. What does that come from?
• 1:18:23
  Because no one else did it and there's other opportunities for
• 1:18:26
  people in college coach should have said, hey coach here at the
• 1:18:31
  convention. I'm gonna be right here if you
• 1:18:32
  want to talk. Look at that.
• 1:18:33
  Where is that little Ingenuity come from from you guys.
• 1:18:36
  Where are, you know kosher, man? I'm just all about the kids,
• 1:18:39
  putting them out there. I make a lot of my connections
• 1:18:43
  scholarships by attending conventions, like these
• 1:18:45
  actually. This is my first time at this
• 1:18:47
  kind of combustion. So just wanted to come out here
• 1:18:50
  and meet a new set of coaches. Put our keys, Advertiser kids to
• 1:18:54
  leave a lot of talent in Georgia, and you can in the
• 1:18:56
  southern regions. Will you be at the Georgia
• 1:19:00
  Clinic over in Rome Georgia? Yes, I'll be there.
• 1:19:03
  Okay. So as you were planning this
• 1:19:06
  your first time here, UST, FCC a convention, you know, it's a big
• 1:19:10
  schedule, right? There's a lot of Different
• 1:19:11
  things you can do, what was something.
• 1:19:13
  Some of the things that you circle like man, I ain't missing
• 1:19:15
  this for me. I'm going to the nuts and bolts
• 1:19:19
  break down just to learning from head.
• 1:19:23
  Coach perspective of how to run, get better, run and meet you
• 1:19:26
  better run your organization of your team.
• 1:19:28
  So that's one really Circle. It's rained by want to coach the
• 1:19:32
  University of Tennessee, so I'm going to hand back up because,
• 1:19:37
  you know, we are an audio-only podcast is about as big as this.
• 1:19:41
  And for crying out loud, you show that off all ties, man.
• 1:19:45
  Go be no, shame in that. Well, Jason, we got kind of
• 1:19:48
  having fun here tonight, you know, just laid-back the live
• 1:19:50
  version here at the gulf, headaches connections podcast.
• 1:19:53
  So I've got don't be cheating on my eyes homework.
• 1:19:55
  Now, I've got a random, 100 questions you get to pick the
• 1:19:59
  number of which question is yours.
• 1:20:00
  Okay, 1 through 100. Let's go with number one, I love
• 1:20:06
  it, man. We've had this one.
• 1:20:07
  This one was a good one. Let's see, what your answer
• 1:20:09
  here. Is number one, 30 minutes or
• 1:20:10
  less. What top Is never going on your
• 1:20:12
  pizza, my friend right topping. That would be black olives.
• 1:20:17
  I hate to tell you. That was the answer before.
• 1:20:20
  Now, do you just not like, olives, a tall order, some pizza
• 1:20:24
  ovens at all? Yeah, that's funny.
• 1:20:25
  That's funny. That's so far 22 in a row.
• 1:20:27
  That's the question, the answer. No.
• 1:20:29
  All is intense pepperoni chicken wings.
• 1:20:41
  You know, I went to the greatest University in the world, I went
• 1:20:46
  to Troy University, my son's name is Troy.
• 1:20:51
  Okay. Yeah, yeah.
• 1:20:52
  So my teammate over here, this guy right here in the black
• 1:20:55
  shirt, he went to Coastal Carolina and we just whip their
• 1:20:58
  butt in the conference Championship game.
• 1:20:59
  So I'm having a good year. Have a good year?
• 1:21:02
  Yeah. So Jason has we ran out tonight.
• 1:21:04
  Tell us what's got you, most excited.
• 1:21:06
  What are you looking forward to the most in 2023 with your track
• 1:21:08
  and field team? Oh man, look at yours a lot,
• 1:21:11
  man. Last year we hosted Christian
• 1:21:13
  called me invitation? Yeah that's right.
• 1:21:15
  To stay record was broken. Beaufort board looking for my
• 1:21:19
  girlfriend. They ran fast that they ran 40
• 1:21:22
  point 0 3. Yeah, I thought it was real
• 1:21:24
  close to that point, which is it still only one high school?
• 1:21:27
  That's broken 40. No.
• 1:21:31
  Okay, no it's another High School thinking maybe for being
• 1:21:34
  lost 39. Hi.
• 1:21:36
  Okay. That's couple years of yeah.
• 1:21:37
  Yeah. I think you're right.
• 1:21:38
  Okay. Yeah.
• 1:21:39
  When I was in high school way back in the day, High school.
• 1:21:42
  That did it. And I can't even guess who the
• 1:21:44
  guys are on the team. I can see that.
• 1:21:45
  Yeah, it was like, man. That's a big deal, right?
• 1:22:11
  His scholarship for not only whistling athletes for other
• 1:22:14
  athletes, so I'm not here. Invite coaches, two armies met.
• 1:22:18
  A couple of them are going to come so dude, to put George on
• 1:22:21
  the map. Well, Jason man, I love the
• 1:22:23
  hustle and I love the unique hustle.
• 1:22:25
  I mean really, when you, when you tell you that today, I was
• 1:22:27
  like, genius. Like that is like, that's,
• 1:22:30
  that's kind of stuff. I'm gonna steal eventually on
• 1:22:31
  Twitter and I'll figure out of making my own way, man.
• 1:22:33
  I love the man. I thought I was a great job.
• 1:22:35
  Very much is a lot about your intelligence and character,
• 1:22:37
  right? Let's get a selfie to in to do
• 1:22:39
  here tonight, right? First, Time meeting them.
• 1:22:42
  I love a good Precinct. I'll see you in like a month or
• 1:22:45
  so, you know, we named this If you want to get on, I want you
• 1:22:52
  on. All right here.
• 1:22:54
  Love you brother. We're gonna keep going.
• 1:22:56
  If there's people still waiting at seven, I'm gonna keep going.
• 1:22:59
  All right, chicken. All right yeah.
• 1:23:02
  Yeah, I'll be here. Yeah.
• 1:23:07
  You know, we named the podcast, the connections podcast for a
• 1:23:09
  reason man. I love connecting with people
• 1:23:12
  and new people and we got another new person here today.
• 1:23:15
  I love it. Introduce yourself here, my
• 1:23:16
  friend, my name is Alex, Diversity.
• 1:23:22
  I love Alex, scoop come a little closer for me here.
• 1:23:26
  So you're at Middle Tennessee, State University.
• 1:23:28
  Which so I have to admit something, I do, you know, I've
• 1:23:32
  done this podcast, we're getting started and our fourth season in
• 1:23:34
  January and there is a rhyme and reason to the guests that we
• 1:23:39
  have on the podcast. But I do feel sometimes a little
• 1:23:43
  bit of a responsibility to interview coaches.
• 1:23:47
  That may not be around for very long and that regret it.
• 1:23:51
  Hit me a little bit with my dear friend Dean Haze over this past
• 1:23:54
  year. And this story is amazing and I
• 1:23:58
  just I kind of kicked myself of not being able to capture that
• 1:24:02
  for other people for posterity reasons.
• 1:24:04
  Love Dean with all my heart, this great.
• 1:24:08
  I mean, he built this program to Rarities.
• 1:24:10
  I wouldn't have a job if you didn't do the program's where it
• 1:24:13
  is. He left a great legacy behind
• 1:24:16
  big shoes for me to film. Yeah.
• 1:24:19
  If I can be happy coach at the top Legacy behind all of that
• 1:24:23
  means L done its work. You know, Alex will position,
• 1:24:30
  you talked about filling his shoes, you don't fill his shoes,
• 1:24:32
  feel your shoes and you build your own legacy knowing that you
• 1:24:35
  have the experience and joy of having known in watched him do
• 1:24:39
  his crap. So I just wanted to say that to
• 1:24:42
  you there. Who shouted in Hayes, man.
• 1:24:45
  Love the into death and miss him dearly.
• 1:24:48
  He was, I was a young coach at Troy University and would see
• 1:24:52
  Dean all the time. It's always a selfless, man.
• 1:24:56
  That's the best compliment. I can give that.
• 1:24:58
  Looks, tell us about the convention.
• 1:24:59
  How many years have you gone to the convention here?
• 1:25:02
  This is my first year at the convention.
• 1:25:03
  Yeah, it's my first year as a coach.
• 1:25:06
  So okay, okay, so you're smart guy, you looked at the schedule
• 1:25:11
  before you got here and it's a long schedule.
• 1:25:13
  What's one or two? Things that you Circle that you
• 1:25:15
  were like, there's no way I'm missing this.
• 1:25:18
  So I'm gonna actually exactly in the seminar but it was the one
• 1:25:21
  for rookie head, coaches and assistant, coaches and kind of
• 1:25:24
  what it takes to become head coach.
• 1:25:26
  Obviously, I'm still young. I'm doing the coaching
• 1:25:28
  profession, but at the end of the day, that's the ultimate
• 1:25:30
  goal as the trans to be able to have everything I can look at
• 1:25:37
  this point that holding the future doesn't matter.
• 1:25:40
  Did you do member? Who's given that a love that?
• 1:25:42
  I do not, yes, it's okay. You got the knowledge?
• 1:25:45
  That's the most important part. Well, it's, we're having a
• 1:25:47
  little fun here tonight. I've got 100 random questions
• 1:25:49
  and they are the random my friend.
• 1:25:51
  There, 1 through 100. You get to pick the number of
• 1:25:53
  what question you get tonight. See all of us old people from
• 1:25:59
  the Midwest with us Jordan and you went great.
• 1:26:02
  I love it. 23, you know when you were you were at 23, I try not
• 1:26:06
  to remember that you're at halftime.
• 1:26:08
  I'm pretty sick. I'm exactly double your age.
• 1:26:11
  It only gets worse, just so you're all right, man. 23.
• 1:26:14
  Get out of my kitchen man. What's your least favorite food
• 1:26:18
  or ingredient? Oh, we're in trouble.
• 1:27:00
  Just trying to see how far they've come.
• 1:27:07
  We had a great fall training made a lot of progress and I
• 1:27:11
  think the kids are ready and I know I'm ready to put that to
• 1:27:15
  relation to see all the hard work they put in.
• 1:27:17
  Will you never get another first year?
• 1:27:19
  So enjoy it, give yourself a break.
• 1:27:22
  You need You're going to make mistakes.
• 1:27:24
  There's lots of coaches here, been 20, 30 years, and they're
• 1:27:27
  making mistakes. You're human.
• 1:27:28
  So, give yourself a break, and just know that it's going to
• 1:27:30
  work out. You doing a great job.
• 1:27:32
  Thank you. You learn from your mistakes.
• 1:27:34
  Oh, absolutely. That's alright, let's take a
• 1:27:35
  selfie, let's do it and I appreciate you coming on the
• 1:27:37
  live recording of the go up and it's connections.
• 1:27:40
  Podcast. Thank you very much for having
• 1:27:42
  me. Appreciate you brother.
• 1:27:43
  How precious man I remember my first year and golly boy, did I
• 1:27:47
  make some mistakes? They say you know you brought up
• 1:27:49
  a good thing, he talked about, you learn from your mistakes.
• 1:27:51
  Well, that was true. I would Be it genius but I don't
• 1:27:54
  think that's always necessarily true with with this guy here.
• 1:27:58
  Alright this next guest is going to be a hoot.
• 1:28:00
  He better not disappoint us because we're recording because
• 1:28:03
  I met today's today. This guest and he had me
• 1:28:07
  cracking up, introduce yourself my friend and you told me you
• 1:28:18
  threatened me this morning that you wanted to be my butt in
• 1:28:24
  Together as one. You know, he's okay.
• 1:28:27
  Will someone tell me? This is your first year?
• 1:28:38
  Because the Jim tells me you're smart guy, you know, the
• 1:28:41
  schedules Long, right? You had to exert some things,
• 1:28:45
  one or two things that you're like, there's no way I'm missing
• 1:28:47
  you. This, what were some of those
• 1:28:48
  things are not miss for you this week?
• 1:28:50
  It's actually going to be, I think is, well, last Is it by
• 1:28:53
  coach Taylor? Okay, BYU definitely got me was
• 1:28:59
  that I learned about her story and just like, you know, I feel
• 1:29:05
  like that is going to be a great with just because if I can get
• 1:29:07
  that information now. Yeah, not to put yourself in a
• 1:29:18
  box there. So you hit the nail on the head
• 1:29:20
  there. Maybe it's, maybe it's some
• 1:29:21
  generalization that Younger coaches, don't think about
• 1:29:24
  mental health until later that year.
• 1:29:25
  They think about that X's and O's and the techniques and
• 1:29:28
  networking things like that. And also as a throws coach,
• 1:29:31
  you're going to go, listen to a distance coach and exactly like,
• 1:29:34
  you know, generalization here. But like to listen to Don
• 1:29:37
  Babbitt or whoever is, but a distance Coast but she got to
• 1:29:40
  talk to me about really good and you know, I also Ukraine's
• 1:29:46
  everything. You know, I want to be versatile
• 1:29:48
  because you know as you know Valentine we're starting
• 1:29:52
  program. You never know when I might have
• 1:29:55
  to coach a job, you know? So instead of saying oh you
• 1:30:00
  know, I mean my kids, you know Wise beyond
• 1:30:18
  your years, my friend. What's awesome.
• 1:30:19
  Is that layer? So that will continue on, that's
• 1:30:22
  really good. We're gonna see how wise you
• 1:30:24
  are. I've got 100.
• 1:30:26
  Okay, random question is here. Okay, it's 1 through 100.
• 1:30:28
  You get to pick a number. All right 64?
• 1:30:31
  What's the significance of 6400? My room full of all right man,
• 1:30:35
  let's talk about pets pet, peeves.
• 1:30:38
  What's your biggest pet peeve in life?
• 1:30:41
  This time because you have so many, like, how do I narrow it
• 1:30:45
  down to just the biggest? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly.
• 1:30:54
  With something that. Yeah, I'm a family guy guy,
• 1:30:56
  right? So, here's the thing with this
• 1:30:57
  grinds Mike. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 1:31:00
  Is it people that ask you a question and just won't shut up
• 1:31:02
  and keep making, you ask the question, you know what
• 1:31:06
  happened? Even in my face.
• 1:31:08
  I don't like when people assume I'm angry when I use, you know,
• 1:31:12
  like James Harrison the football player for the still here.
• 1:31:15
  Sure, everybody. You're right?
• 1:31:19
  Yeah. Like, do you know?
• 1:31:20
  I'm listening, I'm listening to some Katy Perry right now.
• 1:31:23
  Head. All right look you know I'm
• 1:31:25
  listening to some music but you know an outside I might just be
• 1:31:29
  you know that's that's definitely interesting.
• 1:31:35
  I've worked on not judging so it's a judge you right thing.
• 1:31:38
  Oh here's this guy's big. That's a good thing about
• 1:31:54
  tracking. Always lot of different
• 1:31:57
  different people, different places, I mean, everybody
• 1:32:00
  dressing different. You know?
• 1:32:01
  And you know just I definitely when I just found fully decided
• 1:32:05
  one to go coach and I was like the only way I would be
• 1:32:08
  somewhere thing. Accept me for me.
• 1:32:09
  Yeah, yeah, yeah. Tattoos, you know, you know, you
• 1:32:18
  know, you know, something like that, you know.
• 1:32:20
  So, you know, that's definitely, You know when I say okay this is
• 1:32:25
  the right thing. Yeah we talked about when we
• 1:32:31
  recruit athletes finding the right fit.
• 1:32:33
  It's also important for the coach to find the right fit and
• 1:32:36
  Fab University or High School setting that they're going to
• 1:32:38
  accept you for who you are. Because again you're an
• 1:32:40
  individual unique person. So exact lets you want to
• 1:32:43
  change. Yes, to find people noticing
• 1:32:45
  over you. I feel like this how success is
• 1:32:47
  built and you know, of course, you can be, you know, training
• 1:32:50
  and all that stuff, but I feel like this is one of those Things
• 1:32:54
  where there's somebody in your life.
• 1:32:55
  You want to go above and beyond for just because of which I went
• 1:32:59
  through or something like that and I feel like once you get to
• 1:33:02
  their relationship with the student athlete that's when, you
• 1:33:05
  know, that's when they didn't, I wasn't expecting.
• 1:33:08
  Yeah, things happen. I have to do this, you know, and
• 1:33:11
  that's, that's how I was for me with coaching mean that then I
• 1:33:15
  had coach methodology know. They definitely.
• 1:33:17
  I wasn't the best student athlete and I wasn't the best
• 1:33:20
  student. But you know, they gave me time
• 1:33:22
  to actually Get right. You know it do everything I need
• 1:33:25
  to do that definitely helped me like I mean a lots of that's why
• 1:33:28
  I'm I'm happy with developing athletes.
• 1:33:29
  You know you know because elements is key you know that's
• 1:33:32
  going to go on way after they you know some of these kids I
• 1:33:37
  saw they give you guys. I'm glad I never touched that
• 1:33:39
  you know me a lawyer doctor. So it's gonna be real fun to
• 1:33:46
  watch your development. Yeah, thanks to.
• 1:33:48
  So you're really you're barely at the starting line.
• 1:33:50
  Yeah, exactly career. It's because that really
• 1:33:52
  interesting Gonna be a great journey.
• 1:33:54
  Yeah, I'm definitely excited. Let's get our selfie in here
• 1:33:57
  man. I appreciate you very much for
• 1:33:59
  being here on the podcast. Trusting me here at the live
• 1:34:02
  record. He said, for tonight, we go for
• 1:34:04
  time somehow some way you could have done, you know, a literally
• 1:34:11
  met Malik this morning down actually kind of afternoon for
• 1:34:15
  lunch down in the lobby and just about a great character.
• 1:34:18
  What a great just bubbly person. That's that's the kind of guy
• 1:34:21
  that I want my kid. To be coached by Band.
• 1:34:25
  All right. Hey, let's have you introduce
• 1:34:27
  yourselves. All right, let's go.
• 1:34:28
  After a couple of these, it gets a little where my at look like
• 1:34:31
  my talking to can't. I can imagine that very well.
• 1:34:35
  We'll introduce yourself here. All right.
• 1:34:37
  Mike, Ross Lena, I'm the head track and cross country coach at
• 1:34:41
  Embry-Riddle University in Daytona Beach, Florida.
• 1:34:43
  Okay. I was gonna say because there's
• 1:34:44
  two, Embry riddles, right? And it sure, you know, Florida,
• 1:34:47
  what I'm a Florida is one of the real one.
• 1:34:51
  Yes, you know, Florida is a we're a bigger campus.
• 1:34:56
  So there's two of us has one in Arizona.
• 1:34:58
  Went to Florida or are they connect Holodeck sisters?
• 1:35:00
  Yes. Okay.
• 1:35:01
  We actually have a third campus which is our Worldwide.
• 1:35:03
  Campus is more of our online presence as well.
• 1:35:07
  So well in the Arizona ones. Nai.
• 1:35:10
  Yeah. And then we're in CA a division
• 1:35:12
  to about three times the size. Yeah.
• 1:35:15
  So tell me how many years have you been coming to conventional?
• 1:35:20
  Forever. Okay, that's great answer.
• 1:35:22
  It's probably at least eight to ten.
• 1:35:24
  So as an expert in the convention, what is when you
• 1:35:27
  were looking at this week and I know you guys you guys are smart
• 1:35:30
  you kind of plan out your week. There's some not you know, can't
• 1:35:32
  miss topics or event what was your one or two?
• 1:35:35
  Just that there's no way no matter what happens.
• 1:35:38
  I got to make this. I mean number one you got to
• 1:35:41
  make the Mundo part out. There you go absolutely.
• 1:35:43
  Yeah that's number one hundred percent.
• 1:35:45
  I remember too. Yeah I go to parties you know
• 1:35:50
  for me. Unlike three committees.
• 1:35:52
  So 90% of my time here I think spent meetings, or the not fun
• 1:35:57
  part trying to get to a couple symposiums just to kind of hear
• 1:36:01
  some things. But what is the meetings for
• 1:36:04
  those executive committee meetings and things like that?
• 1:36:07
  You said the not fun part but what's that is?
• 1:36:10
  So then why do I let me ask you that way?
• 1:36:12
  What? It's not fun.
• 1:36:13
  Got himself a bit there. What do I do?
• 1:36:16
  It's maybe not necessarily the fun part but it's the most
• 1:36:19
  important part. It's making a difference in our
• 1:36:22
  sport, trying to grow our sport, trying to make it better.
• 1:36:24
  You know, what are the things that we can do to fine-tune
• 1:36:27
  things to make it better for our student athletes.
• 1:36:29
  Have a great student athlete experience, you know, but also
• 1:36:33
  to try to make it the most competitive environment we can
• 1:36:36
  and also be able to Market it. How are we going to Market it to
• 1:36:39
  make track and field, bigger, and better, and things like what
• 1:36:42
  you're doing, like, having podcast out there.
• 1:36:44
  So, you know, people around the world hear about us, know about
• 1:36:47
  it, know what we're doing and know that we're producing.
• 1:36:50
  Some quality product at all levels and how do we let people
• 1:36:55
  know how good of an experience for having and but what
• 1:36:59
  difference making we can respect?
• 1:37:01
  Well I appreciate you doing it because I know it's not always
• 1:37:03
  the fun part but it is shaping our sport, it is important and
• 1:37:06
  you don't get paid extra it's more hours so I do appreciate
• 1:37:10
  that. And while that might not be the
• 1:37:12
  most fun thing in the world. This is right here.
• 1:37:14
  All right, I've got 100 random questions.
• 1:37:16
  Numbered 1 through 100. You get to pick the number.
• 1:37:18
  You know, my favorite numbers choose.
• 1:37:20
  That's what? I always go with, but my boy.
• 1:37:22
  Chris Reed told me I should take 38.
• 1:37:24
  I don't, I don't know. Okay, let's do 38.
• 1:37:29
  Let's go. Number two is your favorite
• 1:37:31
  number. Let's start there.
• 1:37:33
  So number to 88 miles per hour. What rules he had rules?
• 1:37:49
  Marvel Universe has their own rules.
• 1:37:51
  What's your what's your number-one rule?
• 1:37:52
  If you're going to be a Time Travelers, don't screw it up.
• 1:37:57
  Yeah, you know what, I love simple rules.
• 1:38:00
  You know, I'm kind of that way with my team, you know, we don't
• 1:38:03
  have a lot of Team rules. It's there's expectations and
• 1:38:06
  there's things. You enjoy yourself.
• 1:38:09
  Go, learn something. Yeah, but don't mess with time.
• 1:38:12
  That's a good. When you come back, leave it the
• 1:38:15
  same way you found. It's a good culture.
• 1:38:16
  If I could have a lot of rules, be respectful, be things like
• 1:38:19
  that. Love it.
• 1:38:20
  All right. 30 it man, it's about time.
• 1:38:23
  What's your favorite music artist and song?
• 1:38:26
  My favorite music artists on. So right now most of the music I
• 1:38:30
  listen to is all Christian music.
• 1:38:32
  So right now, my favorite artists.
• 1:38:34
  Are we? The kingdom?
• 1:38:35
  Yeah, okay, don't tread on me. Okay.
• 1:38:40
  All right. So I'm a huge and it's also kind
• 1:38:51
  of like rocket Christian so it's not it's something I can listen
• 1:38:54
  to I'm running and And I'm a huge Christian hip-hop say okay
• 1:38:59
  that's 90% of the music. I listen to McCray and enough
• 1:39:04
  and in extreme I can guys like that.
• 1:39:07
  That's my to my genre keep seeing it.
• 1:39:10
  My Twitter post when I work out when I posted it.
• 1:39:12
  Yeah, those lyrics are all from. Th Mom.
• 1:39:14
  Okay? Wonder where some, of, those
• 1:39:17
  poets Kenya. All them come from all those
• 1:39:19
  guys, so we're off the wall. Yeah, it had to figure it out.
• 1:39:22
  It's what I'm listening to a line or two.
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  Catches me. I'll go over to my notes.
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  Action and write it down for a future feature.
• 1:39:28
  Phones - pretty cool. The show, man.
• 1:39:30
  Let's get our selfie in here. All right.
• 1:39:33
  I appreciate you so much. Yeah, my groom for you this
• 1:39:36
  year, man. It's gonna be a good year.
• 1:39:37
  I just feel excited for it's going to be going to be.
• 1:39:39
  Excellent. Awesome.
• 1:39:40
  Well, I appreciate it later today.
• 1:39:43
  Yeah. Hey, and this guy here, he's
• 1:39:45
  going to be a future guest. He's on my list, but
• 1:39:48
  unfortunately the list is long and I only get two people a
• 1:39:53
  year. That's how big is he, right.
• 1:39:56
  It's hard to get on the show, but Mike's going to be on there.
• 1:39:59
  One day as well as this guy right here.
• 1:40:01
  Introduce yourself to us, please.
• 1:40:03
  I'm Shaun Phillips. Head coach in college and Goshen
• 1:40:06
  Indiana, son. I feel like your guy that
• 1:40:11
  haven't known for very long but it, Feels like I've known you
• 1:40:14
  for a long time. I feel like that too in between
• 1:40:18
  social media posts, a back-and-forth.
• 1:40:20
  And like, just promoting the sport and not just the sport but
• 1:40:23
  coaches and athletes who are doing good things and putting
• 1:40:25
  more positively back in your sport.
• 1:40:27
  Yeah. I think we've done that.
• 1:40:28
  A lot like an overlap. Yeah, yeah.
• 1:40:30
  Yeah I love that man and you're you know you're such a serious
• 1:40:34
  and Giver type of guy I think that may be what the tracks like
• 1:40:37
  oh this feels like a guy that I'd be like you live in the same
• 1:40:39
  town who you boys. I'm saying yeah.
• 1:40:43
  Tell us John about this week of the convention.
• 1:40:46
  You are smart guy. You have a list of all the
• 1:40:48
  different things going on at then.
• 1:40:50
  Speaking topic to meetings Etc. What were the one or two like
• 1:40:53
  you highlighted, big-time circle.
• 1:40:55
  Like I can't miss this. So there were a few different
• 1:40:58
  things that were really exciting for me, obviously.
• 1:41:02
  So it's my first year at notion. That's right.
• 1:41:04
  Because initially the transition I never feel like I know enough
• 1:41:08
  about being a head coach. So there was a rookie head coach
• 1:41:12
  or a first year at Otis. I've been head coach for a few
• 1:41:14
  years and I know that I don't know everything the minute I
• 1:41:17
  think I do, I need to stop coaching, you're in trouble, so
• 1:41:21
  that was one. That was exciting.
• 1:41:23
  There's always someone recruiting, that's always kind
• 1:41:25
  of like what's the new and latest thing coming out.
• 1:41:27
  But I know that the chandan already UCLA has a really good
• 1:41:30
  presentation coming up. Use a Grand Valley when I was in
• 1:41:32
  Michigan and he's a great guy. Charles, and furna also doesn't
• 1:41:37
  have a really good one. So I mean there have been a few
• 1:41:39
  that I'm really, really excited to see it's because their
• 1:41:42
  quality people who Done call them.
• 1:41:43
  Right? So you brought up some
• 1:41:45
  interesting. John about being your first year
• 1:41:47
  at Goshen are number one podcast by listings.
• 1:41:51
  Is by may be no surprise you sex, me?
• 1:41:53
  Wish I was one of the things. One of the reasons why I think
• 1:41:58
  that episode is so important, that if you haven't listened to
• 1:42:00
  it, absolutely have to listen to it.
• 1:42:02
  If you have listened to it, you need to listen to it again, but
• 1:42:04
  we will talks about if you could go back in time, what he would
• 1:42:07
  do different and he advises coaches, you know, we pay our
• 1:42:10
  coaches out here, so little money that You can go somewhere
• 1:42:14
  and make extra money. You need to do it because you
• 1:42:15
  need to be set yourself up for when you're 60, 70, retirement,
• 1:42:18
  that such a right. But we get into it.
• 1:42:21
  I just, I switched jobs a lot when I was coaching, I went to
• 1:42:23
  five different places in 10 years, right?
• 1:42:25
  So I did as well. And we always have these common
• 1:42:29
  excuses, reasons, whatever why we don't leave now, the kids had
• 1:42:33
  a good recruiting class. I don't want to leave these guys
• 1:42:35
  or gals etcetera. How did you handle transition of
• 1:42:39
  where you were to come to Goshen and all those outside voices
• 1:42:43
  that We hear when we start talking about other jobs.
• 1:42:45
  So the biggest thing for me was having a position that we not
• 1:42:50
  only facilitated us to be successful in our Sport and
• 1:42:53
  helped me grow as a coach, and help provide for my student
• 1:42:56
  athletes and give them a great opportunity.
• 1:42:58
  But it was also a chance to have my family.
• 1:43:01
  Be well, taken care of, I love my wife and my son dearly like
• 1:43:05
  they are my are my reason for getting up and working my butt
• 1:43:08
  off to do and so clean. We told Kids are Rochester.
• 1:43:14
  Why was there not just University of Michigan?
• 1:43:17
  I said, you know, it's gonna take a lot for me to let you
• 1:43:18
  move from here because we had in laws that can help facilitate
• 1:43:22
  some babysitting and they were very supportive of us and we're
• 1:43:25
  about an hour away from my folks now.
• 1:43:26
  So like we still have family close by but it's a 30,000
• 1:43:31
  person community. That loves the town.
• 1:43:33
  Almost looks like it should get one of those.
• 1:43:35
  Hallmark means it's very close knit up because it's close.
• 1:43:39
  Nick, you're going to have a lot of passionate people.
• 1:43:41
  And the big thing I tell, Kids if you want to go somewhere fast
• 1:43:44
  go alone if you want to go somewhere far go together.
• 1:43:47
  And so if we have a town that buys into what we're doing, our
• 1:43:50
  kids by and what we're doing, it makes it that much easier to go
• 1:43:53
  over. So well you're on your own right
• 1:43:56
  here. I have 100 random questions.
• 1:43:59
  You get to pick the number of your questions.
• 1:44:02
  Have any argue, we get to keep it.
• 1:44:07
  That's too much work. Okay.
• 1:44:08
  All right. You know what?
• 1:44:11
  Do 15 the date of my son's birthday from.
• 1:44:13
  I love a man in game. Who's your favorite comic book
• 1:44:16
  character? Captain America, one quite
• 1:44:20
  frankly because even when things are tough or hard, he still has
• 1:44:23
  to make the call to do the right thing.
• 1:44:25
  It's not always easy to do the right thing.
• 1:44:28
  Sometimes our sport, sometimes people like Fall by the wayside
• 1:44:31
  or say you know what, we're to be easy way out.
• 1:44:34
  If it were easy, everyone would do it.
• 1:44:35
  And we've got probably the best and hardest sport in the world.
• 1:44:38
  Amen. Because we have so many
• 1:44:40
  different disciplines. So many different things that
• 1:44:41
  you need to do to accomplish. So it's not easy and he's a guy
• 1:44:46
  that says I can do this other text.
• 1:44:47
  The easy route. Yeah.
• 1:44:49
  And quite frankly, I think that's worth emulating a lot.
• 1:44:53
  So yeah. It's putting it on stays
• 1:44:54
  working. Can throw the discus.
• 1:44:56
  So why not? That's what I knew there.
• 1:44:58
  Had to be something else in there.
• 1:44:59
  Yeah, well Sean me, let's get a selfie in here.
• 1:45:02
  Definitely. And in today's interview, man,
• 1:45:04
  I'm just so thankful for you. I appreciate everything you do
• 1:45:07
  and I think you are going to be transformational, occasionally,
• 1:45:09
  really do I think Not only the program in the school, but with
• 1:45:13
  your family, when you make decisions based on your family,
• 1:45:17
  things are gonna work out rather.
• 1:45:19
  Do I need to go somewhere yourself up.
• 1:45:32
  Yeah, so we told the line pretty well but it's worked out really
• 1:45:36
  well for us. I love them and it's just gonna
• 1:45:37
  keep getting better. I'm excited to watch along and
• 1:45:39
  watch the journey. Sure.
• 1:45:41
  Thanks John. Thanks for being on the show
• 1:45:42
  today. Thank you.
• 1:45:43
  As we're getting closer. It is 645, you were scheduled
• 1:45:47
  through 7:00. But again, I'm gonna, there's
• 1:45:49
  still people out here. I'm gonna make sure everybody
• 1:45:51
  here gets on the podcast. So if it's 7:00, we're going to
• 1:45:54
  keep going. I'm not stopping until everybody
• 1:45:57
  gets in the hot seat tonight. All right.
• 1:45:59
  So speak in the hot seat. Come on, you can't be shy.
• 1:46:01
  I'm not sure. You got this tiny camera.
• 1:46:04
  We got this microphone can't be so it's like when we're in a in
• 1:46:08
  the plane you know, you decide. Who's gonna get the armrest
• 1:46:12
  that's the biggest. If we had to
• 1:46:28
  use things, we had Joseph blue on the podcast, run through SAU
• 1:46:38
  back. They can't all this in an
• 1:46:39
  amazing Story on. The podcast, the first time he
• 1:46:42
  went into our, I won't get into it.
• 1:46:44
  You just have to listen to it after the show out here, but it
• 1:46:46
  was, it was quite amazing. So, tell me, John, how many
• 1:46:50
  times have you come to the convention?
• 1:46:51
  This is my second one, first one.
• 1:46:59
  You had no idea what was going on.
• 1:47:03
  What are you looking forward to the most this year at the
• 1:47:06
  convention? I get the biggest thing I'm
• 1:47:11
  trying to do is we focus on my this year?
• 1:47:13
  I'm not coaching jobs, okay, last year at this print, photos
• 1:47:16
  and job so I try to hit as many different events.
• 1:47:20
  Casualties as you can add this year, I'm going to focus in on.
• 1:47:23
  Just put your Journal so I can really just hone in on what I'm
• 1:47:26
  trying to perfect. I think that would make it a
• 1:47:28
  good experience. Is there someone specifically
• 1:47:32
  you're looking to listen to me this week?
• 1:47:35
  Yeah, I want to hear Ernie, of course.
• 1:47:38
  Want to hear Ernie, another Gil podcast alone mother.
• 1:47:40
  Yeah. Those all the good guys and gals
• 1:47:42
  are on the podcast. I'm just saying yeah.
• 1:47:44
  And then I want to drop in on Tony beanie as well, Tony was
• 1:47:49
  here because I actually coached against Tony when I was coaching
• 1:47:53
  at speak to a crowd because I
• 1:48:04
  usually Skip One on One. Don't want to ask a lot of
• 1:48:09
  questions in. Oh, yeah, well, canonical I
• 1:48:11
  always will maybe doesn't get his due to be real Frank with
• 1:48:16
  you in regards to how good he is in our sport as a track and
• 1:48:20
  field coach. Yeah, I guess he's been a lot of
• 1:48:22
  places. He's done a lot of great things,
• 1:48:23
  and I think he has a lot to offer, so whenever I have to
• 1:48:28
  talk to that's awesome. Well, we have a little fun
• 1:48:31
  tonight. I've got 100, random questions
• 1:48:33
  are all numbered 1 through 100, you get to be, there's the only
• 1:48:36
  part of the destiny. You get to do is The number and
• 1:48:38
  then I get to ask the questions. We had question rule that
• 1:48:41
  question. That's right.
• 1:48:42
  It's all in your mind right now. Spinning around, what number did
• 1:48:44
  you stop? I'll go with my football
• 1:48:47
  numbers, but 15. Yeah, it's common way to get the
• 1:48:51
  numbers. I'll always ask you.
• 1:48:52
  So what significance? Well football, all right in gay
• 1:48:55
  men, who is your favorite comic book?
• 1:48:57
  Character favorite growing up. I watched a lot of Superman and
• 1:49:06
  Batman. Actually, the Batman cartoon I
• 1:49:09
  have to go with that, because that, but now isn't it?
• 1:49:15
  Even though he's the villain, I really did enjoy.
• 1:49:18
  And yeah, I agree. It was something that would be
• 1:49:23
  the bad guy but there was something like you just kind of
• 1:49:25
  drawn because there's like that duality of like the weight of
• 1:49:29
  the responsibility is on me because he really thought he was
• 1:49:32
  doing the right thing. Yeah.
• 1:49:33
  Like he was convinced that his idea was great and it might have
• 1:49:35
  been a great idea. I think the execution I'm said
• 1:49:38
  idea it's just where the execution is the right word we
• 1:49:42
  just executed happened. Yeah, he did very often a
• 1:49:49
  cheapskate so I wait till they get the Disney plus, but since
• 1:49:53
  birthday was this past weekend and what his birthday once was
• 1:49:56
  to go see what conda forever. Have you seen that one?
• 1:49:58
  Yeah we took the team of the most of the team.
• 1:50:04
  We went as a team to go watch it on the weekend that it came out
• 1:50:08
  so you still have the team bonding loved it.
• 1:50:11
  It was awesome. God.
• 1:50:15
  Yeah, but I never got black cock but my cancer Comics.
• 1:50:18
  So he really knows that character very well.
• 1:50:21
  So, I knew I actually had the original comics of Thanos during
• 1:50:24
  its enemy were actually had all those nice, but if you all, the
• 1:50:27
  tradition was the Captain. America Spider-Man is all this
• 1:50:29
  kind of stuff it with black people to original came out.
• 1:50:33
  I'm gonna tell my wife was like I'm probably gonna go like
• 1:50:34
  because I don't know the story and it was amazing.
• 1:50:37
  Yeah. Then we'll kind of forever nose.
• 1:50:38
  Like told for sure I can't like to Andros are not going to deal.
• 1:50:41
  Look me in there. It was amazing.
• 1:50:43
  Yeah like you don't want another way.
• 1:50:45
  Be careful. Otherwise a more other guys.
• 1:50:47
  Yeah I don't think you need to watch the first one to
• 1:50:54
  understand the second. I don't think so.
• 1:50:55
  It might help but I don't think so.
• 1:50:56
  Yeah I think the two Standalone stories is obviously with the
• 1:51:02
  wasn't yet. They kind of put that in there
• 1:51:04
  but it was amazing. What are you looking forward to
• 1:51:10
  the most in the 2023 track season?
• 1:51:15
  Have a young team. So, I am really interested in
• 1:51:18
  seeing how my freshman adapt and my sophomores bounce back from
• 1:51:22
  last year. So I have a really heavy
• 1:51:24
  freshman sophomore team. So, I want to see how my youth
• 1:51:28
  adapt to this new environment. I'm sure my dreams is to be okay
• 1:51:31
  because they're they're all mature and have a few grad
• 1:51:34
  students. So, I'm like, I don't have to
• 1:51:36
  worry about them, but I'm interested, but my freshman and
• 1:51:38
  sophomore go down under your tutelage and what you learn here
• 1:51:42
  this week and the people that you allow to pour into you,
• 1:51:45
  they're going to do, they're going to do really well, they're
• 1:51:46
  gonna be your great Juniors and seniors coming up that you also
• 1:51:48
  worry about. You can leave your new
• 1:51:50
  sophomores and freshmen that come in.
• 1:51:52
  Oh yeah, definitely. Because like all the information
• 1:51:53
  I get here, goes back on with me and it goes to that.
• 1:51:57
  Well, this gets to go back home with me.
• 1:51:58
  I get to do a selfie. All right man, thanks for being
• 1:52:03
  on the show, I really appreciate.
• 1:52:05
  Yeah, we have a great season. I love it, man.
• 1:52:08
  We just virtually keep rolling. We got someone else knew coming
• 1:52:11
  into the show and we'll see who we've got here.
• 1:52:15
  I know exactly, we've got your I'm really excited about this
• 1:52:17
  one, this is going to be, it's going to be interesting and
• 1:52:20
  really what I love is it's about giving value.
• 1:52:23
  And today, today, next here on this podcast, we're going to
• 1:52:27
  talk all about value and value given.
• 1:52:30
  So please introduce yourself to the audience.
• 1:52:33
  Hello everyone. My name is Phil Esposito.
• 1:52:35
  I am Mondo's Business Development, training manager.
• 1:52:39
  I love it. My title just got changed to
• 1:52:41
  national business. Development manager was national
• 1:52:43
  sales manager, but the biz Dev site.
• 1:52:45
  I'd is this much more? Sure.
• 1:52:46
  My passion is I appreciate anybody's get this them and
• 1:52:49
  they're actually a title. Phil, you wanted to talk about
• 1:52:51
  something specific and I'm gonna put you on the spot because as I
• 1:52:54
  was preview and you have a huge. Like my, I try to revolve my
• 1:52:58
  rifle life around giving value. And what you want to talk about
• 1:53:01
  today is one of the biggest best value.
• 1:53:04
  Given things that I've seen from a company in our space, in quite
• 1:53:07
  a while. Why don't you tell me?
• 1:53:08
  Tell us what I'm talking about? Yeah, that's great to hear.
• 1:53:11
  So you know at Mondo we are were very passionate Not the
• 1:53:15
  community. Obviously, coaches play a huge
• 1:53:19
  role in our business. We want to help coaches, we want
• 1:53:22
  to help coaches help their athletes honored, officer knows.
• 1:53:26
  So this past year, we produced a documentary on Mental Health in
• 1:53:32
  sports and, you know, again mental health.
• 1:53:37
  It's in our face. We don't pretend to be the
• 1:53:39
  experts. However, we want to be the
• 1:53:42
  thought leaders in this. We want to help coaches.
• 1:53:46
  And so, we put together a 45-minute documentary on mental
• 1:53:51
  health and sports. We interviewed, we interviewed
• 1:53:54
  Elite athletes. We interviewed Sports
• 1:53:57
  psychologists, and we interviewed Superfast.
• 1:54:00
  And so it was very, very interesting and we zeroed in on
• 1:54:05
  the role of the fame and how much pressure is fans reporting
• 1:54:08
  on these athletes. And so we had this documentary
• 1:54:11
  are all throughout the country during May Mental health
• 1:54:15
  awareness month. We had it on all the major
• 1:54:18
  networks, ABC, NBC, CBS, and I've gotten some really great
• 1:54:24
  feedback, especially from coaches.
• 1:54:28
  And you know what we want to do is we want to create a resource.
• 1:54:32
  So now this has become a resource who went so they will
• 1:54:36
  in turn share it with their athletes and it really is a
• 1:54:39
  conversation starter. You know?
• 1:54:42
  And so we've sort of moved on to phase 2.
• 1:54:45
  We don't want to do a one-off and so we've moved on to phase 2
• 1:54:49
  and we want to, we want to bring the conversation into the
• 1:54:52
  schools and so we've created a poster.
• 1:54:55
  Can I show you? Yeah, this is absolutely.
• 1:54:57
  It's what we got the video for. Here We Go.
• 1:54:59
  Normally, it's not a long and I'm like, no, you can't show.
• 1:55:01
  Excellent. So we've created this poster.
• 1:55:05
  Lift it up a little bit. There we go.
• 1:55:06
  Yeah, stay on track. Okay, stay on track.
• 1:55:10
  And the track is an acronym. And these are these are
• 1:55:14
  suggestions you know for athletes who are struggling T,
• 1:55:18
  take a moment or remember to breathe.
• 1:55:21
  A ask for help. See, call a friend and K, keep
• 1:55:26
  moving forward and personally that's kind of my favorite.
• 1:55:29
  Yeah. People.
• 1:55:29
  So we're hoping coaches and we've got a couple of resources
• 1:55:32
  Down Below on the bottom and We're hoping coaches will put
• 1:55:35
  these up in their facilities again as a reminder that and we
• 1:55:41
  know that all these athletes do struggle at some point that
• 1:55:45
  there is help out there. So let me ask you feel, you
• 1:55:49
  know, Mondo obviously very well known for track surface produces
• 1:55:52
  some of the top checks that was in the world.
• 1:55:56
  You know, it's funny in our industry, in general, not in
• 1:56:00
  either of ours, but in general they talk about they sell socks
• 1:56:03
  and jobs that's kind of the, you know.
• 1:56:04
  The Sports Marketing world, right?
• 1:56:07
  You still track surface Trek servicing.
• 1:56:09
  Why, why do something like this? Why is Mondo?
• 1:56:12
  This is not. I know what you're putting into
• 1:56:15
  this financially. It's is not a cheap thing to do.
• 1:56:18
  Why you could ease. If you didn't do this, no one
• 1:56:20
  would say, hey, how come on do is working helping us with
• 1:56:23
  mental health, but you choose to do it without being asked.
• 1:56:26
  Yeah, it's our, it's our passion, its Community, give
• 1:56:29
  back it is again, providing resources.
• 1:56:34
  Versus for coaches, who are so vital in our business.
• 1:56:39
  And right? So you have the coach, and then
• 1:56:40
  you have the athlete. So, if we can help the coach
• 1:56:44
  who, you know, in turn, can help their athlete.
• 1:56:47
  That's what we're all. That's, that's what we want to
• 1:56:49
  do. And, you know, we've got, you
• 1:56:51
  know, models are strong brain in the track and field business,
• 1:56:54
  right? And so the fact that the world
• 1:56:56
  we feel like we have a role to play in this.
• 1:56:59
  So it's something we're very passionate about, we're always
• 1:57:03
  looking to partner with Like-minded entities and will
• 1:57:06
  continue to do. So if this in the umbrella of
• 1:57:09
  Mondo cares, because I know we've there's been a lot of
• 1:57:11
  events and activities through the Mondo.
• 1:57:13
  Cares work through. I'm hoping you remember the
• 1:57:16
  Mondo foot speed event here. Yes, of course, I did.
• 1:57:19
  We reach some, what we were talking about it earlier.
• 1:57:20
  Oh yeah, absolutely. So, you know, we put together
• 1:57:24
  five or six events and then unfortunately, covid be hit a
• 1:57:27
  brick wall with covid. So we are going to bring you
• 1:57:31
  back that event in 2300, so we're very excited.
• 1:57:34
  To be you. Do it here at Euston Station 23.
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  Is that the plan at least for now?
• 1:57:38
  Yeah, people are gonna be very excited about that.
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  That's what that's the amazing events and then there's just the
• 1:57:45
  different people that were talking about today and that was
• 1:57:49
  a really fun event, you know, to have to have 1500 track and
• 1:57:55
  field coach has in that Ballroom.
• 1:57:59
  Watching these young coaches cookie.
• 1:58:02
  So the goal is to is to do it again.
• 1:58:05
  I love it will wrap us up the hill.
• 1:58:07
  Where is someone's listening or watching this right now?
• 1:58:09
  This will also be on the podcast later on throughout the year
• 1:58:12
  2023. We are.
• 1:58:13
  Can someone go to find more information about tell me the
• 1:58:17
  name again, the film it was, I'm okay, I'm not, okay, I'm fine,
• 1:58:20
  not real, I'm fine. Not really.
• 1:58:21
  Yes, we're can someone go to learn more about that the
• 1:58:23
  posters working. Someone go to find a service so
• 1:58:26
  you can go to, you can go to the Mondo website.
• 1:58:29
  Go to model cares.com and obviously all our social our
• 1:58:33
  social. That's so Google Mondo because
• 1:58:36
  that's the easiest way or Mondo cares.com.
• 1:58:40
  That's right. I love it man.
• 1:58:42
  We should you should take a timeout right now and go check
• 1:58:44
  that out. I think it's extremely valuable
• 1:58:47
  again the value that you're giving coaches because to me you
• 1:58:50
  hit the nail on the head when you said without these guys and
• 1:58:53
  gals you and I don't do anything.
• 1:58:55
  We could do something else, actually, right?
• 1:58:57
  Mother doesn't exist. Gil doesn't exist.
• 1:58:59
  We need to be uplifted honoring these young men and women in
• 1:59:02
  these old men, as they continue building the greatest sport in
• 1:59:06
  the world. So just love what you're doing.
• 1:59:09
  It was an easy, you know, we talked about doing this in the
• 1:59:12
  podcast, 100 easy. This is a way that we can,
• 1:59:15
  hopefully helpful and fan the flames and have more awareness
• 1:59:18
  out there. For this very important topic
• 1:59:20
  that you're talking about, these very important, people know what
• 1:59:22
  you're doing, right? Your passion for track and field
• 1:59:25
  and just super super glad to be here.
• 1:59:28
  I love it. Maybe we'll even For you we got
• 1:59:29
  to end with the selfie, right? All right.
• 1:59:34
  Bill, thank you so much. Thank you sir.
• 1:59:36
  Appreciate it. Pleasure, make love to my
• 1:59:37
  friend. Jim man, I'm John, sorry in gym.
• 1:59:40
  Absolutely. I just love all the people.
• 1:59:45
  Yeah, you can't steal the headphones, fill all that good,
• 1:59:48
  that he does, and he was trying to take my headphones away from
• 1:59:51
  me here at the desk. Still, that wasn't very nice but
• 1:59:53
  Michael cares.com is very nice. You should go check that out and
• 1:59:57
  really is great your athletes and for the posters David, you
• 2:00:01
  talked about that, I'd go to Ando cares, not calm and check
• 2:00:04
  that out there and if they don't have the button or something to
• 2:00:07
  get it, I'm sure there's an email for you to go.
• 2:00:09
  Check it out there. So scoot on in here, we're doing
• 2:00:11
  like, airplane style, man. We're getting close and
• 2:00:13
  personal. We know what, we know each
• 2:00:14
  other. Now, we got another Gill
• 2:00:17
  Athletics connections along here, which if you've been
• 2:00:19
  paying attention, you know what that means?
• 2:00:20
  He doesn't know yet. I don't think so.
• 2:00:22
  We'll see you here at the end. Introduce yourself here to our
• 2:00:24
  listeners. I'm just feeling and you are
• 2:00:28
  most famous for the straight room house.
• 2:00:34
  And I believe that subject to a little bit later.
• 2:00:37
  So, let's start with what are you doing here at the
• 2:00:40
  convention? What are like, the things that
• 2:00:42
  you are, like, not miss you? You're not missing symposiums.
• 2:00:45
  I like learning more stuff about ready.
• 2:00:47
  So, who's the one that you circled?
• 2:00:48
  Like, I ain't missing this one. No, you go.
• 2:00:53
  I'm going to school. You're gonna be on this thing.
• 2:01:03
  those are odds and I would put first year,
• 2:01:48
  Last video on the pie crust looks like a first time to get
• 2:01:51
  to know each other. Anything a little nerve-wracking
• 2:01:53
  because you're spilling your guts to a stranger that look
• 2:01:56
  like they were best friends. Now, what do you remember the
• 2:01:58
  most about the the podcast? Not necessarily maybe like a
• 2:02:02
  story told her anything like that but the apps like after it
• 2:02:05
  published was really kind of cool story of people.
• 2:02:18
  I don't think so. We're going to move right on to
• 2:02:20
  our next subject. That's a really you answer me
• 2:02:46
  quickly that's a well-thought-out answer.
• 2:02:48
  I don't want with internet because I'm shallow you have
• 2:02:51
  Apartments which is very true. In with housing costs, didn't
• 2:02:57
  like boats, go by hell in the down payment.
• 2:03:01
  Those really well hot out, you know, different you'd have a
• 2:03:05
  whole different answer. Okay, before we sign off though,
• 2:03:08
  I do want to say, you know, because I talked about something
• 2:03:10
  that you're famous for, and I've made at how that the shades and
• 2:03:14
  all that. But you also are famous for at
• 2:03:17
  least in my world. We hang out a lot on Twitter.
• 2:03:20
  Right? Together is how to put this,
• 2:03:23
  you're kind of a nose. No, pull the punches kind of
• 2:03:26
  guy. You're the kind of guy that'll
• 2:03:27
  make a post and say, hey, sorry, not sorry.
• 2:03:29
  Yeah, it's always about things that are very pertinent to our
• 2:03:32
  sport. It's not off the wall crazy.
• 2:03:35
  Like was this guy thinking about it's like, hey, you know, you
• 2:03:38
  need to step up and do here, sorrynotsorry.
• 2:03:39
  Hey, if you want to scholarship well then you better.
• 2:03:41
  Do this attitude come from push back, but what keeps you kind of
• 2:03:54
  True within 40, North of your True, North York.
• 2:03:57
  That's who you are. So how do you continue moving
• 2:03:59
  forward it and who you are? I like being different from
• 2:04:02
  anybody else feel that strongly about it.
• 2:04:13
  Do you ever find positive? I know you do.
• 2:04:16
  But what has been the most positive from them?
• 2:04:20
  What? People come to the same way or I
• 2:04:22
  want to say, yeah. Yeah, I was thinking and you
• 2:04:28
  tell me if this is true, in your case, people who become your
• 2:04:32
  friends are really friends because what you tell him
• 2:04:36
  warts-and-all here. So we be ready for it if you
• 2:04:39
  don't like them then okay, you don't be friends with them.
• 2:04:43
  So as we end here another 60 seconds or so, what are you most
• 2:04:47
  excited for in 2023 for track and field?
• 2:04:49
  From Fort Scott, we have a great Freshman Class coming in with us
• 2:04:53
  off. Was getting better.
• 2:04:54
  Helping I think we don't have to repeat in English.
• 2:04:57
  And so that's again first time in school history, we're looking
• 2:05:00
  to be original Power or just Barton felt that you didn't say
• 2:05:09
  no, the old Neosho counties. We weren't we weren't Thank you
• 2:05:20
  so much for being here. I appreciate you gonna do great
• 2:05:23
  and get another okay, hold on because I can't forget this.
• 2:05:28
  I keep forgetting that. So you're an Alum with the
• 2:05:31
  podcast. Thanks again for being on the
• 2:05:33
  show. It was a grueling drilling two
• 2:05:36
  hours. You know, you have to go through
• 2:05:37
  your whole history and your whole story and you were so
• 2:05:40
  patient. You did a great job there.
• 2:05:42
  So for the alums of the podcast for tonight, only, I'm allowing
• 2:05:46
  you to flip the script and you get to ask me one question.
• 2:05:50
  Your superhero will be. I just watched what kind of
• 2:05:55
  forever and it was really good, man.
• 2:05:59
  Yeah, but I feel like there's an obvious answer that I'm just
• 2:06:11
  missing. I'm gonna go with no, that
• 2:06:14
  Spiderman was kind of cool like the strength and I don't think I
• 2:06:18
  could fly around like that, you know, I probably be The.
• 2:06:28
  I don't know why anybody would stop me.
• 2:06:42
  I feel like most people would be pretty nice, but he was pretty
• 2:06:44
  mean with what we were doing there and how we just flip the
• 2:06:49
  script in? Hey, so it is 705, the fish Ali,
• 2:06:52
  we said 27, but we are going to keep going.
• 2:06:54
  And as long as there are people out here that want to be on the
• 2:06:56
  show, we're going to keep going until there are no more until
• 2:06:59
  7:45 because that's where I'm going to dinner.
• 2:07:02
  I'm kind of hungry guy here, right?
• 2:07:04
  All right, here goes herself to the listeners here today.
• 2:07:11
  We want to hear you. Yeah, we're doing airplane
• 2:07:13
  style, man. We gonna get up in here, man,
• 2:07:15
  Michael. So Michael, this is your second
• 2:07:18
  time here at the convention. Now, you kind of know what to
• 2:07:21
  expect last year. You kind of, like, no eyes and
• 2:07:24
  know what you're doing and what to expect.
• 2:07:27
  Now, you know what to expect and you're thinking, what are you
• 2:07:30
  most looking forward to here at the convention?
• 2:07:32
  This year, the biggest thing I'm looking forward to this.
• 2:07:35
  Can we choose more? So making were connections
• 2:07:39
  selling because I do enjoy. Symposiums, and learning and
• 2:07:42
  refreshing, especially those homes will be like personality
• 2:07:50
  based out of tree math, but the connections part of its not.
• 2:08:07
  Different perspectives. So how do you as a young person
• 2:08:11
  in this profession? What's your attack mode for
• 2:08:16
  networking? How's your style?
• 2:08:19
  These think we've come across and try to be.
• 2:08:25
  This is going to be professional to explain, but if you're
• 2:08:29
  yourself and put yourself in a position to be seen in a way
• 2:08:34
  that others can write, I got non-traditional.
• 2:08:39
  But good thing about it is that you put yourself out there who
• 2:08:42
  are gonna expect some of this switch here and your different
• 2:08:48
  way over here, we'll do my really getting what's your
• 2:08:51
  style. Like if you see a coach out
• 2:08:53
  there that you want to talk to, you just go right up to him or
• 2:08:55
  do you wait till there's a crowd?
• 2:08:56
  It kind of sneaks up in there and start laughing like it's a
• 2:08:58
  joke. It's kind of your go-to there.
• 2:09:01
  Go to I'm just walking I don't mind walking up and have the
• 2:09:05
  conversation on that specifically have a specific
• 2:09:08
  question that kind of sticks out of my mind.
• 2:09:09
  But the question I posed that question first.
• 2:09:13
  Of course, immigrants was really a question or about who I am.
• 2:09:35
  I felt very comfortable last year coming right up to me and
• 2:09:37
  we kind of started out the base. I was like, I know this guy, the
• 2:09:40
  ex kind of bird me, where's like, they do I know this guy.
• 2:09:42
  The real was the first time we met I promise, but, you know,
• 2:09:45
  you just had such that I kind of warming personality that was
• 2:09:48
  just like, oh, man, I feel like I know this, dude.
• 2:09:50
  Well, let's see how well we do know you have got 100 random
• 2:09:52
  questions here, numbered 1 through 100, only Part of the
• 2:09:55
  destiny. You get to do is you get to pick
• 2:09:57
  the number, okay, I mean numbers 1 through 100.
• 2:10:00
  Okay, let's do that. Was my high school, football.
• 2:10:17
  Let's talk sports. What's your favorite sport
• 2:10:19
  outside? I would say lately volleyball is
• 2:10:25
  grown on me. Yeah.
• 2:10:26
  Is that right in volleyball? We had to school.
• 2:10:32
  A lot of fun College. Yeah, and be there for years.
• 2:10:35
  We have men's volleyball. And so rare.
• 2:10:39
  Wow, 12. Those events were unbelievable.
• 2:10:43
  You have nice programs and computer very well.
• 2:10:53
  Yes in general. Yeah so being that energy and
• 2:10:56
  seeing it it's a cool sport. I became friends.
• 2:11:01
  Where would school choice University would be a women's
• 2:11:04
  team there and just learned how to play, you know, not quite
• 2:11:07
  what, you know, the ins and outs of the sport.
• 2:11:09
  It's a really, really cool sport like a rabbit's up here today.
• 2:11:12
  What are you looking forward to the most in the 2023 track
• 2:11:16
  season? I am looking for Growing our
• 2:11:24
  family one on the Falcon family. And big thing is bringing in
• 2:11:30
  Works generally excited, Growers that want to be part of looking
• 2:11:35
  forward to a big season from the throwers I do have now.
• 2:11:38
  Shout out to all my valves actors out there.
• 2:11:41
  No one. Who knows who shot real looking
• 2:11:46
  forward to the big seasonal grateful for us?
• 2:11:52
  You know what? I'm looking forward to most.
• 2:11:55
  You told me to send you my address which I did on Twitter.
• 2:11:57
  I'm looking forward to my shirt, you know, I got you.
• 2:12:01
  Hey man, thank you so much ben podcast.
• 2:12:02
  We and everyone with a selfie. You don't get out that easy man.
• 2:12:06
  Awesome. Brother, man, you're gonna do
• 2:12:07
  great. I'm looking forward to seeing
• 2:12:08
  you season this year. Appreciate it.
• 2:12:09
  Thanks man. Yeah, Micah again just what a
• 2:12:13
  great person, man, just really made me feel like I knew him
• 2:12:17
  forever last year. It was super excited to see him
• 2:12:19
  again here in 2022. We're live here in Denver
• 2:12:23
  Colorado at the 2022. U.s. tfcc a track-and-field
• 2:12:27
  convention we're past time. We said five to seven Mountain
• 2:12:31
  Standard Time, 628 out there in the central time where my home
• 2:12:35
  my home town. Zoom, shout out to the CST and
• 2:12:38
  looks like we're kind of on the end here.
• 2:12:43
  I don't know that. We have many people left here,
• 2:12:45
  so maybe we're going to wrap this up.
• 2:12:49
  As I don't see, anybody kind of chomping at the bit to join us
• 2:12:54
  other than just a couple of minutes here.
• 2:12:56
  Couple seconds. Maybe, maybe I'll get very long
• 2:12:58
  here and we'll see if anybody joins us to sit in the hot seat
• 2:13:04
  here for the girl to explain. Actions podcast live recording.
• 2:13:08
  First time ever live recording of the Gulf of its connections
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  podcast here in Denver, Colorado, UST of ccca 2022.
• 2:13:15
  As we wait for our next victim here.
• 2:13:17
  Not see. Hey, check me out on Twitter at
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  Mike Cunningham. Just like it sounds, no spaces.
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  No dashes. Am I ke cunninghamt1220, you can
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  always catch me pushing, always texts me, on my cell phone to
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  The USA in Champaign, Illinois, Gil, Athletics.com on Twitter
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  where Acula politics and I think Instagram.
• 2:13:45
  We're at Bill appendix or maybe Bill up.
• 2:13:47
  Alex. 1918, not real sure. All right.
• 2:13:50
  We're getting ready here for our next guest.
• 2:13:52
  I knew I had at least one more person that would sit in the hot
• 2:13:55
  seat. Whereas today here man put your
• 2:13:57
  headphones on scoot on out. We're doing an airplane style,
• 2:13:59
  man, under you ain't shot, introduce yourself to our
• 2:14:02
  audience here tonight. Hey guys, how you doing?
• 2:14:04
  I'm Jake Wilkes. Here for Firefly recovery.
• 2:14:07
  We are recovery device. Mainly used to keep the legs
• 2:14:10
  fresh. It's pretty important track and
• 2:14:12
  field. So tell me.
• 2:14:13
  What does that mean? What does fire is that a
• 2:14:17
  treadmill? Is it a drink?
• 2:14:18
  What is Firefox? So fireflies are wearable
• 2:14:21
  technology. Talk about it is basically enemy
• 2:14:23
  as the by switch the stem, okay? Okay.
• 2:14:26
  It was actually developed the medical device.
• 2:14:29
  The medical versions called the echo.
• 2:14:31
  Okay, yep, and fireflies. Just be over the counter version
• 2:14:34
  of the technology. But the technology is actually
• 2:14:36
  developed to displace compression boots in the surgery
• 2:14:39
  centers as a lot of times when patients have lower extremity
• 2:14:43
  surgery, they're sent home with SCB sleeves or IPC sleeves which
• 2:14:47
  are just being bad at compression device.
• 2:14:49
  They're sitting home with those devices because it's going to
• 2:14:51
  help prevent blood clots and reduce swelling.
• 2:14:54
  Post-surgery the issue in the medical space is that most
• 2:14:57
  people don't want to be stuck in compression.
• 2:14:58
  Boots for 24 hours post-surgery. Sure.
• 2:15:01
  So our device was developed to help provide a better patient.
• 2:15:05
  In the option, that was more, we're voting on the go easy to
• 2:15:10
  use. The science behind is basically
• 2:15:12
  by stimulating What's called the corona nerve.
• 2:15:14
  Nerve starts. The top of it, goes down to the
• 2:15:16
  toes, right? When you comfortably stimulate
• 2:15:18
  that nerve, it calls your foot to flutter, or to dance.
• 2:15:21
  So we start getting the sort of foot to, okay.
• 2:15:23
  And that foot took the mechanic of moving your foot actually
• 2:15:26
  moves blood back to the heart similar to walking.
• 2:15:29
  So clinical research shows that by stimulating the peroneal
• 2:15:32
  nerve with our technology. It's called the unfolds
• 2:15:35
  basically. The patent on the stem that runs
• 2:15:38
  the Firefly together. When we stimulate that nerve, it
• 2:15:40
  actually increases load show, many blood flow from Hip To Toe,
• 2:15:44
  four hundred percent compared to compression which is 117 and
• 2:15:48
  I'll assume that blood flow is pretty important for track and
• 2:15:51
  field. At least that flows good.
• 2:15:53
  I mean I asked the real easy softball questions to attain
• 2:15:56
  what flow is the key from sleeping nutrition.
• 2:15:59
  Obvious treasure which hopefully your college athletes have that.
• 2:16:03
  They usually don't, they know that there's Morning and do the
• 2:16:08
  good thing about this technology that we have.
• 2:16:11
  And you know, I played running back in college.
• 2:16:14
  So understood school. I was at Stanford University.
• 2:16:16
  Go, Bulldogs, do not go Bulldogs.
• 2:16:19
  No, no. Botox.
• 2:16:20
  I want to Troy University. Okay.
• 2:16:21
  Okay. We have the greatest robberies
• 2:16:24
  that we don't, but, you know, being in the same state not
• 2:16:28
  being able to offer, still, okay.
• 2:16:30
  Do you have any children? I have a six-month-old.
• 2:16:32
  What it boiled girl. It's a boy.
• 2:16:34
  What's your name them? His name is Kay.
• 2:16:35
  Amen. Okay yeah.
• 2:16:37
  So I have a just turned 12 year old.
• 2:16:39
  Guess what? His name is Troy?
• 2:16:41
  Yes. I feel like I'm the better from
• 2:16:44
  my school. I'm just saying, I can't make my
• 2:16:46
  son save, Sam Ford and your last name Sanford, Wilkes to that.
• 2:16:52
  Actually it's not too late to say six months old.
• 2:16:56
  Yeah, well no you can change it. I'm sure after we're done here,
• 2:16:58
  call call mom, let's get that done.
• 2:17:01
  But no Sanford. Great school honestly and really
• 2:17:06
  Really good football team. Yeah, it's a great sin.
• 2:17:09
  Maybe maybe, duh, maybe the most beautiful campus, there is an
• 2:17:14
  amazing, can't amazing campus. Amazing, professors amazing
• 2:17:17
  Sports. At a great time there.
• 2:17:19
  Loved it, our track and field programs, obviously really got
• 2:17:23
  it and it's been fun now my a lot of the same for sports use
• 2:17:28
  modern technology. So it's funny if that so tell me
• 2:17:31
  more about that Jake you said your technology.
• 2:17:33
  How are you are? Technically, has your how are
• 2:17:35
  you? And the Company we're headed
• 2:17:36
  from you joined. Yes, I was employee number 14
• 2:17:39
  years ago. So our founder actually brought
• 2:17:42
  the medical version of the technology to the US.
• 2:17:45
  Okay? Became the sole distributor for
• 2:17:47
  the gecko, Anthony gen. Ed's our founder.
• 2:17:49
  He's been in the medical distribution space for about 27
• 2:17:51
  years. He's the one that kind of found
• 2:17:53
  the need for more wearable portable option for his patients
• 2:17:57
  because they were complaining so much about wearing compression
• 2:18:00
  post-surgery, right? So our technology is about the
• 2:18:02
  size of a wristwatch, so sales going to ask Michelle.
• 2:18:05
  Yeah. It's basically looks like a
• 2:18:07
  sticker that you put it right around the knee, okay?
• 2:18:09
  That's Tim will stimulate the nerve and that's what creates
• 2:18:12
  the systemic blood flow. So, instead of passively if
• 2:18:16
  anybody's familiar with the impression, usually that's going
• 2:18:18
  to Tech recovery, polymer body. Any type of compression do
• 2:18:22
  that's massaging and squeezing that blood to get that one bad.
• 2:18:25
  If you're actually putting action into we're actively and
• 2:18:28
  dynamically moving body but use your body's own mechanic.
• 2:18:31
  So the main way will be used by our athletes and so when you're
• 2:18:34
  flying and you're traveling on buses These are really easy to
• 2:18:37
  buy so you can pack 50 pairs in a duffel bag.
• 2:18:41
  Have their own unanimous. It's wearable is reusable, or is
• 2:18:44
  it like Advantage? Get a box of eggs.
• 2:18:46
  It's reusable. So it's got a nice of gel you
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  just take that on and off your leg.
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  Each treatment, most of our athletes will wear for about one
• 2:18:53
  to four hours because our technology is patented for the
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  nervous system. Unlike other traditional muscle
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  stems, you don't have to worry about muscular fatigue or
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  stimuli. Yeah.
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  So it's a really easy, you know, I guess going back to the
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  athlete standpoint. It's Atlas recovery tool that
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  you can use on the go. Don't have to be sitting in a
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  booth or sitting. In a chair, you can actually be
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  mobile, you doing things. I'm so a lot of our track and
• 2:19:16
  field programs, especially in CA I know Dustin Williams at BYU,
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  could for the mind, they're big Believers in a great amazing
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  guy. A couple of great programs have
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  really found tremendous benefit and Avonlea.
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  On the go tool that athletes can utilize in and outside of the
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  athletic training room. I think there's a need for
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  athletes recovering more than just one treatment a week in the
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  odds. During so, especially for
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  runners that are always fatigued, just an easy quick way
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  to flush the body and get reaction to blood.
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  Let's go. So, besides being here at the
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  University consistency, condition people can go see the
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  booth. Maybe we could try it out.
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  We are for our listeners, and this is going to be on podcast
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  throughout the year 2023. Where can people find out more
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  Resource is just www.recoverymonth.gov fly.com.
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  Recovery Firefly.com, Instagram page is a fantastic.
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  Source, most of the Instagram page is filled with, you know,
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  our athletes and our athletic trainers, and our sports teams,
• 2:20:18
  that also provide a lot of good applications of use and provide
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  a good visual. Because I know when you're just
• 2:20:25
  listening to a podcast, sure picture what it is like but
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  usually if you go to our website our Instagram is pretty simple
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  to find the my email. If anyone wants to contact me
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  directly as Jake at recovery, Firefly do covering fire, fly
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  By the way, the covering Firefly.com.
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  That's right. Hello brother man.
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  Thanks for being on the show today and every one of those
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  selfies. Thanks a lot.
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  So much for being here man. I appreciate you so much.
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  Appreciate the rest of the show. Thank you, sir.
• 2:20:59
  That sounds like a great resource their recovery
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  Firefly.com and I like that. And so I maybe check it out.
• 2:21:06
  Maybe it's something for your athletes and maybe, maybe not.
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  I don't know, but you should check it out.
• 2:21:11
  So you know yourself and know your athletes to know everything
• 2:21:15
  that's available out there to you.
• 2:21:17
  So we said we were stopping at 7:00 we can stop in at 7:00.
• 2:21:20
  Now when you have VIPs like this in the house, we got to get them
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  on the podcast here Mike you gotta get in the seat for five
• 2:21:27
  minutes. You have to, you have to five
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  minutes with him and then you come in, let me get five minutes
• 2:21:33
  and then you come in, five minutes, love this guy.
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  That that's a real V. My David.
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  He's really famous for what I was fishing for my unofficial
• 2:22:17
  alma mater, Mississippi State University, which, by the way,
• 2:22:20
  if you're listening right now, I know coach Leach, who I'm not a
• 2:22:23
  big fan of necessarily to be real frankly, but he's having
• 2:22:27
  health issues. Very, very seriously.
• 2:22:29
  So just shout out and prayers to coach Leach and his family, and
• 2:22:34
  just praying for health and healing for for him.
• 2:22:39
  But luckily, you're healthy and Here man.
• 2:22:40
  So tell us what are you? This is your second years.
• 2:22:43
  Yeah thank you. So you know the first year you
• 2:22:45
  kind of bright-eyed bushy-tailed you don't know what's going on
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  now. Your we kind of understand the
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  lame the way the way and what goes on here?
• 2:22:51
  What are you looking forward to the most this week here at the
• 2:22:54
  convention this week? I'm really looking forward to
• 2:22:57
  just taking the time just to continue to resolidify those
• 2:23:00
  relationships that I've built last year.
• 2:23:02
  It's already have not been here for not even two hours.
• 2:23:03
  Now, I'm walking down some right?
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  And he just said he was famous. Said, you were famous.
• 2:23:09
  You say it, but I'm just Just trying to live in my life.
• 2:23:11
  Oh no. He's good to see coaches that I
• 2:23:13
  met last year. Feels like that in a really good
• 2:23:15
  place to be able to build those conditions.
• 2:23:17
  The learning that takes place here, be phenomenal.
• 2:23:20
  Just let the Symposium shortly ago but I'm really which one the
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  high don't suppose you put you on the spot that I'm sorry but
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  no, I know this face sometimes. Go as far as coaching and I feel
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  like I have got a pretty solid general idea of like most of
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  these informed the Catholic and everything like that but it's
• 2:23:49
  certain cues are citizens that someone else might say I might
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  need something. Something something I heard in
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  there just now that I was like, oh, I never looked at it in that
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  way. He mentioned running the curve
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  cursing. Putting pressure gives the
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  ground to create leads them, like leaning your body to do
• 2:24:08
  small things like that is sort of Eh I'm looking to pick up
• 2:24:11
  here, huge thing. We all learn a little
• 2:24:13
  differently, right? So if you try to just go your
• 2:24:15
  one way when you have athletes that have no clue and there's
• 2:24:18
  gonna be friction. So to be able to have an
• 2:24:20
  inventory of cues. It's pretty vital because I'm an
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  r and a little bit of fun here. I've got 100 random questions,
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  right? You get to pick the number one
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  through 122 y22 High School football, knows everybody.
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  It's every dudes number is there.
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  He's like, I don't seem like these rabbits you can see
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  through a wall like carrots all the time, right?
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  At least. That's what the cartoons told me
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  on Saturday morning. She cares.
• 2:25:15
  What are you looking forward to the most this 2023 track and
• 2:25:18
  field season? The question cooking on spotless
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  always biggest thing I'm looking forward.
• 2:25:23
  I was gonna name the podcast to put you on the spot podcast.
• 2:25:25
  I wanted connections instead what you inspire year is to just
• 2:25:32
  continue seeing my athletes improve as cliche as it sounds.
• 2:25:35
  It's very precious always I feel like that's a good indicator of
• 2:25:40
  coaching ability, as well as for them for them feel good about
• 2:25:43
  themselves, but if you're improving, athletically, I'm
• 2:25:48
  looking forward to seeing it. But I'm also speaking into
• 2:25:51
  existence. Last year's champion,
• 2:26:18
  I really thank you so much for being so appreciate your
• 2:26:21
  holidays and yeah, absolutely. Absolutely, I'll be here all
• 2:26:23
  week. I'm here all week, baby, not
• 2:26:25
  live all week, but we here all week.
• 2:26:30
  Hate. So not only track and field
• 2:26:32
  coach has and directors of relays.
• 2:26:35
  We have the director of Drake Relays and director of Ops of KU
• 2:26:39
  relays here on the podcast. What we also have this is the
• 2:26:42
  only one we've had so far, but I we got the best one, don't tell
• 2:26:46
  anybody else around. This is a recorded, right?
• 2:26:49
  Introduce yourself here to our audience today?
• 2:26:51
  Yeah, audience. My name is Cody Ross.
• 2:26:52
  Check currently serve as the Director of operations over the
• 2:26:55
  University of nebraska-lincoln little bit about myself came
• 2:26:58
  from Wichita State. I was Actually teacher, I was an
• 2:27:00
  elementary education teacher for two years, I realized I missed
• 2:27:03
  the world. The track that led to an
• 2:27:05
  internship University of Alaska, led to Wichita State for a year.
• 2:27:09
  Wichita State led to the University of Notre, Dame out
• 2:27:11
  there for four and a half. Gary Pepin about 11 months ago
• 2:27:15
  called and said, you want to come home, my wife overheard,
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  the phone call and we move those done deal.
• 2:27:19
  Yeah, it's gonna be soon. As my wife said, we're very
• 2:27:25
  familiar with A pretty good inside, you will check the
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  field. Coach doesn't high school
• 2:27:33
  college level, you just the kind of the 30,000 foot.
• 2:27:36
  Level is a director of Ops 2. I do everything I can to make
• 2:27:41
  the head coach and it's just the coach's job Caesar.
• 2:27:43
  Okay. You know, I always say the same
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  thing when I have recruits come in and I'm talking to the family
• 2:27:47
  and go, you're trusting your son or daughter to the University of
• 2:27:51
  Nebraska University and our aim. I said it's my job and a way to
• 2:27:55
  try to be their parent. I'm always gonna make sure your
• 2:27:57
  son or daughter has a roof over their head food in their mouth
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  closed on their back in a safe way to get home to and from
• 2:28:03
  home. And so what is if you get when
• 2:28:08
  you come into the office each day, there's three things on the
• 2:28:11
  top of your list every day. What do those look like right
• 2:28:13
  now? This time of year I'm looking at
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  home eat management. Okay.
• 2:28:16
  Control you guys host a lot of me, we do we host morose and
• 2:28:19
  five in door meets This indoor season will be ready in 25 New
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  Management. First thing I'm doing I'm
• 2:28:28
  looking at team travel and third thing, I'm doing is we can share
• 2:28:31
  our budget, right? And why did you go into This
• 2:28:35
  realm of track and field versus the one, where the most familiar
• 2:28:38
  with the coaching. Yeah.
• 2:28:39
  So I had a great opportunity to ask questions where I graduated
• 2:28:41
  from. Ted allowed me to be a student
• 2:28:43
  volunteer and love them for the opportunity, but what I love
• 2:28:46
  through the opportunity is he. Let me run meet, he had me take
• 2:28:50
  a large role in contacting high schools and bringing that in and
• 2:28:54
  I instantly fell in love with the meat management side of
• 2:28:57
  things. And the neverland, Nebraska
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  definitions. Other spectrum and world.
• 2:29:12
  Yes. You have the coaches that you
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  see there the Forefront but when it comes to operations it was
• 2:29:17
  just a small community. I didn't know what they were
• 2:29:19
  doing and didn't L really allowed me to come and take a
• 2:29:21
  look what she's doing and I climb on ya.
• 2:29:24
  I love when people find their passion, we're I believe we're
• 2:29:27
  all built for one thing and it's very rare when we actually find
• 2:29:31
  that. One thing it really is, we go
• 2:29:32
  through our lives and different jobs in its Fun and and and
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  create value. But once in a while, we'd line
• 2:29:40
  up with our true calling, and it's something special and
• 2:29:44
  having worked with you at a couple different places.
• 2:29:45
  Now that your it man, you, whether it's luck or, you know,
• 2:29:51
  God's hand pushing you over here over here, man.
• 2:29:52
  You're in the right place for you, your family, and selfishly
• 2:29:57
  for our school. Yeah.
• 2:29:58
  You look at, you know, I was a junior, high teacher and I would
• 2:30:01
  have that was 78 years ago. If you told me, I'd be sitting
• 2:30:04
  next to my Cunningham and Denver Colorado at the convention out
• 2:30:08
  and said you're crazy, right? Like you said I'm a firm
• 2:30:11
  believer and there's every person has a calling in life in
• 2:30:14
  there and there's a true Direction That's not how it
• 2:30:17
  happens. Who knows you know I was right.
• 2:30:19
  Yeah believer that God was involved in that process.
• 2:30:23
  Well we're gonna see how happy you are.
• 2:30:25
  I've got 100 random questions, 1 through 100.
• 2:30:28
  You get to pick the number. We will go 3434 134.
• 2:30:34
  Sorry, Katie my wife, that was my first crushes basketball
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  hour. Number 34 I know comment number
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  34 I'm not bored yet. What is your must-have family
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  friend game here in the friends over, you know, you get together
• 2:30:51
  for the holidays. What's the must-have game?
• 2:30:53
  We are putting on the table, we are playing right now.
• 2:30:56
  My little sister made it for me is called aggregate aggravation.
• 2:30:58
  So it's a, it's a marble game with dice.
• 2:31:01
  And what you got to do is you got to roll one or six, get out
• 2:31:03
  of your house, okay? And work your way around the
• 2:31:05
  board. So let's say you're sitting this
• 2:31:07
  spot. I roll 3 and I land on you, I
• 2:31:09
  send you back to your House. Well and it's all those things.
• 2:31:11
  Whether it's my family, my in-laws friends coming over.
• 2:31:14
  It's the first thing on the table, any board flipping know,
• 2:31:18
  there's rage quitting there's some select words whenever she's
• 2:31:21
  getting real close. He kind of but I haven't seen a
• 2:31:27
  tell us as we wrap up here. I have the great opportunity
• 2:31:36
  right now to be working with the brand new staff coach Justin
• 2:31:38
  st.clair, interim, head coach University of Nebraska.
• 2:31:41
  He's in his first role as a head coach, and I'm looking forward
• 2:31:44
  to. We've got a great group of young
• 2:31:46
  men and women at University, just as you would a great job as
• 2:31:49
  a leader, and he's built a great staff to work with.
• 2:31:52
  And so I'm looking forward to seeing what that is as well as
• 2:31:54
  there's some there's some new track meets and new locations
• 2:31:57
  that I've ever visited that addressing I've become friends
• 2:32:00
  with Darren Flint mother of Amelia flint.
• 2:32:03
  And so he and I have Kind of been talking behind the scenes
• 2:32:06
  as it was all going down. And we were talking about it.
• 2:32:09
  Last night was not only how cool because, first of all, I just
• 2:32:12
  think everything of Justin said, Claire to be real Frank with you
• 2:32:15
  but you know, Amelia's family parents met at Nebraska and I
• 2:32:19
  was like, come on man. That's what a cool Legacy to
• 2:32:23
  build and keep building. There was a neat picture.
• 2:32:25
  Amelia postage, my softening it today and it was her dad and his
• 2:32:28
  Nebraska letter jacket. And I'm like, holy smokes.
• 2:32:31
  That's just, that's cool. Survey her dad's a sharp dude.
• 2:32:35
  Imagine you would really is a great athlete and very smart,
• 2:32:37
  Darren's, a great sharp. Dude, I haven't that Mommy.
• 2:32:39
  I can only imagine that moms one.
• 2:32:41
  Who runs the ship over here. I gotta thank.
• 2:32:43
  And then you got to look at the talent that their daughter have
• 2:32:45
  both of those both mom and dad were talented.
• 2:32:47
  Don't forget son, Ian's round the back.
• 2:32:49
  Yeah. All right, he wouldn't hate.
• 2:32:51
  Let's get a selfie to into an. Thank you so much.
• 2:32:52
  Cody May appreciate you being here on the live, taping of the
• 2:32:55
  Gulf of the connections project. Let's see if we have Mike J.
• 2:33:02
  Yeah, let's get this. We this is a real treat for Or
• 2:33:04
  me for a couple of reasons. One, this guy is the voice of
• 2:33:09
  tracking feel this. This setup might not be good
• 2:33:12
  enough for him. He may give me tips on how to
• 2:33:15
  record here because this is the real voice of track and field
• 2:33:20
  right here, live at the Denver Colorado, used, Tipsy City a
• 2:33:24
  2022 convention and this was completely unplanned.
• 2:33:27
  I had no idea this was going to happen.
• 2:33:28
  So, I'm just overwhelmed that here, please introduce yourself
• 2:33:31
  to the audience. I'll show my name's Mike J from
• 2:33:33
  Iowa and yeah. I'm tickled to death to be here.
• 2:33:36
  I was invited by Sam seems from down with the NCAA cross country
• 2:33:40
  meet, and then, of course, the Drake Relays are representing
• 2:33:43
  the Symposium. So just doing some intros and
• 2:33:46
  helping out with the wards and and living the High Life man.
• 2:33:49
  This has been on my bucket list to come to this but I had no
• 2:33:52
  reason to come. Yeah, I was never High School
• 2:33:54
  coach, never a college coach and haven't coach for two years but
• 2:33:58
  I just like to hang her up. Coaches, are good people.
• 2:34:00
  Amen it all. So it's it worked out.
• 2:34:04
  It's awesome. And you know, like there's a lot
• 2:34:06
  of reasons I like you one. Not only your skill set as far
• 2:34:10
  as what you do is the announcer Drake, Relays and other meats
• 2:34:13
  and things like that. That's amazing.
• 2:34:14
  It's kind of cool. Unique talent, right?
• 2:34:16
  I don't know that I can have. Anybody else to come on that.
• 2:34:18
  Does this? Well Blake?
• 2:34:19
  I'd like to start off. He just did meet at Spokane.
• 2:34:21
  Yeah. You also run an amazing
• 2:34:26
  seriously charity event. I want to be around Nation.
• 2:34:28
  Have been founded. Yeah.
• 2:34:30
  Young people from your heart. That is just really, really
• 2:34:34
  amazing. And then you host your own
• 2:34:36
  podcast which is cool. I love that.
• 2:34:38
  But one of the things that I really like I really like Niche.
• 2:34:41
  Right. And so you know track is its own
• 2:34:43
  use, right? You pull baltar's?
• 2:34:45
  That's kind of nice here but there are a select few people
• 2:34:48
  out there that Niche down to their state track and field and
• 2:34:52
  you are I love how you introduce yourself by Jay from Iowa.
• 2:34:56
  You are mr. Iowa, when it comes to the
• 2:34:59
  history of the sport in the state advocating for the
• 2:35:03
  athletes and coaches. Has always blown away.
• 2:35:06
  I can't imagine what kind of database you have when a meat
• 2:35:08
  goes off at the Alabama Invitational and you're like, so
• 2:35:11
  and so that went to Booneville high school and this high
• 2:35:13
  school. And this used to coach at Uni, I
• 2:35:16
  just love that aspect files like modify models from memory and
• 2:35:19
  hopefully that will stick with me for a while, but it's just, I
• 2:35:25
  lucked out my car. Just tell you the back story of
• 2:35:27
  1975. I was a sophomore in high
• 2:35:29
  school. I tell people, I had to work my
• 2:35:31
  butt off to be mediocre and but Even dreamed about qualifying to
• 2:35:36
  the Drake, Relays for the steamed meat, but my small town
• 2:35:40
  of Columbus Junction, 1500 people.
• 2:35:43
  And my head coach said, hey we've got an extra ticket you
• 2:35:45
  want to go so what the Drake with the state in the spring?
• 2:35:48
  And I've never missed either one since 1975 and I credit my High
• 2:35:52
  School coaches for instilling a love of the sport, gotten to the
• 2:35:56
  relays and 75 and Jim Duncan on the mic and I remember telling
• 2:36:00
  coach pretty I'm going to do this someday and that's really
• 2:36:04
  so I Have and it's just been, you know, and we've got really
• 2:36:08
  good kids in Iowa, you know, we're and we understand that you
• 2:36:13
  don't you're not going to get a lot of recruits from Florida,
• 2:36:16
  Texas. And and that's okay.
• 2:36:17
  But we'll get enough of them to do blend in with the Iowa kids.
• 2:36:21
  And, and most of the good programs in Iowa.
• 2:36:25
  Well, regardless of the sport, they get three-star.
• 2:36:29
  Recruit should make them a five before they graduate, you know,
• 2:36:31
  and they don't come in as a five and I've always loved that work
• 2:36:34
  ethic. And so, it's just, it's been a
• 2:36:37
  labor of love for me and our foundation, you know, when I
• 2:36:40
  coach, we always had kids that had a need.
• 2:36:43
  So it's, it's, I've got great supporters.
• 2:36:46
  I said just how rich Benoist down here on the way, you know.
• 2:36:49
  And he says, I'm going to send you guys some shoes to give the
• 2:36:52
  kids. And my favorite story is about 3
• 2:36:55
  weeks ago. I get a text from Jenny Simpson.
• 2:36:58
  Yeah, who's now, she'd been with New Balance, her entire career
• 2:37:01
  right now with Puma, right? She said I've got a closet full
• 2:37:04
  of new bow On spikes. Do you wanna come on?
• 2:37:07
  And so she sent me a great big box 39 pairs of spikes should
• 2:37:11
  signed a singlet and a pair of spikes and we raffle them off
• 2:37:15
  and on track to me, clap, two weeks ago, made over $800.
• 2:37:20
  So Mike as we wrap up to where can people go?
• 2:37:22
  Because there's no you blessed me with a shirt.
• 2:37:25
  The Trap guys? Yeah.
• 2:37:26
  And you know what? I get shirts from around.
• 2:37:28
  Have got them on. Yeah, I see everybody.
• 2:37:32
  And I'm not gonna lie. That you gave me was at the The
• 2:37:36
  Nutty come in but not. Absolute like is the most
• 2:37:39
  comfortable shirt, I own. I mean, I don't know what the
• 2:37:41
  material try, those are called tri-blend amazing.
• 2:37:44
  My kids and sister, dad. You just can't get an old cotton
• 2:37:46
  or everybody has the heart into it.
• 2:37:48
  So, tell us where is, this will be on the podcast.
• 2:37:51
  Also K3, where can we go to, for those kind of items?
• 2:37:54
  If we have shoes, we want to donate this.
• 2:37:55
  Where can we go? Crack guy, foundation.com,
• 2:37:58
  correct, guy, foundation.com and all kinds of drop-down menus and
• 2:38:02
  and one thing we're kind of proud Out of we just did it this
• 2:38:06
  year. For the very first time, we have
• 2:38:08
  track meeting posters that coaches can download and we've
• 2:38:11
  got oh yes all that got the bio of two outstanding former Iowa
• 2:38:15
  preps on there and so for don't have a track meetings going to
• 2:38:18
  place to fill out, where to meet what time?
• 2:38:20
  And lastly January 25th, we're going to wind up.
• 2:38:24
  We're going to get wound up. I should say our track guy
• 2:38:27
  speaker series events. Again, we had eight of them
• 2:38:29
  around the state over two years before covid, and last year, at
• 2:38:34
  the NCAA, Indoor Birmingham, Daniel Bryan, came up to me,
• 2:38:37
  said, Mike, I want to do something don't foundation.
• 2:38:39
  So Daniel Bryan's, going to be there January, twenty fifth
• 2:38:42
  grade and a couple of our paralympic athletes from Iowa,
• 2:38:46
  and we've got a All-American decathlete from the University
• 2:38:48
  of Iowa. Austin West.
• 2:38:50
  And he and Dan are going to close the show with a 45-minute
• 2:38:53
  conversation between America. One of America's one of the
• 2:38:56
  world's best ever Olympic gold medalist talking to an
• 2:38:59
  up-and-comer. So it'll be fun.
• 2:39:01
  So track guy foundation.com you got to go their support.
• 2:39:04
  He's doing great things and like I'm just so thankful.
• 2:39:07
  We man, thank you. Thank you for what you do for
• 2:39:09
  our sport. I look forward to your tweets
• 2:39:11
  every day. I really do is get a lot that I
• 2:39:13
  mean that we get to do a selfie before we okay take out.
• 2:39:15
  Let's do it. Mike, thank you so much you bet.
• 2:39:18
  Thank you, Mike. Hey we're going to wrap up here
• 2:39:21
  tonight but before we do, I'm going to try to get each one of
• 2:39:27
  my teammates man. The I don't do anything without
• 2:39:29
  my teammates and I've got three great ones actually had five
• 2:39:32
  year but two of them broke out there.
• 2:39:34
  Probably Getting dinner for us is what they're probably do.
• 2:39:36
  And oh yeah, they said they have a table.
• 2:39:38
  Okay, good. This goes through 7:45 though.
• 2:39:41
  I so, you know, it's my boss. I get to go out.
• 2:39:45
  Hey, so I just wanted to kind of quickly highlight as we wrap up
• 2:39:48
  tonight. You know, we've had some amazing
• 2:39:50
  coaches. We kind of started doing Drake
• 2:39:51
  Relays a little bit ended on the Drake Relays with my Jay was
• 2:39:54
  here but but we you know what you think that we do here scoot
• 2:39:59
  over, he's do not get the Hansen's.
• 2:40:01
  I kept touching like it up here. We have some amazing teammates
• 2:40:04
  here and this is kind of I don't want to belittle this guy and
• 2:40:07
  save my right-hand man. But what I mean by that is this
• 2:40:09
  is the guy who really does it all to be real Frank with you,
• 2:40:12
  Scott Phelps, he oversees our sales team or our Gil, stock
• 2:40:16
  divisions all the pits poles, hurdles and implements things
• 2:40:18
  like that. So Scott introduce yourself and
• 2:40:20
  I'm just gonna ask you a couple of fun questions.
• 2:40:22
  Sure. Yeah.
• 2:40:23
  My name is Scott Phelps. I've worked at Gill going on
• 2:40:25
  five years. Now was a coach for eight years
• 2:40:29
  of college level and started as a sales rep.
• 2:40:32
  And now we kind of have a In everything at gil.
• 2:40:35
  He runs the show. Let's not be too.
• 2:40:37
  He will say that. But I will, and I can't.
• 2:40:39
  And you were a really good. I can say that because I'm no
• 2:40:43
  monkey are half mile, ER, for the University of Illinois and
• 2:40:46
  you're from the area. And when coached at places like
• 2:40:49
  Dartmouth and Northeastern and Texas, what did it mean?
• 2:40:53
  You know as you were coming out of coaching and moving?
• 2:40:55
  You got the chance to not only move back to home base but you
• 2:40:59
  got to stay in track and field. Was a much of a draw, was that
• 2:41:02
  for you? Or is it just like I'm asking
• 2:41:03
  you to do a job? There's a little bit of that.
• 2:41:06
  There's definitely a pole back to Central Illinois but staying
• 2:41:11
  in the sport was big. I mean I still am always going
• 2:41:13
  to follow track and running and things like that.
• 2:41:16
  So it was nice to have somebody you know, to work at a place
• 2:41:20
  where I can talk about tracking people move.
• 2:41:27
  Well, I love it man. You know, Scott you bring a
• 2:41:30
  whole different set of positives and advantages to our team and
• 2:41:33
  I'm just so thankful for you being honest.
• 2:41:35
  And now I'm going to have a little fun.
• 2:41:36
  So I've got 100 questions. 1 through 100, they're numbered 1
• 2:41:39
  through 100. You get to pick the number 87,
• 2:41:41
  y-intercept, my lucky number, not your football doesn't come
• 2:41:45
  up very often. That's 87.
• 2:41:47
  But yeah, we never. Yeah, that's true.
• 2:41:50
  We didn't have enough that all dudes on the podcast here
• 2:41:53
  tonight. Besides Jessica in every guy
• 2:41:55
  when they picked a number, it's their old high school football
• 2:41:58
  coming to a t87 or 87, right? All right.
• 2:42:01
  Sweet or savory. What's your favorite dessert?
• 2:42:04
  Cinnamon roll, if I could do just the middle part of a cinema
• 2:42:08
  name in not even the elderly men could be my it why is it deal
• 2:42:11
  talked about the inventions and things like that?
• 2:42:14
  That you have a whole different aspect of track and field.
• 2:42:26
  What are you most looking forward to in the 2023 track and
• 2:42:29
  field season? Yeah, well, I think everybody
• 2:42:32
  remembers where they were When kind of covid first happen,
• 2:42:36
  unfortunately? Yes I was at ncaa's in
• 2:42:40
  Albuquerque at the national championships and they are back
• 2:42:45
  in Albuquerque this March and so I am looking forward to actually
• 2:42:48
  having ncaa's at Albuquerque full circle.
• 2:42:52
  I did not even yeah that's what I'm that's true because we were
• 2:42:56
  there on the Tuesday and Wednesdays I think we're going
• 2:42:57
  to division one. Let's go let's rock it.
• 2:42:59
  Okay pack your stuff up and go home yep and what and then just
• 2:43:02
  you know it just kept getting that I'm looking for.
• 2:43:04
  To that too, man. That's really good.
• 2:43:06
  Are we get a selfie because the other two guys in here and then
• 2:43:08
  go eat. Okay, there we go.
• 2:43:12
  Scott. Thank you man.
• 2:43:12
  I really appreciate you so grateful for you.
• 2:43:16
  We got two more. I'm not I'm not gonna let him
• 2:43:18
  off the hook. I want you to go last actually
• 2:43:22
  I'm gonna get him off the hook. I'm gonna get this guy on the
• 2:43:24
  hook first, I'm going to end with a very special person,
• 2:43:26
  although this guy's special to I'm not belittling here.
• 2:43:29
  He likes to dress like me can see very close here going to
• 2:43:32
  close up here. So I'm going to introduce
• 2:43:34
  himself and then we'll go at it. Go ahead.
• 2:43:37
  Yeah. So I'm River, I'm a former pole
• 2:43:39
  vaulter. I still bought a little bit.
• 2:43:40
  You know, I gotta stay with the stay with the fun thing you
• 2:43:42
  love. And and so I mean sales.
• 2:43:45
  East side of things. And then I work a lot with the
• 2:43:47
  Pacer and oval holes and they questions there.
• 2:43:49
  So what you know, you were pole vaulter and college and you
• 2:43:53
  know, you're kind of almost a low-key Trek nerd but you're
• 2:43:56
  here attract nerd, you know, you don't exude it too much.
• 2:43:59
  Kind of keep you like to keep your composure there, but what
• 2:44:02
  was it like when you know, through the interview process
• 2:44:04
  coming out of college and going to work for Gila buttocks?
• 2:44:07
  Was it? What was it?
• 2:44:08
  What was there stating need about it?
• 2:44:09
  Or was it just like yummy I just needed a job goggles out of
• 2:44:11
  college. I mean I definitely like I had a
• 2:44:15
  A good college job to wear like I could have stayed and my
• 2:44:17
  college town and been at the beach threw in a walk for a
• 2:44:20
  while. And I wanted to do something
• 2:44:22
  that I would be more loving the excited to do.
• 2:44:25
  And so as a pole vaulter, getting to work within a track
• 2:44:27
  and field company was deathly, something I was very excited to
• 2:44:30
  that's cool man. Yeah, well we were definitely
• 2:44:31
  glad to have you and we're going to talk about what's up coming
• 2:44:34
  here in a second though. But we're gonna have a little
• 2:44:36
  fun. I've got a don't cheat, I've got
• 2:44:38
  100 questions. 1 through 100, don't cheat.
• 2:44:42
  This is how we got to take. So hold on.
• 2:44:44
  Before we go in there, I can't. Levi talked about this earlier
• 2:44:46
  actually with one of our past guest here.
• 2:44:48
  But my friend here, River went to Coastal Carolina University
• 2:44:52
  and as you know, from tonight and all the other podcast I try
• 2:44:55
  to mention it at least once show, I went to the greatest
• 2:44:58
  universities of Old Troy University and Troy University
• 2:45:00
  and Coastal Carolina University playing the championship game.
• 2:45:04
  Actually I'm not sure Coastal Carolina play I'm gonna tip if
• 2:45:07
  we draw. I think our offense played you
• 2:45:08
  played second half your offense, first half you a play-by-play at
• 2:45:11
  all. So now we're understanding how
• 2:45:13
  he graduated through college, use tikis, look.
• 2:45:15
  Up on paperwork here. 1 through 100 sir.
• 2:45:17
  Which, again, I'll do 50 Subs & Y, 57.
• 2:45:19
  I've no idea. That's the best answer with and
• 2:45:22
  all night. 57 sir, let's go to your hometown.
• 2:45:25
  Where is the spot in your hometown to eat?
• 2:45:29
  There isn't one barbecue joint. The pizza place.
• 2:45:34
  Where everybody met up at know, we're talking one.
• 2:45:37
  Red light towel. Yeah, but there's always, that's
• 2:45:39
  where some of the best food is. No.
• 2:45:42
  I'm trying to think. I really don't think there was
• 2:45:44
  the Sonic on the corner with the stoplight, nothing Waffle House.
• 2:45:48
  But there's a million of them. Yeah bro, friend of mine, who's
• 2:45:52
  at UNLV, now was complaining? Because there's no Waffle House
• 2:45:54
  in Las Vegas. There's one actually is in
• 2:45:56
  Denver. I tweeted him and said, well you
• 2:45:59
  up here in Denver? There's not one in Champaign.
• 2:46:00
  Someone needs to open one by our office.
• 2:46:02
  There's not one so River, you know, not to put you on the spot
• 2:46:07
  because it's common knowledge. You joined us a little over a
• 2:46:10
  year ago, and you are breaking my heart, you're leaving us to
• 2:46:14
  go to a real A wonderful opportunity.
• 2:46:15
  I really am happy and proud of you, but I just kinda wanted to
• 2:46:18
  get it on paper on wax here. Just say, man, I'm so proud of
• 2:46:21
  you, I don't like that, you're leaving, you were great.
• 2:46:25
  Addition to the team, you what? You created over this past year,
• 2:46:28
  year and a half. This will continue to live on.
• 2:46:31
  You know what you created is sustainability.
• 2:46:32
  A lot of things, man. I'm just so proud of you.
• 2:46:34
  I love you to death and I truly selfishly hate that you're
• 2:46:38
  leaving, but I'm just Uber, Uber proud of you.
• 2:46:41
  And what you're going to do in a bunch of other different
• 2:46:43
  Industries, and for your family, and Future family, man.
• 2:46:46
  It's going to be it's gonna be big and I can't wait to just
• 2:46:48
  watch the journey from the sidelines.
• 2:46:50
  I'm excited. I really love you death.
• 2:46:52
  Let's get a selfie real quick and then we're going to bring in
• 2:46:54
  really the this guest of the whole week that I've been
• 2:46:58
  waiting to get here on the podcast.
• 2:47:00
  He looks like he was doing some Vince.
• 2:47:02
  He's I think he's nervous a little bit here but that's okay.
• 2:47:05
  This is kind of what I do. I put people on the spot, we
• 2:47:07
  were going to call the podcast, the on-the-spot podcast once.
• 2:47:09
  But it's good for me and we're gonna put them on a spot here.
• 2:47:12
  So why don't you introduce yourself here to our audience
• 2:47:14
  today? I'm Jane.
• 2:47:16
  Curtin originally from Indiana and now I live in Champaign to
• 2:47:22
  kill for about 14 years. 14 is that right?
• 2:47:25
  Just about. Yeah.
• 2:47:26
  So I'm pushing on toward the 17th.
• 2:47:29
  So you weren't that far behind me?
• 2:47:31
  Correct. I feel like I'm the old man's
• 2:47:33
  always feel like I'm 20 years longer than anybody even though
• 2:47:35
  when we were 17 and tell us what you do at Google analytics.
• 2:47:38
  Yeah, I'm an R&D I dabble in a little bit of track and field
• 2:47:42
  stuff. I've got the track background so
• 2:47:44
  I Enjoy one can also work in our valuable product range.
• 2:47:49
  We're coming best the Portables rims backwards and whatnots and
• 2:47:54
  tell us a little bit about that truck background that you have.
• 2:47:56
  Yeah I ran my dad got me inspired got me into the sport
• 2:48:00
  here in for IU. Back in the day I don't think I
• 2:48:03
  knew that he meant for Indiana high school and then went to
• 2:48:13
  Valparaiso the Crusaders. Yes.
• 2:48:45
  One of the reasons. First of all, super glad you
• 2:48:53
  don't normally travel with us and so I'm super happy that
• 2:48:55
  you're here. One is I want to put you on the
• 2:48:57
  spot. You know.
• 2:48:58
  I like to Highlight our team, especially the ones that have
• 2:49:01
  tracked background. So one day I want you to be on
• 2:49:03
  the full podcast. You are absolutely say no.
• 2:49:05
  You have to come in now. But I wanted to know if they
• 2:49:06
  were just in case you said, yes I can.
• 2:49:08
  Come back so nobody said, yes, but thank you.
• 2:49:11
  One of the real reasons. We are unveiling, our Continuum
• 2:49:14
  C5 hurdle at this show and this is pretty revolutionary and you
• 2:49:20
  were, it takes a whole team. I know you're gonna say
• 2:49:22
  something, you were the leader of this.
• 2:49:24
  So this new hurdle you can check out our catalog or online.
• 2:49:27
  There's some videos on social media.
• 2:49:29
  If you think about when you go to move a hurdle up or down, the
• 2:49:32
  first thing that everybody does or at least they should do, they
• 2:49:35
  put their foot on that cross brace, right.
• 2:49:36
  Kind of to stabilize that hurdle down and then they click it up
• 2:49:39
  30 33 36 or whatnot or if you have RC for the ones we use it
• 2:49:43
  in caa's trigger and you move up, right?
• 2:49:46
  Well, our boss David Hodge, must think I keep telling about.
• 2:49:51
  You must think I'm the greatest salesman in the world pretty
• 2:49:52
  pricey hurdle, but the real challenge was we actually had to
• 2:49:56
  develop this thing and my friend here, Jim church and you were
• 2:49:58
  the He'd design on this. Can you talk a little bit about
• 2:50:02
  that process because you were creating something from scratch?
• 2:50:05
  There was no blueprint here all week.
• 2:50:08
  I'll say that kind of, was the C-4 is a tried-and-true hurdle.
• 2:50:12
  He's been out there for years. I hoped on the development of
• 2:50:15
  that as well, just behind the scenes, but we wanted to keep as
• 2:50:20
  much of that the same as we could just.
• 2:50:22
  That's, it's such a durable, durable hurdle.
• 2:50:25
  Say that ten times. Yeah.
• 2:50:26
  Right. We want to keep as much the same
• 2:50:28
  as we But yeah, we want to incorporate this new feature, so
• 2:50:34
  we actually look to the luggage industry and the telescoping
• 2:50:38
  handles on those luggage gets tossed and turned around all day
• 2:50:42
  every day, do they take some beating just like mine.
• 2:50:46
  So we took we bought luggage we looked at those internal
• 2:50:48
  mechanisms and everybody uses the same thing.
• 2:50:53
  So we just essentially looked at that we adapted it to fit inside
• 2:50:57
  of our hurdle uprights And we are hoping the yeah, have the
• 2:51:01
  same durability out of yeah, mechanism for.
• 2:51:05
  It was really fascinating. I got to be along that Journey
• 2:51:07
  on the sale side which means I just got them look stuff up.
• 2:51:10
  You know, whenever the sales guys walk in the engineers,
• 2:51:12
  like, holy crap, what are we doing now?
• 2:51:15
  But it was really interesting to see buying the luggage tearing
• 2:51:18
  it apart learning. Okay.
• 2:51:19
  Is what has happened. Okay.
• 2:51:20
  But now we need to do it 180 degrees.
• 2:51:23
  We go through this thing upside down.
• 2:51:24
  Oh, and by the way, we're going to have people like Trey
• 2:51:27
  Cunningham and Oh my gosh, darn David but David Oliver David,
• 2:51:33
  I'm sorry, man. I love you, man.
• 2:51:34
  I'm so sorry the Deo test, right?
• 2:51:36
  That people are going to be hitting the knocking the
• 2:51:38
  everliving snot and so it's going to be durable.
• 2:51:40
  It was really interesting to see that flip inside of the R&D
• 2:51:44
  mechanism and then also the testing that we do now I got to
• 2:51:47
  ask as the R&D guy is testing the most fun thing that you guys
• 2:51:50
  do it from the outside. It seems like it when you get to
• 2:51:53
  kind of just try to Break Stuff. Testing is fun.
• 2:51:57
  We do and don't want to brakes. Early on.
• 2:52:00
  You Want to Break Stuff so you can learn then later on, when
• 2:52:02
  you think you've figured everything out.
• 2:52:04
  Sure. It's also nerve-racking because
• 2:52:05
  he don't never thought about it like that.
• 2:52:07
  Okay, no, we fixed it down. Oh yeah, we didn't.
• 2:52:09
  It's one of my favorite part is the even before that.
• 2:52:13
  Yeah, that's cool. It was your.
• 2:52:16
  So, you know, there's people out there right now going to wait a
• 2:52:18
  minute working in the tracks. I don't know if it would be a
• 2:52:20
  salesperson but you know I like to create stuff and ideas.
• 2:52:24
  What was your major in college that led you into this kind of
• 2:52:27
  career? As a mechanical engineer.
• 2:52:30
  Out of the gates are work for a hospital then and manufacture my
• 2:52:33
  hometown. Yeah.
• 2:52:37
  No one knows someone right now, has an aunt.
• 2:52:59
  Whole school. Okay, then I switched over to
• 2:53:01
  running wise. I love it, man.
• 2:53:03
  Well, we're going to get Jim on the podcast, maybe in 2023 in.
• 2:53:07
  Learn the whole story, man. I'm really excited about that.
• 2:53:09
  But before you leave today we're gonna have some fun.
• 2:53:10
  I've got a hundred questions here.
• 2:53:12
  Number 1 through 100, you get to pick the number will go with
• 2:53:15
  nice. Was that your basketball number?
• 2:53:18
  And I thought ahead of time, I'm going to do my anniversary
• 2:53:21
  dates. Oh nice.
• 2:53:23
  Nice. Nice.
• 2:53:23
  Love that. All right.
• 2:53:24
  Number 92 Ching, what currently cost money but should be free to
• 2:53:28
  everyone. One.
• 2:53:32
  I'm going to say Healthcare. Yes I agree with that we had
• 2:53:35
  that question earlier and quickly still Frederick from
• 2:53:38
  Fort Scott said, Apartments, living.
• 2:53:40
  And I was like man. That's a really good like I'm so
• 2:53:42
  shallow. My answer was 0 internet and
• 2:53:44
  it's just for everyone but no health care doctors or something
• 2:53:47
  that can spring up, and then it's tied to your employment is
• 2:53:51
  just by I mean, it's just not right, it's not right man.
• 2:53:54
  Jim thank you so much. Thanks for ending is so this has
• 2:53:56
  been our first live event. We never recorded live and out
• 2:53:59
  there. No bleep.
• 2:54:00
  But The editing warts-and-all out there and so you were a
• 2:54:04
  really good anchor to put this on the podcast.
• 2:54:06
  They so we're having, we're going to take a selfie and then
• 2:54:08
  I'm going to sign off. And then we're going to go eat
• 2:54:10
  because I am hungry. What do we do three?
• 2:54:13
  Almost three hours. I like that.
• 2:54:14
  Awesome, thank you so much darshan.
• 2:54:16
  Hey, and thank you for being here on the live recording, man.
• 2:54:19
  I can't believe that they talked me into this, and we did it and
• 2:54:22
  it went really, really well, if you have suggestions on how it
• 2:54:26
  could have gone better, put them in the comments and I want to
• 2:54:28
  get better at this and maybe we'll do this next year.
• 2:54:30
  T23 for the u.s. tfcc a convention that's going to be in
• 2:54:34
  Denver, we're going to be right here.
• 2:54:36
  So thank you for being here. Thank you for listening to the
• 2:54:38
  guilt that it's connections. Podcast, we are excited for
• 2:54:41
  season four coming up on January 2nd, check it out.
• 2:54:44
  And hope to see you around. Thanks, guys.