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We’re Changing Everything in 2026 | MindSets Podcast | Episode 73 · The MindSets Podcast

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  Hello and welcome back to another episode of the Mindsets
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  Podcast. It is 2026.
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  Happy New Year, everybody. I hope you enjoyed the Happy New
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  Year, the Happy Christmas episode, but we're back for
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  another year, a bigger year. It's going to be a bit of a run
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  through episode. Charles is still here.
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  Actually, that's that's the first point.
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  Charles is still here. You made it to 2026.
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  Yeah, I'm very happy to be here. Welcome back Thoughts going into
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  2026 for the podcast. I mean, there's, there's too
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  much to talk about. I I don't have enough time.
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  OK, cool. We don't have enough time.
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  That's one of the main things actually.
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  We'll run through some of the changes that are coming.
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  One of them is going to be far more concise and going to be
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  quicker. So talking of quicker news,
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  right, Conciseness. Yeah, 2 minute news hit me.
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  Hang on, are we always going to do a 2 minute news?
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  OK, so the two-minute news now is 2 minute news. 2 minute news?
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  I'm already in. You've wasted. 7 seconds of the
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  news. Sporting News Australian Open is
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  happening this starting this month.
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  The African Cup of Nations is continuing being held in
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  Morocco. I did some Googling earlier, 11
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  host countries have won the African Cup of Nations, so it's
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  looking good for Morocco who I think are the number one seed as
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  well. What else is happening?
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  Tyson Fury, he announced that he's unretiring.
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  I don't know who he's going to fight but that's going to happen
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  at some point this year. England were rubbish at cricket
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  over the new Year. Again and again.
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  Yeah, yeah, yeah. Went 33 nil down in the ashes
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  and that's all I can remember off the top of my head.
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  The only additional spice I can give to the Australian Open is
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  Novak Djokovic is going for his 10th win of that tournament.
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  However, he normally does the warm up tournament for it to get
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  used to the surface and he's decided he not to do it this
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  this year because he doesn't feel like he's fit enough to get
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  through that tournament, which is concerning.
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  He's probably just sandbagging and he'll come out and win it
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  again. I think that was under 2 minute.
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  It had to. Be had to be had to be.
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  So that's actually the second change that they're going to
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  notice because you don't know about the first change that
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  everyone will notice. The first change is there was a
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  different intro song. So if you hated it or loved it,
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  let us know in the comments or write in because we can always
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  revert back. But we've got a new intro song
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  and some of the, the branding, everything like that might also
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  look slightly different. We are taking the steps to
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  becoming your favorite podcast and your friend's favorite
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  podcast, especially if they don't know about it.
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  And we want we want people to know about it more.
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  So we're going to make it look better and we're going to be
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  better. So the next thing that we're
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  moving into is a slight reorder everyone's favorite bit.
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  We're going to start. We're going to start it this
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  year straight in Cry My gears. Do you want to go first?
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  I don't know if I can kick off 2026, the first crime I gears,
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  but I'm going to give it a go. Obviously I'm going to start
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  with wristwatch heart rate data. This is this is, this is what
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  the people. Want to hear Only because I saw
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  it recently. Now I'm a big advocate for using
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  data in training and I don't want to take away from that.
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  It's the way that people portray it and use it, and we know that
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  wrist data is probably less accurate than using a chest
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  strap. I saw someone posting about how
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  they had like the dog in them because the head worked out for
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  like they were running. They're done.
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  I think it was like 2 1/2 hour run and their heart rate was
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  like +188 or something for 2 1/2 hours off wristwatch data and
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  they were just going in on how they were like mentally stronger
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  than everyone else because they had the ability to hold their
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  heart rate a high. I'm just like, it's not accurate
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  man. Just like whatever.
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  It got to me and it was grinding my gears.
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  So that's where I was starting. Just to to clarify why watches
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  aren't scientifically further away from the heart and also
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  depending on the movement you're doing, dissociated from being
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  able to check a pulse. If you want to argue with me
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  then tell me why if you were to do a movement like a ski Ugg why
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  your number of steps goes up. Yeah, exactly.
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  Because it doesn't know what's going on.
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  There we go. It could be that.
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  The only other thing I would say is like if you are using, let's
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  rein it back in, be positive because it's a new year.
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  If you are using your wrist heart rate data, yes, it's not
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  as accurate. I mean, you're going to get
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  something from it. It's not as accurate.
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  But if it's the only metric you're using, because it's
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  always inconsistent, it therefore becomes consistent.
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  Inconsistent or not, it's consistent, so you can still use
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  it as a tool. That's all good training, if
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  that makes sense. Just don't brag about the data.
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  The fact that you're you're the dog.
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  Yeah, yeah, yeah. OK, cool.
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  The the first one that we've got as a guest written in and this
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  is actually pretty applicable, I would say Christmas music after
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  Christmas. No, this has spilled over really
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  from last episode, but it has come at the right time because
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  there has been some Christmas music in the last week.
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  And do you know what I feel a lot of people felt the same way
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  that Christmas didn't really hit the same this year.
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  Interesting. I feel like I needed to get all
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  excited beforehand and I didn't get that Christmassy feeling.
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  And then Christmas happened and then it was Boxing Day and I was
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  like, oh, kind of feeling Christmassy, but it's too late.
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  And now I have to wait another year.
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  Now I have to wait another year and so I actually had a bit of a
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  craving for Christmas music, but I still would not refused.
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  Absolutely not. Do you want to know why you
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  didn't feel that festive in Christmassy?
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  I'd love to. Yeah, because you're old now.
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  Oh. Christmas.
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  He's rolling into another gram of years ago Christmas.
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  Isn't fun, but Christmas isn't fun unless you're like a kid and
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  and like, you know, Santa's come in and you get loads of presents
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  wrapped up. It's just, it does.
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  It's not the same, is it? It's that's pretty sad.
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  Well, so apparently we're old, and that's been annoying Charles
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  a little bit more recently. I don't.
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  Let's not go into. That we know why this year is a
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  big year for you, isn't it? Stop.
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  So, but also off, off the back of that.
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  No, I can't now. I can't now.
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  I don't need more people knowing that I'm going to turn 30 this
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  year. We'll get it out in the open,
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  get it out. He's turning 30 this year.
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  It's going to be a huge episode. Yeah, we'll do like a birthday
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  episode on my birthday and it'll just be like my grind my gears.
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  We'll just be. Paying on how old you are.
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  But do you think there's like a cut off where it's no longer
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  appropriate to say happy New Year?
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  Yeah, and you know what has been pissing me off is it We're well
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  beyond the cut off and I've had to say it multiple times.
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  Today, I think today is what I would suggest we're currently
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  filming on the OR recording on the 5th.
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  What's the date? The 7th.
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  OK, we're way past the cut off. You just.
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  Triggered another grind like yeah when people don't know what
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  day it. Is we're way off the cut off?
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  Why did I think it was the fifth?
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  Yeah, yeah, I think. Beyond the third.
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  But I think because most people went back to work on the 5th if
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  you weren't in the office until perhaps today, because it's lots
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  of people don't go in until midweek on Wednesday.
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  That's why in my head I was like maybe it's the 5th.
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  But the cut off I reckon is today.
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  And anyone who says that after today will go on my grandma
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  gears list. OK, that, that's.
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  Fair. You already said it today, so.
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  We've discussed, I don't know if it's come up on the podcast
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  before I'm this can be a grind. My gear.
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  I hate it when people do small talk on things like teams or
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  messaging things at work, but it's like, hey, how was your
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  weekend? Or did you have a nice festive
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  break? Happy New year.
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  I'm not replying until you tell me what you want.
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  I'm the same. Just tell me what you want.
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  So earlier today, in fact, I messaged someone, hey, do you
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  mind sending me this over? They responded, happy New Year
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  and waited for me to say something bad.
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  And then they're like, yeah, I'll send it over in a bit that.
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  Sometimes, sometimes I'm petty. If someone is constantly like
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  badgering me and they're going, I need this, I want that, give
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  me this, do this, do a little bit.
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  I will give it to them. But in my message, I'll make the
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  effort to go. Hi, how are you?
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  It's lovely to hear from you etcetera, etcetera.
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  And then send them what? So I make them feel bad about
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  themselves. See, I get that back and I'm
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  like and then I carry on doing what I'm doing.
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  This is what? So we're just reading out our
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  message basically. OK, another grind.
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  My gear that we have had sent in was terrible PTS in the new year
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  and we've had many discussions about terrible PTS.
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  I think there is a bit of an issue with the fact that there
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  are people who are coaching with a qualification aren't very good
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  and there are people that aren't qualified that coach and also
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  aren't very good. And then you've got the opposite
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  of both. But particularly in the new
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  year, a lot of people enter a new phase in the gym or their
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  fitness will take on a new sport and look for coaching.
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  And there are some people that absolutely mug them off in gyms.
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  Perfect example. I was in a relatively I would, I
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  don't know how to say it. It's not a cheap gym Nuffield.
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  It's kind of like that between a public to expensive gym setup.
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  I recently, very recently saw a personal trainer asking someone
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  to use one of the weighted foam barrels.
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  I don't know if you know what I'm talking about.
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  It's like a, it's like a tube that actually has a bit of
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  weight to it and they've got like handles in the side of
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  them. Kind of looks like the things
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  that the the strong men like roll up and then push over their
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  hair, big locks. But it's a, It's just.
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  A foam almost almost squishy with like colour on the ends.
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  Yeah, I know exactly what you're talking about, so.
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  It was one of those and the movement was to pick it up, to
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  pick it up, and then to use the ends of it.
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  Like that was the punching on a punch bag.
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  Oh, perfect. But in a lunge position.
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  Perfect. Now, we've discussed before
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  there are very specific movements for athletes to be
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  doing. Yeah, this personal trainer had
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  a repeated session. I was there for two hours like
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  we did across a crossover. Of two for everyone who came in,
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  it was the. Same thing.
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  It was the same thing. Yeah, unless maybe his niche is
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  is a certain sport maybe they're training for like kayak or
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  something. I've gotten like serious stand
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  up had awarding. Well, that you, yeah.
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  Maybe. You don't want to, you don't
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  want to assume. No, I don't.
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  I don't want to go down the rabbit hole of bad PTS because
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  it is like such a can of worms. And it's something that like
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  really riles me up and I've spent the almost last 10 years
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  having that as like a grind my gear day in, day out.
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  So it's a frustrating one. I've got a a a worse one than
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  that. Oh, perfect.
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  And this is personal, this is one that I'm bringing to the
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  show, but other people have also written in.
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  So we're all just like grouping together as friends this year.
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  There's nothing worse than someone on social media
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  prescribing information. And we're coming into the year,
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  Coming into the year with every man, woman and their dog quite
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  literally on social media is telling you how to live your
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  life this year. And I think she's probably
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  lovely. She's great in person.
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  But I'm actually going to call out an influencer called Holly
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  and I'm going to give her the full tag.
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  But Holly took to Instagram today to mention that 75 Hard
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  should be cancelled. 75 Hard is a challenge that I have done,
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  quite a few other people have done.
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  You're welcome to go and look into it.
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  There is a series of challenges that you have to do as part of
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  your daily routine. 95% of people that take on 75 Hard fail
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  and that was one of her big points.
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  Why would you start your year off negatively by taking on a
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  challenge that 95% of people fail?
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  The point of it is that it's hard and if you don't want to do
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  something hard, you don't do it. Whether that's you don't start
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  in the 1st place or you don't finish it, it's supposed to be
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  hard. You're supposed to prove
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  something to yourself and you're supposed to get your life
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  together a little bit. If that sounds up your street,
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  do 75 hard. If it doesn't, go and do 45 days
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  forward, which was the alternative that she had and I
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  would argue as well that 40. 5:45 Or was it 40?
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  Five, yeah, cool. 45 days forward.
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  And I would argue that the the four things you had to do on a
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  daily basis, if you're not already doing those, you might
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  want to think about. Then it might be perfect for
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  you, yeah. Yeah, but it was just like,
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  don't try and cancel something that is supposed to be hard.
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  It's actually quite. Is is actually in the name?
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  I mean, you can apply that to so many things.
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  It's like, why would you do that?
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  It's too hard. Like name any sort of challenge
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  you want to set yourself. But I think the social media
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  thing, I was like, let's not talk about bad PTS and then I'm
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  coming back to it. But the social media thing and
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  your presence online and your ability to create a following,
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  it's like what's really made the fitness industry suffer in terms
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  of like professionality across personal trainers and coaches is
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  because if you have a following, you have the ability to
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  therefore sell something. And because you have a
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  following, it almost gives you like, false credibility whether
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  you have a certification or not. So it's just that it's a tricky
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  place to balance. Like some personal trainers
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  online are fantastic and have a big following, but typically
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  speaking, there's a lot of people with a big following who
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  have absolutely no idea what they're doing and managing to
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  sell trashy programming and trashy programs to people who
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  are willing to listen to them. It actually does line up quite a
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  lot with businesses, podcasts, coaches, but there are a lot of
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  people that get a following off a viral incident, which
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  honestly, I don't know how he's getting bored into this.
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  Do you know do you know who Ollie Ball is?
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  No Ollie Ball went viral a few years ago on TikTok when him and
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  his friend at school would rate food.
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  Yeah. Just that was it.
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  They're in their school clothes. I don't think he's gone to
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  university because of that virality of rating food.
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  He's now got enough of a following that he lives off it,
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  has YouTube everything, and just sort of lives his life.
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  And that's the content. As far as I'm aware.
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  I'm not a follower. He just came up recently and
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  that's what made me think of it. But it's those sorts of people
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  that get a following, know they have to make a career out of it
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  and maybe go, well, I'm pretty fit.
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  Maybe I'll put some coaching advice out there.
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  Oh, people seem to be really interested in my life.
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  Maybe I'll start a podcast. Yeah, it's great.
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  And I'm, I'm happy that they do it because they're, they're
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  trying to find their, their love, their the thing that's
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  going to be their career. It does make it hard for people
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  like us where I do. I do believe our podcast has a
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  lot of interesting bits to it, but we also do put some genuine
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  advice and good coaching material out there and we might
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  go a bit awash. This sounds like a.
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  More often than not, yeah. And, and this sound, this sounds
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  like a, a really sad crying, like jealous.
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  But it, it is a natural thing. And unfortunately for people
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  that work in the fitness industry that have got years of
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  experience and loads of qualifications like yourself, to
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  then be drowned out by someone who doesn't really have a proper
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  job but can sit and make 10 trial reels a day.
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  One of them goes viral and therefore they get 3-4 clients
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  out of it. Yeah.
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  That's annoying, yeah. It's a a tough thing that you
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  just have to navigate and not get too bogged down in.
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  So if you agree with us then subscribe, follow hit up at
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  Mindsets podcast. Charles and I would love to be
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  known for good podcasting and good coaching rather than
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  anything else. OK, grind my gears.
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  Yep. We're back to it.
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  I think, I think, well, I'm done, you're done.
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  I think in terms of people writing in, we have had a few
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  more. I've needed to clarify some of
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  them, but I'll bring them back the next week.
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  Yeah. Which I'll use as a segue into
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  the topic. Let's go.
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  So today's topic is to catch you guys up on what's changing this
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  year for the podcast, because we want, as I said it, to be
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  bigger, better. And the most obvious way of
• 15:42
  doing that is answering people's biggest request from last year,
• 15:47
  which was why don't you do more of them?
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  OK. I didn't think that was going to
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  be the biggest request. It actually was the biggest
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  request. Second biggest request was stop
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  doing them. So answering that biggest
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  regret, we are going to go weekly.
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  So we are going to have weekly recordings, weekly episodes,
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  bring more of the topics and the grime ideas and all of the
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  above. All of your favorite elements
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  we're aiming to keep in. So what does that look like?
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  Well, that means a slight restructuring of the podcast.
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  You're going to have less long waffly ones.
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  We're going to be more planned, more strategic with what we talk
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  about, which means focusing on things that are coming up in
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  this year. It's actually a massive year for
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  sport. We stand.
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  Down together and started writing everything down and the
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  list didn't stop. I think next year it could be
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  quite the like depressive Dick in sport, but so.
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  You've got that to look for, too.
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  Get involved this year and fall in love with us before next year
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  goes bad for sport. But yeah, so one of the things
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  that we're going to be changing up, like I said before, is the
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  order. So we'll start with news.
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  We'll then go with Grind My Gears.
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  We'll have one topic a week. So if you want your topic to be
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  spoken about, it's really important you let us know
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  something that you'd love to know more about, something that
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  you think would be funny or interesting for us to discuss.
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  Definitely let us know. That helps us out and we
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  understand more what you guys want to listen two and then
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  we'll of course be finishing it off with the game.
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  So that's pretty much the sort of outline from your side, other
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  things that are changing as well.
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  Well, I think like the, the big thing off the back of that is we
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  want even more interaction with you guys.
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  Yeah. And that's like a a big thing
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  that we're going to start to push, whether that's through
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  social media or you just get in contact however you want to.
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  The best way for you to get in contact with us, if there are
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  topics that you genuinely think we can add value to and help you
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  with, whether that's fitness or coaching or just whatever, let
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  us know because that can help shape the episodes that we do.
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  And then, like Angus said, we'll be a bit more strategic around
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  how we talk about them and we'll plan and structure a little bit
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  better so it is more concise and hopefully easier to listen to
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  and actually get through an episode.
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  Likewise, if we, if we, we're going to be doing more pushes
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  for you guys to get involved with growing my gears rather
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  than just give me 24 hours notice before we record an
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  episode. But also some of the topics as
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  well, giving you more of a chance to engage with that.
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  We always say that the the door is open so you can always
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  message in DM and we'll see it. But I think one of the other
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  things that we want to do is through some of the social posts
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  that we have out there. If there's things that you want
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  to see more of on social media because they pop up and they
• 18:24
  remind you to watch or listen or whatever, let us know what those
• 18:28
  are because we obviously want to be making more of those for you.
• 18:30
  And that's going to be another big push for us this year is not
• 18:34
  just to manage to post once a week in terms of a podcast, but
• 18:37
  to be able to put more of the stuff that you guys enjoy
• 18:40
  watching on your feed, which is currently washed out by PTS
• 18:43
  posting 100 trial rows a day with crap content.
• 18:48
  So attached to some of those changes, we've got some goals in
• 18:52
  place. Yeah, we.
• 18:53
  Do do you want to go through? Should we do one goal at a time?
• 18:56
  Yeah, I think I like the idea of having a bit more transparency
• 18:59
  around what we're trying to achieve through the Mindset
• 19:01
  podcast. And to be honest with you, like
• 19:04
  when we did sit down and kind of discussed what 2026 looked like
• 19:08
  for the podcast, a lot of it was just to keep creating the things
• 19:13
  that we enjoy because those were the things that kind of
• 19:17
  resonated the most with you guys.
• 19:19
  Things like Grind My Gears and the game and continue to build
• 19:22
  off that. But for me, I love consuming
• 19:26
  podcasts and information through watching YouTube.
• 19:29
  And a lot of that comes actually through YouTube Shorts.
• 19:32
  And this is something that we discussed at length.
• 19:34
  And when you're scrolling through YouTube Shorts, a clip
• 19:36
  from a podcast will pop up and that's how I'll go, oh, that
• 19:40
  actually seems really interesting.
• 19:41
  Or I like this person. I'd like to know more about them
• 19:43
  and what they're doing with their life.
• 19:45
  Whether it's sport or not doesn't really matter, but I
• 19:48
  think I'd like to kind of push more people towards actually
• 19:51
  getting involved and watching it through YouTube.
• 19:54
  So a big goal for me was build more following on YouTube.
• 20:01
  So am I going to put a number on it?
• 20:03
  Yeah, yeah. I mean, you've got 100.
• 20:04
  Million. 100 million lives per episode, yeah.
• 20:09
  No, I I put the the gold hours to get 500 subscribers on
• 20:13
  YouTube by the end. Of this year now we already have
• 20:15
  a head start. We are.
• 20:16
  I believe we're just shy of 200. So we're not asking too many of
• 20:21
  you listening to just hop over to YouTube, watch one and and
• 20:24
  then just hit subscribe If you don't watch the rest, that would
• 20:27
  be hurtful, but you don't have to tell us.
• 20:30
  But on top of what you were saying about improving things in
• 20:33
  in that sense, I think the other thing that we've spoken about,
• 20:35
  which has also been good feedback we've had from previous
• 20:37
  episodes is bringing some of the science to the table.
• 20:40
  I think a lot of you guys, you hear advice and as we've said so
• 20:45
  many times already this episode, there's so much advice out
• 20:47
  there, it's tough to know which one is 1 to follow.
• 20:50
  Quite a lot of time. You can't argue with science and
• 20:52
  if as long as we're talking about good things that are
• 20:54
  backed up and we're not talking about a rogue paper that came
• 20:56
  out of the back of Azerbaijan, no offence to them.
• 20:59
  But if they're talking about High Rock stuff, we want to be
• 21:01
  giving it to you straight with real understanding.
• 21:04
  And we've got good sources of knowledge and we we know how to
• 21:07
  find good information for you. So we are more than willing.
• 21:12
  As we've said, if you have something you'd love to know
• 21:13
  more about, guarantee you we'd love to know more about it as
• 21:16
  well. So we're happy to go and do the
• 21:17
  homework and bring it back to you wherever you choose to
• 21:21
  listen. I'm going to jump in then with
• 21:24
  one of my goals. That's good.
• 21:26
  And just to clarify, these are these are not New Year's
• 21:28
  resolutions. We spoke about those last year.
• 21:31
  We have extremely mixed feelings about New Year's resolutions.
• 21:34
  My goal for the year is that we have 500 downloads in one week
• 21:39
  of the podcast, which we have been close to before, but I want
• 21:42
  it to be something that I see this year, but also hopefully
• 21:47
  more than once. Yeah, get a bit of consistency
• 21:49
  behind it and get some. Exactly.
• 21:52
  Repeat listeners, yeah. So that's that's probably going
• 21:54
  to be mainly across Apple and Spotify, which is where most of
• 21:57
  you guys are probably listening now.
• 21:59
  But that is away from the YouTube.
• 22:02
  So that's the challenge. We want to grow that, but we
• 22:04
  also still need to keep the base and grow on those other
• 22:07
  platforms as well. So wherever you consume, keep
• 22:10
  going. The next thing.
• 22:12
  I think we've actually both got written down.
• 22:15
  I know we've got go on, let's talk about it.
• 22:17
  I think to really start to push and develop and grow, we
• 22:23
  probably need to look at getting some sort of sponsorship behind
• 22:27
  the podcast. So in whatever capacity that
• 22:31
  looks like, we've had a little bit of an open discussion around
• 22:34
  what it looks like and what it means to the podcast, whether
• 22:37
  it's actual funding or it's what I mean, there's lots of
• 22:42
  different ways that sponsorship can come to help support the
• 22:45
  podcast. And I mean, it's like in full
• 22:48
  transparency, if you know people who would be willing to help or
• 22:51
  if you want to help or you want to get involved in some way,
• 22:55
  this is your call to action. And then you can come and help
• 22:58
  out. Two podcasters over here who
• 23:00
  just want to be able to create more of a platform to help more
• 23:04
  people. Listen to what we're talking
• 23:05
  about. I think, yeah, we're 73 episodes
• 23:09
  in at this point. I think it's fair to say that
• 23:12
  we're probably not going anywhere.
• 23:14
  We're quite well invested in at this point.
• 23:16
  I. Thought I was going somewhere
• 23:17
  else. No, no.
• 23:18
  So we're so to three episodes in and.
• 23:20
  We've got nothing to show. Well, I mean basically what I'm
• 23:24
  saying. Is.
• 23:24
  No, that's not true at all. Yeah, we're we're we're not
• 23:27
  something that is starting off. We're three episodes in and
• 23:31
  going, you know, hey, where's the help?
• 23:32
  But it's also as we've said about the information that we
• 23:35
  share, I think one of the biggest things we spoke about
• 23:37
  away from the microphones as well was we wouldn't want to
• 23:40
  share something that we don't see giving you guys benefit in
• 23:44
  some way. So there have been some messages
• 23:47
  of things that we can get involved in, some really rogue
• 23:49
  things and they've been dismissed because I don't think
• 23:51
  they bring value to you guys listening or watching and they
• 23:55
  don't honestly bring that much value to us then if it's not
• 23:57
  bringing value to you. So what we are talking about,
• 24:01
  and I think I feel like I'm about to say we're being
• 24:03
  vulnerable. We are being somewhat vulnerable
• 24:05
  in that we, we do want to have help in being able to bring this
• 24:09
  platform to more people, but we also want help in bringing the
• 24:11
  right things to you guys. So if you have, again, like
• 24:15
  Charles said, people that you know, that maybe have something
• 24:18
  interesting that could be beneficial to you guys as
• 24:20
  listeners or the podcast that deserves a bit more awareness of
• 24:24
  itself, then absolutely we'd love to hear more about it.
• 24:27
  We'd love to talk to those people and those companies,
• 24:29
  those brands, because I think as we're sort of outlining here,
• 24:33
  there's way more strategy in 2026 for us to grow, but for
• 24:36
  whoever's on board to grow with that, which is huge.
• 24:42
  I'm going to ask you for your next goal because you've got
• 24:47
  similar. Yeah, I, I'm, I'm almost
• 24:50
  hesitant because it's like, I, I don't mind being transparent and
• 24:54
  talking about what our plans are with the podcast.
• 24:57
  And it's nice to be able to share that a little bit.
• 24:59
  I think as we go into 2026, it also gives us a bit of
• 25:02
  accountability to make things happen.
• 25:05
  But a lot of what we're talking about is like numbers.
• 25:08
  And it's like, I want this and this and this, and it's, it's
• 25:11
  really is just a number, but they aren't numbers to kind of
• 25:16
  reflect the work that we're doing is the right thing and
• 25:19
  it's helping reach more people because that's inevitably what
• 25:23
  we want. And, and I want the interactions
• 25:25
  we have with the people listening or the people watching
• 25:28
  on YouTube to like be really genuine.
• 25:30
  And we can start to create like genuine relationships with the
• 25:33
  listeners and the people who want to get involved with the
• 25:36
  podcast. So within saying that this is
• 25:38
  another number, but I want to see 10,000 downloads across this
• 25:44
  year. So the download is basically a
• 25:48
  listen. I'm going to add an asterisk to
• 25:49
  that as well, OK, Because when you do podcasting, you
• 25:52
  accumulative downloads. So like there's 72 episodes out
• 25:55
  there that people could be listening to and discovering.
• 25:57
  I'm going to discount all the episodes that come previously.
• 26:00
  So only only on the episodes that we released this year, I
• 26:04
  think they go for 10,000, which I actually based on looking at
• 26:06
  the numbers, I don't think it's unreasonable, especially if
• 26:08
  we're doubling number of podcasts we do.
• 26:10
  I mean, that should be I'm, I'm, I'm don't want to say another
• 26:13
  goal that I didn't write down, but I almost want to double
• 26:15
  that. I don't want to double it and
• 26:17
  pass it to the next person. Don't let it keep it.
• 26:19
  While being conservative, I didn't want to like.
• 26:22
  Set out to be too unrealistic. A big one for you guys.
• 26:28
  I think last year there was a big change.
• 26:29
  Obviously we brought Charles on. I've really enjoyed the
• 26:31
  episodes. I imagine that the listenership
• 26:34
  has maybe adjusted slightly. We brought in new faces.
• 26:36
  We might have lost some that were interested in just having a
• 26:39
  new guest on every time. Oh, fine.
• 26:41
  However. I lost because I was hit a.
• 26:43
  No, not entirely. We did 4 guest episodes last
• 26:46
  year but none of them had you involved which was like a bit of
• 26:51
  a a sad. And and no, apart from Ross.
• 26:53
  Strange moment. Yeah, Roscoe, actually, yeah.
• 26:56
  But we want to do more of those because that episode actually
• 26:58
  went down really, really well with listeners.
• 26:59
  And I still hear that people tuned in for that episode
• 27:03
  because they had someone coming from a different background of
• 27:05
  sport, which I think is really nice and really refreshing.
• 27:07
  So we are going to be bringing the guest episodes back.
• 27:10
  Not all the time. I originally wanted to say like
• 27:14
  every other episode, but it's so hard to keep on top of that and
• 27:17
  I don't want to start something and not finish it.
• 27:19
  So my aim this year is that we have 10 guests episodes and I
• 27:22
  would like you ideally there for all of them so that then if it's
• 27:26
  you that's running the game, I have a chance of winning and if
• 27:29
  it's me that's running the game, you have a chance of winning
• 27:31
  rather than always somehow losing our own games.
• 27:36
  Which is a yeah, a common. Theme So actually, yeah, if you
• 27:39
  have someone that you think would be a great fit to come on
• 27:41
  and lose the games to us or just generally you'd love to know
• 27:45
  more about maybe the way they train, maybe the the the
• 27:48
  activities they've been doing in their life prior to what they do
• 27:51
  now, or maybe why they've stopped doing what they were
• 27:53
  known for doing. Let us know if, especially if
• 27:56
  you know them, we'll get them on.
• 27:58
  We've had a vast number of backgrounds and I love talking
• 28:02
  to people about sports that I don't fully understand or I've
• 28:04
  never played, so don't hold back on anybody.
• 28:07
  Hobby horsists as well. I don't horsists.
• 28:10
  Yeah, I don't know, hobby. Horse riders, yeah.
• 28:12
  One of the. Know enough about it?
• 28:14
  Come on. Yes.
• 28:14
  Talk about it. Yeah.
• 28:15
  That's how we learn together. Exactly.
• 28:18
  You've got one. More, one more.
• 28:20
  This one I think is really interesting, especially as we've
• 28:22
  already marked one potential episode.
• 28:26
  I would love to do a live episode or an event.
• 28:29
  We have already shown that we host some of the best events in
• 28:32
  the world when we do the rock SIM.
• 28:34
  But I think it would be really cool to do some sort of get
• 28:37
  together for those that do listen community event, whether
• 28:40
  that ends up being some sort of sport.
• 28:41
  And then we do a live episode where you guys are directly
• 28:44
  involved. So if you've got grind my gear,
• 28:46
  you quite simply say the grind my gear and get cancelled for
• 28:49
  us. That I I do think that's
• 28:51
  something that I really want to do this year because I think
• 28:53
  there's a lot of people that have been listening for a long
• 28:55
  time. And as much as you get the
• 28:56
  occasional opportunity to say, Oh yeah, this is my grandma
• 29:01
  gave, this is the topic that I want you to talk about, I'd love
• 29:03
  for you to actually be able to be there in person and, and talk
• 29:09
  on the podcast or talk to us while we're there.
• 29:11
  And again, it comes back to like creating genuine, authentic
• 29:15
  relationships with the people who are supporting the work that
• 29:18
  we're doing. Like we're not doing this for
• 29:21
  ourselves. We want to actually, like you
• 29:24
  say, come on and and give some evidence based, you know,
• 29:29
  discussion around sport, fitness training or whatever it happens
• 29:32
  to be that you guys want to listen to.
• 29:34
  But it's like, how can we actually take that a step
• 29:36
  further is coming out of the screen and being in person.
• 29:40
  And I think a live event could be a really cool way or even
• 29:42
  like a live podcast recording could be something fun and
• 29:45
  different. Hopefully that we can make that
• 29:48
  happen. Can we stop being vulnerable now
• 29:51
  please? It makes me feel so
• 29:52
  uncomfortable and then we're even here.
• 29:54
  Imagine if this was live and we were saying, OK, I want to talk
• 30:00
  about we mentioned that this year's a big year for sport.
• 30:05
  2026 might be the best year for sport we have had in our lives.
• 30:09
  Because what we've got coming up is we've got the Women's Six
• 30:13
  Nations, we've got the Six Nations, we've got the Winter
• 30:15
  Olympics, we've got the T20 World Cup, we've got the Women's
• 30:18
  T20 World Cup, We have got the Solheim Cup, we've got the
• 30:22
  football World Cup, We've got the European Championships for
• 30:24
  athletics, we've got the Masters golf.
• 30:26
  We have that every year. But it's just worth mentioning
• 30:28
  because it's great to watch. We have the London Marathon
• 30:30
  again, it's just a great event. We've got London high rocks,
• 30:34
  we've got high rocks, sorry. We've got the world champs
• 30:37
  coming up, which we've got quite a few people we know going to as
• 30:41
  well already. We've got Wimbledons coming back
• 30:44
  bigger than ever this year. We've got quite a few of the
• 30:46
  some of the tennis players that are currently aiming to be back
• 30:51
  from injury at that point in the season, which is going to
• 30:53
  hopefully tee up a fantastic tournament.
• 30:55
  And then you've got the Commonwealth Games.
• 30:58
  I know and there's there's obviously everything else that
• 31:01
  also happens every year is going to be going on.
• 31:04
  It's a huge year for sport. There's a lot going on.
• 31:06
  There's a lot going on. Great time to be a sports
• 31:09
  podcast if you ask me now, unless you've got other things
• 31:14
  to bring up for this episode. I'm just trying to stall because
• 31:16
  I think you're going for the quiz next.
• 31:17
  I am 100% going for the quiz. So as an example of the fact
• 31:21
  that we are being concise, this is how well planned we are.
• 31:23
  This episode has been far shorter than our hour and a half
• 31:26
  ones where we end up going down a rabbit hole of rugby.
• 31:29
  So we're going to move straight on that.
• 31:31
  Oh, it's. For sure my fault.
• 31:34
  I don't know how much the listening was on that one.
• 31:36
  I'm not going to listen. To it, you know, do that again.
• 31:37
  This is, it's funny because one of the first episodes we
• 31:40
  recorded together when even we were trying our hardest to be
• 31:44
  really concise and like, stick to it.
• 31:46
  I, I then was promoting it to some of my friends, like, hey, I
• 31:50
  was on a podcast, you might want to listen.
• 31:51
  And I'm like, yeah, I'll give it a go.
• 31:53
  All of them came back to me and were like, it's quite long,
• 31:55
  isn't it? Yeah, I got to about 30 minutes
• 31:58
  and then yeah, yeah, I can't listen to you.
• 32:00
  But we're going to try and tell people that we should be doing
• 32:02
  this weekly. Yeah, yeah.
• 32:04
  We don't want to be like, have you got an hour and a half a
• 32:06
  week? It'll be like the podcast
• 32:08
  wrapped at the end of the year. It's like you wasted X amount of
• 32:12
  hours per week listening. You started 52 episodes and got
• 32:16
  2 minutes? Yeah.
• 32:17
  Yeah, yeah, yeah. 2 minute news everyone.
• 32:20
  'S going to come here for people are going to come to us for the
• 32:22
  news. So right, that's what it should
• 32:24
  be. Now we've got the big fat quiz
• 32:28
  of the upcoming year. We can't get sued for that
• 32:30
  because we put an extra word in now.
• 32:32
  See what you've done there? Yeah, that was smart.
• 32:35
  So we've got 10 questions. If you're listening, watching,
• 32:41
  pay attention. I would be interested to know
• 32:44
  how many of these you guys get right, and we say it all the
• 32:47
  time, put it in the comments. I would like to be able to say
• 32:50
  that last week so and so won. I'll call you out for the win.
• 32:54
  So if you think you've done well, I don't know how you're
• 32:56
  going to prove it, but I'm just going to have to trust you.
• 32:59
  And that's what our. Community.
• 33:01
  Yeah, that's exactly that. I'm pretty sure we have a gear
• 33:04
  of not trusting people, but we'll go.
• 33:05
  We'll ignore that. My track record for the quizzes
• 33:08
  has not been great last year. Maybe for next time I'll do some
• 33:12
  data digging and figure out how badly I did.
• 33:15
  I'd I think you could save yourself a lot of time and just
• 33:17
  know that it it's not worth it. But it's a new year, a new year,
• 33:21
  new year. So I feel the pressure even more
• 33:23
  now. And between you guys and me,
• 33:26
  just for this openness and trust, Charles asked me if he
• 33:29
  could know the answers to the questions before we started and
• 33:31
  he would deliberately get a few wrong.
• 33:32
  And I said absolutely not. This broadcast has built on
• 33:35
  integrity. Yeah, I got a slap on the wrist
• 33:39
  and then he told me there's like X amount of questions that if I
• 33:41
  get wrong is truly embarrassing. You will never show my Yeah,
• 33:44
  show my face here again. Question number one, I don't
• 33:47
  want to do it. The Rugby 6 Nations starts on
• 33:50
  the 5th of February this year. Yeah, by world ranking, what
• 33:54
  should the table look like by the end of the tournament?
• 33:59
  France win, OK, Ireland, no. France win.
• 34:03
  England come second, Ireland third.
• 34:10
  Scotland, Italy, Wales. Do you know what?
• 34:13
  It's a very good crack. It's a very good crack.
• 34:16
  I can confirm that you've got three of them in the right
• 34:19
  order. Oh, no.
• 34:21
  So you're Scotland, Italy, Wales were the bottom 3 in the correct
• 34:24
  order. Fourth of the sixth.
• 34:25
  Did I Did I rank England above Ireland?
• 34:27
  No. Yeah, you did.
• 34:29
  You said France, England. Ireland.
• 34:32
  It is England, Ireland, France, according to the world rankings
• 34:36
  that came out two days ago. Yeah, after the Autumn Nations,
• 34:40
  that's tough. I, I mean, I would, I'm, I'm
• 34:42
  backing England to win the Six Nations this year, 100% It's.
• 34:44
  Big year. It's a big year again.
• 34:46
  We'll have some fun around. It's wild that Wales are going
• 34:48
  to come bottom. Yeah, bad time.
• 34:51
  Anyway, don't go down when I was in the rabbit hole when I was.
• 34:52
  Looking at the rankings, just for you to know, Wales weren't
• 34:54
  even in the top ten. Yeah, I know in the world.
• 34:56
  The rest of them were all in there.
• 34:57
  There'll be. Question marks whether or not
• 34:58
  they should still be in it well. Annoyingly, we can't do Super
• 35:02
  Rugby focused episodes around the Six Nations because.
• 35:05
  Everyone hates rugby. Question #2 February 6th is the
• 35:09
  start of the Winter Olympics. Oh no.
• 35:12
  Which country is it being hosted in?
• 35:14
  Don't do this to me. That's so tough.
• 35:18
  You know, when I was asking if we could fabricate the results,
• 35:21
  I did a quick Google and the majority because I was like,
• 35:25
  tell me about all the sports that's happening in 2026 and
• 35:28
  like the main articles that were coming up were like Winter
• 35:31
  Olympic. And obviously my brain didn't
• 35:33
  process that. OK, the Winter Olympics.
• 35:37
  Is it somewhere that I I should definitely I've heard of.
• 35:41
  It's not like a, it's not like a machine.
• 35:43
  For country here, oh country. Yeah, OK.
• 35:48
  I'm going to say Canada. It's a great shower.
• 35:53
  It's, it's been used a lot recently.
• 35:56
  So it's not Canada, it's in Italy this year.
• 35:59
  I. Was I was never saying Italy, I
• 36:01
  was never saying Italy. Fair enough.
• 36:02
  It is actually a bit of a rogue one, but they do have some
• 36:04
  really good mountains. I'm.
• 36:05
  Sure, I've skied there's. A lot, I'm sure there's been.
• 36:08
  Not a flex. It's yeah, yeah.
• 36:10
  That was a white, most middle class white thing I've ever
• 36:12
  said. Wow, I'm sure there's been Italy
• 36:14
  Winter Olympics in our lifetime. I'm pretty sure there has.
• 36:17
  Yeah, I'm trying to think of, whereas whenever I think of the
• 36:21
  place that it, oh, it's Turin. Yeah, that's right, Turin.
• 36:23
  Yeah. When you're like you'll, if you
• 36:25
  don't, if you haven't heard of this country, it's going to be a
• 36:27
  bit hard, you know? What?
• 36:28
  I'm going to go for a second. It was Turin 2006.
• 36:31
  Unless I'm getting confused with Toronto.
• 36:33
  Anyway, I digress, if that's the correct use of that word.
• 36:37
  Question #3. Was this bookmarked as You've
• 36:41
  Got to get it? Yeah, you.
• 36:42
  If you don't know this, you might not be allowed back on the
• 36:45
  podcast based on what you do for a living.
• 36:48
  High rocks. No.
• 36:50
  What are the locations of the next three elite races?
• 36:55
  Elite races, yeah. So the majors, basically.
• 37:00
  Does world champs and Stockholm count?
• 37:02
  It does. OK so I've got the Stockholm on
• 37:04
  nice Stockholm. That's a that's a set settler.
• 37:09
  I was going to try and catch you out with trying to guess one for
• 37:11
  next season and hoping you were going to forget that there was
• 37:14
  an Elite 15 race at the world champs, which is Stockholm.
• 37:17
  So you've got that one. Oh God, this is not good for me.
• 37:22
  Or the conciseness of this episode.
• 37:24
  Well, I I can, I can. I don't know if this will help
• 37:26
  you. No, I can.
• 37:27
  No, absolutely not. There will be one in March and
• 37:32
  there will be 1. Oh, come on.
• 37:34
  In a matter of weeks, I. Don't want to miss speak.
• 37:42
  OK is that a is that a thing? Maybe is London.
• 37:45
  London is one of the majors this season.
• 37:48
  That's good. That's good for the program.
• 37:49
  That's solid. Oh, that'd be cool.
• 37:51
  We're going to be able to see it.
• 37:52
  That's awesome. That's up a Boo.
• 37:54
  Don't. You maybe we'll do the live on
• 37:55
  there that'll be. Huge.
• 37:57
  Right where they're finished, yeah.
• 37:59
  Well, the problem they'll have with it is that more people will
• 38:02
  be watching our podcast than delirious.
• 38:04
  Will break will break the YouTube stream.
• 38:06
  OK, that's good. That's two out of two.
• 38:10
  So one more in a matter of weeks.
• 38:13
  OK. That's helpful.
• 38:16
  Is it helpful? I know a few of the rate.
• 38:20
  It can't be another UK based race.
• 38:22
  It's not, it's the week after Manchester, so it's definitely
• 38:25
  not in the UK. Have they had an elite 5th or
• 38:29
  like a major there before? No Oh Poland is in April.
• 38:38
  It's Europe. It's not Europe.
• 38:41
  Oh, OK, that's then. I've got no idea.
• 38:45
  I'm going to say it's in America.
• 38:46
  It is in America. Is that why Jake Williams is
• 38:49
  Jake Williamson now in America now?
• 38:50
  He's just flown there, saw him fly there.
• 38:54
  OK, then I'm going to go. Somewhere like Dallas.
• 39:00
  So good shout. Unfortunately Dallas had a race
• 39:03
  it the end of November beginning of December, so it's time close
• 39:06
  but the correct answer is Arizona, Phoenix, AZ actually.
• 39:10
  Did know that as well, Phoenix. Arizona dumb wait staying I'll.
• 39:13
  Take two out of. Three, yeah, that was, that was
• 39:15
  pretty good apart from they were two shoo insurance as you would
• 39:19
  say. So we're going to go for, we're
• 39:21
  going to stay in America. OK, perfect.
• 39:24
  Super Bowl Sunday is February 8th.
• 39:26
  Bear in mind I've already spoken about three things within three
• 39:28
  days of each other. Crazy.
• 39:30
  Super Bowl is February 8th. I'm not going to ask you what
• 39:33
  teams are in it because that would be a trick question.
• 39:34
  We don't know. You don't know yet what number
• 39:37
  Super Bowl is it. Do you want the Roman numerals?
• 39:41
  You can give me the Roman numerals.
• 39:42
  Do you know what the Roman numerals mean?
• 39:44
  I've got. Because I saw the Roman numerals
• 39:46
  and I had to go and double check I was getting it right.
• 39:49
  I'm, it's not, it's not a massive number.
• 39:54
  I'm going to say like Super Bowl 7060.
• 40:01
  It's in the. Don't do that.
• 40:05
  I'm just raising my eyebrows because you're trying to use my
• 40:07
  face to figure out what the number is.
• 40:09
  I'll go with my gut and just be like 67. 67.
• 40:17
  I'm going Super Bowl 67. It's lower, isn't?
• 40:20
  It it is lower, it is. It's a relatively big one.
• 40:23
  It's Super Bowl LX, which is 60. Me, that's ballpark I'm taking.
• 40:28
  I'm taking that OK. Yeah, fine.
• 40:30
  This is. So this is.
• 40:31
  I'm disappointed in myself. For this podcast, but a little
• 40:33
  side thing. It's really funny that 6-7 has
• 40:36
  become such an interesting thing because I grew up in house
• 40:39
  number 6767. Yeah, it's huge.
• 40:41
  I've been cool since day one. That's the least cool thing I've
• 40:45
  ever said. That's so tough question #5 we
• 40:48
  are actually returning to the Winter Olympics for this
• 40:50
  question start true or false? My track record with the winter
• 40:54
  false 5050 here. OK, ski orienteering is going to
• 40:58
  a new sport in the 2026 Olympics.
• 41:00
  That seems like a niche thing for you to make up and it does
• 41:03
  seem something that's like pretty fun, like Backcountry,
• 41:06
  like find this and it is orienteering is a big sport.
• 41:12
  I've got a good, maybe not a podcast PC story about
• 41:16
  orienteering, but I've got a good story about.
• 41:18
  Orienteering. Very interesting.
• 41:20
  We'll put that on our Patreon. Yeah, I was going to say maybe.
• 41:22
  When we get Patreon, we can just talk about stuff like that.
• 41:26
  Gosh, maybe we could. Yeah, OK, we'll discuss.
• 41:30
  Off, off, off microphone. I'm going to say true.
• 41:34
  It is full perfect. It was a bit of an unfair
• 41:37
  question because Schemo is coming in.
• 41:41
  Schemo is actually the nickname they give ski mountaineering.
• 41:45
  Oh, cool. And just for those that are
• 41:47
  interested, I've seen this. Ski mountaineering is where you
• 41:49
  put, they're called skins. They're like grippy things that
• 41:52
  help you go up the mountain, but they're like normal skis.
• 41:55
  So you go up a mountain and you come down and then there might
• 41:57
  be numerous mountains you've got to go up in the area.
• 41:59
  It's a bit, it's a bit like an ultra race, like ultra running,
• 42:02
  but it's just but. It's also have you there's like
• 42:05
  there's special specific points where they have to take the skin
• 42:08
  off the ski. Have you seen how fast they take
• 42:10
  the skins off? They like jump?
• 42:12
  Yeah, yeah. And then it's and then it's also
• 42:14
  put the skis on the backpack. I think this is going to be the
• 42:17
  highlight of the Winter Olympics.
• 42:19
  I think it's going to be. I've seen.
• 42:20
  There's a few other events which are coming in which are new, but
• 42:22
  they're not new sport. Yeah, which is why this one's
• 42:25
  getting a bit of a highlight. It is interesting though, like
• 42:28
  what? What your background has to be
• 42:30
  to like? Get into that as a sport and we
• 42:32
  we've spoken before about like VO2 maxes and stuff across all
• 42:35
  sports. These guys are the most crazy
• 42:38
  VO2X because they like run up the mountains.
• 42:40
  I mean Nordic ski is a known phrase high, but like these are
• 42:44
  similar sort of training aspects.
• 42:46
  Awesome. Yeah, we look forward to watch
• 42:48
  Schemo. Schemo.
• 42:49
  There you go. Question number six In June, the
• 42:52
  women's ICCT 20 World Cup will be hosted.
• 42:56
  In which nation? I want to say here in England,
• 43:04
  are you locking that in? I don't know if I can go better.
• 43:10
  Yeah, I really should know this. This was another bookmark that I
• 43:12
  should have known. Is the women's EUR offer on a
• 43:17
  tangent? Isn't that this year?
• 43:20
  I believe that is this year as well.
• 43:22
  No, because we would have put it in our list.
• 43:23
  OK, maybe I made that up. Don't try and deflect.
• 43:27
  No, by quick last search, I saw that female spell.
• 43:29
  That was that was that was last year.
• 43:31
  Yeah, I don't. I'm going to say England.
• 43:35
  You're correct. I knew it.
• 43:37
  Well done. Knew it.
• 43:39
  Question. It was 7.
• 43:41
  Also in June this year we have the Men's Football World Cup.
• 43:46
  Which team isn't in England's group?
• 43:50
  So I'm going to give you 4 teams.
• 43:51
  You're going to have to tell me which one.
• 43:52
  Sorry. I'm going to give you 3 teams.
• 43:53
  You're going to tell me which one I.
• 43:54
  Left 2025 with a bad football performance on the quiz.
• 43:58
  Yeah. So I'm, I'm easing you in.
• 44:00
  I. Was like 2026 will be my
• 44:01
  football year. I'm easing you in.
• 44:03
  Right, I'm going to see terrible.
• 44:04
  Which team of these next 3 is not in our group Panama?
• 44:08
  OK, Ghana, Portugal. So one of those isn't.
• 44:16
  One of those is not in our group this year.
• 44:19
  I'm like, I'm I'm tending towards Panama because I don't
• 44:24
  know about their footballing prowess.
• 44:29
  So Nitro saying it. So I don't know if they've
• 44:33
  qualified, but that might just be really ignorant and they
• 44:36
  might be great at football and maybe hang on, that's actually a
• 44:41
  shout. Did Portugal not qualify and it
• 44:44
  was a big upset or something? Did I see that somewhere?
• 44:46
  They got beaten by like, I don't know, like Ireland or something.
• 44:52
  I'm I can't help you with the quiz that I've written and then.
• 44:56
  Ghana always perform well at African Cup nations, always a
• 45:00
  good football team, lots of good footballers.
• 45:05
  It it could be any of them, it could.
• 45:07
  It could quite usually the quiz. Quite literally be any of them.
• 45:10
  I'm going to kick myself, I think.
• 45:12
  But I'm I'm going to go and say rogue choice.
• 45:17
  I'm going to say, oh, not in the group.
• 45:18
  It's not necessarily qualified. I'm sorry, where did I lose you?
• 45:24
  I'm all over the so Sir, They, they, all of these teams.
• 45:27
  All qualified for the World Cup. But that one of them isn't.
• 45:30
  In our group, one of these teams is not in our group, Ghana,
• 45:33
  incorrect, perfect. We have in our group this year
• 45:37
  we have Panama perfect, Ghana perfect.
• 45:40
  And Croatia, Portugal have actually qualified.
• 45:43
  OK, Yeah, Yeah, they were. They have had some tough times
• 45:45
  in football, but yeah, Croatia get out was a wild ride.
• 45:49
  Croatia historically for us has been an issue.
• 45:51
  Yeah, yeah. So I'm not looking forward to
• 45:53
  it. Is is it Modrich Luka Modrich?
• 45:56
  Is he? Is he done yet?
• 45:58
  I hope so. He's always like he's the
• 46:00
  problem, he's the problem. Can he F off?
• 46:02
  Imagine being that nicest way possible.
• 46:03
  Imagine being that good where you're like, he's the problem.
• 46:05
  Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's like Zlatan Ibrahim when we
• 46:08
  he would play for. Sweden, he's the problem.
• 46:11
  And and like, do you know what, just on top of that, before we
• 46:13
  move on to the next question, I hated people were referring to
• 46:16
  him as being the problem because I was like the guys towards the
• 46:19
  end of his career. I'm watching this game where
• 46:21
  we're playing Sweden. He did a bicycle kick from 40
• 46:25
  yards away from the goal, went in and I was like, you know
• 46:28
  what? He's the.
• 46:28
  Problem. He's a massive problem.
• 46:30
  He's also started doing CrossFit.
• 46:31
  Now he wears rads. Wait till he comes to hierarchs.
• 46:35
  Yeah, you do. He will be the problem.
• 46:39
  OK, question #8 Actually, the Netherlands will be hosting the
• 46:43
  Solheim Cup this year. But what is the Solheim Cup?
• 46:49
  Oh, it's golf. It's golf.
• 46:51
  What? It's a golf tournament similar
• 46:56
  to the Ryder Cup. OK, what's the key difference?
• 47:00
  Where? Oh, it's women's golf.
• 47:03
  You've nailed it. Did you already say that?
• 47:05
  No. OK, cool.
• 47:06
  Yeah, well, it's women's golf. It's the Women's Ryder Cup.
• 47:08
  It's the Women's Ryder Cup. Well, it's not.
• 47:09
  It's their own thing. It's their own thing but it's
• 47:12
  it's USA. Same match play style as as the
• 47:15
  Ryder Cup but being hosted in Netherlands.
• 47:17
  The course beautiful. We was looking on the website.
• 47:21
  Shall we go and do some market research and play helpful?
• 47:23
  I think we should. We'll get kicked off the course.
• 47:25
  Do you reckon HMRC will allow that as just being tapped on the
• 47:29
  on the card? Lovely question #9 Wimbledon
• 47:36
  said. It's, it's possibly a big year
• 47:38
  this year. Maybe for the aspect of the
• 47:41
  competitors, maybe for the aspect of the competition.
• 47:43
  How old is Wimbledon turning this year?
• 47:46
  82, fifty, 149 or 97? Oh.
• 47:53
  I like the bigger numbers for this, like the the 97 and the
• 47:57
  149. A 149 seems aggressive.
• 48:06
  What year would that be? Something that's 18 something,
• 48:09
  OK, which seems aggressive, but like it's got to be 1 of, if not
• 48:14
  the oldest tennis tournaments in the world ever, the first.
• 48:18
  I don't know. It's got to have something like
• 48:20
  that. 97 feels like we're getting to the 100th
• 48:25
  anniversary. Could be a vibe.
• 48:28
  It could be a vibe. I'm tending to wait which one
• 48:32
  was CA? 149.
• 48:35
  I'll just do that. It's got we'll do 149.
• 48:38
  Just because it's C How many? Times have you done that?
• 48:41
  C Always, actually. I double bluffed you.
• 48:44
  It's 149. It is. 1877 was the first
• 48:49
  Wimbledon. I knew it.
• 48:51
  I knew it. Question #10 The final question,
• 48:54
  Duncan Scott. Do you know who Duncan Scott is?
• 48:57
  No, he's a swimmer. OK, Duncan Scott has 13 medals.
• 49:00
  I know this. He's won 3 gold.
• 49:02
  Oh wait, British. Swimmer Scottish.
• 49:04
  Yeah, Something like that. Yeah.
• 49:06
  Yeah, OK. I know.
• 49:06
  Tough not to be Scottish when you're called Duncan Scott.
• 49:09
  Yeah, yeah, I know. He's got 13 Commonwealth medals.
• 49:13
  Yeah, from the Commonwealth Games.
• 49:14
  He's got 3 golds. Yeah.
• 49:17
  What? What discipline does he not have
• 49:20
  a gold medal in? Oh, the two.
• 49:23
  Are we getting multiple choice here?
• 49:25
  Perfect. 200m freestyle, the 100m freestyle, the 200 meter
• 49:31
  individual medley or the 200m freestyle relay.
• 49:37
  He was unreal at the Olympics. They had like an unreal relay
• 49:42
  team. I don't know what or maybe he
• 49:46
  wasn't in the relay and I just I remember him being unreal at
• 49:49
  something. I'm going to help you slash
• 49:51
  confuse you every single event. I just read he has a meddlin.
• 49:55
  Right. Yeah.
• 49:56
  I was going to say, OK, can we have the list one more time?
• 50:00
  Yep. So we've got the 200m freestyle,
• 50:01
  you've got the 100m freestyle, you've got the 200 meter
• 50:04
  individual medley and the 200m freestyle relay.
• 50:09
  The anomaly there has to be the 100 because all of the other
• 50:11
  ones were 200. So maybe he specializes in 200 /
• 50:16
  100 bear in mind. For a relay, you're obviously
• 50:20
  not doing 200. Interesting that you'd throw the
• 50:23
  spanner in the works like that. So the first one was freestyle,
• 50:26
  the second one was 100 freestyle.
• 50:28
  Freestyle. Then it was medley, Yeah.
• 50:31
  Individual medley and then you've.
• 50:32
  Done that to throw me off the scent.
• 50:35
  There is no pattern here. There is in my head.
• 50:39
  I know is there. Conan.
• 50:40
  It's got to be the 100 B. He doesn't have a golden.
• 50:45
  He has a gold that he won in Birmingham for the 200m
• 50:49
  freestyle. Yeah, he also won a gold in the
• 50:53
  individual medley. OK, good.
• 50:56
  This is good. On the Gold Coast, yeah, he won
• 51:00
  a gold in Birmingham for the 100m freestyle.
• 51:05
  If he got it, he got bronze for the 200m freestyle relay.
• 51:11
  It's not bad, is it? Not bad.
• 51:12
  It's not. Bad is it?
• 51:13
  You were you. I was kind of hoping that if you
• 51:15
  were going to pick a pattern, you'd pick that.
• 51:16
  Yeah. The actual pattern is that he's
• 51:18
  good on his own. Yeah, he's he's a good.
• 51:20
  Swimmer, I was going to say yeah, yeah.
• 51:22
  But that rounds us off to the the big fat quiz of the upcoming
• 51:25
  year. I've lost count but I feel like
• 51:26
  I've outperformed the whole of my performances in 2025 for
• 51:29
  sure. I think, I think you were 123.
• 51:35
  Hold on, maybe we shouldn't do this one 2-3 and a bit.
• 51:40
  I'll take the hierarchs. Oh.
• 51:42
  Shame. It's looking like nearly 50%,
• 51:46
  which is gas good for me, far and away better and next time
• 51:50
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• 51:52
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• 52:43
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• 52:45
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• 53:02
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• 53:04
  Well, I get to say something quite exciting now, which I
• 53:07
  haven't said in a little while. Charles, it's been a pleasure.
• 53:10
  See you guys listening. Thank you for listening and I
• 53:11
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