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2022 USTFCCCA LIVE podcast: Jhad Jones-Southern Arkansas Univ · The Gill Athletics Track and Field Connections Podcast

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  Hey podcast listeners, we're super excited about December
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  11th at 5:30 Mountain Time Denver Time when we're going to
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  go live once again on YouTube to record a live Gil Connections
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  podcast. To celebrate, we're giving you
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  bonus clips every day until then of last year's 2022 guests that
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  came onto the live Gill Connections podcast.
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  Check it out, look in the show notes below and you'll see the
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  URL. Check us out December 11th 5. 30
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  pm Denver time. As we're getting closer, it is
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  645. We were scheduled through 7:00.
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  But again, I'm gonna. There's still people out here.
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  I'm gonna make sure everybody here gets on the podcast.
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  So if it's 7:00, we're gonna keep going.
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  I'm not stopping until everybody gets in the hot seat tonight.
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  All right, So Speaking of the hot seat, come on, you can't be
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  shy. I'm not sure.
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  We got this tiny camera. We got this microphone.
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  We can't be shy. It's like when we're in a in the
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  plane, you know everybody right here.
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  It's right here. Who's going to get the armrest?
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  That's the biggest fight. If if we had to sit next to the
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  chair, you'd win. I'll just let you.
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  I'm blowing. Out I just sit like.
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  This on blowing out on the plane.
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  Introduce yourself here, my friend.
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  Hi, I'm Johad Jones. I'm the Sprinter Hunters coach
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  at South Arkansas. University, The fighting mules
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  things, mule writers, mule writers.
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  Yeah, we had Joseph. Blue on the podcast run through
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  Essay U back in the day. He told us an amazing story on
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  the podcast the first time he went into Arkansas.
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  I won't get into it. You'll have to listen.
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  To it, I'll hear it. But it was quite amazing.
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  So tell me, John, how many times have you come to the convention?
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  This is my second. One second War.
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  I was on that no last year for the first.
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  Time this is #2. So there's a big difference
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  between your first one and second one, right?
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  First one? You had no idea what was going
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  on. You have a little better
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  understanding. What are you looking forward to
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  the most this year at the convention?
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  I get the biggest thing I'm trying to do is we focus on my
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  background because this year I'm not coaching.
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  The jobs. Okay, since last year had this
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  French turtles and jobs, so I tried to hit as many different.
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  Advanced penalties as I can, yeah.
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  This year I'm going to focus in on just printing hurdles, so I
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  can really just hone in on what I'm trying to protect.
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  So I think that would make it a better experience.
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  I don't have to, I'm. Surround as much?
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  Is there someone specifically you're looking to to listen to
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  Today Tonight or Sorry This Week?
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  Yeah, I want to hear Ernie. Of course I want to hear Ernie.
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  Another Gill podcast alum, by the way.
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  Yeah, those. All the good guys and gals are
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  on the podcast. I'm just.
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  Saying yeah and then. I wanna drop in on Tony Beanie
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  as well. Man, I didn't know Tony was
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  here. What a legend.
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  Because I actually coached against Tony when I was coaching
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  at Northpark College. He's at in a Valley, yeah.
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  So I would ask Tony all the time, a lot of questions.
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  So it would be good to hear him speak instead of.
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  Speak to a crowd, because I usually just get one-on-one,
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  right? So this would be a new.
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  He's a good one to ask a lot of questions if.
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  Oh yeah, well, to knowledge I I always enjoy talking.
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  To him, yeah, yeah, maybe he doesn't get his due, to be real
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  frank with you in regards to how good he is in our sport as a as
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  a track and field coach. Yeah, because he's been a lot of
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  places. He's done a lot of great things
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  and I think he has a lot to offer, so.
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  Whenever I bump into them, I have to talk to them.
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  That's awesome. So we got question rule that.
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  That's awesome. Well, we're having a little fun
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  tonight. I've got 100 random questions.
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  They're all numbered one through 100.
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  You get to be. There's the only part of the
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  destiny You get to do is the number.
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  And then I get to ask the. Huh.
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  Yeah. Question.
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  Rule. That.
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  That's right. It's all in your mind right now.
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  Spinning around. What number did it stop on?
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  I'll go with my football numbers, go 15.
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  Yeah, that's a common. Way to get the number, because
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  I'll, I'll always ask what, what's the significance?
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  My old football number. Yeah.
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  All right, end game man, who is your favorite comic book
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  character? Favorite comic book character?
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  Oh man. Growing up I watched a lot of
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  Superman and Batman, especially the Batman cartoons.
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  Those were fantastic. I have to go with that because
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  that reminds me of my childhood. But now, as an adult, and I,
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  even though he is a villain, I really did enjoy.
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  Yeah, I agree. Marvel so.
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  There was something being a bad guy, but there was something
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  like you're just kind of drawn cuz there was like that duality
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  of like the weight of the responsibility is on me to do
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  cuz he really thought he was doing the right thing.
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  Yeah, Like he was convinced that his idea was great and it might
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  have been a great idea. I just think execution.
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  I'm sad idea is where the ethical wise we.
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  Thought and execution is the right word.
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  We just executed half of the all the humanity there.
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  Yeah, he did. I don't go to the movie theaters
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  very often because I'm a cheapskate, so I wait till they
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  get to Disney Plus. But my son's birthday was this
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  past weekend and one of his birthday wants was to go see
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  Wakanda forever. Have you seen that?
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  One yet? Oh yeah, we actually took the.
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  We took the team, most of the team we are nice.
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  We went as a team to go watch it on the.
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  Weekend that it came out, so we used it at the team bonding and
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  loved it. It was an awesome movie.
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  You know, I did not have Black Panther comic.
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  I was a comic book guy, but I never got Black Black Panther
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  comics. So I didn't really know that
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  character very well. So I knew, you know, I actually
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  had the original comics, if they know Steering Infinity, where I
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  actually had all those as well. But they knew all the
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  traditionals, the Captain America, Spidermans, all those
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  kind of stuff. And so when Black Panther, the
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  original, came out, I remember telling my wife I was like, I'm
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  probably going to go like it because I don't know the story.
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  And it was amazing. Yeah.
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  And then we're kind of forever. And I was like, well, for sure.
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  I can't like two in a row. They're not gonna, you know,
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  look me in there. It was amazing.
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  Yeah, like you. Know with another weak
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  character. By the way, Neymore was another
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  guy. Ohh yeah nice.
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  Ohh yeah the the more was an awesome.
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  Character Awesome. Like I I I don't think you need.
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  Watch the first one to understand.
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  The second one, I don't think so.
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  It might help, but I don't think so.
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  Yeah, yeah. Because I I think that two
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  standalone stories is obviously with the death of black guys,
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  Mmhmm. Of Chadwick Balzin, yeah, they
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  kind of put that in there. But the the story is standalone,
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  yeah, the first one. It was amazing.
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  Well, wrap us up here. Jihad, what are you looking
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  forward to the most in the 2023 track season?
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  Oh man, I have a young team so I am really interested in seeing.
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  How my freshman adept and my sophomores bounced back from
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  last year, so I have a really heavy freshman sophomore team.
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  So I want to see how my youth adapts to this new environment.
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  I'm sure my junior seats will be OK because they're they're all
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  mature. And have a few grad students, so
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  like I don't have to worry about that.
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  But I'm interested to see what my freshman and sophomore is
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  doing this. Well, no doubt under your
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  tutelage and what you're going to learn here this week and the
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  people that you allow to pour into you, they're going to do,
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  they're going to do really well. They're going to be your great
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  juniors and seniors coming up that you don't have to worry
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  about. You can leave your new
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  sophomores and freshmen that come.
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  In Oh yeah, definitely. Because like all the information
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  I get here goes back home with me and it goes to them.
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  Well, this gets to go back home with me.
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  I get to do a selfie. All right, man.
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  Thanks for being on the show. I really appreciate you, man.
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  Yeah, we can have a great season.
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  I just know. Thank you World Records Shortest
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  Gill Athletics Connections Podcast ever.
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  Check us out December 11th 530 Denver, Co Rocky Mountain
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  Central Time. Check us out on YouTube in the
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  link below in the show notes.