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2022 USTFCCCA LIVE podcast: Ritchie Beene-Alabama State 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. Hey, it's 5:30.
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  Yeah, it's 5:30. We still got an hour and a half
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  at least, going on here on the live podcast.
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  So we're going to see who our next guest is.
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  They're being a little shy. I wish.
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  You know, I'm gonna turn around. I'm gonna give a little picture
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  and show you what's going on right here.
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  At the live Recording the Gil Athletics Connections podcast,
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  I'm going to have this next guest introduce himself, but he
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  doesn't need any introduction at all.
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  Please introduce yourself my friend.
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  Greet is everyone. My name is Richard B, the hand
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  tracking video cross country coach at Alabama State
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  University. The Fighting Hornets.
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  I love it just a little bit So we can hear you, man.
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  Richard, thanks for being here. You know you and I have.
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  Certainly a business relationship that I'm extremely,
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  extremely thankful for. But throughout that and for the
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  past few years, we've actually struck up quite a personal
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  relationship. And you know that doesn't happen
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  very often in in business and things like that.
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  So you're just some of that. I'm so like it's really cool to
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  be able to tell people live right here now.
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  It's how much I love you. I adore you and your family and
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  just they're so grateful for you, my friend.
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  But the feeling is mutual. You know it it it stretches
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  beyond. Business.
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  It started some years ago and it's it's just gone over the
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  years. Just simple phone calls checking
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  in and it's like my brother from another.
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  One I love it. I love it.
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  So. Richie, tell us, how many years
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  have you come here to the convention?
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  I've been. I know I've been attending ever
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  since I became head coach within 2000 numbers.
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  Whenever the existing of it started it.
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  Yeah, yeah. I've been here, been enjoying it
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  and met a lot of good people and built a lot of great
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  relationships on being here and learn a lot of things.
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  And what are you? Is there something you're
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  looking forward to the most this week?
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  Whether it's a speaker or a meeting or of a fame, there's
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  anything like you're like, man, there's something I'm definitely
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  not gonna miss besides. Being here on the live taping of
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  the Guild collections, but this is the biggest thing I was.
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  Looking forward to because I get to do something with my.
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  You know, and that's that's one of the things, it's those
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  personal relationships that you finally get a chance to meet
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  some of your fears and sit down and talk business, but also just
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  talk of life and. Brother and.
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  Sister within the ranks of track and field.
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  Also the other biggest thing that I look forward to coming
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  here to get some rest. You know, look at the rest and
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  to recharge and reach office and just.
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  Being around the positive energy.
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  But of course, the Hall of Fame has always been because it's
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  just to see people who have laid the app for so many people in
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  the sport, just to see them be honored on that night.
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  Right on. The special Yeah, yeah.
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  And this year's crew every year is like the who's who.
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  But I mean this year another just amazing set up.
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  Just. Just deserve it.
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  Men and women that are going into the Hall of Fame, it it
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  really is quite amazing. All right my friend, we're going
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  to play a little fun little one through 100 game.
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  I got 100. Just random questions and trust
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  me, they've been random. You get to pick the number
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  though. One through 100.
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  Ready. I'm ready.
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  Let's go with the. #1 #130 minutes or less What topping is
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  never going on your pizza? Probably black olives.
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  Oh, good call. Did you like it in Taco Dip,
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  though? You don't like olives at all?
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  No. OK all.
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  Right, you get one more. OK, let's go with 45.
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  Is that the number of championship rings you have?
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  55. That is the greatest flex that
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  anybody will have here tonight. I'm going to go 55 in
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  celebration. And here's the thing.
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  Next year we're going to have to do 56 or 57.
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  And you just keep adding them on, my friend.
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  You don't share. You're not a very good sharer
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  with team championships, my friend.
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  Not at all. Not at all.
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  All right, well, you must like food on 55.
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  Let's go to the kitchen. You've got to make one meal to
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  save your life. What is it?
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  I love. Wings.
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  Oh yeah. That's my happy.
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  Food. Oh yeah, so you.
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  Saved my life. What are you doing?
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  You got a smoker or you? Grill a smoker.
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  No, it's slow. What do you got?
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  Is your favorite player like a BBQ or a jalapeno or what you
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  well? It's it's all about the marinade
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  for me and once I blew my marinade, you.
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  Don't need sex. That's a good point.
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  I. Like that.
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  Fingers Well, Richie, something that we're doing tonight as
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  well, only for slight people. And I blew it with Blake Bolden.
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  By the way, earlier today. Is any Gill connections alum?
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  So, so you were on the podcast. We were one of my first people
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  on the podcast. Thank you for that.
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  Trust my friend. Thank you.
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  And if you haven't checked it out, just go in your favorite
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  podcast app or on YouTube. Just Google Richie Bean Gill
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  Athletics. It'll pop right up.
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  It'll it'll make your life better.
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  Listening to your story. His story matters.
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  And it is a doozy, trust me. But because I got to grill you
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  for about two hours, you get to put the script tonight and ask
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  me one question. I'm putting myself out there.
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  I'm not. I don't want to give him any
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  time to think. So I need to we need to get a
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  question. I can ask you one question, one
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  question. There's no, you know, there's no
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  bleep button and no edit. So don't say anything that your
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  Mama would be mad at. But one question.
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  Raised me right, I know that. The one thing I want to know
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  about you is what is the one thing that drives?
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  You the most you know, that answer might have been different
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  10 years ago, but about maybe 5-6, seven, maybe about 10 years
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  ago, actually, you know, my life changed.
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  When I looked at my job here at Gill Athletics, being from a
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  salesperson to a servant of coaches and that really flipped
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  the switch of like, hey, you know what?
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  When I stopped thinking that, hey, every piece of my equipment
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  is for every coach, it's not it's great to have choices.
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  That's why we have different car companies, etcetera.
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  We don't always have the solution for everybody.
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  But for those people that we do have the solution for, instead
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  of saying hey, bye, bye, bye, It's like, hey man, let's have a
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  conversation. And you know, you know, I have
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  consulted on your facility which.
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  I'm so happy for you staff and what an observant facility.
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  Yeah, yeah, that is my Flex cuz it is an amazing facility.
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  When we talked about your facility, we had a budget to
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  keep and so we with lower featured benefits on some things
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  and other things was like, hey, no, no, no.
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  My program is built on X, so we're gonna go a little bit
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  higher over here. We did a great design for the
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  gate board we just served. That's really what it was all
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  about. And that is that drives me every
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  day is to get up. These guys and gals that are out
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  here and sit in this seat right here do something that is more
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  valuable than anything out there in my world.
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  They help 14 to 18 year olds, 18 to 22 year olds become better
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  human beings and that's better for our world, not just track
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  and field. And so how do I help that coach
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  get better and make more money for his family and his passion?
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  How do I help this coach? Go and work a job where they can
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  be there with their spouse, etcetera.
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  That's my passion that drives me every single day when I wake up
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  my friend. So I want to say something to
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  you why we are here live. And I'm not just saying this in
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  the process of of getting our track done and needing a
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  overhaul on equipment. When he spoke about the budget,
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  he understood the challenges we had in getting things done.
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  But there was no, oh, there's a big university.
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  We got to do this and got to do that, the same customer service.
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  Same detail and everything. I give this man kudos, his staff
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  kudos. They were excellent in the
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  process of us choosing. Even from his design staff were
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  customizing. I heard those customizing our
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  mats, making sure that the delivery was on time got there.
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  I couldn't act for any better customer service and those
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  people who are out there. Customer service is a lost art.
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  And I can honestly say not because this is my friend.
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  But because Gilded good business and good customer.
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  At the top. I stand on the shoulders of
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  great people. Our customer service team, we
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  talked about authenticity earlier tonight.
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  You know, former coaches, former athletes.
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  You know, I do this much of the whole thing.
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  There's a whole crew that does a lot more.
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  And that means the world for you to say that.
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  My friend, thank you so much. Let's get a selfie to end this.
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  My camera turned on. All right, Richard, thank you so
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  much, man. Appreciate you.
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  And go check out his. So podcast.
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  Go check him out at Richie Bean. Go on your podcast app or
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  YouTube. Just search his name and it's
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  heartfelt. We got into it.
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  Go, horns. Thanks, Richie.
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  Thank you. All right.
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  Hey, one of my dear time all time friends was Richie Bean.
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  Man I just love it. World record Shortest Gill
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  Athletics Connections Podcast ever.
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  Check us out December 11th 530 Denver Co Rocky Mountain Central
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  Time. Check us out on YouTube in the
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  link below in the show notes.