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BONUS: The Podcast About Podcasts – Featuring TexasTrackDad · The Gill Athletics Track and Field Connections Podcast

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  It's bonus time. Here we go.
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  This month in February of 2025, we are doing a podcast about
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  podcast. We want to introduce you to
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  other track and field themed podcasts that are out there that
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  might be great for your listening pleasure.
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  So all month we're introducing a new podcast each and every day,
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  showing you who they are, what they are, how they are, why they
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  got started and even their favorite episodes and most
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  popular. And hopefully this adds to your
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  podcast listening library. So here we go.
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  Let's get started with today's podcast about podcast.
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  All right, let's get into it today as we do a podcast about
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  podcast, learning about other shows out there that might have
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  interest to you. Why don't we get started?
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  Why don't we do it a 32nd, 30,000 foot level introduction
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  of yourself. Tell us your name, all that kind
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  of good stuff, and tell us the name of the podcast that we're
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  talking about today. All right, my name is Vance
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  Johnson and I my podcast is going to be text Attract Bad,
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  pretty much covering track and field news around the world.
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  Also cover youth athletics, youth track and field cover
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  needs, promote athletes, things of that sort.
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  So the name Texas track dad. So I'd like to ask, ask the
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  significance of the name, but you probably packed all your
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  significance into that name. Let's go ahead and make some
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  assumptions. It's about track.
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  There's an assumption, probably focus in Texas assumption.
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  Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Correct.
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  Yeah, yeah, of course. I'm from Texas, this app, it
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  developed my daughter, she run track or whatever.
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  So not to get it get into it too much, but you know, Texas has a
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  wide range of athletes that need exposure.
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  A lot of time they don't get the exposure because it's so many of
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  them. So that's why I created this
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  podcast to help get those athletes name out there as well.
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  Well, you hit the name the nail on the head, right?
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  Texas track. And you mentioned your daughter
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  runs Dad boy, I don't know. I like simplicity and I I love
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  that man. That's really cool.
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  Tell us about what kind of style are you typically doing?
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  Meaning is this a solo podcast? Are you having guests on?
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  What's kind of the average style we could expect?
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  Yeah, I'm a lone wolf most of the time.
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  But yeah, I have guests on there.
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  I have trainers, coaches, of course, I bring athletes on
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  there every year. I always pitch the unsigned
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  singer. I do a show for them.
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  I actually have a space on Twitter.
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  Last week turned out really well, really well, surprisingly
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  well. And we have some, a lot of
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  coaches to come in there from D1 to NINAI or whatever.
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  But yeah, I talked to trainers, athletes, anybody who liked
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  track and field is always welcome on my show.
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  I love that, and you're probably your two or three worst
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  performing episodes have been the ones where you've had me on
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  your show, so. I get it.
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  That was a good one. That was a good show.
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  That was a good show. Tell us what is your average
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  length? I know they can vary on a mini
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  Max but on average what could we expect time wise?
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  I'd have had shows from 15 minutes to three hours.
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  I know myself and Coach Bond, we was on the podcast and we was
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  going on like 4 hours. So yeah.
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  But the average you looking at? Yeah, on average, you looking at
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  Bob 30 minutes to an hour, depending on who's on the show.
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  Great. Love that.
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  When did you start it? And you, you kind of got into
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  this, but I'd like to press it a little bit here.
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  Why did you start the podcast? What was the motivation?
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  So when did you start and what was the motivation?
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  Yeah, so quite like my daughter. She's running track.
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  She's been running track for years.
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  And what? I was always at the meet and I
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  always tell this story was that LSU was that a youth meet?
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  I was watching the 200 and this young lady won that race or
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  whatever. And she was so excited that she
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  won the race. And I mean she, she won the big
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  time. So I went home, you know, and I
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  was on social media, I was like, hey, nobody, nobody's talking
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  about this young lady. She did really well and she was
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  really excited about it. So I'm like, you know what, I'm
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  always at these meets. I can, hey, let, let me start a
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  podcast. So the next day, man, I, I
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  looked up, I think it was Anchor FM.
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  So I, I started recording on there and I'm just like, hey,
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  I'm just going to talk about this young lady.
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  If nobody listened to it, Oh well.
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  So I recorded it and I woke up the next day and I had like 30
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  views and people come in and I was like, what?
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  So I just took it from there and, and supporters like you and
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  the track and field community, it's, it's like just really just
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  taking off. Is it really taking off?
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  How long ago was that? That was what, two years ago?
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  OK, by 2 1/2? By 2 1/2 years ago, we're going
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  into the third year. And you really focused again,
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  you've had other subjects and stuff like that, but your real
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  focus from an outside, from a listener here is the the high
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  school senior, the high school athlete recruiting, how they get
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  recruited, the things that are happening there has been and
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  that sounds kind of what it even started out.
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  So you've kind of kept, would you say you kept your motivation
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  that the subject matter kind of the same all the way through
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  these past couple years? Yeah, and, and let me say this
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  too, I really hit hard on recruiting.
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  Make sure the athletes have their profiles that are right,
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  make sure they're getting their questionnaires and make sure
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  they send in emails as well. And like those unsigned senior
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  shows I have, I didn't have and I get such a big response from
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  the coaches. I have athletes who send me DM
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  saying, hey, thank you. I got a scholarship offer.
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  This coach seen you see me on your show.
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  So that let me know there. I'm doing my job, you know, so
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  it it works really well. That's really cool, man.
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  I love that, Vince. You know, in business we have
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  what's called an ideal customer profile.
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  So it's like here for Gil. Lots of different people will
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  order from us. Like we have moms and dads
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  that'll order starting blocks or discuses.
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  We sell the contractors, architects, athletic directors.
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  But our ideal customer profile, like when we're thinking about
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  new products, marketing, what shows to attend is the high
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  school and college track coach. The same can be said for a
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  podcast that many, many different people might choose to
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  listen to your podcast, parents, coaches, athletes, people like
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  me, etcetera. But you're, you're really
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  targeting a certain ideal listener profile.
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  Who's the ideal listener profile?
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  The person that's going to get the most out of your podcast
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  overall I. Think right now, I think the
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  parents of the high schoolers and the parents of the, the
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  seniors that are, that are going into colleges.
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  And I feel I got, I tracked a, a lot of high school coaches too
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  on, on some of the stuff I'll talk about.
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  But I would say that my main target, the feedback I've been
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  getting is from like parents, because like some of the topics
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  I covered, they, they didn't know, they didn't know about,
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  they didn't know that was going on.
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  And you know, they'll, they're like, hey, thank you for talking
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  about this. I didn't know about it.
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  Can you talk about it more? And that's when I go, OK, I told
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  you everything I know, let me go out here and find a professional
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  and I'll bring them in and they give them more feedback on that.
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  But yeah, I would say the high school parents, man, they
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  really, man, they, they really enjoy the show and man, the, the
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  feedback I get from them, man, is really heartwarming, you
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  know? I love that topic of recruiting
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  because you're right, parents need to know more, High school
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  coaches need to know more, the athletes need to know more.
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  And by the way, the the college coaches have to keep their pulse
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  on what parents and kids and high school coaches so they need
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  to learn. So you kind of have this great
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  environment around the whole transition of high school to
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  college that that's awesome. When when you look at over these
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  past two years, this next question is kind of a maybe A2
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  parter. What has been the most popular
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  episode? And and then kind of adjacent to
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  it because it it's not necessarily the same answer
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  here. What's been your favorite
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  episode, Whether it was the the guest or the topic or whatever,
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  Maybe it was interviewing your daughter.
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  I don't know. I don't want to get into a
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  family squabble here. But what's been maybe the most
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  popular and what's maybe been your favorite episode?
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  Yeah, yeah, yeah, of course. You know, me and my daughter, we
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  always have fun when I bring her on the show.
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  That's always my favorite. We really don't get, we laugh
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  most of the time when she on there.
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  It's always fun talking to her. Lots of inside jokes.
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  Yeah, A. Lot, a lot of inside jokes, but
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  I I would say this is an older episode is one.
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  Another one of my favorites is with Christine Mallard.
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  She's up at USC now, man. She's so articulate, man.
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  And she's, she's just an overall good person, you know, and her
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  and our family, man both. When I first started this, man,
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  I was just like, I didn't know where, you know, the direction
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  it was heading. I just knew I love track and
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  field and I wanted to talk to the track and field community
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  about it, man and man. I reached out when, because I've
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  been following Christine ever since she was like in middle
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  school or whatever, and she was signed up with USCUSC.
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  So I reached out, you know, to her and her parents.
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  I'm like, I went, you know, you, you about to sign.
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  You know what they, man, they invited me out to the signing
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  and everything, man. Yeah, yeah, I went out there,
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  man. I got to take pictures with her
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  and man got to talk to the family, man.
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  But that I would say that's probably one of my best, man.
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  Just to see her progress progress at USC, man is pretty
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  awesome. That's pretty cool.
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  You have to keep that going. You know, she goes, yeah, that's
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  really cool. Love that you know, our
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  listeners, some do listen to every episode from episode #1
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  all the way through where we are today.
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  But most kind of go in and out, right?
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  Depending on the topic or the guest or even the time of year
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  for them. But for you as the host, you've
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  been there behind the mic on every single episode over these
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  past two to going on three years here.
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  What have you learned being a podcast hoster?
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  You're a better podcast hoster today than you were when you
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  first started. What have you learned that you
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  didn't necessarily think was going to be part of this
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  journey? Man, just being myself and you
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  know, just being myself. And when I started that, man, I,
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  I always wanted to keep it like that, you know, and it's just
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  like the more I be myself is it just takes off even more, you
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  know, And it, it's just like I can record like a 10 minute show
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  just giving basic information and not even think about the
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  views. And I go back and look at it
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  like 500 views on it. I'm like, geez, I didn't think
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  it's going to take off like that.
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  But, but for me, man, just just being myself, man, and just
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  being open to people opinions. And I will, I always stress this
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  on my show. You know, what I'm talking about
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  is just my opinion, you know, and all opinions are valued and
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  respected on my show. And I think that goes really
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  well because I have really good conversations with a lot of
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  good, you know, coaches or whatnot and parents.
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  And I think that's, you know, I think that helps a lot.
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  You're the original. We listen and we don't judge.
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  You're the original. Yeah, Yeah, exactly.
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  Yeah. I think it's a great lesson,
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  Vance, and everything that we do for everybody listening and for
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  you yourself. Sometimes we think we have to
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  portray what others want us to be or say or do or look like.
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  And at the end of the day, authenticity, Trump's
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  everything. Yeah, that's what we're really
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  looking for is who are you? That's why I should be
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  religious. I really love that you've kind
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  of grown into that through these past couple years.
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  Last two questions here. Where can we find the show?
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  What what are your main channels?
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  Are you on any you mentioned spaces which is is unique, maybe
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  YouTube tell us kind of where all the different avenues we can
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  find the show? Yeah, yeah, of course, of course
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  you can. My main source is going to be
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  YouTube. I'm always building my YouTube.
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  If you go on YouTube, you can put in Texas track that podcast,
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  it can pull it up there. Just go ahead and hit that
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  subscribe. Note the button, of course, I'm
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  on Twitter X, whichever 1 you want to call it.
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  But yeah, I'm on there. That's that's probably like my
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  mains next to YouTube. My Twitter's really taking off.
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  So I'm on there a lot if you want like current, current
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  updates with me, you probably you'll find it on Twitter before
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  anything else. So if you go to Twitter, you can
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  put it in, you can put in Texas track that.
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  You can also follow me there. And I'm also on Facebook.
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  I'm on there, same name, text attract dad.
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  I'm on LinkedIn as well, Text attract dad.
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  And I'm also on Instagram. You can follow me there as well.
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  And you put your YouTube show on podcast as well.
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  So because you mentioned Anchor, which is now Spotify for
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  creators or Spotify for podcasts.
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  Yeah, yeah. So you're on Apple and yeah,
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  yeah, yeah, Spotify, etcetera. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  Also, so my Anchor FM got transitioned over to Buzz Sprout
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  with Feed, Yeah, which feeds through Spotify, Apple podcast.
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  It's like 10 others, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  But you're. You're on those two.
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  You're on quote, UN quote all of them at that, Yeah.
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  Perfect. Yeah, Yeah.
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  All right. Last question is, you know, we
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  know the average podcast listener listens to between 7:00
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  and 10:00 different shows. I'm gonna assume since you
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  create a podcast, maybe you listen to podcasts.
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  What's your favorite podcast? That's not what we're trying to
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  learn here a little bit. That's not your own and that's
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  not track related. What do you listen to when
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  you're not talking about track? I'm laughing because I listen to
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  this podcast everyday. It's called the Bubba dub show.
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  The Bubba dub show What is that? Oh, he he he's actually from
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  Dallas area. It's a sports podcast and he
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  talk about sports and he always use the word trash.
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  And I mean I, I it kind of starts my day off or whatever,
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  but I I watch it everyday. Shout out to Bubba dub man, I
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  love that. That's cool.
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  That's cool. I love that.
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  Help us explore other podcasts. The Bubba Dub, the trash podcast
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  of Bubba dub. I love it.
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  All right, listener, you can see by your podcast that we're
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  almost done here. So here is my challenge to you.
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  Press pause right now. Use the same app that you're
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  listening to right now and just type in Texas track Dad and
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  you'll see his show. If you're a YouTube person, go
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  to YouTube Texas tracking dad, I'm ruining your whole branding
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  here, Texas track dad. And then of course, Twitter, you
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  know my favorite place, you can see him there as well and check
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  out those spaces. I need to learn more about that
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  and start that as well. But here's my challenge.
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  So you know, he's got 2 plus years worth of content here.
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  So kind of the way I like to explore new podcast is 1 is go
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  check out the ones that he talked about, the ones that's
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  kind of his favorite and his most popular, right?
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  So he talked about the discus thrower, talked about time with
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  his daughter. Maybe go check check out one of
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  those back in his library and then go check out his latest
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  episode because that'll kind of give you the style flavor that
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  he's working with in today. But go check that out.
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  Always hit that subscribe button.
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  That way you'll know when his next episodes come out and
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  you'll be the the first ones to know.
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  But I hope this show is another possibility for you and your
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  podcast listening. We appreciate podcasters like
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  fans that are helping uplift in our sport and our athletes and
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  specifically in the niche that he's at.
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  It's it's highly valuable. So thanks for being here.
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  Go check out Texas track dad and we'll see you again tomorrow.
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  See you guys.