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Speaker 1: Last week when Shawn Johnson was in the studio, we

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Speaker 1: were discussing retirement, not mine. But that's a growing fascination

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Speaker 1: to me these days. I can tell you when do

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Speaker 1: you know? I mean, when do you know? If you're

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Speaker 1: not getting canceled or run out of town or falling apart,

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Speaker 1: how do you know? John Key famously had nothing left

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Speaker 1: in the tank. Remember that Johnson was explaining it was

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Speaker 1: important for him to go out when he decided, not

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Speaker 1: when he got dropped. The television stuff he does nowadays

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Speaker 1: was something he was interested in, but he didn't know

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Speaker 1: how that was going to unfold. And Johnson at thirty

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Speaker 1: four seemed young enough to me anyway. So then I

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Speaker 1: look at people like Tom Brady in his mid forties.

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Speaker 1: One more season, one more chance at greatness, goes out

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Speaker 1: a hero with another Super Bowl win. I look at

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Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers. If you follow the NFL, he's just signed

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Speaker 1: with the Pittsburgh Steelers. This year. Looks like he's gone

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Speaker 1: a season two long. Looks like he's looking for work

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Speaker 1: when he should really be looking for life after football.

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Speaker 1: Maybe the season will make a fool of meat, but

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Speaker 1: I doubt it. But all of that pales When it

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Speaker 1: comes to Nico Portius, he's walking away from his snowsport

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Speaker 1: career at twenty three. He doesn't want to use the

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Speaker 1: word retirement, but equally he won't be at the Olympics

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Speaker 1: anymoren as our most successfull ever sport exponent or snow exponent.

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Speaker 1: It's over. He also doesn't know what he's going to

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Speaker 1: do or what his future looks like, but he's enjoyed,

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Speaker 1: apparently videos and video production, so maybe there's a pathway there.

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Speaker 1: How do you decide that at twenty three? I mean,

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Speaker 1: how do you know that's right? Who advises you and

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Speaker 1: how do you know they're right? Having spent your entire

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Speaker 1: life aiming for the one big thing sporting excellence, how

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Speaker 1: do you pull that cord when you have if you

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Speaker 1: want years to go? Are you one of those people

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Speaker 1: who can walk away from that level of exhilaration and

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Speaker 1: success and not look back? I mean, is that part

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Speaker 1: of the thrill, not knowing what's ahead? Will you keep

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Speaker 1: the scrapbook of memories? Will you tell your kids or

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Speaker 1: grandkids about the half pipe when they ask carcum Dad

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Speaker 1: can do flips on skis when they first go to

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Speaker 1: Kadrona as a family. What a big call? Eh? How

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Speaker 1: so much ahead of him? Or was what he did plenty?

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Speaker 1: Is that a good way to see life? I mean,

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Speaker 1: I admire him personally as he reckless could be. Maybe

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Speaker 1: he's an insightful genius. Either way, I admire him. At

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Speaker 1: twenty three, I would have tortured myself and probably still

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Speaker 1: wouldn't have done what he's done. For more from the

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