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Speaker 1: the chat. We have a very very special interview later
Speaker 1: tonight with Bobby Fink, who single handedly saved the US
Speaker 1: men's swim team because they were about to get shut
Speaker 1: out for the first time and one hundred and twenty
Speaker 1: years if they did not win an individual gold medal.
Speaker 1: He saved the day with his world record winning time
Speaker 1: in a fifteen hundred meter freestyle. But first, the US
Speaker 1: women cruise passed Australia to reach their eight consecutive Olympic game.
Speaker 1: This is the first time in Olympic history the teams
Speaker 1: will face the exact same team the men phrase of France,
Speaker 1: and the women will also face France. After moving Jackie
Speaker 1: Young into the starting lineup in the quarterfinals against Nigeria,
Speaker 1: reeve it stuck with that same starting five Young, Wilson, Stewart,
Speaker 1: Nafisia Collier and Chelsea Gray and against Australia, Young, for
Speaker 1: the third time in as many games, provide a huge
Speaker 1: part for the offense team US, and she had fourteen
Speaker 1: points five assents the most and she was very good
Speaker 1: defensively on the perimeter. Oh shoe, look, I don't think
Speaker 1: anybody is surprised that the women are here. They really
Speaker 1: expected to be here. They've kind of cruised through this.
Speaker 1: We have them the women. Look, we have the best women,
Speaker 1: you got it. I mean there's no international woman that's
Speaker 1: going to track the top five, maybe not even the
Speaker 1: top ten. That's not the same. On the men's side.
Speaker 1: You know, they have Nicola Yokich. You know, they have
Speaker 1: giannis Anta Takunpo. You know they have a Shas from Canada,
Speaker 1: and they have Luca. So you know, you have four
Speaker 1: guys right there that's probably anybody that's polling is going
Speaker 1: to be in the top ten players. And so that's
Speaker 1: luxury that the men have that the women's not up against.
Speaker 1: That's not to take anything away from the women. You
Speaker 1: still got to win the game. And if we saw yesterday,
Speaker 1: I think the Serbs only have two guys that's playing
Speaker 1: professionally in the NBA, and they gave the US who
Speaker 1: all their players are currently playing in the NBA all all.
Speaker 1: He gave them more than they could handle. But congratulations
Speaker 1: to the women. Out of how much of this game
Speaker 1: did you watch Ojo.
Speaker 4: A little bit of it as they dominated, They dominate
Speaker 4: the entirety of the game.
Speaker 5: They look really good.
Speaker 4: Obviously, like you say, they've been on somewhat a cruel
Speaker 4: control because there hasn't been anybody to challenge them yet
Speaker 4: they were gonna win goal. That's what we said before
Speaker 4: the Olympics even started, that there was nobody was going
Speaker 4: to challenge them unless you know, they were just shooting
Speaker 4: crazy from the field, obviously from the three, to give
Speaker 4: them a game. And I said myself, the only way
Speaker 4: that happens if they happen to run into competition that
Speaker 4: shoots efficient from the field, then ladies will probably step
Speaker 4: up their play and win the game anyway. But right now,
Speaker 4: you know, as far as I'm gonna turn, they're going
Speaker 4: to be France. They're going to get goal and bringing on.
Speaker 1: So when you look at a situation, they shot fifty
Speaker 1: percent from the floor, they shot forty one percent from
Speaker 1: the three, they shot ninety one percent from the free
Speaker 1: throw line, you had thirty one per cent, You had turnovers.
Speaker 1: I'm sure sure coach Rivez won't like that turnover. But
Speaker 1: look at one point the game was what eighty to
Speaker 1: fifty eight they were winning.
Speaker 3: You look at the.
Speaker 1: Numbers, let you know there was really no struggle. Breonna
Speaker 1: story only played twenty three minutes. Asia played minutes Jackie
Speaker 1: Young played twenty minutes, Chelsea Gray played nineteen, car You
Speaker 1: played twenty four, and then you even the reserves got
Speaker 1: in and played big minutes.
Speaker 3: The only one that.
Speaker 1: Didn't play huge minutes was probably DT and Jewel Lord,
Speaker 1: but Khalia Cooper played twenty minutes, Kelsey Plum played eleven minutes.
Speaker 1: A Neskul played ten, BG played nineteen, and Alyssa Thomas
Speaker 1: played sixteen, So there was really there was really no doubt.
Speaker 1: You look at the rebinding, oh ho out rebounding the
Speaker 1: forty six to thirty four, UH had ten steals, had
Speaker 1: five blocks.
Speaker 5: It's almost it's almost. Yeah, it's almost unfair.
Speaker 4: Statistically in almost every category, regardless to who they're playing,
Speaker 4: even when they're not shooting well. Still, it's like nobody
Speaker 4: has a chance. And it's probably gonna be that. It's
Speaker 4: probably gonna be like this in twenty twenty eight. It's
Speaker 4: gonna probably be big guns.
Speaker 3: Will still be there. I mean, Asian Wilson will be
Speaker 3: back and you'll be back.
Speaker 1: You know, you're probably gonna have another big rebound on
Speaker 1: the glass and Reece and you would also probably have
Speaker 1: Caitlin Clark. A lot of these, a lot of these
Speaker 1: young ladies will be back in twenty eight. That's that's
Speaker 1: in four years. Uh, Asia can't be no more than
Speaker 1: twenty seven. I was Asia twenty seven, twenty eight. So
Speaker 1: if DT, if DT played DT, is like forty forty
Speaker 1: one twenty eight. Yeah, uh stut'll be back. Yeah, the
Speaker 1: big guns will be back. And now you're gonna and
Speaker 1: a lot of these younger have gotten experience playing. You
Speaker 1: see car Or she has experienced Jackie Young, Alissa Thomas,
Speaker 1: uh BG's probably the Hollers b GBG probably what thirty
Speaker 1: two thirty three. I don't know if you'll be back.
Speaker 1: I mean she walked to me and you got you
Speaker 1: got hyped. I know, I know Chilan got that one.
Speaker 1: One young lady, she's seventeen. She's too young to compete.
Speaker 1: She's seven three Oh.
Speaker 6: Joke, right yeah, three yeah, listen, go ahead, what would
Speaker 6: make wouldn't make no difference, wouldn't make no difference? Seven
Speaker 6: three eight three nine three We coming home?
Speaker 3: True? True. But congratulations to the women. Eight straight final.
Speaker 1: I think they've won like sixty games straight in Olympic competition.
Speaker 1: Nobody's surprised by that. We have the best players and
Speaker 1: they continuously show us that every time they go into
Speaker 1: meaningful competition and uh, maybe losing to the w NBA
Speaker 1: All Star served of the work wake up call because
Speaker 1: it's been whipping hell out of everybody since.
Speaker 3: So, uh, congratulations to the women.
Speaker 1: Great job. Let's let's finish the task. Uh now, oh
Speaker 1: show the US women won goal. In the four by one,
Speaker 1: she carried Richards and pulled away and style, and in
Speaker 1: the anchor leg the four by one, she didn't have
Speaker 1: to worry about getting out the block quickly despite the
Speaker 1: elitists of the American sprinters Melissa Jefferson, Tanisia Terry t
Speaker 1: t Terry hand in the Gabby she needed to come
Speaker 1: from behind. And we always man and women were addressed
Speaker 1: the man of the minute. Oh Joe, we always have
Speaker 1: the most horse power. But the problem is, it doesn't
Speaker 1: matter how much horsepower you have if the driver can't
Speaker 1: drive the car. And so we it took, it took
Speaker 1: shir Carrie did what Shaki was supposed to do, track
Speaker 1: down everybody. She got the baton in fourth and as
Speaker 1: long as it was close.
Speaker 3: Because it didn't matter who they had.
Speaker 1: The Great Britain team that had Danielle Nita on the
Speaker 1: co leg I wasn't really concerned about anybody else, and
Speaker 1: they kind of didn't have the best handoff between but
Speaker 1: I knew Germany or anybody else they didn't stand a chance.
Speaker 1: And with no Jamaicans, the Jamaican team in the field,
Speaker 1: it was a good but she was in fourth with
Speaker 1: nine meters to go, and then when she got the baton,
Speaker 1: hey she like.
Speaker 3: You thought you had that home.
Speaker 5: Listen, finishing finishing style.
Speaker 4: Now, I'm not sure if she was looking at her competitors,
Speaker 4: or she was looking at that camera to the far
Speaker 4: right of her to let people know, you know, a
Speaker 4: time competitors you think so.
Speaker 3: By girls stopped playing, okay.
Speaker 5: Okay, okay, it looked like she looked right at the camera.
Speaker 4: You know that camera that's right camera with them right.
Speaker 4: That's why I said, I thought she looked at the camera,
Speaker 4: looking at the camera like oh you thought, yeah, okay,
Speaker 4: that was that's that's how that's how you finished racing style.
Speaker 5: Listen. Some people won't like it. I enjoy it. I
Speaker 5: enjoy that making it fun, making it exciting.
Speaker 4: That is entertainment, the entertainment value that track and field
Speaker 4: needs because the exposure, you know, we were.
Speaker 5: Talking about Grand Halloway.
Speaker 4: Grand Holloway was talking about some of the you know,
Speaker 4: one of the commercials and the ads and then the
Speaker 4: shoe deals, see stuff like that's why she has the makeup,
Speaker 4: the makeup stuff, the Nike commercials. Like, you got to
Speaker 4: add that dynamic and that personality to you, to your
Speaker 4: to your repertoire and it will come.
Speaker 1: It's just hard, oh, show when your two big meets
Speaker 1: one happened once every four years and the other happened.
Speaker 1: You got two of those, and you got two Worlds.
Speaker 1: So and in four year span you really got three
Speaker 1: big events. You got the two Worlds and you got
Speaker 1: the Olympics, and so it's kind of it's hard, right.
Speaker 5: You could plant though you gotta you could plant those
Speaker 5: seeds now.
Speaker 4: Though you can plant those seeds now with all the
Speaker 4: tournaments that you do have throughout the season them seas.
Speaker 1: Just imagine in the regular season if in sixteen games,
Speaker 1: you only got a chance to see Patrick Mahomes eight times,
Speaker 1: or you only got a chance to see Joe Burrow.
Speaker 3: Because all these.
Speaker 1: Meets, everybody's not showing up no matter the Diamond League.
Speaker 1: So basically they're only showing up for the Worlds, in
Speaker 1: the Olympics, the big meats, they don't show what So
Speaker 1: what am I?
Speaker 4: So?
Speaker 3: How do I?
Speaker 1: How do I sell that? How do I convince the
Speaker 1: people to get behind it? When no allows it is
Speaker 1: not showing up, he's not. They're not going overseas. It's
Speaker 1: just too much. And I'm going over the seas for
Speaker 1: one oh Joe for fifteen grand.
Speaker 3: They're not.
Speaker 5: Oh they're not. They don't pay Oh shit, no, damn.
Speaker 1: So it just it's just it's just hard. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's it's right, it's sad. I mean, I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: I think people in the chat, I think we love it,
Speaker 1: we love track and field. I think people get behind
Speaker 1: it and maybe they just get behind it because it's
Speaker 1: once serious, once in every four quarter events.
Speaker 3: But I like it.
Speaker 1: But uh, like the Americans have now won three of
Speaker 1: the last four Olympics. In the one lap they lost Tokyo,
Speaker 1: but since then we've been We've burned it up. Are
Speaker 1: women very proud of them? Gabby won the UH won
Speaker 1: the gold in the two hundred jakiri UH and Melissa
Speaker 1: Jefferson got you know what they get? What do they get?
Speaker 1: They got silver? And Bronz we got silvern bronze. Right,
Speaker 1: we got silver and brons in one hundred meters. We
Speaker 1: won gold in the four by four, so the women
Speaker 1: should be very very proud. Sid did with Sid did
Speaker 1: the one, you know, the hurdles, another world record. I
Speaker 1: don't think we've disappointed. I think the women have done
Speaker 1: very very well. We still got three women in the
Speaker 1: hurdle finals, and and one of our ladies have the
Speaker 1: fastest time, so if we should, we should at least
Speaker 1: get on the podium. Wouldn't be surprised that we snuck
Speaker 1: up there and got the gold. But Camacho Quinn is
Speaker 1: not to be messed when she's the reigning Olympic champ.
Speaker 1: But I like where we've I like kind of how
Speaker 1: we positioned ourselves. We still have the four by four
Speaker 1: men's and women.
Speaker 5: Okay, you said we still have hurdles left. What hurdle
Speaker 5: events women?
Speaker 3: The women's hundred meters?
Speaker 5: Okay? When is the yes tomorrow?
Speaker 7: Oh?
Speaker 3: Yes, okay, And we still got the four by four women.
Speaker 1: We still got the four by four men, so we
Speaker 1: gotta we got an We got a guy an eight
Speaker 1: hundred meter. I think Bryce Hopple. Is it Bryce hopp
Speaker 1: or Hobbes Kessler, I think only one. I think Bryce
Speaker 1: Hopple made it. I don't think Kessler only one. Only
Speaker 1: one of our guys made it.
Speaker 3: I know that. So but I'm I'm excited.
Speaker 1: I'm very very happy with over one hundred, one hundred
Speaker 1: medals total. I think we're tied right now. And we
Speaker 1: still got men's with hop hop yeah, Bryce Hopple. Uh,
Speaker 1: we still got men and women basketball. We still got
Speaker 1: the four by four. We got both of those, so
Speaker 1: I like kind of like and we got the hurdle
Speaker 1: events left, so we still have an opportunity. Nobody obviously
Speaker 1: nobody's gonna catch this for the most total medals, but
Speaker 1: I think at the end of the day, the Americans
Speaker 1: want to end up on top with the most gold
Speaker 1: as well as total medals. So, uh, that's going really well.
Speaker 1: Congratulations to the the women that's doing very good. Uh
Speaker 1: we run a silver. Oh we got silver and bronze
Speaker 1: and the what you call them shoe the two hundred
Speaker 1: two Brittany Brown.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah, we got got gold bronze.
Speaker 1: And then we got silver bronze right in one hundred meters. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so hey, we we the women. The women showed out
Speaker 1: the women.
Speaker 5: Showed they did definitely did.
Speaker 1: Uh man, it's we still have three athletes, as I mentioned,
Speaker 1: Massi Russell, Alisa, Alicia Joshon and great start.
Speaker 3: So we got three women.
Speaker 1: I'm expecting at least want them to get them get
Speaker 1: on the podium.
Speaker 4: M Yeah, you know Messiah over there, she's wrong with
Speaker 4: my daughter she Kentucky with a smoker. Yeah, Massia over
Speaker 4: there with more.
Speaker 1: But the Jamaicans they didn't they I mean, they didn't qualify.
Speaker 1: They did they had a team?
Speaker 3: Did they have did they have a team.
Speaker 1: But when you lose Shelley and Fraser, you lose Eline Thompson, Harrow,
Speaker 1: you lose sha Rika Jackson. I think Tilla Clayton I
Speaker 1: think was the only one that they didn't have nearly enough.
Speaker 1: It looks like Shelley Ann just was her last Olympics.
Speaker 1: Eline Thompson harro on her body, she's starting to get
Speaker 1: a little older, her body's starting to break down, shri Rika.
Speaker 1: We'll see how that pans out in the World's next
Speaker 1: year in twenty five. But the thing that the Jamaicans do,
Speaker 1: they and they've talked about it, they got a pipeline.
Speaker 1: You go, when you go to the what is that
Speaker 1: depend relays? And you look at those high schoolers, the
Speaker 1: Jamaican teams, they went the four by four, they went on,
Speaker 1: they win it all the time.
Speaker 3: So they got.
Speaker 1: Young runners that's coming up and it's a pride thing
Speaker 1: for them.
Speaker 3: It means a lot to them, it means a lot.
Speaker 1: So it's kind of like I guess they treated like
Speaker 1: when you go to Duke or you play in North
Speaker 1: Carolina with how much it means. The pride is saying
Speaker 1: I'm a duke, blu devil and you have that bond forever.
Speaker 3: You look at all the great runners.
Speaker 1: Now the women had a longer kind of a longer
Speaker 1: history uh than the men, but they've had some solid
Speaker 1: men as well. But when you look at the women,
Speaker 1: goes back to Merlin and Oddi and Julian kirkbuk Uh.
Speaker 1: They've had a run here o cho last forty years.
Speaker 1: The women have been very, very good at running. Merlin
Speaker 1: ADDI normally she's always a round on that podium, be
Speaker 1: at the one hundred or the two hundred. She was
Speaker 1: always there. I mean she was running fast times. At
Speaker 1: forty he was he was an anomaly. And then the
Speaker 1: men when both.
Speaker 5: He just they had an unbelievable run.
Speaker 1: They had for a country as small as Jamaica, they
Speaker 1: had about as good as run in sprinting as we've ever.
Speaker 5: Seen as anybody, Yeah, anybody.
Speaker 3: And we've ever seen. Now, you know, the Americans, we
Speaker 3: you know we've won.
Speaker 1: I think we've won, like we won the four by four,
Speaker 1: in the four by one, and the men like seventeen
Speaker 1: sixteen to seventeen times. We just can't get the stick
Speaker 1: around we've normally with since the Jamaicans. Now you take
Speaker 1: the Jamaicans out of the mix, but we've always had
Speaker 1: the most horsepower. But right from running out of the
Speaker 1: zone to dropping the baton, it's embarrassing.
Speaker 5: What is that?
Speaker 4: I mean, you got to think about it now when
Speaker 4: I think about it. Since nineteen ninety five, the US,
Speaker 4: we've suffered damn near body eleven baton areas resulting in disqualifications,
Speaker 4: including two years ago at a World championship. What is
Speaker 4: it about us and not being able to pass a
Speaker 4: baton like you practice it over and over and over
Speaker 4: and over, and me thinking, even though I'm not a
Speaker 4: track runner, I envisioned that the steps, hearing and listening
Speaker 4: stick knowing when to go when a person hits a
Speaker 4: certain mark, like you play that over and over, you
Speaker 4: practice it over and over and over, just like football.
Speaker 4: It's like football. You hear that play come in, you're
Speaker 4: already unvisited.
Speaker 3: Did all in your head?
Speaker 4: So I'm not sure, but we constantly consistently mess up
Speaker 4: over and over them. I don't understand what it is
Speaker 4: or what the issue may be. The nerves can't be
Speaker 4: that bad.
Speaker 1: Joe, you had a situation. Christian Coleman always leads off.
Speaker 1: He's probably the greatest starter, and you know, you look
Speaker 1: at him, Moe Green and Justin Gallan, but I would
Speaker 1: say Christan Coleman is the greatest starter in American sprint history.
Speaker 3: We're gonna lead it off. Good, We're good there.
Speaker 1: Fred Curley normally runs second leg when they run the
Speaker 1: World Championship. Last year Fred was on second leg. Okay,
Speaker 1: the only thing that got left out was no allows.
Speaker 1: So why did you change the whole lineup? You left
Speaker 1: Coleman at first, and then you move somebody. Then you
Speaker 1: put Kenny Benrrick at the second leg. Why why not keep?
Speaker 1: Why not at least get the baton? Let's have a chance, right,
Speaker 1: Christian Coleman and Fred Curley. They worked together, Christian cole
Speaker 1: I'm prink Curley. I think that if they're not mistaken,
Speaker 1: they had curtain Lindsey put Linzy in there. We we
Speaker 1: we we flubbed we we we we we keep messing
Speaker 1: it up. We keep thinking, oh, we got the most horsepower.
Speaker 1: All we got to do is get it around.
Speaker 3: We can't get it around.
Speaker 5: If ain't nobody on the stand wheel.
Speaker 3: We can't get it around. It doesn't matter how fast.
Speaker 3: I don't care.
Speaker 1: If you got nine two nine three nine four nine five,
Speaker 1: guess what the baton's on the ground.
Speaker 5: I don't know.
Speaker 1: Honestly, I don't know what Kenny Binarry was thinking. Keen
Speaker 1: left so quick Kristan Colevin wasn't even close. Ain't no
Speaker 1: way he said that he left when Kristen Coleman foot
Speaker 1: hit his mark.
Speaker 3: There's no possible way that happened. None. You see how
Speaker 3: far he he and Kleben was like, well, damn, bro,
Speaker 3: what you.
Speaker 5: Want me to do? You think you think he misjudged it.
Speaker 4: As far as the speed coming in, understanding knowing, knowing
Speaker 4: how fast Christian Coleman is especially coming in, I don't
Speaker 4: I'm not sure if they slow down.
Speaker 5: But I know there's a mark on the track.
Speaker 4: I know there's a mark that they watched that they
Speaker 4: practice and when Christian Coleman hits that mark, then you
Speaker 4: go you have to I'm not sure maybe he maybe.
Speaker 5: He missed miss, miss, misreaded miss.
Speaker 4: I have no idea, but you can't make that kind
Speaker 4: of mistake like that because if that Patano, we.
Speaker 5: Win the four about one easy.
Speaker 1: We always, with the exception of the Jamaicans, we were
Speaker 1: always I mean, that's been our problem. It's not like
Speaker 1: somebody's outrunnerus. Our handoffs have always we you know, we've
Speaker 1: bobbled a handoffs and and and we've been out of
Speaker 1: the lane and we've been out of the zone. That
Speaker 1: that's been our problem. Come when you look at it, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean the Jamaicans have had a run from eight
Speaker 1: to sixteen. Okay, we getting that, but proud of that.
Speaker 1: Shouldn't nobody have ever? I mean we you know, we
Speaker 1: finished getting first and were getting first or were getting
Speaker 1: gold and silver in the in the hundred and we
Speaker 1: got a guy that finished fourth in the hundred. So
Speaker 1: we got the gold, the silver and the guy that
Speaker 1: barely missed the podium. Hell you should be able to
Speaker 1: run a leg and we still at least get the silver.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, but I'm looking and I knew it immediately.
Speaker 1: I say, Kenny, where are you going? Yeah, oh Joe,
Speaker 1: you set the mark. You know the guys coming in.
Speaker 1: That's why you set the mark accordingly. You cannot leave
Speaker 1: before he touches that mark.
Speaker 4: Do you think they put Kenny in? And Kenny hadn't
Speaker 4: even practiced the four by one with them. He was
Speaker 4: in the pools the thing.
Speaker 1: Oh Joe, once you once you make the US team
Speaker 1: and the one hundred meters, you're there, you're gonna be
Speaker 1: in the pool because you run hundred before. See, you
Speaker 1: have to run and see that's why you know there's
Speaker 1: like what Noah wants to be on the four by four?
Speaker 1: No I hadn't run any open four hundreds. So you
Speaker 1: don't get to say, well, I want to be on
Speaker 1: the thing, and you have it run. Kenny has run
Speaker 1: hundred meters, he's qualified. He qualified for the Olympics in
Speaker 1: the one hundred meters, so he's automatically in the pool.
Speaker 5: Were you in the pool? But if you haven't practiced it,
Speaker 5: he's there.
Speaker 3: He's practiced.
Speaker 1: Now this might be the first time, because I don't
Speaker 1: remember him running proud of this year.
Speaker 3: I don't reminate. I don't remember Kenny been there. I
Speaker 3: could be wrong.
Speaker 1: If I'm wrong enough, I'm speaking how to turn, I apologize,
Speaker 1: but I don't remember him running any hundred meters, So
Speaker 1: I just it's just it's just embarrassing. It's embarrassing that
Speaker 1: you're watching teams that you know you're better than. We're
Speaker 1: better than Great Britain, all these South Africa, even Japan
Speaker 1: and China.
Speaker 3: Really yeah, really.
Speaker 5: All because we can't get Shane's down.
Speaker 3: It's it's embarrassing.
Speaker 1: Kudos to those team that were able to get the
Speaker 1: baton around. You know, those teams they practiced the batons
Speaker 1: and Carl Lewis, he was furious.
Speaker 3: Oh I was furious.
Speaker 5: I saw his tweets.
Speaker 1: He hot, he said, it's time to blow up the system.
Speaker 1: This continues to be completely unacceptable. It is clear that
Speaker 1: everyone at US Track and Field is more concerned with
Speaker 1: relationships than winning. No Athletico step on the track and
Speaker 1: run another relay until this program is changed from top
Speaker 1: to bottom. The Americans have not won a medal in
Speaker 1: the four by one since two thousand and four when
Speaker 1: Sean Crawford, Justin Gatland, Kobe Miller, and Maurice Green won
Speaker 1: silver and Athens.
Speaker 3: And they struggled with the baton too. That's why they
Speaker 3: got silver.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because if you think about it, in two thousand
Speaker 1: and four, Justin Gatland won goal.
Speaker 3: I think more Green won silver.
Speaker 1: Sean Crawford won two on one of the gold in
Speaker 1: the and the uh in the two hundred meters, so
Speaker 1: let that sick in and we got silver with that.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I don't even know if Canada had anybody that I think.
Speaker 1: I think did the Grass make the finals in one
Speaker 1: hundred meters? I know he made it in two hundred meters,
Speaker 1: but he wasn't he wasn't close to the podium.
Speaker 4: I'm not sure you got guys that didn't.
Speaker 1: They they're winning medals. If the Jamaicans beat you, like
Speaker 1: when Jamaica Beatings, what you're gonna say.
Speaker 3: They got the.
Speaker 1: Gold medalist, they got the silver medalists, and they got
Speaker 1: one of the three fastest men that several run one
Speaker 1: hundred meters in the.
Speaker 3: Sopha Pile, Nestor Carter's run nine to seven eight.
Speaker 1: So I got Hey, I can't even complain if the
Speaker 1: Jamaicans beat you. But when you got teams beating you
Speaker 1: and they don't got anybody in the hundred meter finals
Speaker 1: or they don't have they have one guy that might
Speaker 1: be in the finals, but don't podium, how the hell
Speaker 1: you beating the team? They got two guys on the podium,
Speaker 1: one guy winning the goal in the two hundred meters.
Speaker 1: Fred currently the world champ of one hundred meters. He's
Speaker 1: gon won silver and bronze. Christian Coleman has won the
Speaker 1: world championship in the one hundred meters.
Speaker 3: And we can't that's crazy.
Speaker 5: What does Carl Lewis mean by blow everything up?
Speaker 1: And he said, y'all concerned about relationships. Y'all don't want
Speaker 1: to put the best place. Y'all just want to keep
Speaker 1: the relationship with the colchips and everything, copd steady, And
Speaker 1: it's not. It's actually embarrassing, really, it really is embarrassing that, oh, Joe,
Speaker 1: we haven't medal in twenty years, in twenty.
Speaker 5: And the four one has been twenty twenty.
Speaker 3: Jesus, it's amazing.
Speaker 1: And Carlin is Rightfley, so because Carl has one run
Speaker 1: on the anchor, you know, hey, hey, just get it close.
Speaker 3: Are you to get it close? Call it? Do the rest. Yeah,
Speaker 3: call it, do the rest. Don't eve worry about anything else.
Speaker 1: And they've had you know, whether it was Dennis Mitchell
Speaker 1: and John Drummond and uh uh, Sam Graddy, it had
Speaker 1: Ron Bryant.
Speaker 3: I mean, it didn't matter. Just keep it close. Right.
Speaker 3: This is this is this is this is embarrassing. This
Speaker 3: is this is, this is embarrassing.
Speaker 1: Uh uh us had one gohalt is two thousand when
Speaker 1: they had John Drummon, Bernard Williams, Brian.
Speaker 3: Lewis and Moe Green.
Speaker 7: Years.
Speaker 3: They want to go.
Speaker 1: They have it, they have hold on No, they have Yeah,
Speaker 1: they have it won. I think they got the silver.
Speaker 1: They got the silver in two in two thousand and four,
Speaker 1: but they haven't won.
Speaker 3: Since two thousand and damn. It's gets embarrassing.
Speaker 1: O Joe, Oh, Joe, great news, Yo, nephew. America's Rod
Speaker 1: Benjamin claims his first Olympic goal in the four hundred meters.
Speaker 1: Rye received the level of redemption after finish the order
Speaker 1: was reversed. You remember last time they run war Home
Speaker 1: ran that world record time forty five ninety four.
Speaker 3: Ry was the second. I think he ran forty six nineteen.
Speaker 1: And then you had Allison del Santos who ran forty
Speaker 1: forty six twenty six, but.
Speaker 3: He worked though this. I couldn't understand it.
Speaker 1: And you know Ryan, now we kind of we text
Speaker 1: back and forth in the DM, but I was all.
Speaker 3: I remember talking to my brother. I said, Fank, I
Speaker 3: can't understand it.
Speaker 1: You're talking about a guy that's a sub ten second
Speaker 1: flat one hundred meter guy. You're talking about a guy
Speaker 1: that's a sub twenty two hundred meters guy. And you're
Speaker 1: talking about a guy that's a low low forty four
Speaker 1: in the four hundred meters. I don't understand. But for
Speaker 1: the first time he was in front. Yeah, and Warholmes
Speaker 1: liked to take it a Warholme like to take the
Speaker 1: pace out.
Speaker 3: He likes to go out hard.
Speaker 1: He said, if I'm gonna catch him, if you can,
Speaker 1: you remember that movie Leonardo DiCaprio.
Speaker 5: Catch Yeah, that was a good one.
Speaker 1: Right, I won't get out, and I'm gonna make you
Speaker 1: catch me.
Speaker 5: Catch me.
Speaker 3: As I'm watching this race, mhm.
Speaker 1: When they got to the top of the bend and
Speaker 1: he hadn't caught him, and I know, I know Rid
Speaker 1: was sitting on something, go back and look at like hurdle.
Speaker 3: It might have been hurdle seven mm hmm.
Speaker 4: Were he stumbled a little bit? Not not not warhole?
Speaker 4: You didn't see what warhole?
Speaker 1: When he ran forty four nights, when he ran forty
Speaker 1: five ninety four, did he stumble?
Speaker 3: When he ran those three World championships? Did he stumble? What?
Speaker 3: Did we say? What? What? What?
Speaker 1: Would me and MJ saying they made Kashane Thompson run
Speaker 1: one hundred meters and not let him run eighty?
Speaker 3: Yeah, Ry put him under the gun and he says, okay,
Speaker 3: now catch me.
Speaker 5: Now you got to get me.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Now you got to be perfect. Instead of me being
Speaker 1: perfect to catch you, you be perfect.
Speaker 3: To catch me. Yeah.
Speaker 4: It's the three two hurdles before the last when he
Speaker 4: when Warhol went over the hurdle and he didn't he did,
Speaker 4: he cleared it clean.
Speaker 5: But when he.
Speaker 4: Came down, but he was off balance, he lost his
Speaker 4: balance a little bit.
Speaker 5: I said, yeah, it's a rap because you're not gonna
Speaker 5: be able.
Speaker 3: You can't recover.
Speaker 5: You're not gonna be able to recover.
Speaker 1: And you and you got you got the for the
Speaker 1: fastest run for the four fastest four hundred meter hurdles
Speaker 1: ever you have going home? Who's the world record holder?
Speaker 1: Ry is the American record holder? You got those Santos
Speaker 1: and you had Aberdeen Somble from from cut there. They
Speaker 1: were saying cutter at one point time it's Qatar, lit'sten.
Speaker 1: Let's go with Qatar Katar. So you had the four
Speaker 1: fastest men that's ever been over ten barriers around around
Speaker 1: the track. Right it was. I know, I know, I know,
Speaker 1: I may, I know. Ryan is extremely happy. He text
Speaker 1: me talking about y'all need to get at me.
Speaker 3: Nephew. We got hold.
Speaker 4: On, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on now
Speaker 4: now now when Rob when he come back to the States. Now,
Speaker 4: you're gonna have to earn that now. So I didn't
Speaker 4: have to hop over plenty of obstacles in life. So
Speaker 4: them hurdles ain't gonna be nothing. Now we get out there,
Speaker 4: we get shorten it.
Speaker 5: We can go. We can go four hundred, we can
Speaker 5: go two hundred. We just put them hurdles out there.
Speaker 3: Now you could beat me, Well, I'm gonna probably put
Speaker 3: my money. Well, I'll tell you what I'm gonna put.
Speaker 1: All the money that I lost, I would put it
Speaker 1: on ride to get it back because he's a condition,
Speaker 1: he's in prime shape, and you hadn't run like that
Speaker 1: for a very long time.
Speaker 3: So I would take my chances with Rye.
Speaker 4: See see now you sound like my teachers in high school,
Speaker 4: never believing in me. Nobody ever believed in me.
Speaker 3: No, but see I know where you started from. I
Speaker 3: know where he's at.
Speaker 1: So if you have told your teachers, oh, I could
Speaker 1: go out, I could go out run such and such
Speaker 1: right now, what you think he was saying.
Speaker 4: Probably the same thing. See, it's the thing you don't
Speaker 4: get to see me run. So that's why you're gonna
Speaker 4: be surprised when I beat him. But okay, we on
Speaker 4: to the next one.
Speaker 1: Oh no, no, no, we're good. I mean he's he's
Speaker 1: been unbelievable. I can't wait for the world. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: come up, I mean the world is a year away.
Speaker 5: Where the world's gonna be at?
Speaker 1: Are they gonna be in Budapest? Are they gonna be No?
Speaker 1: I think they're gonna be in They're gonna be in China.
Speaker 1: They're gonna be in China, Japan. I think there's something
Speaker 1: they're in the Asian market. Twenty twenty five.
Speaker 3: Worlds Tokyo, Tokyo.
Speaker 5: Man we go, We're gonna do nightcap in Tokyo.
Speaker 4: Then I'm just I'm playing to see now I'm gonna
Speaker 4: throw it out there that just pa see yeah, somebody,
Speaker 4: somebody don't see this.
Speaker 5: Somebody that's part of the Track Federation.
Speaker 7: You know what, you know what.
Speaker 5: We want you all to come out do nightcap from Tokyo.
Speaker 1: I would love to give us an opportunity to talk
Speaker 1: to the athletes after they have media obligation.
Speaker 3: Yeah, normally NBC.
Speaker 1: Normally NBC covers the covers the world and can I
Speaker 1: understand they have their obligations, but after they get that,
Speaker 1: hey stop by, give us like five or six minutes.
Speaker 3: Boom, keep a movie.
Speaker 5: It is yeah, NBC.
Speaker 1: So it was great. Congratulations Ryck for congratulations. We swept it.
Speaker 1: It's not it's not been very often that we both
Speaker 1: won both men's and women's four hundred meters. We know
Speaker 1: we got that historic race from said but this was
Speaker 1: this lived up to the Billy.
Speaker 3: Going back and forth.
Speaker 1: But Rye has been ry has been in prime shape,
Speaker 1: he's been in tip top peak condition and actually he
Speaker 1: just tied tied his world record time, his his world
Speaker 1: leading time he ran forty six. Forty six, that was
Speaker 1: the fastest time in the world coming in. He hit
Speaker 1: that mark right on the head again and it was
Speaker 1: enough to stand up. So congratulations to UH, to Rob
Speaker 1: Benjamin and the Americans that we've been doing really, really well.
Speaker 1: I've been proud of our team the way, especially on
Speaker 1: the track. Oh, Jo, we've been great.
Speaker 4: We've been great, beautiful, beautiful outside of a few hook keeps.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we're athletic President hands that raising women's hurdles height
Speaker 1: after Sydney's six time breaking the record? Hold on, whoa
Speaker 1: you see? Hold on, she's broken the record six times.
Speaker 1: What y'all gonna do with that? Poe about record? Mondo
Speaker 1: the Plantiff he keep breaking. He's done, broke the world
Speaker 1: record nine times.
Speaker 3: You see.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you see what they do, won't Joe?
Speaker 4: Yeah, definitely do anything, do anything to make sure to
Speaker 4: put us at a disadvantage. Matter of fact, let him
Speaker 4: raise the hurdles. You know what, she gonna come back
Speaker 4: and do you know what she's gonna come back and
Speaker 4: do adjust you break it again? Does he's gonna adjust
Speaker 4: dap and break it again?
Speaker 3: Joe?
Speaker 1: You do realize if you raise those hurdles that world
Speaker 1: record that she said will be there forever. You do
Speaker 1: understand that, right, Yeah, that's more people don't say they understand. Yeah,
Speaker 1: no they don't. I don't think they do because they
Speaker 1: think they'll be hurting. Said, I'm not so sure it
Speaker 1: can go into effect. Now they might put it in effect,
Speaker 1: but I believe Michael Johnson believes that a lot of
Speaker 1: other people believe that after the world that would be
Speaker 1: Sydney's last four hundred meter race, four hunderhard of race.
Speaker 3: Anyway, she's dropping down to the single.
Speaker 1: Lap she's wanting to trace Chase Mattermina coachs forty seven
Speaker 1: sixty only two with congratulations to Paulino, the Dominican runner.
Speaker 1: She ran what she run forty eight seventeen, which is
Speaker 1: the fourth fastest time ever run. It's an Olympic record.
Speaker 1: She broke Marie Jose's correct record of forty eight twenty five.
Speaker 1: In the Olympics. Only two women has ever gone up
Speaker 1: funder forty eight. People don't really understand that two women
Speaker 1: ran sub forty eight on the one lap.
Speaker 5: That's crazy.
Speaker 4: That can disimagine this right, just pictured this. Now, look
Speaker 4: at what sid is able to run. Yeah, when there's hurdles. Yeah,
Speaker 4: Now imagine what see as time would be if you
Speaker 4: remove those hurdles and she just running on free wheel
Speaker 4: and spirit based on training.
Speaker 1: Well, she's five tenths off the American record as it is.
Speaker 1: She's run forty eight seventy five. She's dabbled into two
Speaker 1: hundred meters. She's run twenty two oh seven, which is
Speaker 1: the eighth the ninth fastest time this year she's had.
Speaker 1: Prior to today, she had like the second or third
Speaker 1: fastest time. Now Paulino ran forty ran forty eight seventeen,
Speaker 1: Nasa ran what forty eight fifty six, and then given
Speaker 1: the Polish runner, she went sub forty nine. She ran
Speaker 1: forty eight ninety nine to get the prize. Is that
Speaker 1: was the fastest four hundred meters women's four hundred meter.
Speaker 3: In their history. Three women went sub forty nine.
Speaker 1: That's crazy. It's the same thing they did that with
Speaker 1: the javelin. A guy through the javelin. He threw it
Speaker 1: farther than on a football field, three hundred and forty
Speaker 1: three feet.
Speaker 3: Nobody, as a matter of fact, nobody has even come close.
Speaker 3: So the record's gonna be there forever ever. Yeah, so
Speaker 3: raise the.
Speaker 1: Barriers if you want a record, and people like, well,
Speaker 1: ain't no chance of me breaking the record?
Speaker 3: What am I doing? It's like that. I think I
Speaker 3: think it's the woman's shot record. The woman's shot record
Speaker 3: is so far out there, ain't nobody breaking that record?
Speaker 3: O show right?
Speaker 1: Then she throwing like seventy feet. I mean, yeah, she
Speaker 1: threw it seventy something feet.
Speaker 5: Hey what the shot put record? Their ball is?
Speaker 3: I think their ball is eight pounds? Oh, shoe eight pounds? Okay, okay,
Speaker 3: what's the women's shots of the record.
Speaker 5: Hey, that's a long wave.
Speaker 8: Boy, it's just like the high school shot record.
Speaker 1: Michael Carter threw the shot eighty one feet. Ain't nobody
Speaker 1: breaking that? He won the silver medal in the eighty
Speaker 1: four Olympics. Yeah, what's the women's world record? In the
Speaker 1: shot play? But when you change it, you do understand
Speaker 1: these records are gonna.
Speaker 3: Oh that's like seventy that's like seventy four.
Speaker 8: Feet that.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, Oh trying to be as I'm sorry. I'm sorry, guy, Yeah,
Speaker 1: ain't no woman. Look what the women did. Hello, the
Speaker 1: lady won the shot plut today, O joe, she threw
Speaker 1: it exactly twenty meters on the last throat.
Speaker 3: How far is twenty meters? Sixty six feet?
Speaker 5: Give it to me and give me the football yards.
Speaker 5: Give it to me in football yards.
Speaker 1: Sixty five she's threw it sixty five feet. That's seven
Speaker 1: feet below the world record.
Speaker 5: Give it to me in football yards.
Speaker 3: Uh, she throwing the shit seventy five feet.
Speaker 1: Seventy five feet, that's twenty it's about twenty five.
Speaker 3: Twenty meters. It's twenty yards. It's about twenty five twenty
Speaker 3: five yards.
Speaker 5: Well, that's good boy, eight pound ball.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's far. I know.
Speaker 1: Ain't nobody breaking it? Said, has the best chance. Now,
Speaker 1: maybe Paulino she ran forty eight seventeen. Maybe she got
Speaker 1: some pushing right, we'll see. But do you know you're
Speaker 1: gonna have to run the perfect race, hit the perfect condition,
Speaker 1: and get the right perfect competitors to.
Speaker 3: Push you.
Speaker 5: To get you to get that time.
Speaker 3: Thirty seven sixty it's been eighty five. There's only two
Speaker 3: women in the.
Speaker 1: History of track and field that's ever been under forty eight.
Speaker 3: Paulino just ran the perfect race.
Speaker 1: Since you ran forty eight seventeen, there's a big difference
Speaker 1: between forty eight seven forty eight, seventeen and forty seven
Speaker 1: ninety nine.
Speaker 5: Yeah, a whole lot, yes, hopefully lot.
Speaker 3: So go ahead and change the height and seid record.
Speaker 1: My grandkids, grandkids, grandkids say, ain't nobody ever breaking that?
Speaker 1: Just like ain't nobody gonna throw the that javelin three
Speaker 1: hundred and forty three feet? They said it was going
Speaker 1: They said it was going too far. So guess what,
Speaker 1: it ain't gonna ever happen again. I don't know as
Speaker 1: anybody has anybody ever been. I don't know if anybody's
Speaker 1: ever been over ninety meters, let alone one hundred meters
Speaker 1: in the javelin. Right, But you can't get mad because
Speaker 1: somebody is so so?
Speaker 3: So what when when you say was running those fast? Time?
Speaker 1: Why don't you say when you saying you gotta start
Speaker 1: three yards behind everybody else?
Speaker 3: Because these world records are getting out of hand? Y'all?
Speaker 4: Do realize the man with sub ninety six, Oh that's crap.
Speaker 4: Oh you know how fast I do? Everybody everybody else
Speaker 4: is already fast nine six, and on top of nine six,
Speaker 4: he still starts damn near dead.
Speaker 1: Last cod sick that broke the world record six times.
Speaker 1: Sometimes the Prodigy comes along. Uh huh so so what
Speaker 1: so what they do with with Michael Phelps?
Speaker 3: They ain't make they did they? They did make? Did
Speaker 3: they make him swim in a different pool?
Speaker 1: I mean, Katie le Decky got all the fastest times
Speaker 1: in the fifteen hundreds, she got the top twenty two
Speaker 1: fastest times ever run.
Speaker 3: I mean that was for him. Nothing not see it?
Speaker 7: Boy.
Speaker 1: They tried to, but they can't. You can't stop greatness.
Speaker 1: Guess what She's gonna drop down, go take the barriers
Speaker 1: off the track and gonna win and gonna win the
Speaker 1: goal in l A and the four hundred meters and
Speaker 1: then what and then I hit y'all with the deuces.
Speaker 3: I'm out.
Speaker 1: I'm out. I mean because what I mean, what else
Speaker 1: would she need to accomplish? She's a two time Olympic
Speaker 1: champ with the world record and the hurdles, she's a
Speaker 1: three time world champ and in the hurdles, and she'll
Speaker 1: be an Olympic champ and the four hundred meters. Yeah,
Speaker 1: knowing said, she said, you know what, a bobby, I
Speaker 1: think I gonna do it. If you get them to
Speaker 1: alter this, I do both of them. I do a
Speaker 1: double double. There's a there was a Cuban. There was
Speaker 1: a Cuban guy in seventy six. Oh shoe, he ran
Speaker 1: the full he won? What do he win?
Speaker 3: Did he win? The he won the eight hundred and
Speaker 3: the four and I think he won.
Speaker 1: I think he he won the eight hundred meters and
Speaker 1: the four hundred meters in the same in the same
Speaker 1: in the same Olympics.
Speaker 3: Yes, with the Gonzalez was was but he's from tub
Speaker 3: I know he's from Cuba.
Speaker 4: But that's crazy, that's crazy work, right. Can you imagine
Speaker 4: when the eight and four in today's lembit? Yeah?
Speaker 3: Who?
Speaker 5: You ain't got to tell me.
Speaker 1: No, I don't believe we'll ever see another man win
Speaker 1: the Florida two in the same Olympics. I don't believe
Speaker 1: we'll see another man another female with he won an
Speaker 1: eight hundred and the four hundred, right, I don't think.
Speaker 1: I don't we'll ever see another woman do it again.
Speaker 1: I think Marie jos Perek and what Michael Johnson did
Speaker 1: in ninety six. I don't think we'll see it again
Speaker 1: because that's because you have to stagger it to give
Speaker 1: them an opportunity, because that's four races. You can't have
Speaker 1: eight races in four days a fan ojoe, you gotta
Speaker 1: give him qualified.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and you got to be special. Do you realize
Speaker 3: how special you have to be?
Speaker 5: Yeah, to be able to do that.
Speaker 1: And like Mike said, he he had been thinking about
Speaker 1: it because Mike first when he was talking, he had
Speaker 1: won his first world championship in the in the UH
Speaker 1: in the two hundred. So Mike started out as a
Speaker 1: two hundred. But like he said, he was splitting such
Speaker 1: great times. He's like, well, hold on, wait a minute, bro,
Speaker 1: you're running.
Speaker 3: Low forty four. You splitting forty three. We need to
Speaker 3: put your ass in the.
Speaker 5: He some blocks. Yeah, and see what happened.
Speaker 3: Think about how good he could have been had he
Speaker 3: just chosen one. There's a big difference. Now, Hey, the
Speaker 3: one and two is a is a is a beast. Yeah,
Speaker 3: but that devil that two in that four.
Speaker 4: Listen, that four ain't o joke. That four make a
Speaker 4: man out. That's a grown that's a grown man's race.
Speaker 3: Make you put your hand on your knees and shake
Speaker 3: your head. Come on, son, Oh but all one read
Speaker 3: that phone, got got on it. Yeah for that bear
Speaker 3: at the top.
Speaker 1: Yeah, stop there, this track, coach all said come on, fun,
Speaker 1: you could do it.
Speaker 3: You walk all you do.
Speaker 1: It to shake his hand, said I can't do it.
Speaker 1: You said, I can't. Ain't boy, that piano jump on
Speaker 1: your back. If y'all ran track, y'all know what I'm
Speaker 1: talking about. It that y'all know that that paid when
Speaker 1: that bear and that they throw that pan on your back.
Speaker 4: Listen, when you hit that two hundred fifty, that two
Speaker 4: hundred fifty yard mark, you think you're feeling good.
Speaker 5: You get to that two and fifty, that two twenty
Speaker 5: two fifty and that monkey jump on your back.
Speaker 4: Yeah, okay, that the list that last, that last hundred
Speaker 4: and some chains. Be hell, all your form out the window.
Speaker 4: O yo, all your form is out the window.
Speaker 1: Without what what coach y'all normally have you do. You
Speaker 1: didn't really get to pick what you did. Coach y'all like,
Speaker 1: if you're a freshman, he throw you in the mile,
Speaker 1: he throw you in the half mile. I was like, coach,
Speaker 1: you know my brother would started team, so I ain't
Speaker 1: run the mile. He's a son. You gotta run the three.
Speaker 1: You gotta run the back. In high school, we had
Speaker 1: the three third. Okay, we got oh Joe, I ain't
Speaker 1: never ran them. Come on, you don't laugh. Oh you
Speaker 1: don't laugh, O Joe. Coach all says, fucker, you gonna
Speaker 1: run the hurdles, I said, coach, I ain't. He said,
Speaker 1: you fine, you fine, you can jump high and you
Speaker 1: can run. Yeah, man, o Joe, you know why, you know?
Speaker 1: Fed it up with the die. Yeah, I ain't got
Speaker 1: no farm on Joe. I'm jumping over that thing like
Speaker 1: I'm jumping over the fifth John chasing me.
Speaker 3: I'm going one leg, one leg, one leg. I look
Speaker 3: like jump man. I look like jump jump man. Got
Speaker 3: a man, But I'm good, o Yoe. I bought that.
Speaker 1: Hey, the dude that ended up winning the region, uh
Speaker 1: ended up winning the region.
Speaker 3: I think he got second of the state. Here in
Speaker 3: my heat. So you know, the first two three hurdles,
Speaker 3: I got it. I said, oh, oh man, I can
Speaker 3: do this. I can do this, man, o yo man.
Speaker 3: I got to the top of the bed. Yeah wow.
Speaker 1: At the two hundred, I was good. I got to
Speaker 1: the top of the med I probably had my four
Speaker 1: hurdles left right. I showed you somebody would have moved those.
Speaker 3: Hurdles for me.
Speaker 1: Mad oh yo man. My hamstring and my blood felt
Speaker 1: so heavy. I feel like I had bricks in my hand.
Speaker 1: I said, so by that time, o't Joe, you know,
Speaker 1: hold on, Joe, you got you know, you jump over
Speaker 1: something like one leg out of time and didn't write
Speaker 1: the other leg. Ain't no what's you man? Ain't no
Speaker 1: telling what Ain't no telling what my time was. I
Speaker 1: ain't even bothered.
Speaker 4: Hey, you know sometimes I think about it now that
Speaker 4: my kids are older. Obviously my daughter running the track,
Speaker 4: and I always always think about, damn, what happened if
Speaker 4: they get to the day when she could actually beat
Speaker 4: me running? Even if it's her events, obviously, if it's
Speaker 4: the four men, if it's the eight like that, would
Speaker 4: that would hurt me so bad that.
Speaker 5: I'm talking about. I think about it all the time.
Speaker 3: What she running? Man? Mo she run?
Speaker 5: She run the four and eight?
Speaker 1: Oh okay, she probably probably beat you in the four
Speaker 1: you thinkth Hell, yeah, y'all, why are you tell you what?
Speaker 3: You tell?
Speaker 1: All your hamstring up trying to run? She probably you run?
Speaker 1: She probably can run sixty seconds?
Speaker 3: Six? Oh she wait under that? Well, you ain't finna
Speaker 3: run that?
Speaker 5: That's you know what I'm curious me.
Speaker 3: See that's a minute you ain't finn to run that?
Speaker 3: Can she run? So what's the two other time?
Speaker 1: I mean a two eight eight hundred met of time
Speaker 1: two minutes to four to five two or two?
Speaker 5: Hold on, I'm man, where you at?
Speaker 3: Model? You're here?
Speaker 5: And you know what? Now Now I'm cured. Now we
Speaker 5: got the Olympic times.
Speaker 3: I'm curious.
Speaker 5: That's that's that's a good one. I want to know.
Speaker 5: I want to know.
Speaker 3: Yeah, may.
Speaker 4: What's your what's your fastest time in all in the
Speaker 4: four I'm just saying just in general, your fastest time
Speaker 4: fifty three seven? And what's your what's your fastest time
Speaker 4: in eight two or seven three?
Speaker 8: Yeah?
Speaker 3: All right? Man?
Speaker 5: Say unc said you could be me in the four hundred.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you ain't gonna run. No, you ain't read to run?
Speaker 3: No fifty three seconds?
Speaker 5: All right?
Speaker 3: Man?
Speaker 4: Who man, listen, I mean like right now, because I'm
Speaker 4: in shape after you know, you got to think I
Speaker 4: just had a whole soccer season for three months, right,
Speaker 4: So I mean say, but no, I could run, I
Speaker 4: can I can open up, dude, I played leven v
Speaker 4: eleven like football field, soccer field, big football field. Right now,
Speaker 4: I'm telling you, let's say if we if I was
Speaker 4: doing four hundred right now.
Speaker 5: You are a tirement.
Speaker 3: I'll probably you ain't breaking a minute.
Speaker 5: I probably, oh, come on, this is you ain't breaking
Speaker 5: a minute. I probably come about forty five.
Speaker 3: You ain't breaking a minute.
Speaker 5: Probably forty five.
Speaker 1: I'll bet you five thousand dollars. You couldn't run four
Speaker 1: hundred meters right now in a minute.
Speaker 3: You do know I be in Vegas. I want to
Speaker 3: bet you. I bet you five thousand dollars.
Speaker 5: I'll be in Vegas in the morning.
Speaker 3: Man, go to the track. We can go to the bet.
Speaker 5: Bet beg bet, let's bet okay, bet I bet that?
Speaker 5: And you know, hey, a minute, you know how disrespectful
Speaker 5: that is?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I know I'm in shape. I'm in stupid shall.
Speaker 1: Apple is a shape. So as a pair, they got
Speaker 1: it to do. They got it to do a run.
Speaker 4: Listen, you might you might will you might will cut
Speaker 4: you might will cut that too. Matter of fact, you
Speaker 4: know what I want I want mineing ones to want you.
Speaker 4: I want I'm going to straight this ship club in Vegas.
Speaker 5: A minute.
Speaker 4: That's like, that's disrespectful as an elite, as an elite athlete.
Speaker 3: Still, it's disrespectful that you can and you had run.
Speaker 5: Okay, you're gonna see better.
Speaker 8: Okay now this time won't Yoe?
Speaker 1: Got nice time for I interview. Oh Joe and I
Speaker 1: have a We take the interview with Bobby Fink this morning.
Speaker 1: He's the world record holder in fifteen hundred meters. Let's
Speaker 1: take a listen to the interview. All right, Oh Joe,
Speaker 1: check this out. I told you we're gonna have somebody
Speaker 1: session this morning. The guy that's joining in this this morning,
Speaker 1: he's a two time Olympic champ at fifteen hundred meters.
Speaker 1: He's a one time Olympic gold medalist at eight hundred meters,
Speaker 1: and he won the silver medal in the eight hundred
Speaker 1: meter in the parish. He swam swam at the University
Speaker 1: of Florida under the Great Anthony Nesty, and he saved
Speaker 1: the men because had he not won a gold medal,
Speaker 1: there'll have been the first time since nineteen hundred no
Speaker 1: individual man had won a swimming gold medal. Welcome to
Speaker 1: the show, Bobby Fink, Bobby, how you doing. I'm Jan Goodtt.
Speaker 1: Thank you for having me man, thank thanks for coming on.
Speaker 1: As I mentioned in your intro, is that did you
Speaker 1: feel the pressure. There's already pressure to win a gold medal.
Speaker 1: You're representing an entire country, and we understand that. But
Speaker 1: for for the first time and over a hundred years,
Speaker 1: had you not did what you did, the men would
Speaker 1: have been shut out of the individual goals. Did that
Speaker 1: add pressure to you?
Speaker 3: Oh? Yeah.
Speaker 7: I mean I'm someone who personally likes reading all the
Speaker 7: comments and everything. So on Measure News Sight, I was
Speaker 7: going through like every article, reading every comp and everything,
Speaker 7: and like there's a bunch of comments ins saying like
Speaker 7: Bobby better be listening to like Lose Yourself on repeat
Speaker 7: right now something, because he's the last chance. I knew
Speaker 7: about the record going in before I knew how hard
Speaker 7: it was going to be. And you know, I'm just
Speaker 7: fortunate enough I was able to get it done because
Speaker 7: I did not want my name attached to that for
Speaker 7: that to be go down.
Speaker 4: So yeah, we got it done. Now, Yeah, what was it? Like,
Speaker 4: I'm gonna start you know where it all started from.
Speaker 4: Obviously you grew up in Clearwater from Clearwater, Florida. How
Speaker 4: did your hometown shape your swimming career to actually get
Speaker 4: to the point where you are now?
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean, so my mom grew up swimming I
Speaker 7: have two older sisters who swam, both attended college, both
Speaker 7: attended Olympic trials in twenty sixteen, And you know, I
Speaker 7: grew up younger than them. I wanted to beat them
Speaker 7: going off a bunch. And my mom's the one who
Speaker 7: taught me how to swim over and over in clearwater
Speaker 7: be so I was kind of always growing up around
Speaker 7: the water and I liked being in it. And then
Speaker 7: having childer sisters, you know, I bet you can experience
Speaker 7: a competitive sibling naturehood there is. And I grew up
Speaker 7: just wanting to beat him. And once I did beat him,
Speaker 7: I want her to get as far as as possible
Speaker 7: I could from then, you know, And yeah, I think
Speaker 7: I've done that pretty well.
Speaker 1: Michael Phelps, the great Michael Phelps. He really needs no introduction.
Speaker 1: He spoke very very highly of you individually, but he
Speaker 1: said he was very very disappointed in the men's swim team.
Speaker 1: Now we know the French team, you get a kind
Speaker 1: of like when you have the Olympics in your home country,
Speaker 1: you kind of get a little bump. Marshawn he different
Speaker 1: he ain't getting the bump. He could have swam on
Speaker 1: the moon. He could swim and the dead beat. He
Speaker 1: can swip in the Atlantic oacher. He's going to be
Speaker 1: what he is. But do you think things are going
Speaker 1: to be different in twenty twenty eight when the Olympics
Speaker 1: are going to be held on home soil, because it
Speaker 1: was it was very disappointing for the mean not to
Speaker 1: do better what they did.
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, yeah, no, for sure. I mean it was
Speaker 7: kind of a big wake up call these past couple
Speaker 7: of years for men, specifically, just because of how deep
Speaker 7: it has gone, how competitive it has gone, which is
Speaker 7: amazing for the sport. You know, Mike Michael Phelps did
Speaker 7: amazing things for the sport, and you know, these past
Speaker 7: couple of years it was a wake up calls for
Speaker 7: us that you know, world's catching up. We got to
Speaker 7: do better, We got to figure out some ways to
Speaker 7: be dominant again. And you know, twenty twenty eight, I
Speaker 7: feel like it's a perfect time to do it, perfect
Speaker 7: time to show the world who we are and that
Speaker 7: you know, we're still there, Team USA on top always.
Speaker 7: But you know, a home Olympics, especially in LA, I
Speaker 7: think it's going to be really magical for us.
Speaker 3: That's dope.
Speaker 4: Are there any middle strategies that you go through to
Speaker 4: prepare for a high competition race, especially like for one
Speaker 4: represent an entire country. You op in Paris is still
Speaker 4: limit picks. None of us have medled in all the
Speaker 4: pressure in the eyes of riding on you are there
Speaker 4: Are there any mental shreddities that you do? Any superstitions?
Speaker 7: Yeah, I don't know if I really got I call
Speaker 7: them like superstitions for me. But everything is really and
Speaker 7: just how I prepare for the race, especially over at
Speaker 7: the Olympic village. The I don't know if you guys
Speaker 7: have heard about, Like the food was very controversial.
Speaker 3: A bit.
Speaker 7: Food wasn't the best, but I had so much pasa
Speaker 7: just in the days leading up. I was carbloading like
Speaker 7: crazy and I hate pasa right now, like I oh
Speaker 7: my god. But like in the day leading up to
Speaker 7: that fifteen hundred, a lot of it was motivation of
Speaker 7: how angry I was after the eight hundred when I lost,
Speaker 7: right because silver medal is great and everything. I understand that,
Speaker 7: but like for me to down out was pissed to
Speaker 7: that race because I didn't win, and I needed that
Speaker 7: kind of fire in me to be motivated for the
Speaker 7: fifteen hundred because I want to stand on top of
Speaker 7: that podium. I want to hear the national anthem. I
Speaker 7: haven't heard much all meat and I need to hear it,
Speaker 7: and I need to do it for our team. And
Speaker 7: you know, behind the blocks, I was just telling myself
Speaker 7: to stay calm. But the not like a power is
Speaker 7: in you, but like you know what to do and
Speaker 7: you know how to swim, You've done it one hundred times.
Speaker 7: It's really a whole mental game you're you're having with
Speaker 7: your brain. It's just telling yourself that you know you've
Speaker 7: done it, you can do it again. It's it's nothing
Speaker 7: new to you.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but when you look at the situation and when
Speaker 1: you broke the world record, you really and you didn't
Speaker 1: get Normally when people break world records, they're getting pushed.
Speaker 1: You've pretty seconds behead. You have like you have a
Speaker 1: motor boat and they had paddles, And so I'm watching
Speaker 1: you and I'm seeing your stroke and it's so smooth
Speaker 1: when you're swimming in a race of that distance. Obviously,
Speaker 1: you know you got the fifty meters and you got
Speaker 1: one hundred meters, you got different strokes. But when you
Speaker 1: fifteen hundred meters, there's a lot of time for you
Speaker 1: to be in your own head, what are you thinking about.
Speaker 3: When you when you swim in fifteen hundred meters?
Speaker 7: Yeah, So I normally race my competition and I'll start
Speaker 7: behind them for the most part, or I'll stay right
Speaker 7: next to them. So I like the one hundred to
Speaker 7: two hundred, when I had like a body like lead,
Speaker 7: I was kind of like, the Hell's going on right
Speaker 7: now because there's just so abnormal for me. But I
Speaker 7: could kind of see the scoreboard a little bit when
Speaker 7: I was racing, and on the scoreboard there were show
Speaker 7: the world record line, so I was kind of mentally
Speaker 7: racing that the whole time. And I was mentally.
Speaker 3: Racing okay, okay, yeah, So.
Speaker 7: I saw the world record line like three times during
Speaker 7: the race, and that got me own in the race
Speaker 7: so hard. But also like I'm very aware of like
Speaker 7: what is going around me. So I knew Greg pulchneri
Speaker 7: the Italian who was in lane five, two lanes over,
Speaker 7: I knew he started to inch up on me a lot,
Speaker 7: And same thing with Daniel within the Island representative who
Speaker 7: won the eight hundred previously. I knew he started to
Speaker 7: catch Greg a bit. I was kind of peeking over there,
Speaker 7: but I knew as long as I stood or stay
Speaker 7: ahead of Greg, that I would be able to stay
Speaker 7: ahead of Dan. So I was kind of keeping it.
Speaker 7: That mental is just like just stay ahead of them.
Speaker 7: I don't have to be too far away from them
Speaker 7: or like drop back to be at their pace. I
Speaker 7: just needed to stay right ahead of them, right, And
Speaker 7: that that was really a big mental game for me,
Speaker 7: was just trying to, you know, be aware where they
Speaker 7: are even though they're behind me, make sure I have
Speaker 7: a safe distance from them. So that that's really what
Speaker 7: I was spoken on.
Speaker 3: When did you When did you pick up the fifteen
Speaker 3: hundred meters?
Speaker 7: Yeah, it was kind of always always one of my things, okay,
Speaker 7: because just because my sisters did it and that's what
Speaker 7: my race and I wanted to beat them. So that's why, sadly,
Speaker 7: that is why I became a distance summer. I you
Speaker 7: know now when I look back at things, I become
Speaker 7: a sprinter all day, just because it's a lot of training,
Speaker 7: more fun and kind of like more exciting. But being
Speaker 7: a distance summer, you know, I did it for my sisters.
Speaker 3: Really, that's dope. That's dope.
Speaker 4: Listen, as someone who also competed, I'm not as decorated
Speaker 4: as you, But I did compete when I'm from five
Speaker 4: years old to ten years old as a competitive swimmer.
Speaker 4: I always thought about what it would be like and
Speaker 4: I'm thinking about the memories that I had and competing
Speaker 4: at such a young age. So for you looking back
Speaker 4: on your career so far, are there is there a
Speaker 4: particular race, a moment that stands out as opposed to
Speaker 4: winning goal?
Speaker 7: You know, there there is a race and it was
Speaker 7: back when I was eleven.
Speaker 4: See I totally yeah, yeah, yeah, I.
Speaker 7: Was eleven years old. I was swimming the eight one
Speaker 7: hundred meters free style and it was over at the
Speaker 7: Orlando Yanca right off of I four and Orlando. It
Speaker 7: was our Age Group Championships. I was in the late
Speaker 7: next to Matthew Herschberger, who at the time was someone
Speaker 7: who was breaking all of the national age group records
Speaker 7: fast as ever, you know, at his age for those events.
Speaker 7: And he, I mean he was a year older than me.
Speaker 3: He whooped on me.
Speaker 7: But I thought, like when I was eleven, I went
Speaker 7: nine to sixteen, which I still think is really good
Speaker 7: to this day for an eleven year old. For some reason,
Speaker 7: that races always stood out to me as like one
Speaker 7: of my best performance as ever. And I don't know why,
Speaker 7: but for some reason, it was just it was just
Speaker 7: always like it was. It was like the first winker Paul.
Speaker 7: I was like, you know, I I'm good at this,
Speaker 7: Like I can keep doing this right, you know. And
Speaker 7: it wasn't a time that beat my sisters, but it
Speaker 7: was a time that like at the time, ranked nationally
Speaker 7: within eleven year olds, and it proved to myself that
Speaker 7: like this is a round, I'm gonna end up going
Speaker 7: on MH.
Speaker 1: Bobby, Like you're fifteen hundred meters and you say you've
Speaker 1: always been in love with the fifteen hundred mainly because
Speaker 1: your sisters did it and you wanted to beat them.
Speaker 1: Did you study the great fifteen hundred meters that came
Speaker 1: before you? The Russian vladimis Zelnikov, you look at Grant Hackett,
Speaker 1: the great Australia, or Zunyang, the guy his record that
Speaker 1: you just broke. Did you study the great ones that
Speaker 1: came before you and you look at the progression. I
Speaker 1: think this race was first contested in nineteen oh four
Speaker 1: and I think the winning time was like twenty two
Speaker 1: forty eight.
Speaker 3: Yeah, here we are we're already down to fourteen thirty now.
Speaker 1: So when you look at the progression and where we've
Speaker 1: come from, and look at some of the names that
Speaker 1: have hild that world record, where do you where are
Speaker 1: you trying to take this record to and what do
Speaker 1: you try and what do you hope to accomplish in
Speaker 1: the fifteen hundred meters.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I cannot tell you how many times I rewatched
Speaker 7: Sun Yang's fifteen hundred back from twenty twelve, just in
Speaker 7: a backseat of my my dad's car when he would
Speaker 7: drive me to practice in the mornings and afternoon. I've
Speaker 7: watched that race hundreds of times. Like I'm not even kidding.
Speaker 7: I knew, I knew his stroke, I knew how crazy
Speaker 7: of a time he was. He was like ten seconds
Speaker 7: out of the rest of the field in that race.
Speaker 7: And you know, even one of my competitors by race,
Speaker 7: a silver medalist, was in that race, Greg Paul Senari.
Speaker 7: He was seventeen at the time and he got fifth
Speaker 7: or fourth. And ever since the Sun Yang doping controversy
Speaker 7: thing that happened a few years later, Greg Pultiononary kind
Speaker 7: of became like the distance guy who became he got
Speaker 7: really close to that race and everything, and I studied
Speaker 7: how he raced the entire time, and he was someone
Speaker 7: who always took it out fast, but he has a
Speaker 7: horrendous stroke. But so kind of just looking at how
Speaker 7: Tho's guy's race, Casenying was very conservative at the beginning
Speaker 7: and came back really hard. Greg Pultionnary was just very
Speaker 7: fast throughout the entire race. Greatest pacer I've ever seen.
Speaker 7: Two different race strategies and two very different times. You
Speaker 7: kind of just got to like what I ended up
Speaker 7: focusing on was trying to harness both of them a bit.
Speaker 7: You know, I really want to be good at pacing,
Speaker 7: and I think I nailed it almost perfectly for me
Speaker 7: this past fifteen hundred that I did. I got the
Speaker 7: pace done really well. Yeah yeah, I got that done
Speaker 7: really well. But I was still able to come home
Speaker 7: really fast and clear the rest of competition, I guess.
Speaker 7: And in terms of like taking where this record can go,
Speaker 7: you know, one of the like the worst feelings in
Speaker 7: the world, even after like breaking a record like that,
Speaker 7: is that you feel like you can still do better
Speaker 7: during that race, Like you know, like look back at
Speaker 7: oh maybe if I did that, I could have gone
Speaker 7: like three seconds faster or something because I was I
Speaker 7: was genuinely feeling really good in that race, So like
Speaker 7: fourteen thirty was amazing to me. But for some it
Speaker 7: still stings me a little bit in psych cause I'm like,
Speaker 7: I know I could have found like another like second
Speaker 7: or two when they're to get under fourteen thirty just
Speaker 7: because I was that close. But I mean, I want
Speaker 7: to be one of the guys who brings this record
Speaker 7: down into the fourteen twenties, maybe low fourteen twenties. And
Speaker 7: that's really ambitious, I guess because the record twenty years
Speaker 7: ago was only fourteen thirty four, so it's only dropped
Speaker 7: four seconds within these twenty four years. And to bring
Speaker 7: it down I guess, like ten seconds is incredible. But
Speaker 7: I mean someone's got to be able to think it
Speaker 7: to do it. And I know my other competitors are
Speaker 7: because we talked about it, so you know, you start
Speaker 7: thinking it, then the wheels start going, and then the
Speaker 7: record's gonna end up going eventually.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Wait, when I when I when I listened to you talk,
Speaker 4: and I can I can sense the competitive a's that
Speaker 4: you have and drive you know to want obviously to
Speaker 4: be the best do you during your career. Have you
Speaker 4: faced any obstacles or significant challenges or setbacks in your
Speaker 4: swimming career and is there a way that you had
Speaker 4: to overcome them or how did you overcome them for.
Speaker 3: If you didn't have any.
Speaker 7: Yeah, so I've been for the most part, I've been
Speaker 7: very fortunate as a swimmer. I haven't had too many issues.
Speaker 7: But the main issues I had was during college, I'd
Speaker 7: fall off my scooter and like break my wrists. When
Speaker 7: you broke your wrist for real, yeah, yeah, I don't
Speaker 7: remember how it happened, but yeah, I got like stitches
Speaker 7: on my face and yeah it was it was a
Speaker 7: pretty rough crash, but broke my wrist. Then had to
Speaker 7: skip out on our World University games, which was kind
Speaker 7: of sucky. But for some reason, when I I feel
Speaker 7: like I'm hindered a bit, it kind of motivates me more.
Speaker 7: Because I was assimming the whole summer in a brace
Speaker 7: on my arm, so mhm. When I was able to
Speaker 7: like keep up with some of the guys randomly in practice,
Speaker 7: it would motivate me. Motivate me a lot, just because
Speaker 7: I was like, yo, I got like one arm here
Speaker 7: and I got like a.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 7: But and like what I'm finding is I'm getting older,
Speaker 7: my body breaks breaks down a lot easier. Like this
Speaker 7: past year, I like did something to my back. I
Speaker 7: don't know. I became like paralyzed for a week. It
Speaker 7: was kind of funny because just like stiffed back everywhere
Speaker 7: and I'm stuck. Yeah, It's it's become like a running
Speaker 7: joke on our team because the two guys, Karen Smith
Speaker 7: and I were both the same age, but we're our
Speaker 7: bodies are just breaking every time we're in the weight room.
Speaker 7: His knees are gone, my back's gone, my shoulders gone.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 7: No, I mean in terms of what I've heard from
Speaker 7: other athletes getting like surgeries and stuff and like fixing everything,
Speaker 7: I've been very fortunate everything that's happened to me. I've
Speaker 7: just been able to treat with like rehab and stuff
Speaker 7: like that. I haven't needed surgery or anything like that.
Speaker 7: So I've been I've been very good that way. I'm
Speaker 7: hoping it stays that way too.
Speaker 1: But when you look at it, when you you are
Speaker 1: fifty eight hundred and fifteen hundred meters swimmer and the
Speaker 1: type of volume that it requires in training, what is
Speaker 1: the typical how many calories are you eating in a
Speaker 1: day to fuel your body so you can get back
Speaker 1: into pool tomorrow and do it all over again.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean it. It generally ranges per day a
Speaker 7: lot of the time because it really depends on how
Speaker 7: tired I am after practice to be able to cook
Speaker 7: a meal or go out and get a meal. It
Speaker 7: easily over six thousand on the high end, maybe close
Speaker 7: to ten or nine. I guess it really depends. Like
Speaker 7: I'll down like a piece and a half, like no
Speaker 7: problem at all, and that's like three pizza, a whole pizza. Yeah,
Speaker 7: and like a little more sometimes depending on like if
Speaker 7: I'm eating with my we get like we get like
Speaker 7: two pizzas, so I'll eat one and then she eats
Speaker 7: like some of the other and I'll get her leftovers.
Speaker 3: There we go.
Speaker 1: I like it, But how much do how how how
Speaker 1: much do you wait on hundred seventy three one hundred
Speaker 1: and seventy three pounds and you're eating somewhere between six
Speaker 1: thousand and nine pousan Yeah, I should.
Speaker 7: Say so, yeah, yeah, like what I don't know why
Speaker 7: I can't gain weight, So I don't I don't know.
Speaker 3: It doesn't work that's a great problem to have.
Speaker 1: Bobby, let me ask you this, when you see these
Speaker 1: when you see these these prodigies. You look at Marshaun,
Speaker 1: Michael Phelps was a prodigy, kate La Decki was a prodigy,
Speaker 1: and there's a lot of expectation for them to carry
Speaker 1: it on.
Speaker 3: And then we look at someone like Missy Frankel. She
Speaker 3: burst onto the scene.
Speaker 1: She was the darling, she was the sweetheart, and I
Speaker 1: think she had some injuries and I think that's kind
Speaker 1: of what set her back. But how difficult is it
Speaker 1: to maintain that competitive edge when you're a prodigy. Michael Phelpson,
Speaker 1: I think he went to the Olympics in two thousand
Speaker 1: or two thousand and two thousand.
Speaker 3: It's like fourteen, fifteen year old. And then you see
Speaker 3: Ladeki she does the same thing.
Speaker 1: How difficult is it to maintain that when you have
Speaker 1: success at such a young age and then maintain that.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean, it's definitely one of the most difficult
Speaker 7: things I think that can happen to someone in any
Speaker 7: kind of sport, is you get so much attention at
Speaker 7: such a young age, and depending on how you kind
Speaker 7: of like handle that, it can it can really just
Speaker 7: make or break you. You you'll be successful and then
Speaker 7: you'll never hear that person ever again, or you'll be
Speaker 7: successful and you'll continuously see them in the headlines growing
Speaker 7: up and everything. I honestly probably harder than winning a
Speaker 7: gold medal, just because the amount of athletes that are
Speaker 7: so successful when they're young and you never hear them
Speaker 7: later on is so high, especially in the sports swimming,
Speaker 7: that it's it's very unfortunate just because like they had
Speaker 7: the potential to be there, but seeing how they react
Speaker 7: to certain situations or how they're they're brought up in
Speaker 7: their sport and everything like that, it really can change
Speaker 7: how they are in the future of the sport. And
Speaker 7: you know, Mike Michael got it right obviously, Katie got
Speaker 7: it right off obviously, but like Leon's there now and
Speaker 7: again out of like all those young prodigies, there's there's
Speaker 7: only three of them and it was like those three,
Speaker 7: so a lot of it. It's it's very impressive to me,
Speaker 7: and you know, I want those young prodigies to always
Speaker 7: do well every single time because it can be huge
Speaker 7: for all sports, whatever sport they're part of. But it's
Speaker 7: the I don't want to say, like failure rate, but
Speaker 7: like the like drop off rate of of what happens
Speaker 7: is so high, and it's just it's really unfortunate. But
Speaker 7: I'm ruining for them every time.
Speaker 1: I think the US wim team need to give Bob
Speaker 1: baam on the lifetime contracts that you can only coach
Speaker 1: American athletes. There, here's five million dollars.
Speaker 3: You don't. You don't coach.
Speaker 1: Anybody else but American athletes because he has something in
Speaker 1: his souls, because he has films, he has let now
Speaker 1: you have this young Yes, No, I'm not paying I'm
Speaker 1: paying you not to coach anybody else. You don't have
Speaker 1: to work, you don't got to catch the American athletes.
Speaker 1: Just don't coach anybody else.
Speaker 7: I don't think he'd take it, though, I do not
Speaker 7: think he'd take it, especially after the success he so.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Yeah, that.
Speaker 7: Was crazy being there and witnessing the French crowd when
Speaker 7: he swam was like it was magical, Like I've never
Speaker 7: heard something louder in my life, just when he would
Speaker 7: walk out on the pull deck.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we got to pay him back. We got to
Speaker 1: get somebody, We got to pay him back. We got
Speaker 1: to find some kid in Florida kid from the d
Speaker 1: m V.
Speaker 3: We'll get someone.
Speaker 4: Hey, outside of outside of swimming, do you have any
Speaker 4: hobbies activities that you enjoy doing. I know, you know,
Speaker 4: normally we know swimming is is your respective craft. But
Speaker 4: outside of that, I mean, there has some nelse that
Speaker 4: is your outlet. I call it, you know, my piece.
Speaker 4: So football I did all my life, but outside of football,
Speaker 4: my safe haven and my piece was gaming.
Speaker 7: Oh yeah, yeah, I definitely do enjoy a lot of games,
Speaker 7: especially with the guys on the UF swim team. And
Speaker 7: you know, back in the back in the day before
Speaker 7: like all this COVID stuff happened, it was ping pong
Speaker 7: because we had a table in our team room and
Speaker 7: for some reason it just became like the game I'd
Speaker 7: do there for like two and a half hours before practice,
Speaker 7: just playing constantly, and like an hour afterwards just because,
Speaker 7: like you know, someone says some trash talk, so you
Speaker 7: got to like go defend yourself. Yeah, it was in
Speaker 7: the beginning it was pig pong, and then afterwards I
Speaker 7: started playing a lot of a lot of video games
Speaker 7: with boys.
Speaker 3: There we go. I like it. But what do you
Speaker 3: think the most difficult stroke in swimming?
Speaker 7: Is see swimming. Because there's so many discipline and like
Speaker 7: so many different races, it's kind of hard to point
Speaker 7: one out because like the most the hardest joke to
Speaker 7: be good at, I would say is breast shoke because
Speaker 7: it's so it's so technical and everything, like you have
Speaker 7: an ounce of dragon, you you're you're behind, and I
Speaker 7: suck at breastshoke, and yeah, I hate it so much.
Speaker 7: I'm so bad at it. But like physicalness, raw physic
Speaker 7: physicalness would probably fly, Yeah, it would be fly. But
Speaker 7: their races are some of the easiest, which is weird.
Speaker 7: But like for a physical choke, butterfly would be the
Speaker 7: most demanding. But the races there's other all the other
Speaker 7: shokes races are harder. You'll get like more sore and
Speaker 7: more lactic acid build up from other races, which is
Speaker 7: kind of it's weird, like something is a weird sport
Speaker 7: when it comes to that kind of stuff, because like
Speaker 7: you you ask someone who has it sud before to
Speaker 7: do fly, they're not doing it. And but you asked
Speaker 7: someone to be good at brash shure, they're not doing it.
Speaker 7: For the most part, it's it's such a it's just
Speaker 7: such a unique sport in that kind of way.
Speaker 3: Bobby. You ask anybody that's not good it's women to
Speaker 3: do any stroke, bread stroke.
Speaker 1: You're gonna be good at is the rock stroke to
Speaker 1: the bottom of it, Bobby. I just wanted on behalf
Speaker 1: of a shade she Media and Nightcap. We're very proud
Speaker 1: of you here. I know my subscribers are proud of you.
Speaker 1: I know the US is proud of you. And to
Speaker 1: show you how proud we are of you. I don't
Speaker 1: know if you can see that. Can you see that
Speaker 1: in your screen?
Speaker 7: I kind of hold on, Oh God, hold on.
Speaker 3: We're gonna break it a little closer. We're gonna make sure
Speaker 3: you're it.
Speaker 5: I can take my take my glass off.
Speaker 1: Okay, he's gonna boom in my camera. Goy, gonna zoom in.
Speaker 1: We're gonna zoom in. Okay, make sure you see this.
Speaker 5: I can't see.
Speaker 3: God. Can you see that, Bobby?
Speaker 7: Yeah? Oh my god, Yeah yeah, wow, Yeah.
Speaker 3: We got we got your information.
Speaker 4: Oh wait, wait, wait, wait a minute, wait, whoa whoa
Speaker 4: whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa, Bobby, not in order to
Speaker 4: get that, in order to get that in its entirety,
Speaker 4: when you come back to Florida.
Speaker 3: We have to race whatever you want to do.
Speaker 7: You guys want.
Speaker 3: Hey, if you can beat me, it's all yours. Oh
Speaker 3: my god.
Speaker 5: Hey, congratulations though, man, congratulations man.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Jacky White, I get her up and get us
Speaker 1: uthing nice. I'm proud of you, bro. Congratulations what you've
Speaker 1: been able to accomplish thus far. Stay healthy, good luck
Speaker 1: down the road, I mean the world the next year.
Speaker 1: Uh and then in two years after that, you got
Speaker 1: the Olympics in l A. So we look forward to
Speaker 1: follow your career. Continue success, bro, and congratulations again on
Speaker 1: all your accomplissations.
Speaker 7: No you got Oh wow, you guys are amazing. Yeah, jesus.
Speaker 5: You guys. Let's talk about have you writing? You're writing
Speaker 5: clear Water?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 5: Yeah, you know I live in Miami. How far are
Speaker 5: you from me?
Speaker 7: Uh? About four and a half hours.
Speaker 3: Oh so you more?
Speaker 4: You more like Orlando down that way? Huh uh No Tampa, Tampa.
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, I'm near. It's just because sorry, I'm just
Speaker 7: my brain. I think it's just because in a way,
Speaker 7: you have to get to Miami, right right, gotta like
Speaker 7: not straight through the other everybodyes, but you have to
Speaker 7: go to like Naples first and then yeah, yeah, all.
Speaker 5: Right, we'll catch up. We'll catch up. We gotta we gotta,
Speaker 5: we gotta gotta get this.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean you got already legendary in your sport,
Speaker 7: but you guys are legendary for this. I can't thank
Speaker 7: you guys enough.
Speaker 1: You guys are no thank you and enjoy and uh,
Speaker 1: I appreciate you stopping by this morning. We appreciate you
Speaker 1: stopping by nightcap this morning, and look forward to talking
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Speaker 3: Bro. No, thank thank you.
Speaker 7: I I appreciate everything you guys have done for for
Speaker 7: your sports and then obviously for for the Olympic Games.
Speaker 7: It's time you special for the athletes. Yeah, it is
Speaker 7: a is a dream. This is a dream and and
Speaker 7: you guys are well a part of it. And thank you.
Speaker 7: Thank you so much.
Speaker 1: Well all right, brow will go, all right, boss, Thank
Speaker 1: you