WEBVTT - #11 - Peter Bol 0:00:06.559 --> 0:00:08.760 Hey, everyone, Welcome back to the Mason Cox Show. Now 0:00:08.800 --> 0:00:12.240 today our guest is one of the biggest legends of Australia. 0:00:12.280 --> 0:00:14.360 He's kind of rose to the ranks in the last 0:00:14.480 --> 0:00:16.960 you know, eight years, and I've become a big fan. 0:00:17.000 --> 0:00:19.239 I've made a few dinners of spag bowls and wore 0:00:19.280 --> 0:00:21.479 a bowlo tie with this man doing his thing. But 0:00:21.800 --> 0:00:24.439 we'll go into it. He's got a construction management degree 0:00:24.440 --> 0:00:26.920 at Curtain University, mine even me looking to become an engineer. 0:00:27.560 --> 0:00:29.920 He's a big Premier League fan. He's from He's lived 0:00:29.960 --> 0:00:33.680 in to Woomba, to Woomba which is out in Queensland, 0:00:33.760 --> 0:00:37.800 and also lived in Perth. Was born in Khartoum, sud 0:00:37.920 --> 0:00:40.040 Dan has over five million people lived there, which I 0:00:40.280 --> 0:00:42.879 was like just blown away more than Melbourne. Obviously. He's 0:00:42.920 --> 0:00:44.840 done the Olympics and everything else. He's an eight hundred 0:00:44.880 --> 0:00:47.240 meters runner in the twenty sixteen Reel, twenty twenty Tokyo 0:00:47.880 --> 0:00:50.320 silver medalist in the twenty twenty two Commonwealth Gangsbery Man. 0:00:50.360 --> 0:00:52.839 We could go on on on, but I will not 0:00:52.960 --> 0:00:55.840 go without any further adom. I'm bringing the great man 0:00:55.920 --> 0:00:58.920 that is Peter Bowll onto the podcast. Welcome, Thank you 0:00:59.000 --> 0:01:00.440 so much for coming introduction. 0:01:00.520 --> 0:01:01.240 Thanks for having me. 0:01:01.280 --> 0:01:04.600 Man. Man, it's so good. I haven't really met you 0:01:04.640 --> 0:01:06.240 too much, man, but I feel like, you know, we're 0:01:06.360 --> 0:01:07.880 two peas in a part of us too, you know 0:01:07.920 --> 0:01:10.440 we You didn't start playing to your still didn't start 0:01:10.520 --> 0:01:12.760 running till you're seventeen. I didn't start playing footy. Toll 0:01:12.800 --> 0:01:14.040 was twenty three. I had no idea what it was. 0:01:14.080 --> 0:01:15.959 You were a big basketball man, was that correct? 0:01:16.160 --> 0:01:18.679 Massive basketball? I tell everyone I'm a great basketball player, 0:01:18.720 --> 0:01:21.360 But I mean, can you dunk? I don't know right now, 0:01:22.160 --> 0:01:25.800 but I have yeah, yeah, I did you see dunk? 0:01:26.040 --> 0:01:29.560 But I don't know how I've dunk before. Definitely, Okay, yes, 0:01:29.600 --> 0:01:32.080 all right. For some reason, people think like being able 0:01:32.120 --> 0:01:34.360 to dunk. Yeah, of course. I literally rest my hands 0:01:34.360 --> 0:01:36.640 like there. It's like I'd be embarrassed if I couldn't. 0:01:37.160 --> 0:01:40.000 I can't get off the ground. Now. Everyone seems to 0:01:40.040 --> 0:01:41.840 have it like if you can dunk, you play basketball. 0:01:41.880 --> 0:01:43.240 You know. I'm like, you know what, I could dunk, 0:01:43.240 --> 0:01:47.280 and I was a terrible basketball player. I'll get into that, 0:01:47.560 --> 0:01:49.200 Nag melow Din. I don't know if a lot of 0:01:49.240 --> 0:01:51.440 people know this, this is your actual name. Yeah, that's 0:01:51.480 --> 0:01:54.080 my first name. Can you can you describe me how 0:01:54.120 --> 0:01:55.760 Peter came out of this whole thing? Is everyone? Now, 0:01:55.920 --> 0:01:57.000 I'll even go back. 0:01:56.840 --> 0:02:01.040 Back even further. What So I was born and like 0:02:01.040 --> 0:02:05.280 you said, and our language as Arabic sock meldon. The 0:02:05.320 --> 0:02:10.280 pronunciation is an Araic name Nejma actually means star star, yeah, 0:02:10.280 --> 0:02:13.359 and Arabic and din means religion, which will get one 0:02:13.639 --> 0:02:14.320 into the religion. 0:02:14.320 --> 0:02:15.679 And we're going to jump into that for sure. 0:02:15.960 --> 0:02:19.880 But yeah, and then obviously. 0:02:19.760 --> 0:02:21.360 Do you prefer to be called that or are you 0:02:21.400 --> 0:02:23.680 just going to my parents? 0:02:24.320 --> 0:02:25.919 Not even my parents called me that, so they mostly 0:02:25.960 --> 0:02:28.400 called me Peter. But I mean on my passport has 0:02:28.440 --> 0:02:33.079 got so sometimes I feel a little bit of a fraud. 0:02:33.160 --> 0:02:38.240 Naje mel den nagnagement, So everyone out there, you've ever 0:02:38.320 --> 0:02:39.000 seen it properly? 0:02:39.280 --> 0:02:42.120 Yeah, and then you're growing up, we had different several 0:02:42.200 --> 0:02:43.000 nicknames and. 0:02:43.120 --> 0:02:46.120 Yeah, all some of the nicknames you got speaks people 0:02:46.680 --> 0:02:47.160 pee bowl. 0:02:47.240 --> 0:02:49.800 Pee bowl is the most common one. I use Instagram 0:02:49.800 --> 0:02:50.480 handle what do. 0:02:50.400 --> 0:02:52.120 You what do you want to be called? Whenever someone's 0:02:52.240 --> 0:02:55.320 announcing you, if you had a nickname, you're just thrown 0:02:55.360 --> 0:02:57.760 out there and you're okay, I'm big text. I want 0:02:57.760 --> 0:03:00.960 people to call me big texts. You know, actually like text. 0:03:00.960 --> 0:03:02.760 Walker's kind of taken that. I'm like a little bit 0:03:02.760 --> 0:03:05.079 pissed off about that is from Texas, but it's the 0:03:05.120 --> 0:03:06.480 whole thing. But what would you what would you want 0:03:06.480 --> 0:03:06.839 to be cold? 0:03:07.040 --> 0:03:09.000 Probably bowl or pee bowl? 0:03:09.360 --> 0:03:12.320 Pee bowl? Yeah, I like it, and I want to 0:03:12.320 --> 0:03:13.680 ask you there's a question I was going to ask later, 0:03:13.720 --> 0:03:15.799 but I'm going to bring it up now. And we're 0:03:15.800 --> 0:03:18.000 talking about nicknames, right, and whenever you get into a race. 0:03:18.160 --> 0:03:20.919 You know, some people like Michelle does like the dance, 0:03:20.960 --> 0:03:22.960 you know, and all that kind of stuff. Yeah, do 0:03:23.000 --> 0:03:25.000 you do anything? Have you ever done anything? I know 0:03:25.000 --> 0:03:26.720 you're pretty relaxed guy. You kind of you know, you're 0:03:26.720 --> 0:03:27.840 in your mindset and you're ready to go. 0:03:28.160 --> 0:03:30.240 I like wearing the jewelry. I like wearing the I 0:03:30.320 --> 0:03:31.960 like wearing the things and the ear rings. 0:03:31.960 --> 0:03:34.600 And you're allowed to wear anything whenever you're on not watches. 0:03:34.600 --> 0:03:36.000 I don't think you can wear watches, but you can 0:03:36.000 --> 0:03:37.160 work on everything else. 0:03:37.360 --> 0:03:38.520 You had to wear a watch, what would it be? 0:03:39.480 --> 0:03:44.320 Lung jeans happy with that one. 0:03:44.680 --> 0:03:47.320 Sparts will be happy with that one. So you can 0:03:47.360 --> 0:03:49.400 wear a heating so you wear necklaces wherever you want. 0:03:49.480 --> 0:03:51.440 It doesn't matter. Whatever makes it feel confident. 0:03:51.520 --> 0:03:52.880 Yeah, whatever makes you feel good. 0:03:52.920 --> 0:03:55.040 Do you feel good? Is it kind of like swimming? 0:03:55.080 --> 0:03:56.440 Do you kind of like shave your whole body and 0:03:56.440 --> 0:03:57.960 get a short haircut and stuff like? 0:03:58.200 --> 0:03:59.440 But I do like getting a fade before. 0:03:59.760 --> 0:04:02.120 Yeah, gotta look fresh. You gotta look fresh. 0:04:02.680 --> 0:04:04.440 You're only there for like less than two minutes, so 0:04:04.480 --> 0:04:05.320 you want to. 0:04:07.640 --> 0:04:10.560 It's got four minutes you out of that. I'm kidding. 0:04:10.560 --> 0:04:12.240 There's a lot more obviously that goes into that. But 0:04:12.960 --> 0:04:14.680 so you go. You got the haircut. Do you have 0:04:14.720 --> 0:04:15.920 a necklace? Do you like, like, do you have a 0:04:15.920 --> 0:04:18.200 special necklace, like kind of any kind of superstitions you. 0:04:18.160 --> 0:04:20.200 Have to be superstition. I just kind of put a 0:04:20.240 --> 0:04:22.840 necklace on one of my necklaces. Probably I wore this 0:04:22.960 --> 0:04:26.239 during the common Wealth. Yeah, yeah, I wait a wristband. 0:04:26.320 --> 0:04:30.239 The wristband actually says it's pretty cool. It says same distance, 0:04:31.360 --> 0:04:34.839 different track. Yeah, it's a great mentality. Like whenever you're racing. 0:04:34.839 --> 0:04:37.320 Whenever you're racing, you're still racing eight hundred meters. Yeah, 0:04:37.520 --> 0:04:40.120 the track changes, the location changes, but but you still 0:04:40.160 --> 0:04:42.320 got the Yeah, you still doing eight hundred meters, so. 0:04:42.760 --> 0:04:45.200 Yeah, like you know, overthink it. It's like, you know 0:04:45.320 --> 0:04:46.320 what you're doing the same thing. 0:04:46.360 --> 0:04:47.760 You know. I got to be on your zone and 0:04:48.200 --> 0:04:49.800 I've got that on moist races. 0:04:50.000 --> 0:04:53.040 Any any song once your pump up song, right, Man. 0:04:52.960 --> 0:04:54.320 I've been listening to Kanye. 0:04:54.120 --> 0:04:58.599 Kanye Old Score. Now we're talking about drop out album. Yeah, 0:04:59.279 --> 0:05:02.600 I'll talk of college dropouts, the one before he went 0:05:02.680 --> 0:05:07.400 absolutely Crazy. That's actually like probably half that albums in 0:05:07.480 --> 0:05:10.640 my game day music. I'm not gonna lie, mate, We'll go. 0:05:10.720 --> 0:05:12.240 I want to ask you some quick fire questions and 0:05:12.279 --> 0:05:14.080 I'm going to get you something because I've heard from 0:05:14.200 --> 0:05:17.120 an inside source you like this little thing I gift you. 0:05:17.760 --> 0:05:21.440 He was the most influential person in your life. Man. 0:05:21.440 --> 0:05:23.280 I used to look at my Ma Ali, so I 0:05:23.480 --> 0:05:26.720 bung up mam Ali number one legend, absolutely legend on 0:05:27.360 --> 0:05:29.120 you know, on the field, on the boxing ring and 0:05:29.160 --> 0:05:30.000 outside of the box. 0:05:30.120 --> 0:05:32.600 Mentality. His mentality is crazeless. I love it. And he 0:05:32.720 --> 0:05:34.960 was like very well spoken outside of it too. And 0:05:35.040 --> 0:05:36.640 he's like he's more than just an athlete. One of 0:05:36.640 --> 0:05:39.040 the most people that was like more than an athlete. 0:05:39.080 --> 0:05:40.960 I feel like, yeah, I think you changed the whole game. 0:05:41.120 --> 0:05:41.520 Was awesome. 0:05:41.680 --> 0:05:43.680 Yeah, I love that. Okay, what gives you the most 0:05:43.680 --> 0:05:46.279 confidence is the chain can give you the most comment 0:05:46.320 --> 0:05:47.960 you put that on, it's like, yeah, I'm ready, I'm 0:05:48.000 --> 0:05:48.440 ready to go. 0:05:49.160 --> 0:05:52.960 I reckon, I reckon training. Yeah, if you're not training, 0:05:53.040 --> 0:05:55.560 no matter what, no matter what, change you're wearing yet exposed. 0:05:55.839 --> 0:05:58.520 So when when you're looking good at training, I'm pretty 0:05:58.560 --> 0:06:00.000 cool about practice. 0:06:00.200 --> 0:06:06.240 Practice talking about practice. Favorite athlete who could be right, 0:06:06.880 --> 0:06:10.720 kyb Yeah alright, p man, he was unreal. Here's the 0:06:10.760 --> 0:06:12.600 next level. Won't get into it, so I'm gonna start crying. 0:06:13.200 --> 0:06:20.560 Favorite type of food pasta, pasta, spaghetti follow as you 0:06:20.680 --> 0:06:25.760 might say you do like it, but also smoked salmon, 0:06:26.040 --> 0:06:30.719 smoked salmon, a tazzy salmon. Awsoal put a little glaze 0:06:30.760 --> 0:06:33.440 on what we're talking. What we're talking. Yeah, that's that's it. 0:06:34.120 --> 0:06:34.640 I'll give you this. 0:06:36.120 --> 0:06:37.440 Oh I'm actually excited to see that. 0:06:37.680 --> 0:06:40.000 I've been told you a big fan. I've been told 0:06:40.000 --> 0:06:41.920 you a big fan of the Org Phantom, right, so 0:06:42.360 --> 0:06:44.280 I know you've got I know he told you that. 0:06:44.560 --> 0:06:46.560 I know you're a massive fan of the Orge Fanta. 0:06:46.839 --> 0:06:48.560 I know it's a it's a little secret that's now 0:06:48.560 --> 0:06:51.200 in the public. Everyone he does, he does like his 0:06:51.279 --> 0:06:52.480 sweet his sweet Drakes. 0:06:53.240 --> 0:06:54.120 That's cougas right. 0:06:54.480 --> 0:06:57.280 I'm not going to release my I'm not releasing who 0:06:57.440 --> 0:07:00.600 told me. I'm just saying I've got a little inside 0:07:00.640 --> 0:07:02.640 and further you might like an orange fanc brother. 0:07:02.960 --> 0:07:04.040 Oh Man, can I open this? 0:07:04.279 --> 0:07:10.120 Yeah, it's not mine? Man, oh man, you enjoyed that. Cheers, 0:07:10.160 --> 0:07:15.760 bro cheers. Good to have you on anyway, Man, Well, 0:07:15.800 --> 0:07:20.760 I love this great start. Absolutely Elk started tries to move. 0:07:20.960 --> 0:07:23.320 Everyone knows about your family, obviously massive support. I've got 0:07:23.360 --> 0:07:25.480 some amazing family. You do too, obviously everyone's seen it. 0:07:25.720 --> 0:07:27.560 And kind of your rise to fame everything else. Man, 0:07:27.600 --> 0:07:29.040 can you give me a bit of a background. Obviously 0:07:29.080 --> 0:07:31.280 you moved away from Sudan, You've come here and like 0:07:31.640 --> 0:07:33.200 we'll get into a bit of the background. But my 0:07:33.440 --> 0:07:35.440 really interesting want to get into you is kind of 0:07:35.480 --> 0:07:38.040 the image of you being from Sudan and like being 0:07:38.080 --> 0:07:40.640 the representation of the Sudanese community and also talk about 0:07:40.640 --> 0:07:42.320 your religion everything else that comes with, because I think 0:07:42.320 --> 0:07:45.080 that is so so important today here in Australia's people 0:07:45.200 --> 0:07:47.960 not don't quite understand and just maybe don't have the 0:07:48.040 --> 0:07:50.600 information or haven't seeked out the information to quite understand 0:07:50.600 --> 0:07:52.240 where people come from and their kind of culture and 0:07:52.280 --> 0:07:54.400 everything else. So give me a little bit of background 0:07:54.480 --> 0:07:56.240 where you Obviously we talk about where you're from, but 0:07:56.280 --> 0:07:57.600 like kind of what my life was like, you know, 0:07:57.680 --> 0:07:59.440 moving from place to place, from Perth over to the 0:07:59.520 --> 0:08:02.400 Queensland and start Queensland and the Perth and from Sudan 0:08:02.480 --> 0:08:04.000 over there. Give me a bit of background. 0:08:04.160 --> 0:08:06.680 I started probably with family and I mean everyone, so 0:08:07.360 --> 0:08:09.480 in Tokyo, the family getting around it and they fell 0:08:09.480 --> 0:08:10.720 in love with the family, fell in love with the 0:08:10.760 --> 0:08:12.920 whole story. But the reason we're that close is because 0:08:13.040 --> 0:08:14.960 I guess you just said it will move from sit 0:08:15.000 --> 0:08:19.040 Down to Egypt, Egypt to Tumber two Timber to Perth, 0:08:19.160 --> 0:08:21.480 and the only consistent thing through all that journey is 0:08:21.560 --> 0:08:23.200 like the people you're kind of moving around with, and 0:08:23.240 --> 0:08:25.120 those are the guys in the living room and a 0:08:25.200 --> 0:08:26.000 few other How. 0:08:25.920 --> 0:08:28.520 Many are there? I've got four brothers, four brothers. 0:08:28.280 --> 0:08:30.400 So pretty competitive, and then I've got a sister. 0:08:30.520 --> 0:08:32.760 Were you the best I thought of the four? No? 0:08:33.040 --> 0:08:36.520 Actually no, I was dead. You were not even second 0:08:36.559 --> 0:08:37.360 on the pecking order. 0:08:37.520 --> 0:08:38.480 No, I don't think so. 0:08:38.800 --> 0:08:42.040 Wow, if you asked that question, you're like, nah, brothers, 0:08:42.080 --> 0:08:44.560 and shit, it's all me, It's all me, baby, But it. 0:08:44.600 --> 0:08:45.400 Made me change so much. 0:08:45.960 --> 0:08:47.120 Yeah, older brothers. 0:08:47.360 --> 0:08:50.720 My younger brother, the youngest one is probably the most 0:08:51.000 --> 0:08:53.839 athletically talented. Oh he could play footy? 0:08:54.240 --> 0:08:55.000 Is it how old he now? 0:08:55.360 --> 0:08:58.800 He's twenty now, but he ain't playing in his Oh come. 0:08:58.720 --> 0:09:00.600 On, man, I started twenty three, Still got a chance, 0:09:01.800 --> 0:09:05.400 still got even none than that, Still got some little 0:09:05.600 --> 0:09:08.400 I kick stuff sorted out. Brother. 0:09:08.480 --> 0:09:12.240 He's always doing well at anything, you know, basketball, He's 0:09:12.360 --> 0:09:14.960 killing high jump like this dude is physic kicking. Yeah, 0:09:15.120 --> 0:09:16.360 one eighty five and stuff like that. 0:09:17.280 --> 0:09:18.040 One eighty five. 0:09:18.200 --> 0:09:21.000 Like at school, I jumped like one eighty and this 0:09:21.120 --> 0:09:23.400 dude was jumping like one eighty five and he couldn't 0:09:23.400 --> 0:09:28.080 even so you got him. Uh, he's probably second best. 0:09:28.120 --> 0:09:30.680 But my younger brother could do everything. Like yeah, bigger 0:09:30.880 --> 0:09:34.160 all around athletes. And I'm sad to say I'm the 0:09:34.200 --> 0:09:34.840 shortest at times. 0:09:34.880 --> 0:09:38.840 So you're the shortest taller too, man, So yeah, high complex. 0:09:39.840 --> 0:09:41.240 So you just roll around. You just kind of like 0:09:41.280 --> 0:09:43.559 feel like the little brother of everyone. I love that 0:09:43.640 --> 0:09:45.240 I'm like the little brother. But I'm the tallest of 0:09:45.280 --> 0:09:46.760 the three, so then I kind of feel like I 0:09:46.840 --> 0:09:49.600 have something over them, you know. Yeah, yeah, you played 0:09:49.600 --> 0:09:51.439 a bit of basketball growing up. Now you played that 0:09:51.520 --> 0:09:53.000 out in Perth and then that was kind of like 0:09:53.040 --> 0:09:55.079 the sport you got into before. And you're an NBA fan. 0:09:55.120 --> 0:09:58.800 I'm assuming massive NBA Lakers, massive Lakers fan, and you 0:09:58.880 --> 0:10:02.560 know KB fan until Lakers game never been not yet yeah, 0:10:02.600 --> 0:10:05.560 not yet. Yeah, I mean I might know a connect. Yeah, 0:10:05.600 --> 0:10:07.120 that's what I might know. Connect, Bro, I know you 0:10:07.160 --> 0:10:11.360 can make it happen. I'll try my best. So you 0:10:11.440 --> 0:10:13.400 play a bit about that. What was that like? 0:10:14.000 --> 0:10:16.360 Ball was fun, man, because it was like a team sport. 0:10:16.440 --> 0:10:19.240 So and I went to school and I went to 0:10:19.280 --> 0:10:22.199 school on scholarships. So playing basketball, you just play with 0:10:22.280 --> 0:10:25.679 your friends. You you can trash talking ball like running, 0:10:25.679 --> 0:10:28.400 you don't even trash talk. Trash talk, well, what are 0:10:28.400 --> 0:10:30.120 you going to do, like in the middle of a race, 0:10:30.200 --> 0:10:32.040 say to someone something. You probably run out of bath 0:10:32.120 --> 0:10:36.320 as soon as I' on the MA looking to probably 0:10:36.400 --> 0:10:39.880 only time trash talk. Basket is longer and you can 0:10:40.000 --> 0:10:41.720 just it's just yeah, and you play with the boys 0:10:41.760 --> 0:10:42.160 and whatnot. 0:10:42.200 --> 0:10:43.679 Still play it like a little bit here and there. 0:10:43.840 --> 0:10:46.640 Yeah, definitely. Yeah, I still shoot around just around Richmond. 0:10:46.640 --> 0:10:49.040 Actually, you should be telling people where were left, mate, 0:10:49.840 --> 0:10:54.679 right at the moment. No, okay, So so you like 0:10:54.760 --> 0:10:56.400 the bass aspect, you like kind of like the team 0:10:56.440 --> 0:10:59.360 sport and everything else. Right, So whenever you moved to running, 0:10:59.440 --> 0:11:00.640 was that something you had to get used to? Is 0:11:00.720 --> 0:11:03.200 like just this mentality because I've talked about previously, it's 0:11:03.280 --> 0:11:04.959 like kind of tennis and running and all these kind 0:11:04.960 --> 0:11:07.000 of individual sports, and the mentality that has to come 0:11:07.040 --> 0:11:08.599 with it in the confidence you have to instill in 0:11:08.640 --> 0:11:11.400 yourself and everything else is totally different from any other sport. 0:11:11.440 --> 0:11:13.360 And I feel like sometimes that's almost the hardest hurt 0:11:13.400 --> 0:11:16.359 all to get past. Yeah, Like, how is that like mentality? 0:11:16.440 --> 0:11:17.880 Like do you go in and you just kind of 0:11:18.080 --> 0:11:19.760 I feel like you're pretty laid back dude, man, Like 0:11:19.800 --> 0:11:21.120 you good vibes, you're happy. 0:11:21.400 --> 0:11:23.319 It was kind of like a day back to the 0:11:23.400 --> 0:11:25.679 point that when I first started running, man, I used 0:11:25.679 --> 0:11:27.280 to because you have to do little athletics and you 0:11:27.360 --> 0:11:30.160 have to do like a combination of like six different events. Yeah, 0:11:30.320 --> 0:11:31.960 I used to just jump the fence and go home. 0:11:32.280 --> 0:11:36.120 What I did not like waiting that long, so you 0:11:36.360 --> 0:11:38.400 got to be there all day time. I was like, nah, 0:11:38.559 --> 0:11:40.280 I'm not coming, and then I just decided to do 0:11:40.360 --> 0:11:42.040 seniors instead, which you can rock up the race and 0:11:42.080 --> 0:11:45.000 then go home. Yeah, so I didn't do athletics. I 0:11:45.040 --> 0:11:47.040 went straight to senior athletics because you could just go 0:11:47.080 --> 0:11:47.640 a race. 0:11:47.920 --> 0:11:50.520 Yeah and be done and they're like, yeah, I've done behind, 0:11:51.840 --> 0:11:52.280 I'm out. 0:11:52.679 --> 0:11:55.280 Like training is so hard, like just running laps and 0:11:55.360 --> 0:11:56.160 laps and last. 0:11:56.160 --> 0:11:57.559 Yeah, do you kind of like do you do you 0:11:57.760 --> 0:11:59.800 put in headphones and you like train or like do 0:11:59.880 --> 0:12:01.520 you are you just in your own head just in 0:12:01.559 --> 0:12:03.280 your I don't like people that swim, you know, you 0:12:03.400 --> 0:12:05.240 go into this like swimming motion and like you kind 0:12:05.280 --> 0:12:07.160 of keep going back and forth and you just you 0:12:07.280 --> 0:12:09.080 kind of come this like flow stage. Just think about 0:12:09.080 --> 0:12:11.400 other things. You're not even like like I've seen you running, 0:12:11.400 --> 0:12:13.040 like you ran past my house the other day. Man, 0:12:13.120 --> 0:12:15.120 I'm seriously this man floats on air like it doesn't 0:12:15.160 --> 0:12:16.920 even look like he's touching the ground like me. It 0:12:17.080 --> 0:12:19.719 is like every steps like bang sang bang, like it 0:12:19.840 --> 0:12:22.760 looks just absolutely dreadful. Where you just like I don't know, 0:12:22.800 --> 0:12:25.240 you just float man, like you just look like a runner, 0:12:25.360 --> 0:12:26.360 like just natural. 0:12:26.480 --> 0:12:29.199 When I first started running, I had back. Everything was 0:12:29.440 --> 0:12:30.160 really terrible. 0:12:30.160 --> 0:12:32.240 So you've had to fix the posture and everything that 0:12:33.040 --> 0:12:35.480 training and shout out to what's the what's the coach 0:12:35.480 --> 0:12:36.360 shout out to him, just. 0:12:38.480 --> 0:12:40.640 Yeah, yeah, so so he's slept on that. 0:12:41.160 --> 0:12:42.959 Change everything up in that sense, and like, have you 0:12:43.080 --> 0:12:45.360 noticed like a big difference in your times once you 0:12:45.480 --> 0:12:46.199 actually change that. 0:12:46.520 --> 0:12:47.600 Yeah, I was improving quick. 0:12:47.679 --> 0:12:49.839 So it wasn't like this speak because I remember I 0:12:50.240 --> 0:12:52.559 first started playing football. It's like this massive curve, like 0:12:52.640 --> 0:12:54.719 you hit this, you get the proper teaching. Yeah, and 0:12:54.760 --> 0:12:57.400 you hit this massive like kind of curve and somewhat 0:12:57.480 --> 0:12:59.480 like kind of doesn't like go as steep, but you're 0:12:59.480 --> 0:13:00.920 still getting every day by day. 0:13:01.160 --> 0:13:03.520 Well, now it's been you know what, eleven years since 0:13:03.520 --> 0:13:06.160 I started running, and when I first my first race 0:13:06.280 --> 0:13:08.600 was like two or five and I run one four. 0:13:09.440 --> 0:13:12.720 It's just like form escalator. And like in the first 0:13:12.760 --> 0:13:15.400 five years, my first training team was the Olympic team, 0:13:15.640 --> 0:13:19.640 so like it's crazy just rocking up to an international event, 0:13:19.720 --> 0:13:21.880 the Olympic team and you're used to running like school 0:13:21.880 --> 0:13:22.480 carnivals before. 0:13:22.640 --> 0:13:25.079 Yeah, it's just like then when you looked at was like, man, 0:13:25.200 --> 0:13:26.680 I'm like training next to this dude. 0:13:27.200 --> 0:13:28.320 Yeah, man, it was crazy. 0:13:28.400 --> 0:13:28.599 I was. 0:13:28.679 --> 0:13:31.240 I was at the Games and and bro, you see 0:13:31.360 --> 0:13:36.480 everyone I saw the same bold Us, Oh really, Tony Parker, 0:13:36.679 --> 0:13:39.280 Paddy Mills. I saw all those athletes, and I'm just like, 0:13:39.559 --> 0:13:41.599 you know. The funny thing is I was more. I 0:13:41.679 --> 0:13:43.400 knew more to Baskets than the Runners. I don't even 0:13:43.400 --> 0:13:44.880 know who was running aginst because I was so new, 0:13:45.320 --> 0:13:47.040 But I knew all the basketball players and I wanted 0:13:47.040 --> 0:13:47.480 to meet them. 0:13:47.720 --> 0:13:49.080 But the Runners, I had no idea who they were. 0:13:49.720 --> 0:13:55.080 Got to the Yeah, yeah, they know you now early 0:13:55.200 --> 0:13:56.160 days like just kid again. 0:13:56.679 --> 0:13:59.600 I got photos everything sound hello, you know, took advantage 0:13:59.600 --> 0:14:00.120 of everything, and. 0:14:00.160 --> 0:14:03.120 Now you're returning the favorite. Patty Mills is like, yo, 0:14:03.520 --> 0:14:06.040 na come over, man, my kids love you. 0:14:06.200 --> 0:14:08.319 Like yeah, I still go. 0:14:08.480 --> 0:14:10.040 Patty Mill is one of the realst dude I met 0:14:10.040 --> 0:14:12.120 in the Games. Such a good fellow. 0:14:12.480 --> 0:14:14.240 He stayed the same from the first Games I met 0:14:14.320 --> 0:14:17.400 him till Tokyo like five years later. So it's pretty cool. Yeah. 0:14:17.520 --> 0:14:19.760 And to the Olympics side, man, do you have any 0:14:19.840 --> 0:14:21.800 kind of memorabilia from the Olympics, like if I went 0:14:21.840 --> 0:14:24.840 to the Olympics, man, like just the kid is cool, yeah, 0:14:25.040 --> 0:14:26.560 and it's unique, like no one else in the world 0:14:26.600 --> 0:14:28.520 has it, right, yeah, like this kid's sick. And then 0:14:28.600 --> 0:14:30.720 like people get like the tattoos of the Olympic rings 0:14:30.760 --> 0:14:32.840 or anything else, like is there anything that like is 0:14:32.840 --> 0:14:34.880 stuck with you and you like take that as like 0:14:34.880 --> 0:14:37.360 a memento from the Olympics. But yeah, when you've been 0:14:37.400 --> 0:14:39.000 to two, so like from both, you know, and they're 0:14:39.120 --> 0:14:41.320 very different experiences, like from Rio to Tokyo. 0:14:41.400 --> 0:14:44.960 Probably the stories, especially from the first one, like like 0:14:45.320 --> 0:14:48.400 I remember how excited I was and this fort psychologists 0:14:48.400 --> 0:14:51.160 told me like just try to stay calm, conserve your energy, 0:14:51.200 --> 0:14:52.440 and I was like, yeah, man, I'm laid back. 0:14:52.440 --> 0:14:52.920 I can do that. 0:14:53.320 --> 0:14:56.040 And then you get to Olympics and you see like 0:14:56.520 --> 0:14:58.840 play Thompson and you see the same ball, and then 0:14:59.120 --> 0:15:01.760 you see like food is free of the Olympic Games, 0:15:01.800 --> 0:15:06.040 and you could go to the food court whenever you want. 0:15:06.080 --> 0:15:08.000 You could wake up at two am and just go there. 0:15:08.080 --> 0:15:11.440 McDonald's is free there. I'll tell this story quite a bit, 0:15:11.520 --> 0:15:13.040 but I've got three haircuts because it's. 0:15:12.880 --> 0:15:17.800 Free everything, Like the NBA bubbles, like virus like the 0:15:17.840 --> 0:15:18.600 number one thing they wanted. 0:15:18.680 --> 0:15:20.240 So like you remember all those stories and then you 0:15:20.320 --> 0:15:22.240 go to Tokyo although it was like COVID and you 0:15:22.320 --> 0:15:24.360 see like how much growth through it and that I 0:15:24.400 --> 0:15:25.960 didn't get no tattoos or anything like that, but I 0:15:26.040 --> 0:15:27.960 remember those stories and first before you met, and I 0:15:28.000 --> 0:15:28.720 think that's pretty cool. 0:15:28.840 --> 0:15:29.840 What's the Olympic village? 0:15:29.960 --> 0:15:32.200 Like wild Tokyo? 0:15:32.960 --> 0:15:33.200 Rio? 0:15:33.760 --> 0:15:35.680 It's more wild than Turkyo because of course. 0:15:35.760 --> 0:15:39.320 Yeah, if you be lockdown, like what's it? What's it? 0:15:39.400 --> 0:15:40.760 Give us a bit of an idea, Like you walk 0:15:40.800 --> 0:15:43.160 into the villages, they're like just a cafe that's like 0:15:43.240 --> 0:15:46.080 anything and everything you want, like food, what's it like? People? 0:15:46.240 --> 0:15:49.200 Is it all spurated like small city? You got buses running, 0:15:49.320 --> 0:15:53.520 you've got food courts, and you got like countries everywhere. 0:15:53.760 --> 0:15:56.960 So you go, we'll talk about Rio because Tokyo was 0:15:56.960 --> 0:15:59.120 its own thing, like obviously with covered but like real 0:15:59.280 --> 0:16:00.680 is what everyone would and mixed. 0:16:00.880 --> 0:16:02.640 So you've got all the buildings and then at the 0:16:02.800 --> 0:16:04.760 end the parties, you can just decide to choose over 0:16:04.800 --> 0:16:05.920 a party you wanted to go to. So if you 0:16:05.960 --> 0:16:11.200 want to go South American party, American America. 0:16:13.880 --> 0:16:17.280 Brazil, is good. Brazil, they do it right, do it right. 0:16:17.320 --> 0:16:20.600 And then in Jamaica, Jamaica would be so those guys 0:16:20.640 --> 0:16:25.960 are just those units and any Caribbeans they're just crazy, 0:16:26.160 --> 0:16:28.040 just like, hey man, there's my time, is sharm and 0:16:28.240 --> 0:16:32.080