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Celebrating One Year of 321 Go!
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Welcome to 3-2-1-Go the podcast. I'm John Pelkey.
Speaker 2:And I'm Carissa Galloway and we're bringing you stories from start to finish to keep the everyday athlete motivated to keep moving towards the next finish.
Speaker 1:All right. Hello everybody. Today we are celebrating one year of 3-2-1-Go. I think it's like a year and two weeks since we put our dropped our first episode. Listen to me with the lingo. Now the anniversary episode that's going to follow is going to follow the same pattern I've used follow too much already. Same pattern as our very first episode. Carissa and I are going to go back and forth asking each other questions about the podcast guest life. I'm sure travel is going to come up, given what's happened over the last few weeks for us and who knows? You're just going to have to listen to find out.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's right. A year in review. And what a year it's been. We've laughed, we've cried, we've been inspired and, as John said, we've complained a lot about air travel. So you know it's another pillar of the podcast We'll still got healthier you. Today we're going to talk about CoQ10 and we're going to share a listener question that might touch a sore spot with Johnny there, but to you guys, we're going to say this all along Thank you, thank you for listening. A huge thank you to our supporters. You can do that in the show notes. We've got some new stuff coming up in a couple months, so that will be exciting. And if you are a supporter, we've got new 321 Go gear that's going to go to some of our supporters next month. So support us, subscribe one go.
Speaker 1:Okay, carissa, a subject that's become far too frequent a subject on our podcast is travel issues, and you had a complete travel meltdown. I want to know what happens, but you know I ended up in Zurich, a great city, and you ended up in the city that never sleeps, so at least you had that going for you. But talk us through what happened. I know there was a lot going on for you the last couple of days.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it was just maddening and I just want to start by saying like I get there that you getting stuck in Zerk, me getting stuck in New York city, bigger problems out there. This is not like a I think we share this more of like a. This is relatable, this is crazy. I can't believe this went down like this, and definitely not in a way of like oh, everything's terrible, the world sucks. And that's not how I took this, but it was so extreme that was like oh my God, what is going on? What is going on? So I want to kind of set that stage first, because on the plane today that made it to Orlando on United, I watched Dare to Dream, which was a movie about the members of the Refugee Olympic Committee for Tokyo, and obviously that just makes you feel like okay, look, we've got a lot going for us, but we're going to complain about your travel.
Speaker 3:Shut up, shut up, you whiny, all right.
Speaker 2:Here's how it started. I was going up to host Hell on the Hill, which is an event that Jesse Itzler of Marquee Jet and Zico Coconut Water and Sarah Blakely of Spanx put on in their house. There's a big hill. They invite 100 people, 4,000 people apply, 100 get to go. They run up and down the hill a hundred times. Every person picks a charity and they donate a thousand dollars to every single person's charity. Uh, great event. Was really excited to be a part of it and the event was great. The energy was great. Uh, there were.
Speaker 1:by the way, it looks exhausting, it looks absolutely exhausting. I mean, it is a hill, hill does not do it, sir? Uh, I think service, because it it's bigger than a hill, so it's super embarrassing.
Speaker 2:I went to like I was trying to help out in the morning because everything was running behind and timing there was timing for it, so you knew you did the hundred times because you had a chip and I was walking down the hill first time I never walked, I guess. I kind of walked back up to give a timer, some changes, and I fell and I slid. So embarrassing, first time there, first time meeting all these people, and I fall.
Speaker 1:It's one of those cliched things that happens in that sort of situation where you're like, oh, I want to help out and no good deed goes unpunished Down the hill.
Speaker 2:So this was in Connecticut, somewhere in Connecticut where wealthy people live on a very beautiful lake. That's all I know. I was blindfolded. I was brought there, I'm just kidding. So I was flying into White Plains, new York, and I think you and I had talked about it before we met for Weston's Topgolf birthday. We had said I said well, I was going to fly in LaGuardia, rent a car, but that seems like it's just such a process, so I'll just fly into White Plains. That's probably the same amount of a connection. Well, and LaGuardia is not without its fault, as we'll find out.
Speaker 2:So my first flight to Atlanta was delayed, which didn't matter. I had plenty of time, that's just. I just want to stick that in there. That wasn't weather related. We board the flight to White Plains Yay, there's a little bit of weather, so we're not going to leave for another hour and then, like 20 minutes later, we're going to deplane you. It's never a good thing. You don't want to leave the plane.
Speaker 2:So I go in the Sky Club and I'm very calm at this point. Whatever it's weather, I'm emailing. I got a lot of stuff done and at some point. I was like well, let me go ask the people in the Sky Club, because they're like agents and if you have a problem you're lying that you were in for seven hours. I can just go ask them a question, and usually they're very friendly. And I said, hey, do we have any risk of like people timing out with this? I just kind of just want to know.
Speaker 2:And as the guy's looking up, he's like well, your flight was just canceled, so first in line. And I'm like okay. And I was like can I get to another New York airport? And he's like no, and so I'm like okay, what about tomorrow? Well, it didn't matter, because I had to be there at like 7 am. So I was like no, new York airport, newark, nothing. He was like no, and I was like okay. And so I said just, can you just get me on a flight back to Orlando? Then I was like I'll just go. You know that sucks, but there's nothing I can do, you know.
Speaker 1:Right.
Speaker 2:I'll just go back to Orlando Should have just gone back to Orlando and I walk to my new gate and there's a different Sky Club there, so I'm going in the Sky Club there. My flight to Orlando gets canceled as I'm standing in line. So the woman goes oh well, you know you could fly to Hartford. That's close to where you were trying to go. And I said oh okay, I guess I. You know I'm going to this event. I'm supposed to be at this event. Yes, there's an opportunity I can't not take it. I'm going to go to Hartford now. That flight doesn't leave until 9 pm, land in Hartford at 11.50. They very kindly had their driver pick me up and drive me the hour and 45 minutes to Connecticut. Get to my hotel at 2 am, get up at 6 am and go announce from 7 am until 1245 pm.
Speaker 2:And at some point we thought I was going to miss my flight to LaGuardia. That was because my flight back was LaGuardia to Orlando direct, because with all the changes and the cancellations they let me change my return and I was like, oh, just put me on the direct return because now I have a driver, I don't have a rental car. Direct flights are the way to go. And it was literally up to the minute where I wasn't going to make my flight Cause we just they, the race was going late and they were like, do you want to go or do you want to stay overnight? And I was like I just really rather get home. There's a tropical storm coming, like I just want to get home. And they were like okay, good. Like literally Jesse was like high five out the door, here I go, get to La. Not their fault, weather rolls in and we got delayed, delayed, delayed from like 6 pm. Sky club closes, all the way until like 9.30.
Speaker 2:Now I had another flight for the morning from LaGuardia to Orlando. We had booked a backup flight because that was in case I didn't make. It took too long. You can cancel flights within 24 hours, so making a backup flight is not a bad idea, knowing like I didn't know what I was going to do. So this delay is happening. I'm not super concerned, I have a backup flight. Whatever Delay keeps going on. Can't go to the Sky Club.
Speaker 2:I go down to the gate and they've let us know that our pilots were put to another flight. There's another set of pilots coming. Their flight got diverted to Albany, but that flight's on the ground and it's going to take off. Okay, this makes sense. And I went back and forth. I actually even got a hotel and I was like, should I just leave and come back in the morning? And then I was like, no, just gut it out, stick it out. You know, that's the best option. You're already here. Blah, blah, blah. Not to mention I'm on four hours of sleep and it's 10 pm.
Speaker 2:Okay, the flight has landed from Albany. Your pilots are at gate 67. They will be here momentarily An hour and a half later. John, do you think they were there? Were they walking from gate 67? Is that they chose not to take the extension and the extra flight and left and no one knew this. Wow, for the three hours that we were delayed extra. So then the flight was canceled. So, okay, I have a flight tomorrow at 7 am, not gonna get lost sleep. The only hotels available were in manhattan, so I got a hotel in Chinatown. I realize this is a long story, but this is the true story.
Speaker 2:So, I get in my Uber. Actually, I got a taxi because when I leave New York I just get a taxi, because it's faster than an Uber and my little yellow taxi he was trying to be a little chatty.
Speaker 2:bless his heart, nice man was not in the mood to be chatty. So I'm on the phone with Delta because, trying to rebook that flight in the Uber, my morning flight to Orlando gets canceled. So now my backup flight is canceled. My flight is canceled. They can't, there's no directs for like three days you can get on, so they're going to wrap me through Raleigh, blah, blah, blah, blah blah. So now I've got two flights that I'm trying to get the best options on to get back. So I have the Raleigh flight out of LaGuardia and then I still have a flight from White Plains going back to White Plains in Connecticut, because it's only an hour from Manhattan, and that takes me through Atlanta, which I felt better about connecting through Atlanta than I did in Raleigh. Spoiler alert, the Raleigh flight. I would actually still be in Raleigh right now if I would have taken that flight, because no flights from Orlando have gone in or out because of the storm. So here we are, I'm in my bed. It's one o'clock, all right, I'm going to get up at seven, drive to White Plains, blah, blah, blah, blah.
Speaker 2:I wake up at like 5am and like a panic, just like having nightmares, because I'm just. It was so much. It was just constantly like how do I fix this, how do I get home? What do I do? Like having a panic attack. And I just said I can't go on another four hours sleep and then spend 13 hours hoping to get home. I looked on my phone. There was a direct flight this is taping Monday on United from Newark to Orlando. There was like two seats left. I booked that flight. I canceled the white plane flight, kept the Raleigh one and went back to bed. I was like this I just need to pause, there's the Raleigh one. And went back to bed. I was like this I just need to pause, I there's. It was just this epiphany where I was like this isn't worth. I didn't have to be home on Sunday, I just I wanted to be with my family.
Speaker 2:I was like I need to step back or else I'm going to have like a. I'm not going to be able to handle this calmly. Like you said about, sometimes, you need to take a breath, go do something else, walk around. I was like I'm pushing to get home and I can pause. I can take this Monday flight, it will be okay. So that's what I ended up doing. Slept had to change hotels, which was actually great. I had a fantastic room at the Residence Inn in Broadway. Highly recommend it. I was on the 51st floor with a corner view of Central Park. I had a dishwasher, a crock pot, a microwave a very unnecessary things, Wow.
Speaker 2:That I a dishwasher a crock pot, a microwave or very unnecessary things that.
Speaker 3:I did not use, but still kind of nice, it was a great room and that rarely happens and I spent the day watching the Olympics.
Speaker 1:I went for a run, but I just let myself rest and you learned I want to point this out because this is something as a veteran visitor to New York that it took me years to learn that Central Park is not a flat park to walk around. It is very, very hilly.
Speaker 2:I'd never run the whole thing. I'd always run from like Columbus Circle and maybe done like a three mile loop and cut across and everybody goes around the same places.
Speaker 1:if you're not running in the park, you go to the Delacorte Theater and you go to Tavern on the Green. Maybe you go to the Boathouse.
Speaker 2:You get down that area or the little castle thing. That's where I always end up the castle thing, the castle thing, the Imagine.
Speaker 3:The.
Speaker 1:John Lennon's Imagine thing near Columbus Circle. These are all the things that you do, but first of all, it's much, much larger than what I've just laid out.
Speaker 2:And it is very hilly Like. I guess I knew it was hilly because my friend, paris, who won the Boston marathon, talked about how hard that last bit of the race was. It was the most pain she's ever been in, so I knew that. But there's like one hill that's like, and I don't feel like the downhill added up, so so much. So after like I don't think I've I've had yesterday I had two normal meals, but like from Friday even today because of traveling work like I haven't eaten normally super dehydrated, I was supposed to do 18 miles and in my head I was like I could. No, the man at the little it's not a bodega but at the cart that sold me my Gatorade was so concerned for me he said no, no, no, drink now, pay later. I love that.
Speaker 1:I love that. I cannot fill out the city paperwork necessary if you expire right here at my bodega.
Speaker 2:But I was like literally like not trying to run hard. I was just like slow down, you're fine, but then I would stop to like go to the water fountain, which every time I would go to a water fountain, I was like this feels like it's not something you're supposed to do. Drink out of a water fountain in Central Park.
Speaker 1:Is it not something you're supposed?
Speaker 2:to do New York City. Water is actually some of the cleanest water in the country. But yeah, the water fountain is always an iffy place, so anyway at one point I also had a flight from LaGuardia to Tampa that ended up getting into Tampa at midnight, and then once I was like I'll come pick you up, and then I was like no, no, no, I'm not having you and Ellie drive in a tropical storm.
Speaker 1:Right, there's so many layers, that probably wouldn't have been a good idea.
Speaker 2:I would still be in Raleigh if I had taken that flight. If I had taken the AM flight, I would have got home at about 7 pm, but we got out today. A lot of flights were canceled today. I'm extremely grateful.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I think you sent me the skeleton script of this show at like 5 o'clock in the morning or something, and it just with with the note uh, well, we'll see, I'll talk to you around four If, if indeed I get home because you were, it was still questionable. I know that feeling too well.
Speaker 3:We talked about it for the last episode.
Speaker 2:Chicago, when you just you're like I don't, I don't know, and you're just exhausted because you're court, you're just stressed right. You, you're just stressed right, you're not angry, you're not yelling at people. I even John, went as far as this woman was yelling at the gate agents, to the point where she was going to get kicked off the flight that was supposed to go. And I even went over to her and I was like, let me explain this to you. She was really mad because the flight kept getting delayed by 30 minutes, which I didn't like either. But she was thinking they were doing it and not telling her. And if the flight was going to be delayed six hours, why didn't you just tell us? And I went over. John, I'm rarely straying out of my way, nice.
Speaker 1:That's a good point. I was trying to be a good traveler. Human growth the year of the podcast. You've grown as a human being. Well done.
Speaker 1:It's the not knowing and that's the thing with the travel stuff, it's the not knowing If we'd have gotten into Chicago when we were there and they had said okay, we can't put you on a flight until Tuesday morning, there's nothing else we can do, this is your lot in life. We would have made that happen, but it was a no, no, no, we've got you on standby and then you're on a backup standby.
Speaker 2:And you're still this, and it's just not knowing that just becomes exhausting, particularly after a couple of days of travel, so, and people had kids that had been sitting at that gate since four o'clock and it's midnight now, yeah, and it just that's really, really hard. So anyway, that is my story. Thank you guys for listening. Um, john, we had a question that I was going to ask you about top golf. Uh, you got the beginning of top golf. We went for Weston's birthday. You were not thrilled with your performance.
Speaker 1:No, no, no. I hadn't swung a golf club in probably six or seven years and it really showed I could not make any sort of solid contact at the golf ball and it doesn't help when people are going good job Now. You weren't doing that. You were clearly not doing that.
Speaker 2:No, I was ignoring you. I was trying not to make eye contact.
Speaker 1:You were ignoring me and then laughing at my performance, which is what I would have expected from you and what you should have given me. But the people telling me I was doing okay, I was like I'm not doing okay, you don't understand. That just makes me angrier. So I didn't really get angry, but I was so frustrated.
Speaker 2:And then I backed down, and then it's funny because it's just Topgolf.
Speaker 1:I know, I know it's just Topgolf and I'm having a couple of beers and it really shouldn't matter. It was my first time at Topgolf and had a great time, but then I backed down a club and I felt better about my performance towards the end. So everybody had kind of a good moment in the Topgolf Weston obviously a fine golfer, but at one point he was hitting the ball too far because he was missing all the points. So we all had moments where we weren't doing well and moments where we were doing a little. I'm glad I I finished stronger than I started, so I felt good about that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it was fun. I liked the way the games were kind of structured, so it didn't have to be a great golfer, you just had to. Jody and I had one shot. We get it into the yellow and that's what Jody and I could do, and then my wife, who never golfs, but she hits the ball straight off the tee.
Speaker 1:She doesn't try to hit it terribly far, but it goes straight and that really paid off for her. So there you go. But yeah, in the beginning I was definitely it was very frustrating.
Speaker 2:And you enjoyed the hot honey. I was John Vanderbilt. Yeah, hot honey. Pepperoni pizza for you, or flatbread, that was so good, that was so good.
Speaker 1:I love the hot honey. I'm kind of obsessed with hot honey. I know All right, John.
Speaker 2:Before we do our questions. What else is on your radar? What's going on with you and Jody? You're not going to Italy again, right? You're not going to spring that on us.
Speaker 1:No. Two trips to Italy in one year seems to be fine. That seems to be enough. No, actually doing some home improvement projects.
Speaker 1:Right now I'm installing a new garage door opener, which I had to take a pause on because we put Jody's new car. My wife purchased a Kia Niro last week. We have a new car a week and a half ago or so and we wanted to put that in the garage for the big. We don't have room for both cars right now. We're changing that up because her pet rescue stuff. We're kind of moving out as someone else has taken over running the pet rescue. But so I had to pause that and I'm in the wiring segment of it. So I feel fairly happy, even as the son of an electrician, that I got to take a pause there. But we're also replacing some of the slats and our wood floor in the kitchen. We have a wooden floor in our kitchen tongue and groove wood floor and never done that before, so I'm tearing those up at the same time. So that's what I'm in the middle of is don't have a lot of work this month because you know, I assume Matt Pablo's taking it all.
Speaker 2:Well, you're 60 now, so you know I am Ageism.
Speaker 1:I'm into a different age bracket. I'm no longer. The kids don't want to see me work the kids over at the Disney thing, so yeah.
Speaker 2:Kids don't want to see any of us. John, they, they don't care about the person handing out their awards? Who?
Speaker 1:wants to see us less over there? The kids or the people who run the events? That's the question that we always have. Who wants to see us less? And we don't know the answer to that. But wish me luck, because working on home projects is more frustrating to me than my lousy golf game.
Speaker 2:I hate it. We're waiting for our painter to come paint some stuff and it just keeps not coming. Bringing in a painter F? Come paint some stuff, and it just keeps not coming. Ooh, bringing in a painter, fancy First, it's the.
Speaker 1:Sky Club. See, I don't have a life full of Sky Clubs and painters.
Speaker 2:I'm sleeping under the bench and I'm doing my own painting the Sky Club closes so you can't sleep there, but sometimes there are showers. But not in LaGuardia because I would have showered, because I also hadn't showered from working the event Quick. I think that because we are a running podcast, we need to talk about this. We're not going to talk about all the Olympics and you're definitely not going to talk about track today because I didn't watch Noah Lyles in the 100 meters.
Speaker 1:So great.
Speaker 2:So tell me, I will tell you my story. Tell me you watching it, had it been spoiled for you.
Speaker 1:It hadn't been spoiled for me. What was your tell me? Talk me through. Johnny watching. Um I it's first of all that that is such a nerve-wracking uh event. For for those of us who I because I was, like I said, I was a sprinter in high school I did run mainly I thought you're gonna say for those of us that know what it is like, we all know what it is 100 meters straight.
Speaker 1:Well, and in any case those uh, those of you not familiar with the those shortermeter race, those shorter races are more, because one small mistake in that, even in the quarter mile, if you make a bit of a mistake, you get off a little bit slow, you don't pace yourself well, there's time to make up for it In the 100, there's just not that. You're just, it's just put the pedal to the metal and hopefully you get a good start, and if you get a poor start, eee start. So I was very, very nervous and I greatly appreciated that he pulled it out because, quite frankly, it was my. Had you asked me to bet the farm on that race, I wouldn't have bet on it. I did not have a good feeling. I didn't have a good feeling.
Speaker 2:In Jamaica, especially after the way he ran, especially after he got beat in both rounds.
Speaker 3:Yeah, and.
Speaker 2:Sha'Carri seemed so nervous. She seemed like she didn't rise to the moment.
Speaker 3:Yes, she did.
Speaker 2:When she came out you know you do the big entrance she wasn't there. It wasn't locked in, fired up, and when Noah came out I said I think that's genuine energy. I don't think that's him putting on a show. So I didn't watch it till later in the day because I watched gymnastics and it somehow didn't get spoiled. Everything has been spoiled by little things. Friends text, somehow Noah wasn't spoiled and, bless my mom, she just text. Did you watch the 100? I firmly believe that Noah didn't win just because I thought it would have been spoiled, I don't know. So Weston said well, call me when you watch it. So I'm like FaceTiming him and I'm nervous as hell because I am invested in Noah. Not only is he from Virginia, right.
Speaker 2:His journey, his depression, his ADHD, his dyslexia. And he, he trains, I don't know. A hundred meters away from, Claire goes to gymnastics.
Speaker 2:The same track my mom trains on like Lance Brauman. His coach talked to him, you know. Anyway, I was so invested in this and it's like if he missed the hundred, well the 200 became less special, like I wanted him to do the thing right. I wanted this for him because he wanted it. Um, I was so nauseous before and just at the end of the race I was like did he not even metal? I don't think he meddled. And then Weston's just watching me and I was just oh man, it was crazy. And then Fred Curley I love that guy.
Speaker 1:Oh my gosh, no, absolutely. I was almost equally as happy for Fred, because nobody talked about Fred and that was a little bit unexpected given the field. Uh, but uh, yeah, no, I'm the same way that you were. I was incredibly nervous. I did not have a good feeling about it.
Speaker 2:Um, so he just didn't. He wasn't, he wasn't getting to that third gear that he usually gets to like maybe at 60,. He got to that at like 90.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, no, it was, no, it was again. It's such a short time, it's under 10 seconds that you're but so much happens in that period of time and so many times we've seen people in track meets, college, high school, whatever who are the favorite, just not get a great start and particularly when you're on that level, you know it's like the the person picked to fix uh finish last and the person picked to finish first are like four tenths of the second. Yeah, it was great and and and good for him.
Speaker 1:I love that he's been so open about all of his challenges and I think it's that's such a, he's such a great role model for people going through things and, uh, you know, and and you know, a little bit of patriotism comes into it as well. But the great thing that they do in Olympic coverage is they give you the story of the athletes, and it's something that we miss in other professional sports a lot. So kudos to the coverage, kudos to him, kudos to Fred Curleyley again, who deserves a lot of love, and I'm still. I have not overdosed on the Olympic stuff yet.
Speaker 2:I know a lot of people are like alright, I'm starting to calm down, but you're headed to Paris, so clearly you're not, I know, but I gotta watch track tonight, and I will say what I'm missing, though, is I'm watching all the full coverage of stuff, and then I don't have time to watch the Mike Tirico primetime, and that's what you said. I I'm I gotta have to go back and watch it afterwards. The stories of people you might not see, or different events, like the woman who won the cycling that wasn't even on the team, like all that kind of stuff.
Speaker 2:Um, we got to move on. I'm DVRing, I'm DVRing the whole thing, cause I have the YouTube TV and.
Speaker 3:I can.
Speaker 1:DVR everything and I am really sort of taking the time to dive into the primetime coverage. For all that, and during the day I'm just watching whatever comes up I'm obsessed with. I was obsessed with table tennis, now it's badminton, there's just all kinds. The cycling in Paris was another one which just made me so nervous Watching them on the cobblestones and when they get to Montmartre and, having been to Paris, talk about hilly and you know it, you know it's been great.
Speaker 2:So enough about that because we could spend the whole episode. I'm going to put out something in the universe and we come back next week and we do a chat about my time in Paris. I will have seamlessly gotten there.
Speaker 1:Yes, yes, well, come on, I think you've given enough.
Speaker 2:You never know. All right, let's move on to the meat.
Speaker 1:Okay, civilians, it's time for the goods. Let's get on to the interview. All right, folks, Once again going to do this the way we did our first episode. This is our anniversary episode. We're going to ask the questions back and forth, so I get to start. I know you're at home in the Oakland section of the Winter Garden Ocoee area of central Florida, so I'm just going to ask the first question. Some of these are pretty chalk and you're probably expecting them, but I try to come up with something a little bit different. All right, my first question to you, carissa. What has been the best part of doing this podcast over the last year?
Speaker 2:I feel like I knew you were going to ask me that, but I didn't think of a good answer. But I really think the best part is there's episodes, just let's be honest. There's episodes that are great and episodes that are fine, right. My favorite part is when we get an episode and when we're taping and I'm like that's valuable information, that's something that's going to motivate someone or it's going to inspire someone to whether it's keep running or to keep fighting through something somewhere else in life.
Speaker 2:I feel like that is. You know, this podcast is not it's not a run Disney podcast or anything, but it's an extension of what we try to do on stage and we can't, you know, and so I think it's bringing in both sides. It's the professional athletes that have amazing stories, but then it's it's the Stephanie Humphries, it's the Kayla's that were able to elevate and let someone else see, like you know, like with air travel, when, when someone else not suffers, but when someone else goes through something, we learn from it, and then maybe we don't feel so alone if that's a struggle that we're also having. So I think that's the best part for me, when, like, we have an episode and I'm like that, that right, there is something people should hear.
Speaker 1:Get a surprising answer to. Sometimes you can tell we're surprised by the answer Wow. You know that I didn't think of, because you can get interviewing athletes a lot of times you can get sort of rote answers. You know, uh, well, the good lord will and the creek don't rise, that sort of thing, and I think we had a lot of those sort of wow moments during the year. So good answer out of you all, right, yes, I am. I'm uh, like riley claremont judges my performance at all times. I will be judging your answers and commenting on them.
Speaker 2:I know that I felt that one was strong. My I will say my questions are not going to be as good as yours because they were written at the 5 am time period. But I want to know how do you feel You've got a long list? In the first episode I asked you to describe yourself somebody on an airplane and you've listed all your careers and this is not a career. But how do you feel a year in of being a podcaster? Does that something? You're like? I'm a podcaster. How does that feel?
Speaker 1:Well, I sort of did this before with Mark Ferreira during the pandemic, so I'm sort of used to doing this whole interview on Zoom thing.
Speaker 1:But I feel really really good about it because we've really stuck to, as you talked about, what our really mission was with this pod and that is to inspire people. And we've heard from a lot of people how much they've either been, uh, really really inspired by, uh, something a guest has talked about or we've talked about, or just they've been on a, they're on a long run and the podcast gave them a laugh or something encouraging or took their mind off of it that they were out, that they were maybe struggling physically. So I think that's the thing that really feels the coolest about it and the fact that you know, the fact that people liked it with Mark in mind people listen because they were shut into their homes and essentially it kept them from going crazy. But I think the fact that people found things out of our podcast that either inspired them in the macro or in just the micro moment where they were running and it was hot and it's like, oh, and then you know I was really laughing about something that you guys were talking about.
Speaker 2:So and it's usually something you say You're far funnier and more clever. And again, I've said it, no offense to DW.
Speaker 1:He got a lot of love though.
Speaker 2:He did. He got a lot of love. No, nothing against DW.
Speaker 1:We want more of Weston's chat. We want more of DW. Do you just want more of?
Speaker 2:Weston, like destroying my dreams and sarcastically Dot well, are you going to try? All right. Next question for you Do you like me more or less after all this extra time you now spend with me, and not just the podcast we went?
Speaker 1:like a month. We went a month, not like seeing each other and talking about like the first time in a year and yeah, it seemed kind of weird. I like you more. I've enjoyed this time getting to know more about you, you know and not having to do it at 335 in the morning or while being lorded over by managers that annoy us. None of our current managers, I'm just going back to previous event work that we've done together.
Speaker 2:Yes, we love our current managers. Please send us their contacts. Any day would be super we do Very much.
Speaker 1:All right here's, and I asked you the best part.
Speaker 2:What's the worst part about doing this podcast? I mean, I think you know the answer to this the time commitment, because I don't necessarily always have time for it and scheduling can be a challenge.
Speaker 1:So I think that scheduling is probably the biggest challenge. If that were a question to me, yeah, that is the biggest challenge but I think I love it and I just it's's.
Speaker 2:It's not that it's hard to get guests, but it's it's like that macro, like I want to ask somebody to be on it, but I need to. It's only so many weeks because we needed to know our schedule and you don't, we don't always know our schedule, so it's a little bit um of a challenge, I guess, scheduling and then, like you know, dedicating the time. But I will say, like we do the episodes and we're done with it. And then Weston does a lot of work on the back end, so shout out to him, it's just a time commitment. And that was why I had said to Weston for years, like I don't want a podcast, I don't have time to do it. But he was like just, I think that it will benefit people and the podcast was that's what it was built out of, it wasn't built from like John and I want to do this. Oh, we're trying to do is like inspire you to keep moving forward.
Speaker 1:So yeah, and we thought, and we, because a lot of people tell us at the end of springtime, surprise, oh, you know, we're not going to, we're not going to see all of our run Disney friends or our race weekend friends, whatever the race may be again until you know, october or November. So you know, hopefully we're filling that void a little bit.
Speaker 2:Hopefully you're listening, okay, so it's 61 episodes so far. Some of them were double episodes A few superlatives to be handed out.
Speaker 1:This is not your question, but what do you think is the most popular episode? Wow, most questions that we got were about our costumes. I'm wondering if it was a costume episode. Mo, I know DW is getting a lot of love here Got a lot of love online after that episode. But I am going to say our most popular episode was getting to know our crazy cousin, Tracy Wu.
Speaker 2:Well, no, but it's a little bit of an unfair question, because the most popular episodes are the ones that were very in the beginning, because I think people start from the beginning. So, technically, our most listened to episode is actually our first episode.
Speaker 1:Really. Yes, but our most Is that good though, does that mean everybody went? Eh well, screw it. I know, because the audio is terrible.
Speaker 2:We should replace that. The most popular guest is Michael Does Diz.
Speaker 1:Oh, cool. Yeah, Michael got a lot of love too, okay, and he's in the beginning.
Speaker 2:So there's other ones that you could kind of I don't look at the stats too much because it doesn't matter, but you can see ones that are going to get high and all that kind of stuff. But for you, what episode to you was I don't want to say favorite, because it's not a good question the most memorable or impactful to you, or just favorite?
Speaker 1:Sure, for the record, that is my next question for you as well, so we'll just discuss this. The most most impactful would be the Chris Nickage episode, because it impacted something that I had to do. I physically had to address the fact that, you know, I'd always said I would never run a 10K and when Chris challenged me you know what are you going to say in that point, and I could have easily lied about it and not done it. And I assure you I tried to come up with reasons not to do it and not done it. And I assure you, I tried to come up with reasons not to do it, but I think that was over so many episodes. I'll say that's the most memorable because it impacted my life the most. What about you?
Speaker 2:I had to think a lot about this one because some of them are fun and it was like yay, we got to talk to this person. But I think Billy Mills and I've heard this story and I've heard him before, but again it goes back to the fact that, like, we got to bring that story to other people and I think you know you and I are using the platform to motivate, but obviously a lot of our personal viewpoints are represented in the guests we choose and the things that we want to kind of get across, like inclusivity, equality, understanding, and I mean, for people that don't know Billy's story, haven't listened to his episode, I mean it's insanely impactful what he went through, what he overcame and the prejudices that we're still dealing with these things and you and I aren't going to fix discrimination, we're not going to fix racism, but if we talk about it, maybe we can just continue to press forward conversations that are uncomfortable and hard that hopefully do some good at some point, you know.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and it's you know, they made a. They made a movie about Billy Mills, uh, running brave, and we found out so many more things on top of what they were able to show us in a us, in a two hour movie, which covered some of those struggles. So, yeah, and I got emotional at the end of it because I just thought, you know, to be able to talk to somebody like that that was able to perform under circumstances that a lot of people would have just walked away and given up. So, yeah, I could see that was very memorable for me, but Billy thankfully did not challenge me to run a half marathon. So, yeah, I can see that was very memorable for me, but Billy thankfully did not challenge me to run a half marathon. So, please, please don't.
Speaker 2:You've only been challenged to a 10k and you weren't even challenged. I said, like, Can you do it?
Speaker 1:And he said yes, so he well, but he said no, he kind of challenged me, he sort of I need to go back, elizabeth. I was sort of challenged and you put me in a corner. I sure did, I sure did. Carissa always puts johnny in a corner. Uh, to miss I did? You know?
Speaker 2:I don't think I realized that it would work out, as I'm gonna say, well as it did. Yeah, that was a big part of your year was doing that, that 10k, and it was a big deal and it inspired a lot of people and, you know, maybe we're lucky enough to see it.
Speaker 1:I spent as much time trying to get out of it as I did training to do it.
Speaker 2:You got close with the whole bib issue Last minute. It was like I can't get a bib.
Speaker 3:You paid, mark.
Speaker 2:Ferrer to say that. And then now I forgot my question because I don't like the one that I had written there. Okay, that's what I was going to ask you. You were a runner this whole season. You were training for things. You, I was going to ask you. You were a runner this whole season. You were training for things. You were doing things.
Speaker 1:What did you learn from the podcast that made you a better athlete? I think, something that you know. We always ask people you know, when they get to that difficult place, what they do. And I was reminded of when I was a kid and in high school and I was an athlete and when I had to work through things, I think I learned you know what's the quote from the movie at the Chinese pavilion at Epcot that the journey of a million miles starts with one step.
Speaker 1:And I think what I what I learned was that I have to stop as as a as a person, I always put way too much weight on what will happen if I'll fail and I don't look for the little successes. So I think I learned that when I'm training or when I'm out there running, that you know what get to the next signpost, Get to the next stop. We talked about it. You know if I'm out jogging here in the neighborhood, OK, I'm going to get to. I feel like I want to stop, but I'm going to get to that corner, and then we'll see how I'm doing. And I got to that corner and it's like, OK, I'm here, so why not take that next step, to stop worrying about the ultimate goal and add some little goals in there that you can achieve when you start to feel like I'm not going to get to the end.
Speaker 2:I mean, I think that's a common feeling and I think, dw, either in the episode we put out or we still have one that's going to come out next week about being afraid to fail and being afraid what other people say about you. And there was actually an Olympic gymnast, it was in the Pommel horse final. I don't know if you watched that, max Whitlock from Great Britain. He was going to quit after Tokyo and he said his daughter kind of encouraged him to keep going and he was like why should I not do that? I would only be not doing it because I was afraid to fail, to fall.
Speaker 3:Right.
Speaker 1:You know so good, good lesson. Yeah, and I think we've talked about the psychology of me that I both fear of failure and success, so that makes not doing anything a really, really simple choice, and I've learned that that's not always the best choice too, and you're probably not the only person that deals with that. I'm sure, as we've learned. All right, here's your next question. Non-podcast highlight of your year. Outside of all of this.
Speaker 2:Yeah, announcing the Olympic marathon team trials for sure, being someone who always wanted, you know, I was going to be an Olympic sportscaster. I wanted to be Bob Costas and I spent time in that industry, time in that realm. Had I stuck in just sport broadcasting realm, maybe that's something I would have done, but life has different paths. I wasn't really fulfilled in that. It was a very as we talked about sexist area.
Speaker 2:So getting to do that and then feeling like I did a good job was a big deal to me. I'm feeling like this is something I can do and then hopefully you know, didn't like nobody, like weren't banging down my door to have me come commentate other races, but I will be doing press coverage, the press truck for the Falmouth Road Race. So just doing something that I'd always said I wanted to do getting that close to the Olympics. And I've always said, like I'm an announcer, I get pigeonholed as the Run Disney girl, but like I know track, I can do commentary and being able to do that and getting great feedback felt good and I know how nerve-wracking that sort of thing can be because you know you can do it.
Speaker 1:But knowing you can do it and then having to do it are two completely different things. Like I know I can win a Formula One race if they'll just put me in the car, but actually having to do it probably wouldn't do very well.
Speaker 2:I love being the run disney girl, but people that's what they see me as like two, two glitter lipstick. And then it's like oh, you really know track, and you're not just jeff galloway's daughter-in-law, like you know.
Speaker 1:Yeah, one of our old speaking of old managers that we mentioned earlier, one of our old managers when said to me once, when the espn club gig went away, um and I, he was actually there at a run Disney event and he's like, what are you going to do now? And I go well, I got cast in the Indiana Jones Epic stunt spectacular, so I'm going to do that and then hopefully continue to do sports. And he goes well, what are you doing over there? And I said, well, I'm doing the contract to be the assistant director, but doing both things. And he's like, how did that happen? And I went well, you know, I'm an actor. And he's like you're an actor. I was like, well, yeah, that's really what my gig was. So, you know, it just sort of went a different direction. I don't remember my point of that story, but anyway, it just seemed relevant.
Speaker 2:No, just people not pigeonholing you, but they see you in one way.
Speaker 1:Of course they see you in a specific way.
Speaker 2:There's only so much you can do, because you're still, you know.
Speaker 1:so I'm sorry, I'm watching one of our outside my window, people will appreciate this. We have some cats that have started showing up that we're feeding. The cat distribution system happens, and we got one adopted out and there's another one here and he just chased a squirrel up a tree and it was very entertaining to watch. Did not get to the squirrel, though. Animal rights people, Please do not pick at me.
Speaker 2:All right, john. My next question is truly how do you feel about being 60? Are you okay?
Speaker 1:I am very much okay, but I am a little bit surprised that it my age never. If you would have asked me when I was 57, 58, 56, whatever, 59, how old are you? It would take me a minute to think about it. Now it does not take me a minute to think about it and I don't necessarily think that's a good thing.
Speaker 2:This is like this is the biggest question I have. Did you think you'd still be working the way you are now? Like, did you think, at 60, I'm going to be retired? Like I'm going to live in Florida?
Speaker 1:Well, I wish I was hoping my dad retired at 57. But no, I did not expect to be. I expected, like most Americans, that by the time I'm 65, I hope that I'm largely retired, though, again, as a performer, I may still do things here and there.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that would be unfair. Like you retire, you know, in five years, let's say, do they get rid of both of us just because, like that's an easy way, like are you going to get me fired by leaving?
Speaker 1:Like they'll keep me five years. Are you kidding me? There are a series of meetings at Main Gate right now.
Speaker 2:Well, I mean, would 65 get you to?
Speaker 1:Still don't have a contract for this season. You don't have a contract for this season, no 65 wouldn't get you to the 30 years of Cree.
Speaker 2:So no, no, that would be 70, but Cree, I'd be happy.
Speaker 1:I'd just be happy to be able to retire at 65.
Speaker 2:That'd be great. 62 would be better, but we'll see what happens. All right, or it's episode 62 of the podcast. You're going to retire now from the podcast.
Speaker 1:I should, I should announce my retirement right now. That'd be surprise news out of a going and then come back next week and un-retire. Here's yours.
Speaker 2:OK.
Speaker 1:Do you have any fitness or fitness event or race goals for the upcoming year, because you have mentioned on the podcast that because you're so busy and you work so much, you have an opportunity to just run a race. Any goals for the next 365 days?
Speaker 2:Well, yes, hopefully, I'm going to run a marathon Thanksgiving weekend the Space Coast Marathon, here, right Short drive away. I was supposed to do an 18-miler today and there's a tropical storm. I was also on an airplane so it wouldn't have worked out. So we're already dealing with how everybody deals with a marathon training, moving the things around. What do I do? How do I make this work?
Speaker 2:Um, so, barring a serious injury, that it would be stupid to run that marathon, I am going to do that marathon and I plan to do it to the best of my ability. I plan to train 26, 29 mile long runs. My training's gone pretty well so far. I don't do a great job. I don't run as much as I should because I like to cross train. So right now I'm going to do an 18 miler, I believe in London, and we're just going to keep going from there. I do have a time goal, but I also realize that the goal is to finish and so I don't want to stress on time and this ruin the whole experience, because I'm so worried about and I'm getting older, so I'm obviously not going to get faster, you know you're not 60.
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Speaker 2:Okay, what episode do you think of ours? If you think back on episodes was maybe an underrated episode Like you really liked it, but it didn't seem to get as much attention as other episodes. You know, tracy says somebody only lasts five minutes. Everybody wants to talk about it. But, like, was there an episode that you thought about, that you were like you know what I thought. That had a lot of valuable information and I was just surprised it didn't seem like it resonated with people.
Speaker 1:Wow, that's a hard question for me Because, you know, other than like people letting me know directly, I don't, I don't, I mean, I don't look at the analytics and I don't spend a lot of time. There's a great comment in the movie Prairie Home Companion. We work in radio, so we don't look backwards and I think of that. You know we're moving on to the next Boy. That is a really good question.
Speaker 2:Let me think about that and I'll come back to it, because that is an excellent question and I'm sure I could think of one if you gave me the time and I'm not gauging it on like because you don't know stats and I don't really know stats Just more or less like I thought we'd get more feedback about, like Rach McBride, we've gotten so much great feedback DW so much great feedback. People love the recap episodes about the races. They always like that.
Speaker 3:But yeah, just some interested to know.
Speaker 1:if there's one Like yeah, I thought we'd hear more about X-Men Maybe the piece pieces episode and part of it may just be me missing it because I'm bad with social media and we get wrapped up obviously doing other things. But I found that really, really moving stuff and really amazing stuff and I don't remember hearing a lot of feedback, but again, that could just be my advanced age.
Speaker 2:I do agree with you. I think it's a super inspiring episode and I think sometimes what is hard is that Kyle piece. It's a little hard to understand him because of all his yeah and same for Chris Nick, so I guess I do understand that as well. If you're running it might be hard to hear, but there's a lot of gold in there and I want to shout out to them because they're getting close to their Ironman in October. So shout out to the brothers.
Speaker 1:Best of luck with that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, all right, is it my turn?
Speaker 1:I think you're up, yeah. I'm asking you a I believe it's time for you to ask me a question.
Speaker 2:No, that was the question. Oh no, actually I think it's my turn. The most underrated episode that was your question.
Speaker 1:Okay, yeah, you did. Sorry, you jumped one of mine earlier. I think, if we go back and listen, you did two questions in a row. But anyway, let's move on because we're already over the time we agreed we would be done. Blue Sky guest next 12 months who would you?
Speaker 2:Noah Lyles.
Speaker 1:Okay, nice, yeah, that'd be really cool.
Speaker 2:I mean I wanted to reach out to his coach before the Olympics but Weston was like just wait. But I don't know if you're going to ask me about underrated episode, but something that shocks me is that Meb Kofleski was a dream guest and he's one of the lowest listened to episodes, which shocks me. That's kind of where that question came from two episodes, which shocks me, that's kind of where that question came from.
Speaker 1:Um, and I honestly uh don't re listen to all of our interview stuff, cause I remember and if I'm forgetting I go back and listen to, but I obviously listened to that all the way through because I wasn't a part of it and it was amazing.
Speaker 2:He told the story of his Boston victory. It was amazing and I just don't know if, if, and it's fine if our audience likes, like everyday runners and not professional runners, like that's okay and I guess that's what we're learning. So maybe in this moment it's like give us more feedback. You guys let us know what you want to hear Cause? We're just writing doing this.
Speaker 1:And we always also assume that people want more Disney because that's where we're known from.
Speaker 2:I think we try to like not do too much because we want to make sure we're.
Speaker 1:Exactly, and we don't want them coming down on us for any reason.
Speaker 2:Did I miss my? Was that my question? What happened?
Speaker 1:No, your question was the Noah Lyles question oh, okay, yeah, noah, then you wanted to jump back and answer the question. I did. I wanted to go backwards.
Speaker 2:Also this one. I feel like, because of proximity, I have a chance. But Grant Holloway, I'm from Chesapeake, so I feel like there's a chance.
Speaker 1:That would be great, virginia, well represented on this podcast and should continue to be well represented on this podcast. Yes, for sure. Yeah, every other episode needs to be a Virginian.
Speaker 2:All right, it's my time Next. So similar to my question, but let's look forward. What is your goal for yourself personally next year, either professionally or just professionally Like? Do you have goals? Are you still setting goals? Don't just say I'm just trying to stay here.
Speaker 1:No, I would and I'm not, you know, horrible at self-promotion, obviously horrible at promotion for the podcast, and just so many things I'm horrible about. That should be an episode, just horrible.
Speaker 2:You're horrible. What is that for?
Speaker 1:You're a horrible little man. I would like to. I would like to do more. I'd like to announce more races. To be honest with you, now, I am not. I don't think I'm going to be the guy who announces the Olympic trials, or I'm not going to be announcing Boston, but, uh, I think there are a lot of uh. I would have fun doing more um, outside races that are that are more geared towards fun, because that's you know, it's it's with you know how the Pelkey running club came about, because I'm not a runner and I I I appreciate what everybody's doing, but but I also think it think it's uh that the fact that we're out here doing this, uh, incredibly physically demanding thing but having fun doing it, that's that's what I like about it. So, yeah, I would, I would love to do that.
Speaker 2:So everybody's listening. Here they have a race that has enough of a budget to bring in john um. I don't mean that like his fee is so enormous, but I also a lot of smaller local races like it's.
Speaker 2:It's insane million six but what I will say, what I think I can say to you now that I couldn't say to you five years ago is and maybe it's more than five years, but, like in the first 10 years, you know I was announcing races but you were just doing disney. I don't know how well you understood. You know, being on your own at a race, there's a lot of responsibility on the announcer because sometimes in smaller races you get no information and you just have to be like who's singing the anthem? Bring them to me. What's the starter? Bring them to me, who am I looking at? Go, and I think you've really grown in that skill set in the last five years and that's kind of how I was thrown into St Pete Run Fest the first time.
Speaker 1:I did it. I now do it with my wife and I've done it with Fitz Kohler as well, but the first time I it was just me and I'd never met the people involved. I had no idea what was going on, and that was a really great experience. First of all, ryan and the folks down there are great people and we're going to have Ryan on the podcast, but it also, yeah, probably. That probably gave me the self-confidence to go. Yeah, I can go and do, I can do just about any race and I'll get through it. Hopefully I'll be entertaining. So there it is. That's how I'm selling it to you people. Hey, if you need an announcer to get through it and maybe be entertaining, I'm your huckleberry.
Speaker 2:I work within budget. I mean you still have no bio on the podcast.
Speaker 1:I don't, I don't, but I think I need to keep it that way. I think that's just sort of my thing, is that I talk enough about myself.
Speaker 2:All right, what do you think? One more, two more questions. What do you think?
Speaker 1:I have a couple more. A couple more. All right, here's one, because you travel a lot and we've talked about travel hell, Favorite new place you traveled this year some place you hadn't been that you went to and went. Wow, that's great.
Speaker 2:It's hard because my brain is so slow and trying to think about places that I've been.
Speaker 1:I figured this way.
Speaker 2:You can come back to it I mean, I guess I should say Dubai Like the most eye-opening sort of exotic place that I've been. That was like a big wow. That was definitely Dubai, but no, alaska, obviously. Duh See, that's why my brain is slow. Alaska was amazing, it was gorgeous, it was beautiful that cruise was will go down as maybe one of the best vacations of our life because of the combination of Disney, the family time and it just being so incredibly beautiful.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's really cool. Both of those are good answers, though, because I hear Dubai is just pretty flipping amazing, but Dubai.
Speaker 2:I don't think I'm not going to go back. I don't need to go back. I would go back to Alaska.
Speaker 1:All right, fair. Uh, the day we went truffle hunting and had a wine tasting truffle hunting with the truffle dogs because dogs were involved Really cute dogs. We found a lot of truffles, and then we had just a fantastic wine tasting outside, overlooking Tuscany, with San Gimignano, the city, up on the hill. So that was probably the best. I had a lot of good Italian moments this year, but that and I think it well it may. Oh boy, see, now my brain's starting to work.
Speaker 2:I know, take some pills.
Speaker 1:Our experience at the water park on the island of Ischia as well. So those are-.
Speaker 2:That was the same trip. That was it. Or was that one of them? No, that was a different trip. Okay, the Ischia was off the cruise.
Speaker 1:The wine tasting. Right, the wine tasting was this trip and the Ischia was the Disney cruise. Okay, the vacation club cruise. So there you go. All right, I'm going to give you a chance to do this. One, two kid highlights of the year. You have two children. Give me a highlight of your year for each of your children, and if you, yeah, it's been more than a year. So you can't say Claire making fun of me during the 5k, so I feel pretty good about that.
Speaker 2:So I have a calendar year like from this this is August.
Speaker 1:So when we started the podcast to this anniversary episode, which is just slightly over a full year, probably 54 weeks instead of 52. Give us a highlight for your sweet boy, elliot and Claire, who mocks me during a 5K, even though I'm very much her senior.
Speaker 2:Okay, claire is easy. Elliot's harder Claire is when she got her 9.925 on floor in gymnastics. That just doesn't happen. It was incredible. I can still see it in my mind, her face when she saw it and that like joy on her face and the confidence that it's given her that she still carries through. Like I said, you don't get those scores and so being able to, it was after wine and dine, like drove all the way to Tampa for this. Seeing her hard work pay off, I think was a really, really cool thing. And my gosh, elliot is just so beautiful and so sweet natured and everything that he does it's like there's so many like he's not doing like these big.
Speaker 1:Like you did this, you did that, um, yeah, he's opening up too, because he's a very shy boy, uh for a long time, and he's like and he obviously knows me more uh now, but he's opening up too. So he's a very shy boy, uh for a long time, and he's like and he obviously knows me more uh now, but he's opening up too.
Speaker 2:So I can only imagine he's just getting to be more, more and more fun so my favorite things are the things where, like Claire, never would be like remember last year when you said this about this like da da, da. And Elliot is very much like you said this. So today we had a conversation about Halloween and last year at Halloween I had just done segments for Idaho and potatoes. So I had a bunch of cans, like cups of, like freeze dried potatoes, so we put we went trick or treating, so we put candy out, so we put out potatoes and we put out all the random food I had left from segments. So Elliot this year expects that we will be putting potatoes out for trick or treating and we kind of think we have to now so that when Elliot's like my age he's like, well, we always put out freeze-dried mashed potatoes because that, I don't know, mom worked for them.
Speaker 2:So like it's the little things like that where he'll just come to you randomly and be like when we go to Disney is this going to happen? Because that happened, like this day. And just his dancing I love his little energetic dancing. I will say my favorite thing for both of my kids is in the mornings they come into our room. I don't remember if I did that as a kid. But they come in the room, they snuggle and they're so happy to see us because we're still sleeping, because we're not morning people, so they're always like waking us up and that's like my favorite moment every time that that happens, just them being excited to come in and see us and they're not going to want to snuggle and hug us forever. So I think that's like my favorite.
Speaker 1:No, I don't remember doing that at their age. I think I was already sent to the workhouse.
Speaker 3:I know he starts school With my multiple age Is it next week?
Speaker 2:He starts pre-K next week, which so that kind of means every morning is now like getting him up, so like it's going to end, but like I'm not ready for that. Okay, what was your favorite thing you and Jodi did together this year? I mean, it might be Italy.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean, we traveled a lot and there was a lot of fun, but I think I'm going to go back to just that relaxing day on the island of Ischia. That's probably, you know, the hard thing is, thinking, the calendar year. Oh, did we do that before we started the podcast or did we do that after we started the podcast? So I would say that because that was just such a cool experience to get away from the ship, and no offense. But we, you know, there weren't, there wasn't anybody that we were traveling with or any, it was just us and we found this this great thing that we, when I signed up for it, it was like, well, this might be fun. We didn't know it was going to be like Typhoon Lagoon and it wasn't no offense, typhoon Lagoon, which is really a lot of fun, but it just had kind of an old school, european, relaxing feel to it.
Speaker 2:We're just seeing the video Crush and Gusher, cowabunga Falls, key High Falls. Great workout at you, amazing really. Oh, goodness gracious, I'm going to retire though the other day I was like are we going to have to do an Advent health video again? And like how can we make it better? I, we can't.
Speaker 1:I don't think you could, you can't improve on that, you just do the door bit again, Like what do we do? That's some of my finest physical comedy.
Speaker 2:I mean, it still makes me laugh when I think about it.
Speaker 1:There are people who said they enjoyed it and I it was just for me. I assumed it was just. You know, I've been so lucky in my life that it's like, okay, now you're gonna have to watch this early in the morning and realize that you have absolutely no talent for on camera work. And you look over and you look horribly overweight and just it's. It's not appealing in any way, but maybe people just enjoy that about it. Maybe just watching me crash and burn is an entertaining for folks.
Speaker 2:Cause it was just anyway. That's what I thought about. All right, is this my last question to you?
Speaker 1:Yeah, if you want, I've got a couple more for you, but I don't think any of them are.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I'm fine, I'm not having but yeah, all right, one more oh well, this isn't like an all like encompassing, like well, who do you want to have on the podcast? Who's your favorite guest? It's not a member of the Rolling Stones, Like. Who would you want to have?
Speaker 1:Who would I like to get on the pod? It's funny because I didn't think about it. I asked you.
Speaker 2:I know.
Speaker 1:You're so much more in the know.
Speaker 2:But that's the point, like, I guess, from your point of view, who would enrich the podcast, like what? And it can just be like a fake person, but like someone who, whatever, like what, could elevate us man let me.
Speaker 3:Who would you want to listen to?
Speaker 1:I should have a much quicker answer to this you can come back. Then I do. Who would I like to get on the podcast?
Speaker 2:Folks, he's thinking, he's looking up, I am yeah.
Speaker 1:And this is just really bad for, like an audio show for me to just go uh, which I do way too often anyway. My final question to you is going to be how can I be better on the podcast, because I know you probably have a series of notes. Who would I like to better on the podcast, cause I know you probably have a series of notes? Um, who would I like to have on the podcast?
Speaker 2:I mean we're going to do the whole rest of the episode. You can think about it.
Speaker 1:All right, let me, let me think about it and I'll come back to that Cause. That's uh, I, uh, I'm just trying to remember, like anybody from the early days like sean astin would be fun to have on the on the podcast.
Speaker 2:um, I didn't work on that yeah yeah but sean, we don't see sean. We used to see sean quite a bit and uh good guy I told the story about the lady that got lost, the old lady, and he helped her like no, no, he's, he's a, he's a really, really good. I'll work on that because he founded Run Third, which is the charity I ran the Boston Marathon for in 2019. So it's possible. Is that it? Are we questioned out?
Speaker 1:Yeah, I think we're questioned out, because your other questions weren't. I was going to ask you what your best entertainment experience of the year was.
Speaker 2:Whatever, it was live performance that you went to a movie that you saw, and I haven't been to Taylor Swift yet, so how can I answer that? I know?
Speaker 1:so that's why I said you couldn't answer that. So I wanted to find out what it was. And then I was going to ask how I could be better on the, how you believe I could be better on the podcast. I just, you know, would probably just say replace you with anyone else, no, you know, you're right. I need to work harder on that.
Speaker 2:I'm just asking for one.
Speaker 1:Okay Day drinkers.
Speaker 2:You know you tease, but you got to close. Be a closer John.
Speaker 1:Well, let me just tell you part of it.
Speaker 2:Is working around your schedule, I know, and honestly, though, if we have more guest hosts, that's fine. I said Riley could do it.
Speaker 1:He's very busy though too, he's very prestigious. He really is DW. That was great.
Speaker 2:Chris Twiggs could be a guest host. Jody, your wife could be a guest host.
Speaker 1:She could, yeah, but I don't want to get her too much. She already has enough exposure on this show.
Speaker 2:He'll have me replaced by her sooner than later, because it makes sense. Most inspiring moment of the year and if you need me to go first, because I already wrote down my answer, I will go first.
Speaker 1:Like at a race. Yes, I will need you to go first.
Speaker 2:So for me and I feel like a lot of us say this at races like this answer is not unsimilar to what other people have said, but at the Indy Mini Marathon there is probably the largest group of duo athletes that I see, like Brent and Kyle Peace.
Speaker 2:And for some reason in this race, so many of them get out of their chair and they walk across the finish and you see the person stop with the chair and sometimes they get out pretty seamlessly. Sometimes it's extremely difficult for them to get out and then just that will to want to walk across that finish line and just that beautiful synergy that happens. The way the crowd goes wild. It brings me to tears more often than not, and I think it's because we see that person's struggles.
Speaker 2:You know and we see them overcome and want to be part of the community. There may be lots of other people finishing that. We don't see that, you know, because it's not visible, but just that's the embodiment of the community. There may be lots of other people finishing.
Speaker 2:That we don't see that, you know, because it's not visible, but just that's. That's. The embodiment of the endurance community is that will to want to get to a finish, to a finish line. That gives you nothing. You don't get anything monetarily. The 25,000 people that finished the Walt Disney World Marathon they don't. They don't make any money from it. They don't get anything monetarily. All they get is is a medal, yes, and that's important. But they chose to go on a hard journey, one that was difficult, that required a lot of training, a lot of effort, and they did it essentially for themselves, to prove to themselves that they could do it, to prove to themselves they could have more fun doing it. Do you know what I mean?
Speaker 2:Like you, really get, but when you finish you're done. You don't get anything and it's seeing people continue to want to do that, to push boundaries, to be a part of the community. So that race of so many of the Ainsleys Angels and the my Team Triumph and it's just a privilege to be able to see that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and again, it's an embarrassment of riches with these sort of stories that we get on any weekend.
Speaker 1:And I don't have names, but I do remember being really, really moved by someone who was scheduled to run with a relative, and I don't remember if it was a mother or father or brother or sister, and that person subsequently had passed away and the person and it had not been a long period of time and I think it was one of Riley's interviews and it you know somebody who was really, really important to them and I'm thinking it was a parent and I hope I'm right about that, and it had only been a couple of months and they showed up and ran for that person.
Speaker 1:And I think those are as somebody who looks for far too many reasons not to do things, people overcoming that sort of thing and just getting themselves in the right headspace. So again, I can't give names and you know we've heard countless stories like this, but I do remember somebody specifically and I believe maybe I'll have Riley on as the guest co-host and he'll remember, but I believe it was a young lady who lost one of their parents that they were going to be running with and showed up anyway to do it, despite the fact that, admitting that, they thought, well, I don't want to do this again. So, again, it's an embarrassment of riches when it comes to stories, inspiring stories, so that's the one I can think of off the top of my head.
Speaker 2:But tell us these stories Like we still want to hear them, we still want to share them, we want to share your feedback. So tell us who you want to see. If you know them, tell them. You know we want to keep going, we want to keep growing and that happens because you listen. So thank you for listening. We're very grateful, very grateful. We're not done, though. Got a little bit more coming up.
Speaker 1:All right athletes.
Speaker 2:Here's the drill Time to shape up your diet. Carissa, give them the goods. All right, john, we're going to dive. We're still doing healthier you, I'm still thinking of things to teach you. I'm going to teach you about CoQ10, coenzyme Q10. Do you know a lot about it?
Speaker 1:No, I know that there's a television commercial where they mention it a lot, but beyond that I don't know anything.
Speaker 2:So it dawned on me I do a lot of runner's talks and I say runners should take omega-3s with a CoQ10. And then I was like, oh, maybe people don't even know what that means, So-.
Speaker 1:No clue.
Speaker 2:It actually is an antioxidant, so we're very familiar with those. It's in the mitochondria of our cells and and the mitochondria. If we think back to ninth grade biology, which we probably can't, what do the mitochondria do, John?
Speaker 1:I don't know. In my ninth it was 10th grade and Mrs Izios, who was my teacher, would be very upset with me.
Speaker 2:Okay, mr Smith was my teacher and unfortunately I know more about the mitochondria than I would because I have a friend whose children have had terminal mitochondrial diseases. But it's like the energy making cell, so it's a part of the cell that does the energy.
Speaker 2:It was that one that kind of looked like a bean and then when you drew it it had like the little lines on it that was the mitochondria. So the CoQ10 helps convert the food we eat into energy that our cells can actually use Heart, liver, kidneys really important Antioxid antioxidants, cell growth and maintenance and then heart health. So for runners it's beneficial as well for heart health, but overall, with energy and recovery, coq10 is going to be great for that. So I just thought I would tell you a little bit more about why I say that you supplement it. And another reason I say you supplement it is because, johnny, do you want to read out the top source of CoQ10 on this list?
Speaker 1:Because, Johnny, do you want to read out the top source of CoQ10 on this list? The top source of CoQ10 are organ meats.
Speaker 2:Who's?
Speaker 1:lining up to eat those. Well, if you remember early on my inability to read James Joyce's Ulysses the main character in that, leopold Bloom those are his favorite foods. I don't know how that's related to you eating it. It's related to the fact that there's a book I read about a character who loves to eat them. That's my fun fact about organ meats. Though I do not mind liver, I'm one of those people who does not mind liver.
Speaker 2:So, anyway, organ meats really good source, but also fatty fish, whole grains, nuts and seeds, vegetables decent amounts, but I think it's something to supplement. Again, it's part of that insurance policy there. So incorporate these foods into your diet. It's going to help keep energy, it's going to help with antioxidants that are going to fight those free radicals and heart health, and we are still rocking and rolling with Healthier you. You can join anytime the one-year course with the free chats with me every month. Personal questions answered. Use the code podcast at GallowayCoursecom to save some money and I'll be doing a chat with the current class tonight.
Speaker 1:Today's the perfect day and really every day is the perfect day to shout out to our good friend, sarah Akers at Runs on Magic Because if you're going to plan some travel, carissa, don't do it on your own. Just look at me, folks, you need some help. Sarah's there to help.
Speaker 2:She is. So if you're listening to this and you're thinking, okay, I want to try Disney Cruise, which one works for me? Which one works for my family? When are they more affordable? How do I even know where to start? Guess what? Sarah Akers is here for you. Head over to her Instagram, runsonmagic. She shares specials there. She can answer your questions. She's a run Disney lover, she's a Swifty, she's a travel lover and she will set you up for an amazing Disney cruise. Or it's okay if it's another cruise line, that's fine too. Sarah Akers has got you. So thank you to Sarah Akers runsonmagictravel for sponsoring and keeping us on the move on Magic Travel for sponsoring and keeping us on the move. Athletes, listen up. It's mail call time.
Speaker 1:Announcer free present. All right, sarge, thank you. Today's email comes from June at 321-GO-PODCAST at gmailcom, and I knew this was coming. June says John, why don't you love us? I do, june, I do love you. I'm listening every episode to learn about Apollo 13. At this point, I might just learn about it myself, but I really like your voice, so will you please educate me? Here's my conundrum, june, is you're listening to every podcast. Once I do it, will you then stop listening? That's a concern, that's a major concern that I have. If I keep next, uh, within the next 12 episodes, I'm going to. You're absolutely right. I've dropped the ball on the history moment. Uh, I almost went down the alleyway today cause I knew we were going to talk about Central Park and I started going down the uh, history, nerds, history, nerds, history of Central Park, which is really, really interesting.
Speaker 2:I think you might take that. I don't know.
Speaker 1:But I teased Apollo 13. So I'm going to come up with something. June, I keep listening, keep listening. And if you, if you, stop listening after I've done it, there'll be no more history.
Speaker 2:Because now June and Adrian have have formally filed complaints.
Speaker 1:I know, I know, I know, and if you have complaints, about me.
Speaker 2:Could someone file a complaint about me, so that John is not the only one getting complaints?
Speaker 1:John's used to it. John's used to it. You're the selling point of the show.
Speaker 2:I'm the comic relief. I think there's not a Carissa Running Club. Do you know that there's a Pelkey Running Club? There is Shout out to the pelky running club.
Speaker 1:It's you Possibly. I'm relatable, if nothing, that's the thing. You're not relatable. You're in great shape. You're very, very successful. I am just literally inches away from being completely forgotten as a human being and that's it, and you're more impressive.
Speaker 2:John, just like in Coco, when you're physically gone or metaphorically gone, we shall put an ofrenda up on the stage for you. You shall be there Never. You will never be forgotten.
Speaker 1:We need to have a life size like a fathead of me for when I'm gone.
Speaker 2:You know, retired or whatever, We'll dress your fathead as Thomas O'Malley too, just to stick it to you.
Speaker 1:There's a Thomas O'Malley statue at Disneyland Paris, which is a place that I never, ever thought I would go, but now, maybe, maybe, check that out when you're over there in Paris. All right, all right, I'll get on it. June History moments will become a part of this pod. Over the next year, I will do more history moments. How's that?
Speaker 2:That's fine, we'll take it.
Speaker 1:We always run long anyway, so what's the point in it?
Speaker 2:Well, we might make some changes. Season two Change it up, Make it a little bit exciting. Thank you guys for listening again. 321-go-podcast at gmailcom. Thank you to Weston for editing this so well and enjoying it just like he enjoys editing all my b-roll for my tv segments.
Speaker 1:We love you thanks to all of our guests over the last year as well yeah, thank you all, that's all sorry to step on weston's thank you, but you know don't want him to get a big head after we show it off at the top golf see you real soon.
Speaker 2:Peace out.
Speaker 3:Bye-bye. 3, 2, 1, GO.
