July 26, 2024 • 14 mins
Welcome to a special episode of Non-Headline News! Today, Scotty and Hannah talk with Tamara and Joey Cheek. Tamara competed in the Sydney Olympics as a canoeist and Joey competed in Salt Lake City and Turin Olympics, earning a gold, silver and bronze medal! The best part? They live right here in the Triad. Joey was even born and raised here. Listen as Scotty and Hannah get a behind the scenes look at the games and ask questions they have always wanted to know the answers to!
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(00:00):
I feel like we should be playingthe Olympics theme because some Olympians have joined
us. Hannah, how lucky arewe? You want to do the official
introductions? Yes, I do.I would love to introduce Joey Cheek and
his lovely wife and Olympian herself,Tomorrow Cheek. Now, Joey is a
speed skater, gold medalist, Tomorrowan Olympic canoeist, which I have so
(00:20):
many questions for her, and theylive right here in Greensboro. Thank you.
Thanks for having us. As Hannahmentioned, Joey, you were born
in Greensboro. You're Princeton grad fromwhat I understand, Bronze in two at
Salt Lake and then gold and silverin six at Turin. That's correct.
Yeah, I got the whole setand then got out of there. Okay,
now, joe how does a kidfrom Greensboro decide speed skating should be
(00:45):
my thing? I know it's acrazy story, right. So I actually
grew up racing in the early ninetieson inline so rollerblades, and I was
a junior national champion on wheels.And I watched the nineteen ninety four Olympics
A saw a guy named Dan Jansenwhin a gold medal for the US and
I saw him the stars in myeyes and I said, oh, my
gosh, I want to do that, and my mom said, well,
it ain't going to happen here.I grew up racing on wheels, and
(01:07):
I left and moved to all overthe Midwest, Calgary, Milwaukee, Utah.
Eventually, but I had to moveto colder grounds to get on the
ice skating. Oh that's awesome.And now tomorrow I am wondering about your
journey. How does one become acanoeist? Yeah, well, I was
really really lucky. I grew upin Seattle, Washington, and right next
to a lake called Green Lake,and it's a big, big city lake
with an amazing parks and rec program. And so every day on my way
(01:32):
to school, I would pass byseeing these kayakers and rowers and all kinds
of athletes, you know, competingon the lake and practicing on the lake.
And my club, Seattle Comune KayakClub, was the best place for
kids to learn in the entire country. And I was lucky enough to learn
there from some incredible coaches and hada mentor in Greg Barton, who was
(01:53):
a double gold medalist in nineteen eightyeight, and you know, he's just
a regular club member, and soit was like a really fantastic place to
learn. So I was very lucky, just right place at the right time.
All right, let's get to theten questions we have for you.
Hannah's going to start things off,and I think yours is for tomorrow.
Laura. Okay, you hear allof these hushed rumors about what really goes
(02:15):
on in the Olympic village. Sometimesit's a little debaucherous. What was your
experience like and it is it ascrazy as sometimes it's been made out to
be. Well, my son listensto this radio broadcast, so I'll be
generous, and I would say thatit is a very fun place and actually
the best place to meet your futurehusband. Although we didn't meet in the
(02:38):
village, we did meet through thealumni, and so it was a great,
great thing for me. What aboutyou, Joy, Yeah, it's
pretty nook. Okay, well we'llleave it at that. All right.
Now, my question, obviously isgonna be for Joey. How and when
did you realize that the Olympics wasa real possibility. Did someone say you've
(03:01):
got something special? Was there aconversation you had or did you just start
beating everybody and thinking, well,this is inevitable. Well, you definitely
don't think it's inevitable. I wouldsay though every Olympian I've met, and
probably every Olympic champion, is irrationallydelusional about their own abilities. And that's
hard to tell, you know,like reality'll come and bite you eventually.
(03:23):
But I remember watching the Olympics andthinking I want to go win a gold
medal. That was the whole mission. Actually I wanted to win multiple gold
medals, so I actually didn't reachthe goal. But I think that that's
kind of a prerequisite prerequisite for thekind of person who goes to the Olympics
and tomorrow, what was your Olympicmoment? You're there and it hits you
that, oh my gosh, I'mabout to represent my country. The moment
(03:44):
for me was actually opening ceremony andwe have two flag bearers now you know,
Lebron and Cocoa, and we hadtwo last year, but in my
Olympics, my teammate Cliff Midel wasactually chosen to be the flag bearer.
And so for me, walking intoopening ceremony in Sydney, Australia, where
my teammate was at the helm ofthe entire US team, was really really
(04:06):
incredible, and he was an amazingguy. He got struck by some pretty
powerful electric bolts and lost the useof his legs for a long time and
then came back and was able tomake our team as a kayaker, and
so his story was wild, andhe carried the flag all around that stadium
and represented US, and for methat was like, oh yeah, I'm
(04:28):
here. Oh christ For Joey,what was the most nervous moment you experienced
during the Olympics. Wow, Well, the second Olympics it was. I
was unnaturally unnervous. I was sortof famous on my team for being incredibly
nervous. And the day of thefive hundred, the day I won the
gold, I was having breakfast withmy teammate and we were all sitting around
(04:48):
and we're all, you know,I was right for the land and we've
done this race a lot, soit wasn't new to us, but is
the Olympics, And so I waslike, I don't know, O,
Casey, I'm not that nervous.He's like, that's weird. You're It
was a pretty nervous. I gotno, do you think it's good again?
I guess we'll see in about anhour and it worked out great.
So usually I was an anxious ballof nerves the day I won. For
(05:09):
whatever reason, you know, theuniverse was just calming me. Wow,
No, Dora, I am interested. I am fascinated by the kayaking and
canoeing at the Olympics. It ishonestly my favorite event because I could never
do it. It's light track andfield, but you're just using your arms,
so it's it's extremely difficult to stayup right when you're first learning,
(05:31):
but by the time you get tothe Olympics, like everyone, yeah,
it's pretty hard, like flying,flying maybe ANX eighteen or something, yeah
like that, but it's really bythe time you get to the Olympics,
you know, everyone is extremely,extremely good at their sport, so you
don't worry so much about that.Although some people have fallen in at the
finish line because they're so exhausted,and that does happen from time to time,
(05:55):
but typically people stay up right.Okay, Joey, I know you
have the three the trifecta. Wheredo you keep your medals? Honey?
Do you know where they are rightnow, right next to the milk,
right next to the milk. Ithink you're in a backpack in my closet,
but I'm not. Actually, I'mnot one hundred percent sure. I
(06:15):
kind of just wherever the last eventI needed them. And that's rarer than
it used to be, which iswhy I don't always remember. I just
throw them in a bag, andthen somebody calls and I need them,
and so then I've got to likego dig them out of the closet.
But I genuinely don't know what itwas. When was the last time you
were asked or wanted to just wearthem? Because I think I might just
wear them to the store, rightScotty, You think that, And let
(06:39):
me tell you if I did it. The first time, you'd be like,
man, that's so cool, lookat those metals. That's amazing.
And then the second time and someat the store, you'd be like,
well, still wearing those things.And then by the third time you're like,
all right, dude, I getit. Put the letterman jacket away
a great run. It's the Olympicsa little different than the letterman jacket,
but I understand. All right,Now, let's talk about life post Olympics,
(07:02):
because you're in this moment of juston the highest of highs, and
then you come home and you're like, well, guess I'll just watch TV
and go to the grocery store.What's that transition like for me? I
think I came right back to acalculus class because I was in school.
So that was incredibly humbling, becauseall of a sudden, you're super normal
(07:24):
again, and you know, ifyou're not Michael Felt or Serena Williams or
something like that. I think it'sa little different for the nine percent of
us, but my experience is muchmuch different than Joey's. Well, bonus
question for Joey's then, yeah,I know you're a Chamber of Commerce member.
What else has gone on since?Oh my gosh, it was a
(07:44):
big arc. So the year afterthe Olympics are really heaty if you win
a gold medal. So I wasdoing a lot of fun amraising for charities
and I made more money in thatyear actually, probably than I've made in
the aggregate of my life before.So all of a sudden, I had
like money and people care like,yeah, I was a speed skater,
you know, I raced and typedbefore the Olympics and then a half of
year Illeagol medalist, like that's thedistinction. So it was a bunch of
(08:05):
years of really pretty crazy, prettyfun adventures. Is pretty heaty, and
that fades, and then I hada kind of a rough, like a
couple of years where you're like,oh, man, I everyone knew how
cool I always thought I was,but now I'm back to not being that
cool again. What happened? Andso it was the there's a transition for
everybody no matter what, and eventuallygo, Okay, I got to go
(08:26):
and keep moving forward in life.I can't just keep living on this thing.
So I started a company and failedmiserably at that, and then got
into tech and did pretty good atthat, and then got into the startup
game again, and now I runentrepreneurship for for the Greensborough Chambers. So
I help companies every day that aregetting started and help entrepreneurs scale their companies,
raise money, build a business.And I love it. It's it's
(08:50):
not an exciting maybe as Olympic sports, but it's definitely I would say maybe
even more fulfilling because I'm working withother people all the time. Let me
throw this out as a suggestion,if you ever in a heated argument about
something at the chamber, just droppedthat golden medal right on the table.
Quack. I love it. Soyou mentioned Princeton earlier. So I went
to school and you know, brilliantpeople all around me, and you know,
(09:13):
there was a bunch of kind ofcocky young kids. And I remember
at one point where were all sittingon the table and just you know,
you're just verbally jabbing back and forthties and having fun. Some kids said
something. I was like, whatare you twenty two now? And he's
like, yeah, that's crazy,man. I'd won my first Olympic medal
by year. Yeah, and theonly time I've like done That's that kind
of flex that you know, itis always it's appropriate. Nice, Okay,
(09:37):
I am curious. So you guyswin the games from two thousand to
two thousand and six. It isa very different world from Sydney, from
Turrent. Going back to the Olympics. Now, how is it different,
not only as just being a spectator, but just the setup of it all.
I have to imagine now it's quitethe secure event. Yeah. Yeah,
well I'm having worked on an Olympicbid or the LA twenty eight Games.
(10:01):
I would say that the world hasreally changed, but also are our
access. You know, there's somany ways to interact with Olympic athletes and
Paralympic athletes, whether it's social mediaor the way that broadcast has shifted,
and you know, for example,they'll go and interview someone's mom in the
(10:22):
stands, or like, the thingthat blows in my mind all the time
is that the guy I listened towhen I was in high school Snoop Dogg,
is now like some kind of Olympicmascot flash correspondent. It's a wild
world and so it's you know,it's it's really really different from the Dan
and Dave era that I grew upin. But I think it's great.
I think it's fun. I thinkwe get to know the athletes now in
(10:45):
a way that we never got tobefore. Physically, the games are much
more clamped down. You know,it's a different world and it's an incredibly
safe place to be now at thegame. Do you just want to quick
circle back to you were on thecommittee for LA Bringing the Games back to
the US and back to Los Angeles. Was about the heritage of Olympics and
the heritage of in LA, andit'll be the third time that LA hosts
(11:07):
the game. It's gonna be areally special game that I'm really excited to
bring our fun and watch it.And he'll be at the age where I
think he'll really get it, soit's gonna be fun. Oh well,
he needs to get to train andis what needs to happen. It's true,
that's the one thing we may haveoverdone it on. He is a
sprinter. He never stopped. Heboth Joey and I got our d tested
(11:30):
and we had the sprinter gene andso Jack definitely he knows what sports will
be doing track and field or swimmingor anything that goes into straight line and
really fast. He loves. Ilove this because I was talking to Scotty
before the interview and I'm like,imagine if their son has like the coordination
of a baby giraffe learning to walklike me and no athletic ability whatsoever.
I have to imagine Like, asa child, you're like, I let
(11:54):
my parents down, and as aparent you're like, well, no pressure,
right, no pressure kids, wedon't mess it up. Okay,
last question, probably the most importantone, by the way, this year
there's a new Olympic sport, breakdancing. If you guys were to compete,
which one of you would place higherin the breakdancing competition? To say,
I know that I have to gohome to her, So I'm going to
(12:16):
say not me. Okay, allright, fair enough. I think our
son. They're teaching these kids howto breakdancing school the day, so I
have a feeling that Jack would takeover and steal the show. Yeah,
it is all. That's exactly right. Yeah, he's got the best shot
of all three of us. Itell you, it's so cool to know
that you guys are in our communityright here, with such incredible experiences with
(12:37):
the Olympics. As we get setfor the Games this year, is there
anything in particular that you're looking forwardto watching as we kick into the twenty
twenty four games. I love watchingthese kids who've spent their entire lives just
doing this one thing and dreaming ofthis moment, no matter what sport it
is. You see these moments wherepeople just transcend what they thought they're capable
of. I love watching those momentswhen it happened and always happens. There's
(13:00):
one hundred of them every Olympics andyou get to watch it in real time
and you go, oh my god, that young man or woman, their
whole lives just changing that one moment. That's so cool to me. Still
to this day, I still getgoosebumps and on my end, like obviously
Shakari and all of these incredible storiesthat we're going to see a lot of,
but also gold medalist Alan Johnson coachesover at A and T and his
(13:22):
athlete Daniel Roberts is going to bein the Games, and so I feel
like there's a few there's a lotof North Carolina helpful heavy the kayaker as
well, who trains and lives hereis going to be doing like kayak cross
and canoe and kayak. So Ifeel like there's a few hometown or state
athletes that are going to be reallyamazing. We didn't even get into kayak
(13:43):
cross because that fascinates me to We'rejust going to need you guys on for
seven hours straight of NonStop questioning.Well, I know they have real lives
to tend to and a child,so we will let them go at this
point, let them off the hook. Joey cheek tomorrow, cheek, We're
so again thankful for your time today, and thanks for sharing your Olympic experiences
with us. I'm really thankful foryou guys. Thanks for having us
I feel like we should be playingthe Olympics theme because some Olympians have joined
us. Hannah, how lucky arewe? You want to do the official
introductions? Yes, I do.I would love to introduce Joey Cheek and
his lovely wife and Olympian herself,Tomorrow Cheek. Now, Joey is a
speed skater, gold medalist, Tomorrowan Olympic canoeist, which I have so
(00:20):
many questions for her, and theylive right here in Greensboro. Thank you.
Thanks for having us. As Hannahmentioned, Joey, you were born
in Greensboro. You're Princeton grad fromwhat I understand, Bronze in two at
Salt Lake and then gold and silverin six at Turin. That's correct.
Yeah, I got the whole setand then got out of there. Okay,
now, joe how does a kidfrom Greensboro decide speed skating should be
(00:45):
my thing? I know it's acrazy story, right. So I actually
grew up racing in the early ninetieson inline so rollerblades, and I was
a junior national champion on wheels.And I watched the nineteen ninety four Olympics
A saw a guy named Dan Jansenwhin a gold medal for the US and
I saw him the stars in myeyes and I said, oh, my
gosh, I want to do that, and my mom said, well,
it ain't going to happen here.I grew up racing on wheels, and
(01:07):
I left and moved to all overthe Midwest, Calgary, Milwaukee, Utah.
Eventually, but I had to moveto colder grounds to get on the
ice skating. Oh that's awesome.And now tomorrow I am wondering about your
journey. How does one become acanoeist? Yeah, well, I was
really really lucky. I grew upin Seattle, Washington, and right next
to a lake called Green Lake,and it's a big, big city lake
with an amazing parks and rec program. And so every day on my way
(01:32):
to school, I would pass byseeing these kayakers and rowers and all kinds
of athletes, you know, competingon the lake and practicing on the lake.
And my club, Seattle Comune KayakClub, was the best place for
kids to learn in the entire country. And I was lucky enough to learn
there from some incredible coaches and hada mentor in Greg Barton, who was
(01:53):
a double gold medalist in nineteen eightyeight, and you know, he's just
a regular club member, and soit was like a really fantastic place to
learn. So I was very lucky, just right place at the right time.
All right, let's get to theten questions we have for you.
Hannah's going to start things off,and I think yours is for tomorrow.
Laura. Okay, you hear allof these hushed rumors about what really goes
(02:15):
on in the Olympic village. Sometimesit's a little debaucherous. What was your
experience like and it is it ascrazy as sometimes it's been made out to
be. Well, my son listensto this radio broadcast, so I'll be
generous, and I would say thatit is a very fun place and actually
the best place to meet your futurehusband. Although we didn't meet in the
(02:38):
village, we did meet through thealumni, and so it was a great,
great thing for me. What aboutyou, Joy, Yeah, it's
pretty nook. Okay, well we'llleave it at that. All right.
Now, my question, obviously isgonna be for Joey. How and when
did you realize that the Olympics wasa real possibility. Did someone say you've
(03:01):
got something special? Was there aconversation you had or did you just start
beating everybody and thinking, well,this is inevitable. Well, you definitely
don't think it's inevitable. I wouldsay though every Olympian I've met, and
probably every Olympic champion, is irrationallydelusional about their own abilities. And that's
hard to tell, you know,like reality'll come and bite you eventually.
(03:23):
But I remember watching the Olympics andthinking I want to go win a gold
medal. That was the whole mission. Actually I wanted to win multiple gold
medals, so I actually didn't reachthe goal. But I think that that's
kind of a prerequisite prerequisite for thekind of person who goes to the Olympics
and tomorrow, what was your Olympicmoment? You're there and it hits you
that, oh my gosh, I'mabout to represent my country. The moment
(03:44):
for me was actually opening ceremony andwe have two flag bearers now you know,
Lebron and Cocoa, and we hadtwo last year, but in my
Olympics, my teammate Cliff Midel wasactually chosen to be the flag bearer.
And so for me, walking intoopening ceremony in Sydney, Australia, where
my teammate was at the helm ofthe entire US team, was really really
(04:06):
incredible, and he was an amazingguy. He got struck by some pretty
powerful electric bolts and lost the useof his legs for a long time and
then came back and was able tomake our team as a kayaker, and
so his story was wild, andhe carried the flag all around that stadium
and represented US, and for methat was like, oh yeah, I'm
(04:28):
here. Oh christ For Joey,what was the most nervous moment you experienced
during the Olympics. Wow, Well, the second Olympics it was. I
was unnaturally unnervous. I was sortof famous on my team for being incredibly
nervous. And the day of thefive hundred, the day I won the
gold, I was having breakfast withmy teammate and we were all sitting around
(04:48):
and we're all, you know,I was right for the land and we've
done this race a lot, soit wasn't new to us, but is
the Olympics, And so I waslike, I don't know, O,
Casey, I'm not that nervous.He's like, that's weird. You're It
was a pretty nervous. I gotno, do you think it's good again?
I guess we'll see in about anhour and it worked out great.
So usually I was an anxious ballof nerves the day I won. For
(05:09):
whatever reason, you know, theuniverse was just calming me. Wow,
No, Dora, I am interested. I am fascinated by the kayaking and
canoeing at the Olympics. It ishonestly my favorite event because I could never
do it. It's light track andfield, but you're just using your arms,
so it's it's extremely difficult to stayup right when you're first learning,
(05:31):
but by the time you get tothe Olympics, like everyone, yeah,
it's pretty hard, like flying,flying maybe ANX eighteen or something, yeah
like that, but it's really bythe time you get to the Olympics,
you know, everyone is extremely,extremely good at their sport, so you
don't worry so much about that.Although some people have fallen in at the
finish line because they're so exhausted,and that does happen from time to time,
(05:55):
but typically people stay up right.Okay, Joey, I know you
have the three the trifecta. Wheredo you keep your medals? Honey?
Do you know where they are rightnow, right next to the milk,
right next to the milk. Ithink you're in a backpack in my closet,
but I'm not. Actually, I'mnot one hundred percent sure. I
(06:15):
kind of just wherever the last eventI needed them. And that's rarer than
it used to be, which iswhy I don't always remember. I just
throw them in a bag, andthen somebody calls and I need them,
and so then I've got to likego dig them out of the closet.
But I genuinely don't know what itwas. When was the last time you
were asked or wanted to just wearthem? Because I think I might just
wear them to the store, rightScotty, You think that, And let
(06:39):
me tell you if I did it. The first time, you'd be like,
man, that's so cool, lookat those metals. That's amazing.
And then the second time and someat the store, you'd be like,
well, still wearing those things.And then by the third time you're like,
all right, dude, I getit. Put the letterman jacket away
a great run. It's the Olympicsa little different than the letterman jacket,
but I understand. All right,Now, let's talk about life post Olympics,
(07:02):
because you're in this moment of juston the highest of highs, and
then you come home and you're like, well, guess I'll just watch TV
and go to the grocery store.What's that transition like for me? I
think I came right back to acalculus class because I was in school.
So that was incredibly humbling, becauseall of a sudden, you're super normal
(07:24):
again, and you know, ifyou're not Michael Felt or Serena Williams or
something like that. I think it'sa little different for the nine percent of
us, but my experience is muchmuch different than Joey's. Well, bonus
question for Joey's then, yeah,I know you're a Chamber of Commerce member.
What else has gone on since?Oh my gosh, it was a
(07:44):
big arc. So the year afterthe Olympics are really heaty if you win
a gold medal. So I wasdoing a lot of fun amraising for charities
and I made more money in thatyear actually, probably than I've made in
the aggregate of my life before.So all of a sudden, I had
like money and people care like,yeah, I was a speed skater,
you know, I raced and typedbefore the Olympics and then a half of
year Illeagol medalist, like that's thedistinction. So it was a bunch of
(08:05):
years of really pretty crazy, prettyfun adventures. Is pretty heaty, and
that fades, and then I hada kind of a rough, like a
couple of years where you're like,oh, man, I everyone knew how
cool I always thought I was,but now I'm back to not being that
cool again. What happened? Andso it was the there's a transition for
everybody no matter what, and eventuallygo, Okay, I got to go
(08:26):
and keep moving forward in life.I can't just keep living on this thing.
So I started a company and failedmiserably at that, and then got
into tech and did pretty good atthat, and then got into the startup
game again, and now I runentrepreneurship for for the Greensborough Chambers. So
I help companies every day that aregetting started and help entrepreneurs scale their companies,
raise money, build a business.And I love it. It's it's
(08:50):
not an exciting maybe as Olympic sports, but it's definitely I would say maybe
even more fulfilling because I'm working withother people all the time. Let me
throw this out as a suggestion,if you ever in a heated argument about
something at the chamber, just droppedthat golden medal right on the table.
Quack. I love it. Soyou mentioned Princeton earlier. So I went
to school and you know, brilliantpeople all around me, and you know,
(09:13):
there was a bunch of kind ofcocky young kids. And I remember
at one point where were all sittingon the table and just you know,
you're just verbally jabbing back and forthties and having fun. Some kids said
something. I was like, whatare you twenty two now? And he's
like, yeah, that's crazy,man. I'd won my first Olympic medal
by year. Yeah, and theonly time I've like done That's that kind
of flex that you know, itis always it's appropriate. Nice, Okay,
(09:37):
I am curious. So you guyswin the games from two thousand to
two thousand and six. It isa very different world from Sydney, from
Turrent. Going back to the Olympics. Now, how is it different,
not only as just being a spectator, but just the setup of it all.
I have to imagine now it's quitethe secure event. Yeah. Yeah,
well I'm having worked on an Olympicbid or the LA twenty eight Games.
(10:01):
I would say that the world hasreally changed, but also are our
access. You know, there's somany ways to interact with Olympic athletes and
Paralympic athletes, whether it's social mediaor the way that broadcast has shifted,
and you know, for example,they'll go and interview someone's mom in the
(10:22):
stands, or like, the thingthat blows in my mind all the time
is that the guy I listened towhen I was in high school Snoop Dogg,
is now like some kind of Olympicmascot flash correspondent. It's a wild
world and so it's you know,it's it's really really different from the Dan
and Dave era that I grew upin. But I think it's great.
I think it's fun. I thinkwe get to know the athletes now in
(10:45):
a way that we never got tobefore. Physically, the games are much
more clamped down. You know,it's a different world and it's an incredibly
safe place to be now at thegame. Do you just want to quick
circle back to you were on thecommittee for LA Bringing the Games back to
the US and back to Los Angeles. Was about the heritage of Olympics and
the heritage of in LA, andit'll be the third time that LA hosts
(11:07):
the game. It's gonna be areally special game that I'm really excited to
bring our fun and watch it.And he'll be at the age where I
think he'll really get it, soit's gonna be fun. Oh well,
he needs to get to train andis what needs to happen. It's true,
that's the one thing we may haveoverdone it on. He is a
sprinter. He never stopped. Heboth Joey and I got our d tested
(11:30):
and we had the sprinter gene andso Jack definitely he knows what sports will
be doing track and field or swimmingor anything that goes into straight line and
really fast. He loves. Ilove this because I was talking to Scotty
before the interview and I'm like,imagine if their son has like the coordination
of a baby giraffe learning to walklike me and no athletic ability whatsoever.
I have to imagine Like, asa child, you're like, I let
(11:54):
my parents down, and as aparent you're like, well, no pressure,
right, no pressure kids, wedon't mess it up. Okay,
last question, probably the most importantone, by the way, this year
there's a new Olympic sport, breakdancing. If you guys were to compete,
which one of you would place higherin the breakdancing competition? To say,
I know that I have to gohome to her, So I'm going to
(12:16):
say not me. Okay, allright, fair enough. I think our
son. They're teaching these kids howto breakdancing school the day, so I
have a feeling that Jack would takeover and steal the show. Yeah,
it is all. That's exactly right. Yeah, he's got the best shot
of all three of us. Itell you, it's so cool to know
that you guys are in our communityright here, with such incredible experiences with
(12:37):
the Olympics. As we get setfor the Games this year, is there
anything in particular that you're looking forwardto watching as we kick into the twenty
twenty four games. I love watchingthese kids who've spent their entire lives just
doing this one thing and dreaming ofthis moment, no matter what sport it
is. You see these moments wherepeople just transcend what they thought they're capable
of. I love watching those momentswhen it happened and always happens. There's
(13:00):
one hundred of them every Olympics andyou get to watch it in real time
and you go, oh my god, that young man or woman, their
whole lives just changing that one moment. That's so cool to me. Still
to this day, I still getgoosebumps and on my end, like obviously
Shakari and all of these incredible storiesthat we're going to see a lot of,
but also gold medalist Alan Johnson coachesover at A and T and his
(13:22):
athlete Daniel Roberts is going to bein the Games, and so I feel
like there's a few there's a lotof North Carolina helpful heavy the kayaker as
well, who trains and lives hereis going to be doing like kayak cross
and canoe and kayak. So Ifeel like there's a few hometown or state
athletes that are going to be reallyamazing. We didn't even get into kayak
(13:43):
cross because that fascinates me to We'rejust going to need you guys on for
seven hours straight of NonStop questioning.Well, I know they have real lives
to tend to and a child,so we will let them go at this
point, let them off the hook. Joey cheek tomorrow, cheek, We're
so again thankful for your time today, and thanks for sharing your Olympic experiences
with us. I'm really thankful foryou guys. Thanks for having us
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