2024 Olympian Dan Galubovich

What does it take to balance Olympic dreams with the demands of family life and a full-time job? Join us as we welcome Dan Galubovich from Montpellier, France, where he is in the final stages of preparing for the Olympics. From an adrenaline-filled childhood to his father's insistence on trying high jump and pole vaulting, Dan's journey is a masterclass in perseverance and dedication. He opens up about his rigorous training regime, the pivotal influence of his brother Doug, and the emotional complexities of juggling elite sports, a career, and family responsibilities.

Dan's story is one of discovering a passion late but committing fully to reach the pinnacle of his sport. At 18, he found his calling in track and field and hasn't looked back. We explore the personal and physical discipline required to compete at the highest level, along with the mental toughness needed to excel both on the field and in high-stakes professions like firefighting. Whether it’s the dream of scoring big at the Olympics or the challenges of raising young children, Dan's experiences resonate with the universal struggle to achieve balance in life.

As Dan prepares for his Olympic debut representing Australia, he reflects on the serendipitous moments and the unwavering support of his family that brought him here. His journey from Duke University to the international stage is filled with inspiring anecdotes and a deep sense of purpose. This episode is a testament to what can be achieved through hard work, faith, and the incredible power of family support. Tune in to hear Dan’s thrilling journey and the invaluable life lessons he's learned along the way.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:09):
I hope I say this right, dan Galubovich.

Speaker 2 (00:13):
On the money.
That's perfect.

Speaker 1 (00:16):
All right, Dan, welcome to the podcast.
Thank you so much for spendingthe time to come on here with me
and Jordan.
So everybody knows you're onthe opposite side of Southern
California right now of theworld, I should say, because me
and Jordan are in SoCal.
Where are you at right now?

Speaker 2 (00:31):
I am in Montpellier, France.
I am a long, long ways away.

Speaker 1 (00:36):
Yo, my goodness, now this is great.
We've been actually trying toget you on here for a while.
You and I have been talking.

Speaker 2 (00:47):
I want to say it's probably been two years of
chatting every once in a while.
It's been a little while.
Yeah, it's been a bit.

Speaker 1 (00:52):
Yeah, I'm glad we got the virtual set up.
You finally get to see and meetJordan.
The great part about this is sopeople know Dan has a brother
named Doug Galubovich I hope Isaid it right.
Doug is actually a good friendof mine, dan, and so everybody
else here knows that's listening.
And I met doug skydiving.
He was flying the plane.

(01:12):
This young, like 19 year oldkid dude it was trippy.
I was kind of like so who's thepilot?
And this like tall, goodlooking dude comes walking out.
I was like he looks like he'slike 19 years old he's like I am
dude, you were good yeah totalsurvivor vibes, dude, oh, this

(01:33):
and that.
What was really cool trust me,dude I got this yeah, he was
like he was super cool but likehe was uh, he was like a total
believer in christ, which issuper, super cool, because at
that time I had totally walkedaway and he was one of the first
influences, I think was thatkind of that seed that brought
me back.
It took me a couple of years,but it was just so cool to see

(01:54):
someone like him working hard,young, flying, going after his
dreams, being a believer.
And it was in Vegas is where Imet him.
I was learning to skydive,which is crazy.
So yeah, a little littlebackground story here.
So people know, like there's alittle uh history with your
family, which is, which ispretty rad.
Dude.
I appreciate your brother a lot, man, just so you know you got

(02:14):
a good dude.

Speaker 2 (02:16):
I he's.
He's very good dude.
Yeah, he's, um I I can't evenput words to it, but's he's come
a long way himself and, uh, I'msuper proud of him as well yeah
, no, he's, he's cool man, sowe're gonna get both you guys
back on here one and we get somereal, real dirt to the family
would, would love to you'll.

Speaker 1 (02:33):
You'll get the brotherly dynamic, I'm sure well
, dude, damn, we're here to talkabout you today, which is
amazing, um.
So, first off, a hugecongratulations from myself and
jordan, because, um, youqualified and are now in the
olympics right uh yeah, as faras, as far as I'm aware.

Speaker 2 (02:53):
That's why I'm in france at the moment.
We're um just out here gettingprepared and headed into the
athlete village in 10 days wowoh my god okay yeah, uh j.

Speaker 1 (03:03):
If you want to ask him, go for it, dude.

Speaker 3 (03:05):
Oh yeah, no, I just just, you know, a couple of
preliminary questions as far as,like you know, what are you
competing in and just kind ofthe build up on like you know
how you got started essentially.
Did you start as a young kid orwas it a late?
You know kind of high schooldecision where you're like man,
I'm at this, or you know how didI go about?

Speaker 2 (03:25):
yeah, dude.
So, uh, this is a very, verylong story.
Um so, please, if at any pointcut me off, you're good so you,
you set up, you set up thisquestion perfectly.
You're starting to talk about mybrother because young surfer
kid flying the plane, cruisingaround the world, skydiving,
about doing this, every crazything that he can put his hands

(03:47):
to, um, that's, that's very muchhow we grew up, like we, we
played sports when we were kids,all the traditional stuff
soccer, baseball, basketball.
Um, as soon as we kind of gotinto those like early teen years
, teen years, it like sick,motocross, bmx, my brother was
surf, skate, snowboard,everything Any bit of adrenaline

(04:11):
.
We just kind of chased Alongwith that.
Dad had certain rules like keepus out of trouble.
He wanted to keep us in teamsport.
So for me, yeah, for me, theonly thing that I hadn't played
was track and field.
Yeah, for me, the only thingthat I hadn't played was track
and field.
Um, I did a, I did a bit ofrunning when I was a kid, just

(04:31):
like fun runs and things.
And um, dad, basically I waslike I don't want to run.
Man like that just soundsexhausting.
I'm right there with you, dude,yeah.
So, yeah, 100, I was like 15,uh, yeah, like 15.
At the time I was like I don'twant to run, um, and dad like
pretty much grabbed me by thearm hand, delivered me to the

(04:52):
high school coach, to my highschool coach, and said here he
could run, and he's tall, puthim where you need him.
Um, wow, nice.
So, yeah, so I I started as ahigh jumper, um, and I was like
you know, this is kind of fun,you get to jump over stuff, it's
.
It was what it was.

(05:12):
I.
I picked it up pretty quicklyum my senior year.
I started getting good in myjunior year of high school.
My senior year, um, I was likehigh jump's pretty cool.
I like that whole adrenalinething.
Let me go try the pole vaultright Now.
That's one where we, instead ofjumping like six feet in the
air, we grab a big stick and tryand throw ourselves like 15

(05:34):
feet in the air or more.
I was like, all right, if I'mgoing to do something, I want to
do something like a little bitmore hectic.
So I had a really fantasticjumps coach and a really
fantastic pole vault coach fromfrom the get-go.
They saw potential in me rightaway, um, and they saw how I

(05:55):
just kind of I think, probablybecause I played so many
different sports growing up Ijust had um, a feel, um, and I
could pick things up quickly.

Speaker 1 (06:03):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (06:03):
And um and um, yeah, they put me in the pole vault
and as soon as I picked that up,my coach was actually a
decathlete himself.
So, to go well, to answer yourfirst question, I am a
decathlete, I compete in thedecathlon and will be competing
in the decathlon in the olympics.

Speaker 3 (06:20):
Um, let's go, baby Heck, yeah, man.

Speaker 2 (06:23):
That's so sick.
It's a sport.
That is just a big puzzle, andfor those that don't know.

Speaker 1 (06:37):
It's 10 track and field events over the course of
two days 10 track and fieldevents over two.
Isn't there a limit to how manyyou can do in one day, right?

Speaker 2 (06:44):
Yeah.
So it's the same schedule, um,in terms of like order, the
events every every decathlon,just as like a standard as
standardization, um.
So basically, the order goes100 meter long jump shot, put
high jump, 400 meter, and that'sday one.
Um come out for day two 110meter hurdles, discus, pole

(07:06):
vault, javelin and the 1500meter um finishing, yeah,
finishing, all of that withessentially a one mile run as
fast as you can go.
Is that one's a bear?
A lot of times it turns intomore of a limp home, but it's,
yeah, it's a good time.

Speaker 1 (07:28):
Dude, Dan, that's a lot to qualify for.

Speaker 2 (07:35):
So the thing is, though, is it's only one event.
So I go 10 times over, Icompete in 10 different things,
but all of that is only oneevent at the Olympics.
So it's kind of like um it'sit's so like there are
specialist long jumpers andhurdlers and things.
Um.

(07:55):
We just kind of um, are likethe well-rounded kind of ones
that just dabble in a bit ofeverything Um, and it's got its
own strategy.
So it's a.
It's a strange comparison, butthink Bruce Jenner right back in
the seventies, eighties, I meanhe was the man, monster and

(08:22):
yeah.
So that's.
That's kind of what we'retrying to put together is just
balancing, balancing thestrategy for how to be a good
100 meter sprinter as well as ashot put thrower as well as a
1500 meter runner.

Speaker 3 (08:36):
Um so just to get just to clarify with that, it's
so each of these like so forshot put.
Let's say, for example, theyhave an individual event of shot
put isolated.
So that would be like you'resaying like the specialists come
in and then the decathletes,you're competing in all of these
events but you take thewell-rounded score of all of

(08:56):
them so and then that's whatyour combination total for the
win, like at the end, is rightfor the win, like at the end, is
right essentially.

Speaker 2 (09:07):
Essentially, yeah, key point.
Key point being, though, iswe're not actually competing
with the open and, like thespecialist guys, we compete 24
other decathletes okay.

Speaker 3 (09:14):
So the decathlete are only, you're only in the
decathlete group, whereas thespecialists are the ice, like
the.
I don't want to say isolated,but the single event.
Competitors are only in thoseones, and that's it.

Speaker 2 (09:28):
Yeah, so the the shot putters only train for the shot
put.
That's their entire career.
That's um and where we've got10, essentially 10 different
disciplines that all wrap upinto one.

Speaker 3 (09:40):
So let me ask you a quick question.
When you're walking around, youknow are like the decathletes,
like like I feel like you guysare like the cool guys, where
it's like you're like I'm goodat all this, just so you guys
know, important distinction tomake here is the catholics are

(10:04):
the ones where we get labeled asa bit psycho.

Speaker 2 (10:07):
Um, it's, it's a very it's like.
It's like someone that wants togo run, run a marathon or run
an iron man like I don't want togo run a marathon, that's so
much running, right, right, um,but there's that, there's that
like I'll put it out there thatdavidgins kind of thing, like
I'm going to beat this thing.
I'm in, I'm here, I'm here todefeat the challenge itself.

(10:29):
I'm here to push myself to thatlimit, um, and every, every
sport kind of has that.
It's just it at least mypersonal opinion being in it for
so long.
That's kind of what made me fellin love with it is.
It was the most, it was liketrying to herd a bunch of cats,
the most challenging thing whereyou've got challenges coming at

(10:49):
you from every direction.
Um, so I don't, I wouldn't saythe distinction here is is we're
good at everything, um, butwe're not great at anything
Right.
So, like you, if you put usthere, there's a couple of the
Catholics in the world that cancompete in maybe one individual
event with a specialist, butit's very rare and typically

(11:13):
there's quite a significantdifference in performance when
you get someone that solelytrains for one event versus one
of us.

Speaker 3 (11:20):
But I think in like the measure.
Oh no, you're good, good, sorry,I think with like the measure
oh no, you're good, good, sorry,uh, I think with like the
measure of like athleticism,right, I think a decathlete like
you, you, you check all theboxes, right, running, throwing,
agility, all of these things,you know, I, I don't to me.
I always think that thedecathletes are like it's, it's

(11:41):
fun to watch, you know, causethey like man, like you know,
it's like when you watch this, Imean obviously like uh, when
you have a solo event personthat they're the specialist is
what they're deemed right, likeit's amazing to see someone
operate at such high level andefficiency, but to have like to
be, you know, obviously you'renot saying you're the best in

(12:02):
the world at one thing, butyou're one of the greatest like
athletes because you can do allthese things at such a high
level, like there's a lot ofadmiration, I think in that.
And what a, what a cool thing.
You've come a long way from notwanting to run when you're 15
to be a 100.
Thanks, dad.
Yeah, thank you.

Speaker 1 (12:22):
Thank you, dad yeah, I mean dude you both hit on some
good points, but you saidsomething, dan, like David
Goggins and I've always believedthis because we've watched the
Olympics, right, all of usgrowing up I mean even X Games
that was like, oh, that was thebest right, the best of the best
when it comes to skateboarding.
And remember Street Luge.

(12:42):
I love Street Luge.

Speaker 3 (12:45):
Of course you do.

Speaker 1 (12:46):
Oh yeah, I love Street Luge.
Street Luge is amazing dude.
Yeah, it's sick, but to get toyour level with the other elite
athletes that you're with, youkind of have to have a mindset
like David Goggins a little bitdude, because the discipline I'm
talking discipline in so manydifferent areas, not just for

(13:07):
you what you're competing, butyour sleep, your diet, how much
you work out, how much you rest.
I mean I, I know that's it'sprobably a lot that you are
disciplined in that you do, andI don't think people understand
that it's not like all of youwho get to olympics.
This just happened over acouple years, like you've been
training for this ever since youstarted, I would imagine right

(13:29):
back in high school.

Speaker 2 (13:30):
Yeah, and I and I and I started particularly late.
Um, I'll, I.
I normally signify thebeginning of at least.
At least where they'll give youa bit of an insight to where my
mindset goes is I, I'll.
I considered the beginning of myprofessional career that led me
to this point when I turned 18,because when I turned 18, that
was my senior year of highschool, when I started the

(13:53):
decathlon and when I fell inlove with it, right when I did
my first one, it was like thisis wicked.
I got some attention for it.
That led me into university.
University made me fall in lovewith it more, because it was my
first exposure into like aregimented, a regimented program
where you can see these likedefinite improvements.

(14:14):
Like you go see progression oneweek to the next to the next,
of how much you're lifting inthe gym, how fast you're running
on the track, how far you'rethrowing or jumping or any of
this, and it's's like it wasthat pursuit of progression and
the self-improvement.
I guess that was really justfascinating to me.
The discipline side comes withit and that's a combination of

(14:38):
personality, but it's also justpractice, like if you find
something that you love, nomatter what it is, and or at
least something that you want,that you really want.
You're going to chase after itand the discipline will come.
That's like, and it is verymuch a practice skill and it

(14:58):
becomes like your lifestyle.
So it's it gets easier.
You're not having to think andchange and if you just kind of
react and it becomes who you are, and that's kind of what this
has become for me it's, it'svery intertwined with my entire
persona.

Speaker 1 (15:18):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
How old are you?

Speaker 2 (15:21):
I'm 30.
I'll be 31 at the end of theyear.

Speaker 1 (15:23):
Wow, look at my guy, guy dude, and I'm sure getting
to the olympics has been a dream, right?

Speaker 2 (15:28):
this is what you've wanted uh, 100, I, I, I wanted
it even before I wanted it.
Um, I, my mom, my mom tells mea story all the time and like,
especially like, look, everyonehas bad days.
And when I, when I speak to myfamily, they go back to like
this image that they have of meas a kid where we're watching,

(15:51):
all watching the olympicstogether.
I was tiny, I couldn't evenspeak barely yet, um, and I was
like jumping up and down infront of the tv, like saying
yippix, yippix, just like, soexcited about watching athletes
on the TV, I thought it was thecoolest thing in the world.
So, going through like everysingle sport that I played when

(16:11):
I was younger, it was alwayssomething in my head.
It's like I wanted to do this.
I wanted to be a professionalathlete.
It just came really late in mycareer to kind of isolate what
sport that was.

Speaker 1 (16:24):
That's all right, but , dude, I'm big on timing.
I I think I'm a firm believerthat nothing is by accident or
chance.
You know, I do think timing iseverything and especially we
know this working asfirefighters right, all the
preparation and training andtime, and it's like it's for
those calls that we call lowfrequency, high risk.
We don't get them often, butwhen they do, it's go time like

(16:47):
you have to be 100.
You can't miss a thing.
Because I was.
I was like I was watching thatnew show on netflix.
I'm sure you saw both thesprinters.
It's a documentary right yeah,and I I didn't think about it,
but one of them said somethinguh, like it wasn't.
It's like getting the worldtitle and then get into olympics
.
They train their whole life forlike nine seconds, nine or ten

(17:11):
seconds.
I was just like when it hit me,I'm like, dude, that's, that's,
that's insane.
That's so much time and mentaltoughness and physical toughness
and preparation, and like itall comes down to nine seconds,
you can't be before the start,you don't want to be too late.
I mean, dude, that's some highpressure.
Like what you're doing is a lotof pressure.

(17:31):
I, I've never wanted to go tothe olympics.
I was like I'll just, I'm goodman, I'll be skydiving, you know
, I think that's what that'swhat adds to the uh, like the
allure of it.

Speaker 3 (17:45):
Like you said, you're kind of chasing that adrenaline
a little bit.
So when it's that game time,feeling that this is your moment
, feeling I feel like I've nevercompeted at a high level in
that way.
So as far as any sports oranything, I guess, like tim I
could say equate to like maybeour jobs kind of has a little

(18:07):
similarity in that to where wetrain for so long for an
incident or a situation thatwhen it does hit, I mean that's
kind of like our thrill-seekingside of it.
You know which is kind of a notto make it a weird thing but
like you know what I mean, likethat, that finding that you know
that feeling what motivates youthing.
But like you know what I meanLike that, that that finding
that you know that feeling whatmotivates you.
And I could only imagine youknow, on such a high level, like

(18:29):
such as, like the Olympics, Imean this is it man, like this
is this is the pinnacle,pinnacle of it.
And you know, like you said,you're like 30 years old dude,
like the, the, the preparation,the training, the diets, you
know the regimens that you dolike you're prime time right now
.
This is this, is it?
You know?
And uh, what, what amazingopportunity this is.

(18:51):
And, um, actually, I want toask you what, what, uh, what
university did you go to?

Speaker 2 (18:59):
Uh.
So I spent four years at UC SanDiego um study economics and
finance, and then I had a littlemishap academically.

Speaker 3 (19:10):
My first quarter, they will say uh you mean a
young guy in San Diego?

Speaker 2 (19:17):
No, more, more like a uh, more like a guy falling in
love with a sport that uh choseto run instead of going to class
.

Speaker 1 (19:28):
Respect that.
I respect it.

Speaker 2 (19:30):
Absolutely.
Column A, column B yeah, andthen because of that I was
ineligible to compete.
So I had a red shirt year and Iwent to Duke for a year to get
a master's in management, and soI competed for Duke for a year.

Speaker 1 (19:45):
Dude, you got a master's degree.

Speaker 2 (19:48):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (19:49):
Dude educated jawline of a Greek god.

Speaker 3 (19:55):
What else don't you do, Tim?
Take away the tan.
You're not allowed to have tan.
You're coming out here.
I'm one of the best athletes inthe world.

Speaker 1 (20:08):
Jordan got his bachelor's a couple years ago.
I got mine like three or fourDoing it after we actually were
in a career.
I'm working on my master'sright now.
I have three classes left, dan.
I can't tell you how oftendaily I want to quit.
I'm so over writing.

(20:28):
I don't want to write anotherpaper.
I got, like I probably have Idon't know 12 more papers to
write between the three classes,right, and then do my test and
defense all that stuff at theend.
And I did 14 classes, bro, andthat's why, to anyone who's got
like graduate degrees, god blessyou.
You're awesome, you're amazingbecause it's terrible.

(20:49):
It's a terrible thing to gothrough.
So what is your master's in?

Speaker 2 (20:55):
So I went to the Fuqua School of Business the
business school out there and Igot a master's in management.
It was a one-year, essentiallybusiness degree.

Speaker 1 (21:06):
What don't you do?
You know what I'm saying.

Speaker 2 (21:11):
I don't skydive.

Speaker 1 (21:12):
Stop.
Once you're done with theOlympics, dude, we're going to
Jordan.
Who wants to jump out of aplane, man One tandem flight One
tandem.
Okay.

Speaker 2 (21:23):
I've been on one tandem, uh, and it was, it was
wicked, it was wicked.
I think, uh, I think if I'mgoing, if I'm going back to
action stuff and adrenalinestuff, I think I I might stay,
spend the majority of my time onthe ground, though I got you.

Speaker 1 (21:38):
Yeah, it's uh.
So I I've gotten marriedrecently and I have my first, my
daughter, born here in October,and yeah, congratulations thank
you, I appreciate it.
Man and I love skydiving, dudeparagliding.
I do the same with your brother, right, I do all the
paragliding and skydiving.
But now I'm like maybe I needto slow down a little bit, like.

Speaker 3 (22:01):
I want to see my grandkids one day, you know you
think dude.
I mean Like I want to see mygrandkids one day, you know, you
think, dude, I mean, you got todo what you got to do to make
yourself happy.
I get that.
Yeah, I'm telling you, as soonas your baby's here, dude,
you'll be like a littledifferent.

Speaker 1 (22:21):
Might need to stop this.
Might need to stop this.
Oh Dan, dan real quick is thereany way, you can bring your
camera angle down, so we getyour head let me your body and
head in the shot there you go.
Yeah, let me do this just so wecan try and look, even on the
air.

Speaker 3 (22:35):
Yeah, you just low-key wants to flex on camera,
that's all yeah, it's a littleI'm just trying to single is
going to be really good for you,bro, I am not.

Speaker 2 (22:46):
I am actually married and I have a young daughter as
well.

Speaker 3 (22:52):
Stop it, oh no way.
Awesome, look at my guy dude.
Okay, well, sorry, this isgreat.

Speaker 1 (22:59):
He's not available.
Yeah, we're doing a podcast andwe got all girl dads on here.
I just, you know I want to keeptalking about what you're doing
, trust me.
But, bro, I've been stressed.
I've been telling Jordan I'mlike how do I have a daughter?
Like I know how it was before Icame back to Lauren, how it was
in my 20s.
Why did I not have a son first?

(23:21):
What's going on here, man?

Speaker 3 (23:23):
I'm stressed, I'm stressed hey, why did I not have
a son first?
What's going on here, man?
I'm stressed, I'm stressed hey,it's just day by day, dude,
that's all.
And you enjoy it.
And I have sons and I have adaughter, and I can assure you
the daughter is probably goingto be super chill and it changes
your world.

Speaker 1 (23:42):
Oh my goodness dude.

Speaker 2 (23:44):
How old?

Speaker 3 (23:44):
are yours, jordan, your world, oh, my goodness dude
, yeah, so do you, yours, jordan?
Uh, I have, uh, I have two sonsthat are four and two years old
, and, uh, my daughter is, umwell, just over six months old,
beautiful oh, congratulationsthanks, yeah, so we're in the,
yeah, we're in the early phasesof all of them right now, so you
are truly in the thick of it.

(24:05):
That's why we're filming thisfrom my garage, otherwise I'd be
sitting by Tim.
Well, I mean this brings upsomething really good too.

Speaker 1 (24:18):
I mean, dan, to pursue your dreams in the
Olympics and to be married witha daughter.
I'm sure that's just a lot tohave on your plate.
I mean, how do you manage that?
Right, because Jordan and Italk about this all the time.
We see it in our careers asfirefighters, where a lot of our

(24:40):
fellow brothers and sisterswill work the extra hours, right
, work the extra overtimebecause you want to provide,
you're trying to buy homes andfix things up and pay for school
, but what you're really doingis you're you're, you're giving
up of your time that you canhave with your family.
Right, and that's the one thingI I've always talked to people
like, what we're all fightingfor is time.

(25:00):
That's the whole reason ofbeing rich is because it gives
you time.
It's not the things, it's thetime.
You don't have to work, you canbe home, you know.
And so we're trying to alwaysfind that even balance of how do
I work enough to provide butalso spend enough time at home
to be with my kids and my wife?
Because, at the end of the day,right, dan, like all my degrees

(25:25):
or whatever, or my promotionsat work and the things that I do
.
You know, I can't take it withme when I die.
You know, these are the thingsI've always thought about so
many times, dude, and I justsaid it in the last podcast.
I was telling someone the otherday right, they did a study, I
think it was like 100 or 200mortuaries, right, and they
talked to the funeral directors,right, and they asked them how

(25:49):
long is the average eulogy?
And I just looked at it againit's 8 to 12 minutes.
So your life and everythingyou've done is summed up in 8 to
12 minutes.
That hit me, dude.
I was just like wait a minute,what?
Where am I putting my time?

Speaker 2 (26:05):
That's me, dude.
I was like wait a minute, whenam I putting my time?
That's wild, right?
That's heavy.
Yeah, that's insane.

Speaker 1 (26:09):
Yeah, so that's why I always ask somebody in your
shoes, in your caliber, whatyou're doing and living.
You're living in Australia,right?

Speaker 2 (26:19):
Yeah, living in Brisbane currently.

Speaker 1 (26:21):
Yeah.
So I mean, dude, you got a lotgoing on, but you're succeeding
and you're doing well.
How do you manage that?
How does an Olympic athletemanage their home life with all
the training that they have todo?

Speaker 2 (26:38):
Well, I'll add another piece to the puzzle here
as well.
I also work full time for ShellEnergy, so I work in nine to
five.
What?

Speaker 3 (26:50):
all right, I have no more excuses but you're that
busy.

Speaker 2 (26:57):
That being said, I'm a very busy man.
I'm very busy man.
I started working for shell, um, uh, in 2022 and I've been on,
been to two world championshipscommonwealth games and now in
olympic games.
In that time, um, it's beenconsistent like 70 80 hour weeks

(27:19):
, but my daughter is only mydaughter is only four weeks old
as of Friday, so I can't sayI've been managing the sorry
four months old as of Friday.
I was like four weeks bro, asof no, no, no, four months old
as of Friday.
I was going to say as of lastweek, so I got my words confused
.
But she's four months old now.

(27:41):
She is a little sweetheart andthis is this is something that's
been like what everything youjust said kind of really
resonated, because I I've spent,by the time I see her again, I
will have spent half of her lifeaway from her, which in itself

(28:02):
kills me, um, and it's it's likeit just just everything that
you're talking about nowbalancing family and balancing
your own goals and a career, andI think, um, one of the one of
the best things that I or thebest ways that I think of it
anyways is to get scientific, um, fourth dimensionally right.

(28:26):
Everyone talks about time.
Um, there's a time and there'sa place for everything.
Um, and I'm kind of in inpursuing this dream and pursuing
this success now.
Um, I basically am thinkingabout putting myself into a bit
of debt now to then accelerateand try and benefit my future

(28:48):
later, because that's one thingthat is more important to me
than anything is is family, andespecially since, since my
daughter was born, it's likeit's a completely different
world, like I it's, it's changedmy brain chemistry to where
it's like the way I think abouteverything is completely and

(29:09):
entirely different.
Um, so it's something that isthat that in itself is going to
be a massive challenge for me.

Speaker 3 (29:16):
I know, coming off of um, the olympics and trying,
having to trying to figure outhow to balance all of that in
itself, um, I don't know if Ianswered your question, but no,
you totally did I think that'sgood, I think that's really good
insight, you know, I meanespecially you know, because
you're in in a field of likeflexibility, essentially right,

(29:38):
because you're trying to learnand be dynamic and kind of go
with the flow and find thatgroove of things.
And to add to what you'resaying, tim, I think you know,

(30:00):
obviously, I think there's noreal answer to those questions
of how do you balance it right,there's no book, there's no
blueprint, there's no like,because what works for you may
not work for me, that works fordan, or vice versa, whatever,
right.
So you can only do your bestand I think being in that

(30:20):
mindset either way is going toput you ahead of the game.
You know, just because you'retrying, you're being cognizant,
you're, you're, you're workingin that environment, I think
you're always going to feel Imean, I mean I do.
I say that personally becauseyou know I work a lot and with
our job I'm gone away, you know,from days at a time sometimes,
and I always have that feelingin the back of my head.

(30:42):
And you know I did so fourmonths, you're, you're in the
early stages of it too, and I'monly four years into it.
So it's like my kids are stillyoung too, but there isn't a day
when I go to work where I'mjust like man, I would
absolutely rather be at homewith my family, and you know.
But there also is a side thatyou know you're the father
you're providing.
You're doing that with alsopursuing your personal interests

(31:06):
as far as wanting to be asuccessful athlete, and you know
, kind of use something withthese gifts that are given to
you, you know, with the hardwork and determination and
everything, and I think it'svery commendable, you know.
But I think, like, going backto what you said, like Tim, I
just I don't think there's aright or wrong way to do it.
I think there's just the waythat you're going to try to do

(31:26):
it and as long as you have otherpeople's interests at heart,
you know that will kind ofdictate the path, choices and
the amount of time.
And plus, you know, in a weirdway it does make it exciting
when you do get to spend timewith your family, when you're
gone for a little bit, you know,because you're excited to be
there.
You know you're not in the dayin, day out, every single day,

(31:47):
you know.
So there are, there are some,plus, you know stuff to it.
But at the end of the day, Ithink I think that you know
we're all sitting here talkingabout this.
I think it's a it's good to showyou know people that, like this
is how, this is how, this isthe how you do it part right.
You, you still stay focused,you still set goals and achieve

(32:08):
those goals and push forwardwhile maintaining the work life
balance.
And you know, it's like in aweird way it's like you're doing
it already.
You know you are doing what youshould be doing.
You know it's just what's funny, because when you get asked
that question, like becausesomeone's at you, know how do
you do it?
I'm like I don't know, I just Ishow up, you know.

(32:28):
You know you figure it out onthe fly, which I feel like has
kind of been a lot of my lifejust in general.
But it tends to work, you know,and as long as you have those
others, you know like what yousaid is most important to you,
if that's family, then you'realways going to have that on
your mind and I'm sure there'sthings that that helps push you
to be better.
You know athlete, to be a betterworker.

(32:49):
You know to kind of keeppushing those thresholds,
because I think one thing thatyou know a lot of cause I would
consider we're probably all alittle bit type A personalities,
right, it's that drive, youknow, and that's that's that,
that Goggins thing, that whenyou wake up and you're like, you
know, get up, do it again.

(33:13):
I don't want to cuss a bunch,but you know, don't be a bitch
baby.
You know, and you know at theend of the day, you know that's,
it's awesome and I think that'scommendable and like,
especially someone in yoursituation, you know like people
are going to be looking up toyou and they see that, they see
that it's achievable.
It's like I can't have a family, I can't pursue my dreams, I
can't pursue my goals andachieve them.
You know, because the other halfof this is that you keep
pushing, you don't get anywheresometimes that can be
extraordinarily frustrating butyou know, if you stick to the

(33:37):
game plan, you stick to thatpath, you know you'll, you'll be
rewarded in the end and I thinkthat's awesome and very
commendable well you touched on.

Speaker 2 (33:47):
You touched on something a couple times there,
both directly and indirectly,that has been a major focus of
my past year, both home life,work life, training life, and
it's the idea of just beingdynamic and being adaptable,
like we've worked so hard andlike my personality has always

(34:10):
and always and naturally beingjust work, work, work, work,
work.
If there's a session on thebooks, I'm going to run that
session and either where I teara hamstring or whether I throw
up, I'm just going to keep going.
Um, and especially as I getolder uh, put it just bringing
it back to athletics a littlebit but as I get older, as I
don't recover, as well as thebody gets quicker, bigger,

(34:31):
faster, stronger, but alsoyou're pushing closer to that
line of injury and this and thatwe've tried to bring that back
into a constant assessment of doI need to do this?
What's going to be the mostbang for the buck?

(35:01):
And like responding to thingsin the most like equal way
possible to get the job done onthe whole.
Like people I've found thathave that success can see the
whole picture, the wholebattlefield from the bird's eye
view.
They don't just get locked intothis one piece of the puzzle
that has to be this done way,they're always adapting and

(35:23):
changing their strategies towhat suits the immediate kind of
environment.

Speaker 3 (35:30):
Absolutely, absolutely immediate kind of
environment?

Speaker 1 (35:32):
yeah, absolutely, and it's uh.
It's so funny because, likewhen you see people who are
successful, that do well in life, there's people only see when
you're on that mountaintop,right, they don't see the work
that has gone behind it.
The hours from home for usvolunteering before we get hired

(35:55):
, working terrible jobs.
I mean, as a kid I would think,oh, olympians, all they do is
train.
They get paid.
I know a lot that havefull-time jobs and they're still
trying to get in the Olympicsand train and do all that.
I mean it's commendable.
That's a lot, dude.
That takes dedication, it takesgrit, the determination.
But, like you said, it's likewe have this kind of saying in

(36:18):
the fire service where when youstart promoting, like jordan,
jordan's a, he's a leader, he'san officer in our fire
department, right, cool, right,yeah, so he has to look at yeah
he's gonna when we go to fires.
He's looking at things from the20,000-foot perspective, right,
Whereas the firefighters thathe's leading, they're kind of

(36:40):
more at the 1,000-footperspective because, all right,
you're just being told what todo.
Go put that fire out.
Where he's looking out forsafety, are there civilians
stuck inside?
How much of the house isinvolved?
Have I got a 360 of thisbuilding?
Do we have a water supply?
Do we have two into it?
There's so much that you have tosee, but you're so right on
that, like when you can startlooking at things from a bigger

(37:01):
perspective and understand like,hey, the payoff in the years
down the road of what I'm tryingto get to is worth what I'm
going through.
Now.
You will all like, I've noticed, I can put myself through
anything.
I'll suffer, I'll do what Ihave to do, I'll take the
classes, I'll work to latenights.
Um, like, I used to run 50, 60mile runs, right, to get to that

(37:22):
point, oh, bro, it was.
They were long, like this dude.
You're talking like 15, 14, 15hours of running, but to get to
that point, oh yeah, it's gnarlybro, it's cool man.
Yeah, yeah, but I was saying itwas like dude, that's wild.
I remember training for thosefor years.

(37:42):
I was doing it for years, butit's like it didn't just happen
overnight.
It started with all right, I'mgonna start running three miles,
okay after that for a fewmonths.
I'm gonna bump this up to halfmarathon did a couple of
marathons.
I'm going to do a marathon now.
Did a couple of marathons.
All right, I'm going to keep mytraining because I'm at a
pretty high level.
I'm going to keep pushing andsee how far I can go and next
thing, you know, you're laterrunning my first, you know,

(38:04):
ultra marathon, which is wild,so so all to say yeah, all to
say is like nothing's handed toany, any of us, right, our
success, internet, like it justdoesn't happen overnight.
You know I'm saying, and it's itto me, it's um I, I teach at a
college, the fire classes, and Ialways tell them, if you know
your why, you'll be able tofight for anything that you're

(38:26):
going for.
You know there's, there's areason that you gotta have
something to fight for and livefor and what you want for your
future family and your goals.
Because reality is right, dan,we got one shot.
I mean that that's straight up.
Like you got one shot and I'dtell people you got three solid
decades.
You got your 20s, your 30s,your 40s by your 50s.

(38:48):
I don't know, you know,hopefully.
You know, hopefully, stuff wentokay, your body's still doing
okay.
But it's like if you would havetold me I'm gonna be 38 years
old and I'm having my firstdaughter, I wouldn't have
believed you years ago.
I was just doing my own thing,having fun, you know.
So it's like use your timewisely.
Where am I putting my time?
That comes back to that wholeissue of family, but going after

(39:10):
your goals, but also providingwork money.
So, yeah, to see someone likeyourself.
Being able to do what you'redoing is encouraging.
It's rad, it's amazing.
I even know your brother.
It's like dude when you hit meup like I gotta come on, like,
hold on, damn, figure out thisvirtual thing.
No idea what I'm doing, butwe're gonna figure this out,
dude.
Yeah, yeah, so it's awesome.

(39:31):
Now I do have a question foryou.
Yeah, you were born in the USA,right?

Speaker 2 (39:38):
Yes, correct.

Speaker 1 (39:39):
Okay.
So what was yourdecision-making point to?
I don't know if you want to sayI hope I'm saying this right,
but try out for the Olympics inAustralia or australia, or go
for the australian team insteadof usa or even like over to
australia first.

Speaker 2 (39:55):
You know what got, what got you over there so that
that's another long story initself, um, but I'll try.
I'll try and expedite it.
So the, the, what it happened,what?
Yeah, I can't speak see whathappened was.
Yeah, I can't speak.
See what had happened was whathad happened was no.
So when I my senior year of mylast year of NCAA competition, I

(40:21):
was competing for Duke and Ihad a massive breakout year.
Dude, you talk about things forhaving.
This is a different tangent,but you talk about things
happening for a reason.
I gave myself the goal of I hadto score 7,500 points that year
in order to pursue this as acareer.
Like I gave myself the hardcutoff, the very first

(40:41):
competition I did.
That year I scored 7,500 points, like 7,500.
Not over, not one point, notone point below.
Points like seven five, zero,zero, not over, not one point,
not one point below is on themoney.
I was like I guess I'm anathlete now.
Um, yeah, so so that was I meanthings.
I I a hundred percent agreewith you.

(41:02):
Things happen for a reason.
Um, there's plenty moreexamples like that.
But in terms of the Australianthing, that year I went on to
qualify and compete at USNational Championships.
Following that, I actually madea US team and got to compete in

(41:25):
.
It's called the Thorpe Cup.
It's essentially the US versusGermany in the multi-events.
Absolutely fantastic experience.
I got to wear USA on my chest,which is something that, to be
quite honest, with the depth oftalent in the United States, I
never thought that I wasactually going to be able to do.

Speaker 1 (41:44):
That's a good point.

Speaker 2 (41:47):
So even when I was in high school, when I first
started pursuing the decathlon,learning what this was, my dad's
Australian and I've always hadthis fascination.
Yeah, so I've always had thisfascination with Australia and I
always knew, at the very least,I wanted to do a semester
abroad study and study inMelbourne in Australia when I
was in college.
I wanted to do a semesterabroad study and study in

(42:08):
Melbourne in Australia.
When I was in college,athletics took over.
Never got the time to actuallygo do that because I was
dedicated to sport.
But the idea was, if I were toactually do this, then the plan
was to compete for Australia,and when I made that US team, I

(42:29):
am a dual citizen, so I thoughtI didn't know any differently at
the time.
I thought, great, I can competefor the US one year, the
Commonwealth Games is next year,I'll go compete at the
Commonwealth Games next year.
Doesn't really work like that.
As it turns out, you have to gothrough a whole formal legal

(42:49):
process of a transfer ofallegiance.
Once you represent one country,you have to then go through
like a three-year waiting periodwhere you can't represent
anybody before you can transferto another country.
So a lot of dual citizens gothrough that process there's
been a few this year.
It happens a lot in sprints anddistance events, um, and so I

(43:16):
that kind of not put much of ahiatus on my career, but it kind
of put a a lull in there.
Um, it just kind of happenedthat the timing was right to
where what would have been the2020 olympics before the world
shut down um, I would have beenthe 2020 Olympics before the
world shut down.
I would have been eligible tocompete for Australia, like
literally one week before that.
So the timing, I got lucky withit, even though I didn't know

(43:40):
anything about it going into it,but it was just another one of
those things.
I moved to Australia in 2019.
Two years after I had thatbreakout and competed for the
States and I we I only went toAustralia cause my grandpa
grandmother fell ill, um, and wehad to square away some legal

(44:03):
stuff and like do some workrenovating a building and stuff,
um, in Australia.
And I literally went toAustralia with a suitcase,
planning to be there for twoweeks, and I just never came
home.
Wow, I had a pair of boardshorts.
I had all the spikes that I hadgone because I had just

(44:23):
competed.
So I had my training gear, Ihad a pair of board shorts and
that's it one suitcase and I hada laptop.
And yeah, I was planning to bethere for two weeks.
That got extended because weneeded we needed more time to
complete the work, and two weeksturned into two months turned
into now we're five years, awife and a baby later.

Speaker 3 (44:45):
Wow, wow hey, oh man, dude, dude, I all.
I all I could think about is itsounded like you know those
memes where it says likeso-and-so's starter kit and then
it's got a couple of thingswhen it's like the decathlete's
starter kit.
It's like board shorts, acouple pairs of spikes, a laptop
and a passport.

Speaker 2 (45:07):
That's pretty much it , yeah, yeah, that's awesome.

Speaker 3 (45:10):
Wow, dude, that's pretty much it.
Yeah, yeah, that's awesome.
Wow, that's so cool.
When?
So with the Olympics, do youknow when, the exact dates of
the competition, so we can liketell people when to tune in and
try to try to support you hereon TV?

Speaker 2 (45:22):
Yeah, absolutely.
I will be competing the secondand third of August.
It's long, long couple of daysit's roughly 10 am to 10 pm, I
believe both days and mostlikely I don't expect too much
coverage of the multi-events,both male or female, but there's

(45:47):
going to be some coverage andsome live results pages and
things like that.
Um, and I'm sure, I'm sure myfamily will have some social
stuff going as well.
But, to be honest, I I'm justmy only focus right now is
getting prepared and getting outthere to go essentially enjoy
the entire experience, becausewhen I enjoy things I tend to do

(46:08):
better anyways.
Yeah, the entire experience,because when I enjoy things I
tend to do better anyways, yeah.
So I'm just trying to stay asrelaxed and enjoy the entire
experience and all the workthat's led to this point, um,
and really just have some fun,which will, which is very
exciting well, dude, if you endup on a australian wheaties box,
can we please get one that'ssigned 100%?

Speaker 3 (46:33):
Oh, dude.

Speaker 2 (46:35):
I'll see what I can do to get on a box, but, yeah,
100%, if that one comes out,we'll be taking heaps of packets
to bring home.

Speaker 3 (46:44):
Heck, yeah, that's awesome.

Speaker 1 (46:45):
You said it right too .
Enjoy, dude.
I can enjoy every ounce andmoment of this, because think
about how long that you haveworked hard and put in the time
and the sacrifices that you made, and uh, I just I just think
it's awesome.
Man, I really do hope you havefun and I am gonna be rooting
for usa, but I'm still for oneperson from australia and's

(47:08):
going to be you, though.

Speaker 3 (47:10):
Yeah, I was like the only non-US competitor.

Speaker 1 (47:13):
Yeah dude, I was like we're going to be cheering for
you.
Speaking of which, dude I wantyou guys to check out.
Look at my guy.
Look at my guy, dude.
Look at the face, the joy thedetermination Vast Dude you look
at all the muscles yeah dude,how tall are you?

Speaker 3 (47:37):
uh, six foot four okay, wow, yeah, hide your wife,
I am I put a picture, you knowwhen that one was.

Speaker 1 (47:51):
But I was like I gotta throw a picture.
This guy up, dude I.

Speaker 2 (47:54):
I remember that exact moment.
That was commonwealth games2022, birmingham, uk.
Um, I had just cleared acritical bar in the pole vault,
um, and it was stinking hot out,it was 90 something degrees and
, um, I had, I had an atrociouswarm-up and that was that led on
to a another series that led to, and actually led to, a silver

(48:18):
medal in the event, so, wow yeahyou can.
You can tell my excitement Ican see your face.

Speaker 1 (48:23):
I'm like something big happened there I don't know
what happened something bighappened, dude well, hey before
we end, dude um, so are you abeliever, just like your brother
too.

Speaker 2 (48:36):
Yes, I am.
I think he's definitely gonedown that pathway a lot stronger
than what I have.
I'm definitely more moderatekind of, and have been.
It's all coming full circle,though I actually I've got on

(48:57):
the books to get my daughterKristen when I get home and I'm
actually in my wife's beentaking her to church in
Australia with a friend of hersas well.
They've actually been quiteenjoying themselves and she
actually just the other dayasked me to get them a matching
pair of crosses to wear on anecklace.

(49:18):
That's so awesome me to get thema matching pair of um crosses
to wear on a necklace, um.
So they're awesome, they're.
They're exploring themselves alittle bit, um as well, which is
uh, it's.
It's an exciting thing to watchfrom the outside and I'm
actually really excited to getget back into it that's cool,
man.

Speaker 1 (49:29):
Everyone at their own pace.
I mean, everyone's gonna have adifferent relationship with
lord.
That's something I had to learnbeing a prodigal son,
especially coming back frombeing away for so many years and
just living a wild life.
Uh, it ain't about like churchreligion, it's just a
relationship, dude.
So you don't even stress, likeyou said, it just it happens.
It comes full circle, dude, andyou'll see and recognize things

(49:51):
.
And, um, you have a cool family, dude.
Um, your brother has reallytouched my life.
He's been.
He, he's been a friend, kind oflike jordan, through some
brother has really touched mylife.
He's been, uh, he, he's been afriend, kind of like jordan,
through some of the toughesttimes, dude, but he's always.
He kind of taught me to have apositive outlook, like dude, no
matter what happens, it's gonnabe okay.
Dude, god's good.
I'm like, ah, are you sureabout this man, you know?
And then, years later, I'm like, dang doug, you were right.

(50:12):
Like everything's freaking dope, yeah, I'm gonna be totally
fine, you know.
But um, no, I just asked youbecause you're, you know, you're
well spoken, dude.
You seem like a man of strongconviction, especially when you
have discipline like that.
And, my goodness you put alittle faith behind that, dude.
I mean, you're alreadyunstoppable.

(50:34):
Who's's telling me what I'mgoing to take?
Dude, so it's pretty cool, man.
And then your wife.
Your wife is Australian.

Speaker 2 (50:41):
My wife's an Aussie, yeah.

Speaker 1 (50:43):
Are you going to stay in Australia when all is said
and done?
Are you going to come back tothe States?

Speaker 2 (50:48):
That is a mystery for everybody.
I think at the moment a lot ofpeople around me are asking that
question.
I love Australia.
I love growing up in America.
I want the same experiences formy daughter to have that I had
growing up, because my parentsprovided an incredible childhood

(51:10):
for me and it's something we'restill working through Again.
It becomes a balance of workand life and family and
everything else and opportunityin itself.
But that is a mystery that isyet to be confirmed, Sorry.

Speaker 1 (51:31):
Day at a time, dude, just a day at a time.

Speaker 3 (51:34):
Yeah, man, hey, you got the Olympics coming up.
You're worried about the longterm, dude, you're on the short
term route right now.

Speaker 2 (51:44):
I'm going to Paris first.
Yes, sir.

Speaker 1 (51:48):
Dude, it's just amazing man.
Thank you so much for coming onthe podcast and just giving us
time.
Dude, this is the first timewe've done one across the globe.
You're in France, right, we'reover, so this is crazy, which is
great.

Speaker 3 (52:01):
This is true.

Speaker 1 (52:03):
Yeah, you're the first one, dude.

Speaker 2 (52:05):
Yeah, fantastic.
Well, I appreciate, oh, goahead.
No, no, no, I appreciate beingthe test mule.

Speaker 1 (52:13):
Yeah, yeah, it's working out man, it's working
out man, it's working out, butuh yeah, you're gonna do great,
dude.
Like I said, just enjoy it, man.
You've worked so hard for allthis and just know like I'm
gonna be praying for you, man.
I want you to do well and ifit's you, uh, towards the end,
up against usa, I might have togo for you, bro, might have to

(52:35):
go for you, bro.

Speaker 3 (52:37):
Might have to go for you.

Speaker 2 (52:38):
I know the US boys.
I know the US boys very well,I'm friends with all of them and
they're a bunch of good dudes.
But it's going to be a battle,that's for sure.

Speaker 1 (52:48):
Oh, that's freaking dope dude Gosh.

Speaker 3 (52:52):
Thank you so much for talking with us and, dude, I
think it's always so crazy we'vehad so many opportunities to
talk with like interestingpeople and then, just you know,
especially like high levels ofsuccess, and I think that you
know, especially when we'retalking about that whole
work-life balance and in pursuitand showing the backstory

(53:14):
leading up to where you're at.
You know, you're only 30 yearsold and you've accomplished just
so much in that tight window,right Like the last 12 years,
right when you're 18, when youstarted, and now you're
competing in the Olympics andyou're representing a country I
mean, you know, I mean I'mbiased because I wish it was the
United States, but at the sametime, either way, it's just a

(53:35):
reflection of that pursuit ofyou being able to commit to
something and grow your lifereally around it.
You know you have a stable jobyou said you worked with Shell
and then you know you have a newwell, I don't know how long
you've been married but a newfamily, you know, and you're
still competing in the Olympics.
Dude, it's amazing and what agreat, a great.

(53:56):
You know, not just arepresentative of a country, but
just as a human.
You know, and I think that youknow the, the people like
yourself.
You're inspirational to othersand it just shows that not only
you can stick with something,you can be successful in it.
And then and I'm sure, and liketim said earlier, you know,
it's like you we only see thetop portion of the mountain when

(54:18):
you're there, right, which isan amazing feat.
But you know, everyone knowsyou got to get there somehow and
it doesn't just come by chance.
You know, and I think that Ithink that that's that's awesome
to see and I just trulyappreciate you sharing, you know
, some of your life stories andyou know, I don't know if I
would hope that we maybe, afterthe Olympics, we could do a
little follow-up, you know, andtalk about how the process was.

Speaker 2 (54:40):
Absolutely.

Speaker 3 (54:41):
That would be so awesome to hear and you know,
hopefully some fun stories.
And hopefully, with a, you gota medal around your neck too,
because that would be super dope.
And again, wheaties Box sendthem.
Yeah, for sure.

Speaker 2 (54:58):
Wheaties Box?
Yeah, for sure I can't.
I can't tell you guys how muchthat means to me.

Speaker 1 (55:01):
I'm just going to say a quick prayer for you, dude.
I think that prayer does helpall things.
I'm going to do it real quickfor you, alright, brother
alright dear Lord, thank you forthis time and thank you for Dan
.
Please go before him in theOlympics, keep him safe, keep
his family safe, keep him strong, keep him sharp.
Be with him, lord, and let allthis hard work that he has done
culminate into him beingsuccessful in these Olympics.

(55:21):
Thank you for what you've donefor him and for all of us.
Amen, amen, all right, baby,you're going to do good.
Baby, let's go.

Speaker 2 (55:31):
Let's ride.

Speaker 1 (55:32):
Dan, thanks for coming on, man.
We really appreciate it, dude.

Speaker 2 (55:36):
No, you guys thank you for having me.
I appreciate everything youguys have said and I appreciate
your time.
It's been a lot of fun and,yeah, I will do my absolute best
to enjoy this and take it allin and I look forward to talking
to you guys again at some point.

Speaker 1 (55:53):
Oh, dude, it's going to be dope.
We will be watching.
Dude, I wish I had bettercontact with you, but just know
I'm gonna be blowing up yourinstagram.
Uh, dms, okay for sure I always.

Speaker 2 (56:05):
I always tell everybody, no matter how it goes
, I'm gonna put on a show.
So and get ready to enjoyshorter shorts.

Speaker 1 (56:10):
Okay, shorter shorts.

Speaker 3 (56:12):
Take care dude.

Speaker 2 (56:19):
Thank you again, bye.

Speaker 1 (56:22):
Oh man, he was good dude.
Dude rad guy, that's our firstOlympian to come on the podcast.
What a good time.
This has been super dope dude.
I can't wait to follow up withhim and see how he does, but
anyways, good seeing you, buddy.

Speaker 3 (56:37):
Thank you for your time.
You too, man, Always a goodtime.
Glad we got to do this againthis morning.
And, dude, that was our firstabroad episode.
Yeah, is it safe to say we'reglobal?
Now we're global yeah, globaldownloads.

Speaker 1 (56:50):
We're recording globally now, absolutely insane.
Hey, let's get a, let's go onthree dude, we'll get out of
here ready?

Speaker 3 (56:56):
all right, I'll let you sir.
All right, one, two, three,let's go, let's go see you, dude
.

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