May 23, 2023 • 45 mins
002. on this episode, coaches bennett are talking about
- the 100 foot wave,
- tammie getting sick and losing her voice (and Chris gaining some bliss as a result)
- PBX in PDX.
- How we fall in love with different sports.
- As always, we've got our petty grievances.
- We even talk about our bucket list races
- and the difference between an earthquake and an aftershock
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coach chris bennett (00:06):
Welcome to the to
coach tammie bennett (00:08):
coach Bennett's talking Podcast. I'm
Coach Tammie Bennett.
coach chris bennett (00:12):
And I'm Coach Chris Bennett. This is
where we talk about
coach tammie bennett (00:15):
anything we want. Anything we want, like
movies or music, running, notrunning life and what gets us
excited. Fantasy and sci fi
coach chris bennett (00:27):
books?
coach tammie bennett (00:28):
No, we're not talking about that. All
right,
coach chris bennett (00:31):
well, we'll talk about everything but
fantasy and sci fi books.
tammie bennett (00:35):
So sit back or keep moving because it's time to
start talking.
coach chris bennett (00:41):
On today's episode of to coach Bennett's
talking, we'll be talking aboutthe 100 foot wave. Tammy getting
sick and losing her voice andChris gaining some bliss as a
result PBX in PDX. How we fallin love with different sports.
As always, we've got our pettygrievances. We even talk about
our bucket list races, and thedifference between an earthquake
(01:03):
and an aftershock some uselessknowledge there for you. So
let's get started.
tammie bennett (01:12):
Welcome back, Coach Bennett.
coach chris bennett (01:14):
Thanks for having me back. I guess I don't
need to say that because it'sjust as much mine as it is
yours, right? Or is it reallyit's 51% Yours.
tammie bennett (01:23):
Welcome back.
coach chris bennett (01:24):
Why? Why do we have to start over?
tammie bennett (01:27):
Because we don't need to put that in. That's
jibber jabber.
coach chris bennett (01:30):
I'm taking my 50% vote and then keep it in.
Okay. And now we're at astalemate. What are you up to?
How was your week?
tammie bennett (01:37):
My week involved me sitting on a couch and
watching a lot of Gilmore Girlsbecause I was sick for either
seven or eight days and lost myvoice for a few of those which
was endless bliss for you.
Surprisingly frustrating for me.
I think you don't realize howmuch you talk how much your
(02:00):
voice is important until youlose it.
coach chris bennett (02:02):
I think I know exactly how much you talk.
tammie bennett (02:06):
So what's up with you? How was your week?
coach chris bennett (02:09):
It was great. There was a it was a lot
of quiet in the house, which wasjust fantastic. I'm trying to
pinpoint why. But it just seemedreally peaceful. And this sounds
terrible. But when I asked you,What have you been up to? I had
already forgotten that you hadbeen sick for like seven or
eight days.
tammie bennett (02:27):
Yeah, well, it's because I'm back to life now and
I've been
coach chris benn (02:30):
reinvigorated.
Yeah, reanimated. Yeah. Reborn.
tammie bennett (02:36):
So what are we going to talk about today?
coach chris bennett (02:39):
You want to go straight into the meat and
taters and skip over what I'vebeen up to?
tammie bennett (02:42):
Well, you said it was quiet and you forgot that
I was sick?
coach chris bennett (02:46):
Yeah, I guess I did. I already forgot
what my answer was.
tammie bennett (02:49):
Well, we did Oregon relays, or Twilight
relays. We did Twilight relays,you can talk about that.
coach chris bennett (02:54):
Yes, there was a great trackmate that we
got to go to down the street,which was fantastic, different
vibe this year as there was aheavy focus on every athlete. So
they have a tally going of howmany personal bests or PBS were
being set over the course of themeet. So a lot of times you
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believe any sporting event you'dkind of focus on, you know, the
people that are finishing firstand second and third are
winning. And for this one, itwas really a celebration of
anyone who had done a lifetimebest. And I think by the end of
the meat there were over 360lifetime bests. So that was,
that was cool end. The cherry ontop of the fact that it was not
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raining in Portland, it wassunny and warm.
tammie bennett (03:43):
Yeah, that was amazing. And yeah, 360
different. Maybe not differentkids, but different events that
had a personal best, becausesome kids could have gotten more
than one PB.
coach chris bennett (03:55):
Yes. And that was the that was the
unofficial tally. I thinkprobably the official tally was
was well over 360. But it wasprobably pushing up on 375 or
400. So yeah, it's amazing. Ifyou actually think about it, the
fact that in the course of acouple of hours, a bunch of kids
were able to do something thatthey practiced that that they
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had never ever done better. Howcool is that?
tammie bennett (04:22):
So cool. This is a little bit off topic but kind
of on topic. I always grew upsaying PR until I met you so
personal record till I met youand then I just sort of evolved
over into PB even though I stilllike PR better. But I think when
we release this episode, itwould be fun to do a poll to see
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what most people call it whetherit's a PR personal record or a
PB personal best.
coach chris bennett (04:48):
I think you're right though I think most
people call it PR but I thinkmost people are wrong on this. I
think personal best meanssomething so much more powerful.
And a PB obviously can mean alot of a lot of different
things. But like I better wewere the big could mean peanut
butter. Yes. Or Peaky Blinders.
But yeah, there's just, I have acouple more episodes of that
(05:14):
left. That's why it's on mymind. But when I was in high
school, which is really the agethat a lot of people were
introduced to the sport, we werethe only team because our coach
referred to them as PBS. We werethe only team I knew of. They
refer to them as PBS and prs.
Yeah, so it stuck with me, butI'm a big PB fan. Yeah, I'm to
(05:37):
the side of PBS. So if you dovote, I don't we don't want to.
Yeah,
tammie bennett (05:42):
we just totally another, we totally just
coach chris bennett (05:46):
do that.
But PBS is the right answer. Andthere is no way I shouldn't say
there's no right answer. There'sa wrong answer. And it's PR. But
don't feel like there's a rightanswer.
tammie bennett (05:57):
Okay. Let's talk about the main topic of the day.
coach chris bennett (06:00):
If this one came out of nowhere, didn't it?
Yeah. A little bit like a roguewave a little bit.
tammie bennett (06:05):
Is that a hint?
coach chris bennett (06:06):
I don't know, what are we talking about?
tammie bennett (06:08):
So we're not going to always be talking about
something that we're watching onTV. But this time we are, as we
did last time. This time theshow is called is the 100 foot
wave or just 100 foot wave?
coach chris bennett (06:23):
I think it's just 100 foot wave. Yeah,
but while you're giving a littlebit of some backstory on it,
I'll look up and see if it's theor just 100 foot wave.
tammie bennett (06:32):
Yeah. So yeah, we're only two episodes in. So I
feel kind of funny talking abouta show that we've only watched
two episodes out of, it'sthere's two seasons now. But it
was so impactful. And it wasit's one of those movies that we
would have shown at our highschool, sleepaway camps that we
used to run. We used to have amovie night on one of the nights
at our camp and something kindof impactful about sports,
(06:55):
something about inspirational.
And I think this would have beena perfect fit.
coach chris bennett (06:59):
I agree.
And by the way, it's 100 footwave, the number 100 foot wave.
So it's not spelled out either,just so no, though. It starts
with the actual numerals 100foot wave.
tammie bennett (07:12):
Yeah. So so far, it's just about this one surfer
who is on this quest to ride a100 foot wave. And it's
obviously that's like, as theysay, going down the side of at
least eight foot tall, sorry,eight storey building, which I
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cannot even imagine, I have alittle bit of fear of heights.
So it just makes me feel sick alittle bit. Some of the video
just makes me feel a little bitsick to see how tall the wave
is, and how powerful it iscompared to this one tiny little
speck of a man. But yeah, solet's talk about why you want to
talk about it.
coach chris bennett (07:49):
I'm just gonna add on to the wave, the
size of 100 foot wave, which wehaven't seen yet. But the just
the mass and the size and thepower and just the fury of the
ocean, when it's producing awave of the size is it is awe
inspiring. It is. It's cool,because there's so many things
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going on in the show. One is Ithink you have to walk away just
in awe of nature, which isreally cool. But the other thing
is, it seems like there's alwaysthese crazy, at least it comes
across initially as a crazy risktaking. Weirdo. And then I think
one of the aspects we alwayslove is then when you kind of
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peel back a little bit, thecrazy is, is really well thought
out. And there's a ton ofdiscipline and a lot of
training. And a lot of respect,which I think as an outsider,
you don't realize how muchrespect these people have for
their sport. And what they'retrying to do, they're not going
in just saying like, Hey, I've,I've only done the choppy surf
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and you know, Florida, three tofive, three to five foot waves.
Now I'm gonna go and try to do100 foot wave. I don't know why
that's a surfer voice. But I'vethat's what I'm going with.
That's the opposite. Theyrespect their sport, which is
one of the things I always lovedabout seeing these things.
tammie bennett (09:16):
So we were talking before we started
recording about how much itreminded me of Alex Honnold in
free solo, where it's this, youknow, definitely, like
literally, it's like a life anddeath kind of undertaking. But
they are so prepared, that theythey still feel the fear, but
they do something about it. Theyjust have this confidence in
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themselves. They have belief inthemselves for being able to
accomplish this because they areso prepared. So you see them
writing in notebooks andmeasuring and calculating and
talking to a scientist andlooking at weather and talking
to weather men and film crewsand safety crews. And what are
we going to do if somebody fallsor somebody gets hurt? I'm
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talking about both shows rightnow, these things were shown in
both of them. And just preparedfor sort of every possible
outcome. And there's justsomething so powerful about
that, and the way that you saidrespect for the sport. And I
think it's also respect forthemselves and how they're
showing up as an athlete and asa record breaker, how they're
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showing up for them selves whoare doing something for the
first time that a human has doneit. And just to have that much
belief in yourself that you cando this thing that no other
human on the planet has done.
Or, I mean, maybe evenattempted, I don't know if other
people have attempted it. I'mnot going to speak to that. But
is that amazing that you canbelieve in yourself that much?
coach chris bennett (10:43):
Yes. And it takes a lot of effort to, which
is I think the other thing thatwe love, I'm trying to look up
the name of the movie, we didshow the sleepaway camp of Danny
way, who's a skateboardermember, and he tried, he was
trained to jump over the GreatWall of China. And anyway, well,
we'll, we'll find it. But thatwas another one where I think
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sometimes this is our ignoranceof the sports, kind of these
extreme sports, things likeskateboarding, or free soloing,
which is the rock climbingwithout any safety gear for big
wave surfing, that you canforget just how extraordinary
These athletes are, and howextraordinary they are then
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within their own sport, and howseriously they take it. And at
the same time, and this is whatI always, I always think we get
wrong. Sometimes when weintroduce a sport to somebody,
it's If you respect the sport,or if you learn the sport, or if
you teach the sport, where ifyou're serious about the sport
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that it robs it of, it's fun.
And I think sometimes whenyou're not respecting the sport,
or you think that teachingpeople about the sport, or you
know, being serious, not in away that's robbing it of fun, if
nothing else, it's bringing morepassion more fun into it. I just
I love seeing that the deeperpeople get into the sport,
sometimes, the deeper in lovethey get, and the more fun they
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have.
tammie bennett (12:16):
Yeah, I think it's interesting for me because
my way in to learning about newsports is through a an athlete.
So it's me seeing their story onthe internet or on TV and like
the the just showing theirpersonality and showing like the
goofy parts and showing thereally studious parts and
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showing them overcoming hardthings. I think, like for me,
I'm so like, that's why we'rewatching f1 now is because we
watched drive is it drive tosurvive? Yes, on Netflix, and we
got introduced to these f1racing drivers. And we became
huge fans of them as peoplebecause they're so devoted to
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their sport. And then we got toknow them as people and just the
characters that they are. And sonow we're like so into f1. And
we're like, you know, I thinkit's time they should change the
tires. They should take apitstop and it's like, who are
we? But right, but so I thinkfor me, the entryway into
knowing so much about the sportsand learning about them is
through a specific athlete andjust getting to know the human
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side of it.
coach chris bennett (13:20):
Yeah. Now let me ask you this, do you find
that your way into understandingthe sport, then continues to go
through the athlete? Or will youthen kind of go off on your own
and try to learn about thesports you can enjoy what the
athlete you're now interested inis doing? Like, how does that
work? Because you've I've seenit happen with you, where you
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get interested in the humans.
But then suddenly, you learnmore and more about what the
humans are doing. So you youwant to know a little bit more
about the rules. You want toknow a little bit more about the
history of the sport. I've seen
tammie bennett (13:56):
it with baseball, I was just gonna say
for sure in baseball. Yeah, I've
coach chris bennett (14:00):
seen it with f1 now so what what is that
next step? Because I think it's,it's very similar to how someone
probably the humans that you arewatching, it's probably the same
for them. It's probably somebodythey knew, and were interested
in and had fun with. And that'swhat got them into the sport.
And then they started to fall inlove with the sport and not just
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the sports people but how doesit work for you?
tammie bennett (14:24):
Yeah, I think it's probably did I think it
probably becomes I was gonna saylike a chicken and egg
situation. But that's not true.
I think it just becomes like thespiral where I just get more
involved. But I have to tell youif some of these athletes who I
have fallen in love with if theyleft the sport on some of these
sports, I wouldn't be asinterested. So like if you take
Tour de France, for example,which we used to wake up at five
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in the morning to watch it liveback in the Lance Armstrong
days. I'm gonna put a littleasterix there and we don't have
to go into that deep hole. Butyou know, when he left the
sport, we didn't watch it thatmuch more maybe one more season
because there We're still someother characters and athletes
that we knew. So yeah, I thinkfor me, I think for me
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personally, I have to have thathuman, not human. That's a
spice, human connection, right?
Like I have to have the peoplethat I'm interested in, and then
the more that they're around,the more I want to watch it. So
therefore, then I learn moreabout the sport because I've
entrenched in it. So how manygames of Yankees baseball did we
watch last year? Want to say?
coach chris bennett (15:26):
Probably close to 155? You know, I mean,
probably over that, because wewatched some spring training. So
we'll say we'll say over 160.
There's only 162 games in theregular season, there's probably
25 In spring training, and thenthe Yankees didn't go far in the
playoffs. So they probably had185 games of which we watched
160.
tammie bennett (15:45):
Yeah. So because I know so many of these Yankee
players. That's why I wanted tostick around and watch it. And
then as I'm watching it, I'mhearing the commentators that
I'm asking you questions, andI'm learning so much more about
it. And John boy, and like, youknow, you know, commentators of
the sport. So I think for me, Ihave to have that the link is
that human connection, and thatamazing athlete and the
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characters of the sport, whatdoes it for you?
coach chris bennett (16:11):
I think it depends on the sport, and just
how deep a man I think there's,there's some sports now where I
can kind of show up if I've beenaway. And just enjoy watching
the sport, even if I don't knowthe characters, but there's
absolutely no doubt, I enjoywatching sports more, if I have
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some type of a connection withthe people I'm watching. I think
in and I'll give you like anexample. It I'll even enjoy
watching a running race. I don'thave to know the person. But if
I know what the person is tryingto do, that's all I need to
know. So if I know there's abarrier, and it's a time i It's
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like if you hang out at the endof a marathon, and you get close
to like the three hour, the fourhour, the five hour mark,
obviously everyone's gettingexcited, because they know
everyone coming downstraightaway is looking at the
clock, and they like to breakthe barrier. So I don't even
know who you are. But I willcheer wildly for that. So I
understand kind of the sport,the same thing that a high
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school meet, maybe it's fiveminutes in the mile or six
minutes in the mile or sub 60and a 400. You know, there's all
these little things where I knowit probably is meaningful for
the for the athlete. So I it's,I know enough about the sport to
understand what's exciting forthe human without knowing really
anything about the human. But ifI know the bigger picture, then
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yeah, I'm definitely 100% goingto enjoy the sport more, which
is interesting now that you'vebrought it up that way that we
will love a sport more if weknow more about the humans
playing the sport. Yeah, whichjust seems obvious. But you
know, you're a basketball fan.
Well, you mean the joy and theexcitement you get when you are
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watching family play basketballor friends play by play
basketball or your favorite teamplay basketball is different
than when you asked a bunch ofpeople at a park playing. Even
though the quality of play couldbe better at the park amongst
people you don't know. Youprobably have more fun watching
a bunch of five year olds ifyour niece and nephew are
playing. So that's a it's not somuch the quality really as much
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as the maybe the quality of yourrelationship with the people.
tammie bennett (18:28):
Yeah. I love that. And I think that's, you
know, we just kind of circle itback to where we started. So we
can like wrap this section upwith the 100 foot wave. Garrett
is the the main surfer thatwe've gotten to know like we're
besties basically now with himon Episode Two and his wife,
Nicole. But yeah, I think that'sone of the reasons why we are so
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entrenched in this now isbecause we've seen how dedicated
he is how much belief he has,how much he has to visualize and
meditate and find calm and findbelief in addition to all the
technical things where he's outthere practicing and teaching
people how to ride the jetskiand practicing safe safety and
all these things. So yeah, Ithink Garrett and his wife
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Nicola, a big reason why we'reso into the show.
coach chris bennett (19:16):
Yeah, and I'm just, we can wrap it up
here. I was gonna say it's alsofascinating to me how there's
always that it's usually in thefirst two or three episodes
where they give you a littlebackground on the person. And
you suddenly like, oh, okay, Iunderstand a little bit about
their behavior now.
tammie bennett (19:38):
Where the drive comes from?
coach chris bennett (19:40):
Yeah, where the drive comes from or where
kind of the blind spots are, youknow, in some of their decision
making or what, what their needsare, you know, what holes are
they trying to fill up? And Ithink I mean, I know I do this
about myself. Definitely. Youkind of tend to discount that
when you're When you'relistening or paying attention to
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someone else, you realize like,oh, all this stuff kind of makes
up who you are. And thensometimes you can forget to do
that for yourself. All right, wecan. We can move on a lot of
life lessons from 100 foot wave
tammie bennett (20:12):
sports in general, I would say.
coach chris bennett (20:15):
I would say you're right. I would agree with
you.
tammie bennett (20:18):
Yeah. Yeah.
Okay, we took it up high. Let'stake it down low. Let's talk
about our petty grievance.
coach chris bennett (20:26):
Did you go first or last last time?
tammie bennett (20:29):
I think I went last. I'm ready to go first. I
got one on the on the ready.
coach chris bennett (20:34):
This is Yeah. This is why you want to
wrap up the other section. Allright, let's go. What's your
petty grievance towards me?
tammie bennett (20:41):
Oh, it doesn't have to be towards you. And this
one actually is not towards you.
This is when I go into our foodcabinets. And I will pull out a
delicious tasty snack and thecontainer feels super light,
suspiciously light. And I lookinside and there's nothing in
there. So for instance, the bagof almond m&ms. I think about
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them, I go get that on a breakfrom doing work. And there's
literally one in the bag. Likewho leaves one in the bag or who
leaves a completely empty bag,which is also a common
occurrence in our house. Sothat's my petty grievance, just
throw away the package. Don'tgive me that like second of like
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false hope of were like, here itis the treat I've been so
waiting for. Don't do it to me.
coach chris bennett (21:33):
I get it.
This is definitely needs to befiled towards your daughters
though. The ones that do that.
And I will say this though. Iagree with a petty grievance
towards an empty bag. Numberone, number two. Almond m&ms are
gross. So there's so good. It'sjust somebody pouring them into
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the trash. And then three,leaving one single Almond m&m is
one of the funniest things I'veever
tammie bennett (22:02):
heard. So mean, it's just so mean.
coach chris bennett (22:05):
I think that is badass. That's
hilarious.
tammie bennett (22:08):
It's one particular daughter of ours. And
in what am I saying? It's oneparticular daughter of ours.
It's the culprit. So she alsowill oftentimes leave like the
tiniest piece of ice cream inthe carton. Like it's like not
enough to fill up a tablespoon.
Or maybe it's a tablespoon,fine. But like really, really
like you couldn't just eat thatlast bite. I think it's just so
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they can like claim. I didn'tfinish it. It's so mean,
coach chris bennett (22:36):
I think. I think that is genuinely
hilarious. And if I had enoughcruelty in my body, I would do
that consistently. And justlaugh because I've walked away
knowing at some point, someone'sgoing to open up the container
of ice cream, and there's goingto be a morsel tucked in the
corner. And without any luck,the little bit. You know, ice
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burned,
tammie bennett (23:00):
which is oh gosh, the frostbitten bite.
That's awful.
coach chris bennett (23:03):
Yeah. Yeah.
The ultimate indignity. So thatis hilarious.
tammie bennett (23:07):
Yeah. So file that one away. What's your petty
grievance?
coach chris bennett (23:11):
Your minds?
It's towards you? Well,actually, no, I can all include
all include everyone. On thisone. I cook. I do. Pretty much
all the cooking will say 99.43%of the cooking in a given year,
in this house every year. Okay,it is become more rampant that I
now have to come up with what Ineed to cook every night. And
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then I'll hear like, Well, younever pick and it's like, I I
have to cook. So if I say Idon't want to pick, just tell me
what you all want me becausewhat I hear is both does. I'll
get either text messages, orI'll get asked in this odd tone
like, um, do you know what's fordinner? No, I don't. I don't
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know what all of you want me tomake for dinner? Will you will
you never decide? Well, let mejust ask you this. Why was
listen, I should not need todecide if I should be able to
say whatever I want. When itcomes to the meal. You don't go
into a restaurant, and then walkinto the kitchen and tell the
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chef What am I eating tonight?
Now tell the chef what you want,and they'll cook it for you.
tammie bennett (24:23):
That's actually a really valid argument. It kind
of makes me not want to argueback but I was gonna say what
makes you not want to choose thefood like let's just take away
the issue of cooking like whydon't you want to decide the
food?
coach chris bennett (24:37):
Because I just it's easier for me to just
come in. And nosier that's whyis it gone? I might have an
adult soda. And I'm going tojust cook. I don't I don't need
to then go because believe me.
It's not a unanimous decision.
Everyone has a different thingthey want. So just tell me. I
don't want to go around to oneroom and say what do you want?
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then hear one thing and then gointo the next room. Okay, well,
here's, here's what person inroom A wants a person in room B
wants something else. And thenpersonal rooms, he says, I don't
really care. So I'll havewhatever. And that's not true.
So just tell me what you want.
So I don't have to be wanderingaround the house, like this
nomadic chef trying to figureout what what everybody wants to
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eat that night. Just tell me,I'll cook it.
tammie bennett (25:25):
Part of the problem is that we have a house
full of picky eaters, butthey're picky in different ways.
And so it's very hard to findfoods that all of us like so
what I would ask the dearlisteners to do is our Pio Box
address will be in the shownotes. Can you like send us a
recipe or some suggestions forfood? That would be great. And
that will help coach ChrisBennett out dramatically,
coach chris bennett (25:48):
your whitelist and send us some
recipes. Okay, just so if yousend
tammie bennett (25:52):
them to us, then we can like kind of sorting
through them and then give themto you. So it's really it helps
everyone.
coach chris bennett (26:00):
Yeah, I guess so.
tammie bennett (26:01):
So thank you ahead of time. Speaking of the
mailbag. Let's open a letterfrom the mailbag.
coach chris bennett (26:09):
Let me just reach into the burlap sack. gone
through all the letters.
tammie bennett (26:17):
It's blocking out that sound totally. You
might as well pick it up. Yeah.
coach chris bennett (26:22):
Well, there was gonna be a noise of me
ruffling through a whole bunchof letters. But now you think
tammie bennett (26:27):
it's probably fine that you can add it. there
anyway. So yeah, this letter isfrom Melissa Sears. And she
actually sent it to me quite awhile ago, and I just never
answered it. But it was, what isyour bucket list race? So I'll
go and answer it. Since I'm justright here. My bucket list race
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is the western states 100. Sothat takes place in California,
it's 100 mile race. And mygrandpa used to go and volunteer
at it year after year afteryear, he had some amazing
shirts. So someday, I would liketo run it and complete it. But
I'm very, very far from thatright now. But I can have
(27:12):
dreams. What's your bucket list?
Race balls away
coach chris bennett (27:15):
from it?
Yeah, exactly. Oberlin brunch.
Um, this is a tough one for me.
I'm going to mention a race. Andit's not so much that I want to
do this race, but I want to do arace that has the same kind of
vibe. So this could be anothermailbag request of send me kind
of races, if you know of anylike this. So there's a race
(27:37):
called the Dipsy. And that'salso in California, I believe.
And I know it just has a lot ofstairs that you have to climb
like in like instead of trailsor like, kind of like stairs
through the trails. And thereason why I'm thinking of this
is because recently, I saw andit's a race, I want to say it's
(28:01):
in Spain, I'm probably wrong,but it's a cross country race.
But it goes through, like ahouse and a building. And then
you go back on the trails. And Iremember seeing a video of it. I
want to say maybe Rob deCostello, who was a great
Australian marathoner. You gotme a series of VHS tapes of like
(28:25):
old running movies. Remember,this was like 20 years ago. And
on there was this kind ofdocumentary on Rob de castella,
and it had him running thisbizarre cross country race and I
want to say it was in Spain, butit was in somewhere in Europe,
and part of the race literallyhad them going through like a
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living room, and like out afront door, and then onto a
trail. I just thought somethingridiculous. would be a lot of
fun. You know what I mean?
Something completely ridiculouswhere you're not really training
in a specific way for it. It'sjust a little combination of a
challenge and total nonsense.
tammie bennett (29:08):
So why wouldn't you just do the reason Spain?
coach chris bennett (29:11):
Bull because I couldn't was like
stuck in the back of my head. Sowhen I brought up Dipsy it kind
of released the race in Spain.
So I I think that was the realrace I wanted to say, but I
couldn't think of it until I gotDipsy out so Dipsy was just
blocking this race in Spain. SoI guess the race in Spain, I
don't even know if it's open tothe public. It might just be
(29:32):
elites that do it. But sinceit's a bucket list,
tammie bennett (29:37):
I'll put maybe he was just stealing something
running away from the cops.
coach chris bennett (29:42):
Yeah, who is a like a scene from like,
been caught stealing but Jane'sAddiction or Raising Arizona,
where it's like that crazycamera that's like in front of
the guy running. It wassomething like that. So you're
right. Maybe I was I had a feverand it was one of those things
and I made up this entire thing.
Maybe
tammie bennett (29:59):
was just like a movie. You were just watching a
movie.
coach chris bennett (30:03):
Yeah, during a fever, because Rob
Deacon still had a big mustache.
And was this you running througha house? Why would it? Why would
he be doing this? Yeah, thiscould just be some really
repressed memory of why arepeople chasing me through a
house and they're all wearingfilming it is really weird.
Anyway, next for the mailbag. Ifyou have some footage of me
(30:27):
being chased through a house,and I think it's a actual race,
please send it to the mailbag.
Yeah, don't tell anyone aboutit. And I will burn the one
copy.
tammie bennett (30:42):
But also send your questions we would love to
answer your questions on ourpodcast. So look in the show
notes for the address and sendus a mail, or some stickers or
candy or cash, books, DVDs,metals, ribbons, whatever you
want. I'm just giving youoptions. You don't have to send
all of it or any of it. I'm justI like to give options.
coach chris bennett (31:04):
It's not it's not a bag of trinkets for
you. It's supposed to be a mailbag.
tammie bennett (31:08):
Well, it comes in the mail and it's
coach chris bennett (31:10):
DVDs. Don't send us DVD,
tammie bennett (31:13):
you can send us vinyl records. The cooler the
cover, the better.
coach chris bennett (31:18):
Or the better the music, the better.
But the cool cover is cool, too.
But listen, I have a lot ofDVDs, and I don't have the
wherewithal to throw them awayor give them away. So I don't
need any more. Please don't sendme any DVDs. In fact, I just
have to bring it up because Ithink about it all the time. I
got to a point remember where Ibought the cell?
tammie bennett (31:43):
Or no it was?
Yes, it was so yeah.
coach chris bennett (31:46):
Vince Vaughn and Jennifer Lopez
direct. Yeah, the guy who didthe REM video for losing my
religion. totally creepy. Thezero reason to buy this we saw
it in the movie theater becausewe used to see all the movies in
the theater. Absolutely noreason to buy this other than I
(32:07):
was walking around Blockbusterand I didn't know what to do. So
I just bought it. Never watchedit. Never thought about watching
it again. And every time I godown there. I think if I just
had been smarter and wiser withsome of my money, I'd be able to
fly to Spain and run somemythical cross country race that
(32:27):
involves me breaking intosomeone's house.
tammie bennett (32:29):
Exactly.
Alright, let's talk about what'sfloating or fancy. And what's
floating my fancy.
coach chris bennett (32:37):
Okay, well, I'll start since you started the
petty grievances. I'll start thefloating fantasies. Right now.
My floating fancy are candycigarettes. And it's because
I've one candy cigarette left inthe carton because it's not a
carton, it would be a pack ofcandy cigarettes that you
brought back to me from New YorkCity. I've got one left. And I'm
(33:02):
starting to get the shakes. AndI don't know what I'm going to
do and I only have one left. Ithink I'll do what I always do,
which is just not have them fora long time and forget about
them until you get me anotherpack of candy cigarettes. But I
will say I did walk around thehouse with a candy cigarette
draped out of my mouth. Lookinglike a tough guy. Like the
(33:24):
Marlboro Man and yeah, and thenI just chew it up. Marlboro Man
never ate his cigarettes. Sohe's just like a tough. Yeah, so
candy cigarettes. That's my thisweek's floating fancy. So if a
candy cigarette maker wants tosponsor me, huh, look me
tammie bennett (33:44):
up. Now it'd be a fun poster to do a photo shoot
for
coach chris bennett (33:48):
Yeah, that's right. confused a lot of
people then. Yeah, fine print.
But maybe it's not the bestsponsorship deal.
tammie bennett (33:57):
I don't know if Nike Running with like that. Oh,
Candy
coach chris bennett (34:01):
cigarettes.
Think of the alternative a realcigarette. I mean, it's a step
up. Go
tammie bennett (34:06):
with candy any day?
coach chris bennett (34:08):
Yeah. All right. What about you? What's
floating your fancy
tammie bennett (34:11):
thing for my fantasy right now is this sounds
so basic, but I'm just tellingyou like it is the New York
Times crossword puzzle app. So Ibasically talked about this on
one of my podcast episodes whereI always told myself I was not a
crossword puzzle doer, thoughtthey were too hard and I am
working my way up. And it's justbeen a lot of fun and it makes
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me feel kind of, you know, alittle bit smart and
accomplished. I have notcompleted a Sunday puzzle. I
have not attempted a Sundaypuzzle yet, but I'm working my
way up slowly but surely havingfun.
coach chris bennett (34:46):
Could you maybe tell our listeners a
little bit about the differencebetween let's say a Monday
puzzle and a Sunday puzzlebecause I was unaware of this
until a few years ago and Ithink it's fascinating.
tammie bennett (34:56):
Yeah. So Monday is the easiest to Solve
supposedly, well it is but andas the days go through the week,
it gets progressively harderuntil Sunday is like the king
queen puzzle, the hardest tosolve. That was another
documentary that we watched. Iforgot the name of it, but it
was really good documentaryabout crossword puzzle solvers,
(35:18):
doers. And I, every time I talkabout crosswords, I have to
bring up my cousin Parker. He issuper smart, loves doing
puzzles. And he has actually hadseveral of his crossword puzzles
published in the New York Times.
I want to say, I'm not gonna sayI don't remember which days of
the week he has had published,but that's just really cool. And
(35:39):
he's also entered severalcompetitions, and he's one of
the top 50 or 100 crosswordpuzzle doers in the country. So
anyway, yeah. It's been mything. Hey,
coach chris bennett (35:54):
I've got an idea for another section. Okay,
we should have a top 10 list.
Every episode, and it's five ofyours and five of mine because I
was just thinking we couldeasily come up with top 10
documentaries we've ever seen.
tammie bennett (36:10):
It's top 10 different thing each episode,
like so today would bedocumentaries.
coach chris bennett (36:15):
Yeah, but it won't be today cuz we're not
prepared. But next time we coulddo like the top five
documentaries you've ever seenfive from you five from the end.
They can I guess. We can havemaybe sometimes it's not even
the top 10 Because we wecrossover. Sometimes we're
picking the same same thing.
Maybe. You know, we're we'rejust on just waiting for Tammie
to finish sneezing. Ooh, it's adouble sneeze. It's always a
(36:38):
double sneeze with her. If if,if you know and you're prepared,
you realize that the first oneis just kind of like harking
just let it letting everyoneknow like there's another one
coming like there's always anaftershock here I'm gonna give
you actually you know what? Youdon't even have an aftershock.
Usually your second sneeze isstronger than your first sneeze.
(37:01):
Did you Did I did I talked lasttime about the difference
between an earthquake and anaftershock. Did I already do
that? I feel like uselessknowledge that I'm just been
like trying to spread likeJohnny Appleseed. So I'm going
to do it anyway. The differencebetween an earthquake and an
aftershock, most people thinkwell an aftershock is just what
(37:21):
happens next? No. It's onlycalled an aftershock if it's a
smaller earthquake than theoriginal earthquake. If it's
larger, it's a new earthquake.
Hmm, it's called an earthquake.
So an aftershock is just asmaller by measurement on the
Richter scale of the initialearthquake. So if you'd like a
(37:44):
six earthquake, and then it's afive nine, it's an aftershock.
But if it's a six one, it'sanother earthquake.
tammie bennett (37:51):
What if it's a six it's tied.
coach chris bennett (37:56):
I thought we're gonna get out of here. So
I was like, I don't have theanswer for that. Yeah. I don't
know. Maybe they go to the like,it's like a sprint. They go to
the 10th. The Hunt? No, I guessthey already
tammie bennett (38:06):
maybe it'll just be which comes first. So the
second one would be theaftershock just because it came
second.
coach chris bennett (38:11):
Yeah, could be Can I ask you a question?
Before we leave? And do what'son deck chicken in the egg? You
used that earlier? What do youthink comes first?
tammie bennett (38:23):
Yeah, it's so interesting, isn't it?
coach chris bennett (38:26):
I don't know if it's that interesting.
But it is a stupid question.
tammie bennett (38:29):
It makes me think of when you sometimes
travel, and when the kids arelittle, that's when I would have
to cook and I would you thebefore and after special. And
that would be some rotisseriechicken and hard boiled eggs.
coach chris bennett (38:45):
That sounds horrible.
tammie bennett (38:47):
But isn't that funny that I called it before
and after special?
coach chris bennett (38:50):
Yes, yes.
It was very funny. I think whatwas most funny was how liberal
the kids probably enjoyed themeal.
tammie bennett (38:58):
Yeah, we also did the daddy's away special,
which was rotisserie chicken andcheese potatoes. Notice how all
of them have rotisserie chickenbecause I don't have to cook. I
can just go by it.
coach chris bennett (39:07):
Yeah, that's for kids. Yes. Free
chickens. Good.
tammie bennett (39:11):
Yeah. So are we talking about what we got coming
up?
coach chris bennett (39:15):
Yes. What do we have coming up? You go
first.
tammie bennett (39:18):
So at the time of recording we have coming up.
One of our daughter is turning16. So that's going to be fun
and exciting. Our son is goingto be running in his conference
championships at college, thehips, he's going to be running
the 1500. He's also going to befinishing up his sophomore year
of college and coming back home.
We might have the girls mighthave a race this weekend. We
(39:39):
have a lot going on familystuff, a lot of kind of family
events. Sighting Yeah,
coach chris bennett (39:46):
I was asking about you. What do you
have going on? Assuming this iscoming out the middle of May I
know that you're going to besmack dab in the middle of your
dare course.
tammie bennett (39:58):
Yes. So I'm giving Yes. So I'm giving
everybody in my course a deer aday, for this entire month of
May. It's really fun.
coach chris bennett (40:07):
That rhymed. What are you? Yes, yeah.
Dara day in the month of May.
And I'm excited I'm taking partin this. Yes, I really need it.
I really need it. I'm gonnaneed, I want the momentum of
that kind of attitude. It'sactually kind of fitting
considering we've been watching100 foot wave. Because it is one
of those things. I loved theline that he said. Actually, it
(40:28):
wasn't even GARRETT MCNAMARA wassomeone else in there said,
every time you get on this wave,you're, you're like prepared to
die. And then you get throughit. And you have to prepare to
die again. And I don't itdoesn't have to be that literal,
but just this idea of, you know,taking this risk. And then you
get through it. And then youhave to be okay with continuing
(40:52):
to take risks. I don't know. Ilike it. Yeah, I don't know if
that works or not, but
tammie bennett (40:59):
Sure does.
Alright, what do you have comingup?
coach chris bennett (41:02):
I'm super excited about having a really
good may, may may be my favoritemonth. I'm a big fan of May.
It's to me, it's like the birthof spring and all of those
things. And I feel like I'mrhyming almost in every
sentence. So I'm gonna stop. ButI'm very excited. I'm looking
forward to a really good monthof being outside as much as
(41:26):
possible. And I'm coming up onmy five year anniversary from my
running streak at the end ofMay.
tammie bennett (41:33):
Oh, that's amazing. The big one. Yeah. Tell
people a little bit more aboutthat. In case they don't know.
coach chris bennett (41:39):
Well, almost five years ago, I decided
to run it. Every day in June. Istarted at the end of May when I
was in Albuquerque speaking witha group called the wings of
America. And it just went well,in June, I had a five minute
minimum. Because I tried to dosome not so much streaks, but
(41:59):
get some consistency going inthe past. And I would give
myself these floors of like,well, I gotta run at least 5k or
two miles. And I realized thatwas that was too much for me
personally to ask. I said, I cando five minutes, I can go out
two and a half minutes and comeback. And I did it all the way
through June. And then it justwent through July and it just
(42:21):
kept going. And it no point wasI trying to start a streak. I
just knew that if I could beconsistently running, I would
consistently keep running. Andit has just turned into this
thing. Where at the end of Mayfrom still going it'll be five
years.
tammie bennett (42:39):
So good. I love it so much. That's all streaks
are kind of happened right oneday at a time.
coach chris bennett (42:47):
Yeah, absolutely. 100%. And having
been someone who never reallyhad a streak of anything before.
That is the Absolute Truth. Oneday, at a time. Not yesterday,
and not tomorrow. Today.
tammie bennett (43:03):
I was gonna say that's why I have a today tattoo
on my wrist. And that exactreason. Not yesterday, not
tomorrow. Today.
coach chris bennett (43:11):
That could be another show. What should the
next tattoo be? I don't know ifwe want to leave that up to the
mailbag. Sure. You know?
tammie bennett (43:22):
Sure, you know, send it we don't have to get it.
Nobody's forcing us to get it.
That would be terrible. That'dbe terrifying. But send us your
tattoo ideas. Amazing.
coach chris bennett (43:33):
You have to reach in and just grab a random
letter.
tammie bennett (43:37):
Now there's been people that have done that. Like
they'll have like tattoo ideaslike in a jar and they like pull
one out. And that's what theyhave to get. I think they're
drunk when they do it. Butstill, it's a thing.
coach chris bennett (43:47):
Yeah, that's no thank you. Seems like
someone that wants this evenJackass would have done. Oh, for
sure. Go. Probably did when wegot a tattoo once in a car, like
on a bumpy road.
tammie bennett (44:01):
You know, thanks. Anyway. All right.
coach chris bennett (44:03):
On that note, yeah. Good times.
tammie bennett (44:07):
Thanks for spending time with us. And we'll
see you next week. We won't seeyou. That would be weird. But
coach chris bennett (44:13):
you'll hear us next week. See some of you.
We might let's not I mean, let'ssend your picture into our
mailbag. This mailbag is gettingmassive. You have to calm down
with the mailbag. There's
tammie bennett (44:24):
so excited. I love mail.
coach chris bennett (44:27):
DVDs, and Okay, listen,
tammie bennett (44:29):
this, this is the worst, like so when we talk
to our son in college when wetalk to them at night. We say
goodnight. And then inevitablysomeone brings up one more thing
and it's like the longest mostdrawn out goodbye process. And I
want to just cut this oneshorter than that. Let's just
call it a day. Let's just endit. Thank you for coming. And
(44:52):
you'll hear us next
coach chris bennett (44:53):
week hard to say goodbye. So hard to say
I'm sorry to What song is that?
Who says that? Is that we'retalking about what we're doing
right now. Yeah. Okay. Allright.
tammie bennett (45:05):
This might be a petty grievance in the future.
coach chris bennett (45:08):
The grievance right now we can edit
it in. All right, I'm donetalking. Thank you Tammie for
having me on our show.
tammie bennett (45:17):
Thank you for having me on our show. And thank
you for listening. Hi.
Thank you for hanging out withus today. We hope you subscribe
if you haven't already, and we'dlove for you to give us a good
rating.
coach chris bennett (45:34):
Remember, you can send your questions into
our mailbag at the address foundin the show notes.
tammie bennett (45:39):
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Welcome to the to
coach tammie bennett (00:08):
coach Bennett's talking Podcast. I'm
Coach Tammie Bennett.
coach chris bennett (00:12):
And I'm Coach Chris Bennett. This is
where we talk about
coach tammie bennett (00:15):
anything we want. Anything we want, like
movies or music, running, notrunning life and what gets us
excited. Fantasy and sci fi
coach chris bennett (00:27):
books?
coach tammie bennett (00:28):
No, we're not talking about that. All
right,
coach chris bennett (00:31):
well, we'll talk about everything but
fantasy and sci fi books.
tammie bennett (00:35):
So sit back or keep moving because it's time to
start talking.
coach chris bennett (00:41):
On today's episode of to coach Bennett's
talking, we'll be talking aboutthe 100 foot wave. Tammy getting
sick and losing her voice andChris gaining some bliss as a
result PBX in PDX. How we fallin love with different sports.
As always, we've got our pettygrievances. We even talk about
our bucket list races, and thedifference between an earthquake
(01:03):
and an aftershock some uselessknowledge there for you. So
let's get started.
tammie bennett (01:12):
Welcome back, Coach Bennett.
coach chris bennett (01:14):
Thanks for having me back. I guess I don't
need to say that because it'sjust as much mine as it is
yours, right? Or is it reallyit's 51% Yours.
tammie bennett (01:23):
Welcome back.
coach chris bennett (01:24):
Why? Why do we have to start over?
tammie bennett (01:27):
Because we don't need to put that in. That's
jibber jabber.
coach chris bennett (01:30):
I'm taking my 50% vote and then keep it in.
Okay. And now we're at astalemate. What are you up to?
How was your week?
tammie bennett (01:37):
My week involved me sitting on a couch and
watching a lot of Gilmore Girlsbecause I was sick for either
seven or eight days and lost myvoice for a few of those which
was endless bliss for you.
Surprisingly frustrating for me.
I think you don't realize howmuch you talk how much your
(02:00):
voice is important until youlose it.
coach chris bennett (02:02):
I think I know exactly how much you talk.
tammie bennett (02:06):
So what's up with you? How was your week?
coach chris bennett (02:09):
It was great. There was a it was a lot
of quiet in the house, which wasjust fantastic. I'm trying to
pinpoint why. But it just seemedreally peaceful. And this sounds
terrible. But when I asked you,What have you been up to? I had
already forgotten that you hadbeen sick for like seven or
eight days.
tammie bennett (02:27):
Yeah, well, it's because I'm back to life now and
I've been
coach chris benn (02:30):
reinvigorated.
Yeah, reanimated. Yeah. Reborn.
tammie bennett (02:36):
So what are we going to talk about today?
coach chris bennett (02:39):
You want to go straight into the meat and
taters and skip over what I'vebeen up to?
tammie bennett (02:42):
Well, you said it was quiet and you forgot that
I was sick?
coach chris bennett (02:46):
Yeah, I guess I did. I already forgot
what my answer was.
tammie bennett (02:49):
Well, we did Oregon relays, or Twilight
relays. We did Twilight relays,you can talk about that.
coach chris bennett (02:54):
Yes, there was a great trackmate that we
got to go to down the street,which was fantastic, different
vibe this year as there was aheavy focus on every athlete. So
they have a tally going of howmany personal bests or PBS were
being set over the course of themeet. So a lot of times you
(03:15):
believe any sporting event you'dkind of focus on, you know, the
people that are finishing firstand second and third are
winning. And for this one, itwas really a celebration of
anyone who had done a lifetimebest. And I think by the end of
the meat there were over 360lifetime bests. So that was,
that was cool end. The cherry ontop of the fact that it was not
(03:39):
raining in Portland, it wassunny and warm.
tammie bennett (03:43):
Yeah, that was amazing. And yeah, 360
different. Maybe not differentkids, but different events that
had a personal best, becausesome kids could have gotten more
than one PB.
coach chris bennett (03:55):
Yes. And that was the that was the
unofficial tally. I thinkprobably the official tally was
was well over 360. But it wasprobably pushing up on 375 or
400. So yeah, it's amazing. Ifyou actually think about it, the
fact that in the course of acouple of hours, a bunch of kids
were able to do something thatthey practiced that that they
(04:18):
had never ever done better. Howcool is that?
tammie bennett (04:22):
So cool. This is a little bit off topic but kind
of on topic. I always grew upsaying PR until I met you so
personal record till I met youand then I just sort of evolved
over into PB even though I stilllike PR better. But I think when
we release this episode, itwould be fun to do a poll to see
(04:42):
what most people call it whetherit's a PR personal record or a
PB personal best.
coach chris bennett (04:48):
I think you're right though I think most
people call it PR but I thinkmost people are wrong on this. I
think personal best meanssomething so much more powerful.
And a PB obviously can mean alot of a lot of different
things. But like I better wewere the big could mean peanut
butter. Yes. Or Peaky Blinders.
But yeah, there's just, I have acouple more episodes of that
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left. That's why it's on mymind. But when I was in high
school, which is really the agethat a lot of people were
introduced to the sport, we werethe only team because our coach
referred to them as PBS. We werethe only team I knew of. They
refer to them as PBS and prs.
Yeah, so it stuck with me, butI'm a big PB fan. Yeah, I'm to
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the side of PBS. So if you dovote, I don't we don't want to.
Yeah,
tammie bennett (05:42):
we just totally another, we totally just
coach chris bennett (05:46):
do that.
But PBS is the right answer. Andthere is no way I shouldn't say
there's no right answer. There'sa wrong answer. And it's PR. But
don't feel like there's a rightanswer.
tammie bennett (05:57):
Okay. Let's talk about the main topic of the day.
coach chris bennett (06:00):
If this one came out of nowhere, didn't it?
Yeah. A little bit like a roguewave a little bit.
tammie bennett (06:05):
Is that a hint?
coach chris bennett (06:06):
I don't know, what are we talking about?
tammie bennett (06:08):
So we're not going to always be talking about
something that we're watching onTV. But this time we are, as we
did last time. This time theshow is called is the 100 foot
wave or just 100 foot wave?
coach chris bennett (06:23):
I think it's just 100 foot wave. Yeah,
but while you're giving a littlebit of some backstory on it,
I'll look up and see if it's theor just 100 foot wave.
tammie bennett (06:32):
Yeah. So yeah, we're only two episodes in. So I
feel kind of funny talking abouta show that we've only watched
two episodes out of, it'sthere's two seasons now. But it
was so impactful. And it wasit's one of those movies that we
would have shown at our highschool, sleepaway camps that we
used to run. We used to have amovie night on one of the nights
at our camp and something kindof impactful about sports,
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something about inspirational.
And I think this would have beena perfect fit.
coach chris bennett (06:59):
I agree.
And by the way, it's 100 footwave, the number 100 foot wave.
So it's not spelled out either,just so no, though. It starts
with the actual numerals 100foot wave.
tammie bennett (07:12):
Yeah. So so far, it's just about this one surfer
who is on this quest to ride a100 foot wave. And it's
obviously that's like, as theysay, going down the side of at
least eight foot tall, sorry,eight storey building, which I
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cannot even imagine, I have alittle bit of fear of heights.
So it just makes me feel sick alittle bit. Some of the video
just makes me feel a little bitsick to see how tall the wave
is, and how powerful it iscompared to this one tiny little
speck of a man. But yeah, solet's talk about why you want to
talk about it.
coach chris bennett (07:49):
I'm just gonna add on to the wave, the
size of 100 foot wave, which wehaven't seen yet. But the just
the mass and the size and thepower and just the fury of the
ocean, when it's producing awave of the size is it is awe
inspiring. It is. It's cool,because there's so many things
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going on in the show. One is Ithink you have to walk away just
in awe of nature, which isreally cool. But the other thing
is, it seems like there's alwaysthese crazy, at least it comes
across initially as a crazy risktaking. Weirdo. And then I think
one of the aspects we alwayslove is then when you kind of
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peel back a little bit, thecrazy is, is really well thought
out. And there's a ton ofdiscipline and a lot of
training. And a lot of respect,which I think as an outsider,
you don't realize how muchrespect these people have for
their sport. And what they'retrying to do, they're not going
in just saying like, Hey, I've,I've only done the choppy surf
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and you know, Florida, three tofive, three to five foot waves.
Now I'm gonna go and try to do100 foot wave. I don't know why
that's a surfer voice. But I'vethat's what I'm going with.
That's the opposite. Theyrespect their sport, which is
one of the things I always lovedabout seeing these things.
tammie bennett (09:16):
So we were talking before we started
recording about how much itreminded me of Alex Honnold in
free solo, where it's this, youknow, definitely, like
literally, it's like a life anddeath kind of undertaking. But
they are so prepared, that theythey still feel the fear, but
they do something about it. Theyjust have this confidence in
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themselves. They have belief inthemselves for being able to
accomplish this because they areso prepared. So you see them
writing in notebooks andmeasuring and calculating and
talking to a scientist andlooking at weather and talking
to weather men and film crewsand safety crews. And what are
we going to do if somebody fallsor somebody gets hurt? I'm
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talking about both shows rightnow, these things were shown in
both of them. And just preparedfor sort of every possible
outcome. And there's justsomething so powerful about
that, and the way that you saidrespect for the sport. And I
think it's also respect forthemselves and how they're
showing up as an athlete and asa record breaker, how they're
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showing up for them selves whoare doing something for the
first time that a human has doneit. And just to have that much
belief in yourself that you cando this thing that no other
human on the planet has done.
Or, I mean, maybe evenattempted, I don't know if other
people have attempted it. I'mnot going to speak to that. But
is that amazing that you canbelieve in yourself that much?
coach chris bennett (10:43):
Yes. And it takes a lot of effort to, which
is I think the other thing thatwe love, I'm trying to look up
the name of the movie, we didshow the sleepaway camp of Danny
way, who's a skateboardermember, and he tried, he was
trained to jump over the GreatWall of China. And anyway, well,
we'll, we'll find it. But thatwas another one where I think
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sometimes this is our ignoranceof the sports, kind of these
extreme sports, things likeskateboarding, or free soloing,
which is the rock climbingwithout any safety gear for big
wave surfing, that you canforget just how extraordinary
These athletes are, and howextraordinary they are then
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within their own sport, and howseriously they take it. And at
the same time, and this is whatI always, I always think we get
wrong. Sometimes when weintroduce a sport to somebody,
it's If you respect the sport,or if you learn the sport, or if
you teach the sport, where ifyou're serious about the sport
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that it robs it of, it's fun.
And I think sometimes whenyou're not respecting the sport,
or you think that teachingpeople about the sport, or you
know, being serious, not in away that's robbing it of fun, if
nothing else, it's bringing morepassion more fun into it. I just
I love seeing that the deeperpeople get into the sport,
sometimes, the deeper in lovethey get, and the more fun they
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have.
tammie bennett (12:16):
Yeah, I think it's interesting for me because
my way in to learning about newsports is through a an athlete.
So it's me seeing their story onthe internet or on TV and like
the the just showing theirpersonality and showing like the
goofy parts and showing thereally studious parts and
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showing them overcoming hardthings. I think, like for me,
I'm so like, that's why we'rewatching f1 now is because we
watched drive is it drive tosurvive? Yes, on Netflix, and we
got introduced to these f1racing drivers. And we became
huge fans of them as peoplebecause they're so devoted to
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their sport. And then we got toknow them as people and just the
characters that they are. And sonow we're like so into f1. And
we're like, you know, I thinkit's time they should change the
tires. They should take apitstop and it's like, who are
we? But right, but so I thinkfor me, the entryway into
knowing so much about the sportsand learning about them is
through a specific athlete andjust getting to know the human
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side of it.
coach chris bennett (13:20):
Yeah. Now let me ask you this, do you find
that your way into understandingthe sport, then continues to go
through the athlete? Or will youthen kind of go off on your own
and try to learn about thesports you can enjoy what the
athlete you're now interested inis doing? Like, how does that
work? Because you've I've seenit happen with you, where you
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get interested in the humans.
But then suddenly, you learnmore and more about what the
humans are doing. So you youwant to know a little bit more
about the rules. You want toknow a little bit more about the
history of the sport. I've seen
tammie bennett (13:56):
it with baseball, I was just gonna say
for sure in baseball. Yeah, I've
coach chris bennett (14:00):
seen it with f1 now so what what is that
next step? Because I think it's,it's very similar to how someone
probably the humans that you arewatching, it's probably the same
for them. It's probably somebodythey knew, and were interested
in and had fun with. And that'swhat got them into the sport.
And then they started to fall inlove with the sport and not just
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the sports people but how doesit work for you?
tammie bennett (14:24):
Yeah, I think it's probably did I think it
probably becomes I was gonna saylike a chicken and egg
situation. But that's not true.
I think it just becomes like thespiral where I just get more
involved. But I have to tell youif some of these athletes who I
have fallen in love with if theyleft the sport on some of these
sports, I wouldn't be asinterested. So like if you take
Tour de France, for example,which we used to wake up at five
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in the morning to watch it liveback in the Lance Armstrong
days. I'm gonna put a littleasterix there and we don't have
to go into that deep hole. Butyou know, when he left the
sport, we didn't watch it thatmuch more maybe one more season
because there We're still someother characters and athletes
that we knew. So yeah, I thinkfor me, I think for me
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personally, I have to have thathuman, not human. That's a
spice, human connection, right?
Like I have to have the peoplethat I'm interested in, and then
the more that they're around,the more I want to watch it. So
therefore, then I learn moreabout the sport because I've
entrenched in it. So how manygames of Yankees baseball did we
watch last year? Want to say?
coach chris bennett (15:26):
Probably close to 155? You know, I mean,
probably over that, because wewatched some spring training. So
we'll say we'll say over 160.
There's only 162 games in theregular season, there's probably
25 In spring training, and thenthe Yankees didn't go far in the
playoffs. So they probably had185 games of which we watched
160.
tammie bennett (15:45):
Yeah. So because I know so many of these Yankee
players. That's why I wanted tostick around and watch it. And
then as I'm watching it, I'mhearing the commentators that
I'm asking you questions, andI'm learning so much more about
it. And John boy, and like, youknow, you know, commentators of
the sport. So I think for me, Ihave to have that the link is
that human connection, and thatamazing athlete and the
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characters of the sport, whatdoes it for you?
coach chris bennett (16:11):
I think it depends on the sport, and just
how deep a man I think there's,there's some sports now where I
can kind of show up if I've beenaway. And just enjoy watching
the sport, even if I don't knowthe characters, but there's
absolutely no doubt, I enjoywatching sports more, if I have
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some type of a connection withthe people I'm watching. I think
in and I'll give you like anexample. It I'll even enjoy
watching a running race. I don'thave to know the person. But if
I know what the person is tryingto do, that's all I need to
know. So if I know there's abarrier, and it's a time i It's
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like if you hang out at the endof a marathon, and you get close
to like the three hour, the fourhour, the five hour mark,
obviously everyone's gettingexcited, because they know
everyone coming downstraightaway is looking at the
clock, and they like to breakthe barrier. So I don't even
know who you are. But I willcheer wildly for that. So I
understand kind of the sport,the same thing that a high
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school meet, maybe it's fiveminutes in the mile or six
minutes in the mile or sub 60and a 400. You know, there's all
these little things where I knowit probably is meaningful for
the for the athlete. So I it's,I know enough about the sport to
understand what's exciting forthe human without knowing really
anything about the human. But ifI know the bigger picture, then
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yeah, I'm definitely 100% goingto enjoy the sport more, which
is interesting now that you'vebrought it up that way that we
will love a sport more if weknow more about the humans
playing the sport. Yeah, whichjust seems obvious. But you
know, you're a basketball fan.
Well, you mean the joy and theexcitement you get when you are
(18:02):
watching family play basketballor friends play by play
basketball or your favorite teamplay basketball is different
than when you asked a bunch ofpeople at a park playing. Even
though the quality of play couldbe better at the park amongst
people you don't know. Youprobably have more fun watching
a bunch of five year olds ifyour niece and nephew are
playing. So that's a it's not somuch the quality really as much
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as the maybe the quality of yourrelationship with the people.
tammie bennett (18:28):
Yeah. I love that. And I think that's, you
know, we just kind of circle itback to where we started. So we
can like wrap this section upwith the 100 foot wave. Garrett
is the the main surfer thatwe've gotten to know like we're
besties basically now with himon Episode Two and his wife,
Nicole. But yeah, I think that'sone of the reasons why we are so
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entrenched in this now isbecause we've seen how dedicated
he is how much belief he has,how much he has to visualize and
meditate and find calm and findbelief in addition to all the
technical things where he's outthere practicing and teaching
people how to ride the jetskiand practicing safe safety and
all these things. So yeah, Ithink Garrett and his wife
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Nicola, a big reason why we'reso into the show.
coach chris bennett (19:16):
Yeah, and I'm just, we can wrap it up
here. I was gonna say it's alsofascinating to me how there's
always that it's usually in thefirst two or three episodes
where they give you a littlebackground on the person. And
you suddenly like, oh, okay, Iunderstand a little bit about
their behavior now.
tammie bennett (19:38):
Where the drive comes from?
coach chris bennett (19:40):
Yeah, where the drive comes from or where
kind of the blind spots are, youknow, in some of their decision
making or what, what their needsare, you know, what holes are
they trying to fill up? And Ithink I mean, I know I do this
about myself. Definitely. Youkind of tend to discount that
when you're When you'relistening or paying attention to
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someone else, you realize like,oh, all this stuff kind of makes
up who you are. And thensometimes you can forget to do
that for yourself. All right, wecan. We can move on a lot of
life lessons from 100 foot wave
tammie bennett (20:12):
sports in general, I would say.
coach chris bennett (20:15):
I would say you're right. I would agree with
you.
tammie bennett (20:18):
Yeah. Yeah.
Okay, we took it up high. Let'stake it down low. Let's talk
about our petty grievance.
coach chris bennett (20:26):
Did you go first or last last time?
tammie bennett (20:29):
I think I went last. I'm ready to go first. I
got one on the on the ready.
coach chris bennett (20:34):
This is Yeah. This is why you want to
wrap up the other section. Allright, let's go. What's your
petty grievance towards me?
tammie bennett (20:41):
Oh, it doesn't have to be towards you. And this
one actually is not towards you.
This is when I go into our foodcabinets. And I will pull out a
delicious tasty snack and thecontainer feels super light,
suspiciously light. And I lookinside and there's nothing in
there. So for instance, the bagof almond m&ms. I think about
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them, I go get that on a breakfrom doing work. And there's
literally one in the bag. Likewho leaves one in the bag or who
leaves a completely empty bag,which is also a common
occurrence in our house. Sothat's my petty grievance, just
throw away the package. Don'tgive me that like second of like
(21:24):
false hope of were like, here itis the treat I've been so
waiting for. Don't do it to me.
coach chris bennett (21:33):
I get it.
This is definitely needs to befiled towards your daughters
though. The ones that do that.
And I will say this though. Iagree with a petty grievance
towards an empty bag. Numberone, number two. Almond m&ms are
gross. So there's so good. It'sjust somebody pouring them into
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the trash. And then three,leaving one single Almond m&m is
one of the funniest things I'veever
tammie bennett (22:02):
heard. So mean, it's just so mean.
coach chris bennett (22:05):
I think that is badass. That's
hilarious.
tammie bennett (22:08):
It's one particular daughter of ours. And
in what am I saying? It's oneparticular daughter of ours.
It's the culprit. So she alsowill oftentimes leave like the
tiniest piece of ice cream inthe carton. Like it's like not
enough to fill up a tablespoon.
Or maybe it's a tablespoon,fine. But like really, really
like you couldn't just eat thatlast bite. I think it's just so
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they can like claim. I didn'tfinish it. It's so mean,
coach chris bennett (22:36):
I think. I think that is genuinely
hilarious. And if I had enoughcruelty in my body, I would do
that consistently. And justlaugh because I've walked away
knowing at some point, someone'sgoing to open up the container
of ice cream, and there's goingto be a morsel tucked in the
corner. And without any luck,the little bit. You know, ice
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burned,
tammie bennett (23:00):
which is oh gosh, the frostbitten bite.
That's awful.
coach chris bennett (23:03):
Yeah. Yeah.
The ultimate indignity. So thatis hilarious.
tammie bennett (23:07):
Yeah. So file that one away. What's your petty
grievance?
coach chris bennett (23:11):
Your minds?
It's towards you? Well,actually, no, I can all include
all include everyone. On thisone. I cook. I do. Pretty much
all the cooking will say 99.43%of the cooking in a given year,
in this house every year. Okay,it is become more rampant that I
now have to come up with what Ineed to cook every night. And
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then I'll hear like, Well, younever pick and it's like, I I
have to cook. So if I say Idon't want to pick, just tell me
what you all want me becausewhat I hear is both does. I'll
get either text messages, orI'll get asked in this odd tone
like, um, do you know what's fordinner? No, I don't. I don't
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know what all of you want me tomake for dinner? Will you will
you never decide? Well, let mejust ask you this. Why was
listen, I should not need todecide if I should be able to
say whatever I want. When itcomes to the meal. You don't go
into a restaurant, and then walkinto the kitchen and tell the
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chef What am I eating tonight?
Now tell the chef what you want,and they'll cook it for you.
tammie bennett (24:23):
That's actually a really valid argument. It kind
of makes me not want to argueback but I was gonna say what
makes you not want to choose thefood like let's just take away
the issue of cooking like whydon't you want to decide the
food?
coach chris bennett (24:37):
Because I just it's easier for me to just
come in. And nosier that's whyis it gone? I might have an
adult soda. And I'm going tojust cook. I don't I don't need
to then go because believe me.
It's not a unanimous decision.
Everyone has a different thingthey want. So just tell me. I
don't want to go around to oneroom and say what do you want?
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then hear one thing and then gointo the next room. Okay, well,
here's, here's what person inroom A wants a person in room B
wants something else. And thenpersonal rooms, he says, I don't
really care. So I'll havewhatever. And that's not true.
So just tell me what you want.
So I don't have to be wanderingaround the house, like this
nomadic chef trying to figureout what what everybody wants to
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eat that night. Just tell me,I'll cook it.
tammie bennett (25:25):
Part of the problem is that we have a house
full of picky eaters, butthey're picky in different ways.
And so it's very hard to findfoods that all of us like so
what I would ask the dearlisteners to do is our Pio Box
address will be in the shownotes. Can you like send us a
recipe or some suggestions forfood? That would be great. And
that will help coach ChrisBennett out dramatically,
coach chris bennett (25:48):
your whitelist and send us some
recipes. Okay, just so if yousend
tammie bennett (25:52):
them to us, then we can like kind of sorting
through them and then give themto you. So it's really it helps
everyone.
coach chris bennett (26:00):
Yeah, I guess so.
tammie bennett (26:01):
So thank you ahead of time. Speaking of the
mailbag. Let's open a letterfrom the mailbag.
coach chris bennett (26:09):
Let me just reach into the burlap sack. gone
through all the letters.
tammie bennett (26:17):
It's blocking out that sound totally. You
might as well pick it up. Yeah.
coach chris bennett (26:22):
Well, there was gonna be a noise of me
ruffling through a whole bunchof letters. But now you think
tammie bennett (26:27):
it's probably fine that you can add it. there
anyway. So yeah, this letter isfrom Melissa Sears. And she
actually sent it to me quite awhile ago, and I just never
answered it. But it was, what isyour bucket list race? So I'll
go and answer it. Since I'm justright here. My bucket list race
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is the western states 100. Sothat takes place in California,
it's 100 mile race. And mygrandpa used to go and volunteer
at it year after year afteryear, he had some amazing
shirts. So someday, I would liketo run it and complete it. But
I'm very, very far from thatright now. But I can have
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dreams. What's your bucket list?
Race balls away
coach chris bennett (27:15):
from it?
Yeah, exactly. Oberlin brunch.
Um, this is a tough one for me.
I'm going to mention a race. Andit's not so much that I want to
do this race, but I want to do arace that has the same kind of
vibe. So this could be anothermailbag request of send me kind
of races, if you know of anylike this. So there's a race
(27:37):
called the Dipsy. And that'salso in California, I believe.
And I know it just has a lot ofstairs that you have to climb
like in like instead of trailsor like, kind of like stairs
through the trails. And thereason why I'm thinking of this
is because recently, I saw andit's a race, I want to say it's
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in Spain, I'm probably wrong,but it's a cross country race.
But it goes through, like ahouse and a building. And then
you go back on the trails. And Iremember seeing a video of it. I
want to say maybe Rob deCostello, who was a great
Australian marathoner. You gotme a series of VHS tapes of like
(28:25):
old running movies. Remember,this was like 20 years ago. And
on there was this kind ofdocumentary on Rob de castella,
and it had him running thisbizarre cross country race and I
want to say it was in Spain, butit was in somewhere in Europe,
and part of the race literallyhad them going through like a
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living room, and like out afront door, and then onto a
trail. I just thought somethingridiculous. would be a lot of
fun. You know what I mean?
Something completely ridiculouswhere you're not really training
in a specific way for it. It'sjust a little combination of a
challenge and total nonsense.
tammie bennett (29:08):
So why wouldn't you just do the reason Spain?
coach chris bennett (29:11):
Bull because I couldn't was like
stuck in the back of my head. Sowhen I brought up Dipsy it kind
of released the race in Spain.
So I I think that was the realrace I wanted to say, but I
couldn't think of it until I gotDipsy out so Dipsy was just
blocking this race in Spain. SoI guess the race in Spain, I
don't even know if it's open tothe public. It might just be
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elites that do it. But sinceit's a bucket list,
tammie bennett (29:37):
I'll put maybe he was just stealing something
running away from the cops.
coach chris bennett (29:42):
Yeah, who is a like a scene from like,
been caught stealing but Jane'sAddiction or Raising Arizona,
where it's like that crazycamera that's like in front of
the guy running. It wassomething like that. So you're
right. Maybe I was I had a feverand it was one of those things
and I made up this entire thing.
Maybe
tammie bennett (29:59):
was just like a movie. You were just watching a
movie.
coach chris bennett (30:03):
Yeah, during a fever, because Rob
Deacon still had a big mustache.
And was this you running througha house? Why would it? Why would
he be doing this? Yeah, thiscould just be some really
repressed memory of why arepeople chasing me through a
house and they're all wearingfilming it is really weird.
Anyway, next for the mailbag. Ifyou have some footage of me
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being chased through a house,and I think it's a actual race,
please send it to the mailbag.
Yeah, don't tell anyone aboutit. And I will burn the one
copy.
tammie bennett (30:42):
But also send your questions we would love to
answer your questions on ourpodcast. So look in the show
notes for the address and sendus a mail, or some stickers or
candy or cash, books, DVDs,metals, ribbons, whatever you
want. I'm just giving youoptions. You don't have to send
all of it or any of it. I'm justI like to give options.
coach chris bennett (31:04):
It's not it's not a bag of trinkets for
you. It's supposed to be a mailbag.
tammie bennett (31:08):
Well, it comes in the mail and it's
coach chris bennett (31:10):
DVDs. Don't send us DVD,
tammie bennett (31:13):
you can send us vinyl records. The cooler the
cover, the better.
coach chris bennett (31:18):
Or the better the music, the better.
But the cool cover is cool, too.
But listen, I have a lot ofDVDs, and I don't have the
wherewithal to throw them awayor give them away. So I don't
need any more. Please don't sendme any DVDs. In fact, I just
have to bring it up because Ithink about it all the time. I
got to a point remember where Ibought the cell?
tammie bennett (31:43):
Or no it was?
Yes, it was so yeah.
coach chris bennett (31:46):
Vince Vaughn and Jennifer Lopez
direct. Yeah, the guy who didthe REM video for losing my
religion. totally creepy. Thezero reason to buy this we saw
it in the movie theater becausewe used to see all the movies in
the theater. Absolutely noreason to buy this other than I
(32:07):
was walking around Blockbusterand I didn't know what to do. So
I just bought it. Never watchedit. Never thought about watching
it again. And every time I godown there. I think if I just
had been smarter and wiser withsome of my money, I'd be able to
fly to Spain and run somemythical cross country race that
(32:27):
involves me breaking intosomeone's house.
tammie bennett (32:29):
Exactly.
Alright, let's talk about what'sfloating or fancy. And what's
floating my fancy.
coach chris bennett (32:37):
Okay, well, I'll start since you started the
petty grievances. I'll start thefloating fantasies. Right now.
My floating fancy are candycigarettes. And it's because
I've one candy cigarette left inthe carton because it's not a
carton, it would be a pack ofcandy cigarettes that you
brought back to me from New YorkCity. I've got one left. And I'm
(33:02):
starting to get the shakes. AndI don't know what I'm going to
do and I only have one left. Ithink I'll do what I always do,
which is just not have them fora long time and forget about
them until you get me anotherpack of candy cigarettes. But I
will say I did walk around thehouse with a candy cigarette
draped out of my mouth. Lookinglike a tough guy. Like the
(33:24):
Marlboro Man and yeah, and thenI just chew it up. Marlboro Man
never ate his cigarettes. Sohe's just like a tough. Yeah, so
candy cigarettes. That's my thisweek's floating fancy. So if a
candy cigarette maker wants tosponsor me, huh, look me
tammie bennett (33:44):
up. Now it'd be a fun poster to do a photo shoot
for
coach chris bennett (33:48):
Yeah, that's right. confused a lot of
people then. Yeah, fine print.
But maybe it's not the bestsponsorship deal.
tammie bennett (33:57):
I don't know if Nike Running with like that. Oh,
Candy
coach chris bennett (34:01):
cigarettes.
Think of the alternative a realcigarette. I mean, it's a step
up. Go
tammie bennett (34:06):
with candy any day?
coach chris bennett (34:08):
Yeah. All right. What about you? What's
floating your fancy
tammie bennett (34:11):
thing for my fantasy right now is this sounds
so basic, but I'm just tellingyou like it is the New York
Times crossword puzzle app. So Ibasically talked about this on
one of my podcast episodes whereI always told myself I was not a
crossword puzzle doer, thoughtthey were too hard and I am
working my way up. And it's justbeen a lot of fun and it makes
(34:34):
me feel kind of, you know, alittle bit smart and
accomplished. I have notcompleted a Sunday puzzle. I
have not attempted a Sundaypuzzle yet, but I'm working my
way up slowly but surely havingfun.
coach chris bennett (34:46):
Could you maybe tell our listeners a
little bit about the differencebetween let's say a Monday
puzzle and a Sunday puzzlebecause I was unaware of this
until a few years ago and Ithink it's fascinating.
tammie bennett (34:56):
Yeah. So Monday is the easiest to Solve
supposedly, well it is but andas the days go through the week,
it gets progressively harderuntil Sunday is like the king
queen puzzle, the hardest tosolve. That was another
documentary that we watched. Iforgot the name of it, but it
was really good documentaryabout crossword puzzle solvers,
(35:18):
doers. And I, every time I talkabout crosswords, I have to
bring up my cousin Parker. He issuper smart, loves doing
puzzles. And he has actually hadseveral of his crossword puzzles
published in the New York Times.
I want to say, I'm not gonna sayI don't remember which days of
the week he has had published,but that's just really cool. And
(35:39):
he's also entered severalcompetitions, and he's one of
the top 50 or 100 crosswordpuzzle doers in the country. So
anyway, yeah. It's been mything. Hey,
coach chris bennett (35:54):
I've got an idea for another section. Okay,
we should have a top 10 list.
Every episode, and it's five ofyours and five of mine because I
was just thinking we couldeasily come up with top 10
documentaries we've ever seen.
tammie bennett (36:10):
It's top 10 different thing each episode,
like so today would bedocumentaries.
coach chris bennett (36:15):
Yeah, but it won't be today cuz we're not
prepared. But next time we coulddo like the top five
documentaries you've ever seenfive from you five from the end.
They can I guess. We can havemaybe sometimes it's not even
the top 10 Because we wecrossover. Sometimes we're
picking the same same thing.
Maybe. You know, we're we'rejust on just waiting for Tammie
to finish sneezing. Ooh, it's adouble sneeze. It's always a
(36:38):
double sneeze with her. If if,if you know and you're prepared,
you realize that the first oneis just kind of like harking
just let it letting everyoneknow like there's another one
coming like there's always anaftershock here I'm gonna give
you actually you know what? Youdon't even have an aftershock.
Usually your second sneeze isstronger than your first sneeze.
(37:01):
Did you Did I did I talked lasttime about the difference
between an earthquake and anaftershock. Did I already do
that? I feel like uselessknowledge that I'm just been
like trying to spread likeJohnny Appleseed. So I'm going
to do it anyway. The differencebetween an earthquake and an
aftershock, most people thinkwell an aftershock is just what
(37:21):
happens next? No. It's onlycalled an aftershock if it's a
smaller earthquake than theoriginal earthquake. If it's
larger, it's a new earthquake.
Hmm, it's called an earthquake.
So an aftershock is just asmaller by measurement on the
Richter scale of the initialearthquake. So if you'd like a
(37:44):
six earthquake, and then it's afive nine, it's an aftershock.
But if it's a six one, it'sanother earthquake.
tammie bennett (37:51):
What if it's a six it's tied.
coach chris bennett (37:56):
I thought we're gonna get out of here. So
I was like, I don't have theanswer for that. Yeah. I don't
know. Maybe they go to the like,it's like a sprint. They go to
the 10th. The Hunt? No, I guessthey already
tammie bennett (38:06):
maybe it'll just be which comes first. So the
second one would be theaftershock just because it came
second.
coach chris bennett (38:11):
Yeah, could be Can I ask you a question?
Before we leave? And do what'son deck chicken in the egg? You
used that earlier? What do youthink comes first?
tammie bennett (38:23):
Yeah, it's so interesting, isn't it?
coach chris bennett (38:26):
I don't know if it's that interesting.
But it is a stupid question.
tammie bennett (38:29):
It makes me think of when you sometimes
travel, and when the kids arelittle, that's when I would have
to cook and I would you thebefore and after special. And
that would be some rotisseriechicken and hard boiled eggs.
coach chris bennett (38:45):
That sounds horrible.
tammie bennett (38:47):
But isn't that funny that I called it before
and after special?
coach chris bennett (38:50):
Yes, yes.
It was very funny. I think whatwas most funny was how liberal
the kids probably enjoyed themeal.
tammie bennett (38:58):
Yeah, we also did the daddy's away special,
which was rotisserie chicken andcheese potatoes. Notice how all
of them have rotisserie chickenbecause I don't have to cook. I
can just go by it.
coach chris bennett (39:07):
Yeah, that's for kids. Yes. Free
chickens. Good.
tammie bennett (39:11):
Yeah. So are we talking about what we got coming
up?
coach chris bennett (39:15):
Yes. What do we have coming up? You go
first.
tammie bennett (39:18):
So at the time of recording we have coming up.
One of our daughter is turning16. So that's going to be fun
and exciting. Our son is goingto be running in his conference
championships at college, thehips, he's going to be running
the 1500. He's also going to befinishing up his sophomore year
of college and coming back home.
We might have the girls mighthave a race this weekend. We
(39:39):
have a lot going on familystuff, a lot of kind of family
events. Sighting Yeah,
coach chris bennett (39:46):
I was asking about you. What do you
have going on? Assuming this iscoming out the middle of May I
know that you're going to besmack dab in the middle of your
dare course.
tammie bennett (39:58):
Yes. So I'm giving Yes. So I'm giving
everybody in my course a deer aday, for this entire month of
May. It's really fun.
coach chris bennett (40:07):
That rhymed. What are you? Yes, yeah.
Dara day in the month of May.
And I'm excited I'm taking partin this. Yes, I really need it.
I really need it. I'm gonnaneed, I want the momentum of
that kind of attitude. It'sactually kind of fitting
considering we've been watching100 foot wave. Because it is one
of those things. I loved theline that he said. Actually, it
(40:28):
wasn't even GARRETT MCNAMARA wassomeone else in there said,
every time you get on this wave,you're, you're like prepared to
die. And then you get throughit. And you have to prepare to
die again. And I don't itdoesn't have to be that literal,
but just this idea of, you know,taking this risk. And then you
get through it. And then youhave to be okay with continuing
(40:52):
to take risks. I don't know. Ilike it. Yeah, I don't know if
that works or not, but
tammie bennett (40:59):
Sure does.
Alright, what do you have comingup?
coach chris bennett (41:02):
I'm super excited about having a really
good may, may may be my favoritemonth. I'm a big fan of May.
It's to me, it's like the birthof spring and all of those
things. And I feel like I'mrhyming almost in every
sentence. So I'm gonna stop. ButI'm very excited. I'm looking
forward to a really good monthof being outside as much as
(41:26):
possible. And I'm coming up onmy five year anniversary from my
running streak at the end ofMay.
tammie bennett (41:33):
Oh, that's amazing. The big one. Yeah. Tell
people a little bit more aboutthat. In case they don't know.
coach chris bennett (41:39):
Well, almost five years ago, I decided
to run it. Every day in June. Istarted at the end of May when I
was in Albuquerque speaking witha group called the wings of
America. And it just went well,in June, I had a five minute
minimum. Because I tried to dosome not so much streaks, but
(41:59):
get some consistency going inthe past. And I would give
myself these floors of like,well, I gotta run at least 5k or
two miles. And I realized thatwas that was too much for me
personally to ask. I said, I cando five minutes, I can go out
two and a half minutes and comeback. And I did it all the way
through June. And then it justwent through July and it just
(42:21):
kept going. And it no point wasI trying to start a streak. I
just knew that if I could beconsistently running, I would
consistently keep running. Andit has just turned into this
thing. Where at the end of Mayfrom still going it'll be five
years.
tammie bennett (42:39):
So good. I love it so much. That's all streaks
are kind of happened right oneday at a time.
coach chris bennett (42:47):
Yeah, absolutely. 100%. And having
been someone who never reallyhad a streak of anything before.
That is the Absolute Truth. Oneday, at a time. Not yesterday,
and not tomorrow. Today.
tammie bennett (43:03):
I was gonna say that's why I have a today tattoo
on my wrist. And that exactreason. Not yesterday, not
tomorrow. Today.
coach chris bennett (43:11):
That could be another show. What should the
next tattoo be? I don't know ifwe want to leave that up to the
mailbag. Sure. You know?
tammie bennett (43:22):
Sure, you know, send it we don't have to get it.
Nobody's forcing us to get it.
That would be terrible. That'dbe terrifying. But send us your
tattoo ideas. Amazing.
coach chris bennett (43:33):
You have to reach in and just grab a random
letter.
tammie bennett (43:37):
Now there's been people that have done that. Like
they'll have like tattoo ideaslike in a jar and they like pull
one out. And that's what theyhave to get. I think they're
drunk when they do it. Butstill, it's a thing.
coach chris bennett (43:47):
Yeah, that's no thank you. Seems like
someone that wants this evenJackass would have done. Oh, for
sure. Go. Probably did when wegot a tattoo once in a car, like
on a bumpy road.
tammie bennett (44:01):
You know, thanks. Anyway. All right.
coach chris bennett (44:03):
On that note, yeah. Good times.
tammie bennett (44:07):
Thanks for spending time with us. And we'll
see you next week. We won't seeyou. That would be weird. But
coach chris bennett (44:13):
you'll hear us next week. See some of you.
We might let's not I mean, let'ssend your picture into our
mailbag. This mailbag is gettingmassive. You have to calm down
with the mailbag. There's
tammie bennett (44:24):
so excited. I love mail.
coach chris bennett (44:27):
DVDs, and Okay, listen,
tammie bennett (44:29):
this, this is the worst, like so when we talk
to our son in college when wetalk to them at night. We say
goodnight. And then inevitablysomeone brings up one more thing
and it's like the longest mostdrawn out goodbye process. And I
want to just cut this oneshorter than that. Let's just
call it a day. Let's just endit. Thank you for coming. And
(44:52):
you'll hear us next
coach chris bennett (44:53):
week hard to say goodbye. So hard to say
I'm sorry to What song is that?
Who says that? Is that we'retalking about what we're doing
right now. Yeah. Okay. Allright.
tammie bennett (45:05):
This might be a petty grievance in the future.
coach chris bennett (45:08):
The grievance right now we can edit
it in. All right, I'm donetalking. Thank you Tammie for
having me on our show.
tammie bennett (45:17):
Thank you for having me on our show. And thank
you for listening. Hi.
Thank you for hanging out withus today. We hope you subscribe
if you haven't already, and we'dlove for you to give us a good
rating.
coach chris bennett (45:34):
Remember, you can send your questions into
our mailbag at the address foundin the show notes.
tammie bennett (45:39):
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