John Boel talks fishing, Iron Man, and Man Bun

WAVE 3 anchorman/author John Boel gives us insight into his fishing routine, training for an Ironman, and the Man Bun...

Episode Transcript

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John Bull's a long time news anchormanwith Wave three News. He's also a
Packers fan, sometimes a Jets fan. He's an iron man, and he's
also a fisher boy. As ahusband and father, he's good at all
that stuff. He's also a fisherman. Hey, Bowl, welcome back to
the show. Thank you, Terry. Yeah, I'm looking forward to you.

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It's been a while. Your book, cast Away, Five Generations of
Family Fish Stories is very popular.Yes, yes, selling really really well.
And the best compliment comes when peoplewho I know don't know anything about
fishing are buying it just because theyknow me and they know there's going to

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be something in there for him.And my wife and I are taking off
next week. We're going to marketthe book up in northern Wisconsin, where
the bulk of the book really isabout. I've got a list of bookstores.
I'm going to go in there andtry to get him to carry my
books. So I'm looking forward ofthat too. Okay, now, you
just got off the six o'clock news. You you anchored the five, the

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sixth, the sixth, you knowwhat I mean, And then the eleven
at night, even at eleven o'clockat night. So then sometimes I will
see pictures of you on some lakearound here and you're holding up some whale
that you've caught. Is that atlike four in the morning. How do
you do that? If you workthe eleven o'clock news. That is a
ritual I've been doing for about threeyears now on Friday nights, when I've

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had all i can take of theMayhem in Louisville, I bring a change
of clothes to work. I changeat work at eleven thirty five, hit
the road, pull into Green Riverdown by Campbellsville, to the river part
of it, not the lake,at about one fifteen, one twenty,
and fish the whole rest of thenight till seven or eight in the morning,

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and then drive back and then getmy sleep Saturday midday. Brenda is
such an angel. Oh yes,I mean, she just knows he's got
a fish. She knows better thanto even ask anymore if I'm going fishing
on Friday nights, And like justrecently, there was some reason why I
couldn't, like State Fair or something, to sell my book or something,

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and she was so shocked that Iwas going to be home on a Friday
night after work. Stunning, allright, Where can people find your book?
You just go on with Butler booksdot com. Okay, and it's
at car Michaels if you just wantto go in and check it out there
Butler books dot com with a lovelyCarol Butler, my publisher and Carmichaels.
All right, we're speaking with JohnBull, who has done many iron Man

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competitions. I'm guessing fifteen. Isit more than that I have finished thirteen
or fourteen and there have been aI am how about this? I am
the only human being who started everysingle iron Man Louisville from two thousand and
sevens and nineteen or whatever it wasnow. I didn't finished two of those

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in two thousand and eight, andin twenty fourteen when it was one hundred
degree heat index, I finished oneof them in the hospital. But I'm
the only one who ever started everysingle one. They announced they announced today
that we're going to get an ironMan a half Ironman seventy point three miles,
which obviously is half the swim distancefifty six miles on the bike instead

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of one hundred and twelve and ahalf marathon. So you've done this sort
of thing before. How significant isthe difference in training for something like this.
Of course it is. I knewyou were going to ask me that.
It is the difference between a halfiron Man and a full iron Man.

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Is the difference between night and death. Okay, first of all,
let's go peace by let's go peaceby piece here. I don't know if
you've noticed or not. The coursemaps aren't up yet, but the one
point two miles swim is is alldownstream. Oh, so you can be
you can be Ohio river debris andyou will float downstream in the current.

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So you don't leave here, swimupstream at all. They're gonna start.
That was the old That was theold full iron Man, where we basically
swam up the narrows. So aboutone third of the race in the old
days the two point four one thirdof it was against the current, and
then two thirds of it was with. So the swim is dramatically different.

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A fifty six mile bike is somuch easier than one hundred and twelve mile
bike. I can't even explain itto you. It's just like night and
day and running. At the veryend of it all, running thirteen miles
instead of twenty six is again,like I always just to tell my friends,
like, like, imagine when yourun the mini marathon, when you

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get to the finish line, turningaround and running back like again, the
difference is night and day in therun. So my message to everybody listening
is you need to get on boardwith this. There I know people who
never did a triathlon of any distancein their life and within one year had
trained themselves up to do an ironMan distance one hundred and forty mile long

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iron Man. You can do seventymile half iron Man next year in August
in Louisville. You can start rightnow. That is awesome. It's August
eighteenth of twenty twenty four. Andyou know I went out and rode with
you one day, fifty something miles. So I rode that distance. Now
I was sore and you weren't,but you know your train you did it.

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But you did it, and youyou know what I mean. And
you get a little race, youget a little training in and a little
race day juice, and that fiftysix is nothing. Well I mean that.
I think that's very encouraging for alot of people who would like to
say, yes, I've done aniron Man and then just quietly say half,
you know, but it's still acool thing to do now both.

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Yeah. I know a lot ofpeople don't even really know what the definition
of it because iron Man bought theiron Man organization bought a lot of the
half iron Man's in the country,like Monthly. I just went and did
Monthly last year, the half thatthey do there, which is fantastic.
So my message to everybody listening isyou can do a half. Trust me.
On this fifty six mile bike.You're on the bike for about like

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three hours if you're even if you'reslow, like three and a half hours.
You can train yourself up to runthirteen miles. I mean, my
own daughter had never run like,she had run like one five kN in
her life, trained herself up inless than a year to run a half
marathon, run thirteen miles, Like, you can do this. It's pricy,

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isn't it. Isn't it expensive togo into a regular iron Man.
I didn't look at the I didn'tlook at the costs. But I do
remember the very first year that theyhad I might have told you this through
the very first year that they hadiron Man Louisville, like two thousand and
seven, the they crunt. Theytook all that. They take a lot

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of data in when you sign upfor it, like your income and all
that, and they crunch the numbersand low and behold. The people who
do iron Man races make a lotof money. Like it's it's uncanny.
Yeah, people who tend to raisethe bar in life in their career also
try to raise the bar when itcomes to their athletic endurance attempts. It

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makes perfect sense. I mean,there are a lot of doctors people who,
yeah, you're right, are ina high revenue stream, who do
this thing because they just want toyou're right. They want to push the
needle all the way over. ButI was looking at registration in some other
places today it was five hundred dollars. Yeah. Yeah, the last time
I did it was over four hundredup in months e And keep in mind

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these races not long ago. We'relike one hundred and fifty and all that.
You know, they charge a lotbecause they can charge a lot.
That's what they do. Okay,that's good to know. So people I
don't want I don't want them tobe shocked when they go to the website.
I've registered for information to be inthe information stream, and they didn't

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haven't readily available. That's why Istarted snooping around. So you said Munthsy
was a half, right, Soit was four hundred something dollars to do
a half yea, yeah, yeah. The full iron Man's now are like
eight hundred dollars or nine hundred orsomething. I mean, think about even
when you do road races these days, like five k's or like fifty bucks,
Like the early registration for the miniisn't that up around like eighty ninety

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bucks usually? Yeah? Yeah,well obviously it's something you really have to
want to do. But iron Manis a cool title, and I think
people just want to achieve that andthey can do a half, and you've
been very encouraging and telling people youknow you can do that, Yeah,
you can't do this. And theGreat Lawn as the I see they're keeping
the Great Lawn as the transition is. That's incredible. That is really gets

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your juices flowing when you get downthere on race day and and they're changing
the run. This is other goodnews. I was, you know how
we're doing all these stories right nowon this mel the sewer smell in Louisville
yep, okay, So every Mybiggest complaint was every year in the full
iron Man in all at the endof August when they had it, we
would run out Third and Fourth Street, which was right over a major sewer

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line. So you already want tovomit when you're trying to do the last
legged iron Man, and then everystep of your run for five hours is
smelling sewage. Sewage. So thisrace, they haven't got the course map
out, like I said, butit's going to be different. It's going
to be out like along the OhioRiver, that's what they said, river

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views. Yeah, so you won'thave to smell the sewers like the old
iron Man day, so that isa plus as well. Well, yeah,
it's fantastic, And obviously we're givingpeople plenty of time to think about
it in August eighteenth to twenty twentyfour, and it's a series of iron
Man halves that are coming to Louisville, So we're gonna get it every year,
it looks like, but the firstone that happens is next August,

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so start thinking about that, youfolks who are training. All right,
in the last minute we have here, let's talk about packers. Jordan Love
obviously couldn't get it done. Thesame next kid, Desmond Ritter, though,
did for the Atlanta Falcons. Arethe Packers horrific? What have you
seen out of them? Let mejust ask you one question, mister Aaron
Rodgers hater. One question, okay, mister disparager of Aaron Rodgers. Yes,

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okay, When when the game wasdown, Packers are down by a
point and there was a minute tenleft and no timeouts and all they had
to do is drive down to geta field goal, didn't you feel differently
inside then you used to feel whenthe guy who could go down the field
on the San Francisco forty nine ersa couple of years ago in thirty seven

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seconds and no timeouts could get thejob done and had been doing that his
whole life. Ye didn't you?How did you feel inside your body exactly
the same way you're describing. Ofcourse, I didn't have any confidence in
Jordan Love getting that done. No, no. And I'm watching it,
you know, I'm being fair.Get watching it though, sales of key

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open receiver pass right over the guy'shead, and I'm just thinking, here
we go, Oh my god.And so I just started googling old videos
of Aaron doing just that. Right, all right, So what happens to
Zach Wilson after this year? He'sthe Jets quarterback through the year Aaron Rodgers
comes back a year from now,does he get the job back. I
don't believe by the way that he'scoming back in a few months, like,
oh my, I'm gonna heal upearly and come back. Here's what

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I want. He's not coming backthis season. Here's what I want.
The Vikings are gonna get rid ofCousins because he's in the last year of
his deal and they suck. Sothey're gonna get rid of Cousins. And
the Jets aren't gonna want to dothis all over again, put all the
eggs in his basket all again nextyear. So they're gonna deal Aaron Rodgers
for the Vikings, and we're gonnahave the Vikings, Oh my god,
Rogers against the Packers, just likewe had five against the Packers twelve years

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ago, thirteen years ago. Ineed to go vomit. I appreciate it,
brother, It's that wouldn't be great. I don't want to have to
be nervous about man bun Rogers beatingme in a Vikings uniform. It was,
it was, it was, Itwas musty. I'm gonna go over
that damn bridge and jump, andI'm not swimming in the iron, man.
I'm doing it for the end.If a Rodgers can, I encourage

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everybody to give it a serious thoughtabout doing the Lewell's half iron. It's
gonna be okay, good if Ijump in the river, fish me out.
I know you're good at that,all right, ball can do that.
Good talking to you, brother.All that's John Boll from Way three
News. His book is called Castaway, Five Generations of Family fish Stories.