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Welcome to Unfiltered Waters, everybody.
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My name is Elizabeth Beisel, and I'm co-hosting today with Katie Hoff's husband, Todd Anderson, because she's a week away from giving birth to their baby girl.
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And uh we are joined today by Alex Walsh.
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Alex, thank you so much for coming on.
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Thanks for having me.
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Yay.
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So this will air after Pampax.
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And I would love to know.
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Obviously, you're coming fresh off of nationals.
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Yeah.
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Swam awesome.
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I feel like you're happy with 208, can go even faster.
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What would success look like for you at the end of the summer?
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What do you what do you kind of want to accomplish?
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Um, so I am doing the 4am again at Pampax.
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So that's definitely um something that I've been working on this season.
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Yeah, time trial.
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Yeah, I time trial on my birthday.
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Oh my god, no, on your birthday?
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I kind of did it to myself though.
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Um, like I elected to swim it.
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So um yeah, I kind of just was testing out the the water.
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How to feel?
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I don't know.
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I mean, it was fine.
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Like I wish I'd been faster, but I'm not too pressed.
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Yeah, 441.
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Whatever.
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But but alone in a time trial, like what are you expecting?
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It wasn't 40.
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How bad did it hurt one to ten?
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Um, like, not as bad as some have hurt in the past, but it was pretty.
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I was just thinking to myself at the end, I was like, I can't believe that I am doing this right now.
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Self-inflicted.
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Yeah, self-inflicted.
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Yeah, and then you can't even like blame anybody.
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Yeah, I can't even get mad at anyone.
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It's fully me.
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Um, yeah, it was great.
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And then um the two IM was also really happy with 208, um, felt like put together like a really strong race.
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So yeah, I think like best times, hopefully, fingers crossed in the four would be great.
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And then I mean, I think I've been like, you know, aiming for that 206 in the 2IM for so long now.
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Um so yeah, but I think like, you know, this is the first time that I've that I've been like excited about the 400 before.
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So I'm kind of like I just want to try and like lean into it.
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How did you like get to this all the sudden?
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It wasn't it didn't really, it wasn't uh it just kind of like fell into place.
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I think um when Gretchen and I were at Seticoli in Rome and I just had like a really great swim and felt like I don't know, I finally felt like strong in it.
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I feel like for so long I've just kind of felt like I, you know, fall off the yeah, and just fall off at the end.
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Um, and I really felt like the training that I had been doing um this past summer was like finally translating into something that I was proud of.
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So then I like wanted to wanted to try and swim it again.
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Normally I'm like begging to get out of it.
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So yeah, leaning into that, um leaning into that excitement.
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So what'd you go at Satakoli?
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Re 430.
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435.
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435.
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Yeah.
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Oh, you'll be under that at Pan Packs.
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That was that in like a real environment.
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Yeah, yeah.
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Yeah.
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And the season, leaving online, yeah, that helps.
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You'll actually be rested.
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Yeah, I'm excited.
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Hey.
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Have you made any changes over the last you know, year to prep yourself?
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Um, yeah, well, uh honestly, like the biggest changes have come since March.
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I after the China open, that was probably like the worst meet I've ever had in my life.
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And sounds like a tough environment though.
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I know Gretchen was saying you guys got in like two days before it was tough.
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Yeah.
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12 hours is literally also the hardest.
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Yeah, actually.
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It's like complete awesome.
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I was excited to be there and was really happy to be there.
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Um, and like I would probably go back just because it was really like a cool experience.
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But I definitely didn't swim very well and was kind of like panicking and texting Todd and being like, I don't know what's going on.
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I, you know, I don't want to do this, I don't want to swim my races.
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Um, but yeah, so after that, we did like a very strong pivot, started doing way more endurance work, um, which like I'm good at in practice.
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So I think that made me feel a lot better, a lot more confident.
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Um, changed my like lift program a little bit, just more like hyper tailored to me.
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And like, um what'd you change?
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I'm just curious.
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I just like started doing more um like I don't know, I call it like the boot camp.
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I don't know.
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I do like circuit a circuit at the end, and it's like very CrossFit y.
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I don't know.
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My strength coach, like he writes it for me, but um yeah, so I honestly and I feel like that's been helping.
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So just changes.
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I started doing hot yoga, hot Pilates and all of that.
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Yeah, I really like doing that, and it's like something new and just like a studio in Charlottesville, yeah.
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Studio in Charlottesville, but um yeah, I started like I did like you know, two weeks of like a free trial run or whatever, and then I bought like a membership, and now I like know the instructors, yeah.
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You have like some people in the classes and stuff, so that's been really fun to like be a part of.
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Do you do hot yoga more or hot Pilates?
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Um it depends on the day.
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I try and do like one to two sessions of the Pilates a week and then a session of the yoga week.
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Um yeah, I don't know.
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I like the Pilates because I feel like it's more high energy and like the music is more fun.
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Yeah.
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But sometimes I really feel like the yoga helps me like a lot more with my mobility.
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So for sure.
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When I I want to go back when you you know you text Todd, I don't want to swim my race or whatever.
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That like what's that conversation look like?
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Um it's only ever happened like you know, twice.
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Like I remember once in in Budapest, or no, not in Budapest, in Worlds in 2023, I was like so upset after my 2am and I texted him and I was like, you know, why is this happening?
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Like, um I feel like I'm a very like patient, not I don't even know if patient's the right word, but like I don't know, I I like tend to keep things in.
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You're like even killed too.
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Very even killed, like definitely not as emotional um as like some other athletes, but are you like a volcano where you are until you aren't?
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Um yeah, but even like but even like I could never like really the texting is just like where I can like really get it all out.
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And then like I because I would never actually like go up in person and be like, or maybe I do sometimes, but um, yeah, like I just you know, I feel like also at this point in my career, it's like I you know want to like be fully invested in swimming, and also I think I don't know, I feel like I'm at like a really weird position in my career right now where it's like I want to um how do I like articulate this?
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It's like if I'm gonna do it, like I want to do it well because I feel like I was weighing whether or not to like go to 2028, and like I think it's easy for me to see what other people are doing that like you know, all my college friends and stuff, and like, but I I love the life that I have now, like and I'm happy that I'm still such a tough thing.
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You know, it's weird to like see everyone else's lives changing, and I kind of feel like I'm still doing the same thing, like everybody moves on, and you're like not stuck, but it's weird, and so I'm like, you know, when you keep swimming for so long and like you don't see any results, I feel like that kind of makes me like I did panic.
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Um, so you were at a low after trying to open.
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Definitely, yeah, super low.
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But like, I don't know, I feel really grateful to have the relationship I have with Todd and like definitely trust him and trust Gary.
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I've been with Gary a lot more um recently.
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And yeah, so it's been great.
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Like I really like the setup that I have right now, and I'm hoping, you know, pan packs I'm really excited for, but even just long term, like I'm excited for the next couple years and to like, you know, for the quad to kind of like ramp up again.
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You're doing it.
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Yeah.
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You're in.
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Doing it.
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That's good.
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No, we love this.
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That's that's good.
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If uh if let's say if if the China open ended right now and you try and travel back, what would you tell yourself?
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I don't know.
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I think like I feel like I'm really good at telling myself to like I don't know, I pride myself on having like good positive self-talk and like you know, being someone who is even killed, like you said, and like not letting the little things like stress me out too much.
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But um honestly, like I wouldn't re I don't really regret that much because I think like I needed I think I needed to have that moment where I was like, wait, what am I doing?
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Because I really hadn't been pr training at a level that I normally like expect of myself.
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Like I would say definitely the past two years have been the most I've ever struggled with swimming, like just with motivation, like showing up, doing it, feeling proud of it.
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I feel like I was just kind of like going through the motions and it was so obvious.
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Like I got in the pool, was swimming not well, and I was like, I mean, yeah, people say like the definition of insanity is like doing the same thing and expecting different results or whatever.
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Like that's essentially what I was doing for the past, you know.
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So ironic that that lines up with you not being on the college team.
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Do you think that has to be a good idea?
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No, I think it definitely had, yeah.
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Like I think the transition from being, and even just after 2024, like kind of being in a lull, but yeah, I think the NCAA season like definitely got me like hyped up and I was ready to go at worlds last summer.
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Um, and then like you know, having a bad world with everything that happened, and then not even a bad world, but like I expected a lot of myself.
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Yeah, and then yeah, and Paris, of course.
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Like yeah, Paris.
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Like I feel like I kind of got like you know beat down a little.
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And you're like, I'm a good person.
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Like, when's my good karma coming?
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And yeah, so I definitely was just going through the motions, and obviously that was really evident.
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So I think that that was kind of like a reality check for me.
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I almost feel it, I feel like you can feel that your energy is completely different.
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Like it feels like you're in such a good spot.
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Yeah, like you're in it, like you've decided.
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So I guess when you say like going through the motions, like, but it's you were still doing everything, obviously.
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Right.
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So like when you when you think about now, like what mentally is the biggest shift, like focus-wise, or like what changed?
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Um, I think like I had to like there was definitely a little bit of a mental shift with like, okay, if I'm gonna be here, like I'm gonna do it and I'm gonna do it right.
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I like honestly, I just sat down with Todd and I he was like, you need to like show up and you should be like, he was like, you're the best I am trainer, like you know, across all four strokes.
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He was like, you should be like leading Elaine, you should be pushing the rest of the girls and the four I am, the two I am group.
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Like, you know, I'm Thresh Freestyle is one of my strongest like sets.
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He was like, you should be leading Elaine in that.
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I think he was just kind of like you know, he's someone that like he will tell you when you need to be doing something better, but sometimes, like with me, especially, like I think he doesn't want to like hurt people's feelings and stuff.
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So it's like when I was coming to him and I was like, I'm struggling, he was like, Okay, we can change things, but also like you need to be holding yourself to a higher standard.
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And I think like, but even just hearing him telling me that, I felt like, yeah, that is what I should be doing, and I can be doing it, and like, and honestly, then right after that, like I had a really good string of practices over like two weeks, and ever since then it's just been like a lot better.
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Do you feel like you're someone that responds well to like tough love, or do you feel like you need a little bit of empathy?
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And I like both.
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Like it sounds like that was not I don't know if a tough level.
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Yeah, it was kind of tough love.
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Yeah, I've definitely had like conversations before with Todd where just like after a lull and he's like, you know, you just seem you're a little lost or a little like out of there or whatever.
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And I think like I but I think I need that, yeah.
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Like I think it I definitely need someone to be honest because it's cool you have that relationship.
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Yeah, I feel like a lot of times that's a hard line to walk, and it I mean that just shows what you guys have gone through.
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Yeah, and you're at the point, like also happy birthday or belated birthday, 25, right?
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Like you're a veteran, like been around the block for so long, like all of your peers are starting to maybe move on from the sport, and you're like back to what we were saying earlier.
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It is sometimes tough to be like, oh, am I missing out on like the real world or like what's next?
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Yeah.
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Well, you're not.
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It's pretty cool.
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Oh, yeah.
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I guess that's a great thing.
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Being a professional athlete is the coolest part.
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Oh my gosh, I wish I could still do it.
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Girl swim that forward I am for me.
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Yeah, so just you know, like the grass isn't always greener, but I get it.
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Does I understand?
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I think it is.
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Yeah.
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Definitely like the path, like in the fall, uh, you know, I would like go visit my friends in New York, and I'd be like, I just want to like move here so bad, and like whatever.
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But but then I come here and I'm like in Irvine and I'm living the dream.
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You know, I get to be in California for three weeks and I'm like, wait, my life is awesome.
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Like New York will always be there.
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It will.
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I do feel like it is one place everyone, if they can should live a couple years.
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Or I'm gonna have a New York moment when you're done summoning.
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Oh, yeah.
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Like one way ticket.
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What are you gonna do?
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I don't know.
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Yeah, you'll figure it out.
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It's New York.
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Yeah, I mean, there's so much options, yeah.
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But what's cool is like, even though I think sometimes it might I get like it feels like you're getting left behind, everything you're doing, it also is like a slingshot.
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Like, yeah, you'll gain so many relationships, you'll get so many doors open, and like it you'll quickly feel like you're ahead.
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Yeah, it's definitely like an investment into you know after 2028 and like what that will look like.
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Yeah.
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So oh, that's exciting.
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I asked Gretchen, how's the house?
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Are you loving it?
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The house is great.
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What's the biggest recurring fight between you two in the house?
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House related.
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Okay, so Gretchen is like, oh, she's ready.
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Gretchen is like the um what's like the thermostat.
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Like, she is the thermostat police.
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Like, she will.
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Well, so she doesn't she's always watching it, she's always watching it, and no, she's what's because of comfort or or like the electric bill.
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The electric bill.
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I'm like, we're okay.
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But um it's probably like two dollars.
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The HVAC system has we've had we've been having a lot of problems.
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Oh, so you guys have split systems in your she has like, yeah, she has a mini split in her room, and then the downstairs has like its own, and then the upstairs.
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She's like carving out her electric bill.
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Her room is fine.
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Yeah, look, yeah.
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Well, we're gonna prorate everyone.
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Her room is literally fine.
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Her room is always like, you know, 68 degrees.
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It's perfect.
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Formal, yeah.
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Um, the other week, actually, the the upstairs unit broke and it was like 89 degrees upstairs.
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Oh, because you guys have a heat wave too.
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Yes, yeah, wait, it's horrible.
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So she's the thermostat police.
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Yeah, she has her own thermostat.
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She has her own, and then she's getting mad at other people.
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I or and I'm like, I feel like we're hot, Gretchen.
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We're hot up here.
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And he rises too.
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I'm like, I'm hot.
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And please she has her own bathroom.
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Like, she she has the best room in the house for sure.
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Um, which is fine.
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Like, I love my room.
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Is it doesn't seem that far.
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Yeah.
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Oh, yeah.
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It's fine.
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She does other things.
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She like she handles the rent, she handles the bills.
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Um, so like what do you think she would say your like it like you she gets the most mad at you for?
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She would probably say that I I don't well, she would probably say other things about like our dynamic.
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I think the house.
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Um, oh, you know what she doesn't like is like when I come back from swim, like I'll put my swim bag just like on the kitchen counter for a second.
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Okay, yeah.
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She really doesn't like that.
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Like, there are just some lines that can't be crossed, and that's one of them.
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Yeah.
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Her and Katie would put they would do well.
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They can't.
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Katie not like that.
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No, yeah.
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I put my bag on the table.
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We do like a really good job though with clean, like our it's very cute.
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Yeah, do you guys have like a system like you do the vacuuming, Gretchen does like the cow?
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They'll do vacuuming and like mopping occasionally when that happens.
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And then like she likes to wipe down like the dining room table and like the island.
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I do like the kitchen.
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I normally do the dishes.
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Okay.
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But she does the trash.
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Got it.
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So I love that.
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You have like a healthy thing going.
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Any big tailgate setup uh plans for the fall?
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We heard you got a pretty elite spot.
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I know it's like so much.
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It's a great backyard, so close.
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It's like a five-minute walk from the stadium.
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Um, no like plans in place right now.
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I'm sure it'll I think it's just kind of like an unspoken thing at this point, just like pull up to the Walsh's because everyone wants to like it's like the house.
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Yeah, like I'll we'll just be hanging out or whatever, and on a we'll get texts on a Thursday being like, Okay, I'm coming down to Charlottesville.
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Like, and we're like, Yeah, you can stay over.
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We have that's awesome.
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Yeah, it's a little hot upstairs, but you'll be okay.
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Yeah, thermostat.
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You can stay in Gresham's room if you want to be cold.
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Oh, yeah.
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Do you guys like take advantage of being in Charlottesville and like going to the wineries and stuff on weekends?
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Like, is that your kind of like thing that you do?
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The wineries are great.
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Um, and there's like so many that we haven't been to.
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I feel like mostly for the antioxidants.
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That's why that's why they're for the antioxidants, that's where they go.
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Of course.
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Oh, yes, yeah.
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Health benefits.
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Recovery.
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Yeah.
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Right.
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Um, but yeah, Charlottesville is like such a wonderful little place.
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So beautiful.
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And it is small, but like there's just so much charm about it that is um, I don't know.
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Yeah, I I love it.
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And so I'm so happy that we have the house so we can like keep coming back to it.
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Um and I don't know if she told you like my parents bought two other houses there too.
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Like, oh, it's all like it's like three different streets.
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There's one, one, one.
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Like they're all like a little neighbors, compound or whatever.
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And so my dad, like, people joke that my dad's gonna like take over the Charlottesville, but they're still Nashville, right?
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It's like Monopoly.
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You can pick up the whole block.
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Yes, literally.
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Yeah, we're gonna get the street and do it like Walsh Lane or something.
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That's amazing.
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Um, but yeah, he's like moving because he does the real estate thing in Nashville, but then he's like kind of moving also to Charlottesville.
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So yeah, so one's an Airbnb and then one's like gonna be rented out to students.
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Cool, yeah.
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What's the last question?
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Yeah, what's your favorite spot, Broadway?
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Nashville.
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Oh, so many members.
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Where are you going?
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Where am I going?
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Okay, I think um so I've never been to Printer's alley before.
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I really want to go.
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It's a really cool area.
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I really want to go.
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But my favorite spot that I've had like some really great times at is Jason Aldean's.
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Yes, that's classic.
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But one time, one time I was scammed at the um the Luke Bryant because Luke's out there.
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Luke, uh Luke Combs professional impersonator tricked me into thinking it was him.
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It was a whole bit.
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It was a whole bit, and like it was him.
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He looked so much like Luke Combs, and he had like these um security guards, which were just all his friends.
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Like dressed in black in black, yeah.
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And I was there.
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Oh no.
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And I like went up to him and I was like, Oh no, hey, um, like huge fan.
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I was like, and I normally don't like pull the Olympian card, but I was like, I'm an Olympian, like, can we take a photo together?
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And he was like, All right, make it quick.
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And I was like, okay, yeah, of course.
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Yeah, take a picture with him, put it all over like my Instagram, Snapchat, everything.
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I'm like, guys, I was with Luke Combs last night.
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Um, wake up in the morning, and all my friends were like, That's not him.
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You were not and I was like, Yes, it was.
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And I literally go like on Google and I'm like, what is Luke Combs doing right now?
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He's like on tour in Australia, and I was like, on a different continent.
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Yeah, but you saw Luke Combs though, right?
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Yes.
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You saw the real Luke Combs.
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I did see him, but you didn't meet him.
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That kind of hurts my heart.
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That really hurts.
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It was so tough.
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But you can get through that.
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Great story, though.
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That is great.
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It was a really funny story.
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Not Alex Walsh posing.
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Yeah, yeah.
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For an IM is no problem.
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Yeah, after that, you're a good girl.
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Um, well, thank you so much for coming on.
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Good luck.
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Thanks for tweeting for you, especially in 4M.
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Welcome to Unfiltered Waters, everybody.
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My name is Elizabeth Beisel, and I'm co-hosting today with Katie Hoff's husband, Todd Anderson, because she's a week away from giving birth to their baby girl.
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And uh we are joined today by Alex Walsh.
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Alex, thank you so much for coming on.
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Thanks for having me.
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Yay.
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So this will air after Pampax.
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And I would love to know.
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Obviously, you're coming fresh off of nationals.
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Yeah.
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Swam awesome.
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I feel like you're happy with 208, can go even faster.
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What would success look like for you at the end of the summer?
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What do you what do you kind of want to accomplish?
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Um, so I am doing the 4am again at Pampax.
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So that's definitely um something that I've been working on this season.
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Yeah, time trial.
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Yeah, I time trial on my birthday.
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Oh my god, no, on your birthday?
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I kind of did it to myself though.
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Um, like I elected to swim it.
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So um yeah, I kind of just was testing out the the water.
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How to feel?
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I don't know.
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I mean, it was fine.
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Like I wish I'd been faster, but I'm not too pressed.
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Yeah, 441.
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Whatever.
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But but alone in a time trial, like what are you expecting?
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It wasn't 40.
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How bad did it hurt one to ten?
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Um, like, not as bad as some have hurt in the past, but it was pretty.
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I was just thinking to myself at the end, I was like, I can't believe that I am doing this right now.
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Self-inflicted.
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Yeah, self-inflicted.
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Yeah, and then you can't even like blame anybody.
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Yeah, I can't even get mad at anyone.
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It's fully me.
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Um, yeah, it was great.
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And then um the two IM was also really happy with 208, um, felt like put together like a really strong race.
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So yeah, I think like best times, hopefully, fingers crossed in the four would be great.
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And then I mean, I think I've been like, you know, aiming for that 206 in the 2IM for so long now.
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Um so yeah, but I think like, you know, this is the first time that I've that I've been like excited about the 400 before.
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So I'm kind of like I just want to try and like lean into it.
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How did you like get to this all the sudden?
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It wasn't it didn't really, it wasn't uh it just kind of like fell into place.
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I think um when Gretchen and I were at Seticoli in Rome and I just had like a really great swim and felt like I don't know, I finally felt like strong in it.
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I feel like for so long I've just kind of felt like I, you know, fall off the yeah, and just fall off at the end.
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Um, and I really felt like the training that I had been doing um this past summer was like finally translating into something that I was proud of.
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So then I like wanted to wanted to try and swim it again.
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Normally I'm like begging to get out of it.
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So yeah, leaning into that, um leaning into that excitement.
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So what'd you go at Satakoli?
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Re 430.
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435.
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435.
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Yeah.
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Oh, you'll be under that at Pan Packs.
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That was that in like a real environment.
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Yeah, yeah.
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Yeah.
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And the season, leaving online, yeah, that helps.
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You'll actually be rested.
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Yeah, I'm excited.
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Hey.
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Have you made any changes over the last you know, year to prep yourself?
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Um, yeah, well, uh honestly, like the biggest changes have come since March.
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I after the China open, that was probably like the worst meet I've ever had in my life.
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And sounds like a tough environment though.
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I know Gretchen was saying you guys got in like two days before it was tough.
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Yeah.
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12 hours is literally also the hardest.
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Yeah, actually.
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It's like complete awesome.
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I was excited to be there and was really happy to be there.
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Um, and like I would probably go back just because it was really like a cool experience.
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But I definitely didn't swim very well and was kind of like panicking and texting Todd and being like, I don't know what's going on.
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I, you know, I don't want to do this, I don't want to swim my races.
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Um, but yeah, so after that, we did like a very strong pivot, started doing way more endurance work, um, which like I'm good at in practice.
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So I think that made me feel a lot better, a lot more confident.
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Um, changed my like lift program a little bit, just more like hyper tailored to me.
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And like, um what'd you change?
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I'm just curious.
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I just like started doing more um like I don't know, I call it like the boot camp.
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I don't know.
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I do like circuit a circuit at the end, and it's like very CrossFit y.
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I don't know.
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My strength coach, like he writes it for me, but um yeah, so I honestly and I feel like that's been helping.
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So just changes.
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I started doing hot yoga, hot Pilates and all of that.
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Yeah, I really like doing that, and it's like something new and just like a studio in Charlottesville, yeah.
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Studio in Charlottesville, but um yeah, I started like I did like you know, two weeks of like a free trial run or whatever, and then I bought like a membership, and now I like know the instructors, yeah.
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You have like some people in the classes and stuff, so that's been really fun to like be a part of.
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Do you do hot yoga more or hot Pilates?
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Um it depends on the day.
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I try and do like one to two sessions of the Pilates a week and then a session of the yoga week.
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Um yeah, I don't know.
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I like the Pilates because I feel like it's more high energy and like the music is more fun.
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Yeah.
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But sometimes I really feel like the yoga helps me like a lot more with my mobility.
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So for sure.
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When I I want to go back when you you know you text Todd, I don't want to swim my race or whatever.
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That like what's that conversation look like?
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Um it's only ever happened like you know, twice.
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Like I remember once in in Budapest, or no, not in Budapest, in Worlds in 2023, I was like so upset after my 2am and I texted him and I was like, you know, why is this happening?
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Like, um I feel like I'm a very like patient, not I don't even know if patient's the right word, but like I don't know, I I like tend to keep things in.
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You're like even killed too.
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Very even killed, like definitely not as emotional um as like some other athletes, but are you like a volcano where you are until you aren't?
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Um yeah, but even like but even like I could never like really the texting is just like where I can like really get it all out.
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And then like I because I would never actually like go up in person and be like, or maybe I do sometimes, but um, yeah, like I just you know, I feel like also at this point in my career, it's like I you know want to like be fully invested in swimming, and also I think I don't know, I feel like I'm at like a really weird position in my career right now where it's like I want to um how do I like articulate this?
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It's like if I'm gonna do it, like I want to do it well because I feel like I was weighing whether or not to like go to 2028, and like I think it's easy for me to see what other people are doing that like you know, all my college friends and stuff, and like, but I I love the life that I have now, like and I'm happy that I'm still such a tough thing.
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You know, it's weird to like see everyone else's lives changing, and I kind of feel like I'm still doing the same thing, like everybody moves on, and you're like not stuck, but it's weird, and so I'm like, you know, when you keep swimming for so long and like you don't see any results, I feel like that kind of makes me like I did panic.
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Um, so you were at a low after trying to open.
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Definitely, yeah, super low.
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But like, I don't know, I feel really grateful to have the relationship I have with Todd and like definitely trust him and trust Gary.
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I've been with Gary a lot more um recently.
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And yeah, so it's been great.
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Like I really like the setup that I have right now, and I'm hoping, you know, pan packs I'm really excited for, but even just long term, like I'm excited for the next couple years and to like, you know, for the quad to kind of like ramp up again.
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You're doing it.
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Yeah.
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You're in.
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Doing it.
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That's good.
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No, we love this.
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That's that's good.
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If uh if let's say if if the China open ended right now and you try and travel back, what would you tell yourself?
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I don't know.
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I think like I feel like I'm really good at telling myself to like I don't know, I pride myself on having like good positive self-talk and like you know, being someone who is even killed, like you said, and like not letting the little things like stress me out too much.
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But um honestly, like I wouldn't re I don't really regret that much because I think like I needed I think I needed to have that moment where I was like, wait, what am I doing?
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Because I really hadn't been pr training at a level that I normally like expect of myself.
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Like I would say definitely the past two years have been the most I've ever struggled with swimming, like just with motivation, like showing up, doing it, feeling proud of it.
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I feel like I was just kind of like going through the motions and it was so obvious.
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Like I got in the pool, was swimming not well, and I was like, I mean, yeah, people say like the definition of insanity is like doing the same thing and expecting different results or whatever.
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Like that's essentially what I was doing for the past, you know.
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So ironic that that lines up with you not being on the college team.
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Do you think that has to be a good idea?
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No, I think it definitely had, yeah.
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Like I think the transition from being, and even just after 2024, like kind of being in a lull, but yeah, I think the NCAA season like definitely got me like hyped up and I was ready to go at worlds last summer.
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Um, and then like you know, having a bad world with everything that happened, and then not even a bad world, but like I expected a lot of myself.
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Yeah, and then yeah, and Paris, of course.
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Like yeah, Paris.
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Like I feel like I kind of got like you know beat down a little.
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And you're like, I'm a good person.
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Like, when's my good karma coming?
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And yeah, so I definitely was just going through the motions, and obviously that was really evident.
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So I think that that was kind of like a reality check for me.
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I almost feel it, I feel like you can feel that your energy is completely different.
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Like it feels like you're in such a good spot.
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Yeah, like you're in it, like you've decided.
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So I guess when you say like going through the motions, like, but it's you were still doing everything, obviously.
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Right.
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So like when you when you think about now, like what mentally is the biggest shift, like focus-wise, or like what changed?
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Um, I think like I had to like there was definitely a little bit of a mental shift with like, okay, if I'm gonna be here, like I'm gonna do it and I'm gonna do it right.
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I like honestly, I just sat down with Todd and I he was like, you need to like show up and you should be like, he was like, you're the best I am trainer, like you know, across all four strokes.
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He was like, you should be like leading Elaine, you should be pushing the rest of the girls and the four I am, the two I am group.
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Like, you know, I'm Thresh Freestyle is one of my strongest like sets.
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He was like, you should be leading Elaine in that.
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I think he was just kind of like you know, he's someone that like he will tell you when you need to be doing something better, but sometimes, like with me, especially, like I think he doesn't want to like hurt people's feelings and stuff.
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So it's like when I was coming to him and I was like, I'm struggling, he was like, Okay, we can change things, but also like you need to be holding yourself to a higher standard.
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And I think like, but even just hearing him telling me that, I felt like, yeah, that is what I should be doing, and I can be doing it, and like, and honestly, then right after that, like I had a really good string of practices over like two weeks, and ever since then it's just been like a lot better.
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Do you feel like you're someone that responds well to like tough love, or do you feel like you need a little bit of empathy?
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And I like both.
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Like it sounds like that was not I don't know if a tough level.
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Yeah, it was kind of tough love.
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Yeah, I've definitely had like conversations before with Todd where just like after a lull and he's like, you know, you just seem you're a little lost or a little like out of there or whatever.
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And I think like I but I think I need that, yeah.
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Like I think it I definitely need someone to be honest because it's cool you have that relationship.
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Yeah, I feel like a lot of times that's a hard line to walk, and it I mean that just shows what you guys have gone through.
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Yeah, and you're at the point, like also happy birthday or belated birthday, 25, right?
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Like you're a veteran, like been around the block for so long, like all of your peers are starting to maybe move on from the sport, and you're like back to what we were saying earlier.
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It is sometimes tough to be like, oh, am I missing out on like the real world or like what's next?
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Yeah.
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Well, you're not.
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It's pretty cool.
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Oh, yeah.
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I guess that's a great thing.
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Being a professional athlete is the coolest part.
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Oh my gosh, I wish I could still do it.
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Girl swim that forward I am for me.
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Yeah, so just you know, like the grass isn't always greener, but I get it.
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Does I understand?
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I think it is.
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Yeah.
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Definitely like the path, like in the fall, uh, you know, I would like go visit my friends in New York, and I'd be like, I just want to like move here so bad, and like whatever.
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But but then I come here and I'm like in Irvine and I'm living the dream.
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You know, I get to be in California for three weeks and I'm like, wait, my life is awesome.
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Like New York will always be there.
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It will.
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I do feel like it is one place everyone, if they can should live a couple years.
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Or I'm gonna have a New York moment when you're done summoning.
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Oh, yeah.
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Like one way ticket.
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What are you gonna do?
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I don't know.
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Yeah, you'll figure it out.
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It's New York.
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Yeah, I mean, there's so much options, yeah.
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But what's cool is like, even though I think sometimes it might I get like it feels like you're getting left behind, everything you're doing, it also is like a slingshot.
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Like, yeah, you'll gain so many relationships, you'll get so many doors open, and like it you'll quickly feel like you're ahead.
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Yeah, it's definitely like an investment into you know after 2028 and like what that will look like.
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Yeah.
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So oh, that's exciting.
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I asked Gretchen, how's the house?
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Are you loving it?
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The house is great.
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What's the biggest recurring fight between you two in the house?
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House related.
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Okay, so Gretchen is like, oh, she's ready.
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Gretchen is like the um what's like the thermostat.
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Like, she is the thermostat police.
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Like, she will.
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Well, so she doesn't she's always watching it, she's always watching it, and no, she's what's because of comfort or or like the electric bill.
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The electric bill.
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I'm like, we're okay.
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But um it's probably like two dollars.
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The HVAC system has we've had we've been having a lot of problems.
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Oh, so you guys have split systems in your she has like, yeah, she has a mini split in her room, and then the downstairs has like its own, and then the upstairs.
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She's like carving out her electric bill.
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Her room is fine.
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Yeah, look, yeah.
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Well, we're gonna prorate everyone.
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Her room is literally fine.
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Her room is always like, you know, 68 degrees.
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It's perfect.
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Formal, yeah.
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Um, the other week, actually, the the upstairs unit broke and it was like 89 degrees upstairs.
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Oh, because you guys have a heat wave too.
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Yes, yeah, wait, it's horrible.
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So she's the thermostat police.
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Yeah, she has her own thermostat.
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She has her own, and then she's getting mad at other people.
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I or and I'm like, I feel like we're hot, Gretchen.
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We're hot up here.
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And he rises too.
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I'm like, I'm hot.
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And please she has her own bathroom.
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Like, she she has the best room in the house for sure.
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Um, which is fine.
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Like, I love my room.
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Is it doesn't seem that far.
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Yeah.
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Oh, yeah.
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It's fine.
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She does other things.
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She like she handles the rent, she handles the bills.
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Um, so like what do you think she would say your like it like you she gets the most mad at you for?
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She would probably say that I I don't well, she would probably say other things about like our dynamic.
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I think the house.
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Um, oh, you know what she doesn't like is like when I come back from swim, like I'll put my swim bag just like on the kitchen counter for a second.
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Okay, yeah.
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She really doesn't like that.
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Like, there are just some lines that can't be crossed, and that's one of them.
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Yeah.
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Her and Katie would put they would do well.
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They can't.
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Katie not like that.
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No, yeah.
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I put my bag on the table.
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We do like a really good job though with clean, like our it's very cute.
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Yeah, do you guys have like a system like you do the vacuuming, Gretchen does like the cow?
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They'll do vacuuming and like mopping occasionally when that happens.
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And then like she likes to wipe down like the dining room table and like the island.
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I do like the kitchen.
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I normally do the dishes.
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Okay.
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But she does the trash.
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Got it.
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So I love that.
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You have like a healthy thing going.
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Any big tailgate setup uh plans for the fall?
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We heard you got a pretty elite spot.
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I know it's like so much.
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It's a great backyard, so close.
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It's like a five-minute walk from the stadium.
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Um, no like plans in place right now.
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I'm sure it'll I think it's just kind of like an unspoken thing at this point, just like pull up to the Walsh's because everyone wants to like it's like the house.
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Yeah, like I'll we'll just be hanging out or whatever, and on a we'll get texts on a Thursday being like, Okay, I'm coming down to Charlottesville.
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Like, and we're like, Yeah, you can stay over.
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We have that's awesome.
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Yeah, it's a little hot upstairs, but you'll be okay.
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Yeah, thermostat.
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You can stay in Gresham's room if you want to be cold.
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Oh, yeah.
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Do you guys like take advantage of being in Charlottesville and like going to the wineries and stuff on weekends?
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Like, is that your kind of like thing that you do?
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The wineries are great.
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Um, and there's like so many that we haven't been to.
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I feel like mostly for the antioxidants.
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That's why that's why they're for the antioxidants, that's where they go.
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Of course.
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Oh, yes, yeah.
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Health benefits.
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Recovery.
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Yeah.
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Right.
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Um, but yeah, Charlottesville is like such a wonderful little place.
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So beautiful.
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And it is small, but like there's just so much charm about it that is um, I don't know.
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Yeah, I I love it.
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And so I'm so happy that we have the house so we can like keep coming back to it.
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Um and I don't know if she told you like my parents bought two other houses there too.
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Like, oh, it's all like it's like three different streets.
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There's one, one, one.
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Like they're all like a little neighbors, compound or whatever.
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And so my dad, like, people joke that my dad's gonna like take over the Charlottesville, but they're still Nashville, right?
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It's like Monopoly.
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You can pick up the whole block.
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Yes, literally.
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Yeah, we're gonna get the street and do it like Walsh Lane or something.
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That's amazing.
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Um, but yeah, he's like moving because he does the real estate thing in Nashville, but then he's like kind of moving also to Charlottesville.
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So yeah, so one's an Airbnb and then one's like gonna be rented out to students.
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Cool, yeah.
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What's the last question?
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Yeah, what's your favorite spot, Broadway?
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Nashville.
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Oh, so many members.
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Where are you going?
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Where am I going?
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Okay, I think um so I've never been to Printer's alley before.
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I really want to go.
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It's a really cool area.
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I really want to go.
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But my favorite spot that I've had like some really great times at is Jason Aldean's.
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Yes, that's classic.
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But one time, one time I was scammed at the um the Luke Bryant because Luke's out there.
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Luke, uh Luke Combs professional impersonator tricked me into thinking it was him.
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It was a whole bit.
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It was a whole bit, and like it was him.
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He looked so much like Luke Combs, and he had like these um security guards, which were just all his friends.
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Like dressed in black in black, yeah.
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And I was there.
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Oh no.
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And I like went up to him and I was like, Oh no, hey, um, like huge fan.
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I was like, and I normally don't like pull the Olympian card, but I was like, I'm an Olympian, like, can we take a photo together?
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And he was like, All right, make it quick.
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And I was like, okay, yeah, of course.
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Yeah, take a picture with him, put it all over like my Instagram, Snapchat, everything.
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I'm like, guys, I was with Luke Combs last night.
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Um, wake up in the morning, and all my friends were like, That's not him.
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You were not and I was like, Yes, it was.
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And I literally go like on Google and I'm like, what is Luke Combs doing right now?
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He's like on tour in Australia, and I was like, on a different continent.
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Yeah, but you saw Luke Combs though, right?
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Yes.
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You saw the real Luke Combs.
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I did see him, but you didn't meet him.
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That kind of hurts my heart.
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That really hurts.
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It was so tough.
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But you can get through that.
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Great story, though.
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That is great.
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It was a really funny story.
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Not Alex Walsh posing.
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Yeah, yeah.
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For an IM is no problem.
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Yeah, after that, you're a good girl.
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Um, well, thank you so much for coming on.
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Good luck.
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Thanks for tweeting for you, especially in 4M.
