2.14. Appealing to Reason
Nobody Asked Us with Des & Kara
Chris McClung
5 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 29 May 2024
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
What is Beethoven's favorite fruit?
Ba-na-na-naaa. (Insert the music from Beethoven's Symphony No. 5).
We need the dramatic music for this one as Des and Kara dive deep into some serious topics, as only they can.
Ba-na-na-naaa.
Des and Kara talk about the misplaced anger against the BAA over Buzunesh Deba's unpaid prize money.
Ba-na-na-naaa.
Des and Kara discuss why the "Top American" moniker and prize pools might be counter-productive.
Ba-na-na-naaa.
Des and Kara dissect the Olympic qualifying standards and process from World Athletics.
Ba-na-na-naaa.
Des asks a curious question about the marathon.
Ba-na-na-naaa.
Des and Kara give you an Olipop top six(!), while discussing the merits of the various stages of banana ripeness in relation to the new Olipop banana cream flavor.
This one is ripe and tasty for sure. Now, go get 15% off on your Olipop order by using the code NOBODYASKEDUS at this link.
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| 0:16.0 | Hello everybody welcome to nobody asked us with Des and Carra presented by Desin Carra. We are so excited to be recording again today and of course I'm joined by my co-host Des Linden, |
| 0:22.0 | does three mention, four mentions at the top of the show. |
| 0:25.3 | I am here, I am here and I am ready and I love the nimbleness with the intro. |
| 0:33.8 | We don't have a product beyond the pod, |
| 0:36.1 | so let's just plug it in again, presented. |
| 0:38.1 | We are just working it over here, |
| 0:41.2 | crushing life. One day we'll sell merch and then you know maybe we can |
| 0:45.2 | support the pod. That'll be great I can't wait I can't wait. What's going |
| 0:49.6 | out with you you just had a big trip to Seattle. Yeah, it was awesome. |
| 0:53.9 | And I'm gonna eat right into my oly pop top five. |
| 0:57.2 | So you're gonna hear this again. |
| 0:58.9 | But I went to Olympia, Washington for, you would love this, the 40th anniversary of the first women's Olympic |
| 1:08.1 | trials. |
| 1:10.1 | And like 65 athletes who ran were there, like they had their original like gift sweatshirt from the event, which was really cool. |
| 1:22.0 | And like we had a group run and of course, a ton of these women showed up and they're still running the |
| 1:28.8 | stories, Kara. Like, it was just incredible. It's crazy. It's crazy, crazy it's crazy 40 years ago. |
| 1:33.9 | I'm so happy you were there that is so cool because I they asked me to come |
| 1:38.7 | and I couldn't for other reasons but I saw Ellen Hart |
| 1:46.5 | at a Nordstrom rack before she left for that and it was so awesome because she was saying to me I almost didn't go because I didn't make the |
| 1:49.1 | team and I feel like I didn't deserve to be there and I was like oh my my God, like we got to do what we did because you |
| 1:54.6 | went and ran that race and because you pushed for us. |
| 1:56.7 | So I saw some photos from it, it looked awesome. |
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