3.23. The Gossip Episode

Nobody Asked Us with Des & Kara

Chris McClung

Running, Sports

4.9 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 19 August 2025

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Gossip? Facts? Real news? This episode has a little bit of all 3 in a back-and-forth dynamic that will leave you laughing and loving it.

Des and Kara start with an update on their girls trip to Cincinnati to visit their friend @runningcb. There was baseball and tennis and so much walking involved that Kara is still sore today. There were also shenanigans with dog Miles and beer challenges for Des and shared bedrooms. It's safe to say that Des and Kara have entered into a new level of friendship with this trip (and that Crouton might be jealous).

Then, they turn to all of the running chatter from this past week including a comeback race for Keely, WR attempt for Faith, hope for Yared, and of course, the latest "transparency" from Michael Johnson and Grand Slam Track. They talk doping offenses from Fred Kerley and collegiate Parvej Khan, remind the pros how easy it is to use the whereabouts system, and wonder when more rigorous testing will come to the collegiate and high school level. With NIL expanding, are high schoolers and their parents ready for testers to watch them pee in a cup?!

Finally, they end with an unhinged Lagoon Sleep top 5 (err... 4?).

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Transcript

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0:00.0	What's up everybody?
0:12.8	It's a new episode of Nobody asked us presented by Brooks Running with Des and Kara.
0:19.8	I saw you 24 hours ago.
0:22.8	How are you doing?
0:24.3	Good.
0:24.9	Good, good.
0:25.4	Great time on that intro.
0:27.7	I love the energy today.
0:29.4	This has been a fun pre-call where we went through our notes and conversations.
0:35.1	It's weird because we did just see each other and we talked for about 40 minutes about things
0:40.1	before we got to talk about things.
0:42.7	I literally saw you yesterday.
0:44.6	Yeah.
0:44.8	But we have been talking for 42 minutes before we started recording this to catch up on more stuff.
0:49.9	To organize our show notes.
0:52.1	Yeah, right.
0:52.8	All the data.
0:53.9	Yeah.
1:10.9	Yeah, yeah. Okay. Well, Dan. It was uneventful. That's good. Yeah, it was great. I got in easy, got to my car, drove home and waited for the boys to come home from lifting. How was your travel home? Was it good? Smooth?
1:44.1	It was easy. It was like the most efficient, which is good. I earned that. Yes, you said. No, I will say I got home and Ryan's like, oh, I have to travel tomorrow. I'm on your same flight that you took out. So you had the 7 a.m. Oh, brutal. Yeah. Like you basically leave her at 5. And then at like, I want to say like 7.30. I saw his car pull back in. I was like, what, like, dude, what's up? And he was like, yeah. Did he get canceled? It got canceled. Yeah. So is the same thing that happened to you, two days before, basically. Yeah, different circumstances, but yeah. Yeah.
1:46.4	So tough travel out of here.
1:48.6	It is tough travel out of there.
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