meta_pixel
Tapesearch Logo
Log in
Nobody Asked Us with Des & Kara

3.27. Day One in Tokyo!

Nobody Asked Us with Des & Kara

Chris McClung

Running, Sports

4.91.8K Ratings

🗓️ 13 September 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Des and Kara are in Tokyo! This episode was recorded live at the Brooks Hyperion House in Tokyo to preview the men's and women's marathons and 10K races coming up in the next few days. Special thanks to Brooks Running and Ketone-IQ for sponsoring these episodes in Tokyo. We will have at least 6 episodes coming over the next week to cover everything happening at the World Champs.

Go to https://ketone.com/pages/nobody-asked-us for 30% off on your subscription order with Ketone-IQ. 

This episode was streamed live on our YouTube channel. You can find the video on our YouTube channel if you click on the "Live" tab. Then, tune in for our other live episodes in Tokyo on Monday, Sept 15 and Wednesday Sept 17 at 8 pm EST!

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0

What's up everybody?

0:12.5

Nobody asks us that doesn't care presented by Brooks Running brought to you live from Tokyo.

0:17.7

Hey.

0:19.6

We're a little tired, peeps. How are you back in home? Probably tired too. It's

0:24.3

Friday night. Friday night. I'm feeling good. Yeah. Okay. So we're in Tokyo. Today is the first

0:29.5

day of the world championships. I'm super excited. I've been here for a few days, a couple days. I'm ready

0:34.7

to get rolling. What do you have been up to? Yeah. Well, I traveled in. My travel is super easy.

0:39.8

I had a nice direct flight.

0:41.9

And I was in first class, which is so nice.

0:45.2

Yeah. Boogie.

0:45.9

I'm so bougie on travel, definitely.

0:49.8

And yeah, I'm staying in a hotel right across the street from the stadium, which is awesome.

1:27.9

So I've just been doing little runs and studying and trying to adapt to the time difference, but so far I'm failing. Yeah, what's hard about it? What's, you're coming from? We're terrible with time zones. Yeah, well, how many meetings have I missed this year? Not a lot, but we've had to pivot a little bit. Like, wait a minute, I'm actually two hours off. Okay, well, I am 15 hours ahead of my home. Okay. And so it's like I wake up pretty good, feeling pretty good. Yeah. But then around like three o'clock, I feel like I might die. And what time is show time?

1:34.0

So we start, so getting ready for the broadcast, you start four hours out when the broadcast starts.

1:34.7

So four hours out, we do an hour-long production meeting where we pick lanes, where

1:38.6

we're going to show, talk over the show, what elements do we want.

1:42.1

Then from there, we all walk over to the stadium and get in hair

1:44.4

and makeup and then kind of hang out eat a little bit again go through like what we want to do

1:50.9

some people i'm usually quiet studying then we have to be in the booth an hour ahead of time

1:55.5

who's get the most to say during those meetings auto yeah i love you but you're the chatiest for sure. It has the most opinions. Yeah. But yeah, so then we're in the booth an hour out. And then today is a long show. It's four and a half hours. It's a long show. Yeah. But it's fun, right? Like you're here and you feel the excitement of the stadium. And so you guys, do you feel like you bust rest throughout it? Is there any like kind of?

2:18.2

Oh, yeah. but it's fun right like you're here and you feel the excitement of the stadium and so you guys do you feel like you bust russ throughout it is there any like kind of settling in today will not be my

2:23.0

best day you know i feel like as a team we click more and more as it goes on too we have a new team

...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Chris McClung, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Chris McClung and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.

Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.