3.31. Freshy Fresh from Tokyo: Women's Steeple and Men's 1500m, Chaos on the Track
Nobody Asked Us with Des & Kara
Chris McClung
4.9 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 18 September 2025
⏱️ 47 minutes
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This episode was recorded live at the Brooks Hyperion House in Tokyo. You can watch the video under the "live" tab on our YouTube channel. Des and Kara recap the chaos on the track in the women's steeple and men's 1500m. They also give Josh Kerr his flowers for staying in to finish his race after injury.
Even with the upsets, Tokyo has not disappointed so far!
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| 0:00.0 | What's up everybody? |
| 0:12.5 | Live from Tokyo, it's nobody asked us that doesn't care presented by Brooks |
| 0:16.8 | Running. |
| 0:18.0 | We're all just discussing before we start recording the madness on the track last |
| 0:23.4 | night in both the women's steeple in the men's 1500. The conversation before the conversation. |
| 0:27.4 | The conversation before the conversation. This track meet has lived up to madness. I feel like that |
| 0:33.1 | should be the title of the Tokyo World Championships. Yeah. Just madness. I mean, it's like |
| 0:36.9 | bracket busters every race. You're like, what, what just happened? You can't win that. March |
| 0:42.4 | Madness. I know. But make a track. It's been super interesting. So many of these races have |
| 0:47.3 | gotten tactical. And so it's interesting, the women's distance events so far have been |
| 0:51.7 | predictable. Sure. Right? It's like, |
| 0:54.8 | yeah. Well, you just have that right. Stand out, stand out. Yeah. But the men's have been |
| 1:02.4 | upsets across the board. A lot of depth on the men's. Do you think that's it? Like across all the |
| 1:09.9 | events? Is it just more depth so it's less predictable? Yeah. You know, I think I wrote something down last night because I didn't want to sell them in its 1,500 short because a lot of the big stars weren't in it. And it's something about like it's not for a lack of depth. It's just a lack of, lack of predictability. You know what I mean? Like, yeah, I don't know. I think it is the depth, right? Right. Because it's just, you can't pick one person. You pick the field. Right. And there's just so many guys who are, it's just about a little bit of luck involved. And the margin for errors is just minuscule. Right. So. Yeah. Well, should we, I think that we really want to nerd out on the men's 15. Yeah. But let's give the women steeple it's due first. Fine. Before we go live on the steeple, everyone at NBC always goes, okay, Kara, we know you don't actually run this race and you're insecure, but go crush it. It's like an inside joke. |
| 2:01.8 | I'm always like, thanks, guys. |
| 2:04.0 | But I never ran a steeple and you never ran a steeple. |
| 2:07.0 | No. |
| 2:07.5 | No. |
| 2:07.8 | Not for me. |
| 2:09.3 | But it was cool. |
| 2:10.5 | The only country that had three athletes through was the Americans. |
| 2:14.7 | Total new fresh crop of athletes. |
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