4.13. The Dropped Episode
Nobody Asked Us with Des & Kara
Chris McClung
4.9 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 1 April 2026
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Cue the latest running controversy because it had been a few weeks.
But first (!), Kara and Des update you on their lives including the latest race from Colt, and of course, Des's final preparation for Marathon des Sables. She will soon be running self-supported across the Sahara desert. In fact, she lands in Morocco on the very day this episode posts. Go Des... we are ALL cheering for you!
Then if you missed it, Emma Bates posted on IG about getting "dropped" by UCAN (her nutrition sponsor) because of her pregnancy. Naturally, the world came to her defense, and now Emma is sharing more of her story on Ali Feller's podcast.
Kara is no stranger to this issue, so she and Des dig into it, raising some good questions on the topic as well as a host of related ones. The short answer is... it's complicated, as many things are for athletes that are contractors and not in-house employees. Overall though, more rights and support for pregnant athletes is needed, and Alysia Montaño and Allyson Felix are leading the way. If you want to help, then put your time, energy, and money behind their work!
Finally, we want to thank Lagoon for supporting the podcast (as well as Emma Bates even through her pregnancy)! Go take the quiz and get your pillow here: https://lagoonsleep.com/pages/lagoon-the-nobody-asked-us-podcast-from-kara-goucher-and-des-linden. Use code NOBODYASKEDUS for 15% off on your first purchase.
Plus, get your tickets to the Boston live show here: https://www.berklee.edu/BPC/events/nobody-asked-us-with-des-kara. Use the following passwords to order:
Password for regular tickets: NAUBROOKS
Password for VIP meet and greet: NAUBROOKSBRC
We hope to see you all there!
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | What's up everybody? |
| 0:11.4 | It's a brand new episode of Nobody Asked Us with Does and Kara presented by Brooks |
| 0:15.6 | Running. |
| 0:16.8 | Woo-woo! |
| 0:17.7 | All right. |
| 0:18.7 | Love it. |
| 0:19.6 | That's actually... |
| 0:20.6 | You have that. |
| 0:21.4 | Automatic. We've just built that into the intro. |
| 0:25.1 | Chiquay, Chris is there. |
| 0:27.3 | Did Chris do that? |
| 0:28.6 | Yeah. I don't have it right now. He's on his game. |
| 0:32.0 | Next time I'm on, I'm going to add more sounds. |
| 0:34.5 | I don't even know what. Maybe we have a... |
| 0:36.4 | More sounds. More sounds. |
| 0:37.5 | Okay. Well, we are laughing. It's a beautiful Monday. How is it in Michigan right now? |
| 0:45.2 | It's good. I'm back in Michigan. We had that discussion. You saw the orange blue wall. |
| 0:51.0 | Like, where is she? We left Florida. had the longest drive ever. It was just terrible. |
| 0:58.0 | Yeah, what is that? I was going to fly and I was like, no, like, I'm not going to see Ryan for a couple |
| 1:02.9 | weeks here. Like, I'll just spend some time with the boys in the car, take one for the team. |
| 1:08.3 | I was like, I'll drive with you. And he's like, awesome. That's great. And then we sat in traffic forever. Everyone was leaving Florida at the same time. So we split it |
| 1:17.7 | into two days, which was even, I don't know if it's better or worse. It was necessary. |
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