Hey there, stackers, I'm Joe Salcihi, co-host of today's show.

And I'll explain the microphone quality here in a minute, but I wanted to jump in before

we press play on this wonderful episode because I have two things for you.

First, no profanity in today's show.

We bleep out a minor word, so maybe there's some minor profanity, but I wouldn't be coming

in here at the beginning if we didn't have something incredibly disturbing at the beginning

of today's interview.

So I would avoid having young children listen to our featured interview today with Olympian

and elite running star now, NBC sports analyst Kara Goucher.

So I would avoid young ears in the room, at least until you hear it.

Second, I also need to pull back the curtain on how we constructed today's episode because

if I don't, we're going to seem pretty tone deaf when you hear that explosive part

of today's story.

So the topic of running a money interests me, and clearly, I saw that Kara had written

a book talking about some problems at a Nike's elite running team.

And I thought this would be a great way to mel this greedy side of money and the topic

of money and running, two topics that I love.

So I reached out to co-author Mary Palan, who's been on the show a couple of times to see,

if maybe Kara would come on, I was super excited when she referred me to Simon and

Schuster, their publisher, but the publisher, because of the explosive part of this interview,

which I did not know was coming, did not allow Kara to be available until Monday.

It is now Tuesday night, is I'm recording this, you're listening maybe on Wednesday morning.

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