Hey there, Stackers. I'm Joe Sal C-Hi, co-host of today's show. And I'll explain the microphone

quality here at a minute, but I wanted to jump in before we pressed 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 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 and 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 meld 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 Palin, who's been on the show a couple 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 as I'm

recording this. You're listening maybe on Wednesday

morning. It's a very quick turnaround for a show like our. So because of our travel schedules,

I'm now in a hotel room in Indianapolis, getting ready for an appearance as you're listening to

this show on the Bob and Tom syndicated radio show. And OG is out with family and Colorado. So we recorded

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