Pan Ams Game Recap featuring Gold Medal Winners

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Speaker 1  0:01  
This is happening like this is happening now like, you did this. And they're playing the anthem for the United States of America because you won the gold medal for the United States of America, which saying that to yourself in that moment, I feel I feel like for me it was it was the pause moment that you don't really get the rest of the Regatta.

Kristi Wagner  0:18  
Welcome to the other three years, a show for anyone who has an Olympic sized dream they want to turn into a reality. Hi, and welcome to this week's episode of the other three years podcast this week is a super fun episode, I interviewed my Orion rowing teammates who just got home from the Pan Am Games which were in Santiago, Chile, but they were actually in Concepcion, which I think I'm saying correctly, which was, I believe, like an eight hour drive or a one hour flight, which I think is what they opted for. They were in like a satellite village racing. Panamanians I think ended just like yesterday, basically, like a mini Olympics. Somebody told me, it's the second biggest sporting event in the world to the Olympics. It's bigger than the Winter Olympics. I don't know if that person lied to me. But I've told that fact quite a few people. So I hope it's true. Actually, my notes say that it's the largest multi sport event in the Americas, where the best athletes from all over the continent compete from the US rowing press conference, I stole it from them. So yeah, my teammates were in a lot of different boats classes, and they all won some of their races, or came in second, they crushed it. In total, the US rowing contingent won 10 Medals over the five day Regatta, which is the best performance the US rowing team has had since 1999. And the US and Chile tied for total medals, but the US had more gold medals. So they won the medal count, which is really awesome. So my teammates, and I just talked about what their experience is like, what it was like preparing for the event, what racing was like, and kind of what it meant to them to race there. And it was super fun. We had four of them on Maddie, Veronica Kate and Hannah is really great. But before we get into that year is what's going on currently in my training, I am just kind of in Saratoga training. Right now a bunch of my other teammates are getting ready for the fall speed order. But I'm not going to that. So I've just been kind of training a lot of meters and a lot of miles, it's getting a little chilly. We've had to break out our pogies, which if you don't know our rowing gloves that you they sort of look like mittens, but they have holes in them so that you can put them around your hand and around the ore and then your fingers don't get cold. But it is definitely sort of winter here in upstate New York. Yeah, training has been going pretty good. It's really fun having everyone home, there's so many people out on the water, which is slightly overwhelming, but also really nice. And I actually think everyone's been doing a really good job just kind of going with the flow, realizing that there's like 12 of us. And we need to be like flexible, which is really hard to do, because we're all really high achieving type a people. So I think I've been really impressed with the group last week, one day we went out and like three four person boats, which is just really awesome that like, we have that many people and that we can do that for a whole practice. This weekend. I went to a little like mom's weekend with my mom and my aunt and my cousin because they both turned 60 This year, which was super fun. And I'm really happy that I did it. It was just I don't know, it's important to do stuff with your mom. Everyone should call their mom. But now Yeah, back back to training another good week ahead. They was like, really ridiculously beautiful water all day. It was insane, actually, like the water was just amazing. And it was really funny. When we were coming into our last like 2k of our morning practice cat was like, it's like cutting glass they say and then like, although if you've actually ever cut glass, it's not a very peaceful process. It makes a really horrible noise, which was funny. Just happy to be here in Saratoga and getting in some good miles. And now it's time for my round table you could say with my Ryan rowing teammates who just got back from Panem regatta so I hope that everyone really likes it. They've also done an excellent job sharing social media content from lots of amazing photos and videos and stuff. So well be sure to like tag their accounts and stuff so that everyone can see all the great content. This week on the podcast, I have some of my Ryan teammates that just got back from the Pan Am Games, which is really exciting. Congratulations, guys. Thank you. It was so exciting watching you like I can't even begin to explain how close all of their races were. And the funny things that we were doing, watching these races back here in Saratoga It was overwhelming. And really fonder. Well, one time it was happening when because there's like an hour time change, right? Yeah. So yeah. So one time we were riding our bikes into the boathouse, and cats new bike helmet can play sound. So I literally thought he was listening to a podcast. I was like, are you listening to the Pan Am Games and then when the race was on, he like, pulls it out of his pocket. And we're literally like watching it while biking. And then some of the girls watched it on like a fetch run. And we many times he got the time change incorrect. So we were still on the water. So he's like, giving us a hilarious like, oh, lay by play. Yeah, so but it was very exciting. So I thought the first thing we could do is just like a little bit of a bio. So just like name where you're from? How long you've been rowing? Maybe like how long you've been in Saratoga, and what events you raced at Pan Am's. Kate, would you like to begin? Yes, so

Speaker 1  5:56  
my name is Kate Horvath. I've been rowing since 2010, when I started in high school, took a year and a half break. But I was totally done. 2019 to 2021 and I came to Saratoga, June of 2022. So it's been like a year and a half kind of crazy flown by but also felt like forever in some ways. Not gonna lie. And at Pan Am's, I was struck for the women's quad. And I was five feet in the women's aid. Yeah.

Speaker 3  6:22  
My name is Veronica. I started rowing 2012, sophomore year of high school. And then I wrote at college, and then I've been here since 2020. So about three years. I wouldn't what events did you write? I was in the double, the quad and the eight.

Speaker 4  6:40  
Hi, my name is Malin folk, aka Maddie would like nickname. I'm from Long Beach, California. I started rowing at my sophomore year in community college. But I did enroll in college I rode appropriately in my boat club, and took like a five year break. And then came back 2020 And I've been with Ryan for for a year and it's really weird. It feels like I've been here for two years. And my events in the Pan Am's I was struck seed in the double, third seed in the quad and four seed in the eighth. Hi, I'm

Speaker 5  7:16  
Hannah. I am from Lyme, Connecticut. I have been running for 15 years. I started as a middle schooler, which we call mods in the state of New York. And I've been with Orion for three years. I think actually exactly three years in like a day I came right after the head of the fish in 2020, which was also not quite the head of the fish because 2020 But I raced in the women's pair I was bow and then in the women's for I stroked the ones eight I was struck see and then in the mixtape, I wrapped a very chirpy to see.

Kristi Wagner  8:00  
And Hannah's like, third day with Orion. We did like a 6k. And she's like IPR on my 6k. And I was like, Man, this training plan has never worked so fast.

Speaker 5  8:15  
You know, it was the power of friends. I had been training in my garage for the entirety of 2020. And so I arrived and cat was like, this will be great. And it was so much better. Working alone. It was a great three week trial period. Yeah,

Kristi Wagner  8:32  
no, it was fun. I remember that was great.

So I thought that it would be fun to just like get everyone together. Another one of our Orion teammates, Lauren Miller also raced at Pan Am's so we had a really big Orion showing, which was like really cool. I thought maybe we could just give a little bit of background because you guys had to go to like a qualification regatta as well. And I think for some people, like my parents, it was a little bit in me it was a little bit confusing. So maybe just a Kate if you could explain like the qualifying process and, and kind of the team process because there's a lot of like doubling up, which is not super common. Like in our sport, we normally just race in one thing. So

Speaker 1  9:24  
yeah, totally. I guess actually, I'm gonna start with the US portion just because I feel like people have asked me that too. Like, how was Panem team team chosen like domestically. So actually, last November, so a year ago, there was pan-am trials in lovely Mercer, New Jersey. And the way that the selection worked is that like the person who were all scholars, so I guess I can speak to the scowling side of it. Like the top women's single got to be the women's single for Pan Am's next two people for the second and third place from trials got to be the double, and then the fourth place person would fill into a quad made up of the previous three people Will plus a fourth person. And actually you were the regatta but how it worked out was that pretty much most people declined like basically in the a final decline their invitations just because in terms of schedules i guess it didn't line up with, I guess like world selection and stuff like that. So Grace did take the single bid. But then I think like yourself, Lauren sav other people who made a final declined their bids. So then it basically fell into this area of like, the next place people plus, like whoever Yossi who was a high performance director could choose who he wanted. So Maddie and Veronica place such so that they then became the double. And then after that, it was kind of like, Who did he want to bring on to this team based on the finishes from those trials. So that was how like, the US squad got chosen. And it was made up of 21 people totally, you had women who are doubling up, men who are doubling up and then one Coxon Colette, who ended up doubling or tripling, in women's eight, men's eight and the next state. So each Federation, then we get to like the International part, each Federation was only allowed 21 people total. And then to actually qualify for the games themselves, we had to go to this qualifier regatta in April. So that's kind of it was like a pre Panem showing, which was kind of fun. Because you get to see all the teams that you raised, we got to kind of see like, where we stacked up in each event got a little preview for like, what would be, you know, the panels that just happened. And so from that boats, either qualified or dense, like, let's take the women's quad, for example, they only took top five quads from that event. So I think there was like eight, that countries entered a quad. And so after a heat and a final, just the top five got to go to the actual games. So each event kind of was that way rose, heats finals, and there was a cut off based on guests on the Navy, the number of boats, or I'm not really sure exactly how each event was based. But that's like the general gist.

Kristi Wagner  11:58  
I think just like in perspective, the having a athlete entry cap is like different than, like any other international race that we go to. So that's a pretty different thing.

Speaker 1  12:11  
I thought it was really fun to be on. It was super cool, because like you had people or was like, hey, or like, I was like, Hey, I'm on the quad. I'm gonna go sweep in like a day, I gotta like, get ready for it. So it was it was really, really cool to see people being able to be so flexible, but also being able to be so flexible and still be so successful. I thought that was really like fun. And I think it also contributed to really good team camaraderie where they're like, everyone was cheering for each other. Because you were in all these different boats, there was so much going on. I think everybody knew that. It was much more of a group effort than I feel like any other regatta is because there's just so much overlap, like you're racing with boys like the mixed eight, it was so fun to watch. And I was so jealous. Because like what other event do you get to like, I don't know, race with friends that you never ever get to be in a boat in with.

Kristi Wagner  12:59  
I mean, 100% I feel like that kind of segues pretty well until like my question for Veronica, which is just like about the actual racing Formex is also pretty condensed, like race schedule. Veronica, like, can you just share kind of how long the competition was like how many times you're racing and what what that was like, for the

Speaker 3  13:17  
Pan Am Games there were less racist than there were back in April. Because I think for the quad, we had a heat and then a rep, and then the final. And then for the doubles, we also had another semi that we didn't have, which I think still existed, but because we were the top two of our heat. We got a slight past that. But yeah, I think it was for us. We had our first heat on Saturday for the double. And then Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, they were all a finals. So like it was pretty crazy. It was really cool. And I'm glad we didn't have more than one a day. But I remember before the first a final day he was he was like, he sent out a message to everybody like to keep it short and like polite. And just kind of like if you do do well like don't waste any time like yes, enjoy it be happy, but like check it off, then kind of move on to the next one, which I thought was really good advice. Because you know you like well, we got gold in the quad like it was so much fun. It was so cool. But I had to make sure that okay, I need to go eat I need go stretch, because I still have another one tomorrow. And I want to do this again and again.

Kristi Wagner  14:22  
I mean, it was definitely a lot of racing in a very short period of time. I feel like my like, at Worlds. The racing was so spread out like it was crazy. Like literally we had like a week in between. Which I prefer like at World racing a World Cup was like the best because there was no time to get nervous. Like you're saying you just had to do the next thing. And you couldn't even think about like there was no time to think about the race and you were tired because you would raced so you slept. Whereas like when you were race on Monday and your next race is until Friday and that's a really high stakes race on Friday. You just like and you're Doing 30 minutes of rowing a day you're like, Oh my God, no, that's awesome, though. Hannah, how did you feel like just a little bit about like the way you guys were doing prep because we had, you know, we obviously all rode together but you guys were all in boats with like people from different HP clubs and it wasn't a super like.

Speaker 5  15:29  
Sure, the qualifier is definitely different from the actual games. In the qualifiers, Kate mentioned, the race was kind of in the middle of a lot of other domestic racing that was going on. So the February winter speed order was just a month or two before and then they had the trials for the single and the pair, like the first week of May, and the qualifier was in April. So a lot of people were just focusing on those domestic races and making sure that their kind of like portfolio of results was lining up for World selection. And so like we didn't practice the women's for until we arrived. And even then, because everyone's doubling up, like the time it was ISA and proto, that were the women's pair. And that was also a big priority for the squad. And so we arrived in Wrath, Okay, finally, we're all together. Half the vote was from Penn AC, half of it was from Orion. And it was kind of like, oh, well, we also have to practice the women's pair. And so it definitely felt like this is just a baseline showing of everyone's speed. Some boats had been practicing together, like the small boats obviously had a little bit more time together. But those big boats, we didn't even have the women's aid or the mixed aid as an event yet. So the qualifier is definitely a different vibe and different training mentality. Like I remember Miller and I were like, trying to get in a lot of volume. Actually, as people that were only racing in a heat in the final, we were like, Okay, well, we have to like nail our took a test or and read it back. And then at the actual games, it felt like most people actually had their entire focus on the games, a couple of the boats, the men's pair, grace, and like those guys were coming back from worlds. So that was a little different setup, obviously, it's tough to like, peak and then peak again, for the women's for like from my experience, the four of us, we're all kind of coming from a similar position. We all kind of ramped up for July for like the world selection, and then had a couple of weeks off or traveling. And then basically the coaches were like, Okay, how do you want to prepare? And we were like, What do you mean, how do we want to prepare, like usually that that comes from the coaches, right. And so they really made sure that we are prioritizing, like the fall season as a time for us to like really feel ready for the upcoming year, knowing that Pan Am's isn't the end for most of us. And so we kind of like had different phone calls between the four of us and met over zoom and had a Text group going of like, what things we had going on a couple of people had different conflicts like Miller had a wedding I wanted to go see know a con isa wanted to go to a boy genius concert. And so we kind of worked out a schedule. And it was I'm like really proud of it to be honest, like the collaboration of like the women's for specifically just, that's when I was involved in but we all really like, made it work. And everyone got time at home. And everyone got time working with the coach that they were comfortable working with. We got to work with Laurie from my college days at Princeton. And that was really special for me. And everyone kind of got to come together in different ways. And then I know like Maddie and Veronica, you guys had been working together for a long time. And then when we got to the actual event, it was really fun because the women's aid was added, I think, a month before the program was set to start. It was a really late addition, they've never had a woman's aid before. So that preparation was kind of non existent. We had one practice row that was like 8k, I think, and all the scholars were absolute champions from the quad coming in. Like I didn't see anything because I was sitting in the stern but like it felt really good. And I was really stoked about it. And then the mixtape we practiced once as well. And honestly, I'm kind of grateful that we went to the rapids next day because it allowed us that one more opportunity to put some things together and like figure out what we were executing. But that's kind of what the preparation looked like it was creative and I think pretty admirable from all the athletes that just kind of did their best to set everyone up for success

Kristi Wagner  19:50  
super cool to like be collaborative, and I think it's really nice. Like to have some autonomy in like what you're doing, you know We were obviously I was sad because you guys left, like right when I got home, but that's okay. I was happy that I didn't take it personally. So Maddie, can you talk a little bit about like the venue like being in Chile? And just like what you liked about it? Or maybe what you didn't like about it?

Speaker 4  20:16  
Yeah, well, first and foremost, my most favorite thing about the venue was just like the scene of like the race course, there's like, mountains all around, especially when you go to the starting line of the race, there was just so many like green mountains, I'm a huge soccer for those type of things. So it was kind of hard for me not to get too distracted and look up to like, Oh, my God, this is so great. And then just go back to you know, focusing on the race. But yeah, just like every single part of that race course was just was absolutely breathtaking, especially when I go to practices with both the quad and also the double, and even the eight. There's like so much culture behind it. And that's what I liked about it. And the only thing I didn't like about it was, there were many potholes in the places where you go on them. They have like the Jumbotron. And there's like so many tents were like, so like, you know, food, or there's kids come around asking us for autographs. They're just there was just a lot of potholes. And unfortunately, my mom actually tripped in one of those and actually broke her foot.

Kristi Wagner  21:26  
Oh my gosh,

Speaker 4  21:28  
but she's fine. Now. She's fine now. But every single time I get off the plane, I had to like look around because like, I do not want to step on it. And just like break my foot. Because I had like so many races to do and it would be absolutely horrible if that happened, but yeah, besides that breathtaking course. And just does everything about chili was just like absolutely amazing. Just me just being there representing Team USA and also being my first Pan Am's to like actually compete. Yeah,

Kristi Wagner  22:01  
that's awesome. I'm glad we're not the only rowing venue that has bought you feel better. Similarly, what is like, was there any kind of fun, unexpected stuff that you can share that we wouldn't? You wouldn't

Speaker 1  22:17  
know, fans for the fans do it for the fans. Fun unexpected things. Okay, well, actually, so we were, this is like not really, really to the race course. But just like being in conception. Oh, yeah. So that's just another clarification. So the games are in Santiago. And we were in Concepcion, because of the race course available to us as rowers, just as a Claire satellite village. Yes, yes. And actually, we found out later that, like, there was a lot of COVID going on in the Santiago village. And so I was like, maybe dodged that bullet. But anyway, so we, you know, listing is really, really nice hotel in Concepcion. And there's this big park like two or three blocks away from it. And so I actually ended up taking a lot of walks, like just in the evenings after dinner, before dinner, through the park, really beautiful, like really just stunning, like, everybody's out, it was just so fun to see kind of the community just like out in this park, it feels like people use the public spaces a lot more than we do in the US. But kind of the interesting, funny thing is that, actually, the dogs are really well behaved and trained. And all off leash, like most of the dogs are off leash, and they don't come up to anybody. And I think it's because nobody reacts to them, like you do not pet another person's dog. And so none of the dogs would react to so you have like, all these dogs just kind of like living their life walking around and won't ever come up to you or bag or anything. And I was like, this is incredible. I was like, this is the this is either we don't have this with us at all. It was it was cool.

Speaker 3  23:42  
I thought that isn't good. That's what No, that is good. But yeah,

Speaker 1  23:45  
I think actually this so the other thing I would say is, and this might actually be kind of obvious, but I think for me, it was just different experiencing it is linguistically being in the minority, like everybody spoke Spanish or Portuguese or some, you know, Spanish dialect. And so I think being somebody who, you know, like I took Spanish in school, but I am not a super fluent Spanish speaker at all. And being like, the English speakers or like us, kind of in the Canadians, at least in our kind of, like hotel and then on the racecourse and stuff like I think that was a really healthy experience. I think that we don't get that. And I think that, you know, I'd love to hear about like your experience at Worlds with that, because I get the sense of like most people speak English, maybe not. But I it was really, like stepping back and looking at it. It was really cool to be the outlier in that sense. Where you were kind of like, the one or two delegations that like couldn't communicate, you weren't kind of like in with everybody else. And I thought like that was healthy. I

Kristi Wagner  24:47  
feel like sometimes. Well, in my experience, it seems like Americans expect everyone to know English.

Speaker 1  24:53  
Right? And like That's so wrong. It's so wrong, but I was like and it just I think a lot of people do know English it's not like You know, yeah, but I just thought it was different to like, feel that because you can know that but then being there being like, Oh my God, I need to figure out this language so that I can communicate because like it is the onus is on you. Yeah, do that. Yeah. So that was cool.

Kristi Wagner  25:13  
That was cool. Did you pick any up, Hannah? I'm going to throw you a curveball and ask you a question that I didn't ask you on my sheets. She's like I've had a stressful but what were your biggest like takeaways from the racing? And how do you feel like the Panem experience like has helped you and your rowing career both like the racing and the prep and everything,

Speaker 5  25:35  
I feel like the biggest take, I have never had more fun racing than I did during Pan Am's and like part of that comes from right, like, the books that I was in did pretty well. And it's fun to do well, but just like hopping into a boat, and lining up and trusting one another because it really fell down to like a lot of trust, right? If you had any glimmer of doubt in yourself or in your teammates in whatever boat you were racing in, like, that would be like come to show and so you just kind of walked into every race like braising Lee trusting every single person and like I don't know, you have Mark turning around, like, let's go and you have like, hedge just screaming, startline, like just like silly things about energy that made racing really fun. And I feel like that's like my biggest takeaway, because I think a lot of times, especially in like the high performance world of rowing, it's what you do day in and day out to do is to get to the race, starting line. And that can be a lot of pressure. And so I'm going to try to hold on to like, the fun of racing, that was Pan Am's and I think it was super special also to like, yes, there's that language barrier. Rowing is rowing to all different cultures. And like, it was really cool, unify around, that ended up giving kudos to someone just like making a move. And like being a racer is something that doesn't know like a language barrier. And so that was like super special as well, just to have that like international kudos almost for rowing as it wasn't on my sheet. I hope that answers your question was

Kristi Wagner  27:14  
great. That's great. Good job. I knew you could handle it. She's like, Yeah, but you guys all won races, which is very exciting. So Maddie, what was it like to I've never stood on a podium and heard the national anthem. So you guys have all experienced something that I've never seen? I mean, I've heard other people know that. I mean, that's like really incredible. Like, I mean, I will hope I don't finish my rowing career with that stat. Still true. But there's a very real possibility. I will so I don't know. It's Can you guys tell me what it was like? And everybody else?

Speaker 4  27:47  
Well, there was like a massive difference of experience between the qualifier and the actual Pan Am's where me and Veronica were on the podium for the double the qualifier it was it was great and, and hearing the national anthem, just like gave me chills. But the feeling that I felt up on the podium doing, like in the Pan Am's it was so much more different, and I'm not gonna lie. And as soon as I looked to the flag rising up, and I hear the national anthem, and there's a clip in the recap, that I'm like, mouthing the national anthem, and I almost broke my voice. And I was like, I almost teared up. And there was like, a lot of times where I tried a game, I was like, No, you got to be serious. You can't cry on the podium is so good luck. But I was if I can say like one word, it would be like, life changing, especially in my writing career, because I never had that experience. And I'm just so incredibly thankful to have that experience.

Kristi Wagner  28:50  
That's awesome. I don't think anyone would think it was weird if you were crying. I wouldn't have thought it was weird. No, the

Speaker 4  28:56  
thing is, when I cry, I cry. Like, can you see me on camera like pull up the most ugliest face?

Kristi Wagner  29:04  
Oh, my life. No, that's awesome. It's really cool. It's a really cool thing. I almost cried watching guys on TV. So to be fair, I almost cried watching Connor do his presentation. A different kind of

Speaker 1  29:18  
pride for my friends was actually really good. I just would say on that too. Yeah, like I think to your point too, about like all the doubling up and stuff and having to go from race to race. It was such a compressed format. We were only there for 10 days total practicing before and then we left that after racing. So it was like it was a short trip was a lot going on. There was like a ton of moving parts. It was no one would really argue and saying like it was controlled chaos a lot of the time. And so I think that having to like, do a quad race or double race and then go to the next thing. It made it feel really businesslike. But I think for me, like at least in the quad when you were like because that was the first race standing up in your full uniform with a metal and then like when they start playing and raising the flag. I feel like for me that was a plus I was moment where it definitely hit and I was like, Oh, right. Like, it's not like, yeah, you will go to this thing. But like, Oh, this is happening like this is happening now like, you did this. And they're playing the anthem for the United States of America because you won the gold medal for the United States of America, which saying that to yourself in that moment, I feel I feel like for me, it was it was the pause moment that you don't really get the rest of the Regatta.

Kristi Wagner  30:23  
I'm so proud of you for like taking? No,

Speaker 1  30:27  
I don't even know. I think there was a thing. I don't think you'd think I took it, it feels kind of like snuck up. It just happened, right? Because it was there was a moment, Veronica.

Kristi Wagner  30:34  
And then just like, Finally, what has it been like, like coming back, like you said, is really condensed trips. It's kind of like, boom, boom, but then like, kind of moving forward. It is so weird to like, come back, right? Because you're like I was doing this thing. And then I come back. And everyone's just like living their lives. So yeah, how's it been? It's pretty, pretty

Speaker 3  30:53  
wild. Like it kind of feels like we were just there. For me, it was really cool to be down there. My family's from Mexico. And it was one of the few times where I didn't feel like I was I stood out as much, which I normally don't notice. But when you're immersed in, like everyone who speaks a language that I know, at home somewhat, and I was like, Oh, this is just I'm just at my cousin's house. And that was really cool, especially with the combination of the sport too, that I feel like is experienced i I'm going to treasure for a long time. And because it's not as common to see a lot of diversity in the US. I think there's a lot of good programs, and they're working on and stuff. But that was really cool experience for me. And also my family being there, too, was really good to see them. My mom surprised me. Initially, my parents were thinking about coming down to watch and they haven't seen me race since college, because some other country, I'm from Washington state, so it's a long flight. And they pull up to the hotel and my dad's driving in the car. And my mom pops out of the front seat. And I just start bawling. Yeah, it was really beautiful experience.

Kristi Wagner  32:03  
Well, I'm super grateful for you guys coming on. And seriously, everyone so proud of you guys really was so fun. No matter no. It's awesome. Makes me happy. So congratulations. Yeah. That you know,

Speaker 1  32:17  
like how we feel when you go off and like do all these amazing things. We're

Kristi Wagner  32:20  
like, No, I feel like a nobody just like Veronica I do. And no one's ever asked me for my autograph. For a tuxedo, I

Unknown Speaker  32:29  
took a picture.

Kristi Wagner  32:31  
Yeah. Oh, cool. That's cool. Well, thank you guys. I hope that you guys all liked that episode. Had a great time hearing everyone's fun stories. I feel like it was really fun mix of like serious stuff and things that were really meaningful and important, but also really fun anecdotes, and like learn stuff about the regatta and what it meant to everyone. Also, I would recommend going and watching some of the racing because it really was all like crazy racing. We didn't really talk about that. But like the races were really really good races. They were all like very close and very exciting. And the commentators were hilarious. They were like 1500 meters gone, like 500 meters or where I don't know it kept saying the same thing. Where the heroes come out or whatever. I don't know cat loved it. I was like cat, you and those guys hanging out. So yes. If you liked the episode, check out the races online. So thanks for listening. And before I go, I'm just gonna share the quote my quote of the week this week, which I stole from Joanna Chang's Instagram, she owns flower in Boston, and they share quotes of the week on their social media in their shops. So Chad Shug. So I don't know as Ugg said this, love the trees until their leaves fall off, then encourage them to try again next year. Very fitting for this time of year. So thanks for listening. I hope that everyone has a great week. Bye.

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