Would You Rather with Women in the Boat

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Kristi Wagner 0:04
My high school team, the varsity people got like unis and hats. And I wanted the hat so badly and like, are one of the coaches told me that if I went under eight minutes on my 2k when I was a novice that I could get a hat. And so I like, yeah, 759 I got the hat.

Speaker 2 0:24
I'm imagining and Kristi's house, she just has like a closet of hats. She's just chasing those hats ever since.

Kristi Wagner 0:32
Yeah, that's why I haven't gone under 630 Because no one offered me a hat again. 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. This week, I have some of my national team teammates from the Princeton Training Center, aka women in the boat on the podcast. So Kelsey, Maddie and Molly all raced in the women's for at the Second World Cup and bray say that we were all just out last week. And they literally won. They are amazing, beautiful, strong champions. And they were definitely the highlight of our team's campaigns. So really cool, and really exciting to have them on this week. And they're all just amazing superstars who I've admired for a while. And now I'm grateful and happy to call them my friends. So they came on. And we talked about what brought them into rowing, whether they started you know, in high school or college, and then how they got into elite rowing. And after we talked about all that serious stuff. We talked about their fun Instagram account women in the boat, and they run a would you rather Wednesday on there, so I turned the tables on them. And we ended by playing a fun Would You Rather game. But before we share that, that conversation, here is an update on what's currently going on in my training. So I'm back in Saratoga. I've been here for a week now. And it's just so nice. It's so great to be home. I love being here. I love rowing here. It's really great to be at camp, but it's just so nice to be home, in my own routines doing my own thing. I really love like every aspect of it. I love rowing on Saratoga Lake and Fish Creek. It's like, I don't know, it's just the perfect body of water. And I've I've rode so many places. And I don't know, I mean, I'm biased, but this one is just that much better. I've gotten to see a lot of my teammates while I've been here, because last week, some of my teammates that are going to the second selection camp, which actually just started yesterday in New Jersey. They were still here last week, so I got to see them. And then some of my other teammates were in the Netherlands last week racing it this race called the Holland Becker, which they did great at they some two of them came in third and double on Saturday. And then four of them won the quad on Sunday. So they they crushed it, super happy for them. But now they're back. So I got to see all of them. And then some of my other teammates are have been here. And we have some guests. So it's been fun, it hasn't been a massive group, which is kind of nice. We've just been kind of going out and singles and and last week was a little bit of a down week. So getting back into more serious training this week. Yesterday morning, we went out and did our first like real workout since racing at the World Cup and it was so hot and muggy and I was just in my little single like I'm gonna die. This is so hard. But I survived as as per usual when you think it's not gonna not gonna end well and then it's just fine. But it's been really nice going for bike rides and runs and just getting to enjoy training. Not that I don't enjoy it, but it's nice to have a little bit of a break every once in a while. And it's also been really nice to get to hang out with Chris get to see my friends and my family. We kind of last minute decided to go to a cousin's wedding this weekend, which was really, it was a lot of effort, but it was really nice and it was really nice to see a lot of my family members and I don't know it's it's nice when you can be there for people. I feel like people are always there. For me, and so I really, when I can make it to things I like to do it, even if it's even if it's a lot, you know, I feel like in the end, you remember, like making it and going to the wedding, not the, like crazy travel that it took to get there. So yeah, we, we had, we had a fun weekend of, of going to going to that wedding and now we're back and just enjoying the training at the end of this week, I'm gonna go down to Princeton, where I will probably be for most of the rest of the summer. And yeah, do some good rowing down there. So yeah, it's, we're still in a little bit of a of a down period, which is nice, but it's about to your back up, it's slowly gearing right back up. And honestly, I'm excited. I'm excited about all the work to do. I'm excited. I feel like the rest was really necessary. But now I, I feel pumped ready to go ready to get faster, get better do everything we need to do to put our best foot forward at the World Championships in a couple of months. Now, it is time for the main event, my conversation with three of the women in the boat, and there are many more, and they are also amazing, wonderful individuals. But this time, I had Kelsey, Maddie and Molly on and they just they're all really accomplished really successful. But also, I think really good people and have their heads on straight. None of them have had, you know, they've all had adversity, they've all had things that have knocked them down. And I think that's just what what really makes a champion is is not really what you do when things are going well. But what you do when things aren't and your ability to kind of get back up and brush yourself off and come back better and stronger than you were before. And these three have all definitely done that I've I've been so impressed by them, you know, over the years and this year, as well. So I think that they have a lot of great things to say. And they're just great people around. So I it was a fun conversation. I'm excited for everyone to hear it. And it's been fun answers for the Would You Rather is that? I don't know. I don't know. Some of them were hard. I was I was happy that I was on the asking end rather than the answering end.

So I thought that the first thing that we could do is everyone could just introduce themselves, whatever you want to say. Let it flow. Maddie would you like to begin?

Speaker 3 7:56
My name is Maddy Wanamaker. I am from Wisconsin, I went to University of Wisconsin, and I started running for the national team, the senior team in 2017. Did a couple years of under 20 threes. And I've rode primarily the four since then, and rode the pair last year, won a world championship went to the Olympics. And then last week. I guess I speak for all of us that we want to for won a gold medal in the four in World Cup.

Speaker 4 8:33
I'm Molly Bruggeman. I grew up in Ohio and I just got to match Maddie here on this. And I went to the University of Notre Dame. I'm older, I started rowing with the senior team in 2014 after graduating and before that, I also did a couple of 23 teams. I was in the 2018 for with Maddie that won a world championship. And I was a spare in Tokyo. And also I had spent a year coaching at Minnesota before coming back and rowing again with these lovely people. Yay.

Speaker 2 9:14
Yeah. My name is Kelsey reliq. I grew up in Connecticut. went to Princeton University. graduated in 2014. I came to the Princeton Training Center in I think it was it was early or late 2017, early 2018. And last summer was my first senior team in the eighth. And yes, I'm currently in this for that just won gold.

Kristi Wagner 9:48
Awesome. I know all these champions, champions among among me. I thought that we could just start with some questions. about how you guys got into rowing. And because Kelsey, you wrote in high school, right?

Speaker 2 10:08
Yeah, yeah. Very I was compared to the other girls on my, my team of like 1314 year olds, I was fast on the erg. I remember going, we were doing did a 500 meter piece and I think I went like 218. And I was it was so fast. Yeah. So I really liked I liked that. I just was I was competitive, and I liked winning, and I liked feeling fast. And, and honestly, I liked feel like feeling better than, than my teammates. But since then, I think it's it's changed a lot. For me, obviously, I'm not as good on the ERG anymore. I can still go to a team for a 500 meter piece. And I think college really was the time when I I learned that it was you know, rowing and eight, obviously at Princeton. It's so good to win, but it's so good to win with people. And it said that's, you know, you still I still feel that. i Yeah, it's it's, you know, it's a kind of a shared feeling of winning together. That's like a lot more fun than then beating a bunch of 13 year olds on a 500 meter piece. But originally, that was why I really liked it. Yeah.

Kristi Wagner 11:37
I feel like it's funny, because now, like, I rode in high school, too, but now so many people. Like John, you know, it started in college. And I think a lot about how I can't really imagine. Like, going to college not expecting, like, I feel like I had to be so mentally prepared for what college rowing was, and I can't really imagine just like jumping in, and I just find it so impressive. I'm like, Wow, that's crazy. So like, but you guys both started in college. Right? So what?

Speaker 2 12:20
Like, Molly, I thought I thought you didn't you start at Dayton.

Unknown Speaker 12:25
I started in high school. Oh, you

Kristi Wagner 12:26
did start? Sorry. Oh, you did? Oh, sorry. So, okay, Maddie, you're our you're our one. Your one person. So you can tell us? Like, what? What, like, drew you to rowing? And then? Was it what you expected it to be? Or like, what were the biggest, you know, surprises maybe?

Speaker 3 12:51
Yeah, I feel like because my parents rode at Wisconsin back in the day. So I had like, kind of a I like, knew what the sport was growing up and had kind of been around our like local boathouse a little bit. So I wasn't like a total. Didn't have like any background. But I think that it was really attractive to, like, go to school and already have kind of a team that you could be involved in. And I think, what I liked the most, I think that originally, because, you know, you like have a lot of recruits who actually know how to row and I feel like I was super frustrated in the meeting because I was like, I'm a better athlete, like, why like you're beating me by so but I just don't understand, like how this is. And so I feel like the original like draw was kind of like having somewhere to go every day. And like if you're, you know, like not showing up to class people are gonna, like no one's gonna notice that a giant state school like Wisconsin, like you're not where you're supposed to be like, you could just stay in bed all day and no one would notice but I feel like having growing like made me really accountable and most of that my teammates are also walk on so we're all kind of in the same boat or like was that good? I know, you think that was good? Like the competition like it is fun to like, you know, start getting better and like start beating people and being a lot of bunch bunch of big tall girls to us, like yes, my people, I don't feel like I'm a giant person anymore. I'm like, finally look like everyone else I'm around. So that was also great.

Speaker 2 14:20
I do think there's a bit of a like, you know, wherever you start, you know, whether it's high school or college, there is something so nice about how you're always improving. You know, like you get on the earth you get on the ERG six months after just like you know first beginning and you've dropped three seconds on your 2k or whatever you know, and it's your It's like learning so much the kind of the the jumps that you make are so great. That it's very makes it very fun.

Unknown Speaker 14:51
What was everybody's first 2k You remember?

Speaker 2 14:55
I think it was an 840 something?

Speaker 3 14:59
Yes, something In the 720s Go sub seven.

Unknown Speaker 15:02
Oh my god.

Speaker 3 15:05
Yeah. Don't quote me on that someone can run the tape back from my novice year but we'll have to

Speaker 2 15:11
check yeah fact check. I know that just don't as who was Yeah. Tokyo 2020 Olympian in the eighth and was just in the pair this past World Cup two, just known as walked on at Washington that U DUB and I'm pretty sure she went like seven minutes flat for her first two day. So yeah, I have no idea what kind of shape she was in. I probably didn't look great. But like that's pretty fast for fresh. I think it was her freshman year to to just go seven minutes.

Speaker 4 15:45
That's your will gets you pretty far. I mine was 820 I think I remember when I moved at the Cincinnati experience. And I felt like I was queen of the world. Like I'm amazing.

Kristi Wagner 16:03
Yeah. My, my high school team, like the varsity people got like unis and hats and I wanted the hat so badly and like are one of the coaches told me that if I went under eight minutes on my 2k when I was a novice that I could get a hat. And so I like Yeah. 759

Unknown Speaker 16:29
award Mady,

Speaker 2 16:30
yeah, Mady, this is psychology you're talking about?

Speaker 3 16:34
I know it's because it's an initial reward. So it gets you it gets you there fast. But then you have to expect your words all the time after you are. Obviously you did well in terms of motivation. But you got the hat.

Kristi Wagner 16:47
I got the hat.

Speaker 2 16:49
I'm imagining and Kristi's house. She just has like a closet of hats. She's just chasing those hats ever since.

Kristi Wagner 16:58
Yeah, that's why I haven't gone under 630 Because no one offered me a hat again.

Unknown Speaker 17:03
Oh my god. Yeah. Okay. All right.

Speaker 3 17:05
We'll find a really good one. And then we'll buy it for you. Something you really, really want.

Kristi Wagner 17:12
Um, so, Molly, when would you say was the first time that you thought about, like rowing after college?

Speaker 4 17:23
I would say summer after my junior year of college. That was my first mute 23. No, sorry. Sorry, summer after sophomore year. was my first year 23. Team.

Speaker 3 17:38
No, no, we hear it out. I'm glad back.

Speaker 4 17:44
vary. But no, I think like my first selection process, just the competition factor was so fun. It was it was probably that that really lit my fire. And then I made two other teams. And it kind of solidified it for me as I got better and better too. But I was like, Okay, this is a good trajectory and path

Speaker 3 18:03
for me as a walk on, you're like don't really know what is up. And after I went to my first NCAA is after sophomore year, I kind of saw, like, you know, what top people in the country like look like. And I feel like I was like, Oh, we've kind of look similar, but I could do this. And then when I went to my first under 23 camp, I got absolutely dropped, kicked, like, the first time like going out and like talks, tours or whatever, and AIDS and stuff with all these people. And it was just like, super obvious that I was not like kind of where I wanted to be. So then I like went back to college, I was like super focused. And I was like, okay, like, I know what the level is, I've got to like, make a lot of improvements to get there. And then I actually was gonna go to Orion after my senior year, because I didn't think my ERG was going to be good enough to like be accepted at the training center. So I talked to Kat and he was super nice and awesome. And that I went to the under 20 threes after my senior year. And kind of to my surprise, I made the eight and then the training center was like, Hey, you should come here. So I feel like I kind of I didn't have low expectations for myself, but I just knew that, you know, people who are going like 657 or eight on their herbs aren't like, you know, making the senior team so I was kind of like, we'll see. But yeah, that was kind of my trajectory of like, wanting to be on the national team, I guess.

Kristi Wagner 19:38
Yeah, I mean, I feel like that's You weren't like waiting for, you know, like you were taking things into your own hands, which I feel like I I feel like I didn't know that when I was like in college it I mean now things are a bit different than you know When we then when we were in, in college, but to me, it seemed like one of you know, the only option was like the prints and training center for a long time. And it didn't You didn't know if there were other like avenues available. And now I think things are obviously a bit different. But I feel like if you're, you know, if your org isn't fast enough, or if you know, you didn't go to a certain level school or whatever, like, and you want to keep growing, it's kind of like, Who do you call? What do you do? Where do you go? So I feel like that's, that's cool that you were like, well, if I can't go there, I'll do that. You know? Yeah. Kelsey, what about you? Was it that 500 meter piece? And you were like, I'm taking this all the way?

Speaker 2 20:50
Yeah, I sent an email. I didn't even know greeting, I just No, no title. I just said, Hey, I went to 1820 years ago. Now. So I I never did you 20 threes. I wrote into varsity at Princeton all four years. But I found it to be summers, I just I found the year to be very, you know, I took rowing very seriously. And it just was I found it to be quite exhausting. So every summer I would, you know, I would take off I would, I had a job and one of the libraries on campus, I'd work and make some money. Or I just like hanging out at home or, but I just generally avoided rowing in the summers. And then after graduating, I said to myself, I'm done with this whole rowing thing. I don't want to, I don't want to do it anymore. And so then I worked in New York for a little bit. I worked at lived in DC work in DC for a little bit. And I think it was kind of in DC where I was coaching a little bit and I was sort of like, okay, this, this, this is just fun, like getting up early. And you know, I think to when you're on a coaching launch, you kind of can see things and think about things in a new way that you've never done before. And it just kind of was like, Oh, I can i i love this. This is so interesting. I think I can do this. I think I can do it better than I did in college. My sister was also Erin graduated from Princeton in 2016. And she went straight to the Princeton Training Center. And she was just having the time of her life. She had all her friends from u 20. Threes, she was like, she got like, she was winning NSR is getting second to NSRS. And she just was having so much fun. And she was so happy. And so I decided, alright, I'm going to reach out and I send an email tomorrow. And I said, Hi. My 2k is 655. My 6k is just under 22 minutes, can I come to the training center? And they said sure. And so I came to the Training Center. And I I honestly got injured a lot and floundered a lot for about four years. But now I'm in a place where I feel like it was a it helps to kind of contrast that to what's happening now with sort of the new the new regime. So, yeah, that was kind of that was kind of my story.

Kristi Wagner 23:40
Yeah, there's no one path. And I feel like from the outside, it looks like, like other people's paths, like are straightforward. They're amazing. And they just like have no like adversity. You know, like, that's not true for anyone. Everyone has, you know, even even if you have success when you're young, like it doesn't mean that it was easy to get there. So, I think it's important that there's to share that there's like no one path and like you're never too old. You're never you know, one statistic you have like doesn't make or break you.

Speaker 2 24:21
Yeah, yeah. And maybe all it takes is also you know, reaching out or just trying to communicate or, or, you know, creating a, you know, just, yeah, tempting to, you know, ask questions and stuff like, you know, emails are so easy to send, you know, texts are so easy to send, and I think that you know, when it comes to like, should I or shouldn't I do something or am I good enough? I think it's sometimes all it takes is just like reaching out to kind of learn so can be so hard

Kristi Wagner 24:53
to send that email though.

Speaker 2 24:55
Yeah, yeah. And then you're waiting and waiting refreshing checking the Junk. Yeah,

Kristi Wagner 25:00
yeah. But now you guys are superstars and coming off, like this amazing race that I watched with the Philippi men in Italy and they were so excited. I'm so yeah, how was how was your race? Like? Was it what you guys wanted it to be? You know, I mean, obviously the outcome was but like was the race? You know what you were proud of

Speaker 3 25:31
tailwind? Yeah. I feel like we had like, the final was kind of like a, without the context of the whole regatta like, I think we came in, like, super excited. And we're like, we just have to execute what we know how to do. And then our semi, we just did not, we were, I think, I don't know, if it was, we just didn't quite get into like the rhythm that we wanted to have. So then coming into the final, I think it was a little bit more like, okay, let's just relax, be ourselves have fun, and like we had already beaten TV in the heat. So you're kind of like, that's, you know, the other front runner. And so if we can just execute what we have already done, and, like, feel like we can be ourselves. We're gonna have success. So I think it was, it was like the race when you like, do a visualization, you're like, Okay, at this part, we're gonna have a great start. And then here, we're gonna make a move, and no one is going to or, like, you know what I mean? I feel like it was just like, A, as good as it can get. And I think that it was amazing. And now it's like, Okay, gotta get back to the drawing board and, like, be sure we're training hard, and like making improvements so that we can keep kind of racing like that.

Kristi Wagner 26:51
How do you come off? Like, you know, obviously, if you went to a midseason Regatta, and it didn't go the way you wanted it to, like, then you have that. You know, oh, I know what I need to work on that kind of thing. But if you have a great race, middle of the season, how do you come back? What kind of things are going through your mind of? Okay, this is what we do next. If if you know if you know you're achieving your goals in the middle of the season,

Speaker 2 27:25
Molly, you and I spoke about this a little bit, but they had this really nice at the end of the race and like the last 250 They had this really nice drone shot kind of behind the boat. And the first thing I thought about when I watched it was like, oh my god, I'm really diving into the catch, you know? So it's I think it's, it's, it's just such a good thing to have footed, you know, you kind of it was a very good race. It was a fantastic race, but it's like, okay, there are still things there are still things like I, you know, could be a little bit less lungi into the catch. And, you know, I know, Molly, you had, like one or two things, right? Or did I think of those? Oh,

Speaker 4 28:03
yeah. Yeah. No, the first thing I thought was my punchy body.

Unknown Speaker 28:09
Yeah, see? hunchy. body

Unknown Speaker 28:12
to body over better set up. Dear God. Yeah.

Speaker 2 28:15
Yeah. So there are small things where you're like, okay, like, that was fantastic. But like, you know, it's still, we're still there's still time to be shaved off, which is, which is nice. And time can be shaved off. Maybe if I sit up a little bit more in the last few 50, we could have gone point five seconds faster, you know. So it's nice to have that footage to have that video.

Speaker 3 28:39
I think the thought like how we've been training to is like, we have like super high expectations for like ourselves and each other. And I think it's just like approaching practice, it's like, we're not going to be satisfied, I think with anything less than our best. So I think that it's an easy kind of stepping stone to keep up that mentality of like, always, like leveling up and trying to be our best selves. And at the end of the day we're wearing it's not like basketball, where it's like, Oh, if you just like outplay someone or like you really have to react to like, what, what, like, different strategies another team is using, it's like, you're just in your lane, and you go, so it's like, I think our goal is to like, just be ourselves and get out there and put down really fast time. And you could do that with no boats. And you could do that the World Championships, but at the end of the day, it's like all about how we go versus like how other people are going. So I think it is a self self imposed continuation of improvement.

Kristi Wagner 29:47
Yeah, I also, like I've really enjoyed training with a whole US team and that we can all compare ourselves to one another like, because we compare ourselves to the goal Metal standards have different vote classes. So I think it's added a level of like, gotta be on, you know, you gotta be on like all the time because you want to beat the women's for the lightweight double or you know, whatever it is like on that percentage and, and you know Yeah, yeah true yeah, I found that to be like really helpful in like extra motivation just when you not that we need extra motivation but when you do

Speaker 2 30:38
yeah I do love I love the the EEOC the high performance director I love the EEOC number crunching, you know, the, the comparisons, the percentages, I feel like it's very, you know, because you get some, you get a sense of confidence from that, you know, our coach, Jesse, his thing is no hope, like, you shouldn't be hoping for a result you should be like, You should feel like you've earned it, like you've you're set up for it, you know, don't hope for something, you know, take it if you've if you can do it, take it. And I think that that a big part of that is having those numbers or knowing how far are we off of the lightweight women's double, usually in practice and, and being able to kind of use that to have confidence, you know, or to say, Okay, we're still you know, this, this many percentage points below them. And we, you know, so we, we know that we can squeeze some more speed out of out of this to

Kristi Wagner 31:33
change gears a little bit. Kelsey, you were one of the original women in the boat. Creators, correct? Who, who actually started it, but

Speaker 2 31:47
I think it was Regina Celmins I think it was it was Regina. I see I'm I'm as you understand Kristi and Molly, you too. I am 30 slash 31. I was 30 ish when this thing began? I'm not 31 I don't really do I'm not big into social media. So I think it was I'm assuming it was pushed by Regina Celmins who is not third? Not in her 30s. So Regina, I know, Charlotte Buck two is very into it. I think it was we were all sitting around and talking about it. So I think it was sort of a collaborative idea. But I am one of the people who has the log on login and and I go on and and put up pictures of my cats. So

Kristi Wagner 32:33
what was the catalyst to start it just like fun or wanting to share stuff from the Princeton Training Center? Because I feel like old Princeton Training Center was really anti social media. And I don't know if that was just the outside or like,

Speaker 3 32:48
Yeah, I think it was like so much like secrecy. And like, we can't let anyone know what we're doing and that kind of stuff. And I think, you know, it's a new cycle. And yeah, we want like Princeton is more like a hub for everyone to come train and stuff. So we want people to not feel like it's a place where you're not welcome and etc. And I think too, like we you know, you spend a lot of time at with these people. And what you're doing is pretty cool, but no one really knows about it. Because we're it was secret and kind of closed doors. And I think the big strong girls, Irish women's team, Instagram kind of blew up. And they're doing like, you know, tic tac dances and stuff. And we're like, we could do that. Like,

Unknown Speaker 33:43
that'd be pretty cool. Like, it's kind of cool. They're doing that. Yeah, we left Korean or choreography. But yeah. Have a little more of an open door window into our world.

Unknown Speaker 33:58
Say we're fun. Yeah.

Kristi Wagner 34:01
Cool. What about Would You Rather Wednesday? Who's Who came up with that?

Speaker 2 34:07
That was probably me and Charlotte. Yeah, I know. I kind of think about what do I like, when I'm scrolling on Instagram? And I kind of like it when people have like, oh, like, should I should I eat this egg? Or should I throw it over the fence and like throw it over the fence? So I think that was probably that was probably me and Charlotte and yeah, yeah. Would you rather so I started the W Wednesday office up to the W so it just fit Yeah, and it's it's it were kind of some of them I'm starting to you know, I'm coming up with the same ideas you know, I know I did for Asante versus Stillwater twice accidentally. So it's hard had to kind of come up with original ones. But it's but it's been fun. I think people have been. People have found it fun. Sometimes it's polarizing. I don't remember if I've done cats versus dogs yet. I think that one would break my heart. So I haven't done it.

Kristi Wagner 35:16
But I've been a fan. I think it's fun. So I have some Would You Rather questions for you guys? And if I'm being completely honest, you might have asked some of them I don't know because I am also over 30 Which means we get a free pass anything social media Okay, so they're really they cover traverses there's a different a bunch of different things here. Okay, so just one that was inspired from Italy. Would you rather eat pasta every day for the rest of your life? Or never eat pasta again?

Speaker 3 35:57
How much pasta do you have to eat? Like a meal? Just eat a few noodles?

Kristi Wagner 36:01
I'd say it's a part of a meal

Unknown Speaker 36:03
every day, every day for sure.

Unknown Speaker 36:05
Every day? Yeah,

Speaker 2 36:07
never never I don't like pasta that much out other other ways. There are other ways to ingest carbs. I would say I would just rather not. I mean if it was like yeah, if it was like a single ZD vi jets had to like eat zd, then that would be fine. But as a meal

Kristi Wagner 36:25
would you rather have to be on Tik Tok or be real

Unknown Speaker 36:32
nightmare show my age.

Unknown Speaker 36:40
I think be real.

Unknown Speaker 36:43
Cultivate tickbox all the time, less work.

Kristi Wagner 36:46
I will I have be real now. And I like I fail. Like every day. It's I'm not holding my phone enough. Like

Speaker 2 36:55
I don't know. But it's just in the group. Just to a group of friends that you

Kristi Wagner 36:59
saw laughs It's just to the people that you're watching that part of is nice. Because like, who cares if you're doing something stupid? All right, this one? A bit controversial based on recent current events. But would you rather go to space or go down to the bottom of the ocean? Neither

Unknown Speaker 37:25
us space.

Unknown Speaker 37:28
I think space. Yeah.

Kristi Wagner 37:33
Molly, you're sticking with me there.

Speaker 4 37:35
I have that fear of like the unknown and like deep dark places. So I guess I have to say space.

Kristi Wagner 37:41
I feel like I know how Kelsey feels about this next one. But I'm not sure. Would you rather give up air conditioning? Or give up the internet?

Unknown Speaker 37:52
Is there a third option? Honestly, the internet, I guess I would have guessed. Are you up the internet? Oh, like read a book or something? Maddie?

Speaker 4 38:05
Yeah, we've done it before we've lived. We grew up that way, man.

Speaker 2 38:09
Honestly, I feel like I feel like the hotel in Arizona was kind of both.

Speaker 3 38:15
I think I give up AC? If I had to live in New Jersey, I think I'd do with the Internet. But if I was somewhere more temperate, then

Kristi Wagner 38:26
would you rather live 1000 years in the past or 1000 years in the future?

Unknown Speaker 38:32
Future?

Speaker 3 38:32
I don't know if 1000 pictures for humanity is a given. I know if I could.

Speaker 2 38:38
Would I be wealthy in the past? Actually what it wouldn't matter? Yeah, 1000 years ago, I would just you'd get a paper cut and you die. Or are you

Speaker 3 38:47
gonna say I could live off the land and then it'd be like no, I get strep throat and die.

Speaker 2 38:52
Well, here's something if you live 2000 years in the future there probably be time travel so you could just travel back to today.

Kristi Wagner 39:00
You guys really can't decide.

Unknown Speaker 39:02
No, I mean,

Speaker 3 39:04
go into past a good pass. Yeah, I have to pick. The earth is going to be a hot burning ball of flames.

Unknown Speaker 39:14
It's true. We probably be on Mars in the future.

Kristi Wagner 39:17
Molly, what do you what did you decide?

Speaker 4 39:22
I think I I think the future if we're going to be on our colony and Mars

Kristi Wagner 39:35
Okay, would you rather have a personal maid or a personal chef? Yes. Easy. Can you the food made? I think I would go with you, Molly. I feel like that would be so nice.

All right. Would you rather always be 30 minutes early. or always be two minutes late.

Speaker 4 40:04
Early? For sure. I can.

Unknown Speaker 40:08
Yeah, I think stressful.

Unknown Speaker 40:10
Yeah, I agree three minutes early.

Kristi Wagner 40:14
Yeah. I figured rowers, rowers would all have the same. All right? Only a few more here. This one's fun. Would you rather have to use used underwear or used toothbrush? Oh my god.

Unknown Speaker 40:34
Use toothbrush. That is fun Kristi toothbrush. better how to Yeah, I want to know the origins of this question, though. How did this pop into your head?

Kristi Wagner 40:51
Something I really wouldn't want to do. Well, I was originally with this one. I was thinking like, I hate when my electric toothbrush is dead. And then I have to like caveman style brush with my electric toothbrush. And I was like, trying to come up with something like that. And then I was like, using someone else's toothbrush. Yeah, I don't know.

Speaker 2 41:19
Yeah, not gonna lie sometimes when we're already into it now. When I can't find my toothbrush, and I'm just lazy. See, use Max's

Kristi Wagner 41:30
I use Chris's toothbrush all the time. And he gets so mad at me. And I'm like, but I don't know.

Speaker 2 41:38
And you know, you're cleaning it as you're using it. Like it's all it's like pretty. Yeah.

Speaker 3 41:44
Yeah. Toothbrush because of these arguments you sold me?

Kristi Wagner 41:49
Um, I'm Molly, what did you say?

Unknown Speaker 41:54
I said toothbrush for sure. I you can rinse it off. It's fine.

Kristi Wagner 42:03
All right. Fun rolling one. Would you rather race at Head of the Charles or Henley?

Unknown Speaker 42:13
What's the wind? Like?

Kristi Wagner 42:17
I'd say pristine conditions for both. Yeah. In any boat of your choice.

Speaker 2 42:26
I'm not gonna lie. I loved racing the pair last year it had at the Charles. I thought it was super, super fun. So I would say that at the

Speaker 3 42:36
Charles This is tough because they're both really fun. And I also feel like when you get ahead of the Charles, you see, like all of everyone you've ever known in rowing ends up there. And Henley is great, because it's like very posh and fancy and it's a fun party and stuff. But I think being ahead of the Charles with everyone you know, is like really awesome and fun. So I had to like choose one to miss. I feel like I would do see I had the Charles. Yeah. I could only go to one.

Speaker 4 43:11
That is tough. I love Henley. And I love her Charles. I guess I think I want to go to handling because it's just like drinking champagne on the shore after you're done racing. There's nothing better than that jeering on people who are spacing. Sometimes not really paying attention. But mostly, the racing is only 2000 A little over 2000 meters. And

Kristi Wagner 43:40
they're both so fun. That was a hard one. I don't know what I would have said. All right. Would you rather live in an airport or live in an amusement park?

Speaker 2 43:51
Wow, that's a real tough one. These are good, Christine. These are very good. Thank you.

Unknown Speaker 43:57
I'm gonna have to hire you for a

Kristi Wagner 44:01
long time to come up with these. I have a lot of respect for you guys. Doing this every week.

Speaker 3 44:09
Like there were a lot of screaming people I amusement parks. And just for that reason, I would go airport. Food is expensive. Both places. I don't know. But the airport need to go somewhere? You don't have to go there for it. You're already there.

Speaker 2 44:29
Yeah. But like I don't know just the traffic and the anxiety like at least the atmosphere of the amusement park is like you know it's got like a light chill vibe. Yeah, I think I think an amusement park.

Speaker 4 44:46
I would think the airport There's just plenty of places to sleep. You have your choice.

Speaker 2 44:54
Well, there's one thing that's for certain if Claire Collins were here, Claire Collins. I mean, God Here's where Claire Collins is not a fan of airports.

Kristi Wagner 45:03
I don't know I I guess you can also choose what airport you wanted to live in. So you could choose like a good one. Yeah,

Unknown Speaker 45:14
we're really small one

Speaker 2 45:17
on a Greek island maybe an airport on a Greek island. No security

Kristi Wagner 45:23
All right, just a few more would you constantly Would You Rather constantly have pit scenes or constantly have a wedgie?

Speaker 4 45:43
Already it seems it's already a constant my life so I just choose that would you would just be uncomfortable?

Unknown Speaker 45:53
Yeah, I think pit stains.

Speaker 3 45:55
I feel like I hate like, I'll wear looser shirts so that I don't have my shirt touching my armpits because I I just don't. It's so uncomfortable to me. So I controversial, but I might go watch. Oh my god. She's crazy. Yeah, that's kind of wild.

Kristi Wagner 46:18
All right, this one's a bit like the deep. Would you rather find your soulmate? Or find your calling? You can die.

Unknown Speaker 46:28
Would you say?

Unknown Speaker 46:32
You can't do both?

Kristi Wagner 46:34
I mean, I hope that in life you get both. But for the for the question.

Speaker 4 46:42
I would say that. I feel like rowing has a lot of a lot of ways. It's been our calling in some ways. The net the next toughest part is what is the calling after this one. When you're done rowing, so I would probably I'll probably pick calling. To be honest. I do love my boyfriend very much. But you know, hopefully he's my soulmate.

Unknown Speaker 47:12
I'm telling you. I'm telling him you said that.

Speaker 3 47:16
I mean, setback Yes. Thank you, you have to find happiness within before you can like best, like serve other people. So I would say Colin

Speaker 2 47:33
I think this is very person by person. I think you know, certain people can just like work. And they don't they like don't feel like they need to prioritize their love life or whatever. I think that if I think soulmate is the answer. Because once for me personally, I feel like once you have that your calling can be anything you can be happy anywhere. So I would say soulmate. I'll let you know when I find him. No, it's It's Max.

Kristi Wagner 48:14
Oh my gosh. Yeah, that was a hard one. I like thought about that. After I like lay down in bed after I wrote.

Unknown Speaker 48:23
You say your answer.

Kristi Wagner 48:25
I also, I feel like if you don't have someone to share your life with then like, what? Like, what's the point? Like, I feel like, I feel like I thought about this a lot. Or I think you know, in like choosing to row another quad. Like, if I just ostracized every person in my life and had nobody like, and I won a gold medal. Like, would it be worth it? For me? I don't think so. But that's not true for everybody. You know, like I think we're really lucky that we can have both. Yeah.

Unknown Speaker 49:08
Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Having a life that is?

Kristi Wagner 49:13
Yes. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. There's more to life than going backwards in a little boat. Yeah, but that doesn't mean you don't want the boat to go really fast. Cool. Well, that was my last one. I hope that they were fun. But yeah, so everyone should follow you guys follow women in the boat on Instagram and play would you rather Wednesday and see all of the other amazing content that you have that video of you guys like? I don't even know for podium day or whatever was hilarious. Like yeah, Hmm. Yeah. Well, is there anything else you guys want to say to the people before we close it up any words of wisdom for the youth? Or the adults? Wisdom?

Speaker 4 50:21
Have fun. I don't know. Yeah. Like, literally people are too serious these days with sports. And I think, for me, everyone's like, Oh, I really want to I really want to end. But yeah, I mean, like we said, if your relationships aren't there, if you're ostracizing people, if you're not enjoying what you're doing every day, and then why do it? You know, like, Why? Why do it. Have fun?

Speaker 3 50:49
Yeah, I feel like sometimes you have to remember, like, at the end of the day, it's just really, you know, like you, it's so easy to get like, superduper worked up, and I do work myself up. And I do have to remind myself, you know, life goes on. And it's more fun if you enjoy it. And so sometimes you have to do what you have to do to enjoy it and not just make it all work can apply.

Speaker 2 51:16
I agree with that. I think one of the things that Yossi likes to say is like, you know, happy rowers go fast. And I think it's I think that works for, you know, for life. Like if you're happy you you do well, if you're happy, you are successful, and I'm not always happy. But I think that it's good to kind of strive to be to just like, enjoy yourself. So

Kristi Wagner 51:41
very well said, You guys are podcast Naturals.

Unknown Speaker 51:48
Do you cut any of this later?

Kristi Wagner 51:49
Yes. It'll be it'll be edited. Don't worry. Okay. All right. Yeah, no, thank you guys so much. I'm really grateful that you come on and feel like it's fun gig and learn

Speaker 3 52:03
something serving podcast, good for the sport, you know.

Kristi Wagner 52:12
Now it is time for Ask kristi anything. And Chris actually asked this question. So he said to me, when you go to practice in the morning, what is it that you are looking forward to the most? And it's a hard question, I had to think about it for a while, actually. But I realized that I have this moment, and it doesn't happen every day. But it usually does. And usually I start practice, and I'm feeling a little tired, and my body hurts a little bit. And I'm like, Oh, my gosh, we're gonna be out here for an hour and a half, two hours, like, I don't know how I'm gonna do it. And, and then we start and I'm going and you know, you're kind of working your way up and warming up and stuff. And then we get into the meat of practice, and it's happening. And then at some point, I usually realize, like, my mind is just totally calm, and I'm just totally engrossed in what I'm doing. And I'm taking really good strokes, and I am not counting down the minutes till it ends, I'm not wondering how many meters I have left, I'm just like, really present in what I'm doing. And that moment is like the best I love that time where I'm just out there. Really enjoying what I'm doing, really trying to get better pushing myself, it doesn't mean that I'm slacking off. It's just like, I don't know, like a calmness in my mind. And I love that during practice, I don't have to do anything except practice it love that. When I'm out on the water, like, the rest of the world just kind of disappears. And all I have to do is focus on my little boat and my little oars and nothing else. No other problems or stresses or insecurities or anything can touch me like, I'm just totally present in what I'm doing. And that is just a feeling you don't get that often. In today's life. Normally we have our cell phones and there's a million things going on. And when I'm off the water, it's like, I have to do this and I have to do this and I only have this much time but when I'm on the water like I don't know, it just everything else kind of drowns out and I really, really like that. So I think that's what keeps me coming back. And then of course, you know the times when you achieve things that you didn't think you could which happened probably more in practice than in races like you're going a speed you haven't gone before. You know see Doing something you haven't done and, and those little breakthroughs, especially in a sport like rowing where we don't raise that much, they usually happen in practice. So you just got to keep coming back, keep showing up. To close the show. This week, we have the quote of the week, my new favorite segment, and I was watching full swing on Netflix. And I think that's what's called the golf Docu series. And Tony fee now said a winner is just a loser who never gave up. I just really liked that, Tony. So I don't know you, but I really like your quote.

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