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Tracy Wiu: runDisney Race Announcer Origin Story
Amidst the laughter and light-hearted banter, we tackle summer travel plans, including John's heartfelt visit to his 89-year-old mother in Pennsylvania and Carissa’s upcoming lifestyle event in Nantucket, featuring Premier Protein's ice cream pop-up and some competitive pickleball. We even touch on the emotional twists involving Matt Pablo and Riley's poisoning, with a nod to the quirks of Mylar and Super Mary. This episode also promises some giggle-filled moments as we navigate the logistics of balancing travel with a bit of alone time away from parental duties.
Lastly, Tracy delves into her diverse background, from her roots in Manila to her education in musical theater in Boston, and her various roles at Walt Disney World. Her stories of hosting Disney events after a challenging Star Wars run are both inspiring and heartwarming. Plus, she shares her efforts to get back into fitness, her amusing COVID wall-painting adventures, and a fun rapid-fire round discussing her favorite race costumes and co-hosts. Join us for an episode brimming with motivation, travel tales, and the supportive spirit of the running community.
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Amidst the laughter and light-hearted banter, we tackle summer travel plans, including John's heartfelt visit to his 89-year-old mother in Pennsylvania and Carissa’s upcoming lifestyle event in Nantucket, featuring Premier Protein's ice cream pop-up and some competitive pickleball. We even touch on the emotional twists involving Matt Pablo and Riley's poisoning, with a nod to the quirks of Mylar and Super Mary. This episode also promises some giggle-filled moments as we navigate the logistics of balancing travel with a bit of alone time away from parental duties.
Lastly, Tracy delves into her diverse background, from her roots in Manila to her education in musical theater in Boston, and her various roles at Walt Disney World. Her stories of hosting Disney events after a challenging Star Wars run are both inspiring and heartwarming. Plus, she shares her efforts to get back into fitness, her amusing COVID wall-painting adventures, and a fun rapid-fire round discussing her favorite race costumes and co-hosts. Join us for an episode brimming with motivation, travel tales, and the supportive spirit of the running community.
Let Registered Dietitian Carissa Galloway lead you through a science-backed plan to transform the way you think about your diet.
Visit www.GallowayCourse.com and use the code PODCAST at checkout for a great discount!
Become a 321 Go! Supporter. Help us continue to create! HERE
New Apparel!! Wear your support for 321 Go!
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- 6 Months of Customized Training
- 6 Months of Healthier U chats
- 30-day Summer Nutrition Shake Up
Follow us! @321GoPodcast @carissa_gway @pelkman19
Email us 321GoPodcast@gmail.com
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Welcome to 3, 2, 1, Go the Podcast. I'm John Pelkey.
Speaker 2:And I'm Carissa Galloway and we're bringing you stories from start to finish to keep the everyday athlete motivated to keep moving towards the next finish.
Speaker 1:All right, Carissa, today we are finally sitting down with the lovable, crazy cousin of the Run Disney race announcer team, our friend Tracy Wu. Not only is she part of the hype crew at 3 am, but she actually has a pretty extensive Walt Disney World career and beyond. She's been on television and stuff and we will discuss those things.
Speaker 2:She sure has, and not just in an Advent Health video that plays 20-some-plus times.
Speaker 1:Which is evidence why I'm not on television. Frankly.
Speaker 2:This episode's pretty funny. There's some inappropriate jokes in it. So I hope you guys, if you're out there running and walking while you listen, will LOL, laugh out loud. If you will, with Tracy and I and John and Healthier you, we're going to talk about why protein matters and we're going to share a listener question from Ryan about the Pocky Running Club. Thank you guys for listening. We are glad you're here. Your support makes this happen. It makes it fun. So if you like us, pause us right now, go give us a review or share us on social media. Come back, listen, letissa this is weird.
Speaker 1:It's a Sunday morning. We don't normally do these. Those are generally days where you know I'm catching up on the sports news, you're dealing with the kids and you are dealing with the kids. I should say to everybody right now you are multitasking. There is a bounce house in your yard. That maybe is supervised by adults currently, maybe not, and given the temperature, it's a bounce sauna out there right now because there is a heat advisory here in Central Florida.
Speaker 2:Yes, 9.36 in the morning on a Sunday, because John is going to go out of town and we do the episodes in the chats. We decided to do those more timely. So we try, we try. So it's like a jigsaw puzzle here. But yes, the bounce house is not a full, it's a big bounce house. It's a friend of Elliot's, it's CO's that we borrowed for Elliot's birthday. We tried to do it last night. It was too hot. There's a little bit of shade right now. So the kids and Ezra, our neighbor, outside in the bounce house. Because we're still in birthday mode. We are wrapping up birthday celebrations today, just in time for yours to start.
Speaker 1:Absolutely, and listen. Speaking of timely, I'm going to jump in and throw this in here. It's timely for me to congratulate my Florida Gators on their third consecutive NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championship. They won their third consecutive. Yesterday the men's, I believe. On the women's side it was Arkansas. But I want to shout out to my Gators track and field team Three consecutives. Obviously one of the best track programs in the country, carissa.
Speaker 2:Well, that's fine, I had it recorded. So now you've ruined it for me, john, excellent. Well, my work is done.
Speaker 1:Yeah, like you were going to get to watching the NCAA track.
Speaker 2:We do, I'd watch. I was going to tell you that I was worried about Florida because what's his name? Pavel didn't make the final of the 1500. So I was, I was watching, thank you.
Speaker 1:Well, you weren't going to be able to avoid it on social media, so I only feel moderately bad about it.
Speaker 2:Well, the Olympics, I actually do turn off even the news alerts. I turn off everything for gymnastics and track. So actually then I do. I have to go dark sometimes because, yes, spoilers, spoilers abound, and it's okay, because this is not like if it was the world championships and you told me that, like noah lyles got third in the hundred or something, that I would be like I get angry at people, they tech people. I literally have to put my phone on. Do not stir, disturb. He'll be like did you see that raise? I can't believe. I'm like yeah, I have.
Speaker 1:Years ago. Years ago when I believe it was, I think the Colts upset the Chiefs in a playoff game. Yeah For the Colts to go to the AFC championship game when Jim Harbaugh was the quarterback for the Colts and my roommate at the time, tom Brooks rest in peace, tommy he. He walks in the door from work and I go how about those Colts? And he's like I was recording the game.
Speaker 2:And the Chiefs and both of them. So now everyone listening. Please don't try to spoil. It's really.
Speaker 1:Olympic. Don't spoil the Olympics for us.
Speaker 2:So last Olympic cycle was Tokyo, so that was a really hard time stretch and you know we mentioned it. I'm friends with Jonathan Van Ness, so we were both up at 2 am watching the gymnastics live and texting, and that was when Simone Biles pulled out, so we were one of the first to know it was a whole. You know that was a whole thing. So, but she's back, she's looking great but yeah, yeah I tried.
Speaker 2:I tried last Olympics to kind of avoid some things, and it just I forget because I just look down and check, check my Twitter, dark, all of these things, and then we actually have to look at the phone Like, anyway, it doesn't matter, we'll get to that. But I think this time gap still big. But better than Japan. Japan was a real rough one.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, it's tough covering the Olympics. We're getting off on this tangent. I mean, the people talk about decisions made above my pay grade, the people who decide what to show you, because they're always going to be criticized for everything they do. It's never, you know, we all it's. I always say this about the Olympics. Every four years I become an expert on rowing or gymnastics or you know any sport that I know nothing about, which is generally most of them, frankly. But it's so funny. And then we, we all decide oh no, no, this is how you should have covered it, but whoever's covering it? I don't even know, Is it NBC?
Speaker 2:this year NBC has had it forever.
Speaker 1:They pay buku bucks for that.
Speaker 2:We can't. Even if I do a TV segment during the Olympics and it's about a watch party for the Olympics, I can't like Super Bowl, I can't say it. I have to say the World Games, the celebration of athletics, blah, blah, blah.
Speaker 1:Glad to see we're focusing on the important things in this country that we don't.
Speaker 2:Yeah, let's worry about that, All right.
Speaker 1:All right, we're off on a tangent. It's fine, you said it, it was Elliot's birthday.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:How did that go? I know that the cupcakes started out great, but Florida humidity not great for outside cupcakes.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so we had his party. He'd never wanted to have a birthday party before this, so he I think he kept saying, well, if my friends come to my party, they'll steal my toys.
Speaker 1:And we were now let everybody know how old he is he's 17.
Speaker 2:He's four. So it was last year was like the first year you could have actually had a party. You didn't want to have one, so we had a party. This year we did it. There's a playground in our neighborhood with a little covered pavilion so we rented that out but it was warm. It was shaded but it was warm and with kids that age, wes and I were like we didn't really schedule any games. We didn't have like clowns come, or monkeys come, or dragons, dragon, I don't know. So we were like Riley Claremont appreciates no scary clown, yes. So we were like did we do a good enough job with it? But it was okay. One kid fell, hit his head, had to leave. Another kid had a meltdown and he left.
Speaker 2:So your average kid's party, yes, and then we went to the pool afterwards because the pool's kind of connected, but we didn't want to have the party at the pool because that would be like frowned upon by the entire. You're not supposed to throw a whole party at the pool in the neighborhood and we were afraid of HOA stuff. Don't get me started, I know so we rented the pavilion and then Don't have fun, don't enjoy your time here.
Speaker 1:Do what we say, step forward.
Speaker 2:Yes, exactly. So we just didn't want to the Facebook Anyway, so half the party was from the neighborhood, so then we went, had a delightful time at the pool, so he highly enjoyed it. Claire enjoyed it, all the kids enjoyed it. Funny story. So do you know what Elliot's birthday party theme was?
Speaker 1:I don't.
Speaker 2:You don't? You don't know, my son loves Mario, so it was a super Mario.
Speaker 1:Oh, okay, all right, I knew he loved Mario. I did not realize that it was themed to that.
Speaker 2:Yes, my kids always have themes and I always buy the party in a box from Amazon, right when you get the plates, the napkins, the tablecloth, the banner. That's just what.
Speaker 1:I do, sure Don't have kids, don't know that. But cool Okay.
Speaker 2:No, maybe people don't do that. That's what I do. I'm not going to make stuff on my Cricut machine. I'm not going to. Whatever they love it, that's all they know. So, weston, we're going to bed the night before his birthday and we're looking through old pictures and we're like, oh shoot, we had all the balloons blown up when he woke up last year. So we need to go 1130. We got to go blow up the balloons so that he wakes up. And they're up. Weston went by himself because I don't want to blow up the balloons. It's late and I'm trying to go to sleep because he won't wake me up. And he comes back in and he's moving around and I'm like what he's like. I got to tell you something Like what he's like one of the Super Mario balloons. I blow it up and it says Super Mary M-A-R-Y. So thank you, amazon, for the Super Mary birthday balloon.
Speaker 1:Is that a Mylar birthday balloon?
Speaker 2:Yep, giant those things Mario.
Speaker 1:I used to manage a balloon store. I used to know a lot about balloons. Actually went to a balloon convention once here in Central Florida.
Speaker 2:What.
Speaker 1:Long time ago. Those Mylar balloons will stay blown up for about a week or so.
Speaker 2:Not these. That's the problem.
Speaker 1:Super Mary.
Speaker 2:Super Mary, super Mary's already on the ground, really.
Speaker 1:Because they should stay. They should be your average latex balloon back in the day. Would only stay for several hours.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And we because we used to have people complain oh, we blew them up like Saturday afternoon for a Sunday evening party and it's like, well, you made a mistake, you did, but the Mylars generally will stay, uh, airborne for five to six days. So not only the wrong thing, but I figured it out.
Speaker 2:Mylar is angry at me apparently it won't work in my house because wait a second wait a minute because I get so angry about mylar maybe okay it's see, mylar has become self-aware.
Speaker 1:All the Mylar everywhere. It's like the T-1000. The Mylar is going to turn into a giant monster and that's how we're going to end our career at Run Disney.
Speaker 2:Mylar turns on us, we'll be devoured by a Mylar monster. Sad news out of Lake Buena Vista.
Speaker 1:And then welcome to the stage Matt Pablo, everybody who, by the way, I think it's Matt's birthday and he's in like the Azores or something. He's in some just glorious place, I don't know. Yeah, but he's going to have to wait a year or so before we do his origin story. Yeah, we're not ready for it.
Speaker 2:We can't emotionally handle his origin story.
Speaker 1:We really can't though we. We really can't, though we do want to get to the bottom of the Riley poison. We like you.
Speaker 2:Matt, but we're afraid to learn more about you and that you'll overtake us. You'll actually. He controls the Mylar, which will then overtake me in my sleep. Super Mary will suffocate me in my sleep.
Speaker 1:I love that. He's subtly just trying to push you over the edge. I appreciate it. He's trying to poison Riley.
Speaker 2:He's trying to push you over the edge with the Mylar. What's going to happen to me? Oh my God. Well, there's enough. He's just going to let time take care of that one. Wow, A lifetime of bad choices.
Speaker 1:He can wait me out, he can wait me out. Yeah, okay, fair enough.
Speaker 2:Fair enough.
Speaker 1:What day is it? How many days away from my 60th birthday?
Speaker 2:Okay, well, guys, this has gone completely off track.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it really has, but it's been fun, John, real quick.
Speaker 2:we're doing this on a Sunday because we're both going somewhere, but you're kind of going. It's a little bit longer than I am.
Speaker 1:I'll be gone for a week. I'm leaving Wednesday Going to go see my mom in north central Pennsylvania.
Speaker 2:Lives in a tiny little town called Emporium, no bigger than probably Wait, john, should you say that out loud, because Matt Pablo can find you now lives in Iowa, ottumwa, iowa.
Speaker 1:Oh no, matt Pablo's coming for you, matt Pablo, billboard, as I'm driving into Emporium tomorrow or Wednesday, excuse me next Wednesday. So yeah, I'm going to go up to see my 89-year-old mother, who still lives by herself and does pretty well Obviously a hell of a lot better than I'll be doing at 89. But I'm going to spend a little time with her and a couple of my cousins, so all of my cousins. They used to have a bunch of cousins there and they were all moving to, like Georgia and South Carolina. They're doing that whole. We have to move south. We've talked about this. If you live on the Eastern seaboard, there was some sort of law about having to move to Florida or south at least, and so they've all done that. So, yep, going to go see my mom. What about you? Where are you at this time?
Speaker 2:So I'm going to Nantucket for two nights, then I'll be home for three nights and I'll go back to Nantucket for two nights. So I'm working an event that's called Summer House, where they invite lifestyle writers from like People Magazine, good Housekeeping, real Simple, and they live in this house in the summer in Nantucket for like three nights maybe, and then they do different events throughout the time. Some are sponsored by brands. So I'm going with Premier Protein to help their high protein ice cream trend. It's really trending. So they're going to do a pop-up ice cream shop and they're going to play pickleball. So I'm going to be there to answer questions about protein. So I'm going there for two nights for an hour.
Speaker 1:Now, you know, last summer I did go to Iowa as Pickleball man and I was the comic relief for an entire pickleball. I'll show you the picture, but only when we're together and I'm not going to send it to you because it'll end up on this website and there's no chance in hell that I'm going to do that.
Speaker 2:By the way, you still have no bio on our website.
Speaker 1:I know I love that. I showed that to a friend of mine and they're like that's absolutely. You can't ever change that Again, because by the time I get it there I will have aged out, matt Pablo will be in. So we're just working up the Matt Pablo bio.
Speaker 2:Oh, my gosh For those of you. If you don't know who Matt Pablo is, I don't even know what to tell you.
Speaker 1:He's one of the newest part of our announcing teams and we like Matt a lot and he does a great job, though we're fairly certain that he tried to poison Riley and now we believe he is using self-actuating Mylar to drive Carissa over the edge.
Speaker 2:This may be the funniest. I think this is funny, and then it goes into Tracy, which I think is a funny episode, so this is a good giggle fest.
Speaker 1:This might be funny, all right, so let's see what else. So you're? Doing that that sounds really cool. By the way, that's really really neat.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I'm excited to do some long runs up there. It's a little cooler and like I'm gonna have downtime, which is nice. It's just because, logistically, I have to fly out in the morning of the day before the event, because you can't miss the event and flying into nantucket is a little bit so I'm going to miss. I'm just going to be on my own for a little bit. I'll be in the bounce house.
Speaker 1:There's a point in time where you will enjoy that oh.
Speaker 2:I do.
Speaker 1:I just can't say it out loud All parents know, all parents know you love being alone, but you don't say that, yeah, I didn't notice you that you were winking at me and crossing your fingers to miss them.
Speaker 2:so I will know that a week is a long time, so so what's the now?
Speaker 1:let me ask you this question, though why is it? Fly up, fly back, fly up, fly back? Why you just can't?
Speaker 2:because, theoretically, I speak, would speak, on tuesday and sunday, so they just instead of paying for the hotels up there I guess are expensive. It was better to fly me back, and that's nice. I'll get to see claire in the middle of the week and it's a great great area.
Speaker 1:You've been to Nantucket right.
Speaker 2:I have. I did Summer House several years ago for potatoes and I led a run, but if anybody, as you're, listening to this, I'm going to already be back, so don't give me any tips.
Speaker 1:None of this makes any sense whatsoever, as if anything any of this makes any sense, All right. So before we go, I do have to tell you, because we talk about our entertainment choices and you never have a chance to watch anything and I have nothing but time to do things I was going to watch Track.
Speaker 2:Don't need to do that now.
Speaker 1:No schedule. But I years ago tried Brooklyn Nine-Nine and it didn't speak to me. But now Jodi and I have given in to it. So now that's our thing, Now it's Brooklyn Nine-Nine.
Speaker 2:Well, I going to ask you in a different episode if you were watching the new season of Top Chef, because that is the one show that I will watch.
Speaker 1:I haven't watched Top Chef in years. I did for a number of years. But we've talked about television viewing. I have about five years of a series and then I'm like, okay, I'm going to move on to something else, but I should probably jump back into it because I always enjoyed it. It had nothing to do with not enjoying it, it was just after a while. You know, there were other things that we have so many streaming things now to watch. I know it's overwhelming. Maybe that's part of my issue.
Speaker 2:There's so much to watch. Yeah, I have that like paralysis of like. Well, I just I'll go do laundry.
Speaker 1:New season of the Bear coming up. Oh, the guy from the Bear is on this season of Top Chef.
Speaker 2:This is on this season of Top Chef. This is how this started in my head. Oh, wow All right, Because he's a chef right.
Speaker 1:What's that?
Speaker 2:He's a chef.
Speaker 1:The star of the bear or the creator, somebody from the?
Speaker 2:bear is a chef. There's not a chef. In the bear, there's not a restaurant.
Speaker 1:Maybe, one of the actors I don't think, jeremy.
Speaker 2:Allen White, I believe, is the name. Like we need to wrap this up.
Speaker 1:We'll check it out at a point, because we're going to talk about the bear once we get into it. Yes, we're going to get into.
Speaker 2:Tracy, we're going to thank our sponsors. Thank you, guys, for listening to the non-sense. This is what happens. We're not even drunk or anything. It's Sunday morning at 930. Speak for yourself. Speak for myself, okay, thanks you guys to this chat.
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Speaker 1:That's right and, as always, we want to thank Sarah Akers from Runs on Magic. Now, our good friend Sarah is a lover of Run Disney herself. Might see her out there on one of those weekends and she loves helping you plan those magical weekends. But that's not all. The world is your oyster with Sarah's help. What are you looking to do? Honeymoon getaway perhaps? Congratulations on your marriage and you should get in touch with Sarah. All-inclusive girl strip, Not a problem. Get in touch with Sarah. Family cruise Carissa you've just had a family cruise. You need to do that. Folks get in touch with Sarah or any sort of international adventure, which is what I had recently. So this is very timely for Sarah and she is here and at your service. She's incredibly helpful for these trips.
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Speaker 3:Okay, civilians, it's time for the goods. Let's get on to the interview.
Speaker 1:All right, tracy, welcome to 321GO the podcast, the Tracy Wu origin story version of it. I'm going to start this the way we start all of our podcasts how are you? And?
Speaker 3:let everyone know where are you.
Speaker 1:You actually listen.
Speaker 3:I do listen, I'm great, thank you. Super busy with work, but feeling good. I am in Winter Garden, florida, where I live, which is between you two's houses.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we could do a run to your house and then a run to John's house.
Speaker 3:And then jump in John's pool. Yeah, we could jump my pool's pretty good right now.
Speaker 1:You just have to be there for the pool part.
Speaker 2:John, you don't have to participate in the run.
Speaker 1:Oh, excellent. Hey, I'm in.
Speaker 3:As long as there's margaritas at the.
Speaker 1:Well, I'll need to get some tequila. I'm more of a scotch and bourbon man, but sure I'll bring it. I shall bring it. Run with it down the trail.
Speaker 2:Fantastic Good, this is going well. Okay, tracy, we in the words of Taylor Swift it's been a long time coming to get your origin story, but for people listening before we kind of learn about Tracy, can you tell us your Run Disney journey and your role with Run Disney now, for people who don't know you?
Speaker 3:Well, I have been blessed to be part of the hosting team since, I think, officially 2019. And then the world ended the year after, but scattered in there.
Speaker 1:We did blame you for that. We were like well, you know, we got Tracy involved and now look what happened.
Speaker 2:We blamed Matt Pablo for Riley's illness, his gastric issues, and Tracy was COVID.
Speaker 3:Lovely, that's just so racist. But anyway.
Speaker 2:Oh God, I didn't even think of that. Jeez, louise, See, I don't see color.
Speaker 1:Let me tell you something. We get Tracy's origin story. We're not sure where Tracy's from at this point. Well, that's a question she's from here, but she grew up here and went college here Come on.
Speaker 2:I'm so embarrassed.
Speaker 3:Sarcasm. That's the name of the game I start. I did my very first round Disney run in 2011. I actually had to look that up the other day. I did princess in 2011.
Speaker 2:A friend of mine did, I think, wine and dine was the first year of the year before, I think, or two years before I don't remember, a friend of mine did wine and dine the first one and I watched her.
Speaker 3:I was over by the boardwalk, I was watching her run. I got really inspired. I watched like till the last runners and I thought if they can do this, I can do this. So I said I would do this and then I did Princess 2011,. Got hooked, got did Disneyland that same year to get coast to coast. And then the year after I did Tinkerbell to get coast to coast. I did Disney hardcore for like three years and then I stopped because I just I did Star Wars and it was. It was a terrible run for me and I said I'm never doing this again. And then the next year they asked me to start hosting. So that was awesome.
Speaker 3:So I still get to be part of it and I still get to have fun, but I don't have to run.
Speaker 1:I wonder if that was part of the casting decision. Well, she stopped running. Now we can bring her on the full list. All right, before we get into the hosting stuff, yes, what was the prior to the running Tracy? What was the best part of the run Disney race and what was the worst? We're going to throw them both out there. What was the best part of running and the worst? And we know you're going to say having to get up so early to run a Disney race, because that really the logistics are kind of I actually didn't mind the getting up early as much.
Speaker 3:What I did mind was the running. I've never been an athlete. See, Tracy and I are on the same page.
Speaker 1:If without the running, it would be amazing. So what is it? We can all just get up early and hang together.
Speaker 3:It's so interesting because I've done nine halves and I've never once enjoyed it. I enjoy the end. But you know how people are like, oh, runner's high. Never in my life have I experienced a runner's high. I think one training run I was like, oh, this is cool, I think that's it.
Speaker 1:Lack of oxygen to your brain. It's actually Right.
Speaker 3:But I enjoyed the camaraderie, I enjoyed the people, I enjoyed running and watching the sunrise in the middle of Disney. I've always been a huge Disney fan, so that's the part I liked. I liked the people, I liked the costumes, I liked the sergeant who was forcing me to do push-ups, and I never did.
Speaker 2:But stuff like that I really enjoyed and you just had to go 13.1 miles to experience it all. Yeah, did you find benefits of your life? Did you find benefits of running when you were doing it, like mental or physical?
Speaker 3:A hundred percent.
Speaker 2:Definitely.
Speaker 3:I suffer from anxiety. Actually, I take medication for it and when I was running I actually stopped taking meds because I was more calm and a lot more. You know, I guess, whatever, what is it? Endorphins, Whatever that?
Speaker 2:goes through your brain. That's good for you.
Speaker 3:I know dietician, tell me what is it.
Speaker 2:Well, that's a different, you know. I mean endorphins are released from exercise. That's all what Elle Wood says. You know her defense of Legally Blonde, like happy people don't just kill people from the endorphins. So I think it's part of those mechanisms. You know, it's a little bit of a stress relief, I think.
Speaker 2:For me it takes my brain somewhere else from the usual stress because I have I don't I'm not diagnosed with anxiety, but I'm a very type, A high strung kind of person, and then after I run I feel like I've come down a few notches.
Speaker 3:Yes, and I and I did feel a lot more energetic when I was running. And you and I did feel a lot more energetic when I was running. And not to veer off the conversation, but I did start on my treadmill about three days ago. I'm walking every day now because I've gained a lot of weight since COVID, so I'm starting to get back in.
Speaker 2:Well, good, that's awesome and, by the way, your wall is beautiful. You have that little like geographic wall behind you.
Speaker 3:That happened during COVID, because I was bored and I thought what can I do?
Speaker 2:so I started painting.
Speaker 3:It looks very good. Not like riley like, not like paintings.
Speaker 1:I just painted walls I know he's displaying his work now. There'll be no living with him, frankly he's intolerable, not to give him too much love. Good lord all right, tracy, so I'm gonna show up in a beret with an eye patch. If he's very cigarette holder, hello everyone oh everyone, riley Claremont, man of the people.
Speaker 2:Okay, Well, before we bash Riley anymore which there's time for that, Tracy, we're going to go back to the beginning, as John alluded to. If you're comfortable, can you share a little bit about your background, where you grew up, your family, all that good stuff?
Speaker 3:I was born in Manila, philippines. I lived there till I was eight years old. From there, my family moved to Mexico, cuernavaca, mexico, right outside Mexico City. I lived there till I was 18. And then I moved to Boston for college and went to the Boston Conservatory of Music and I studied musical theater. And then I wanted to get my equity card and so I moved to Orlando when I was 24 and I got a job at Walt Disney World as a performer and I thought I'll stay three, four years, build up some credits and move to New York and go to Broadway. And 26, seven years later, I'm still here.
Speaker 1:That's all right. 34 years later and I'm still waiting for my Broadway debut.
Speaker 2:Mine's not Broadway, but I look at my watch like it's going to tell me how many years I've been here. So wait, you never lived in the US until you went to college. Yep, that is true, that is interesting. Did you know that, Jen? You didn't know that. I don't think I put that. I think I thought you were no.
Speaker 1:I did, I did, and I know she lived near Mexico City because I'm kind of obsessed with Mexico City pictures and stuff. I've seen at some place that I that I would like to go at some point. But I have to ask you this how, the musical theater performing thing, when did that happen? Did you decided that or did you just go on to college? Oh, this seems as somebody who knew I was a performer once said to me must be nice to have a job where you don't think.
Speaker 3:Right.
Speaker 1:Right.
Speaker 3:Sorry, no, I'm just saying what's your background?
Speaker 1:How did you get into performing?
Speaker 3:I went to a very, very small, all-girls private Catholic school for high school, which explains a lot of who I am today.
Speaker 1:It really does it really, really opens a door for me now?
Speaker 3:Yep, so we had theater and whatnot, whatnot, and I just, you know, did every theater performance. They were my class was tiny, excuse me, I have a question yeah, were these performances in english or spanish?
Speaker 3:both okay, overachiever yeah, um, but my school was like an international school so everyone had to be bilingual. But um I this is gonna sound so cheesy and cliche leah salonga, who was the lead in miss saigon when it first came to broadway, who was also the voice of aladdin or jasmine, and mulan, mulan singing also originated the role in london, so let's shout out to her.
Speaker 3:She originated the role period yep, leah salonga um foronga in the Philippines was a big pop star when I was growing up, so she was like a Britney Spears or whatever. So then when she ended up doing the show in London which was the first it came to London before Broadway everyone in the Philippines was like, oh my God, lea's doing this thing. So I ended up buying the tape, the cassette, for Miss Saigon and I remember listening to it from beginning to end and being so emotionally moved and that was I'd never really heard a musical before and I was just fascinated by it. And then we went to New York I think I was 14 or something and saw Grand Hotel on Broadway and I was just moved and I'm like this is what I want to do in my life. So I got a voice teacher, I think my sophomore or junior year in high school, and just started performing like crazy and then auditioned for Boss Conservatory and got in. So that was my journey into my Broadway life.
Speaker 1:Now I'm going to ask a question that none of our listeners want the answer to, but hell, it's my. Ostensibly 50 percent of this is my show, so I'm going to ask it anyway. Grand Hotel was playing on Broadway when I was in New York in January of 1991. And I saw City of Angels, which starred Tom Wopat from Dukes of Hazzard, and he was terrific. By the way, grand Hotel was then starring John Schneider from Dukes of Hazzard as well. They were both on Broadway blocks away. Did you see John Schneider in Grand Hotel?
Speaker 3:I don't know.
Speaker 1:I know Jane.
Speaker 3:Krakowski was in it.
Speaker 1:Well, fair.
Speaker 2:That might satisfy John.
Speaker 3:So I don't know. I just remember watching her and going holy cow. That's cool. I always watch the girls because that's the roles I want to play, so I don't pay attention to the boys as much, unless they have amazing hats.
Speaker 1:I very seldom enjoy a musical that has anyone that's my type in it, because I'm just going. Well, how'd they get there? Oh, hard work, john, and talent, I know, but other than that, how could I have gotten there?
Speaker 3:There had to have been a break someday. Mine's separate path, and I'll get there too Again. Positivity and negativity in one space.
Speaker 1:Ying and yang, and look, we're in the same place, except you have 45 jobs and I have none, just four.
Speaker 2:Tracy, how was your Boston? How was your experience in college?
Speaker 3:Honestly terrible. Very, very, very difficult, Because the weather in Boston was terrible.
Speaker 3:No, I love Boston. I love Boston to pieces. Boston conservatory is a very difficult. It's a very demanding, competitive school. I don't blame them. I don't think I was ready. I came from a very small town where I was the best of the best and then suddenly I'm in college with the best of the best and I was middle of the pack and I had a really hard time with it. There was a lot of competition. I wasn't mature enough to handle it and I actually left halfway through my junior year because I couldn't handle it. And looking back now, I wish I waited a year or two to go, because it was a great experience. I mean, the education was amazing, but I wasn't ready. So no, nothing against them, I just was too young to handle that pressure.
Speaker 2:I mean I think I identify with that. So no, nothing against them. I just was too young to handle that pressure. I mean I think I identify with that as well. Going, you know, I was. I was the kid that was 17 when I started college. So by the time I got out I was pretty young. I got hired at Disney very at what? 18 and a half or something.
Speaker 2:And then I went into sports broadcasting and I was doing sideline, which I always wanted to do, but I wasn't mature enough to handle the competitiveness. I grew up in a small town so I just retreated and when I wish I would have sought out mentors or had a guidance. So different stories, but also that kind of overwhelm, and we still ended up in places where we get to perform and we get to do these things, where you have that like, well, what if I just would have been a little tougher, stronger I don't know what the word is, but at that, john, did you have an experience similar to that? You were a Gumby of Gumby's something or another.
Speaker 1:Yeah, no, I mean, mine's a little different. But I can certainly understand the being too young, because I went for one semester at community college when I got out of high school and then I dropped out for about a year and worked and then went back part time because I was at 18. I always say this no one was stupider than me at 18. So I get it. I would not. Had I gone away to college, I'd have failed out. I have no doubt about it, because I just was not mature enough to put those things together and I wouldn't have been like Trace, in a high sort of high stress situation. I'd have been an English major in a college somewhere and you put a little bit of stress on yourself. But I get it, I completely get it, yep.
Speaker 3:Still waiting to make my Broadway debut. I'm just going to add this, which has nothing to do with anything, but while I was in college I worked on the Spirit of Boston, which is a dinner cruise ship. That was probably the first time I got paid to perform. And here's my little tidbit One of the musicians in the show. So we basically there's a show and then all the servers were singing, dancing and whatnot, but one of the musicians in the band was Alex Lacamore, who I'm sure you guys know.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 3:Musical director of.
Speaker 2:Hamilton.
Speaker 3:Lin-Manuel.
Speaker 1:And Alex and I.
Speaker 3:He was, guys know, yeah, musical director of Hamilton, lin-manuel, and Alex and I. He was in school at Berkeley. We became good friends because we worked together on the ship and I would pay him 10 bucks to run music for me, for auditions. And now he's freaking Alex Lacamore, yeah, with 11 million Tonys or whatever.
Speaker 1:The heck why did I not ask you for free tickets when I paid $750 a ticket to see Hamilton in Chicago? Here are things that we're going to work out a little bit later when you and I are face to face.
Speaker 2:See, I'm so glad we're having this origin story. We're learning so much about Tracy. I love it.
Speaker 3:There you go. See, I don't talk about myself as much I'd like to, so let me tell you about me.
Speaker 2:This start line interview will be me interviewing me.
Speaker 3:It's hard to talk when John and Riley are arguing about politics. So, or World War III history.
Speaker 1:You guys always do have a moment of oh wait, did Weston's delivering coffee?
Speaker 2:Can you read it, Tracy Cambridge?
Speaker 3:Home of Harvard and MIT.
Speaker 2:We lived in Cambridge like right on the edge. Tracy Cambridge, home of Harvard and MIT. We lived in Cambridge like right on the edge.
Speaker 3:I like Cambridge.
Speaker 1:I have an MIT thing, but we just don't have time for it, so we'll skip that and jump straight to Carissa's next question, which I'm going to take. You said what your first paid role was. But what was your first paid role? You said you got a job at Disney. What was your first paid equity role at Disney?
Speaker 3:I was in the original cast of who Wants to Be a Millionaire. Play it which we opened in 2001.
Speaker 3:That was my first equity job. So I moved to Orlando, was bartending downtown and then it was my first audition for Disney, which is actually a funny story, because I auditioned for Disney as a singer and then I got called back for the Pocahontas show at Animal Kingdom and then they measured me and told me I was too short. And I'm still bitter because there's no other people on stage except for a tree and a twig. So I was kind of bitter. But in my callback they said, oh, you speak Spanish. And I said yeah, and they're like why don't you go into this audition for Millionaire? And I'm like to do what? And they're like hosting. And I'm like I'm not a host, I'm a singer, um, so I went in, they gave me sides and then I went in and they're like can you do it in Spanish? I'm like sure, and then I got the job and I didn't even get a call back.
Speaker 1:By the way, I was at those auditions. Did not get a call, did.
Speaker 2:I couldn't get a.
Speaker 1:I could never get a call back from a Disney casting director. Still couldn't today if I went in and auditioned for something. None of them. None of them, I think I was super lucky because they all hate me.
Speaker 3:Being in the original cast and I was there. There were six of us and three of the people there Dennis Marsico, who I'm sure people remember from Run Disney fame. Dennis Marsico, don Lampkin and Kevin Broussard were like OG Disney performers and those are the guys that mentored me. I was 24 years old and I credit a lot of my career to them because they they taught me how to be professional. They taught me, you know, how to swing with things when things didn't work out. So I thank them a lot for my career. But from there, let's see, I did that show full time and then I got.
Speaker 1:I've worked with all of them and I have nothing good to say about any of them. I just want to slip that in. Just want to slip it in in case I consider them close personal friends. Don't have anything nice such a liar um.
Speaker 3:And then I did Playhouse Disney live on stage which is now Disney Junior. I believe I had a split contract there. And then I did the luau. I danced at the luau for a little bit left. Disney came back, came back, opened Lights Motors Actions original cast as well and then quit the company full time but then learned Finding Nemo the musical as a sub and then also did holidays around the world in Japan. I was a Japanese storyteller and that's about it. I think those are all my full time gigs over there.
Speaker 2:Were you a Disney fan before coming to Disney or was it sort of like the way to get the equity card? Both think those are all my full-time gigs over there. Were you a disney fan before coming to disney or was it sort of like the way to get the equity card?
Speaker 3:both. Um, I love disney. I freaking love disney. I grew up, you know, during the beauty and the beast, little mermaid days and oh, okay, I'm going back to cheesy. The one of the reasons I became an actor is because of the Mickey Mouse Club that was on a lot of people, but like that was we identified with those, those people.
Speaker 3:Man, what a cast um, so that, and not like the Britney Spears, justin Timberlake's. They were like seventh season, og season. I remember watching the very first show. I taped every show. I would follow their choreography. But the big deal about that show is there was a girl there who was Filipino. Her name's Didi Magno. She actually ended up on Broadway in Miss Saigon Wicked a bunch of other shows. She was the first person I saw on TV that looked like me and I thought, well, if I could do that show, that would be awesome. But I lived in Mexico so none of the auditions were there. But I always was like, oh my God, I want to work at Disney MGM Studios. So the coolest thing is, when I got the job at Millionaire, our soundstage was the same soundstage that Mickey Mouse Club was on, so that was a full circle moment for me and I thought I've made it yeah.
Speaker 3:And I had a poster of Britney Spears in the back.
Speaker 1:So when I would do my makeup, I would see her and go look at her now.
Speaker 3:This was before she went psycho and I'm like I could be like her. She was pushed into it.
Speaker 2:Oh, I read her book. She definitely got pushed into it. John has the next question, but I just want to say something real quick because you've said it twice and I think it's worth mentioning and reminding people that, like representation matters, like you have said like. I saw this like it is so important for us to continue to make sure that everybody is represented, so every little kid, no matter where they want to dream or what they want to see, that they see it makes a difference.
Speaker 1:I agree, agree, absolutely, you guys actually have questions written out and stuff.
Speaker 3:I have some stuff written out it keeps us on track.
Speaker 1:Okay, honestly, because we'll just go off on a.
Speaker 2:We talk to each other sometimes during it.
Speaker 1:I listened to the entire Boston album the debut album, and Tom Scholz, their guitar player, went to MIT, which is in Cambridge, and so I finally got it in. So there it was All right. All the roles that you've mentioned. What was your favorites? Lights Motors Exposition, as we used to call that show, because there's a lot of talking in that show. What was your favorite role that you played? Run Disney race race, notwithstanding race announcer stuff, take that out. Your favorite role you've done.
Speaker 3:I think millionaire because, one, it was my first job.
Speaker 1:Two, we were in air conditioning and we got to go shopping for our clothes, so I had like designer suits that used to be an old school thing at Disney, because I go back, because I'm so much older than everybody else. I also auditioned for Monster Sound and Superstar Television. Didn't get either of those either, but they got to pick out all of their clothing as well. That does not happen now.
Speaker 3:I had designer suits and I'm sitting in a chair in air conditioning and then when I did LMA, I was like are you kidding?
Speaker 1:I'm sweating my butt off A lot of talking in that show.
Speaker 3:I showered like four times a day and I would come home and I'd have like tire dust in my nose. So, millionaire, but I think, fun wise wow, that's not proper English, luau because it was the closest to a musical so I got to sing and dance. Singing is my first love, so I got to sing and dance and I miss that.
Speaker 2:Well, I don't. This is the I'm skipping. I have a question next, but I'm going to ask this follow up Are you singing today? Like, are you? Is this a thing? Like, did it? Just because I want your dreams to come true, john got to sing on the cruise ship with a broadway star and winter garden theater. So when are we gonna see tracy woo sing um that?
Speaker 3:is a big no, I do not sing anymore. It's really sad, ursula, take your voice. My voice is not where it used to be. Um, I believe a voice is just like any muscles, just like running if you keep training, it stays there, but if you stop training, it's gone. And I haven't sang. I don't even sing in the shower anymore. Um, the last musical I did was Avenue Q at Mad Cow. May they rest in in peace. I don't know, 10 years ago and that's it. I remember that.
Speaker 1:I remember you because you kind of bailed them out. Right, that's usually my thing I parachute in when no other actor is available to do a show because, as we discussed, no casting director will ever cast me otherwise. But you kind of bailed them out at Mad Cow with that.
Speaker 3:The show extended and the person playing the role had a trip to Europe, so I got in there. So, yeah, I miss it, I miss it a lot, but honestly, I'm old, I'm not. I can't do, you know, eight shows a week anymore. And as much as like community theater would be awesome, I have four other jobs and to do community theater for $300 for a whole run is a waste of time.
Speaker 1:Some of them pay a little better than that. I just want to show them Okay, $500. Better, but again, you know.
Speaker 3:I just can't.
Speaker 2:I can't afford to do that. Four drinks at Pilar's $500. John spent all of his money from his show at Pilar's.
Speaker 1:There you go. I really did. I was on David. I surrounded my friend David Lowe, who got me the Great Stones ticket a few days ago. I was kind of on his tab most of the time but yeah, absolutely alright.
Speaker 2:I love to ask people who have worked at Disney this do you have any fun like celebrity moments that you got to experience that you can legally share?
Speaker 3:there were so many, so many Tiger Woods before he did bad things. Where was that? In his way, oh god. This was at Millionaire. I don't remember 2002, 2001. That was really cool because my dad's a big golfer, so being able to see one of my dad's heroes was really cool. Super Soap Weekend I hosted that because we did like shows within Super Soap Weekend at millionaire. So there was about Ava LaRue, who's now on, or she was on CSI Miami One of those. That was really cool.
Speaker 3:Um, obviously, I met Regis. That was probably the best. Regis was probably my favorite, cause we went to New York before the show opened and they put us on the show and then, when he came back to Orlando, he kept calling me Pocahontas, cause he would be like how are you playing me? And I'm like I'm not. I auditioned for Pocahontas, but one day I went to Magic Kingdom they were doing live with Regis and Kathy Lee, or it was either him or I don't know if it was Kathy Lee or what's her name Kelly, I'm dating myself but I was walking down Main Street and he was on stage and they were on break and he saw me and he actually went. Hey, it's boca janez, and he remembered me, which was super sweet. Um, but yeah, I've met a lot of great people there, a lot of damn good people, but never met a backstreet boy at disney. I wish I did joey fatone is.
Speaker 2:Our own, is the closest we've gotten and he has said he's not running any more races, so maroon five was there on.
Speaker 3:Wednesday At Disney. Yeah, they played a private concert for some convention and I was like I'll go to the convention and Mark Daniels, of course, hosted it and I'm like, oh, what I would have done for that, because I would marry Adam Levine tomorrow.
Speaker 1:Anyway, I'd just like to shout out to my good friend, mick Jagger, who humorously misidentified Joey Fatone as Joey Fatone during the Stone Show and mentioned and said he was a backstreet boy. Doing it for funny, for a funny reason. It was humorous, it was very, very, very funny and I used to work with Joey, so I'm allowed to shout out to him as well. All right, moving ahead, you do the television and film work. I notoriously hate the television and film work, but you do a good amount of that and in fact you were on the ABC TV. For those people who have cable and watch network these days, explain, explain what, explain what you did and what show you were on and all that crap. That's not the question I wrote, by the way.
Speaker 2:It does say ask about acting. So I guess like maybe I do need to script his questions better.
Speaker 3:Thank you.
Speaker 1:I don't. I watch nothing but World War II and Kennedy assassination documentaries, so I don't know what television shows are on.
Speaker 2:Okay, I guess I'll ask the question then, jackie, were you on?
Speaker 1:Hogan's Heroes Were you on the Brady Bunch.
Speaker 2:I don't know anything. So, tracy, at some point you shifted to film and TV acting. How? Did that shift happen and tell us some of your recent highlights.
Speaker 1:This is why Carissa gets more work than me. Thank you, Carissa.
Speaker 3:I kind of knew what John was going for.
Speaker 2:I know you did.
Speaker 3:But I wanted to be doing crap about it because I'm like that's so vague bro.
Speaker 2:Usually he asks like seven questions at once sometimes. So oh, I'm going to have to pay for this later.
Speaker 1:It's like a Walt Disney movie. Sure, we're all waiting for Baited Breath with the new Healthier you Wow.
Speaker 2:Hey, we're going to talk about protein. John, Listen up.
Speaker 1:Band equivalent of we're going to play a song off our new album. Okay, it's not Healthier you. Sorry, I'm working through some things here.
Speaker 3:I take advice from Healthier you.
Speaker 1:I I'm working through some things here. I take advice from healthier you, I should.
Speaker 3:I don't pay for it because I don't have that kind of money. Hint, hint.
Speaker 1:You have 60 jobs, 62 jobs 45.
Speaker 3:Yeah, but I need to go to Europe once a year.
Speaker 1:Okay, all right. Can we get back to talking about at least one of these acting jobs?
Speaker 2:I have two tickets for Taylor Swift London. Just throw that out there.
Speaker 3:You know I'm down, what's it called? So years ago these agents came into a equity, like they did a panel, and so I got signed by this agent, melanie Hurt, who now does not do anything, and I signed with her and I was like I don't really want to do TV. And then I got like my first commercial and I made 500 bucks and I was on set for like 10 minutes and I was like, oh, I'll do this, no problem. So then I started taking film acting classes at Class Act Studios in Orlando and then I just started auditioning and the most recent gig I did was Will Trent on ABC season two, episode two. I played a nurse. I played a nurse a lot Prior to that. What was my most recent gig? Queen of the South. That was on usa, also owned by the walt disney company you were on homeland, right?
Speaker 2:am I making that up?
Speaker 3:yep, no, I did homeland years ago playing a nurse three. I did not. I played a um a person at a cuckoo cuckoo facility, so kind of nursey you mean, you mean at a mental health facility, thank you.
Speaker 1:Do you mean at a mental, a cuckoo facility, and we give you a live microphone to speak to people? Hey, so I hear you did some time in a cuckoo facility. What's up there, nut job?
Speaker 3:This is probably the most non-PC episode you guys are going to have, and I apologize.
Speaker 1:Well, I think DW laid it out better. You know as to our positions, if people didn't see it in the Run Disney family that Carissa and I are apparently the parents, which is disturbing. On so many levels that I should be someone's parent. And then Riley is, you know, the big brother or the uncle who's a hail fellow, well met, and you're the crazy cousin that shows up a little tipsy to Thanksgiving and maybe does a lot of inappropriate things, but in the end you're what we remember.
Speaker 3:Yes, that is the perfect description.
Speaker 2:Cousin Eddie in National Lampoons.
Speaker 3:I mean, someone's got to be the crazy one.
Speaker 2:Where were we? We've lost Homeland, yep Homeland.
Speaker 3:I left Carrie out of the mental facility In. Where were we? We've lost Homeland, Yep Homeland.
Speaker 2:So for people who I left Carrie out of the mental facility In the cuckoo's nest, people who don't know. Can you not everybody has familiarity like we do with audition process and everything Can you kind of give us like a synopsis of like from your agent contacting you to being on Will Trent, like what was that process? Like, like what is?
Speaker 1:that process like you have to self-tape and all that weird stuff.
Speaker 3:Now I know people might not know this like not everybody auditions for things so so I'll go back a little. A casting director will put out a casting and say I need, you know, female, 30s to 50s, whatever type for such role. They describe the role. The agent then sends who they think it is that they want. So. So a cast and director can get 500 submissions. From those 500 submissions the cast and director says I want these 30 people to read. So now, once you've, that's when I get it. So then I get an audition request. So by the time you get an audition request, you should be really happy because you've already been narrowed down out of however many people. So when you get the audition request, they send you the sides, which is the words whatever for the script.
Speaker 3:You tape it. I either go to the studio where I study or I do it in my house. I have a self-tape in my house and I put it online through this service. They get it and then they either say yay or no or nay, or sometimes you get a call back where you have to do a zoom audition with them. Sometimes you get a call back in person, which used to happen a lot pre-pandemic. Grateful that doesn't happen anymore because I've driven at atlanta eight million times for nothing. So yeah, so will trent. I submitted a tape and then a couple weeks later I get a call and it says can you be in atlanta in four days? I'm like abso-freaking-lutely. And you go, you tape, they put you up half the time, the other half of the time they don't, depending on the budget of the project. And then you go home and then you tell all your friends that you're going to be in it and hope you don't get cut.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 3:You can get cut. I was on Vampire Diaries. I got cut. Had all my friends for a viewing party, didn't make the cut.
Speaker 2:Because you don't know you got cut. Yeah.
Speaker 3:Right, so yeah, so that's one of my four jobs and it's the one I love the most.
Speaker 1:All right, I have so many thoughts and so many arguments to have with you about all of that, but we're going to move on. All right, we're going to move on. Relax. You mentioned it. We mentioned it earlier. You were a runner. We mentioned it earlier. You were a runner, Running. Today you said you sort of inched back into it. Yes, Talk about that, and have you set any goals for yourself? Because you know they made me run. We've seen that we're now doing everything we can to badger Riley into running. So you know, unless Matt Pablo gets slotted in there and frankly he's a little too new to get a free run You're on deck. You were maybe not.
Speaker 3:You're not on deck, You're in the hole. So what's your goal with the running? Personally, my goal right now is to just get back into shape. Covid really ruined me physically and mentally. I had lost 40 pounds before COVID, kept it off for four years and then I gained most of it back after COVID. And I work from home now, so it's exhausting and I sit at this desk where I am 90% of the time. So I just really want to get healthy again. I want to have more energy. I want to be in a physical place where I am happy with myself. I don't I'm not about, I don't care about my weight, I don't care about that, but I feel I just feel unhealthy. So I just want to feel healthy again and try to fit in my clothes better and and that's it, and not crave crappy food all the time, because I'm also getting older. So I care about my health to an extent. So that's my goal. I don't really have a goal of completing a race again or whatnot.
Speaker 1:Come on, 10 miler next spring.
Speaker 3:The thing is I'll not not to diminish what you've done, but I think once you've done it, you know you can do it. So I know I can do it. Um, I actually tried to sign up for Disneyland and I didn't get in except for the 5K and I'm like not spending all that money to rent a 5K in California. But would I do a half again? Absolutely, is it a goal? No, but if Run Disney decides to give me a half for free, absolutely I'll do it.
Speaker 1:Well, good luck with that.
Speaker 3:But I don't think I've never done a half outside of Run Disney. I've done 10Ks and whatnot outside of it and it is just not the same. It's not as fun. You really have to be focused. I like looking at characters and having fun with people and singing and dancing.
Speaker 1:Well, you're invited to come down and do St Pete Run Fest with us the week after Wine and Dine, because that's kind of a fun run that you might enjoy.
Speaker 3:Just throwing that out there. How far of a race.
Speaker 1:Well, they have a 5K, a 10K and a half marathon.
Speaker 3:Oh, I'm writing that down, maybe.
Speaker 1:I'm wrong, are you?
Speaker 3:signing.
Speaker 2:I'm doing that. I want to do the half.
Speaker 1:Well, play your cards right, We'll see, because you know.
Speaker 2:If I cut healthier you today, can I do it? Will that make you happy?
Speaker 1:I want healthier you to be about dark spirits. I want you to talk about which bourbons and scotches are better for your health.
Speaker 2:And then we will discuss these. I will do that in the next episode we tape, but I've already written this one, so we're going to stick to what I've written.
Speaker 1:Fair enough, all right, we got rapid fire questions for Trace Bing bong, bing.
Speaker 2:All right, All right rapid fire questions.
Speaker 1:I get the first one Best run Disney, favorite run Disney weekend.
Speaker 3:Princess.
Speaker 2:Favorite costume.
Speaker 3:That I've worn. Yes, te Fiti.
Speaker 1:Least favorite costume. We know this one.
Speaker 3:The goat.
Speaker 2:The goat yeah, she was not happy.
Speaker 3:What was the name of?
Speaker 2:that goat Was it from?
Speaker 3:Hunchback. Yeah, jolly, right, jolly from Hunchback. You were not happy? Nope, yeah, she was not. What was the name?
Speaker 1:of that goat was it from hunchback. Yeah, jolly right, jolly from hunchback you were not happy nope zero you were never a pork, but you're joining you loved the pork costume because it was a onesie until somebody recommend well, no, I'm not sure the pork was a one. And then somebody reminded me the pork was literally lunch. And, as always, I am the. I'm like the creature, the character. Yes, pua, that was better. I'm the character that generally gets killed early in the film.
Speaker 2:Yes, Porg was Star Wars days, but they both started with a P.
Speaker 1:I've said it a thousand times. I'm surprised I haven't been Bambi's mom yet, so all right.
Speaker 3:There's just a costume for that. I've never cried so part of my life until when I saw that movie.
Speaker 2:All right, tracy a warm race or a chilly race.
Speaker 3:Chilly gosh, no question, Warm is gross.
Speaker 1:That's pretty. Yeah, that's pretty consistent. All right, favorite co-host, and you cannot say Matt Pablo.
Speaker 3:That doesn't really. I can't answer that. Answer the question. Because I don't really co-host. I'm alone half the time.
Speaker 2:Favorite one of us. You have to pick me, john or Riley. Oh God.
Speaker 3:I'm going to say Riley, then Carissa, then John Saying, I could slot you in to say who's the best. John got ranked last. He was not Riley Carissa, then John.
Speaker 1:Fair enough. That's how I actually I would have just picked Riley because he's not here.
Speaker 2:So that would have been like the buffer you just say Riley because he's not here.
Speaker 3:You know how just Riley has that energy of just super happy and just is always like so great to see you, at least when you first see him.
Speaker 1:The first weekend. No, no, no, really, when I first see him.
Speaker 3:He gives me the biggest hug and he's just like it's so great to see you How's life and hug, and he's just like it's so great to see you How's life. And you know he's like honest and not just trying to make convo and he's just like I really hope you're doing. Well, you don't get that, I get that.
Speaker 2:I get that. Yeah, no, I get that. I understand. I don't personally get that. Like I understand that I don't give up, I get that.
Speaker 1:I mean, I don't personally get that, I have not experienced that. I have not experienced that, but I get that.
Speaker 2:I have like resting bitch face. I'm like hello and like that's my warmest greeting. You're going to get it just doesn't.
Speaker 3:I just have you met my mom. Riley is a warm hug. He is a warm hug.
Speaker 2:He is a warm hug and he knows me like to be touched. No people touch. Okay, all right. Thanks for not saying matt pablo. Do you want to comment on matt pablo? Because I feel like you and him do have a nice connection I do love me some matt pablo.
Speaker 3:I think he, his energy is contagious. It's a little scary because I don't know how he has that much energy that early in the morning. I have that energy once the camera's on but yes agree, I like save it till the camera's on that guy I don't know. Last race he came from another gig in Tampa.
Speaker 2:And why is everybody's other gigs always in Tampa the night before a race?
Speaker 3:Yeah, who knows? But like he's like jumping around and being all happy, I'm like bro, you don't have to be on yet. That's the only part that I'm like are you real? Are you, you know? Are you an android? Like what's going on.
Speaker 2:He's just happy because he's poisoned Riley's coffee and he's waiting to see what happens.
Speaker 3:Right, but I do love me some, matt Pablo.
Speaker 2:I also think, going back to representation, it's kind of nice having a fellow Filipino-Asian with me. Well, now you have Jamia as well. She's never been with us with us, but she has. Yeah, it's fun to be like, oh, people like me. She has enjoyed this.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it's fun to be like oh, people like me. Not that you guys ever made me feel unlike me, but you know what I?
Speaker 2:mean, except for the coronavirus joke that I made earlier.
Speaker 3:That yeah.
Speaker 2:Go back to.
Speaker 3:Asia. I heard that a lot.
Speaker 1:Wow, all right, you know what? I'll back you up on it.
Speaker 2:That's ridiculous. I know I'm sorry.
Speaker 3:I wasn't. I made the joke. You didn't make the joke. You do?
Speaker 1:I made the joke.
Speaker 3:Well, I kind of, and I'm allowed to because I'm Asian.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you set it up. You said, hey, I but you set it up. You said we ran in 2019. I got the gig and then 2020, everything shut down. So it's just a cause effect. They fuck people. I am following as they occurred.
Speaker 2:All right, this is the slowest rapid fire in the history of life, that's okay, favorite athlete interview you've ever done.
Speaker 3:Holy cow Athlete.
Speaker 2:I mean you do so, tracy, in your role at Disney. You interview people before the show. Oh, at.
Speaker 3:Disney.
Speaker 2:Yeah, those are athletes.
Speaker 3:Okay, sorry, I was thinking like I mean, I've interviewed Tiger Woods, I've interviewed Brock, so I was just like what? What's his name? Michael Michael. Gabriel, the guy who dresses as a tree, no, the guy who dresses as a tree. Oh, mike, bersali, bersali.
Speaker 2:Yes.
Speaker 3:I think probably him.
Speaker 2:Cause he cause he looks good or he's well-spoken, Well, one he looks good.
Speaker 3:He's also very well-spoken and it's just easy Like he, I, it's just easy.
Speaker 2:I'm going to go technical, but he understands getting the Sound bite Gosh, I'm not awake that your job is to do an interview and the people that offer to be interviewed and answer in one word is not ideal.
Speaker 3:He gets what we're trying to do. He gives me exactly what I need and he does it well. He's not going for five minutes.
Speaker 2:Today's his wife Mindy's birthday right now, oh, happy birthday, mindy.
Speaker 1:John, yes, Dozen jokes I couldn't do during that. What Tracy just said Go back and listen to that. We're going to skip ahead here. No go back and listen to it, trace what you just said. It's like can I quote you on that, because we slot that in and that could be a D-shirt Race morning.
Speaker 2:Breakfast oh my God, I can't. Now I just see a shirt with, like, Mike Brasselli and then Tracy's quote under it, and it's just not good. I know, I'm telling you, I'm telling you, all right.
Speaker 1:Let's get this something more tasteful. This is exactly what we wanted from this. This is so much fun.
Speaker 2:Do we just call this episode Tracy Woo the crazy cousin? Is that what we call it? It's really not her. We're saying the inappropriate things, though, john.
Speaker 1:I know, I know. By the way, there's some runner with 0% body fat running by my house right now just mocking me All right Race morning breakfast. What do you have to do to get going?
Speaker 3:Do I have to answer this question truthfully? Because I'd rather not.
Speaker 2:That's why I gave this question to John. No, you don't. No, this is.
Speaker 3:Two cups of coffee and then I go for a walk away from everybody. Yep, insert whatever you want to insert there, but I'm not.
Speaker 1:To be kind, think of Tracy as a 1950s baseball player. There you go, it'll all work out.
Speaker 2:Okay, all right. Final rapid fire question your favorite Disney snack.
Speaker 3:Dole Whip.
Speaker 2:With rum.
Speaker 3:Good job, but with rum.
Speaker 1:Okay, of course.
Speaker 3:You have survived rapid fire.
Speaker 1:You can get them another way. Come on, that seems wrong.
Speaker 3:You can get them with no booze For children.
Speaker 1:Here's our closing questions. We ask everybody these closing questions whether they're relevant or not, but this is relevant. When you get to a difficult place in a workout, in a performance rehearsal situation, you know what do you do to motivate yourself.
Speaker 3:A couple of things in life when I don't, when I can't do something. Something I learned when I was training for the luau actually was stop I don't a stage manager or whatever told me this stop saying you can't say I haven't learned it yet. And I've kept that a lot. So when things are difficult, I'm like I just haven't learned it yet. And the other thing is like, actually the other day, when I was on the treadmill on a five incline, I was miserable and it was the first time I did it in a long time. I kept saying I can't do this, I can't do this and I want to stop.
Speaker 3:And actually, Carissa, I give you kudos for this, because I kept remembering the things you always say, which is, we should be grateful that today we get to do this, because I might not be able to do this eventually and, as much as it sucked and it hurt, I pushed through because I'm like I can do this today and there are people who can't, and I'm going to take advantage of that moment and I'm going to do it. And I actually, by the time I was done, I was like heck, yeah, I did it. And I felt really great for the rest of the day. Yeah, it's just a patch.
Speaker 2:Sometimes we have to get through the bad patch. Right, we just got to get through that, get over it until we want to tell everybody the whole day what we did. Runner's high right like that's the high of the accomplishment.
Speaker 3:So I just don't like sweating. Sweating is so uncomfortable. I like being clean and not sticky. There you go these t-shirts just write themselves but you know, I put the fan on, I put the ac at like 60, I watch tv and I get on the treadmill.
Speaker 1:Oh, man, can I ask this question? We're gonna jump out of the question because I want to know this, because there's been a debate online your thermostat during the day? I'm at home most of the time because I don't have work. You're at home most of the time because you work. What do you set your thermostat at?
Speaker 3:73. In the daytime I also have solar, so my bill is the same every month.
Speaker 1:Okay, All right, Because we set ours at 78 and somebody goes oh my God, you're living in a slump and it just doesn't feel that way.
Speaker 3:Mine's 77,. John Pre-Solar was 78, but now it's 73.
Speaker 2:I'm 77 in the day.
Speaker 3:So I'm there with you.
Speaker 1:Good argument for Solar right there, I know.
Speaker 2:There you go. All right, this is fun. It All right, this is fun. It's my turn. I'm sorry, it's my turn. So you get to see a lot of great things at the finish line Also, as an athlete too.
Speaker 3:What was the most inspiring moment you've seen or been a part of at a race? God, there's so many, I don't think I can name one. I think it's just from the people, some of the. The proper word is it disabled athletes? Is that?
Speaker 3:athletes disabilities uh athletes with disabilities um, like those who are missing a limb or whatnot. That's fascinating to me and just wow, touching to the people who have survived. You know, going through cancer or whatever, in that moment, all that fascinates me. But also, you know, going through cancer or whatever, in that moment, all that fascinates me. But also, you know the 65 year old grandma who's never ran in her life and promised her granddaughter she would do it and walk the whole thing and struggled. Like it's all inspiring, and I really think that that's what makes Disney so beautiful is everyone is so supportive of each other, whatever their motivation is, and I always say, whether or not you have a thing that you're going through, you don't necessarily need to have a thing that you're going through. Running is not easy. Whether you've done 10 marathons or one, it's still hard. I mean, I'm sure, right, carissa? I mean you run all the time, but I'm sure it's still hard, you're not going out there going dude, I'm going to go to the pool and hang out Like it's hard.
Speaker 2:It is hard. There's always hard patches, but there's good patches too, like I was just thinking. This morning I actually had a great run, but that's the rarity, right. Most days it's hard and you struggle, but you learn something a I'm a mom. I have multiple jobs, like you like. No, this is your time. You get to do this selfishly for you. You don't need to look at your email, you don't need to worry about clothes, you don't. You get to do this, so take in and enjoy that you can that it's hard and all that kind of stuff.
Speaker 2:So, no, I think the running community. I miss it in the summertime of what we can do and then the people we get to see, like stephanie, these journeys through a year um are cool and they're fun and we miss you run disney friends, we'll save our inappropriate jokes. They'll still be there in november if we're there if we have. I know this is the time of the year where every time we talk about next season, we have to pause and then say if we're there don't know.
Speaker 1:No, no, we'll. We'll get back with you in august, folks, and let you know, because that's generally when we find out all right taken over by two new people.
Speaker 2:They'll just be john, we'll just. It just won't be our podcast anymore. Like we don't get hired back next year. Just there's just a day the podcast comes out. It's like not us, yeah, it should just be matt, pablo and jamia, that's right, just give it a.
Speaker 1:give it a uh, a second life. God knows All right. People want to follow you, tracy. They want to find out about your career, what's going on, what one of the four jobs you're working, when you might be a Pilar's bartender so that you can double pour for me, as you probably should. How do they follow you when?
Speaker 3:I'm at Tracy Boo, t-r-a-c-y-w-i-u. Mostly Instagram Twitter. Mostly Instagram Twitter. If you've tried to friend me on Facebook, I apologize if I said no. I just don't like adding people on Facebook who I'm not friends with. But yeah, twitter, instagram. Don't really do the TikToks. I try I'm too old for the TikToks but a lot of Instagram and Twitter. I do a lot of political stuff, so don't go there. People put up with mine, so you know.
Speaker 1:I do a lot of political stuff, so don't go there Unless you want to People put up with mine, so you know how I am, but for anyone living in Winter Garden.
Speaker 3:I bartend Saturday and Sundays at Pilar's Martini in downtown Winter Garden Come get a double pour.
Speaker 2:Say run. Disney, get a double pour. But also we'll say there's two Asian women that work there, right? One is Tracy, one is not. One is tall and one is not.
Speaker 3:One is tall and one is not. And they kept calling Becca who's the tall one. They kept calling her Tracy last Friday and she was not happy. Or they'll ask her how her auditions are going. And then they ask me how my kid's going and I'm like I don't have a kid. So there you go.
Speaker 2:It's going fine, all right. Well, tracy, thank you so much. This was a pleasure. We will keep up with you. And, as always, we hope to see you next year. And we walked by Polar's on Monday. Weston and I do the Monday dates because Saturday, sunday, but we enjoy our times with you there at Polar's, I think. Thank you.
Speaker 3:I enjoy my time with you. We should go to Tony's again.
Speaker 2:That's right, tony's, and play Taylor Swift and do darts.
Speaker 3:We can all go on the golf cart now.
Speaker 1:We can all go on the golf cart to.
Speaker 2:Tony's, that's what you want to do for your 60th birthday. Why I just know I was thinking why, why?
Speaker 1:Yes, my 60th birthday is July 2nd people. So there it is.
Speaker 3:Are we?
Speaker 2:having a party.
Speaker 1:No, he says no, I say yes, he says no.
Speaker 2:No, absolutely not, why can't?
Speaker 1:can have a party I actually have to attend.
Speaker 2:Why would you come to my home for a party with Tracy?
Speaker 1:I don't want a birthday party ever.
Speaker 2:What if it's not a birthday party? What if it's a birthday party for America?
Speaker 1:Well, my wife's birthday is the 4th, so if you want to throw a party for her, then that's perfectly fine, though we are working the peer run in St Pete on the 4th of July.
Speaker 2:So if you really want to come and sweatshirt.
Speaker 1:You know what's off. That'd be the time to do it.
Speaker 2:We'll find a date for a party.
Speaker 1:Alright, alright, trace, thanks.
Speaker 2:Thanks, Tracy. It's time for Healthier you, John.
Speaker 1:Alright athletes.
Speaker 2:Here's the drill Time to shape up your diet. Harissa, give them the goods. Okay, it is time for Healthier you. John, we're going to talk about protein. Do you like protein?
Speaker 1:Yeah, probably too much. Probably, you know, a little too drawn to the. Well, yeah, you know the meat, the animal proteins and stuff that I should probably limit a little more.
Speaker 2:I got you, yeah, so protein, there's a lot that goes on with it. It's picking ones that are better for you. But also like why do we need protein? And I think if we look at macronutrients, which are carbohydrates, fat and protein, protein is almost the least vilified, because carbs, bad fat, bad Protein is kind of like oh, you're dieting, eat more protein, do you agree?
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, you do get that a lot.
Speaker 2:Yeah. So protein very important. It contributes to a lot of aspects of bodily function, muscle growth and repair. So that's why we say after a workout you need the protein. It supports metabolically because when you eat protein and it's not a big increase but it's like a 10% increase in how many calories you burn trying to digest it. So it boosts your metabolic rate ever so slightly. But it also boosts satiety. So while eating carbs alone will spike your blood sugar and cause you to crave more carbs, eating protein gives you steady blood sugar, which is going to help you feel full or longer, which for anybody trying to control calories, reduce cravings. That's important For women.
Speaker 2:Adequate protein this is for everybody, but really for women. Adequate protein helps with bone density, so a lower risk of osteoporosis and fractures. So as our women get menopausal which some reason we talk about that a lot there's always a menopause mention here, not just because of your lovely wife, but protein is important. So we wanna make sure that Jodi's getting enough calcium and protein. Hormone regulation for everybody. Proteins and enzyme that helps with that immune function. Proteins are essential for production of antibodies, so we need that as well. It helps with enzyme and neurotransmitter production, cell repair and maintenance, skin health, energy, all of this kind of stuff. So protein is really important. So to know your base protein needs, john, take your weight, divide it by 2.2. That will be your weight in kilograms and then multiply that by 0.8. That's going to be your low ceiling of okay.
Speaker 2:People sometimes say I don't think I get enough protein. I say, well, do you get that number? That's your lowest level. If you're an athlete training, you can go up to 1 to 1.2 grams of protein per kilogram of body weight. Can you go higher? Yes, if you have any kidney issues. No, protein is harder to digest on the kidney. So my point is that protein has a lot of importance in it and I say this a lot, but I'm going to keep saying it for myself, for all of you at least 20 grams of protein at breakfast. We don't do that well in our country, I don't do that well.
Speaker 2:So kind of make that a goal and, especially as we get into summer, run, training and you're breaking everything down, getting in that protein within 90 minutes of exercise, whether it's a protein shake, whether it's an egg, it's a breakfast, it's a lunch, whatever it is, make sure you're getting that protein. I'm happy to help you at Healthier you. Go to GallowayCoursecom to find out the two different options we have, whether it's the full Healthier you series or it's our Healthier you seminar series, where you get sort of monthly motivation, group chats and meal plans. Use the code podcast to save, and July starts our summer. I was going to call it a summer shape up, but I feel like I should just call it a summer shake up, because it's not. Maybe you don't need to be in shape, maybe you just need to shake up what you're doing to get on track. We're going to cover sleep, mental, physical and nutrition health. That's it, john. That's healthier you and protein.
Speaker 1:What protein have you had today? What protein have I had today? All I've had today is now you'll have to fill me in, because I'm not a registered dietitian, though I can play one on a television show.
Speaker 2:You could if you auditioned and you weren't afraid of auditioning. We've seen my film work.
Speaker 1:I had my usual Greek yogurt with a little bit of honey, some homemade granola, chia seeds and blueberries.
Speaker 2:All right, so you're probably right around 12 to 15 grams there, not bad. I've had peanut butter and oatmeal and pecans, so you're doing better than I have. But yeah, that's it. That's my spiel for the day. Athletes listen up it. But yeah, that's it, that's my spiel for the day.
Speaker 1:Athletes listen up. It's mail call time Announcer free present. All right, thank you, sarge. Today's email comes from Ryan via our 321GO podcast gmailcom email account and it's for me. This is like first one in a while. It says, john, love you, thank you, love you too, ryan, love. The Pelkey Running Club was starting at your idea, and how do you feel when you see the hats? Ok, it was not my idea, grant, my friend Grant, who runs the Pelkey Running Club Instagram site. It was his idea. They it started, chris, if you could remember, they had like a sign for me a few races ago, like beginning of the season, and then it morphed into the hats and Grant had a T-shirt, and now it has become some level of cause, celeb on some weird level.
Speaker 2:It's trendy, I think it's trendy, like people like wear them and they're, it's cool.
Speaker 1:I love it. People had them on the cruise that I worked recently. Every day somebody's posting one from a different place. The hats are traveling well, they're introducing new merchandise and there's kind of a backlog for the merchandise. So I mean, I'm incredibly humbled. You know, I look at all this and I'm thinking why am I a race announcer for Run Disney? Look at me.
Speaker 1:I have made no bones about the fact that, apparently, outside of Tracy Wu, I dislike running more than anybody else on the case, and I actually don't hate it anymore. I'm starting to come around on that. But no, it's been. It's been really humbling, and it's it's nice to know that people appreciate what, what I've done, you know, because I've tried to make it perfectly clear that I'm impressed by all you guys. I don't get why you would run the dopey. I still have had no one explained to me, other than the medals and, I guess, just the personal satisfaction that you may feel, why anybody would want to do that. But I think it's great.
Speaker 1:Some of the proceeds are now. Some of the proceeds are going to some great charities. So, yeah, it's really really humbling to see my name out there. The Pelkey Running Club, though, is just so incongruous for what I am and who I am, and it's been kind of motivational for me. So I thank everybody who's taken part and Grant, who's doing such a great job it has. I don't get anything from it, I just allowed them to use my name spelled correctly, which is really, really a big deal for me, because it's not often. So, yeah, shout out to everybody who has any of this stuff, and I'm sure maybe Weston can put the Instagram account into the, into the show notes, but it is unofficial, has nothing to do with Run Disney. Really, the only thing it has to do with me is that it uses my last name and that's it.
Speaker 2:No, I love seeing. I mean, I'm not a part of it, but I love seeing the hats. Grant nicely gave us one right in the beginning of all this, and then Weston has-.
Speaker 1:You and I were the first one to get hats.
Speaker 2:Yeah, weston has taken mine, so I actually guess I need to buy another one. But what I wanted to say was Grant does an amazing job and I don't know if it's him. He has somebody else behind the scenes of. Like the packaging and the promotion for it and like the Instagram, like far better than we are at any of that kind of stuff. Like there's. I get yelled at by my wife every day.
Speaker 1:Because why aren't you doing this? Why are you not doing this better? And she's right.
Speaker 2:He does a fantastic job job about it and I, even today, on Instagram, tom of two, two Toms is doing Rose with 120 pounds in each arm in his Pelkey running club hat, and seeing it and maybe this is why people like it Like it makes my heart smile because it like it's a run Disney nod without being a run Disney nod and it's a nod to the family. Do you know what I mean? It's like we're a community and I think that's the Pelkey Running Club is a community of people who, like, maybe we love running, maybe we don't, maybe we're happy people, maybe we're not, but we get together and we move and we love other people and I think that's the constant with you. Like, we can call you a curmudgeon, call it whatever you want, but at your core you do love pets. You love pets more than people, but you're a loving person at your core that supports other people. You are.
Speaker 1:Oh, I know, and I appreciate that, and also it's kind of fun, you know, because we're on, we're in this downtime and you and I get to have the podcast and talk about stuff, but normally, you know, it goes away in April, we're done, and then we all sit around and work early until August if we're going to be back in November, and it is really kind of fun to see those reminders during the off time that you know somebody is running their local 5K somewhere, or people done a half marathon, or somebody is just out at a brew pub and, you know, repping the hat. It's become fun, you know. It's become sort of a flat Stanley sort of thing, like where is the Pelkey Running Club at at this point? So so, yeah, it's. It's really cool, though Now I have my family in Pennsylvania all asking for free stuff and I that I got the one free hat and that's what that you know other than that.
Speaker 1:I have to pay for it too, folks.
Speaker 2:I know I just want some really good cherries. Well, thank you, grant, and thank you Ryan for the question, thank you Tracy for the very fun, lighthearted interview and thank you Weston for being our producer. That's today's episode. Thank you guys. We'll see you real soon.