 What's up? Welcome to another episode of Stay With Talk. We have two swimmers with us today. We have Steven Kratzer and Emily Woof. Emily's a junior. Steven is a senior and they both were 2020 Mac qualifiers. So that's pretty cool. How are you guys feeling today? I'm good. I'm a little tired. Practice this morning? Yeah. Yeah, what's up with that? 730 to 930 I thought you guys were gonna say 6am. We used to do what they switched it. Yeah, they had to switch it. For now. We get like a full breakfast in before that kind of thing or kind of just take the L and eat after. I eat after. Yeah, definitely. Do you eat anything before or now? Like do you snack at all or nothing usually? I have like a neutral green bar, but I don't like to eat too much. Yeah. Do you want to tell us like your majors and stuff? Yeah, give us a quick like bio on each of you. A quick 30 seconds about yourself. Towns and majors and like, I don't know what event you swim and stuff like that. Okay. So I grew up in Princeton, New Jersey. And I actually, I graduated in May of 2020 with a degree in criminal justice. And I'm now doing graduate courses in community based education and leadership. Yeah, I swim what 100 fly 200 free and the 100 freestyle. And yeah, coming back for round two. Yeah. This is my last year of NCAA eligibility. Nice. How long will you do like grad school? Is that a one year program or multiple year? It's a two year program, but it could take longer depending on how many classes you take a semester. Gotcha. You're like, I just can't live without the 6am practices. I have to do it another year. I don't know how. I kind of got guilty for swimming another year. Yeah. You said we would have a guys team this year. Yeah. Okay. Okay. So I'm a junior psychology major. And then on campus. I'm also the president of math and I'm also an ambassador. So that's really fun. And then I'm from Towson, Maryland. So, you know, Steven is like, I live on campus. And then. So my coach Clark always loves to tell the story how I came in. My freshman year, but he came in sophomore year of how I told him that I was a 50 free styler. And like he believed me and 50 freestyle wasn't even one of the events I qualified for at max. And then I ended up doing the 400. I am the 100 fly and the 200 I am. And I made finals for them. So I was, it was like a big accomplishment for me, but it was just funny. She likes to tell all the recruits like, Oh, would she told me she was a 50 free styler. And I actually did 400. I am for the first time this year too. So I like never tried that. So it was like really cool to like, I mean, the four I am is not cool, but like it was cool to like. Find out that I'm like, decent at it. Yeah. That's a cool story. Yeah. How is a swimming bin in the world of Corona? Yeah. How is a virtual meet? Tell us about the virtual meet that just went down. Hopefully. Um, could you guys see like, I'm assuming that like all of the, like, does everyone like dive at the same time? Or does it just like you guys do it at your time. They do it. Hood did it at their time and then just combined. Times and scores and stuff. Yeah. I think we, we did it all together as a team at McDonough. And I don't know what hood, what time they were had to meet. It could have been the same time. It could have been different. So you guys weren't like necessarily diving. Yeah. No, it was, it was really hard to like get into, well, at least for me to get into like the meat mentality. Like, oh, it's time to race. But you're like up with your teammates and like, our coach is introducing us like saying, it's like really silly stuff. Like way before we got to dive in. So it's kind of hard to like get in that like meat mindset. And it sounds like we were just like, I don't know about you. I know I was just having fun with it. Like I was goofing. I was like, I was like, I was like, I was like, I was like, I don't know about you. I know I was just having fun with it. Like I was goofing off right before we step up or like, okay, and how we're going to die. I'm like, I was just for fun. So like, it was really hard to get into that meat mindset without other team there. What do you think was more of a, like, do you think it was weird or not having opponents or not having like people screaming and like cheering? I think it was weird and not having the opponents. Yeah. Yeah. I think it was weird. Cause I like to race the guy next to me. Yeah. So not having someone on the other team that I was able to like, try to beat was a little bit difficult. Yeah. Yeah. I would definitely agree with that. Cause I know like, um, so many ways too, like things kind of goes for like everybody where you'll go faster if there's someone next to you, even if you're that exhausted, if you see them like neck and neck, you're like, all right, I guess I, I mean, I think you're, like, you're not playing with like your team. You're like, Oh, it's my team. We're all the same team. Exactly. Okay. We're going to jump into our first segment. Q&A Halloween edition. Yeah. Macy was really pumped on. I'm pumped on all of the segments that I made for today. being anything for Halloween this year I know it's like different this year but if you guys don't mean anything. I haven't really thought about it about it too much but I was thinking about being a character from this TV show. It's such a good show. It's a Canadian TV show that streams on Hulu. But I was thinking about being one of the main characters off that show. What does he dress like? Would it be the actor or no? No, it just has the character. He's like a farmer so he just has like a flannel and jeans so it would be pretty easy. I'm I'm trying to think of like one day at a time. It's still just like Wednesday and I have a lot of other work to do so I haven't really like picked anything out just because I want to do something that's not like I don't know I want to do something creative but at the same time I'm like I don't know if I have time to even stop. All right growing up or like throughout college whatever what was your favorite costume that you pulled off? I guess I can go if she doesn't know yet. One of my favorite was I can't remember it was like middle or like freshman year of high school. I was an injured person because my friend actually had crutches and so I like took her crutches and I was like an injured who's in middle school actually. I was an intro person so I would like pretend to like crutch up it's like the door and then we would come up with a different story of how I broke my foot every different house but we all spoke differently so like I would say you know I like tripped and fell making pasta then my friend decided to say I jumped off a roof like we just have like all these different things and I got so much extra candy because they felt bad for me running down the driveway like after I got the candy. One to the next house. It was so sneaky but it was pretty clever by my say so myself. I feel like when I was in elementary school I think for like two or three years in a row I was Steve Irwin. I had like a plastic snake around my neck. I had like a safari hat and everything like all the khaki jackets and everything like that. RIP Steve Irwin. True icon. Oh my god yeah. I was just thinking about him the other day actually. I think like one of his kids dressed up as Steve Irwin. Halloween ones too. That's so cute. One is Steve Irwin. Irwin's kids dressed up as Steve Irwin. Yeah. Well they all kind of like dressed like that all the time. Yeah but I swear there is one like where they like purposely like they all wear they all work at like a zoo they all dress like that all the time. They all dress the same. I guess I guess. What's your favorite Halloween movie or TV show. I have no idea. Or scary movie. Your favorite scary. I really liked Hush. It's on Netflix. I think that's my favorite scary movie either Hush or Insidious because I remember seeing like Insidious for the first time like in the movie theater with like a bunch of my friends I got like so scared I like kicked off my shoe. I like had to get it at the end and it was like really awkward but Insidious or Hush. I like them both. I'm not a huge fan of scary movies but I'd say I don't know if it really counts as a scary movie because I think it's more like a thriller but split. Oh that was good. That was good. That one. Any of these scary movies. Those ones are pretty crazy. I haven't seen them. What is your favorite candy. Like when you go out what are you hoping to get when you went out. It kind of depends on the day. I feel like Snickers or Twix are pretty solid go-tos. Yeah I think mine probably Skittles Twix. I don't know I honestly like there's not really anything I don't like besides Twizzlers. I always traded those out. Yeah no I only like the colored Twizzlers. Oh yeah same. Gotta have that Reese's. That's always a good one too. That's a good choice. Alright last one. Favorite Halloween activity like carving pumpkins or like sugar treating or I don't know baking like Halloween treats. Favorite fall activity. We'll do that. I always enjoyed carving pumpkins and then making pumpkin like cooking the pumpkin seeds. Pumpkin seeds are so good. Or your favorite like Halloween activity or fall activity could be like going to Starbucks and getting pumpkin spice. I'm not like a big fan of like pumpkin flavor things. Like I just like don't like it but I think pumpkin spice coffee is garbage. I haven't even tried it. I don't even want to try it either but I know I don't but I guess fall activity. I like going to field of screams. I mean it's been like pretty fun but I haven't gone this year. I used to know when I was in like middle school and high school. I kind of forgot about those. They used to scare me when they would come out with like the fake chainsaws and like put it next to your neck. It's still legit. Scares me. There was one time there was this like dead bride or something and she hopped up on the hayride and like she's like running down the middle of the hayride and like I stuck out my legs and I tripped her and I was like good because she was scary. Macy and I have like a knock off version of that by us. Legend of the fog. I don't know if you know. Oh yeah. I haven't been there. What? It's just like. It's in Pennsylvania right? Yeah. And then Legend of the fog is like an Aberdeen. Yeah isn't there one more comparable to field of screams? Isn't there? I don't remember. I think there's a field of screams in Maryland or something like that but I don't think it's as good as the one in Pennsylvania. I've heard that they're doing, I don't know about field of screams but I'm pretty sure Legend of the fog is doing like you drive up, you drive your car yourself through the thing. Oh gosh. I would not end well. No. That's a big no for me. Making it feel a bumpy like oops. I would not end well. I scared really easily so like the judges would not go well. Legend of the fog has like you start out walking or at least be like this. You start out walking. It's just like a big house. And it's like chains and like fencing everywhere and there's a strobe light and you have to get out of it. Literally I still have like PTSD from it because we were stuck in there forever. The strobe light is in like the room of like all mirrors if I remember correctly. And then you'll get out and then that's when you hop on the hayride. Oh my gosh. I was like about to call it quits there. I'm like I'm done. I can't do it anymore. All right, we're going to quiz your Stevenson swimming knowledge now. All right. Do you want to explain the first one though? Yeah, I'll do the first one. Okay. So who was the first Stevenson swimmer to break a record? So this doesn't mean like in 2014 when the team first started so and so swam the 50 freestyle and now she has the record. It's like she it's like breaking 50 freestyle at the record. Oh is it? Okay, whatever. Um, so like, Oh boy. Yeah, I'll pass that to Steven since he's been longer than I have. So it would be like technically broken probably the following year per se. Um, and like they can't like it's so it's all swam the hundred freestyle and then swam it again two weeks later. That's not a break breaking a record because they already had it and like there was no one else who slam it. So who like broke who really like. Is this record still standing or do you know? No. No, definitely not. Okay. It was a long time ago. You guys are faster now. Yes, Steven. I have no idea. I'm trying to think of like back then. Okay. It was, I'll tell you the years November 2015. Yeah, I was still a nice. I mean, I was in high school too, but so that was the senior class that graduated in 2019. Correct. I'm trying to think because I think live Snyder. Swam, sprint freestyle. That's not the answer though. I have no idea that. Julie, Julie. I was thinking. You guys were wondering Andrew Sears was the first male to break a record. Now that I think about it's kind of a silly question, but yeah. The next one's good. Alright, which current or former. Yeah, I did a lot of women's swimming member currently holds the most records in the record book. Not overall, like, most total records, most total records currently. So like someone could have had a one time 15 records, but like it over time. Other people broke them. So it's currently as of today. I mean, I feel like Mel has that one. Yeah. I mean, that's, she's a beast. Like I, yeah, she has 10 records. Juliana Burnett and it's about Ramlin have eight for your Bees talk about bees. You know who has the most men's records. That's the next question. Yeah, it is. Yeah. And then you, Steven Andrew Sears and Jacqueline on our tide with six. Jock. Or Jack. It's like, I think it's Jack. We used to call him Jack Jack. When I was writing it down, I was like shock. Um, okay. No, I'm Steven's interview question, but still swimming related. Who was named the male Fina summer of the year three times. From 2010 to 2017. Michael Phelps. Yeah, that was going to be. No. One more guess. Um, could have been Ryan Lochte. Yeah. Yeah, I was going to say Ryan Lochte or Nathan Adrian. What summer. Didn't one of the summers like fake getting robbed. I don't remember. Yeah. Yeah. At the Rio Olympics. Did you guys ever watch. What did they say? I don't remember. Someone stole his wallet, but. Over exaggerated. Yeah. Did you guys, did you guys ever watch. Um, Ryan Lockney's reality TV show. No, but I've seen clips of it. It was like, what would Ryan Lockney do? Oh, I've seen the like ads for that. Me and my sister. Me and my sister were obsessed with it because he's so dark. So funny. But then like the one time he like dyed his hair, like we're like bleached at blonde. I was just like platinum. Yeah. It was funny. It was only one for like one season, but it was. Yeah. They didn't get called back. All right. Who was the oldest swimmer. To compete at an Olympics. And what age. You don't need to know the age. I just put it there. But if you do know the age. Bonus points. I don't remember her name. I think I started. It was like. Dana Diana. Oh, yeah. It was funny. It was only one for like one season, but it was. Yeah. I think. Dana Diana. Yeah. Yeah. She was like 40 or something like that. What do you want? He's just got a baby before it. Right. Yeah. Amazing. Like, I know. I like looked up as a kid too. I remember there was just like one Olympics where, or even was like in trials or something where like a girl like ripped her suit. like Dana gave her another one and I'm just like you have that like at that level and you're still like willing to like help someone out who like ripped a suit like at that level like because I feel like Olympians are kind of like oh whatever I'm here for me like but I would have actually did that for like that woman was like amazing to me as like a kid hearing about that. I like the bonus question is growing on the in the ground on vines or on trees you didn't put the answer sorry think they're like on top of the ground like on a vine that's what I was gonna say I was like oh my god I'm gonna embarrass myself okay now we're gonna play would you rather swimming addition all right would you rather swim a thousand-yard butterfly or 1650 backstroke I was told that 1650 is a mile Macy's the swim I did not. Oh yeah I swim. I ate this and stuff but even just doing a 200 fly like being completely gassed after that doing a thousand yeah I'll take the 1650 backstroke. You can just do it like Sunday. You breathe all the time. Butterfly you always drowning. Yeah even if you do it slow like it still like takes a lot out of you like it's no. Would you rather jump in a green pool and swallow a mouthful of water or shave off all of your hair including your head like every hair on your body? I would take the green water because I've definitely jumped in a green pool before. I don't think I swallowed the water but yeah I mean I do that I love my hair and yeah I don't know if I would enjoy swallowing the green water. You enjoy losing all your hair though? I kind of like my hair so. Your hair is longer than mine so you're having enough fun. I do yeah. Oh there you go. Jay that's what you should do. No. He's like ah not really. We'll see. We'll see. Alright. Would you rather have your whole body turn bright blue whenever you jump in a pool or own only have practices outside during Maryland in the winter? I feel like you would turn bright blue. Either way. So yeah blue is my favorite color so I'd be fine with turning blue. Yeah I think it'd be pretty cool to turn blue. Blue is light blue is one of my favorite colors. Yeah I guess I'd go with blue but I don't know lately the winters here have been pretty warm. I'd be extra snow if I was watching the Olympics and like one of the swimmers was just like shining bright blue. Wait what's that movie with Amanda Bynes and Freddie whatever his name is? Merce. I'm just kidding. I don't know what he said. Whether they turn the guy bright blue when he um. She's the man. No. I knew you were going to say that. Oh big fat liar. Oh okay. You know what I'm saying that. Oh you know what I'm saying. Amanda Bynes is in that. Yeah. It's like oh. It's like 2000 something probably. 2000 something. I don't even remember. It's Frankie Munez. Yeah I remember Frankie Munez. That's the bill I'm picturing in my head. Alright. Um, last one. Would you rather accidentally belly flop at a championship meet or accidentally swim an extra lap at a championship meet? Probably swim an extra lap. Yeah. Yeah. From experience. From experience. One time I accidentally swam an extra lap at a championship meet and your time still counts. So You just catch swimming or wait what do you mean like say you are swimming a 500 freestyle and you accidentally swim a 550 like when your feet were to or your hand in this case feet because you're continuing your your feet hit the wall they're still gonna end your time at that 500 mark yeah I'm gonna official time but if you were to belly flop like your race where is it going that's yeah that's what I was kind of wage-ranked so I was like well if you do a belly flop everyone's gonna know that you did a belly flop soon as you dive this you just smack you here when you do a belly flop regardless like everybody hears it like when we do dives in practice like you all know if you don't look but like if you do an extra lap people might not necessarily see that but at least your time will still be accurate so yeah I guess I go with the extra lapses belly flop like it's just amazing to and just swimming in general like how much like a second is like just like literally like a blank or like you know just like like if you do belly flop that could take a lot of seconds that you like work hard for throughout the season so yeah I definitely take the extra lap even though I hope neither happens ever okay so last section is right before our questions I'm going to put on a three-minute timer on my phone and you have I have 15 questions and you have to we'll do like all the question and we'll have like Steven say his answer first and then Emily will go second we have to answer it like immediately like you can't think about it oh boy I'm glad I'm going second I got lucky with a couple more seconds okay I just I'm saying my alarm or saying the timer did you just want me to say them all or okay I don't care okay I'll just say I'm also it's quicker okay okay are you guys ready all right ready go if you could buy any food right now what would you buy pancakes pizza those your favorite superhero Batman don't have one here's your favorite comedian pastor present right now I'm a big fan of bilber Kevin Hart yeah who would you want to play you in a movie about your life anyone yeah that's a good one uh yeah anyone that just has good acting skills and is friendly okay best thing about being a swimmer you can eat a lot and not gain a whole lot of weight yeah I was gonna say being able to eat a lot of amount of food okay if you could cameo on any TV show what would it be I can ask that for you can I pass sure okay you would probably say letter Kenny but I would say what's the worst thing that has ever happened to you during a swim race um my goggles came around my mouth and I couldn't breathe oh no my swimsuit no the last thing that you googled um I think I googled the location of the nearest Chipotle nice um honestly probably blackboard like just to get to the sites yeah yeah who is your favorite person to follow on Instagram Kale Dressel hmm he's funny um I mean so my is probably Nathan Adrian I think he's really inspirational what is this swimming or college accomplishment that you're most proud of um graduating yeah I was gonna say you graduate you better say yeah there you go um placing the top 15 and before I am even though it was the first year that I did it awesome okay real serious Beyonce or Rihanna Beyonce yeah Queen B take that one what advice would you give to a high school swimming recruit um make sure you pick a team that you get along with and a coach that you agree with their practice mentality just take things one step at a time and know that it's not as scary as you think and that once you get to know everybody you know the coach and know how things work like it's a lot of fun who's your favorite professional swimmer Caleb Dressel um probably Nathan Adrian go to pump ups on um remember the name I do it by big Sean okay last one we'll just keep going okay you guys made it with only one question left that was good oh darn they already answered one last question oh yeah oh that's true so technically you guys um finish it all but you you're told us what you have for practice all right but you gotta tell us what you eat after practice then okay so after practice today I had a ham and turkey sandwich and a vanilla protein shake wait what's a vanilla oh never mind I thought you said I for some reason didn't process in my mind like a vanilla smoothie so I just like with the rules our timers counting down but quick you guys got to tell us your favorite coach Clark story like we would play would you rather and like we would play never have I ever and just hearing like having him play to has been like I'm not gonna out him but it was yeah I would say like any of the van trips back from meets and because he would just like crack jokes and it would just be it would just be a lot of fun it would be so much funny like I'm just hilarious motivational quotes for the people I don't know I would say like as for like motivation like try to remove Kent from your vocabulary huh whoever yeah you think that you can do it you're more likely to be able to do it that was like original to you didn't just yeah I think first person he's dominant motivational quote route yeah um what am I I guess I don't know if my mom came up with this or is this is a regular quarter not but I'm always used to tell me when you're tired kick harder um and then also I guess I'll shout out the team now because we're having so much fun together and so I've been so much fun getting to know everybody and I'll also like shout out you know the old team because like I miss them dearly and I really look up to a lot of them as role models um yeah Stephen my neighbor Stephen my neighbor's dad told me I should stop saying just because I say just before a lot of things like oh I was just I like I don't know my TKO I take TKO classes and the professor the instructor always tells me that to stop saying sorry like sorry sorry that's another thing like those like words like just and can't and sorry or just like just but um they're like they're like filler words and they just yeah they make you seem like you're insecure well thank you for your time we're about to get kicked off it's telling us we've less than a minute yeah we don't have the money for the premium understandable thank you guys for having thank you thank you good luck with swimming and morning practices and all that fun stuff thank you thank you have fun thanks bye guys