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Melissa Jefferson Wooden joins us in a little bit, but oh, Joe, the game that just went off, the Chargers.

Oh, you want to go this first?

Oh, before we get started, oh Joe, look what came from.

What we got?

What we got?

What we got, baby?

Not one.

Okay, okay, okay.

But we stack, we stacking them up, ain't we?

Yeah,

but what's that?

I thought you were in Vegas.

I didn't know you was in Paris.

Hey, no, we

now.

Hey, hey, but we winning the wars, but

yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

But I'm confused.

What, I mean, you got three, so I got three too.

Unfortunately, Ocho, until I get that bread, I hey, and you still got this one right here.

Ooh,

hey, hey, um.

Hey, y'all got y'all got my address in Miami, huh?

Nah, we sent it to the other place.

The other place.

The place that you were staying before.

That's the address that we got.

I'm not there no more.

What you doing?

Well, you better go over there and knock on the door and beg and say, get out of here.

I ain't finna do none of that.

Now, that's not going to happen.

Now, what we need to do is we need to give you the right address.

And you can send me two of them.

oh Joe we already sent it out now you didn't tell us no change in our address it's me but that dress been changed damn near yeah now

but what that got but did you did you share

I shared it with you I shared it with you you was the first one I told

you was the first one I told you see

this man that threw me as a bull job

that's a whole lot of hard work over there um you got you got sitting over there I need I need uh I got to be able to show my kids you know, what I've accomplished.

Tell them to watch the night cap and they can see.

If they watch a nightcap, they can see

no room.

You ain't even got no room.

Go ahead and send that to your boy, man.

Hey, I'm sorry, Club Sherry Shay.

You got to go a little further back.

Bear with me, chat.

Hey, why are you taking my stuff out of the box?

Hey, you heard me

until you take my $5,900 out your account.

They gonna stay in the box.

Hey, don't make me do something to you, man.

What?

Like, pay me my money?

Hey, go ahead and shit.

Hey, go ahead and

two years, chat.

One, two, three.

Oh,

that's close.

shit.

Okay, here it is, right here.

Webby.

Right.

So, in two years,

oh, yeah, in two years, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight.

Well, if you got eight webbies in there, that means four of them belong to me, huh?

Huh?

Yeah, you know what?

I mean,

Ocho, I already know.

Say this over to Joy.

I wish it was something I could tell you, Ocho, but right now, presently, I'm not going to be able to tell you.

Hey, hey, listen.

I ain't going to even hold you.

Hey,

listen, I love you like a little.

Chad, what y'all think I should do?

What y'all think I should do?

The man owed me $5,900 for two years.

He refuses to pay me my money, although he buying houses with swimming pools.

He spending $12,000 on jackets.

Tell me, chat.

Chat, I'm going to let you guys decide.

Whatever you decide,

I'll let you guys decide.

Whatever you guys decide, if you say, Uncle send Ocho his stuff, I'm going to send it.

If you guys say, nah, that man been owe you $5,900, he playing in your face, he buying or he going to all these places, doing all this stuff, and he ain't gave you your money.

So, whatever you guys decide,

I'm going to let y'all do.

I'm going to, I'm just what I'm going to say.

Yeah, y'all don't get uncurt now.

All right, the Chargers beat the Vegas Raiders 20 to 9.

Justin Herbert was 19 of 27, 242 yards, two touchdowns, no turnovers, unless they gave that last fumble that they fumbled, but I don't think, oh, they gave it, they did give it to him.

They gave him two.

He lost one.

But they did a great job.

Geno Smith was Texas toast tonight.

He was terrible.

Geno was bad tonight, but they did a great job of pressuring him, Mocho.

They didn't let him set his feet.

And

when he had time, Ocho, he overshot some guys.

He missed some throws that I'm sure that he's going to look at film tomorrow and wish he had back.

But that's the game of football that we play.

Quentin Johnson gets three for 71 on a touchdown.

Keenan Allen was five of 61 for a touchdown.

And Lad McConkie was doing what he normally does is move the chains.

And so the Chargers look really good.

Now, there was a big blow.

It looked like a bicep injury.

to Khalil Mack.

He left early.

He had it in a sling, Ocho, but if you notice, his bicep was wrapped.

So that's what makes me think it's a bicep injury, but I'm not sure.

I don't know if they reported because, obviously, chat, you guys know I don't listen to the sound.

So if somebody wants to jump in the chat and said what it is,

what they reported, I don't know if they reported.

They probably said he left the game and was not going to return.

But it makes me think that it's a bicep injury because it was in a sling and he had his bicep wrapped.

But Ocho, you're watching this game and you look at the Chargers, the way they're throwing the football and the way they can get up the opposing team's quarterback.

What are you liking about what you're seeing about the chart?

What are you thinking about the Chargers?

Obviously, offensively, they do what they do offensively.

Justin Herbert looked like Justin Herbert, especially picking up where he left off from week one.

But the Chargers defense, the Chargers defense was all over the place.

They give Geno Smith time to be able to set in the pocket defensively.

They played very well on the back end.

They look really, really good as well.

I'm excited.

I'm excited for the AFC West to see what the Chargers do.

Not now, early in the season.

We're only in week two, Unk.

I want to see if they can do this in December when it really counts.

They can do this in January when it really counts, where it matters most all the moments that they're having right now just herbert playing really well i'm glad to see the resurgence of quentin johnson i'm glad to see young bull finally playing well playing with confidence making plays he looks awesome so being able to see them in person tonight was awesome geno smith again

having a

life

not having the time in the pocket to be able to throw the ball week one they look really good they look phenomenal he threw the ball all over the place tonight not so well

yeah i mean 24.

they can't well neither team really could run the football ocho uh that's the only thing that i like okay at some point in time charges you're gonna have to run the football to alleviate some pressure on justin herbert you just can't just let them tee off but because the raiders really couldn't run the football they just teed off they were just teeing off on on uh on on um

gino but gino made some poor throws I mean, that one he threw down in the middle of the lake.

Come on, Ocho.

You see, you see,

what's three name?

I can't forget.

Derwin James.

Derwin James.

Derwin James.

You see him running?

He running with him.

Why would you throw that?

Why would you throw that?

I mean, he put, he threw, that was twice.

He threw one of the double coverage earlier and he got picked.

But he didn't play well tonight.

I'm not breaking, Chad.

I'm not breaking any news to you guys.

You know, you watched the game.

You know, Geno did not play well tonight.

He played really well, as Ocho said.

He played really well opening week on the road in parksborough against the patriots 362 yards but tonight oh he was some slow he was some slow tonight very difficult too

when you have a week one performance like that it's hard to string them back to back to back to back together like that oh i wanted it up it's really hard to string them back together like that back to back especially when you play a great defense like the chargers that that guy yeah henley

He gonna want to come back.

Because he taught us.

Look at he had 12.

He had 10 tackles, seven solo, a sack, and two tackles of losses.

Hey, hey,

if you want to dial in, you want to talk to right quick, you know,

the line open for you anytime, bro.

Tremendous game tonight.

He was all over the place.

Don't he was

he was hunting.

Uh, Aston Jennings finding out what it's like.

It's a different ball game.

Let me tell you something.

All those runs, all those runs that's supposed to be between the A and the B gap, and trying to bounce them out and think you're going to outrun people.

Uh-uh.

But that's not happening.

You better hit that.

No.

Do everything you can

and hope and hope you get to the second level.

Take that two or three game, or it's going to turn into a one or two loss.

Because you bounce that.

Listen, everybody just as fast, if not faster, if not stronger.

Think about it.

Nightcap effect.

We had Henley on.

Look what he did.

Yeah.

We had Bud on.

Look what he did.

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Look what she did.

Now, I don't.

Hey, I'm just saying, that's just three.

Now, if you want, if you want something to be,

we had a Ryan Koogloom.

Look at what's been on.

Look at the numbers.

I'm just saying.

Hey, it's not a coincidence.

It's common sense.

No.

It ain't a coincidence.

It's common sense.

That's all.

That's all.

Too many occurrences is not a coincidence.

Y'all see what it is?

Y'all see exactly what it is.

But like I said, I like what I'm seeing from the Chargers.

Justin Herbert, look, the one thing we know about Jim Harbot, you can say what you want to say about him.

He can coach his ass off.

It gets progressively better.

And then normally there's a little tapering off.

You go back and look at what he did at Stanford.

Bill, Bill, Bill, boom.

He goes to San Francisco.

Bill, Bill, Bill.

And then, you know, loses quarterback and things start to happen.

You know, they fire him and they had a budding

the front office in Jim.

Whatever the case may be.

He can coach.

Every team that he's ever coached has gotten better once he's arrived.

You go back and look at San Diego, you look at Stanford, you look at

the 49ers, you look at Michigan.

They hadn't won a championship, I don't know, maybe since 48.

Gerald Ford might have been, excuse me, but President Ford might have been on the roster by the time.

I mean, as great as we think of Coach Jim Beckler, he didn't win a national championship oh let me take that back they won in 97 the 97 team with brian greasy they did win so

but we think of michigan we think about man they get just loaded with those championship no

it had been over 20 years since they had won a championship and and and jim and you know people was calling for his head old khaki pants wasn't getting it done oh joe Started off a bunch and then he was just losing and losing, but he stayed afloat by kicking Ohio State's ass.

So, you know, you can buy yourself some time if you beat your rival, your biggest rival.

It's kind of like Auburn and Alabama.

One beats the other, it'll buy you a little time.

Absolutely.

But Harbach can coach, and he has a quarterback that can make every throw on the field.

But eventually they're going to have to walk the football.

I do not believe that you can just become reliant on the passing game.

That would be the one to knock, the one knock.

Even if they won the game tonight, they have to be able to establish a run at some point.

to make things easier and take the pressure off of Justin Herbert.

So he doesn't have to throw the ball.

Keep the defense and whoever they're playing, you got to be able to keep them honest.

No fumble, too.

No fumble.

Was that Amarion Hampton fumble tonight?

Yeah.

Yes.

You got to hold on to that.

And then they were on fourth down.

I don't even know if they called that a fumble, Ocho, on fourth down, because it was going to, you know, you don't get as a change of possession anyway.

Because it was fourth down, and they tried to do like a jet sweep.

And, you know, 12 took his eye off the ball and then the ball's on the ground, something like that.

But if you look at them defensively, they had two, three, four, five, six.

They had six tackle for losses, three sacks.

They did a great job getting out the Geno.

They did a great job of collapsing the pocket, corralling Austin Genty.

The Chargers,

I don't think I'm going out on a limb.

I think the Chargers are for real.

I think they're one of the three or four best teams in the AFC right now.

It's going to be very, very interesting how this thing, I know it's early Ocho.

It's only two weeks into the first

NFL season, but they look good.

They look really, really good.

And that quarterback,

he's what they've advertised.

And I understand that you're going to need to do it in the playoffs, in the big moments, because we saw him last year against the Texans, and he was horrible.

And we saw him have a 24, 27, nothing lead against Jacksonville, and they got walked.

So he has those two horrible L's on his resume, but

he's going to be in some big games.

With that coach, with that team, they're going to be in some big games.

And it's going to be up to him

to carry his part.

And I think he's more than capable of doing that.

But I really love what I'm seeing from this defense.

It's going to be interesting to see how this thing would clear Mac.

You know, some people say, Do we have an idea what they said?

I thought it was something wrong with his elbow.

Whenever elbow, dislocated elbows in the stadium, obviously, it goes up on the jumbotron.

Players out, and they tell you a description on what it and what it was.

They said elbow, so I'm not sure.

Okay, left elbow, sublexation, dislocation.

Yeah, yeah, sublex dislocated.

Dislocated elbow?

I know the feeling.

Yeah, I've dislocated my elbow.

I dislocated my right elbow.

It hurt like a moment.

How long is that out?

I missed five weeks.

Well, no, let me take that back.

I missed, I heard it in the second beginning of the second quarter.

So I missed that game in four weeks.

So a month.

Okay.

Played with a brace

for the rest of the year.

That's how mine looked.

Yep.

I, you know, tried to brace myself on the ground.

And somebody came from behind?

No, the ground.

And, you know,

I got it pinned.

I couldn't.

Yeah, I couldn't get it out.

It hurt.

Boy, it hurt like a mofo.

But I think there'll be, I think, you know, the Chargers will be okay, but it's not something that's season ending.

He'll be back.

He'll have to play with a brace.

You know, JJ Watt played with a brace his whole career, he dislocated, he, yeah, he dislocated his and played with a brace on for the rest of his career.

Um,

I couldn't, I mean, it's hard to catch when you

see when you catch the ball, oh, you're it's kind of hard to play with that thing.

I mean, I had to play because they didn't, I played with it for the rest of the year and they didn't want anything to happen.

But I know once that season was over and I got into an offseason, I wasn't coming back with that thing on.

I know a lot of defensive linemen and some offensive linemen, once they do it, because they're doing a lot of this.

You can only bend your arms so much.

Remember Gronk played with one too?

Yeah, yeah.

Yep.

So it's

congratulations, Chargers.

You move to 2-0 and you sit alone atop the AFC West.

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Ocho.

Tampa.

Hey, Tampa looking good, huh?

Tampa looking real good.

They look very good.

Listen, you know who else we had on the show?

Oh, Levante David.

And look what happened.

He dropped that interception, though.

He thought he's supposed to get to the house.

I'd be CJ hit it

dead in his hand.

He played he's on defense for a reason.

It show ain't for him being able to catch.

But do you know what I like about the Bucks, Ocho?

They can run the football.

Hey, that guy.

Roy and Bucky Earn.

I've seen Bucky.

He broke off to the right side.

I see him hit that Peter Warwick dead leg on somebody.

I'm like, wait a minute.

Okay.

Softie like that.

Baker, 25 of 38, 215, two touchdowns.

They pressured him for, but on fourth down, Ocho, they had him dead to right.

And he got up out of there, picked up a big first down.

You can't run by him to a lower.

I think that's the

to a lolo.

Toto.

he's uh from the university of alabama the linebacker he runs by him

got him dead to right got they got the perfect play call they got the perfect blitz call they crashed him and he ran by him baker jumps out jumps out to win the day

and when you think about quarterbacks that are dual threats you don't really view baker as a josh allen or view him as a as a lamar jackson but he can hurt you If you're not disciplined, if you don't come into control, if you don't come to balance, when you have him dead to right, like you said, and you just aggressively just try to make the tackle, you'll do exactly that.

Come right out the back door.

He um, he had 33 yards rushing.

Bucky Irving had 17 for 71.

Rashad White has 10 for 65.

Baker had three for 33, 30 rush attempts, 169 yards, 25 of 38, 215, two touchdowns.

He did get sacked four times, but

they took care of the ball and uh they got pressure on CJ Stroud.

CJ's got to make some of those throws that he that he missed, ocho.

You got to make some of those,

you got to make some of those.

It is what it is, you got to make them.

Um,

you got to get the ocho, you can't kick your

get you beat every time, huh?

You got to score touchdowns, you got to score touchdowns, you got

you do.

And what did Mike?

What did Mike Evans finish with?

Mike Evans had five catches, 56 yards on 11 targets.

Look, you know, had Stingley chase him, had him, Stingley follow him around the whole day.

That was nice.

Stingley did a really good job.

Stingley did a really good job tonight, obviously showing why he's one of the top corners in the NFL.

And he traveled

with Mike Evans the entirety of the game.

The entirety of the game.

I had to leave in the, I think maybe, maybe, maybe the end of the third just to get over to the raids of game so I didn't have to fight no traffic.

So I missed the back end of the back end of the game to get to the raid.

No, I mean, look,

that's what you pay Stingley the big bucks.

He's one of the better corners.

And you say, okay, look, we're going to play, we're going to take you, take him, and then we'll play coverage everywhere else.

It gives you an opportunity to free up some things.

That's what you, when you have one of those guys, it allows you to be really exotic defensively because you feel you got a guy that can shut down their best receiver.

You do that much more defensively.

When you have a like that, you can focus, defensive coordinator can focus elsewhere and do other things and expand the playbook defense because you know what i ain't got to worry about this side so i could do other things with everybody else to confuse the quarterbacks

yeah and and and all the great ones been able to do that when you know rod woodson whatever that is they pick the steelers and prime and the nias and daryl green and uh charles woodson uh revers when you got those top guys you can get really exotic defensively because you know they're going to be able to more time than not look those great receivers, they're going to, they get paid too.

Now they're going to win some, but more time than not, you feel your guy's going to be able to hold his own.

And so we now we can take somebody, you know, we can double, you know, take somebody else away.

We can bring an extra guy because we feel we got a guy that can hold up where you really want to go with the football.

But I thought Tampa looked good.

Look, we think it's, you know, Tampa is the class of the NFC South with a little, with a little, maybe a little scare from Atlanta, but we don't think the Saints and Carolina is going to put up much resistance.

So we look at it as a two-horse race between the Falcons and Tampa Bay.

I don't think we're going to, you know, there's a whole lot of light.

Nah, man, don't, hey, it's only two weeks into the season.

I noticed I ain't heard nobody in Carolina say, oh, it's only two weeks in the season.

I ain't heard nobody from New Orleans.

It's only two weeks in the season.

You know, you know what it is.

It is what it is.

But

Baker has been playing, look.

Baker has a home.

He has people that believe in him.

He has an organization that wants him they let him lead in the way he knows how to lead they let him be him the problem sometimes with organizations though

well this is the way tom did it he's not tom well this is the way such and such did it well he's not that you have to let let a person be who he is that's the one thing i can honestly say about the ravens you have your own identity Just play like a raven.

Whatever you do, if you want to be quiet, be quiet.

You want to be boisterous?

Be boisterous.

You want to have, you want to joke and tell, be what whoever they don't try to make you confined to anything all they ask you is to play hard that's it

that's it and i i think the thing is look

and is it what he was not going to the rams once you color men won the super bowl they were not going to place matthew staff with baker mayfield so let's just say that the cleveland and the carolina situation didn't work out he got hurt he tried to play through it it didn't work out they you know you keep you hear stories they wanted a grown-up in the room.

Okay, whatever the case may be.

Carolina, ain't nobody winning with Carolina until you get more talent around them.

And so he went somewhere.

They had talent.

They had Mike Evans.

They got Chris Godwin.

They did a great job of light.

Jason Light has done a great job of drafting Bucky Irving, did a great job of white.

He did a great job of drafting some of those guys.

And so now you see the fruits of it.

It's like, okay, they still got a good team.

There was a little drop off.

Obviously, you don't have the Super Bowl expectations that you have.

They do, but from the outside, you don't have the same expectations that you have with Tom Brady.

Tom Brady automatically comes with Super Bowl expectations.

He's Tom Brady.

But Tampa,

hey,

Tampa gonna beat it.

Hey, Tampa's gonna have something to say about it now because defensively, they can get after you.

They can get after you.

They do a great job.

Todd Bowles do a great job of dialing up different uh uh schemes he can pressure you when he needs to they uh vitavel do a great job of stopping the run

and but they can pressure your quarterback so it's going to be very interesting to see how this thing shapes up let's see when we get by the week eight week week 10

we'll we're going to start seeing some things like okay because i think green bland is going to be a major player here I think Green Blade is going to be a major player when it's all said and done.

I don't think the Eagles, look, the Eagles got to get their passing game going.

It's going to happen, no choice.

It's taking some time.

The funny thing about it is it's taking some time, but they haven't played an offense just yet.

That's a juggernaut.

They could put them under the gun.

They put them under the gun and force them into doing something else outside of what they already do.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I agree with you.

Somebody's going to have to put some points on the board, and they don't have no choice but to throw it.

Now you got to find a way to try to get the bound to AJ.

Excuse me, get the ball to AJ.

You're going to have to find a way to get the ball to Devontae.

You're going to have to find a way to get the ball to Dotsa.

And right now, nobody's made them do that.

They throw the ball on their terms.

And then they get it in short, you know,

second and short, a third and short, a fourth and short.

And then you get to the tush push.

But if you're going to let them jump the count, because the guards are moving, people are moving before the city's going to be able to do it.

that yeah yeah i mean i've seen it in real time

and it's the same thing with the offensive tackles you remember there was a push they hey we want you to count the count because guys were jumping i mean how many times did they call the uh kansas city right tackle jawan

how many times did they call him bro he was jumping damn near every time they cracked down on it

They're going to have to crack down because if you let the guards move and can root people out before the center snaps the ball, well, you've created an even bigger advantage.

It used to be you couldn't aid the runner, you couldn't push him, but they say now you can,

and they're going to jump the snap count, and you're going to let them aid the runner.

I don't know how you stop that play.

I'm not sure if the refs could even see it

in real time.

In real time, see it in real time because the timing of it, when you slow it down, obviously, yes, we can see it at home when you play it back in slow motion.

But in real time,

I don't think the refs can tell.

Ocho, we had an upset at the World Championship tracking field in Tokyo.

Jamaican oblique Seville clocked the track.

He ran a personal best of 977 in the 100-meter finals at the World Athletic Championship in Tokyo.

Kashane Thompson took silver, 982.

Noah Lyles got bronze at 989.

Seville finished dead last in the Olympics at the 100 meters last year.

Yeah.

Ocho,

is the pressure for

Noah Lyles to stay on top?

Is it getting to him?

I wouldn't think it's getting to him, but obviously, you know, it's one race.

It's one race.

So at that moment, it's all about those moments.

How well do you execute your game plan and what you need to do in that moment where it matters most?

And

he hadn't had a whole lot of races, Ocho.

He's been nicked.

I think he's probably only had, he's had less than five races in 100 meters.

I think he's had even fewer in the 200.

Now, he surprised a lot of people by winning the gold

in Paris.

In the 100 meters.

He's a 200 meter specialist.

So

I'm going to give him a little grace.

Seville and Cashane, they ran really well.

But I think Noah, he got to get some more races under his belt.

Now, I think he'll be better served in the 200 because that's his.

That's his bread and butter.

That's his bread and butter.

And so we will see.

Because, you know, he's run that, he's got the world leading time in the 200 at 1963.

Kung Ku Kenny is right behind him at 1967.

And then you got Tobogo, the Bolswanan.

I think he ran like 1976, you know, a couple of months ago.

So I'm going to give him some grace.

That's not to take anything away from Seville and Kushane Thompson.

Hey,

Seville, but Seville has been running well all year.

So has, so has

Kishane.

Both of those guys have been running well.

Noah hadn't had a whole lot.

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Here she is.

Hey, joining us.

The world's fastest woman.

Here she is, all the way from Tokyo.

She got the bronze medal in Paris.

She says she wasn't satisfied.

She says, I want to reach my maximum potential.

And she did.

At the World Track and Field Championships in Tokyo just a few days ago, she ran 1061, which is the fourth fastest time ever run by a woman.

We got Flojo who ran 1049 at the USA's in Indy.

And in 2021, I don't know what was in the water because you got Elaine Thompson-Herrer run 1054 in Eugene.

and then you had Shelly Ann Frazier Price, the Pocket Rocket, run 1060 in Lazanne.

And here she is.

We had a conversation, MJ.

I say, I think if you, with these ladies in

with the right win, I say, I believe you can go 10.

I believe you can go sub 10.6.

You had a negative headwind.

I believe if you get that plus, you get a plus one.

You get a plus one five.

You're going 10, you're going sub 10.6.

Do you believe that?

Congratulations.

Tell us how you, before we get into that how you feeling i'm feeling good thank y'all i told you i was coming back you told you hey you say hey i said when you win that gold medal i said when you win the gold medal make sure you come back and tell us about it oh yeah and your wi-fi is perfect listen tokyo toki it's so efficient over here everything is great the wi-fi is good i know it's good because i brought my game in i could play card duty

so you're going to so obviously is your coach over there with you so So tell me your strategies.

So obviously, it's survive in advance.

You're trying to be as efficient as you're possible.

I'm not trying to expend any more than I have to to advance and get through the rounds.

And so that's what I'm trying to do.

And once I get to the finals, I'm going to drop the hammer.

Is that kind of your strategy, survive in advance, doing as little as possible?

Yep, that's the name of the game when it comes to these championships and the rounds is to just conserve as much energy as possible.

And then when you get to that last round, it's just about who can put together the perfect race at the perfect time.

And I just kind of look at it as I'm gonna just lay it all out because I mean, I've been working for this very moment, so there's no need to be trying to hold anything back, just let it rip.

Do you believe if you get a positive tailwind, you could have gone 10 sub 10-6?

Absolutely.

I thought I was going to run 10-5 if I'm being honest.

I knew it.

Really?

Hold on, 10, hold on, 10-50, 10-5-8, 10-5-5,

or lower than that.

If I'm being completely honest, I thought that I had a chance to run anywhere between 1052 and 1055 with the right tailwind.

Well, now you're talking about a right tailwind, you're probably going to need

probably about a 1.5.

And a 1.5 would probably get you what you wanted, probably a 1055, maybe a little lower.

But I felt that with the women in this in this race you look at juliana alfred to st lucian you look at tia clayton so you had the women tallou is always dangerous from the ivory coast she's dangerous dina asher smith she's dangerous your training partner shakari she's run 1065.

there's not a whole lot of women that's run 10 uh sub 10 7 she's won

So you had the women in the race.

You had the track.

You just needed a little bit more favorable conditions.

And I believe you go sub-10-6.

Yep, for sure.

And I said that that too.

And then even looking back at the race, like obviously it was one of the best races of my life.

It was the fastest I've ever ran.

But I look at the race and I still see areas where I could have improved on.

Like I probably could have been a tad bit more explosive coming out the blocks or, you know, just running through.

Well, I ran through my transition very well.

I feel like the weakest part of my race the other night was probably the start.

Yes, I would agree.

And that's and that's just because I like to be able to create the separation.

Like my coach drills into my head, like, you know, when we get in certain races, obviously the game plan changes, but for races like these in this moments,

the biggest advantage that I can have for myself is to put it away in the first 30 meters.

I feel like going back at it, like if I could do it all over again, I would probably be that much more aggressive at the start.

And then you take.

you take my start, make it a little bit more aggressive with how the rest of the race went for me.

And then I probably would.

I probably wouldn't have needed a win.

I probably wouldn't have needed a tailwind to run.

Matter of fact, I don't know.

Boy, that finish.

Hey, Tia Clayton pulled up.

She like, where you?

MJ, where you going?

Get up out of here.

Where are you going?

You ain't finna get this.

That's me.

Hey, MJ,

when it comes to racing and always having a game plan when you're going against women that are great at those that you went against today.

Or, well, what time?

It's 1:30.

It's 138 out there, huh

it's um

it's yeah it's like 2 30 it's like 2 30 in the afternoon here on wednesday no yeah tuesday yeah you always have a game plan going to a race like that what part of the race is your strength would you say

i would like to say my strength in my race is my start start yes But sometimes I have a tendency, like I think I've been so focused on trying to make the other part of my races better.

It's almost kind of like I find, I find comfort in knowing, not being complacent or prideful or anything like that, but like my start is

kind of like the part of the race where I don't necessarily have to worry about it.

It just, it with my start, it just, it has more so to do with how aggressive I am, attacking the front side angle and things like that.

But I really try my hardest to focus on the other parts of the race.

So like the transition, the acceleration, the keeping up with my frequency like i've always had the frequency but in the past um i just wasn't strong enough to be able to meet or let it get the uh let it get the best of me if that makes sense so like my legs could be moving this fast but then if my arms ain't doing that like if i can't keep up with uh the amount of turnover and frequency that i have then that's when things start to go wrong in the race so i feel like this year just in that race alone like i feel like um

i feel like my acceleration and my transition was probably like the best I've ever had.

Yeah.

When you look at a race

and training, I'm sure your coach is drilling your head.

There's two ways to increase speed, stride length and stride frequency.

How far are you out and how quickly do you pick them up and put them down?

You look at Usain Boat.

He's the perfect sprinter.

You talk about a guy that had a stride length and he had the stride frequency and it's taking him probably 40 steps to run 100 meters.

So when you, when you, you said, I'm a starter, but for some reason, was it in the the back of your mind?

Did you know, did you see that Tobogo had false started?

Is that in the back of your mind?

Like, look, I am not going to blow this.

I still believe, even with these women in this race, you got Talou and you got Alfred and you got Clayton and you got Sharika Jackson and you got Shakari.

They're in this race, but in the condition that I'm in right now, they can't beat me.

The only way, the only person that can beat Melissa Jefferson Wooden is if I false start.

If I don't false start, they can't see me.

They ain't getting nothing but tail price to date.

And it's true because I think it's crazy because I did the same thing at U.S.

trials.

Like, I feel like this year, my best start was probably when I ran at Pre-Fontaine and Eugene.

So, like, maybe about a couple of weeks out before U.S.

trials, but even like going through the rounds at U.S.

trials, I was very,

I was very

like, I played it safe with all of my starts through the rounds.

but it was just, I think, I think, like, I agree with you.

I think that I know what I have in the tank and I don't want to put myself in a predicament to mess that up.

So I'd rather play it safe than to, you know, have that one time where I think like, oh, no, this is the one.

And then it'd be, it's a little bit too, too much.

So yeah.

Is it a situation, MJ, that maybe you get a Diamond League meet where you don't have to run the rounds?

It's one time.

It's one crack.

You know,

I go over there a couple days earlier, I get acclimated, I don't have to get off a plane and I'm running in three hours, something like that.

Where I go over there and I get acclimated for a couple days, and I only got one race.

Is it a situation like that where you feel you can put something together?

Because we're asking you to do an awful lot, and I understand it's three, you know, to put rounds together and then run fast at the end.

Because even though you're trying to be as efficient as possible, you're still moving at a pretty good rate, you're still burning gas, so to speak.

And so do you think a 10-5,

it was possible, but what do you think about if you just get that one race?

So you know what?

This is it.

Yeah,

I think without a doubt it would have happened.

Cause then it would have just been like one and done.

Like, this is it.

You only get one.

Empty the tank.

Yep.

Empty the tank.

That's literally it.

When you think about it, No American woman, and we've had some fast, only one American woman has ever won faster than your 1061.

Carmeletta good friend hey she run 1064 we got Shakari at 1065 we got Marion Jones at 1065 we got some so you're in a very elite company you you I believe in the next year year

maybe two you're gonna join join join you know Elaine and Flojo that 104 105 is group have you thought about it when you when you wrote your goals down coming into this year was 10-5 on that paper

so 10-5 this year writing down my goals 10-5 wasn't on the paper 10-6 definitely was though i had i wrote down 1068 and then when i ran 1065 at trials it was kind of just like oh well excuse you i don't know what you're talking about actually

to my own self so um but then it just like a testament to the work that i put in and me knowing that like you know um i'm a very firm believer in my faith, and I know that the journey that I'm on, the journey that I'm walking, like, God, it's I'm right where I'm supposed to be, where I'm supposed to be.

And so, I can't put a limit on what I think that I can accomplish.

If I say that I believe in him wholeheartedly to the fullest extent and that he's literally guided my steps, then there's no possible way that I could put,

you know, a limit on what I do.

So, and the same thing goes for the 200.

Like, I ran 20, I had written down 21.9.

That was my end goal for the 200 for me this year.

And I ran 21.99

in

rain and 68-degree weather.

So I'm like, okay, Melissa, like, what are you actually talking about?

Like, what do you actually think you know?

Right.

So those are not favorable conditions.

Cold and rain.

The last thing a sprinter wants to see.

Now, a distance runner, he okay with the cool.

Yeah, he's like, let's have a day.

He wants it.

They want it to be cool.

But as a sprinter, the way you're bound tight, you want it nice and, you know, 75.

I do 75.

Give me a little nice little tailwind, but you don't want windy, you don't want rain, you slipping and all that other stuff.

So now, and I'm looking at this race, and I'm looking at the women that's in this race yourself.

And Julia Lafford has run 1070, you know, Sharika Jackson run 1065, Shelly Anderson run 1060,

Talou had run 1070, I think 1075.

She's run a monster time, so you got everything that you could possibly hope for.

You're like, you know what?

You look at her, you're like, yeah.

You're like, yeah.

Boy, this is all barbecue chicken, oxtail.

Yeah, I mean, well, you feeling good.

So how did you feel going into it?

How did you feel coming into the championship?

Because you had run.

You were the favorite.

You had run all the times.

And I kept like, well, damn, you put, you had, you know what, when I knew, Melissa, when you put back-to-back 10-6s, I said

there ain't about a whole lot of women that can back up 10-6 with another 10-6.

When you back that up, I said that if she don't fall start, ain't nobody beating her.

Is that when you knew you was ready to run fast?

Really fast?

I

think I knew after I ran Philly's Grand Slam that this was going to be like that.

I feel like that's when it started before then, but it was really like, okay, no, I feel like it was.

I put the stamp on it, like, no, this is your year to become a world champion.

It was after that meet.

and then going into trial or going into pre-fontaine you know was the rematch of the olympic podium um very much so uh it almost looked pretty identical to the um the finals that we had last year in paris so it was kind of like all right they beat you that time don't let them beat you again and

going into the race a couple days ago I remember we were in the callroom and then they were about to walk us out for the final.

And I sat there and I just told myself and I was like, Melissa, tonight is your night, but it's not going to be given to you.

You're going to have to take it.

Like, don't just think that is just going to come to you.

And then I looked around and all the women that I was getting ready to race against, they had all beaten me before.

And I said, well, they won't get me twice.

And I was the last thing

before I got to the line.

I was the last thing I said before I got to the line.

And then after the gun went off, it was just like, well, here we go.

I can honestly say, and I follow track and feel, and everybody knows I'm a big track and feel fan.

I don't know if I've ever seen anybody finish as strong as you did.

I mean, because when Till Clayton challenged you, it's almost like racehorses.

Because a lot of times, talking to Bob Bafford and some famous trainers, Ocho, they say they'll tell their jockey, let the horse pull up next to him.

That horse knows he's in a competition against this other horse.

He just needs that somebody pulls up to his bumper.

And he knows he's there.

Now he gets another gear.

Melissa, when Till Clayton pulled up,

I was like, okay.

okay oh i said oh

and then you like what where are you do you act where are you going i ain't i ain't even hit this turbo i ain't dropped this nitrus on you yet

i said well damn did you did you know did you did have you seen have you re-watched the race did you see that you got another gear did you see that for your own self I did.

So crazy enough, I did see it.

When I heard the gun go off, I remember me getting out and I was just like, okay, you got to clear the pack.

You got to clear the pack.

And then I got to the middle of the race and then it kind of went blank for a second.

And then the closer we got to the line, I was just like, don't do that thing you do where you like roll your shoulders, get all crazy.

I just went through the line.

And then after I ran through the line, it was kind of like.

oh, I think I won, but I need to know, I need to see with my own eyes that I actually won.

So I didn't really feel myself hit that other gill.

It was just about really like just trying to, trying to stay clear of everybody else.

Are you, are you nervous before races?

I think about football games and right before kickoff, the music is playing.

And before they kick the ball off, I got butterflies in my stomach.

My stomach is tight.

I'm nervous until I actually have contact or I catch a touch of ball.

Like it's almost, I don't want to use the word scared, but nervous.

Before a race like that, before you go in the blocks,

are your nerves okay?

How do you calm yourself down?

The biggest thing I do is just listen to music.

And I kind of get a sense of that too.

Like leading up.

So I was here about maybe a week before we started actually competing because we had a relay camp and everything.

So

I think that was probably the longest week of my life because it was just like, okay, Melissa, you know you're ready to run.

There's no need to be anxious.

Like just let the days go by.

And then the time difference here was crazy.

So the first couple of days, it was like, no matter how late I tried to go to sleep, I was still waking up at 4 or 5 a.m.

And then it was like, I finally got to the point to where I was waking up at 6.

I'm like, okay, that's a little bit of progress.

But then it was just still like trying to get to the line.

So I think if anything, like, I don't be really, really nervous.

I just be, I just have like a lot of, um, I'd be anxious in a sense.

But I'm also like, you too.

Like, I'll, um,

I, the minute I get to the warm-up area and I start warming up, I'm like, okay, let's do this.

Like, I'm ready now.

Yeah.

You're in your, you're in your element.

Yes, exactly.

In my element.

We're safe.

I'm looking at this relay.

Now, I don't know who's going to be on the relay.

I'm sure you and Shakari because you guys made the finals.

You're the fastest woman in the world.

I don't know if we've seen a situation where the fastest woman in the world run lead off

because you're such an outstanding starter.

And so

I don't know what you want to share because the relays are going to probably come after the 200.

So you'll probably have some other women that's going to qualify.

Have you guys decided on a race order?

Yeah, so

it's pretty, I would say it's pretty much set in stone.

I think what's going to end up happening is that

this is just as of today, obviously.

I know that I will be leading it off.

And then

my train, basically, I'll be on, it'll be my training partners on the,

yep.

So me to TT to Kayla White to Shakari is the last I've heard of.

Last I've heard of.

Anything

We're about to get the gold.

We're about to get the gold.

This is like unofficial, okay?

So if something changes, just say I, I, I, okay, that's what I'm saying.

Disclaimer.

So think about that, Ocho.

We got the fastest woman in the world running lead off.

Hey, the stagger already caught.

I don't know who y'all got.

I don't know who.

Hey, we're probably going to get lane five, but six, seven, and eight.

I'm coming.

Y'all need status chairs.

Y'all buy what you're a

I'm switching them in that order.

Because you're not finna make me look bad and walk this have the stagger walk down on me.

Because

what's the head is caught, what's behind stage behind.

That's what coach used to tell her, son.

What is the head is caught?

What's behind stage behind?

Because you already know she's gonna eat up that stagger.

Because ain't nobody else got their best runners on the first leg.

Most people put their horses, they put them at the second or they put them at the third.

Occasionally, they'll sprinkle

the ankle leg, but you could be so far behind it doesn't matter unless you Usane.

But ain't nobody got no Usain.

we got you saying and she running first leg for the Americas.

Hey, hey, you need to hit them.

Hey, hit them with that piece out.

Hey, just get the baton around the track.

That's all you got to do.

You, we got the fastest four women.

Let me take that back.

We got the fastest six women.

You take anybody six women that's currently going to be in this relay.

We got the fastest six.

Get the sticks around the track.

That's all you ain't got to do.

Yep, that's all we got to do.

We got this.

We got this.

We got this.

We got it.

Because we got it to a great start.

We won the gold in the woman's discus.

We won the Krauser, won the shot.

His first meet.

All year.

All year.

Three-time Olympic gold, three-time world champion.

He's only the second man to win three consecutive world championships.

Oh, we've been doing, hey, what the hell?

We want to, we don't want an Weller gold or something, didn't we?

Oh, we're going to win the gold we're gonna hey we're gonna get this gold in the 100-meter hurdle too cordell tension i'm going on the record cordell tension gonna get the goal oh

i'm going with cordell

i'm going with cordell yeah you're going with cordell

okay okay yeah okay okay

yeah for sure he's been running great

he's really been he's the only one that's going on the 13.

There'd be a lot of guys, 13 flat, 1301, 1305, 1310.

Hey,

he can cover some ground so i'm going with cordelle going with cordelle you know saying cordell

i've been so happy so when you win the goal and you go back to your room could you rest or were you just so excited like you just looking at that like that goal like damn

so what's crazy is after after we do media and then um the other things i waited we got back to the hotel room and then i actually had a chance to like meet up with my family and everything so um my parents and i have aunts uncles and cousins out here too so i had a pretty good crowd of people to come all the way over here to support me uh so i spent some time with them And that was good.

And then by the time I think I got to bed, maybe around 3 a.m.

But I was actually proud of myself.

I slept for six hours.

And I feel like that's one.

Really?

Yeah.

Cause last year after Paris, I slept for all of like three and then woke up the next morning and was on my phone just checking everything.

So, so

who's who's dm'd you and said congratulations have is there any like celebs or other athletes or entertainers that's congratulated you okay so i have i have one i have to make sure i say his last name right but his name is daniel

i believe it's daniel

okuya yeah daniel la bell daniel la bell so he um who is he He's really big on social media.

He posts like different videos and it'd be like little funny stuff.

It'd be like, um,

I believe one time he raced against speed.

Okay.

But yeah, I just like his videos.

It's like,

he has like eight one point eight point one million followers.

And I thought he he messaged me.

He was like, congratulations.

And I was like,

like, oh my God.

Thank you.

We got to get your followers up too.

We got to get you up into the three and four million.

Yeah.

Y'all do us a favor.

Go follow.

Give them give him your give me give them your tag.

Give them your handle.

How can they find you on Twitter?

Okay, so on Twitter, my name is at Melissa, M-E-L-I-S-S-A,

Janae, J-A-N-A-E, 21.

Okay.

And then on Instagram,

oh, yeah, on IG, it's at underscore, underscore, Melissa J19th.

Wow.

Were you always fast, Melissa?

I mean, growing up in South Carolina,

could you, I mean, I don't know if you have siblings, but were you the were you the fastest

girl in the neighborhood were you the fastest could you outrun the boys some of them some of them I could it was definitely like that but I was like always fast on like the level that I was so I went to a smaller school my high school I'm from the country so my high school was like we went back and forth between 1A and 2A and in South Carolina you know that's like real small my graduating class was probably like

my husband will laugh at me but it's probably like 80 kids

well i graduated with 60.

okay so yeah so about 80 kids in my graduating class and then coastal carolina you know obviously is a smaller d1 school the shanty players yep

and then um so that was like a smaller d1 school too so it's pretty much like i've lived the the underdog life of just you know being fast at the level that i am and being in that area and then it wasn't until like 2022 where everything

like one meet just literally changed changed everything that's because that's what i that's what i was that's what i wanted to ask you because you said i was fast for for where i was it wasn't like when you go look at shaqara she's at texas at at a big at a where they got 3 000 kids and she runs what she runs and she goes to in a freshman year she wins the ncas or you see gabby thomas how she bursts on the scene or you see uh uh sydney mclaughlin that wasn't the case for you when did you realize you could be a pro or was that what that was that always your goal to be a professional tracking field runner?

I didn't think that I could

be a crazy enough.

I knew that one day I would go to the Olympics.

I didn't know when, but I just knew that I could because of a coach that I had in high school, my freshman year high school.

It was probably, I think it was my, that was my second year doing

high school track.

And then when I got to college and I had the coach there, that's when I was like, you know, I think I want to do, this is what I want to do for a living.

And I was, I got to college the fall of of 2019.

So that's when it really just was like, okay, I know this is what I want to do.

I don't know how I'm going to get there, but I'm going to just trust the people around me to help me get me to where I'm supposed to be.

So, and that's kind of how I went about it.

Yeah, but I'm looking, you know, when you choose to do something, it is just you because track and feel is a really lonely is a, it's you versus you.

It's you and your thoughts.

It's you and your training.

It's you and your nutrition.

So everything is, it's dependent on you.

And ain't a whole lot of money in track and feel.

I mean, you can count it probably on like one hand, maybe a Usain that made a bunch of money or Simone Bowes or Michael Phelps, Michael Johnson, Carl Lewis.

It's not, you know, flush with money,

especially for the women.

And so what, why, why, I mean, I mean, obviously, you go to college, you're like, okay, I'm going to get a degree, but why track and feel?

You just had something deep down inside of you say, you know what?

I can make a living doing this.

Yeah.

And then I say it all the time: like, I just, like, this is, this is what I was, this is what I'm here to do.

Like, I'm here to run.

I'm here.

Yes.

This is my gift that I'm supposed to be sharing with the world.

And so, the minute I got an understanding of that and realized, like, obviously, the higher I go in the sport, the more sacrifices I'm going to have to make, the more I'm going to

be disciplined.

And like you say, like,

obviously, there's nowhere near as much money in our sport than there is in like football or basketball.

But it's also just

the resources that you do have, the money that you do have, being smart with that and

investing in yourself in order to make sure that you're becoming the best athlete that you could possibly be.

Like, I feel, and I feel like it was so easy for me because I grew up always not having the resources that everybody else had.

Never needed for anything.

I've always had what I needed, but when it came to like, you know, sports or the schools that I went to and things like that, we never had the same resources as the bigger schools so it was just like okay Melissa control the things that are in your control and then the things that are out of your control leave that to whoever it's supposed to be to and everything else will work itself out

Melissa I'm looking at you you're a thin you're a thin young lady um so obviously you had to get stronger you had to get and I and I know women don't want to hear this but you'll know exactly what I'm talking about you had to get bigger you had to get stronger you were not strong enough to carry that you needed to be able to to propel yourself down the track.

So women don't beat up.

Shanna Sharp call a woman big, say she need to get bigger.

But you'll understand what I'm talking about.

But you needed to grow.

You needed to fill that frame out.

And

you're still a thin young lady, but

you're probably, what, 15 pounds heavier than what you were probably in high school, college?

If that.

If that.

So what's crazy is, I think

weight-wise, well, and I was because

so yeah, I'm around the same way I was, but I'm definitely more muscular.

Yep, have more of the muscle mass that I'm supposed to have.

But I've definitely leaned out this year because I started working with the chef and everything and just like really paying attention to what I hear that everybody.

Wow, wow, oh Joe, she started working with a chef, and now she's the work.

Wait a minute, wait a minute.

She said she's working with a chef, she didn't say what she was eating.

She ain't eating bull jive, you don't look like that eating bull bull jive.

McDonald's.

You like McDonald's too?

I love McDonald's.

But, but, sorry, Yocho, I will say,

I have not been eating fast food.

The last time I had fast food was before my wedding in February, and I said I wouldn't have any fast food until after

I do all the things I want to do.

That's okay.

That's okay.

No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, try to change all the situations.

You heard what she said, right?

Did you hear what she said?

Did you hear what she said?

She hasn't had it since February.

That's okay, too, because she's preparing for tonight or yesterday, for that matter.

It's okay.

No, she ain't going to have no fast food until she gets back to the States.

But guess what?

She said, you know what?

You see, she said, you know what, Ocho?

You know what?

Let me cut this fast food out and let me see just how great i can be that ain't got nothing to do with it because she listen on she was fast while she was eating it

so

she's faster now that she's not eating it no you mad you mad because you

baby she just told you she hasn't had fast food since her baddie since that was she said february she's been fast all her life

she wasn't this fast

She wasn't this fast.

She was last year and the year before that.

No, she wasn't.

She ran 10-6 back to back eating McDonald's.

So, what you're saying?

Didn't she just tell you she hadn't had McDonald's since February?

She ran those times in June.

She did.

In July.

Chicken McNuggets.

I saw it.

But

so now you shift your focus to the 200.

There has not been a whole lot of women to win the world championship in the 102.

Has that crossed your mind?

You start putting yourself in very, very elite company.

Oh, yeah.

No, the goal this year is,

I won't say what's because it ain't done yet.

The goal of this year is to win everything.

Like

I set up, yep, I set out that goal at the beginning of the year when I talked with my coaches and I said, well, you know, obviously at first, like for the 200, because I'm a very realistic person too.

And I've fought back and forth with.

me running the 200 for a long time, but now I'm starting to embrace it.

So I'm like, okay, if you stop playing around then you can actually win the whole thing so

it went from that to just telling my coaches like I want to be able to take the 200 more serious to know I'm not only going to be like a contender like I want to be at the at the forefront you know like I want to be able to say like I came away with the gold medal and the 200 and I know that the only other woman to do so at a world championships is Shelly Ann Fraser Prime.

Shelly Ann,

who happens to be the greatest, she's the greatest sprinter.

She is back-to-back, 8-12.

She won gold, the gold medal.

And then she got five world championships in the 100.

And she won the 200.

So you're absolutely right.

That's why many label her the greatest woman sprinter in the history of the sport.

And it's hard.

Look, it's hard to deny it.

I know Elaine has won back-to-back 100th and 200s.

Bless her heart.

But when you look at the totality and the longevity, she won a world championship in 135.

I was in that race, by the way.

At last, I remember.

There.

Man, Melissa, we're happy.

Nightcap, the family is very happy, very pleased.

Congratulations.

Thank you.

Thank you for taking time out of your schedule to come on and talk to us.

But yay, this is not the end.

So what's next?

After the world championships is over, your season's over.

Now you go eat some McDonald's or you go get some oxtails or you go get some shrimp air too fast.

Oh, you from Low Country.

You down in georgetown near charleston so you going you going to eat some some some some oh rice neck bones that's what i'm talking about that's what i'm talking about and weights

she's down there them geeches she's down there georgetown she wear

see hey oh cho she'll tell you they got up when they when they brought us they got off the boat down there close to where she at

man congratulations i know everybody in south carolina is very proud of you.

We're proud of you.

We're extremely proud of what you've been able to do, but don't be satisfied.

Be greedy.

Oh, yeah.

Be greedy.

This is what I tell people.

They say, but man, they say, Shannon, if you cheat on the test, man, you don't want to get them all right.

I say, if I'm going to cheat, I'm getting 100.

You there now.

Don't be satisfied.

Well, I got one goal.

I'll happy if I win a silver.

The Bronx.

No, no, no, no, no, no.

Double gold.

Do something that very few, and we don't know how.

So think about it.

In the history of the World Championships, the World Championship started in 1983.

I don't know if you know this.

In 1983, in L C I know

only Shelly Ann has been able to back it up with the 100 and the two.

So you get an opportunity to do something that hadn't been in 40 years of world championships.

Woo!

It'd be special.

Congratulations.

Congratulations.

We're going to be pulling for you.

We're going to be watching.

Hey,

when you get that 200 gold,

come on back.

okay come on

back

all right we'll see you

jefferson wooden the olympic champ the uh world championship 100 meter gold medalist with the fourth fastest time ever run show us the medal yeah i was just about to say that

you should have had the medal on the whole oh you got it in the box there you go there you go look at it

oh it's not

yeah there we go there we go we can see it back back it up from the camera so it focuses back it up a little bit

okay

hold on Dick.

Let me just turn.

Right there.

Right there.

There you go.

There you go.

Nice.

Yep.

Got it last night.

Round of applause.

Melissa Jefferson Wood.

Congratulations.

Stay healthy.

Hey,

get all of them.

100, 200, 4x1.

They might need a leg.

They might need a leg on the 4x4, but I told them to hold off.

Please hold off.

If they want to win, they don't put me in there.

Not this year.

I need some time.

I need some time.

Well, congratulations.

Go enjoy the rest of the evening with your family and your husband.

Tell everybody at Nightcap, we said hello, and we look forward to talking to you very, very soon.

Thank you.

Thank you so much.

Melissa Jefferson Wooden.

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