welcome to princeton tonight i need host marcello brooks we've got a great show for you all here tonight our guest this month competed at the rio olympics this past summer he's distance runner robbie andrews and i'll be sitting down with him in just a few minutes we've got to musical guest tonight one broadway and one bluegrass plus we've got stand up sketches and more is going to be a great show and to get it started we have a special on the street segment for you featuring magicians take a look hey everyone we're back with princeton tonight marcello luke sitting down here with our special guest this month a libyan rob rob thanks so much for being here today of course now robbie you were a man in pure physical shape you are so fit it is incredible beyond there it is what i don't know michelangelo made when he constructed the statue of david what do you do to train so to train what's your process like obviously lots of running and yeah  know it's a given you know we i'm a volunteer system with the princeton team here and you know we do we do lots of stuff we do lots of lots of running we do lots of med ball stuff we do lots of stretching  yoga as much as i love yoga pants no yoga really we do a lot of hurdle mobility so you know hip hip flexibility but i'd say for the most part running so if i want to be as good in shape as you are those are the steps honestly the relatively unexpected yeah so as a as a junior in high school yeah i was i was good you know but i was by no means like the best in the country and then i remember getting recruiting calls from coaches and they were they said what are your goals this year and i said well i want to say i want to set a thousand metre record indoors wow and one of them laughed at me yeah he said wow you're not going to need to say i didn't go to that school yet but i showed him and you know i worked with my dad and we and we you know we set this big goal and we achieved it and it's it's that's honestly one of the most satisfying satisfy fine feelings in in anything but especially in track and field wow well that's incredible and then moving on from from high school you ended up going to university of virginia chris and so did you when you went to uva were you i guess cognizant the fact that the you were going to try to keep running and you went for wonderful school it was very challenging for me and i you know my my grades got better as i got older good which is you want that yeah yeah might i say when you start when you start pretty low it's easy to get better  took me a while to figure to figure the school out you know and the best studying tactics for me but you know i cared a lot about school you know i want to be a teacher when i went on in a couple years so you know i carol i care a lot about school and i you know it was very challenging for me but i you know i appreciate that yeah that's wonderful and while you were at school you measure set in what you managed to win a championship and see double a indoor and outdoor correct eight hundred meters and i had the chance to watch one of yeah yeah it's been years ago but you know if you if you watch the race and i'm just a young kid wide eyed and you know ready to tackle the world and i was i raced i enjoyed reading who got second he was he was my idol growing up and you know he so he he made the olympic team in two thousand and eight i was i was in the stands watching him qualify for the olympics that year well and he was so to be able to to be on the same track as him alone has been wow let alone racing him incredible  of the the catalyst for the rest of my career really so at that moment you realize well this is another thing that i want to do professionally absolutely wow and so you ended up doing that just that about a year later after you you decided that it would be the time to go pro or to almost two years to get on well in march march first two thousand and twelve is when i went pro well yeah tell us a little about that that decision so obviously catalyzed by that win but and the coach jason vigilante who's now the coach at princeton he was uva at the time or he was in charlottesville at the time and i you know i really wanted to make an olympic team i really wanted to be an olympian that was made for a very long time and i felt like i had a great opportunity to pursue a professional career i had won two titles already it's when your stock so high you know a kid how much higher could it have gotten me yeah and  really spent just training as hard as you could to make sure that you were able to make that twenty sixteen team it was it was more of a mental training a mile journey you know than than physical i still haven't run faster than i did a the four years went by slowly and quickly at the same time yeah yeah so but so then by the time that you had made it to rio you know what was going through your mind and what was that experience like being in brazil with the u s olympic team working that ralph the red sweater you know walking into that incredible stadium and realizing oh wow this is i am i mean olympian now i'm a limp athlete the my time at uva help me fit in with the ok i by and it was it was truly special yeah you know there's only so many you know it was so special representing your country that's that's the biggest honor that a person can have in my opinion and  and you know i want to go back right i'm hungry for more right that's good to hear what was it like spending time with all these other athletes from from around the world those who are the best at what they do it was it was very enlightening yeah to meet so many people and so many talented and accomplished people because you walk around in any given person you look at could be a world champion right could be the next water polo star you know it was very i learned a lot from one people you know and it  was something that i'll never forget my conversations and experiences yeah yeah i know ultimately your time in rio did not go as planned but you are still preparing for the next olympics absolutely ok and so is there when you're not training when you're not not doing yoga what else do you do what's what's a day in the life of of a professional runner i watch a lot of office that's all a favorite show yeah and just a lot of resting and relaxing for  next training session it's not a glamorous life i say oh not glamorous i don't know if you've got the adidas sponsorship but you get to sit at home and watch the office like it would be a fun place to be well thank you very yeah robby it is such a pleasure to have you here on th show and i'm really glad you had to be here robbie because it's funny we've actually intended to interview you in a totally different setting so we want to interview in your natural habitat actually on a run way really right so obviously it was stupid of us to think that we could catch up with him on foot that goes without saying he's a libyan but i got the scooter now so i'll be totally fine there is now well we're glad we got you in the studio seems like any do a lot more work and maybe even try out some yoga but thank you so much for coming robbie it's really been a pleasure thanks for being on for instance and i thank you very much for having me appreciate it of course up next on princeton tonight is our first musical g tonight's episode he's an award winning singer who joined us to record a medley of broadway hits and he's a very good friend of mine we're proud to present sam gra i used to work for kaplan the s a t got pretty and this was a policy they told me on day two they said never say that a given answer is wrong instead i can't believe we say that it's the right answer to a different question what why that's not helpful michael what's the square root of sixteen is it eleven yes you're right michael if i have been asking you something completely different from what i was asking you seemed to me that sounds a lot worse than just know you are wrong why do companies insist on treating customers like they're some kind of god i think yelp might be partially to blame this summer i got really into yelp because a psychic moved into the street to my houses literally right around the bend and i looked up as you would and  the first page of google has a big page of her yelp reviews her name by the way the somewhat unlikely psychic readings by brianna here is my favorite  do not go she's a fake house a smelly half dozen men and children running around no furniture she flipped through the deck of cards and i timed it four minutes most of the time she was asking me questions guessing wildly she predicted the future orbits but consumer reports says not to trust anyone who takes less than five and a half because apparently it takes the same amount of time to tell the future a soft boiled that there's another reviewer by the way who was really upset about where they met all psychics of course are supposed to meet in a graveyard at midnight under a full moon she told me she was not in her office because of cold weather but i am sure she has no office i had a strong feeling that she was just guessing she was trying to fish information out of the which a real psychic like yes i'm trained in the ancient type canucks but only as far back as the year after apple released the personal computer doesn't really work my favorite kinds of reviews though are the ones where the psychic is obviously made some kind of concrete prediction which has come true for example this one this not only predicted all sorts of awful events like my mother dying which hasn't happened this is a pretty bad thing to be wrong about your mother will die within a month no she didn't actually the captain to me doesn't want to say that you want to say you would be right if only you had been speaking about some other kind of significant our last piece of tonight's program features an amazing musical guest we sent a crew to philadelphia to interview the infamous string dusters an awesome bluegrass band but before we get to that here's an all new prince and tonight sketch take a look all right let's go to the real catarina from princeton tonight we're here backstage at the world cafe lies in philadelphia about to go an exclusive interview with a couple of the band members from the infamous string busters phone me when we catch up with them before the show all right style influenced by other others like we all have you know different influences musically and you know i think that you know what with as we've evolved as a band i think we've allowed all these influences whether it love it so much over the years and you know we we do our own thing but we also do bluegrass sort of the old school way once or twice  terminology but i'll take it yes no it's number one on bluegrass billboard yeah which is which is really cool because there's a lot of great music out there and there are more artists doing you know what we do now range from you know short songs are just all about the vocal message and maybe there's a few little instrumental bits and pieces to all the songs that are completely instrumental and then some of both of those the instrumental and the vocal songs will have sections that are designed for us to explore basically this time around though we i think we do our best job yet of capturing something that there are there are three or four song that how these sections that are like i said built for power group improvisation and so those are ones that will take a few passes out just because you know the song the same way every time you really you know what you're doing but if you've got this exploratory section you don't know how long it's going to be you know we're relying on some cue from a certain player who's leading the charge and you just take a few passes and try to capture the magic of the stud well i think you know one of the things challenges sometimes that all bands face me going to the studio is trying to capture the sort of the live energy and having translate on to sound recording and you know we've we have on there called gravity there's few other songs that reference a similar concept won again gravity specifically but it's kind of to me here it's songs of a few different themes that you know related to all sort of growing up a little bit as a band that has people you know things get a little bit heavier and start again to a phase in our lives where our music maybe means a little bit more as a little bit