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Caeleb Dressel And Ben Kennedy Release Debut Podcast

Braden Keith
by Braden Keith 5

November 21st, 2019 News

The Ben and Caeleb Show

Between a heavy training schedule and various ISL meets, Caeleb Dressel sat down with his former University of Florida teammate, and current best friend, Ben Kennedy to film a Q&A style podcast. Dressel, an elite professional athlete and Kennedy, a current law student opened up and gave some candid responses to a couple topics ranging from time management, to artificial intelligence.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85uXtpO_4ec

Among the topics discussed were how Dressel managed all of his swimming with his school work in high school and college.

Dressel’s tips

  • Make a checklist of what you need to accomplish in a day
  • Set reminders
  • Journal every night to record thoughts, conversations, how swim practice went, etc.
  • Focus on the present; don’t worry about the future
  • Don’t pull all-nighters
  • Make your bed every morning
  • Read at least 10 pages of a good book every day
  • Pick up one piece of trash every day

The two also discussed what has happened to Dressel’s relationships with non-swimmers and Kennedy’s relationships with non-law students in their current career paths.

The two also discussed “talent’ versus hard work, Dressel’s relationship with Gregg Troy, and tell several anecdotes about their swimming.

Dressel recalled that when entering his senior year in college, there was a big expectation of him to break the 18 second mark in the SCY 50 free. Despite many people saying that he would be the first person to swim a 17.9, he believed that he had it in him to swim a 17.6.

Dressel went on to tell a story about a time that he vocalized his frustration with a former teammate who repeatedly showed up late for practice one week. He refers to the teammate as “Santy” and we believe that he is referring to Santiago Corredor, who Dressel swam with at UF. “If you were here on time, you would have heard the coach say the warmup” he said, clearly having no time for those who consistently show up late.

Dressel contrasted this mindset by explaining that if someone is clearly having a bad day or a bad practice, he does not see value in chastising them.

He then went on to share a bit of wisdom that fellow Olympian Katie Meili imparted to him: the days you are hurting, on the worst day or worst practice, try to find just one thing to work on, be it turns, breakouts, or any small thing and make that your focus.

They also discussed their opinions on the new NCAA regulations allowing athletes to get paid for the use of their likeness, to which Dressel said “I don’t know enough about it, I really don’t”

After briefly hypothesizing about the trials, tribulations and benefits of allowing NCAA athletes to make money, the conversation switched from swimming to video games. Dressel noted that this change would likely mean a return of the NCAA football video game that he once adored. The response ended with a ranking of his top 3 favorite video games from when he was aged 10-12.

  1. NCAA Football
  2. Blitz (2001)
  3. Super Smash Bros

The talk wasn’t all about swimming, though. Kennedy discussed his experiences and gave some advice about law school, and the two took a dive into some heavy topics like artificial intelligence, and finding purpose.

In signing off, Dressel said that he hopes that he hopes the viewers enjoyed it and that it helps viewers to become better people.

 

 

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Sapnu puas
4 years ago

“Current best friend” made me cackle

Zeb
4 years ago

Loved watching. Thank you Caleb and Ben and I hope to see more.

Nswim
4 years ago

Super smash bros, isn’t that just the nickname that Pebley and Murphy use for themselves

hungarianflynasty
4 years ago

But can it be found wherever podcasts are found!

remel can do anything
Reply to  hungarianflynasty
4 years ago

caeleb’s youtube channel

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Braden Keith

Braden Keith is the Editor-in-Chief and a co-founder/co-owner of SwimSwam.com. He first got his feet wet by building The Swimmers' Circle beginning in January 2010, and now comes to SwimSwam to use that experience and help build a new leader in the sport of swimming. Aside from his life on the InterWet, …

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