Jake Humphrey

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Yeah, so you used the phrase there, Jay, the moral compass.

I think that's really what this episode is about, about how do you keep your moral compass pointing to a true north in a world that will constantly try and take you off course?

And I was lucky enough to speak to James Witts.

He's a brilliant journalist that's written a book that comes out called Dope.

And it's about the culture that surrounds elite sport where young athletes often get tempted to look for shortcuts, look for hacks, look for a quick route to the top that gets them onto that podium.

But it also involves injecting or...

imbibing different substances that are illegal.

And I wanted to talk around how can you keep your moral compass true?

Yeah, so, again, this is the thing that, like, how do you be a patient man in an impatient world?

How do you be a clean athlete in a world where you know other athletes are doping?

That's not a free decision to make.

I mean, it was a conversation we had with Usain Bolt, if you remember when we sat down with him.

We asked him about...

in the world that he operates in so many elite sprinters he's competed against the failed doping tests and what was his advice for any young athlete that thought that that was a path to tread it's worth listening to what he told us i i could i can never understand why you know i mean uh a lot of people don't want to wait their time i think because

Yeah, massively.

So as you'll hear in the interview with James, he talks about how the Enhanced Games is now selling...

kits that you can buy online anybody can do it that contain the substances that the athletes in the games are taking so you can get a similar physique to those athletes out there it's literally selling you this get fit quick message that is that is at the heart of so much of our society people thinking that

you can become a multi-millionaire overnight you write best sweat sellers um in a couple of months that everything comes to you easy when we know because 400 guests have told us that that what comes easy doesn't last what lasts doesn't necessarily come easy and i think sometimes going back to your first principles of going well actually i'm going to be patient i'm going to