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Lunch with the Clydesdale - Where are We in this Season? · Clydesdale Media Podcast

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what is going on everybody
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it is lunch time it is
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lunch with the clydesdale
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it's where we take a little
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time out of our work day to
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just relax hang out with
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each other talk about stuff
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around entertainment sports
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and especially crossfit
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space I'm so good to be
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with you this afternoon
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what is going on everybody
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I noticed that um dave in
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his week in reviews now is
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turning and throwing a dart
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at a dartboard and
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have a dartboard like right
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there so I figured what the
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heck right totally missed
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everything and just put the
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dart right in the wall so
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there we go um that did not
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go well um but anyway I
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tried it maybe I'll try
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again tomorrow and
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hopefully I will hit the
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the dartboard itself or
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even the cork board around
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the dartboard because I
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missed all of that wow
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anyway uh cat is in the chat
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what's up lex what's going
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on jody jay birch um cat
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next catching feelings
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episode is going to be
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crazy friday night antics
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to report when is catching
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feelings not crazy that's
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that's what I gotta say
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Um, so yeah,
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so cool to be with you guys today.
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Um,
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I kind of like I had nothing and now
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all of a sudden I have a lot.
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Uh, the first thing I'm going to say is,
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man, this weekend, it was really, really,
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um, a nice weekend here in Ohio.
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And I got a lot of yard work done.
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We actually had to mow our
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grass for the first time, uh, this year.
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And I had a lot of leaves from the winter.
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And so I was trying to get
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them up off the lawn and I
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was dumping them into our
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waste barrel and all that stuff came up.
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My allergies were crazy.
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So Saturday night I took a
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break and I ended up
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watching A Complete Unknown,
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the Timothee Chalamet movie
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about Bob Dylan.
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And I just wanted to give
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you my thoughts on the movie.
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was nominated for an academy
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award timothy chalamet was
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nominated um as well as uh
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some of the cast ed norton
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stuff like that so um
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anyway uh julie and I
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watched the movie I I would
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give it an a I thought it
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was really well done um it
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was really artistically
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done uh the actors were
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amazing throughout the the movie um
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The person who played Joan
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Baez did a great job.
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She's actually in Top Gun
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Maverick as the female pilot in Top Gun.
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Her and Timothee Chalamet
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reportedly did all the
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singing in the movie,
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which was really cool.
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And I thought that...
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I thought it was really, really good.
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What I will tell you is,
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and I actually saw another
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critic say this,
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that it's really a tribute
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to Bob Dylan music because
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they let the songs play
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pretty long throughout the movie,
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unlike other movies where
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you just get like a snippet of it.
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And so if you like the Bob
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Dylan music and you like what he's done,
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I think it's,
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you'll really enjoy the movie.
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And it kind of really just
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highlights a small section of his career,
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uh,
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from the time he gets to New York to
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the time he goes electric, uh,
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which is probably about a
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three and a half, four year timeframe.
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Uh,
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At the end of the movie,
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I don't think I know any
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more about Bob Dylan, the man.
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But I know a lot about his
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music and his inspirations
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and what he was trying to accomplish.
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And I thought that was...
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thought that was good if
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you're looking for
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something where you you
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think you're gonna get a
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backstory of bob dylan
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that's probably not for you
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um but it is if you like
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his music and you want to
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see what his inspirations
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were and what he was trying
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to accomplish um it was
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really good and I would say
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the acting across the board
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was phenomenal um so I
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really enjoyed that
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um lex asked if anybody's
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seen the black mirror is
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that the demi moore movie
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lex I I've heard that it's
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it's very interesting um
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and I've I've wanted to
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check it out but I have not seen it yet
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jody says a complete unknown
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was great uh there's shea
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coming in with a happy
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monday um and jay birch
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would know if it was more
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oscar worthy than anora in
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my opinion it was way
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better than anora um
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But again,
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I think it depends on what
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you're looking for.
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If you're looking for a
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biopic about the man,
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you're probably not going
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to come out satisfied
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because they don't really talk about him,
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the person.
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But they do talk about his
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influences and meeting
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Woody Guthrie and Pete
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Seeger and how he kind of
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got pigeonholed in the folk
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scene and then how he tried
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to kind of bust out of that.
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Yeah.
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Lex says, no, it's a Netflix series,
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British Twilight Zone.
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I'm like, hmm.
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I may check that out.
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I'm kind of caught up on some things,
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so maybe I'll have to check that out.
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Train to Live says the movie
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G-T-G-T-O on Prime was pretty good.
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Not award-worthy.
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Okay.
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We also watched, speaking of...
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good, not award worthy,
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I would say The Life List.
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My wife and I watched that
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yesterday afternoon.
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Again, after doing some yard work,
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we came in and cooled off with that.
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Very cute movie.
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I think it was a little long
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for what it was.
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And
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It could have been cut down,
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but I loved the premise behind it.
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I loved the storyline.
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I thought Connie Britton was
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really good in it.
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And it's on Netflix.
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It's a Netflix original
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called The Life List.
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And it's really... The
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premise behind it is that...
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girl has given up on her
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dreams and her mother finds
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a way to force her to go
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back and look at a list she
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made when she was thirteen
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and go back after her
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dreams and I think it's
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it's a really good
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entertaining movie again
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not award-worthy in my
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opinion but it was a good
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watch a good watch for sure
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lex's I did not like that
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movie it was a bit much
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yeah I think they went on
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too long in a lot of this
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the situations um I think
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yeah I think they could
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have made it more concise
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uh and a little bit tighter
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but um but I was I was
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really tired after two days
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of yard work and lack of
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sleep on sunday night so I
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was just looking for
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something to entertain me
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and it did enough there for that
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was cute not great is what I
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would put that in as my
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assessment of the movie so
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um before I get into a
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little bit of crossfit
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stuff did you guys realize
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that taxes are due tomorrow
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because I totally brain
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farted on that um I for
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some reason thought they
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were due next month
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Um,
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I think with everything going on with
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my mom and her stroke and
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all that kind of stuff,
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I totally brain farted and
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have forgotten that I need to do taxes.
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Uh,
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so I got up early this morning before
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work and I knocked out
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about a fourth of my taxes.
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I'm going to have to do
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another chunk tonight.
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Hopefully I can get through it all.
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Um,
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I'm to the business expenses
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of the podcast.
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And once I get that done,
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then it should be smooth
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sailing the rest of the way.
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But yeah,
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it's getting all the receipts and
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everything from the year
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into TurboTax so I can get
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those off and not be late on my filing.
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But dang, completely,
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completely forgot about it.
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I cannot believe I did that.
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Lex,
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I really was not trying to wait till
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the last day this year.
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I was trying.
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I thought I had a month.
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I was actually going to do
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them next weekend over
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Easter when I had some time downtime.
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And I don't know why I
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thought May fifteenth with
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Corey moving to Montana and my mom.
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I just like it just totally
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escaped my brain.
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And now I'm in now I'm in full panic mode.
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So last thing I was going to say is,
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you know,
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last week I talked about my game
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show addiction.
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I saw a little article about
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a woman who won a car on Price is Right,
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and she walked people
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through the process of what
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happens when you win a car
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on the Price is Right.
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And something that I kind of
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guessed happened,
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but I didn't know what happened,
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is that when you win a car
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on the Price is Right, you get a choice.
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You get to either take the car you won,
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right, that car,
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or they will give you a
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voucher to go to the
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dealership that donated the car.
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And then you can pick any
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car of equal value or use
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that voucher to pay for a
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majority of the car or whatever.
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And, um, and you get to go do that.
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And this woman did that.
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She had won like a Nissan on
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the show and went and
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actually bought a Toyota
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RAV four with the voucher
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that the prices right gave you.
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And I just thought that was
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interesting that you
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actually do get to pick
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kind of what you want after the fact,
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if you choose to just take, um, uh,
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if you get to take the
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voucher instead of the actual car.
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But it's your choice at that
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moment in time.
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Speaking of taxes,
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I've known about Tax Day for months,
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still refuse to deal with it.
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So apparently Jody is filing an extension.
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My tax lady said winning
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money at the games was
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still an overall loss.
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I am sure that it was, Denise.
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I'm sure that it was.
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You age group athletes do a
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lot of things out of love of the game.
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That is for sure.
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So speaking of love of the game,
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I was listening to Wilson
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Park this morning.
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on the savant podcast.
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And I was amazed at all the
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things that they're going
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to offer at the syndicate
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crown this year to try to
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make it more entertaining.
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and I'm just gonna pull up
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their instagram right now
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um because I love what they
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are doing they're trying to
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find um fun things for
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people to do in and around
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uh the in-person qualifying
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event so they're having uh
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teams uh the teams will go on
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Saturday and Sunday, two events each day.
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Wilson says that they are
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trying to schedule them as
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much as possible,
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that they do not conflict
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with any of the elite individual events.
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And if you sign up with your
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team and there's a couple spots left,
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you will actually get a
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free ticket to the Syndicate Crown.
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So they actually have the
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events already posted.
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There's the four events that
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will happen in the pairs event.
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So if you're so inclined,
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you can come compete and
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then you get a free ticket
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to the Syndicate Crown.
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I think that they've done
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something similar to that in the past.
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I'm sure people have heard
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that they're doing a kill
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taylor live um at the event
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what I didn't know is uh
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taylor and nine other
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athletes who through the
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kill taylor program got
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selected will compete live
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on the floor uh with one of
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the workouts from the syndicate crown
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when they are done then the
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elite athletes will take
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the floor any athlete that
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beats taylor either in that
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initial heat or the elite
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athletes in the next three
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heats will win I think
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wilson said five hundred
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dollars a piece um that's
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pretty amazing so even the
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elite athletes if they beat
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taylor while they are
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competing will win money uh
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in that kill taylor
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So then in addition to that,
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they announced this,
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which is the J Y barbell challenge.
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And they're doing the same
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thing with John Young on heavy Isabel.
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John Young will take the
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competition floor with nine
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other athletes.
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They will do heavy Isabel.
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And then the elite athletes
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will follow immediately after, um,
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doing the exact same workout.
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And so, one,
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you get to see how regular Joes do it,
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and then the elite athletes.
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They did not say anything
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about this having prize
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money associated with it.
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But we'll see what happens
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when it gets time for event time.
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But if you do sign up to be
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one of the other athletes...
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that take on heavy Isabel with John,
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you actually will get like
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a free t-shirt and he is
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going to do weightlifting
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clinics as well with the participants.
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So pretty cool there.
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And Wilson is one of the
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nicest guys in sport.
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So I always like to support
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him and the syndicate crown.
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They do a great job.
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They really tried to put in
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the extra effort to make it
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like an overall event.
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And I've said to people a long time,
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my favorite time of the
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season is the semifinal
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season before we got to
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this year and whatever this
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is going to be called now.
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semifinals are so so um
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pressure filled because
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people are trying to get
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their ticket to the games
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that I think it's more
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exciting than the actual
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games themselves to go watch
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And I said that a lot last year.
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And last year at the Syndicate crowd,
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I was stopped by people who
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had listened to the show and said,
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you know what,
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we decided to come and we
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realized you are right.
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It is so much more fun to
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hang out at a semifinal
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event than it is to go to the games.
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They had done both and they
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completely agreed.
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I just think it's more intimate.
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You're closer to the floor.
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The athletes are just walking around.
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You have kind of more access
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to everything.
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Vendor Village is mostly smaller,
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but easy to get around.
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Usually there's food trucks.
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So it should be a fun time
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if you decide to go to the
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Syndicate Crown or TFX or
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any of the semifinals that
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are out there and available.
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What I love about Wilson is
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I've met him a few times.
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He's a great dude.
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Anytime I text him, he responds within ten,
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fifteen minutes.
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I get stuff back from him
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almost immediately.
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Shay asked if I'm going.
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That is the plan.
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My wife will be about four weeks post-op.
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So if she is up and able to
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move around on her own,
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I will be going to the Syndicate Crown.
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So...
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That is the only thing that
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is dependent on my
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attendance at Syndicate.
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I always like to throw my
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support behind them.
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They're just a good bunch of
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guys and girls,
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and I always have a good time there.
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And I think it's a really
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cool venue for CrossFit
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because the seats are
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elevated probably twelve
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feet off the floor.
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So everybody gets a good
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seat kind of looking down on the floor.
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So yeah, it's a great little event.
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And Knoxville is a six-hour drive for me.
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So I can do that in a weekend, no problem.
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So it should be a good time.
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So there is that.
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I also like the fact that Syndicate is...
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has the rule that if you
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qualify for the games you
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are out of their event and
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it'll make it a much more
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seamless um event that you can cheer for
18:39
the athletes know that if
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they make the podium or
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they make the top two,
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they are going to the games.
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It's not going to be one of
18:45
these if-then-else statements.
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It is going to be just, hey,
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they finished top two,
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they're going to the games.
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And I really like that,
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that they're giving those
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opportunities to the people
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who really need it at that
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point in time in the season.
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I also wanted to...
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finish up a little bit about
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what we talked about last
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night on the show.
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And then we got a really
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in-depth conversation.
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Denise would called in and
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was a part of it.
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And that was what happened
19:21
at Mayhem with the judging
19:24
and the expired judging certificates.
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What I've kind of learned in
19:30
the process in the last
19:33
twelve hours or so is that
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one of the main reasons
19:37
that is so many is it was a
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head judge that did not
19:42
have the proper credentials.
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And because that head judge didn't,
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then everybody in that heat
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uh didn't have a credential
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judge as a head judge so
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that's why the numbers are
19:55
so big because it wasn't
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just um direct judges um
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right there with the athlete
20:04
counting the reps and
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judging the reps themselves,
20:08
that it was a head judge,
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especially in the one person's case,
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he was saying that their
20:16
whole heat got zeroed out
20:18
because the head judge was
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not credentialed.
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Again,
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I think that the AFJ is trying to do
20:27
a good thing.
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I think that they can take a
20:31
lot off of a competition
20:33
director's plate by
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supplying them with judges
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because getting judges is so hard.
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I know that when I have been
20:47
at events and Kat was the
20:49
competition director,
20:50
getting judges is not easy.
20:52
So when you have an
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organization that's willing
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to come in for a fee and
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supply those judges,
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that makes life so much easier.
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But you can't keep making
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these missteps and costing
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people trips to the games
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and expect to be that for
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people moving forward.
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So, again...
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I am friends with a lot of
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these people that are
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members of the AFJ because
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I've judged with them in different events,
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dating all the way back to
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twenty eighteen.
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And I like them as people.
21:31
And I think what they are
21:33
doing is a good thing.
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They just can't make these
21:36
mistakes anymore.
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They just can't.
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Denise says,
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I bet that head judge feels like crap.
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No way would anyone want to
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have that happen?
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My thing is, you know, you know,
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when your credentials are expired,
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I know mine go the end of this year.
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My certification expires in
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December of twenty twenty five.
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I've had my L one for it'll
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be ten years and.
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at the end of this year,
22:13
and I know that it expires.
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CrossFit does not let you forget.
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You get reminders that, hey,
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do you want to renew?
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Hey, do you want to renew?
22:23
And if you are part of an
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organization trying to
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build themselves up to be
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the elite judges of the space,
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and you are a head judge,
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that's just so negligent.
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You knew.
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You knew.
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You had to know.
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You had to know.
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You had to know.
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That's all I got to say.
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You had to know.
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There's no excuse there.
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And the fact that you were a
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head judge and if you're
23:00
running a heat of ten
23:02
people and you've just
23:05
basically disqualified ten
23:06
people because you didn't
23:10
go renew your thing.
23:15
I mean, come on.
23:19
I'm sorry.
23:23
Denise says, I'm new to the L-I process.
23:26
You get your L-I,
23:28
you have it for five years,
23:31
and when you're in that
23:34
final year of your L-I,
23:36
you get reminders from CrossFit saying,
23:39
hey, your L-I is about to expire.
23:41
Would you like to renew it?
23:42
Would you like to go for your L-II?
23:45
And they really do like a
23:46
big marketing push at
23:47
trying to push you up to
23:49
the L-two or give you the
23:52
option to do the L-one again.
23:56
But especially if you're a judge,
23:58
like to be able to judge at the games,
24:00
you have to have your L-one.
24:02
To be able to judge at a CrossFit event,
24:05
I think you have to have your L-one.
24:08
At semifinals,
24:08
definitely in the past you
24:10
had to have it.
24:12
Now these off season things
24:14
that varies from
24:16
competition to competition,
24:17
but the L one is in an essential piece.
24:20
If you want to be a high
24:21
level judge in the space,
24:26
Denise asks if the CEUs help you renew.
24:29
They do not help at the lower levels.
24:30
The CEUs are for a CrossFit
24:32
level three CrossFit level four.
24:36
Now they're the CEUs help
24:38
you maintain your your
24:41
credential but at level
24:43
ones and level twos the
24:44
CEUs do not extend your your time.
24:54
So.
24:55
um.
24:58
And I actually thought that
24:59
Denise made a great point
25:00
last night that we only had
25:02
about two-thirds of the
25:04
people actually pay to play
25:06
at the semifinal level in the age groups.
25:09
And many of those people may
25:11
have done that because they
25:13
couldn't get the judges
25:14
they needed to get.
25:16
And then when CrossFit goes
25:17
ahead and makes an
25:18
exception for these people
25:20
who used a judge that was
25:22
not credentialed,
25:27
it really stinks for those
25:28
people who may have given
25:30
up their dream this year
25:31
because they couldn't get
25:33
the judges in place or they
25:34
couldn't get to an affiliate or, um,
25:37
all of that.
25:37
And it just seems weird that
25:39
CrossFit would make an
25:39
exception on one side and
25:41
maybe not on the other.
25:42
And I thought that she made
25:43
an excellent point on that last night.
25:46
Um,
25:47
that meant that I know Carolyn
25:49
completely agreed with, um,
25:52
when she said it.
25:53
So it was a great show last night.
25:56
Really fun.
25:58
We had two call-ins.
26:03
We had nice discussions
26:05
about a lot of things.
26:07
I thought it was really a
26:08
fun show last night.
26:09
And thank you, Denise, for calling in.
26:11
Thank you to Lynn for calling in.
26:14
And everybody just
26:15
participating in the chat.
26:16
It made it really a good time.
26:21
So
26:23
So, yeah,
26:25
I think it just stinks that it
26:26
happened at this really
26:28
cool event where Mayhem
26:29
tried to do something cool
26:30
for their athletes by
26:32
having judges there for
26:33
them and do this thing.
26:36
And then it turns into a
26:38
fiasco because a couple of
26:40
the judges didn't have
26:43
credentials that were valid.
26:46
It just really stinks.
26:48
It's.
26:52
And I know it's the onus of the athlete,
26:55
and I'm telling you,
26:56
I talked to one of the athletes today.
26:59
I'm sure they are never
27:00
going to let this happen
27:01
again now that they've
27:03
learned their lesson by
27:05
having their score zeroed out.
27:09
Crazy, just crazy.
27:13
So that is that.
27:17
Um,
27:18
the last thing I want to talk about is
27:19
I just love sports.
27:20
Um,
27:21
the masters yesterday was awesome to
27:23
watch.
27:23
I I've said on here before,
27:25
I watch a couple hours of golf a year.
27:28
Um,
27:28
and it's usually the masters in one
27:30
other tournament.
27:31
Um,
27:33
The way that golf ends these tournaments,
27:37
these majors,
27:39
where guys choke and then
27:40
hit incredible shot and
27:41
then choke and then hit incredible shot,
27:44
it is the most frustrating
27:46
but exhilarating thing to watch.
27:49
Um,
27:50
but what I love is that unlike movies
27:52
or TV shows,
27:53
you never know how it's going to end.
27:56
Um,
27:57
and so you are just waiting for the
28:00
next shoe to drop.
28:02
And the masters did that yesterday.
28:04
And it just reminded me why
28:07
I love watching sports.
28:10
Why?
28:11
And that's why I love watching CrossFit,
28:12
right?
28:13
I love watching, uh,
28:18
Because especially in these
28:20
last... Other than Tia,
28:23
you don't know who's going
28:24
to win at major events.
28:26
And when that's... The men's
28:29
division right now is so wide open.
28:32
Anybody could win it.
28:35
And that's what makes it awesome.
28:36
You don't know the ending to the story.
28:39
Now, if Tia's there,
28:41
it makes things a little
28:41
bit different on the women's side.
28:44
But...
28:48
But man, I just love it.
28:50
I love it.
28:52
Um, so yeah.
28:56
So anyway,
28:56
don't forget taxes are due tomorrow.
29:00
Um,
29:02
Denise said, what a finish.
29:03
My husband was crying
29:04
watching Rory walk to get his jacket.
29:07
I got goosebumps.
29:08
When Rory fell and started
29:10
shaking on the ground,
29:12
I had goosebumps all over.
29:14
I've told you guys I've been
29:15
watching Full Swing,
29:17
and the last episode of
29:18
season one is all about Rory.
29:22
And leading up to that episode, he's...
29:26
He's dabbled in there a
29:27
little bit because of what
29:28
was going on with live and
29:29
how Rory stepped up kind of against live.
29:34
And if you don't know much
29:35
about that story,
29:36
like I didn't know some of
29:38
the intricacies,
29:39
but it talks a lot about
29:41
live being Saudi money and
29:43
how the Saudi money, this,
29:45
how they Saudis are using
29:47
sports to try to wash away
29:51
some of the atrocities that
29:52
happen in their country.
29:55
And that's why it was so controversial,
29:56
because in some ways they
29:59
looked at the Saudi money as blood money.
30:02
And when the golfers were
30:04
leaving to go to live to do that,
30:06
it wasn't simply because it
30:08
was a place that paid them more.
30:10
There was a lot of political
30:12
ramifications behind it all.
30:15
the way they treat women um
30:18
so some of the people that
30:19
were at the head of live
30:21
had murdered people in the
30:22
past and it was and rory
30:26
really stepped up against
30:27
that and in some ways at
30:30
the expense of his own game
30:34
Um,
30:35
and so that's the first season of full
30:37
swing.
30:38
It's a lot about golfers
30:40
being poached to live Rory
30:42
kind of stepping up and
30:43
being the leader of the
30:44
guys that were staying with the PGA.
30:47
Um, and, and so it's more than just golf.
30:52
It's really a lot about what
30:55
was happening in Saudi
30:57
Arabia and the Saudi money.
31:00
And what's fascinating to me
31:01
now is there are rumors
31:03
that there is a Saudi
31:05
organization wanting to buy CrossFit.
31:08
And I don't know what the
31:09
political structure is in
31:11
Saudi Arabia right now,
31:12
but I'm assuming it hasn't
31:13
changed a lot in the last four years.
31:16
Um,
31:17
and so it makes me wonder if the same
31:21
stuff is happening,
31:22
like buying CrossFit is another way to,
31:26
um, they call it sports washing.
31:28
Are they trying to sports
31:30
wash what's happening?
31:33
by buying a legit fitness company,
31:36
a fitness methodology.
31:40
I really want to kind of
31:42
dive into that and see as
31:44
we move forward in the sale of CrossFit.
31:47
But it was really crazy,
31:49
the parallels between what
31:51
was happening in the golf
31:52
circuit with Full Swing and
31:54
what may be coming with
31:57
CrossFit and its sale and
32:00
who may be buying it.
32:02
um and that's about the most
32:06
political I've been on this
32:07
show um because like I said
32:10
last week I work for state
32:12
government both parties
32:15
have been good and bad I
32:17
don't really have a leaning
32:20
one way or another anymore
32:21
because of that um
32:24
But yeah,
32:25
it was really fascinating to
32:26
watch in this full swing.
32:29
But it really made me
32:30
respect and admire Rory for
32:33
what he had done.
32:35
And so yesterday it made
32:36
watching that Masters
32:38
moment really special for
32:39
me and gave me a lot of
32:41
goosebumps when he ended up winning.
32:45
So full swing is really well done.
32:50
even just if you want to
32:51
look at it from the
32:53
documentary standpoint of
32:54
how they highlight these athletes, um,
32:57
and you get to know them
32:58
and what it does for them on the tour.
33:01
Now that people know them
33:03
and you have a rooting interest,
33:04
just watching that first season,
33:06
like I rooted for Rory way
33:07
harder than I have ever
33:08
done in my life because, um, because
33:16
I got to know him.
33:16
I got to know the man
33:18
through this documentary series.
33:20
And that means I wanted him to do better.
33:23
I think that's what happened
33:24
back in the day with Road to the Games.
33:26
We learned about these
33:28
athletes on their way up.
33:31
And then when you learn about them,
33:33
then you root for them and
33:34
they become like your favorite.
33:36
And that's what's been
33:37
missing from this space for a long time.
33:42
And I hope we get it back.
33:44
Hiller's trying.
33:45
Hiller's doing some stuff
33:46
that I think is really, really good.
33:51
And so hopefully it keeps
33:53
going in that direction.
33:58
Denise, I got to go watch full swing now.
34:00
Just need to renew my Netflix.
34:02
There's four seasons out there.
34:03
I'm only through season one, Denise.
34:06
Um, so yeah, it's really good.
34:08
I really enjoyable.
34:10
Um, I think you'll,
34:11
especially you're a golfer.
34:14
Um, I think you will really,
34:15
really enjoy it.
34:18
Uh, trained to live.
34:19
What do you think the
34:20
repercussions for those judges will be?
34:23
I don't know if there will be any, um,
34:28
The judges are volunteers
34:30
for the most part.
34:32
And this organization,
34:44
I don't know who is in charge of the AFJ.
34:48
I think I know.
34:50
I think I know who's in
34:51
charge of some of it and
34:53
who's put it together.
34:55
But it's a lot of
34:56
speculation and I don't
34:57
have verification.
35:00
But I wouldn't be surprised.
35:06
I think that one of the
35:07
judges who was not
35:08
credentialed is one of the
35:10
people running the AFJ.
35:13
I don't know that for a fact.
35:16
But I strongly believe that.
35:20
So if you're one of the ones
35:21
running the AFJ and you're
35:23
one of the people who did it wrong,
35:25
who's there to punish you?
35:30
Because you're volunteers.
35:31
You're just a contractor
35:33
hired in by Mayhem.
35:35
In most events, you're just a volunteer.
35:38
You're not being paid for anything.
35:40
So I don't know if there are
35:42
any repercussions for that.
35:47
Now,
35:47
I think the organization as a whole
35:50
will suffer repercussions
35:51
because people may not
35:53
trust them to come do events anymore.
36:10
Spin just posted an article
36:11
naming names from the AFJ.
36:17
Corey, Corey, Corey.
36:19
My lunch is almost over.
36:24
Well,
36:25
I can figure out that I knew some of
36:27
the names because of a
36:29
conversation I had with one
36:30
of the athletes.
36:31
And I can look at his
36:32
whiteboard to see who his head judge was.
36:35
So I knew some of the
36:36
athletes or some of the judges.
36:48
um yep and that is the
37:06
person I knew so I will
37:08
share this because it goes
37:10
with what I just said so yeah
37:20
so brian clapp director of
37:21
competition um for the afj
37:25
was one of the judges was
37:27
the judge I figured out had
37:29
not had his credentials um
37:35
and so again he's the
37:38
competition director for
37:39
the afj what are the what are
37:44
what are the repercussions?
37:45
How,
37:46
who's going to give him repercussions
37:48
when he's the director of
37:49
competition of the actual organization?
37:52
And he went out there and judged when,
37:58
when he knew that he had an
38:00
expired credential.
38:06
So I think that is,
38:10
think that is that answers
38:12
everything there's not
38:13
going to be any
38:14
repercussions there will be
38:15
for the organization but
38:17
not for him directly unless
38:19
the rest of the judges like
38:21
team up to um relieve him
38:24
of his duties or whatever
38:27
that may be but I've
38:30
actually judged with brian
38:32
as far back as uh he was at
38:34
the first regionals I judged at um
38:39
And he did have his L-two at one point.
38:41
It just has lapsed.
38:47
So, yeah.
38:50
So that is the head judge in
38:51
question that lost his credentials.
38:55
And because he was the head judge,
38:57
everybody in that heat then
39:00
did not meet the
39:00
requirements by the rule
39:03
book for the semifinals.
39:08
That really sucks.
39:16
And if you want to add some
39:18
tea to the drink, um,
39:22
he is married to a masters
39:25
CrossFit games athlete who
39:27
has been suspended for
39:29
performance enhancing drugs as well.
39:34
So you have that on top of this,
39:45
but anyway,
39:46
I digress.
39:47
Uh, yeah, it's,
39:53
it's a tangled web we weave there, Corey.
39:59
I, I just don't know how someone,
40:01
when I found out this
40:02
morning that it was a head judge, um,
40:07
knowing that if they take the floor,
40:10
they invalidate everybody
40:12
in that heat as head judge, it just.
40:17
it just really kind of upset
40:20
me even more because he had to know.
40:23
He had to know that his
40:24
L-tuit had expired.
40:25
And to take the floor and be
40:29
the director of competition
40:30
for that organization and
40:31
to put their reputation at
40:33
risk and all these
40:35
athletes' scores at risk
40:38
was just irresponsible.
40:42
And now that it's all public
40:44
because the spin has just put it all out,
40:46
that it really kind of
40:48
pisses me off that all of
40:49
this has happened because he knew better.
40:52
There's no way he did not
40:54
know that his L two had
40:56
expired and to then take
40:58
the floor and put the AFJ at risk.
41:01
And then to put all of the
41:02
athlete scores at risk was wrong.
41:06
And the problem is there's
41:07
no governing body over the
41:08
judges other than the
41:10
organization he is an
41:13
executive in for him to
41:15
even feel the repercussions
41:17
of what may have happened.
41:27
Scott has all the dirt this morning.
41:29
Yeah.
41:32
only reason I have some of
41:33
the dirt though denise is
41:34
because one of my friends
41:35
was affected right and I
41:37
and I talked to him and and
41:39
then it it just upsets me
41:41
because here's someone who
41:43
put in a year's worth of
41:44
work and because someone
41:46
was irresponsible and took
41:47
the floor when they knew better
41:51
there's a chance that he
41:52
can't go on to the games,
41:54
something he's been working for all year.
41:56
You know what that's like.
41:57
You put in so much time,
42:00
and then to have that
42:00
ripped away because someone
42:02
was irresponsible, not fair.
42:14
Yeah, that's not right.
42:18
Corey,
42:18
I am so encapsulated in my own bubble.
42:21
There's no way on God's earth.
42:22
I could in good faith,
42:23
except that responsibility,
42:24
knowing damn good and well,
42:26
my credentials were expired.
42:31
Cat actually asked me this morning,
42:35
what does it mean if he
42:36
judged the mayhem classic?
42:38
And what's ironic about this
42:39
is because CrossFit is
42:42
farming that out and it's
42:43
not even a part of the CrossFit games.
42:48
Um,
42:50
team that that is mayhem and
42:52
rich putting that on that's
42:54
not in the rule book you
42:56
don't have to have
42:56
credential judges for that
42:59
part of the competition so
43:02
they could hire the afj
43:03
they could have all the
43:04
expired people out there
43:05
doing all the judging and
43:08
it wouldn't have mattered
43:09
at the mayhem classic
43:11
But on the online competition,
43:14
it matters because it's a
43:15
part of the rule book and
43:16
those were the rules required.
43:19
And people like Corey and
43:20
people like Denise and
43:22
people like Jamie and
43:23
Carolyn followed those rules.
43:26
As hard as it may have been
43:27
for them to do that,
43:29
they followed all those rules.
43:36
And these people at Mayhem
43:37
thought they were following them too.
43:45
But someone took the floor
43:47
knowing that they weren't
43:48
credentialed and put
43:50
everybody at risk and didn't care.
44:01
So with that,
44:03
I think I have said my piece.
44:07
It's time for us to get back to work.
44:10
Time for you knuckleheads to
44:11
get back to work.
44:13
And I'll see everybody tomorrow.
44:14
And hopefully we have some
44:16
better things to talk about.
44:18
Can chill out, relax.
44:20
We'll see you guys then.
44:22
Bye.