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Lunch with the Clydesdale - Happy Monday All! · Clydesdale Media Podcast

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What is going on, everybody?
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Welcome to Lunch with the Clydesdale.
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It is lunchtime.
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It's our favorite time of
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day where we get to just hang out,
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talk about all the stuff in
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the world of sports and entertainment.
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I know you have lots of choices out there.
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I'm so glad you chose to
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spend some time with us here.
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As you know,
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we start off most shows with a
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dart throw.
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We're going to try it again this week.
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If I don't get a bullseye this week,
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I think I'm going to scrap it.
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so I'm going to start with
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my dart throw here we go
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that was actually pretty
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close that one was on the
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sixteen inside the triple
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so close we're gonna keep
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it for this week we'll see
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what happens if I get a
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bullseye we keep it if I
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don't this week it's gone
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what is up jody corey and andrew
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You know what?
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Of those three,
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I think my favorite is Jodi.
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She's the one that doesn't
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try to push my buttons during a show.
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Corey and Andrew, I think,
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get great pleasure and glee
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in trying to make
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statements that they know
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get the beard all fired up.
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So Jodi's my favorite, just so you know.
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Because you other two have
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been poking the bear for a week now.
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And now I'm getting a
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reputation that I just go
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off on these riffs all the time.
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So I, Andrew Sten says,
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got to keep things spicy.
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Corey Leonard says, poke the bear.
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And Jody Lynn is driving,
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so we don't want her chatting much.
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She's just going to sit back
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and listen and enjoy the show.
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And be safe out there, Jody.
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Keep those hands attended to.
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Andrew thinks he's helping
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me out by driving views and clicks.
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You're probably right.
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We have had some big shows
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in the last two weeks with
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you guys poking the bear.
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So you're probably right.
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It probably is doing that.
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And I'm having fun with it.
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I love this sport.
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I love talking about it.
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I love the passion for it.
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Oh, look at that.
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Sunday night's very own
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Carolyn Prevo in the chat.
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Long weekend for the Canadians,
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so she's in here for lunchtime.
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Very nice.
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Um,
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I was just on Instagram before I came
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on here and my mind works in weird ways.
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So, um,
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I saw this and I wanted to share it
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just because CrossFit Games
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put out a post about, um, their new,
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the official lifting shoe
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of the CrossFit Games.
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So this isn't just like a CrossFit shoe.
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This is a, um, this is their lifting shoe,
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not a Metcon shoe, but it is, uh,
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I don't even know how to
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say this luxury is the
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official weightlifting shoe
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of the CrossFit games.
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But what I, what, when, and I'm,
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I'm curious to see what you
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guys think the minute I saw this post,
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my thought was CrossFit
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just stole the lighting from the WFP.
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Like that is my first thought.
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Everybody's been dogging the
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lighting in here.
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You can barely see the
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weightlifting shoe under
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the purple lights.
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So I just found that kind of
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funny that they put this post up.
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Everybody's been dogging the
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lighting of the WFP and now
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the CrossFit Games is using
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it to highlight their weightlifting shoe.
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So,
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and Andrew Steng tells me that he is an
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incredible weightlifter.
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So, but yeah, so that was just announced.
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Gosh, it came up.
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Thirteen minutes ago.
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That they are the official
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weightlifting shoe of the CrossFit Games.
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Don't know if we've ever had
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an official weightlifting
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shoe of the CrossFit Games.
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It's always been a shoe
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company that was like more
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widespread and did a little
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bit of everything where
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this is a very specific announcement.
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By them.
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So that just came out a few minutes ago.
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I wanted to kind of clean up
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some things from the weekend.
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If you were with us on Friday,
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it was wait before that.
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Andrew Sten says, just wait until August.
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You should do a live show or
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have guests during the age
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group on games week.
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I would love to have guests on.
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I really like I have this
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really cool studio in my basement.
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where I have other desks and
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I have other chairs and I
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could set up some mics and
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we could actually do live
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shows from the basement
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with a podcast studio that weekend.
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And so I think it would be a lot of fun,
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of course.
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But I also know that usually
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people coming in to volunteer,
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they have very limited time.
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I am twenty minutes north of
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the convention center.
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So I do understand all of that as well.
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Um, so, uh, with that, we'll,
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we'll figure something out
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maybe early in the week.
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We'll do a couple of shows from here.
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Maybe I'll take some stuff
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downtown because I don't have to travel.
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I, I can just like get down there.
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I can take some stuff and we
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can do some live stuff from the event.
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But I really want to focus
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on behind the scenes again
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and show the age group
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athletes what's up.
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And this year,
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I want to expand to bring in
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more volunteers and bring
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in more people from the
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event organizers talking about the event.
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with all that I want to kind
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of change a little bit of
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the direction of the behind
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the scenes to include more
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people this year so and
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with it being here in my
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hometown for the
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foreseeable future um it
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really lends itself for me
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to be able to travel with
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some equipment and
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hopefully get like a really
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good crew of people
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together to put together
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something pretty awesome
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Andrew will be up here all
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week short drive for you buddy
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Short drive.
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And then I wonder if that's
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what Dave was talking about
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in his week in review,
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but he said some
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announcement is coming tomorrow.
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An invite to the Clydesdale basement,
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way more prestigious than
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an invite to the games.
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I'm not really sure about all that,
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but thank you for that, Jody.
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the first thing I want to
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talk about is last week on
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my prediction when I did
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the predictions for tfx um
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I actually nailed the
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tickets dead on um I picked
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ibarra and matthew to get
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it on the men's side I
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picked michaelishan and
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kerstetter to get on the
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women's side now my dark
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horses like for podium
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finish were uh cj gerald
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and rebecca fusile I was a
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little bit off on those
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I think Rebecca did great.
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She is getting stronger.
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I just hope that she can
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find a way to get to that
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point where she can get
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back to the games at least one more time.
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And CJ Gerald, what a dude.
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He actually commented on the
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video where I predicted him
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and apologized for not
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doing well this weekend.
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Listen,
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I'm just an analyst sitting here in
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the basement making predictions.
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No need to apologize to me
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about your weekend.
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You have bigger fish to fry than me.
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And I hope that CJ has a
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good comeback and can do
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some other things this season.
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Maybe he'll have a shot at
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last chance qualifier or
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something like that.
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but cj is just a great guy
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who I have interviewed uh
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post race and on the show a
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few times I just think he's
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a very talented individual
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who and given the right
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circumstances may be able
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to have a shot um I know he
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went team last year um and
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did all that so uh but he
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is just one of the the best
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guys in space and uh really just
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probably more of a heart
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pick than anything,
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but I I've seen him win
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events at regional at
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semifinals in the past, like twenty two,
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twenty three.
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The guy has some home runs
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and I just I thought he was
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a good pick for that.
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The weekend just didn't play out that way,
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but no need to apologize to me.
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I thought you still did great, CJ,
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and I'm still a big fan.
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Um,
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Hiller came on with a video this morning.
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Oh, before I move on to that,
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one thing I just wanted to
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remind people of is, um,
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like I'm a big fan of Sydney,
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Sydney McElishan.
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And I gave her, uh, there it is.
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I put her back in the spotlight.
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She got her ticket.
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We're going to put her
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signed shirt Jersey there, uh,
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for a little bit because
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she has earned it.
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Um,
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but I'm a big fan of Sydney and she
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took part in, uh,
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A thing we tried a couple of years ago,
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we followed a handful of
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athletes from the open all
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of the way to the games.
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And included in that was
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some age group athletes.
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That's really how I got to
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know Jamie really well.
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She was a part of that in
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the age group athletes.
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We had Rudy Berger.
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We had Emily Rolfe.
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We had Alex Kazan.
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We had Carolyn Prevo.
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And Sydney McElishan was one
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of those as well.
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also had some guys that
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didn't make it out of um
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semis um but anyway it was
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a great great series and
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just to show you like kind
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of the evolution of the
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show and how things went I
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wanted to share this screen
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this is from that series we
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did um and this was during
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quarterfinals weekend
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during quarterfinals
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weekend I would facetime
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with the athletes and I
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don't know if you can see
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my little picture I'll try
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to blow it up here
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Um, my little picture down here,
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it's a FaceTime with Sydney
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in between events on the
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Saturday of quarterfinals,
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getting her impressions as,
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as she finishes one workout
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and getting ready for the next workout,
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what her thoughts were, um,
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during the weekend while
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she's competing in quarterfinals.
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Um, it was really, really a fun series, um,
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and something very
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different than we had done
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in the past or done since.
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Um,
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And I did the same thing with Carolyn.
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I did the same thing with Emily.
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We just did these quick
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FaceTimes during the weekend,
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and we would put those out
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throughout the weekend as
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just a way to kind of get a
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glimpse as to what the
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athlete was going through
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and how they were kind of
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attacking the weekend.
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And what I did is back then
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you had a window that you
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had to get workouts done.
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And I didn't release any of
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the video until after that
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window was closed.
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And then so like you had
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Friday until or you had
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from Friday till Saturday
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at noon to get a workout done.
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or two workouts done I would
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then get the feedback from
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them and release it all
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like afternoon on saturday
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so that they weren't giving
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anything away to anybody
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else and then we did the
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same thing for sunday and
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then we kind of did
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reactions monday and
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tuesday from the overall
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weekend with everybody and
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it was a really fun series
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but I got to know sydney
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really well there and um
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and so I had goosebumps
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yesterday when she ended up
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Qualifying for the games and
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the way that that race
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ended against her and Hannah.
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There's been comments
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already on last night's
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video about that race and
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maybe some strategic things
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that could have been done differently.
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And so it was really interesting.
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There's actually a little
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fight between two people in
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our comments about...
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The strategy that Hannah
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used going touch and go
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didn't need to do that is
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what one person said.
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The other person said she
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needed to because she
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didn't have the tiebreaker
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against Sydney and she had
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to beat her by two spots.
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But it was a great dramatic
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climactic ending and really
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happy for Sydney that she
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got through that.
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I'm just a big fan of hers
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and so glad she's going
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back to the games for her third time now.
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So just wanted to share that
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kind of a little bit of the
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evolution of the Clydesdale
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podcast and where we've
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been and things that we've
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tried in the past.
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Um, I, I'm not,
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I think I would want to try it again.
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I think now that I've been
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through it a year and we've
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kind of taken a little bit
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of time off and we were in
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a different place now with
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some different people on the crew.
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I think I'd really like to
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try it again at some point.
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Um,
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but we have to kind of see how some
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seasons develop in the next.
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Three hundred and sixty five days or so.
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Um,
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Andrew Hiller put out a
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video this morning talking
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about the semifinal season.
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And we talked about it kind of last night,
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not in the same way he did, but we asked,
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are we getting the right
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people to the games?
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And there was a lot of
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feedback from Raph Duran,
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who was in the comments,
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and Carolyn had some thoughts.
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Some other people had some –
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I think Andrew Sten had
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some thoughts on that as well.
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With the regional approach,
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we didn't necessarily get
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the right people to the games.
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But Andrew put a video out
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saying that the online –
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an affiliate qualifying
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event is in the wrong place
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of the season.
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Because what's happening is
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CrossFit has given all of
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the in-person events to
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these third-party entities.
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And then smack dab in the middle,
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they have this online thing.
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And so we have all these
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people withdrawing from the
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live events because they've
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made it through an in-person.
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because they made it through the,
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they're withdrawing from
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in-person events because
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they're qualifying from the online event.
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If you put that at the end,
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essentially you create a
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bigger last chance qualifier.
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You can go to these in-person events.
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If you don't qualify there,
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the last thing on the
15:29
calendar is the online in
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affiliate semifinal and
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whatever spots are left,
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that is the last chance qualifier.
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Now that actually makes sense.
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Carolyn talked last night
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about the last chance
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qualifier being like the
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third time that you're
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going up against the same
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athletes in an online competition.
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where this would reduce that
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down to just one semifinal.
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You'd still have the open,
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but you have the one online
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semifinal at the end of all of this,
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where everybody who is left
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throws their hat in the bucket,
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and we find out who the last seven, eight,
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eleven, whatever they are at that point,
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are who make it to the CrossFit Games.
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I love that, that perspective.
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I think that is the way that
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it needs to be in the future.
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And I hope that people are listening and,
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um,
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And maybe that change can be
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made for next season
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because that then makes it
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easier to understand the
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in-person affiliates.
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We don't have to say that, well,
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if this person makes it
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from this or this person
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makes it from that,
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it's going to clean that up
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a lot because people aren't
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going to have to make the
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choices that they're making now.
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It's they try one or two of these.
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If they don't make it,
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they have one shot here at the end.
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That is everything online in this time.
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And you don't have to call it the last.
17:02
You can call it the last chance qualifier.
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Who the hell cares?
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But it doesn't have to be
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just for one spot.
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It's whatever is left at the
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end of the in-person stuff.
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And I think that that is –
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we also talked last night,
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very at the beginning of the show,
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about not having a plan.
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And I think that that is it.
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There wasn't a set plan for
17:24
this season going in,
17:26
and we're flying by the seat of our pants,
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and it was going to all be online.
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Then some people said, oh, hey,
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I'll host an event.
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no charge to you,
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and then we'll qualify
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people to the games.
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Well,
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then they started adding people here
17:40
and there,
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and they had already set the
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date for this.
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They had to kind of build
17:45
everything around it.
17:47
Next year,
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I hope that they consider moving
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that online version to the very end.
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Let the in-person stuff happen.
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And then when the in-person stuff is done,
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we have one online
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semifinal last chance qualifier.
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Everything rolled up into
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one competition for one weekend.
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Whatever spots are left,
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everybody fights for that.
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That seems to be the
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cleanest way to do it if
18:15
you're going to keep this
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structure of some sort moving forward.
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So that.
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The other thing that I've
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been stewing on since last night is.
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And it kind of goes with
18:35
some conversations I had
18:36
with Justin Kotler last week.
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And that is that if we just
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keep putting up another
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fitness competition,
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things aren't going to change, right?
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Like we're having trouble
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getting people on the stream.
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I think I looked at TFX
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yesterday on Sunday,
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the live in person count
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was in like twenty five to
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three thousand range,
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twenty five hundred to three thousand.
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I don't think that's going
19:03
to get the job done for in
19:06
for streaming services.
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We need to find something
19:10
that's different and better.
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and I we keep putting up the
19:14
same traditional broadcast
19:17
that we've done since um it
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is a play-by-play person a
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color analyst a floor
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person and then the same
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angles the same video that
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we get every single time
19:36
And then I also today
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watched the Coffee Pods and
19:39
Wads stuff with Greg Glassman.
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And there was a point where
19:41
Greg said that he had paid
19:44
the broadcasting talent so
19:45
much that they believed in
19:48
abilities that they did not have.
19:50
I thought that was kind of rude.
19:52
And he even admitted that that was rude.
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But I kind of get it.
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And it's not a dig on the broadcasters,
20:01
but they're just doing it
20:03
the way that all sports
20:04
have been done since the
20:06
beginning of time.
20:07
A very structured set.
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I think we need to be more entertaining.
20:13
And by that, I mean,
20:15
we need to go with some of
20:17
these non-traditional
20:19
setups for a broadcast booth.
20:23
When Rogue does their
20:25
broadcast and they give you
20:26
the option to pay twenty
20:28
five dollars to have a
20:30
different broadcast,
20:32
I never watch the traditional broadcast.
20:35
I watch the tailgate party.
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I think it's what they call it.
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where you have Josh Bridges
20:43
who programmed the thing.
20:44
You have Pat Sherwood hosting it.
20:46
You have different athletes show up.
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Carolyn was on that last year.
20:51
She did an awesome job on that.
20:53
And they talk about the
20:54
event in a different way
20:57
than is talked about in a
20:58
traditional broadcast.
20:59
And I find that so much more
21:01
entertaining than,
21:03
and so much easier to watch
21:05
than the traditional broadcast.
21:07
Because if there is a lull
21:09
in whatever's happening on the floor,
21:11
this tailgate party seemed
21:12
to be able to get me
21:14
through those parts because
21:16
those people on the desk
21:17
were entertaining.
21:19
whether they were trying the
21:20
foods of Scotland at the
21:23
time or they were drinking
21:25
whiskey from Scotland or
21:27
they were doing a challenge
21:29
with the people in the crowd,
21:31
whatever that might be,
21:32
that it had different
21:34
options to it that
21:36
entertained me more than just, hey,
21:39
here's a fitness comp watch.
21:42
And I truly,
21:43
truly believe that that is the
21:45
only way that we are going
21:46
to get to a place of growth
21:49
as a spectator sport.
21:53
It's been done.
21:55
Rogue showed us how it can
21:56
be done as their alternate broadcast.
21:59
But I think that that could
22:00
be done in other places as
22:03
the main broadcast and give it a shot.
22:05
Why not try it?
22:09
I mean,
22:09
you're only hitting two to three
22:12
thousand people in a stream.
22:16
Why not?
22:19
Why not try something new to
22:20
see if you can get that number up?
22:25
I mean,
22:26
I love Justin's idea of making up
22:28
some people.
22:29
I think that would be great,
22:30
but I don't know if the.
22:33
that you would have to do
22:34
kind of a cost benefit
22:35
analysis as to whether it's trying it,
22:37
but having an alternate
22:38
alternate broadcast and
22:39
hiring different people to
22:40
do things in a different
22:41
way would not be an additional cost.
22:46
You're,
22:47
you're still hiring three people to
22:48
sit around and talk about things,
22:50
but you want it done in a
22:51
different format than what
22:52
they're doing today.
22:54
I think that is the way that
22:55
CrossFit needs to go moving forward.
22:58
Um,
23:02
There were a lot of lulls in
23:04
the broadcast this weekend,
23:06
and those people could have
23:08
carried things during some
23:10
of that time to eliminate a
23:12
lot of the dead time during the event.
23:17
Those are my thoughts.
23:19
Maybe we can talk about that
23:20
more on some other shows.
23:23
We'll see.
23:27
And then I just have a
23:28
couple random thoughts.
23:31
And that is that Bill Leahy,
23:36
my question in my head is,
23:37
is he all hype or is he just recovering?
23:42
Because, you know,
23:43
Hiller came out and said
23:44
he's going to win the
23:45
CrossFit Games in X number of years.
23:48
You know,
23:48
he goes to a less than deep TFX
23:51
field and he struggles to compete and
23:58
Is he still recovering from
23:59
that Achilles tear, or was it all hype?
24:04
And I'm anxious to see what
24:06
the answer to that question is.
24:07
I don't think I can answer
24:08
it at this point.
24:09
I think that if you look at
24:11
people in the NFL who tear their Achilles,
24:14
the recovery time is a full year plus.
24:18
We're just at the one-year
24:19
mark for Bill on his.
24:22
And we're in a sport where
24:24
you need your Achilles a lot.
24:28
And so I'm anxious to see
24:31
whether he recovers better
24:34
from this in the next six months.
24:36
And maybe we see back to the
24:38
old Bill and to see if he's competitive.
24:42
But he was not even in the
24:44
game this weekend with a
24:47
less than deep TFX field.
24:50
And that's a shame.
24:53
hate that that happens to people in injury,
24:55
but in, but injury is sport.
24:57
Sport has injuries.
24:59
That's the way, the way it is.
25:01
I also watched the buttery bros, um,
25:04
their full length, uh,
25:06
world fitness project video.
25:08
Um,
25:10
My review of that is in my
25:13
opinion is that it brought
25:16
nothing new to the table.
25:17
It was a typical buttery
25:19
bros video done in a very
25:21
similar way to all buttery bros videos.
25:24
Um, I think it, it,
25:28
and I think this is intentional.
25:30
I think it really showed
25:31
more about their experience
25:34
at the event than the event
25:36
and how it went.
25:39
specifically so if you like
25:41
buttery bros videos I think
25:44
that that is something you
25:46
may like um to me it was a
25:49
little like I'm I'm just
25:51
kind of past that with them
25:54
I like the more gritty
25:55
behind the scenes stuff now
25:58
um and I want to know about
25:59
the athletes and their
26:00
experience this was more
26:02
about their experience in
26:03
indianapolis and what they
26:04
got to do um along with the athletes
26:10
and done in the same like
26:12
flashy graphic color stuff
26:15
that they always do.
26:16
So nothing really shook up there.
26:21
But yeah, they did.
26:24
They did it.
26:25
I actually like the, the,
26:28
I can't remember what they called it.
26:29
It was a behind the scenes,
26:30
but they called it
26:30
something different
26:32
throughout the weekend.
26:32
I thought was better than
26:35
this full length version
26:37
that was massively produced.
26:39
Um,
26:42
And so in my opinion,
26:44
if you want the really good
26:45
buttery bro stuff,
26:46
you go to the gritty behind
26:47
the scenes stuff they did
26:48
during the weekend and
26:50
turned around in like less
26:51
than twenty four hours.
26:53
I thought that was that was better.
26:55
They didn't call it raw butter this year.
26:59
Andrew, it was I'll look it up here.
27:16
They called it unfiltered.
27:19
The unfiltered series they
27:21
did during the weekend, they did day one,
27:22
day two, and day three.
27:25
I actually enjoyed that quite a bit.
27:28
And it came out during the
27:29
weekend as the weekend was going on.
27:32
And then this one, the new one,
27:34
is called The Lig That's
27:37
Flipping the Script on Pro Fitness.
27:44
And it actually says World
27:45
Fitness Project.
27:46
The thumbnail is World
27:47
Fitness Project New Era?
27:49
So, yeah.
27:56
But I really did like the unfiltered part.
27:59
I thought that that was really good.
28:00
That's where we got the
28:03
Jason Hopper slapping James.
28:06
Yeah.
28:08
Yeah.
28:09
Man, I'm having a brain fart today.
28:12
But anyway,
28:13
where James and Jason were
28:15
fighting over James'
28:18
celebration out on the floor,
28:21
that I thought was good.
28:23
I thought that the stuff
28:24
they did during the weekend was really,
28:26
really good and gritty and
28:27
really about the athlete's experience,
28:29
where this is really about
28:30
what they experienced in their own words.
28:36
If nothing else,
28:37
those cats are fast when it
28:38
comes to editing.
28:39
It's insane how quick they
28:40
get their stuff done.
28:42
Yeah,
28:42
as someone who has done a behind the
28:43
scenes, man,
28:46
I don't know how they do some
28:47
of that stuff.
28:49
um especially with like
28:52
matching music matching
28:53
graphics matching like it's
28:55
a lot of work um last year
28:58
for age group behind the
29:00
scenes and grant I was
29:01
doing all the editing other
29:03
than the workout video
29:04
ortega did that um it took
29:08
me a full week every week
29:10
to get all that edited and
29:12
out um and that was eleven
29:14
weeks eleven episodes
29:18
In some weeks, I had to really,
29:20
really push to get it out on time.
29:27
So I'm really hoping to get
29:29
a good team this year that
29:30
we can maybe get two out a
29:32
week this year instead of
29:34
one and maybe some help on
29:36
the editing side.
29:37
We'll see.
29:38
We'll see what happens there.
29:42
So those were my quick hit
29:43
CrossFit thoughts.
29:44
And then I wanted to leave with this.
29:46
Um,
29:46
I saw the new captain America movie on
29:48
Sunday.
29:51
Uh, uh,
29:53
That was kind of my – no,
29:54
it was on Saturday.
29:55
That was my detox from all
29:58
the CrossFit stuff.
30:01
It's called Captain America,
30:03
Brave New World.
30:04
It is the first Captain
30:05
America with the Falcon, Sam,
30:08
as Captain America,
30:11
and the first one without Chris Evans.
30:14
So it's kind of him taking
30:16
over the mantle.
30:17
And the movie is really a
30:20
lot about him questioning
30:21
whether he's worthy for
30:23
taking over the shield of
30:25
Captain America.
30:27
I will admit to you guys,
30:28
I used to be the biggest Marvel fan.
30:30
Every Marvel movie that came out,
30:32
I was at the theater to see it.
30:34
And I saw it within the first week.
30:40
And so that was...
30:44
And then I'll tell you,
30:44
then in the last couple years,
30:47
I've really faded off on that.
30:50
In my opinion,
30:50
Marvel has gone to a point
30:54
where they were taking
30:55
themselves way too seriously.
30:58
And they were taking a
30:59
superhero movie and making
31:00
it two and a half to three hours long.
31:03
And I thought that that was
31:04
way too much for a superhero movie.
31:07
they're not talking about
31:08
anything super important in the world.
31:11
And I don't,
31:11
I just don't find where
31:14
something that should be
31:14
entertaining to me should
31:15
take that long to tell the story.
31:20
A lot of the last,
31:21
a lot of the movies in the
31:21
last few years should have, in my opinion,
31:24
should have been cut about
31:26
with a half hour left to go.
31:28
And they just extended out
31:30
the end scenes and brought
31:34
in a new villain last
31:35
minute to make it go longer or whatever.
31:38
This one did not do that.
31:39
This one was done in under two hours.
31:44
And I enjoyed that part of it.
31:47
Are the Marvel people back
31:50
in the right groove?
31:51
I would say that this
31:52
Captain America movie was a
31:55
step in the right direction.
32:00
And I will tell you,
32:01
Endgame to me was one of
32:03
the best movies I've ever
32:04
seen as a superhero fan.
32:07
And that would be the A plus standard.
32:11
This movie was a B. It's
32:15
heading in the right direction.
32:17
We're not quite there yet.
32:21
And it's introducing a whole
32:22
new character.
32:24
And the first time that...
32:28
Sam or the Falcon is leading a movie.
32:32
And so you're kind of
32:33
learning about this character.
32:35
You had to see some of the
32:36
other stuff to know who some of the,
32:39
the other characters in this movie were.
32:42
And, and yeah, so if you're a Marvel fan,
32:48
I would give it a B. It was
32:50
definitely worth the watch
32:51
way better than some of the
32:52
stuff that's come out in
32:53
the last couple of years.
32:55
But it made me,
32:56
I've been excited about Thunderbolts.
32:58
I have not seen it yet.
33:00
This made me excited that at
33:01
least we're getting back
33:03
into the realm of a good superhero movie.
33:08
So this gives me hope that
33:12
Thunderbolts will keep this
33:13
ball rolling in the right direction.
33:15
And then maybe we can see
33:16
some good stuff coming down
33:19
as Marvel is approaching a
33:21
new Avengers and who that's
33:23
going to be made up of.
33:25
So that's what I'm excited about.
33:27
So yeah, that is my review.
33:34
A good B movie.
33:37
Definitely worth the watch.
33:40
Better than the last few
33:41
Marvel movies that have come out.
33:43
So that's it.
33:46
But this is a former Marvel addict,
33:48
and I was really at my wits
33:50
end with them for a long time.
33:52
So glad to see at least
33:53
they're heading in the right direction.
33:55
I understand Winter Soldier
33:57
was incredible.
33:57
I thought Civil War was great too.
33:59
Yeah,
33:59
I could say that about a lot of the
34:01
Marvel movies pre-Endgame.
34:03
I thought a lot of them were awesome.
34:06
And again,
34:07
I saw all of them in the theater.
34:09
I was rushing out to see
34:10
each one as they were released.
34:13
But after Endgame,
34:14
I think it really took a deep dive.
34:17
I'll say,
34:18
and I'm probably going to get
34:20
ridiculed for this,
34:21
Black Panther was a movie
34:23
that I think I was given
34:25
too much hype for.
34:27
I just thought it lasted too long.
34:29
I thought it was a great story.
34:33
And I think that's where
34:34
Marvel was starting to take
34:35
itself too seriously and
34:37
thinking it was bigger than
34:38
a superhero movie.
34:40
And I thought Black Panther
34:42
was a great story until you
34:44
just can't end it.
34:46
It just had to keep going for some reason.
34:48
And I got really numb to
34:54
that kind of thing going forward.
34:56
And Black Panther II was even worse.
34:59
It had a full thirty minutes
35:01
that could have been cut
35:02
off that movie and made it
35:03
a hundred times better if
35:05
they had done it.
35:08
So that's kind of where the
35:10
tipping point was for me.
35:15
But that's just my opinion.
35:18
And I'm sure you guys have yours as well.
35:21
But yeah, there it is.
35:27
There's some good Marvel movies out there.
35:28
Hopefully they found their
35:30
way back to what is
35:32
appropriate and we'll get
35:33
some good stuff coming up
35:34
in the near future.
35:40
Black Panther two is not good.
35:41
Yeah.
35:42
Black Panther one.
35:43
I liked the movie.
35:44
I just thought they,
35:46
they took the ending too long.
35:48
Black Panther two took
35:50
everything that was wrong
35:50
with Black Panther one
35:52
about making it too long
35:53
and extended it throughout a whole movie.
35:55
And I just, Oh my God.
35:57
The storyline bounced all over the place.
35:59
There's multiple villains.
36:01
There's like, it just was way too much bad,
36:05
bad, bad.
36:08
I fell off so much like I
36:09
didn't even go see the the
36:13
marvels I didn't go see that and yeah
36:23
Corey Leonard, Winter Soldier,
36:24
Civil War were fantastic.
36:26
Civil War is one of my
36:27
favorite movies ever.
36:28
Winter Soldier is great too.
36:30
And actually,
36:31
Bucky shows up in this
36:33
Captain America for a brief cameo,
36:36
which is pretty awesome.
36:38
Guardians three was super good too.
36:40
I like all the Guardians of the Galaxy.
36:42
They're just fun.
36:44
That movie never takes itself seriously.
36:47
and uh and that's what I
36:49
love about it I'm there to
36:50
be entertained not I don't
36:53
it's a superhero movie I
36:54
just good guy should win I
36:57
think I um uh I was
37:02
explaining this to my mom
37:03
the other night like when
37:05
I'm watching a superhero movie
37:07
You know who the good guy is.
37:08
You know who the bad guy is.
37:10
The good guy should win in the end,
37:12
and there should be an epic
37:13
fight scene somewhere in it.
37:15
That's what I want.
37:17
If you give me those things
37:18
and make it simple, then I'm cool.
37:20
It's kind of like what I'm
37:21
looking for in the CrossFit game season.
37:23
Give me something simple
37:24
that I could understand.
37:26
Here are the athletes.
37:28
This is the progression they
37:29
need to make to get to here.
37:30
When they get to here,
37:32
we're going to crown a champion.
37:35
that simple.
37:36
Just make it that simple.
37:39
Don't give me, well,
37:41
here's the start of the season.
37:43
We get to here and then you
37:44
have two choices and,
37:46
but you can actually take
37:47
three or four shots in those two choices.
37:50
And then if you don't make it here,
37:51
we have one more shot over here,
37:53
but it's going to be the
37:54
same as this and this,
37:57
but we're just going to do
37:57
it one more time and see if
37:59
that's the weekend you're on.
38:00
Like, how do you explain that?
38:05
And we're not even to the
38:06
end where you get to crown
38:07
somebody anything.
38:11
Just like a superhero movie.
38:14
With Black Panther II,
38:15
we had all these villains.
38:17
We have a dead hero and we
38:20
need to replace the dead hero.
38:21
So who could it be?
38:22
Could it be this one or this
38:23
one or this one?
38:24
And then it kind of gets
38:25
here and we have all these choices.
38:27
And what do we do here?
38:28
And then we still don't know
38:29
who we're going to crown
38:30
the champion because all
38:31
these bad guys are still around.
38:33
again that's like a freaking
38:35
crossfit game season I just
38:40
want it simple we go from
38:42
point a to point b to point
38:44
c and we crown the champion
38:46
here's superhero movie we
38:48
have a good guy we have a
38:49
bad guy we have an epic
38:50
fight scene and we have a
38:51
winner and it better be the
38:52
good guy there we go easy
38:58
peasy lemon squeezy
39:01
Corey says, don't feel bad.
39:02
Nobody went and saw the Marvels.
39:03
Yeah.
39:05
I was one of the many who
39:08
did not go see it.
39:11
So there's that.
39:14
It's Monday, guys.
39:16
But we have a long here in the States.
39:18
We have a long weekend
39:19
coming up this weekend.
39:21
So we will trudge through
39:23
this weekend together every
39:25
day with lunch with Clydesdale.
39:28
I'll check in with Kat and
39:29
see if she's going to have
39:29
a show this week.
39:31
Other than that, guys,
39:33
I need to get back to work.
39:34
It's Monday.
39:35
You know,
39:35
the emails came in over the
39:37
weekend and I got to take
39:38
care of all those.
39:39
So you knuckleheads better
39:40
get back to work too.
39:41
We will see everybody next time.
39:43
on Lunch with the Clydesdale.
39:46
Bye, guys.