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Lunch with the Clydesdale | Governor of Ohio Signs Executive Order!!! · Clydesdale Media Podcast

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what is going on everybody
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welcome to lunch with the
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Clydesdale we are back and
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better than ever it's been
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a week uh my apologies to
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everyone who started to
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look forward to this show
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um I was uh the lead on a
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project at work where
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I had a lot of meetings this
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week about because the
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launch did not go as planned.
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So as we were clearing hurdles,
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clearing problems and issues,
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more emergency meetings kept popping up.
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Yeah,
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the deployment ended up being half as
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big as it was at the start,
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but we made it through.
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Now my job is just to write
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up the documents to let
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everybody know what changes
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will be coming in a week
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when we deploy that live.
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But that's been my whole
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week for the last week.
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And my friend Holly could
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not have said it better.
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Meetings about meetings on meetings.
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Yes.
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Although most of these
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emergency meetings were
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much needed because we,
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for people who don't know
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what I do right now,
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what happens is we have a
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vendor who does all the
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coding of our system.
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They get a list of things
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that we need fixed.
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They say, hey,
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we're going to launch this
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thing to fix these seven items.
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Here's what it should look like now.
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My job is to then go in and
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test it all to make sure it works,
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performs,
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does everything it was supposed to do.
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And usually that doesn't go super well.
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Usually you get about half
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of what was listed and then
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you go back to the drawing board.
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And we do one of these a month,
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every month.
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So that's where we are.
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And I do the main deployment
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every third month.
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So that means I lead it.
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I pull together the team.
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I get everybody necessary to test.
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I do all that stuff.
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And then...
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We run the test and then once it's over,
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then I have to write up all
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the documents that go out
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to tell everybody, hey,
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we fixed these things in the system.
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This is how it should look now.
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And then for them to go out
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and then we have to test it
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in production.
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The morning it launches just
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to make sure that it went
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well there and that we
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didn't break anything else
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in the process.
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Not the most exciting job in the world,
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but hey, it pays the bills.
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we're excited about that so
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what's going on acr haven't
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seen you in a bit uh jade
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birch what's going on dude
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um jay birch working on the
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advanced judges course
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today I would love to hear
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about that um I I took the
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judges course every year from to
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last year I did not take the
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judges course because I had
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no plans of judging or
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doing anything like that um
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and then this year's the
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new you know the regular
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judges course and then you
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have the advanced judges
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course so I'm anxious to
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see if it's much different
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than what we've seen for
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the last ten years so
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anything you could offer up
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jay birch would love to
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hear uh what that looks like now
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And Jay Burch, correct me if I'm wrong,
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you're still,
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the one hole you have in
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your game is you do not
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have your L-one yet that
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would allow you to judge at
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semis or the games.
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Is that correct?
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So far it's much more in
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depth and correct.
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Yeah, I'm coming up on my expiration.
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My L-I I've had for ten years.
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It expires at the end of this year.
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So I have to make the
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decision with doing all the
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media stuff now.
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Is it worth me?
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I don't coach anymore.
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I coached from twenty fifteen to twenty.
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Nineteen.
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And then went into the media
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thing and then,
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but I still judged a little bit.
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Do I need to renew my L one
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or take my L two or do any of that?
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So I have to make that decision.
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Come judge the age group games.
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Pretty sure there's no L one
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requirement for that.
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I don't know what the
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requirements are for that.
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Um, but I'm betting there is not.
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And it's here in, uh, here in Columbus,
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we can have a barbecue.
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We could have a true lunch
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with the Clydesdale.
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Uh, I could get a brisket or something,
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put it on the smoker.
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We could hang out and do show live,
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live from the smoker.
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Um,
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Would love to do that.
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Have all the guys in here,
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have all you guys come over.
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Heck, ACR, it's just, what,
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a couple hours from Indiana over here?
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Man,
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we could have a good time at the H
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Group games for sure.
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For sure, for sure.
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Uh, we could even, uh,
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we could even make a Jay Birch, um,
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lean to, to do some workouts.
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And I got all my equipment in the garage.
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We could throw some barbells around,
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get pumped up for the weekend.
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Let's have a party.
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Um,
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So, so yeah.
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Um, what do I want to talk about first?
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So, uh, Carolyn, Jamie and I talked about,
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uh,
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the Annie Thor's daughter comments on
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Sunday night.
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We've gotten a good handful
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of comments on what we said, uh,
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on Sunday night,
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many people agreeing with
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Carolyn and not with Jamie and I, um,
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Truth, truth, truth.
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Ain't no party like a Clydesdale party.
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You know it.
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So I wanted to explain maybe
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a little bit further my
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comments about the Annie
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Thorisdottir thing.
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I am not one of those people
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that believe just because
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she won championships,
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she made a ton of money in
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the sport that she owes
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something back to the sport.
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She played by the rules.
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She did what she needed to do to,
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to earn her way, to make her name,
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to do what is supposed to be done.
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And I,
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I guess I just don't see it as that
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she owes something back.
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However,
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Now that she does have a
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name and now that she is an
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influencer and she
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influences a lot of people,
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when you make stands like this,
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especially political stands,
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I think you need to explain why.
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That was what I was trying
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to say on Sunday night.
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is that I just think that
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because she has a lot of
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fans a lot of people that
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look to her for influence
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she needs to explain why
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she's making the decision
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she's making I go back to
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um gosh back to the
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eighties probably when
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charles barkley did the I'm
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not a role model commercial
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um one that he has said
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since he regrets uh because
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it got misinterpreted but
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it made people think like,
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And what he was saying was like,
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I'm not a person in your life day to day.
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It should be your parents.
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It should be people you live
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around that are your
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mentors and the people that
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you look up to.
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But the truth of the matter
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is that that just doesn't
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always happen and that
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people do make decisions.
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That's why people get
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endorsement deals and
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sponsorship deals because
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they do influence decisions of others.
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And Annie is a two-time champion,
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multiple-time podium winner,
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and she's choosing not to
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do the Open this year and
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compete in the twenty-five
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CrossFit Games season.
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She was part of PFAA.
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They put out a statement
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that had three demands.
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She signed that statement,
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and then there's been nothing since.
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It's my understanding that
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she is no longer a part of that board.
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So I think because of some
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changes since that statement,
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saying that you have a
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moral issue and that's why
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you're not doing it is not
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specific enough to let your
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fans know why you're making this choice.
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And there's been a lot of rumblings out.
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Is it because you don't
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trust Dave anymore?
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Is it because you think he
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should be fired?
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Is it because you don't
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think they handled the
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Lazar thing correctly?
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Like,
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just tell me simply what it is and
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move on and I'm okay with it.
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I'm okay with you making
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whatever decision you need
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to make that helps you move forward.
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That's fine.
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You have the right to do the
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open or not do the open.
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I really don't care personally.
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But when you influence thousands,
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then I do think you owe
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those people an explanation
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as to why you're not.
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And signing a group letter,
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which many people believe
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was her statement, is her explanation.
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So much has happened since that statement.
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I just want,
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I just think that she says
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what it is and we move on
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and I would have been fine with it.
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Clock says the games
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athletes have been so vague
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and just about all their
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communication during and
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after the Lazar incident,
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it's not helping them.
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I could not agree more.
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I could not agree more.
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It's been what's made it
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tough for me to move on
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with interviews with the
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elite athletes in the space.
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Because I think if we just
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said how we felt and move forward,
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it would help with the
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healing process overall.
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And some people are going to
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agree and some people are
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going to disagree.
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And that's okay, too.
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It's okay that we don't
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agree on every freaking
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thing in the space.
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Let's just move forward.
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Have conversations.
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That's okay, too.
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Thank you for that, Ken.
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Lots of easy cop-outs this year.
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I agree.
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I think that the problem is
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that the PFAA has built
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their whole platform on the
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Lazar incident when their
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issues with CrossFit and
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everything that they have
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explained has nothing to do
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with his death,
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but other issues about not
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being listened to, about...
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Proposing things to them
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that they have not heard,
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on and on and on.
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And now because of the
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momentum of the Lazar thing,
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they're now hitching their wagon to that.
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And I am very much a fan of
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Brent Fikowski.
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Every time I've had him on the show,
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he's been a gentleman,
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and we talk at length.
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He has been a mentor to me post-show.
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But to then watch Hillers
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behind the scenes of
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Waterpalooza with Eric
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Afolo and seeing how little
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respect he got from Waterpalooza
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making demands about the
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warm-up area and that's
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supposed to be their
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partner they're supposed to
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be in a partnership and he
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couldn't even get a flat
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surface for the warm-up
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area like I I'm just I'm
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going off on rants here and
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it it's ridiculous but um
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but back to the anything
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She has the right to make that statement.
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I just want the why.
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I think that you as a role
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model and a influencer
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should tell the people why
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you're not competing this year.
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That's all.
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And then I'm fine with your decision.
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Ken Walters, but she's still benefiting,
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making lots of money off her members,
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using the CrossFit brand
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for a box to believe her stance,
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then drop everything about.
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Yeah.
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And I mean, I could quibble about that.
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And we made that statement
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on Sunday night as well.
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But in all in all,
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I really don't care what she does.
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Just explain to me why.
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I think many will not ACR.
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I think many will not
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participate this year and
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regret it when they want to
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just quietly come back in
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twenty twenty six.
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if anybody,
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if you guys have been following
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the show at all over the years,
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some of our biggest shows
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have been with up and
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coming athletes in the space.
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That's who I feel for right now.
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They have no place to go.
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You have the world fitness
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project that the top Tony
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athletes in the world have
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a signed contract with.
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And then everybody else has
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to kind of pay their own
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way to challenge for one of those spots.
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which is expensive.
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It's, you know, to make it to the finals,
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you have to go overseas.
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And now in the open, we've cut the amount,
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the field of the games from
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forty to thirty.
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And we've cut the prize
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purse because things like
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this with Annie saying, I'm not doing it.
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And if she influences a lot of people,
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we already see that it is
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affecting the open signups.
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If those open signups go so small,
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the prize purse is going to
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shrink considerably.
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And then those up-and-coming
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athletes will not have the
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opportunity that people
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like Annie did ten years ago.
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That's where I'm most upset about this,
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is we are taking away all
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of the opportunities for
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the up-and-coming athletes.
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All of the top ten,
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they're going to be fine.
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They're going to do their WFP.
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They're going to choose to
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do the Open or not.
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They're going to make their
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money at off-season events.
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They're going to do all of that stuff,
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and they're going to be fine.
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It's the up-and-coming
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athletes that are running out of options.
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And at some point,
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the sport needs to be
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replenished with those
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up-and-coming athletes.
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People love to jump on
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bandwagons so they don't
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feel like an outsider.
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And ACR says, I run away from bandwagons.
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There are some podcasts that
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will not have anyone coming
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back quietly in twenty twenty six.
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Explain further, please, Ken,
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what that means.
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Anyway,
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I hope that makes it clear my stance.
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Jamie's stance is much more
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staunch than even mine.
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Carolyn's is a little less
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staunch than mine,
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but it is my belief that
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all three of us are doing the open.
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At the last I've known,
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I don't want to speak for them,
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but I'm signing up for the open for sure.
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I believe that Carolyn is,
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I believe that Jamie is,
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but I don't know that for
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one hundred percent.
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Sure.
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Even though our stances are
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slightly different on how
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the anything went.
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There that that's kind of where we're at.
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people like Annie can afford
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to not do the open.
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Her box is still hugely successful.
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It ain't taking any money
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out of her pocket.
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No.
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And that facility is massive.
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Massive.
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The amount of people that
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she has there is... So...
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They'll be called out on
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their BS by the podcasts.
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I don't want to call it called out.
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I just want to understand.
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Like, I think if you guys,
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you guys have been with me
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long enough that I just
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want to know both sides.
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I want to know why, why the why.
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That's it.
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I know other podcasts would,
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will go harder at that.
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Um,
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I like having discussions,
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and it's okay that we have
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different opinions, but explain to me.
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I don't want one of the
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cop-out phrases to get you
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out of the conversation.
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I want to have an intelligent,
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well-thought-out conversation about why.
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I agree with you, Jay Birch,
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but we are older than most
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and wiser beyond our years.
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And yes, Ken,
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CrossFit Reykjavik is a
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tourist stop for any
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CrossFitter that goes to Iceland.
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And I bet you there's a good
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chunk of CrossFitters that
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make their vacation trip to
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Iceland just because of that,
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which is insanity.
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Cool, but insanity.
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So enough about the Annie thing.
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for today.
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Next up is is it's Super Bowl week.
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I'm super stoked.
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I love the Super Bowl.
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My first memory of watching
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a Super Bowl with my family
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was the nineteen seventy
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nine Pittsburgh Steelers
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going up against the Dallas
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Cowboys and winning Super Bowl thirteen.
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My parents were diehard
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Steeler fans are still
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diehard Steeler fans.
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My mom is.
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My dad has passed, of course.
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And I've watched the Super
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Bowl every year since then.
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I love the commercials.
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I love the halftime shows.
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For the most part, I will say this year,
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I am as much of a music fan as I am.
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I know nothing about Kendrick Lamar.
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Nothing about Kendrick Lamar at all.
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So I don't know what that
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halftime show is going to be about.
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but I have some favorite ones.
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Um, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the,
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the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the,
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the, the, the, the, the, Superbowl, uh,
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or two thousand six Superbowl forty one,
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which the bears were in against the Colts,
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uh, Prince,
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one of my top five artists of
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all time performed purple
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rain in the rain,
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which is to me one of the
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most memorable moments in
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Superbowl history.
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Um,
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What an amazing,
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amazing performance to do that,
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holding an electric guitar in a rainstorm,
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doing that.
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So that was freaking awesome.
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Now then, the Bears went on to lose.
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They were ahead at halftime.
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They ended up losing the game.
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And then I was devastated
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for a month straight.
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Corey's also registered for the Open.
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And, uh, Corey's got it dead on.
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Uh,
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Scott is super stoked for the super bowl,
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which is super.
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It really super lead do dishes is for me.
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Yes.
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Um, Kenneth,
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is he still formally known as
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Prince or known as Prince again?
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Well, since he is since past,
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I think he's formally known
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as Prince now forever and eternity.
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Uh,
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A couple other big halftime show.
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The Janet Jackson,
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Justin Timberlake will be a
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big memory forever for multiple reasons.
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It was the first time I
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really tried out my TiVo to
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see how the recording worked on live TV.
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Just to see all of that.
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And then the...
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the hip hop celebration from
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a couple of years ago with
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Dre and Snoop and Eminem
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and Fitty Cent and all of
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that was freaking amazing.
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Um,
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Katy Perry was an awesome
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show with Left Shark,
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the non-dancing dancing shark.
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That was big.
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My daughter was a huge Katy Perry fan.
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I've taken her to see her in concert,
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so it was fun to see that.
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As a dad,
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so many Super Bowl memories with
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the halftime show.
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But Kendrick Lamar,
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I really know nothing about.
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Oh my gosh, clock.
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The most enduring memory of
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Super Bowl will be Terry Tate,
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office linebacker.
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That is one of the best
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Super Bowl commercials of all times.
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All times.
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So... Kenneth,
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I prefer Creed's
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Thanksgiving game halftime show.
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I wouldn't prefer it, but...
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I actually was in
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Tallahassee as they were coming up.
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I lived there for four years.
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Um,
24:35
and they were playing everywhere in
24:37
Tallahassee when I lived there,
24:39
they had not broke yet.
24:41
Um, so they were playing like local bars,
24:44
uh, beach parties.
24:46
Uh,
24:47
my wife and I saw them so many times
24:49
before they broke.
24:52
And they were the biggest
24:53
band in the area at the time.
24:56
And then when they broke and
24:58
they went nationwide, it was insanity.
25:03
And then they didn't come
25:05
back to play because
25:06
Tallahassee is so small.
25:08
They would play Jacksonville
25:09
or Pensacola or Atlanta,
25:13
but they never really
25:14
played Tallahassee after that.
25:18
Or if they did, it was a small party.
25:22
But Corey echoes the Terry
25:25
Tate office linebacker.
25:28
Yeah.
25:31
I played middle linebacker in high school.
25:33
I was memorized and tranced
25:34
by the idea of running amok in an office.
25:38
I will say that...
25:43
With the way my job is going right now,
25:45
I would love to don the
25:47
pads and just wreak havoc
25:50
in my office right now.
25:54
It would be a fantasy.
25:58
Bruce trying to rub more
26:00
salt in the wound.
26:00
Did you see Barkley was almost a bear?
26:02
I did.
26:04
I saw that,
26:04
and Saquon is one of my
26:06
favorite players of all time,
26:07
former Penn State Nittany Lion,
26:09
and that the Bears were
26:10
really close to signing him
26:11
in the offseason makes me want to cry.
26:19
Corey Leonard.
26:20
Break was over fifteen minutes ago, Mitch.
26:25
So good, so good.
26:34
So, yeah, of course,
26:35
my favorite Super Bowl of all time,
26:37
Super Bowl XX,
26:38
where the Eighty-Five Bears
26:40
won their first and only
26:42
Super Bowl until Caleb wins
26:45
us six more in the next ten years.
26:50
But yeah, the Eighty-Five Bears,
26:52
that was like magical.
26:54
The characters on that team, Didka,
26:57
Buddy Ryan,
26:59
and then the players
27:00
themselves with McMahon and Peyton,
27:02
Richard Dent.
27:05
It's...
27:07
This is the only player that
27:10
I was not enamored with,
27:12
and that is the Fridge.
27:15
I was such a Walter Payton fan.
27:17
I wanted Walter Payton to
27:18
get a Super Bowl touchdown,
27:20
and when the Fridge got one and he didn't,
27:22
it really made me grow a
27:24
distaste for the Fridge.
27:28
And, you know,
27:28
he wasn't even a starter on
27:29
the Eighty-Five Bears.
27:31
the starting defensive
27:32
tackles were Steve
27:34
McMichael and Mike Hartenstein,
27:37
not the fridge.
27:39
And so he wasn't even a starter.
27:41
He just did the gimmick play
27:44
of running or blocking.
27:48
And it was crazy.
27:52
Super Bowl Shuffle,
27:53
I actually have that on
27:54
vinyl in my collection.
27:56
I have the original pressing
27:58
of the Super Bowl Shuffle.
28:01
My buddy found it in a
28:02
record store in Pittsburgh
28:05
and got it for me.
28:07
It is epic,
28:08
and I need to get it out and
28:11
play it a little bit going
28:12
into this weekend.
28:14
I do that every year, so can't wait.
28:19
But yeah, tons of great memories.
28:20
And maybe on Friday,
28:21
we'll do a top five
28:22
memories from the Super Bowls.
28:26
As we missed top five
28:27
Tuesday this week because
28:29
of my work schedule.
28:31
But the last thing I wanted
28:32
to leave you guys with
28:34
is something that may change
28:37
the channel a little bit here,
28:39
and that is that on yesterday,
28:43
the governor of Ohio signed
28:45
an executive order sending
28:48
all state employees back to
28:51
work five days a week in the office.
28:55
There are exemptions to that
28:57
executive order because
28:59
they have sold all the
29:01
buildings they owned where
29:03
people were during COVID
29:06
and saved millions and
29:07
millions of dollars doing so.
29:09
They also ended lease
29:11
agreements with people
29:12
saving more millions and more millions.
29:16
And, um,
29:18
And so I don't know the true
29:21
effect of what this means.
29:24
But I should know in the
29:25
next few weeks whether I
29:27
will be returning to the
29:28
office full time.
29:30
If I'm returning to the office,
29:31
it's going to be a little
29:32
harder doing this show.
29:35
It's going to be harder to
29:36
do interviews because I'll
29:37
have less time where I can schedule them.
29:41
It's going to change things
29:42
on the channel a little bit.
29:46
now what Bruce says here, uh,
29:50
just do the show from the office.
29:52
I, I am considering, um,
29:54
I can do the full show from my phone, um,
29:57
or an iPad or something like that.
30:00
Um, so I am considering that,
30:03
but I don't know what
30:04
office building I'll be in.
30:06
So it's all about what's,
30:08
what's around me.
30:10
Um,
30:11
If I'm downtown, I could go outside.
30:15
The office building that my
30:16
unit is in right now,
30:18
which is not big enough to hold us,
30:21
is that...
30:23
I could go down across the
30:25
street and the state house
30:27
lawn is right there.
30:28
I could actually do the show
30:29
from the state house lawn
30:31
at lunch as long as it's not raining.
30:35
So I could do that as well.
30:41
I just don't know if I'm
30:43
going to be in a place
30:44
where I can get to my car
30:45
or get to a park or get to whatever.
30:49
I don't own a MacBook, Bruce,
30:51
but I would have to use
30:54
hotspot or I would prefer
30:57
using an iPad or a phone
31:00
with five G because the
31:01
five G here in Columbus is
31:03
really strong and I could
31:05
do a pretty good show from that,
31:07
but I could do it on my phone.
31:08
I would prefer like maybe
31:10
purchasing an iPad with
31:12
five cellular service where
31:14
I could do that.
31:17
But it would be a bigger
31:18
screen where I could see
31:19
some more stuff and
31:20
actually do the show more interactively.
31:22
And I could even do interviews from that.
31:26
Note taking would be
31:27
different because right now
31:29
in my podcast center,
31:30
I have a couple of screens.
31:32
I have notes on one screen.
31:33
I have you guys on another screen.
31:36
I could do that,
31:36
but if I was doing it from a lunch hour,
31:40
I would have to do it on
31:43
paper or somewhere and have it with me.
31:46
So I don't know what it means yet.
31:50
I'm trying not to get too
31:51
worked up about it because
31:53
one of the exemptions is if
31:54
your facility no longer
31:57
exists because of cost-cutting measures,
31:59
like ending a lease or ending a sale,
32:03
you could be exempted from returning.
32:06
Currently,
32:08
what it probably means is your
32:10
return date would just be
32:11
pressed out a little bit
32:13
until they could find some
32:15
buildings they could lease
32:18
and get us back in there.
32:20
But right now, I'm just chilling out,
32:24
waiting for the directives
32:27
as to whether we are exempted or not.
32:31
But a lot of people are
32:33
going to have to return by March.
32:35
Which is just around the corner.
32:37
I will keep you updated.
32:40
As I learn more.
32:43
But I think I can pull a lot of this off.
32:46
Doing a lunch hour.
32:48
Kind of remotely.
32:51
Lunch hour show.
32:52
But I don't know for sure.
32:58
My thing is.
32:58
I get the concept of.
33:02
that a lot of problems are
33:03
solved when people come
33:04
together and talk about
33:05
them but the job I do is
33:07
very um very singular very
33:12
isolated um I don't even
33:15
when I'm in the office the
33:16
people I talked to at the
33:18
time um I talked to over
33:20
teams meetings um and I
33:23
would do that even if I was
33:24
in the office because we
33:27
talked to vendors in
33:28
atlanta we talked to our
33:29
vendors in uh vermont
33:31
Connecticut and Massachusetts.
33:35
So that's who I deal with
33:36
most of the day are people
33:38
that aren't even in our state anyway.
33:42
And then the teams that I
33:43
work with are different
33:45
units around the state,
33:46
and I bring them into a
33:49
Teams call anyway.
33:50
So what I would be doing is
33:51
moving into the office to
33:53
have the same Teams calls
33:55
that I have today with more
33:57
interruptions and more
33:59
noise because of the stuff going around.
34:02
But right now, I just sit in my...
34:07
dining room with no noise.
34:10
I can have those without interruption,
34:14
and I actually get more
34:15
done at home than I do in the office.
34:25
Federal employees in D.C.
34:26
are whining about having to
34:28
resume the life of a commuter.
34:30
I feel for them but want to
34:31
laugh at them at the same time.
34:34
Yeah, I mean, I'll figure all that out.
34:36
It's not like I didn't work
34:38
in an office for, gosh,
34:41
twenty years of my life,
34:42
thirty years of my life before this.
34:46
I mean, I'll figure it all out, but
34:49
what's just weird is that
34:51
it's lumping everybody into
34:52
one category instead of
34:55
being smart about it and
34:57
why not save the money
34:59
where you can because you
35:00
now have the technology to
35:02
have people work from home
35:03
if it doesn't affect their
35:05
day-to-day work life and
35:06
they're more productive
35:07
from home why just bring
35:10
them in for the sake of
35:10
bringing them in it just
35:12
doesn't make a lot of sense
35:16
Um,
35:17
but it is what it is and I'll figure it
35:19
out, um, one way or another.
35:23
Um, because they actually, and this,
35:27
and this is a reaction by our state for,
35:29
because of the federal mandate, um,
35:33
our governor's Republican.
35:35
So he's following in line with Trump, uh,
35:38
to, to do, I don't know.
35:44
The only differences is in Ohio,
35:49
our government cannot run
35:52
on a non-balanced budget.
35:56
The budget has to be
35:57
balanced when you get into,
36:04
when it's being created and
36:05
approved and sent through
36:07
the House and the Senate,
36:08
it has to be balanced.
36:10
If it's not balanced,
36:11
it cannot be approved.
36:13
The problem is they to go
36:15
out and get all these buildings,
36:16
they need to house everybody.
36:18
Now there's no way to balance the budget.
36:20
So there's no way they're
36:21
going to have enough
36:22
buildings for everybody to come back to.
36:25
Now we're just waiting to see who that is.
36:28
Andrew said they should do
36:29
hybrid mix of home and office.
36:31
Some people were working hybrid,
36:33
but that was eliminated in
36:34
the executive order.
36:35
Uh, so that can't happen either.
36:37
They were doing three in office,
36:39
two at home.
36:41
Um,
36:42
But again,
36:42
I think it depends on who you
36:43
are and what job you're doing,
36:46
how much you need to be in the office,
36:48
and why can't we just go
36:50
through the position
36:51
descriptions and determine
36:54
what position should be in
36:55
office full-time,
36:57
what position should be hybrid,
36:58
what position should be at home,
37:01
and do what's best for you.
37:04
the state or the, or the country, right?
37:07
Because when you're saving money,
37:09
having people working at
37:10
home because the technology
37:12
is already there,
37:14
that money can then go to
37:16
programs and things to help others.
37:19
And right now with the state
37:22
of Ohio to bring everybody back in,
37:24
you're going to have to rob
37:25
Peter to pay Paul.
37:27
That means money that went
37:29
back out to programs are
37:30
going to have to be pulled
37:31
back in to pay for overhead.
37:35
which wasn't there before.
37:37
And so there are going to be
37:40
programs that take cuts
37:42
because the employees are
37:44
going to be brought back into the office.
37:46
That's all I'm saying.
37:48
Like I said, I'm a grown-ass adult.
37:51
I will figure it out.
37:52
I will go back to commuting
37:53
if that's what they want me to do.
37:55
And like I said,
37:56
I'll even try to figure out
37:57
a way to do the show on my lunch breaks,
38:00
in a break room, in a park, in my car,
38:03
whatever I need to do to do that.
38:06
But I just hate the fact that none of this,
38:11
none of it uses common sense.
38:13
It's just a big lump of, hey,
38:17
you all need to be in the office or hey,
38:20
you all had to be sent home
38:22
or when it could really
38:23
should be a mix of both.
38:26
That is what makes sense for
38:28
either the state or federal
38:29
government and not just a
38:31
sweeping mandate for everyone.
38:36
Now I'm going to go on a rant,
38:39
but too many times we do
38:41
things because we need to
38:43
be fair to everybody.
38:45
Why can't we just do what's right?
38:48
Why can't we just do what
38:50
makes the most sense?
38:51
Why can't we do what is the
38:53
most economically viable
38:57
solution to the problem?
38:59
No,
39:00
we've got to make it everybody because
39:02
someone's feelings might
39:03
get hurt that they had to
39:04
come in the office and
39:05
somebody else was chosen to stay home.
39:08
That's the part I don't like.
39:11
That's all.
39:12
If you told me the reason I
39:13
need to be there is X, Y, and Z,
39:15
and it makes the most sense
39:16
for you to be here in the office,
39:18
totally get it.
39:20
But when you just do a sweeping, sweeping,
39:24
bring everybody back in
39:26
because we can't just tell these.
39:29
Seventy people.
39:30
We have to tell all hundred
39:31
to come in because Susie
39:34
might get her feelings hurt
39:35
or Jimmy might get his feelings hurt.
39:38
It's just utter bullshit.
39:39
That's the part I don't like.
39:44
So that's what really, really upsets me.
39:49
But again,
39:51
I've got my head wrapped around it.
39:52
I'll figure it out.
39:54
We'll do whatever we need to do.
39:56
And I'll try to keep the show going.
39:57
But I just wanted to share
39:58
with you that that is
40:01
happening here in the state of Ohio.
40:03
And with that means I'll
40:05
probably have to report to
40:06
work again at some point in an office.
40:09
And I need to figure out the
40:10
show and what it means from
40:12
that point forward.
40:15
So anyway,
40:18
it's been a great show coming up
40:20
to the end of the work lunch break here.
40:23
So what that means is you
40:24
guys need to get back to work.
40:26
And so do I. So let's get
40:29
back to work and we'll see
40:30
everybody next time.
40:35
Bye guys.