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Lunch with the Clydesdale - Who was your inspiration? · Clydesdale Media Podcast

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what's going on everybody
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it's lunchtime I'm the
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clydesdale it's lunch with
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the clydesdale let's go
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it's thursday afternoon
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what a day what a day at
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work um my gosh um most of
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you know who hang out here
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is that I actually work from home um
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Today's the day that I get
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done all my weekly reports.
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Tomorrow is my one-on-one with my boss.
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And so I get everything kind
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of caught up today, report it out.
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And then we meet about
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whatever I put in that report.
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tomorrow.
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And I had my evaluation yesterday,
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which went fine.
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Verbally, lots of like,
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kudos and compliments on what I'm doing.
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But then with the state of Ohio,
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nobody gets anything more than a meets.
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So I got meets on everything,
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but I was told that I'm
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doing an amazing job.
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So that was good.
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But today, my gosh, like,
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So I work from home.
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We have a mandate that we
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have to have our camera on
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in any meeting that we go to.
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So we can't go into a
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meeting with the camera off
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and do a Teams meeting
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without people seeing us.
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In addition to that,
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we have to adhere to the
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dress code policy.
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And that is head to toe,
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adhere to the dress code policy.
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So apparently...
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This morning,
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the administration is all
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upset that people are not
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turning their cameras on in all meetings,
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and they are cracking down
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on the dress code for
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people who are working from home.
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It boggles my mind that this
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is the stuff that they're focusing on.
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I mean, it's a rule.
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I follow it.
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I turn my camera on for every meeting.
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I get all dressed up for
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every meeting that I have online,
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even though it's as stupid
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as stupid can be.
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And so, but today they are,
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we were told that they are
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taking down names of people
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who are in meetings without
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their camera on or that are
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not adhering to the dress
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code by the letter of the
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law and repercussions will
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come from that.
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Uh, Lynn head to toe.
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What?
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Yeah.
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You have to adhere to the full dress code,
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meaning, uh, no tennis shoes.
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Um, you must wear dress pants.
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Um, no, no jeans, no sweats, none of that.
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Um, you must wear a collared shirt.
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Um,
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Yeah.
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You must have your hair done.
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Um, all of that kind of stuff.
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It is, it, it's just as trained to live,
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put it, it's just lame.
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Um,
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Jose says,
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but is the job getting done and
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it's not hurting the
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business financially?
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Well, what's crazy about me is I,
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all I do is test systems.
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I don't even meet with the public.
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The only P I meet with coworkers, I don't,
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the public never sees me.
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And all I do is when our
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vendors create an
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enhancement to our system,
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I test to make sure it
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works and doesn't break anything.
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And so,
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But anyway,
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I do what they tell me because
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I could retire today if I wanted to.
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I won't make a ton of money
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if I walked out.
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But I'm just trying to get
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as much money as I can
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before I do retire.
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So I'm just trying to go as long as I can.
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Lynn says called silent
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firing also happened with
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companies that demanded
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people go back to the office.
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That that's exactly what we
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were saying today in our
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group chats that not enough
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people have left.
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And so they're trying to,
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to piss people off so that
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they walk out the door.
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But yeah, it's, it's just crazy.
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Crazy.
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So that's why I love these
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Lunch with the Clydesdales,
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because I can come down here,
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I get a breath from my day,
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and I get to hang out with you all.
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So it's a lot of fun.
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Just a little housekeeping stuff.
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Last night,
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Kat had her second episode of her show.
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I listened to it before bed.
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She is...
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Uh, she's killing it, man.
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Uh, I'm so proud of her the way that she,
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it is not an easy thing to
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do a show by yourself and
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talk into a camera.
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Um, and two shows in,
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she is getting really
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comfortable at just kind of
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hanging out and talking
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into the camera and the chats are very,
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very engaging, which is awesome.
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And, uh, she gets to react to that.
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And she's so transparent.
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It's been really,
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really fun to kind of see
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her grow with that.
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And super excited for her.
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A train to live says love cat show.
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Yeah, she's doing great.
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Two episodes in.
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And I think she's deciding
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to try to keep it in that
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Wednesday to five p.m.
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Eastern time time slot to
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kind of go forward with that.
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I'll insist.
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Sorry for that, Scott.
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Don't be, I mean,
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I'm going to play by the
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rules and I'm going to get
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as much in as I can before I retire.
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Thankfully, I am at a qualifying point.
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part of retirement,
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so I could walk out the
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door today and get a check
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the rest of my life from the state.
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Most of it's money I've
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invested into myself, but yeah,
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I could walk away today and I'm fine.
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It's my coworkers that I
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feel bad for who have not
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reached those levels yet to walk away.
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I'm just old enough that I
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kind of hit it with the
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years of service I have
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earlier than some.
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So yeah.
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Um, Corey says cat show was great.
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She's good at storytelling.
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Yeah.
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Like she just,
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I don't even think she used
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visuals last night.
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She just was like going off the cuff,
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talking about the date she's had, um,
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where they've gone wrong,
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where they've gone, right.
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Um,
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where she almost you know
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kind of fell for someone
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and then uh they kind of
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backed away and um and then
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she just doesn't want to
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play those games anymore
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like at fifty two she's
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ready to like just be
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honest and blunt about it
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and let's move forward
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which I think is really
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refreshing to see and hear
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and uh and stuff you don't
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see on other shows so she's
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doing awesome she is doing so awesome um
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One more fun thing before we
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get into a little bit of CrossFit,
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and that is I have been
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working on this project in my spare time.
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I don't know if people saw
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this on my Clydesdale
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CrossFitter Instagram, but I have...
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My relaxation in my adult
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life has become Legos,
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and I never played with Legos as a kid,
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but as an adult,
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I just have grown to fall
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in love with them.
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And so I've been putting
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together the DeLorean from
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the Back to the Future movies.
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It's the biggest Lego project I have ever,
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ever done.
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And it was like twenty five
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hundred pieces to put this all together.
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And it took me probably a
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little over a month because
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I just I dabble at it a
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little bit here and a
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little bit there as a relaxation.
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Something about clicking the
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bricks together is just soothing to me.
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So, yeah, I put this together.
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Here's some pictures from it.
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Marty and Doc.
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But it was it has a lot of detail to it.
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And on the inside,
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I couldn't get a good picture of it,
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but like right back here is
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the actual flux capacitor
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and it does light up.
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And then the date boards are on the front.
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It's very, very detailed.
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There you can kind of see
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the flux capacitor and it
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does light up and it even
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has like little charts and stuff in it.
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But yeah.
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Had a lot of fun with this one.
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As it was coming together at the end,
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it really, really was a lot of fun.
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I'm kind of seeing the
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little accoutrements that come with it.
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There you can see the date
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panels of where you're set,
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where you're going, where you're at,
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where you've been.
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But yeah, had a lot of fun.
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But now it's complete,
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so I've got to find something else to do.
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I have one more big,
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big Lego set that I haven't
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opened the box of.
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And so maybe that'll be mine,
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but I think I'll wait a few
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weeks before I dive back in.
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And it's actually bigger than this one.
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It's actually a Nintendo
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with super Mario brothers
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and you build the cartridge,
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you build the game set,
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you build the TV and you
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build the controller.
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But it's almost three thousand pieces.
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So.
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Anyway, super fun stuff for me.
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Just wanted to share that.
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Corey says when this baby
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hits eighty eight miles per hour,
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you're going to see some shit.
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Yep.
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Uh, that's awesome.
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Scott, you have a place to display it.
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So I had, you see some like right there,
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like there's soldier field.
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There's the pirate parrot.
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Uh, there's a Penn state stadium.
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Um, I put some back there.
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I have some in my living room.
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It's the only thing my wife
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lets me put up there.
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Um, so yeah, a funny story.
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My daughter worked at
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O'Reilly auto parts and I
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called her one day and
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disguise my voice and asked
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if they had a flux capacitor.
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That's awesome.
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That's one of my favorite movies as a kid.
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I really,
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really am a big fan of that movie.
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So, yep.
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The next thing I wanted to
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talk about real quick is I
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think we're seeing our
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first effect of the WFP and
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the CrossFit Games season
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happening at the same time.
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And Barbell Spin reported this recently.
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probably today, maybe last night,
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they talked about it on
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their show last night,
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that there are a group of
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athletes that are electing
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to skip the French
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throwdown for the WFP Tour Event One.
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So most of these are
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European athletes are
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making the choice to fly to
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the United States,
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compete in Indianapolis for
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the WFP instead of going to
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the French throwdown to try
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to qualify for the CrossFit Games.
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And where I think that it's
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not the athletes going that
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I think is affecting
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CrossFit and the CrossFit
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game season directly,
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I think what it is is...
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CrossFit made the decision
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that they wanted to be more
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hands-off this year and
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they wanted to pass on the
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liability and the
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responsibility of
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qualifying athletes to the
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games to partners.
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And they,
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and they were going to take a
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hands-off approach.
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So now you have this partner
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in the French throw down
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that has been a partner of
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CrossFit for many,
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many years and they are
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losing a good chunk of their field and
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to another event from a competing league.
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And I'm wondering if this
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continues to happen moving forward,
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is CrossFit going to lose
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these trusted and loyal
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partners because they're
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not filling their seats or
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not able to sell tickets
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because the best athletes
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are walking away from competing there?
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Yeah.
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Lynn makes this point.
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TTT raised this point.
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They are competing for two
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spots in a live competition
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and online for ten.
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Which would you rather?
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I think it depends on the athlete.
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I mean,
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if you listen to Abby Domet last
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night on Barbell Spin,
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She hates online competition.
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She doesn't do well in online competition.
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She would rather go to an
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in-person place to compete.
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And she actually viewed
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mayhem as her one shot to get in.
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So that she mentally was
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focused on that one shot to
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get in because that is what
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is more beneficial to her.
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And she does not like online competitions.
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I look I look at my two
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co-hosts from sunday night
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carolyn and jamie carolyn
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loves competing online
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she's done it a bunch in
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her career she loves it she
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does really well in it
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she's finished top five in
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the open the last two years
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um and then you take
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someone like jamie who
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hates competing online she
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would much rather race
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someone side by side um
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and do that as a way to
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qualify for different
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things so I think that you
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have to really look at the
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individual athlete and
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maybe that's a good point
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to bring up on sunday night
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where maybe we can talk
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about uh competing online
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versus competing in person
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and preferences because I
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think you'll get a good um
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counterbalance between the
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two of them because they do
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really feel differently
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about that specifically so
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But I do think the French
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Snowdown is not going to be
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happy that all these
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athletes are leaving.
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Whether the athletes choose
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to compete online or in person,
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they only have so many shots.
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And just walking away from
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one shot to compete for the
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games for the opportunity at WFP is
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in the challenger series or
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as a challenger to it is a risk as well.
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So it's going to be
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interesting to see where this goes.
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And I'm not saying that this
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is like the nail in a
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coffin or anything like that.
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I just think that it's the
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first like real effect
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we're seeing from the WFP
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season happening at the
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exact same time as a
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CrossFit game season.
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Meredith says,
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it depends on if your strong
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suit is online versus exactly.
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Corey says, I'm with Jamie.
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I abhor online qualifiers.
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Line us up and let us go.
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I mean,
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Take Corey, for example,
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at the Masters Fitness
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Collective a couple years ago.
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He is the last person in the door.
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And he won an event and
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nearly won a second because
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he's so much better in
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person than he is online.
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And there's a lot of people
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that are opposite of that.
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Um,
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this whole kale layman thing's been
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happening all week.
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That is a complete flip.
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Um,
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so interesting there has the French
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throw down announced their
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prices that I don't know.
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Um,
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With everything that's been
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going on in my personal life, Lynn,
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I have not had the
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opportunity to keep up with
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all those details as much as I'd like.
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But now that mama's home and
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she's feeling better,
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and then if I can get my
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daughter moved to Montana,
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hopefully things slow down
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for me a little bit and I
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can start following up on
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those things a little bit more.
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when we look at the
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in-person qualifying events,
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we actually have a week off this week.
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There is none happening this week.
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And the next one that goes
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live is Copa Sur,
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which is the week after this.
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So this weekend,
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no CrossFit qualifying event.
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The following weekend,
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we have Copa Sur in Brazil,
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I believe it is.
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And
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And so we'll get some people
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from South America
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qualified to the games.
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But I am interested to know
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if they've done anything
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about their prize money yet.
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So we have that.
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Um,
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the other thing I was going to look at
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today with you guys is, um,
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I have a software that kind
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of helps me with, um, SEO with my,
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with the podcast and stuff like that.
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But it also shows me some numbers, uh,
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with other, uh,
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sites as I go out on them.
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And so I wanted to pull up mayhem, uh,
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And Lynn said she went to dig,
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but didn't pull up anything
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on money for French showdown.
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So I don't know if you can see it,
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but over here on this side of the,
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I'll try to blow it up a little bit.
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Over here,
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I have a summary of some
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information from day one of
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the Mayhem Classic.
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So this is the live stream from YouTube.
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You can see that there.
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Here are the view totals after a week.
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We're a little bit short of a week, but...
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But I thought this was a
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good time to kind of look
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at the view numbers.
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So there was one hundred
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ninety eight thousand total
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views for the day one
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stream of the Mayhem classic.
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There were fifty five
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comments and two thousand eighty five,
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two thousand eight hundred
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and fifty likes on the video.
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There was also an additional
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one hundred and fifty one
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likes from Facebook.
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So this must have not only
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broadcast on YouTube,
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but also on Facebook as well.
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So two hundred thousand,
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just under two hundred
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thousand views for day one.
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If we look at day two,
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the numbers slide a little bit,
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which actually surprised me
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because everything was so
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close after day one.
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I thought that the numbers
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would be as good, if not better.
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So this, just to show this is live,
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Mayhem Classic day two,
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and we have a hundred and
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eighty nine thousand views,
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just about ten thousand
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views shorter than day one.
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There were forty three comments,
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a little bit less and
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twenty two hundred likes
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with only eighteen likes from Facebook.
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So less likes,
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less comments and about ten
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thousand less views for for mayhem.
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But still, you know,
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one hundred ninety thousand
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views for a qualifying
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event going to the CrossFit Games.
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my question to you guys is,
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are those good numbers?
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Do you think those are good
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numbers for what we expected, uh,
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for people to tune in?
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I,
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I kind of expected them to be a little
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bit more, but the field they had with,
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with as close as the races were,
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I thought we'd see a little more, um,
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a little more viewership
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over the two days.
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Um,
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than what we see here uh I'm
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anxious to see what you
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guys thought if we if you
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thought it'd be more or
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less um I thought that the
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broadcast was was really
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well done I thought that
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Rich and Angela were funny
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I thought Sean was loose
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and had a lot of fun during
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the broadcast um I thought the uh the
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announcers on the floor, uh,
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Rory and Bella did a great
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job with the interviews.
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Um,
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and it was a condensed weekend where
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you didn't have to, uh,
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you didn't have to spend a
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whole day watching.
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It didn't start until late,
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like four o'clock Eastern
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time on Saturday and, uh,
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was done by five or six on Sunday.
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Um, so yeah.
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I don't know.
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I just,
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I guess I expected a little bit more.
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Jose thought,
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he thought the expectations were lower.
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So, okay.
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Meredith said the stream seems solid,
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didn't have major issues.
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I agree.
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I'm just curious, like, I don't,
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I guess I don't really know
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what numbers they were looking for,
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but I thought that they
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were solid numbers.
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I just affect,
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I thought they'd be a little
21:33
bit over two hundred K.
21:35
like two fifty maybe uh for
21:37
the weekend just because of
21:38
it being mayhem um being a
21:41
more intimate setting uh
21:43
with a with a great field
21:45
with some popular athletes
21:47
um I don't know that's just
21:51
what I thought I guess I
21:53
was wrong a little bit but
21:54
still solid numbers I think
21:55
that enough to be proud of uh
21:59
I think I heard rich say
22:00
that they they broke even
22:03
on the event until he
22:05
offered up the extra six
22:06
grand at the end three for
22:09
the winner of the last
22:10
event for each male and
22:12
female so if they broke
22:13
even on the event with the
22:15
broadcast they pulled off
22:17
and the event they pulled
22:18
off that's actually pretty
22:19
good in year one um it's
22:21
going to be interesting to
22:22
see how they do going forward
22:28
Um, Jose, I think they are solid.
22:30
Maybe they felt it was going
22:31
to have Waza vibes with streaming.
22:34
It was way better than Waza way,
22:36
way better.
22:37
They actually brought the
22:38
games guy in to run the production, uh,
22:41
behind the scenes.
22:43
Um,
22:45
So, um,
22:47
I think that was why the stream was
22:49
pretty solid, uh, from a production,
22:51
from a production standpoint,
22:53
we didn't have any glitches.
22:55
I think I'd only saw one camera go down,
22:58
um, while they were on the floor.
23:00
Um, but that's going to happen.
23:02
That happens at football games in the NFL.
23:05
Um, so that's going to happen too.
23:09
Uh, Lynn says that it was,
23:11
it was a ticket with no seats.
23:14
I know.
23:16
I think that's,
23:18
and if you heard Dave in
23:19
his week in review,
23:20
like he loved the way it
23:22
came off and that they're
23:25
going to lean into like
23:27
maybe some bigger
23:27
affiliates hosting some of
23:29
these events to keep it in the affiliate,
23:32
but it's going to mean more
23:33
boutique ticket sales,
23:36
meaning you're going to have great venue,
23:38
great access, all that kind of stuff,
23:40
but you're going to have to
23:41
pay for it as well.
23:45
Corey said the stream was fantastic.
23:46
First event of the season.
23:48
Most mayhem athletes don't
23:50
think I expected there to
23:51
be huge numbers on the streams.
23:55
I guess I'm,
23:55
I'm just a nerd and I don't
23:57
realize like that.
23:58
I am part of this really
24:00
small group that wants to
24:01
watch everything.
24:03
Um, so.
24:07
Um, and then Jose brings up the point.
24:09
It was great revenue for Cookville because,
24:11
uh, lots of people coming to the town, um,
24:15
athletes, their entourages, the,
24:17
the crowds, um, different media outlets.
24:20
That was pretty cool.
24:24
Uh,
24:25
trained to live the drones during the
24:26
run was Epic.
24:27
Yeah.
24:28
Until the one crashed.
24:31
Um, but yeah, that was Epic, uh,
24:34
And but they've done that before.
24:36
The games has done that with
24:38
the runs out of the stadium.
24:42
And then when they do like
24:43
the little four hundreds and come back in,
24:45
they did that in twenty
24:46
three and twenty one when
24:49
they had to run out of the
24:50
Coliseum and back in in Madison.
24:54
And they actually flew the
24:55
drones in the door of the
24:58
Coliseum out onto the floor
24:59
and then it would follow people back out.
25:02
It was pretty wild.
25:09
Um, so yeah,
25:12
so I thought we'd just take a
25:13
look at those, um,
25:16
just some interesting
25:17
numbers to kind of look at.
25:18
And it's going to be
25:19
interesting now going forward.
25:21
Those were the numbers of mayhem.
25:22
What are the other in
25:23
affiliate semifinals or not
25:25
in affiliate in-person
25:27
semifinals going to look
25:28
like from a number basis as
25:29
we go forward?
25:34
Corey says,
25:34
two hundred dollars for a
25:35
boutique experience isn't
25:36
terrible for the access
25:37
that look like people got
25:39
right on top of the
25:39
athletes from what it
25:40
looked like for every event.
25:43
Yeah.
25:45
When I was at Mayhem in
25:46
twenty when they did the
25:47
first Mayhem classic,
25:49
they actually did have one
25:50
set of bleachers for the
25:53
lack of better term at the finish line.
25:57
So you got that staggered up
25:59
and it was probably only
26:01
like eight to ten rows of bleachers.
26:05
So still pretty small and
26:07
intimate and that boutique feel.
26:10
And then the sidelines and
26:11
the start line were what
26:13
you saw at this mayhem
26:14
classic where it was just
26:17
standing room only on the fence.
26:23
Lynn brings up, which is great, Jose,
26:27
but that's pricey if you're
26:29
driving in hotels, food,
26:31
you'd just rather stream it.
26:34
Yeah.
26:35
Unless you want to support Cookville.
26:37
Um, but I will say this too, Lynn,
26:39
like when I went to Cookville,
26:40
it was one of the cheapest
26:42
places to get a hotel,
26:44
to get food from all of the
26:46
places that they have
26:47
semifinals and other events.
26:50
Um, I found that to be way more, um,
26:54
doable from an expense
26:56
standpoint than other
26:57
places that I've gone to in
27:00
the past for other events.
27:02
like that West coast, um,
27:05
semi-final in Pasadena two years ago.
27:08
Um,
27:08
I spent so much money getting Jamie and
27:11
I out there.
27:12
Um, the hotel was just insane.
27:15
Um, where in Cookville you, I would in the,
27:19
in like,
27:20
I got a hotel room for under a
27:21
hundred bucks a night.
27:23
It was, yeah, it was crazy.
27:34
yeah that I that I don't
27:35
know lynn I don't know when
27:36
the tickets were released
27:37
because I knew I couldn't
27:38
get there with everything
27:39
I've had going on um so but
27:46
cookville's one of those
27:46
places if you've never been
27:47
you got to go I mean mayhem
27:49
is the pictures don't do it
27:53
justice it is just a
27:54
massive massive building um
27:58
And, uh, and it's the Mecca for CrossFit.
28:02
You have to be, um, you have to,
28:07
you have to go if you get
28:08
the opportunity.
28:09
It's so much fun there.
28:11
Um, and then there's a,
28:12
there's a part of Cookville,
28:14
the town that's very old school, like, um,
28:17
sidewalks and little
28:19
boutique shops and Ralph's donuts and, um,
28:25
an ice cream shop, like really cool,
28:27
really cool stuff.
28:28
um really if I if I had to
28:31
pick a place in the world
28:32
to live the rest of my life
28:33
retired cookville might be
28:35
it um jose says media pit
28:40
was limited too but luckily
28:41
they limited media
28:43
credentials and was still
28:44
able to get a few good
28:45
shots cool it's awesome I
28:49
heard I heard that the
28:50
media team there did a
28:51
really good job
28:51
communicating um everything
28:54
out so that was awesome too
29:00
Um,
29:01
so the last thing I just wanted to talk
29:02
about is, um,
29:04
I've been doing this podcast now for,
29:06
oh gosh, five and a half years.
29:08
Uh,
29:08
the reason I started it was kind of a
29:12
twofold thing when
29:14
When CrossFit had their
29:15
original podcast and Sivan was doing it,
29:18
it was the first podcast.
29:20
It introduced me to podcasts.
29:22
I was such a geek into the CrossFit space.
29:25
To have a podcast dedicated
29:26
to the thing that I loved,
29:29
I would listen to every episode.
29:33
And so that got me introduced to podcasts.
29:35
And then Pat McAfee...
29:40
was next for me and he was a
29:42
big inspiration because of
29:44
all the people that told
29:45
him no that he couldn't do
29:47
sports media that he tried
29:49
to get into the nfl program
29:52
that helps people move on
29:53
to sports media he got denied four times
29:58
And so he decided to build his own thing.
30:02
And he did that by going to
30:04
Barstool Sports for a minute.
30:05
Then he left them and opened
30:06
and started his own thing,
30:08
started a podcast.
30:09
It grew into a YouTube channel, which...
30:12
Then grew into being
30:14
licensed by Sirius XM and a
30:16
couple other places, CBS.
30:18
And then that led to a deal
30:21
with DraftKings, I believe it was.
30:25
And then after that,
30:27
then he got the deal with
30:28
ESPN where his show is licensed there.
30:31
And now he's one of the
30:33
biggest things in sports media.
30:36
But because he did it for
30:39
nothing to start that all up,
30:41
and when people told him no,
30:43
and where he got it to,
30:45
I've admired the work ethic
30:48
and the stick-to-itiveness
30:49
that he has had throughout
30:50
the whole process.
30:51
But last night was his big
30:53
night out in Pittsburgh.
30:55
I grew up just outside of Pittsburgh.
30:58
And so I was super excited
31:00
to watch this thing that he
31:03
was putting together as
31:04
like a thank you to his
31:05
hometown and something that
31:07
he had envisioned after
31:09
years of spending time with
31:10
his grandmother watching variety shows.
31:13
I will say I was so excited.
31:15
The bar was probably set way
31:17
too high in my head.
31:18
And when it came on,
31:19
there was a little bit of a
31:20
letdown for me.
31:22
I was really excited to see it.
31:27
He...
31:29
did some storytelling on the
31:30
front end of just how his
31:31
career developed and, uh,
31:33
growing up a Pittsburgher
31:35
and what that meant and all
31:37
of that kind of stuff,
31:37
which was pretty cool.
31:39
And then, uh,
31:40
jelly roll came out and sang some songs.
31:43
Um, and then it,
31:45
it got weird and they did
31:47
some sumo wrestling and stuff that I just,
31:49
I didn't understand.
31:51
Um,
31:52
there was also one of the new wrestlers
31:54
that, uh,
31:55
I didn't really know him very
31:56
well came out.
31:59
And just when I was about to give up on it,
32:03
out came Wiz Khalifa, who,
32:06
if you don't know who that is,
32:07
he sings a song, black and yellow,
32:09
black and yellow, black and yellow.
32:11
And in Pittsburgh, that's a huge song.
32:13
And he is a native Pittsburgher as well.
32:16
And so he came out and sang
32:17
that song as well as the work hard,
32:23
play hard, work hard, play hard.
32:25
I don't know the names of those songs,
32:27
but he did that.
32:28
And then he said,
32:29
he's going to bring out a
32:30
buddy of his and Snoop dog
32:31
came out and man,
32:34
I was so freaking pumped up.
32:39
I don't know what it is
32:40
about live music and people
32:44
like Snoop that never
32:45
disappoint performing live,
32:48
but it just flipped that
32:49
whole show for me.
32:51
Um,
32:53
I could sit and watch Snoop
32:55
and his buddies do whatever
32:57
they wanted to do on stage for a while.
33:00
But it was awesome.
33:02
Still a little bit of a
33:02
letdown overall for being
33:04
such a huge McAfee fan.
33:07
I don't know where they're
33:08
going from this.
33:09
I like their normal show
33:10
better than I like this
33:11
special thing that they did.
33:14
But the concert stuff was really cool.
33:17
The production was done by
33:19
WWE as a favor to Pat.
33:21
So there was a lot of cool
33:23
like visuals and, and lights and,
33:26
and led boards and all of that stuff.
33:30
But yeah, it was just sharing with you.
33:34
He's an inspiration to me.
33:35
He's always been an
33:36
inspiration to me to do this thing.
33:38
Yeah.
33:41
And it was fun to watch him
33:44
kind of hit this epic
33:45
moment where he got to do a
33:47
show in front of an arena in Pittsburgh.
33:51
They sold out PPG Arena in Pittsburgh,
33:53
which is where the Penguins play hockey.
33:56
It's probably an eighteen
33:57
thousand seat arena and
33:59
they sold floor seats as well.
34:01
So probably twenty thousand
34:02
people there to watch him
34:06
kind of give thanks for everything that
34:09
The fans had given him,
34:10
he gave away millions of dollars, um,
34:13
last night and giveaways, uh,
34:15
which was really cool to,
34:17
to give back to the,
34:18
to his fans that way.
34:20
Um,
34:21
But I would love it.
34:23
I would love it if you're
34:25
listening to this podcast
34:26
and you have an inspiration
34:27
that got you to where you are today.
34:30
I would love to hear who
34:31
that is and why they're
34:33
your inspiration in the comments.
34:35
I think that would be
34:37
something fun to read
34:38
through and maybe revisit
34:40
on tomorrow's show when I
34:41
see what comes in.
34:43
Because I'd love to know who
34:46
the inspirational people
34:47
are out there in the world
34:49
who give people that little
34:52
oomph to do what they're
34:54
doing a little bit better.
34:58
And so, yeah,
34:59
if you have somebody that's
35:00
inspired you to get to
35:02
where you are today or to
35:04
do the things that you do,
35:06
throw it in the comments.
35:07
Give me a reason why.
35:09
And maybe we'll read those
35:10
comments tomorrow on tomorrow's show.
35:18
Yeah,
35:19
people still talking about Mayhem
35:22
being so close.
35:24
Dee Reed talks about that
35:25
they were within arm's
35:26
length of the athletes.
35:27
Yeah.
35:28
It may have does a great job
35:30
with that intimate setup for sure.
35:32
Um, you are right on top of the action.
35:35
You saw the athletes given
35:36
high fives and when they
35:37
were crashing into that,
35:39
that final buzzer, um,
35:41
many times they were
35:42
crashing right into the wall where the,
35:44
where the,
35:44
the spectators were and the
35:46
spectators were the only
35:47
soft part of that landing, uh,
35:50
other than the metal barricade.
35:51
So that was pretty cool.
35:56
Well, Jody,
35:57
I talked about my review off the top,
35:58
but you were late.
36:01
Um, it went, it went fine.
36:04
Um, where I work,
36:06
they don't give anything
36:07
but meets or below meets expectations.
36:12
Um,
36:14
And I don't know why it's become this way,
36:16
but it's made the review meaningless.
36:20
Because my boss would say, hey,
36:24
I've been receiving a lot
36:25
of kudos about you doing this X, Y,
36:28
and Z. And then he would say,
36:29
so you meet expectations.
36:32
Well,
36:33
that's not true because people are
36:35
getting more than what they expected.
36:38
But I just... So it is what it is.
36:42
I'm, you know...
36:43
It was a good review for
36:45
what they do with the state.
36:46
My boss did give me a lot of
36:48
kudos in the review.
36:50
Nothing bad came out of it.
36:52
And like I said,
36:55
I am at a retirement age
36:57
where I could walk out the
36:58
door tomorrow and get a
37:00
check the rest of my life.
37:03
But at this point,
37:04
it's not enough to live on.
37:06
So I'm just trying to get as
37:07
many years in as I can to
37:09
increase that population.
37:12
that check for what it is um
37:16
so any review that I get
37:17
that doesn't have um a
37:20
performance plan in it or
37:21
anything like that is a
37:22
good thing because that
37:23
means I'm nowhere near uh
37:25
being laid off or fired uh
37:28
so that's that's where I'm at um
37:33
like five years.
37:34
So I've, I,
37:35
when I first got in with the state,
37:37
I worked my ass off to,
37:39
to go up the ladder.
37:41
Um,
37:43
And I did that.
37:44
I got my master's degree.
37:45
I went up the ladder.
37:47
I got up to upper middle management,
37:49
just high enough to be the
37:50
scapegoat on stuff.
37:52
And then when new governors come in,
37:55
I become the scapegoat.
37:57
And then I have to go down a few notches.
37:58
Then I have to work my way up.
38:00
And then I become the scapegoat again.
38:02
I go down with the new governor.
38:04
And then I work my way up.
38:05
And I got tired of that
38:07
roller coaster about five years ago.
38:09
So when they took me back down,
38:14
Um,
38:15
and I used to be the guy they would
38:16
bring into a unit to clean it up.
38:19
And then once I got it all clean,
38:21
then they'd hand it off to their friend.
38:23
which it just got to be this
38:25
repetitive thing that I started hating.
38:29
And so the last time they moved me down,
38:32
I just said, screw it.
38:33
I'm not moving back up there
38:35
only to clean up
38:36
everybody's mess and then
38:39
be demoted back down for
38:41
their friend to get the job
38:42
and get the kudos for
38:43
everything moving forward.
38:45
So I got really disgruntled.
38:47
And that's actually when I
38:48
started this podcast five
38:50
and a half years ago,
38:51
because I just wanted to do
38:53
something different and I
38:54
didn't care about my job anymore.
38:56
And I got my ears pierced.
38:59
I got my tattoo on my arm and I said,
39:03
screw it.
39:03
I'm not corporate anymore.
39:05
And I've just been kind of
39:06
riding my time out where I'm at.
39:09
So evaluations haven't meant anything,
39:11
but yeah,
39:13
I do think I want to make
39:15
one more move before I
39:16
retire because your
39:18
retirement is based on your
39:20
last three years of work,
39:22
highest three years of
39:23
earnings during your work experience.
39:27
And the level right above me,
39:30
I could do in my sleep.
39:32
And it doesn't have anybody
39:34
reporting to them.
39:36
And so I did tell my boss
39:39
that I would like to make a
39:41
run at those jobs.
39:44
If someone leaves and he was
39:46
all for that and said he
39:49
would help in that effort.
39:51
So I do think that and I'm
39:53
going to have to go back to
39:53
the office by the end of
39:55
this year anyway.
39:57
So if I'm going to be in the office,
39:58
I'm going to be forced to
39:59
be there to do different
40:00
different things.
40:01
I might as well move up and
40:03
make some more money while I'm doing it.
40:06
And just make that last little hitch.
40:09
It's to pay to pay grade increase.
40:12
And so I'm making a little
40:13
bit more money before that
40:15
to base my retirement on
40:18
when I walk away.
40:20
but everything that I'm
40:21
trying to do at this point is just to,
40:23
to build that up so that my
40:25
wife and I can retire and
40:27
we can still go do all the
40:28
fun stuff around, uh, the country, uh,
40:31
especially like for me in
40:32
this CrossFit space and
40:33
keep the podcast going, um,
40:36
and not have to worry about
40:37
the finances of that.
40:39
So that was probably way
40:42
more than anybody wanted to know.
40:44
Um, but that's, that's my story.
40:52
and I try to be an open book
40:53
so you guys kind of know what's going on,
40:55
but yeah, that's where we're at.
40:58
So I passed, I passed my evaluation and,
41:02
um, but I've been with the state,
41:06
two years.
41:08
Um, if I get to it's a full retirement,
41:11
I'll make exactly what I'm
41:12
making working.
41:14
If I make it to after I'm done working.
41:19
Um,
41:21
So it's just,
41:23
it's the thing working in government is,
41:26
is not as is not glamorous at all.
41:29
And what used to be like
41:30
really good benefits and
41:32
really good retirement is
41:34
still pretty good,
41:35
but it's not what it used to be.
41:37
And we don't make the wages
41:38
that the private sector makes.
41:40
And you kind of get bounced around a lot,
41:42
um, based on, um,
41:47
There's actually laws that
41:48
say they can move me
41:49
because I'm an exempt employee.
41:52
They can move me anywhere, anytime,
41:54
any place without notice.
41:59
And that goes for anybody
42:00
that's an exempt employee with the state.
42:02
They can just, it's like section,
42:04
they call it section nineteen.
42:06
And you can just, they can just say, hey,
42:08
we're going to move you
42:09
from here over to here and
42:10
you're going to do this job now.
42:14
And so you're kind of at their mercy.
42:18
And I really tried to like
42:20
change my perception of like,
42:22
I used to have them up here
42:23
and they had me down here.
42:25
And I decided to even that
42:27
up a little bit where I'm
42:28
going to hold them in the
42:29
same place they hold me and
42:31
no more than that.
42:33
Um,
42:34
and I was going to hold my family
42:36
higher and I was going to
42:37
hold my faith higher and
42:39
those things higher.
42:41
So,
42:41
because that's what's supporting me day
42:45
to day, not my job, my job pays my check,
42:49
but my family and my faith and my friends,
42:52
they're the, they're what hold,
42:54
they're the,
42:55
what keep me going and
42:56
they're my support all the time.
42:59
And so that's where I put, um,
43:04
That's where I put,
43:04
that's where I put them in
43:05
the priority chain.
43:08
So Jay Burch,
43:11
I wish it was just other duties required.
43:12
We have that too.
43:14
Um, that's gets,
43:15
you get to stay in the job you're at,
43:16
but you have to do other things.
43:18
They actually can physically
43:20
move me from one,
43:21
one office to another office,
43:23
doing something completely different, um,
43:26
from start to finish.
43:30
It's insane.
43:34
Uh, D Reed,
43:34
I'm at the leave me alone stage of work.
43:36
That's where I was five and
43:37
a half years ago.
43:39
Um, I just would go in,
43:41
we were still in the office.
43:42
I would go in, I would sit in the corner,
43:44
I would put my headphones
43:45
on and I would do my job
43:47
and I just wanted everybody
43:48
to leave me alone.
43:54
Not a fun place to be,
43:55
not a fun place to be,
43:57
but I'm getting better
43:58
there and I'm trying to get
44:00
my mind around going back
44:01
into the office.
44:03
Um,
44:05
And getting mentally prepared for that.
44:09
But the people that have been called back,
44:13
they're still on Teams meetings.
44:16
Because they forced
44:17
everybody back to every space available,
44:20
there's no place to hold a meeting.
44:22
So all the meetings are
44:23
still on teams and
44:25
everybody's wearing
44:26
headphones because if not, you're just,
44:29
you're hearing everybody's
44:30
meetings in this big mass
44:32
space with all these desks.
44:36
And so everybody's just
44:37
sitting in their cubicle
44:38
with headphones on watching
44:40
their screens.
44:42
And,
44:44
and it's no different than if we were
44:46
at home.
44:49
And that,
44:50
and three of my coworkers got
44:51
called back and that they,
44:53
that's exactly what they're doing.
44:54
They're sitting there with
44:55
their headphones on doing
44:57
the same meetings on their
44:58
computer that they were doing at home,
45:00
just in a desk.
45:01
And,
45:02
and they're saying it's very antisocial.
45:04
Like there's nobody getting
45:06
up and talking or anything
45:07
like that because you're in
45:09
this condensed space.
45:10
Cause there's just no room
45:11
for all the desks.
45:17
ACR,
45:18
I wish these kids would give me an
45:19
upgrade in wages.
45:21
I bet,
45:21
I bet they are good at the opposite.
45:24
They suck the wages.
45:28
As I'm preparing to take my
45:30
daughter across the country to Montana.
45:33
That's going to be hard and
45:34
awesome all at the same time.
45:39
Jay Birch, oh yeah,
45:39
I've been moved before to
45:41
teach classes in the middle
45:42
school and the high school
45:43
one time rather than just
45:45
the high school.
45:46
Yeah.
45:47
I know teachers have that too.
45:49
Um,
45:49
I know I have friends that like they
45:51
were a fourth grade teacher
45:52
and all of a sudden they were told, Nope,
45:54
you're teaching second grade this year.
45:56
Um, so yeah.
46:00
And yeah, I,
46:00
I think that train to live is
46:01
talking about the amen to that,
46:03
that the new priority list
46:05
that I came up with after I realized what,
46:07
where my job placed me.
46:10
So, well,
46:11
this has been a good fun talk guys.
46:13
Um,
46:15
we'll be back tomorrow.
46:17
Uh, if you didn't see cat show,
46:19
it aired last night at five PM.
46:21
It's still available for replay out there.
46:23
If you want to go check that out.
46:25
Um, and then we will be back tomorrow, uh,
46:31
with lunch with the
46:32
Clydesdale and Sunday night, Carolyn,
46:34
Jamie and I will be back to
46:35
do the full Sunday, Sunday, Sunday night,
46:39
CrossFit talk.
46:41
Um, uh,
46:42
Lynn says random,
46:43
but will we please have age
46:45
group video review discussion on Sunday?
46:47
I am betting a hundred
46:49
percent because that's been nothing.
46:53
Our chat,
46:54
our text string with Jamie and
46:56
Carolyn has been nothing
46:57
but age group video review.
47:01
So I am sure that that is
47:02
going to be a number one
47:04
thing to discuss on Sunday night.
47:07
What a joke that has become.
47:11
thought it was going to be a good thing,
47:13
but they missed one aspect of it.
47:15
And because they missed that
47:16
one aspect of it, it is one huge joke.
47:22
All right, guys,
47:23
I got to get back to work.
47:25
Time for you knuckleheads to
47:27
get back to work too.
47:28
We'll see everybody tomorrow
47:30
on Lunch with Clydesdale.
47:32
Bye guys.