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Lunch with the Clydesdale - When Will We Learn that Power is Not Invincibility · Clydesdale Media Podcast

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The sports world is a buzz.
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When are people going to learn?
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You can't dip your pen in the company
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ink.
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Next.
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I love the chase and the hunt,
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and I set the pace when I'm running.
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I always take what I want,
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and I always give it one hundred.
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Don't need a bank, no I'm funded.
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Play the game like it's nothing.
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I'm always thankful for something.
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Don't take for granted, stay humble.
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Now wake up!
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It's time to look at the enemy.
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Look in the mirror if he is no
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friend to me.
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It's not working out,
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maybe it's the chemistry.
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It's time to break up so I can
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make a better me.
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We know what time it is.
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it's lunch time what is going on everybody
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welcome to lunch with the clydesdale where
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we take a break from the busy work
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day catch our breath hang out with friends
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and talk about the world of sports and
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entertainment and specifically crossfit
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So I am sure you've all heard the
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big buzz around the sports world,
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and that is that Sharon Moore has been
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let go from the University of Michigan as
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head coach due to an inappropriate
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relationship with a staffer on the
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University of Michigan football team.
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My understanding is that that person was
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someone that was hired under the Jim
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Harbaugh administration and then promoted
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once Ron Moore got the job to his
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assistant position.
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There's a lot of rumors going around as
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to what happened, what transpired,
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why it became public knowledge.
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And then the story gets weird.
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Immediately after that, there was a call.
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to the local authorities that some that
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there was an alleged assault happening and
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then uh the police came out they they
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eventually find him at a location in
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conjunction with two different authorities
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they arrest him and they put him in
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jail where he is still today um
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There's rumors whether he was there for
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his own safety.
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There's rumors whether he was there for
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other safety.
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And no charges are supposed to be filed
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today.
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We probably won't even know anymore until
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tomorrow.
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But what in the world?
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What in the world?
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Like...
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We went through all of this stuff over
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the past ten years where people should
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have learned that you can't be dangling
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around in the workplace and expect to get
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away with it.
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You just can't do that anymore.
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We are in a world where there is
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so much information and so many recording
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devices and so many people listening in on
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things.
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You cannot get away with this stuff
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anymore.
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It is mind-boggling that there are still
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people out there that think they are
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powerful enough or that they are above the
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system enough that they can get away with
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things like this.
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I am just flabbergasted over this.
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David Reed,
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cheating in Michigan seemed to go
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together.
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It was so funny.
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I'm watching Get Up this morning and you
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have like Adam Schefter and Taylor LeJuan,
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both who graduated from Michigan,
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talking about they need to make sure they
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hire the person that upholds the standards
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of Michigan.
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What is that standard now?
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Because in the last few years,
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you've had the sign stealing scandal.
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Both of your coaches have served
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suspensions while working for the team.
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Now this coach is fired because he's
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diddling around with his assistant.
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What standard are we talking about
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anymore?
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Sivan said, was he married?
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He is married.
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He has four children.
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Just had a newborn baby this summer.
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Amir says it's an ego thing.
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They think nothing will happen to them.
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Well,
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I think there is evidence over the past
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several years that things are going to
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happen to you.
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You just...
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There's too many people with...
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axes to grind with recording devices with
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it you just can't you just can't anymore
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um mark phillips makes a great point uh
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the interim coach that was named at
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mission michigan his name is biff poji
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maybe the greatest name ever in college
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sports
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Biff Poggi.
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And if you don't know his story,
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what's completely wild is this dude,
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through investing,
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is like a huge millionaire.
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Huge millionaire.
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And he just loves football so much that
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he coaches it for fun.
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He has made so much money in the
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stock market that he just does this
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because he likes to.
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But yeah, I love the name Biff Poggi.
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Chad,
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a new fee currently in a social psychology
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course.
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And this is just an incredible case you
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could dive into.
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Yeah, like, yeah.
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When you're that much in the spotlight,
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it's bound to come out.
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Dumb move.
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Well, and especially in college football,
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because you are competing with other
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schools to get top-end talent.
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And other schools will rat you out for
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everything you have ever done to get that
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kid to sign with you instead of them.
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It is ruthless.
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It is cutthroat.
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It is savage.
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And in this line of work, you cannot...
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go that far outside the bounds and not
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expect it to come back and bite you
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at some point.
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Paul Cain, it's a testosterone thing.
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I didn't want to just put it into
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just males because there are a lot of
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males that have done it,
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but females do the same thing.
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Females cheat at work.
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Females get into power positions and they
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use that for their benefit.
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The timeline of when the university found
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out versus when the wife did along with
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signing day is interesting too.
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Yeah, from the accounts on the internet,
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it sounds to me like the wife didn't
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find out until he was fired.
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And that may be what triggered then the
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police arrest.
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I don't know that for a fact,
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so I don't want to like...
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I don't want to say that for sure,
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but from everything I'm reading on the
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internet,
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it does seem like the wife did not
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find out until the arrest or until the
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firing.
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And then there was an argument that then
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led to his arrest.
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Mark Phillips says,
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real name is Francis Xavier Poggi.
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Still super cool.
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Yeah.
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If my name was Francis Xavier,
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I would go by Biff as well.
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Uh, Jonathan Ortega,
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people just got yelled at in my office
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and it's awkward in here now.
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Yeah.
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Don't you hate that?
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Uh, N L E M N L M.
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I don't know.
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I'm going to figure it.
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I don't know.
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As someone who has worked their whole life
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in HR,
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I've never seen a relationship cheating or
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not be successful.
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That started at work,
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especially with a power imbalance and
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roles like this.
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problem is people are not thinking with
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their minds in in those moments generally
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um yeah i saw this as well train
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olive apparently bryce underwood removed
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the michigan tag from his ig transfer
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portal is about to be busy yeah they've
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got to get someone what the transfer
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portal opens the beginning of january so
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they're gonna have to get someone in there
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someone to meet with the players and it
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better be someone big that convinces those
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players to stay or they're gonna lose a
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hell of a lot of players
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Chattanooga.
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There was a tweet nine days ago from
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some guy saying exactly what happened.
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Rumor is the school knew and withheld it
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until after signing day.
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Yeah.
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I'm hearing,
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I'm hearing conflicting things that the
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school had done some investigations,
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but they didn't have anything concrete
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enough to fire him with cause until
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yesterday.
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And I don't, so I don't know.
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I don't know the truth.
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I don't,
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In this world of college athletics,
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it would not surprise me that people would
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wait until after signing day.
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But the fact of the matter is in
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college sports,
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the minute you let go of your coach,
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you are let loose from your letters of
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intent immediately.
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So all those people they sign to their
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class can now go to any other university
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in the country because their coach is
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gone.
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And because the coach is gone,
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that means everybody on the team is
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eligible for the transfer portal and
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everybody is let out of their letters of
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intent.
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So it really opens up everything.
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Waiting till after signing day does
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nothing.
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Does Penn State still need a coach?
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No.
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They signed Matt Campbell last week.
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And it actually turned out to be a
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good hire considering they took forever to
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do it.
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But yeah.
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So.
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Just wanted to hit with that.
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I did look at the rule book a
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little more in depth last night,
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and I don't see Lito in the chat,
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but she had that question about what
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happens if you're a Masters athlete,
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you do the online semifinal,
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And then you do the French throw down
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and you qualify for the games there,
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which one counts.
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And if you read the rule book,
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it says just like last year,
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their rank will be passed over.
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Let me see.
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From the first competition for which they
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qualified,
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their rank will be passed over in a
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subsequent competition,
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in-person semis or online semis.
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So it will be the last place where
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they qualify.
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And just like last year in the Elites,
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because the online didn't certify for
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three weeks if you then qualified in
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between there that's the one that counted
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and then the online you got bumped out
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and someone else got that that spot um
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The athlete needs to request being
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released from their national letter of
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intent and national letter of intent is
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bound to the school, not the coach.
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The request change came in.
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I I'm just David.
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I'm just quoting what I heard on get
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up this morning that wet because of the
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coach being fired.
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There is a clause where the national
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letter of intent becomes null and void,
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but I, I, I could be wrong.
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um savan says and that's why women
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shouldn't be allowed in the military i'm
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not sure i would go there for that
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um i don't have a problem with women
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in the military just don't have sex on
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the job i think that's an easy solution
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So, and anyway, to answer Lito's question,
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if you qualify at the French throwdown and
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then the certification of the online
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happens two weeks later,
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your French throwdown counts as your
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qualification, not the online,
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even though you did it first.
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That's the way I understand it.
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David, more like don't cheat on your wife.
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Yeah, all that stuff.
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Well, and I mean, honestly,
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when you're on a job,
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aren't you there to do something,
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not have sex, not have a relationship?
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Um, I mean,
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I worked for the state of Ohio.
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We've had people fired before for having
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sex in the stairwell for, I mean,
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it happens.
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It's dumb.
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Being in the military isn't your job,
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it's your life.
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Okay,
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I kind of see where you're coming from.
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I still, I mean,
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all the family members I have in the
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military still look at it as their job.
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So I don't know.
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Interesting point.
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How do you even cheat when you're the
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coach of a big school?
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Married, have four kids.
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I don't know how you cheat,
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especially a newborn.
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It's selfishness.
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It's ego.
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It's a lot of things.
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Mark Phillips, in the Army, it was life.
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Maybe Air Force is a job.
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Most of my family members are in the
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Navy,
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and that's the experience that I know.
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So.
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A couple other things I found in the
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rule book overnight.
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Team eligibility has changed a little bit
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this year.
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You have to be a registered member of
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the affiliate again.
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This time it has to be by the
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close of the first weekend of the open.
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And you have to do all of the
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workouts at the affiliate unless you are
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competing at Wadapalooza and you can do
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twenty six point three at Wadapalooza.
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But all other workouts have to be done
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at the affiliate where you are registered
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as a member.
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They have expanded public review this
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year.
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Public review will not just be for elites.
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They're expanding it to the age groups and
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adaptives.
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Adaptives don't do semifinals online,
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but the age groups will now have their
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videos up, posted,
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and be available for public review as a
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way to narrow down the...
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to narrow down what they look at further.
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And then the one thing I just wish
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they would change is the affiliate and
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good standing.
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And maybe it's just coordinate better with
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the affiliates themselves.
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Affiliates...
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I've heard too many cases where affiliates
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turn people away from doing open workouts
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or quarterfinal workouts last year or
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semifinal workouts last year who tried to
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come to an affiliate in good standing to
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do their workouts.
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If you're going to make a requirement,
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then it has to be accessible for people
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to be able to get in there.
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That's all.
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I hate that.
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The other quick thing I wanted to talk
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about is,
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and then we can dive into whatever you
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guys talk about in the chat.
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Mark Phillips is asking, shoot.
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My mouse died.
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Anyone heard if you can comment on why
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you mark needs review on a video review
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yet?
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Boz said yesterday on the Sport of Fitness
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podcast that your information as a judge
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is now visible to them when they're
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reviewing.
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So if they see like a mass amount
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of negatives about somebody and there is
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no reasoning,
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that they can flush that out this year
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where they couldn't last year.
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So apparently, it will track who you are,
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why you've done it,
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if what Boz said yesterday is completely
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accurate,
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which I don't have any reason not to
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believe him in that.
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I think they saw that as a limitation
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last year where people were just marking
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it and they didn't have to put their
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name on it.
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Now, all of that information goes with
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your remark as to why it was Mark
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needs review.
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And you can check that out on the
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sport of fitness podcast with Boz
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yesterday.
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He did talk about that during that
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conversation.
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So last night on the spin,
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Brian spin said,
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announced that he has had a fifty eight
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minute conversation with Wayne Deebner,
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the guy allegedly in the process of
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purchasing CrossFit,
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that they had a very long conversation and
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that
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the way Spin put it on the show
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last night is that the way it came
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across is that Wayne Diebner does believe
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he is the sole person left,
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him and his partner,
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can't remember his name now,
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are the last people left in the purchase
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of CrossFit and that he believes it will
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be done by Christmas.
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So,
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I'm really just tired of the rumors,
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honestly.
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Um,
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but it does seem like it does seem
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like if he's willing to have that
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conversation with Brian and talk about it
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that long.
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And Brian did say he shared his vision
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with him.
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Um, yeah, thank you, Vicki.
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It's Mastrov, uh,
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Mastrov and Diebner are the,
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the purchasers of,
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are supposedly the purchasers,
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purchasers of CrossFit.
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Um,
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it sounds to me like spin truly believes
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that this sale will be done by Christmas.
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Um,
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it may not be like completely signed over,
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but the,
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the letter of intent or whatever it might
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be will be done by Christmas.
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Um, and it may,
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and it'll leak into the new year,
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just finishing up all the details.
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Uh,
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but it's just crazy to me that we've
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gone this far and,
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and here we are that, uh,
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the purchase looks like it's going to be
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done by guys who do the globo gym
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thing that crossfit has fought against for
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years and years and years i i i
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don't even know how to react to that
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without knowing their vision it's really
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hard to even buy into any of this
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um
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but I'm not optimistic.
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Maybe I've just become too cynical,
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but I'm not optimistic off the,
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off the get go on this one.
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Wade is batshit crazy and has nothing on
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the table.
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Okay.
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That's what, that's, what's crazy.
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That's,
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like there are these people that truly
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freaking believe that they are in the
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business of,
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are in the process of buying this thing.
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And then you hear other stories from
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people inside that there's nothing on the
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table.
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There's no proposal.
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There's nothing like,
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how can it be so extreme from one
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end to the other,
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other than one of them is batshit crazy.
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So I guess that, that is the reason,
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um,
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I don't know.
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It's just...
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It's a wild world we live in, man.
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It's a wild world.
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Sivan also comments on the fact that the
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videos will be up for public review.
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This means lots of new content for Andrew
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Hiller and many masters getting prolapsed.
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I hope what it means...
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Not that I do not disagree with you
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at all, Siobhan.
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What I hope it means is that people
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will be more careful about the videos they
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post,
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knowing that people like Killer are going
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to be out there reviewing it.
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So they're going to make sure they hit
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depth.
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They're going to make sure that their wall
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balls hit the target.
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They're going to make sure that they
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follow all the rules that are out there.
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But I am sure there are a ton
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that will not do that as well.
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I love the public review.
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I love it even more now that you
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have to put your name on the public
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review.
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I think that that is,
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I think it cleans things up naturally
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because people don't want to be picked on.
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So they're going to work like hell to
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make sure that their videos are in good
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shape and that they have hit the standards
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before they submit the video.
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But the fact that you have to submit
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every video of every workout and put it
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out for the public to watch,
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I think makes it cleans up a lot
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of the mess that we get year over
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year.
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just by having to do that itself.
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Whether there is a review by CrossFit or
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not,
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the public outcry enough will clean things
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up a lot more than we've had in
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the past.
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So I'm stoked that they have improved that
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process and are going to continue that
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process.
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I think it is the way to clean
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up a lot of the online issues that
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we've had in the past.
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The last thing I wanted to talk about
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is
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It's something else outside of the
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CrossFit space,
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but I don't know if you guys have
24:08
saw,
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there was a big announcement that Netflix
24:12
has bought Warner Brothers and HBO.
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They made this big announcement that it
24:18
was a big thing to increase their library
24:21
with the quality content that HBO has been
24:23
putting out.
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And their historic library,
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like The Sopranos, like Deadwood,
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like The Wire,
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all of those shows then become the
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property of Netflix to be able to
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distribute globally with this purchase.
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It was a long-fought bid between Netflix
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and Paramount Plus over buying Warner
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Brothers and the HBO production.
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And in the end, Netflix wins the bid.
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The interesting piece is that Paramount
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said, screw you,
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we are now going to
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a hostile takeover you wouldn't let us buy
25:10
it so now we're going to attempt to
25:14
buy enough stock to take to do a
25:17
hostile takeover and take over warner
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brothers that way and put a kibosh on
25:23
the deal between netflix and warner
25:26
brothers i find that stuff fascinating in
25:31
business
25:33
It is so competitive and so cutthroat that
25:36
here you are in a bidding process and
25:41
you're going back and forth and Warner
25:43
Brothers decides, hey,
25:44
we're going to sell to Netflix.
25:48
And Paramount says, well, screw you.
25:51
We're going to buy up all your stock
25:53
and we're going to take you over.
25:55
it is going to be interesting to see
25:57
if they can pull it off just because
25:59
you say you're going to do it.
26:01
Doesn't mean you can,
26:02
and doesn't mean you will.
26:04
So it's going to be interesting to see
26:05
if Paramount can put the funds together to
26:08
buy up enough stock to then take over
26:11
Warner brothers before the sale to Netflix
26:13
is final.
26:18
And I know from talking to you on
26:19
the chat, we all stream,
26:21
we all stream shows.
26:22
We all stream movies.
26:24
Um,
26:27
I don't like the fact that we're getting
26:30
back to some form of monopoly in all
26:33
of this stuff,
26:34
and then the price is going to go
26:40
up, I'm sure.
26:43
on everything because it just can.
26:47
I mean, Netflix goes up every quarter.
26:52
It seems like I get an email.
26:54
Hey, we want to bring you the best.
26:56
We're going to up your monthly
26:57
subscription by another two dollars.
27:00
And I don't even watch Netflix that much.
27:03
It just it frustrates me because I
27:07
my mom who is eighty we pay for
27:10
her Netflix she watches it all the time
27:14
if she wasn't on my bill I think
27:16
I would just say screw it and drop
27:18
them with as much as they up the
27:20
price but they have me because I don't
27:23
want to take away my mom's entertainment
27:25
um
27:30
But anyway, I just found that interesting.
27:33
I don't know if you guys do.
27:34
I think it's going to be fun to
27:35
watch to see if Paramount can pull off
27:37
the hostile takeover.
27:40
But yeah.
27:43
Just got a breaking news from ESPN.
27:46
Sharon Moore is expected to appear in
27:48
court for arraignment on Friday.
27:51
So that means we will hear the charges
27:54
against him tomorrow when he is arraigned.
28:00
tomorrow,
28:01
but we probably won't hear any more
28:03
definitive as to what actually happened.
28:05
Just probably more speculation rumors as
28:08
to why he was arrested until then.
28:12
But if you have Twitter, if you have
28:17
I mean,
28:18
I found out a lot just on Twitter
28:19
last night about what was going on with
28:21
him.
28:22
Now, whether it's confirmed,
28:24
whether it's true,
28:25
who the hell knows with AI and all
28:27
that stuff out there,
28:28
you just never know what's real anymore.
28:32
But there is a lot of cooperating stories
28:37
on Twitter as to what happened after the
28:39
firing.
28:40
And it's pretty ugly at times.
28:44
So...
28:46
The only thing the police have officially
28:47
said is there wasn't they were called on
28:50
an alleged assault.
28:52
And and there we are,
28:55
the guys in jail and he will be
28:56
arraigned tomorrow.
28:59
So.
29:04
Anything else going on with you guys?
29:05
No.
29:08
Other than this,
29:08
it's been a really freaking slow week
29:11
trying to come up with things to talk
29:13
about this week.
29:16
I was looking at Legends today.
29:20
They start tomorrow.
29:23
And one thing I did find interesting,
29:25
if I can find that story again,
29:29
if you've ever been to Legends,
29:30
it's a really cool venue in Arizona at
29:36
Arizona State University.
29:38
And they've changed the floor setup this
29:41
year.
29:45
I'm almost there.
29:47
Here we go.
29:50
So if you look at the floor setup
29:54
in the past, so here it is.
30:02
So this is taken from a balcony.
30:04
And what was cool in the past is
30:06
the rig was right below the balcony.
30:08
You could get really great shots of people
30:11
climbing the ropes from above right off of
30:14
that balcony.
30:16
And so this is a basketball floor.
30:19
And in the past,
30:20
they had the rig horizontally this way
30:24
across the bottom.
30:27
Now this year they have flipped the rig
30:29
and now it goes up the side.
30:33
I don't know if it's that to make
30:34
it wider or what.
30:36
And then here in the back,
30:37
you can kind of see a second floor.
30:40
So they have this floor.
30:42
They have a floor in the back that
30:43
could run simultaneously.
30:46
And there is generally hockey glass.
30:49
separating this floor from this floor so
30:52
it actually mutes down the sound a little
30:53
bit and and then if you go out
30:57
to the right that's where the olympic
31:00
swimming pool is and it is fifty meters
31:05
wide but they use it as a twenty
31:08
five yard pool and so they go across
31:10
it the width wise instead of the length
31:13
wise um
31:16
It's a great facility.
31:18
Just curious why they flipped the rig this
31:20
year.
31:21
But our boy Cowboy,
31:23
Cowboy Corey is out there.
31:25
He's flying out this morning.
31:27
I know Denise Moore is going.
31:29
I know a couple of our other listeners
31:31
are competing out there.
31:32
And so we wish them all success.
31:34
The best of luck.
31:36
It's a great competition.
31:37
I know that Joe and Bob get dogged
31:40
a ton about hosting the games.
31:42
But when they're hosting this event,
31:44
this is their baby.
31:46
And they can make it whatever they want
31:47
to make it with programming.
31:49
And people know what it's going to be
31:51
when they're heading there.
31:55
So I think it's a great event for
31:57
that.
32:00
my only beef with them is when they
32:01
run the games and they don't consider
32:05
trying to find the fittest on earth when
32:07
they're programming and they don't
32:10
consider others.
32:13
They don't ask for help,
32:14
I guess is the best way to put
32:15
it.
32:17
So Jonathan Ortega, they left you on red.
32:31
Yeah,
32:32
I don't know if I will ever get
32:33
back to having any access again with them.
32:38
We'll see what happens in the future.
32:45
really disappointed about what happened
32:46
with the games this year and the very
32:49
limited access we had.
32:51
Um,
32:52
but they did that with all third party
32:53
media.
32:54
They only let their own media people on
32:56
the floor.
32:57
They only let their own media, um,
33:00
in the warmup areas.
33:02
Um,
33:02
and everybody else were just like a fan.
33:05
You got to sit in the stands.
33:07
Uh, um,
33:13
Yeah,
33:13
they said we will contact you last year.
33:15
Yeah.
33:17
They don't understand the value of
33:19
third-party media and how it's free and
33:22
how they put out and promote your event.
33:26
They think it's old school and they can
33:27
control all of that.
33:31
Yep, Hercules only.
33:34
They pay Hercules a shit ton of money
33:37
to come out and do packages and stuff
33:41
for their athletes.
33:43
It makes no sense to me.
33:45
It makes absolutely no sense to me why
33:47
you would pay for a media company to
33:49
come in and do photo packages when you
33:53
could just let third-party media come in,
33:55
do a bang-up job,
33:57
and not have to pay a cent.
34:02
It's like the old school way of getting
34:05
your yearbook picture taken by a
34:07
professional and they're the only ones
34:09
allowed to take your yearbook picture.
34:12
What are we, children?
34:18
Oh, well.
34:22
But anyway.
34:27
I saw your text, Jonathan.
34:30
Joe actually told me something different.
34:34
But maybe it was just to brush me
34:40
off.
34:46
Anyway.
34:48
All right, guys.
34:50
have a one o'clock meeting today so i
34:52
only have a couple minutes left um we'll
34:55
keep following the strong more thing um i
34:58
will keep reading into the rule book but
35:01
really i don't see much changing um it
35:03
looks very similar to last year with a
35:06
little bit of sprinkling in of twenty
35:08
twenty four um where they i think they
35:12
made changes and they went back to what
35:14
they what worked better in twenty four
35:18
But, hey, we have everything.
35:20
It's December eleventh.
35:22
December eleventh, we have the rule book.
35:24
We have the timeline for next year.
35:26
We have the schedule.
35:29
We have just about everything we need for
35:31
the season.
35:32
That has never,
35:33
ever happened before in my time covering
35:37
CrossFit.
35:38
I don't know.
35:41
Maybe back in the regionals days,
35:43
they were better at that.
35:45
But it is...
35:48
It's crazy.
35:49
We have everything we need to follow the
35:52
season on December eleventh.
35:54
So shout out CrossFit.
35:57
Nice job getting us everything early.
36:01
Now just hope they don't sell to these
36:03
as Sevan put it batshit crazy people and
36:06
we can continue on with the plan and
36:09
not have to do something different because
36:11
they took over and wanted to change
36:13
things.
36:15
but we will,
36:17
we'll see what happens with that.
36:18
I'll keep following along and we'll talk
36:21
about it then.
36:23
So I will jump off now.
36:25
Hope you guys all have a great rest
36:26
of your day.
36:32
Jay Birch says maybe they have finally
36:34
have a team together to get it done.
36:39
I think there was just a good focus
36:40
this year.
36:42
I don't know.
36:44
We'll see.
36:46
With that, guys,
36:46
I hope you have a great rest of
36:48
your day.
36:49
I'm going to go back to work.
36:49
You knuckleheads get back to work as well.
36:51
And we'll see everybody tomorrow on Lunch
36:55
with the Clydesdale.
36:57
Bye, guys.