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Lunch with the Clydesdale - So We are Going Upstate? · Clydesdale Media Podcast

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what's going on everybody
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welcome to lunch with the
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Clydesdale it's lunch hour
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and we are here hanging out
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together uh can't wait
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today um man Corey Jeffrey Jody
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You're the best.
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You guys are here every day.
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Love it, love it, love it.
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Love hanging out with you guys.
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We're going to talk a little
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bit about Albany today,
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what it has to offer,
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why it's a good thing we're
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going to Albany maybe.
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We're going to look at some
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of the WWFP or World
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Fitness Project locations as well.
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And then we're going to do a
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little bit of CV talk.
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um at the end of the show uh
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wednesdays I'm going to
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reserve for like my tv talk I think
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Trying to come up with like a pattern,
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a cadence of the week.
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Like yesterday's top five
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Tuesday went great.
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I really enjoyed that.
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What's up, Kenneth?
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Corey jumping on with me,
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talking about who we'd like
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to have a drink with.
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I actually got a couple comments.
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One of the comments was we
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forgot Kelsey Keel.
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And I have to agree.
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Kelsey Keel would be amazing
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to have in a drink with.
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When her and Colleen Fosh
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were going after the bobsled,
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I was so infatuated with that story.
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I had both of them on a
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couple times talking about that.
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I thought that was super cool.
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And...
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She's just a really awesome
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person to talk to.
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And I believe that Kelsey
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actually moved and is living in Columbus,
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Ohio.
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And if not yet soon,
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but I don't have that definitive yet.
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So maybe that is something
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that potentially could really happen.
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Um,
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I'd love someday to have like guests
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actually down here in the pod center, uh,
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and hook it up and do some live shows.
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Maybe we'll do that for the
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masters CrossFit games.
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Uh, that,
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that would be really fun here in
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Columbus.
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Although I do live about, about, about,
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about, about, about, about, about, about,
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about, about, about, about, about,
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If you haven't seen the
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Hattie Cano video interview
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from Monday night, that was awesome.
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It's gotten a lot of views already.
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Really, my first interview back,
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it was a great one to have.
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She was great to talk to,
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super open and honest about
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how the games went for her as a rookie.
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When you have a dream and
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you get there and this tragedy happens,
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um what happens to your
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dream how do you pivot how
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do you get through that uh
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we talk a lot about that we
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talk about her days as a
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wildfire fighter and um and
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kind of how she went
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through that and what they
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must be going through in
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california uh so we had
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that make sure you check
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that out um and then
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sending that crossfit talk
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I'm gonna put a reel out
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later today from that show
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because carolyn brought up
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a really good point about
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maybe for the online portion
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of the qualification to the games,
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we keep the three open
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scores and add them to
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however many workouts you
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get for the online
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semifinal or in affiliate semifinal,
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and maybe combine those into one.
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I'm going to make a real,
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put that out today,
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get your thoughts on that.
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So, um,
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So, yeah,
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make sure to check that out on my
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Instagram later today or go
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back to Sunday Night CrossFit Talk.
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I think Holly actually chaptered that up,
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so you can go right to that
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topic in that episode.
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Yeah, super,
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super excited to be with you guys today.
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Denise, good to see you.
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And I cannot imagine.
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It must be so scary in SoCal.
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Those fires look awful and
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so much devastation.
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And I experienced them once
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in Florida when I lived there.
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We had some wildfires in the panhandle.
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Yeah.
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I don't want to ever be there again.
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And Judy Reed says, hello.
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All right.
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We got the whole gang here.
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Yeah,
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Jay Burch is talking about the box
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jumps that Carolyn did
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online the other day.
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I'm going to see if I can
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pull those up really quick.
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If you did not see it.
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When I talk to Carolyn a lot,
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we talk about how CrossFit
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doesn't always...
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doesn't always test
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athleticism and that it
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should be something that
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you test whenever you're
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doing a competition that
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doesn't seem to be put in every time.
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So this is something she was trying.
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So we'll go ahead and show that.
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Blow this up.
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reverse burpee box jump and
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her and I started talking
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the other night like who
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who in CrossFit could do
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these and I think that
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I think that there's a lot
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of men that could probably do this.
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Uh, Noah, um, Alex Smith for sure.
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Um, a lot of those like very gymnastic, um,
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type male athletes, but I could not, um,
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Jeff J. Birch calling him
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ninja box jumps.
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Yeah.
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That's,
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that's probably more appropriate
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than the reverse burpee box jump.
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Um,
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but yet ninja box jumps.
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We were trying to think of
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women that could probably do this.
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And we came up with a list
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of maybe Paige Semenza,
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maybe Danny Spiegel,
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and maybe Danielle Brandon,
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because they have that like
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athleticism where they
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played a lot of sports younger.
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But yeah,
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Paige and Danielle have had back injuries,
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and I'm not sure this is
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the easiest thing after a back injury.
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So, Corey says, I can tell you who can't.
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That is me.
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And Denise says,
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I think I'd break my back.
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Yeah.
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It was so cool.
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When I was in high school, like,
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we all tried to do that, like,
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kip up thing.
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Ooh, that's a good one.
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Judy Reed, Rebecca Fusilet.
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Yeah, she could probably do that.
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Yeah, I would give her the nod for sure.
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She's very athletic, very gymnastic.
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Yeah.
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Maybe even an Ariel Loewen, maybe.
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I don't know.
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when I was in high school
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this was like something as
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a football team we all
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tried to do we wanted to be
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able to get up off the
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ground uh that way um so uh
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alexis johnson even though
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she's retired uh sure I
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would give her the nod she
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probably could she's
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already she's so low to the
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ground anyway she doesn't
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even have to keep up very far um
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Ariel has cheerleading gymnastics,
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so sure.
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Yeah.
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It'd be interesting to see.
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Carolyn has gotten some
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videos of people doing it.
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So there are people out there.
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Most of them are not names
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that we recognize,
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but are sending her videos
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of them doing these.
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So maybe it'll catch on.
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Maybe it'll go a little viral,
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and we'll get some more.
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So...
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Uh,
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Denise Moore says I'm going to try it
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on Friday.
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If you do make sure you video it.
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We want to see, we want to see if,
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if we don't see it didn't happen.
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Just kidding.
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Uh, and Judy, yeah.
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Rebecca F is a level ten gymnast.
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Yeah.
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I, when you said that immediately,
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I thought, yeah,
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she could probably do it.
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So I would go with Rebecca for sure.
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Yeah.
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All for the Graham, Denise,
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all for the Graham.
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So cool.
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Well, that was,
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that was a fun video that
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Carolyn put out.
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And maybe she'll get more
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videos by Sunday night and we'll,
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we'll talk about it and maybe share,
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share some of the other
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videos of athletes who have done it.
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Maybe some of the bigger
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names will send her one as
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well and tag her in it.
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So maybe we'll talk about
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that Sunday night on Sunday
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night CrossFit talk.
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So yeah, super pumped about that.
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So yesterday,
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right before we went live on this show,
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it was announced that Albany,
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New York is the home of the
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twenty twenty five CrossFit Games.
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We played the hype video
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that CrossFit put out and
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let you all see the
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official announcement.
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I've done a little bit of
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digging into what Albany is, where it is.
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And so I'm going to share a
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couple of things with you.
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Yeah.
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I did an image search.
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If you want to see, like,
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it seems very much like a
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mix of old and new.
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Um,
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you have like typical buildings like this,
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and then you have like
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buildings like this, uh,
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that are very old, um, uh,
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very intricate architecture.
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Um,
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these, you see a lot of that building,
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whatever it is.
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Um,
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I think that is where the Capitol is
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that where this like half,
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half dome or partial dome is started.
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Um,
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they have a river that runs through the
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town.
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Um, and there you see kind of the skyline.
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So, and again, I think this half,
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whatever this is,
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I think is where the Capitol resides.
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Um,
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and you can see the skyline
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along the river there uh
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there's a kind of a
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nighttime view um but yeah
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so that's that's albany
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it's it's very much it
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looks like a mixture of old
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and new um but uh but
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that's kind of where we're heading
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I will tell you last night, I,
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I booked an Airbnb.
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I'm trying to get in as
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quickly as possible.
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I got a three bedroom Airbnb
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apartment for about
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fourteen hundred bucks for
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Wednesday through Monday.
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So I didn't think that was too bad.
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In Madison,
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that would probably be over two
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grand for sure.
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With
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the pricing in Madison was
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just through the roof.
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So yeah.
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And I guess that's the Hudson river.
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We're on the Hudson river in Albany.
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Um,
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so when you see the pictures of the river,
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that is the Hudson river
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that flows all the way into
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New York city.
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So
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I'm going to stop sharing that one.
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And then I'm going to share this.
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Now, this is the downtown Albany area.
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And this is the census information.
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You can kind of see this is
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this downtown area of Albany.
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the population of that area
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is a hundred and one
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thousand it's twenty one
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point four square miles and
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um but if you look at the
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If you look at the metro area,
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which we're going to look
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at that data as well,
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it's all of these little
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suburbs around here, Voorheesville,
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New Scotland, Sand Lake, Troy, Latham,
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Cohoes.
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All of those are actually
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part of the metropolitan area,
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which has way more
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population than the one
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hundred and one thousand.
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So for the downtown area,
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this is about as half as
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big as Madison and much
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smaller than Fort Worth.
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When we look at the metropolitan area,
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it's actually bigger than Madison.
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And so when you look at that census data,
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the metropolitan area that
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includes all those areas we
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talked about is nine
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hundred and four thousand.
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The metropolitan area of.
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The metro, Corey, man,
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you're you're messing up my groove,
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making me think Friday the thirteenth.
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The metropolitan area of
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Madison is about six
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hundred and fifty thousand.
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So the metropolitan area of
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Albany is nine hundred and four thousand.
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Which is a little bit bigger than Madison.
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So while the downtown area is smaller,
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the actual metro area is
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bigger and much more populated.
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And I think what that has
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done is made the airport a
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little bit better.
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We talked about that a
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little bit yesterday.
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So I'm going to share some
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info from the airport.
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Sure, I will.
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There we go.
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So here is some information
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from the airport.
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It has two runways.
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That does not give me a lot of hope.
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One north-south, one crosswind runway.
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Average daily commercial flight arrivals,
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But here is the list of
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commercial airlines
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available at the Albany
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International Airport.
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Allegiant, American, Delta.
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JetBlue, Southwest, and United.
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So they have all the big
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hitters as well as
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Southwest and JetBlue and
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Allegiant for some cheaper options.
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So that's not too bad for a
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smaller airport to at least
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have those options.
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I know my friend Amanda Hari
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who was looking from
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Northern California to
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Albany and there are direct
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flights and she got one for
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She got one for like for
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four hundred bucks for
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fifty somewhere in there.
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So not too bad.
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That seems to be better than
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the pricing that you could
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get into Madison.
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When we were going to Madison,
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a lot of people would fly
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to Chicago and rent a car
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and drive up because it was
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cheaper than flying
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directly into Madison.
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So this seems to have a lot
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more options and a lot more
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direct flights than Madison did.
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So.
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Yeah.
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So JetBlue, the dollar tree of the sky.
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I have never flown JetBlue
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ever in my life.
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I have flown Spirit, hated it.
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I've flown Southwest.
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Eh, meh.
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I am a name brand Delta.
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I love Delta.
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Delta and United.
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Those are the two I like to fly.
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And American if I have to.
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Judy asks, would you drive?
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Sorry.
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If you already said I had to step away.
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I have not said, um, I drove to Madison.
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I looked at it at this.
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It's actually more miles
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from here to Albany than it
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was to Madison,
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but I don't have to go through Chicago.
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So the time is almost identical.
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Um,
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so I am I would drive um
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having my car there with me
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with all that equipment is
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such an advantage that if I
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can pull it off I would
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definitely definitely drive
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if I could I drove to
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birmingham last year I've
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drove driven to all the
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tennessee locations um so
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yeah I anytime I can drive I will
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Dude, Southwest is badass.
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Delta's poop.
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I have not tried Southwest
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since they've changed their boarding.
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I hate the cattle call.
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Hate the cattle call so much.
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I want my seat reserved and
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I just walk to it and get in it.
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When's the best time to buy
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the flight coming?
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I am not an expert in when to buy tickets.
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I've heard like Tuesday night late.
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Wednesday night late is sometimes good.
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But yeah, I just keep checking.
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denise says united is good
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jet blue is better in
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spirit yet spirit like they
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they suck you in with this
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cheap price and then you
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have to pay for everything
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and when you're taking as
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much equipment as I am like
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cameras and computers and
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um extension cords and all
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that kind of stuff I have
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to I have to carry on I not
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carry on I have to check
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bags and man when they
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start upping the check bag
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fees it's just ridiculous
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Jody Lynn,
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I'm a two-hour drive from Albany.
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That is awesome.
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That's going to be fun.
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You better be there, Jody.
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You better be there.
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Uh, Denise drove to Tempe in December.
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It's so good to have your own car,
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but parking at the venue every day,
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it gotten, it gotten expensive.
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You know, a lot of times I'll drive.
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And then when I go to the venue,
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I just Uber it's cheaper
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than paying for parking.
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Um, or I catch a ride with somebody and,
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but then I have my car in
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the evenings to go do stuff.
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If I need to like just get
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food or go to the grocery
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store or anything like that.
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Um,
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Denise, we park street every day.
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Yeah.
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I know when I went with
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Jamie two years ago,
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we were in the parking garage and it was,
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it was pretty steep.
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But that was nice.
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I got to ride with them in every day.
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So there's that.
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So that is the airport.
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And then the last thing I'm
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going to show for Albany is a MVP arena,
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which is where the games will be held.
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and this is um a picture of
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the layout for monster
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trucks um I thought it was
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the best view that would
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tell you what the games
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would be like because it's
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the floor open and not with
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a court or a concert or
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anything like that um one
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thing that is not as nice
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as fort worth is it's back
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to the small jumbotron up
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here if you can my pointer
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is not showing on this but okay
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a very small, um, uh,
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jumbotron that the arena
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actually holds more people
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than either Fort worth or Madison.
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Um, but it looks, it looks fairly new.
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Um,
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depending on where you look on the
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outside,
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it looks newer than in some
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different angles.
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Uh,
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my biggest beef with Madison
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was always that place was
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old and it was not really
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geared for sports.
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It was all it,
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the C some of the seats were broken.
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Um,
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it wasn't the most comfortable place to
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sit.
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Fort worth was awesome.
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That arena was top notch
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state of the art seats were comfortable.
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Um, super nice.
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Um, and, uh, yeah.
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jose v yeah the jumbo tri
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tron size sucks yeah in
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fort worth it was a massive
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jumbotron and it had inner
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tvs and outer tvs so if you
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were directly under it you
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could look up into the
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inner part of it um it was
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it was massive this is back
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to like the legion entered
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a lion energy center in
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madison with a much smaller
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uh jumbotron might even be
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smaller than one in madison
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But the arena actually holds
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about a thousand more
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people than Fort Worth did.
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And that was like a few
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thousand more than the
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Alliant Energy Center.
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So this is actually getting bigger,
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not smaller by going to Albany.
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What is the comparison
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between the floor space in
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Albany versus the other two?
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That I did not see.
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By looking at it,
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I would say that the floor
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space is bigger than Alliant,
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smaller than Fort Worth.
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Fort worth was built to be
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able to host the big rodeos.
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Um, and because of that, it,
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the floor looked really, really big.
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And the one end was very
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open where they could,
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that's where they went out and ran laps,
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um,
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which made that very nice to be able
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to run instead of like shuttle.
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Um,
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and that was a fun event to watch
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because of that.
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Uh,
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But I'll do some more
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research and find out like
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floor size between the three.
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But Fort Worth was way
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bigger than the Alliant Energy Center.
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This one looks to be about in between,
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but we can find out.
23:28
And sometimes this bottom
23:30
row of seats that you see covered here,
23:33
sometimes you can fold those up.
23:36
and make the floor bigger,
23:38
sometimes you can't.
23:39
So I don't know if they have
23:41
the ability to do that in this case.
23:49
Of course, it's bring your own Jumbotron.
23:51
Yeah, I don't think that's possible.
23:59
Jose V might be the media pit.
24:02
True,
24:02
the media pit in Fort Worth was very...
24:05
Very small.
24:07
And then they gave media the
24:09
first two rows on the side
24:11
to sit in and you could get
24:13
shots from those areas.
24:17
So hopefully there's
24:18
something similar to that
24:21
in Albany for the media as well.
24:27
But that's that's pretty
24:28
much Albany in a nutshell.
24:31
Like I said,
24:32
we got our I got an Airbnb last night,
24:34
reserved it for about
24:35
fourteen hundred three,
24:39
three bedroom kitchenette
24:43
living room space, two bathrooms,
24:47
I think.
24:48
Um, but yeah, so really,
24:50
really excited about that,
24:52
that I was able to get that
24:53
at a much cheaper price
24:54
than I could get in, um,
24:57
in Madison for sure.
25:05
Jay Birch says from Texas,
25:07
four to five hundred on
25:08
round trip from Houston to Albany.
25:10
Yeah.
25:11
And yesterday,
25:12
Bruce Wayne got a quote at
25:14
four fifty from Miami to Albany.
25:17
I know Amanda Hari on her
25:21
channel last night was
25:22
talking about Albany and
25:23
she got a flight in the four fifty range.
25:26
So it looks like that seems
25:27
to be the going rate for a
25:30
round trip flight to Albany.
25:37
Yeah, I got lucky.
25:38
Someone gave me their seats
25:39
last day to take some good shots.
25:42
Yeah, they were great shots.
25:43
I was front row.
25:45
I got a ton of shots.
25:47
I have a ton still need editing,
25:50
but I've had been busy with other things.
25:53
So there.
25:56
So that's Albany.
25:57
If you have any questions,
25:57
shoot them to me.
25:58
I'll see what I can find out
26:00
and let you guys know in
26:01
the next few days.
26:03
But that's what I found out about Albany.
26:09
So I'm going to break up the
26:12
CrossFit talk with just my
26:13
little TV talk and TV rant for the week,
26:16
and then we'll get back
26:17
into the WFP locations,
26:19
which are very different.
26:21
I looked at the venues for
26:22
the WFP tour events.
26:24
Very different concept than
26:26
what we've seen in CrossFit,
26:27
and I'll show you some pictures of that,
26:29
and it'll give you a quick
26:30
idea as to what that is.
26:33
So season finale of Landman
26:35
happened this week.
26:36
I've been talking about it for weeks.
26:40
Jody and I are arguing about
26:42
whether a character is a wuss or not.
26:48
But beyond that,
26:49
the season finale did not disappoint.
26:52
But the one thing I do want
26:53
to say is you have an
26:57
actress like Demi Moore in
26:59
this thing who's had about
27:01
seven lines the entire season.
27:04
Finally, finally, she gets some breakout.
27:09
Then we have a new character brought in,
27:18
a new character brought in, last minute,
27:21
last seven minutes of the damn season,
27:24
and it's a legendary actor
27:26
coming in to play this role
27:29
that turns next season on its head.
27:33
if there is a next season,
27:35
they have not been officially renewed,
27:37
but I did see where they're
27:38
getting million views a week.
27:41
And just to give you perspective,
27:43
a good network TV show gets
27:46
about three to four.
27:51
Jody says, I mean,
27:53
the kid needs some muscle.
27:54
Am I right?
27:56
I mean, he is a little skinny.
27:57
I will give you that.
27:59
But Jeff says,
28:01
muscle don't make you a bad-ass.
28:04
He's wiry been fighting this
28:26
Ohio dry air for so long.
28:32
Um,
28:35
He's not easy on the eyes.
28:37
He's not easy on the eyes
28:38
because he gets the shit
28:39
kicked out of him almost every week.
28:41
So I get what you're saying.
28:43
But... But I'm so, so super excited.
28:49
And the end of the episode
28:51
ends with a stare down with
28:53
Billy Bob Thornton and a coyote.
28:55
And I've...
28:59
I've seen some interviews to
29:01
kind of figure out what
29:03
that means and what perspective is that.
29:06
Is Billy Bob the coyote or
29:08
is he the hunter?
29:11
And Billy Bob thinks that
29:13
he's the coyote and it's
29:15
him looking in the mirror.
29:18
Doesn't give anything away, Jay Birch,
29:20
but so there you go.
29:29
not giving anything away jay
29:30
birch there's way more to
29:34
the story than that um high
29:37
potential is another one of
29:37
my favorite shows watched
29:38
it last night that show
29:40
just gets better and better
29:41
every time out it does look
29:42
like they're reducing the
29:43
cast uh to just the
29:45
essentials uh which will um
29:50
will be interesting I think
29:51
that it's streamlining uh
29:53
the characters and making
29:54
it where they can develop
29:56
those a little bit better
29:58
than others and then um I
30:02
said a couple weeks ago
30:03
that I was a lover of the
30:05
diplomat season one and
30:06
season two I wasn't a big
30:08
fan of I've gotten a little
30:09
bit further and season two
30:14
is worth the watch
30:17
I will say is season one
30:18
ends with an explosive
30:21
event where you don't know
30:23
who's gonna live and who's
30:24
gonna die and the chaos
30:25
that ensues after that for
30:27
the beginning of season two
30:28
is really hard to follow
30:31
you have to be super
30:33
attentive to follow the
30:35
storyline for the first couple episodes
30:38
Once you get past that and
30:39
you download all that information,
30:43
the season two then picks
30:45
up and is better in season two.
30:48
And I knew I couldn't
30:49
remember the girl's name a
30:50
couple weeks ago when I mentioned this,
30:51
and it's Keri Russell.
30:53
Keri Russell plays the diplomat.
30:56
the whole premise of the
30:56
show is she has been a
30:59
diplomat to other areas of the world,
31:02
less refined than the UK, like Kabul,
31:07
like Afghanistan, like Iraq.
31:11
And they want, they are,
31:13
picking her to possibly be
31:14
the next vice president.
31:16
And they want to see if she
31:18
can be juiced up by making
31:21
her the ambassador to the UK.
31:24
But when she gets there,
31:27
all hell breaks loose and
31:29
she has to like jump into
31:30
action in more than just a
31:32
formal kind of way.
31:35
And she actually has to get
31:36
her hands dirty.
31:37
And so the whole process of
31:39
making her a vice president
31:41
kind of takes a back seat.
31:43
And in season two,
31:44
it's finally resurfaced again.
31:46
Like we got to get,
31:47
we have to find out if
31:48
she's the right pick or not.
31:51
so uh it's another good show
31:54
to watch and I have I have
31:55
started sons of anarchy jay
31:57
birch uh so I'm plowing
31:59
through that as fast as I
32:00
can uh when I have the time
32:03
uh but that has turned that
32:05
has me addicted now too uh
32:07
so thanks for that now
32:10
let's back to some crossfit
32:12
talk with the wfp
32:15
Um, they announced yesterday on Instagram,
32:18
uh, their full season schedule.
32:21
Uh,
32:22
I know people have been clamoring for
32:23
that.
32:24
And so on Instagram, they posted this.
32:27
If you are a signed pro athlete,
32:29
all you have to attend is
32:30
tour one tour two and the
32:32
world fitness finals.
32:34
If you are a challenger
32:35
trying to get into those
32:37
competitions and earn a pro card, uh,
32:40
you have to do the online qualifiers.
32:43
The first one will be March
32:44
nineteenth to the twenty fifth.
32:46
Registration is from January
32:48
twenty ninth to the March twenty fifth.
32:51
And then if you make it in
32:54
to the top ten or.
32:57
You make it into the
32:58
challenge challenger
33:00
competition at the event,
33:03
then that happens to our
33:04
one Grand Park Sports
33:06
campus in Indianapolis, Indiana.
33:09
So what I'm going to show
33:11
you is grand park sports
33:12
complex in Indiana,
33:14
because it is very
33:16
different than anything
33:18
that I've seen in the, uh,
33:21
CrossFit space.
33:22
So, uh, I'm going to, this was a video.
33:27
It must've stopped because
33:29
I've been on it too long.
33:32
So I'm going to refresh it
33:34
and see if we'll get her started again.
33:37
There we go.
33:38
So it does have some indoor facilities,
33:41
as you can see here.
33:43
But the majority of the park
33:46
is all outdoors,
33:50
as you'll start seeing here.
33:52
There are a ton of outdoor soccer fields.
33:54
There are a ton of
33:57
basketball courts that are
33:58
multi-sport complex,
34:03
as you can kind of see with
34:04
this drone flyover.
34:07
So my question now with the WFP is,
34:11
are these tour events going
34:12
to be inside or outside?
34:15
This will be in August in Indianapolis.
34:18
I'm sorry, May in Indianapolis.
34:21
This is actually where the
34:22
Indianapolis Colts hold
34:24
training camp as well.
34:26
So they have outdoor
34:27
football fields and indoor
34:28
football fields.
34:30
So they can do things indoor or outdoor.
34:33
So that leads to a very big question,
34:36
whether the WFP is going to
34:38
use these outdoor fields to
34:40
do their events or are they
34:42
going to use the indoor fields?
34:45
If you look at the campus map,
34:49
You'll see they have a four
34:50
hundred acre campus,
34:52
thirty one sports fields,
34:53
twenty six diamonds,
34:55
three indoor facilities.
34:57
And this is the campus here
34:59
with a lot of multipurpose
35:02
stuff in this area over
35:03
here to the left and then
35:07
to the right of the baseball diamonds.
35:09
And then up here in the
35:10
front are the indoor
35:11
facilities where they have
35:14
three different event centers.
35:20
And what makes this
35:21
interesting is then the second tour event,
35:25
which the Instagram post
35:28
has as August twenty ninth
35:31
through the thirty first is
35:34
going to be held at the
35:36
Atlanta Athletic Grounds.
35:39
And.
35:41
What it looks like.
35:43
is very similar to the
35:47
Indianapolis location.
35:48
Lots of outdoor multipurpose fields,
35:52
but they do also have some
35:55
indoor fields as well.
35:58
Forty-one pickleball courts.
35:59
Can you believe that?
36:01
Beach volleyball.
36:03
There's the indoor facilities.
36:05
Sixteen indoor basketball courts.
36:07
Fifty volleyball courts.
36:10
Performance centers.
36:14
So you can see they can hold
36:15
just about anything, even dance.
36:23
But now the questions are,
36:26
now that we've seen these locations,
36:32
are we going to get indoor
36:34
or outdoor events?
36:36
Yes.
36:37
They did have a map too,
36:39
and I don't remember how I got to it,
36:41
but I did.
36:48
Grounds maps.
36:49
Let's try that.
36:51
There we go.
36:52
So here you can see they
36:54
have a festival field over here,
36:56
like a big field.
36:58
They have these three big
36:59
indoor facilities right
37:01
here in the middle.
37:02
They have all these
37:03
multi-purpose fields down
37:06
here on the bottom.
37:10
it's going to be interesting
37:11
what is the wfp going to
37:12
use the indoor or the
37:13
outdoor stuff arizona in
37:17
august that is correct late
37:23
august it's okay jay birch
37:26
it's a dry heat yeah i
37:35
don't know it actually gives
37:37
them some flexibility they
37:38
could do some inside some outside uh
37:49
Judy,
37:50
Judy Reed says Indianapolis has some
37:52
really nice suburbs.
37:53
Even the high schools have
37:54
incredible sports facilities.
37:56
Indianapolis is great.
37:57
It's an easy drive to from here.
38:00
So I definitely,
38:01
I think I'm going to plan
38:03
on going to the first tour
38:05
event to check it out,
38:07
see what they're doing over there,
38:09
get a firsthand look as to
38:10
what's going on and kind of
38:13
how these things are going
38:14
to be laid out.
38:15
And it'll give us an idea
38:16
going forward for sure.
38:20
But yeah,
38:22
so that is some of the new
38:24
information out from the WFP.
38:26
And then, of course,
38:29
they finish up the season
38:32
with the finals in Denmark, I believe.
38:38
So I'll go ahead and share
38:39
that one last time.
38:44
Uh, so Arizona is August, to the, uh,
38:49
just to verify that Jay
38:50
Birch and then the, uh,
38:54
the world fitness finals at
38:55
the Bella center are
38:57
December eighteenth through
38:58
the and that is in Copenhagen, Denmark.
39:05
So, um,
39:09
I don't know.
39:10
Let me see if I can find
39:11
Bella Center while I'm
39:13
sitting here with you guys.
39:26
And I will share that.
39:27
Let's see if it looks like the other two.
39:34
The Bella Center Copenhagen.
39:41
It's asking me questions in
39:42
a language I don't understand.
39:45
I think it's something about cookies.
39:49
We'll try that one.
39:50
There we go.
39:52
So welcome to Copenhagen.
40:05
Trying to find.
40:10
Everything is in another language.
40:21
So they have different halls
40:26
inside auditoriums.
40:31
That was not what they used.
40:36
okay so it looks like the
40:39
bella center is definitely
40:40
inside it would definitely
40:42
be one of these inside
40:43
halls um as they don't see
40:48
uh it doesn't appear they
40:50
have anything outdoors in
40:52
copenhagen so people have
40:58
asked this and I I think
41:00
that the deal is that hey
41:02
we're giving you money
41:04
And with that money,
41:05
you can use it to pay for your travel.
41:09
You're guaranteed this money
41:10
and it takes away all that,
41:12
offsets all the cost for
41:13
the athlete for their season.
41:17
I that's my guess.
41:20
My goal is to get a couple
41:21
athletes who have signed in
41:23
the next couple of weeks on
41:24
the show and maybe get some
41:26
more details as to what
41:28
those contracts look like.
41:31
So that's what I'm hoping to
41:32
do in the next couple of weeks.
41:36
So look out for those.
41:40
But yeah.
41:43
it doesn't look like the
41:44
copenhagen bella center has
41:46
any outside um fields or uh
41:52
places to go so yeah but
41:58
anything I would just be
41:59
guessing at this point anyway
42:02
So there you go.
42:04
So we looked at Albany, New York,
42:05
where we're going for the CrossFit Games.
42:07
We looked at the World
42:09
Fitness Project and what
42:11
they're doing in Indianapolis, Arizona,
42:13
and Copenhagen to see what it looks like.
42:16
So now we know a little bit
42:18
more than we did at the
42:19
beginning of the day.
42:21
And we talked a little bit of TV,
42:23
but it's about lunchtime over.
42:27
So you know what that means.
42:30
Time to get back to work.
42:31
You hooligans talk to you next time.
42:34
Bye guys.