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Lunch with the Clydesdale - I Have Found the "Real" Road to the Games Series! · Clydesdale Media Podcast

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what's going on everybody it
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is lunchtime lunch with the
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clydesdale we are back and
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I feel like I've been gone
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forever uh just missed one
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show yesterday um did the
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show for my mom's house
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sunday night with the ass
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lighting oh my gosh um
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That room was so bright and
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the paint is so light.
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And I tried to mute it every way possible.
1:00
And man, it just was horrible.
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But yeah, did that show Sunday night.
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Just got back late yesterday evening.
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Well, late afternoon, five o'clock or so.
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And then got ready for another work week,
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man.
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So we're back.
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Before we get too much further,
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I'm going to do the dart throw.
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I did see, we were talking last week.
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someone said we should do a
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day in the life of like
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jamie and myself and
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carolyn and uh and that
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someone said that they
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wanted to know how far the
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dart throw was so after I
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throw it I'll tell you
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horrible horrible been away
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too long got to get back at it way high
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Way high,
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just almost hit the number twenty itself,
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not even on the like
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scoring part of the board.
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So I am exactly if I look straight ahead,
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I am at the line you stand
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at to throw at the dartboard.
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But then you take like a
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forty five degree angle back to my chair.
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And then I got to go up over
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the camera and all of that stuff.
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So I'm at the distance, kind of,
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maybe a little bit further
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because of the forty-five degree angle.
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But the angle just makes it tough.
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Makes it tough.
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So there's that.
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All right.
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I see Ken.
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I see he's triple twenties
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are good for fifty.
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or five Oh one.
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Uh, yeah, I, I missed the triple Ken.
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I'm a, I'm actually just,
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I actually hit the number,
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not the triple space.
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Um, so yep, that's where we're at.
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Or that's a double space on the outside,
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right?
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Triples and the one closer.
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Yeah.
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I'm anyway, I hit the number.
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I didn't even hit the circle
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with the scoring his own.
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Anyway, Ken Walters is here.
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Let's dive into some stuff.
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I have some notes on my
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phone of just some stuff
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that has been hitting me
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since Sunday night that I
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wanted to talk about.
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And on the Sevan show just a minute ago,
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yeah, triple is under double, yeah.
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I was close to the double,
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but I hit the number.
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Tough angle is what Crooks thought.
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okay don't know that
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reference I don't think
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anyway um so Ken's here he
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was on the savant show just
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like an hour ago um right
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before eleven o'clock
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Eastern time he said that
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we came pretty hard at the
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savant broadcast on Sunday
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night in the first ten
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minutes of our show
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And I just want to kind of
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clear some things up.
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One, Ken,
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you're one of my favorite dudes
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in the space.
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You share one of my best
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memories in the CrossFit space.
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Love hanging out with you.
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I don't think we came hard.
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I think the emotions of the weekend,
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when you come into that
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after seeing some great
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races and some great finishes,
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and you want to talk about it all,
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and you just kind of get into the show,
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you just kind of start
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spewing out your thoughts.
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Because of the way the
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Sunday night show is
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designed is that event ends
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and then the show comes and
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there's not a lot of time
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to kind of debrief yourself.
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You just kind of hit the show running.
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And that's kind of the beauty of it.
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It's kind of a first reaction.
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And so I'm not going to step
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back from anything I said on that show.
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What I said is what I
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believed in the moment and
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still believe mostly today.
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What I will say is I don't
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think anybody ever compared
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the broadcast that Savon
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did to the broadcast Brian Friend did.
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What I think was said was,
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and this is Jamie's words,
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and I will let her jump on
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if she wants to come in and
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jump on and talk about it.
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Her words were that we all
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shit on Brian Friend's broadcast.
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And maybe we should have
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seen how hard it was or how
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difficult it was to carry
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through a broadcast before we did that.
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Because her view was that
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while Siobhan's broadcast was good,
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it was not perfect.
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And therefore,
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maybe there should have been
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some more grace for Brian.
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And those are her thoughts
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that I'm interpreting.
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Her and I have texted a lot over the last.
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Twenty four to forty eight hours.
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And so if people took that as a comparison,
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it wasn't saying one was
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better than the other.
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It was.
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It was saying that.
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Both had their imperfections
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and maybe we should have
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given some grace to the one
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before we attempted it
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ourselves and had our own imperfections.
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um and for me a lot of what
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I I didn't have a problem
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with the content I didn't
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have a problem with them
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having audio issues those
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things are just going to be
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a known what I had a
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problem with is I missed
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and it's the same problem I
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have with road to the games
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I'm going to talk about that in a second
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is that storylines are
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everywhere and you don't
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always know what the
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storyline is until it plays
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out on the floor and so
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initially at the beginning
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of a race I just want to
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see more than one athlete
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at a time I want to see if
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if you want to talk about
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If you want to talk about
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Mason and he's there,
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just go back a little bit
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so I can see the person to
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the left and right while
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you're talking about Mason.
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I just want three lanes instead of one.
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And those are not critical
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of just Savant's podcast.
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That didn't get done with Brian's podcast.
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It didn't get done at mayhem.
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It, it didn't get done at the games.
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It's something that has been
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an issue for years and
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years and years with the
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broadcast of CrossFit.
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We seem to want to focus on
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one person at a time.
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I just,
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and I know that the full broadcast,
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breadth of the floor is
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makes it too hard to see
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everything so I'm just
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asking for like a three
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shot instead of a one shot
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and I think that listening
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to taylor yesterday he got
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that and he wants to do
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better at that and maybe
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back up a little bit and
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give us a couple people at
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a time at norcal and we'll
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see how that goes
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I totally believe that this
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group is going to self-assess.
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They're going to take some
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of the criticism,
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the constructive criticism to heart,
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and they're going to try to
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do better at NorCal.
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And we'll see how that plays
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out this weekend.
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But I do want to say I
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appreciate anybody who puts
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forth the effort and the
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time to do these broadcasts
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because without them,
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I wouldn't have got to see
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this last weekend.
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having a rough season of
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life where my wife is
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having surgeries and um and
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then we had a death in the
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family this weekend so I
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was not able to even be in
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my home this weekend I had
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to be in pennsylvania for a
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funeral uh so without
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without them I wouldn't
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have got to see the
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broadcast and I said
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repeatedly on sunday night
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I enjoyed ninety percent of the broadcast
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were just a couple small
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tweaks of the ten percent
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that I wanted to see a
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little bit different and
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they can take my opinion
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and tell me to shove it and
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that's fine or they can
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take it and do something
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with it that's fine um so
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I'm just one guy and it's
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just my opinion and they
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can take it or leave it right it is um
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Yes, I did hear this, Ken.
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NorCal will be tough.
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Seve said they have five
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less guys this weekend.
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It's going to be very, very tough.
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I also got some input from
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someone who's actually
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worked in the sports media
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business broadcasting live content.
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If you're trying to do it the cheap way,
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we just have to get the
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best we can with these
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types of productions.
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and know that the full thing
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is not going to be possible.
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There just isn't enough
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money yet in the sport that
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we have to get that full
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blown because not everybody
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has mayhem money.
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So a lot of these people are
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just going to have to go
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with a cheaper rate and
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we're going to have to
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accept that there are
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limitations to what they can do.
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And I completely understand a lot of that.
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Um,
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And I thought overall their
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picture quality was pretty good.
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I thought the commentary
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with Bill and John was really good.
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I thought Taylor's
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interviews were really good.
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All of that was good.
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I just have that one small critique.
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That's really it.
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There might have been a
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couple other things,
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but they're negligible.
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James W. says...
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We all say we want CrossFit
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as a sport to grow.
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It's never going to happen
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if we accept the quality of syndicate.
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Video was okay considering it was free,
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but the commentary was so unprofessional.
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So I've kind of thought
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about this and I've heard a
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lot of this being said over
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since the broadcast was over.
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If you want different commentary,
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then Syndicate should have
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hired a different group to do it.
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The reason that they got
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hired is because they are
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the most popular group of
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broadcasters in the space.
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Syndicate brought them in to
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try to draw some people to
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the stream and draw some
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people to the event.
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They are who they are.
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To ask them to change who
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they are is an unreasonable expectation.
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If Syndicate wanted to go
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with the traditional broadcast,
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that's when you bring in
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Sean Woodland and Chase and
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Bill and you do your thing
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and you have the typical
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sideline reporter.
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You can't have it both ways.
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And that's the problem.
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I understand people,
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and Jody makes a point.
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The commentary was not
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alarming to anyone who
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regularly listens to Savant.
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Correct.
13:01
But you're going to have
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people watch a broadcast
13:03
that don't typically watch
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the Savant show.
13:06
But Syndicate made this what
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it was because that's who
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they hired to bring in to do this.
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If you're going to,
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not going to hire pat mcafee
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to broadcast a football
13:20
game if you want it to be
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this is the best example
13:26
right monday night football
13:27
does the manning cast the
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manning cast is an
13:29
alternate broadcast but the
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nfl has money to pay for
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two broadcasts they can pay
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for troy aikman and joe
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buck to do a professional
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broadcast in the
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traditional manner over here on espn
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Then on ESPN, too,
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they have the Manning cast.
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If you want something
13:45
different and something as an alternative,
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that is on ESPN, too.
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The NFL has the money to do that.
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CrossFit does not have the
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money to do that.
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They get to bring in one person,
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and Wilson hedged his bet
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on bringing in the most
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popular show in the space
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to do a broadcast,
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and they're going to do it
14:05
the way they do their broadcast.
14:08
To expect it to be different is...
14:12
is like hiring a plumber to
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do electrical work.
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You just can't, you can't do that.
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So, and I am, I'm of the,
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because I'm in a media
14:24
space where I talk a lot,
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I believe that everybody
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has the right to say
14:28
whatever they want to say.
14:30
And then you as the consumer
14:31
have the right to watch it, not watch it,
14:34
turn off the volume,
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do whatever you want to do.
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You have that right as well.
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Um,
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so I feel like I'm just rambling at
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this point, but that's, that's the,
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that's a fact, right?
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You, you hire Savant to come in and do,
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and his crew to come in and
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do the broadcast.
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You're going to get Savant
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doing the broadcast.
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That's not going to change.
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Ken Walters, that's well said.
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Money embodies resources to work it.
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Are the issues most is on their own dime.
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And without CA peptides,
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chances would be impossible to do.
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Chances are it would be impossible to do.
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They also have come a long
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way from their first comp a few years ago,
15:35
Zealous Games done on just
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iPhones and tripods.
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James, they are who they are.
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Sure, that's fine,
15:45
but it's not going to
15:46
attract new fans at all.
15:48
Imagine tuning in for the
15:49
first time and hearing some
15:51
of what was said on the air at Syndicate.
16:00
From the majority that I listened to,
16:03
I thought they were really
16:04
on their best behavior for most.
16:07
Now,
16:07
if you listen to the post show or the
16:10
pre show, then that's them being them.
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But on the broadcast,
16:14
I thought they did a pretty
16:15
good job for the most part
16:19
with all of that.
16:27
Um...
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Shay,
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there were parts I enjoyed and I
16:34
enjoyed in parts that I
16:36
couldn't listen to around my kids.
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Yeah.
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Meredith says,
16:48
I'm actually kind of
16:49
surprised that the
16:50
broadcast was as family
16:51
friendly as it was given
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Savon's typical content.
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I do.
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I have to agree with you on that,
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Meredith.
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Um,
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Andrew,
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I hope Wilson knew what he was
17:05
getting when he agreed to it.
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Haven't watched the broadcast,
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but I hope the commentary
17:09
doesn't cause any blowback on Wilson.
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I don't think there's a lot
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in the broadcast of the
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event that would be blowback.
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So...
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scott did you see hillar's
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compilation they played
17:34
before you left for your
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meeting I did not I did not
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I did I actually was
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talking to andrew a ton
17:44
yesterday over some other
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things we're going to get
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into that in a minute um
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I'll have to go back and
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and watch what you're talking about ken
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Yeah,
18:00
I wish I didn't have to go to the
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meeting I went to.
18:02
It was not a fun meeting to be in.
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Maybe it won't grow with
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that style podcast.
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Bill tried to rein it in, but yeah,
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I think, I don't know.
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I think the growth part is
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something that needs a
18:27
further discussion than
18:29
just over language and talk
18:31
and where we are and what's appropriate.
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Because there is part of me
18:39
that thinks that the
18:40
traditional broadcast is just boring.
18:44
I know when I buy the Rogue
18:45
package every year,
18:46
I do not listen to the
18:48
traditional broadcast.
18:49
I listen to Pat Sherwood and
18:51
Josh Bridges and all the athletes.
18:53
They come on talking during the thing.
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I really enjoy that much
18:57
more than the traditional broadcast.
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So I don't know.
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So what was Hiller's compilation?
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Was it the...
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Was it from his YouTube
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video where he talked about
19:17
the fisheye lens and not
19:18
being able to do his thing?
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Cause I did watch that last night.
19:25
I will admit I'm,
19:26
I am way behind on CrossFit content.
19:29
Um, uh,
19:30
a four that turns into a five hour
19:32
drive yesterday.
19:34
Um,
19:36
just made it so I couldn't do a lot of
19:37
stuff.
19:39
Um, and it's really a good thing.
19:40
We did not try to get to, uh,
19:45
It was all the snippets of swearing.
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I have not seen that.
19:50
I will definitely have to check that out.
19:58
My wife's doctor said we
19:59
shouldn't drive to
20:00
Knoxville because of her
20:01
knee and the swelling that
20:03
that could occur.
20:04
We had to go to Pennsylvania,
20:05
which was much less than that.
20:08
And on the way home,
20:11
she was in a lot of pain.
20:14
But we were there for a
20:14
funeral that she needed to be at.
20:17
So we'll see.
20:22
But yeah, rough, rough go yesterday.
20:28
So I'm way behind on content.
20:31
Eric Mackey syndicate views Friday,
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ninety two K Saturday, sixty two K Sunday,
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fifty five K. I think some
20:41
of that will be attributed to.
20:44
Friday has more time for
20:45
people to go back and do some replays.
20:48
The others will probably
20:49
pick up a little bit.
20:52
But I get what point you're
20:54
trying to make.
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hearing real people talk
21:05
like real people who are
21:06
super invested and
21:07
knowledgeable about the
21:08
sport was great I loved it
21:11
I and corey I would
21:13
anticipate that you would
21:14
love it you are a dealer
21:15
daily listener of savan and
21:18
that you would be fine with
21:19
everything that was happening um
21:25
But I do understand the
21:26
other point as well.
21:28
But again,
21:29
that is who Wilson hired to do this.
21:31
They're going to be who they are.
21:33
To expect anything different
21:35
is just not reasonable.
21:43
So.
21:48
A couple of things that I didn't.
21:50
wanted to address is
21:51
yesterday when bryson and
21:54
ty and tyler were on taylor
21:55
were on doing the morning
21:58
show bryson said that the
22:00
reason they shouldn't watch
22:02
spencer win the event is
22:04
because the storyline was
22:06
the close race for who is
22:08
getting a games ticket and
22:10
I wanted to address that
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there is no one singular
22:14
storyline ever at a sporting event
22:17
And it's okay to highlight
22:19
some of each of the
22:20
storylines as you're going.
22:23
Spencer doing something
22:24
better than anybody else
22:25
was doing it should be part
22:28
of the storyline that
22:29
happens during a race.
22:32
It doesn't mean you stay on
22:33
him the entire race until he finishes,
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but at least show why he is
22:38
winning everything at this point.
22:41
Then move over to the race
22:44
and do a wide shot of three
22:45
athletes who are competing
22:47
for that last spot.
22:49
So you have two storylines
22:50
happening at the same time.
22:51
That is okay.
22:53
That is wonderful.
22:54
Those are the things you
22:55
want at a sporting event.
22:56
The more storylines that are going on,
22:58
the better the broadcast becomes.
23:03
So to say that they
23:04
shouldn't have shown Spencer at all,
23:08
that's ignoring one entire
23:10
storyline from the event.
23:15
And it doesn't mean you give
23:16
a hundred percent of it to
23:17
Spencer for winning.
23:19
It's just highlight him,
23:21
show him what he's doing,
23:22
highlight that he's on his
23:24
third win in a row,
23:25
and then go back for the
23:26
race for the rest of that.
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Shay says, absolutely.
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I've always liked Shay.
23:41
She always agrees.
23:42
Not always, but.
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And for the third win of the day,
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I agree on that one.
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Eric Mackey,
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highlight their enthusiasm and
23:55
personality,
23:55
but without the swearing and vulgarities.
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Like Taylor's interviews, he was great.
24:04
Taylor was awesome.
24:07
Him showing his enthusiasm made it great.
24:13
Seeing him get excited to
24:15
interview Ben Smith and to
24:16
tell Ben Smith the
24:18
inspiration he's been to
24:20
then see what Ben Smith's reaction was,
24:22
my gosh, that was like epic.
24:24
That was one of the greatest
24:25
moments of the weekend.
24:31
Kenneth DeLapp,
24:32
new listeners aren't likely
24:33
tuning in to the semifinals,
24:34
probably the games though.
24:37
you never know how people
24:38
are going to find you.
24:40
But again, it's what,
24:42
it's what the syndicate could afford.
24:45
And we got it.
24:46
We got a stream.
24:47
And if you don't like the commentary,
24:49
turn the volume down.
24:54
You know, we have options as consumers to,
24:59
to,
24:59
to make things better on our own and
25:02
not have to demand change.
25:09
Taylor is naturally natural
25:11
and had excellent questions.
25:13
I enjoyed him on the sideline.
25:15
Yeah.
25:17
One thing like,
25:19
maybe I'll get into this
25:20
later in the week, but you know,
25:23
out of necessity,
25:24
I started doing some
25:25
sideline reporting and just
25:27
putting them up on my
25:28
Instagram at semifinals back in the day.
25:32
Um,
25:35
Uh,
25:35
and I have some thoughts on all that
25:38
because I hated the way
25:39
they were being done too.
25:41
And I really took a different approach,
25:43
but I'll tell you the story
25:44
of how all that kind of
25:45
organically happened for me.
25:47
And it's kind of what got me
25:49
my first real step in the
25:51
door to doing this podcast more at a high,
25:55
at a higher level with more
25:57
knowledge and things of that nature.
26:00
So,
26:03
Jody Lynn says, what they can afford.
26:05
I thought Savon did it for free.
26:07
He did do it for free,
26:08
and I have confirmed that for sure.
26:10
He did it for free,
26:12
but that's what Syndicate could afford.
26:17
I think what it did, though,
26:18
is it allowed Syndicate to
26:20
give five hundred dollars
26:22
for every winner throughout the day.
26:25
It gave them more
26:27
opportunities to make it a
26:28
great experience for the athletes,
26:30
for the fans, all of those things.
26:38
And when I say they did it for free,
26:41
that's a little bit of a misnomer.
26:43
I think that what they did
26:44
is they told syndicate,
26:46
we'll come in and we'll do it for free,
26:48
but we get any money we can
26:50
make through the broadcast,
26:53
through sponsorships,
26:55
things of that nature.
26:56
So you saw commercials
26:57
during the broadcast, which is brilliant.
27:00
And if they did make that agreement,
27:02
more power to them.
27:03
Kudos for hustling and getting that done.
27:06
They got all the donations
27:07
from the fans throwing
27:10
money at them at a dollar
27:11
ninety nine or more throughout the day.
27:15
So I do think they recoup some of it.
27:18
And they've been very open about C.A.
27:20
Peptides helping them out by
27:22
getting them an Airbnb for the week.
27:24
So I do think there was some
27:27
some money that changed hands.
27:28
It just wasn't between
27:29
CrossFit or Syndicate Crown
27:32
and the Savon podcast.
27:44
I think Jim Reapers was a
27:45
syndicate sponsor,
27:46
not a broadcast sponsor.
27:47
Yeah,
27:47
I don't know exactly what everything was,
27:52
but I do think that they
27:54
did have some sponsorships.
27:56
They had people on the
27:57
broadcast promoting their product,
28:01
and I think that probably
28:02
helped them to some degree.
28:09
um yeah I have a couple more
28:14
kenneth don't rush me um
28:21
the last thing I want to
28:22
say the highlight another
28:23
highlight for me on the
28:23
weekend if you guys know me
28:25
and I've talked about on
28:26
the show wrestling used to
28:29
be like my second favorite
28:30
sport uh pro wrestling that is
28:33
that we got to see Kane as
28:36
the mayor of Knoxville
28:37
talking about Knoxville and
28:40
all of that stuff in the
28:41
interview that he did with
28:42
the broadcast team was one
28:44
of my favorite things of the weekend.
28:46
I was like a twelve-year-old
28:47
boy getting to see one of
28:49
my old heroes on the
28:51
broadcast and I can't
28:52
believe that this monstrosity guy, Kane,
28:58
who was an awesome awesome
28:59
wrestler was so smart and
29:01
intelligent and so fun to
29:03
listen to and I just have
29:06
to say that was one of the
29:08
extreme highlights for me
29:10
um of the weekend and I
29:13
couldn't have loved that anymore um
29:25
And then I will say one more thing.
29:28
I did talk about the
29:29
template for my show and
29:32
TEF using the same template
29:34
at the end of my show on Sunday night.
29:37
It was at the very end.
29:39
It was kind of an afterthought for me.
29:40
I talked to Jamie about it
29:41
earlier in the weekend,
29:43
but it was just kind of an afterthought.
29:47
At the end of the day, one,
29:49
Hiller really cut out a lot
29:50
of what I said,
29:52
but the point was the point.
29:55
I don't own that template.
29:57
They can use whatever they want to use.
29:59
I just found it funny that
30:01
this little old podcaster over here,
30:04
that's been chugging along for five years,
30:07
gets my template stolen by
30:10
the big corporate entity that is, um,
30:13
TEF.
30:14
And I just thought it was
30:15
funny that instead of
30:17
finding something of their own,
30:19
they use the exact same one that I did.
30:22
And.
30:25
And I mean, behind the curtain,
30:27
I use Canva to make my thumbnails.
30:30
I'm sure they use Canva to
30:31
make their thumbnails.
30:34
And Andrew Sten,
30:39
I don't understand what
30:39
template you're referring to.
30:41
If you go to Hiller's Instagram,
30:44
Hiller four point oh,
30:45
he posted them side by side.
30:50
It's a slide screen.
30:52
And you can see mine and you
30:54
can see theirs.
30:59
The best form of flattery is imitation.
31:01
In my work life,
31:03
I finally took those as a compliment.
31:05
Yeah,
31:07
I'm not butthurt about it or anything
31:08
like that.
31:09
I just found it ironic that
31:11
in this niche sport where
31:12
there's not a lot of people
31:15
working in it and the
31:18
millions of templates that
31:19
are available on Canva,
31:20
we use the exact same one.
31:24
Now I'll tell you sometime this week,
31:26
I'm changing mine.
31:28
I just got to find something
31:29
and I've got to,
31:30
and I always modify mine.
31:32
So I put some G like you'll
31:33
notice on the screen right
31:34
now around me on the
31:37
right-hand side are some
31:38
geometric shapes that I put
31:40
on mine that they don't have on theirs.
31:45
Um,
31:47
and I always modify the template to
31:49
some degree.
31:51
Um,
31:54
just because.
31:56
So just to make it different
31:59
and not just the template.
32:00
But anyway, go work out, Mackie,
32:06
Eric Mackie.
32:07
Have a good one, man.
32:09
All right.
32:10
Last thing, road to the games.
32:14
So behind the scenes, I've been, man,
32:19
I've been talking with
32:22
I've been talking with
32:22
Hiller a little bit about
32:23
the road to the games.
32:25
We share some thoughts about
32:28
what's happening with the
32:29
road to the games.
32:32
And what I'm going to tell
32:33
you is the road to the
32:35
games that currently exist
32:37
is not the ones titled road to the games.
32:41
The ones that exist that are
32:43
road to the games are the
32:45
the forty eight hours with
32:48
Andrew Hiller that he's been putting out.
32:53
And I've been saying for a while,
32:58
and his Hopper video,
33:02
his Hip and Steel video have been really,
33:04
really awesome.
33:09
What happened last night
33:12
cemented this for me.
33:15
In Hiller's latest video,
33:17
he does an interview with
33:18
Erica Folo with her talking
33:20
about missing out on her
33:22
opportunity to make the games.
33:24
Getting her in this raw,
33:27
right after the syndicate moment,
33:29
and it's literally like a FaceTime call,
33:32
and her talking about
33:33
missing out on the games,
33:35
that's the stuff.
33:39
That's the gold that is
33:42
going to make this series
33:43
he's doing even better.
33:47
And what's awesome about it
33:48
is that when she qualifies
33:51
for the game someday,
33:53
it is going to be epic.
33:56
Because he has this whole
33:57
run-up of spending time with her,
34:01
FaceTiming with her,
34:02
in this relationship
34:04
building where she's open
34:06
and honest about her
34:06
feelings about everything.
34:08
And then she's going to make
34:09
it to the games and it's
34:10
going to be this climax in
34:12
this... If you've ever...
34:16
heard about um the hero's
34:18
journey like every good
34:19
movie every good book has a
34:21
hero's journey and when she
34:24
makes it to the games the
34:25
climax is going to hit and
34:27
it's going to be awesome
34:32
that is where your road to
34:35
the games are now um
34:46
You made a good point.
34:47
They need to show more of
34:48
their personal life, not just training.
34:50
And when they go to them on
34:52
a training day and they
34:53
pick their active recovery day,
34:55
it's even worse.
34:56
And that's what happened with Fi.
34:58
You go to Fi on her active
35:00
recovery day and then all
35:02
you show is workout stuff.
35:04
Man, it's a double miss.
35:11
CrossFit,
35:11
these are miles to Madison on the
35:13
HQ side.
35:14
Old road to the games went to regionals.
35:16
And we didn't know if the
35:17
athletes we filmed would make it correct.
35:21
That is it.
35:22
We didn't know the end of the story.
35:25
We didn't know.
35:27
And it got us to root for
35:28
people at the regional level.
35:34
Lito says,
35:35
just need to see a Hiller video
35:36
with Brooke now.
35:37
Yeah,
35:37
I don't think that's happening
35:38
anytime soon.
35:45
We need the old Enns Bridges one.
35:47
That's one of my favorites of all time.
35:51
All Dismissed at Once is one
35:53
of my favorites.
35:54
Even the Tia Wright one here.
35:56
Like, Tia,
35:59
I became a fan of hers because
36:01
of that video, and she never,
36:02
ever made it.
36:03
Never made it.
36:09
um the example you gave with
36:11
fee was good I had no idea
36:12
she played the violin I
36:15
don't yeah is erica follow
36:19
doing no workout she is not
36:22
season is done uh her coach
36:24
actually comes on the
36:25
facetime call and they talk
36:26
about the plan for the
36:27
season and trying to
36:30
qualify for wfp and maybe
36:32
trying to do some canadian
36:34
uh competitions she may be
36:36
teaming up with sam cornway
36:38
for an event in montreal a
36:42
team competition up there so
36:50
She is doing the last chance qualifier.
36:52
I believe they want to see
36:54
how her body holds up to
36:56
what happened at syndicate.
36:58
And if she's in good shape
37:00
after a couple of days rest,
37:02
they're going to ramp up for an,
37:03
a last chance qualifier.
37:05
It's all in Hiller's video.
37:10
It's all in Hiller's video.
37:12
But it's not labeled as Erica follow.
37:13
It is.
37:15
I think it has Brooke on the
37:16
front as the thumbnail.
37:20
And the Erica follow thing
37:21
is at the end of the video,
37:23
but it is the longest part
37:24
of the video and it is the
37:26
best part of the video.
37:37
Is Tia Wright doing the same
37:38
thing where she doesn't do
37:39
CrossFit anymore?
37:40
I don't know, Barry.
37:44
I actually had her scheduled
37:46
to be on the show maybe two years ago and,
37:51
uh,
37:51
just she got flighty and we missed
37:55
some times and never really got to,
37:58
to follow through with that.
38:00
Uh,
38:04
this would be the last thing I answered
38:05
and I got to get back to, um,
38:10
Got to get back to work.
38:12
But how did you hold up
38:13
seeing your in-laws, Scott?
38:14
I hope all went well.
38:16
Well,
38:16
I talked to my father-in-law for the
38:17
first time in three and a half years.
38:20
And that went very, very well.
38:22
And so hopefully that's a
38:23
baby step towards some
38:25
recovery there with my in-laws.
38:28
My mother-in-law, I've seen a few times.
38:31
She is the only one from my
38:32
wife's family that I have
38:33
talked to in the last few years.
38:36
But the biggest step is
38:38
going to be my sister-in-law,
38:40
which I saw her.
38:42
We did not speak.
38:43
And I've got to figure that
38:45
out because I've made steps toward her.
38:48
She has not made any towards me.
38:50
And we'll see what happens there.
38:54
And maybe on a show where
38:55
it's a little bit more dead,
38:56
I can talk about everything there
38:59
uh can go enjoy your ribeye
39:04
of course it's called it's
39:05
all over on hillar's
39:07
channel I feel like the
39:11
follow interview should
39:11
have been its own separate
39:13
video I think that hillar
39:17
does so much research on
39:18
what gets clicks and what
39:19
doesn't and what gets views
39:20
and what doesn't um that he
39:23
was trying to get or try
39:25
something out probably
39:33
sounds like her road to the
39:34
games training all right
39:39
guys scott you are correct
39:43
nothing is on accident I'm
39:47
starting to learn starting
39:48
to learn learn andrew with
39:50
that guys I actually have a
39:52
meeting at one o'clock
39:55
eastern time so I need to
39:57
bug off here but I will
40:00
Talk to you all tomorrow.
40:01
We'll pick up where we left off,
40:04
and we'll talk some more
40:05
about what happened this
40:05
weekend and some other things with that,
40:08
guys.
40:09
You knuckleheads get back to work.
40:11
We'll see everybody tomorrow
40:12
on Lunch with the Clydesdale.
40:14
Bye, guys.