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Lunch with the Clydesdale - Game Show Addiction. · Clydesdale Media Podcast

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what's going on everybody it
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is a friday afternoon lunch
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hour episode of the
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clydesdale lunch with the
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clydesdale yeah that's me
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um man what a slow crossfit
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news week it has been we
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had mayhem and then we kind
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of got all that out of the
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way and then it's just kind
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of been waiting for the
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next shoe to drop uh and
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there's no other in person
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qualifying event until
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next weekend in copasur so
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um just kind of uh just
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kind of going through what
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we can here so um what I
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wanted to talk about a
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little bit today is I got a
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couple comments yesterday a
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couple texts um I talked a
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little bit about the dress
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code policy that we have
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for my job even though we work from home
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And I used a term head to toe,
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and that's really my term.
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It's not in the policy.
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But when you read the teleworking policy,
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it says you must adhere to
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the full dress code of the
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agency that we work for.
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then when you go to the
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agency dress code policy it
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says that you must wear a
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collared shirt dress slacks
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dress pants um you must
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wear dress shoes and um and
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then it has like things
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that it forbids and one
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thing that um captured the
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attention of a couple
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people I talked to
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yesterday was it actually
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forbids any color of hair not
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in not in a natural sense
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and then it says for
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example green blue pink
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because people are not born
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with those colors of hair
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those are forbidden as part
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of the dress code which is
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just insane to me are we
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really still in um but anyway
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I just wanted to clear that
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up that the head to toe
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comment was actually my way
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of expressing that even
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though only my upper torso
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is showing just like it is
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on this show right now, uh,
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when I'm in a work meeting,
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only that much of me shows.
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Um, uh, so even though that's all,
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I still am required by the
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policy to wear dress pants
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and dress shoes, um, and a colored shirt.
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Um,
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what I do is, uh,
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I actually have an
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oversized pair of pants and oversized.
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Um,
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I have five collared shirts in the
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closet that's right behind
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me where I work from.
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And when I, it's time for a meeting,
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I just throw the pants over
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top what I'm wearing.
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I throw the colored shirt
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over top of my shirt that I'm wearing.
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Um,
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and so I appear in the meeting in full
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dress code, uh,
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whatever full required,
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what is required of me so
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that I am in compliance
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just in case one day, if they said to me,
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Hey, stand up,
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we want to see your lower
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torso to make sure you're
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in dress code compliance.
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I would be able to do so.
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But it's,
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it's really and there's
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there's a whole thing and I
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was talking to lex by text
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yesterday where it talks
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about that you might your
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hair must your grooming
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must be in order and and
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it's really like loose
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where the executives can
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really just attack whoever
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they want to attack because the uh
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The grooming bit is, man,
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if you have a bad day or
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your hair's just not going
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right and someone wanted to pick on you,
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they could say you're not groomed well.
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It's just insane and archaic,
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and I can't believe we're
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still in this era.
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But anyway, yeah, it's what I deal with,
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but it's my job.
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try to do it to the best of
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my ability I'm going to be
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back in a in an office by
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the end of the year anyway
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and then I'll have to be in
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full dress code anyway so
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um lynn says hair that well
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that's me out with my
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purple hair yeah it is the
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the uproar that came from
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that that's not even a
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newer policy that came out
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before we left the office
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and it got fought big time
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because um depending on cultures like
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And those, the hair colors are,
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it just looked at
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differently and it was
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fought big time back then,
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but they lost somehow and I
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don't know how.
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But yeah, purple hair would not be allowed,
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Lynn.
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what's weird is like they
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allow red even if it is not
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like a natural what a
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redhead would would wear
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because to be able to come
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down to what where is the
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line of where it's natural
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and unnatural is too hard
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to come by so they allow
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all reds but they don't
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allow blue they don't allow
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green they don't allow
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purple pink any of those
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it's it's pretty crazy um
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And there was even arguments
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that some of the older
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women say their hair is naturally blue.
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Um, but that, that failed as well.
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So, uh, uh,
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train to lift says you're
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basically Superman.
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I am.
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Um,
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I change in and change out of clothes
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constantly throughout the day.
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Now, if I have back-to-back meetings,
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I just leave them on.
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Um, but like,
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I don't want to wear dress
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clothes down here to do this.
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Um, do surprise meetings count?
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Like when someone calls you
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randomly to get
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clarification on something they do.
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Um,
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but I'm pretty fast and I have
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everything sitting beside me for the day.
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Uh,
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so I can get in and out of clothes
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quickly.
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Uh, Corey says, dude,
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asking you to stand up to check,
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to see if you're in compliance for a job,
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for a job where you're
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working from home is some.
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Shit.
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It is.
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It's crazy.
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um and lynn says I guess
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she's going ginger yep it's
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so stupid it's it's funny
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like I've always wanted to
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do like the faux hawk in
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like a blue tip thing um
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but I've never been able to
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do it because I my job I pays my bills so
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and jeff jay birch is saying
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uh he's singing the song
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express yourself not with
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the state of ohio you are
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not allowed to do that so
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anyway I just wanted to
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kind of wrap a bow around
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that because we talked
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about it yesterday and I
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did get a lot of comments
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some people texting me
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asking me clarifying
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questions and so just to
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clarify um that that's where we're at um
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And man, with my allergy,
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some days I have like a
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really bad day and my eyes are puffy,
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things like that.
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And to like be on camera,
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cause you have to be on
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camera for everything now.
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And it's really hard,
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but I guess I'd have to do
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that going into the office.
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And I think that's where
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like the working from home
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is crazy because if I'm
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sick or I have a really bad
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allergy day or things are
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puffy or whatever,
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like I'll just work through
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it cause I'm working from home.
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But if I have to go into the office, man,
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I'm probably calling off
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sick and then you're not
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even getting me for those
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eight hours in the day.
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Um,
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I don't understand the
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obsession with bringing
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everybody back to work.
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For some people who don't
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work with the public or
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don't do things like that,
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it just doesn't make any sense to me.
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And then in our city,
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because it was announced,
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and we're the capital city of Ohio,
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that everybody has to return to work,
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the real estate companies
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are now charging four times
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the rent on the buildings
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because the state is trying
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to find places to put people and
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and pick up leases again but
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they're the building I was
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in before I left they went
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back to try to get it and
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the rent price on it is
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four times what it was when
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we left so they're being
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gouged now for that and
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they're going to pay four
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times as much to get people
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back to work as they would
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be to to work from home
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And I've said this a million times,
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I test things in our system
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and I test them for what
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the customer would see.
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The customer is not inside our firewall,
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so I get actually better
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results on my testing by
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working from home and
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working outside the
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firewall to test what I'm doing.
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and then it's just me going
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into a system and trying to
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break it and doing things
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like that I'm much I get
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way more done when I'm here
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at home because nobody is
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interrupting me I can just
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put my head down and go
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through the whole test I
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don't have to worry about
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someone coming up to my
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desk and asking for
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anything or whatnot so
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It doesn't make sense to me,
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but I'm just tired of fighting it.
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It's an inevitability,
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and we're going to be back soon.
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Jason Bourne,
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the government is back asswards.
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It is so that much.
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It is so that.
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Jaybert says,
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do you have a Republican
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governor or legislature?
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We do.
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No TPS reports.
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Um,
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I I've worked under both Democrat and
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Republican governors in my time here.
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And, um, it always,
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it all seems the same when
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you're inside of it all.
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Um, they all have their,
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they all have their, their agendas.
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They all, I dunno, it just is,
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it's bizarre.
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But right now we have Governor DeWine.
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And I was born and raised a Republican,
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but I'm not a fan of
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Governor DeWine and the
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actions that he's taken.
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So...
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I don't know.
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I really don't like any
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politicians at this point
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after working for both sides.
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I've not seen anything from
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any of them that have... I
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shouldn't say I haven't seen anything.
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They all come with their faults.
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And working for both sides,
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I've had trouble with both.
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So I don't really lean one
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way or another anymore.
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I just don't like...
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I don't like politics
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anymore after working for the state.
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I'm just over it.
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ACRS, what's for lunch?
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That I have to determine.
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My wife is actually leaving
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after work today to go back
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to Pittsburgh to help my
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daughter pack as we are
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moving her to Montana in
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less than two weeks now,
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which is totally blowing my mind.
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Can you believe Easter is
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like next weekend?
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Where has time gone?
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I can't even...
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man so in in a little over a
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week I'm going to be
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packing up a u-haul uh
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driving across the country
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to montana with my daughter
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unpacking her in a new
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apartment there with her
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two dogs and then flying
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back to columbus um after
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that and it's gonna be it's
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gonna be a crazy crazy trip um
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Uh,
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Corey Leonard's birthday is in six days,
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just in case everybody
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needs some time to buy a gift.
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Uh, you have six days left.
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So, yeah, so we're going to go,
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we're going from Columbus up to Chicago,
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up to Madison, up to Minneapolis,
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and then across like Fargo,
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Bismarck all the way to great falls.
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Um, and.
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with that,
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we're going to pass the Badlands.
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We're going to pass Mount Rushmore.
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We're going to stop at those places.
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Um, the Badlands, the more I look into it,
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the more I am really
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psyched to go see that.
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Um, so I'm really pumped for that.
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Um,
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as well as even though Jay Birch has
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poo pooed my visit to Mount Rushmore,
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I'm still looking forward to it.
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Um,
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just to kind of see it and move on.
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But, uh, but it's going to be fun.
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And then my daughter will
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start her new life as a,
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as a professional
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photographer with a company, um,
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doing their catalog and
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their social media and their websites, uh,
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and all the apparel that they sell.
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So that's going to be awesome for her.
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And I can't wait for that to
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happen for her.
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One thing,
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one bit of news that came out today,
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and I don't even know if
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it's that newsworthy,
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is the WFP has announced
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who is going to be in
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Indianapolis in the pro
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qualifier or the pro
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division out of the qualifier.
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And so this is the list of
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athletes that qualified.
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My...
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My biggest question about this list,
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and it doesn't say it in
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the comments or in the narrative,
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is did these people accept
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their invitation to Indianapolis,
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or are they just the qualifiers?
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Because I think on the men's side,
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it is the top ten people in the qualifier,
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from one to ten, all of them.
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And so I'm wondering if they all accepted.
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And then on the women's side,
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it's one to eleven.
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There may be one change
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because I thought Var, Thurman,
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Moe was the last qualifier,
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but maybe I was only counting to ten.
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And then Oda Lundikvam is
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also in there at number eleven.
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So I'm just curious because
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it doesn't say that they've accepted.
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It just says that these are
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the people that qualified
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because I know they do
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backfill these positions.
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Um, and if it's just qualified,
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we knew this when they
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locked the leaderboard like a week ago.
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So I don't know why it's
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newsworthy unless they've accepted.
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Um,
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Ah, so yeah.
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So Otis because Jamie Green
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couldn't make it.
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That is, or Jamie Simmons.
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I call her Jamie Green too, Lynn,
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and it's hard.
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So yeah,
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so I guess this is people who have
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accepted because Jamie did not accept.
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And so we do have a little
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bit of a different list on
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the women's side.
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I agree with you, Lynn.
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I think it's accepted
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because others qualified
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but couldn't travel.
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Yeah,
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so this is the lineup that's going to
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be added to the signed athletes.
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and you know everybody's
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gonna I mean everybody knew
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colton was going after it
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anola kai nate ackerman
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tolamore akinyo tanner
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belas danny camacho colin
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bassard nick matthew fabian
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benito and chris ibarra uh
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it's a pretty good um
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that's a pretty good lineup
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on the men's side to be
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added to that uh andreas
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oberg ella wilkinson annika
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greer fisa goffi like c neely
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Lydia Fish, Linda Keesman, Trista Smith,
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Emily Rethwell, Var Thurman Moe,
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and Oda Lukunvan.
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That's pretty awesome.
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so uh I think that those are
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pretty good lineups um to
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go into the pro division
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what's crazy is and is that
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abby domet did not make the
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qualifier for the pro
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division she's only in the
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challenger and she talked
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about it on the spin this
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week that she's not great
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at online qualifier she's
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better in person um
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And I think this goes to show it.
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That's why she went for it
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at mayhem and didn't really
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have a backup plan.
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It was, I'm going forward at mayhem and,
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uh, to qualify and what a tight race to,
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for it to be like,
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I know she had other
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opportunities if she didn't make it,
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but for it to be like your
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one shot mentally and how
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close that was at the end.
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Wow, man.
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Good on her, though.
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Sometimes you just got to
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put yourself in that
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situation and let the cream
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rise to the top as you get there.
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I'm not sure who else is
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gaining from this comp experience,
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men or women.
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Um,
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it's good for Lydia fish and Trista to
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compete in.
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I think any competition,
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especially for young athletes,
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that they can get some
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experience head to head is
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really good for them.
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Um,
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I think we found that when we came out
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of COVID and the young
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athletes at that time never
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competed on the floor
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because everything was
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online during the COVID year.
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And when they got there, they,
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they struggled in person events.
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Um,
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And so I think any
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experience that any athlete
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can get on the floor head
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to head is really, really important.
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And I think what Craig's saying here,
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and if I'm missing the interpretation,
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is that you're asking who
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is gaining more from this competition,
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the men or the women?
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I don't think there is a
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difference in what they're gaining.
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I think they're both gaining experience.
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Any head-to-head competition
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is good for them.
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I'm excited for Oda and Var.
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Krieger has been churning
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athletes and I'm pumped to
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see them bring it in.
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Yeah.
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Kristen Holta and that crew
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are just building an empire in Norway.
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It's going to be, I'm really sad that,
20:08
that Mathilde Garnes did not,
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was not able to compete.
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She's one of my favorite athletes.
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She's done well with the Krieger system.
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So yeah, bummed for that.
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so another thing that's
20:25
happening tonight is the
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public judging window for
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the age group semifinals
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ends this evening um and at
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that point then crossfit
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will take the votes that have been
20:40
given and they are going to
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then go back and do a
20:44
second review um do a
20:48
second review of those that
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need reviewed in their
20:51
opinion based on the
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numbers and then we should
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have a final a final age
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group qualification in
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about ten days um it's such
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a long time to wait for
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those athletes they put so
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much into this and man the
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the online thing just is terrible.
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I did.
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I was encouraged that Dave
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said that he loved what
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mayhem did in an affiliate
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and maybe they could do
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some of those types of
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things for the age group, uh,
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semis as well and find a way for them to,
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to qualify in person.
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I know there's a couple, uh,
21:30
masters type at, um, competitions.
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There's the pit, um,
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to do for the teens,
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I think it'd be cool if
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there was some opportunity, uh,
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for them to qualify in person.
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I,
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we talked about it briefly yesterday
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about the difference
21:47
between online and in person.
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And some people were really
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good at one and maybe not the other.
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I know like Jamie would love
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to compete in person to
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qualify as opposed to online.
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Um, so it'd be cool to have that option.
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If you are a better in
22:03
person athlete than you are
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an online athlete.
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But we'll see.
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I mean,
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it would depend on partners being
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willing to have those
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events because I don't
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think CrossFit themselves
22:14
would actually invest in
22:17
holding those events.
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But yeah,
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I can't wait for those to be
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finished and us to get
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final results on who's
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actually coming to Columbus
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at the end of the year.
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It'll be good to get those
22:37
officially out there.
22:46
Of course is what idea
22:47
online qualifier of MFC and
22:49
Legends and then those two
22:51
are qualifiers for Masters games.
22:54
They'd really have to do
22:56
some mega schedule changing
22:58
because Legends is in December.
23:01
They would have to change
23:02
that dramatically.
23:04
Legends hosts the games,
23:06
and so I don't think they'd
23:07
want to do two really close
23:11
back-to-back events.
23:12
I think you'd almost have to
23:14
find some other partners.
23:18
So with that,
23:22
He was talking about it in
23:23
the way that Mayhem was an
23:24
affiliate and that they
23:25
held a competition in an affiliate.
23:27
So I think he's thinking
23:30
like smaller ones around
23:32
the country inside of an
23:34
affiliate where you can go
23:35
compete as opposed to like
23:38
these big competitions like
23:41
MFC and Legends.
23:45
Lynn says,
23:45
the online video thing I hope
23:47
was just a test case.
23:48
They were trying, but...
23:50
Well, the good news is,
23:51
I don't know if anybody saw this,
23:54
but Jason Grubb actually posted,
23:58
hopefully it's on his, okay, here we go.
24:05
He posted this yesterday, I think it was.
24:09
that and he is part of the
24:11
athlete council uh he had
24:14
posted a thing that corey
24:15
and I talked about on
24:16
wednesday like a list of
24:17
things that were wrong with
24:19
the online judging um and
24:22
he's posted this update
24:23
crossfit hq will meet with
24:24
the crossfit athlete
24:25
council regarding feedback
24:26
questions concerns about
24:28
the semi-final review
24:29
process unfortunately after
24:31
the completion of the
24:32
competition late next week
24:34
so hopefully it will
24:38
They'll have this meeting
24:39
and they'll correct things for next year,
24:41
but it looks like we're
24:42
stuck with what we have for this year.
24:52
But at least someone is
24:54
talking to CrossFit about
24:55
it and they are responsive
24:56
and they're going to talk
24:57
to the athlete council about it.
25:01
So I think that's a good thing.
25:12
Also,
25:12
they said HQ programmed the semis and
25:14
Legends will program the games, right?
25:16
So it would be HQ organizing the semis.
25:21
I think it's all up in the
25:23
air as to who would do what
25:26
for next year unless they
25:29
did the same events at
25:30
every in-person semifinal.
25:34
If they did it like they did
25:35
for the elite and just let
25:37
the in-person semifinals
25:40
program however they wanted
25:42
and you could choose to go
25:44
to those or not, I think that's fine too.
25:49
It's just different ways to
25:50
get into the party.
25:53
and I'm okay with all that
25:57
however whichever way they
25:58
wanted to go um so yeah so
26:06
that happened yesterday the
26:09
last thing I want to talk
26:10
about just some fun stuff is uh is
26:17
I, I am a great game show junkie.
26:20
I love game shows.
26:21
I watch them all the time.
26:23
It's something my wife and I do together.
26:26
Um, we watched jeopardy every night, uh,
26:29
together.
26:30
I know that makes me sound
26:31
like I'm really old, but I just, I love,
26:34
I love game shows.
26:35
I've loved them since I was a kid.
26:38
My mom and I would watch them together.
26:40
And I guess I was just
26:40
thinking about it with
26:41
everything going through with my mom that,
26:44
um,
26:47
uh, that I've just, I don't know.
26:52
I just really, really, really enjoy them.
26:55
And I was thinking about
26:57
which ones I love the most.
26:58
And I,
26:59
and Jay Birch comes in with wheel of
27:00
fortune.
27:01
I would put that as like a tier two.
27:03
I'm not really great at the,
27:04
at the word puzzle solving.
27:06
I'm, I'm okay.
27:08
Maybe a little better than average,
27:09
but I'm okay with it.
27:11
Uh, but, um,
27:13
yeah I like I like fast
27:15
trivia like the games I
27:17
like are the ones that get
27:19
the most questions out in
27:20
the half hour or hour that
27:22
it's on uh so the shows I
27:24
like are jeopardy I like
27:25
the chase I like um the
27:28
floor because you're
27:30
getting just rapid fire
27:31
questions throughout uh the
27:35
episode that it's airing
27:37
I, when my mom used to actually,
27:40
and I used to play five
27:41
thousand dollar pyramid or whatever,
27:42
however many dollars it is now,
27:46
one of us would turn our back to the TV,
27:48
we would mute it and the
27:49
other one would give clues
27:50
and we would play the game along with it.
27:54
so I yeah I like all those
27:55
games the games I don't
27:56
like are the ones that like
27:58
in an hour you get like six
27:59
questions like hundred like
28:02
uh who wants to be a
28:03
millionaire like that is it
28:05
just drones on with like
28:07
really bad questions at
28:08
first you finally get to
28:10
some decent ones but you
28:12
only get like a handful in
28:13
the entire episode and to
28:15
me that's just a big big waste of time
28:19
But I like Price is Right.
28:21
It moves fast, all of that kind of stuff.
28:25
And I was just curious if
28:26
any of you guys were game
28:27
show junkies like I was,
28:30
or if I'm one of the few.
28:33
I actually tried to get on a
28:35
game show this year for the
28:36
first time ever.
28:37
My nephew, my daughter,
28:38
and I tried out for Pop Culture Jeopardy,
28:42
which is running on Prime now.
28:45
The test to get in was...
28:47
So hard.
28:49
So, so hard.
28:52
We kind of knew coming out
28:53
of the test that we had
28:55
lost our shot to come on the show,
28:58
but we gave it a shot.
28:59
I'd never done it before.
29:01
It was a fun experience just
29:03
going through the test,
29:05
but we didn't make it.
29:06
And then now I've watched
29:07
the Pop Culture Jeopardy show,
29:09
and a lot of the people on
29:10
there are former Jeopardy contestants.
29:13
Like, you've had your shot, man.
29:14
Let some of us in there.
29:16
uh so yeah jay birch says
29:23
when I was in high school I
29:24
was on the challenge team
29:26
which was essentially a
29:27
trivia con contest between
29:29
schools and we would do it
29:30
on tv yeah we we had those
29:32
in pennsylvania too that
29:33
was fun um and then corey
29:36
says hollywood squares
29:37
again that's one of those where
29:41
see that shows more about
29:42
the jokes to me and the
29:44
celebrities telling the
29:45
jokes and the trivia
29:47
questions you only get like
29:48
ten for ten or twelve for
29:51
the half hour or whatever
29:53
it's on it's it's fine I
29:56
don't I don't dislike it
29:58
but it's not like in my my
30:00
upper tier of game shows
30:06
And we still have more talk
30:07
about the online de-read
30:09
issue with the online stuff
30:11
is that there are too many
30:11
videos to validate.
30:13
I think that was the premise
30:14
of this though,
30:15
that there were so many for
30:17
HQ to go through to
30:17
validate that they put it
30:21
out there for public
30:22
consumption thinking that
30:24
everybody would be
30:25
trustworthy and that they
30:27
would do legit judging to
30:30
narrow down their focus to
30:32
just the bad videos.
30:34
And I don't think that's what they got.
30:36
I think what they're getting
30:37
are manipulated numbers
30:40
based on friendships,
30:41
based on all the stuff that
30:44
Grubb talked about in his
30:45
post the other day, which was this post.
30:54
um where he talked about
30:56
there's no way to identify
30:58
what's been wrong with the
30:59
video uh we can't see who's
31:01
marking the videos uh some
31:04
athletes used friends or
31:05
judges to pre-populate good
31:06
reviews um their reports of
31:09
organized networks down
31:10
voting other competitors
31:12
like these are the things
31:13
we that crossfit did not expect um
31:18
when they when they launched
31:20
this the whole premise of
31:22
this was to narrow down
31:23
their focus because there
31:25
were so many videos to
31:26
validate so many divisions
31:28
so many videos but I don't
31:29
think that's what they got um
31:48
I think this is about what
31:50
Craig asked up here, which was,
31:54
I'm not sure who else in
31:55
the men or women brackets
31:56
would gain from this comp
31:57
experience except newer
31:59
athletes like Trista and Lydia.
32:01
Again,
32:02
I think everybody can use experience.
32:06
And then Lynn answered,
32:07
a majority of the
32:08
qualifiers have at least
32:09
one CrossFit Games
32:10
experience or pretty close.
32:13
I think both men and women,
32:14
WFP is more than,
32:17
is more visibility for
32:18
sponsorships etc um yeah
32:22
we'll see about the
32:22
visibility um once they
32:25
launch I hope they get more
32:27
visibility I want the
32:28
athletes to have more
32:29
opportunities um so I hope
32:31
that that that is what's there um
32:41
Family feud with Richard Dawson.
32:43
That's the best.
32:45
Jay Burch,
32:45
you and I may be the only two
32:47
that even remember Richard
32:48
Dawson on family feud.
32:57
Corey says one of his fellow
32:58
competitors is in the
32:59
twenty ninth position and
33:01
he has a ton of down votes
33:02
for no apparent reason
33:04
other than the fact that
33:05
he's in twenty ninth.
33:06
Yeah,
33:07
that's that's exactly when that's the
33:10
mess.
33:12
Um,
33:12
Lynn says I'm not a judge and I've
33:14
watched a lot of videos
33:15
with down votes for no reason.
33:18
I have been a judge.
33:20
I've been a judge.
33:21
at very high levels.
33:23
I have, and I, and again,
33:25
I think I said this the other day,
33:26
I did some,
33:27
I just spot checking of videos
33:30
and I did not,
33:31
I did not look at any friends videos.
33:33
I was trying to eliminate
33:35
all of my biases and just
33:37
trying to find what these
33:39
people were down voting.
33:40
And I had a really,
33:41
really hard time finding
33:43
anything through my spot
33:45
checking that was actually legit.
33:49
Again,
33:50
it would be very helpful if they had
33:52
to say why.
33:54
I think if you say why,
33:55
it eliminates people just
33:57
going and clicking on a
34:00
thumb up or thumb down.
34:10
Meanwhile,
34:11
the guy who got twentieth on
34:13
Isabel clearly did it with
34:14
a hundred and fifty-five pounds.
34:17
See if that happened and
34:18
they did spot that and it
34:19
was in there and they,
34:21
that makes sense for,
34:22
to point that out to HQ,
34:24
to get this guy out of there.
34:25
He doesn't belong.
34:27
Um, so yeah.
34:35
Corey remembers Richard Dawson.
34:38
Um,
34:39
Craig Bosley likes the dating show and
34:42
marriage show.
34:43
Don't remember you, the newlywed game.
34:47
That's what you're thinking of, Craig.
34:53
So yeah,
34:54
that one led to a lot of fights usually.
34:57
We had a home version of
34:58
that that I played with my
35:00
parents before my dad passed away.
35:02
And my dad can't remember anything.
35:07
And my mom was so livid that
35:11
they were getting into a
35:12
fight in our living room over the stuff.
35:17
And that's what the show
35:18
turned out to be as well.
35:23
But yeah.
35:25
Yeah.
35:27
So I really think that this
35:31
age group video stuff is a
35:32
mess and hopefully they get
35:33
this cleared up and that, um,
35:35
the athlete council can
35:36
talk to them about, uh,
35:39
what they're doing and
35:41
maybe get some corrections,
35:43
hopefully along with that
35:44
in the same vein is take
35:46
away the silly requirement
35:47
for two judges for these, um,
35:54
take away the two judges for
35:57
these in-person or in-affiliate semis.
36:01
That's just a big ask for
36:04
Masters athletes who have
36:05
to work full-time.
36:09
um lynn says deal or no deal
36:12
I like deal or no deal but
36:13
I really like deal or no
36:15
deal island I think that
36:17
has added a a mix to the
36:19
bag that makes it way more
36:22
exciting um uh so yeah lynn
36:35
is saying I should have
36:35
collins for sunday because I'm heated
36:38
We have the capability of doing Collins.
36:41
I can do that.
36:44
We've done them in the past
36:45
with not a lot of response.
36:47
I think the only people that
36:48
have ever called into my
36:49
show are Corey and Kenneth
36:52
on different shows,
36:53
but we can we can open up
36:55
the phone lines.
36:57
Uh,
36:58
I have my phone hooked to the road
36:59
caster.
37:00
I just have to Bluetooth it
37:01
in again for Sunday night.
37:04
And I'm actually going to be
37:05
bacheloring it up all
37:07
weekend because my wife's
37:08
going to Pittsburgh to help
37:09
my daughter pack.
37:10
So it's just me and my dog
37:12
Walter all weekend.
37:13
Uh,
37:14
so I got plenty of time to hook up some
37:16
stuff.
37:17
Um,
37:19
And get that ready so yeah
37:21
I'll put in the the phone call option,
37:25
and you can talk directly
37:26
to carolyn and Jamie and
37:27
get their thoughts.
37:30
I'm trying to transition to
37:32
just being like a
37:33
facilitator on Sunday
37:35
nights there's times where
37:36
I just I have to say.
37:39
I have to say something,
37:40
but I'm trying to turn into
37:41
a facilitator on Sunday
37:43
nights where this show
37:45
during the week is my opinion.
37:48
I let Jamie and Carolyn talk
37:50
and give their perspective
37:52
on Sunday nights,
37:53
and I just try to be a facilitator.
37:55
Now, again,
37:56
that's really hard for me
37:57
because sometimes I just
37:58
really want to say something, and I do.
38:01
But that's really where I'm
38:03
trying to lean toward going
38:05
forward on those Sunday
38:06
night shows is really
38:08
making it Jamie and Carolyn's show,
38:11
and I'm just kind of
38:12
facilitating the news and
38:20
the topics and all of that.
38:23
But I would love to hear a
38:26
heated Lynn on Sunday night.
38:27
So I will go ahead and hook that up.
38:37
Lynn says, no,
38:38
you also give good
38:38
perspective too and different,
38:40
which I don't agree with sometimes,
38:42
but that's good.
38:44
What I love about this medium, Lynn,
38:48
is that
38:50
this is our philosophy all
38:51
three of us is I don't care
38:56
if you disagree with me
38:57
that's fine I just want to
38:59
talk about it and maybe you
39:01
can convince me otherwise I
39:02
think that's fair I I just
39:05
don't want to be a place where um we
39:12
we bash the people that
39:13
think differently than us
39:14
because I think what makes
39:16
life great is variety and
39:19
not everybody should agree
39:21
it makes life boring if
39:22
everybody agreed with
39:23
everything it's okay to
39:25
have differing opinions and
39:27
as long as we can talk
39:28
about it in a civil adult
39:31
manner I'm okay with all of that um
39:35
God knows Carolyn and Jamie
39:37
and I don't always agree on things.
39:40
Um,
39:40
we disagree all the time and that's fine.
39:44
And there's, they're my best friends, like,
39:47
but that's cool.
39:48
Like,
39:50
and maybe we can understand each
39:51
other a little better by
39:52
the end of the day.
39:59
Wait, are you talking about life before?
40:02
That's what I'm talking about, Jeremy.
40:07
If everybody looked the same,
40:09
we'd get tired of looking each other.
40:10
That's right.
40:12
And that's the good thing
40:13
because you make us also see another side,
40:15
which is great.
40:16
That's all.
40:17
That's all.
40:18
That's what discussions are about.
40:20
That's what podcasts were made for, right?
40:21
Like for us to discuss things.
40:25
And maybe we don't come to a
40:26
resolution at the end of the broadcast,
40:29
but that's okay too.
40:32
Maybe it's just about understanding.
40:36
So.
40:37
Kenneth on an update,
40:39
he did not go overweight on
40:40
his dumpster rental.
40:42
Do not if you ever rent a dumpster,
40:44
do not go overweight.
40:47
That surprise,
40:48
seven hundred dollar charge
40:49
to my bank account was a shocker.
40:52
So you, you did good, Kenneth,
40:55
keeping it underweight
40:57
because that is that is an
40:59
awful bill to see.
41:01
And man,
41:02
good thing I my heart was in good
41:04
condition at that time
41:05
because I was not prepared
41:07
for that to come out of my
41:08
checking account all at one time.
41:14
Well, guys.
41:16
kenneth made weight yeah he
41:19
can now wrestle the gooch
41:22
or the shoot the shoot the
41:24
shoot that's it he can
41:26
wrestle the shoot and only
41:27
jay birch probably
41:28
understands that reference
41:34
so um and maybe cory cory's
41:38
close to my age
41:42
seven year difference
41:43
something like that um but
41:45
anyway with that guys I'm
41:48
gonna head back to work
41:49
it's fun as always um I
41:53
hope you all have an
41:54
amazing weekend and uh and
41:57
we'll see you live on
41:59
sunday night I'll get the
42:00
phone lines ready so lynn
42:02
can have her riff and uh
42:06
and we will do that sunday
42:07
night with carolyn and
42:08
jamie um can't wait to talk to you all
42:12
cool is it that I get to do
42:13
a show with two crossfit
42:15
games athletes every sunday
42:16
night like that is really
42:19
freaking cool when I
42:21
started this five and a
42:22
half years ago never in my
42:23
wildest dreams that I think
42:25
I'd be doing a show with
42:26
carolyn privo and then that
42:29
I would make a best friend
42:30
in the masters division in
42:31
jamie latimer my gosh
42:36
This community is so freaking cool.
42:39
With that, guys,
42:41
time for you knuckleheads
42:41
to get back to work too.
42:43
I will see you next time on
42:45
Lunch with Clydesdale.
42:46
Bye, guys.