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Lunch with the Clydesdale and Cowboy - Wednesday Show! Hiller's BTS is AWESOME! · Clydesdale Media Podcast

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We are back,
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and we've got so much to talk about,
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I don't even know what to say.
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From the gym to the screen, yeah,
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we cover it all.
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Midday motivation every time you press
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call.
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Lunch with the Clydesdale.
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Cowboy bring the heat.
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Crossfit, boobies, music on repeat.
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Half hour hustle, yeah,
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we building that brand.
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Grab a plate, tune in now,
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you part of the fam.
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Don't mind me,
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I just have to make a purchase real
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quick.
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New Lego sets out,
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and I don't want to lose it.
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no god forbid make sure you made that
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happen before they sell out because
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they're probably not making any small
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bricks to make into bigger bricks to the
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shape of an f-one helmet yeah yeah i'm
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i was telling you man i am i
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am
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Gosh, I am so addicted.
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Like I just told you, it's a thing.
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You put it together.
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We're messing with Joseph's head.
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Hold on.
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What?
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There we go.
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Sorry.
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Is that better, Joseph?
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Yeah.
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God forbid.
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I don't want...
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Joseph's mind to explode, that'd be bad.
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Yes, call it an addiction,
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call it what you want,
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but at least when you get done with
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it, you have something like, hey,
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I just built this thing.
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Whether it be a Legos or not,
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who gives a shit,
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but it's done and you can look at
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it and go,
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look at how cool this is.
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i uh i finished the classic batmobile
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right before i went to uh syndicate like
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the adam west TV show version yes sir
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i haven't even posted a picture it is
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super cool it is it's about yay big
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is it really it's a big one barely
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fits on my shelf is it as big
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as that sign that's behind you
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No, no, no, no.
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Not as big as the sign.
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Not as big as my McLaren F-One.
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Maybe about F-One Batmobile.
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Oh, like a, like a, like a,
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like a, like a, like a, like a,
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like a, like a, like a, like a,
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like a,
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no no it's the the new it's like
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a twenty twenty four the car that raced
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that won the the championship twenty
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twenty five oh okay not a mclaren f-one
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but a mclaren f-one car yeah got it
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i'm a car i am i am
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I've been addicted to cars since I saw
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Smokey and the Bandit when I was a
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little kid.
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Sports cars, name it, whatever.
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But F-One racing has never appealed to me
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very much for whatever reason.
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You need to watch Drive to Survive.
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I get it.
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Watch Drive to Survive,
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and now I'm addicted to F-One.
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yeah uh and i understand that i did
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watch uh i say did what like it
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matters unnecessarily but um oh not the
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new f-one movie that just came out with
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uh but the one about the one with
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uh with thor and the german dude
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Anyway, true story.
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F one from like back in the sixties
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and whatnot.
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Okay.
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I think I remember,
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I know what you're talking about.
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I just can't remember the title either.
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I can't remember how to save my life,
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but it was outstanding.
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Like really, really good.
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I love stuff like that.
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Joseph Vermeer's son just took two weeks
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to build the Titanic.
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That's a massive set.
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Is he going to break it in half
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and sink it to the bottom of the
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North Sea now?
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He's at somebody's pool doing it right
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now.
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Rush.
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Thank you, Tristan.
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When I won the games,
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I bought myself a Lego R-II D-II.
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that's cool i'm gonna tell you what i
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would what i would buy right now if
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i had five hundred dollars to just blow
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on like ridiculous shit have you seen the
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iron man mask that you put on that
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like yep i would aggravate the ever-living
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shit out of my wife and like just
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roll into the house with it oh those
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things look so cool and they're like voice
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activated
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So you can just put it on until
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it closes up or whatnot.
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Yeah, a hundred percent.
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I would spend, if I had four dollars,
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just blow out one hundred percent by one
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of those.
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Yeah.
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Good investment, says Joseph.
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Joseph understands.
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So before we dive into the CrossFit stuff,
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my wife and I sat down and watched
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a new show last night called Maximum
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Pleasure Guaranteed.
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didn't know this is the route we were
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going to take this morning but all right
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here we go so here's the premise of
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the show and that this is what sucked
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me in and the first episode did not
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disappoint it's a woman who's recently
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divorced her husband gets the house the
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whole nine she's moving into an apartment
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she's feeling isolated so she hires a
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person online to have online sex with but
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they really just talk a lot
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They just hang out.
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Now, they do the other stuff too.
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Show it on the show,
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but that's the premise, right?
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During one of their interactions,
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someone comes into the guy's apartment,
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grabs him, attacks him,
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beats the shit out of him,
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and now she's a witness to all this,
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but she doesn't even know his real name.
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As you do.
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And then they call her saying they want
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fifty thousand dollars or they're going to
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kill him.
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Jesus Christ.
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Is that a movie or a series?
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Series.
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Got it.
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That was episode one.
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And I'm leaving it there.
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There's a lot more that happens in episode
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one.
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But that's how it kicks off.
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What?
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Apple TV.
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Apple TV.
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Apple TV.
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tux i get dude people tell me cool
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stuff about like oh i just saw this
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new show man this happened what was it
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on apple tv that's the one thing i
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don't have all right appreciate it high
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fives all around right along uh omar the
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name is maximum pleasure guaranteed
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guaranteed yeah it is uh apple tv's been
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killing it lately
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they have a whole bunch of good stuff
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and there's much stuff on there i would
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love to see i i'm probably watching more
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on it than any other streaming service
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right now the uh
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the the monsters series like godzilla and
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and whatnot is that on there like that
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i would love to check out i love
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that kind of stuff ted lasso's coming back
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this summer i've heard yep i heard ted
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lasso's coming back my daughter actually
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loves godzilla big fan big fan um and
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more so uh actually king kong we watched
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king kong versus godzilla no less than six
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times with her like it's it's insane
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considering she's eight and a girl
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she loves king kong um so i would
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love to be able to show her that
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but i've heard that's good helson um we
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also just finished up the last thing he
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told me margot's having money problems uh
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both great and then shrinking and ted
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lasso are like epic all time
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I tell you what we watched last night,
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or finished up watching, I should say,
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on Netflix is...
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worst x ever i believe it's called
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something along those lines it's true so
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it's like true crime stuff because my wife
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is into that concept my wife is so
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into that stuff i try to avoid it
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dude the first episode is it involves a
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dude that ended up going on a uh
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day fiance
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Like, towards the...
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But while he was being...
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He got arrested for beating up his
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fiancée.
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This is the third time this has happened,
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FYI.
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Like, his wife, first wife...
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assaulted her,
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assaulted and I think raped,
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and then second wife assaulted for sure,
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was working on the third one,
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had her engaged and whatnot,
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beat the ever-living shit out of her one
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night for no apparent reason.
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They didn't get in an argument,
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none of that stuff.
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During that period of time,
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Right up until right up until or right
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before I say he beat her and she
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got away from him.
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He was also in an online relationship with
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his other chick and was getting doing all
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the things to be on ninety day fiance.
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Like at the same time, got arrested,
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got bailed out, was on the show.
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they didn't get wind of that at all
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and then i guess they ended up eventually
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pulling him once they figured out like all
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his history and whatnot and is now in
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jail for like thirty something years but
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it was an insane story dude insane story
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uh do you read with godzira
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Look, it's Godzilla.
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No, it's not Godzilla.
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For copyright purposes, it's not Godzilla.
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But we should still run like it's
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Godzilla.
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I have not watched.
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I need to watch those again.
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Well,
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let's dive into a little bit of CrossFit.
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So Sunday night,
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I made a comment on the show because
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Hillard made the comment that his behind
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the scenes were the best ever.
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He did say that out loud.
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And I made a comment that I'm tired
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of the, like,
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I misread it as competition between the
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two camps and more of this infighting
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thing.
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So I made a comment about it and
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then ended up texting with Hiller a ton
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last night about the whole thing.
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And I misread it.
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I'm just super sensitive to this fighting
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back and forth stuff.
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Well,
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because we get it from both sides and
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people are like,
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I can't tell you how many people told
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me when they met me in person in
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Birmingham how happy they were that we do
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not get involved with that shit.
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Like, we're just like, like,
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we watch it from both sides.
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I was like, dude,
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we watch it just like the rest of
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y'all.
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Like, we're like this.
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I'm like, oh, okay, that just happened.
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And then, oh, okay, that just happened.
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And like, we go on about our business.
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I did also make a comment that DB
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yelled at Ortega and Dents used it.
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Yeah, that is a fact.
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And I was wrong, Jonathan,
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because DB even said in the behind the
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scenes that Hiller made that she was
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yelling at her judge.
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Yeah.
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So you are off the hook now.
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And I apologize that that got clipped.
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However,
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what I want to say about the Hiller
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thing is it is phenomenal.
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His behind the scenes is really good,
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is probably the best piece of content I've
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seen.
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And the reason that is is because there
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were so many storylines from that
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syndicate crown.
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You had Saxon and Haley with the chips
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on their shoulder trying to make the
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comeback.
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You had the devastation of Nate and Janie
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Chevery, and he captured that.
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You had the rollercoaster weekend from DB.
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You had Austin pulling an Austin.
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And then you had Ty and Lydia quietly
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just doing their thing.
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and almost got lost in the shuffle because
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of all the other storylines around it.
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Because there was a lot happening, yeah.
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And so it did turn out to be
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like maybe the best piece of content I've
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ever seen and definitely by far the best
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piece I've seen in the last five years.
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Yeah.
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But what I do want to say is
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it also highlights that when you have
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drama at an event,
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storylines become greater sure but it it
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it accentuates it there's already a
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storyline going on and you just add in
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a little bit of okay let's add in
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a little bit of drama and then all
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of a sudden it's it's magnified right five
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or ten times so if we went back
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to a one and done scenario
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These storylines would amplify, right?
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Way higher.
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How devastated Janie and Nate were,
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and they've got another chance.
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Yeah.
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Imagine if they didn't.
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A hundred percent.
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And Saxon even says it in the behind
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the scenes.
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Like he comes from a world where you
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had to bring your best on that weekend
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or you wait another year.
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And that's why he does the visualization
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and tries to just be amongst him,
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just with himself in the back.
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And like all that stuff that came out
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was really, really good.
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And I just want to publicly apologize for
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saying that to Hiller because,
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and I use this analogy, right?
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T.O.
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told you he was the greatest wide receiver
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in the NFL.
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You didn't have to ask him.
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Barry Sanders let everybody else say he
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was the greatest running back in the NFL.
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Absolutely.
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Both are okay.
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Yeah.
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You may prefer one over the other.
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It's two different approaches.
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Right.
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Cause I said to Andrew,
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like I'm willing to say if it's great,
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I'm willing to say that was the best,
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best piece ever,
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but it's also okay for him to say
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that he's proud of it and it,
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and he believes it's the best ever.
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When I was way back when getting to
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be a crane operator,
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one of my bosses told me when we
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were driving by and said,
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don't ever brag on yourself.
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And it kind of stuck with me because
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when you get good enough,
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other people will do it for you.
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You ain't got to worry about it.
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Just keep your head down, keep working,
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keep moving along.
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And sooner or later,
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you're going to get recognition whether
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you want it or not.
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So I agree with that category.
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I find my way.
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But I also understand coming out and
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saying, if nothing else,
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saying this is the best piece of content
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I've ever done.
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And standing alone from everybody else's.
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I know for a fact that's the best
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one that I've ever done,
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and if you watch it,
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you will probably agree with me, right?
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And I think that's probably a lot more
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along the lines of what he's saying.
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Maybe he's not.
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Maybe he's looking at it and going, no,
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no,
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this is the best one that's ever been
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put out.
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I mean,
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it was a long back and forth we
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had last night.
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Yeah.
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Long for me.
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I'm not a wordy guy when I'm not
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on the air, but...
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He made some real...
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The guy works his ass off to make
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content, to make it good,
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to make it the best.
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And if you're proud of it,
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be proud of it.
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You should be.
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And I shouldn't have jumped to judgment
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the other night.
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That's all I'm saying.
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But I am sick of the infighting stuff.
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I mean...
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dense ended again with a shot this morning
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why why do we need the shots it's
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it's just stupid i will say this about
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jenny it's what she does but she can
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do that with the drama in the space
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without making it personal
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I think what Sten's saying,
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drama drives clicks and views.
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It's going to get you more attention,
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get you more of that stuff.
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So I'm not mad at it.
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It's not something I would do,
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but I'm not mad at her for doing
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it because that's just what she does.
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And she's going to say what's on her
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mind.
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The stuff she just does is great.
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Why do you have to add that piece
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at the end?
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That's her.
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All right.
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So be it.
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I mean,
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I watch every dense update that comes out.
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I do too.
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I watch just about every content in the
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space.
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I want the content.
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I just don't need it.
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I personally don't need the extra.
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It's what it comes with.
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It's like ordering something at a
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restaurant and you get what you ordered
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and you get something else that you know
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you're not going to eat,
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but it's just there with it.
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What are you going to do?
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That's what came with it.
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So anyway,
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I see people saying unsubscribing and
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blocking.
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Please don't block us.
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Please like and subscribe to the channel.
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We really appreciate it.
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We had almost fifteen hundred views on
18:22
Sunday night with only three thousand
18:24
subscribers.
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It's amazing.
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It's amazing engagement with all of that.
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And I love all of you for that.
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But it'd be nice to get a little
18:33
bit of the subscriber rate up a little
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bit higher.
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so like and subscribe folks like and
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subscribe i can't it's super easy as corey
18:44
says it's free it's just free it is
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free i mean it's going to cost you
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this right if you if it did look
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if this was not working use that one
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use this one like it doesn't really matter
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honestly just pick one yeah you know what
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Yeah, it is.
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I don't watch or I get all my
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info from this Clydesdale.
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Nice.
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If that's the case, Shannon,
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you are getting a wide variety of
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information.
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Yeah, we are.
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We're all over the place.
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Y'all are the most watchable in the space.
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Seconds to Hiller.
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Okay, I'll take that.
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Hey, number two works harder.
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We've already had this discussion.
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Yep.
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Yep.
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What else do I want to talk about?
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Someone got a two-year suspension for
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being corrupt with their judging.
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I'm excited.
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I am legitimately excited.
20:28
Danny Camacho received a two-year ban,
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and he has competed in the WFP.
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He has competed at the elite level, and...
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he is no longer allowed to compete for
20:40
two years because he said he was the
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judge for a master's athlete.
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And he was not, well,
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he was not qualified.
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He did not have his level.
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His own had expired.
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So that's crazy to me.
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It's good.
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Let's let's stop the madness.
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but you gotta stop the bleeding at some
21:06
point and that's what it's gonna take to
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like hey let's send a message suspend this
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dude for two years i want to see
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what happens to the masters athlete who
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had someone
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who wasn't that someone show up on camera
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and say they were that someone yes like
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i want to see those people get the
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suspension as well it probably doesn't
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have the impact on them because other than
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the masters athlete they're not they're
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probably not elite level no but still it's
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not the point
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Are we only publishing elites?
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No.
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If this is a community event and you
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are part of the community and you came
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out and did something that was wrong,
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then you deserve to be punished.
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You came out and you do.
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Anybody who's done online the past couple
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of years with the two judges and this
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one has to have this test and this
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one has to have that test and whatnot,
22:04
I can tell you from experience,
22:05
it's not an easy thing to coordinate at
22:07
all.
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I understand.
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But that does not mean that you get
22:10
to circumvent it just because, well,
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I just want to do it because I
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qualified and I know I'm not going to
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make the games and whatnot.
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I don't care.
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The rules are still the rules.
22:22
They're there for a reason.
22:25
You don't get to just go, well,
22:27
I'll just act like this guy is somebody
22:29
else just because you don't like him or
22:31
you can't.
22:34
If you don't, you don't get to play.
22:37
I mean,
22:37
I don't know what else to tell you.
22:38
If you can't follow the rules,
22:40
you don't get to play.
22:43
Wayne said there was an affiliate owner
22:45
involved in that one.
22:47
Then something should be done.
22:49
Then, yeah.
22:52
The affiliate owner was stupid enough to
22:54
sign off on it, then he's stupid.
22:58
Like, I don't know what to tell you.
23:01
It's idiotic.
23:03
You should know better.
23:05
Yeah.
23:07
I want to say that more than Camacho
23:09
got punished on this.
23:10
Yeah.
23:12
I have, I had my, this, okay,
23:15
let me see.
23:21
The athlete also received a two year ban.
23:23
Yep.
23:30
So it was Camacho and the athlete.
23:37
And the athlete actually finished fourth
23:40
in the women's fifty five to fifty nine
23:42
division in the twenty twenty six CrossFit
23:45
Open.
23:46
She followed that up with a fourth place
23:48
finish in quarterfinals.
23:51
Her online semifinal scores have been
23:54
since removed.
23:59
It says all three individuals were not
24:01
permitted to participate in any CrossFit
24:03
Games Seasons event.
24:04
So there was someone else too.
24:06
Probably the second judge.
24:11
Both judge...
24:20
Yeah.
24:20
Camacho was the floor judge.
24:23
The head judge got suspended,
24:25
but he's not named.
24:27
And Nira Aregi got suspended as well.
24:33
Aregi.
24:35
So, yeah.
24:39
Sucks to suck.
24:43
So the other thing I wanted to talk
24:44
about is we have these online semifinals
24:46
coming up.
24:48
And we were just trying to name names
24:49
off the top of our head of who
24:51
still needs to qualify on Sunday night.
24:54
And the spin actually put out a list.
24:57
I did.
24:58
I wanted to look at that this morning.
24:59
I just haven't had enough time.
25:02
And it's crazy, dude.
25:04
So the first part of the list are
25:06
people that were games athletes last year.
25:10
So you've got Medeiros, Mertens, Lowen,
25:13
Gracie Walton,
25:15
while Pat Vellner not last year,
25:17
but former.
25:18
And then others who were Harry Lightfoot,
25:23
Chris Ibarra, Colin Bossard, Nick Matthew,
25:26
Yonikoski, Enrico Zanoni, Jorge Fernandez,
25:30
Isaac Newman, Bill Leahy, Peter Ellis,
25:33
Henrique Moyera, and Tiago Luzes.
25:37
have yet to qualify on the men's side.
25:39
On the women's side, Raptus,
25:41
Claudia Gluck, Fisa Goffi, Lexi Neely,
25:45
Sydney McElishan, Hattie Canio,
25:48
Mariana Meza, Maria Quintero, Emily DeRoy,
25:53
and Luisa Marquez.
25:56
And then you go further into the people
26:00
that just didn't qualify yet.
26:02
Emily Rolfe, Guy Mejeros, Sidney Wells,
26:06
Spencer Pancheck, Nate Ackerman,
26:08
Quinn Robinson, Janie Chevery,
26:11
Reese Littlewood, Erica Folo,
26:13
and Tom Kingdon.
26:18
And they're only taking seven.
26:19
And the only seven tickets on each side.
26:24
That is going to be a bloodbath.
26:27
It's going to be a wild weekend.
26:30
People are going to bury themselves.
26:33
And the disappointing piece of this is
26:36
seven tickets for what?
26:38
Fourteen, fifteen on each side,
26:41
maybe more.
26:43
And we don't get to see any of
26:44
it.
26:44
Yeah, that sucks.
26:47
We don't get to watch any of this
26:49
drama take place.
26:51
No,
26:51
you're going to get to see video
26:53
secondhand.
26:58
It just, that's,
27:00
you make the most dramatic part of your
27:02
season.
27:04
The games aren't the dramatic part.
27:06
It's just making the champion, right?
27:09
And half the people are just excited to
27:11
be there.
27:13
At the semifinal level,
27:14
everybody's dying to get there.
27:18
And we're missing that.
27:20
We're completely missing it.
27:22
Because it is an online competition.
27:26
And all of the drama was placed right
27:28
there where nobody could see it.
27:31
This is the whole men will die for
27:32
points part of it.
27:35
Trying to get there.
27:36
Because let's be honest,
27:37
what are they taking, twenty this year?
27:40
Twenty men, twenty women?
27:41
Thirty.
27:42
Thirty and thirty and thirty.
27:43
So let's say the top fifteen,
27:47
everybody's going to know who the top
27:48
fifteen are.
27:49
A couple of outliers here and there are
27:50
going to be competing for podium spots.
27:52
And the rest of them are going to
27:53
be competing because they're there.
27:56
Not to say that they're not going to
27:57
be trying to do their very best by
27:58
any stretch of the imagination,
28:00
but it is going to be a seven
28:03
to ten person race for at least the
28:05
first couple of days.
28:06
And then once the leaderboard shakes out,
28:07
you're going to have a pretty good idea
28:08
of what's going to happen for us since
28:09
then and the rest of the people.
28:11
But like you said, getting there,
28:15
that's way more, that's way different.
28:19
way different just trying to get there it
28:21
is a incredible struggle to try to fight
28:23
your way into getting to the games and
28:26
then once you're there you're there like
28:30
holy shit now i can call myself a
28:31
games athlete yeah i um i'm so
28:36
disappointed because when you watch like
28:39
killers behind the scenes the the what it
28:41
meant to those people because it was the
28:43
last in-person weekend yeah
28:47
elevated it to a certain level and now
28:50
we're going to like another level that
28:53
nobody's even going to see dude just go
28:55
back and watch nate ackerman after the
29:00
last event gene every at the end of
29:02
that just sobbing yeah
29:06
Nate looked like somebody had just told
29:08
him that his grandpa died.
29:09
Like, he was just sitting there,
29:11
staring off into space,
29:13
completely disconnected from what was
29:14
going on around him.
29:15
Like,
29:16
you probably could have had a whole
29:17
conversation with him,
29:18
and he wouldn't have known what was going
29:19
on.
29:21
Did you watch the last episode of Hiller's
29:23
thing yet?
29:24
No.
29:25
So there's a scene where,
29:29
right after the handstand walk,
29:31
where Nate gets no-repped?
29:33
Mm-hmm.
29:34
he's,
29:35
he goes to the back right off the
29:37
floor, make a left right there,
29:40
just laying flat out on the cold cement
29:43
and like lays there till Dom comes and
29:47
picks him up.
29:48
Yeah.
29:48
Hey man, get up.
29:52
It like,
29:54
I thought the sitting on the cooler was
29:56
rough.
29:58
That laying on the cement was about,
30:00
I mean, I wanted to cry.
30:02
Yeah.
30:09
Yeah, man,
30:09
that was rough watching Nate after that
30:11
event.
30:13
Heart-wrenching to see that, but man,
30:15
when one person wins,
30:16
another person loses.
30:18
Somebody's got to.
30:19
But that sport,
30:21
and that's what makes it great.
30:23
And that's the piece we're missing.
30:28
It's so damn frustrating.
30:35
I feel like we're taking a lot from
30:37
the last chance qualifier.
30:41
Yeah.
30:42
Nate Ackerman's journey missing by one
30:44
place from NorCal.
30:45
Then again at Syndicate.
30:47
Man, I hope he gets through online.
30:51
I am worried about the kid.
30:53
Like the way he,
30:55
as despondent as he looked after that
30:58
event and after the overall competition
31:01
was rough.
31:03
Yeah.
31:04
Can he bounce back in two weeks?
31:07
I certainly hope so.
31:10
there's a scene in that where dom gets
31:12
emotional man it is i am telling you
31:16
the the emotions invoked in the last
31:18
episode are insane that's the only one i
31:21
haven't seen yet so i am one hundred
31:25
percent and agree with daniel last year's
31:28
qualifier two people two two dudes two
31:32
chicks last two spots everything else
31:35
should be in person
31:43
My feeling is we don't even need a
31:45
last chance qualifier,
31:47
but if we're going to have it.
31:49
And when we had it in the past,
31:51
it was one.
31:52
Yeah.
31:53
One female, one male got a chance.
31:56
That's it.
32:00
I would even say to do, uh,
32:05
like they did in when we actually got
32:08
to see everybody do the online part,
32:10
the part of the games, right.
32:13
They said,
32:14
judges and camera crews like crossfit sent
32:16
people out there you don't even do that
32:19
with seven people like that's a bit much
32:22
but if it's only two then everybody still
32:25
gets to see and you get to get
32:26
involved in invested in what uh what
32:29
actually what is actually going on a whole
32:31
lot more than just seeing scores go up
32:33
on a leaderboard and watching people's
32:34
videos back after the fact
32:43
Shana says he has to.
32:44
That is also sport.
32:47
Needs to learn to handle the mental side.
32:50
I agree with you, Shana.
32:52
I just, after watching him, I don't,
32:59
I hope he has the resilience to do
33:00
it.
33:02
Yeah.
33:02
Well,
33:03
I think he's in good hands with Dom
33:05
for sure to try to kind of,
33:07
you know,
33:07
help to manage that and work through the
33:10
entire thing.
33:13
I'd be a lot more worried, concerned.
33:16
I mean, I say worried.
33:17
I don't know a kid enough to be
33:18
worried.
33:19
But I'd be a lot more concerned if
33:21
he was, you know,
33:23
I'm just going to do this program by
33:24
myself.
33:25
And he's just a freaking nature fit type
33:27
stuff and kind of getting there.
33:28
But I think he's got the right guidance
33:30
behind him to kind of try to navigate
33:31
it.
33:33
Daniel says, that's being too smart,
33:35
Scott.
33:35
Slow down.
33:41
Yeah, I...
33:43
probably no way this is our ideas because
33:44
we're entirely too smart i think that's
33:46
what uh yeah none of our ideas ever
33:49
make it to the to the mainstream because
33:54
we're entirely too intelligent so on
34:00
another another topic did you watch any of
34:05
peter and adrian this morning
34:07
i have not i was at physical therapy
34:09
all morning uh i saw it come live
34:11
but i need to i love me some
34:13
adrian monweiler and peter so my
34:16
suggestion is jump to the forty five
34:18
minute mark oh okay they talk they start
34:22
talking about mad fit and all of the
34:24
stuff that happened there and all of the
34:26
goings on because adrian was competing
34:29
there yes and adrian has he does not
34:32
pull punches
34:35
He actually did.
34:36
He actually said there are other things
34:38
and other conversations he had that he
34:40
would not share on the air.
34:43
So when you hear what he does share,
34:46
it makes you wonder, holy shit,
34:48
what is he holding back?
34:52
But it is...
34:56
There's so much that happened at MadFit.
35:00
I don't even know how to sort it
35:01
out in my head listening to that
35:03
conversation.
35:04
About to come off that.
35:05
And apparently there was no limit to the
35:09
amount of appeals that happened.
35:11
And Mundweiler said like,
35:13
it is the longest line he's ever seen
35:16
for appeals at an event because,
35:19
and he never saw any of them get
35:21
denied.
35:23
It's like they granted every single
35:25
appeal.
35:27
So once that trend started,
35:29
everybody was appealing everything.
35:32
Why wouldn't you?
35:35
Hey,
35:36
they're giving out free scores over here
35:38
at this table.
35:41
Okay,
35:41
I'm going to go get my shit adjusted.
35:43
And I think it was Callum Clements
35:47
appealed –
35:49
something and because they made him do too
35:51
many of something i don't even remember
35:52
what again there was so much stuff to
35:55
sort it all out in my head is
35:57
i'm still processing right but essentially
35:59
they said well what do you want your
36:01
score to be and he said i want
36:03
twenty seconds back and they said well we
36:07
can't give you twenty but we'll give you
36:09
ten it's done it's not a negotiation dude
36:16
Like, how the, how?
36:20
He just sat there.
36:23
He sits up there bartering for points.
36:24
I mean, but it's all right.
36:29
Look, just give me twenty seconds.
36:33
Best I can do is ten.
36:35
Well,
36:35
and that's where the point five comes in.
36:38
Because they they gave him back ten
36:41
seconds.
36:43
And that's where the point five is.
36:47
So it's not points.
36:48
It was actually seconds.
36:50
And it's the only time on the entire
36:52
scoreboard that isn't dot zero zero.
36:58
Holy smokes.
37:00
And so Peter actually made a great point.
37:04
Either one of two things happened.
37:06
They gave him ten seconds back and they
37:08
looked at the judge's card and his time
37:11
actually was point five and they just
37:13
added ten.
37:19
Okay,
37:19
here we got a little clarification there.
37:23
Or they saw the result was going to
37:25
be a tie,
37:27
and they gave Callum the .
37:29
five to get him over the tie.
37:31
Yeah, just to eliminate the tie.
37:33
So apparently he did fifteen extra double
37:34
honors on a buy-in,
37:36
so they gave him an extra rep of
37:38
the sandbag, which is an AMRAP.
37:41
So that's a different story.
37:43
Oh, okay.
37:44
Again, there's so much that happened.
37:48
so much that happened that it's really
37:51
hard to sort it all out bro i
37:54
gotta watch it all right so yeah he
37:58
got ten seconds back on the sandbag
38:01
workout he was given an a rep that
38:04
he did not complete yeah that's yeah i
38:11
like this uh so much that describes it
38:14
exactly
38:17
like adrian just kept and peter tried to
38:20
jump to like another story new and i'm
38:23
not done here let me finish and then
38:25
we'll jump to what you're talking about
38:29
jeez okay and that happened like three or
38:31
four times um i will that's next on
38:36
my watch list i'm gonna skip i'm gonna
38:38
postpone dents and i'll pull that up
38:40
instead the other the other thing is they
38:44
used a scoring system
38:46
where the point differential between
38:52
places was only two points.
38:56
So essentially,
38:59
whatever happened on the first event,
39:01
everything was going to kind of stay that
39:03
way because there wasn't enough gap
39:06
between the points to make up any ground,
39:10
right?
39:10
Well, no,
39:11
you remember Matt Fraser went a year,
39:12
they,
39:12
they changed the point system up to where
39:14
it was like a three point difference or
39:16
a six point difference.
39:17
And he was like, do all this work,
39:19
bust my hump.
39:20
What do I got?
39:21
Three point lead or six point lead,
39:23
whatever it was, something stupid.
39:25
And I was like, man, that's like,
39:28
if you,
39:28
maybe if you got events going on,
39:30
I can understand that.
39:31
Cause then you might be able to get
39:32
some separation after you get going for a
39:34
little bit, but not for five or six,
39:38
whatever it was.
39:40
Bruh.
39:41
No, thank you.
39:41
That's insane.
39:42
Yeah,
39:42
that was two thousand nineteen because of
39:44
so many people.
39:47
I can I can now read Vicky because
39:50
that's I mean,
39:50
I got I got so many out of
39:56
that.
39:56
Imagine lose the semis in the future.
39:58
Well, and here's the here's the piece.
40:01
Again, if true,
40:04
CrossFit had representation at the event.
40:08
yona koski went to talk to them because
40:12
he wants the sport to be better he
40:14
wasn't trying to get a spot or take
40:17
callum's spot or any of those things and
40:21
apparently the the crossfit representative
40:24
was not nice to yona was rude was
40:30
pompous and that that is directly from
40:33
adrian wow
40:39
I would never understand that.
40:43
So if you're if that's the way you're
40:49
going to treat the events as CrossFit HQ,
40:52
or the representative you send is going to
40:55
treat it that way.
40:57
Dude,
40:57
we we got a long way to go.
41:02
Serious self reflection would be how I
41:04
would look at that like needs to take
41:06
place.
41:08
That's bananas.
41:10
Not good bananas.
41:11
Bad bananas.
41:13
I mean,
41:13
if I go out and represent the state
41:17
and there are complaints the way that I
41:19
treat people,
41:21
there are ramifications when I come back
41:24
to do my job.
41:25
As there should be.
41:28
As there should be.
41:29
I work in sales.
41:31
If I treat somebody like an idiot whenever
41:33
they call me,
41:34
whether they are one or not,
41:36
it's not going to go well for me.
41:39
well you're just you're losing money
41:42
quickly and if it gets bad enough like
41:45
we could lose a whole lot more than
41:46
that depending on how bad it gets like
41:50
we get reported to the insurance
41:51
commission like that there's a there's all
41:52
kinds of layers of that kind of so
41:56
wayne asked does the cac review these
41:59
issues and discuss with hq i am sure
42:03
That especially with Seth,
42:05
they're going to review it.
42:06
They're going to have a discussion,
42:07
but ultimately the CAC is not a decision
42:10
maker.
42:11
No, they are a council.
42:12
They can give input feedback,
42:15
that type of stuff,
42:16
but they don't make any decisions.
42:20
So like what power do they actually have?
42:25
They're an advisory board.
42:27
That is it.
42:30
So none.
42:32
Really and truly, it's none.
42:34
They can't just be like, oh, yeah, no,
42:38
we said this,
42:39
and now this is going to happen.
42:40
They can make suggestions, and hey,
42:44
we looked at this and found out that
42:46
this was going on,
42:47
so maybe you should look at that.
42:48
But ultimately,
42:49
it's going to be whoever they give their
42:51
findings to,
42:52
whether or not they actually do anything
42:53
about it.
42:56
Again,
42:57
you have complaints coming out of Rebel
42:59
that the judges determine the outcome.
43:03
I mean,
43:03
we heard Mathilde Garnes talking about her
43:05
handstands.
43:07
The second place team said it was
43:09
predetermined who the first place team was
43:11
going to be.
43:12
And the judges made that happen.
43:15
Now at MAD,
43:15
you have all of this stuff coming where
43:19
all appeals are granted.
43:23
I mean,
43:24
all I can picture is Oprah like,
43:25
you get a win, you get a win,
43:27
you get a win.
43:28
Well, it's like Wayne said,
43:30
or somewhere up there in the comments,
43:31
like, oh, no, no, no.
43:33
I meant to load three-ten,
43:34
not three-oh-five.
43:36
I need you to change my score to
43:37
that.
43:38
Sorry.
43:38
Well, and one of the appeals gave,
43:46
I think, Callum a win, an event win.
43:50
And so when it came down to a
43:51
points tiebreaker with Yonah,
43:54
Then they were tied for event wins.
43:59
So it went to then their next play.
44:02
Like it, dude, I'm telling you,
44:05
go to the forty five minute mark,
44:07
hit play,
44:09
and it's just one thing after another,
44:11
after another, after another,
44:13
after another.
44:19
Yeah,
44:19
that's the sandbag workout that one rep
44:22
made him tie for the win.
44:27
so therefore he got he also yeah yona
44:32
got screwed sounds like it sounds like it
44:37
which is sad because i've never heard
44:38
anything bad about yonakoski no dude he
44:45
stayed in the same hotel we did at
44:46
the games twenty twenty twenty twenty two
44:54
um and he did well that year that
44:56
he was leading for a lot of the
44:58
beginning of the competition i think he
45:00
finished top five or something there was a
45:05
norwegian party in the hotel that night
45:13
not a norwegian cruise line party like an
45:15
actual norwegian party yeah got it is that
45:17
where is he i i'm trying to remember
45:21
where he's from yeah i think that's right
45:24
It was crazy.
45:26
They were in the lobby just killing it.
45:32
And he was fun, man.
45:35
He still talked to us.
45:37
He was awesome.
45:41
Finland.
45:42
Finland.
45:43
Yes.
45:44
There was a Finnish party.
45:46
Yeah.
45:48
Who doesn't like a Finnish party?
45:49
That's what it is.
45:50
Thank you, Shanna.
45:51
Finnish.
45:53
Finnish party.
45:55
I get the cross flags mixed up.
45:58
I mean, they're all from the same area,
45:59
the same general area.
46:01
It's just, it's the color wave that,
46:04
that rates them.
46:05
Yep.
46:08
Yeah.
46:09
But anyway, um,
46:19
uh was ncc not a mess and nate
46:21
nackerman screwed last year i think
46:23
crossfit did step in to make sure it
46:26
was not repeated no idea i don't know
46:30
like i don't know i know ben and
46:33
blair didn't want it to happen again
46:37
correct it took an organizer saying we
46:40
don't want this to happen again what role
46:43
crossfit played in that we can only
46:44
speculate right
46:47
We'll never get that full story.
46:50
Right.
46:53
But CrossFit gave up ownership of this
46:58
level of,
46:59
at this stage of the competition.
47:02
So you're at the mercy of,
47:03
of other event organizers,
47:07
unless you build it back in that you
47:08
have oversight.
47:10
You're kind of screwed.
47:11
Well, like, like we said before, it's a,
47:15
it's a tricky thing to navigate to say,
47:17
okay.
47:19
I'm going to give you guys this thing.
47:21
You get us the best people to the
47:23
games.
47:25
Do it however you want to do it.
47:27
Whatever's going to go on.
47:28
So they're going to take that and they're
47:29
going to do whatever they got to do,
47:31
whatever they do with it.
47:33
And the people who end up suffering are
47:35
the guys who end up getting screwed,
47:37
the Yonakoskis of the world, right?
47:41
Because as athletes, all you can do
47:46
is get there and do the best you
47:48
can and you can't help how it's run
47:50
you can't help how it's judged you can't
47:52
help how any of that kind of stuff
47:54
goes on so you end up getting screwed
47:57
well whose fault is it well crossfit says
48:00
it's not their fault because they give it
48:01
to these guys well you the one that
48:03
gave it to those guys though so what
48:05
happens to correct it is where the problem
48:08
comes in because now what are you gonna
48:09
do next year
48:12
You're going to try to give it to
48:12
somebody else.
48:13
You're going to try to step in and
48:14
tell these people how to run their event.
48:17
If the event organizers don't give a damn,
48:19
Glennon Blair, give a damn.
48:21
That much is obvious.
48:25
Tristan's saying right now, like,
48:26
NCC was much smoother this year.
48:29
So if the event organizers don't give a
48:31
damn,
48:31
and it doesn't seem like the ones in
48:33
Spain and South Africa do because the
48:38
judges apparently are just getting
48:40
together and saying, oh,
48:41
this team's going to win.
48:41
It's fine, whatever.
48:43
Or whoever greased those palms.
48:45
And then the people at MadFit are just
48:47
like, oh, yeah,
48:49
you get a score in just a minute.
48:50
You get a score.
48:51
Everybody gets whatever score they think
48:52
they should.
48:54
So what do you do about it?
48:55
You can't do anything about it in the
48:56
moment.
48:57
You can't go back and tell them,
48:59
I'm not taking those people.
49:00
I'm taking these people because y'all
49:02
screwed it up.
49:04
It's a tricky thing to navigate at that
49:09
point without just saying, again,
49:12
what you're not going to do is just
49:13
take ownership completely back and
49:15
basically what people keep trying to say
49:17
is bring back regionals,
49:18
which is never going to happen.
49:23
It can't happen.
49:24
It's just people need to think
49:28
strategically instead of...
49:31
So I'm going to address this,
49:33
and hopefully it doesn't take me too long
49:35
to go on.
49:37
Scott,
49:38
my understanding is from listening to
49:39
Castro is there are better ways to the
49:41
games,
49:42
but they are not cost-effective for
49:43
CrossFit.
49:44
What we have now is affordable.
49:47
So...
49:48
why couldn't we have a regional-type
49:52
qualification to the games?
49:54
First of all,
49:55
it boggles my mind that you have a
49:57
championship and you don't control the
50:00
path to that championship.
50:04
Right?
50:06
Name another sport where you don't have
50:08
control to the championship game.
50:14
To who plays in a championship game.
50:17
Right.
50:18
It'd be like if two teams just randomly
50:20
showed up for the Super Bowl and be
50:22
like, hey, we're here.
50:22
Yeah.
50:23
Yeah.
50:28
It's hard to even come up with an
50:29
example.
50:30
Yeah.
50:32
But anyway,
50:34
you could have a regional style
50:37
qualification using the current event that
50:42
we have.
50:43
Sure.
50:43
Yeah.
50:45
and maybe a couple others,
50:47
where CrossFit actually steps in and says,
50:50
we're going to have oversight on this.
50:52
We want to see your programming.
50:54
You have to use this appeal process.
50:57
You have to use this point system.
51:00
The fact that everyone can do whatever
51:03
point system they want and whatever appeal
51:05
process and whatever this and that is
51:09
freaking ludicrous.
51:10
Yeah, I would agree to that.
51:13
Just come in,
51:14
make a couple rules that they have to
51:16
abide by.
51:18
Make sure that you don't just do a
51:20
cursory overview of the programming.
51:22
You actually look at it and make sure
51:25
that it makes sense.
51:28
You could still have a regional type thing
51:30
and go back to one and done.
51:34
If you go to one and done and
51:36
you're assigned a regional area and
51:38
then the regional,
51:40
the people with the events know who their
51:43
lineup is right away.
51:47
You get rid of the damn invites.
51:49
You get rid of all that stuff and
51:50
people canceling last minute and all of
51:53
that stuff that screw the event organizers
51:56
over.
51:57
They give them a set lineup that they
51:59
can actually market and that they know
52:02
what's coming and just put some guardrails
52:07
up.
52:09
Yeah,
52:10
because right now it's the Wild West.
52:13
And you can still let them run the
52:15
event,
52:15
but give them an opportunity to actually
52:17
make some money.
52:20
Because who wants to spend whatever money
52:24
they're charging you to get in when you
52:26
don't know who's going to cancel last
52:27
minute?
52:29
Or who's going to show up last minute.
52:31
But if it's your only shot,
52:33
you know damn well they're coming.
52:38
Regardless of what else is going on in
52:39
their lives.
52:40
Right.
52:42
Rich Froning.
52:42
I keep thinking of Rich Froning, the flu.
52:46
Dude had a hundred and two degree fever
52:48
and qualified for the games because he had
52:49
no choice.
52:52
But if you tell Jeff Adler,
52:53
you only get,
52:54
the only way you're going to get to
52:55
qualify is if you go to syndicate.
52:59
I bet she shows up at syndicate.
53:00
A hundred percent.
53:02
Jason Hopper.
53:06
Hey, brother,
53:06
you either come in here or you're not
53:08
going anywhere.
53:10
Good luck.
53:13
You think he just shows up to the
53:14
French throwdown on a whim again?
53:16
No, he does not.
53:17
He goes where you tell him to go.
53:19
Even the early twenties when they said –
53:21
when they took the continent of North
53:25
America and split the –
53:28
candidates up in four groups sent them to
53:30
the four different regions europe they
53:33
split it up half and half sent the
53:35
people to the regions that was a better
53:39
way than what we have today you had
53:43
a set lineup it wasn't regionally based
53:46
other than australia were australians
53:50
south america were south americans africa
53:53
were africans period full stop
54:02
Yes, Sean, that's actually a good...
54:06
It's like the Yankees flying around the
54:07
country deciding which teams they want to
54:09
play to get to the World Series.
54:11
It's bonkers.
54:13
Yeah.
54:14
Pick the Tigers because you know you're
54:15
going to win.
54:22
Yeah, it's...
54:25
Even like twenty one and twenty two when
54:28
we first got out of covid was a
54:30
way better system than we have today.
54:34
And yeah, Tristan,
54:35
get rid of the online spots.
54:37
Yeah,
54:38
if you're going to have a last chance,
54:39
it's one spot.
54:40
It's not seven.
54:43
Jesus Christ.
54:45
Seven online spots for one competition and
54:47
the most anyone competition had was three.
54:50
Make that make sense.
54:52
And I think the most in-person should be
54:55
five.
54:58
That would make a whole lot more sense
54:59
because then you eliminate the last
55:01
chance.
55:02
When you add the eastern U.S.
55:05
with thirteen spots,
55:07
the drama's gone there too.
55:12
Right?
55:12
Yeah.
55:13
Yeah.
55:14
Go Mayhem, Syndicate, NorCal, and Legends.
55:19
Split up and they all get five.
55:21
Easy peasy.
55:22
Done deal.
55:29
Didn't they used to even limit the number
55:31
of people able to do Last Chance?
55:33
Yeah,
55:33
it used to be like the next two
55:36
finishers that didn't qualify at each of
55:38
the in-person were all that qualified.
55:44
Something like that.
55:46
I may not have the number exactly right.
55:49
If they took five,
55:50
six and seven got to go to the
55:52
last chance.
55:53
Right.
55:59
It was definitely based on that.
56:00
There's probably some spreadsheet sitting
56:02
out there with how it actually works.
56:06
Tristan would be cool with more than five
56:08
if you go to huge regions again to
56:10
have an in-person event qualify the
56:13
majority of the athletes.
56:15
i think that's great if you're a coach
56:18
it sucks as a spectator you want the
56:21
drama yeah i said six seven judy let
56:31
it die judy so um anyway that that's
56:41
probably a discussion for another time but
56:43
yeah
56:44
But you could do it without CrossFit
56:46
taking over the regionals.
56:49
Just let the event organizers that you
56:50
have do it, but give them guardrails.
56:58
Direction.
56:59
Let's not even call it guardrails.
57:00
Just direction in general.
57:05
Yeah, like same point system.
57:08
At a minimum, the same point system.
57:11
And I love the syndicate.
57:13
You get two appeals.
57:16
And then you're done.
57:16
It's like challenges in football.
57:20
You get two.
57:23
It doesn't matter if you win or if
57:25
you don't win.
57:26
If you get it and they, yep,
57:27
that's cool.
57:28
If not, you get two, period.
57:34
George Wang, Densa updates,
57:36
hinted this might be the final year of
57:38
syndicate.
57:41
I know what she's talking about.
57:44
What I'll say is the way CrossFit does
57:49
not support the semifinals in a way by
57:54
giving them a lineup that is something
57:57
they can market to and the scramble that
58:01
they have to do to get athletes in
58:04
their building is hard on the events.
58:11
They don't make it easy.
58:13
They don't.
58:13
And there's no reason for them not to
58:15
make it easy.
58:16
And it slows the ticket sales down that
58:20
people will want to wait till last minute
58:23
till they know who is actually going to
58:25
show up.
58:26
I would love to see the graph on
58:28
the French throwdown when people found out
58:30
that Jason Hopper was going to be there.
58:34
Like ticket sales, ticket sales,
58:35
ticket sales, ticket sales, champs coming,
58:37
ticket sales.
58:39
I'm willing to bet that's what it looked
58:40
like.
58:42
I don't know.
58:42
I don't know what one person does.
58:46
If I'm looking at it as a fan,
58:47
I want it to be a competition worth
58:50
watching.
58:52
Do I have six or seven people fighting
58:55
for the three spots or ten people fighting
58:58
for the five?
59:00
I would also,
59:02
who doesn't want to see the champs?
59:05
If Ali was coming to box in your
59:08
town as opposed to whoever else is on
59:10
the card,
59:10
you're not going to see whoever else is
59:11
going to card.
59:12
You're going to see the guy that's the
59:15
baddest on the planet at the time.
59:26
Ortega says, Tristan,
59:27
what is your definition of empty and why
59:30
does it matter?
59:31
Empty seats matters.
59:34
If you want these people to foot the
59:35
bill, empty seats matters.
59:52
Lito is disagreeing with Corey.
59:54
Maybe if you live in Paris,
59:55
but I don't think anyone's taking a flight
59:58
or driving for hours if you weren't
59:59
already going just to see Jason.
1:00:03
Yeah, you might be right, Lito.
1:00:05
I'm not willing to die on that hill.
1:00:08
When I say I'm willing to bet,
1:00:09
it's like a nickel.
1:00:12
Not a paycheck, money, stretch,
1:00:13
and imagination.
1:00:14
I would just be curious to see if
1:00:16
it made a difference.
1:00:17
Let's put it like that.
1:00:22
If no one attends, you have no vendors.
1:00:24
That's a fact.
1:00:25
And you have event organizers going,
1:00:27
it's not worth it anymore.
1:00:29
Travis has said that a couple of different
1:00:31
times,
1:00:31
like he he picks where he's going by
1:00:34
whether or not he knows people are going
1:00:35
to be there.
1:00:36
And I'll say this as well is.
1:00:40
As far as the vendors and people selling
1:00:42
stuff,
1:00:42
Travis had one of his best weekends ever
1:00:46
at Syndicate over the weekend.
1:00:48
He said that himself,
1:00:50
which means that there were people there
1:00:52
buying and they were buying stuff.
1:00:55
And I will support Jonathan in this case.
1:00:59
There were a lot of people at Syndicate,
1:01:01
but people were moving in and out of
1:01:02
the seats throughout the day because it's
1:01:05
a long day.
1:01:06
So to judge from the stream like, oh,
1:01:08
there's empty seats,
1:01:10
there were times where there weren't very
1:01:12
many empty seats,
1:01:14
but there were people up and moving in
1:01:15
and out of the venue all the time.
1:01:18
Yeah.
1:01:19
I'm going to say this, too.
1:01:22
People moving in and out, dude,
1:01:24
If I'm competing and I have a longer,
1:01:27
long enough window in between events,
1:01:29
I'm not hanging out.
1:01:31
I'm going back to my Airbnb where it's
1:01:33
way more comfortable,
1:01:34
where I got a couch or a bed
1:01:35
or whatever.
1:01:36
I might take a shower and relax.
1:01:38
And then I'm coming back.
1:01:40
A lot of people do that.
1:01:41
Like I'm not necessarily just hanging out
1:01:44
at the venue all day.
1:01:45
Like I'm going to come and go as
1:01:47
I please.
1:01:51
Then rent a smaller venue that's not so
1:01:52
expensive.
1:01:54
But there are so many details that people
1:01:56
don't realize.
1:01:57
Like,
1:02:01
I know that Syndicate has a relationship
1:02:03
with the city of Knoxville.
1:02:06
There's a partnership.
1:02:08
But there has to be an ROI for
1:02:11
the city of Knoxville for us being there.
1:02:14
Yep.
1:02:17
And because of that partnership,
1:02:18
maybe they got the venue at a discounted
1:02:21
rate.
1:02:23
But Knoxville wants to see a return on
1:02:26
the investment.
1:02:28
Yeah,
1:02:28
they want to see tourism go up for
1:02:30
that weekend, by whatever numbers.
1:02:33
They want to see people in restaurants.
1:02:34
They want to see their economy go up.
1:02:36
They want to see all that stuff.
1:02:37
If they don't and they pull that
1:02:40
partnership,
1:02:41
is it viable then for Syndicate to hold
1:02:46
an event anymore?
1:02:51
There's so many details with event
1:02:55
organization that we don't think of
1:02:57
generally.
1:02:58
Yeah.
1:03:02
It's a whole lot that goes into it.
1:03:08
We'll end on this one.
1:03:09
How would you all feel if next year
1:03:12
one of the Xenom events became a
1:03:13
semifinal?
1:03:16
I don't think it...
1:03:18
I think it's apples and oranges.
1:03:20
It's not the same thing.
1:03:25
so uh i love tristan patrick all right
1:03:43
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