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American Ninja Warrior Is Going To The Olympics Back With Matt Iseman · Arroe Collins Like It's Live

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  Speaker 2: Arrow, what's up?
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  Speaker 1: Hey, man, what's going on with you, Mr. Denver, Colorado?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, I was just there this past weekend
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  Speaker 3: hanging with my mom, so it was great being in Denver.
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  Speaker 1: It's such a great place because we would always cruise
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  Speaker 1: from Billings down there only because we would do e-litches.
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  Speaker 1: And then we would just go all over that town
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  Speaker 1: because it was like the party place.
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  Speaker 3: It still is a good time. It's crazy, though, how
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  Speaker 3: much Denver has grown. But it's great. It still kind
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  Speaker 3: of feels like home. I've been in L.A. 27 years,
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  Speaker 3: but I still consider myself Denver's as my home.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, I did something with American Ninja Warriors, and maybe
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  Speaker 1: it's the Montanan or somebody who travels to Colorado. But
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  Speaker 1: what I did was I changed it to an MP3,
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  Speaker 1: and I listened to it while driving in the car.
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  Speaker 1: Do you realize that you guys are the actual stars
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  Speaker 1: of that show? Because you draw the picture. Because if
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  Speaker 1: I'm sitting in the car and I can see exactly
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  Speaker 1: what's going on without having a picture, that means you
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  Speaker 1: guys are spot on.
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  Speaker 3: Well, you know, I think of us almost like a
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  Speaker 3: soundtrack in a movie, you know, when the When the
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  Speaker 3: music swells and lets you know it's a big moment.
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  Speaker 3: That's definitely Akbar and me. We are hyperbolic, I think
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  Speaker 3: is the word to describe us. Enthusiastic is a better
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  Speaker 3: way of saying it.
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  Speaker 2: We have a great time.
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  Speaker 3: And I think the thing for us that's really nice
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  Speaker 3: about this show is if you watch the NFL and
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  Speaker 3: you're listening to Joe Buck and Troy Aikman, they have
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  Speaker 3: to try to be impartial, right? Because they don't want
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  Speaker 3: to make one team feel like they're rooting against them.
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  Speaker 3: And what's cool in Ninja Warrior is we don't have
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  Speaker 3: to be impartial. We get to cheer for everybody. We
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  Speaker 3: get to pull for these athletes. We get invested in them.
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  Speaker 3: We want them to do well. Listen, I want to
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  Speaker 3: give away a quarter million dollars because it ain't my money.
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  Speaker 2: I want to make someone's life.
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  Speaker 3: And so it's really been fun, I think, for Akbar
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  Speaker 3: and me. And obviously, he played in the NFL. I
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  Speaker 3: was a college athlete. But you appreciate hard things. You
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  Speaker 3: appreciate when people do something athletically that's a challenge. And that's,
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  Speaker 3: I think, what's been fun about the show for us
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  Speaker 3: is to see people. I always say, like, you have
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  Speaker 3: a moment, you know, whether it's winning the Super Bowl
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  Speaker 3: or whether it was, you know, getting striking someone out
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  Speaker 3: in Little League.
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  Speaker 2: You did somewhere you thought that was hard. I was nervous,
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  Speaker 2: but I did it.
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  Speaker 3: And I will remember that moment where you have that victory,
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  Speaker 3: those little things in life that I think can define us.
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  Speaker 3: And we all know those moments, kind of, you know,
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  Speaker 3: I call it the Rocky Balboa moment, the Rudy moment,
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  Speaker 3: Karate Kid, where you have that moment. And what's cool,
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  Speaker 3: I think what our show does is you get to
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  Speaker 3: see people having those moments. And what's great, the thing
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  Speaker 3: that I learned about our show is it's not always
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  Speaker 3: the ones who hit the buzzer. It's not the ones
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  Speaker 3: who win. Sometimes it's the people who just make it
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  Speaker 3: to the start line who... overcame something, who overcame stage
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  Speaker 3: four cancer or the loss of a loved one. For them,
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  Speaker 3: getting to the star line is the biggest victory of all.
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  Speaker 3: And I think that's one of the things about our
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  Speaker 3: show that resonates with people is they watch it. And again,
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  Speaker 3: you see these people, our athletes are... 47-year-old mothers of three.
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  Speaker 3: They're people with jobs. They're people with struggles. And people
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  Speaker 3: see themselves in our athlete. And when they see them
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  Speaker 3: do something incredible, I think deep down when we're watching,
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  Speaker 3: we all feel like maybe I can do something incredible
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  Speaker 3: in my life. And I think that's what the show
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  Speaker 3: offers people.
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  Speaker 1: Don't you think it's also a modern day way of
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  Speaker 1: doing slapstick? Because I got to be honest with you.
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  Speaker 1: I want to see him fall in the water. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I do. I want to see how that body is going.
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  Speaker 3: It's funny because our show and Wipeout, you know, we
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  Speaker 3: were around the same time. And I think Wipeout was
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  Speaker 3: really the one where, you know, it was like. It
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  Speaker 3: was like Jackass, where you're taking a giant hand to
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  Speaker 3: the face and being knocked into the water. Those giant
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  Speaker 3: red balls where you're bouncing around, your spine bending. And,
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  Speaker 3: you know, our show, there was a point where we
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  Speaker 3: did celebrate the falls a little more.
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  Speaker 2: But Arrow, you know, what we realized.
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  Speaker 3: Was our show isn't about laughing at these athletes or
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  Speaker 3: showing where they stumble.
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  Speaker 2: Our show is about celebrating them.
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  Speaker 3: And I will tell you, the humbling moment for me
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  Speaker 3: was the last two times I tried the course.
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  Speaker 2: It was over a decade ago now. I broke my
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  Speaker 2: foot and broke my ankle.
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  Speaker 1: No.
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  Speaker 3: And that's when I realized like, you know what, this
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  Speaker 3: is hard. I'm not laughing at anyone who tries it.
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  Speaker 3: And so, you know, once you get humbled like that,
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  Speaker 3: you're a lot more like, well, you know what, that
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  Speaker 3: was a tough obstacle. I'm not going to laugh at
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  Speaker 3: the fact that, you know, they, they just ate, ate
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  Speaker 3: a foot.
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  Speaker 2: They ate their own foot with that fall.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I love the fact that it is year long
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  Speaker 1: training for every one of these people. It is their focus.
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  Speaker 1: It is their drive. And that to me is an
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  Speaker 1: honest to God, authentic sport.
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  Speaker 3: So that is absolutely true, and that's what's been– what
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  Speaker 3: was cool about our show was when we started out
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  Speaker 3: and we were coming up, a lot of athletes came here.
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  Speaker 3: And I'm talking NFL athletes, Sean Merriman, the lights-out linebacker
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  Speaker 3: for the San Diego Chargers. We had Olympic gold medalists
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  Speaker 3: coming out, Harlem Globetrotters, Navy SEALs, all of whom thought–
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  Speaker 3: their athleticism, skill, and tenacity would carry them on the course.
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  Speaker 3: None of them hit a buzzer. But a guy like
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  Speaker 3: Joe Moravsky, the weatherman, whose athletic highlight was JV soccer
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  Speaker 3: in high school, he becomes obsessed with this sport to
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  Speaker 3: the point where, despite being a father of three, despite
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  Speaker 3: having a job as a weatherman on local TV, he
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  Speaker 3: found time to train in the morning and the evening
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  Speaker 3: and transformed himself into the most successful ninja we've had.
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  Speaker 3: And I think it's one of those sports where, as
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  Speaker 3: you mentioned it, You don't get there just on talent.
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  Speaker 3: You have to put in the work. You have to
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  Speaker 3: develop your obstacle skills. And particularly now that we've had
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  Speaker 3: this next generation of ninjas, kids who've grown up not
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  Speaker 3: as rock climbers or gymnasts, but grew up as ninja warriors.
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  Speaker 3: Their skill set is so, so advanced, which is why,
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  Speaker 3: you know. You watch a show from 10 years ago,
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  Speaker 3: our ninjas from today would walk through those courses. The
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  Speaker 3: obstacles have gotten so much harder as our athletes have
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  Speaker 3: gotten so much better.
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  Speaker 1: Do you ever stand at the end of either side
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  Speaker 1: of the end and sit there and try to make
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  Speaker 1: a projection of the season because you get to forecast
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  Speaker 1: the entire season? Whereas everybody tunes in when they get
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  Speaker 1: the opportunity, but you get the full show.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I mean, again, I mean, Akbar and I,
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  Speaker 3: having been athletes, we always think you can assess and like,
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  Speaker 3: you know, you can gut check like, hey, that person
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  Speaker 3: looks like an athlete. They look confident. And I've just
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  Speaker 3: been so wrong so many times that it's just, it
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  Speaker 3: really is the thing of, and part of the fun
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  Speaker 3: of this show is when you get surprised, is when someone,
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  Speaker 3: you know, when the great one stumbles or the one
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  Speaker 3: who has no chance rises up. I think that's what
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  Speaker 3: we love, you know, that sports are unpredictable. That's why
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  Speaker 3: you have to watch that. You know, they're not played
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  Speaker 3: on a sheet where, well, this team has better offensive
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  Speaker 3: line and, you.
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  Speaker 2: Know, better schemes, so they should win. It's like, no, no.
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  Speaker 3: Sometimes you play the game and it just doesn't work
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  Speaker 3: out that way. And that's what's fun on our show
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  Speaker 3: is you just never know what's going to happen. And so,
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  Speaker 3: you know, we have ideas. We even this year, we
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  Speaker 3: started making picks. And as you can see, with most
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  Speaker 3: of us getting it wildly wrong, we don't know what's
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  Speaker 3: going to happen. But that's what we love about it
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  Speaker 3: is the fact that.
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  Speaker 2: You know, there are no foregone conclusions. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Can you foresee a moment? And the reason why I
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  Speaker 1: bring that up is because in martial arts, when I
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  Speaker 1: was inside that ring during those tournaments, if I saw
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  Speaker 1: a foot move differently or a shoulder drop, I went, oh,
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  Speaker 1: my God, that person's going down because they just advertised
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  Speaker 1: to me where their weak spot is. You have to
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  Speaker 1: be able to see that as well.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I think what you see, the thing that
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  Speaker 3: we've really checked in on that I'm sure as a
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  Speaker 3: martial artist you can appreciate is the physical element is
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  Speaker 3: so much easier to grasp.
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  Speaker 2: And to watch.
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  Speaker 3: But it's the mental element that I think separates the
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  Speaker 3: great ninjas, the ones who have the discipline to do
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  Speaker 3: the work, but also the ones who don't panic when
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  Speaker 3: they're out there. Because again, for people who don't know,
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  Speaker 3: these ninjas don't know what obstacles they're going to face
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  Speaker 3: and they don't get to touch them until they're on
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  Speaker 3: the course. You have to have tremendous problem-solving skills where
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  Speaker 3: you say, I think this is what I'll do, but
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  Speaker 3: until I get up there, I won't know. I won't
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  Speaker 3: know how heavy that bar is. I won't know how
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  Speaker 3: much it spins. I won't know how far that actually looks,
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  Speaker 3: how I can launch myself. And so you have to
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  Speaker 3: have these problem solving skills. But what you also have
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  Speaker 3: to have is things get tough. You get tired to
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  Speaker 3: have that extra gear, to have that ability to say,
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  Speaker 3: not today.
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  Speaker 2: My grip is not failing. I'm pushing through.
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  Speaker 3: And Jesse Flex-Lebrecht, who's one of our all-timers, she was
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  Speaker 3: the one, I think, more than anyone.
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  Speaker 2: Who had that ability. She could just find another gear
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  Speaker 2: and refuse to quit.
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  Speaker 3: And I think that's the thing that we try to
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  Speaker 3: see on the course is see kind of how do
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  Speaker 3: they look? Are they still, are they still solving the problem?
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  Speaker 3: Do they still have that confidence? And that's, that's what
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  Speaker 3: we look for. But it's, it's so great when you
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  Speaker 3: see people who, you know, may not look like the
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  Speaker 3: person who you think is going to have it.
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  Speaker 2: They don't look like a Navy SEAL, but boy, they
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  Speaker 2: act like one.
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  Speaker 1: Please do not move. There's more with Matt Eisman coming
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  Speaker 1: up next. American Ninja Warrior and front office sports tonight.
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  Speaker 1: We are back with the unbelievable Matt Eisman. You guys
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  Speaker 1: have got athleticism as well, because, I mean, for you
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  Speaker 1: guys to record the way you do, because we get
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  Speaker 1: the edited version on the flat screen, but you guys
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  Speaker 1: are there for hours. I don't know how you put
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  Speaker 1: your body through all of that as the announcers in
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  Speaker 1: the play-by-play, because that requires energy.
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  Speaker 3: Arrow, I want to thank you for acknowledging the athleticism
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  Speaker 3: of talking. It is, because it is, you know, we
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  Speaker 3: do it. We'll go in Vegas from sunset to sunrise,
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  Speaker 3: you know, anywhere from....
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  Speaker 2: Six.
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  Speaker 3: Seven to sometimes nine ten hours where you're going and
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  Speaker 3: obviously this is not golf.
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  Speaker 2: We are not he's approaching you.
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  Speaker 3: Know it is 10 out of 10 the whole time
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  Speaker 3: and so that is one of the things is i've
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  Speaker 3: actually i've had to work with a heavy metal vocalist
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  Speaker 3: coach on how to try to preserve my voice that
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  Speaker 3: and a lot of hydration as I just my voice
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  Speaker 3: is already starting to crack so it's fun I mean
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  Speaker 3: I always brag that we're tremendous athletes but you're the
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  Speaker 3: first one who's acknowledged it and as someone I know
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  Speaker 3: as a martial artist I appreciate that Now, how.
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  Speaker 1: Do you prepare for the unexpected? Because what I'll do
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  Speaker 1: is I'll go out and play basketball and do play
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  Speaker 1: by play for two invisible teams. And I look like
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  Speaker 1: a weird guy out there, but it's so unpredictable and
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  Speaker 1: you've got to be on your toes at all times.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I think the secret is just kind of
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  Speaker 2: what you're describing as homework is to try to be
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  Speaker 2: as prepared.
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  Speaker 3: You know, we, when a season starts for about a month,
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  Speaker 3: month and a half leading up, we're going to be
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  Speaker 3: start looking at, you know, we're going to look at
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  Speaker 3: the submission videos. We're going to look at their bio forms.
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  Speaker 3: We're going to check out their social media, see what's
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  Speaker 3: going on with their lives physically. How are they doing?
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  Speaker 3: I'm trying to learn about the course and When we
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  Speaker 3: get there, we talk to the athletes and try to
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  Speaker 3: get a sense of what their approach is, what their
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  Speaker 3: mindset is.
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  Speaker 2: You know, how are they feeling?
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  Speaker 3: Are they nursing any injuries? So that when the run comes,
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  Speaker 3: you kind of have all that information ready to go.
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  Speaker 3: It's a lot of homework to be ready so that
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  Speaker 3: when something happens, you're like, okay, I'm ready for this.
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  Speaker 3: Let's go with it. But again, what I love, I
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  Speaker 3: love being surprised. And that's one of the fun things is,
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  Speaker 3: you know, it keeps you on your toes, which is
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  Speaker 3: why I love it. You never know what's going to
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  Speaker 3: happen or where it's going to take us.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, my God.
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  Speaker 1: You just said that you meet them face to face. Well,
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  Speaker 1: as a martial artist, what I would do is go
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  Speaker 1: there and watch how they're breathing. Is it from the chest?
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  Speaker 1: Is it from the stomach? What are they doing? What
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  Speaker 1: are they doing with their arms? I am studying every
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  Speaker 1: inch of that person that's going to be in that
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  Speaker 1: ring with me because one of us is going home
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  Speaker 1: and one is going to the hospital.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I think that's what we're seeing, you know, and
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  Speaker 3: sport has brought that up as we look at analytics
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  Speaker 3: where what, you know, get any edge you can. And,
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  Speaker 3: you know, you look at the great quarterbacks, Peyton Manning,
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  Speaker 3: Tom Brady, and they said they would relentlessly study film
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  Speaker 3: looking for that edge because that edge could be the
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  Speaker 3: difference of going home and going to the Super Bowl.
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  Speaker 2: And that's what the great ones do. I think they're obsessive, right?
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  Speaker 3: They look to get that little edge in as many
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  Speaker 3: areas as possible because, right, you get 1% better in
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  Speaker 3: 10 different areas. All of a sudden, you know, you've
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  Speaker 3: gotten a whole lot better cumulatively. And so I think
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  Speaker 3: that's what the great ninjas do. And that's a reason
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  Speaker 3: why I'm not a great ninja.
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  Speaker 2: That's a reason why I stick to hosting.
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  Speaker 1: Why is it I have never seen an ego on
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  Speaker 1: this show?
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  Speaker 2: Never.
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  Speaker 1: And I'll talk to my wife about that. I need
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  Speaker 1: to be studying this because I got to figure out
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  Speaker 1: where they're stuffing that dang ego because we all have one.
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  Speaker 1: They just don't display it.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I think our show is, Ninja Warrior is a
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  Speaker 3: show where, you know, most seasons, nobody wins. Most seasons, everyone,
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  Speaker 3: it ends with them falling. So I think this is
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  Speaker 3: a show that humbles you. And we've seen it, even
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  Speaker 3: the best ninjas. You know, we saw Jeff Britton, he
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  Speaker 3: made the climb before Isaac Caldero back in season seven.
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  Speaker 2: He did it.
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  Speaker 3: He would have won the show if Isaac hadn't gone faster.
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  Speaker 3: The next season he's in Vegas, he falls in the
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  Speaker 3: very first obstacle. The very first obstacle, you're like, oh,
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  Speaker 3: my God, the guy who made it all the way
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  Speaker 3: falls on a little balance obstacle. And you just see
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  Speaker 3: it's hard. It's going to happen because, you know, if
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  Speaker 3: you make a mistake, it's not.
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  Speaker 2: Like, all right, play harder. You can recover. It's like, no, no, no.
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  Speaker 3: Your season's over. That misstep ended a year of work.
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  Speaker 3: And so the stakes are so high. And it's, you know,
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  Speaker 3: my mom always says, oh, I feel so bad. You
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  Speaker 3: tell a story, you get us to care about someone
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  Speaker 3: and they fall. And I go, but that's why it
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  Speaker 3: means something when they hit a buzzer, because it's hard,
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  Speaker 3: because most of the time you don't do it.
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  Speaker 2: Most of the time you fall.
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  Speaker 3: And so I think that humbles even the biggest egos
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  Speaker 3: is that you end up falling a lot more than
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  Speaker 3: you end up succeeding.
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  Speaker 1: So now, Mr. Announcer Guy, who we know on American
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  Speaker 1: Ninja Warrior, you're also shifting over there to front office sports.
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  Speaker 1: How do you handle that different personality change? Because you
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  Speaker 1: know how we are. We'll go in there and go, da, da, da, da, da, da.
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  Speaker 1: And all of a sudden, they're going, we need you
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  Speaker 1: to lighten up just a little bit.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Calm down. You know, I do.
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  Speaker 3: Well, here's what's cool is Ninja Warrior, right? Like I'm
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  Speaker 3: the voice of it. What's cool with front office sports,
• 14:21
  Speaker 3: for those who don't know, front office sports is a
• 14:23
  Speaker 3: digital platform, been around for a decade. And the idea
• 14:26
  Speaker 3: is sports is big business. So most sports shows, you know,
• 14:29
  Speaker 3: they focus on highlights or the starting lineups or the rankings.
• 14:32
  Speaker 3: Our show's focusing on everything else. Our focus is on
• 14:34
  Speaker 3: the business of sport. And how many conversations are being
• 14:38
  Speaker 3: driven by sport? Because as we see, we don't watch
• 14:41
  Speaker 3: TV shows together. We don't see movies together anymore. Everything's
• 14:45
  Speaker 3: on demand.
• 14:45
  Speaker 2: It's fragmented.
• 14:46
  Speaker 3: Sports are the thing we experience together. Because of that,
• 14:50
  Speaker 3: look at the WNBA, how it's driving so much and
• 14:52
  Speaker 3: so many political discussions about women in sports.
• 14:55
  Speaker 2: The Lakers trade.
• 14:57
  Speaker 3: Is– the sale of the team is going on. Wondering
• 15:00
  Speaker 3: is it going to influence the Dodgers. Billions of dollars
• 15:03
  Speaker 3: at stake here. Looking at college sports with this NIL
• 15:06
  Speaker 3: collective where now, you know, these athletes are getting paid $ 6, $ 7,
• 15:10
  Speaker 3: $ 10 million as an 18-year-old and then jumping to another
• 15:13
  Speaker 3: team the next year. I think we're all talking about sports.
• 15:16
  Speaker 3: We're all talking about it's driving so many of the
• 15:18
  Speaker 3: conversations and that's where our.
• 15:20
  Speaker 2: Show is going to live.
• 15:21
  Speaker 3: So for me, it's going to be, we've got a
• 15:23
  Speaker 3: team of people with front office sports. We'll be leaning
• 15:26
  Speaker 3: on talking about deal experts, talking about the pop culture ramifications.
• 15:30
  Speaker 3: So it's going to be a lot of the conversations
• 15:32
  Speaker 3: I think people are having because sports is just driving
• 15:35
  Speaker 3: so much of culture.
• 15:36
  Speaker 1: I would love to see the research on what they're
• 15:38
  Speaker 1: doing at American Ninja Warrior when it comes to, because
• 15:40
  Speaker 1: we do seem to be into this age right now.
• 15:42
  Speaker 1: I love me some Sophie Cunningham. I love Caitlin. But
• 15:46
  Speaker 1: to be at each other, the way that they are
• 15:48
  Speaker 1: with other players, I don't ever want to see that
• 15:50
  Speaker 1: on American Ninja Warrior. I want to believe that everybody
• 15:53
  Speaker 1: is in love with the sport, and we are here
• 15:55
  Speaker 1: because we're grateful for being here.
• 15:58
  Speaker 3: You know, it's, it's, I think it's, it's, it's interesting
• 16:01
  Speaker 3: watching a sport like the WNBA have some growing pains
• 16:04
  Speaker 3: as it's really reaching the next level. You know, good
• 16:07
  Speaker 3: problems to have. And it's, but it's fascinating. I think
• 16:11
  Speaker 3: as we look at it and we all have opinions
• 16:13
  Speaker 3: on it, it's just amazing that you see how, how
• 16:17
  Speaker 3: much conversation comes out of this and, and how, how
• 16:20
  Speaker 3: much of you know, you're looking at, you know, girl
• 16:23
  Speaker 3: sports and you, you know, if you're a girl, dad,
• 16:25
  Speaker 3: thinking about what this means for your child or a girl, mom,
• 16:28
  Speaker 3: you know, it's, it's incredible to see again, how sports
• 16:32
  Speaker 3: is driving so many of the political conversations. And so
• 16:35
  Speaker 3: much of what people are talking about on news channels
• 16:38
  Speaker 3: revolves around sport because it's such a shared experience. And
• 16:40
  Speaker 3: because sports, so much of society eventually comes down to
• 16:43
  Speaker 3: what we experience in sport on a smaller scale, the
• 16:46
  Speaker 3: world cup, you know, as we're looking at it's discussions
• 16:49
  Speaker 3: of immigration and discussions of tariffs and discussions of the
• 16:52
  Speaker 3: big business of it and trying to figure out how
• 16:55
  Speaker 3: to finance it. And you know, that they added timeouts
• 16:57
  Speaker 3: for TV timeouts, but they're saying it's for hydration because
• 17:00
  Speaker 3: it's too hot. They did it in Qatar was 120
• 17:02
  Speaker 3: degrees and didn't have it. It's money it's all money
• 17:05
  Speaker 3: and it's trying to figure that out and i think
• 17:07
  Speaker 3: there's so much at stake that it's fun to be
• 17:10
  Speaker 3: in that world because we're all fascinated by it right
• 17:13
  Speaker 3: that's the show's succession where we're fascinated by the ultra
• 17:16
  Speaker 3: wealthy the ultra talented the ultra athletic and i think
• 17:19
  Speaker 3: those are the things that we'll be covering on front
• 17:21
  Speaker 3: office sports tonight.
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: Well, I'm fascinated with the fact that I can sit
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: down with a 10-year-old or a 75-year-old and we can
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: talk about American Ninja Warrior like it is a NFL
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: game or professional wrestling. We all have our inside and
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: we're all talking about it.
• 17:39
  Speaker 3: It's crazy to see how this show has grown from,
• 17:41
  Speaker 3: you know, we started out on a cable network G4
• 17:44
  Speaker 3: that doesn't exist as a knockoff of a Japanese show.
• 17:47
  Speaker 3: And now, you know, in 2028, Ninja Warrior is going
• 17:51
  Speaker 3: to be a part of the modern pentathlon and the
• 17:53
  Speaker 3: Olympics here in LA.
• 17:54
  Speaker 2: Ninja Warrior is an Olympic sport.
• 17:56
  Speaker 3: It's like, talk about a plant your flag in the
• 17:58
  Speaker 3: moon moment of this thing has gone from a reality
• 18:02
  Speaker 3: TV show to now an Olympic sport. It's amazing to
• 18:05
  Speaker 3: have been a part of it and to see the
• 18:07
  Speaker 3: growth and to see... How many people, how many kids
• 18:09
  Speaker 3: grow up, not as soccer players or gymnasts or baseball players,
• 18:13
  Speaker 3: but as Ninja Warriors now. And to feel like we've
• 18:16
  Speaker 3: gotten to be a part of the growth of this
• 18:18
  Speaker 3: is incredible. It's like we're Abner Doubleday or James Naismith
• 18:22
  Speaker 3: here at the beginning. And then the Ninja Warriors will
• 18:24
  Speaker 3: run up the wall.
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: Dude, I've got recordings of you seven years ago where
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: you and I were talking about the Olympics and the
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: attitude was, yeah, I hope, I hope, I hope, maybe
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: one day, one day. God dang, it's here, dude. We
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: put it out there in the universe and now that
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: it's here....
• 18:41
  Speaker 3: It was surreal when we heard about it, when we
• 18:44
  Speaker 3: heard that, you know, they were talking about it and
• 18:46
  Speaker 3: then when it got made official. And it's so cool
• 18:49
  Speaker 3: that it's happening here in L.A. where so much of
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: Ninja has happened. And, you know, I've done the Gold
• 18:55
  Speaker 3: Zone for the past two Olympics with Peacock.
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 18:57
  Speaker 3: I'm probably going to be doing that again. But I
• 18:59
  Speaker 3: definitely want to be involved in this modern pentathlon era.
• 19:02
  Speaker 3: It's like this is my chance. This is my chance
• 19:05
  Speaker 3: to really be at the Olympics and covering an event
• 19:09
  Speaker 3: instead of just talking about the events on a studio show.
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: So we'll see what happens. I'm excited.
• 19:15
  Speaker 3: And, you know, we've had a lot of Ninja Warriors
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: now who are training the other events in this pentathlon era.
• 19:20
  Speaker 3: And so we're hoping that we're going to get one
• 19:23
  Speaker 3: of our ninja athletes competing in the Olympics in this
• 19:26
  Speaker 3: modern pentathlon.
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: And it's going to be fun. It's exciting.
• 19:29
  Speaker 3: And it's just been crazy seeing it all come together
• 19:33
  Speaker 3: and getting to be a part of both the Olympics
• 19:36
  Speaker 3: and Ninja Warrior. And now that they're coming together, it's great.
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: Well, it's still got to be at night. And that
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: water still has to be freezing cold. Come on now.
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: We've all grown up with that, man. So it's got
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: to be the same.
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: You know what? I already told them.
• 19:48
  Speaker 3: In LA, they said we shoot to the day i'm
• 19:50
  Speaker 3: like come on that's right ninja warriors at night oh my.
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: God where can people go to find out more about
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: you mad because you're very active with your creativity you
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: understand your gift and you're so willing to give it away.
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: You're kind, Errol.
• 20:05
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm on social media, you know, at Matt Eisman, M-A-T-T-I-S-E-M-A-N.
• 20:10
  Speaker 3: Front Office Sports tonight. Go to Front Office Sports tonight.
• 20:13
  Speaker 3: There's a station locator. Find out where it's airing in
• 20:15
  Speaker 3: your neck of the woods. American Ninja Warrior, the finale
• 20:18
  Speaker 3: is this Monday.
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: Check it out. I appreciate everyone. Errol, thanks for sharing
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: the love. It's nice.
• 20:24
  Speaker 3: I hope people check out Ninja, and I hope people
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: check out the new Front Office Sports tonight.
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: I'm going to be having a good time. I hope
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: everyone joins me.
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: You be brilliant today, okay, sir?
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: God damn, this is a hype talk, Errol. I appreciate it, man.
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: Thank you. Bye, guys.