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Lunch with the Clydesdale - Catching up After a CRAZY Weekend · Clydesdale Media Podcast

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  what a wild weekend we had this weekend
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  hey my bears are in the playoffs it's
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  a guarantee
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  I love the chase and the hunt,
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  and I set the pace when I'm running.
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  I always take what I want,
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  and I always give it one hundred.
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  Don't need a bank, no I'm funded.
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  Play the game like it's nothing.
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  I'm always thankful for something.
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  Don't take for granted, stay humble.
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  Now wake up!
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  It's time to look at the enemy.
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  Look in the mirror if he is no
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  friend to me.
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  It's not working out,
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  maybe it's the chemistry.
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  It's time to break up so I can
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  make a better me.
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  Eeeeee!
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  Abba dabba doo!
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  It's lunchtime!
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  We are back.
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  Back and better than ever after a crazy,
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  crazy weekend.
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  You know what I forgot to take with
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  me?
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  Your thirdsy?
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  My thirdsy.
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  And I paid dearly.
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  Yes.
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  Oh my gosh.
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  I,
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  sleeping in another bed that's not yours,
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  at your mom's house, doing that,
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  and then not have the thirdsy to help
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  you fall asleep?
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  So bad.
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  Mm-hmm.
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  No, thank you.
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  I am tired.
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  I am tired.
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  I am tired.
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  I had to go back to work this
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  morning.
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  But if you don't want to suffer what
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  I suffered from, go get your Thirdsy.
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  Thirdsy.com backslash Jazzy.
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  Or use promo code Jazzy at checkout.
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  Get fifteen percent off your order.
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  It is a lifesaver and you don't realize
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  what you got till it's gone is the
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  old song, right?
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  That's it.
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  And this weekend I forgot to take it
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  with me.
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  So I found that out real quick.
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  Bless you.
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  Arlene Smith, my Patriots in a place.
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  Yeah.
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  The Bears and the Patriots went from last
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  to first this year.
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  Both of them.
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  It is crazy.
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  Crazy.
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  Jody, how's my mom?
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  So my mom is doing awesome.
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  The procedure went as expected.
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  Everything went well.
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  You can already see the difference in her
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  just on the trip back from Pennsylvania to
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  Ohio last night.
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  Sweet.
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  The only beef of it all is we
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  were going to do the show last night.
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  Um,
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  we're going to do the show Sunday night,
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  but the internet was not great at my
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  mom's house.
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  Um,
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  and then we had to pack the night
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  before to get her here.
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  Cause she came back with us for Christmas.
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  So I just said, you know what,
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  let's do it Monday night.
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  We got to,
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  we had to drive an hour and a
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  half to get her, uh, to Erie,
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  Pennsylvania for the procedure.
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  at eight a.m so we were out the
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  door at six thirty a.m um with you
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  know five thirty wake up call get up
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  there they do her vitals all the stuff
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  and then she sat for three hours with
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  nobody ever talking to her and finally i'm
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  like is there a timetable on when this
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  is going to happen right and when i
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  said that all of a sudden then they
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  took her away
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  Yes, right now.
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  So then I'm waiting for her to come
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  back.
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  No word from anybody.
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  And then all of a sudden,
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  she rolls back in about two hours later.
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  And she's talking as they're rolling her
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  in.
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  Like, she's already awake.
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  Boom.
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  And she wants to go home.
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  But she's got EKG wires hooked to her.
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  She's got an IV poured in that we
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  have to wait to get...
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  It was another two hours after that to
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  get her discharged.
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  My wife had a knee replacement surgery in
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  half the time it took for this to
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  shock my mom's heart back into rhythm.
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  That's a whole ass day, dude.
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  Dude.
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  And then we had a three and a
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  half hour drive back to Columbus last
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  night.
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  You got home.
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  Like, yeah, it was all over.
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  There was no productivity out of this
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  body.
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  By the time I drove to Erie,
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  sat in the hospital room all day and
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  then drove here.
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  And my poor wife,
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  we had Walter with us.
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  So she's sitting in a park in our
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  car,
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  taking him for walks all day and just
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  stuck there.
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  just petting the dog just petting the dog
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  all day i love this dog yeah hanging
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  out yes my mom is doing awesome you
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  could see the energy like her perk back
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  up almost immediately uh mark phillips had
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  it i had afib and waited in the
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  r for ages while they were testing
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  families for covid
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  I don't know.
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  We are very lucky here in Columbus that
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  we have like very good doctors and medical
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  facilities.
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  And if you go to the right ones,
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  like you can get in and out pretty.
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  When I had the same procedure my mom
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  had,
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  I was there in the morning and home
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  by eleven a.m.
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  No, super fast, super quick.
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  But at the end of the day,
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  she's better.
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  It just was a long,
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  painful day for my wife and I.
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  But not my mom's fault.
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  We just don't want her to think that
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  we're upset with her.
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  We're just glad she's better.
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  Because she is watching the show.
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  These are my nephews right now across
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  town.
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  So I don't, you know,
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  they may be busy.
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  She's with a great granddaughter today.
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  Oh, she's playing with that.
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  So she may or may not be on
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  today, but, um, but yeah, just glad,
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  just glad she's better.
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  And then she's going to spend Christmas
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  Eve and Christmas with us.
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  Um, so, um,
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  Yeah, so Eric Mackey asked the question,
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  saw thumbnails, Christmas movies.
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  Did I miss the finale of sports movies
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  bracket?
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  You did not.
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  With the weekend I had,
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  I do not have the bracket ready to
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  go tonight.
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  Plus, we have the World Fitness Project,
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  which is going to take up a lot
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  of the time.
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  And so I didn't want to try to
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  cram it in at the end.
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  We don't have anything next week.
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  There's no competition tonight.
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  We're just going to finish the second half
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  of the bracket this Sunday night and we'll
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  finish off the sports movies going into
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  the new year.
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  So tonight we're just going to do our
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  top five holiday movies.
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  Cause Jamie wants to do it really,
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  really bad.
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  And I figure the week of Christmas,
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  why not use that just to kind of
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  fill our, our end time tonight.
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  It sounds like a perfect time to do
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  it.
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  Yeah.
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  so we'll do holiday movies tonight we'll
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  finish up sports movies next week um and
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  it's really just about time during the
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  show the wfp is going to take up
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  some time tonight and i didn't want to
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  rush through any of it where the following
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  week we have nothing and we'll have plenty
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  of time to finish the bracket completely
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  love it love it love it and uh
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  just for the rest of the week i'll
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  be here all week
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  I think the only day I'm probably not
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  going to do a show is Christmas,
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  just to let everybody know.
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  I did Thanksgiving.
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  The numbers were so low that I cannot
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  see the Christmas one being any better,
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  probably being worse.
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  So we'll probably just take Christmas Day
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  off.
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  While not in my top five or anything,
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  Saving Christmas is very underrated.
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  I said what I said.
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  Surviving Christmas.
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  I've heard that title before.
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  I believe it's Ben Affleck and Tony
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  Soprano.
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  What's his name?
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  Oh, James Gandolfini.
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  Yep, James Gandolfini.
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  I believe that's what it is.
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  We do all the classics at home.
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  Die Hard, both Home Alone.
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  Right,
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  it's not Christmas until I see John
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  McClane throw Hans Gruber off the
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  thirty-second floor at Nakatomi Plaza.
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  I mean, sorry.
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  Call it what you want.
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  I will say this, too.
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  I've seen it, Mike.
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  It's good.
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  It's good.
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  I will say this too for the people
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  that say that, well,
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  if Die Hard is a Christmas movie,
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  Lethal Weapon is a Christmas movie.
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  Absolutely it is.
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  Lethal Weapon is absolutely a Christmas
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  movie.
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  It happens at Christmas time.
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  One of the last scenes,
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  they are fighting in the front yard with
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  the Christmas ticket.
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  Yeah,
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  and there's like Christmas trees and shit
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  like that that drive through the window.
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  And because of the very beginning of
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  Lethal Weapon, I cannot hear...
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  Which one is it?
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  Is it the weather outside is frightful?
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  That's the song that's playing right
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  before Old Girl does the line of whatever
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  and it jumps off the balcony.
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  So I can't hear that song without thinking
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  of the opening scene of Leave the Weapon.
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  It just happens to be in there.
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  um jody says i watched her what fun
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  last night man uh yeah julie and i
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  watched a week ago it was it was
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  okay i wouldn't put it it's probably not
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  a repeat watch but it was all right
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  is that the that the new one it's
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  new michelle pfeiffer's new one okay um
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  and she said michelle pfeiffer's had so
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  much plastic surgery yeah probably half of
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  hollywood has um
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  Craig says Family Man and Beautiful Girls
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  are classic Christmas-related movies.
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  I don't know Beautiful Girls,
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  but Family Man,
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  we watched that a couple weeks ago as
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  well.
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  I'm a big fan of that.
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  I'm a big fan of anything with Taya
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  Leone.
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  Classic Taya Leone.
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  Yeah, Bad Boys...
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  family man thank you thank no thank you
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  for starting off with bad boys bad boys
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  she is a rock star in bad boys
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  it's ridiculous dude it is absolutely
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  ridiculous and she's great in it as an
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  actress too like yeah no she is awesome
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  like she holds her own with uh with
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  both of them she's on the screen with
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  with either one i'm doing and uh she's
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  just fantastic in that she's fantastic in
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  uh
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  What's the end of the world movie with
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  deep impact when she's a reporter that
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  like stumbles on the story.
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  She has absolutely no idea what she has.
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  Like I will watch just about anything that
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  she's in.
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  Yeah.
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  Big fan.
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  Big fan.
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  I hate David Duchovny, but okay.
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  Whatever.
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  Whatever.
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  He's irrelevant to me at this point.
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  Less than zero could also be considered a
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  Christmas related movie.
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  I don't think it happens around Christmas
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  time.
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  Yeah.
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  Mike DeVito, yeah, not a repeat watch,
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  just like Deck the Halls.
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  And I'm a huge Danny DeVito fan.
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  My wife loves Deck the Halls.
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  I do not like it at all.
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  I don't know why I don't like it.
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  I just don't even find it amusing.
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  I'm going to tell you something.
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  If you want to, if you're bored,
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  if you're somewhere around holiday time,
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  which we have been before,
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  just start watching like turn on the
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  hallmark channel and just watch all the
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  random like repeat hallmark christmas
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  movies because they're all the same movie
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  it's just different people are in it and
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  they're slightly different scenarios oh my
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  god it's one of those like they're so
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  bad
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  that they are good because they all follow
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  the exact same plot line.
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  You know, oh,
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  it's either this dude comes back to his
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  hometown and his high school crush is
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  running a bake shop.
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  And even though he's a multi-billionaire,
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  he's going to just leave his job,
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  save the town for Christmas.
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  I don't know how you save a town.
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  I've never figured that out yet,
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  but holy smokes.
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  We did that one year, dude.
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  Is this the one where the hot guy
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  comes back to town and the girl running
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  the bake shop falls in love with him?
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  Yeah.
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  Or is it the hot girl that comes
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  back to town and the guy's running,
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  I don't know, pick a thing, a restaurant,
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  a lawn service, whatever the case may be.
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  Maybe he's a town librarian.
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  Nobody really knows.
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  They just...
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  And they hate each other for like the
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  first thirty minutes of the movie and then
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  they tolerate each other and then by the
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  end they're getting married.
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  It is fantastic.
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  Yeah,
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  my dad actually right before he died
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  became a Hallmark Christmas movie fan.
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  The guy would sit and watch Christmas
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  movies all night.
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  And he became, like, real sappy,
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  and he would tear up.
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  And, like,
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  just towards the end of his life,
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  that's just what he did.
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  And because of that, every year,
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  my wife and I pick a couple to
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  watch just to, you know,
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  feel close to him.
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  If you go on Netflix and or Amazon
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  and just search Christmas movies, I mean,
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  there's going to be, like,
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  a thousand of them that come up.
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  And they are awesome.
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  Every single one of them is fantastic.
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  I love it.
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  Siobhan only cried once.
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  I don't believe that.
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  Um, yeah,
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  you got to wait till your boys are
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  a little bit older and they start
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  accomplishing things.
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  And then like, yeah,
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  when my daughter started like doing really
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  well in life,
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  like that's what makes me cry.
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  Um, interesting.
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  It says Christmas tree farm.
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  Yep.
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  Yeah, that could be one of the jobs.
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  Kenneth DeLapp, I cried when Gandalf died.
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  That's about it.
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  That is a true nerd right there.
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  Gandalf dies.
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  Gandalf dies?
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  What do you mean Gandalf dies?
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  Well,
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  I didn't mean to dive all the way
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  into Christmas movies on this show.
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  We're going to do that a little bit.
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  It's easy to do, brother.
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  Maybe we'll come back to it at the
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  end, but my bears are in the playoffs,
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  dude.
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  And one of the most amazing games in
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  the history of the NFL happened on
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  Saturday night.
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  And that was a big reason why I
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  couldn't sleep.
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  They were down by ten points with two
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  minutes left,
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  one fifty nine left to go in the
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  game.
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  They get a field goal.
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  They get an onside kick.
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  They score a touchdown.
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  They get into overtime.
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  And then Caleb makes one of the best
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  throws you've ever seen by an NFL
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  quarterback to win the game.
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  And it was insanity.
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  And, you know, I,
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  the algorithm is just feeding me every
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  bears podcast, every day.
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  Right.
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  And I, I couldn't sleep.
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  I could not get to sleep Saturday night.
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  It just,
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  it's been so long since I have had
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  a team that has done that well.
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  And I'm just, I'm riding the wave, dude.
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  I'm riding the wave,
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  but also in the NFL,
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  we had like the craziest NFL play or
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  NFL officiated endings, right?
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  Seattle and L.A., Detroit and Pittsburgh.
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  Officials came in like the weirdest shit
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  where a quarterback throws a pass,
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  then it's determined it was backwards,
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  bounces off a helmet,
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  rolls into the end zone,
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  and the offensive player just goes to pick
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  it up to hand it to the ref.
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  It was still a live ball,
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  two-point conversion good.
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  That wins the game for Seattle.
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  Pittsburgh game.
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  They throw to Amon Ross St.
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  Brown.
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  He gets tackled at the one yard line
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  and gets pushed back.
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  He laterals to Jared Goff,
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  who then takes it in the end zone
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  for the winning touchdown.
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  But then Amon Ross St.
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  Brown is called for offensive pass
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  interference.
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  So the game is over because you cannot
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  extend the game on an offensive penalty.
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  Crazy stuff.
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  And I was thinking like,
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  as I'm looking at some Hiller videos
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  online and looking at like Laura's squat
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  depth and like officiating and judging is
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  an issue in every sport.
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  Absolutely.
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  It is not just CrossFit.
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  It is not just fitness.
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  It is not whatever.
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  It is that way in every single sport.
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  We're always bitching about the refs,
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  the umps, the judges, whatever it may be.
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  I think where we get off track,
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  especially in fitness and CrossFit
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  especially,
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  is these events that have so many
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  different divisions and you spread
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  yourself so thin with judges.
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  And so I ask you,
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  I don't want to get into a big
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  World Fitness Project talk because we're
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  going to do that tonight,
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  but because they tried to do teams and
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  they tried to do the elites and all
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  of that,
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  do you think that they spread themselves
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  too thin with judging?
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  Yes.
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  But I think it's not just a World
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  Fitness Project problem.
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  It's any large comp problem.
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  There's only so much you can do.
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  There are really good guys who love what
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  they do, pour themselves into it.
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  Andrew Stim's one of them.
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  Dave Harding is another one I can think
• 18:22
  of off the top of my head who
• 18:23
  are, Miss Karen,
• 18:25
  I don't remember her last name,
• 18:28
  but I love her wherever she's at.
• 18:30
  I hope she's doing fantastic.
• 18:32
  who pour themselves into what they do and
• 18:34
  or take their jobs, their volunteer jobs,
• 18:37
  I should add, extremely seriously.
• 18:39
  And there's other guys who are more
• 18:41
  casual, but still take pride in it.
• 18:43
  And then there's everybody else who shows
• 18:45
  up to volunteer,
• 18:47
  and I'm going to do this job because
• 18:48
  I'm probably going to get some free stuff
• 18:50
  from it, a pair of shoes, a shirt.
• 18:55
  The spectator money from Legends last
• 18:58
  weekend
• 19:01
  was specifically to pay the judges so they
• 19:04
  were getting paid that doesn't mean that
• 19:05
  you're going to get fantastic judges every
• 19:07
  single time that means that you're going
• 19:08
  to get paid judges right it's a great
• 19:11
  first start it's a great step absolutely
• 19:14
  one hundred percent uh aside from one
• 19:16
  issue i had the rest of my weekend
• 19:18
  went fantastically smooth and i think it
• 19:21
  happens a lot and it it's not going
• 19:23
  to go away the higher up you get
• 19:26
  The pool is what the pool is, right?
• 19:29
  And people are human.
• 19:30
  And like you said,
• 19:31
  it happens in every single sport.
• 19:34
  So once you start adding in, you know,
• 19:36
  when you have a competition, the games,
• 19:39
  let's just say with that,
• 19:42
  especially now that the games are a thing,
• 19:45
  the masters are a thing, the, you know,
• 19:50
  If they're not all happening at the same
• 19:51
  time, then cool.
• 19:52
  Now they just got one heat or whatever
• 19:55
  it is, three heats of men,
• 19:56
  three heats of women to take care of.
• 19:58
  If you got the teams,
• 20:02
  you have probably need a couple of extra
• 20:04
  people because there might be two people
• 20:05
  doing something and two people doing
• 20:06
  something as far as teams are concerned.
• 20:09
  And again,
• 20:09
  as long as they don't have it on
• 20:10
  the same weekend,
• 20:11
  you might have the same quality of judges
• 20:13
  you had for the games,
• 20:15
  which they are very,
• 20:16
  very stringent from what I understand.
• 20:17
  You need to be a
• 20:20
  whatever here's my my big question you're
• 20:23
  kind of going down that path so i
• 20:24
  just i want to to bring it into
• 20:27
  this exact thing right so last year we
• 20:29
  had the games in albany on its own
• 20:31
  weekend and i didn't see a lot of
• 20:34
  like hey the judging was poor right no
• 20:39
  i didn't see any of that then we
• 20:40
  have the teens and the masters which are
• 20:45
  what eighteen divisions at the end of the
• 20:46
  day
• 20:50
  I'm not counting, but it's,
• 20:52
  but it's up there.
• 20:52
  Right.
• 20:53
  And you're going all day and you,
• 20:56
  so you're spreading your judges thinner.
• 20:58
  And I've been,
• 20:59
  I was told by a head judge at
• 21:00
  that event that they had people no show.
• 21:05
  Yeah.
• 21:05
  Right.
• 21:06
  So even thinner than what you wanted.
• 21:09
  And then I did see and hear about
• 21:11
  more egregious judging and
• 21:15
  Now we're taking those two entities and
• 21:17
  now we're adding adaptive in there too,
• 21:20
  which has its own set of rules and
• 21:22
  its own standards.
• 21:24
  And we're putting them all on the same
• 21:26
  weekend.
• 21:26
  We all have been touting how great it
• 21:28
  is that all these things are happening in
• 21:30
  the same weekend,
• 21:31
  which I still think is a great idea
• 21:34
  to have everybody in the same place at
• 21:36
  the same time and have this big festival
• 21:37
  feel.
• 21:38
  But what are we doing to the judging
• 21:40
  pool by doing that?
• 21:42
  Exhausting it.
• 21:44
  I mean, physically exhausting it.
• 21:46
  So think about when Chase and who was
• 21:50
  it?
• 21:50
  Chase and Bill did the Masters,
• 21:52
  not this past year, but year before last.
• 21:54
  And they called every single heat.
• 21:57
  So you're watching the same thing happen
• 22:00
  over and over and over again, right?
• 22:04
  There's only so many times you can look
• 22:05
  at something and say something about it.
• 22:07
  And I feel like it's the same type
• 22:08
  of relationship.
• 22:09
  If you are looking at something and you're
• 22:11
  trying to judge it the entire time,
• 22:12
  like it gets so just repetitive and I
• 22:16
  know they rotate them around and they try
• 22:18
  to give them breaks and all that other
• 22:19
  good stuff.
• 22:19
  And that's fantastic.
• 22:21
  But how much of that is going to
• 22:23
  matter at the end of it?
• 22:24
  And how many people you guys should be
• 22:26
  able to find that are like, yep,
• 22:28
  I'm going to come and.
• 22:29
  I'm going to do the masters at the
• 22:31
  beginning of the week.
• 22:32
  I'm going to do the teams.
• 22:33
  And then if they need me,
• 22:34
  I'm going to do the games as well.
• 22:36
  That is a lot, dude.
• 22:38
  And if you're not getting those for twelve
• 22:40
  during the day and you are looking at
• 22:42
  the same thing all day, it could really,
• 22:46
  really hamper the results of what you're
• 22:49
  getting.
• 22:50
  So again,
• 22:52
  to be a judge at the games,
• 22:54
  you are usually seminar staff.
• 22:57
  So it's a little bit different pool than
• 22:59
  the rest,
• 23:00
  but the fact that you're going now a
• 23:02
  full week of masters age masters, teens,
• 23:06
  and adaptive just seems like really crazy.
• 23:11
  Um,
• 23:13
  Mike DeVito, agreed,
• 23:13
  but often so egregious in CrossFit,
• 23:16
  but they are also usually volunteers,
• 23:17
  which is tough.
• 23:18
  The volunteer thing is tough,
• 23:20
  but there's a group that really want to
• 23:23
  be there and really want to do a
• 23:24
  good job.
• 23:25
  But I would argue that it's not more
• 23:27
  egregious in CrossFit.
• 23:28
  It's just because we're so passionate
• 23:30
  about this that we bring it up more.
• 23:32
  I watch football every Saturday and every
• 23:35
  Sunday.
• 23:35
  There are egregious calls there.
• 23:39
  I mean, watch anything on a Monday,
• 23:42
  and there's going to be roughing the
• 23:44
  quarterback calls that people are going to
• 23:46
  be livid about every Monday morning.
• 23:49
  January.
• 23:50
  January.
• 23:51
  January.
• 23:51
  January.
• 23:52
  January.
• 23:52
  January.
• 23:53
  January.
• 23:56
  January.
• 23:56
  January.
• 23:56
  January.
• 23:59
  January.
• 24:00
  January.
• 24:00
  January.
• 24:01
  January.
• 24:01
  January.
• 24:01
  January.
• 24:02
  January.
• 24:02
  January.
• 24:02
  January.
• 24:03
  January.
• 24:03
  January.
• 24:09
  It's insane.
• 24:11
  That's something you, like,
• 24:14
  it's six years later.
• 24:16
  We have a completely different coaching
• 24:17
  staff, completely different team.
• 24:19
  Like, Drew Brees is now talking, you know,
• 24:22
  is a talking head on TV nowadays and
• 24:23
  whatnot.
• 24:24
  It's a whole other thing,
• 24:25
  but it's burned into my brain because of
• 24:27
  that.
• 24:27
  And that guy got paid.
• 24:30
  Like, that guy's not a volunteer.
• 24:32
  That's a professional referee.
• 24:35
  may have another career not during
• 24:37
  football season i'm sure he does something
• 24:38
  else but that guy gets paid to be
• 24:41
  a referee so i try to my damnness
• 24:45
  especially if i'm competing to try and
• 24:47
  give whoever's judging me at whatever comp
• 24:50
  i'm at the benefit of the doubt that
• 24:52
  they are trying to do a good job
• 24:54
  happens
• 24:56
  Right now at the higher levels, when,
• 24:58
  when guys are trying to compete, you know,
• 25:00
  the Jason Hoppers and the Tia's and the,
• 25:03
  the whoever's of the world trying to be
• 25:05
  the fittest on earth.
• 25:07
  I think the game just doing probably a
• 25:09
  better job by having people that they
• 25:12
  implicitly trust,
• 25:13
  because there are people, like you said,
• 25:14
  that are not even, you know,
• 25:16
  whatever percentage it is,
• 25:17
  they are seminar staff, L threes,
• 25:19
  the whole nine yards that are used to
• 25:20
  seeing movement and know what quality
• 25:22
  movement looks like.
• 25:24
  But.
• 25:25
  It comes through the other stuff, right?
• 25:28
  That's why I think the,
• 25:30
  the initial purpose of the, what is it?
• 25:32
  The, the, what's the judging thing?
• 25:34
  The I F J or whatever it is.
• 25:38
  AFJ is a fantastic idea.
• 25:43
  And then the first thing that they had
• 25:45
  their name attached to, well,
• 25:46
  the first thing I saw they had had
• 25:47
  a name attached to was the,
• 25:50
  the semifinals that they had at mayhem.
• 25:52
  And then.
• 25:54
  Yep.
• 25:55
  But they,
• 25:56
  they have put together a structured
• 25:58
  judging educational track.
• 26:00
  Wayne, they did put together,
• 26:02
  they did it at water Palooza where they
• 26:04
  ran people through it and you would get
• 26:06
  like then certified through them.
• 26:08
  But yeah, but you,
• 26:11
  you can't then make a blunder like you
• 26:13
  made at mayhem and,
• 26:14
  and they're trying to come back from that.
• 26:16
  I don't know where they are now.
• 26:18
  I haven't talked to them since the games.
• 26:20
  But yeah,
• 26:22
  I don't know.
• 26:23
  Andrew Sten says, we've done it before.
• 26:25
  Many judges will do age groups and then
• 26:27
  do the teams at the games.
• 26:28
  I don't disagree with you, Andrew,
• 26:30
  and there are a group of you that
• 26:31
  are awesome.
• 26:33
  But because the teens and the adaptives
• 26:36
  are going at the same time,
• 26:38
  I just think it thins out your pool.
• 26:41
  And at the age groups in Columbus,
• 26:43
  you guys were so thin because you didn't
• 26:45
  have enough people.
• 26:48
  It's crazy.
• 26:50
  And it takes a special kind of person.
• 26:53
  I'm dogging on the system.
• 26:54
  It creates it.
• 26:57
  It takes a special person to be a
• 26:58
  judge, number one,
• 27:00
  just to be able to get out there
• 27:01
  and say,
• 27:02
  I'm going to put myself out there,
• 27:03
  be responsible for,
• 27:05
  because you're not just sitting out there
• 27:06
  counting.
• 27:07
  You can't be.
• 27:08
  You have to be somebody who has,
• 27:10
  like Andrew,
• 27:11
  who has a clinical mind and is looking
• 27:13
  and is going to be impartial and have
• 27:15
  enough balls to call people out when they
• 27:17
  do stuff that they're not supposed to do.
• 27:20
  And they need the support of the
• 27:21
  organization running the event to make the
• 27:24
  standard easy to judge.
• 27:26
  Yep.
• 27:28
  It's a whole thing that needs to work
• 27:30
  in tandem.
• 27:31
  Absolutely.
• 27:33
  Work all at the same time.
• 27:35
  I am sure tonight we're going to talk
• 27:37
  a lot about the GHD standard because that
• 27:39
  is a definite issue.
• 27:41
  Well,
• 27:43
  that's what we're going to talk about.
• 27:46
  And I know that is a thing that
• 27:48
  Carolyn has been pounding for.
• 27:50
  She's made parody videos.
• 27:53
  We're going to talk about that tonight.
• 27:56
  But the WFP is not making a standard
• 27:59
  easy to judge.
• 28:03
  JRHel made a great standard for the GHB
• 28:07
  that some people have adopted.
• 28:09
  I think Games adopted it, didn't they?
• 28:12
  They did.
• 28:14
  It's a piece of tape.
• 28:15
  Right.
• 28:19
  How hard is that?
• 28:20
  Yeah.
• 28:22
  So it's the whole system of judging,
• 28:25
  I think, is,
• 28:27
  and I've said this in the past,
• 28:28
  I think it's an afterthought when you're,
• 28:30
  for some people when they're organizing an
• 28:32
  event,
• 28:34
  when it should be one of the first
• 28:35
  things you think about.
• 28:37
  And when you're programming,
• 28:38
  how do I make it so it can
• 28:40
  be judged accordingly?
• 28:44
  It has to be.
• 28:45
  If it's not,
• 28:45
  you're doing a disservice to everybody who
• 28:47
  is showing up at your con.
• 28:49
  And if you have spectators,
• 28:51
  everybody who's spectating,
• 28:52
  because people in the crowd can see.
• 28:55
  People in the crowd can look and go,
• 28:58
  that dude didn't do a single rep.
• 29:00
  And his judge is just letting him go.
• 29:02
  I saw it myself.
• 29:04
  Seen it a couple different times at a
• 29:05
  couple different places.
• 29:07
  But he was just standing there, counting.
• 29:11
  You know, and it's not just me.
• 29:14
  It makes me feel better when I'm out
• 29:15
  on the floor or if I'm watching,
• 29:17
  you know, the next heat go,
• 29:18
  the next heat after that, whatever it is.
• 29:21
  And somebody else goes, well,
• 29:24
  he ain't did a rep yet.
• 29:26
  To know that I'm not crazy.
• 29:28
  Like, it's not just,
• 29:29
  I'm not nitpicking at whoever,
• 29:31
  that other people also can see it, right?
• 29:36
  When they see it, then I go, oh,
• 29:37
  okay, I'm cool.
• 29:39
  Y'all see what I see.
• 29:40
  Perfect.
• 29:42
  So on another subject,
• 29:44
  I have a little bit of a question
• 29:47
  for you that may turn into a riff.
• 29:49
  I don't know.
• 29:50
  We'll see.
• 29:52
  Andrew's got a comment that we'll put that
• 29:54
  up.
• 29:55
  Judging is often clearly an afterthought
• 30:02
  when people program and plan an event.
• 30:03
  Yep, yep, yep, exactly.
• 30:05
  A hundred percent.
• 30:08
  so before i was in media i was
• 30:12
  a volunteer and one of the things i
• 30:14
  would do after a competition would be run
• 30:17
  into an athlete and take a selfie with
• 30:20
  that athlete right because i was a big
• 30:24
  fan of the sport i was a volunteer
• 30:27
  i'd done my job for the weekend the
• 30:29
  event's over run into him in the hallway
• 30:31
  and i get a selfie with him
• 30:34
  And then it got to be this challenge.
• 30:35
  Could I get every games champion a selfie
• 30:38
  with them, right?
• 30:38
  And so I started doing all this stuff.
• 30:40
  And I was as bad as it comes
• 30:42
  when it comes to getting selfies with
• 30:44
  athletes.
• 30:46
  The minute I became media and actually got
• 30:50
  invited to come to events to cover it,
• 30:53
  I stopped that.
• 30:55
  It's like,
• 30:56
  I'm no longer like there to take selfies.
• 30:59
  I'm there to cover an event and to
• 31:02
  be as impartial as I can possibly be,
• 31:04
  which is really impossible in this sport
• 31:07
  because you, no matter what you are,
• 31:11
  you're going to become friends with some
• 31:13
  of the,
• 31:14
  the athletes and it is what it is.
• 31:16
  But I didn't want that perception out
• 31:18
  there that like,
• 31:19
  I'm hanging out with these people and
• 31:20
  getting selfies and fanboying and then
• 31:23
  being a person.
• 31:24
  Right.
• 31:26
  And I look at some people who,
• 31:31
  after an event,
• 31:33
  their recap is selfies with everybody.
• 31:42
  And they're in the media space.
• 31:43
  Yeah.
• 31:46
  So I'm anxious to see what the chat
• 31:47
  has to say.
• 31:48
  I'm anxious to hear what you have to
• 31:49
  say.
• 31:51
  When you see that, does that make you...
• 31:56
  not buy into their storytelling as much as
• 32:02
  someone who doesn't do that it's called
• 32:05
  professionalism scott if you're going to
• 32:09
  put yourself out there as being a media
• 32:11
  person and you on your podcast on your
• 32:14
  blog whatever whatever it is that you have
• 32:17
  presenting yourself as a new source then
• 32:20
  it's your job to be professional and to
• 32:22
  try to be impartial and if all it
• 32:24
  is that that
• 32:27
  I just got a picture with this guy
• 32:28
  and I just got a picture with this
• 32:29
  guy.
• 32:29
  No, you did so well and blah, blah,
• 32:31
  blah, whatever.
• 32:31
  Instead of asking them pertinent questions
• 32:34
  or getting the story that you're actually
• 32:38
  asking and not, you know,
• 32:41
  just talking to them because you're
• 32:42
  friends with them or you feel like you
• 32:44
  are, then no,
• 32:46
  you're not being professional whatsoever.
• 32:48
  And I'm not going to pay attention to
• 32:50
  what you have to say because there's
• 32:51
  nothing there.
• 32:52
  It's not an actual story.
• 32:53
  That's fluff at that point.
• 32:55
  And I want to be clear.
• 32:57
  If I see you in an event and
• 32:58
  we're friends,
• 33:02
  and we're just documenting that, hey,
• 33:03
  we got to spend time together,
• 33:05
  that's cool.
• 33:06
  I'm talking about people competing for the
• 33:08
  biggest prizes on the floor.
• 33:13
  And what I find is most of the
• 33:16
  people doing this are the people
• 33:18
  associated with the WFP.
• 33:22
  And it goes on to portray this image
• 33:27
  that they are putting out there that it's
• 33:30
  a club that they all get to hang
• 33:32
  out because someone gave them a blank,
• 33:35
  blank check.
• 33:39
  Double blank check.
• 33:40
  Right.
• 33:42
  And with that,
• 33:43
  it's now like their club that they get
• 33:45
  to hang out in and, hey,
• 33:47
  let's take some selfies to document this.
• 33:52
  And then file that away with, hey,
• 33:54
  here's us on a boat.
• 33:56
  Hey, here's us on the beach.
• 33:59
  Here's us in a bar.
• 34:00
  Here's blah, blah, whatever, right?
• 34:02
  Whatever the case may be, yeah.
• 34:04
  Right.
• 34:05
  And then you recap your weekend and your
• 34:08
  storytelling.
• 34:11
  And especially if you were in charge of
• 34:13
  storytelling...
• 34:17
  And your recap of the weekend are selfies
• 34:20
  with all the people you hung out with
• 34:21
  that weekend.
• 34:23
  Well, at that point,
• 34:23
  it becomes your story and not their story.
• 34:30
  Right?
• 34:32
  So if I'm just posting pictures of me
• 34:35
  and...
• 34:36
  know pick somebody right just me and james
• 34:39
  sprague all weekend and oh i caught james
• 34:41
  in the lobby and here's me and james
• 34:42
  having dinner here's me and james doing
• 34:44
  whatever then it's my story at that point
• 34:46
  it's not james's story it's not what james
• 34:48
  did it's what corey and james did or
• 34:52
  what corey did because i am if i
• 34:54
  am media then that's not telling this
• 34:57
  story that's telling your story of how you
• 34:59
  happen to cross it i think that's why
• 35:04
  in Hiller's hair,
• 35:05
  so I'm going to go ahead and stroke
• 35:07
  his ego a little bit.
• 35:08
  But I think that's why people like
• 35:10
  Hiller's videos with the athletes so much
• 35:12
  is because it's not about Hiller.
• 35:14
  He actually makes it about people that
• 35:17
  he's going to see and going to work
• 35:19
  out with.
• 35:20
  He asks them pertinent questions about
• 35:22
  what they're doing.
• 35:25
  And if you are not doing that,
• 35:28
  and if you're saying,
• 35:29
  this is what we did,
• 35:30
  this is what I did,
• 35:31
  this is what
• 35:34
  And that that's not a story about other
• 35:35
  people.
• 35:36
  That's a story about you featuring other
• 35:38
  people.
• 35:40
  What's the that's maybe cloud chasing.
• 35:43
  I guess it's probably a good,
• 35:44
  a good word at that point.
• 35:51
  These are fine, right?
• 35:52
  These are like your, your friends,
• 35:54
  your coworkers, whatever.
• 35:56
  Yeah.
• 35:57
  It's it's when it gets to, um,
• 36:01
  the athlete stuff.
• 36:09
  right when it goes to like the athletes
• 36:14
  that you're hanging out with right are you
• 36:26
  covering you or are you covering the
• 36:28
  athletes so is that a product of
• 36:39
  or the athletes by the athletes.
• 36:45
  Wayne says,
• 36:46
  when was the last time the buttery bros
• 36:47
  did a feature on an up and coming
• 36:48
  athlete?
• 36:49
  It's just their buddies recycled over and
• 36:51
  over again.
• 36:52
  That's a great point.
• 36:56
  Brian Friend did a video this morning that
• 36:57
  Hiller brought up in his live where he
• 37:00
  talks about where the state of fitness,
• 37:04
  competitive fitness is at, right?
• 37:06
  And that this is giving up and coming
• 37:08
  athletes all the opportunities in the
• 37:10
  world.
• 37:12
  But what was the last video that WFP
• 37:14
  did or the Buttery Bros who are hired
• 37:16
  by the WFP did where it was about
• 37:19
  an up and coming athlete?
• 37:23
  You got me.
• 37:26
  It's all about the people you've already
• 37:27
  met and have known through the CrossFit
• 37:29
  game season.
• 37:31
  Not the new athletes coming up that
• 37:33
  they're touting that this is the
• 37:34
  opportunity for them to get out there.
• 37:38
  It's like the people who got in because
• 37:40
  other people dropped out that nobody knows
• 37:42
  who they are.
• 37:45
  Why are we not talking about them?
• 37:47
  Give their story.
• 37:48
  Hey, man, this guy made it in.
• 37:50
  He has an opportunity to do something,
• 37:53
  try to make a name for himself.
• 37:54
  No one knows who these people are.
• 37:56
  They just don't.
• 37:58
  At AI, if you post stuff like that,
• 38:01
  it's to say, look what I did, right?
• 38:05
  Yeah.
• 38:07
  Wayne,
• 38:07
  so much media could have been done around
• 38:08
  Lydia Fish this past weekend.
• 38:10
  Nothing.
• 38:11
  There's so many new athletes in there.
• 38:15
  Hannah Black, Lydia Fish.
• 38:18
  I mean,
• 38:18
  there were a bunch of men I didn't
• 38:21
  really even know.
• 38:23
  Troy McClure,
• 38:24
  or whatever his last name actually is.
• 38:27
  No idea who that dude is.
• 38:29
  They could have done a little,
• 38:30
  they could have done a, like an interview.
• 38:33
  What's the opportunity to come here
• 38:35
  because of these withdrawals?
• 38:37
  What is like this?
• 38:40
  I think, and I've said this before,
• 38:43
  the storylines that are missed by this
• 38:45
  group of people are immense.
• 38:48
  Yeah.
• 38:49
  There's so many storylines and we just get
• 38:50
  the same regurgitated after event
• 38:53
  interview from Laura or from all the top
• 38:57
  dog athletes.
• 38:59
  That is the same.
• 39:00
  We get every time someone's interviewing
• 39:02
  someone on the floor.
• 39:07
  Rinse and repeat.
• 39:10
  Wash, rinse, repeat.
• 39:14
  I don't know.
• 39:15
  I don't get it.
• 39:15
  I don't get it.
• 39:16
  Um,
• 39:24
  People talk about critical thinking until
• 39:26
  it comes to obvious things like who are
• 39:28
  they actually leveraging and why?
• 39:34
  Ed AI says, careful, Scott,
• 39:36
  you'll offend PC.
• 39:37
  I think I've already done that.
• 39:38
  It's not hard to do.
• 39:39
  No.
• 39:39
  It's not hard to do.
• 39:45
  That's the other thing that gets me about
• 39:49
  this whole WFP thing off the floor.
• 39:52
  And that is,
• 39:55
  the defense of it is getting more energy
• 40:00
  than actually promoting it.
• 40:06
  You know what I'm saying?
• 40:07
  Yes.
• 40:07
  No, that makes so much sense.
• 40:10
  They're expending way more energy
• 40:13
  defending their stuff than they put forth
• 40:17
  promoting their stuff.
• 40:21
  And that would be a much better use
• 40:23
  of their time.
• 40:25
  promoting their stuff it's putting out
• 40:27
  quality content reactive instead of
• 40:29
  proactive correct instead of you know oh
• 40:35
  hillar just said this or scott just said
• 40:38
  this or seven whatever the case is in
• 40:40
  the next six hours in um in the
• 40:43
  comment sections defending everything
• 40:46
  rather than like putting together a
• 40:48
  promotional video
• 40:50
  instead of yes instead of going okay well
• 40:53
  what can we do to make this video
• 40:55
  better what can we do to make this
• 40:56
  new thing that's coming out better how
• 40:59
  does it look does it look okay is
• 41:00
  it sound okay this does the audio overlap
• 41:04
  at any point where you get you know
• 41:06
  ten seconds where it does you can't make
• 41:07
  out anything it actually says uh why not
• 41:12
  fix that and just leave the rest of
• 41:14
  it alone
• 41:16
  Right.
• 41:17
  If you keep poking at a scab and
• 41:20
  keep picking at it,
• 41:20
  it's not going to get any better as
• 41:22
  opposed to if you just let it be
• 41:26
  and then focus on the things that are
• 41:27
  actually important.
• 41:30
  I watched Amanda Harry's recap this
• 41:32
  morning,
• 41:33
  and I think there's a fundamental flaw in
• 41:36
  what they've done that created the video
• 41:39
  she put out there.
• 41:41
  She said there was no talk about the
• 41:45
  finishing places for this event.
• 41:47
  It was all about the season-long thing.
• 41:51
  And the reason that that is so far
• 41:54
  off is because they never explained what
• 41:57
  this tour meant.
• 42:01
  so everybody is trying to fit it into
• 42:03
  the conventional crossfit scoring box of
• 42:06
  each event is a standalone event when the
• 42:10
  truth is the entire entity is one event
• 42:15
  you just put it on pause a couple
• 42:17
  times and come back to it and because
• 42:20
  they didn't do that for the first two
• 42:25
  it confused everybody because they named
• 42:27
  podiums.
• 42:28
  They named winners for tour stops one and
• 42:30
  tour stops two.
• 42:32
  And then there was no prize money for
• 42:34
  winning the final stop.
• 42:36
  It was all about the tour instead of
• 42:40
  the event.
• 42:42
  And they never explained that.
• 42:49
  And still haven't.
• 42:51
  And it's over with for the year.
• 42:53
  Right.
• 42:55
  It took till midway through the weekend to
• 42:57
  put a red line on who gets a
• 42:59
  pro card.
• 43:00
  And we've been bitching about that for
• 43:02
  months.
• 43:04
  Since, at least since doorstop.
• 43:08
  That leaderboard months ago with a red
• 43:12
  line just to show people above get one,
• 43:15
  people below don't.
• 43:21
  We do have some positives to talk about
• 43:22
  tonight with the WFP.
• 43:26
  So tune in for that.
• 43:29
  I do think I have a small solution
• 43:31
  to their problem if they're willing to
• 43:33
  make changes.
• 43:36
  And I put it into a pencil, pen,
• 43:38
  or Sharpie.
• 43:40
  So I'll let you think about it for
• 43:41
  a little bit and then tonight when we
• 43:42
  bring it up.
• 43:44
  But I think it should be flipped to
• 43:45
  a European tour with one U.S.
• 43:50
  stop.
• 43:52
  And then when they get it right,
• 43:54
  then they maybe expand it a little bit
• 43:56
  more.
• 43:58
  But I think the only way to sustain
• 44:00
  it is to make it a European tour.
• 44:02
  Yeah, I'm not going to argue with you.
• 44:11
  I'm not going to argue with you at
• 44:12
  all.
• 44:12
  But the downside is, I believe right now,
• 44:17
  and Hiller's made a great point of this,
• 44:20
  The two best female athletes are in two
• 44:22
  different segments.
• 44:24
  And we are cheated by not getting to
• 44:26
  see them go head-to-head.
• 44:33
  That's a hard fact.
• 44:35
  That's a hard fact.
• 44:36
  Can you imagine if James Sprague and
• 44:39
  Dallin Pepper were in one league and Jason
• 44:42
  Hopper and Ricky Garrard and Roman
• 44:45
  Krennikoff were in another league?
• 44:48
  We would be pissed.
• 44:54
  You're diluting the pool.
• 44:58
  You're not allowing the best product to be
• 45:00
  on the field at that point.
• 45:03
  To be able to see the races that
• 45:04
  everybody wants to see.
• 45:07
  Jake says,
• 45:08
  EFP doesn't sound as good though.
• 45:10
  You can still call it WFP because you
• 45:11
  have one tour stop in the US.
• 45:13
  But rather than have one in Europe and
• 45:15
  the rest in the US, flip it.
• 45:19
  It's a separate majority in Europe and one
• 45:21
  in us.
• 45:22
  And it's still the world fitness project,
• 45:25
  but you're in a place.
• 45:26
  Yeah.
• 45:26
  Here's the thing.
• 45:29
  I don't think anybody over there on Will's
• 45:32
  entire team has ever heard of Occam's
• 45:34
  razor where the simplest answer is usually
• 45:36
  the right one.
• 45:37
  Like, I don't think,
• 45:38
  I don't think they're familiar with that
• 45:39
  concept because that's literally what it
• 45:41
  is.
• 45:41
  It's like, Hey,
• 45:42
  the two stops you made here,
• 45:44
  nobody showed up to watch.
• 45:46
  Because nobody understands the tour
• 45:47
  concept in the U S correct.
• 45:50
  In, in Europe,
• 45:51
  a lot of sports go by the tour
• 45:53
  concept,
• 45:54
  so they understand the premise better.
• 45:56
  Yeah, that's what I'm getting at it,
• 46:00
  but that's, that's,
• 46:01
  there's the reason why.
• 46:03
  So just flip what you're doing and then
• 46:05
  once you have enough traction and once the
• 46:07
  people over here are actually sitting
• 46:09
  there and watching it and
• 46:11
  And man,
• 46:11
  I wish we had another one over here
• 46:12
  because now that I understand what's going
• 46:14
  on, the one is fantastic.
• 46:16
  But man, if we just had two,
• 46:17
  then you can do that.
• 46:21
  Give it to the people who actually want
• 46:23
  to understand it,
• 46:26
  whatever you want to call it.
• 46:29
  Not just Europe,
• 46:29
  most other sports globally travel.
• 46:32
  I understand, Jake.
• 46:33
  I'm just saying that
• 46:36
  Maybe add Australia, Australia, Europe,
• 46:39
  and then one U.S.
• 46:40
  stop.
• 46:41
  Go to where the hotbeds of CrossFit are.
• 46:45
  And you're right.
• 46:45
  The world understands the tour concept
• 46:47
  much better than the U.S.
• 46:49
  Absolutely.
• 46:55
  I just say Europe because every time
• 46:56
  there's a CrossFit event in Europe,
• 46:58
  people tend to show up.
• 47:02
  It's the same in Australia as well.
• 47:06
  But I say, if they went to Australia,
• 47:07
  dude,
• 47:08
  and actually had it promoted half-ass
• 47:11
  well.
• 47:12
  I mean, the Australians show up.
• 47:13
  Look at Torian every year.
• 47:17
  I mean, that's a show.
• 47:19
  That is an absolute circus.
• 47:20
  And it's amazing to watch.
• 47:22
  Just from my perspective,
• 47:23
  watching it on my laptop is fantastic.
• 47:27
  Take that energy from there,
• 47:29
  and you can inject it into your tour
• 47:31
  stop in Australia.
• 47:32
  And holy smokes, hey,
• 47:34
  you got a blank check.
• 47:37
  So I know that's not the problem.
• 47:38
  So why not go there?
• 47:41
  As opposed to here where it's already hard
• 47:43
  to get people to attend functional fitness
• 47:47
  events,
• 47:48
  semifinals are hard to get people in the
• 47:51
  door because there's so much stuff to go
• 47:53
  to.
• 47:53
  There's so many things to go on that
• 47:55
  go on that it's already hard to get
• 47:57
  people here.
• 47:58
  And now you just added two more things.
• 48:01
  It's a lot, man.
• 48:02
  It's a whole lot.
• 48:03
  As opposed to giving
• 48:05
  giving more to you know places that are
• 48:08
  i'll say underserved because i mean we've
• 48:09
  got torian and the down order
• 48:11
  championships in australia but i think
• 48:13
  adding one more thing to their their stuff
• 48:15
  would probably be a lot better than adding
• 48:16
  two more here for now grow it right
• 48:23
  once people start selling out semifinals
• 48:28
  then you have more of an opportunity to
• 48:30
  get people to show up for your thing.
• 48:33
  Right.
• 48:33
  Once, once,
• 48:35
  once the WFP starts selling out tour
• 48:36
  events, then now you're, you're,
• 48:41
  you're promoting the event in a better
• 48:42
  way.
• 48:44
  And I understand that other countries and
• 48:46
  other continents understand this concept,
• 48:50
  but they don't show up to fitness events.
• 48:54
  The Asian events have not had the turnout
• 48:57
  that Europe and Australia have had.
• 49:05
  Do you think it would be a political
• 49:07
  statement if they went to a nation the
• 49:08
  U.S.
• 49:09
  is in trouble with?
• 49:09
  Those are details I haven't even thought
• 49:13
  of yet, Ed.
• 49:15
  No.
• 49:16
  I'm just trying to think,
• 49:17
  how do you get people to show up
• 49:19
  and make it look like it's really an
• 49:21
  event?
• 49:22
  Because when nobody shows up and the seats
• 49:25
  are empty, I don't know.
• 49:32
  It doesn't look good for your event.
• 49:34
  It looks like nobody gives a shit.
• 49:38
  Let me address this because Jake's going
• 49:40
  to keep saying it until we don't.
• 49:43
  Zlatan Ibrahimovic is one of the
• 49:45
  biggest...
• 49:47
  Former footballers on the Facebook.
• 49:49
  We can review, though.
• 49:51
  Yeah.
• 49:53
  I want to agree with Jake.
• 49:55
  If Zlatan signs up to do the open,
• 50:00
  it would be a big deal.
• 50:01
  And because he's going to talk about it,
• 50:02
  it's going to be on his YouTube.
• 50:03
  It's going to be on his Instagram,
• 50:04
  whatever.
• 50:05
  And that would be to date the biggest
• 50:08
  person,
• 50:09
  the biggest celebrity we've ever had.
• 50:11
  Like bigger than the wrestler,
• 50:13
  whoever it was that Seth Rollins.
• 50:15
  Right.
• 50:17
  Bigger than Seth Rollins.
• 50:19
  Bigger than Seth Rollins.
• 50:20
  By far.
• 50:23
  Chicago Bear fans, Seth Rollins.
• 50:26
  Yes, Chicago Bear fans.
• 50:28
  You know who Zlatan is a fan of?
• 50:30
  Zlatan.
• 50:31
  He is a... I know who Zlatan is.
• 50:35
  In and of himself.
• 50:37
  And on the world stage,
• 50:40
  and that's what Jake's talking about,
• 50:41
  on the world stage, dude,
• 50:43
  that would be a huge deal.
• 50:45
  Huge deal.
• 50:47
  And people would sign up specifically
• 50:48
  because Laden did.
• 50:50
  I firmly believe that.
• 50:52
  But you need to make sure that he's
• 50:53
  actually doing CrossFit,
• 50:54
  which is what Dave said yesterday on this
• 50:56
  week in review.
• 50:57
  Just because it looks like it doesn't mean
• 50:59
  you're really doing CrossFit.
• 51:01
  Correct.
• 51:04
  No, I agree with that.
• 51:06
  If he in fact is doing CrossFit,
• 51:09
  he would love to use him to promote
• 51:10
  an open event or whatever.
• 51:13
  But you need to make sure that he
• 51:14
  is.
• 51:23
  he would probably not promote CrossFit
• 51:25
  unless he got something from it.
• 51:28
  That dude's got a bazillion dollars.
• 51:31
  I don't think that's a...
• 51:34
  What Zlatan loves more than anything else
• 51:36
  is Zlatan and attention.
• 51:39
  And he'd get plenty of that if he
• 51:41
  were to sign up for that.
• 51:43
  I'd say they're not going to pay him
• 51:44
  something, whatever the case may be.
• 51:47
  But I think if you appeal to him
• 51:49
  in the correct way,
• 51:51
  which is stroking his ego,
• 51:55
  he'd be fantastic for the sport.
• 51:58
  Well, he'd be something for the sport.
• 52:02
  That's for certain.
• 52:04
  Yeah,
• 52:05
  he just has to have better technique than
• 52:06
  Charles Barkley before we start posting.
• 52:08
  It's not hard to do.
• 52:20
  That's okay.
• 52:24
  Love it.
• 52:24
  Zlatan doesn't do CrossFit.
• 52:26
  CrossFit does Zlatan.
• 52:30
  Okay.
• 52:32
  He's got a million of them like that,
• 52:33
  dude.
• 52:34
  He has an absolute million of them.
• 52:37
  I'm sure.
• 52:39
  All right, guys.
• 52:39
  Well, that's the show for today.
• 52:43
  We'll be back tomorrow for sure,
• 52:45
  off for Christmas and then back on Friday.
• 52:49
  And we'll be here tonight at six thirty
• 52:51
  p.m.
• 52:51
  Eastern Time to knock out our Sunday night
• 52:55
  show that kept getting delayed because of
• 52:57
  my travels.
• 52:59
  And we will break down the WFP and
• 53:04
  actually talk about the positives.
• 53:06
  um,
• 53:07
  that we saw from that as well as
• 53:09
  we're not calling them negatives.
• 53:10
  We're calling them, um,
• 53:13
  points that need to get better action
• 53:16
  items.
• 53:17
  There we go.
• 53:20
  Cause we're in that season where like you
• 53:23
  say, okay,
• 53:23
  this is an action item and we'll talk
• 53:25
  about it when we get back after the
• 53:26
  holidays.
• 53:28
  It's an action item.
• 53:29
  We got a note on the calendar,
• 53:30
  January two, we will have a discussion.
• 53:33
  We'll swing back around to that after the
• 53:34
  holidays.
• 53:39
  I mean, if I've heard that phrase once,
• 53:40
  I've heard it seven hundred times in the
• 53:42
  last week.
• 53:43
  Oh, yeah.
• 53:45
  And let's just put that to the side
• 53:47
  and we'll swing back around that after the
• 53:49
  holidays.
• 53:50
  I'm going to call you back after the
• 53:51
  holidays.
• 53:53
  In my business, that's not a good thing.
• 53:55
  No, don't call me back after the holidays.
• 53:56
  Let's get it taken care of right now.
• 54:00
  On the same note,
• 54:00
  which famous actor would get CrossFit
• 54:02
  notoriety worldwide if they promoted the
• 54:04
  Open?
• 54:06
  Whoever's hot right now.
• 54:07
  It really doesn't matter.
• 54:15
  Somebody, it had to be somebody,
• 54:17
  what's that?
• 54:21
  It had to be somebody lovable.
• 54:24
  Like, you know what I'm saying?
• 54:25
  Not like polarizing somebody who like
• 54:27
  everybody can get behind.
• 54:29
  So thinking, think like Tom Cruise.
• 54:35
  Oh gosh, what's his name?
• 54:40
  It can't be a has been like,
• 54:41
  it has to be someone Jack coming up.
• 54:46
  Yeah.
• 54:47
  Not like, and not,
• 54:48
  not like the rock Jack,
• 54:50
  like that's too much.
• 54:52
  No.
• 54:53
  Oh, what is his name?
• 54:56
  No, not Will Smith.
• 54:58
  Will Smith is probably not the one you
• 54:59
  want to talk to about anything right now.
• 55:02
  Uh, Chris Pratt.
• 55:04
  We'll think about that and we'll,
• 55:05
  we'll circle back around to that tomorrow.
• 55:10
  All right, guys.
• 55:13
  We will see you then tonight at six
• 55:15
  thirty p.m.
• 55:16
  Eastern time.
• 55:17
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• 55:18
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• 55:19
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• 55:20
  Yeah.
• 55:20
  Glenn Powell's a good one.
• 55:21
  Glenn Powell's a good one.
• 55:23
  We will see you all then.
• 55:25
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• 55:27
  See you at six thirty.
• 55:27
  Bye, guys.