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Lunch with the Clydesdale - Nor Cal starts today! · Clydesdale Media Podcast

• 0:34
  What is going on, everybody?
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  Welcome to Lunch with the Clydesdale.
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  My name's Scott Switzer.
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  I am the Clydesdale.
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  Today is my lunch hour.
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  We are taking a break from the workday.
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  It's a Friday.
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  Glad to be a Friday.
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  It seems to be a little bit
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  of a slow news day,
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  but we're going to get through it.
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  We're going to make some stuff up.
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  I'm going to start with my dart throw.
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  I'm going to try something new today.
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  Going lefty.
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  Going lefty at the dart
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  board because right-handed
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  has not been working,
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  so we are going lefty.
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  Maybe.
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  Not too bad for a left-handed shot.
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  For lefty,
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  I will show you where we ended up.
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  I don't know if you can see that.
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  There it is.
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  It is kind of down and to the left.
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  a little bit, but we're on the board.
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  The last couple of
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  right-handed throws have
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  not got me on the board.
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  So that way I don't have to
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  go up and over the computer that way.
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  Uh, so we're just going to try it.
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  Um, so there we are.
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  That's today's dartboard throw.
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  Uh,
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  what's going on Meredith, Kenneth, Corey,
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  Jody, uh, lunchtime selling kitchens,
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  listening along, sell all the kitchens,
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  Jody, sell all the kitchens.
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  Um, yeah, I just had some grapes.
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  Um, and they were teeny tiny little grapes,
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  but they were so good.
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  So good.
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  Um,
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  really enjoyed those.
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  And I don't know if you guys can tell,
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  but got the new haircut.
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  Um, so my hair's not super long anymore.
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  A lot more, a lot easier to take care of,
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  um,
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  a lot easier to get ready for these
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  shows and for my,
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  my corporate meetings that
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  I have to do throughout the day.
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  Uh,
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  so really excited that I got that done
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  yesterday,
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  got to catch up with my
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  hairdresser and got all that done.
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  So that was awesome.
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  Um,
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  But yeah, like I said,
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  it's been a slow kind of day.
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  Not much is happening.
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  I'm hearing rumors that
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  there's some difficulty in
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  getting the stream up.
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  I'm not a member of the seven East's chat,
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  but I'm hearing in the chat
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  that there's rumors that, um,
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  they're having trouble with power,
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  having trouble with the stream.
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  And, uh,
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  hopefully we'll have something
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  this afternoon from NorCal.
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  Cause I'd really like to watch it.
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  I said at the end of
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  yesterday's show that I
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  will give a lot more, um,
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  grace to them because of
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  the situation this weekend.
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  Um,
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  Uh, that ain't a rumor.
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  That's a fact.
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  Um, stream won't be live.
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  They're filming coming back and uploading.
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  Uh, what a bummer.
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  Um, yeah, I kind of stinks.
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  Um, I don't know.
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  I would think that you would know, uh,
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  prior um you I think you
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  would know some of the
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  conditions prior to you're
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  outside you're in a park
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  you probably know you don't
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  have like broadband
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  internet being piped in um
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  so you'd probably have to
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  use hot spots and I don't
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  even know how that would
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  work I've I've used them at
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  some of the events that
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  I've worked at to just upload stuff um
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  I don't know.
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  Um, heard it was an internet issue.
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  The only feasible option was
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  to rent a whole tower.
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  Okay.
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  I know like where I work,
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  we have hotspots.
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  Uh,
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  when I would do trainings in remote
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  locations, we would take those with us to,
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  um,
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  to be able to get internet where there
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  wasn't internet available.
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  Um,
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  but that still works off of
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  a cell tower and that, and you know,
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  how loaded that cell tower would be,
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  would really affect the
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  bandwidth of anything you were doing.
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  So, um, they had star link.
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  They tried to use even raise,
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  sixty feet in the air, not working.
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  Wow.
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  That is crazy.
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  That's crazy in this day and age.
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  I think internet has got to
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  be one of the most
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  important commodities in today's world.
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  I've been to this through
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  work and through some conferences.
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  I've seen this guy speak a
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  couple times and he
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  actually says that your
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  national economy can be
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  based on the cost of internet per person.
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  there are countries that are
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  gaining ground economically
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  because they have free
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  internet throughout their
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  country and um and so I
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  think that that's
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  fascinating that in the
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  capital of california
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  because they're in sacramento correct
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  we were still having issues
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  just getting basic internet, um,
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  to a park.
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  Uh,
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  and if you're using Starlink and not
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  being able to get it,
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  that's even more fascinating to me.
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  Um, cause you know,
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  like they're using Starlink
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  in the desert in
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  Afghanistan and can't get
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  it in California is mind boggling.
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  Um,
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  Meredith says,
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  just how often the boonies are they?
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  Yeah.
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  I don't know.
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  I also know, like, I don't know.
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  We'll see.
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  Aaron Frazier says,
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  common for rural communities.
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  that that was my thought
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  corey starlink is supposed
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  to work anywhere isn't it
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  like satellite that's what
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  that was my that was my
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  understanding as well um
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  but yeah now again we're
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  not talking like just
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  trying to make a phone call
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  we're trying to talk about
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  broadcasting an event over that internet
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  So we're not talking just a
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  basic phone call.
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  And I'm sure the bandwidth
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  that a phone call takes
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  compared to the bandwidth a
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  broadcast would take would
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  be exponentially higher for
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  the broadcast.
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  So it could be just that,
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  the limitations of the
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  Starlink trying to get the
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  bandwidth of a broadcast
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  out of Sacramento.
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  But we'll trust that they'll
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  do their best to,
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  because I would think that why edit it,
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  right?
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  Just record it,
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  get back to a place where
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  you have internet, upload it quickly,
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  and then you can view it.
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  That seems to be the style
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  they want anyway.
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  So hopefully that'll work.
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  Record it live, no editing, just go back,
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  pump up the feed,
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  and then be done with it.
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  so yeah I guess that'll work
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  today I mean they're
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  already you know a couple
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  hours behind me here in
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  columbus so I'll just wait
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  until it comes up and avoid
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  a competition corner so I
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  don't really know what
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  anything is going on now I
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  just have to avoid carolyn
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  texting me during this
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  thing um but other than
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  that yeah we'll we'll
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  figure it out that way
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  I'm going to go ahead and
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  give you my finalized picks
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  for NorCal today.
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  And this was done with the
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  assumption that Emily and
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  Bethany would not be there.
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  So my picks on the women's
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  side are fifth place.
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  I'm going with Rebecca Fusile.
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  Fourth place, Hattie Cano.
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  She would have been higher
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  if I knew that her shoulder
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  was in good shape and ready to go.
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  I have Carolyn in third.
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  I have Kristen Holta in second.
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  And Alex Kazan to win NorCal.
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  So again, Rebecca Fuseli fifth,
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  Hattie Cano fourth, Carolyn Prevost third,
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  Kristen Holta second, Alex Kazan first.
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  On the men's side,
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  I'm going with Matt Brady to finish fifth,
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  William Leahy to finish fourth,
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  Nate Ackerman to finish third,
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  Spencer Pancheck second,
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  and Colton Mertens to win.
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  So, again, Matt Brady fifth,
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  William Leahy fourth, Nate Ackerman third,
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  Spencer Pancheck second,
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  Colton Mertens to win.
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  And so the tickets would go
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  to Alex Kazan and Kristen
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  Holta on the women's side
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  and Colton Mertens and
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  Spencer Pancheck on the men's side.
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  I'm sorry, not Colton.
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  Colton already has his ticket.
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  Spencer Pancheck and Nate
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  Ackerman on the men's side.
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  Yes,
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  it's possible to stream content using
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  Starlink,
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  but the experience and quality
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  may vary depending on
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  factors like location.
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  Looks like Corey looked it
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  up and is giving me the
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  Google device usage and
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  Starlink network conditions.
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  Starlink offers high speed
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  internet with download
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  speeds ranging from fifty to one fifty.
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  A concern particularly for live streaming.
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  may require adjustments to
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  streaming settings which is
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  generally sufficient for
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  streaming high def and four
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  k content however upload
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  speeds and network
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  reliability can sometimes
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  be a factor I'm sure yeah
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  aaron fraser many people
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  saying the programming
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  isn't good for colton I
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  disagree um and I think
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  other people disagree I
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  think that if you listen to
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  taylor and hillar go back
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  and forth last night
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  On the pre-show,
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  Hiller does not think it's
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  good for Colton.
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  Taylor thinks it's very good
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  for Colton and that Colton
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  is going to do just fine
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  and be hard to beat on a
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  majority of these events.
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  I think that Colton has
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  closed a lot of his holes,
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  and I think that this
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  programming is fine for him.
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  thoughts on who the odd events help hurt,
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  like who can adapt to something new.
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  I think the more athletic you are,
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  the quicker you are to adapt.
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  What I found fascinating to hear is
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  that Taylor has already done
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  lunging wall balls in the
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  past because of his knee injury.
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  He actually did them because
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  it was easier on his knees
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  than squatting.
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  And so it's something that's
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  been done in the past.
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  But I think anytime that you
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  put something together
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  that's odd or different,
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  the more athletic you are,
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  the better you are prepared
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  to modify and adapt.
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  So I think that's why I have
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  Carolyn in third.
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  Because someone who has
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  played hockey and won
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  national championships in hockey,
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  in soccer, in jujitsu,
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  the athleticism that that
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  woman possesses is going to
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  help her to adapt to all of
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  these new items.
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  I also think that someone
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  like Spencer is really good
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  at adapting to things like
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  that because he played sports young.
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  And I see what you're saying
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  about Bill being the most athletic male,
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  but Hiller says he's not
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  good at adapting to things.
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  So that was odd to me
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  because I would have
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  thought that Bill would
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  have been the most athletic as well.
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  I also think Emily Rolfe is there.
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  Taylor said he saw her husband on site.
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  that's good hopefully she is
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  feeling good and can do
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  well uh ken walters it's
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  near perfect for colton his
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  engine and ability to go
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  dark is is in anything new
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  yeah I think that I think
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  the one event that kind of
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  concerns me with colton is the gator pool
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  or the truck pull and moving
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  the D-balls into the trunk
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  of the gator before he moves it.
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  It's just covering that
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  distance with weight.
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  Someone like Bill with a
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  much longer stride is going
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  to be better at that than
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  Colton with the shorter stride.
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  And then pulling that gator,
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  it's going to be short,
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  choppy steps for Colton.
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  And maybe that is for Bill too.
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  I don't know how grippy the
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  ground is going to be for
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  them doing that.
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  So that's going to be interesting.
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  So that's the one event I
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  would be a little bit
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  reluctant to call Colton on.
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  Ken says he moves pigs and trucks all day.
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  He'll be fine.
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  He'll be fine doing it.
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  I just don't know about the
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  speed at which he will do it.
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  It's still covering a
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  distance with weight.
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  And I think in those cases,
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  the longer stride will help.
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  So,
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  but we'll find out soon enough for sure.
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  The last thing I really have on my agenda,
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  and then I'll open it up to
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  you guys with whatever,
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  is I was watching Grant's
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  thing about CrossFit messing
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  up I think it was he put
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  out this morning and I
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  don't disagree with with
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  that concept that CrossFit
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  screw up screwed up uh no
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  Jay Birch we're not talking
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  about us running um I think
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  he's saying that NorCal
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  should have five to ten
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  spots to give to the games
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  because of the field that's there
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  I think someone said he was
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  high for saying that.
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  I don't disagree with that either.
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  I think he's high for saying
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  five to ten spots should be
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  awarded out of NorCal.
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  The fields are not that deep.
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  But I do think that they
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  messed up where they did
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  put the online...
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  qualifying event in the
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  middle it should have been
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  at the end I think we all
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  can agree to that now I
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  think dave castro agrees
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  with that he said so in the
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  week in review but when
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  this season was started
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  there was going to be no
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  in-person qualifying event
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  it was going to be just the
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  open the semi-final and the
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  in-affiliate semi-final and
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  the games it wasn't until
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  the season was put together and a couple
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  event organizers came to Dave and said,
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  hey,
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  if we put together an in-person event,
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  can we have a couple qualifying spots?
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  And CrossFit changed their
• 17:54
  mind in what they were going to do,
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  and they allowed a handful
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  of events to come to them
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  and then offered them a
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  couple qualifying spots to
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  have those in-person opportunities.
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  So again, the cart was before the horse,
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  and then we changed the
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  structure of the season
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  after the fact and tried to
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  make the square peg fit in
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  the round hole.
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  And that's why it's messed up.
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  It's messed up because we
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  didn't have a seamless plan
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  from the beginning of the season forward.
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  In fact, at one point, we only had,
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  I don't even know how many,
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  I think there were nine,
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  ended up being nine qualifying events.
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  In the beginning, we had eight qualifying
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  And then they put out the
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  rules with all the numbers
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  and then they brought in
• 18:43
  NorCal last minute after
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  the fact to do one right
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  before the season started
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  and then had to modify all
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  the numbers after that.
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  I believe that next season,
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  if you're going to use the
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  same components,
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  which who the hell knows if
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  they're going to do that, um,
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  you have all of the
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  in-person events first with
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  the in online piece last.
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  And that is your last chance
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  qualifier with whatever spots are left.
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  And,
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  and that is the best scenario in this
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  current structure of the season.
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  The other thing I think that
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  is making things messy is the,
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  that you're letting all of
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  these in-person events make
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  up their own rules.
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  Some are regionally locked, some are not.
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  And why I say this is you
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  also cut from forty to thirty.
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  And you could say that the
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  bottom ten of the forty
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  were not great athletes
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  compared to the top thirty.
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  But what we did is we cut
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  from forty to thirty,
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  but then we kept some
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  regionally locked qualifying events,
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  and now we have those same
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  people from the ten going
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  again to this year.
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  So here, I'm going to share my screen.
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  This is the lineup we have
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  at the games so far.
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  So this is on the women's side.
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  These are the people who have registered.
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  So I know like Tia's not on here yet,
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  but we have Mariana Meza.
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  Whoops.
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  Mariana Meza, Lexi Neely, Brooke Wells,
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  Christina Levitic, Levitic Tatic,
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  whatever.
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  Levita Takis, Emily DeRoy, Lucy McGonigal,
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  Louisa Marquez, Maria Camila Quintero,
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  Sydney McAlishan, Annika Greer,
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  Sierra Maya, Seung Young Choi,
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  Alexis Raptus, Haley Adams,
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  Olivia Kerstetter, Miriam Von Rohrer,
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  Fee Sagafi, Amy Kringle, Claudia Gluck,
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  Gracie Walton, Ariel Lowen, Maddie Sturt,
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  Abigail Doman, Jennifer Muir,
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  Lucy Campbell.
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  this is not the best thirty
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  we could get to the
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  crossfit games when I'm
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  reading down these names at
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  the top of the list there
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  are names here that are
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  definitely not in the top
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  thirty so then if we go
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  over to the men and you
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  look at the list we end up
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  with isaac newman
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  Morteza Sagat, Ty Jenkins, Peter Ellis,
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  Toby Buckland, Jason Hopper,
• 21:43
  Harry Lightfoot, Chris Ibarra,
• 21:46
  Justin Medeiros, Caelan Souza,
• 21:49
  Austin Hatfield, Ricky Garrard, Roman,
• 21:52
  Dallin Pepper, Moritz Fiebig,
• 21:56
  Callum Clements, Bronislaw Linkiewicz,
• 21:59
  Tudor Magda, Colton Mertens, Jay Crouch,
• 22:02
  Henrique Moriera, Colin Bossard,
• 22:05
  Enrico Zanoni,
• 22:07
  James Bragg, Nick Matthew, Jeff Adler.
• 22:13
  Eric Mackey says, fix one thing every year,
• 22:15
  screw up two new things.
• 22:25
  Aaron Frazier,
• 22:25
  the athletes don't even
• 22:26
  understand the season
• 22:27
  they're competing in.
• 22:42
  Um, Ken Walters has a, uh,
• 22:44
  an American version of this,
• 22:47
  but we do have to allow
• 22:49
  Europe and Australia into the mix.
• 22:55
  We know that there are
• 22:56
  countries that are better
• 22:57
  than others at CrossFit at this time.
• 23:11
  Aaron Frazier.
• 23:12
  That mail list is missing
• 23:13
  one of the top five fittest
• 23:14
  from the open.
• 23:15
  It is.
• 23:27
  We're waiting on an
• 23:28
  investigation to find out
• 23:29
  if he still is one of the
• 23:30
  top five fittest.
• 23:38
  Dee Reed says there is no
• 23:40
  perfect solution.
• 23:42
  Every sport has these issues.
• 23:43
  You can only go by who
• 23:45
  competes and who wins.
• 23:46
  It does not matter who could
• 23:47
  be there or who could win.
• 23:50
  I disagree with that to some degree.
• 23:52
  The other thing is most
• 23:53
  sports have a plan going
• 23:55
  into the season and don't
• 23:57
  flip the switch on that
• 23:58
  plan midway through.
• 24:00
  And that's what seems to
• 24:01
  happen every year.
• 24:11
  And that seems to be what
• 24:12
  happens every year with CrossFit.
• 24:22
  Halpin says the issue isn't
• 24:23
  necessarily the current system.
• 24:24
  It's that the system changes
• 24:26
  so often and changes mid-season.
• 24:35
  Like changing programming or
• 24:36
  a gym every few months.
• 24:53
  Ken Walters, I disagree.
• 24:54
  Other sports are set for years.
• 24:57
  Maybe a wild card change or something,
• 24:58
  but never an entire season change format.
• 25:21
  And if you change the rules,
• 25:22
  it goes into a vote with
• 25:25
  the ownership of that league,
• 25:28
  and they talk about it,
• 25:29
  and they vote on it, and they discuss it.
• 25:31
  It's just not done in the flash of a pan.
• 25:49
  Okay.
• 25:57
  Man, there's a lot here.
• 26:01
  So what does need to change
• 26:02
  to get that stability?
• 26:03
  I think you have to have a
• 26:04
  plan for what the season is going to be,
• 26:06
  and you stick to that plan for the year.
• 26:08
  That's it.
• 26:14
  Doug says, that's not true.
• 26:15
  In junior aquatics,
• 26:16
  we often do not know when
• 26:18
  or where a zone qualifier will be,
• 26:20
  regardless of the athletics
• 26:21
  trained for the what if.
• 26:26
  but I think there's a lot of
• 26:27
  examples where they do know
• 26:29
  where the qualifiers are in the season.
• 26:33
  And you're going to find
• 26:34
  outliers like this and
• 26:35
  CrossFit that do not.
• 26:47
  You aren't going to see
• 26:47
  growth without sound mechanics,
• 26:49
  consistency over time at
• 26:51
  relative high intensity.
• 26:52
  Some one smart once said that.
• 27:08
  Doug,
• 27:08
  I'm not trying to compare it to a
• 27:10
  professional sport.
• 27:11
  I'm trying to compare it to
• 27:12
  just other leagues.
• 27:15
  When I do my rec league softball,
• 27:17
  I knew my schedule of games
• 27:20
  for the season,
• 27:21
  and I knew that the top
• 27:23
  four went to the playoffs.
• 27:26
  I knew that,
• 27:26
  and it was not a professional league,
• 27:28
  but it was run in a professional manner.
• 27:41
  I think having a seasoned
• 27:42
  structure is something that
• 27:44
  can be done and can be understood.
• 27:47
  If the athletes don't even
• 27:48
  know how they qualify,
• 27:49
  we've got a problem.
• 27:57
  Edging says,
• 27:58
  I just say the serenity prayer.
• 28:01
  That helps too.
• 28:05
  Other sports are in some
• 28:06
  cases over a century old.
• 28:07
  I wonder how long it took
• 28:09
  for them to stabilize to
• 28:10
  the formats that we know today.
• 28:14
  It's a good point.
• 28:21
  Eric Mackey worldwide
• 28:22
  rankings was a good idea in theory,
• 28:24
  but holes pokes before the
• 28:25
  season even started not vetted properly.
• 28:29
  Yeah, I think that's it.
• 28:32
  really anxious to see who's
• 28:33
  gonna buy crossfit because
• 28:34
  they may make some changes
• 28:36
  that will be good and
• 28:37
  things that we need to see
• 28:38
  and I just would like for
• 28:43
  so for there was a stable
• 28:44
  time in crossfit from
• 28:47
  twenty eleven to twenty
• 28:51
  eighteen where we knew what
• 28:53
  the season structure was
• 28:56
  The regions may have modified,
• 28:59
  but we knew the structure
• 29:00
  was open regional games.
• 29:05
  And that was when CrossFit
• 29:07
  grew the fastest.
• 29:10
  To the point where if you
• 29:11
  believe some of the media
• 29:13
  people out there,
• 29:15
  that major networks wanted
• 29:17
  to air the CrossFit games
• 29:19
  and the regionals after the
• 29:30
  Then it all blew up, and ever since then,
• 29:32
  we have not had the same
• 29:33
  season two years in a row.
• 29:43
  Shelby Neal didn't know she
• 29:44
  was eligible to compete at NorCal.
• 29:46
  She thought it was regional-based.
• 29:50
  That's a problem.
• 29:55
  There are a lot of good
• 29:56
  ideas that never get time
• 29:57
  to grow on the vine.
• 29:59
  Exactly.
• 30:00
  I'm not saying that some of
• 30:01
  the structures they put
• 30:01
  together were bad.
• 30:05
  Some of them had good ideas in them,
• 30:06
  but we never left them in
• 30:07
  place long enough to allow
• 30:10
  them to mature and grow and
• 30:13
  to be understood.
• 30:20
  So.
• 30:23
  The last thing I wanted to
• 30:24
  address in Grant's little
• 30:27
  rant that he put out there today was,
• 30:30
  and that's Kipping It Real.
• 30:31
  Grant from Kipping It Real
• 30:33
  put out a video.
• 30:35
  He also talked about the WFP.
• 30:38
  And I have two things about
• 30:39
  his statement that just
• 30:41
  have been grinding my gears for a while.
• 30:43
  And that is that the WFP is
• 30:46
  not the CrossFit Games.
• 30:49
  comparing tour stop one to
• 30:50
  the crossfit games is just
• 30:52
  not fair tour stop one is
• 30:55
  one component to their
• 30:58
  their ongoing season the
• 31:00
  drama has yet to build it
• 31:02
  was the first time we got
• 31:03
  any data tour stop two will
• 31:06
  get some more data and the
• 31:08
  leaderboard will shuffle
• 31:09
  and then things change and
• 31:11
  it becomes more dramatic
• 31:14
  then we go to the world
• 31:15
  championships and then
• 31:16
  there's even more drama and
• 31:18
  it's going to build there
• 31:20
  has been no time to allow
• 31:21
  that season to develop and
• 31:24
  build I'm not saying that
• 31:28
  the crossfit games are not
• 31:29
  the pinnacle of of the
• 31:32
  crossfit games season or
• 31:34
  the crossfit season or the
• 31:35
  fitness season or whatever
• 31:36
  we're calling it these days
• 31:39
  But to compare it to Tour
• 31:41
  Stop One is unfair to Tour Stop One.
• 31:43
  That was just the start of their season.
• 31:48
  And then he made the
• 31:49
  statement that the WFP
• 31:51
  makes you pay back your
• 31:54
  contract with your winnings.
• 31:57
  Payback is not the right term.
• 32:00
  The athlete signed a
• 32:02
  contract for minimum
• 32:04
  earnings in the season.
• 32:07
  So when they start the season, they know,
• 32:10
  at a minimum, I'm going to make this.
• 32:13
  You can accumulate winnings
• 32:15
  that are greater than that
• 32:17
  contract signing and make more money.
• 32:21
  But at a minimum,
• 32:22
  you're getting X number of dollars.
• 32:26
  They don't give it to you and then say,
• 32:29
  you didn't win enough, pay it back.
• 32:31
  Or, hey, you won, here's the check,
• 32:34
  pay it back to us.
• 32:36
  It's not a payback.
• 32:38
  It is a, hey,
• 32:40
  we're signing you and we're
• 32:41
  guaranteeing that you will
• 32:43
  make at least this amount of money.
• 32:47
  Then as the season plays out,
• 32:50
  you can win more than what
• 32:52
  that minimum is.
• 32:54
  And if you win more than the minimum,
• 32:55
  you get the overage in
• 32:58
  addition to your minimum.
• 33:05
  Jaybert says it sounds like a loan.
• 33:07
  It is not a loan because you
• 33:09
  never have to pay it back.
• 33:12
  Even if you go through the
• 33:14
  season and you never win an
• 33:15
  event or never win a dollar,
• 33:17
  you are guaranteed that
• 33:19
  minimum amount of money for
• 33:20
  the season and you never
• 33:22
  have to pay it back.
• 33:25
  All it's saying is that if
• 33:27
  you do win and you win more
• 33:30
  than that minimum,
• 33:31
  you get to win all of that prize money.
• 33:36
  And you don't even need the
• 33:37
  minimum part of our contract.
• 33:48
  Ken says,
• 33:49
  that's the athlete's
• 33:50
  responsibility to
• 33:51
  understand their sport no matter what.
• 33:53
  That's like an athlete saying,
• 33:54
  I didn't know that was a
• 33:56
  banned substance to your research,
• 33:58
  Shelby.
• 34:06
  current structure has hq
• 34:07
  dependent on third parties
• 34:09
  keeping the season afloat
• 34:10
  did any of them make money
• 34:12
  I you'd have to ask them
• 34:14
  but I don't it be hard to
• 34:19
  imagine many of the events
• 34:21
  making money torian probably made money
• 34:38
  Jonathan Ortega said,
• 34:39
  I thought it was based on
• 34:41
  Region II since all the others were.
• 34:44
  Not all the others.
• 34:45
  There were only three that
• 34:47
  were based on Region.
• 34:50
  TFX, Syndicate, and Africa,
• 34:57
  Rebel Renegade Games.
• 34:59
  They were the only events
• 35:01
  that were based on Region.
• 35:11
  Understand.
• 35:11
  So if a contract is for
• 35:13
  twenty K and the athlete
• 35:14
  wins thirty K in an event,
• 35:16
  they only get ten K extra,
• 35:17
  not fifty K. Well.
• 35:23
  It's better put is if the
• 35:25
  contract is for twenty K
• 35:26
  and the athlete wins thirty K in an event,
• 35:29
  they get thirty K and.
• 35:32
  Anything they win beyond
• 35:34
  that they get as well.
• 35:36
  Because they have gone above
• 35:38
  their minimum.
• 35:41
  It's not extra.
• 35:42
  It's they won the thirty K.
• 35:45
  And then they they are past
• 35:46
  their minimum.
• 35:47
  So they will win everything
• 35:49
  in moving forward for that year.
• 35:58
  Andrew,
• 35:58
  it's it's been done in tennis for years.
• 36:03
  Athletes used to get an appearance fee,
• 36:06
  so they were guaranteed at
• 36:07
  least some money if they
• 36:08
  showed up to a tournament.
• 36:09
  And if they won above and beyond that,
• 36:12
  their prize money was the
• 36:13
  prize money and they didn't
• 36:15
  get the appearance fee
• 36:16
  because they exceeded it.
• 36:20
  It's just to guarantee that
• 36:21
  you have some money.
• 36:25
  It doesn't suck.
• 36:27
  You go into a season knowing
• 36:31
  you have money to pay for it.
• 36:36
  And you have the ability to
• 36:37
  make way more than that.
• 36:44
  They didn't sign a contract
• 36:46
  for twenty K. They signed a
• 36:48
  contract saying they could
• 36:49
  earn no less than twenty K
• 36:51
  for the season.
• 37:05
  Benita said if athletes
• 37:06
  thought that sucked and
• 37:07
  they shouldn't have signed up.
• 37:10
  I think CrossFit athletes
• 37:11
  who usually don't make any
• 37:12
  money from CrossFit are probably happy.
• 37:14
  have guaranteed income I
• 37:17
  agree completely benita ken
• 37:29
  walters the part that sucks
• 37:31
  for the winners as an
• 37:32
  athlete could finish last
• 37:33
  every event but still get
• 37:34
  the contract amount they
• 37:36
  can just coast but they're
• 37:37
  going to coast for the
• 37:38
  minimum they're just going
• 37:40
  to coast for the room and
• 37:41
  they're not going to get a
• 37:42
  pro card for the next year
• 37:45
  So then they won't have that
• 37:47
  option next year.
• 37:58
  Edging.
• 37:58
  Anyone who ever worked on a
• 37:59
  draw versus commission should understand.
• 38:08
  There are going to be
• 38:09
  athletes that take
• 38:09
  advantage of the guaranteed money.
• 38:12
  And if they're hurt or they're
• 38:16
  I love Bethany to death,
• 38:17
  but take Bethany for example.
• 38:19
  She knew she had a minimum
• 38:20
  and all she had to do was
• 38:21
  show up for that and she
• 38:23
  got a third of her minimum
• 38:26
  because she showed up for
• 38:27
  that event in Indianapolis.
• 38:41
  If Austin wins again,
• 38:42
  he gets that extra thirty K
• 38:44
  keeps pro card and he wins
• 38:46
  the championship.
• 38:47
  He wins that also on top of
• 38:49
  the minimum contract.
• 38:50
  Correct.
• 38:55
  And next year,
• 38:55
  the athletes who coast get
• 38:56
  zero dollars and Colton
• 38:58
  Onik and fee get a contract minimum.
• 39:01
  Correct.
• 39:11
  So there's definitely a
• 39:13
  penalty for coasting.
• 39:15
  It means you get nothing the
• 39:16
  following year.
• 39:23
  I actually love the concept
• 39:25
  because right now, like in CrossFit,
• 39:27
  you get no money for anything.
• 39:30
  You have to pay your way there.
• 39:31
  You have to pay your expenses to be there,
• 39:35
  so on and so forth.
• 39:37
  It's just an effort to be
• 39:38
  somewhat different in
• 39:40
  giving athletes an
• 39:41
  opportunity and what can
• 39:43
  they do with it if you take
• 39:44
  a little bit of that
• 39:45
  pressure off of the athlete
• 39:47
  and see what happens.
• 39:50
  And we need to let it play
• 39:51
  out to see what that is.
• 40:03
  Halbin says the first year
• 40:04
  is wonky because they hand-selected them.
• 40:07
  Every year forward, it's merit-based.
• 40:10
  And every year forward,
• 40:11
  it's even more merit-based.
• 40:13
  The further down the road they get,
• 40:15
  the more legit those top-twenty are.
• 40:23
  And Doug wants to know where
• 40:25
  the money comes from.
• 40:26
  It can't be based off attendance.
• 40:28
  Is it really sustainable?
• 40:31
  The way I look at that is
• 40:32
  it's just like with my Chicago Bears.
• 40:36
  I want them to sign all the free agents.
• 40:38
  I want them to have the best
• 40:39
  players they can possibly get.
• 40:41
  Do I care where that money comes from?
• 40:43
  I do not.
• 40:45
  I just figure they own the
• 40:46
  team and they made a plan
• 40:50
  and a budget to be able to
• 40:51
  buy those players.
• 40:55
  I'm assuming the same thing with the WFP.
• 40:57
  They know what they're getting into.
• 40:59
  They had to put together a budget.
• 41:01
  They have money coming from somewhere,
• 41:03
  and it's not my
• 41:05
  responsibility to make sure
• 41:06
  it's sustainable.
• 41:07
  It's theirs.
• 41:16
  I don't need to know how the
• 41:17
  hot dog's made.
• 41:18
  I just want a good hot dog.
• 41:31
  And Jonathan could be right.
• 41:33
  Maybe it's cocaine and drugs, baby.
• 41:41
  Corey is telling me that
• 41:42
  every NFL team has commercial revenue,
• 41:44
  TV revenue.
• 41:46
  Right.
• 41:46
  But I don't care.
• 41:48
  I don't keep a ledger of that stuff.
• 41:52
  I don't care.
• 42:02
  And Doug wants to know if
• 42:03
  the hot dog is lips and butts.
• 42:05
  I get it.
• 42:10
  But their sustainability has
• 42:11
  nothing to do with me.
• 42:14
  I just, I enjoyed,
• 42:16
  I will tell you that I
• 42:17
  enjoyed the WFP broadcast
• 42:19
  and the athletes
• 42:20
  participating in that event
• 42:22
  more than eighty percent of
• 42:24
  the online syndicate or
• 42:26
  online qualify or in-person
• 42:29
  qualifying events.
• 42:33
  other than mayhem and
• 42:34
  syndicate it was hard to
• 42:36
  have a good field with a
• 42:37
  good stream to watch
• 42:39
  something as good as wfp
• 42:47
  chicago pro sports team
• 42:48
  money still coming from the
• 42:49
  capone crime syndicate I
• 42:52
  would not be surprised
• 43:04
  And Jeff says that there are
• 43:05
  even beaks and butts in hot dogs.
• 43:12
  So anyway,
• 43:13
  I'm trying to just explain the
• 43:15
  contract aspect of WFP
• 43:18
  because everybody's like, it's not fair,
• 43:20
  it's not fair.
• 43:21
  It is way fair.
• 43:22
  They are guaranteeing a minimum.
• 43:24
  You can earn above that
• 43:25
  minimum through the year if
• 43:27
  you have a good season.
• 43:29
  And if you're coasting to
• 43:30
  just collect the minimum, you're gone.
• 43:36
  But with that, guys,
• 43:38
  my lunch hour is just about over.
• 43:42
  Don't forget today at two p.m.,
• 43:44
  which is just one hour from now,
• 43:46
  we are going to have Reese
• 43:47
  Littlewood on the show.
• 43:50
  I am interviewing her after
• 43:52
  her great two-win
• 43:53
  performance at the Syndicate Crown.
• 43:57
  So that'll hold you over
• 43:58
  until the broadcast gets
• 44:00
  their recordings back to the
• 44:02
  room and uploaded and then
• 44:04
  you can jump right after
• 44:05
  Reese Littlewood you can
• 44:06
  jump into NorCal Classic
• 44:09
  coverage after they get it
• 44:11
  uploaded Hoppin they've
• 44:17
  done one single event with
• 44:18
  less than two hundred fifty
• 44:19
  athletes everyone is
• 44:20
  comparing them to an
• 44:21
  eighteen plus year
• 44:22
  competition that is the
• 44:24
  pinnacle of the sport it's
• 44:25
  Waza with three events
• 44:27
  versus two and I'm going to
• 44:31
  leave you on this
• 44:33
  More importantly,
• 44:34
  how does the community get back together?
• 44:37
  There is a clear divide and there is,
• 44:40
  and I want nothing more
• 44:41
  than the community to come back together
• 44:43
  Because I love this community.
• 44:45
  I love this sport.
• 44:47
  I love this methodology.
• 44:49
  It saved my life.
• 44:51
  And that's why I'm here
• 44:53
  every day at lunch to hang
• 44:54
  out with you guys on Lunch
• 44:56
  with Clydesdale.
• 44:57
  Now, you knuckleheads,
• 44:59
  it's time to get back to work.
• 45:00
  We'll see you in an hour
• 45:03
  with Reese Littlewood.
• 45:05
  Bye, guys.