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Lunch with the Clydesdale - What can CrossFit Learn from the Academy Awards · Clydesdale Media Podcast

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  what is going on everybody
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  it is lunchtime lunch with
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  the Clydesdale we are here
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  what's up Jody what's up
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  Meredith Ken Walters my man
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  Ken and I had a nice chat
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  in the spin chat last night
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  um I didn't know he was a
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  card collector from long
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  ago um this used to be a
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  man cave where I do my
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  podcast and that wall
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  used to be all signed
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  football mini helmets.
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  that I got every one signed in person.
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  I went and acquired the
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  signature from the athlete,
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  and then I had a bunch of
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  football cards from when I was a kid.
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  And I'm a big Chicago Bears fan.
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  I grew up outside of Pittsburgh,
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  so I had two big frames.
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  One of them had every Walter
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  Payton card ever made by Topps,
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  chronologically from his
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  rookie year to even after he retired.
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  And it even included a box
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  bottom from the nineteen
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  eighty four eighty five set
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  that was pristine.
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  then I had a bunch of the
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  seventy steelers in a frame
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  uh all their rookie cards
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  framed up in a frame um I
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  ended up selling all of
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  that stuff off uh in order
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  to buy a really good camera
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  to be able to do behind the
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  scenes of the masters
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  crossfit games to be able
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  to take on the road with me
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  uh to do different things
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  live from events um
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  And it really came down to
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  my daughter didn't want any
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  of the stuff that I had.
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  I'm fifty five.
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  I can't take it with me.
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  And why not go ahead and
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  liquidate those assets in
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  order to do something
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  that's my passion right now,
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  which is to do this show,
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  to do things at events,
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  things of that nature.
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  And so that's what I did.
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  And I don't regret it one bit.
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  But it blew me away when Ken said,
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  if you ever want another
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  rookie Walter Payton,
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  I got seven of them.
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  And that's when you know
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  that Ken is a hardcore card collector.
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  So I thought that was really cool.
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  But we talked about that
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  during the spin podcast.
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  And I'm sure that people did
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  not care at all.
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  Seventeen of them.
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  Seventeen of them.
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  Oh, my gosh, Ken.
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  That is crazy.
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  As a, as a poor kid from Pennsylvania,
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  I actually acquired my
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  rookie Walter Payton
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  through a dice game at a County fair.
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  There was a card collector
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  there selling cards.
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  He had a game where you paid a dollar.
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  You got to roll the dice.
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  I think it was five dice.
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  And whatever number you got,
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  you got the card that was in that slot.
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  And the rookie, Walter Payton,
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  was in the thirty slot.
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  And I actually rolled five sixes.
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  And that's how I acquired
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  the card for a buck.
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  And...
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  So, yeah.
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  And then I ended up selling
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  it way under value.
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  My gosh.
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  I wish I would have known
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  Ken was in the business.
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  I would have talked to him
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  about like maybe some
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  better places to sell.
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  But I did all my selling on
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  eBay and I probably sold
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  the rookie Peyton for like
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  one sixty one seventy
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  something like that.
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  Um, and I know the, the, the value of it,
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  book value of it is, um, gosh,
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  I like three hundred and something.
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  I think Ken, am I right?
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  But, uh, I didn't have anything graded,
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  but I did keep them and they were framed,
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  um, and in pristine condition from, uh,
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  they were framed in the eighties, uh,
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  and never removed from the frame.
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  So, yeah.
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  Jody Lynn says,
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  I will never see the number
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  thirty four without
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  thinking of Walter Payton.
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  I agree with you.
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  He is my favorite athlete of all time.
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  Yeah.
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  probably the reason I became
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  a bears fan was Walter Payton.
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  Um, when I was young,
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  my parents were diehard Steeler fans.
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  I just got sick of it and I
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  wanted to rebel.
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  And so Walter Payton was my
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  favorite player.
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  And then, um,
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  and then um so I just picked
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  the bears and that was like
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  the early eighties so I
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  then I caught the wave as
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  they got better and better
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  and ended up winning the
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  super bowl in and then I
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  was hooked for life and
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  then it's been a horrible
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  horrible fandom in the last
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  twenty years but hopefully
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  we've switched all that
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  around um but I man
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  I used to get so either
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  hyped or depressed
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  depending on how the bears
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  were doing when they lost
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  in the super bowl to the
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  Colts in Oh six or Oh,
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  I think it was Oh six.
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  Um, I mean, I was depressed forever.
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  It felt like months took me
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  to get over that game.
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  Um,
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  I have over two million cards,
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  probably about five hundred
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  thousand are common than
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  other eight thousand pieces
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  of memorabilia.
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  That is amazing.
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  That is amazing.
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  Have you ever watched?
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  I think it's called the
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  Golden Touch on Netflix, where.
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  The Golden Group get pieces
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  of memorabilia for auction.
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  It's it's produced by Peyton Manning.
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  It is.
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  I find it fascinating,
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  having been in the world of
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  collectibles for a while.
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  But I think they just got
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  bought out by a much bigger company.
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  So I'm wondering if the show
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  will survive or not.
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  Oh, my gosh.
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  A graded rookie ten patent
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  worth fifty K to seventy five K. Wow.
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  Yeah, and I sold mine for one sixty.
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  Mine wouldn't have graded a ten, though.
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  I'm pretty sure.
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  but it might have been like
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  an eight or a nine.
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  uh it is a great show it is
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  it's fun to watch it's fun
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  to watch them and how they
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  acquire the memorabilia to
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  put up for auction and the
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  promises they have to make
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  and it's not just sports
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  like though they there's
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  episodes where they find I
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  find a guy who has every
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  apple computer ever made uh
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  and then every iphone that
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  was ever made and he keeps
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  them in pristine condition
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  um like goofy stuff it's
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  amazing what people would
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  collect and I and I guess
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  it's like moved into purses
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  and like if you can find
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  gucci stuff or stuff like
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  that it um louis vuitton
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  and all of that is on this
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  show of collectibles so
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  it's not just um it's not
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  just sports collectibles
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  Grade nine, ten to fifteen K. Gosh, man,
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  don't say that.
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  Oh, my.
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  I got duped.
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  And Jody says, oh, my God,
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  that's a crazy amount of cards.
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  It is a crazy amount of
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  cards and a crazy amount of money.
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  What people will pay for a
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  piece of cardboard.
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  It is crazy.
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  Crazy.
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  um andrew stan or they get
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  duped when they x-ray a
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  sealed iphone that doesn't
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  actually have an iphone in
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  it I did see that episode
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  that that was crazy uh ken
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  is actually on his way uh
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  to look at a huge card card
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  collection uh and bought a
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  huge jersey collection last weekend
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  That is cool.
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  Now I really have to go to Minnesota.
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  I got to check this out.
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  Um, cause I would,
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  that would be so fun to look at.
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  Um,
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  Kat must be back from her work trip and
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  she just finished her workout.
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  So cool.
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  It was fun to hear Siobhan
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  give us some kudos and the
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  channel's growth this
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  morning and giving Kat some
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  kudos for her show,
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  but wondering if her family,
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  like her parents or her kids,
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  watch the show.
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  And she is so open and honest.
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  It is...
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  it's fun and then then to
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  know that her daughter and
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  her daughter's college
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  friends listen to the show
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  is freaking hilarious to me
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  um my wife actually brought
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  up the show to me today my
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  wife never listens to my
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  show and she's bringing up
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  stuff that cat talked about
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  so apparently she listens
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  to cat show cat's show but
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  not mine so there it is that's awesome
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  So one of the things I
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  wanted to talk about today
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  is it was recently announced.
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  Jody Lynn says, Kat,
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  you need to go on the show later, daters.
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  That sounds fun.
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  Ken says, it used to be a side hustle,
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  but when I lost my job in twenty twenty,
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  my wife was cool with
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  retiring and going full time.
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  Problem was is she thought I
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  would only be selling.
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  yeah there's a reason it's
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  called collectors and not
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  um yeah it's not called
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  buyers it's not it's not
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  called selling it's called
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  collecting um and
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  collectors have a hard time
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  getting rid of what they
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  buy that's what I learned
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  from these shows
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  Um, and I,
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  I'll tell you when I sold my stuff off,
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  I had a really hard time with it,
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  but at the end of the day, to me,
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  I had to like reconcile what,
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  what was I going to do with it?
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  I can't take it with me.
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  And at the end of the day,
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  it's just stuff.
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  Um, so yeah, but, but I love,
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  I still love looking at the stuff.
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  Um, I mean, as you can tell behind me,
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  like I love collecting stuff.
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  So like,
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  these signed CrossFit shirts
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  and jerseys and stuff is
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  really cool to me.
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  And I, so I still collect things,
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  but I just try to collect
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  things that are like more
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  important to me.
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  Uh,
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  Ken says I might be considered a
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  hoarder at this point.
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  It's a fine line there, dude.
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  Fine line.
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  Um,
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  So, yeah.
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  So,
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  I was reading the news and the Academy
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  Awards have actually changed a rule.
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  And you're never going to
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  believe what this is.
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  When I read it, I was like,
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  you've got to be kidding me.
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  They are just like CrossFit.
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  So the rule passed this year,
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  not for the Academy Awards
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  we just watched,
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  but for the upcoming year,
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  is that in order to vote on
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  the nominees for Best Picture, Best Actor,
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  Best Actress, Supporting,
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  all the big ones,
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  you actually have to have
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  watched the movie.
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  Before this year,
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  you could vote on all of
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  that stuff and never have
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  watched the movies.
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  but they have now made it a
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  rule that in order to vote on these,
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  you have to have watched the movie.
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  One that boggles my mind
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  that that was never a rule in the past.
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  Now let's fast forward that
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  to the CrossFit world when
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  you can judge a video
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  online and not even have watched it.
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  So we have the same rule in CrossFit.
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  As the Academy Awards had to
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  vote for best picture.
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  So I don't know is are we in good company?
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  Are we in bad company?
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  Now,
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  the Academy Awards have made that rule
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  change.
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  And Dave said on his weekend review now,
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  in order to give a thumbs
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  up or thumbs down,
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  you have to give a comment.
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  And I can't wait to see if
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  this weekend during the individuals,
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  they've made that change or
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  if they're waiting until
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  the twenty six season to do so.
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  I am hoping, hoping beyond hope that.
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  One,
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  I think it's going to make life a
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  whole lot easier for
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  CrossFit when you get legit
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  thumbs up and thumbs down
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  because they have to give a
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  comment as to why.
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  It will allow them to sort
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  through the rubble that is
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  the no rep accusations much
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  quicker when you actually
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  see a reason and people
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  just can't go in there and hit a button.
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  think we all are clamoring
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  for this and thankfully it
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  looks like crossfit is
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  listening I just want to
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  see how fast they're going
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  to react to it so but
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  apparently it took the
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  academy awards about a
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  hundred years to decide
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  that they wanted people to
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  watch the movie that they
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  were voting for best picture
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  And as I've told you,
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  of movies I've seen this
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  year that were nominated,
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  the one that won is not
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  what I would have picked
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  for best picture.
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  And it makes me question the
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  validity of a best picture
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  when the voters didn't even
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  have to watch the movie to vote for it.
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  Because the premise...
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  I think it was Anon.
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  I don't even remember the
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  name of the movie anymore.
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  The premise I liked,
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  the execution of the movie was not good,
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  in my opinion.
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  Where something like A Complete Unknown,
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  I thought was executed much
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  better for what it was.
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  Anora.
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  Thank you, Jay Birch.
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  Anora.
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  Yeah,
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  Anora was not executed at a level
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  that satisfied me.
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  So where A Complete Unknown
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  was artistically done very,
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  very well and gave a good
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  impression of what those
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  early years of Bob Dylan
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  would have been like.
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  And I really enjoyed that movie much,
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  much more.
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  so so yeah so and I think
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  that crossfit now can take
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  a step forward and
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  hopefully let's see this
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  weekend that happen so uh I
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  also filled out my heat app
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  for the weekend um two's gonna qualify
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  so I'm going to reveal what
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  those are it's hard eleven
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  is not very many spots so
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  when we look at the um
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  women's division I've gone
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  in the heat one app and I
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  encourage you guys to do
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  the same thing I try to
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  beat my picks as you can
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  see I made my heat one app
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  picks right there uh I have
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  ariel lowen taking first
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  alex kazan taking second
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  Alexis Raptus, third.
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  Danielle Brandon, fourth.
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  Olivia Kerstetter, fifth.
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  Annika Greer, sixth.
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  Amy Kringle, seventh.
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  Paige Semenza, eighth.
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  Miriam Von Rohr, ninth.
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  Emily Rolfe, tenth.
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  And Carolyn Prevost in eleventh.
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  I have missing out notables Grace Walton,
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  Brooke Wells, Haley Adams, Maddie Sturt.
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  I don't think Tia Toomey is doing it.
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  Claudia Gluck.
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  Shelby Neal, Hattie Cano.
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  So that's who I have for my women.
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  On the men's side, I have Adler first,
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  Dallin Pepper second, Hopper third,
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  Ricky Garrard fourth, Jay Crouch fifth,
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  Justin Madera sixth,
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  Bailey Martin seventh, Sam Kwan eighth,
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  BKG ninth, James Sprague tenth,
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  and Jack Rosema eleventh.
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  missing is yonikoski uh
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  anola kai luke parker
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  george sterner travis
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  mayard uh chris ibarra and
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  I don't think rich froning
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  is going to do the workout
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  so I did not pick him
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  either if he did them I
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  probably would pick them
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  pick him but I don't think he is
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  So those are my eleven on the men's side.
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  Adler, Pepper, Hopper, Gerrard, Crouch,
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  Medeiros, Martin, Quant, BKG, Sprague,
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  and Rosema.
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  And on the women's side, Lohan, Gazan,
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  Raptus, Brandon, Kerstetter, Greer,
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  Kringle, Zemenza, Rohr, Rolfe,
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  and Prevost.
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  So those are my picks for the top eleven.
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  So join in and try to try to beat me.
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  Did you see the Apollo one
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  hundred rankings?
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  I did not.
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  And those are Barkley's
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  Barkley Dale's rankings.
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  I have I like Barkley.
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  I like Barkley a lot.
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  And I think numbers are important.
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  But I think sometimes
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  Barkley's position is the
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  numbers are more important
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  than what you see in performance.
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  And I'm not sure of the
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  weight of the event,
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  depending on when it
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  happens during the season.
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  And so he's made claims on
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  some shows that I
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  completely disagree with.
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  So I guess I haven't dove
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  into like his stuff yet and
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  maybe I need to, um,
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  over the course of the next few days,
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  just kind of see what he has out there.
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  Um,
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  I'd love to see what the makeup of it.
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  So hopefully I can kind of
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  do some research on all of
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  that in the coming days.
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  I have to head home to
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  Pennsylvania this weekend
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  to celebrate my mom's birthday.
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  It's actually today.
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  So happy birthday to Mama Schweitzer.
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  She turns eighty today.
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  She is an inspiration to so many people.
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  My mom was completely out of
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  shape a few years ago.
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  Um, and struggled to get around.
• 20:57
  She lost a hundred and fifty
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  pounds and ended up doing
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  five K after five K after
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  five K started doing some four milers.
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  Um,
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  she's probably done fifty or sixty of
• 21:09
  those.
• 21:10
  Um, since then, um,
• 21:12
  she lives in a small town
• 21:13
  where there is no CrossFit,
• 21:15
  but every time she would come to visit,
• 21:17
  she would drop in and do CrossFit with,
• 21:19
  with us here.
• 21:21
  Um.
• 21:23
  she's just such an
• 21:24
  inspiration and uh so glad
• 21:26
  to have her in my life and
• 21:29
  um she is she's an amazing
• 21:32
  amazing woman so happy
• 21:34
  eightieth birthday to my
• 21:35
  mom and we are headed home
• 21:38
  to see her this weekend and
• 21:40
  throw a party for her on
• 21:41
  saturday and then I'll be
• 21:43
  back hopefully in time well
• 21:46
  I will be back in time to
• 21:47
  do the sunday night show um so
• 21:51
  Uh, that'll, that'll be the weekend.
• 21:54
  And then my wife goes in for
• 21:55
  her second knee surgery on Tuesday.
• 21:59
  So yeah, it should be fun.
• 22:05
  That not fun.
• 22:06
  Uh, but we'll, we'll get through it.
• 22:08
  And then once she gets through this one,
• 22:10
  we'll be able to go do some stuff.
• 22:12
  Um, together as a family and like maybe,
• 22:17
  uh,
• 22:18
  go to Montana to see our
• 22:19
  daughter and actually hike
• 22:20
  up into the mountains and
• 22:21
  different things like that.
• 22:22
  Now that she's going to be
• 22:23
  all repaired and ready to go.
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  Uh, Meredith.
• 22:28
  Wow.
• 22:28
  That's incredible.
• 22:29
  Congrats to your mom.
• 22:30
  She is an incredible woman.
• 22:32
  That's awesome.
• 22:33
  Happy birthday.
• 22:34
  Jay Burch's mother-in-law's
• 22:35
  birthday is today as well.
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  And Ken Walters.
• 22:40
  Hell yeah.
• 22:40
  Mama Switzer.
• 22:42
  That's some boss stuff.
• 22:44
  It is.
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  So, um,
• 22:51
  can I get so tired of people saying
• 22:53
  I'm too old to start that stuff?
• 22:56
  You're right.
• 22:57
  I mean, my mom was in her,
• 23:00
  when she started that she
• 23:02
  would have been mid sixties.
• 23:06
  So, sixty five,
• 23:07
  probably when she started
• 23:09
  her fitness journey.
• 23:11
  And here she is at eighty,
• 23:14
  still going strong.
• 23:15
  We had the stroke a couple of weeks ago,
• 23:19
  but she's bounced back from that.
• 23:22
  She's back to doing her
• 23:23
  thing like nothing ever happened,
• 23:27
  just on a blood thinner to
• 23:28
  make sure it doesn't happen again.
• 23:32
  So there's that.
• 23:39
  What else?
• 23:40
  There were some Q&As that came out.
• 23:42
  The Barbell Spin posted
• 23:44
  about the in-person or
• 23:47
  in-affiliate semifinals this weekend.
• 23:51
  They allowed the athletes to ask questions,
• 23:54
  and they answered the
• 23:55
  frequently asked ones back
• 23:58
  in written form.
• 24:00
  And so two, I want to highlight,
• 24:03
  the barbell spin has
• 24:03
  highlighted these as well.
• 24:05
  Can you explain the backfill
• 24:06
  process between the
• 24:08
  in-affiliate semis and
• 24:09
  in-person qualifying events?
• 24:11
  And where this gets tricky
• 24:12
  is the in-person affiliate
• 24:15
  events are this weekend,
• 24:18
  yet the leaderboard does
• 24:20
  not finalize until May,
• 24:24
  so that's where things get tricky.
• 24:27
  so the french throwdown
• 24:28
  which is held from may
• 24:29
  ninth to the eleventh and
• 24:31
  the fittest experience from
• 24:32
  may sixteenth to the
• 24:33
  eighteenth actually come
• 24:35
  first chronologically in
• 24:37
  getting spots to the games
• 24:42
  so if you go to tfx and you
• 24:44
  get one of the spots to the
• 24:45
  games and then the in
• 24:47
  affiliate semi-final you
• 24:49
  finish in the top eleven
• 24:51
  your spot will be backfilled
• 24:53
  in the in-affiliate
• 24:54
  semifinal because that
• 24:56
  leaderboard came after TFX.
• 25:01
  So if you are an athlete who
• 25:03
  gets their spot either at
• 25:05
  the French Throwdown or at
• 25:07
  the Fittest Experience,
• 25:08
  that is where your
• 25:09
  qualifying event will be.
• 25:12
  And then if it turns out you
• 25:13
  finished in the top eleven
• 25:15
  in the affiliate semifinal,
• 25:17
  that spot will get
• 25:18
  backfilled because before
• 25:21
  the leaderboard finalized,
• 25:23
  you already got your spot to the games.
• 25:28
  I hope that makes sense.
• 25:30
  Because, yeah,
• 25:33
  that that can be a little bit confusing.
• 25:36
  And like I said to Carolyn this morning,
• 25:38
  I get the concept.
• 25:40
  But man,
• 25:40
  it's just another thing we have to
• 25:42
  explain in this process of this season.
• 25:46
  And I think that that makes
• 25:47
  things way harder for us to
• 25:50
  grow the sport, the methodology,
• 25:53
  everything because of all of that.
• 25:57
  The other big question was
• 26:00
  that overhead walking ledge
• 26:01
  with the dumbbells and them
• 26:03
  not being able to touch.
• 26:06
  And the question was
• 26:07
  actually asked during the
• 26:08
  overhead walking lunges,
• 26:10
  if the dumbbells make
• 26:11
  contact with each other accidentally,
• 26:13
  is it a no rep?
• 26:14
  And the answer from CrossFit was no.
• 26:17
  As long as the dumbbells are
• 26:18
  not held together,
• 26:20
  brief incidental contact
• 26:21
  will not be penalized.
• 26:22
  Brief incidental contact is
• 26:24
  when the dumbbells make
• 26:25
  contact either with one or
• 26:27
  both heads and then are separated.
• 26:30
  If the dumbbells remain touching,
• 26:32
  the reps will not count.
• 26:36
  So that's been a big
• 26:37
  question because the
• 26:39
  standard and the overhead
• 26:40
  walking dumbbell lunge is
• 26:43
  the dumbbells can't come together.
• 26:46
  Well, they can come together like that,
• 26:49
  but they can't come together and hold.
• 26:53
  So I'm trying to get it
• 26:55
  where you can see it,
• 26:56
  but they can come together.
• 26:59
  They can come together and
• 27:00
  bounce and that's fine.
• 27:03
  If they come together and hold no good.
• 27:07
  So those were the two big
• 27:09
  questions going into the weekend.
• 27:13
  I'm glad that CrossFit in
• 27:14
  writing has answered those
• 27:16
  so that everybody is on the same page.
• 27:18
  And I believe they get to
• 27:19
  start the workouts today, um,
• 27:24
  five PM maybe.
• 27:26
  Um, I don't know.
• 27:28
  That's usually when stuff happens.
• 27:32
  But the workouts were out
• 27:34
  earlier this weekend.
• 27:35
  They got the answers to these questions,
• 27:37
  and it starts sometime
• 27:38
  today where they'll be able
• 27:40
  to go ahead and start
• 27:41
  putting some stuff together.
• 27:46
  I thought...
• 27:48
  And then yesterday we talked
• 27:49
  about Metfix a little bit
• 27:51
  and Greg did talk about it
• 27:53
  somewhat yesterday on the Savant show.
• 27:56
  I went back to listen to
• 27:57
  that after I was advised by
• 27:59
  people in the chat that
• 28:00
  Greg had talked about
• 28:01
  Metfix and the competition stuff.
• 28:04
  And I get it.
• 28:07
  I think he believes,
• 28:09
  this is my summation of what he said.
• 28:11
  I think he believes that
• 28:12
  CrossFit has lost its way
• 28:14
  as being a health and fitness company.
• 28:18
  And it's geared more now
• 28:20
  towards the sport than it
• 28:22
  is to the health and
• 28:23
  wellness of the everyday
• 28:29
  athlete and the affiliate goer.
• 28:32
  And what MedFix is trying to
• 28:34
  do is fill that gap
• 28:37
  that CrossFit has lost his way on.
• 28:39
  And Greg even said that he
• 28:42
  believes it started to lose
• 28:43
  its way under his direction,
• 28:47
  under his ownership.
• 28:49
  Um, and so he wasn't blaming anybody else.
• 28:56
  I think he was just,
• 28:58
  he was blaming everybody
• 29:00
  involved that he let it get out of it,
• 29:02
  out of
• 29:04
  let it lose its way and lose
• 29:06
  and get off track.
• 29:08
  And I think now he has just,
• 29:12
  he has tried this med fix
• 29:14
  is trying to get everything
• 29:15
  back on track as to where
• 29:17
  it was at one time.
• 29:19
  And if you look at the website for med fix,
• 29:22
  it's very obvious that they
• 29:23
  are trying very hard to align the,
• 29:28
  mind body and um and
• 29:33
  wellness with um the belly
• 29:36
  part um and I think that
• 29:41
  there's no mention of sport
• 29:42
  on the medfix website it is
• 29:44
  all about everyday gym
• 29:46
  goers getting healthy and
• 29:48
  fit again um and I think
• 29:54
  the way he said it was uh
• 29:56
  pretty well done yesterday so
• 30:00
  Yeah, it was a good listen.
• 30:03
  I had to run a couple
• 30:03
  errands yesterday afternoon
• 30:04
  and that part of the
• 30:07
  interview filled my time
• 30:08
  enough to go do all of those.
• 30:11
  So that was pretty nice.
• 30:12
  And thank you, Aaron Frazier,
• 30:14
  for pointing me in that
• 30:15
  direction because it did
• 30:17
  answer some of the
• 30:18
  questions I had yesterday.
• 30:21
  So I think with that,
• 30:25
  that's about all I have.
• 30:26
  I did not throw my dart today.
• 30:28
  here we go and I didn't even
• 30:32
  aim and you can tell
• 30:33
  because I missed the
• 30:34
  dartboard altogether but I
• 30:35
  did hit the cork board
• 30:37
  around the dartboard so
• 30:38
  there it is pretty big dud
• 30:41
  to end the week on I'm not
• 30:43
  even ending the week we
• 30:44
  have one more day to go tomorrow
• 30:46
  But with that, that's my show for today.
• 30:51
  I've got to get back to work.
• 30:53
  You knuckleheads get back to work,
• 30:55
  and we'll see everybody
• 30:56
  tomorrow on Lunch with the Clydesdale.
• 30:59
  Bye, guys.