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Lunch with the Clydesdale - The Cowboy is Back to Help Break Down the New Season · Clydesdale Media Podcast

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Yesterday,
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CrossFit released the entire semifinal
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season.
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We've had twenty four hours to digest.
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Now let's talk next.
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I love the chase and the hunt and
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I set the pace when I'm running.
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I always take what I want and I
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always give it one hundred.
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Don't need a bank, no I'm funded.
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Play the game like it's nothing.
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I'm always thankful for something.
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Don't take for granted, stay humble.
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Now wake up!
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It's time to look at the enemy.
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Look in the mirror if he is no
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friend to me.
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What is going on everybody?
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It is lunchtime.
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We've got the whole season in front of
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us now, pretty much.
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And I figured what better way to talk
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about it than to bring back the cowboy
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so we could bounce off some things.
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I have a feeling Corey and I are
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going to think a little differently on
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some of these things.
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So it should be fun.
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This is like Brian Friend and Hill are
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getting together.
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Not quite.
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It's never going to happen.
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Wait, what?
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Not quite.
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I can't.
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I'm twenty five minutes into that video.
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That's.
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It's interesting to say the least.
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Yeah,
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I told you before we went on there,
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I actually really enjoyed it.
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so far it's good i mean they're i'm
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i don't know what people are expecting
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when they saw that brian was on there
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with him like there was going to be
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just a video there too just you know
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fist fighting the whole time but like hill
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is actually a really good dude he says
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what he says and then moves on with
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his life like he doesn't let the linger
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so uh yes that is that i would
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agree with that statement right there
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hillary gets so angry with brian because
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he actually really likes him
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I think he sees the value that Brian
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brings and then when he sees him do
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stuff that he doesn't necessarily agree
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with or that Brian just kind of goes
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off the rails with from time to time,
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because he does,
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then that is what annoys him.
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He's like, dude,
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you could be so much better than you
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are and you just let shit fucking get
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you sideways.
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Yeah,
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I think Hillard likes the geek side of
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Brian with all the spreadsheets and the
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data and how he comes up with his...
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how he comes up with his thoughts.
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Um,
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she's Hillary kept showing them in the
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video,
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like all the behind the scenes work that
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Brian puts into it,
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that gives him his evaluation.
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um but even brian admits some of that
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is arbitrary right it's just a ranking
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that he has um and i so i
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thought that was pretty interesting um i
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thought the the last part if you haven't
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gotten to it yet is um they actually
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go through every event they pick the
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winners of every event and who's going to
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finish dead last but they can only pick
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a person to finish dead last one time
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They put that rule on it.
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I'm not quite halfway through.
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I had it on the background.
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I was clicking back and forth between
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doing work stuff and whatnot,
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so I definitely did not get to that
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point yet.
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I like that, though.
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You can only pick one person to come
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in.
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Go pick somebody to come in last once.
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I like that.
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Yeah, it was pretty good.
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The one thing I've realized,
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we talked about it on Tuesday.
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I talked about it with the girls on
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Sunday night.
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always forget about Olivia.
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Yeah.
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Like she's going to do well here.
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And I did not put her in my
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thought process for podium.
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she's fit dude and she's strong as an
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ox it's ridiculous because she's so young
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and she's kind of in and out of
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the seasons because of she missed the
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games last year then she comes back takes
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third this year like she's going to be
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on the forethought of people's minds very
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soon but right now like i just keep
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forgetting to group her in with the big
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hitters and she's going to be there for
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a while yeah
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And like you said, she's like, yeah,
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a long while.
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She's super young.
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Is she twenty yet?
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No.
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And took third.
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Let's go ahead and just let that kind
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of sink in for a little bit.
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I would argue that Ariel gave her third
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with just a poor performance on the last
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event.
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but i always hate when people do that
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so yeah she took third she sees the
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opportunity she killed that last workout
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dude like absolutely just obliterated it
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yeah so astroserve uh and brian being the
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asperger that he is ofc often of course
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of course does not understand why andrew
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is mad
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I yeah I think that goes both ways
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in some some respects but we'll see it
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was good it could be a regular thing
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but I think like periodically it can be
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a good thing no one hundred percent you
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can definitely uh smell the tism coming
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off of that video between the two so
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um
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I, uh, I've been like, I've had a,
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like a hard time, like, you know,
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because of what I do every single,
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doing a daily show,
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like I have to consume so much content
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throughout the week that I've,
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I've hit this part in the last couple
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of weeks where I just, um,
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just get a little burnt, right?
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Like I need like some good competition.
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Crash was good.
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I just, I need,
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hopefully Rogue gives me that like push
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again.
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But I've been diving into other things.
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And my favorite writer in TV history is
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Aaron Sorkin.
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And he's written four stellar shows,
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in my opinion,
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Studio Sixty on the Sunset Strip,
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Sports Night, West Wing, and Newsroom.
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and so i uh i have most of
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them i own most of them um and
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so i'm diving into studio sixty it was
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one season it was great television it got
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canceled well before its time and uh and
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so i've been watching that just to like
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decompress decompress a little bit yeah a
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lot of stuff happening but and it it
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comes in bunches it seems like
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Um,
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stuff hits at once and then it kind
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of settles in for a little bit.
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Uh, craft fit says newsroom.
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Uh, the see me says yes.
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Sports night.
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Most people don't even know about sports
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night.
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And it is one of my favorite shows
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of all time.
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It was,
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it had a lot of stars in it
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before they became famous.
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Um,
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and it was a sitcom about like an
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ESPN sports center show behind the scenes.
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And then Megan newsroom was a fantastic
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show.
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Um,
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the first season of newsroom was the best.
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It,
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it got lost along the way in seasons
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two and three, a little bit.
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I still love it, but it's,
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those are probably my least favorite
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seasons of all the Aaron Sorkin stuff.
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He also wrote a few good men and
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the American precedent.
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So like,
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like the guy is like a killer writer
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and,
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Two very, very good movies.
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Cupid Man's awesome.
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The American president,
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when he finally stands up at the end
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and says his name, says,
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and I am the president.
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Like whoever, if he wrote that part,
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that was one of the best lines in
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the movies I ever heard.
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Yeah, there's a, there's a meme about
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picture your dog being jack nicholson and
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protecting your house and that's why he
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barks all the time and in like the
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indignance that you're upset for him
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barking that he you know you want him
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on that wall you need him on that
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wall you go into your little under your
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security and when i picture walter as jack
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nicholson it just cracks me up
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I know that's what he's thinking in his
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mind.
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I protected you from the FedEx guy.
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I protected you from the prime delivery
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truck.
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And you just sit there and yell at
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me.
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Why are you yelling at me?
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I did my job.
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You can't handle the truth.
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I might have to go home and watch
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that tonight.
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uh and to see me and he was
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a drug addict makes me want to try
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coke yes he was he was a drug
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addict uh but what a brilliant mind man
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brilliant mind and he's still writing
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movies they their last few movies have not
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been as good uh he did the lucille
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ball movie he did there you go i
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didn't even know it was a lucille ball
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movie the chicago seven there's a movie
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about the chicago seven um
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Joseph Ramirez,
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cocaine is a hell of a drug.
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CrossFit.
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I wish Newsroom was continued.
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Yeah.
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I think it was in that transition to
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the next story in the last little bit,
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and it needed the finish.
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I don't know.
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But anyway, I digress.
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Yeah.
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We have the whole season out there.
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I want to go through it a little
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bit.
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I want to go through the elites.
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Then we'll talk about the masters.
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And, and then we'll talk about,
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was there a leak or wasn't there a
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leak?
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So let me share my screen.
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Yep.
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So let's, here we go.
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So, first one announced,
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Far East Throwdown,
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May first through the third.
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One man, one woman, one team.
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Torian Pro,
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May twenty-second and twenty-fourth.
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This is going to be individuals, teams,
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and masters.
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Yeah, that was the... Which, I mean,
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Torian Pro is a big deal anyway,
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but I'm glad that I...
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seems that seems legitimate to me because
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you're going to get people from australia
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new zealand like surrounding areas uh
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that's going to be a bigger deal than
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what it even normally is well and that's
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a big community event anyway right i think
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it's it's just going to make it even
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bigger than it's been yeah it's going to
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be torian's going to be wild then we
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have french throwdown uh been around for a
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while it's going to do teams
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individuals and age group again now i say
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masters because teens are not included in
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this right then we have rebel renegade
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games may twenty first to the twenty
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fourth one man one woman one team mad
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fitness festival uh in ciudad rio spain uh
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may twenty ninth to the thirty three men
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three women one team
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so europe is getting six six and and
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four for teams um classic the first one
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kicking it off april seventeenth to the
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nineteenth just individual three and three
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magic city games in birmingham alabama may
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first through the third only masters
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And the Syndicate Crown in Knoxville,
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Tennessee.
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Only elite individuals and teams.
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Three, three, three.
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Then we have the Legends Championship in
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Del Mar, California.
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I know there's a lot of people stoked
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for the Del Mar piece of this.
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It gets two men, two women.
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They're not doing teams,
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but then they're doing masters.
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Right.
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And then NorCal Classic two and two.
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no teams no masters finally copa sir two
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men two women one team and then the
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latam masters only doing masters and they
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get the three and three the two and
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two and the one and one based on
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divisions so it the only big change that
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i see is tfx is out in the
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united states
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Uh, legends has come in.
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We have in Europe,
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we have two and I can't remember what
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the second one was last year,
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but French slowdowns here back.
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And then Madrid is the,
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the second one in Spain.
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What was the one last year?
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that's really the big changes.
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Everything else is pretty much the same.
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The qualifying spots have changed from two
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to three in most spots.
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Thank you, Jenny.
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So those are really the only changes.
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Um,
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Yes.
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Vindicate HQ with another terrible
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decision.
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Putting NorCal and Syndicate on the same
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weekend sucks.
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It really does.
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I think anytime you put in the same
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continent two semifinals on the same
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weekend, it's a mistake.
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And they're on opposite sides of the
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country.
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Yeah.
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And I get it from a participant
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standpoint.
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It probably is not a big deal to
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the participants.
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But for spectators or vendors or people
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who want to go to these events,
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it really sucks.
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It may or may not be,
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depending on how they allocate spots as
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far as who's going and who's not.
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And from what they said,
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there's not a lot of standardized... No,
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that's not what I mean.
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If you're going to have to make a
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decision, am I going to...
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syndicate or am i going like as an
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athlete i'm either going to syndicate or
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i'm either going or i'm going to norcal
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i would say that vast majority of people
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are going to try to go to syndicate
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as opposed to norcal just based on from
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what happened last year so having them on
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the same weekend okay well here we go
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uh judges can't be at both that's a
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great point that's also a good point yeah
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And I do think, I think it's,
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I think we're near the East coast more
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than NorCal.
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I know people who go to NorCal and
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absolutely love it.
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Carolyn loves NorCal loves it for the
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qualifying piece is willing to give those
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two guys another shot because of what
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they've put together and what they've
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built.
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And so I think there are people in
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California that love NorCal and will
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choose it over Syndicate or who have been
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there and just love the vibe of that
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place and would choose it over Syndicate.
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What I will say,
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one of the things Hiller was talking about
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yesterday was Blair and company over there
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listening to criticisms, taking it in.
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And not just saying, oh, yeah, well, no,
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it's up.
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Whatever.
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We're going to do better next year.
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No, no.
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What went wrong?
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What went right?
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What could we do better to keep this
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thing going forward?
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So good on them for that.
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CrossFit.
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wonder what the streaming will all come
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down from hq to be consistent i and
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jenny says no i agree with jenny i've
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heard people event organizers already say
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that they are independent contractors
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again they are running the show they are
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setting it all up all of that all
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of that kind of stuff so
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um yeah i'm but like for but like
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the savan podcast broadcast both norcal
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and syndicate last year and now they're on
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the same weekend that's a that's a choice
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for them do they go to one or
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the other and we all know someone does
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not like to leave california if he didn't
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have to correct
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Correct.
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So, so I think for the elite athletes,
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it's not a big change other than like
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where they fall and that now the online
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pieces at the end, so they can,
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they can take their shot live and then
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they have like the last chance qualifier.
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And I believe there at least seven spots
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for the online version at the end.
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I didn't do the math,
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but that sounds about right.
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I didn't do the math.
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I should have, but I was lazy.
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I've seen it published a couple of times.
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Yeah.
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I didn't think they write it down.
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I didn't think they write it down.
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I take a screenshot myself.
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Yeah.
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Oh,
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I do like the fact that it's like
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last year, you can go wherever you want.
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Does not matter.
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So like,
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if I want to go compete in South,
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in South America, in Columbia, and I'm,
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make it high enough in the quarterfinals
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to be able to get that invite,
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I can go ahead and do that.
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It also,
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it also seems to be whether or not
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that if you get invited as well, or,
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you know,
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they set their own restrictions just based
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on what the guy from magic city games
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was talking about yesterday.
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Yeah.
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Micah Shoemaker.
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Micah.
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Thank you.
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I remember his last name.
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I couldn't remember his first name.
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Mike, he seems awesome.
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Kudos to that guy.
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Yeah, so I think from the elite division,
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there hasn't been a lot of reaction.
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I think where most of the reaction has
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come is from...
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So we kind of went around it,
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and that is that there are no region
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restrictions this time.
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no boss said on the podcast yesterday that
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there's no geographic restriction you can
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go wherever you want if you live in
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maine and you want to go to brazil
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you can go to brazil so um i
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do like that yeah i do too i
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do too um and if you want to
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do
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you want to do one a weekend or
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six weeks in a row hey you know
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try to qualify and you can make it
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go for it yeah i didn't see if
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there was a restriction on how many you
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could sign up for he didn't say anything
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about it i feel like that's probably a
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fairly would have been a pretty big topic
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of contention if he just said you can
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only go to one or you can only
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go to two or something along those lines
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so if they'll have you
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Why not go, you know,
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if you're trying to make it and still
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trying to make it and still trying to
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make it?
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Yeah.
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Yeah, Raptor, here we come.
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Yeah.
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But there's going to be people,
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if you can afford to travel,
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you can afford to do it.
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There's going to be people that would try.
20:34
It wouldn't shock me to put it to
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you like that.
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Megan asked,
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could they do as many as they wanted
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to last year to try?
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They could do as many as they wanted
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last year.
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So I don't think they, yeah.
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Um, cross craft fit says mayhem.
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We know we'll do their own streaming and
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Jenny quickly corrected that they did not.
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They hired Hamilton roads, um,
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to do their streaming last year.
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And it was, um, expensive.
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They talked about it on their podcast.
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It was a couple of hundred grand, uh,
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for them to do, to do the streaming.
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CrossFit says it should be that way across
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the board.
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I disagree.
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No,
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I am not a fan of Hamilton roads
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and the same broadcast every single time.
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And that's, that's the main thing I would,
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I'm a hundred percent with you on that
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is that I'm tired of seeing the exact
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same show every single time.
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Yeah.
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If,
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if Savannah can do it with the budget
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that they have, which is almost nothing.
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and do a damn good job of it
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at Crash,
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then there's gotta be other people out
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there who actually do it
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and can do it and make it more
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exciting, just better coverage, period.
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Not just show the leader every single
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time.
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If he's four minutes in front of everybody
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else and there's an actual fight going on
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for second place or third place or
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whatnot, instead of just, oh, that dude,
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Tia came across the line again and she's
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just kind of sitting there hanging out.
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Let's watch her breathe hard for a little
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while.
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That's a terrible broadcast.
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Nobody wants to see that.
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Here's the deal.
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If you watch the behind the scenes,
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and I can't remember,
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there were so many behind the scenes from
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Crash.
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I don't know which one I saw it
22:39
in, but someone was talking to Sousa,
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and he actually said what it would truly
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cost them if they charged.
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And I don't want to quote dollar figures
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because I don't want to misquote them,
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but it wasn't cheap.
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Like,
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even doing it as a smaller little
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production company, it would be...
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I want to say just if they wanted
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not to even make a profit,
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you're talking like fifty, sixty grand.
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It would.
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Yeah,
23:07
that's about how much they're in for.
23:10
And then if they wanted to make a
23:14
profit off of it,
23:15
you're talking six figures probably again.
23:18
To be able to actually pay everybody what
23:20
they're worth.
23:20
Yeah, a hundred percent.
23:22
What that broadcast gave us that none
23:24
other has are the split screens and the
23:28
boxes and the corners with other people
23:31
going.
23:33
To me,
23:34
that is a huge revolution in the
23:36
broadcasting of the sport.
23:39
You only say that because nobody's ever
23:41
done it before while we were watching the
23:43
game.
23:43
That's the definition of a revolution.
23:46
Nobody's ever done it before.
23:47
Let's change it up.
23:50
It was so good.
23:51
It was so good.
23:52
And you listen to Sousa and he just
23:54
figured that out.
23:55
Like, oh,
23:56
I can do this like this and it's
23:57
going to show I can still have the
23:58
main screen going.
23:59
I can still have these people talking at
24:01
the same time and we can see what's
24:02
going on in lane four,
24:04
whatever lane it was.
24:06
It's a simple concept that they executed.
24:11
It's not super flashy.
24:12
They literally just put a screen on
24:14
another screen, picture in picture,
24:16
like an old school when I first came
24:18
out with TV.
24:18
Oh,
24:18
you can watch two screens at the same
24:20
time on your one screen.
24:23
Bro.
24:26
Hamilton can make adjustments.
24:27
I mean,
24:27
we know the dates now have HQ talk
24:29
with the contractors on what would work
24:31
best.
24:32
They haven't changed since twenty twelve.
24:35
in the exact same broadcast over and over
24:37
and over again it's the same graphics the
24:40
same overlays the same narration at the
24:42
beginning with the drone shot everything
24:45
is the same i i'm over it if
24:50
you like it that's all what all power
24:53
to you i do that is i am
24:56
done with that that stream
24:58
To be fair,
25:01
I've even shown pictures on the show are
25:04
right up against the athletes.
25:07
There is no need with Zoom lenses,
25:10
no other sport.
25:11
You're not watching Wimbledon with a
25:13
cameraman at the net.
25:17
Just right here,
25:22
up and right on the dog's face as
25:24
he's trying to serve.
25:25
Can you imagine?
25:28
uh to be fair i'm still gonna watch
25:31
it yeah i mean i'll watch it yes
25:35
watch it because it's my only option
25:37
because it's the only option but i listen
25:41
i watch the nfl and about the coverage
25:45
or the announcers or whatever like it yeah
25:48
all of it it's what we do but
25:50
I mean, I'd still watch,
25:52
but I'm a guy who like,
25:53
I have two TVs going every Sunday with
25:57
multiple games on both TVs watching.
26:01
Like, that's how I watch now.
26:03
And that's how the way the world has
26:04
gone.
26:05
People are watching on their phone or
26:07
their laptop or their iPads.
26:09
Plus big TVs.
26:10
Plus people have multiple TVs.
26:14
All the things.
26:19
So.
26:20
Yeah, enough about that.
26:24
So let's talk about the piece that has
26:28
garnered the most attention.
26:30
I've literally gotten DMs about this in
26:33
the last twenty four hours,
26:34
and that is that the masters now have
26:37
in-person competitions.
26:40
which is what they've wanted.
26:41
They wanted a fair shake for people who
26:44
are better in person than online.
26:46
They wanted a fair shake to show what
26:47
they could do with in-person judging and
26:50
qualify in that way.
26:54
The, the immediately after this came out,
26:58
people were like, well,
27:00
what the hell a syndicate is or not
27:04
syndicate magic games is four days before
27:06
the online version.
27:09
Okay, well, this year you have a choice.
27:13
Do the Magic City games and go on
27:15
in person or do the online.
27:18
Last year, you didn't have a choice.
27:23
And half the spots are online.
27:25
Half the spots are in person.
27:28
You make the call.
27:33
I don't understand what everybody's,
27:36
they're bitching because now they have a
27:37
choice or they have to make a choice.
27:40
You wanted this as an option.
27:45
I don't dive into the comments very often,
27:47
but I dove in yesterday and I could
27:50
not believe the amount of people bitching
27:53
about the timing of different options.
27:54
I've heard this before.
28:02
And could we, we've had this discussions,
28:03
like when they went from last year,
28:05
they took thirty,
28:06
next year they're taking,
28:07
or this year they took thirty,
28:08
next year they're taking twenty.
28:10
And you asked me,
28:11
is that going to change how I'm training?
28:13
Or is that going to change anything I'm
28:14
doing to try to get to the games?
28:16
No.
28:17
And you know what?
28:18
The dates of the in-person qualifiers is
28:23
not going to change how I do stuff
28:25
because that's just when they are.
28:28
It's out of my control.
28:32
So I'm going to try my best to
28:33
get to an in-person event and try to
28:37
qualify like that.
28:38
And if I don't,
28:39
I'm going to get back to my house,
28:41
get back, recover the best I can,
28:43
and then try to go online and do
28:45
it again.
28:46
Why?
28:46
Because that's how it's set up.
28:50
Bitching about it is not going to do
28:52
any damn good whatsoever.
28:57
Yes,
28:57
people just will find something to bitch
28:59
about.
28:59
Yes, Travis, one hundred percent.
29:02
Much like bitching about the media,
29:03
people just like to bitch.
29:05
I bitch about the media,
29:06
but I also compliment what's been done so
29:09
well with people that are willing to try
29:11
something new.
29:13
Absolutely.
29:18
I feel the qualification process for
29:19
Masters is pretty condensed.
29:21
So here's what I'll say to you, Shanna,
29:23
and I said it to people who DM
29:25
me.
29:27
Last year,
29:28
it would have been really condensed
29:29
because it would have been one weekend,
29:31
one shot, online.
29:33
That's all you got.
29:35
Now you have a couple options depending on
29:37
where you live to go give it a
29:40
try in person or to just stay at
29:43
home and do it online if you want
29:44
to do it the way you've always done
29:45
it.
29:48
that is a better option and they're trying
29:52
something new.
29:53
And if the in-person thing works,
29:55
then maybe next year we get different
29:58
spots scheduled, more spread out.
30:02
Who knows?
30:03
But right now, more spread out,
30:05
just more options.
30:07
Yeah.
30:08
To options.
30:10
And while it may not be perfect,
30:11
it's more than what was there last year.
30:13
Do you ever, uh,
30:18
When your daughter was like two years old
30:20
and she was complaining that she wanted a
30:21
cookie and you gave her a cookie and
30:23
then she didn't want the cookie,
30:25
it's the same thing.
30:27
They're acting like children.
30:29
Myself included, been bitching about,
30:34
not bitching, but just saying, oh,
30:36
we should have in person.
30:37
I would love to be able to compete
30:38
in person and try to get to the
30:39
games, try to compete in person.
30:40
And then, okay, cool, here you go.
30:45
Here's all of these options.
30:46
Because even for us,
30:47
there's a lot of options.
30:48
There's Australia, South America,
30:51
two of them in North America,
30:53
one of them in Europe, right?
30:56
That's a lot.
30:57
That's a lot for a Masters athlete to
30:58
be able to, like, because some of them,
31:01
they can afford to go wherever the hell
31:03
they want to go.
31:04
And you give them what they want,
31:06
and they go, I don't want that.
31:12
I think people don't like that it changes
31:14
every year.
31:15
But forever,
31:17
since the inception until now,
31:19
it has been an online qualification
31:21
process for Masters.
31:24
This is the first new thing that they've
31:26
given them since its inception.
31:29
And it's something that people have been
31:30
begging for.
31:32
And yeah, again,
31:33
it's probably not the perfect way to do
31:36
it,
31:36
but you had to get people willing to
31:38
put on this show to invite people to
31:43
and take on that challenge.
31:50
Now, in the Elite Division,
31:52
I will tell you,
31:53
there's been changes pretty much every
31:54
year.
31:55
Every year.
31:58
Since the last year of regionals.
32:02
We had a good run from twelve to
32:04
eighteen with the regional process into
32:06
the games.
32:14
I will bitch until they host one in
32:16
Omaha on the specific dates I want.
32:20
Pretty much.
32:21
I'm going to complain until there's one in
32:23
Louisiana at my gym on a day that
32:26
I say that it should be.
32:31
Ridiculous.
32:32
Absolutely ridiculous.
32:33
I'm going to tell you right now,
32:35
I'm taking.
32:37
So Micah was saying yesterday they're
32:39
inviting my age group.
32:41
There's twenty twenty people,
32:42
top twenty people from quarterfinals.
32:45
They're inviting to go.
32:49
People are going to have to decide whether
32:50
they're going to that one or going to
32:53
Legends.
32:54
Some people are going to do it in
32:56
South America, whatnot.
33:00
So now quarterfinals mean something.
33:03
It's not just,
33:04
I've got to get this done,
33:05
make sure I'm finishing the top two
33:06
hundreds or whatever the case may be.
33:08
That's where numbers are concerned.
33:10
To be able to go compete in semifinals.
33:12
No, no, no.
33:13
Now I need to make quarterfinals matter.
33:17
To me,
33:17
like I need to make sure I optimize
33:19
every single workout as fourth quarter
33:20
when I was concerned,
33:21
so I can finish high enough to be
33:23
able to get an opportunity.
33:26
to compete in person because that's what I
33:28
want to do.
33:29
And what I like about what Mike is
33:30
doing is he's giving you twenty four or
33:32
forty eight hours to make your decision.
33:35
Yep.
33:35
You're invited.
33:36
You have forty eight hours.
33:37
If you don't decide in those forty eight
33:39
hours, they're backfilling your position.
33:41
They're not next round.
33:42
Yeah, that's like that.
33:45
What I got from Micah yesterday and those
33:47
who don't know what we're talking about,
33:48
he was on Jason Groves Masters in Motion
33:52
podcast.
33:53
He got a lot of good information.
33:56
um and what i really enjoyed that i
33:58
got from him was him saying just making
34:01
it as streamlined and as simple a process
34:04
as humanly possible we are inviting people
34:08
period there's not another qualification
34:11
process there's not another if you are top
34:13
twenty eight in your age group you are
34:15
getting an invite if you get an invite
34:18
you got forty eight hours to accept if
34:20
you don't we are moving on to the
34:21
next guy
34:23
Cut and dry, easy, simple.
34:27
You can't ask for better than that.
34:30
Amanda, quarterfinals mean so much more.
34:32
Yeah.
34:35
It will make for an exciting season.
34:40
Shannon,
34:40
we're going to get to this in a
34:41
second.
34:48
That's what masters do,
34:49
complain between workouts.
34:50
Yep.
34:51
Yep.
34:52
I got news for you.
34:53
So you can play during workouts.
34:56
It's fine.
34:58
Before we go to the, man,
35:00
I'm bitching up a storm before, during,
35:03
in between like the whole nine hours.
35:06
Yeah.
35:09
So it just was really interesting to me.
35:10
The other thing I've seen in the comments
35:12
a lot is there are,
35:14
there's no in-person teen options.
35:17
I will tell you from being at the
35:18
age group games here in Columbus,
35:20
because of the age of the kids that
35:22
are competing,
35:24
it is a complicated process to make sure
35:26
they have a safe place to warm up
35:29
and a safe place to get on the
35:30
floor.
35:31
And so I am sure that that added
35:33
headache is,
35:35
for event organizers is not something you
35:38
want to take on in year one of
35:40
trying to accomplish this.
35:45
Can you imagine?
35:46
Let's throw the teens in there too.
35:48
Well,
35:49
they also need their own dedicated warm-up
35:51
area, their own dedicated chill area,
35:53
so they're not over there with the adults
35:54
mingling and whatnot.
35:56
That's adding three more layers of stuff
36:01
on top of the stuff you already added
36:03
too.
36:04
Because Legends going back to Del Mar,
36:06
that's a whole other thing in and of
36:07
itself.
36:08
Right now they have a different venue than
36:09
what they've been using.
36:13
It's just added stress on top of it
36:15
that nobody needs or wants right now.
36:19
So I'm glad you brought that up.
36:22
So my biggest beef in this whole thing.
36:27
How the hell does Legends get
36:34
Now a qualifying semifinal.
36:37
For elite as well as masters.
36:40
Yeah, for not only the masters division,
36:41
which they have had a hand in for
36:43
the last two years.
36:46
Now you're giving them elite qualifying
36:48
spots when there has been nothing but
36:52
complaints about their programming,
36:54
about how awful it is, about how they...
37:00
Dude, working with them is awful.
37:04
just trying to get in the door as
37:07
a media member,
37:09
the last few years has been like pulling
37:12
teeth.
37:13
I remember.
37:14
Access has changed in Alabama for me from
37:17
day one to day two.
37:20
This year,
37:21
I couldn't even get close to the floor.
37:25
And my poor photographer,
37:26
who's five foot two,
37:28
had a hell of a time getting shots.
37:31
And there's not many media there covering
37:33
the Masters.
37:37
And by not many, you mean you,
37:39
because I ain't saw nothing else from
37:41
nobody else.
37:43
And so many athletes,
37:45
I've heard so many athletes complain about
37:48
the programming, the way it's designed,
37:50
the way that they do cuts before the
37:52
last event,
37:54
and they don't change the scoring table.
37:56
Like, it just...
38:00
There's so many mistakes to what they've
38:02
made.
38:03
And it boggles my mind that they were
38:07
given not only not a rep,
38:10
they deserved a bigger reprimand than
38:11
NorCal.
38:12
I would agree.
38:15
NorCal was a semifinal.
38:17
And they put it together last minute.
38:21
Right?
38:22
It was a fun vibe,
38:24
a huge community event.
38:27
people laughing and teeing and, and,
38:28
you know,
38:30
at least it was a good time.
38:32
Like people are utterly frustrated with
38:35
the organizers of legends.
38:36
And now you give them elite,
38:40
elite qualifying spots.
38:44
If I do an elite qualifying spots and
38:46
in addition to masters, um,
38:49
I sincerely hope they are reaching out to
38:53
jail or, or,
38:56
someone along those lines for programming
38:58
they never want the very least programming
39:00
advice never will joe and bob think they
39:04
know best joe and bob think they're the
39:06
best programmers in the world and then
39:11
it's shanna says it legends doing elites
39:14
is a travesty how many lies did we
39:17
catch them in last year oh we tested
39:20
the workouts no you didn't no way
39:24
You didn't even know that the collars
39:27
didn't fit the bar.
39:31
So how could you have tested it?
39:36
So many damn mistakes.
39:40
So many.
39:42
That is probably my biggest,
39:44
my biggest bitch of the season.
39:47
is they have now been given the authority
39:50
to run not only a master's qualifier,
39:53
but an elite division qualifier.
39:56
Now,
39:57
if the rumors and the comments are to
40:00
be believed,
40:03
the reason they're getting this
40:05
opportunity may be because the age groups
40:10
are going to be with the elites in
40:12
San Jose.
40:16
so i was looking for the comment a
40:21
million times um but someone asked here i
40:29
think nope i think it's been deleted so
40:42
Did I screenshot it to you yesterday or
40:43
did I email it to you?
40:45
Basically, someone said,
40:48
what does this mean?
40:49
Does it mean that the age groups are
40:53
going to be in San Jose with the
40:55
elites?
40:56
And the Legends Instagram channel posted
41:02
back one hundred percent.
41:05
Then someone came back and said.
41:09
asked another question and they came back.
41:11
Oh, I misread that.
41:14
I don't know.
41:17
It's on, uh, the screenshot is on, uh,
41:20
spins, spins, Instagram.
41:31
Fusion fusion games.
41:37
Fusion Games said,
41:38
so Legends is now an in-person semifinals.
41:40
Does that mean Masters will be at the
41:41
main games?
41:42
And the Legends Championship will fly with
41:44
the one hundred.
41:46
One hundred.
41:47
All right, here we go.
41:54
so here it is this is a screenshot
41:56
you can see it was on the semi-final
41:58
post so the legends championship is now in
42:01
person semi-final zemi masters will be at
42:04
the main games and the legends
42:07
championship wrote yeah i know i know
42:12
jenny shared it too a lot of people
42:14
shared it but then after this there was
42:17
a follow-up question
42:20
from somebody i can't remember who it was
42:23
and legends came back and said oh i
42:25
misread that that's what we want too
42:40
So there's no way that they misread it.
42:45
They leaked information.
42:46
They're known for having leaks and leaking
42:49
programs to people.
42:55
Taylor made an entire video about it
42:56
yesterday morning.
42:57
Yeah, he did.
42:58
Well,
42:59
he basically just rewatched his own video.
43:02
His own video.
43:03
It was fantastic.
43:05
Their programming.
43:08
Savon wouldn't even attend an event that
43:09
doesn't treat him like royalty.
43:12
we know nowhere near that you're not going
43:17
to get there my brother i got i
43:18
got gum on the shoe maybe you'd get
43:20
better than that you're not gonna get
43:23
you're not gonna get that uh i promise
43:25
you that much jenny asked if they leaked
43:28
that info with that one hundred comment
43:31
that's correct that's what it was it was
43:33
jenny it did you just leak the info
43:35
and then he said i misread that
43:43
NorCal and Syndicate were amazing and let
43:45
us work.
43:47
Syndicate is a...
43:48
I've never been to NorCal, but Syndicate,
43:51
I've always been treated by Wilson and his
43:54
team with the utmost respect.
43:56
I've never heard a bad story about Wilson
43:58
Park.
44:00
Never.
44:00
Not one.
44:01
Even back in the day,
44:03
even back in the day at like granite
44:05
games dylan hired him to come in and
44:08
help him and he was helping us out
44:11
there like wilson is just he's just a
44:14
great dude never heard a bad thing about
44:17
him not one dylan is too oh yeah
44:24
same thing oh we all make mistakes man
44:32
yeah dude
44:34
The ropes at my gym are,
44:37
there's three feet of them on the floor
44:40
for all three of them.
44:41
Well, that happened now, what, three,
44:43
four years ago?
44:46
I want to say it's at least three
44:47
years ago.
44:49
I mean, I was there.
44:52
And it's, I mean,
44:54
I don't think I've seen another thing like
44:56
that since from them.
44:57
Mm-hmm.
45:02
The worst part about that entire
45:03
situation, as I remember,
45:04
was that they were talking about it in
45:07
the warm-up area and trying to bring it
45:09
up to the, like, hey, bro,
45:12
that seems dangerous.
45:15
The story goes that Scott actually brought
45:18
it up as something that could be
45:19
dangerous.
45:20
That's where it sucks because the guy who
45:23
brought it up actually was the guy who
45:25
got hurt.
45:28
But those were CrossFit run events back
45:31
then.
45:32
And CrossFit had a safety person there.
45:36
And I don't know if they had the
45:37
exact,
45:41
if they had the authority as syndicate or
45:45
if it came down to CrossFit.
45:47
Either way,
45:48
it was a mistake and I haven't seen
45:49
anything like it since.
45:50
No.
45:52
One of the mistakes they actually learned
45:54
from and implemented some stuff and said,
45:55
you know what?
45:57
Let's not do that again.
45:57
Yeah.
46:02
uh we're there to glorify the event and
46:04
the athletes yes i think that's what
46:08
that's what events like joe and bob ron
46:12
don't understand the media are not there
46:16
to trash you they're they're there to
46:19
promote this sport this at these athletes
46:23
and the your event free of charge
46:29
Like Holly puts out how many leaderboards
46:32
every day from an event like that.
46:36
We're taking pictures,
46:37
we're taking videos,
46:37
we're doing interviews and we're pumping
46:39
them out and we're tagging legends and
46:42
every single one of them.
46:45
And none of those are trashing the event.
46:48
I mean, two years ago,
46:49
I did an eleven part documentary of behind
46:52
the scenes that they never even shared of
46:57
their event.
46:59
of their own stuff.
47:01
It's free media of your own event.
47:04
Let me tell you something.
47:05
As an athlete,
47:06
if I happen to see myself in the
47:08
background of a video somewhere,
47:10
at somewhere I'm competing,
47:11
I'm sharing it.
47:13
If there's people I know in the video
47:16
that I see,
47:17
I'm sharing it and putting it out there
47:20
and just trying to pump it up.
47:22
Why?
47:22
Because I want more eyes on it.
47:23
I want more eyes on me.
47:25
I want more eyes on what we do.
47:27
Because the more people see it,
47:28
the more people get interested in it.
47:30
It all feeds on itself.
47:33
Who understands what?
47:36
Who understands what media can do?
47:38
J.R., Wilson, the early days of CrossFit,
47:43
all of that stuff, right?
47:45
Getting as much promotional material for
47:47
your event out during that weekend to make
47:52
people have FOMO of what they're missing
47:55
and maybe they're not going to miss it
47:57
next year.
47:59
percent fyi it works because when i see
48:02
stuff at an event that i had an
48:04
opportunity to maybe go to either as a
48:06
spectator or as a or as a competitor
48:09
and it's it doesn't have to be real
48:11
good quality i'm like oh man let's have
48:16
this stuff you won't see it unless
48:17
somebody actually shares it and make sure
48:19
that it makes the rounds of whatever is
48:21
going on the fact that again i just
48:26
you legitimately went there and
48:30
made an entire behind the scenes about
48:33
their event and crickets.
48:39
It's awful.
48:42
And all they put up is like one
48:43
reel a day.
48:49
NorCal let us cover Bargate.
48:53
They did up close and personally.
48:55
Even became part of the story.
48:58
Five percent.
48:59
As it should,
49:00
as some of them have the ability to
49:03
do is to make it part of the
49:04
story, right?
49:06
Like whatever's happening.
49:08
Hey,
49:09
this is what's happening and this is how
49:10
it's affecting people around them and
49:11
whatnot.
49:14
It's fantastic.
49:15
The workout stuff,
49:16
even with their internet issues,
49:19
which is not their fault,
49:20
they did everything they could,
49:22
was still funny shit to watch.
49:23
Even if it was running a little bit
49:24
behind, who cares?
49:25
Like it was still good to watch.
49:29
it was um so that's pretty much the
49:32
season next year that's about all i have
49:37
to say about that the only uh and
49:42
i'm gonna go ahead and get on my
49:43
my master's uh box again and it's not
49:49
necessarily a thing it just the allocation
49:53
spots are little
49:56
This is me being nitpicky here at this
49:58
point, a little off.
50:00
In my age group this year, forty five,
50:02
forty nine, top thirty had four Europeans,
50:06
two Brazilians, two Australians.
50:07
OK.
50:09
They cut.
50:12
In half.
50:13
After however many events, whatever,
50:15
whatever that was,
50:17
and one of the Australians,
50:19
the Australians actually from New Zealand,
50:21
but whatever, same place.
50:23
The two Brazilians were gone.
50:26
those two guys are out so that and
50:27
the reason i'm bringing it up says next
50:28
year they only bring in twenty so the
50:30
top twenty had the two australians and one
50:35
european both brazilians were going and
50:39
i'm not going to colombia to try to
50:43
qualify the brazilians probably are so
50:48
going to be interesting to see who ends
50:50
up qualifying out of our live as far
50:54
as i'm concerned who gets the opportunity
50:55
to end up qualifying out of live with
50:58
europe with uh you know especially with
51:01
people moving up and moving around and
51:03
whatnot the in-person stuff you know it's
51:06
the first year so give them grace as
51:09
far as that's important we get we get
51:11
that we get an opportunity period but it's
51:13
going to be interesting to see who ends
51:14
up at the games
51:16
with those live qualifying spots.
51:18
The one thing I did tell one of
51:19
my friends yesterday was like,
51:21
maybe I should go compete in Columbia.
51:23
Try to finish in the top five and
51:25
just wait for everybody to pop positive on
51:28
their drug test.
51:33
Here's the problem I see with
51:35
with all of that.
51:36
Right.
51:37
It's an expensive trip for people in
51:41
Australia, Europe,
51:42
South America to get to the games.
51:43
Right.
51:45
If they qualify there,
51:47
are we going to get people going?
51:49
Well,
51:50
this semifinal was my games and now I'm
51:53
going to withdraw.
51:58
I,
51:58
cause I think like it Torian people could
52:01
get that feel of, Hey,
52:03
this is my games.
52:05
would love to go compete right and but
52:08
i can't afford the trip to california from
52:10
australia so i'm out for the games but
52:13
at least i got my day in the
52:14
sun at taurian if we get a lot
52:18
of that then that's going to kill the
52:20
in-person semis right in some in some of
52:23
those countries absolutely yeah man it's
52:28
good and it's got the same thought process
52:30
i do
52:34
I had the same thought too.
52:37
Yep.
52:37
We'll finish on this.
52:39
Look at the insane amount of extra media
52:40
put out by syndicate last year and crash
52:42
this year, along with the broadcast.
52:45
And it wasn't a two hundred K production.
52:48
No,
52:49
it's people passionate about what they do
52:51
and passionate about putting out good,
52:52
good, good content.
52:55
And it was,
52:56
I did not see one piece that I
52:58
didn't enjoy watching.
53:01
Like all the stuff from the stuff Seve
53:04
and them put out, the Glintons put out,
53:08
everybody was on Seve's team and whatnot.
53:11
Brad Rasaroff.
53:12
Yeah.
53:12
Stuff Brad put out that I enjoyed all
53:17
of it.
53:17
It was all well thought out, good,
53:21
well put together.
53:23
And it was all free.
53:24
Yep.
53:27
Which is a thing.
53:29
I need to get to work.
53:31
You knuckleheads need to get back to work
53:33
too.
53:34
We'll see everybody tomorrow for one more
53:38
Lunch with Clyde sale this week.
53:40
And with that... Oh,
53:41
is it the Halloween Spectacular?
53:44
Oh.
53:44
You gotta wear your Halloween costume.
53:50
I don't have one of those.
53:53
I used to be big into Halloween.
53:54
I used to do the costume.
53:56
My wife and I used to do the
53:57
couple costumes.
53:58
You know, we went to parties.
54:00
We did all the things.
54:02
And now in our AARP days,
54:07
not so much.
54:12
So with that, happy Halloween, everybody.
54:15
Tomorrow we'll just do a regular show.
54:18
gonna probably watch the first little bit
54:21
of rogue we'll probably talk about that a
54:22
little bit and then we'll get you on
54:24
to your weekend and then a full recap
54:27
of rogue sunday night with carolyn and
54:29
jamie um and maybe by then we'll know
54:33
if carolyn tested the events or not shane
54:40
will tell you until it's all she will
54:41
not tell us until it is all over
54:43
or it's been released by rogue yeah
54:48
So with that,
54:49
we'll see everybody next time on Lunch
54:51
with the Clydesdale.
54:52
Bye, guys.