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Lunch with the Clydesdale - Let's kick this off with a bang! · Clydesdale Media Podcast

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what is going on everybody
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welcome to the first
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edition of lunch with the
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clydesdale um still working
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on some kinks out and
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things like that but I just
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wanted to have like a
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little place to come in each day
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We'll probably wrap up to
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daily after the first of
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the year for the holidays
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here and my wife having surgery soon.
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It'll probably take a couple
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weeks to get us to where
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we're doing this as a daily show.
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But I just wanted to come on
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and anybody from our crew
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can hop in at any time to
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check out what's going on.
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and have a conversation
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about things going on just in life.
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So what's up, Kenneth?
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So this is the first one
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That would be awesome.
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But what I'm gonna do first
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is last night on Sunday
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Night CrossFit Talk,
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we talked a lot about the
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World Fitness Project and
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their release of things.
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And I just wanted to kind of
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recap my thoughts about
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that moving forward.
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So I'm super excited.
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I said last night,
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I'm super excited that
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someone has put together
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what appears to be the
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assemblance of a season
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that makes sense for people to follow.
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You go to events, you earn points,
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the top twenty at the end of the year,
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earn their pro card,
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and then they get to
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participate the following
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year as a contracted pro athlete,
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and they get to skip some
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of the steps to get to the
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major events because
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they've earned that pro card.
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Uh,
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that is a model that has worked in auto
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racing, that has worked in golf,
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that has worked in tennis, um,
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for years and years and years.
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Um,
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there are a lot of details that still
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need to be put out there
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for us to have full
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commitment on what this is
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going to be and whether
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it's going to be effective.
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Um,
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But yeah,
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I think it's going to be
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something that's going to
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be pretty awesome.
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And if anything,
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I don't think that it's... Maybe it will,
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but I don't think it will
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take over what the CrossFit
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Games season is.
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I'm hoping that it pushes
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the people who run the
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CrossFit Games season...
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uh to think outside the the
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box to push into a season
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that makes sense uh so
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what's up holly um so
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that's what I'm really
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hoping for is that you have
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these two entities that are
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both existing and it pushes
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each other to be more
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innovative more creative
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and streamline into a
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system that isn't changed
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every year and actually
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makes sense for the consumer to follow
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And then if it makes more
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sense for the consumer to follow,
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then you gain more fans and
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then your fans become a
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revenue source instead of
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just relying on sponsors
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and participants paying
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entry fees into the system.
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So I really,
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really am behind the WFP and I
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can't wait to see what's
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coming out because I do
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think it's going to make a
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lot of sense in the future
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for them to do it.
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I think the first year is
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going to be very small and
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it's going to be a proof of concept.
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um,
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Holly says that sounds logical and
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she's correct.
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It does.
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Um,
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but maybe just maybe we're to a point
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where logic has to take
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over and we do it for the
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right reasons and not because, um,
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we just want to try
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something different or
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because of economic reasons.
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I,
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I think the plan that the WFP has put
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out is, um,
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is viable and sustainable in
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a way if you can get
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partners to come along for the ride.
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So ACR, what's going on?
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She says, what am I eating for lunch?
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I have not made that determination yet.
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I'll probably grab lunch and
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eat at my desk right after this is done.
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It'll probably be some leftovers.
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So I'm thinking maybe some chicken,
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some chicken and a
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vegetable that I can find in the fridge.
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So yeah, something like that.
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So, yeah,
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so I'd love to hear your thoughts
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on the WFP.
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I think that this pro card
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idea is a huge incentive
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for the athletes to get
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into that top twenty and to
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be guaranteed money for the season.
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That's a game changer for them.
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I think it's a logical step
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to get partners to come
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along for the ride,
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to invest in this in a way
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that's different than what
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they've had as options before, because
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You can then sponsor athletes.
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You can sponsor a pro card
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athlete knowing that
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they're a pro card athlete for the year.
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You can sponsor events that
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are taking place.
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You can sponsor the online thing.
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And then I do think that
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they do need to stream
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these events to make it
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very interesting and
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compelling for the consumer.
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They really get the consumer
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involved for all that.
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So what's up, Jay Birch?
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So yeah, those are my thoughts on the WFP.
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I think it is something that
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we needed in this space.
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We needed pushed.
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CrossFit needs pushed into a
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direction that makes sense.
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And I'm hoping that that is what happens,
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that both entities really
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push themselves to get outside the box,
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be creative,
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and make something that works.
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And then ideally,
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just like Live Golf and PGA
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Golf come together in the end,
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and have a very sustainable
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CrossFit game season that
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makes sense for everybody
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and pull all resources together.
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That would be awesome.
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Um, hopefully that is in the cards.
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If not,
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one's going to win out over the other.
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I'm sure because we are not
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big enough at this point to sustain two,
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two separate seasons.
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Uh,
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because I do think that if WFP is going
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to be successful,
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it's going to have to
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expand after this first year.
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It's not going to be just
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three events that then you can do both.
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It's going to have to expand
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out where there's more
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opportunities to earn
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points around the world.
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Um, and,
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Because right now,
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because you only have two
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tour events before the finals,
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and you put one in the U.S.
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and one in Europe,
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that means Australian
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athletes will have to travel.
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That means South American
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athletes will have to travel.
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So I do believe that at some
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point it needs to expand to
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give opportunities to earn
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points in different parts
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around the world so everybody can play.
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um in this first year that's
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going to be very limited
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with just two tour stops um
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in that in that initial
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year but um but I think
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it's a great again proof of
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concept um and there are
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still more details we need
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to see um so I am
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reluctantly optimistic with
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this um but I'm excited to
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see what's next because it
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seems like this has been
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very well thought out um
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and super excited to
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To see what they bring to the table.
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Again,
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last night on Sunday Night CrossFit Talk,
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Carolyn and Jamie and I
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talked about this at length.
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If you want to hear more
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thoughts and ideas about it,
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make sure you go back and
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check that out on the
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Sunday Night CrossFit Talk.
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There's a lot more back and forth there.
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And they have the athlete perspective.
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I have the consumer media perspective.
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And so I think mine's a
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little bit different where
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they are trying to put
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themselves in the shoes of
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the athletes and looking at
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affordability as a challenger,
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viability as a challenger
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to get that pro card,
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things like that that I am
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probably not thinking as
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deeply about as they are.
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So they really bring a
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different perspective to that.
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So the other thing that I
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was going to talk about today, and again,
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this show is not going to
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be a CrossFit show.
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These daily shows are just
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going to be whatever's on
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my mind and just some
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different things that I
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found interesting.
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Hopefully you will too.
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But I talked last night that
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one of the things I'm going
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to discuss today is my wife and I,
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it's been snowing here in Ohio.
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We actually got a warm-up today,
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but we've been watching
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some Christmas movies on Netflix.
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And I was going to give my
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rating of the Netflix movies,
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Christmas movies that I've
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watched from this year.
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And it seems like Netflix
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keeps building on how many
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Christmas movies they bring
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out every year.
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I will say my favorite Netflix movie.
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Christmas movies have been
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love hard and a holiday.
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Um, those are both great movies.
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Both.
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I would give an eight plus two.
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None of this year's lineup
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met the expectations that
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those two have set.
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Um,
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I think Love Hard has become
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like a classic for me and
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something that I will
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probably watch every year.
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If you have never seen it,
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it is an online dating kind
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of mishap Christmas movie
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where one of them believes
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that Die Hard is the
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greatest Christmas movie ever.
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The other one believes Love
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Actually is the greatest
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Christmas movie ever.
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And that's why you get the name Love Hard.
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But it is the typical miscommunication,
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and then antics ensue and blah, blah,
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blah.
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But it is definitely a
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classic that you should check out.
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But this year,
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they've offered a handful of movies.
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And the first one that I
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watched was Hot Frosty.
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That is a movie about a
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snowman that comes to life
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and a widower widow meets
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up with him as he has come
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to life and the town local
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authorities are trying to
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arrest him because when he
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came to life he had no
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clothes on therefore he was
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streaking through the
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square and uh wants to
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arrest the snowman for this
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now uh it was a sculpted
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snowman it was not your
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typical um ball on top of balls and um
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This was a sculpted snowman,
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so this guy was a very
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chiseled body running
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around the square naked
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with very creative ways of
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covering the indecent parts
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for a family-friendly Netflix show.
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But I really enjoyed this one.
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It deals with...
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It deals with a snowman
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needing to stay cold,
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that going inside is hard for him.
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So they have to deal with those things.
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But he looks like a human at
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the point he becomes alive.
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So it's a lot of that kind
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of back and forth stuff.
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Very good.
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I give that one an A-.
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It actually has Lacey Charbet.
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Um,
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I always say Chabert to my mom just to
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drive her nuts, but, uh,
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it's Lacey Chabert, Lacey Chabert.
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That's what it is.
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Um, she is the star of it.
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She has started,
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she was in party of five as a kid.
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Uh, she was in mean girls.
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Um,
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and then she became like the darling of
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the Hallmark movie channel.
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where she has starred in
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like thirty different
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movies for Hallmark.
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But but this one, I think,
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is a step up from the Hallmark movies,
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much better produced things like that.
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The next one I'm going to
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get into is Our Little Secret,
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which is the Lindsay Lohan
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holiday movie of the year.
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She did one last year where
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she has amnesia falling off
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a mountain this year.
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This one is that she and her
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boyfriend break up.
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They go their separate ways.
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Ten years later,
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they're invited to a family
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get-together for the holidays,
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and they are dating
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siblings from this family
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and end up running into
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each other at this new holiday event.
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It was a pretty good movie.
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I would say just to kind of
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write down the middle,
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I'd give it a C-plus for that one.
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used lindsay lindsay lohan
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um just in my opinion does
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not have the acting chops
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yet back whatever um to get
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into this it uh it's a nice
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cute movie um nothing that
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I would um again doesn't
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meet that like classic
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level of something you want
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to watch year year over year
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The next one is Meet Me Next Christmas.
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This one is about a woman
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who meets a man in an airport,
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like the Delta Club or
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something like that,
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and they're stranded there
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because of flight delays.
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They have a nice conversation,
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but they're both seeing each other,
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seeing somebody else at the time,
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and they say, hey,
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if we aren't seeing these
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people next year at New Year's,
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let's meet at a Pentatonix concert,
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and we will...
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and we will meet there,
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and it'll be a match.
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So the entire premise of the
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movie is that the woman is
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trying to get a ticket to
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the Pentatonix show to go
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meet this guy because her
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relationship has failed over the year.
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She's trying to get there,
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and she hires a ticket
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um agent concierge to help
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her get that ticket um
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pentatonix actually get
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involved in it as they are
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watching it through um text
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messages and this concierge
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trying to get a free ticket
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to get her this um it was a
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very cute movie if you like
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pentatonix they sing a lot
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in this movie um they are
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they play a big role in it
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um and I give it a solid b
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um for the year I'm
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definitely worth the watch
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um maybe a re-watch movie um
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it's on that borderline of
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could it be a re-watch
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could it not be um what
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kind of helps it for me is
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my family has gone to see
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pentatonix at the holidays
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uh they put on a great show
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um and you can see parts of
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that in this movie as the
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movie ends at their concert
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and they are actually
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putting on some of the um
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the numbers at that point
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and you can see the stage
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sets and different stuff
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like that um it's pretty
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cool um I give that a solid
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b it was it was really good
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um the next the last one I
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will uh review for this
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year is mary gentleman this
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is about a woman who
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was like a Rockette style
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performer in New York City.
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She loses her job basically
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because of ageism is kind of the premise.
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And she has to go return to
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her family in a small town.
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And they own a bar nightclub
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that used to be
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the happening spot in town,
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but has kind of dilapidated
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into a place that needs fixing up.
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And the patrons are kind of
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your typical bar flies.
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It's not a really happening place anymore.
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And they're having a hard
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time reaching the rent.
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And the daughter comes back and decides,
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hey, I want to help my parents.
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So I'm going to put on a
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male review Christmas show.
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So she gets a couple of the
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guys from the neighborhood
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to put on a male review.
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They do that.
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It's quite successful.
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But it's a really good movie.
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I gave it a B+.
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It was really enjoyable to watch.
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The acting was, I thought,
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much better than some of the others.
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And the storyline was pretty good.
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Like most Christmas movies,
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there's a predictable ending,
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which is still cool.
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But they did a really nice job with it.
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And so I give that one a solid B+.
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Again...
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none of this year's
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offerings uh match up to
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love hard or any of those
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from the past years love
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heart is just one of my
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favorites of all time um
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and I actually just
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rewatched it this weekend
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uh and it does stand the
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test of time you can watch
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that over and over again
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just like your classics like
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Christmas Vacation, Elf, Love Actually,
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those standard Christmas
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movies that people watch year over year.
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Love Heart is that.
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I don't think any of these
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this year's make it
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completely to that level.
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There's a couple borderline
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ones that maybe you'd watch,
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but I think it was a good fair this year,
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but nothing that hit the
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Grand Slam home run like
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Love Heart did last year or
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the year before.
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holly says christmas
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vacation is too chaotic um
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my mom is one of four
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sisters um every christmas
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was chaotic when we when we
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grew up um and so maybe it
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just reminds me of that um
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a lot another movie that
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netflix brought out a
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couple years ago is the
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feast of the seven fishes
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um and that family chaos is
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very reminiscent of how I
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grew up at the holidays so
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ACR is not a Christmas vacation fan.
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Wow.
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Are you even American?
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No, I'm just kidding.
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No, I get it.
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I get it.
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Everybody has different
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flavors and different tastes.
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What is your favorite Christmas movie,
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Miss Riddell?
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If anybody has a favorite
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that they think that people should...
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that they that they think
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people should check out
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throw it in the comments
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and I'll throw it up here
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um uh holly says I have
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five siblings maybe chaos
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is too real and this I get
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totally acr um way
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overplayed and overdone
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christmas vacation is so
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quoted when I go to my
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in-laws house they quote
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that movie every stinking
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year every stinking time um
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Yeah, it can get too much.
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And there are years that I
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do not watch it.
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I have not watched it this year,
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to be quite frank.
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Jay Burch's The Classic Christmas Story.
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For me,
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that's just because TBS always
19:18
played it on Christmas Day.
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We would just have it running on a loop,
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basically, at our house on Christmas Day.
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And like half pay attention
19:28
to it because you can catch
19:29
it as it's coming on and coming off.
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So, yeah.
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And Holly says holiday, the holiday.
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That's a great one.
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Love that one a lot.
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And our Christmas story.
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Yeah,
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my family does the tradition of every
19:49
Christmas Eve, we watch Love Actually.
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And then Christmas story,
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we just kind of run through
19:57
the day on the day of Christmas.
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Um, the holiday is awesome.
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We watched that one a lot.
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Um, but I am a huge Kate Winslet fan.
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So, uh, always enjoy watching Kate, uh,
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ACR.
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Uh,
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I do like elf Grinch white Christmas
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and then some of the Netflix ones.
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See the Grinch, the Jim Carrey one.
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I am not a fan of, not a fan of, uh,
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I don't know why.
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Um, I know a lot of people are, uh,
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but yeah.
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I love the original animated Grinch.
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But yeah.
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ACR, like Christmas Chronicles,
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Jingle Jangle.
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Christmas Chronicles is one
20:47
of the best movies out there.
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The first Christmas
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Chronicles was awesome.
20:53
That was a huge surprise for
20:54
me and a big win for Netflix.
20:56
That is one that I would
20:57
watch over and over again, for sure.
21:05
But yeah, so those are the Netflix,
21:08
the movies,
21:09
I will throw in a bonus one I
21:10
watched read one on Friday
21:12
night that has already come
21:14
to prime video, and it is a. It is a.
21:23
movie about santa has uh
21:27
he's like a ripped santa
21:29
the rock is his lead elf
21:31
and um he gets kidnapped
21:34
and they have to use this
21:36
kind of hacker guy which is
21:38
chris evans to find uh
21:41
santa so the rock and chris
21:42
evans uh you know captain
21:44
america are going to look
21:46
for uh santa and with that um
21:53
they run into this,
21:55
which is the person who has
21:56
stolen kidnapped Santa.
21:58
And she has some magic that
22:00
allows like snowmen to come
22:01
to life and they have to
22:02
fight them on and different
22:03
things like that.
22:05
Um,
22:06
really was I was so excited
22:08
about it because I love
22:10
eighties action movies and
22:11
it was so close to getting
22:13
there and then it kind of
22:15
tried to be more than just
22:16
an action movie tried to be
22:18
like a good solid drama and
22:20
it it fell short for me um
22:22
I was so disappointed with
22:24
the way the middle went in
22:25
that movie the beginning
22:27
was awesome the end was
22:28
awesome the middle just blah
22:32
um and it could have been it
22:34
could have been an awesome
22:35
christmas action movie that
22:38
would have been so fun to
22:39
watch just very different
22:41
than what's out there right
22:42
now um and it it tried to
22:45
be a little too dramatic in
22:47
the middle for me uh jay
22:50
burke jay birch throws in
22:51
the family stone uh that's a good one so
22:59
So that's our Christmas movie talk.
23:00
The next thing I just on my
23:02
mind and wanted to talk
23:03
about is the college transfer portal.
23:07
We have the college football
23:08
playoffs coming up this weekend.
23:10
My Penn State Nittany Lions
23:12
have made it to the twelve team playoff.
23:14
Super excited about that.
23:15
As I was sitting down to do
23:17
the Sunday night CrossFit show,
23:19
my phone had an alert that.
23:26
had an alert that Bo Pribola,
23:28
who is the backup
23:29
quarterback for the Penn
23:30
State Nittany Lions,
23:31
was entering the transfer
23:33
portal and foregoing the
23:35
college football playoffs.
23:38
And that just set me off.
23:39
Like, one,
23:40
Bo Probola is a prominent player
23:43
in the Nittany Lions offense.
23:45
He plays probably twenty to
23:47
twenty five percent of the
23:48
snaps because they put both
23:51
him and the starting
23:52
quarterback on the field at
23:53
the same time in a lot of different sets.
23:57
And he is more of a running
23:59
quarterback where Drew Aller, the starter,
24:01
is a throwing quarterback.
24:03
And now the Penn State
24:05
Nittany Lions are without
24:07
him for the playoffs
24:08
because of this transfer portal.
24:10
I get that the new NIL and
24:13
that college sports as an
24:15
amateur thing are pretty
24:16
much a thing of the past.
24:18
But why are we letting
24:19
people jump from their
24:21
teams right before the playoffs?
24:24
Why can't we wait to open
24:25
the portal or the
24:27
announcements to open the
24:28
portal to be after the playoffs are done?
24:33
I find it ridiculous that
24:34
teams not only have to
24:36
combat beating the team they have to play,
24:39
but now they have to hope
24:40
that their players stay on
24:41
the team and don't leave
24:43
prior to the playoffs starting.
24:45
They've competed all year.
24:47
Penn State went, what, ten and one,
24:50
eleven and one, something like that.
24:52
And and then lost in the Big
24:54
Ten championship game by a
24:55
touchdown to Oregon,
24:56
who is the number one team
24:57
in the country.
24:58
So they have a good team.
25:00
And now they're,
25:01
they have to go into the
25:03
playoffs without one of the
25:05
prominent players on their offense.
25:08
And I think that sucks.
25:11
I get it.
25:12
I get it's a new era and I'm
25:14
old and I'm the grumpy guy
25:15
yelling at the clouds on my porch,
25:18
but doggone it, man.
25:19
Like I've invested in this
25:21
team all season long.
25:23
And now right before the playoffs, uh,
25:27
players get ripped off my
25:28
team because they want to
25:29
go play somewhere else.
25:31
And I get it.
25:32
Drew Aller has announced
25:33
that he's coming back to
25:34
Penn state for a senior year.
25:35
This kid is probably not going to get any,
25:37
get more playing time as a starter.
25:39
He wants to go someplace
25:40
where he can be a starter.
25:42
That's fine.
25:43
Just let him do it after the
25:44
playoffs are over.
25:47
It really,
25:48
it really cripples what's going on for,
25:51
for teams in that you
25:53
follow the whole damn season.
25:55
Like it just sucks.
26:00
Um, Jay Birch agreed.
26:01
The schools have committed to them, money,
26:03
time, and resources.
26:04
And these kids want to shirk
26:05
their commitment.
26:06
I, I agree.
26:07
Finish the season.
26:09
Uh,
26:09
when I was raising my daughter and she
26:10
wanted to try something, I was like,
26:12
you can try anything you want to,
26:14
and I will support it,
26:16
but you are going to finish whatever,
26:19
whatever year season,
26:21
whatever that may be.
26:24
because you are making a
26:25
commitment to that, whether it be a band,
26:28
whether it be a sport,
26:30
you have committed to that
26:31
team or that group of
26:32
people that you will be
26:33
there to support them until
26:35
that season is over.
26:38
We had this battle when she
26:39
played the viola.
26:41
She wanted to try it.
26:43
I said, that is fine.
26:45
You will just have to finish
26:48
the concert year.
26:49
whatever that is.
26:51
And she fought me on it, but doggone it,
26:53
you made a commitment to
26:54
that orchestra that you
26:55
would be there until the
26:56
end and you were going to
26:57
be there until the end.
27:00
But it seems like these days in college,
27:02
man, nobody,
27:04
that commitment means nothing.
27:07
And it's really frustrating
27:10
to be a fan of a team that
27:12
has just missed the college
27:14
football playoff when it
27:15
was for so many years and
27:17
we finally get in.
27:19
And now one of our better
27:20
players is leaving through
27:21
the transfer portal right
27:22
as the playoffs start this Saturday.
27:26
So, yeah.
27:28
So Jay Burch, you're down there in Texas.
27:31
Are you an SMU fan?
27:32
Are you a Texas fan, A&M fan,
27:35
or none of the above?
27:39
Because we got SMU in the
27:40
playoffs in the first round.
27:54
The last thing I'm going to
27:55
talk about is...
27:57
Texas and Texas A&M, you can like both.
28:02
I thought they were rivals.
28:04
Or is Oklahoma a bigger rival for Texas?
28:12
I have attended both schools.
28:14
There you go.
28:19
Was one undergrad, one master's or?
28:24
I love learning about you guys.
28:31
attended like fourteen
28:32
schools on my path to a
28:34
bachelor's degree and then
28:36
uh stuck at one school for
28:37
my master's so I couldn't
28:40
decide what I wanted to be
28:41
when I grew up I was on the
28:44
fifteen year plan um but
28:50
anyway um last thing is
28:52
bears are on monday night
28:53
football tonight
28:55
I don't know how to root for
28:57
my team anymore.
28:58
They're really bad.
28:59
They fired their coach.
29:01
They fired their offensive coordinator.
29:03
Do I root for them to lose
29:04
so that I get a better draft pick?
29:07
Or do I root for them to win
29:09
so that they can get this
29:10
losing streak done and
29:12
actually start in the
29:14
process of learning how to win games?
29:19
Oh, wow.
29:26
Jay Birch has a PhD dude,
29:31
big brain in the house.
29:36
Wow.
29:37
Um, so yes.
29:39
So what do I do?
29:39
Do I want the draft pick or
29:40
do I want my team to learn
29:42
how to start winning?
29:44
And I think I've kind of
29:45
like resolved myself to like,
29:47
I want them to start winning.
29:49
They need to, ah, didn't finish.
29:52
Hey,
29:53
I think you and Holly have something
29:54
in common.
29:55
maybe maybe I'm wrong that's
29:58
wrong somebody else
30:02
somebody else maybe Sally I
30:04
don't know I've met way too
30:07
many people so anyway um
30:11
I've cut result to the fact
30:12
that I want my team to
30:14
learn to win I think that
30:16
losing is just becoming too uh
30:21
losing is just becoming a
30:22
habit and we need to get
30:24
rid of that on our team.
30:26
And I just want them to, um,
30:29
I want them to learn,
30:33
get rid of losing in their vocabulary,
30:35
start winning some games
30:37
and believing that they can
30:39
win going into next season.
30:40
I think that is more
30:41
important than a high draft pick.
30:47
um holly says that jay birch
30:49
it's still awesome though
30:51
um dissertations are
30:52
overrated and holly has an
30:56
edd which I think is a
30:58
doctorate of education um
31:01
and then jay birch says
31:02
thanks holly just another
31:03
hoop to jump through
31:05
Yeah, when I finished my master's degree,
31:07
I came home,
31:09
I threw my books down and I said,
31:11
I am never, ever, ever, ever, never, ever,
31:14
ever going back to school again.
31:16
And I've kept that promise.
31:19
When I was getting my master's,
31:20
I had a newborn baby and my
31:23
wife and I almost got a divorce.
31:26
It was so hard finishing.
31:30
Um, and my final project was a huge,
31:37
I got my master's, my MBA,
31:39
and it was a comparison of, um, gosh,
31:43
it was so stupid.
31:44
Um, sit down restaurants.
31:47
Um,
31:47
and I had to do an analysis of the
31:49
Outback Steakhouse family.
31:51
And then I had partners that
31:52
had to do other ones like, um,
31:57
whatever group owned like
31:58
Applebee's and whatever had
31:59
Ruby Tuesdays and the whatever.
32:03
And then we had to do a
32:04
comparison between all of it.
32:06
And man,
32:08
it took me from getting home from
32:10
work till the very minute I
32:12
went to bed for six straight weeks.
32:15
Never saw my wife.
32:16
My daughter would actually
32:17
play by my feet as I was
32:18
sitting by the computer typing up stuff.
32:21
I just, I am done.
32:23
I will never, ever,
32:24
ever go back to school again.
32:30
Um, Holly said, that's good.
32:32
I just collected degrees for
32:33
some silly reason.
32:38
She had three in middle and
32:40
high school during PhD work.
32:42
and you know, what's crazy for me is my,
32:44
my MBA.
32:44
I've not even,
32:46
I have not even used it once
32:47
since I got it.
32:48
I,
32:48
I say that like I've used some of the
32:50
theories and like just life
32:52
and like doing this podcast
32:53
and creating like some
32:54
structure behind the backend, but like,
32:57
it's never gotten me a promotion.
32:59
It's never gotten me any
32:59
more money in my paycheck.
33:01
Um, all of that stuff.
33:03
Um, man,
33:06
all it is is a piece of paper and
33:07
a frame.
33:08
Uh,
33:10
It sits behind actually the flag,
33:13
the Glassman quote flag in
33:14
my podcast center.
33:16
You can't even see it.
33:17
That's so crazy.
33:20
ACR, that sounds so sad.
33:21
Sometimes the hard work isn't worth it.
33:25
I agree.
33:25
I really...
33:27
Yeah, I had a change of perspectives.
33:29
I really,
33:31
I wanted to move up and move up
33:33
and move up in the state of Ohio,
33:35
like to very high positions politically.
33:38
And then I just,
33:40
I had a change of heart
33:42
that that is not what I wanted.
33:43
I didn't like the
33:44
prioritization that that required.
33:46
And then the NBA became
33:50
useless to me after I had
33:52
changed that perspective.
33:55
Um,
33:55
happiness is more than money and I
33:59
don't know, power, I guess.
34:01
And, uh,
34:02
I just learned that being with my
34:03
family was made me more
34:04
happy than any of that stuff.
34:07
And, uh,
34:07
and maybe it took going through
34:09
the MBA and all that stuff
34:10
for me to realize it.
34:14
Um,
34:15
but it was an expensive lesson to learn.
34:17
I will say that.
34:19
I will say that.
34:25
um thanks jay birch yeah um
34:30
and man I love my life
34:32
today so I wouldn't I
34:33
wouldn't change anything I
34:34
guess I just I wish I
34:35
wasn't in the debt I was in
34:37
from paying for all that
34:38
school but um but yeah I
34:41
love where I am today so
34:43
glad I I got here through
34:45
any route possible but
34:48
anyway this is the first
34:49
episode of our lunch with the glidesdale
34:52
We're going to do these
34:54
every day that I can.
34:55
I will tell you that I do
34:57
have some commitments over
34:58
the next couple weeks,
34:59
although I'll probably miss
35:00
a day or two here or there.
35:02
But we're going to do these every day.
35:03
Just hang out.
35:04
If there's any subjects you
35:06
want to talk about that's
35:06
going on in the world, going on in sports,
35:09
going on in whatever,
35:11
It's just a place for us to
35:12
hang out and chat about
35:13
things that are going on.
35:15
And I can't wait to do this more and more.
35:18
And I want to get more
35:19
comfortable that if I have
35:20
to jump on here by myself,
35:21
that I can carry the show
35:23
for whatever length that is to do that.
35:26
And yeah,
35:27
so I'm going to take my
35:28
lunch hours uh to do that
35:31
thank you so much for being
35:32
here guys uh you guys are
35:34
awesome as always jay birch
35:36
acr holly um kenneth
35:39
whoever's here it's still
35:41
awesome we will see you
35:42
guys uh tomorrow with that bye guys