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What I want to say is the opening
is a reenactment of me trying to explain
to Corey before we went on air.
I don't know what happened.
My brain disconnected from my tongue and
it just...
All of a sudden,
Scott started speaking Mandarin.
It was crazy.
Just out of nowhere.
And Scott doesn't actually speak Mandarin,
in case you guys didn't know.
It's probably because I hate my job.
Which we were also discussing.
There's that.
Because today I've got to leave to go
to a one o'clock meeting with a meeting
after that and then a meeting after that.
And I've already had a handful of things
before I got here.
Because why wouldn't you?
Because it's a short week.
So let's compress everything from five
days into four.
Yeah,
I know we tell you you get a
day off.
No,
we're going to make you work like all
the days in four.
Judy Reed,
did I hear someone speak Chinese?
Maybe.
It's entirely possible, Judy.
If you can go back and translate,
that'd be fantastic.
Hello, Judy.
That's called aphasia.
Mark Phillips has this to say.
Sweet.
I agree, Mark.
Uh...
How many of those meetings could just be
an email?
Let me answer all of them.
Well,
my first meeting was a training that I
had to conduct that couldn't be an email
because we're recording them to make a
library of trainings.
So people don't have to go out and,
Oh my God,
we've already been through this.
So there it is.
And then the next one probably could have
been an email.
Oh, my gosh.
There it is again.
I guess I should have said I'm right.
Vicky is right.
Vicky is right.
So right.
There we go.
Judy translated and it says,
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Media.
Cridesdale Media.
I did see Avera say that they did
Omar and that it was very hot and
sticky wherever he is.
The last time I did Omar was in
the Outer Banks of North Carolina.
I don't even know what Omar is.
It's bar-facing burpees and thrusters.
Ooh.
Yeah.
It's kind of a nasty,
nasty little hero wad.
And I did it on –
So CrossFit Outer Banks used to be strips
of lifting platforms.
So your barbell was on the rubber and
the wood was down the middle.
So you're doing burpees on the wood.
And as Lake Schweitzer formed,
it was splash down, jump, splash down,
jump.
Try not to fall down.
Jump.
Correct,
because then that wood gets slick.
Slick.
Slick as a whistle.
Slick.
Makes the down part of the burpee go
fast.
I do not like lifting on lifting platforms
during the summertime because of the same
reason.
I sweat a whole lot.
Between the sweat and the chalk,
I end up with basically an ice patch
up underneath me as far as surface is
concerned.
And like,
I am scared to death to do like
a split jerk and have my foot just
hit and go out in front of me
when I got, you know, two fifty,
two hundred sixty pounds over my head.
Not cool.
Ten thrusters at ninety five sixty five.
Fifteen bar facing burpees.
Twenty thrusters.
Twenty five bar facing burpees.
Thirty thrusters.
Thirty five.
Thirty five was absolutely brutal.
Yeah, that could be bad.
Brutal.
And it was the burpees for me.
Like I got through the thrusters.
All right.
The burpees.
But at that point in the workout, I.
You might as well just beat me with
a baseball bat because that's how it felt.
I like that.
I'm good.
I'm good with that one.
That looks like something.
I mean, it's right up my alley.
Lito, it's like a dream workout to her.
Well, we're not as fit as you, Lito.
No.
Just saying.
Working on it.
Working on it.
But as of right now, no,
not so much.
Clydesdales do not like burpees.
I have not met a big dude yet
who was like,
let's do a hundred burpees for time.
I'll tell you what else they don't like,
which we had programmed this morning
because we do it at least once a
year, is a mile run for time.
I actually had a bunch of people show
up this morning.
I was impressed.
And then I had at least
three or four of them that PR'd.
So it was pretty cool,
especially considering it's ninety degrees
outside at six o'clock in the morning.
Yeah, I, burpees for me,
it's all a mentality, right?
Like,
you control the speed and the intensity of
the burpee, right?
And it's just getting to a point where
you find a pace that makes sense to
you and if you can do that then
you can mentally get through that i that
you have to do burpees right now there's
those moments like if you're in the open
or you're in a competition and you got
to go past that comfort pace that all
of a sudden yeah now we're we're not
in fun time anymore this is not happy
happy fun time anymore
You see, the thing is,
see what happened was you go at it
with no warmup and finish before you start
sweating.
If you can finish that workout,
Dan Church, before you start sweating,
you are a rock star stud.
I can't walk outside right now without
sweating.
So like, that's just not going to happen.
I do understand what he means though.
My strategy every time I've done Fran was
to be done with it before my body
figures out what was happening.
Like just go as quick as you possibly
can until you get to like the nine
and by that point it's done basically.
So before your body figures out what's
actually going on.
Same type of thing like that.
Not to change the subject,
but that's what we do on the show.
My wife is home from work today.
She's working from home.
So when I come down to do this
show, she takes her lunch hour.
The bass on my sound system just rocked
my ceiling, her floor.
And you know what that means?
Serial killer shows.
Boom, boom.
Yeah.
yep the big bass booming through my
ceiling something interesting just
happened somebody died who did it or or
and they just revealed who did it ah
it's so silly yeah so silly it really
really is that's all she watches man you
know dude
i sleep with one eye open or my
wife would get along just fine they watch
it that's
If it's on Netflix and it involves,
as long as it doesn't involve kids,
neither one of us are watching that,
right?
Like there was one about it, some lady,
all the descriptions like,
what she did in a NICU.
And I'm like, well, not watching that.
And you got no urge for that.
Definitely not checking that out.
But like all the rest of them,
like the women who killed their husbands,
the husbands who killed their wives,
et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
Yeah,
we've seen all of those a hundred times.
Sleep with one eye open.
gripping your pillow um there's there was
one that made it through um the lake
erie murders one of the one of the
things actually happened in my old
hometown and it was the sister of one
of my friends
And she wanted to know all the details
of it.
And it's something that like,
I don't want to, like, that's almost,
that's kind of a bad memory for me.
Right.
Yeah,
I don't need to know all the details.
That's the only time like I haven't
supported her in whatever she wants to
watch, right?
Like, because I just,
I didn't need to relive it.
Oh, we watched the Derek Todd Lee stuff,
and that happened right there in Baton
Rouge while my wife was going to LSU.
We've seen all of that stuff.
Proximity for her is even better.
Now she knows all the details because now
if it's somebody that she knows that knows
the person or whatever the case may be,
she's all into that.
Every bad news story starts with he or
she was obsessed with serial killers.
Actually, Wayne,
I think most of them start off with,
he seemed like such a nice guy.
He was quiet.
He's quiet.
Kept to himself.
You know why he kept to himself?
Because if you can't be real social,
if you're burying bodies in the backyard,
that's why they keep to themselves.
You know,
my wife made the news one night.
Say it again.
My wife made the news one night as
a witness to, well, I don't.
Okay.
So she was pulled up to a red
light.
Someone from the other direction ran the
red light,
and their car flipped over top my wife's
car.
And so the news camera came in,
grabbed my wife.
It was raining.
She had her hood up.
They're asking her what she saw.
To this day, my favorite,
funniest story of my wife.
She was like, I don't know.
All I saw was wheels and axles.
There it was on the six o'clock news.
And I'm like,
they find a way to make people look
like they didn't even get their GED when
they interview them for the news.
My wife is a college-educated woman,
and she came across those,
all I saw was wheels and axles.
I don't even know.
I don't even know.
I was standing there one second,
car flipped over, man.
I don't know.
Yeah,
they added that stuff to make it seem...
however they want to make it seem I
mean they could take video of us and
make us look terrible if they wanted to
it really wouldn't be that difficult to do
but yeah they always say they always
interview the stupidest people no not
really I uh
we had a TiVo at the time.
This is how long, it was like,
twenty-five years ago.
Yeah, I had a TiVo.
And I TiVo'd the news to capture that.
And when friends would come over,
I was like, hey, let's watch this.
Right?
And then I,
the saddest moment was I had to get
rid of that TiVo.
games athlete showed up at my box
yesterday to work out she did not do
omar with us i will leave her name
out of the comments section but top ten
athlete for the past five years at the
games i mean uh female top ten athlete
last five years daniel brandon in most
games athletes
My experience when they've dropped in at
boxes I belong to,
don't do the class workout.
Oddly enough,
no games athletes have ever dropped into
the box.
Believe it or not.
I am trying to be the games athlete
that drops into my own box come next
year.
I got bronchitis.
Ain't nobody got time for that.
My old gym, Sarah Sigmund started,
dropped in.
And when I was with Polaris and Christy,
games athletes would come in for the
Arnold and then drop in to work out
with Christy.
Yeah.
So like Justin Medeiros, Sam Briggs,
Dan Bailey was there all the time.
It just happened all the time just because
Christy was there, right?
And they were in for the Arnold,
so they would pop in.
You saw Dan Bailey withdrew from Xenon
over the weekend.
I did.
Did we talk about that yesterday?
Did I see that yesterday?
I don't know if we talked about it
or not.
I did text with Emily Rolfe last night.
Oh, yeah?
Asked her about the Xenon.
The Xenon.
Xenon.
Coming to a city near you.
Not really.
The next city it's going to is London,
which is nowhere near me.
Yeah, but it's near Lido.
It is near Lido.
Yeah, don't be selfish about this.
Okay, fair enough.
My bad.
And so I asked her about the experience
and all that stuff.
And for the most part, very, very glowing.
She said very well run.
The floor was very nice.
The equipment was awesome.
All of that kind of stuff.
But her being an elite.
So we had Megan on Sunday night.
Yep.
I watched it.
Elite.
Emily is an elite athlete who's finished
third at the games, right?
She has done Rogue.
She has done Waterpalooza.
She's done Dubai.
She's done all the things.
And I was like,
did it feel special to you?
And she said, like,
when you've done all the events she's
done,
it's really hard to make an event like
this special.
But she said,
I could imagine if you're not a games
athlete who's done Dubai and Rogue and all
that, that you would feel pretty special.
It probably felt like a bigger comp,
like stuff that she's already done before.
Yeah.
Yeah, I could see that.
Now,
the two pieces I think that are very
valid, kind of,
if you're an elite athlete, because one,
I don't think it's really geared for elite
athletes.
I think they're trying to use elite
athletes to show it off.
But it's really for the people who want
to go try to be like a games
athlete and get the experience, right?
Games fantasy camp is what they kept
saying about it.
Yeah.
So what I will say is the two
constructive things that she said and very
constructive, not in a mean way is one.
It's an all or nothing prize, right?
You break the world record,
you win the money.
You don't break the world record,
no money.
The other thing is she won five events
and,
abby won two and she came in second
she came in second and so she would
say she did say that it does seem
a bit skewed to the gaps in weightlifting
as opposed to the gaps in general fitness
Yeah,
John Young was saying that on the podcast
last night.
I was watching that right before I came
on here about how badly they got beaten
by Colton and Chris on one of them,
whatever it was.
But they won the snatch event,
so it ended up being a whole lot
closer.
But like he said,
they tripled their score.
whatever the whatever the other event was
and i was like man that is like
that's kind of crazy right also i think
that that probably also speaks to the
level of participation because it seems
like there's a wide gap right yeah colton
was there and chris they were on a
team emily was there but sam p technically
the number of people in the field
shouldn't matter because it's your score
on a chart
But it's also the very first time they're
making the chart.
Yeah,
but he has said that they are not
going to change it for – they don't
want to change it for like twenty years.
Yeah.
That's the plan.
Because if you change it,
then the comparison goes away.
Right.
Yeah, the standard is the standard.
So –
I thought one had a great conversation
with her, too.
I thought they were valid points.
And again,
she was very constructive about it.
It wasn't like hating on the event.
She had a good time,
said it was a fun competition,
the whole bit.
Yeah,
Seve was saying this morning that he
hasn't talked to anybody yet who's been
there who had a negative thing to say
about it.
yeah i get the people i know that
we've had a blast yeah constructive is one
thing but just nobody's been like you
sucked you stupid whatever like there's
been none of that so good on them
dude for the very first one you know
everything seemed to go off without a
hitch moving on to the next one speaking
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All of the things.
Um, uh,
it annoys me that there are pure strength
events all the time,
but pure endurance or pure gymnastics gets
aggressively criticized.
that's a he's not wrong he's not he's
not wrong and uh oh here we go
larry young's about to throw some stuff in
there but like
I like the fact that there was at
Xenon,
the one minute max echo by calories.
Cause it's not something you see every day
and it is incredibly difficult to do.
And it doesn't necessarily, you know,
you need to be big.
You need to be strong to be able
to put a good score up,
but I could also put a decent score
up for my size and for my age,
because I train on that thing all the
damn time.
We don't have a C two bikes.
So anytime we have something that Brandon
programs with the bike,
I am converting calories over to the, uh,
to the echo.
So like I can hold pretty high RPMs
for a pretty long amount of time.
I like that.
I think the thirty ring muscle ups for
time at the twenty eighteen games.
I enjoyed the shit out of that because
that's another completely specialized test
and it needs to be tested.
If you're going to test,
if you're going to have a one rep
max,
you're going to have the not even a
one rep max scratch that the total you're
going to have the CrossFit total,
which is literally three power lifting
event.
Right.
Then, yeah.
Why not have to balance that out?
We're also going to do thirty ring muscle
ups for time.
And if you want to throw something else
in there,
they should have did just a straight run.
I don't think there's any criticism with
Xenon and the balanced test.
No,
I think it's the balanced scoring that her
comment was made about, right?
Yeah, absolutely.
There is a little bit of everything in
this Xenon.
Um,
Her point was Abby won two weightlifting
events.
Right.
And wins the overall thing.
She wins five of the other events.
Which is half of them.
Yeah.
If you won half the events at the
CrossFit Games,
you would win the CrossFit Games.
If you took first place at half of
the events...
last year not even this year with the
twenty last year if you won half of
the ten you are going to win the
games period true so that's where that's i
think that's what that that's how she's
looking at and i don't think she's wrong
so lito go back and look at the
scores i'm not trying to like look how
bad emily beat other people in some of
the events
And then compare it to how bad Abby
beat other people in the weightlifting
events.
I think that it doesn't make sense.
But in all fairness,
we have one data point.
Yeah.
We have one data point.
And once more of these come along,
I think we'll be able to see if
there truly is a gap by winning those
two that Abby won.
Yeah, let's see what happens in London.
Let's see what happens down the road a
little bit.
We have one event, one weekend.
Because in some of those wins that Emily
had, she won by a pretty big margin.
Yeah, a hundred percent.
So again, Vicky, it's not about placing.
It's about where you plot out on the
chart.
Other people's results mean nothing to you
and your score.
No.
The people I know that did it would
one percent like to do it again.
I mean, even.
Yeah,
everybody I talk to would like to do
it again if another no,
no other reason than to see if they
can beat their previous scores.
Which is the most CrossFit thing you can
possibly imagine.
I just want to beat my score,
my old score.
So I think that's pretty cool.
So yeah, the scoring is on.
If you did it by yourself,
the scoring would be the same as if
you did it in a group of ten
people because it's only based on your
finish time or finish weight or finish
whatever from each event.
And then they go over to a spreadsheet
and they go, okay,
two fifteen snatch equals six hundred
points yep a three fifty eight in this
equals seven hundred and twenty two points
so you know
What's stopping you from doing it at home?
Just the Rhino?
You can buy a Rhino.
Twelve hundred dollars.
You buy a Rhino from Rogue.
Twelve hundred dollars and twelve hundred
dollars to ship.
C-two?
Is it C-two?
That's a C-two deal, isn't it?
Or is it Rogue?
I don't remember.
It's Rogue.
It's Rogue.
Yeah.
Go get one from Rogue.
Three ships free.
yeah buy a rhino and two ten pound
dumbbells just yeah hundred percent free
ships free baby yeah rogue is a major
sponsor of xenon they created this
supposedly just for xenon it looked cool
um
From what I understand,
if you are proficient or enjoy or however
you want to look at that, deadlifts,
then you probably did pretty good on it.
And if not, but they said it's multi-use.
You can deadlift.
You can belt squat.
You can do a multitude of things on
it,
not just what they used it for over
the weekend.
Larry Young's waiting on his out by where
FedEx delivers.
I wonder if they can fit it in
that little envelope.
You got to send in parts if you're
going to do it like that.
Some assembly required.
You get the nuts and screws on day
one.
Larry Young's a big old boy.
He can handle it.
If it comes in several different pieces,
if it comes in all at once,
I'm pretty sure he can handle it.
That dude is large.
He got a mitt on him.
It swallowed my hand when we shook hands.
It was crazy.
Jason Bourne called that event and it was
crazy the different muscles that athletes
were feeling after it.
I loved Adam Klink's description of it
last night on WODprep.
He said that him and Jake Douglas figured
out
kind of the formula.
And his call for that was,
which was interesting,
it needs to be standardized because it's
speed over distance.
And the shorter you make the distance,
the faster you can go.
And so he actually said to Katie that
you need to standardize this in a way
that prevents people from gaming it.
Good news is if they told that to
Katie, she's actually going to listen.
Well, I think Wilson Park will listen.
I think those organizers will listen.
They're not stupid people,
and they know what side of their bread
their butter is on.
Avera says,
I'll do a Xenon if Lito agrees to
do it with me as a mixed pair.
Lito, before you answer,
you are not used to finishing last,
so it will be a new experience for
you for sure.
Basically, Avera was like,
I'm going to do it with Lito,
but Lito needs to drag us across the
finish line.
Again, Wayne,
the placings don't matter on the scoring.
It's not typical CrossFit.
It has nothing to do with the final
score.
Zenom is the most talked about event
today.
The event was amazing.
It's the most talked about because it's
what just happened.
Yeah, it was literally three days ago.
I think that the feedback has been amazing
and I think the feedback is good.
But I do...
want to see where they go from here
yeah i'm curious i truly am and they're
going to build up a more of a
database as they go so like you can
have more scores in there and more scores
in there more scores in there it's going
to be it's going to be pretty cool
uh they do know how to not to
pre-butter their bread before they toast
it
Unless your name is David Justin.
He sent me a video of him buttering
his bread and then putting it in the
toaster.
Because he wanted to live on the edge.
He sent me the same video.
Look what we created.
We created a world where people are now
trying to pre-butter their bread before
they toast it.
It's an aggregate score.
How does the placing not count?
Your score is not based.
You could finish dead last,
but if you get a score high enough,
you could still score nine hundred points.
There is a chart for finishing times that
you look at and that's what you get
your score.
There's truly no correlation between place
of finish and scoring other than just the
natural assumption that the people going
faster than you would be ahead of you
on the leaderboard.
Their score would be higher,
but the difference between the scores has
nothing to do with where you placed.
Oh, it's weird.
It's, I mean, I say it's weird.
It's different.
It is much more individual and
or she much more community focused and
it's hey bro you it's you against you
uh did david johnson butter sourdough uh i
put it like this it didn't look like
store-bought it was not wonder bread no it
wasn't it did not look like it was
the best thing since sliced bread sliced
bread
uh larry young the best thing about xenon
is you know what you're training for
either you're willing to put into work or
not ten events baby what's your max snatch
what's your max calories on the echo bike
how fast can you do these other things
one i don't believe it was guessed there
was a lot of research as to what
they did a whole bunch of math what
and they tested and they tested and they
tested yeah so it's not a guess but
you that owner said on several podcasts
they if they change the score it defeats
the purpose of what they're trying to
accomplish accomplish yeah
Daniel Arnson giving nine ninety nine to
the girls cause of going to the games.
And we forgot to mention that at the
top all weekend, all week long.
We are taking super chat donations for
Carolyn and Jamie to get to the CrossFit
Games.
And one hundred percent of what you donate
will go to them.
I am taking I am paying whatever YouTube
takes out of it.
I am paying to them.
So they will get one hundred percent of
the donations that come into the chat.
I texted Jamie yesterday and I said,
you missed a huge opportunity to charge a
dollar ninety nine per flex.
She was like, yeah, I realized that later.
Maybe we'll do that Sunday night.
I said if anybody would ever ask me
to flex,
I would take all of my donations and
give it to you.
I'm not going to the games this year.
If by some wild chance somebody asks for
that this week, I got you.
Daniel does have a condition for Jamie.
She only gets her cut if she says
go blue.
Not going to happen.
It's going to be a cold day in
hell.
Not going to happen.
uh let me answer this earlier uh who
was it vicky i think was asking see
if i can find it right quick oh
yeah equipment question if you had to
choose between buying a ski or a runner
for your home gym what would you get
or you got an echo bike and a
rower um i would probably get a skier
because outside is free and i live in
south louisiana
You were in Tennessee.
I don't know if it snows where you
are.
So wintertime might be a question or if
you live on a hill or anything like
that.
But outside is free as far as running
is concerned.
I wish we had a runner like at
the gym just because it's a whole lot
easier to just do your run, get off,
do whatever you got to do,
jump right on the runner instead of having
to go back outside,
come to your barbell all the way in
the back.
But for the house,
I don't think I need a runner.
I think I would rather have a skier.
Let me answer that question for you,
Vicky.
If someone's buying it for me,
I go with the runner.
Yeah.
Because... A huge price difference.
Because I can easily afford a ski erg.
Yeah.
I cannot easily afford a runner.
It's like three times the price.
If Santa Claus has come to Vicky's house
and said, you get one piece of equipment,
pick it, go with the runner.
Yeah.
Um...
Or something else here.
I better be careful, Corey.
You never know what people ask you to
do for donations.
Never underestimate the levels I was
stooped to to help my friends that winter.
Just saying.
Gosh, Corey,
the skier gets so damn boring.
It's boring,
but it's an effective training tool.
I skied this morning.
I don't want to see it at the
games.
I skied this morning.
As a matter of fact,
I'm going back and skiing again this
afternoon.
It'll work your core,
which you don't realize until after you
get done,
but my abs will be hurting if I
do a serious ski piece.
Yeah, I agree.
Speaking of things you see at the games,
I've gotten a lot of engagement on a
post I made on Instagram yesterday about
my plan to go with ten athletes at
the CrossFit Games.
I would say a lot is kind of
a...
That's a, that's a misnomer.
You got a way more than a lot.
What I, here's the thing that I'm not,
I'm not like sold a hundred percent on
this plan that I'm throwing out,
but the data is telling us that less
people are attending the games,
less people are signing up for the open,
less people are watching online.
right yeah we got to do something because
the definition of insanity is to keep
doing the same thing over and over and
over again and expecting a different
result and there are a lot of factors
and i'm well aware of them getting rid
of this the festival atmosphere at in
madison was a huge mistake upping the
ticket price for the games huge mistake
Having a season where everybody is
touchy-feely, hey,
let's make everybody have eighteen
opportunities to make the games is...
It's a bad idea.
It's a bad idea, right?
If I was to go with the ten
per,
the rest of the season would have to
be meaningful and have as much excitement
getting there as the ten people seen do
the events at the games.
Yeah,
I think we touched on that not to
be stripped back and changed and modified.
I feel like we touched on that whenever
we talked about it the other day,
like you would,
there's no way you couldn't do the current
season and have it in with ten people.
No, no, no, no, no.
It's not going to happen.
And I think we touched on that,
but I think people can't get a hold
of sound bites.
And they just assumed that we meant,
oh yeah, no,
we're still going to have the exact same
thing that we're going on now,
but we're just going to go with ten
instead of thirty.
It's not what we said.
Not what Scott said.
No, you have to overhaul it all.
Yes.
All of it has to be overhauled.
And having it in one of the most
expensive cities.
Big mistake.
Yes.
A hundred percent.
Not even cities, states.
California is expensive in general.
Avera, Scott,
were the seats ever empty in Madison?
I do not think so.
Go back to Madison.
Yes, they were.
But towards the end, they were not.
This is the problem.
Madison is expensive.
It is an old,
antiquated venue that takes a week of
setup to get ready.
You had to build the outdoor venue and
tear it down after.
It was a great idea.
But just because I am sure you could
find something in another city that you
could do the same thing and wouldn't have
to do all that.
Right?
Like, it's doable.
You go to Columbus...
They have a baseball stadium,
they have a hockey arena,
and they have a soccer field literally in
two blocks.
And I'm not saying come to Columbus
because maybe it's not the best or ideal
situation either, but if Columbus has it,
other cities have the same thing.
Right?
Seattle.
Seattle.
I've been, I've been to the,
whatever the name of the Marlins arena is.
You can see the football stadium from it.
Yeah.
Like it's literally right there.
As we were walking up,
there's lots of places like that is,
is what the point is that you could
easily do stuff like host the games and
have it be more cost effective where you,
you don't feel like you need to sell
tickets for whatever they're going for.
I know,
I know that are absolutely ridiculous.
Daniel Arnson,
I think I've said a ton of times
that he is a smart individual.
He likes my idea because it's better,
concise, more drama.
Getting to the games in every event
matters more.
Bingo, bango.
And I will admit that Madison was the
height of sports popularity,
but we are not there anymore.
We have far less affiliates even.
I like Columbus too little Larry Young to
the hopefully Xenon takes off same ten
people mid go girls it wouldn't be the
same ten people no you look at the
men's field this year I swear I said
this Sunday night it will be the smallest
margin of points between first and tenth
we've ever seen at the games
It's gonna be a dogfighting.
Twenty events.
When do you get on the payroll?
When I do.
Same time you start sending me checks
there, Scott.
Daniel, don't even worry about it.
That's good.
Unrelated,
did you guys see that Erica Follow is
with HWPO?
I heard that rumor.
I've tried to figure it out.
I have not seen that winter.
Everything I see shows she's still with
Misfit.
So unless something popped in the last day
or so...
I had not heard that at all.
Not that I keep up with Erica Follow
that much, but...
I don't see her being a HWPO athlete
unless she was going there specifically
for Justin.
Yeah, Kyler.
Oh,
HWPO posted their athlete roster today.
I'll check it out.
I've already said I said this yesterday,
but the fact that Bruce is not talking
about the game so much tells me he
will have a lot to say after they
are done and a lot of changes are
coming.
But he did help move the hopper.
And he did talk about the games in
his two-brain speech.
He did.
I don't think he has a lot to
say about the games because he's not
necessarily involved with the games other
than being CEO at this point.
He just got there.
Everything has already been put in place
and in motion before he ever got there.
I hate to be this way,
but I have a meeting in one minute.
So we are going to go real quick
right now.
Bye, guys.
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