I don’t think vin diesel ever created anything. He’s only been actor and/or producer.
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It’s ok, in my defense when the first one dropped I didn’t know what to call it but we all new @talbotcox was doing this so I felt it was the most clear.
-edit, there I made it even more clear! LOL!
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The creative force and genius
It’s very annoying the links don’t expand into playable videos on here, but this one features Marjolaine Pierre.
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haha Fuck man… Be happy sometimes haha
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Magnus Ditlev this week. Well done @talbotcox
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Great article from @talbotcox on Taylor’s Kona
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Getting a video from Taylor post Kona is pretty amazing.
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I wonder what her core temp limit was? Pretty nuts she was already there getting out of the water. @talbotcox these are just awesome and you really do get some great stuff from these athletes.
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Don’t know how I missed this gem.
If you read the words attributed to @talbotcox it reads precisely like those blasted youtube videos where a computer generated voice intones the narrative.
“For nearly eight hours she had raced on the edge of perfection.”
“After cooling down, she attacked the climb to Hawi, then descended alongside Charles-Barclay into Kona.”
“She looked strong, smooth, unbreakable.”
“From the finish line, thousands of spectators gasped. The roar of the crowd fell silent as word spread: the leader had stopped.”
“When the noise faded, Knibb didn’t see defeat; she saw clarity.”
If AI had no part of this, I humbly apologise.
Btw Knibb stopped more than 4km “from glory”.
Feed Video Episode 10 excellent.
Yes a very fine episode @talbotcox and once again great music. IT reminded me of some old surf flicks and the music they would have with slow motion epic waves being ridden to accompany. I think that from her description, she was running a very low grade fever before the race, and it was enough to put her in a place very early that she had anticipated would not be there until the end. How the hell did we ever race without all those gadgets to tell us what we should and should not be doing? (-;
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Height of literary elegance whoever wrote it , Nobel prize for sure on the future
totally fair question so let me clarify what actually went into this.
I was at the Ironman World Championships with Taylor. I spent the days leading into the race with her, filmed her prep, followed her on race day, and watched her go through all of it up close. Afterward, I sat down with her for a long conversation to understand not just what happened, but how she felt the mindset, the emotion, the meaning behind it.
The written piece is built from that experience from being there in person, listening carefully, and deciding what parts of her story needed to be highlighted. I did use ai tools to help organize and shape the language, the same way photographers use ai editing software or filmmakers use ai editing programs. Tools don’t create the story they just help express it clearly.
The story itself comes from real time spent with the athlete and from my choices in how to represent her voice. If someone wants to critique the work, great read it first and talk about the narrative decisions. But reducing it to “ChatGPT” skips the entire human part of interviewing, observing, listening, and crafting a story worth telling. And that’s the part I take pride in.
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You didn’t have to take the time to do any of these. We appreciate your creations. But you know some people here just have to bitc……well I’ll put it nicer…it’s off season. You do great work Talbot. Keep it up.
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Totally fair, and thank you for responding. It was a good article and clearly you’d devoted a lot of effort into the video which is evidenced by its quality. Made Tuesday special. Was this the best ever episode? Possibly, perhaps because the subject is:
- one of the best,
- is a double Olympic medallist,
- dominated MD as soon as she ‘moved up’,
- clearly has the potential to win a LD champs (and young enough to win several),
- seems prepared to have sufficient national pride to represent her country at a home Olympics, sacrificing her long course progress for a few years.
On top of that (and offering you a focus for your video you could not have nightmared for) Knibb recently suffered very public failure on the brink of success, shocking everyone, not just her supporters, despite swimming sensibly, riding to form and running the first 31km of her marathon at her own steady perfectly reasonable pace, achievable in prospect. (20:20, 20:37, 21:32, 21:14, 20:57, 21:10, 22:40 . . . )
I can imagine ‘The Feed’ wanted an article out of it and since your forte is visual (not a ) journalism, feeding your video text and context and her quotes into Chat GPT or whatever produced the goods. It read well but then triggered me because turns of phrase, typical of AI style, made me realise this wasn’t all you. I guess this is the world we can look forward to live in.
For @timr @talbotcox “DID have to take the time to do this” - this wasn’t volunteering. He and the PTN gang of four don’t have to entertain weekly, but they do: that’s effectively volunteering. I too appreciate his audio-visual creations of which he should be very proud.
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@talbotcox great video Sir! 
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You know, I wondered if some part of her fueling strategy is affecting things also. People are carbing so much more before and during the race than they used to. You can’t burn all that energy without generating more heat.
Another good episode from @talbotcox , following the ‘style’ of Knibb’s one.
One noticeable element of her Kona ride was how hard she went for the first 30km. This was reminiscent of Nice last year where she really sent it to Vence. However last year she held it together even when caught by Philipp and Matthews and stayed with them till the start of the scary descent from Bouyon. Riding third fastest she then ran well for #4.
Let’s not forget, Pierré has won two World Championships already and bounced back from this Kona disappointment with a #5 at Marbella.
I believe Reece Barclay coaches both Pierré and Mignon.