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vote for the Sharma MC 25-Mar-2013 At 4:39:42 PM Will_P

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On 22/03/2013 shortman wrote:
>I could regret this but here it is anyway. A Chasers style film for nexts
>years Goatfest.
>
>I will pay for 3 ppl to accompany me to the Chris Sharma night. They will
>be preferably male, arrogant, outspoken and generally obnoxious. We will
>start the evening mid afternoon with pre drink drinks. We will then take
>travellers travelling to the venue 2 hrs in advance. Mood will determine
>our next location, the only proviso being that no food is eaten and more
>alcohol is consumed. At the event we shall proced to the front row and
>basically just make complete fools of ourselves asking inane questions
>to Chris until we get kicked out. >

With no one else playing the role, I’ll pretend to be a mature, adult voice of reason for a second (where are you, Miguel?).

If you do go through with this, please do take into account that you’ll be ruining (in the eyes of some) a presentation by a world-class climber that they’ve paid $60 to attend. You’ll likely be making him either very uncomfortable or worse, and from all accounts he’s a pretty cool guy (I don’t know for sure, maybe ask Muki), if not a world-class presenter. He’s a bit of a soft target too - likely to not push back too hard (I can’t imagine you’d try the same with, say, the late Athol Whimp, yeah?). Finally, you also run the risk of leaving the impression that Victorian climbers are a bunch of rude pricks.

Having said that…

If you do go through with it, it has the potential to be hysterical and brilliant. Make sure you ask the question suggested above, confusing him with Honnold. Make sure you have whoever is playing the clueless noob fan (you’ve gotta have roles – the ‘how hard is hard hard compared to very hard?’ hairsplitter, the ‘OMG!’ fanboy newbie, and, um, another one at least) recite the ‘have you climbed Everest? Do you wanna climb Everest? I had a cousin who went to “basecamp” andblahblahblah’ spiel we’ve all heard before. And get it on film, I’d pay to see that.

Good luck whichever path you choose…