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Lunch with the Clydesdale - How was the 25.1 Announcement and the Workout! · Clydesdale Media Podcast

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what is going on everybody
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welcome to lunch with
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Clydesdale glad to be
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spending lunch with you all
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um been watching the Arnold
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strong woman competition
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this morning as Corey's
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been talking about in the
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chat and I didn't really
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have this on the agenda but
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we saw something pretty
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amazing at the end of the
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women's deadlift and so I give you
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A world record attempt at
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six hundred and seventy one pounds.
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Some of your top lists are
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going to do that.
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You know,
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your body kind of gets a little chatter.
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Well,
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then it brings it out of that bar
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even more.
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And then it just kind of
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didn't see where it just
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started whipping her.
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And then it popped her hips
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out and then you're out of the way.
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Pulls you down.
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That's it.
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It will just take you forward.
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The Arnold is going on here
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in Columbus all weekend long.
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I used to be a part of this
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as part of their security
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team for the bodybuilders
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and haven't been back in a few years.
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But man, it is.
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They have expanded the strong man,
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strong woman area.
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It is more seating and it is packed today.
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So here we go.
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World record attempt.
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We're down to our final two women.
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One pound.
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Andrea Thompson and Lucy Underdown.
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World record weight on the
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bar right now at six
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hundred seventy one pounds.
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And this is just her second
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of three attempts.
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This is incredible.
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Let's go, Andrea.
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Let's go, Andrea.
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Come on.
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Let's see this.
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I have hip check Ric Flair
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doing security at the Arnold.
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And I put him in there.
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Come on.
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Let's see.
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Look at this crowd getting out.
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Look at this crowd.
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It's all went to their feet right now.
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And a new world record.
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They want to see it.
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Come on, Andrea.
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Everyone on their feet here.
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Oh, yeah.
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This crowd.
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Look at this.
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Thousands of people packed.
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All on their feet.
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Cell phones in their hands.
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They want to see it.
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Come on, Andrea.
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Make it happen.
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Let's go.
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Here we go.
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Come on.
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Dig in.
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Let's go.
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Big fight here.
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Come on.
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Big push.
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There we go.
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Easy.
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Andrea Thompson,
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a new world record at six
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hundred seventy-one pounds.
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Strap in.
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This is going to get really good.
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Game on.
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Let's go.
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How about that?
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Six hundred seventy one pounds.
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New world record at the
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Arnold Strong Woman
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competition this morning.
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The men are about to take
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the floor in a few minutes.
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But dang.
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What the heck?
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It's funny because back in the day.
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I watched this with the men,
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and it used to be in the vendor area,
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just in the back of the vendor area.
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And it was kind of like a
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few seats and then standing room only.
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Now it has its own dedicated area,
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and it's probably got five
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times the crowd.
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And this is for the women,
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not even the men, and it is packed.
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Okay.
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Corey says, actually right here,
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I'm going to pause it.
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I was still running on my,
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the next person actually
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attempts five more pounds than she did.
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So let's take a look at that.
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six hundred seventy six
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pounds which then would be
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a brand new world record
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Oh my goodness.
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And now another new world record.
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Six hundred seventy six pounds.
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Damn.
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I have never lifted anywhere
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near that much.
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My back hurts just watching this.
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Good gravy.
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what an amazing performance
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uh from the strong women at
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the arnold um just powerful
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strong women damn and the
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crowd is just electric
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electric uh and corey says
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the knurling on the bar was
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so new it messed up her strap
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I hate lifting with straps.
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I really do.
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Um, but I know they do it, uh,
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through this all the time.
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Um, so, but with that much weight,
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I guess you need,
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you'd need your grip
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strength just couldn't handle.
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And I know the men are going
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like even bigger.
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So that is amazing.
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That is amazing.
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Six hundred and seventy six pounds.
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Insane.
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Um, so yeah, that's,
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that's the kickoff of the Arnold today.
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Again, the metal be going in a little bit.
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Uh, and I,
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and I believe that Thor
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Bjornsson is going for the
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world record today, um, in this deadlift.
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So we will, uh, we, so we will, uh,
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see that maybe later today.
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So, uh, pretty awesome,
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pretty awesome stuff.
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If you think about this,
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in the two thousand sixteen
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games where they went back
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to the ranch and they did
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the deadlift ladder,
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it ended for the men at six
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hundred pounds.
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And Sam Dancer struggled
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with that six hundred about
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as much as she did with six seventy six.
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Now I know she is more of a specialist.
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Um, however,
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Sam's pretty damn strong and
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just in comparison, how crazy that is.
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So, yeah.
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So what'd you guys think
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about the open announcement yesterday?
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Um, it was at mayhem.
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It was very nostalgic.
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Uh,
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I really thought that they
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did a good job with the community, um,
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high-fiving the community
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as they came out, um,
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letting these athletes who
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work out at mayhem get to
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be with their community
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during that event.
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Um,
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I think that is what needs to start
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being showcased more than
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just the athletes.
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Um, and then,
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I I will admit I may have
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like put on a great show
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I've been to two open
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announcements myself um I
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was at both at Rogue um and
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I felt like this and they
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were both very very
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exciting two thousand I was
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there for the Christie and
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uh Carrie Pierce doing
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I want to say, eighteen point one,
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eighteen point two, maybe one of those.
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Uh, and then I was there for, uh,
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Laura Horvat and Emmett
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Lawson and Saxon Panchik
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and Justin Medeiros for twenty,
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twenty-two point something, maybe.
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Um,
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So I really, really enjoyed this one.
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I thought that was the one yesterday.
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They did a great job in
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highlighting the community,
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highlighting the people,
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getting the crowd involved.
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And then with Rich jumping
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in on the workout,
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as cheesy as it could seem,
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and the Rocky Balboa shorts,
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I was in one hundred
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percent for all of it.
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I love Rich.
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I'm a big Rich fan.
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I've been critical about
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Mayhem being too involved.
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in this year's games but in
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the moment in the hype I
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wanted all of it I wanted
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the balboa shorts I wanted
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him to rip off his shirt I
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wanted all that stuff and
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then currently he's sitting
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seventh on the leaderboard
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which is pretty damn
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impressive for a master's athlete
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Um, I, I, I hear you guys on the sound.
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The sound was, my sound was okay.
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Um,
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I know I was talking to Charlie
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yesterday.
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His was horrible.
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Um,
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so I think depending on what you were
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listening to or through,
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it was better or worse.
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Um, but yeah, I,
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Yeah, I get it.
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The sound was not great.
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Um, but if they could get that nailed in,
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um,
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the bar is set high for next week in
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Arizona.
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It'll be interesting to see
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what they do there.
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Um,
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hopefully they take a note and it make
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it very community driven.
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Um, and I think that is,
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that's the way to go with
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this going forward.
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Um,
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cory says rocky balboa short
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sales are up three hundred
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percent I know when I was
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watching the post show with
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mayhem uh they're looking
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into sourcing those shorts
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because the demand was
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pretty high um and it did
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have a mayhem logo on it so
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I think they're gonna try
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to do that aaron frazier
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says rich needs to be the
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face of crossfit he needs a role at hq
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Well,
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I think whether he wants to be or not,
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I think he is.
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Anytime he gets involved,
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he becomes the face of CrossFit.
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The man has done everything
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from affiliate ownership to
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a media team to being an
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athlete in every aspect of the games.
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All of that,
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I think he is a person that
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needs to be involved for sure.
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What that role is, I don't know.
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But
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I do think he needs to have some say.
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And it seems like he is kind
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of poking around the rumors
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or he's slightly around the
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rumors of everything going on.
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So who knows?
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We may get our wish when the
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next group comes in to buy
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that he is a part of that.
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trained to live, love the announcement,
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would have loved another
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elite female going with Haley.
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Yeah,
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we talked about that Sunday night
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on... Carolyn was very adamant about...
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that we need to have elite
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males and females at every announcement.
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But I do agree.
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Haley kind of got lost in a
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shuffle because of the race
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between the three men.
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She just kind of became an afterthought.
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And I think if she would
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have been able to race another female,
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that would have been
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something to watch and then
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given more highlight to that.
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And then it tells us like
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what an elite female is
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capable of in this workout.
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And then like this week,
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we're getting two females and no males.
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So we won't have any male
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perspective on this week's workout.
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And I think Carolyn said
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that very eloquently on
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Sunday night show about that,
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that it's good to see what
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the elite athletes can do
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and kind of where you are.
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Back to the rich topic.
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He's one of the few who
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understand what CrossFit
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and the community has given
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to him and is doing what he
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can to give back.
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God bless the man.
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I hear this a lot,
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like what CrossFit has
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given you and that you need to give back.
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I don't necessarily agree with all that.
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There are opportunities out
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there for everybody,
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and he took advantage of
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those opportunities.
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And then he himself built a
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business with a good business plan.
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It wasn't because he owed
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CrossFit anything.
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It's because he loved what it was.
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He loved the methodology.
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He took advantage of that
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opportunity and he moved
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forward with that.
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I'm kind of one of these
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people like the world
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doesn't owe us anything.
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You take advantage of
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opportunities where you can,
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but we're not owed anything.
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And maybe I'm in the minority on this,
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but I do agree with you
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that he is the right person
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for the job because he did
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take advantage of those opportunities.
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He saw what it could do for him,
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not only as an athlete,
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but as a business owner.
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And he took advantage of
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those opportunities and he
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aligned himself with the
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methodology and he believes
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it works and he's pushing it forward.
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And I think that's why he's
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the right person for the job.
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I do get all of that.
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I get it.
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But I'm not in agreement
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that just because you were
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successful that you owe something back.
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That's all.
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And I agree.
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He didn't forget where he came from.
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He didn't forget how he came
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up through the system.
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And that's why he's successful.
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But he's not owed anything.
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He doesn't owe that back to anybody.
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He just took advantage of
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his opportunities.
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That's all I'm saying.
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He has taken advantage of
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even more opportunities
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because he understands what
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it did for him.
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Just not the owing thing is
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a term that I don't agree with.
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Um,
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Craig asked,
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how much involvement did Froning Sr.
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have in the development of Mayhem Nation?
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I don't think,
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other than he is the resident fix-it man,
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I think that's it.
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I think it was Rich and
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Darren kind of putting it
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all together along with
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some of his very close
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friends that built Mayhem
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to what it is today.
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I do agree with this.
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I don't think he,
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he does not think he's
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bigger than the sport.
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I don't think he,
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I think he isn't bigger
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than the methodology either.
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That's, that's a key.
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Rich knows the community is
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more important than the sport.
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I do.
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I do agree with you on this, Andrew.
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Completely.
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Um,
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trained to live.
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I think what's most
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impressive is that Rich did what he,
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what we did when other
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athletes weren't all about
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it for the money sponsorship, et cetera.
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And he continues to build.
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Well, and even he said it himself, like,
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and I think maybe it was
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him or Facundo on Coffee
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Pods and Wads who said, like,
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it's okay to want to make money.
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It's okay to want to make money.
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And we've got to get away from this.
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We're like being brutal
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towards people about
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wanting to make money.
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Affiliates have to make money to survive.
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HQ has to make money to survive.
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The athletes want to make
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money because people come watch them.
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All that is fine.
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But you have to do it with
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the right mindset.
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So I really thoroughly,
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thoroughly enjoyed yesterday a lot.
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But another thing I wanted to bring up,
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and I'm going to,
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pull this up real quick.
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I was looking at the
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leaderboard today and one
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of my other favorite
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athletes popped out to me
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when I was looking at the leaderboard.
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really I I was doing this
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because uh hillar put out a
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video of george sterner
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doing his open workout
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which if you haven't seen
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is hilarious uh there's a
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guy in a gym just kind of
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walking around him as he's
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doing the open workout like
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just kind of staring at him
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and uh it's just insanity
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and really really funny so
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go check that out if you
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have a few minutes it's
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really really short um so
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anyway I was looking at the
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leaderboards this morning
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because of that to see if
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george was still number one
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and I went over to the
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women's and who's number
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one on the women's side kristen holta
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Kristen Holta,
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and she put up a score of three.
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I think that's like second
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on the men's leaderboard.
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That beats Hatfield's score, Taylor Self,
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all of them.
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Dang.
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And she's, what, thirty-seven,
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thirty-eight at this point?
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And she's still, like,
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just knocking it out.
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She is one of the most
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impressive athletes I've ever met,
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ever got a chance to speak to.
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Um, Kristen is, is freaking awesome.
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And the fact that every year
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in her retirement, she goes in,
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does the open and kills it
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every single year.
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It just is,
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just blows me away and is so impressive.
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So impressive.
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And it goes back to,
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if you were watching
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yesterday's announcement right before,
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they showed this video that
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I talked about a few weeks
19:47
ago with Becca Voigt
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talking about how your
19:56
CrossFit career should never be done.
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and that she hopes that
20:00
someday she is doing the
20:02
seventy plus division.
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And the reason she goes to
20:04
the games every year is
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because that's just what
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she's always done.
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And there are things that
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she can't do today that she
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could do years ago,
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but she's still going in, training it,
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doing all this stuff, um,
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and then putting her scores
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out there in the open because that's what,
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that's what she does.
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Uh,
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when she coaches every day
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and she owns an affiliate
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like Becca Voight's another one that, uh,
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is very much like rich on
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the female side.
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Affiliate owner has expanded
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her gym tremendously over the years.
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Um, has been to the game.
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Um,
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And she is freaking phenomenal.
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If you did not see the video
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before yesterday's announcement,
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they showed it twice.
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It's out on YouTube.
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It is awesome.
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and uh corey's right she did
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say uh I do not plan on
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stopping competing anytime
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soon and she talks about
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being right across in the
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corral from the seventy
21:10
plus athletes and them
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saying we're so glad we get
21:14
to come and show people
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what our bodies can do at
21:17
seventy plus years old uh
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through the magic of
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crossfit and she said
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that's the stuff that
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inspires her uh to keep
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going and keep doing it um
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So yeah, I think Rich is awesome,
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but there are a lot of
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people in this space that
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have done very similar things to Rich.
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He just won the games four
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times as an individual and what,
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six times as a team.
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Becca Voigt has been to the
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game sixteen times.
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She's an affiliate owner.
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She's a coach.
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She lives and breathes what she preaches.
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And it's beautiful to watch.
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And she's one of the kindest people
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human beings you will ever meet.
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Um, so yeah, if you didn't check that out,
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please check that out.
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But yeah, Kristen Holta killing it,
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killing it in the first
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workout of the open.
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Uh, any thoughts about the workout itself?
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Um,
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I think Jamie is going to
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crush this workout too.
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I think both of my co-hosts
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from Sunday night will
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crush this workout.
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This is right down both of
22:38
their wheelhouses.
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I cannot wait to see what
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they do this week.
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I think Jamie will be able to
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go dark longer because of
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her endurance and carolyn
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is an absolute burpee beast
23:04
and her lunges are so fast
23:06
um and that that dumbbell
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is not going to slow
23:10
carolyn down at all uh so I
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think both of them are
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going to crush it I would
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actually put a little bit
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of money on carolyn beating jamie
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but I think it's going to be close,
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like super close.
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I,
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going to reach out to them
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and see if they're both
23:34
going to video it and maybe
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on sunday night we can do a
23:37
side by side of how it goes
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and let them talk about
23:41
like where it got tough for
23:43
them what they were
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thinking in these moments
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um but carolyn is super
23:48
secretive about her score
23:50
until close so I don't know
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if we'll get that from her
23:54
but it I think this if I
23:57
were to pick a workout for
23:59
them to be evenly matched
24:00
it would be this one
24:08
So that's going to be interesting.
24:13
Train to Live says,
24:14
should we make bets on their reps?
24:22
I think both are over three.
24:31
But I don't know how far
24:32
over three they would be.
24:46
Yeah.
24:49
Kenneth says thirty six.
24:55
You think three thirty six
24:57
or you think round of thirty six?
25:06
I would think they're both going to be.
25:12
Three twenty to three thirty
25:14
somewhere in there.
25:17
Oh, I don't think round of thirty six.
25:20
That would be insanity.
25:24
What?
25:26
Austin Taylor Rich made it
25:27
to the round of thirty.
25:30
To get another round of
25:31
thirty three and then a
25:32
round of thirty six.
25:35
I don't know.
25:38
It's trying to live and I
25:39
are in the same ballpark.
25:40
I said, three, twenty to three thirty.
25:42
He says three fifteen to
25:44
three thirty or she.
25:48
I'm sorry, trying to live, I don't know.
25:51
It's hard to see in your profile,
25:53
so I apologize if I misgendered you.
25:59
Yeah,
25:59
but I think right in the same in the
26:01
same ballpark.
26:05
But yeah,
26:06
I'll talk to them today and see
26:07
if they're willing to videotape.
26:09
And we could do a
26:14
side-by-side with them talking about it.
26:17
I'm kind of with Jody Lynn.
26:18
Please, dear God,
26:19
don't let me get to the
26:20
round of thirty-three.
26:22
Yeah.
26:24
I'm telling you right now,
26:25
I have not pushed intensity
26:26
that hard this winter.
26:28
So I'm just hoping to survive.
26:37
This is definitely not a
26:38
Clydesdale workout for sure.
26:41
For sure.
26:42
For sure.
26:45
But I think it's a good workout.
26:46
I think it's a good test for
26:48
the open opening part of the weekend.
26:51
Uh, it's a good high rep,
26:52
high volume workout that
26:55
should separate itself
26:58
enough on the leaderboard.
27:00
Um,
27:03
I'm with you, Slater.
27:04
Slow and steady, that's for sure.
27:05
Yep.
27:06
That's where we're going.
27:08
Slow and steady.
27:10
The dumbbell for me is not
27:11
going to be hard because I
27:12
am now fifty five.
27:14
So the RX is thirty five.
27:17
And that should be pretty easy.
27:20
It's the burpees are just
27:21
going to wreck the hell out of me.
27:29
So, yeah, there's all that.
27:39
Craig says it canceled out
27:42
some of the open workout
27:43
repeat predictions.
27:45
Yeah, big time.
27:53
Corey getting inside baseball information.
27:56
Jamie just told me she's
27:57
usually right around where Rich is,
27:59
so that's what she's aiming for.
28:01
I wish once in my life I
28:03
could say that I was right
28:04
around where Rich was.
28:06
Just one time.
28:08
Just once in my life.
28:14
Yeah.
28:16
So on another note, away from CrossFit,
28:23
I know so many of you have
28:24
been waiting for this news,
28:25
but today is the day that
28:26
we found out if we were
28:27
going back to the office or not.
28:30
If we were in the first phase,
28:32
our governor signed an
28:34
executive order sending all
28:36
state employees back to the office.
28:39
but there were some
28:40
exceptions and one of those
28:41
being that if you no longer
28:44
have a building due to cost
28:45
savings you could be exempt
28:48
my building was their lease
28:50
was not renewed so I had a
28:53
chance to make the
28:53
exception and I did I made
28:55
the exception in the first
28:57
phase so I am not going
28:58
back to work in the fir
29:00
going back to the office in
29:02
the first phase
29:04
of this return to office
29:06
initiative so I've I've
29:08
staved off returning to the
29:10
office for a couple more
29:12
months probably until there
29:14
is another budget that can
29:18
allocate money to get
29:20
another building or
29:21
something like that um so
29:24
again they have to have the
29:25
money to do it and that's
29:26
all that's been the problem all along is
29:30
Our governor touted all the
29:31
cost savings by getting rid
29:33
of these buildings.
29:35
And now to get the people
29:37
back into the office,
29:39
they have to rent out or buy buildings.
29:44
And it would be very, very,
29:46
very hard to do that under
29:48
the current budget constraints.
29:52
So, uh,
29:54
Jody says it would be hard to pod
29:57
at a government building.
29:59
It's funny you say that
29:59
because I actually had made
30:02
plans on how I would do it.
30:05
Um,
30:08
And if the weather was nice,
30:10
I could just go outside.
30:12
I,
30:12
the building they're in right now is
30:13
downtown Columbus,
30:14
right across the street
30:15
from the state Capitol.
30:17
And the state Capitol has a
30:18
beautiful outdoor lawn.
30:20
Um,
30:20
and I was just going to go down and sit
30:23
in the state house lawn.
30:24
And I, um,
30:25
was going to purchase an iPad to
30:27
be able to run the show
30:28
from and do it right there
30:30
live on the state house lawn, uh,
30:33
for my lunch with the Clydesdales.
30:36
Uh, uh,
30:36
But thankfully,
30:37
I don't have to do that yet.
30:39
And if I do go back,
30:41
maybe I am in a different
30:43
building that's not
30:44
downtown and maybe has some
30:47
convenient ways for me to
30:49
go out to lunch and do the
30:51
show real quick.
30:53
So we will see.
30:56
But I had made plans to keep it going.
30:59
But right now,
31:00
I just don't have to
31:00
implement them at this time.
31:05
So, I don't know if you guys heard,
31:10
but at the NFL scouting combine,
31:13
two media members got into
31:15
a fight at a Starbucks restaurant.
31:19
And the funniest,
31:19
and they both were NFL insiders,
31:21
meaning the guys who kind
31:23
of get wind of the
31:24
information that is happening,
31:27
like a trade or a signing,
31:29
and they break the news to
31:31
Twitter or to ESPN or to Fox or whatever.
31:38
One of these reporters is
31:40
actually the son of the
31:43
owner of Starbucks.
31:45
The other one is a longtime NFL insider.
31:48
The son of the Starbucks
31:51
owner was releasing
31:53
information about a player,
31:55
and the other guy was
31:56
refuting it as soon as he released it.
32:00
They get to a Starbucks and
32:02
I guess have a heated
32:03
exchange in the middle of
32:04
this Starbucks because the
32:07
guy is refuting his stories
32:08
back and forth.
32:10
And it comes to blows to a
32:12
point where NFL security
32:14
had to be called and
32:15
they're doing an investigation.
32:19
Why I find this funny is in
32:23
the CrossFit media space,
32:26
while I don't think anything
32:27
has ever come to blows,
32:28
there has been stuff like
32:29
this behind the scenes that
32:32
just cracked me up.
32:35
And I,
32:35
and I am not exempt from being a
32:37
part of it.
32:38
I am sometimes quick to temper and I don't,
32:42
I don't always show this on this show,
32:44
but that like when people
32:47
mess with me or my people,
32:49
I get really pissy.
32:51
And, um,
32:54
and there's one person in particular, man,
32:58
that every time I take
33:00
anybody female with me to an event,
33:03
they treat the females like shit.
33:06
And it really pisses me off.
33:09
And when that person gets a
33:11
preferential treatment or gets, uh,
33:14
extra stuff,
33:15
I just get livid and I start
33:18
going off on people.
33:20
Um, and so, um,
33:26
It was amusing to me to see
33:28
that in the NFL, this big,
33:30
massive media market, this big,
33:32
massive sport,
33:35
they get into these tussles
33:39
at a local Starbucks to the
33:42
point where NFL security
33:43
had to be involved.
33:44
I thought it was hilarious.
33:48
no punches were thrown, nothing like that.
33:50
But, uh, he did exchange for sure.
33:53
And the one guy was like the
33:55
owner of the son of the
33:57
owner of Starbucks is six, four.
33:59
The other guy's like five, five.
34:01
So it wasn't even going to
34:01
be like a fair fight.
34:04
It was, but,
34:06
and that would be kind of
34:07
similar to what would
34:08
happen at a CrossFit thing
34:09
with me because the person
34:10
I always get pissed at is
34:12
way smaller than me.
34:15
Um,
34:17
but nobody can get under my
34:20
skin faster than this person.
34:26
And I know there's been
34:27
public stuff around the
34:28
media in CrossFit with the
34:31
Savant podcast and Talking
34:34
Elite Fitness and Morning Chalk Up and
34:39
know everybody the spin all
34:40
that stuff there's all this
34:42
kind of back and forth
34:43
stuff brian friend and
34:44
hiller there's always these
34:47
like things but there's
34:48
more behind the scenes that
34:49
people don't have a clue
34:50
about and uh it's it's
34:54
really really hilarious
34:58
And it's actually probably
35:00
gotten to the point where
35:00
this year I'm re-examining
35:03
what it is of what kind of
35:06
content I should be putting out.
35:09
And do I need to go fight
35:11
those fights or do I just
35:14
need to move on to something different?
35:19
So it's upsetting because
35:25
I was the first guy at
35:27
semifinals to interview
35:28
athletes as they came off the floor,
35:31
other than whoever the
35:33
broadcast had hired to do
35:35
it from the stream.
35:37
I'm the one in the dark
35:39
hallway interviewing
35:40
Rebecca Fusile or Ariel
35:42
Loewen or Christy Aramo or
35:44
Justin Medeiros.
35:46
and throwing those up on
35:48
instagram as soon as I can
35:50
I did it at syndicate crown
35:51
I did it at granite games I
35:53
did it at west coast
35:54
classic I was doing that
35:56
like before anybody was
35:58
doing that and now like
36:00
everybody's doing it and
36:02
now it's like this like
36:04
fight to get this person or that person
36:08
and people feeling that
36:09
they're entitled to get
36:10
this person over you or whatever.
36:13
And when I've taken like
36:16
either Jamie or Kat or
36:21
Cheryl with me to those events,
36:24
and they're treated like
36:25
crap every time they try to
36:27
get an interview,
36:28
it just really freaking upsets me.
36:31
And it's made me,
36:32
and I think that I am going
36:33
to do things differently this year.
36:35
I think I'm going to focus
36:36
more on a story or a couple
36:39
stories and follow them
36:41
through the year as opposed
36:42
to just going and doing
36:44
like a blanket cover the
36:47
whole event type thing.
36:49
We'll still do our like live
36:51
updates from places or
36:53
update from semifinal
36:54
events throughout the weekend.
36:57
But I think that the way we
36:59
cover it from a live
37:01
perspective is going to be
37:02
a little bit different this year.
37:04
And I'm kind of excited about it.
37:07
I think it's going to be new and fresh.
37:12
Because I don't want to just
37:13
keep doing what everybody else is doing,
37:15
even though I'm the one that started it.
37:20
So.
37:24
Exactly, Kenneth.
37:25
Exactly.
37:27
More concentrated instead of
37:28
a shotgun blast.
37:29
Exactly.
37:30
Exactly.
37:36
Plus like we don't have the
37:38
sponsorship money we've had
37:39
in the past either.
37:40
So it's just smarter to do that as well.
37:53
Uh, Helston Alberness says, Scott,
37:55
are you in Chicago?
37:55
I'm planning on doing a road
37:56
trip to green Bay next season,
37:58
but I want to stop in
37:59
Chicago to see soldier
38:00
field and maybe drop in a
38:01
gym and hit a workout.
38:02
I am not in Chicago.
38:04
I am a Chicago bears fan.
38:06
But I actually live in Columbus, Ohio.
38:09
So I would be here if you
38:12
dropped in for the Masters
38:13
or Teen CrossFit Games or the Arnold,
38:18
but not in Chicago.
38:24
I actually had a job
38:24
opportunity in Chicago when
38:27
my daughter was like four or five.
38:29
And my wife was like, if you take that job,
38:32
you're going alone because
38:33
my daughter is not getting
38:34
raised in Chicago.
38:36
Um, so, uh,
38:39
I decided not to get a divorce
38:41
and just go ahead and I
38:43
live here in Columbus, Ohio.
38:47
So anyway,
38:51
thank you guys for jumping on a
38:53
great discussion about rich
38:55
and yesterday's announcement.
38:56
Really, uh, really enjoyed it.
39:00
Um,
39:02
and yeah good news is we get
39:04
to keep doing these uh jody
39:09
jody I grew up in chicago I
39:13
think they're my my wife
39:16
literally grew up on a farm
39:18
The high school she went to,
39:20
there were times where cows
39:21
would walk down the hallway
39:23
because they got loose from
39:24
the farm next door.
39:26
So take what that experience
39:28
was like and then say, hey,
39:30
we're moving to the third
39:33
largest city in the country.
39:36
It was more about that.
39:39
She's used to small town living.
39:43
And not big city.
39:45
And for her, Columbus was a major change.
39:47
Like this is a city.
39:49
Um,
39:50
my daughter grew up in a city and it was,
39:54
you know,
39:54
even though we're in the suburbs,
39:57
it's just different.
39:59
Um, my wife had like.
40:02
Sixty people in her graduating class.
40:04
My daughter had five hundred.
40:06
Um, it's just,
40:09
she just didn't want her to
40:10
go into a big city and try
40:13
to figure all that out.
40:14
Uh, growing up where she was,
40:16
she would have a hard time
40:16
figuring that out.
40:17
My wife still doesn't drive
40:19
downtown Columbus.
40:21
Like it's too much for her.
40:22
So, uh, so yeah,
40:25
nothing about the actual
40:26
city of Chicago was the issue.
40:29
It was the size, um,
40:32
and what my wife is used to.
40:35
But it's about time to get back to work.
40:39
We've been on here for about
40:40
forty minutes.
40:41
I'm going to go check out
40:43
those men deadlifting on
40:45
the Strongmen at the Arnold.
40:48
Again,
40:49
it was fun to watch that world
40:51
record and then world
40:52
record get broke right off
40:53
the top of the show.
40:55
So if you didn't see that,
40:55
go back and check that out.
40:57
With that, guys, get back to work,
41:00
you hooligans.
41:01
This show's over.
41:03
We'll see you next time on
41:04
Lunch with the Clydesdale.
41:06
Bye.