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Lunch with the Clydesdale - Where Did Loyalty Go? · Clydesdale Media Podcast

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what is going on everybody
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it's tuesday afternoon time
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for some lunch with the
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clydesdale uh it's a big
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day here you know what day it is it is
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college football playoff
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night starts off tonight my
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beloved penn state nittany
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lions taking on boise state
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seven thirty p.m eastern
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time tonight in the first
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game of the four
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quarterfinal matchups to
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happen tonight and tomorrow
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when I was a kid I loved
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that my birthday was on new
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year's day and I could just
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hang out and watch football all day long
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And the fact that my Nittany
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Lions are in the playoffs
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and they get to play around my birthday.
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My birthday is not until tomorrow.
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Celebrate tonight, hopefully,
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with a victory.
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Get to enjoy tomorrow with all that.
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So super stoked about that.
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Good afternoon, Corey, Jay Birch, Holly,
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Jody.
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What's going on, guys?
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And happy anniversary, Jay Birch.
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Today is his thirty-year
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wedding anniversary.
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I'm getting close, man.
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I'm right behind you.
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I am at twenty-seven.
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Twenty-seven years, I think.
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This May.
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I should probably do the math more.
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But yeah.
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Holly says,
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happy anniversary to Jay Birch
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and an early happy birthday to me.
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Thank you so much.
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I'm pretty stoked about it.
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Got a lot of cool plans for the year.
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And Corey has made it six years.
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Hey, got to start somewhere, man.
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I remember those first years, man.
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Those were probably harder
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than the later years.
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So super stoked for tonight.
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Hopefully Penn State plays well.
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Their defense can tackle the
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best running back in the country.
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Really stoked about that.
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I think they can do it.
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If they can tackle him early,
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then the game becomes much
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easier because they are
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kind of a one-trick pony.
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But yeah.
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so uh really stoked for that
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I know I'm saying stoked a
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lot I don't know why I'm
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that's happening uh today's
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the last day I work for a
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week uh because we have
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some procedures coming up
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and I just took a couple
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days off in between uh but
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yeah so today's my last
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work day so this is my last
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work lunch hour we'll do a
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couple more uh throughout
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the week as we kind of uh
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finish up the the year and
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start the new one um but I
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wanted to talk about a few things today
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While we were on the air
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last night with Sunday
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Night CrossFit Talk on a Monday,
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which was a great show,
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lots of participation last night,
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getting some workouts in on
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our traveling gauntlet-style workout.
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Now they're starting to flow
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in a little bit more,
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and you can get your name into the...
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You can get your name into
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the drawing for one of our
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either water bottles right there.
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It's got the little pop-up straw on it.
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It's stainless steel.
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Keeps your drink cold.
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And it's got the cool
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Clydesdale Media logo on it.
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You can see that there.
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we also have the the the
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coffee mug uh same color
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same stainless steel makeup
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just a little small smaller
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so if you win you get to
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pick which one of those you
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want and we'll get that
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sent out to you uh but we
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have we now have a handful
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of entries uh into the
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traveling gauntlet and if
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you go back and listen to
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last night's show at the
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very end we get into like
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much more detail about what
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we are trying to accomplish
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here what we think someone should do
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And what like CrossFit
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should do or some
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organization should do to
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get the community to come
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back together and do some events as a big,
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large community.
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But we get into more details
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about the details of all
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that and what we're kind of looking for.
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So make sure to check that out.
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And it's probably in the last ten minutes,
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the last ten minutes of the
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show from last night.
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If you want to know more
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about that and how to enter
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to win one of those prizes.
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So Judy always needs reminded by Jody.
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It's nice to have that
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personal concierge that
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takes care of you.
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But is the notifier not working for you,
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Judy?
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My notifier didn't work today either,
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actually,
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because usually I get a pop-up
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on this other screen saying
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that I'm going live,
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but I didn't get it today.
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So that's weird.
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So the main thing I wanted
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to talk about today is loyalty.
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And where has it gone?
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And if I'm doing some self-evaluation,
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I would say that one of my
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fatal flaws is that I am
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loyal to a fault.
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I will hang on for longer than I should,
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even when things aren't working.
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So...
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But, but because I'm that way,
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when people aren't loyal, I get,
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I get upset.
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And I,
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especially when it's with my friends
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involved.
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And so what I want to talk
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about is last night, the barbell spin,
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maybe it was last night.
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I don't know, but I'm,
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I'm behind on my Instagram.
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So
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where he said no underdogs
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in the bio and it's Ricky
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Gerrard's athlete profile on Instagram.
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And then, you know,
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the little emoji like this.
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And so why,
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why this affects me so much in this case,
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um,
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I'm going to have to be a little bit
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talking elite fitness here and I,
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and I don't mean to be,
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but I need to do it for context.
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So in I was at the west
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coast classic in Las Vegas.
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After that was over,
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I was invited to dinner at
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Justin Kotler's house with
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him and his wife and his family.
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At that dinner, Cat was with me.
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We were there having dinner,
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and they approached Cat and
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I with a question.
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If given the opportunity to
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coach Ricky Garrard,
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would it make sense to do so?
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it was a very tough decision
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for justin to make and what
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I learned that night is he
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was actually approached by
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ricky to be a coach um and
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if you remember he's coming
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off a four-year suspension
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for peds um he was trying
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to rebuild an image um and
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it was it was a difficult
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decision to say do I take
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this person on and at the
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time justin was coaching
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bethany danielle and carrie
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as well as a handful of others.
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And they were,
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they had just swept the West
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coast classic.
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Those three women took first, second,
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and third at that semifinal that year.
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So Justin is at the top of his game.
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Ricky comes to him and asked
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him to be his coach.
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And he has to make that
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decision with all the
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baggage that Ricky brought to the table.
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He makes that decision to take on Ricky.
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And since then,
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when Ricky has been healthy,
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he has podiumed at the games.
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He has won Waterpalooza.
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He has done all those things.
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What I find...
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infuriating is now now it
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seems and this is not
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official this is just the
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barbell's been putting this
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out we've heard nothing
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from ricky so if he is not
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leaving underdogs then all
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of this is moot but if he
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leaves underdogs and you
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have a person that stuck
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their neck out for you when
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you were at your lowest
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trying to come back and
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rebuild your image in the
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sport and you did so
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You and him put together a
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package where you came in
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and you were successful and
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you finished second at the games.
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You podiumed.
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You won Wadapalooza twice.
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You've done all these things.
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The only times you have not
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performed well are when you
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decided to go mountain biking,
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jump off a ramp,
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and break your collarbone, shoulder,
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whatever it was.
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or when you were doing chad
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came off the box turned
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your ankle and it forced
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you to change the way uh
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you could perform through
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the rest of the games now
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uh you're deciding to go
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with another camp if the
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rumors are true to proven
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Now, I get it.
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Tia is in Australia right now.
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You get to train with her there.
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Jay Crouch, Maddie Sturt.
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It's a pretty good training
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situation there.
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But Justin has not failed you in anything.
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And I posted my feelings to the post,
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and I'll show that real quick.
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Because someone responded,
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and I have this platform,
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so I'm going to respond back.
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Uh, and so you can see here's my,
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when you're at your lowest
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and people help lift you up,
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your answer should not be
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to turn your back on that person.
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If true, no longer a fan.
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So one of the responses was
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Clydesdale Media,
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change is not always bad.
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A change of scenery,
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training with the GOAT
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could be a great opportunity.
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Wouldn't call it turning
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your back on someone called growth.
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I don't know how this is growth.
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You have been completely
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successful when healthy
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with Justin Kotler.
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And what athlete has gone to
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train with Tia
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Other than Matt Frazier,
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who was already successful
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before he went there,
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what other athlete that has
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gone to train with Tia been
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successful or gotten to a
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point where Ricky wants to get to?
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Didn't work for Saxon Pancheck?
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Didn't work for Brooke Wells?
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You name the athletes,
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they have not done well
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once they have gone and
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worked out with Peruvian.
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So, I...
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I don't know.
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I'm just at a loss.
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I know that in this world today,
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loyalty is not what it used to be.
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You know,
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my dad worked at the same company
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for forty plus years.
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That just isn't even heard of today.
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Right.
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We bounce from the best
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opportunity for ourselves.
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And maybe that's what he
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feels like he's doing.
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But it just seems like when
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someone took a chance on
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you to walk away seems to be.
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uh not not a great decision
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uh jody said maybe cutler
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increased his coaching
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price um I don't think it
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is a coaching price I think
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it is a percentage of uh
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what the athlete earns but
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I don't don't quote me on
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that I think I heard that
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somewhere at one point uh
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jay birch says ricky might
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be a little too arrogant to be loyal
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Judy Reed says,
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maybe he was kicked out like DBE was.
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I don't think anybody could
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be kicked out like DBE was.
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And that's just because I
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know a little bit of the backstory there.
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Aaron Frazier says,
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Jay Crouch has certainly
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made some big leaps in the past two years,
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but don't think he has the
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same potential.
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I wouldn't disagree with you,
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but I don't think that Jay
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trains with Tia all the time.
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I think that Jay and Maddie
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train together and they
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occasionally get together
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to train with Tia.
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And I would argue that Jay
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was on the Ascension and
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signed to Proven right
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before the twenty twenty
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three CrossFit Games where
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he did really well.
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He wasn't even with he was
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signed between Torian Pro
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and the games in twenty twenty three.
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He had that top ten finish
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barely being with Proven
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for a for a month, I think, at the time.
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Yeah.
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Joey says, I hear you.
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Seems disingenuous on Ricky's part.
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And again, none of this is confirmed,
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so we don't know that he's
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actually doing this,
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but there is a lot of smoke
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around this story for sure.
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And Aaron comes back with,
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but I agree with you about loyalty.
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There's no loyalty in this sport.
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And maybe it's
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I mean,
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loyalty is less sports a long time ago.
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Nobody stays with the same
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team from the beginning of
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their career to the end in football,
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baseball, basketball, whatever.
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I mean,
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LeBron James has been switched
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teams four times and three
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different organizations.
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Uh,
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and he's one of the greatest players in
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the world.
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You never,
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you never saw that with Michael
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Jordan until the end.
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And that's just because he
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probably shouldn't have
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retired and not come back to play.
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Um,
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But it was just,
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it was weighing heavy on my mind because,
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and I will admit,
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I am good friends with Justin Kotler.
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I love that man.
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I think he is awesome.
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And so it's probably hitting
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me a little bit differently
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than it would if it was
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Kiefer or Max Elhaj or Matt
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Frazier or any of the other
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leaders of an organization.
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But I have a close
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relationship with Justin, and so for me,
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it just stings a little bit more is all.
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So with that,
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that's kind of my loyalty
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speech with that today.
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I also have been kind of on
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this little riff about
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I read this story about how
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well the the jake paul mike
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tyson fight did on netflix
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and that the nfl games on
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christmas day blew up um
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got five times the ratings
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of the nba uh on the same
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day and so the more I
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thought about it and um pat
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midgley helped me a lot with this
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is that you have these shows
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on Netflix like The Physical One Hundred.
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Now on Prime,
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you have the Mr. Beast games.
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You have all these like this
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event programming that the
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streaming services seem to
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get behind and market and
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make it a more popular
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sport or a more popular contest,
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whatever you want to call it.
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with that I think that that
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is an avenue that if you
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either the wfp or the
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crossfit game season should
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explore trying to get a
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deal with one of those
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streaming companies to go
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in and film a season where
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they can tell a story you
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also have like uh the golf
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show on netflix I think it's um
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Uh, I don't even,
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my brain is fried as I'm
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almost done with work for the week.
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Um, but, but it has the,
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like the golf show where
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you can follow the golfers
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through a season.
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It has the F one show where
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you can do the same thing.
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Full swing.
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Thank you.
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Understand.
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Uh, the F one has a show as well.
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Uh, more and more sports are doing this.
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You could say the WFP packages,
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a deal where you, um,
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where you film the season
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itself in addition to the
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athletes prepping.
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You have the twenty males
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and twenty females that you
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know are participating in every event,
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and then you have some
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challengers that you can
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kind of shoot in there as
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well that I think would
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make amazing storytelling
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and would be an awesome way
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to look at different ways
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of a revenue source in
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addition to better coverage
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and a different coverage.
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We've been talking on this
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show forever that the same
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broadcasting group gets the
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job for the CrossFit Games
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every year and all the big events,
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and nothing has changed
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with the coverage of the sports.
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You get the same angles.
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You get the same close-ups.
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You get all that stuff.
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Wouldn't it be cool to have
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someone like a Netflix
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production company to come in
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look at it and film it from
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a different perspective and
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a different angle and a different,
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just to see what's possible.
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Um,
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Jay Birch says,
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is there enough money in
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the ecosystem to do that?
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Well,
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WFP is touting fifteen million
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dollars and that they have
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other investors available.
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If you can sell it as a storyline,
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then maybe the production
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company helps with the cost
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of that so that they have a
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show to broadcast.
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Andrew Sten says,
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not sure the sport has the
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personalities for something like that,
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but something different needs to be done.
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I disagree.
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I think that.
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that they do have the
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personalities to do that.
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And we've seen it with some
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of the alternative
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coverages that have
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happened over the last two years.
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with Sivan doing the semifinals,
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with Taylor versus the world on that,
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with the kill Taylor.
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I think you have
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personalities throughout
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the sport that are willing to talk smack,
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that are willing to let you in,
19:28
that are willing to do all these things.
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They just need to be given
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the opportunity to do so.
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All that media that used to
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do that has gone away.
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And except for...
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in fairness be friendly and
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savan who have gone out and
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done alternative coverages
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that's where things are if
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you got someone
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professional like a prime
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or a netflix or somebody
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like that to do something
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very similar I think it
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could be sold to them
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especially in the wfp
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format that makes um the
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season a very condensed and
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um easily understood season
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And I think that is key to that.
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Where CrossFit has a
20:17
drawback is nobody knows
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what these in-person semifinals are.
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Are they regionally based?
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Are they not regionally based?
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We have that in addition to
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an online version of it.
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So...
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The CrossFit game season is
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a whole bunch of if-then-else statements.
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If you've ever worked in IT,
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that seems to be where we're going,
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where the WFP is go to this event,
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earn points, go to this event,
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earn points, top-thirty, go to this event,
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and earn double points to
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see what the leaderboard is
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at the end of the year.
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um anderson asks is the
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sport too small or niche
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for it to work f-one and
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pga are huge and have been
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around for a very long time
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there are shows like the
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physical one hundred that
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have been hugely successful
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on netflix um that are even
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more niche than what crossfit is
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And people tune into that all the time.
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I think if you tell the
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story correctly and you get
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interest in some of the characters,
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just like Savan,
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nobody knew who Taylor self
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was before all of this stuff.
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Savan took him, told his story,
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which is fascinating.
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And this,
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and he had an ability to be the
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underdog who could come up
21:47
and beat people.
21:49
Colton Mertens is the
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ultimate underdog where we
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now know his complete backstory.
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And when you tell that story,
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now you have someone to root for.
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And it's even cooler when
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you find those people in
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the challengers who are
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trying to get and gain the
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pro card and get into that
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top twenty so that they
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have a contract the next year.
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Everybody loves the underdog story.
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If you do good storytelling,
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it can be successful.
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And the other thing,
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all these shows that Netflix puts on,
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they put their own
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marketing arm behind it and push it.
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And right now,
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the way it's done is we
22:38
lazily just throw it up on
22:40
YouTube and hope people come to watch it.
22:46
This way,
22:46
you throw it up on Netflix or
22:48
Prime and let them do the
22:50
hard work of marketing it
22:52
and getting people to come watch it.
22:56
Pat Midgley says, Andrew, maybe,
22:57
but a show like this,
22:58
if a big streaming service
22:59
bought it and produced it,
23:00
would take it to a new level.
23:01
And I agree.
23:05
Now, again,
23:07
I think the WFP and the way
23:09
it's organized makes more
23:10
sense at this point to do this.
23:13
But if you can do it as a proof of concept,
23:16
I think it's definitely doable.
23:22
Chris Beesterfield says,
23:24
ten years too late.
23:25
It probably is,
23:27
but better late than never.
23:35
If they would have done
23:36
something like this in two
23:38
thousand seventeen or two
23:39
thousand eighteen,
23:41
I think that the streaming
23:42
services would jump at the chance.
23:44
But in all seriousness,
23:47
the streaming services
23:48
didn't know the effect of
23:50
event programming until the
23:52
last couple years.
23:55
They're the ones that I'm
23:56
reading the articles on.
23:57
They're looking for event
23:58
programming because they're
24:00
finding that it is cheaper
24:01
to produce than original
24:04
movies and TV shows,
24:06
and it's pulling in massive ratings.
24:11
Best bang for the buck.
24:13
So that's where I'm getting
24:14
this idea is I've been
24:15
reading some of the
24:17
business sections of
24:19
different newspapers and
24:21
online places over the last few days,
24:23
talking about how the big
24:25
streaming companies are
24:26
looking for event programming.
24:28
It's just cheaper to produce,
24:30
and it's more bang for the
24:31
buck on a ratings scale.
24:37
that's where I've kind of
24:38
dove down this rabbit hole
24:40
over and it really happened
24:41
uh this all came out after
24:43
the nfl was on netflix on
24:45
christmas day and then
24:46
everybody's talking about
24:47
with the boom of event
24:50
programming that's what the
24:51
streaming services are
24:52
going to be looking for uh
24:57
so yeah so philip I would
25:01
say you could rewind and
25:02
check it out or that we're
25:04
talking about instead of
25:08
instead of crossfit or the
25:10
wfp going after espn or cbs
25:12
as a broadcasting partner
25:14
go after a streaming
25:16
service that's going to do
25:17
more to market your brand
25:19
than cbs or espn we talked
25:22
last night I think it was
25:24
or yesterday afternoon that
25:27
um cbs aired rogue over the
25:29
weekend and none of us even
25:31
knew it we just some of us
25:33
accidentally came across it
25:34
so cbs did not even
25:36
promote it didn't um
25:39
announce that it was going
25:39
to be on um and so I think
25:42
it would be better to
25:43
partner with a streaming
25:44
service who are going to
25:47
market their shows
25:48
especially their original
25:49
shows uh on on the services
25:52
that's all it's just been a
25:54
rabbit hole I've died down
25:55
dove down and have just
25:58
been excited to talk about
25:59
so there's that
26:05
I want to finish up with a couple things,
26:06
and then we'll be back
26:08
tomorrow for kind of a
26:10
year-end podcast show.
26:13
And so what I'm going to
26:14
finish with is Dave's Week
26:16
in Review came out last
26:17
night while we were on the air.
26:23
Good point, Corey.
26:24
Neither did Rogue, for that matter.
26:25
I caught it at the bowling alley,
26:27
for Christ's sake.
26:28
Yep.
26:33
Yep.
26:35
So Dave's Weekend Review
26:36
came out last night.
26:37
It appears that he is really
26:39
just dipping his toe in the
26:41
water getting back into
26:43
these weekend reviews.
26:44
The first one was only three minutes long.
26:47
The second one is...
26:51
The second one is about four minutes long.
26:53
Last night,
26:54
I had a really hard time hearing him.
26:56
He wasn't using a mic.
26:57
He was outside.
26:59
But he really just talked
27:00
about going to Greg
27:02
Glassman's to hear a new
27:04
presentation he's giving as
27:05
part of the Broken Science Initiative.
27:08
But he hasn't really got
27:09
into any kind of game stuff,
27:12
any kind of competitive
27:13
CrossFit stuff in his first two weeks.
27:16
And I know he said he's just
27:17
trying to get the muscle memory back.
27:19
So hopefully over the next few weeks,
27:21
we'll start learning a
27:22
little bit more about those things,
27:24
which he did kind of
27:25
address at the end of this,
27:26
that that stuff would be coming.
27:30
But he's doing a lot of
27:31
traveling in addition to that this week.
27:33
So, yeah.
27:34
uh so hopefully get another
27:36
one next week and we start
27:37
getting a little bit more
27:38
news out of those weekend
27:40
reviews so tomorrow's show
27:44
I'm gonna do like some
27:45
year-end podcast stuff like
27:47
my favorite shows I'm gonna
27:48
count down my top ten shows
27:50
of the year um things like
27:54
that but what I'm gonna do
27:55
today is I'm just gonna
27:57
share a couple of my
27:58
favorite moments for the year um
28:05
So I live in the land of blimps.
28:07
Akron,
28:07
Ohio is just about an hour and a
28:08
half away.
28:10
And that is where the
28:10
Goodyear blimps are housed.
28:15
And what's creating my house
28:16
is right in the flight path
28:18
to Ohio State.
28:20
So every time there's a big
28:21
game at Ohio State,
28:22
the blimp flies right over
28:23
top of my house.
28:24
And that'd be cool.
28:26
Big Clydesdale Media logo on
28:27
the side of the blimp.
28:28
That'd be fun.
28:30
If we're dreaming.
28:32
Oh, you want it to be CrossFit,
28:34
CrossFit blimp.
28:35
Oh, I want it to be a Clydesdale blimp.
28:41
Yeah, Kenneth, I'm in the blimp belt.
28:43
That's where I am.
28:48
Um, so these are a couple,
28:50
these are two shows or two
28:51
things that happened this
28:52
year that I was really,
28:54
one is just my favorite
28:55
show that I did this year
28:57
and it's not like full on CrossFit.
28:59
So I wanted to share it today.
29:00
I won't put it in my top ten.
29:03
Um,
29:04
but one of the shows that was my
29:05
favorite this year was I had, um,
29:09
come across a story about a woman who.
29:13
was a a really good swimmer
29:16
had made it to uh the
29:18
olympic trials I think she
29:21
retired from swimming she
29:23
started doing crossfit she
29:25
added one day of uh
29:28
swimming back into her
29:30
routine did a couple meets
29:32
and accidentally qualified
29:33
for the olympic trials but
29:36
by primarily doing crossfit
29:38
And so I reached out to her.
29:40
I got to know her.
29:42
And that is my episode with
29:44
Caitlin Johnson.
29:46
And I'm going to share a
29:47
screenshot of that right now.
29:50
So this was our episode with
29:53
Caitlin Johnson.
29:54
This was done back before semifinals,
29:58
I believe.
30:00
But this is her picture of
30:02
her at the Olympic trials.
30:03
And I'll just play.
30:04
The funny thing about this
30:06
story is that I reached out
30:08
to her not really knowing a
30:09
lot about her history.
30:10
And then when I reach out to
30:11
an athlete or a guest,
30:13
then I do a deep dive
30:15
research thing into them so
30:17
that I am prepared when they come on.
30:20
Come to find out,
30:20
she grew up in Western
30:21
Pennsylvania just like I did.
30:23
She went to the college where I,
30:27
when I was a swimmer in high school,
30:30
had private lessons.
30:31
And we had some of the same coaches.
30:34
So we got to share a lot of
30:36
experiences in this
30:37
interview about the people
30:39
that taught us how to swim.
30:42
And I'm just going to play a
30:43
little snippet for you.
30:44
Not too much, but...
30:46
CrossFit and yet so swimming
30:48
because you've got the big,
30:50
the big swimming thing behind you,
30:51
but you're doing the
30:52
CrossFit handstand picture
30:55
outside of Lucasville stadium.
30:56
Yeah.
30:57
My friends were real troopers.
30:59
I was like, guys,
30:59
I need to take this picture.
31:00
Like where was the perfect picture here?
31:03
So I like three friends,
31:05
like take all kinds of
31:06
pictures trying to get the
31:07
best one for me.
31:08
So got all the angles.
31:10
Yeah.
31:12
Um, so yeah, that, that's really cool.
31:14
And then,
31:17
Let's get into your swimming
31:18
career so people know how good you were.
31:23
So that's just a little snippet from it.
31:26
We go on to talk that she
31:27
grew up in Western Pennsylvania,
31:28
that we had the same coaches.
31:31
And it was really a fun
31:33
interview and kind of fun
31:35
for me to go back and kind
31:36
of relive some of my
31:38
swimming days with her and
31:41
sharing the same coaches.
31:43
And it just was fun.
31:45
And she went to...
31:47
we both ended up going to
31:49
the same college at some point.
31:50
I'm much older than she is.
31:52
So I was there way earlier.
31:54
Uh,
31:54
but we talked about like restaurants
31:55
and stuff that,
31:56
and things that we would do in that town.
31:58
Uh, and it's a little division two school.
32:01
And the funny thing was that
32:03
my dream was to swim for that school.
32:05
They, they had won like.
32:07
Ten straight national
32:08
championships as a division two school.
32:11
And I wanted to swim for
32:12
them and I could not, I could not, um,
32:18
I was not good enough to make their team.
32:20
I ended up swimming.
32:22
I was recruited by some
32:22
division one schools and I
32:24
ended up walking on at Ohio
32:25
state and I swam for Ohio
32:27
state for a brief amount of time,
32:30
but I could,
32:30
I was not good enough to swim
32:31
for this division two school.
32:33
She was there.
32:34
She won like she was as many
32:39
championships as you could win.
32:41
She did.
32:43
She was that good at that
32:44
division two level.
32:46
Um,
32:47
And she ended up winning...
32:50
She's in the Hall of Fame
32:51
at the school now.
32:52
She's... A lot of cool things.
32:56
A lot of cool things with her.
32:59
But she also competes in CrossFit now.
33:01
And so she's competed at Wadapalooza.
33:04
She's competed at different big events.
33:06
TFX.
33:07
Things like that.
33:08
But she's actually... She
33:09
moved since this interview to Austin,
33:12
Texas.
33:13
And is training down there now.
33:15
But yeah...
33:16
Super fun interview.
33:18
Kenneth says it's episode
33:19
eight ninety four.
33:20
I think I'm going to take
33:21
his word on that.
33:23
Because I do not know for sure.
33:26
Let me go to the beginning here and see.
33:40
Dang, I don't know.
33:50
It is eight ninety four.
33:51
Good call.
33:51
Kenneth, you are the man.
33:53
You're the man.
33:55
Judy Reed.
33:57
I can't do it.
33:58
I went to Ohio State for a
34:00
brief amount of time.
34:02
My experience there was not awesome.
34:04
And it's a Penn State day for me.
34:06
It's Penn State.
34:08
Can't do it.
34:11
I know that you are loyal to
34:13
your Buckeyes.
34:13
Your son is there.
34:15
They play tomorrow against
34:16
the number one team in the country.
34:18
That's going to be an awesome game.
34:19
Can't wait to see that as well.
34:22
But, yeah.
34:23
So,
34:23
Kaitlin Johnson was my favorite
34:24
interview of the year,
34:26
really just for personal reasons,
34:27
not for CrossFit reasons.
34:28
But I wanted to just share that.
34:30
And then my favorite thing
34:33
of the year was –
34:40
the eleven part documentary
34:42
I did at the CrossFit
34:44
Masters CrossFit Games.
34:47
This was a labor of love.
34:48
This took eleven weeks to
34:53
get through to build and huge thanks to
35:00
Jonathan Ortega for editing
35:02
all of the workout videos
35:04
in the middle of these.
35:06
Thank you to Ellie Hiller
35:08
for getting the interviews with me.
35:10
But then it was editing it all together.
35:13
And I just,
35:14
even reliving it through the
35:15
editing process was awesome.
35:18
This is the favorite thing
35:19
that I've ever done from a
35:22
work perspective in my life.
35:28
Holly was awesome with the
35:30
graphics and she is not biased at all.
35:32
She said it turned out so well.
35:34
It is literally the most
35:36
favorite thing I've ever
35:37
done with this channel in
35:40
addition to my whole working life.
35:42
I've never been prouder of
35:45
anything that I've done.
35:46
And this was just a blast.
35:49
And I hope I get to do
35:50
something similar to that
35:51
this year once we know more
35:53
about the structure of the season.
35:55
But dang.
35:58
And then Caitlin Walters as well.
36:01
She was also a videographer for me.
36:03
So I don't want to leave her out either.
36:04
So Caitlin Walters, Jonathan Ortega,
36:06
Holly Dugan, Ellie Hiller,
36:09
that team put this together.
36:11
And I am so proud of each
36:12
and every one of you
36:13
because this is by far my
36:15
favorite thing that I have ever done.
36:18
Kenneth is asking who's number one.
36:20
We have to tune in tomorrow.
36:22
Oh, number one in the country.
36:24
That's Oregon.
36:24
Oregon.
36:25
Oregon.
36:27
I thought you meant number
36:28
one show that I'm going to
36:29
be revealing tomorrow.
36:30
And I wasn't giving you a sneak peek.
36:35
So those are two of my
36:36
favorite things from the year.
36:37
And that's just a preview of
36:38
kind of what we'll talk about tomorrow.
36:41
Um, uh, rogue is going back to Aberdeen,
36:48
Scotland, October, the first to November.
36:49
Second, just announced, uh,
36:53
barbell spin did the
36:54
background check on the
36:56
hotels in Aberdeen, uh,
36:59
and kind of leaked this early.
37:01
So apparently rogue has
37:02
announced it officially now.
37:07
Uh, clock.
37:08
How is it possible?
37:09
Oregon's first game is against OSU.
37:10
Certainly one of the top
37:11
three teams in the bracket,
37:13
but Penn state gets to
37:14
skate into the semis
37:15
playing SMU and Boise state.
37:17
Uh,
37:20
I think that the first year
37:22
of the college football
37:23
playoff is flawed in.
37:24
Oh, so many ways.
37:27
Um,
37:27
I think that the conference champions
37:31
getting automatic by our
37:33
will be done after this season,
37:34
because now you see that
37:36
the seating is not right.
37:38
Um, they should get,
37:39
if you win the conference,
37:40
you should get in,
37:42
but not necessarily a buy
37:44
and into the second round.
37:46
Um,
37:47
And I think that's why we
37:48
had blowouts in the first round,
37:50
because you had teams like
37:52
Penn State and Texas that
37:54
may have been in the top
37:54
four and really should have gotten a buy.
37:57
And then let the other teams
38:00
kind of scrap it out to get
38:01
to the Elite Eight and then
38:03
take on the teams that
38:06
should be ranked in the top four.
38:10
Yeah.
38:11
But I will say as a Penn State fan,
38:13
I'm not mad today that we
38:17
get to take on Boise State
38:18
instead of Oregon.
38:20
I will say that.
38:25
And I'm not mad that Ohio
38:26
State and Oregon have to
38:27
play and one of them will
38:28
be knocked out before the
38:30
national championship game.
38:32
Not mad about that.
38:36
So just saying.
38:39
So with that, check in tomorrow.
38:41
I'll be counting down my top
38:44
ten shows of the year and
38:47
revealing those to you guys.
38:48
And if anything pops up news-wise,
38:50
of course, we'll talk about that as well.
38:53
But what I want to tell you
38:54
guys is I appreciate your
38:56
loyalty to the show and the
38:58
way you guys always show up.
39:00
And if you weren't here for the beginning,
39:02
that is great.
39:06
That is what we talked about
39:07
off the top in the Ricky
39:08
Gerard situation.
39:09
But I love that you guys are
39:11
loyal to the show and that
39:11
you come in and hang out every day.
39:13
These lunch hour shows have
39:14
been awesome to just kind of sit back,
39:17
chat, no real format, no real prep,
39:20
just kind of talking into a
39:21
microphone and answering
39:23
your questions or showing
39:24
your statements and responding to that.
39:27
It's been a blast.
39:28
You guys are awesome.
39:29
And Judy Reed is mad about what...
39:33
about osu and oregon having
39:35
to play each other and uh
39:42
holly I think nowhere near
39:44
a championship but we
39:45
finally won a bowl game and
39:46
if you don't know holly is
39:50
a a graduate or an attendee
39:51
of nebraska university of
39:52
nebraska um the corn
39:54
huskers and they've had a
39:57
rough couple years so yeah
39:58
winning a bowl game for
39:58
them is probably pretty cool
40:02
with that guys as always
40:04
it's been a pleasure
40:05
hanging out with you today
40:06
I will be back tomorrow for
40:07
my birthday as we count
40:09
down my top favorite shows
40:10
of the year and uh yeah who
40:13
knows who knows what's
40:15
gonna happen we will um
40:18
we'll see you guys all then
40:20
thank you so much bye guys