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Lunch with the Clydesdale - The Will Be Brooke's Last CrossFit Games · Clydesdale Media Podcast

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guess what time it is it's
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time for lunch lunch with
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the clydesdale what's going
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on everybody ah it's time
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to throw a dart oh my gosh
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another hole in my wall all
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right um one of these days
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one of these days I'm gonna
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figure it out um what's
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going on train olive lido
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what's going on and Vicki
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glad you guys could be here
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regretfully regretfully we
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have to start off today's
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lunch hour well on a somber
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note for the second
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straight day an icon from
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my childhood has passed
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away and today we learned
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that a guy I watched every
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Saturday morning and then
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every Monday night for much
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of my childhood college
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life has passed away.
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So I want to share a
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highlight from his career
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and then we'll move on.
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So this is voted on as the
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number one highlight from his career.
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And it is when the great
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Hulk Hogan body slammed
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Andre the Giant at WrestleMania.
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Look at this.
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I don't believe it.
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I don't believe it.
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I'm dropping a big leg.
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Over for the cover.
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It's over.
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Hulk Hogan passes away at
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the age of seventy one.
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Yes,
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every Saturday morning he was on my TV
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set.
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When I was a kid,
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WWF aired every Saturday
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morning about eleven a.m.
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And while he was never like
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my favorite wrestler of all time,
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I respected him for what he did.
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The iconic leg drop.
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His wrestling skill wasn't
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what made him famous.
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It was the promos.
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In the early years,
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it was all the prayers and
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the vitamins and all that promoting...
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great american thing and uh
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george wang brings up the
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rocky three cameo as
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thunder lips uh he was
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great he just was great in
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front of the camera he got
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everybody pumped up ripping
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off the shirt yeah brother um
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Yeah, it saddens me that he is gone.
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It's just crazy.
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Ozzy Oz was born yesterday,
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Hulk Hogan today.
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Crazy, crazy, crazy, crazy.
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And the fact that he
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wrestled into his sixties,
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still did matches, is insane to me.
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And still,
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every time he came into an arena,
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the place went ballistic to the very end.
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So...
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Cheers to you, Hulk Hogan.
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Hopefully you're in a better place.
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And I'm sure details will be
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released as the day goes on.
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This just happened probably
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within the last thirty
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minutes or so that the news broke.
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But yeah,
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I just wanted to say goodbye to a
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childhood icon and see you later, Hulk.
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He was not the governor of Minnesota,
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Shanna.
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That was Jesse,
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the body Ventura and famous
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for his predator role.
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But they were both a little
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loony on the political side.
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So who knows?
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I think they were actually
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friends off outside the ring,
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but don't quote me on that.
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But anyway,
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So that is Hulk Hogan.
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Now we're going to move into
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the actual CrossFit space.
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And a couple of things that
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happened in the last.
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Twenty four hours.
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The first of those is this
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showed up on Instagram.
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If you did not see it.
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Here you go.
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This will be my tenth year
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competing at the CrossFit Games and
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it will also be my last.
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From stepping on the floor
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as a teenager to growing up
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in front of this community,
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this sport has truly shaped
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me in every possible way.
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To everyone who has
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supported me this last decade, my family,
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my coaches, my fellow competitors,
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and especially you guys,
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I just want to say thank you.
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It's been a wild ride.
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I've given everything to this,
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and I'm excited to see what
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else I'm capable of.
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CrossFit has given me so much.
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Now let's make this the best games yet.
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So, Brookwell says goodbye.
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Thoughts about that?
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Because I have some thoughts.
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It's very weird to me from
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watching sports in my life,
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of all different kinds of sports,
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It is very rare that an
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athlete that can still
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compete chooses to walk out the door.
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Most times,
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athletes are shown the door by
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their body giving up on them,
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by their body breaking down,
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or by a team or somebody
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showing them the door
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saying that their services
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are no longer needed.
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And so I find it odd that
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someone that's still
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competing at the highest
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level would choose to walk away.
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It doesn't mean that she's wrong in it.
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It doesn't mean anything like that.
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But most people that do make that choice,
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i.e.
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Michael Jordan, i.e.
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Brett Favre, i.e.
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end up coming back.
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George Foreman, Muhammad Ali.
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My gosh,
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you could name eight million
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boxers that have retired and come back.
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So I find it interesting
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that she would make that choice.
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The other thing is,
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when you make that choice
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before the games even start,
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have you already retired?
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Does that mean that she'll have a worse...
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run at the games because
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well it's my last or does
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that give you the incentive
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to go for it more I don't
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know uh trade olive brooke
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trying to steal tia's
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thunder before the games
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But will she still compete
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in WFP and other events?
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Nothing like that is said in this post,
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so I'm assuming she will,
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at least for the rest of this year,
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to complete her contract.
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Vicky,
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she finally makes a game shout-out
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to announce her retirement,
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but hasn't done much to promote the game.
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Seems desperate to me.
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And Shanna could be right here.
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Maybe she just doesn't love it anymore.
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Maybe the grind is too much.
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It could be that.
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I don't know.
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It's just like I loved
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sports so much when I
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played them that I had to
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be told I wasn't good enough to stop.
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you know, you play through high school,
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you play, I was a four sport athlete.
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I get to college,
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I start swimming in college
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and then I'm just not good
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enough anymore.
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Like I just wasn't good enough.
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And that's why I walked away,
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but I loved it so much.
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It would have taken someone
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telling me you're not good
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enough anymore.
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And so it's hard for me to
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then relate to somebody
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that actually just falls
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out of love with it and walks away.
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Um,
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And I'm not criticizing her
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for the decision.
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It's just really hard for me
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to get into her headspace
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as to why that would be the case.
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I personally think with women,
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it could be to start a family,
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and that becomes a factor
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in still being able to do it,
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but maybe not wanting to
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compete and be a mother.
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That is all a possibility as well.
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Noah announced his
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retirement from individual
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CrossFit games and just had
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fun his last year.
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Right.
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And then he came out of
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retirement to sign with the
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WFP for a year.
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Again,
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still was competitive when he went out.
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I don't know.
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She's just sick of the haters.
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Of course,
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that did go through my head as a
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possibility.
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In fairness, though,
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ten years is a long time in the space.
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And actually,
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it's her tenth CrossFit Games.
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I think she's been in the
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space longer than that
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because she didn't qualify
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in twenty three with the foot injury at.
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At.
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Yeah, Orlando at the Orlando semifinal.
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So she didn't make that one.
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So she's been in it a little
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bit longer even.
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She may be done with the scrutiny,
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sick of the Hiller videos,
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but at least she did
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acknowledge CrossFit.
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And then the clock says,
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did Hiller's online semis
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video drive Brooke out of CrossFit?
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I don't know.
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Maybe that's why she doesn't
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love it anymore.
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She's in JR's Crash Camp promo.
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Okay.
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She's had an amazing career.
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If you look at like a male comparison,
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she's right there with like
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a Scott Pan check.
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Always in the hunt.
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Did she, I think,
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I'm trying to think if she ever podiumed.
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I thought she fell short,
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but she may have finished third one here.
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I don't know.
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It's hard for me to remember
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off the top of my head.
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But very,
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very comparable to like a Scott
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Pan check year.
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And if there was a Hall of Fame,
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she's probably in consideration for that.
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She did a lot for the sport
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over the years.
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I mean,
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we've all been critical about not
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promoting the games,
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but she's not the only one
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that's not doing that.
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That's happening from a lot
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of athletes this year.
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Always interesting to see if
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her announcing beforehand
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takes the pressure off and
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she competes well.
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Yeah, that's going to be interesting.
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I remember...
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I think it was.
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Twenty sixteen.
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Twenty twenty sixteen,
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maybe twenty fifteen when
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she first came on the scene
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as a nineteen year old and
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she took she took the world
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by storm at semis and
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marched right to the games
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and she was the it girl.
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It was crazy.
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It was crazy how well she
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did coming in at nineteen years old.
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Um, but anyway, we wish Brooke well, uh,
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hope she has a great last
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year at the CrossFit games.
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Um, yeah,
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that's all I got to say about that.
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Um,
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It's crazy because the women's field,
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you take Tia and Brooke out of the mix,
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and, man, it's young.
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It's young and up and coming,
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and it's going to be
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interesting to see what
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happens with that going forward.
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Look at the people that just
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missed out this year, the eight-year-olds,
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the nine-year-olds that are
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right there on the cusp.
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Man, it's going to be sick.
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So...
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Another thing that came out
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in the last twenty four
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hours is that they
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announced the demo team.
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If you did not see this,
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we talked about this yesterday.
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From the last three years of demo teams,
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forty one percent of those
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athletes are in the games this year.
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So if you miss the games and
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you're given the
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opportunity to do the demo team.
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Man,
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it's it's a way to get yourself over
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the hump to get you back to the games.
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Forty-one percent.
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That's better than any
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batting average in Major League Baseball.
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That is insane.
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But this year's team will be
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comprised of Caroline Stanley,
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who just missed getting
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into the games and has been
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to the games twice.
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Kyra Milligan,
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you can see her in the middle.
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And Christine Kohlenbrander,
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who is right there.
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Then we have Raph Sanson,
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who is the captain of the team this year.
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We have Royce Dunn over here,
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old Royce-y boy.
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And Nate Ackerman.
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Nate Ackerman right there
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made it on the demo team.
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So I would say for people
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like Caroline and Kyra and Nate,
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this is a great opportunity
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for them to work with Dave,
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see how things work,
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test out workouts at the
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games and maybe get those
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little pieces and nuggets that make them,
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uh, make them better.
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So congratulations to them
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for being on the demo team.
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Um,
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Judy says justice for Nate Ackerman.
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Yeah.
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I don't think that this is justice,
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but he should learn.
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It should,
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if he takes it as a learning experience,
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it can be really, really good for him.
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Amanda says,
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Nate really needed to be on there.
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Some great people in that demo team.
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This three are awesome
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feedback points for Dave too.
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Yeah.
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And what's funny is you have Royce,
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who is just a strength savage,
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like testing the back squat,
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things like that.
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Christine Kohlenbrander,
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strength savage on the women's side.
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It's a nice mix of talent
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with Kyra being a great gymnastics person,
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Nate Ackerman being kind of
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good all around,
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and Roth being a great gymnastics person.
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Yeah, I think it's going to be great.
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Is demo team a paid position?
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I do not know.
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I know their trip there is paid for,
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and then they get a kit
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just like the athletes do,
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but it just says demo team
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on it instead of their name.
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But Carolyn was on the demo
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team two years ago.
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It's something we can
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definitely ask her this weekend.
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I still don't know who the
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team captain is.
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Raf Sanson is an athlete out of Mexico.
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He lives in California now.
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He has been testing for Dave
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for years and years prior
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to it getting to the final
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testing stages.
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He was a semifinal athlete,
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regionals athlete for years and years.
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I think he went to the games
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in the earlier years,
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but Dave has been using him
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as a tester for a very long time.
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So, yeah, so he's the captain.
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He's actually a great pick
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for a captain because he
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has worked with Dave for many years.
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And he's going to understand
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what Dave wants,
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the type of feedback he wants.
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He's going to be able to
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coach these other athletes
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to do what's needed and to
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give the necessary feedback
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so that they can make the
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adjustments they need to
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leading up to the games.
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um it's not it's not samson
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it's sanson I believe
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s-a-n-c-e-n sanson no one's
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gonna understand caroline
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yeah she's got a thick southern draw
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But I think she's easier to
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understand than Ricky Gerrard.
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I'll say that.
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Chris says they get paid in shrewd bucks.
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That's high quality currency right there.
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So that's all the good news
19:24
about the demo team.
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It's a great opportunity for the athletes.
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Again,
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forty one percent from the last
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three years have made it to the games.
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Subsequently.
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But here's the thing that sucks about it.
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Many of these people are
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associated with camps.
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They're being given
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information and intel about
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events that are coming up
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that in every year we
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speculate whether there are
19:53
leaks about events and
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things of that nature.
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One of these members is the
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girlfriend fiance of a
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coach at proven Caroline.
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Stanley is a athlete at
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proven you have Nate
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Ackerman and Royce Dunn who
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are mayhem athletes.
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And it just brings into
20:17
question the conflict of
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interest every single year,
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every single year.
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and that's what I that's
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what I worry about with the
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this testing if you've been
20:36
watching the show for any
20:37
length of time it's
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something that we we talked
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about last year with sydney
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wells being on the demo
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team and brooke wells being
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in the competition how do
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twin sisters not share information
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Now you've got a fiance of a
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coach at proven who's
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coaching a lot of the
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athletes that are competing.
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You're telling me that
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nothing's going to be said between her.
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And so we're talking Kyra and Kiefer.
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Nothing's going to be said
21:08
between them in the time
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leading up to the games.
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The only bright spot is I
21:13
don't think they're even
21:14
getting to the games until Monday,
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Sunday or Monday.
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So hopefully by that point,
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it's not such an advantage
21:25
that it makes a huge
21:30
difference in what happens next weekend.
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Mark Phillips, release early and often.
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That's the only way to level it, right?
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I really do believe that
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that is the only way to get
21:44
away from this.
21:47
is unknown and unknowable is
21:50
going to be harder and
21:51
harder to maintain as we
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move forward if this sport is to grow.
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Leaks on leaks.
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Yeah, honey, we can't tonight.
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I'm sore from testing heavy yolks.
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Is that a direct quote, CrossFat,
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or just speculation?
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I mean, at this point,
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there isn't much you can do
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even if there are leaks, right?
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And I will tell you this, too.
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When I was a volunteer in Seventeen,
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there were changes to our
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events minutes before we went live.
22:36
Minutes before.
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So it doesn't mean that just
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because the event is this
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way on Monday that it's
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going to be that way on Saturday.
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Um, so who knows, but I, you know,
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that has been, that,
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that has been one of the
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topics that we have talked
23:00
about on this show for a long,
23:02
long time is the conflict
23:05
of interest with the demo
23:06
team and the NDA is not
23:08
holding up like they used to.
23:10
Um, but we'll see, we'll see again.
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They're only, they're bringing them in,
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um,
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They'll bring them in, I think,
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Sunday or Monday,
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and so it's not a lot of
23:21
time to get intel prior to the event.
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Our old friend Charlie.
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If you're terrible at something,
23:29
you're not getting better
23:30
at it that quick.
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True.
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I think where it played in a lot is...
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like the the crossover
23:40
double unders when they
23:41
were a secret some people
23:42
had the ropes they needed
23:44
to do it some didn't it
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could it could mean a big
23:47
difference in just the
23:49
equipment you have um and
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here's carolyn uh they
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normally arrive the
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friday-ish so most likely
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tomorrow and we'll begin
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testing right away this
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weekend both team and individual events
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Joseph Ramirez.
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I hope this is sarcasm.
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All the events for next
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year's twentieth game
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should be locked down until
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the first day.
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No testing.
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Just get it right after it.
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Yeah,
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I don't think that is ever going to
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happen.
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Yes,
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the great Carolyn Prevost has arrived.
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Nick B,
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four-time gear team volunteer here.
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Changes are guaranteed on
24:53
the fly after their war room meetings.
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Roll with it.
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Judy didn't realize testing
25:00
and demo team were different.
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They are.
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They're very different.
25:04
Testing at the ranch is that
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Dave just brings in like
25:08
one athlete at a time to run some tests.
25:11
And if you look at their
25:12
behind the scenes videos,
25:14
like he had Raph or Ben
25:17
Smith do a piece of the
25:18
workout and then he had Allison come in,
25:21
they weren't in there
25:22
together necessarily.
25:24
and so he has like one or
25:25
two people doing some
25:26
things when it's demo team
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they have like war room
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meetings they they're
25:30
trying it on the floor for
25:31
the first time adjustments
25:33
are going to need to be
25:34
made and so he needs the
25:36
this demo team to be able
25:37
to run through things in a
25:39
moment's notice to see if
25:40
it works at the venue um so
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it's it's very different
25:53
In certain movements,
25:54
even a day can make a difference.
25:56
A comp I did last month
25:57
programmed double taps, the grid movement,
26:00
and released it a couple
26:01
days before the comp.
26:02
I learned them in a day.
26:06
Well, that's because you're awesome, Lito.
26:15
I did want to let you guys know that...
26:17
Due to demand,
26:19
I did order some Get Jazzed
26:22
stickers that I'm going to
26:23
have with me at the games.
26:26
And I also have reached out
26:27
to my designer to come up
26:30
with a shirt that is
26:34
Clydesdale Media Get Jazzed.
26:38
I will not have those by the games.
26:40
She's just starting the design now.
26:42
But I'm hoping to have those
26:44
by the Masters games.
26:47
so hopefully we'll have some
26:48
t-shirts but I'll
26:49
definitely I put a rush
26:51
order on the sticker so
26:52
hopefully I'll have those
26:52
for the games and with me
26:54
at the games next week if
26:56
you're interested in one
26:57
just come see me and uh
27:01
I'll hand them out for free
27:05
so uh when am I going to
27:10
albany jody wants to know
27:11
so I'll the original plan
27:13
was to be there wednesday
27:16
I may be adjusting that plan
27:18
to get there on Tuesday.
27:20
Um, so, uh, we'll see.
27:24
We'll we'll see.
27:26
I want it to be there for, um,
27:31
I want it to be there for
27:32
the registration if I could be.
27:35
Um, it's just,
27:36
I gotta get another day off of work.
27:42
Yay, get jazz t-shirts.
27:44
Need a Clydesdale playing the saxophone,
27:46
get jazzed.
27:48
Hell yeah, Clydesdale swag.
27:50
So she's an artist,
27:53
the person I have do my designs.
27:55
And she's the one that
27:56
created the Clydesdale
27:58
holding the barbell.
27:59
I just give it to her to see
28:00
what she thinks is best.
28:02
I tried not to lead her in any direction.
28:05
I just wanted to see kind of
28:06
what she thought of it.
28:08
And at first she thought
28:09
jazz just like sparkle glitter.
28:12
And I had to like, no, no,
28:13
I mean like new Orleans jazz.
28:15
So I hope that, uh,
28:19
I think I have her on the right track now,
28:21
but, uh, once I get a logo done, I'll,
28:24
I'll put it out to you guys.
28:24
You can see what it is and
28:27
see what happens.
28:31
I take Clydesdale tournament
28:32
to the Zatarain's man.
28:38
uh heard heard will be at
28:41
the masters games but also
28:42
in cognito and albany or
28:44
albany why do they change
28:46
the pronunciation of things
28:48
it was adidas my whole life
28:50
now it's adidas now albany
28:52
became albany I mean I have
28:54
family that lives right
28:55
outside of albany and
28:57
they've never called it
28:58
albany they've always
28:59
called it albany and now
29:01
I've got to change it now
29:02
in my what the hell people
29:14
I know it's not,
29:14
but I can't help but see
29:15
that container as a thing
29:17
of Parmesan on your right.
29:18
Yeah, those are Lysol wipes, Mark.
29:21
Those are to wipe down my desk down here.
29:30
Enhanced arrival time.
29:31
Nice.
29:35
Judy, you never have to buy the sticker.
29:37
It's yours for free.
29:41
Nick B, Lauren getting enhanced access,
29:43
fake news, or for real?
29:45
I don't know.
29:47
I don't know for sure.
29:48
I've seen things on both sides,
29:50
and I was getting a little
29:51
worked up about it, and I thought,
29:52
why am I getting worked up about it?
29:54
What does it matter if she has it or not?
29:58
I have mine, and that's all that matters,
30:00
right?
30:03
but I will tell you that she
30:05
did DM me yesterday and we
30:09
had a conversation and it
30:12
was interesting to say the least,
30:16
but if she does have it, I wanted to,
30:21
I'm glad she reached out
30:23
and I wanted to get it out
30:24
of any kind of beef we had
30:26
kind of out of the way
30:27
before we got to Albany.
30:30
Um,
30:31
So I don't know whether she did or didn't,
30:34
but we had a conversation
30:35
yesterday and we'll see how that goes.
30:48
What else do we have?
30:58
In America, it's Adidas.
31:01
You know,
31:02
I think Corey had the best argument.
31:03
Like, when I listen to a Run-DMC album,
31:06
they never say Adidas.
31:08
So... Off-topic,
31:16
have you acknowledged the
31:17
death of the Hulk?
31:18
Yeah, right off the top,
31:19
I played him at
31:21
WrestleMania slamming Andre the Giant,
31:24
and we said our goodbyes then, Charlie.
31:27
I know you're probably...
31:30
You're probably devastated by that news.
31:40
Lauren has enhanced.
31:41
She didn't request it.
31:42
HQ gave it to her.
31:43
Same with MCU.
31:49
According to Mike Halpin.
32:00
Yeah, CrossFit, I mean, it's old.
32:01
I'm old,
32:02
but that's what it's always been for me.
32:04
I blame Tyler Watkins.
32:12
It doesn't matter if she has
32:13
access if no one watches the content.
32:17
I just had to remember that
32:18
it doesn't really matter.
32:20
It just doesn't matter for me.
32:22
I have the access.
32:23
I need to do what I want to do.
32:25
And she can have whatever
32:26
access they give her or she
32:27
takes or whatever.
32:35
I heard she took your table
32:36
and you're outside the room again.
32:38
I don't need, I don't need a room.
32:43
Judy Reed becomes a member.
32:45
That's awesome.
32:45
Thank you so much, Judy.
32:47
And you know what that means?
32:49
As I put out vignettes from
32:50
this coming week,
32:52
as we're up at the games,
32:54
you will get them twenty
32:55
four hours before they
32:56
release to the public.
32:58
Members will get them twenty
32:59
four hours ahead of time.
33:06
Where's Charlie been?
33:07
I ask the same thing, Trent Olive.
33:10
I miss that dude so much.
33:21
um wow uh kevin quick fact I
33:28
grew up in new albany
33:29
indiana the settlers came
33:32
from albany new york and
33:34
tool the new took the new
33:36
york from new york and the
33:38
albany from albany and call
33:40
it new albany wow we have
33:42
our very own cliff claven
33:44
thank you so much kevin
33:50
We're in America.
33:50
We say things however we want to.
33:55
What you going to do when
33:56
Big Clyde's tail runs wild on you?
34:00
You're going to get jazzed.
34:04
All right, guys.
34:07
else do we got so there's
34:10
going to be some cool stuff
34:11
at the games this year I
34:13
just want to highlight that
34:14
too I think it's awesome
34:16
that crossfit is starting
34:18
to do partnerships
34:22
We knew about the
34:22
partnership with the ruck race.
34:25
Ruck race will be going Saturday morning.
34:27
If you didn't see it this morning on Savan,
34:30
he had the ruck race people
34:31
on talking about it.
34:32
It's going at like five thirty a.m.
34:34
on Saturday morning.
34:36
If you want to go ruck with
34:37
them and and then the day
34:39
is over and you can get
34:40
back to everything else.
34:43
But also we're going to have
34:45
arm wrestling at the games
34:47
with Travis Bajent,
34:49
a twenty-some time arm
34:51
wrestling champion.
34:52
He's going to be arm
34:53
wrestling fans for prizes at the arena,
34:58
which is really super cool.
35:00
Anytime you can add
35:01
additional entertainment
35:03
around what you're doing,
35:05
that's what growth in your event can be.
35:09
It's new people, new eyes,
35:11
more things to do,
35:13
making it more of a
35:14
festival type attitude.
35:16
I think that's what we lost
35:18
when we went from Madison
35:19
with this big open area to an arena.
35:24
They've got to find creative
35:25
ways to bring back that
35:27
festival style attitude.
35:30
And especially if they can
35:31
do that around vendor
35:32
village to draw people in
35:35
and be around the vendors
35:36
to make the vendors happy.
35:38
If you make the vendors happy,
35:40
then they're willing to
35:41
invest more into your event.
35:47
So that's awesome.
35:53
And I hope that you guys, if you're going,
35:55
you take advantage of some of that stuff.
36:11
Yes.
36:12
Now, that's Norm, Jay Birch.
36:15
It's a doggy dog world,
36:16
and I'm wearing milk bone underwear.
36:19
My favorite of the Normisms is,
36:22
what are you up to, Norm?
36:24
And he says,
36:25
I'm up to my ideal weight if I
36:26
was twelve feet tall.
36:32
What the rock?
36:36
You should arm wrestle Tommy.
36:39
We'll see.
36:41
I could do that.
36:44
We need Travis versus JY.
36:46
That would be funny.
36:48
That would be funny.
36:58
Um,
37:01
Madison was perfect.
37:03
I wouldn't say that.
37:04
I like the open air.
37:08
First of all, the outdoor field.
37:10
We talked about our favorite
37:11
events of all time,
37:12
and all of them were outdoor fields,
37:16
which I think says something.
37:18
Maybe the games need to
37:19
think about it being an
37:21
outdoor event in the future.
37:23
I know you have weather issue, but gosh,
37:26
you can do so much outside
37:28
that you can't do inside.
37:31
But anyway,
37:33
that arena was so old in
37:35
Madison and so many broken
37:37
seats and it didn't have
37:40
all the cool video screens
37:42
and all that stuff there.
37:44
The one cool thing about
37:46
Fort Worth that is going to
37:48
get lost in everything that
37:49
happened last year is you
37:51
could see replays.
37:52
You could look up at the big
37:53
screen and see things like
37:54
when they ran outside.
37:57
It just added a lot to the
37:59
experience as a spectator.
38:01
The seats were way more
38:02
comfortable in Fort Worth.
38:05
The concessions were way better.
38:08
And they seem to be more
38:10
accommodating to
38:11
CrossFitters as opposed to
38:13
just general concessions.
38:17
So those are some of the
38:18
things that I think you miss.
38:28
Yeah,
38:28
don't tell cash you're wearing milk
38:29
boat underwear.
38:31
That would be a huge mistake.
38:35
The street by the arena will
38:36
be closed to car traffic.
38:38
Yeah, I heard that.
38:38
They're going to set up some
38:39
stuff out there, which is incredible.
38:41
That's a great way to draw people in,
38:44
make it easy access to get
38:46
to things like Vendor
38:47
Village and some of the
38:49
workouts and things that are going on.
38:52
Really, really great.
39:00
Okay.
39:07
maybe do it at a venue where
39:09
you don't build a temporary stadium.
39:12
Here's,
39:13
here's what blows me away is the
39:15
best attended piece of a
39:17
CrossFit games was when
39:19
they did the track event at
39:21
the high school stadium.
39:23
There are high school
39:23
stadiums all over the country,
39:26
not being used.
39:29
Why not use that type or a
39:31
call it like a smaller
39:33
college stadium where
39:36
Why not do something more
39:37
like that so that it's open air,
39:42
you can bring in the big equipment,
39:43
you can do all the running
39:45
and the fun stuff outside,
39:47
probably way cheaper rent
39:49
than it would be to get an
39:51
actual professional arena.
39:59
Yeah.
40:06
Yeah,
40:06
Madison wasn't even the nicest arena
40:07
in Madison.
40:12
It was a great venue in Fort Worth.
40:14
Media space was nice as well
40:15
as on-site versus a building over.
40:20
Yeah, it was a great venue.
40:29
Every decent college
40:30
athletics facility is TV-friendly,
40:33
tailgate space, hotels.
40:38
A military base would be cool,
40:39
but the access would be a
40:40
pain in the ass.
40:43
Bunches of small colleges around Albany.
40:46
Yeah,
40:46
I just think it's just a cool concept.
40:49
We showed last year,
40:52
by doing that track event, they had like,
40:54
sixteen thousand people there.
40:57
Like,
40:57
that's more than there's been at any
40:58
other... And that was after
41:01
the death of Lazar.
41:02
They still had all those
41:04
people in the stadium.
41:06
It just it just kind of
41:07
makes sense maybe too much
41:09
sense to look for things like that.
41:17
It was well attended because
41:18
it was free admission.
41:19
Yeah,
41:19
but it was probably cheaper to rent
41:21
to and maybe if you could
41:23
lower the ticket prices,
41:24
you'd get more people in the stands.
41:33
I don't know just a thought.
41:37
so the last thing I'm gonna
41:39
leave you with before I
41:40
have to get back to work is
41:42
uh weren't a majority of
41:44
the events in carson
41:45
outdoors I think they were
41:46
all outdoors the tennis
41:52
stadium was open air and
41:53
the soccer stadium was open air
42:04
except the ill-fated broad
42:05
jump that was a that was a
42:07
rough year I get what they
42:09
were doing but man that was
42:11
that was not spectator
42:13
friendly at all um City of
42:23
Fort Worth was technically
42:24
free city and state paid
42:26
CrossFit so even better than free wow
42:35
Yeah, I can't beat that.
42:36
Last thing I'm going to
42:37
leave you with is I know
42:40
people are still digging in
42:41
to find out what happened.
42:43
I've reached out myself,
42:45
but Saxon Pancheck, it appears,
42:47
is no longer with the World
42:49
Fitness Project.
42:50
If you look at his Instagram,
42:52
any reference to the World
42:53
Fitness Project is missing
42:55
from his bio where
42:58
everybody else who works
42:59
for them has it clearly
43:01
stated that they work for them.
43:03
I know Jenny from Dense
43:04
Updates has reached out to
43:05
them asking for clarification on that.
43:09
And they said due to their
43:10
employment policies,
43:11
they could not say what had happened.
43:18
And I will say this.
43:20
I've known Saxon since since
43:22
two thousand sixteen.
43:25
He was a frequent visitor to
43:27
my first gym and helped out
43:30
in charity events there all the time.
43:34
We became pretty close friends.
43:36
He's one of the athletes I
43:37
actually have a phone number for.
43:40
And when he first joined the WFP,
43:42
I tried to reach out to him
43:43
to get a statement and even
43:44
have him on the show.
43:46
I did not get a response,
43:48
which was very unlike him.
43:50
But every dealing I've had
43:52
with Saxon up until the
43:54
last six months has been an
43:55
amazing experience.
43:58
I don't know what happened.
44:00
I don't know what made him go to the WFP.
44:03
It is baffling to me to this day.
44:06
And now he's left.
44:09
And I'm really curious to
44:11
know what the change was
44:13
that prompted him to go and
44:15
that prompted him to leave.
44:17
And I'm hoping that I can
44:18
get in touch with him about all of that.
44:21
Whether I can get him on air or not,
44:22
I don't know.
44:23
But I'd really like to at
44:24
least have a conversation
44:25
with him to find out what happened.
44:31
One of my biggest criticisms
44:33
with the WFP is they really
44:35
suck at timing.
44:38
You have this big lull from
44:40
tour stop one to tour stop
44:41
two and CrossFit had a lull
44:44
and you didn't take
44:46
advantage of any of that to
44:48
be the number one story in the sport.
44:51
You could have put out content.
44:52
You could have put out the rec league,
44:55
whatever it was.
44:57
Then you wait until right
44:58
before the CrossFit games
45:00
and you throw out a rec
45:01
league that then nobody is
45:03
even paying attention to
45:05
because we're all in games mode.
45:08
They are terrible,
45:10
terrible at scheduling
45:11
things and timing with anything.
45:16
When they first come out,
45:18
I wanted to support them
45:19
enough to see if their concept worked.
45:23
But their execution at this
45:24
point has made me give up
45:26
all hope on them and give
45:28
up all support of them as
45:30
we are moving into tour stop two.
45:33
I have no faith now that
45:35
they can make anything work.
45:40
They have blown every chance
45:42
that they have.
45:47
Blown it.
45:51
By just shitty timing.
45:57
We were all dying for
45:58
content for three months.
46:03
Dying for content,
46:04
and you couldn't even take
46:05
advantage of it.
46:11
opportunistic in the wake of tragedy,
46:13
just like move Mac said,
46:15
shows character of everyone behind it.
46:17
And I had a rant about that.
46:18
Gosh, a week and a half ago,
46:20
maybe when you build your
46:22
business on somebody else's
46:24
tragedy or misfortune,
46:26
that is not a solid
46:27
foundation to build a business on.
46:29
You should be building it on
46:30
your own strengths,
46:32
not on somebody else's weakness.
46:38
So they get off on that foot,
46:40
and they can't even take
46:42
advantage of the opportune
46:44
times to push what they're doing.
46:48
They've missed it all.
47:02
Not only was I stunned when
47:03
Saxon went to WFP, I was kind of hurt.
47:06
As someone who had drank the
47:08
Kool-Aid so much,
47:10
so much to see him just
47:13
throw it all away was
47:15
mind-boggling and hurtful.
47:24
Well, with that, guys,
47:27
my lunch hour's over.
47:29
Time for you knuckleheads to
47:30
get back to work as well
47:34
because karma is a mofo.
47:36
I thought it was.
47:37
We'll see if it is.
47:43
They've kind of let Hulk do
47:44
that thing where he stands
47:46
back up after the third time.
47:48
The ref holds his arm up.
47:50
CrossFit just stood up and pointed.
47:57
And as Ernie said, have a great day,
47:59
y'all.
47:59
Great show.
48:01
Thank you, guys.
48:02
I got to get back to work.
48:03
You guys get back to work as well.
48:05
We'll see everybody tomorrow
48:06
on lunch with the Clydesdale.
48:08
Bye, guys.
48:34
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