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Lunch with the Clydesdale - Hopper's Reaction to Mayhem · Clydesdale Media Podcast

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what is going on everybody
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welcome to lunch with the
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Clydesdale what's going on everybody um
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so excited to be with you
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today um got a call from my
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mom this morning uh she's
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waiting on one blood test
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if that is good she is
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going home today uh so that
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is huge news uh for those
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of you who've been
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following along um since
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Sunday night um can't wait
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for her to get home and
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back to normal um she's
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looking very much like her
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normal self and I'm really
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happy for that so
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with that um so good you
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could all be here with me
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uh cory what's going on
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slater I'm hungry too my
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wife just put something in
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the oven I think it was
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some chicken um and now I'm
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ready to eat but I gotta
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get this uh get this show
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done before I can eat so um
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what's going on denise jody
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lynn meredith um so good
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you could all be here today
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uh we're gonna have just a
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No real format today.
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Ooh, Ken Walters.
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Shrimp omelet for me.
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If I wasn't deathly allergic to shrimp,
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that would sound amazing.
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What's crazy is I could eat
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shrimp as a kid.
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All until I got to about twelve years old.
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And then all of a sudden I
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was at a Chinese restaurant
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in Pittsburgh.
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I ate a dish with shrimp in it.
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I went into anaphylactic shock.
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A police officer had to hit
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me with an EpiPen,
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found out I was really
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allergic to shrimp.
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And yeah.
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So.
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Yeah, crazy.
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And Andrew Sten,
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I saw you on the stream
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several times judging down
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there in Cookville.
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You are back to normal life
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after a weekend in the Mecca of CrossFit.
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Ken says I couldn't survive
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without shrimp and scallops.
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The crazy thing is I'm not
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allergic to shellfish.
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I am just allergic to shrimp.
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I eat clams.
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I eat scallops.
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I eat all that kind of stuff.
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I just cannot eat shrimp.
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And I've not tried crawfish
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because they are so closely related.
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I've had lobster.
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It's weird.
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It's weird.
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My dad had the exact same allergy.
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Um, so, uh, and it's only if we ingest it,
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we can touch it.
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I cooked it for my wife.
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I've done all that kind of stuff.
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I've never,
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but I just cannot ingest shrimp at all.
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Andrew,
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how was the judging experience down
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there in Cookville?
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I heard a lot of people
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compliment the judges and
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the AFJ and the way that
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they handled everything over the weekend.
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Rich gave a lot of kudos on the stream.
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I don't know if you heard that.
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But I would say that for the most part,
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you guys weren't noticed,
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and that is the biggest
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compliment a judge can get.
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So...
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Good job.
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Uh, the first thing I want to talk about,
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I wanted to talk about this
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since last week,
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but then with everything
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that happened with my mom
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and me heading to
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Pennsylvania and not doing
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the show at the end of last week,
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I wasn't able to talk about it.
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Uh,
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was the new Jason Hopper video that
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Hiller did.
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Uh,
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because last week we had talked about how,
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um, tried to survive.
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No full swing, full swing.
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Um,
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do these really cool
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documentaries where you get
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to know the behind the
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scenes of the PGA tour
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through the players and all
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of that stuff.
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And that CrossFit does a
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pretty good job in,
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and the third party media
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do a good job of aspects of it.
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Um,
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but they don't have a cohesive
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storyline in one spot to get it all.
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Um, and,
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and Hiller was actually on
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with me or not with me,
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was in the chat early when
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we talked about that and
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said to look out for the Hopper video.
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He sent it to me early last week.
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Um,
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I was able to watch it before it was
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released and I really did like it a lot.
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It had a lot of the elements
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that I talked about in full swing and,
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um,
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And it took Jason to be open
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and honest about his experience and,
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and failings at the games
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and then his failings in
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Vermont for you to then see
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the comeback that he's
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making this season.
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Um, and so that's what that's, that's,
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those are the,
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all the elements you need
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to make it a better, um,
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a better storyline.
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um meredith says hooper
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hopper hooper hopper's
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harsh put down humor is
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annoying to me but I admit
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I do like him more after
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watching that video yeah
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you have to he is becoming
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the heel of crossfit which
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I've I've said a long time
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for a long time that
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crossfit needs that you
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need the heel for the hero
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to beat um him and dallin
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dallin is mr all-american
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clean cut um do it by the
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book and hopper is this you
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know big goofball um
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Kind of the jock from high school, blah,
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blah, blah.
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And he's the heel, right?
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But what I was getting at is
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the way the video was
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constructed was that you
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see the failings of Hopper
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and then the comeback, right?
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The only piece it's missing is the finish,
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right?
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like what is he going to do
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at a major competition to
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finish off that video and
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if he does do that this
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season either uh with a
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with a podium finish at the
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games or whatever then
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Hiller just needs to add
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that to the end make a part
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one part two and you have
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the whole piece right um so
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yeah I think that's uh
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That's what it is, right?
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Anderson Sten says Hatfield
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is a bit of a heel too.
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I don't see it.
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I would say Colton is more
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of a heel than Austin
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because Colton does talk
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about other people.
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Austin just really talks about himself.
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Now,
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he may brag about himself and he may
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have a lot of confidence in himself, but
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But really,
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it's just about him where Colton will say,
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I'm tired of the, you know,
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if you dropped out, you're a coward.
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I know the gorillas in the
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back were talking about
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this being their weekend
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with the big boy workouts.
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And then the small guys came
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out here and did what they did.
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I would put Colton Moore in the heel.
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Yeah.
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Colton is transcending
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everything people just love
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him he has that like underdog
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thing about him because he's
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the pig farmer from Iowa.
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He's shorter than most.
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He is accomplishing so much.
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But now that he's added the jabs to it,
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the wrestling promotion to it,
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I think that he is
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transcending most of the
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male athletes in the sport and becoming,
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I would say,
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the most popular male athlete
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in CrossFit.
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But Colton is a nice mix of
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the wrestling promo with the underdog,
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with the pure physical
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skills to crush things.
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So I think he's just the
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perfect blend of it all.
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Austin may get there.
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I think he needs to get
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better in the interviews, in the mic.
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But you can tell he's shy,
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kind of like early Colton.
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We'll see where he goes from here,
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but he definitely, he has it in him.
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You can see it, Andrew,
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but I think he needs to
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develop the mic skills to get there.
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So, but I really did enjoy that video,
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I think.
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Andrew says,
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I think the jabs amongst them
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all is great for the sport.
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CrossFit needs characters.
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Hopefully Adler comes back
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around because he likes to jab too.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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I mean, I think Adler's coming around.
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I mean, he's doing the season so far.
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My guess is he's putting
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some eggs in that in affiliate semi,
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so we'll see what's up with that.
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Slater, I don't disagree with you.
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I think Colton should take
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Jason up on his offer for
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Jason to live a day in Colton's shoes.
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I think seeing Jason on a
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pig farm would be awesome.
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Awesome.
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Awesome.
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So I hope he takes him up on it.
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It sounded like what they
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said on Boys Interrupted
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was that Colton has not
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embraced that opportunity yet,
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but hopefully he will.
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Uh,
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Ken says Colton a couple of years ago
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on his first seven on podcast interview,
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he couldn't answer with
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more than one word.
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Now he's definitely WWE.
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He is.
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What's crazy.
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Ken is we did Colton's first ever podcast.
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Um, and he was,
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I think he did it from his barn.
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Like he wasn't even in his house when he,
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we did it with him.
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Um,
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It was Kat and I way back.
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We had been doing some research,
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found this high school wrestler who,
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when asked a question after states,
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he'd finished second in the
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state of Iowa in high school wrestling.
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He answered an interviewer
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when they asked him where
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he was going to college, and he said,
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I'm not.
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I'm going to go win the CrossFit Games.
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And we found that, and we found him,
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and then we found what he was doing.
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And he was awesome.
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And I've, I mean, you were,
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were you still there in, um,
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Minneapolis when he came to
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the Bard after he granted games?
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Um, and so, uh,
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Like Colton and I have a
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pretty good relationship.
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I hung out with him and
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Allie after Granite Games
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in Minneapolis for a little while there.
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And Ken, you were there.
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We had a good time.
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Colton is an awesome dude.
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We've done interviews with
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him and Allie together.
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He used to be a pretty
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frequent guest early on.
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And yes, they're all out there on YouTube,
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Ken.
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You can see them all.
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I will tell you the internet
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in his barn wasn't awesome,
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but I think that happened
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in the early Savant interviews as well.
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He has much better internet
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connection now than he did back then.
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Meredith says,
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watching Hopper work on a
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pig farm for a few hours
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would be hilarious,
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especially since he almost
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ripped the daffodils out of
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his yard because he didn't
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know they were legit plants.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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if you've ever been around
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pigs they are not friendly
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animals they are not um I
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did one summer on a farm
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and they had pigs and well
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they had hogs um and they
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would bust the fence down
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all the time we were we
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were wrestling those things all the time
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and they're just they're
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nasty nasty animals um I
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would hate to have to go
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back to that um I would
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hate to have to go back to
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that someday more power to
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colton but man that that
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was miserable for me the
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other thing I wanted to
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talk about with hopper is
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uh on boys interrupted uh
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I'm not through the whole
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episode but he did talk
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about his experience at mayhem
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And one thing that I thought
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was interesting is that he
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said that he could not
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recover from event one to
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event two very fast.
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And I think that that's cool
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because with these... And
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what I mean by that is with
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these events that are qualifying events,
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it's hard to do a big endurance event.
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And so when you...
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when you compress the
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weekend for these athletes
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and give them less time to
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recover from event to event,
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you're adding endurance to
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the weekend in a,
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in a different sort of way.
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And he just, he could,
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he says when he went to
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warm up for heavy Isabel,
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his legs were still shaking
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from event one.
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And so I think that that's
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an interesting concept
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about the weekend because
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I know there's been some
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scuttle about that Mayhem
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may have had too much squatting.
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But I didn't notice that
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while the event was going on.
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And to stretch and say that
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Isabel was squatting,
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for some of the athletes, yeah,
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they had to squat some.
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I saw people power snatch
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that thing the whole way to the end.
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So I think we're grasping at
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straws a little bit with that.
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But I think that is an
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interesting concept.
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By compressing the event,
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you're adding an endurance
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element that's not normally there.
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Um,
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and I think when we talked to Carolyn
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and Jamie on Sunday night,
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they love the programming, right?
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And when asked if they would add a six,
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a sixth event, what would it be?
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There really was nothing missing.
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And so I think that that is,
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that is super key.
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That's a key element to this
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whole thing is it was compressed,
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but it captured all the
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aspects that needed to, um, to, to,
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to get the right people to the games.
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So I think that's awesome.
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Jay Burch hates hogs or pigs.
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Yeah, I hate them.
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A hopper seems genuine enough,
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especially talking about HBO.
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Yeah, that's a good one.
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H-W-P-O.
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H-W-P-O.
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Trish is in the chat.
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Ken wrestled some hogs in
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his younger days.
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Big birch,
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a nice tender chop with a horseradish.
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Oh my gosh, man.
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Horseradish is like the most
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underrated condiment in food.
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Everything's better with a
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little bit of horseradish in it.
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horseradish coleslaw, horseradish on my,
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like,
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so I used to bounce at a bar and if
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we would get gift
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certificates to the
16:17
restaurant and they served
16:18
a prime rib sandwich and
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they would take the prime
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rib and they would slice it
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real thin and then they
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grill some onion and some
16:27
pepper on there and then
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you put some horseradish on there,
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just not horseradish mayo, horseradish,
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just straight up horseradish on there.
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It's the only condiment you need.
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And it is like the perfect sandwich.
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I could,
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I have a jar of horseradish in my
16:46
fridge at all times.
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It's the best.
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Jody says, I love radishes,
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but not horseradish.
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I'm sorry, Ken.
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Sorry.
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I literally just love
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horseradish in just about anything.
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I cannot get enough of it.
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so um I also watched dave's
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week in review uh this
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morning um interesting that
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he announced some of the we
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talked about some of the
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drug testing going on this
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seems to be there was what
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he announced on dave's we
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can review seems to be like
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an earlier grouping than
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the the ones we talked
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about on sunday night
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carolyn got tested within
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the last week I know dallin
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got tested and he
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apparently got tested
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before so a couple times um
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And Dave announced a big
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list of people that they tested.
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Nobody tested positive.
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It was a surprise out of competition test.
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Nobody knew it was coming.
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And so I think that's a good thing, right?
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Surprise test and everybody
18:04
passed is pretty good.
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Um, so I think that's good for the sport.
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What I wanted to hear was,
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are they testing at these
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in-person qualifying events?
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Because when they were
18:23
semifinals and when they were regionals,
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the people who went to the
18:26
games and the next couple
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would get tested.
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I have not heard if the
18:30
people at mayhem got tested after, uh,
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Qualifying for the games or
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the next couple in line.
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Maybe Andrew knows from being there.
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But my guess is it would be
18:46
more like the security
18:47
people because they're the
18:48
ones that would escort the
18:50
the athletes to the area
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where they would do the
18:53
test immediately following the event.
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But I don't it was.
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They went off the air before
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they came back to awards.
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So you couldn't see much on
19:04
the stream to see if they
19:05
were restricted from
19:07
leaving the floor and then
19:08
taken back for drug testing or not.
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But I have not heard from
19:13
anyone if testing was done at the event.
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Andrew said,
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I didn't see anything regarding testing,
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but that is not to say it didn't happen.
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Yeah.
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I think that one,
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either they do the testing
19:35
at these events or we see
19:37
an uptick in away from
19:41
competition testing,
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more surprise testing.
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Um,
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And I'm actually better if
19:48
they don't test at the
19:50
event but do surprise
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non-competition testing
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because I think the tests
19:56
at competitions are an IQ test,
19:59
not a drug test.
20:02
If you're doing the surprise
20:03
ones throughout the event,
20:06
throughout the year,
20:07
those actually become more
20:09
valid drug tests as nobody
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can get the right cycle
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figured out in their head
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if they don't know when it's coming.
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But that's just my two cents.
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One thing that Dave did say
20:28
in his week in review, which I found,
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I was happy.
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I was happy that he said it.
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I was surprised, extremely surprised.
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And that is that after the
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success of what they saw at
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Mayhem and how they did it
20:47
in an affiliate,
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that they may move forward
20:49
to do more in large
20:50
affiliates to make that
20:52
connection between the
20:53
qualifying events and
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inside an affiliate.
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But he said it also gives
20:58
them the ability to maybe
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do a handful of age group
21:03
qualifying events in affiliates.
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so that they could do them in person,
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which I found that just
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seemed like a reach.
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They've been pushing the age
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groups kind of away to their own thing,
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and now to lump it back in
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with maybe we give them an
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in-person option to qualify
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for the age group masters
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or teen games through an
21:28
in-person option as opposed to online.
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I think that would be awesome.
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That has never been the case
21:34
in the time that the age
21:35
groups have been around.
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It's always been an online semifinal.
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But I think that would be
21:41
really cool if there was a
21:42
way to do that and maybe
21:44
team up with a Masters
21:47
Fitness Collective or an
21:50
affiliate that's really
21:51
strong in that age group
21:53
division to be able to do a
21:57
couple quick qualifying
21:58
events and give them a
21:59
competition to go to before the games.
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I think that would be really awesome.
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Um, Ken says, Scott,
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any thoughts on kale number
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five in the open and no videos,
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or did you cover that yesterday?
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I really declined to cover it yesterday.
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Um,
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I think that everything that's been
22:17
done and said,
22:18
there's no more to really add to that.
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Um,
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for years you have these
22:25
online warriors that are
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amazing when they do the
22:28
open online um and then
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they get to in-person
22:32
events and they they the
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bed um and there can be a
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couple reasons for that but
22:41
there that's always been
22:43
sus in the past right um
22:48
So it's not like Kale is the
22:50
first person that this has
22:52
happened to ever in CrossFit.
22:54
We have had people have top
22:56
ten finishes in the past,
22:57
get to regionals,
22:58
and end up in the first heat by Saturday.
23:03
You get to regionals and you
23:05
can't do a rope climb.
23:08
It's happened so many times in the past.
23:10
It's the danger of doing
23:11
online competition that you
23:14
can't be there to ensure
23:15
that everything is being
23:16
done in an up and in a fair
23:21
and equitable way.
23:26
Aaron asked,
23:27
did they pay top five in the open?
23:29
Did they pay with no video?
23:30
They did not pay top five this year.
23:32
They paid top three.
23:33
And I do believe the top
23:34
three did have to submit video for that.
23:39
Last year, they paid top five.
23:41
This year, they moved it to top three.
23:46
And so, yeah.
23:54
So that's my thoughts on it.
23:57
Maybe he's just better in
23:58
his own affiliate with his
23:59
own bars and his own setup.
24:01
Maybe he cheated.
24:04
I have no idea.
24:06
But I think the community
24:09
and the internet have said
24:11
enough about it that I have
24:13
nothing else to add to all that.
24:20
The other thing that Dave
24:21
said in his week in review
24:24
is on four twenty two,
24:26
April twenty second,
24:27
they will open up the
24:28
opportunities for
24:29
volunteers at the CrossFit Games.
24:31
So if you want to volunteer in in Albany,
24:36
it will open up on four twenty two.
24:38
I have volunteered with
24:40
CrossFit in the past.
24:41
done a ton of regionals, um,
24:44
done some security, done some judging.
24:47
I,
24:47
I actually volunteered for the games at
24:49
the games I worked, um,
24:51
back then in Madison, the outdoor park.
24:54
Um, and it was,
24:56
it's some of the most fun
24:58
you'll ever have.
24:58
You'll work your ass off.
25:00
Um, but you will, um,
25:02
but you'll meet some amazing people.
25:04
You get to hang out with those people.
25:06
Um,
25:06
and then at some point you get a front
25:08
row seat to the action.
25:10
It is,
25:11
One of the most rewarding
25:12
experiences I've ever had.
25:13
And if you want to volunteer,
25:14
make sure to look for that
25:17
on four twenty to the
25:19
portal open and you can
25:20
submit your application to
25:22
volunteer at the games and
25:24
you get a little bit of cool swag to.
25:29
Aaron says he needs to say something,
25:31
not hide, even if no video.
25:39
I don't necessarily believe that same way,
25:42
Aaron.
25:42
Like I believe that it's his
25:45
life and he can live it however he wants,
25:47
but there will always be
25:48
questions if he doesn't speak to it.
25:52
And if he's willing to live
25:53
with those questions, that's his choice.
25:56
But unless he says something
25:58
or unless he shows the videos,
26:00
there will always be the questions.
26:04
And then it's up to him if
26:06
that's the way he wants it to be or not.
26:12
so um Dave also announced
26:21
that he will be doing the
26:23
athlete interviews again this year
26:26
Um,
26:26
and some of them will be happening this
26:28
week.
26:29
So I'm assuming, uh,
26:30
he only knows four of the
26:32
athletes going to the games.
26:34
Um,
26:35
it's going to start with some of the
26:37
people that, that got their spot at, at,
26:40
uh, mayhem this weekend.
26:42
Um,
26:43
I was actually surprised that he's
26:45
coming back in one way and another way.
26:48
I was like,
26:48
that is quintessential Dave that, um,
26:52
when you, when you
26:55
when you think it might be
26:56
tough and he may not do it,
26:57
that's when he's going to die,
26:58
lean in more and do it even
27:01
better than he did before.
27:04
Um, so those should be coming this week.
27:07
He said, uh, and he, he,
27:11
there wasn't a lot of detail around this,
27:13
but you know,
27:14
it's been the elephant in the room that,
27:17
um,
27:17
fee signed the letter that asked for
27:19
Dave's dismissal.
27:21
Uh, she won mayhem.
27:23
She's qualified for the games and she,
27:27
Dave did say that him and
27:29
fee had a conversation at mayhem,
27:31
but did not really,
27:32
did not release any details
27:34
of that conversation, which is fine.
27:36
That whatever was said is between them.
27:39
Um,
27:41
But man,
27:42
to be a fly on the wall would be
27:44
crazy in that conversation.
27:47
And he actually said that
27:48
Fee approached him.
27:50
And if that's the case, kudos to her.
27:57
Yeah, I'm a big Fee fan.
28:00
She's an Ohio native.
28:03
I've known her for a long time.
28:06
I'm hoping to get her on the
28:08
show in the coming weeks.
28:09
I hate to say that because every time I do,
28:11
it seems to get harder to get them on.
28:13
But yeah.
28:18
Ken says, dude's a Navy SEAL.
28:20
He has balls of steel.
28:21
Nothing phases him.
28:23
I wouldn't say nothing phases him,
28:24
but he knows how to push
28:26
forward through adversity.
28:30
That's for sure.
28:33
Because if you saw him at
28:37
the games last year, it phased him.
28:40
That whole situation phased him in a way.
28:43
But he was able to push
28:44
forward through adversity.
28:46
And that's what he has.
28:48
And that's what Navy SEALs have, right?
28:52
They're able to look at that
28:53
adversity and find a way through.
29:01
Um,
29:02
the next thing I had on my list to talk
29:04
about was, uh,
29:06
we have did the NCAA tournament challenge,
29:09
um,
29:09
where we set up a group and people
29:11
could sign up, um, on the women's side,
29:14
Jamie Latimer won the
29:16
women's tournament bracket, uh,
29:18
with Clydesdale media.
29:20
Uh,
29:20
she actually had Yukon winning the
29:22
whole thing and that's what happened.
29:24
Um, Carolyn Prevo was second.
29:26
Uh,
29:26
so the ladies on my Sunday night show
29:29
pretty much dominated the
29:30
women's tournament bracket.
29:32
And on the men's side, Brett Owsley,
29:37
who was a CrossFit games
29:38
athlete last year in the, I think,
29:41
forty to forty four year old division, um,
29:44
at the CrossFit games.
29:46
Uh, he won the men's side of the bracket.
29:49
Um, he had Houston winning it all.
29:52
Um,
29:54
He had Houston winning it all,
29:56
but had a big enough lead
29:57
that I actually took second.
29:59
I had Florida winning it all,
30:01
which I did pick correctly,
30:03
but I missed too much early on.
30:06
And he actually won by a
30:07
hundred points because he
30:09
was killing it early on.
30:12
So I will get a prize pack
30:15
out to Brett for winning.
30:18
um that tournament challenge
30:19
but I did take second and
30:21
at least I beat my co-host
30:22
in something for a change
30:24
um so I took second place
30:27
in that and I will take
30:29
that as a win but brett is
30:31
awesome uh if you've never
30:33
met him he's just like
30:35
the nicest guy uh he was in
30:37
our behind the scenes at
30:38
the cross at the masters
30:40
crossfit games last year
30:41
and he's the one that
30:42
talked about like here he
30:44
is in the top ten at the
30:45
crossfit games uh but when
30:48
monday comes his his boss
30:50
is still gonna want the
30:50
emails answered and uh him
30:53
to get back to work and he
30:55
really had a cool
30:55
perspective about the whole
30:57
thing uh the other thing
31:00
that I love about him is
31:01
he's a Chicago bears fan.
31:03
Uh, and we actually, uh,
31:05
texted a little bit back and forth during,
31:07
uh, the bear season last year and, um,
31:10
shared in the misery of what that was,
31:13
but I will get a prize back out to Brett,
31:16
uh, in the next couple of days.
31:18
Um, so yeah,
31:22
Jose coming in with the bears.
31:24
Oh man.
31:27
They had their first
31:29
off-season meeting this week.
31:32
Yesterday, it opened up.
31:34
Ben Johnson was allowed to
31:35
meet with the players.
31:36
They cannot practice.
31:38
It's just some meeting stuff
31:40
that they're allowed to do at this point.
31:42
But because they have hired a new coach,
31:44
they're allowed to meet a
31:45
little earlier in the
31:46
season than what is normal.
31:48
But it is all meetings, no practice.
31:51
uh but just going over some
31:52
stuff uh at hallis hall and
31:55
I'm super super stoked uh
31:59
that football season never
32:01
dies because I live and die
32:02
by the bears and cannot
32:04
wait uh for that um if you
32:08
have not seen it data wad
32:10
our stats and information
32:11
person put out a survey on her um
32:16
put out a survey on her
32:17
story on Instagram where
32:20
she was asking semifinal
32:23
athletes in the Masters Division,
32:26
if you qualified and didn't
32:28
sign up to move on,
32:30
what was your reasoning behind that?
32:33
I don't know if you've seen this.
32:34
It's been reported pretty widely that
32:37
The amount of people who
32:38
qualified for the
32:39
semifinals and the amount
32:41
that actually signed up and
32:42
did it was a much lower percentage,
32:45
probably about two thirds
32:46
of the amount who qualified
32:48
signed up in the Masters divisions.
32:51
And what she's trying to find out is,
32:53
was the reason they did
32:54
that because of the two
32:56
judge requirement or was it
32:59
another reason?
33:02
I know a lot of people
33:03
struggled to get the two
33:04
judges that were qualified
33:05
to be able to watch them
33:08
during their workouts over
33:09
the semifinal weekend.
33:11
And so she's trying to put
33:12
together a study to figure out why.
33:18
they didn't sign up.
33:20
Was it the cost?
33:21
Was it the judges?
33:23
Was it something else?
33:25
And hopefully she has some
33:26
interesting results with
33:27
that in the next few days.
33:31
I love that she has this
33:33
inquisitive mind that she
33:35
just dives into these
33:36
things and then we get
33:37
these really cool numbers.
33:39
Um, on the backend.
33:40
So if you are a semifinal
33:42
athlete and you did not sign up and there,
33:44
and you have a reason,
33:45
please go over to her
33:47
Instagram and fill out the, the little,
33:51
I don't even know.
33:52
So the little box on her story,
33:55
I just showed my fifty five
33:56
year old age on that.
33:58
But it's in the inner stories.
34:00
There's the explanation for it.
34:01
And then the little white box, yes or no.
34:04
Was it because of the judges?
34:05
And then it actually is an
34:06
open text box for you to
34:07
say some other things.
34:10
Corey just backs this up by
34:12
there are two hundred sixty
34:13
four people in his age
34:14
group that qualified.
34:15
Only one hundred and fifty
34:16
three of them signed up.
34:19
Yeah.
34:20
And the other thing that
34:22
I've thought about is, you know,
34:24
the open was.
34:28
was not too skill heavy that
34:32
made it too hard.
34:35
And I'm wondering if when
34:36
you get to the semifinal level,
34:38
if people thought that the
34:40
movements would just be out of their...
34:43
of their breadth of
34:44
possibility right because
34:46
once you get to semifinals
34:47
there is no scale it is all
34:49
or nothing um so there's
34:52
that there's the judges
34:53
aspect there's it's a it's
34:55
a hundred dollar fee I
34:56
think to to move on um so
34:59
it could be any of those
35:00
things that um prevented
35:02
people from moving on um
35:04
into semifinals but I I
35:06
can't wait to see what she
35:07
comes up with in this
35:08
little study she's doing
35:12
And I'm going to leave you guys with this,
35:14
Catching Feelings, Kat's new show,
35:17
kind of going along her
35:18
journey of dating life.
35:23
The first episode has blown up.
35:24
She is killing it on that show.
35:28
One episode in.
35:29
The new episode will air
35:30
tomorrow live at five p.m.
35:33
Eastern time.
35:34
So Wednesday, five p.m.
35:36
Eastern time on the
35:38
Clydesdale Media YouTube channel.
35:40
When this one,
35:41
she's going to actually talk
35:42
about six first dates she's had.
35:45
And then she's going to talk about.
35:47
The text messages back and
35:49
forth between the people
35:51
that she has gone out with.
35:56
And gosh,
35:57
she is so transparent and so
36:00
willing to share everything
36:02
that if you did not see the first one,
36:04
Shay hits it on the head.
36:06
Her first show was so eye-opening.
36:09
Um, I was, I've heard her tell the stories,
36:14
but she actually had visual
36:15
visuals to go with it, um,
36:17
on that first episode.
36:19
And my jaw was on the floor, um,
36:22
of what the internet is
36:24
like right now in the dating world.
36:27
I am so happy.
36:27
I've been with my wife for
36:29
thirty plus years, um, married for,
36:32
we're going to hit twenty
36:33
eight here in a month.
36:35
Um.
36:38
But it is a great show.
36:41
She is just because of the
36:45
way that she is open with her life.
36:48
She's not afraid to talk about anything.
36:50
So make sure you go check that out.
36:53
Shay said, yeah, it was.
36:56
Yeah.
36:58
Jose says, I am done with dating apps.
37:01
It's horrid.
37:04
I can't even imagine.
37:06
When I was dating and when I found my wife,
37:09
there were no dating apps.
37:11
We were just... We met... I
37:15
was a cook and a bartender
37:17
at this restaurant bar and...
37:22
We met because she came to
37:24
the bar after her shifts as
37:25
a waitress and she came to
37:27
eat spaghetti when I was a
37:29
short order cook in this diner.
37:31
And so with that, that's how we met.
37:34
That's how we grew.
37:36
That's how we became who we are.
37:38
I can't even imagine hopping
37:40
into these dating apps and stuff.
37:42
It is crazy.
37:46
ken says I would have zero
37:47
idea how to date now if god
37:50
forbid I lost my wife after
37:51
forty years I'm with you
37:52
buddy I think I would just
37:55
ride it out man um sarabeth
38:02
jumper just joined but
38:03
having to have two judges
38:05
was crazy especially
38:06
considering all the videos
38:07
are live on youtube for judging
38:11
Also,
38:11
I was only one of my affiliate and
38:14
having to have my affiliate
38:16
owner and judge there,
38:18
all the workouts was super inconvenient.
38:24
I've said it a million times.
38:26
I said it a bunch on Sunday
38:27
night on our Sunday night
38:28
show with Caroline and
38:29
Jamie that I think the
38:30
pendulum has swung way too
38:32
far to the other side.
38:34
I think by putting the
38:35
videos out and making them
38:36
public was the one step
38:38
they needed to kind of
38:39
clean up some stuff so that
38:42
people wouldn't try to
38:43
cheat the system and people
38:45
would have to show their
38:47
stuff to the world.
38:48
I think that was enough.
38:50
Adding this extra judge made
38:52
no sense at all,
38:53
especially for a small affiliate.
38:57
Small affiliate.
38:57
It's just stupid.
39:05
If you are Mayhem or
39:06
Invictus or one of those
39:07
big entities and you're
39:10
running heats of five or six, okay,
39:15
having a head judge kind of makes sense.
39:17
You have five or six judges out there,
39:19
one kind of organizing it
39:21
and making sure they're all
39:22
doing the right thing.
39:24
That makes sense.
39:25
But for the smaller
39:27
affiliates that have fifty
39:28
members or thirty members,
39:31
it's just insane.
39:32
They can't pull that off.
39:39
And Corey will be here tomorrow.
39:41
We cook up Cajun every
39:42
Wednesday with Corey.
39:44
And we can a hundred percent
39:45
talk about this tomorrow.
39:47
I'm sure we will.
39:51
And Sarah jumps back in.
39:53
Yes, public videos was great,
39:54
but all the other antics, not great.
39:58
And I've been around from the beginning,
40:00
and I've had to have videos
40:02
validated every year.
40:04
There you go.
40:07
I have been around the
40:08
CrossFit space since two
40:09
thousand eleven as well,
40:10
but I missed that first open.
40:12
I actually started November
40:14
of two thousand eleven.
40:15
But yeah.
40:21
So, Sarah Beth,
40:24
make sure you go to
40:25
DataWad's story and fill in
40:27
that stuff so we can
40:29
capture that in the study
40:30
she's doing so that we can
40:33
get some numbers to post
40:35
and talk about on the show.
40:38
I think that would be
40:40
awesome to have your input in on that.
40:45
And Corey,
40:46
I knew this from a text this weekend,
40:48
but he lost his head judge
40:50
Sunday because he had a
40:51
wedding to attend.
40:52
Not mad at him, not his fault,
40:53
but it cost me a chance to do a retest.
40:57
Yep.
41:00
All right, guys.
41:01
Lunchtime is just about over.
41:05
Don't forget,
41:05
I'll be here tomorrow with
41:06
Corey at twelve fifteen,
41:09
cooking it up Cajun on a
41:10
Wednesday with Corey.
41:12
We've got cat show tomorrow at five p.m.
41:15
Eastern Time talking about dating life.
41:20
And then we'll be back at it, guys.
41:24
You hooligans get back to work.
41:25
We'll see everybody else
41:27
next time on Lunch with the Clydesdale.
41:30
Bye, guys.