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Lunch with the Clydesdale - What did the Athlete Council Have to Say · Clydesdale Media Podcast

0:30
What is going on, everybody?
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Welcome to Lunch with the Clydesdale.
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My name is Scott.
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I'm the Clydesdale.
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I'm here.
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Here for it all.
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Lunch and all.
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Yeah, I need lunch today.
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We have a new testing launching today.
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I'm not the lead on it, thank God.
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But our testing system has
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been down all morning.
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So trying to test,
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and you can't even get into the system.
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It's just been one of those work days.
1:02
So, yeah, crazy, crazy stuff.
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But with that...
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It's lunch and we're back.
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Sorry I missed yesterday.
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Just after the big show on Sunday night.
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It's really hard to come up
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with content on a Monday,
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but we'll try to figure that out.
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I need to get a better pacing there.
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But we should be with you all week.
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I think I am clear for the
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rest of the week.
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What's up, Jody?
1:31
What is up, Corey?
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Jody isn't even taking a lunch break.
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She's measuring a kitchen
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right now to do some design work,
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I'm assuming.
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So I hope she has luck there.
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Corey's always here for lunch.
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We love Corey.
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So with that, awesome.
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Came into StreamYard today,
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found something new.
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Really, yeah, Sherry has advice for Jody.
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Measure twice, cut once.
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Yeah, I always got that in reverse.
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I'd always measure once, cut twice.
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Call it my construction dyslexia.
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But anyway, with that,
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came into StreamYard today.
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one of the most difficult
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things to do in stream yard
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to share with you guys is
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to share a picture.
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And, um, you're,
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you're able to share like
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internet websites.
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You're able to share a windows,
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different things like that.
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But to actually share a
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picture has been almost impossible.
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And, uh, they finally added it to, uh, the,
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the package.
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So now I can share, um, what,
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I can actually share an image file,
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which is awesome.
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And now I can't get my mouse to work.
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There we go.
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So this is a shot that our guy, eCaptures,
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took at TFX.
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So I'll just share that.
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And now, boom.
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I can actually share an
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image file to the screen
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and it's full HD quality,
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which is pretty awesome.
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And that is something we've
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been trying to do forever.
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So now we can screenshot things,
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put make them in an image
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file and share them to the
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screen to share with you
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guys what's going on.
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But I just learned this like
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literally five minutes ago.
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but really a cool feature
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now that we have to be able to do that.
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So not that you guys totally care,
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but showing you a little
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bit behind the scenes as to
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what we can do now.
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So really want to talk about
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a couple things going on in the space.
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You know, Corey, never stop learning.
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Yep.
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I'm telling you what doing
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this podcast I've learned
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so much uh at uh at a later
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age in trying to figure all
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this stuff out uh than I
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ever thought I would um but
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man it's been fun it's been
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really fun uh ken is
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finally starting to get
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used to eating lunch on
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easter time nice nice um
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So with that, it was released today.
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The Barbell Spin reported
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that the CrossFit Athlete
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Council or the CAC has
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released their first document.
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They surveyed, I think,
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a few hundred athletes or
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they got a few hundred responses in.
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several hundred responses to
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the survey of athletes and
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felt confident enough in
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their engagement to take
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these issues to CrossFit leadership.
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And then they actually
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responded back to everyone
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who took the survey.
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These are the things we took to CrossFit.
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These are the things we didn't.
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And this is the reason why.
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And so in their statement,
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they say that the new CrossFit,
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they talk about the new
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CrossFit transgender
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athlete policy and that
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they did not take that to
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CrossFit as they felt that
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it actually makes things fair.
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Yeah.
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Then they also made a
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statement about firing Dave Castro,
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saying they did not
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recommend that and take it
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to CrossFit leadership as
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they felt that they needed
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to commit to working
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alongside Dave and the
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games team to serve as a
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conduit for effective and
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timely communication
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between the community and
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the athletes and HQ.
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And they will not shy away
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from valid criticisms,
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constructive feedback,
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or difficult conversations,
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and will remain transparent
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about outcomes or lack
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thereof moving forward.
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But they did say that we
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firmly believe that Dave is
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the right person for the job.
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We are committed to
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collaborating with him to
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restore trust in the sports
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arm of CrossFit and the
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broader CrossFit community.
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They also talked about the
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third party investigation
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of Lazar Jukic and how they
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did take this to CrossFit HQ.
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But CrossFit HQ did cite
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legal and privacy
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considerations as to why it
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could not be released and
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that they promised
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conditions of anonymity to
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people who testified or
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gave statements to that report.
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and therefore they could not
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release the report.
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They also made a statement
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on the athletes protesting
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the game season and really
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just said that it's their
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goal to take feedback and
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solutions to problems they
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face so they continue to
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work together and bring the
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community back together in
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order to get back to doing
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what we love together.
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They also made a statement
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on the community desiring
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more forward-facing leadership from HQ.
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We have discussed with HQ
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community's desire for
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forward-facing leadership
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and transparency.
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The formation of the CAC is
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a direct effort to become
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more transparent to offer a
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channel for direct feedback to HQ.
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We hope that the community
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and athletes will utilize
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CAC in this capacity to
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continue the drive to positive change.
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They also released a
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statement on the
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community's desire to fix
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inconsistency in season format.
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And they communicated the
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need to adhere to a
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particular season structure
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for three to five seasons
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before proposing changes.
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The feedback was received by HQ,
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but no further discussion
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or commitments to this
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feedback were made at the time.
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There was also some stuff
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about the Community Cup.
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which I think are a little bit premature.
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They also addressed the
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request for a list of equipment,
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movements,
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and standards required for each
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stage of the competition.
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And they did take that to CrossFit HQ.
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HQ said that they will not
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be doing that for the
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twenty twenty five season,
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but they are open to
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discuss competition
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documents with the CAC as
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the twenty twenty six
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season plans are made.
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Yeah.
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then hq statement on
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requests for detailed and
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shared plans for emergency
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situations on all events
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including those offset
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off-site and they promised
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in our safety and
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procedural changes update
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crossfit is committed to
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ensuring athletes have a
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clear understanding of
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emergency resources and
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protocols at the games
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currently the new crossfit
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game safety advisory board
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is reviewing safety
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documents including games
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emergency action plans
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Um,
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HQ looks forward to working with the
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CAC to determine the best
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way to ensure participating
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athletes have visibility
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into safety procedures.
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This will include,
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but may not be limited to
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enhanced pre event briefing
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for athletes and written materials.
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So that was pretty much what
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they addressed and what
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they took to HQ and what
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they didn't and the reasons
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why they didn't,
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if they did not take them there.
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In addition to that,
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Dave had his weekly Dave
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Week in Review yesterday,
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and he talked about how
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much the Athlete Council
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has done in their short
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time on that board.
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He also addressed that
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someone asked the question,
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could Saxon Panchuk be on
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this and work for the WFP,
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which has been a mass piece of confusion.
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Saxon is not on the athlete council.
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Spencer Pancheck is on the
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athlete council.
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Saxon is working for the WFP
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as community development director.
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Um,
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But Dave said even if he was
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working for the WFP,
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there is nothing that
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precludes him from being a
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member of the CrossFit Athlete Council.
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He said, in fact,
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anybody from the WFP or the
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PFAA could run for that
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Athlete Council position
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and work with CrossFit in this way.
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It is an independent group
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that is... People put...
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themselves up for nomination
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or for vote and it is voted
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on by the athletes.
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CrossFit does not pick them.
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It is all picked by the
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athletes and then CrossFit
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just works with them.
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So it is kind of an
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independent third party
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group that works directly
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with CrossFit to be a
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conduit for the community
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and to bring issues to
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CrossFit and then
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communicate that information back.
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I will say this is, I think,
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the third one that they have formed.
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The previous two have failed miserably.
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It is pretty damn obvious
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that this one is actually
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putting some work in.
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They've only been around for a few months.
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They've already given more
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transparency and openness
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and done more than the
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other two combined in a few months.
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So...
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Uh,
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I am cautiously optimistic that this is
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heading in the right
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direction and that there is, uh,
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a potential for this to
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work out well for both CrossFit,
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the community and the athletes.
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Um, so yeah, I'm pretty impressed by the,
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uh,
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the written document that
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was sent out that that has
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never happened in the past
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so um by all accounts
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things are going well with
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the cac uh corey says uh
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spin the repeat workout
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will be from twenty to twenty four that
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Unless that was something
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put out by CrossFit.
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That's the stuff that kind
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of worries me is all the
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leaks and all the... I don't know.
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I did not see the report by Spin.
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So...
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Let me go to Instagram and
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see if Dave did say in his
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weekend review he was going
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to release a hint about something.
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So just to make sure that
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I'm not talking out of turn.
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Let me see what Dave put out today.
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Okay.
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I don't see anything in his posts and, um,
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uh, he has a lot of stories out there.
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He is sharing so much stuff, uh,
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from people who have tagged him,
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which I think is, is actually a new, uh,
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and, uh,
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really new thing that he's doing
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that I really, really like.
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um I think it was during the
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affiliate meeting okay I
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get so that's kind of
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getting into one of my um
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soap boxes that when you're
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releasing information from
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all different avenues in
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all different places it's
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very very hard uh for
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people to follow the sport
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If it was done in a press release,
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that makes much more sense.
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I actually have the post up now.
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Thank you for texting me that, Corey.
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But I actually have it up here.
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I will show it.
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Oh, wrong one.
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Let me do this again.
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Here we go.
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barbell spin uh the open
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repeat workout will be from
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twenty to twenty four not
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an earlier year per dave
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castro so um uh announced
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on the affiliate town hall
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call this morning that um
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the repeat workout will
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come from the years between
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twenty to twenty four post
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your guesses below what do
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we got for guesses
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Twenty four point one.
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Proud of that mushroom thing.
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Twenty three point two
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shuttle runs and burpee pull ups.
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There's people looking at
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cap to try to figure this out.
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Twenty point one, I threw up,
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it was awesome.
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Twenty one point one.
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People are saying if you see
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cap their dubs row wall
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balls and a lot of
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gymnastics near plus or minus two days,
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that should reduce the
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possibilities even more.
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I say burpees and dumbbell barbell.
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A lot of twenty point ones.
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I have a hard time
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remembering just by number what they are.
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So was twenty point one the
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snatch burpee over barbell?
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I don't know.
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Again, I can't.
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have a hard time there are a
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couple that like are
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stamped in my brain forever
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uh but I've been doing the
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open since um so it's been
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uh it's yeah they all kind
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of blur together twenty one
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is wall walk double under I
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am really over the wall walk thing
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Yeah.
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Now this one I thought was really good.
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It was hard.
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It sucked for a Clydesdale.
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It was not the best workout ever.
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The ground overhead and bar facing burpee.
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Cause I,
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I whipped through the snatches
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every time and then I'm
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right back to doing more freaking burpees,
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which is just not great for me.
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But I know that Carolyn and
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jamie have been around
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twenty point one and twenty
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point five I believe is
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what they had said uh so
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it'll be interesting uh
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we'll find out in just a
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few few short days on
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thursday afternoon here on the east coast
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three o'clock Eastern noon Pacific.
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That'll be awesome.
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I really like the one where
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you got to pick your own adventure.
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I know that,
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that like some classic
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CrossFitters are not fans of that.
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Pick your own adventure, but yeah,
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I really, really enjoyed that.
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And I, I liked the strategy behind it.
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Like if you don't really have muscle ups,
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do you give it a shot at
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first when you have all the
19:27
energy in the world and
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then move on to the other stuff?
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Or do you sprint the other
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stuff to get the fastest
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time with that stuff and
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then try to hit your muscle up?
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Um, it was fun watching people in the gym,
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try that different ways and see which,
19:43
which worked best for them.
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So on another note,
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that was twenty point five,
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forty ring muscle ups, eighty calorie row,
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one hundred and twenty wall balls.
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Yeah.
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Yeah,
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which is really similar to my first
20:05
ever open workout was.
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Thirteen point one.
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which was the hundred and fifty wall ball,
20:19
ninety double unders and
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then into I think it was
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twenty ring muscle ups,
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which I was so new to CrossFit.
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I wasn't getting to the ring
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muscle ups anyway.
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I didn't really have my
20:31
double unders at that point.
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Plus doing Karen and then
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trying to jump immediately
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after was crazy.
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so yeah it was it was that
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was some of the most fun
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that was the first year my
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gym ever did the open and
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there were four of us uh
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four of us who signed up
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and we we were in the
20:59
process of getting
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affiliated but hadn't been
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affiliated yet so we had to
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videotape everything and
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submit it and uh I was the
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least fit of my friends uh
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at the time and so it
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was really scared doing it
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but I I signed up and I had
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the best time of my life um
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just facing karen into
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anything else after that
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like I don't know if we'd
21:29
ever done that in a workout
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at my gym before that it
21:33
was it was kind of
21:34
life-changing and then as
21:36
we moved on as a gym and
21:37
developed as a gym then we
21:39
started doing like grace
21:41
into some other stuff or
21:45
know you would mix some of
21:46
those named workouts in the
21:48
middle of a workout and
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that became not commonplace
21:52
but more common um so but
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it was it was so much fun
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and the crazy stuff is you
22:00
can still see some of those
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workouts out on youtube uh
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because we had to put those
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out so early uh um yeah
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Uh,
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D Reed says I'm always the least fit of
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my friends.
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I've seen you D Reed.
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You are not.
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Um, you look like captain America.
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Uh,
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I think for the ring muscle ups is too
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aggressive for the new
22:31
inclusive CrossFit.
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It may be, if you even get to that, um,
22:35
like newer athletes can do
22:36
the row and they can do the
22:38
wall balls and that will
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take up their time.
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Um, and that's,
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what's cool about that workout.
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The first workout I did get
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to do a hundred and fifty
22:49
wall balls and ninety
22:50
double winners before we
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even got to the ring muscle ups.
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And if you were new to CrossFit,
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you were never getting there.
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You were never getting there.
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I think the cap on that was like twelve,
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twelve minutes.
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Um, twelve or fifteen.
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It was,
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it was aggressive for a newer
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CrossFitter.
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Um,
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so uh jody says whoa that's
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old school scott uh yeah I
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am old school I I started
23:18
crossfit in um started at
23:25
plus pounds and uh changed
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my life completely uh if it
23:30
wasn't for crossfit I
23:31
probably would not be
23:32
around today uh that is for damn sure
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Doug Reed is the fittest Reed.
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But yeah, excited about this weekend.
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So I had this thought
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because I am a sports fan
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of other kinds and I just
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wanted to throw this out to
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you guys and see what your thoughts were.
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But this week is the NFL Combine.
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How cool would it be to make
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a streamed event or
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something like that,
24:11
or a piece of content where
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you had elite CrossFitters
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do the skills and agility
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part of the NFL combine and
24:22
just see how they matched
24:24
up with these NFL,
24:27
these prospective NFL athletes, right.
24:31
Just to kind of compare and
24:32
contrast how fast are their forties,
24:36
how fast can they do the shuttle run?
24:38
What is their vertical?
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Um,
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what,
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what is their max bench of two
24:46
hundred twenty five pounds?
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I think that some of the
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elite CrossFitters could
24:51
compete in different
24:53
aspects of those elements
24:56
with these prospective NFL athletes.
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I think it'd be cool to just
25:02
have like a list of five of
25:03
them and and watch elite
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CrossFitters try them and
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and then register their
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marks and then do like a
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compare contrast because all of the,
25:16
all of the numbers from the
25:17
NFL prospects are public.
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So you could pull those up
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and you compare what, um,
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Justin Madaris did in the
25:28
vertical compared to a Travis Hunter,
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right.
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Or, or vice or other people, um,
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just throwing that name out there.
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Uh,
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I think it would be like a
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really cool made for TV
25:44
event just to promote what
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CrossFit can do for people.
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What the tip of the spear is
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with the tip of the spear
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of another sport, right?
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but more in crossfit's
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wheelhouse uh because
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you're doing more fitness
26:03
and agility um now it it's
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trained differently right
26:07
so I'm sure that those
26:09
athletes and their freak
26:10
athletes too uh would would
26:13
put up numbers that some of
26:14
the crossfitters wouldn't
26:15
touch but I think it'd just
26:17
be interesting to kind of
26:18
see and I think it would
26:19
make for some really really
26:21
good content um
26:25
The only drawback to it all
26:27
is that the Open and the
26:30
NFL Combine are pretty
26:31
close to the same week,
26:33
if not the same week.
26:35
NFL Combine starts today, tomorrow,
26:37
and the Open starts Thursday.
26:39
So if you are training for
26:41
the Open and you need to push in the Open,
26:44
you probably don't want to
26:45
go do the NFL Combine numbers either.
26:49
but you could hold it or do
26:51
it in the off season.
26:52
And then when they're
26:53
posting their numbers,
26:54
do the compare and contrast
26:57
wouldn't have to be done at
26:58
the same time.
26:59
But I think that would be pretty,
27:02
a pretty cool concept.
27:11
That is very specific.
27:12
D read.
27:14
I would like to see two K row,
27:15
then max chest to bar.
27:18
Very, very, very, very, very specific.
27:27
I don't mind the two K row.
27:29
I don't want to see the max chest to bar.
27:32
No way, no how.
27:40
I would like a two K row and a max bench.
27:45
I'll take that.
27:47
That's Clydesdale wheelhouse right there.
27:51
Or two K row and max squat.
27:55
I can do that too.
27:57
So, yeah.
28:04
So just throw in your
28:05
thoughts about how would
28:08
the elite CrossFitters do
28:10
in the skills and agility
28:11
of the NFL Combine compared
28:13
to the NFL prospects.
28:25
And I don't even know what
28:26
position would be the best...
28:30
kind of compare you'd have
28:31
to probably switch
28:32
positions because like
28:33
there's no way that any
28:36
elite crossfitters going to
28:37
keep up with the speed of a
28:39
high-end defensive back or
28:42
high-end wide receiver um
28:45
but probably a linebacker
28:47
um I think and um so yeah
28:59
Yeah,
28:59
and I think we would have outliers
29:01
just like the NFL.
29:02
Guy would be an interesting
29:03
on the max jump.
29:04
So I think they do a broad jump,
29:06
like standing broad jump.
29:07
They do a standing vertical.
29:09
Guy would kill those.
29:15
Yeah,
29:15
it'd be just really interesting to
29:19
see how he would stack up.
29:25
I do think like crossfit has
29:26
outliers in certain events
29:28
uh that would do really
29:28
well um and actually guy
29:32
would probably do well
29:33
overall because his
29:36
weakness is endurance and
29:38
most of the nfl stuff is
29:40
short power sprint which is
29:44
right up his alley
29:50
linebackers are running
29:51
backs yeah I was thinking
29:52
kind of the same thing
29:56
Now, lifting numbers,
29:58
that would be interesting
30:00
because some of those
30:01
linebackers and running
30:03
backs can lift like nobody's business.
30:06
But a max-to-twenty-five bench,
30:10
there's some other stuff
30:10
like that that might
30:12
correlate pretty well.
30:14
Andrew Sten says tight end.
30:16
That's probably a good one, too.
30:19
For sure.
30:24
But yeah,
30:24
I think that'd be a great piece
30:26
of content if you could pull it off,
30:28
for sure.
30:32
Last thing I'm going to talk
30:35
about is some TV that's
30:37
going on this week.
30:39
And if you've been following this podcast,
30:44
James Townsend would
30:45
probably do better now in
30:47
Combine than he did in college.
30:49
Once he gets the quad tear mended, sure.
30:54
James is just a dude, man.
30:56
That guy,
30:57
if you've ever met him in person
31:00
is just jack stacked, man.
31:04
I love that guy.
31:04
Love that guy.
31:08
Um, if you've ever,
31:11
if you've been watching this,
31:12
this program at all,
31:14
like some of our shows, you know,
31:16
that Jamie and I are
31:18
diehard reacher addicts.
31:22
Um,
31:25
and uh reacher came back
31:26
this week season three
31:28
released three episodes
31:30
this week um I talked to
31:33
jamie yesterday and she
31:37
actually after our show
31:39
sunday night watched all
31:40
three episodes and got to
31:43
bed at like two thirty in
31:44
the morning I I couldn't go
31:48
all in on that and and do a
31:49
work day uh but watched
31:51
episode one last night
31:54
Starts off with a bang,
31:55
really kind of an interesting start.
32:00
And then comes back around a
32:04
lot more familiar Reacher stuff.
32:06
So I'm excited to get into this season.
32:10
But I can't wait to talk
32:11
about that with Jamie.
32:13
I know that's when Carolyn
32:15
tunes out when we're on the
32:16
Sunday night show.
32:17
But man, we love, love Reacher.
32:21
And so glad it's back this week.
32:25
Shiz Graphics says,
32:27
Hopper should do all right
32:28
since he played at Clemson.
32:32
I think you have to define played.
32:35
He was on the team.
32:38
I don't think he played much.
32:43
But he's a great athlete.
32:46
His performance on Kill
32:47
Taylor this week was
32:50
freaking out of this world.
32:52
The numbers he was holding
32:53
on that bike was insane.
32:56
Insane.
32:59
And the fact he just quit
33:00
ten seconds or twenty
33:02
seconds early and said,
33:08
I need to get to some other stuff,
33:09
so I'm just going to quit now.
33:11
Man, what a taunt.
33:17
Hiller should do a natty or
33:18
not on Reacher.
33:21
I think it's come out that
33:22
he has definitely dabbled.
33:32
Corey said,
33:32
I had a new kid at the gym tell
33:34
me I was jacked last night.
33:35
Kid needs to get out more.
33:40
You're jacked, dude.
33:43
you've worked hard and it,
33:45
and it is definitely apparent.
33:47
Uh, she says one catch.
33:49
Yeah, exactly.
33:53
D read.
33:55
He, he like he had one catch.
33:59
Um, and I,
34:00
and I actually talked to him
34:01
about this a little bit
34:03
when I first met him in, uh,
34:08
he had the body type of like a tight end,
34:11
uh,
34:13
but the skillset of a wide receiver.
34:16
And so he didn't really fit in in any way.
34:20
And it just kind of,
34:24
I think that was more it.
34:25
He just didn't,
34:27
his body type and his
34:28
skillset didn't make sense.
34:31
And it was hard to find the
34:32
right spot for him in a
34:34
standard offense in college.
34:38
I don't want to like dismiss
34:40
what he was and you're
34:41
right you make the clemson
34:42
football team period you're
34:44
no slouch um but I think
34:47
that's what it ended up
34:48
being is he just he wasn't
34:51
really fast enough to be a
34:53
pure wide receiver he had
34:56
the body type of a tight
34:58
end but didn't have the
34:59
skill set for that um
35:03
And so I think he was more
35:05
of that like Cooper cup ish
35:07
type of a receiver,
35:09
not necessarily the speed guy,
35:11
but like a possession receiver.
35:13
And they just don't use a
35:14
lot of that in college.
35:19
Um,
35:20
of course there's a reach or books are
35:21
absolutely outstanding.
35:23
Yeah.
35:23
I have not read, um, books in a while.
35:27
Um,
35:31
So I don't know.
35:33
Um, once I got my graduate degree,
35:35
I swore I was never going to read again.
35:37
Now I have picked up a few
35:39
books here and there,
35:40
but I used to read all the time.
35:41
And now I just, I just can't, uh,
35:52
Corey says Hopper left the
35:53
scene of a murder after KT
35:55
stopped with a ridiculous
35:56
amount of time left.
35:57
It was, it was freaking phenomenal.
36:01
And if you have not watched the Sprague,
36:04
episode of,
36:05
I think they're calling it now
36:07
boys interrupted,
36:08
which is Hopper and Madaris and Hopper.
36:11
Um, it is a classic episode this week.
36:16
So good.
36:17
So good.
36:18
Um, the trash talking, um,
36:20
they play a game at the end.
36:22
I was literally like peeing my pants.
36:24
It was so funny.
36:26
Um, uh,
36:35
Here lately,
36:35
tight ends are absolutely
36:36
lethal in the right system.
36:38
I do not disagree.
36:39
Being a Penn State fan,
36:42
Tyler Warren was our only
36:44
weapon on offense other
36:46
than the running backs.
36:48
So, yeah, lethal.
36:50
He was lethal.
36:53
There are certainly levels
36:54
to D-I and levels within
36:56
the Power Five schools.
36:57
Starters at Power Five are
36:58
different regardless of the sport.
37:01
Yeah, you're right.
37:03
but I,
37:03
but I really do like Hopper has
37:06
athleticism and he has
37:07
shown it like at places
37:08
like rogue where they test
37:10
athletic athleticism a little bit more.
37:12
Um, and so again,
37:19
after discussing it with him,
37:20
like he knows,
37:21
he knows why he didn't play and, and he,
37:24
he kind of explained it all to me and it,
37:27
It is what it is.
37:29
You just hit that point in your life where,
37:32
yep, I was good,
37:33
and now I'm the little fish
37:37
in the big pond instead of
37:38
the big fish in the little pond,
37:40
and there you are.
37:45
Taylor is a major disadvantage on kill.
37:48
He has to defend against everyone.
37:51
I completely agree.
37:53
The only advantage Taylor
37:55
has is he gets to create
37:56
the workout every week.
37:58
But he's doing it every week.
38:02
Every week.
38:03
And now...
38:05
so when it first started out,
38:06
it was a lot of like Matthews and, uh,
38:10
J our very own Jamie Latimer jumped on,
38:13
um, people like that.
38:15
Now you're getting Sprague
38:17
and Mertens and Hopper and
38:19
yellow host to coming in.
38:21
Like not only is he defending every week,
38:23
he's defending every week
38:25
against the best of the best.
38:27
And if he,
38:30
messes up the programming at
38:32
all and feeds one of their wheelhouses,
38:34
they're coming for him.
38:38
So, uh, he is at a distinct disadvantage,
38:42
uh, every single week.
38:44
Um,
38:45
the fact that he can go on runs for
38:47
four or five weeks is to me
38:52
pretty damn amazing.
38:55
The fact that that money
38:56
ever gets to like three grand or
39:01
mind-blowing to me.
39:03
Because he has to go on a run to do that.
39:07
And the more he goes on that run,
39:08
then the more people are
39:09
interested to try to win the money,
39:11
and then he's at an even
39:13
more disadvantage.
39:14
So, yeah.
39:22
Definitely a great concept
39:23
that they came up with there.
39:26
But...
39:27
what he's been doing it for
39:29
almost a year now.
39:31
I'm taking on all comers
39:33
every single week.
39:35
Crazy.
39:40
Just crazy.
39:42
So, well guys,
39:45
it is just about over here
39:47
for me at lunchtime.
39:49
Got to get back to work.
39:50
So all you hooligans get back to work.
39:54
We are done here.
39:56
We'll see you tomorrow on
39:58
Lunch with the Clydesdale.
39:59
Bye, guys.