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Clydesdale Media Roundtable - Legends is in the Books! What are our thoughts? · Clydesdale Media Podcast

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  Well, my monitor came unplugged just before we went on the show and I just plugged it in backwards.
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  So we're off to a great start.
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  And I'm like a robot.
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  So we're all good.
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  How you been?
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  Good.
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  How you been?
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  I'm here.
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  I'm good.
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  Amy and I are starting to get fit starting today.
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  So there's that.
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  Well, I got to tell you, you know, I've been doing these monthly challenges.
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  Yeah.
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  And the squat one I just finished up in November, and it came into play big time this week at Legends because my photographer got sick.
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  I had to take the floor.
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  And when you're between the crowd and the athlete, you have to get down.
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  So I was in a squat position for a good chunk of Friday and Saturday.
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  Oh, yeah.
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  And no problems.
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  No problems, no issues.
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  How's your back feeling?
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  Uh, my back actually feels pretty good.
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  Um, yeah, I'm, you know, we're not, we're not the kind of media that's going to run out there and, uh, just take picture after picture after picture.
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  Um, but, uh, so I can pace myself with an interview, cut, edit, blah, blah, blah.
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  Just I've learned, I've learned the tricks of the trade.
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  At the games, we have a sprint.
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  What's that again?
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  I may chase someone down if there's a sprint at the games like Mars did that year.
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  Yeah.
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  You see, you need to come on the road with me and do some of that.
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  There you go.
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  We have Will Walraven in the chat who I met this weekend.
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  He is Be Relentless.
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  Go check out his stuff on Instagram.
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  It is amazing.
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  Hopefully we're going to work with him a little bit this week to put out some more footage from the competition.
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  But his stuff is sick.
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  So go check that out.
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  Be Relentless on Instagram.
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  Thanks for jumping in, Will.
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  um so yeah it was it was a crazy weekend um oh i want to give a couple whoa whoa surprise guest hi guys medicine kick in yeah a little bit yeah continue
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  So I just wanted to give a couple of huge shout outs.
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  Holly's in the chat.
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  Holly Dugan, our stats person, she put out so many leaderboards, so many event winners, so many things over the weekend.
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  I got so much praise for that from the athletes because it gives them something to share with their family and friends.
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  And
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  and she killed it all weekend long every division every um event she put out a leaderboard for it scaled team rx nobody was left behind she did it all and a huge shout out to her what uh what happened with the whole tagging of instagram like you hit a limit that that was dumb instagram does that
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  I completely agree.
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  Uh, she texted me Saturday, I think, and said, they won't let me, they won't let me tag anymore.
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  And so, yeah, and I was talking to people like, to grow the sport, like, we want to be able to give them stuff to share, right?
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  And so they can share what they're doing.
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  And, and like, I was talking to Jason Grubb, like, it'd be cool if event organizers collected Instagram handles as part of the registration.
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  So we could know who to tag, and not like this exploratory thing of trying to figure it out on the fly.
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  Yeah, I think we've done that before in Masters Fitness Collective, or at least maybe in Green Beret Project.
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  I know one of the ones that I've been a part of, we've attempted to collect that because you can do that in Competition Corner.
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  Okay.
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  I got people to register.
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  So yeah, that's a great idea.
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  And it only helps the athletes, right?
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  Yeah.
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  I also want to give a huge shout out to Joe and Bob, the event organizers.
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  So present the entire weekend for the athletes, for the volunteers, for the media, whoever.
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  They were there on the floor the entire weekend and available to answer any question that came up.
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  so cool to see don't always see that at all events and then my final shout out is to ellie price who was supposed to be my photographer this weekend she got really sick when she flew into phoenix um and she is stephanie price's daughter who does our prodigies podcast
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  um she just got ill and she she attempted thursday um she looked awful uh we kept her home on friday um she came back late saturday to try to get a little bit in um and i'm gonna put some more of her pictures up later this week um but yeah huge shout out for the effort but she was so sick so just wanted to get those out of the way um
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  Yeah, and then a couple funny stories.
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  I got approached by an athlete.
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  He kind of came at me, started yelling at me, and I was like, what's going on here?
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  And he goes, do you remember me?
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  Do you remember me?
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  And I'm like, you look familiar, but I've seen a lot of you athletes before.
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  He goes, well, I have a picture of you and me.
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  And I'm like, really?
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  He goes, yeah, you were my judge at MFC, and you know rep me.
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  And he has a picture of the no rep.
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  And the picture was taken by Bobby.
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  who was laughing because he was arguing with me and Bobby was like, he was right though.
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  I, that Scott was right.
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  He was, and it was a deadlift last year and he was crashing them to the, like bouncing them.
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  And I kept no repping them.
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  And it was, uh, it was freaking hilarious.
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  The picture's funny.
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  Cause you see him with his head turned, just yelling at me and I'm just, I've got the no rep out.
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  Do I, do I know this person?
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  I'm sure you would.
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  I think he won MFC last year, maybe.
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  Okay.
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  Do your reps right, bro.
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  Right.
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  Well, and then when he finished his story, he goes, yeah, I got called on that at Wadapalooza too, and I got called on that.
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  Okay.
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  Dude.
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  And then we had a really fun conversation after that, but it was just a funny way to be approached by an athlete.
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  I had In-N-Out for the first time in my life.
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  What?
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  First time?
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  Yeah, first time ever.
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  I've heard about it.
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  Everybody raves about it.
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  It was really dang good.
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  They only have one thing on the menu, and they just do it really well.
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  And the funny thing is I ran into a bunch of the judges at In-N-Out when I was there, and they were all trying it.
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  Dave Hardy was there, and he was like, I come every time I'm on the West Coast.
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  I get my In-N-Out.
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  So that was fun.
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  And then typical me, I left my laptop charger at home.
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  So on Friday, Boz lent me his laptop charger because he's the only one that's not an Apple user in all of CrossFit other than me.
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  So he lent me his charger for me to get at least enough to go like the rest of the day.
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  And then I went to Best Buy and got another one.
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  And then on the way home, I lost my wallet.
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  I was checking my luggage in.
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  No.
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  I had my wallet.
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  So I'm in the middle of the Phoenix airport.
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  bag open clothes on the floor and find i found my wallet in in the suitcase but oh my gosh typical typical scott i love it typical me yep that that's what it's like at least amy wasn't there to scold you yeah correct what's happening correct
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  The other thing is I had this new fancy camera, and I'm like, I get to use it for the first time.
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  Well, apparently it is so good that the cards I have write too slow.
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  Yeah.
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  So I had to get a high-speed card to go in it to be able to keep up with the camera.
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  All the trips to Best Buy.
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  I was there three times.
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  And it was not on the way.
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  Yeah, I bet not.
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  Ugh.
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  So did you guys get to see any kind of content about it?
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  I was away, so I didn't get to see.
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  I'm still catching up on shows.
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  I saw that Jamie won a bunch of events and paid attention to the headlines.
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  So I'm going to share a picture of the floor.
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  You know what was really cool, Scott?
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  It was when I was scrolling through social media and I saw one of our posts.
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  I thought it was an actual official legends post.
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  Like I had to look closely to tell the difference.
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  So that was really cool for me to see.
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  You did a great job.
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  I agree with that.
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  Yeah.
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  Right.
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  I was like, wait, Oh, Oh, this is us.
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  Okay, cool.
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  Yeah.
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  I was like, I'm doing that.
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  Oh, Hey, I know those guys.
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  yeah holly and i talked after the last event msc probably that our stuff because we overused the yellow looked a lot like be friendly and i was like i don't want to look like that anymore i want to look like us and so she went to work on a redesign and sent it to me and i was like that's perfect and i love that it's a real it's moving
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  Um, and then when she did the overall leaderboards, adding the ups and downs to the side, did you guys see that?
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  Yeah.
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  When she, I was just blown away when she, I didn't know that was coming, saw that.
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  And I was like, that is really awesome.
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  So you can see if they like climbed or fell, um, as you looked at the leaderboard, but this is the, the event floor.
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  So floor, um, this is floor one right here, the big one.
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  it backed right up to a balcony and you could like see over at the top.
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  And that's where I got some like really good footage from like the rope climbs and stuff like that.
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  Um, and then this is 10 lanes.
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  They did put 20 on it for the final day because they were like two back-to-back sprint events and you didn't, you could stagger and still fit everybody.
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  And then back here with 10, right?
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  Yes, yes.
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  Now back here was 20.
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  And it was a very short floor.
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  And this is floor two.
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  And both were running almost, until yesterday, they were running all weekend, both of them.
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  What was nice is, and I don't know if you can tell in the picture, this is a hockey area.
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  So there's the plastic or glass that goes up.
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  And it actually blocked the floor announcing sound from going across to the other floor.
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  wide open and people get confused because they heard the countdown on floor one and they're on floor two.
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  That didn't happen here because the hockey glass kind of muted that out.
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  And right outside this wall on the right was the pool.
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  Oh, how nice.
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  So everything was that close.
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  Like, you could bing, bang, bang.
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  Yeah, I love that.
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  And it was a full Division I, 50 meters wide, 25 yards long swimming pool.
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  And it was beautiful.
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  Gorgeous.
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  And they had, like, cold tubs out there.
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  They had body work people all over the place for the athletes.
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  It was really, really well run.
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  So super fun.
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  And this is sort of their first look, knowing that they are going to be the CrossFit Games for Masters in the future, right?
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  Correct.
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  However, this is not going to be the site for the games.
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  Okay.
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  But this is the event organizers and the branding and all that is going to be this.
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  Exactly.
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  And that's why Boz, Heather Lawrence, Dave were all there to check it out this weekend.
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  Boz and Heather were there for two full days.
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  Dave was there for a good chunk of Saturday.
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  I think it was.
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  It all blends together, Friday or Saturday.
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  So that probably answers that.
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  anti-doping question of yeah i was gonna i was kind of getting there here let's bring it up it's not technically a crossfit event yet until next year um yeah i don't know i i wasn't paying attention to the comments at all
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  so i did not see anybody i knew that was banned competing lex if you could if you don't want to name names and just send me the send me the name text it to me just so i know who you're talking about because i didn't i didn't make that correlation i was someone on a team
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  But I guess, too, they're going to have to incorporate some kind of drug testing protocols as well, just like they would at the games for next year.
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  This is a freebie.
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  Get in while you can.
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  Well, and...
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  The scale and the teams were not heavily signed up for.
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  I know they were like trying to support the community with that.
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  So I don't know what happened there that maybe they let someone in.
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  Again, I'd have to look into it more to do that.
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  Trying to look through here.
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  What was my favorite part of the weekend?
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  I think my favorite part of the weekend is always just meeting people.
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  So there was 500 plus athletes there.
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  And just getting to the stories and all of that was really cool.
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  There's that many fit.
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  There's some really fit old people.
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  Really fit old people.
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  I would say my favorite thing of the weekend is I interviewed two 70-plus-year-old women who came, who were competing in the scale division.
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  And to me, that's just what it's all about.
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  They're 70-plus competing in 65-plus and just giving it hell, doing the best they can.
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  And to me, that was pretty awesome.
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  That's really cool.
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  Corey says, F that, names, names.
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  I want to know.
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  I'd only test positive for peanut butter at this point.
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  I do think that they are a CrossFit event.
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  That's why I'm perplexed.
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  Yes, they're not the games this year, but I do believe they are a CrossFit licensed event.
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  I don't think there's any.
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  I mean, Green Beret was a CrossFit licensed event too, and there was no, I don't think there's any stipulations about who you can allow
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  Now, I could be wrong, but I did receive a copy of the CrossFit agreement that gets exchanged between event organizers and CrossFit, but I don't recall that being a piece of it.
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  I mean, it's also easy enough to do.
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  But I do believe if you are banned, it says you are banned from all CrossFit licensed events.
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  Oh, I see.
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  So the agreement with the athlete is you are not allowed to compete.
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  So are they testing for TRT in this event?
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  Yeah, I mean, they're definitely not testing for anything.
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  I don't think these events have tests, just like your local comps don't have tests.
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  Just because you're a licensed event doesn't mean you have like an influx of money to be able to do that.
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  Right.
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  But you're right.
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  I guess if you're on the band list, that shouldn't be a very long list of people.
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  And you should be able to sort of cross-check that.
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  Right.
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  But I guess we'll see.
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  I don't think that it's like you said, Kat, I don't believe it's in the agreement with the event people.
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  It is the agreement because you got banned.
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  Right.
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  I guess enforcement's not.
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  They're not listed on the license of event page.
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  Okay.
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  Scott's checking his text.
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  I am.
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  And I thought that person there, Lex, I did not see that person compete.
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  But because her husband was in a sling and he's listed as a teammate.
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  And he definitely did not compete.
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  I thought they were there.
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  representing the judges association the new judges association i know exactly who you're talking about but i will i'll double check on that and i don't know when that's you just showed me that so i'm just being dumb when the band started so we don't as soon as you said judges not if they're not competing only if they're judging
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  And the band is not up.
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  I never saw her compete.
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  That's why it didn't click into me.
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  And her husband definitely did not compete because he was in a sling and is listed as a teammate.
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  I will go back and double check and see if, in fact, she did compete.
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  And we'll bring that up on a later show if I can confirm that.
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  Love it.
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  Drama.
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  Drama.
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  So anyway, the weekend, I want to go through some pros and cons.
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  And if you guys have any questions, shoot them at me and I'll answer whatever I can.
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  Scott, if I drop abruptly, it's because my real job is calling.
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  My other job, I should say.
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  My paying job.
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  So, First Pro is a state-of-the-art facility.
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  You can see it here.
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  It was gorgeous.
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  It was easy to get in and out of.
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  It was very well put together.
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  It looked like a games floor.
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  And it was super cool.
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  So many amenities.
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  They had...
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  like really nice bathrooms.
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  They had a shake shack that made smoothies and protein shakes and stuff that everybody had access to.
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  Everything was right there.
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  It was really compact.
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  You didn't have to walk a mile to get to anything.
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  So that was pretty cool.
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  Everything was on time the entire weekend.
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  And if anything, it was actually ahead of schedule.
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  And so the second floor in the back actually was running so efficiently, they got ahead of floor one and would have to take breaks.
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  And that is very rare to find at a competition to be that on time, which is a huge, I think that is mega for being the games.
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  Um, programming.
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  I thought the programming tests were really good and different.
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  I'm also going to have this in my cons and I'll explain that why, but, um, I think it truly tested overall fitness the best it could under the circumstances it was given.
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  Uh,
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  And then it had a very open feel to everything.
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  The athletes were just hanging out.
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  Everybody was just hanging out.
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  If you wanted, even like Boz and Dave and when Siobhan and Greg came, like everybody was just hanging out, which if you've never been to a competition like this, is a really cool thing that you can just walk up to athletes, chat with them.
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  They usually had...
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  A long time before their event started or a long time after their event went to just hang out and chill with whoever.
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  And it was a really cool feel.
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  The vendors were really awesome.
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  They gave huge discounts to people and they were really supportive of everything that was going on.
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  I talked about Bob and Joe being available for everything.
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  That was super quick.
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  And they tried to fix everything as quickly as they could on the fly.
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  If they saw a programming faux pas, they tried to fix it after the first age group so that the rest weren't affected by whatever was happening.
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  And then the way they took care of their volunteers, top notch.
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  Don't know if I've seen anything, even the games, take care of their volunteers like this group did.
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  The food they fed, they had breakfast, lunch, and dinner for all volunteers, all vendors, all media, to be able to come in and get food and beverage all day long.
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  It was fantastic.
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  That's something I struggle with with my nutrition journey on the road.
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  It made it so easy to be on track with everything because the food was good.
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  It was healthy.
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  It was abundant.
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  It was fresh.
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  It was amazing.
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  The pool, you can't get a better pool than they had there.
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  I mean, it is a Division I school's official pool that they use for the swim season.
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  So it can't get any better than that.
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  And I think there's so much potential.
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  So behind, so where I'm taking the picture from, if you turn around 180 degrees,
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  and go out that back door, there are soccer fields, football practice fields, tons of stuff out the back door that didn't get used at this event, but I think will be used in future events at this location.
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  Because even though this is not where the games are going to be, they are coming back to the same venue for the Legends community event next December.
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  So those were my pros.
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  Now my cons and the, and the first couple of cons are all because of the same thing.
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  They're just way too many divisions, way too many athletes.
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  And so programming, you could not program events longer than 15 minutes.
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  If you did, you would be there till two in the morning.
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  Um, and that, and even with the shorter events, they were long days.
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  Like they were starting at seven 38 o'clock in the morning.
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  They were finishing at nine o'clock at night.
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  And that's, and, and you know, the volunteers probably went another couple hours after that.
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  Um, it's just, and it's inherent in the way that this is organized and they did their best by having the older divisions go in the morning and be done and then have the younger divisions come in the afternoon and evening.
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  And then, so there was a little bit of like, these athletes are coming in, they're kind of leaving and taking off and the next batch of athletes are coming in as the other ones are leaving.
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  Does that make sense?
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  Am I saying it well enough?
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  Yeah, that's cool.
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  That's a great idea.
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  And then I've said this on shows previously, then the events become very repetitive for a spectator because you have 14 divisions in the RX division alone with 40 athletes in the first few age groups, like till 50, I think.
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  That's a lot of...
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  A lot of heats.
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  Yeah.
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  The media space, it was that black curtain you see in the back, right here.
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  It was also the corral for this floor back here.
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  I think that there is a belief in the CrossFit world that media is just videographers and photographers.
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  and not people trying to have conversations or edit interviews or things like that.
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  You have to be very quiet in the media room, Scott.
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  Well, I just needed enough quiet to be able to hear the interview, to cut it.
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  edit it, do all those kinds of things.
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  So I actually just commandeered a room upstairs, um, and sat in there by myself and edited, um, when I wasn't getting and collecting data.
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  Real media rooms are like libraries.
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  That's just one event and it's stupid.
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  But anyway, um,
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  the other part of media that, that is vital is talking to the athletes.
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  Like we're not just a team that puts out reels and, and what,
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  I'm not saying that that stuff is bad.
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  That stuff is needed as well.
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  But we're a different kind of media company.
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  And what we want to do is accentuate that beyond.
• 29:04
  It doesn't help that I take another, like Will was there taking great shots.
• 29:09
  I don't need to take the same shot.
• 29:11
  I need to partner with Will and use his shot and then tell a story behind it.
• 29:17
  And that means like going and talking to Boz and Heather Lawrence and going and talking to Jason Grubb and Brian Retke and all those people to get the stories behind everything.
• 29:34
  The other con was that they didn't have exclusive use to the facility.
• 29:39
  So where the warmup area was for the athletes was where the college students can go work out too.
• 29:45
  I was wondering how that how that worked with school in session.
• 29:47
  So it was a mishmash of.
• 29:50
  I think there were college students are very intrigued as to what was going on in their facility.
• 29:58
  But it also cut down on the warm up space that the athletes had to be able to get ready for their event.
• 30:09
  if that makes sense.
• 30:10
  And I heard that from a lot of athletes, that they just wish they had a little bit more room to warm up for their
• 30:18
  Um, for their specific event.
• 30:20
  Now I will tell you the athlete village area was massive.
• 30:24
  Like, and so like you could stretch band work, do a lot of that kind of stuff in athlete village and have more than enough space.
• 30:33
  I think it was just when it became too movement specific with a barbell or a heavy object or something, they, they really didn't have that.
• 30:43
  And then, um,
• 30:50
  I don't know what I was saying there.
• 30:55
  Oh, finish lines.
• 30:57
  I wish all event organizers would.
• 31:00
  So I'm going to start with this.
• 31:02
  Now I know what I'm ready.
• 31:03
  So back here, so back here, especially they had, it was a very tight space that they were working with, which created a lot of chaos on the floor and very hard to tell the story.
• 31:19
  I think one of the big misses that a lot of events have are that they don't have a finish line away from the chaos.
• 31:31
  So there were events on this back floor that finished close to floor one, and there were other events that finished close to the windows.
• 31:42
  But a lot of the events that finished close to the windows were right where the action was happening.
• 31:48
  So it's hard if a person takes a step, one step to finish, it's hard to tell they finished or are they just getting chalk or are they, are they taking a rest or whatever?
• 31:59
  If you had them run away from the chaos back to floor one, it would be a better sight line for the spectator to be able to see who won the event, who came in second, who came in third.
• 32:13
  And that's where the excitement is with these events, right?
• 32:16
  If you think back to all the semifinals and games experiences, that race to the finish line is huge.
• 32:27
  It is.
• 32:27
  Why didn't these things get popular?
• 32:32
  Remember they were like in China or something?
• 32:34
  One of the... Wadapalooza used them one year.
• 32:37
  Okay.
• 32:40
  I mean, that would solve lots of problems, I would think.
• 32:44
  I agree.
• 32:45
  But even, even without them, if you just had them run down the floor to finish, it tells the audience who's finishing stories.
• 32:56
  We had the same complaint at MFC where they just stopped in the middle of the floor.
• 33:02
  And they would never do that at the games.
• 33:04
  Right.
• 33:07
  Right.
• 33:07
  And so I, uh,
• 33:11
  Yeah, that's just one thing.
• 33:13
  But even with that, overall, one of the best events I've ever been to.
• 33:19
  And the way it was organized.
• 33:21
  And this is their first year in this location.
• 33:23
  So you've been an event organizer before, Kat.
• 33:27
  Like year one, your hair's on fire half the weekend, if not more.
• 33:36
  And I thought they adapted and adjusted quickly to all of that.
• 33:41
  Um, and that, yeah.
• 33:43
  And to their credit, they have a lot of experience doing it too.
• 33:45
  You know, this isn't their first rodeo.
• 33:48
  They work well together.
• 33:50
  They've only been doing it since 2017.
• 33:53
  So it's not like where, what I, what I want to commend them on is their presence.
• 34:00
  The only way you can make difference is, is when you're there and aware of it as soon as it happens.
• 34:08
  Right.
• 34:09
  Right.
• 34:09
  They're not in the back room, hidden away.
• 34:13
  they're out there on the floor they're seeing what's happening and when they see it then it's like they get on the horn with each other how are we gonna let's get to a war room let's figure it out let's get back out there and get it fixed yeah true makes a big difference and for that and that alone i i'm excited for them to take over the games yeah it's gonna be exciting i got um
• 34:40
  Meanwhile, I got a text while we were chatting, reliable source, that person did compete.
• 34:45
  That person that has been banned from CrossFit did compete on a team.
• 34:51
  Just saying.
• 34:54
  I guess the rules don't apply.
• 34:56
  But again, like Lex said, get out of jail free card.
• 35:01
  Last opportunity.
• 35:02
  Thank you.
• 35:05
  And so I ask you, you're an organizer.
• 35:08
  Can part of your event be CrossFit licensed like the RX division and then everything else not be licensed?
• 35:21
  I don't think so.
• 35:22
  I don't think it works that way.
• 35:25
  I mean, I know that, you know, the requirements were that like all the judges had to pass the judges course.
• 35:32
  Um, all the athletes had to be registered on crossfit.com like that.
• 35:36
  All the participants had to be registered on crossfit.com.
• 35:39
  So if you were a band athlete, I don't think you should be allowed.
• 35:44
  I mean, then you can't register for the event, right?
• 35:47
  Cause I don't think you can have an active account, you know, see, I know that that was a requirement going forward for them or the elite RX division.
• 36:02
  I'm just not sure if the team and scaled had the same requirement.
• 36:07
  And that's why I asked the question.
• 36:09
  I still don't think she should be allowed to compete.
• 36:13
  Well, yeah.
• 36:14
  I mean, if you're at the level where you go to the games and you got popped, you're good enough to be in the non-scaled division, right?
• 36:25
  Well, it was team and there weren't a lot of them.
• 36:31
  didn't have a lot of teams so i think it's like a fun division if there's no prizes and you're just doing it for fun who cares right but if but i'm i'm upset if i'm competing against someone who's maybe banned yeah i like i said at the top i don't think she should have been allowed to compete period yeah if i'm if i'm becoming the games the last thing i want to do
• 36:58
  when that's already in, in this division is the speculation.
• 37:04
  I don't want to associate myself in that manner going into my first ever games.
• 37:10
  Yeah.
• 37:13
  And I'm pretty sure at MFC, we did that.
• 37:15
  Like people that had been banned were not allowed to compete at MFC.
• 37:22
  I think don't quote me on it because I wouldn't have been the one to make that final decision, but I think so.
• 37:29
  Yeah, I didn't.
• 37:33
  So coming into the event, Bob was on a podcast, one of the event organizers, talking about how the team and the scaled resulted in a net negative for them this year.
• 37:48
  That they wanted it to be like a community-based event, but the community's not coming out for it.
• 37:56
  So they're reevaluating all that anyway.
• 37:58
  And not to give them any excuse, but I just, I think they were starving for teams probably and made a rash decision.
• 38:11
  And maybe that was like a late roster change too.
• 38:14
  Maybe someone got hurt and that person filled in because you said that that person was on a different team.
• 38:21
  On the registration?
• 38:22
  Is that what you're saying?
• 38:23
  The person is Stephanie Waugh.
• 38:25
  I'm going to throw it out there.
• 38:28
  She was a two-time Masters champion and got banned in... She's not due back until 2025.
• 38:37
  So whatever that was.
• 38:41
  I know her husband from being a judge in the past.
• 38:46
  Kat and I both know Brian for a long time.
• 38:49
  He was a member of the team, but he was in a sling all weekend.
• 38:53
  He had rotator cuff surgery and did not compete.
• 38:59
  That's what I was saying.
• 39:01
  I don't think that
• 39:04
  So I was under the assumption because Brian was there as part of the judges association that just formed.
• 39:12
  And I thought, so maybe, maybe they just, well, so maybe they just went on and maybe they competed, but didn't, it didn't count for anything.
• 39:20
  You know, sometimes you'd get an injury, you're, you can't compete, but if you have a fill in or something, you can still play.
• 39:27
  Yeah.
• 39:29
  Yeah.
• 39:29
  So what Lex sent me was the team roster that was submitted and it had Brian and her on the team roster.
• 39:36
  Yeah.
• 39:36
  And you know, there's no way Brian competed.
• 39:39
  Correct.
• 39:41
  Yeah.
• 39:42
  He couldn't even move.
• 39:43
  So maybe they were like already disqualified and they just, who knows?
• 39:47
  But again, it'll make a difference next year.
• 39:51
  It will.
• 39:53
  Uh, any other questions about the event?
• 39:55
  I'm still kind of like in my, I was telling Charlie my, uh, my flight didn't get in until 1130 last night, but I did take the day off.
• 40:07
  So I have slept in and kind of done that.
• 40:12
  Excellent.
• 40:13
  I, um, I showed up at the gym this morning, uh, to coach my five 15 class and there was five gallons of water on the floor from a big rainstorm that we had.
• 40:22
  That's,
• 40:22
  I don't know where it's coming from.
• 40:23
  It's not a leak in the ceiling.
• 40:25
  It's coming through the garage door up through the rubber floors.
• 40:28
  I don't know, but luckily my scrubber squeegeed it all up, but, uh, that was fun.
• 40:35
  Yeah.
• 40:36
  But I got to work out.
• 40:37
  So that was cool too.
• 40:39
  Those Enderton front squats are super fun.
• 40:43
  Oh, so much fun.
• 40:44
  You wouldn't know, but, or have you done them yet?
• 40:48
  Well, I didn't, I did not work out today.
• 40:50
  Yeah.
• 40:50
  But did you do them last week?
• 40:53
  Because I'm a week behind.
• 40:59
  I did not go on Monday.
• 41:00
  Okay.
• 41:02
  Well, you'll get there.
• 41:03
  Don't worry.
• 41:03
  So Carolyn's asking, why hasn't CrossFit Games announced anything on the Masters?
• 41:09
  Is it a CrossFit licensed event?
• 41:13
  So it's going to have to be right.
• 41:15
  I mean, I, I, I have, I have heard from a reliable source that the announcement's coming out this week about location and dates.
• 41:26
  Bob on the herd podcast, herd fitness podcast said last week that their dates are between the games and the end of August.
• 41:45
  Um, and why you, so you're asking me why the media team, so I need clarification, Carolyn.
• 41:52
  So about next season or about what just happened.
• 42:00
  Cause there was, there was no CrossFit media at the event that I could tell.
• 42:05
  Um, but they did have a good representative of executives there to support what was going on.
• 42:18
  Yeah, and I can tell you that you can be a CrossFit licensed event and you will not have CrossFit media there and they will not repost your shit necessarily.
• 42:28
  They're supposed to, but they won't all the time.
• 42:32
  And Holly says that the event was not listed as a licensed event on the CrossFit website.
• 42:38
  So there you have it.
• 42:42
  But I did hear that this week we will get an announcement on dates and locations for Age Group, Wheelwod, and Masters.
• 42:54
  Very cool.
• 42:57
  And I also talked with Boz, and I told him that I would like to have him on the show, but I don't want to have him on until the rulebook's final.
• 43:06
  Okay.
• 43:08
  Because I don't want to have a conversation about speculation.
• 43:10
  I want to have a conversation about facts.
• 43:14
  Did he say he'd only come on if I was on?
• 43:18
  That was the stipulation.
• 43:20
  Sure.
• 43:20
  Only if Kat's going to be there.
• 43:28
  I'll let you have that one.
• 43:29
  Okay, thanks.
• 43:32
  Um, but yeah, he, he was awesome.
• 43:35
  I did get a 20 minute conversation with him and Heather.
• 43:38
  Cool.
• 43:38
  Um, and great stuff.
• 43:41
  So you need to get back to the real world.
• 43:46
  No, I'm good.
• 43:47
  Oh, okay.
• 43:49
  I have some news.
• 43:52
  Oh, exciting news.
• 43:54
  I'm, uh, getting rid of my Honda pilot way.
• 43:59
  Yes.
• 43:59
  It's time.
• 44:00
  She's,
• 44:01
  She's on her last legs.
• 44:04
  She has 158,000 miles.
• 44:07
  I've had her for 10 years.
• 44:08
  It is time for me to get a vehicle from this decade.
• 44:14
  So on Wednesday, I'm getting a Jeep Cherokee.
• 44:18
  So she would not get rid of because you two are twins and we threatened to push it off of a cliff.
• 44:29
  Oh my God.
• 44:29
  Totally.
• 44:29
  Totally.
• 44:31
  Um, it's, yeah, it's starting to like knock and ping and I don't, it's not, it's not garage kept anymore.
• 44:36
  I mean, it hasn't been for years, but because it's so old now and it doesn't have a remote start and the winter's coming and I just, yeah.
• 44:44
  So I'm getting it.
• 44:45
  It's a 2020.
• 44:45
  It's not, you know, brand new.
• 44:47
  It's new to me.
• 44:47
  2020 Grand Cherokee Black.
• 44:50
  Hmm.
• 44:51
  With a remote start.
• 44:51
  I'm so excited because you guys, I have no bells and whistles on my car.
• 44:55
  And before this car, I had only leased cars before.
• 44:58
  So I'd never had them for more than a couple of years.
• 45:00
  So I was always getting like the latest and greatest.
• 45:04
  And so I get to be a little bit spoiled again and have something that I can actually rely on.
• 45:09
  So yeah, I'm excited.
• 45:12
  So Corey, Nick, I hate you both.
• 45:20
  She's back, folks.
• 45:21
  Nighttime.
• 45:23
  Yes, congrats to Jamie for the win.
• 45:24
  I reserved talking about actual event winners and all of that until Thursday when we can talk to Jamie.
• 45:34
  I'm going to try to get a couple more Masters athletes on for the Thursday night show to be able to talk to them about their experiences.
• 45:42
  Today was just about being with my friends and talking about the experience we had over the weekend.
• 45:48
  So, but yes, congrats to her and all of the amazing athletes that were there.
• 45:56
  One thing I really want to dig into at some point is we're starting to have another phase of like semifinal athletes that are moving up into the masters.
• 46:06
  And I'm curious to get their impressions of,
• 46:09
  Is it what they thought it was going to be?
• 46:10
  Is it harder than they thought?
• 46:14
  Is it easier than they thought?
• 46:20
  Because I think there's been a lot of people who started CrossFit late in life who never made a semifinal, but by the time you get to that age group, they're ready.
• 46:33
  So there were a handful of semi-final athletes that we got to know over the past couple years that are now aged up into the 35 to 39.
• 46:42
  And I'm just curious to see what their thoughts are.
• 46:49
  Yeah, that'll be a good conversation.
• 46:55
  There was a couple other big fitness things that happened this weekend that I have no clue what happened.
• 47:00
  Yeah, there was something in Australia, right?
• 47:03
  Dubai.
• 47:05
  Oh, that was Dubai.
• 47:08
  Okay.
• 47:09
  Dubai.
• 47:09
  I know Roman and Karen Freova won.
• 47:13
  Was Anika there?
• 47:15
  No, she was in Australia.
• 47:17
  Oh, okay.
• 47:18
  You're a week behind, just like programming.
• 47:21
  Sorry.
• 47:24
  I'll get there.
• 47:27
  We did tune in a little bit as we were trying to eat dinner in the evening.
• 47:30
  Okay.
• 47:31
  There were more people at Legends than there were at Dubai.
• 47:37
  Okay.
• 47:39
  Phoenix is a little easier to get to.
• 47:42
  Granted.
• 47:43
  But you would think the people living there would come support it.
• 47:50
  Yeah, I don't know if it's big.
• 47:51
  It's not like soccer in Brazil or football in Brazil or whatever you call it.
• 47:56
  I don't know what that's like.
• 48:00
  Yeah, I was stunned.
• 48:01
  I mean, I'm talking like I've been to local comp with more people.
• 48:07
  Yeah.
• 48:12
  Just so you know, Corey, Arizona, that's a desert as well.
• 48:19
  It also costs like $8,000 to fly there.
• 48:24
  It was so dry all week.
• 48:26
  Like my voice is still trying to make a comeback.
• 48:30
  Did it help your sinuses?
• 48:32
  Was it good or no?
• 48:36
  It did not.
• 48:36
  It made it worse.
• 48:39
  Plus, I think the Airbnb we got was pet friendly.
• 48:42
  So I wasn't getting away from the stuff I needed to get away from.
• 48:49
  But it was beautiful.
• 48:50
  Our Airbnb had a pool, private pool.
• 48:55
  Nice, nice.
• 48:57
  and four of us split it and we only paid like 300 bucks for the whole week oh nice that's great private pool four bedrooms um it had a pool table um huge dining room massive living room a big kitchen it was uh it was pretty sweet probably the best place i've ever stayed
• 49:24
  Although Miami was pretty close to a pretty cool.
• 49:27
  Yeah.
• 49:28
  Miami was nice.
• 49:30
  I still will never forget the place that we stayed.
• 49:32
  Was it in, was it for not in Knoxville?
• 49:38
  That crazy where I slept in the closet with you, you and Mike.
• 49:44
  Yeah.
• 49:44
  The hippie place.
• 49:47
  Yeah.
• 49:50
  Oh, we've come a long way.
• 49:51
  Haven't we?
• 49:53
  Madison this year, I know you didn't get to go with us, like bullet holes.
• 49:58
  It was like my place last year or two years ago.
• 50:03
  The scary place.
• 50:04
  It was crazy.
• 50:06
  The only thing good about Madison was the breakfast was okay.
• 50:09
  Fair enough.
• 50:15
  Yeah.
• 50:15
  I did try...
• 50:17
  this is way off the track.
• 50:19
  So as a celebration for the week, I try, I've heard about voodoo donut like my whole life, but again, it's only on the West coast.
• 50:27
  So, Oh,
• 50:29
  It's, it's a universal too.
• 50:31
  Cause I had it for the first time.
• 50:33
  Let's compare notes.
• 50:34
  Go ahead.
• 50:35
  I treated Jamie and Jim.
• 50:38
  Cause so Jamie won Jim peeper who stayed with us, took second.
• 50:42
  So we, it was a pretty winning Airbnb.
• 50:46
  So celebrate.
• 50:47
  We went to voodoo donut.
• 50:49
  I treated get in there.
• 50:52
  it was late cause it was a late night at the venue.
• 50:56
  And so they were out of a lot of things.
• 50:57
  I wanted to try the Crunchberry donut.
• 51:00
  I didn't get to, but I, I got the old dirty bastard.
• 51:03
  Okay.
• 51:05
  It was phenomenal.
• 51:09
  Explain it.
• 51:12
  So it was, um, like Oreo cookies with a chocolate center.
• 51:17
  And then they put, they drizzled hot fudge and peanut butter over the top of it.
• 51:24
  It was a yeast donut.
• 51:30
  I got a buttermilk bar and I got the Chuckles, which was a chocolate frosted with peanut butter and nuts.
• 51:39
  I will tell you, I think I'm just a cookie snob because they were not pleasant.
• 51:48
  I wasn't like, oh my God, this was so worth it.
• 51:49
  I actually don't think I finished either one of them.
• 51:52
  And that is not like me to not finish a dessert.
• 51:57
  The chuckles.
• 51:59
  That was my dad's name was Chuck.
• 52:01
  And those were all of his favorite things.
• 52:04
  Okay.
• 52:04
  So that's why, and they were out.
• 52:07
  Oh, okay.
• 52:07
  Yeah.
• 52:07
  Well, like I said, I don't think you were missing much, but maybe the yeast donut was different than like the other donut base, but I've decided that I'm no longer wasting my life on waiting in line for donuts.
• 52:17
  I will do it for cookies and I will do it for ice cream.
• 52:20
  Um, and I'll do it for cinnamon buns, but.
• 52:22
  Donuts, not for me anymore.
• 52:24
  I'm not typically a donut person.
• 52:26
  I did bring home, Julie, the voodoo donut.
• 52:32
  I should have gotten the mafia one, which was like bananas and chocolate.
• 52:36
  It was one of the bigger ones, not like a standard-sized donut, but I opted not to do that, and now I'm regretting that decision.
• 52:42
  But I won't try them again.
• 52:44
  There's way too many other fun stuff to try there.
• 52:46
  I'm not going to mention any names, but someone in our party got the cock and balls.
• 52:51
  Oh, I didn't see that one.
• 52:54
  Yeah.
• 52:56
  It was a mad, I mean, it had to be like that long.
• 53:00
  Cause if my stalker was listening, they would comment that that's the one I'd probably get.
• 53:04
  Yeah.
• 53:08
  No regrets.
• 53:11
  And I'm kind of with Nick.
• 53:14
  I think regular donuts are just fine.
• 53:16
  Putting more on seems excessive.
• 53:20
  It's like they're trying to go crumble cookie, but when crumble cookie does it, it changes the whole taste of the cookie.
• 53:29
  But anyway, I'm not even a sweets guy.
• 53:33
  I just wanted, because I'd heard so much about it, I wanted to try it.
• 53:36
  And it was a fun place to walk into and kind of see everything that they made.
• 53:41
  Jim Pieper got the, it's like a strawberry Pop-Tart donut.
• 53:46
  Did you see that one?
• 53:48
  He liked it.
• 53:50
  okay it seems like if you like the jelly filled you're happy there other than that no i love it oh sorry so so yeah cool we and unlike miami we actually went out and tried different things we didn't we didn't eat a meal out of the hotel did we
• 54:18
  Except for at the actual Waterpalooza.
• 54:20
  Yeah, we got like DoorDash every night because we worked hard.
• 54:24
  Because that was the first place I had an acai bowl.
• 54:30
  And the venue had that place that made the smoothies and stuff.
• 54:34
  They made acai bowls.
• 54:36
  Oh, nice.
• 54:37
  I was going to say the first acai bowl I ever had was the same time I had my first In-N-Out burger and that was in Carson in 2016.
• 54:48
  I haven't seen you in so long.
• 54:50
  Carson.
• 54:52
  This news broke last week.
• 54:54
  We didn't really get a chance to talk about it.
• 54:56
  They announced the site for semifinals.
• 54:58
  And one of the sites for semifinals is Carson.
• 55:01
  Crazy.
• 55:03
  Do you think super cool or super lame?
• 55:06
  Well, I think it means that there's going to be some expanded events at semifinals.
• 55:13
  Well, I guess there have been anyway.
• 55:15
  Because we're going back to the syndicate place.
• 55:19
  Yeah, but I wonder if there's going to be like multiple, like, is it going to be the soccer field or is it going to be the tennis stadium?
• 55:24
  Or is it going to be, or isn't it even at some other place?
• 55:27
  Like there's other places in Carson, but I assume they mean it was the old games venue.
• 55:37
  Like the Staples Center or StubHub Center, whatever it's called now.
• 55:39
  Yeah.
• 55:46
  I don't know if you're cutting out just for me or for everybody because I can't hear you.
• 55:52
  No.
• 55:53
  There you go.
• 56:01
  The venue that they announced in the announcement, when you go to the website, is the tennis stadium and the soccer field.
• 56:08
  Okay.
• 56:11
  And it's not, is it Knoxville?
• 56:14
  No.
• 56:15
  for the syndicate or is it somewhere else?
• 56:19
  So are they going to have an indoor and an outdoor thing?
• 56:29
  Say that again.
• 56:33
  No outdoor at Knoxville.
• 56:35
  There is no outdoor.
• 56:36
  Yeah, I didn't think so.
• 56:40
  But aren't the semifinals going to be like the same for everybody?
• 56:46
  Oh, yeah, I guess it doesn't matter.
• 56:56
  Well, yeah.
• 56:57
  Okay.
• 56:58
  Anyway, I should probably go.
• 57:02
  Last thing is, I think it is a good move, though, that they're going back to Loud and Live and the 12 Labors crew to run the events.
• 57:11
  They do it better than CrossFit does because they can get more manpower.
• 57:15
  Yeah.
• 57:19
  So I think that is a thumbs up.
• 57:21
  Yeah.
• 57:22
  They do it really well.
• 57:22
  They're good, good people too.
• 57:25
  Yeah.
• 57:27
  I mean, they brought on Wilson to help them anyway, so why not just let them do it?
• 57:30
  Right.
• 57:32
  Yeah.
• 57:32
  All those guys, even Taylor, all those folks.
• 57:36
  Yeah.
• 57:37
  Okay.
• 57:38
  With Dylan and all those folks and your favorite media person.
• 57:43
  Yeah.
• 57:44
  All my favorites.
• 57:47
  All right.
• 57:48
  We'll have a great rest of your work day.
• 57:51
  Everyone, thank you for hanging out.
• 57:53
  We'll have more on the Legends the rest of the week.
• 57:55
  Talk to you then.
• 57:56
  Bye, guys.