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Lunch with the Clydesdale and Cowboy - Monday Show! The Climax of the Story is Important! · Clydesdale Media Podcast

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What is going on, everybody?
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It's a Monday and we are back.
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Let's go.
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From the gym to the screen, yeah,
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we cover it all.
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Midday motivation every time you press
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call.
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Lunch with the Clydesdales.
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Cowboy, bring the heat.
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Half-hour hustle, yeah,
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we building that brand.
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Grab a plate, tune in now,
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you're part of the fam.
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It's lunchtime.
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What is going on, everybody?
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Welcome to Lunch with the Clydesdales.
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A Monday after a three-day weekend,
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back to work, back at it,
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doing all the things.
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Man.
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Man.
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I thought the cowboy was going to be
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here today.
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I have not seen the cowboy in, like,
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days.
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I'm starting to get a little jittery.
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Like, that's my partner, that's my guy,
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and...
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I haven't even heard from him.
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Man, I need to do a safety check,
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wellness check at some point today.
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Make sure he's still alive and doing well.
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So I hope everybody's having a great
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Monday after a wild, wild weekend.
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He's watching, Siobhan.
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There you go.
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What's up, Joseph?
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What's up, Vicky, Tessa?
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Hope you guys are doing great.
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Let's get some breaking news out of the
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way.
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I don't know if this is like,
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I don't know.
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I don't know.
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I don't know what's going on here,
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but I got a media credential for the
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Masters CrossFit Games like two minutes
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before I went on air.
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I don't know if this is the beginning
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of repairing a relationship or what,
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but I have an official media credential
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for the masters CrossFit games.
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So now I have a master's credential and
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I have a elite credential.
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See, they don't hate you.
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It's just weird, Andrew.
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I just don't understand it.
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It's just like I've always tried to be
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helpful.
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I've always tried to abide by all the
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rules, do all the things.
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So I don't know.
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Maybe it's just a weird misperception.
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The bad thing is because I didn't know
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they were going to be in the same
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week when I reserved my hotel and my
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flights and all that a year ago,
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I reserved them like I'm going for the
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elites only.
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And so I don't get there until Wednesday
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morning.
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So I'll miss half of it,
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but at least I'll get to go in.
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I have media pit access,
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so I'll be able to get some shots
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and stuff.
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So hopefully that is...
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Uh, so hopefully that is still fun.
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Still fun.
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Hopefully,
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because a lot of times like that first
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and we'll find out workouts maybe today.
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Um,
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but usually that first workout is like a
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long run off site, something like that.
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I missed that.
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Okay.
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Um, oh my gosh, he's, he's okay.
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I am okay.
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Sorry, y'all work.
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I was going to do a wellness check
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later today because I haven't seen you
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since Thursday.
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I understand.
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I understand.
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I was getting jittery.
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I was missing you.
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Nature of my job.
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Nature of my job.
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Does this mean you're going early to cover
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the Masters?
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Nope.
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Joseph, airfare is locked in.
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If I changed my hotel reservation,
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it upped the cost so much.
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I just couldn't eat the difference.
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So I'm just going to show up Wednesday
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morning and cover what I can.
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Hopefully,
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Jamie and Carolyn don't go until the
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afternoon.
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A lot of times at the Masters games,
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the older athletes go in the morning.
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The younger athletes go in the evening,
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go afternoon, evening.
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So hopefully that's what happens.
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But I don't know.
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I don't have a schedule or anything.
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But I mean, let's be honest here.
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Are you actually going to get,
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would you actually get access to the
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Masters if you were going early anyway?
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I just got them.
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I just announced that.
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I missed that.
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Sorry.
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It happened two minutes before airtime.
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No shit.
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Yeah.
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Like actual access or did they just give
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you a ticket to get in the door?
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Like media pit access.
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I know.
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The new dawn is a new day.
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Hey, you know what?
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Good.
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Yeah.
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It's a step in the right direction.
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A hundred percent.
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Um, we looked at flying in on Tuesday.
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It's ridiculous.
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I know, man.
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Yeah.
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Any,
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any change to my itinerary hotel or flight
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was beyond ridiculous.
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And I booked my hotel like literally the
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day they announced they're going to San
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Jose.
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So I got like five nights for five
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hundred bucks.
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I remember when you say I remember you
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saying that.
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Yeah.
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And so I can't change that.
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No, that's insane.
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So yeah, so that's big news.
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I can get into the Masters.
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I don't need to steal Shanna's coaching
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pass.
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I mean, you don't need to.
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I just tried to drink my coffee out
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of the back end.
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Don't do that.
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It's going to pour all over your face.
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It's going to be a bad look.
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Yeah, it might have been good for ratings,
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though.
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It couldn't hurt.
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It couldn't hurt.
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Well, it would hurt you,
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depending on how hot it is, I guess.
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Dude, congrats, man.
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I mean... Yeah.
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It's funny because...
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And I don't mean to start the show
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off... It's a Monday.
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I don't mean to start off with a
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downer.
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I'm really at the razor's edge of...
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as to whether this may be my last
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games really and not that i'm like giving
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up on crossfit or watching crossfit or any
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of that kind of stuff right it's just
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they limit the access so much at the
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games right and this year especially
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Well,
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this year and in years before last year,
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so we went from like barely able to
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even talk to any athlete to full access
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where everybody was in the warm-up area.
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And I heard Angelo DiCicco say on the
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Froning podcast,
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felt like an animal at the zoo last
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year.
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Which I think was way too much.
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And now we're back to like very few
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people get any kind of access at all.
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I think they're only letting twenty pit
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passes out.
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I didn't think it was that many.
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This isn't warm-up access.
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This is to like around the floor.
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Oh, that's just on the floor.
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Yeah.
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Got it.
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Damn.
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Damn.
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Yeah.
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So it's really restricted this year.
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They seem to have a problem finding a
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happy medium.
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With anything?
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Yeah.
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Oh, yeah.
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No, not just with that.
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Just in general.
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They seem to have a very difficult time.
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It's either all the way one way or
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all the way the other way.
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And it's very little of, okay, well,
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we don't need to have everybody in there,
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but we should have a reasonable amount of
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people in there.
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Or nobody's coming.
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We're going to have eight people and
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that's it.
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Yep.
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It doesn't make it easy by any stretch
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of the imagination.
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So like we were talking after the show
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last night and I was like,
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unless there are significant changes to
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the season, I just don't,
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I think I can cover it as well
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from my basement sitting here as I can
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being there.
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Sad but true.
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You lose kind of the vibe, but like,
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like the glintons have joseph and meg
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going and they can get the vibe right
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yeah you just you don't need to send
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a crew anymore you just need to send
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someone to be like on location like the
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old days of espn like one person out
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at the event with the the crowd and
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the and the fans and doing the thing
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to catch the vibe and everybody else
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reporting back from the studio
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live in person.
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We go to Meg.
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Right.
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Right.
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Meg's just standing there.
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Hi.
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It's pretty fun out here.
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It's pretty good time.
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And then you just roll out because
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Joseph's definitely gonna be in charge of
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the camera.
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Scott,
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are they protecting the athletes or
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protecting CrossFit media content with all
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the restrictions?
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I honestly think they're protecting the...
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I think there was too much...
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There was way too much media last year
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for the athletes.
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The athletes were getting asked the same
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question over and over and over.
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There was... I mean,
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there were so many people there
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even to get to talk to an athlete,
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you had to kind of like sit there
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and wait because you didn't want to
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interrupt,
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but you were looking for that moment.
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And, and it,
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and it took me like a couple hours
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other than like Hattie,
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who I had an agreement with, it took,
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Joseph says, bless you.
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Um, it was actually coughing,
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but thank you.
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Um,
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But it took me a while to like
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to have sidebar conversations with the
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athletes to like understand when they
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wanted to be approached.
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Right.
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So like you had with Hattie,
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if you don't have, you know,
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an agreement going in, hey, look.
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Come to me first, you know,
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or I'm going to catch you first, whatever.
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And then what, you know,
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because I'm producing this content about
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you for the entire weekend.
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So we have an agreement, you know,
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come to me first.
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I'm going to get access to you,
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you know, at whenever time, blah, blah,
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whatever.
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Basically,
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we're going to hang out all weekend.
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Because other than that, dude, you just,
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it's a cattle line.
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So like an example is with Lucy Campbell.
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Like I had a sidebar conversation with her
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just without a camera on, right?
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And she goes, hey,
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if I'm on the bike cooling down,
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come talk to me.
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I need my mind off stuff anyway.
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Yeah.
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And I'll talk to you as much as
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you want if I'm over on the bike.
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Okay.
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I can respect that.
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But I'm not sure everybody got that memo
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that you should have those conversations
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and figure that stuff out, right?
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So when someone's over there cleaning,
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there's a person with a camera and a
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mic going, is that heavy?
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Wow, that looks heavy.
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Questions like, who are you dating?
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Yeah,
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you just came off the floor and you
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just won your event or whatnot and be
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like, so who are you dating?
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I actually think the athletes would be
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refreshed by that question.
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I'm going to tell you what,
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I thought Taylor did a fantastic job at
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NorCal asking him like,
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what people would consider to be silly
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questions, but they seem to be,
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they were engaging with him because he was
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asking them stuff that,
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and was being himself about it.
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You know,
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what's your favorite CrossFit workout
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instead of going, wow,
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you did it on broken.
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Congratulations.
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High five.
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Everybody saw that.
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Nobody needs to talk about it.
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I did sideline stuff.
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I tried to look at the,
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the big picture storyline,
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not the event storyline.
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So you finish this event, yeah,
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and stuff happened out there.
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But overall on the weekend,
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this is what you came in with.
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This is what you're trying to accomplish.
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Where are we in the big picture?
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So don't ask chicken or fish.
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Sure.
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I mean,
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there was that guy in the early teens
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that asked really silly questions in
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between his serious questions.
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And it was funny.
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And the athletes had fun with it, right?
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And I think that's fine.
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I know everybody makes a joke like,
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what's your favorite color?
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And nobody wants a whole interview with
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what's your favorite color.
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I think that's the point of making fun
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of that because that's what the show ended
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up being.
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But if you say like,
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what's your favorite Sesame Street
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character in the middle of a serious
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interview, it breaks the ice.
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It's funny for the audience.
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It catches the athlete off guard.
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When he asked Julie Foucher, hey,
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did you going faster help you win that
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race?
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Yeah.
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Right, like...
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It's a dumb question that we all know
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the answer to,
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but it makes the athlete feel more
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comfortable.
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We were talking about it over the weekend
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because it's been three years,
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I want to say,
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since Jameson got the tubes out of her
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ears.
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When they gave her the Versad and she
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started getting loopy, she asked Brad,
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the ENT, Dr. Brad,
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what's your favorite dinosaur?
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And like stuff like that.
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And he answered her, but like,
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while you're, like you said,
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while you're in the middle of it,
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you know, Hey, congratulations.
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That was super cool.
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Um, you know, you know, blah, blah,
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whatever.
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And then you just throw that kind of
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in there.
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It's like, and, uh,
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so what's your favorite dinosaur?
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Cause it's going to throw them off track
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and it's going to make them stop and
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make them go, oh, you're not just like,
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you're not just asking me, you know, oh,
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did you win because you went faster?
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Like, you know, right.
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Halftime coach interviews are just as
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dumb.
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You know,
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Ben Johnson got hammered last year because
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a reporter was asking, hey,
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you didn't play well in the first half.
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What are you going to do to get
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better?
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And he's like, we need to play better.
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And everybody bashed him for being curt.
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What else are you supposed to say?
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I would say what we're not going to
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do is what we did in the first
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half.
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Yeah.
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That approach didn't work,
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so we're going to try.
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The coach for the Boston Celtics gives the
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absolute best halftime and postgame
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interviews.
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And if you don't believe me,
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go look it up on Instagram.
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He's got clips for days because he answers
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stupid questions with stupid answers.
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Like,
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if you're going to ask me something
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ridiculous,
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I'm going to give you something ridiculous
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back.
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But does it straight face?
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Like, mm-hmm.
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And just tell them something stupid,
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and then just kind of look at them.
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And, yeah, it's fantastic.
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Yeah, I – Bill Belichick.
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Anyway, we're off on – well,
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we're always off on a tangent,
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but – It's fine.
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I just – and the more and more
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I think about, like, the game – like,
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I threw out that proposal to make the
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games better with only ten people making
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it.
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Of course,
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that means a season that makes sense with
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drama throughout the season.
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Now I'm to the point where maybe,
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just maybe, it should be an every-two,
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every-four-year event.
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And let the Wadapaloozas, the Rogues,
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the Metconrushes,
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and the Crash Crucibles have...
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couple years where they just get to be
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the the fun events that everybody goes to
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to train in the meantime right or to
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try to win prize money in the meantime
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and maybe absence would make the heart
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grow fonder again but you can't can't come
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back with the slop we had this year
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as a season if that's what you're going
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to do you know what i mean no
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i know exactly what you mean sorry i
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was reading john young's hairline
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uh uh don't think i disagree with someone
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more besides sporty beth are you
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disagreeing with me it would seem to be
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probably about the the ten person field i
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think every two years would probably be a
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better option every four years it's not
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the olympics um
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there's not enough fanfare.
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Does that make sense?
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Like for enough buildups to go, Ooh, yeah.
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Every, you know, every four years now, um,
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if it was going to do something like
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that, but again,
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it would have to have a whole lot
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of buildup, um, all,
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all the way up to it.
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Um, I just,
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it would have to make a whole lot
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more sense, especially then what,
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like one out of two things would happen.
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People like rogue or, um,
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WFP or Wadapalooza,
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step up and get better.
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And because CrossFit isn't there every
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year,
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CrossFit actually loses its relevance as
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the main sport.
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CrossFit will never lose its relevance as
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a methodology.
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Right.
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I firmly believe that.
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But as a sport, it's time.
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I think we're at the time where it
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is shit or get off the pot.
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They've got to figure it.
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Stop with the Band-Aids.
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The season needs to be fixed if you're
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going to stay a sport and run it
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from CrossFit.
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And I know we're celebrating twenty years
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and it's only twenty years.
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I don't know what Avera said here about
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twenty years.
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I was asking how do we get twenty
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years into the games and need a complete
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reset because because in two thousand
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eighteen we scrapped the thing that was
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working that just cost too much and
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instead of looking at it and find how
19:58
do we do this more economically we threw
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it in the trash and we tried something
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new and then after a year of that
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the world shut down.
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So that got thrown in the trash.
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And then even with just every year since
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then, it's been let's try something new.
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But that's the problem, but not new,
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right?
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It's the same general format with a
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tweaking of this and that.
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And I think we're getting further away
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from what used to work.
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Then we are getting closer to what used
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to work.
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You're not wrong.
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There's no consistency.
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no consistency on how to get there there's
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no consistency on what it looks like when
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you get there there's no consistency on or
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very little consistency as far as when you
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get there but how you get there is
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definitely not the same as it's been any
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year and i know this isn't going to
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be a popular a popular i'm good at
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saying things that aren't popular lately
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crossfit was owned by a guy that didn't
21:17
care about the sport yeah
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It wasn't private equity that sent us down
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this rabbit hole.
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It was Greg saying,
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regionals cost too much,
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we're throwing it in the garbage,
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and we're gonna go to this sanctional
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thing,
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and we're gonna take people from the open.
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And not only are we gonna take people
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from the open,
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we're gonna take one from every country in
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the world.
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We wanna spread the message of CrossFit to
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the globe.
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And I don't care about the sport.
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I care about spreading the message.
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And because of that,
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we've never been back on track.
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Just like this show.
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Now,
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private equity coming in two years later
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definitely didn't help the cause.
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And probably threw a couple more nails in
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the sport coffin.
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think maybe Greg did that knowing it might
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cause the games to crash out.
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I don't think that was his premise behind
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it.
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I truly thought he wanted it to be
22:33
a global experience and spread CrossFit to
22:36
those countries that didn't really have it
22:39
and give some incentive to open a box
22:42
in Uzbekistan.
22:46
You know,
22:48
All the people you saw on the floor
22:53
for the workout or two they got to
22:55
do at the games that would not
22:57
necessarily,
22:58
they get to call themselves a games
22:59
athlete for the rest of their lives,
23:00
first of all, because you made it.
23:03
Doesn't matter about how the process has
23:05
changed.
23:06
They made it that year because that's what
23:08
it was that year.
23:09
And to a man,
23:11
if you watched it live,
23:13
you watched the people in documentary and
23:16
whatnot,
23:17
they all enjoyed the shit out of
23:19
themselves.
23:20
As they should have.
23:22
The vast majority of them were taking it
23:24
in and going, holy shit,
23:26
I'm on the floor for this thing.
23:28
The opening ceremony is when they brought
23:29
everybody in with all the flags and stuff.
23:31
First of all,
23:32
it took about eight and a half hours.
23:34
At least that's what it felt like.
23:36
But that was something to see.
23:40
that was a hell of a spectacle i
23:41
don't even disagree that that that would
23:43
have that may have worked i think there
23:47
were way too many sanctionals and way too
23:50
many like if then else statements for well
23:54
because these three people already
23:55
qualified for the games fourth place gets
23:58
to go and then trying to explain that
24:00
every week as another sanction one-off was
24:03
difficult
24:06
But I think with a little bit of
24:07
refinement, that idea may have been okay.
24:12
But it just was the precursor to
24:14
everything going down the rabbit hole of
24:18
getting away from a season that made
24:20
sense.
24:23
Because that season,
24:25
as Pat Belner said it best,
24:29
I think I qualified through,
24:32
like he wasn't even real sure because of
24:35
how convoluted it was that year.
24:38
Princess says,
24:39
this season really hasn't been that bad.
24:41
We have one of the strongest fields in
24:42
years.
24:44
The end doesn't justify the means.
24:47
Just because we have one of the strongest
24:49
fields at the games doesn't mean the
24:51
season wasn't bad.
24:58
It's...
25:03
It's just a mess.
25:04
It's not even so much that the season
25:06
itself was bad.
25:07
It was a mess.
25:08
You had people doing multiple, multiple
25:12
Over, over consecutive weekends going, oh,
25:15
I'm gonna, I can't do this one.
25:16
So I'm gonna go to that one or
25:17
no, I didn't make it here.
25:18
So I'm gonna go here instead.
25:19
Uh, and whatnot,
25:21
which is pushing some other people who may
25:23
have had an opportunity to go out and
25:26
it just made it.
25:28
It's been incredibly, oh,
25:29
well this person, do they qualify here?
25:31
No, they didn't qualify there.
25:32
And they went to the one after that
25:33
and qualify there.
25:34
What about this?
25:35
Nope.
25:35
They didn't make it there.
25:36
They made it online right here at the
25:37
end.
25:38
It's not so much that it's been bad.
25:40
It's been a mess.
25:43
And it's mostly a mess for us that
25:44
have to try to make sense of it
25:46
and report on it to everybody else who
25:48
might also be having problems trying to
25:50
follow it.
25:52
I think it's bad because you have eleven
25:56
organizations all writing their own book.
25:59
Yeah.
26:00
Okay,
26:01
so you have one person writing a book
26:03
for the Open and Quarterfinals.
26:06
Then after that, you say, okay,
26:07
you eleven people,
26:08
you write your own version of what the
26:10
middle of this book is going to look
26:12
like.
26:13
with eleven different writings and
26:16
different styles.
26:19
And now we're coming back to, okay,
26:20
now the first author is going to take
26:23
over and finish this off.
26:29
So,
26:31
and the piece you let the eleven people
26:35
write,
26:36
was the piece getting to the climax of
26:38
the season?
26:42
It's convoluted.
26:44
That's the most important part of a book
26:47
from what I understand,
26:48
because I don't read anymore.
26:50
But I hear that that's like getting to
26:53
the climax is the most important thing in
26:56
a lot of things, including writing a book.
26:59
As it turns out,
27:01
as another Clydesdale top tip, y'all.
27:03
Yeah.
27:05
Don't mess with the climax.
27:07
Don't mess with the climax.
27:08
It's pretty darn important.
27:12
Um, personally,
27:13
I knew at least a couple of people
27:14
who discovered they had obscure
27:16
citizenship from another country and
27:18
managed to go to the games that year.
27:20
Yeah.
27:24
Yeah.
27:26
But it's still,
27:29
I do get the point where it gave
27:31
the incentive for people from that country
27:34
to look and go, Ooh,
27:36
if I can just beat them,
27:37
I know I can be our representative.
27:40
Right.
27:45
That's what she said.
27:47
True word, Scott.
27:48
Yep.
27:51
Don't mess with the climax.
27:52
That's the theme of today.
27:58
Oh, one in nineteen.
28:00
Once again,
28:01
if you have find yourself with some time
28:03
after the show is over with,
28:05
go back and watch the first heat of
28:07
first cut and watch Ben Smith just wading
28:10
through the mass of humanity.
28:11
That was that was that workout.
28:16
And just that's your that's the opposite.
28:22
of what we've been talking about with one
28:23
lane for like one regular guy and then
28:26
ten lanes for everybody else it's the it's
28:28
the it was ten lanes of regular and
28:30
one former games champion yeah
28:35
One Ben Smith just,
28:36
just that's my buddy Aaron described it as
28:40
him just waiting through a massive
28:42
humanity.
28:42
Just, you know,
28:43
while putting a smack down,
28:44
everybody was there, but they would get,
28:45
people get stopped at the,
28:47
like at the squat snatches or they
28:48
couldn't do, you know,
28:50
more than one legless rope climb or
28:52
whatnot.
28:52
And Ben's just running through the entire
28:54
thing.
28:55
Good night.
28:56
That was fantastic.
29:00
I was there in twenty nineteen on the
29:01
field judging.
29:02
It was painful to watch.
29:05
I'm not saying that is my ideal approach
29:07
to getting back to a sports season.
29:12
I'll tell you what, though,
29:13
like a cut after every event was pretty
29:15
wild.
29:17
Cutting half the field after the first
29:19
event, which I mean, granted,
29:21
you were going from one hundred and fifty
29:24
males, just males.
29:26
And like now we're going to cut it
29:27
to seventy five, which is still what?
29:31
Two and a half times the games field,
29:32
generally speaking.
29:34
Like, that's still a lot.
29:34
There's still a whole lot of people out
29:35
there because people are bitching.
29:37
Oh,
29:37
they might come down here and only get
29:38
to do one event.
29:39
Yeah.
29:40
And then there's still seventy five people
29:42
doing the second one and they go cut
29:44
again and they go cut again before they
29:46
actually get down to the field size that
29:47
they actually wanted to try to accommodate
29:49
people.
29:52
It was like American Idol on CrossFit.
29:55
They would bring them into a room and
29:57
put them in the bleachers.
29:59
Okay, if your name's called,
30:00
you've been cut.
30:02
Because there were so many people you
30:04
couldn't tell when you finished your heat,
30:06
whether you were top-seventy-five or
30:08
bottom-seventy-five.
30:09
So they put them in a set of
30:10
bleachers and said, all right,
30:11
we're going to start reading names off.
30:15
Now,
30:15
I'm sure the guy that couldn't do the
30:17
first rope climb knew he was getting cut.
30:19
A hundred percent.
30:21
Right.
30:21
And I bet he didn't care.
30:25
Whatever.
30:25
I got to do a workout on the
30:27
floor at the games as a games athlete.
30:29
And some countries, like,
30:31
sent there as a representative.
30:35
Like, it wasn't all bad.
30:39
I would take that over the last couple
30:41
seasons.
30:42
Yeah.
30:44
Now,
30:44
a lot of people got cut that we,
30:46
you know, everybody's like, yeah,
30:48
but what if Justin didn't make the games
30:50
this year?
30:50
And what if blah, blah, blah.
30:53
Hell, Sarah got cut.
30:54
Sam Briggs got cut.
30:55
Brooke Wells got cut.
30:57
It was savage.
30:59
A lot of people did not make the
31:01
finals, the final finals, the last day,
31:04
whatever you want to call it.
31:05
A lot of people.
31:08
It was a great workout, Larry.
31:10
It was fun to watch.
31:12
It had cool elements.
31:15
It was really fun to watch.
31:19
Hell yeah.
31:20
I think recognizing national champions is
31:22
a good thing, but like the Olympics,
31:24
if you don't meet the A standard,
31:26
you don't qualify.
31:27
Yeah, I get that.
31:32
I get that.
31:33
And yes, Vicky, it should be savage.
31:36
Sport is savage.
31:39
problem the only problem with what he's
31:40
saying as far as meeting the a standard
31:42
is what is the a standard right right
31:46
because with crossfit being the nature of
31:49
what it is like what what you're gonna
31:52
say oh if you have a if you
31:53
have a two-minute friend you got a
31:54
two-thirty friend
31:56
And how do you judge it?
31:57
And how do you judge that?
31:59
And what else do you add to it?
32:00
Oh,
32:00
if you got a five hundred pound deadlift.
32:02
Event one.
32:03
The reason I paused is because event one
32:05
got us who the A standard was after
32:08
event one.
32:08
Right.
32:10
Right.
32:10
Everybody in that top seventy five could
32:12
do workouts.
32:13
Sure.
32:15
Right.
32:17
I mean,
32:18
Matt Fraser famously said that was a
32:21
perfect workout.
32:22
Yeah.
32:26
Don't get me started on standards, Corey.
32:30
Settle down, Jude.
32:31
Settle down.
32:34
Lita says,
32:34
great conversation with the girls
32:35
yesterday, Scott,
32:37
that the Masters doesn't feel like the
32:38
games, but like just another comp,
32:41
same feelings.
32:41
I've had that for a while now.
32:43
I know a lot of athletes that feel
32:45
that way.
32:46
They just want it to feel like they're
32:48
a part of the games,
32:49
and right now it feels very separate.
32:53
And we're going to get into that later.
32:55
Because next week will pretty much be
32:56
preview.
33:00
Well, maybe the end of this week,
33:01
beginning of next week will be Masters.
33:04
And then we'll get into the Elite after
33:06
that.
33:07
As hopefully we know more events.
33:08
Because I think some events, one or more,
33:12
are getting released today for the
33:13
Masters.
33:13
Supposedly today, yeah.
33:14
Matter of fact, you said that earlier.
33:20
People should at least know in advance
33:22
that they could get cut after one event
33:24
because letting them know after they
33:26
bought their tickets seemed like a low
33:28
blow to me.
33:31
They had to.
33:32
I get what you're saying, Lito.
33:34
I get it.
33:35
Just like they should have told the
33:36
Masters they have tickets for the whole
33:37
weekend before they bought new ones.
33:40
That would have been a nice...
33:42
thing to do too um but you had
33:46
to know if you were one of a
33:47
hundred and seventy or a hundred and fifty
33:50
you weren't making it too many events i
33:56
don't think you had much i don't think
34:01
a realistic human being
34:03
can look at it and go,
34:05
they're sending a hundred and fifty of us
34:07
there for a thing that lasts.
34:10
What was it that year?
34:11
Four days, five days, something like that.
34:14
And we're going to be there all weekend
34:16
because I am, you know,
34:18
I am the representative from wherever,
34:22
you know, pick a country.
34:24
And I am not Matt Fraser, Pat Vellner,
34:28
Scott Pancheck, whoever.
34:31
I'm just some dude,
34:32
and I got to come because I'm the
34:33
best crossfitter in my small,
34:36
obscure country.
34:37
I am not going to be here all
34:38
weekend.
34:40
You'd have to have that conversation,
34:41
at least with yourself,
34:42
if you're being any sort of realistic.
34:44
You're not going there thinking,
34:46
wipe the floor with these fools.
34:47
I'm going to be here all, you know.
34:53
I don't see that.
34:55
You know what never gets cut?
34:58
thirdsy from my nighttime routine very
35:02
nice dude last night nine hours of sleep
35:06
working hard all weekend on the patio
35:09
doing the outdoor work um went to a
35:12
cookout on saturday it was awesome last
35:16
night after we went late last night
35:18
because um carolyn is in california now
35:23
So I chugged my Thirdsy, went to bed,
35:26
off I went.
35:28
And you can get your Thirdsy too for
35:30
fifteen percent off at Thirdsy.com
35:33
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35:35
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35:38
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35:41
Speaking of Jazzy, speaking of Jazzy,
35:44
these came in the mail just an hour
35:47
ago.
35:52
Let me see here.
35:54
Ba-bam.
35:55
What?
35:57
Stickers.
35:59
Yes, sir.
35:59
New stickers for the games.
36:02
Love it.
36:03
Clydesdale getting jazzed.
36:07
The manging on that horse is like,
36:09
that is some flow right there.
36:11
It is, man.
36:11
You got it built on for some reason.
36:13
I like that.
36:14
yeah that's that's old school like joe
36:19
dirt flow going that's nice in the back
36:24
that is nice stuff right there um so
36:27
if you see me at the games and
36:28
you want one just let me know i'll
36:30
hand one out and if you order a
36:35
shirt once they come in please lord make
36:38
it be soon i'll throw one of those
36:40
in your shirt
36:44
or more if you want more just tell
36:45
me so this dude here oh here we
36:52
go is third z pet friendly asking for
36:55
research purposes i don't know joseph but
37:00
i know you're a dog he is a
37:02
dog that is a fact
37:05
uh old lito oh and by the way
37:07
legends have already missed one of their
37:08
deadlines as they told us in an email
37:10
we were supposed to have the total number
37:11
of events before july six scott you know
37:14
what date it is today uh listen they
37:17
gave me media credentials and i'm trying
37:21
to patch relationships so i'll let let you
37:25
and lito have this conversation just
37:28
saying my buddy chris told me the same
37:30
thing not the same thing was i'm similarly
37:32
said it'll probably be late tonight
37:36
Yeah.
37:38
Look, from past experience,
37:41
I've been there twice,
37:42
and it's par for the course.
37:46
This is on brand.
37:51
Joseph,
37:51
I will sign one for you if that's
37:53
what you need.
37:56
There you go.
37:57
Legends are fantastic.
38:00
Lito, huh?
38:02
Legends are fantastic.
38:03
Lito knows what side the bread is buttered
38:08
on before she puts it in the toaster.
38:10
It's fine.
38:13
Jacob says, Joseph has that dog in him.
38:15
That's why he's asking.
38:17
Joseph does have that dog in him.
38:18
He does.
38:19
Dude's fit, man.
38:22
He's big dog.
38:25
Not little dog.
38:26
There's one thing on this planet.
38:30
I love dogs.
38:31
Big fan of dogs.
38:32
Big, big fan of dogs.
38:34
If your dog yips,
38:35
I don't want it anywhere near me.
38:39
Mine is smaller, but does not yip.
38:43
I don't give a shit how big it
38:44
is,
38:45
but if it just goes bananas when you
38:48
walk in the house and just all of
38:50
that.
38:51
No, thank you.
38:53
It would have been awesome if they had
38:55
planned the Masters podium ceremony to
38:58
happen during the Friday opening ceremony.
39:02
I get the sentiment,
39:03
and I like the sentiment because that
39:04
would feel like you're part of the thing.
39:09
In the past, when it was at Madison,
39:11
they brought all the Masters podium people
39:14
out on the floor when they did the
39:15
podium for the elites and the teams.
39:21
They got to get twenty events in in
39:23
four days.
39:25
Yeah.
39:26
I am betting this will be one of
39:27
the shortest opening ceremonies you have
39:30
ever seen.
39:32
And they've got to draw balls out of
39:34
a hopper and show what those balls are
39:37
going to be by when they put them
39:38
in.
39:38
It's mostly why I made sure I came
39:44
on today was for the ball talk.
39:47
It's all about climax and balls, man.
39:49
Climax and ball talk, baby.
39:50
That's what we do here on Clyzeo.
39:55
I'll say one last thing.
39:56
Last year when they partnered with Pitt,
39:57
communication was at least fantastic.
40:00
We even had a group chat.
40:08
Again,
40:09
I just got media credentials about twenty
40:12
five minutes ago.
40:15
And try not to get revoked.
40:18
Yeah.
40:18
And not to get revoked.
40:19
That's all there is to it.
40:21
So I'm going to,
40:22
I'm on a moratorium for the next two
40:24
and a half weeks ish.
40:26
And I'll probably blow that in a day
40:28
or two,
40:28
but it depends on what happens for now.
40:29
It depends on what happens the next twenty
40:31
four hours from being completely honest
40:33
here.
40:34
I mean, I may just say, hey,
40:35
I'll just take Shanna's coaching badge and
40:37
screw it and blow it out in a
40:39
week or two.
40:40
You have to have a backup plan.
40:43
Always a plan B.
40:45
Always got to have a plan B.
40:47
I don't give a damn what Savant says.
40:48
How about no plan B?
40:49
No, no, no.
40:49
We got a plan B.
40:52
It's a contingency plan.
40:54
Let's call it that.
40:54
We don't call it plan B. Fine.
40:56
Contingency plan.
40:58
soon as the proverbial it's the proverbial
41:02
fan then all of a sudden i'm shanna's
41:04
coach no big deal moving on moving on
41:06
my life uh damn that's a lot of
41:11
ball handling yeah you know it yeah but
41:18
when you show the balls and you throw
41:22
them in and you pull them out
41:26
That gets us to the climax of the
41:28
Hopper event later that night.
41:31
Ginny is definitely clipping that.
41:32
Right?
41:36
Yeah.
41:37
I'm just stating facts.
41:38
It is.
41:41
How you interpret those facts,
41:42
that's on you.
41:47
Dave said there will be more than five
41:49
events on Wednesday.
41:54
More than five scores for sure.
41:57
I was about to say, yeah,
41:57
if he's got some of the five,
41:59
you know,
41:59
the fifty point things going on and
42:00
whatnot, then, yeah, I could see that.
42:04
Keep people moving.
42:04
Hey, we got to go.
42:05
We got to go.
42:05
We got to go.
42:06
We're going to run through.
42:06
We're going to run through all of this
42:08
stuff.
42:11
Oh, yeah.
42:12
And we drink from the back end by
42:13
accident.
42:15
That's that's bad, too.
42:17
Oh.
42:22
It's fine.
42:30
Avera,
42:30
what I will say about bashing CrossFit for
42:33
Masters is why does everybody, well,
42:38
I don't know.
42:40
We'll talk about that later.
42:41
I have issues with CrossFit and Masters.
42:46
It should be a seamless story from open
42:49
to games,
42:50
no matter what division you're in.
42:51
And we don't have that.
42:53
And that's where that responsibility is on
42:56
CrossFit.
42:57
to come up with a plan to give
43:02
a seamless story.
43:04
And the example I used last night,
43:06
you don't start reading the Martian and
43:08
halfway through flip to project Hail Mary.
43:13
Oh God, no, please don't do that.
43:14
Project Hail Mary was so good.
43:17
the martian was so good but you know
43:19
but the half and half together would be
43:21
utterly terrible well it would be two
43:23
different things completely that you tried
43:26
to match together and it would not work
43:30
because it's two separate stories so
43:32
that's where crossfit needs to step in and
43:35
say we are telling this story for the
43:38
season and it needs to be a story
43:44
That's the main component we've lost since
43:47
twenty eighteen.
43:49
CrossFit does not control the story.
43:54
Because they've handed it off, right?
43:57
They've handed it off.
43:58
And the problem with that is,
44:00
as I'm thinking about it right now,
44:01
is that once you hand it off and
44:03
you say, okay, well, you guys do this,
44:06
y'all do that, whatever the case may be,
44:09
is that they're handing it off without
44:11
saying, and this is how it should go.
44:14
This is what you need to focus on
44:15
at this point so that when we get
44:17
to this point that we take the wheel
44:19
back,
44:22
that it's not going to be so disjointed.
44:27
And it's going to make sense and the
44:28
right people are going to make it.
44:30
And, oh, you know,
44:31
and I say the right people to make
44:33
it,
44:33
the fittest people are going to make it
44:35
for the most part.
44:37
You might, you're going to have some,
44:38
some weird shit going on from,
44:39
from time to time.
44:40
I'm sure.
44:41
But without that middle part of
44:43
communication, Hey, look, this is what,
44:45
this is how the,
44:46
this is how the entire season is going
44:48
to go.
44:48
If you're handing it off to those people,
44:49
you give that part away from it.
44:54
I have a one-thirty meeting and I need
44:55
to eat lunch,
44:56
so I'm going to head out,
44:57
but I want to leave with this.
44:59
I've been complaining about, you know,
45:01
I am a former swimmer.
45:04
The no dive, no flip turn has been,
45:07
has hurt my heart a lot.
45:09
Hey,
45:09
if you want to hurt it even more,
45:10
I have a video of me practicing a
45:12
flip turn and I can send that to
45:13
you.
45:18
Anyway,
45:19
I've been trying to explain why my heart
45:21
hurts about it.
45:22
And it was said much better on the
45:25
Rich Froning podcast today.
45:27
So I want to play that real quick.
45:29
Sure.
45:33
And I'm probably a really poor diver.
45:35
But if you're not going to allow flip
45:36
turns and dives,
45:37
we should all have a single speed bike.
45:39
Yeah.
45:40
It's the same idea.
45:41
Do we have to know how to shift
45:43
gears on a bike?
45:43
Is that something that's going to be
45:45
important for us?
45:46
That's a great question.
45:51
I don't know the model.
45:52
I know the type,
45:53
but I don't know the exact model.
45:55
It's probably going to have,
45:57
you're probably going to have to have some
45:58
basic knowledge on how to shift.
45:59
We can do that.
46:00
Yes.
46:04
So taking that away from someone who has
46:10
worked on those skills is like taking that
46:13
away from a cyclist who is,
46:15
who knows how to shift gears.
46:22
My bike analogy finally, I'm vindicated.
46:26
Yeah.
46:28
I just, and that was by Andrew Hillers.
46:31
I want to give the right credit out.
46:34
Um,
46:35
but it was clipped from a Dave interview
46:37
with Rachel Noel and the rich running
46:40
podcast.
46:42
Um,
46:46
I cannot fathom who doesn't know how to
46:48
shift gears.
46:49
Lito,
46:50
you would be surprised if you come to
46:52
Birmingham,
46:54
they had a whole thing like before people
46:56
got, whenever you got there checking,
46:57
you could go sit on the bike and
46:59
they had people that would take you
47:00
through it.
47:02
Okay, look,
47:03
press this one and it upshifts.
47:05
And if you press this other one,
47:06
it go back and downshift.
47:07
If it upshifts,
47:09
they had a whole thing about it.
47:10
I didn't do it because it's a newer
47:12
model of the exact same bike I've been
47:14
riding for the past three years.
47:16
But you would be surprised.
47:19
How many people hadn't even ridden a bike?
47:23
Yeah, look, there you go.
47:26
Shelly did two days before Magic Games.
47:31
There it is.
47:34
And listen, like you,
47:39
you have a background.
47:41
CrossFit is about this multiple aspect
47:44
fitness competition.
47:46
And people come from different
47:48
backgrounds.
47:49
People were gymnasts,
47:50
which for them doing a bar muscle up
47:53
or a ring muscle up is a piece
47:55
of cake.
47:57
They shouldn't be put at a disadvantage
47:59
because of their background.
48:04
That's my only point.
48:06
It's valid, though.
48:08
The one thing...
48:12
It's more about the reason that Dave gave
48:14
that it's a competitive advantage.
48:17
If they said,
48:18
can't dive because of safety or something
48:21
like that... Yeah, it's a three-foot pool.
48:25
Sorry, you can't dive.
48:27
Makes sense to me.
48:29
But a flip turn is just...
48:31
It's not dangerous.
48:33
is when i do it not to anybody
48:38
not to anybody else but me let me
48:40
go ahead and clarify that and angelo said
48:43
like i can do one but air's too
48:45
important to me and i want to stop
48:46
and get a good deep breath before i
48:49
go i don't it just is dumb man
48:53
it's just i i will not be okay
48:56
with this and the and the explanation ever
49:00
There is no good explanation.
49:02
It's like they said.
49:03
It's like you've been riding bikes all
49:05
your life, and you ride mountain bikes,
49:07
and you do it.
49:09
Ricky, perfect example.
49:11
We talked about it the other day.
49:13
Ricky is also a really good high-level
49:15
mountain biker.
49:18
Sorry, Rick.
49:19
We're going to give you a single speed
49:21
bike because you'd be too fast on one
49:24
with gears.
49:25
Sorry.
49:25
Just got to add to that.
49:30
Johnny is allergic to peanuts,
49:31
so nobody can bring in treats for the
49:33
class on their birthday.
49:35
Yeah.
49:35
All right.
49:36
Good point of error.
49:41
Now my Gen X is just going to
49:43
start showing.
49:46
Yeah.
49:50
Nobody in the eighth grade was allergic to
49:53
fucking peanuts.
49:53
I'm sorry.
49:55
That's a whole different thing.
49:57
Larry Young.
49:59
I've hit so many home runs,
50:00
dunked basketballs,
50:01
and all would be considered advantages.
50:04
We will never see anything like that,
50:05
but running seems fair game.
50:07
Just kidding.
50:09
Yeah.
50:09
All right.
50:11
With that, guys,
50:12
I need to go get something to eat.
50:14
I hope you guys have a great rest
50:15
of your day.
50:16
We will be back tomorrow.
50:19
Maybe.
50:22
I will be.
50:23
Scott will do it.
50:24
Definitely will be.
50:25
I'm fifty fifty at this point.
50:26
Depends on if I got to work all
50:28
I got to take.
50:29
All right, guys.
50:30
Hope to see you then.
50:32
Have a great rest of your day and
50:33
we'll see you tomorrow on Lunch with the
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Clydesdale and Cowboy.
50:36
You wouldn't wait to get to the editing
50:38
room to jazz me up.
50:40
I'm already jazzy.
50:52
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50:53
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50:55
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50:57
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