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Lunch with the Clydesdale - Cajun Wednesday | WFP Responds to Smear Campaign · Clydesdale Media Podcast

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What is going on, everybody?
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Welcome to Lunch with the Clydesdale.
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It is Wednesday,
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and Wednesday means we go Cajun,
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and that's why Corey is here.
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We are cooking Cajun with
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Corey on a Wednesday.
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Yes, we are.
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And if you didn't laugh at
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the cartoon of Corey riding a bison,
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I don't know what I'm doing.
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Right, yeah, no.
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I did.
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I just don't know what I'm doing, man.
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I did.
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I throw stuff in the chat, GBT,
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and that's how I make my thumbnails.
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I'm in Montana, and I was like,
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what can I do Montana-ish that's funny?
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Corey riding a bison popped in my head,
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and there it is.
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It's a beautiful thing.
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It's a beautiful thing.
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Little known fact, I would ride a bison.
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You are one, I am not another.
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No way, no how, man.
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There's an old, like, you know, people do,
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like, voiceovers and stuff for, like,
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old shows or whatnot, make it funny.
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There's a thing called Guy on a Buffalo,
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and a dude, like, sings a whole song.
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It's some old movie or TV
1:54
series or something, but it's some dude,
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and it was, like,
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in the probably supposed to be set in,
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like,
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the late eighteen hundred or
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something like that.
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So some dude looks like Daniel Boone.
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But he is legitimately
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riding a buffalo and run around, like,
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saving people and whatnot.
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And there's a song that goes with it.
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And, oh, my God, it's funny.
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It's a guy on a buffalo.
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Trent Olive,
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I can see Corey wrangling a
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gator and taking it for a ride.
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I don't mess with alligators.
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Here's why.
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They can swim a hell of a
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lot better than I can.
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And nine times out of ten,
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they're in the water.
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I've seen Corey swim.
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I can back that story up one
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hundred percent.
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Yeah, absolutely.
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Not a great swim.
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Working on it.
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Going to swim in the warm water.
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I want to tell this story real quick,
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Light,
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because you will appreciate the
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ever-loving shout of this.
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So Saturday morning,
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we had the nine eleven
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heroes run for Travis Manion Foundation.
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five K ruck or just, you know, five K run,
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whatever.
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I did the ruck version with my vest.
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And so, you know, we went and did whatnot.
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I had to get my little one,
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my seven-year-old, my daughter,
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my light of my life,
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the maniac that lives in my house.
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to softball practice so like
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we got done hung out for a
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little bit and then had to
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jet out well turns out I
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came in second in my age
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group cool right so the
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next morning I'm showing
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jameson my middle and I
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said hey daddy got this for
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coming in second yesterday
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at the run that we went to
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and she said you got a
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medal and I was like yeah
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so she goes in her room
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She comes back with the
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medal that they gave her
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for the U-Five soccer that
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she did a couple of years ago.
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And she said, well,
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what did I get this for?
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And I said, well,
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they gave you that just for
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participating in the season.
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And she looked and went.
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And as she's turning around, she said,
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that's no reason to get a medal.
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We didn't put it back in her room.
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Look, I'm punching the air, dude.
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Like, my heart grew fucking four sizes.
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Oh, my word.
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Like,
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I'm having a pretty good parenting week.
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Like, she said,
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that's no reason to get a medal.
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You know what, baby?
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You're damn right.
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That is what you're right.
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That is no reason to get a medal.
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Proud of her.
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That's cool.
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That's cool.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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So,
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I've been so out of touch with CrossFit.
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I'm
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And all week I've been
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trying to watch videos, right?
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Watch YouTube, whatever.
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And nothing's coming up on my screen.
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And I'm searching like
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different podcasters in the
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space and nothing's coming up.
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And I'm like,
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what in the world is going on?
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And so this morning I
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discover that the people
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who own the Airbnb have the
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Wi-Fi restricted to like
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kids only programming.
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The whole Wi-Fi.
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And so, like,
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I have not been able to catch
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up on things unless I click
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off of Wi-Fi and use my
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cell service to bring in the internet.
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So I've had to switch
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everything over this morning.
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And I finally,
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finally caught up on some stuff.
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But good gravy.
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I'm like,
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did everybody get blocked on YouTube?
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bro I literally was
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searching people and there
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nothing was coming up yeah
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can't find nobody did
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everybody get kicked off at
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the same time like what
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kind of coordinated is that
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I better check for uh
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hidden cameras yeah yeah it
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was I well I knew that we
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have so we're in this
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airbnb right and in montana
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all the houses are tiny
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they're like little I don't
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know how to describe like
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They call this a bungalow,
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but like all the houses are this way.
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There's a little two bedroom,
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one bath houses.
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And so when I was trying to
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hook up like an airplay to the TV,
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I noticed there were other
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things on the list of
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options that were not in this house.
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And I was like, oh,
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so we're on a shared thing
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for like multiple houses.
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No wonder I'm not getting
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any like fast downloads and uploads.
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and having to do everything
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on five G cause me and
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everybody else is trying to
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use this in at the same time.
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Um,
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I understand my work does that
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sometimes there are times
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my YouTube is set to a
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restricted mode and I can't
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watch certain video
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channels on my work computer.
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Yeah.
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But your work that makes a
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little bit of sense.
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So I'm here on vacation.
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Yeah.
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I'm at an Airbnb.
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Right.
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But I paid for it.
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That's fantastic.
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It's insane.
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So I,
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I dove into a couple of things this
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morning and I got a message
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from another media company
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in the space this morning
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saying I was semi mentioned in something.
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So I've been diving around and I,
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and I do want to discuss
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some of those things.
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The first thing I watched
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the coffee pods and what's
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with Dallin pepper.
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And I really liked Dallin a lot, man.
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Like he just,
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And he gets it.
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I think he just gets it, right?
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That we have a job, they have a job,
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and it may not be the ideal
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thing you want people saying about you,
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but he gets it.
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And he used the word annoyed,
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not like bullied, not to your campaign.
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that's fair.
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Like,
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I feel like the way he characterized
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it was fair.
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Like absolutely.
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I could see if I was in his shoes,
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it could be annoying
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because anything you do is
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going to get scrutinized,
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but that's part of being a
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professional athlete.
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Well, we're all annoyed by things.
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Like I watch stuff and I get
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annoyed watching.
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And it doesn't mean I
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dislike that person or that channel.
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No, it just means in that moment,
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I got annoyed by something.
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Right.
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But the thing that, um,
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And we're going to bring up the WFP,
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which means I'm probably
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going to get negative
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comments and all that kind of stuff.
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Just wait for it.
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But he did bring up what he
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believes the pay structure
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is going to be like.
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And this is one thing that if it is true,
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what he believes to be true
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is in fact going to happen.
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I think it's the best thing
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that they've done.
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And that is the pay
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structure for the contracts
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next year is based on your
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finish from this season.
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So if you win the WFP,
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you get the highest
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contract going into next season.
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And then it is tiered down
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just like a like the games
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do their payouts for first year.
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Right.
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It's done in the same manner.
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And if that is what they're doing,
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that's big kudos to WFP.
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That is that is an incentive
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based performance based
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payout that makes sense.
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Good on them if that's what they're doing.
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I don't know if you noticed or not,
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but you just said something
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positive about them.
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I'm doing the positive sandwich, man.
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Because I'm about to go off a little bit.
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Okay.
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I'm waiting for this.
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So I get a DM from Barbell Spin.
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Asking me about or telling
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me to stop spreading rumors
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and doing a smear campaign
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against the WFP.
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And I'm like, what are you talking about?
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Like I'm on, I'm on vacation.
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I don't,
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I don't even know what you're
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talking about, dude.
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And that's before I realized
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I'm on restrictive mode.
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Yeah.
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So he says,
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go to the WFP newest thing and
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check it out.
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And.
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this minute, that minute, whatever.
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So in that, they asked him, Seth Jumpship,
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who pretty much took over
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the whole interview and did
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an awesome job,
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was interviewing Will Moran,
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and he asked him about the
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exclusivity rumor that was out there.
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And Will said that those are lies,
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it was a smear campaign,
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and it was just somebody
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trying to get clicks.
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Well,
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That rumor started here on this show.
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And I did say in that
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statement that it was a rumor, right?
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Five percent.
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You made that clear several times.
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Right.
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I was not trying to start a
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smear campaign.
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And as you all know,
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I want the WFP to succeed
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because if they can find a
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way to make this work,
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it means good things for
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all of us moving forward.
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The other part of it is the
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sources I had on this
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were multiple they and they
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are not connected and they
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said the same thing and
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they will I would consider
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a really good source at the
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very least right
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trustworthy so and then will goes on
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me do not care about the
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well-being of the athletes
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they just want to bash them
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they want to get clicks so
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what I want to say is if
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you if you are out there
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doing a sport in the public
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eye you are setting
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yourselves up to be judged
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you are setting yourself up
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to have criticism
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That is why people get
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passionate about things,
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and that's why there is
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money to be earned in that sport.
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So it's my internet that's going bad.
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Yeah, I am really,
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really – I'm really
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struggling here because I
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don't have Wi-Fi.
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It's way better than – Way
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better than what?
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It's way better now.
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You kind of broke it up a little bit,
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but it's much better now.
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If you're in the public eye
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and you're trying to earn
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money in the public eye
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doing public things,
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you're going to be judged.
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You're going to be scrutinized.
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And then Will said something
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about you don't care about
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their mental health.
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If this is going to sound
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super insensitive because
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I'm a strong believer in
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strong mental health and
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like I go to therapy myself, you know,
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it is what it is.
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But if being an athlete and
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being judged for your athleticism
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is going to give you mental
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health problems maybe this
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isn't the the career for
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you that's that's yeah um
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and and this is not to make
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light of mental health and
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I think actually his
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statement makes light of
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true mental health issues
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one million percent you are
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playing a game
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And you were earning money for that game.
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That should not be a mental health issue.
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You should know that that comes with it.
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But I want to flip it back
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on the positive side.
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People like Dallin and Jason
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who are embracing the media
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and who are actually using
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the media for their own benefit.
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because they create their own narratives.
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They control their own
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narratives because they
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either defend themselves,
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make a joke about it, or do what,
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or get out in front of it.
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They are winning in this
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current climate because of that.
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It's,
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I know there's a lot there
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and I probably ranted in
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different directions.
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There's a lot there,
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but mind and body is connected, right?
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He's supposed to be the
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fittest athletes in the
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whole world on the face of the planet.
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Like literally the fittest on earth.
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That is the title.
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And granted WFP does not
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crown the fittest on earth.
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They crown the world fitness
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project champion or whatever the hell it,
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whatever the hell it's called.
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But.
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We all know who they are.
15:19
We all know what they are.
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So the fact that you're
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worried about their mental
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health because somebody
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might have said something
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negative somewhere on the internet.
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How soft is that?
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When people, like you said,
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have legitimate actual
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mental health issues.
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That argument is so overblown, overdone.
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I know people that have real
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mental issues.
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like actual mental stuff going on.
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And that lessens that so
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much when I hear about some
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athlete who heard somebody say something.
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And let me say this too, um,
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ninety percent of what I
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saw spin post either this
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morning or last night,
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Uh,
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because this morning he had showed the
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Google, uh,
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search or whatever it was at
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WFP and that had CrossFit
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and like just showed what the hump was.
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And that's all it was.
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We're just showing, Hey,
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this is what the popularity
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of people searching for CrossFit is.
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This is what the popular people.
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And he's getting lit up in
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the comments because all
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you just posted negative stuff.
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It's not negative or positive.
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It's just a thing.
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If you're looking at it as
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in saying that it's negative,
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that's putting it on you to say, well,
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my thing is not as popular
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as the other thing.
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So in my view,
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what you just posted is negative.
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And I'm going to come at you for it.
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That's so silly because it's
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literally just statistics.
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It's the news.
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It's, hey,
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this is what it looked like in here.
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This is what it looked like in here.
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The VFP with three events
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culminating in a
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championship is positioning
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themselves to be on the
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level of the games, right?
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I mean, you can't deny that.
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You're looking at it, that's what it is.
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We got two events that lead
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up to this championship.
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CrossFit has the open
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semifinals and the championship, right?
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So to compare the two things,
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even if we're in year
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twenty and they're in year one,
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that's a natural thing that
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people are going to want to do.
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If you don't like the statistics,
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that's fine.
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Be better at your stuff.
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Be a better fan, promote them more,
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get them more popular, do more stuff.
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But don't come at the people
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who are just saying, Hey, here's what,
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here's what happened here recently.
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Like that is so insane to me.
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I train all of with facts, not feelings.
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Yeah.
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It is natural that any new
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entity coming into a sports arena, right?
17:57
Back in the eighties,
17:58
when the USFL started up against the NFL,
18:01
you compared the USFL's
18:04
numbers to the NFL.
18:06
When Live Golf came in and
18:08
stole golfers from the PGA Tour,
18:11
they were doing case
18:13
studies of the ratings
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between a Live Golf event
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to the PGA events, right?
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That's going to happen in whatever you do,
18:25
right?
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I mean, for years we've even,
18:27
before WFP even existed,
18:30
Wadapalooza's numbers
18:32
compared to CrossFit's
18:33
numbers on streaming.
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People looked at those numbers.
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It's been happening for years.
18:38
This is not a direct attack on you,
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the WFP.
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You put yourself in this
18:43
position by coming in and
18:45
competing against the
18:47
CrossFit Games season.
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You said we can do a
18:50
structure that makes more sense, right?
18:54
Yeah.
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And we think we can do it
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better than CrossFit, which is fine.
18:59
I think that's a valid argument.
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But don't get upset when
19:04
then people are comparing
19:06
your results to what existed before.
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Right?
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That's natural.
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It doesn't matter what it is.
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Like you said, the golf thing, the USFL,
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if a new racing league
19:22
started tomorrow that was
19:23
going to be in direct
19:24
competition with NASCAR,
19:25
and instead of turning left,
19:26
they turned right,
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it would be all over ESPN and every,
19:32
you know,
19:34
Fox Sports and everywhere else
19:35
for months on end,
19:38
comparing the two things,
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because they're similar but different.
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I mean...
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All right, this is going to take a minute.
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So Lex,
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you can be an athlete and have
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mental health needs.
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It doesn't exempt them based
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on the career they choose.
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It's not being soft to have
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mental health concerns and
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discrediting someone else's
20:07
mental health issues versus
20:08
someone else is not a good look.
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I'm not, I am saying the exact opposite.
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I'm saying that there are
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true mental health needs,
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but if you're going to be a
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public figure in the limelight,
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you have to know that with
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that comes criticism and
20:25
judgment and I just felt
20:29
like that when if you
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already know that and
20:34
you're complaining about
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what is known it's making
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light of other people going
20:39
through true hardships
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And I'm not saying athletes
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don't go through hardships.
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There are other hardships in
20:46
life that they can be
20:46
fighting through and going through,
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and I completely understand all of that.
20:52
But to say because I said
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there's going to be
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exclusivity in the sport
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next year or because the
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lighting is bad at your event,
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that that's creating mental health issues,
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I think that's where the
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statement gets to be
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overblown and doesn't make sense.
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I mean, like I said,
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I see a therapist once
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every couple weeks.
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I have my own mental
21:25
struggles that I go through.
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Everybody.
21:30
Everybody has them.
21:32
And I'm not trying to
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discredit anybody who might
21:35
have some who happens to be
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a professional athlete or even a, quote,
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professional athlete.
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What I'm saying is that
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that's a horrible excuse to try to,
21:46
because you're making
21:47
comparisons to one thing to another.
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That's a horrible reason to
21:50
go after somebody to just use that.
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Well,
21:53
what about the athlete's mental health?
21:55
What about it?
21:57
Are they doing okay with it?
21:58
Are they taking steps to correct it?
22:00
Are they doing what Scott
22:01
does and go and see a therapist?
22:04
Or are they just complaining about it?
22:09
Or even worse,
22:11
are you just complaining
22:12
about it for them?
22:15
Because that's not helpful either.
22:20
I think I think that if if
22:32
Will cited specific things in the media.
22:34
Instead of doing the blanket,
22:36
the media is awful because they do X,
22:39
right?
22:40
And that's what happens.
22:42
It's these blank targets.
22:46
I know personally that every
22:47
time I talk about it,
22:48
I get attacked from people
22:51
that are big supporters of the WFP.
22:53
And in most cases,
22:56
I say a constructive
22:57
criticism of how to make it better or
23:01
I am trying to support them.
23:05
We've gone over this a hundred times.
23:06
I don't want to go down this road again,
23:08
but it just... It's the
23:13
same thing over and over again.
23:14
You can't win.
23:16
In a situation like that,
23:17
there's nothing you can do
23:18
because no matter if you
23:20
come on and you just be
23:23
positive and just say things and, oh,
23:26
and they're just figuring
23:28
it out as they go along and whatnot.
23:31
then they're just going to
23:32
be all placated and happy
23:33
and then never going to
23:34
hear anything negative, not negative,
23:36
constructive.
23:38
You don't want friends like that, right?
23:42
You don't want friends telling you, oh no,
23:43
Scott, it's fine.
23:44
It's absolutely fine.
23:46
No, whatever you're doing.
23:47
Oh, you started doing drugs.
23:48
Oh no, I'm sure it's fine.
23:50
I'm sure it's fine.
23:51
I'm sure it'll be okay.
23:52
I don't want friends in my life like that.
23:55
I want people who's going to
23:56
hold me to the standard and
23:58
try to help me to be better.
24:00
And from day one,
24:01
And I know we've said this a
24:02
million times now.
24:03
I feel like we've been
24:04
talking about this for two
24:04
months at this point.
24:06
From day one,
24:07
you out of everybody else has been, hey,
24:11
I want this to work.
24:13
I think this is a good thing.
24:15
And everybody else was kind
24:16
of and you want to give
24:19
them a fair shake to begin with.
24:20
And as it has gone by and
24:22
they've repeatedly shot
24:23
themselves in the foot.
24:26
For whatever reason that has come by,
24:29
then your view specifically
24:32
has switched around a little bit.
24:34
That doesn't mean you still
24:35
don't want to succeed,
24:38
but you're just being honest.
24:42
That's the part that drives me bananas.
24:44
It's like I can't just call
24:45
it like I see it.
24:51
That part drives me nuts.
24:54
They don't want to hear that.
24:57
And sometimes maybe I'm just
25:03
too connected to different
25:05
groups in the space.
25:08
Hearing what some of the
25:08
volunteers went through,
25:11
hearing what some of the
25:11
employees went through on
25:12
tour stop one and were let
25:14
go before tour stop two has
25:18
really jaded me in some of
25:19
those respects because I don't know.
25:26
I don't think they are
25:28
willing to take constructive criticism.
25:30
And if you're not with them,
25:33
you're against them,
25:34
and they just shut you out.
25:39
Great.
25:42
And here's one more piece of
25:43
constructive criticism.
25:45
So in that podcast,
25:49
Will explained that they
25:50
were going to expand the
25:52
tour's stops next year
25:55
and maybe even more after
25:56
that and that eventually
25:59
they would look at a system
26:01
where they would take like
26:02
your three best finishes to
26:05
get your point total to
26:06
qualify you for the final
26:08
event wherever that may be
26:11
this year it's in
26:11
copenhagen then they also
26:15
talked about doing away
26:16
with the challenger
26:17
division and make a deeper
26:19
pro field which is happening next year
26:24
my only constructive
26:26
criticism about that is I
26:29
think we found in the
26:30
crossfit space that like a
26:32
forty person field was not
26:35
as um enjoyable as a thirty
26:38
person field because of the
26:40
number of heats you want to
26:43
create this deeper field
26:45
but if now you're going to
26:46
give people the options to
26:47
take tour stops off because
26:50
only their top three scores count
26:54
that field is is not going
26:56
to be as deep and as strong
26:58
as people are taking time
26:59
off and the risk they're
27:02
really going up against is
27:05
if you have twenty of those
27:07
thirty athletes or forty
27:08
athletes I don't they he
27:09
did not give a number right
27:11
competing in the crossfit
27:12
game season most likely
27:15
there's a tour stop that's
27:16
going to affect that season
27:17
more than any other and
27:19
that tour stop you're going
27:21
to show up with none of your top athletes
27:24
Unless they have chosen to
27:26
forego the CrossFit game
27:27
season and just do the WFP season.
27:36
And I think that,
27:39
and this is where I think
27:40
like their mind may be
27:42
working in the right direction,
27:44
but they're not to a place
27:45
where they have built their
27:47
following for that to make sense yet.
27:50
I'd agree to that.
27:56
that it's like they want
27:59
everything at once right
28:04
like just give me all the
28:05
things let's do all things
28:07
all things at once and I
28:08
just for me personally um
28:14
if it would have been
28:16
We're having an event.
28:18
This is what we're calling it.
28:19
And not being, oh,
28:21
and we're adding this thing.
28:22
Like, hey,
28:24
this event has grown so big that
28:25
we are going to do two events next year.
28:28
And one of them is going to
28:29
be a qualifier for the big event.
28:31
They're both going to be in person.
28:32
You can make money at it.
28:34
To where it's natural
28:35
evolution type stuff.
28:36
This just seems like
28:39
It's a, it's, it's for me personally,
28:41
it's almost a cart before
28:42
the horse type deal.
28:43
Like, okay, well now we've got three.
28:45
Well, next year we'll do four, you know,
28:49
with, with three stops and then a, a,
28:51
a final and then next year we'll do six.
28:54
And like, the more you expand that,
28:57
the more it overlays with the other,
28:59
with the other things,
29:00
like as somebody who competes,
29:03
I've only got so many
29:04
competitions in me a year.
29:07
Like the body can only take
29:08
so much before people are
29:11
going to start getting hurt,
29:12
before people are start going, you know,
29:14
having nagging injuries
29:15
that just roll over into, into,
29:17
and then into, and then into.
29:19
And there's a whole lot of
29:21
CrossFit athletes out there,
29:23
but I don't know if there's
29:25
enough to support and to
29:27
put out a decent product
29:28
that people are actually
29:29
going to want to pay to see.
29:31
Does that make sense?
29:32
Like for everybody that
29:33
drops out of the crossfit
29:34
season for the elites,
29:36
there's somebody there
29:36
waiting to pick it up.
29:38
But the reason that that
29:40
person is there to pick it
29:41
up is because the person
29:42
that was in front of them
29:43
was way better and is just
29:44
out for whatever reason.
29:48
I hear you.
29:49
I do think they had to show
29:52
a different season
29:53
structure because that is why –
29:56
that is why they created
29:58
this to show that it can be
29:59
done differently and more
30:01
effective um but I think
30:04
they just they tried to put
30:06
too many things in place in
30:07
the first year like they
30:09
should not have tried to
30:10
create an affiliate system
30:12
they should not they should
30:13
have focused on the one
30:14
thing if you're going to do
30:15
that down the road
30:17
establish yourself as this
30:18
first and then build on to it don't just
30:22
keep throwing spaghetti
30:22
noodles against the wall
30:24
and seeing which things sticks.
30:26
Yeah.
30:26
You know, just David Reed.
30:32
I would rather focus on the
30:33
games masters then if I'm
30:36
bored of the WFP.
30:39
And that's probably where they're at.
30:41
Like,
30:41
but there are some people that are
30:44
disgruntled with CrossFit
30:46
and that they went all in
30:48
as spectators to the WFP.
30:51
And there are a group of
30:52
people that do want that to
30:55
succeed more than anything.
30:59
So, yeah,
31:00
there's a group of us that have
31:02
been in the CrossFit space
31:03
for a long time and are
31:04
here to support CrossFit
31:07
and hope that they do things better.
31:08
But we've been very critical of them.
31:10
There's another group that
31:11
have been so critical of
31:12
them that they've teared off.
31:14
They're gone.
31:16
And they were looking for an alternative.
31:19
They're all in on WFP.
31:21
I know that because they'll
31:22
be in my comments tonight
31:23
telling me how wrong I am
31:26
about these takes.
31:28
That's fine.
31:30
That's their choice to do so.
31:35
It's okay to like a
31:37
different flavor of ice cream.
31:40
It is.
31:42
It makes me think this
31:46
flavor of ice cream will still be here
31:50
Like we're not going anywhere.
31:51
So come on back.
31:54
Not a big deal.
31:55
We'll still be here.
31:58
Yeah.
32:00
I think that the WP kind of
32:02
became rocky road.
32:04
They just threw the kitchen
32:05
sink of stuff into it and
32:07
they weren't ready.
32:08
They didn't process
32:09
everything before they did.
32:20
Speaking of comps, Mr. Mark Moss,
32:22
we'll go ahead and read that first.
32:24
Oh, yeah.
32:25
I want the WFP to succeed
32:26
for the athletes like Fish
32:27
and Ibarra who get no
32:29
income from the game season.
32:31
It helps them make some money.
32:34
I think it's good.
32:37
I do.
32:38
That's one thing that
32:39
CrossFit has done bad, poorly.
32:41
You did not get paid.
32:42
You got paid more for an
32:43
open finish than you did
32:45
for a semifinal finish,
32:47
which makes absolutely no sense.
32:50
sense no but uh speaking of
32:56
mark moss the founder
32:59
chairman of the board ceo
33:01
all that stuff of uplift
33:03
everybody knows and loves
33:04
more they were putting on
33:06
he's trying to find their
33:06
first ever competition and
33:08
apparently he texted me I
33:09
just saw it I saw him come
33:11
in there uh earlier uh they
33:14
had a competition
33:17
that they've been trying to put on, uh,
33:19
actually it was on his
33:20
second date in November and
33:22
it just got canceled.
33:25
That's terrible.
33:30
There's all the profits
33:31
we're going to be going to
33:32
suicide prevention,
33:34
which is our mission to begin with.
33:38
Mark, that sucks, dude.
33:39
Sorry to hear that.
33:40
I'll call you later, brother.
33:41
Yeah.
33:44
Mark's a great guy.
33:46
Uh,
33:47
Sorry that that happened to him.
33:52
Sucks.
33:52
Back on this, Lito, to be honest,
33:55
I think the only issue with
33:56
WP is that they're just a comp,
33:57
but trying to be more than a comp.
34:00
I think that's kind of it.
34:04
They should have just been
34:05
chocolate ice cream,
34:06
and instead they threw
34:08
marshmallows in the mix.
34:09
They threw some kind of nut in there.
34:13
They threw some chocolate chips in.
34:17
then it just became muddied
34:18
right and it is I think
34:24
that is the biggest problem
34:26
um david reed says are the
34:32
wfp supporters welcome back
34:33
if that fails I believe so
34:36
I will welcome them back absolutely
34:41
I don't have hate in my heart for anybody,
34:43
dude.
34:43
Look, go do other stuff.
34:45
I feel the same way about
34:46
fitness in general.
34:48
Like, I like to poke fun at people,
34:50
namely Doug Reed's wife, Judy,
34:53
for her Orange Theory days
34:54
before she started over here, right?
34:57
But if you are doing something
35:00
To take care of yourself.
35:01
I don't care what it is.
35:03
Good on you.
35:04
God gave you one body.
35:05
Take care of it.
35:06
Right.
35:07
Big fan, big fan, all that same thing.
35:10
If you want to go and watch, uh,
35:12
what is it?
35:12
The international IFF.
35:14
F is that right?
35:17
Yeah.
35:18
I have three.
35:19
Awesome.
35:20
I've seen some of their stuff on online.
35:22
It's kind of hard to follow
35:22
because there's one big
35:23
camera and I think they
35:24
were speaking some language I don't speak,
35:27
but.
35:28
Good.
35:29
Like if that's what you like, hey, bro,
35:31
more power to you.
35:32
It's not for me because I
35:34
can't follow it just
35:35
because I have no idea what's going on.
35:36
Right.
35:37
But if that's what you do,
35:39
I got one of my real good
35:42
friends does Gridley and I
35:45
try to watch it when I can.
35:46
Again,
35:47
hard for me to follow because I
35:49
don't know all the rules
35:49
and all the good stuff.
35:51
But if that's what they want to do,
35:54
fantastic.
35:55
It looks fun.
35:57
If y'all want to follow the
35:58
WFP in their entire season, awesome.
36:00
Make it happen.
36:02
We need to lift up Megan here.
36:04
She's in a cut and we have
36:05
to stop talking about ice cream.
36:10
So we will support our listeners.
36:12
Megan,
36:12
we will stop because we want you to
36:15
succeed in your cut.
36:18
So good on you for being strong.
36:24
And like Lex says, get a Ninja Creamy.
36:26
Then you can make your own
36:27
and you don't have to,
36:29
you can put like protein in
36:30
there and you don't have to
36:31
put all the fatty stuff in there.
36:33
I am running out of room at
36:34
my house for kitchen gadgets.
36:37
I just bought, you gotta laugh at me.
36:39
I just bought a rice cooker
36:41
like three weeks ago.
36:42
We've been making rice on
36:43
the stove for the past five years.
36:46
And we bought like the big ginormous one.
36:49
And that was the big question is like,
36:51
okay, where are we going to put it?
36:52
Because we got that in the
36:54
air fryer and a slow cooker and, uh,
36:58
got a fry daddy at my house somewhere.
37:00
Like it's all the things.
37:06
Yeah.
37:06
I, um, I have one, I broke down.
37:10
I love it.
37:12
Yeah.
37:12
I only use it maybe once a month now.
37:16
Um,
37:16
but I can make a healthy version of ice
37:18
cream.
37:19
It gets me that flavor and
37:22
then I can move on.
37:24
You just substitute protein powder?
37:26
You just put your protein powder in there?
37:28
I don't know how it works.
37:30
It's a lot more complicated than that.
37:33
Usually, I use sugar-free Jell-O.
37:37
I use an oat milk and a protein powder.
37:43
There's some other stuff you
37:44
have to throw in to make it set up, but
37:48
There are recipes everywhere
37:49
on the Internet.
37:53
I am not.
37:54
I am not.
37:55
I'm not against it.
37:56
I'm a big fan of the stuff
37:59
that shall not be named
38:01
while I'm still here.
38:03
Jay Birch,
38:04
you just sprinkle like literally
38:05
it's like a teaspoon of the
38:07
Jell-O mix into it.
38:09
And all it does is it helps
38:11
it kind of firm up and it
38:12
gives some of the flavor to it.
38:16
And it's the Jell-O pudding mix,
38:18
not the Jell-O wiggly stuff.
38:21
Unless you're into the wiggly stuff.
38:26
Wiggly stuff gets you jazzed.
38:28
Follow me and choose that.
38:38
Milk and protein powder.
38:42
Mark, is that all you need,
38:43
really and truly?
38:46
I really do want one, dude.
38:47
Like I am a big fan.
38:48
Like I used to,
38:49
when I was doing RP back in twenty,
38:52
twenty eighteen,
38:54
I did my first cut with RP
38:56
and RP would make you not make you,
38:58
but you could have not.
39:03
What is it?
39:04
It's a different kind of.
39:07
It'll come to me in a minute, but anyway,
39:08
you can make like a pudding
39:09
with it and you put it in a
39:11
freezer at night.
39:14
That'd be my nighttime snack
39:16
before I go to bed.
39:18
And I always remember thinking, like,
39:19
if I had some sort of quick
39:22
ice cream machine type deal,
39:23
that would work a whole lot better.
39:25
And now there's this Ninja Creamy thing.
39:29
Cason.
39:30
That's it.
39:30
Amanda's got it.
39:31
Cason.
39:32
Cason pudding.
39:33
Yes, ma'am.
39:33
Yeah, I used to make that.
39:35
I'm not a pudding fan, though,
39:37
so that never... That's why
39:38
I was told in the freezer.
39:40
Like...
39:41
Throw it in the freezer for an hour,
39:43
like make it before dinner,
39:44
throw it in the freezer for
39:44
an hour or whatever.
39:46
Dude, that was jammed up.
39:50
Yeah, it is the RP stable.
39:55
Yeah.
39:58
So Tear Cup's coming up this weekend.
40:01
We're kind of running out of time.
40:02
I had it on the list to talk about.
40:06
I'm not going to be able to
40:07
watch a lot of it because
40:09
I'm going to be on a plane.
40:11
I'm going to say probably
40:12
because your internet's
40:14
restricted to kids though.
40:19
I'll be able to watch Friday
40:20
night maybe a little bit
40:21
and then I'm going to be on a plane.
40:28
It's Friday, Saturday, Sunday, right?
40:29
Correct.
40:33
I may try to catch up.
40:34
We'll be home Saturday night late.
40:37
And then I'll try to catch
40:38
up Sunday morning so we can
40:40
recap it all on Sunday
40:41
night CrossFit talk.
40:44
See what goes on there.
40:47
But, yeah.
40:49
So we'll talk about it.
40:51
I am, too.
40:52
I think it was funny hearing
40:53
Dallin talk about the lift and how, like,
40:56
if he has to go up against Guy,
40:58
does it even matter?
41:00
He said,
41:01
I don't know who's going to win that.
41:02
Yeah.
41:06
Um, and, and that's,
41:07
I think it's interesting though, though,
41:09
that like Olivia is there now and could,
41:13
she could actually compete with Tia, um,
41:16
on those lifts.
41:16
Uh, but you know, in my head, like,
41:20
I guess everybody has to be spread out.
41:22
I'd almost rather have
41:23
Olivia on like Isabel or
41:26
Grace because she would
41:28
crush that rather than the max lift.
41:32
Yeah, move and wait for time.
41:35
Move in large loads, long distances,
41:36
that type of deal.
41:37
Yeah, no, she's really good at that.
41:45
Hey, bro.
41:46
I thought he was a good Christian dude,
41:48
and now I think he's just hateful.
41:50
Hey,
41:51
I saw a stat about an hour before we
41:53
went on.
41:54
Go ahead and read that.
41:57
He said that I saw Spencer
41:59
Rattler and Caleb Williams
42:00
have close to the same stats this year.
42:02
thus far in the NFL.
42:05
Don't even make me go off
42:06
here because I... Spencer
42:08
is actually top ten right
42:11
now with two losses.
42:14
Top ten quarterbacks in the league.
42:16
He's like ninth with two losses.
42:20
Our defense is horrendous.
42:23
Are Grace and Isabel at the
42:26
regular weights?
42:27
I don't... It's not heavy, Isabel.
42:29
I know it's not like
42:32
Yeah, I don't.
42:37
But I don't think it's just
42:38
a regular weight either.
42:39
I think it's somewhere in between the two.
42:41
Yeah,
42:41
but I haven't seen a whole lot about
42:44
the workouts themselves.
42:46
I just I saw like obviously the team,
42:48
you know, the team drama.
42:53
Quotation marks, quotation marks,
42:54
quotation marks.
42:55
Yeah, I I had I can't do two screens.
43:11
And they have so many posts up right now.
43:20
I'm trying to pull it up at
43:22
least so I can see it.
43:27
The only show it is.
43:30
They don't have the weights listed.
43:32
Of course not.
43:37
No.
43:40
No weights listed.
43:41
Sorry, guys.
43:43
So just for argument's sake, we'll say no.
43:47
How about that?
43:51
It's one thirty six ninety seven.
43:57
There you go.
43:59
Now, Mark Phillips is on my list.
44:03
Everybody's coming after the Bears.
44:04
That's the only thing I've
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been able to watch because
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of my restricted access.
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I get lots of Bears videos.
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Lots of Bears videos?
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I will say this.
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The Chicago Bears.
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Caleb, correct.
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Not like Bears in the wild.
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Not pull the Bears.
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This is what I'm going to say about Caleb.
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He's getting better every week.
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If the receivers would run
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the right routes,
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his stats would be a lot better.
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That's all I'm going to say.
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And that's from watching
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other show tape and
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analysis from all of that.
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We could say that same thing about Radler.
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He had his receivers dropping balls, man.
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Having said that, again,
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the Saints have no defense, basically,
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whatsoever.
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So there's that.
44:57
An issue.
44:58
Frozen casing has been my
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nightly staple for seven years.
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Yep.
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I think the last time I
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actually had any casein
45:09
protein was two houses ago.
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Which has been a minute.
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That stuff, man,
45:18
you put too much in and it gets thick.
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Thick, quick.
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I'm going to leave with this.
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Last night,
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my daughter took us out to play Singo.
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It's a bingo game with your
45:34
card is full of songs.
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And a DJ plays music.
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And when you hear your song,
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you dab it off on your bingo card.
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And last night's theme was,
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Nineteen Eighty-Five.
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And my daughter was
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embarrassed that my wife
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and I knew every single
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song that was played.
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What do you expect, Cory?
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Good Lord.
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I was fifteen years old in
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Nineteen Eighty-Five.
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a sophomore in high school,
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of course I knew every
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single song that was played.
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And we still didn't win
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because technology allows
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these young kids to Shazam every song.
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Dude, I was eight.
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Is that right?
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Yeah.
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Yeah,
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I was eight and eighty five and I
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probably know all those songs.
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Yeah, but it was a blast, man.
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Just, like, singing along with the music,
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and the crowd would sing
46:41
along to everything,
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and it was just a good time.
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And, yeah, people were six and eight,
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negative six.
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Mark was negative six and eighty-five.
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Oh.
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Mark's a great man.
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Jay Birch was seventeenth.
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So he's only two years older than me.
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And let's say he's going to
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graduate in eighty five.
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Yeah.
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He probably is.
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His prom song was one of the
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ones played last night.
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Oh,
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he would have been sitting there
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singing along with my wife
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and I. My wife would have my wife.
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Fun fact is loves bingo, loves bingo like.
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Anytime we get an opportunity to play,
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she is down.
47:37
However, if it was a, it was a, it was a,
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it was a, it was a, it was a, it was a,
47:44
it was a, it was a, it was a, it was a,
47:48
it was a, it was a, it was a, it was a,
47:50
it was a, it was a, it was a, it was a,
47:52
it was a, it was a, it was a, it was a,
47:53
it was a, it was a, it was a,
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I have PTSD from this Murph,
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so we can move on.
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Moving right along.
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I'm tired of hearing.
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It was a really good time.
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Dude, that sounds awesome.
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For real.
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That sounds awesome.
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Awesome.
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So with that, guys,
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I'll be back tomorrow if I
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can get some decent cell service again.
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We'll see.
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Throwing up prayers for you right now.
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Because I can't do anything with Wi-Fi.
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Apparently not.
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All right, guys.
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It's been a blast.
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As always, love you all.
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We are literally fifty four
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subscribers away from three
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please like and subscribe to the channel.
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I'd like to get to three K
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before the end of the year.
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That'd be really awesome.
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With that,
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we'll see everybody next time on
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