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Lunch with the Clydesdale - People Who Claim Dave Castro doesn't Know What He's Doing are Dumb · Clydesdale Media Podcast

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  what is going on everybody
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  welcome to lunchtime it is
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  lunch with the Clydesdale
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  what is going on man Savon
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  keeps doing these marathon
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  athlete interviews
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  running into my time.
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  What is going on?
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  This is my time, my house.
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  No, I'm just kidding.
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  Now, great interview with Dallin today.
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  Um, great interview with Jason on Monday.
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  Uh, he's killing it over there.
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  So, um, yeah, uh,
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  trying to check those out
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  before I come in on this, but man,
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  busy day at the workplace.
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  Um, I am jazzed to be here.
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  Um,
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  We've got Vicki.
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  We've got Paul.
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  We've got Corey.
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  Marat is jazzed to be here just like I am.
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  Morning all.
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  Hitchell Mooper.
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  Meredith Vicki.
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  Totally jazzed.
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  Plant Power Fitness.
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  Dinner with Clydesdale.
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  Greetings from Europe.
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  Loved your game stuff.
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  Thank you so much.
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  Took me three days to finish
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  the Hopper podcast.
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  And what is up, Lito?
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  I get to meet Lito in two weeks.
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  Cannot wait.
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  Masters CrossFit Games
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  coming up here in Columbus,
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  right around the corner.
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  If you have not seen already,
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  we have a t-shirt design.
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  I'm getting the final artwork today,
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  hopefully.
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  But I do have it approved.
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  trying to pull it up here
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  real quick here is the
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  final artwork for the
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  t-shirts that are going to
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  be made and it is get
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  jazzed if you can see that
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  we've got the Clydesdale
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  playing the saxophone the
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  way the shirt is going to look
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  Sorry,
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  it is really sensitive on the
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  blow-up feature here.
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  Clydesdale.
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  get jazzed, um, right there.
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  That'll be on the back of the shirt.
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  The front will be a pocketed
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  traditional logo.
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  That is a Clydesdale media
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  logo with the Clydesdale
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  with the barbell on the
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  front pocket and the back
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  will be the get jazzed.
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  Those are the shirts we're
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  going to be making.
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  I'll let you know color soon.
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  And, um,
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  Yeah, should be a fun shirt.
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  We'll do pre-orders.
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  I'm hoping to get some in by
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  the Masters games, but, man,
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  we are getting really tight.
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  But I'll ship to whoever wants them,
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  and we'll get those made as
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  quickly as possible.
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  But love the logo.
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  Love the logo.
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  Caitlin Walters made these up for me.
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  She is awesome.
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  She's also going to be my
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  videographer at the Masters
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  CrossFit Games.
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  So you'll be able to get to
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  meet her there.
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  She's the one that does all my designs,
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  all my logos, all that kind of stuff.
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  She is simply amazing.
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  But she'll be shooting for
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  me at the Masters CrossFit Games.
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  So those will be coming out soon.
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  So Arlene Smith,
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  are you going to Masters Games?
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  I am definitely going to
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  Masters CrossFit Games.
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  They're literally fifteen
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  minutes from my house.
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  Cannot wait for that.
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  Cannot wait to catch up with
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  all my people.
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  Love the Masters athletes.
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  Not sure how epic our behind
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  the scenes will be this year.
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  It may be something a little
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  bit smaller just because I
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  cannot get a crew hired in.
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  I'm really having trouble
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  with availability right now.
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  Do I have media credentials yet?
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  I have not heard back.
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  from the Masters team.
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  I talked to Joe a couple weeks ago.
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  He said I would be getting
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  media stuff within days.
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  I still have not received anything.
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  So hopefully we get something soon.
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  Yeah,
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  definitely come say hi to me if you
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  see me.
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  I'll have stickers.
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  I'll have a camera in my hand.
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  Can't wait to meet everybody.
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  Andrew Sten producing my show today.
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  The boys said Castro told
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  them in twenty twenty six
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  will be in Carson.
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  TTT podcast said Tia
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  deliberately dropped the
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  bar on last event to allow
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  Olivia finish ahead of her
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  to get on the podium.
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  Interesting.
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  I watched both of those.
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  I have heard the rumors that
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  the games will be in Carson next year.
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  I've never been there.
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  I'm kind of I'd be excited
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  for it to be there.
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  I just hope we sell more tickets.
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  I know when they went back
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  there for West Coast Classic,
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  the anticipation was the
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  venue would bring people in.
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  It did not.
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  And I'm just hoping that
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  with it being the games,
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  hopefully people will want
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  to go watch it one last time in Carson.
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  And if it is there,
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  I hope they're utilizing
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  both the soccer stadium and
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  the tennis stadium because
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  I'd like to see some outdoor events.
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  But we'll get into that in a minute.
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  And as for the TTT podcast
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  said Tia deliberately dropped the bar,
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  they said, is it possible?
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  Yes,
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  I think it would be possible that she
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  did that to allow Olivia to
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  get on the podium.
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  I don't think they said
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  definitively that happened.
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  I just think they believe...
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  I think they believe that it is possible.
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  I thought people said Carson
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  isn't a nice place to stay.
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  I have heard very bad things
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  about the hotels.
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  Abby Domet and Ariel Lowen
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  had horrible experiences
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  trying to find hotels around Carson.
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  So yeah, that's going to be a trip too.
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  Carson would be cool for nostalgia,
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  but it's a huge complex.
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  Look at a map where Carson is.
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  If you know anything about L.A.
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  County, you understand Carson is really,
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  really rough place.
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  Yeah, I've heard that very much so.
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  Twenty year anniversary, though,
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  I would think it would be packed.
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  I just don't know where we
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  are with everything.
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  It's one thing to kind of make these plans,
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  but we don't know where everything is.
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  We just don't.
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  Yesterday,
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  my monologue was about the
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  CrossFit this year went
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  back to fundamentals.
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  They know who they are.
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  They know who they want to be.
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  And they went back to the
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  basics and it gave a vibe at the games.
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  That was awesome.
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  Now,
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  do we leap out and get back over our
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  skis again and try to do
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  something wild and crazy
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  and move in a direction?
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  I just hope they sit back, think.
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  They have a great,
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  great start with the twenty
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  twenty five CrossFit Games
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  to build upon that.
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  I want them to build smart.
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  I want them to build logically.
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  I want them to build in a
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  way that makes sense for
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  realistic growth.
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  That's where we're at right now.
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  Don't go jumping headfirst
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  into the deep end again and
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  then get out over your skis
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  and have a hard time
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  maintaining all of this.
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  Yes,
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  the nostalgia of the twenty years
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  there would be awesome.
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  To see a berm run would be awesome.
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  To see them flip pigs in the
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  soccer stadium would be awesome.
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  All of that stuff.
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  But it needs to be a place
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  where people are going to
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  want to go and watch the event,
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  where they can gather
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  together as a community and
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  do fun things.
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  And we cannot lose the fact
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  that the athletes need to
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  shine and that the
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  programming should be
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  fundamentally sound.
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  The tennis stadium is small,
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  so the crowd would be crazy.
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  I've not been in it, so I don't know.
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  I just know West Coast
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  Classic two years ago, it looked empty,
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  and that was bad.
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  San Diego Fairgrounds would be way better.
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  Is that Del Mar, Denise?
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  So, yeah, those are interesting topics.
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  I just don't want to get too far ahead.
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  I don't want to get too far ahead.
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  Yeah, Denise says Del Mar.
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  San Diego's Del Mar.
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  Yeah, I would love to see Del Mar.
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  Would love to see Del Mar as an event.
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  That always looked cool on the stream.
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  Yeah.
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  speaking of streams like the
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  viewership this weekend was
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  over four million if you
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  add up the streams the live
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  streams of the events uh
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  that is freaking awesome
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  four million and the vibes
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  in the place were cool
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  they're they're it's just
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  what I said yesterday
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  And I got a comment from
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  Craig Pasley about how his
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  gym was setting up Running
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  Elizabeth to do in their gym.
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  And that's what's cool about
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  this year's games.
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  Like you can go back to your
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  affiliate this week and you
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  can try some of this stuff
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  that we did at the games
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  and try Running Elizabeth.
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  God, I would love to try that.
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  del mar I vote for that
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  shanna says I think del mar
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  would be amazing um so
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  dense updates it was good
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  to finally meet you in
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  person scott oh jenny was awesome um
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  I need to do a better job at
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  being present during the
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  events and not get into my
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  head about trying to create
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  content because I had a
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  blast when I went out into
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  vendor village to see everybody.
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  I need to be in the arena
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  more and I'm really going
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  to try to change my thought
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  process on all that for next year.
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  Alito tried running it, Isabel,
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  and it was humbling to say the least.
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  Bruce Wayne,
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  proven programming has all the
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  games workout scheduled for this week.
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  See,
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  I think that's what's kind of cool
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  about this year's CrossFit Games.
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  It's back to the fundamentals,
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  so all of them,
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  all of them have the ability
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  to be put back into the
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  affiliate and be a
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  participatory version of
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  the crossfit games and to
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  show what the tip of the
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  spear can do compared to us
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  judy it's okay you all have
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  jobs to do yeah but like
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  I think I got so enamored
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  with having enhanced access.
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  I wanted to use every bit of it.
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  And I was, I was really there.
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  I had,
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  I had a photographer there and there
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  was me and I was trying to
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  do all the interviewing
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  content on my own.
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  And I needed to just be a
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  little bit more present
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  with what was going on because I
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  my numbers show that being
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  in the stands and doing the
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  wrap up shows at the end of
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  the night or where all of
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  my numbers were.
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  And I could enjoy myself a
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  little bit more watching the event.
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  Um, and not so much the, uh,
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  the vignettes and maybe more
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  just off air conversations
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  so that my knowledge base
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  is better I don't something
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  like just I've got to think
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  about it in this off season
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  uh jody lynn late again but
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  sold a big kitchen what's
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  up all my lunch friends
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  congratulations jody
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  Bruce Wayne, completely agree, Scott,
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  especially with adequate
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  scaling options for all members.
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  I was talking with Taylor Self in the back,
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  and on Sentinel, they did the same thing.
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  He put out all of the
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  workouts with three scaling
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  options for all of the
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  workouts for his group to
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  be able to do these workouts,
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  which I thought was super cool.
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  Super cool.
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  Ah, Shannon.
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  Well, now you know, Scott,
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  it's all learning experience.
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  Yeah.
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  And I had fun.
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  I had fun.
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  I just, I missed getting to see a lot of,
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  I didn't get to see Jody.
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  I didn't get to see some of
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  the people in the chat.
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  Um, I wish I,
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  I just wish I could have seen
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  more people.
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  Jeff Baco calling at lunch
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  with the Clydesdale is
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  discriminatory against all
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  of us in different time
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  zones or having breakfast,
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  brunch or dinner.
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  I'm sorry.
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  It's my lunchtime.
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  I'm having lunch.
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  So you get to have lunch with me.
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  This is my show.
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  My show.
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  Anyway.
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  A couple things I did hear
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  over the weekend was I
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  heard people in the space
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  talk about how the more
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  they looked at the programming,
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  the more they felt like
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  Dave didn't know what he was doing.
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  And I think that is the
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  dumbest comment I've ever heard.
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  And the reason I say that...
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  is that that would be like
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  going up to John Naismith,
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  the inventor of basketball,
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  and saying that because he
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  picked ten feet for the
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  hoop and ninety feet for the court,
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  that he didn't know what he
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  was talking about.
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  Dave invented the CrossFit Games.
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  This is his test.
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  This is his test.
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  He gets to make it up.
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  So to say he doesn't know
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  what he's doing is idiotic.
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  It's his world.
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  He gets to do whatever he wants.
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  He invented the damn thing.
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  We're just here to play.
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  Now, if you want to come in and say, hey,
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  the test wasn't balanced, or hey,
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  I wish they would have been
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  in a different order, or hey, blah, blah,
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  blah, all of that is fine.
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  But to say that Dave doesn't
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  know what he's doing is just idiotic.
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  The guy invented the sport.
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  He invented the test.
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  It's his world.
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  We're just living in it.
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  It'd be like going to the NFL and saying,
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  I think you should use a
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  round ball instead of an oblong ball.
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  You don't know what you guys are doing.
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  They invented it.
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  It can be whatever ball they
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  want it to be.
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  It's, again,
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  it doesn't take away from
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  people like Chase and Bill
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  and Taylor and JR doing an
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  analysis of the programming
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  and determining its balance
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  or could this be tweaked or
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  could that be tweaked?
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  It's the statement that he
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  doesn't know what he's doing.
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  He does know what he's doing
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  because he invented it.
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  Without him, we don't have it.
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  And because he invented it,
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  he can make it whatever the
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  hell he wants it to be.
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  And the beauty of get with
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  the programming and shut up
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  and scribble is that we can
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  look at it from a,
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  an objective point of view
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  and say that it's not
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  balanced or I would have
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  tweaked this or tweak that.
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  I think this would have been a better test,
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  but to flat out say that
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  Dave doesn't know what he's
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  doing is ridiculous.
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  And there are people that know that,
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  I'll tell you primarily who
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  I heard that from were coaches.
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  The names that are coming up
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  in the chat are not the
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  people who said that to me.
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  They were actually coaches.
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  They were actually people that I respect,
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  but I think they just,
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  they overthink things on games weekend.
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  And so this comes out and
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  one of the coaches knew
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  this was going to be a
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  topic for me this week.
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  And he said he went back and
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  watched all the behind the
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  scenes of creating the,
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  the games workouts and
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  actually rethought what he had said.
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  And I heard it from multiple coaches.
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  Honestly, Joseph,
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  it was not about whether
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  their athletes were doing well or not.
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  It just is.
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  I think they overthink
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  everything about the sport
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  and they get so emotional
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  about it that they just blurt things out.
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  And I think I just called him on it.
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  And so he went back and
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  reviewed some stuff and
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  came back and said, you know,
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  you're right.
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  And he didn't know what I
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  was going to say.
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  He didn't know it was going
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  to be because the guy
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  invented the thing and it's
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  his world and he can do
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  anything he wants to do.
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  He actually went back and thought,
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  you know what?
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  The guy does know what he's
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  doing as I'm watching him
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  create these things.
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  His statement came from
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  that watching him create it,
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  it felt like more of a team
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  thing than a Dave thing.
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  And I don't think there's
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  anything wrong with that either.
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  Again,
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  people say that Dave has too much power,
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  and then he shows that he
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  actually lets a team help
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  him come up with the stuff,
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  and we dog him for that.
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  Like, you can't have it both ways.
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  Again, it's really simple.
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  The man invented it so it
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  can be whatever he wants it to be.
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  And we have to kind of
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  figure our way around it.
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  And it doesn't mean we can't be critical,
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  but just saying he doesn't
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  know what he's doing is stupid.
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  I hope that makes sense.
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  Again,
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  I think you're being harder on them
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  than I intended this to be.
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  I think it's just they have
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  a lot riding on a weekend.
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  They're looking at the
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  programming as a whole.
• 22:35
  They're overthinking it.
• 22:36
  They have an education in
• 22:37
  coaching and maybe strength
• 22:41
  building and stuff like that.
• 22:43
  And they're looking at it in
• 22:44
  a way that I would never look at it.
• 22:48
  And when I called him out, he really did
• 22:52
  And it wasn't just one coach,
• 22:54
  but the one coach I've had
• 22:56
  multiple conversations with went back,
• 22:58
  looked at everything,
• 23:00
  and kind of recanted his statement.
• 23:13
  People just like to complain,
• 23:14
  doesn't even have to complain about Dave.
• 23:16
  It's just that he's the current topic.
• 23:20
  Again,
• 23:22
  These are men,
• 23:25
  because the coaches I talked to were men.
• 23:28
  These are men that this is their life,
• 23:30
  and they look at this stuff
• 23:31
  in a very detailed way and
• 23:34
  try to figure things out.
• 23:40
  And so, again,
• 23:43
  I think it's just they get
• 23:44
  caught up in the emotion of everything.
• 23:52
  so again I see people with
• 23:58
  names in the I I don't name
• 23:59
  names it's it's just not
• 24:01
  that doesn't get me
• 24:02
  anywhere um just doesn't
• 24:06
  get me anywhere sarah says
• 24:10
  time to switch back to
• 24:11
  hitting on wfp uh so they
• 24:15
  put they put out a video
• 24:18
  While the games are going on.
• 24:20
  I think I talked about that
• 24:21
  earlier in the week.
• 24:23
  What a stupid time to put
• 24:24
  out a video promoting your event,
• 24:29
  but it was a behind the
• 24:30
  scenes of tour stop one.
• 24:33
  And it was really kind of
• 24:35
  narrated by Lauren Smith.
• 24:39
  Again, I don't think there's anything new.
• 24:44
  I thought it was well-produced.
• 24:46
  I thought it was well done.
• 24:48
  They kind of went through
• 24:49
  the events step-by-step.
• 24:52
  They talked to the athletes.
• 24:55
  It was all okay.
• 24:59
  It was okay.
• 25:03
  I don't think it was anything...
• 25:07
  it did not meet the criteria
• 25:08
  I was looking for to
• 25:10
  promote athletes or to meet
• 25:12
  the promise they made to be
• 25:14
  new and creative in ways of
• 25:15
  promoting their athletes.
• 25:17
  It didn't do any of that stuff.
• 25:27
  Jenny says, yeah,
• 25:27
  they were writing the
• 25:28
  coattails of the games to
• 25:29
  boost their numbers.
• 25:30
  Lame.
• 25:32
  I think it probably had the
• 25:33
  exact opposite effect.
• 25:35
  I didn't even watch it till
• 25:37
  this week because I wanted
• 25:40
  to watch game stuff.
• 25:43
  I put it to the side.
• 25:45
  I was watching the Sevan wrap-up stuff.
• 25:50
  I was watching Barbell Spin stuff.
• 25:52
  I wanted to get all the
• 25:54
  different opinions of what
• 25:55
  was going on that weekend
• 25:57
  to help with my own show.
• 26:00
  It was...
• 26:03
  Um,
• 26:04
  I think I just thought it was a stupid
• 26:06
  move.
• 26:07
  You had months to be the
• 26:08
  only content out there.
• 26:12
  There were,
• 26:12
  there were dead periods during
• 26:14
  the week of when you could
• 26:17
  have put stuff out there and you didn't.
• 26:21
  And then you put it out on a
• 26:22
  weekend where there's a
• 26:23
  billion pieces of content to, uh,
• 26:27
  to watch and take in.
• 26:29
  And it got pushed in my queue to the side.
• 26:39
  I don't think their
• 26:39
  priorities are the athletes anymore.
• 26:41
  They're in desperation mode.
• 26:42
  Well, here's the thing.
• 26:44
  If you listen to my rant yesterday,
• 26:48
  it is that they have no
• 26:50
  foundation to build on.
• 26:54
  Their foundation has been for the athletes,
• 26:56
  by the athletes, or by the athletes,
• 26:57
  for the athletes,
• 26:59
  whichever direction that thing goes.
• 27:01
  And that's a...
• 27:04
  That's like a Nike slogan.
• 27:05
  It's a marketing campaign.
• 27:07
  It's not a foundation to
• 27:09
  build a company on.
• 27:13
  So unlike CrossFit,
• 27:14
  they don't have a North Star.
• 27:16
  They have nothing to point
• 27:17
  to to bring everybody
• 27:19
  together on the same page
• 27:22
  and to row the boat in the
• 27:24
  same direction.
• 27:26
  They don't have that.
• 27:28
  And because they don't have that,
• 27:31
  they're never going to succeed.
• 27:35
  They had an opportunity,
• 27:36
  and they've really blown it.
• 27:50
  biggest slap in the face was
• 27:51
  Will posting a pic of the
• 27:52
  games floor and promoting WFP.
• 27:54
  I love Will, but that was a bad decision.
• 27:57
  And I think that he was
• 27:58
  trying to show the empty seats,
• 28:00
  but he took the picture
• 28:01
  after the day was over.
• 28:03
  There wasn't even anything
• 28:04
  going on on the floor.
• 28:08
  Like, you're not even good at being bad.
• 28:25
  so every post they tag is at
• 28:29
  a crossfit gym and ig
• 28:31
  handle and it doesn't look
• 28:32
  like the athletes are ever
• 28:33
  joining the gyms I always
• 28:41
  felt like they created it
• 28:42
  to sell it I think they
• 28:44
  they just saw an opportunity
• 28:49
  They were going in one direction.
• 28:51
  A guy died at the CrossFit Games.
• 28:53
  People were pissed off and they said,
• 28:56
  here's our opportunity.
• 28:57
  Let's move all the money
• 28:58
  over here and let's try to
• 29:00
  compete and take the sport away.
• 29:06
  And they didn't build a foundation.
• 29:08
  They didn't
• 29:10
  didn't take time to organize
• 29:11
  it they just went and ran
• 29:14
  and now they're sitting out
• 29:15
  here floating in the ether
• 29:16
  trying to put it together
• 29:18
  and it's it's falling apart
• 29:24
  I talked to athletes about
• 29:25
  it this weekend I asked
• 29:27
  them what their opinion of
• 29:28
  of the wfp was and the only
• 29:31
  good comment I got in the
• 29:32
  good direction is the money's good
• 29:40
  That's what I heard.
• 29:41
  That's it.
• 29:42
  That's the only good thing they would say.
• 29:58
  Jeff, you apparently know more than I do.
• 30:01
  I am really confused as to
• 30:03
  where we are with the sale.
• 30:12
  Denise,
• 30:13
  the only reason the athletes are in
• 30:14
  the WFP is for the money.
• 30:17
  It makes them have a more
• 30:18
  comfortable training season
• 30:22
  to get that money.
• 30:34
  Sarah,
• 30:34
  I would like to hear about Saxon's exit.
• 30:37
  I talked to Saxon, gosh,
• 30:40
  probably twenty minutes.
• 30:42
  really good conversation he
• 30:46
  says he would he says he's
• 30:47
  going to come on the show
• 30:50
  um we had a really good
• 30:52
  heart-to-heart I um
• 31:00
  I think I heard Jenny say
• 31:01
  this morning that he signed an NDA.
• 31:04
  He did not tell me that in
• 31:06
  my conversation with him.
• 31:08
  And I said that I just
• 31:10
  approached him and said, hey,
• 31:11
  we need to talk.
• 31:12
  If people know,
• 31:13
  I've been friends with
• 31:14
  Saxon since twenty sixteen.
• 31:17
  I was his judge for Rogue in
• 31:18
  twenty twenty.
• 31:20
  I know him.
• 31:20
  I know his family.
• 31:22
  And, um, I said,
• 31:24
  we need to talk whether it's,
• 31:26
  whether it's on air or not.
• 31:27
  I just, I need to know what's going on.
• 31:29
  And he talked to me for
• 31:31
  minutes and he told me the reasons, uh,
• 31:36
  that he's no longer there.
• 31:37
  I'll re I'll respect that.
• 31:39
  I want him to tell that
• 31:40
  story and I want him to come on to do it.
• 31:43
  And he said he would.
• 31:44
  Um,
• 31:45
  I just don't know how long it's going
• 31:46
  to take for him to be able
• 31:47
  to come on and do that.
• 31:50
  Um,
• 31:52
  But I will tell you,
• 31:54
  he told me that his heart
• 31:55
  was always with CrossFit.
• 31:57
  His whole goal was just to
• 31:59
  get athletes back in the
• 32:01
  gyms at the affiliate level.
• 32:07
  And that's what he was
• 32:08
  trying to accomplish.
• 32:12
  He used to come to my gym and...
• 32:20
  Because he lived outside of Cleveland.
• 32:22
  I live in Columbus.
• 32:24
  One of his best friends went to my gym.
• 32:26
  Him and Spencer would come
• 32:27
  down and work out with us on Saturdays.
• 32:30
  And the gym would just light
• 32:31
  up when they were in the gym.
• 32:34
  And I told him that that was
• 32:38
  some of the best times when
• 32:39
  they would come do that.
• 32:40
  And he said that's what he
• 32:41
  was trying to create on a bigger level.
• 32:51
  Maybe he told me that so he
• 32:53
  didn't have to tell me anything.
• 32:54
  Facundo and Plummer were with me.
• 32:57
  That could be too.
• 33:00
  Yeah,
• 33:00
  it was just him and I. So I got a
• 33:05
  pretty unedited,
• 33:06
  unfiltered response to everything.
• 33:11
  Everything he told me was
• 33:15
  very believable and very
• 33:17
  easy to understand.
• 33:18
  I will say that.
• 33:22
  Patrick Clark says he did not sign an NDA.
• 33:24
  There you go.
• 33:33
  So he said he was going to
• 33:34
  come on the show.
• 33:35
  I'm hoping to get him on soon.
• 33:37
  I will definitely promote
• 33:38
  that once he does.
• 33:41
  But we had a great, great conversation.
• 33:42
  I will say that.
• 33:47
  And so we're in the tea business today,
• 33:51
  I guess.
• 33:52
  I did hear some tea.
• 33:55
  I don't know if Jenny's heard this,
• 33:57
  but from a very reliable source,
• 34:03
  a very reliable source,
• 34:05
  Sunday night after the
• 34:06
  games at a local pub in Albany, New York,
• 34:11
  it appears that
• 34:14
  One Miss Danielle Brandon
• 34:16
  and one Mr. Matt Torres
• 34:17
  both appeared at the same
• 34:19
  pub in Albany and had a
• 34:23
  very public disagreement,
• 34:29
  I'll say at the least.
• 34:32
  Very public disagreement.
• 34:34
  that is a very reliable
• 34:35
  source that told me that uh
• 34:37
  they confronted each other
• 34:39
  and were very loud in this
• 34:40
  pub as to what had
• 34:43
  transpired in the last few
• 34:44
  months um I wish I was
• 34:48
  there to report exactly
• 34:50
  what was said but um I
• 34:52
  guess it got pretty crazy
• 34:55
  so uh I don't know if jenny
• 35:01
  had heard that but it was wild
• 35:05
  From what I hear.
• 35:08
  Did she bite him?
• 35:09
  No, I think her dog did, but.
• 35:19
  Why is she doing this stuff in public?
• 35:21
  She may have been there
• 35:22
  first and Matt came in second.
• 35:24
  I don't know how it all transpired.
• 35:27
  They just happened to be.
• 35:29
  the person I heard this from
• 35:30
  was at this pub.
• 35:32
  They both showed up separately,
• 35:34
  ended up seeing each other.
• 35:36
  And that's what happened.
• 35:55
  Um,
• 35:59
  Scott,
• 35:59
  thank you for pronouncing it correctly.
• 36:01
  Everybody started saying it the other way.
• 36:03
  I have, my aunt lives in upstate New York.
• 36:07
  It has been Albany my entire life.
• 36:09
  I was wild when people
• 36:10
  started pronouncing it differently.
• 36:12
  I never understood why.
• 36:15
  Um,
• 36:17
  just the old fifty
• 36:19
  five-year-old screaming at
• 36:20
  the clouds and life changes
• 36:23
  around me and I was like
• 36:24
  maybe it's changed after
• 36:25
  all these years I talked to
• 36:28
  family members you know
• 36:28
  like hell no it hasn't
• 36:29
  changed it's still Albany
• 36:32
  so there it is I also
• 36:36
  watched the first two
• 36:37
  episodes of the reboot of
• 36:38
  King of the Hill last night
• 36:40
  and oh my gosh if a show
• 36:42
  has hit me in the heart
• 36:45
  more than that show it is so
• 36:48
  freaking funny hank hill
• 36:51
  went to to um the middle
• 36:54
  east to sell propane and
• 36:56
  propane accessories and
• 36:58
  they moved back to the
• 36:59
  states and everything has
• 37:00
  changed and he can't
• 37:02
  believe and it is so much
• 37:05
  the old man yelling at the clouds show
• 37:08
  that I love it tremendously so far.
• 37:12
  It was so freaking good.
• 37:14
  I'm two episodes into ten.
• 37:17
  Cannot wait to watch this.
• 37:19
  If you have not watched it
• 37:20
  and you're an old man like me,
• 37:22
  you will love it.
• 37:34
  Ernie Garza, can't wait to watch.
• 37:35
  It is so good.
• 37:36
  It's so good, Ernie.
• 37:38
  Ernie, it is so good.
• 37:43
  Doug Reed,
• 37:45
  I'm not even from the States and
• 37:47
  still pronounce it Albany.
• 37:49
  Yeah.
• 37:56
  Albany, yes.
• 37:57
  Yes.
• 38:05
  Southerners who know Albany,
• 38:06
  Georgia are familiar with a
• 38:08
  much different pronunciation.
• 38:10
  See, I lived in Tallahassee, Florida,
• 38:11
  which is just below Albany, Georgia.
• 38:15
  The whole time I lived there,
• 38:16
  it was Albany to me because
• 38:17
  that's what I grew up with,
• 38:19
  with the New York Albany.
• 38:21
  And here in Columbus,
• 38:22
  there's a new Albany and it
• 38:24
  is pronounced Albany.
• 38:27
  So I've been surrounded by
• 38:28
  Albanese my whole life.
• 38:33
  but yeah, tremendous.
• 38:36
  Um,
• 38:38
  I guess that's really all I have today.
• 38:41
  I was going to do my top
• 38:42
  five memories at the games this year,
• 38:43
  but I think I'll save that
• 38:44
  for tomorrow because we're
• 38:46
  coming up on the top of the
• 38:47
  hour and I've got to get a
• 38:51
  major project done.
• 38:53
  Uh,
• 39:00
  Scott, I spent many years in Tallahassee.
• 39:02
  Southern Georgia is like a
• 39:03
  different country.
• 39:04
  Yeah,
• 39:05
  Tallahassee may be in Florida by border,
• 39:08
  but it is so Southern Georgia.
• 39:11
  And if the people who live
• 39:12
  in Tallahassee don't even
• 39:14
  like to be called Floridians,
• 39:16
  they want to be called Southern Georgia.
• 39:19
  It is crazy.
• 39:23
  Crazy, crazy, crazy.
• 39:25
  That was like...
• 39:27
  That was like the land where
• 39:28
  time forgot to move on.
• 39:33
  New Albany,
• 39:34
  where all the rich people live
• 39:35
  in Columbus.
• 39:36
  That is correct.
• 39:40
  You know what the craziest
• 39:41
  thing about New Albany to me is, Judy?
• 39:44
  I went to watch the Epstein
• 39:46
  documentary on Netflix,
• 39:48
  and it starts in New Albany, Ohio.
• 39:52
  And my mouth dropped to the floor.
• 39:59
  dropped to the floor because
• 40:02
  a major billionaire here in
• 40:04
  ohio uh jeffrey epstein was
• 40:08
  in his home and it crazy
• 40:11
  crazy crazy um where all
• 40:24
  the rich people used to
• 40:25
  live all the corpse taking over the land
• 40:28
  that's probably true as well
• 40:37
  I saw that too scott yep
• 40:39
  very prominent netflix uh
• 40:41
  documentary out a few years
• 40:42
  ago opens up in new albany
• 40:45
  ohio if people have not
• 40:49
  seen it the owner of victoria's secret
• 40:53
  Bath and body works.
• 40:56
  Uh,
• 40:56
  they used to own the limited limited to
• 41:01
  tons of brands, tons of brands, um,
• 41:05
  lives in new Albany, Ohio,
• 41:07
  but the main business is
• 41:09
  Victoria's secret.
• 41:11
  Uh, the owner lives there and, uh,
• 41:16
  that's where the documentary opens.
• 41:24
  So, yeah.
• 41:28
  There's some crazy
• 41:28
  documentaries about that.
• 41:29
  There are.
• 41:39
  A random question.
• 41:40
  Would or have you done a
• 41:42
  podcast with Savon?
• 41:43
  Does that interest you?
• 41:45
  I have been a guest on Savon.
• 41:52
  About...
• 41:55
  Three-ish years ago, maybe?
• 41:59
  Maybe?
• 42:01
  I don't know.
• 42:02
  Something like that.
• 42:09
  C.K.
• 42:09
  Kevin, Les Wexner.
• 42:10
  Yeah, that's the guy's name.
• 42:14
  Yep.
• 42:18
  They actually, it's crazy,
• 42:20
  they do a big function every year for,
• 42:29
  it's like a horse jumping
• 42:33
  competition here in Columbus,
• 42:35
  but they make it a family
• 42:36
  weekend and they have like
• 42:39
  food trucks and carnival
• 42:41
  rides on the property of their home.
• 42:48
  and every year they would
• 42:49
  bring in like a major teen
• 42:55
  pop band of some sort.
• 42:58
  So we used to go over cause
• 42:59
  my daughter loves music and
• 43:02
  we would see like Nick
• 43:03
  Jonas or the Jonas brothers or whatever.
• 43:09
  Um,
• 43:09
  and do all that kind of stuff out on
• 43:11
  the property.
• 43:12
  And we would go all the time
• 43:14
  to that event.
• 43:16
  it is a massive piece of
• 43:17
  property just massive um
• 43:22
  and so we would uh we would
• 43:25
  do that all the time and
• 43:28
  then to open up the netflix
• 43:30
  epstein documentary and see
• 43:32
  that property as the
• 43:33
  opening on a show was wild
• 43:37
  just wild yeah listen to
• 43:41
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• 43:53
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• 43:58
  to get back on a project we
• 44:00
  are going to do pre-orders
• 44:01
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• 44:03
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• 44:08
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• 44:11
  Clydesdale playing a
• 44:11
  saxophone Clydesdale media
• 44:13
  that'll be on the back the
• 44:15
  front pocket will have the
• 44:18
  traditional logo
• 44:20
  With the Clydesdale holding the barbell.
• 44:23
  And this will be big on the back.
• 44:27
  I just have to get the final
• 44:28
  artwork from my person.
• 44:31
  And she will be also
• 44:32
  shooting video for me at
• 44:33
  the Masters CrossFit Games.
• 44:35
  So you can meet Caitlin there.
• 44:38
  Can't wait to get that out.
• 44:39
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• 44:42
  And hopefully you like them
• 44:44
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• 44:45
  And we'll get those out to
• 44:46
  you as quickly as we can.
• 44:49
  Two workouts have been
• 44:52
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• 44:54
  and we'll get into that for
• 44:55
  sure with Jamie and Carolyn on Sunday.
• 45:00
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• 45:03
  like and subscribe to the podcast.
• 45:13
  And with that,
• 45:14
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• 45:19
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