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Lunch with the Clydesdale - We Have a Growing Sponsor Issue! · Clydesdale Media Podcast

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what is going on everybody
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happy labor day and we're
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here we're here for a
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podcast on labor day
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whenever you do these on a
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holiday you have no idea if
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anybody's going to show up
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but I said it we're going
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to be here um doing great
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what's up jenny what's up
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jody lito back in the house
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are you back in the uk girl
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uh judy reed five a.m squat
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club kenneth the lap
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trinked olive with us dart
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throw oh man I think I
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gotta go back to
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right-handed this
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left-handed attempt is just
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not going well anymore um
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so what's up guys I know
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some of you are not uh lito
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yes back in rainy england
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And we've had some beautiful
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weather here the last couple days.
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Mid-seventies, sunny.
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Pretty much the way it was
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for the age group games.
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That really nice low humidity,
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kind of nice weather.
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And it has hung for ten days now.
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We've been really, really lucky.
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Really lucky.
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I'm bringing water to sheep.
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There you go.
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Jody Lynn's in the house.
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She didn't have to sell cabinets today,
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probably.
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Meredith.
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Man, Shay.
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Full squad today.
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This is cool.
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Cool for Labor Day.
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Yeah, hey.
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Gosh,
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I've been getting over this pneumonia.
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And I think the antibiotics have, like,
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really kicked in.
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I slept so much last night.
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It's probably the most I've
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slept in a while.
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I woke up at ten this
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morning and can't believe
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that I slept in that much.
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And I was like, oh, shoot,
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I better get a show set up
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so I can go do some
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lunchtime with my friends.
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Jody, no cabinets today,
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just straight up rest.
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Yes, beautiful day in Columbus.
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Preschool closed so I can see alive.
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There you go, Judy.
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There you go.
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Hope you and your husband
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figured out the price of
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the tickets for the age
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group games or didn't.
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However, you wanted that to go.
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Love when the marital spats
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happen in the middle of our chat.
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That makes for the best chats for sure.
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Last night's show was wild.
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We had so much to talk about
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and so little time involved.
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I felt like we were rushed last night,
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but we got in some good discussions.
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But now we're going to have
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a little bit of mini kind
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of off-season to get some
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more discussions in at
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length instead of just like
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kind of getting through everything.
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Jody,
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those wall walks did not feel like rest.
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don't know wall walks never
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feel like rest when you're
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trying to support this load
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of beef upside down it it
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never goes well for me so
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yeah so yeah well good
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times uh everybody's having
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a a hopefully a nice
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holiday if you're in the
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states if you're across the
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world hope you're having a
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good work day um
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But yeah,
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the one thing I wanted to jump
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into off the top is it's
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been a topic of discussion
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for a couple days now,
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especially the Savant show
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for a couple weeks,
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that there are too many
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machines now in competitions.
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And I wanted to kind of look at the why.
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Like,
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why are we getting all these machines?
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I know that we use them in
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training a lot more.
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When I started CrossFit in
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We didn't even have a rower.
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We didn't have a rower in our gym.
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We had to do sumo deadlift
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high pulls as a substitute for the rower.
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So we would,
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whenever there was a row in a workout,
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now granted back then we
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didn't even have like
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be on the whiteboard or
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Wattify or any of those
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things where you went and
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got your workout.
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You showed up for class.
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The coach went up to the whiteboard,
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literally wrote the workout on the board.
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Nobody knew it ahead of time.
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Um, and then we didn't have rowers.
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So whenever he wanted to
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simulate what a row was,
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we did sumo deadlift high pools.
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Um,
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it just seems crazy now that
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like you look at a
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competition and this year
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at the games four of the
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nine events had machines
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and wfp this last weekend
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three of the six had
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machines and I really
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wanted to examine why the
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hell this is happening
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because one they're not fun to watch
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If you're a spectator,
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the last thing you want to
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see are people standing on
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a machine or sitting on a
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machine for a lengthy period of time,
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especially when you don't
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know where they're at.
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Now,
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the games has done a better job of
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like having those little
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digital monitors that tell
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you like how many meters in
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they are or how many meters
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left they have to go,
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whatever they want to put those at.
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That has been a step up,
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but it's still like really
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not exciting unless you put
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it at the very end of an
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event where people have to
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go nuts on it to finish it.
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And we've got to figure something out.
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So I'm looking at some of
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the comments here.
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The machines are not the same either.
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A second or two matters yet
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nobody speaks of it.
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Lazy sponsors,
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they balance out a lot of
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the other movements that
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favor smaller athletes.
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um when people were upset
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because of all the light
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athletes burpees gymnastics
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the answer was get better I
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agree a lot of machines but
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why the difference when
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it's power output I think I
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just said larry and um I
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just don't think they're
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fun to watch uh shanna it's
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because the events are
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mostly indoors I don't
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disagree with that statement
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Burpees aren't thrilling either.
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They can be, though.
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At least you get to count them,
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and you see people doing them,
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and they do them at such a fast pace.
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It's fun to watch.
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But I truly think it goes back to,
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and Colton almost said it
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last night on the Savon podcast,
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and Jenny was talking about
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it in a different manner on
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this podcast in the chat last night.
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that we are really low on
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sponsors at events.
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The vendor villages are getting smaller.
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The sponsors for the events
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are getting smaller because
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we have viewed them in the
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wrong way and not looked at
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things creative to help
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them out as a partnership.
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So when you look at the games and,
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one of the main sponsors for
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the games and whether Bill
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and Katie want their
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equipment used in certain
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ways during the games or not.
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And they may not request it.
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It's still,
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there's an obligation felt from
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the people running the
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event that they need to
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treat their sponsors well.
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And so at rogue, you had the echo bike,
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you had the echo rower and
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you had the woodway, uh,
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um running machine so those
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three are rogue apparatus
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rogue is a major sponsor
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and it's a way to pay them
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back for doing for becoming
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a partner in this event the
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other thing is c-two is
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also a sponsor and
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c-two sponsors the event so
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then you have the rower or
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not the rower you had the
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um ski erg and the c-two
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bike at the games so that
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was five of the nine
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because two of your main
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sponsors are equipment
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sponsors are equipment makers of machines
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The only answer is it needs
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to be a balanced mix and fun to watch.
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But more people watch Max's
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and I know Jamie doesn't like that.
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Well, Jamie's not on this show.
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Love Jamie.
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But lifting and Max's are
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going to be a part of CrossFit.
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They just are.
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uh the original steve miller
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true too true both madaris
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and colton had issues with
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their bike ergs probably
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were not calibrated right
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once found a bike erg where
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I could hold a one-forty
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pace easy ridiculous um
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again I said this last night on the show
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the internet has crushed the WFP.
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I don't need to jump in and crush more.
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Um, they didn't do a good job.
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They need to get better.
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Um, and I'll just leave it at that.
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Come on.
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The NFL has the Duke deflate,
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deflate gate time.
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Yeah.
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I big, that's not a machine.
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That's not a machine.
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Um,
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And those footballs are made
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right here in Ada, Ohio,
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just an hour west of us.
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All NFL footballs are made
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right here in Ohio.
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Uh,
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we did have cheap truck bikes break and
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Camille Camille's tower.
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Yeah.
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CrossFit is not exempt from
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machines failing.
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Um, when I was a judge,
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a lot of our briefing as a judge was,
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if this thing breaks, this is you,
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this is the backup.
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This is what we need you to do.
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Like, if you look at an air runner,
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there's a white strip, uh,
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that comes around every so often.
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If that monitor goes down,
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you're counting how many
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times that white strip goes
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by as a judge.
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Um,
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there is always like a failsafe for
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equipment breakdowns in
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judging briefings all the time.
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Uh,
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Oh, yeah, I wasn't even hating on WFP.
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It's just an issue with
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machines in general.
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The Echo Bikes at the age
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group games were dodgy too.
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Frazier's Go Rucksack, no.
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And again, that was a sponsored event,
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right?
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GORUCK was... That was like
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the first time they were
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really sponsoring the event.
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You had to use their backpack.
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I don't think it was truly
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tested out for what they
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were trying to do with it.
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The zippers,
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from my understanding at that Games,
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on the GORUCKs were not the
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best quality zippers.
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And so it...
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there's always equipment malfunctions,
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right?
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It's just when you pile the
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equipment malfunction.
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And what I'll say about the
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Hatfield GHD is,
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In my experience,
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the last people to touch
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those machines before that
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event goes is the athlete.
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The athlete always runs out
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and adjusts the seat or
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adjusts a piece of the
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machinery and then goes
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back to their start.
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If Austin Hatfield pulled
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that up and put that lock in where he did,
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that's on him.
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I just don't know if we have
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video footage to show did
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he adjust the foot pedals or not.
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But every machine,
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the last person I see touch
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it is the athlete.
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They're always adjusting the damper,
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the seat,
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something on the equipment to
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get it into what they want
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it to be when they get up there.
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Yes, Andrew.
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When you're judging,
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you're praying there's no
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machine malfunction.
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Right.
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But there are protocols in place,
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and we're told about them
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before the event goes live.
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Give them the time required to check.
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Do you feel they have enough time?
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I do feel they have enough time.
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If the athlete's the last one touching it,
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then it's on them.
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And honestly,
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every time I've ever judged
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an event and there's been
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something that can be adjusted,
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the athlete runs out to their lane,
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they adjust their machine
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or whatever apparatus it is.
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Like I did regionals...
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linda and they had to bench
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they all came out and
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adjust where the the rack
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was going to be for their
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bench press all of that
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kind of stuff put the chalk
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where they want it to be
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and they set up everything
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before they go live I don't
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know if austin touched that
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machine or not I know it
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according to the wfp press
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release and investigation
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and by video review of taylor self that
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that foot peg was on top of
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the locking mechanism
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instead of down in and then into a,
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another hole to lock it.
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I don't know who put it there.
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I don't know.
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But and then Carolyn,
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this is what came in our chat.
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We didn't get a chance to
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talk about this last night.
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Maybe if athletes stop using
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the GHD like a leg press machine,
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and riding it all the way
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up into the front,
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it won't have it wouldn't have happened.
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agree carolyn I don't know
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what jr showed the simplest
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way to get people to use
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the ghd correctly and that
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was to put a white line on
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the seat and make sure that
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your butt was behind the
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white line and and all of a
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sudden back at wfp we're
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back to the wild wild west
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If that footbed comes out
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and Austin Hatfield has his
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butt in the right place,
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he doesn't come forward.
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He would actually go back.
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That's when it would have popped off.
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It would have popped off
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when he laid back on the GHD,
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not when he came up.
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Hubris is not to copy that.
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Yeah,
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God forbid we find a guy that figures
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out how to make the
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standard judgeable and doable,
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and we don't copy that.
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Hadfield may have landed on his head.
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Exactly.
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Exactly, Pete.
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It's like they didn't want
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to use an objectively good
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standard just because
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CrossFit did it first.
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I know.
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It's so dumb.
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It's so dumb.
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God forbid we do what's
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right and make the sport
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legit because someone else
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did it before me.
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It's like street parking
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coming up with the devil's
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press and CrossFit refusing
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to use it for ten years
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because they didn't come up with it.
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Like, hubris is all over the place.
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It's not just WFP.
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It's everywhere.
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Was the WFP invented to
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drive down the selling price of CrossFit?
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Interesting that there is
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not a single objective win
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for the WFP constant Ls.
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I don't think that is the reason.
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I don't think they're all Ls.
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I think they have done some
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things that have pushed
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CrossFit to do better.
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And that's why in the last few months,
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we have seen a massive leap
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in changes made at CrossFit.
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because I think they do feel
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there is a realistic threat.
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Whether they could
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realistically ever take over,
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I don't know.
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Probably not.
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But it has made CrossFit
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move in a direction that I
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think makes more sense.
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Jody says she loves the Devil's Press.
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Mark Phillips, Jody, are you okay?
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Yes.
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That is a valid question to ask Mark.
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It's not only that,
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but adding an opportunity
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where you could use it and
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just pretending it doesn't exist.
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I couldn't say it any better than that.
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I mean,
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the only person that hates devil's
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presses is Dave, really.
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Yeah, the Dave,
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I don't watch other comps
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thing is just as bad.
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I think it's realizing
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CrossFit comps are harder
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than anyone admits.
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Yeah,
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it's really hard to please this
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community too.
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I like the knockoff Sunday
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night football intros.
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I do too.
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And this is where I think
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the WFP is for me.
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They do some things like I get it.
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I get where they're going,
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but it's like if they just
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took that next step, right?
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I think the intros are cool,
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but they're too vanilla.
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So once you've seen them once or twice,
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then the gimmick of it is gone.
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I want to see the personality of the,
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of the athlete.
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Let them introduce
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themselves how they want to
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introduce themselves.
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Tell them they have five seconds, right?
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Because you need to do it.
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Boom, boom, boom.
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But let them have a
20:28
personality while they do it.
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Yes.
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No emotion was crazy.
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Back in the day when Michael Bennett,
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former Chicago bear, by the way,
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Wakanda forever.
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Yes.
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Yes.
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Like,
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just your name and where you're from
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is okay, but let them have something.
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Back on the Dave doesn't
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watch other comps.
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To me, as a CO,
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you would think he would
21:07
want to know the enemy, LOL, comp,
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or whatever.
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Do your due diligence.
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Well,
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and I think it goes back more to even
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what CrossFat says, like the hubris of it,
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that nobody can create
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something as good as me,
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so I don't want to be
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tainted by what they're doing.
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No, other people are creative as well.
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Other people are,
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like JR has studied Dave.
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And JR said, this is what I could tweak.
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This is what I could do better.
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And because of that,
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he's come up with some
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innovative ways to make
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people hold a standard.
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Why not use that stuff?
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Just rumors.
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I'm sure Dave has other
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people to do the dirty work for him.
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I'm sure other people do watch other comps,
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but Dave should look at
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least at some things.
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MJ refused to acknowledge
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Kobe and LeBron for a long ass time.
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I mean,
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I guess part of being great is
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thinking that you are the best, right?
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And that nobody else can do
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it better than you.
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And that's why MJ was the goat, right?
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But, and maybe Dave thinks that way too.
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And for a while he was the best,
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but now like people, the,
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The participants are getting
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as smart as the programmers
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in finding ways to do
22:48
things differently so that
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they can get around the system, right?
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And so as their technology
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and their know-how become greater,
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you as the programmer have
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to elevate your game as well.
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So...
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Anyway, there's that.
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But I do think we are at a
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place where sponsorships are down.
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And one of the few ways to
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make the sponsors happy is
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to use their equipment in competitions.
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And that's why we're getting
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a lot of machines in competitions.
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Me personally, I am good at machines.
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That doesn't mean I want to
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see them in a competition.
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I think there are other ways to do things.
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I think unless you're using
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it at the very end of a
23:48
comp and you have to just
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go all out sprint on it,
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it's not fun to watch.
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And I think that trying to
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grow the sport into a in-person,
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inside event so it can go
24:05
overseas is way before
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we're ready to do that.
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It has to continue to grow.
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And the only way to grow
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that is through a festival atmosphere.
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They need to find a way to
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do a festival atmosphere in
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an economic way.
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where they can sell cheap
24:25
tickets in so people can
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hang out together.
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And then they have an indoor
24:30
venue within that festival
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that have the higher price
24:33
tickets to go in and see
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the nighttime events.
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That is the formula that
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needs to happen for
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CrossFit to grow in this
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part of what they're doing.
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We cannot go away from the
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festival type deal.
24:53
We're not ready.
24:54
We have not grown enough or
24:56
grown the right way to do that.
25:02
It is like you hear them say
25:04
they weren't ready to go to
25:05
Carson when they did.
25:07
was way too big they weren't
25:09
ready for it and then it
25:11
actually then they got the
25:12
reebok deal which helped
25:14
them kind of grow faster
25:15
than they should have and
25:17
now we're just trying to
25:18
play catch up and we think
25:20
we're bigger than we are
25:26
and joseph says the games
25:28
don't need to go overseas I
25:29
agree it's too early we
25:31
have to keep um we have to keep things
25:38
We have to perfect what it
25:39
is before we try to make it
25:41
a traveling show.
25:53
One thing that became
25:54
obvious this weekend is
25:55
that media coverage has to
25:56
be done by independent media,
25:58
external broadcasters.
25:59
Keeping mum about the
26:01
Hatfield incident during
26:02
the heat was just stupid.
26:05
I didn't get that.
26:07
And I don't disagree.
26:15
No sponsors outside the
26:16
spatial focused contributors.
26:18
Yes, that is a problem.
26:20
And it's shrinking, shrinking.
26:24
We have to get back on the right feet.
26:28
When I saw those videos of
26:29
Chase Arena in San Francisco,
26:33
if that's where you're holding the games,
26:36
God, Lord,
26:37
help us because there's nothing
26:40
around there for an outdoor festival,
26:43
anything kind of vibe.
26:45
And that arena is way too
26:46
big for where we are.
26:48
Way too big.
26:50
I hope there's somewhere
26:51
else we're going other than that.
27:01
That's all we need is a big title sponsor.
27:04
I don't think that's happening.
27:05
I don't think that's
27:06
happening until CrossFit
27:07
gets their ducks back in a row.
27:17
Joseph says, no, ever.
27:19
The game should be like the
27:20
World Series and Super Bowl,
27:21
a U.S.-only event.
27:24
Possibly.
27:26
I would...
27:31
I think what was tantalizing
27:33
about going overseas is
27:35
CrossFit was growing in Europe at,
27:37
at big numbers and they
27:40
wanted to support that, but I don't know.
27:50
I do think that back to the
27:52
ranch for the twentieth
27:53
anniversary is probably on the table.
27:56
Um,
27:59
And that's if Dave's even
28:01
still there when we get new ownership.
28:04
We don't even know where the
28:05
hell we are with that.
28:14
It better be cheap to attend.
28:17
I think that is the first step.
28:20
I think you have to look at
28:21
ticket sales as something of quantity,
28:25
not quality at first.
28:27
And that is sell as many
28:29
freaking tickets as you possibly can.
28:31
If you can sell.
28:33
Ten thousand tickets,
28:36
you can get vendors to show
28:37
up because there'll be ten
28:39
thousand people wanting to
28:41
shop and then vendors show up.
28:43
Then you have a it's just a
28:44
better looking overall process for them.
28:53
Jose says,
28:55
do it in Europe once every five years.
28:58
Maybe when we're ready.
28:59
I just don't think we're ready yet.
29:09
I think Rich cut the sale
29:11
that was going to happen.
29:13
Maybe.
29:16
Again...
29:18
I truly feel like an
29:19
outsider on the sale part of things.
29:23
And maybe that's a good thing.
29:34
The one thing I do want to
29:35
say about WFP before we
29:37
kind of move on from that is
29:41
I got some grief in comments
29:43
that my storyline thing
29:45
from last week that they
29:47
put out stuff about it.
29:50
Here's what I want to say is
29:52
WFP did finally embrace the
29:56
race for Copenhagen,
29:58
but they never told us what that was.
30:01
They never told us why that
30:03
was important or why
30:05
getting to Copenhagen means
30:06
anything to these athletes.
30:10
And I'm going to sound like
30:11
a broken record,
30:13
but the real storyline is
30:15
that twenty people were
30:17
given a gift of pro athlete
30:20
and free money.
30:23
There are a group of
30:24
athletes that want that
30:27
they felt that they should
30:28
have had it in the first place,
30:30
and now they're fighting to get it.
30:33
That's the storyline.
30:35
You have twenty athletes who got the gift,
30:38
ten who won it on both the
30:40
men and women's side.
30:42
And now we know they've posted this today.
30:45
These are the ten athletes
30:48
that got their ticket to
30:50
Copenhagen to go up against
30:52
the twenty pros.
30:54
So here on the men's side,
30:56
you have Colton Mertens, Enola Kai,
30:57
Nick Matthew, Tudor Magda, Jack Farlow,
31:00
Nate Ackerman, Chris Ibarra,
31:02
Colin Bossard, Ty Jenkins,
31:03
and Danny Camacho.
31:05
On the women's side,
31:06
because Bethany Flores has withdrew,
31:08
Yvonne Agriar, Andrea Solberg, Fee Sagafi,
31:12
Oda Lundefgen, Var Thurman-Mo,
31:15
Sydney McElishan, Ella Wilkinson,
31:18
Hannah Black, Lexi Neely, Linda Keisman,
31:21
and Lydia Fish.
31:23
So they all get to go to
31:23
Copenhagen to fight for the
31:27
opportunity to get a pro
31:29
card or a free salary for the year.
31:33
From this point forward,
31:36
this is so freaking easy.
31:39
There should be a list of
31:42
where people stand today if
31:44
the event ends today.
31:47
Here are the top twenty point getters.
31:49
They would be getting the
31:50
salary next year.
31:52
Red line,
31:54
here are the ten or eleven people
31:57
that don't have it at this moment.
32:00
That if the season ended today,
32:02
they would not be getting a pro card.
32:06
That thing should run from
32:08
now through the end of that event.
32:14
Because that is a storyline.
32:18
And tomorrow I'm going to talk about
32:21
the proper way that wfp
32:22
could make inroads into
32:25
this business but they they
32:28
have to tell us the story
32:30
they can't sit here and and
32:34
think that everybody
32:35
understands this point
32:36
system and understands what
32:38
people are trying to do are
32:40
they trying to win the
32:41
event are they trying to win the season
32:44
First of all,
32:45
I don't think that winning
32:46
anything is the important
32:47
storyline of this event.
32:50
So to let people make that assumption,
32:53
you're going down the path
32:54
and why it doesn't mean anything.
32:56
What means something to
32:58
these people is the
32:59
opportunity to get paid
33:00
next year and guaranteed
33:03
paid before they even set
33:04
foot on the floor.
33:09
That's the issue.
33:10
They cannot tell the story.
33:13
They are terrible at storytelling.
33:15
They don't know what means
33:16
anything to anybody.
33:17
And they could make it
33:20
something if they just
33:22
freaking tried to look at
33:25
another sport and how it works.
33:29
I watched the NFL
33:30
religiously all year long.
33:33
I am looking at if the season end today,
33:37
these would be the teams in the playoffs.
33:39
These are the teams fighting
33:40
for the opportunity to get
33:41
in the playoffs.
33:42
All the way to the last week
33:44
that if this team wins and
33:45
this team loses and this team ties,
33:48
they get in and all the
33:50
different scenarios.
33:52
They do all of that to create excitement.
33:57
The WFP has done none of that.
34:08
We spent an entire week
34:09
after Selection Sunday
34:10
bitching about the last four in,
34:13
first four out.
34:14
Yes,
34:16
that's sixty eight teams getting into
34:18
the NCAA basketball tournament.
34:20
And we spend a week bitching
34:22
about the final four of the
34:24
people who get into the
34:26
tournament and none of them
34:27
are going to win it.
34:29
None of them.
34:30
None of them are even
34:31
probably going to have an
34:32
impact on the tournament at all.
34:36
But because it's sports and
34:38
because we care about it so much,
34:40
that's what you talk about.
34:43
The WFP has that opportunity.
34:45
You're trying to get to
34:46
twentieth place so you get
34:48
paid next year.
34:51
Nobody cares about the winners.
34:53
They're getting their money.
34:54
They're getting their stuff.
34:55
It may come down to the last day,
34:58
and they can go for it,
34:59
and it becomes a storyline
35:01
on the last day to be the
35:02
champion of the season.
35:07
But up until then,
35:07
you have a storyline that's right there,
35:09
and it's an easy graphic.
35:12
Such an easy graphic.
35:13
And you can make it in a way
35:14
that people understand that
35:17
if the season ended today,
35:19
these twenty people get paid next year.
35:21
These ten don't.
35:33
the original Steve Miller
35:33
baby steps to compare to
35:35
NFL and NCAA basketball
35:37
tournament is a stretch.
35:38
It is not.
35:39
It's a storyline.
35:41
I'm not saying there's going
35:42
to be successful like them.
35:44
I'm not saying they're on
35:44
the same planet as them
35:46
when it comes to sports,
35:48
but they can share the same
35:49
type of storyline.
35:51
It works.
35:52
It works in sports.
35:55
All you have to do is make
35:57
it a way for the audience
35:58
to understand it.
36:00
And they can't do that.
36:03
They said race to Copenhagen
36:06
five bazillion times this weekend,
36:08
and nobody freaking knew what it meant.
36:11
Nobody knew what it meant.
36:13
Why is it important to go to Copenhagen?
36:16
Why does it mean anything to
36:17
go to Copenhagen?
36:18
Nobody cares.
36:20
Nobody knows what that means.
36:28
Yes,
36:28
it's a narrow audience who doesn't
36:30
understand this concept.
36:32
So you have to spell it out
36:33
for them so they can see
36:35
why it means something.
36:37
We all, as individuals in this world,
36:40
know what it means to get
36:41
paid or not to get paid.
36:45
We know how important that is.
36:49
So that's where the
36:50
storyline lies because we
36:52
all can relate to, do I get paid?
36:55
Do I not get paid?
37:01
If you don't base your
37:02
storyline on the piece that
37:04
every human in this world understands,
37:09
then you're missing the boat.
37:13
You're missing the boat.
37:16
And without that simple concept,
37:19
without that simple concept,
37:21
the rest of it is meaningless.
37:24
The rest of it is meaningless.
37:26
I don't care if they win, lose, are good,
37:28
bad, indifferent.
37:30
If you don't get people to
37:32
buy in to a simple
37:34
storyline for the season,
37:36
all the rest of it is a wash.
37:40
That's why we've been
37:41
begging CrossFit to come up
37:43
with a season structure that makes sense.
37:48
If you have to explain it
37:49
seven different ways,
37:50
depending on which route the people took,
37:53
you don't get anybody
37:54
invested or involved.
37:58
And I'm tired of saying we
37:59
can't compare to the other sports.
38:01
We can because basic
38:03
storylines are basic storylines.
38:05
They're based on basic human
38:06
needs that we all can understand.
38:09
And that's why we root for
38:11
the people to be successful.
38:17
But in this sport test,
38:21
whatever you want to call it,
38:23
we ignore the fact that the
38:24
spectator may want to watch
38:26
it to find out who is going to win,
38:30
lose the storyline.
38:32
We don't even have the storyline.
38:46
What did people have to
38:47
place to get their invite
38:48
this past weekend?
38:51
But it's more than that, Judy.
38:53
They could have put,
38:58
if I could just do the graphics,
39:00
it would be so easy.
39:08
The best hardest to watch
39:10
episodes of Hard Knocks are the cut guys.
39:12
Yes.
39:14
We watch Hard Knocks because
39:15
we're rooting for the
39:16
underdog to make the team.
39:18
At that point in the year,
39:20
is this guy going to have
39:22
an income for the year?
39:23
Is he going to fulfill his
39:25
dreams and make it to the NFL or not?
39:28
And if he gets cut,
39:29
it slices you right to the
39:32
heart when you're watching.
39:36
The chase to the payday is
39:37
that's the story.
39:38
Yes.
39:39
Yes.
39:40
It's that simple.
39:43
If they're handing out free money,
39:45
who is in line to get it?
39:59
Tell me who's mathematically
40:00
eliminated when it happens to.
40:02
Yes.
40:04
Yes,
40:05
these are all basic constructs that
40:07
have been done over and over again,
40:09
CrossFit.
40:11
But there are people in our world,
40:13
in this fitness world,
40:15
in this CrossFit world that
40:17
don't watch sports like you and I do.
40:20
And they need to be shown
40:21
this graphically so they
40:24
can understand why it means something.
40:32
fluffy fit the dream is the
40:34
game simple the dream is
40:36
the I get that when you're
40:38
not talking about money
40:39
period the games is the the
40:41
tip of the spear it's the
40:43
thing that everybody wants
40:44
when they first get into
40:45
the sport but when
40:46
someone's handing out free
40:47
money and the rumors are
40:49
that it's going to be a
40:50
large sum of money that is
40:52
a storyline that people will follow
41:04
That's what made full swing
41:05
so good for golf.
41:06
The storylines.
41:08
Yes.
41:14
Cross that we need more degenerates.
41:15
Yes.
41:22
I know as OG CrossFitters,
41:25
there is this ideal that
41:27
the CrossFit games are the
41:28
best thing in the world and
41:29
that we all get to play
41:30
because we get to sign up for the Open.
41:32
And it's this beautiful
41:33
thing that goes from
41:36
beginning of February to
41:38
the beginning of August.
41:40
That has been around a long time.
41:42
But there's also this thing
41:45
that every sport has had
41:47
their competitor.
41:49
And it always comes with money.
41:51
And people want a share of that money.
41:59
Fluffy fit.
42:00
Free money doesn't push
42:01
people to work as much.
42:03
Oh, I disagree.
42:05
If you're Colton Mertens and
42:06
you feel you should have
42:07
been offered the free money
42:09
in the first place and they
42:11
didn't give it to you and
42:12
now you have the ability to go take it,
42:17
tell me that doesn't
42:18
motivate somebody tell me
42:21
that doesn't motivate
42:21
somebody because I bet your
42:25
damn ass that colton
42:27
mertens is motivated as
42:28
hell to go take somebody's
42:31
free money away from them
42:38
you're just glossing over
42:39
the obvious storyline that is here
42:42
because you don't want to
42:44
give them any credit.
42:45
And I'm not giving them credit either.
42:49
I'm saying they're missing
42:50
the boat on this.
42:55
There are storylines here.
42:57
If they're willing to take
42:58
them and run with it, they just won't.
43:06
Not everybody in the world is idealistic.
43:10
And there's only one
43:12
CrossFit Games champion.
43:14
But there are twenty spots
43:15
to get free money.
43:25
Colton regularly does kill Taylor.
43:26
Happens all the time.
43:28
Yes.
43:29
people jump on there if
43:31
there was not money
43:32
involved and you're
43:34
training for something
43:35
you're not going to take a
43:36
time out of your day to
43:40
just win for bragging
43:42
rights now colton may want
43:44
to do that at times too but
43:47
there are days where he
43:48
would stop his training to
43:49
go to go win a two grand I'm sure
44:03
All I'm saying is the
44:05
storyline is written.
44:06
It's right there.
44:07
You just have to create the graphic.
44:09
It ain't a big deal.
44:11
They could do that and then
44:12
they could actually start
44:13
heading in a direction that makes sense.
44:17
But right now it's like this
44:19
secret club that they don't
44:20
want you to really know what's out there.
44:23
And it doesn't make any sense to me.
44:27
You have a six-member media team,
44:30
and you can't get out one
44:31
graphic of where the real storyline lies?
44:36
Gosh.
44:38
I'll take that job and just
44:39
sit around all day.
44:45
It wouldn't work without the cash,
44:47
especially for games-level
44:49
Jason Colton Tudor James.
44:53
Correct.
44:53
Correct.
44:57
And if,
44:58
like what Jenny said last night is true,
45:01
and the sponsorships are
45:02
dipping and athletes don't
45:04
have individual sponsors anymore,
45:06
they're going to be looking
45:06
for ways to find money
45:08
somewhere to support
45:09
themselves through these
45:11
CrossFit game seasons.
45:17
Thank you, Steve Miller.
45:18
Yes, I do agree with this.
45:21
One hundred percent.
45:23
everything I said makes
45:25
sense because I said it
45:27
just kidding and problem is
45:30
that people in charge are
45:31
just clueless that is that
45:36
is that is the best sum up
45:38
of what just happened
45:43
because when I said this
45:43
last week everybody pointed
45:45
me to the race for
45:46
copenhagen but that didn't
45:47
tell me anything
45:54
Impression Scott impressions.
45:57
Yes.
46:00
all right I'm gonna wrap
46:02
this thing up it was great
46:03
football weekend if you're
46:05
a football fan college
46:06
football started this
46:07
weekend so many fourth
46:09
quarter finishes it was
46:11
such a fun weekend to watch
46:12
last night I got off the
46:13
show watched miami notre
46:15
dame last night my our
46:17
miami was up by ten notre
46:19
dame tied the game my miami
46:21
had to then drive down the
46:22
field get a field goal
46:24
notre dame had one last
46:25
shot what a great way to
46:26
start the college football season
46:29
Texas-Ohio State was a close game.
46:32
LSU-Clemson was a close game.
46:35
I'm sure we'll talk about
46:35
that a little bit with our
46:37
resident Louisianian on Wednesday.
46:41
But fun stuff to watch.
46:43
Tonight we get Bill
46:44
Belichick in his first
46:45
college football game.
46:47
Tonight on Monday Night Football.
46:49
And then Thursday night it all begins.
46:52
NFL action Thursday night.
46:55
Cowboys-Eagles get that kicked off.
46:59
I do have fantasy football
47:01
invites out to people.
47:02
We got enough to start a league.
47:04
So that'll probably be a
47:05
yearly thing here.
47:07
Moving forward is we'll do a
47:09
fantasy football league.
47:12
So if you put that you were
47:13
interested in the chat,
47:15
I sent you a return message
47:17
on where to get me your email.
47:18
And then invites are going
47:20
out as quickly as I can get them back in.
47:24
So there's that going on.
47:26
And then I got to watch
47:27
Thunderbolts this weekend.
47:30
God, what a good movie.
47:32
I have been out on the
47:34
Marvel Universe for a couple years now.
47:39
But man, I love the Thunderbolts.
47:43
It was just good old-fashioned fun movie.
47:46
Yelena has always been one
47:47
of my favorite characters.
47:52
For her to get her due in
47:53
this movie and the way it
47:54
was done was awesome.
47:56
She is Black Widow's sister,
47:57
if you're not super
47:59
familiar with the Marvel Universe.
48:01
That character was played by
48:02
Scarlett Johansson.
48:03
This is Florence Pugh, plays Yelena,
48:08
her sister.
48:09
and she is every bit as
48:11
talented as black widow but
48:12
has much more edge to her
48:14
and I love that um I give
48:16
that movie an a minus I
48:19
feel like it's marvel
48:20
universe getting back to
48:22
what they do best um really
48:24
fun to watch and it's
48:25
streaming free on disney
48:27
plus so um I'm glad bob
48:34
from maverick just plays
48:35
himself again I thought
48:36
that was the best joke of
48:37
the whole movie that
48:40
in maverick he was just bob
48:42
no call signs um and then
48:44
in this movie they they
48:46
want to know more about him
48:47
and he's just bob he's just
48:49
bob and he's bill pullman's
48:51
son so that's pretty cool
48:54
uh but yeah great movie
48:57
really enjoyed it uh again
49:00
streaming on disney plus if
49:01
you want to check it out
49:04
Other than that,
49:05
today I'm just going to be chilling,
49:07
trying to recover from this
49:08
pneumonia and try to get
49:10
back into some editing
49:15
throughout the day.
49:17
And we'll get some stuff out to you.
49:18
I still have got to get that
49:20
Hattie part two out.
49:21
And then I've got some stuff
49:22
from the age group games
49:23
I'm working on as well.
49:25
So that'll be coming out as well.
49:28
With that, guys,
49:30
got a little heated today.
49:32
Love that.
49:33
Love when you guys get me
49:34
all fired up with that.
49:36
Tomorrow,
49:37
I'm going to talk about if I were the WFP,
49:40
how do I write the ship and
49:44
what are the strategic
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steps to take to make a comeback?
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And they won't listen,
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so it's no big deal.
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And it'll probably just fall on deaf ears.
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But I'm going to do that tomorrow.
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With that, gosh,
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I've got to go back to work tomorrow.
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With that,
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I hope you guys in the States
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are having a great Labor Day.
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And everybody else around the world,
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just have a great rest of your day.
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We'll see everybody tomorrow
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on Lunch with Clydesdale.