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Lunch with the Clydesdale - Today's is a Holiday but we are still Having Lunch · Clydesdale Media Podcast

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what is going on everybody
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welcome to the lunch hour
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it is lunch with the
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clydesdale what's going on
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got this on the wrong
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setting let me see there we
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go gotta show off ken's
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steak there for a minute
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there we go all right so
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what's going on everyone
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today is a national holiday
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here in the u.s uh if that
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means it's a state holiday
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means I didn't have to work today
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which I really, really enjoyed, uh,
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getting to sleep in a little bit today.
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Um, yeah,
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it's been a rough couple of weeks
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with people out sick and stuff.
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So I really, really enjoyed, um,
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the day off today.
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So we're going to throw a dart.
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Here we go.
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Left-handed again.
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Oh man.
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So close, man.
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I have to show you guys this
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one because it is a pretty good one.
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Hopefully you guys can see
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that it is just to the right,
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just to the left of the bullseye.
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Just to the left.
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Almost got it.
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That's the left hand, man.
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I don't know where it's going to go,
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but it seems to be working
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better than trying to go up
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over all the equipment here.
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What's going on, Judy Reed,
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Meredith Jones.
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Good to have you guys here.
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I'm going to talk about this
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a little more in depth later in the show,
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but man,
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it is like a black hole of
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content right now,
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trying to come up with
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things to talk about.
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But I found something I wanted to do.
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Since last year,
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we ended the season just on
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such a poor note with Lazar's death.
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I wanted to kind of remember
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back to last year some of the good times.
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And I want you guys to
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participate in this as well.
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I have my top four moments from last year.
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And I didn't really take a
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ton of time to think about it.
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But these are things that
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came to my mind immediately
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that I really enjoyed from last season.
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Personally, whether I was there,
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whether I wasn't,
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whether I took part in it,
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these are just my four
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favorite things from last year.
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And I would love to hear
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what your guys' favorite
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things were from last year.
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And maybe tomorrow I'll compile some video,
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if I can find it,
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on whatever your favorite
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thing was from last year.
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So I'm going to count down
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my four with some video to
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kind of show you what that is.
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And then I will open it up.
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You can either put it in the
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chat here or in the comments below,
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and I'll try to look up
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some video so we can show
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that stuff tomorrow.
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So my number five,
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my number five was
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something that was happened
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to me personally.
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And that is,
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I took on this challenge of
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doing behind the scenes for
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the Masters CrossFit Games.
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This is episode one.
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It's the trailer from episode one.
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This is my number four
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favorite thing from last year.
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It was a ton of work.
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Huge thanks go out to Jonathan Ortega,
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who did all of the workout
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montages in this piece,
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along with Caitlin Walters,
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who filmed stuff with him.
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And Holly Dugan did all the
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graphics for this.
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So huge thanks to all of them.
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Without them,
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this would not even be possible.
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But I'm going to play a
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little bit of this trailer
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just to remind you of like
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this happened last year.
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This is my number four
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favorite thing from last year.
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Guys, where are you coming in from?
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Brazil.
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Brazil?
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Brazil.
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Brazil.
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Brazil.
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Brazil.
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Brazil.
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I've got an actual camera.
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All right.
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Seriously?
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What's your name?
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Kevin McVay.
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I'm from Pennsylvania.
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And you're a badass.
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I've watched you in
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different competitions
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throughout the year.
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Any goals for the weekend?
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Win.
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Win?
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simon hope from uh auckland
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and new zealand new zealand
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awesome yeah albert police
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what division are you
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fifty-five to fifty-nine so
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that gives you an idea of
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the masters behind the
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scenes that was check-in
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day uh we then did ended up
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doing twelve episodes one
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for each workout and a
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check-in day um and they it
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turned out better than I
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could have ever expected but that is my
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number four favorite thing
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from last year my number
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three thing from last year
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is I'm not going to show
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you like the actual thing
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that happened but something
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that came from it and that
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is my number three favorite
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thing from last year was
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colton merton's touch and
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go on the snatch ladder at
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semifinals but what came from that
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is that Colton started
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making these videos talking
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to either a future child or
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his dogs or a pig and
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telling them the story of what he did.
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And so I'm going to play you
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from Colton's Instagram,
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him telling the story of
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when he used to be a CrossFitter.
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So here we go.
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Yeah.
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Four times.
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Individual.
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Well, one of you was team.
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I don't tell people that.
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They don't know better.
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Yeah,
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even one of the Vant the Games called
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me the Iron Hog.
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Went two events at the semifinals.
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Last second,
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had to go touch and go to beat Bukowski.
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Barbell came down, bounced off my leg.
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Still had the touch and go.
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We came down to the final event.
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About to whoop them boys ass.
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And boom.
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No rep.
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First one.
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And then boom.
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Back to back no reps.
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The boys got lucky.
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I'll be back.
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So my number three is the
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touch and go that Colton
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did on the floor.
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But I thought it was more
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fun to show kind of what
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came from that and him
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doing these little spots
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where he would either be
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talking to his little pig
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or talking to a dog or
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talking to a future child
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about the legend of the Iron Hog.
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And so that is my number
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three thing that happened last year.
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Stop sharing that.
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And then my number two thing came from a,
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let's say a little personal
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back and forth with myself
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and John Young.
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John Young said that he was
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the only person to predict
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this person would make the games.
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Uh,
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but little did he know that I had made
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that prediction as well.
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And I actually put it in my
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heat one app and, um,
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I actually am really close
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with this person.
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So, uh,
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The event was that she made
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the CrossFit Games.
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That is my number two.
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That is Hattie Cano.
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Nobody picked her.
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Nobody thought she would do anything.
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And then I made this reel to
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Dog John Young because he
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was not the only person to
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think she was going to the
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CrossFit Games.
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So here is that reel that I made.
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Is she doing good?
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She's doing great.
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I'm so happy for Hattie.
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I said that she would make
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the games and everybody
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pushed back on me and it
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kind of convinced me to
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back off of her a little bit.
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So that was
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That was fun to be able to
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go back and forth with John
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Young and for Hattie to get
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her ticket to the CrossFit Games.
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And now her second ticket,
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she's going to be going
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back again this year.
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So that is my number two thing.
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Favorite thing from last
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year was Hattie Canio
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punching her ticket to the
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CrossFit Games.
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And punching your ticket is
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like my least favorite thing,
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and I can't believe I just said it.
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I tried to say qualify or
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something like that.
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I'm just tired of the phrase
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punching your ticket.
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Um,
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so my number one favorite thing from
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last season was kind of
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important to what's happening today.
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And that is that currently
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leading the last chance
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qualifier is Lydia fish.
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And that should be official tomorrow,
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but she was my favorite
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thing from last year.
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I was at the Syndicate Crown
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when she was attempting the snatch ladder,
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getting to the last bar,
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which would have been a PR.
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And I was filming her and I
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was able to capture her
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family in the stands in
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front of her as she's doing the lift.
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And this is my favorite
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thing from last year's season.
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And I will try to blow this
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one up so you can see it a
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little bit better.
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And here she is attempting
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the final bar of the snatch ladder.
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And that there is Lydia Fish.
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That is what it's all about.
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hitting that bar,
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watching her family shoot
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through the roof with excitement.
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And the famous story is her
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dad right here in orange
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always wears an orange
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shirt in the stands.
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So she's able to pick him out and,
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And and during during an
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event and her hitting that lift,
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which was a PR at the end
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of a snatch ladder for as tiny as she is,
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was really super freaking cool.
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And that was my number one
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favorite thing from last year.
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And so pumped that I was
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able to capture that with
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my own little camera at the
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Syndicate Crown.
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So those were my top four
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things from last season.
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If you guys have any others,
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shoot them in the comments,
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shoot them in the chat,
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and then I'll try to find
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video footage of them tomorrow.
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And we can all reminisce a
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little bit and kind of
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remember the good stuff from last year,
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uh, because it all ended in,
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in Lazar's death.
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And I don't want it just to
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be remembered for that.
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There was a lot of great
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things that happened last year.
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And, uh,
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I want to make sure that we
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can remember those and
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remember the really cool times.
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So that is my top four.
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And if you just are getting here,
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number four was my...
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doing the behind the scenes
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of the masters crossfit
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games and how much fun that
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was number three was
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colton's touch and go at
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the west coast classic
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number two was hattie canyo
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um qualifying for the
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crossfit games out of west
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coast and number one lydia
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fish hitting the last bar
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on the cl on the snatch
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ladder last year at syndicate crown so
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Um,
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another thing I want to talk about real
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quick is if you've not seen it,
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coffee pods and wads went
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to like a level one or a
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level two and filmed Rob
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Lawson talking about his why.
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And he is a seminar staff member.
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I know Rob because, um,
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he was my lead when I was a
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judge for rogue.
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I met him during the COVID year.
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During the COVID year,
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I was judging Saxon
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Pancheck and Rob was in my
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ear during events.
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We had to wear Bluetooth
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headphones and have our
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phones in our pocket.
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And he was the head judge.
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And if you remember,
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everything was televised online.
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based on the world clock.
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And if the head judge needed
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to tell you something you were missing,
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uh, you got,
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you got talked to in your ear.
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Um,
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and Rob is the person who is doing that.
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This, this talks about his sister, um,
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going into a coma and how
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they use CrossFit to get
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her back and that whole story.
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And it's really good.
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The video is only like three
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and a half minutes long.
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Well worth your time to go check that out.
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If you have not already,
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Rob's a great guy and the
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story is incredible and totally,
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totally worth your time to
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grab that video.
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I also want to talk about
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the Rolling Stone article just briefly.
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I know Siobhan was talking
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about this morning.
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I talked about it briefly at the end, very,
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very end of the Sunday night show.
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Um, I read the article over the weekend.
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It, it is completely one-sided.
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It is super long.
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The only people quoted in
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the entire thing are people
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who are sitting out this season.
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So it's only that perspective.
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They didn't,
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they did not talk to any
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athlete that is competing
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in the CrossFit season this year.
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and then it's mike halpin
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giving uh the data that he
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put together from the
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timeline and brian friend
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quoting throughout it it is
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a complete in my opinion
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waste of time because it is
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completely one-sided people
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are entitled to their opinions but
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When you're writing an article,
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it should be fair and
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equitable and both sides
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should be represented.
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But I think that's the story
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with all news these days.
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Um, I don't,
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I don't sit and just let the
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news waft over me anymore.
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I am a person who pulls my news.
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And then I research further
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when I see things of
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interest that I want to know more about.
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And I don't just accept
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whatever is in the article.
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I,
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I want to read more and know more and
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know both sides of the
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story before I make a decision.
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This, um,
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this Rolling Stone article is,
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is none of that.
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It's all one sided.
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It's all people who are
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sitting out the season.
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It's all people who have a
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bend against CrossFit.
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Um, the claims are outlandish.
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It's, it's really, really ridiculous.
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Um, so I just wanted to add on to that.
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I know Sivan kind of hit it
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this morning and he hit it pretty hard.
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Um, but he is absolutely right.
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It's, it's complete trash.
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The next thing I want to
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talk about is I'm watching
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the spin last night and
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they talked about Danny
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Spiegel becoming an American gladiator.
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And then they did a blind rankings of,
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of people who would be good
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American gladiators.
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Weird things frustrate me, and that really,
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really frustrated me.
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I was getting ready to go to bed.
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I was sitting in my bedroom,
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like flipping out at the TV
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that these people apparently have never,
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ever watched American Gladiator.
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Judy says she's loved to read it.
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Morbid curiosity.
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I got it free somewhere.
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I don't know how I got it.
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And I don't know if they
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locked it down or it was
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available earlier and now
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it's locked down.
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But I was able to get it
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over the weekend for free.
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But anyway,
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back to the American Gladiator.
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I've said on the show that
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Danny Spiegel is going to
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make an amazing American Gladiator.
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And I think that she is
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because she is very athletic.
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She is very strong.
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She fits the mold of what an
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American Gladiator is and should be.
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I think on the spin last night,
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John and Tyler were getting
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American Gladiator and
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wrestling confused.
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American Gladiator is not scripted.
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American Gladiator is an athletic event.
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It is common Joes going up
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against these Greek God
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gladiators and trying to
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beat them at a game.
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It is physical.
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It is contact sport.
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It is insanity.
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And what I did is I pulled up an old, um,
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an old American gladiator.
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This is Powerball just to
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show you it's not fake.
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It's not scripted.
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It is athletes trying to beat athletes.
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And so I'm going to share the screen.
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Here is Powerball from back
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in the day on American Gladiator.
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And the object is to take
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balls from this bin and
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beat these gladiators out
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here so that you can get
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your colored ball into one
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of these cylinders.
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All right.
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All right.
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I don't want to go too long
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because I probably don't
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have the rights to share this.
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But you can see they're
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getting tackled to the ground.
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It is a full contact sport.
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Um, Lito is saying sure,
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but at least in the UK version,
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they still have
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personalities and I
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wouldn't say they're a
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hundred percent real.
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To be honest,
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I can only go by what I have known.
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I have watched, um,
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I have watched American
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gladiators probably every
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episode here in the U S it
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was all out real.
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One hundred percent here in
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the U S when it was going
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through its last iteration,
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I'm hoping that that is the same.
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Yes, they did have personalities,
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but they were like calling people.
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They should be the pink pony
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or they should be the blah, blah, blah.
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That's wrestling.
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These are like Storm and
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Blade and Razor and Greek
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god names like Thor.
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And it's a very different setup.
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So the people they were
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picking that should be great gladiators,
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I don't necessarily agree with.
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the only one they had up
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there that I do is I think
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Jason Hopper would be great.
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He is athletic.
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He can play these types of sports.
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He does have a personality as we're seeing,
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as we moved, as we move more and more.
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Um,
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and the other people I could see would
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be like Chandler Smith.
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He fits that mold, right?
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Um,
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Kara Saunders.
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Kara Saunders would be a badass gladiator.
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And I think Danny Spiegel is
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probably the best American
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version of the gladiator in
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the CrossFit space.
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She is very, very athletic.
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I know people want to dog her for things,
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but the woman is extremely athletic.
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She is extremely strong.
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She will become even more
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popular doing this than
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maybe even CrossFit.
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Kenneth says,
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this was back when men were men.
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Well,
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I'm hoping that the new version is
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the same.
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Um,
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maybe the pad underneath them a little
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thicker, but same premise.
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Um, says Stovall for mayhem.
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He has that look.
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I think I don't disagree with you at all,
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Judy,
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but I think where he goes wrong is
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his personality.
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Isn't strong enough.
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Um,
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he needs a stronger
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personality where Chandler,
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where Jason Hopper, where car Saunders,
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where Danny Spiegel have
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the personality to go along with the,
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the body type and the athleticism.
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If that makes sense.
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Uh, you have to be able to chirp.
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I think Colton Mertens would
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be great as a chirper and
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maybe like the underdog gladiator.
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Um,
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daniel brandon would be the
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a great choice a great
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choice you have to be able
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to chirp you have to be
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able to talk smack flip off
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the crowd do whatever you
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need to to become either
24:02
the heel or or whatever but
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yeah uh chandler smith
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would be fab he would be
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this is right down his alley um
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Yeah, so it's a combination of body type,
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athleticism,
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and personality to be an
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American gladiator.
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And I think that they listed
24:29
people like Annika Greer.
24:30
I mean,
24:32
I would put Danielle Brandon way
24:34
above that.
24:36
I think Alex Kazan would be
24:37
awesome if you could up her
24:38
personality a little bit.
24:40
Yeah.
24:45
You know who would have been
24:46
killer at this?
24:47
Carrie Pierce would have been awesome.
24:55
Trying to think who else.
24:57
But yeah,
25:02
I really do think Danny is going
25:04
to be great at this.
25:09
she,
25:09
she is popular for reasons and those
25:12
reasons help her in this venue.
25:14
Plus I've,
25:15
I've talked to her so many times
25:18
in like short snippets,
25:20
even though I've never had
25:21
her on my show.
25:22
Um, and she's really,
25:24
really funny backstage.
25:25
She's really, um, really, really good at,
25:32
at all this kind of stuff.
25:33
And I,
25:33
I just think she's going to be a star.
25:38
Ricky Garrard, I think he could do that.
25:41
Dan Bailey,
25:42
I don't know if he chirps enough.
25:48
You know who would be great
25:49
is EZ Muhammad.
25:52
EZ Muhammad chirps all the time.
25:55
Like he would be awesome.
25:57
Josh Bridges.
25:58
Josh Bridges would have been
26:00
a great gladiator.
26:03
Uh, Taylor self would be a good one too,
26:05
but they'd have to give it
26:06
a TV MA rating.
26:08
Yes.
26:12
Uh, Meredith,
26:13
you have to be willing to be
26:14
the heel or the hero.
26:16
True.
26:19
Easy is jacked up right now too.
26:22
Like the last couple of
26:22
comps I've seen mobility and flexibility,
26:26
low jacked up high.
26:28
And the dude is a chirper.
26:35
I think Rich put in the
26:37
right frame of mind would be great.
26:44
I do think so.
26:47
I even think like Scott Pancheck.
26:50
has gotten to the point
26:51
where he's diving into
26:53
comments and chirping back at people.
26:58
I think he'd be great at it
27:01
if his knees could hold up
27:02
to the beating that these guys take.
27:11
Rich is better as a challenger.
27:13
Maybe, maybe.
27:21
Yeah.
27:23
John Pera that won the
27:24
snatch ladder back in the day.
27:27
Not as familiar with him.
27:33
But yeah.
27:36
Who would be?
27:39
AJ Bartow would have been awesome.
27:42
AJ Bartow looks like a gladiator.
27:50
Sam Briggs,
27:50
I think would need to be a
27:51
little bit bigger to kind of fit the mold,
27:54
but she can trash talk with
27:55
the best of them.
27:57
Um, yeah,
28:00
it does bring up like an
28:02
interesting conversation though,
28:03
because it really is a
28:05
bunch of different components.
28:07
Um,
28:13
That's a good one, AJ.
28:15
AJ is, I mean, he's a mountain of a man,
28:19
and he literally looks like a Greek god.
28:30
Lita says, in the UK,
28:31
almost a third of them are CrossFitters.
28:36
Judy, no one said Brookence.
28:37
That'd be a good one.
28:44
uh the chick that won the
28:44
obstacle course in sixteen
28:45
or seventeen I can't
28:46
remember her name um I know
28:49
who you're talking about
28:49
you're talking about had
28:53
her on my show yep yep I
28:58
know what you're talking I
28:58
know who you're talking
28:59
about dang it it's coming
29:02
to me it's coming to me ah Corey
29:12
to Neil, that's it to Neil Reed,
29:14
Berlin to Neil Reed Berlin.
29:17
Yes.
29:21
She would have been good to
29:23
have been good.
29:27
I actually think, you know,
29:29
before the back injury,
29:30
Bethany would have been awesome.
29:40
Not CrossFit, but CrossFit adjacent.
29:42
Would love to see Hunter McIntyre.
29:45
He'd be good at it.
29:47
Anywhere where you can be a
29:48
trash talker and that's an
29:50
advantage for you,
29:51
Hunter is one of the choices.
29:59
So that's good.
30:00
But anyway, it was just frustrating to me.
30:03
Sarah Sigmund's daughter.
30:05
I don't know if she has the
30:07
trash talking ability.
30:08
She's so stinking nice.
30:15
I tell you who looks the
30:17
part right now is Folo.
30:19
Her muscles have muscles.
30:21
Yeah.
30:23
I think she's too giddy right now.
30:25
I'd have to see her like
30:27
talk some smack to get the
30:31
full view and the personality.
30:39
But she does,
30:39
she does have the body type for sure.
30:43
So anyway, I just wanted to, like,
30:45
I had to clear the air.
30:46
I actually,
30:48
when they were talking last night,
30:49
I actually thought this Judy,
30:50
I thought Hattie would be awesome.
30:53
I,
30:54
I just don't know if she could turn on
30:57
the trash talking enough.
30:59
She would talk, she would dance,
31:01
she would celebrate and
31:03
maybe that's enough.
31:07
I just don't know if she has
31:11
the trash-talking piece.
31:18
Jake Kazan.
31:19
What's up, Jake?
31:21
Hope you guys are both doing better.
31:24
Glad to see that you made it
31:25
through that accident.
31:27
Emma Tall looks jacked.
31:28
Emma Tall, I think, would be a good one,
31:30
too.
31:38
Barry McOchner,
31:39
Hattie was trash-talking on Kale Taylor.
31:42
You are right.
31:44
I thought Hattie popped in
31:45
my head last night as
31:46
someone that would be
31:47
really good at this.
31:54
Gee would be a good choice.
31:55
I think body type for sure.
31:57
I think he's too Doberman to be...
32:07
or lab lab that's what I
32:08
mean uh they can't all be
32:16
trash talkers though you
32:17
have to have a few good guy
32:18
gladiators but I do think
32:19
that like if you go back to
32:20
the old ones they all trash
32:22
talked against the
32:25
competitors and that's
32:29
where I think you need you
32:31
need the good trash talking
32:33
not amongst themselves but
32:34
against the competitors
32:40
Roman,
32:40
when he learns more English and
32:42
becomes a naturalized citizen,
32:45
that'd be good.
32:47
That'd be good.
32:50
Well, cool.
32:50
That's my American gladiator talking.
32:52
At least I got that off my
32:53
chest because they were really, really,
32:56
um, really,
32:59
really disappointing me last
33:01
night with their choices.
33:03
Um,
33:06
The next thing I want to
33:06
talk about is I've talked
33:08
about how CrossFit doesn't
33:10
seem to get timing right at all.
33:12
Right now, we are in a content black hole.
33:16
CrossFit put out all that
33:17
content when there was so much going on,
33:21
like during the Syndicate
33:23
Crown and during this event
33:25
and that event,
33:26
and all of their stuff was getting lost.
33:29
Trying to put together a
33:30
show this week has been really hard.
33:32
There's been no content from
33:34
CrossFit coming out.
33:36
It's there's no events going on.
33:38
Now's the time to put your
33:40
road to the game stuff
33:41
together as we're leading
33:43
up to the games.
33:43
And there's nothing
33:45
promoting it from a
33:46
semifinal perspective.
33:48
Now's when you should be
33:49
promoting it through your
33:51
content creation.
33:54
And this week we've had nothing, nothing,
33:58
nothing to watch.
34:01
It's been really, really hard, again,
34:03
to put in a show about any
34:06
of this because there's
34:08
just no content out there currently.
34:13
And it blows my mind.
34:17
Now, yesterday,
34:17
Hiller came on on a drive
34:20
back from West Virginia,
34:21
and I think he's putting
34:23
together some more content.
34:25
What's wild to me is you
34:27
guys all know I'm a big
34:28
Chicago Bears fan.
34:30
My Chicago Bears podcast
34:32
that I watch every single
34:33
day called CHGO went to Martinsville,
34:40
Martinsburg,
34:40
West Virginia to interview
34:42
and hang out with Tyson
34:44
Bajent for two days.
34:47
That is where Hiller came from.
34:51
I feel like my two worlds
34:53
are colliding again.
34:54
Because CHGO is putting
34:56
together some content like
34:59
a weekend with Tyson Bajent.
35:02
And I think it's happening
35:03
at the same time that
35:04
Hiller's doing some content.
35:07
And I think it's going to be insane for me,
35:12
a Bears fan,
35:14
seeing it from the two
35:14
different perspectives and
35:16
how it's going to come out.
35:19
But I was watching CHGO
35:20
yesterday and they were
35:22
talking about the CrossFit
35:23
workouts that Tyson was
35:25
doing in order to stay in
35:27
shape for the season.
35:29
And to hear like CrossFit
35:31
talk on a Bears podcast,
35:33
it just gets to be a little
35:35
muddied a little bit.
35:47
really feel like you should
35:48
have road to the games for
35:49
alex or comeback would be
35:50
awesome um I don't disagree
35:57
with you jake I just don't
35:59
think that team is willing
36:00
to put in the time for that
36:03
long for one story I think
36:06
what's missing from the new
36:08
road to the game series is
36:10
storytelling there's just
36:11
not enough of it it's uh
36:18
It's just weak.
36:24
I think what Hiller's
36:24
putting together is much
36:25
better than what Road to
36:26
the Games is putting together.
36:31
I wish I did not have a day job.
36:33
I would love to dive and do
36:34
something deeper with a
36:36
storyline like that for a period of time.
36:42
So...
36:47
We will reach out to them
36:48
and they are only doing it
36:49
for Sagafi endowment.
36:51
I, that is not exactly true.
36:53
Cause they did put one out with Ariel.
36:58
Who was with Ariel?
37:03
They did too.
37:04
Ariel was one.
37:06
Who is the other one?
37:09
I can't remember if it was a
37:10
male or female.
37:11
Let me look.
37:13
Let me look that up.
37:14
What?
37:20
Raptus, yep.
37:22
That's what it was.
37:23
Thank you, Kenneth.
37:24
You are like the
37:25
encyclopedia of CrossFit content.
37:34
So they did Ariel and Raptus as well.
37:41
And I'm hearing word that
37:43
they're going to keep doing
37:44
a couple going forward.
37:47
But again, they haven't been that great.
37:50
The only one that's been good,
37:52
in my opinion,
37:53
has been the Hopper Pepper one.
37:55
And it's only because of
37:56
their personalities.
37:58
And they couldn't help but
37:59
have it on film.
38:03
The Feast of Goffey one was
38:04
not good at all,
38:06
as it was just her training
38:09
on a rest day.
38:15
Uh,
38:16
Barry McConner says agree road to the
38:18
game sucks.
38:19
It's just them working out.
38:20
Nothing personal.
38:22
I agree.
38:22
Completely agree.
38:25
Uh,
38:25
Ryan Aldrich road to the games is too
38:27
short now.
38:27
Nothing deep.
38:33
Uh, and then the Aussie people are next.
38:41
Craig,
38:41
you still owe us a video on places
38:43
to see and invite in
38:45
Columbus for the Masters and Teens game.
38:47
Yeah, I'll get that.
38:50
Yeah,
38:50
my wife is almost fully recovered now,
38:53
so I can probably get
38:54
downtown and get some of
38:56
that stuff done in the next couple weeks.
39:06
meredith I I I enjoyed ariel
39:09
alexis episode but they're
39:11
fun people I I don't I hope
39:16
I'm conveying this it's not
39:18
about whether I enjoy
39:19
watching it is just it's
39:23
about like is it the
39:24
content I want to move the
39:26
sport forward or not that's
39:28
the way I'm looking at it not
39:31
Like, is it just enjoyable?
39:33
Because primarily I can
39:35
watch any of the content
39:36
and be entertained enough to enjoy it.
39:40
It's,
39:40
is it good enough to move the needle
39:44
on us moving forward?
39:47
Are you adding fans to these
39:48
people because their story is so cool?
39:51
Or is it just,
39:54
are you just preaching to
39:56
the congregation and nobody
39:59
outside the church?
40:01
and just letting them watch workout porn.
40:10
That's my beef with it all.
40:21
Ryan says, Ricky, Madeline, Sturt, and Jay,
40:23
I have high expectations for that one.
40:26
I think you're setting
40:26
yourself up for failure with...
40:31
any kind of expectation.
40:34
I hope, like, I think the Dallin Pepper,
40:37
Jason Hopper one accidentally was good,
40:40
but I don't think the
40:41
people making it are doing
40:43
what they need to do.
40:50
I theorize the next road to
40:51
the games or final one is Madera,
40:53
Sprague and Adler, the champions.
40:56
I don't disagree with you, Kenneth,
40:58
at all.
40:58
I think they gave that away
41:00
on boys interrupted.
41:04
It's not the people.
41:05
It's about what HQ shows.
41:07
Right.
41:09
And I don't, it's not like,
41:10
it's like they don't have a
41:11
marketing mind.
41:12
How, how,
41:18
When you watch American Ninja Warrior,
41:20
you're not watching it
41:21
because they can get
41:22
through the obstacle course
41:24
or to see the athleticism
41:25
of getting through the obstacle course.
41:28
It's hearing that Michelle
41:30
Warnke's daughter has
41:32
cerebral palsy and the toll
41:35
that that takes on her.
41:36
And now with that going on in her life,
41:38
can she overcome the obstacle?
41:42
It's about storytelling.
41:44
That's why American Ninja
41:45
Warrior has been on TV for sixteen years.
41:50
It's not because the
41:50
obstacles are so cool that
41:52
you want to see if they can
41:53
get through it.
41:54
That's like ten percent of it.
41:56
The reason you watch is
41:58
because they set up the
41:59
story with the individual
42:01
before they go on the race
42:04
and they tell you a story
42:05
that makes you want that
42:06
person to overcome something.
42:11
That's where CrossFit misses it.
42:17
Watch Full Swing on Netflix.
42:19
They do that for the golfers
42:20
that they are focusing on
42:22
in each episode of Full Swing.
42:25
And then you want that
42:26
golfer to exceed
42:27
expectations and do better
42:30
than you think is possible.
42:34
That's where we're missing
42:35
the mark in the CrossFit space.
42:38
I think Hiller is getting
42:39
closer and closer and closer,
42:42
but that's just a
42:44
third-party person going
42:45
and doing it on his own dime.
42:48
And is that what we want to depend on?
42:52
If I own CrossFit,
42:59
you need to invest in the
43:02
storytelling part.
43:03
And it doesn't just have to be the sport.
43:06
the rob lawson piece that
43:07
peter did on from coffee
43:09
pods once three and a half
43:10
minutes long super
43:11
inspirational story and all
43:14
it was was him sitting in
43:15
front of an l-one or an
43:16
l-two telling this story
43:18
and that's his why he does
43:19
crossfit that's it and it
43:22
was awesome way better than
43:25
this other stuff that's put
43:26
that's put out ryan aldrich
43:30
says wfp unbreakable series
43:31
is even better than road to the games
43:34
I would have agreed with you
43:35
up until this last one,
43:38
the Daniel Brandon one,
43:39
Pat Vellner one to me, bored me.
43:42
It is my least rated show of
43:46
this kind in the space for this year.
43:50
The Laura Horvat one is my
43:52
highest rated one from the season.
43:55
So for them,
43:56
it's either like a hit or a miss.
43:58
Um,
44:02
To me,
44:03
the Vellner-Brandon one was a
44:08
typical CrossFit Games
44:10
documentary style with tour
44:13
event stop one and no drama
44:16
over winning it.
44:19
Where at the CrossFit Games,
44:20
there's built-in drama
44:21
because it is the championship.
44:23
To do that same style for
44:25
Tour Stop One doesn't carry
44:27
over because you don't have
44:29
the built-in drama of where
44:30
you are in the season and
44:32
what that means.
44:36
And they never left the venue.
44:42
They never left the venue.
44:46
So I think up until that one,
44:47
they were doing much better.
44:50
think the jeff adler one was
44:52
was above average but jeff
44:55
is never going to be like
44:56
this lightning bolt of
44:58
excitement either um but I
45:02
would have said that about
45:03
laura horvat until they did
45:04
that one and going back to
45:06
her childhood home and the
45:08
school and the gym her
45:09
parents owned really
45:12
educated me a lot on her
45:13
past and made me learn a
45:16
lot about her and that one
45:17
was freaking awesome
45:31
Lito says,
45:32
and Vellner was just more
45:33
interesting when he was
45:34
doing the CrossFit season.
45:40
To be fair,
45:41
like Pat's been around for a long time.
45:45
We've probably heard most of
45:46
the stories already through
45:48
different podcasts, through,
45:49
through different behind the scenes,
45:52
through different games, documentaries.
45:55
I think maybe because he's ten years in,
45:58
eleven years in,
46:00
we've just seen it all before.
46:03
Especially in the format
46:05
that this one was in.
46:13
So.
46:19
I had one more thing.
46:21
This might get a little controversial.
46:29
I'll save it for another day
46:30
because we're already past
46:31
our forty five minutes,
46:33
even though I'm off today
46:34
and don't have to go back for meetings.
46:36
I know most of you probably
46:38
are at work and I don't
46:40
want to mess up your work day.
46:43
But the last question I'm
46:44
going to have for you is
46:49
Barry, I'll say it.
46:50
So basically what I was
46:52
going to talk about is,
46:53
and I've talked about it one other time,
46:56
and that is that I do believe that,
47:03
so I've had AFib two times.
47:07
since um I received the
47:10
covet vaccine vaccination
47:12
and um with bailey martin
47:15
going through what he's
47:16
been going through with
47:17
other people having the
47:18
heart issues I've never
47:20
ever had a heart issue
47:21
before all this when I watched the mars
47:26
bit about when he had the AFib,
47:29
had to have the ablation done,
47:32
and the doctor saying that
47:34
there is a connection to
47:35
COVID and the AFib happening.
47:39
I've had AFib twice since the vaccine,
47:45
and I never,
47:45
ever had COVID before the vaccine.
47:48
I only got it after the vaccine.
47:51
So I'm not an anti-vaxxer in a way that
47:57
I still need to know more,
47:59
and I'm not smart enough in
48:00
the science world to totally get it,
48:03
but I do feel like there is
48:04
a correlation to what's
48:06
happened to me and
48:08
something in that vaccine.
48:10
Whether my body can't handle it,
48:11
my body rejected something, I don't know.
48:16
but when I see all these
48:17
other people in the
48:19
CrossFit space going
48:20
through similar things that
48:21
I've gone through over the
48:22
last three years, um,
48:25
it's really making me
48:28
question a lot of the
48:29
decisions that I've made in the past, uh,
48:34
with the vaccine,
48:34
with different things like that.
48:36
And I'm still trying to work
48:38
through it all.
48:40
I saw what Bailey put out there.
48:43
Um, and I really, um,
48:46
I watch and suck in all of
48:49
that stuff that goes on
48:50
with people who have had that experience.
48:53
The Mars documentary with
48:54
the buttery bros was
48:56
exceptional for me to
48:57
understand more and to see
48:59
that I wasn't the only one
49:00
going through all this stuff,
49:02
but I never had,
49:04
my family has never had a
49:05
history of heart disease.
49:07
Um,
49:07
my family has never had heart issues and,
49:11
um,
49:13
And I never had any kind of
49:15
readings to indicate that I
49:18
would have a heart issue.
49:21
I have other things.
49:25
I have other things that, that I,
49:27
that my family does have a history of,
49:29
but heart has never been one of them.
49:31
And with all this going on
49:34
all of a sudden out of nowhere,
49:36
just I'm trying to wrap my
49:38
head around and trying to get through it.
49:40
But
49:44
But yeah,
49:45
that's what I wanted to say there.
49:47
And maybe we'll talk about
49:48
that more throughout the
49:52
show's length here.
49:54
But the last thing I want to
49:56
leave you guys with is I
49:57
did get my media
49:58
credentials for the games.
50:00
I'm looking to figure out
50:01
what I can cover at the
50:05
games that's new and different.
50:07
If you have any ideas of
50:09
what you want covered at
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the CrossFit Games,
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Let me know.
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It's really hard to get
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athlete interviews at the CrossFit Games.
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We'll probably try to do
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some shows live from there
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and do all of that stuff.
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But I wanted to know if
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there's something that you
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want covered that you've
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not seen that you think is
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missing from coverage of
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the CrossFit Games.
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I know Kat and I are going for sure.
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I need to look into who else
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might be going with the team.
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I know Ishmael, my photographer,
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videographer,
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is trying to get credentials,
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so we'll find out what happens there.
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Anything else with that,
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I'll let you guys know.
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But if you have anything
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that you think needs covered, let me know,
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and I'll see what I can do
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to cover that aspect of the
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CrossFit Games.
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With that, I'll be back tomorrow.
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I go back to work tomorrow.
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So I have one more day before the weekend.
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So we'll do lunch with the
51:20
Clydesdale tomorrow.
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This Sunday night,
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we're going to have Raph Duran on,
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who is a CrossFit Games team athlete,
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to talk about what can the
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team division do to make it more popular,
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to make more people watch.
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because we need it for the
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semifinal season.
51:40
It is the big draw that gets
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people into the venues.
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And I think we forgot about
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that this season.
51:46
And it was clear and evident
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when we didn't have the teams there,
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the affiliates didn't show up to support.
51:53
So with that,
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thank you guys so much for being here.
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If you're at work, get back to work,
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you knuckleheads.
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And I'll talk to you all
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next time on Lunch with the Clydesdale.