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Ellia Miller | The Clydesdale Media Semifinalist Series · Clydesdale Media Podcast

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  I was born to kill it.
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  I was meant to win.
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  I am down to will and so I
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  will find a way.
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  It took a minute and I
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  didn't have to ride away.
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  When it get hot in the kitchen,
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  you decide to stay.
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  That's how a winner's made.
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  Stick a fork in a hater on
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  my dinner plate.
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  what is going on everybody
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  welcome to glasdell media
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  podcast where we're
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  focusing on the athletes of
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  the 2024 crossfit
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  semifinals I'm so pumped to
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  have with me elia miller
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  what's going on man hey
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  scott I'm doing good how
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  are you I'm good man
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  earlier today I did a
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  master show I went to hit
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  the video and it just
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  kerflunk kaflui it was a cool video
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  Yeah.
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  I have different ones for
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  different shows and it just didn't,
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  it didn't start.
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  And I was like, well, okay,
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  I guess we're doing it live,
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  but it went today.
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  And I love that.
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  That is like one of the
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  coolest type songs in the
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  royalty free music category
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  that's out there.
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  And I just, and I love it.
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  So I'm hyped to see you.
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  How you been?
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  I've been good.
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  Just, uh, just training a lot.
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  Getting excited for semifinals.
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  Yeah.
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  And so this is the third
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  year in a row we've talked to Aaliyah.
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  And she's always one of
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  those bright faces when I
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  see at an event that just makes me happy.
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  I feel like I'm with my
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  people and I get to hang out.
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  And so, as always,
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  it's fun to catch up with you.
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  I know you made some big
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  changes this year.
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  You moved out west.
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  Mm-hmm.
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  Walk us through that thought
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  process and then kind of where you are.
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  Yeah.
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  So I was previously in Kansas.
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  I spent the past two seasons
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  in Kansas City, Kansas,
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  training with Jill Glasnap.
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  She was my coach.
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  And I obviously made very
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  good progress with her.
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  I made semifinals both years
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  I was with her.
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  Ended up finishing 20th in
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  the West at semifinals last year.
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  Getting close to that game spot.
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  Um,
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  and we were making a lot of good progress,
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  um,
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  but it got to a point where I was on
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  the verge of not being able
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  to pay rent anymore.
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  Um, and I was also,
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  I was training alone in Kansas.
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  I didn't have any training
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  partners out there.
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  And that was,
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  I think what I needed when I was there.
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  Um,
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  but it was getting to a point where
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  that was just becoming, um,
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  hard to maintain.
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  And like, I love going to the gym.
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  I love training,
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  but it was getting to a
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  point where I didn't want
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  to go to the gym anymore.
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  Just because training by
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  yourself day after day for
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  multiple years is,
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  it takes a very special
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  type of person to do that
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  for an extended period of time.
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  And I was really missing
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  having just people to talk to, people to,
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  you know, talk strategy with,
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  compare scores with,
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  all that kind of stuff.
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  So that combined with the
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  fact that I was becoming
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  very broke and couldn't
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  necessarily afford rent anymore.
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  The timing worked out
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  beautifully that Sean
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  Sweeney had posted on
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  Instagram that he was
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  looking for an athlete and
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  a coach to come move to Nevada,
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  train with him,
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  coach at his gym and live
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  on his property.
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  Um,
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  so I sent him a message and told him
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  the background.
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  Yeah.
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  Where's he at back there?
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  You can see his head up there.
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  Um, so I sent him a message and I was like,
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  Hey, you know,
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  I've been chasing the games
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  for a couple of years now.
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  I feel like I'm making progress,
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  but if I don't change something right now,
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  I'm going to basically have to give up.
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  this dream because I'm going to have to go,
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  you know,
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  get a grownup job and start
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  making money to pay.
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  Um,
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  and so this opportunity that he
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  presented was the perfect opportunity.
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  Um, he has a tiny house on his property.
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  It's like a little shed basically.
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  Um,
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  it's in his front yard and that was
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  what he was offering as, Hey,
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  come live in this tiny house.
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  You won't have to pay rent.
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  You won't have to pay bills,
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  just live here, coach at the gym.
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  And that's
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  you know, the,
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  the agreement that you're
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  here to help run the gym.
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  And in exchange,
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  you get to live on my property.
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  Um, so I sent him a message,
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  sent him a video, uh,
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  ended up coming out here to visit, uh,
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  that must've been like
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  November of last year,
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  spent a couple of days here,
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  Got to meet him, meet everybody at the gym,
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  coach a few classes, do some training.
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  And I ended up really loving it.
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  So a couple of days later,
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  I decided to pull the
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  trigger and move out here.
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  And by the beginning of December,
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  my life was packed up in a
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  trailer and I was driving
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  from Kansas to Fallon, Nevada.
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  So got here early December
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  and now I'm living in a
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  tiny house and coaching at
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  CrossFit Power Stroke.
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  So.
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  That leads to just a ton of
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  questions for me.
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  And how do you take your
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  belongings and whittle them
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  down to a point?
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  Or maybe you already were,
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  but you whittle them down
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  to something that fits in a tiny house.
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  It was very hard.
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  Anyone who knows me knows
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  that I'm a bit of a hoarder.
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  Wow.
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  And I had a lot of stuff.
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  So it was actually,
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  I think it was really good for me.
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  because it forced me to
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  actually take a hard look
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  at all of my belongings,
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  all of my possessions and
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  figure out what I actually
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  needed and what I didn't
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  need that I was holding
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  onto for whatever reason,
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  whether that was, Oh,
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  I might need this again in three years.
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  And, you know,
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  things like that or things that, you know,
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  I don't want to throw away
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  this concert ticket stub
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  because it has sentimental value.
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  Like,
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  All right,
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  I think it's time to move past
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  some of those things.
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  So it was a little bit of
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  like an emotional... For
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  the kids out there,
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  when you went to a concert,
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  you used to get a paper ticket.
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  Yeah, I forgot everything's digital now.
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  But it was kind of like an
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  emotional cleanse almost.
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  So it took a decent amount of time.
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  I donated a lot of stuff to
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  Goodwill and just some other...
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  donation centers out in Kansas,
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  sold some clothes on Posh
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  March and just did what I
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  could to downsize to really
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  just my essentials.
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  And then, you know, of course,
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  having two cats traveling
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  with me makes it a little
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  hard to shove everything in my car.
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  So I ended up having to,
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  I had to get a trailer
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  hitch installed on my car
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  and then rent a trailer and
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  pull that with me.
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  Um,
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  and so that also allowed me to bring my
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  air runner out here, which was nice.
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  So, yeah.
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  So I'm assuming the air
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  runner is not in the tiny house.
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  It's not,
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  it would take up the entire tiny house.
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  So my air runner is in the gym.
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  Uh, did you have other equipment?
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  Uh, just a couple of barbells,
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  barbells and an air runner.
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  And there,
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  you brought those two and just
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  threw them in the gym.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  Okay.
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  So what is tiny house living like?
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  It's interesting.
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  It was definitely an
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  adjustment and I feel like
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  I've adjusted fairly well
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  to it at this point.
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  So I have to light my stove
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  with an actual lighter.
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  So I turn on the gas and
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  then hold a lighter to it.
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  Never had to do that before.
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  I have, this is going to sound weird.
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  I have a compost toilet.
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  So my toilet doesn't actually flush.
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  it's a French drain and a compost toilet.
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  So, um, that's different for sure.
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  Um, I don't have a dishwasher.
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  Uh, I don't have an oven.
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  Um,
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  so I've had to get creative with my
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  meal prep.
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  I used to use my oven a lot for meal prep.
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  I was lucky enough that a
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  couple of months ago,
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  my parents bought me an air
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  fryer for my birthday.
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  So that helps a lot with the cooking.
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  Um, and then just, uh,
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  living small in general um
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  you know I i realize that I
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  i don't really spend too
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  much time at home I'm
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  mostly only home on my rest
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  days really uh every other
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  day I'm spending most of my
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  time at the gym or out
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  running errands or whatever
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  so it's just uh it's been
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  good I like it it's very
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  calm kenneth the lab says
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  air fryers are key yes
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  I don't know how I went so
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  long without one.
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  So shout out mom and dad.
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  Thanks for the air fryer.
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  So with that,
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  do you have any outdoor
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  living space around the tiny house?
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  I have a porch.
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  I have a really cute front porch.
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  I've never had a front porch before,
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  so that's pretty cool.
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  And then it's in his front yard,
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  basically.
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  So across from his driveway,
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  he's got the tiny house set up.
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  Um,
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  and we spend a decent amount of time
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  outside.
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  Um, Sean and his wife,
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  Emily just started a garden
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  in the front yard.
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  Um, so, you know,
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  a couple of days ago I was
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  out there helping them
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  plant some watermelons and
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  stuff like that.
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  Um, so, and you know, out doing runs,
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  bike rides, walking around, whatever.
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  Um, it's been getting nice out here.
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  So I've been able to spend
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  some more time outside.
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  what has the relationship
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  been like between sean and
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  his wife and you have you
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  become like part of the
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  family or I feel like yeah
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  they've been really great
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  um you know my birthday
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  they invited me over for
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  dinner and they cooked me
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  dinner um we hang out at
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  the house sometimes when
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  nobody's got anything going
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  on they've got two young
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  kids so their life is a
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  little hectic right now um but you know
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  I love the kids.
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  Their daughter, Tyler,
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  she can't say my name.
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  So she calls me Ia.
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  So I'm Ia.
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  It's really cute.
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  But yeah, it's been a lot of fun.
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  They've been so incredible, so welcoming.
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  They've basically become a
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  second family to me here.
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  So back in the CrossFit sense,
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  you come out there,
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  you're basically hired to
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  be a training partner.
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  Does that come with Sean
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  coaching you as well?
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  Yes, he is my coach now.
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  So I am part of the Cowboy
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  Way athlete program.
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  He runs and coaches that program.
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  So he's my coach and also my
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  training partner,
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  which is actually really cool.
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  It's interesting in some
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  instances where it's like, all right,
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  does he need to be my coach
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  for this workout or does he
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  need to be my training
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  partner for this workout?
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  So it's been...
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  interesting navigating that
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  and figuring that out.
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  Um, but it's been,
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  it's been so amazing and just having, um,
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  such a high caliber athlete
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  to train next to every day.
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  Um, I mean,
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  I feel like I've improved so
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  much since I've been here, uh,
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  just from this environment.
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  And I feel like I'm the
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  fittest I've ever been.
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  And I'm really excited for
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  semifinals this year.
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  So I've,
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  I've watched you all off season and I'm,
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  I'm going to make watching you for years.
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  You have been a very much,
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  very much a power output athlete, right?
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  It seems to me that over the last year,
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  there's been some
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  deconstruction down to kind
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  of like the bare bones and rebuilding.
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  Am I, am I correct in that?
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  Yeah.
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  And then where are you?
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  Trying to turn myself into a runner.
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  where are you in that journey?
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  Are you still in the process
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  of the rebuilding of the
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  new Aaliyah 2.0 or.
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  Yeah, I think, I think it's,
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  it's going to continually
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  be a process and an evolution.
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  And, you know,
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  even when I get through the
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  phase that I'm in right now,
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  there's going to be another evolution,
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  you know,
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  Aaliyah 3.0 or whatever you want
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  to call it.
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  But I have,
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  especially since coming here,
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  I've spent a lot of time
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  working on my aerobic base, my running,
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  burpees, things like that.
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  So, you know, high, heavy breathing,
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  longer workouts have tended
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  to not be great for me historically.
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  And I'm still not where I
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  would like to be with them,
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  but I'm getting significantly better.
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  The
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  quarterfinals workout this
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  year with the wall balls
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  and the burpee box jump
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  overs that's like two of my
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  weakness movements and if I
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  had done that workout a
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  year ago I don't know that
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  I would have even made it
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  into the last round of
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  burpee box jump overs and
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  when I did it this year I
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  did it twice um I still I
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  didn't finish the workout
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  that was kind of
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  disappointing but um by the
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  second time I did it I was
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  only six reps from
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  finishing my last set of
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  burpee box jump overs so
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  like seeing improvements and
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  that kind of stuff has been really cool.
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  I've been running more than
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  I've ever run in my life
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  since I've been here.
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  We live about two miles from
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  a place called Soda Lake.
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  It's just this big,
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  it's actually an active volcano,
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  but it's a lake with,
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  it's like in a crater.
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  And so we run around the rim
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  of the lake and we run like
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  downhill down to the lake,
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  do some burpees,
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  run back up the hill and
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  then keep running around
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  And we do that once a week.
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  The first time I did it,
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  when I first moved out here,
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  that run took me 59 minutes.
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  And now my PR is down to about 45 minutes.
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  So yeah, making big improvements.
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  There's still a ways to go,
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  but we're getting there.
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  And one of the big reasons I ask is if,
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  if people have watched you
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  and then they watch you in
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  some of these off season competitions,
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  like you would be the pick
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  to win some of the lifting events.
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  And that didn't necessarily
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  happen this off season.
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  And my assumption was
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  because you're going through this process,
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  you're probably not even
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  touching a barbell very much.
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  Yeah.
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  My, my lifting has changed, uh,
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  pretty significantly.
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  So, you know, I'm not on, uh,
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  you know,
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  eight to 12 week strength cycle
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  for anything specific right now,
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  because I don't need to be, um,
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  winning the lifting events
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  is awesome and so much fun
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  and who doesn't like winning an event.
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  Um,
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  but it's more important for me to be
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  focusing on bringing up the
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  things that I struggle with.
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  And that means that I might
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  not necessarily be winning
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  the lifting events anymore,
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  but I can still hang in the
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  lifting events.
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  And that's,
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  I need to just be more
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  well-rounded in that aspect of like,
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  I don't necessarily need to win.
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  I just need everything to come up more.
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  so when you're in these off season comps,
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  it's, it's Aaliyah 2.0.
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  And are you testing,
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  you testing that new Aaliyah out?
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  Like, like the,
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  the priority isn't the lifting event.
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  It's how well am I going to
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  do on this muscle up
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  workout or how well am I
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  going to do on this run?
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  Like, so does that priority shift?
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  Yeah, I think, um,
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  Previously, when I would compete,
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  I would go in thinking
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  about each event individually and say,
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  you know, oh, there's a lifting event.
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  I want to win that one.
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  And then there's this other
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  event that I know is going to crush me,
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  but that's OK because I'm
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  going to win the lifting
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  one and it doesn't matter.
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  And now I feel like I
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  approach competitions more
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  with a holistic approach of like, hey,
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  there's a lifting event and
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  that's going to be awesome for me.
• 17:18
  But I'm also going to spend
• 17:20
  just as much time focusing
• 17:21
  on these other events
• 17:22
  because I want my overall
• 17:24
  placement to come up,
• 17:26
  not just go crush a lifting
• 17:28
  event and get crushed by everything else.
• 17:33
  Okay.
• 17:34
  So through all the,
• 17:37
  let's call it
• 17:37
  experimentation of the off season.
• 17:41
  how do you feel you're doing
• 17:43
  going into this game season?
• 17:45
  Like even before the open,
• 17:47
  did you feel like you were
• 17:48
  ready to unleash whatever
• 17:51
  it was that you created?
• 17:52
  Yeah.
• 17:54
  I mean, I, like I said,
• 17:55
  there's still more work to
• 17:56
  be done and still more
• 17:57
  improvements to be made, but I,
• 18:01
  I was really excited to
• 18:03
  start this season because I
• 18:05
  do feel like a different
• 18:07
  athlete this year.
• 18:08
  And I,
• 18:10
  I don't know how much it'll show.
• 18:12
  I don't know how to explain it.
• 18:19
  I don't know how much it'll
• 18:22
  show in terms of the leaderboard,
• 18:24
  but I do know that I will feel it.
• 18:27
  And I hope that it reflects
• 18:29
  on the leaderboard.
• 18:30
  But I know that I feel like
• 18:32
  a very different athlete this season.
• 18:34
  How hard is it for you to
• 18:35
  wrap your head around that?
• 18:40
  It's a, yeah, it's a process.
• 18:43
  It's just another one of
• 18:44
  those mental processes that
• 18:46
  we go through as competitive athletes.
• 18:49
  And I feel like everything in this sport,
• 18:52
  once you get to this level,
• 18:54
  it's all just mental and
• 18:55
  it's learning how to
• 18:59
  navigate all of the
• 19:03
  additional things that come
• 19:04
  with it that aren't just
• 19:06
  your physical performance.
• 19:11
  I,
• 19:11
  it's so funny because I've talked to a
• 19:13
  lot of these athletes, um,
• 19:15
  like yourself and like
• 19:17
  podcasting is very similar to that.
• 19:19
  You know,
• 19:19
  we're in a very competitive space
• 19:21
  with a lot of third party outlets and,
• 19:24
  and everybody's jockeying
• 19:26
  for position and,
• 19:27
  and what are you good at
• 19:28
  and what do you need to
• 19:30
  improve on and what do you like?
• 19:32
  It's very similar in a very different way.
• 19:35
  yeah yeah that makes sense
• 19:38
  um and so like I can
• 19:40
  commiserate a lot with a
• 19:42
  semi-final athlete and yeah
• 19:46
  um and it's so exciting for
• 19:47
  me when when people have
• 19:49
  these realizations these
• 19:50
  epiphanies um and create
• 19:53
  the 2.0s the 3.0s and and
• 19:56
  move on um we'll come back
• 20:00
  to semis in a second
• 20:02
  But you have become quite
• 20:04
  the media mogul yourself.
• 20:09
  I'm having fun with it.
• 20:11
  You cut out just a little bit there.
• 20:12
  I said I've been having fun with it.
• 20:16
  So you've made appearances on Death By,
• 20:21
  which you gave this program
• 20:22
  a huge shout out, which, you know, heart.
• 20:27
  We just got it.
• 20:29
  And I totally appreciate that.
• 20:31
  You are currently the Jeopardy champion.
• 20:37
  How fun is it that you are
• 20:40
  the Jeopardy champ?
• 20:42
  Pretty cool.
• 20:44
  Chase had asked me a couple
• 20:45
  weeks ago if I was
• 20:46
  interested in going on Jeopardy.
• 20:49
  And I was like, you know,
• 20:49
  I don't think I'm going to win,
• 20:51
  but I'll give it my best shot.
• 20:54
  And then he reached out again last week.
• 20:56
  He was like, Hey,
• 20:57
  do you want to come on this Friday?
• 20:58
  I was like, yeah, sure.
• 21:00
  And then I found out that I
• 21:02
  was going to be going against, uh,
• 21:03
  Hiller.
• 21:04
  I was like, Oh no,
• 21:06
  I'm really not going to win this.
• 21:09
  Um, but it ended up,
• 21:10
  it ended up being so much fun.
• 21:12
  Um, it was funny after the first question,
• 21:15
  I think Chase made a comment about, um,
• 21:19
  how's your heart rate right now?
• 21:21
  Is it more stressful walking
• 21:23
  onto a competition floor or
• 21:24
  doing CrossFit Jeopardy?
• 21:25
  And I think the answer is
• 21:26
  pretty solidly doing CrossFit Jeopardy.
• 21:29
  My heart rate was through the roof.
• 21:31
  I was sweating.
• 21:32
  I was nervous, but it was a lot of fun.
• 21:36
  I have grown to love that show.
• 21:39
  When you see someone like,
• 21:42
  I know that you're a fan of
• 21:43
  the sport as well as a competitor, right?
• 21:46
  So I know you know a lot
• 21:47
  about what's going on.
• 21:48
  You have Hiller that does
• 21:49
  nothing but study
• 21:51
  everything so he can make videos.
• 21:52
  And then you have Keith Knapp,
• 21:53
  a walking encyclopedia of the L1 manual.
• 21:59
  That was a pretty accurate description.
• 22:03
  And so it's really fun to
• 22:04
  watch it kind of play out.
• 22:07
  And of course, you know, in my older age,
• 22:10
  my wife and I watched the
• 22:11
  real Jeopardy every night.
• 22:13
  Yeah.
• 22:14
  And so I play along and it's so much fun.
• 22:18
  So much fun.
• 22:19
  Have you been watching Jeopardy Masters?
• 22:23
  Not yet.
• 22:24
  What I do with those is I
• 22:25
  wait till they pile up and
• 22:26
  then I binge them.
• 22:28
  Okay.
• 22:29
  I was watching that.
• 22:31
  I claimed it was preparation
• 22:32
  for CrossFit Jeopardy,
• 22:33
  but it was really just
• 22:34
  because I love Jeopardy.
• 22:37
  They make me feel very dumb.
• 22:40
  Larry Young says, big win on Jeopardy.
• 22:43
  Now you need to go on a long
• 22:44
  run of winning.
• 22:46
  Yes, sir.
• 22:47
  I'm ready.
• 22:51
  I'm excited about Jeopardy, Matt,
• 22:52
  and please don't spoil this for me.
• 22:55
  I grew up just outside of Pittsburgh.
• 22:58
  And one of the Jeopardy
• 22:59
  masters is from Pittsburgh.
• 23:00
  And I'm a huge fan of her
• 23:02
  because she is also a
• 23:03
  chaser on the game show The Chase.
• 23:07
  Oh, okay.
• 23:08
  That's cool.
• 23:10
  And on The Chase,
• 23:11
  she knits while she answers
• 23:13
  trivia questions and crushes people.
• 23:17
  And I love it.
• 23:18
  That's awesome.
• 23:19
  Like how nonchalant can you
• 23:22
  act while you're imposing
• 23:24
  your will on this game show?
• 23:27
  That's a pretty baller move.
• 23:31
  I like that.
• 23:32
  It is.
• 23:33
  And she's on Masters.
• 23:35
  So you probably have seen her.
• 23:37
  Yeah, probably.
• 23:39
  Larry Young also says the
• 23:41
  Jeopardy Masters questions are tough.
• 23:43
  Yes, they are.
• 23:44
  Yeah.
• 23:45
  It was so funny when they
• 23:46
  were doing the tournament,
• 23:47
  the invitational tournament champions.
• 23:50
  Yeah.
• 23:50
  Like the questions had
• 23:51
  gotten harder and harder and harder.
• 23:54
  And then they go back to regular jeopardy.
• 23:55
  I'm like, man, all of a sudden,
• 23:58
  like I can play.
• 23:59
  Yeah.
• 24:01
  That's how I feel too.
• 24:02
  And then celebrity jeopardy.
• 24:03
  I'm like, oh yeah, I'm good.
• 24:04
  I'm good.
• 24:05
  Let's go.
• 24:08
  That's funny.
• 24:08
  I feel really smart when I
• 24:10
  watch celebrity jeopardy.
• 24:11
  Yeah.
• 24:13
  So I,
• 24:14
  I had the honor of being on coffee
• 24:15
  pods and wads, um,
• 24:17
  around the whiteboard and
• 24:18
  you've done death by how
• 24:21
  nervous do you get during those?
• 24:23
  My first one, I was super nervous.
• 24:26
  Um, I,
• 24:27
  Lauren had sent the questions the
• 24:29
  day before and I was like studying,
• 24:31
  making notes.
• 24:32
  I was like, I have my answers ready to go.
• 24:34
  Um, and the more that I've done it,
• 24:37
  the less that I've stressed about it,
• 24:39
  it gets a little bit easier.
• 24:40
  Um, but it is.
• 24:42
  It's always challenging
• 24:44
  knowing that you're going
• 24:45
  on a live video and you're
• 24:47
  attempting to sound
• 24:48
  intelligent to a large crowd.
• 24:51
  I think that's challenging for anybody,
• 24:58
  but it's also a lot of fun.
• 25:00
  And I've got to meet and
• 25:03
  talk with a lot of really
• 25:04
  cool people through death by.
• 25:06
  So that's been really cool.
• 25:09
  Yeah.
• 25:09
  On around the whiteboard,
• 25:10
  you only have 60 seconds.
• 25:12
  That's tough.
• 25:15
  I want to explain way more
• 25:17
  than I have time to.
• 25:18
  Yeah.
• 25:19
  I feel like if I ever did that,
• 25:20
  I would get muted very quick.
• 25:22
  Yeah.
• 25:23
  Well, I won my round.
• 25:24
  I'm on to semifinals,
• 25:25
  which is this Wednesday.
• 25:26
  Hell yeah.
• 25:27
  I can do it again.
• 25:28
  I got to go watch it.
• 25:30
  Oh, man.
• 25:32
  Yeah.
• 25:33
  And I know with Peter to get points,
• 25:35
  like you have to swing with haymakers.
• 25:38
  Yeah.
• 25:38
  Yeah.
• 25:39
  And so it's,
• 25:40
  it's really prepping that and
• 25:41
  getting ready for that, but it's,
• 25:44
  and it's, let me say,
• 25:45
  it's just awesome seeing
• 25:46
  you in the media space.
• 25:47
  Is that something you want
• 25:48
  to do can even beyond your career?
• 25:50
  Yeah.
• 25:51
  I mean, I've,
• 25:52
  I've been for a while trying
• 25:54
  to figure out, you know,
• 25:56
  what I want to do after
• 25:59
  competitive CrossFit and, you know, every,
• 26:02
  I think every competitor
• 26:03
  should be thinking about
• 26:04
  life beyond the competition
• 26:06
  floor because you're only
• 26:07
  going to be a competitor for so long.
• 26:09
  I would love to be able to
• 26:10
  do it my whole life,
• 26:11
  but that's just not realistic.
• 26:14
  And so trying to figure out
• 26:17
  how I can add value to the
• 26:19
  space and how I can stay in
• 26:23
  the CrossFit world,
• 26:24
  because this is what I love
• 26:25
  and this is what I want to
• 26:27
  do with my life and
• 26:28
  figuring out ways to do
• 26:30
  that beyond competing.
• 26:32
  I think getting involved on
• 26:35
  the media side of things has been
• 26:38
  a lot of fun for me.
• 26:41
  It allows me to stay in this
• 26:45
  CrossFit world,
• 26:47
  hopefully beyond my competitive years.
• 26:49
  You know, things like podcasting.
• 26:51
  I would love to at some
• 26:54
  point get into broadcast announcing.
• 26:55
  I think that would be a lot of fun.
• 26:56
  And, you know, maybe,
• 27:00
  maybe Lauren Khalil will
• 27:01
  take me under her wing and
• 27:03
  I can be the next Lauren Khalil.
• 27:06
  Well,
• 27:07
  You always have a friend
• 27:08
  here if you ever have any questions.
• 27:11
  And, you know,
• 27:12
  we put together teams for
• 27:14
  different events and, you know,
• 27:15
  if you're available.
• 27:17
  Oh, hell yeah.
• 27:18
  I'd love that.
• 27:19
  Anytime.
• 27:21
  So, um, back to CrossFit, you, you're,
• 27:24
  you get through the season with,
• 27:26
  with the new version of
• 27:27
  Aaliyah and you get to
• 27:30
  quarterfinals and you learn
• 27:32
  that they cut down how many
• 27:35
  go to semis from 60 to 40.
• 27:38
  How scary is that when you've,
• 27:41
  when you flip the script on
• 27:42
  yourself and now the room
• 27:45
  for error has decreased by a third.
• 27:48
  Yeah, it was pretty scary.
• 27:49
  Um, it's.
• 27:51
  especially knowing not only
• 27:53
  are they cutting the field down the,
• 27:55
  down to 40,
• 27:55
  but they're also increasing
• 27:56
  the number that they bring
• 27:57
  into quarterfinals.
• 27:58
  So now the room for error is really,
• 28:02
  really small.
• 28:03
  It was already getting
• 28:04
  smaller and now it's even smaller.
• 28:07
  Um, so that was, that was scary.
• 28:09
  And when they announced the
• 28:10
  workouts and I saw the
• 28:12
  burpee box jump wall ball workout,
• 28:14
  I was a little nervous that
• 28:17
  my season wouldn't go past
• 28:18
  quarterfinals this year.
• 28:20
  Um,
• 28:21
  because I know that I made a
• 28:22
  lot of improvements, but like I said,
• 28:23
  there's still a ways to go.
• 28:25
  Um, and so I think, um,
• 28:31
  seeing that made me very
• 28:34
  nervous and I wasn't sure
• 28:36
  how this season was going to go.
• 28:38
  Um, but well,
• 28:41
  and I will say after quarterfinals ended,
• 28:44
  I was still very nervous
• 28:45
  because I ended up
• 28:47
  before the video review process,
• 28:49
  I ended up at 48th in the West.
• 28:52
  So I was outside of the cut
• 28:53
  line when quarterfinals is over.
• 28:55
  And I was pretty convinced
• 28:57
  that my season was over at that point.
• 28:59
  But then luckily I locked
• 29:03
  out my box step ups and got
• 29:06
  through the video review
• 29:07
  process relatively unscathed.
• 29:10
  And I was able to sneak in
• 29:12
  there and all you got to do is get there.
• 29:14
  So
• 29:15
  a clean slate when I go down
• 29:17
  to Carson and I'm ready to go.
• 29:20
  So how confident were you
• 29:21
  that you were going to get
• 29:22
  through the video process
• 29:25
  when you just see them
• 29:26
  flying penalty after
• 29:27
  penalty after penalty?
• 29:29
  I've talked to some people
• 29:30
  who they were already
• 29:31
  validated when that happened.
• 29:33
  Yeah.
• 29:34
  So I hadn't had any scores
• 29:36
  validated when all those
• 29:37
  penalties started coming out.
• 29:38
  And
• 29:39
  I pride myself on doing good reps.
• 29:43
  I did get one penalty this
• 29:45
  year on the wall ball workout,
• 29:46
  but it was because somebody
• 29:48
  touched my equipment,
• 29:49
  not because I did not meet
• 29:51
  a movement standard.
• 29:52
  And I try very hard to make
• 29:54
  sure that I'm always
• 29:55
  meeting movement standards
• 29:56
  because I think that that
• 29:57
  is the most important part
• 30:00
  of the sport is doing it with integrity,
• 30:05
  even still.
• 30:07
  seeing all the penalties come out,
• 30:08
  I got so stressed.
• 30:10
  I was so nervous.
• 30:12
  It was a situation where I'm like,
• 30:13
  I know I do good reps.
• 30:14
  And like,
• 30:15
  I watched back my video and it looks good,
• 30:18
  but you never know.
• 30:20
  And so I got,
• 30:21
  I got very nervous and went
• 30:22
  about the email that my
• 30:24
  workout one score was accepted.
• 30:26
  I don't think I'd ever been
• 30:28
  more relieved to get an email in my life.
• 30:32
  You say you watch back your
• 30:33
  videos before you submit.
• 30:34
  Do you have anybody else
• 30:36
  look at them or just you?
• 30:40
  I, if there's anything questionable,
• 30:42
  I will have somebody else
• 30:43
  look at it or maybe even a
• 30:45
  couple of people look at it just to see.
• 30:47
  And if they also agree that
• 30:49
  it's questionable, then, you know,
• 30:51
  redo the workout.
• 30:53
  But I think it's, I'm very,
• 30:59
  critical of myself I always
• 31:02
  have been and so I think
• 31:04
  sometimes when I see
• 31:05
  something that's like is
• 31:06
  that questionable I don't
• 31:07
  know if I have you know two
• 31:09
  three four other people
• 31:10
  saying no that looks fine
• 31:12
  then that's kind of like my
• 31:13
  um backstop of like hey
• 31:16
  this might just be me being
• 31:17
  overly critical of myself
• 31:19
  if other eyes are seeing
• 31:20
  this and think it's fine
• 31:22
  then it's probably fine but
• 31:23
  again if somebody else
• 31:25
  looks at it and they're
• 31:25
  like I don't know might be might be iffy
• 31:29
  then I'm going to, you know,
• 31:30
  redo that workout or do
• 31:31
  whatever I need to do to fix that.
• 31:34
  Oh, big friend of the show.
• 31:35
  Jay Birch says afternoon,
• 31:37
  Scott and Aaliyah.
• 31:39
  What's that?
• 31:41
  It's funny because my cohost
• 31:43
  on the Sunday night show is
• 31:44
  in the age group.
• 31:46
  I mean,
• 31:47
  it's this weekend and she sends me
• 31:49
  her videos to review and
• 31:51
  that is a, that is a,
• 31:53
  I was a judge and it is a tough job.
• 31:56
  Yes.
• 31:56
  Like to be able to,
• 31:59
  to be honest with your friend and say,
• 32:04
  look at this, this, and this.
• 32:05
  And I don't ever say like, this is wrong.
• 32:07
  You need to redo.
• 32:08
  I say, take a look at this, this, and this,
• 32:12
  and you need to decide if
• 32:13
  you are good with it or not.
• 32:15
  Yeah.
• 32:17
  And it's,
• 32:20
  It's, it's so hard.
• 32:21
  It's even like, you know,
• 32:23
  I have somebody judging me
• 32:24
  here in person when I do
• 32:25
  the workouts and I have
• 32:27
  judged people doing the
• 32:28
  workouts and I do not envy
• 32:32
  the job of a judge because
• 32:34
  it is so challenging and
• 32:37
  there's such a fine line between,
• 32:41
  you know,
• 32:41
  a good rep and a bad rep a lot
• 32:43
  of times and having to make
• 32:44
  that judgment call in an
• 32:46
  instant on the spot, like it's,
• 32:49
  That's, I don't envy it at all.
• 32:52
  And thank you to all of the
• 32:54
  judges out there.
• 32:55
  I'm impressed by you guys every day.
• 33:00
  So you get through quarters,
• 33:03
  you make it in above the cut line,
• 33:05
  essentially.
• 33:06
  Yes.
• 33:07
  And you're going to semis.
• 33:09
  Then word comes out on
• 33:10
  Friday and I'm going to share my screen.
• 33:13
  The new allocation for the
• 33:15
  semis this year.
• 33:20
  And ba-bam.
• 33:24
  So now we have the new allocations,
• 33:27
  and the West actually loses three spots?
• 33:31
  I think it was 10 last year,
• 33:35
  so I think we lost two spots.
• 33:37
  Okay,
• 33:37
  I couldn't remember if it was 10 or 11.
• 33:40
  So you're down to eight.
• 33:41
  Yeah.
• 33:45
  What does that do to your
• 33:47
  psyche going into an event like this?
• 33:50
  I mean, it's hard not to think about it,
• 33:52
  but I,
• 33:54
  I'm trying not to really put too
• 33:57
  much weight into it because
• 33:58
  all that's like, I can't,
• 34:00
  I can't change how many they're taking.
• 34:03
  All I can do is control the
• 34:04
  effort that I bring to the competition.
• 34:07
  And so I know that as long
• 34:09
  as I go out and I execute
• 34:12
  my workouts to the best of my abilities,
• 34:16
  I'll be happy.
• 34:17
  no matter how that falls,
• 34:18
  whether I'm top eight or not,
• 34:20
  as long as I know that I
• 34:21
  put all of my effort into it,
• 34:25
  whatever happens, happens.
• 34:28
  With this rebuild going on
• 34:31
  and you knowing that you have more to go,
• 34:35
  does that make it easier to like,
• 34:38
  if it doesn't happen this year,
• 34:40
  it's okay because we are a
• 34:41
  work in progress or will it
• 34:43
  hurt just as bad?
• 34:46
  I mean,
• 34:47
  it's going to hurt if that happens.
• 34:51
  It never doesn't hurt.
• 34:52
  It hurt last year even.
• 34:56
  It hurt two years ago when I
• 34:57
  knew that I had no shot.
• 34:59
  It still hurts.
• 35:01
  But it is so much more
• 35:03
  comforting to go into a
• 35:06
  situation like that saying, hey,
• 35:08
  I didn't make it this year,
• 35:11
  but that's okay because I
• 35:13
  still have so much
• 35:15
  to improve on for next year
• 35:18
  versus I went in at my absolute peak.
• 35:21
  I'll never be better than this.
• 35:22
  And I still wasn't good enough.
• 35:24
  I feel like that hurts a
• 35:26
  hell of a lot more.
• 35:27
  So how,
• 35:34
  where did you get the competitive drive?
• 35:37
  Cause if our audience
• 35:38
  doesn't remember you're,
• 35:40
  you were a neuroscientist.
• 35:42
  yes was it from the academic
• 35:45
  world or did you compete in
• 35:47
  something else so I
• 35:49
  competed in dance and
• 35:51
  gymnastics when I was
• 35:52
  younger um but I think I
• 35:54
  also I think a lot of it
• 35:56
  just came from my dad my
• 35:58
  dad has always been
• 36:00
  somebody who has expected
• 36:03
  um expected the best from
• 36:06
  his kids and not in a bad
• 36:08
  way not in a you know
• 36:10
  expectations are too high or
• 36:12
  anything like that.
• 36:12
  He just knew what we were
• 36:14
  capable of and he always
• 36:16
  wanted us to perform to the
• 36:18
  maximum of our capabilities.
• 36:21
  And so even when I was younger,
• 36:24
  competing in dance and
• 36:25
  gymnastics and even academics,
• 36:28
  he always wanted us to do
• 36:31
  the best we could in school.
• 36:32
  I competed in academic
• 36:35
  decathlon when I was in middle school.
• 36:39
  So I think
• 36:40
  I think a lot of it came
• 36:43
  from a desire to be
• 36:46
  competitive with myself,
• 36:48
  to always be pushing myself
• 36:51
  to be the best version of me.
• 36:52
  And then that kind of
• 36:56
  parlays into competitive
• 36:59
  sport and things like that.
• 37:02
  Is there always a part of
• 37:03
  you trying to impress him?
• 37:05
  Yeah, I always want to impress my dad.
• 37:10
  He's going to be at
• 37:10
  semi-finals again this year.
• 37:12
  And I'm really excited.
• 37:15
  You say he pushed you and
• 37:17
  not in a bad way.
• 37:19
  What did that do for your
• 37:20
  relationship with your dad?
• 37:24
  It was tough when I was younger, um,
• 37:26
  because you know, every kid wants to just,
• 37:30
  you know,
• 37:32
  not be a hundred percent locked
• 37:34
  in all the time and just
• 37:36
  have fun as a kid.
• 37:37
  And, um,
• 37:39
  there was some, uh,
• 37:41
  I don't know if animosity
• 37:43
  is the right word for it, but just,
• 37:46
  you know,
• 37:46
  me kind of wanting to be a kid
• 37:48
  and him still wanting me to
• 37:50
  be in perform at my best.
• 37:52
  Um, but as I've gotten older,
• 37:56
  our relationship has only improved.
• 37:58
  Um,
• 37:59
  and he's one of my best friends at this
• 38:01
  point.
• 38:02
  I love my dad's old age.
• 38:04
  Um,
• 38:05
  but it's just looking back
• 38:07
  and realizing and
• 38:07
  understanding that all of
• 38:09
  those things that he did
• 38:10
  was because he loved me and
• 38:11
  he wanted the best for me.
• 38:12
  And it's hard to see that as a kid,
• 38:15
  but looking back on it,
• 38:16
  it's a lot easier to understand.
• 38:18
  Yeah.
• 38:19
  You know, I,
• 38:21
  I lost my dad a couple of years ago and,
• 38:24
  and it's been really tough
• 38:26
  because it is when I was a kid,
• 38:28
  like I looked at things like,
• 38:30
  why are you making me do this?
• 38:32
  And then as an adult,
• 38:33
  you understand it now.
• 38:34
  And then your,
• 38:36
  your relationship becomes so much closer.
• 38:39
  Um, and I got a lot of good, I mean,
• 38:40
  I'm 54 and we've,
• 38:42
  we had a lot of good years together.
• 38:44
  Um,
• 38:45
  and so I appreciate every moment that I
• 38:46
  had.
• 38:47
  Um, but even to this day,
• 38:49
  I'm still trying to impress
• 38:51
  him and my mom, both like, um,
• 38:55
  with everything I do.
• 38:56
  So, um, I don't think it'll ever go away.
• 39:00
  Right.
• 39:01
  Right.
• 39:02
  And that's a good thing.
• 39:04
  It shows that they cared so
• 39:07
  much parenting that you,
• 39:09
  even as an adult child,
• 39:11
  want to do what they think is best.
• 39:15
  Yeah.
• 39:17
  So what does your dad feel
• 39:18
  about Tiny House on a Ranch?
• 39:22
  He is into it because he
• 39:23
  thinks that this is what's
• 39:24
  going to get me to the games.
• 39:26
  And I think it is too.
• 39:28
  So he supports it 110%.
• 39:29
  He's really excited.
• 39:31
  He keeps telling me this is my year.
• 39:36
  So yeah, he's a, when I,
• 39:37
  when I first kind of
• 39:40
  shifted my focus from
• 39:43
  science and the army and
• 39:44
  all that stuff onto CrossFit, he,
• 39:47
  I think was a little
• 39:48
  apprehensive just because, you know,
• 39:51
  that's not traditional.
• 39:53
  That's not what most parents
• 39:55
  expect to hear from their kids.
• 39:57
  And I think, you know, again,
• 39:59
  he just always wants the best for me.
• 40:02
  But since he has seen my
• 40:05
  growth and my success in the sport so far,
• 40:08
  and he's seen how much I love it,
• 40:11
  he has been probably my
• 40:14
  biggest supporter out of anyone ever,
• 40:17
  I would say.
• 40:20
  I've heard a lot of things
• 40:21
  about Sean's ranch and I don't know,
• 40:22
  is it ranch in name alone or are it,
• 40:25
  is it a working ranch with,
• 40:27
  with cattle or some kind of herd?
• 40:30
  It's not a ranch.
• 40:31
  He just has, um,
• 40:33
  he has a decent amount of property.
• 40:35
  I don't know property sizes,
• 40:36
  so I can't even try to
• 40:38
  estimate how big it is.
• 40:39
  Um, but it's just,
• 40:41
  we're out in the middle of
• 40:42
  nowhere in Nevada where
• 40:43
  people have a lot of land and, um,
• 40:47
  they don't have any animals
• 40:49
  on the land right now.
• 40:50
  I think they might be
• 40:51
  getting some chickens soon,
• 40:52
  which is cool.
• 40:53
  Um, but besides that, just some dogs.
• 40:58
  Yeah.
• 40:58
  Gotta love fresh eggs.
• 41:00
  Yeah.
• 41:01
  Oh, so good.
• 41:02
  Yeah.
• 41:02
  I'm excited.
• 41:03
  Um, last question about Sean.
• 41:06
  And that is,
• 41:07
  does he train in the cowboy hat?
• 41:11
  Not normally.
• 41:13
  Every once in a while we get
• 41:14
  him to put it on, but, uh,
• 41:16
  I think at some point
• 41:17
  CrossFit told him he wasn't
• 41:19
  allowed to wear it on the
• 41:19
  competition floor anymore.
• 41:22
  Wow.
• 41:23
  Yeah.
• 41:25
  So, but you can see it hanging up there.
• 41:28
  So dumb.
• 41:30
  Gotta let people be
• 41:31
  themselves and be individuals.
• 41:33
  Yeah, right?
• 41:35
  I know they told Nick
• 41:37
  Matthew he could no longer
• 41:38
  crop top his shirts.
• 41:40
  I heard about that.
• 41:41
  That was disappointing.
• 41:42
  Yeah.
• 41:43
  So it looks like they're
• 41:45
  putting their foot down on everything.
• 41:47
  Yeah.
• 41:48
  I guess uniforms are, I mean,
• 41:50
  it makes sense.
• 41:51
  If you look at other sports, you know,
• 41:53
  you don't see a football
• 41:54
  player out there cropping
• 41:55
  their football jersey.
• 41:57
  I think they would get in
• 41:58
  trouble for that.
• 42:00
  Yeah.
• 42:00
  They used to back in the day, you know,
• 42:02
  show really riff and yeah,
• 42:04
  their abs and all that stuff.
• 42:06
  And it still happens in
• 42:08
  college to some degree.
• 42:10
  Yeah.
• 42:11
  Where it's a little more loose, but yeah,
• 42:15
  So what is your realistic
• 42:16
  goal for this year?
• 42:20
  I'm going to, this is our wrap up here.
• 42:22
  You want to make the game.
• 42:23
  I want to make the games.
• 42:24
  That's always my goal.
• 42:26
  Yeah.
• 42:29
  Never lower the bar.
• 42:30
  Always strive to be the best.
• 42:33
  Yeah.
• 42:33
  And big goals are scary,
• 42:35
  but big goals should be scary.
• 42:36
  And if you're not a little bit scared,
• 42:39
  why are you doing it?
• 42:41
  My last question.
• 42:43
  you always rock the coolest
• 42:45
  t-shirts on the comp floor.
• 42:49
  Do you have that planned out
• 42:50
  for this year or still working on it?
• 42:54
  Still working on it a little bit.
• 42:55
  I do have a,
• 42:56
  today's the last day of my
• 42:57
  t-shirt fundraiser.
• 42:58
  So if anybody is interested
• 43:00
  in supporting my semifinals journey,
• 43:01
  you can check it out on my Instagram.
• 43:03
  My brother designed a shirt
• 43:05
  for me again this year.
• 43:06
  He's designed my shirt for
• 43:07
  the past three years and,
• 43:09
  And then John McCrary,
• 43:12
  one of the photographers in
• 43:13
  the CrossFit space,
• 43:13
  he designed a shirt for me
• 43:14
  this year as well.
• 43:16
  So I'm selling those and
• 43:17
  I'll probably wear those on
• 43:20
  the competition floor.
• 43:21
  And then I'm also,
• 43:23
  I'm working with Assault
• 43:24
  Fitness this year.
• 43:26
  So they're putting together
• 43:27
  some outfits for me as well.
• 43:31
  So that's the shirt my brother designed.
• 43:34
  Okay, there it is.
• 43:35
  Take no prisoners is a quote
• 43:39
  that our dad tells us all the time.
• 43:41
  He used to tell it to us
• 43:42
  anytime we went to do anything,
• 43:44
  whether it was a test in school,
• 43:46
  a dance competition, whatever.
• 43:47
  He would just tell us, hey,
• 43:49
  take no prisoners.
• 43:53
  Love the graphics.
• 43:54
  Did he hand draw that or is
• 43:56
  he a graphic artist?
• 43:59
  I think he did it on a tablet,
• 44:00
  but I think by hand.
• 44:02
  So digital by hand, if that makes sense.
• 44:04
  Very cool.
• 44:05
  And then do you have a
• 44:06
  picture of the other shirt?
• 44:08
  Yeah.
• 44:08
  If you,
• 44:09
  I think you can click through those
• 44:11
  pictures or just right
• 44:12
  there to the right.
• 44:13
  Oh, this one.
• 44:15
  Yep.
• 44:16
  Next one.
• 44:17
  Next one.
• 44:20
  And then that's the shirt
• 44:21
  that John McCreary designed for me.
• 44:24
  Wow.
• 44:24
  One fun, one classic.
• 44:26
  Yeah.
• 44:27
  Depending on your mood.
• 44:28
  Exactly.
• 44:30
  Exactly.
• 44:31
  I got options.
• 44:34
  So which one of these two
• 44:37
  shirts do you wear for
• 44:38
  something you think is a home run?
• 44:42
  Oh, I mean,
• 44:44
  I'm going to go with my
• 44:46
  brother's shirt because he's my brother.
• 44:48
  He's been next to my mom and my dad.
• 44:51
  My brother and my sister are
• 44:52
  my other two biggest supporters.
• 44:55
  So, yeah.
• 44:57
  Awesome.
• 44:57
  But I do absolutely love the
• 44:59
  shirt that John designed.
• 45:01
  And I think it's amazing.
• 45:02
  And a lot of other people
• 45:04
  have been loving it too.
• 45:05
  So I'm really excited about it.
• 45:07
  Love the colors.
• 45:08
  Yeah.
• 45:08
  Very cool colors.
• 45:10
  Kind of like your hair and kind of.
• 45:15
  Yeah, it actually works.
• 45:16
  It's like the color of my hair.
• 45:18
  And then CrossFit Power
• 45:20
  Stroke is Power Stroke Blue.
• 45:21
  So it's Power Stroke Blue and my hair.
• 45:24
  Awesome.
• 45:27
  Well, Leah, as always, you are the best.
• 45:31
  I can't wait to see what you
• 45:32
  do at semis this year.
• 45:34
  You're going to be in Carson,
• 45:35
  California and the home,
• 45:37
  the original home of the CrossFit games.
• 45:40
  Yep.
• 45:40
  It was actually Sean's first
• 45:42
  CrossFit games was the 2016
• 45:44
  games in Carson.
• 45:46
  Very cool.
• 45:47
  Yeah.
• 45:48
  Is he going to be with you?
• 45:50
  He is.
• 45:51
  So he'll be his first time
• 45:52
  back to Carson since the
• 45:54
  2016 games is to come coach
• 45:55
  me at the tennis stadium.
• 45:57
  So it's pretty cool.
• 45:59
  Come in full circle.
• 46:00
  Yeah, definitely got to get some pictures.
• 46:03
  Someone take some pictures
• 46:04
  of you out on that tennis stadium floor.
• 46:07
  Yeah, yeah.
• 46:09
  With that,
• 46:09
  thank you to everybody in the chat.
• 46:11
  Aaliyah, as always, you are the best.
• 46:14
  I can't wait to see what you do,
• 46:15
  and we will stay in touch for sure.
• 46:18
  Yes, absolutely.
• 46:19
  Thanks for having me on.
• 46:20
  I don't think I'm making it to Carson,
• 46:22
  but we're doing wrap-up shows,
• 46:24
  so I may reach out to you
• 46:25
  to get a comment or two.
• 46:26
  Absolutely.
• 46:28
  Awesome.
• 46:29
  We'll talk soon, everybody,
• 46:30
  and see you next time on
• 46:32
  the Clydesdale Media Podcast.
• 46:34
  Bye, guys.