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Lunch with the Clydesdale - Tyson Bagent Brings the Heat!!! · Clydesdale Media Podcast

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what is going on everybody
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it is lunchtime you know
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what that means it is time
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for lunch with the
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Clydesdale uh so it's
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Friday man and I am so so
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so stoked it is Friday I am
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ready for a weekend um
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what's going on Sarah good
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seeing you again um
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It has been a beautiful week here.
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We have been in the seventies all week,
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which means I've been
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trying to clean out my garage.
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I have been trying to clean up my yard,
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do all that stuff.
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But like a week ago,
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we had this storm that came
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out of the south.
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and it brought all this dust
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up to us here in Columbus
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and it just dumped dust everywhere.
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Like my garbage cans are covered in dust.
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My car was covered in dust.
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Um, just dust everywhere.
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And it is wreaking complete
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havoc on my allergies, complete,
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complete havoc.
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Um,
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it is making it so it's harder to sleep
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at night.
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I'm lightheaded today.
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Um,
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We're supposed to get rain tonight,
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so I'm hoping that'll wash
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away some of this stuff.
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We washed the car earlier
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this week to get it off of that.
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I don't know.
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I just bought a new hose so
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that I can spray down my
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porch and all that kind of stuff.
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Porch furniture, all of that.
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Get the dust off of that.
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But it's crazy.
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I've never seen anything...
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like that in my time here in
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ohio but yeah like the
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winds came out of the south
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instead of the west and so
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it brought this like dust
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storm up to ohio and like
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still a week later
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everything is covered so
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That is what I am dealing with today.
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Hopefully,
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I feel better before I take on
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twenty five point three.
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I want to talk about that a little bit.
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You guys are already fired up in the chat.
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Good to see that.
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Aaron Frazier is going to do
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twenty five point three tonight.
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Yeah, I'm looking at Sunday.
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Because we'll have some rain
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tonight and tomorrow and
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hopefully that'll knock the
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dust down and I will be in
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a better place for it then.
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I will say this just from a
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personal standpoint and
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then we'll get into the announcement.
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Turning fifty five this year
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has been a complete game changer for me.
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Being somewhat healthy has
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also helped tremendously.
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But I'm actually going to RX
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two of the three workouts.
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And two years ago I was
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doing foundations because of my AFib,
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because of lung infection,
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some other things like that.
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um this year I'm going to
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actually rx two of the
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three workouts the workout
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announced yesterday um I am
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able to rx that so that's
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gonna be the wall walks are
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not gonna be fun they're
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not gonna be great but I
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can do them and um yeah the
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weights are nothing on the
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barbell the row is the row um
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So I think, like, I'm super,
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super stoked that I can actually,
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I'm going to post two RX workouts.
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And I technically could have
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done the second workout RX.
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I would have been stopped sooner.
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So, like, what are your thoughts on that?
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Like, do you, like, I could, like,
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if I had all the time in the world,
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I could get through all of
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the workout this weekend RX.
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Yeah.
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The second one,
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I couldn't have got through it all, RX,
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because my pull-ups are not there yet.
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Should you go RX and just
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get as far as you can?
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Or should you scale it
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appropriately and try to
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get the best score you can?
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Does the leaderboard matter?
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What...
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What is it that you think
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you should do in those situations?
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It's been a debate with me
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and any gym I've been a
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part of since I started
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CrossFit in twenty eleven.
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So, yeah.
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So Lexus fifty five plus a
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scaled wall walks, right?
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It is.
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It is scaled wall walks.
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The crazy thing is I can
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actually do a wall walk now.
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I was preparing.
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I was trying to get back to
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this and preparing to do a
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full wall walk.
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It's something I've always been good at,
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like for some reason.
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So I actually find the scaled wall walks.
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I don't want to say more
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difficult because of my
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height and because of my arm length.
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To start the scaled wall walk,
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my hands are out in front of me.
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So to get up onto the wall,
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it is a press that is a
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little bit more difficult
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than a full wall walk where
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I get to start with my
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hands closer to my body.
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And now that I'm strong
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enough that I can get back to the wall,
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it's still the scaled are
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going to take less out of me.
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It's just figuring out that,
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that press out in front.
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Once I get it clicked in,
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it goes pretty fast.
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Um,
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and I don't know if that makes sense to
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any of you that I'm saying that too.
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Um, but yeah,
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fifty five plus is scaled wall walks.
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And so that,
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that is like just getting over
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that tape and then back over.
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Um,
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It just feels like way out in front.
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And you have to get your
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feet up on the wall with
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both hands out in front of the tape.
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And then the toughest part
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is you have to get both
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hands on the back out to
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that press position before
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your feet come off the walls.
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And it's not just touching the tape.
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And your hands have to be
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completely over the tape.
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So it's a little bit weird.
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But yeah, there we are.
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Sarah says, I think moving up any RX,
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moving up to any RX after
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doing scaled or foundations
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is a big deal.
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So I think I would try to do RX.
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So with, and I, that makes perfect sense.
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So last week's workout, I,
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in twenty twenty two,
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I did that one foundations.
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So I actually moved up to
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scaled and I got I got as
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far with a faster time
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scaled than I did foundation.
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So I moved up a level and I
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was very proud of that.
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So the fact that now I can move up into,
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I'm just pumped.
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I'm like,
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and I am sitting at sixteen percent.
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When I last did the open in twenty three,
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I finished at twelve percent.
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So I'm four percent higher
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than I was then.
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And hopefully with doing this one RX,
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I can move up even more.
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Which would be awesome.
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It'd be cool to like move up a level.
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I think if you have the time
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and it matters to you,
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you should do it both ways.
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The open isn't about getting
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a great workout in.
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It's about testing yourself
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to see where you are.
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Uh, Lex says,
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are you going to players to do it?
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Does Julie go to support and
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watch get out of the house of it?
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We do go to players to do it.
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Um,
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my membership there is actually on hold,
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uh,
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but they are letting me do the open
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workouts there.
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Um,
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on Sundays at open gym and Julie goes
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to cheer me on and she
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actually judges me.
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Julie did CrossFit for years, uh,
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before her knees just
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wouldn't let her do it anymore.
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Um, so yeah,
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we'll do it at Polaris on Sunday.
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Um, for sure.
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That's where I've done the
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first two workouts and
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there's a lot of people
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doing workouts at open gym on Sundays.
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Uh, so it's pretty fun.
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I get to see everybody get to chat, uh,
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get it done.
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And, uh,
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we get out of the house and we've
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been getting out of the house a lot.
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Now, uh,
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Julie's really moving around much better.
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Now, uh,
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the weather has broke this week
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and we are.
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taking Walter out,
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getting him out of the house,
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which is probably the most
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important thing to get that energy out.
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So we have that.
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How is she doing?
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She's doing great.
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Literally,
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the funny thing is she doesn't
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see it in herself,
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but everybody around her.
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She was walking hunched over
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with a cane before the surgery.
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She is now walking erect again.
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She can actually walk around
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without the cane for periods of time.
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If it's a longer walk,
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she needs the cane a little bit.
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And the second surgery is
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scheduled for May sixth.
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So she'll have that completely rehabbed,
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get that one in good shape
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and then get the other bad knee fixed.
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uh so yeah super pumped
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about all that with her
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she's doing awesome
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actually talked to my boss
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today to get my projects uh
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worked around when her neck
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surgery is so I don't have
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to worry about anything at
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work at that time and uh yeah so so yeah
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Uh,
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do you go watch Friday night lights or
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do they do it set?
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They do Friday night lights
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now with the new ownership,
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it has become way more of a
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community based gym and
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that's not a dig on Christie and Patrick.
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Um,
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They use classes.
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They did a Friday night lights,
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but it wasn't the same as
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they're doing now.
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They actually have turned it
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into an intramural competition, um,
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where they have like,
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I think six teams or seven teams, uh,
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that compete every week.
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They do like the dress up things.
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Uh,
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I bet you they have a hundred plus
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members signed up for the open this year.
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Um, so, uh,
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they've done a really nice job with it.
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Um,
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I have not made it to a Friday night
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lights.
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Um,
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just because we've been busy with some
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other things with, uh,
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people around here.
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So yeah.
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Thank you, Modingo.
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Celebrate, my guy.
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You're doing an amazing job
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doing the fitness.
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Yeah, I'm actually, I'm surprising myself.
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I've been very happy with
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how this year's Open is gone,
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and it has made me excited
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to keep moving forward with my fitness.
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Aaron Frazier says,
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another good one for Carolyn,
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question mark.
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Like I've watched Carolyn a
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lot over the years.
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I don't know how her wall walks are,
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but I think everything else
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is pretty good.
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She is not a tall athlete.
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So the rower is, but it,
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but the rower has kind of been,
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it's only two parts of this workout.
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It should be fine.
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I'm on a flight heading back to Toronto.
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I will do it for the first
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time tomorrow with my gym.
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They do it Saturdays.
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Cool.
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um but carolyn's been all
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over the news this week
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everybody showing the top
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top athletes um she's in
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fourth place she's killing
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it um if you saw our show
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the other day we talked
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about the double winners
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she won both event one and
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event two for the thirty
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five to thirty nine year
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olds and she's in fourth
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place in the world overall
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So she has been killing it
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and I'm sure she will do
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just fine on this one as
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Lex says should be good for
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her with a big smiley face.
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My only concern is the
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doodles won't be there to cheer on.
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It's tough to have your best
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score without the doodles coaching.
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They're experts in the field.
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So anyway,
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so with all that and the personal stuff,
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Aaron Frazier,
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thirty five is just a number.
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And Carolyn is proving it.
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I mean.
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not not to pump her ego up
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even more but I mean she's
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been an elite athlete for
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so many years uh and she
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has stayed fit throughout
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the year because of hockey
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because of taekwondo
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because of soccer she does
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so many things to stay fit
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that it's not a surprise at
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all that she is killing it um at so
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So happy and so proud of her.
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She's just doing awesome.
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So we had the open announcement yesterday.
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I will say...
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I love the fact that they
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are keeping this community-based.
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It seems like the crowd,
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and I have criticized
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CrossFit in the past for
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poor camera angles.
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You can do a lot with the
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right camera angles to make
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things look super crowded,
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and I don't know what it
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was like in the gym.
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I was not there,
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but they made it look packed.
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The way they configured everything,
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the crowd was behind
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everybody for every aspect
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of that open announcement yesterday.
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And I thought that was awesome.
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I don't know who handed out
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the yellow wristbands,
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but that was cool to see all that.
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It just was very community-based.
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The other thing I will say is...
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When it was announced that
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it was going to be Dallin, Jason,
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and James,
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I thought maybe these guys are
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getting overused, but they were great.
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They were so good talking smack,
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talking back and forth to each other,
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even pumping each other up
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at the same time.
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I thought that was great,
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and it was a great race
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from beginning to end.
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Tyson Bajent, of course, I'm a Bears fan.
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He's a Bears quarterback.
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he was great.
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And the fact that he had the
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cojones to go up against
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three elite CrossFit
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athletes in an event that
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they were going to be very
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strong in and to finish
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that workout in that crowd, kudos to him.
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But what I loved most is the
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way he... He's very much
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like his dad in the fact that they...
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he has that wrestling promo
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attitude with things about like,
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he's going up against these
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chumps and these, like,
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it was very Hulk Hogan, very like,
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let's go, let's get this done.
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Like it, it was awesome.
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Um, and so when he was reading the workout,
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it came across that way.
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Um,
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He has that showmanship that
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he gets from his dad.
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I thought it was cool that
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they added his dad to the
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broadcast crew to kind of
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talk about how proud he was of his son.
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But he knows enough about
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CrossFit as an affiliate
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owner and a former
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announcer at the games that
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he was able to talk about
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the other athletes as well.
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And I thought he brought a
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lot of energy to the
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overall announcement.
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Uh, the other thing I really, really dug,
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um,
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Corey says they have nailed all three
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of these announcements.
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The media team deserves some
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serious praise.
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They do.
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Um,
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that would be my one criticism as well.
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Lex, um, they,
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they think they should have
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brought Justin and then
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they could have done the
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punishment for the workout
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immediately following.
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Um, that would have been epic.
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epic um uh craig it was a
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great announcement yeah and
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if if you only have like
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one misstep that you're
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doing pretty good uh for
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the way things have been
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rolling uh in the past few years
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The other thing I really dug
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is that they brought back
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the cool-down show.
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That's something I have
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missed for a couple years,
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where they sit down with the athletes,
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talk about how it felt,
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talk about would they do
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anything different.
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And in that,
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there just got to be some
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natural things like
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everybody pumping up Dallin
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during that time.
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And...
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And that Jason then gets to
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put the dig in.
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And I hate saying that I
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don't think anybody's going
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to beat Dallin,
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but I hope there's somebody
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out there that will.
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Those are moments that are cool.
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The other moment that was
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cool was bringing Patrick
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Sprague up to talk to him
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about his son and the
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relationship that he and James have.
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I've known Patrick way
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longer than I've known James,
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being a part of the Masters
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community early on.
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I got to know Patrick years ago.
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And the fact to see him and
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now his son doing so well,
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that was really cool for me
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to see him be brought up
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and to talk about that.
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And I thought it was a cool
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moment seeing the
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relationship that they've
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built through CrossFit and
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to be able to tell the
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story that it saved their lives.
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As someone who had his life
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saved by CrossFit,
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that really spoke to me and
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made me tear up.
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And I love that moment.
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So...
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uh next year if they don't
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do colton versus miriam
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they will have missed a big
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opportunity huge
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opportunity I think you are
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correct with the right
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workout that would be an
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epic matchup uh then craig
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poses the questions do you
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think anybody will beat
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dylan's time or go sub nine lex says yes
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Yeah,
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I don't... The one interesting thing
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of this,
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and we talked about it in our
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chat a little bit yesterday,
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is the Rogue rowers being
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used for the rower.
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I've never got to sit on a
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Rogue Echo rower.
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Is that what they're calling it?
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How much different is it
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compared to a C-II rower?
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How do the calories roll on
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that compared to the C-II?
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I...
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I would be anxious if any of
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you have both rowers in
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your gym and have had the
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opportunity to sit on both.
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Have you noticed a
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difference of any kind
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between the row grower and
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the C two rower?
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My guess is there can't be much,
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or you would have,
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you have heard the guys
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yesterday complain about
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having to do their workout
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on a row grower.
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And unless of course it's faster, um,
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But you didn't hear any
20:37
complaints about that.
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So I found... I just kind of
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dismissed it at that point and thought,
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well, if they're okay with it,
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I'm sure they've asked that question.
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And they were okay with the answer.
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So overall,
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these three announcements this year,
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I thought...
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um were awesome I think they
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did starting at mayhem um
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and then phoenix and now
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yesterday albany uh to do
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those three in a row and
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the community feel that
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they all had I think they
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did an awesome job with the
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workout announcements this
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year um and what if um
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ernie garza says I've heard
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they're super similar but
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the seats on the row grower
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are more comfortable okay
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Carolyn says,
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we have both rowers at my gym.
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I haven't actually tried
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both to really compare the cows.
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I've only used the Echo a
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handful of times.
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When I land tonight,
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I will play around with both.
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They are supposed to be very comparable.
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They honestly feel very
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similar from the times I've tried it.
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I'll take a more comfortable seat though.
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We had one way back in the day,
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a C-two rower that actually
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had a padded seat.
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And I don't know if that was
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like a short term thing
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that they did back in the day.
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And we just happened to get
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one or if that was something they tried,
22:10
like, I don't know,
22:11
but you don't see them.
22:13
That was at my first gym at
22:15
shred CrossFit.
22:16
I don't know that I've seen
22:17
those at any other gym with
22:19
a padded seat.
22:21
Um, but I did enjoy the padded seat.
22:24
I will say that.
22:29
Uh,
22:31
Corey said supposedly
22:32
they're designed to be
22:32
exactly the same in how
22:34
they calculate calories.
22:44
Yes.
22:46
A peel and stick pad?
22:47
This was not a peel and stick pad.
22:49
This was actually like a
22:50
formed piece of plastic
22:52
with the cushion down in it.
22:57
it was sweet it was super
23:00
sweet it was not peel and
23:02
stick carolyn puts an ab
23:09
mat under my butt if it's a
23:10
long row okay cool uh well
23:19
kind of like piggybacking
23:20
on that I don't know if you
23:21
guys have I it was
23:22
mentioned earlier in the
23:23
chat a hillar put out a video today
23:26
Very funny content.
23:29
But it's titled,
23:32
Come See the New Venue for
23:35
the CrossFit Games, I think.
23:37
Something like that.
23:39
But really what it is, is...
23:42
The athletes show up at this arena.
23:44
There's a lacrosse field down with turf.
23:48
And there's Tyson Bajent and
23:51
Hopper throwing balls to
23:53
some of the other athletes' footballs,
23:55
that is.
23:57
It is really fun to watch.
24:00
It does show kind of Hopper's athleticism.
24:03
The routes he runs are very precise,
24:05
which was kind of cool to see because...
24:08
He's been dogged about
24:09
saying he's a former
24:10
Clemson wide receiver, blah, blah, blah.
24:14
And I've heard people say, well,
24:16
he got the uniform.
24:18
But I think technically he
24:21
was officially a member of
24:22
Clemson because he has one catch.
24:24
He has one catch officially in a game,
24:29
which means that he is in
24:30
the record books as a player for Clemson.
24:35
but Tyson throws him, um,
24:39
I think they call it a wing route.
24:42
And you can see his
24:43
athleticism on display in that.
24:45
He then challenges Tyson and
24:47
Tyson's dad so that he can
24:49
throw the ball from
24:50
midfield into the lacrosse net.
24:53
It took him four tries to do so.
24:55
Tyson gets up and Hopper's
24:58
trying to talk smack that
24:59
it'll take him a while.
25:00
And Tyson drills it on the first one,
25:03
which is epic at the being a whip route.
25:05
That's it.
25:07
Sorry.
25:08
My, uh, uh, D Reed says he was a walk on.
25:13
Well, so is Rudy and Rudy got a sack.
25:15
So he's officially a member of Notre Dame.
25:18
I think because Jason got a catch,
25:20
he was officially a member
25:21
of Clemson and you get to count that.
25:27
So, um,
25:32
Check that out.
25:33
It's really good.
25:34
It's just a feel-good video
25:37
and really fun to watch.
25:42
The last couple things I'm
25:42
going to touch on before I
25:44
head back to work is...
25:47
Brian's Brit spin broke the
25:48
news yesterday that the WFP
25:51
is looking to sign up affiliates.
25:54
They're trying to sign up
25:55
fifty founding member
25:57
affiliates at two thousand
25:59
dollars a piece.
26:01
Spin did not know if after
26:03
they get past that founding fifty,
26:05
if that affiliate fee would go up or not.
26:10
I expressed some concerns
26:11
yesterday and I compared I
26:14
compared it to like.
26:17
Like TaylorMade has a golf club, right?
26:20
And they have it made in China.
26:22
And those come off,
26:24
they come back to the
26:24
United States and they're
26:25
sold as TaylorMade golf clubs.
26:28
Sometimes the manufacturer
26:29
keeps them back in China
26:31
and sells them off without
26:32
putting the name on the club.
26:36
And so you can get like a
26:39
white branded version of
26:41
that club from China, right?
26:44
what I want to know is what
26:46
is WFP doing to change up
26:49
the things they think have
26:51
been done poorly and how
26:53
are they going to support
26:54
affiliates differently
26:56
through this affiliate program?
26:58
Or is it just slapping this
27:00
on and taking people on
27:02
because they're upset with
27:04
what CrossFit has done?
27:07
I think that is where
27:10
I think that is where I kind
27:13
of get a little bit concerned.
27:17
If you're relying on your
27:18
business model on just
27:20
people being upset with
27:21
what was done before and
27:23
taking people on and not
27:24
doing anything different or new,
27:27
I think that that is a bad business plan.
27:31
If you have a plan of how
27:33
you're going to do things differently,
27:35
um,
27:40
But are you still basing it
27:41
on the methodology of what
27:45
CrossFit was built on?
27:49
I'm reserving judgment at
27:50
this point because I don't know enough.
27:56
But I would say that one of
27:57
the complaints with
27:58
CrossFit has been that they
27:59
don't share enough information.
28:01
And the way that the WFP is
28:03
doing this is they're not
28:04
sharing a lot of
28:04
information publicly either.
28:06
So are they making the same
28:08
mistakes anyway?
28:11
Basically,
28:11
this is just a ramble of me
28:13
talking it through, um,
28:14
live on the air with you guys.
28:16
And I don't know how I feel
28:18
at this moment.
28:19
I want to see how it plays out.
28:21
Um,
28:22
but it just seems peculiar that you
28:24
would kind of run in the
28:26
same business route as your competitor.
28:33
Um,
28:36
I don't know.
28:36
We'll see.
28:37
We'll see.
28:38
We haven't even seen an
28:39
event from them yet.
28:40
We haven't even seen
28:41
anything tangible or
28:46
viewable from them to see
28:48
what things are going on.
28:49
And hopefully we'll get to do that.
28:51
I applied for media
28:52
credentials yesterday
28:53
through their portal.
28:55
for their first tour event,
28:57
and we're supposed to hear
28:59
back by Monday.
29:01
They did send out an email
29:02
to media members yesterday,
29:05
and it looked like it was
29:06
just a mass email to a lot
29:08
of media members.
29:11
encouraging them to sign up
29:12
to be with the media team or to be with,
29:16
to get media credentials
29:17
and come view the first one
29:18
in Indianapolis.
29:22
So now we are starting to
29:23
get communication from them.
29:25
And it's going to be
29:26
interesting to see how that
29:27
kind of plays out going forward.
29:34
Craig says,
29:36
did they plan the strategy and
29:37
growth from the beginning
29:38
or just throw noodles on
29:39
the wall to see what sticks?
29:43
Uh, yeah, I have no idea, Craig.
29:48
Um, again,
29:50
they didn't say anything about
29:51
this in their introductory
29:54
media blitz that they did
29:56
with coffee pods and wads, um,
29:59
and talking elite fitness.
30:02
So just kind of learning as we go,
30:06
I guess.
30:09
Um, D Reed says,
30:11
what happened to not
30:12
competing with CrossFit?
30:14
Yep.
30:15
They did say that in that blitz of media.
30:17
And I don't know what that means now.
30:20
Um,
30:23
And it, and it's,
30:24
it's really tough on me because I,
30:26
some of the people I have
30:27
the best relationships with
30:28
in the space are part of the WFP.
30:31
I have a good relationship
30:32
with Will Morad.
30:33
I have a great relationship
30:34
with Saxon Pancheck.
30:36
I don't, but I don't know what's going on.
30:39
Um,
30:39
and I can't really get the answers that
30:41
I'm looking for from them
30:43
to know what's happening.
30:46
Um,
30:48
Some of this stuff seems
30:49
very out of character from
30:51
what I know of them.
30:53
And I know Saxon way better
30:55
than I know Will.
30:56
Saxon used to work out at my old gym.
30:58
Saxon lives here in Ohio.
31:00
I've been to Saxon's gym.
31:03
I've known him for years.
31:05
I met him in twenty sixteen
31:07
as he was just coming up as an athlete.
31:09
And I know him very well.
31:12
It just seems very out of
31:14
character for him.
31:14
And it's very confusing to
31:16
me as to what's going on.
31:22
Corey said that Siobhan
31:24
tried to get Will on the show,
31:25
hasn't responded.
31:27
I have asked Will on the
31:28
show here as well.
31:31
He did respond.
31:32
He just didn't answer that question.
31:36
So every time I have
31:38
messaged Will or sent him a text,
31:42
I have gotten a response.
31:45
It's just not always the one I want,
31:47
but he has responded to me.
31:51
My only beef with the WFP is
31:53
when I send to the media
31:54
team and the email I was
31:56
provided from Will,
32:00
that's where I was not getting responses.
32:06
But Will has been awesome to respond.
32:08
And I have texted Saxon,
32:11
and I have texted Saxon,
32:17
and I have not been responded to there.
32:26
Craig says it would be funny
32:28
if Spencer went on the show
32:29
as Saxon a funny bit.
32:31
I'm sure they've done that a
32:32
few times in their life.
32:41
To me, they don't even look the same.
32:45
I don't know if it's just
32:45
because I've been around them enough.
32:50
The way they do workouts is so different.
32:53
Yeah.
33:00
So Mo Dingo asks,
33:01
who did you message WFP
33:03
about media credentials?
33:04
So I started with Will
33:05
because I have a contact
33:06
there on how I should do it.
33:09
I was provided an email.
33:11
I sent an email to that and
33:16
it's media at worldfitnessproject.com.
33:20
So I sent my request to them
33:23
and that's where I didn't
33:24
get responded to.
33:28
But I did get an email from
33:30
that address either last
33:33
night or this morning about
33:37
what their media plans are.
33:41
If you could say that, it's a lot of...
33:45
It's a lot of promotional
33:46
material in there.
33:48
And then saying that the
33:49
media portal was open for
33:51
application and to get it
33:54
in as quickly as possible
33:55
as they'll be making
33:56
decisions by the seventeenth of March,
34:01
which is Monday.
34:04
So I know myself, Kat,
34:07
I think Jamie all put in
34:08
applications for media
34:10
credentials for Indianapolis.
34:15
So we'll see what happens there.
34:21
The last thing I'm going to
34:22
leave you with is not CrossFit related.
34:24
And that is I have been all
34:27
about NFL free agency.
34:30
It's funny.
34:30
Every morning when I wake up,
34:31
my first two hours of my
34:32
day are all other sports
34:35
other than CrossFit just to
34:38
kind of clean the slate,
34:41
get my mind on other things.
34:43
And I'm a huge NFL fan.
34:44
And I've been following the
34:46
free agency buzz for the
34:48
last week and a half.
34:51
What is going on with Aaron
34:52
Rodgers and the Steelers
34:54
and the Giants and whoever
34:56
else he's courting?
34:57
Being a Bears fan,
34:58
I've never liked Aaron Rodgers,
35:02
even though he proclaims he owns us.
35:05
I just have never,
35:06
ever cared for him just
35:08
because he was the team we hated.
35:12
But holding teams hostage
35:15
for days upon days and now
35:18
weeks just seems like,
35:22
getting off on the wrong
35:23
foot with whoever you're
35:25
going to be playing for the next year.
35:31
I,
35:33
I have a hard time understanding that
35:36
wrapping my head around
35:37
that concept of doing business that way.
35:41
You're forty two years old.
35:42
You've made so much money in your career.
35:47
What are you negotiating at this point?
35:48
What are you trying to achieve?
35:52
just find it um baffling
35:55
that this has gone on so
35:57
long and two t one of the
35:59
two one of the two teams
36:01
who do not get him are
36:02
going to be screwed I mean
36:04
they're going to end up
36:05
with someone not even as
36:10
good as tyson bajan as
36:11
their quarterback at this
36:12
point because even the
36:14
backups are signing
36:16
elsewhere at this point and
36:18
so it'll be impossible even
36:19
to get a backup
36:21
quarterback to come in there
36:22
and compete for the job let
36:24
alone anything else but
36:28
just wanted to end on that
36:29
note it just makes me head
36:32
scratch wondering what the
36:34
hell is going on there I
36:42
guess we'll end it there
36:45
it's been a fun week it's
36:46
been a crazy week
36:48
I'm learning that on this show,
36:49
when I express my opinions
36:52
more than I do on my other shows,
36:55
I get a lot more feedback.
36:59
And it's been fun responding
37:00
to all of that.
37:02
But I do love you guys.
37:04
I think you guys are the best.
37:05
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With that...
37:16
It's time to get back to work,
37:17
you hooligans.
37:18
We'll see you for Sunday, Sunday,
37:21
Sunday night CrossFit talk
37:23
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37:24
Clydesdale all next week.
37:26
Bye, guys.