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Arielle Loewen | The Athletes of the 2024 CrossFit Games · 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 and willing,
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  so I will find a way.
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  It took a minute,
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  now it didn't happen right away.
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  When they get hot in the kitchen,
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  you decide to stay.
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  That's how it went this way.
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  Stick a fork in the head of a man.
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  What is going on, everybody?
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  Welcome to the Clydesdale Media Podcast.
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  My name is Scott Switzer.
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  I'm the Clydesdale.
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  She is the fittest American
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  woman on the planet.
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  Ariel Lowen, what's going on?
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  Hey, Scott.
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  Good to talk to you.
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  I've been seeing you do all
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  these athlete interviews and I'm like,
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  okay, when is ours?
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  I need to talk to my boy.
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  Yeah.
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  So, well, I,
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  anybody I did right before semifinals,
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  I kind of put on hold to
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  get some people that I
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  didn't get before semis.
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  And then like all the people
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  I did at semis now are
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  starting to kind of line up.
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  And then I know like next
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  week's kind of shut down for interviews.
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  Like as you get on,
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  cause not everybody's like you,
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  like as we get closer to the games,
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  like they just kind of shut down.
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  Gotcha.
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  Yeah.
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  So, um, so yeah,
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  speaking of interviews I
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  did though last week,
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  one of them was Emma McQuaid.
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  Love it.
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  And we talked about you.
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  No, I need to go back and listen.
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  So, um, it's basically the whole,
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  in the very beginning of
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  the interview where we
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  talked about her home gym
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  and how you are copying her
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  and that when you grow up,
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  you want to be just like her.
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  Exactly.
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  That's exactly right.
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  And so we talked about why
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  she built her gym, how she built it,
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  why she wanted this space
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  to her own because she's
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  very particular and very
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  much likes things in
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  certain places and all that.
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  And it all seemed like, you know,
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  I've heard that from Ariel before.
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  You're not wrong.
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  Hers is like the, you know, the pinnacle.
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  If ours can be 50% of what McQuaid has,
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  I'll be one happy girl.
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  So I noticed you doing some
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  framing last week.
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  Dylan.
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  Yes.
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  He actually,
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  the back gym has been on hold
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  for almost two months
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  because it's just been excruciating heat.
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  And he's like, man,
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  the last thing I want to do
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  is work in the sun all day,
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  get home from work,
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  work in the back shop.
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  That's like a sauna, no AC.
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  So it hasn't made much progress,
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  but he did get the walls up,
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  which he'll then put the
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  decorative pieces on to
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  make it look pretty.
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  I saw you lifting the framing.
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  Yeah, me and Dylan.
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  He says he doesn't need me,
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  but that thing is heavy.
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  I know he needs me.
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  What's really funny is I
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  have friends here in
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  Columbus who he's a
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  two-time Masters champ.
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  They bought a property
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  because it had a barn on it.
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  Okay.
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  It also had a house,
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  but they don't really care
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  about the house.
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  They just wanted the barn
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  and they're renovating it into a gym.
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  Who will you work out there?
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  So it's not even close to
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  being ready for a gym,
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  but what's funny is, you know,
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  he has the games,
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  the masters games in
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  September and his wife is his coach.
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  And she's like,
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  you cannot spend all your time out there.
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  We have to train.
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  We have to.
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  Yeah.
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  Prioritize.
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  That's a fall project.
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  Exactly.
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  That's an off season thing.
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  Yeah.
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  Our goal was.
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  after the games,
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  maybe opening September 1st
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  in the off season,
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  but we have not made as
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  much progress as we want.
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  So now we're like, okay,
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  maybe January 1st will be
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  our opening date.
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  But I think the off season
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  is already looking a little busy.
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  Who knows if that'll even happen.
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  Well, you know what January 1st is, right?
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  The new year.
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  It's my birthday.
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  Oh, that's right.
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  And your birthday.
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  Maybe we'll open on your birthday.
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  You can be our special guest.
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  There we go.
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  Yeah, with Rudy and the Lent in their barn,
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  I think my next interview
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  with them is going to be at the site,
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  whether it's done or not,
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  just to kind of see it kind
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  of up and the construction, all that.
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  Yeah.
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  But I think that it's cool
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  that all these athletes are doing this.
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  And I think they may even
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  try to affiliate too,
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  like you and McQuaid did.
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  Cool.
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  Is McQuaid affiliated?
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  It is.
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  Oh, wow.
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  Yeah, that's the way to go.
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  Yeah.
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  I think that's good.
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  There seems to be a trend
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  with athletes making a
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  better connection back to HQ.
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  I'm interviewing Saxon Pancheck tomorrow.
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  And the big reason for that
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  is we talked about that on
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  our last show that he
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  needed to get a better
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  connection with the community.
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  Unlike you who like to work out alone,
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  like he missed that.
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  And when he got injured at semis,
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  he didn't have a support
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  group around him.
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  And so he went back to like
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  OG working out an affiliate,
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  doing all that stuff
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  because he needed that environment.
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  That's awesome.
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  I love that.
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  See,
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  I think I'm at a place where I don't
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  necessarily want that for my training,
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  but I want that because I
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  feel like me and Dylan have
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  so much to offer the
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  community and we don't
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  really have a CrossFit community.
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  And I feel like
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  We would love them as much
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  as they would love us,
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  kind of like giving back.
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  But also with that comes
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  more responsibility.
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  And right now I don't have
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  much responsibility.
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  It's me and Blakely.
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  And if we're happy, we're taken care of,
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  we're good.
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  So like to have a gym on top
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  of that makes me a little overwhelmed,
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  but I'm like, it's not even built yet.
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  Why even worry about it?
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  We don't even have members.
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  What's there to worry about?
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  I think that's what's cool
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  about when you go to events though,
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  because that's where your community is.
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  Very true.
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  When you're at semis or
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  you're at the games or you're at,
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  at Waterpalooza or whatever,
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  you're with your community then.
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  And you give back so much in those times,
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  in those times.
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  You're sweet.
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  Yeah.
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  It's funny because my
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  community is worldwide,
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  but in the Midland community,
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  there's nothing.
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  So just very different dynamics.
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  Because the minute you come off the floor,
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  like,
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  like you're willing to talk to anybody.
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  Yeah.
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  And that's very different
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  than not most of the athletes,
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  but a good chunk of the athletes.
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  Like they're so in a zone,
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  it takes them time to like
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  kind of come down from that.
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  That's so sweet.
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  Well, I'm actually already planning.
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  It's Texas.
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  So I'm going to do a big,
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  I'm probably going to bring
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  like five rogue shirts a
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  day and just be on the
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  lookout for like backstage interactions,
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  fan interactions.
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  Like who can I hand them out to every day?
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  Just cause like, I mean,
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  how fun would that be?
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  I mean, I love my shirt.
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  How fun would it be to be like, Oh,
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  thank you for being here.
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  Here's a rogue shirt.
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  Well, wear it tomorrow and support me.
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  Speaking of, I've got mine on.
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  And why I love having you is
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  you're awesome at assisting
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  me on the segue.
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  So you're a rogue athlete now.
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  We talked about that briefly
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  on the last show.
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  But now you have a shirt.
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  It is so cool.
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  I love the claw marks on the
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  back with the lion peeking through.
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  Thank you.
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  In that like turquoise.
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  It's just, it's very impactful.
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  Thank you.
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  There's a bunch of different
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  meanings to it.
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  Unleash the beast inside.
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  Like, you know, I love lions.
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  So there's a lion, but like,
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  Sometimes you have to unleash the beast.
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  Like I train alone.
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  I do all this work.
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  It means nothing if I don't
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  go out there and show it off.
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  So like unleash the beast.
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  And also like,
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  I feel like we each have
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  something we might be
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  afraid to like show or do inside.
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  So it's just like be brave,
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  be confident and do it.
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  But also, you know, we love lions.
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  So I first, when Rogue approached,
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  I was like,
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  Okay, this is my logo.
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  I love lions.
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  And they kind of came back and were like,
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  hey, with all respect,
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  Lauren Fisher already has a lion shirt,
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  so lion is off the table.
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  Unless you can think of a
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  creative way to do the lion different.
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  And so how it all came
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  together as collabing back and forth,
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  to me, it's beautiful.
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  See how nice you are?
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  I'd be like, listen,
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  Lauren Fisher is not the
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  fittest American woman.
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  I'm like, at the end of the day, I'm like,
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  I love you guys.
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  Thank you for having me on board.
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  I'll do a fish.
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  I'll do a mermaid.
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  I'll do, you know,
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  I'll do a mom lifting a baby.
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  To me,
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  Rogue was the biggest honor because
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  they're very selective and
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  who wouldn't love Rogue stuff?
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  So I was just like, with all respect,
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  I will do whatever you want.
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  But I'm glad we came to an
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  agreement and it's
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  something creative and
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  different and something I'm super,
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  super proud of.
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  It's funny because Amy and I
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  were actually reminiscing
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  today on the roundtable
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  show where back in the day,
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  Rogue used to invite their
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  athletes in to do stuff.
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  And there'd be like a pop-up
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  on Instagram like, hey,
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  Sam Briggs is going to be
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  here from 1 to 3.
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  Come watch her workout or whatever.
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  And because we live so close,
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  we would like hop in the
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  car and like fly down to
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  whoever that week and watch them.
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  But they haven't done like
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  that in probably...
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  Since pre-COVID.
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  Yeah.
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  There was a time when the team series,
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  I feel like a lot of,
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  because I remember vividly
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  watching Camille LeBlanc
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  and whoever was on her team
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  do like snatches at 155 in
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  the Rogue team series,
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  which was like an off-season thing.
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  I was there.
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  You were there?
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  Speaking of Lauren Fisher,
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  she was her teammate.
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  Was she your teammate?
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  Josh Bridges and Dan Bailey.
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  Man, you remember better than I do.
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  Like I said, I was there.
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  Yeah, you were.
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  So they used to have more opportunities,
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  I'd say, to like host people there.
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  And it was cool because
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  especially during that team series,
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  there wasn't a lot of pressure.
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  So the athletes were just
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  kind of hanging out kind of
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  like you are all the time.
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  Like they're just on a box
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  talking to you and,
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  and they'd put that out on Instagram,
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  but unless you're in Columbus,
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  there's no way you're getting there.
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  No,
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  it'd be like 20 people tops sitting
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  there watching them do their workout.
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  And so it was very intimate
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  and very kind of like a cool experience.
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  Yeah.
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  And you got to live it.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  My daughter was a huge Annie
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  Thorisdottir fan.
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  And the one year Annie and
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  Camille were on a team
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  together and they announced it.
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  And I went and got her out
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  of school and took her down
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  to meet Annie.
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  Is she still a CrossFit fan?
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  I think I pushed too hard
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  when she was a middle teenager.
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  But she just started working
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  out again at 22.
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  Okay.
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  So she's finding it for herself.
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  Yeah.
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  So after I laid off a little bit,
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  she's kind of coming back.
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  She's asked to borrow my gym
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  equipment from my garage at times.
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  So it's starting,
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  it's starting to like come back in.
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  Do you let her?
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  Yeah.
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  If it's stuff I don't need
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  in the coming week or so,
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  or as long as she brings it back.
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  Yeah.
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  I was going to say that
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  stuff isn't cheap either to be like,
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  I don't borrow your bumper
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  plates in a bar.
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  You're losing two grand right there.
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  Ariel, I'm your biggest fan.
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  Sob, sob.
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  I don't know.
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  There's a lot of big fans out there.
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  I would say prove it.
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  And that's from Dylan Loween.
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  Something like that.
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  It'll be fun this year at
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  the games because people
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  are jumping on the Dylan train.
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  So I'm fully expecting him
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  to get overwhelmed with
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  people stopping him, not stopping me.
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  So speaking of Dylan, again,
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  great segue for me.
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  I saw your story today where
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  he has a theory of what
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  Chad is going to be.
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  Yeah.
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  What did you think?
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  I think he's,
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  I think it's a great way to
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  do the workout.
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  I think everything is logical.
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  I don't think they're doing chat outside.
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  No.
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  Okay.
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  This is for those that
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  didn't hear Dylan's prediction.
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  He thinks there'll be two heats,
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  the bottom 20 men, bottom 20 women.
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  You do 50 step ups on the pig,
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  flip the pig, 50 step ups on the pig,
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  flip the pig.
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  And we'd go like from
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  sideline to sideline.
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  So it'd be 10 flips down, 10 flips back,
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  and then we're done with Chad.
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  The only reason he thinks
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  that the pig is 20 inches high,
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  Dave's mentioned that it's
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  hard to do longer events in
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  the Dickies Arena.
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  So that's why we're assuming that.
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  We could be way off,
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  but Dave did reshare him
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  saying that to his story today.
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  So I don't know if that's him saying like,
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  hey, good idea, or if it's like, man,
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  they just figured it out.
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  And my basis for not
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  thinking it's going to be
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  that way is just as kind of
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  out there as Dylan's guess.
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  In my opinion, if Dave shares it,
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  he's just trying to throw people off.
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  Yeah, that's true.
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  But Dave was on one of the
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  interviews he did,
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  and they asked him what
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  order or something he was...
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  Or what was his favorite or
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  most excited for this year?
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  He said event one, event two, Chad,
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  the Farrington Field.
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  Because of the way he said it,
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  it made me think that Chad
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  is event three.
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  And that would mean it's not
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  Farrington Field.
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  Yeah.
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  Because that's going to be
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  probably six on Friday night.
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  Yeah, I would assume so.
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  if we go by normal kind of pacing.
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  But.
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  I hope you're right because
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  CrossFit already has the
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  persona that we do way too many reps.
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  We do crazy workouts and we
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  hurt ourselves.
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  And so if you're opening an
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  event up to the community to come watch,
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  it's like,
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  watch these people do a thousand step ups,
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  which is a lot of reps.
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  Watch them do it with a
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  backpack and watch them
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  flip this odd object.
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  Like to me,
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  to invite people in to jump on
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  the CrossFit train is,
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  I don't think it's a good
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  representation of what the
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  affiliate should even be programming.
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  Yeah.
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  My friend Corey, who's in the chat,
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  he predicted on our ground
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  table today that you're all
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  going to line up at a corral.
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  It's Fort Worth,
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  so they do the daily cattle drive.
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  They're going to let the athletes go.
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  Then they're going to let
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  the cows go and the bulls.
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  And whoever gets to the site
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  first gets the first boxes.
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  And hopefully you avoid the
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  bulls and the cows in the process.
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  Love it.
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  The agility at its finest.
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  Yeah.
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  And the rucksacks will be red.
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  So the bulls will be charging.
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  Yeah.
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  We can take them off and fan them.
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  Yeah.
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  Maybe, maybe so.
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  That'd be funny.
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  Honestly,
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  I think Dylan's prediction is
• 15:55
  about a sound of like,
• 15:56
  I think that would be a great workout.
• 15:59
  Yeah.
• 16:00
  In theory, it makes sense.
• 16:01
  We've done 20 pig flips.
• 16:04
  He said, there's a twist, you know,
• 16:05
  it makes sense in theory.
• 16:07
  And I wouldn't be mad about
• 16:08
  it just because it would
• 16:09
  break up the step ups a little bit more.
• 16:11
  Yeah.
• 16:12
  Cause we did half Chad on
• 16:14
  Friday this past Friday and Blakely was
• 16:18
  Fell asleep watching us.
• 16:19
  Like I'm just goofing, but it's,
• 16:21
  I felt bored.
• 16:23
  I'm sure our neighbors were
• 16:24
  bored watching us.
• 16:25
  Like there was nothing
• 16:26
  exciting about step ups.
• 16:29
  Right.
• 16:29
  I think Dave likes the mental test of it.
• 16:32
  Yeah.
• 16:32
  That's what he's testing.
• 16:34
  But I just don't know how
• 16:37
  the fans get into that.
• 16:39
  Right.
• 16:40
  So we'll see what the twist is.
• 16:41
  Hopefully it adds.
• 16:42
  I also thought of like the 100 style.
• 16:45
  Did you ever watch the
• 16:46
  physical 100 on Netflix?
• 16:48
  I have not.
• 16:49
  Okay.
• 16:50
  Whoever's their programmer,
• 16:52
  super creative spectacles,
• 16:55
  really impressive if you
• 16:56
  ever want to go watch it.
• 16:58
  But I think it'd be fun even
• 16:59
  if like all the women go.
• 17:01
  The first 100 women or not even 100 women.
• 17:08
  The first 35 people to the
• 17:12
  200 step-ups advance.
• 17:14
  The first 30 people to the
• 17:16
  300 step-ups advance.
• 17:17
  So there's like slowly this
• 17:19
  pyramid of like, at the end,
• 17:21
  there's only two people going for 50.
• 17:23
  Like where you can see there's cuts,
• 17:25
  so you have to go fast to
• 17:27
  advance to the next section.
• 17:29
  But I also think you could
• 17:30
  game it and only do half
• 17:32
  Chad and not be as fatigued
• 17:33
  as the person who wins it.
• 17:34
  So I don't see that happening either.
• 17:36
  Yeah.
• 17:37
  That it's hard because
• 17:39
  everything you come up with,
• 17:40
  there's like a,
• 17:41
  a thing that Dave doesn't like.
• 17:43
  Right.
• 17:43
  Like he hated the fact,
• 17:44
  I think he even said it with,
• 17:45
  it was either with you or
• 17:46
  Emily where when Tia almost
• 17:49
  finished that workout in
• 17:50
  one and he did two minutes
• 17:53
  of work and everybody else did nine.
• 17:55
  Yeah.
• 17:56
  That he was pissed about
• 17:58
  that for a long time.
• 17:59
  Yeah.
• 17:59
  There was a flaw somewhere in the system.
• 18:01
  Yeah.
• 18:03
  So you don't want someone
• 18:05
  doing 200 step-ups and
• 18:06
  another person doing 1,000.
• 18:07
  Right.
• 18:09
  That's a big difference.
• 18:10
  And penalize the winner
• 18:11
  doesn't seem right either.
• 18:13
  No, exactly.
• 18:14
  Denise Moore says,
• 18:19
  how hard is a pig flip wearing a ruck?
• 18:21
  I would imagine it would be really hard.
• 18:23
  Pig flips are hard without a ruck.
• 18:28
  Yeah.
• 18:29
  I mean, even whenever I wore it Friday,
• 18:31
  the ruck is uncomfortable.
• 18:34
  rubbing on spots.
• 18:35
  So to add another element to do in there,
• 18:39
  it would, it would be,
• 18:39
  it would beat me up.
• 18:40
  And I'm sure other people, uh,
• 18:43
  Corey saying is Scott
• 18:44
  drinking chocolate milk.
• 18:46
  I get that every time I have,
• 18:47
  this is actually a paper
• 18:48
  street frost with, with oat milk.
• 18:54
  Yeah.
• 18:55
  Cool.
• 18:56
  Dylan tried one yesterday
• 18:57
  for the first time.
• 18:59
  Cause he was like,
• 18:59
  everybody's been posting about the frost.
• 19:02
  I need to try them.
• 19:04
  I think he expected them to
• 19:05
  be like a sugary Starbucks drink.
• 19:07
  And I'm like, no,
• 19:08
  it's just straight coffee.
• 19:09
  So once he added his half and half,
• 19:11
  he said it was perfect.
• 19:13
  Yeah.
• 19:14
  Like if I'm at like an event
• 19:15
  and I pop the can,
• 19:16
  like I'll drink it straight.
• 19:18
  Yeah.
• 19:18
  I'm like chilling in the
• 19:19
  middle of the afternoon.
• 19:20
  I want it kind of iced down
• 19:22
  and a little bit of oat milk.
• 19:24
  A little bit happy.
• 19:25
  Easy.
• 19:25
  Yeah.
• 19:29
  But yeah, super cool.
• 19:30
  So enough about Chad.
• 19:33
  I think it's got enough run
• 19:35
  already this week.
• 19:36
  Too much run.
• 19:39
  You were named captain at FitFest today.
• 19:41
  Like you've been in the news
• 19:42
  a lot in the last 24 hours.
• 19:46
  What else?
• 19:47
  Oh yeah.
• 19:50
  All that's, you know.
• 19:52
  Okay.
• 19:52
  Yeah.
• 19:52
  So they approached me,
• 19:54
  they approached me a while
• 19:55
  ago and it was one of those, it's like,
• 19:57
  man, if I'm healthy and able to,
• 20:00
  why not go to the UK again?
• 20:02
  And then to be a team captain,
• 20:03
  I thought was icing on the cake.
• 20:07
  Pretty cool.
• 20:08
  So we talked last year, you,
• 20:10
  you loved fit fest.
• 20:12
  Loved it.
• 20:13
  Yeah.
• 20:13
  Yeah.
• 20:15
  So is it more of an
• 20:15
  exhibition or a competition?
• 20:18
  Exhibition.
• 20:19
  Because at the end of the day,
• 20:20
  there's no prize money.
• 20:22
  There's no,
• 20:23
  like this doesn't add to our
• 20:24
  season or anything as far
• 20:26
  as credentials wise.
• 20:28
  It's just let's throw down and be fit.
• 20:30
  But I mean,
• 20:31
  we're all competitors at heart.
• 20:32
  So we can say there's nothing on the line,
• 20:34
  but we were still
• 20:36
  strategizing and trying to
• 20:37
  win as best as possible.
• 20:41
  Well, and from what I understand,
• 20:43
  the European crowd or the
• 20:45
  UK crowd just loved all of you all.
• 20:49
  Oh, they were so sweet.
• 20:50
  They're the most respectful
• 20:54
  audience because they just
• 20:55
  come up to you and be like, oh, Ariel,
• 20:58
  dear, can I bother you for a picture?
• 21:01
  And just in their sweet
• 21:02
  accents and they're so polite and kind.
• 21:04
  But I was just like, of course, yes.
• 21:07
  And they're just very respectful, I found.
• 21:10
  Not that Americans aren't,
• 21:11
  they just ask in a different way.
• 21:14
  Yeah.
• 21:14
  It's the accent.
• 21:15
  They can get away with so
• 21:16
  much with that accent.
• 21:17
  It's the accent.
• 21:18
  The only thing that sucks
• 21:19
  about FitFest with first world problems,
• 21:22
  the flight over there is
• 21:23
  nine to 10 hours.
• 21:25
  So like just sitting on an
• 21:27
  airplane that long, it destroyed me.
• 21:29
  My back was hurting.
• 21:31
  It was a full flight.
• 21:32
  So I had the middle seat and
• 21:34
  we flew at night.
• 21:35
  So I was supposed to sleep, but I didn't.
• 21:37
  So just all like my back hurts.
• 21:39
  I'm tired.
• 21:40
  I'm hungry.
• 21:40
  I want to walk on land.
• 21:43
  That's the only negative.
• 21:45
  I cannot even imagine that.
• 21:46
  Last year after Pasadena,
• 21:49
  I got the middle seat on
• 21:50
  the way back from California.
• 21:52
  And it was like six hours
• 21:55
  and I wanted to just crawl
• 21:57
  out of my skin.
• 21:59
  Isn't it bad?
• 22:01
  So bad.
• 22:02
  Yeah.
• 22:02
  But me and Dylan,
• 22:03
  like we don't mess around when we travel.
• 22:05
  So we didn't sleep that night.
• 22:07
  and then stayed up for an
• 22:08
  additional 12 hours because
• 22:10
  it was daytime in London.
• 22:11
  So we never got jet lag
• 22:13
  because when we went to bed,
• 22:14
  we were passed out and then
• 22:17
  woke up at 9 a.m.
• 22:18
  London time, handled it like champs.
• 22:23
  But also, we didn't have Blakely with us.
• 22:26
  So I think it would be
• 22:27
  harder to adjust with a kid
• 22:28
  than it would be to adults.
• 22:31
  sure sure going west is easy
• 22:34
  for me coming back east if
• 22:36
  I'm in if I if I am west
• 22:38
  too long coming back I get
• 22:40
  jet lag interesting but
• 22:43
  going west I never have a
• 22:45
  problem okay will you have
• 22:49
  a problem coming to texas
• 22:52
  no no that's only an hour
• 22:54
  something like nothing no
• 22:58
  And actually,
• 22:58
  I'm more of a night owl anyway,
• 23:00
  so that hour actually feeds
• 23:02
  into my normal state more.
• 23:06
  Okay.
• 23:10
  So, yeah.
• 23:10
  So another question I had
• 23:11
  for you is with all of this
• 23:14
  success and all that's going on,
• 23:16
  do you have a hard time
• 23:18
  saying no to everything
• 23:21
  that's going on in your life now?
• 23:24
  No,
• 23:24
  I think I've been really good with
• 23:25
  boundaries.
• 23:26
  Like it seems like I have a lot,
• 23:28
  but in this season,
• 23:30
  in my everyday life of June and July,
• 23:32
  I've said no to a few
• 23:34
  things so I can have peace
• 23:35
  at home and peace during training.
• 23:37
  But I think as far as the
• 23:39
  big events like sit fest, potentially,
• 23:41
  hopefully rogue,
• 23:43
  some of those things are
• 23:43
  once in a lifetime experience.
• 23:46
  And I'm also very aware that
• 23:49
  success in the sport does not last long.
• 23:52
  So I'm like, man,
• 23:53
  I want to soak up as much
• 23:54
  as I can as long as I'm healthy mentally,
• 23:57
  physically,
• 23:58
  and my family's on board too as well.
• 24:02
  So hypothetically,
• 24:04
  you have a great CrossFit Games.
• 24:06
  You podium again.
• 24:06
  If we're going to dream this out,
• 24:09
  let's dream it out.
• 24:10
  Put it out there.
• 24:12
  Then you finish that.
• 24:14
  So that gives you the
• 24:14
  automatic bid to Rogue.
• 24:16
  Right.
• 24:18
  you have the, uh, water Palooza,
• 24:20
  SoCal with North America
• 24:22
  versus the world.
• 24:24
  If you were asked to do that,
• 24:27
  that could be on the table.
• 24:28
  Then you have rogue coming up,
• 24:30
  then you have fit fest,
• 24:32
  then possibly water Palooza,
• 24:33
  Miami and that competition,
• 24:36
  which you have gotten to
• 24:37
  the last few years.
• 24:39
  Yeah.
• 24:39
  And that a lot.
• 24:41
  Right.
• 24:42
  Would you be able to do all
• 24:43
  that or would you have to
• 24:45
  say no to something?
• 24:47
  I think, uh,
• 24:48
  Right now, in this moment,
• 24:50
  I say bring it on.
• 24:52
  Because I don't know when my
• 24:54
  last competition will be.
• 24:56
  And I'm fearful, like, let's say,
• 24:59
  unfortunately, it's next season.
• 25:01
  I would regret not going to
• 25:04
  Scotland for Rogue,
• 25:05
  not going to the UK again.
• 25:07
  But I would say, like,
• 25:08
  if I'm looking at those in
• 25:09
  order of importance,
• 25:11
  if I got invited to the SoCal,
• 25:13
  that looks like fun.
• 25:14
  Not too much pressure.
• 25:15
  It's a team thing.
• 25:16
  Rogue,
• 25:16
  I would prioritize because it's
• 25:19
  Rogue in Scotland over FitVest,
• 25:21
  unfortunately.
• 25:22
  So I would just have to look
• 25:23
  at what's most important.
• 25:25
  But the biggest thing is my
• 25:27
  family is the dictator.
• 25:28
  So with me, Dylan, and Blakely, healthy,
• 25:31
  great, on the same page, cool.
• 25:33
  We'll make it happen.
• 25:35
  Yeah.
• 25:39
  I would be like you because
• 25:41
  I would say yes to everything.
• 25:42
  That's just who I am as a person.
• 25:44
  Right.
• 25:46
  And you never know when
• 25:47
  you're going to get the
• 25:47
  opportunity again.
• 25:48
  So why not take advantage of
• 25:50
  it when you can?
• 25:50
  Right.
• 25:52
  But Kim,
• 25:53
  I think my big question is can
• 25:55
  athletes of the future
• 25:56
  survive seasons like that?
• 25:59
  See, that's a good point.
• 26:00
  I think if you're trying to
• 26:02
  peak for all of those, absolutely not.
• 26:05
  But I, I enjoy CrossFit.
• 26:08
  I enjoy,
• 26:09
  sometimes I don't enjoy games
• 26:11
  training because games
• 26:12
  training is different than
• 26:13
  CrossFit in my opinion.
• 26:14
  I enjoy fitness all year round.
• 26:16
  So for me,
• 26:17
  I don't feel like it's that big
• 26:19
  a deal because I'm not
• 26:20
  going to be games fit,
• 26:21
  but I'll be fit enough to do enough.
• 26:27
  Um, here's a good question.
• 26:30
  Denise Moore,
• 26:31
  who is a Masters Games athlete,
• 26:33
  would Ariel consider
• 26:34
  competing in her 50s and
• 26:35
  60s as a Masters athlete?
• 26:39
  I think as of right now,
• 26:40
  I'm not considering Masters,
• 26:42
  but that could change.
• 26:44
  I'm assuming, like in my perfect world,
• 26:46
  when I'm done with the CrossFit Games,
• 26:49
  I'll know it, I'll feel it,
• 26:50
  it'll be obvious.
• 26:52
  Me and Dylan will pursue
• 26:53
  maybe having a few more kids,
• 26:55
  opening the affiliate back there,
• 26:57
  and my focus will no longer be me,
• 26:59
  and it'll be
• 27:00
  other people.
• 27:03
  Um, what zombie says, I think they can,
• 27:06
  as long as it's not games level volume,
• 27:08
  makes what a blues in SoCal doable.
• 27:11
  And the other games athletes
• 27:13
  will be in the same boat.
• 27:15
  I'd agree with that,
• 27:16
  but that would be a fear of,
• 27:18
  is it too much?
• 27:19
  Do I need to just do nothing?
• 27:21
  But I also know I like
• 27:22
  having something to look forward to.
• 27:24
  seasons of nothing.
• 27:25
  I almost get bored or I lose motivation.
• 27:28
  Like I like semi training for something.
• 27:32
  Just back on Denise's question real quick.
• 27:35
  I look at someone like Val
• 27:36
  Vobrol who is very much
• 27:37
  like you or you are like
• 27:40
  her cause she came first.
• 27:41
  Yeah, she did.
• 27:42
  She's a podium athlete.
• 27:44
  Uh,
• 27:45
  she's a teacher full time mother.
• 27:48
  And then she kind of walked
• 27:50
  away from the sport for a little bit.
• 27:53
  And now this year she's
• 27:54
  coming back in the 40 to 44
• 27:57
  year old division.
• 28:00
  So like, I could see you doing that.
• 28:03
  Like, yeah.
• 28:05
  Be the mom.
• 28:06
  I take that time.
• 28:07
  And then like 10 years down the road going,
• 28:09
  Hey, let's take a swing.
• 28:11
  Yeah.
• 28:12
  I'd like to still be
• 28:14
  involved in CrossFit in some capacity,
• 28:16
  whatever that looks like,
• 28:17
  whether it's just owning the affiliate,
• 28:19
  helping them out where they
• 28:21
  need to announcing maybe
• 28:24
  backstage at a CrossFit booth,
• 28:26
  getting people to sign up
• 28:27
  for their own one, something.
• 28:30
  Yeah, awesome.
• 28:32
  Jeffrey Birchfield, fellow Texan.
• 28:34
  By the way, Ariel, I work out in my tent.
• 28:37
  I would love a picture of that.
• 28:39
  I'm picturing like a pointy
• 28:42
  tent that you could buy at Academy.
• 28:47
  I think, I know Jay Birch a little bit.
• 28:50
  So he used to work out in his garage.
• 28:52
  His family moved.
• 28:54
  Okay.
• 28:54
  I'm wondering if he's forced
• 28:56
  to be in a tent while
• 28:58
  they're fixing up the house.
• 28:59
  That's commitment.
• 29:02
  So, just guessing.
• 29:04
  Jonathan Ortega says a yurt.
• 29:07
  A yurt.
• 29:09
  I think Ortega will be here next week.
• 29:11
  Do you know Erin?
• 29:12
  She's a photographer.
• 29:14
  Erin Murphy.
• 29:16
  I would probably know where to see her.
• 29:19
  Okay.
• 29:19
  I know Aaron for sure has booked a ticket.
• 29:21
  I don't know if Ortega has,
• 29:23
  maybe he can let us know in the comments,
• 29:24
  but I've always wanted to
• 29:25
  do a day in the life games
• 29:27
  training because I feel like my day,
• 29:29
  even from what I'm hearing
• 29:30
  other people talk on podcasts, um,
• 29:33
  like other athletes get to nap.
• 29:36
  Um, somebody makes all their food for, um,
• 29:39
  they get all this body work done.
• 29:41
  And I'm like, I want people to see.
• 29:43
  My day in the life.
• 29:44
  Give them a little taste.
• 29:45
  So Aaron will be here next
• 29:46
  week to film that for me.
• 29:47
  Should be fun.
• 29:49
  Yeah.
• 29:49
  Or take it there too.
• 29:51
  Cool.
• 29:51
  And they're actually going
• 29:52
  to be staying in the guest room.
• 29:54
  So it'll honestly be our
• 29:57
  first guests to stay with us.
• 29:59
  Minus my mom and dad and Dylan's mom,
• 30:02
  but that's family.
• 30:03
  That doesn't count.
• 30:05
  Yeah.
• 30:06
  And Jonathan,
• 30:07
  did they both shoot you at semis?
• 30:10
  Yeah.
• 30:10
  Yeah.
• 30:13
  And I had seen him around the scene a bit,
• 30:15
  but that was the best thing I ever did.
• 30:17
  Cause some of the content
• 30:18
  they got was perfect.
• 30:20
  It was great.
• 30:24
  Denise says,
• 30:24
  I always think this is my last year,
• 30:26
  but then just when I think I'm out,
• 30:29
  they pull me back in.
• 30:30
  Exactly.
• 30:32
  Exactly.
• 30:32
  But I will say this has been
• 30:35
  the mentally hardest games
• 30:36
  training I've had in my
• 30:38
  games training experience.
• 30:40
  So I'm trying to decipher why that is.
• 30:43
  don't know if it's because
• 30:44
  I'm like I want to do good
• 30:46
  I want to be better than
• 30:46
  last year when last year I
• 30:48
  was really good or it's
• 30:49
  just I'm in the thick of it
• 30:51
  and games training is hard
• 30:53
  so I'm just like okay keep
• 30:54
  pushing through we're
• 30:54
  almost there but I don't
• 30:56
  remember it being this hard
• 30:58
  to do the work in previous
• 30:59
  years you know what I'm
• 31:02
  really bad at I was I told
• 31:04
  you this was going to be 30
• 31:05
  minutes and we're already past 30 minutes
• 31:08
  It's okay.
• 31:09
  I'm content.
• 31:10
  Blakely's playing with slime.
• 31:11
  I'm good.
• 31:12
  I only have one big question.
• 31:15
  Because I tried to keep the
• 31:16
  questions down for this one,
• 31:18
  knowing that I'm really bad at it.
• 31:20
  No, you're good.
• 31:23
  So you went to semifinals.
• 31:25
  You went to Carson.
• 31:27
  Yeah.
• 31:28
  And really,
• 31:29
  there's just a series of
• 31:29
  questions about this.
• 31:31
  So you go there.
• 31:31
  There's this epic, nostalgic place.
• 31:36
  What was that like?
• 31:38
  How disappointing was it
• 31:39
  that the crowd was low?
• 31:42
  I think the venue is made to be filled.
• 31:45
  So when it's not filled,
• 31:46
  it's really obvious that it's not.
• 31:49
  So that was disappointing,
• 31:50
  but the highlight of
• 31:51
  semifinals were the volunteers and the,
• 31:54
  unfortunately, unless you were there,
• 31:56
  you couldn't see it on TV.
• 31:58
  You couldn't experience it.
• 31:59
  But like one example was
• 32:01
  when we went out for the run,
• 32:02
  which we were supposed to do the berm,
• 32:03
  but like that whole thing,
• 32:05
  the whole tunnel was lined
• 32:07
  with volunteers.
• 32:08
  So every time we went out or came in,
• 32:10
  they're just all there like, let's go,
• 32:13
  let's go, you're great, keep it up.
• 32:15
  So where the crowd wasn't there,
• 32:18
  the volunteers that showed up,
• 32:20
  they were like the best cheers,
• 32:22
  the best support system
• 32:24
  backstage and on the floor.
• 32:25
  So people say like, oh, the crowd sucked.
• 32:28
  Like, well, what's your perspective?
• 32:30
  The people who paid to show
• 32:32
  up or the people that were
• 32:32
  there for free volunteering their time?
• 32:34
  Because the volunteers...
• 32:36
  were the best crowd I've ever heard.
• 32:38
  Yeah.
• 32:40
  I wish I could have got there.
• 32:41
  I wish they would have given
• 32:42
  me enough notice to get
• 32:43
  there because at syndicate, there was,
• 32:46
  it was a good crowd at syndicate.
• 32:48
  Yeah.
• 32:48
  It looked legit, but never in the call us.
• 32:52
  I don't know what you'd even
• 32:52
  call it on a stadium floor.
• 32:54
  You know, sometimes you can just feel the,
• 32:56
  like that was never felt,
• 32:59
  but it looked like that was
• 33:00
  felt at syndicate.
• 33:02
  Yeah.
• 33:04
  Yeah.
• 33:04
  Well at the games,
• 33:05
  it's going to be insane
• 33:06
  because like Madison was what?
• 33:09
  4,500 maybe capacity.
• 33:11
  And now you're moving to double that.
• 33:14
  But they still need more room.
• 33:15
  I know it's sold out in like a day.
• 33:19
  I know.
• 33:20
  I know my, my poor mom,
• 33:21
  she waited to get tickets
• 33:23
  until I qualified.
• 33:25
  And that's when they're what?
• 33:26
  Like a thousand a piece.
• 33:28
  It's just like, I don't know about this,
• 33:31
  but yeah, they're ridiculous.
• 33:34
  that's gotta be rough.
• 33:36
  Yeah.
• 33:36
  I can't even imagine if my,
• 33:38
  but if it's my daughter, like you gotta,
• 33:40
  you gotta do it.
• 33:41
  Right.
• 33:42
  Yeah.
• 33:42
  And that's, I mean,
• 33:43
  we can get into that a whole nother time,
• 33:45
  but it's like, if you want to be there,
• 33:47
  you'll be there.
• 33:48
  But I also get that it's super expensive.
• 33:50
  Yeah.
• 33:52
  Yeah.
• 33:52
  I remember,
• 33:53
  we don't have to get into that.
• 33:54
  I'm already past time.
• 33:56
  So, so you do the weekend,
• 33:58
  you do the weekend and yeah,
• 34:03
  I heard you say somewhere
• 34:04
  that it was a little bit of
• 34:06
  a – maybe it was either you or Alex.
• 34:08
  Everything's morphing
• 34:09
  together with all these Dave interviews.
• 34:11
  You're good.
• 34:12
  You're good.
• 34:13
  And it's like there was a
• 34:15
  little bit of a
• 34:15
  disappointment coming in third.
• 34:19
  Was it you or Alex that said
• 34:20
  – because you really were –
• 34:22
  you wanted to win.
• 34:24
  Yeah.
• 34:25
  So I'll say I definitely
• 34:26
  went into the weekend
• 34:27
  wanting to win and training to win,
• 34:30
  but I also, it's no, it's my own fault.
• 34:32
  I also did not practice any
• 34:34
  of them and I chose not to
• 34:35
  practice any of them because I mean, I'm,
• 34:39
  I don't feel the need to,
• 34:40
  I felt confident enough that I'd qualify.
• 34:41
  So I was like, man, if I'm supposed to win,
• 34:44
  I'll do it right the first
• 34:44
  time and it'll happen.
• 34:45
  So there was a little bit of
• 34:47
  disappointment.
• 34:48
  I didn't win,
• 34:48
  but I also expected to get fourth.
• 34:51
  And so whenever they called me at third,
• 34:52
  I was ecstatic.
• 34:53
  So there was like Friday and Saturday,
• 34:57
  the realization of like, okay,
• 34:59
  if you wanted to win,
• 35:00
  you probably should have prepared better.
• 35:01
  Okay, let's try and just make podium.
• 35:03
  So like I had the pity party Friday,
• 35:05
  Saturday, Sunday,
• 35:06
  I was ecstatic to get third.
• 35:09
  But it's no fault other than my own.
• 35:12
  So when we talked last year after semis,
• 35:15
  there was disappointment
• 35:16
  because you kind of had the win.
• 35:19
  Right.
• 35:19
  And you said like, and you didn't,
• 35:22
  you didn't have that push.
• 35:24
  Right.
• 35:24
  You should have had to take it.
• 35:27
  Yeah.
• 35:29
  And then that seemed to like,
• 35:30
  you seem to have cured that by the games.
• 35:32
  Yeah.
• 35:33
  I did.
• 35:33
  Yeah.
• 35:35
  And that's another thing kind of at peace.
• 35:37
  I,
• 35:38
  I felt like I gave my all in every
• 35:40
  workout.
• 35:40
  I just didn't strategize
• 35:42
  them how I should.
• 35:43
  And like the rope climb event,
• 35:45
  I should have had a different strategy.
• 35:46
  So it didn't go great,
• 35:48
  but that's what kind of
• 35:49
  gives me peace going into this year.
• 35:52
  I know what games training
• 35:53
  entails to do well last year,
• 35:55
  and I'm doing the same
• 35:57
  thing to prepare for the games.
• 35:58
  So it's like, yeah, I got third.
• 36:00
  I would have wanted first,
• 36:01
  but I wasn't even training
• 36:03
  Saturdays to prepare for semis.
• 36:05
  Now I'm training Saturdays,
• 36:06
  and I'm upping everything I need to.
• 36:10
  So what data did you take
• 36:14
  from semis that you needed
• 36:16
  to incorporate in your own programming?
• 36:18
  Yeah.
• 36:19
  One thing that's great.
• 36:20
  I do have a strength
• 36:20
  programmer named Brian.
• 36:22
  So he'll watch the semifinals and be like,
• 36:25
  okay, your grip fatigue is weak.
• 36:27
  You're pulling fatigue is weak.
• 36:28
  So he does the muscle side of it for me.
• 36:32
  And that's what I'm working
• 36:33
  on in my strength cycles this time.
• 36:35
  As far as cardio goes,
• 36:38
  I look at like what held me back.
• 36:41
  Was it the bike or was it
• 36:43
  the box jump over technique
• 36:45
  and try and just improve
• 36:46
  those going forward.
• 36:47
  But for me,
• 36:48
  I always just try and focus
• 36:49
  on like getting my heart rate to be fast.
• 36:52
  Cause there's so many little
• 36:53
  things that I feel like
• 36:54
  people overcomplicate and it's like, okay,
• 36:57
  if I'm working out every day,
• 36:58
  I lay on the floor exhausted after it.
• 37:02
  It's a good day.
• 37:03
  Don't overcomplicate it.
• 37:04
  So for me,
• 37:05
  it's just always trying to
• 37:06
  improve the cardio.
• 37:10
  we're friends.
• 37:10
  I'm just going to say it outright.
• 37:12
  You had, you had some really good workouts,
• 37:13
  right?
• 37:14
  You wanted to work out.
• 37:14
  You came in second,
• 37:16
  but the biggest surprise
• 37:18
  for me was a snatch ladder.
• 37:19
  Yeah.
• 37:20
  That one was bad.
• 37:21
  Wasn't it?
• 37:21
  Yeah.
• 37:23
  Yeah.
• 37:23
  And I'm,
• 37:27
  I know I'm stronger and I know I'm
• 37:29
  capable, but on that workout,
• 37:30
  my back was on fire.
• 37:33
  I don't know if it was like
• 37:34
  hinging too much or standing them up,
• 37:37
  leaning a little bit forward or,
• 37:39
  but it got to where on the 155, 165, 175,
• 37:43
  I just had to stand there
• 37:44
  and like lean back,
• 37:46
  stretch out my back because I'm like,
• 37:48
  I'm capable to pick this up,
• 37:50
  but my back hurts.
• 37:52
  Not a pain, like an injury,
• 37:55
  but just like I had done
• 37:56
  5,000 deadlifts and my back
• 37:58
  was just screaming at me.
• 38:00
  So yeah, that one surprised me too.
• 38:02
  And I mentioned that to my strength coach.
• 38:04
  So we're working on building
• 38:05
  up the lower back.
• 38:06
  But that definitely surprised me,
• 38:08
  that event.
• 38:10
  Yeah.
• 38:12
  As someone who's watched you
• 38:13
  pretty much the whole
• 38:15
  second half of your career,
• 38:15
  I was surprised.
• 38:17
  Yeah, same.
• 38:21
  You're good.
• 38:23
  Yeah.
• 38:23
  And that's why I was like, hey,
• 38:24
  it was one event.
• 38:27
  Shake it off.
• 38:28
  This is something about this
• 38:29
  was a weakness.
• 38:30
  I personally don't know,
• 38:31
  but my strength guy is
• 38:32
  smart enough to know.
• 38:33
  So he's trying to help me
• 38:35
  fix that with a few things.
• 38:36
  is there something mental
• 38:37
  you can take from that,
• 38:38
  that you had to like,
• 38:40
  you had to dial in just to,
• 38:42
  to survive that one?
• 38:44
  Yeah.
• 38:45
  I think it's just perspective.
• 38:47
  Like at the end of that workout,
• 38:49
  I was like, man,
• 38:50
  that in my opinion was the
• 38:51
  best I could do,
• 38:53
  but I don't feel like it's my best,
• 38:55
  but I'm healthy.
• 38:56
  Nothing hurts.
• 38:57
  I can walk away from it.
• 38:59
  I'm still in a qualifying
• 39:00
  position for the games.
• 39:02
  Who cares?
• 39:04
  I'm going to finish up with
• 39:05
  a chat question.
• 39:06
  Let's say Milano,
• 39:08
  which workout do you think
• 39:09
  you would have benefited from practice?
• 39:12
  The rope climb workout.
• 39:15
  That one ate me up.
• 39:16
  Unfortunately, I, I didn't go to a,
• 39:20
  to a jam with a taller rope.
• 39:22
  So I didn't even practice 15
• 39:23
  foot rope climb since the
• 39:25
  games last year.
• 39:25
  So that's my own fault.
• 39:27
  I didn't practice like the
• 39:29
  bike to a taller rope climb transition.
• 39:32
  And then like 10 seconds
• 39:33
  before stepping on the floor,
• 39:35
  I changed my box jump over technique.
• 39:37
  So just like a bunch of rookie mistakes.
• 39:40
  And then I ripped my pants
• 39:42
  round three of seven.
• 39:44
  So I had to change the way I came down.
• 39:45
  So we're just a lot of
• 39:47
  things that should have gone better.
• 39:49
  If I would have practiced it,
• 39:50
  I probably would have learned.
• 39:52
  But at the end of the day, I'm like,
• 39:54
  it's semifinals.
• 39:55
  I'm confident enough.
• 39:56
  I'm going to qualify.
• 39:57
  I don't have to show the
• 39:58
  world that I can get first
• 39:59
  place at semifinals and
• 40:01
  Nobody cares.
• 40:02
  Nobody's going to remember.
• 40:03
  And they're going to remember the games.
• 40:05
  Yeah.
• 40:06
  The drama is all at the cut line.
• 40:07
  Yeah, exactly.
• 40:09
  Right.
• 40:09
  Yeah.
• 40:09
  So nobody's like,
• 40:11
  it's even hard to remember
• 40:12
  where you finished other than like,
• 40:14
  if you were six, seventh and eighth.
• 40:16
  Exactly.
• 40:17
  Even at the games,
• 40:18
  if I'm looking at the games,
• 40:19
  like who got fifth through 10th last year,
• 40:24
  nobody really knows the order.
• 40:25
  So I'm trying to like
• 40:26
  mentally tell myself,
• 40:29
  it doesn't really matter.
• 40:30
  Top 10 of the games is great,
• 40:31
  but all they say is top 10, you know,
• 40:34
  I know Dylan watches everything.
• 40:37
  Yeah, he does.
• 40:39
  Do you see the rankings?
• 40:40
  Do you see the, like the spin pole?
• 40:42
  Do you, you know, I was really into it.
• 40:46
  I would say the first two years of my,
• 40:49
  my career, um,
• 40:51
  But we've noticed that it's
• 40:54
  people with no degrees, no statistics,
• 40:58
  no data.
• 40:59
  It's just their opinion
• 41:00
  based on their gut feeling.
• 41:02
  So we just kind of were sick
• 41:04
  of this one person had a
• 41:06
  gut feeling I was going to get 10th.
• 41:08
  And then I got third at the games.
• 41:10
  And we're like, okay,
• 41:11
  this person doesn't even
• 41:11
  know what they're talking about.
• 41:12
  They don't see what I train.
• 41:13
  They don't do this.
• 41:14
  So it got to where it would be like,
• 41:16
  put some respect on our name.
• 41:17
  What the heck?
• 41:18
  We're like, you know what?
• 41:20
  These people are,
• 41:21
  they're just talking to talk,
• 41:23
  to have something to talk about.
• 41:24
  So we actually,
• 41:25
  this year have not paid
• 41:26
  attention to them at all.
• 41:29
  I think that's,
• 41:29
  that's a good evolution in your career.
• 41:32
  Yeah.
• 41:33
  You know,
• 41:33
  it kind of stinks because I'm like, man,
• 41:36
  I did so good last year and
• 41:38
  it's still not enough to
• 41:40
  have respect of my name to
• 41:41
  be placed up there, you know?
• 41:44
  So I'm like, no,
• 41:45
  we know what we did last year.
• 41:46
  We don't need to listen to them.
• 41:48
  It's funny because when I look at it, one,
• 41:51
  there's the,
• 41:52
  the sport is getting so
• 41:54
  congested with great athletes.
• 41:56
  Right.
• 41:57
  Right.
• 41:58
  So really you're,
• 41:59
  you're taking a dart and
• 42:00
  throwing a dartboard for some of this.
• 42:03
  Right.
• 42:03
  But my view is like,
• 42:05
  you deserve to be in the
• 42:06
  top five till you're not in the top five.
• 42:09
  Yeah.
• 42:09
  And then you read, we go from there.
• 42:11
  Yeah.
• 42:14
  Like you were there last year.
• 42:15
  You deserve to be there.
• 42:18
  Alex hasn't as only ever beat you at semi.
• 42:21
  So I don't think she deserves to jump you.
• 42:24
  And so like, that's how I,
• 42:25
  I start breaking things down.
• 42:28
  Right.
• 42:29
  A lot of people take one event,
• 42:30
  like don't look at semis
• 42:32
  and change their whole 25.
• 42:34
  Exactly.
• 42:36
  When really,
• 42:38
  you know where the real work is,
• 42:40
  but you also,
• 42:41
  you gotta be able to back it up.
• 42:42
  I could say all this stuff all day,
• 42:44
  but I can't back it up.
• 42:46
  It means nothing.
• 42:52
  Larry Young has it just right.
• 42:53
  Without knowing the events,
• 42:54
  it's all a guess anyway.
• 42:56
  Yeah, exactly.
• 42:58
  And I mean, honestly,
• 43:00
  you don't know who's
• 43:00
  showing up healthy or sick or injured.
• 43:03
  I feel like that has to play
• 43:05
  a factor as well.
• 43:07
  I'm going to finish this
• 43:08
  just with one little jab at
• 43:09
  CrossFit Media.
• 43:11
  Wad Zombie said it perfectly.
• 43:12
  Here we go.
• 43:15
  That's why I'm upset they
• 43:16
  didn't put Ariel on the
• 43:17
  ESPN poster they put up today.
• 43:20
  She's from Texas.
• 43:22
  I know stuff like that.
• 43:24
  I do see.
• 43:25
  And I 100% thought the same thing,
• 43:27
  but I can't dwell on it.
• 43:29
  It's like, okay,
• 43:29
  maybe one day I'll get some respect.
• 43:31
  Maybe, you know,
• 43:32
  but it's like at the end of the day,
• 43:33
  it doesn't matter.
• 43:34
  But yeah, Texas podium.
• 43:37
  Fittest American woman.
• 43:39
  Yeah.
• 43:40
  Come on.
• 43:42
  Right.
• 43:42
  But at the end of the day, Dylan knows.
• 43:45
  And that's all that matters.
• 43:46
  Like if I have to think of my family unit,
• 43:49
  Blakely could care less.
• 43:50
  Me and Dylan know what happened last year.
• 43:54
  I do too.
• 43:55
  I'm a big fan.
• 43:56
  You do too.
• 43:56
  Remember,
• 43:57
  we even talked about it last year
• 43:58
  before the games.
• 44:00
  Well, with that,
• 44:02
  I will now end this 13
• 44:03
  minutes later than I anticipated,
• 44:05
  or 14 minutes later than I anticipated.
• 44:07
  With that,
• 44:08
  we will let you get back to your day.
• 44:10
  Thank you, everybody, for joining in.
• 44:12
  You guys are the best.
• 44:13
  Arrow, you're the best.
• 44:14
  We'll see everybody next
• 44:15
  time on the Clydesdale Media Podcast.
• 44:18
  Bye, guys.
• 44:18
  Thanks for having me.