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Lunch with the Clydesdale - The Beginnings of the Season are Kicking Off · Clydesdale Media Podcast

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  There have been a handful of things that
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  illustrate we are kicking off the twenty
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  twenty six CrossFit game season.
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  Let's talk next.
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  I love the chase and the hunt,
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  and I set the pace when I'm running.
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  I always take what I want,
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  and I always give it one hundred.
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  Don't need a bank, no I'm funded.
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  Play the game like it's nothing.
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  I'm always thankful for something.
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  Don't take for granted, stay humble.
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  Now wake up!
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  It's time to look at the enemy.
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  Look in the mirror if he is no
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  friend to me.
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  It's not working out,
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  maybe it's the chemistry.
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  It's time to break up so I can
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  make a better me.
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  Surprise, we got the cowboy here.
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  And he's muted.
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  There we go.
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  How about now?
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  Yeah, you're good.
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  Sorry I'm late.
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  Yeah.
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  Like I said at the end of yesterday's
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  show,
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  I don't even know when the Cowboys come
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  in.
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  Right?
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  So I thought, well...
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  I got on today, didn't see Corey.
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  I'm going to have to do this one
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  on my own.
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  Just run a little behind.
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  And all of a sudden,
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  I get the message.
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  A guy named Corey just entered the studio.
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  Some dude.
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  Yeah.
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  So, you're here.
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  I am.
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  This is not a reasonable facsimile
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  thereof.
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  It's actually me.
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  Sean in Oregon says, giddy up.
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  Got to ride, baby.
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  Got to ride.
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  So Mike DeVito says, missed the last few.
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  My job is getting in the way of
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  my passions.
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  Got to do something about that, man.
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  Yeah.
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  Quit your job is what we recommend over
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  here.
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  Yeah.
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  Same.
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  Sean in Oregon.
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  Same.
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  I block off Friday mornings to at least
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  get one live session in a week.
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  Got to do what you got to do.
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  I feel like Sean was here either yesterday
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  or the day before.
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  You know,
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  I block off this lunch hour every single
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  day.
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  I hate when people are like, yeah,
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  screw you.
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  I'm going to schedule the meeting anyway.
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  I had one of those meetings yesterday,
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  man,
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  that one o'clock meeting I had to get
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  to scheduled for one hour.
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  We went one hour and twelve minutes.
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  Ain't got nothing done.
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  do i'm at a point in my career
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  where like i just don't want the stress
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  of anything and i know the people i
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  work with don't listen anyway so i just
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  don't talk anymore like i just i sit
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  there and i listen i wait for whatever's
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  going on and then i just deal with
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  it yesterday because i just couldn't take
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  it anymore good for you i couldn't take
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  it anymore
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  Stay on your ground.
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  I've been in these meetings for four
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  months.
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  I'm supposed to build a webpage for this
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  other agency to use our job site where
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  we do like a predetermined sorting of the
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  jobs to their specific needs, right?
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  The ball's been in their court for two
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  months.
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  All I need is a sign-off to start.
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  Can't get the sign-off.
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  Cannot get the sign off.
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  And yesterday we talked for an hour and
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  twelve minutes about the same subject.
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  And none of it,
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  none of it helped me get any closer
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  to a sign off.
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  Because we go one direction and they say,
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  well, that doesn't meet this need.
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  So then we come back to the direction
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  of this need.
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  Well, now we're not meeting this need.
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  And I finally stood up and said,
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  because these two needs are mutually
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  exclusive.
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  You can't meet both of the needs with
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  what you want to do.
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  So you've got to pick one.
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  You have to pick one.
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  Just one.
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  And honestly,
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  I really don't care which one it is.
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  Just pick one.
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  I just want to get started because every
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  other week I meet with my boss and
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  he's like, where are we at with that?
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  We're in the exact same place we were
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  four months ago because they will not sign
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  off on this.
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  Truly,
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  truly what I've been trying to do for
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  the last couple of years is just collect
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  the check.
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  But I get to this point where like
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  riff boy comes out of my head and
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  into my mouth and I just start talking.
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  Well,
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  especially as you get older and less prone
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  to want to deal with bullshit.
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  Yeah.
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  especially when you've been in your job
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  for a long time you know what you're
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  doing you're established people respect
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  you all that other stuff and it becomes
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  a whole lot easier to just let it
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  out and just be like y'all are a
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  pack of idiots i don't know if y'all
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  know this or not but i know i
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  know how it feels
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  So most of my career,
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  I had different titles,
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  but essentially I was the fixer.
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  The unit that was in trouble,
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  I got put over to come in and
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  fix it up.
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  And then I would get everybody pissed at
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  me because I actually like set
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  expectations and all of these types of
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  things, right?
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  And then I would get tons of grievances
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  filed against me.
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  And then my employer stopped backing me in
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  those,
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  even though they wanted me to come in
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  and fix it.
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  Then they don't back me when the people
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  file grievances against me.
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  Right.
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  So then I just quit.
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  I just quit.
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  Like I don't give a shit anymore.
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  I tell my mom every day,
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  like that's some,
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  that is somebody else's circus and they're
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  monkeys.
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  I don't need to deal with it.
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  I don't care.
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  Correct.
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  And that's where I've gotten to in life.
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  and but yesterday i just couldn't take it
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  anymore i just could not take it it
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  happens brother man it absolutely happened
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  you just sit back and for you can
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  only take it for so long like the
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  level of incompetence or stupidity
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  whatever you want to call it before you
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  finally like okay i've had enough uh
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  interesting that's where i'm at i'm happy
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  collecting the check amen brother amen
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  Before we dive into the CrossFit game
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  stuff, which we have a lot of today,
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  because the season's kicking off, dude.
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  Like things are happening for the twenty
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  twenty six season.
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  We have officially flipped the page to the
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  new season.
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  Perfect demonstration.
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  Thank you.
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  It's your official page flip.
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  Look, I'm here to help.
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  Yeah.
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  So I stayed up for that game last
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  night.
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  Oh, good on you.
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  I did not.
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  Four lead changes in the fourth quarter.
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  Phenomenal game.
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  Yeah, by all accounts,
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  I've heard it was an awesome game to
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  watch.
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  So sad that it came down to a
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  ref's call.
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  You are preaching to the choir right now.
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  Saints fan.
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  Don't ever forget.
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  So like there's this hard fought battle
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  back and forth.
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  Tons of lead changes.
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  Kids are, I mean,
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  Miami was dropping like flies in the
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  fourth quarter on defense and the
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  comebacks both ways.
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  And then for it to end on a
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  ref's call.
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  And we bitch about this all the time
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  in CrossFit.
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  That is not, we don't own bad judging,
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  bad reffing, bad whatever, right?
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  It is everywhere.
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  Everywhere.
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  And, you know,
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  the guy on the broadcast was like,
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  the former ref was like, well,
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  there was mutual combat.
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  So we didn't blow the whistle.
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  You will look at that play.
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  The guy was not in a scrum for
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  a Hail Mary.
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  It was a one-on-one situation.
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  He gets grabbed by the shoulder pad and
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  pulled to the ground.
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  That is pass interference.
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  Every time.
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  Or if you're on the streets of New
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  York, that would be a mugging.
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  Whichever way you want to look at it.
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  Both ways.
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  It's ridiculous.
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  So while it started off with a bang
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  and what a great game to watch,
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  I just hate that it came down to
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  that.
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  And that wouldn't have won the game for
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  Ole Miss.
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  It just would have given them one more
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  shot untimed down, right, from the twenty.
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  Still a low percentage play for them.
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  They may not have done it,
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  but they should have been given the
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  opportunity to try.
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  When that gets taken away,
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  that stings a lot more when you have
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  an actual, like,
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  I just want one more shot.
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  And I deserve one more shot, right,
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  because of the way the game's been going
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  back and forth.
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  That's a tough one to swallow, for sure.
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  Yeah.
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  So let's dive into some CrossFit news.
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  First thing I have on the docket,
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  and some of the things that are happening
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  in the chat, I've got on my list.
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  So just be patient with me.
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  So first thing is, friend of the show,
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  Bethany Flores had her baby yesterday.
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  Congratulations to her and Randy.
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  They had a baby boy named Baker Lee
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  Flores.
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  Awesome.
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  I want to ask you,
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  why do we always give the weight and
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  the length of the baby?
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  why why are we giving up the baby
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  stats we're going to do that when you're
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  when you're putting in the program of a
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  football player right because that's
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  matter but when you're a newborn baby what
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  does it matter that they're under twenty
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  inches or over twenty inches long or under
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  eight pounds or over eight pounds like is
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  there a newborn baby combine that we don't
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  know about
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  But for those of you that care, uh,
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  seven pounds, ten ounces,
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  nineteen and a half inches long.
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  Still don't know what it signifies,
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  what it means, but.
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  Uh, yeah,
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  my wife would tell you those numbers only
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  matter if it's over ten pounds.
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  I would agree.
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  Yeah.
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  Uh.
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  Bill Cosby once did a joke,
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  and I hate that you can't even really
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  quote Bill Cosby anymore because of all
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  the stuff he did,
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  but it's like pushing a watermelon through
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  a garden hose.
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  Mm-hmm.
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  Yeah.
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  Shana, with the average baby size,
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  Meredith,
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  it matters if they're huge or they're
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  super small.
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  Like,
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  if it comes out that they're in the
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  NICU...
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  Because they were like super premature or
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  whatnot.
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  And you want to talk about it then?
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  Absolutely.
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  Yes.
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  Because it's medically relevant at that
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  point.
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  Correct.
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  If we just had a normal,
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  healthy baby boy,
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  then why do we insist on doing that?
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  It's the same.
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  That falls along the same lines of me
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  with, well, he's thirteen months old.
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  No, he's not.
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  He's a year old.
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  Like I'm not,
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  I'm forty eight fixing to be forty nine.
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  At what point do you stop counting?
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  Like I could do that math right quick.
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  Like tell me how many months old I
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  am.
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  But nobody does that.
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  Why?
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  Because that would be batshit crazy.
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  Mark Phillips,
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  the percentiles on every pediatric visit
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  is the same.
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  Your kid's sixty seven percentile height,
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  eighty percent weight.
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  OK, he's five.
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  This stuff changes.
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  Yeah,
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  I got told when my daughter like she
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  was in like the ninety eighth percentile
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  for height.
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  She's going to be over six feet tall.
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  No, she's not.
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  Right.
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  No, no.
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  She's she's a nice, healthy five eight.
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  But, you know.
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  Thanks, Joseph.
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  Meredith, thank you.
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  Yep.
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  Medically relevant.
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  Good way to put it.
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  If it's medically relevant,
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  then you need to know.
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  Correct.
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  But if not, it doesn't really matter.
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  Yeah.
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  Joseph,
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  you're five hundred and seventy nine
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  months old, not counting leap years.
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  I'm going to start referring to myself as
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  that.
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  That should that ought to be how the
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  age groups work on the for the open.
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  Meredith, math is hard.
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  I don't want to start doing math when
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  someone tells me their kid is twenty seven
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  months old to your kid is two.
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  I don't.
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  If I hear that, if somebody's like, oh,
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  they're twenty eight months old.
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  No, they're not.
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  They're two.
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  They're two.
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  Please stop saying that.
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  Good.
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  Yes.
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  it reminds me of grown-ups and kevin james
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  the kevin james character in grown-ups and
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  their kids like five and they say it
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  in months no you get like a calculator
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  out yes jesus christ
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  He's sixty five months old.
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  Sixty five months old.
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  No, he's not.
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  He's five.
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  Jesus Christ.
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  He can tell you how old he is,
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  especially on that one.
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  If the kid can tell you how old
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  they are,
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  please stop referring to it in months.
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  Yeah.
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  Shannon, head size matters.
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  We would check into that if the head
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  was too small or too large.
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  We base head size numbers also on size
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  and height and weight.
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  So if weight.
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  Weight, twenty five, height,
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  twenty five and head ninety nine,
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  it may be a problem.
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  I understand why the doctor would want to
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  know those numbers.
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  Yeah, like I get all that.
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  Like you probably are checking everything
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  out.
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  But to publicly say, hey,
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  had a baby girl today, six pounds,
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  ten ounces, and eighteen inches long.
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  And she's got a watermelon head.
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  It was ginormous.
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  Like we had to, it's phenomenal.
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  I didn't go to med school.
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  I leave that to Shanna to figure out.
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  Correct.
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  That's medically relevant, again.
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  Right.
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  For her, not me.
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  No, not at all.
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  Not some dude that lives down the street
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  and is just hearing about the
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  announcement.
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  Yeah,
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  so here's a shocking report for all you
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  mothers out there who may be watching the
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  show or are soon to be mothers,
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  is that when you want to make an
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  announcement like that,
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  everybody on Instagram only cares that
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  your baby is healthy.
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  Yeah.
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  That's it.
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  That's it.
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  Oh, again,
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  unless she's comic book size and it's like
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  this big and she's in the NICU and
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  there's a problem.
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  Right.
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  You say, had a baby, preemie, two pounds,
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  one ounce.
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  You're like, damn, prayer's going up.
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  Prayer's going up.
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  A hundred percent.
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  Right.
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  But nobody's saying, oh, yeah, no,
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  the baby was eight pounds,
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  six ounces and twenty-two inches long or
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  whatnot.
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  Oh, prayer's going up.
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  you're gonna have to feed him at some
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  point and that sounds like he's gonna be
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  hungry that's insane moving right along
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  yeah that being said all four of my
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  kids have ninety-fifth percentile heads
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  you should get that crocheted onto a a
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  doily to hang on the wall four separate
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  ones
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  Oh, having said that,
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  congratulations to the Floreses on the
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  arrival of their new baby.
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  Yeah.
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  All right.
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  Next thing up.
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  This one's a simple one.
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  So we'll go this one next.
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  Mayhem sent out their invites for the
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  Mayhem Classic.
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  And it is so small.
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  I love when people use small font on
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  Instagram.
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  It's the best thing ever.
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  So here are the women invitees to the
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  Mayhem Classic.
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  Laura Horvath, Danielle Brandon,
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  Ariel Loewen, Tia Claire Toomey-Orr,
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  Alex Kazan, Gabriella Magawa, Emma Lawson,
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  Alexis Raptus, Maddie Sturt, Emily Rolfe,
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  Lucy Campbell, Olivia Kerstetter,
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  Emma Tall, Danny Spiegel, and Amy Kringle.
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  These names may look familiar because if
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  you watch the Mayhem podcast,
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  they use the Rogue leaderboard.
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  So it should look like the lineup of
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  Rogue.
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  Now.
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  One,
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  do we know if Laura's doing the CrossFit
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  game season?
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  We don't.
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  So they can decline these.
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  They said this is round one of the
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  release.
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  You also have Tia Claire Toomey,
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  or who is pregnant.
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  She's probably going to decline this.
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  I would assume.
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  But everybody else,
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  you could see that if they're doing the
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  game season.
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  So it'll be like the first indication.
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  On the men's side, you have Jeffrey Adler,
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  Ricky Garrard, Justin Medeiros,
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  Roman Krennikoff, Jason Hopper,
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  Jay Crouch, Patrick Vellner,
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  Dallin Pepper, James Sprague, Yona Koski,
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  Austin Hatfield, BKG, Sam Quant,
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  Chandler Smith, Colton Mertens.
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  Again,
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  Chandler Smith I don't think is doing the
• 17:47
  CrossFit Games season.
• 17:49
  Samuel Quant is coming back from a severe
• 17:52
  Achilles tear.
• 17:53
  Probably not going to be available for
• 17:55
  this one.
• 17:56
  But again, it's round one.
• 17:57
  Wherever they get to the declines,
• 17:59
  they'll add to a list of second round
• 18:02
  invitees.
• 18:04
  Patty V may or may not be.
• 18:06
  When is the classic?
• 18:11
  It is the first semifinal.
• 18:12
  It's like the very first weekend in April.
• 18:15
  April.
• 18:16
  very first weekend in April.
• 18:17
  So depending on, uh,
• 18:20
  Vellner's recovery status,
• 18:21
  he may or may not, uh,
• 18:24
  jump in as well.
• 18:25
  Right.
• 18:26
  And if you, Oh, shoot.
• 18:30
  Something there.
• 18:31
  There you go.
• 18:34
  Let's get back.
• 18:35
  Um, this is round one of the invites.
• 18:38
  It is sent and must be accepted by
• 18:40
  Saturday one, uh, at twelve p.m.
• 18:46
  Laughing at Hiller's comment.
• 18:49
  So it's mid-April.
• 18:52
  April seventeenth.
• 18:53
  Thank you.
• 18:54
  April seventeenth through nineteenth.
• 18:56
  It's a great day to have it.
• 18:57
  Just throwing that out there.
• 18:59
  Because April seventeenth is the Cowboys
• 19:01
  birthday.
• 19:03
  Correct.
• 19:05
  Celebrate my birthday by going to the
• 19:07
  Mayhem Classic and competing.
• 19:10
  So a lot of the talk in the
• 19:12
  chat has been that now these invites have
• 19:15
  gone out to these athletes and we haven't
• 19:17
  even had the open yet.
• 19:19
  Is it too early for this?
• 19:22
  Yes.
• 19:26
  Bottom line, dude,
• 19:28
  you can't even sign up for the open
• 19:30
  yet.
• 19:32
  Right.
• 19:33
  Much less it has much less has it
• 19:35
  started.
• 19:36
  You can't even sign up until what next
• 19:38
  week.
• 19:39
  Yeah.
• 19:40
  It's like five days.
• 19:42
  I think it's like next Wednesday,
• 19:44
  if I'm not mistaken.
• 19:45
  Bring up, or here, I'll get it.
• 19:48
  I actually have.
• 19:49
  That one.
• 19:52
  So, Tristan, right here, hot take.
• 19:54
  If you did not do the game season,
• 19:56
  you should not get an automatic invite to
• 19:58
  a semifinal.
• 20:02
  I mean, we hammered that hard last season.
• 20:06
  I hated that.
• 20:07
  I hated that Elisa Fuliano won or podiumed
• 20:11
  in two events and just messed up the
• 20:13
  leaderboard for those trying to get to the
• 20:14
  games.
• 20:15
  I think there should be a clear separation
• 20:17
  of game season and other events.
• 20:22
  Big time.
• 20:24
  If all your other invites are out,
• 20:27
  people who are actually trying to get to
• 20:29
  the games and you literally can't get
• 20:30
  anybody else to go,
• 20:31
  then that might be one thing.
• 20:33
  That's a highly unlikely scenario, FYI,
• 20:36
  because the list of people trying to make
• 20:38
  the games is very, very,
• 20:40
  very long at the elite level, right?
• 20:44
  Or the semi-elite level,
• 20:45
  whatever you want to call it.
• 20:47
  But the people that are going to be
• 20:48
  affecting that kind of stuff by being
• 20:51
  there who are not actually participating
• 20:53
  in the game season is fantastic.
• 20:56
  It's mind-boggling, right?
• 20:58
  So, no, I'll – one hundred percent,
• 21:00
  Tristan, absolutely.
• 21:02
  If you didn't do the game season,
• 21:04
  why are you even going?
• 21:07
  Jenny says they should have at least –
• 21:09
  they should at least have to do the
• 21:11
  Open.
• 21:12
  But people –
• 21:14
  I think they have to finish in the
• 21:15
  top two thousand.
• 21:17
  You have to be eligible to make the
• 21:19
  games.
• 21:20
  If not,
• 21:20
  you shouldn't be competing with people
• 21:22
  trying to get to the games because you
• 21:24
  can affect the leaderboard in ways that
• 21:27
  you wouldn't even predict at this point,
• 21:29
  right?
• 21:30
  Just winning one event throws off the
• 21:33
  scoring enough that it could affect who
• 21:36
  makes it and who doesn't make it to
• 21:38
  the games.
• 21:39
  People who are not eligible to go to
• 21:41
  the game should not be
• 21:43
  affecting the leaderboard for those who
• 21:45
  are.
• 21:47
  And here's the thing.
• 21:47
  With those invites that are going out,
• 21:49
  Tia Clare is a perfect example.
• 21:51
  She's pregnant.
• 21:53
  Ninety-nine percent chance she's not
• 21:54
  going.
• 21:55
  So that's already a spot,
• 21:56
  and you're not backfilling at this point.
• 22:00
  Right?
• 22:00
  So, yeah, the invites went out.
• 22:03
  Ninety-nine percent chance she's going to
• 22:05
  say no.
• 22:06
  Mr. Smith is another example.
• 22:10
  Ninety-nine percent chance he's probably
• 22:12
  not doing it.
• 22:14
  So now you're already – you set those
• 22:15
  invites out for what?
• 22:18
  I understand.
• 22:20
  Brings up a great example.
• 22:21
  Gee's score at Mayhem last year could have
• 22:22
  affected people trying to go to the games,
• 22:24
  and it probably did.
• 22:26
  A hundred percent.
• 22:28
  I mean,
• 22:28
  this is a project maybe we can put
• 22:30
  Holly on where you pull like Gee's score
• 22:33
  and see if it changes who got the
• 22:35
  invite.
• 22:36
  Yeah, we should do that.
• 22:40
  It's just math.
• 22:42
  I'm willing to bet Holly Holly can
• 22:43
  probably do that if she hasn't already.
• 22:52
  And so on top of that,
• 22:54
  go ahead and read that one.
• 22:54
  Yeah.
• 22:55
  David Reed, everyone,
• 22:56
  every athlete who skipped last year should
• 22:58
  be on the back of the line for
• 22:59
  the invites.
• 23:00
  I disagree with that.
• 23:02
  I disagree with that.
• 23:03
  I will say this, though.
• 23:05
  Can we wait to send them out until
• 23:07
  after we see who's actually signed up for
• 23:08
  the open come next week?
• 23:13
  Yeah.
• 23:13
  The reason I is Emma Lawson says she
• 23:17
  hurt her back.
• 23:17
  Yeah.
• 23:19
  Right.
• 23:20
  But we don't know that that's a fact.
• 23:22
  So now you're now it's left to your
• 23:24
  discretion to determine,
• 23:26
  did they tell us the truth on the
• 23:28
  why or not?
• 23:29
  And that,
• 23:30
  that gets kind of into this gray area
• 23:33
  of who do the season because of injury,
• 23:35
  who didn't do the season because they were
• 23:38
  protesting something.
• 23:39
  We don't know that for a fact.
• 23:42
  There's people like Gabby who were
• 23:43
  legitimately rehabbing.
• 23:48
  I didn't use that as an example because
• 23:50
  we all saw the injury.
• 23:51
  We know what she went through.
• 23:53
  Emma Lawson,
• 23:54
  we don't know that for a fact.
• 23:56
  She just said, hey,
• 23:57
  I'm sitting out the game season and
• 23:59
  focusing on WFP because my back is hurt.
• 24:01
  Correct.
• 24:03
  I'm not calling her a liar.
• 24:04
  I'm just saying we didn't see the back
• 24:06
  injury.
• 24:07
  You can't see the back injury, right?
• 24:19
  Mark Phillips,
• 24:20
  I'm a game for a January open in
• 24:22
  twenty seven.
• 24:23
  I kind of like the open where it
• 24:24
  is.
• 24:26
  I just think that the signup should be
• 24:27
  January one.
• 24:31
  Yeah.
• 24:34
  We should have a rule book on the
• 24:36
  same day that at the very least on
• 24:38
  the same day that open signups are
• 24:40
  available.
• 24:42
  That should all be coincided.
• 24:43
  I'm going to have it before.
• 24:44
  That's fine.
• 24:45
  But if you're going to have it before,
• 24:46
  let's have the rule book.
• 24:47
  And then next week, hey,
• 24:48
  read the rule book.
• 24:49
  And then you got a week to decide
• 24:51
  because we're opening signups for the open
• 24:54
  a week later.
• 24:55
  Something along those lines,
• 24:56
  because that way you can read it and
• 24:57
  go, oh, yeah, I'm not doing that.
• 24:59
  Not doing that.
• 24:59
  Not doing that.
• 25:00
  OK, whatever.
• 25:00
  Moving on.
• 25:01
  I'm not signing up for the open because
• 25:03
  now you have a rule book to look
• 25:04
  at and kind of decide.
• 25:08
  uh andrew stan it um he says does
• 25:11
  the crossfit rulebook say you have to do
• 25:14
  the open to do a semi it does
• 25:16
  not but it does say you cannot qualify
• 25:18
  for the games unless you finish in the
• 25:21
  top two thousand yeah of the open where
• 25:29
  is you see what uh
• 25:34
  what Lita was talking about I didn't I
• 25:37
  got it I had it is it the
• 25:44
  French though that one yeah it's really
• 25:49
  annoying there's only ten women at the
• 25:51
  French throwdown in my age group and five
• 25:53
  of those spots are open to anyone through
• 25:55
  the qualifiers as if it wasn't hard enough
• 25:57
  to get us into a semi
• 26:00
  So what she was talking about is that
• 26:02
  for us, masters athletes,
• 26:03
  and I know you and I have had
• 26:04
  this conversation before,
• 26:05
  like what I'm trying to do is like,
• 26:08
  it's what she's trying to do as well
• 26:09
  is finish quarterfinals high enough.
• 26:13
  Well,
• 26:14
  the French throwdown qualifiers are going
• 26:15
  to be open to any masters athlete and
• 26:18
  you can get us,
• 26:19
  you can get an invite just by doing
• 26:20
  the qualifiers.
• 26:21
  Well,
• 26:21
  that just takes away spots from people
• 26:23
  who,
• 26:25
  are trying to qualify the opposite way
• 26:28
  because there's a qualifier for it,
• 26:29
  or you can get an invite through the
• 26:31
  open or through the two quarterfinals or
• 26:34
  whatnot.
• 26:34
  I just,
• 26:35
  I hate going down both paths of the
• 26:37
  elite and the masters at the same time,
• 26:39
  because it is, it is different.
• 26:42
  And then we get confusion as to what
• 26:44
  the rules are for each one.
• 26:47
  So I'd rather talk about that separately
• 26:49
  than from the elite and
• 26:52
  the elite games because with,
• 26:56
  with a different thing.
• 26:57
  Right.
• 26:59
  And so we,
• 27:00
  we talked about how CrossFit hasn't talked
• 27:02
  about the open much, but they,
• 27:03
  they have started finally.
• 27:08
  Like they're, they are making posts.
• 27:11
  When you realize the twenty twenty six
• 27:13
  CrossFit open registration begins in eight
• 27:15
  days.
• 27:17
  They are doing some.
• 27:19
  some promotion of that uh there is the
• 27:22
  open is coming there are this is what
• 27:29
  the open is about the only thing i
• 27:32
  would say is like this video showing the
• 27:34
  community okay i i've been around a long
• 27:38
  time i've seen these videos there are no
• 27:40
  details in the in the description as to
• 27:45
  how you sign up for the open what
• 27:47
  the open it like
• 27:51
  Yeah.
• 27:52
  Seven days away.
• 27:53
  Okay.
• 27:53
  What, how do I, what does that mean?
• 27:56
  How do I sign up?
• 27:57
  What do I,
• 27:59
  it's like they keep leaving out the action
• 28:01
  item.
• 28:03
  Yeah.
• 28:05
  That's a,
• 28:05
  that's a bananas type deal right there.
• 28:09
  So it really, really is not, not, Hey,
• 28:12
  like, I mean,
• 28:16
  this guy doing like a couple of reps,
• 28:19
  uh,
• 28:20
  where people don't really understand
• 28:21
  what's going on and then some high fives
• 28:23
  or putting a compilation of like
• 28:26
  celebrations with the community and an
• 28:29
  athlete.
• 28:29
  I don't know.
• 28:34
  Take a cue from any one of these
• 28:36
  content creators that are out there that
• 28:39
  are people who are trying to sell people's
• 28:40
  stuff that they'll make a post like that.
• 28:43
  Hey, this starts in blah, blah,
• 28:45
  blah amount of days.
• 28:46
  Link to sign up is in my bio.
• 28:50
  Yeah.
• 28:52
  Here's one with the open is five days
• 28:53
  away to register.
• 28:55
  Sign up at games dot CrossFit dot com.
• 28:58
  OK, now we're moving somewhere.
• 29:01
  Now we're starting to cook with guests.
• 29:02
  Now I know where to go.
• 29:05
  Hey,
• 29:06
  maybe when they post that onto their
• 29:09
  story.
• 29:11
  They can also put a link to it
• 29:13
  on their story.
• 29:14
  I know how to do that.
• 29:15
  And I am not super good at social
• 29:17
  media.
• 29:19
  These are their posts.
• 29:20
  And I will say Instagram is horrible about
• 29:23
  letting you put links on posts.
• 29:26
  It only really is,
• 29:27
  is easy on a story or in your
• 29:29
  bio.
• 29:32
  But yeah.
• 29:35
  anyway they are working at it getting a
• 29:37
  little bit better about promoting the open
• 29:40
  um they're putting out all the semi-final
• 29:42
  events um and their information here's
• 29:45
  norcal's qualifier here's mayhem's invites
• 29:50
  um french throwdown stuff is on here i
• 29:53
  think this is french um yeah french
• 29:55
  throwdown we we
• 30:01
  so they are they are starting to like
• 30:04
  promote it a little bit on the social
• 30:06
  media front so let me ask you that
• 30:10
  as far as so like mayhem's doing their
• 30:13
  thing right now norcal qualifiers or now
• 30:16
  live etc right there's a whole lot of
• 30:19
  stuff going on is are we going to
• 30:22
  have another
• 30:24
  season like we did last year and like
• 30:26
  we did i think it was when they
• 30:27
  first did the uh the sanctional events
• 30:31
  where people are going to qualify and are
• 30:33
  not real sure exactly how they got there
• 30:35
  just because of the order that it's being
• 30:37
  done in all i can think of is
• 30:40
  is the one of the the documentaries
• 30:45
  watching pat they asked pat velner how he
• 30:47
  qualified for the games and he wasn't
• 30:50
  exactly real sure
• 30:53
  Yeah,
• 30:53
  I think nineteen was the was the extreme
• 30:57
  level of not realizing how you qualified.
• 31:00
  I think here you're gonna eat.
• 31:03
  I think you're gonna have to pick your
• 31:04
  spots and
• 31:08
  And because they take whatever the first
• 31:10
  qualification is and then you're done,
• 31:13
  I think the only time we're going to
• 31:14
  run into that is like at NorCal or
• 31:18
  some of those later events.
• 31:22
  And my guess is only if the prize
• 31:26
  money is really good are people going to
• 31:27
  continue on and do it again.
• 31:30
  I think once you qualify,
• 31:32
  if I'm a big athlete,
• 31:33
  I'm going to be done with my semifinal
• 31:35
  season the minute I qualify.
• 31:40
  um so it may get confusing at times
• 31:44
  i think we're in the most confusing part
• 31:46
  now because all these third-party events
• 31:49
  are allowed to do their qualification
• 31:52
  process however they want which is
• 31:59
  I understand they're trying to get it done
• 32:00
  early.
• 32:01
  Like the people, you know, like,
• 32:02
  like NorCal is trying to get in or
• 32:05
  get their qualified done early and may him
• 32:06
  sending out stuff early, you know,
• 32:09
  et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
• 32:09
  But like the other people who aren't.
• 32:14
  Yeah.
• 32:15
  And even with NorCal,
• 32:17
  like I listened to Ben and Blair this
• 32:18
  morning.
• 32:19
  So there are multiple ways you can just
• 32:22
  get to NorCal.
• 32:23
  It's through the qualifier.
• 32:25
  It could be just a wild card invite.
• 32:27
  It could be that you won Crash or
• 32:30
  you won their event last year.
• 32:33
  So there are three different ways already
• 32:35
  on how to get to NorCal.
• 32:38
  Alone, just NorCal.
• 32:40
  Just NorCal.
• 32:43
  I missed that part this morning.
• 32:45
  We're allowing these people to do their
• 32:49
  events however they wish.
• 32:52
  It's making it confusing.
• 32:54
  Mayhem's using the Rogue leaderboard.
• 32:58
  Delmar is using, or I mean,
• 33:00
  Magic City is using the quarterfinal
• 33:02
  leaderboard.
• 33:05
  Like,
• 33:06
  it's just all over the map trying to
• 33:08
  figure out where the qualifications are.
• 33:11
  Del Mar is using the quarterfinal
• 33:13
  leaderboard plus some invites that they
• 33:19
  have set aside.
• 33:20
  For Masters, anyway.
• 33:21
  I don't know how they're doing for elites.
• 33:26
  It's a lot of shit going on, dude.
• 33:28
  It is.
• 33:29
  It's a whole lot of stuff going on.
• 33:33
  I guess it keeps us busy because we
• 33:35
  try to learn it all and try to
• 33:36
  explain it all.
• 33:38
  And try to make sense of it all.
• 33:41
  But it's hard for me to like gear
• 33:46
  up.
• 33:46
  Here's the other thing.
• 33:48
  Oh, absolutely.
• 33:48
  Here's the other thing.
• 33:49
  Like how many people are going to get
• 33:52
  invites?
• 33:53
  So there are NorCal qualifiers right now,
• 33:56
  right?
• 33:56
  So people who are going to do multiple
• 33:58
  qualifiers are going to get an invite,
• 34:01
  possibly qualify.
• 34:02
  And then are you going to be de-invited
• 34:04
  then?
• 34:04
  Yeah.
• 34:05
  if you qualify before you have a chance
• 34:08
  to qualify at the one you were going
• 34:09
  to?
• 34:12
  Is that making sense?
• 34:14
  No.
• 34:15
  So Colton, perfect example.
• 34:19
  Colton's going to do as many of these
• 34:21
  things as he can, right?
• 34:22
  That's what he did last year.
• 34:24
  He's here, he's there, he's everywhere,
• 34:25
  he's making money, he enjoys competing.
• 34:29
  If he qualifies,
• 34:30
  so he's got an invite to mayhem.
• 34:33
  If he qualifies for mayhem,
• 34:34
  he's probably doing the NorCal qualifiers
• 34:37
  and he gets an invite to NorCal.
• 34:39
  And then he qualifies that mayhem because
• 34:41
  that's before NorCal.
• 34:42
  Now,
• 34:42
  as he gets disinvited to NorCal and
• 34:44
  somebody else takes his, takes his spot.
• 34:45
  I don't think he gets disinvited from
• 34:47
  NorCal because NorCal isn't playing that
• 34:49
  by that rule.
• 34:50
  The only semi-final I know that plays by
• 34:53
  that rule is syndicate crown.
• 34:55
  Gotcha.
• 34:57
  Syndicate crown is if you've already
• 34:58
  qualified, you are not.
• 35:00
  Good on Wilson.
• 35:02
  Good on Wilson for that.
• 35:03
  That's how it should be.
• 35:06
  That is how it should be.
• 35:09
  So, uh,
• 35:10
  CrossFit says we need to whiteboard this
• 35:12
  out.
• 35:14
  I got to understand it better before I
• 35:16
  start whiteboarding.
• 35:17
  Put pins and red paint, red yarn.
• 35:21
  And yeah.
• 35:26
  Um,
• 35:31
  Mark Phillips most masters are taking
• 35:33
  leaderboard plus if you email that you're
• 35:37
  local and interested or something like
• 35:39
  that.
• 35:41
  I don't know what he means by if
• 35:42
  you email that you're local and
• 35:43
  interesting.
• 35:45
  Yeah.
• 35:49
  And the other thing that came out is
• 35:51
  nor cows workouts.
• 35:54
  don't have to go through them individually
• 35:56
  we'll probably do that sunday night um but
• 36:00
  they are all out on the norcal instagram
• 36:02
  page so these are the qualifiers um here's
• 36:07
  wad six here's wad five
• 36:17
  Here's WOD three.
• 36:17
  I'll blow this up a little bit.
• 36:19
  No, I can't fast forward it.
• 36:21
  Shoot.
• 36:24
  I screwed myself.
• 36:25
  There we go.
• 36:26
  There is WOD two.
• 36:29
  That one looks fun.
• 36:33
  And WOD one.
• 36:36
  This one looks fun to me, but man,
• 36:39
  I, you know,
• 36:40
  those purpose in the middle are going to
• 36:41
  suck.
• 36:43
  Yeah.
• 36:45
  Ooh.
• 36:47
  So, yeah, where was Bushwhacker?
• 36:50
  I love Bushwhacker.
• 36:53
  I don't even care what the movements are.
• 36:56
  But the fact that, like,
• 36:57
  it just takes me back to my wrestling
• 36:59
  fandom days of the Bushwhackers walking
• 37:03
  into the arena.
• 37:08
  But I do kind of like that that
• 37:11
  dumbbell movement, like,
• 37:12
  does mute the hips because you're holding
• 37:15
  the dumbbell in your other hand.
• 37:18
  And one,
• 37:18
  you can't rest your hand on any part
• 37:20
  of your body because you have to hold
• 37:21
  the other dumbbell.
• 37:23
  Two,
• 37:24
  you've got to pop that up and you
• 37:25
  can't really thrust it with the hips
• 37:28
  because the other dumbbell kind of stops
• 37:30
  that from happening.
• 37:32
  It's an interesting movement.
• 37:33
  And that's one thing you have to give
• 37:35
  Ben and Blair is they are very creative
• 37:37
  with some of the movements they look into.
• 37:40
  It ain't never boring.
• 37:43
  They ain't never born.
• 37:45
  I don't think any of the stuff they've
• 37:47
  done that I've seen anyway,
• 37:48
  you look at it and go, oh,
• 37:50
  that's just going to be miserable,
• 37:52
  boring type shit.
• 37:53
  Like, no, not at all.
• 37:57
  What I thought was really interesting with
• 37:59
  them is they put out what the fitness.
• 38:04
  It was a little online competition where
• 38:06
  they would put out workouts.
• 38:07
  And if you won,
• 38:08
  you would win a thousand dollars.
• 38:11
  but it was their way of testing new
• 38:13
  movements and to see how they played out
• 38:16
  in a competition.
• 38:18
  It's WTF,
• 38:20
  but they call it what the fitness.
• 38:22
  And I didn't even know this.
• 38:23
  And she's one of my co-hosts,
• 38:24
  Carolyn Prevo won one of those.
• 38:27
  That's unsurprising.
• 38:28
  Uh, Emily Rolfe won one.
• 38:31
  Um,
• 38:32
  And so it's crazy.
• 38:35
  One,
• 38:35
  it's a crazy cool idea and way to
• 38:37
  test out events and to leak out clues
• 38:41
  for people who may be doing NorCal who
• 38:43
  want to say, oh,
• 38:44
  now I have something to look at.
• 38:46
  What crazy thing could be coming?
• 38:49
  Yeah.
• 38:52
  That's actually very,
• 38:53
  very clever of them to be able to
• 38:55
  get a way to get high-level athletes to
• 38:57
  test out their stuff without telling them
• 38:59
  that they're actually testing out their
• 39:00
  stuff.
• 39:03
  That's slick.
• 39:05
  Tristan, man, he's on fire today.
• 39:08
  Someone must have put some steroids in his
• 39:11
  Wheaties.
• 39:12
  I have a question from a coaching
• 39:14
  perspective because the Bushwhacker forces
• 39:16
  a muted hip.
• 39:17
  Isn't that not really what most CrossFit
• 39:20
  movements go for?
• 39:22
  Core to extremity and all?
• 39:23
  Just a thought.
• 39:26
  It's almost an isometric, like,
• 39:28
  not isometric,
• 39:28
  but like an isolation type deal because...
• 39:32
  You can't really... Okay,
• 39:33
  but you've taken your L-I, right?
• 39:36
  Oh, yeah.
• 39:37
  Are there any restrictions to the
• 39:38
  movement?
• 39:40
  Oh, no, not at all.
• 39:41
  I think what he's saying is that... So,
• 39:44
  and it's... Again, this is not a class.
• 39:47
  This is a competition,
• 39:49
  which is a big defining line there.
• 39:52
  That's two different things as far as
• 39:53
  that's concerned.
• 39:53
  So...
• 39:55
  yes i would say technically if you were
• 39:58
  dude you wouldn't program it for a class
• 40:00
  by any stretch of the imagination right
• 40:03
  but it's probably going to be fun it's
• 40:05
  going to fun fun to see how people
• 40:07
  end up working it to try to make
• 40:09
  it started it as a class workout really
• 40:13
  i missed that part this morning yeah jesus
• 40:16
  christ well yeah because you got to test
• 40:17
  it some sort of way are we like
• 40:21
  I don't think in my world of CrossFit
• 40:25
  that we should restrict a movement.
• 40:29
  It's supposed to be the unknown and the
• 40:31
  unknowable and preparing for all of that
• 40:33
  stuff.
• 40:35
  In life,
• 40:36
  is there going to be a time where
• 40:37
  you may have to hold on to something
• 40:38
  and lift something else above your head?
• 40:41
  There could be, right?
• 40:42
  Sure.
• 40:43
  Why shouldn't we prepare for that?
• 40:44
  Isn't that what CrossFit is truly about?
• 40:49
  It is a functional movement.
• 40:53
  Well,
• 40:53
  much more so than some of the other
• 40:55
  stuff that I have done in a class
• 40:57
  setting or seen done in a class setting.
• 40:59
  Yeah, I would say so.
• 41:01
  I think that was the most interesting,
• 41:02
  interesting part of the interview that
• 41:04
  Savant did with,
• 41:06
  with Ben and Blair is they are trying
• 41:08
  to maintain the OG CrossFit mentalities
• 41:14
  where it's anything can pop up, right?
• 41:19
  When I first started CrossFit,
• 41:20
  we were launching med balls over our head
• 41:23
  to thrust the hip.
• 41:25
  We don't do that anymore in a gym.
• 41:28
  We don't do tire flips like we used
• 41:32
  to.
• 41:33
  We don't do a lot of the things.
• 41:35
  We did sledgehammers on tires.
• 41:40
  None of that stuff ever happens anymore.
• 41:43
  It's like we've put rules around this
• 41:46
  thing that never had rules.
• 41:50
  Our old tires are behind the building,
• 41:54
  but the four or five sledgehammers that we
• 41:56
  have are still on the weightlifting side,
• 41:59
  just tucked up against the wall.
• 42:00
  Somebody uses them if they need a hammer.
• 42:04
  Fun fact.
• 42:05
  So I've been doing CrossFit since two
• 42:06
  thousand and eighteen,
• 42:07
  and the only time I've actually ever
• 42:09
  flipped a tire was doing an obstacle
• 42:11
  course race.
• 42:13
  In twenty nineteen or so,
• 42:16
  something like that.
• 42:19
  Never done it.
• 42:19
  Still,
• 42:20
  that's the only time I've ever done it.
• 42:28
  Yeah.
• 42:31
  So, yeah,
• 42:33
  I don't have a problem with it.
• 42:33
  I think there were a lot of movements
• 42:35
  that I really enjoyed early on in my
• 42:37
  CrossFit world that we don't see anymore.
• 42:41
  And a lot of that was probably because
• 42:42
  we were such a small gym and we
• 42:43
  didn't have a lot of equipment that you
• 42:46
  just,
• 42:46
  you had to kind of make shit up
• 42:48
  to, to work different things.
• 42:51
  Right.
• 42:52
  Yeah.
• 42:55
  Um, so yeah.
• 42:56
  Right.
• 42:57
  It's evolution.
• 43:04
  And, and I like that if,
• 43:07
  if you're signing up for NorCal,
• 43:08
  you know what you're getting into.
• 43:11
  Like they are not hiding who they are.
• 43:14
  No.
• 43:15
  If you're signing up for NorCal,
• 43:17
  you do not have any illusions about what's
• 43:19
  going on.
• 43:20
  It would take you five minutes on YouTube
• 43:22
  or Instagram to go back and search their
• 43:24
  history and be like, oh, okay,
• 43:27
  we're doing that.
• 43:28
  Cool.
• 43:29
  Got it.
• 43:30
  And then you decide whether or not you
• 43:32
  want to or not.
• 43:33
  It's not that easy.
• 43:34
  Or it's not that hard.
• 43:35
  Excuse me.
• 43:38
  Uh, Jody.
• 43:39
  Yeah.
• 43:39
  We used to lift stones and do a
• 43:41
  lot more strong man.
• 43:42
  When I first joined in.
• 43:42
  Same.
• 43:43
  We have stones that we have stones at
• 43:46
  our place too, that nobody ever uses.
• 43:49
  Well, I take that back.
• 43:50
  Some of the guys that do tactical games,
• 43:52
  stuff to tactical games, training,
• 43:53
  use them from time to time,
• 43:56
  putting them over the,
• 43:57
  the yoke that we have.
• 44:00
  Uh, tire flips were big in in,
• 44:02
  but yeah, I don't see them much anymore,
• 44:05
  but they still pop up in programming.
• 44:08
  I've never done one in a class setting.
• 44:11
  At Polaris, we had a pig.
• 44:13
  We had one of the game's pigs,
• 44:15
  and it laid on its side,
• 44:16
  and that's where people sat to rest after
• 44:18
  a workout.
• 44:19
  That's what everybody's reverse hyper was
• 44:23
  for the longest time.
• 44:24
  We had a reverse hyper that was straight
• 44:27
  up a table.
• 44:28
  Yep.
• 44:28
  That's where everybody put their drinks to
• 44:31
  grab.
• 44:35
  Jody says for Corey to pick one up
• 44:36
  and start a trend.
• 44:39
  They get used just not maybe once a,
• 44:42
  maybe once a month or once every other
• 44:44
  month.
• 44:44
  I'm not doing tax.
• 44:48
  I don't need to pick them up.
• 44:49
  Sean says,
• 44:49
  what do you guys think of Savant's new
• 44:51
  CrossFit YouTube channel?
• 44:53
  Um,
• 44:55
  I think it's a smart move on his
• 44:56
  part.
• 44:57
  I think he,
• 44:58
  he has two different shows that he was
• 44:59
  trying to cram into one and he's probably
• 45:03
  right.
• 45:03
  The algorithm was.
• 45:06
  flipping out on where to point viewers to.
• 45:11
  So I think splitting it off is smart.
• 45:14
  But yeah, but it's going to be like,
• 45:19
  the thing that sucks for him is the
• 45:21
  new CrossFit channel has to go through all
• 45:24
  of the redos to get monetized,
• 45:27
  to do all that kind of stuff.
• 45:28
  So it's a big step back for him
• 45:30
  to do all that.
• 45:32
  but they've already met the subscriber
• 45:34
  quotient for monetization.
• 45:37
  They just have to get the watch hours
• 45:38
  in.
• 45:39
  And I have noticed, too,
• 45:42
  that it's a tamer discussion group on the
• 45:52
  CrossFit channel,
• 45:53
  and they're going to leave the big
• 45:55
  feelings for the other show or for the
• 45:58
  other channel.
• 45:59
  Well, because the other shows,
• 46:01
  when it's all on one, it was...
• 46:04
  if he'd have,
• 46:05
  like yesterday when he had Rich on,
• 46:07
  if he had Rich on,
• 46:07
  we'd have Rich on for an hour,
• 46:09
  hour and a half,
• 46:09
  whatever the case may be,
• 46:11
  then they would get off and there would
• 46:12
  be a little bit of transition time and
• 46:14
  then it's unhinged rant time.
• 46:16
  Like everybody knew that,
• 46:17
  that's not a secret, right?
• 46:19
  So now he can just do his unhinged
• 46:21
  rants on the original channel and talk to
• 46:24
  whoever he wants to talk to,
• 46:26
  whatever the case is,
• 46:27
  whether he's doing his political stuff or
• 46:29
  he's talking to a fighter or whoever,
• 46:31
  it really doesn't matter at that point.
• 46:33
  can all be over there and then it
• 46:35
  was smart like having jenny put her first
• 46:38
  show on there because that's straight up
• 46:40
  crossfit no other question about it no
• 46:43
  nothing and then like uh who do you
• 46:46
  have on uh nicole christiansen and then
• 46:49
  rich and then like that's all straight up
• 46:52
  crossfit so like curating it from the
• 46:55
  get-go with
• 46:58
  you know the biggest names as it were
• 47:00
  and just straight up crossfit content is
• 47:02
  it's it's it's a lot well and i
• 47:05
  think move i think you're gonna see his
• 47:08
  engagement is gonna go way up yeah right
• 47:12
  um on both channels because people will be
• 47:15
  tuning in just for that subject type stuff
• 47:18
  right and so they'll be ready to discuss
• 47:21
  that so the engagement with it will go
• 47:23
  way up
• 47:25
  So I think it was a smart move.
• 47:27
  I mean, come on,
• 47:28
  Sousa is a pretty smart guy.
• 47:31
  He knows what he's doing.
• 47:33
  Matt Sousa is extremely intelligent,
• 47:35
  does not get the credit that he deserves,
• 47:37
  I believe.
• 47:39
  So, yeah, it was the right move.
• 47:41
  So back on the equipment.
• 47:44
  Mike DeVito,
• 47:45
  sometimes I'll drop into a gym and see
• 47:47
  this really cool piece of equipment I wish
• 47:49
  I had,
• 47:49
  like a pig or a traverse bar,
• 47:51
  then get gutted when you learn they use
• 47:55
  it for their coats.
• 47:58
  That's a fact.
• 47:58
  So when I was at players, right?
• 48:00
  Christie got a lot of stuff that from
• 48:04
  being a games athlete, right?
• 48:06
  From sponsors, from being at the games,
• 48:08
  from whatever, right?
• 48:10
  We had a shipping container outside of the
• 48:12
  gym that housed all this like weird odd
• 48:17
  object stuff, right?
• 48:18
  because it only gets used like in games
• 48:21
  training yeah so it really sits in that
• 48:23
  shipping it would sit in that shipping
• 48:24
  container for like eight nine months of
• 48:27
  the year and then the three months leading
• 48:29
  up to the games oh let's crack this
• 48:31
  baby open let's pull out all the the
• 48:34
  weird right let's see what's in here most
• 48:39
  year it was just tucked away in that
• 48:41
  shipping container absolutely that's fun
• 48:44
  stuff
• 48:46
  So except for the pig,
• 48:47
  I don't think they could get the pig
• 48:49
  into the shipping container.
• 48:50
  So it just laid on the floor at
• 48:53
  the end of the rig.
• 48:54
  You would need like a team of people
• 48:57
  to pick it up and try to carry
• 48:58
  it in.
• 48:59
  It's probably too long to flip into the
• 49:02
  shipping container.
• 49:03
  And then once it's there,
• 49:04
  it's just wherever you left it.
• 49:07
  And then getting it back out would
• 49:08
  probably be a nightmare.
• 49:11
  I wish I'd run across one.
• 49:12
  I want to flip one so bad.
• 49:13
  Like ever since I first saw it,
• 49:14
  I was like, that looks like fun.
• 49:17
  Yeah.
• 49:18
  It's, it's,
• 49:20
  it's a lot harder than like a tire
• 49:22
  is.
• 49:22
  Oh, I bet.
• 49:24
  It's the length.
• 49:25
  Like it's getting, and especially like,
• 49:27
  I don't, I'm not dogging on you, dude,
• 49:29
  but like I'm five, eleven.
• 49:31
  You're not.
• 49:34
  And then get down under it to get
• 49:37
  the leverage to push it up.
• 49:39
  It is, it is really hard.
• 49:41
  And this is,
• 49:41
  this was a woman's pig and I was
• 49:43
  struggling.
• 49:45
  The lever of it is really hard to
• 49:48
  figure out because a tire,
• 49:50
  I could do a heavy tire,
• 49:51
  but I'm only lifting it to my waist
• 49:53
  and then I can flip it and like
• 49:55
  flip my hands over and push with the
• 49:58
  pig.
• 49:58
  It's hard to get it.
• 49:59
  You have to get it up higher before
• 50:01
  you can get under it to then.
• 50:04
  Right.
• 50:07
  Yeah.
• 50:09
  Drag out the alpaca.
• 50:10
  Yeah.
• 50:11
  I don't know.
• 50:12
  I don't think,
• 50:13
  I don't think she had an alpaca.
• 50:15
  That would have been cool.
• 50:17
  Yeah.
• 50:18
  Yeah.
• 50:18
  My best friend and I would do sled
• 50:20
  stuff like every Saturday, like drags,
• 50:23
  pulls, pushes.
• 50:27
  I used to do a lot.
• 50:27
  We used to do a lot more, uh,
• 50:29
  cause it was actually programmed.
• 50:30
  Yoke carries me and Bernard day when I
• 50:32
  was still following cop trains,
• 50:34
  like extra programming.
• 50:35
  That's fun, dude.
• 50:36
  I like that.
• 50:37
  Just heavy weight up on the shoulder,
• 50:39
  get it going.
• 50:42
  Yeah, Jenny, Sousa is the man.
• 50:45
  He knows his shit.
• 50:46
  He knows what he's doing.
• 50:49
  He's highly intelligent,
• 50:50
  and he comes at stuff from a very
• 50:52
  common sense perspective.
• 50:54
  And he's very,
• 50:55
  very articulate at explaining it.
• 50:59
  And that's a rare combination of things.
• 51:02
  You know what I admire most about Sousa
• 51:03
  is he never has to raise his voice
• 51:07
  for you to want to hear what he
• 51:08
  has to say.
• 51:09
  Yeah.
• 51:11
  You know,
• 51:11
  like that's a special kind of smart that
• 51:16
  when people understand that and you don't
• 51:19
  have to talk loud for people to hear
• 51:20
  you.
• 51:22
  You just start talking and all of a
• 51:23
  sudden everybody,
• 51:24
  it's the old EF Hutton commercial, right?
• 51:26
  Sousa starts talking and everybody shuts
• 51:28
  up because they want to hear what he
• 51:29
  has to say.
• 51:32
  It even happened with Rich yesterday on
• 51:34
  the show.
• 51:35
  Like Rich would go to say something,
• 51:36
  Sousa would go to say something,
• 51:37
  and Rich would say, oh, oh, no, no.
• 51:38
  I'm going to let you go.
• 51:43
  Right.
• 51:44
  It just shows so much respect for what
• 51:46
  he has to say.
• 51:48
  And some of his ideas about the future
• 51:49
  of CrossFit, I wish he had the money.
• 51:53
  I just wish he had the money.
• 51:56
  If somebody bought it,
• 51:57
  if I had the money to buy it
• 51:59
  tomorrow...
• 52:01
  If I won the Powerball over the weekend,
• 52:03
  got a check in Tuesday,
• 52:05
  got it in my financial advisor's hands and
• 52:07
  we could buy CrossFit by Friday,
• 52:11
  I would be ringing Sousa's phone.
• 52:15
  Straight up.
• 52:16
  No question about it.
• 52:19
  No looking around.
• 52:20
  They don't want you to find anybody else.
• 52:22
  He should be running the entire thing
• 52:24
  because his ideas make sense.
• 52:27
  one thing that i found fascinating and
• 52:29
  this is kind of combining other stuff we
• 52:31
  talked about with susa and that is his
• 52:33
  like he had ai create a crossfit hq
• 52:37
  and in that was an outdoor stadium for
• 52:39
  to hold the games at and you know
• 52:42
  ben and blair were talking this morning
• 52:44
  that like the game the games were meant
• 52:45
  to be outside like the elements are part
• 52:49
  of like what we're dealing with right
• 52:51
  Absolutely.
• 52:52
  And why was the attendance so high in
• 52:54
  Madison?
• 52:55
  Because there was an outdoor playground
• 52:57
  where people could gather around and watch
• 52:59
  people do the outdoor stuff.
• 53:04
  A long time ago,
• 53:05
  John Woolley had done a thing where he
• 53:07
  said, you know,
• 53:08
  CrossFit should look at doing stuff at
• 53:11
  high school football stadiums.
• 53:14
  And I've thought about that a long time.
• 53:16
  And I think that that is really the
• 53:17
  avenue to go.
• 53:18
  I think it'd be a lot cheaper than
• 53:19
  trying to find these arenas for the
• 53:23
  semifinal events.
• 53:24
  And you do it outdoors at a football
• 53:26
  stadium.
• 53:27
  You have the track, you have the field.
• 53:30
  You can put up the rig on like
• 53:32
  what would be the sidelines of the
• 53:33
  football field.
• 53:35
  Granite Games did that at the Vikings
• 53:37
  practice facility on the outdoor stadium
• 53:41
  floor.
• 53:42
  It can be done.
• 53:42
  It's been shown to be done.
• 53:44
  And then you add the element of the
• 53:46
  track around the outside to do running
• 53:48
  events.
• 53:51
  I think it just makes sense economically
• 53:54
  to be a place to do semifinal events.
• 53:57
  Much cheaper than renting an arena.
• 53:59
  Yeah.
• 54:00
  Yeah.
• 54:01
  Yeah, could it be hot?
• 54:03
  There was a day at the Granite Games
• 54:04
  when I was there where athletes were being
• 54:08
  carried off the field because it was so
• 54:10
  freaking hot.
• 54:12
  But that's part of the unknown and the
• 54:14
  unknowable, right?
• 54:15
  And part of the beauty of what we're
• 54:17
  doing.
• 54:20
  So just combining the three conversations
• 54:22
  of Sousa, Ben and Blair,
• 54:24
  and then something Wooley said a long time
• 54:25
  ago, I just, I think that makes sense.
• 54:31
  And the one nice thing about a football
• 54:32
  field is you don't have like the uneven
• 54:35
  ground where people are going to roll
• 54:37
  ankles and do all that kind of stuff.
• 54:39
  You have like a stadium.
• 54:41
  Sled pushes are much easier on a turf
• 54:43
  field.
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  You can do sprints.
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  You can do all kinds of stuff on
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  that field.
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  I mean,
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  remember the stuff they did outside.
• 54:55
  Seating is built in.
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  Right.
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  You want VIP or whatever you want to
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  call it,
• 55:03
  you can put stuff on either end zone
• 55:06
  if there's not already stuff there.
• 55:08
  It's tailor-made to watch stuff right
• 55:12
  there.
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  And when I saw Sousa's IA-generated HQ and
• 55:18
  it had that style of a stadium,
• 55:21
  I was like, yes,
• 55:22
  that's the money right there, right?
• 55:27
  then you're not paying like an sap center
• 55:29
  or for like in wilson's case like this
• 55:33
  big arena in knoxville every year well and
• 55:38
  then it eliminates the where are the games
• 55:41
  going uh they're going to be at hq
• 55:43
  same place they always are yeah
• 55:47
  Every single year.
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  So that takes an element out of it.
• 55:50
  Oh, okay, well,
• 55:51
  this place is in wherever they ended up
• 55:54
  building.
• 55:54
  So you know what the weather's going to
• 55:55
  be like every year, more or less.
• 55:58
  Freak events, notwithstanding.
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  It's going to be in the same place.
• 56:02
  There's a stadium there.
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  All the equipment is there.
• 56:07
  Rogue comes in and maybe does maintenance
• 56:09
  on stuff.
• 56:11
  change out plates brings new barbells in
• 56:13
  if they need new barbells stuff like that
• 56:15
  but other than that the rig is there
• 56:17
  it's set up the events are going to
• 56:19
  change if it's going to be different but
• 56:22
  as far as the games are concerned
• 56:24
  everything you need is already right here
• 56:28
  I mean and you get to use it
• 56:30
  all for your media for filming for all
• 56:32
  that kind of stuff uh to put out
• 56:34
  content it just
• 56:38
  Yeah, let's hit the lotto this weekend,
• 56:39
  give Sousa the money to buy CrossFit and
• 56:42
  move forward.
• 56:42
  I'd be more than happy to.
• 56:46
  All right, dude, it is.
• 56:47
  We're hitting the hour mark.
• 56:50
  If I don't have a meeting, man,
• 56:51
  we go long every day.
• 56:53
  You know that.
• 56:54
  It's not hard to do.
• 56:57
  But what we know officially is the
• 56:59
  CrossFit game season has kicked off.
• 57:04
  Crosby game season is here.
• 57:06
  It is upon us next week.
• 57:07
  You can sign up for the open.
• 57:09
  I encourage everybody to go do that.
• 57:13
  It's the one time you get to support
• 57:15
  this thing that we do this thing that
• 57:17
  we love.
• 57:18
  It's twenty dollars.
• 57:21
  I know that people put in super chats
• 57:23
  sometimes and things like that.
• 57:25
  This is a way to like throw some
• 57:26
  money at this thing that we love and
• 57:28
  this thing that we do and to support
• 57:31
  a great,
• 57:32
  great institution that has saved so many
• 57:36
  lives.
• 57:38
  Be a part of your box.
• 57:42
  be a part of your box,
• 57:43
  be a part of your community,
• 57:44
  your community at your box,
• 57:45
  your community that's worldwide, right?
• 57:47
  You know,
• 57:48
  if you see a CrossFitter in the wild,
• 57:50
  you're at the airport.
• 57:51
  One of the first things I'm doing is
• 57:52
  looking at people's shirts and looking at
• 57:54
  people's shoes.
• 57:56
  If I see somebody running around with a
• 57:57
  pair of Metcons or a pair of freaking,
• 57:59
  you know, whatever kind of,
• 58:03
  especially like the specialty,
• 58:04
  like the ones I wear,
• 58:05
  the strike movements and whatnot,
• 58:08
  that's a CrossFitter.
• 58:09
  I could probably go up and start talking
• 58:11
  to that person about whatever.
• 58:14
  Jason Bourne is doing twenty six point
• 58:16
  three in Miami at Wadapalooza.
• 58:17
  That is really cool.
• 58:19
  That's outstanding.
• 58:22
  But be a part of your community.
• 58:24
  It's twenty dollars.
• 58:25
  You're going to spend that on God only
• 58:27
  knows what some ridiculous thing to begin
• 58:29
  with.
• 58:29
  So.
• 58:31
  Be a part of it.
• 58:32
  Test your fitness.
• 58:33
  Test yourself.
• 58:35
  How hard is that?
• 58:37
  It should be very hard.
• 58:40
  And once you sign up for the open,
• 58:41
  make sure you go to thirdsy.com backslash
• 58:43
  Jazzy to get some good recovery.
• 58:47
  Thirdsy to help you sleep at night,
• 58:48
  recover,
• 58:49
  get those muscles all rested up for each
• 58:52
  week of the open.
• 58:53
  Because you want to go in rested and
• 58:55
  ready to go each and every week.
• 58:58
  And hopefully you hit that top twenty five
• 59:00
  percent and you get to go on and
• 59:02
  fight in quarterfinals.
• 59:05
  Which is an awesome goal for so many
• 59:07
  people.
• 59:09
  I'm glad it's back.
• 59:10
  I'm not glad I have to do it,
• 59:11
  but I am glad it's back.
• 59:13
  Sean in Oregon says, I do that too,
• 59:15
  Corey.
• 59:16
  I give them the hey, what's up nod.
• 59:18
  Every time.
• 59:20
  Every time.
• 59:22
  With that,
• 59:23
  thank you everybody for being here.
• 59:25
  It's been awesome.
• 59:26
  It's been an awesome week.
• 59:27
  I got Bears playoff this weekend.
• 59:29
  My insides are jumping out of my skin
• 59:32
  because I don't get to go and watch
• 59:35
  these things very often.
• 59:37
  So tomorrow night,
• 59:38
  I will be a basket case as the
• 59:41
  Bears take on the arch rival Green Bay
• 59:43
  Packers.
• 59:46
  Dude,
• 59:47
  Common did a hype video for the Bears.
• 59:51
  Oh, I didn't realize he was from Chicago.
• 59:54
  That's great.
• 59:55
  he's on the sidelines occasionally,
• 59:57
  but I don't even know if he's from
• 59:58
  there.
• 1:00:00
  But, you know,
• 1:00:00
  the coach has been doing this good,
• 1:00:02
  better, best thing after every game.
• 1:00:05
  And he did this whole narration of good
• 1:00:08
  when you turn five into eleven,
• 1:00:10
  meaning the wins they had last year to
• 1:00:12
  this year.
• 1:00:13
  And then he goes through a list of
• 1:00:14
  things.
• 1:00:14
  And then better.
• 1:00:15
  And he lists the next things.
• 1:00:17
  And then best,
• 1:00:17
  like the best is yet to come.
• 1:00:20
  Bears and earned playoffs.
• 1:00:21
  Let's go.
• 1:00:22
  And I am ready to jump through my
• 1:00:24
  skin.
• 1:00:28
  Well,
• 1:00:28
  I don't have any skin in the game
• 1:00:30
  because obviously the Saints did not make
• 1:00:33
  it.
• 1:00:34
  But being a South Tyson Baygent is a
• 1:00:36
  crossfitter and on the Bears,
• 1:00:38
  I hope the Bears win.
• 1:00:40
  Mike DeVito, great.
• 1:00:42
  Always great content.
• 1:00:42
  Glad I made this one.
• 1:00:44
  Thanks, Mike.
• 1:00:45
  Thanks for being here.
• 1:00:47
  That being said, go birds and Napoleon,
• 1:00:51
  go pack, go.
• 1:00:52
  I'll give you,
• 1:00:53
  I give you airtime as well,
• 1:00:56
  even though you're going to lose Saturday
• 1:00:57
  night.
• 1:00:58
  All right.
• 1:00:59
  With that being said,
• 1:01:00
  have a great weekend, everybody.
• 1:01:02
  We will see you next time on lunch
• 1:01:04
  with the Clydesdale.