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Lunch with the Clydesdale - Top 5 CrossFit Games Memories from this year. · Clydesdale Media Podcast

• 0:34
  what is going on everybody
• 0:36
  welcome to friday lunch
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  with the Clydesdale yeah we
• 0:42
  are here it's friday headed
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  into the weekend oh I need
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  a weekend man um the older
• 0:51
  I get man the more time I
• 0:53
  need to recover from these
• 0:54
  trips it was a great trip
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  to albany um long drive
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  back and I'm just feeling beat up man
• 1:05
  Feeling beat up.
• 1:07
  I have like something going
• 1:10
  on in my neck where it
• 1:12
  hurts to turn my head.
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  And I don't know if I slept wrong.
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  I don't know if it was a long drive back.
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  Just trying to get back into
• 1:20
  the groove of things.
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  And really just trying to
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  get my neck to move.
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  Using the Theragun on it.
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  Probably getting shaken baby
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  syndrome from it.
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  But at least it's starting
• 1:41
  to loosen up a little bit today.
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  So hopefully we'll be better
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  going into the weekend.
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  Haven't thrown a dart all weekend.
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  We'll do one now.
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  And low.
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  Almost dead center, but low.
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  Damn it.
• 2:01
  We've got Craig.
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  We've got Holly, Sarah Cooper,
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  breakfast for her.
• 2:08
  Man, I think I'm allergic to eggs now.
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  And it's really like making
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  it hard for me to make breakfast.
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  So I've been just doing like
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  protein bars and oatmeal.
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  Man, I gotta figure something out.
• 2:25
  Gotta figure something out.
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  Happy Friday from Linda.
• 2:31
  Yeah, Jeff, I have a crick in my neck.
• 2:35
  Joseph Ramirez, we met at the games.
• 2:38
  I didn't put two and two
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  together until like twenty minutes later.
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  It was awesome to meet you, Joseph.
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  Little BP one five seven.
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  Yeah, that's what I need.
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  Plant powered fitness.
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  Happy Friday time for coffee.
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  Yeah, I am.
• 2:57
  I'm on the coffee today.
• 3:03
  We have Autistic Killer in the house.
• 3:05
  What's up?
• 3:06
  What's going on?
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  So, yeah,
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  just feeling beat up after the week.
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  Need a weekend just to kind of chill,
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  get everything kind of stretched out,
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  and hopefully next week's better.
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  And then we'll be riding
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  high by the time the
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  Masters CrossFit Games come along.
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  Yesterday,
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  I guess I broke a little bit of news.
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  I'd actually been sitting on
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  that for a while.
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  A couple people had told me
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  this had happened.
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  I broke the news yesterday
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  that Daniel Brandon and
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  Matt Torres ended up at the
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  same pub in Albany.
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  I heard that Daniel was there first.
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  Torres showed up.
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  They...
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  got into a little public
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  rift um and then jenny
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  clipped it posted on her
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  story yesterday and now
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  danielle has blocked me so
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  I am officially officially
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  and I thought enhanced
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  access was going to do it
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  for me thought enhanced
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  access was going to make me
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  official media
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  now I'm blocked by danielle
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  so apparently I have moved
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  into the realm of official
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  official like real real
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  crossfit media now so I
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  guess I'm there I guess I'm there
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  um jenny actually her and I
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  have talked this morning
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  she has more to the story
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  than I do um and I think
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  it's going to be in her
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  weekend update so um and
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  there went my notes um so
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  it's going to be
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  interesting to see what
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  happens what she releases
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  she has way more it's a lot
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  more interesting um
• 5:05
  Judy makes too much sense.
• 5:08
  Why couldn't they just ignore each other?
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  Sarah says that would be too adult.
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  Jeff is like,
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  if I'm Matt and I walk in and see her,
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  I just turn around and find
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  another place to have a beer.
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  That's kind of why I even brought it up.
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  Hold on one second.
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  There we go.
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  Got my notes back.
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  That's kind of the reason I brought it up,
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  because if I'm Matt Torres,
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  one of the guys on the
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  Brute team won the CrossFit Games.
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  One of your Brute guys won last year.
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  They're different people.
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  You have another guy on the
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  Brute team that has the potential to win,
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  and you have everything in front of you.
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  Then you have this thing
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  that you just can't seem to quit,
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  like almost like an addiction,
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  like you can't quit it.
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  And is that thing going to
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  ruin all this that you have going on?
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  I'm with you.
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  Like if I walk into that
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  building and I see her,
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  I get the hell out, get the hell gone.
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  I have this bright future
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  and people look at me as
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  like the coach in the space right now.
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  And why, why ruin this over this?
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  And he just can't quit her.
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  He just can't quit her.
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  Um,
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  jeff is yeah why let her
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  harsh your buzz I savant
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  bro super beaver I must be
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  it must be there it's got
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  to be like that pulp
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  fiction open the suitcase
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  shining light coming up
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  through there um because
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  like he cannot give it up
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  he can't stop himself it is
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  it is insane to me
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  Because everything else he
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  has going on in his life is
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  tremendously on the uptrend, right?
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  And just give up that.
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  Just give up that and you are sailing,
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  brother.
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  You are sailing.
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  But he just can't.
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  He just can't.
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  So, again, I've talked to Jenny.
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  I know some of the stuff she has coming.
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  Watch for her Jenny's dense
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  updates because she's going
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  to have a little bit more on that.
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  But that's why it fascinates me.
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  The fascination is his fascination.
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  And that is why he can't
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  quit her and allow the rest
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  of his life to move in the
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  right direction.
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  Um, Jeff,
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  what is the Intel on who was with Matt?
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  IE was fee with the group.
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  Um, I honestly,
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  my sources were not as good
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  as Jenny's and I guess
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  Hiller has some information too.
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  Um, I got very vague details, um, from the,
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  my two sources because they
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  didn't want to be
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  identified as a person who
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  went on the wrong side of Danielle.
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  So,
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  so Vaughn lives vicariously through
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  Torres.
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  What a crazy life that dude has right now.
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  What a crazy life.
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  Ryan Aldrich,
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  Matt seems like a guy who
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  wants to be the best.
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  Part of that is having the best athletes.
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  She's a phenomenal athlete and woman.
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  He wants that on his team,
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  not on someone else's.
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  Well, they, yeah.
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  They're not,
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  she's not on his team anymore.
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  At least one, one way.
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  Uh,
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  vindicate says Torres can do so much
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  better.
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  You know, you know,
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  vindicate it's like the
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  problem is he's like hooked
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  on the meth and he doesn't
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  even care about the better drugs.
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  He just wants the meth.
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  Um, um,
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  Vicki says,
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  phenomenal woman is questionable.
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  Athlete, sure.
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  Rambler, yes.
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  So many fish out in the sea.
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  Jeff Biko,
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  Scott and I approach this as
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  fifty five year old men.
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  When you're in your thirties,
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  you respond much more emotionally.
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  I am sure.
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  I am sure when I was a young lad,
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  I would have done some stupid-ass shit.
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  I did some stupid-ass shit.
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  I'm just glad cell phones
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  weren't invented yet when I
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  was doing my stupid-ass shit.
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  Um...
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  Man, when he does tell the story, finally,
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  it will be interesting.
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  It'll be interesting.
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  It'll be fascinating.
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  It'll be all those things.
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  Amen on no cell phone back in the day.
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  Dude,
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  I pray every day and thank the Lord
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  that that had not been invented yet.
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  No way do I want my stupid
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  ass shit documented for history.
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  talk should be about how db
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  can fix their lifting for
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  future comps not who had a
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  fight at an after party
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  george but I think it all
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  goes together it all goes together
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  To me,
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  the fascinating part is not the fight.
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  The fascinating part is you
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  have this man who has every
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  bit of success in front of him,
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  tremendous athletes,
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  probably the best training camp,
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  two past champions this
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  year and last year,
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  and he's moving in the right direction,
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  and he can't quit the thing
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  that could get in his way.
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  He can't quit the thing.
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  That's the fascinating part.
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  That's the story.
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  Uh, Joseph from mirrors,
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  maybe congratulate her on
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  her squat performance.
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  That is possible.
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  Um, so anyway,
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  Yeah, so that is that.
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  I just wanted to let you
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  guys know that I am now
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  officially CrossFit Media.
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  I am blocked by Daniel Brandon,
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  and it only took Jenny
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  clipping what I said and
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  posting it for me to get
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  blocked quick as hell.
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  So in addition to that,
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  the tier SoCal rosters have
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  been announced.
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  And I stole this from Jenny.
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  So this is,
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  she had posted on her thing and
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  a question as to why James
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  was not one of the athletes chosen.
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  And I think,
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  and I have the tags up just so
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  we can see who it is,
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  because the picture is just
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  kind of an artist's rendering of the
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  of the athletes.
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  On the American side,
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  you have Alexis Raptus, Patrick Vellner,
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  Jason Hopper, Justin Medeiros,
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  Emma Lawson, Dallin Pepper, Alex Kazan.
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  And so you have Hopper, Vellner,
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  and Medeiros.
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  Hopper and Vellner are tier athletes,
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  as well as Dallin Pepper.
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  And then you have Medeiros,
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  who is a rad athlete.
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  Justin Medeiros has half a
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  million followers on Instagram.
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  James Sprague has, um,
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  which is tremendously lower
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  than Justin Medeiros.
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  That is what,
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  and James does not have a
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  shoe affiliation that I
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  know of at this point.
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  yes I see people in here
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  saying velner is old news
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  but velner is a tier
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  athlete this is a tier
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  sponsored event and for
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  everybody who wants
• 14:56
  a professional sport,
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  these are the things you
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  get in professional sports.
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  It is based on your
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  affiliation with companies
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  when you have these
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  invitational type events.
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  This is an invite only event
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  and TIER is running it and
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  TIER is very adamant about
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  their product and people
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  wearing their product.
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  So the majority of the
• 15:19
  athletes will be TIER athletes.
• 15:27
  Um, I, so I saw,
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  I think it was Sarah isn't James Adidas.
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  I, he,
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  I don't think a formal contract ever
• 15:35
  got done with Adidas.
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  Um,
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  he was on boys interrupted a couple
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  times ago, maybe a month,
• 15:42
  a month and a half ago and said that he,
• 15:46
  um,
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  that he does not have a head to toe
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  sponsor.
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  So no apparel, no shoe.
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  And that the other three
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  were going to try to help him get one.
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  And that just boggles my mind.
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  I think that is something
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  that completely baffles me,
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  how someone who is as
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  energetic as and likable as
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  James Sprague is,
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  does not have a sponsor like that.
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  So...
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  vindicate says and that's
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  how you get people not to
• 16:27
  give a shit about your
• 16:27
  competition uh we want the
• 16:30
  best athletes it it's just
• 16:34
  a fact of life in pro
• 16:35
  sports um they're going to
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  take care of their own and
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  the people signed with them
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  when they have these events um
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  And this is how I found out
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  I was blocked by Danielle.
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  I was trying to get
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  Instagram follower accounts
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  as to why someone may have
• 16:56
  been chosen over another
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  who's not in a tier shoe.
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  So it's primarily people in
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  tier shoes and then the
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  couple that aren't are
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  pretty high Instagram follower rates.
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  I think Emma is tier.
• 17:15
  Raptus is tier.
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  Alex Kazan is tier.
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  And then you have Danielle Brandon,
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  who is rad.
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  But she has a shit ton of followers.
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  And on the world side, I'm not as familiar,
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  but I believe Gracie Walton,
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  Ricky Garrard, Jay Crouch are all tier.
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  Tia, I believe, is tier for the moment.
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  Roman Krennikoff is definitely tier.
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  Guy is tier.
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  Amy Kringle is rad,
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  but she has a shit ton of followers.
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  And Emma Tall, I think, is tier as well.
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  So you're talking the majority is, oh,
• 18:03
  Gracie is LSKD and rad.
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  But she has a ton of followers as well.
• 18:12
  I think Tia is Tia's shoe, LSKD apparel.
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  But she seems to switch
• 18:21
  about every few months.
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  So don't quote me on that.
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  Because I don't think LSKD
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  makes a shoe yet.
• 18:34
  Um, and I know a lot of people, I,
• 18:39
  I know a lot of people don't like rads.
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  The rads that they had at
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  the games this year were sick.
• 18:46
  Uh, if I had.
• 18:48
  A hundred and fifty dollars to throw away.
• 18:50
  Um,
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  I would have had a new pair of rads
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  coming home with me from
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  the games for sure.
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  They looked amazing.
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  Apparently,
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  they didn't grip a pegboard very well,
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  but they looked amazing on the floor.
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  These days,
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  it's about your social media following.
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  I think in this, it is first and foremost,
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  are you with tier to be invited?
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  And then after that,
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  then they go to Instagram
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  following or social media following.
• 19:31
  James is out of SoCal and
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  doesn't have a shoe sponsor,
• 19:34
  even though he is the champ.
• 19:36
  Who is his manager?
• 19:37
  That is an incredible question,
• 19:39
  Tyler Watkins,
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  and so insightful on your part.
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  His manager, I believe, is Sin,
• 19:48
  Strength in Numbers.
• 19:51
  they were a group that we
• 19:52
  were with for thirty days.
• 19:54
  Um,
• 19:55
  they also represent Sporty Beth and I
• 19:58
  made a video about Sporty
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  Beth and we were removed
• 20:01
  from their roster thirty
• 20:02
  days after we got with them.
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  So,
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  that's what's important to Sin and
• 20:09
  that's why James is sitting
• 20:10
  there with no sponsor.
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  Um,
• 20:21
  Now we got shoe talk going on.
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  Yes.
• 20:27
  Sporty Beth has a manager.
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  Yes.
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  Crazy enough.
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  Yeah.
• 20:41
  Just to let you guys know, like, so
• 20:43
  The manager we were with was
• 20:45
  independent and he had Alex Kazan,
• 20:48
  James Sprague, and then we came on.
• 20:52
  Sin signed him to a deal
• 20:55
  less than thirty days after
• 20:56
  we signed with him.
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  And then our contract was
• 20:59
  supposed to move directly over with Sin.
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  I made the video about Sporty Beth and
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  Um,
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  immediately I get confronted on my way
• 21:12
  to water Palooza in the
• 21:13
  Minnesota airport by my agent.
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  And I'm told, yep,
• 21:17
  probably no longer with them.
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  And so that's how we, like,
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  we weren't even there for days.
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  So crazy.
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  And at the end of the day,
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  is that someone you've want
• 21:34
  to be with when
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  If I can't be authentic,
• 21:41
  I shouldn't be with them anyway.
• 21:45
  Sporty Beth has endorsements.
• 21:47
  I don't know.
• 21:48
  I don't know what her
• 21:48
  portfolio looks like.
• 21:50
  I just know that last time I
• 21:53
  looked at the roster,
• 21:54
  she was still on it.
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  So, yeah.
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  Okay.
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  Okay.
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  So yeah,
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  I saw that on a dense's story
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  today and I thought we
• 22:16
  would look at that and just
• 22:17
  see how the tier cup is
• 22:19
  primarily tier athletes.
• 22:24
  What I,
• 22:25
  And I wouldn't even put much
• 22:26
  stock into the people that
• 22:27
  are there because if Alexis
• 22:31
  Raptus is as hurt as she
• 22:32
  says that she is and Alex
• 22:34
  Kazan is still recovering,
• 22:36
  there's no way that Alex is
• 22:39
  going to give up her future
• 22:41
  for an invitational.
• 22:54
  Patrick Clark to correct.
• 22:56
  James is not represented by sin.
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  He is with Ripple.
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  So that must have changed recently.
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  And with Alexis's back injury,
• 23:14
  I don't see her doing an
• 23:16
  invitational at the expense
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  of her future either.
• 23:27
  so um I have my top five
• 23:33
  memories from the crossfit
• 23:36
  games I'm gonna start with
• 23:38
  an honorable mention uh my
• 23:41
  one of my favorite things
• 23:42
  that happened this year to
• 23:42
  crossfit games uh was that
• 23:46
  I got to do trivia night
• 23:48
  with amanda harry and that
• 23:50
  was at a local pub in albany
• 23:54
  we went out for dinner and
• 23:56
  we got into a trivia night
• 23:59
  in which we were only four
• 24:00
  points out of the lead at
• 24:02
  the very end of the night.
• 24:04
  And we bet it all.
• 24:05
  We bet the house on final
• 24:06
  jeopardy and lost it,
• 24:08
  but we had a freaking blast.
• 24:11
  So much fun playing trivia night, um,
• 24:14
  and get to hang out with her.
• 24:16
  And I'm glad that, um, we,
• 24:18
  we become really good friends and, uh,
• 24:22
  get to do stuff like that I
• 24:23
  would love uh if that
• 24:26
  became like an annual thing
• 24:27
  where we found a trivia
• 24:28
  night maybe get some media
• 24:29
  members and uh go hang out
• 24:33
  at a trivia night before
• 24:34
  the crossfit games it would be fun
• 24:44
  alito said didn't they say
• 24:46
  at the ttt podcast that
• 24:48
  alexis didn't have much
• 24:49
  pain at the end at all in
• 24:52
  the end this weekend and it
• 24:53
  was more fear and not
• 24:55
  having done certain
• 24:55
  movements sensor injury
• 24:57
  they may have said that uh
• 24:59
  you're talking to a guy who
• 25:00
  has had twelve back procedures
• 25:03
  Your back can feel fine,
• 25:05
  and one wrong move, if it's not healed,
• 25:08
  will get you in trouble.
• 25:11
  And so I hope that they let
• 25:13
  that disc stabilize before
• 25:16
  she pushes it for a while over.
• 25:21
  This SoCal Invitational is
• 25:24
  not a necessary thing,
• 25:27
  but it's up to her.
• 25:30
  And there's Amanda Hari in the chat.
• 25:32
  I'm always down for trivia.
• 25:34
  Always.
• 25:36
  That was so much fun.
• 25:38
  So much fun.
• 25:48
  Uh, they said it wasn't herniated,
• 25:49
  I believe.
• 25:53
  Yeah.
• 25:53
  I,
• 25:54
  I don't know if you can trust what's
• 25:56
  being said on a podcast.
• 25:58
  Um,
• 26:01
  That's where I'll leave that.
• 26:07
  My number five memory of the
• 26:09
  CrossFit Games this year,
• 26:11
  and that is that James
• 26:13
  Sprague validated the fact
• 26:15
  that he was a champion-level athlete.
• 26:20
  Taking third place
• 26:22
  getting on the podium this
• 26:23
  year and validating what he
• 26:26
  had done the year before,
• 26:27
  I think was an amazing
• 26:30
  thing that he had done and, um,
• 26:36
  and really happy for him
• 26:38
  that he was able to do that.
• 26:41
  Um,
• 26:42
  seeing him on different
• 26:43
  podcasts and him talking
• 26:45
  about how it did affect him
• 26:47
  that people were saying
• 26:48
  that his being fittest on
• 26:51
  earth was not real or
• 26:54
  didn't mean anything
• 26:55
  because they eliminated two events.
• 26:56
  For him to go out and not
• 26:59
  only take third this year
• 27:01
  at the CrossFit Games,
• 27:02
  but win Wadapalooza and put
• 27:04
  all that kind of up together,
• 27:06
  I think that is a
• 27:08
  tremendous win for James Sprague.
• 27:13
  My number four memory from
• 27:16
  this year's CrossFit Games
• 27:18
  was getting to see Carolyn
• 27:19
  Prevost compete again.
• 27:22
  We don't know how many more
• 27:23
  times that'll be.
• 27:24
  This may have been the last one.
• 27:26
  She talks about that very
• 27:27
  openly in some stuff that I did with her.
• 27:31
  It was really exciting to
• 27:33
  see her back out on the
• 27:34
  floor one more time.
• 27:36
  She's just a class act.
• 27:37
  She's really good for the sport.
• 27:39
  She's getting better and
• 27:40
  better about talking about the sport.
• 27:43
  and has really done a lot to
• 27:45
  make our Sunday night show
• 27:46
  better and better.
• 27:48
  And she's become such a good friend.
• 27:51
  It was awesome to see her
• 27:52
  out there competing again
• 27:55
  and being in her
• 27:56
  environment one last time.
• 28:02
  Number three memory from the
• 28:04
  CrossFit Games was seeing
• 28:06
  all of the merch changes in
• 28:09
  the CrossFit tent at Vendor Village.
• 28:12
  getting to see the pukey shirts,
• 28:15
  getting to see Forging
• 28:16
  Elite Fitness back on
• 28:17
  shirts and mugs and flags,
• 28:22
  getting to see that Routine
• 28:24
  is the enemy shirts,
• 28:27
  new ways of creating the
• 28:32
  logo just so it was fresh and new.
• 28:36
  It was really exciting to
• 28:37
  see that CrossFit had made those changes.
• 28:43
  not just changes but
• 28:45
  reflecting on its history
• 28:48
  and its fundamentals of
• 28:49
  what made it great and I
• 28:52
  really did enjoy seeing
• 28:53
  that in vendor village
• 28:58
  number two for me was lucy
• 29:02
  campbell winning event four
• 29:05
  uh the albany grip trip her going to um
• 29:15
  her going toe to toe with
• 29:16
  Tia and setting the pace
• 29:22
  and Tia failing a rep,
• 29:23
  trying to keep up with her.
• 29:25
  I thought that was awesome.
• 29:28
  And it was such a highlight
• 29:29
  from the weekend.
• 29:31
  So exciting to watch such an
• 29:33
  ingrained memory.
• 29:34
  She's amazing.
• 29:39
  And her story is,
• 29:41
  like if there's not a
• 29:42
  documentary crew
• 29:43
  documenting that comeback,
• 29:45
  that's a big miss on CrossFit's part.
• 29:48
  Someone should have had all
• 29:49
  of that set up.
• 29:52
  And then what,
• 29:53
  when she did what she did at the games,
• 29:55
  just finish off that documentary.
• 30:02
  And then number one was event nine.
• 30:06
  And sitting there watching
• 30:08
  Jason Hopper drop the final
• 30:10
  bar on running Isabel and thinking,
• 30:14
  oh my God,
• 30:16
  he is giving up the CrossFit
• 30:17
  Games in that moment.
• 30:20
  And somehow gathering
• 30:21
  himself and finishing it
• 30:25
  and still maintaining a
• 30:26
  lead going into that last event.
• 30:30
  That was...
• 30:33
  such a cool cool moment the
• 30:35
  gasps in the in the crowd
• 30:37
  were loud it was electric
• 30:40
  and so much fun to watch
• 30:45
  and the other thing is and
• 30:49
  it led to the ending of the
• 30:51
  final event with sprague
• 30:54
  and madaris getting ahead
• 30:57
  of hopper madaris out touching sprague
• 31:00
  But Hopper staying composed,
• 31:03
  knowing he just had to take
• 31:04
  third in the event to win.
• 31:06
  And he did that.
• 31:09
  And it was incredible.
• 31:10
  But yeah, it was a great games.
• 31:13
  Great vibes.
• 31:15
  I talk about it a lot this week.
• 31:17
  CrossFit got back to the fundamentals.
• 31:19
  They got back to their North Star.
• 31:21
  That's why this worked out this weekend.
• 31:24
  I think that's why the vibes were good.
• 31:26
  And the athletes shined.
• 31:29
  Dave gave them a competition
• 31:31
  where they could take those
• 31:32
  workouts and shine as athletes.
• 31:38
  So.
• 31:44
  Sarah, I should have listened to you.
• 31:46
  I didn't try to buy CrossFit
• 31:47
  logo stuff till late
• 31:49
  Saturday and most of the
• 31:51
  stuff was sold out.
• 31:57
  Jody,
• 31:58
  someone's got to ping me if I'm not here.
• 32:00
  And also, how is it already?
• 32:02
  Twelve forty five on a Friday.
• 32:04
  I don't know,
• 32:05
  but I can't wait for the weekend.
• 32:08
  And when you're not here,
• 32:09
  we just assuming you're
• 32:10
  selling like a big kitchen or something.
• 32:13
  You're like the Mac Daddy salesman.
• 32:21
  Sarah Cooper, oh, that's too bad, Judy.
• 32:23
  At least you have the mayhem gear.
• 32:25
  I also heard that.
• 32:28
  it's all about the inventory
• 32:30
  in having it up on the site.
• 32:33
  One, it either sold out.
• 32:34
  So they have none or two,
• 32:37
  they haven't done the
• 32:38
  inventory from what's left at the games.
• 32:41
  They have to like inventory
• 32:42
  all that in before they can
• 32:44
  post it up on the site.
• 32:46
  And that could take a little
• 32:47
  bit of time getting back to
• 32:49
  headquarters and unloading that stuff.
• 32:57
  uh and jeff bako quoting the
• 32:58
  great canadian band lover
• 33:00
  boy so everybody's working
• 33:02
  for the weekend yes they
• 33:11
  are all right uh jody I I
• 33:19
  was in design mode completely focused
• 33:23
  now now now we're getting a
• 33:24
  little ahead of over our
• 33:26
  skis here buddy mike reno
• 33:28
  is god my favorite canadian
• 33:32
  band is a band called
• 33:34
  triumph I like them a lot
• 33:36
  better than lover boy have
• 33:38
  a handful of triumph albums
• 33:41
  on uh vinyl that I listen
• 33:43
  to quite frequently so I'm
• 33:46
  more of a rick emmett guy
• 33:47
  than a mike reno guy
• 33:56
  Anyway,
• 34:00
  if you guys have any favorite
• 34:01
  memories from the weekend,
• 34:03
  we'd love to hear what they
• 34:04
  are either in the comments
• 34:05
  or in the chat because it
• 34:07
  was an incredible weekend.
• 34:12
  Vindicate a man who knows.
• 34:15
  Correct.
• 34:15
  Leftover inventory will be
• 34:16
  on the site eventually.
• 34:20
  I don't know how much there is left over.
• 34:22
  The stuff was selling like crazy,
• 34:26
  which goes to show you it was much needed,
• 34:29
  much needed.
• 34:32
  But hopefully there'll be
• 34:33
  some stuff available or
• 34:34
  they do a reprint or a
• 34:36
  restock on some of the
• 34:37
  stuff that sold well.
• 34:44
  Rush.
• 34:46
  I like Rush.
• 34:47
  Never was a huge Rush guy before.
• 34:52
  the first song I ever
• 34:53
  learned how to play on
• 34:54
  guitar was a rush song I'm
• 35:04
  trying to think of what it
• 35:05
  was fly by night I learned
• 35:09
  how to play fly by night
• 35:11
  that was the first song I
• 35:13
  learned how to play on the
• 35:14
  guitar uh linda says t and
• 35:19
  willow that was
• 35:22
  that was a great moment.
• 35:23
  And I was like, oh my gosh,
• 35:26
  how could you do that to
• 35:27
  Tia right before an event?
• 35:29
  But thankfully she's the
• 35:30
  goat and she can kind of
• 35:31
  like turn off the emotions
• 35:33
  and just get to it.
• 35:36
  But God, man,
• 35:37
  like seeing my kid on the
• 35:38
  screen right before I'm
• 35:39
  going would probably break me.
• 35:43
  Would probably break me.
• 35:48
  I thought the stream was good.
• 35:52
  Now Sarah's just poking the bear.
• 35:55
  So what I'll say about this,
• 35:56
  and I think sometimes it gets confused.
• 36:01
  When I talk about the broadcast,
• 36:04
  there's really only one criticism I have,
• 36:08
  and it's too many close-up shots.
• 36:12
  My beef is not with the announcers.
• 36:15
  My beef is not with the
• 36:16
  quality of the stream.
• 36:19
  My beef isn't with...
• 36:22
  Anything but the fact that
• 36:24
  we miss some of the races
• 36:26
  because we get focused on one person.
• 36:32
  And it makes it just hard for me to watch.
• 36:36
  When you go to so many
• 36:37
  things live and you can
• 36:39
  watch the whole thing and
• 36:41
  watch it play out,
• 36:42
  you get spoiled in what you want to see.
• 36:47
  Then when you go back and
• 36:48
  try to watch it on a stream
• 36:50
  and you're told what you
• 36:51
  can see and you only get to
• 36:53
  see one or two people, it gets very,
• 36:55
  very frustrating.
• 36:58
  So that is my beef with the
• 36:59
  streams is that they focus
• 37:02
  on too narrow of a coverage.
• 37:05
  I want to see more that's going on.
• 37:07
  I don't need a far away full floor shot.
• 37:11
  I just want two or three
• 37:12
  athletes on the screen at a time.
• 37:15
  That's all.
• 37:19
  The fact that the broadcast
• 37:20
  missed the Medaris James
• 37:24
  finish that happened ahead
• 37:26
  of Hopper is criminal.
• 37:29
  You had the long march on the lunge,
• 37:31
  and you saw both of them
• 37:33
  coming up onto Hopper,
• 37:35
  and you knew that it was
• 37:37
  going to be tight between
• 37:38
  all three of them.
• 37:40
  To lose them completely was
• 37:45
  just an awful execution of
• 37:47
  the ending of that event.
• 37:50
  They were warning you they
• 37:51
  were coming down that lunge,
• 37:55
  and they still didn't do that.
• 38:00
  Tranked Olive says,
• 38:01
  I also shed a tear when
• 38:04
  Hopper thanked his wife after winning.
• 38:06
  I thought that was really cool.
• 38:09
  Really, really cool.
• 38:13
  Really enjoyed that.
• 38:19
  he talked about that a lot
• 38:21
  on his interview with savan
• 38:22
  as well and all that she
• 38:24
  does for him so that was
• 38:28
  awesome the last thing I
• 38:38
  wanted to talk about is
• 38:41
  that as much as I whoops
• 38:50
  jody lynn I was in the
• 38:51
  stands on the finish line I
• 38:53
  missed it too scott jody
• 38:56
  you could see him coming
• 39:01
  good seats though huh uh
• 39:05
  jeff bako thinks cole sager
• 39:07
  is god wow they probably
• 39:16
  thought hopper wasn't going
• 39:17
  to drop the bar
• 39:19
  Well, maybe,
• 39:20
  but you still saw that it was
• 39:23
  three of them.
• 39:25
  To focus on one for that long,
• 39:28
  and I know he was going to be the champ,
• 39:30
  and I know you want to hear
• 39:31
  Chase say something magical
• 39:33
  about what he's going to do.
• 39:35
  I get all that.
• 39:37
  But the race for that win
• 39:39
  ended up being before he finished.
• 39:42
  And you have time to say the
• 39:44
  magical phrase, after it's all over.
• 39:48
  It can happen two or three
• 39:50
  minutes after and still be profound.
• 40:01
  Sometimes there's magic in
• 40:04
  just hearing the crowd roar
• 40:07
  and seeing Jason celebrate
• 40:10
  and the smile on his face
• 40:11
  before you say the profound thing.
• 40:14
  You can let that air out a
• 40:16
  little bit before the thing is said.
• 40:26
  So...
• 40:32
  Just give me the race.
• 40:36
  Because that was big for the
• 40:37
  final standings too.
• 40:40
  But with that,
• 40:42
  and it's going to be that
• 40:42
  way for a couple years.
• 40:45
  We've got,
• 40:46
  this year it was nine athletes
• 40:48
  that could have won.
• 40:49
  Next year, maybe it's seven or eight,
• 40:52
  or maybe there's more.
• 40:53
  Maybe Ty Jenkins steps up.
• 40:55
  Maybe a couple others step up.
• 40:56
  Maybe Bill Leahy steps up.
• 40:59
  And you have more athletes in the mix.
• 41:02
  The closer that these men get together,
• 41:07
  the more these finishes are
• 41:09
  going to happen where
• 41:11
  multiple things happen.
• 41:21
  I felt the same with the
• 41:22
  joke handstand push-up
• 41:24
  workout the joke I don't
• 41:31
  know what the joke was but
• 41:32
  they did kind of stay on
• 41:34
  one person shaking out
• 41:35
  their arms all the time
• 41:37
  right I don't think we
• 41:39
  needed to see that forever
• 41:47
  uh what I'm going to finish up with is
• 41:49
  I've told you that I've been
• 41:51
  working with the Legends
• 41:54
  crew to have media access
• 41:56
  at the Masters CrossFit Games.
• 41:58
  I've been working with them for months.
• 42:00
  I talked to them a few weeks ago.
• 42:02
  They assured me I had them,
• 42:04
  and I would get some media stuff.
• 42:07
  in the next day or two,
• 42:09
  and I still have not
• 42:10
  received that weeks later.
• 42:12
  I followed up this week
• 42:14
  asking what has been released.
• 42:16
  What can they give me?
• 42:18
  And I still have not heard back.
• 42:22
  So I have no idea what the
• 42:25
  hell is going on.
• 42:27
  Yoke.
• 42:28
  Yoke.
• 42:30
  Now I gotcha.
• 42:31
  The Yoke handstand pushups.
• 42:35
  got it got it got it got it
• 42:38
  got it so I don't know
• 42:41
  what's happening with
• 42:42
  masters or the age group
• 42:45
  crossfit games um maybe I
• 42:49
  don't have access um but
• 42:52
  regardless I'm going to be
• 42:53
  there they're in my
• 42:54
  hometown if I have to buy a
• 42:56
  ticket I buy a ticket I'll
• 42:58
  still take my camera in
• 43:00
  I'll still walk around I'll
• 43:01
  still see my people I'll
• 43:03
  still talk to my people
• 43:05
  I'll try to document it the best I can.
• 43:09
  But hopefully I hear something.
• 43:12
  We're less than two weeks
• 43:13
  away from the age group
• 43:15
  CrossFit Games here in Columbus.
• 43:18
  And I'm just shocked I
• 43:20
  haven't heard anything.
• 43:24
  So... I don't know.
• 43:32
  I don't know why...
• 43:35
  Like we are the only company
• 43:37
  that really covers masters in depth.
• 43:41
  And I don't know why we have
• 43:42
  to fight every year to do it.
• 43:45
  So I'm more worried for Caitlin,
• 43:55
  my photographer
• 43:56
  videographer for the weekend.
• 43:59
  I just want to make sure she has access.
• 44:02
  I can find a way regardless
• 44:05
  to talk to people.
• 44:06
  Um,
• 44:07
  it doesn't have to be in the warmup area.
• 44:09
  Uh, it would be nice if it was, but yeah.
• 44:17
  Uh, so we'll see.
• 44:20
  We'll see.
• 44:26
  Judy Reed is trying to get a deal.
• 44:29
  Tickets are expensive.
• 44:31
  We are waiting to try and
• 44:32
  get some kind of deal.
• 44:34
  Yeah, I hope you find something.
• 44:38
  It's going to be tough, though.
• 44:40
  Because I don't think it's
• 44:41
  going to sell out.
• 44:47
  But Judy will be there
• 44:48
  Friday and Saturday.
• 44:53
  Lito will be there all week.
• 44:54
  I'm taking it.
• 44:59
  But either way,
• 45:00
  I'm going to go talk to Shanna.
• 45:01
  I'm going to talk to Denise.
• 45:02
  I'm going to talk to Lito.
• 45:04
  I'm going to talk to Carolyn and Jamie.
• 45:07
  We're going to have some stuff.
• 45:12
  So we'll see.
• 45:13
  Hopefully we can get there.
• 45:25
  Jay Birch about the broadcast.
• 45:27
  Two to three athletes left, right,
• 45:29
  and then right, left in the panning shot.
• 45:32
  Yes, that's what I want.
• 45:40
  Yeah, the ticket prices are crazy.
• 45:42
  You know,
• 45:42
  Carolyn brought that up Sunday
• 45:44
  night that the ticket
• 45:49
  prices for the games were crazy.
• 45:52
  And I just thought, like,
• 45:54
  waterpalooza kind of gets
• 45:56
  that right they start their
• 45:58
  event on thursday and I
• 46:02
  don't know if people know
• 46:03
  this but thursday at
• 46:04
  waterpalooza is free to the
• 46:06
  public just walk in you can
• 46:09
  watch anything you want um
• 46:12
  I don't know if they still
• 46:13
  do that but they used to
• 46:15
  when it was at a bayfront
• 46:19
  Thursdays were free.
• 46:20
  People would come in, check it all out.
• 46:23
  And then if people loved it,
• 46:26
  then if people loved it,
• 46:31
  they would buy tickets and
• 46:32
  come in for the rest of the weekend.
• 46:35
  And if you've been to events
• 46:36
  in the CrossFit space,
• 46:38
  Wadapalooza sells a hell of
• 46:39
  a lot of tickets.
• 46:41
  So maybe they're onto something there.
• 46:43
  Maybe
• 46:44
  When on those low days,
• 46:46
  like Friday morning,
• 46:47
  when nobody's in the building,
• 46:49
  they can give away some
• 46:50
  tickets for just the
• 46:52
  general public to come in
• 46:53
  and watch an event and
• 46:55
  understand what CrossFit is
• 46:57
  and maybe like fall in love with it.
• 47:01
  And then maybe that you get
• 47:02
  them go looking for an
• 47:03
  affiliate or maybe they buy
• 47:05
  more tickets for the rest of the weekend.
• 47:09
  I think the CrossFit
• 47:10
  sometimes is so
• 47:11
  short-sighted on the money
• 47:14
  that they don't see how
• 47:16
  maybe giving up a little up
• 47:18
  front solves a problem down the road.
• 47:25
  Make CrossFit free for a day.
• 47:36
  If they would do that for the games,
• 47:38
  the first event should not be run, row,
• 47:39
  run.
• 47:40
  Well, the only thing is run, row,
• 47:42
  run was free to the public.
• 47:43
  Anybody could go down to the
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  park and watch that happen.
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  What a pollute tickets are
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  cheaper than masters and
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  they aren't cheap, right?
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  what a palooza did like when
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  they were pay front
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  thursday was free to the
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  public and then maybe
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  they'd buy tickets for the
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  rest of the weekend or
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  maybe they'd buy a one-day
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  pass brilliant marketing
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  strategy you pick the day
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  you have the lowest
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  attendance let everybody in
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  for free fill up the stands
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  it looks good on a stream
• 48:34
  So anyway, I am over again.
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  Need to get back to work.
• 48:43
  I've got to get this project done at work.
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  I did see something.
• 48:49
  Barry McOchner, that's a sweet hat.
• 48:51
  Do you have the old Indians
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  Major League Baseball hats?
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  This is actually a training camp,
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  spring training hat of the
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  Pirates from maybe a
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  handful of years ago.
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  Um,
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  it's actually more lightweight and meshy,
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  um, than their traditional hat,
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  but it was used for spring
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  training in Florida.
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  That's what this one is,
• 49:17
  Barry and spring training
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  is the only time the pirates are good.
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  I did see this yesterday, Jay Birch,
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  new hybrid L two dropped half online,
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  half in person.
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  I did see that as my L one
• 49:38
  is expiring this year,
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  that might be a viable
• 49:41
  option to do half and half.
• 49:46
  And it's good for five years.
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  But they did.
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  It was sent out in an email.
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  If you're on the CrossFit mailing list,
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  I think it came out yesterday.
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  No, Wednesday,
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  because I was talking to
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  Corey about it before we went on the air.
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  But there is a new hybrid L two.
• 50:04
  that you take,
• 50:05
  but it is coaching and
• 50:06
  you're judged on your
• 50:07
  coaching ability so that
• 50:09
  you do have to be in person
• 50:10
  for that part of it.
• 50:12
  Um, actually giving the cues,
• 50:16
  the verbal cues, the tactile cues,
• 50:19
  you have to be there in person,
• 50:21
  but the more a lecture type
• 50:24
  stuff you can do online.
• 50:26
  So that is a new option for the L two.
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  And maybe we can talk about
• 50:34
  that a little bit more as
• 50:35
  we move forward on other shows.
• 50:44
  George says Friday should have been free.
• 50:46
  First day it was is free.
• 50:48
  Yeah,
• 50:49
  I think that could be a marketing
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  strategy, at least for a couple years,
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  to get some people who may
• 50:56
  not go to watch it live,
• 50:57
  go watch it live.
• 50:59
  And then maybe they fall in
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  love with it and become addicted,
• 51:02
  and then they keep going.
• 51:06
  With that, guys,
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  I need to get back on this project.
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  Love hanging out with you guys,
• 51:12
  but need to keep my job to pay the bills.
• 51:15
  With that,
• 51:17
  you knuckleheads need to get
• 51:18
  back to work as well.
• 51:19
  And we'll see everybody
• 51:21
  Sunday night for Sunday
• 51:22
  Night CrossFit Talk.
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  And then we'll be here all
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  next week with Lunch with the Clydesdale.
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  Bye, guys.