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Lunch with the Clydesdale - These Times They are a Changin' · Clydesdale Media Podcast

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  It is November seventeenth.
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  The Chicago Bears are in first place.
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  Somebody pinch me.
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  What's going on, everybody?
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  It is lunchtime.
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  as train olive likes to say um what
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  is going on um got a lot to
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  talk about today i'm glad i was able
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  to get through some appointments this
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  morning and still get on the air with
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  you all it's good to see cory and
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  joseph and kenneth and vicky frida mike
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  what's going on everybody
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  Big news over the last,
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  it's a forty eight hours or so.
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  My channel now has a sponsor for the
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  trying out their product.
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  As many of you know,
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  I have been dealing with sinus issues for
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  some time now, years in fact,
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  and it has really affected my sleep.
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  I cannot express to you enough.
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  go back to sleep for two hours,
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  started using third Z.
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  And now I'm sleeping like six hours at
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  a time, uh,
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  get up to pee and then go back
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  to bed and get another couple hours.
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  So it's really, really, um, uh,
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  So I've got that figured out last night.
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  It's all worked.
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  People are actually using the code.
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  I can already see the numbers.
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  So that is really, really exciting.
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  So super excited tonight.
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  So
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  Thank you to Thursday for giving me a
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  good night's sleep.
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  Uh,
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  the last thing I'm going to say about
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  it is, uh,
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  melatonin has always not worked well for
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  me and there's no melatonin in this.
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  It is,
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  it is magnesium and some other stuff.
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  It is awesome.
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  And, uh, but anyway, as Vicki said, uh,
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  Jazzy will get you Jazzy from a good
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  night's sleep.
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  It will.
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  Yeah.
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  Cause we all want to be Jazzy during
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  the day, right?
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  We all want to go through life a
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  little jazzy.
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  Um, so yeah.
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  Awesome.
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  So with that,
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  let's get to some news today.
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  I'm going to talk personally about
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  something for me,
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  and that is my Chicago Bears are in
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  first place by themselves in the NFC
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  North.
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  I cannot believe it.
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  After years and years of suffering as the
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  lovable loser Bears forever with Detroit's
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  loss last night to the Eagles,
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  the Bears are in first place all by
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  their lonesome.
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  in the NFC North.
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  So I could not be happier this morning.
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  I know people are saying they're paper
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  champions,
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  that they haven't played anybody yet.
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  But when you've been a long-suffering fan
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  like I have,
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  a win is a win is a win.
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  And I'll take them however they come,
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  and I'll enjoy them when we get them.
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  And I am just enjoying the process at
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  this point.
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  So...
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  Super stoked for my Chicago Bears.
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  Could not be happier this morning.
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  And next week,
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  they play the Pittsburgh Steelers.
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  The Pittsburgh Steelers are my wife's
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  favorite team.
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  So it could be a difficult Sunday in
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  the house.
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  Hopefully I come out victorious and don't
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  have to deal with the smack talking of
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  my own wife.
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  But we'll see.
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  It's going to be a rough week.
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  We will see.
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  Corey Leonard points out that the Saints
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  are in sole possession of last place in
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  the NFC South.
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  Yeah, yeah,
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  it's been a rough year down there, buddy.
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  Rough, rough year.
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  Ha ha ha, like Union Kane,
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  a paper champion.
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  There it is, man.
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  But hey, champion nonetheless.
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  All they have to do,
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  if they win three more games,
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  three out of seven,
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  three out of seven games to go if
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  they win those just three they're in the
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  playoffs so uh I mean we're halfway
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  through right they must have played at
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  least one good team the Bears are legit
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  great uh I
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  The NFL is a crazy place, Jody,
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  and so it's really hard to say that,
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  but their schedule is much harder on this
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  back half.
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  But again,
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  if they can just go three and four
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  the rest of the way,
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  that's a ten-win season, and they wake up.
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  They make it.
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  Eric Mackey, weak division overall,
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  really.
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  Green Bay overrated and Detroit up and
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  down, up for grabs.
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  I wouldn't call it a weak division.
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  It's just the way the NFL is designed.
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  It's designed for parity.
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  And so it's really rare to get that
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  team that becomes a dynasty.
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  The Chiefs are an anomaly.
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  And if the season ends today,
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  the Chiefs would not be in the playoffs.
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  That's how crazy the season has been.
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  So it's really the way they have designed
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  it.
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  Larry young confirms the code works.
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  It does.
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  Um, yeah, we tested it out last night.
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  Um,
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  the people at third Z actually were still
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  awake after the show last night and
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  unavailable and we got through everything
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  last night.
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  So shout out to them.
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  Um,
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  If anyone wants to hire Mickey Loomis as
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  a GM for their team,
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  I think I can get you a pretty
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  good deal.
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  Listen, nobody wants Mickey Loomis, Corey.
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  Nobody.
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  So anyway, yeah, super psyched about that.
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  Next thing we're going to talk about real
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  quickly is the worst kept secret in
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  CrossFit is that...
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  on her story today tia claire toomey you
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  can see this is willow and she is
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  so happy because if you look at the
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  shirt and i'll try to blow that up
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  it says big sister so she has formally
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  announced that she is pregnant and her she
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  is so happy that she's going to be
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  a big big sister so
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  There it is.
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  The news we've been waiting for.
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  The news none of us knew was there,
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  but we really did.
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  She is pregnant,
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  and so apparently she will probably not
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  compete in the
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  Yes, Shanna, finally.
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  Finally, we get definitive word.
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  I don't know why.
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  I don't know why she's waited so long.
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  She does this all the time,
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  and I don't understand what the deal is.
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  I get she maybe wanted to wait to
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  twelve weeks,
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  but we have to be way past twelve
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  weeks at this point.
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  Way past.
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  Vicky, I am so shocked.
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  Joseph Ramirez, this is my shocked face.
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  Jody, okay, case closed.
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  Let's move on.
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  Good grief.
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  Eric Mackey says,
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  Tia's CrossFit career is over.
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  Pencil, pen, or Sharpie?
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  That's a good one, Eric.
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  I like it.
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  I like it.
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  Let's put it out there.
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  What is, is Tia's CrossFit career over?
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  Would you write that in pencil, pen,
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  or Sharpie?
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  Kenneth DeLapp says pencil.
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  Train all of pencil.
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  Terry pencil.
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  Joseph Vermeer's pencil.
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  Vicky pencil.
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  Jody making up her own game and saying
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  pause not over.
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  Corey Leonard pencil.
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  Mike, number two pencil for sure.
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  Pencil.
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  So none of you believe that she is
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  done.
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  None of you believe she is done.
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  That is wild.
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  But I got to go with you guys.
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  I've got to say pencil.
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  I think her competitive nature,
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  she's going to look at this as another
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  challenge.
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  It's another thing to overcome.
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  Can she have a second child come back
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  and win a ninth title?
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  train olive she might just decide to
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  compete pregnant who knows uh joseph
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  ramirez i think she'll go for ten uh
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  i think the sound of ten time champ
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  is too enticing to her and twice as
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  a comeback after giving birth so yeah um
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  I think she looks for things to challenge
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  her.
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  And coming back from a second pregnancy to
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  win the CrossFit Games would be that thing
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  that gets her motivated.
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  And she has said that if she goes
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  for nine, she's going for ten.
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  I've seen that somewhere in an interview.
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  I think it was with like an Australian
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  TV show.
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  They asked her about what she would go
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  for, and she said on that show,
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  if she comes back for nine,
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  she's coming back for ten.
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  She's not stopping at nine.
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  Corey says, can't leave it at nine.
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  If she comes back and wins,
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  ten is the number.
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  I agree.
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  Those are her own words.
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  Train all of ten-time champ, two-time mom,
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  definitely going for that.
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  Corey said, yeah, it was on Aussie TV.
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  I saw that interview.
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  And so Shanna says she's probably already
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  had the baby or is having it soon
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  and is competing in the open.
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  That would be wild.
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  Uh, Joseph Ramirez.
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  I already have my tend for Tia shirt
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  made.
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  She better come back.
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  Uh, let's go.
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  Laura, Alex, Emma, Lucy, Olivia, Gabby.
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  I want to see them all back for
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  real competition.
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  That would be wild.
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  I'd like to see them all back with
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  Tia.
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  It would be nice to see if some,
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  somebody or someone has made that, um,
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  that charge back to,
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  to close the gap between themselves and
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  Tia.
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  Kenneth to lap says Nistler did it.
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  Let's be honest,
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  doing it as a master's athlete would not
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  be as hard as doing it as an
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  elite athlete.
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  Um,
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  what Andrea did at the age group games,
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  I was there in Alabama.
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  She was pretty dominant in that division.
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  Um,
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  But it is just thirty five to thirty
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  nine.
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  It's a small subset of the population.
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  So.
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  Yeah, I think it is apples to oranges.
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  Tia did it at Rogue.
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  I think that's a better apples to apples
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  comparison.
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  She gave birth that year.
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  Five months later,
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  she went and took second place at Rogue.
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  I think that is very much an apples
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  to apples comparison.
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  It is not so much age group to
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  elite.
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  And I love my age group athletes,
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  but the reality is it's a different
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  league.
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  Vicky,
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  if there's a lot of pregnancy workout
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  footage and it's being aggressive,
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  then there won't be any question of a
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  comeback plan.
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  Yeah, but she has not put out anything.
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  There's been no footage of what she's been
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  doing,
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  mostly probably because she's probably
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  trying to keep the pregnancy itself a
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  secret.
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  But maybe now that she's made it public,
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  we'll see more.
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  But yeah.
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  And Joseph, it's Monday, dude.
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  Why you got to push the buttons?
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  Laurel won't compete with Tia.
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  That is such a crock, dude.
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  You can't be as good as Laura is
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  and be afraid of somebody.
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  She's not afraid of Tia.
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  She's not afraid to compete against her.
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  She has nothing against Tia.
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  The reason she didn't compete at the Games
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  was not because of Tia.
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  It was because of CrossFit.
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  Not because of Tia.
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  She's not afraid of Tia.
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  She is, in my opinion,
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  arguably the second best female athlete to
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  ever compete in CrossFit.
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  Her and Annie are a big debate.
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  But Laura has one hole.
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  One hole that she has to overcome.
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  The problem is Tia doesn't have those
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  holes.
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  And so that one hole always makes Laura
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  lose.
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  But Laura can go toe-to-toe with her on
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  just about everything else in the sport.
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  She is not afraid of Tia.
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  Not afraid at all.
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  um uh larry young i think laura is
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  the happiest woman in the world in my
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  opinion i think she wants a win over
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  tia i think that just solidifies her as
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  the one of the greatest athletes to ever
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  do it if she gets a second title
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  and she beats Tia in the process,
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  it elevates her easily to the second best
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  woman ever.
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  Ever.
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  You guys are crazy.
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  Kenneth, Jodi, you're crazy.
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  She is not afraid of anybody.
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  You cannot be that good and be afraid
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  of somebody.
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  If you have that in your mental,
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  in your mental makeup,
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  you cannot be this successful.
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  You could not be as successful as she
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  is.
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  She went toe-to-toe with Tia at Rogue on
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  not just one occasion.
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  They're the only two people to ever win
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  Rogue.
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  You guys are absolutely bananas if you
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  think she's scared.
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  Absolutely bananas.
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  You do not understand the competitive
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  mindset it takes to get to where she
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  is.
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  To be one of the five greatest athletes
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  to ever set foot on a floor,
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  you cannot be scared of anybody.
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  You just would not make it.
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  You would not make it.
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  Larry Young,
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  I think you want her to want to.
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  She's scared.
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  She is not scared.
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  She just may not have the physical ability
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  to beat Tia.
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  Tia is,
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  as we talked about with Justin Collar,
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  a bulletproof athlete.
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  She has no holes.
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  She's hard to beat.
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  It doesn't mean people are afraid of her.
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  Jodi.
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  She went through a grieving process.
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  And maybe that grief is over.
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  I don't understand why everybody is so
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  hard on Laura.
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  There have been a handful of athletes that
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  sat out last year.
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  Emma Lawson does not hear the stuff that
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  Laura hears.
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  She sat out last season too.
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  Nobody goes at her like this.
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  Nobody.
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  Nobody.
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  Tia is Laura's what's Rich doing like
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  Kalipa.
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  I agree, Eric.
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  I agree.
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  And he also has Laura as number two
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  all time.
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  Yeah,
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  Laura is like Karl Malone or Charles
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  Barkley.
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  They just happened to play during the
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  Jordan era.
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  Laura just happened to play in the Tia
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  era.
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  I don't think people were even this hard
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  on Mal O'Brien.
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  They weren't.
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  Joseph Ramirez, you're telling me you,
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  you, okay.
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  There's no,
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  there's no talking to you on this subject.
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  Where did, okay, Mike DeVito,
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  where did Laura throw a public tantrum?
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  Where did she throw a public tantrum?
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  She went home from the games in twenty
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  twenty four when a man died.
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  And she was not the only one.
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  There were lots of people that left that
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  day.
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  Where was the public tantrum?
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  I didn't see a public tantrum.
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  If anything,
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  she holed up in Hungary and just didn't
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  talk to people.
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  I think the way she comes off on
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  a personal level that rubs people the
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  wrong way.
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  I can get that.
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  She, I believe in her culture,
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  they're just more matter of fact about
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  things.
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  Vicky, that's not a tantrum.
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  And I don't think she's competing for
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  second.
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  I think she believes if she goes up
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  against Tia, she has a shot.
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  But she's going to have to be her
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  best,
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  the best she can be on that day.
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  She does not think she's shooting for
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  second.
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  If you go in with that mindset, just,
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  oh my gosh.
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  Listen,
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  I was not the athlete that either of
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  these people were.
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  But when I was swimming,
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  there were swimmers that were better than
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  me.
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  But I was up in that upper tier.
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  Never once did I go into a race
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  thinking I couldn't beat them.
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  Never once.
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  Did I beat them all the time?
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  No.
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  But I never went in thinking that they
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  were going to beat me that day.
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  I, in my heart of hearts,
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  felt like if I put together the perfect
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  race, I could win that day.
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  i think i think you guys are crazy
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  town banana pants as my friend corey likes
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  to say that's just that's just insanity
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  and that girl takes so much heat so
• 22:41
  much heat for every move she makes scott
• 22:50
  sometimes if everyone sees something you
• 22:52
  don't maybe you need to rethink
• 22:55
  I don't think it's everyone.
• 22:56
  I think it's there's a group of people
• 22:58
  like you all that think this way.
• 23:01
  I truly do not feel that this is
• 23:04
  a consensus across.
• 23:05
  I've talked to a lot of people,
• 23:07
  a lot of people who do not think
• 23:09
  the way you guys think.
• 23:19
  Now,
• 23:20
  Kenneth must be smoking something because
• 23:22
  I love Lydia Fish.
• 23:23
  She ain't winning the games in twenty
• 23:25
  twenty six.
• 23:31
  Train all of this with me, see,
• 23:32
  I'm not alone.
• 23:37
  Corey Leonard,
• 23:37
  if you line up and think you're going
• 23:38
  to lose before the event starts, congrats,
• 23:41
  you're right.
• 23:42
  No athlete in their right mind who is
• 23:43
  truly competitive has that mindset.
• 23:49
  Larry just poking the bear.
• 23:51
  Oh, yeah.
• 23:52
  On a Monday.
• 23:53
  On a Monday.
• 23:54
  Mondays are bad days to poke.
• 23:56
  Just saying.
• 24:01
  Let's say Milano, a very vocal minority.
• 24:04
  I believe you're correct.
• 24:06
  There's a vocal minority that do not like
• 24:07
  Laura,
• 24:08
  and they want to dog her in everything
• 24:11
  she does.
• 24:14
  I'm not one of those people.
• 24:16
  I can look and see what she does
• 24:17
  on the floor.
• 24:19
  She dominated Rogue,
• 24:20
  and you guys can say it's not the
• 24:22
  games,
• 24:22
  but everybody who did Rogue this year said
• 24:25
  it was one of the hardest competitions
• 24:27
  they've ever done across the board.
• 24:31
  She dominated.
• 24:32
  She dominated the entire field.
• 24:34
  Yeah, Tia wasn't there,
• 24:36
  but she dominated that field.
• 24:43
  Megan, you're going to have to rewind.
• 24:46
  I ain't going over it again.
• 24:49
  Sorry.
• 24:53
  So it's already being mentioned in the
• 24:55
  chat.
• 24:56
  So the last thing I'm going to bring
• 24:57
  up is this.
• 25:01
  We have been clamoring now for the last
• 25:04
  couple weeks that WFP has never posted
• 25:11
  what the pro cards are worth and that
• 25:14
  that was something they should do to
• 25:16
  entice the athletes to say, okay,
• 25:19
  now I know what I'm going for and
• 25:22
  this is what it's going to be.
• 25:25
  What makes it complicated is this isn't
• 25:28
  like, hey, you get this money.
• 25:32
  And it's more like, hey,
• 25:34
  this is the minimum you're going to make
• 25:36
  next year.
• 25:38
  And that makes everything so complicated
• 25:40
  with the way they're doing things.
• 25:42
  So if you win the number one pro
• 25:45
  card next year,
• 25:47
  you are guaranteed eighty grand.
• 25:50
  But that doesn't mean that if you win
• 25:53
  the first two tour stops and they don't
• 25:56
  equal eighty grand,
• 25:57
  you're not getting any more money than
• 25:58
  that guarantee.
• 26:00
  You have to win enough money to get
• 26:02
  above that to then be paid more money,
• 26:06
  which really complicates this.
• 26:09
  And anytime you overcomplicate it,
• 26:11
  I think you are losing people in the
• 26:15
  process.
• 26:16
  This should be simple, but it's not.
• 26:23
  So they put this out.
• 26:24
  If you get the number one pro card,
• 26:27
  it's eighty grand.
• 26:30
  And it goes all the way down to
• 26:31
  the twentieth pro card gets ten grand
• 26:33
  guaranteed.
• 26:36
  I'm not sure.
• 26:39
  With looking at how the people have been
• 26:41
  beaten up by doing so many events last
• 26:43
  year.
• 26:45
  That ten grand or twelve grand or twenty
• 26:47
  grand is enough to make them.
• 26:54
  Is to make them incentivized enough to
• 26:58
  jump over to the WFP.
• 27:02
  And it looks like we have Patrick Clark
• 27:04
  in the comments.
• 27:05
  Oh, no, no, it's Heller Fit.
• 27:06
  Scott,
• 27:07
  stop comparing it to the CrossFit Games.
• 27:11
  Which, Heller,
• 27:12
  I have not done and you didn't do
• 27:14
  this morning.
• 27:15
  I'm not comparing this to the CrossFit
• 27:17
  Games.
• 27:18
  I'm just, as a standalone entity,
• 27:20
  is this enough to incentivize people to
• 27:23
  want to put their bodies on the line
• 27:25
  for an extra four competitions a year?
• 27:31
  And I don't believe it does unless you're
• 27:35
  in like the eighty seventy fifty,
• 27:37
  maybe fifty grand.
• 27:42
  I think you're better off doing some of
• 27:45
  the mid majors and some of the offseason
• 27:49
  events to make money rather than think
• 27:53
  that this is the way to go and
• 27:55
  beat up your body for the next season.
• 28:04
  WFP pays for the trip to Copenhagen too,
• 28:06
  right?
• 28:07
  So it's actually in the press release.
• 28:12
  I can pull that up real quick.
• 28:17
  Scott,
• 28:17
  why can't you appreciate the transparency
• 28:19
  here for the WFP?
• 28:22
  It would have been transparency had it
• 28:23
  been done like a year ago.
• 28:26
  I think at this point when the ship
• 28:28
  is sinking and now you're claiming
• 28:31
  transparency,
• 28:31
  it might be a hair too late to
• 28:34
  play that card.
• 28:39
  When people are leaving your event in
• 28:41
  droves and now you're trying to
• 28:43
  incentivize them to stay or not to leave,
• 28:47
  now you're going to publish what the pro
• 28:49
  card's worth next year?
• 28:50
  Seems a little disingenuous.
• 29:02
  Corey Leonard,
• 29:03
  can we get them to throw in free
• 29:04
  hot dogs?
• 29:10
  Hillary's having a hard time typing in
• 29:11
  sarcasm.
• 29:14
  I'm reading into it.
• 29:15
  I got it.
• 29:19
  Mike DeVito, it's the desperate card.
• 29:20
  A tale as old as time.
• 29:23
  There you go.
• 29:33
  Why are people so mad that Costco
• 29:35
  employees are superior to most human
• 29:36
  beings?
• 29:41
  That one I'm at a loss for.
• 29:44
  I'm not a Costco fan, Hiller.
• 29:45
  I'm sorry.
• 29:47
  Our Costco here is so trash.
• 29:52
  So I'm a member of BJ's Warehouse because
• 29:56
  it's much cleaner.
• 29:57
  It's much nicer,
• 29:59
  much easier to get around.
• 30:02
  I get the allure to a good Costco.
• 30:05
  Ours is just trash.
• 30:07
  Wish it wasn't, but it is.
• 30:13
  So we did get a media release today
• 30:15
  from the WFP,
• 30:19
  and they do say something about travel,
• 30:27
  but I can't remember...
• 30:35
  And it's really hard to read right here
• 30:37
  and I don't want to do it on
• 30:38
  the air.
• 30:39
  I don't see anything.
• 30:46
  It just says it's guaranteed minimum and
• 30:51
  they don't really say anything about
• 30:52
  travel.
• 30:54
  The only travel that I've seen or heard
• 30:57
  of was...
• 31:01
  rob the european event coordinator saying
• 31:04
  they have a blank check to travel wherever
• 31:06
  they want to as long as they wear
• 31:08
  a um a wfp shirt uh mike devito
• 31:15
  loves bjs yeah uh and a shoop bjs
• 31:21
  are my favorite yep so
• 31:31
  Uh, Barbara spin confirms, uh,
• 31:33
  travel and accommodations are covered for
• 31:35
  the pros.
• 31:37
  So there you go.
• 31:47
  Uh, Corey Leonard has,
• 31:48
  how has that company not capitalized on
• 31:50
  that double entendre slogan drives me
• 31:52
  bonkers.
• 31:54
  Yeah.
• 31:56
  so you get the guaranteed money and you
• 31:57
  get your travel paid for to the events,
• 32:01
  but at what expense we've seen people drop
• 32:03
  out.
• 32:03
  We've seen people injured.
• 32:05
  Um, it's going to be,
• 32:09
  it's going to be interesting to see how,
• 32:11
  how incentivized people are.
• 32:13
  We've had a myriad of withdrawals in the
• 32:16
  last week and, um,
• 32:21
  And there still is, what,
• 32:24
  five weeks before the next tour stop,
• 32:27
  the finals, five or six weeks.
• 32:30
  I'm sure we're going to see more before
• 32:32
  then and see if this is anything to
• 32:40
  keep people incentivized.
• 32:42
  The only thing that's in the WFP's favor
• 32:44
  is this rumored sale of CrossFit and not
• 32:48
  knowing where CrossFit is going next year.
• 32:51
  That's the only thing that, and again,
• 32:55
  building your platform on the failures of
• 32:58
  another entity has worked so well for WFP
• 33:02
  so far.
• 33:05
  It would really suck that...
• 33:08
  that they get out of this because there
• 33:10
  just is new ownership that maybe takes
• 33:14
  away the season from CrossFit.
• 33:15
  We don't know.
• 33:16
  We have no idea what these new people
• 33:17
  want or what they're going to do.
• 33:20
  Everything there is speculation.
• 33:23
  And I just hate when new owners and
• 33:27
  new CEOs jump in and have no idea
• 33:29
  what the hell they're doing.
• 33:35
  Exactly.
• 33:36
  Mike DeVito.
• 33:38
  WFP looking at the looming sale like,
• 33:40
  so you're telling me there's a chance?
• 33:47
  It's wild that WFP has been at the
• 33:49
  table with the new owners.
• 33:51
  And they're supposedly an NDA and they're
• 33:53
  not supposed to know, right?
• 33:56
  Right?
• 34:00
  Why would WFP,
• 34:01
  who has nothing to do with CrossFit...
• 34:04
  or Berkshire,
• 34:06
  or the people brokering the deal,
• 34:09
  why would they have preferential
• 34:13
  information above?
• 34:16
  It just,
• 34:18
  there's a lot of weird shit about this
• 34:19
  whole rumored sale.
• 34:21
  A lot of weird shit.
• 34:24
  I don't even know.
• 34:28
  I have no idea what to think anymore
• 34:30
  with that.
• 34:32
  I just don't want CrossFit to go away.
• 34:36
  I want someone to come in and make
• 34:37
  CrossFit the name it's supposed to be,
• 34:41
  make it mean something again.
• 34:49
  Vicky asks, on this question,
• 34:51
  why are the elites so dismissive of the
• 34:52
  Open?
• 34:53
  First in the Open is nice money.
• 34:56
  Look at Colton's earnings for the year
• 34:58
  just in that,
• 34:59
  plus side comps before WFP even.
• 35:03
  Kind of nuts to me.
• 35:06
  I know Carolyn loves the Open.
• 35:08
  She has earned money in the Open the
• 35:09
  last, or at least...
• 35:12
  Not this year, but the two years previous.
• 35:14
  And it's more money than she makes at
• 35:16
  semifinals or more money than she makes
• 35:19
  throughout the season.
• 35:20
  So I don't know why people don't.
• 35:23
  I know why.
• 35:23
  If you talk to the athletes themselves,
• 35:26
  because it's very easy for them to make
• 35:29
  the top twenty five percent.
• 35:32
  They look at as they want it to
• 35:34
  be take the least amount away from their
• 35:38
  training.
• 35:40
  And so they don't get to pick that
• 35:42
  workout.
• 35:42
  They have to do that workout regardless of
• 35:45
  what's on deck for their training program
• 35:47
  for the week.
• 35:48
  And so a lot of them just get
• 35:51
  it done quick,
• 35:52
  get it over with and move on so
• 35:55
  they can get back to their normal
• 35:56
  training.
• 35:58
  when it mattered and like they actually
• 36:00
  were taking people directly from the open
• 36:03
  to the games or picking the people who
• 36:06
  went to regionals to compete for the
• 36:08
  games, it mattered.
• 36:10
  And it was way more than top twenty
• 36:12
  five percent.
• 36:13
  You had to be in like the top
• 36:14
  twenty in your region.
• 36:16
  So it meant a lot more.
• 36:21
  Yeah.
• 36:23
  now it just doesn't mean anything because
• 36:24
  it's very easy for them at eighty percent
• 36:28
  sixty percent to get in the top twenty
• 36:30
  five percent and move on to the next
• 36:34
  Now we have suggested on this show that
• 36:38
  the open score should count during
• 36:40
  quarterfinals.
• 36:42
  So you have a more complete test going
• 36:45
  into semifinals.
• 36:46
  You take the three scores from the open,
• 36:49
  the four scores from quarterfinals,
• 36:51
  put them all together and make one seven
• 36:55
  event entity that qualifies people to the
• 36:59
  next level.
• 37:01
  And that way the open would matter.
• 37:04
  Because what happens is they do like the
• 37:08
  big cardio events in the open.
• 37:11
  Then they kind of take those away at
• 37:12
  quarterfinals and do more higher skill
• 37:15
  because that's the next level.
• 37:17
  Why not leave it all as one complete
• 37:19
  test moving forward into semifinals?
• 37:32
  Um,
• 37:34
  Mike DeVito,
• 37:34
  I hope the new owners realize that the
• 37:36
  initial growth of CrossFit worked because
• 37:38
  of the simple formula.
• 37:41
  The games is a highlight of the best
• 37:43
  in the community and helps bring awareness
• 37:44
  to the community.
• 37:49
  I can do the bare minimum for the
• 37:51
  open and make quarters.
• 37:52
  This year,
• 37:52
  they managed to make quarters matter for
• 37:54
  those of us old folks who want the
• 37:57
  chance to compete in the semis in person.
• 38:02
  uh phil to pooper uh that's a terrible
• 38:05
  idea i completely disagree why would a
• 38:09
  more complete test not um why why wouldn't
• 38:18
  you want the best people in the semifinals
• 38:22
  and give them a more complete test
• 38:28
  don't points from the semis go to the
• 38:29
  games because the games is a complete test
• 38:32
  on its own the open in three events
• 38:36
  cannot be a complete test quarterfinals
• 38:41
  four events cannot be a complete test
• 38:44
  without some kind of skewing in one
• 38:47
  direction or another by combining them
• 38:50
  together you can get a complete test and
• 38:52
  get the right people to semi-finals
• 39:04
  Uh, some people,
• 39:04
  some athletes began to scoff at the open
• 39:06
  because the sport grew quickly and some of
• 39:08
  them forgot the meaning of the sport side
• 39:11
  and their place in the CrossFit ecosystem.
• 39:12
  Just my opinion.
• 39:20
  Uh, Vicki, I like that too, Scott.
• 39:22
  It's like the five week open,
• 39:23
  but two weeks are filtered after cuts.
• 39:26
  Exactly.
• 39:28
  Exactly.
• 39:29
  The five week open,
• 39:29
  we used to get a more complete test.
• 39:32
  We can't get that in three weeks.
• 39:34
  So why not combine the three week open
• 39:36
  with the quarterfinals and have that
• 39:38
  complete test again?
• 39:43
  If they're never going to bring back the
• 39:44
  five week open,
• 39:47
  why not make it a five week open
• 39:50
  by adding quarterfinals to the mix?
• 39:59
  Yeah, Kenneth,
• 40:00
  I saw that Hiller's new video is out.
• 40:01
  I've definitely got to check that out.
• 40:08
  Frida, I missed the five-week open.
• 40:10
  I'm conflicted about the five-week open
• 40:13
  personally.
• 40:13
  I was a coach.
• 40:15
  I was the head judge for our gym
• 40:18
  during the five-week open,
• 40:19
  and it wore us out to put on
• 40:23
  a five-week open.
• 40:25
  It just is a daunting thing for affiliate
• 40:28
  owners.
• 40:32
  Now,
• 40:33
  my gym at the time did a gym-wide
• 40:39
  competition.
• 40:40
  We had a hundred and fifty members doing
• 40:43
  the open.
• 40:45
  we're all on separate teams.
• 40:46
  We were scoring all that.
• 40:48
  We were,
• 40:48
  so maybe we added more to it to,
• 40:51
  to make it harder on ourselves.
• 40:54
  But man,
• 40:54
  that five week open was crazy hard for
• 40:58
  the coaches and the affiliate owners.
• 41:01
  Um,
• 41:11
  So the wrong people have been going to
• 41:12
  semis when there are quarterfinals.
• 41:15
  I believe there have been people there
• 41:17
  that should not be there.
• 41:20
  Yes.
• 41:28
  Vicky,
• 41:28
  that said to twenty twenty six rulebook is
• 41:30
  not yet.
• 41:31
  Maybe that's exactly what they're
• 41:32
  planning.
• 41:33
  Yeah.
• 41:33
  Who knows?
• 41:41
  If you run an efficient affiliate with
• 41:42
  equipment and standards in every single
• 41:44
  class,
• 41:45
  the open shouldn't be any different.
• 41:49
  We made it special, Jenny.
• 41:51
  And it, it, again,
• 41:54
  we probably put way too much on ourselves
• 41:56
  on top of what we were doing for
• 41:58
  the open.
• 42:02
  We had a major like Friday night party
• 42:04
  and a Saturday afternoon party every
• 42:07
  single week.
• 42:09
  We roped it off like it was a
• 42:11
  competition.
• 42:12
  We had people cheering from the sides.
• 42:16
  It really was a great experience for the
• 42:19
  athletes.
• 42:20
  I'm just saying we probably put too much
• 42:22
  on ourselves.
• 42:33
  Phil DePuper,
• 42:33
  the bottom of the twenty five percent
• 42:35
  won't sign up for quarters if they know
• 42:36
  they aren't going to gain enough points to
• 42:38
  move on.
• 42:38
  I don't agree at all.
• 42:41
  I have a lot of friends who their
• 42:42
  goals are to make the twenty five percent
• 42:45
  and to get to compete in quarters.
• 42:48
  That is their yearly goal.
• 42:49
  Their yearly goal isn't to make the games
• 42:51
  or to make semifinals.
• 42:53
  Their yearly goal is to make
• 42:54
  quarterfinals.
• 42:55
  I'm so glad they brought that back because
• 43:00
  it really was something that a lot of
• 43:02
  people shoot for.
• 43:10
  A lot of people liking the five-week open.
• 43:17
  Tristan, five-week was fun.
• 43:19
  Better test.
• 43:20
  I like quarters as well, though,
• 43:22
  as testing body as long as it's a
• 43:24
  test.
• 43:35
  Yes, Jonathan.
• 43:36
  So many people wanted to make it to
• 43:38
  quarters.
• 43:40
  I have so many friends that that is
• 43:42
  their goal every single year is to get
• 43:45
  to quarterfinals.
• 43:50
  So with that,
• 43:52
  I'm coming up on the end of my
• 43:54
  lunch hour.
• 43:55
  It's been a fun Monday.
• 43:56
  You guys have really poked the bear today.
• 43:59
  So thank you so much for that.
• 44:05
  Winter says,
• 44:05
  all I did was cry and complain about
• 44:07
  no quarters last year.
• 44:09
  Yeah,
• 44:09
  a lot of people were really upset when
• 44:11
  the quarters went away.
• 44:12
  It took away their goal.
• 44:25
  so with that guys um thank you so
• 44:29
  much for being here today love you all
• 44:31
  don't forget code jazzy at third z if
• 44:34
  you want to sleep better at night and
• 44:35
  have better recovery it's awesome i'm
• 44:38
  gonna try the new flavor tonight the
• 44:41
  salted caramel chocolate um and maybe i'll
• 44:44
  do i don't know i'll tell you about
• 44:46
  it tomorrow
• 44:47
  With that,
• 44:49
  the Bears are still in first place.
• 44:51
  And we'll see everybody next time on Lunch
• 44:53
  with the Cladsdale.
• 44:54
  Bye, guys.