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Lunch with the Clydesdale - Summer Colds are the Worst · Clydesdale Media Podcast

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what is going on everybody welcome to
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lunchtime with the Clydesdale we got train
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all of in the house what's going on
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um yeah we're back for another day it
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has been like slow news week man uh
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Amanda it's my Friday and I wish it
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was mine too Jess what's going on miss
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you sister miss you
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tell you what this girl this girl jess
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rosy view photography um had some of the
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greatest talks like at events she she went
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with me for one year we we hung
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out with late night table talks we
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probably upset jamie and cheryl in the
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house uh but man we had some good
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talks and all the stuff you're not
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supposed to talk about
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All the stuff you're not supposed to talk
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about at a table, we did,
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and they were just really good talks.
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Denise's Friday, two men.
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You guys.
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CK Kevin.
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Oh, my God, yes, I love those.
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Yeah, they were great.
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They were great.
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We were like the two night owls.
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Everybody else was in bed.
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So, Vicky.
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so proud dad moment um my daughter i
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tell you how cool she is um i
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tell you how cool she is all the
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time and i'm a proud dad so i'm
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gonna say it again uh last night she
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went off the grid she went camping in
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the mountains
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a photo shoot she was there not to
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just camp and enjoy herself but to go
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out and take pictures of people wearing
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their apparel while camping um and i can't
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wait to see what it comes out like
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i don't know if i told you guys
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like the coolest thing that happened um to
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me when we were out there we were
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driving down the road to go to dinner
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one night and my my daughter goes oh
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my gosh there's my picture
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And up on a billboard was a picture
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that she had taken in an advertisement for
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her company.
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So yeah, like just the coolest stuff.
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She is like so happy right now.
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I can't even express how cool that is
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to have a daughter that just has found
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her groove and is so happy.
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As a parent,
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there's just no better feeling in the
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world.
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No better feeling.
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Chris Bisterfield is in the house.
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Scott's going to be on another Realm
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Thursday, three p.m.
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Eastern.
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Yes, I am.
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We just set that up this morning.
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So I'll be on Chris's podcast October
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second.
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Sean and Oregon breakfast with the
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Clydesdale.
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I'll raise my mug to you.
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So another little tidbit I wanted to share
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with you guys.
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CrossFit Games posted this picture today.
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I don't know if you guys have seen
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this.
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The long shorts at the CrossFit Games.
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I believe that's Pat Barber,
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but wearing the long shorts.
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Can I just say my legs are so
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short that every single pair of my shorts
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are long shorts.
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I am like five, ten, five, eleven.
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And my legs are like.
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I look like those sausages at the
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Milwaukee Brewers games that run around
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the field that have these long,
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long torsos and these itty bitty legs.
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That's how my body is made up.
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So I wear short shorts,
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and they look like long shorts.
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Crazy.
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Because I had those rogue board shorts
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back in the day,
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and they were all the way down to
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the tops of my knees.
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So, um, so yeah, look at those shorts,
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man.
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Neil Maddox.
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That's so old school.
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Austin, Molly yellow.
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But man, I miss these colors.
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I miss these Parker, these, sorry,
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saw Lucas Parker in the chat.
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I miss these colors on the field.
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They were just the best.
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So easy to find your athlete and root
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for your athlete.
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And then the Lucas Parker, there it is.
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wearing the old banana hammock uh those
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are the swimsuits i wore back when i
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was competitive swimming it was way before
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the long shorts in that um gosh i
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can't believe i wore those for like years
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and felt comfortable in them i i can't
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even i can't even imagine and we got
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some dan bailey big old headbands
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Those weren't the big headbands.
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The Rich Froning headbands were the...
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There we go.
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The Holmberg with the big headband.
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And then the tall socks.
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Everybody had to have the coolest tall
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socks.
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And Chris Spieler's headphones.
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Yeah.
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No earbuds back then.
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No earbuds at all.
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Uh, Vicki, I still wear those,
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those wide headbands.
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I do too.
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Like I sweat so much.
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Um, I do.
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I wear those to, uh, just,
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just for out of necessity.
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If it's a long workout.
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So anyway,
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just I'd share that little walk down
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memory lane.
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Taking me back to the good old days
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before my twelve back procedures.
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When I could wear all that stuff and
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feel confident and all.
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So one thing I wanted to talk about
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is last night I'm sitting at home and
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I get an alert from ESPN.
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I'm a big Pirates fan in baseball.
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And Paul Skeens is the youngest pitcher to
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finish the season with an ERA lower than
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two since Dwight Gooden in nineteen eighty
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five.
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So we're talking.
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Forty, fifty years, right?
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No, forty years.
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Forty years since anybody had done that.
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He is such a good pitcher.
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And he only gives...
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He gives up less than two runs every
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nine innings.
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And the Pirates never win when he pitches
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because they can't score enough runs to
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support that.
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And so it made me think, like,
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how many...
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How many athletes are like that where
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they're so good, so good,
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but something fails them to prevent them
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from winning?
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And I think about, like, Laura Horvat.
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She has been the one athlete that has
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been able to go toe-to-toe with Tia Toomey
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at any event in the CrossFit Games season
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or Rogue.
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But she has that one thing.
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She has that one thing that just prevents
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her from winning.
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If that one thing shows up,
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it's such a bad performance that it takes
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everything else away.
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And I was trying to think,
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are there any other athletes that are so
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great at everything else,
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but they just have one thing?
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One thing.
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But Joseph,
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I would argue if she could do strict
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deficit handstand pushups,
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just above average,
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she could compete for a win against Tia.
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Because they go back and forth in other
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events.
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Tia doesn't win everything.
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The problem is that she's not so bad
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at something that there's a big point gap
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at any point where people can take
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advantage of that.
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It just made me think about that.
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Yeah.
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Pat Vellner running swimming,
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especially swimming.
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His swimming is so bad.
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So bad.
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You know, it seemed a great, great one.
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DB and her back squats.
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DB finished fourth.
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At the CrossFit Games with a dead last
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finish in the back squats.
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That's it.
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Patrick Vellner,
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you could say the swimming,
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you could say the first workout,
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whatever it is.
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But I think it's even more extreme for
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like Laura and DB.
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I...
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It just was an interesting thought that
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came to my head with this because how
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frustrating does it have to be for a
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pitcher that's doing everything in his
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power to be great and his team can't
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score the minimum amount of runs to
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support him?
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And as much as I love Paul Skeens
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and I try to watch every game that
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he pitches,
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I
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Part of that's because I know he's
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probably not going to be here soon because
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the frustration is going to grow and the
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pirates are going to trade them to get
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some draft picks and some prospects.
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And eventually it's,
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he's going to be gone and he's going
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to do it for another team.
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I've watched so many good pitchers leave
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them, uh, and go to another team.
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And then,
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then I half root for them because I,
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I knew them when Corey Leonard,
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Barry Sanders.
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Yeah.
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I mean, Barry,
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Barry Sanders did make the playoffs a
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couple of years.
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Um,
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And he had a good team,
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but not a great team.
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So anyway, just a thought I had.
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So I thought I'd talk about that just
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for a brief moment and see how it
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related to the CrossFit world.
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So the other thing I wanted to talk
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about is I was watching the spin last
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night.
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And I know, Jody,
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you don't know who that is,
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but it's a show on Wednesday nights.
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And they were talking about what changes
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they would make to Tearwaterpalooza.
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And they were really dogging on the erg
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chute.
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And I think it could be exciting with
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a couple tweaks.
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On the broadcast,
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we just couldn't see the green or red
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light.
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I think that's huge.
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Without seeing that, it becomes very,
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very boring.
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The other thing is just have a dedicated
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camera on the target so we can see
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if they hit or not.
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And just put it in the lower,
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like a lower box in the corner.
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You brought in the big boys to do
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the production.
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You probably paid hundreds of thousands of
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dollars.
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Why couldn't they have a dedicated camera
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on the target to let us know if
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it hit or not?
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But the biggest thing they wanted to
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change, and I think is a huge,
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huge mistake, is...
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is they think that it needs more teams
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and their idea was to go away from
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uh territories or countries or or whatever
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or continents i think that's a huge
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mistake i think people are more invested
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because they're rooting for their region
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of the world to win
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If you go to a European semifinal,
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what makes it so loud and so crazy
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is all the athletes are from different
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countries.
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And so France is yelling for Victor Hoffa
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and Claudia Gluck.
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And you have Iceland rooting for the
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daughters.
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And you have the UK rooting for Lucy
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Campbell.
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And because of that...
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It gets more exciting and the crowd is
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much, much more into it.
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If you take that away,
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I think you take away the passion for
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wanting your region to win.
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And that is significant.
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If you just do a draft,
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there's no connection to a team.
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Now you're back to just rooting for
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athletes, and that's what the WFP is.
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And so I think, like,
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I'm okay with adding a team or two,
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I think, but it needs to stay regional.
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And I think the best way to do
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that would be like North America, Europe,
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Oceania.
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You probably have to go like North America
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or United States, Canada, Europe.
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I don't know.
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And the rest of the world.
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But I think it just has to be...
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Maybe,
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but the old rogue red versus black was
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really entertaining to me.
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Yeah.
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But Mark,
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you're probably a geek like me who watch
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anything.
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I think it's just, um,
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I think you just have to,
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you have to think outside of our,
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our box to bring in more people to
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watch.
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And here's my other thing about the other
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teams that we just have to be careful
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of.
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And that is that one of the best
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things about the event is it's only two
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teams to watch.
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So it makes it easier to watch.
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There's no camera missing things going on.
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It's just two teams.
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The more teams you put on the floor...
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I don't want it to become what the
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CrossFit Games teams are,
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where there's just mass confusion all over
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the floor with.
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Forty athletes all out there doing
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whatever they do,
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and nobody really understands what's going
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on.
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And so.
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I think it needs to be kept intimate
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with people,
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with other teammates out there cheering,
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things like that to make it what it
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is.
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Lots of suggestions on what it should be.
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North America, Europe, Middle East,
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and Africa, Asia, and Oceania.
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Yeah, that would work,
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except for you don't have South America in
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there.
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Not enough high-end talent in those other
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demos.
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We'd know beforehand already who was
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winning the whole thing.
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don't know i don't know we talked about
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this a little bit sunday night um and
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we named some decent people uh but you're
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probably right you don't want to dilute it
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either you're right you don't want to
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dilute it too much but there's a big
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list of people who weren't there this year
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that would have been interesting to see in
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the mix so maybe it's just a third
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team and not four
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Nobody picked North America to win,
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and if you say you did,
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you're a liar.
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I did not pick North America to win.
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I was wrong.
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Just for mirrors, U.S., Europe, Canada,
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Australia to start.
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But you're leaving out other people who
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are good,
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and you just have to remember that.
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I've said it every year.
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Guy is awesome at this style of workout.
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You can love or hate him,
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and I know there's a lot of people
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who hate him,
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but he is really good at this.
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He has superpowers that other people don't
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have.
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His gymnastics are good,
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and the fact he was able to keep
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up with Dallin on that power output burpee
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thing was impressive.
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I didn't think he was going to hang
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at all on that.
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He does.
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He has superpowers and he has super holes.
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And it's like a fifty fifty proposition.
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So.
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He kept up with him on the burpees
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but had no juice otherwise.
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He actually kept up with him on the
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run and the burpees.
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It was the bike where he lost it
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all.
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You can love or hate Guy.
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Either way,
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he wants you to buy him a bike.
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There it is.
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So, and on the bike,
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Dallin is one of the best in the
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world.
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Flat out.
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When he hits the go button, no,
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but not very many people are keeping up
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with him.
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Dallin is not a great runner.
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Keep keeping up with him is not a
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great feat.
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I think Dallin is better on an air
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runner than he is on like the beach
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or the dry land for sure.
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Because his weight will push that
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treadmill faster.
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I think that actually helps Dallin in this
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case.
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So.
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Yeah.
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But anyway, I just don't, I think that,
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well,
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I think like a third team would be
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interesting.
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And though, as we're talking it out,
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I think three is probably better than
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four.
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I think you, you take away the countries,
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you take away the passion that people
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would have to root for their region.
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So, yeah,
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that's what I'm going to say about that.
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And the last thing I'm going to say
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about the spin cast,
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Who is John Young who doesn't know what
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an appetizer is or doesn't eat appetizers?
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Like, are you kidding me?
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I'm not a big appetizer guy,
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but I know what they are.
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And my wife and daughter order them all
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the time.
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It's just crazy.
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So train all of,
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he looks like he eats appetizers.
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I know.
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Jess, I love a good appetizer.
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I know.
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John Young eats at Mickey D's.
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No appetizers there.
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Oh, that's a fact.
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Um,
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Yeah, so I found that interesting.
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So anyway,
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Mark Phillips just won some Oreos.
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There you go.
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Speaking of Oreos,
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have you seen this new show?
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It's, um, ninety nine to beat.
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I think it is.
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it's a whole show where they just do
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like little games and the, and the,
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like the one game is taking a piece
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of spaghetti,
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getting like five pieces of ZD on the
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spaghetti and having it all on there.
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And there's,
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it starts with a hundred people and the
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person who finishes last gets booted.
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So the whole goal is not to win
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each round.
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It's just not to finish last.
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And then the last place person goes home.
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And then the next guess,
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the next thing is there's a thousand
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balloons.
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Ninety nine of them have a lay in
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them and you have to pop the balloon
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and find all the lays.
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And as long as you're not the last
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one, you stick around.
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Last person goes home.
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It was it was way more fun to
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watch than I thought it would be.
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But I love the premise that it's not
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about winning the match.
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It's just don't finish last.
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So, Vicky, it's on Fox.
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And that's what it is.
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It's exactly that.
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It's mindless, unemotional TV.
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There's no drama.
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It's just...
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Now, what they do, it looks like,
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is they do them where they eliminate one
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person,
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and then at the end of the show,
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they do like a team challenge,
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and then one team goes home,
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which is rough because it's just like we
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talked at the top of the show.
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One person can cost that whole team their
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place there.
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And so the, like the one,
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the one team challenge was you had buckets
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of water and you had to hold them
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on your head and pour from bucket to
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bucket and fill a tube at the end.
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And the last team to fill a tube,
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the whole team went home.
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It was pretty crazy,
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but it's the type of TV I have
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on when I'm doing editing or something of
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videos,
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and I don't need to think about the
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TV show because I'm thinking about what
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I'm working on in that moment.
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Vindicate,
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there's so much dumb shit on TV,
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I'd rather go for a walk.
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That's probably the best option,
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but there are times where I have to
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edit videos and do things like that,
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and I don't want something that I have
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to pay close attention to,
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and that's when I throw that stuff on.
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It sounds like Double Dare.
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Double Dare is fully team.
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This is mostly individual,
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and then at one point it becomes team.
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it's kind of messy and then so in
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that realm it's kind of like along that
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line so well i have to blow my
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nose so excuse me for one i think
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that like
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I took all these antibiotics for this
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pneumonia I had.
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And then I traveled to Montana and back.
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And then I just,
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I was more susceptible to everything going
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on around me that I caught a stupid
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summer cold in the process of all of
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this.
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But man, I'm just tired.
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We talked about this yesterday.
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I'm not going to go down that rabbit
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hole again.
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But man,
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I'm just tired of my sinuses failing on
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me.
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So I did notice one thing.
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I got to pull this back up because
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it's still up here.
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The Chris Spieler picture.
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Yeah, the headphones are crazy.
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But did you know the little,
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what was that Apple iPad?
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Not iPad.
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Shit, iPod.
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iPod mini or is that what it was
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called right here?
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It's on his belt.
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It had no screen.
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Um, it, I was just like,
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I haven't seen one of those in at
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least ten years.
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Um,
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So I see Nano, iPod Nano,
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a couple people said.
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One percent is another one you can put
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on in the background, Scott,
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if you haven't seen it.
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I have seen it.
28:34
Here's the problem, Vicki.
28:36
When it comes to trivia, I am very,
28:39
very competitive.
28:41
And I've watched the one percent and I
28:45
love that it's not straight ahead trivia.
28:48
It's kind of like tricky trivia and I
28:51
have to like pay attention and play along.
28:55
That's the problem.
28:59
So.
29:04
iPod shuffle.
29:06
That's it.
29:07
That's it.
29:08
Vindicate for the win.
29:24
Vicky just graduated.
29:25
What'd you graduate with Vicky?
29:37
Yeah.
29:38
Shuffle because you couldn't see what the
29:40
track to play or choose next.
29:42
That's right.
29:47
I have an unopened shuffle in neon green.
29:50
And that's what Chris Spieler had,
29:52
a neon green shuffle.
29:55
Oh my goodness, Vicki,
29:56
a PhD in functional medicine.
29:58
That is awesome.
30:00
Awesome.
30:02
I was with Wild Health for a while,
30:04
and I really like the approach of
30:06
functional medicine.
30:07
I really do.
30:09
My only problem with Wild Health was like,
30:14
To get an appointment,
30:16
the wait times were so long because the
30:19
demand was there, but the supply wasn't.
30:22
And I hope we can get to a
30:24
point where we get enough functional
30:26
doctors to meet the supply of the demand
30:30
of how many people want that.
30:36
So...
30:38
I am hoping that you and your cohort,
30:41
Vicki,
30:42
are part of that group to move us
30:46
into the future where we have more options
30:48
for that.
31:01
Jess, I never heard of an iPod,
31:03
just a CD player with headphones.
31:06
You are you Wisconsin farm girl.
31:11
I had the two hundred gigabyte iPod.
31:15
Oh, my gosh.
31:16
That thing was.
31:20
I took it everywhere.
31:22
It had movies on it.
31:23
It had and I was I used to
31:25
travel a ton for work.
31:27
And so it had all of the movies.
31:31
music on it it had the movies on
31:33
it so whenever i was traveling i could
31:35
do whatever i needed to now the movie
31:37
was on an itty bitty square screen but
31:40
on an airplane at that point in time
31:42
in my life it was still fine um
31:51
vicky ever heard of regenerative
31:53
regenerative ag i think yeah i'm familiar
31:59
with what it is but nothing in depth
32:07
iPod is where podcast comes from.
32:10
Yeah.
32:10
Initially you download podcasts onto your
32:13
iPod and you could listen to podcasts on
32:17
your iPod.
32:19
That's it.
32:20
Yeah.
32:22
Technology has moved so fast in the last
32:25
twenty five years.
32:26
It is unreal where we were at and
32:29
where we are now.
32:38
I had a Walkman,
32:39
then a Discman with stabilization so CDs
32:42
wouldn't skip, then an MP three player,
32:45
then an iPod touch.
32:47
An iPod touch was just an iPhone without
32:49
cell service.
33:00
So yeah, and this CD stabilization thing.
33:04
Yeah, that's a lie.
33:07
If you hit a bump in your car,
33:09
it still skipped.
33:15
Back in my swimming days,
33:17
I had a Walkman cassette player that I
33:20
took everywhere.
33:21
And one day I was walking down the
33:22
pool and it came unhooked from my
33:25
sweatpants band and did like a bounce off
33:30
the deck and into the pool.
33:32
I was like, there we go.
33:33
That's over.
33:36
My parents were so pissed at me.
33:44
CD stabilization and mega bass.
33:49
Yeah.
33:53
Jody,
33:53
I was a Walkman person all through high
33:55
school.
33:56
I took one everywhere I went.
33:58
But after I lost the really nice Sony
34:00
one in the pool,
34:02
everything after that was like off-brand,
34:05
super cheap, and I just dealt with it.
34:20
Remember the days of CD players with the
34:22
corded cassette for your car so you could
34:26
play the CDs in the car?
34:27
Yes.
34:29
Yes.
34:29
You put the cassette in and somehow the
34:33
sound went through the wire into the
34:35
cassette into the tape player and on
34:36
through your speakers.
34:46
Wasn't there one where we didn't have to
34:47
flip the cassette?
34:48
That was high-end.
34:49
Yeah, there... Yeah.
34:52
Yeah,
34:52
it had a button on it you'd hit,
34:54
and it would just flip to the other
34:55
side of the cassette and start spinning it
34:57
in the opposite direction.
35:00
Man, you guys...
35:13
my first truck didn't have a radio so
35:15
i took my boom box with the removable
35:17
speakers out of my room and kept it
35:19
there until i could get a head unit
35:22
i ran through a ton of d batteries
35:26
yes vicky we are all old they don't
35:37
jenny they don't know they don't know how
35:39
much we had to work just to listen
35:41
to some music
35:43
I mean, I was a DJ,
35:46
a wedding DJ during the cassette era.
35:49
Like that was work.
35:50
Finding the song on the cassette,
35:53
setting it up to start right at the
35:54
right time,
35:55
putting it in and then cross fading it
35:57
over.
35:59
And you had to do it before the
36:00
other song was over.
36:08
It's crazy.
36:12
The, whoops, the Walkman,
36:14
the pain of the Walkman chewing your
36:16
cassette.
36:16
Oh, that was the worst.
36:20
All this Walkman talk reveals Scott's
36:22
demo.
36:23
Yep.
36:36
Jess, it was a nightmare.
36:38
Um, I would,
36:40
I would bring my cousin along with me
36:43
who was much younger than I was.
36:45
And I made it his job just to
36:47
find the song.
36:51
So I could take requests,
36:52
talk to the people,
36:53
do the things I needed to do.
36:55
And I,
36:56
and his whole job and I'd pay him
36:57
like fifty bucks and he would sit there
36:59
and just find songs all night long.
37:08
So, yeah, fun stuff.
37:12
The last thing I wanted to talk about
37:13
today, not to get off the Walkman talk,
37:16
but the other thing that happened last
37:18
night on the spin,
37:20
and it's something I don't understand,
37:24
and that is that
37:29
We have this group of people in the
37:31
fitness space that say that they're
37:34
professional athletes.
37:36
We have another group that say you're not
37:38
professional because of X, Y, and Z.
37:42
My question is, why does it matter?
37:45
Why does it matter what we call these
37:46
people?
37:48
Like,
37:51
If you want to call yourself professional,
37:53
call yourself professional.
37:54
I was on ESPN one night,
37:57
and there was professional cornhole.
38:05
If they want to call themselves
38:06
professional, go to town, buddy.
38:10
I don't really care.
38:11
And I know the prize purse for cornhole
38:13
cannot be anywhere near what the prize
38:15
purse is for the CrossFit Games.
38:18
So...
38:20
They want to call themselves professional.
38:22
It's no skin off of my back.
38:25
I don't understand the infatuation with
38:28
calling one thing professional or not.
38:34
It just doesn't make any sense to me.
38:37
And I'd love if someone has a take
38:40
on this that makes sense to tell me
38:43
why everybody is so consumed with this
38:47
definition.
38:59
Um, because it just doesn't matter.
39:02
It just doesn't matter to me.
39:03
I, I have no,
39:06
I have no qualms with the athletes calling
39:10
themselves professional.
39:11
If they earn some prize money,
39:12
whether it be three dollars or three
39:14
hundred thousand dollars,
39:16
it doesn't matter to me.
39:17
They made money doing a sport.
39:19
Call yourself professional.
39:21
I am cool with that.
39:26
Corey Leonard,
39:27
I saw a professional tag one day on
39:29
ESPN.
39:30
I know there's all kinds of crazy stuff
39:32
out there that they say they're
39:34
professional with.
39:37
I agree.
39:38
I think it started with so many people
39:39
claiming we need to professionalize the
39:41
sport.
39:43
Well, I think that's a different thing.
39:46
I think that is like in a business
39:48
sense, and CrossFit is a business,
39:51
you should do things in a way that
39:53
are professional.
39:57
And I think they're actually getting there
39:58
right now.
40:04
But for many, many years, they were not.
40:11
And so I think it's okay to want
40:18
the organizer of whatever it is you're
40:20
doing
40:21
whether you call it a sport or not,
40:24
to be professional in setting it up.
40:29
Now,
40:29
that is a different connotation of
40:31
professional than I am a professional
40:34
athlete.
40:41
Professional is engaged in a specified
40:44
activity as one's main paid occupation
40:47
rather than a pastime.
40:51
These athletes at the CrossFit Games are
40:53
not doing this for a pastime.
40:59
But again,
41:01
it doesn't matter to me if they want
41:02
to call themselves professional athletes.
41:05
And when you say professionalize the
41:06
sport, that is very different.
41:08
That is, hey, can we be more organized?
41:10
Can we set things up for success?
41:13
Can we be better than we were before?
41:16
Can we learn from our mistakes?
41:18
Those things.
41:34
Maybe the difference between pro and
41:36
amateur lies in motivation.
41:37
Pros do X primarily for financial gains.
41:40
Amateurs balance X and other life
41:42
obligations.
41:43
Again, it doesn't really matter to me,
41:48
though the label itself.
41:52
I don't think it changes what we do
41:55
or why the athletes do what they do.
42:00
And to argue over that just seems to
42:03
get us nowhere.
42:09
I get paid to DJ on the side.
42:11
Am I a professional DJ?
42:12
I would say so.
42:15
When I was a wedding DJ,
42:16
I'd had other jobs.
42:18
That was just my weekend gig.
42:20
And I got paid really well to do
42:22
it.
42:22
So I would say, yeah,
42:24
I was a professional.
42:36
And even more frustrating part of this
42:38
discussion are people claiming that an
42:40
athlete isn't professional unless they're
42:42
on a big salary apart from prize money,
42:44
sponsorship money.
42:45
What I know we're like,
42:47
we're getting so far down into the minutia
42:50
of what this is and it,
42:52
it doesn't even matter.
42:53
It's just a label.
42:55
It doesn't change what they're doing on or
42:57
off the floor and how they're training.
43:04
Jenny, I'm a professional mom.
43:08
Oh, wait, I don't get paid for that.
43:11
You get paid in hugs and love.
43:15
That's what my daughter would say.
43:24
Sean in Oregon, labels matter.
43:26
Young people and children look up to
43:27
professionals who are amplified by media.
43:29
Media doesn't pay much attention to
43:31
amateurs.
43:33
I agree,
43:34
but I don't think the label matters.
43:36
If the media are pumping up these
43:38
athletes,
43:39
and then people will look up to those
43:41
athletes.
43:42
They want to be what those athletes are,
43:45
whether we call them professionals or not.
43:48
We are treating them as such because this
43:52
media space has gotten so big,
43:54
everybody's talking about these people.
44:00
Our actions are saying more than the
44:02
words.
44:04
If we're talking about Tia Toomey and
44:06
we're talking about Jason Hopper and we're
44:08
talking about all the way down to Lydia
44:10
Fish and all those people,
44:12
we are pumping up these people in a
44:15
way that makes it that they are who
44:20
people look up to because of what we're
44:22
doing.
44:28
Spin, I am not a role model.
44:40
Hey, Jenny,
44:41
are you weirded out when random people
44:43
come up to you and say hi at
44:44
events?
44:45
I saw you there but was intimidated to
44:47
go say hi.
44:54
Jenny is a professional reporter and she
44:56
professionally reports the news and
44:59
professionally annoys soft people.
45:01
I'm professionally amused by her comment
45:03
section.
45:08
Jason, not at all.
45:09
Come say hi anytime.
45:10
I can vouch for that.
45:11
I saw Jenny at the games.
45:13
She was delightful.
45:15
She was bubbly.
45:16
She was energetic.
45:20
Just a delight to meet.
45:29
And David Reed,
45:30
they are athletes in a competitive sport.
45:32
Great athletes,
45:32
but CrossFit is not a professional sport.
45:38
Vindicate says, Jenny gives good hugs.
45:48
And Vicky says,
45:49
Corey has been on fire all day.
45:54
Jody,
45:55
I barged in on Jenny at the games.
45:57
She was very receptive.
46:03
Corey, I love the term delightful.
46:04
I say the dumbest things I know I
46:07
do.
46:07
I am like the most socially awkward person
46:09
in the space.
46:11
Um, so yeah, delightful jazzed.
46:17
I was jazzed to meet Jenny.
46:19
That's and she was with, um,
46:26
Judy Reed and her daughter.
46:29
At the time I was there,
46:31
there were good vibes everywhere.
46:37
Mark Phillips, according to ChatGPT,
46:41
a professional sport is one where the
46:42
athletes make a living from playing,
46:44
training, or competing,
46:46
supported by an industry of leagues,
46:47
sponsors, media, and fans.
46:50
Well, we definitely have the fans,
46:51
the media, sponsors,
46:54
and you kind of have a league.
46:57
So there you go.
47:06
Uh,
47:06
jazz to meet Jenny in the name of
47:08
my nineties cover band.
47:10
Oh my gosh.
47:10
It's a name.
47:13
Uh,
47:16
joseph ramirez i said something was the
47:18
tits the other day and no one understood
47:19
what i meant that's my life joseph that's
47:22
my life i always use the catchphrases from
47:26
the and nobody knows because i'm jazzed
47:32
babe i'm jazzed uh jody at least you
47:39
got their attention well on that note um
47:44
I'm going to call it,
47:45
get back to work.
47:49
Um,
47:50
and you knuckleheads probably need to get
47:51
back to work as well.
47:52
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47:54
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48:01
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48:02
I'm going to go check that out.
48:04
Cause I want to see if I'm called,
48:06
um, I don't know,
48:08
whatever he called me last time.
48:10
Um,
48:14
creating stories that they don't like and
48:17
um just making shit up i didn't make
48:20
anything up people i didn't make anything
48:22
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48:25
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48:27
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